in the last two years, 13 governments in the european union have either collapsed or been voted out of power. today, french president nicolas sarkozy is caught in a runoff with francois hollande that cast him his job. under sarkozy, france s unemployment climbing to 10%, while economic growth ground to a halt. also today, greece, a national election taking place in a society crushed by debt. greek unemployment now at 21%. up from just 9% before bailouts and austerity brought protesters to the streets. and as no other network can, we brought together cnn s best from around the world. veteran business correspondent john defterios from abu dhabi, he ll break down what you need to know. jim bittermann is live from paris at the headquarters of now defeated french president nicolas sarkozy. he just conceded to socialist francois hollande. matthew chance is in athens at the center of an election that also took place today, greek voters deciding whether they are willing to accept tou
. they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly 3,000 americans. khalid sheikh mohammed and four other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. chris lawrence is there for us. it seems like these men are doing everything they can just to drag all of this out further. reporter: yeah, don. and the arraignment was just about over and there was another outburst in the courtroom, just literally a few minutes ago. we were watching the court proceedings. everything seemed to be wrapping up, and then the judge sort of turned to one of the detainees and said no, no, no. and the judge said put your shirt back on and sit down or you will be escorted out of the courtroom. now, because of the vantage point, we couldn t tell which defendant he was speaking to, but clearly there was an attempt by one of the defendants to take his shirt off in the courtroom, which the judge quickly put a stop to and moved on. what about that first outburst during the proceed ings? somet
that year, america began to gain jobs. a painfully slow, but steady job recovery has now taken hold for the last 18 months. and here is the key, if you want to bring it back to politics. if the economy adds just over 100,000 jobs per month between now and the election, america will have gained back every single job lost during the obama presidency. north zuckerman is the editor in chief of u.s. news & world report. he s also an extremely wealthy and successful democratic businessman. and he wrote this week, president obama s economic programs have failed. mort, the economy is on pace, as you saw, to get back every job lost under president obama, about a recession that he didn t start. why? why are you saying it s failed? let me put it this way. in the first place, those numbers are slightly misleading. we need 125,000 to 150,000 jobs every month just to take into account the new people coming into the labor force. absolutely, but that s not the criticism. i haven t fi