can you tell us more about antonis samaras and what he said in his statement?> well, he had three days to put together eight television -- nearly half today -- half a day -- [inaudible] 3 of the seven parties into the parliament. basically, it was over before almost began. >> can you give us an idea of the chances the next set of talks led by the leftist alexis tsipras have of being successful? >> it does not matter who tries to form a coalition at this moment of political forces in greece are so split that it is going to be almost impossible for anybody to put together any sort of coalition or government that could run the country. there are no high expectations for this radical left coalition to come to being as well. >> ok, that is brian williams with the latest from athens. thank you so very much. and-austerity and anti-bank senate also won the day with voters in france. the socialist francois hollande defeated nicholas sarkozy byte 52% of those votes to 40%. >> hollande has pledged to unify the nation and focus on helping working class people. but first, a

antony samara held mtisith the leaders. sumara says he has abandoned the talks before the endf e theayse d to form a government. the chance to believe a ruling coalition will pass to the leader of the radical left coitn. alexei says he'll work with left wing parties and makes a parliamentary majority unlikely. if they fail, they'll be handed a chance to build a coalition. if nonean form a verning alliance a new election will be called to ignite concerns over greece's ability it to reimplemt reforms. >>> european officials are urging greek politicians to form a government as soon as possible. they want to ease mouing concerns about the implementation of austerity measures. >> greece must remain a member of the euro, for instance, but everybody has to carry the responsibilities here. we can do lots to assist greece, and we are doing so. our member states, our taxpayers in other european member states of the euro area are providing the solidarity. >> eu leaders will continue to offer emergency financing, but they say the greek

still, one of them, and conservatives, led by antonis samaras, just held on.y need to find billions more in government savings. if not, the funding could be withheld. matthew price, athens. >> as you heard, the turmoil in france has sent jitters through world markets today and raises questions about the future of austerity. i am joined now from new york by the chairman and editor-in-chief of forbes. thank you very much for joining us. it does seem that voters in france and greece seemed to be saying that the model of austerity -- they have got a point, have they not? >> they do, indeed. the policies that europe have been pursuing, and japan, have been pursuing for 20 years is the wrong prescription. it is a good thing to throttle back on the state sectors. that needs to be done. this will enable the economy to grow. i.e., tax cuts and tax rates, liberalizing the market, and it makes it easy in greece to set up new business, the private sector can emerge. you have to do both, cut back in the private sector but also make it possible for the private sector to flo

the leader of the new democracy party, antonis samaras. couldn't convince others to join him in a coalition led by his party. >> translator: we turn to all the political parties that could participate, but they either said they wouldn't join straight away, or they said other parties would have to join if they were to accept. >> greece's president, karolos papoulias says he would ask them to form a cabinet within four three days but its leader alexis tsipras says he only wanls to work with leftist groups. that would open a way back for pasok to win the election, but the party polls have already been rejected. >> translator: it's impossible to have a government with a small percentage. there are many parties and there's no allocation of power, so we would have elections again. that is what i believe. >> the growing likelihood of new elections has triggered fears of the credit crisis flaring again across europe. >>> israel's prime minister and opposition leader have agreed to form a unity government. this comes a day after the israeli camp on

parliamentary seats in sunday's election but it was not given enough votes to govern alone party leader antonis samaras has taken has three days rather to strike a coalition deal if a deal cannot be reached athens will be forced to hold another election and one month only. a nato airstrike has killed fourteen civilians and injured six others in afghanistan police say the strike happened in the country's northwestern backed us province nato also claimed three of its service members were killed in a separate incident earlier today one hundred forty two coalition members have died in afghanistan since the start of the year. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has urged india to buy less oil from iran it comes as america increases its pressure on teflon over its nuclear program which iran insists is solely for peaceful purposes india receives around nine percent of its oil from iran though officials say it's reduced its dependency in recent months delly could face u.s. sanctions if it doesn't make significant cuts to iranian fuel imports. syrians are voting today for a new parliament the election takes

conservative leader antonis samaras whose party won the most seats backs the austerity measures but he said today he is unable to form a coalition and the stalemate means greece could facenother election next moh. election turmoil swept through the greek financial markets today where key stocks fell 7%. correspondent has been watching the situation in athens. >> the message to the conservatives and socialists who lost more than half their popular support relative to two years ago was that they are no longer trusted to run public finances or to save the country from its current predicament. it was also a time for french parties and more extreme parties and therefore people are looking for more radical solutions than simply borrowing more money in order to solve greece's problems which include making the country more competitive, making the economy more dynamic. >> brown: the upheavals the greece and france with the latest to cross europe. a left-leaning prime minister today was approved, the third change in that position this year in romania. the dutch government fell several weeks ago