of president obama, occupy wall street, the tea party. but i think reporting on hurricane katrina over the course of the years stands out, why is that? i felt that in that moment the contradictions of america s kind of race and class were laid bare. that there were all sorts of ways in which they could be finessed, anybody who tries hard enough can do this or that and, you know, the civil rights era was a long time ago, even though it wasn t, and we have equality now and so on. obama was known by this stage, but there was no sense that he would ever be president, it would be a really weird idea then. and so to see who could escape and who couldn t escape and why they couldn t escape, is a public disaster so you have a public response, but this was a private response a privatised response.
soldiers in the syrian city of olelepo, according to syrian tv who described it as terrorist attacks. 350 people have been killed vaas syria in an escalating assault by government forces. country ha haest hit by europe s deadly cold snap, but across europe, hundreds are dead, people are snowed in and cars are stranded to the roadsides and even the danyu river is partially frozen, keeping many vessels stuck in port. those are the headlines. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m dina dos santos. and good morning from cnn hong kong. you re watching world business today. the top stories this happy friday, the 10th of february. must try harder. eu ministers say greece s bailout deal is not good enough. almost a year after a deadly earthquake, the new zealand city of christchurch now looks to asia to help finance its rebuilding. and in a densely populated city like hong kong, space can be a luxury, but as flats get
he s going to unveil a jobs proposal that my sources tell me will have specifics in a way his critics have been calling for. so according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that is real detail. until the package will be new initiatives not a rehash of the policies we ve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or an infrastructure bank. my sources say there ll be proposals in three main categories, targeted tax cuts, another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment, and then long-term help for the unemployed. i should point out this is all being worked out right now. it will continue to be hashed out over the president s vacation. the president is meeting with his top economic advisors tomorrow. i ll told it will come up there. already some republican leaders have issued warning shots saying this package should not include any new spending. the president says it will. sounds like we should brace for a fight. so david gather begin,
proposal that my sources tell me will have specifics in a way his critics have been calling for. so according to my sources it will be actual legislation. that is real detail. until the package will be new initiatives not a rehash of the policies we ve been hearing him promoting recently like patent reform or an infrastructure bank. my sources say there ll be proposals in three main categories, targeted tax cuts, another big one for the white house is new infrastructure investment, and then long-term help for the unemployed. i should point out this is all being worked out right now. it will continue to be hashed out over the president s vacation. the president is meeting with his top economic advisors tomorrow. i ll told it will come up there. already some republican leaders have issued warning shots saying this package should not include any new spending. the president says it will. sounds like we should brace for a fight. so david gather begin, last night on the program y