alice springs, 33, 27 in canberra. the expected airport delays. >> that's a look at your weather. we send it back to andrew in hong kong. >> thank you very much for that, ivan. we'll see you later. charles? >>> still to come on "world business today," two of the world's biggest commercial planemakers spark a war of words between the u.s. and europe. the full story in just a moment. >>> cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. >> i'm charles hodson in london. a quick look at european stock markets. we're 31 minutes into the trading day. we saw good gains at the start. in fact, they've been improved upon in the last half hour or so. xetra dax up by 0.73%. london still up by nearly 0.5% and the zurich smi up by about 0.3%. clearly, the feeling is there aren't too many worries on the macroeconomy or monetary policy and the way is clear to continue some of these gains. how long they'll carry on with that particular view, we'll see, andrew. >> relief for now. check out the asian markets, similar picture, four green arrows this day