just a nuisance. unlike other insects they do not carry disease. those are the top stories on this tuesday, may 20th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now with john muller and diana perez. good tuesday morning, everybody. we will begin this half hour with angry reaction from the chinese over those spying charges levied by the u.s. beijing denies it engaged or participated in cybertheft. the government has called the u.s. ambassador to launch a formal protest. with more on those charges, here s karen traverse. two major crackdowns on cyber terrorism. for the first time ever, the u.s. government has accused another nation of internet hacking. this is a case alleging economic espionage by members of the chinese military. reporter: u.s. intelligence officials have believed for some time that the chinese government was engaging in a state-sponsored campaign to hack in to u.s. business interests to
he called it an inadvertent error. that has not quieted the protests in afghanistan. the taliban s calling on muslims to seek revenge. who s going to be the prime minister of australia come monday. the stage is set for a showdown. the governing labor party will vote on monday. rudd says ms. gill lard can t win the next election. we ll have more on that story in just a moment. i m zain verjee. world business today. good morning. from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. this is world business today. these are the top stories on friday, february the 24th. greece s debt burden has been lightened but its debt holders are about to see the value of their bonds drop. the u.s. takes on organized crime in japan imposing sanctions on high ranking members of the yakazu. what does google know about you? new privacy policies make it harder to keep your information under wraps these days. first up, to our top story today. today is the daze day that greece finally unveils its propos
falls, what happens to that cash? we re also seeing some new video of a violent train crash. time to play reporter roulette. miguel marquez, straight to you in yuma, arizona. you were briefed. have you even more information on what s happened there. the two helicopters colliding in the skies over yuma. snfrl yeah, we just spoke to the base commander. the most stunning thing coming out is the picture of that crash. it occurred around 10:30 p.m. eastern standard time on the california side of the base here. the entire crash was there. if you look at those pictures, what is very, very clear is it was in fact, a mid-air collision. there may have been an explosion as well because there s not much left of either of those helicopters except for a rotor that you can make out. the terrain says the base commander is very much like afghanistan and in iraq. the only differencing between that it s not the altitude isn t quite as great. commander also told us that there was a training pi
families being notified today, receiving the sad news. one was a uh 1 helicopter, one an ah 1 w helicopter. very routine training exercise by all accounts and sadly a mid-air collision killing all seven marines on board both heel lows overnight. we will follow all of the breaking details that we get from you, barbara, and also the investigation now taking place. barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks. sure. look, it s no surprise when you reach the top, you get a target on your back. and poll surging rick santorum found that out last night at cnn s debate in arizona. while i was fighting to save the olympics, you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. you re entitled to your opinions but you re not entitled to i ve heard that line before. misrepresent the facts and you re misrepresenting the facts. you don t know what you re talking about. yes, governor you balanced the budget for four years. you have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget i
the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? because he s a fake. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. we re going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last night s republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gallon by the summer. you re going to hear from president obama on gas prices and energy policy. that s happening later today. president obama is apologizing for the burning of korans by nato troops in afghanistan. now, this incident set off protests across the country. after again president hamid karzai said president obama sent a letter calling the burning an inadvertent error. he also promised to take steps to avoid any reoccurrence. two u.s. troops were killed by someone wearing an afghan army