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Dax up by nearly 1% falling to 6.8%. that's better than expected. what i think is really the issue here in term of these markets is a set of gains for some of the big uk listed mining stocks. in particular, strata. this is due to the fact that china we had manufacturing data which was not as disappointing as we feared. it all comes pack to china. slight losses of 2/3 of a percent andrew. >> you talked about china. it had a big impact in asia. if you look at the numbers, it's a healthy start to the new year. the nikkei and the chinese markets closed again but elsewhere, you can see some of the ...

the government of south sue dan gained control of a remote village that was attacked over the weekend. some 4,000 army and police reinforcements have reportedly been sent to aville raj. they're fighting over grazing land. the u.s. republican party presidential race is about to get ready over iowa. candidates have been campaigning for weeks and tuesday night voters will take part in what is being called caucuses. they are a few hundred in formal get-togethers where people take the candidate they want to face president barack obama in november's general election. those are the top stor...

loyalists. gadhafi's sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemen's embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he's expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they'll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are...

horn of africa. the united nations says it has received half of the $2.5 billion it needs to tackle the crisis. china says it is slowing down its bullet trains and stopping new construction because of an accident that killed last month that killed at least 40 people. the accident was blamed on design flaws on equipment. and syrian troop -- efforts are growing to end the crackdown. under scored the urgency of the situation there. those are the top stories from cnn, the world news leader. "world business today" starts right now. good morning cnn london. >> and a very good friday ...

The european defense market there on the market. that's kept the dax up .6%. andrew? with the exception of japan, it wasn't a bad end of the week for asia either. we'll start with japan. nikkei finishing down .7% after the government announced a compensation fund for the leading utility tepco that could run to tens of billions of dollars. it's sending jitters through the banking sector there. in shanghai, the composite grew by almost 1%. hong kong up by a similar amount despite china taking another move overnight in china to raise the bank reserve requirement, basically the amount of money t...