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>> running out of cash. greek banks will stay closed until friday. the greek leader is backed by opposition in search of new aid deal to save greece from economic abyss. i'm lauren todayer. also coming up, an attack in central nigeria killed 40 people. boko haram is suspected. the iraqi military set off its offensive. and the pope will celebrate mass with thousands of people on its trip to south america.
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>> hello just a day after greece voted to reject the terms of an international bail out the country's bail out system looks close to lapse. now according to four banking source banks will remain closed until friday. there have been a flurry of activity since that no vote, and german chancellor angela merkel is now meeting with france's president françois hollande. following pressure from eurozone leaders, the main opposition and ruling parties have issued a support of attacks in a moment we'll go live but first reports
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from the greek capital in the aftermath of the referendum result. >> on this day there is one sentiment above others on the streets. >> i'm proud of my people. i feel proud of my people. but those who are confused because we say no to the proposal of europe. we want a better proposal. >> but pride of greece' defiance of its international lenders is not enough to avoid the fall. the banks are still shut and whitmore assistance they're likely remain so. the 60 euro per person per day limit may have to be reduced. bank assistance will likely only come if there are signs that a wider deal can be done. to that end the greek finance minister yanisvaroufakis has
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resigned but there is no guarantee that his head is enough to secure a deal. >> negotiations are going to be tough not only because of the ill feelings have been built up between greece and creditors in recent months, but because of people like this, the german finance minister, unlikely poster boy of greece's resounding no, hated by many greeks as architecture of their pain sucking their blood they say, over the past five years. >> that's hardly the basis for getting along now. something that i put to a greek minister. >> within the week i will not predict that it will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow, but there is no reason why within the week we cannot exit these very very dangerous moment not only for greece but for europe. what would that take? it will take neutral compromises. it will take putting at the heart of the negotiations the good of the people of europe and of the european instability
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european union above other kinds of priorities and interests that prevail now. >> meanwhile, the drip, drip, drip of cash from the cashes continues, making a bank rescue harder by the minute. >> people want the banks to open and they want a peaceful life. >> i can't say that it's really positive. i hope that they find a solution because i'm terrified and i don't know what is going to happen. >> greeks are proud and by saying no more, many will feel they've won their dignity back. but they may not be allowed to endure the moment for long. jonah hull, al jazeera, athens. >> and in the last few minutes while we've been on air the greek bank association has said that the banks will remain closed on tuesday and wednesday. and banks will remain closed on tuesday and wednesday.
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barnaby phillips is in athens. he joins us live. what kind of impact is that halving at the moment on ordinary people there? there. >> well, the daily withdrawal we understand that it will stay in place, the daily limit that people can take out of cash machines is 60 euros. that's going to stay in place. for a lot of greeks now it's 50 euros because the banks have run out of 20 euro notes. then you have pensioners substantial portion of those in greece who don't have bank cards at all. their experience last week was that they were allowed to go to banks once. the banks with a open their doors and they were given 120 euros. no more, no less. their daily allowance is 20 euros. this is freezing up greek economic activity just when this
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country needs a revival of boost of economic fortunes. hello, tell me, the banks. >> we were once told last week that they were going to reopen tomorrow. that's not going to happen. of when do you think that they'll reopen and capital controls will be lifted? >> well, first of all i have certain information to tell you that we're not going to have a problem until the end of the week with banks working as they are now. >> they're hardly working now. the doors are closed and they're only allowed 60 euros. >> we expect the banks to open. at the moment we'll have a light of the beal is going to happen. we expect the banks to commit their duty and give some
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allowance to the greek banks. to support the true intentions of the government to have negotiation with european union that this is going to bring hope to the greeks. >> of course, there is a huge provider there as everyone will notice. five months of negotiations have failed. further failure now would be disastrous for the banks. >> future failure would be disastrous not only for the banks, for greece, of course, the european union. so i believe that the european they'll have to consider, they'll have to analyze the result of the greek people's vote and it will have to think twice in order to give a fair solution to the greek people as well as the other european
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people. >> they have a very good connection with the people who they're discussing. the negotiator will be familiar faces, and of course i respect i strongly believe that the academic positions that it was suggested to the euro group if our if they're supported i believe we're going to have a really good result very soon.
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>> i have to cut you off there. thank you very much. that's the latest from the greek capital, lauren. >> thank you very much, indeed. now the chairman of the european group said that a no-vote makes it difficult. >> greek must take difficult measures. otherwise the government won't function otherwise the economy won't work. and if the government and people reject difficult measures, we're going to get into a very difficult situation. >> going on to paris where jacky rowland has the latest for us. the merkel-holland meeting, they were to have a big meeting on tuesday. >> yes, the two leaders are having to deal with the facts that in recent days they have
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not been exactly following the same line on how to respond to the greek crisis. that is difficult because this is equivalent to 45% of the eurozone and they're really the backbone of this economic area. it is important that they're on the same page at this time. the germans are seen as taking a really tough line hardening attitudes towards the greeks, messages sent quite clearly from german officials that they feel that the ball is in the greek court and it's time for them to take appropriate action to remain within the euro. it shouldand the french with a
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differing opinion. it's time for them to come together with a clear and unifying message on tuesday. >> what about the new formulation that might be aid given, it would not an bail out but something called different and that may be a way around it? >> this crisis has seen so many precedents on the first developed country defaulting on an imf loan repayment. now the idea of one developed euro european union country having to give humanitarian aid to another developed western member of the european union. all these precedents, which are
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a result of the crisis. the problem is that the eu, the eurozone is between a rock and a hard place. on the one hand the consequences of greece leaving the eurozone will be devastating because they will be moving in completely unknown territory here. clearly no one is going to be given the free option from the greeks or the european banks or the european institutions, which have been supporting greece financially since 2009. but also as well clearly saying in finding some accommodation some sort of debt forgiveness for greece could be seen by many as setting a bad precedent. there are other countries in the eurozone such as portugal or spain, who are also struggling, so there are no easy answers.
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>> thank you very much, indeed. >> at least 44 people killed and 66 wounded in a bomb attack in nigeria. witnesses say a that the attack on the mosque may be because of the cleric who is critical of boko haram. and six people were killed by a suicide-bomb attack at a church in yorbe state. this brings the number of people killed in suspected boko haram attacks to 200 in the past week. we have more from the capital of abuja. >> the reports suggest that one of the targets of the attacks just was a popular closuring who was preached peaceful coexist sentence betweencoexistence
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between the muslims and christians in the area. another bomb was attacked a restaurant of politicians and well-to-do businessmen. the violence comes at the end of days of violence which has seen 200 people killed by boko haram. when the president was sworn in at the end of may he came in to power promising to defeat the group. he moved the command of scroll center of the military fighting boko haram to the northeast. he ordered $20 million to support soldiers fighting the group. there have been diplomatic effort. he traveled to the g7 summit in germany and the african union summit in south africa and he visited chad and niger and they'll go to cameroon who has
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been affected by bomb, and they'll visit with president barack obama in the united states. and boko haram will be the main topic of discussion. but even after all the effort the government seems to be making it is not filtering down to communities. communities are not being protected and these attacks for men are just evident that bomb is a force to be reckoned with. >> still to come on the program. just 24 hours to go before a self-imposed deadline can iran and six world powers agree on a nuclear deal? and billion dollar losses for california's agriculture industry as it struggles with ongoing drought.
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>> wildfires lit by arsonists. >> this sounds like it happened in a flash. >> millions in damages. and the tragic human cost. >> he's not here anymore. >> find out how experts are fighting back.
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>> our top stories here on al jazeera. the head of the greek bank association said that lenders will remain shut on tuesday and wednesday in restrictions will continue until then. the greek prime minister tsipras has met with opposition parties giving him their backing ahead of the bail out negotiations on tuesday. they have nominated tsakalotos to replace retake on the position of finance minister. secretary of state john kerry said that hard choices need to be made. foreign ministers from the u.s. and five other world powers are in vienna for a final round of talks, and they say there is
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work to do ahead of tuesday's search-imposed deadline for a deal. james bays, you've been covering this for what seems like forever. what are sticking points at this late hour? >> there are quite a few sticking points in lausanne and vienna. there is a text of a deal but there are gaps missing. we're told the gaps are marked by brackets in the text. what they are trying to do is to go through those items. what are those items? only aspects of those now are contentious, but they include the inspections taking place inside of iran. they include the sequencing of the sanctions relief and exactly which sanctions would be lifted when. these are the sort of issues that are causing difficulty.
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and where we are right now is that we have all of the foreign ministers now in place. we have members of the p5+1. they have their own meeting what the key sticking points are and the negotiating positions and tactics. that meeting ended an and hour ago we have the first meeting taking place between the p5+1 and iran during this session. >> if they do manage to come up
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with a deal, what are the next steps? >> the next step is definitely in the united states. the u.s. congress has been given the review period. that also adds to the drama. not only do we have a deadline coming up on tuesday we also have the date of the ninth of july. that is the date by which if we get a deal before then, then congress gets 30 days to look at all this. if we get a deal after the ninth, then it's 60 days, and i don't think anybody really wants this to be with the u.s. congress for double the length of time. it will be a rubber stamping operation.
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>> thank you for clarifying all that for us. >> now iraqi military said that it accidently dropped a bomb in eastern baghdad. seven people have been killed. and they had the fighter jet had been returning to base when it happened. islamic state in iraq and the levant airstrikes hit the isil-held city of fallujah on saturday. they say almost all of the dead are children and women. jane arraf is in baghdad with this update. >> starting with haditha close to the syrian border we've seen new attacks by isil including suicide-bombers on that town. it's one of the few areas that is not held by isil.
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it's really a pocket in western anbar that is holding fast. but against severe attacks. fighting with suicide-bombers and gunmen and iraqi forces trying to repel them with airstrikes and artillery. the problem is that a lot of those airstrikes and the artillery seem to be on residential neighborhoods where there are still civilians. now the defense ministry spokesman tells us that they do make an effort to minimize civilian casualties, but he says, for instance, following reports that the iraqi air force bombed a soccer field with people praying soccer yesterday. that is a complicated conflict and difficult to get accurate
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information. clearly the offensive is on in some respect. >> the man behind the coup attempt in burundi in may has threatened to remove the president by force if he does not step down. he accused the president of dragging the country back into civil war. it comes as the africa leaders meet in tanzania to discuss burundi's crisis. but the burundi president is not attending. he's staying home to take part in elections. pope francis will deliver a message encouraging people to care for the poor and the environment.
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>> what is the atmosphere like there? >> the poem left here early. whereas you just said at least 1 million people are expected to attend his first open air mass. this is very catholic country so there is tremendous even enthusiasm. the pope will be come together square where we are right now which has the city's main cathedral. his main message is supposed to be about reconciliation. between man and the environment which he says is being destroyed. and reconciliation amongst men themselves. this is a very important message, indeed. ecuador is going through a tremendous political turmoil flashing between the opposition and the government.
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also over to venezuela he told them that he wants them to find peaceful reconciliation and prosperity. this is the message he'll spread in different forms while on his one-week trip to south america. >> and tell us more about what they make of him. clearly he is relatively new pope. what do they make of him as a character and what do they say about him? >> people are telling us that they're very catholic. to begin with 75% of ecuadorians are catholic. this is a country that has not suffered so much defections as the catholic church has in countries like brazil, for example. but they're saying that this pope feels more human.
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that he speaks their language not just in the sense of spanish, but he speaks in simple words and messages that they can understand, and they're telling me that this is a time when ecuador needs the word of the pope, the word of god to try to bring some kind of peace to this country, and also this is a very poor country so they're hoping that some how he will give them some kind of a hope--this is what i've been told by many people. we want hope. we are so poor, we need to live better amongst ourselves and also in our daily lives. >> lucia newman, thank you very much indeed. california's agriculture industry has taken a huge financial hit because of the state's ongoing drought. research has shown that lack of water has cost the state $3 billion, much higher than last year's losses. >> our team has been covering the drought ever since the declaration of the state of emergency jerry brown in 2014. and here's the thing. there is a level of drought but
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the drought this summer is a lot worse than the drought were last year. the university of california-davis put out the report that said economic losses in 2015 are expected to be $2.8 billion. and half a million feel like this one will lie fallow. 20,000 jobs, almost 20,000 jobs will be lost. we spoke with mike wood, one farmer and his family, they own 1900 achers. >> there is a little over 700 acres that is fallowed. what is planted, a lot of research went into things that would not take a lot of water. we've grown garlic for a number of years. on this ranch we would normally at this time of year if we were in full production we would be employing between 25 to 30 people. presently we have seven people under employment. >> the colombian government said its ready to consider a cease-fire with farc rebels even before the end of peace talks
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taking place. the rebels would have to prove that they genuinely want peace. recent attacks by farc guerrillas have threatened the peace talks which has taken place in cuba since 2012. they also want the armed group to agree to legal cases against those involved in the conflict. >> we are open to a serious bilateral cease-fire even before the peace accords. when we have the peace guarantees the taking of responsibility of the judicial matters and international verification matters so this does not become something. >> lyons have been reintroduced to rwanda 15 years after the last one was killed. two males and five females were transported by air and road on a 30-hour journey from south africa. they were kept in a fence-offed quarantined area for two weeks before being released into the wild. the they have satellite collars to track their movement. rwanda's last lions were
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