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name is imran garda, i'm the host of "third rail" - and you can find it on al jazeera america. >> welcome to the news hour, live from doha. coming up in the next hour, more than 100 people are killed after a military plane crashes in indonesia. egypt's president promises a major crackdown, one day after the country's chief prosecutor is assassinated. >> queuing for cash in greece, a $1.6 billion payment is now due. the government said it will not
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pay. >> turning a new page on cartoons, now it's all about the swipe and it's big business. >> a top story out of indonesia where a military plane crashed killing all 113 people onboard. the plane crashed shortly after takeoff in the city on the island of sumatra. at least three people are believed to have been killed on the ground. so far rescuers recovered 49 bodies. let's cross now to stephanie decker east of sumatra. anymore details on how this crash occurred? >> >> yes. we will shortly after takeoff the pilot contacted air control saying there was a technical issue withed plane and want to
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go return to the airport. we know that he wasn't able to do that. two minutes into the flight, the plane came down in a heavily populated city, the third biggest in indonesia. three people confirmed dead on the ground, but 113 people, everyone on that plane according to the air force commander who spoke, all died in that crash. it took a while to really get that figure. when it happened nine hours ago we were told 12 crew were onboard. difficult to get the figures of how many other people. this is a usual flight that the air force does transporting soldiers and their families to new jobs or back home, so it's a usual occurrence. that number confirmed a very high figure, difficult for the families. a lot of family members have managed to make it to the hospital to identify bodies. we're also told many body parts need to be identified, an absolutely horrendous situation.
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investigation has been launched by the military to figure out what happened. we have heard from the air force that they will stop flying that plane until further investigation. >> steph obviously a very tragic story the fact that this plane went down in a heavily densely populated area. what's been the reaction across indonesia to this? >> we've had some political reaction in parliament after this happened. some people saying that the military perhaps is flying planes that are too old this particular aircraft that went down is from 1964, some people questions perhaps if the maintenance hasn't been done well, the others talking about the military budget, is it split equally. it's split between the army, air force, the army saying they need
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more money because what they do is more dangerous. it's happened three times in the past that a military aircraft has gone down amongst residential areas. it's too early to see what happened on this particular incident. we know there will be that investigation. i think the authorities here will need to look into what's been happening because it is something that happens way too often. if you look at the track record, it's a plane with a very good track record, so something they'll need to look into. at the moment, too early to tell what caused this plane to go down killing all 113 onboard. >> steph, thank you reporting for us from sumatra on the military plane that crashed killing all 113 people. >> egypt's president al sisi is promising tougher laws within days following of the murder of the prosecutor general. he made the announcement at his funeral. he was killed by a car bomb
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monday. sisi said current legislation is not working and trials for those suspected of terrorism will be speeded up. >> the hands of justice are changed by laws. we will not wait. we will change laws in order to law us to implement law and justice soup. within days, criminal laws that can help face new developments such as terrorism should be presented. we face terrorism and we need the right laws and courts to deal with it and try the killers. they make orders from behind bars. their orders get implemented immediately, but we wait to implement the law. >> his comments come on the same day amnesty international accused the government of crushing an entire generation's hope of a brighter future, saying egypt is arresting thousands of people. activists say there's been a sharp rise in the number of people going missing. we have the story. >> this was before the 2011
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revolution. during the protests, she was hit by a bullet and became paralyzed. she kept on with her studies and stayed vocal against the egyptian government. it's been a month and she has not come home. >> on june 1, ezra hung out with her friends and left around 5:00 p.m. and her female friend was in touch with her until 9:00 p.m., but she didn't come home. >> what kind of hearts do those people have? she's only 23 years old. she's still a kid. i want them to tell me the whereabouts of my daughter and what did she do. >> she's among the 163 young people missing some liberals, some anti coup activists. all are critics of the government. they insist she is held by authorities. amnesty international released a report called generation jail, from protest to prison. 41,000 people are facing
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criminal charges against the deportation of mohamed morsi in 2014. the crackdown is said to maintain stat and security. promises by the international community to support freedom and justice have been subdued by trade and arms deals. >> world leaders are breaking the promises made to stand by the youth of egypt. we've seen egypt's partners make ready to sell new arms and equipment, ignoring gross human rights violations like torture the unlawful killing of protestors and even forced disappearances. >> some missing students have been found but not alive. this is the mother who has seen her son's body. she said it's broken in many places. human rights activists say the engineering student was kidnapped in front of his class saying there were security cameras and want to know why they can't be used to find his killers. >> victims of forced
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disappearance do not usually end up in prison. we have two stories of people who disappeared and turned up dead, some as a result of torture by the interior ministry. it's been two years since tens of thousands marched in the streets against the first democratically endorsed government. many of the same activists have found themselves a target of the new government's crack down on opponents. may not have been arrested, others have just gone missing. al jazeera. >> let's get a closer look at what's happening in egypt now with an assistant professor of history at georgetown university, and a writer on egypt. he joins us live from istanbul. weaver seen similar crackdowns under hosni mubarek the former president. not much has changed under that president sisi. >> well, in fact, it's actually gotten much worse. this is the things that we're
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seeing now pale in comparison when we think about the fact that there's 40,000 political prisoners in egypt the crackdowns have taken the lives of hundreds, 1,000 people in one day in the miskerr that occurred six weeks after the coup. when we consider the fact that all of the independent political organizations or social organizations have been repressed in such a violent and ruthless way what we are seeing now is far worse than anything under the mubarak dictatorship. in 2011, they signaled we were not willing to tolerate the police state tactics emergency laws and today we hear president sisi simply announcing a kind of return to the same kind of emergency laws as though that is what was lacking in egypt in the last two years in terms of the lack of return to that security. >> i want to take you up on that particular point. see seep's reaction right after the assassination of the prosecutor general is to further
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strengthen anti terrorism laws as he calls it. is this the solution? will that bring security to egypt? >> absolutely not. i think what we're seeing is anything but. this is an escalation, a sign that things are likely to get far worse and more violent both on the part of the government and on the part of militants who are opposing the government and who are trying to destabilize the situation in egypt. i think that this tit for tat announcement that we're seeing is simply not the solution, and this is not how any responsible state should behave once subjected to these types of attacks. we've seen summary judgments we've seen expedited trials, 500 people tried in a one day trial and given death sentences. clearly it's not that the laws are not there. the laws are not protecting the rights of people, providing due process and judge's have been behaving irresponsibly. there has to be a political settlement in order to see the
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situation deescalate. >> i want to widen this discussion now a little more to take in the other parts of egypt, as well. stay with us as we look at the most serious security situation in egypt which is unfolding in the sinai peninsula. there have been attacks on security personnel there since 2011. in response, the sisi government has increased its presence in the region. it's thought that more than 700 people have been killed this year alone. most of them are suspected fighters. abdullah, what needs to happen to bring security to this region that's seen so much fighting for song? >> well, i think when we're talking about the situation in sinai, there are particular grievances there political social and economic grievances never addressed. when we think about the mubarak
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regime expanding exploitation of people for 30 years we're seeing the consequences of the disaffection on these kind of populations. i think that during the very brief democratic opening the revolutionary transition, there was attempt to address these issues but it was early on. of course the coup and the return of the military regime that seeks to exploit the egyptian people economically, as well as in terms of depriving them of their political and social rights has only seen the situation escalate. we need a much broader political settlement, one that tries to integrate populations all of the groups repressioned from revolutionaries to the muslim brotherhood to the youth movements we have seen swept up in these arrests and kidnappings by the state recently, all of these things have to be addressed comprehensively but we are not seeing that on the part of this military ruler who
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continues to subjugate the egyptian people. >> thank you very much. >> still to come here on the al jazeera news hour. kurdish forces make gains against isil. it's not all win-win. we look at why turkey is worried. >> traveling 36 meters below london to take a look at the city's first underground farm. >> we will tell you if chile has done enough to put themselves on the cusp of a major copa america title. details coming up in sport. >> there are reports that greece rejected a last minute proposal by creditors on a new bailout package. by midnight on tuesday its
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current financial aid will end. the greek finance minister has concern the government will not be paying 1.6 billion euros owed to the international monetary fund. let's get more from athens. john anymore confirmation as to this report that the greek government rejected last minute terms on the bailout? >> well, we're hearing conflicting accounts about that last minute offer. we do know because the commission confirmed it officially this morning, that there was a late night phone call between prime minister tsipras and service suggested that the greeks reconsider the document on the table from saturday. that is of course the object of the referendum, as well. it is perhaps unlikely that mr. tsipras will now accept unchanged the very document he's asked the greek people to decide upon.
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there are several hours to go before greece is officially out of its financial be oversight program. there is also a rumor that the greeks are considering going back to the commission with thoughts on how to modify this proposal that is the last document that was put on the table with a view to possibly accepting it or submitting it for a referendum with different advice to the greek people to vote yes, rather than no. up until now however that hasn't been confirmed. we're hearing at the official level that they are as assertive about their determination to go forward with this referendum in greece next sunday. >> the most important thing at this time is to secure a sobriety and harmony the right of the greek people to express themselves on sunday in the referendum. it's a right that the euro group tries to deprive them of by
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closings banks. securing it, that's our goal to allow the greek people to express their view on the lenders. >> prime minister tsipras's supporters are expected to urge a no volt on sunday. >> we saw last night that there was a large rally in the square behind me in favor of the no vote. that is supported by people who believe that the austerity packages imposed on greek governments by their european counterparts and their creditors are the root of the problem. tonight, we're going to see the other side. we're going to see the yes vote on the square. the yes vote doesn't want austerity anymore than the no vote does. people who want to vote yes
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believes the wrong signal will be sent to europe, that we don't want to be in the euro zone, period. they fear that the impact of such a vote will go further will destabilize greece's position in the european union not just the euro zone and will begin to alter its western and european perspective. therefore, i think you can see just from the fact that there are two verge and very vocal camps in greek society that the polarization that used to exist between parties and within political parties in parliament when considering such austerity packages have been exported to the greek society at large and we're seeing people dividing themselves and each other very much into two separate camps. that is having a an effect on society. >> thank you.
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>> let's look at how the crisis is actually impacting on the actual people in greece. barnaby phillips reports. >> this petrol station on the edge of athens is closed until a tanker turns up with new supplies. after we drove around the city, we saw about a third of stations were closed. the results of panic buying over the weekend but without the free flow of cash, the greek economy could grind to a halt. >> there's no shortage of pet troll. there is plenty in the country but stations need to pay for it up front in cash, now that the banks are closed. >> for now the banks are firmly shut, with confusion on the streets outside some people could take the daily limit of 60 euro he is from the machines, others weren't so lucky. most vulnerable, the pensions, many of whom don't have bank
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cards. an tone i can't ate two waits outside the bank to collect his pension with friends. he heard a report it would open at mid-day. it didn't. he waited an hour, then gave up. there are a lot of questions for the greek finance minister, although he wasn't answering them on his way to work. >> instead we heard accusations of betray all from the european commission in brussels. >> ego fix games to president's over other aspects and after all my efforts and the efforts made by the commission and other institutions involved in the process. i feel a little betrayed, due consideration is not being given to my efforts and the efforts of others who are very numerous and made a sustained effort. >> in germany, angela merkel
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doesn't want to go down as the leader who presided over the breakup of the euro zone. >> if the euro fails europe fails. we have to fight for our principles. we can forget them for a second, maybe, but i say in the long term, we will suffer damage. we will suffer because we will not be a key player in the world anymore. that's why we have to call for compromises and principle in europe again and again. >> at dusk, thousands of government supporters came to central athens. a simple word denotes memories of the fight against fascism in the 1940's and denotes defiance. >> protestors say it's the greek people betrayed who have endured five years of austerity and seen no economic relief in sight.
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these people are prepared to take the risk of it being catastrophic. >> there is still time for a deem between the greeks government and its creditors. there's such bad feeling between them, that the chance of compromise are far slipping away. >> ann is a director of a think tank based in london and joins us from london. we've seen iceland and ireland in similar situation and they took on austerity measures, they are now recovering, although it was painful for them at the time. why is greece kicking and screaming over the measures proposed now? >> because the sale of collapse in greece is much greater than it was in any other country in the euro zone. the scale of unemployment, of the collapse in g.d.p., of output is extraordinary, worse than the great depression.
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the greece have taken much greater punishment than either iceland or ireland. >> you've been quoted saying if greece can drop, other countries can, too the euro zone cannot survive, the question is only one of time. no doubt spain and portugal are also watching developments closely. >> indeed. i have to say that i lay culpability and responsibility for this crisis of the euro zone at the door of the creditors and not greece. greece is a weak debtor in relation to three very powerful institutions and some very big powerful states in europe. above all the european central bank has played a very incompetent, in my view and quite disastrous role in managing this crise. indeed, in managing the monetary conditions of the euro zone as a whole.
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it's very, very serious and it's the culpability of for example european central banks which in my view and other national banks, which played a part for example in the malicious leak on sunday morning that led to a bank run on greek banks and which forced the introduction of capitol controls and bank holiday. that is a very serious breach of the mandate of the european central bank and also of national banks but is an example of how the creditors have played fast and loose with detonation with the european product. we learned from dickens if you put debtors into prisons and
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starve them to death you may get some self satisfaction from that, but they never pay back the debt. you bring them back into economic activity, into the economy to generate the income needed to repay the debt. it creditors have done the very reverse and their actions are sort of pre19th century in practice. june it's great getting your insight there. director of policy research in macro economics speaking to us from london. >> at least one person has died and 22 others wounded in taliban suicide car bomb attack in afghanistan's capitol kabul. the blast occurred in the diplomatic area on the road to the airport around 500 meters from the u.s. embassy and near a base for foreign troops. witnesses say at least two military vehicles have been damaged. the united nations accused the
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south sudanese army of human rights buyses while fighting in the northern unity state. allegations include the abduction and sexual abuse of women and girls some of whom were reportedly burned alive. the u.n. mission is south so dan collected evidence from 115 victims and witnesses the report says some of the atrocities were committed by groups associated with the army. >> south so dan spokesman said the report needs further verification. >> we will support verification into the report. whoever will be found guilty of committing such atrocities will be presented to court without doubt. if there is letter of denial
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presented to the government, then definitely we are part of the government are ready to respond to it. >> as many as 300 inmates at an australian prison are angry over a smoking ban due to come into effect on wednesday. prisoners lit fires and one group broke into a control room. armed police used tear gas to quell the riot. all prison staff are reported to be safe and accounted for. >> let's take a check on the weather now with everton. soaring temperatures in the u.s. >> yeah, that's right. we saw the temperature a couple of days ago in seattle hilt 35. north of the border into british columbia, we had a high in 40's, low 40's. the satellite picture, you can see the boundary between that that hotter air down to the south here, pushing up toward the northwestern corner and cooler air across the central
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plains. temperatures across the south getting up into the low to mid 30's and into seattle temperatures up into the high 20's here. eight or nine degrees above the seasonal average. that's tuesday's picture. go on into wednesday. by wednesday, we are looking at temperatures, cooling off for a little bit into central park, but still plenty of heat across the south and that's the case as we go on into thursday. of course, with the higher temperatures, it does also mean that we have had problems with wildfires. this was a wildfire burning in washington state. horrific conditions going on here masses of the region under flame there. as you can see it's a similar picture to california where it remains particularly parched. we can do with rain toward the west. it's going to continue around the appalachian mountains
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making its way further east over the next couple days with big downpours. >> it's not just greece dealing with a financial crisis. people in puerto rico are angry because their small u.s. territory owes billions of dollars and can't pay it back. that story is coming up later. >> i'll be telling you how comic book magazines have changed from this to this, supporting a whole new industry and earning south korea millions of dollars. >> the historic agreement reached in the sport of contradict. we'll tell what you that is a little later.
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>> you're watching the al jazeera news hour. a reminder of our top stories and all 113 people onboard are a military jet killed after a crash shortly after takeoff in indonesia. three others died on the ground. it isn't clear why the plane crashed. >> egypt's president al sisi is promising tougher laws following the assassination of the prosecutor general. he says trials for those suspected of terrorism should be speeded up and new measures presented within days. >> there are reports that greece rejected a last minute proposal by creditors on a new bailout package. at midnight on tuesday its current financial cade will end.
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>> iran's prime minister said only a fair and balanced deal will be acceptable to the iranian people. back in vienna for talks on iran's nuclear program negotiations look set to continue past the june 30 deadline. let's get more from james bays, our correspondent live for us in vienna. the foreign ministers are back at the negotiating table joining in this time are two iranian reps. >> he's bin in tehran for just one day and then came back here after consultations and is bringing with him iran's atomic energy chiefs who had been too ill to join the talks. diplomats tell me that is very good news. he was very helpful three months ago in lausanne.
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he is coming with president rouhani's brother who was helpful in getting that detail in april in lausanne. it's important that those people joined the negotiations. there have been fresh negotiations in the last couple of hours. as soon as he arrived the foreign minister sat down with secretary of state john kerry and at the end of the meeting wave this brief comment. >> i didn't go to get a mandate. i already had a mandate to negotiate. i'm here to get a final deal and i think i can. >> those the comments from the foreign minister are when he spoke to reporters with john kerry at the end of that meeting. i think it's worth also giving you comments he made earlier when he arrived in the airport. he said things are in a very delicate stage. we have a lot of work to do. remember, of course, this was supposed to be the day the final day of the deadline. no one is expecting anything to happen today still lots and lots to work through, but
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negotiators telling me they still are hopeful that perhaps something can be achieved in the next few days, possibly this week. >> james, thank you. james bails there reporting for us from vienna. let's put this into context with the professor of political science at the university of tehran. he joins me now from iran via skype. thank you very much, sir for being with us. now, the foreign minister remaining positive on the talks but is his optimism shared by the people of iran? >> first of all, thank you. it's a pleasure to be in your program. yes, i guess the optimism is shared among many people, particularly among the elite which you think we are going to finalize the deal. both sides having rested so much in the process, that would be almost unimaginable, not to finalize the deal, because of a
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few minor but important differences. >> at the same time, though, there are conservative elements within iran opposed to making any concessions based of course on sovereign reasons. how influential are these conservative elements to the negotiations? >> it is not very much possibly an efficient way to consider it so much time on convincing the hardliners. we are better off to have a good deal and to sell it to the people whose minds are still open and ready to embrace the deal. i guess that's the case in the u.s. too. there are people who are going to oppose the deal no matter what is in it. >> the positions are on the line
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over these negotiations. let's take the worst case scenario. if talks fail, will they be blamed for snit. >> former president ahmadinejad would have been blamed, but on this case, because rouhani is the most senior politician we have and the most senior politician, both of them have shown the seriousness rewarding the plea, a failure in finalizing the deal, not very many people are going to -- the hardliners may blame them and say we told you so, but the rest of the population and people are not going to blame them, because
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they feel they have done their best and they are the most capable individual we have, and they have been able to negotiate it, have been able to give enough concession and if there had not been a deal, the other side should be to blame not iran. >> thank you for joining us. >> a pleasure. >> from the university of trahan. >> pleasure to be on your program. >> syria's government has made gains against isil, state television saying soldiers have taken a residential area in the north of the city days after captured by isil forces. kurdish forces control over areas of the city and is under renewed isil shelling. turkey is worried about the advance in syria calling a growing threat along its border,
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has promised to take measures to assure security, including sending more troops to the southern border. the turkish government calls the turkish y.p.g. force a terrorist organization. the group controls 400 kilometers along turkey's border. >> turkey is concerned about the growing strength of its neighbor, the syrian kurdish y.p.g. has made gains in syria controlling 400 kilometers from iraq to kobane further west. u.s. led coalition airstrikes helped the kurds their only partner on the ground in syria capture territory from the islamic state of iraq and the levant. turkish officials believe the y.p.g., which is considers a terrorist organization linked to the p.k.k. has another agenda.
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>> the u.s. led coalition is giving the y.p.g. help. 80% of the bombings help the kurds. the y.p.g. is a threat a all people arabs turkman. the turks are trying to kraft a state and they are ethnically clearing areas. >> the capture of the border crossing was praised by u.s. officials, who said it was a main supply line from where isil brought in foreign fighters and supplies. >> the y.p.g. didn't just close an isil supply route it opened a land corridor between two kurdish administered districts. this has raised con terrence in turkey. president erdogan has said turkey would not create the kurds creating their own state.
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>> the occurred's next target is the lot crossing before turkey. it's fighters are seen in the distance planting explosives. the coalition is likely to provide air cover in a battle that would weaken isil, but syrian activists question the motives of the automatic and the kurds. >> the y.p.g. is now at the door steps. if they capture that crossing, they will push south. >> the turkish government wants some sort of military intervention to stop the occurred expansion but the military is believed to be reluctant to make such a controversial move. already the p.k.k., which has been involved in an armed conflict with turkey for decades said any intervention would mean war. al jazeera, on the syria turkey border. >> in south africa, the only remaining camp housing people who fled violence in april is set to close. most people do not have u.n.
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refugee status and can go back to their communities or to their home countries which are places they fled from in the first place. we have this report from the camp. >> up to 5,000 people were housed following violence in south africa. a number of refugees remain at this particular shelter up to 200 of them who have in my 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 countries. for many here from burundi and congo, that's not an option. they can't return to their countries, which are currently suffering instability or difficulties in the political severe. they say they want to remain in south africa but there are concerns that communities here are not safe enough.
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the municipality in the area has said they can return. they've put in place structure to say support them, ensuring safety once they return. >> we've been talking the greek debt crisis this news hour but there's another financial crisis in puerto rico. the government there says it won't be able to repay $72 billion. andy gallagher has the latest from san juan. >> puerto rico's been in recession for close a a decade, the economy nah pales in its ability to pay more than $70 billion of debt. the publicly run power company alone owe's $9 billion. the governors admission that puerto rico now stands on the edge of an economic death spiral has brought things to a catastrophic head. in a televised address the governor told the nation hard decisions will need to be made. >> the only way we'll get out of
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this hole is if we join together as a country and are willing including bond holders to assume shared sacrifice today so that tomorrow we can also share the benefits of a grown economy. >> at the campus of the university of puerto rico, the students reacted angrily to the steven. many feel budget cuts will target them for years to come. >> the people who suffer is us, the students, the students that will follow us in the next couple of years, that is the generation that will have to pay for past consequences. >> attempts to cut spending and restructure debt has so far failed and now few options remain. >> the sign here 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. much of the debt is held by u.s.
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investors. it doesn't have the same status as other states. it's been made clear it won't get financial help from the mainland. >> there's no one in the administration or in d.c. that's contemplate ago federal bailout of puerto rico, but we do remain committed to working with puerto rico and their leaders as they address the serious challenges, serious financial challenges that are currently plaguing the commonwealth of puerto rico. >> legislators will attempt to defer the island debt and drastically cut spending. time is running out. al jazeera, san juan, puerto rico. >> london's first under ground farm will supply produce to restaurants next month. it's hidden in an old bomb shelter. >> deep below the streets of london lie a dark, damp network
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of tunnels, build to shelter from the bombs that fell during world war ii, they've been abandoned until now. this is a farm that will soon provide food. this restaurant owner is one chef who will be serving these shoots to his customers. >> growing are pea shoots, mustard cress, radish shoots, as well. their all very flavorful. as a chef, i get excited about flavors and taste and i want to use them in all my dishes. >> the farm's location makes the produce supply chain almost utopian. the distance from plant to plate is minimal, reducing the carbon footprint. it's sustainable, considering the light is all artificial. these tanks recycle and recirculate all water used by the crops, 70% less than open field farming methods. >> we are growing on a substrate
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here which is recycled carpet, and that is completely bio combustible. when we harvest it, waste can be composted and turned into useful product. >> these tunnels run for just over half a kilometer. the idea is that within two years, they'll be filled not just with crops like these, but with baby carrots, even cucumbers which can be harvested, packaged and delivered within a few hours. >> feeding london with sustainable and locally grown produce will be key. this could be the future of farming. al jazeera, london. >> coming up here on the news hour defending champion gets off to a flying start at wimbledon. we'll have the details after the
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>> comic books are part of growing up for many of us. in south korea cartoons have a long and creative history. now, artists are taking it to another level. we have the story from seoul.
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>> intervention of daily life is about interesting abstracts about things that happen around us. sometimes they could be interesting, other times no. depending on your perspective and from which angle you view it. >> comic sales have been falling for a while. the arrival of new technology has in invigorated the industry. >> visitors can see the development over the decades. scans of comic books were put on the net. now formatted for lab tops and smart phones are all the rage. all around the world, they are worth a quarter billion dollars.
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>> the world is adopting to digital environments. it takes time to translate the cartoons into languages and we are funding that. >> web tunes are now transitioning and developed into live action regional t.v. dramas like this one. >> i will continue for as long as there are readers who like my work, but cartoons require lots of effort, so i might not be able to keep up with demand. long term if things change, thinking about becoming a write or involvist. >> he hopes new characters will remain global favorites for many years to come. al jazeera seoul. >> it's time for sports now with sanna. >> thank you. we start with tennis.
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she has started her title defense strongly on day two of the tournament. the number two seed lost only one point or serve as be eased past her opponent in straight sets. it took her just five minutes to seal a victory. >> semifinalist made her way through to the next round. the number 10 seed opened her campaign with 6-0 6-0. >> nadal is aim to go recapture his form object grass taking on brazilian opponent. federer is bidding for his 18th grand slam.
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>> chile closer to a copa america title. the game between two biggest rivals often on the pitch wasn't without controversy. we have more. >> the first semifinal with chile desperate to bring pride to their home land as they lined up against peru. it didn't start well for the visitors given his marching orders. peru's players protested the call but it didn't help their cause, as they were left with just 10 players. with momentum now in their favor, chile had the chance to capitalize and after a few treatments did just that. with a cross heating the post, before capped in by vargas. peru pulled one back in the
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second half, but it was by fee fault that chile scored. the equalizing was short lived. second goal of the night gives the host a 2-1 win. chile's coach still not happy saying his side will have to play much better if they are to have any chance of winning the copa america title. >> today anxiety played against us. we didn't crystallize the match and ended up suffering. i believe this is the most disorganized match we played around the pitch. >> if you go now to our dressing room, it is a room in pain. that's how it should be. we wanted more. when up lose it hurts under any circumstances and there is no consolation. >> peru moves into third place.
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cheney is 90 minutes away from making history when they take on the winner of tuesday's other semi finals between argentina and paraguay. >> neitherrer lands coach one year into the job started in august and followed getting the dutch to the world cup seem mys. they've only won four of their last 10 games and are in danger of missing 2016. they are five points off the top. the 68-year-old departed assistant coach has seen him take charge. >> over to the women's world cup where two of the competition's heavyweight germany and the u.s. are set to collide with the final on the line. two time champions germany are currently rated by fifa as the world's best team and have been deadly in front of goal.
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while they've scored 20 in their last five matches that's more than any team in the tournament. the u.s. on the other hand are second in fifa's rankings and also the reigning olympic champions. both sides are searching for the third world title. >> we expect a very strong opponent who finished the first round very well. they took first place showed how good they are and they landed in the semifinal. both teams will want to make it to the final. i expect a very heated match a very fast match. >> we were thrilled to be in the semifinals, playing a tremendous opponent in germany which we haven't placed in a couple of years. obviously they are a terrific team. i think it's going to be a fantastic match, two great teams, worthy of a semifinal matchup. >> whoever wins out of germany and the u.s. will face either reigning champion japan or
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england for the very first time. >> contradict in australia and new zealand will face each other. the match will happen at the oval this november and will open three test series. officials say the revised match is set to increase audience numbers on television and at the venue. another break competition will see youth pink cricket balls which are unpopular with a number of players. that's it for me. >> thanks very much. a new show devoted to the later works of the american artist jackson pollak has opened in the u.k. represent ago different stage of his style. we have this report from the tate gallery. >> summertime, number 9a typical of jackson pollak, the paint literally splashed dripped, poured on to the
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canvas, channeling the artist unconscious. he was a pioneer of action painting, a frenzy of throwing paint, but it was controlled chaos, ending with beautiful compositions. as a founder of abstract expressionism, his paintings are worth millions and they're fragile now. sixty years on, the paint is dry and cracked. tiger is insured for $140 million. >> there's life or there's art before jackson pollak and after. if you have one of those works in your collection, it's really a centrifugal point where it can develop and grow because a lot of the roads in modern art lead back to him. >> pollak abruptly gave up on the drip paintings and moved on. it's the later, less-known works this show highlights. there are only 37 black pouring
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paintings and there are 20 in the show. they are a big departure for pollak, almost exclusively black and they weren't popular when he first showed them. the black pourings were made with sticks and syringes used for basting food, but the style is still there, the unrepeatable gesture. at his alcoholism worsened, his output slowed. portrait in a dream is considered his last great work. again, a departure from previous, color reintroduced and the artist whose name is synonymous with abstract expressionism brings backs a figure. because he died young at 44 and with so few works, they are highly valid. organizers say it is unlikely so many of them will ever be gathered in one place again. >> stay with us here on al jazeera. we've got another full bulletin of news for you at the top of
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