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n Afghanistan , it's believe Mr Brown will say he's aggreed in principle to send around 500 extra British troops to Helmand . The military advice says that extra forces are needed to help maintain progress and dominate the ground more effectively to keep the Taliban out of key areas. However ,there will be caveats. The prime minister will want assurances from military chiefs to follow suit by offering more fores themselves . NATO defense ministers are likely to discuss troop levels on a meeting formally in Bratislava next week.
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Stock markets in Europe and United Stated have fallen sharply in response to further signs that the debt crisis in Greece is intensifying and Paris fell by more than 2% after a major international credit rating agency Standard &Poor's downgraded Geerk debt to a level known informally as junk Nils Blythe has more .
Standars &Poor's downgraded its assessment of Greek bonds to the so-called junk status because of the growing danger that the bond holders will not be paid back in full. Many big investment funds have rules that forbid them from holding junk bonds,says the move is likely to trigger a further round of selling . Share markets have taken fright,fearing that if Greece does default o 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.
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The International Monetary Fund has told governments across the world that further action is needed to help return the global financial system to stability . In a fresh estimate of the scale of the problem,the IMF says global losses on toxic assets could total four trillion dollars . Andrew walker reports .
This report does identify what it calls some early signs of stabilization in financial systems , but there are mot many of them . And the IMF says further action will be needed if they're to be sustained. In two key areas ,it says that progress by governments has been piecemeal and reactive , dealing with the problem the report says temporary government ownership may sometime be necessary.
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Officials in Germany say the total financial aid package for Greece could be more than double , the 60 billion dollars that is previously expected . The head of the international monetary fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is in Berlin trying to persuade Germany to agree to the financial rescue plan. He said the deal needed to be implemented quickly as the situation was getting worse every day and could affect other European countries . But the German Chancellor Angola Merkel said Berlin needed to be searching that Greece was serious about spending cuts.
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The head of the International Monetary Fund says Greece has nothing to
fear fromthe organization . At a news conference in Washington ,Dominique Steauss-Lahn said the IMF was trying to provide Greece with the advi