and what germany has to pay for its debt obviously german debt can be acquired much cheaper or the germans have to pay less to to borrow money and you have to pay much more because there is a greater risk involved so the higher the spread the more the italians have to pay and it's no surprise that with this new government the spread has gone up continuously and experts expect this to continue now even more that they have rejected what the e.u. commission is proposing and so it's something that the rising spread the rising cost for italy to refinance its debt might make them think twice in the next weeks . to africa eritrea and ethiopia recently signed a peace agreement it followed years of conflict you know eritrea remains one of africa's most oppressive regimes it doesn't have a free press there is no political opposition in the country our correspondent