jim bolden joins us live on the telephone from brussels which is where the summit will be kicking offater on. jim, it's by no means a foregone conclusion that we'll see anything concrete that they'll agree on something concrete. let's do the main road blocks that could be problematic. >> reporter: there are a lot of issues that they'll have to sort out, we know that now. we've heard from the leaders of germany and france. we heard from the european council. how do you get to closer integration? how do you get this fiscal compact? do you do this with only the 17 countries that use the euro or with all 27? that is still very much up in the air. the reason that matters because if you were to start having just the country that use the euro making fiscal decisions about the european union as a whole and not allowing countries, say denmark and britain, to be involved in those decisions you could see a split happening, what some people are calling two-tier, even three-tier europe, because there are some companies out, like poland, who do want to join the euro. it's complicated. a the lo of p

jim bolden, cnn, london. >>> the trial of the former italian prime minister, silvio berlusconi continuen milan. berlusconi faces allegations that he tried to pull strings to get her out of jail when arrested for theft. he resigned last month over italy's debt crisis bringing an end to a political career of almost two decades. often marred by scandal and controversy. you're watching "world business today." we'll be back in just a moment. >>> welcome back. you're watching "world business today" with me, andrew stevens. we're live in hong kong. happy friday. let's take a quick look at what's going on in europe right now. the markets are about 90 minutes into their trading day. it's all -- it has been positive. the xetra dax turning negative. the broader index, which is the stock 600 index, on course to get gains -- or have gains around about 9% if they can hold these levels which would make it the best week in europe for something like three years. in asia be with the major indices also finishing broadly higher, shanghai the odd one out, down by 1%. a little bit of follow-through suggests