the greek government tried mediately to address this situation.h. i will tell you a couple of words about stability and growth -- the memorandum with the european commission, the imf and the central bank, for a loan of 130 billion euros that is necessary to help greece of the next five years to overcome the situation and readdress its economy. the objectives are to reduce public spending and contain the deficit and the other is to boost development and growth. on the first objective, reducing public spending, we have been gauged and put implementations on reforms, the tax reform which is very important because it is more equitable and fair way of collecting taxes and making sure taxes are paid. second this pension reform discussed in parliament yesterday and today. the good news is yesterday we had a majority vote on that and we expect the same tomorrow which is not a small thing for a country like greece. we also have a number of reforms under way in public health, medicine, privatization schemes for public companies and so on. the good news is a

private greek workers are also resistant. greece is facing something close to a social explosion. >> reporter: so this person prepares students for college entrance exams at a private school where three colleagues were just laid off. >> all this is implemented by the government and dictated by the european union and the imf. not a simple temporary pay cut. one or three years of difficulty. it is like being thrown back into the stone age as far as social rights. >> reporter: in an immigrant section of town, more graphic instances of the toll unkbloim, now near 12%, and a reduced public safety net are starting to take. doctors of the world or cosmos runs a free clinic for poor foreigners. but says this doctor.... >> now greek people are coming and helping because they have not insurance and they have not money to pay the little bit for the medicine. but they are obligated to come here because of the way it is in greece now. i feel it. >> reporter: immigrants still cue up for medications but so do out of work natives like this p

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♪note the budget problems of the greeks, of the greeks, of the greeks ♪ ♪ are a european pain ♪ i hope ♪ portugal ♪ italy or spain ♪. >> all of europe is leveraged, borrowed to the hilt. if the weakest link falls, people will get scared about the others, that there will be a stampede and it's very legitimate concern. >> this is clear, look what happened to greece. >> but lots of european countries are now beginning to practice grudging austerity. >> absolutely. the european model of the modern state and its social welfare apparatus has to be reconsidered, has to be rethought. >> reporter: but with 40% of the workforce in public jobs, 30% of the economy underground, and exposs of corruption almost coming daily, can government officials hold firm or there their austerity plan dissolve in the face of public protest. >> they are under tremendous stress. not only do they owe a lot, they don't have a lot of ways to pay for it. the big problem with greece was that they were borrowing in euro. they weren't borrowing in a currency they controlled. >> reporter: but if they had been borrowing in

at the same time, this is not only a greek decision. this is a decision of the european union, which has backed greece, plus of course the countries in the i.m.f., with a huge package of 110 billion for loans of course which we're paying back but that just shows the political will to help greece move out of this crisis and make the necessary changes. >> reporter: two quick questions. right now your debt is, you're paying 12% or more for debt, back in february it was 6% and you said at that time credibility is the key issue so isn't that a suggestion that things are deteriorating? >> the markets are very fearful, very risk averse after 2008 so they take time in order to see whether a program or a government or a company or a bank is credible. we need that time. we were given that time through this package from the european union and the i.m.f. so that we can make the necessary changes in our country. so, i would say, let's look at the trend in greece and the trend in greece is a positive one. we're 40% down on our deficit. we're ahead of

in tokyo on friday, he referred to aspects of the recent financial turmoil in europe including the greek debt crisis. he stressed a need for international cooperation to tackle such crises saying it is difficult to achieve economic stability and prosperity by relying exclusively on cooperation within the european union. >>> there is a brain wave of a patient in grave condition. even the best doctors find it difficult to figure out if the peaks and valleys is because of activity or the environment. >> i've seen a brain dead child who lived more than two months. children's brains are astonishing. >> this doctor says a child is monitored. doctors are required to confirm the flat brain waves twice 24 hours apart, four times stronger than adults. until now, many children with the disease went abroad to receive a transplant. because of international criticism, they are trying to make organ transplants more accessible. how do you tell parents that they don't need an organ whenned it body is still warm? it's up to the parents to accept their child's death and the new role. she lost her 9-month-o

they demonstrated in front of the greek ministry of transportation. the situation remains tense, they remain the set against the european union's effort to break their monopoly on trucking. >> david cameron made, india and turkey. he said that it was important to speak frankly and clearly. this was indicating that pakistan was supporting terrorism. comments or criticize saying that they weren't for regional peace. there was angerer sparked in israel. a 40-year-old woman has confessed to suffocating her children. a woman and her husband where are arrested in france after the bodies of the babies were found there. >> life in a quiet village has been shattered. police found the bodies of several babies at this home. they were killed by their mother. none of them were premature pregnancy is. >> you would think that these things happen somewhere else. not in your own village. obviously, they can. >> the incident came to the attention of police when the owners of the house discovered the bones of newborns in the garden. police quickly track down the own-the

six greek banks are among the 91 undergoing stress tests by the european union. the results are due friday. the greek government is considering a $911 million offer by a private bank to take control of two state lenders. greece is said to be closely examining that proposal. >> susie: from tax cuts to curbing spending, tonight's commentator is thinking about controlling our budget deficit. he's glen hubbard, dean of columbia university's graduate school of business and former chairman of the council of economic advisors under president george w. bush. >> many congressional leaders have suggested that tax revenues are too low and will remain low without a tax increase. this year's federal revenues will be about 15% of g.d.p., less than the 40-year average of about 18%, but revenues are already on track to exceed 23% of g.d.p. in just 25 years, greater than in world war ii. how would this happen? first a recovery will roost boost revenues. over time rising incomes will lift tax payers into higher brackets, real bracket creep. and tax cuts from 2001 and 2003 and the

i loved ancient greek tragedy. but somehow, somehow the bug got me then. there were really big questions to answer about one of these amazing inventions of the 20th century, the one party state, totalitarianism. where did it come from? how did it develop? what were its strengths to give it endurance, and what were its weaknesses? what were its terrors? that's how it came of it. >> what years were you at the university of cambridge? >> in the late '60s. >> and what were you studying? >> i was studying russian literature and ancient greek literature. i started as a linguist. so i didn't come in at this topic. i was a historian. i became a historian. >> and if i read correctly, the "lenin" book was 2000 by harvard, the "stalin" book was 2004 and the "trotsky" book was late last year, 2009. >> that's right. and one of the interests of doing all three of them is that they are the gigantic figures. the start of the soviet regime. they were the towering figures. and they are all different. they have their different talents. they have their different dangers. but

. >> germany's real estate company invested nearly 8 billion euros in greek bonds, and they say that is why it will not pass the eu stress test. 91 banks have undergone the test, and many are in germany. they are tested on their ab ility to withstand stocsk with at least a 6% capital ratio. early, only 4% was considered sufficient. it is unclear how much will be required to stay afloat, because risky securities will be spun off for bad bank assets. >> french air traffic controllers are beginning a one- day strike expected to disrupt flights at the two main paris airports, and many controllers are calling in sick. there are suspicions that the sick leave is aimed at negotiating pay and working conditions. >> at spanish airports, a third of air traffic controllers have called in sick. passengers are less than sympathetic. >> they have a tough job, but they are not the only ones. >> they say that members cal led in sick because of stress, but authorities insist it amounts to a covert strike. >> it is almost impossible for so many people to be sick sumul -- simultaneously. >> air france

i loved ancient greek tragedies. somehow, the blood got me. the really big question to answer about one of these amazing inventions of the 20th century, the one-party state, totalitarianism. how did it develop? what were its strengths to give it endurance and what were its weaknesses? what were its terrorist? >> what years were you at cambridge? >> in the mid-60s. >> what were you studying? >> version literature. -- russian literature. i did not come at this as a historian. i became a historian. >> if i read correctly, the lennon book was in 2000 and the stolen boat was in 2004 and the trotsky book was in 2009? >> yes. they were gigantic figures of the staff of the soviet regime. they are the towering figures. they are all different. they have different talents. they have different dangers. one of the unifying themes of my work is that, different as they are, they shared more than they held apart from each other. that was communism. this extraordinary invention that the russians obtained after 1917. >> defined communism according to what they

they have english, latin and greek. this is a middle school in long beach. it wasn't centralized authority. they chose the architects. the main constraint is there had to be an engineer on site. there there is berkeley. and piedmont avenue in oakland. this is in nevada city. these schools, like so many of the new deal are beautifully built. this is the school you just saw. teaching, they employed tens of thousands of teachers and librariance. new nutritionist. starving children don't learn well. they give them lunches. this is an art class in san francisco hospital. art class for crippled children. the photographers that i find of san francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. you could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. there was also adult education too. this 1 learned one learned to read as many did. many of the community colleges were a result of the new deal. sacramento. i gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in san francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the a

. >> she also defended her government's handling of the economic and greek debt crisis. she stressed there were more reforms to be implemented. >> we will have plenty of work in the coming what months. >> on top of that, the chancellor will also be looking to downsize the country's armed forces. the opposition as promising to keep the pressure on the government. >> we can expect a hot water mark in the summer because this government has not solved any of the problems it set out to. >> on the streets, opinions were far from positive about the government's performance. >> i have disagreed with them. >> it looks especially chaotic. it is impossible to see what they're doing right now. >> the government does not look particularly good, but they have earned their holiday. >> despite the setback, merkel said she is not considering resigning her post. >> i decide it step by step. rest assured you will see me after the holidays. >> while she takes a break from the daily business of government, behind the scenes she is sure to be concerned about getting her crisis-ridden coalitio

the word palace was a greek city-state. you cannot write a single line without a cosmology a cosmogony laid out before all eyes. there is no part of yourself you can separate out saying, this is memory, this is sensation, this is the work i care abuot, this is how i make a living. it is whole, it is a whole, it always was whole. you do not make it so there is nothing to integrate, you are a presence, you are an appendage of the work, the work stems from hangs from the heaven you create every man, every woman carries a frimament inside and the stars in it are not the stars in the sky without imagination there is no memory without imagination there is no sensation without imagination there is no will, desire history is a living weapon in your hand and you have imagined it. it is thus that you find out for yourself, history is the dream of what can be, it is the relation between things in a continuum of imagination. what you find out for yourself is what you select out of the infinte sea of possibility no one can inhabit your

a greek journalist has been gunned down at his home. the sect go to target police and the media after widespread riots in greece. >> he had a substantial pedigree for exposing wrongdoing. he was about to publish the results of an inquiry into major league corruption. the journalists' union said someone wanted to silence a good investigative reporter who had stepped on a lot of toes with this story. -- storiehis stories. can thecondemned the murder. >> he wapolice are looking for r three gunmen who called at his apartment and summoned him downstairs playing someone stole his car. when the -- he opened the door, hthey opened fire. >> there was a series of shots. we came to the balcony. the shooting stopped and it continued. >> according to police, the indications are this was a terrorist attack. they say tests showed the bullet came from a gun used in a previous murder by a group called the sect of revolutionaries which had tried threatened to kill journalists. >> a man who is almost totally paralyzed as taking legal action to clarify wha

the contract was like a greek temple industrial institutional work that was preferred and the idea would be that this would screen residence on the hill from the future digesters. food waste was discussed. we did not have enough information to get deep into it. there was a lot of concerns. we would like to conduct a similar process with other members. i think a very important page in your materials is page 18. that is where they have listed the community benefits and there are several things i will highlight and other members will highlight additional issues when they come out to speak. and mandatory goal from the impacted area. commitments and considerations. considerations on for job readiness when we are developing the project and we can determine what skill levels are required for different aspects of the job and the training that can be made available.

the coalition was rejected >> yes will be among the greek supported the movement for oscar grant's that we are not violent, we are not and animals. be too careful. >> they say they will be there but as well >> spiritual support and for the support of oscar grant's family. the >> support a rally for the shooter and his base but page by some anonymous person. it says here acquitted by support protests for johannes. by noon friday at 123 people confirmed. they quickly it said they are calling for backup from outside agencies. the protesters are reacting to the miserly verdict and they say that they've nothing to fear. >> yet you have nothing to fear its of the bonds business. it's for the people and by the people. >> meanwhile the bart police oversight bill which was signed into law yesterday takes effect gen worry first 2011. the new law enables the boy who solver, a citizen and lowborn >> deal is to never ever allow all our police department to police themselves again. they're still when darrell, but the internal affairs as they were back on it or first is not for to happen like that any

which in greek means the main strait it's a magnificent century complex tons of bison surrogate. in the area surrounding the sands and the state and historical museum here this is one of the action of russian everyday life as it was centuries ago unlike historical palaces that focus on the sparkling a lavish lives of famous russian families out. here in this reconstructed you can see a true reflection of basic life. many things that all items that are displayed here in the museum belong to the past in fact they were used at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century is it in the north of the country in our hunger. there are many homes which look like our own museum people living there still use this things in everyday life. is what often embellished by special architectural features for example rich wooden carvings which decorated the windows and structures of elements in the use of the russian oven still found in many most country houses in the middle of the nineteenth century b.c. attic windows bricks really popular they reflected the traditional view of r

it is a male way because his nickname is the greek used to have a green on his tail so stretches included he weighs about four hundred fifty kilograms i've got his tail. good thank the entire male staff of the aquarium from the trainers to the plumbers and accountants help unload the future performers i wrote him keep rolling yes just like that he. never would detail he can get you. one after another the animals leave the truck and start looking around their new home with curiosity these white whales were caught here and then rushes far east and spent their first year in the black sea where they went through a training course they handled the long trip pretty well. and what they're transporting animals for fifty hours is absolutely which is over the last couple of years we've worked out a method to the transferring such animals over a very long distances to where everything is falling and the animals are active in swimming which annoyed to really they will have that first feeding. the next important task for them is to adapt to the new conditions first still rest before they start their t

last week, "newshour" economics correspondent paul solman interviewed the greek prime minister. tonight, he speaks with the french finance minister about how her country is coping with the large burdens of paying for its national retirement system. it's all part of his ongoing reporting on "making sense of financial news." >> reporter: paris, june 24. thousands in the streets, protesting france's plan to raise the retirement age from 60 to 62 by 2018. in a country where the official work week is 35 hours, plus five weeks vacation a year, and retirees, on average, now earn more than workers. in charge of the economy ever since the financial crisis, christine lagarde, champion french swimmer in the '70s, high-powered chicago lawyer in the '80s and '90s. and back in france, finance minister since 2007. we sat down with her in paris on monday. madame minister, thanks for joining us. >> pleasure. >> reporter: how serious is the threat to the world economy right now. spain, greece, eastern europe, portugal, all tremendously weak. and, have you been taken off guard? >> i'm always cauti

the greek government has used an emergency measure of order to put a truck drivers back to work after a strike. they were ordered to return to the job or face arrest. authorities say such a move was justified and no one has the right to paralyze the country. still ahead, rickshaws, ruins, and rehabilitation. can former prisoners pedal their way back into normal society? there has been a national day of mourning in pakistan, following the country's workers -- worst ever air disaster. all one header be to people on board the aircraft died -- 152 people died. >> rescuers worked frantically on the downside for hours. the aircraft flying in smoldering pieces, only minutes from the airport. passengers would have been preparing to land. but in poor visibility and driving rain, the plane smashed into the hills. the tough terrain made it hard for emergency workers to access the crash site. they were later helped by the army after trekking there on foot. all those on board the aircraft are now known to have died. over the last hour, one ambulance after another has been arriving here at the main

have been crowned european champions four times before but they could only get a one one draw against greek side pipes and monica in amsterdam suarez had given him side belief after fifteen minutes often scrappy isn't it but then moments of class there but just before half time pop with assisting equaliser it was a sweeping move to one off to the other. but i no matter how much they tried i couldn't find a win that face a tricky second leg tie next week. and turkish johnson about they had similar problems a two two draw for them against my side young boys who came from behind twice in bunches. getting the net for them but an equaliser so you followed me and i did on getting this head on the ball to make it one one only for the turkish side data type and then the bright thought sending out when it and it looked like it was going to be fun about chase night until david taking down the ball to him and the guy penalty and makes it seem to set up a tasty second leg. elsewhere celtic with them away to portuguese side sporting braga while volatile. part of some belgrade one their respective ties t