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
Straight ahead zblls going public. Thousands of documents from jfks assassination set to be released today. How much light will they shed on the lingering questions and conspiracy theories. Those stories plus new breakthroughs in the mysterious abduction and release of a california mother. Important new vaccine recommendations we need to know about. And houston we have liftoff. Thats into right center field, well hit. Wont be caught the astros have a stunning comeback to beat the dodgers in an extra inning thriller evening the world series at one game apiece on thursday, october 26, tweerve. More time at the airport. Gabe gutierrez at the worlds busiest airport, atlanta. Gabe, good morning to you. Savannah, good morning. Some airlines are telling passengers to arrive an extra 30 to 60 minutes earlier at overseas airports for the security measures. The changes are prompted by the same terror concerns that sparked the ban on carrying laptops aboard some International Flights last spring.
They hit him and basically we hit him hard. Connell with that, with those tensions rising we bring in former Deputy Assistant defense secretary under bush 43 peter brookes. Always good to see you, peter. This whole idea of the world getting on board and this win as it is portrayed by nikki haley over the weekend at united nations, how important is it . Its a very important. A very important step taken by the Trump Administration rallying countries like china and russia to come down hard on north korea. We can expect other countries to support us. Getting those in line to support sanctions is important. Implementation of course will be critical, colin. There is problems with potential leakage. North korea has friends in iran that people help them work around the sanctions. I think it is very important step. I think the u. N. Ambassador is correct. Win for u. S. Mission in new york, the state department and Trump Administration to this point. Connell to your point about implementation wh
Our team covering every angle of the fallout this morning. We do say good morning, america. Its great to have david here, and once again on this wednesday morning, the firestorm over president Trumps Press Conference is growing. More protests erupting at trump tower overnight. And robin, the comments sparking so much backlash. President trump saying both sides of the protesters at that charlottesville rally were to blame for the conflict and also saying, quote, there were very fine people in both groups. Also this morning, the movement to take down confederate statues and monuments across the country is growing and more of them came down yesterday in baltimore. Both republicans and democrats this morning calling out the president saying this is not about sharing blame, that parsing the blame is actually a victory for the White Supremacists and the president losing the backing of business leaders, six executives have now resigned from trumps Manufacturing Council over his comments about
Afternoon. The fbi secretly arrested an nsa kr contractor for stealing contract materials. He worked just like Edward Snowden. Another black eye for the firm and shares are moving slightly lower. We have details on what was allegedly stolen and the potential fallout here coming up. Meantime, salesforce. Com is reportedly getting more serious about this bid for twitter. Shares of both stocks moving in opposite directions, although there has been a comeback of sorts for twitter. Jim will get more on this. A possible bid for twitter by it sales force. The weaponization of finance. Thats when countries like the u. S. Use the power of banks to impose its will on other countries. Ian bremmer will explain the risks of this strategy. Its a lot to think about. Hes calling it after the gzero. Youve got the imf meetings tomorrow. This will help get us in the mood for global conversations. Lets start with western crude at 50 a barrel. Plus this discovery, more oil off the coast of alaska. Jackie d