Receiving positive response even from those who fought in world war ii. Eagerly awaiting. Countries pushing for a ban on Nuclear Weapons are waiting to hear just what the u. S. President will say. Egyptian search and rescue teams are looking for a passenger plane that has gone missing with 66 people on board. The egyptair flight took off from paris Late Wednesday night local time headed to cairo. The airline says the passengers are mostly egyptian but include french, iraqi and others. The plane disappeared from radar three and a half hours after takeoff. It says it was in egyptian airspace flying at 11,000 meters. The plane is an airbus a320 like the one on the screen. Local media quote officials in cairo as saying the planes last contact was ten minutes before it vanished. One flight information website shows the aircraft suddenly disappearing over the mediterranean sea. Egypt has had other major airplane incidents during the past year. Last october a Russian Airliner went down over t
They say three suspects are in custody. Theyre male and female. Police say one suspect was cornered after the first shootings. He reportedly claimed he had planted bombs throughout the city. Police say he died during an exchange of gunfire. The federal Aviation Administration has issued a temporary flight restriction over downtown dallas. Well bring you more details as the situation develops. The United States has reached a deal with south korea to deploy an advanced Missile Defense system to counter possible threats from north korea. But china has raised objections. South Koreas Deputy defense minister announced that the system will be a u. S. Terminal High Altitude area defense of t. H. A. D. Washington and seoul are expected to proceed with final talks on where to set up the system. Both have held news conferences to stress the importance of the plan. Deployed t. H. A. D. To the Korean Peninsula will improve our defensive strategy. Translator it will not target in a third country. I
And teaching readiness. Ahead of the fifth anniversary of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, one japanese man visited taiwan with an important message. The japanese cabinet has approved a bill that would shorten time women must wait before they remarry. It would amend a centuryold provision in the civic code that critics say unfairly limits womens freedom. Ministers approved the bill on tuesday at a cabinet meeting. Women in japan must wait six months after divorce before remarrying. If the bill passes the period would be reduced to 1 d00 days principle. The proposed legislation is in line with the Supreme Court ruling in december. The court said a period of more than 100 days is excessive and unconstitutional. The ban was originally aimed at preventing paternity disputes but critics point out that dna testing is available now so the rule is outdated. The bill would likely make it possible for many women to remarry without waiting the full 100 days. It says if a doctor certifies that a w
Them enacted this week. A volcano on the southwestern japanese island of kyushu erupted. People are urged to be on the alert. And rescue crews are searching for people who went missing in a flood in eastern japan as Recovery Efforts get under way. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe has indicated he remains determined to enact security legislation during the current diet session. Lawmakers from the Largest Opposition Party are vowing to put up a fight. They are promising to do everything they can to keep the bills from becoming law. Abe took part in intensive deliberations at a special upper house committee. The bills would expand the role of the selfdefense forces and allow japan to exercise collecve selfdefense. A lawmaker from the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party asked why it was necessary to change the interpretation of the constitution to allow that right at this time . Translator when it comes to National Security the government should be prepared for every possibility. The legisla
We have hsbc releasing their own data this morning. Lets take a look at the shanghai drop. It is a 2 drop today. Last week was the worst week for chinese stock in over a year. That is what is happening across these markets. Disappointing data, perhaps. A lot of speculation there. And the china market, there are a lot of big movers today. Which one is down for you . A few. Obviously we are following shares from h and ashares. We are watching if there are moves down in any other banking shares. The company is saying it may be forced into consultancy. We will get more on why later on. This Steel Industry in china seeing a bit of a pitch. They are down 3 today. I want to mention. The Mining Machinery is expecting a 75 drop in net income. They are seeing some pressure. Let me send it back to you. As david just mentioned, the president of chinas Minsheng Bank has resigned. What do we know so far . The details are still coming in and we have to rely on a beijing magazine for some of these det