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Welcome back to nhk world newsline. Japanese Prime Minister shinzo abe is starting off the new year facing a long todo list, and as he sorts through it all, hes firming up his priorities. Abe held his first News Conference the year on friday and he underscored his dedication to strengthening the japanese economy. The Prime Minister says he plans to decide on a fiscal 2013 draft budget within this month. He also confirmed he will submit a large scale supplementary budget to the diet for quick enactment. Abe says he wants the two budgets to finance spending seamlessly over the next 15 months to ...

Budgets to finance spending seamlessly over the next 15 months to restore a strong economy. He also says the bank of japan should adopt bold monetary policies in close coordination with his government. Translator the bank of japans Monetary Policy is critically important in terms of Foreign Exchange rates and in achieving a 2 inflation target. I strongly expect the central bank to act responsibly. Prime minister abe also spoke about nuclear power. He indicated his government will consider allowing utilities to build new plants. Translator the government will go over what weve learned about the...

No longer fulfill his responsibilities. German cardinal yosef razinger was 75 years old when he became pope following the death of Pope John Paul ii. Benedict xvi was a conservative pope. He strongly worked for his control. He faced the generation and joined twitter last year. He took his turn on handling sexual abuse scandals to an investigation of money launderring in the vatican city. He accused his butler of stealing and leaking documents that pointed to corruption in the vatican. The pope pardoned him over christmas. Its rare for a pope to resign. Pope benedict is the first to quit in nea...

The russian side that was antiamerican that played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the United States and russia. U. S. And russian officials have been at loggerheads over the russian decision to grant temporary asylum to the american fugitive edward snowden. Obama said the snowden episode reflects one of many emerging differences. It is probably appropriate for us to take a pause, reassess where it is that russias going, what our core interests are, and cal ib rate the relationships. Obama said that the russian position on the Syrian Civil War is another dif...

Hello there, welcome to newsline. It is tuesday, february 12th. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Millions of roman catholics around the world are coming to terms with an announcement that is both surprising and rare. Pope benedict xvi says hes too old to do his job. Hes 85. Spokespersons for the vatican say the pope cited his advance age and felt he could no longer fulfill his responsibilities. German Cardinal Joseph ratzinger was 78 years old when he became pope in april 2005 following the death of Pope John Paul ii. He was the oldest person to become pontiff in 275 years. Benedict xvi was a ...