war shot -- worship. president obama signed into law the most wide-ranging financial reform since the 1930's. welcome to "bbc world news." broadcast to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. coming up later for you, digging up romania's dictator, another milestone for facebook. the internet giant has signed up half of a billion users. experts have warned in an increase in deaths over the continued decades because of the use of asbestos in the developing world. investigations by the bbc and international consortium of investigative journalists have promoted the sale of asbestos. india is a leading consumer and imports much from canada, zimbabwe, and russia. we have a report from the biggest producer in russia on the dangers in the dust. >> this old soviet propaganda film expels the wonders of the product that gave the city its name, asbestos. from around the world they are lining up to purchase an asbestos simulator. the supplies and less. today they say that russia rather than the ussr are holding the ground more than 10 kilometers long. this is still the biggest asbestos mine in

obama's assertion fails on three grounds. first, the wars, tax cuts and prescription drug programs were implemented in the early 2000's yet by 2007 the deficit stood at $161 billion. when our colleagues across the aisle took over the congress, the deficit stood at $161 billion. i go back to quote. how could these stable policies have suddenly caused trillion-dollar deficits beginning in stpwhine obviously what happened was collapsing revenues from the recession along with stimulus spending. second the president's $8 trillion figure minimizes the problem. recently, c.b.o. data indicated 10-year baseline deficit closer to $13 trillion if washington maintains today's tax and spend policies whereby discretionary spending grows with the economy, we're spending, obama care is implemented and congress spends the bush -- extends the bush tax cuts. and the medicare doc fix. thunder realistic baseline the 10-year cost of extending the bush tax cuts $3.2 trillion, the medicare drug entitlement, the iraq and afghanistan spending add up to $4.7 trillion, approximately 1/3 of the deficit, thirdly and most importantly, the white house meth