cnn's becky anderson caught up with him in cannes, france. at the g-20 meeting of world leaders. ng there? >> well, he's a seat at the top table, erin. trying to convince world leaders despite the economic crisis, the >>> bill gates is the richest man in america. worth $59 billion. he's also the most generous person on the planet pledging to give away $28 billion. cnn's becky anderson caught up with him in cannes, france. at the g-20 meeting of world leaders. becky, what is the richest man doing there? >> well, he's a seat at the top table, erin. trying to convince world leaders despite the economic crisis, the world economic crisis, they should not stop giving. and when i say that, what he's trying to do is convince them they have to pony up on the commitments that they have made to the developing world. have a listen to this. >> past view of aid was simply buying friendship from some dictators as part of the cold war. today you should think of the u.s. of being a biggest supporter of aids drugs so a mother can raise her children. buying bed net which cut malaria deaths by 20%, w

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>> becky anderson, thank you so much. we're watching movement with regard to berlusconi out of rome. as we look at these live pictures, looking at live pictures, clearly dozens of firefighters. this image coming to us from wcab. this is brooklyn, new york. this is the brighton beach section. firefighters, many of them, trying to work quickly to reach three people who are trapped under this debreechlt i'm counting quickly, two dozen or so firefighters. we're going to keep one eye on this. hopefully they were able to rescue three people. no word on how this building collapsed or even what kind of building it is. four-story tall residential building. that's the information i'm getting in my ear. also, though, as we've been talking a lot about penn state head coach joe paterno just recently the most winningest coach in college football here. we have new video of joe paterno leaving today's practice at penn state. the university canceled his regular weekly news conference. canceled it within the hour. it was supposed to happen

cnn's becky anderson caught up with him in cannes, france. at the g-20 meeting of world leaders. an doing there? >> well, he's a seat at the top table, erin. trying to convince world leaders despite the economic crisis, the world economic crisis, they should not stop giving. and when i say that, what he's trying to do is convince them they have to pony up on the commitments that they have made to the developing world. have a listen to this. >> past view of aid was simply buying friendship from some dictators as part of the cold war. today you should think of the u.s. of being a biggest supporter of aids drugs so a mother can raise her children. buying bed net which cut malaria deaths by 20%, will cut it a lot more. financing agriculture development so that the women who have these small farms are able to grow enough food to have nutrition for their kids and raise a little money to send their kids to school. >> and he also talked today about new revenue streams and i know this is something you've been interested in. this robin tax or tax on financial transactions. the deal is, coul

becky anderson is watching and waiting. becky, greece isn't even a g-20 member. how does it hold such sway over the world economy? >> reporter: the deal is this. when the europeans got here, what they needed was a water tight european debt deal. convince other world leaders this have got their shot in order so that everybody else can start talking about how we deal with this global economic crisis, how are we going to promote sustainable growth going forward and indeed jobs. those are crucial, as you know, for everybody around the world at present. 48 hours ago, when everybody else thought that there was a deal on the table and the greeks would have what they need to push on and stay within the euro, so there was than any sort of contagion effect, 48 hours ago, greek prime minister decides to put it in the works and offer the debt deal to the greek people and as a referendum possibly as late as january. what's important about that, the greeks are being asked to pay huge amount of new taxes and lots of them are losing their jobs, civiler is vapts thought they had

our colleague, becky anderson just came back from a conversation with manuel barroso, discussing the greek and italian situations. he made an interesting comment, he said parliaments work more slowly than economies do and markets do. markets are ahead of this idea and markets are telling us there are jitters about european countries getting their fiscal houses in order. it's not ending the way it was supposed to. nina? >> ali, as you're speaking, we're seeing live pictures there from inside the conference hall. excuse me. and there's two or three main protagonists that i want to point out. hu jintao of china, president barack obama and a gentlemen from brazil. >> right. >> they must be worried about what's going on in europe now? >> yes, interesting you point these characters out. generally speaking if you saw hu jintao and president obama at an event, they'd be central to the event. those two characters have been peripheral, the united states coming in saying they're offering technical support, advice and counsel to the eu and to greece, treasury secretary tim geithner is here as we

next on reporter roulette, becky anderson is in rome covering the silvio berlusconi resignation. what is the latest, becky? >> reporter: we have heard from the president in the past couple of hours, these austerity measures in the bill sort of hanging around in particle the, will actually get pushed through the senate this weekend, back to the lower chamber and homely signed off on and that is when the prime minister says he will resign. so the president tonight has told us to expect the resignation of silvio berlusconi by the beginning of next week, and that should, should have helped the marketsle calm down a little bit, don, because we were looking at this sort of vacuum of possibly a month before we sought back end of silvio berlusconi, now that window is closing. the problem is this we still don't know what will happen after that. will there be a general election, which is actually what berlusconi and his party want? that wouldn't happen until february. or would we see a coalition government ordered by the president here? a coalition government or indeed, a government of tech

>> our good friend becky anderson, our colleague, sat down with the head of the eu this morning and talked. he acknowledged that the eu is in discussions with italy to take steps to solve this problem. like greece, a lot of italy's problems are internal, political. that's the case with any country, within that country, there are recipes for solving the problem but there's a lot of political conflict in italy. probably going to be another no confidence vote in italy for silvio berlusconi. but he has survived more than 50 of them in the past. we'll have to see what happens. it doesn't seem as unstable as greece but if something goes wrong in italy it's a much bigger problem than it would be in greece. italy is a really big economy. >> 50 confidence votes? that has to be some kind of record. >> yes. >> unbelievable. >> you'd walk around with your chest puffed out if nobody could take you down. >> i know you'd be mr. teflon. ali velshi, thanks so much, reporting live from cannes, france. see you in a bit. >>> we could see a major development today in the herman cain controversy. one of the wom

. >>> and now back to france, where becky anderson is following the g-20 summit in cannes.ant? >> reporter: clarity, coordination, coherency, what the world wants to see from leaders here at the g-20 summit, that is not what they're getting. what the world needs at this point is some action on sustainable growth and on jobs creation. nearly every part of the world needs that, we're not getting it as of yet, meeting officially kicked off thursday. let's see what we get then. >> thank you very much, becky. >>> it's a disturbing video that's gone viral. it is difficult to watch. we had trouble watching it. in it you see william adams, a county judge in texas, whipping his disabled 16-year-old daughter, hillary, as a punishment, she says, for downloading music and games on the internet. >> bend over that bed. >> dad. >> bend over that bed. bend over the bed. >> no. >> bend over the bed. >> stop. stop. stop. >> bend over the bed. i'm going to keep hitting you on your legs. lay down or i'll spank your [ expletive ] face. >> this video was taken in 2004, posted on youtube just a c

. >>> and now back to france, where becky anderson is following the g-20 summit in cannes.bout the complete debacle with the crisis. what do leaders want? >> reporter: clarity, coordination, coherency, what the world wants to see from leaders here at the g-20 summit, that is not what they're getting. what the world needs at this point is some action on sustainable growth and on jobs creation. nearly every part of the world needs that, we're not getting it as of yet, meeting officially kicked off thursday. let's see what we get then. >> thank you very much, becky. >>> it's a disturbing video that's gone viral. it is difficult to watch. we had trouble watching it. in it you see william adams, a county judge in texas, whipping his disabled 16-year-old daughter, hillary, as a punishment, she says, for downloading music and games on the internet. >> bend over that bed. >> dad. >> bend over that bed. bend over the bed. >> no. >> bend over the bed. >> stop. stop. stop. >> bend over the bed. i'm going to keep hitting you on your legs. lay down or i'll spank your [ expletive ] face.

becky anderson is in the italian capital for us. this wasn't a huge surprise, was it? >> silvio berlusconi didn't want it, but everybody else it seems did. even members of his own party. today, he ak nonled he lost his majority in parliament after a vote on the austerity measures that really need to be passed here in italy. he lost out half of the mps didn't work. got 308 votes out of the 309 who voted. just when you think that you understand italian politics, it all goes pear-shaped again. we knew he lost his r majority, but he didn't resign immediately. he went to the president's residence and only after an hour or so then, and about an hour ago, here in rome, it was announced by the president that silvio berlusconi will be stepping down. one of the most colorful characters in european politics is on his way out. but wolf, it's not going to happen today. probably not tomorrow. it may not be for a month because what the president has said is that berlusconi is determined he will get the vote on these austerity measures passed in the upper chamber as well as in the low

cnn's becky anderson caught up with him in cannes, france. at the g-20 meeting of world leaders. t is the richest man doing there? >> well, he's a seat at the top table, erin. trying to convince world leaders despite the economic crisis, the world economic crisis, they should not stop giving. and when i say that, what he's trying to do is convince them they have to pony up on the commitments that they have made to the developing world. have a listen to this. >> past view of aid was simply buying friendship from some dictators as part of the cold war. today you should think of the u.s. of being a biggest supporter of aids drugs so a mother can raise her children. buying bed net which cut malaria deaths by 20%, will cut it a lot more. financing agriculture development so that the women who have these small farms are able to grow enough food to have nutrition for their kids and raise a little money to send their kids to school. >> and he also talked today about new revenue streams and i know this is something you've been interested in. this robin tax or tax on financial transactions.