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>> despite seeking a last seeking a last-minute deal, the greece deadline has just expired. again i'm felicity barr. egypt's president vows to free the judicial panel to bring justice to the chief prosecutors prosecutors' killing. and an indonesian military plane crash noose a residential village killing all 113 people on board.
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>> i'm adam haney on the hagin border to the dominican republic. there are thousands of depour tees coming back to haiti but does the country have anywhere to house them? >> hello, the official deadline for the greek government to pay back $1.6 billion euros to the international monetary fund has come to past. the greek government has asked the bail out for an improved bail out deal. they were urged to find a solution that keeps the country in the eurozone. barnaby phillips. >> they fear their country could
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slide out of the eurozone. he they call themselves the pro euro group and the most important player in europe the germany chancellor is giving nothing away. >> it's clear that we'll not close the channels of communication after midnight tonight. otherwise we would not be the european union. that means that the door remains open to talks but i cannot say any more than this. >> whatever the outcome many in athens see no good options ahead. a typical 29-year-old greek unemployed, lives with his parents. and dismayed by growing divisions in society. >> i've seen a lot of people fighting over should we vote yes? should we vote no. otherwise it's a deal with the creditors. i don't feel optimistic about it at all because if people don't turn against each other they're
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not--they're not going to get out of this. >> in this oh office, a psychologist counsels the long-term unemployed. a joint government eu project she has had 100 new clients this month alone. >> we've seen a lot of anger. why? why, there is a big why. why does this happen to the country, to me, to my family because many times the mother and the father are unemployed at the moment. and depression. >> in this crowd many put the blame for greece's predicament on the prime minister alexis tsipras. they say he's playing a dangerous game and he's putting his party's interest above the country. >> all we know is that the divisions in this society are growing deeper and deeper.
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barnaby phillips, al jazeera, athens. >> let's take you live to athens and to john stouropulos. >> there the proposal is now going to be delayed. >> well, earlier this evening the prime minister went on television and said that the we have achieved surgeon goals. he has now come out and openly admitted that the referendum was not an end of itself. it was another form of pressure in the negotiation process. which we got a hint of earlier in the week when finance minister proposed to creditors
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that if they came up with a slightly more favorable plan, then the government's advice could be become more favorable and switch to a vote of yes. this, of this, the government is trying to say this is only part of the negotiating process. the trouble is that, well, two things. one, the greek economy is deteriorateing. two, the greeks are now graduating from financial assistance program that creditors have unanimously voted not to extend. that's partly due to the fact that the negotiating team walked out of talks on saturday in brussels without warning their inter lock could you fors, without saying could we have another group on sunday.
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now you have poor sentiment and break down in relations. more now than ever the greeks are on their own. as much as they try to portray this is another step in a broader negotiating strategy, i think it can no longer disguise that that strategy is falling apart around it. >> john psaropoulos reporting live from athens. thanks, john. >> there have been protests criesprotest across egypt. the rallies were held on the second anniversary of the join 30th anniversary that led to a coup against morsi. they're demanding the return to democracy and the reinstatement of the former egyptian president who has since been sentenced to
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death. well the president promising tougher laws after the country's chief prosecutor was killed. they made the announcement at the funeral who was killed by a car bomb on monday. president el-sisi has said that trials of those suspected of terrorism will be sped up. at least half of the muslim brotherhood supporters were killed by the military who were in that square in the coup of 2013. >> the hands of justice are chained bylaws. we will not wait. we'll change laws 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 in courts to deal with it and try the killers.
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they make orders from behind bars. their orders get implemented immediately, but we wait to implement the law. >> well, amnesty international has accused egypt's government of crushing an entire generations hope of a brighter future. the human rights organization said that egypt is arresting thousands of people. activists say there has been a sharp rise in the number of people going missing. >> this was before the 2011 revolution. during the protest she was hit by a bullet and became paralyzed but she kept on with her studies and stayed vocal against the egypt government. it's been a month now and the 23-year-old activist has not come home. >> on june 1st she hung out with her friends. she left around 5:30 p.m. and her friends were in touch with her until 9:00 p.m. but she did not come home. >> what kind of hearts do these people have? do they not have children?
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she's only 23 years old. she's still a kid. i want them to tell me the wear abouts of my daughter and what did she do? >> she's among the 163 young people reported missing in egypt. some are liberals. some are anti-coup activists. amnesty international released a report that it calls generation jailed. it says 41,000 people have been detained and are facing chill charge since the deposing of president morsi in 2013. egyptian authorities say that the crackdown is meant to restore stability and security, but and promises to support justice has been subdued by lou contra-if i have trades and arm deals. >> ignoring gross humanitarian
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rights like torture and forced disappearances. >> some missing students have been found but not alive. this woman has seen her son's body. she said it's broken in many places. human rights activists say that the engineering student was kidnapped in front of his class. there were security cameras at the university at the time and want to know why they can't be used to find her son's killers. victims of forced disappearance do not end up in prison. we have stories of people who have disappeared and turned up dead. some were killed by the result of torture by the interior ministry. it's been two years since tens of thousands of people marched in the streets against the electcally democracically elected government.
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since then many have gone missing. >> the obama administration has announced it reached an agreement with cuba to reopen its embassies and restore diplomatic relations. president obama and john kerry are expected to announce more details on wednesday. well let's get more details from tom ackerman in washington. when these embassies are reopened, what does that mean in practical terms? >> well, first of all after the flag raising and the formalities of that and the raising of the status of the interest sections in both countries switzerland actually handles the diplomatic relations and has for several decades, actually, then the question here would be first of all, what kind of free travel would american diplomats have throughout the island, and how many more diplomats might be assigned to cuba.
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that was one condition that in these negotiations that proceeded the announcement pending on wednesday. and secondly, whether there would be guarantees that those who want access to the embassy will not be intimidated prevented, controlled by cuban security forces in the perimeter and around them. so those were two conditions that the americans had insisted on and presumably those conditions have been met. at the same time the cubans got a lifting of the terrorist designation that the state department had given to cuba. the cuba government for many years. and also, there was the cubans did release 53 political prisoners, another condition in a the americans had insisted on, and presumably there will be further loosening of those restrictions on political prisoners in cuba.
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>> and tom what will re still remains before these two nations are fully formalized. >> well, they were hopeful that the atmosphere as regards human rights would improve. at the same time, there are voices in congress, in particular republican who is are running for the presidential nomination who are insisting that there will be no appropriations provided or they would block appropriations for the expansion of the diplomatic mission to embassy status until for example, the cubans, there is a guarantee that the cuban government, the cuban military and the cuban insteerier ministry that controls the security police that no american
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money would or appropriations would find their way into their hands. so that is one condition we'll see to what extent congress will put further limitations on the circumstances under which that embassy will operate. and finally the americans will want to see some kind of process on several people that they classify as fugitives people who were on the run from american law who found asylum in cuba. one of them is an aconvicted murderer who killed a policeman in the state of new jersey several years ago. whether that in fact, will happen that's another question and we still don't know to what extent the cubans are willing to relent in that regard. >> all right tom in washington. thank you. and still to come this half hour. >> mostly in calais where the thousands of migrants and refugees are being fed in emergency rations by french chairs.
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athens. and the u.s. has said it reached an agreement with cuba to reopen its embassy. a plane crashed in indonesia killing 113 on board. three others died when the jet hit the ground. stephanie dekker reports. >> it's a grim task. finding the dead among the pieces of this shattered hercules c 130 aircraft. the plane was carrying soldiers and their families in what should have been a routine trip.
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it was in the air just a few minutes before the crash. >> it was about 12:00 p.m. flight appeared to have lost its power and started to descend when it hit the residential area. i was at home at the time and so the flight crashed. >> we're told shortly after take off the pilot radioed in stating there was an issue with the plane and asking permission to return to the airport. but they never made it. a large crowd gathered to watch the recovery operation. medan is indonesia's third largest city. the plane crashed on empty buildings, otherwise the death toll would have been higher. by sunset on tuesday the airport announced it would no longer fly the hercules c 130 until they know why this crash happened. it's not the first time that a military airport crashes into a civilian area here in indonesia and it's already prompted calls
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from applications questioning whether the military is operating planes that are too old. but there are no answers yet why this accident happened. the investigation could take a couple of months. stephanie dekker. al jazeera. >> the eyethe tests carried out on a 17-year-old boy showed positive results for ebola. you haitian officials have warned that dominican republic will force thousands back over the border. sparking a humanitarian crisis. and the poorest nation in the americas is struggling to cope. >> on haiti's northern border,
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people are crossing back. some deported. some heading to haiti. >> the dominicans force to you leave even when you show them your legal papers. >> this is what is wait forgive many of them. an uncertain life and no guarantee of a place to live. more than that, many live in poverty and have no access to basic services. living in a shanty town that grew in the wake of the 2010 earthquake. she wonders where all those leaving the dominican republic will live. >> thethe deportaes will complicate things even more. >> haiti's prime minister is warning that the deportations could create a humanitarian
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crisis. we're here at haiti main border crossing where they say they're going to build a reception center. but other than temporary housing there are few jobs and where tens of thousands of people still live in tent cities. those returning either left haiti for a better life in the richer dominican republic, or their parents or grandparents did by every economic measure life is much better in the dominican republic than haiti. the average income in the dominican republic is seven times that of haitis. haitian ministers in direct contact with the dominican government said they're not getting what they need. >> proper information such as how many people will actually be deported. when exactly they will deport them and on our side we want to receive them on two borders so we can mobilize our efforts in these two places. >> meanwhile, more and more people are coming. coming to a country that is
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struggling to feed and house the people already here. adam raney al jazeera, on the dominican-haitian border. >> protesting ferry workers have forced the closure of the tunnel that links france and england. they're been blocking the tunnel entrance and setting fire to tires on the real way tracks. it's the second time they've forced the closing of the tunnel in a week. well, a coalition of french charities have for the first time been supplying medical aid on french soil. they handed out parcels for thousands of migrants in the port of calais. the charities there say they have been left with no choice but to help because of what they say is an incompetent response by both britain and france. we went to meet some of the migrants receiving the food aid.
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>> what do you say about this, this site of lines of men and women from countries like eretriea and sudan. being given food parcels not in africa but in calais. inside some fruit business cuts and milk. this ethiopian is going to make it last. >> four days. >> four days or five days. >> this was courtesy of the catholic charity islamic relief and solidarity international. more used to emergency work in africa this is the first time, the first day they've ever had to do this in france. >> this is the first time in 35 years of existence that solidarity international that we're working on french territory.
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>> of course much of this would be unnecessary if the u.k. would allow people to seek asylum. that's the reason why they're stuck in calais after all. but there is no chance for that. people are suffering in other parts of the world then the french and british government might express concern and offer money to help them. but not here. not in calais. the reason why charities are having to do all of this for these people is because neither the french nor the british government wants to lift a finger. men many of the men here have foot injuries from jumping on to lorries that they try to stowaway inside. this man is at risk of losing his foot due to conditions in the camp. >> gangrene. >> without treatment he'll get gangrene. >> there is something almost religious. some are willing to give to the
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possessed. the injured man did not want to now his thoughts on his face but to listen to his thoughts. >> human rights. either you're black white asian whatever, you're human. but we're not equal here. >> we need to implement with the migrants in terms of food, in terms of medical, in fell competent and. >> at least to keep watch on all this while around the camp the diggers build more and bigger fences to keep migrants in. they need to be resilient to cope without sense in no man's lands. many on both sides will say their bandaged feet and full
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stuck stomachs will help them to continue on. >> two ebbsties will face trial in france at the end of september. it's part of the crackdown on the taxi services. the government accuses uber of not paying the same taxes as other taxi companies. >> and travelers within the european union had be using their phone with neutrality in law for the first time. which means that some internet providers cannot favor internet traffic over others. an hour and a half as
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midnight gmt is delayed by a second. a second will be added to compensate the speed of the earth's re. >> time, we're often losing it, running out of t but now we're actually gaining some. for midnight on tuesday into wednesday clocks around the world will have an extra second added to keep us in sink with the earth's own season of time. one complete turn taking 24 hours. and enatommic clocks were adds measuring the vibrations for super treatcy. the two move out of sync by a fraction every day is we have to leap back every now and again. but there are consequences of
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tinker with time. many compute systems are no the built to deal with deal with time. at the observatory in greenwich the home of time keeping precision time is key to society. >> if you look back to the greeks, the egyptians babylonians time is essential to running a civilization and today even more so. that's why this is an issue. that's why we need to know how we're keeping track of time. >> most years the earth is running bang on time and no adjustment is need: now they'll vote whether in this digital age that should stop. we would hardly notice it.
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but over many millennia clocks may say day when it's dark outside. al jazeera london. >> to check out the latest on our website www.aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com. this week on talk to al jazeera, explorer and environ mentalist jean michel cousteau. >> we're the only species on the planet the only species on the planet that has the privilege not to disappear... it's our choice. >> he spent more time under water than any living person. as the son of the legendary jacques cousteau he was drawn to the ocean at tan early age. >> i would take my bag and i would go to the coastline, almost everyday, on my way to school.
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