Down on the former Prime Ministers colourful career. Japan is backing the United States after it challenged the chinas selfdeclared defense zone in the East China Sea, flying two b 52 bombers over a disputed area claimed by both beijing and tokyo. The expanded zone was announced by china on saturday. It said it monitored the aircraft as it flew over. Here is the latest reaction from japan, starting with the u. S. Ambassador in tokyo. Unilateral actions like those taken by china with the announcement of an East China Sea defense zone undermines security, constituting an attempt to change the status quo in the East China Sea, serving to increase tensions in the region. Japan has shown great restraint. We urge them to continue to do so. Translation the publication of chinas air Defense Identification Zone was unilateral, and the backlash from the international community, including south korea and taiwan is strong. Wed like it retracted. We cant accept it. I believe the u. S. Is working fr
Certain. The government is about to shut the lights. Barring a lastminute breakthrough, heres what happens at the stroke of midnight. About 800,000 federal workers deemed nonessential will be told not to show up for work tomorrow. All National Parks and monuments will be closed. If you need to get your passport renewed, do it today. Many passport offices will be closed. Many in the military, including the more than 1. 3 million on active duty are considered essential and will remain on the job. They likely wont get paychecks until an agreement is reached. The department of Homeland Security will furlough about 14 of employees. Its not a complete shutdown. The Social Security administration will continue the write checks to requitirees. The checks will get to you normally. So will your bills. Medicare and medicaid ben fish qulars be covered. The department of health and Human Services will furlough almost half of their employees. Members of congress and the president and Vice President
Prime minister the 39yearold tipped to take the tab job families separated by the korean war 60 years ago. I feel like i am punished because i left them behind. If i see them again ill feel like im reborn. Egypts deposed president Mohamed Morsi arrived at a court in cairo to face charges of espionage and inciting murder. On his last appearance Mohamed Morsi refused to recognise the legitimacy of the court. 35 others, including former aides and Muslim Brotherhood leaders stand accused. Lets turn to our correspondent who joins us from george town university. Thank you for making it on the show. This, of course there has been a lot of controversy over this trial. In your opinion, is this a show trial or do you think he will receive a fair trial . We havent seen evidence at all that there are any fair proceedings that are taking place. These are deeply politicized. Most of the others are leaders and figures and advisors working in the department. And others who are not. An egyptian academi
International uproar over reports the u. S. Spied on germanys chancellor is not going away. There are claims president obama knew about the phone taps and approved them the white house says it is not true. We are getting reports that the eavesdropping started in 2002, before Angela Merkel was elected. This morning senator Jeanne Shaheen called on the nsa to come clear on the surveillance program. I think the revelations from Edward Snowden, and secrets that are revealed are doing damage to our bilateral relationships with germany, mexico and other countries where the suggestion is that weve lisped in listened in. I think we have repair work to do and hard questions it ask of the nsa about what is happening in the program. Its a different view from the chairman of the House Homeland Security committee. Congressman peter king says america should stop apologising for the nas. The reality is the nsa saved thousands of lives not just the United States, but france, germany and throughout eur
An organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. They hope top eliminate all of the weapons bu 2014. Kilhemy douchiuke heart has mor the prohibition of chemical weapons otherwise known as opcw to destroy its lethal stockpiles by next year. Syria handed over the details of its poison gas and nerve Agent Program thursday ahead of its october 27th deadline. Opcw is not releasing what their report says but it did say the Syrian Government disclosed 23 chemical weapons sites. The head of the team said last week the country has so far been cooperative. We have had very good meetings with the Syrian Government at most 7 ario levels. There is continued strong cooperation with the secretary general and the director of op cd and opcw and we build on this because we have one shared goal which is elimination of the program, which is of benefit to all, and particularly the syrian people. Syria is believed to possess around 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons including mustard gas and saro