. greta: developing situation between china and the united states. the chinese suspicion that the united states is hiding a blind chinese dissident at the embassy in beijing, the question is where is he and how did he do it and who helped him. julian, if s hiding in our embassy, do we know? that is what his friends are saying. there is good chance he is. greta: who is he? he is bit of a folk hero. he self-taught lawyer. he has been blind since childhood. he started his career made a name for himself about ten years ago. he rode to prominence and he helped people with disabilities collect on their benefits and helping farmers with illegal land seizures. by then the authorities kind of
. greta: developing situation between china and the united states. the chinese suspicion that the united states is hiding a blind chinese dissident at the embassy in beijing, the question is where is he and how did he do it and who helped him. julian, if s hiding in our embassy, do we know? that is what his friends are saying. there is good chance he is. greta: who is he? he is bit of a folk hero. he self-taught lawyer. he has been blind since childhood. he started his career made a name for himself about ten years ago. he rode to prominence and he helped people with disabilities collect on their benefits and helping farmers with illegal land seizures. by then the authorities kind of
cities of dara and homs. opposition groups say there have been executions and that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been found in a district near homs. president obama will be meeting with benjamin netanyahu on sunday. he told the biggest pro-israel lobby group that he is prepared to use force. he said america s diplomat pressure on iran will continue. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader, i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this monday, march 5th. chinese lawmakers are setting the political and economic agenda for the year ahead. their annual meeting is now under way in beijing. it was jaem s worst crisis since the second world war. one year after the devastating earthquake and tsunami, we look at how the world s third biggest economy is still rebuildin
winter-like blast, i should say, is causing all kinds of problems. snarling air travel and knocking out power to thousands of people. we re on top of all this for you. cnn reporters and anchors out in forceful our weather anchor chad smirs in pennsylvania. and standing by in the severe weather center. we want to start with our meteorologist out in the field. i spoke to you a little while ago. is it still snowing? reporter: it s still snowing and it is noticeably colder than a couple hours ago. so the slush on the ground right now is starting to turn into ice. and you may say, what are you in the parking lot for? we re in the parking lot where there is electricity. people are literally out driving around, looking for something with power. because their houses are without power. there are so many houses without power in this area, they re getting cold and hungry. they re driving around looking for a restaurant that s open. this happens to be one that s open. this is very heav