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>> youeurozone leaders tell employment tsipras to come back with a plan by the end of the week. there will i'm felicity barr. also coming up. another deadline in the iran nuclear talks. >> james adams. sam adams. >> victory remember. london marks the
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10th anniversary of the 7/7 attacks. and hundreds gather as pope francis continues his south americaen tour. hello, eurozone leaders have finished their emergency summit in brussels. but there is no deal yet. they will approve a rescue plan for greece if international lenders are satisfedsed. prime minister tsipras will summit submit a case for reform. >> the commission is prepared for everything. we're prepared in detail.
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we have a scenario, and we have the scenario a scenario to deal with the problem now keeping greece as a member. i strongly against greece's exit, but we cannot prevent it if the greek government is not doing what we require the greek government to do. >> jackie, we've seen many deadlines on this issue come and go. does this sound like a final one? >> it does sound like that really and there have been long periods of silence and then suddenly all these different people are speaking at the same time. speaking very clearly. it has been coming. there have been warnings, there have been deadlines missed loan
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installment payments that were not made. a payment that was meant to be paid at the imf at the end of june, it didn't happen. and then another payment by july july 20th. we're not sure what is going to happen there. but angela merkel the german chancellor has been warning that greece has days not weeks to work this out. and now an example days, sunday, five days. more precisely two days in which to come up with detailed proposals. a total of five days for greece's european partners to rule on those. so it really does seem that finally the end game is here. >> what is the significance though jackie of the fact that the meeting on sunday is not just going to be the eurozone leaders but the whole of the 28-member european union? >> i think it clearly puts it in
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its border context. we're not just talking about the european currency and the countries that use it. we're talking about the potential fall out for the all of europe and much further afield than that . >> any worst-case scenario that might effect greece would not have a contagion effect. it would not spread or drag down. other economies in primarily surgeon europe that is not as strong. portugal spain. this would not drag it with it.
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nevertheless anything that works with currency effects europe as a whole. it is appropriate that other countries are involved. although up until now key decisions regarding the euro have been taken by those who actually use it. it will be interesting to see how the decision-making process works on sunday. whether those countries that don't use the euro, whether they have a binding vote or advisory role. this is really developing all the time and i'm sure that they're reaching these decisions, working these things out as time progresses. >> well, late night for jackie and her team in brussels. thank you. well, greek banks are to remain closed until thursday at the earliest with limit on how much customers can withdraw from cash machines. banks closures are causing real damage to the wider greek economy. businesses are struggling to
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cope with an acute cash flow problem. >> at the foot of the mountain c hristos examines his vineyard. his grapes are ripening fast up the sun and they won't wait for greece to solve it's final problems. if they're not picked by september they will be ruined, and so will he, and right now he can't get money from the banks to pay his suppliers. >> time is precious. we need to make payments quickly. very soon the harvest starts and everything needs to happen. i just hope that the solution will be found very soon. >> wine is one of greece's oldest industries. christof inherited his vineyard from his father but he needs more than experience and expertise to save it now. almost everything in this vineyard apart from the grapes themselves is imported. the glass, these barrels come from france.
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even these cork come from portugal. and this shows why greece would face such difficult time if it was kicked out of the eurozone. because even a successful business like this one is heavily relyiant on imports that would suddenly become much more expensive if greece left a certain currency. in a factory on the outskirts of athens the machinery from the 1950s that still work just fine. he makes socks here just as his father did 60 years ago. but he's dangerously reliant on banks that have been closed for a week and a half now. >> last week i tried to send monday abroad to buy raw materials, but it was not pog possible, so the raw materials never arrived. the market has been frozen for a week. we have not received a single order, and we cannot pay back our debts or loans.
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>> the last five years have been difficult enough. he had already laid off 25 workers and cut production right back. but now he and all of greece's struggling industries are in a new and dangerous situation. al jazeera athens. >> talks between six world powers and iran on an historic nuclear deal have missed another deadline. negotiators will use carry on discussions beyond the tuesday cut off. our diplomatic editor james bays has more on those talks. >> trying to bridge the divide on the remaining most difficult issues. there were smiles at the start of their first meeting but by the end of the second well after midnight the atmosphere was described as tense. this was supposed to be the final deadline. but because of the deadlock the
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he e.u foreign appears said there will be a new extension which they have not set a new date. >> we'll continue to negotiate over the next couple of days. we are expanding our deadline. we're taking the time, the days with the needs to finalize the agreement which is something that is still possible even if it is getting into the difficult time. >> russia's foreign minister said that there are eight items in the draft deal that need to be sorted. he and some of the other foreign ministers are leaving for now. there, there are a range of issues whether there are political discussions that need to be had and there will need to be tradeoffs. there will need to be difficult decisions made on both sides if we're going to get this done. >> u.s. secretary of state john kerry has in the past said he is prepared to walk away from these negotiations. however, it's clear he's not
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ready to walk away yet even though they're not setting a new deadline the interim deal with iran would have expired and it's now been extended until friday july 10th. james bays al jazeera, vienna. >> more than 20 people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in deficient towns in yemen. 12 reported dead after an explosion near a mosque in the capital of sanaa, which an isil claimed. envoy to yemen yemen said that more than 80% of yemen's 25 million people need some form of humanitarian aid. >> this week was supposed to bring some peace to yemen. days in which discussion would replace destruction. but the fighting has not
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stopped. and aid workers are more worried than ever before. >> this emergency is beyond the scope of anyone if we don't stop it now. so we have to have. >> it's hard to imagine a more dire situation. water, food, and fuel shortages are spreading more misery as malnutrition rates already high continue to rise. last week the u.n. declared yemen a level three humanitarian crisis. the highest designation possible. now the agency has announced another milestone. at least 1500 civilians killed in the past three months of violence. >> we need massive massive humanitarian aid. then if we want to avoid catastrophe out of hand now. >> while the u.n.'s envoy to yemen arrived to sanaa over the weekend with high hopes his
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presence so far has stopped neither the saudi-led airstrikes nor the houthis. the fighting isn't limited to the capital. and civilians keep getting caught in the cross fire. >> people who do not have enough access to food nor to drugs. now if you have the fighting. it is real. >> many thought that the holy month of ramadan would end the violence but there seems to be no end in sight to the suffering. al jazeera. >> still ahead on the program. >> songs of war in the battle in south sudan and the fighting to bring down the government.
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plus-- >> i'm jessica baldwin where you can listen to to payment putting sound to art. flap
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>> a reminder of the top stories. eurozone leaders have finished their summit in brussels on the greek debt crisis, but there is no deal yet. on sunday they would approve a rescue plan to greece but leaders warn more time is fast running out.
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>> the stark reality is that we only have five days left to find the ultimate agreement. until now i have avoided talking about deadlines, but tonight i have to say it loud and clear that the final deadline ends this week. >> talks between six world powers and iran on an historic nuclear deal have missed another deadline. negotiation also now continue until friday past a self-imposed cut off of july 7th. it is ten years since the tax on london transport network killed 52 people and injured 700. the suicide-bombings were carried out by four british-born muslims who identified themselves with al-qaeda. on the anniversary of these 7-7 attacks we look at how the death threat to britain has continued continued. >> as britain remembers the
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names of the 52 sicks of 7/7 their families gather the permanent memorial dedicated to them. their deaths represent the first major attack on british soil by british-born militants. they unleashed an ears of coordinated sud suicide bombs. two muslim converts murdered lee rigby in broad dead light. security services altered they are tactics once more but attacks increasingly harder to track and to stop. >> the threat we face today is very different. it's not simply a tight organization plotting properest talks as we've used to see.
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now they have propaganda to radical others and create a fault across the world. [ gunfire ] >> tropical depression drills like this help to hone their response. they aid have would be have added a new dimension to the challenge. helping the police with that challenge,. >> radicalization takes place were you many different means. not just through this conveyer belt becoming more religious and what is considered non-violent extremist and then becoming violent extremist. we think that there are different mechanisms of radical indication. here he was a victim who
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survived. ten years after the tragedy the threat of the attacks are still evolving and harder to anticipate. london. the u.s. defense secretary has defended president barack obama's fight against else. >> humanitarian situation is yet another tragic consequence of what has gone on in isil. it remains one of the coalitions efforts, as i indicated in my opening statement to relief the humanitarian situation. that's very difficult to do when there is not order and control on the ground. this is why we need to get a security situation that is
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stable ground forces that are capable of seizing territory governing that's the only way to get the humanitarian situation turned around either in iraq or in syria. >> four years since south sudan was created they remain in a bitter civil war. south sudan gained indians from sudan following a peace deal to end africa's longest-running civil war. the peace was short lived when a new war broke out in 2013. since then ten thousand people have been killed and 1in' 6 million people have bin internally displaced. while group talks continued much of the nile remains in
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rebel hands. catherine soi with rare access. here is her exclusive report. >> these are south sudan's fighters. it's tan them four days through the swampy jungle to get there. there are young boys among them. unicef a say that there are 12,000 child soldiers on both sides of the conflict. some of the children we saw have been separated from their families. >> they're just coming together to join. but all in all we don't accept
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that. >> they sing songs of battle in victory. they say their mission is to change leadership. this commander says that special forces fighting further north are making gains in south sudan's only functioning oil field. the rebels have joined forces with the local militia there which was allied with the government until recently. >> they showed us some of the heavy weapons like this, and lots of ammunition.
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sudan has often been accused of providing weapons to the rebels, and they have denied this, and so have the rebels, who say most of the supplies come from you the south sudanese government. >> we're not getting help from sudan or anywhere. if we were, we would have won this war a long time ago. it's the other side getting the support. >> these fighters are heading to another front line position. it will be a long tough journey on foot. they say they're fighting for a cause they believe it. catherine soycatherine soi. >> kenyan president has visited a hospital treating victims of al-shabab attack. 14 people died in the overnight raid. many of the injured were airlifted to nairobi for treatment. al-shabab has conditioned a
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series of attacks until it can . >> at least $1.5 million people have come to the pope's last mass here in ecuador. he has spoken out against war and violence that is ravageing the world. he said that it is up to them to try to unite the world. >> while in some countries various forms of war and conflict reappear we christians insist on recognizing other religions, healing injuries and constructing injuries to strengthen ties.
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pope gran citizen appeared to direct and we're unable to appreciate movement that propose different solutions to people's problems. tens of thousands of pilgrims have spent the freezing night under the pouring rain. what is pickerly note worthy who came to see the pope during catholic youth weeks in brazil they are who the pope says are the poor, the indigenous and the poor. afterthe u.s. women's team has captured sports fans across
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the country. >> on sunday when the game was played the u.s. against japan it was the most widely watched soccer game with 26.7 million people tuning in on various television channels. that's even more than other traditional u.s. sports events like the world series in baseball and the final game of the national basketball association. president barack obama was watching the game. he sent out his congratulations to the team in a tweet and he also congratulated them in a phone call with speaking to coach jill ellis. congratulateing her for her leadership, and noting lloyd's extraordinary three goals in the final game against japan and obama saying he looks forward to welcoming the world cup winning team to the white house sometime very soon. >> well, they were celebrating but the national football
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federation their rival scoring goals every two minutes. 46-0 is an international record defeat although micronesia is not recognized by fifa so it is unlikely to go in to the official record books. now what do you hear when you listen to a painting? that may sound like a strange question. but an exhibition in london promises view tours hear paintings as well as see. jessica baldwin explains. >> the painting painted in 1543. listen to the music made by a violin with only three jeans
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strings. it's dischordant as the powerful king of england sought to break with the catholic church. >> there is an uneasiness obtained in the space. it's palpable in the shifting and hovering of sound. >> six musicians or sound artists were given their choice of any picture in the national gallery, and commissioned to chose. an electronic music changes as one nears the picture just as the uniform idea of the painting dissolves into tiny. >> the challenge in this fast-paced world is to slow people down. they rush through galleries taking pictures of themselves,
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looking at paintings left and right. but the music forces people to slow down and notice paintings they would not have noticed before. it would not have been finished in this way. >> it's very visceral experience. i would love for people to take away a kind of emotional connection with the painting they've been looking at. >> to look deeper and look down. and we should remind you to look somewhere else. >> living and looking all designed to slow the visitor
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down and provide a new way of seeing art and appreciating it even more. jessica baldwin. al jazeera london. >> much more coming on most of our main stories on our website. the address to click on to is www.aljazeera.com. www.aljazeera.com. >> this week on talk to aljazeera a rising star in the ballet world misty copeland >> it was the first time i had an identity, and ot was through being a dancer >> one of six children raised by a single mother - copeland had a difficult childhood. >> i never felt a connection to anything or anyone. and i was constantly just trying to fit in >> misty copeland stumbled on to ballet at 13 she had natural talent. >> as soon as i stepped into the