unprecedented painful measures when it comes to austerity cuts. we saw some demonstrations today in rome. big trade unions marching but the bottom line in italy is that the newspapers are full of stories of core are up shun every day. politicians using public funds for private expenditures. hundreds of mps right now are under investigation. so reading about all of this in the papers is particularly hard for a public that is being asked to enendure cuts in salaries, pensions and health care. put it simply, countries like spain, germany, italy have same interest rates. they haven t dealt with inefficiencies in the system and haven t dealt with growth and it is exploding as you see. back to you. martha: all the issues coming home to roost. it is a lessen for the world. we hope they straighten it out. bill: some issues affect us at home. on the big board on wall street on friday, influence of spain, issues they re having and manufacturing number just
is very disturbing. since monday, since the start of the general assembly this week, 489 people have been killed in syria because of that ongoing conflict. today we ll hear russia address it but unlikely we ll see any resolution anytime soon. martha: tragic and press, pressing event and on going store. david lee, thank you very much. bill:. dmort fox news alert. fiscal model is in place for parts of europe. france s new socialist government unveiling plans for a 75% super tax. stuart varney host of varney & company , fox business network. glad you re happy you left 35 years ago. what s up? germany is telling france hey, you got to get that budget deficit under control, big budget deficit is verboten the socialist president of france, francois hollande, tax the rich, not so rich, capital gains, profits, you name it,
washington d.c. martha: people find it pretty shocking 14 million when you say as you look at big budget it s a drop in the bucket. 14million is not worth pursuing but there is time to pursue people boundless? david, thank you very much for bringing this to our attention. good to talk to you this morning. maybe some congressman or congresswoman will take that one up. bill: gregg jarrett rolling our way. gregg: 39 days until the election. mitt romney speaking live. we ll hear from them. battleground state polling from the wall street journal and brand-new fox news polls, we ll tell you about that. plus the dramatic developments in libya. we will be speaking with lindsey graham the u.s. senator, why the
fearful that the iranians may take some comfort in the u.s. position and may use the u.s. position to buy more time, possibly to build a nuclear bomb. martha? martha: that is troublesome. also syria, of course is such a part of this whole die namic. that is on the agenda at the u.n. what do we expect there? reporter: that s right. there will be a meeting today sort of on the sidelines of the general assembly. it will be hosted by secretary of state hillary clinton. it is a meeting of the friends of syria. it will be attended by ministers of some 20 countries. the purpose of this meeting essentially to show support for the syrian opposition and to address the humanitarian concerns. the risch shan foreign minister is going to speak today. likely he will talk about syria. the russian foreign minister said yesterday russia is not going to offer asylum to the syrian president, bashar assad if that is sought. he also said russia is not pressuring assad to step down. martha, one statistic t
life. kfsb paul bloom live at the shooting for us. good morning, paul. reporter: good morning, martha. sad day here in minneapolis. the, just beginning to learn, put names and faces to this tragedy, confirming this morning that the founder of this company, accent signage, was among those killed. the man by the name of ruben rahmen. came here with nothing. started this business in his basement. made this business into a national model. this company focus on signs, signs that include braille for the blind, businesses all around. he was gunned down apparently by a former employee. initial reports this gunman was laid off early yesterday morning. he came back late in the day. apparently armed and apparently on a mission to kill. again confirming the death of the founder of the company, two top executives fighting for their lives at a nearby hospital and three others dead before the