♪ this is al jazeera. hello there. this is the news hour live from london. coming up >> is this a sad day for you? >> a sad day for europe >> the greek finance machine sisters remains hopeful even as euro zone officials refuse an extension. >> the gunman behind friday's beach attack is claimed to have links to the islamic state group. kurdish forces push isil

fighters from a key syrian border town n reports, .180 people were killed in just two days, plus: >> i am robin adams with a jam-packed supportsmen u for you. rugby finalists, down to the wire as a fight for the checkered flag from the he is ex circuit coming up. >> hello there. warm welcome to the news hours hour euro zone finance ministers have rejected the greek ailout program. a referendum would be held next sunday. athens says only the greek people should decide how to respond to creditors' demands. what happens next? greece must repay 1.5 billion

euros to the international mon tar fund by stuz. now, it needs to do that or risk defaultion on the debt. there is a question of how greece will keep its banking system afloat. it is heavily reliant from the ecb. it hasn't said how it will respond. there is still the small matter of the 340 billion eur on. s that grease still owes mostly to your ozone partners. andrew simmons has more now from brussels. >> reporter: one finance minister from greece sent to brussels for a day that takes a place in european history. not everyone shooning hands with him. after five years and an estimated 242.8 billion euro of cash, is this how it all ends? grease alone and it's colossal debts could go out of the euro zone. the finance ministers say they had no alternative. the bail out stops. >> the process wasn't finished

as far as we are concerned. the proposals weren't definitive. they weren't formally discussed or decided upon. the euro group. yet the greek government has broken off the process, has rejected the proposals, and is now putting them which is also an unfair way to put it to the greek people putting them now to the greek people in a referendum with a negative advice. given that situation, i think we must conclude that however regretful the program will expire on tuesday night. >> from the moment ministers started arriving there was a pessimistic mood. only france was against refusing an extension to the bail-out. ministers were being asked by grease to give it one month's grace to allow the referendum to take place. greece said it was europe's fault that there was no deal. >> the refusal of the eoro group

today to endorse our request for an extension of this 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 there is a very high probability that greeks will go against the recommendation and vote in favor of the institution's proposal. >> refusal will certainly damage the credibility of the euro group, as a democratic group of partner member states, and i am very much afraid the damage will be permanent. >> so, after a week of political drama, this has all ended acromoniously. alexis tsipras told angela merkel this was a day of shame for europe that greece was the home of democracy and it shouldn't have to seek permission of the euro group to

hold a ref earnedum. the greek finance minister asked if it was a sad day for him. >> a sad day for europe. >> reporter: there have already been man sad days for the long-suffering people of greece. it looks like getting worse before it gets better. andrew simmons, al jazeera, brussels. >> lastas we speak, the greek parliament is voting on whether the referendum should go ahead next sunday. opposition leader speaking now. later, we will here from the prime minister. let's get some action from john psoropolis. the vote will get underway soon. how will it work? >> well we are expecting that all 300 members of parliament will be present present which is a necessary prerequisitione for this vote to be held. 151 of them, an absolute majority, must vote in favor of the referendum according to

article 44 of the greek constitution. we also expect that to happen because the government coalition controls a majority of 162 seats. now, once they have voted, presumably in favor after referendum tonight the president of the republic then receives the order from parliament in order to declare the referendum and we then hope to find out what the wording, what the question will be that will be put to greet voters and exactly when that referendum will happen and where people will be able to vote. there are lots of technical days details that haven't been figured out and haven't been announced. what we have seen in parliament is behind me is an acromonious debate between the acquisition and governing coalition and the independent greeks or nationalist party from the center of right, but who nonetheless have found that the issue of sovereignty alone gives them enough of a bond because they are both also

neutrally -- mutually opposed to the business of cash for austerity until tsipras was elected in january. they have found that common cause and both fought austerity tooth and nail and clearly decided that they are not now going to bring an austerity package to parliament having resisted doing so for so many months since they came into. that is why they are now going to the greek people directly. they don't want to be attached to austerity, but the greeks haven't been shown to choose for themselves. now, the main argument against this government coalition that is so against oughterity is that they are not really committed to europe to a european perspective for greece and that they vent behaved well in their negotiations with europeans, that they have been left-footed and handm-fisted and unkeith. i think that more than anything

else characterizes the statements that whenevered today, not only from government ministers who have blamed their european counterparts for the impasse in talks but en from the prime minister who went to the trouble of making public the content of his telephone call with johnangela merkel saying he put her in her place telling her she cannot tell the greeks whether or not to hold the referendum and that this was where democracy was born. the implication other countries aren't democratic something that is calculated to insult abroad but to galvan eyes his voter base at home john, the question, of course, is whether the referendum is relevant given that athens action of course could face a possible default on tuesday. >> well, i think that the statements we have heard since the euro group both up have been a little bit softer. the european commission in

particular has hastened to say that even though no deal has been reached, grease has not been expelled from the euro zone. at least not yet. and that leaves open the door just a crack for the greeks to at the end of this week vote yes for another package of measures within the eurozone and possibly get their government to make another approach to the euro group and to ask it whether it will continue some form of financial assistance in return for austerity measures that the greeks will have voted in favor of. at that point, the government will feel absolved of responsibility. it will feel that it has been told to do certain things and then presumably will proceed to do them such as raising retirement ages and raising vat tax rates on certain goods and services. i think that the euro group isn't quite ready to say, to declare that greece is now

definitively on a course out of the eurozone. it will also depend greatly on the start of the pooeven central bank on tuesday and whether it continues to finance greek banks and whether, indeed it agrees to pay off a large debt grease owes to the international monetary fund that day using its own profits from greek bonds. >> john psaropolous. thank you for that update. coming up on the newshour: >> i believe a good deal is at hand for everybody to benefit from. >> still optimistic iran's prime minister meets his counterpart days ahead of a nuclear deal deadline. plus . >> i am fez jamil in india's oldest toy store. we will see how the shop has evolved over the years while staying close to its roots. >> still ahead in sport, find out which teams are headed to the super rugby final.

the tunisian government is dismissing reports that a group linked tois ill is behind friday's attack on a beach resort. some were shot dead. tourists have been rushing to leave tunisia. nationals were killed in what the government calls the most significant terror attack on the british people isn't the london bombing in 2005? >> everybody subjected stand up and running, fast. >> everyone cried, run, run, run. the security, they all told us to run, run, go into your rooms. run away. everybody picked up only what they had only nothing. everybody was running. they told us go inside. go into the bar. go to your rooms. and it was like in a war.

>> this image has been released by an isil affiliated group showing the man suspected of being behind the attack 2-year-old who seth rezgui an aviation student around 100 kilometers from seus. >>an the closed you're of 18 mosques have been ordered closed. security has been increased for and extra police have been deployed and there are reports that the government was warned it should step up security at hotels before the attack happened. al jazeera's ashar al bara. >> reporter: the claim of responsibility appeared on social media under the name of the islamic state in iraq, in the levant saying the gunman was someone called kialwani and that he was acting on behalf of isil but then different reports and

security reports, security sources also saying that they doubt that. they don't have strong evidence to expect this is someone who is affiliated with isis. they are fightollowing different leads knowing .1 of the suspects was arrested yesterday by security forces, but if you look at the armed groups. there have been uprisings in the last four years. all groups affiliated with isil. these groups have been accused of killing opposition leaders in tunisia, targeting security forces and killing members of the arm, particularly in the mountainous area of shambia. for the time being the government says followthey are following some of the leads to try to establish whether the gunman who stacked tourists. this building behind me was acting as a lone wolfe or affiliated with groups like isil or the al-qaeda in the islamic

magrad. >> the majority of the dead are believed to be british. tunisia is a popular destination for people in the u.k. and there is concern that the tourism industry will suffer greatly in the wake of those attacks. simon mcgregor wood has the story. >> the attack in tunisia is now the most significant involving british people since the attacks in london july, 2005. and the numbers keep rising. >> sadly, i can confirm that at least 15 british nationals were killed in yesterday's atrocity. but i should stress that the number may well rise. there are several more who have been serious injured in this horrific attack. >> the startinged hotel was filled with british tourists. on saturday morning, some of the 20,000 british tourists still in tunisia began to leave. holiday companies sent extra flights to evacuate them and

extra staff to deal with the injured and ber received on the ground. >> i ended up running outside of the hotel to get safely into the hotel opposite but the police were firing. it was just a complete... >> it was just shooting randomly shooting. you could see some of the times when the bulletets were hitting the sand. >> the front page of the british newspapers were dominated by the story. prime minister david cameron chaired a mesh meeting of his security cabinet to discuss the attack and how best to respond to it. security has been raised at a number of public events in the u.k. on saturday. these savage terrorist attacks in tunisia, kuwait and france yesterday are a brutal and tragic reminder of the threat we face around the world from these evil terrorists. this morning, i have chaired a second cobra meeting focusing on the attack in tunisia. i will ensure we do all we can to help those affected and to

protect people from this terrorist threat. >> the british foreign office has been inbeen dated with calls from worried relatives trying to track those who may have been caught up in the attack and david cameron has promised that extra consulary staff is on the way. there is a lot of criticism how the foreign office has responded so far. >> tunisia has become a popular and affordable destination for the british and a crucial component of the tun easeian tourist industry. saturday's apparent exodus of scared terrorists shows this attack has already done damage. it's not clear how long it will last. >> simon mcgregor wood. >> let's go to the greek parliament in athens. they are voting on whether the referendum should go ahead. let's listen in. >> normally i ask you to interrupt -- to make a break for 10 minutes on the basis of this regulation regulation.

to come back to the rost rum and within this time period i ask the head of the opposition and the deputies or they come', so he can finish his speech. i believe the invitation of the prime minister for sobriety. >> we will come back to ma sheeting going on now as you can see in the greek parliament a little later. they are taking a break at the moment. i believe the prime minister will come back and speak according to our correspondent, there has been fierce debate about whether there should indeed be a referendum next sunday. kurd forces in syria say they have pushed isil fighters from cobane for the second time this year but battles are

continuing on the border with turkey. kurdish activists say nearly 180 people have been killed since isil stormed the town two days ago. zena hodr from the turkey/syria border. >> kobane was a battleground. five months after isil was forced out, the group sent fighters back in. the hospital was one of the buildings where fighters took up positions as they tricked their way into the town in a surprise attack early on thursday. syrian kurds of the ypg-force sparked force battles for two days before managing to restore piece and stability and it came at a price. around 200 people were killed. the majority of them civilians. randomly shot in the streets. kobane is in mourning. it is also in shock. isil didn't just kill civilians. it took many of them hostage.

>> we were so scared. he specially my young children. they took me with my family and they placed us in another house. we were 32 hostages in total. >> the attack is a blow to syria's kurds who have been boasting about their recent military gains. many believe isil's intention was not to capture kobane. it was more about sending a message. in recent weeks, isil lost strategic territory to the kurds, days before the kobane offensive, the spokesman said: we may lose battles, but we cannot be defeated. isil is now taking the fight to the kurdish ypg stronghold. it's trying to capture hafike a city in the northeast. kurds and isil are at war on many fronts in syria. for now, the kurds can complain victory in kobane but only after

isil managed to breach the defendants of a town which has been the kurds' symbol of resistance on the turkish/syria border. >> days before time runs out to reach a deal on iran's nuclear program. top officials including u.s. secretary of state john kerry and iran's foreign minister are meeting in vienna for what could be their final negotiations before tuesday's deadline but there are many major obstacles to be overcome. world powers want a tough inspection regime to prove iran isn't pursuing a nuclear weapon. they want strict limits on the number of september triv fujz to limit the bomb material for the nuclear bomb and they want the removal of iran's existing stock piles of nuclear fuel. so, in turn iran says it wants to produce nuclear power for energy and medical purposes. it wants sanctions lifted as soon as a deal is agreed. that would give it access to valuable oil and financial markets from which it has been cut off, having a catastrophic

effect on its economy. here is james bays. >> reporter: back around the negotiating table for what is supposed to be the final round of talks. >> i think everybody would like to see an agreement but we have to work through some difficult issues. we are determined to do everything we can in order to be able to make this important milestone. >> earlier, he used tougher language when he spoke to reporters. the other side needs to implement and abide by its commitment, particularly on the removal of sanctions, all of the sanctions, economic and financial sanctions need to be moved immediately and sanctions, security council sanctions must also be terminated immediately. >> detailed technical negotiations are also underway with energy secretary earnest monez represent the u.s. >> are you con didn't i event

you might be able to get a deal? no answer but he like all of the delegates know there is a great deal of work before the deadline, now just days away. there are still significant parts of a deal that have not been agreed. i am told there arey are also negotiating on the overall direction and some of the precise language of a u.s. security council resolution which would deal with the issue of safrningsdz. one expert says the idea is to have the language of the resolution locked in so there is no way negotiations can be re-opened when it goes to new york. >> it can be presented to diplomats in new york not as a fete acompli but as a document that all of the capitols have approved and you move through the moses in new york without having to jump through hoops that are unnecessary. >> french foreign minister has also now arrived in vienna. his counterparts from russia, china and the u.k. are thought to have plans to travel here soon ut are needed for the final

and hardet part of this long process. james bays al jazeera, vienna. >> burundi's leakages will go ahead as planned calls from the u.n. to delay it due to going unrest. opposition parties angry over president rierza's bid have vowed to boycott the record. as harry matasa reports, manyvillers are afraid to oppose the government. >> this man was arrested shortly after he threw grenades into a crowded area in burundi. when the police later released him, his neighborhoods who suspected he blocks to the ruling party's militia carried out their own form of justice. >> i was in my house when i heard people shouting. they beat my neighbor and shot him. >> opposition leaders say more of the supporters have been killed. this latest unrest started when the president announced he wants

a third term in power which violates the constitution. after weeks of unrest alleged intimidation and a crackdown on private media organize, it's difficult for many to get independent news . >> i am scared. six of my neighbors have gone to run because they heard rumors there would be violence during elections. >> opposition members in the rural areas don't seem to to protest against the president anymore. >> it is not easy anymore. after we protested, people will shoot and were shoott shot and killed by police. mary were arrested. >> in some places homes have been abandoned. the man who lives here was 22 years old and he used to organize some of the protests in the village. when the police came looking for him, he ran away. his family thinks he may be hiding somewhere in the countryside or he may even have cross the border. burundi's leader has launched his presidential campaign. his supporters say things really

aren't that bad here. >> the people who have run away have come back because there is piece. they are going to vote with us during thelies. >> opposition leaders disagree saying they will boycott the parliamentarily in a few days' time and next month's presidential election. they vent said whether that means they have given up or if they have a present plan to keep the president from holding on to power. al jazeera. burundi. >> still to come here on al jazeera, the moment of fire ripped through a crowd at a taiwan taiwantie taiwan water park. more than 90 people seriously injured. >> one woman takes the fight against the symbols of rachel oppression into her own hands. we will have those details coming up. >> how serena hopes to seal her place in tennis history. we will have details coming up later.

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euro zone finance ministers have refused to extend grease's bail-out program beyond tuesday. the move is innocence response to alexis tsipras's decision to call a refer end um on the bail out deal >> claims that a group behind isil near the resort town of sous. fighting has escalated against an oil refinery. witnesses say 14 people have been killed in and around the city. politicians in grease will vote on whether a refer end um on the country's bail-out deal should go ahead. barnaby phillips has more from agenterns? >> an extraordinary day in the greek parliament. the governing party says there should be a referendum on whether to accept what it says

is the european and imf bail-out plan. ministers argue that if the greek people reject this plan greece will be in a stronger position to carry on negotiating with its creditors. >> the referendum is not about the euro. we are in the euro it's clear we want both but we want a europe of democracy and dignity. >> in opposition ranks, confusion. eurozone finance ministers say there never was an agreed final plan. so what are greek's voting on? and there is dismay. many in the opposition argue they are pushing greece toward expulsion from the euro zone. >> i think they are irresponsible, impotent and 5 months' of negotiation is leading to unpredictable

consequences. >> in the central market we found support for the prime minister the weekend is always busy here as athenians stock up for the week ahead. for pensioners these are anxious times. but nobody can be sure what the next few days have in storm whether a referendum will even solve grease's problems >> let's leave europe now. we have had it with all of these agreements. >> how am i to answer this question when no someone is explaining it. what would happen if we go back to to the dregma? and what happens if we stay in the euro. >> i think it's a great maichlt if you owe so much money you cannot afford to be so arrogant. meanwhile, unusual queues building up at the cash machine. some greeks are getting nervous. >> it's not yet panic but a

significant number of greeks are taking no chances with their own money. the government is trying to sound reassuring but the remorse less logic of the situation is this the more greeks take flight, the more trouble the banks will be in. the government is also appealing for unity. the danger is that greeks are polar polarized as to how their country can e merge from this crisis. al jazeera athens. >> the director of global strategy ye 0 political wisconsin and business advisory firm welcome to the program. there is plenty to talk about the greek finance minter said it's a dad day for europe but we will recover. what's your view on how the whole situation has unraveled? >> basically, this refer i need um, they will sell it as an x size in democracy, they

basically are accusing the european leaders and its creditors of trying to bring down their government. as a result, they will take this to the greek people. for five months, they have been playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship. it has back fired. now, the time has arrived to make responsible decisions and they are all floating that decision to the greek people in my opinion, the bottom line is that they are doing a short-term and their own short-term political interests which is survival and maintaining partyounty for long-term greek national interests. they know if that decision has to be made the party may be at the risk of braking up. >> we have seen situations where they defaulted and life got better. maybe actually they have a point. maybe their strategy is a gamble in the same way, creditors who length them this month t hasn't paid off. >> times and places n 2001,

argentina denated and it was a country with many natural resources and was able to recover because in the commodity boones china was buying and argentina was able to make up for it. greece is limited in national resources around be tuna a is 33 million. greece is 10 million. it's almost two and a half times larger than argentina was. it's difficult. >> comparison it's been made before. i don't think it holds much way. >> what do you think the ecb will do because they have a large part. >> they are going to have to -- going to get together with the greek central bank and have to make a decision as to whether or not they are going to continue keeping the greek banks afloat. it's difficult because it's money of the european states and european taxpayers and whether they should keep feeding grease and tend of the day, when the decision has to be made by the greek government so if they don't support them as of

tuesday, don't give that funding, the greek government will have to make a decision: put capitol controls on the banks or be a bank holiday meaning closing the banks and freezing everything until the referendum. >> have you been surprised at the ratcheting up of the tone? i am thinking about the phrases to go, giving deck opinionracy? why use that language now? who is it aimed at? >> it's a consistent bravado used isn't day 1 what they do is the greek finance minister has burnt his bridges with his colleagues. whatever good, when he first came in to power there was a certain sympathies if you look at the french foreign minister but what they have managed to do is through this language and this rhetoric and this double speak is at home, you use the language of fillfication and when you speak directly to your associates in europe colleagues, you try to be more flu diplomatic.

>> has back fired because they burnt their bridges with the european alleys to at the point now, they don't consider them to be more than interlock utors. they are victims of their own rhetoric. >> it's going to be ab interesting week ahead. thank you for joining us. now, developing corruption scandal in hop duer has has seen tens of thousands of people taking to the seat. protesters demanding that the president steps down. companies link today a defective drug scam made contributions to his campaign. adam raney explains. >> there are their slogan shouted through the capitol, out with the president. tens of thousands marches. they say they are hoping to illuminate the darkness in a corrupt violent country. >> we are sick of all of the corruption and sick of this president. he didn't win fairly. we want an international

anti-corruption commission here they are the only whounz can put our house in order. the government can't. >> in the wage of the corruption scandal over the social security. officials made off with hundreds of millions of dollars while companies provided defective drugs. companies linked to the scam donated money to the president's 2013 campaign. at least 11 women have died from taking tainted medicine. young, old rich poor and even clergy out in the street protesting against the corruption here regardless to the short-term impact of these protests, in the longrun, it's clear, this nation can no longer tolerate corrupt politicians. criminals, that is, in control. >> leaders of the movement are now on a hunger strike. apparently such a threat that dozens of soldiers have been called in fromto keep them from reaching the presidential

palace. they have been cordoned off. it has drawn hon duerans together in the street. anywhere hour has been felt. the vice president of the congress was charged with fraud and other crimes in the scandal. >> thousands of protesters here and yet the latest demonstration and a wave of protests going on for more than a month now it's clearly largest since the between coup. >> a movement with the president in its >> sites. whether they get their target those marching every week say their country will never be the same. adam raney, ashz. honduras. >> armenia protesters have rejected a price of power. a plan to increases tariffs up to 2 mers in august in an effort to end six days of demonstrations, thousands took to the streets of the capitol on monday and have been staging a sit-in ever since.

a third of armenians live below the poverty line. >> the funerals for 27 people killed in a suicide bomb attack in kuwait have been held. thousands of people turned out for the funerals calling for national unity following that attack. the explosion at a shia mask happened killing 27 and wounding more than 200. attacks are rare in kuwait where sunnis and shia live side by side-by-side side-by-side. the government say the cue ateis are facing the blast with solidarity more than 20 people have been injured in a blast. the explosion of an unknown powder caused a fire at the formosa water park. 83 people have been left with serious injuries the cause of that blaze is under investigation. new york city police are continuing to search for a man who escaped from a maximum security prison three weeks ago. convicted mergeder richard mat

was shot and killed by police on friday. david sweat is still on the run. the search area has narrowed. it's senderred around the town of malone mere where he was found. around 40 kilometers northwest of the prison. the pair effect aped from. kristin saloomey has the latest from new york. >> state police believe closing in on 35-year-old david sweat. so far he has managed to elude them. they think et cetera surrounded in an area about 30 miles or 48 kilometers away from the state prison in the maximum security prison from which he escaped. they were called to this area on friday after reports from a motorist who said he had been shot out. he found a bullet hole in the trailer he was pulling and called police. when police came to this area they found a hunting cabin, evidence that the two men had been there, and they looked around and they heard someone coughing in the woods and that's when they encountered richard matt. they ordered him to put his

hands up and come out. he didn't do that. they shot and killed him and they have reason, they say, that david sweat is still in this area. they have surrounded several miles or kilometers of state forests. they have roads blocked. they are searching cars as they come and go and the commune it is on enemy because this man was serving a life 70s for killing a sheriff's deputy deputy and they are worried he may act out of desperation as he continues to try to escape police. an african-american woman has been arrested after climbing a flag pole of the south carolina state capitol and removing the con federal flag. the woman and man were taken into custody and charged with de defacing a monnumeument. there are growing calls for the confederate flag to be removed all together from public places after the massacre of nine black worshippers in a charleston church. the suspect had been photographed posing with the

flag. president obama said the flag is a symbol of rachel oppression. gloria brandmarshal is an associate professor at the john j college of criminal justice in new york. she joins me. a warm welcome to the program. >> thank you. >> we saw what happened today this lady felt the need to scale that flag pole and take it down. how desist is it going to be to get rid of just not the flag but everything it represents? >> i think it's impossible to get rid of everything it represents. rachel opinion preparation is part of the fabric of it the country. the jamestown colony was found beside king james jays town village, africans introduced into that settlement in 1619 the may flower landed in 1620. we were here before the may flower and laws have been oppressing africans in american or the new world ever since so the fight is an ongoing one. it's in the fabric. it doesn't mean we have to live like this.

>> obama said a couple of things yesterday when he was making the eulogy for reverend pinkney in charleston. he said we can't afford go back to sleep on this issue but it's going to take a really really long time. what do you think is the next step? >> the next step has got to be the president, the governor and other leaders say enough is enough. the world is looking at us and we have to do better than this. will be it a perfect country? no. it will be a more perfect union when we stop pretending the confederate flag does not represent segregation. it came after the civil war, the division between the north and the south. it's been part of a symbol of that division ever since and we need to understand and accept that for many people in this country, it still represents opinion preparation, not just from the oppressed side but, also, from the side of people who choose to oppress. >> flag is a symbol of southernhit. >> that's why many support it. it's a symbol of opinion

preparation. >> gloria dylan roof who shot those people in cold blood. he is of a completely different generation. the argument has sometimes been in the past. those people didn't know better. that was the culture we lived in at the time. where did he learn this behavior from? that has to be a question communities ask themselves? >> i am so glad you asked that question because i teach at a college. people from 18 to 23 years old, and i understand it's a younger generation and they are more accepting of things difference but there is also the mindset of young people open to adult influence and if those adults are inflew incing them in a way to make them hate, to show them that their future is dire because of people of color, that all that hate can be triggered by something, in this case with dylan roof because someone he admired, a workman did not return his advances and dated someone of color, an african-american. and from that he sought out the most historic church in the south in order to do this damage

when we saw obama yesterday, there was some conversation online about this being the if is time in many people's eyes he stepped right into the national conversation that had always been going on. why do you think there is this feeling that perhaps he hadn't set as much as he ought to up until that point? >> i think and i am going to say this bluntly. i think that he feared as the first african-american president that anything that he took on that involved race was going to be exploited and because early in his year as president, there was an issue with a harvard professor skip gates and a white police officer who addressed him in his own home. because president obama said this is silly -- said it's silly and he had the beer summit. the white officer invited the african-american and the officer refused to apologize am then it was blown out. the trayvon martin issue happened much the president said, if he had a son, ithe would

look like trayvon. >> issue was blown up as well. he has been treading lightly as someone who has his power, i thought he could be more outspoken when it came to rachel justits issues. i think et cetera doing so now because it's the second term. he is into his lame duck presidency. he said he feels more freedom now. he is speaking up. i am concerned it might be too little too late. >> gloria thank you for joining us with your thoughts. thank you. >> thank you. >> gay pride rallies have been held in major cities a day after the landmark decision outed the u.s. thousands took the opportunity to celebrate same-sex marriage being legally. france legalide it in 2013. many believe more progress can be made. >> on the other side of the world, hundreds of people have taken part in a similar event. in the philippines, people parked through the capitol on the predominantly roman catholic

country country. same-sex marriage is still banned in the philippine. dispute competition from new retailers, india's oldest toy store began business back in 1890. faz jamil visited as part of our still going strong series. >> in one of new deli's most famous marks it looks ordinary but inside the small shop is exceptionally cramped with all kinds of toys giving children a wide choice even if they already know what they want. >> it would be a very very long track. that would get out stream. >> in case they change their minds, they are free to rummage around all they like. >> children allowed free play. even if a child breaks a toy, i don't charge them any money. >> 78-year-old fatis's

grandfather started the bids in 1890 taking over when he was a teenager, he is hands-on with the business helping customers. >> this is hot. >> modern toys sell. the classic kind still do very well. >> i am basically a businessman. >> sundra says toys made today do not compare with the ones he used to sell decades ago. >> i love to taub to my toys. i feel toys talk to me. this is my toy story. the toys i am selling now some have come here for decades. it's not only the classic toys but also the modern electronic ones which keep customers coming in generation after generation. the store has toys some costing $2 up to a few hundred dollars so people with all types of budgets feel welcome. >> for those who can't travel to the store, sundra's store

handles the olbermann side of the business. >> now accounts for 15% of sales, he says the business will only modernize to a point. >> fundamental approach that a toy store should be fun. >> will not change. i want to translate the same thing online. >> the sense of loyalty is why he is adamant he will never sell his shop's primary location. >> i don't have customers. i have a family of customers. so much love. do you want me to lose those for the sake of a few rupies? i don't want to lose it sdmrfrp that's why as modern india grows this store in the capitol is aiming to keep on selling toys for generations to come. fez jamil, new delhi. >> in sport, packkistan's cricketer's fight back. all of those iusy details coming up with robin.

only on al jazeera america >> robin tells me has plenty of news from all of the goings on in the world of sport. >> i thank you. we will stop the sport. a thoroughly entertaining dutch motor gp was yon. the italian held up a determined challenge from defending champion mark marquez. as you will see, rosi cut across the outside of the track.

afterwards drew a racing incident which means the result stands. rosi leads the championship by 10 points. >>. >> i tried to play it. i did the two last laps very strong and after, tried to enter but i was already into the corner and i have to cut. so 25 points very important. a great victory. >> they booked their place in the grand final sweeping inside the act brum business. over midway through the first half before another try from tjparanada put them in control. brumbies could only score penalties. highlandersn new zealand team baiting for 25-17. the highlanders scored five tries on the match. it will be their first appearance in the final in the

tournament's 19-year history. the start of wimbledon, let's than 48 hours away those players lowered on the rankings are taking every opportunity to fine tune their grass court games and uzbek stan has won the warm upturnament. he beat the first atp tour title at the agon open. 90 second, 48 places below his american opponent. the women's warm-up tournament melinda bentich, two sets to 1 to win the east international. testing out the wimbledon surface, defending djokovic will look to put his french open disappoint hind him as he aims to retain his title. it will face tough competition.

you have to make sure that you are ready each -- each day for every opponent that you come up against. and, you know, i am certainly not getting carried away. i know how difficult these events are to win. i concentrate on the first match and try my best to good through that one. >> probably been the best preparation i have ever had for will bell done for obvious reasons. i am sure i am not the only one saying that this year. i am sure everybody will say the same. it has given me extra confidence. i guess it will take me to win this title here. >> serena williams heads to women wimbledon looking to cement her title. looking to become the first player to win in a calendar year, a grand slam for more than a quarter of a century.

the 5 time wimbledon champ pen, in 2015, september's u.s. open to add her name to the history, two men and three women have ever held four major title in one year. the last 9 snienings. the last woman was steffi graph back in 1988. >> it doesn't make it feel any different, which i think is a good thing because i don't feel any pressure to win all four and i have been saying that, but i really don't feel that pressure. i mean maybe if i were to happen to win here, then maybe i might start feeling it after that but i mean ultimately, you know, i am just taking it one day at any time. i am not 13ing that far. one of serena's main rivals will be marina sharapova. they could meet. depending upon the results. sharapova phases janet contor

recognizes the threat williams pieces. >> thes the player to beat. with all of the confidence in the world having won the last three majors not just -- not just these two in this year i think those results speak for herself. she is certainly the one to beat. >> kumar said he will retire through the home test series with india in august for now. sri lanka's with their second test. the visitors have been the source of purchase frustration. they put on 120 round second with the partnership, attempted chip away at 177 pakistan were 171 for 2 before stopping play. they will resume trailing by six runs. >> this was a commitment i had made with the previous election

committee because i had originally planned to retire after the world cup from all international cricket. following discussions i gave my word i would be available for these two series just before i go, quickly from the women's world cup, defending champions to the semifinals having beaten australia one nil. >> that's the sport. thank for watching. >> robin action thank you. let's take you back now to the live pictures coming out of grease trying to decide in the greek parliament whether to have the referendum at the end of next week. as you know, the eurozone finance minister ryejected a request by grease to tensioned the bail-out program beyond tuesday. it's certainly going to be a very interesting week. we will have more on that and plenty more analysis in our next bit of news coming up in a few minutes minutes' time. find out more on our website aljazeera.com.

somebody once said to me "what's the difference between gay marriage and straight marriage?" i said, well, there really isn't a difference. >> in 2008, voters in california approved proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in the state. two couples challenge the law in a case that went to the u.s. supreme court. half of the plaintiff team is chris perry and sandy steer. >> you grow up believing you are a second-class citizen from the moment you recognize you are gay