coming out of that we hasn't seen fitch the credit ratings agency downgrade by e.u. nations this includes italy and spain which are two of the economies that are very much of the biggest concern when you're talking about the eurozone debt crisis because they are much larger economies than greece they're both dealing with problems of their debt and of the funding of their debt which we've seen a lot of discussion here at davos over what is the best way to deal with we know george soros has his own plan i don't know if european union leaders are calling him now to take another look at it after these downgrades that something we'll have to watch for today. or i misspoke or a chief economic correspondent of the u.k. is independent newspaper believes that greece is effectively already in default. it is imminent. i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that is not just the indebtedness of some countries abroad but also the euro oh the common currency is a single currency for an area where some countries need

a devaluation i don't know whether technically greece is going to be in default or not but if you're repaying thirty or forty cents in the euro your debt and the write down is going to something where i could be forced to say forty if you're lucky thirty if you're unlucky kid any rational six is a country defaulting on its debts and whether technically that is or whether it take it seems to me to be not that relevant because once you've dealt with greece ok you try and have to put a fireball behind that but people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i learn to portugal why should i went to spain why should i learn to italy. now or still to come few in the program russia's a future in pics host city plans to over shadow its most famous european ski resort competitors and entice friends of winter sports action.

millions of shop owners in india fighting for their survival as a threat of outside competition knocks at the door but while entry for international supermarket giants has been shelved for now there are those who argue the move would be good for consumers and employment ati's pressure investigates. this dry food store has been instead the end they're seeing chalons family for six generations it's one of the many small retail stores that have been operating in this market in all delhi for hundreds of years one of the sure helped six generations of our family grew financially and provided us with everything but now think chalons way of life could be at rest after years of pressure at the indian guy. vermont decided to allow foreign multibillion retailers the likes of tesco and wal-mart access to one of the fastest growing middle classes in the world until now india only allowed single brand foreign retailers like reebok to enter the country even though the indian economy opened up more than a decade ago economists here argue that the country needed at least five years to

build up its domestic multi brand retail sector before allowing foreign competition into the country but now politicians argue that it might be the perfect time for foreign companies to enter india's five hundred ninety billion dollar retail sector the politicians behind the push say that farmers can make more money and consumers will pay less for food if the stores are allowed into india these retailers could provide organization to india supply chain by cutting out unnecessary middlemen president obama and other western leaders have also been putting pressure on india to allow their stores to open in the country arguing that they could provide jobs to millions of indians but small business owners still argue that it's an idea that would jeopardize their way of life but what are the big stores open up businesses will not be able to compete with and they will find it hard to survive so this is a conspiracy against us to shut us down and open big ships but we will not allow

this to happen in india but more to the small business will be swallowed by the way small fishes are wreaking by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of families and children but for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision from being finalised but store owners like singh chauhan are watching the debate closely wondering if his family's business and the old delhi that he's known his whole life will suddenly change how modern this is an attempt to destroy the livelihood of the businessmen in india but we will not allow this to happen in india resisting outsiders from potentially destroying his family's tradition preassure either party. delhi india. well to neighboring pakistan now where more than one hundred thousand people took to the streets the pro taliban protest was organized by the country's business leaders their supporters demanding the government continues its blockade on supplies crossing into afghanistan. has also

damaged drone attacks by the states and. its provoked about. twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by a misguided u.s. airstrikes. at least seventeen people have died in about a dozen are missing after three buildings collapsed a revision here in brazil a twenty story block crumbled on wednesday bringing down to neighboring buildings they saw investigating the tragedy while the show's believe on authorize construction work may have been responsible. and the testers have marched on the u.s. embassy in the capital the philippines against government plans to allow american troops into the country the deal between the two nations is part of washington's attempts to reinforce its presence in the region. as the country's build up against china philippines hosted major u.s. military facilities in two nineteen twenty two. to russia now where the future

winter olympics host city sochi is hoping to attract fans of adrenaline packed into activities parties and reports now on the modern resort challenging the traditional ski regions. it's nowhere and cooled in the caucasus mountains but it's the hottest time for ski fair maybe this couple even came promise for a say period for the season's grand opening in sochi now that. if there is no your mother go to know who wanted to write so badly. this is rosa who took a brand new resort just off the black sea with a number. to attract ski. fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers of tracks rows of data will be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here to show your work and seasonal warm weather left a few foreign destinations

a little high and dry but then steph here it was i who got to became snowed under with work as skiers sold out new resorts just to look around you we can go for beautiful. believed and everyone enjoy. very positive feedback this morning that's our best reward you know for us but there are also photos biggest test is yet to come in february and march which was just a bounce for the two thousand fourteen winter olympics it will mean more is to be strictly our best but for now they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance the russian winter it's great if there is snow is too much for you said i was supposed to kiss when i went down the hill so if you'll excuse me. but what you are doing is b.f.d. sochi. have a show of global warming is still one that challenges and divides the international community assad struggles to find solutions to the problem or half an ist went onto

the streets of the big apple to find out what ordinary americans are ready to give up to help out. today legislators are introducing more and more bills to help curb the effects of global warming what are you willing to do to help out this week let's talk about that would you be willing to do not blow dry your hair anymore yes that i'd be willing to that would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use or drying machine i don't know about that though it's about it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say walk into any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today is a yes yeah yeah i absolutely absolutely best idea i've heard so far well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always. pretty much broke saw lots of the electrical.

saves money don't become the postal is the clock on the marker or do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though they are proud to call it a selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally unfortunately that's the world we live in whether or not you're willing to change your energy consumption habits now the bottom line is you might just have to in the future if global warming continues to progress. stay with us i'll be back with headlines in just a couple. we

have seen the damage it has done to our environment more chemicals what the poor probs we do not want any more no dmoz. or course system it's just there was a does more experience and i'm just just appalled but that's allowed to go on where . we are getting this unfortunately because we don't know what's in it there's no labeling there for it being used like the board to experiment you could be used as guinea pig. will now we have more

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welcome back let's check on the headlines now syrian factions argue over who represents the will of the people while opinions clash at the u.n. security council but a new resolution against syria joining harsh criticism from russia. thousands of angry protesters in warsaw crying out against an international online piracy act painting it targets the basic rights of internet users. plus the e.u.

takes yet another pounding at this time with a credit rating pitch downgrading five more european nations even as its leaders talked to some new concerns at the world economic forum in davos. nextel ities into the show spotlight talks to the survivors of italy's costa concordia cruise liner disaster. hello again or welcome to spotlight. on our to albury rob and today we will meet the survivors of the wreck of the century the incidents in the mediterranean with the italian ship carrying over four thousand people has been dominating international media for more than two weeks some are comparing it to the wrecked car the titanic exactly one hundred years ago given that search and rescue

operations continue as does the investigation into what happened meanwhile the captain and first officer are under arrest so what was it like when the ship heads the rocks and started to say this is true the crew failed in their duty to ensure passenger safety. on the thirteenth of january the costa concordia cruise their rock and eventually capsized off the island of gilio the sheeple scary over forty two hundred people at the beginning of a seven day cruise when it ran aground evacuating the sinking ship took several hours and not everyone managed to get off safely the death toll has been rising with each day as new bodies are being discovered currently sixteen are confirmed dead and sixty four injured three people trapped were rescued more than twenty four hours after the accident about twenty people are still missing passengers on the

costa concordia accused of being unprofessional and unable to conduct a proper rescue operation the captain of the ship fifty two year old french. has been brewing for the tragedy some media suggested he directed the line a to cool. to a friend. and skitt tina was detained shortly after the tragedy is not only accused of causing the accident by changing course but abandoning ship long before all the passengers were evacuated the ship's fuel danks were almost too with heat the rocks and environmental threat the dutch salvage company smit is currently pumping out that he will. marry the wife didn't go off and. survive the incident and they're my guests in the studio today and asked which is the hello hello welcome to the program first it's great to see you here having

survived your deal the main thing is that you are safe and sound and generally ok. we're doing our best not to lose our spirits our panic even though we have trouble sleeping at night i've been having trouble sleeping lately too for some reason must be a bad environment. let's sort from the very beginning we were you on this cruise from its start why did you join us later and if so how much later. went aboard at the port of spirit of a care and the ship crashed exactly two and a half hours after that so you weren't there from the start for us it was the beginning of our crew was as i understand the line there makes around trips are so different passengers start from different places. so it travels nonstop in circles like some movies in a cinema that was just exactly and you were supposed to get off into it of a kid a week later something like battle security reports have a dog person just were dining with the line to hit the reef what were you up to.

this mean that there were two dinner we dined in the first rotation and then i went down to our cabin to call my mom to tell her we were doing fine that. un zone to your cabin after dinner. so your cabin was below sea level not really a was the dining room located high above there were several restaurants and bars on the ship so different people ate at various places our cabin was on the third deck . on the third right and our dinner was one floor above on the fifth deck yes. so dennis those designing were even in the better situation than yours they were and it was easier for them to get out there it's really hard to tell you know as those who were in their cabins probably didn't get injured as badly

as those in restrooms and bars. are you saying that the moment when the law in a hit the reef that was a real threat causing a major collapse. yes like a major car crash yes it was like that because you know our glasses laptops and cell phones flew off the tables would come who told you how can you explain this both ways hundreds of thousands of tons you would really feel that crash when it hit the rock was like crashing into a wall did you actually see that rock no i didn't. but well the size is almost the same as the ship was actually on the bottom close to shore rather than just a stand alone rock the boat came too close to the shoreline where it wasn't supposed to be and we certainly felt like a really strong crash or shaking at that moment we were having

a video talk with my mom on skype exactly where to put it we were really warrant that my mom could see classes falling over my head. so we told her we just have to question lifeboat and then we'll call you back we did call her back quite quickly and tried to convince her that that was just a nexus. we actually hope till the very last moment that it was actually it as we had been warned about these daily exercises on the boat every passenger who arrived on board in a new port had to wear a life vest and get out to the nearest deck we were told that our actions that would be a supervised by professionals. being well disciplined individuals we thought to ourselves that maybe that's how they performed their drill when we felt that crash was very real to make sure we get it we actually grabbed our life vests and my husband suggested that we should bring warm clothes considering it was

winter. wasn't killed even for italy not really summer weather it wasn't egypt or africa it was twelve. what about the water well the water was also about ten to twelve celsius least it wasn't ice cold not like in the titanic situation. exactly no icebergs there but for likely addressed people it was still quite cold. i've heard of a curious fact that at the moment of the crash speakers on board were playing the titanic movie theme song is that true well it is even though it wasn't exactly at the moment of the accident. we heard this music in the restaurant while we were eating and indeed they were playing the titanic movie theme song live but she would look nothing ever happens by accident the way you got to spend very little time on the boat. when did you realize that the boat was sinking was that immediately. when

did you realize it was time to rescue your wife. i had a feeling that something was seriously wrong when the ship started listing. how much time as opposed to the crash. well the ship started listing in and out. twenty minutes. then you're out on the deck wearing your life vests prepared for the drill well indeed we were and in about twenty minutes i suggested well you know because we jumping overboard well as we left our cabin dressed in our dreams t. shirts life vests and sneakers i just suggested that we should tie alesha's ties. did you do it i was actually against tying our laces as i saw a different scenario in my head we might actually have to jump overboard nobody was supervising us we spend an hour and a half on the deck and speakers were saying don't worry everything is fine when you

felt the crash and when told on the just down there for an hour in the home watching we went out very quickly waiting to see what happens next yes yes. on the side where the boat was listing or the other one went out on the right. so it was listing on that side the one it lies on now it was fortunate for us as well as the fact that we weren't in the restaurant or on the very top desk where it was hard to get down and how with the other passengers responding you're in this oh we're in the home where they panicking well actually they responded in different ways most were certainly concerned but things were more or less calm until the lord lifeboats . did they think it would all turn out all right did you see the shore it still must have been scary yes we did it was very scary it was a large ship at the height of several story building when the water when you start

thinking that you have to jump overboard you have value to your abilities and realize that you don't feel like jumping from this high it at all. as you may lose your earrings for instance. as well as an arm or a leg perhaps people were slightly comforted by the fact that they could see the land. but on our deck i saw only one or two crewmen. who were actually aware of what was going on i thought up in one of the pubs the stiffs is that true that the entire crew were asian nation and so on we hardly saw any of them filipinos mostly filipinas right. a lot of crew members were from the philippines as i understand most of them were a catcher in staff but. i see they were not sailors but rather a hotel personnel that we probably saw only three or four crew members how could you tell they were true by the uniforms they wore special vests and were acting a bit different you said that when they lowered the lifeboats of stood up something

saw you telling passengers to have an opposite effect we got there by accident only those people were spread across the deck and we were standing near that place where a lifeboat was leaving the ship. and it was to second or the third want to go on. no one on the first and he got in the crowd actually pushed us in it quite nicely how many people can a life boat carry a hundred i think around a hundred or so i didn't say one of the lifeboats rescued you exactly. but there was no panic things were moralist peaceful the panic began in the lifeboat why so. many people responded differently for instance i still cannot sleep at nights there was a young lady on our lifeboat who was so bored and so anxious that she was trying to talk everyone into jumping off the boat but it can't you see that we're sinking it is just what the others were just sitting quietly on their benches and waiting for

help we were all well aware that we were sinking but nobody agreed to jump with her say. and go aloft the costa concordia survivors both like movies back should be will continue this interview off to a short break stay with. a soulless substance. cannot touch like a well trained army. villages in ruins. for thailand where time stands still. all becomes a scene of nothing. the mysterious sons of russia.

are teaching. wealthy british style. that's not on the. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. welcome back to spotlight it's on and i'll get another in just a reminder that my guests on the show today are denise go often and all the guys good evening men your wife who survived the costa concordia accident in the

mediterranean. that. we were talking about the moments when the rescue began these can easily and you said you hadn't seen anyone from the crew the store put out does that mean that the rescue operation is a little post-polio organized because you say that it was not organized at all what do you mean what did you hope for take away breakfast there were no it's just sticks and all we tourists had been totally misinformed about what was going on. no idea whether on and we're not really gave us any instruction as we're standing in waiting nobody told us to go out on the deck we did that on our own following our instincts and judging by what we saw and what we understood when we crawled out onto the deck and please know that we had been on board the slander for only two hours we had hardly any time to find our way in that city so it was mere lack we went out to the that's important yes but the boats when i did the lower not the

upper one it's a mere accident of all the people who happened to be another decks with a less lucky my sled all of us have seen the titanic movie was this is a time when the passengers try to elbow they way to the lifeboats we could see all the passengers later we ended up in the same hotel and we could discuss things and exchange our impressions as to what happened after that some were rescued when it was already morning there was not enough room in the boats as our friends and travel say the situation was made worse by the fact that it was very difficult to pull the bows down on the water from the upper decks especially on the port side it was just impossible was raised in the air that is probably why there was a short supply of lifeboats or maybe because the evacuation began at least ninety minutes later than it should have because it's. just like me when we were children must have read a lot of books about seafarers. the law of the sea the captain is the last person

to leave the vessel. it's in the news that kept. ship before the rescue operation ended is that a confirmed fact and do you think the crew indeed fled the ship in fear and confusion. you know as from the personally i did not see the crew fleeing the. because we could not see the crude south please don't get us wrong exactly according to my own experience in sea farin on a commercial vessel i can say that there was no one responsible for the engine of these lifeboat i saw a crew member climb into the boat he could hardly start the engine. besides when the boat was being pulled down to the water the descent was no.