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
Good morning to you, you are watching al jazeera america, live from new york city. Im morgan radford. President obama today will be the first sitting president to ever visit a federal prison. This is all part of a push to reform the entire criminal justice system. Jonathan martin joining us with more. We expect him to visit in just a couple of hours. Its all a part of the president s campaign to overhaul that system as you mentioned, and he has taken other steps this week as well. The visit to an oklahoma federal prison comes days after he pardoned 46 prisoners serving long sentences for nonviolent crimes. Our nations being robbed of men and women who could be workers and taxpayers, could be more actively involved in their childrens lives, could be role models, could be community leaders. [ applause ] and right now they are locked up for a nonviolent offense. Reporter the president wants reduced sentences for nonviolent crimes and job training in prisons. Half of the 1300 inmates here
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill nato ambassadors convened a rare emergency meeting today in brussels on the Islamic State threat in turkey, after a string of attacks. Representatives from 28 nations gathered at nato headquarters for the special session, at turkeys request. Afterward, the alliances secretarygeneral spoke to reporters. All allies stand in solidarity with turkey. We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks. We express our condolences to the turkish government and to the families of the victims in suruc and other attacks against police and military officers. Ifill at the same time, turkey faced more violence from kurdish militants. A turkish soldier was sh
Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by and the william and flora hewlett foundation, helping people build immeasurably better lives. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Ifill nato ambassadors convened a rare emergency meeting today in brussels on the Islamic State threat in turkey, after a string of attacks. Representatives from 28 nations gathered at nato headquarters for the special session, at turkeys request. Afterward, the alliances secretarygeneral spoke to reporters. All allies stand in solidarity with turkey. We strongly condemn the terrorist attacks. We express our condolences to the turkish government and to the families of the victims in suruc and other attacks against police and military officers. Ifill at the same time, turkey faced more violence from kurdish militants. A turkish soldier was sh
Its the washington journal for july 30th for our next hour we turn to president ial politics. Particularly interested in hearing from you in our top issues. Jeb bush has been talking about spending and Hillary Clinton has been suggesting changes to capital gain and donald trump talked about immigration. Maybe there are top issues for you and maybe there are others. Heres your chance to let you know. 2027488000 for republicans and 20274880002 and you can also post to any of our social Media Channels on twitter and facebook or an email. Jeb bush cast himself as an evangelist of the Republican Party and a Campaign Stop after Campaign Stop he spreads his arms wide and say, we have to campaign with this and not angry posture another democratic block is different story but bush will try anyway when he speaks friday to the annual conference. National urban league of civil rights group. Maybe they reflect issues important to you. Maybe there are others that the candidates should be talking abo