Manufacturing activity is contracting across Europe and most of Asia, data showed on Thursday, and a Chinese official declared that the<br />world economy faces a worse situation than in 2008 when Lehman<br />Brothers collapsed. <br /><br />Al Jazeera speaks to Seijiro Takeshita in London, the director of Mizuho International, a London-based securities and investment banking arm of Mizuho financial group.
