reporter: monita, we ve just heard from the interior ministry something which you could read in certain ways, i suppose. two gunshots were fired at 2:00 a.m. in the morning. so about seven hours ago now. they don t know why and since then they haven t heard anything. they haven t heard any kind of communication with the suspect holed up inside the house. he had said earlier in discussions with police that he had wanted to die with his weapons in his hand. interior ministry has said consistently that their priority is to get him out alive. we hope that he s alive. there is a possibility on my reading of that information that could be that the gunshots fired, he has i mean, it is a possibility that he might have killed himself that there is no contact with him. of course, that is pure conjecture on my part. we really don t know what s going on inside that house and the siege continues, monita. very difficult to understand. to actually gauge what s happening when there is
killed. a spokesman says the cause of the crash is currently unknown but reports there was no insurgent activity in the area. north korea says it will launch a rocket to put a satellite in orbit of the the korean central news agency announced the launch saying it s intended to mark 100 years since the birth of the founder of the north korea state, if north korea goes ahead it will breach the united nations resolution passed after a previous launch in 2009. those are the headlines from cnn, i m zain vergee, world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london i m nina del santos. i m andrew stevens, the top stories this friday, march the 16th. certainly is friday, apple with a record high for their company stock and lines like these cueing up for latest ipad. the ax is falling on subsidies in india, how citizens are affected by the government s latest budget. a critical source of funding for the government also linked to corruption and human rights abu
school. the gun was found at the scene. witnesses say lane walked up to a group of students sitting in the cafeteria and opened fire. the latest polls put republican presidential frontrunners mitt romney and rick santorum in a dead heat going into today s primaries. both candidates have made a final push in michigan. the second contest is in arizona. michigan is a vital test of romney since he was born and raised there and his father served as governor. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london. i m nina dell santos. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories this tuesday, february 28th. asia chief explains the latest results and tells us where the growth is. the world conference, not his latest company s weapon against apple and google. it was wall street s gordon gecko who famously said greed is good. the actor who played him now has a very different message. first up, though,
united nations over britain s plans to send a warship and a submarine to the falkland islands, which argentina calls maldivas. and the results are in, and there s. an unexpected clean sweep for rick santorum. santorum is celebrating after winning three state contests on tuesday. the former pennsylvania senator won the colorado and minnesota caucuses and the nonbinding missouri primary. those are the headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina del santos. and from cnn hong kong, this is world business today. the top stories on wednesday, january 8th. ratings agency s&p downgrades sony after a triple whammy of economic challenges. the question is are their exporters now losing out to their south korean rivals? a license to print money. why more american towns are minting their own currencies. and europe s football clubs used to attract all the top talent in international football, but as brazil s ec
london. here are the headlines. this just coming in. operations at the shipwrecked costa concordia is been temporarily halted because the ship is shifting. the captain is under house arrest as he awaits possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. meanwhile, divers are working to remove a second data recorder from the abandoned ship. they recovered more bodies, bringing the death toll to 11. the arab league is set to end its mission this week, but anti-government protests show no sign of epding any time soon in syria. the government has rejected suggestions that arab league peacekeepers should be deployed to syria. in myanmar, some signs of political change. pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi is registered in parliament. she s running in a country that s still largely controlled by its military. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee, and world business today starts now beginning with the coverage of a blackout to protest an