Reporter shinzo abe stood before the diet to defend himself and his wife. Translator regarding the issue off 1 million yen, it is regrettable that he gave testimony which cant be proven and is not true. Reporter abe was trying to refute sworn testimony from yasunori kagoike, the president of the Educational Group moritomo gakuen. He told lawmakers he received a donation of about 9,000 from abes wife open his behalf in 2015. Concerning a purchase of stateowned land to build a school. The group got the land for a fraction of it estimated value the deal has been questioned by lawmakers. Abe denies any wrongdoing. Translator the issue originated with the problem relating to the state land sale and licensing of the school. Regarding those issues, i believe it was made clear that no specific politician was involved. Reporter while the Prime Minister issued denials, his wife is still in the spotlight for her connections to moritomo. She was listed as the honorary principal for the new school
This time warning of a breakup. And small manufacturers are embracing i. T. And the clouds transform the way make things. Typhoon chaba has been downgraded to a severe tropical storm. Its roaring off the coast of japan after leaving five dead in south korea. Chaba is now moving east off the west coast of the country. Its packing winds of more than 100 kilometers per hour. It struck jeju wednesday morning. It moves on to busan. At least five people were killed. Local reports say one person died at a construction site while another was blown off a rooftop. Tens of thousands of homes are still without power. Officials in southern japan closed Public Schools in nagasaki prefecture on wednesday. Air and sea traffic has been disrupted with more than 140 domestic flights to and from the region canceled. Japanese weather officials are telling people to remain on the alert. Sayaka mori from our weather desk has been monitoring the storm and has this update. Yes, dangerous typhoon chaba made lan
Selfdefense force unit heading to south sudan will be allowed to protect civilians with weapons if necessary. And under investigation. Law enforcement officials in russia have detained the Economic Development minister on suspicion of accepting a bribe. Theres been a delay to a planned inquiry into south koreas president s connections to a corruption scandal. It was originally expected that park geunhye would sit down with prosecutors on wednesday, but thats not the case. Our reporter kim chanju joins us from seoul. Can you give us the latest . Reporter President Park got a lawyer on tuesday. His job will be to defend her against allegations that she has links to a scandal involving her long time friend and close aides. Parks lawyer held a News Conference and spoke about the delay. Translator i need to take considerable time to study the issues and prepare the defense. In principle, the prosecution should be carried out in written form. Reporter parks lawyer also pointed out that the i
1 when it went on the lunch break. Good things coming out of australia led by the Health Care Stocks and the 10 year bond yield going to a 10 year low. And gains coming through for the u. S. Dollar, that is putting pressure on some of those asian market currencies. I will have more on the market, shortly. Angie thank you. Ubers story this hour, chinese rival could be considering an ipo as soon as next year. Wow. This is coming on the heels of them raising more than 1 billion from apple in bringing the total amount of the fundraising to 3 billion and with a valuation of about 26 billion. Angie what does it mean for over uber . They said that they want to hold off the ipo as long as possible, so that means that didi could raise ahead of them, so they are avoiding raising from the same investors at the same time. And there are other services in the pipeline also want to ipo will potentially lyft. And in terms of fundraising, what the sources said, is the reason they have been so aggressiv
Last year. Some others have given similar confessions. She also criticizes a former law firm colleague. She says the chief lawyer used human rights lawyers and retired government officials to instigate people to attack the government. Her colleague was arrested at the time she was. She was released on bail before doing the interview, but her supporters say they havent been able to confirm whether shes actually being released. The chinese navy has conducted a live ammunition drill in the east china sea. It was held to mark the 89th anniversary of the founding of the Peoples Liberation army. But observers think theres more to it than that. The large scale exercises were held in a 16,000 square kilometer area of the sea on monday. The drill involved about 100 vessels and several dozen combat aircraft of two groups of participants tested sprajs and equipment and fired several different times of missiles. They say the drill is a regular military exercise, but the sea is also home to the sen