M: No?

W: I mean, yeah, I have moments of it, but I don’t wanna wish that I am not me, I don’t wish I were

someone else.

M: What is it that you want to feel about your life? M: Well, thank you, Madonna.

SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST

NEWS ITEM 1

Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply in response to further signs

that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and could spread to other countries. Share prices in

New York, London, Frankfurt and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit

rating agency Standard & Poor’s downgraded Greek debt to a level known informally as junk.

Share markets have taken fright, fearing that if Greece does

default on its debts, it would hit many European banks which hold Greek bonds and could trigger a

wider financial crisis. Already pressure is mounting on Portugal which has also seen its credit rating

downgraded today, although it remains above junk status.

NEWS ITEM 2

Officials in the Philippines say at least a hundred people have died in floods and landslides in

the north triggered by a week of heavy rain. This follows two storms in the past two weeks which

have already left about 300 people dead. Reports said that even some evacuation centers had been

flooded.

heavy rain following the second typhoon in just over a week to hit the nation. Typhoon Parma has

lingered in the north of the country turning into a tropical depression. It follows Typhoon Ketsana

which killed more than 300 people when it hit on September 26.

NEWS ITEM 3

ruling will likely allow states to resume executions which had been on hold pending the Supreme

Court decision. Virginia’s governor has already lifted his state’s moratorium on executions.