Chapter in u. S. History, South Carolina lowers the confederate flag. [ cheers and applause ] theres cautious opt schism that greeces creditors may accept a plan which could pull it back from the financial brink. E. U. Members are meeting to discuss proposals that greece put forward. The greek government is promising to raise taxes and clamp down on tax evasion, discourage people from retiring early, and greece will sell off its remaining shares in ote and privatize two ports. It is also offering to cut more than 300 million from its military budget by next year. Lets go to John Psaropoulos live for us in athens. All right. John lots of reforms there. Definitely signalling more austerity in the country, among them privatizing two ports. How will this affect the workers there . Reporter well the port shouldnt affect the workers. The port privatizations, in fact we have been told by people involved in the process is well underway. It has not stopped under syriza contrary to for example,
Report on why somewhat the want decriminalized in the u. S. Hello, it appears a Historic Nuclear Deal with iran will be announced in the coming hours we are expecting a joint statement from irans foreign minister and his e. U. Counter part. They are now finalizing the pact with other world powers in vienna. Lets go straight to vienna now. Joining me is our diplomatic editor james bays, james, this is something this is part of a process that has been longtime coming. Plenty of stumbling blocks along the way. What do we know at this point about the deal and what we can expect over the next few hours . Reporter i think finally and i will be a little cautious here that the deal is effectively done. Formally it is not done until all the Foreign Ministers sit around the table and formally ratify it. Behind the scenes they have been working all night long, i think that they have a text that everyone is happy with. There could be a last minute problem, a last minute glitch. But i think thats n
Seconds ago the cars just left just moments before you came to me. The e. U. High representative freed recchi who is chairing this process left this hotel on her way to the meeting that is supposed to ratify this nuclear deal. I said do you have good news . And she replied yes again confirmation of what we already know that they have done the deal and it gets ratified at the meeting. Its supposed to start right now but it will will take longer because she just left and shes the chair of the meeting which will consist of her chairing the meetingmeeting and the seven Foreign Ministers involved in the practice session the p5 plus one the five permanent security members of germany negotiating with iran and the Iranian Foreign minister, all around the table. We know some details of the deal. The basic deal is the one they have been trying to negotiate for all this time iran saying it would only pursue a civilian fuchs lahr Power Program in return the crippling sanctions on iran being lifted
We begin with the conflict in yemen and the sound city of aden has been the flash point in the city since the houthis first laid siege to it in march. But there are fears the victory may be shortlived. Reporter the houthis have lost much of the Southern City of aden and the internationally recognized Yemeni Government wants to claim control. Aden will be the key to our victory and our cause from aden well reclaim all of yemen. This is the first of many victories to come. Reporter hadi has congratulated the resistence fighters for pushing them out of aden. As they continue to fight in other areas around the city. Translator we. [ inaudible ] in forces in the come is hours so the eid in aden will be the happiest. Reporter these fighters are against the houthis but that doesnt mean they are prohadi. Many of secessionists, they fought the government in the past. Aden was the final refuge of the hadi government after it was driven from the capital sanaa by Houthi Rebels last september. By m
85 billion euro greek bailout. Yemens government says the southern port city of aden has been liberated from houthi rebels. The leadership in exile says the province is now under the control of fighters loyal to the government. The announcement comes after they took control of adens seaport and its international airport. Senior ministers return to aden on thursday, three months after being forced to flee. President hadi is telling yemenis a victory in aden is just the beginning of retaking control of the nation, but clashes are still going on in the Southern City fighters loyal to the government say they are still battling houthis and rebel militias in pockets on the outskirts. Lets bring in a political analyst joining me now from the capital sanaa. Good to have you with us. Got forces saying they have liberated aden. What does that actually mean nothing. It means that they pretty much more or less have corolla den right now. There are still pockets of houthis here and there but they a