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Television pictures show chaotic scenes in Syntagma Square, in front of Greece’s parliament. As we’ve been reporting from Athens, a peaceful demonstration of some 10,000 people was dispersed as violence broke out earlier today. 
  
 Now, television pictures show running clashes between police and demonstrators in the square, with youths throwing rocks at police lines who respond with tear gas, stun grenades and isolated charges at the crowds. 
  
 The BBC has just shown pictures of several dozen white helmeted police officers arriving in the square on motorcycles, only to be halted and boxed in by demonstrators. Eventually, it appeared they were forced to retreat. ||||| Greece's lawmakers have approved a key austerity bill, paving the way for the country to get its next vital bailout loans that will prevent it from defaulting next month. 
  
 Riot police beat a protester during a demonstration in Athens Tuesday evening June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of... (Associated Press) 
  
 A protestor throws a panel top of a burning barricade during a demonstration in Athens Tuesday evening June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers... (Associated Press) 
  
 Protesters clash with riot police during a demonstration in Athens late Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of... (Associated Press) 
  
 Riot police stand near a tear gas canister during a demonstration in Athens Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round... (Associated Press) 
  
 A laser light is shone into the eyes of a riot police officer by protesters during a demonstation in Athens, late Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general... (Associated Press) 
  
 Demonstrators burn a cafe umbrella during a demonsration in Athens late Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of... (Associated Press) 
  
 A couple passes by a burning barricae during a demo in Athens on Tuesday June 28, 2011. Greece's beleaguered government is bracing for a 48-hour general strike as lawmakers debate a new round of austerity... (Associated Press) 
  
 The unpopular euro28 billion ($40 billion) five-year package of spending cuts and tax hikes was backed by a majority of the 300-member parliament Wednesday, including Socialist deputy Alexandros Athanassiadis, who had previously vowed to vote against. 
  
 The European Union and International Monetary Fund have demanded the austerity measures pass before they approve the release of a euro12 billion loan installment from last year's rescue package. 
  
 Without those funds, Greece would be facing a default by the middle of July. 
  
 The vote took place amid clashes between police and protesters outside Parliament. 
  
 THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below. 
  
 ATHENS, Greece (AP) _ Greek lawmakers began voting Wednesday on new austerity measures needed to secure crucial bailout funds as protesters opposed to the bill clashed with riot police outside Parliament. 
  
 The bill needs a simple majority to pass and Prime Minister George Papandreou appears to have enough votes even though one of his deputies said he would not be backing the package. 
  
 A no vote would push Greece to the brink of default as soon as next month with potentially huge repercussions for Europe's banking sector and global markets. 
  
 As deputies debated inside Parliament, riot police fired volleys of tear gas to push back protesters, who were pelting police with bottles and trash and overturning barriers. 
  
 Papandreou's governing Socialists hold a five-seat majority in the 300-seat chamber. The bill needs a simple majority of 151 to pass. 
  
 The package, which involves euro28 billion ($40 billion) worth of spending cuts and tax increases over five years, is a condition for the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund to release the next euro12 billion ($17 billion) installment of the country's bailout fund. An additional bill that details how the austerity measures will be implemented must also be passed in a vote Thursday. 
  
 Hours ahead of the vote, it looks like only one Socialist deputy will fail to heed Papandreou's call to back the measures, suggesting that the bill will get at least the 151 votes needed for it to pass. Hopes that the bill will pass have seen European stock markets trade strongly Wednesday and the euro jump toward $1.45. 
  
 The vote comes against a backdrop of violent demonstrations and on the second day of a nationwide general strike that has brought much of Greece to a standstill. Hundreds of flights and ferried have been canceled, leaving tourists stranded during the summer high season. 
  
 Protesters were trying to encircle Parliament to prevent deputies from entering and voting for the bill and a massive security operation was under way, with a large section of central Athens sealed off to traffic. 
  
 Scuffles broke out early in the morning as demonstrators attempted to block a major avenue leading to the center of the city, and to Parliament. Riot police responded with pepper spray, and 10 people were treated in a nearby hospital for minor injuries, hospital officials said. 
  
 Demonstrators also hoisted ghoulish effigies of men they hold responsible for Greece's misfortune _ Papandreou, new Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos and Deputy Prime Minister Theodoros Pangalos _ and shook them in the air on sticks. 
  
 "Dogs, you look after your masters," they chanted at police. The furious marchers also emptied bags of garbage from municipal containers and lobbed them at the security forces, who stood their ground impassively. 
  
 A day earlier, extensive clashes left at least 46 people injured, most of them police, as rioters pelted police with chunks of marble and ripped up paving stones, and authorities responded with repeated volleys of tear gas and stun grenades. 
  
 Greece has said it has funds only until mid-July, after which it will be unable to pay salaries and pensions, or service its debts, without the next bailout installment from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund. The country is also in talks for additional help in the form of a second bailout, which the prime minister has said will be roughly the size of last year's euro110 billion ($157 billion) package. 
  
 "Voting these measures is required to maintain our credibility in the (bailout) process," Venizelos said during the debate Tuesday night. "Voting for these measures, regardless of any reservations, is an important, brave act of political responsibility." 
  
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 Derek Gatopoulos, Menelaos Hadjicostis and Elena Becatoros contributed. ||||| Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption The BBC's Jon Sopel describes the battle between the police and rioters as one of "cat and mouse" 
  
 The Greek parliament has voted in favour of a drastic package of austerity measures intended to save the country from defaulting on its debts. 
  
 The proposed tax hikes and spending cuts have been deeply unpopular with the Greek public. 
  
 A nationwide 48-hour strike is under way and violent clashes are continuing in the streets of the capital, Athens. 
  
 The EU welcomed the bill's passage, by 155 votes to 138, as a "vote of national responsibility". 
  
 Greece is heavily in debt and the package is needed to win the latest tranche of a 110bn-euro (£98bn) loan from the EU and IMF. 
  
 Parliament will hold a second vote on Thursday aimed at reforming laws to allow the package to be implemented. 
  
 'No time to step back' 
  
 Ahead of Wednesday's vote, Prime Minister George Papandreou urged MPs to approve the package by consensus. 
  
 No one in Greece believes the tax increases, lay-offs, privatisations will ever be fully implemented. Greece vote won't end drama 
  
 He had faced wavering support from within his governing Panhellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), which has a slim majority, with 155 seats out of 300 in parliament. 
  
 But in the end, only one Pasok deputy voted against the package. There were two abstentions, while five deputies merely noted they were present. 
  
 Mr Papandreou says his austerity plan is the only way to get Greece back on its feet. 
  
 "We must avoid the country's collapse at all costs. Now is not the time to step back," he told deputies. 
  
 Were his 28bn-euro austerity package to be rejected, Greece could run out of money within weeks, as the EU and the International Monetary Fund want the measures implemented before they release more funds to help Greece pay off its vast debts. 
  
 European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman Van Rompuy welcomed the result of Wednesday's vote, saying it had pulled Greece away from the "very grave scenario of default" while paving the way for a second aid package. 
  
 "The country has taken an important step forward along the necessary path of fiscal consolidation and growth-enhancing structural reform," they said in a joint statement. 
  
 'Unfair but necessary' 
  
 Once news that the vote had passed trickled out to the streets of Athens, fighting broke out with a new level of brutality, says the BBC's Malcolm Brabant in the Greek capital. 
  
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 The riot police engaged in behaviour that would never be tolerated in other parts of Europe, throwing stones back at the protesters, says our correspondent. 
  
 Police corralled demonstrators into the metro station outside parliament in Syntagma Square, and fired tear gas down the stairwells, he adds. 
  
 Meanwhile, protesters set fire to a post office on the ground floor of the finance ministry in the square. 
  
 The air outside parliament was thick with plumes of tear gas and smoke as clashes continued near the square between masked protesters - armed with rocks and sticks - and riot police firing tear gas and stun grenades. 
  
 Dozens of police and protesters were injured in the violence. 
  
 "Let the prime minister come down here and see if he can live on 300 euros a month," one female protester told the BBC outside parliament. 
  
 Greek unions are angry that the government's austerity programme will impose taxes on those earning the minimum wage, following months of other cuts that have seen unemployment rise to more than 16%. 
  
 The vote covered the first part of Greece's austerity package, focusing on raising taxes to secure some 14.09bn euros over the next five years and introducing 14.32bn euros in public spending cuts. 
  
 Ahead of Wednesday's vote, the governor of Greece's central bank, George Provopoulos, said a 'no' vote would be "suicide" for the country. 
  
 Thursday's vote is over the implementation of different parts of the package, such as tax rises and the sale of state assets. 
  
 Once passed, European officials will start to finalise the details of a second bail-out, worth an estimated 120bn euros, designed to help Greece pay its debts until the end of 2014. 
  
 The impact of the Greek vote would be felt worldwide said Herman Van Rompuy, president of the EU Commission, on Tuesday. 
  
 Recently appointed Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos acknowledged that the cuts were "unfair", though absolutely necessary. 
  
 But the main opposition leader, Antonis Samaras of the New Democracy party, said the thinking behind the austerity package was flawed, and that tax rates should be lowered rather than raised in order to stimulate the economy. |||||
Output:
It’s official: Greece’s parliament has approved a wave of sweeping—and wildly unpopular—austerity measures, paving the way for it to receive bailout loans from Europe to avoid defaulting on its debt, the AP reports. The bill passed 155-138, garnering even the support of Alexandros Athanassiadis, a Socialist deputy who had promised to vote nay. The package will move the country roughly $40 million closer to the black with a mix of spending cuts and tax hikes. "We must avoid the country's collapse at all costs. Now is not the time to step back.," Prime Minister George Papandreou said ahead of the vote, according to the BBC. The head of the country's central bank had earlier today warned that a "no" vote would be "suicide" for the country. The euro rose 0.2% in the minutes following the news, the Wall Street Journal reports. Click for more on the riotous protests the bill has sparked in Athens.