>> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ hello there and welcome to the news hour i'm julie in doha and coming up, in the next 60 minutes stock markets hit hard as greece falls deeper into crisis, the banks and stock exchange remains shut with shock waves in europe. questions over burundi election and the african union said it won't be free or fair and. >> waiting on our government and

international bodies to help. >> reporter: call for help as israel tries to reach the naval blockade on gaza. ♪ share prices have tumbled in reaction to a growing crisis in greece where stock market has been closed a week and it has wiped the value of companies and the stock exchange opened 4% down and in greece they were greeted with closed doors on monday and desperate to stop a run on banks and concern growing for the referendum and bail out deal for international lenders who want cutbacks for cash. greece's position is looking dire and major cash withdrawals chaos with a billion euros taken out over the weekend alone and the banks have been shut down

and customers are limited to just 60 euros a day at cash machines and will cause another economic slump leaving greece even deeper in debt and the people in doubt about the future. we will have the latest with dominick cane at the european bank in frankfurt but first we go to john and a lot of worry among greeks about what this is going to mean and tell us about the capitol controls being imposed on the banks. >> hello, julie, as you just mentioned 60 euros a day will be withdrawal limit on atms for people using cards issued by greek banks. people from abroad and visitors and tourists will be able to use them at withdrawal limits and learning the bank also be physically shut until next monday and they will open on tuesday the 7th of july and this means the atms which are at this

hour beginning to open up again and they were being restocked with cash this morning are going to be people's only source of cash for the next eight days. there will be normal web banking, phone banking and credit card transactions within greece itself we are told and the government is reassuring people that salary deposits will be made normally by employers be no problems for companies putting salaries into people's accounts and the people will be putting pensions into people's accounts as normal, what we don't yet know is if they will be able to pick up their entire pension as they are used to doing on pay day. >> john you are in the middle of all of this, what are people saying to you, what is the mood there? there must be huge uncertainty about what is going to happen. >> reporter: well, now that it's all out in the open now we are officially informed that the banks will be closed for a week

people are very unhappy and people are saying they regret voting for the prime minister a lot of people are shocked by the fact the country is now in the full-blown crisis that they feared even though they have been expecting something like this to happen that is why 40 billion euros with drawn since last december quarter of all deposits are in people's homes or in bank accounts outside of the country. there is a lot of anger being expressed and there is still money in the marketplace. if you go to the market there are farmer's markets operating in athens and there is fruit and vegetables being sold and people going out to do their grocery shopping normally and there is still normal out there. the society is flush with cash at the moment because of all those withdrawals, one hopes this will continue throughout the week and people won't start running out of monday let's say thursday or friday and then they will be in serious difficulty.

but for the moment people are politically unhappy but not yet materially unhappy. >> that is john in athens let's go to dominick cane in frankfurt and dominick the reason they had to close was because they ended emergency funding and tell us about that and why did they make that decision? >> it's a poor connection here in frankfort and i think i heard your question why wasn't it taken the way they did it. the language that followed the teleconference yesterday lunchtime and yesterday afternoon was very interesting because they say we stand ready to help the greek central bank but they froze the emergency liquid at the level established on friday and the greek economy and greek government receiving elas as it were for many months now so perhaps 90 billion you're

euros and the question is if the greek government had drawn down the cash or not and had access and effectively it was the end of cash, as we have been hearing the condition in cash machines that john just told us about, that is the issue here you have heard. we heard from the french prime minister a few days ago saying ecb could not cutoff the ray -- rations but as we heard from john and barnaby phillips that is the picture from the european central bank in frankfurt. >> dominick cane updating us from frankfurt and the prosecutor has been injured in an attack, a bomb targeted his car behind a military academy in the capitol cairo and he and

three others have been taken to the hospital and appointed as prosecutor general in 2013 and he had assets of 15 prominent religious activists and arrest of muslim brotherhood leader. and security forces say they raided an illegal weapons store thought to be used by boko haram fighters. this happened in the capitol and they say five soldiers were killed as well as five suspected fighters and it's the latest chad operation since a series of suicide bombs struck the capitol and boko haram from neighboring nigeria were to blame. now burundi's president aziza voted in the parl men elections saying it's a good day for the country and condemnation from the security and crack down and the u.n. says it's concerned that the poll is going ahead and the african union pulled out on

sunday and say the election is not free or fair. opposition parties are also boycotting the vote. burundi in turmoil since april and elected aziza for a third term when they said a third term was against the constitution and 120,000 people sought safety in neighboring countries but they ruled in favor of the president in a failed coup attempt in may led to the vice president fleeing to belgium. well let's go to the capitol and there have been attacks on polling stack stations overnight and give a flavor of the mood there. >> some parts of the capitol city and, in fact after the grenade attack early on monday police brought to polling centers and when people come to

vote they are physically searched to make sure they are not carrying weapons like grenades et cetera. some people who support the president saying they want to come and vote but they are scared because they say some opposition members could victim ize them because they voted and it's accusations back and forth and people are tense in the capitol. the president has just voted in gazi in the areas where he is popular over there and spoke to al jazeera and said this is a great day for burundi because it means people are exercising democratic rights and a different vibe in the capitol and stronghold and also very different, a lot of people are scared and they say there is a lot of tension in the city. >> a lot of people not voting at all, the opposition parties are boycotting the vote. >> exactly a lot of them are boycotting the vote and say they cannot be part of a system that

they say is not fair, they say that they have been getting weak and intimidation and government allowed them to campaign for elections and don't want the president to run for a third term come the presidential election on the 15th of july and they are staying away and people are asking if you don't participate that means you won't have representation in the parliament so what is the way forward, what does that solve? so people wondering what the next step of the opposition is going to be. >> thanks for that harry in the burundi capitol there. let's go to skype now and i'm joined by jacob who is a spokesman for the chairman of the african union, good to have you with us. can you first at all tell us why the african union is not sending observers for the election process in burundi? >> thank you very much and thank you for having me on your

program program. i should say that i'm a spokesperson for the african union chairperson if that clarification does any good. but the chairperson of the african i should say for the very first time decided that the au is not going to be fueling the usual au observation issue we treat too like almost every election. >> and i'm asking you why. >> as a result of well you must have been following the situation in burundi. you post the announcement of the president seeking office and so following that announcement there have been killings and a lot of people who have been leaving the country and so if you look at the overall political and economic environment it's not one that

can really affirm for what we will call fair, peaceful transparent and credible elections. >> can i ask you. >> african union to support. >> given what you said why hasn't they don't more to put pressure on the current ziza not to stand for a candidate for a third term? >> the engagement of the african union with burundi as a country doesn't start today, it dates back quite a long time ago and know the african union is with the 2000 agreement in burundi so even after the engagement to make sure that peace and stability comes to burundi the african union in the last year has been very fully engaged with the burundi authorities who had a commission and political phases to the ground and

commissioner for peace and security has been to the ground and excellent itself is on the ground ground. >> i do apologize. jacob we are going to have to leave it there, i'm so sorry, as our viewers can hear we have been having a few audio problem with that skype connections but hearing clearly from jacob that the african union will not be sending observers to the election in burundi because they don't think they will be free and fair elections. more to come here on the news hour including. >> we are humans. we are not animals. >> reporter: the plight of migrants stuck on the border between macedonia and greece plus the dali-lama visits the festival and world number one

yanukovich has had to talk about himself ahead of wimbledon. ♪ britain's prime minister says they are plotting terrible attacks in uk the country terror is at severe and the second highest status and cameron said i.s.i.s. had a threat to the uk and other countries and promised to full response to the attack in tunisia that killed 15 tourists and 15 were british and the total is expected to rise. fear of yet another conflict within syria war and tension between kurds and ethnic arabs are growing in the country and the military force and ypg accused of ethnic cleansing by deliberately displacing arabs

and say they are welcome to return home and we have this report. >> reporter: across turkish border towns many syrian arabs are choosing to live in these conditions rather than return. this unfinished building is home to 12 families they are scared to reveal their identities and came here when syrian/kurdish forces launched offensive against the state of islam. >> translator: we do not trust the kurds and we heard they are arrest b arabs and burning their homes and they will kill us because they want their own state. >> reporter: a feeling by arabs who feel intimated by the presence of the ypg the main kurdish force in northeast syria and many of them do not want to

speak on camera but the kurds burned and looted arab homes to prevent them from returning and the ypg has listed many of them as suspected i.s.i.l. collaborators. more than 20,000 people during the fighting only 2000 have returned since kurdish forces captured the town earlier this month. the syrian national coalition and the opposition in exile is accusing them of violations against ethnic arabs and demanding they send an investigation mission to the area. the doctor is hoping that will happen. he says he has documented evidence that shows ypg violations against arabs that date back to 2014. he says that the kurdish force has depopulated and raised arab villages in the province and wants to present his findings to an international human rights

organization. >> translator: the kurds look at arabs as i.s.i.l. supporters or at least that is their excuse. ypg acts like the syria regime and they are allies and supported by the u.s. coalition. >> reporter: concerns are growing over the territorial gains made by syria kurds and ypg has categorically denied acquisitions of forces them from their homes for a state but perceptions are just as dangerous and ethnic tensions could lead to another conflict this syria's war. let's go live now to zaina and first of all you said there the syrian kurds denying these allegations, what are they saying? >> well they are saying that these allegations are baseless and they are nothing more than political accusations. they say that arabs are welcome to return but the ypg, in fact, is now accusing the syrian national coalition of trying to

complicate the situation and trying to stir strikes between kurds and ar-arabs and according to the ypg spokesperson saying what they are trying to do is change the conflict between the kurds and i.s.i.l. to one that is to become a kurd/arab war and this is what the kurds are saying but it will do little comfort to arabs we are speaking to who are scared to return and say we will be mistreated and reports of homes being burned and they don't want us back and want to create their own space and we have to remember this is not the first time that the ypg has been accused of such violations. last year it was accused of raising villages and forcing the displacement of arabs from the province and really dangerous accusations with dangerous implications because it could spark war between the kurds and

arabs adding yet another layer to the conflict in syria. >> how worried is turkey over the perceived growing strength of the kurds? >> well, turkey is concerned. we heard the president or the to say it's a red line if they set up any state on the syrian border because according to turkey of course the ypg is an off shoot of pkk and the workers party and regard them as terrorist organizations and the national security council will meet later today to discuss military options and there have been reports that the government is thinking about some sort of military intervention to stop the kurdish expansion. now we have to remember in resent weeks the kurds made territorial gains and now controls 400 kilometers of territory along the syria border from iraq to kobani

linked the districts together and a land corridor and this is why the turks are afraid because of growing strength and have to wait to see what the national security council will decide later in its meeting later today. >> thanks for that dani there. egyptian court says it will reveal the verdict against three al jazeera journalists at the end of july. mohamed fa my helping the now band muslim brotherhood and peter greste was tried and released to australia with nearly 400 days behind bars they and al jazeera reject the charges. military intercepted and stopped a boat from trying to break gaza's blockade and activists released the video on social media saying they are not safe. these pictures filmed before it

was intercepted and turned back on the way back from tick kit and people were on board and the israeli army said it did not use force to stop the breach and they released a video calling for international help. >> if you see this video it means israelis have broken international law again and took us as prisoners acting like pirates. it means that again they have prevented us to reach gaza to reach palestine, it means that we are now sitting there and waiting for you to act and waiting ton the government to act, we are waiting the international borders to act. >> reporter: israel's blockade of the gaza strip began this 2007 after hamas won elections in the previous years and means israel controls atlanta, air and sea around the territory and people in and out of the gaza strip is restricted and

controlled by israel and egypt and u.n. says living condition of 2 nl million people in the strip has been affected and crucial construction materials in the strip making it difficult for palestinians to rebuild after the 2014 gaza war. there have been similar attempts to break the blockade and in may six vessels taken over and nine activists were killed in that raid. well, the vessel in the latest flotilla being escorted to the port and we are live there and a horn in the back there and tell us what will happen when the vessel makes it to ashdod. >> that is right, the israeli military is escorting the marianne which is under a swedish flag and expected to be

here in the next 12-24 hours. of the dozens of people who are on board that ship including at least one israeli lawmaker the former president of tunisia and also we understand a number of european activists they will be brought here to ashdod and formally deported from israel and anybody deported from israel is also barred from entering the country for ten years. >> and what is israel saying about the accusations from the people on board this flotilla they broke international law to intercept them? >> well these boats were intercepted in international waters and are now being towed into israeli waters and there is some merit to the argument that they broke the law in doing so however because he did not end in violence much in the way of the 2010 flotilla and tried to access gaza and you mentioned

nine people were killed turkish activists were killed and that was obviously a different scenario because this ended peacefully and this ship is being brought in again that argument could be made that israel did break international laws but i think for israel's point of view this is a success that they are sensitive when it comes to any sort of international attention on the blockade of gaza and going on for many years and that is why the flotillas and the ships which tried to break that siege and block the blockade are intercepted and in the case of this ended in violence and while the israelis no doubt deliberated long and hard about how they would deal with it if they are found to have broken the law be intercepting the ship in international waters it's a small price to pay they don't want the ships entering gaza water and certainly not going to

gaza and more importantly what they don't want is more attention brought on the fact they blockaded this territory for so long. >> that brings me on to the question of why this blockade has been tolerated so long by the international community, why does israel even say it needs this blockade? >> yeah, it's interesting just how helpless the international community is when it comes to this blockade this blockade again which lasted for so long and this blockade which in the last 12 months or so under scored how cute the situation is in gaza and following the 50-day bombardment during last year's war there in gaza 20% of in infrastructure was damaged and none has been reconstructed and there has been efforts by the international community to lift the siege and allow construction materials in israel says because they don't trust hamas and fear

hamas will rebuild tunnels that can somehow connect the gaza strip to israel and they see as a very serious problem, these are the reasons they say they cannot lift the siege for their own safety but again as activists try to access gaza through this flotilla trying to say the siege needs to be lifted and humanitarian crisis in gaza needs to end. >> thank you for that and awaiting the arrival of that boat at ashdod port. now at least 11 soldiers have been killed and 4 wounded after taliban fighters ambushed when they were attacked and the afghan army has the first fighting season when taliban steps up attacks with reduced support and nato troops finally ended their mission in december. time for the weather now and everton is here and there is a heat wave hitting europe very

exciting. >> that is right and mostly gorgeous weather back home in england and wimbledon is starting and you would not expect this and look at the sat satellite and this is running across the london area and wimbledon is running in the southwest and moving out and no such problems and going through the next couple of days and see the cloud tumbling in the view and a rate of high pressure just nosing its way and will keep things nice and settled going through the next few days and 24 in london and monday afternoon and 28 paris and fine and dry and clear skies absolutely fabulous. wet weather with showers at the moment and showers in the balkins and eastern europe and showers more concentrated here going into tuesday and by tuesday looking at temperatures in paris of around 32 degrees.

southeasterly winds coming up against the western side of europe and gorgeous weather coming through, 37 there for madrid and 32 paris, 28 in london the number in fahrenheit and that is 82 in fahrenheit. wednesday, hotter still. could touch 32 degrees in london. gorgeous weather coming through as we expect two days in a thunderstorm and we will see thundershowers later in the week. thanks very much indeed for that. still to come here on al jazeera. >> and shows vehicle course on track. >> reporter: a commercial space rocket explodes on the way to the international space station and more on that. andrew thomas in sidney and efforts by australian university to increase their pitiful numbers of the original students, the right is good but are the right indigenous students being reached? a statement ahead of the

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♪ hello there and welcome back and i'm july and you are with al jazeera and top stories and share prices in the world tumble in reaction to a growing crisis in greece and banks and stock markets have been shut down for a week as the government tries to stop a run on the banks. burundi president says it's a good day for his country as people vote in parliamentary election and african union refusing to monitor the vote

saying it's not free nor fair and are boycotting the polls. injured in attack a bomb targeted his car behind a nursery academy in the capitol cairo. all right let's go back to our top story now and that greece debt crisis never ending robert is head of capitol research bank and joins us now from frankfurt and good to have you with it and now with the banks closing down for a week who is to blame for the crisis and the greeks are blaming eu for reforms and eu saying the greek government is to blame for failing to negotiate properly, what do you think? >> i guess the blame is european policy. we have stability and the rules have been broken the last couple of years and that is why resent government, he and his finance minister, were not able to join

to this rule. that is the most part important and even germany and france hadn't the time or the will to accept those rules and that is why stability is only a rule on paper. >> and how closely then are countries like italy, portugal spain going to be watching how this crisis develops because the last thing the eu wants is for similar problems from them. >> we cannot elect the stability and that is why my opinion is let the greek guys go out of the euro zone for a couple of years, maybe 10-20 years so we can show stability is still a part of the game. they all should do and should be keen on having these rules and all should do whatever they can do to make reform because without reforms we will have the same problems in other countries

in a couple of years. and we should not be the first stone which will tumble. >> it's interesting what you say about just let the greeks go for a couple of years because the prevailing attitude with eu ministers is everything must be done to keep the euro zone together. it seems inconceivable that greece could leave the euro. >> we have a political reason for having the greek guys in the euro zone but the financial position would be to let the people go out of the euro zone because it would have to reintroduce it and there by they will have good and extremely successful positions and export things and once a week guys will see we are still growing by export and they could do their homework, and the reforms and a couple of years maybe 10 15, 20

years they could come back. it's important to have a perspective for the greek guys not to have a political solution just to say there will be a member of the euro zone still. >> can i ask you a question because it seems the greeks want to remain in the euro zone and what they reject is more austerity reforms, is it possible to have one without the other? >> we will have referendum next sunday if they vote for being a member of the euro zone and i'm still a strong believer greece will be a member of the euro zone but the they should vote no they have to go. >> robert good to have you with us and thank you indeed for joining us on the program and robert from the bank the debt crisis is not the only issue they are facing and struggling to cope with the number of migrants coming there seeking a better life in europe and neighboring macedonia is

reenforcing the border for a group of new arrivals and we report. >> they have been stuck here for many days now, hundreds of migrants with children trying desperately to cross the border into macedonia and say they have no passports and there for no rights. >> we try to cross here and we turn back and sitting in front of the police or military we don't know what they are and when there is hope we try to cross the border and they return us back. >> reporter: it's summer and conditions are tough and migrants with cash can buy food in a village but still limit themselves to one meal a day. this makeshift camp is full of children and this is the only way for them to get a hot meal. while they rely on a single tap for clean water. >> we are humans, okay? we are not animals.

>> reporter: many migrants say people smugglers are charging $2200 to get them across the border like this man who asked not to be identified. >> restrictions and measures of macedonia government you are supporting them. >> support. >> support that the governments are fighting these people. >> reporter: the macedonia police will continue to stop people entering illegally as the number of migrants from greece increases so do bless patrols and some people do make it across and here in the town if they say they will apply for asylum within three days they are given documents allowing them to use public transport, many of course make use of that provision to keep going and she was born in the hospital but her young parents from syria say they are only halfway on their journey and hoping to make a new life in germany. al jazeera.

chinese president ping has met with dell dell waltersl -- dell delegates and a rival of the western world and the development back and the united states is not represented but china has left the door open to them to join. >> translator: the timing ceremony is a step of historic significant for establishment of the bank and we are happy to see what we have achieved so far. the music festival in england and the dali-lama was asked to take the stage and we report. >> reporter: when the dali-lama was determined to make and not only to keep the tibet issue on

the stage and peace and with escalating violence he called for love tolerance and forgiveness. >> if we see a token, a oneness of human they no business to kill i love my own life. >> reporter: in the lead up to his visit there was strong criticism by the chinese government and accuses the dali-la mshgs dali-lam dali-lama of trying to split chile. >> our position on tibet is consistent and clear and tibet is inseparable of china and resolution of a body or individual giving any platform to the 14th dali-lama to engage in anti-chinese festivals.

>> inspired by a counter culture movement in the 1970s it has become a huge business with mainstream headline ktacts like kanye west and said we should be more conscious of one another. >> we must look in the education field as i mentioned from kindergarten level, some education brings warm heartedness or a sense of care. [chanting] the crowd responded with a rendition of happy birthday in advance of the dali-lama's birthday and described himself as an monk but he is peace and hope. victoria with al jazeera. let's go back to the elections in burundi now. burundi's president zizi and have been voting in

parliamentary elections and says it's a good day for the country and not everyone shares that view and. u pulled support for election and refusing to send observers saying it won't be free or fair. let's talk more about the burundi elections with terry, he is the project director for central africa at the international crisis group, good to have you with us. many including the african union believe these elections are not going to be free for fair and why are they being allowed to go ahead? >> i do apologize just as we went to the interview we lost the connection with terry. we will get him back as soon as possible. let's move on briefly. in australia the number of indigenous students going to higher education is particularly low, a scheme at the university of sidney aims to tackle that and andrew thomas reports. >> reporter: sidney university is one of australia's post

prestigious and like other universities the student base has not been very diverse and indigenous students are low and 3% of the population are 1% of university students. >> we talked to communities and it surprised me that so many people think the universities are the place you go to learn to be less aborational and have a challenge. >> reporter: sidney is trying to tackle that and the entry requirements are lower than for not indigenous ones and given lighter work loads during their first year and prospective indigenous high school students are invited for a week-long taste at university life. >> i think it would be wonderful to come here and the facilitys are phenomenal and teachers are wonderful and students are friendly with the networks they

have of students and teaching us as well. >> reporter: in australia being indigenous is not skin color and what wants is all these people have some personal identity and dissent, however slight that others in the community recognize too. and this is a mother but her father's back ground is scottish, at school an eight-hour drive from sidney she is a star pupil and her heritage makes that particularly rare and just 15% at the high school go to university proportion of indigenous students do is much lower still. >> one student every 3, 4, 5 are indigenous and we have fantastic indigenous kids at this school fantastic, and i can't recall enough of them but saying going to uni now. >> reporter: schools like griffin can access special government funds for indigenous students and the universities

have discrimination programs and sidney university says unequal of students are fair when starting points are unequal but sidney reaching the people most in need and there are plenty with other indigenous heritage than those represented here. sidney's initiatives are working and the number of applications from indigenous students are going up but there are still many indigenous not being reached and the gap needs to be closed sidney. investigations under why an unmanned rocket exploded off cape canaveral and failures from companies who enter the business and tom reports. >> reporter: the rocket owned by space x broke apart two minutes in its flight from cape canaveral and upper section of the two-stage vehicle blew up

due to pressure in the liquid oxygen tank. >> there is no negligence here no really problem with it it just shows the challenges facing internearing and space flight in general. >> reporter: carrying 18 kilo food supplies to the international space station and the 7th mission by space x with 1.6 billion supply contract with nasa and all but this one had been successful and on two previous flights they were unable to carry out the first stage on a drone chip anchored out in the atlantic and would have marked a significant quest to perfect reusable rockets, a big cost saver for eventual trips to mars. >> we have lift off. >> reporter: it was the third launch failure of commercial space missions in resent months and terry's rocket owned by another company exploded shortly

after lift off last october and the robot vessel fell to earth in may short of reaching the space station arena nasa is not running short on provisions. >> continuing to house the crew continuing to protect the schedule going forward, continuing to research. >> reporter: and the space agency is still on track to carry astronauts instead of keep depending on russian rockets and the russians plan to sent another shipment to i.s.s. next week, if that succeeded a new three-man crew will be sent in july and bringing staffing up to regulations for astronauts. >> tom ackerman washington. let's go back to the controversial elections in burundi. pleased to say we have our guest

back e terry on the project director for the international crisis group and good to have you and sorry we lost the audio link with you earlier a and wanted to ask you why people are saying including the african union they are just not going to be free and fair? >> the reason for that is the president wants to be reelected as soon as possible and the radicals have an upper hand in the ruling party and they have basically blocked all the international efforts to find a solution for this. but as a result of that those elections are meaningless and dangerous. >> indeed and likely to return a win for the ruling party, what is that going to mean for burundi, is it going to give a mandate to change the

constitution? >> yes, it's fairly clear that the ruling party is going to win, is going to have a massive win in those elections and not because it is supported by a lot of people in burundi but because basically the opposition, has boycotted the elections. and what is going to happen in the coming months is going to happen after the election and the presidential election are scheduled for the 15th of july. it's pretty clear that it will depend on the political and security crisis in burundi and there are going to be some more economic troubles because the donors have already warned in case the president ziza is implementing his electoral roadmap as it is right now. so basically post election period is going to be very, very

difficult in burundi. >> yeah, it could be very volatile and caught up in the middle of this is the people with the coup and violence on the streets and many displaced from their homes, what of them, what are they going to get? >> well right now there are more than 130 foreign burundi people who already voted with their feet and left the country and are in tanzania and this is a very economic hardship for those in burundi and for those who fled burundi they have maybe a certain wave of departure after elections so more refugees in the region and we can of course trigger a serious refugee crisis in tanzania and also

rwanda and the prospect for burundi is quite bleak at this stage. >> it does look like a grim picture and terry thank you very much for joining us from the international crisis group. still to come here on the news hour, skin deep, we meet the tattoo artist to the futbol stars and in sports sink or swim in connecticut we will tell you who held their nerve to hold the title. ♪

♪ welcome back, we look at sport in a moment but first let's go to brussels where the eu president is giving a news conference and talking about the greece crisis and let's listen in. >> translator: european citizens and all citizens individually, it's not a game of bluff. there are no winners and losers. either we are all winners or we are all losers. so i am particularly sad by what europe has seen last saturday. in one night europe suffered a major blow and good will was flown to the wind.

egoticism and tactical gains and populus gains took precedence over other aspects and after all my efforts and the efforts made by the commission and by other institutions involved in the process i feel a little betrayed because not too much consideration given to my personal efforts and the efforts of others who were very numerous and made a sustained effort. there have been many rumors and that is really blocked out the voice of those who have worked tirelessly, day and night, and i admire those who are working with me, they have not spared any efforts to keep the european family united.

the agreement, this agreement were over dramatized and meant it wasn't possible to reach an agreement in the interest of all, it's in the interest of all and of course in the interest of the greeks in particular. we hear a reference made to ultimatum ultimatum, a take it or leave it agreement and heard reference to blackmail. but who is involved in that? who? where are these insults and threats coming from? these unfinished sentences which make people imagine the wrong things. last friday after months and months of discussion and debate, we were once again determined patient, working together around the table to achieve the best

possible agreements. but our efforts were broken unilaterally by the announcements of the referendum and campaigning to say, no to this agreement. without really the whole truth being spoken saying one democracy against 18 others is not an attitude worthy of the great greek nation and it doesn't help any other european citizens and certainly not greek citizens. greek citizens who are being called to vote next sunday need to have a clearer picture of what is at stake. i've done everything i could. others have tried to do everything they could. and we don't deserve the

criticism being levelled at home. we don't deserve all of this criticism. i don't notice the presence of the euro group who has spared no efforts in resent weeks to achieve an agreement and we have worked together with the president of the euro group, the president of the european commission have worked together because we wanted to reach an agreement. and other countries went through very difficult times with violence portugal and spain and cyprus to name only these few countries.

all governments to very difficult decisions and some of them it has been forgotten and the high political quest for their solidarity and financial support to help the most vulnerable companies. this is what the priorities should be. responsibility is by biographies and countries before parties and i have seen firsthand how difficult it has been for these countries to work through the crisis and the social hardship that it came with but political leaders in those countries showed responsibility and made the necessary decisions which are now obviously paying off. you know well that the greek

people are very close to my heart. this is not sentence and that is why again and again and i proved it in resent years to be on the sight of the greek people i do trust. i know the hardship. they have been true and always said we have to pay more attention to the social fairness of our program. >> listening to the eu commission of president claude speaking in brussels about the crisis and says the eu works tirelessly for a solution and now the greek population are being asked to vote in a referendum and they are not being given the true picture and the eu doesn't deserve this criticism. we will have more on this after the break, i'll be back in a couple of minutes.

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markets round the world are hit hard as greece falls deeper into crisis. the banks and stock exchange remain shut sending shock waves around europe. ♪ hello i'm julie in doha and welcome to the program and coming up, questions over burundi election and the african union said it won't be free nor fair. >> waiting for the government to act and international bodies to act. >> reporter: activistst call for help as israel stops