Between the United States and japan with leaders from the Defense Department and Japanese Ministry officials. The Hudson Institute hosted this visit. Good morning and welcome to Hudson Institute. I serve as japan chair at hudson and i want to welcome our audience here at the bessy and walter Stern Policy Center in washington and i want to welcome our audience on liep and online and through cspan. On the eve of Prime Minister Fumio Kishidas historic visit to the United States on april 10, it seemed like an appropriate moment to examine the benefits of the deep and expanding u. S. And Japan Economic relationship and as all of us in this room have seen on the news reports, including by certain members of our audience here today in the press, about the impressive deliverables that will be coming out of both the u. S. Japan summit on the 10th and u. S. Japanphilippines trilateral summit on the 11th, most of the focus object the discussions will be on security issues, not economic ones. That
Rishaad its going nuts, bitcoin. Im just going to show you what is happening here. 85,000 record, over earlier today. This shows you the progression of bitcoin in terms of gold lasts since november of year. We were trading below one ounce of gold. Now you need 6. 4 ounces to buy one bitcoin. Thats the story at the moment as bitcoin seemingly goes in just one direction. Is it a bottle . . Bubble will it survive the apocalypse doomsday some people have been betting on . Like gold, there is a finite supply of bitcoin. Sales of gold coins from the the most iniding the first three quarters of 2017 in favor of this cryptocurrency. Were even last week we wondering, is this about to come to a really messy end . Investors apparently brushing aside concerns over technology. We did see a drop in gold on account of that rebound of the dollar. To the rest of the markets. The financial markets, if you because we are seeing stocks recover from the recent pullback. Lets go over to sophie. Japanese mar
1990. Kim jongun tells the world north Koreas Nuclear weapons are a reality and a button is on his desk. Good morning to haidi and good morning to our viewers across the world. We ended 2017 year to date for equities on a high note but we are seeing some volatility possibly happening coming out of north asia with kim jongun. Taking a look at what happened in the last day of trading here, down by half a percent. If you were totally in from 1 through the end of the year, you were 1 through the ene year, you were up by 20 , as much as 30 if you are in the nasdaq. Haidi absolutely. We were talking to garfield earlier, 7 when it comes to aussie stocks, barely a blip in comparison to the heavy gains we have seen for u. S. Equities and across asian equities. In particular when it comes to japan. One of the markets not trading today is japan as we have a number of markets still offer the new years holiday. New zealand, tokyo, thailand and the philippines on a break today. We are setting up for
To encourage them to switch to reusable versions. And a severe winter storm hits the eastern United States, with record breaking low temperatures that have already claimed several lives. Good morning, welcome to bbc news. Theres mounting criticism this morning of the parole boards decision to release the serial sex attackerjohn worboys. The black cab driver was jailed in 2009 for offences against 12 women, but detectives believe he carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults. The chair of the house of Commons Home Affairs committee, yvette cooper, said she was really shocked that he was being freed, and she called on the board to set out the reasons for its decision. The chairman of the board, nick hardwick, says he recognises theres a lack of transparency in the system, and will be launching a public consultation. Our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford, has more. For six years, john worboys cruised smart areas of london in his black cab, looking for women to drug and
Second, they may be inhibiting their ability to explore world markets. And i dont care what country you are, even if the Global Economy is bigger than you are. Dont cut yourself off from access to it. The same message needs to get to the european who is are struggling with a Single Market which at the same time may be accidentally preventing themselves from participating in a Global Market and letting the Global Market participate in the european one. So my message has always been economic. It is in your interests, mr. President , to invest in the internet, to keep it as open as possible and to allow your creative population to make use of it. No country has a corner on creativity and invention. Its uniformly distributed throughout the population of the world. Its just that the people with these ideas dont always have the wherewithall and support in order to explore those ideas. I will give you as a concrete example of that, how many folks come from india to the Silicon Valley or seatt