went bankrupt. opposition activists said 62,000 people were killed in the country. this video posted on youtube appears to show members of the free syrian army in the back of a pickup truck engaged in a heavy gun fight with government forces in homs. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of this video. special ensloi, kofi annan, called for an immediate end to the violence. he warned against external military intervention. iran s ambassador said his country is ready to re-engage with the nuclear watchdog agency. his comment comes as western powers say they are ready to resume talks on iran s nuclear program without preconditions, but the ambassador says iran will never give up its nuclear program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita 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
from the besieged arab red crescent. western diplomats say that iran is trying to clean up something at its military base. inspectors believe the site may have been used to test triggers for nuclear bombs. this is what a solar flair looks like up close. the flair erupted and was captured by scientists in this dramatic video by nasa. we should be feeling its effects today as radiation distorts the magnetic field possibly disrupting the gps signals. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita raj paul. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this thursday, a boom town in the midst of devastation. we ll tell you about a japanese city doing brisk business as its neighbors struggle to rebuild. the deadline for the greek debt swap is fast approaching. the signs so far are good as people sign up to push the dea
cameron. it gets a bit lively. morally, things that used to be unheard of or just shied away from are now normal. and owning america, my personal take on rush limbaugh s comments. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. we ll get to my interview with penn jillette in just a moment but first we have the latest he made the outrageous claim that she wanted taxpayers to pay her to have sex just because she wanted birth control. my guest is a man who i m sure will have pretty strong views about this and every other issue. penn jillette, how are you? i m just so excited to have rush and sex below my picture, just those words. you know, the weird thing about this is he just made explicit what s implicit in the argument. i mean all the arguments are anti-sex. let s hear what he actually said. yeah. so ms. fluke and rest of you, here s the deal. if we are going to pay for your contraceptives and thus pay for you to have sex, we want something for it. and i ll tell
again here. at least the reuniting part. we ll give you an incredible story how one dog not only was a survivor once, but twice. that s all coming up in just a moment. it is nice to hear some good news coming out of there. thank you. meantime, chardon high school students heading back to class for the first time since monday s shootings. the day after the accused shooter was charged with murder. the scene of the massacre, we understand, will have a different look as the students enter the school. take a look at this, a plane had to abort a landing and fly in circles because of that. an alleged drunk driver who decided to take a ride on the runway. we ll have much more on that coming up. up first here, back to school in chardon, ohio, has never been like this. classes resume this morning at chardon high, just days after a school shooting that shattered that entire community. three students were killed there. the shooting suspect, 17-year-old t.j. lane, has been charged w
about it, i was once it hit the ground on the fifth time, everything just i saw daylight. i don t know how i m here. in just a few moments, a tornado survivor remembers his mother who did not survive. and we are just getting word that a plane carrying american and british pro democracy workers has left cairo. they were accused of cementing unrest in egypt. they were ngos who were the target of a government crackdown last december. all face charges of fraud. the crisis further strained ties between new egyptian government and the united states. meantime, in syria after weeks of fighting, rebel of the free syrian army today pulled out of the district of the embattled city of homs. and that did nothing to stop the heavy shelling of homs. dissidents describe it as a blood bath and residents without food, water, or medicine. desperately needed supplies could soon be on the way. the international red cross says the syrian government has given it permission to enter homs t