we are talking about a possible default of the european union state. this could bring disastrous consequences to portugal, particularly in terms of finance, banking, and our economy. >> back in the greek capital, protesters were out in force today showing once again that workers are defiant and don't support the government efforts. they are trying to destroy our lives and those of our children. everyone must join the fight. united, we will win. later, others marched to demonstrate that they will not pay a emergency property taxes. a stark reminder for greece's lenders that the government can accelerate its austerity program but they might not be able to deliver all of it. >> joining mean more -- joining me for more, the bbc's economic editor. let's start with the eurozone. there is debate on whether greece will defaults to when it will default. >> the greeks will be disappointed to hear you say that when they announced the cuts that they will make which they hope will secure the next lies of money. they will have to wait a few weeks to find out if it i

they say the european union state should take the men, not turn them away. >> we are ceiling ourselves off and talking about how to fortify our borders. every person should have the right to tell their story. >> alongside the untold thousands have not been heard, 5000 people recognized as refugees are in north africa waiting for a country to accept them. >> these people should be taken in here. we have 27 member states. this should not be a problem. it would be an act of solidarity with northern africa. >> amnesty international is calling upon the german government to set up registration programs for refugees much like those in the u.s. and norway, even when there is no threat or crisis. >> the european union's envoy to ukraine has accused kiev of ignoring their plea to release yulia tymoshenko. they are concerned that the charges against her are motivated by political opponents. the former prime minister is on trial accused of abusing office when she signed a gas import contract with russia. prosecutors are calling for a seven-year prison sentence. yulia tymoshenko denies the charges.

we are speaking about the possible default by a european union states.this situation could bring disastrous consequences to portugal, particularly in terms of finance, banking and our economy. it is a situation we need to the effect. >> workers are defined and do not support government efforts. >> that are trying to destroy our lives, and those of our children. everybody must join the fight. united, we will win. the government can agree to accelerate its austerity program, but history suggests it might not be able to deliver. nigel cassidy, bbc news. >> what is the latest from the u.s. on the case of troy davis, the convicted killer due to be executed in georgia. >> the execution has been delayed. troy davis was being executed by lethal injection two hours ago. the u.s. supreme court is now weighing arguments as to whether he deserves a reprieve. the court could decide at any time whether to go through with this execution. troy davis was convicted of killing a policeman in 1989. many witnesses have since changed or recanted their testimony, raising doubt

we're speaking about the possible default by european union states. this situation could bring disastrous consequences to portugal, particularly in terms of financed banking and our economy. it is a situation we need to protect. >> back in the greek capital, protesters were out in force, showing that workers are defiant and did not support their government's efforts. >> they are trying to destroy our lives and those of our children. everyone must join the fight. >> later, others marched to demonstrate they will not pay new emergency property taxes, a stark reminder for the greek lenders, public and private, while the government can agree to accelerate its austerity program, history suggests it may not be able to deliver all of it. >>> you are watching "newsday." still to come, reunited with friends and family, two americans charged with espionage have been freed by iran. >> japan's emergency services warned that a powerful typhoon will bring heavy rain to areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in march. >>> the former south african gold miners

abandon in my view its strategic goal of joining the european union you just carried a report from greece which shows that the european monetary union is a state of collapse people are in uproar in this in the city of in the streets of athens athens is a greece is a member state of the european union we can see the european union itself in a state of advanced collapse why on earth is serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory a very stark part of their own territory for that goal that's the reality and i'm afraid of the situation won't improve until belgrade abandons this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. or that it had done nothing financing for democracy in cooperation in paris thank you if they thought. on the way in just a few minutes here on our see the backtracking in sorting out syria your drops its demands for u.n. sanctions against the country to russia and china refuse their supporters. we look at the cost of free speech even much loved american celebrities like bennett find they're not immune when speaking their mind in the u.s. . the international community rips into isra

think that the united states actually is more a gretta garbo and that is we would like to be left alone for example the european union from the united states' point of view is the perfect solution the europeans aren't going to war with each other they aren't going to war with us they're pretty prosperous they like a lot of the things we do so the europe if the if the nicest had a dream for europe that would be it it's ok now we have much less power in europe than we did in one thousand nine hundred five when we could decide who ate what's ok but you have much more power in other parts of the world right but again what we want to say is we would like every place to more or less be like your happy rich at peace so that you can be left alone so right so that the world would be the way we want it to be but we wouldn't have to make it perform that's the american goal and so in that sense. polar world in which most or all of the polls kind of like the american way. without us making them like you see that's the goal and to some degree the emergence of india the emergence of europe the fact that brazil is growing into just

states. it is not guaranteed that it will be approved. host: first call for the european unionmbassador to the united states comes from jacksonville, florida. kim, you are on the air. address --lcourage to you keep saying the people of europe are behind this bill up plan -- this bailout plan. the people of germany did not want to pay for the bailout. the courts ruled that germany had to participate in the bailout and the cost a rally in the stock markets worldwide. greece has received a bailout of over 100 billion euros. how much debt is greece and? -- in. there will be a domino effect. their one-year yield is over 100%. it is only a matter of time and there will be a domino effect. slovakia, they do not seem like it will go along with the bailout. host: why so much interest? caller: i am a college student and it took a class on the european union. i have one more question. the european union was originally started -- they try to tie all of europe's economies together to prevent them from going to war. does the ambassador think that america with nafta has the same footprint? ho

structures national in kosovo the european union on one hand and the united nations on the other but legally speaking it should be united nations the european union itself in a state of advanced while the serbia trying to join it and why is serbia determined to sacrifice part of her own territory a very historic part of her territory so that of the reality and i'm afraid of the situation won't improve until belgrade abandons this in my view suicidal goal of joining the e.u. . now russia's envoy to nato told me earlier that the alliance is now taking sides in what is essentially an internal conflict. it seems my new colleagues don't have a clue what the consequences of their involvement in the conflict could be instead of taking a neutral position in accordance with the un security council resolution side of constable albania basically nato is blocking the only route of light between the cost of an serbs and serbia if the international peacekeepers who are involved in the civil conflict in the north of the region according to our sources there are badly wounded people among the consequences. are not from rubber bullets or from stones from real bullets fired people

the united states and the european union have condemned north korea's refusal to cooperate with the international atomic energy agency. lee ji-yoon tells us more. the united states and the european union have strongly criticized north korea's lack of cooperation with the international atomic energy agency. the criticism came during a board meeting of the un atomic agency on wednesday where washington raised "serious concerns" regarding north korea's nuclear activities,... calling north korea's pursuit of nuclear weapons and its record of proliferation deeply troubling. just last november, pyeongyang disclosed its uranium enrichment program and the construction of a light -water reactor. the eu also expressed concern over north korea's decision to ban iaea inspectors from entering its nuclear plant in 2009. the agency now relies on information on north korea's nuclear activities from other sources. north korea abandoned the six- party talks aimed at scrapping its nuclear arsenal in april 2009 and conducted its second nuclear test just one month later. however, last month, russia announced that nor

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territories are an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate and so on we asked them today the european union the united states the israelis announcing the southern months what are you going to do about it so i think this is the question for to enter the mission of community there israel is every every day violating beside three months by evaluating international legitimacy evaluating all. related to united nations the question is what is it that their international community is doing about it we hope that the international community does not continue to deal with israel as a spoiled kid of the of washington and some european capitals. stein is putting high hopes on the u.n. security council here lavelle and crossed the organizations credibility into question for program coming up in ten minutes here's a preview. you would suppose a hypothetical that's a more the united states of you know i think kingdom decide to go on a wall and the united nations security council doesn't give that you know there's the russia or china or whoever vetoing that particular decision then they decide to step so the united nations

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but as an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate and so on we ask them today the european union the united states israel is announcing the seven months what are you going to do about it so i think this is the question for the entitlement community there israel is a breeze every day violating beside the months by evaluating international legitimacy violating all resolutions that are related to united nation the question is what is it that then the national community is doing about it we hope that the international community does not go into new to deal with this that aisle as this board could be a washington some european capitals and for more on the situation in the middle east stay tuned for our tease interview with prominent academic and philosopher noam chomsky coming up in less than ten minutes. the situation in kosovo remains tense with ethnic serbs keeping their barricades in place and nato bringing more troops to the region rocky relations between serbia and kosovo plunged to a new low on tuesday as violence flared over the seizure of border posts and a dozen people were injured in these c

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european union and russia they should become better. greece has tried to be a bridge between european union and russia and russia successfully sometimes unsuccessfully and others there are some new member states in the european union that are reacting but russia is a part of europe so icon to magic a europe without russia there must be a closer form of cooperation between the two sides and everybody is going to benefit from that you mentioned germany several times throughout this interview me finish up on the german quote just a few days ago i'm going marco sad that if the euro collapses europe will collapse do you agree with this statement i want to see the european currency. continue to exist i believe that we didn't start it in the right way. but it is the right direction we just need a new framework and a new understanding between us because right now very. not entirely responsible everybody has its own responsibilities on the sponsibility and it's the weakest link but there are others too you solve the problem of greece quickly became a problem for i love for portugal now we're afraid for spain for italy so it can't be only greece's problems the whole structure was wrong and we have to c

not just for the matter of pressure on the syrian government because after all in the european union the united states of amounts to quite a few sanctions against syria already they are already in place so essentially when they are to have such a resolution in the security council they're asking us to rubber stamp something which they have already sort of done without asking anybody's advice on the security council but more importantly our concern is that any sanctions resolution . on syria in the security council might be seen by destructive elements of syrian opposition as sort of encouragement looking at libya something similar to what happened in libya maybe happening in syria and that could have extremely destructive consequences our western call ix. to us this is not their intention to use military force well incidentally we have to remind them that with. statements and assurances from them of various sorts when we're working on that resolution in libya which then will very quickly forgotten in the heat of the battle in libya but. of course the best scenario is that the violence stops in syria o

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territories are an obstacle to peace they are not legitimate and so on we ask them today the european union the united states israel is announcing the settlements and what are you going to do about it so i think this is the question for the entitlement community there israel is every every day violating peace agreements by evaluating international legitimacy evaluating all resolutions that it is really united nation the question is what is it that their international community is doing about it we hope that the international community does not continue to deal with israel as a spoiled kid of the of washington and this of european capitals all right well certainly all eyes on the u.n. as palestine drives for a spit on state hi dr mohamed thing your member of fatah central committee thank you for your time this. kosovo remains on a knife edge after nato reinforced its presence of the northern border with serbia anger boiled over on tuesday at the troubled track points when a dozen people were hurt in clashes as nato trying to dismantle the serb barricades alexy are said ski is in belgrade. for now this simmeri