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more than 110 people killed as an indonesia military plane crashes into a residential area. ♪ you are watching al jazeera, i'm sammy and also coming up heading for turbulent times and greece won't pay 1.6 billion euros to the imf today. amnesty international says egypt is in a state of all out oppression and accuses the government of crushing an entire generation hopes and as technology advances we look at
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preserving old computers for the ages. ♪ well, 113 people have died after a military plane crashed in indonesia according to the latest reports coming in now. and the jets came down in a residential area. it happened just two minutes after take off in the island of sonotra and bodies from the crash site are being taken to hospital in the city of midan. we can go now to stephanie decker to get more details for us she is at the island east of sanatra and stephanie tell us the latest on this one. >> reporter: well we've just heard, we just had confirmation from a military official that it has taken some time for the
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numbers to come out of how many exactly were on board and told 113 people were on board and all have died in the crash. so initially they came out and confirmed 12 crew and now they have come out and said there are 101 people on board and for the total number on the plane and died in the crash is now 113, just to tell you what this plane was a c 130 military aircraft on routine trip carrying soldiers and families and should have been a routine trip and it crashed two minutes after taking off from the airport, what we are being told is the pilot radioed in and said there was an issue with the plane and don't know exactly what the issue was and he tried to turn back when the plane went down on the city and again we do have to say the city the third largest populated city in indonesia and the plane went down in an area that was not populated, two empty buildings we are told otherwise that number could have been much higher but that is a large number and the military
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has now opened an investigation to try and figure out exactly what went wrong but it has been a couple of hours now and trying to figure out how many people are involved and the military is tight lipped and heard a statement that a high number 113 number on the flight and all have died in the crash. >> very sad development indeed and stephanie indications of what sort of problems the pilot was facing when he asked to turn around? >> reporter: no, we don't know but we have had some political reaction in parliament all right this plane a c 130 is from 1964 and the comments we have been hearing coming out in reaction that perhaps the military is operating planes that are too old and not being maintained well and other people in parliament saying they don't have enough money at the moment to help the military. just for some background this is not the first time military aircraft has gone down in a civilian area in indonesia, a c
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130 went down in 2009 that killed 98 people and jets go down near jakarta and there are issues here and why that is it never really has come up but questions will be asked now and it's not the first, second or third time so i think that people will be asking questions and being altered as to what went wrong and it's far too early to tell what this particular incident, what happened on this particular incident to bring the plane down. as i said there is an investigation that has been opened but it can take a couple of months and i don't think we will be getting answers any time soon. >> stephanie decker there. uncertainty looms over the future of greece in the euro zone and not pay 1.6 billion euros due to the imf today. thousands of people rallied in athens to back the government's reaction of a tough bailout, on sunday greeks will vote on whether to accept or reject the
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deal. meanwhile the economy is grinding for a halt and lining up outside of the atm machine to take out cash and withdrawals are capped at 60 euros and john has this update from athens. >> reporter: the coming hours are likely to see reactions against the government here at athens intensified. that is because we just heard word that a renewed overkure is overturned and if confirmed in brussels offered the government another opportunity to accept the latest offer put on the table by the creditors, the one that is going for referendum with perhaps one or two changes. again, we are in a critical day for the process of greece's graduation, not an honorable graduation from its financial assistance and oversight period. this is a day when both that
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financial assistance financially ends and greece is to find itself not paying not honoring 1.6 euro of the monetary fund one of the three institutional creditors and today is a day in which a yes vote here in greece wants to express itself and put pressure on the government to go ahead and soften its position perhaps even cancel the referendum on sunday so not to risk giving the wrong message that greece doesn't want to remain in the euro zone and the core. >> what does it mean if it misses a payment to the international monetary fund and if greece fails to pay 1.6 billion euros they will be the first developed nation to miss a payment and join a list of late payers like zimbabwe sudan and somalia and owing 35 billion euros since 2010 and over the
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year it has to repay 5.5 billion euros and today's payment is not made greece could lose voting rights and risk being kicked out of imf and michael the chief analyst at cnc market says there is little chance that greece would be isolated. >> reporter: at the moment what we have seen this far today is former stabilization and a message in equity markets yesterday but the euro is holding up well and suggests to me that currency markets are very sanguin and this is a difficulty that will be resolved all be it whether greece is in or out of the euro and it's likely that greece will be to serve itself and the gee yo geo location and what happens between them and the greek government and ultimately greece will get help and the question is whether or not it will be
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inside the euro or outside the euro and we will get a clearer indication of that in the wake of sunday's referendum. egypt's president abdel-fattah el-sissi is promising tougher laws after a killing of a prosecutor and killed in a car bomb attack in cairo on monday, his death is the first assassination of a top egyptian official in nearly 25 years. amnesty international accusing egypt though of crushing an intergenerations hope for a brighter future and thousands of young protesters have been arrested or jailed in the past two years after unfair trials and the human rights watchdog says they are in an all out oppression and they deny the allegations, the government is targeting young activists and we have the amnesty
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international person. >> and challenge mubark on february 2011 and now behind bars, a sweeping crack down on dissent with tens of thousands of people detained and far beyond the muslim brotherhood and today we have seen internationally renown youth leaders and award human rights defenders and a student jailed for wearing an antitorture t-shirt and they are behind bars and the protest is 2015 generation jail and the authorities never published official figures in the number on the sweeping crack down and dissent but it's clear it's encompassing and it's all of egypt's political spectrum and mass protests have given way to mass arrests and it's a fast track to prison and seen dozens or hundreds of protesters in the case hold before the courts in grossly unfair trials.
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>> reporter: iran's foreign minister back in vienna set as deadline for agreement on a nuclear program and has been consulting iran's leaders following talks with u.s. secretary of state john kerry and discussions in vienna are likely to continue until later this week. james base is live for us in vienna and is zarif in town and i understand other big guns. >> reporter: yes, expecting sergei fedorov here any minute to arrive here in vienna, the first time in this stage of negotiations that he is joined the talks, these of course are supposed to be the final round of negotiations. this was supposed to be the final day the deadline it's going to go past the deadline certainly and still not clear whether they are going to be able to get a deal but reasonably positive comments coming out of a meeting that has just concluded and remember the
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iran prime minister went to tehran for consultations and was there for a bit over 24 hours so his first meeting after his meeting in tehran with senior leadership there with john kerry has taken place and met 1 hour and 44 minutes i can tell you and at the end of it a few brief words to reporters and as ever we are pouring over these words very closely but john kerry said he was encouraged by that meeting and foreign minister zarif said i didn't go to tehran to get a mandate, i already had a mandate, i've come back to get a final deal and i think we can, very positive sounding comments obviously only a brief sentence or two to reporters so we perhaps should not read too much into it and it's worth telling you as well, sammy that when mr. zarif arrived here a few hours earlier he said this was at a very delicate stage and a lot more work to do so i don't
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think there is even though they seem to have had a positive meeting and this is the day of the deadline i don't think anyone thinks we are actually going to get a deal today. >> thanks so much and james base there. still to come on the show ♪ protests in puerto rico as it faces a multi million dollar debt crisis of it's own and boycotted and african observers stayed away. ♪
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welcome back. let's recap the headlines now and 113 people died after a military plane crashed in indee -- indonesia and bodies from the crash site have been taken to the hospital in the city of medan. thousands of people attended a funeral of the chief prosecutor senior members of the president abdel-fattah el-sissi's government attended the ceremony and died in a car bomb attack in cairo on monday. greek government says it will miss a 1.6 billion to imf today due today on tuesday and rejection of a tough bailout. financial crisis in puerto rico the government says it won't be able to repay a debt of $72 billion and the government of the u.s. territory wants to defer further payment so he can renegotiate with creditors and
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andy gallagher has the latest from the capitol san juan. >> reporter: in recession for a decade and the stagnating economy pales ability to pay more than $70 billion in debt. the publically run company owed $9 billion and puerto rico stands on the edge of an economic death spiral has brought things to a catastrophic head and televised address they told the nation hard decisions will need to be made. >> translator: the only way we can get out of the hole is to join together as a country and all willing including bond holders to assume some of the shared sacrifices today so we can share the benefits of a growing economy. >> reporter: at the campus of the university of puerto rico students reacted angry to the speech and feel budget cuts will unfairly target them for years
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to come. >> the people who suffer is us the students, the students that will follow us in the next couple of years and it's the generation that will have to pay for the past consequences. >> reporter: attempts to cut spending and restructure debts have so far failed and now few options remain. the sign behind me reads people before the debt but for puerto rico there is no golden ticket whatever happens in negotiations in the next few hours, days or months this island faces years of hard times. puerto rico is a territory of the united states and much of the debt is held by u.s. investors but not the same status as other states and it's clear it won't get financial help. >> there is no one in the administration or d.c. that is contemplating a fedled bailout of puerto rico but we do remain committed to working with puerto rico and leaders as they address
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serious financial changes that are plaguing the common wealth of puerto rico. >> reporter: legislatures will attempt to defer the island debts and drastically cut spending and deadlines are looming and time is running out, andy gallagher, al jazeera, san juan puerto rico accusing south sudan of abuses fighting in the northern unity state and include the abduction and sexual abuse of women and girls, some of whom who were burned alive after being raped and south sudan collected evidence of 115 victims and witnesses and says some of the atrocities were committed by groups of the army. south sudan military spokesman told al jazeera the report needs further verification. >> rules and families and human rights abuse and we will support
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an investigation into the report and will be found guilty of committing such atrocities and will be presented to go on without a doubt. if there is protest of denial that is presented to the government then definitely we are part of the government and ready to reform. at least one person died and 22 have been wounded in a taliban suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan capitol kabul and happened on the road the to the airport around 500 meters from the u.s. embassy and near a base for foreign troops. serious government says it made gains against i.s.i.l. and state television says soldiers have taken a residential area north of the city days after it was captured by i.s.i.l. forces and control other areas of the city and have come under renewed
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i.s.i.l. shelling. turkey is worried about the kurdish advance in syria and held a national security council to discuss what it calls a growing kurdish threat on the border of syria and promising to take all necessary measures to insure security and includes sending more troops to the southern border and erdiwan says he will never allow the formation of a kurdish state in the area and turkish government calls ypg force a terrorist organization and the group now controls 400 kilometers along turkey's border and that is where dana reports from now. >> reporter: turkey is concerned about the growing strength of its neighbor the syrian kurdish ypg made dramatic territorial gains in northeastern syria controlling 400 kilometers from the border from iraq to the town of kobani further west and air strikes helped the kurds, the only partner on the ground in syria,
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capture territory from islamic state of iraq and levante and believe the ypg which it considers a terrorist organization lurked to the workers party or pkk has another agenda. >> translator: the u.s. led coalition is doing ypg a lot of help and 80% of the bombings fell to kurds and ypg is a threat to all people and arabs and trying to create a state and ethnically cleansing areas. >> reporter: syrian kurds have pushed deep in the mainly arab province the main stronghold in syria, capture of the province border crossing was praised by u.s. officials who said it was a main supply line from where i.s.i.l. brought in foreign fighters and supplies. by capturing it the ypg did not just close an i.s.i.l. supply route it opened a land corridor between two districts and this has raised concerns in turkey
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and president erdiwan said turkey would not accept any move by syria kurds to create their own state. believed to be the kurd's next target and it is the last i.s.i.l. controlled crossing on syria's border with turkey and its fighters are seen in the distance planting explosives. the coalition is likely to provide air cover in a battle that would weaken i.s.i.l. but syrians are questioning the acts of i.s.i.l. and the kurds. >> translator: ypg is there and if they do that they will go south and link it to the east. >> reporter: the turkish government wants some military intervention to stop the kurd's expansion but the military is reluctant to make a controversial move and already the pkk which has been involved in an armed conflict with turkey for decades said any
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intervention would mean war. dana on the syria, turkey border. south africa the only remaining camp housing people who fled april's xenophobic violence is set to close and do not have refugee status and can either go back to their communities or home countries, both of which they fled. and anita miller sent this update from durbin. >> reporter: three temporary shelters very much like the one behind me housed up to 5,000 people in resent months following xenophobic violence in south africa and a number of refugees remain at this particular shelter in chatsworth, up to 200 of them and have to the end of the day to decide whether or not they will be reintegrated into surrounding communities which they previously fled or if they want to return to their home counties but for many here from burundi as well as the democratic republic of congo that is not an option and cannot
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return to their countries which are currently suffering from instability or difficulties in the political sphere. they say they want to remain in south africa but they are also concerns that communities here are not safe enough. municipality in the area said they can indeed return and put in place structures to support them ensuring they will be kept safe once they return. people in burundi have voted in parliamentary elections following a night of violence and weeks of protest and the opposition boycotted the poll and voter turnout law and many against the pierre nkurunziza to run next month and we report from the capitol. >> reporter: burundi president pierre nkurunziza makes an entrance before voting in parliament elections with his wife and children and looks a little shaky on two wheels but with parliamentary and presidential polls he is defy --
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defiant and votes where he is popular. >> translator: i'm satisfied with today and burundi exercising democratic rights to vote and burundi has come a long way since the civil war and keep consolidating democracy in our country. >> reporter: there was a big turnout in some rural areas but the capitol and opposition stronghold was tense. a grenade was thrown into a polling station on monday so police have begun checking everyone entering polling stations. but the numbers are not that big. many say they are scared even if they support the ruling party. >> using other ways that we need to wait to leave your house. >> reporter: most opposition parties boycotted the parliamentary polls saying violence and intimidation by members of the ruling party have made it difficult for them to
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campaign. >> unfortunately any time that he is challenged and caused the violence killing people, people are demonstrating for the right cause and he says these ones are rebels, kill them shoot on them and people have been killed. >> reporter: ruling party officials deny the allegations saying they can't understand why some people either want to postpone the vote. the african union has done something it normally doesn't do and says it won't recognize these elections, it did not even say election observers and could say african leaders are trying to distance themselves from the president pierre nkurunziza and says the presidential elections will happen on july 15 with two presidential terms and weeks of violent protests over running for a third term in office and people are bracing themselves for another potentially
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contentious battle al jazeera. french police detained two executives from the private car booking app uber for questioning and paris cracking down on the private, unlicensed taxi service and filed a legal complaint on friday and accuse uber of not paying the same taxes as other companies and led to demonstrations by taxi drivers in paris last week. from scrapbooks to digital photo albums the way we store memories is rapidly evolving, as part of our series cracking the code tom ackerman has the challenge posed by changing technologies. >> reporter: a family collection of snapshots going back almost a century and transfers to a portable hard drive for the benefit of generations to come but will the digital data be accessible for the next century or longer and that concerns internet people
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like vincent surf. >> how long will the medium survive and how long do you have a piece of equipment that can read it or have software that takes the bits read and interpret them successfully. >> i tend to be an optimist as far as digital preservation goes. >> reporter: at the institute of technologies and humanities the collection of computer antiques includes a 1982 apple 2 e and can only read floppy disks that have become a virtually extinct species of software. >> c drive looking at on apple two and new forms of software can enable one computer system to behave like another and this computer game designed more than 30 years ago for the apple two can be played on other operating platforms. >> here we are duplicating that apple two inside of a safari web browser running on ama c laptop.
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>> olive an archive of executable content. >> reporter: to develop the emulator technology for long-term preservation for education and games and computer programs but the different evolving formats may prove overwhelming and here at the u.s. library of congress, the world east largest they say their challenge will be to define and limit the kinds of data to be preserved for the ages. no one can predict what hardware and software we will be using in the year 20100 but preservation will require persistent efforts. >> once we move to holographic cloud storage or whatever is next on the horizon, somebody is going to have to take an active interest in migrating that content and moving it forward. >> reporter: a mission for computer companies, governments
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