about where the global economy is headed we'll have to see how much attention the eurozone captures though because it really has overshadowed a lot of other things that happened on the official and unofficial agenda here at davos we heard from a number of euro zone finance ministers and e.u. officials speaking with a lot of optimism about the euro zone solution saying they believe the fiscal compact will be reached with tighter fiscal discipline in that this will really help the debt crisis that the euro zone is dealing with they also said that greek bond holders will come to an agreement on haircuts for greek debt by this weekend to hopefully presumably avoid default which is definitely not a certain thing at all and that d.-day for greece is march twentieth after that optimism which was kind of the headline coming out of that we hasn't seen fitch the credit ratings agency downgrade five 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 will have to watch for today. the chief economic correspondent for the newspaper the independent believes cruise has already succumb to default in reality. i don't think you have to be a whiz at math to figure out that it's not just the indebtedness of some countries 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 like that could be four to say forty if you're lucky thirty if you're unlucky that it any rational sense 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 lend to spain why should i lend to italy. well later today the kaiser report takes a swipe at politicians and bankers who aren't doing enough to reassure the markets and people that recovery is around the corner. under the bank of england urged against despair because all crises come to an and eventually he says he looks pretty miserable doesn't think he should talk like usually telling people don't despair you don't look like you're about to top yourself you try to smile and put it like cloud nose on really like a burning look out the clown those are always delivering that economic numbers of

irving gang has got that british kind of in the bag have blitzed on gin luck which is not fooling anybody and of course the u.k. economy is contracting why because the debt in the banking sector continues to expand and nobody's doing anything about that mervyn king wake up. when iran is due to resume talks with un nuclear inspectors in tehran this weekend in the first discussions of their kind in more than three years countries also allowing a senior u.n. weapons expert to be part of the mission iran's nuclear program is the main reason behind rising tension with the west the most recent moves have seen the e.u. adopt a complete ban on ukrainian oil imports from july but ten bombs considering cutting off the sanctions by cutting supplies to europe as early as next week global policy consultant for fun government told r.t. that by threatening to turn off the tap the wrong hoping to soften the impact of

the sanctions. the calculus from iran's perspective is going to be if they preempted by cutting exports see forward the july first date that the e.u. has set for cutting the exports and iraq principally because it's three four hundred thousand barrels with the exports to the e.u. will it be able to drive the prices up enough by doing that to offset for that you know right now what is going on with iran is that the there is an existential threat to the government that quite frankly from the u.s. perspective i don't think there's a lot of hope that these sanctions will actually get you right to stop its nuclear program think the real unwritten objective here is quite frankly in and call it by different name but it's regime change ultimately they want to put as much pressure that as they can on this government. but take a look at some other news from around the world this hour in the post these violent nigerian islamists that boko haram is threatening to kill more security personnel

and kidnap their families in an audio recording he also accuses president obama of waging war on islam a week ago the group killed more than one hundred eighty people during a gun in the northern town. real lot more widely in force throughout nigeria. police in senegal have fired tear gas at demonstrators rallying against the court's decision to allow their president to run for a third term protesters then rock the barricades and started fires presidents can see was in question because the constitution changed in two thousand just after he took office imposed a two term limit of july way believes the law doesn't apply to him because he was elected before it came into effect. now the ski slopes of sochi are in place for the next winter olympics now comes the task to make sure they meet world class standards the russian resort facilities are hosting their first skiers and organizers hope it's all downhill from here as denise but what

explains. its slow way and called in the caucasus mile but it's the hardest time for ski fair like this. for the season's grand opening in sochi you can see mrs now that. it's thirty snowing a month ago so much snow we wanted to write so badly and then we had this chance. super this is also cool to a brand new resort just off the black sea coast with a number should split to attract ski fans who might otherwise prefer a winter break in france or switzerland kilometers those tracks throws up but will be able to compete with many european resorts it means six to ten thousand tourists will be able to ski here to show you the good and seasonal warm weather lets a few who are in destinations a little high and dry but at the end steph here it was a cougar became snowed under with work as skiers sold out new resorts just

a little while and you. believed and everyone enjoyed. very positive feedback this morning yes that's true. but they're also kudos biggest test is yet to come in february and march which was just a bounce for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics it will mean two more just will be strictly are pissed but for now they're making the most of the snow the freedom and even the romance amid the russian winter it's green of their snow is soft and i was supposed to kiss and that's why i went down the hill so if you'll excuse me. like. sochi. now the snow is slow may bring skiers together but our fluctuate weather continues to divide others in the international community by harf and has now asked people in new york how far they're willing to go to cool down global warming.

today legislators are introducing more and more bills to help curb the effects of global warming what are you willing to do so how about 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 drying machine i don't know about that no it didn't but 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 that yes yeah yeah i absolutely absolutely beside your virtual. well it's good what about showering for under a minute. i'm always. pretty much broke sawlogs so the electrical futile very little saves money don't become opposed to lose the. do you think most people are willing to change their daily behavior even though they are proud to call the selfish you know they don't really care about the planet until until it affects them personally

and flush 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. well online for you at our two dot com we've got the world covered there right now the tar rama florists that's terrorizing the top of the reading visitors and asks the australian natural history museum but some of the kids clearly want their history a little less heard of it we've got the prehistoric panic all mine also. locked up and over walks the american arrested for drunk driving but then held in solitary confinement for the nine doctors for two years without trial his story is that our two dot com. we're going to take a short break here on r.t.l. me back with the help.

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thank you. live from moscow where it's seven thirty pm our top stories brussels slams the new u.n. draft resolution on syria on the steps of both saying it's targeting regime change and paves the way for possible foreign intervention the arab league's also holding its observer mission is syria over the upsurge of violence there. protesters in poland vowed to continue fighting the international and the web piracy pact and

their politicians who support the notorious trade agreement activists say it aloud governments to police the internet under the guise of protecting copyright. and yet another blow to the struggling euro zone as i'm nascent credit scores get including strain in italy leaders and key finance experts are struggling to find a solution to the deepening debt crisis at the world economic forum. up next for you in spotlight we talk to some of the survivors of italy's costa concordia cruise liner disaster stay with us. hello again or welcome to the spotlight the interview show on our to algorithm 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 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 scaring 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 dad 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 too cool. in order to sue to a friend. and skitt 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 danks were almost through with it heat the rocks an environmental threat the dutch salvage company smit is currently

pumping out that. man and wife did is 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 abandoned marmont. sort from the very beginning we were you on this cruise from its start why did you joined 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 but 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 never did exactly and you were supposed to get off into it of a kid a week later something like battle security reports have it all person just were doing with the line to hit the reef what were you up to. 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. 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 off the tables with the who told 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 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 what is it we were really worn at that my mom could see classes falling over my head. so you told her mom we just have to catch a lifeboat and then we'll call you back we did call her back quite quickly and try 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 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. it wasn't cold 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 restroom 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 about. 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.

even digit it 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 so 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 would the other passengers responding your 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 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 up in one of the pub the stiffs is that true that the entire crew were asian nation and so on we hardly saw any of them filipino 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. 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 a crew by the uniforms they wore special vests and were acting a bit different you said that when they lowered the lifeboats absurd 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 lifeboat was leaving the ship. and it was desex and or the third want to go on. you know one of the first and you go out in the crowd actually pushed 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. and go aloft costa concordia survivors both like movie back should they will continue this interview off to a short break stay with. we have seen the damage it has done to our environment mark and because what the park

props we do not want any more new g.m. olds. our core system is just that was a dismal 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 being used as getting . old now we have more questions than we have had three guards. like.

welcome back to spotlights on and i'll get another in just a reminder that my guests on the show today are denise go all the guy good evening men a wife who survived the costa concordia accident in the mediterranean. we were talking about the moments when the rescue began and you said you hadn't seen anyone from the crew at the store i thought i was just that mean that the rescue operation. because you say that it was not organized and all the ones i mean what do you hope for take away bread. first there were no it just sticks and all we tourists had been totally misinformed about what was going on. so you had no idea where to run and were not really gave us any instruction as we were standing and

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 to slander for only two hours we had hardly any time to find our way in that city so it was mere luck we went out to the that's important yes for 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. for the 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 in past which was raised in the air 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. in the law of the sea the captain is the last person to leave the vessel. in the news that captain. 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 flee. because we could not see the crude south please don't get us wrong exactly.