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Thousands of people. they re furious over the country s out-of-control debt and government plans to make big cuts in education, public safety, all the critical stuff. the atmosphere is so toxic right now those protests have actually turned deadly, and cnn is there. diana magnate in athens on the phone. diana, tell us exactly what s happening right now. reporter: kyra, i ve been in the thick of a lot of fighting this morning. the police have been firing tear gas into crowds of protesterpro. another tear gas explosion firing into the crowd. we are also hearing from the fire brigades here that some bank employees in a bank which was bombed by these rioter, three people have been killed in there. just to give you a sense of why these people are on the streets, as you said, because of greece s huge public deficit, its debt, and the fact that the government is now going to cut these people s salaries and increase the cost of living. ....
Sense of a sense of anger on the streets, kyra. diane a thanks so much. on the gulf coast they re waiting for the oil to christmas, shore and the big bell to leave port. 210,000 gallons were coming out of three underwater leaks. bp says one is now capped. so the aim same of oil is coming out of two leaks. the containment dome is expected to hit the water? just a couple of hours. that massive structure seen in this video will be taken out of the leak site today, but it will take several days to get it in place over the leak. bp has promised to pay all legitimate costs related to the spill, but what is legitimate right now. there s a $75 million cap by law, but legislation introduced yesterday ups that number to $10 billion. so is bp ready to step up in their coo talked about it on american morning. since the beginning that we ll meet our responsibilities and i think our behavior since the very beginning has shown that. ....
Package, this package of measures that the government has just announced this weekend, in order to try and reduce the country s deficit is actually going to work. basically, they brought in the international monetary fund, the imf, to try and reduce their spending and sort out the economy. but people here are very angry because they believe that essentially the imf is only brought in to help developing world economies rather than a eurozone economy and they feel the government has been forced by the imf to impose much stricter measures than it would have done otherwise. the big picture is can the government push through these spending cuts if the people continue to protest, which they say they will. kyra? diana magnay, thank you. ....
People, not saying why they re arresting them, but what we can see is that they seem to be sort of concentrating the arrests in and around the karachi area, if indeed, as we are being told one of them is mr. shahzad s father-in-law, potentially going after that part of his family because from what we know, his father and his sort of where his family comes from is further north from here, closer with the border with afghanistan and closer to the city of peshawar. at the moment the arrests are focused around krachy and it is not clear exactly how those ties work to those claims that he s making that he got training from the pakistani taliban, kyra. all right. so what are you learning about the group, this group that has claimed responsibility, the pakistani taliban? reporter: well, number one, the government here, the army spokesman is saying absolutely not. they have no evidence that he had any training from them or any connections whatsoever. one of his cousins, a family ....
Something. we like to use this globe to put it in perspective. here s the united states. over here, a few locations i want you to see relevant in the story. let s start over here. i was mentioning germany, german chancellor angela merkel. she s saying europe stands at a crossroads with the economic crisis in greece. a lot of european nations caming to to promise $146 billion to help greece. however, there is a hole in that, as well. slovakia right now, potentially standing in the way, the prime minister saying you can t give greece any loan before we see them doing their homework. that s not necessarily fears that slovakia can block that but there are fails that that assistance money will not come through and it will hit our stocks, our 401(k)s, in the united states, and this is the location of greece, where we re getting more information by the minute of people trapped, firebombs outside banks, all that going on throughout athens and greece, kyra. josh, thanks. today is the last d ....