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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 mo...

Criminally. they want to see a strong settlement with principal write-down for millions of mortgages. they say it's not enough to change the way they modify loans or change the procedures of the foreclosure practices. they want to see lower loan balances because of so many borrowers under water on their loans. but again, that's a slippery slope. banks are arguing if you give principal write-down to one borrower, there's a thousand behind them claiming they should get their loan reduced, too, and present more borrowering saying i can't pay my mortgage because they want the reduction in principa...

And principle write-down. they say $20 billion is chump change. they want to see more, but that number's going to be very controversial. we spoke to a couple of people here today. the missouri attorney general said he would like to see principle write-down on mortgages and 20 billion sounds like it could do that. the document they will be looking at this afternoon is really about all the process. but the protesters here, they want more. and they're demanding also that there be justice for the banks. they call these acts criminal. >> diana, thank you so much. that wraps up this hour for me. t...

The fact of the matter is the banks receive hundreds of billions of dollars in bailout and the borrowers didn't. the fact of the matter is that every failed loan was was a compact between a bank or an investor and a borrower. and putting the money? on the investor side has helped the banks recover. but it hasn't done anything to stem the foreclosure crisis. so we need to address the fact that many homes are severely upside down and to make them actually affordable to the borrower, we need to reduce that principal. here's the interesting thing. in many cases chris, people col actually sustain t...

Preexisting condition. and then not have them raise insurance premium rates. i think you are going to see a ripple effect throughout the country as people get their health insurance bills. >> greta: i would expect that months from now are people already seeing a change? are people losing interest or disapproving more out of sort of a growing fear or they've suddenly taken a look at it? has there been any impact of the health care bill on people's lives? >> three things. first, you are beginning to see the rippling effect of these premium increases. some of the companies shedding jobs and doing...