mr. berlusconi will the prime minister was speaking.arlier in the day, emergency talks with the euro zoned chief. the italians are fearful they could see themselves dragged into a greek-style financial crisis began in italy cannot sustain the over 6% interest rate they will be called upon to pay to service its mountain of debt. this is the last session of the italian parliament before the summer recess. when they return from holiday, there is no telling how the financial crisis will have played out. bbc news, rome. >> now we in britain, the son at hacking -- phone hacking scandal has gone further. heather mills has said that be -- the "mirror" group unit -- journalists packed communications with the sir paul mccartney. >> tonight, heather mills alleges a senior journalist admitted to hacking at a phone at message left for her by sir paul. >> he said, "oh, i year you have had it a big argument with your boyfriend." i said, you have obviously hacked my from. he said "ok, ok, we did here on your voice messages." >> the journalist heather m

mr. berlusconi will the prime minister was speaking. earlier in the day, he had rushed to luxembourg with emergency talks. italians remained fearful for weather -- that they could soon find themselves dragged into a greek-style financial crisis. italy cannot sustain the over 6% interest rate that will be called upon to pay it to service its mountain of debt. this was the last session of the italian parliament before the summer recess. when they return from their holidays, at the beginning of september, there is no telling how the financial crisis will played out. >> the headlines this hour. the u.s. -- the u.n. security council has condemned syria's use of force against civilians. >> wind on a stretcher in court, mubarak is charged with ordering the killing of protesters. >> the u.n. security council's condemnation of serious use of force against civilians. aaron david miller is a former adviser to the u.s. state department. he helped broker the agreement between israel, jordan, syria, and the palestinians. i asked him what options the

approved despite resistance from local governors who said the move all damaged economic growth by mr berlusconi said the measures will meet the wishes of europe's central bank which had been demanding that italy balances a budget and it was thirty plan includes an extra so-called solidarity tax for high earners. armored vehicles and tanks events of the syrian coastal city of latakia forcing local residents to flee according to activists a day earlier the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton called on all countries to stop by syrian. military came up to government troops once again crack down a mission was. sixty people reportedly killed in the violence the united nations security council plans to meet on thursday to discuss further sanctions against syria. germany is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the construction of the berlin wall ceremonies in the capital started with a memorial service and a minute's silence to honor those who died trying to flee from communist controlled east germany to the west the wall spread for nearly one hundred sixty kilometers dividing the city for over twen

your own hounds effectively appley you go to do something and ultimately the latest a hughes that mr berlusconi has come up with where he's going to say if i think sort of forty eight or fifty billion a year and he's going to balance the budget in a couple of years time and somewhere over the horizon everything will be sweetness and light is just not enough to be going away so what happens tomorrow the market open i think very simply we're going to see an incredible amount of volatility although at the same time i suspect that there may be a more muted response from the american dime grid because to be quite frank it's been so widely discussed for so long that perhaps the impact on the american treasury market won't be quite as acute as we might have expected that said we're in for a very exciting day bugsy year of the where does the crunch come how long can the talking go i mean there's major disagreement among e.u. leaders about what to do the talking about expanding the rescue fund buying the government bonds and debt in states thinking about italy but you know when it is crunch time here we

mr. berlusconi. [speaking italian] >> translator: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, honorable congressmen and congresswomen, i am here to they've give you the status -- to give you the status of the italian situation of the consequences of the international crisis and the decisions of the government. everybody sees that the problems of the emergency in these last few weeks are the direct consequence of a confidence crisis that shakes the markets all over the world and continues. both because of the uncertainty on the euro and the push of the speculation. we need to confront this crisis firmly without chasing the anxieties of the market because it fuels them. [speaking italian] >> translator: our country has a solid political system that demonstrated it was able with the opposition's support to approve in only 38 days an economic maneuver of almost 80 billion euros. heeding the invitation of national cohesion by the president, we have solid economic fundamentals. our banks are liquid, solvent and easily passed the stress test in europe. we also registered s

mr. berlusconi. >> [speaking italian] >> translator: thank you, mr. president. mr.sident, honorable congressmen and congresswomen, i am here to give you the status of the italian economic situation on the consequences of the international crisis and the decisions of the government. everybody sees that the problems of the emergency in these last few weeks are the direct consequence of a confidence crisis that shakes the markets all over the world that continues both because of the uncertainty on the euro and the push of the speculation. we need to come from this crisis firmly without chasing the anxieties of the market because it fuels them. our country has a solid political system that demonstrated it was able with the opposition support to approved and only 38 days and economic maneuver of almost 80 billion euros cheating the invitation to the cohesion by the president. we have solid economic fundamentals. our banks are liquid, solvent and easily passed the stress test in europe. we also registered significant signs of recovery. in july we have registered a signifi

mr. silvio berlusconi. >> mr. president, honorable congressmen and women, i am here to give you the status of the italian economic situation. of the consequences of the international crisis and the decision of the government. everybody sees a that the problems of the emergency in these last few weeks are a direct consequence of a confidence crisis that shakes the markets all over the world. it continues because of the euro and the push of speculation. we need to confront this crisis firmly without chasing the anxieties of the market's because it feels them. r. country -- it fuels them. our country demonstrated that it was able with the opposition's support to approve in only 38 days and economic maneuver of almost 80 billion euros, heeding the invitation by the president. we have solid fundamentals. our banks are liquid, solvent, and it easily passed the stress tests in europe. we also registered significant signs of recovery. in july, we have registered a significant decrease of the hours claimed for unemployment