Allowed six groups of japanese to visit the suburbs of the capital and other cities since august of last year. The Korean Peninsula was once under japanese clone yalt rule. Many japanese died in what is now north korea as the war came to an end. More than 20,000 remains are believed to be buried there. A North Korean Foreign Ministry official told nhk exclusively that the visits by relatives could end this year. The official said the planned construction of housing and other projects in the area could halt the program. The official revealed north korean leaders want the japanese government to agree to hold talks on what to do quit the remains. They in turn want to get back the remains of North Koreans who died in japan during the war. Those individuals were conscripted by the Japanese Military and private companies. Some experts say north korean leaders are trying to improve relations by making the remains issue a priority. Astronauts aboard the International Space station have a big u
Government is on the verge of collapse following the announcement that five ministers from Silvio Berlusconis people of Freedom Party plan to resign. The vice premier made the announcement a day after Prime Minister enrico letta said his Coalition Partners would support him in a vote of confidence. Tensions have been rising since the formers conviction for tax evasion. Joining us now on the line from rome is patty. Give us some more of the background to this news. The events have accelerated very fast in the last week. The straw that broke this particular camels back came midweek when the current prime , enrico letta, was in , doing a roadshow to encourage investors, particularly north american italy in, to invest in 2014. While he was doing that, at the very moment he was meeting on wall street, mr. Berlusconi held a meeting with his on parliamentarians, in which he accused the left of criminal. Deology he called on all his parliamentarians to resign. If he did that when mr. Let er mr
From the nsas global spying for graham. The Foreign Ministry has announced it is ending a kids old surveillance agreement. It was a joint understanding. The decision comes as new reports show cooperation corporations working with authorities to gather private data. Companies developed software to help in the surveillance. Britains a guest spy agency. It is reported to have even paid Telecommunications Customer need companies to snoop on customers. The data lines are utilized by Internet Users by other countries. We must untangle this web. Intelligence agencies are the responsibility of the government. If private companies are involved that can only happen under special circumstances. German lawmakers want to know more about the spying revelations and what the government knew about british and american snooping activities. Chancellor merkels chief of staff is to be grilled again in 10 days time. How significant is the cancellation of the intelligence agreement with london and washington
We have normal shareholders. The relationship between the company and shareholders is a normal relationship. And the largest automaker reports strong profits in the quarter thanks to sales and a weaker yen. Welcome. Were into the last Worldwide Exchange of the week. On todays show, political unrest in egypt spooked many investors, but the countrys finance minister has told this channel hes confident conditions will improve. Yousef will join us with that exclusive interview at 11 45 cet. Profits surged on a weaker yen, but can abenomics keep the currency trend in track . Well talk about that in 30 minutes. Motorola and google take the wraps off their First Flagship phone, ebb terntering the crowd smartphone space. Well talk about the phones wow factor at 11 20. With the u. S. Jobs countdown on the way, payrolls will surprise to the upside, Patrick Okeefe joins us from cnbcs u. S. Hq in the next hour. First of all, earnings to look at. Intesa sanpaolo is expect to reveal numbers around l
Clear. Were going to see more of the same. We are going to continue to see a scaling back of these quantitative purchases. I think that was clear. She didnt back away from any of that even though weve seen some weaker data but she did absolutely reinforce the economy needs to be doing better. Unemployment still need to come down and thats why they continue think were going to see or continue to signal were going to see lower rates for a long time. Melissa what would you put on her list as number one of things to do . What would you like to see her do. Her number one priority is Unemployment Rate to get down, even though they have a dual mandate but i think that is priority. I personally would like to see the fed get out of the markets way which theyre doing as they scale back on the quantitative purchases but eventually i would like to see more focus extricating themself from all this accommodation. I think it is very worrisome were talking about Interest Rates staying so low for so lo