grease tries to buy more time. time -- greece tries to buy more time. hello, you're watching al jazeera live from doha. on the program. in venezuela after the arrest of the mayor of caracas. >> i'm jonah hurl in kiev where exactly a year ago acknowledge three weeks of anti-government

protests culminated in the deaths of a dozen people, this square, the maidan. >> hello greece will battle with its european creditors later and possible exit from the euro zone. greece has asked to extend its bailout for six months. germany has rejected that. and demands more austerity. john vop siropolous reports. >> be alexisalexis tsipras sounded as,.

>> war of words with hard liner jernlg any which is worried about tsipras hard line spending policies. >> translator: the greek proposal is the first step but we have to say this offer is not sufficient because it's lacking hard line measures taken in greece. we can't ease things in greece and have german and european taxpayers pay for it. this hasn't been addressed at all. >> greece has said to get tough on tax collection. the sticking point is, he doesn't want the next six months to see a continuation of the austerity policies it trying to renegotiate. >> the time has come for those who want a solution to reveal themselves. the government has issued a statement that friday's euro group has only two.alternatives,

to accept it or reject it. >> translator: the prime minister is proceeding in this way because he is very smart and he reached this direction with courage and expectations. >> on less austere terms not to tumble out of it. >> translator: it doesn't matter if i'm not with those who don't support or haven't voted with this government. what matters is greece has to find solution within the euro because we have sacrificed a lot to be in the euro and shouldn't be an option for us to exit it. >> reporter: it wants to repay its debt, but cannot. it needs $25 billion alone. it can only convince euro zone to fund its programs. >> peterson institute for international economics, he says this crisis is not simply a

battle between greece and germany. >> i think we should actually move away from the picture of this as being primarily a clash between athens and berlin. the reality is that grease is almost completely isolated in its demands for more money without any conditionality and the reality is that pretty much every other euro area member says in private what germany is saying in public, which is that their taxpayers are not going to be financing the election promises of alexis tsipras. >> venezuela, the mayor of caracas has been arrested after accusations that he has been involved in a coup attempt. the anniversary comes in the start of antigovernment dmemtiondepositiondemonstrations.

>> reporter: aids to the mayor say the men did not identify themselves or give any reason for arresting mayor ledesma. owner draiforts gathered outside the mayor's apartment and demanded his release. after the draft president nicholas maduro accused of the mayor of the crimes. >> crimes committed against the peace of the country and the

constitution. >> producing hard evidence. it's been a year since major protests broke out against the government, which has faced massive food shortages and spiraling inflation. one of the country's main opposition leaders acknowledge leopoldo lopez has spent years in prison. adam rainey, al jazeera. time frame for potential recapture ever mosul 2005,000 troops is currently being prepared. the u.s. officials said it could be ready to fight for control of iraq's second largest city by april. rldroz marin jordanlynnrosalyn jordan

last the story. >> the targeting of mosul which is currently being controlled by i.s.i.l. fighters could be a very decisive fight. and of course then the next question would be, would u.s. troops be needed to help the iraqi military? the u.s. military has long said he doesn't want to send ground troops back into iraq. but that's the only way the iraqi military could succeed the legislators say if that's the only way it could succeed to both the iraqi government and to i.s.i.l. fighters. >> newly released video from u.s. central command apparently shows areas controlled by i.s.i.l. on iraq. this video shows a strike on

sunday near an area of hamdenea. a group in anbar province. u.s. coalition has also carried out strikes against the group in neighboring syria. and fighters loyal to i.s.i.l. have seized the university in the central libyan city of sirte. exploiting a poir vacuum power value for control. >> battle for sirte and captured former leader moammar gadhafi. now they're ready to deploy to the coastal city. the group has declared sirte and i.s.i.l. province and its fighters occupy government buildings there. >> we should secure all libya.

we should not keep silent after we have made such sacrifices. >> reporter: moved into the sirte area for preparation of another vital battle in libya. coast guards are now patrolling the mediterranean. said to have reached sirte by sea. somewhere in this area that i.s.i.l. recently killed 21 egyptian coptic christians. northeastern city of derna a towrn wheretown where some fighters declared allegiance to i.s.i.l. the egyptian military said it carried out raids against i.s.i.l. camps training centers and weapon did he depots.

some estimate their number and around 1 million even though there is no official count. these people are said to have arrived in the country illegally caught by the authorities, they are about to be deported. >> regarding the search fishermen who were with us from the legal immigration department, they do not have any documents, we transferred them from d zuara to tripoli. >> others have been advised to stay indoors for their own safety. both the u.n. recognized government in tobruk, with two rival political bodies each with their own forces there is concern that more weapons won't contain the spread of i.s.i.l. or its affiliates which are taking advantage of these divisions. many libyans have been asking for unity and the formation of national security forces ever since the fall of the gadhafi

regime nearly four years ago. something politicians have so far failed to provide. hoda al hamid, al jazeera tunisia. >> modern fighters fighting the islamic state of iraq and the levant. the goal is to go after i.s.i.l. but turkey has suggested the rebels could also tackle the syrian government of bashar al-assad. ceasefire was called into effect on sunday in ukraine. president petro poroshenko army withdrew on wednesday. >> translator: i'd like to add that the situation is getting more exacerbated because with the support of the russian army militants virtually wiped out

debaltseve from the surface of the earth and now debaltseve reminds me of the moon landscape. >> one year ago ukrainian snierp issnierpsukrainian snipesnipers opened fire. >> igor hardly needs photographers to remind him of the antigovernment protests on the square the maidan that ended in bloodshed. >> translator: i was proud that we were able to unite and this we weren't cared off by the power that was destroying us and that we were able to withstand us. that was maidan was all about. >> she was there too. a volunteer medic tending to the

injured and the dead much. >> translator: i cannot find the right words because if i say the sacrifices were justified the families of the victims won't understand me. at the same time with the heroic actions they showed that that we need to be able to protect ourselves and our country and stand there until the end. >> reporter: once a protestor now a member of parliament, widely credited with delivering the final blow to former president viktor yanukovych. he took the maidan stage and told yanukovych to leave or be thrown out. that night the president fled in a helicopter to eventual

protection in russian. >> i often say if our children don't feel right in this country where will they go? they will come to maidan. all change comes from maidan and we have to believe on this. >> on february the 20th leas year more than 50 protesters were shot dead many allegedly by government snipers though there were weapons on each side. the protests lasted over three months and claimed over 100 lives. >> the crowds, the fires and the shooting are all gone from the maidan, it is now once again a busy city square but in a city and country much changed. a year on and the force he of change that united on maidan have given way to a country still riddled with corruption close to economic collapse and on the version of partition. many ukrainians do still lean

westwards in the hope of a european future. a future now in jeopardy because of war raging in the east. jonah hull, al jazeera kiev. >> still ahead when we come back freed by boko haram former hostages speak about their experience in captivity. plus. playing for peace. how one musician is spreading the message of love in war torn iraq.

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>> hello begin. again. the top stories. germany has rejected greece's request for more time to repay its massive loan to the european union. the mayor of caracas has been arrested after accusations he was involved in a coup attempt. posted on social media shows the minute police forced their way into his office. a voal critic of nicholas mad ro. an offensive to capture the iraqi city of mosul from i.s.i.l. could be ready by april. a force of up to 25,000 troops is currently being prepared. now the world has to confront the warped ideology of groups like i.s.i.l. and al qaeda. that was u.s. president barack obama's message on the last day of a summit on extremism being hosted by the white house.

but the u.s. government also wants to take on groups like i.s.i.l. on social media. our white house correspondent patty culhane reports. >> one of the main messages from the summit attended by 60 countries is that the u.s. is losing the being coldlosing the technology war against i.s.i.l. >> we need to open up especially online and that's why the united states is joining for example with the uae to create a new digital communications hub to work with religious civil society community leaders to downer propaganda. >> turns out they're not sure

yet. >> there are going to be conversations with our partners in the region, i'm sure we'll have more to say about it as the details become more finalized. >> the obama administration says it needs to fight i.s.i.l. in the battlefield but also in cyber space wrnl they could lure more fighters to take up arms. but former cray agent robert grenier says it's more difficult than that. >> to reinforce and to amplify. glnl until this is >> until this is put in place hoping the message gets threw despite the fact that the u.s. is the message engineer. patty culhane, al jazeera washington. >> in nigeria more than 150

people taken hostage from the armed group boko haram have been reunited with their families in yobay state a month after being taken hostage. the victims say they were freed after refusing to follow the rules of boko haram. >> we told them, if they did not follow their ways we should go back an follow the greerch green and white flag. >> meanwhile nigeria's president goodluck jonathan, told the people that he is working to improve the capacity of the armed forces with help from neighboring countries. the philippine government says it has killed one of southeast asia's most wanted men

confirmed dead in a government raid last month but his death derailed peace talks with the armed muslim rebel group he led. old fears from the muslim community have resurfaced. >> her husband was a fighter with the liberation front and was killed by government forces. >> my children have lost their father. my son saw his father's body lying on the ground. they still cry every day. it is still painful. his loss is irreplaceable. >> too lost her husband. he left the home early found dead a day later. his hands tied his eyes gouged

out. according to the government he was a civilian who was caught in the cross fire. accuses the police of killing her husband. >> i hope that justice prevails that the truth comes out. that the violence committed against my husband won't happen to anyone again. >> reporter: this is the town is long served as a base for several armed groups including southeast asia's most powerful, the islamic liberation front. the ceasefire was broken whether government forces conducted a raid close to its territory late last month. that led to more than 60 people killed and derailed peace talks between two parties. >> after years of relative calm, civilian find themselves caught up in the violence once again. the decades long rebellion has led to hundreds of thousands of

people displaced. many continue to live like this in abject poverty majority of whom are still dispossessed. less than a quarter of the children have gone back to school since the fighting started again. teachers say it may take some time before life returns to normal. conflict has affected these communities for generations and people here say these are troubled times once again. still, they continue to hope for the completion of a peace agreement. it's still not too late they say. their children can still live a life in peace. jamal allendoggan. al jazeera. >> both weather systems have now been down graded tropical cyclone marcia.

a news website called the intercept has reported that u.s. and british spies hacked into the world's largest sim card manufacturer. the report says the u.s. national security agency and its british equivalent gchq happened into jamalco a sim card manufacturer based in the netherlands. >> now the chelsea football club will not allow three of its fans to attend. a black man was blocked from a many subway train. >> we are racist and we like it, has caused genuine outrage on

both sides of the channel. those responsible should be punished and locked up they say. >> i got on the train they pushed me, i don't know why they pushed me. they were speaking in english. they were saying things i couldn't understand. i got on the metro twice and they pushed me. someone told me they were hooligans people from chelsea. i was on my own. i didn't come to fight. i was trying to get home. i was targeted because of the color of my skin. but you know in france, blacks have always been targeted because of the color of their skin no matter where they come from. if they wanted to arrest them they could arrest them any time. if the police don't want to hear my complaint i will go to all the antiracism organizations and file a complaint. >> the chelsea supporters are being investigated for what he described is voluntary racist violence on a public transport.

a charge punishable by three years in prison and o$45,000 fine. peter sharp acknowledge al jazeera paris. reaching back toll beginnings of civilization. that's been overshadowed in years by war and violence. jane arraf reports about bringing music back to daily life. >> reporter: unexpected things happen when conductor visits. on this day he is playing his cello. to senior citizens. after he died he kept the record he and taught himself to play to keep his friend's memory alive. the wood is cracked now and mr. mansour is blind but the music is as moving as ever. there are decades of mem reiterationmemorieswrapped up in these

songs. she tells us later she hasn't seen her daughter in seven years. her late husband a teacher was an amateur musician. >> translator: he used to play the udin violin. they used to have german violin. but under the economic sanctions of the 1990s we had to sell it. >> much grander venues. he could live anywhere but he wants to make a difference in iraq. on this day he's joined by other volunteers. osam on the ud, mohamed and faruk on the guitar. he's found the most effective way to spread the music is to go out and play.

>> between houses, hospitals streets of baghdad churches, the book market, the fish market, wherever it's possible to create that exposure. >> across town he has turned a little used community affairs building into a center for music class he for young people. they include tuition paying students and residents of anker fan an. an orphanage. >> music gives them an escape and the realization that life can have other possibilities. has brought this community center back to life as well. in the spare room the part time musicians figure out what they're going to play. they give license lessons to any of the kids who want them. they all have day jobs but since they supported their murveg

they're tryingmusicthey're trying to give that back. jane arraf baghdad. >> there's lots more on our website, aljazeera.com. ask concrete data that officers were profiling blacks. >> takes your breath away. >> it is limited the san carlos apache