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president barack obama says the middle class needs to step up to the plate. he called for more taxes on the wealthy. those are the top stories from cnn, i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. hello and welcome to your wednesday edition of "world business today." i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. i'm nina dos santos in london. these are the top stories today. adding more fire power to the bailout fund. anticipation builds for lasting -- in europe ahead of the crucial summit. >> india shelves plans to open up its supermarket sector. and the immaculate reject...

greece passes next year's budget. it is packed with tax increases and spending cuts which are required to secure bailout funds. the budget cuts, the deficit pushes the deficit to 5.24 gdp, down from 9%. ahead of the u.s. 2012 election campaign, u.s. president barack obama says the middle class needs to step up to the plate. he called for more taxes on the wealthy. those are the top stories from cnn, i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. hello and welcome to your wednesday edition of "world business today." i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. i'm nina dos sa...

and war crimes charges. yemen's embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he's expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they'll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are the top stories from cnn, the world's news leader. i'm monita rajpal. "world...

loyalists. gadhafi's sons say they are both in custody and wanted by the fcc and war crimes charges. yemen's embattled president has arrived in riyadh. he's expected to sign a power transfer deal to end ten-month-long political crisis in his country. the parents in a high-profile missing child case are scheduled to testify before the phone-hacking inquiry in london on wednesday. the mccanns were highly scrutinized when their daughter, madelei madeleine, was reported missing in 2007. they'll join other victims of media intrusion who will give evidence before the inquiry. those are...

And our economy won't grow as we continue to trip it up with a lot of short-term gimmicks from washington, d.c. and many of the problems that we face can be trace to misguided beliefs by politicians that the american economy is something that can be controlled or micromanaged or positively influenced by government intervention and borrowing. meanwhile, the u.s. treasury secretary says defaulting on debt payments would be catastrophic for the global economy. andrew? let's get back to the australia budget story. the country may be in for serious belt tightening. treasury secretary who is in ...