The tuna in the pacific are at risk of extinction. Prime minister shinzo abe is expected to announce on tuesday that he will dissolve the diets lower house. He wants support for his plan to postpone the consumption tax hike by calling a snap election. Abe and deputy Prime Minister taro aso met and agreed to delay the increase to april 17. It was scheduled for next october. Abe held talks with the leader of Junior Coalition partner komeito after returning from the g20 summit in australia. They spoke about the tax hike and dissolving the lower house. Abe said hed decide on the increase after gdp data for the july to september period came out. The numbers show that Gross Domestic Product shrank 1. 6 . Its the second straight quarterly decline. Translator the report on the july to september gdp is out. Unfortunately, the numbers are not good. Abe will meet executives of the Ruling Liberal Democratic Party on tuesday. And hell meet the leader of komeito again to get his approval for a snap
Journalist and vowed to continue air strikes against them. Emergency crews in hiroshima are getting a Bigger Picture of the job they have before them. Theyre digging through the debris a day after dozens of landslides thundered down into neighborhoods. At least 39 people were killed. Police say an additional 19 people are unaccounted for, bringing the total number of missing to 26. The firefighters, police and a ground selfdefense force personnel are assisting with the relief work. The landslides damaged or destroyed more than 180 homes and more than 800 people had to leave. Many of them have taken refuge in emergency shelters. The disaster cut off power to more than 900 households and it knocked out water to more than 1,000. Municipal officials have set up supply stations so people can get enough to drink. Some residents are getting help from volunteers to clean up the mess. They are scooping up the mud, sometimes with heavy machinery. But Authorities Say there are sites that are left
Outside mariupol came under shell fire this morning. This is the moment that joan mills heard sound for the first time. Saturday sunday. It was an amazing moment. It makes me cry every time. Joan is joining us in the studio and is taking your questions on her groundbreaking operation. Welcome to the program. Aarons here talking about a scandal thats rocking brazil. Lucy its the worlds oil giant, involved in the biggest bribery case in brazils history. Allegations of Senior Executives bribing contractors with 4 billion going missing over the past decade. Yes, were going to take a look at how this has got the country in an uproar and whether these allegations could reach the highest level in government. We start gmt with breaking news. After months of speculation, one of the key figureheads of Islamic State has been named by the bbc. The masked executioner known as jihadi john is british man Mohammed Emwazi. He is from london. He was known to British Security services. Mohammed emwazi ha
Protests in venezuela as president Nicholas Maduro has nothing to do with what they have to say and they are under flood Evacuation Order and past wildfires creating a new threat months after those fires were put out. Good morning and thanks for waking up with al Jazeera America, im thomas drayden and they ceased to airports and one of the airports was taken over by Russian Military and happened overnight in the territory of crimea and that is the focal point of battles between ukrainian seeking to be with the union and those loyal to russia and the new parliament calls the action an armed invasion in occupation and since voted on a resolution to seek help from countries that consider ukraine a sovereign nation. Coming up, in a few hours deposed president Victor Yanukovich will speak from an undisclosed location in south urn russia and we will begin in moscow but jennifer class is there where one of the airports was seized and good morning to you and it seems from the outside there has
London for last months storms with his russian counterpart to head all write me and its referendum best friend in the next six months to get the needle this is russ announces new trio breach of the mountain range. This installation Airlines Flight seventy seven she travels west and reports that smith may have been deliberately towards the undermanned identity and unix. As the verdict is due today in the first seventy people in front of her events and around at the time of the nineteen ninety four genocide. The prosecution is seeking a life sentence. As the headlines this weekend featuring a scare on a false front of our top story this morning the american and Russian Foreign ministers are meeting in london today to discuss the crisis in ukraine so why did john kerry a riot at downing street. Just ahead all that meeting is expected to warn Sergei Lavrov today although consequences from moscow this minute intervention in crimea and the referendum was held there on sunday. United states h