Wed love to hear what you think. Send your views and post your comments by visiting gb news. Com rac. But first, heres the news with tatiana sanchez. The news with tatiana sanchez. Good morning. The top stories an mp has given up the conservative party whip after claims he misused campaign funds. Mark menzies. Claims he misused campaign funds. Mark menzies. He is alleged to have used thousands of pounds of donations to fund his medical expenses, including £14,000 transferred to his personal Bank Accounts. The Times Newspaper also reports he made a late night phone call to an aide asking for help because hed been locked up in a flat by what he described as bad people who were demanding £5,000 for his release. In a statement, menzies has denied the allegations. Hell sit as an independent in the house of commons while the claims are being investigated , and the being investigated, and the government has promised to do whatever it needs to do to get flights off the ground. After peers de
The government scott walker is expected to make it official joining a field of republicans running for president. Plus, a twist a sequel for to kill a mocking bird prepares to hit stores. Welcome to Al Jazeera America im erica pitzi, in new york. We begin with greece. Deep in debt and up against a deadline. It is 1 00a. M. In brussels, the 25th hour in a longrunning negotiation with the countrys eurozone partners to start bailout talks. They have seen other deadlines come and go. This time its different. This time its nearly out of money. No deal means the country is likely forced to leave the eurozone, in greece everyone nose what is at stake, many are bracing for a catastrophe. You can see long lines. For two weeks people have been withdrawing whatever money they can from the imperilled banks. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insists that a deal is within reach. Translation im here already for another meeting. We owe that to the people of europe who wants europe united not divided
This is al jazeera america. Good morning. Live from new york city. Im randall pinkston. Greece preparing to take the next steps to hold off a financial collapse. As part of a lastminute deal athens must Institute Deep cuts. That is the only way it will get billions more from europe to keep its economy afloat. The Greek Parliament must agree to the reforms by wednesday. Meanwhile banks in greece will reportedly open on thursday after being closed for weeks. Jackie rowbackjacky rowland joins us live from bruce else. Good morning randall really were looking at moving away from a kind of socialist system to a far more marketoriented system. Some of the changes that well be looking at for a start pensions. We can expect retirement age to become older. We can expect to see pensions benefits being cut. Also, for example shops will be expected to open on sundays. Subsidies, price controls on things like milk and bread will end. We can expect new sales taxes to be introduced on goods right acro
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im david david schuster. We begin with a significant agreement between greece and its european creditors. Requires greece to quickly dont a host of measures, monitored by europe and the International Monetary fund. Meanwhile, markets here in the United States have sparked on the apparent resolution to the greek crisis. Neave bark he, would you give us an idea of what the greek government must implement immediately and what they get in return. Reporter first of all what the greeks get out of this is a very bitter pill indeed to swallow, in return for introducing a raft deep austerity measures, the country received a massive bailout to be able to let the 61 function normally, as normally as possible for the next three years and to stop greece from sliding into bankruptcy. They now face a complete series of different reforms including encouragement to streamline vat to make reforms to labor and strayed laws, to privatize sectors of the g