well at all anymore because you do have to practice. you have to do it every day. and my life doesn t afford that kind of time. but i. mike: you do love music. i do love music. momma mia biggest grossing film of your career. many people don t know. were your doctors reluctant and maybe not too sure about you doing that role? no, they were thrilled. mike: were they thrilled. yes. they were thrilled. that movie really went around the world. mike: just a fun movie. it s a fun movie but it s exuberance translates all around the world into any language. one of the great knights of my life was sitting next to the empress of japan as we watched it, i m not kidding you. everyone was she is a god, i mean, related to the deity in some way in japan. and so people will not look at her. you are not allowed to really
look at her. and she came into the audience and i realized that the empty seat next to me was going to be the empress of japan. and she is so beautiful. she sat next to me and it was very quiet. this is a movie about a girl who has slept with three different men and. [ laughter ] she doesn t know i mean her mother slept with three different men and she doesn t know which one is her father on the day that she is married, she doesn t know which one to walk down the aisle with. and i was thinking like oh my gosh, how is this going to go over? and we first first song i have this dilemma, i don t know which one is the dad. and she leaned over to me and she said very naughty. [ laughter ] mike: that is going to be a memory for sure. [ applause ] mike: you have also talked about how difficult it is as
well at all anymore because you do have to practice. you have to do it every day. and my life doesn t afford that kind of time. but i. mike: you do love music. i do love music. momma mia biggest grossing film of your career. many people don t know. were your doctors reluctant and maybe not too sure about you doing that role? no, they were thrilled. mike: were they thrilled. yes. they were thrilled. that movie really went around the world. mike: just a fun movie. it s a fun movie but it s exuberance translates all around the world into any language. one of the great knights of my life was sitting next to the empress of japan as we watched it, i m not kidding you. everyone was she is a god, i mean, related to the deity in some way in japan. and so people will not look at
her. you are not allowed to really look at her. and she came into the audience and i realized that the empty seat next to me was going to be the empress of japan. and she is so beautiful. she sat next to me and it was very quiet. this is a movie about a girl who has slept with three different men and. [ laughter ] she doesn t know i mean her mother slept with three different men and she doesn t know which one is her father on the day that she is married, she doesn t know which one to walk down the aisle with. and i was thinking like oh my gosh, how is this going to go over? and we first first song i have this dilemma, i don t know which one is the dad. and she leaned over to me and she said very naughty. [ laughter ] mike: that is going to be a memory for sure. [ applause ] mike: you have also talked about how difficult it is as
activists or government. u.s. officials say the american soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 afghan civilians was acting alone. the unidentified staff sergeant turn himself in after the shootings. officials have not said whether he had mental health issues or what his motive may have been. meanwhile, the taliban have issued a statement vowing to take revenge against, quote, american invaders and savage murders. security officials and medical sources say israel launched a new round of air strikes in gaza early on monday. they claim at least 30 people were injured. at least 18 people have been killed in israeli air strikes since friday. israel says it is responding to more than 100 rocket attacks from gaza. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. our top stories this morning