of the turmoil on wall street has been triggered by fears over the european debt crisis and the anemic economies. and richard quest, one of the best people to turn to when we want perspective on the global economy. he joins us from london. what happened in the european markets today? reporter: the europeans went down initially and then down further and they rallied with wall street. we closed down 1% in london, and paris 1%, and frankfurt, once again the german market is being creamed by what is happening at the moment, by far and away being breutally attacked. and the german industry has made much from the exports and those promised to be hit by the u.s. slowdown and elsewhere in the world. putting it altogether for you, and as we look at the weekend, i cannot agree more with alison, and basically what we are seeing this afternoon is market exhaustion. people have literally just have been gasping there way. there will betrayeding because of triple witching. but by and larg
phone hacking scandal that doomed a best-selling tabloid and rocked the very pillars of society. today, the parliamentary committee that grilled rupert murdoch and his son james last month released letters suggesting that illegal snooping, hacking, eavesdropping, were a lot more common at the now defunct news of the world than the murdochs led on. one such letter is from a reporter named clive goodman who was sacked and jailed for hacking the cell phones of the royal family. he writes to his paper s human resources department, this decision is inconsistent because, here s a name blacked out, and other members of staff were carrying out the same illegal procedures. he says this practice was widely discussed in the daily editorial conference until explicit reference to it was banned by the editor. now james murdoch appears to have some explaining to do. highly likely james murdoch will be invited back to give evidence. before that we want to take a very detailed account of
do the opposition see them as an honest broker? they were skeptical. it had a lot to do with close relationships between some of these african leaders and colonel gadhafi. colonel gadhafi has made a lot of close friends over the years. spending his oil money in africa. a lot of investments, construction projects. he s built a lot of infrastructure, cell phone networks and that s why the opposition was convinced that no proposal put forth by the african union would include the removal of colonel gadhafi from power. i think ultimately a lot of people are going to view this campaign by the african union over the past two days as an effort to quiet some of the critics who said where is the african union? how come they have remained silent throughout the conflict? with this proposal even though it was rejected, they can say we tried. was this attempt in earnest? some say it wasn t.
translator: what is happening to her is wrong. what can i do? i have no power to do anything. i asked the human rights organizations and all international humanitarian movements to get involved and help us with this issue. she is just like so many others who got killed, whether they were from the rebels or those who support him in libya. my feelings, we can t sleep, we can t eat, we can t drink. what can i say? god will bring us justice. reza, their family is far in the east of libya, and obviously in opposition-controlled territory. eman told me she would like to be able to go to her family, but she s not being allowed to leave. is there any do they have contact with each other? reporter: they don t have contact with each other. we should explain to the viewer why someone from the u.s. can reach eman and her family can t. the gadhafi regime pretty much had control over all cell phone networks in libya, and when this uprising happened they cut off those networks in the eastern
leave. is there any do they have contact with each other? reporter: they don t have contact with each other. we should explain to the viewer why someone from the u.s. can reach eman and her family can t. the gadhafi regime pretty much had control over all cell phone networks in libya, and when this uprising happened they cut off those networks in the eastern portion of libya, the rebel strongholds. but the rebels managed to hook up one of the networks, but the problem is with that particular network you can t call western libya, places like tripoli, you can t take calls from western libya. so that s why someone in the u.s. can contact eman and her parents, who are here in eastern libya, can t contact her. so they haven t had contact with her for days now. nic robertson, you were there in the hotel when eman first came in more than a week ago. you ve been relentless in trying to continue to keep the story in the forefront.