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some 5,000 palestinians reportedly fled a u.n. refugee camp. more than 40 people have been killed in two days. those are the headlines from cnn, the world's news leader. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london. i'm charles hodson. >> and' very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i'm andrew stevens. you're watching world business today. the top stories this tuesday, august 16th. >> new signs of slowing growth in europe as leaders of the euro zones top two economies try to restore confidence in the region. >> google announces its biggest bet. what's in it ...

It's a trained exercise and you have practice in the simulatosi. >> they have real plns on half of the pilots and the crew. they informed them and not to panic. it took about 15 minutes or so to get on the ground. does this concern you, the aging fleet. this plane is only about 15 years old. that's not that old. the way they need to be inspe inspected for the wear and tear every time they take off and land.

Radioactive iodine 131, but it has. it says something about the culture that surrounds the technology. everybody is so sure of themselves and of the technology that it's a cavalier attitude and that is the core issue in terms of how we deal with this question of our fleet of 104 atomic power plants. everybody, proponentses of the industry and critics like to talk about the future, when we should, shouldn't, only one is just commissioned. none are under construction. there isn't going to be a future fleet because wall street doesn't want anything to do with this stuff. if you want to invest mon...

Getting a new credit card just to pay off the old one. you can read all about it at foxnews.com on the home page. just three scheduled shuttle missions remain before the aging fleet is set to be moth balled. after that nasa astronauts will be hitch ago ride with russia. here is what you are going to pay your astronauts. retire the shuttle fleet and guess what happened to the cost. we will show you the startling figure coming up. 40 years ago today, it was houston, we have a problem. or was it? tonight, the surprising truth about the outer space emergency that gripped the nation and the world. ...

Reports that syria's struggling economy could use help from the u.s. >> reporter: syria's national airline is down to three planes. they can't buy boeing replacement parts because of u.s. sanctions. the rest of the aging fleet has been grounded. there are other predicaments. >> we don't have steroids for medical equipment. in education, you can't order book from american education publishers. you can't get books off amazon. >> reporter: sanctions in one form or another have been in place for decades. syria has been on the u.s.-list of state sponsor of terrorism since 1979. removal of sanctions...