Nightly News   |  August 01, 2011

World watches debt deal closely

From Bulgaria to Argentina and beyond, people around the world woke up on Monday to front page newspaper headlines announcing the U.S. debt deal. NBC's Brian Williams reports.

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BRIAN WILLIAMS, anchor (Washington, DC): This is the story the whole world has been watching. As we keep saying, people around the world woke up to newspaper headlines this morning announcing this debt deal in principle; France , Argentina , Brazil , just to name a few, a lot of overseas papers gave it play on the front