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>> "talk to al jazeera". only on al jazeera america. >> thousands of proeurope protestors gathered in athens hours before greece is due to repay the i.m.f. 1.6 billion euros. hem low there, and this is al jazeera live from london, also coming up. egypt's president renames the square where hundreds of muslim brotherhood support ed were killed after the prosecutor who was murdered on a military plane crashes in a residential neighborhood, kills all 113 people onboard.
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the u.n. report says south sudanese soldiers abducted and rapes girls before burning them alive and why an extra sliver of time is being added to the word's clocks. hello, the greek government ha requested a new bail out deal from the euro zone, in a last minute effort to avoided defaulting on it's debt. greece is asking for a new two year, 29.1 billion euro aid deal the group says it is too late to extend the current bail out but they will meet again on wednesday to discuss this later proposal. so greece is now less than three hours away from the deadline to pay back 1.6 billion euros to the international monetary fund. that's about $1.8 billion. but it can't afford to pay
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without an agreement to free up more in bail out funds. greece could even be kicked out of the i.m.f. all together. barnabie phillips reports. >> the country could slide out of the euro zone, they call themselves add proeuropeans they want a yes vote in sunday's referendum. there's much talk in the last minute arrangement. >> clear that we will not pose the chan of communication, otherwise we would not be the european union, that means the door remains open to talks but i can't say more than this. >> whatever the outcome they see no good options again a typical 29-year-old greek
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unemployed and lives with his parents. and dismayed by growing divisions in society. >> i have seen a lot of people fighting over we vote yes, and we vote no, are we supposed to make a deal with the creditors. i don't feel mystic at all if people turn against each other, they will no get out of this. >> in this office, margeaux, a psychologist counsels the long term unemployed, a joint government e.u. project she has had 100 new clients this month alone. >> we see a lot of anger. why. there's a big why why happen, to the country to me, to my family, because many times the mother and the father are unemployed. at this moment, and depression. >> in this crowd many put
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the blame for greece as predicament on the prime minister. they say it is playing a dangerous game. that it is putting his party's interest above that of his country there are wildly different predictions on how greeks will vote, all we do know is that the divisioned in this society are growing deeper and deeper al jazeera athens. >> of course, greeks will decide in sunday's referendum whether to accept the terms of the current bail out but what is the feeling in the biggest economy germany? dominic cane went to find out, which is hope to the central bank. >> this is frank farred's at the heart of the business and banking district, in this part of the city, people are used to making big financial decisions that have a profound importance, if greece is the fall out of the euro zone, it could cost the tax pay ear great deal of money, so as the people
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contemplate the choices we wanted to get a flavor of how much they were prepared to pay the german solidarity with greece. you feel completely fooled because i am not getting the position that greece is compromising, this is why i see only one option, exit. >> i think it would be okay to spend more money on greece, because you need to enforce the solidarity, it would be better for the team spirit, but you show the people it is important to us the we want to fight for it. >> how much will it cost the german taxpayer. angel merkel says she wants to show solidarity, but the greek government must fulfill the promises it made. the decision that greek voters will make on sunday, will have profound importance there, but it will also reverberate through the euro zone and here in frankford. >> that's an athens bayed
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think tank, and as you can see he joins us now live, thank you for being with us on the program. do they really believe that his last minute proposal is going to be accepted? what is he trying to achieve do you think. >> well another stage by the euro zone, and greece. the president of the commission delivered a speech yesterday, and earlier this evening trying to convince the government to come back on the negotiation table, the greek side responded positively, and they dispatched a complete list of proposals involves a new bail out plan, around 30 billion euros. and some specific proposals on the new growth model as we saw earlier we didn't have any agreement, and we
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have a new europe group teleconference tomorrow. so we with have another deadlock. >> it must be incredibly confusing for the ordinary greek people, because they are being asked to vote in a referendum on sunday on the previous proposal, and now their prime minister has another plan that they won't be voting on. >> that's why i said before it is another stage of parody. they are not willing to come to rah compromise, the euro zone does not come close to the greek propose sames and the other side the government, is now -- it has to follow the procedures of referendum, without any plan ahead so what i predict is no matter what is the jut come of tomorrow's euro group, we will have next sunday the referendum, and
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how the times might come next week for drees. >> it does sound as well like some of the creditors and some leaders actually won't want to discuss anything much in detail anyway until that referendum is held, until they know what the greek people are prepared to vote for. >> can you please repeat. >> i was saying i don't know if you agree with me, but it sounds like some of the creditors and the leaders in europe, don't really want to discuss anything more until the referendum has been held, until the greek people have had their say, do you agree with that. >> exactly. this is the immaterial imagine i received from the members of the government and the ministers. they don't have any interest in assisting greece in getting out of these huge and
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devastating prices. i think the best option for both, is to calm down, leave some space for both sides to think of what they may negotiate in a couple of weeks and just try to respect the verdict of the greece people, already been made clear, in last elections in january. and also with the coming referendum. >> great to get your thoughts joining us live, thank you. >> am ida suspects are among 1200 suspects that have escaped from jail in yemen. allowing them to escape. with more on this, we can speak now editor of the yemen post, he joins us live on the phone line right now and
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tell us more of what you know about these prisoners escaping? can you hear me, it is felicity in the studio in london. >> yes, i can hear you. >> okay, having a few problems with our phone line, can you give us the latest on these prisoner whose have managed to escape. >> yes right now they did escape the prison, right now and there is a lot of fighting between the fighters inside the province. noll al quaida fighters but fighters who were against the houthis yes there were dozens of fighters that did escape on the active side of the
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houthis. now, this is really critical, because as well as i mentioned, there was a group of fighters that did escape, and they are -- and now they are fighting in the lines against them and other areas. it is not the first time a prison escape has happened. this is the 7th major prison escape. and this is a critical because it was the use of force -- >> we appreciate your time, we apologize for the quality of the phone line, of course many other prisoners have escaped during the troubles in yemen. >> at least three people have died in a car bomb attack, the explosion happened near a police station in the suburb called the 6th of october city. forces told us that two more explosions were heard in that
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area the president is promising tougher laws after the chief prostitutor was killed he made the announcement after he was killed by a car bomb on monday. he also announced that the square in cairo will be renamed in honor of him. at least 700 were killed by the military in that square, after the coupe in 2013. >> the hands of justice are chained by laws we will not wait, we will change laws in order to allow us to implement law and justice as soon as possible. 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.
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>> a military aircraft has crashed shortly after take off on the end do nearby sha island. killing all 113 onboard. at least three others died when the jet hit the ground in the city. the military is grounding all of it's herck cue lebanese planes until it finds out what caused the crash. it is a grim tank, finding the dead among these pieces. it was carries soldiers and their families in what should have been a routine trip. it had been in the air for a few minutes before it crashed. >> it was about 12:00 p.m., the flight appeared to have lost it's power and started to descend when it hit the area, i was at home at that time. and saw the shaky flight crashed. >> we are told that shortly after take off the pilot radioed in saying there was an issue with the plane and asking permission to return,
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but they never made it. a large crowd gathered to watch the recovery operation it is indonesian's third largest city, the plane crash otherwise the death toll would have been higher. by sunset on tuesday the air force announced it will no longer fly the until they know why this happens. the military has now opened an investigation to try to figure out what exactly went wrong, it is not the first time that a military aircraft crashes into a civilian area here, in end do nearby sha and already prompted calls from some, question willing the military is operating planes that are too old but there is no anies a to why this happened the investigation could take a couple of months al jazeera stilt ahead world powers give themselves another week to reach an agreement with iran over it's nuclear program and the tragic story
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hello again, a reminder of the top stories here. the greece to pay back 1.6 billion euros athens ha requested a new bail out from the euro zone. in a last ditch effort to avoided the payment. after the assassination of egypt's prosecutor general president aceci has promised to change the law to accelerate trials for both suspected of terrorism.
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and a plane carrying military personnel and their families have crashed in residential neighborhoods in the city of medan killing off 113 people onboard. six major world powers and iran have agreed to extend talks on teheran's nuclear program. to allow more time to reach an agreement. the announcement was made by the u.s. just hours before a self-employeed deadline. diplomatic editor reports now. >> after a day of consultations, the iranian foreign minister was back at the negotiating table with his u.s. opposite number. afterwards only a brief comment i am here to get a deal, and i think we can. however, earlier when he spoke to journalists he made it clear that it was still more work to be done. we with can make progress,
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but this will require political will and a lot of work needs to be done. >> also the russian foreign minister having also met him he compared notes with secretary of state terry. when he spoke to reporters he gave what was probably the most positive assessment from abe of the key players during these lengthy negotiations. we have all the grounds to suggest that the result is within reach. and we gave an instruction to our cheeks deputies and political directors to do everything, so that in the coming days disagreement would be reached. >> everyone says progress is being made but this is supposed to be the final deal, and that's why the international negotiators the so called p five plus one, have now extended take deal which was due to run out on the 30th of june.
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james because, al jazeera. vienna. >> syrian government shelling has reportedly killed at least 35 people across the country, 23 died in a popular market, in the north another ten were killed at another market near damascus. meanwhile opposition forces set off explosives in the city. near the border joe dan killing at least 15 government troops. fighting has broken out. two channel fighters across from turkey, forces recaptures from isil two weeks ago, but more fighting has just erupted. it's understood five people have been injured in the violence. kurdish forces dominate about 400-kilometers of border area in northern syria. and have made gains against isil in recent weeks. a security official says the man who gunned down 38
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tourist an a beach resort trained with one of the gunman who attacked the museum in the capitol in march. authorities have promised to crack down on organizations they accuse of promoting extremism. following the attack, reports. >> tunisia is in the spotlight. the party is one of the organizations that the government accuses of promoting violence. they say the government is promoting the attack, to sideline conservatives. the president should take on those that kilter errorists. exactly the same way he is predecessor repressed his opponents. >> this is a gathering which was banned for decades. the party is an offshoot of an islamic movement, that called for the
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re-establishment of the rule of islamic law. it says capitalism is a threat to islam. we have a government that has failed at all levels that's why we say the only solution, should be through embracing islam. the leaders insist she determined to change the political reality. but despite all the challenges they face, their movement is gaining momentum. >> the government seems determined to fight what is caused extremism, and crack down on religious organizations it accuses of spreading violence ideologies a fight officials say they can only win if they have enough support and backing from tun nearbyians. >> by many people, are
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concerned. they say mosques like this one, one of the oldest could pay a crucial role in promoting tolerance, it is one of the most renowned religious centers in the muslim world. this has been one of the greatest places promoting the true message of islam. >> thousands of young tun nearbyians have joined join al quaida and isil. and there are hundreds more fighting against the government here. these are delicate times for a country that launched the offspring four years ago. al jazeera. >> the united nations has accused south sudan's army of committing gang rape murder, and torture against civilians. it's mission in south sudan has release add report based on information from more than 100 victims and witnesses.
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caroline reports. >> they have had to escape between violence between rebels and government forces. but the u.n. says is significant numbers witness attacks that amount to severe abuses by the army. the mission has release add report based on interviews with 115 people, mainly women, from five villages across the state. it says at least 79 women with and girls were subject to sexual violence, including gang rape by members of the army. at least 67 civilians were with killed in recent attacks. the u.n. recorded at least nine separate incidents of women and girls who were with burned in their hearts after being gang raped. 172 women with and girls have been abducted and another 40 people are missing mainly boys thought to have been recruited to fight. it's the late nest the series of reports. where rebels have been fighting the military since
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2013. unicef has reported on specific abuses against children, the african union has called for sanctions and an armed embargo. and the mission in the country has called for full access where the abuse has happened. the government has denied previous allegations it will investigate the report and prosecute suspects. >> the report also says -- and this this new round of attacks has a disregard for basic human rights. caroline malone, al jazeera. >> people are waiting for the results of monday's parliamentary election, the vote was boycotted by the opposition and marred by violence hours before the polls opened.
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one father, who lost his only child. >> he was killed by a stray bullet hours before voting in parliamentary elections began. she was nearly four, her father tried but couldn't save her. >> i had gunfire i rushed out to defend my daughter, i was carrying her back to the house, she was hit by a bullet, i have lost my first born. >> people are waiting for results of monday's parliamentary election, the commission says there was a massive turn out the nearly 4 million registers voters even though most boycotted the polls. many here worry about the future. >> a lot of people say they want the crisis to end they hope there will be no more violence, as the country prepares for the presidential election in a few weeks. after more than two months of protests against the
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president's bid for an unconstitutional third term, the international community withdrew much needed aid the economic lifeline. it is currency, has lost 25% of it's value. it is becoming more difficult to do business here it becomes impossible to rotate your goods and make sure you always have stock, it is hard fortous get dollars from the banks. and bankers have the same problems that foreign currentsies are hard to get. >> the united nations says nearly 10,000 people fled the country, during the weekend ahead of monday's parliamentary election. activists say more than 70,000 people have died. all they can do is bury their loved ones and try to move on. al jazeera. >> now time will stand still later as midnight is delayed
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by just a single second. the leap second is will be added. but it could provide some disruption from the home of time. >> time, often losing it, running out of it, but thousand we are gaining some. at midnight on tuesday clocks around the world will have an extra second added a leap second, to keep us in sync with the arth east own sense of time. time used to be measured be i the earth's rotation, then aatomic clocks were invented they use the vibrations and a. toes to measure time with super accuracy, aatomic time is constant but the earth's rotation is gradually slowing down there are consequences of tinkering with time, many computer systems are
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programmed to deal with extra second, and the asia pacific the time jump occurred during the working day and could effect transaction delays in their financial markets. satellites and g.p.s. systems also struggle to cope with the adjustment. at the royal observatory the home of time keeping astronomer says precision time is key to society. >> it is so important to any sittization, if you look back to the greeks, the babb loanians measuring time was very important for running an urban civilization. and it still is today even more so, so that's why this is an issue and why we need to know how we are keeping track of time. >> most years the earth runs on time, and no adjustment is needed. the leap seconds should be stopped. >> ale popular markettishing them would have no immediate effect we would hardly notice it but over many millennia they may say it is day when
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