Analysts say the essf directors are putting pressure on them ahead of the referendum this sunday. North korea an officials have disappointed people across japan. Theyve spent the last year investigating their countrys abductions of japanese nationals, but now theyve put off releasing their findings. Nhk world has more. Translator its very regrettable that north korea is putting off the results of its investigation. Ive told the foreign minister fumio yukishida and abduction minister to further press pyongyang to swiftly act with the return of japanese abductees. Reporter north korean officials pledged their fullscale cooperation during negotiations with japan in may of last year. In pyongyang set up a special committee to oversee the probe. Japan temporary lifted sanctions against the country. Japanese officials expected the north to report preliminary results within a couple of months, but that never happened. At the end of october, a Senior Foreign Ministry official visited pyongyang
Analysts say the essf directors are putting pressure on them ahead of the referendum this sunday. North korea an officials have disappointed people across japan. Theyve spent the last year investigating their countrys abductions of japanese nationals, but now theyve put off releasing their findings. Nhk world has more. Translator its very regrettable that north korea is putting off the results of its investigation. Ive told the foreign minister fumio yukishida and abduction minister to further press pyongyang to swiftly act with the return of japanese abductees. Reporter north korean officials pledged their fullscale cooperation during negotiations with japan in may of last year. About one month later, officials in pyongyang set up a special committee to oversee the probe. Japan temporary lifted sanctions against the country. Japanese officials expected the north to report preliminary results within a couple of months, but that never happened. At the end of october, a Senior Foreign Mi
Slow progress. Were making progress. Its painfully slow as youve observed over the last week. But we are making progress. There are still some issues that have to be resolved. One Sticking Point is whether the iranians would allow inspections of military sites where theyre suspected of developing nuclear weapons. Another is whether the u. N. Security council will lift a ban on sales of weapons to iran. The negotiators are due to gather later saturday. India and pakistan are taking full membership of the shanghai cooperation organization. The group consists of russia china and four countries in central asia. Leaders gathered with those of five observer states including india, pakistan and mongolia. They agreed to start procedures to promote the indians and pakistanis. They also signed a statement for chinas plan to develop an economic belt along the silk road and remarked on the victories that their countries won 70 years ago in world war ii. Russian president Vladimir Putin said he wil
Phillip hammond has admitted slow progress. Were making progress. Its painfully slow as youve observed over the last week. But we are making progress. There are still some issues that have to be resolved. One Sticking Point is whether the iranians would allow inspections of military sites where theyre suspected of developing nuclear weapons. Another is whether the u. N. Security council will lift a ban on sales of weapons to iran. The negotiators are due to gather later saturday. India and pakistan are taking full membership of the shanghai cooperation organization. The group consists of russia china and four countries in central asia. Leaders gathered with those of five observer states including india, pakistan and mongolia. They agreed to start procedures to promote the indians and pakistanis. They also signed a statement for chinas plan to develop an economic belt along the silk road and remarked on the victories that their countries won 70 years ago in world war ii. Russian preside
Rise. This prompted many investors to sell the u. S. Currency, and that has impacted global markets. Now were going to get all the current levels from our very own ramin mellegard. Good morning. Tell us what youre seeing. Good morning, to you. Evident in the currency markets from what weve seen investors really piling into what they consider safer assets. Lets go over the levels right now as well. The dollar fell below 108. Now trading at 108. 50 to. 55. It was trading at 111 in early february. You can see the huge difference there. Lets check out u. S. Shares played out as well. The Dow Jones Industrial average ended at 17,541. Almost 1 , tech heavy nasdaq, down just over 1. 5 . As weve been covering the soaring yen, causing a major head wind for japanese exporters and a bit of a headache at the bank of japan as well. Policymakers there looking at the dollar yen levels, thats going against directly against a lot of their policies. Now, lets have a look at the opening levels for the ni