It was carrying 58 people. 35 are confirmed dead. 8 are missing. The Foreign Ministers of japan, china and south korea could soon get relations back on track. They havent gathered for nearly three years partly because of disagreements over perceptions of history. Now, they are laying the groundwork for a meeting next month. Xi jinping and his south korean counterpart park gun hay got the ball rolling in november. They agreed to resume talks with japan at an early date. The vice Foreign Ministers of all three countries will meet to make preparations. Fumio kishida said he needs to meet his counterparts for the sake are future oriented relationships. Officials in tokyo hope the talks will pave the way for a trilateral summit. A japanese journalist indicted for defaming President Park has filed a lawsuit against the south korea government. He is demanding the authorities allow him to leave the country. Kato is the former seoul bureau chief of the former chinese newspaper. He wrote an arti
Search and rescue operations by an eu mission and they proposed to share the burden of dealing with incoming refugees. Finally give the idea of a new sense of urgency, a new sense of political will from the European Union side to tackle the issue of migration and the trafficking and smuggling of people across the mediterranean. But there are differences of opinion over the scale and range of the proposed measures. Italian authorities are continuing their search for survivors and bodies from saturdays deadly ship wreck in the mediterranean. A boat containing 700 people capsized off the coast of italy. Prosecutors say some rescued were from somalia, nigeria and jips. The boat left egypt and stopped at a port on route to italy. Troops from the United States and ukraine have joined in a joint training exercise. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says that his country epartnership with the United States has entered a new phase. U. S. Defendant Department Spokesperson steve warn denied the
They also agreed to broaden search and rescue operations by an eu mission and they proposed to share the burden of dealing with incoming refugees. Finally give the idea of a new sense of urgency, a new sense of political will from the European Union side to tackle the issue of migration and the trafficking and smuggling of people across the mediterranean. But there are differences of opinion over the scale and range of the proposed measures. Italian authorities are continuing their search for survivors and bodies from saturdays deadly ship wreck in the mediterranean. A boat containing 700 people capsized off the coast of italy. Prosecutors say some rescued were from somalia, nigeria and jips. The boat left egypt and stopped at a port on route to italy. Troops from the United States and ukraine have joined in a joint training exercise. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says that his country epartnership with the United States has entered a new phase. U. S. Defendant Department Spokes
Hands of seven men. [ applause ] xi and six other senior officials appeared before the media inside the great hall of the people in beijing. Translator our responsibility is to rally and lead the party and Chinese People of all ethnic groups. We take up the historical baton from the older generation. Reporter chinas new leader vowed to take action on issues such as jobs, Social Security and corruption. Translator in the new environment, our party faces many tough challenges. There are numerous pressing problems within the party and senior ranks that need to be resolved, especially corruption and the acceptance of bribes. Reporter xi jinping is taking over the position of general secretary from hu jintao. He will lead the politburos Standing Committee, chinas main decisionmaking body. The number of seats on the committee has been reduced to seven from nine. Analysts say the party made the change to speed up the decisionmaking process. Xi jinping and another top official, li keqiang, hav
Barriers surrounding storage tanks. And workers discovered spills in at least 12 locations. The rains eased. Then the water stopped flowing over the barriers. But workers are looking into the possibility that it may have leaked through ditches and into the ocean. The barriers are 30 centimeters high, but rain a few days ago had pushed water levels in some areas above 20 centimeters. And workers can only pump out a few centimeters per day. They checked the water for radioactivity to ensure it met safety standards. Then they released some of it into the compound. They went through the same process last wednesday after a typhoon brought heavy rains. Japanese government offic l officials have been helping their local counterparts prepare for the event of another nuclear accident. Theyre trying to ensure the safety of people who would be central to such plants. They say bus drivers who would drive residents to safety should not be exposed to more radiation than the general public. Governmen