And his russian counterpart lasted seven hours. They discussed the four islands known in japan as the northern territories. Russia controls the islands, japan claims them. Sugiyama reiterated japans position that the islands are an inherent part of its territory in terms of law and history. The Russian Ambassador repeated russias stance the islands became russias territory as a result of world war ii. Tokyo and moscow never signed a peace treaty after the war over that issue. The leaders of both countries issued a joint statement in 2013. The tag says theyll try to find a mutually acceptable solution with the aim of signing a peace treaty. Japanese officials want to move discussions forward based on that statement. Nato defense ministers have denounced russias increasing military activity in syria and its support for the government of president bashar al assad. Head of nato, jens stoltenberg, says the alliance will deploy forces if needed to protect turkey from threat. The ministers ag
He didnt know about the emission cheating devices until weeks ago. German prosecutors raid vw headquarters. Welcome to the program. Are they being pushed out . Sepp blatter and Michel Platini have been provisionally suspended for 90 days by the organizations Ethics Committee. Both men are banned from caring out the official functions. The move comes after swiss prosecutors opened an investigation into a payment that sepp blatter made to Michel Platini in 2011. Sepp blatter was his most powerful back in may when he was elected a fifth time despite corruption allegations. His empire has crumbled since then. The Ethics Committee decision means his career officially over. He cannot even visit a football match. The german president spoke. Ifo must start again as far as personnel is concerned. The future can only be shaped without sepp blatter. Fifa must start again as far as personnel is concerned. The new interim head of fever has also been dashed of fifa fifa has also been accused. Joinin
Lasted seven hours. They discussed the four islands known in japan as the northern territories. Russia controls the islands, japan claims them. Sugiyama reiterated japans position that the islands are an inherent part of its territory in terms of law and history. The Russian Ambassador repeated russias stance the islands became russias territory as a result of world war ii. Tokyo and moscow never signed a peace treaty after the war over that issue. The leaders of both countries issued a joint statement in 2013. The tag says theyll try to find a mutually acceptable solution with the aim of signing a peace treaty. Japanese officials want to move discussions forward based on that statement. Nato defense ministers have denounced russias increasing military activity in syria and its support for the government of president bashar al assad. Head of nato, jens stoltenberg, says the alliance will deploy forces if needed to protect turkey from threat. The ministers agree that russias military es
Campaign in syria troubling. Barack obama apologizes for the American Bombing of the hospital run by medical Charity Doctors without borders. At least 22 were killed in that attack in afghanistan. The coming up this hour, head of volkswagen in america admits he knew about problems monthsissions tests 18 before the carmaker told regulators. We will have the details in business. U. S. President joe biden has yet to officially throw his hat in the ring for the president ial race, but many of his backers are trying to draft him. More on that will he, wont he . On the way, but, first, our top story. The Ethics Committee at fifa has provisionally banned president Joseph Blatter and fifa Vice President Michel Platini. They have received an imminent 90 day suspension from football. Sepp blatter has fallen. For the moment, yes, 90 days. That 90day suspension is immediate. It happens right now. Keith is banned from all footballrelated activities as he is banned from all footballrelated activitie
Tom good evening. We begin in israel and the palestinian territories, where in separate incidents today, israeli troops shot dead Six Palestinians and wounded others. A knife wielding jewish men wounded 4 arabs. The past 10 days have resulted in the deaths of 4 israelis. Israeli and palestinian residents are calling for calm on both sides but the tensions are showing no signs of dying down. More on todays events. Reporter what we know is Something Like 1000 protesters came to the border of gaza, they places, andt two approaching defense is a dangerous activity but they said they were doing it in solidarity with their brethren in gaza. What we saw was Israeli Soldiers shooting, and they admitted they shot live fire straight into the crowd. Nevertheless, it took six hours for the crowd to disperse. Deaths,ion to those there were a large number of people injured. What the danger is of this you have to remember, this is the largest number of people who have been killed in gaza since the wa