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the latest shooting was on monday when three children and a teenager were kill at a nearby jewish school. police say negotiations are still under way with the suspect in this hour's long standoff. diana magnay joins us from toulouse with the latest. this standoff has been going on for three hours now at the very least. is there a sense they're making any headway? >> reporter: well, we've just heard from the mayor, actually, who's been talking to police right outside the house, just up the road from this residential neighborhood, just a few kilometers from that jewish school. the susp...

Of the tax hike? >> it will be a very big tax hike. the voters should be well aware of it. >> neil: i really don't think they are. they hear about the deadlines including debt deadlines but they know the which i cane ri on capitol hill on behalf of both parties, buying time but this time we're out of time, right? >> well. you don't need all the voters to understand everything. all you need is very small percentage on the swing factor. if you swing 3-4% from democrat to republican, it would be a landslide for the republican party. you don't need all of them. people deserve the governments they ...

President obama is coming out looking okay. he's doing the best with 51% approval. deb, if you step back and look at this through a political prism, clearly it is independents that are the swing factor here and it is still unclear if there is a shutdown, clearly independents object to it. they want compromise. they want -- oppose gridlock but it is not clear who they would blame if a shutdown were to happen. right now president obama seems to be coming out above the fray looking like he's trying to cut some kind of deal but all bets are off if there is a shutdown. we don't know politically whe...

Of the risk premium associated to japan will be priced out of the market in the rest of the week. >> okay. so this could be looking like a buying opportunity in japan then? >> it could very well be. i think a lot of people have been approaching the situation in japan as a buying opportunity in a sense that as soon as the uncertainty comes down to more comfortable levels surrounding the nuclear story, which nobody feels comfortable with reading, as soon as that happens, they want to be stepping into that market. >> okay. let's look at the situation in libya. clearly that is volatile. things are...

Summit. one of the issues, the cloud hanging over europe is the european crisis, the debt and deficit crisis. are you or the markets generally taking a more relaxed position about that despite all the downgrades that we've seen in portugal and so on in other countries over the last couple of weeks? >> i would say that's the case. we've become more comfortable about a month ago, especially on the situation in spain, here for europe and the spain is the swing factor. don't forget as well with respect to the downgrades, through the credit crisis they have not been the leading indicators of where ...