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cities of dara and homs. opposition groups say there have been executions and that the bodies of dozens of civilians have been found in a district near homs. president obama will be meeting with benjamin netanyahu on sunday. he told the biggest pro-israel lobby group that he is prepared to use force. he said americas diplomat pressure on iran will continue. those are the headlines from cnn, the worlds news leader, im monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. good morn...

possible. myanmar and former prime minister, they report 651 prisoners are scheduled to be released starting today. also, the government has signed a cease fire with the current ethnic group to try to end a 63-year armed conflict. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling for an end to the arab leagues work. theyve criticized the mission as ineffective and understaffed. theres been no letup in the fuel price protests paralyzing my gear yeah talks between the labor unions...

Bears, lets get to it. gary b smith. tobin smith. jonas max ferris, and the economic policy institutes kristin dorsey. welcome gary k will the triple whammy whack the economy back into recession. >> im going to be the the scrooge here, i think so. theres just a lot of things happening all at once that tell me, theres a problem ahead. number one, were looking at european interest rates to skyrocket and theres no absolutely no confidence there, the numbers out of asia now, particularly china have ...

explosions in kenya that killed 1 and wounded 20 others. the blasts come two days after the u.s. embassy in kenya warned it had credible information of an imminent terrorist attack. a bright moment in turkey. a young boy was among a handful of people found alive in the rubble after sundays devastating earthquake but the countrys disaster and emergency administration has just raised the death toll to 366. the defense is set to call more witnesses tuesday in the manslaughter trial of m...

strike. thousands of public employees say theyll walk off their jobs this week as parliament prepares to vote on yet another round of austerity measures. wrnss in yemens capital say government troops killed at least five people when they opened fire on pro democracy demonstrators. sundays violence left eight dead and more than 50 wounded. the surge in violence is blamed on al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. a revolutionary forces commander was killed in sirte in the front line on...

amanda knox sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing her roommate. the defense claims dna evidence used to convict knox is unreliable. the prosecution says independent experts ignored other key evidence, which reports that knox said in a letter she was worried but that she was thinking of what she would do once she was back in the u.s. after more than two years in iranian prison two freed american are calling their trial on charges of spying a sham. josh fattal and shane bauer say...

libyan rebels say if gadhafis relatives are not returned, it will be aggression against the people. turkish president says his government lost its confidence in damascus. the two countries had a close political and economic relationship. he says syrias crackdown changed that. the remnants of hurricane irene are in canada where hundreds of thousands are without power. across the border in the u.s., irenes caused damaging floods across several states. 27 deaths are blamed on the storm....

out. >> now, despite all that, im told by my sources theres not a lot of optimism, that this particular negotiating process here at the white house is going to actually end up leading to the real deal, and a lot of effort and attention is now turning to a different process thats happening in the u.s. senate and another alternate deal thats being worked out between the two senate leaders that could instead end up raising the debt ceiling. >> an optimistic late night view from jessica ye...

Us. lets take a final look at the stock markets here in europe and kind of fairly balanced was the picture we saw 25 minutes or so ago. thats still the case. actually, london, theyve crossed into positive territories. up by about a quarter of a percent. only london down, despite the fact that some big commodity stocks and bg group also doing well on that particular market. andrew? a bit of a mixed session across asia as we wrap up our session. this is how the day ended. hong kong and seoul b...

New year which gets under way next week. in sydney, banks and property stocks -- commodity stocks, i should say, trying to help the markets there, but sydney still finishing down by about 0.6 of 1%. max. >> close ties to china were some of the big losers. concerns that the economy there will overheat and drag the main markets lower despite big stocks gaining some ground. the numbers to the close. the dow ended just below the flat line. tech stocks dropped sharply. the broader s&p index dropped...