KRCB Newsline January 1, 2013
Hello and welcome back to nhk world newsline. Its tuesday, january 1, 2013. Im Catherine Kobayashi in tokyo. Legislators in the u. S. Have filed to meet the year end deadline to avert the socalled fiscal cliff. Members of the senate agreed to extend tax cuts for middle income earners and raise taxes on the wealthy but the house of representatives decided not to vote on the bill on new years eve. The house is expected to resume talks quickly in the new year to avert a serious impact from tax hikes. President barack obama gave a conference earlier on new years eve. He said he was optimistic that...