>> hello and welcome to the al jazeera news hour live from doha. coming up: closer than ever, but gaps remain. u.s. secretary of state john kerry says a nuclear deal with iran could be broker road by the end of the week. voting on the fate of greece, hours to go before polls close in its historic debt bailout

referendum. >> nowhere to go, residents of ramadi fear they'll be caught in the crossfire in the new iraqi military offensive. >> i'm in ecuador the first stop of pope francis' week long tour of spanish speaking south america, where millions of catholics have abandoned the church. >> chile win south america's top footballing prize. a penalty shootout win over argentina in the copa america final, giving them their first ever american title. >> first the five permanent members of the security council plus germany who were trying to iron out a thorny nuclear deal with iran are cribbing their talks in vienna, just days before they are self imposed tuesday deadline.

u.s. secretary of state john kerry has just spoken within the last five minutes or so to journalist gathered and said they are close to an agreement but they have to make very hard choices in the days ahead. he says a deal could be locked in by the end of the week. now, negotiators want to lift sanctions and determine what type of nuclear research iran can pursue. >> it's now time to see whether or not we are able to close an agreement. in many ways, this negotiation has been going on for literally a number of years. over the past few days, we have in fact made genuine progress. i want to be absolutely clear with everybody. we are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues. the truth is that while i completely agree with foreign minister zarif that we have

never been closer, at this point, this negotiation could go either way. if hard choices get made in the next couple of days, and made quickly, we could get an agreement this week, but if they are not made, we will not. >> let's go live enough to james bays, our diplomatic editor there in vienna. first of all, john kerry came out an crutches. james, i just wanted you to clear that up. he's not a well man is he? >> no, he's not. that was actually an accident that an injury that was sustained in an accident when he was out on his bike and he's still recovering. john kerry came out here to speak to reporters kept us waiting in temperatures nearing 40 degrees, we were here for

well over an hour and a half waiting for the secretary of state, but i think important words coming from him. i think he decided to speak because we've heard a lot from the iranian side in the last hours, including a detailed interview talking about the sticking points. the u.s. side didn't talk about any of the substance of the negotiations, but just gave us a general idea of where we are. that is closer than ever before, but still very difficult decisions to be made. my understanding is now that all of the foreign ministers are joining secretary of state kerry and foreign minister zarif, i've been told at the final stage

they try to get the issues that weren't merely technical issues, but required political decisions on one sheet of paper. i'm told there will be one sheet of paper for them to work through the various foreign ministers and try and hammer out these difficult political issues. you heard the secretary of state there say this is certainly not a done deal. now i think that's important because some have speculated to it's really nearly all over but the signing. that is certainly not the case carting to secretary of state kerry. i would as with some of these criticizing it saying it's a done deal, including the prime minister of israel, whether it's a done deal or not when you've got to try to sell this deal, the fact that it looked like a hard fought over deal is probably going to help in the selling of this deal to those very skeptical about it, particularly important those on capitol hill. >> quite striking, he emif a feeds the fact that what they want is a good deal, not any

deal a good deal and he said if that wasn't forthcoming that the u.s. is quite prepared to walk away. >> absolutely. what we're talking here about a good deal and both sides will tell you they want a good deal is a very detailed deal, because they are not going to come at this again. there are no further negotiations. if they get a deal here, this is the final deal. it has to be legally water tight. we can't have a situation where both sides agree to a deal and then a few months down the road, someone has a little bit of a misunderstanding. i didn't realize that you meant that. each of the parts of the deal that are going to be there each of the clauses and we're hearing there are about 20 pages of the deal followed by pages and pages of definitions and annexes, so that everyone knows what every single term in this agreement refers to, there can be no misunderstandings, that at least is the plan. >> ok. sorry for mixing up my james and

john. thank you for enduring the 40-degree heat of vienna. >> to greece, there is less than an hour before the polls close in a momentous day for the country. greece is the birth place of democracy and today its people had the opportunity of voting yes or no in a bailout referendum. now it could decide the nation's financial future and ultimately its role within the euro zone. the greek prime minister and finance minister have been urging the country to vote no. so far it looks at though the country is split. the vote will decide whether or not greeks choose to accept international creditor's proposals for more austerity in exchange for rescue loans that they desperately need to avoid a default and a banking collapse. the european commission, that's one of the three main creditors along with the international monetary fund and european

central bank wants athens to hike taxes slash welfare spending to meet its debt obligations. now the greek debt stands at more than 340 billion euros. on the eve of the referendum, the finance minister himself accused the creditors of fear mongering, saying that what they were doing amounted to a form of terrorism. e.u. leaders have warned greeks that a no vote could mean that they crash out of the euro zone, the so-called grexit. we report from athens. >> from the country that gave 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. >> yet for some, it is a defining moment. >> this is our only chance to give an out to europe, to say no to the bailouts, no to slavery. 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 strong 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 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 europe or 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. >> we have two correspondent in greece this hour. barney phillips is in athens and hodor. barnaby, they are not conducting exit polls but are you getting a sense for how the vote has gone given that we've got less than an hour to go until the polls close? >> i'm hearing rumors that it's close. i also understand that several of the greek leading private stations are sitting on results and don't want to release them, such as the sensitivity of this referendum. they don't want to be seen as influencing what could happen in the remaining 50 minutes or so of voting. we're hearing unconfirmed rumors from the minister of the

interior that the turnout had passed 40%. that is significant. we expected it, but it is significant, because it means that the results will be valid. under the greek constitution, a referendum question needs to be validated by a 40% turnout otherwise, i'm afraid i can just give you anecdotes. all over the city of athens today, i've seen people debating passionately yes or no. i just came here in a taxi. i asked the driver are you no or are you no and he banged his fist on the dashboard saying we have to stay in europe. i've seen people also saying no, no no. >> it does seem very much as though the greek people, judging from the people that we heard from over the last couple of days it does boil down to a choice between staying with the euro as its form of currency or

a possible return to the drachma. >> the vast majority of people have said they want to remain in the euro. the results will be unforeseen, unpredictable consequences. if there is a big yes vote, i imagine it would be very difficult for prime minister alexis tsipras certainly his finance minister to remain in place. we may see some form of emergency government of national unit going back to europe, but what if it's a no vote? alexis tsipras is telling the greek people that he will travel to brussels tomorrow, maybe the day after with a renewed map date and however much those europe leaders don't want to do business with alexis tsipras lets be honest, they have made their desire that the government

has made it very plain are they really going to shut the door in his place if he shows up with 55 or 60% of greeks having said no? that will be an extraordinary moment in european diplomacy and the e.u. if they were to turn the greeks away again. >> as part of this huge gamble, this huge risk taken by the greek government, there seems to be a confidence pretty much that the euro zone ultimately does not want to cut it free, won't let go of greece and will shore up some sort of agreement. that seems to be what they're banking on. >> well, in a way that has syriza's ace.

i think the greeks were in a stronger position then opinion the fear of contagion shooting up in other vulnerable southern european countries was much more real then. european banks were more vulnerable more exposed to greek debt, and europe does not have the stability mechanisms in place, which it has now. there is a greater confidence across europe that greece can be isolated and to that extent, greece is expendable. i'm talking simply in financial terms, not political or moral terms. politicians here in greece would have been slightly worried over the global financial markets over the last week. yes, the world's concerned yes markets did fall sharply on monday and tuesday after syriza announced the referendum, but we

didn't see catastrophic sell offs on the major stock exchanges that some on the left hoped for even if they can't say that publicly. >> thank you very much for that. we'll be crossing live to barnaby throughout the rest of the day as more indications come through as to how greeks have voted. there have been rallies in other european countries, particular those who have had to go through austerity in a similar way to the greece. hundreds of them took to the streets in madrid, the spanish capital, supporting a no vote to more austerity. spain is suffering from high unemployment and had to implement massive spending cuts, leading to the rise of their own anti-austerity party. it's been a similar scene as well in portugal with demonstrators gathered in a show of support for greeks opposed to

more austerity. portugal like greece, spain and ireland needed an international bailout to avoid bankruptcy and then had to implement the bitter medicine of austerity. >> i'm here to show solidarity with the greeks for having the courage that we didn't have that i hope we might -- well, i don't hope anymore maybe we'll never have it -- but i feel it's very important to have courage. if it's not recognized at an international level it will never have the strength to make us win. >> calling the genocide a lie ahead of the 20th anniversary of the master in bosnia. >> a new star arrives at the l.a. galaxy, what steven gerrard has to say about his major league move.

>> bosnian certain leader described the genocide as a lie. he was speaking in the run up to the 20th anniversary of the worst massacre in europe since world war ii. serb forces murdered 8,000 muslim men and boys in what was supposed to be a u.n. protected enclave in july, 1995. he is speaking at a commemoration service that serbs killed during bosnia's civil war. he said the killing of muslim males was not a genocide. it's an opinion rejected by the international community, as well as by the families of victims 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. >> 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, forcing thousands of bosnian muslims to leave. united nations peacekeepers looked on as serbian forces separated men from their women and children and murdered them. he was indicted for his part in what became the worst atrocity in europe since the second world

war. recently, hundreds of bodies have been identified using d.n.a. evidence, leaving 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 commemorations, the newly identified remains of 136 people killed in the town 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. >> a suicide bomber targeted a church in nigeria. it happened in the northeast of the country. at least five people were killed. this is the latest in a string of bombings and shootings blamed on the armed group boko haram. >> we are joined from the

spokesman for nigeria's president. thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. it looks as though president buhari is not fulfilling a promise he gave the people that he was going to beat boko haram. >> no, please, don't say that. so far president buhari has succeeded in international coalitions of the countries in the region. they have set up a joint military task force that is going to go into operation end of this month. he has been able to open military supply from countries that were not selling to nigeria, the e.u. countries. as i speak to you now, there is not a single nigeria called the i.s. caliphate and the boko

haram. they have been killed out of their own strongholds. >> how do you account for the fact then that for the five weeks that general buhari has been in office, since may 29, there have been more attacks in the five weeks than in the last month of the previous rule of goodluck jonathan. how do you account for this up surge in the number of attacks and in the number of dead? >> well, president buhari has sent in more troops, has sent in more, the terrorists are under a loss more pressure. as they flee their strongholds they are not carrying out any coordinated attacks. they are isolated and they cause as much damage as they can as they leave their own

territories. >> but i'm afraid the numbers don't seem to concur with what you're saying, because we're talking about 24 attacks in the last month from april 29 to may 29, 24 attacks, 27 attacks from may 29, of course that's when buhari was inaugurated. how do you count for the upsurge in violence? >> well, the thing is that with the nigerian military, i think they have been shy in talking about the number of casualties on the part of boko haram. much of the media is in undated by boko haram propaganda. they released a statement indicating that only have they recovered vehicles and weapons they have killed 600 boko haram terrorists in the last one month. that is an normal mouse casualty on the part of the terrorists.

we are getting around it, succeeding and by the time the international coalition comes into place hopefully by -- july. boko haram numbers -- >> thank you very much indeed, giving us a promise that boko haram will be routed by the end of july. i hope you come back and talk to us again then. thank you very much indeed for your time. >> thank you much. >> doctors say dozens of civilians have been killed in iraqi government airstrikes on the iraqi city of rimadi. a football pitch where yuck people were playing was also hit. ramadi is controlled by isil in anbar province. >> there's been fighting continuing near fallujah and ramadi, continues a pattern of iraqi airstrikes, including

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 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 when 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 said to show

the casualty's 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 routes to restrict the movements of isil fighters. >> syrian forces and their lebanese ally hezbollah say that up strikeouted 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. >> pushing for a pause in fighting in yemen until the end of the monthly holy month of ramadan. >> we look forward to reaching a humanitarian truce soon. we are holding talks with all

concerned parties and we are optimistic we'll reach a truce. the issue is reaching a personal peaceful solution. then we can return to the negotiation table into the political process. >> in the south of the country in the port city of aden, six somali refugees have been killed. witnesses say their shelter was hit by rockets fired by the houthis. the u.n. reckons that nearly 3,000 people have been killed in the conflict so far. >> still to come here on the al jazeera news hour. >> they are also trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in america. >> find out who president hopeful hillary clinton is talking about. >> women's football has increased in popularity over recent years but still lags far behind the men's game. i'm in vancouver home to the women's world cup final. that story coming up.

>> 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.

>> you have kids here who've killed someone? >> award winning journalist soledad o'brien takes us inside the violent world of kids behind bars. will a new experimental program be their last chance? >> i have to do my 100 percent best so i don't end up in a place like this again.

you're with on the ground. u.s. secretary of state john kerry said difficult issues remain in the iran nuclear talks and negotiations could go either way. diplomats have met six consecutive days to reach a deal. >> the polls are about to close in greece on whether the country should accept more austerity in exchange for rescue loans. greece needs the leans to avoid a default and banking collapse. >> dozens of civilians have been killed in iraqi government airstrikes in rimadi. a football pitch where young people were gathering was hit. >> the greek referendum, not long to go until the polls close. there's a lot at stake for greece and its neighboring countries and the creditors, of

course. who owes what? germany is owed 6.82 billion euros. france fort 3.8 billion italy 38.4 spain 25 billion. the i.m.t.24000000000un. >> we are joined live now from london. can i get your take on the question put before greeks today, yes or no. i understand that you're in favor of a no vote. why would that be? >> yeah, i would vote no, because her creditors also

wouldn't give greece debt relief which would mean to be trapped in depression as a vasal state owned by its creditors and that's not an economic future greeks can support or a political future greeks can support, so i would vote no. >> you would assume that the creditors, institutions in particular would be willing to engage with greece. that you don't want to let them go. is that what you would assume then? >> well earlier in the week, there were all these noises made that if greeks voted no, that meant they would be thrown out of the euro zone. later in the week, you saw leaders backtracking on that. i expect that if greeks vote no, that negotiations will soon resume, as they would if they vote yes. >> what do you make of the i.m.f.'s late intervention a couple of days ago when they actually admitted that the

greece, the amount of debt owed by greece is unmanageable and actually needs to be restructured, they need debt relief. >> well, it's good, but the i.m.f. is officially recognized that the greek government is correct in saying that its debts are unsustainable and it needs debt relief and governments are wrong in assisting that it doesn't need it and shouldn't get it. it's a pity the i.m.f. didn't come clean sooner. perhaps we could have had more fruitful negotiations in recent months. >> it seems the case that the whole process has been almost dominated by the politics rather than the economics. >> absolutely. well it's mostly dominated by chancellor merkel and other euro zone leaders not wanting to lose face. back in 2010, they breached euro zone rules to lend huge sums of money to grows ostensibly out of

solidarity, but actually to bail out its creditors notably french and german banks. they lied to voters then and they don't want to have those lies exposed. >> all right, thank you. very interesting to talk to you financial analyst live from london. the polls close in greece in about 25 minutes' time. we'll keep you right up to date with developments there. another developing story out of nigeria. a suicide bomber has attacked a church in the northeast of the country. at least five others were killed. this is the latest in a long line of bombings and shootings being blamed on boko haram. we can now talk to martin in africa at the institute for security joining us live from pretoria. what do you deduce from the fact that a suicide bomber that taken

her, we understand it's a woman has exploded her bomb in a church? normally, it's a mosque or a busy public area, but this is inside a church. >> thank you very much, and good evening from pretoria. i think this attack represents just the worst of what has been happening in nigeria since buhari took over. it has been getting worse and worse and this attack, i think it is 30 feet since buhari took over. 75% have been through suicide bombings and these suicide bombers have actually been young girls. you will recall that i think earlier this week or i think on thursday friday, where we had this series of attacks which led to the death of 150 people, and then there was also of course an

attack at the mosque where a young suicide bomber blew herself up while muslims were operating on friday. so indeed, the attacks are getting worse -- >> sorry to interrupt you're right and of course the numbers vary don't they, because you're saying 35 attacks since buhari took office. we need to remember that this is the month of ramadan and those violent groups who claim to be operating in the name of islam quite often step up activities during this period in time. we need to take that into consideration, do we? >> yes in many cases, boko haram took responsibility and in some cases they did not which is very common with the group because they are not used to

claiming responsibility for many of the attacks especially if they don't consider those attacks to be high profile ones. yes, i think what this represent is that buhari will have to dig deep in order to find a clear strategy to combat boko haram. it is true that he has been so far successful in terms of putting together that multi-national jointly task force. in terms of actually putting substance to it in terms of when this force can actually come into force which is predicted to be the end of this month. apart from that, i don't think that there is any other strategy in place that nigeria is using because we are really worried that too much reliance on a military strategy is not adequate. it's far insufficient to --

>> what else should you be concentrating on. interns of the strategy, what else should he be concentrating on? he was a former military man. he was voted in most people thinkthink as a consequence of that and the promise of being touch militarily on boko haram. >> i think nigeria has been very negligent of the criminal justice approach that is largely needed which is what will be able to turn the people against boko haram because once everyone knows that they are also being investigated and that anyone with any link whatever remote, those who have been able to facilitate boko haram attacks in nigeria could be prosecuted, i think that could turn a lot of people against the group but that approach so far has not been pursued and even if it has it is really at a very, very low level, it is actually insignificant in nigeria.

the reliance purely on the military strategy which has this backlash every now and then. >> ok, thank you very much. interesting thoughts coming from martin, live from pretoria in south africa. thank you very much. >> the u.s. democratic presidential hopeful hillary clinton has accused china of hacking and stealing u.s. government information. the former secretary of state was speaking at a campaign event. >> they are also trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in america, stealing commercial secrets, blueprints from defense contractors stealing huge amounts of government information, all looking for an advantage. make no mistake, they know they're in a competition and they're going to do everything they can to win it. >> director and senior fellow at the hudson center for political nationals said that hillary clinton has always taken a hard line 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. she answer to burn issue her credentials. 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 occupy the center, to outflank those on the right and left. her problem with russia is that she was seen as the principle

administrator if not architect 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 but also to imply that she can do better than anybody else. she recited 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 rivals. >> the pope will be performing a mass in ecuador on tuesday. despite the excitement about the pope's tour, the catholic church has lost popularity in latin america opinion sex abuse scandals and attempts at reform made it hard for some to believe

in his leadership and the church. we have this report. >> it looks innocent enough, but everyone knows that inside this church in santiago, perverse things happened. they are told in detail in the forest. a film based on a chilean pedophile priest abuses scores of young men. it has been the top box office hit in chile. a once staunchly catholic country, where these days, the pews are more empty than full at mass. >> the church needs to recover its credibility. people have been left with the image of what had happened inside the church. we can't deny it. that is something the pope is

trying to rectify with a zero tolerance policy towards sexual abuse. for the man who was a victim the church's treatment of pedophiles is an insult. >> it's like for them, like a little spa. they have nuns that serve them you know. >> the pope has also been widely praised, especially for his social agenda, his attempts to end corruption in the vatican, and his more open-minded attitude towards homosexuality though not same-sex marriage. many want him to go further, but others within the church hierarchy believe he's going too far. >> remember that the vatican as an organization continues to be mid-evil, dating back three or four centuries. he wants to change that to the extent the christians say yes,

he's right, opposition will diminish, but obviously he has opposition. >> it's a tug of war between defending dogma and pressures to be in step with modern times. >> the stunning colonial center and centuries old churches of a testament to decisions to conquer souls in the new world. 500 years after missionaries cross the atlantic. pope francis is coming to his home continent to try to win them back with his reformist vision. al jazeera, ecuador. >> still to come on the news hour find out which team managed to concede 68 goals in just two games in football.

>> the most famous bridge in scad land is one of the latest sites to be given world heritage status. the u.n.'s cultural body you knows co has honored the fourth bridge which has carried million was rail passengers for the part 125 years. we've been looking and it is other landmarks also being honored. >> the sites in southwest china green mountains dotted with old fortresses and palaces. more than 500 years old they've been recognized at cult you really and historically significant by the body. the region of south korea has

been given status, old city walls and administrative buildings from one of its earlier kingdoms. >> established ties with japan and countries with east asia across the see enjoying the most glamorous culture. now it can be shared with the world and recognized internationally. >> it's a special place everyone should come and visit. 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. 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 poaching and environmental pressures. getting recognized brings more tourism, unesco argues honoring the greatest monuments on the planet helps bring peace and cultural understanding. >> it's time for sport. >> thank you so much. chile is celebrating their first ever major title win the copa

america host beating argentina in the final after a penalty shootout. the defeat comes a year after they lost in the world cup final. we report from santiago. >> it was the copa america final most football fans wanted, a great argentine team boasting star players. thee lay passionate, focused. star players of their own, but they've never won the copa america, never beaten argentina in a tournament. bars and restaurants across thee lay were packed with flail biting expectant fans. they should be playing well, better than many hoped, no goals in the second half, either. then penalties. who can stand the pressure of

penalties? chile star player, alexis sanchez, that's who. >> of course, chileans are celebrating. after 99 years and 44 copa america tournaments, they are delighted with the way in which they won, with plenty of spirit and team work and this current crop of players 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. my lungs are bursting. >> this is historic. as a country, we needed this and

i believe in our team. i'm happy, so happy. >> this triumph will help chile forget their recent natural disasters, earthquakes and flooding and puts in the background the corruption scandals writing the south american game, but for now chile is celebrating a rare but well deserved victory. >> more than 54,000 saw the national team lose in the quarter finals, a record for any national team sport there. total overall attendance will top 1.3 million a record for the tournament, the most attended offensive have a event in history outside of the men's world cup. it is making big in roads in the united states. t.v. ratings there are averaging

1 million plus for each game. the women's game sometime facing a huge challenge to bridge the popularity gap with men's football as we report from vancouver. >> not a cloud in the sky. what a tournament it's been in the women's world cup final. the semifinal match between the united states and germany was the third most watched women's football game of all time. did he say spite growth of the female game, the gap between men's and women's football remains large. >> the women's game is viewed as a totally separate game, not viewed as football, viewed at women's football. >> just look at the money the world's best male footballers make about $20 million a year each excluding endorsement deals. the best women's player makes about $1 million a year

including endorsements. germany took on $35 million after winning the world men's world cup this year, the women's expected to take home $2 million. seth blatter is credited with helping create the women's world cup but famously remarked that women footballers should wear more feminine clothes like tighter shorts. for the first woman inducted to canada's football hall of fame say tuesday like that hurt the development of the sport. >> it sends a message that only women who fit a certain stereotype is going to be a positive image for girls playing soccer. >> looking at history also helps explain the struggles in the women's game. >> men's football can be traced back to the mid 18th century when it began but women's football started more than a century later and that's part of the reason why it's not as popular or acceptable as the men's game or as well known as

we found out here on the streets of vancouver when we asked if anyone could name players from the women's u.s. or japan teams. >> i really don't know. >> i don't know. >> not at all. >> could not even make an attempt at it. >> it's reactions like that that even have offensive in a officials admitting they need to do more. >> i think other side of women's football, the promotion side has not been maybe developed as much as the football. >> despite the challenges, all these fans want to do is enjoy the weapon's beautiful game. al jazeera vancouver. >> saturday saw england claiming third place for their first ever win over germany the winning goal coming up here in extra time. brought down in the penalty box scoring the spot kick that sealed the victory england's best ever performance at the tournament. >> l.a. gal see fans had their

first siting of the team's new player, steven gerrard making an appearance at half time. his first game is set july 17th against san jose. >> it feels great to be here. i'm excited and i can't wait to get my boots on and play in front of you guys and hopefully we can have some good times together and it can be a successful future. >> lewis hamilton won the grand prix negotiating some wet weather in the final laps to finish ahead of his teammate rossberg. this is hamilton's third win in his home grand prix. >> a team not in danger of winning anytime soon are the fed rated states of micronesia in the football qualifiers for next

year's rio olympics, they just lost 38-0 to fiji in a world record international win. they could be spared the record because officially, they are not recognized by fifa. this loss at the pacific games coming days after they were beaten 30-0 by tahiti. the record is 31-0. ok that's your sport for now. >> thank you very much indeed. >> progress has made it to the international space station that's the name of the unmanned russian cargo ship which delivered two tons of supplies to the three astronauts, food, fuel and scientific equipment all safely docked, unlike the space x. rocket, which exploded on blastoff last week. that's it from me and from andy for now but you're in safe hands. david foster is coming up next.

♪ the last vote has been cast as the greek people say whether it's yes or no to the country's multi-million dollar bail-out deal. >> hello. good to have you along. you are watching al jazeera live from london. also in the next 30 minutes: >> we are yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues. u.s. secretary of state says agreement with iran is close but it it could go either way. as relatives