The u. S. Military has deployed stateoftheart fighters to japan. And looking ahead. We ask an expert what dronald trumps presidency could mean for japan. President obama has said goodbye. Obama wrapped up his eight years in office by looking back at some of his achievements. Thank you. [cheers and applause] if i had told you that we would open up a new chapter with the cuban people, shut down Irans Nuclear Weapons Program without firing a shot, take out the master mind of 9 11, if i had told you that we would win Marriage Equality and secure the right to Health Insurance for another 20 million of our fellow citizens, if i had told you all that, you might have said our sights were set a little too high. And he looked ahead to what he calls the greatest threat to democracy. We must guard against a weakening of the values that make us who we are. And thats why, for the past eight years, ive worked to put the fight against terrorism on a firmer legal footing. Thats why weve ended torture, worked to close gitmo, reformed our laws governing surveillance to protect privacy and civil liberties. Thats why i reject discrimination against muslim americans. [cheers and applause] who are just as patriotic as we are. Thats why we cannot withdraw from big, global fights to expand democracy and human rights and womens rights and lgbt rights. No matter how imperfect our efforts. No matter how expedient ignoring such values may seem, thats part of defending america. Obama addressed thousands of supporters in chicago, the city where he declared victory for his two terms. In the lead up to president elect Donald Trump Taking Office on january 20th, a key adviser has spoken out to reassure the countrys allies. Michael flynn will be Trumps National security adviser. He says americas alliances with other countries are one of the greatest tools his country has. We will keep in mind the sacrifices and deep commitments that many of our allies and our partners have made on behalf of our security and our prosperity. Flynn says the primary mission of the next administration will be the safety of the american people. But he also says the u. S. Will examine and potentially rethink americas relationships around the globe. During the u. S. President ial Campaign Trump raised eyebrows when he said allies should do more to host forces. The u. S. Is sending f35s to japan. Ten aircraft arare on their wayo western japan from arizona. They will replace fa18s and or eri aircraft. Its the most extensive Weapons Program in history. And it has suffered delays and cost overruns due to technical glitches. Marine corps Officials Say some f35s will be used in okinawa for training. The u. S. Defense department has deployed its most advanced equipment in the Asia Pacific Region under washingtons pivot to asia policy. It plans to station six additional f35s later this year. Chinese warships, including chinas only Aircraft Carrier were sailing through the Taiwan Strait on witness. It comes at a time of tightening tensions. The Officials Say the ships were traveling north on the west side of the strait in the morning. And theyre closely monitoring their movements. Last month, other warships sailed through the islands in southern japan and into the pacific for the first time. They were en route to the disputed south china sea. Chinas staterun tv aired footage of j15s landing and taking off. They are wary of the president who does not accept the onechina policy. On saturday, she met with u. S. Lawmakers on her way to Central America and spoke directly with u. S. President elect donald trump after the election. The u. S. Established diplomatic reasons with china in 1979 and severed ties with taiwan. Japans Prime Minister had a one on one with the head of the central bank. Gene otani has details on that and other business headlines. Prime minister shinzo abe and kuroda reviewed policies, including with the u. S. It was the first meeting in about four months. Kuroda said it was no more than a regularlyscheduled briefing with the Prime Minister. He said there was no further discussion of u. S. President elect donald trump. But the two exchanged views about the impact of higher u. S. Interest rates since trumps election victory. Translator the u. S. Is the worldds biggest economy and h been seeing steadily accelerating growth. But it has also seen various developments. Including a rise in interest rates. Kuroda said he had received no requests or instructions from abe. Checking the markets, stocks headed slightly higher. Many investors refrained from big moves ahead of Donald Trumps news conference. Overall trading was muted, but we did see some investors go bargain hunting after the nikkeis threeday losing streak. We saw gains in the material sector. Lets see the closing levels for this wednesday, january 11. The nikkei 225 rose. 33 higher for the first time in four sessions of the broader topix was up. 5 . Hope for Economic Growth lifted the steel sector here in tokyo. Jfe Holdings Jumped 5. 5 . Toshiba will news that it will have financial backing from its creditors. Focus will turn to how asian investors react to Donald Trumps First Press Conference sen si since the election. Singapore and indonesia ended at little change. The hang seng added 0. 8 . The shanghai composite declined for a second day, slipping by. 8 . Worries are that investors might take funds away from stocks already on the market. The kospi finish being at it 0 2,075. The highest level in 17 months. Or japanese officials are working on a project with liquid hydrogen in australia. It involves s shipping it in liquid form. Both governments have agreed on safety requirements for tranansportation. Thee regulatioions cover materi to be used for tanks carrying the liquid gas which reaches extremely l low temperatures. They also included rules on fire extinguishing requirements. Both governments will have their own safety requirements. It will be transported by a dedicated tanker to be built by japans kawasaki heavy industries. India has teamed up with partners from japan and are looking at Freight Trains. The two sides will test a link between the major cities of delhi and bengaluru. Nippon express and a local firm will start running a 40car Freight Train latat this month. It will be loaded with cars, electrical items and other items. Jajapan and india h have a aead agreed on the construction of Passenger Railway connectcting mumbai and amadabad. The japanese government hopes to strengthen ties with india through the Freight Train project. Eer eer. Heres a look at a couple other stories we are following. Officials at the Cabinet Office say the coincident index is the highest in two years and eight months, the rise is partly due to strong sales of winter clothing and food. Another factor is the increase in sales of oilrelated products. Sales of fuelefficient cars boomed in japan in 2016. The big winner was the prius, made by toyota. It was the best seller for the first time in for years. Dealers sold nearly 250,000 of the prius. The nbox was second with units of over 186,000. The aqua came in third with about 168,000. Donald trump will be sworn in as the next u. S. President in just over a week. Business leaders in japan are unsure what to expect. Trump has promised to reboot the economy and create new jobs through Infrastructure Spending and generous tax cuts. Hes vowed to take a tough stand on trade and put american interests first. For more insight on how this might affect japan, we spoke to hugh patrick, a leading specialist on u. S. japan relations. Reporter hugh patrick is a founder of columbia Business Schools department and an expert on japan. What would be the worstcase scenario for japan economic. I that the u. S. Becomes isolationist. It will make manufactured imports more expensive, by higher tariffs, by pursuing unilateral policies. In a more fundamental sense, it means American Leadership in the world would no longer be as secure and good as it has been for the past 70 years. Reporter but a Trump Administration o offers an upsi for jajapan. Patrick says that if trump does deliver on tax cuts and infrastructure, the japanese economy will benefit in the short term. Well, clearly, if the u. S. Engages these policies, which i think it will, the u. S. Economy will grow more rapidly. It will benefit the whole world. And the economy, the Global Economy will grow somewhat better. And under those circumstances, japanese exports not only to the United States but other parts of the world will increase, and also probably Foreign Investment opportunity. Reporter however, for many in japan, the big question is what action will trump take on tre . Im going to issue a noticationff intent to widraw from the transpacific partnership, a potential disasaster for our country. Reporter the u. S. Has played a leading role in promoting the tpp. Patrick says even if washingngt does pull out, theress s stil hope. Mr. Abe has said that without the United States tpp is meaningless. I dont think thats true. You could have a 11nation tpp led by japan, and that would benefit those nations and would benefit japan. And it would carry out his own domestic process, which is difficult, of trying to restructure agriculture. So i think that it is meaningful for japan. Reporter he says scenarios like these along with continued efforts to reform japans economy could help brighten the outlook. He also speculates that in the broader context, relations between the u. S. And china might work in japans favor. Well, i think the u. S. china relationship is going to be complex and difficult, and it will make, that will mean that in that sort of complex game, japan will be viewed as an ally by trump, and he will want to make sure that he keeps his ally happy. How would that impact the japanese economy . I think that probably when it comes down to the realities of imposing tariffs against japanese goods, wherever theyre produced, that probably would not, in fact, be implemented as a policy objective. Much less being able to carry it out in practice. Reporter on balance, a positive prediction for japan, but questions remain about how trumps presidency will actually play out. And you can catch our report again online with the full transcript. Look for nhk world and business wrap. Im going to leave you with the markets. South koreans have been seriously considering their countrys future. Massive protests virtually pushed their president to be suspended from office due to a growing scandal. And now there are calls to change the whole president ial system. Nhk reports. Reporter in one of the countrys largest super stores, sales in a certain section have boomed. Since december, books on political reform and amending the constitution have sold well. The scandal has more people engaged in politics and awakened a desire for change. Translator i want to think more about how to make our country head in the right direction. Reporter for decades, South Koreans have seen president ial scandals. Two of them went to jail on multiple charges, incluluding bribery. The constitution allows the president to not only exert enormous power on his or her administration but also the legislative and judicial arms of government. Some people see that system behind the corruption. Translator weve seen many bad situations, which were caused by the concentration of power in the role of president. I think that power should be disbursed throughout the administration. Reporter the ruling and opposition parties have established a special committee to amend the constitution. Before it starts, the Committee Head is going over opinions he gathered from a wide range of people, including former lawmakers and scholars. Translator lets change our flawed political system. First, we have to amend the constitution. Thats what people are trying to achieve. Reporter a major newspaper poll shows a large majority support reforms with different priorities on what to change. Roughly a third said the president ial term should be shortened to four years. Another third said power should be divided with the Prime Minister. And a smaller proportion wants the Prime Minister to be responsible for running the country. This is a constitutional expert. Translator the president s authority should be made more symbolic and ceremonial, and the Prime Minister should be given more substantive power. Reporter support for amending the constitution, more than half of the newspaper poll respondents said the country should be focusing on the next president ial election, but whether thats push for change or not, he expects the discussion to expand and become entrenched in the publics mind. Translator south korean policies have changed. Whoever the president is, its not appropriate for them to make every decision on his or her own. Reporter the constitution was amended several times under military rule but never during democracy. If reforms are made, it could mark a significant milestone in the countrys history. Nhk world, seoul. U. S. Authorities have charged two relatives of former u. N. Chief ban kimoon with attempted bribery. They say the men werere involve in a scheme to pay millions of dollars in keck baickbacks as p a property deal. They indicted the man and his son. A new York Real Estate broker. He is the younger brother of u. N. Sececretarygeneral ban kimoon. They conspired to pay to help close the sale of a skyscraper in vietnam. He fielded questions before stepping down as u. N. Chief last year. His spokesperson at the time declined to comment. Hes widely tipped to succeed park geunhye as president. Park was impeached in december over an influencepeddling scandal. A spokespersonn said ban kimoo had no knowledge of the property scheme. Translator ban was shocked by the news. It seems he knew nothing about this. He said the matter is still under investigation, so it would be inappropriate to comment further. Youre watching nhk newsline live from tokyo. Temperatures are expected to take a considerable dip as we head into the weekend. But temperatures are far more mild than much of uranium as sayaka mori tells us in this update. Yes, very cold air is grgripping many parts of southe euro europe with snowfall in athens. Take a look at this video from sicilyly. People in the sicilian town started to clear snow off the streets on tuesday. The town is sitting at about 1,200 meters above sea level. The unusually heavy snowfall cut off the village. Eight people died in italy last week because of cold weather. Most of them are homeless. Now the air is coming inin frm e the north. It will move into much of cecentral europe. It looks l like conditionons wi improve in turkey, howevever, another round of snow is expected to move into the balkan peninsula, so we will see snowfall persisting in several places. Now these are your expected highs on your wednesday. Minus 6 in warsaw. Its a little warmer than what we saw on tuesday. Minus 4 in vienna, 1 in berlin with a chance for snowfall and mild across the west like madrid, 16 degrees for your high on wednesday. Very heavy snow is falling across more th acroross Northern Areas o of ja. The snowfall depth has reached 2. 2 meters in parts of the region. Now the coldest air of the season is blanketed in much of the north. And the cold air will ten to move down coverering most of th countrtry by your thursday. Well see temperatures dropping for the next several days and also heavy snow will likely continue across the north and west. We could see up to 70 centimeters of snowfall for the hoe ckcue recue region. And there will be extremely hazardous driving conditions. Tokyo will see minus 2 degrees on your sunday morning. So do bundle up. Sapporo will see snowfall persisting into your sunday. And lets go to california. Were looking at quite heavy rain for the coast and also heavy snowfall in higher elevations. Lets go to some video from truckee. California continues to deal with the power of natures fury in the northern portion of the state tuesday. Heavy snow and ice continued to cause problems. Emergency officials brought out plows to clear the additioional centimeters o on the ground. Warnings are in place in high elevevations in california. More snow is expected into your thursday and more rain for the coastal locations. Snow will likely linger across the Northern Rockies and quite cold air is coming in from the north. Take a look at this. Minus 22 in winnipeg on your wednesday. Cold air will continue to affect the Northern Plains as well as the Northern Rockies as well. Minus 1 for the high in vancouver on your wednesday, but across the east, conditions are actually getting warmer. 10 degrees for the high in washington, d. C. And 9 for the high in new york city. Thats it for me now, heres your extended forecast. Some good news for you art buffs ot there, the British Museum will show hokusais art. It includes great wave and red fuji. They are published after he turned 70. The show will feature about 160 pieces, including paintings and sketches. The older hoe hokusai got, the more spiritual. We want to have as many of his late paintings. It will run from may 25th to august 13th all at the British Museum. That wraps up this edition of 7 host this is france 24. Time now for 60 minutes live around the world. Todays top stories. Media reports in the United States are saying that donald trump could be linked to russia both financially and that russia also has some personal intelligence on him as well. As the u. S. President elect is due to hold his First Press Conference in six months. Trump has called the allegations a politica
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