Tough talking in Greece as police brace for demos

The serious talking has got underway in the greek Parliament and the protesters are back riot police are on high alert outside the building as thousands gathers to demonstrate against the vote on austerity measures Three point three billion euros of cuts is the price of a one hundred and thirty billion euro rescue package The result of the parliamentary vote is expected around midnight Prime Minster lucas Papademos has warned kicking out the bill would be economic chaos there have been fiery exchanges in the chamber with one communist deputy throwing the bill on the floor There will be fresh headlines in the morning when the markets will react to the vote which the coalition government is expected to pass On the streets opinion is split Greece is finished There is no hope We will be destroyed through bankruptcy and suffer in a patriotic way for about ten years and then find our way out of this all by ourselves It will be alright once the parliament votes in favor because we must go forward and not backwards If the bill is passed it will be the second time in two years the greeks will have received a bailout The deadline is march the twentieth when the country must meet debt repayments of fourteen and a half billion euros In a german newspaper article Finance minister Wolfgang Schauble warned Greece must dramatically change its ways