they say toshiba, funai electricity and mitsubishi electric infringed on their lcd panels. hon hai officials say the move is part of their global strategy to protect their display technology. they didn't give any further details on this, though. representatives from toshiba, funai and mitsubishi declined to comment, saying they had not seen the complaint. >>> time to check the markets now. most asian stocks rose today following the positive sentiment we saw on wall street. and this was despite weak u.s. gdp data. the u.s. economy contracted 2.9% in the first quarter this year. many investors now think the u.s. fed will not raise interest rates anytime soon. they're hoping that will lead to more money flowing into asian stocks. the nikkei with a bounceback after closing at a one week low the previous day. the index finished off the session at 15,308, a gain of just over a quarter of a percent. some market heavyweights like softbank and toyota pushed up the overall market. in seoul, shares rose more than .6%, 1995, strong gains with kia motors supporting market sentiment. med

. -- are alsoso involved with hitachi and toshiba sharing a slight decline. --also have this report of a a pinball tax they're calling it or slot machine tax. sammy isee that sega up by 3.2 touches down by 3.2 percent. those are examples of stocks that have seen declines. stay with the japanese story. the yen is 102.10. dollar/yen trading quite low. nevertheless, and corporate japan, the day -- there is the ge story and the pinball tax stocks. >> thanks, john. china's biggest oil and gas reducer. chinaorders are finding national petroleum corporation miscalculated their gas sales and also fails to report a gas project on time. there is a gas storage facility in the northeast without permission. their private survey adding to the picture of a deepening slowdown. this is the china beige book. it says capital spending weekend and fewer companies applied for credit this quarter. the government will make adjustments to meet the 7.5% growth target. be partially to blame for the lane crash in seven cisco. they're debating whether the design on the automatic throttle

another electronics maker, toshiba, has already begun selling its new microwave ovens and rice cookers ahead of schedule. >>> the hike in the con sumgts tax is causing headaches for owners of some of japan's smaller businesses. they must pay more for the things that they purchase. but nearly 40% of them say they haven't been able to cover their expenses by raising prices. an association of small business owners last month conducted a nationwide survey. people at nearly 4,800 companies responded. 63% said they have been able to cover the tax increase by raising prices. 27%, though, said they could not fully offset their expenses. while 10% said they haven't been able to raise prices at all. japanese leaders are considering to raise the consumption tax again next year to 10%. pollsters asked small business owners what they think. a quarter of respondents said plans should proceed as scheduled. nearly the same said the government should postpone the increase or scrap it. >>> people who work in the japanese food industry are uncertain about what lies ahead. they're worried about a shrinkin

transactions for example so some very bright fellow named soto should not the moto or people posing as a toshiba automotive figured out that you could use that technology to create a currency in effect and reward people to put up their their computers to solve these cryptology problems and that this could in fact be a currency on it in its own right and the way it's finally announced this was in response specifically to the u.k. bailing out the banks so here we have a system whereby the elites don't get to reengineer the laws and shockwave so what is it based on a result of the script is there like me because i think the resources the is the computer power users thousands of computers harnessed simultaneously solving these these very difficult math equations so and how does that generate and i mean what is biased on boolean or is a promise to pay the mayor i understand it can entice and the more abstract money becomes the more after these resources become the more confused i am right well it is similar to gold in that there is a limited number that will ever be created twenty one million in the

transactions for example so some very bright fellow named soto should not go moto or people posing as a toshiba automotive figured out that you could use that technology to create a currency in effect and reward people to put up their their computers to solve these cryptology problems and that this could in fact be a currency on it in its own right and the way finally announced this was in response specifically to the u.k. bailing out the banks so here we have a system whereby the elites don't get to reengineer the laws shockley so what is it based on a result of space script is there like you know because i think the resources the is the computer power users thousands of computers harnessed simultaneously solving these these very difficult math equations so and how does that generate and i mean what is biased on boolean or is a promise to pay the mayor i understood it back in in days and the abstract money becomes the more after these resources become the more confused i am right well it is similar to gold in that there is a limited number that will ever be created twenty one million in the ca

. >>> toshiba and gof suez in a deal for europe's biggest nuclear energy project. >> various members of the japanese government are involved in this and the problem with the government is they realize the uk has to be involved in the nugen deal, but 60% of them are against this type of event. the problem is a lot of the benefits are wiped out by the deficits on the trade including the huge imports from gas and so on. if we get exports out of the state in a meaningful way, that can dampen the excess costs. in terms of europe as well, germany has a similar kind of public opinion to what we are seeing over in japan as well. and they are pretty much against a nuclear future. the whole part of their energy strategy by 2035, 80% of the german energy coming from green initiatives. now we look at the united ki kingdom as well. they have a problem with sustainability and keeping the costs down for the consumer. on the cost front, nuclear is expensive, as are turbines at the moment with solar, but we need every single part of our energy mix because the uk has a big of a problem on the nuclear.

[inaudible conversations] >> via toshiba are to be given as to the american taxpayer, not to the government agency that is abusing its power. i am sitting here listening to this testimony and i just i don't believe it. that's your problem. nobody beliefs you. the internal revenue service comes to congress a couple years ago and misleads us and says no target is occurring and then they said it was a few rogue agents in cincinnati than they said it was also an progressive. all of those things have been proven on true. this committee sent a criminal referral possible criminal wrongdoing and we've heard nothing. you buried in a 27 page letter to the senate asking for them to conclude the investigation that you've lost lois lerner's e-mails during the time in question because of a hard drive crash. monday hour investigators asked your agency or any other hard drives crashed and we were six other hard drives of the people that were investigating that were involved. you didn't tell us about. >> we told you on monday. and what did you do? think because we asked you. >> and what did you do with that

underline toshiba's panel with dana smith, valued colleague of many years.with your permission, mr. chairman, i would like to introduce my daughter, dorothy jones, a rising sophomore at duke university. she flew up from atlanta to be with me today. my wife, barbara, and two sons are in amman. i'm grateful that my family has been gained for every new posting. mr. chairman, i am both humbled and thrilled to have the opportunity to serve as chief of mission at the american embassy baghdad. one of our largest and most complex diplomatic missions. i served in iraq twice as you mentioned, and a structure for iraqi affairs on the national security council. these jobs have helped me to prepare for the complexity and challenges of the assignment ahead. we are also me with a history of iraq's past decade. it is impossible to serve in iraq without recalling and honoring the sacrifice and achievement of our u.s. servicemen and women and civilians. more than 4000 lost their lives but they also put an end to the oppression and regional threat of the saddam hussein regime.

innovation and it's a massive development in history technology to have face fantastic you know this a toshiba algorithm which is enabled people to do whatever they want on using so gross i mean there's been so much in plays and it's about drug dealers this is like drug dealers move to the next generation you know they say that condition to mediate or put out of business things like western union or banks brokers the way contracts are written can big coin do the same thing to theater. i don't know that that would be amazing i think it would just need people to start accepting them you know if it's been used to stock something and there's a crash i think speaking of funding is crafting a project you have a dual campaign right on two different platform or else about it so yes. so we've got stuck joint which i think you know something about which is a really good one and you also accept cryptocurrency which is really crisis we take it going to help fund it right and kicks us as well which we don't change when we need to raise about ten thousand pounds between them and we go for five on each but a