i'm monita rajpal. >> i'm zaun verjee. here on cnn. >>> "american morning" starts in just three minutes. we have seven republican candidates for president all getting set to debate tonight. the only place to see it is here on cnn. we'll bring you the best political coverage live from new hampshire this morning. >> new embarrassing photos of anthony weiner posted on the website of tmz triggering new calls for the congressman to step down. so far he's not leaving but a new report says that soon could change. >>> and we're seeing the first photos of congresswoman gabrielle giffords since she was shot months ago. they've been released on her facebook page along with hopeful news from her doctor on when she can leave the hospital. >>> no rings for the nba's king. we'll have the highlights coming up on "american morning." :20011v you were the last to be born in a family of 7 brothers. that's why you had to sleep on the seventh bunk bed and you developed vertigo, and that's why you couldn't become a pilot and you had to study eng

that's mitt romney for the hour >>> i'm monita rajpal at cnn london. bean, radish and sprouts are being blamed for the e. coli outbreak in europe. they've traced the sprouts to a farm in germany. the out break has killed 22 people so far. >>> former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn is hours away from his next court appearance. he is expected to plead not guilty to charges of attempted rape of a new york hotel maid on may 1 th. strauss-kahn is out on $6 million bail but confined to a new york townhouse. >>> opposition social democrats have ousted the socialists in portugal's government. they will now attempt to form a coalition government. one of the tasks is head is meeting eu requirements to receive bailout funds for portugal's embattled economy. >>> the left-leaning candidate is claiming victory in peru's presidential edesk. the latest polls show him with a narrow lead over his rival fujimori. >>> those are the headlines. i'm monita rajpal, "world business today." >>> good morning from cnn london, a warm welcome to "world business today." i'm charles

i'm monita rajpal in london. "world business today" starts right now. >>> good morning from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos and this is "world business today." here are the top stories on thursday, june 9th. investors in europe try to hold their nerve as the continuing sell-off on wall street now spills into asia. >>> charming offensive in china. christine lagarde tries to bolster support in beijing. >>> and tokyo opera re-opens. a symbol of japan's determined earthquake recovery. all that and plenty more to come on today's show. >>> but first, six days, six losses. it doesn't take a sixth sense to predict that the u.s. and european markets aren't out of the woods yet. oil has inflamed the situation one again. opec's decision not to increase output has pushed prices higher amid fears that supply can't meet growing demand. >>> we've seen optimistic open innings europe a few times this week but so far they haven't been sustained towards the close of trading. today markets are anticipating increased -- excuse me, in

i e e-mail monita rajpal. you're watching "world one" live from london. >>> women get behind the wheel to protest a ban on driving. >> washington says it is making contact with opponent's president. he wants to support the forces calling for change. >>> and we were told not to film security forces and later asked to leave. come with us to the chinese town where rioters confront police just a few days ago. >>> we begin with a defining moment for greece. the debt-plagued country is making new moves to try to avoid a financial meltdown. greek prime minister george papandreou is replacing his finance chief and forming a new government. the new cabinet is to be sworn in at this hour. the reshuffle is an attempt. they need more money, billions of dollars. the country won't get its next round of international bailout money unless its embattled leader can push deeper spending cuts through parliament and the deadlines are looming. if they can't get their act together soon, they will start defaulting and that makes a lo

i'm monita rajpal in london. "world business today" starts right now. >>> good morning from cnn london and a very happy friday to you, i'm nina dos santos, this is "world business today" and these are the top stories on june 10th. >>> toyota veers towards a slum in profits as post-quake production suffers and the strong yen squeezes exports. >>> it's deadline day for the imf hopefuls. >>> and we're putting the spotlight on cybercrime after a massive data breach forces citigroup to replace 100,000 credit cards. >>> after six days of sinking, the u.s. and european equity markets were more buoyant on thursday thanks to american exports hitting record highs. while thursday delivered lucky number 7, let's see whether investors have that friday feeling today. so far in europe, the answer appears to be no. we're seeing red across the board in about an hour of trading. but do remember some of these indices did manage to notch up their first day of guerins in about six days jut yesterday.the heaviest losses coming from th

i'm monita rajpal. >> and i'm zain verjee.f parliament spormz prime minister george papandreou and its parliament, a fresh bailout deal should follow but defeat would make a bailout an immediate possibility. >>> shots were fired and petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks were thrown in ireland and reports of masked men attacking catholic owned homes following claims of attacks on sunday of protestant homes. >>> two central attacks in iraq left 22 people dead, 23 were dead outside the president's house. they included police officers and citizens. >>> chile's ash cloud is back. oh, no, and it's grounded flights in ten australian cities. meteorologist pedram jabhiri is here with the latest at the weather center. >> it's similar to what we saw some 17 days ago. june 4th the initial eruption. on the 14th is circumnavigated the globe and ten days at it again. it was well south of australia in the past 48 or so hours, the ash plume was out toward areas within the antarctic sea. this was a doozy of a storm system. gusty conditions and cau

i'm monita rajpal. you're watching "world one," live from london. it is 5:00 a.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in islamabad. also ahead, is nato trying to kill moammar gadhafi? after one senior source tells cnn it could legally go for him, the official line remains we don't target individuals. >>> and anger in pakistan as video emerges of a u.n. -- of an unarmed man being shot by paramilitary troops. >>> but first they fled because they saw a government crackdown coming. thousands of syrians have poured across the border into turkey and now, it seems, their fears are being confirmed. syrian state tv reported just a few hours ago a military operation to, as they describe it, restore security to the town of jisr al shugur has begun. the government said armed groups killed 120 of its officers there. an exodus took place as military units advanced towards the town. at least 2,500 refugees have crossed the border into turkey so far. syria's tight media laws prevent foreign journalists from reporting in the country

i'm monita rajpal. you're watching "world one" live from london. >>> also head, angry and scared, hundreds of syrians leave the country as fears of a new military crackdown grows. the u.n. watches and waits. >>> did newspaper reporters eavesdrop on kate middleton's phone calls. >>> and stunning images of the sun in action. solar flares caught on camera by nasa. >>> the future of libya takes center stage today as western powers and arab states meet to weigh up what lies ahead. officials from two dozen countries are gathering right now in abu dhabi to draw up plans for what a democratic libya might look like without moammar gadhafi. senior ministers from britain, the united states and france are taking part along with delegates from the united nations and the arab league. we want to go straight now to abu dhabi and join our senior international correspondent nic robertson with more on this international contact meeting and what they hope to achieve from this. knick? nic? >> reporter: monita, one of the th

i'm monita rajpal. >>> an emergency meeting over the deadly e. coli outbreak. >>> to be clear, the picture was of me, and i sent it. i am deeply sorry for the pain this has caused my wife and our family. >> a tearful apology by u.s. congressman anthony weiner, admitting he sent lewd at which time pics, but stops short of resigning. >>> take a look at this, the motor race martial who got a little too close to the action. >>> first, new details about the condition of yemen's president suggests his injuries are serious. u.s. officials say they've been told ab doom la salle lay suffered burns to nearly half his body when his compound was attacked. he's in osama bin laden where he was taken after the attack. he's also getting treatment for a collapsed lung. an arab diplomatic source says he has a shrapnel wound seven centimeters deep. the largest opposition block has vowed to stop him from returning to osama bin laden. the violence erupted monday night. cnn's mohammed jam june joins us from cnn abu dhabi. mohammed? >> these latest reports on the healt

i'm monita rajpal.s, ratko mladic, the former commander of the bosnian serb army told the tribunal the charges against him are obnoxious. mladic is making his first appearance before the tribunal on charges of genocide, murder, and other atrocities in 1992 and 1995. after the charges were read out to him in court, mladic said i have not heard these monstrous words before. a deadly strain of e. coli is spreading beyond europe. three cases have been report in the united states. all three people went with the infection have been to germany, the center of the current outbreak. 17 people have died. infectious disease experts around the world are rushing to find the source of the outbreak, while medical experts say this strain is virulent and feared. security stole information from the sony pictures website. the group claims it wants to expose what it called the insecurity of sony's data. that comes after the company was forced to close the gaming networks for weeks following two hacker attacks. appearing bat

. >>> this is "world one," i'm monita rajpal. fop stories at this hour, nato defense ministers are meeting in brussels to discuss their strategy in libya. the alliance is ten weeks into its military campaign and it's stepping up pressure on colonel gadhafi. air strikes pounded government targets in the capital, tripoli on tuesday and more explosions were heard this morning. >>> salvage teams have finished retrieving bodies and wreckage from an air france plane which crashed into the atlantic in 2009. the human remains have been recovered are being taken back to france. evidence gathered from the plane's flight data recorders has shown that pilot error may have contributed to the accident, all 228 passengers on board the airbus plane died. >>> authorities from the u.s. state of texas say they found no evidence of a mass grave in the city of harden. law enforcement agents launched a search for bodies after a tip-off from an unidentified caller. conflicting information from earlier reports say that bodies had been found, police are

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monita rajpal has more from london. why is the dutch government doing this?hey are saying that the cannibis that's readily available is posing a built of a nuisance and drug tourism. these coffee shops have gone into large points of sale for cannibis. hard for them to control and manage. a big concern of cross-border drug trafficking in and out of the netherlands. they are saying this is what is necessary for them to do to curb any sort of sale of cannibis or pot. if you are not a dutch native, you can't buy pot. >> how are they going to keep the foreigners out and monitor the customers? >> this is interesting. what they are going to do with the coffee shops, they are going to be given the weed pass. so, basically, this weed pass will be given to these coffee shops which will then be turned into private members clubs so dutch nationals can then apply to be members of these private clubs they will then have to show identification and they will be allowed into it. they are not going to be coffee shops as we know it, walking in and looking at a menu for any sort