scouring earthquake rubble to see if there are survivors. police believe there may be hundreds trapped under the piles of brick, debris, and mortar. 15 somali pirates are being held on a u.s. warship accused of killing four americans. the two couples were sailing around the world. somali government has condemned the deaths. they re trying to diffuse a deadly border conflict between thailand and cambodia. they will send observers to the site awarded decades ago to cambodia. thailand claims the area around it has not been clearly marked. those are the headlines. i m zain verjee, cnn, london. world business today starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning from cnn london. i m emily reuben. and i m andrew steevs. you re watching world business today. unrest in libya pushes the price of crude oil ever higher. investors remain on edge. we survey the damage from tuesday s damage and count the recovery. and the prime minister has good reason to look
every aspect of the relaunch party, from the invites to the decoration and the gift cards. so then this is the gift card? yeah. this is the discount card for press and vips. so we need to talk about whether you want are you happy with the thickness and all of that stuff? reporter: she doesn t want to settle with the industry average. when s been seen and done. does the job. more options. reporter: she wants her team to think outside of the box. i would rather have nothing than something that i thought was weak. reporter: she wants them to make their mark. so important to stand out. to be different. and to be unique and to have our own character. next week on the boss. michael wu tells us how he attracts and maintains customer loyalty. in new york, richard braddock
answer charges involving sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of power. the charges stem from an alleged liaison at one of the italian prime minister s parties at his private villa. he s denying the charges saying they re disgusting. thailand s military says one of the soldiers has been seriously wounded in an exchange of fighting with cambodia. fights has flared again. at least five people have been killed in the latest fighting. a close-up look at a comet, temple i some 330 million kilometers from earth. this picture comes from the starbust next spacecraft and it was taken as it approached this comet. scientists were expecting to find a crater after a spacecraft was sent to crash into it back in 2005 but nasa s saying that the debris from the impact settled bag down in the same spot. those are the headlines. i m zain verjee. world business today starts now. good morning, from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew steve
to basically cope with these incredible challenges. for richard, much of the company s success this winter is down to the people working in this room. this is the heart of fresh direct s operations. it s from here they track every fresh direct truck on the road. steering them around traffic and away from unplowed streets to get the food delivered on time. 6 and 61 are delivered. copy? it s a relatively sophisticated system but nothing off the shelf about it. it s built to our needs to satisfy our customers more than we were able to do before it. delivered 1,900 orders. running at 99% on time. there is a silver lining in this miserable weather. richard discovered that out of crisis and adversity he can make money from the snow. we went above and beyond and
relentless snowstorms, freezing roads and several feet of snow have made delivering goods almost impossible for fresh direct. for its chairman richard braddock these are trying times. hi there, frank. how are you? they re a test of his leadership. we have had unbelievable, you know, snow-related weather which is hard for us to deal with, obviously. we have been closed a couple of days effectively. today he wants all hands on deck. he ll need them if fresh direct is to deliver the goods to customers on time. the way we run the business, we start every day no matter where everyone is with a review of where we are and what we re doing about it so we were all i want matly involved with adrian our transportation guy s effort