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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 meas ....
Theres a big fight going on right now at the open championship leader board. Stand by for the latest later in the program. There is hope that greek banks could reopen within days after euro zone ministers agreed to a 7 billion euro emergency loan. European commission is expected to confirm the extra money on friday. That comes after the Greek Parliament voted through a series of tax rises and spending cuts that were a condition for yet another bailout. In separate move, the European Central bank is making more money available to greek banks. The banks president explained the decision at a press conference. Things have changed now. We had a series of news with the approval of the bridge financing package with the votes the various votes in various parliaments to begin with in the Greek Parliament, which have now res ....
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 ....
A controversial security law that will remove restrictions on the military. And picture perfect, the planet pluto as it has never been seen before. We begin with latest developments on the greek debt crisis. Euro zone finance ministers have given them the green light for former talks on a boilout to begin. And they have agreed to give greece a shortterm loan so it can pay its bills. Greek banks are also being given a lifeline. The ecb raising emergency funding for banks by 978 million. Now things have changed now. We had a series of news with the approval of the bridge financing package, with the vote, the various votes, in various parliaments to begin with in the Greek Parliament which have now restored the conditions for a raise in the ela. Lets go to simon mcgregorwood live for us in at thens. He was talking about raising ela, thats the emergency liquidity assistance. How does that help greece . Reporter well, it gives the gr ....
This is Al Jazeera America live from new york city. Im david shuster. We are following some breaking news out of tennessee. There has apparently been a shooting in chattanooga. Details are a bit sketchy, but were hearing reports of shots fired at a Naval Reserve center. The mayor confirmed that a policeman was hit. The mall is on lockdown and a hospital is on shut down. The mayor referred to it as and witnesses are describing something driving a ford must taken who are firing shots at the Naval Reserve center. Well stay on top of this story as bring more details as we get them. President obama has now done what no other sitting u. S. President has done before in american history. This morning mr. Obama visited the inside of a federal prison. His tour near Oklahoma City ....