in the next, say, several years, five years, missile ranges starting to encroach on southeastern europe or could be southern russia as well. or other regions. saudis are concerned about missile range capability. let's say in a decade or so, iran can probably have the capability to launch missiles that cover the entire european continent. the bush was worried about icbms either from north korea or iran. in my view they got the order backwards. it's these medium ranged missiles pro live rating quite widely. interrange ar far-term threat. however? how long will it take before iran gets them? who knows. on the order of a decade, maybe two. so this the threat that an mates the european phase adaptive approach. mind you without a nuclear warhead on these missiles they don't pose much of a threat. they can be a political threat, conventionally armed missiles in the middle east in the gulf war, in my mind without some mass destruction nuclear warhead these missiles aren't particularly -- i wouldn't be spending buffaloes dollars to defeat them. of course iran does have a suspect nuclear weapons

. >> yes, well, the southeastern europe is still looking at these cold arctic blasts that is very persistent. here in turkey, this whole cloud as you can see that's bringing us widespread snow. let's take a look at some pictures coming out from turkey. heavy snowfall and blizzard continue to paralyze daily life here. the current climate conditions in the country will progressively worsen towards the weekend. and access to more than 1300 villages have been completely severed due to rough weather. looks like this is continuing towards the weekend. here this wet weather and the snow will be tapering off in central portions of europe and the eastern areas as well. that's good news. we have a system comes in towards the northern british isles impacting with wet and windy weather along with western scandinavian pe fins la. london temperatures sinking down to about out towards the west things are looking very nice. on the other side of this cold stream jet stream paris is looking at double digits looking fine there 11 degrees in london at 10. lisbon at 17 degrees and moscow on the other side lookin

. >> yes, well, the southeastern europe is still looking at these cold arctic blasts that is very persistent. here in turkey, this whole cloud as you can see that's bringing us widespread snow. let's take a look at some pictures coming out from turkey. heavy snowfall and blizzard continue to paralyze daily life here. the current climate conditions in the country will progressively worsen towards the weekend. and access to more than 1300 villages have been completely severed due to rough weather. looks like this is continuing towards the weekend. here this wet weather and the snow will be tapering off in central portions of europe and the eastern areas as well. that's good news. we have a system comes in towards the northern british isles impacting with wet and windy weather along with western scandinavian pe fins la. london temperatures sinking down to about 5 on sunday. out towards the west things are looking very nice. on the other side of this cold stream jet stream paris is looking at double digits looking fine there 11 degrees in london at 10. lisbon at 17 degrees and moscow on the othe

some communities in southeastern europe are struggling to cope with record low temperatures. ukraine along has reported 135 deaths from the extreme weather. those are the headlines from cnn. i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. >>> good morning from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos. >>> very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. more travel misery in europe as air france cancels half of all its flights. the airline tells passengers not to bother traveling until the end of the week. >>> it's a big day for greece and a landmark day in europe's history. it's been 20 years since the signing of the maastricht treaty. the question is was it such a good idea after all? >>> if you've ever wondered during your daily commute just how the underground was built, you might want to stick around for this story. >> tunnelling is always a difficult and expensive business. even more so here in hong kong with all these tower blocks and buildings around you. they have to blast their way through the bedrom. down here. >> a view of hong kong you don't often g

severely localized defense of southeastern europe with two, three, maybe four site, something like that. things get interesting if these three, 2018. now we are supposed to have the block to any interceptor and it's supposed to be deployed on land and poland. this is for the interceptor site is going to be. one of the issues one gets into his there's not a lot of information the public domain. all the charts are based on public domain information. we don't know how fast the interceptor size and speed matters in this business. so what i've done a show at family occur from three nafta for not co-owners representing the coverage you would get from poland of europe. the interceptor speed. and again, maybe the missile threats that extend throughout all of europe, who knows. but i have shown the maximum rate to reach england. importantly, this is since engage on remo. to provide other track data for this to operate. now you get practically defending europe in a higher speed. remote will also be implemented. now i've shown these airborne platforms orbiting in a family of curves may be the roma

europe. cold conditions have impacted much of the countries. a strong high pressure system continues to pull very cold air straight from siberia. bringing cold temperatures including the peninsula. things are changing in the southeastern corner of europe. over the weekend, a jet stream will move to the north bringing in very warm air from the south. so we are expecting seasonal temperatures over the weekend. here are the highs expected on friday. temperatures in athens are on the increase, but still slightly cooler than average. we are expecting 12 degrees in athens and 3 in ankara. for the rest of the areas, very colder than average. minus 1 degree expected in paris and minus 7 in vienna. the cold conditions will continue into the weekend. so do bundle up. here is the extended forecast. >>> our lead story this hour, north korea has sent an open letter to the south urging the country to respond to nine questions. north korea state run media spoke about the letter. the document calls on the south to offer an apology for not sending a mission to the north over the death of kim jong-un's father. the letter expresses the south to cancel joint exercises with the united states. the letter asks south korea to promise to stop

happened in kosovo in southeastern europe.ered after emergency workers heard her voice and ringing of a cell phone. the avalanche killed her parents and at least seven other relatives. martha: convicted of a crime, don't worry, your pension is safe. a new insult to a state that is rocked by a pension crisis. in california any state or local government worker who commit as felony in the course of performing their public duty will still by law get their pension. it's an incredible story but it is true. john fund joins me, senior editor of the "american spectator" magazine. thanks for joining me this morning. >> thank you. martha: i won't go into the details. mark berndt, a teacher convicted of it 3 counts of lewd behavior against children. he still gets $4,000 a month from the state regardless of that conviction. how does this happen? >> well, lewd behavior doesn't even begin to describe the despicable things that he did. look, normally i can understand, you know, a pension right is something you earned on the job and you have a

so again, fairly localized defense of southeastern europe with two, three, maybe four sites, something like that. things get interesting at phase three, 2018. now we're supposed to have the block 2a interceptor, and it's supposed to be deployed on land in poland. this is where the interceptor site's going to be. one of the issues one gets into is there's not a lot of information in the public domain. all these charts are based on public domain information. we don't know how fast the 2a interceptor flies, and speed matters in this business. so what i've done is i show a family of curves from three and a half four and a half kilometers, the second, representing the kind of coverage you would get from poland of europe varying the interceptor speed. and, again, maybe the missile threats would extend throughout all of europe, who knows. but i've shown the maximum range that would reach england. and importantly, this assumes engage on remote. so you have to have these sensors, airborne sensors and what not to provide all the track data for this to operate. now you get huge defended areas. ju

europe. still in the southeastern portion things are very, very frigid. let's take a look at some slides coming up from romania. the danube is still frozen over in many sectors. the thick layer of ice is preventing fishermen from doing their jobs. despite the temperatures rising last week, the river has not yet thawed enough for activity to pick up. still very messy conditions. southern turkey we've seen lots of rain still yet to come up to about 80 millimeters of rain. very strong gusts also. and snow could pile up. also very heavy snow could be piling up in germany, poland and in austria as well. now out towards the west very different story. spring like weather here in madrid at 20 degrees. lisbon at 18. 14 in london. and very different story as i mentioned. ankar minus 3. it's going to be dipping down even more. here's your extended forecast. >> that's our broadcast for this hour on "newsline." we'll be back with more news in half an hour. thank you for watching. bye-bye. . .

in the next several years, the missile ranges are starting to encroach on southeastern europe or southernsia or other regions. the saudis are concerned about iranian missile capabilities. in about a decade or so, iran could have the capability to launch missiles but cover the entire european continent. the bush administration was mostly concerned about intercontinental ballistic missile that hit from north korea or iran. in my view they got it backwards. it is these medium range missiles. beforeong will it take iran gets them? who knows. on the order of a decade, maybe two. this is the threat of. without a nuclear warhead, they do not pose much of a threat. they could be a political threat. in my view without some form of mass destruction, i would not be spending billions of dollars to defeat them, but iran does have a suspect nuclear roughens -- nuclear weapons program. they can build a nuclear device to sit on top of ballistic missile, and they could potentially threaten europe. michael talked about an emphasis on near-term threat to medium- range missiles, a larger rate sizes. they use