comply with an international ultimatum to call presidential elections in the coming hours eight european countries including germany france and britain earlier said they would officially recognize self declared interim president. if the duro failed to act. in its entirety is hashed underspent to. us. in the whole of this feel a little piece of joy to go i do as president and i can participate in this is the most seem to have been playing a german report for you which is natural since for torture bella let s talk to our caracas correspondent this is an interview i conducted with him earlier in the day oscar schleicher i asked him about what kind of reaction we can expect from european states since they have set a deadline on sunday for president maduro to agree to hold fresh presidential elections and he has now said he s rejecting that deadline well we can extract you can bet on the rest of his european countries that said that eight days ago won t
to greece. that s just what we do here. the european council president is calling it the most critical moment in the history of the euro zone much leaders have until sunday to finalize a deal in hopes of preventing a financial collapse. yesterday was supposed to be the day for proposal to be submitted. european officials were caught off guard when greek s prime minister showed up to the meeting without a detailed plan. with us now live from athens nbc news foreign correspondent keir simmons. good to see you this morning. how soon will we see this plan from greece? good question. we thought we were going to see it yesterday. now they re being told that they have to have it presented by thursday in time for a deadline on sunday. i guess the good news is that it looks as if finally, finally the europeans who you ll know are can be so indecisive and like talking and not doing, getting focused on how serious this really s the president of the