took a lead after round one are still ahead. election process has months to go. it s scheduled to wrap up in march. beljan belgian police have ruled out terrorism. authorities are puzzled about the reasons for carrying out this gun and grenade attack in downtown. those are the top stories from cnn, the world news leader. i m zain vergee. world business today starts now. hello and welcome to world business today, it s thursday, december 15th and i m nina dos santos at cnn london. and in hong kong, these are the top stories. export angst, disappointing stock day and manufacturing malaise sound alarm bells here in asia. cracks are appearing in the eu s agreement that was men to the save the single currency. and chinese internet senses are way in as anger over a land grab continues. debt and economic distress have dragged western economies down over the past few years, it seems as though asia had been appearing to defy gravity. now it seems the signs are that th
the scene in kabul ended almost a full day after it began. six militants were killed after attackers shot at u.s. embassy, nato headquarters and afghan intelligence offices in kabul tuesday. the hours-long fighting that followed killed three afghan police officers and one civilian. the taliban claimed responsibility. the families of two american hikers held in iran for more than two years say they are overjoyed at reports the pair may be freed soon. josh fattal and shane bauer hiked along an unmarked border between iraq and iran. rescuers in southern india have managed to get all the survivors out of two trains that collided southwest of chinai. more than 60 were injured when the two trains collided. authorities say one of the trains smashed into the back of the other. the cause of the accident is under investigation. the latest u.s. census shows that more than 46 million americans were living below the poverty line last year. the nation s poverty rate has risen to 15%, t
london. saudi gadhafi, moammar gadhafi s son and eight official libyans officials were allowed entrance on sunday. field marshall mohammed hussein was scheduled to appear on sunday but his testimony was postponed until september 24th because he says he s dealing with last week s riots. mubarak is accused of ordering protesters shot during last winter s uprising. o say can you see the u.s. continues to mark ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on new york and washington. solemn ceremonies were held sunday at ground zero, the pentagon and shanksville, pennsylvania, honoring the nearly 3,000 people killed. while there were no attempted attacks on sunday, fighter jets were scrambled to escort two commercial airliners to their u.s. destinations. passengers on each flight were reported to be acting suspiciously but authorities determined they posed no threats. no arrests were made. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s business leader. i m monita rajpal. worl
designed all six of the reactors at the fukushima daiichi nuclear plant saw their shares down. this is where the u.s. futures market stand. the dow 30 down let s have a look at those. down 30, down 1.55%, the nasdaq, 1.6%, also down, and the s&p down 1.8%. as we were just hearing, emily, from our guests over in hong kong with andrew, fears about contagion going forward. we re talking about the world s second largest economy. and what investors are most concerned about is the fact that japan is one of the biggest investors. and the worry is those investors might wish to repatriate their investments. with all of the worries surrounding the nuclear situation, and much of it depends on how the bank of japan is going to respond to this. are they going to be able to do