Measure that would allow tax increases mainly on the wealthy with some cuts expenditures. In the coming days and coming weeks, im going to keep on reaching out to them, both individually and as groups of senators or members of the house and say to them, lets fix this. Not just for a month or two but for years to come. The budget cuts were supposed to take effect at the beginning of the year. But obama and congressional leaders agreed to postpone them when they reached a compromise to prevent the socalled fiscal cliff crisis. The 85 billion in cuts started taking effect march 1st. Theyre split roughly evenly between defense and domestic programs. Officials say the impact might not be immediately felt, but they warn Airport Security lines could get longer and education and social Welfare Services could be affected. They still need to pass a budget bill for 2013. They need to act before the end of the month to prevent a partial government shutdown. Lawmakers in japan are struggling with their own economic problems. Officials at the finance Ministry Says the National Debt will reach nearly 12 million at the end of march next year. That debt will be more than twice japans gross domestic product. It will work out to more than 94,000 per citizen. Still, Prime Minister shinzo abe is increasing public spending as part of his plan to revitalize the economy. He wants lawmakers to pass a draft budget bill of about 1 trillion and he wants to issue bonds worth more than 600 billion to cover a shortfall in revenue. Government officials are trying to come up with ways to get the deficit down. They plan to show their proposals this summer. Icy relations between japan and china appear to be having a Lasting Impact on japans biggest automaker. Managers at toyota say Chinese People are buying fuel for their new cars. Toyota managers say their sales in china last month were down more than 45 on the year. They said the drop was unusually big because Chinese People took holidays nfor the lunar new yea. They got a Bigger Picture comparing the sales in january and february with their sales in the same period last year. They say the number of cars they sold was down more than 13 . Analysts say that drop shows Chinese People are still angry about japans handling of a dispute over islands in the east china sea. Space experts from japan and the United States are preparing to work closer together. Theyre set to talk about developing joint programs designed to benefit National Security and protect the planet from outer space threats. Prime minister abe and president obama agreed last month rather, last week, their countries need more indepth discussions on promoting Space Development over a wide range of areas. The first meeting of experts will happen as early as midmarch in tokyo. Representatives of japans space agency jaxa will attend the discussions along with foreign, defense and Security Officials from both nations. They will be talking about chinas enhanced ability to destroy satellites as well as north koreas missile capabilities. South korean government Officials Say authorities in pyongyang have developed a missile that can reach the u. S. West coast. The discussions will also explore ways to strengthen space monitoring. Last months meteor crash in russia highlighted the risks posed by socalled near earth objects. Japanese police have spent the past few weeks questioning a computer hacker who they suspect posted a murder threat. Now theyre getting ready to rearrest him. They think he also emailed a threat to blow up a passenger jet. Police arrested this man last month. They suspected he posted a message warning of a mass murder at a comic book event. Now Police Suspect he emailed a threat to blow up an Airlines Passenger jet en route to new york. That threat forced the pilot to turn back to tokyo. Police also plan to rearrest him for posting a message on an osaka city website threatening to carry out an indiscriminate murder. He said Police Arrested him by mistake. Two sailors are getting acquainted with life on jail. They were on trial for injuring and raping a japanese woman on the island of okinawa. Both pled guilty. Police arrested Christopher Browning and petty officer third class sky ler dozierwalker last october. They suspected the men had raped a woman in a parking lot. The sailors went on trial in the city of naha. They gave browning 7 years and dozierwalker 9 years. Their attorneys said they deeply regretted what they did. The prosecution said the sailors had treated the woman inhumanely. He said it was impossible to imagine her pain and said they acted more viciously than defendants in any similar case. Japans crowded tablet market will be getting more crowded soon. Microsoft has announced that it will start sending its original new tablet, surface, in japan beginning march 19. Microsoft has been marketing mainly software and surface is drawing attention as a tablet developed by microsoft itself. The product was rolled out in the United States last october. Surfaces o. S. Is noted with the latest windows version for tablets. It has a 10inch panel screen and uses a detachable keyboard which also serves as the cover. In japan, apples ipad accounts were around 60 of the tablet market. Tablets carrying google and android are also selling well because of low prices. Microsoft plans to keep the prices of the surface models lower than comparative ipads in japans competitive market. Air pollution in china in recent weeks has been getting worse by the day. Its now posing a health threat. To alleviate concerns, a service has been launched in shanghai that allows people to check air quality realtime. There is a new word that people in china have been hearing a lot of recently pm2. 5. Theyre fine pollutants found in diesel gas and smoke. Can be accessed on cell phones or pcs. She nfz people about the air quality outside their homes. When pollution levels are high, her hair changes color and her expressions also change. The Chinese Government is taking air pollution more seriously because of the growing number of complaints by anxious citizens. Coming up, our threeday World Weather forecast. That wraps up this edition of newsline
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