in policy that until now barred foreign maids from seeking residency in hong kong. michael jackson s former body guard says dr. conrad murray asked him to gather up drug viles before asking to call for help. prosecutors are trying to make a case that murray is criminally responsible for the singer s death. those are the headlines from cnn. world business today starts right now. good morning. this is world business today. these are the top stories on friday, september 30th. there s no respite for investors in europe as stocks head south again this friday. a land mark victory for a maid could affect rights for maids around the world. and we ll look at the underbelly of product placement. stay tuned for the secrets of the bidding industry. first up though, let s get straight to the stock markets here in europe. we have a sea of red arrows. we re about an hour into the trading session. let s look at how things are fairing at the moment. still firmly fixed in the red. the
powerful allegations about murray s actions and inaction. let s go to ted rollins in los angeles. what s the latest, ted? well, joe, it was a compelling day in court so far. it continues this afternoon here in los angeles. all day, it has been alberto alvarez, the director of lodgistics for michael jackson and he has taken the jury inside the jackson house during those critical moments of chaos while jackson was lying on his bed. he describes the scenario where he gets a call, rushes in, sees murray in the room. sees jackson laying there with his mouth open. he also testified that murray asked him to help him collect bottles of propofol. i believe dr. conrad murray had the best intentions for mr. jackson, so i didn t question his authority. at the time. i knew it was a medical emergency, so i proceeded to follow mr. conrad murray s instructions. okay. what did you think when did you think these items were being packed up for? i thought we were packing, getting ready
permanent bases or semipermanent bases in order to deal with the notion of international terrorism. terrorism is mobile so we need to reduce our occupation forces around the world. we ve learned the lesson these aren t the right models and we need to continue what we ve been doing in terms of technology and the tactical ways of dealing with international terrorists who are out to do us harm. big lessons and i know you wrote an op ed september 4th in the washington post. we have iraq and afghanistan. actually in that piece five months before the invasion i said i don t think they have an exit strategy because they don t want to leave, and you know, it s time. it s time for us to start taking care of the problems here at home, fighting international terrorism in a smart way and instead of going after nation building, which is costly and really hasn t given us that much of a benefit. jim webb, thank you so much for joining us. good to be with you. the israeli embassy in cairo
malone s is the country s only village post office. the postal service says they expect to save about $42,000 a year here and may turn as many as 3,700 existing locations into village post offices. but with a looming debt of $9 billion, saving the u.s. mail service is going to take more than a village post office. patrick oppman, cnn, malone, washington. the news continues now with randi kaye. this is the bill, says president obama. the question now is whether the american jobs act will ever be turned into law and how fast. as you may have seen live right here on cnn, president today showed off the job creating blueprint he plans to send to congress just hours from now. it is $447 billion worth of tax breaks and new federal spending which the white house says will be more than offset elsewhere in the budget. it would deepen and extent the existing payroll tax cut for employees and employers, it would pump $60 billion into infrastructure projects and $25 billion into schoo
job. the theory is now done. we ll never have to have that experiment on america again, and i might add that he kept gigmo open against the will of his base, and i m glad he did that. america s safer for it. sir, just if i could quickly follow on that, you say you were making a mill soft call comment. where are some of the places you think we ve seen ? as i said, that was a philosophical statement that americans don t want to see their young men and women going into foreign countries without a clear reason that american interests are at stake, and they want to see not only a clear entrance, a clear exit strategy as well. we should never put our young men and women s lives at risk when american interest are not clearly defined by the president of the united states, and that s one of the problems this