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♪ greece's prime minister plans his next move and regarding the bailout and banks are in big trouble and yanis varoufakis resigned and said he may have been getting in the way of a new agreement. ♪ hello again from doha and this is the world news from al jazeera, dozens of people have been killed in bombings at a shopping center and mosque in nigeria, the latest suspected attacks from boko haram. and back on his home continent pope francis begins a tour of
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latin america. ♪ so the referendum win for greece's government has actually done little to ease defensive crisis over the state of its economy. there is still serious concern of greek parentings which are supposed to reopen on tuesday and the prime minister has been meeting with other political parties as he prepares to return to negotiations with international lenders and he wants a credible solution to his country's debt crisis but before that he has to pick a finance minister to replace yanis varoufakis and said the bailout talks have not been exactly welcome. resignation said after there was no to bailout terms by the creditors and once that want
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cuts for loan and 61% supported the deal and the vice president of the european commission said greece needs reforms after his referendum. >> with respect to the democratic choice of the greek people the no result unfortunately widens the gap between greece and other european countries. there is no easy way out of this crisis too much time and too many opportunities have all been lost. the commission is ready to continue its work with greece. but to be clear the commission cannot negotiate a new problem resulting in mandate from the euro group. but one thing is clear, the place of greece is and remains in euros. >> referendum, reservoir -- resignation and what does it mean? >> reporter: people are out in the cues hoping to get their 60
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euros out of the cash machines but many people i'm hearing in this cue say that they are very worried and there are people who don't have bank cards and don't know how much money they will be allowed to take from the bank today. given this situation, given these cues why did greeks vote as they did? why did they not heed the advice of creditors that the country was close to financial collapse and the answer is attitudes in greece have been created not just by the banking crisis of the past seven days but by a greater economic depression that has lasted five long years. this word means friends in greek and synonymous for the country's economic collapse and i don't know what that abandon shop was, maybe it sold clothes, shoes, more empty apartments here and look another empty shop here and
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it's typical of what happened in central athens, the collapse of small businesses and when you combine that with an unemployment rate which for young people stands at over 50% you begin to understand why greeks felt they simply had nothing left to lose and why they voted no. >> live to athens and john is there on this monday. barnaby's report says when they go to the referendum and the resignation and all of that nothing really changes for them immediately,, in fact, they are waiting to see if the banks will open on tuesday. >> well i think people went to the referendum knowing that hardship lay in wait either way and i think the fact that 80%, 4 out of 5 greeks were polled just before the referendum saying they want greece to stay in the euro zone yet 3 out of 5, 61% decided nonetheless to reject
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the austerity package saying it's the only way to stay in the euro zone and knew public opinion was swaying this way. >> lost the link to john there unfortunately we will try to catch up with him a little later on and move to other news and blasts hit in the plateau state killing 44 people and one bomb exploded at a restaurant, the other at a crowded mosque and known to be critical of the armed grope boko haram was preaching. hours early at least five people killed by a suicide bomber who targeted a church and latest violence brings the number of people killed in suspected boko haram attacks to 200 in the past week and a series of attacks of villages and mosques and a group of suicide bombers blew
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themselves up in a village. on thursday two girls detonated suicide bombs in borno state and up to 50 fighters stormed lake chad on wednesday, 100 people killed there, the day after 48 men were shot in a raid after prayers in villages and we have more from the capitol abuja. >> reporter: one of the targets of the attacks was a popular clerk who heard denounced activity by cow bow and preached pieceful between muslims and christians in the area which has been a flash point of religious violence for years and it's not clear if he was killed or injured in the attack and still trying to establish that the other blast which happened at a restaurant we were told it was frequented by businessmen and it's unclear what this means to
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authorities and how they will handle this latest violence and comes after days of violence in the region and has seen 200 people killed by boko haram when the new president was sworn in at the end of may and came into power promising to defeat the group and moved the common and control center of fighting boko haram to the north east of more than $20 million to support soldiers fighting the group and diplomatic effort and travels to the g 7 summit in germany and african union summit in north africa and chad and after ramadan goes to cameroon effected by boko haram and to the united states to meet president obama where insurgency and boko haram will be the topic of main discussion but there is a sense of people on the ground that with the effort the government seems to be making it's not filtering down to
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communities, communities are not being protected and these are attacks or evidence that boko haram is still a force to be reconed with. >> reporter: military says it accidentally dropped a bomb in eastern baghdad and there are reports at least seven people have been killed and military said the fighter jet had a technical problem to cause the bomb to drop and returning to base when the accident happened ap more information about the bombing offensive civilians by iraqi military stepping up offensive against i.s.i.l. hospital sources say dozens were killed when air strikes hit fallujah on saturday and almost all of them were women and children. and bombing on sunday comes from heavy fighting and jane has more on that from baghdad. >> reporter: anbar itself is the scene of force fighting across that huge province and starting closer to the syrian
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border and new attacks by i.s.i.l. including suicide bombers on that town and one of the few areas not held by i.s.i.l. it's really a pocket in western anbar that is still holding fast but against severe attacks and fallujah and anbar heavy fighting and it seems to consist of i.s.i.l. sending in suicide bombers and gunmen and forces trying to repel them with air strikes and artillery and the problem is that a lot of those air strikes and artillery seem to be on residential neighborhoods and they say they do make an effort to limit civilian casualties but following reports that the iraqi airforce bombed a soccer field with people playing soccer and that is i.s.i.l. control and
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they do not let them play soccer and as you can imagine a complicated conflict and difficult to get accurate information out of there but clearly the offensive is on in some respects. >> reporter: developing story out of syria where activists say i.s.i.l. fighters captured the town from kurdish forces north of raqqu the strong hold in syria and took control of the town with air strikes by the coalition. hit rebel positions across the country and special enjoy is in the capitol sanaa trying to broker a ceasefire and to discuss the worsening humanitarian situation and more now. >> reporter: in the ongoing three-month air campaign this is a daily seen in thai and hit the republican palace and the central security billing where houthis and fighters loyal to president saleh are stationed
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and air strikes targeted the palace in capitol sanaa south of lemen and hit and killed by local resistance forces in support of the president abd rabbuh mansur hadi and launched attacks on houthis in the city and managed to control an air base there. one saudi soldier was killed when his base was attacks with artillery on the borders and opposing fighting to the end of the holy month of ramadan and arrived for help with humanitarian aid. >> i've been pushing hard to find a solution to the crisis, today i have come to find a quick solution for the same of people and looking for a peaceful solution that gets everyone back to dialog to solve all the problems. >> reporter: labeled this a level three humanitarian crisis
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a severe category and children missing out of ordinary activities and out of school and they keep smiling and hoping for a new future without war, al jazeera. still ahead on al jazeera ignoring a regional meeting burundi's president continues campaigning for an election that has been condemned worldwide and the growing demands to remove the confederate flag off buildings in southern u.s. states.
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top stories for you once again on al jazeera, the vice president of the european commission says the no vote in the greek referendum has widened the gap between drooes and creditors and says the echl u is willing to work with greece the greek prime minister meeting others for help with the debt crisis. join two separate attacks and the first blast went off at a restaurant, the other was at a crowded mosque and boko haram blamed for attacks. iraqi military says it accidentally dropped a bopp on a neighborhood in eastern baghdad and there are reports search people have been killed and a fighter jet had a technical problem and caused the bomb to drop and back to greece and sunday referendum results and leaves questions in the country and businesses and people still want to know will the banks reopen on tuesday and have been
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closed a week and in trouble and surviving on emergency lending by bankers and rejected the latest bailout deal and can a new one happen or some sort of compromise and if there is not the big one could greece still leave the euro zone and prime minister wants to stay with single currency but return to drakam is still a possibility and we spoke to greece's deputy minister and part of the parliament and says it's time for the bank to assume responsibility and help greece. >> the resignation was an act of selflessness selflessness and has done a great job negotiating with brussels. some of our partners did not like him and it was not a problem and stepped aside for
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having no pretext to anybody if we don't want a fair agreement with our problems and now it's up to europeans and banker to fulfill the institutional mandate because they are do not have a solventcy but an liquidity and i think they will flock in a responsible way and to help our economy to recover because we understand clearly without the banking system there is not the possibly for them and things could go back tonormal but they have a historical possibility to react fast. east african leaders due to meet in tanzania to talk about burundi but burundi's president is not coming and he is staying home to continue campaigning for the presidential elections.
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months of unrest since he announced he would run for a third term and opponents called it unconstitutional and 144,000 fled to neighboring countries. he is being increasing internationally and nationally and polls held a week ago not free and frar fair by the union and pulled some aid funding to burundi which is bad news for a country estimated to get 42% of its national income from foreign aid and already one of the poorest nations in the word and u.n. says 80% of the population lives in poverty and we heard from patricia a little earlier, a professor at oxford and offer of gender and genocide in burundi and toll me the president should postpone these elections. >> i mean it's possible that violence will escalate and there
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are reports that the government is really searching out for the opposition betweenly here and i hope the president will actually listen to the international community and postpone presidential elections and enter into dialog with the opposition parties and really burundi society for the good of the country, i think the people have suffered for long enough and i think there is still time for you know for more effective democratic solution to the problems in burundi. now foreign ministers from the united states and five other world powers are in vienna for their final round of talks with iran over the nuclear program and say there is still plenty of work to do ahead of tuesday's deadline and james base
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diplomatic editor and say that but never have been closer and maybe this may indicate something is on the cards here. >> indicates they are close and at the final stage but as we have said all along, the last bit of this is the most difficult, you get to the really tricky points at the end and as we understand it that is where they are exactly now, the experts have gone through the material in this deal they have a deal a text and a few points in the deal is where they are bracketed and have to decide what to put in the bracket sections and told it's a few areas but no agreement on the areas and some are technical but in the end these are political decisions, final sticking points and put them on a piece of paper and they have to deal with it the iranpeople and the p 5 plus
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one with security council and germany. there as been a meeting of p 5 plus one in the last couple hours and it has ended and in that meeting they were going through the agree agenda and negotiating strategy and what we are expecting in the coming hours is p 5 plus one is sit down with iran people and part of the long protracted negotiations going on for two years but in many ways the hardest part. >> we are having a little bit of satellite break up thank you. the columbia government says it's ready to have a ceasefire with rebels before the end of peace talks but they would have to prove they generally want peace and have to agree to legal cases against those involved in the conflict, the chief
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negotiator warned the talks which have been going on in cuba since 2012 is hardly advancing. they have been walking to a park where the head of the roman catholic church is due to celebrate mass in the coming hours and more than a million people are expected to attend and earlier on sunday devote catholics lined the streets to welcome the pope and he will deliver a message about caring for the poor and the environment and we have more. >> reporter: people have been lining the streets now for hours hoping to get a glimpse of the pope in his pope mobile and in keeping up with the people who are often considered on the periphery. >> pope francis reaches out to people and with the sick and
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those who need him and we need him. >> reporter: these countries have something else in coming and when the catholic church had mass sex and corruption scandals these are the nations where catholics have remained the most faithful and countries with large indigenous populations and the pope says he wants to acknowledge them and the theme is reconciliation which is timely in ecuador because there have been mass protests with the government over the last few weeks and the churches interseenedinterseen ed ed -- intervened for a truce while the pope is here. >> expected to debate whether to bring down the confederate flag and the killing of nine people in a church in charlton revived the 150-year-old controversy of the use of the banner, more from
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tom ackerman. >> reporter: to find the confederate state's flying proudly you don't have to leave washington d.c., a few blocks from the u.s. capitol and joining the other 49 states waves the flag of mississippi and in the corner a bars and stars pattern that aroused controversy in south carolina and they will are decide if to remove it from the battlegrounds and mississippi it zen citizens decided to leave it unchanged. >> the decision belongs to the people of mississippi. >> reporter: in the racial movie birth of a nation in 1915 the flag stood for the narrative of the aggrieved southern states as they insist the fight against the union was for sovereignty, honor and shilvery and not
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slavery. hollywood flew the flag in the 1939 blockbuster, gone with a wind and they film talked about the loss of plantation life and talked about the foley of the most lethal war. >> all we have is cotton and slaves. >> reporter: it was part of a declaration in 1949 those who were opposed from the party broke away and nominated a president on a white supremacy platform and confed confederate flag says it's against racism. >> it will dishonor confederate soldiers and dishonor black confederate soldiers. >> reporter: most call that a distorted account of the few blank soldiers admitted to ranks but only when their army was
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close to surrender. and they play act the battles of a century and a half ago and reimagining the first battle of the bull run is differ because this is the original design flown during the first stages of the war before the confed rets went on to defeat. on this battlefield where hundreds died from both sides this statute honors the general who commanded the victory of the confederate troops. with all the battle grounds only the battle of the ultimate viktor now flies, tom ackerman, virginia. a second person is being treated in the philippines for middle east respiratory syndrome, mers the health ministry says the patient's condition has improved, 36-year-old tourist showed symptoms of the virus after he got back from dubai and they are
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tracing people who have come into contact with him. >> translator: last saturday around 11:30 in the morning we received a referral from the research institute for tropical medicine about a foreigner from the middle east and suffering coughs and by 5:00 p.m. the test yielded positive result, the patient was immediately confined in the hospital for tropical medicine and now under observation but is stable and very cooperative. >> reporter: the u.s. won the woman futbol cup for the third time and despite corruption scandals the host canada said the tournament was a huge success and we report now from vancouver. ♪ the beats of futbol fever in vancouver, women's futbol coverage and no shortage of red,
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white and blue and many fans could drive across the border and watch the match, not available to the japanese and billed it as an organizational success with 1.3 million stands in the stadium watching over the month-long tournament and the t.v. audience at home and the host bidding on a future men cup. this expanded to 24 teams and shows the continue growth of the games since the first townment in 1991. then of course there is fifa the excitement of this world cup couldn't come at a better time for the governing body and embroiled in alleged corruption scandal in the world. and blatter was no show staying in zurich and both men are keeping a low profile.
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in vancouver atrophy fifa fan zone the people are too young to know but the parents know and asked if it affected the game on it. >> issues will come and go but futbol will always be there. >> if the corruption is so much a part of it that it's distant to everyone who watches or plays the game and everybody who is actually part of the game. >> i think it's the women's game and it's separate from the men's and easier to like associate the game with something so away from fifa because they don't care as much about women's games. >> you don't want to spend your money internationally or nationally going to corrupt activity when they are proven to be corrupt. >> this was about futbol on this
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day and showed the success of the women's days no matter what is happening in the government that is in front of it, vancouver. >> plenty more news for you on line at al jazeera online and the latest coming out of greece, after this. ♪ >> in greece, the no vote wins. the finance minister resigns and now the race to find a new plan to bail out the country. >> nuke career negotiations near another deadline this morning. the u.s. vows to walk away with iran will not compromise. >> a definitive win the u.s. women's team defeats
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