gadhafi. they say they are on the verge of taking the port city of sirte. a spade of killings at a port on the mekong river has interrupted cargo trade between children that and thailand. at least 12 sailors were murdered in what may have been a drug traffic attempt. investigations are continuing. severe weather in new zealand is hampering efforts to corn taken an oil spill off the country s north eye land. authorities are trying to pump the remaining oil off a ship that struck a reef last wednesday. 30 tons of oil has leaked from the vessel. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hod southern. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. the top stories monday, october 10th. bell jen bank agrees to its bailout. are more bank rescues on the way? and weather hampers efforts to contain an oil spill
welcome back. thanks. only yesterday you were gracing me with your presence. you re here. you have this great new book. every day is a friday. how to be happier seven days a week. i m thinking to myself, you are the two happiest people i ve met anyway. how could you get any happier? i think we all can, we ve learned what to ignore, certain battles not to fight. we can all be improving and growing and being happier. why fridays? when i came to new york in particular, i was horrified that on fridays my staff all came in dressed like, you know, people on the street. because it was apparently dress-down friday. and i was like, what does that mean? and it means you dress badly and wear jeans and old t-shirts an things. i associate friday with this unkempt sort of misery. why have you selected friday as a day of great joy and happiness? for the most people, the study shows people are happier on fridays. why? people are looking forward to the weekends, relax, done wi
dramatic day in the trial of dr. conrad murray, who s accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every single night during the two months he was taking care of the pop star, except, he said, for the few days leading up to his death. he said he was trying to help jackson break away from the addiction to propofol, he said jackson was his friend, he said he was doing everything he could to jackson and jackson was demanding he give him that, what he would call, milk. i got to sleep, dr. conrad. i have this rehearsals to perform, i must be ready for the show in england. tomorrow i will have to cancel
i m a pretty docile individual. evil is my primary goal in television but i ll take it. you were how old when you did these draws? it s funny, i have no recollection of doing that so probably 2 or 3 years old. barney, fred, wilma barney is misspelled. but you were 3 years old. clearly a cartoon genius. i m not sure why fred is waving an american flag but it could be an ax. at what point did you become this twisted wilma looks like she s ready to i m not going to go there. what is she doing? she s ready to make shaquille o neal s day, it looks like. at what point did you go from gentle cartoon nift to an evil person. probably about 4, i guess. and where the dog stuff come from? it s hilarious but it s so yeah. a lot of that is my family. my cousins, my mother. a lot of people in my family have a very dark, twisted sense of humor that i was exposed to at a very young age and do you see the really dark is not the right word. you you
this is piers morgan tonight. now for the latest on the charges against conrad murray, let s go to ted rowlands in los angeles. reporter: prosecutors continued with their witnesses that were with michael jackson at the time he was dying, and specifically, the most compelling witnesses we heard from were the paramedics that responded to that 911 call. one paramedic said when he got there, jackson was cold and blueish, another actually, both of the paramedics testified they asked dr. murray point blank, what have you given michael jackson. and there was never any mention of propofol. did dr. murray ever mention to you having administered propofol to michael jackson? no, he did not. did conrad murray ever mention the word propofol to you during the time that you were at the location or in his presence? no, he did not. at the end of today, piers, we got a little bit of testimony from one of the emergency room doctors at ucla, we ll have more of that next week.