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. >>> welcome to another week of wbt. i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >>> i'm nina dos santos in london. debt talks deja vu. european leaders try yet again to save greece and the single currency. >>> ryanair dedefies forecasts. >>> we take these jobs at the pleasure of the president. at a time when he faced so much challenge, so much pressure, if the president asks you to do this, you have to do them. >>> treasury secretary timothy geithner talks exclusively about america's economy, the eurozone and laying the groundwork for growth. >>> forgive us if you've heard this one before. eu leaders will gather in brussels this monday to secure the future of the eurozone, but there is going to be an elephant in the room, and that elephant is called greece. now we may be close to an agreement on writing down one lot of greek debt, but big questions remain over athens ability to repay its next bailout installment. the country's creditors are demanding that it live up to its promises on implementing straight austerity measures, but

. >>> hello and welcome to wbt. i'm nina del santos in london. >> the stories this january the 18th. >>> the battle lines withdrawn. proposed site, including wikipedia shut down in protest. >>> jerry yang, a one time visionary, quits as yahoo tries to chart a new course. >>> and driven to destruction by the data deluge. how working away from your desk is affecting your work rate when you get back to it. >>> imagine a world without free knowledge. those are the words on the home page of wikipedia, which has taken down its website as part of a coordinateded political protest supported by websites, including google, mindcraft, and boing boing. they're proposing legislation in the u.s. that would block access to sites containing copyrighted material. media organization supporting the bills says piracy costs them billions of dollars. but wikipedia's co-founder says free speech is at risk. >> at issue is this law is very badly written, very broad, overreaching, and would -- at least the senate version, it includes an emf

. >>> hello and welcome to "wbt," i'm andrew stevens in hong kong. >>> and i'm nina dos santos in london. >>> a bad situation just got worse. there are red faces in europe after a ratings downgrade but greece is the country that's the real epicenter of the debt crisis this week. >>> as search and rescue attempts continue, the focus moves 0en to who is to blame for the sinking of a giant ocean liner off the italian coast. >>> and we'll tell you which production houses is big at the golden globes and what these awards tell us about the upcoming oscar ceremonies. >>> first up, though, if the new year promised a new europe, well, some people could be disappointed. standard & poors last week had other ideas completely. to nobody's great surprise, this particular influential company decided to downgrade the credit scores of nine countries across the euro zone on friday. these particular downgrades apply to a large swath of central and southern europe. it is this country in the center here, france, that is commanding all the headlines today. this after france lost its treasured aaa rating. that

we'll be back with ali velshi for the next edition of wbt. it includes the opening bell on wall street. we'll see you then. call the number on your screen. >>> this week on "marketplace middle east." they pay a visit to latin ameri america. we sit down with the ceo of asia latin american middle east partners. >>> after trading threats and counter threats with washington for weeks, iran seems determined to push ahead with its controversial nuclear program. this week's the u.n.'s watchdog agency has confirmed that iran has begun enriching uranium at its facility. it's situated in the mountains south of tehran. the government says it needs the fuel for medical purposes, not to build weapons, something western nations don't believe. >>> as iran fights for a nuclear autonomy, the country is lobbying its allies. the president was in latin america this week on a four nation tour to venezuela, anything car walk wa, ecuador and cuba. cnn's rafael romo has the story. >> reporter: this is the sixth time mack mud ahmadinejad has visited latin america. he

. >> you can see that full interview on the later edition of "wbt." 10:00 p.m.in hong kong, 3:00 p.m. in central europe. tune in to see the interview of paul otellini. >>> 3d's time really it seems has never really come at least in the television space. some have been blaming the glasses, others say it's a lack of content and available. we have a report now from the las vegas consumer electronics show. he's been taking a look at how tvmakers want to get 3-d tv into your living room. >> reporter: we're at the consumer electronics show, one of the big things that's happening at 3-d televisions, next generation 3-d tv with glasses, without the glasses, all the hype is about 3-d tv. we've got it right here. so i'm seeing a couple things, one is glasses-free tv, toshiba is selling this. it gives you the 3-d effect pretty well from what i've seen in early samples. you have to sit kind of in the right place. they say they have nine seating positions that you can sit in. that's pretty good. a middle ground that i like is what they call passive 3-d. very cheap glasses, s

. >> when rick santorum sponsored earmark after earmark, i wbt down to the floor and fought against those, earmarks are gateway to corruption. >> corruption, pretty harsh word. when you have mitt romney so far ahead of these polls, why go negative? >> well, first off, nobody tells john mccain what to say. i served him for 18 years and nobody tells john mccain what to say. i'm sure that was a self-initiated statement on his part. i phappen to believe that -- i disagree with john on that position, for example. i think mitt has run a positive position. it's all about his view of how to govern the country better than the president has governed it. that's not a high hurdle but he's talking about taking us down the road of continuing american excellence and exceptionalism versus the obama path. that's the message that i think needs to be delivered and he's delivering it effectively. >> do you think new hampshire's status is such an independently minded state gets diluted at all if they go the way of iowa and elect mitt romney. >> iowa has very little impact here in our state. we do tend to be v