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>> no more money. greek creditors refuse to extend the bail out. >> hello there i'm barbara serra, you're watching al jazeera live from london. coming up on the program. the. >> furnituristsforeign tourists flee from a gunman at a beach
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resort. and just days ahead of a nuclear deadline. i'm rob reynolds, this is part of what is called the way back machine. an effort to preserve fast amounts of data that would otherwise be lost on the internet. >> thank you for joining us. in the last hour eurozone finance minister have announced there will be no extension of greece's bail out. they met in brussels for what had been intended for a try to rescue greece from defaulting on its debt repayment on tuesday. but it has been announced by the referendum next week that it appears they have derailed the process. we have correspondents in key locations. let's go first to andrew
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simmons. the finance ministers were derailed and certainly surprised by this announcement that they're going to hold the referendum five days after the bail out was due to expire. i guess they stood their grounds and said there would be no extensions. >> yes, they did barbara. they certainly were caught out. they weren't expecting the announcement of the referendum, it would appear. but it appears that they discussed quite thoroughly that they would not take any more of this sort of behavior were left wing government, that they resolved it would appear, to be united in standing firm, and not extending the bail out to the extent that the greek government wanted. now, time and time again we heard from financial ministers
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arriving, saying that they were not just disappointed, but really quite angered by the actions of the greek government in leaving making no mention of the talks that this might happen, and solely through the day it became clearer and clearer that there was nothing to discuss, nothing on the table that the whole thing which resolveed around a rejection of increasing taxes by the eurozone, and more of a move towards cutting spending, which was against the whole eth e hos. >> the problemthe programs were not thoroughly discussed.
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yet the greek government has broken off the discussion process, they have rejected the proposal and they have put it, in an unfair way putting it to the greek people with a negativesive advice. given that situation i think we must conclude that offer regretful that the program will expire on tuesday night. >> andrew, after the euro group president spoke there, he got questions from reporters. he was asked if the bail out expires on the 30th of june, what exactly are the greeks voting for because the bail out would have expired. he said you might put that to the greek government. what have the greeks said to this? the prime minister is actually still speaking now. finance minister, forgive me. >> well, they are speaking now.
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they have not made it clear what the formulation of words will be. there is a key issue. will they be effectively voting to stay within europe or go out? there is no deal that's been agreed to. it's a very usual unusual very unusual situation. they had come here expecting to get some progress by asking for the deadline to be increased by a mere month, he described it. he wanted the deadline not only the deadline extension but $1.5 billion. $1.9 billion euro of money to be returned by the ecb in terms of interest on bonds that had been taken had greece. he wanted that to be brought to
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pay that $1.6 billion that is needed to be paid to the imf on tuesday. that, it would appear, will not happen. will that trigger default? yes, it should do because technically the default is there. will the imf delay things? and it can do, the director 69 inf can stall the stall reporting to board members and that means that they can be in arrears in that period of time. however, she hats made it clear that they won't do that. she'll report immediately. that is crunch point. that is tuesday night crisis zone. there are defaults, any way this is what the finance minister had to say. he blamed the eurozone for what has happened. >> the refusal of the euro group to date to endorse our request for an extension of this
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agreement for a few days, a couple of weeks so as to allow the greek people to deliver their verdict on the institution's proposal especially given that it's a very high probability that the greeks will go against the recommendation and vote in favor of the proposal. that refusal will certainly damage the credibility of the euro group as a democratic union of partner member states and very much afraid that damage will be permanent. >> andrew simmons there following all of the developments. there have been lots in brussels. andrew we'll check in with you in the next few hours. thank you. let's go straight to athens, of course and speak to john, the president of the euro group has said specifically that the greek parliament needs to be aware and realize exactly what is on the table. the greek parliament is meeting right now. they're discussing the referendum penciled in for the
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fifth of july. i'm sure they also now know what is being said in brussels. i guess it must have been a tense time for alexis tsipras? >> this is indeed. there is quite the battle going on in in parliament behind me, particularly the conservatives openly accusing the government of moving forward based on an unon aned agenda to bring about the the environment in which an exit by greece eurozone would take place. now the ref run dumb was defended earlier in brussels. they said neither do they have the mandate but neither do they have the authority to accept it.
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that, he said, has to be done by to be done by 50% of the greek people. it's a bit of a fig leaf of an excuse but it demonstrates that this government did not feel it got enough of what it wanted even though it's position was greatly approached at the end of the week by the counter proposal by creditors but it is evidenced that they're worried about party unity and national unity if they having professed in the election in jab that they would not bring any austerity measures and then proceeded to do so. they also made clear how unhappy greece's eurozone partners are. saying as much as they regret to reject what was on the table even though talks were not concluded even though prime
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minister alexis tsipras said that he did warn them by telephone. >> thank you. >> the tunisian government is dismissing reports that a group linked to isil is behind friday's attack on a beach resort. the tunisian prime minister said that the gunman had never traveled abroad and was not previously known to police. there was sheer terror for the tourists in the area. >> everybody suddenly stand up and they were running running
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really fast, and run run run. and also security. they called out to run. go into your rooms. runaway. everybody just picked up what they had nothing. everybody was just running. they told us go inside. go into the bar. go to your rooms. and it was. >> meanwhile pictures were released by an isil affiliateed group of the man suspected to be behind the attack. 23-year-old was an aviation student from a town around 1 kilometers. well, let's go back live and speak to al jazeera hashem ahelbarra, who was there for us. first of all tell us about these new security measures that tunisia's prime minister has announced. >> well, basically they're saying that they're going to
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beef up security in the tourist areas, of particularly the they're concerned about attacks in the near future. the problem here is that they're talking about a government that has been facing remarkable rise of groups affiliated with al-qaeda or the islamic state in different parts of the country. the army has been battling the area along the border. they have had serious political problems and economic issues. it means more resources to be able to train them and for the army to be present in different parts of the country.
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>> it's interesting that the government is dismissing these oh reports that a group linked with isil is behind the attacks and that this suspected man what exactly is the government saying about this? >> basically the responsibility appeared on social media in the name of islamic state in iraq and the levant saying that the gunman is someone acting on behalf of isil. but then security forces also saying that they don't have strong evidence to suggest that this is someone who is affiliated with isil. i think they're following different leads particularly knowing that one of the suspects way arrested yesterday by security forces. but if you look at the armed
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groups that have been operating these groups have been accused of killing opposition leaders in tunisia, targeting security forces, and killing members of the army. particularly in the mountain for the time being the government said that it was just following some of the leads to establish the gunman who attacked. >> hashem ahelbarra, thank you. >> in 15 of those killed were british nationals with the u.k. saying that that number could well rise. one of the country's foreign ministers has called the attack, quote, the most significant terrorist attacks on the british people since the london attacks
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in july 2005. simon mcgregor woods reports. >> tunisia has become a popular and affordable destination for the british and a crucial component of the tunisian tourism industry. the attack has already done damage but it's not clear how long it will last. >> staying with al jazeera we have more to come on the program, including burundi's election will go ahead next week with many in the country saying they're too afraid to oppose the government.
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>> welcome back. a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. eurozone financial minister have refuseed to accept greece's bail out program that is due on tuesday. the move is in response to prime minister tsipra's decision on the bail out deal. the congress will ask the greek people to vote on reforms that were proposed on thursday. and tunisia's prime minister have di missed reports that the group linked to isil is.
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>> top officials saying that the u.s. secretary of state john kerry and iran's foreign minister are meeting in vienna in what could be their final negotiations before tuesday's deadline. but but there are still major obstacles to overcome. they want. top inspection regime to prove that iran is not pursuing a nuclear weapon. they want strict limits to enrich uranium, the raw materialer a nuclear bomb p and they want the removal of iran's existing stock pile of new year feel. in turn iran said it wants to produce newell power for energy. it wants sanctions lifted as soon as the deal is agreed. that would give it access to valuable oil and financial market from which it has been had catastrophic effect on its economy. now let's go to james bays who
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is following those talks. they have more on their end endagenda--on their agenda besides just this deal. >> a great deal. there are big gaps ahead of the deadline which are just days away. that deadline is tuesday mid night local time actually exactly the same deadline that you've heard of in your top story with regard to greece. these happen to coincide these vitally important deadlines. this one i suspect might be allowed to pass at least for a few days because i think everyone here accepts there is so much here to do, key sticking points including international inspectors from the iaea. they'll have to police this deal to make sure that iran is complying with the deal, and we have the iaea chief at the hotel
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where the talks are taking place early on. and another key point is exactly how sanctions will be lifted. whether there will be a snap back mechanism if iran does something that it shouldn't to bring these sanctions back into place. that means as well as the deal being negotiated here they're also negotiating the overall direction in some of the precise language that will be in an u.n. security council resolution laying out all the details of those international sanctions. because i'm told that the p5+1 don't want to deal here in vienna and then down the line take all the details to new york to reopen negotiations. so they are effectively negotiating the deal and the resolution here at the same time. >> and james i know that we've heard from the u.s. secretary of state kerry and the iranian foreign ministers what do they say? >> well, they both said that they know that they got to get
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this done in the time and there is a lot to do. we also heard tough language coming from the french foreign minister. they've always been the most hawkish in these negotiations saying that he needed to see that there was a good deal, not any deal before he could agree to a deal. and we're getting other key figures, we expect in the coming days. we're hearing that the travel plans for the french, for the u.k. for the russians, and possibly for the chinese. all have to be in place to sign up to a deal before one can be done. >> james bays with the latest there from vienna. thank you. let's go to yemen where the fighting has escalated with the houthi strike againsty major oil refinery in aden. they reported seeing on firing on the refinery on saturday. a shell hit a fuel tank that ignited. the refinery manager was killed in the attack. aiden has been the scene of
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sustained fighting where the artillery reportedly hit the operation center in the city two days ago. and burundi's election will go ahead as planned despite calls to delay it due to the unrest. protesters angry over the president's bid for a third term in office, but many villagers are afraid to oppose the government. >> this man was arrest shortly after he through grenades into a crowded area in burundi. when the police released him his neighbors carried out their own form of justice. >> i was in my house. i heard the shouting. they beat him and shot him. >> opposition leaders say more of their supporters have been killed. this latest unrest started with the president announcing he
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wanted a third term in power which violates the constitution. after weeks of unrest, intimidation and crackdown on private media organizations it's difficult for many people to get independent news. >> i'm scared. six of my neighbors have run because they heard the rumors there would be violence during elections. >> opposition members in ruler areas don't seem to oppose the president any more. >> it is not any more. after we protested people will shoot and kill by police. many were arrested. >> in some places homes have been abandoned. the man who lived here was 22 years old and he used to organize protests here in the village. when the police began to look for him he ran away. some believe he is living in the countrysider, or he may have crossed the border.
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burundi's leader supporters say that it is not bad here. >> they'll vote for us during the elections. >> opposition leaders say they will boycott a parliamentary election in a few days time and next month's presidential election. they have not said whether that means they have given up or if they have another fan to stop the president from hanging on to power. >> al jazeera. >> more than 50 people have been killed flash flooding triggered by seenal monsoons have destroyed images and houses. there has been no rain in the region in the past few days and relief workers are trying to reach people who are still stranded. thousands of people in the pilgrimage were isolateed by
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flood waters. election fever is hitting sri lanka after the president dissolved parliament paying the way for an earlier than expected election. voting will now be held in 60 days. august 17th is the likely date. sri lankaens were due to go to the polls in ten month's time. the police are searching for a man who escapeed from a prison . the search area has narrowed and is centered around the town where matt was found. it's 40 kilometers northwest of the prison that the pair escaped from. as the internet evolves moves are being made to preserve the vast amount of information that it contains. a tech center in san francisco has taken on the huge task.
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rob reynolds went along to check it out. >> the internet is like a vast artificial organism throbbing with billions upon billions of web pages where scientific research and historical records sit along side teenage diaries and cute cat videos. the average life span of a page before it gets altered is just 100 days. so is anyone keeping track of it all? well, yes, as it happens. inside the neo-classical building in francisco that was originally a church, the hymns of the choir have been replaced by the humming of servers. this is part of the non-profit internet archive brainchild of digital pierre brewster kahl. >> the digital archive has been archiving the worldwide web since '96. there are robot crawlers going to every website every two months take a snapshot, and
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everyagain snapshot, snapshot. it's starting to get big to go we archive 1 billion page as week. we're 450 billion pages available through the way back machine. it's enormous. another his online way back machine allows anyone to rummage through digital decades gone by. >> you type in a web address then it shows what are the past versions of them. you select the time and you say i want to serve the web as it was and take 2004 or 1998. and go and explore the idea to try to keep the web alive even though the servers may be long gone. >> but unlike books in a library or in inscriptions carved in stone, the internet is really just a bunch of electrons flipping around. that raises questions about digital durability. many specialists are deeply concerned that as hardware,
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software and computer coding languages change over time, vast amounts of knowledge may essentially be lost, locked in digital format that can no longer be accessed. >> there are things that are scarcely 10 or 20 years old that are impossible to read because of obsolete software. >> a writer and historian. >> now it's like tending a garden where you have to make sure that the digits the stay alive on the machine. >> it will take money and effort by governments cooperations as well as visionaries bike like brewster kahle to keep track of everything, cats and all. >> many are planning to attend the gay pride parade. here is one in the philippines.
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this comes a day after the u.s. supreme court localized legalized same-sex marriage across the states. you can find more on our website at www.aljazeera.com.

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