Beijing. Beijing won the bid. The city was competing with kazakhstan. Beijing plans to make use of several existing cities. City Officials Say that will help keep cost down. Its a factor that impressed ioc members. Ioc also recognizes the value of Financial Support from the government of china, the worlds second largest economy. In the final presentation, chinese officials underscored the nations ability and promised a successful event. Translator we pledge our full guarantees for the games, financial Legal Security organizational and operational areas. Sport is a noble cause that has the opportunity to change lives and transform the world. Buttism oc officials also point out the challenges beijing faces, potentially unsuitable weather conditions and pollution. Chinese officials are showing confidence to host the Winter Olympics on the back of the successful 2008 summer games. Lets go live to our reporter in beijing. Takafumi, whats the reaction there to the games coming back . Reporte
Business outside japan. They say lower fuel prices helped air and land transportation companies. Retailers showed a recovery they suffered last year after a heightened consumption tax. Now their pretax profits are up 37 . Precision equipment manufacturers saw earnings surge by nearly 40 . Electronics firms saw an increase of about 20 . Machine manufacturers did not do so well. Their profits fell 6 , because of a slump in sales of Construction Machinery in china. Experts are divided over the outlook for japans economy. Translator Capital Investment will rise, as Business Sentiment is improving. Japans gdp will recover in the quarter from july to september. Translator the chinese economy could deteriorate. Japanese consumers could continue cutting down on their spending. If scenarios like these become reality, japan could go into recession. Ministers from 12 nations are holding a final day of talks for the Transpacific Partnership free trade pact. Their meeting in hawaii trying to reach
Firms who do much of their business outside japan. They say lower fuel prices helped air and land transportation companies. Retailers showed a recovery they suffered last year after a heightened consumption tax. Now their pretax profits are up 37 . Precision equipment manufacturers saw earnings surge by nearly 40 . Electronics firms saw an increase of about 20 . Machine manufacturers did not do so well. Their profits fell 6 because of a slump in sales of Construction Machinery in china. Experts are divided over the outlook for japans economy. Translator Capital Investment will rise as Business Sentiment is improving. Japans gdp will recover in the quarter from july to september. Translator the chinese economy could deteriorate. Japanese consumers could continue cutting down on their spending. If scenarios like these become reality, japan could go into recession. Ministers from 12 nations are holding a final day of talks for the Transpacific Partnership free trade pact. Their meeting in
The Syrian Civil War has lasted five years, more than 250,000 people have been killed. Soccers world governing body fifa has a new president. Members elected gianni infantino, hes the general secretary of the European Soccer Federation uefa and hes promising to reform fifa. Can [ applause ] 207 members cast votes. The first round was inconclusive. No candidate got the twothirds majority needed to win. Infantino won the second round with 115 votes, a simple majority. I want to work with all of you together, with all of you in order to restore and rebuild a new era in fifa, a new era in fifa where we can put again football in the center of the stage. Gianni infantino is a 45yearold swiss lawyer. Hes been an advisor to football bodies in spain, italy, and switzerland. He joined uefa in 2000. He became general secretary in 2009. Infantino pushed for punishment for european players and club teams involved in match fixing. During his campaign, infantino said he wanted the world cup finals to
One of the interesting items we have this week is a study by Greenpeace in which various organisms from the sea near Fukushima were sampled for radioactive isotopes. Let's take a closer look.
The data in the table provided (see the first item in Ana's feed for the link) show the amount of radiation (radioactive decay) by isotope type per kilogram of plant or animal tissue from various samples. On the higher end is a fish with 357 bq/kg of radiation and some seaweed with 190 bk/kg.