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Transcript in the news of
June 26, 2007 (With some misspelled words)
>>> The U.S. Congress has moved
a step closer to demanding that
Japan apologize for the mass
corruption of foreign sex
slaves in the second world war.
The Congress' foreign affairs committee
voted overwhelmingly in favor of the apology demand which now
goes to the full representative of the House.
It is thought over 200,000
women and girls from countries such as Korea, China,
Indonesia, and Taiwan were forced to
work as sex slaves in the Japanese army brothels before
and during the war.
In 1993, a Japanese government
official did apologize for the
comfort women.
Isn't that enough?
A question I put earlier to the
congressman Michael Honda who proposed this
resolution.
>> The deputy cabinet secretary
Kono is I guess equivalent to a
chief of staff to a political
official.
He worked with a group of folks
who had studied the issue for
two years and then came out
with that statement, and he did
say -- but the government did
not take up the issue as an
official act.
The prime minister may have
aligned himself of those
comments and said that I
apologize and I feel the grief
or I feel the pain, but took no
official action as a
government.
>> What you're saying is you
would like the Japanese Prime
Minister Abe to come out much more
clearly and specifically at the
highest level of the country
and make an apology.
>> It would be the equivalent
of congress passing a bill in
both houses and the president
signing it.
>> Is the American congress at
risk of getting involved
unnecessarily in what is a
Japanese domestic affair?
>> Well, one can say that you know, we do that
all of the time.
We insert ourselves in times of
difficulty, such as in Bosnia,
Kosovo, Darfur right now, and
we're pressuring China to take
a greater leadership in Darfur.
This is not much different.
It is about friends working
with friends, and I think the
couple of congressmen have said
it well when they said
sometimes it is difficult for
friends to work with other
friends and encourage them to
do the right thing. Congressman Michael Honda spoke a
few minutes ago.
>> Do stay with us here.
Coming up former world number
one venus williams struggles
but wins her first round match
at wimbledon.
>> The ecosystem in the black
sea is under threat according
to romania.
It says illegal fishing by
turkey is causing damage and
destroying fish stocks.
Romania is trying to stop rogue
fishing crews breaching its
territory.
Turkey admits there is a
problem.
It's trying to punish the
poacherS.
It wants to persuade the crews
that they're jeopardizing their
own lifevelylihoods.
>> Caught in the act.
A coast guard takes action to
stop a poacheR.
Lowered their nets in romanian
waters.
Romania is investing heavily to
keep the illegal trawlers at
bay.
Decades of pollution and
overfishing have devastated the
black sea, leaving stocks of
some species running
dangerously loW.
Come fishermen break the rules
and cross the borders to bring
it in.
Not
it is not just that that gets
tankled in their nets.
>> Illegal fishing by foreign
boats is destroying the fine
balance and the efforts to
rebuild normal numbers of fish
plus the collateral damage of
the rare population in the
black seA.
>> As romania launches its
crackdown, turkish officials
are taking steps of its owN.
They're drafting a new law to
punish the poachers.
Satellite systems are on their
way to monitor all boats out at
sea.
They're trying to educate the
fishermen that poaching may
bring more money in the short
run, but it risks creating an
environmental disaster and
destroying their livelihood for
the future.
>>> Let's get the latest on the
situation in tehran where there
have been chaotic scenes.
The country introduced petrol
rationing there.
I saw on the wire reports that
there had been burning of cars,
attacking petrol stations.
What has the situation been
today?
>> One of our colleagues in the
northwest of tehran saw a petro
station on fire with cars
burning, and there were three
people burned to death in the
petrol statioN.
They were shouting anti
antigovernment slogans against
president ahmadinejaD.
People protesting by coming out
on the streets.
Playing live pop music in their
cars which is not allowed in
the countrY.
Police can't get near the
stations.
Other roads have been blocked
off by the police so the
situation does not get worse.
There were scuffles.
Hundreds and hundreds of people
trying to fill up the cans to
beat the petro rationinG.
One taxi driver had broken down
because he had run out of
petrol and he had walked all of
the way with an empty coke ka
cola bottle.
They're angry that they weren't
given proper warning.
They see it as a sign of
economic mismanagement here.
>> Thank you for joining us
with that.
>>> How do you fancy the idea
of eksxquisite italian cuisine in
a maximum security prison?
>> This is one of the most
exclusive restaurants in italY.
So popular the clientele have
been waiting over a month for a
table.
Very distinguished names on the
guest list.
Security is tighT.
This is a restaurant set in a
maximum security prison.
It is a medieval fortres home
to robbers -- dangerous men,
but their food is to die for.
Tonight, the waiter, serving
wine and a life sentence for
murdeR.
It is the only contact he has
had with the outside world in
20 years.
>> This is a glimpse of pre
freedom.
The guests don't judge, and in
return we give them a night to
remember.
>> This is the fourth dinner
they have put on.
The back drop is a watch toweR.
The man -- the clientele, 160
of them have all undergone
strict security checks.
>> 25 euros, and look at the
ambience
ambience.
>> In the prison, they will not
do anything to you.
>> Absolutely, why not.
>> No poison, but the head chef
is serving time for murder.
Slow time, slow food, they use
a variety of local cuisines.
>> The tennis day two at the
wimbledon championship.
Two former champions went
through.
2004 champion shareapova and
serenea williams.
>> She was two points from
defeat.
The russian took the first step
6 games to 2.
Williams took the second.
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