julia chatherly reports from brussels. >> reporter: optimism leaving this meeting about the peace deal signed between the prorussian separatists, russia and the ukraine. i think the fact that the talks took 17 hours into the early hours of this morning on two important points. one, ultimately they were pretty tough negotiations and two, the desperation of the lead is behind them just to get something signed today. the billion dollar question now becomes, will all sides abide by the cease fire agreement that begins at midnight on sunday? there's plenty of skepticism here behind the scenes given what we've seen in the past and so that's the spotlight now falling firmly on russia. no talks for the sanctions but i think the message is that actions speak louder than words. we've left a lot of meetings bemoaning that the leaders can't agree on further sanctions with russia. perhaps that overshadowed and offset today by the announcement of a collective $14 billion bailout for ukraine but behind the scenes no illusions of the difficulty of reforming a country that is for all intents and purpos

. >> and now julia chatherly with the reaction. >> reporter: returned to athens with the defiant message that he's given the greek people their voice back. now changed the narrative in europe a way from austerity. for european leaders, that message was already filtering through in the past month, but there's one or two people behind me that agree with the message there. you can see what i think for the first time in all the times i've been here in athens and that is a show of support for the government here. there are peop blowing whistles waving greek flags, chanting their support of the government and the message they take in and across europe in the last two days. i have to admit, it worries me because it makes a comedown or a climbdown by this government very difficult to achieve. what we've already heard them say is we're not going to argue the debt right now. they've got the message as far as wages and pension raising. it's concerns but can they do enough to appease european leaders a get what they want? they're going to announce their program on saturday and have a confident vote