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>> hello, there. and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up. after a string of defeats isil strikes back in syria attacks the curds. and the army. deadlock in brussells talks on the greek debt crisis grinding to a halt with no deal and no progress. plus.
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the affordable care act is here to stay. >> a major win for obama as the supreme court uphold as key part of his healthcare law. and we are there as end do these yeah erupts blanketing a nearby town in ash. hello. the policeman was defected and they were wrong to go ahead with it, that is the finding the long awaited south african inquiry into the death of 34 miners who died when police opened fire. the report recommended that a full investigation is needed to determine whether police are criminally live. the findings were delivered by south african president in a televised address. the commission has found that it would have been impossible
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so disarm and disburse the strikers without significant bloodshed. the police should have waited until the following day when the originals and settlement plan which was substantially risk free could have been implemented. >> well, the commission also blamed law men and the mining union for fails to response to the threat of violence. al jazeera reports the findings are likely to be of little comfort to the families who have waits nearly three years for justice. >> shows us the scars of the injury he suffered when he was shot eight times and
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beaten during one of the most violent protests. he was one of thousands demanding better pay nearly three years ago. when police opened fire he was one of the lucky ones 33 of his clears were killed. >> what is important is that when you have wronged someone, eses specially for you have taken a life, even though one cannot buy life, you have to confess and ask for forgiveness. they are still making our life miserable. >> the president set off commission to investigate what happened before and during the killings. months after the conclusion of the commission of inquiry into who is responsible for the deaths oif miners their families are still waiting for answers families who lost their sole breadwinner continue to struggle. she is not hopeful the
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commissions report will bring closure. a lawyer representing the family is concerned that the report is being deliberately with held. >> this was not just any other process is people were targeted and massacres. there was no sense of self-defense. >> meanwhile, they continue to work and live at the mine to pay, she says it has been
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unbearable being apart from her children, with constant reminders of how her husband lost his life. al jazeera, americana. >> the islamic state of iraq has launched a count ever attack where the group suffer as recent defeat. fighters entered the boarder for the first time reportingly killing 35 people, they have been gaining ground in the area in recent weeks. and cutting off the groups main rout from turkey to it's de facto capitol. in a separate attack, forces have been driven out, which is partly government held and partly under kurdish control.
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injuries after another attack, there are also reports of villages being executed after fighters stormed in others are again being brought across the border for medical care. ed is bombers hit forces in the town they struggled to fight off who disguise themselves in unitomorrows also known as the y pg fighters have been fighting for control since last year, they have been backed by u.s. air strikes and are under attack again isil also launched an attack one of the last remaining towns in the north, under the control of the syrian government. >> is there have been clashes between the military against the islamic state in the national district. it is home to many syrian refugees who came turkey's
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government denied fighters controlled and say fighters entered from the western side of the town inside syria. >> claims that the group crossed from turkey are just lies we strongly deny that, it just isn't true. >> isil has suffered serious cut backs. the self-proclaimed capitol. isil has lost supply lines as well as in influence. >> isil as a result needs to show that it still has influence, and that's why it is it is on the offensive again, also, we have and regime itself, retreating from some areas because it is overstretched and this is giving isil a big opportunity to advance, and finally we have the anniversary of the so called catalyst coming up on monday, and isil also needs to show that it is still very influential on the
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drowned. including families displaced. in kurdish families have also been forced to leave their homes. around 8 million have been displaced inside syria and there seems to be no end in sight as for the various group that says isil has been pushed back, becoming a flash point again is a cause for concern. al jazeera. >> union leaders have gathered again for a summit dominated by attempts to avoided a greet debt default put and deadlock continues. a meeting broke up with no agreement and no signs of progress the prime minister is stick to his plan to close the gap mainly through taxation. while insisting on some form of debt relief, but they have
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submit add count brother poseuse. p demanding further spending cuts. greek officials say without a deal they won't p able to repay $1.8 billion to the i manyf on tuesday. al jazeera has been following the day's developments and he joins us now, lawrence? is. >> yes, another hugely disappointed day between the greek government and the creditors. they just can't find common ground and the creditors demand for massive structural change inside the greek economy. particularly frustrating for the euro zone who are having failed meeting after failed meeting and at this late stage, is entirely unclear whether the place in the euro zone can be saved. >> crumpling time and this
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was epic, they came once again to meet the creditors to whom this country owes so much. it was clear they were looking for their pound of flesh, more austerity making people work until they are older. to all intents and burdens they could not break them down, and so they all left, with no deal done. it seems many were admiring the will of their lead tore stand up to institutions they regard as having impoverished them. >> i think he must not back down, he must not when people have been suffering for five years now the prime minister who got elected so recently, must not back down, it is not fair. he should drop it and walk away, what is the point of getting an agreement, and what do they want from us. >> the situation is you take one step in front and fall off a cliff, one step back and you fall in the river. >> but in press sells the
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finance ministers were left to work out how they could find a way of creating a bridge between a rock and the hard place in the end they couldn't do it, pushing the talks back undid the weekend. >> well, we have been working for two days and nights nonstop. we were given a proposals by the greek parties at the last hour, and we need to do some more work to exam the proposal to see how kit be reconciled. the door is still open to come with new proposals or to accept what is on the table butly inform the government leaders first now. >> the prime minister turned up again for the leader summit talks about compromise, in truth, many feel they are being set up to fail by the creditors. >> a view from the party support base, is is that some of this is deliberate.
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they believe they want to put them in the position of having to face the cuts rather than leaving the euro zone. because that could create a new government there more amean to believe the creditors way of thinking. >> and what happens now is that people in agrees with money in the bank, all the threats have suggests greece would be on it's own if it defaults next week, and the banks may then run out of money no agreement by monday would provide the test to whether they are prepares to let greece fail i guess the question then is how is it likely to respond if it is threatened with expunge. >> yeah, and you think on the face of it the position is quite weak, because after all it is faced with the potential of the collapse, but there was a little movement towards the greek position, and i think the two main reasons for thinking that a deal over the weekend
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is still possible, the first is if greece does get threatened with expulsion, where do they go for emergency funding they go to moscow. and in brussells they would hate nothing more than the idea of moscow having a financial foothold inside the e.u., by propping up freese. the second issue which is also subject of discussion tonight is refugees. there are any number of european countries at the moment that are dead against trying to organize a quota system, washing up from the mediterranean into europe and the preferred rout at the horning is no longer italy but the greek islands and these union countries know that if they threaten agrees with expunge, all those refugees can similar pri have a door opened to them by greece, and off they go flooding the european union that's a very high price for some of these countries to pay for expelling greece. so agrees i think has some sharp tools up it's sleeve
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lawrence lee with the latest, thank you. >> still ahead no power no fuel no water this has they say yemen is one step from famine. and striking taxi driverring being traffic to a standstill as they protest at the rise of owner. uber.
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>> "inside story" takes you beyond the headlines, beyond the quick cuts, beyond the sound bites. we're giving you a deeper dive into the stories that are making our world what it is. >> ray suarez hosts "inside story". only on al jazeera america. welcome back. an inquiry into the debt of
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34 miners shot my police at the mine in august of 2012. they found the police plan to break up the strike was defective and they should not have gone ahead with it. after a string of recent defeats they launch add suicide attack in the syrian city which they lost to the kurdish fighters in january. and the german chancellor says there must be a deal on the debt crisis before the markets open on monday. well, greece eat kress tors are of course pushing for more cuts to pensions, half the households in greece rely on to get by, barnabie phillips spoke to people that are struggling to make ends meet. >> this country is now on the edge of a cliff but in a
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working class, when we ask about negotiations the replies are weary even defiant. >> it doesn't matter to us, it makes no difference. we never had much, we aren't going to have much. >> you got here too soon, come back hater and you will see people rifling through that dust bin to pick up whatever we throw out. >> no signs of panic outside the banks. but their balance sheets are looking increasingly alarming. >> greek banks are now in a critical condition. nervous depositors have taken out billions of euros. >> of course the debt crieses has dragged on for five years but it is the condition of the bank that make as need for a solution so urgent just
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a trickle of people, mind you the cynics say the trevor investors take thundershower money out long ago. and then there are the greeks that have no savings anyway. she is a widow, her daughter is unemployed so is her husband and two brown children, so the entire family lives off maria's pension, in fact, half of all greek households rely on pensions to maybe ends meet. if it wasn't for my mother i wouldn't be alive right now i would have put an end to it so i'm not a burden. do these people care about me? do they come to my house? i don't want to beg, i have never done that, i have dignity it is a met fore for a humiliated nation, degree dozen have dignity but little else to negotiate with.
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>> the u.s. supreme court has upheld packets to healthcare reforms. >> supporters of the a.c.a. or affordable care act cheered outside the court as the announcement was made. it is a big victory for the president and the second time in three years the court has ruled against major challenges to the healthcare act. >> the affordable care act is here to stay. the part that has made it easier for americans to afford health insurance regardless of where you live. if the partisan challenge to this law had succeeded millions of americans would have had thousands of dollars worth of tax credits taken from them. for many insurance would have become unaffordable again. many would have become uninsured again, ultimately everyone's premiums could
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have gone up. america would have gone backwards. and that's not what we do, we move forward. >> they are hoping to bring war crimes charges against israeli officials. documents also allege crimes in last year's war the authority joins the i.c.c. this year, a move rejected by israel. the i.c.c. chief prosecutor has told al jazeera the court wants to hear from israel as well as the palestinians before deciding on the next step. >> i am encouraging everyone, all sides to the conflict so provide my office with information, it is a phase that i need information to make a determination. either way. on the determined the next phase.
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so i am just continuing to call for that, that is absolutely important that this information is provided to my office. >> the u.n. special envoy has warned that the country is one step away from famine. almost 90% of the population needs humanitarian assistance. he want as career fire before the middle of july. the streets are pitch black at night power cuts leave the capitol in darkness, citizens say it has never been this bad before. >> this is the first time where there is lack of water electricity, or petrol. the prices of food are very high. >> in the daylight the situation isn't any better. after three months of attacks by the saudi led coalition
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and forces loyal to the president, the humanitarian situation is dire. there are long cues for almost everything here there is no running water and many rely. it is often hours before one arrived. petrol is also difficult to get, motorists wait hours in the sun to get a refill. before the war more than half of the population lives below the poverty line in the poorest country in the world. now, the u.n. is warning of famine. >> we are one step, one step from famine, we have over 21 million in need of human assistance. it was 7 million only two years ago now we are 21 million. >> yemen is a step closer to starvation, and it appears on the brink of collapse. al jazeera. >> cholera has claimed the lives of at least 15 people in the last six weeks.
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treatment centers centers have been set up and a clinic at the u.n. fight housing civilians. one of the vice presidents has fled the country and is now in belgium he says he fears for his life after he criticized the president. for running for an uninstitutional third term. the election is now just weeks away and reports from the capitol, there is still protests almost every day. >> another attack, before parliamentary elections unlike last year, when most were injured city center shoppers were hurt the grenades are thrown into the street from a car that was driving past. we heard a loud explosion, it was terrible. >> the government has appeals for calm, but some feel only one thing can end the unrest. >> the only way to stop these
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attacks is if the government and their position, agree to stop this. >> in a sign things can get worse, the second vice president has fled to belgium, he says he fears for his life because he criticized the unconstitutional bid for a third term. >> i was no longer able to bear the attitude, his will to lead the people and as everyone knows very well since he launch add candidacy to run for the third mandate which is forbidden a issue crew issue was caused. but also by the international community the government insists people have nothing to worry about and there's no need to leave the country university students sought protection, when police tried
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to arrest them. the police are prohibited from entering the embassy so instead, they confiscated items they had left behind. some people couldn't get inside the u. empasssy. these students were locked outside, they say they have nowhere to go. >> many don't want their faces shown, afraid their families can be victimized they don't know how they will survive the night without blankets and other essentials. security has been increased in several parts the days and weeks leading to the presidential elections could be difficult al jazeera. >> a mother and her pay by boy have survived four days in the columbian jungle after a plane crash. they were taken to hospital but are unscathed after the crash which killed the pilot rescuers say a heavy load of fresh fish absorbed much of the impact, the plane went down on saturday.
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where more than 10,000 people have been evacuated from the area around mount sin upon. the volcano has been erupted for weeks the team witnessed one eruption first hand. the army has come to hand people living here masks and these are supposed to protect themselves from the air which is quite thick with after here, it is quite hard to breathe the leaf which is usually lush green, everybody has turned very sandy dull color. >> as we were interviewed a commander something seems to happen. >> it was quite an intimidated site. and so is we decided we would leave the area.
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there has been a big eruption, and we were talking to people in a village further up the road, so we are now driving to get away it is scary when you see this cloud come toward you and it does highlight the power of mother nature, and it makes you realize there is nothing you can do to try to get out of it's way as fast as you can. over 10,000 people have been evacuated. no one knows when the mount will go back to sleep. cars have been overturned in the streets of paris. owner allows people to bypass traditional taxis. they say the low prices are undercutting their business. reports from paris.
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the met roy notice my busier because of this, a major strike pi the city official taxi driver whose have come out in force politicking what is normally a very busy intersection is in the heart of the city. they are angry with preorder prepay taxi companies like owner. they feel are taking their jobs and not paying their taxis. rushing battles certain cars bore the brunt of that, there have been suspiciouses that they are preorder taxis. >> owner has no business here, maybe in the united states, it is okay but in france we have regulation, right up to here. >> debris covers the streets police rah here on stand by for any further signs of trouble, there are some concerns from the government that there will be a repeat performance of what was seen, they were deeply worried
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about the proposed job cuts the on news now is on the government, whether or not they made concessions to these striking transport wormers or run the risk of further chaos in the heart of paris catch up with more news, the address is aljazeera.com. dollars year and growing. "the slaughter is being fueled by demand from asia...