Personnel and civilian employees. It involves the arrest of a former marine at a u. S. Air base in the southern prefecture of okinawa. Hes being connected with the disappearance of a woman who was later found dead. Now people in okinawa are outraged. They say a Bilateral Agreement on the status of American Military personnel called sofa, grants unfair privileges, and theyre demanding concrete measures from both the u. S. And japanese governments. And nhk worlds moshe kamota reports. Reporter they arrested an american civilian working at the u. S. Base. They says Kenneth Franklin admitted to strangling and stabbing a japanese woman who went missing in april. On tuesday Assembly Members unanimously passed a resolution pressing both governments to ensure that the u. S. Tightens discipline, and also a revision of sofa. Several other local assemblies approved several other resolutions. The status of the agreement stipulates the procedures for washington and tokyo when u. S. Servicemen or ci
Personnel and civilian employees. It involves the arrest of a former marine at a u. S. Air base in the southern prefecture of okinawa. Hes being connected with the disappearance of a woman who was later found dead. Now people in okinawa are outraged. They say a Bilateral Agreement on the status of American Military personnel called sofa, grants unfair privileges, and theyre demanding concrete measures from both the u. S. And japanese governments. And nhk worlds moshe kamota reports. Reporter they arrested an american civilian working at the u. S. Base. They says Kenneth Franklin admitted to strangling and stabbing a japanese woman who went missing in april. On tuesday Assembly Members unanimously passed a resolution pressing both governments to ensure that the u. S. Tightens discipline, and also a revision of sofa. Several other local assemblies approved several other resolutions. The status of the agreement stipulates the procedures for washington and tokyo when u. S. Servicemen or ci
The typhoon also dealt a blow to a key regional industry, potato farming. A processing facility in the town of minamifurano is completely flooded. A nearby river overflowed sending muddy water into its buildings and destroying potato products. Its not clear when operations can be resumed. The storm also left damage on the korean peninsula. Chinese media suggests that flooding along the countrys border areas with north korea may have also caused heavy damage in the north. Typhoon lionrock unleashed heavy rain from late august in chinas Northeastern Region along the border with north korea. Media reports say the storm caused the crossborder tumen river to overflow its banks. Staterun China Central television says chinese rescuers in the province saved three north korean citizens who had been trapped by the floods. A rescued woman said she had almost given up hope. She expressed gratitude for being rescued. Chinese microblogging site weibo has obtained a photo of north korea said to have
Resume the work against many residents. A powerful earthquake that rocked northern afghanistan left more than 300 dead and 1800 injuries across south asia. U. S. Commanders sent a warship into waters claimed by beijing in the South China Sea. The vessels sailed within 12 nautical miles of artificial islands built by china. The diplomatic sources say a u. S. Navy destroyer entered water near the manmade islands in the spratly chain. Its claimed by china, vietnam, malaysia, and taiwan. International law says nations can declare up to 12 nautical miles from their coast as sompb territories, but does not apply to artificial islands. They say they are challenging claims over the territory. Officials in washington have not officially confirmed they sent a ship. They have stressed their commitment to freedom of navigation. The president , actually, when he was next to the president in the rose garden indicated that the United States was, you know, would operate, fly, or sail anywhere the Inte
And just kind of strung up there and the dutch ship, the flagship of this, you know, task force is built to commercial damage control standards, even socalled low threat environment, somebody may get the hands control standards. How do we deal with these problems with the allies not just technically but in terms of what they are able to survive in terms of threats . If i had that answer as clearly as i would like to we would probably say we have the answers. We are in the bit of discovery. I think you are discovering that. You have outlines a few of the things that come about. What kind of equipment and capabilities do our allies have . We need to understand that and you dont really find those issues until you bring them together. We are still coming back the marines come back to sea we welcome them back and they have a capability as they move ahead on ground operations over the years in iraq and afghanistan. We didnt move at the same pace and stay as synchronized as we should have. Th