[00:00.00]Officials in Germany say
[00:01.42]the total financial aid package for Greece
[00:04.28]could be more than double, the 60 billion dollars
[00:07.64]that is previously expected.
[00:09.44]The head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn
[00:12.61]is in Berlin trying to persuade Germany
[00:15.35]to agree to the financial rescue plan.
[00:17.65]He said the deal needed to be implemented quickly
[00:20.26]as the situation was getting worse every day
[00:23.00]and could affect other European countries.
[00:25.36]but the German Chancellor Angola Merkel said
[00:28.04]Berlin needed to be certain
[00:30.40]that Greece was serious about spending cuts.

Officials in Germany say
the total financial aid package for Greece
could be more than double, the 60 billion dollars
that is previously expected.
The head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn
is in Berlin trying to persuade Germany
to agree to the financial rescue plan.
He said the deal needed to be implemented quickly
as the situation was getting worse every day
and could affect other European countries.
but the German Chancellor Angola Merkel said
Berlin needed to be certain
that Greece was serious about spending cuts.