Hello. How are you . Im very well, Minister Kono, and thank you forjoining us. What has gone wrong . A simple question. What has gone wrong injapan . Youre a global Powerhouse Economy, which seems to have been stalled for decades. Why do you think that is . Well, there was a Bubble Economy back in 1980s, and the japanese economy went through some adjustment, and now we are back on track. The economy is getting warmer and warmer. Back on track. You thinkjapan s back on track, when you look at your massive Debt Problem, you look at your very weak currency on global markets right now, you look at a cost of living crisis, which is clearly affecting japanese people, who seem to be very disaffected, weary with the political and economic Status Quo. Well, the post covid Inflation Injapan is much, much lower than uk or the united states. So, dont worry about it. And economy is clearly back on track. The japanese economy is growing back again. Let me ask you about the politics of japan. For pre
Taro kono in tokyo, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. How are you . Im very well, minister kono, and thank you forjoining us. What has gone wrong . A simple question. What has gone wrong injapan . Youre a global powerhouse economy, which seems to have been stalled for decades. Why do you think that is . Well, there was a Bubble Economy back in 1980s, and the japanese economy went through some adjustment, and now we are back on track. The economy is getting warmer and warmer. Back on track. You thinkjapan s back on track, when you look at your massive debt problem, you look at your very weak currency on global markets right now, you look at a cost of living crisis, which is clearly affecting japanese people, who seem to be very disaffected, weary with the political and economic status quo. Well, the post covid Inflation Injapan is much, much lower than uk or the united states. So, dont worry about it. And economy is clearly back on track. The japanese economy is growing back again. Let me a
election to be completed within the next week. this will ensure that we remain on a path to deliver our fiscal plans and maintain our country s economic stability and national security. i will remain as prime minister until a successor has been chosen. thank you. the high stakes political scramble in britain to find yet another prime minister. i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. liz truss stepping down after 45 days in office, her tenure the shortest at any prime minister in history. sending shock waves across britain and driving the tabloids into a dizzy. who will be the next prime minister? they expect to name a new prime minister by the end of next week. even the name of former prime ministers are being floated, remember what boris johnson said? the terminator quote he may have been looking for is i ll be back. let s go live to london and bring in max foster. quite a moment in the uk. reporter: absolutely. boris johnson definitely the words on everyone
will receive would be 30 days in jail, at the very least. it could go up much higher than that. the justice department would like it to be quite harsh, a six-month sentence in jail. they also want bannon to be fined the maximum amount, 200,000, because wherever the court was doing their proceedings to try to figure out how much he could pay financially, he said, charge me the most. i was convicted, charge me the most. i m not giving you my private, financial information. that s what the justice department wants. they also want punishment for bannon s bayer. the trial was very simple. it was about, did he show up or did he not, wherever he was subpoenaed. today is about how he has acted throughout this process of the congressional proceedings, of the court proceedings, and the justice department writes throughout the case, the defendant has exploited his notoriety to display to the public the source of his bathe refusal to comply with the committee s subpoena. a total disregar
destruction or any of that. i and i agree that the police had to stop it. and, you know, that makes perfect sense. i guess, you know the one thing i would be curious about, though, is what why is the distinction of people being from out of town so important? i mean, the first amendment certainly applies to the people out of town as well. their contention would be that these are national issues, that the questions around policing, around the environmental issues, the construction of the police training facility, all of these issues are national, and in fact global issues. so i m confused a little bit sometimes when there s so much emphasis placed on people being from out of town, as if that takes away their right to protest. yeah, what do you make of that, juliette? we did hear the police sort of emphasize that point. here s why the police were emphasizing it, and i totally agree with david, these are national issues, you re going to have people from out of state. if