clinton will meet myanmar s president along with the pro-democracy party leader. these are live pictures from occupy wall street in los angeles. riot police are blocking off streets around the movement s camping ground. protesters were ordered to evacuate city hall grounds by midnight on monday but have refused to leave. of course, we ll bring you more on the standoff as it develops. the former leader of ivory coast is now in custody in the netherlands for an appearance before the international criminal court in the hague. gbagbo was arrested in april by forces loyal to the current president. the icc is probing allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity. those are the top stories from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts now. hello and welcome to another packed edition of world business today. i m andrew stevens in hong kong. and i m nina dos santos in london. here are the top stories. save our pensions. a massive public sector protest ki
talking about cuts and specifically what s handed to em because of the debt ceiling deal reached earlier this week. initially they know they have to cut 350 million which more or less they are okay with and won t necessarily sacrifice our national security, but where the big question mark comes is if that committee can not decide on how they will make those additional cuts to equal around or about $1.2 trillion, they will have to cut hundreds of billions, 500 billion, 600 billion, 700 billion just to defense, and to quote, i want to get this precise for you, the defense secretary said those cuts will be completely unacceptable. we re all over this story with our pentagon correspondent barbara starr and let s begin this hour staying with the money theme, i suppose. we re watching this very closely. has not been a day for investors with weak stomachs. stock markets all over the world have been racking up some huge, huge losses, and u.s. markets have lost their gains for the yea