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>> the german and french leaders say they respect the greek vote but athens needs to come up with something new. hello there i'm felicity barr and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: a double bomb attack in central nigeria kills more than 40 people. boko haram are suspected. the iraqi military steps up its offensive against i.s.i.l. but there are heavy civilian casualties. and mass with more than a million. the first big event of the pope
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pope'spope's south american tour. hello. there are fears greek banks could be just days away from collapse. if a new package of emergency funding isn't agreed on. the head of the greek bank association says the banks will remain shut until wednesday meaning restrictions on cash withdrawals will continue until then. a few hours ago, the lady of the greek finance euclid tsakalotos was sworn in.about in as finance minister. finishing a meeting in paris. >> we are going to have to live with the decision. the question is now what is going to be the reaction of the other 18 countries and how they will react to this vote.
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i would like to thank you for inviting me here today so we can find a solution. we say that the door is going to stay open, and this is the reason why the leaders of the members of the euro zone are going to meet again tomorrow. >> time is running out and this is really an emergence an emergency of both greece and europe. dignity as well. europe is confronted by this responsibility. it is not just an economic, financial and monetary construction. europe is an ensemble which is founded on principles. fundamental principles, a conception not only of europe but of the world on freedom openness but also respect. in this europe, there is room for solidarity, solidarity is everywhere in europe. there is also responsibility,
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this balance between responsibility and sol dater solidarity must be the lightning rod of our behavior today and tomorrow. >> al jazeera, jacky rowland has been following those talks in paris and sent us this update. >> the focus very much is on two key meetings that will take place in brussels on tuesday. first a meeting of finance ministers of the euro zone and then afterwards a meeting of leaders of the euro zone countries. they will be look to greece to come forward with new proposals for how to resolve this crisis. they've said that there is still a channel of communication open but those proposals must indicate that greece is serious about remaining within the euro. clear language that they are not willing to write a blank check and that the greek proposals
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would have to be within certain parameters. also indications that despite all the tough talk of the previous days, europe is not going to abandon greece and the greek people to their fate. the german chancellor angela merkel, has spoken about humanitarian aid to greece. so not a blank check not writing off debt at this stage but emergency money to make sure the hospitals will stay open, public transport will work, there won't be power cuts or water cuts, anything to exacerbate the situation in greece and threaten to move to future social unrest. >> it was a crucial vote, jonah hull reports. >> on this day, there is one sentiment above others on the street. >> i'm proud of my people.
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i feel proud for my people. but also confused. because we say no to the proposal of europe. we want a better proposal. >> reporter: but pride in greece'sgreece's defiance of of its international lenders is not enough to avoid the fall. the banks are shut their enclosure extended until thursday at the earlest but even then there is no guarantee they will be able to open or the 60 euro per person per day can be sustained as cash reserves dwindle. prime minister alexis tsipras armed with the back of opposition party leaders will present new proposals in brussels on tuesday and there's a new finance minister to steer the negotiation is. the report edly mild mannered oxford educated euclid tsakalotos who replaces jawns you
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yanis varoufakis, who is not widely liked by his counter parts. them be negotiating with people like this wolfgang scheubler the german finance minister hated by many greeks as the architecture of their pain, sucking their blood it says for the past five years. >> that's hardly the basis for getting along now something i put to a greek minister. >> within the week i will not predict it will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow but there is no reason why within the week we cannot exit this very, very dangerous moment, not only for greece but for europe. what would that take? it will take mutual compromises. it will take putting the active heart of the negotiations the good of the people is of of europe
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and of the european union above priorities that remain now. >> meanwhile the drip drip drip continues, making a bank rescue harder by the minute. >> translator: people want the banks to open and they want a peaceful life and that can only be achieved as part of europe. >> well i wouldn't say i'm really positive. i hope they find the solution because i'm really terrified and i don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. >> reporter: greeks are proud and by saying no more many will feel they have won their dignity back that they may not be able to enjoy moment for long. jonah hull, al jazeera athens . >> barnaby phillips joins us from athens. it's being paid clear that it's up to greece to come up with new proposals. >> that was certainly
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mrs. merkel's position as you were saying. alexis tsipras here today has been gathering his domestic forces. he's in a strong position domestically. hoping he is traveling to brussels with a fair wind you behind him reinforced by the referendum on sunday. 61% voting to reject the finance mintsministers proposals. dimitri do you agree that alexis tsipras will go to brussels feeling he has momentum in a strong position now. >> he has a momentum because it is not only it was 61% of no vote in the referendum it was at
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this referendum who has been under terrible conditions, all greek must pleerl merely accept the conditions presented to the greeks that there will be sort of, it will be doomsday if they were voting for no. and not only that. an economic war is be stated at this very moment against country. the banks have closed. the european central bank is not giving the necessary money to be the greek economy to function normally. so it was not -- >> that is not they said they cannot give money to the -- [simultaneous speech] >> very well the arguments because it is a banker of government actions, to be the head of european central bank but this is another question.
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>> illegalities [simultaneous speech] >> i describe you, is the conditions under which the referendum has taken place. and the conditions were of direct threat to the greek people. from declarations of foreign leaders and from the situation here in the economy so what i want to say is that 61% it's a very strong mandate. nobody even need i was waiting for 61% under such conditions. >> are you saying that when he goes obrussels he will not be making concessions. >> i do not know what mr. tsipras will do. because mr. tsipras is facing huge international forces which want greece to follow the program, in spite of the catastrophic results it has already produced in grease. but what i say is that he has a terribly strong, the strong eggsest he could even imagine from his people not to accept the
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unprecedenced, cattle strove -- catastrophe since 2010. >> dimitri we have to leave it there. thank you very much. we'll continue to bring you news and views throughout evening felicity. >> thank you barnaby. before self imposed deadline can iran and six countries agree on a deal? and politicians in south carolina debate whether to remove the flag from capital grounds.
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>> hello again, reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. engineer plan chancellor says greece must come up with proposals to resolve its debt cries he. pleating with the french president in paris. >> euclid tsakalotos will replace yanis varoufakis. as greek finance minister. 200 killed and over 67 wounded in a double bomb attack in central nigeria. mosque in the city of jos. attack on the mosque might be targeting a leading cleric who is known to be critical of the
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armed group boko haram. at least six people were killed at a bomb attack in potiscam. yvonne ndege has more from the capital abuja. one of the attacks was a popular cleric who had denounced the attack by boko haram and preached peaceful co-existence between christians and muslims in the area, which is a flash point for many in the area. it is not clear whether he was killed or injured in that area, the restaurant was frequented by local politicians and well to do businessmen. now it is unclear what this all means for the authorities and how they will handle this latest violence. it comes at the end of days of violence in the region which has seen more than 200 people killed by boko haram. when the new president muhammadu
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buhari away sworn in, he moved the military to the northeast from the capital he ordered the release of more than $20 million for fighting the amped group he has also been to chafd and niger and after ramadan he will go to cameroon and to the united states to meet u.s. president barack obama where it is expected that be insurgency against boko haram will be the main topic of discussion. but there is a sense even with all the effort the government seems to be make it is not filtering down to communities. communities are not being protected and these attacks for many are just evidence that boko haram is still a force to be reckoned with. >> the man behind the coup
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attempt in burundi has threatened to remove the president by force if he doesn't step down. east african leaders are meeting in tanzania to discuss the is crisis in burundi but president nkurunziza isn't attending. he's staying home to campaign for upcoming elections. there's months of unrest since the president announced he would be running for a third term. thousands have fled to neighboring countries. hard decisions need to be made, in order to reach a deal on iran's nuclear program says secretary of state john kerry. say there is still work to do, before the deal. diplomatic editor james bays has more.
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>> reporter: for days and days now intense negotiations have been underway taking place at all times of day but now those meetings are being carried out by foreign ministers themselves. all of the foreign ministers are here in vienna and in the final stage of these negotiations they have all been meeting together. the chinese foreign minister says now they are pretty close. >> translator: new progress has been made in the negotiations. there are still outstanding issues on the tabling. we believe there are solutions no these issues. hence the comprehensive agreement is within reach. >> reporter: we're told there are only a few items on which they now have to try and get agreement but in this process the last details were always going to be the more difficult ones. they'll continue meeting knowing that time is running out. the deadline is tuesday. there's only a matter of hours left.
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>> in iraq there is increasing concern about civilian casualties caused by government counteroffensive in anbar province. forces are trying to force the islamic state of iraq and the levant out of ramadi and fallujah. attacks on populated areas put local people in danger. jane arraf has this report. >> fighting is intensifying around be these areas one of the most difficult to recapture is fallujah. i.s.i.l. is believed to have launched dozens of suicide attacks in the past two weeks across anbar province. iraq security forces are using air strikes and artillery. the intensified operations though on the edge of cities are killing civilians as well as fighters. the government says it is only targeting i.s.i.l. but some of the victims are clearly women and children.
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the details are difficult to confirm, hospitals around fallujah and ramadi are controlled by i.s.i.l. iraqi government doctors have been pulled out. this i.s.i.l. video appears to show young men said to be killed when government air strikes hit a football pitch on saturday. the ministry denies they are victims at a football game since i.s.i.l. bans the game. barrel bombs band by international law military leaders here deny that. >> translator: we are using air force yets and army jets and artillery and other precise methods. these are our people, they are iraqis. i hear about the uses barrel bombs in the media but there is no such thing i assure you. >> reporter: iraqi commanders say among i.s.i.l.'s main tactics are hiding in civilian areas. even if civilians wanted to leave fallujah and ramadi there
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aren't a lot of places they can go because i.s.i.l. controls so much territory in anbar. there is only one route out for most he families through baghdad where access is tightly controlled. that's left tens of thousands of families still in those cities caught between i.s.i.l. and the coming offensive. jane arraf al jazeera baghdad. have. >> strikes against opposition fighters near the lebanese border one of several battles raging across the country. mohammed jamjun reports. >> in syria the conflict continues. an unendingending barrage as fierce as this fire, as suffer caiting as thissuffocating asthis smoke.
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on the move still is i.s.i.l. fighting to keep control of raqqa its main stronghold and to take over hasaka on the border with turkey. on another of syria's borders this one with lebanon the government is fighting to repel rebels and gain the upper hand. with hezbollah vs. entered the fray once more the fighting has become fiercer on the ground as yrnz dropsyrians drop barrel bottoms from the air. here transforming a gas canister into a bomb. complicating the conflict even further the presence of kurdish fighters. until now the most effective fighting force against i.s.i.l. driving deeper towards raqqa and on the front license near hasaka
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hasaka, they are trying to stop the advance of islamic state of iraq and the levant. more battle lines are drawn and more fighting fighting fronts of open as the fighting gets more complicated every day. mohammed jamjun, al jazeera. >> bombing hit faiosh, a agricultural area north of the port city of acitizen. more than 3,000 people have been killed in yemen's conflict since march almost half of them civilians. police in ar marine yah have cleared away protesters in the central square yaravan in protest against rising electricity prices. the protesters had given the government a deadline of monday evening to cancel the crisis. our pope francis has been celebrating mass in front of a
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huge crowd. open air ceremony it is the second day of pope francis's tour of south america. the pontiff delivered a message about caring for the poor and the environment during the service. editor lucia newman has this update from ecuador's capital. >> reconciliation is his overriding theme to his first trip to spanish speaking south america. he talked about the family and the need to protect the family to reconcile one self with one's family particularly santa time when the church blees that it is in danger of disintegration. the pope has been far more open minded about divorce and all about human sexuality but does not ambassadors same sex marriage which has been legalized in some areas of north
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america, particularly united states. the subject is likely the shift to reconciliation between man and his environment. the colombian government says it's ready to consider a ceasefire with farc rebels even before the end of peace talks currently taking place. but farc rebels will have to prove they genuinely want peace. peace process has been taking place in cuba since 2012. politicians in the u.s. state of south carolina will shortly debate whether to remove the confederate flag which is seen by some as a symbol of slavery and racism. last month's shooting at a black church in charleston has revived the controversy about the banner that dates back to the civil war. tom ackerman reports. >> to find the flag flying proudly you don't have to go far from washington, d.c. waves the flag of mississippi in
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its upper left corner the same crossed bars and stars pattern that has risen so much controversy in south carolina. there the state will decide whether to remove the battle standards and by a landslide mississippi residents voted to leave their flags the same. >> the decision belongs rightfully to the people of mississippi. >> as filmed in the racially incendiary be birth of a nation in 1915, the flag stood for the aggrieved southern states as then southerners insisted that their fight was against honor and chivalry not slavery. 1939 blockbuster gone with the wind that film romanticized the lost plantation life, it also
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signified the most lethal war. >> all we've got is cotton and slaves and arrogance. >> southern democrats owned to racial integration broke away from their party and nominated their own presidential candidate on a white supremacy platform. argue that removing the flag is an inappropriate protest against racism. >> it would dishofn not only white confederate soldiers but it would dishonor black confederate soldiers. >> most historians wall that a distorted fact of the few black soldiers admitted to confederate ranks. today reenactors replay the battles of a century ago but replanning the first battle of bull run in virginia looks
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different, that's because it's the original design, before the confederates went on to defeat. on this battlefield where hundreds died on both sides this statute commemorates the general and the confederate troops. now the banner of the ultimate victor only flies. tom ackerman, al jazeera manassas virginia. >> researchers say the lack of water has cost california $3 billion this year alone far worse than 2014. melissa chan reports. >> our team has been covering the drought all since the declaration of state of emergency since early 2013. the drought this summer is a lot worse than the drought from last year.
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in fact the university of california at davis put out a report that says economic losses in 2015 are expected to be $2.8 billion, and half a million fields like this one will lie fallow 20,000 jobs almost 20,000 jobs will be lost. we spoke to mike wood, one farmer and his family, they own 1900 acres and this is what they had to say. >> there is a little over 700 acres the that is that is fallowed. there is a lot of research that went into things that wouldn't take a lot of water. we have 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 and 30 people. presently we have seven people under employment. >> finally lions have been reintroduced to rwanda 15 years after the last one was killed. two males and five females were transported on air and road on a
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30 day journey. track their movement the rwandan alliance were poisoned by cattle farmers. the address to click on is aljazeera.com. aljazeera.com. the single biggest group are syrians - tens of thousands of them with their children and little else - will risk this voyage. most often it leads to italy, but that is not where this journey ends of the to better understand what happens after they hit dry land, we joined them on the way through europe.