Economic ties among apeculiar member countries. It says the government leaders will step up their Infrastructure Development and investment over the coming three years. The draft also says the leaders will ensure more transparency in their schemeless for accepting bids from contractors acquiring land and imposing taxes. And it says that theyll create systems for cooperation between the public and private sectors. The u. S. Government shutdown is having repercussions for the countrys diplomacy. President barack obama has canceled his plans to attend next weeks economic summits in indonesia and brunei. Instead, he will remain in washington and continue urging lawmakers to pass a budget bill that would reopen the government. Obama was to attend the asiapacific Economic Cooperation forum in bali. He was then supposed to chair the Transpacific Partnership free trade talks there. The president s next scheduled stop was the east asia summit in brunei. A white house spokesman said obama phoned the leaders of the two host countries to express his regrets. Obama had already canceled visits to malaysia and the phillipines. Investors around the world are keeping a close eye on the u. S. Fiscal issue as the Government Shutdown continues. Labor officials had to postpone the release of the jobs data scheduled on friday due to the suspension of u. S. Government services. Market participants had been wag for the latest numbers for clues on whether the Federal Reserve would start to taper its monetary easing measures soon. We asked marisa di natale, an economist at moodys analytics, about the impact the Government Shutdown is having on the nations economy, and risks of the nation defaulting on its debt. The impact of the Government Shutdown on the u. S. Economy really depends on how long it lasts. So if it only lasts maybe a couple more days, and its resolved next week, we expect the Economic Impact to be pretty minimal. So were talking about fourthquarter gdp growth thats maybe about 0. 2 of a percentage point lower than it would have been. If, however, the shutdown lasts longer, if it lasts two or three weeks, even four weeks, like it did back in 19951996, we could actually see a decline in fourthquarter gdp, and the Economic Impact would be much, much more severe. We also have to remember theres about 800,000 federal workers that are laid off right now without pay. When that happened in 9596, they were paid retroactively when the government opened up again. So thats good, but in the meantime, were missing a lot of consumer spending, Discretionary Spending in the economy. We think that the shutdown will probably be resolved sometime next week, and i think the bigger risk right now is negotiations over the debt ceiling limit, which will come up in the next couple of weeks. It seems like House Republicans are saying that they are unwilling to allow a default on federal government sovereign debt. So it seems like if we can get the federal Government Shutdown resolved, we could also raise the debt ceiling and do it all in one deal. So as a result of all of this, we think that the economy is going to be probably pretty weak through the end of 2013. We werent expecting job growth to really pick up until early 2014 anyway. And so now its likely that we could see weaker growth in the Fourth Quarter of 13 and then faster growth as everything bounces back in the First Quarter of 2014. Engineers at the Fukushima DaiichiNuclear Plant have resumed testing of Filtration Systems after operations were suspended for half a day. They say a glitch in the control system of a holding tank caused the decontamination system to automatically shut down. Plant managers say an alarm went off on friday morning indicating something was wrong with the advanced liquid processing system. The engineers found the control system of the holding tank was sending out two contradictory signals about whether it could contain more water or not. The engineers plan to suspend operations for three days from saturday to check the system and make any adjustments. An estimated 400 tons of groundwater is seeping into the damaged facilities at the plant every day, and is becoming contaminated. Representatives of governments around the world have laid the groundwork for the next u. N. Talks on climate change. Theyre preparing to try to hammer out a new framework for cuts in Greenhouse Gas emissions. Leaders will gather in warsaw next month for the 19th United NationsFramework Convention on climate change. Officials from 40 governments held two days of talks in preparation. They focused on the challenge of creating a framework to kill the protocol when it expires in 2020. The current rules only require industrialized nations to cut their greenhouse emissions. Theyll encourage leaders of industrialized and developing countries to discuss how they should all be treated. Translator well use our experience of democratization to treat all countries equally and come up with a conclusion. Governments will also lead their talks through Greenhouse Gas emissions through 2020. Japan is the only nation that has not announced any targets for cuts during that period. Engineers at the fukushima a lonely dwa on the daughters 49th birthday seasons their daughter was abducted. The girl was grabbed by a north korean agent in 1977 when she was 13. Officials in i dont thipyongya father is 80 and her mother is 7 7 and they dont have much time left. Translator ever since she was take chb weve grieved. Not just on her birthdays, we never feel alive. She says theyre concerned about poor medical facilities in north korea and once she returned before she becomes so 08d and bed ridden. He says he wants his daughter to know people are doing their best to get her released. She said she asked the japanese officials to get hr back before she turned 40, nearly a decade ago. She says she wants the Prime Minister abe to make the, ducks his top priority and bring her back to japan before she turned 50. Heres your three day forecast. That wraps up this edition of nhk. In tokyo, thank you for joining us. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com