Welcome to newsline. Its friday, february 1st. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. An explosion has torn through the headquarters of mexican oil company. 14 workers were killed. At least 80 people were injured. The building shook and lost power. Workers evacuated the building. Emergency crews rushed to the scene. They helped moved the injured through debris that had been thrown out on the street. The explosion took place in basement garage. Officials are still trying to find out what happened. Journalists are being allowed into a natural gas complex. 150 journalists from domestic and foreign media were given access to the gas facility. If facility consists of a natural gas plant with living quarters about three kilometers away. Along the roadside near the living quarters is a line of vehicles destroyed when helicopters attacked the militants as they tried to flee with the hostages. After coming under attack militants made their last stance some the algeria government invited media to the
The bill is putting pressure on both chambers of commerce by midapril. Republicans are expected to continue pushing the government to cut the fiscal deficit by reviewing Social Security spending. The budget is a lingering concern for lawmakers. They must come up with measures to resolve the issues of spending cutby ely mch. Here in japan the jobless rate in december has gotten worse. The number of jobs on offer for people seeking work has seen the first increase in five months. The latest data from the internal Affairs Ministry Shows Unemployment for december was 4. 2 . Thats up. 1 of a point from december. The number of people without a job increased by 70,000 to 27. 8 million. Those with a job fell 350,000 to 62. 6 million. As for thehole of 2012 the job situation improved. The average Unemployment Rate last year stood at 4. 3 . Thats down. 3 of a point from the Previous Year. The Labor Ministry announced that the ratio of Job Vacancies to seekers improved slightly in december. It sa
Translator i think it is difficult for me to continue teaching judo. Im going to submit a document to the alljapan Judo Federation asking whether or not i should resign. He went on to say he never thought what he did would constitute violence. He revealed he just wanted the wrestlers to go the extra mile. Officials with the alljapan Judo Federation say he was involved in a total of five violent incidents from august 2010 to february 2012. They say he admitted to hitting athletes who failed to follow his instructions and jamming them with a stick. They reprimanded solada and the other coach. The New York Times says chinese hackers repeatedly penetrated its Computer Systems over the past four months look for passwords and other sensitive information. The start of the Cyber Attacks coincided with the times investigation into vast fortunes accumulated by the family of chinese premier wen jiabao. The assault on the network ban in september of 2012 when articles was nearing completion. Secur
Saying soloda and another coach slapped them in the face and used other forms of physical abuse and power harassment. Translator i think it is difficult for me to continue teaching judo. Im going to submit a document to the alljapan Judo Federation asking whether or not i should resign. He went on to say he never thought what he did would constitute violence. He revealed he just wanted the wrestlers to go the extra mile. Officials with the alljapan Judo Federation say he was involved in a total of five violent incidents from august 2010 to february 2012. They say he admitted to hitting athletes who failed to follow his instructions and jamming them with a stick. They reprimanded soloda and the other coach. The joc set up an emergency meeting. They will probe the allegations of violence by the coaches. Translator the scandal has underscored a gap between sports circles and society about whats accepted as discipline and what constitutes violence. Its our mission to irradicate violence fr
Searched the wreckage of transasia flight 235. Incredible video there showing the plane clipping a bridge before landing in the water. We know that 32 people so far have been killed. 15 people have managed to survive. But 11 people are indeed missing. Among the survivors is a 1yearold boy. He was pulled from the wreckage with his parents. The child and his mother were sent to separate hospitals and the father who had just minor injuries got on a bicycle to go out and find them. Officials verified that a mayday call came from the flight deck before the crash. A person says theres an engine flameout but its unclear who made that call. Anna coren joins us live from taipei with the latest. So anna what is happening right now with the search going on behind you . Reporter john, there are hundreds of personnel here, military and Police Taking part in this enormous search and rescue operation. As you say, the death toll has now increased to 32. That means that thats still 11 passengers remain