others insist on full pay back germany being the most vocal that european commission president john claude you got was in athens a day ahead of the meeting and optimistic about the country's prospects last year greece achieved a surplus of seven billion euros that's much more than expected. it's the beginning of a new era as greece prepares to wave goodbye to bailouts arriving for talks with his eurozone counterparts in the both kerry and capitals of fear germany's finance minister appeared upbeat. today the outlook on greece is far more optimistic than it was a few years ago. and he wasn't alone in his optimism euro group president mario centeno pointing to greece's better than expected performance in twenty seventeen. times from the. piece called. primary surplus of four point two percent to twenty seven. point five times but the fact that the program greece has received a total of two hundred sixty billion euros as part of three bailouts since two thousand and ten its latest and most likely its last bailout runs out in august. the loans have come in exchange for sweeping and highly unpo

political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras who's a short european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. for us barbara the first round of talks is finished what can you tell us. this seems to be really large a consensus emerging finance ministers of the euro group want the greek crisis after eight years of drama and absent downs they want it off the table and the word here is we want to create a success story in greece it's prepared probably significant that the new euro group president is the finance minister from portugal he has done it his country has gone the same way and he now wants to sort of recreate the same palace in greece and so ministers seem to be quite adamant in saying and now we have the package on the table and this whole thing is just going to run down the review will be finished the last review will be finished in june and we will talk about an exit payment for greece so there you have a national buffer and then we are ready to go and august twenty years greece will be free to fly they will go back t

political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras whose assured european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. our correspondent. gary and she says that germany's role in the discussions there is controversial and that france is ready to step into the breach. there is a problem because the finance minister all of shots was greeted in the most friendly manner of course we welcome the newcomer in our rose but then nothing happened he didn't bring anything he didn't have a plan he didn't have a program he didn't say yes or no to anything so far and what's behind the scenes obviously is that will shortz needs to talk to uncle america the german chancellor and sort of figure out how they are going to deal with this will they go with the flow will they go with the majority among the euro group finance minister or will they sort of reopen the box and start having a nicholson or use and sort of stop proceedings so that is not clear quite clear of course trade is on the agenda on the sidelines the french finance minister bruno came in

political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras who's assured european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. for more on that let's cross over to our correspondent who is at the eurozone finance ministers meeting in sofia for us what's the latest. we've seen something quite unusual here of when european finance ministers the euro group finance ministers are talking about greece there was a lot of you demand unanimity usually there was a lot of fighting and struggling but now they really say we're sort of ninety percent of the way now we want to see this through basically we could say that the euro group finance has won the greek problem off the table for more than eight years they've seen crises and dramas and shouting behind closed doors and now all this is supposed to end on august twenty years and they want to smooth the way so they really seem to be of one mind to say we want to sort of make them go out we want to make them leave in an orderly manner they will be free however of course there will be couldn't dishes for t

political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras whose assured european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era. u.s. comedian bill cosby could be headed to prison oh how the mighty have fallen indeed he was once called america's dad and now he's a convicted sexual predator american comedian bill cosby could go to jail for the rest of his life the case vindicates a multitude of women who have come forward accusing cars b. of drugging and raping them and a pattern of predatory behavior that stretches back to at least one thousand nine hundred sixty five. the ruling sent shock waves around the world but perhaps those most moved by the photo were in the courtroom itself. some of these women had testified against bill cosby and court outside this sense of awful long relief was clearly visible i feel like i fit in humanity is restored a lawyer representing some of cosby's more than fifty accuses said this was a watershed moment first of all. i want to thank the jury justice has been done. we are so happy that finally we can say. wome

there has to be retaliations or we've got to look into what they may entail when we heard from john claude younker the european commission president. so now we will also impose import tariffs this is basically a stupid process the fact that we have to do this but we have to do it and we were now impose tariffs on. motorcycles harley davidson on blue jeans even is on bourbon we can also use we also have to be this youth word coming out of the united states is that there will be an extension to this exemption but ultimately all that does is kick the problem down the road for another day and still leaves us with the situation that either the e.u. us to cave in and say yes they'll pay these tariffs or the united states has to say don't worry about it you get let off with this one piece or all of our reporting there now where thousands of people have been out on the streets of moscow today protesting the russian government's decision to block a popular messaging service we'll have the latest just after the break. a thing that interrupts free trade interrupt freedom and i think interim freedom i

debts others insist on full pay back germany being the most vocal european commission president john claude younker was in athens the day ahead of the meeting and optimistic about the country's prospects last year greece achieved plus of seven billion euros that's much more than expected. and optimistic showing claude younker was full of praise but his meeting with greek prime minister alexis tsipras the european commission president hailed the progress of france as made in implementing a string of painful reforms over the years the proper form of directors pieces performance is excellent as were the sacrifices of the greek people the initial results are now in growth has returned to greece and to europe compact to live up. hopes that will continue and the outlook is good greece's current eighty six billion euro bailout ends this oldest by then athens aims to be financing itself on international capital markets again and is confident of hitting budget targets by twenty twenty the european commission intends to support greece along the way because that important steps are still needed but th

political achievement for prime minister alexis tsipras whose assured european commission president john claude younker that he won't backtrack on reforms in the post bailout era for more on that let's cross over to our correspondent who is at the eurozone finance ministers meeting in sofia for us what's the latest. we've seen something quite unusual here of when european finance ministers a euro group finance ministers are talking about greece there was a lot of you demand unanimity usually there was a lot of fighting and struggling but now they really say we're sort of ninety percent of the way now we want to see this through basically we could say that the euro group finance was one the greek problem off the table for more than eight years they've seen crises and dramas and shouting behind closed doors and now all this is supposed to end on august twenty years and they want to smooth the way so they really seem to be of one mind to say we want to sort of make them go out we want to make them leave in an orderly manner they will be free however of course there will be conditions for the time

jean—claude trichet is the former president of the european central bank and joins us now from paris. a great pleasure to see view. i think you heard johnhn at the top of our programmers think this is a speech that will live long in the memory and may be required, it if you accept the premise, that the world stands at a crossroads? yes, i heard the comments and was also quite amazed, i have to say, by the speech itself. the fact there were 19 standing ovations, i do not remember that congress was so kind with these speakers in such occasions. but i think it was quite well done from president macron to mark both i would say a very strong friendship, historical, and at the same time he was clear on the point is that there were disagreements, particularly on the strong multilateralism that he was going for, the environment and this idea there is no planet b, which was mentioned by the previous speaker and also of course on a wrong place, which is really the main issue. —— on iran. the friend said it is not only to stick to the jcpoa but we also have to address the other issues and, anyway, it was presented asa step issues and, anyway, it w