greece slashes its debt in a complex deal with its creditors, but is it out of the woods? and italians question a rescue operation in which two hostages were killed, and we visit a symbol of hope in one of the worst-hit tsunami towns. welcome to bbc world news. i m peter dobbie. a scarf appeared, but who knitted it? yesterday the question was will they? won t they? now we know they will. the greek government now has many signed up to swap debt. the deal will see more than 100 billion youros being written off. however the creditors will lose more than 70% of their investments. the prospect of the greek default has been averted for the dime being. it has been avoided now. that s the help for the greek government. it was facing default as early as the 20th of march when it has to pay out bond holders money it doesn t have. now lit get its bailout and be able to meet its bond redemption on the 20th of march and avoid default and avoid an exit from the euro zone. so this
have a great morning. a dpaed deadly storm hammers more than a dozen states. brings a foot of snow and extremely dangerous conditions. there s a couple spots i flew over, just road bumps and i went wiggly ziggly. dave price has more. after days of secret meetings, senate democrats have hammered out a health care compromise. will it get enough votes? we ll ask howard dean. an oklahoma woman is forced to defend herself with a shotgun during a violent home invasion. they need to hurry. he s going to bring it open. if he does i ll have to kill him, ma am. i don t want to kill him. the intruder ends up dead and the woman grief-stricken. more troubles for tiger woods as gatorade dismisses his drink and his mother-in-law is rushed to the hospital. the latest on woods woes early this wednesday morning, december 9, 2009. good morning, it is a snowy, wet morning in the northeast. this is yorktown heights, new york, where you can see the bad weather that was effecti