CNN 2012-02-19

 Hey,happy Thursday.I am CA.This is CNN students news.It's your passport to 10 minutes of global headlines.Today we spending time in north,central and south America but we start in the middle east.

 
The nation of Iran has a controversial nuclear program.Iran says the program is designed for peaceful uses but other countries including the US believe Iran is trying to build a nuclear weapon.One thing we know for sure is that this program is moving forward.This is Iranian president,Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the middle of your screen.He was part of the presentation yesterday where fuel were loaded into the core of the reactor 1.There were the first nuclear fuel ruds* made inside Iran so this is a big advancement 2 for the country's nuclear program.
United Nations and European Sanction have put sanctions, penalties on Iran and in part because of its nuclear program.Those sanctions have been affecting Iran's economy and its citizens.President Ahmadinejad responded to the latest sanctions yesterday,he said Iran will cut oil exports to 16b European countries.
 
 
Moving to the central American nation of Honduras,where officials are investigating a deadly fire in one of the country's prisons.It happened overnight on Tuesday and as the Wednesday afternoon,at least 272 inmates 4 have died,defeat more than a hundred others were injured unknown.This was an minim security prison that hold about 850 prisoners.More than half of the facilities were affected 5 by the fire.One survivor 6 said he and other prisoner were sleeping when they heard screams.He said everyone ran for their lives.Authorities don't know how the fire started.They are looking into whether a short circuit might sparked it or whether a prisoner might have set a mattress 7 on fire.
 
 
Well.Let's say you are China's vice 8 president and you are vising the United States.Where do you want to go?Muscatine,Iowa.Chinese vice president,Xi Jingping insisted on a stop in the town yesterday.It's because he spent two weeks in Muscatine back in 1995 and he want to visit his old friends.Ted 3 Rollan has more on Vice President XI and what his leadership could mean for the relationship between US and China.
Iowa governor,Terry Bryan Stat was serving his first state governor when Xi came in 1995.The two met against last fall in Beijing and Bryan Stat says the next Chinese leader said he wanted to come back.
 
 
He was so pleased with the warm and friendly welcoming this evening,really considering Iowa is old friend.
Experts say for years Xi was known mostly for his famous wife,a Chinese singer while he lineage runs deep in the Communist Party.He representative a new generation of leaders.Former Ambassador Jon Huntsman,believe Xi could be good for American business.
He's got out of this way in recent years to bomb up the economics and trade,knowing for well that these are issues that are going to determine whether or not United States  and China are able to get through the years to come.
 
 
China has been blamed for the loss of thousands of American jobs some of them hears but China buys soy beans,farm machinery 9 and other products from Iowa.In fact from 2000 to 2010,the state enjoyed 1200% increase in exports to China.Governor Bryan Stat wants to expand their relationship and thinks Xi will help.
 
 
Personal relationships are really important to Chinese people.Having such a relationship with the next leader of China,I think it's very helpful to the state of Iowa.
 
 
People here are excited including the Mugliuns, who say they are honored that the man standing 10 in their kitchen 27 years ago wants to come back.
 
 
Just a little time ,spend an hour and a half in the room,old friends,that's significant,that's significant,if he won the president.