. >> a european union official told the news agency that we have the essentials of the deal. let's get the very latest from steven evans, our correspondent in brussels. they are there, aren't they? >> from what it seems. they have not actually appeared in front of a microphone and camera and said we have got the deal but officials are saying that the deal is there. and what they have been doing inching away over the last 12 hours at that burden of debt in the ratio to the size of the economy if, you like. greece came bearing promises to cut the debt down to 129% of g.d.p. by the year 2020. that is now apparently come down to just above 120%. the difficulty is that the deeper the cuts you impose on the greek economy, the more the tax revenue falls. so the fear will be that in the longer term, not immediately, not before this tranche of money is owed in march, but in the longer term, the calculation is changed so that the patient doesn't get better but the patient actually gets worse. >> what was this about? the survival of the eurozone and ensuring that they had to agree to a

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. >> bret: european union officials are giving greece until wednesday to convince the e.u.ance ministers it will stick to terms of the us a centerty package. the latest round of cuts sparked violence in cities. germany says it will not give time approve for a second bail-out until next month. stocks began the week on a positive note. the dow was up 73. the s&p 500 gaped nine. the nasdaq finished ahead 27.5. mitt romney is coming off two victories over the weekend as he tries to reshame the momentum in the republican campaign. but carl cameron reports the latest numbers will not be easy. >> with wins disputed by the rival in saturday's non-binding maine caucus and the big straw poll at the con seventive political action conference in dc known as cpac, mitt romney's front runner status is being challenged nationally, this time by rick santorum. the latest pew poll shows santorum up two. the latest gallop poll shows santorum surgin surging in a vil tie. for the first time ever, the real clear politics average of the national polls has santorum leading. washington county and ma

today a senior european union official said the tougher sanctions may include a ban on flights in andut of the country as well as financial transactions for central bank. russia says it's up to syrians to solve the crisis, it's now offering to broker peace talks. the un says 5400 syrians have died during the uprising. another group of arab league members packed up and left today. and monitors made no statements they left the sheriffs and hotel. and there is following last month's departure from arab states. >> jipt refusing to stop a crack down on foreign nunded fon profit groups despite threats to cutoff aid. egypt's prime minister says he is saddened by pressure egypt is now facing but insists the country will not back down. the u.s. threatened to cult off $1.5 billion in aid unless egypt stocked it's crack down. four dozen foreigners are now in custody. accused of using foreign found commit unrest in that country. >> two bay area women kidnapped in egypt are back home tonight. and they were kidnapped on friday and held several hours. the woman spoke about the ordeal today. and at 5

. >>> greece has been thrown a life preserver as european union officials reached an agreement to give greece more than $170 billion in bailout loans in an effort to lower the country's debt by 2020. details are still being hammered out this morning following marathon overnight negotiations. about 2,500 pastors are joining roman catholic leaders who oppose the president's birth control rule. under a compromise, insurers rather than religious institutions would provide birth control coverage to employees. opponents say it still infringes on religious freedom. >>> mark kelly is writing a children's book about a little mouse that goes to space. "mousetronaut" will be published this school and is inspire bid mice taken to space on kelly's first shuttle mission. he collaborated with his wife on a memoir with his wife about the shooting. >>> it's a bird, a plane. no, it's super man. he's apparently lost in costa rica. good thing he gets this nice lady to tell him the way to san jose. the video has spawned dozens of copy cats trying it from the back seat as well. we don't recommend you try it

the european union's top officials want to reassure china that the necessary steps are being taken toafeguard the currency. and point out how important to europe is for china. >> mr. prime minister, we became so interdependent that change in the growth rates in one of the two strategic partners as a direct and palpable impact on the other one. our economic destinies are linked. >> europe needs money, and china has a lot of it available. beijing has reserves of around 2.5 trillion euros. the eu hopes it can move china to invest some of that in the euro stability fund. the commission's chief says he hopes the summit will result in concrete measures. china says it is ready to help but has not specified how. >> we need to send the message that we will do everything to increase cooperation between china and the eu. >> the eu is hoping for more than vague promises. it wants firm commitments from china to buy european debt. >> ties with china were top of the agenda in washington. president barack obama met with chinese vice president xi jinping at the white house on tuesday. xi jinping is th

a senior european union official says the group will impose harsher sanctions. russia's foreign minister has gone glass scabbing to talk with president assad to talk about ending deadly clashes with government opponents of the, going to damascus. there were 50 deaths in recent fighting there. >>> big boost for the presidential campaign of rick santorum. he finished first last night in all street states that held gop contests. >> conservativism is alive and well in missouri and minnesota! [ applause and cheers ] >> he is a happy man. the victories in colorado, missouri and minnesota don't make santorum the overall front- runner among republicans. but they certainly have put a little life back into his campaign and make things a lot tougher now on mitt romney the leader in the number of delegates. the next caucuses in the state of maine. ron paul is banking on doing pretty well there on saturday. >>> california's voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage may end up in the u.s. supreme court. supporters aren't giving up on it after a federal appeals court struck it d

. >> sreenivasan: european union officials said today they will discuss tougher economic sanctions onia, when they meet at the end of the month. but russian prime minister vladimir putin warned against interference. he said, "we should not act like a bull in a china shop." the prime minister of egypt insisted today that a crackdown on foreign non-profit groups will go forward. on sunday, judges referred 16 americans and 24 other foreigners to trial. they are accused of illegally using foreign money to stir unrest. the u.s. and others have threatened to cut off aid to egypt unless the military-backed government relents. but in cairo, prime minister kamal el ganzouri was defiant. >> ( translated ): egypt will follow and abide by the law. egypt has known civilization for thousands of years, so egypt won't back down or take a different route because of the threat of losing some aid. >> sreenivasan: u.s. officials say the americans being held in egypt have done nothing wrong. those are some of the day's major stories. now, back to judy. >> woodruff: and to europe's debt crisis. negotiation

very dinero philly is slowly ugly the good ol garia and france both members of the european union have now officially banned the controversy a practice known as fracking method used to retrieve shale gas deposits as a source of energy fracking has been shown to trigger earthquakes and pollute water and many argue that it has incredibly adverse effects on the environment the banning of fracking in the two nations has helped promote a greater environmental movement all across europe with other nations now considering a ban on fracking while looking into greener and safer forms of energy during a time when france will gary and the rest of europe are facing serious economic challenges they're still conscious of the fact that we need to move away from dangerous and harmful forms of energy and move towards greener and safer forms of energy for the future the bad ricky santorum headed two thousand and eight press and people of faith in politics form santorum lee labeled the democratic party as the woods and said the democratic lawmakers were upon our most primal lost so he went on to say that the party is a

officials. krischri crist christie says she should be honored for her developments around the country. >>> in a letter to the european unions a top official wrote iran is only willing to discuss its nuclear program if other countries allow it to continue enriching uranium. the western world is considering new economic sanctions on iran because of the country's unwillingness to compromise. >>> the grandparents of two boys murdered by their foul is asking that they not be buried in is same area. the police bought the cemetery plot next to them. one officer wrote, quiet, it's disgusting that a murder victim would be buried next to the victims. he blew up his home on february 5 with his children locked inside, killing all three after hitting his children with an ax. police believe he also killed his wife in 2009. her body has never been found. >>> today a federal judge will sentence a man known as the underwear bomber. umar farouk abdulmutallab attempt fwloed up a plane in detroit. he face as mandatory sentence tof life in prison. >>> there was a six-month drug sting. according to police reports the students sold co-cane, marij

officials from the european union are expected to vote on a second bailout for greece. thousands of greeks are protesting against spending and salary cuts made by the greek government which were a condition of the pending bailout. protesters say they've already sacrificed enough, but greece's prime minister says the cuts will be permanent. >>> police are keeping a watch over a mosque in falls church to protect it from a potential hate crime. federal investigators learned that the man accused of trying to bomb the capitol on friday prayed at the da al hidras islamic center before his arrest. the fbi says he was not a regular worshipper at the mosque. a dead al qaeda leader was an imam at the mosque before taking a radical turn and leading the terrorist organization in yemen. >>> jury deliberations will begin wednesday in the murder trial for a former university of virginia lacrosse player. jurors will decide whether george huguely had the intent to kill his ex-girlfriend or if yeardley love's death was an accident. in closing arguments, the prosecution said huguely broke

. >> especially -- of course, we have official course of conduct an economic corporation, but the european union is a model for enter societal interconnection. we have the opportunity to bring people together, not only be at our official contacts, but to use the wide and open space of european interaction. we have an e-russia civil society forum, which is a grassroots organization. they are doing a very good job, and if we use these contacts, i think this is a win-win situation for europe, but mainly for russia. >> we thank you very much. so is vladimir putin's plan to come back as russian president dividing the country? that has been our "in depth" look. thanks for joining us. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- hi, i'm janice edwards, inviting you to join us for bay area vista. as you probably know, bay area vista is your show. we're talking about your community, talking about what's important to all of us, here in the bay area. i always thank you for the great job that you do in our bay area. so, that's what tuesdays at 6:30(pm), here on kcsm, are all about. plea

shouldn't anymore so i don't want to talk about an issue any more i want to talk about an official of the european union david rango to you ok we have this issue with scotland we have an issue also in. belgium where we have. a fragile state to say the least here what is the future we're going to see more states with with what we see is the european union are we going to fragment even more and is that a good idea but maybe it is a good idea because it might be more democratic as you pointed out well but putting aside whether we say split belgium in half and then we can divide antwerpen in half again and to sort of recreate the previous division of germany able to a belgian version i think the e.u. has some long some short term stability problems because greece among others. it was well known to the euro krauts that the greece find great financial figures when greek came into the e.u. were absolute frauds and that the greek system was not sustainable and then finally the rest of the world has found that out and now you have the question about whether they're going to try to force ultimately the european c

. >>> well, greece has been thrown a life preserver this morning as the european union officials haven an effort to lower the country's debt by 2020. details are still being hammered out this morning following marathon overnight negotiations. >>> about 2,500 evangelical pastors are joining roman catholic leaders who oppose the president's birth control rule. under a compromise, insurers rather than religious institutions would provide birth control coverage to employees. but opponents say the requirement still infringes on religious freedom. >>> retired astronaut mark kelly is writing a children's book now about an intrepid little mouse that goes to space. mouttronaut is inspired by the mouse that were taken into space on kelly's first shuttle mission. he most recently collaborated with his wife, gabrielle giffords, on a memoir about her recovery from a shooting. >>> and it's a bird, it's a plane, no, take a look, it's superman. apparently he's lost in costa rica. good thing he gets this nice lady to roll down her window to hell h tell him the way to san jose. the video has spawned do

european union. washington is sending a top official to to tackle cairo's crackdown on u.s. nonprofit groups the group played a pivotal role in the popular uprising that toppled president mubarak last year but are dow falling victim to egypt's new military leadership has been following events egypt's new government crackdown on n.g.o.s has raised many questions and they may want to is why now the groups many which funded by washington have been on the ground here for a while they were at the vanguard of the uprising east mubarak that eventually brought the supreme council of the armed forces and no one has ever seems to care about their sources of income that is until they directed their criticism to the new military leadership layman skaf for the slow pace of reform some of them are used by this. that are quoting people who go to work. and they're the ones that evolution they have. won the.

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president hu jintao hosting high-level talks with leaders from across the european union such as france's barroso. the chinese officials are expected to reiterate the country's support for the eurozone while playing down concerns it may try to buy out or deep control the entire euro block. >>> barroso is expected to address the summit in the next few minutes time. let's go to eunice yoon who is following all these developments. she joins us live from beijing. eunice, what do these talks focus on? >> reporter: the talks have been mainly focusing on the economy. one of the big questions here has been how china could really contribute and support the eurozone, ever since the chinese premier wen jiabao made a couple of comments during the visit of angela merkel to china. he said china was considering a way of contributing to the rescue funds of the eu. of course there weren't any details athe that time and there are still no details of what that potential investment could possibly be. a lot of people say china has reason to help out the europeans because china and europe have a very close trade relationship, also china wit

in a letter to the european union, the top nuclear official wrote iran is only willing to discuss its nuclear program if other countries allow them to continue enriching uranium. the western world is considering new economic sanctions on iran because of the country's unwillingness to compromise. >>> this afternoon, a federal judge will sentence a man known as the underwear bomber. omar far uk abdul mutallab trie blow up a plane on christmas day two years ago. he pleaded guilty to the charges in october and he faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. >>> now to decision 2012 where mitt romney is set to pick up another key endorsement. michigan governor rick snider will endorse romney today in michigan. the governor is expected to appear with the presidential candidate to date at an event. this is a huge endorsement for romney who grew up in michigan but is trailing rick santorum in the polls. with just 12 days before that state's primary. meanwhile, santorum released four years worth of his federal income tax returns. he chose the former pennsylvania state senator did quite well f