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standing ovation. the general assembly overwhelmingly accepted to vote for the credentials of the countrys new leadership which promises to form a new government in ten days. those are the headlines. im zain verjee, and "world business today" starts now. good morning from cnn london, im nina des santos. >> this is "world business today." these are your top stories on wednesday, september 21st. a disastrous day for insurers, earthquakes and extreme weather send lloyds of london deeply...

quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. >> i will not support -- i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare, but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> the rich, very rich politics of this debate in just a moment. first, ...

president hopes now to influence that so-called congressional super committee, charged with drafting a big deficit reduction plan. fellow democrats for months on this issue and others have complained the president is too quick to compromise with republicans. well, today that same president delivered this warning. >> i will not support -- i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for...

Into two different categories and purposes. one is from a security standpoint and the other is from a basic asset standpoint, primarily oil. we have the oil exporters doing quite well. the trade port with volumes up 9% in 2009. so we have the oil exporters expected to grow accord tolgt imf this year just under 5% and the oil importers, that would include egypt or jordan, just under 2%. egypt the longer road back because of the unrest that we saw earlier in the year collapsing in the first quarte...

Critically important for a security standpoint. they have a 100-acre base. 6,000 american military personnel. a 20-country arab responsibility. 2.5 million square miles of water. the persian gulf oil pathways. national security path ways. one reason the united states will look more gingerly at bah rain than it may at libya. well continue the conversation. when we come back, what should the white house do?

>> first, i think its a wonderful thing to see democracy in action and people going into the streets not to be violent but to demonstrate peacefully. we have seen the pro mubarak forces being more violent. in the long run a stable -- best interest. i think what we worry about again is where are we headed and how quickly are we headed there? we dont want disorder to see things spin out of control. nor do we want to see a government in place that would be anti-american. egypt has been an important...

Interest. i think what we worry about again is where are we headed and how quickly are we headed there? we dont want disorder to see things spin out of control. nor do we want to see a government in place that would be anti-american. egypt has been an important partner to us, to the region and of course if we were to have an anti-american regime that would be a problem especially from a security standpoint. >> people keep playing down the al qaeda for egypt and there certainly have been links. h...

Egypt has been an important partner to us, to the region and of course if we were to have an anti-american regime that would be a problem especially from a security standpoint. >> people keep playing down the al qaeda for egypt and there certainly have been links. how seriously should we take the threat? is there one? could it get worse? >> piers, from what we are see ing it doesnt appear to be going on but if you look at the people around bin laden they have been drawn from egyptian radicals wh...

We have seen the pro mubarak forces being more violent. in the long run a stable -- best interest. i think what we worry about again is where are we headed and how quickly are we headed there? we dont want disorder to see things spin out of control. nor do we want to see a government in place that would be anti-american. egypt has been an important partner to us, to the region and of course if we were to have an anti-american regime that would be a problem especially from a security standpoint. ...

Coordinated effort to shut down coverage of what you have been seeing directly and the viewers have been seeing on the streets of cairo. and also he said it could be connected to trying to definitely stop some coverage of what is expected to happen tomorrow at that big demonstration. and also, anderson, sorry, one more -- >> jill -- go ahead. >> we did speak with the egyptian government, the egyptian ambassador, and he said that the government is not connected with this, that it actually condemn...