he will seek common ground in separate talks with michael froman an other ministers. tyke for a check on the marks. politicians in washington still can't find a way out from the budget stanoff even on the second day of a government shutdown. u.s. markets have lowedser since this impact. the nasdaq ended down almost one-tenth of a percent. to see how markets are reacts in japan, let's go to the tokyo stock exchange. good morning. events in the u.s. are dominating markets. how did the tokyo market start? >> yes, indeed. a lot of investors concerned about the impasse in congress over the budget and the debt ceiling issue. let's have a look at how it affecting us. yet again, the i have to say we're seeing a bit of a reversal from the gains that we made in september and already we've seen heavy losses of over 300 points just yesterday with having its biggest point fall in more than a month. now another topic here in tokyo is going to be the bank of japan begins its policy board meeting and that's going to be a focus of course. continues concerns about new 0 contaminated wa

i that will seek common ground in separate talks with michael froman and other participants. they're negotiating 21 issues and u.s. negotiators are expected to take an aggressive stance. regarding intellectual property, american officials want to protect pharmaceutical patents but their malaysian counterparts don't. they say such a move would lead to higher price of drugs. regarding issues of competition, vietnam and singapore want to shield the interests of their state-backed enterprises, but that goes against what the americans want, which they say is to create a level playing field for private sector businesses. >>> top officials from the u.s. and japan are meeting in tokyo to go over the security situation in east asia. u.s. secretary of state john kerry and defense secretary chuck hagel have flown in to discuss the realignment of the military forces here. they a meeting with the foreign minister. they are sharing thoughts on what japanese leaders call an increasingly uncertain security situation. the group is also discussing transferring more osprey training flights to o