The prison breakout. Well the Greek Parliament vote yes . Now, there was heated debate in the Greek Parliament on whether or not to pass the latest bailout bill. They will receive 94 billion from the euro zone lenders, but in return, there will be harsh austerity measures, including tax hikes and pension cuts. The speaker just finished addressing parliament. And he acknowledged the austerity measures are harsh but he has no choice but to accept them. Violate protests as people displayed their anger over the bill. Lets bring in patricia now from athens, and patricia, whats the latest . You have a deal, it sounds like . Thats right and there are enough votes to actually push these measures through. And the lawmakers are stale weighing in and still casting but it looks like the Prime Minister has enough votes to push through these very harsh Economic Reforms that basically european creditors are demanding in order to carry the bailout forward. Talks on the bailout package worth 95 billion
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Austerity in exchange for a becameout. Unsettling. A california judge orders the release of dash cam Video Showing Police shooting an unarmed man. A Nuclear Fallout 70 years after the first big blast. Al jazeera goes inside a Rural Community when where people say the Nuclear History is killing them. Former president george h. W. Bush is in the hospital tonight. The elder bush fell and broke a vertebra in his neck in kennebunkport maine. A family Spokesman Says mr. Bush is doing good but will have to wear a neck brace. The 94yearold was hospital idessed in houston after suffering shortness of breath. The ink is rather dry and the rhetoric in washington is well under way. President obama urged lawmakers to evaluate the deal based on facts and not on politics and posturing. As Jamie Mcintire reports the agreement faces strong bipartisan resistance in capitol hill. I made notes on the arguments. Like the law professor president obama used to be, he offered point by point defense of the iss
Good morning. This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im jonathan martin. Greece is asking for urgent Financial Relief after agreeing to harsh spending cuts to pave the way for a new bailout. U. S. Treasury secretary arrived in germany to scurs the on going crise. European leaders are considering a request for emergency cash. Germanys finance minister said an outright debt cut for greece is out of the question. The reforms are wildly unpopular among many greeks. In athens, demonstrations turned violent outside parliament. Cars and trucks were torched banks and a. T. M. s were vandalized as lawmakers voted to approve the plan. We are live in athens. Parliament passed the measure but seems no one is really happy about it. It was a landslide vote, but nobody is happy. Lawmakers here faced a stark choice, either adopt reform measures, more punishing austerity measures, heap more pain on a population thats all right pushed to the financial edge, or risk the total collapse of the
Vote tonight on whether to accept harsh measures required by creditors. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras has vowed to defend the bailout, despite saying that he signed a deal he does not believe in. I overestimated the power that the people with the right on their side have, as well as the reactionary mike against the founding principles of europe which are a respect for democracy and peoples choices. What is the message sent to us by our partners . It is that there is no point for countries are in a program to hold elections, this is a very harsh message for europe. Amy president obama has continued his push to reform mass incarceration. Tuesday, he described the criminal Justice System as broken. Books the United States is home to 5 of the worlds population but 25 of the worlds prisoners. Think about that. Our incarceration rate is four times higher than chinas. We keep more people behind bars than the top 35 European Countries combined. Become more of president obamas speech after head