To not have greece means not just getting rid of the country of its population, its g. D. P. But to prevent us from having a country which is at the heart of our civilization. A cups are you which is not only in our history but is part of our culture. Greece is a country a friendly country that wanted to a member of the our Pine Community after years of dictate ore ship. They wanted to come not our own zone there could have building discussion on his its ability to assure this transition, its entry in the eurozone. All the democratic parties told us that greece wanted to remain in the ire ozone it could have made another choice it want today make this choice, be in the eurozone and remain in the eurozone. And our duty was to allow it to do so to inning sure that it is a choice that gives it a solution, nothing would have been worse than to maintain it in a monetary zone and not give it the conditions for its development. And that is the reason why today there has been long negotiations because if greece had been left the eurozone, come out of the eurozone what would people have said the eurozone is not capable to insure its solidarity, integrity. We have said to the greeks are not capable of taking up their own responsibilities what would sweep france and germany who have the vocation that we would not be up to the task. That the europe would sink. Europe must provide a project that supports, supports its people. Its the countries which are participants in this monetary zone what would we have said of the dislocation of the great idea. So it was necessary to succeed and building what concerns me personally, i wanted us to succeed, to be able to suck seed, to have an agreement. Succeed to provide to greets what it expected and to suck sealed and keep the principles of a institutions the friendships between france and germany and also for us to to start a new chapter in the european construction because it will be necessary for us to strengthen this monetary space that we area that we give more ability. To be able to be respected and respected and protect ourselves and also to see more growth and no doubt it will be the work over the next few days and over the next few months but today i trapping for europe it was a good night and a good day. I will take a few questions, but not many, i have to get back. About the greek Counter Party that his you yourself talk about mentions of recovery, and the word resonates. [ inaudible ] said this morning through a catalog of cruelty and european debt said that greece has extended its hand and we have twisted its arm during these negotiations when there was a time that we were seeping seeping seeking to humiliate greece. Mr. Sip ruts. And secondly on the measures to be taken before wednesday, is it fine lil herculean work and mission impossible. First of all what has been given to greece . Has been given to greece its a program negotiated and which conclude as we hope. Nineties Million Euros has never been given to a country within the framework of europe. What has been granted to Greece Greece what has been grant today greece solidarity, including monetary solidarity which will be done over the next few days, what has been requested from greece, lots have been requested from grays. Greece. And with austerity which had not provided expected results. It was requested first of all to apply reforms ones which the Prime Minister tsipras had himself seemed because he had voted it was on friday, by his parliament. A certain number of reforms. Principles which will express themselves through more specific votes on laws over the coming days. He was requested to introduce reforms, with regards to products market, employment Market Energy and which all the countries in europe the countries in europe it was requested from greece to constitute i said to you it was a long discussion. A fund where there would be assets, banks would be able to be used as guarantees for the loans that have been granted to greece. It did not want to lose its sovereignty. This funds fund had to be imagined by greek people with with the support of the european institutions. And that these funds would be used for growth in greece. And namely no investments. Finally throughout this night nothing would have been worse to be in other words to humiliate greece because it was it did not ask for charity. It wanted principles of solidarity, nothing would have been worse than to be able to propose and i did not do so, because if we wanted guarantees it was also to obtain from their parliaments. An agreement would be received. What would be the point to to have a program for greece and without forgetting our own what did the governments require in they wanted guarantees. Conditions which could be respected. In a majority of may colleagues, my compatriots, want greece to remain in the eurozone, it was not without conditions. It was legitimate that we have these hawks account it wasnt in relation to one country or the other, but the general interest of europe which is finally obtained. Okay, so that was the french president hes speaking saying the general interest europe has been obtained. Nothing could have been worse than humiliating greece. And he paid some what have a tribute to mr. Tsipras saying that he had made a courageous choice but again reiterated what so many of these heads of state and various members of this discussion has been saying, there is still a long way ahead in this discussion. But its a positive step forward. Well, lets just get some breaking news before we return to our story there in greece. And it comes to us from iraq, where the government says that its launched an offense to retake Anbar Province from isil fighters. This news was announced on state television by a spokesman from the interior ministry. He said that shia militia Iraqi Government forces and sunni tribes men were all taking part in the operation which began early on monday morning. Isil fighters seized anbar back in may, there is an operation ongoing at the moment in Anbar Province by iraqi troops, shia militia and sunni militants also to take back Anbar Province. Lets return to the discussions in greece. And speak to Jacky Rowland who is in brussels there. So question finally have a deal, jackie, finally, but still a long way ahead. Reporter yes, we do have a deal after talks that went on all night. The question is at at what price the deal and what price to greece since thats what its all about. Certainly at stages during the night there were concerns, one stage an official actually described what was going on in those closed rooms is the mental water boarding of Alexis Tsipras. A very graphic image suggesting the kind of pressure brought to bear on the greek Prime Minister, now as all the individual leaders individual National Leaders are holding their briefings to give their analysis of what happened clearly everyone is trying to presents the idea an agreement that was unanimous, take nene taken in a collegial way. It was interesting listen to merkel saying this was all consensus and unity. The bottom line is that greece has been forced to accept a lot of pressures which is certainly certainly will be very unpalatable to the greek people considering the referendum a a week ago. In particular which the stream whole question of placing greek assets in to a funds due to be privatized. Things like ports airports. Its been important for the greeks to try try to prevent from their side they have won some concessions here. When tsipras spoke clearly he was absolutely exhausted but trying to put as positive a light on what was secured at the end. For him the key points, on which he has scored Small Victories and the fact that this funds will remain inside athens. Albeit with some our phone oversight because initially there had been a proposal that it should be based in luxembourg luxembourg. The other important concession that he had rung out of his european count are parts is the idea that they would look at the restructuring of that greek debt. Angela merkel very clear that there would be no writing down the debt these air puts haircuts they talk about no Debt Forgiveness but a question of restructuring it. Francois hollande the french president swing to go put a positive gloss for greece on what had been secured here. So those debts could well be we could be looking at changing the duration of those debts so, for example a loan that was meant to be paid off in 30 years maybe now will be given until second years to pay it off. These are the kind of details being worked out at the moment. But yes, there has been an agreement here but its really only the first step. Its if you like the end of the beginning. Now, Alexis Tsipras has to go back and the Greek Parliament needs within hours to start debating this because the european the eurozone leaders are demanding a vote by the Greek Parliament to implement to put in to law all the measures that they have been demanding during these overnight talks. Thats literally 48 hours for the greeks to actually deliver a vote. There is no guarantee that this will get through parliament. There is no guarantee that Alexis Tsipras will even survive as Prime Minister bearing in mind this very bitter pill of measures that you have to swallow. Then assuming that the Greek Parliament did pass it, we have to see a number of votes in other european parliament, as the different nations of the eurozone give the mandate to go ahead and begin those talks and third greek bailout a third greek bailout in the region of 85 billion euros spread over a period of three years. Okay. Jackie, thank you for that. Well, we have also been hearing from the german chancellor angela merkel, she was speaking earlier and really emphasize that go trust needs to be rebuilt with greece. Translator the whole pape their we agreed on today will have to be adopted and passed by the Greek Parliament. Before our National Parliament can look at the matter. It will be a process as follows first of all the prior actions have to be settle by the Greek Parliament. Whole paper has to be passed then the three institutions and the euro group will give ourselves a certificate that we have what we have agreed has actually been passed. Afterwards we can en convenient the German Parliament for a special meeting. Of course we can talk about it in due course. The president of the European Council has been saying regaining trust was key to the success of reaching an agreement. This is what he had to say. There are strict conditions to be met. Several National Parliament including the Greek Parliament. The esm program to formally begin. Nevertheless, the decision gives greece a chance to bet back on the track on track with the support of european partners. Dawned tusk there. Well the greek Prime Minister has been giving his reaction to the agreement. Translator we had a strong battle now over the past six months. And up until the very end we fought really hard. And the best possible agreement which will give us the possibility for greece to stands on its feet again. So that greek can continues to carry on with their daily battles. So john is in athens, you have been listening to all of this john, just heard from mr. Tsipras there saying this deal will allow grays to stands ongreece to standson its own two feet and averting severe measures but looks as if they will suffer anyway, arent they . Reporter the there are difficult points the french president saying the Greek Parliament has to reconvene in the next few hours more debate. More political compromise that his had have to be made in athens and i think the main difficulties are going to be in rerevising the v. A. T. That the greeks have to earn. The government has to earn. Consumer spending. Over the weekend wrath he should they have already agreed to tighten up the v. A. T. Collects and raise an additional roughly 800 billion 800 million from that. Now they are going to have do moreto domore this frightens the Tourism Industry which is a key industry lear and improving the pension system. Again the greeks have said they are going to cut roughly 750 million of spending from Social Security this year, they have to look at it again. Balls unemployment is so high that Pension Funds are not viable. I think that mr. Tsipras with will put the best possible spin on all of them he will say that, look, weve got through the most difficult negotiation that greece ever had to face so far and what we have come away with is at least a promise to look at the rescheduling of debt. It was never on the table before, now it is, if the document we have seen leaked out of brussel in the last 244 hours is correct creditors should be look at the reschedule are the debt in autumn and those reviews are usually quarterly so after the first review of the new program. The second thing mr. Tsipras will say hes come away with is a whopping 82 to 86 billion euros worth of new financing for a three year period rather than a twoyear period. And the third thing is he is going to say is that he is going to start releasing the flow of liquidity against from the European Central bank to the Banking System so that banks can reopen and capital controls can begin to be lifted the difficulties are going to be in this privatization package of 50 billion euros. They will achieve 50 billion euros were the in flows from privatizing state. This was kept you were the first crisis era of the social Prime Minister george. When creditors eventually leaked the fact that greece had sign odd to this, this was uproar here. Because it was deemed that nobody could really sell 50 billion euros worth of assets in a short period of time. It was felt that either you were going to have to get rid of state assets which would being regulatory mechanisms of oversight bodies of infrastructure bodies like portal authorities and airports or you were going to have to sale land at such a fast rate, that you were going to depress land prices throughout the country and that would impact on the collateral in banks which of course, have a lot of mortgaged property as collateral against all of those nonperforming loans that they have given out. So there are going to be problems with this 50 billion euro package. Possibly fewer now that half of this package is destined to go back to the banks themselves. As a refinancing and recap recapitalization money. But there are going to be problems with that, evening on a symbolic level. Just talking about what mr. Tsipras is heading in to here john, hes leaving brussels, everybody has to go to sleep. He has another battle ahead of him. How is his future looking on the political level . Reporter well, its very simple. At this point greece is either going to pass additional measures between now and wednesday, they have 72 hours or they are going to lose all chance of staying within the eurozone. Everyone is now on this page. Its not just the germans anymore, they have managed to push the entire eurozone towards tougher deal for greece. We are no longer where we were at the beginning of the weekend where the greeks had capitulated to everything creditors wanted up until then and felt that greece would simply proceed in a technical mapper and sign onto its new bailout loan, this is an enormous new burden. To digest what additional america your honor have to be taken, what they cost the taxpayer and whether greece will be viable economically once they have been passed and once the implementation has begun, there is a lot of debate over whether these things will actually work. But has an argument. We have committed to recessionary measures. These are austerity measures, make no mistake. But we have also now received the 35 billion euro growth package and the European Commission which will more offset the recessionary effect of these measures the growth package is worth about three times as much. As the pressures that they have done up in this until this point. John in agent seconds, thank you very much. Reporter it began around 5 00 a. M. This morning it involves at least 5,000 troops within the province, and thats a mixture of the mainly shia militias, also iraqi could you are at this forces. The province will be surrounds odd three sides going up to the board we are syria by another 6,000 troops. Now, they have announced operations like this in the past before particularly in rah rah nad mad i when that was taken by isil forces in midmay. They mounted operation to his retake that back, thats a battle that is ongoing its likely that this operation will concentrate on the second city in Anbar Province, fallujah, and prove further west as we get down to there. Now also while this is all going okay we have heard that Coalition Airstrikes have hit an isil immediate Radio Station in anbar prop ins, there province, there is a lot going on at the moment. Thank you for that update. Imran swan speaking to kahn speaking to us live. An Historic Deal in iran and major world powers to end this stands off over its nuclear program. The u. S. We have these differences, james bays our diplomatic editor is in vienna there. James just looking at the latest little bits and pieces of information coming out of vee en arc its not looking promising again. Here we are again saying that a deal is close. And there has been quite a lot of optimism. We have Foreign Ministers arriving in vienna, they had a meal, a top one of the hotels here looking over a panorama of the city and it was all smiles around the table. Most the journalists here about been led to believe by our source that his a deal is pretty close, it is pretty close but there may be problems. Now are these sticking points or just the last Little Details two comments i think worth bringing to you in the last hour or so. One the Chinese Foreign minister he says no deal is perfect. All of the Foreign Ministers are now here so its time to reach a conconclusion so very much saying no deal is perfect suggesting hes trying to appeal to one or the other of the who is push this is. You get an idea who that is, when you listen to the Prime Minister of iran who is speaking to Iranian Television in the last hour. He said with cannot promise a conclusion tonight or tomorrow night. Goodness. Right, well it, it goes on. Obviously senator kerry has said he will stay for as long as he can, but not too long. How much longer do you think all these Foreign Ministers and people involved in the negotiations are willing to continue . Reporter well, you have a situation where you have seven Foreign Ministers here, six of the Foreign Ministers negotiating with iran some of the most powerful Foreign Ministers in the world. All the five permanent members of the security council. Germany and of course European Countries have a lot of on their plate as you have seep from the breaking news coming from greece, they are all stuck in vie an and some like secretary of state kerry and the Iranian Foreign minister have been here nearly three weeks put ago side all of the other troubles of the world. I dont think they can stay here forever. The iran i dont know foreign minister a few hours ago said there will be no extension. The interim dill diehl will run out today. We have to have some tough decisions of what to do in the come is hours. If we the stream he cant Reach Agreement here it will not be over. The only choice they have and its one they dont want to talk but the only choice they have is some sort of extension. One thing is certainly james, we will be speaking to you again. In afghanistan a bomb has killed people. On the outskirts of the city of military commander saying none of its personnel were hurt. Jennifer glasse has more from kabul 67 the suicide bombing happened in the early evening at one of the busiest time of the day here as afghans are rushing home to break their ramadan fast and as is often the case in the situations the dead and wounded were all afghans security personnel and civilians including women and children, even though the target appeared to be an International Base there champ chapman on the outskirts of host city. In 2009 was the site of the worst, the deadliest attack on the u. S. Intelligence service the cia in more than 25 years when 7c. 7cia agent were killed by a dumb agent there. It provides intelligence for drone strikes in eastern afghanistan and not far from the border with pakistan, just make five tink 20kilometers from the board we are pakistan. One of the more insecure provinces of afghanistan, we have seen suicide bombingses there in this a difficult fighting seases found Afghan Security forces fighting on their own without the heavy weaponry and nato support that they got from International Forces there. Mainly to train, advice and assist. U. S. Forces are engaged in Counter Terrorism actions as well. Just ahead. While fear and suspicion remain between farmers and heard man in nigh year i cant. Reporter i am in Madison Wisconsin where Governor Scott walker is now a serious contend fore the republican president ial nomination. How one mans passion. You take a piece of chocolate and you break it and you listen. Led to a lifelong obsession. 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