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first to greece where the government met a midnight deadline and submitted a new plan for creditors to save the country from financial collapse and the 13-page document will be studied by the eu and ministers will meet on sunday to decide if greece has done enough the greek government promising to raise taxes and clamp down on tax evasion and discourage people from retiring early and seek contributions from pen pensioners and will sell out and prioritize the ports and offering to cut more than $300 million from the military budget by next year and scuffles outside the bank in athens with people cued to take out money and later today the greek parliament will be authorizing the plan and could face some opposition by hard line members of his own party to reject austerity and we will go where john is and john what are the chances of this passing parliament? well, it contains of course all the austerity measures you mentioned which are the measures we have become famili ....
where many of the technical issues that needed to get sorted out, including between the energy secretary and his iranian counterpart, both of m.i.t. sitting there for days, trying to work out questions of research and development. they have largely solved those. all the big issues that need to be resolved now are basically political positions. they are decisions that either the americans or the iranians are unwilling to go make to get to that last stage. there is a great deal of end of bargaining brinksmanship going on here. we have hit one of those moments where nobody believes in the deadlines anymore because the americans think the deadline that was set in congressional legislation, this thursday, was being used against them by the iranians, who figured out that the americans might give up more simply to limit the amount of time that congress could review the agreement this summer. secretary kerry has basically said, i m willing to go with a long-term review that is ....
question is the word we. how is this counter messaging going to be organized? to what extent is it going to be spontaneous? does it represent the youth of the region? my friends from the arab world keep insisting to me that as powerful and intimidating as is i.s. messaging is, what is dominant in arabic is what i call the freedom spirit, the square statement i am connected and i am not going to take it anymore, and i won t take it from an authoritarian leader and i am going to live in my own world. somehow that message that spirit of connectiveness, i think, of free citizens, which is still there and we get too depressed about the arab winter sometimes, and it s still there and that has to become more of the dominant narrative. it probably needs help from governments, but i worry in the post snowden age about swallowing the poison pill. i worry about steps that seem sensible in terms of messaging that end up limiting the message, or undercutting it. i think this is an ....
i predict that about 20% of people will take advantage of that. if that is true, then that would automatically stabilize the system which now gives us time to begin to gradually increase the age of retirement. remembering, when we put that system into place, the average age of death with 63. now, we are looking at 80. we have not made any adjustments. it is unfair to make adjustments, i believe, to people who are 55 years or older because they don t have enough time to do it needs to be done. or people who are younger than that, i think there is time. it is a gradual adjustment. many of the people i have talked to have said we don t have to do anything radical like they did in italy. the move to their age up tremendously and cut the benefits by 40% in order to get back in line. the longer we wait, the more drastic the need will be to do it. we do it very gradually over the course of about 25 or 30 years and we can sustain the system. not only that, but remember, once we ....
slow progress. we re making progress. it s painfully slow as you ve observed over the last week. but we are making progress. there are still some issues that have to be resolved. one sticking point is whether the iranians would allow inspections of military sites where they re suspected of developing nuclear weapons. another is whether the u.n. security council will lift a ban on sales of weapons to iran. the negotiators are due to gather later saturday. india and pakistan are taking full membership of the shanghai cooperation organization. the group consists of russia china and four countries in central asia. leaders gathered with those of five observer states including india, pakistan and mongolia. they agreed to start procedures to promote the indians and pakistanis. they also signed a statement for china s plan to develop an economic belt along the silk road and remarked on the victories that their countries won 70 years ago in world war ii. russian president ....