communities were hit by tropical storm and declared a state of national calamity. entire villages were washed away. at least 900 were killed and hundreds more missing. the iraqi government issued an arrest warrant for the vice president there. some of his bodyguards confessed to carrying out bombing attacks under his orders. those other top stories on cnn. world business today starts right now. hello. welcome to world business today. i m charles hodson in london. and i m pauline chu in hong kong. the top stories. a time of transition as people pay respects in north korea. the world waits to see what shape succession will take. the struggle to save europe s single currency continues as an emergency cash drive falls short. if you ve still got last minute presents to buy, we ve got the gift guide for you. in north korea, it s a time of deep mourning. in the rest of the world, it s a time of deep unease. one of the world s most cyclic nations, one with nuclear c
afghanistan. the president s indicated as commander in chief he s concerned driving down the forces this summer. it s a huge amount of money. reporter: huge amount of money. we went into this into this unpaid war in iraq and afghanistan, and we had all of these tax cuts that were unpaid for. that s what we re talking about with this budget stuff. there is simply it s not enough shared sacrifice. the president has said the u.s. will start drawing down forces in afghanistan this summer. other international headlines, president obama and other world leaders are stepping up the pressure to get moammar gadhafi out of power. they released a joint opinion piece to several newspapers laying out their vision for libya s future. cnn s monita raj paul has more in london with that. what does this say? reporter: leaders of britain, u.s. and france are making it
a new study, published in a medical journle a. nearly half of all of the poultry and meat sampled were con tap nated with back tier yard. police beefing up security of danger stadium two weeks of aa fan was beaten into a coma. zero tolerance policy led to 40 citations out of a crowd of 40,000. but we begin in libya. western leaders are stepping up pressure to get moammar gadhafi. british prime minister, david cameron and french president nicolas sarkozy wrote out a plan for the future. in it they quite someone trying to massacre his own people go on to lead government. we know from bitter experience what that would mean. neither europe, the region or world can afford a new safe haven for extremists. in the moon time. in tripoli, gadhafi is defined as ever. his troops bounded in the city of misrata. and he did appear in public, almost taunting the opposing rebels and the world as he road through the streets of tripoli. he s in the libyan capital. fred, are there any signs