with majority leader in the senate, nevada senator harry reid canceled scheduled senate business due to foggy weather. senators cannot fly in to cast their votes. however t senate stayed open so senators could make speeches on subjects of their choosing. now before we proceed, this is senator ben nelson. a democrat from nebraska. senator nelson is retiring this year. he decided not to seek a third term. in most way we think about ben nelson is the conservative end of his party, the democratic party. on a more obvious level ben nelson is a cosmetic rival. the siller mane man is king. and that s all you need to know to understand what happened on the floor of the senate yesterday. i think if the truth were known, many, many senators would be very envious, as i am, and i would think the presiding
with majority leader in the senate, nevada senator harry reid canceled scheduled senate business due to foggy weather. senators cannot fly in to cast their votes. however t senate stayed open so senators could make speeches on subjects of their choosing. now before we proceed, this is senator ben nelson. a democrat from nebraska. senator nelson is retiring this year. he decided not to seek a third term. in most way we think about ben nelson is the conservative end of his party, the democratic party. on a more obvious level ben nelson is a cosmetic rival. the siller mane man is king. and that s all you need to know to understand what happened on the floor of the senate yesterday. i think if the truth were known, many, many senators would be very envious, as i am, and i
shia compound where many gather on this important holiday and the photographer we spoke to describes how the explosion inside this crowded compound, bodies fanned out and were decimated. the death toll we re hearing could be in one to two dozen but given the scene where we heard from witnesses we are expecting it to rise in the coming hours. zain? nick paton walsh. i m zain verjee. world business today starts now. hello, i m andrew stevens in hong kong. and from cnn london, i m charles hodson. this is world business today and these are our top stories much there had a cautious mood on the markets after a downgrade warning in europe. a change of tact by china breathes new life into climate change talks. and a trickle of tourists return as thailand recovers from devastating floods. the timing could hardly have been worse. just as leaders of the euro-zone s biggest economies put on a united front standard & poor s threw a big spanner into the works and put 15 eur
back to the gulf, got to get back in there, drill again. gas prices way too high. is that a valid reason to get back in there? well, i think it can be. with some important conditions. so i want to may a sound bite for you, gentleman. this is from a shrimp fisherman named dean blanchard. he lost his business due to the bp oil spill. this isn t our oil spill. they spilled oil in the first well they drilled out there, they spilled oil in the second one. it s a constant thing we go through. that might be where our flavor comes from. but what i m scared about are the dispersants. i say, if you take the last five nobel prize winners and say your only job is to mess up dean blanchard s life and his business, they couldn t have done a finer job than bp. dean blanchard still fired up at bp. gentleman, your reactions to
same message. we re done with the bureaucratic deals and it s all about what s in the interest of the american worker. and particularly this word that president trump uses over and over again, reciprocal. you must have liked that. of course i didn t know if you were talking about the or the rnc convention when you were reading the summary of davos. to me that sounds like both conventions. when we talk about trade, i think people across the board i had 300 employees myself, lost my business due to health care reform. everyone agrees it s important to invest in america but then it comes down to the reciprocal, what is the benefit from it. it s no surprise that a billionaire, very successful guy in business like trump didn t get up and speak about business and the importance of investment and speaking in terms that they can understand. like you said, the hypocrisy of it all, can you play both sides of it and how does it fair well. the people who have elected trump feel comfortable eno