the european nuclear research center or simply cern operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world its most celebrated project is the large hadron collider the giant facility built to task fundamental physical theories it's a unique particle accelerator that unites scientists from nearly one hundred countries some seven hundred russians to take part in constructing the collider and many of them continue to work its or. however mr herder thank you for joining us on the show. welcome mr heard rush has started the procedure of joining has an associate member well what are the benefits well first of all for russian scientists of this procedure can you can you tell us please where the benefit is not only for russian scientists the benefit is for russian nationals in general engineers technicians in the administration every there because they can apply for positions at certain limited duration for example and then learn doing science or engineering new technologies in an international environment and then bring this back into that country so this is a big opportunity for rus

so that comes over here in r t shooting itself in the food for state's expert cern's doubt that you could end up at the losing end up at the bar go on iranian oil. say or a sinner or the man accused of being wiki leaks source of american secrets is banned as branded a terrorist by some while others nominate him for the nobel peace prize. the greek pm look as papa davis has warned of uncontrollable konami chaos if parliament does not approve a plan for fresh cuts on sunday new austerity measures have already been adopted by the greek calendar to secure one hundred thirty billion euro bailout from the e.u. and the international monetary fund without it the country could default in march six ministers have already resigned in protest over the new const package and some m.p.'s coalition parties are threatening to vote against it in parliament the draft bill suggests firing fifteen thousand civil servants and lowering the minimum wage biggest trade unions have held a forty hour strike against the new measures while demonstrators clashed with police on friday margaret burbridge of the financial

before that happens ok maher well what do you think about this is there anything to do is cheer for cern in democracy the way we were promised that in libya morrow if i can go to you in princeton i mean how much of a say is that a geo political play because this is something the saudis are just drooling over there is so pleased about this and a lot of people in media don't like to talk about the shia sunni sunni sectarian difference here which is playing a very big role in what's going on in syria right now. well peter let me just to get back to what was discussed previously before the interruption i mean there are two dimensions to the to the situation in syria now there's on the one hand a very legitimate powerful movement of civilians who are claiming in fact change in the country and access to democracy to social justice to economic and political rights and this should not be undermined this this is a powerful and legitimate movement which started peacefully it's been only since a month or a few weeks that it has become militarized which is in fact leading to the internationalization

die before that happens ok maher well what do you think about this is nothing to do with cheer for cern in democracy the way we were promised that in libya morrow if i can go to you in princeton i mean how much of this is that a geo political play because this is something the saudis are just drooling over there is so pleased about this and a lot of people in media don't like to talk about this shia sunni sunni sectarian difference here which is playing a very big.

before that happens ok maher well what do you think about this is there anything to do is cheer for cern in democracy the way we were promised that in libya my wife i go to you in princeton i mean how much of his state.

are built here or and the reason why is becoming less attractive is first on because deposits in cern's of common are but also our losses needs to be a players. margins themselves will carry through the streets because the banks are actually fulfilling their own prophecy down that yields not the prices on assets that they would buy for character in the first place and quickly if you could sum up in thirty seconds and i know that's quite a feat what you think this briefly says all these the quiddity operations about the potential for a prolonged zombie banking system in europe i think we're certain are for a disaster on the eurozone side and it will be a global level disaster it's a disaster which will unfold in about three years time but the e.c.b. will have to decide how that one of the l.t.r. was and the amount of liquidity that has been programmed into the system is going to flow out into the economy we're going to see inflation we're going to see double digit interest rates and we're going to see very high rates as well down at the e.c.b. and the combination of the banks pushing up

. >> alex hoffman is a scientist, american, worked at cern, worked on the large hedron collide never switzerland and in con jix-- conjunction with this smooth and suave english banker he goes into the financial markets. they set up a hedge fund called hoffman. >> rose: there seems to be a series of things happening to mr. hoffman. >> yes, i mean i wanted to play around with this idea of fear. and the way in which actually the world seems much more fearful these days because of the, i think because of the internet and because of the way we're all wired up now, and the panic of ripples of fear spread across the world. >> rose: there are forces at work that we never imagined. what has arisen of asia, in terms of the world's relationship or what it might be. >> the more information it has it seems the more paranoid one becomes so the internet and the financial markets act like a kind of giant echo chamber. and i wanted to embody this in this character of hoffman so the book opens with him asleep in his $60 million mansion on the shores of lake geneva and then an intruder breaks in. >> ro