Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im anna edwards. Greece cross the first of many hurdles today by paying its obligation to the imf. What is next for the country that is still locked up in talks with creditors over reforms . For more, we are joined by manus cranny in paris at the same event as greeces finance minister, yanis varoufakis. Now that this bill has been paid, will greece make it this month . What is the next crunch time . Hopefully so. There is one billion still to be rolled over next week. There is the 1. 5 billion euros to be paid in pensions. Greece hasnt had any Financial Aid since last august. It has been depleting cash reserves quickly and heavily. Theres not much left in the greek offers. Thats for sure. The republic has been tapping reserves from every source imaginable. There hasnt been a very heavy burden from the payments front. I think that was a technicality. The greek republic will not default on that debt. I think the april 24 meeting of the eurogrou
Guy the plan may be considered if the greek government fails to convince its creditors that it can secure more funds. A former ecb president spoke to bloomberg. Nobody is optimistic, frankly speaking, on greece. We have to be totally realistic and it all depends on maturing of the position of the government understanding that in any case if it wants to deliver growth and jobs, which is the main goal of that government, it has to produce Recovery Program that inspires confidence to the international community. Guy Jean Claude Trichet speaking in singapore. Francine seems pretty candid. For more, we are joined by one of our reporters. Standard chartered banks chief economist. How do you interpret what the our bloomberg scoop about the ecb . You have to present some reforms and you have to do this as soon as possible. The may 11 europe meeting may be the last date this is acceptable so that greece can present a full list of reforms that bode well with what they want to see. I think they a
Colleague lucy noland. applause . Thank you. Thank you all very much for joining us. We are thrilled to have you here iain thank you so much as well. You know the primary for philadelphia mayor is now less than one month away. Time flies. Only one republican is in the race but the field of democrats its a crowded one with six candidates all vying for their partys nomination. We have all six candidates with us for this debate. And a quick reminder for our audience please refrain from any applause in the end of our debate. We of course are very happy to have you here and weve dot to keep things moving of course. So now on to our candidates. We begin with Lynne Abraham. She served as Philadelphia District attorney for 19 years. Lynne abraham has 40 Years Experience as da, judge and head of philadelphias Redevelopment Authority. Next to her former Municipal Court judge nel see diaz. He serve as the judge for the Philadelphia Court of common pleas from 1981 through 1993. He has served as Ci
District attorney lynne ape abraham. The former p kenney kenney. The former Vice President of margareting and communications for e1pgw, doug oifrlt. Otr t hahp hc rmer state senator milton jf street. Andt curren. 3 state in senator, anthony williams. Quickni reminder,82tu┐3uz onee1 minute to answer each question. We will begin with this. I think all of you would agree that education is really a key issue in this election. The 84 million budget shortfall is a cloudlp hanging over our city and over the education system. As you may know mayor nutter has proposed a 9. 3 property tax that your q solution . 4 and if not, where would you find the money. Lets start with you Lynne Abraham. Thank you, jim. And thanks to nbc 10. I believe in a the recommendation of our mayor uq we put anotherco ngocnr9. 3 tax on real estat] is really regressive, and it hurts the people that most need to hold on to their dollars. I think i have urged city council to take up thejf issue of School Funding before t
Racism and Police Brutality. They are calling attention to social issues here in philadelphia things like unemployment and low wages lets listen to some of the sights and sounds of this rally as it is getting underway. If we dont get it it gets so much Media Attention and is still ignored by so many people who is to say i am not the next victim. Dont want to see anybody hurt or fighting or any of that going on but we need to be heard. And as we look back live, the crowd is beginning to grow now and listening to speakers, on the blow horn getting them excited on this today, in terms of Police Presence you can see many police at this point. They are keeping their distance only helping to facilitate, the second group of protesters to join the original group and they are keeping their distance at this point they are not visible and allowing their demonstrators room to express their feelings and we expect this group to be on the move, its unclear which direction they are going in and they w