♪ the last day of campaigning for a greek bailout referendum with sharp divisions of a "yes" or "no" vote. ♪ welcome to al jazeera, i'm rochelle live from doha and also ahead a nigerian official says boko haram killed 97 people on wednesday. key heritage site in iraq are in danger with i.s.i.l. fighters gaining ground and long distance love how a mysterious pregnancy sparked a new era in u.s./cuban

relations. ♪ and it's the final day of campaigning in greece for groups support agree "yes" or "no" vote for a bailout referendum police used grenades to force people to use a building and the international monetary fund says in additional to a bailout they would be 50 billion euros over the next three years to stay afloat and he is optimistic he will get a deal from brussels. >> translator: if the yes vote wins the banks will open with a deal which will not be viable, but if that is a decision of the great people either from fear or from pressure or choice we will respect it. if the no vote wins and the no is stronger i assure you the very next day we will be in brussels and the deal will be signed. >> reporter: since monday greece closed banks and limited

the amount of money people can withdraw from cash machines and how this is effecting people in athens. >> gasping for air, greece is being strangled by international lenders that forced the banks to close with 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 because they can't afford to. >> translator: what do they want and why did they close the banks and the banks should not close and without greece there is no europe. >> reporter: terrifying and headline talking about losing 27-55% of the money you hold in the banks, in a diminishing dmi or country and the newspaper is getting smaller and an apology

on the editorial page they are running out of paper to print it on. could this be the answer to greece's problems and it's the first bitcoin machine with some 150 new registrations each day this week the virtual currency is seen by some as a safe haven of their money out of banks and out of reach of 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 it's 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, note austerity and yes to a free of bank hughs inside the european union and the choice is clear but politics are not and at a bus stop there

are angry words and it's corrupt and fashion shis shouts another. >> they are desperate and dirty all of them. >> reporter: particular it's aimed at politicians of the euro zone and architects of exteriorty and drank your blood for five years says the poster and for the finance minister could well be no more al jazeera, athens. tony nash is the chief economist of the consultant for complete intelligence and says the problem with a yes vote is it puts greece back to where they were before cyprus came into power. >> it's a vote for the state status quo which is what the greeks were against just months ago and so many of the polls are really too weird and too choppy to call so we are really going to have to wait until sunday to have a clear view of what is actually happening. the creditors are in a position where they knew at the time that

they were investing in risky assets and there has to be account accountability and had to go back and negotiate and the position stated is they won't do that but greece is a democracy, as far as i know all the countries in eu are democracys so honoring a democratic referendum has to be in the core values of the european union. nigerian government official says boko haram fighters killed 97 people while they were praying. several mosques were targeted wednesday night in the town and it came the day after the group attacked two villages and killed another 48 men and boys before burning both villages to the ground and we have more now from abuja. >> some members of the civil joint task force are ordinary nigerians who are supporting

military operations against boko haram and have told us that a contingent of soldiers left the city on friday morning to investigate exactly what happened late on wednesday night. now this follows allegations again by some members of the civilian joint task force there were soldiers just 11 kilometers away when the attack took place but didn't come to the rescue. we put that allegation to military authorities and awaiting a response so far no official reaction or confirmation from the security services or the emergency services as to the extent of the violence and the official death toll or the number of people that may have been injured. this will come as a blow to president and the new government who campaigned on getting rid of boko haram when they recently came to power. it also comes hot on the heels of much diplomatic effort by the

new president to try and workout a regular strategy to defeat the group and has been to chad and nigeria republic and the ds meeting in germany and south africa on the issue of boca and at the end of the month will go to the united states to meet the u.s. president barack obama and believed that security in boko haram in the region are be a topic for discussion. the sense here is that much of the diplomatic effort is not being felt on the ground in terms of real change and security for people and that clearly if the reports we are getting are accurate the killing still continues and boko haram for many is still a force to be reconed with. muslim brotherhood says forces killed another member and he was in charge of the brotherhood's development community and ran in parliamentary elections and disappeared more than two weeks ago and his family says they

found torture marks after the government handed over his body and follows the funeral of 13 muslims killed in a flat outside on wednesday and the government says the leaders fired shots and accusation the muslim brother brotherhood denies and two years since the former president mohamed morsi was removed in a military cue and ral died in alexandra and giza on friday night and antipro-government protests remain ban in egypt. u.n. envoy to yemen is still hopeful a ceasefire can be reached, comments says the united states called for a halt in fighting in the muslim rolly month of ramadan and launched air strikes on the capitol and pounded sanaa in the early

morning hours and 21 million people are in need of urgent need in yemen but supplies struggling to get through because of the stock aid and ongoing violence and we report. >> reporter: as adults run for their lives scattering from the fighters in an effort to survive a child lying in the street is carried away this is aiden now. one part junkyard one part graveyard, one of yemen's most beautiful cities is ravaged by war. its people in desperate need of help but the aid isn't getting in in. >> in addition to the insecuritys and constant fighting that is happening on the ground we attempted more than two or three times to send big ships carrying fuel and food to the ports of aiden but the security situation in the port

area itself have forced these ships to back off and return to international waters. >> reporter: while houthi fighters and supporters of abd rabbuh mansur hadi the supplies are in very short order. >> who is affecting who but there are sounds of bullets and fired shots and in the end the decision of the captain of the ship whether it is safe enough for this ship to dock. >> reporter: unicef the world food program, doctors without borders, the world health organization and many more all are calling for a ceasefire and demanding the creation of humanitarian corridor. >> we are on the ground to allow this aid to pass to the people of yemen, many of them are insecure and that means they are hungry. >> reporter: more than hungry,

yemen has one of the highest rates of malnutrition in the world. nearly one million children are severely malnourished the fighting has only made their hunger worse. in a country that depends on food imports and where water was running out even before the war the situation is beyond dire. last week the u.n. warned of a possible fanine in yemen and this week a level-three humanitarian emergency, the highest possible level. despite the pleas more and more lifelines dry up everyday and things seem to change only for the worse, al jazeera. the syrian army has carried out air strikes in launched raids following an assault with rebels in the northern city of aleppo and they fired hundreds of rockets at the government-held areas on friday but a spokesman said the attack has been repelled and want to

liberate the city by islamic law and controls west of the city and different rebel factions are present in the east. still to come on the program, bp appears to a record payout of more than $18 billion over the 2010 gulf of mexico oil spill. and we are in nepal where there are laws that discriminate against people with leprosy. ♪ best so i don't end up in a place like this again.

>> we've got the final agreement within our sites. >> many who think that the united states should not be sitting down with iran at all. >> there is possibilities of a conflict all around the region. ♪ welcome back, here are the top stories on al jazeera, the final

day of campaigning in greece for supporters of either a "yes" or "no" vote in sunday's bailout referendum international monetary fun says greece needs 50 billion euros over the next three years in addition to any new bailout. official says boko haram killed 97 people while they were praying and several mosques attacked on monday night. the coalition launched more air strikes on the capitol sanaa hours after the u.s. and the u.n. called for humanitarian pause in the fighting. i.s.i.l. has destroyed a famous statute and they smashed the figurine weeks after capturing the city and published photos showing destruction of other things in the city and looting sites in egypt and syria and

selling the treasures to raise cash and the world heritage site in iraq are on unesco endangered list but representatives said at a meeting in bond decided it's a modern day armed group such as i.s.i.l. that pose the biggest threat and two agencies are on the unesco list and the tiger and ancient city of samara from where jane now reports. >> reporter: 1200 years ago samara was the capitol of an islamic empire stretching from north africa to central asia the spiral was an unique architectural achievement, the great mosque had room for 80,000 worshippers and opening in the brick walls were designed to echo sound. >> translator: we have big challenges especially in the current unstable security situation. thank god the site is now relatively secure but it needs

maintenance and repair. >> reporter: because the capitol was abandoned in the 9th century rather than destroyed most is still intact but on the edge of a battleground and i.s.i.l. fighters are now 20 kilometers from here and modern samara is divided and mostly sunni city surrounding one of the holiest sites in shia islam the shrine and it's a staging ground for malitias under iraq government and left their mark, inside there is evidence of target practice and although this was once the most glorious city in the world most iraqis don't know it and essentially the fighters are off duty fighters. ask what was here and he explains it was once a huge mosque. the iraqi government is trying to continue excavations here in hopes to restore some of the buildings but it doesn't have the money or the staff. this was just one of the palaces

in what was once a huge city stretching 40 kilometers along the river. it's considered the best preserved city the size of its time. there are parts of it now though that are completely occupied by security forces. this capitol was built in the age of islamic empire and art and architecture and sciences spread from here to other parts of the world and these be were baths in one of the complexes and the water was brought in by ceramic pipes and before i.s.i.l. the site was listed as endangered threatened by military acty and neglect and on the doorstep 80% of the city buried protected mostly from earth and sand jane with al jazeera, samara iraq. more iraqi air strikes in anbar and 7 killed in fallujah and 20 died on thursday iraqi

government accused of using barrel bombs which are crude devices with shrapnel to kill in indiscriminantly and bp agreed to pay record settlement of $18.7 billion over a massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico five years now and when it exploded millions of barrels of money leaked in the waters of the u.s. coast and it's the worst environmental disaster in u.s. history and andy gallagher has more from miami. >> reporter: in 2010 it exploded in the gulf of mexico killing 11 workers, in the 8 seven days that followed oil spewed in the gulf and president obama to call it the worst environmental disaster in history and along the states it was ruined and animals killed

and a judge found that bp was grossly negligent in its handling of the well. >> instead of battling through a litigation 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. >> reporter: the money will be divided among the states of texas, alabama mississippi, florida and the most affected louisiana and environmentalists say it sends a strong message for states to do important restoration work. >> if the money comes 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 ten 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 ends bp's case with the u.s. government the company says cost associated with the spill now exceeded $40 billion and shares in bp were up when news of the settlement was made public and scientists are unclear of the effects of a massive oil spill and may not be known for years but hope the money helps the states along the coast bounce back. pressing for international tribunal of last year's shooting down of airliner and crashed in ukraine killing 198 passengers and crew and government and western countries accuse separatist rebels of shooting the liner down with a russian-made missile. in the philippines divers searching the wreckage of a capsized ferry hoping survivors may be alive at least 38 died and 15 are missing and feared

down after thursday's disaster on the island and gerald tan has more. >> reporter: 187 people were on board the ferry when it capsized. survivors say it happened suddenly, minutes after undocking. >> translator: i was with my mother-in-law and her broth up stairs when it sank. i do not know what happened below the deck. >> reporter: many of the passengers were rescued by the coast guard and local fishing boats. others managed to swim to safety. the victims were rushed to hospital and some people waited anxiously for news of the missing. >> translator: where is my mother? where is my mother gloria? i hope she didn't drown. i have not seen her yet. >> reporter: delaped meters

away from the city and it's unclear what caused the 33 ton ferry to flip. the coast guard says it was light and the waves were strong but not dangerous. the ferry's captain is now in custody for questioning. >> we are looking at possible human error from the captain of the vessel captain of the boat but as of this time we cannot give any conclusion as to what transpired. >> reporter: dozens of people died in ferry accidents across the philippines each year and frequent storms overcrowding and poorly maintained vessels are often blamed, gerald tan, al jazeera. explosion at a chemical factory in south korea has killed six people and workers were welding when it happened and they think trapped gas may have triggered that explosion. throughout history people with

leprosy have been rejected by communities and families and leprosy can now be cured but nepal is one of 20 countries with laws that still discriminate against people with the disease and al jazeera has more. >> reporter: at 73 she has found a new life just outside of the valley she was diagnosed with leprosy when she was this her 20s and she was thrown out of her husband's house then from her parents and eventually out of the village and many call her the tiger lady. >> i lived in a tiger den for a year and a half. there was nothing to eat. i survived on what little the villagers gave me. there was no wood to light fire. they wouldn't give me water. i kept surviving. i just would not die. >> reporter: this is the oldest center in nepal that helps people with leprosy and it is across from kathmandu to keep

the disease away and they have stories of social shame they had to endure. and much as changed and leprosy is now treatable and the government proposed a bill that bars people from marrying and days of the drug therapy makes sure the disease won't spread to others and nepal has been effective in controlling the disease and fewer than one in 10,000 but with bordering and health officials say more needs to be done to decrease social stigma. >> leprosy with a person or something like that they hide it and do not like to show up with the disease so they are a continued source in society. >> reporter: lobbied members of parliament to revise the bill

and for now it seems to be working. >> translator: until i visited the leprosy hospital i used to think leprosy is transmitted by touch and i found out later it's not, like me almost all of my colleagues in parliament you can prevent transmission by medication and leprosy is 100% curable and we are determined to lobby against this distributor discriminatory provision. >> reporter: 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 on. al jazeera, kathmandu. the renewal of diplomatic ties between the u.s. and cuba this week followed two years of secret negotiations focusing partly on a prison swap and one was a cuban spy who was serving two life terms in an american prison and explains how he played a key role to end

hostility between washington and havana. >> the man you see arriving in havana seems unlikely character that changed history and intelligence officer had been sentenced by a miami court to two life terms. the last thing he expected was to arrive home to a hero welcome. >> the day before. >> reporter: he 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 had repeatedly been denied a visa to travel to california to visit him in prison so cubans were dumb founded when they saw she was nine months pregnant when her husband arrived. >> translator: i had frozen my eggs anticipating 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 is she was conceived as a diplomatic gesture of good will the u.s. government allowed her to go fertilization treatment in panama with her husband's sperm flown in from california and top secret negotiations leading to a startling announcement. >> reporter: secretary carry to begin negotiations with cuba to establish diplomatic relations that have been served since january 1961. >> reporter: two years earlier the governments had begun exploratory talks but they demanded release of agents as a condition of moving forward, the freedom of intelligence officers and an american contractor in prison in cuba allen gross had suddenly become key to ending

decades of hostilities between both nations. >> it was big news personally that we not only realized the consequence. >> reporter: and the release outraged many in florida's exiled community but at home he is treated as a hero and loyal to his government 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 solving my conflict which is my only goal my only way. >> reporter: a country that is ending the half a century old cold war with its northern neighbor, a landmark decision which they inadvertently played a role. lucille newman, al jazeera, havana

havana. >> reporter: you can watch the full interview on the next edition of talk to al jazeera, that is on saturday at 4:30 gmt. and you can always visit our website for the latest news of the day, al jazeera.com, that is al jazeera.com, do keep it here. [ ♪♪ ] as you have heard, there was once briefly a country called the confederate states of america. the ideas enshrined in its constitution and celebrated by its founding fathers were defeated on the battlefield. for many americans, that was that. for others, the end of the civil war began a century and a half of mourning, nostal guy and