Are seeing a new front of hate and contempt. Mass gatherings after protests against a proposed. Putting on the beach street protests to say the president is using the political get. A welcome to the program the u. S. Supreme court has ruled that a new york prosecutor can have access to President Trumps financial records but blocked congress from obtaining similar documents the justices rejected arguments by the president s lawyers that he is immune from investigation while in office the president s tax returns a big source as part of a grand jury investigation into allegations that include the payment of hush money to women who say they had affairs with the president and happens to strict attorney described the decision as a tremendous victory for the u. S. Justice system. As for what this means with our Washington Bureau chief in a poll welcome to rulings today one for the president what against it just talk us through what was decided. Well phil 1st of all it shows that checks and ba
A deal. Or appalled documents the horrific experiences of Nigerian Women trapped in the world of sex trafficking and im lee harvey and with your sports arena williams is up and running at the u. S. Open the american it made short work of really a typical place in the 2nd round. The president s of turkey and russia have met near moscow and decided to increase coordination over syria let me a putin and russia talk about of the one of been backing opposing sides in syria they say theyve now discussed joint steps in tackling the fighting in the lip the 2 leaders also talked about a major weapons deal confirmed russia has delivered a 2nd battery of the s 400 Missile Defense system. But ending the violence in syria appeared to be the main focus of talks president putin emphasized their common goal was securing syrias lost rebel held province. But we and our turkish partners have serious concerns about the deescalation zone in lieu of terrorist continue to show russian positions and Syrian Fo
He said japan will play a more aggressive role in maintaining stability around the world, and he argued it should follow active pacifism in the 21st century. Abe said its necessary to deepen discussions on revising the document enacted almost 68 years ago. The Prime Minister mentioned the people who had to flee their homes after the march 2011 disaster. Some are staying in evacuation shelters for the third year in a row. Abe said the government will redouble its efforts to help as many survivors as possible to live in new homes by 2015 and work to allowing displaced residents of fukushima return to normal life. The foreign minister of china is fielding opposition on abes visit to a shrine. Chinas staterun News Agency Says wang spoke on tuesday with south Korean Foreign minister. It says wang noted china and south korea denounced abes visit to Yasukuni Shrine in tokyo. Yun reiterated south koreas position against abes visit and says wang spoke on tuesday with u. S. Secretary of state, j
A festive mood is dominating even Prime Minister shinzo abe came to the ceremony that marked the end of trading for the year. Now the nikkei average climbed for a ninth straight session on monday at 16,291, up 0. 7 a percent and the topix up 0. 95 . Many say a big factor which has made tokyo stocks so strong is a set of policies Prime Minister abe has implemented dubbed abenomics to get the economy going again. Monetary easing, fiscal spending, and Growth Strategy aimed at pulling japan out of decades of deflation. On the back of these policies, of course, the yen has weakened significantly. The dollar traded at a fiveyear high and the euro was at its fiveyear high against japanese currency. This helped exportrelated issues. Now earlier, i spoke with head of japan equity strategy at bank of America Merrill lynch and asked about this years price movements and the outlook for 2014. The stock market was very good at the very start of this year. Mostly from abenomics. I mean, topdown polit
Eruption continues. Welcome back to our special coverage. We want to begin with russian president Vladimir Putin. He certainly has the attention of many world leaders. Lets give our attention to him. He has drawn the ire of western leaders who blame russia for the ongoing violence in eastern ukraine. Earlier today mr. Vladimir putin asked for a limited hold to the fighting in the form of a humanitarian corridor. Thats right. He says it is needed to allow trapped ukraine troops to leave and reunite with their families. The leader of the stefl pro claimed donetsk said he agreed to it but only under certain conditions. With all respect to Vladimir Putin, the country that supports us morally, we are ready to provide humanitarian corridors for the Ukrainian Army divisions surrounded in these entrapments under the condition of handing over heavy weapons to avoid further usage of the weapons and ammunition against us. And nato has called an emergency meeting this morning, this friday in bruss