. ♪ ♪ >>> hello there and welcome to nhk "newsline." catherine kobayashi in tokyo. >>> people in japan have marked the 70th anniversary of the country's constitution. prime minister says he wants to see it revised in the year 2020. shinzo abe outlined his goal in a video address delivered at a gathering in tokyo. looking back on the 1964 tokyo olympics, he said those games gave japan the confidence to achieve rapid growth and become a developed nation. he said 2020 is also significant one for the people of japan because tokyo will once again host the summer games. the prime minister add h

. >>> hello, and welcome to nhk "newsline." i'm keiko kitagawa in tokyo. >>> japanese defense ministry officials are looking at how best to use an empty djibouti base. one idea is to train the army in emergency response. self-defense forces are working to counter piracy off the coast of somalia. last year the ministry cut the number of vessels deployed there two to one. attacks have been declining. the ministry is also considering using the base to provide a safe spot for japanese

. >>> live, from our studios here in tokyo, this is nhk "newsline."ames tengan. >>> british officials are discussing monday night's terror attack after a man detonated a bomb at an arena in manchester. the blast occurred

we didn't really get any substantive new newslines to dominate the headlines.ng substantive on brexit, the big issue of the day. instead it was all aboutjeremy big issue of the day. instead it was all about jeremy corbyn the big issue of the day. instead it was all aboutjeremy corbyn the man. and an attempt to presentjeremy corbyn as authentic corbyn core corbyn unvarnished, corbynjust as authentic corbyn core corbyn unvarnished, corbyn just telling as authentic corbyn core corbyn unvarnished, corbynjust telling it as he sees it. and that means asupposing views which mr corbyn's held for many years, committed radical socialist policies which many other labour mps tend to tone down, not so mr corbyn today in the belief that beneath the sort of radar of media and westminster cynicism, a politician setting out his views honestly will have cut through and the people will respond to his convictions and his sincerity. they may love him, but what about the wider electorate? team corbyn remain convinced the labour leader is a vote winnerfor them. people, they believe,

cnn has corresponded on the ground and we'll continue to bring you updates and newslines as we learn this breaking news we're following. >>> a lot going on in the middle east right now. donald trump on the ground in saudi arabia. we want to let you know that israel will be his next stop. how they're viewing that visit there. thanks so much. nice to see you. i want to get your take on this. reading the headline in israel the last few days. but it is interesting because donald trump was fond of saying on the campaign trail that israel will never have a better friend. how is israel thinking he is going to live up to that now? >> well, that's where the focus wants to be and as close and as short as possible to that. this should be an easy visit. it's a republican president. a conservative government here. republican congress and republican senate and yet the israelis are very much on end. there is a sense of nervousness here about this visit because of what he is libel to say off script and any spontaneously comments he might make. because the issue here and the issue that trump wants to

[applause] >>> glad you could join us for nhk "newsline." i'm ross mihara in tokyo. >>> north korea says it detained a u.s. citizen for committing hostile contract acts. american and south korean media outlets first reported the detention of kim sang-duk last month. north korea's state run central news agency said authorities held kim at the airport for

joining us on the "squawk" newsline jamie albertine.s. >> great, thanks for having me, good morning. >> this is an opportunity for ford and jim hackett. so what do you want to see happen? >> yeah, absolutely. we had a meeting with, along with 20 of our closest colleagues recently in work with mark fields, and other senior leaders and the message that we tried to convey to ford was that, you know, there's sort of two things investors want. can you protect the house? can you show that you're more resilient now in a downturn than you were prerecession? and then secondly you know, how are you tied to the secular tail winds that are really exciting for companies, particularly suppliers, like a harmon or a mobile eye, how does ford somehow leverage what they're investing in to get the incremental investor excited about it. and you know, i'd be remiss, a colleague who's a u.m. superfan mentioned to me that jim hackett as well is the one that hired jim harbaugh at the university of michigan. you have a constituency of investors that went to u.

joining us now on the "squawk" newsline jamie rubin former assistant sect for public affairs in the clinton, thanks for joining us. earlier we were talking about, you know, we are financial network and we were talking about the reaction in the past, and more recent past of the financial markets of these things about how maybe, you know, the markets are getting used to these. but the reason i bring that up was you met one of our guests mentioned the madrid bombings. that was 2004. so, that's 13 years ago just from that data. and i don't know, hearing that just made me think, god, are we making any progress at all on this, mr. secretary? and i'm just wondering what, you know, what our path forward should be. i don't know whether we have him. mr. secretary -- >> yes, i'm here. i'm here. sorry about that. i think it's a fair question. as to whether we're making any progress at all. i think people should first bear in mind that it was, however many years, 15 years ago that a strategic attack, a major attack, thousands of americans and others died, and i think we've made progress in that few peop