Erstellt am: 31. 7. 2014 - 13:29 Uhr

Scaremongering or real threat?

Reality Check: Growing nervousness as deadly Ebola virus spreads; Argentina defaults on debt payments.

Ebola Outbreak

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While Sierra Leone declares a state of public emergency to tackle the worst ever outbreak of Ebola, the British government calls a crisis meeting. Who is really threatened by the virus? We speak to Dr Michael Kühnel from the Austrian Red Cross, who recently returned from a four week mission to Sierra Leone, and who has been blogging about the situation.

Argentina Debt Default

Argentina has defaulted on its debt - "for the second time in 13 years" is the emphasis in the media. How exactly does this default relate to what happened in 2001, when the country went into economic meltdown? Jeremy Smith from Prime Economics