Consumer sales in japan showing slight improvement. Shinzo abe considering postponing the sales tax rise. 0 growth, this is a beat. This is a beat when you are flat numbers on month. Ago, we saw an optimistic message on abenomics. G7, he was grim when it came to the Global Economy, and these retail sales not looking good. We are still in negative territory for on year figures. Flat, month figures economist expecting a 6 10 of 1 drop. Now slightly back on the downside. More evidence about possibly another stimulus, a postponement in the sales tax hike. Haidi is that the only option remaining . Whats going to happen . More people joining in this conversation, and aide saying japan needs to hold off to sustain its recovery. We have no other options, he said. This is after we heard that warning coming out of the Prime Minister. This is signaling that he is going to be possibly pose putting this tax hike. I hate decline in revenue that would threaten the goal of abenomics. Since then, we ha
Capital. Still the Prime Minister refuses to quit. The dangerous journey for refugees from somalia to an uncertain future in yemen. Welcome to the show. Japan and the United States are Standing Shoulder to shoulder in challenging chinas selfdeclared airdefense zone in the eastchina sea. The americans flew two b 52 bombers from gaum into a disputed area claimed by beijing and tokyo. The Chinese Government announced the expanded zone saturday and said it monitored the aircroft. The latest reaction from japan, starting with the u. S. Ambassador. Unilateral actions taken by china with the announcement by an east china air defense undermines security and an attempt to change the status quo in the east china sea. It only serves to increase tensions. Japan showed greater restraint. We urge them to continue to do so. Translation the publication of chinas air Defense Identification Zone was unilateral. The backlash from the international community, including south china and taiwan wed like to s
Latvias Prime Minister resign after last weeks supermarket cave in. And celebrations in dubai as it becomes the first middle eastern city to host the world expo. Berlusconi has been expelled from Parliament Due to convictions of talks fraud. His supporters gathered outside of his home in a show of solidarity. Hes lose the political power that he has enjoyed oh for two decades in italy, but i have no doubt that hell continue shouting loudly. He is a very wealthy man and he controls a media empire. This is a bleak day for italian democracy as far as hes concerned, but hell carry on fighting. Is there going to be a wide impact on italy . Reporter well, undoubtedly. He has been the dominant figure from 1993 on wards. I think despite the bravado that youve heard from him today, despite the enthusiastic reception that he has gotten from his supporters here in the center of rome there is a perception that were nearing the end of an enare a an era. He seems to have toppled, and then houdinilik
Walked off the job and are calling for a strike. His viral music video gangnam style has been watched 810 million times. Back to boxing. You may have heard this super star, Manny Pacquiao is headed back to the ring. He is going up against manual marquez, this is the fourth time that they have squared off and once again, we are proud to present the popular series, 24 7 to show you the story behind the boxers as they train for this fight. So here it is. Well, to be a great rivalry, it has to be competitive, obviously. Because if its not competitive. Its not really a rivalry. It has to be world class fighters fighting each other. Like ali frazier, that was a worldclass rivalry. This was one of the most bruising heavy weight championships of all time. We had a great rivalry because the fighters were so evenly matched and they had such big hearts with the late artu arturogotti and mickey ward, that was a great rivalry. Look at that, look at that combination. A throw back to the golden era o
Islamists took them and hundreds of other workers captist last week a t a gas plant. The seven japanese flu back along with the remains of seven colleagues theurvirs wkedor japanese engineering firm. Officials flew back with them. Staff in algeria say they are working to bring that persons remains back to japan. Chinese and japanese should leave a dispute over territory to future generations. He met with the leader of japan. The countries have maintained a friendship by shelving the matter of the senkaku islands. Japan nationalized the islands in september. China and taiwan claim them. If current leaders do not have the wisdomo solve the problem they shod leave the debate to future generations. Japanese and chinese should learn more about each other through culture and economic changes. Financial analysts are looking into the future and projecting the big picture from the year ahead. What are analysts saying about japan . We just heard from those at the imf yesterday. Now were hearing