his family joined him at the ceremony in stockholm. >> he received the award for his work with stem cells. >>> japanese children are scoring better in math and science. some results are less encouraging. the international mathematics inside study has been conducted every four years since 1995 by an international academic society based in holland. about 500,000 students and 60 countries and regions across the globe took part in the 2011 test. a total of 8800 students from japan took the exams. they were fourth graders and eighth graders. japanese fourth graders scored better on average than four years earlier in both math and science. the science scores of the eighth graders also improved but math remained unchanged. the latest test results don't reflect their interest in future occupations. many students say they enjoy studying math and science but when asked whether they want a job for which knowledge of math or science is required, only 20% of eighth graders said yes. this is about 30% lower than the international average. one expert is pointing out society's need for math and science s

stockholm, just minus 4 for your high. here is your extended forecast. >>> our lead story this our. commanders are doing more to make their presence known in the south china sea. they've deployed a patrol vessel for the first time. the maritime safety administration launched the ship that weighs more than 1,500 tons and runs more than 90 meters long. it has a heli pad and can sail 7,000 kilometers without refueling. diplomats from nations are expected to react strongly to the deployment of a larger ship. >> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

i do have a bit of stockholm syndrome with the captors. i see the internet through their eyes. i have not yet emerged myself in the opposite view in the policy discussion. >> in the construct of the internet, we are hearing a lot about the cloud. how does that fit in? >> the cloud is all of it. the cloud is a marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services. with that means more specifically perhaps is a large datacenter and data warehouse. perhaps not in ashford, virginia, but the next town over. they have to tether in and connect directly as possible to the distribution depot, you might say, of ashford, virginia . ashford is the place where bandwidth is the most abundant and cheapest. when you are dealing with the cloud -- your e-mail, backup, or some program you use -- you want it to operate as smoothly as possible. as much as it is sitting on your own computer. that means being closely tied to the major network hubs as possible. >> in our discussion this past have our, we have talked about generators and rooms with air conditioning. ho

those prizes were handed out today in stockholm. >> but the spotlight has been on the eu leaders who accepted the peace prize on behalf of the citizens of europe. our brussels correspondent asked of you eu -- asked a few eu citizens what the prize means to them. >> these students come from every corner of the eu, bringing an adverse mix of languages and cultures -- bringing a diverse mix of languages and cultures. >> it is something that confirms the fact that the eu has greater importance in many things, especially in a moral context, morals, values. italy, we take things for granted, how we live -- usually, we take things for granted, how we live, the way things are. >> with the debt crisis still looming, they feel the award sends an important message. they hope it will encourage politicians to focus on the european perspective. >> i like to think of our school as a microcosm of europe. we need people every day from other nations, and have to switch -- we meet people every day from other nations. it is european in change in one school -- european exchange in one school, and that is

real trouble right greece looks weak but that actually puts things in a strong position talk about stockholm syndrome there is a certain certain amount that have become kind of voluntary captives in the system seven european countries that have been only reason democracies like greece and spain and portugal there is a certain fear. and mung political class it's best to stand up to germany you have to stand up to the c.p.a. to say look unless we get this this rescue done on our times even leave the eurozone and then you know if you take the losses i would assume that germany what not like the us and germany would really be scattered anyone who leaving the euro zone because there are risks involved and and the german political leadership is very risk averse at the moment so so so i think they would probably have the greeks the spaniards the portuguese probably would have a much stronger hand and then they think. you know if they stood up the job. so if greece stood its ground. the banks. which have to choose one to go down say in a showdown they know. this is the truth sicko. live please pleas

minus 5 in stockholm. minus 5 in warsaw and minus 3 in vienna. i'll leave you now with your extended forecast. >>> we're back in 30 minutes with more of the latest. i'm gene otani in tokyo.

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zero in stockholm, just 1 degree in berlin. we're around the freezing point in warsaw, as well weather minus 3, and moscow getting to minus 5, and kiev as we were just looking at there. out towards london, 4 degrees with 6 in paris. so do wrap up if that's you in the affected area. i'll leave you now to your extended forecast. ♪ >>> we'll be back with more updates in 30 minutes. 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 are.

university professor shinya yamanaka and cambridge university professor emeritus john gurdon are in stockholm to attend the award ceremony on monday. yamanaka says he was able to generate induced pluripotent stem cells or ips cells due to unexpected results from his experiments. >> what i want to say to young scientists is is that when you observe unexpected results, that's -- that's the chance for a new breakthrough or for a new discovery. >> the japanese professor said he wants to speed up his research and that his work will eventually benefit hospitals and patients. >> i am on a scientific stream which john gurdon studied 50 years ago. this stream has not been stopped. so we have to draw into clinics or into patients. >> gurdon said he thought when he started had no obvious value from a therapeutic view point, but he said it was completely transformed by professor yamanaka's discovery and he realized that his field could have enormous therapeutic benefits. >>> in the middle east, more than two weeks have passed since a cease-fire took effect in the gaza strip. now israel and hamas are disc

minus 2 in stockholm. minus 16 degrees in moscow. that's about 12 degrees colder than seasonal.is due to cold air coming in from siberia. the cold air is also affecting the other side of eurasia. blanketing mongolia, northern china, the korean peninsula as well as japan. you saw minus 10 degrees at 8:00 a.m. local time. temperatures will remain below freezing throughout the day despite the sunshine. tokyo dropping down by about 7 degrees since yesterday. strong winds are creating sea effect snow along the sea of japan side of the country, from hokkaido down toward western honshu. daisen has received as much as 55 centimeters of snow over the past 24 hours. an additional 40 to 50 centimeters lookly for a large area. that could raise the risk of avalanches on top of strong winds and highways. on the other hand the pacific side should be staying largely dry. finally, let's go over to the americas, then. it's going to be a very busy travel week because a christmas holiday is coming up next week. unfortunately, many drivers may run into hazardous conditions due to heavy snow. we have

university professor shinya yamanaka and cambridge university professor emeritus john gurdon are in stockholm to attend the award ceremony on monday. yamanaka said he believes he was able to generate induced pluripotent stem cells or ips cells due to unexpected results from his experiments. >> what i want to say to young scientists is that when you observe unexpected results, that's -- that's the chance for a new breakthrough or for a new discovery. >> the japanese professor said he wants to speed up his research and that his work will eventually benefit hospitals and patients. >> i am on a scientific stream which sir john gurdon started 50 years ago. this stream has not been stopped. so we have to draw into clinics or into patients. >> gurdon said he thought what he started had no obvious value from a therapeutic view point, but he said it was completely transformed by professor yamanaka's discovery and he realized that his field could have enormous therapeutic benefits. >>> in the middle east, more than two weeks have passed since a cease-fire took effect in the gaza strip. now israel and h

of fifty thousand dollars in one thousand nine hundred eighty according to the new york post in stockholm reportedly their system is a little freer market where taxis are allowed to charge whatever price they like and in d.c. where after countless nights waiting in long lines after arriving to the train station with a dearth of cabs and some that couldn't even drive to my address because of the limits of their permits and rules governing them i hopped into a couple cabs to explore our own cities silly regulations and one market antidote we possibly found them taxi. taxi in washington d.c. like many other cities you can't always get a cab when and where you need one but when you do catch a taxi and meet its driver and my name is not. i was right you know it's almost for you. like nasser he or she can offer up a reason when and why cabs becomes scarce of them you notice when you're driving cabs to the dad that is. too dangerous unsafe and on top of that the business is controlled by a commission that decides everything from how many cabs are on the road to where they can pick up to what the

and speak with jonathan feldman an associate professor at the department of economic history at stockholm university in sweden and a principal governor of the global teachin jonathan feldman welcome to the kaiser report. glad to be here max thank you all right first jonathan feldman what is the global teach in ok the global teachin was an attempt to network about twenty locations in seven continents to come up with a comprehensive program for economic change part of the background of this is the work of people like the late barry commoner who recognize that not only did we have a huge economic crisis we had an environmental crisis and an energy supply crisis so all these crises crises are related to each other some might even go so far as to say we have a democratic crisis an intellectual crisis the latter being that in capacity building the issues so the global teaching was an attempt to vertical integration in terms of linking various issues that are usually separated by academy policy makers the media and also attempted horizontal integration to link places that are divided by physical

our military spending has gone up every single year that i've been in office according to the stockholm international peace research institute the us actually spends more on defense than the next thirteen countries combined accounting for twenty percent of all federal spending in twenty twelve the apartment defense base budget was five hundred fifty three billion dollars not including war funding that's more than twice as large as one thousand nine hundred nine the military has grown exponentially since nine eleven so this is a cut out of out of a department that is growing measurably so this is not going to decimate us it's not going to be catastrophic however possible reductions to weapon systems has defense contractors were eat their allies in congress have sounded the alarm so up to one million jobs are at risk one report estimates that my home state of mississippi alone could lose more than eleven thousand jobs many local economies have become reliant on government defense spending including here in southern california where defense and aerospace firms employ thousands of people ou

agreed to but did in this case in stockholm and the conference. >> what did it in this stuff? >> they again began to measure -- >> gorbachev? >> could well have been. could have been the military began to wonder stand there was a reciprocal to on-site inspection. was not a 1-way thing, they would have the opportunity also to look at the western military and defense establishment but quickly to the end of all of this. we had an agreement, there are stories along the way that i think our colleagues today got together, they would talk about some of them but jack mentioned ss-20 because it was the thing to do so they made it, there was a point when we sat with -- how many of these things do you have? he said i don't know. i am not in charge of making them work ordering them. they produced them, give me the ones i want. i don't know how many they make so i can't give you that number. i have to go back and tell. when we came to the end, the first part of december, teams are coming in here and getting ready and even mr. khrushchev, head of the kgb was in town and i entertained him at

having stockholm syndrome with my internet captors, you see the internet through their eyes and i have not yet immersed myself in really the policy discussion. >> host: andrew blum in the construct of the internet, we are hearing a lot about that cloud, the so-called cloud now. now. how does that fit in? >> guest: that cloud is all of us. the cloud is the marketing term for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services and what that means more specifically perhaps is a large data center, a data warehouse. perhaps not and ashburn at the next town over but in the next town over it has to tether in and connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot you might say of ashburn virginia. ashburn is a place where bandwidth is the most abundant and the cheapest. it's a place that the most direct connections to the most other places and when you are dealing with a cloud perhaps with either e-mail or your backup for some program you use to manage your salesforce or whatever it is, you wanted to operate absolutely as possible, as much like sitting on your

i talk about the stockholm syndrome keeping people here closer to the holiday, they are ticked off andy cannot be with their families and trim the tree, and they start to sympathize with their captors so, maybe if house of representatives speaker boehner can come up with an agreement and he will lose a big part of the caucus, 60 to 80 members but he can put it together with in democrats that gets you to 218, enough to pass it in the house of representatives. >>neil: but his speakership could be in trouble. >>guest: remember, he did this consistently throughout this congress the he did it on the transportation bill passed over the summer the he did it on the debt ceiling last summer. he did it on keeping the government open. you had attrition in the republican conference. there is the possible, some people are saying, look, if speaker boehner does not agree to something, the republican conference that they lie, he is out. a group downtown is very upset at him and sorry groups, as well, but it take as lot to kick speaker boehner out. the best thing he has going for him, his leadership is

in 1928, the birth the danish newspaper in partnership with the stockholm advertised that it would send a boy age 15 to 17 around the world to commemorate the famous novel. the boy had to be in good health, needed permission from his family, must speak english and german in order to do interviews. he was not allowed to fly. the canadian pacific railway arranged the travel and they paid the expenses. over 100 boys flocked the newspaper office in copenhagen. a girl called to protest her ineligibility. good for her. the staff eliminated all but the 159-year-old boys nap made their task a lot easier. and essay contest identified two finalists. both boy scouts. they drew straws. the winner went home to tell his mother he had a week in which to pack and get the facts. he was required to keep a diary and mail a telegraphic report. another obligation which was to meet and charm the political which made him to a advertisement for the canadian railway. a book appeared in the following year. it's hard to tell how much is holmes own. his comment on meeting the press in london. the reporters were aw

sweden, a 40-foot tall straw christmas ghost up in flames in a town square north of stockholm.er has been a holiday tradition since 1966. but apparently so is burning it officials say suspected arsonists have set fire 39 times they did it after police hosed it down hours earlier. that's a wrap on this fox trip around the world in 80 seconds: >> harris: the latest export from china seems to be college students. more and more chinese scholars are attend iting american institutions these days. supporters say it helps the university pay their bills but critics argue this trend has a downside. this holiday, share everything. share "not even close." share "you owe me..." share "just right." the share everything plan. shareable data across 10 devices with uimited talk and text. by htc for $49.99. i heard you guys can ship ground for less than the ups store. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex of

in 1928 the danish newspaper politic and in partnership with the stockholm newspaper advertised that it would send a boy aged 15-17 around the world to commemorate the famous novel. the boy had to be in good health, needed permission from his family, must speak english and german in order to do interviews, and he was not allowed to fly. the canadian pacific railway a range of travel and the newspapers would pay any remaining expenses. the competition was open. over 100 boys mob the of the -- office in copenhagen. a group telephoned to protester in eligibility. good for her. the staff eliminated all but the 15 year-old boys. an essay contest identified two finalists. both of them boy scouts. the two boys drew lots. the winner, a freckled face to read it went on to tell his mother that he had a week in which to pack ended his vaccinations. required to keep a diary in either male or telegraph report at each stop. another obligation was to meet and turn the public which made him into a roving commercial advertisement, particularly for canadian pacific railway. a book near reading journey

i do, however, i should add have a bit of stockholm syndrome.now kind of see the internet through their eyes, and i have not yet, i can say sort of immersed myself in really the opposite view in the policy discussion. >> host: andrew blum, in construct of the internet we're hearing a lot about the cloud, the so-called cloud now. >> guest: uh-huh. >> host: how does that fit in? >> guest: the cloud is all of it. you know, the cloud is, you know, is the marketing term for, you know, for the way in which the internet as a whole can offer business services. what that means more specifically, perhaps, is a large data center, a kind of data warehouses. perhaps not in ashburn, virginia, but in the next town over. but it's in the next town over because it has to tether in, it has to connect directly, as directly as possible to the distribution depot, you might say, of ashburn, virginia. you know, ashburn is a place where bandwidth is most abundant and cheapest, it's the place with the most direct connections to the most other pace -- places. and when you

story, and i, too, was shocked and disappointed to see see see see elena kagan inflict width the stockholm syndrome. >> i have a question -- they're a lot 0 of talk this is the most political court in history. is this the first time in history people have said that? and that it's most political court in history, and secondly, whether that could change, whether the court is o'politicizeed, it's likely to stay that way. >> i don't think i've said and i don't believe this is the most political court in history. i think the court is always political. its think it's part -- it is a political institution. presidents appoint justices to reflect their political ideaol, whether it's franklin d. roosevelt trying to get the new deal -- a constitutional stamp of approval, or lyndon johnson trying to get desegregation through judicial review. and as for the most conservative reactionary of all time, i have criticisms with the roberts court but this is the court that brought us dred scott. these are really horrible decisions, and far worse than anything that this supreme court could come up with. so i d

i, too, was shocked and disappointed to see elena kagan afflicted with this stockholm syndrome that goes on there currently. >> the first question i have, there is a lot of talk about history. first of all, is this the first time in history people have said this? that it is the most political court in history? and secondly, whether that could change. will it stay that way? >> i don't think that i have said, and i don't believe this is the most political court in history. i think the court is always political. i think it is a political institution. presidents appoint justices to reflect their political ideology, whether it's frankly the roosevelt trying to get the new deal for lyndon johnson trying to get desegregation through judicial review. you know, as for the most conservative reactionary of all time, you know, this is the court that brought us cheered scott and really horrible decisions, far worse than anything that this supreme court could come up with. so i don't believe that this is a more political court than it has ever been. but i do think that it is political. >> i think it i

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