Weeks. The country. Top japanese and australian leaders have announced that they have reached a broad agreement on a free trade deal the two countries have been negotiating since two thousand and seven to hammer out an accord. Prime minister shinzo ahmed and his australian counterpart tony abbott met in tokyo in a joint News Conference on this deal is crucial and strengthening bilateral ties and promoting trade and investment between the two nations or could it be when youre out. The agreement represents an historically significant events in strengthening our bilateral relationship. On that portsmouth a minute of it. I will work to sign the deal as soon as possible. Japanese government officials agreed to lower tariffs on australian beef from the current thirty eight and a half percent. They will lower tariffs on frozen beef to nineteen and a half percent and eighteen years and was called chilled beef to twenty three and a half percent in fifteen years australian leaders in return agre
Cups of coffee as a canvas. Baristas making art out of laites. Good morning to you. Welcome to Al Jazeera America. Live from new york city, im Morgan Radford. Thousands of firefighters continue to battle the rash of wildfires in san diego county. Three me have been arrested in connection with the fires, and one has been charged with arson, two others face similar charges. Some of the evacuation notices have been lifted as fire crews gain control of the wild fires. Reporter the weather is cooperating with firefighters in southern california. Cooler, more humid positions are preventing flames spreading further. Its helped crews giping two of the child fires north of san diego under control. The focus is to secure the perimeter and go interior and work on the hot spots. Reporter for so many the damage is done. 20,000 acres burnt. Dozens of homes destroyed. In all, an estimated 20 million in damage. In one of the worsthit towns. We have a plan on living our lives here forever. The stuff he
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Comes to an end. But first prorussian separatists in Eastern Ukraine have a victory on self rule and the majority of people who voted are in favor of p move and final is coming in the next few hours and we are meeting in brussels to talk about the crisis and russia has talk about the preliminary results and they said should lead to new talks between the government and separatist leaders. Translator the official results will be announced soon but we treat with respect the decision of the voters and we believe a practical implementation of these results will lead to talks between kiev and eastern regional leaders and further discussions in security in western europe. Reporter we are live in kiev and we have been listening to what Sergei Fedorov is saying and what else did he have to say . He is talking about diplomacy but i think what is really crucial here is he believes that moscow or ukraine should implement the results of this referendum and as you heard in doing so without provocati