>> gavin hewitt. you are watching bbc news. let's have a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. we will begin with the french newspaper. the french journalist who was injured covering the uprising in syria has been giving her account of how she survived the shelling. the financial times writes about the situation in europe. europe is finally emerging from its two-year sovereign debt crisis. tensions between iran and the usa. president obama has stressed that iran cannot develop a nuclear bomb and that he is not bluffing. here in the u.k., the guardian is considering a controversial plan regarding the police. companies could take responsibility for investigating crimes, patrolling neighborhoods, and even detaining suspects. the daily mail claims some british banks are going to raise interest rates. there currently at half of 1%. this is bbc news. these are the headlines. the united nations secretary general ban ki-moon accused the syrian government of committing crimes against the country's civilian

the bbc's europe editor gavin hewitt has more details from athens. >> we won't get the precise figures until early tomorrow morning, but all the estimations are that between 80, 85, even 90% of private investors have agreed to take steep losses on their holdings of greek debt. what does this mean? well, for the first time since this whole crisis in greece started, tonight greece's debt is not actually going up. indeed, it will be cut as a result of this deal by over 100 billion euros, also at the e.u. and the i.m.f. almost certainly will now go ahead with a second greek bailout and therefore the country will stave off bankruptcy. so there is some relief here tonight that so many private investors appear to have agreed to accept their losses. >> gavin hewitt in athens there. now tributes have been paid to the six british soldiers killed by a bomb while traveling in an armored vehicle in afghanistan on tuesday. five of the group were under the age of 22 and they had only been in the country for a few weeks. their commanding officer described them as incredibly brave men. rico, it was one

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gavin hewitt, bbc news, madrid. >> a short while ago, i spoke to our correspondent in madrid and asked him why the demonstrations less peaceful than they were when the protest movement began last year. >> i think the incidents in barcelona in particular are isolated. they are small and don't represent the picture across the country. but there is a significant change, as you say. i don't think we're going to see widespread social unrest becoming the norm, but i think it does reflect a sort of level of discontent, particularly among young people in spain. the jobless rate of those under 25 is nearly one in two of those looking for work, which is a scary statistic. and the government has brought in new labor reforms to make it easier to sack people for companies, cheaper to sack people, hoping in the longer term it will make it easier for companies to hire people but that's gone down badly with certain sections of the population. >> do you think spain is almost becoming the new greece in terms of public resentment at government actions to bring in austerity measures to keep in line with e