it is cold across scandinavia. minus 7 degrees in stockholm. we have brisk winds in algeria. 11 degrees in algiers. seasonal rains pushing it across africa. v. >> welcome back. israel's prime minister has cast his ballot as polls open for parliamentary elections. he is a favorite to win another term in office but he will meet to form a coalition. this video shows a town which is close to a military base. japan's central bank has taken a bold step to kickstart the economy and taken on a commitment to buy assets. a japanese delegation has arrived in china to try to repair talks. both countries claim sovereignty. in another dispute involving china, the philippines says it will challenge chinese claims of the united nations. they claim sovereignty over islands in the south china sea. we have more from hong kong. what does the philippines hoped the u.n. will be able to do? there are not any powers of enforcement. >> what this is is not so much one thing to say who owns what. all these countries are on the south china seas and china are signatories t

we're seeing the return of showers across the northern british aisles and in towards scandinavia. temperaturewise, as you'd expect with that warmth. ten degrees in london. six in paris. not too bad for this time of year. 13 for you in rome. cooling down to freezing point in vienna for the high and out towards the east, minus seven in moscow and minus six in kiev. that's all for me. here's your extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

scandinavia peninsula see how deep that rope that's wrapping around here.hat's indicating a very deep pressure interacting with high pressure across the iberian peninsula and strong interaction sets up this tight gradient. gusty winds. sustained winds up to 60 kilometers. already wind reports of this gust over 140 kilometers per hour in portions of the uk over towards france. the system is bringing heavy rain showers expected to continue across low countries and shift over to snow as it moves into western portions of russia. out there towards moscow getting a few centimeters of accumulation. british alps a short break. right on its heels is another storm system going into thursday. temperature remaining warm for now. this is also going cooling off. as we take a look off towards the east, rather chilly there in moscow and kiev. just below the freezing mark. here's a look at your forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes with more news. i'm gene otani in tokyo. from all of us here at nhk world, thanks very much for joining us. have a great day wherever you ar

warm in the british isles, a cold front moves through bringing showers and precipitation across scandinavia. what's happening in austria. the warmer weather has brought a lot of rain instead of snow. rain has saturated the ground. take a look at this falling like skittles here. this is a landslide and the forest came sliding down a hill. fortunately, the road had already been cordoned off. nobody in danger there. but this was not the only place that landslides occurred across the country. a house buried under mud after a hillside came crashing down as well. pretty serious situation in central austria. and as i say, partly because of the warmer weather here, but we will be seeing temperatures falling toward the end of the week. take a look at what's happening right now. 6 degrees in vienna, will fall by sunday down to the freezing point which is much more like it for january. out across the west, 9 degrees in london. 7 in paris, but the east is certainly feeling very much like winter. minus nine in moscow and minus nine in kiev. here is the extended forecast. >>> we'll be back in 30 minutes

tag, following the rules of the road and slowing down and there is that interesting thing out of scandinavia. the company is developing an alternative to a helmet and looks like a fashionable shawl. >> uh-huh. >> an air bag for a bicyclist. the studies are showing that they have done tests that if a bicyclist is hit by a car, this shawl or the scarf would blow up and create an airbag helmet. >> wow. >> and that is affective. there might be an alternative. >> pedestrians still have the right-of-way? >> generally in the crosswalk and some bicyclists should yield to them. >> the bottom line, they're going to use common sense and considering. even if the other person's right, you have to accommodate. who wants an accident, right? >> okay, john brazil, thank you for being here. for more information on how to share the road safely, visit the website at transweb.jfk.u.edu and we leave you with recording artist one giant leap. i'm susan sikora, thank you for watching.

philosophies they have although the loss of such a brilliant young mind as myself since coming from scandinavia i'm looking to the to the ancient norse texts where we can read. this and death to everything except the brilliant man who left who did a righteous thing is legacy will always live on. idea entrepreneur and founder of the swedish pirate party thank you very much indeed for joining us live here on r.t. . the right to a preemptive nuclear strike against china is now part of u.s. law and that's thanks to the national defense authorization act the pentagon's also ordered a thorough review of when and how america could strike with a network of tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic arsenals editor of a japan based news website james corbet however suggests alterian motives. i don't think that we have to look at this current content bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching up for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the

in germany in particular, netherlands, scandinavia. they really protect it because they know, you know, that's a basis of the culture and civilization. i don't know that that's happening here, and i'm not sure what's going to happen. i don't know that it's going to happen in this state. it could. it could. >> well, thank you for raising that. in france right now, they are actually giving grants to endangered book shops in order to keep going because they realize that the culture is transferred through books. >> the interesting thing here is it doesn't even come up. >> right. >> it just doesn't come up in discussion which is nuts. you know, i did a book with lisa markland, a popular writer from sweden, and i went over there, and for three days in stockholm, we did 50 interviews with newspapers and magazines. you write a book here, you can't find a journalist here. is there a journalist here? okay, god bless you two. [laughter] interesting difference in the cultures. in sweden, 8 million people, her books sell over a million copies in a

think in the big picture, an interesting angle is have you ever been to my home country, europe and scandinaviait is miles and miles of satellite dishes with muslims watching their local news. they don't even like their host country. we are seeing that not only in deer born mimp -- michigan, but the fact they are considering this a good investment shows how many people are determined to pursue islam at the cost of per prism. >> that's not entirely fair. al jazeera had good coverage of the arab spring. it is their neighborhood. they know it. i could see times you would want to watch al jazeera. >> definitely. but that is not what they are going for when they make this investment. they are going for their people. they are going for muslims. >> i am not sure i agree with that. i think they are going for americans in general. i think they want to be in -- jay they are looking for mainstream viewers who click on every day. they are looking for cnn. it is sand cnn. that's what i am calling it now. >> are you saying they are looking for mainstream viewers or not? >> they are looking for regular viewer

germany, netherlands, scandinavia, they really do protected because they know that is the basis of aulture. that is the basis of civilization and i don't know that is happening here. and i'm not sure what is going to happen. i don't know that it's going to happen in this state. it could, it could. >> thank you for raising that. in france right now they are actually giving grants to endangered bookshops in order for them to keep going. they realize that the culture of has transferred through books. >> the interesting thing here is that doesn't even come up. up. it just doesn't even come up in the discussion which is not. i did a book with lisa bartman who is a very popular writer from sweden. i went over there for three days in stockholm and we did almost 50 interviews with newspapers and magazines. if you write a book here, you can find journalists. is there a journalist tear? god bless you two. but it's interesting, there's there is a difference in the cultures. sweden has a million people. her books sell over 1 million copies in the country with 8 million people. >> amazing. along

because scandinavia, of course, had such a big influence, didn't it?d i think that, um the whole use of scandinavian-- light materials, new fabrics, new types of manufacture created a whole different look and i think that if one looks at this light and airy furniture the stick-like legs, the uses of different woods and different shapes the sparseness of the decoration, it speaks volumes to me, and the fact that we are now all returning to this look is a testament, i think, of its longevity and its influence. we're not to the fashions of course. we're not returning to the fashions, particularly and they were-- i mean, they really were something. they were remarkable back then in the '50s, weren't they? they were, and again one goes back to that sort of rebellion against all those restrictions of the wartime. and with somebody like dior, for instance, when he created the new look suddenly, in came the hourglass figure femininity, luxury wastefulness-- all these things that were absolutely forbidden for the previous 5, 10 years. and it also meant sublimin

who undoing the injustices he sees in the country, what he calls social justice he sees europe, scandinavia as a far more just and good society than ours. they have very high taxes and very strong sort of blanket entitlements cradle to grave. that's the ideal to which he wants to move the united states. >> bill: doesn't he see what's haened in countries like italy and spain and greece where the debt has now overwhelmed the government's ability to even function? doesn't -- see, beyond president obama's economic outlook. i don't get it. i thought about this. he blew it. he should have won. he would have won if he he had entered any urgency into the campaign the final week. he didn't. so mr. obama is a very lucky man. he is not learning any lessons from what we see visibly in europe. he is not learning any lessons from a 16 trillion-dollar plus debt. none. >> look, i agree with you entirely. if i were in a room with obama, i would be saying exactly that to him. i would be saying for 30 years we have had debates since the early reagan days about debt and deficit spending and ultimately being ov

a little individual freedom in scandinavia and germany. >> oh, monica. the weekend you might be wondering some of these names. i don't know. >> it's america. name whenever you want. >> that is the freedom. and that was approved. >> it was approved. >> no lawsuit behind that one. melissa: all right. well, ever been in error -- really hairy brakup situation? and new zealand all decided to make the best of her break up and cash in on her boyfriend secrets. she put his secret fishing spot up for sale on the internet. she actually got 90,000 hits and made a 3,000 box. you go. i love this. >> hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. i want to know the purpose of the breup because it had to be pretty bad break up. he, of course, every man is a fault. no, i'm kidding. >> women are always right. always right. >> i want to know what he did to deserve this. he must have done something. melissa: seabrook up with her. that's enough. >> when was supposed to be going and whether he was going fishing. that's what happened. you see that. the payback is among give away all

. >> go live in scandinavia. >> cramer wanted some more fisticuffs. >> i like you, though, that's the problem. >> he wants to choke me. >> mike allen, what are you watching on tv right now? "downton abbey"? >> of course. >> are you excited about the new season? >> of course. and of course the bcs title game is what everybody's waiting for. what's your spread? >> the spread's been around 9.5. the s.e.c. has not performed up to snuff. florida lost last night to louisville. i was shocked by that. >> basketball. >> the a.c.c. beat clemson beat lsu. i'll tell you what. that 9.5 points is looking more like a 5 or 6-point game to me, tops. the s.e.c. is not the conference it was -- >> there are now two underperforming s.e.c.s. before i always looked to it for integrity, the conference. now the government s.e.c. bad and this football conference bad. >> so you know what? the joe line right now is notre dame plus 5. >> what? >> really? >> what? >> no, i'm saying plus 5 as far as they're underdogs. give them 5 points. i'm sorry for talking in vegas short la shorthand. >> mike allen, thank you. s

the most generous welfare systems in europe are in germany and in scandinavia, and those countries don'tman trade balance, the problem in europe is exactly the reverse. germany's running a huge surplus. that's partly the success of the social welfare system that they've put in place, which makes it an extremely good police to have high productivity workforce. >> but i mean there's been a lot of work, talk about global manufacturing, competitiveness, for example. it's estimated by 2015 all end productivity, transportation costs adjusted, it will be a push to manufacture roughly 2 trillion in products here versus china. with germany 35%, leaving spain and france even farther adrift, yes, germany's done really well in terms of a trade surplus on the backs of the rest of europe, and they've done reasonably well selling capital goods into china. but germany's got a competitiveness problem. why is bmw setting up their plants in the south, why is basf building chemical plants here? >> germany certainly is exporting some of its very fine manufacturing capacity. now that doesn't say it has a comp

the reason is, i think, partially because there's a lot of scandinavia influence in minneapolis. the foraging movement. one of the restaurants, the bachelor farmer, with its own rooftop garden which we see in new york and l.a. another restaurant called union which has an alum from copenhagen. lots of hotels to stay at. minneapolis is having a moment. >> maybe just don't go at the height of winter. but it's a great time. >> people are so nice there. >> wholesome, very nice folks. hello to my in-laws. >> are you on board with nordic cuisine? >> she's on board. >> puerto rico. i love you don't need a passport. what elts makes it great? >> great new hotel, important hotel openings we want to take note of. it dates back to the 1900s. it's just being reopened shortly. and a hotel that someone here is going to, actually, very soon. >> good. >> do i want to out him? >> no. >> this is an inkrcredibly lux hotel. they paired up, doing renditions of favorites like suckling pig. amazingly beautiful. great access to nature. >> succulent pig. >> i got married in puerto rico, by the way. >> you

the reason is, i think, partially because there's a lot of scandinavia influence in minneapolis.rants like noma in copenhagen, inspired by that with the farming and forging moment and their restaurants like one of them called the bachelor farmer which has its own rooftop garden we see in new york and in l.a. but not something that's happening in minneapolis yet. another restaurant called union which actually has an alum from noma from copenhagen which is there. w chambers, radisson blue. >> don't go at the height of winter but it's a great town. >> people are nice there. >> hello to my in-laws. >> nordic cuisine? >> i eat anything. >> discriminating. >> she's on board. >> let's go south. paul rya puerto rico. i love you don't need a passport. >> we love puerto recore all the time. two important hotel openings. one is the vanderbilt hotel, the hotel dates back to the 1900s just being reopened shortly and a hotel someone here is going to soon. >> good. >> do i want to out him, no. >> no. >> the ritz-carlton dorado beach. this is an incredibly lux hotel, paired up with jose andreas,