international stage, although very small, but in terms of the raw politics, the raw politics may be just for the democratic primary. julie: james sindell, thank you very much. appreciate you coming on. thank you. julie: a day of tear gas, rubber bullets and clashes with police. hong con students and civil rights activists are vowing to keep up the pressure over extradition to china. so can the bureaucrats in beijing continue to ignore a million people marching in the streets of hong kong? my next guest saying what they should be having nightmares about is what will happen when those 1 million hong kongers conclude that the only way to secure their own freedom is the work to overthrow the communist party regime in beijing. joining me bill mcgurn. you write it s not easy to turn 1 million prosperous people into political dissidents, but that
terrified audience members seen fleeing the building. it s only been weeks since thousands were in that the earthquake. ivan watson is in hong con. reporter: this is sad news to have to report. two weeks ago nepal had the deadliest earthquake it has seen in generations and a little more than two weeks later, boom a 7.3 magnitude earthquake hitting the impoverished mountainous country. their government has already counted at least 36 dead and some 1,100 or more wounded. i was there two weeks ago and i saw how frightened people were and they were sleeping outdoors in makeshift tents and when there would be an aftershock you
we want to welcome our worldwide audience back to our very special coverage of the disaster in japan. i m randi kaye. i m andrew stevens in hong con. thanks for joining us. as they search for victims of the powerful earthquake and tsunami, there is growing fears the country could face a nuclear disaster. the official death toll has been updated to 120 0 missing. a police official expects fatalities will undoubtedly be in the tens of thousands. more than 0 0,000 people who live near a nuclear power plant have been evacuated. that s the plant right there. there was an explosion at the reactor on saturday. a government official says there are fears there could be another explosion in a different reactor at the very same plant. the uss ronald reagan arrived off the coast today. the crew has already made 20 trips delivering aid.
can expect. charles, the news gets worse, i think. because these can go on for years and years, these extra solar activity so we ve got a lot to talk about. indeed. we re going to look at the stock markets here in europe, assuring the markets won t be so pretty. we re looking at losses of more than 1.5% still are, anyway, for the zurich smi, zeed tra dax back a little bit under 1%. paris cac only off by a third now. we re seeing a little creeping back in. the london ftse back by .50%. we are seeing weakness as well, andrew. and crude over $100 a barrel. charles that s happened for more than two years. we ll continue to watch the story, obviously. for the moment, we ll say farewell. you have been watching world business today. thanks for joining us. i m andrew stevens in hong con. i m charles hudson in london.