went bankrupt. opposition activists said 62,000 people were killed in the country. this video posted on youtube appears to show members of the free syrian army in the back of a pickup truck engaged in a heavy gun fight with government forces in homs. cnn cannot independently confirm the authenticity of this video. special ensloi, kofi annan, called for an immediate end to the violence. he warned against external military intervention. iran s ambassador said his country is ready to re-engage with the nuclear watchdog agency. his comment comes as western powers say they are ready to resume talks on iran s nuclear program without preconditions, but the ambassador says iran will never give up its nuclear program. those are the headlines from cnn. i m juanita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning. from cnn london, i m charles hodson. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories
was shot in the head in tucson at a town hall meeting in january. and mark kelly will command the space shuttle endeavour in the final mission. he and the other astronauts are scheduled to arrive at kennedy space center tomorrow. and we have learned that president obama and his family will attend the launch friday and afterwards he will give a commencement speech at miami-dade college. and this is the final space launch scheduled in june. and what will the next space shuttle look like? well, we have our own john zarrella. let s start with the dragon spacecraft? well, nasa awarded $470 million to four companies to continue development of the next generation spacecraft, the one that will take astronauts into low earth orbit to rendezvous with the international space
budget. it goes two weeks so it delays just a bit. the senate, we re told, is going to vote on this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. from sources up on capitol hill, in the meantime, the government accountability office put out a report today with interesting facts. among them government waste, 18 programs, nutrition assistance, $62.5 billion in 2008 and 11 have never been reviewed. homeland security, more efficient baggage screening systems could be $470 million in savings over five years. they found 100 duplicative programs, basically programs being done twice. threw see them and 35 other programs in highway infrastructure. gao report. charles, let s start with the gao report. i would say if you are republican, its timely report. you are in a fight over real cuts and spokesman, everyone
weeks $4 billion from the budget. it goes two weeks so it delays just a bit. the senate, we re told, is going to vote on this tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. from sources up on capitol hill, in the meantime, the government accountability office put out a report today with interesting facts. among them government waste, 18 programs, nutrition assistance, $62.5 billion in 2008 and 11 have never been reviewed. homeland security, more efficient baggage screening systems could be $470 million in savings over five years. they found 100 duplicative programs, basically programs being done twice. threw see them and 35 other programs in highway infrastructure. gao report. charles, let s start with the gao report. i would say if you are republican, its timely report. you are in a fight over real
demonstrators turned out in more than 200 italian cities. the prime minister is dogged by a series of sex scandals protesters say they re fed up with the way he treats women and the way women are treated in the italian society. president barack obama tomorrow unveils the new frel budget for 2012 and the white house says it cuts deficits by 1.1 trillion over 10 years. most of the details are still under wraps. we know the president plans a five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spend frging a saf $470 million. a prominent arizona businessman has resigned after being arrested on child prostitution charges. michael gillian was ceo of sun flower farmer s market and founded wild oats market that later sold to whole foods. he s accused of soliciting sex from a girl who identified