after that optimism which was kind of the headline coming out of that we hasn't seen fitch the credit rating 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 euro zone debt crisis because they are much larger economies thing greece they're both dealing with problems of their debt and at 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 will have to watch for today. how much mccrae chief economic correspondent of the u.k. is independent newspaper believes that greece is a fact of the already in default and that a cascade is imminent but i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that it is not just the indebtedness of some countries of the but also the euro 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'll read. thirty or forty cents in the euro your day and the write down is going to something like that could be four to six forty if you're lucky thirty if you're unlucky to any rational six b. is a country defaulting on its debts and whether technically that is or whether it take it seems to me to be not back to roll over and because once you deal with greece ok you try to have to put a far wall behind that but people may say look if i'm not going to get my money back on greece why should i lend to portugal why should i lend to spain why should i lend to italy. still to come for you in the program russia's future lympics host city plans to overshadow its most famous european ski resort competitors and entice fans of winter sports action. millions of shop owners

in india are fighting for their survival as the threat of outside competition knocks at the door well entry for international supermarket giants has been shelved for now there are those who argue the move would be good for consumers and employment argues british reader and best tickets. this dry food store has been insecure and 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 old delhi for hundreds of years no longer want to help six generations of our family grew financially and provided us with everything but now it's in china one's way of life could be at risk after years of pressure the indian government 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

a condiments 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 do you think big stores open up businesses will not be able to compete with and they will find it hard to say all right so this is a conspiracy against us wanted to shut us down and open the big ships but we will

not allow this to happen in india bottom or does it go belly up the small business will be swallowed by will not like the way small fishes are written by the big fishes in the sea these small family run businesses will be completely destroyed jeopardizing the financial situation of families and children for now however opposition within india has stalled the decision for. being finalized but store owners like seeing challen 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. this is an attempt to destroy 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 protel about protests organized by the country's is the most leaders with their supporters demanding the government continue its blockade on nato supplies crossing into afghanistan the demonstrators also condemned drone attacks by the united states in

the country's trouble northwest which provokes a bomb in november twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by misguided u.s. airstrikes. at least seventeen people have died and about a dozen are missing after three buildings collapsed in rio de janeiro brazil a twenty story block crumbled on wednesday bringing down two neighboring buildings police are investigating the tragedy of all officials believe i'm all for us construction work may have been responsible. protesters have marched on the u.s. embassy in the capital of 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 and move viewed by some analysts as a strategy to counter the influence of china philippines hosted major u.s. military facilities until one thousand nine hundred two. to russia now where the future winter olympics host city sochi is hoping to attract fans of adrenaline

packed winter activities arts used as velocity reports on the modern resort now challenging the traditional ski regions. it's no weekend schooled in the caucasus mountains but it's the hardest time for ski movie like this couple even keen. promus far as say bierria for the season's grand opening in sochi it's neat to see mrs now that. it's thirty snowing a month ago so much snow who wanted to ride so badly and know we had this. super good this is also cool to a brand new resort just off the black sea coast with a number plan to attract ski fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers those tracks throws up but we'll be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here because you're good on seasonal warm weather left a few foreign destinations a little high and dry but then steph here it was

a cougar became snowed under with work as skiers sold out new resorts just a little while and you can go for beautiful slopes believed and everyone enjoy. very positive feedback this morning yes that's true. but there are also photos biggest test is yet to come in february and march just events for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics it will mean poorest will be strictly our best but for now they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance and the russian winter it's great if there is snow is still a smile you said it was supposed to give us an idea my lindau so if you'll excuse me for a meal but like you have done as well as keep our team going to sochi russia now the issue of global warming is still one that challenges and divides the international community as science struggles to find solutions to the problem is our heart laurie harshness went to 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 do would you be willing to dry your clothes on the line and never use a drag machine i don't know about that though it's about it depends would you be willing to change your behavior like say i walk into any destination that's under two miles instead of driving like what i'm doing today is a yes yeah yeah absolutely absolutely it's a. virtual. well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always. pretty much broke. that there is 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 i'm a little proud nicole and selfish that you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally and 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. for authority of why from moscow i'll be back with headlines after this short break .

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here with our t.v. live from moscow our top stories syrian factions argue over who represents the will of the people all opinions clash of the u.n. security council with a new resolution against syria prime harsh criticism from russia. thousands of angry protesters in warsaw cry out against an international online piracy act by mia targets the basic rights of internet users. plus the e.u.

takes yet another pounding this time with a credit greater threat downgrading five more european nations even as its leaders try to soothe concerns at the world economic forum in davos. next artie's interview or so spotlight talk to the survivors of italy's costa concordia cruise liner disaster. hello again a welcome to spotlight the interview show on our two algorithm and today we'll 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 even now 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 had the rock and started to sink is it 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 are 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. been discovered currently sixteen are confirmed dead and sixty four injured three people trapped who were rescued more than twenty four hours after the accident about twenty people are still missing passengers on the

costa concordia accuse the crew of being unprofessional and then they built to conduct a proper rescue operation the captain of the ship fifty two year old francesco skit tina has been going through the trade to do some media suggested he directed the liner to cool to wear and in order to suit to a friend skit tina was detained shortly after the tragedy is not only accused of causing the accident by changing course but also abandoning ship long before all the passengers were evacuated the ship's fuel tanks were almost too with it heat the rocks and environmental threat the dutch salvage company smit is currently pumping out that he will. marry a wife did his go off can. survive the incident and they're my guests in the studio today and asked which is the hello hello welcome to the program first in straight

to see here having survived your deal the main thing is that you're 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 bell environment. from the very beginning we were you on this cruise from the start or did you joined later and if so how much later. the boat went aboard at the port of two bit of a care and the ship crashed exactly two and a half hours after that so you weren't there from the start but see there 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 he travels in circles like some movies in a cinema. exactly and you were supposed to get off into it of a kid a week later something like that which is going to. have

a dog person just were doing with the law and i had to rethink what were you up to . there were two dinner we dined in the first rotation and then i went down tara cabin to call my mom to tell her we were doing fine that . un don't do 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 back . on the third right and our dinner was one floor above on the fifth deck yes. so dennis those designing were even in a 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 but yes it was like that because you know our glasses laptops and cell phones flew all the tables obviously with cuckold 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 its size is almost the same as the ship does. actually on the bottom close to shore rather than just a standalone rock the boat came too close to the shoreline where it wasn't supposed to be and was certainly felt like

a really strong crash or shaking at that moment we were having a video talk with my mom on skype exactly. we were really warrant that my mom could see glasses falling over my head. so we told her we just have to catch a lifeboat and then we'll call you back we did call her back quite quickly and tried to convince her that that was just an exercise 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 world disciplined individuals we thought to ourselves 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. it wasn't cold even for italy not really summer weather it wasn't egypt or africa woods was twelve the boys cool 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 dressed people it was still quite cold. i've heard of the 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 play. the titanic movie theme song live but she would look nothing ever happens by accident by 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 abouts. 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 genes t. shirts life vests and sneakers i just suggested that we should tie alesha's ties. even 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 day just stand 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 side 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 lifeboat. 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 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 of being one of the proudest of is that true that the entire crew were asian nation and so on we hardly saw any of them filipinos most of the planet is right. a lot of crew members were from the philippines as i understand most of them were catrin staff but. you 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 a crew 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 . people were spread across the deck and we were standing near that place where a left boat was leaving the ship. and it was desex and 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. 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 good evening and go aloft the costa concordia survivors both like movie back should be will continue this interview off to a short break stay with. welcome

back to spotlight and i'll get another in just a reminder that my guests on the show today are denise go off all the guy. men a wife who survived the costa concordia accident in the mediterranean. sea so what we were talking about the moments when the rescue began and you said you hadn't seen anyone from the crew store does that mean that the rescue operation. 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 just sticks and all we tourists had been totally misinformed about what was going on. so you had no idea whether on and were not really gave us an instruction as we were sending 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 crew because 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 x. 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 of 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 she was raised in the area that is probably why there was a short supply of lifeboats or maybe because they have a creation began at least ninety minutes later than it should have. just like me when we were children must have read a lot of books about seafarers following the law of the sea the captain is the last person to leave the vessel. now it's in the news that captains get in abandon ship before the rescue operation and that is that a confirmed fact and do you think the crew indeed fled the ship in fear and confusion. you

know as for me personally i did not see the crew flee. 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 this 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 not smooth which clearly indicated it was not someone well practiced who did that. on top of that. before moving to the pier.