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of a vote in which she s running for a parliament and says she is encouraged by the rising political awareness of the people of myanmar. and audits of apple s largest supplier in china found a long list of workplace violations i including failure to adequately pay for overtime hours and the lack of true union representation, foxconn says it will bring itself into compliance within the next 16 months. much more ahead on cnn. world business today starts right now. good morning to you out there from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. an audit outlines failures at foxconn. so will factory reform there s signal a change for the industry? labor laws are also in the spotlight in spain today. austerity protests turned violent. and a story that s the talk of the town here in corruption-conscious hong kong, billionaire brothers have been arrested into a probe in alleged bribery. just an hour into trading here in europe, and look at the turn of events here, after spend ....
soldiers in the syrian city of olelepo, according to syrian tv who described it as terrorist attacks. 350 people have been killed vaas syria in an escalating assault by government forces. country ha haest hit by europe s deadly cold snap, but across europe, hundreds are dead, people are snowed in and cars are stranded to the roadsides and even the danyu river is partially frozen, keeping many vessels stuck in port. those are the headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m dina dos santos. and good morning from cnn hong kong. you re watching world business today. the top stories this happy friday, the 10th of february. must try harder. eu ministers say greece s bailout deal is not good enough. almost a year after a deadly earthquake, the new zealand city of christchurch now looks to asia to help finance its rebuilding. and in a densely populated city like hong kong, space can be a luxury, but as fla ....
possible. myanmar and former prime minister, they report 651 prisoners are scheduled to be released starting today. also, the government has signed a cease fire with the current ethnic group to try to end a 63-year armed conflict. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling for an end to the arab league s work. they ve criticized the mission as ineffective and understaffed. there s been no letup in the fuel price protests paralyzing my gear yeah talks between the labor unions and the government ended without an agreement to restore fuel subsidies. they re threatening to stop production if the nigerian government does not reverse its position. negotiations are scheduled to resume saturday. those are the top stories. world business today starts right now. happy friday to you. welcome to world business today. i m nina dos santos in london. and i m andrew stevens in hong kong. welcome. top stories this day, apple fans in china turn angry and skuffle with ....
just as it began. will he stay or will he go? that s the big issue in the birth place of democracy as the greek prime minister, george papandreou and his government faces a crucial confidence vote in parliament later today. the outcome of the vote may have seemed a bit predictable just 24 hours ago. now it seems it s far from certain. after mr. papandreou backed away from a referendum on a debt deal he announced days earlier. all of this comes as leaders of the g20 are gathered. it s sure to be dominated with talk about gross s future and the escalating crisis that s gripping the euro zone. relief surrounding that possible aboutturn on the greek referendum is moving stocks but also the bond markets, because ten-year greek bonds are down just a little bit today, still yielding around 2 %. let s go live to athens where we can join jim bolden. the day is young over there in the greek capital. let s have a quick look at what we could see coming out of greece and this confid ....
politics, ordinary spaniards feel the pain. and the french president says it was a mistake for greece to join the euro. first off, let s go straight to the european stock markets and see how they re faring at the minute. we re seeing a higher open and that in turn follows rallies on thursday after that crucial deal was reached at the eu summit in brussels. we ll bring you the numbers in a moment s time. first up, let s tell you what s making news across the region. in particular, it is the french president, mr. nicolas sarkozy. in an interview on thursday, sarkozy said allowing greece into the euro zone was, it seems, a mistake. greece ended with false economic figures. it was not ready to do so. sarkozy spoke with the chinese president, hu jintao on thursday to assess china s reaction to the eu deal. we had spanish jobless figures being released a few moments ago. what we know is the spanish jobless rate has risen to 21.52%. so 21.5% across this euro zone nation. t ....