Visits hiroshima next week. A new chapter. Taiwans first female president takes power as beijing ramps up pressure on her to recognize the onechina policy. Police in japans southern okinawa prefecture arrested an american who works on a u. S. Military base. Theyey say h he admdmitted to sg and strtrangling a japananese w who went missing three weeks ago. Kenneth franklin shinzato works on kadena air base. Information from the suspect led them to the body of Rina Shimabukuro lying by the side of the road. The suspect confessed to attacking the woman and abandoning her body. Sources close to the investigation say officers found the victims blood stains in his car. Residents have long complained about crimes committed by base personnel. More than 70 of u. S. Military facilities in japan are in the prefecture. Translator this is unforgivable. I am lost for words. Translator incidents like this will happen as long as we have the bases. Japans Prime Minister voiced his anger. Translator i de
For trump who will travel to dc on thursday to meet with speaker paul ryan, and other Republican Leaders as part of an ongoing, if jointed effort to unite the gop behind him. His two top rivals addressed reporter, senator marco rubio offering backing for the man he regularly called a con man. I find a pledge that said signed a pledge that said is i would support the republican nominee. Reporter ted cruz dodging questions about trump all together. What i am interested in supporting are free market principles and the constitutional l liberties of america. Reporter and late this afternoon, trump told the Associated Press he has narrowed his v. P. Short list down to 5 or 6 candidates, including new jersey governor chris christie. Marco rubio said he will not be on the list. Reporting live, wusa 9. All right. Thank you. Of course, republicans vote in nebraska today, as well. Up to the the primaries and election alerts throughout the campaign, download our free wusa 9 app. Federal transporta
In geneva plus why ethiopias Largest Community is protesting against the government. We begin with the latest in the investigation into tuesdays attacks in brussels. Several people have been arrested in a series of police raids in the forest suburb of the capitol on friday morning, earlier six people were arrested in raids in other parts of the city, the suburb was on lock down as police searched an apartment and boxes of evidence were seized as part of the probe into the i. S. I. L. Suicide bombers that killed at least 31 people and wounded hundreds and people found access to their homes blocked. Translator i was coming back from school and found the entire area locked so i couldnt get home and i asked and said police have to do work here and i dont know what is going on. I live close to here, next to number 20 where they searched the house. Reporter meanwhile najim laachraoul the brother of one of the suicide bombers has spoken out about his shock and sadness after the attacks and sa
The japan nikkei was up by another 3. 7 . You see the hang seng and shanghai was up as well. The dax is up by 2 and a quarter . Also check out crude prices which managed to end down by only about 1 yesterday. Up 1. 5 today. Couple big earnings stories this morning. Ibm repeated First Quarter earnings thanks to a double digit increase in arrive from its Cloud Service. Overall arrive falling to a say that again. Falling to a 14 year low. Absolute arrive numbers were what . A 14 year low. Yes, sir. Wow. And how many straight quarters of the arrive decline. Im not going to speak for the company but they would claim some are empty calorie arrive components. But 16. I dont envy what they are trying to do. Difficult, hard work. But 16 straight quarters of arri revenue decline. The Data Analytics and Cloud Business havent been enough to offset declines. On cnbcs closing bell yesterday, Martin Schroeder explaining the transition is still a work in progress. Traumatic investments in r d but that
And by the United States meanwhile russia has slammed western nations for helping to escalate tensions in ukraine that have been ratcheting up since the article which dates to treat back with the eu back in november with eu policy chief Catherine Ashton in kyiv on tuesday and other us officials to visit in the next few days the coming week for ukraine will no doubt be crucial the israelis are waking up with the new reality on monday morning the threat of rocket attacks from the gaza strip has increased. Thus the rulers must have decided to withdraw their anti Missile Force that was stationed along the border with israel originally deployed back in november two thousand and twelve after gaza signed a ceasefire with israel following the last major confrontation with the jewish state. Ma said the move was because of the latest israeli attacks against gaza but looking back since december of last year israel has never fired their guns. First it is only occasionally responded to the twenty r