paleontology it was their determination and no small amount of digging that revealed a dinosaur jackpot alison r.c. the more regions. if you are right get into debt the bank is on our backs without delay yet it's only now that america which shows trillions is seeing its credit score decline all our talk show host laurie harmfulness asks me full of new york why americans are so keen on bora way. why do you think so many people allowed themselves to get so far and that is the is the age that we live in everybody sees the person next door that they've got the brand new car that the lifestyle and that's what they want is so much advertising and people just want you to spend money so i think that's the difference between americans and europeans but you have advertising in europe are you just you don't pay attention to it or. i think we pay less attention to it and we probably think a little more about what we need and what we can afford it's all about thinking yes i think so is it worse for you to be into personally that it is for a government to be in that. it's much worse for a government to be and w

alison thanks r.c. . well to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be back with some of our main news stories about eight minutes from now the meantime we talk to the former head of russia's central bank to talk about the financial troubles piling up in both the eurozone and the us and they feel like a relatively recent phenomena but viktor. says the debts have been swirling around for ages and is now being used as a political pawn. if it wasn't a russian to hello and thank you very much for being here you became had of the central bank when russia began pursuing its shock therapy policy following advice from american accents how would you advise your american colleagues now with the situation they are facing. you. live within your means that's all that's just what they told us back then with no idea at all about our economic and social situation at the time that was in one nine hundred ninety two when we began well parts of the government began to listen to their advice after russia joined the i.m.f.