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relevance and even legitimacy as the jostling continues as you will succeed now disgraced nominee charles kahn at the international monetary fund many still question the usefulness of this global financial institution is the i.m.f. a political tool of the west or an unfortunate necessity. can see. to cross-talk the role of the i.m.f. today i'm joined by peter chola in london he is a program manager at the bretton woods project also in london we have daniel ben-ami he is a journalist and author and in cambridge we cross to jeffrey frankel he's a professor of capital formation and growth at harvard kennedy school ok gentlemen this was cross talk that means you can jump in anytime one and i very much encourage it but first let's look at some of the issues surrounding this global financial institution. in the wake of the scandalous departure of its former head of dominic strauss kahn the international monetary fund has been faced with the tough task of self-examination as the money lending parthenon seeks to find a new managing director those who are guiding its effectiveness and commitment to int

more details on the imf and the strauss-kahn case, check out nina's blog at our cnn website, that and lots and lots and lots more at cnn.com. andrew? >>> charlesperson who is standing firmly behind dominique strauss-kahn is his wife, the american ann sinclair. reports say she's using her family's fortune to try to clear his name. when he was release from rikers island last friday, it was sinclair who posted her husband's $5 million insurance bond. reports say she's temporarily rented a $4,400 a month apartment near wall street and will pay for strauss-kahn's expensive round the clock security. charles? >>> just ahead on "world business today," we'll show you how the markets are responding after monday's global sell-off and more. >>> and new information implicates air france's pilots in causing the crash of flight 44 in the south atlantic two years ago. we still have details just ahead. stay with us. ow#ç3 >>> from cnn london, i'm charles hodson. >> i'm andrew stevens at cnn hong kong. you're watching "world business today." >>> air france's share price has rizen in paris so far this trading day. a short time ago it was up a little under 1%. th

down in the polls will be improved by the absence if he is that of the strauss kahn all right thanks for a comment charles holland a director of the trans research institute. finished journalist believed to be the organizer of an internet mouthpiece for russia's most wanted terrorist has walked free. has nothing to do with his possible links to terrorism he was accused of smuggling chechens into fenlon which officials later called a humanitarian action human rights activists believe authorities turn a blind eye the stories activity because he has high profile supporters and website he set up and sponsors regularly airs the views of wanted terrorists. what a fetish pastor spoke out against the site he was immediately detained in for froch johann bachmann who was pastor mohler is defender tells our t.v. case shows there is a pro terror game at play in federal. court process against me because to show in finland was show trial the judge the prosecutor didn't want to sentence him of a one to two only to give some kind of justification for it for he said clearly through his will he's an activist who is activel

kahn is under tight surveillance in a manhattan town house while he awaiting his next court appearance next week. he denies attacking a hotel maid in new york city on may 14th. >>> andrew? >> meanwhile, charles, french finance minister is starting a global tour in her bid to succeed strauss-kahn. her campaign to win support will take her to china, india, several african naxs and the middle east. lagarde hopes to overcome potential opposition. >> for whomever does get ahead of the imf, one of their big tasks will be dealing with the long debt crisis. greece very much at the center of that right now. "the financial times" reports european leaders are negotiating a deal for unprecedented outside intervention in greece's economy. that would include international involvement in tax collection and the privatization of state assets in exchange for new bailout loans. we expect the eu and the imf to respond this week to greece's efforts to control its deficit. meanwhile, greek's supposed strict us asterty are getting angrier. for more on the purely economic angle, gupta of ing investment management, what will the ripple effect be if greece defaults? >> the fear for the eu is that the greek default wi

charles was sent to jail and has now served his time. >>> we are learning details tonight about the head of the monetary funds time behind bars. kahn is being held without bail for the alleged sexual assault of a maid in his hotel. he is on suicide watch. there's no sign he will try to hurt himself. for his protection the 62-year- old former french finance minister has a whole jail wing to himself. >>> it was a wet day today. wet day yesterday, it's wet out there right now. hayward, oakland, san ramon you're getting scattered showers. showers really throughout the nigh and into the very early morning commute. you can see the clouds and rain moving on shore, widely scattered showers. it will end up here as we move into the evening hours. at 10:00 tonight you will see showers in the forecast. midnight scattered showers. here we go to the morning commute. not too bad that's your 6:00 a.m. that's your 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and it just gets better. rapid clearing tomorrow. temperatures on the increase. i'm back here 10:45. we're going to go into the long range model to let you know how much warmer it's going to get when these showers get

dominique strauss kahn has been moved to a new location while awaiting trial on sex assault charges he's exchanged his luxury lower manhattan apartment in a townhouse about two miles away charles khan was released on one million dollars bail after spending several days in advance or years in new york prison. thousands of venezuelans gathered at the country's oil facilities to vent their anger over u.s. sanctions against state run company washington's imposed restrictions after of an israel ship fifteen million dollars worth of oil products to iran u.s. buys almost half of it as well as well exports and the sanctions are expected to be particularly painful to the economy. and now there are fifteen people our dad is intense tornadoes continued to terrorist through central u.s. states oklahoma arkansas and kansas are the worst hit by the twister outbreak rescuers are still plowing through degree after a tornado level the downtown area of joplin missouri killing at least one hundred twenty five. it takes a certain kind of stamina to plunge into an icy ocean but it's all a day's work for the term and divers and tactical annis latest report from the south pole shaun thomas meets the

charles was sent to jail and has now served his time. >>> we are learning details tonight about the head of the monetary funds time behind bars. kahnail for the alleged sexual assault of a maid in his hotel. he is on suicide watch. there's no sign he will try to hurt himself. for his protection the 62-year- old former french finance minister has a whole jail wing to himself. >>> it was a wet day today. wet day yesterday, it's wet out there right now. hayward, oakland, san ramon you're getting scattered showers. showers really throughout the nigh and into the very early morning commute. you can see the clouds and rain moving on shore, widely scattered showers. it will end up here as we move into the evening hours. at 10:00 tonight you will see showers in the forecast. midnight scattered showers. here we go to the morning commute. not too bad that's your 6:00 a.m. that's your 7:00 a.m., 9:00 a.m. and it just gets better. rapid clearing tomorrow. temperatures on the increase. i'm back here 10:45. we're going to go into the long range model to let you know how much warmer it's going to get when these showers get out of here tomorrow mo