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... >> we're making history right now... >> al jazeera america >> greeks vote in a crucial referendum that could decide their economic future and their place within europe. >> hello again you're with welcome to al jazeera live from doha. also to come. bosnia certain leader calls the genocide alive ahead of the 20th anniversary of the massacre. >> nowhere to go residents of rimadi fear they'll be caught in the crossfire as the iraqi military prepares a new offensive.
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copa america triumph host chile celebrate their first major football victory. >> first greeks are voting either yes or no in a referendum which will determine their economic future. the prime minister alexis tsipras and his finance minister are urging a no vote. the vote will decide whether or not greeks choose to accept the cores proposals for more austerity in exchange for rescue loans that are much needed. they need these loans in order to avoid a default and a banking collapse. jonah hall report now from the greek capital athens. >> from the country that gave the
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world democracy the world democracy comes a referendum that may mean the world to greece. >> we cannot to continue with these rules. >> i don't agree, i want to be in europe. >> ok, ok. >> it is a simple yes or no that has set greeks apart between those who fear losing what they've got and those who feel they have nothing left to give. >> on the face, it is just a vote on the terms of the new bailout for greece, yes we're prepared to accept the terms or no, we think we should go on negotiating trying for a better deal. it hardly seems like a matter of life or death. >> for some, it is a defining moment. >> this is our only chance to
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give an out to europe, to say no to the bailouts, no country disappeared because of bankruptcy. we're not afraid to vote no, to germany and no to merkel. >> a decisive no is what prime minister alexis tsipras was hoping for when he called this referendum just one week ago. he and his finance minster believe a greek no will strengthen their hand in demanding a new deal from the creditors to ease the debt burden greece cannot afford to bear. >> the greek people send a message of dignity and decisiveness, the message that it has a choice in its hands. >> what is the choice? in brussels, berlin, frankfurt and washington, the vote is
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seen as an in-out referendum on the euro. >> what i don't understand our government has not been clear about it, it has to do with saying yes or no to the euro or anything like that. >> we belong with europe. we need europe and europe need us. >> all for one and one for all the words in childish paint strokes at a school house polling station. instead, greece finds itself divided and alone. al jazeera, athens. that's the scene in the apartmental, at helps. another of our correspondents has been at a polling station. >> very few pollsters around the streets in favor of either a yes or no vote, very little campaigning, as well. if not for the mayor of this city, who's a very popular man who came out in favor of the yes campaign. when you speak to people.
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it seems that opinions are divided, just reflecting the mood across the nation. other people here point out to the fact that this crisis started for them well before in the late 1990's. this is an industrial city. they have moved to neighboring countries. many will tell you the story of the coca-cola plant here. if you drive around, you will see shops closed for bankruptcy. if you go to the port, you'll see containers lingering there simply because at the moment, businesses cannot pay for consignment. they are staying there, i would say lingering in the sun. now the main preoccupation is really whether the yes or no vote wins, people are scent particular that anything will thank in the near future, and are also very worried that this could be seen as a mandate or used as a mandate by any of the political parties. this is one thing they don't want to.
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certainly, there is much more of a cool headed attitude here than in the capital. >> let's hear from an independent economist who works for a think tank. he's been a member of the european commission. let's hear what he has to say. >> they would like to see a yes vote but they should be faint from intervening in this referendum because of political consequences that may prevail in the next days. i find what brule sells has done rather unacceptable, that political intervention in the democratic process of a sovereign country. more importantly many people are torn in this society. do they understand the consequences of their vote? that means the day after what will happen then. i don't know how it would work. all this is speculation.
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we are in unchartered territory. there is no roadmap or precedent for this. we will have to be patient and wait for the outcome this evening, and then reassess not only in athens, but in berlin, paris, brussels how to go forward, preferably how to go forward together. the austerity measures in the past five years have in the worked. although we have had substantial reforms in the real economy in the society we need another balance. we need in the future an investment hope and job creation program and need to integrate the whole issue of debt relief as the i.m.s. is demanding from the european creditors. >> other european countries forced into accepting bailouts and imposing austerity have been coming out on the street in support of the greek people. hundreds took total streets in the spanish capital madrid.
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spain suffers high unemployment. they had a implement massive spending cuts, too. they've seen also a rise of the leftist anti austerity parties in particular in spain. >> demonstrators showed support for greeks opposed to austerity. portugal spain all had to take an international bailout. in portugal, it was in 2011 and they did that in order to avoid bankruptcy, and then had to implement the bitter medicine of austerity. >> bosnia's certain leaderscribed the genocide as a lie. speaking in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the massacre that was the worst in europe since world war ii. certain forces murdered 8,000
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muslim men and boys in what was supposed to be a u.n. protected enclave. >> speaking at a commemoration service, the serbs killed during bosnia civil war, he said the killing of muslims in 1995 was not a genocide. it's an opinion rejected by the international community, as well as by the families of victim and the survivors of the massacre. for 20 years, she has searched for the remains of her son. the last she heard of her 26-year-old is he was wounded by a land mine as he escaped serbian forces. >> it's a long period of time especially for someone still searching. each year, i thought this july 11 i will bury him. i thought the same the next year and the year after that. it's been 20 years now and i still haven't buried him.
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>> a u.n. protected muslim town in bosnia was surrounded by serbian forces throughout the war between 1992-1995. serb troops invaded the town on july 11, 1995, forces thousands of bosnian muslims to leave. united peacekeepers looked on men were separated from their from their women and children and murdered. he was he dated for his part in what became the worst atrocity in europe since the second world war. recently hundred business of bodies have been identified using d.n.a. evidence, louing some relatives to grieve properly. many remain unidentified. >> i'd be satisfied if i found a single bone, so that i could bury him at the place i keep reserved for him next to my husband. >> during this week's
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commemorations, the newly identified remains of 136 people killed will be buried. for the families and for the genocide survivors, it will be another painful moment. she can only wait and hope that one day she'll bury her son. al jazeera. >> dozens of civilians have been killed in iraqi government airstrikes in the isil held city of rimadi. they hit a football field where a group of young people were playing. it is the capitol of anbar province which isil took control of at the end of may. more from baghdad. >> there's been fighting continuing near fallujah and rimadi continuing a pattern of iraqi airstrikes, including can according to local sources banned barrel bombs that have been increasingly killing civilians. as iraq tries to dislodge isil, it is launching artillery and airstrikes against those cities. the problem is they appear to be
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in populated civilian areas. one of them was in fallujah, in rimadi rather, near a football field, a football pitch where young men gathered after midnight during ramadan. they were playing football and other games where airstrikes hit. the iraqi government says that they were aiming at isil fighters. local sources on the ground say there were some members of isil in the area, but say most of the young men who died were in fact civilians. >> meanwhile the u.s. led coalition said it's hit isil strongholds in syria described as one of the largest deliberate engagements so far. isil video is set to show casualty's calls by the attacks which is targeting raqqa. activists say 15 isil fighters and six civilians were killed. a coalition spokesman said 16 strikes on saturday locked key fly route to say restrict the
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movementles of isil fighters. >> syrian forces and their lebanese ally hezbollah say they've managed to storm the rebel held city. they have captured parts of the west. activists say the government is also hitting the city with barrel bombs. the offensive began on saturday in a bid to cut off a main supply route for the al-qaeda linked nusra front. >> a woman ho blown herself up in a church in nigeria killing five others. it happened in the largest city in the state. this is the latest in a string of bombings and shootings blamed on the armed group boko haram. still to come, new technology is helping families of those who died in pearl harbor to find closure. plus. >> i'm andy gallagher as daytona speedway, the home of nascar racing where fans have been
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>> as greece plunges deeper into financial crisis. >> greece's choice, a bad deal... and no deal. >> world markets react. >> it's a grim picture. >> the consequences could be catastrophic. >> for continuing global coverage, stay with al jazeera america. >> hello again you're with al jazeera. let's remind you of the money stories. the greek prime minister and his finance minister have cast their votes in a referendum on international bailout proposes also. alexis tsipras has been urging a no vote for the cutbacks demanded by creditors in exchange for more financial
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support. >> doctors say dozens of civilians have been killed in airstrikes in rimadi, controlled by isil. a football pitch where young people were playing was also hit. >> the leader of bosnia serbs called the genocide a lie just a week before the anniversary of the massacre. 8,000 men and boys were murdered after bosnian serb forces stormed a u.n. protected area. >> in the united states, democratic presidential hopeful hillary clinton has been accusing china of hacking and stealing u.s. government information. the former secretary of state was speaking at a campaign event. >> they're also trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in america stealing commercial secrets, blue paints from defense contractors stealing huge amounts of government information, all looking for an advantage. make no mistake they know
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they're in a competition and they're going to do everything they can to win it. >> richard white from the hudson institute, the center for political analysis and he sees this as a continuation of hillary clinton's tough stance on china. >> she is in an awkward position. she needs to not be too distant from the current administration, since she served in its first term and could rightly be held accountable for everything that happened then. on the other hand, the obama administration is widely considered to have performed weakly in some accounts and some crises. if you listen to the entire speech she made conciliatory comments trying to put herself a little bit in a more moderate stance compared to republican opponents. i think her strategy is to
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occupy the center, to outflank those on the right and left. her problem with russia is that she was seen as the principle administrator of the obama administration to move closer and to russia, at least in its first term, and that did not succeed, and you can -- i don't know if that would hold the administration responsible for the failure but in any case, it didn't work. she's in a delicate position. she needs to defend her decision to pursue that policy and imply that she can do better than anybody else. she reap cited in her speech she has a lot of experience dealing with putin more so than any other candidates and argued that was an asset and therefore she knows how to behave more smartly than her rifles. >> in the united states, there are more calls for americans to stop displaying the confederate flag after nine members of a
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black church were killed in south carolina last month. investigators found on line photos of the alleged gunman holding the flag, which for so many represent racism and i had red. we have a report where nascar racing fans are feeling the pressure to ditch the flag. >> in the annals of racing there are few places as historic as the daytona international speedway. it was instrumental for the formation of nascar. this year, the sport overwhelmingly followed by white fans has an image crisis on its hands. officials asked people like long time nascar fan richard thompson to leave their confederate flags at home. >> i'm southern. i'm proud of my family and i'm proud of being in the u.s. and having the freedom to display whatever flag i'm allowed to display.
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>> others were also flying a flag increasingly seen as oppression and slavery, nascar banned the flag from official materials a decade ago but can't ban fans from displaying it. >> he won't be watching the race. >> where i live, i deal with it all the time. i mean, it's just something that you adapted to and keep on moving. if you be ignorant like them then you just have a bunch of ignorant people. >> for people not to fly the confederate flag, they offered people free american flags, but so far, only a handful of people have taken them up on the offer. >> officials will continue to work with fans in the years ahead. >> any business, any company
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wants to look to the future, policies changes in the future we have to look at the future. the key at the end of the day, we want people to attend nascar sporting events and have a good time and be comfortable doing it. >> in recent years, the flag's been on the decline, but for many, the so-called symbol of southern pride will always have a place. >> it's 73 years since the japanese navy bombed pearl harbor provoking the u.s. into joining the second word war. technology is now helping families identify the remains of those killed. jacob card explains. >> dying alongside more than 400 of his shipmates bob valley
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said news of his brother's death was the worst pain of his life. trying to bring the remains home prolonged the torture. >> the biggest frustration is the navy that fought us all the way. >> to understand the nature of that fight it's important to understand how the sailors on the oklahoma died on december 7. >> the oklahoma sustained nine to 11 torpedo hits. she literally had her guts slashed out of here and now she's turning over and those crews are in their general quarters. >> the bodies remained for years. when they were brought up, their remains wound up mixed together in graves of the national cemetery of the pacific known as the punch bowl. ray emery survived pearl harbor aboard the uss honolulu. when he discovered the navy could not tell him who was buried where he began to catalog the lost bodies himself. >> i got myself a clipboard and
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paper and started walking at a1 and anything that was close to december 7 i spent many moons out there. i went after everything world war ii that was buried in that cemetery. >> after 40 years of work, he convinced the navy to disband its department for handling the dead and create to new lab in hawaii for identifying remains through d.n.a. sometime the crew of the oklahoma will be an enormous challenge. >> we did one casket in 23. the there were five skulls in that caskets. we know there are over hundreds of individuals in the casket. >> i want to bring him home.
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i don't want anything. i just want the story to be out. the true story. i don't care who don't like it or who gets stepped on. >> jacob ward, al jazeera honolulu. >> the most famous bridge in scotland is one of the latest sites to be given world heritage status. unesco has honored the fourth rail bridge and other landmarks worldwide. >> green mountains dotted with old fortresses and palaces. they've been recognized at culturally and historically
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significant by the heritage body. the region of south korea has been given unesco status. >> ties established with countries enjoying the culture. now it can be shared with the world and be recognized internationally. >> singapore's botanical gardens were also given unesco status. in europe, the vineyards of champagne burgundy were recognized at cultural sites. achieving the status isn't just for global recognition. it's also supposed to give better protection to important landmarks. recently, the ability to do that is questioned. palmyra was seized by isil in syria where they blew up monuments more than 2,000 years old.
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around 50 other unesco sites are designated as endangered. among them are three in yemen, including the old city in the capital which has been bombed by a saudi-led coalition trying to defeat houthi rebels. the home of the rare mountain gorilla, the national park in central africa is listed as endangered because of poachers and environmental pressures. getting recognized brings more tourism, unesco argues honoring the greatest sites on the planet helps bring peace and cultural understanding. >> football fans in chile are celebrating after clenching the copa america they beat argentina in a possibility shootout. it was the copa america final
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most football fans wanted, a potentially great argentine team with star players, 14 times copa america winners. the host, chile passionate, focused, some star players of their own they'd never won the copa america never beaten argentina in the tournament. the national stadium was sold out, bars and restaurants packed with nail biting expectant fans. the goal in the first half, playing well. no goals in the second half. going into extra time. then penalties who can stand the pressure of a penalty? chile's star player alexis sanchez, that's who. of course, they are celebrating their first victory. after 99 years and four copa
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america tournaments they'll also be delighted in the way in which they won with plenty of spirit and team work. this current crop of players is still one of the best teams never to win a tournament. >> they didn't let him play. chile were excellent. congratulations, because they played a great game. >> the did the team peek too soon? this was chile's night chiles copa america. >> brilliant i'm so happy. >> this is historic. at a country we needed this and i believe in our team. i'm happy so happy. >> this triumph will help chile forget earthquakes and flooding and puts in the background the corruption scandals writing the south american game, but for now, chile is celebrate ago rare
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but well deserved victory. al jazeera santiago. >> keep up to date on the al jazeera website aljazeera.com. we are expecting quite a busy news day. stay with us here. >> this is the land of rising seas where the impact of climate change has moved far beyond the possible and is the present. what's going to happen to our grandmother? she can't even walk. she crawls. who's going to carry her up and out when the waves come. >> people wonder how long can we stay when sea levels rise or do we flee and become some of the world's first climate change refugees. a number that some say could
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