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whose remains were identified by d.n.a. a short while ago. on the 20th anniversary this week which left 8,000 muslim men and boys dead. more on this aljazeera.com aljazeera.com. ♪ we are here because we believe we are making real progress toward a comprehensive deal. >> getting closer to the deadline secretary of state john kerry gives an update on negotiations to make a deal on iran's nuclear program. the flag is coming down after 50 years and is google sexist and men shown better paying jobs than women?
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♪ this is al jazeera america live from new york city, i'm tony and secretary of state john kerry says negotiators are making progress in talks over iran's nuclear program but there is no deal yet. >> we are not going to sit at the negotiating table forever. we also recognize that we shouldn't get up and leave simply because the clock strikes midnight and i emphasize given that the work here is incredibly technical and that the stakes are very very high we will not rush and we will not be rushed. >> reporter: he has until midnight tonight to hand over an agreement to congress. if he meets that timeframe congress will have 30 days after going over the accord and james is in vienna for us and
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americans can be pretty impatient but i think most of us would agree with the secondretary it's time for a deal and not timelines here and what do you make of the secretary's comments there? >> well i think he felt he had to come and say something because again we are missing another deadline. this was not his formal deadline but it was the deadline that was there buried in the legislation and the message from the secretary of state is pretty clear we are not staying forever but we are staying for now because as he said he believes they are making progress. what we are not getting is a running commentary of what progress they are making. i suspect in the coming hours we will get a little bit more briefings from some of the allegations so we can put some of the pieces together and see what they have actually achieved in the last few hours since some of the foreign ministers arrived back here but pretty certain to me the fact he came out here and it's now nearly well 7:30 at
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night they are not going to get a deal i don't think this evening which was their hope their hope was they would get a deal and if they got a deal before midnight washington d.c. time, eastern time that would have meant that the congressional review of this deal or what they would have got would be 30 days and we are certainly going to go past that deadline. it will be 60 days that is something that no side particularly wanted. congress scrutinizing this for double the time but i think it's something they all believe they can live with. >> all right, so james let me lean on your experience here are we talking about technical issues still to be resolved or real political calculations left to be wrestled with by everyone involved or something of both? >> we are talking about something of both, some of these are technical issues but they got to the stage where they need
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political decisions to be made. it's interesting that one of the foreign ministers who is not back here at the moment is the russian foreign minister sergei fedorov and he is at a summit being organized in russia of various regional leaders, also interesting at that summit is the president of iran rohani and sergei fedorov was asked earlier about the negotiations and it was interesting on one point which we know is a sticking point, the overall of sanctions and sanctions relief has been a problem and the sequencing of that and an issue are some sanctions are not about nuclear matters although they were put in place at a time when everyone was concerned about iran's nuclear program but they are about convention weaponry and particularly an arms embargo on iran and western nations say that needs to stay because they don't want iran causing trouble in the region by exporting weaponry and russians on that issue back the iran issue and
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say it should be lifted and say iran is an important force in fighting i.s.i.l. so not necessarily just disagreements between the international negotiators from this p 5 plus 1 which is the five permanent members of security council and germany and iran but i think some disagreements among the so called p 5 plus 1. >> right, he is our diplomatic editor james in vienna and good to talk to you thank you. greek leaders are finalizing their latest bailout offer ahead of a european deadline and defense minister said it will be submitted in the next few hours and goes to european officials by the end of the day and germany finance minister says the debt is unmanageable but europe won't be cancelling any of the loans and john has more from athens. >> reporter: the prolonged greek crisis extended to monday the closure of banks and capitol withdrawal limits of 60 euros
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each day are hurting the economy in visible and palpable ways. the chamber of commerce earlier today said imported meat and grains like flour are being now sold into the greek wholesale market on an ration basis and you cannot buy as great a supply as you want and second we are hearing medicines are beginning to run out. certain types of medicines in particular. the greek wholesalers association, the people who buy from the multi national drug makers and sell onward into the greek market to pharmacies, that as yags -- association says the drug makers are refusing to sell them the quantity of medicines that they require. and this is despite the fact that greek wholesalers pay in cash, up front for all of their
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orders so those drugs are now beginning to slow down. their supply is slowing down into the greek market and we have heard from various people who have got relatives and friends in hospital that some medicines really are becoming difficult to find and certainly we have heard that the hospital system, the national health system is no longer providing them for free, it's asking patients to go out and find them, that is definitely in convention of national health coverage rules but it is happening. and finally we are beginning to hear that the banking crisis is preventing socially sensitive institutions from accessing their money. one charity, a foster care home for 365 abandon children the smile of the child is telling us that they cannot make their july payroll and therefore they will not necessarily be able to care as they would wish for the children in their homes as of july because they can no longer pay their 400 employees to staff
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those homes on a regular basis. they simply cannot access their money. >> john in athens for us. asia stock markets rose as china took steps to avert a sell off and exchanges and there are curves on selling stocks there, today's close put the brakes on massive decline in china's stock market and scott has more now from beijing. >> reporter: early in his career john worked at america's silicon valley. ten years ago he moved home to china as he saw more opportunity here. that paid off, he invested in the stock market. in the resent sharp downturn in the markets he lost over $100,000 and but he is not ready to cash in his remaining stock. >> where else could i put it? i don't want it in the bank and, well, buying houses may not be a good idea either so i will just leave it there. >> reporter: a stagnating housing market is one part of the reason there is a surge in stock buying in china, savings
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rates are below inflation and means the middle class has few options where they can grow their money. so with the surging bull market earlier in the year many jumped in and some say with government enticement. >> bull market is encouraged by propaganda and we want a bull market and everybody is happy and selling shoes and people are making money from the market. the government can sort of do a lot more with a bull market. all of this is actually sort of accelerated the market on the way out and accelerated on the way down as well. >> reporter: unlike other developed stock markets around the world china cease main pool of investors are not professionals. the vast majority and 80% of those trading on china stock market are individual investors with little experience. those are the ones the government is worried about, saying their panic selling added to the market slide.
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over the last several days china essential government put mechanisms in place to help stabilize the market and it's also planning to invest as much as 30% of the country's pension fund system in stocks so it appears to be reluctant to give up on the bull market just yet. >> still market is market and now the market is much more mature stronger you will find not a regular hand can control its market because the market has its own power, its own logic so that is a lesson i think for the government. >> reporter: john is not happy about losing money but he characterized the last few weeks as market growing pains. >> when i make money, okay, i don't give it to anybody else. i take all the credit so while i think it's only fair if i lose money and i cannot make as much and i shouldn't blame the
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government or the system. >> reporter: there is no way to know when the current market volatility will end. so it's unclear just how much more john and his 90 million fellow individual investors might stand to lose. scott with al jazeera, beijing. attorney general says the government will make a federal benefits available to all legally married same sex couples and includes benefits in programs for veterans elderly and disabled and the justice department will make sure all states comply with a new rule that the court said same sex marriage is legal nationwide. in a few hours south carolina will sign legislation removing the confederate flag from the grounds and it passed the state house over night and the senate earlier in the week and the flag will be taken down tomorrow from a spot it has flown for years and we have more from the capitol columbia. >> governor haley plans to sign the flag legislation at 4:00
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this afternoon at the state house, it comes hours after a marathon session in the house of representatives. the final vote came about 1:00 a.m. and followed more than 13 hours of contentious debate. >> there has been an absolute evidence of a double standard or dual standard shown to me today. >> grace is not something that we earn. grace is something that comes to us unearned. >> reporter: the push to remove the flag followed the killings of nine black church goers last month and south carolina republican representative jenny horn had attended the funeral for one of the victims. in one of the most emotional speeches last night she said it was time for her colleagues to act. >> and for the widow of senator pickney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury! and i will not be a part of it!
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it has been a striking change in a state where the confederate flag has flown on or at the capitol for decades and status protected by a law that required super majority of both houses to take the flag down and diane with al jazeera, columbia, south carolina. fleeing syria half of the people living in the war-torn country have left and startling new numbers, going off the grid unintended consequence of popularity of solar panels. ♪
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this syria and 4 million have fled the country to escape fighting and 7 1/2 million have been displaced inside syria. as we report it is the world's worst refugee crisis in more than two decades. >> reporter: four million and counting refugees in jordan camp didn't think the conflict in syria would last this long or force this many people out of the country and this is one of the camp's oldest residence and says 2 1/2 years later he finally has adjusted to life as a refugee but had this reaction when we told him the number of refugees in the region had reached four million. >> translator: this is a disaster. it means the entire population will eventually be displaced and makes me feel our conflict will drag on for years and returning to syria is impossible. >> reporter: from the camp's oldest residents to the newest arrivals he lived in the camp before deciding to survive on his own in the jordan border
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town but he returned to the camp two months ago. >> translator: i left the camp because my children couldn't survive the scorching heat in the tent and i had to pay rent and it was so expensive and refugees have to pay for services outside the camp so i was forced to return. >> reporter: when asked what they want from the international community many of the refugees here say they want an end to the carnage in syria. u.n. called the refugee crisis the worst humanitarian crisis in history, almost half of all the people in syria have been displaced including four million who have been forced to leave for neighboring countries like jordan and according to aid agencies there is no sign of when these refugees will be able to return home. the u.n. says the international community has been generous but the scale of the syrian crisis is so big the donors are thinking about how fund asking be sustained as the conflict
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continues. >> already this year people have less access to services and there are already agencies cutting back on assistance and pushing them back to camps which are funded entirely by the international community or pushing them to return to syria and when you have families telling you i'm going back because i can't earn a living here and that they would prefer to live in a war zone you know just how desperate they are. >> reporter: u.n. refugee agency says around 80% of syrian refugees are living below the poverty line another 70% are sending their children out to beg and are engaging in degrading or illegal work. many say this is a sign of how desperate people have become. al jazeera. thousands gathered to hear pope francis speak as he celebrated his first mass. this morning in bolivia saying to reject consumerism and people not stuff are necessary for
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fulfilling life and he will visit one of the most violent prisons later today. researchers say it may be too late to stop the seas from rising and calculations published in new scientist magazine say sea levels will likely rise 16 feet and the magazine says without drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions a sea level rise of more than 66 feet will soon be unavoidable and green energy in the united states hawaii is a big producer and many homes have solar power and the panels sit on roofs but as jacob reports that is having unintended consequence and forcing some homeowners off the grid. >> reporter: when the owner of this multi million mansion told his solar installer he wanted off the grid that was a first. >> never seen that before and when the crew came out to do it they had the exact same response. what they said was here goes our
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jobs. >> reporter: cutting ties to the electric company was not the original plan with sun and highest electricity rates in the nation solar seems easy and the client wanted to be on the grid for a backup but hawaii is one of the most isolated of centers of population in the world and it's incredibly complicated to provide power here. you cannot borrow power from the next state over you cannot borrow from the next island and accelerated from water that is too deep and add solar to the mix and things get very complicated. >> these are some screens that show how the grid is operating. >> reporter: colton says that means his utility has to closely monitor how much solar power is on his grid forcing customers to have permission to add roof-top systems. >> in ouhu for example we have almost 300 mega waters of rooftop solar collectively and that collective impact, the
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volume of solar that we have is twice the size almost twice the size of the largest power plant we have on the island. >> reporter: that feed right into the grid are the problem according to him. the key to defecting from the grid instead is batteries. the luxuries of this house are power ed powered by this bank of batteries. each one of them weighs 2000 pounds and cost about 5,000 and the whole system is about 40,000 all told and these were originally forklift batteries and designed for and now they are being used as a solar power retention system. john says the batteries solve hawaiian electric power problem and utility approved connecting the system to the grid as a learning opportunity. >> right at the end when we got it all finished and bought everything they said we can't do it and i said why and they said because they are not ready for it, they have not researched it
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enough. >> reporter: it's that sort of cautious cautious cautious attitude but ultra rich homeowners are demonstrating the future of household energy hawaii. women might be having a more difficult time finding high-paying jobs if they are looking at google plus atlantic city's big gamble on casinos is paying off but some former workers are paying the price. ♪
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>> this is another significant development... >> we have an exclusive story tonight, and we go live... i want to show you pictures outside of the parliament building in athens. a sizable crowd as you can see here. meantime a greek leaders are working right now finalizing their latest bailout offer. there is a deadline in place. the defense minister said it will submit that plan in the next few hours. now here is the thing the plan is due to go to european officials by the end of the day. germany's finance minister is saying that the greek debt is unmanageable and that europe
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won't cancel any of its loans and so the people gather and we wait and see. atlantic city is betting big on non-gambling attractions in an effort to help turn things around and four big casinos closed last year and more for the remaining gambling halls and as adam reports many former workers say any rebound is leaving them behind. >> no justice, no peace. >> reporter: tensions are escalating. the stakes high in atlantic city new jersey. casino workers arrested. protesting cuts to their benefits and salaries. >> we say fight back. >> reporter: the city is making a come back but these workers say they are being left in the dust. >> unbelievable, wow, it's really going to happen you still have that faith that it
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won't happen like it won't close. >> reporter: she is a mother of two young children. >> you forgot your flip-flops. >> reporter: she was a housekeeping assistant, her husband a cook. both lost their jobs last year after four of the city's casinos shut down. what did you tell your kids? >> i told them that my casino was closing and they were like mommy are they closing down and the little one said where are the people that are working there and i told them we will be okay, it's going to be okay. i didn't know what to tell them. >> reporter: atlantic city has lost more than half of the casino jobs since 2003. averaging more than 21,000 jobs. tough times on the boardwalk left old icons like the trump plaza empty. dreams of a luxury reinvun shun
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at the multi-billion rebel mothballed casting shadow of disappointment across downtown atlantic city but atlantic city's mayor remains optimistic. >> when people talk about the failure of atlantic city in the last few years the beautiful building sitting empty has to be sore for you to look at. >> absolutely and it represents at least 3,000 jobs that we don't have and some of the best restaurants and clubs and bars that we had so we are doing everything we can to try to get it open again. >> reporter: there is a silver lining to the casino closures. the ones that remain are rebounding with revenues up thanks to less competition. still the atlantic city area has an unemployment rate three times the national average. >> after talking with you over the last year your plan to me sounds like diversification. is gaming still going to be the backbone of this economy though? >> it's not the only choice.
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there is no single answer to make our city great. everything is going to be important. so great libation and cool bars and fun dining and bars is all part. >> reporter: intoxicating dream but one that may not include all of the cities' long-time workers. adam may, al jazeera, atlantic city. so fifa imposed a lifetime ban on a once top american soccer official for corruption and blazer plead guilty to racketeering and tax evasion in may and 70-year-old was key to indictment of a dozen other fifa officials on those charges and big questions today of how jobs are advertised on google and says they are promoting gender discrimination and we have the story. >> the study comes from carnegie melon university and used more than 17,000 fake profiles to visit job sites and all had the same basic information so the only difference was gender and
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the study found females were shown fewer ads about high-paying jobs than males for example a career coaching jobs for paying $200,000 or more were shown to men more than $1800 times, the same ads were shown to women 318 times. now that is six times more for men. putting it in the larger context of men and women in the workforce it brings the gender break up and executive positions in america and 5% of fortune 500 ceo are women and same for fortune companies and authors of the study say it's hard to pinpoint the cause of gender discrimination because the ad eco system is vast and involves algorithms and websites and users and advertisers and the way they buy and target ads and for google response a spokesperson said they can choose to target the audience they want to reach and we have policies that guide the type of interspace ads that are allowed and said users have the ability
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to opt out of interspace ads. >> reporter: that is our time and the news continues next live from london. ♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. good to have you along i'm david foster and you are with us for the al jazeera news hour and live from london coming up, in the next 60 minutes an unconditional ceasefire the u.n. says a humanitarian truce in yemen will begin on friday. talks on iran's nuclear program are not open ended says the u.s. secretary of state but we will not be rushed into a deal. remembering the 20 years on
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