hello everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield reporting live in phoenix, arizona. an hour from now the jury that convicted jodi arias is set to reconvene on a whole other question, just how cruel was her murder? we're going to have extensive coverage of the so-called aggravation phase of arias' first-degree murder trial in just a few moments, but our top story comes from a different courtroom in a different state 300 miles away. that's where o.j. simpson is about to tell a las vegas judge under oath why he deserves a do-over. a do-over in the trial that sent him to prison for 33 years. in short, he says it's all his

former lead attorney's fault. it's his fault for getting him convicted of robbing and kidnapping and assaulting two sports memorabilia dealers in vegas who o.j. maintains were selling him his own stolen merchandise. cnn's paul vercammen joins me live to set the stage. so, paul, i know his attorneys are there. i believe o.j. is even at the courthouse at this time. set me up as to just exactly what's transpiring and how soon he's going to take that stand. >> well, we think he's going to take the stand momentarily. don't forget he's now being held at the clarke county jail. he was transferred from the northern nevada prison down here on friday. he literally walks underground through a tunnel then into the courthouse through an elevator. and as you've seen he comes through a side door. i'm glancing at my monitor as well to see when indeed o.j. comes in. i did see o.j.'s attorneys walk in. they said his client is feeling pretty good.

they were also talking about where this is going to go first. and it's all going to be about that relationship between galanter and o.j. after all, for years they were sidekicks if you will, galanter on o.j.'s side constantly representing him in a myriad of different legal ventures. and now basically o.j. is saying this is a case of sheer betrayal, galanter did not serve him well, in fact loused up his trial so badly he deserves a new one. that's where we're going to start this morning, ashleigh. >> and paul, it was just this week for the first time he walked through that door on the right hand side of your screen and the headlines were very clear, he is older, he has gained a lot of weight in that jail. but one thing he's not done is talk. he hasn't granted any interviews. we all expected that big interview that, you know, would blow the door off this whole case and where his head was and what it's like to be sentenced to 33 years. we've heard nothing, i for one tried very hard to get yale

galanter to get that interview, help me get that interview with o.j. simpson and galanter said specifically to me no way. we've got appeals that are pending, o.j. will not be speaking without question. that i dare say is very good guidance if you have appeals that are pending. and very interestingly the whole idea that he's taking the stand today was one of his big complaints that he didn't take the stand back in 2008. so it's sort of an ironic situation. he's taking the stand because he didn't take the stand as one of his issues with his request for a new trial today. i have a terrific panel of experts i want to bring in right now. defense attorneys paul callan, jose baez, danny cevallos and hln legal correspondent beth karas. you and i spent many aday covering this case back in this courtroom in las vegas. there are a number of claims that o.j. simpson is making. he's making them to a judge, not a jury. how many of those claims have any kind of merit that this

judge wants to hear? >> he made 22 originally. this judge agreed to hear 19. a lot of the 19 are really kind of legal and specific to the way that charges came down and instructions to the jury at the end. so the three that everyone's talking about regarding ineffective assistance of council, that he wasn't advised of a plea deal. galanter advised him it was okay to do what he was doing -- >> in advance of sting. >> right. >> to be clear o.j. claims in advance of the sting his lawyer said go for it, it's okay, just don't trespass and don't be physical. >> so i really don't know if there's merit to any of them. however, you know, maybe not being informed of a plea offer which was two to five years supposedly and he's done almost five years, he's almost maxed out, is a good one. >> i want to bring paul callan in on this. to the right on the screen is where o.j. will walk in any moment and ultimately he'll be

walking in to swear in oath. what we can't see is the gallery. there's been a lot of discussion about the gallery, how years ago it was standing room only and you couldn't get a seat unless you maybe waited overnight to get in the courthouse and gone through the throngs of people who were lovers and haters of o.j. simpson. it is so different now, paul callan, why is that? >> it's totally different. i was involved in the civil case against him in santa monica, and there was literally a tent city outside the courthouse. you would go through a bank of lights and photographers as you went to the courthouse every day. people waited in line. but, you know, his celebrity has faded. i think today's kind of an important event for the public because people forget that he never testified in the criminal trial, which of course was televised. in the civil case where he was proven to have committed the murders, he did testify, but the judge banned cameras from that

proceeding and issued a gag order. so the public really never got a sense of what his testimony was like. and i think if he does in fact take the stand today, for the first time publicly they'll see what o.j. simpson is like on the witness stand. it should be an interesting day. >> yeah. and beth karas has pointed out that he did actually take the stand back in 2001 when he had a road rage trial in miami. but effectively we have not heard him talk about these particular crimes that have now put him behind bars for 33 years. jose baez, i want you to jump in if you will for me on this. look, we all have a responsibility, if we end up at defense table with council to be a part of our defense. it's why we have to be determined competent. we have to be able to assist in our defense. o.j. simpson ultimately is the boss of his defense. and he had to swear that he was okay not testifying. why is he now allowed to say i

should have been able to testify? >> well, you know, the reason there's a colloquy by the judge is to prevent this specific claim from coming forward. now, unless there was an issue in the colloquy, which i don't believe there is, what he's probably alleging is that he was pressured into not testifying to the point where his lawyers overcame his will. and when he actually said this was his choice, he really didn't mean it. which is why this makes this such a weak, weak issue on this appeal. >> big uphill battle. danny cevallos, if you could weigh-in for me on this. there is reporting that i believe gabrielle grasso, co-counsel, said there was $3 million paid partially by his defense whether that was the full number, i'm not clear. but that's a lot of money.

and there are hundreds of thousands of prisoners in this country who have nowhere near that kind of money, nowhere near that kind of representation who did not bring up ineffective assistance of council. does it matter that you spend a lot of money and get a lot of lawyers if you're trying to then claim my lawyers weren't good enough? >> well first, when it comes to the ineffective assistance, whether you're rich or poor, that's a claim made all the time. jose baez can tell us the same thing. ineffective assistance is a very commonly made claim. proving it however is another very difficult thing. proving it requiring different proof. take that claim and throw it out. the standards too high and the colloquy as an defendant you literally say i understand i'm not testifying and i've talked to my attorney and that really will prevent that claim from having any merit. the ones that may have some more are the communication of the offer, attorneys have an obligation to communicate any

plea offer. and if he can establish that wasn't communicated, he may have a claim there too. and the other thing that makes this a bit unusual is that o.j. is alleging yale was involved well bv, involved in on the heist and potentially maybe even waiting in a car outside if you read the petition. so if that's the case, then this is a little different than your usual ineffective assistance claim. however, overall all of these claims he's got a very high hill to climb. and this is by any analysis something of a long-shot. >> well, i'll tell you one thing, if i've learned a thing or two about courtrooms, it's that not everything happens on time. and even though get word that things are going to start at the top of the hour, you can rest assured they just very well may not as is the case in this las vegas courtroom. i just want to highlight what you saw on your screen, council going in possibly to speak with o.j. simpson, possibly for another unrelated matter. but at this point as we continue

to watch for o.j. simpson to make his appearance in this courtroom and break his silence four and a half-yearlong, he is going to be talking today. what he will say is anyone's guess. but say with us as we continue to watch this live courtroom. paul callan and danny cevallos, become and jose baez will stay with us to give us analysis. will o.j. simpson ever see the light of day? "around the world" starts after this short break. r ] one ordinary family... with one extraordinary purpose... to get "man of steel" advanced screening tickets. [ movie announcer voice ] at walmart. see "man of steel" at your local theater before anyone else. get in line 8 a.m. may 18th at walmart. rated pg-13.

welcome to "around the world." i'm suzanne malveaux. >> and i'm michael holmes. thanks for your company today. o.j. simpson is about to do something he has not done before, take the stand publicly in a criminal trial. we just saw him walk into the courtroom. >> that's right. we're looking at live pictures testifying on his own behalf in las vegas. you see the proceedings there. they are about to get underway. what he's trying to do is get a new trial for the convictions that put him in prison in the first place, that was back in 2008. you see him sitting there upright. they're taking off the handcuffs there. we've seen him for the last couple of days or so looking a lot older, a bit heavier. not a lot of expression that we've seen on his face. but he is returning today.

and this is going to be the first time that we've really seen him speak in years. he is currently serving a 33-year term for armed robbery and kidnapping. >> what he says is he got bad legal advice four years ago. the trial from his lead attorney. he never testified then. that's part of what he's complaining about. going back further he never testified in his ex-wife's murder trial. at least in the criminal trial. he did in the civil trial. we're going to keep an eye on this. >> of course we'll be looking at his expressions, demeanor, one of the things that was so unique is that in the civil case against o.j. simpson, he did speak on his behalf, but there were never any cameras inside the courthouse. he is talking now. let's -- i believe we're trying to see. i think it's just procedural matters that he's answering some questions. he hasn't yet begun to talk about his own case. his case essentially is against

the lead attorney. he wants a do-over in his trial. >> yeah. he says he got bad advice and all of that. we'll see how he goes. a lot of legal observers say he doesn't have much of a chance, but of course you never know in court proceedings. we're continuing to monitor. we'll let you know if there are any changes. meanwhile, we can tell you we're expecting more fireworks at today's white house briefing scheduled to start shortly. an empty podium at the moment. we're monitoring that and bring you the latest developments. >> and what we've been watching is the obama administration getting hammered over controversies, several of them all at once, we're talking about the irs as well as the justice department. expect a lot of questions today as well as what we saw yesterday. really the bigger issue here is whether or not this president and this administration is going to be able to get anything done in a second term in light of the fact white house press secretary jay carney was pretty short on answers yesterday. >> other than prez press reports, i have no knowledge, i

cannot and he cannot comment, it would be wholly inappropriate for me to have answers. >> is he concerned at all? >> i cannot and he cannot comment appropriately on -- again, i'm not going to comment. >> do you believe it's possible to strike that balance? >> i just can't comment on the specific reports that you cite. >> and also today attorney general eric holder, he is going to be in the crosshairs over phone records that were seized from "associated press ". holder testifies before the house judiciary committee. that's happening next hour. one of his deputies is defending the subpoena of those phone records. >> the a.p.'s executive editor says she was shocked by the department's actions. the agency says the fed collected records for more than 20 phone lines including personal phone numbers of a.p. staff. now, the fallout over the phone records you got the irs targeting conservative groups, all of this has the obama administration on the defensive. and some say almost passive really in letting it all unfold outside their little realm.

>> and the big question, you know, you've got republicans who are now drawing comparisons to these scandals during the nixon years, they are pushing some of these investigation. and then first on cnn hear our dana bash she has just learned we have all 45 republican senators sending a letter to the president essentially saying you need to cooperate with the irs investigations. >> demanding it. and also today the house speaker john boehner said what the agency did was criminal. >> the irs has admitted to targeting conservatives, even if the white house continues to be stuck on the word if. now, my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is, who's going to jail over this scandal? >> so we want to get a sense of how the white house is responding to this. want to bring in jessica yellin and gloria borger. jess, yesterday's briefing kind of reminiscent of the briefings you and i used to have under

bush pme over faulty intelligence in iraq. let's put the partisanship aside. what does this mean for the president, his administration, is he going to be able to get anything done in his second term? >> well, suzanne, look, i think this president's administration seems as you guys had said passive, on the defensive. their agenda, you have to worry if it's going to run aground over this. the president loves to say congress is inflicting self-inflicted wounds and you know they are feeling the sting of some of their own right now. but if you pull back and look atd the big picture, we are not at the point yet where his agenda is actually stalled. this is one story going on where you have a lot of questions and very serious concerns over these controversies, but on the other hand he does have legislation moving on capitol hill on immigration reform that continues to move and that would be a huge legacy accomplishment. we also got news last night that the deficit is shrinking at a

faster than expected rate, that is very positive. not just politically for the white house, but good news for the nation. so those are two substantive areas where there could be progress for the administration at the same time there is this swirl of trouble they're dealing with at the same time, suzanne. >> yeah. gloria, i want to bring you in on the conversation here. it is clear that the republicans, we just mentioned dana bash's reporting that all 45 senators are demanding the obama administration fully comply with congressional investigation. we have live pictures there by the way showing you -- >> at the capitol. >> yeah, on capitol hill. but, gloria, the republicans driving these investigations and scandals using it to their advantage, there's a new web video out that the rnc put out demanding transparency, as we said, what is the end game? what do you think they want to do here? there's been a lot of criticism that the president's sort of standing on the sidelines and not actually diving in.

>> well, look, first of all, regarding that letter today. nobody's defending the irs. you heard what the president said. he said these allegations are outrageous, et cetera, et cetera. so what the republicans were doing was pushing on an open door, essentially, sending a letter to the president saying we demand your cooperation. you can't stonewall knowing full well of course that he wants the irs to cooperate because this happened on his watch. and he's distancing himself from the irs as much as the republicans are. the big question, i think, in terms of overreach is the question of benghazi. i think on that particular story it's different. republicans, some, have been prone to saying this could lead to impeachment, this is worse than watergate, this is worse than iran contra. that kind of hyperbole i think does not help republicans make their case. on benghazi they should let the facts get out there and let the

public decide. because as we learned during the the monica scandal there is a point where the public starts pushing back and saying enough already. i think they have to be a little bit more delicate here. and hearing chairman darrell issa talk about benghazi, you can see that he's pulled back. he said this isn't about president obama. this isn't about hillary clinton. this is about getting to the bottom of things. so he's not out there saying this is watergate or iran contra. >> gloria borger, thanks so much. also jessica yellin, hyperbole in a partisan congress, surely not. >> never. one of the things i noticed as well is really you have a press corps that is engaged, there was tension in that room. and perhaps a loss of some support there, you know? i mean there's a relationship always between the press corps, the president and the administration. a lot of tension there.

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the stand. and this is his attorney -- he's being questioned by his attorney patricia palm about some of the items that were taken. and he is essentially saying that he wants a do-over, a new trial. and taking issue with the job that his lead attorney did back in that case. let's listen in. >> the items that you're trying to get, were they anything that you would have ever sold? >> no. no. >> would you have given them away to people? >> no. my kids. >> okay. >> i've given a few things, pictures and stuff. not any of these things. not any of these awards. i have never sold any of my personal memorabilia ever. >> all right.

excuse me. discuss what your understanding was in august, september of 2007 regarding your judgment creditor's ability to seize that type of property to satisfy a judgment? >> well, i knew all of this was outside the scope of that. i knew that stuff had to have an unusual value. of course in my case as i was explaining to a guy over here the other day, everything has an unusual price and appearance, you know. but i knew that the judge says if i wasn't selling it for this unusual price, it was mine. if i stole it for over some unusual price, then they can, you know, garnish the money. >> okay. and your understanding that the property would be exempt from judgment, did that come from advice of any council? >> it came from my knowledge of

i'd gone through it. >> and did ron slates give you any advice about what was exempt, what was not exempt? >> yes. yes. >> do you recall to references of -- orders during your trial? >> yes. >> explain your understanding of what that evidence pertained to. >> as far as this case is concerned, i knew that -- had been issued internal orders in all cases they had nothing belonged to me. >> in your case you're saying they have turnover orders and they shouldn't have your property. >> they shouldn't have my property. >> and what should they have done? >> well, if the sheriff served them turnover orders and they

never turned it over, so i was hoping that they would turn it over even when i had no issues with these guys because then i would be able to get it if they had. >> okay. so after you're contacted by riccio, is the plan to get the copy evolving over the couple or three weeks before you come out to las vegas? >> no. no. it's pretty much the same. you get it, i'll come and get it. but i'm not coming out there to chase it. >> all right. and riccio contacted law enforcement? >> yes. >> and he told you about that? >> yes. . >> so what was your understanding of their ability to help you? >> not. >> why didn't you trial civil action against the sellers? >> you mean before?

>> when mr. riccio told you these guys have your property, did you know exactly who had your property? >> no. >> okay. and why did you not try to find that out and then pursue a civil action? >> well, the civil action was already -- the civil action was already in effect. they has been given turnover orders by the state of california. and they claimed they didn't have it. >> when did the plan become, we're going to have a fake fire be involved? >> the weekend before i came to vegas. >> okay. so tell me about what happened with the changing of the plan or the evolving of the plan. >> i believe it was a saturday -- friday or saturday before i came to vegas, which was the following wednesday, i think, tuesday or wednesday. i get a call from riccio and he's in a panic. he's telling me, o.j., they're selling your stuff. and, i mean, he is your mother's

stuff, your baby's stuff, stuff i can't believe you don't want this stuff they're selling it. he was in new york. i said -- i got mad at him and said, man, i ain't coming to new york. there's nothing i can do about it if they done that. i'm not getting on a plane and coming to new york. he said, well, man, i cannot believe that, you know -- i said, man, yes, i would love to have it. i said, look, if whatever they sold, you can get next week. i got to go to las vegas for a wedding. i'll fly to l.a. from las vegas. so try to get whatever's left, you know, next week. and he said you're coming to vegas? you're going to vegas? >> i sa i said yes. and he said let me call you back. and shortly he called me back and said, this stuff is in vegas. i asked why is this stuff in vegas? well, his answer was because they had turnover orders in

california. i didn't know bruce lived in vegas. and he says, well, you want to do it in vegas? and i said, yeah, i'll call you back. >> okay. and prior to this time had you consu consulted from when mr. riccio first contacted you to right before you coming, had you consulted any legal con council. >> i talked to yale about it two or three times before it came up because we still weren't exactly who they were. but we were pretty sure it was beardsly and yale obviously had some contact with beardsly and thought he was different and beardsly's a little different. yeah, we talked about it. >> excuse me, your honor, at this juncture, if mr. simpson is going to be discussing conversations that he claims he

had with mr. galanter, i would ask that foundation be laid as to when and where these discussions took place and who else, if anybody, was privy to these discussions. >> thank you. go ahead. >> i can do that. >> all right. let's get to paul callan from new york, one of our legal analysts. also danny cevallos, criminal defense attorney in philadelphia. so, paul, first to you. we've been listening to o.j. simpson. what do you think of his demeanor and how he has explained his story so far? he seemed kind of emotional about it really. >> well, i think his demeanor is very good. he's actually very low key. and he's sounding very reasonable. and he's basically trying to establish that the material that was stolen allegedly in this robbery was his own personal stuff. of course what he's trying to prove here, suzanne, is that this is not the material that was under court order as owed

him doing that civil litigants to the $3.5 million suit in california. remember, all of his assets had been ordered to be turned over to the plaintiffs. he said this stuff wasn't part of that. it was personal family stuff i wanted to recover. trying to show he really didn't have an economic stake in this. it was just personal property involved. >> and, danny, let's bring you in here. he appealed this verdict originally all the way up to the nevada supreme court and lost. how does he get to be back in the courtroom today? and how do you see these tactics unfolding? >> well, that's the whabeus works. once the nevada supreme court says you've got no issues, your conviction stands, only then can he collaterally attack it in what we're seeing now.

this is called habeas petition. it's not really another at-bat. it's not another free swing at the ball. he's got a very high hill to climb. the court is going to be very reluctant to re-examine or attack what a jury decided or what the nevada supreme court decided and left alone back at the jury trial with all the exhaustion of the appeals, but keep in mind the only time you can bring that habeas petition is after he's already exhausted those other appeals. that's wlhy he gets another day in court. does it mean he gets another trial? absolutely not. that's a very high petition for this burdener to meet. >> thank you very much. also, paul callan in new york, we appreciate it. we'll be right back with other news as well. 03, the wright brothers became the first in flight. [ goodall ] i think the most amazing thing is how like us these chimpanzees are.

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we're watching several major news events developing right now. one of them in vegas. that is where o.j. simpson now on the stand in a courtroom under oath. we're taking a look at live pictures of simpson. he is trying to ask the judge for a new trial. >> yeah. he blames his legal advice from the original trial for that kidnapping and robbery four years ago. the conviction was serving 33 years right now. and obviously he's looking to get another chance. we're also watching for more fireworks during today's white house briefing scheduled to begin any time now. >> the white house under fire over the scandal involving the irs targeting conservative groups and the justice department seizing journalists' phone records. we're going to be monitoring the briefing and of course bring you the latest developments. and we're live on capitol hill. there's a lot happening today.

attorney general eric holder, he's going to be facing some tough questions about 30 minutes or so from now. he's in the cross hairs over those phone records that were seized from the associated press. >> now, holder defends the move. he says it's part of an investigation into one of the most serious national security leaks. he is going to be testifying before the house judiciary committee. one of his deputies also defends the subpoena of these phone records. critics are saying this goes way too far. >> well, it is a growing problem for the military, the number of allegations of sexual assaults within its ranks on the rise. and now it appears another scandal is breaking. >> so this time this is ft. hood, texas, a soldier designed to coordinate a sexual assault program under, well, now, he himself under investigation for sexual assault. i want to bring in barbara starr following this story from the pentagon. you know, what kind of trouble is he in? >> potentially very big trouble.

as you say, this is a sergeant. sort ofhink o it as a midgrade position in charge of a single office at if tft. hood. could not be more embarrassing for the pentagon and couldn't be bigger trouble for ft. hood. we're told this person is facing allegations, not charged yet, allegations of pandering. there is a suggestion we are told that he might have forced someone into prostitution. they're looking into that. other allegations abuse of sexual contact and maltreatment of subordinate. this rise in sexual assault cases is causing a lot of con stern nation, a lot of concern. chuck hagel at his regular meeting with the white house yesterday with the president had to tell him about the ft. hood case and the president already on record saying he wants this

problem fixed. hagel now ordering some re-training of personnel but looking for real answers on how to get to this problem beyond the criminal prosecutions, how to stop it before it happens. >> the damage, i mean, the allegations are bad enough. the position that this guy holds just -- i mean, it's head shaking, isn't it? what sort of damage is this doing to the military and its reputation when it comes to trying to deal with this core issue? >> well, i mean, it's very disheartening for everyone, i think. that's fair to say. there's something like 3,000 sexual assault prevention personnel in the military. so they've been putting more and more resources towards this, but nothing seems to be working. and one of the things that hagel's been talking about, what happens when you suddenly have parents in america looking at this and saying i don't want my kid joining the military, i don't want my daughter to run into this kind of trouble.

hagel's making the point this becomes a national security crisis beyond the very appalling criminal behavior that apparently is going on as people get convicted of these crimes. but if this is the hora that surrounds the u.s. military, there are going to be a lot of parents across the country saying i don't want my kid in the u.s. military, i don't want them to have to deal with this. >> what a good point absolutely. barbara, thanks so much. barbara starr. >> if these allegations turn out true, that's absolutely outrageous. >> that is. outrageous to say to begin with, but when you have somebody in that role, it defies belief. unbelievable. well, she saw cracks in the walls of the clothing factory where she worked, but her bosses, well, they told her don't worry about it. it's still safe. >> coming up, the bangladeshi woman found after 17 days as she describes being in the dark for most of that time. ♪ let me play among the stars

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spent 17 days in pitch black darkness fearing of course she'd never be found. >> what's amazing is that she actually survived the disaster without any serious physical injury. now in a cnn exclusive we are actually speaking about this agonizing experience and how she got on the other end. >> pulled out of the rubble after 17 harrowing days, reshma's rescue was hailed a miracle. we meet her at a military hospital where she's recovering. no broken bones or serious injuries, but she's still weak. we're asked not to rattle or move her. from her hospital bed she describes her unimaginable ordeal. >> translator: i keep sleeping off and on. i couldn't see anything. it was so dark. >> cracks in the building had

already been detected, but i asked her if she'd been warned not to go to work. >> translator: no, no one told me. everyone was looking to see which parts were cracked, so i went in and i see there's a wall where a little bit is cracked. the manager said this is just water damage and you guys can work. >> day after day as the rescue efforts carried on above her, she lay in pitch dark skaveninging for food and water. >> translator: there was a hole, i didn't know if it was dirty water or what type of water. i was thirsty so i drank. >> she had no idea how long she'd been inside. i asked if she heard the people outside during the rescue efforts. she heard nothing and saw nothing until the 17th day when it all changed. >> translator: suddenly i heard the call to prayer. then i heard sounds. i heard the sounds of voices. and i wondered where is the sound coming from, where is the sound coming from?

i was really, really happy. and i said, god, save me, god. >> images of reshma's rescue were seen the world over. rescuers thrown in a flashlight allowing her to find a fresh set of clothes to change into. >> translator: the day i got out, all of my clothes had torn off me and i didn't have my clothes on. i was thinking how was i going to come out in front of all those people. >> she tells me she's unsure about her future, but she knows she's not going back to the garment business. >> translator: everybody, please pray for me. >> with the world's eyes upon her, many already are. bangladesh. >> that's a nice story. >> a nice result from a dreadful, horrible event. well, today, by the way, staying in bangladesh, it's the last day for major retailers to sign this pact they've drawn up to increase safety standards in the garment industry in bangladesh. >> so far many of the companies that have joined are from europe, they include mango,

marks & spencer. pvh chr pvh, which is the company that owns tommy hill filger is the only called to sign. >> call for independent safety inspections and reports to be made public. >> there are two notable companies that have not signed up, walmart and the gap. now, walmart says it's doing it's independent inspections of all 279 factories in bangladesh, that they're going to make the results public. meanwhile, gap says it wants to sign the agreement but it does not want it to be legally binding. >> yeah. they're worried about that. in europe a lot of the european countries are frowning on the u.s. not getting involved saying no thanks, not for the moment. still a lot more to come on that. meanwhile, here's more of what we're working on for "around the world" this hour. >> europe's regional economy stuck in its longest recession ever while u.s. markets reaching record highs. why the big difference and what

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cnn. right now las vegas, o.j. simpson testifying under oath and on camera. >> yeah, we're keeping an eye on this for you. this is actually the first time he's done that in nearly 20 years of trials and hearings and civil cases, charges ranging from murder to kidnapping. in court today what he's asking for is a new trial on those charges going back to 2007. >> that's when he and some other men confronted some dealers, sports memorabilia dealers, believing that they actually stole his stuff. wall street on a winning streak now, but how long is the market going to keep up this kind of event? alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. so, alison, u.s. market reacting to the news that now france is back in a recession. explain to us the difference. >> reacting by going up. this is the u.s.'s biggest trading partner. they're in recession. and buy, buy, buy. >> exactly. you're seeing the broader market take this in stride, suzanne and michael. the dow's up 80 points, it's

having a great day. we are however seeing individual stocks getting hit by this news. look at tech company hue let packard. weak sales in europe hurt overall results. although look at the dow and s&p, they're looking at another record high. looks like it's going for number 20 today. one thing to keep in mind and you alluded to this is that traders never like it when they see the trade go straight up or straight down. you know, one trader puts it this way saying greek keeps you from selling, and the record highs make it hard to find stocks to buy. and investors have been looking for some kind of pullback for months, but the rally just keeps oncoming. one thing to keep in mind what's keeping stocks higher is that stocks are being propped up by the federal stimulus, but also higher corporate profits. so that strepgt will hopefully keep the market higher.

also, the economy is a lot better here than it is in europe when you make that comparison. suzanne and michael. >> sorry. so what you're saying is there is substance, it's not just all hot air and optimism and sentiment and all of that. there are reasons for it being where it is? or are some people worried it could go south? >> exactly. well, i mean, it wouldn't be such a bad thing to see a little bit of a pullback because as i said, some traders get worried when all you see is up, up, up. so you actually see a lot of traders right now shorting the market right now waiting for that day for it to go ahead and turn around. but once again, the reasons for stocks to move this high continually even on the downbeat news that france is in recession, that europe continues to be in recession is really the fed stimulus that's moving investors, which is pushing that interest rate, that's moving investors from say investing in bonds. it's moving them to stocks. and it's creating that wealth effect here. some may say it's not

necessarily -- some may say it is actually smoke in mirrors, others may say it's real. >> even germany's growth was tiny and their stocks went up too. just goes to show that i know nothing. and, alison, thank goodness you're there. i still don't get shorting. i don't know what it means. i don't get it. >> alison, we'll bring her back to explain that. this is your favorite story, right? oh, we got to go already. >> i was going to tell you something else, but we're not now. we got to go. thanks for watching "around the world." >> "cnn newsroom" starts after this. udget. angie's list members can tell you which provider is the best in town. you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare. now that we're expecting, i like the fact that i can go onto angie's list and look for pediatricians. the service providers that i've found on angie's list actually have blown me away. join today and find out why over 1 million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust.

it's a blockbuster day for three big stories across the country. in las vegas, o.j. simpson is on the stand right now. the imprisoned football legend is trying to get his robbery, assault and kidnapping convictions thrown out. we'll listen in to his testimony throughout this hour. in phoenix, jodi arias is back in the courtroom where a jury will decide if she deserves the death penalty for killing her ex-boyfriend. and here in washington, up on capitol hill the attorney gene