Materials to seoul there is an election in japan this weekend and shinzo abbay may have reason to celebrate the latest polls predict his coalition will come out on top when the nation votes for a new upper house of parliament positive Economic Data is also helping his chances japans economy beat expectations expanding by 2. 2 percent in the 1st quarter but its not all good news exports fell by 2. 4 percent in the same time period with japan shipping fewer cars trucks and steel pipes abroad the burgeoning trade conflicts around the world could sour the outlook u. S. President or trump is still weighing a 25 percent levy on japanese car brands like toyota and nissan japans also facing a boycott in south korea over a disagreement on reparations for its treatment of victims of war time slave labor. Kim jong il is putting up a boycott sign at the entrance to his grocery store. Hes taking all japanese products off the shelves including cigarettes and alcohol. And there we took away japanese
President or trump is still weighing a 25 percent levy on japanese car brands like toyota and nissan japans also facing a boycott in south korea over a disagreement on reparations for its treatment of victims of war time slave labor. Pill is putting up a boycott sign at the entrance to his Grocery Store hes taking all japanese products off the shelves including cigarettes and alcohol. We took away japanese beer from here will you. Please these 2 rows are places i bottled beer with korean soju you know if. Its interesting you know that he will. And hes not alone over 3700 members of a south korean Grocery Stores are doing the same the boycott across the country is heard in japan. South korea is the biggest export market for japanese beer. In the 1st 2 weeks of july alone sales of japanese beer dropped by a quarter. And theyre bound to fall even further as more and more koreans join the boycott. We had a siberian display in a restaurant and one customer said that just by looking at us it
this is still an emergency situation. we are in search and rescue mode. again, that count is going to continue to go up and we don t lose this many people in flooding. it is a real tough one. rescuers are working around the clock. the national guard from kentucky, tennessee, and west virginia are lifting hundreds from the floodwaters. more than 600 already. washed away roads and bridges adding to the already very complicated recovery efforts. cnn s evan is at a command center for the research and rescue efforts. how are they coordinating what, is going on? reporter: well, hi, fred, when they say command center, they mean a place people gather. this is a parking lot of a shopping center here in jackson, kentucky, that is in the middle of where the floodwaters happened and behind me agencies are coming from all over the country, all over the state to work to try to help find people who might be trapped or still need help in the floodwaters and they re also working with a
As it prepares for an offensive. In the west bank city of bethlehem, people protested against israeli air strikes in the gaza strip and the worsening humanitarian situation. We cannot turn away anymore. The invasion of Israeli Forces and bombing on gaza is not accepted. In a televised speech wednesday israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu repeated his warning to gaza residents to evacuate. Translator weve already killed thousands of terrorists, and this is only the beginning. I call again for the noninvolved population in gaza to evacuate to the south strip. Netanyahu says preparations for a ground assault are still under way. He did not say when it would begin. The wall street journal quoted officials from the u. S. And Israeli Governments as saying that israel has agreed to delay its gaza incursion at washingtons request. The newspaper says the u. S. Asked for time to complete it deployment of air Defense Systems stationed in the region. The journal says the deployment is due to
Counterattacks by the Ukrainian Armed forces. As a result, the enemy lost almost 850 manpower; among the destroyed equipment there were a couple of tanks, including an american abrams, and two infantry fighting vehicles, and at least four artillery pieces made by nato countries. From the contact line in donbass. Pauls report prokopenko and alexander katsyuba. It remains to be seen which is easier to manage. Touch shot the crew of the d21 howitzer of the army corps of the Southern Group of forces is pushing the enemy away from the capital of the republic. The d20 operates at a maximum distance of 18 km. The shells go due west. We already came to these guys, but then they stood in different positions. A rollover, that is, a change in these very positions, is a sure sign that the front is not standing still. The enemy. We destroy, he retreats, positions, we erase, ours, our assault units are moving forward, it is clear that we are not worthy, for this we are also moving forward, the enemy