Ioc president thomas bach says he is confident there would be a decision in four weeks. The government of the host city says there are a number of issues to tackle including the issue of the athletes village. The facilities, changed into residential units. People expect to start living in them 2023. Translator there are many stake holders invololved in the tokyo 2016 games. So i think it would take four weeks toeaear from each o of th. I think the metropolitan government is the most important stake holder and we will express our opinions in the negotiations. Meanwhile, the head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing Committee Also spoke after the ioc announcement saying he agrees the new coronavirus could force the games to be postponed. T translatotor the situatio with the virusus is growing mor severe a as itt spreads to new regions particularly in the u. S. And europe. And we are fully aware off the circumstances. Were considering a n number of opinions from different places and were not f
Over concerns of chinese growth. Onbers out of China Industrial profits. Lets look at what has been going on with them. A little recovery. We got above the dotted line, breakeven, if you will. For april. E 1. 1 . E we got up this informs us about nominal gdp and that would suggest we are on a slight uptick. The bottom of this graph is the ppi. Years of negative prices. We have been positive and remain positive as well. Against this backdrop of where companies do have pricing power, industrial profits ticking higher. Against thehat background of the g20. We have a date for that. President trump stepping up rhetoric against china as he prepares for the crucial meeting in japan. Stephen engle is on the ground for us for that meeting. We have a date for the date. Do. Hen we saturday, just before lunch, 11 30 a. M. Saturday is when president xi jinping and trump will meet. President has a full schedule tomorrow. He will be meeting Scott Morrison of australia for dinner and a whole wave of m
Government and pro russian separatists. The pro russian meeting the demands pretended to a nice cushion in it spent in hk and found a referendum scheduled for maintenance. It asked people whether to seek singtel autonomy for the region. He stressed that the referendum must be conducted as planned because it ensures the mess and trying to decide to them and teach at the mission in the center that had jumping a Russian Group called call stack plan to cross the border to help with this implementation of the referendum police in india and leaning into the sunset that is for a wave of deadly attacks on muslims they say gunmen have massacred dozens of people including the tc in the northeast. This is known to attack the state of assam many of the board to recruit time. Police say that by some to dantes twenty two people and dying. Women and children were among the big ten has other people are missing these claims have been disciplined athlete of the night. Annapolis and agitating to secede f
Northeastern japan, a group of architects has been working not just to rebuild houses but to revive shattered communities. Millions of people around the world are remembering and paying tribute to the man who is considered the father of modern south africa, Nelson Mandela has died. He was 95, known respectfully as madiba by South Africans, he dedicated his life to the fight against apartheid and went on to become the countrys first black president. Nhk worlds chie yanagichi reports. Reporter the news was shocking but not unexpected. Fellow South Africans, our beloved Nelson Mandela, the founding president of our democratic nation, has departed. Reporter minutes after president jacob zuma announced mandelas death, South Africans started to mourn and remember. So painful. I just cant believe it. We cry with the family and the nation, we have a great loss. Reporter mandela had been in and out of hospital since 2011 because of a lung infection and other ailments. He died at home on thursda
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