i love this. i thought you knew this. i didn t know how weird you were. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. whoopi goldberg is a gift that keeps on giving. smart, opinionated, very, very funny. one of my favorite interviews of the year. things got interesting very quickly. here it is. how are you? i m good. i m fascinated by my own image. your wall of shame we have here. hall of fame or whatever you want to call it. i think it s fame. i m never ashamed. really? no. you ve never been ashamed about anything you ve ever done? no, i don t think i ve ever done anything shameful. that in itself is shameful. why? isn t it? i don t think so. shouldn t you have done some things in your life that are utterly shameful? publicly or privately? let s go private. something we don t know about. i m sure something would have been shameful or ways that i ve did things. feel free to share. well, no. i don t generally talk about the trapeze in
it happened, and i ll explain. next, more than 60% of the vote in egypt this week went to islamists. how worried should we be? then, is shale gas the answer to all america s troubles, or at least to many of them? you ve heard about fracking, what is it, is it safe? find out. first, here s my take. president obama gave an important speech in kansas last week. whether you agree with all of it or not, he has begun a national conversation about the economy and the role of government. that s what this election should be about. and in presenting his view, obama shifted the economic conversation from deficits alone to the crucial issue of growth. after all, deficits matter because they could have a harmful effect on growth. so the question we should all ask is what would make this economy grow. what has stopped it from growing over the last few years, indeed over much of the last decade? one theory heard a lot these days is that the economy is burdened by excessive governmen
then what if the americas threw a party but didn t invite us? it happened, and i ll explain. next, more than 60% of the vote in egypt this week went to islamists. how worried should we be? then, is shale gas the answer to all america s troubles or at least to many of them? you ve heard about fracking, what is it, is it safe? find out. first, here s my take. president obama gave an important speech in kansas last week. whether you agree with all of it or not, he has begun a national conversation about the economy and the role of government. that s what this election should be about. and in presenting his view, obama shifted the economic conversation from deficits alone to the crucial issue of growth. after all, deficits matter because they could have a harmful effect on growth. so the question we should all ask is what would make this economy grow? what has stopped it from growing over the last few years, indeed, over much of the last decade? one theory heard a lot the
council claims 50,000 people have been killed since the uprising began in february. so far cnn is unable to confirm that figure. rebels are giving gadhafi loyalists until saturday to surrender the town of sirte and others they control. sirte is colonel gadhafi s hometown and one of the places he may be hiding. the ntc says it s trying to avoid bloodshed but threatens an all-out attack if the loyalists fail to disarm. syrian opposition forces say security forces cracked down on anti-government groups around the country. six people reportedly were killed in the city of dara. those are the top stories from cnn the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m nina dos santos. good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the libyan rebels oil and finance minister tells us the country s oil production could be back to full strength within a year. you have b
today. noda is to be japan s sixth krm in five years. convicted lockerbie lopper al megrahi is in a coma and apparently near death. krn can cnn found him at an expensive village. freed from a scottish prison in 2009 after doctors treated him for cancer said he was dying. libyan rebels are advancing and have 14,000 fighters set to liberate moammar gadhafi s hometown of sirte and have given loyalists there a monday deadline to disarm and surrender peaceful lp. the rebels gained control of the city. and 28 people killed when a suicide bomb went off at a sunni mosque in baghdad. a member of parliament was pun of the victims. other attacks elsewhere. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world news today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong. welcome to world business today. stop stories this monday august the 29th. now the citizen for japan s revolving door