the doctors who wrote the prescriptions for those pills could be subpoenaed. in syria, artillery and machine gun fire echo aross crosse the city of homs while a thick smoke from a pipeline explosion hangs overhead e opposition activists say government forces are set on planting every neighborhood that might hold disdent. our arwa damon is in the besieged city. reporter: around 7:30 in the morning began the sustained bombardment, various sounds of artillery being fired, impacting here as well as sporadic, heavy automatic machine gun fire has been heard and this has been the status quo in homs for over a week now. just hours ago, iran began loading what it calls its first home-built nuclear fuel rods. president mahmoud ahmadinejad helped insert the rods into a reactor at a research center in tehran. it is broadcast live. his government insists the technology is needed for medical purposes. western nations believe the iranians are focused on building a bomb. today s move i
to his day job. he would have to make a choice to fill up the gas tank to get to work or do i give up my entrepreneurial dream. $40, he wrote, means a heck of a lot. it means a heck of a lot. that s what this debate is all about. this is what s at stake for millions of americans. this is why it matters to people. it matters a heck of a lot. i m asking the american people to keep their stories coming. tell us what $40 means to you. if you tweet it, use the hash tag $40. call, tweet, write your congressman, write your senators. tell them, do not let up until this thing gets done. don t let taxes go up on 160 million working americans. don t let americans out there looking for work and the economy is starting to improve but they don t have a job yet, don t leave them without a lifeline in terms of cutting off their unemployment insurance. when a plane is lifting off the ground, you don t ease up on the throttle. you keep going. our plane is up there, but we re not at cruising al
the first prime minister has been indicted. mr. gilani entered a plea of not guilty. the court demanded he ask swiss authorities to revive corruption charges against president zardari and others. an autopsy of whitney houston has revealed no signs of foul play but could take eight weeks to get toxicology result. attempts of resuscitation failed on sunday after she was found unconscious in the bathroom of her hollywood hotel room. those are the world headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning, from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and very good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m manisha tank. amid anger on athens streets, politicians try to pull greece back from the brink, approving a new round of deep spending cuts that may help the country head off a messy default. rupert murdoch to the rescue. the news corp. chief flies into london while journalists at his best-selling british tabloid are arrested. and friends and colleagues
and he ended up homeless, right? he said he was sober for two years. but the 53-year-old is still battling the bottle. he checked himself into rehab after a lengthy chat with dr. phil who he was taping a show with. all of a sudden his drinking was apparent because his behavior, well, the cops were called in. he was detained because he got in a scuffle with his daughter in a hollywood hotel room. so a little taint or varnish on that gold. i was watching dr. phil, i watched the entire interview. he promised to try really hard to make it this time. so i ll be following this story, the homeless man gone good. all taking chances. there s another bizarre story about actor peter fonda. this is trending on tmz today. and an exclusive story really. peter fonda, you can t make this up, this is not a hollywood script, but it s a real true hollywood story, because the