strike. thousands of public employees say they ll walk off their jobs this week as parliament prepares to vote on yet another round of austerity measures. wrnss in yemen s capital say government troops killed at least five people when they opened fire on pro democracy demonstrators. sunday s 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 sunday. many fear the anti-gadhafi fighters are losing the earlier momentum in the battle for moammar gadhafi s birthplace. those are the headlines from cnn, i m zain verjee. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodgson. this is world business today. the top stories on monday, october 17th. stocks rise as investors pin their hopes on a solution to europe s dead woes. a crisis of olympic proportions, how the 2004 athens games put greece on the