China centrals television reports that more than 400 people are injured. Emergency services are being overwhelmed as the injured flood hospitals. Firefighters are working to try to put out the blames. Two of them are unaccounted for. Members ever the Islamic State groups egyptian affiliate claimed they have killed a foreign hostage, they posted a photo purportedly of a croatian man. The group is in the sinai peninsula. The photo appears to have been taken from a desert. A caption says the man was killed because of his countrys participation in the war against the Islamic State group. The Prime Minister has responded, saying authorities cannot confirm the information is legitimate, but he says they are investigating. Islamic state militants have posted videos of the killing of a number of foreign hostages in syria. If confirmed, this would be the first such incident in egypt. A u. S. Military helicopter has crashed during a Training Exercise off japans southern prefecture of okinawa. Se
China centrals television reports that more than 400 people are injured. Emergency services are being overwhelmed as the injured flood hospitals. Firefighters are working to try to put out the blames. Two of them are unaccounted for. Members ever the Islamic State groups egyptian affiliate claimed they have killed a foreign hostage, they posted a photo purportedly of a croatian man. The group is in the sinai peninsula. The photo appears to have been taken from a desert. A caption says the man was killed because of his countrys participation in the war against the Islamic State group. The Prime Minister has responded, saying authorities cannot confirm the information is legitimate, but he says they are investigating. Islamic state militants have posted videos of the killing of a number of foreign hostages in syria. If confirmed, this would be the first such incident in egypt. A u. S. Military helicopter has crashed during a Training Exercise off japans southern prefecture of okinawa. Se
Governor bows to prevent the relocation of a u. S. Military base within the prefecture. We look into why voters lined up behind the base opponent. Japans latest gdp figures could spell trouble for Prime Minister shinzo abes program to revive the economy. The figures released by Cabinet Office officials this morning shows the economy is shrinking. The july to september decline is japans second straight quarterly fall. The preliminary data shows japans gdp fell 0. 4 in the three months to september, from the previous quarter. That translates into an annual downturn of 1. 6 and follows a 7. 3 plunge on an annualized basis in april to june. The figures were a shock for investors and politicians. And ron madison joins us now from our business desk. Ron, break down the number for us. Gene, a lot was really riding on this months data. The Prime Minister had stated that he would be using these gdp numbers to either postpone or go ahead and press ahead with another consumption tax hike. This ti
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Okinawa, which sits closer to China than to Japan's main islands, is the focus of U.S. and Japanese efforts to beef up defenses in Japan's southwest islands.