Expanded their stimulus since they unveiled it in april of last year, so this is the first time for them to up the size. It wasnt a small change. Theyre now going to expand the Monetary Base at an annual pace of about 80 trillion yen. Roughly 730 billion. And this is giving investors a reason to buy. The nikkei is trading at the highest level since october 2007. The broader topix index is also surging. Up 3. 2 . Traders are buying shares of major exporters because of the weaker yen. 1 is trading at 1. 136 to 65. In new york, it was at 14. The announcement comes at a time when the Federal Reserve is is ending their bond buying program. Traders are expecting the gap of the yield to widen. This is making the dollar more attractive to investors. In other trading, one euro is fetching 149. 99 and in other markets in the asia pacific region, south korea is trading a such lower. In australia, the benchmark index is trading higher by about. 01. Prime minister abe raised the consumption tax in
And there is rubble everywhere. An unknown number of firefighters are said to be among the injured. Translator suddenly i heard an explosion, and the ground split open. I hurt my arm and knee. Translator ive never seen anything like this before. It looks like the street was bombed. Reporter residents say the blasts were loud. They say the ground shook like an earthquake. Noriyuki tajima, nhk world. Taiwanese authorities are investigating the cause of the blast. They suspect that a leak from a gas pipe caused the series of deadly explosions. The explosions were felt over a three square kilometer area. The district consists of commercial and residential buildings. Kaohsiung Officials Say shortly before the incident residents reported smelling what they thought was gas. Firefighters were checking for a possible leak when the blasts occurred. There are many petrochemical plants operating in kaohsiung and surrounding areas. Gas pipes for these plants lie under the roads where the explosions
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Survivor has been found so far. Malaysia Airlines Officials say the plane was carrying 283 passengers and 15 crew members. The passengers were from at least ten countries, including the netherlands, malaysia, and australia. Flight mh17 left amsterdam on thursday headed for kuala lumpur. In the Eastern Ukraine region of donetsk where the jet went down, Government Forces and prorussian separatists have been fighting since april. On july 14th, ukrainian officials accused Russian Forces of shooting down a military cargo plane. They said the aircraft was downed by a missile. Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko says prorussian separatists are responsible for the jetliner crash. Translator this plane was brought down. Its not an accident. Not a catastrophe, but a terrorist act. Reporter ukraine state security chief said intercepted telephone conversations between Russian Military officers and prorussian militants prove their involvement. Reporter but the leader of the selfproclaimed peoples
Next encore booknotes. Jill krementz was a guest on booknotes in 1997 to talk about her book the writers desk a collection of authors and photos photos. Cspan jill krementz, photographer, you have a book out called the writers desk. Whats it all about . Guest its a collection of my photographs over it period of 30 years of writers and i photographed over 1500 rider so of course its not all the writers. My favorite pictures of a lot of the writers at their desks but they are all writers that there had desks or near their desks or behind their desks. Somewhere theres a desk in the picture. Literally or figuratively. Cspan why did you pick this for the covert . Guest i suppose because its one of my favorite photographs. I think its pretty recognizable now so people would know it was my book and because i think that it is a picture about a writer. Its a picture about a writers place and i think you feel looking at that picture that of course this is where she would write. Its like her writ