gary herbert of utah is among the republicans from utah who says we should be using the debt ceilingleverage to cut spending. >> he's here to make the case. proponents like yourself say what other leverage would they have to extract some spending cuts from the democrats, but there are those who feel it's irresponsible to use the debt ceiling as a leverage point of some kind. what do you say? >> well, i think it's absolutely irresponsible that continue to spend like we're spending in washington, d.c. we've gone from borrowing 40 sent out of every dollar we're spending to now at 42 cents of every dollar we're spending and no end in sight. that's the irresponsibility. i think it's unfortunate and really disheartening that we don't -- that we have this even confrontation coming up. why don't we see some leadership out of the democrats and out of president where they say we understand we've got to have spending cuts and actually propose some. they have got some revenue enhancements already. we don't have to have a confrontation. just propose some spending cuts that make some sense, some e

next hour max kaiser and stacey herbert focus on how british authorities are handling the financial crisis and how they've tried to manipulate public perception . well gary's government is expected to block the russian finas construction of a new nuclear power plant this comes after a national referendum voted in favor of the project the vote however was invalidated due to a low turnout bulgaria's allies in europe and the us feared the project would mean energy dependence on russia and p. room men of shadow over says authorities did their best to bring the vote down. now to some other international news in brief workers in athens have gone on a two day strike with hundreds on the streets protesting against austerity measures that will make deep cuts to their paper five hundred medical staff chanted slogans in front of the health ministry doctors port workers and public transport staff took part in a number of different demonstrations across the greek capital. egypt's top of politicians have reportedly signed a document drew lancing widespread violence said protests across the country the agree men came at a meeting attended by leaders of the muslim brother