>> find out how experts are fighting back. with just days to go above greece's ref rep dumb the i.m.f. says the country needs another 52 billion euros to stay afloat. ♪ ♪ hello once again a warm welcome to al jazerra. also on this program. the search for survivors of a ferry sinking in the philippines at least 38 people are dead. 15 are still missing. the u.n. says free and fair elections in burundi are not

possible amid a backdrop of continuing political violence. and we report on the young victims of china's mass migration from the countryside to the city. ♪ ♪ the i.m.f. has issued a strong message to european leaders in brussels that says any new bailout must agree to large scale debt relieve and relief. in athens they used pepper spray to disburse thousands of people. thousands of people have taken parts in rallies on both sides of the referendum. the greek prime minister alexis sip respite is optimistic that he will get a new deal from brussels. >> if the yes vote wins the banks will open with a deal which will not be viable.

but if that is the decision of the greek people either from fear or pressure or choice, we will respect it. if the no vote wins and the no is stronger, i assure you the very next day i will be in buts examples a deal will be signed. >> the i.m.f.'s call for extra money to be found for greece comes after the introduction of capital controls, those are strict rules which limit the amount that people can withdraw from cash machines. jonah hull reports now from athens. >> reporter: gas thing for air. greece is being strangled by a stands off with international lenders that has forced the banks to close leaving people struggling to meet their daily needs. in this economy no one is giving credit, cash is king. and it's never been so scarce. there are lots of people here, the fish seller explains, but few are buying. they can't afford too. >> translator: what do they want? why have they closed the banks? the banks shouldn't have closed because we are in europe. europe is one and without greece

there is no europe. >> reporter: day by day the news isn't good. from bad to worse to truly terrifying. the headline here they are talking about the possibility of depositor haircuts, losing between 27 to 50% of the money you hold in a bank, in a if i finishing economy even the newspaper is getting smaller. there is an apology on the editorial page here but they are running out of paper to print it on. could this be the answer to greece's problems? it's the country's first bitcoin machine. with some 150 new registration each day this week, the virtual currency is being seen by some as a safe half phone their money, without of the banks and beyond the reach of the country's creditors. >> translator: it's something very new in greece. but i believe that because it exists and transactions are made all around the world that's something stable and i believe it may catch on here.

>> reporter: there may be less paper for newspapers, but there is paper enough for posters ahead of this weekend's referendum. no to more austerity. yes to a future free of bank queues inside the european union. the choice seems clear but the politics are not. at a bus stop there are angry words. the politicians are all corrupt says this man. fascist shouts another. >> translator: i am desperate. i have had enough. they are all dirty, all of them. >> reporter: particular anger is aimed at the politicians of the euro zone, the architects of austerity. he's drunk your blood for five years says this poster, the message on sunday for germany's finance minister could well be no more. jonah hull, al jazerra athens. some of libya's warring parties say they have agreed to form a national unity government in u.n.-backed talks in morocco. the parties who sign the deal are calling on the tripoli-based government which is backed by

the powerful libya dawn militia to sign up as well. libya have twhoos competing governments and the u.n. has been trying to bring them together to agree on a power-sharing deal. the saudi-led coalition has launched more air strikes on the yemeni capital just hours after the u.s. called for a humanitarian pause in the fighting. saudi air force jets pounded sanaa in the early morning hours of friday morning. the u.n. says 21 million people in yemen are in urgent need of aid as a result of the conflict. in syria you can an alliance of rebel groups is reported to have started a major assault? the city of aleppo. rebels fired hundreds of rockets and miss ills in to government-held areas. according to activists. a statement by the rebel group say the goal was to liberate the city to insure it's ruled by sharia principles. syria's antiquities director says isil has destroyed the famous statute of the lion outside the museum in the city

of pal my ralph the group has published photograph that his it says show the destruction of other artifacts from palmyra. the u.n. cultural agency unesco says isil is looting ape spent sites across iraq and syria on an industrial scale and selling the treasurers to middle men to raise cash. rescue teams in the philippines are working to find survivors of a capsized ferry. at least 38 people have died. another 15 are still missile. ferry capsizes as it was leaving the port. gerald tan has the latest. >> reporter: 187 people were on board the ferry when it capsized. survivors say it happened suddenly. minutes after undocking. >> translator: i was with my motherly and her brother upstairs when it sank, i do not know what happened below the deck little. >> reporter: many of the passengers were rears cued bite

coast guard and local fishing boats. others managed to swim to safety. the victims were rushed to hospital as some people anxiously awaited news of the missing. >> translator: wei where is my mother? where is my mother gloria? i hope she didn't drowned. i haven't seen her yet. >> reporter: did he lab date ed in appearance continued to sink lou the day just meters away from the port of the city. it's unclear what caused the 33-ton ferry to flip. the coast guard said there was light rain and the waves were strong but not dangerous. the ferry's captain is now in custody for questioning. >> we are looking as possible human area from the captain of the vessel. the captain of the boat. but as of this time, we cannot give any conclusion as to what

transpired. >> reporter: dozens of people die in ferry accidents across the philippines each year. frequent storms, overcrowding and poorly maintained vessels are often blamed. gerald tan, al jazerra. there have been two separate explosions in the columbian cappal bogota. the first one went off in the city's banking district and the second in an industrial zone. at least eight people were injured, it's not clear who is behind the attacks. oil company b.p. has agreed to pay a fine of $8.7 billion over a massive soil spill in mexico when the deep horizon rig ploaxded millions of barrels of waterwithout oil leak ed in to the water. >> reporter: in april 2010, the deep water horizon rig explodes

in the gulf of mexico killing 11 workers. in the 87 days that followed, oil spewed in to the waters of the gulf prompting president obama to call it the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history a long the coasts of five states, livelihoods were ruined. beaches polluted and wildlife killed. in a complex case, a judge found that bp was negligence in the handling of the well. they have agreed to pay a fine of $18 billion. the largest payment by a single company in u.s. history. >> instead of battling through a litigation black hole, we have now forged ahead with an agreement to spur hope and spur recovery for our entire gulf region. it's not just a solution but a remarkable achievement. the. >> reporter: the money will be divided among the states of texas, alabama mississippi

florida and the worst affected, louisiana. environmentalists say it sends a strong message and will enable the states to begin important respiration work. >> if the money starts coming out that we can use to restore our coast that is less damage that we have to repair in the future. so money now is worth more than money in 10 years after a big long legal battle. >> reporter: the money will be paid out over a number of years to all five states, including here in florida. and it end b.p.'s case with the u.s. government. company says its costs associated with the spill have now exceeded $40 billion. but shares in b.p. were up when news of his settlement was made public. scientists are stilt unsure about the long-term effects of such a massive oil spill it. may not be known for years but it's hoped that b.p.'s money will help communities bounce back andy gallagher, al jazerra, florida. you were observers have decide third degree week's

election in burundi was not free or credible. results are still coming in from monday's parliamentary poll which the opposition boycotted. government opponents say police are now raiding the homes the off since supporters, warning the report contains some disturbing images. >> reporter: family members say police came looking for an opposition activist who leaves here, police a suspects started shooting a them so they fired back in the self-defense, in the chaos other people were killed and the police say the suspect got way. witnessed don't want to be seen talking to journal assists. they say the police are lying. >> translator: the police were firing from outside the gate. one of them jumped over the gate and opened it for the others to get in. then they started firing at everyone. >> translator: there has been so much death and misery since president pierre announced he is running for an unconstitutional third term more than two months

ago. >> reporter: you can see the bullet holes we are told when the shooting started a man and two children ran inside. and they closed the door. grenades were thrown inside and they exploded. everyone was killed. u.n. human rights officials have promised to investigate what happened here. the police say some of the more militant opposition supporters are being armed. >> translator: we have people who have weaponed that have been smuggled in the country. so far we have collected eight. [ inaudible ] 302 bullets and 15 15 15 grenades meant for attack. >> reporter: opposition leaders deny this. protests against the president have largely died down because of a heavy security crack down, but the number being killed keeps rising. human rights workers fear if reports of the opposition arming themselves are true, burundi could be entering a grim phase of the crisis. there is lots more to come here on al jazerra.

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meanwhile greek police have used person spray to disperse protesters outside an e.u. building in athens. in syria a make on assault on the city of a help open. rebels fired hundreds of rockets. rescue teams in the philippines are continues to search for survivors of a capsized ferry the at least 38 died. the ferry carrying 189 people when it over turned. in china a suicide pact by four siblings last month has raised concerns about child welfare. authorities say their parents abandoned them to find work else where. a mass migration of people from the countryside to the cities in china has seen an estimated 60 million children left behind by their parents that's about 22% of china's children.

most are part of the estimated three to 4 million children under six years old living in extreme poverty. an estimated 12.7 million have stunted growth. in some rural areas, more than half of children tested were found to have suffered from anemia or lack of iron. our china correspondent adrian brown reports. >> reporter: it's a landscape that offers some of the most beautiful scenery in china. but also a region now synonymous with tragedy and poverty. this is the house where police say four young children, three sisters and a brother committed suicide last month after being abandoned by their parents both my didn'tmigrant workers. they swallowed pesticide the youngest was five. the death has highlighted the plight of china's so-called left behind children. >> translator: those four children, what they ate was worse than the food you give to

pigs. raw corn, every day. no one took care of them. >> reporter: she is vague about why no one here seems to have raised the alarm sooner. this case is about more than just poverty. it also concerns the issue you of child welfare in china. and raises a number of troubling questions. how is it possible for four children to live in this house for so long without anyone? a nape, nape, a teacher at the local school. the police, local government officials not relies what was going on. one of the reasons, there is simply nothing unusual about children living apart from their parents in today's china. her two grandchildren live with her because her son works hundreds of kilometer as way. she says their mother left five years ago to escape the pop at thispovertyall around them. >> she went back to her hometown. she thought life was too hard

and poor here, she doesn't wants to come back. >> reporter: poverty is a sensitive issue in china. which is why local government officials were soon onto us. following our every movement. they were worried because the president had been in this same province a few days earlier. telling people that poverty was nothing to fear. we were, though, allowed to visit the village school. out of it's 93 students, we were told around 20 live with their relatives, grandparents mostly. strict rules to control the flow of people mean they only see their parents once a year. before we talk to the teacher our minder spoke to her. >> translator: it is not a big problem because most of the children can talk to their parents by phone once a day. in the worst case, it's once a week. >> reporter: a poster with an urgent message buildup

confidence to battle poverty. in the city here they are constructing new factories and offices, that in theory could one day provide jobs that could help keep local families together. the deaths of four children last month is a reminder of why such an investment can't come soon enough. adrian brown, al jazerra in southwest china. the renewal of diplomatic ties between the expos cuba this week followed two years of secret negotiations hinging part low a prisoner swap. one of them was cubans who was serving two life terms in an american prison. our latin america editor lucia newman has his story. >> reporter: the man you see arriving in havana seems an unlikely central character in a drama that changed diplomatic history. cuban intelligence officer her jarred o'hearn dez had been

sentenced by a miami court to two life terms. the last things he expected was to suddenly arrive home if a hero's welcome. >> i learn about it in december 16th, the day before. >> reporter: hernandez had spent the last 16 years in u.s. maximum security prisons. a cuban spy implicated in the killings of four american pilots shot down by cuban fighter jets. his wife, adriana had repeatedly been denied a visa to travel to california to visit him in prison. so cubans were dumb founded when they saw that she was nine months progress that wants when her husband arrived. >> translator: tid frozen my eggs anticipate that go when the time came, it might be too late. >> reporter: the name means jewel, was born shortly after her father's return to cuba six months ago. what no one knew was that she was conceived as a diplomatic gesture of goodwill.

the u.s. government had allowed mrs. hernandez to undergo fertilization treatment in panama with her husband's sperm flown in from prison in california. a small part of top secret negotiations lead to go a startling announcement. >> i have instructed secretary kerry to immediately begin discussions with cuba to reestablish diplomatic relations that have been severed since january of 1961. >> reporter: two years earlier both governments had begun exploratory talks, but cuba demands the release of its agents as a condition for moving forward. the freedom of the cuban intelligence officers, and an american contractor immaterial prisessimprisonedin cuba, alan gross had suddenly become key to ending decades of hostilities between nations . >> for us it was such big news personally that we, not even realized the consequence that it might have. >> reporter: hernandez's release has outraged many in florida's exiled community. but at home, he's being treated

as a hero. still love local to his got even after spending 16 years in prison. >> i see myself trying to recover the time with my family. my little girl and my wife and the rest of my family. and i see myself serving my country. which is my only goal, my only dream. >> reporter: a country that is ending the half a century-old cold war with its northern neighbor, a landmark decision in which gerardo and adriana hernandez and their new baby inadvertently played a role. lucia newman, al jazerra havana. >> and i can watch lucia's full interview with gerardo hernandez on the next edition of talk to al jazerra that's on saturday at 0430 gmt. an eyewitness in north carolina has been recounting

what happened in the latest string of shark attacks off the state coastline. >> a 68-year-old man who was repeatedly bitten and he's still in hospital. there have been seven reported shark incidents in the u.s. state in the past three weeks. park service officials say a gray shark around two meters long pulled the man under water. >> it was about 1:00 and i saw a car speeding down the beach, an unmarked police car and i knew something bad had happened. so i walked down here and saw the blood and saw the guy laying down on a towel, you could see a pretty decent size, about baseball sized gash taken out of his knee. a tarp over him. e.m.s. around him. nepal is one of 20 countries with laws that discriminate against people with hleb is a although the disease is now curable, patients in nepal say they have to fight social stigma as well as these laws,.

>> reporter: at 73 finding a new life. she was diagnosed with leprosy when she was in her 20s. she was first thrown out of her husband's house then her parents, then her village. many call her the tiger lady. >> i lived in a tying opens den for a year and a half. there was nothingthere was nothing to eat. i survived on what the villagers gave me. there was no fire. they wouldn't gave me water. i kept surviving i just wouldn't die. >> reporter: this is the oldest center in nepal that helps those with leprosy. and houses 150 patients. it was built away from from the town and across the river. they all have stories of shame that they have had to endure. since leprosy was established 120 years ago leprosy is now

treatable the government proposes a bill that bars even recovered patients from marrying. just one doges one suppose dose controls the disease. fewer than one in 10,000 people being affected. some borders still vulnerable, health officials say more needs to be done to decrease social stigma. [ inaudible ] if there is a type you cannot marry leprosy affected person or something like that, then people they hide the disease. they don't like to come up. they don't like to show up with the disease. so they are a continued source in society to transfer the disease. >> reporter: okay at thisactivists has lobbied to change the disease. >> i until i visited the hospital i thought it was thans period by touch. and now i know it's notch the we

understand now that you can prevent transmission with medication and it's 100 percent curable. we were determined to lobby against this discriminatory division. >> reporter: for her marriage was in the cards at the leprosy center she found her husband after years of facing social rejection this couple has found a roof over their heads and a community to rely. al jazerra kathmandu. as europe basks in a heat wave thousands of people are taking to the great outdoors from the highland of scotland to the swiss alps hikers and mountaineer are enjoying the good weather. what's more a new gps system to soon open up those hills to the visually impaired. the smart phone app developed in france allows them to explore without the need to sighted guides, care mine malone has more. >> reporter: an innovative phone app is helping the visually impaired reich hikers hike ores their

own. they can walk up and downhills a new and exciting experience. >> i have never done anything like this. it's a completely different experience than just hill walking. and it's really a -- the sensations are amazing. >> reporter: five people tested out the app named after the french work for hiking. it's one of a number of phone apps on the market to help hikers follow trails or record routes. they use global positioning system or gps which bounces signals or satellites in space to navigate on earth. it's the same technology many drivers use in their cars to work out of the where they are going. but the it also uses something called an inertial navigation system often used on aircraft. it uses motion censors to his regularly recalculate position by considering things as air pressure which dictate. taking gravity in to account. all the while the phone is moving with the hiker walking along a trail in all different

directions. volunteers from the french hiking federation mapped obstacle on his this route beforehand. some of the blind walkers needed help from those who had partial sight. the technology is going some way to giving them all tonight autonomy. >> ultimately the goal is to decipher their environment with a cane and following the hiking trail as they would in an urban setting the app guides them in the right direction. >> reporter: it's already helped runners such as him he has achieved a world first last month on a 26-kilometer trail run alongside athletes who can see normally. researchers say the next step is to work out hugh to make the system work even without gps. and to help more blind or partially sighted people realize there is a whole new hiking world out there. caroline malone, al jazerra. a team flying a solar powered plane around the would has bring the record for the long effort nonstop solo flight.

the suggest lahr impulse passed the threshold of 76 hours while crashing the pacific it's due to lands in law had you this weekend it set off from abu dhabi back in march. don't forget you can always go to our website aljazerra.com. i'm david shuster, in for ali velshi "on target" tonight. >> the free world cannot allow iran to have a nuclear weapon. >> how much could faces trust the united states. >> this morning iran's president offered the same wild states. >> we seek a comprehensive diplomatic solution. >> this will not change iran for the better. >> one of the most difficult and long-lasted security problems we faced in a long time.