i'm nina del santos in london. >> and i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. a check of the top stories just ahead.

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. >>> good morning from cnn london i'm nina del santos. >> i'm andrew stevens, the top stories this friday, march the 16th. >> certainly is friday, apple with a record high for their company stock and lines like these cueing up for latest ipad. >> the ax is falling on subsidies in india, how citizens are affected by the government's latest budget. >> a critical source of funding for the government also linked to corruption and human rights abuses. we'll take you inside a diamond mind in zimbabwe. >>> first off, let's look how the european stock marketsare shaping up. have been trading for 2:00. they are taking cues after the united states, some of the markets putting on a gain of just high of 1% in the first few minutes alone. we're also focusing on greece, the athens composite as you can see. up three quarters of one percent, they are coming back in the forefront of investors attention. the international monetary fund agreed late on thursday to contribute a further 36.5 billion toward that crucial second bail out for greece alongside funds coming from other places like the european uni un