a matter of time before the single currency collapses joining me now to discuss the issues is patrick young editor of the gathering storm a collection of essays detailing a possible financial records apocalypse thanks so much for joining us patrick lovely to have you on show again now the first time after you think we'll still have your own father ten years time well it has to be said katrina i mean it really is difficult i mean but between the apocalypse or the acropolis i mean all things are pointing towards disaster and that's only the letter of the alphabet isn't it i mean quite simply we've got a situation where the e.u. leaders have been sleepwalking their way into a dreadful crisis and we wrote about it not book a year ago we've had a number of other instances where people have been talking about it all across the media sphere for a long period of time i mean the situation was very acute i mean greece was basically run out of money so it would probably do better if greece actually exited your resume but there's a certain stubbornness in a pigheadedness around by the e.u. that says th

number of commentators who think it's only a matter of time before the single currency collapses patrick young editor of the gathering storm describes the possible consequences of europe does integration there is a credible possibility i mean if the euro actually is going to collapse then there is a very very significant process because after all the euro is the second most important currency on the planet i mean roughly one third of all the world's reserves are in u.s. dollars something like twenty five percent are held in europe so if the eurozone goes into a debt spiral that causes a huge problem it causes a fundamental crisis of confidence in the money that people hold in their pockets at the same time it quite possibly gives russia an incredible opportunity because in fact it may well be that other currencies such as even the ruble male timidly be regarded as being safer here vns for investors and to that end the russian government is going to have obviously a considerable struggle to manage to keep the economy going but hopefully they'll be able to pull through however the excising the h

to borrow more but the house of representatives has voted down a bill to raise the debt ceiling patrick young editor of the gathering storm a book about the financial meltdown and these american politicians are suffering from a collective delusion. but we're in a very very dangerous game of chance aren't we i mean it's quite incredible that the americans are so oblivious to the real politic of their economic situation that they're even willing to breach their debt ceiling and go towards the fact that they could run out of money pragmatically we really must hope that they don't do so but at the same time well i'm not very confident because quite honestly the democratic party don't seem to have the slightest understanding of the real world or indeed the real america the good news is that at least for those of us who are some way away from america we won't have to head to the hills and manage to finish our own sweaters and trade beans in order to eat or something but it's certainly going to be a very difficult situation i mean the odds are that america will come up with a hardship the eleven far

rather than pure affiliate barcott fantastical thank you so much for your insight there that's patrick young editor of the gathering storm and that's only have time for here on the business i'll see you again in just under an hour's time. you live not only next to the border of the gulf of egypt but also on the border of peace and war. they are responsible not only for themselves. but also for their loved ones. they are ready to take any risk. one or. the close up team has been to build a brand reach thank you all the turning point i'm bringing more to. this time party goes to the region where half.

the two characters played previously by sir ian mckellen and sir patrick stewart charles xavier and magneto. and you get to see them as youngt is patrick stewart's professor x., he's brilliantly played. he's very sort of chased and wise. my guys kind of randy and silly. and -- >> jimmy: and he also -- and has a scottish accent too? >> no. he's not got a scottish accent, he has an english accent. >> jimmy: oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. patrick stewart, yeah, here he is here, as xavier there. >> yeah, some big shoes to fill man. yeah, size 14s. >> jimmy: yeah and he's in a wheelchair as well. >> yeah, he is. i can walk in this one. >> jimmy: woah. >> yeah, i know. >> jimmy: do you find out why he ends up in a wheelchair? >> you do find out why he ends up in a wheelchair. >> jimmy: how far into the movie do we find out? >> right at the end. >> jimmy: darn. you need to watch the whole thing. >> jimmy: that's how they get you, yeah. >> you never watch all of my movies, jimmy. >> jimmy: i know, i watch the first ten minutes of your movies. >> the other big thing -- >> jimmy: and then i wish we were in the "band of brothers" together. [ l

young infants. >> thompson: pediatric radiologist patrick barnes was a key prosecution witness in the most famousken baby case of all, the trial of louise woodward. woodward was a 19-year-old nanny charged in 1997 with shaking an eight-month-old baby to death, hitting his head, and causing fatal bleeding. with barnes' help, woodward was found guilty of second-degree murder. >> ( crying ) >> thompson: the case would be a turning point for barnes. >> i was really affected by all of that, and began to question my role as a pediatric radiologist and a neuroradiologist, as part of the child abuse team in these particular cases. shaking was irrelevant in that case, in retrospect.i >> thompson: but it was clear that something had happened to the child. >> the child had an impact injury. you can't get a skull fracture from shaking. you can't get a wrist fracture from shaking. >> thompson: but the prosecution's theory was this child was shaken. >> that's correct, and at that time, that was my theory, going into that case based on my previous 20 years of experience in child abuse, and accepting shaken baby

but for year after year, there were -- there was almost always one young man who entered the fryers so i can look back over father patrickne after another from that parish we got the nickname the vallejo dominicans and we wear that proudly. >> how do you feel today about guiding people through the spiritual gift of a retreat? how do you feel about being the former of that work? >> it is a wonderful job. it really is. i don't actually lead a lot of the retreats i do one retreat every quarter called the silent retreat, and that is for people who really basically want to do their own thing most of the time. so it is as much or as little as they may be looking for in terms of guidance. >> i thing you pointed to it that you can find what you need at valimbrosa and you are open to ideas, there is plenty of room for plenty of people to stay there is great food, great leadership, great things going on. and it is all vailable at www.valimbrosa.org they can be in touch. i don't want to miss anything we have a new years eve retreat, a mothers day retreat all kinds of special things going on tell us about those they are out of the o