many locals hoped they would move it out of okinawa. they insist other parts of japan should shoulder more of the burden of hosting military facilities, but the two governments agreed to shift the base to the city of nago. they decided to reclaim coastal land to build new runways. according to law, prime minister shinzo abe needed governor nakaima's approval to start dumping rocks and earth into the pacific ocean, so he tried to work out a deal. abe promised to allocate around $3 billion per year for the next eight years to boost okinawa's economy, and he said he'd try to cut in half the number of drills by a controversial u.s. aircraft, the osprey. the prime minister also pledged to start negotiations with the u.s. to speed up the process of closing futenma. >> translator: the people of okinawa continue to experience a heavy burden. that should also be shared with the people on the mainland of japan. >> translator: the government's plan for okinawa's promotion includes most of our requests. i feel the abe cabinet is thinking more about

many people in okinawa want it moved out of the prefecture. they insist that other areas of japan should share the burden of hosting military bases. u.s. officials have been pushing their japanese counterparts to solve the issue. the relocation is an integral part of their plan to realign their forces in the pacific region. when the current ruling party returned to power last year, its leaders agreed to move the base to nago city. they plan to reclaim some coastal area and build a new base there. abe told the governor that he'll allocate around 3,000 million per year for the next eight years to boost okinawa's economy. abe promised to try to reduce the number of drills by a controversial u.s. aircraft. okinawa residents say the osprey planes pose a safety risk. nakayima said the offer was generous, but he said he'll need a couple of days to decide. >> translator: i've asked the government to resolve many long disputed issues. they are tackling the problems relatively fast, and things are moving forward at last. it will be a good new year. >> t

samantha says seventy out of the city in the southern prefecture of okinawa to make life easier for locals to come in and taking them to go ahead this week. i wanted the central government commissioned to reclaim land. that'll be the location of the less than being pulled down the station a spell on the continent densely populated district and this is yet to no one demanded to be empty content of the coast. japanese and us team has agreed on the relocation of seventeen he is sick now. i missed issues on the set department officials can find me get started. he said they'll do all they can to reduce the burden on all counts residents. officials postponed the dna of the home but for the vindication. note that said they said excavations and is eyeing since the seventies. some people don't know who's the current system read them in as many of the city that includes that he signed the peace and a persistant and to the prefectural government. he says but since don't want the ad saints. he was defence advocate of paco has welcomed the ok now governor's approval for the pastry location. thus ended

and gad agreed to move a controversial base on okinawa. now the deal is done and the island's governor has greed to the relocation plan. it has been viewed as a breakthrough, but not everyone in japan is happy with the decision. we have more from washington. >> reporter: the future of the u.s. military base on the island of okinawa has been in dispute for years. but on friday the governor of the japanese island approved a plan to hanoko bay, another remote section of the island. in a written statement the u.s. defense secretary said the realignment effort is absolutely critical to the united states ongoing rebalance to the asian pacific. region. moving forward with this plan will reduce our footprint in the most populated part of okinawa while sustaining u.s. military capabilities vital to the peace and security of the region. but locals have long complained about the noise, pollution and even crime the military presence has ingested into the heavily populated area. that opposition turned to outcry in 1996 after three american service men

we will listen to the wishes of the people of okinawa. and do everything we can as the japanese government said today. what have they. my dentist. seventy years of broadcast and controversy the people of the ox now i'm bracing themselves for id season. most of them up take the series in japan us patience has reached a turning point. oh come on top and a skewer and i knew green leader kim jong hoon appears to be sending a warning to his counterparts in seoul. he's publicly urged his military chiefs to be ready for battle and told them war could break out at any time. stephen tv broadcast pictures of him some visits to the command of an army unit in the west of the country. the trip coincided with the anniversary of the day his late father assumed control of the military. kim reportedly instructed the unit to increase its readiness for combat. he traveled with three of his top military leaders including the head of the general political department. they don't have north korea's top defense officials recently threatened to attack south korea

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marines and fought in the battle of okinawa. more than a quarter million troops were engaged and they lost 12,000 men in a battle over two months. he went on to become chancellor of the university of richmond and now serves as spokesman for the greatest generation foundation. doctor thank you so much for your service and thank you so much for being here. what does it mean to you, sir, to see we are at a point where there are only 1 million remaining in the greatest generation in terms of the vets who served? >> it represents to me the world has changed dramatically and as i reflect back to those 15 million you minuted that koim o came out of the military in mass in the late to mid 40's and went off to be educated and came back into the political scene, the business scene, the community activities in force for the next 40 years they ran this country. six of the presidents of the united states had been in this greatest generation. every corporate leader had been in the war. all of the political people in washington in the states,

we see okinawa. we say to ourselves, it really happened 70 years ago. it wasn't a dream. >> i know that now you love to ride harleys. your wife gave you a second for your 71st birthday and for your 87th birthday you made the longest motorcycle trip yet. here is to many more years, sir. thank you for your service and for sharing your memories. >> thank you. >> all the best. >>> on the 40th anniversary of d-day then president ronald reagan gave a speech regarded as one of the greatest tributes to the bravery and sacrifice of the greatest generation. coming uh, the woman who helped him write the speech joins us live. >>> plus, a form veterans speaks about his experience as a pri n prisoner of war. what does it mean to you? >> my life was worth it. i didn't waste my life. i served my country. the most important thing. ipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] introducing fedex one rate. simple, flat rate shipping with

i was 18 years old when i landed in combat on okinawa. this followed 56 days aboard a troop ship after a lot of training. being out in the harbor of okinawa with suicide planes coming down, landing on the beach. 18 years old. i didn't know what was going to happen. i knew i was well trained as a marine. and then after having completed the battle of okinawa, preparing to invade japan, and then having the happy world change with the dropping of the atomic bomb, which almost made all the troops go berserk because it said to us we're going to live. we did not expect to survive. and all of that was a part of the activities in the hearts and minds of the people who were there. we were young, we were inexperienced, each one of us who landed on the beach, did not know the reality of war, and we learned about it, but we went in there willing to die, not wanting to die, but totally convinced that we were right, and we tistill believe it today. so when we go back, we see the rock, iwo jima, we see okinawa, we say to ourselves it really happened. 70

and japan over the island of okinawa has now been settled.kinawa's governor approving a controversial plan to move a marine base to a remote part of the island. the pentagon welcoming the decision. it says the base is an important part of plans to bolster america's presence in that region. >>> we're about to learn more about the shooting that happened at sandy hook elementary. we will bring you more after the report is released. >>> it's been almost a week since that massive ice storm, thousands of people in the u.s. and canada, though, still without power. the electric companies are reporting progress, though. in michigan there are now about 65,000 people without power. in maine the number is down. further north in canada, 101,000 homes and businesses still sitting in this the dark. >>> the death toll from severe flooding in brazil continues to rise. more than 40 people are feared dead. a state of emergency has been declared in one region. >> reporter: this is what more than a week of trend shall rain did to brazil's state. dozens of highway

some of the us millions currently stationed in okinawa japan are expected to be sent to the island of the guam. as for is meant to ease the burden on okinawa the southern prefecture host the majority of the u s military facilities in japan the senate has been blocking funding related to the transfer. but the armed services committees in both chambers in quito the contents of the national defense authorization act for the current fiscal year. it is the expenditure of eighty six million dollars. the bill includes a closet maintaining a freeze on past budgets by japan and the us on spending related to the transfer. if trees could stay in place until all construction plans for a sizzling bomb. i submit it to is this a part of the freeze has been lifted us officials estimate the transfer will cost eight point six million dollars japan will contribute about a third of that amount the us plan aims to stop the transfer of marines in the early twenty twenty east a japanese maritime self defense force vessel has joined a multinational fried off somalia. this is the first time for japan's sts to

some of the u s marines currently stationed in okinawa japan are expected to be sent to the island of guam the transfer is meant to ease the burden on okinawa the southern prefecture hosts the majority of u s military facilities in japan the senate has been blocking funding related to the transfer in fiscal two thousand and fourteen which began in october but the armed services committees of both chambers agreed on the contents of the national defense authorize they should act for the current fiscal year. they approved an expenditure and eighty six million dollars. the bill includes a clause maintaining a freeze on past budgets by japan and the us on spending related to the transfer the freeze would stay in place until all construction plans for bases on guam are submitted. sources say part of the freeze has been lifted us officials estimate the transfer will cost eight point six million dollars japan will contribute about a third of that about the us plan aims to start the transfer of marines in their early twenties twenties eight major american technology companies have joined the u

opponents want the base moved off okinawa completely. lebanon has been dragged further into syria's civil war. today in beirut, a powerful car bomb killed a former government minister and five others. more than 70 were hurt. elizabeth palmer tells us about the man who was assassinated and why. >> reporter: the blast shattered beirut's downtown, an area known for its five-star hotels and expensive shops just as the working day was getting under way. the target of the bomb was mohammed chatah, a former finance minister and one-time lebanese ambassador to the united states. chatah was a sunni muslim who often spoke out publicly for moderation and tolerance, as in this 2011 interview. >> lebanon has an interest in peace. has an interest in maintaining a liberal democracy where individuals can live freely. >> reporter: clearly, not everyone in lebanon shared his vision. already, senior politicians are blaming hezbollah for the bombing. chatah had been an outspoken critic of hezbollah, the iranian-backed militia which uses lebanon as its base.

weakness in the region for instance its inability to build another marine air force base in okinawa i mean there's been such political opposition in okinawa and it's essentially forced the united states to redistribute those marines elsewhere to go to australia to negotiate new trees with the philippines so i don't see it as a remilitarization in that sense i don't see that there will actually be a major increase in the amount of u.s. hardware although the capabilities of the u.s. military in the region may increase but it is a real militarization in the sense that there is an arms race in the region there has been an arms race for many years that means that japan south korea modernizing spending a lot more money china double digit increases in their military budget but further south as well singapore vietnam indonesia philippines all embarked on major arms purchases and this i think is a major concern the united states of course would like there to be more burden sharing at the heart of its so-called strategic rebalancing and. that is i'm afraid the negative consequence of this shoul

weakness in the region for instance its inability to build another marine air force base in okinawa i mean there's been such political opposition in okinawa and it's essentially forced the united states to redistribute those marines elsewhere to go to australia to negotiate new trees with the philippines so i don't see it as a remilitarization in that sense i don't see that there will actually be a major increase in the amount of u.s. hardware although the capabilities of the u.s. military in the region may increase but it is a real militarization in the sense that there is an arms race in the region there has been an arms race for many years that means that japan south korea modernizing spending a lot more money china double digit increases in their military budget but further south as well singapore vietnam indonesia philippines all embarked on major arms purchases and this i think is a major concern the united states of course would like there to be more burden sharing at the heart of its so-called strategic rebalancing so that is i'm afraid the negative consequence of this shoulde

maintains 34 bases and 18,000 troops on okinawa. more than 100 thousand people remained without power in maine on thursday after nice storm that swept up from the midwest. freezing temperatures over the past several days have killed 27 inple, 17 in the u.s. and 10 canada. president obama has signed into law the two major congressional measures of the past month, a pentagon spending bill and a new budget for 2014. the military bill bars the transfer of guantÁnamo bay prisoners to the u.s., but freeze up their release to foreign countries. in a signing statement, obama called the u.s. transfer been unwise and said he will continue to work for its removal. the measure also keeps military sexual assault cases within the chain of command while adding some new protections for survivors. ae budget bill averts government shutdown early next year, but ignores the extension of jobless benefits for the unemployment that expired this week. in appeals court has overturned the conviction of a top ranking clergymen of pennsylvania's roman catholic

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many residents of okinawa don't want a base there at all. activists have been camping out on the proposed site for more than a decade. some call them a playing, they are also used in a surprising number of crimes, allesandro has the story from caracas. >> riding between traffic lanes. flowing red lights, even ambushing drivers, motorcycles have innovated caracas becoming a major concern. iseli was assaulted in traffic bumper to bumper. >> a passenger got off and put a bunch of cell phones in his pocket. i understand they were coming to me next. they knocked on my window an i gave them everything i had as everyone else did. >> motorcycles are favored by robbers and hit men and gangs of armed bikers act with impunity like these looting a broken down truck. this driver is one of them. he works as a taxi driver but says he mugs people when in need. >> translator: there are times that you have to. it's like damp. i have no money, there's little work. it rained all week and i couldn't work. you need the money so you're encouraged to steal. i call

and japan over the island of okinawa has now been settled.he president saying he is willing to let the base will transferred to a remote area of the island. the pentagon says it is an important part of a plan to bolster america's presence in that coup try. >>> and what is being called a situation of anarchy in venezuela. the future. aljazeera's jane ferguson takes us to a school in kandahar city that was long considered a success and is now facing closure. >> it's a place offering more than these girls know, a quality education in real tangible skills, a path away from positivity and early marriage and towards university and a career. since 2002, the modern stud has been teaching women languages, like management and computer skills. that they are skills that speak of ambition which in the heart of tallle ban country is remarkable. >> we are a unique school, preparing women to go to jobs. our school is preparing women to go to universities. on august 20th, al jazeera america introduced a new voice in journalism. >> good evening everyone, welco

the base in okinawa is deeply unpopular with residents there due to crimes including rape that have beenmitted by united states military personnel. okinawa's governor has approved a proposal that will allow construction of a new base on a less populated part of the island. >>> and demonstrators marched through the streets and cities across turkey protesting alleged government corruption. the protests came as a fired prosecutor accused police and the judiciary of refusing to pursue corruption allegations. isaac cuization followed the resignation of three cabinet ministers after their sons were arrested or detained in an anti-graft sting. >>> and egypt's government now officially considers the muslim brotherhood a terrorist organization and more than 250 people have been locked up for their connection to the group. this is is the group that supported mohamed morsi, the first democratically elected president of egypt. morsi has since been forced out of office and new military leaders say anyone who claims to be a member of the muslim brotherhood will go to prison. matt bradley covers the mi

the guidelines also state the sds will add another f-15 fighter jet unit to okinawa and deploy an early warning aircraft unit and u.s. osprey transport aircraft. government officials plan to endorse the strategy and guidelines as early as next tuesday. >>> antigovernment protesters in thailand demanding the resignation of yingluck shinawatra continue to surround her office on wednesday. we're following the story in bangkok. >> 40 days have passed before the thai lower house passed an amnesty bill many say was to allow thaksin shinawatra to return from self imposed exile. the bill was rejected by opposition lawmakers, but the situation still spurred on the protesters, and concern is growing that lingering political turmoil may affect the second largest asean economy. protesters continued the sit-in they began days before. prime minister yingluck announced monday she would dissolve parliament and hold an election. >> translator: there really shouldn't be anymore elections. the elections have let us down for a long time. >> antigovernment protesters remain unmoved by the offer to return to

military base on the island of okinawa. it will be moved to a less popular area. it's taken 17 years for the agreement to be reached. the u.s. had a major military presence in okanawa since the end of world war ii. >> japan's prime minister is being criticised after visiting a controversial shrine. a handful of protesters were outside the japanese embassy. >> china says the yasukuni glorified convicted war criminals. >> more than 40 people have been killed after rain caused flooding and flood slides in brazil. 60,000 have been made homeless. dominic kane with this report. >> this is what 10 days of torrential rain had done. swathes of land submerged by floodwaters, hills by mudslides. transport and communication links have been cut. tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes. they are the lucky ones. the mudslides killed dozens of people and left more missing. >> we only hope that they find bodies of my children. i think the chaps of finding them alive is doubtful. >> in most places people had little warning of what was coming. >> they were push

but a movement of okinawa residents has opposed the base altogether and pushed for ousting u.s.forces off the island, citing environmental concerns and sexual assaults by your soldiers on local residents. peopleay, thousands of surrounded a government building and staged a sit in inside. new investigation challenges right-wing claims around the deadly attack on u.s. consulate him and got the that was in libya last year. "the new york times" reports there's no evidence al qaeda or other international militants played a role in the assault that killed four americans, including ambassador christopher stevens. the attack was coordinated by local militia who in fact benefited from the u.s.-backed nato intervention against colonel muammar gaddafi. it also appears that anger over anti-islam film produced in the muslimshe innocence of ," helped fill the attack as the obama ministration initially claimed. protests are continuing in new york city over incoming mayor bill de blasio's appointment of william bratton as the next police commissioner. bryan returns to the job after leading the

and discussed the plans to ease okinawa's burden of hosting u.s. facilities. those plans include moving the futenma air base to remove the land from the area. they include speeding up the closure of other military facilities. the governor said he will hold a news conference friday to announce and explain his decision. >>> anti-government protests in thailand are growing intense ahead of an election scheduled for february. the clash between police and protesters has killed one person. we have the story from the bangkok bureau. >> police used rubber bullets against protesters on thursday. one police officer has been killed and about 100 people have been wounded. demonstrators are calling for postponement to the lower house elections set for february. political turmoil is deepening in the leadup to the polls. on thursday, demonstrators tried to force their way into a stadium where political parties were registering candidates for the election. police responded by firing tear gas and rubber bullets towards them. one police officer was killed in the clash. around 1

be kicked out of okinawa.he united states would like to maintain a rob unfortunate presence in the far east, and by maintaining the forces and increasing the forces in okinawa, gaum and australia - that's the greatest representation to the far east that this administration is pursuing. >> you mentioned increasing the forces, but the u.s. already has a number of other military bases on the island, not to mention 50,000 troops in the region. why is this base significant? >> the u.s. believes the 21st century will be the far east, not the middle east. especially in face of an increasingly robust china. >> former assistant secretary of state for political military affairs. thank you for joining us. >> change could be coming to iran. tehran's days as the country's capital may be numbered. overpopulation, pollution and traffic congestion spurred the government into action, passing a proposal to move the political and administrative capital. the government is not saying where it wants to relocate, but a number of cen

and japan have settled their dispute over a marine base in okinawa. they'll move the base to a remote part of the island. you can always head to our website at www.aljazeera.com. >> america's cities are a mixed bag. some are thriving. some are sinking. one thing they have in common is this: when they get into trouble they can't look to the state house or capitol hill for help. running cities in the time of austerity. that's the inside story. >> hello, i'm ray suarez. for many american cities the big municipalities for the core of the metropolitan areas it was a rough half century. from the 1950s on many of them watched as people, investment, infrastructure, corporate headquarters all fled to the suburbs or newly zooming cities in the sun belt. the government propped up sagging cities with programs, housing support, transit and educational funding all kinds of taxpayer funded support. as the axis swung to the suburbs resentment of the cities grew and they tumbled into decay and decline. since then many places have started to grow again. many suburbs ha

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marine base on okinawa. the local governor has signed off on the relocation of the base from a congested part of the city to a remote area, ending a simmering dispute between the u.s. and japan. the deal will help the pentagon better line american forces across the asia-pacific region. >>> a snowboarder has died after he triggered an avalanche. this happened in the back country near jackson hole, wyoming, a popular place for skiers and snowboarders. 29-year-old michael cazangi was the first to go down the slope. he was immediately buried in the avalanche. rescuers, including a doctor, tried to revive him. but he was pronounced dead at the scene. >>> police in phoenix say the man who scaled an airport fence and started hitting a plane that had just arrived was under the influence of drugs and alcohol. the surveillance video shows the man striking a southwest airlines plane before officers were able to detain him. it comes after the airport spent $10 million on a recent security upgrade, after a man drove on t

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in cuba it would have escalated into a major international conflict we had bombers ready to go off okinawa dropping nuclear weapons on china we had a whole war plan that eisenhower had devised was massive war calling for something like six hundred million casualties we were thinking ahead you have no idea what we faced and that's what kennedy's courage came at that moment when he said no to the hardliners as khrushchev said no to his hard line. and both men disappear within a year well i can't move on without talking about robert mcnamara joint chiefs of staff under kennedy who actually presented him with the operation northwoods document and it was rejected thankfully i mean this is an amazing declassified document actually came out after you kind of reignited but a sheet of provoking an attack on cuba that's that's very that's black ops it's shocking and it goes on all the time that's the part create an atmosphere of war stir up conflict raise the fear truman did it with the truman doctrine and with greece the united states has done it quite a lot more than you know and that's why we wro

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okinawa's governor approved a proposal allowing for construction of a new base in a rural area.ne corps air base futenma has been unpopular with the island's population because of crimes committed by americans stationed there. relocation comes more than 17 years after the u-s and japanese governemnts agreed on the original move. a deadly bus crash in thailand has killed at least 29 people after it went off a bridge. here's video from the scene. investigators believe the driver may not have been familiar with the route and was maybe going too fast. there were long skid marks where the bus went off the bridge. bridge. at l check it out. learning's fun now. yeah, back in our day, we didn't have u-verse high speed internet to play and learn online. all we had was that franklin fuzzypants. ah, the educational toy bear. remember when the battery went out? [ slow, deep voice ] give me your abc's. all i learned was a new definition of fear. i need some pudding. yeah, there's one left. [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink pos

seized okinawa in the asia pacific region especially over the growing military power. to be closed after attacks on women and children. they agree a new base will be bit on the side of a former trash dump in a remote corner of okinawa. >> karl penthaul, thank you. >>> and from all around the world, people are gearing up for different types of celebrations, let's bring in cnn editorial producer nadia belichick. thank you. >> let's start in scotland. >> let's start in scotland. >> here you have grown men dress up as vikings. to celebrate their viking ancestry. and they like tortures and create this river of fire. lasts four days so you can imagine a lot of scotch and whiskey is consumed. >> certainly, if you're going to dress like a viking, keep it for four days. >>> and to brazil. what do people wear? they wear white. if you want to know why they wear white, purity. it's purity, and a peaceful new year. and then they also go to the beaches and throw flowers to the see and pay tribute to the goddess. >> let's go to south america. >> ecuador is interesting because here th