described, has been criticized as a threat to democracy these folks are being convinced that america isn t a democracy in the first place. and if it s not a democracy in the first place, then trump is no threat. that s what we re seeing being pushed back to you pope is making history this morning with the first ever papal visit to the g7 summit but his main concern, my bit of a surprise to you worlds colliding with the pope president s and artificial well intelligence on the global stage also, demolitions starts this hour on the site of one of the worst school shootings in american history, nearly six years here s after 17 students and stoppers lost their lives at marjory stoneman douglas high school, that it s in parkland, florida. crews will start finally tearing down that building and the lead singer of the four tops says he had to prove his identity with a video from the grammys in order to get care at a michigan hospital. why he says he felt close to death i m sorry.
the pentagon says it s because there isn t a proper long-term detention facility in afghanistan. about 200 people are taking part in the peaceful protest against the killings in a neighboring province. u.s. defense secretary leon panetta is on his second day of his visit to afghanistan. around the time he was scheduled to arrive, an afghan national stole a vehicle and drove it on to the runway. the car crashed into a ditch. the driver later died. nato says panetta was never in danger. myanmar state television broadcast a campaign speech by pro democracy lead yee yeer ann sue chi. she called for reforms and media freedom, but they say some criticisms of the ruling punta were censored. the broadcast marks the first time myanmar s government has aired a speech by su chi. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and welcome to world business today. the top stories this thursday, march 15th. and also great for britain.
choreographed affair, as we were expecting from north korea, very similar to what we saw 17 years ago for the funeral of kim il-sun. we saw the procession. coffin going through the streets of pyongyang, 40 kilometers was the procession. and along those snow-laden streets, there were tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of mourners who had come out to pay their last respects. this was a lot of emotion. we did see at the front of these crowds a lot of wailing and weeping and beating of chests. although further back in the crowds, there were some more passive looking people paying their respects. so this is as it was expected. kim jong-un obviously now called the supreme leader according to state media was also front and center. zain? will anything change in north korea under kim jong-un? this is what everyone would like to know. at this point, the consensus appears to be that nothing will change in the near term. what we did see today was kim jong-un walking along