protesters confined to nice as police seal off fortress cannes. a repeat of the violence of the 2000 violence european union summit in nice. last chance for g-20 to show leadership. it says the g-20 was created in 2009 as the steering committee for the world economy, the latest unforeseen risks risks to a group of bystanders. then finally "china daley." bumpy road still lies ahead. needless to say, what the international community is hoping for is not just a joint statement at the end of the summit, but down to earth collective actions. kyra? >> zain verjee out of london, we'll be talking about the summit throughout the morning. >>> ladies, if you have just a few drinks a week, you know what, you can be at risk for breast cancer. dr. sanjay gupta here to tell us more about this linkage that has been made. what do we know? >> it's interesting. for some time there has been proven that alcohol increases your levels of circulating estrogen. that is important because estrogen could be the fuel for breast cancer and also shown as a result that heavy dri

we under president obama said when he was in cannes he discussed the upcoming report with president sarkozy at g-20 and leaving for asia next week where he'll talk to leaders of russia and china saying we need to put up the heat on iran. >> there's this drum beat, this resounding drum beat involving war possibly with iran and israel would play a role potentially. explain more about this. >> reporter: well the u.s. is down playing these reports. we heard from reports in israel that prime minister benjamin netanyahu had been looking to the cabinet to authorize some kind of military strikes suggesting that they are considering it. i spoke to officials. they said when iran is loud about these type of charges, when we see a lot of reports then we don't worry so much. but when they go quiet that's when we worry. on the other hand, military officials are saying they are concerned that possibly israel would attack iran and they are going to be looking at israel and iran very carefully. right now the u.s. is saying it wants to use diplomatic measures, economic pressure, political pressure on iran. i

the german chancellor and the french president asked george papandreou to come here to cannes and sat with him for two and a half hours and he called forraphy rendm on this european rescue plan that was agreed on last week. the greek parliament was supposed to approve it and supposed to happen. they said to him, if this thing fails, that is basically going to mean greece gets removed from the euro zone. 17 countries use the euro and they may not want greece involved. he flew back to anthens and had an emergency cabinet meeting and the reporting out there that we're trying to confirm is that when that meeting is over, the prime minister of greece is going to go to the president's office. now, prime ministers and presidents in parliamentary democracies don't visit each uther for tea. it means either you're calling an election or the government is being dissolved or you are resigning. it is likely that one of those three things is happening very, very shortly. now, the impact of this is if this european deal doesn't go through, it adds more uncertainty to this european crisis and it coul

protesters are in the south of france as leaders of the world's most powerful countries prepare to meet in cannes. the so-called g-20 is coming together with the world economy on the brink of another downtun. alison kosik standing by in new york with more. i understand the g-20 summit is unofficially getting under way tonight and greece is the key topic. >> yeah, and that wasn't going to be the case, fred, president obama arrives late tonight, but the attention is going to be around 3:30 eastern, when german chancellor, angelale and french president, nicolas sarkozy walk in and they're followed by the greek prime minister, george pannen dray ewe. they're going to have a stern talking-to with him. because this whole greek bailout that was agreed to last week, this whole plan hinged on the fact that it was strengthening greece. it was bailing greece out. instead of the greek parliament accepting it, the prime minister announced he's putting it to a vote. he wants it to go to a national referendum. if you're the greek people who have asked to have government spending clawed back, they'll get shorter

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