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>> this is it. eurozone finance chief to decide once and for all whether to save greece from bankruptcy. hello there i'm felicity barr. and this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up: serbia prime minister is attacked as anger boils over at the memorial for europe's greatest atrocity since world war ii. plus: a humanitarian truce in yemen is broken by both sides just hours after coming into
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effect. and the dominican republic accused of dumping people like dogs on its border. hello, there are still major trust issues between the greek government and its international creditors. those were the words of the eurogroup president as he and fellow foreign ministers met to consider last ditch efforts to avoid greek bankruptcy. greece has asked for $54 tbl to cover the country-z $54 billion to cover the country's debts for the last four years. but some believe they would feed much more than that. on top of the $240 billion, and it would add to the total debt
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mountain of 3 twl 20 billion euros. -- 320 billion euros. first symon's report on the day's developments so far. >> finance ministers arrived in brussels to pass judgment on greek's proposals. >> i think we're here to make a lot more progress. >> but liberals from alexis tsipras'salexistsipras's own party voting against it. higher taxes spending cuts. do finance ministers believe greece can deliver? >> there is of course a major question of trust can the greeks be promised to do what they are promising to implement in the coming weeks months and years? >> reporter: in athens there has been no rallies or
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demonstrations, just expectation. in the bustling shipping ports they are waiting. these dry docks and fitting yards lay quiet at the hellenic shipyard. they have everything here but no ships to work on. the european union is trying to strangle us. maybe they're right because we owe them money but greece is not place to conduct experiments. >> there is no love lost here for the eu. this place was accused of misusing government funds in 2010. the eu insisted it was almost shut down and since then this huge dry dock one of the biggest and best in the world has lain empty. you take your vessels to malta or even turkey to be repaired. they are finishing off four submarines for the greek navy then the work runs out. at other suppliers it is the
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same story. this business is working at just 20% capacity. at a small private yard a damaged cruise ship has provided last minute work for many dock workers. >> many days is a struggle because you hear a lot of bad things. it is not short for not only my business also for the people who are working here because every people are afraid what happens next. it makes you a little bit sad. >> alexis tsipras can only wait back in athens and worry about how he will deal with the growing opposition within his own party. domestic politics could also torpedo this deal. simon mcgregor wood, athens. >> more from simon.
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the ministers have been having their dinner break is there any indication how that meeting has gone so far? >> yes you're right felicity they are on a dinner break. we presume talks will resume shortly. they already met for three hours of intensive talks. we assume negotiations will continue potentially late on into the evening. when it comes to what's come out of those talks a lot of what we're hearing comes from what has been leaked to social media or to the international press. some of the things we are hearing may be focused on three key areas that there is across the eurozone a tremendous amount of distrust. there is skepticism particularly from the germans whether it comes from the figures being proposed by the greeks and thirdly, a feeling that the greeks could perhaps reach deeper into their pockets and raise more money to satisfy creditors. but whether it comes to -- when it comes to unity within the
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eurozone, there are suggestions that there are divisions there too. the french feeling a financial life line should continue to be given to the greeks. the germans feeling at a money should be paid back to creditors before any more money is handed over to the greeks to push them forward in the coming years in the form of a $59 billion bailout to keep the banks and the country afloat until 2018. but there is also another document that could be discussed this evening a document that's been referred to in the german media an idea put forward by the german finance minister wolfgang is wolf wolfgang
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schaeuble. a five year grexit. without entirely leaving the european union. that could well be discussed later in the evening. but the about no break through is reached in brussels, that kicks the can further down the road. it may be referred up to european leaders meeting here on sunday. >> thank you neave. speak to al jazeera's simon mcgregor wood, for greeks right across the country the more immediate concern is just how soon they're going to be able to have proper full access to the money in their banks. >> reporter: yes exactly felicity. the euphoria has been replaced with this growing sense of dread about what's going to happen
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next and minds have been really focused on the capital controls, the closure of the banks the 60-euro cash withdrawal that is imposed on all greek citizens. that has really changed things here. an interesting note for the greek minister for economy georgio stefakis, saying those capital controls will likely stay in place for months to come. no real sense of a break there. regardless of how a deal is done or not. that's how powerless the greek banking system is according to the greek finance minister. he is mentioning the growing sense that alexis tsipras the greek prime minister has a rebellion on his hands in members of his own party. 17 members of his syriza party stayed away from the proposals
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didn't vote, when you consider he has 139 syriza members in parliament. but there's a renewed sense of political instability that is feeding into the talks in brussels. can this man deliver on the proposal that he sends if he appears to have a rebellion on his hands. that is a sense that is going to get more answer more intense there is a lot of speculation that even now on monday he is going to have to replace those disobedient syriza mps and clever money suggests there may be another greek election by the end of the year, another complication this country really doesn't need. >> absolutely huge huge problems for greeks who seem exhausted and somewhat frustrated by just how long this has taken. >> reporter: yes personally i haven't been here for about 18 months. and the difference i have found on the streets is, as you say
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is growing sense of weariness of exhaustion. they are fatigued. and i think they really want a finish to this crisis. i don't think this -- it could be emphasized too much that this banking closure reducing people to queuing for 60 euros a day that has really focused people's minds. they wanted to say no. they wanted to send a strong message to europe in last sunday's referendum but that moment of defiance they all enjoyed really has been replaced by a sense of closure of being restricted and i think they want a zeal. but again it's this -- a deal. they want to be part of europe they want to stay in the euro but the costs seem to be mounting every day and the sounds, the rumors we are hearing from brussels suggest that the measures that are going to be imposed on the greeks if there is a deal are going to get worse rather than better. so there's a really gloomy sense
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here. >> simon in athens, many thanks. now a senior iraqi mp has claimed that christians in baghdad are suffering persecution. a member of the al rafadan party say christians are being kidnapped and having their homes seized by outlaw militia. from the prime minister hardy haider al-abadi. thanks so much for being on the program. what more can you tell us about the christians who are being targeted in the iraqi capital? >> well, in general we are suffering same as other iraqis. today, almost 3 million iraqis are out of their homes from three major provinces plus some more in be kirkuk and di diyalla.
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to aman and beirut, so we are suffering too much, especially recently these days. there is a very dangerous situation, some people the cover of the popular mobilization, thet arethey are gangs and mafia for money, kidnapping doctors or rich people, we have two people killed within last two weeks in baghdad and four case of kidnapping for money. so today the president prime
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minister treas a address a very strong message against them, for the last two days there have been military region in treatment in the region against militia so i can't say people are that confident and people are disappointed, know enough care of them those are displaced until now and shelters and the other suffering north of iraq and trg region. and in general we are suffering. yeah. >> i was about to say people outside iraq might be surprised that christians in baghdad are suffering. they're well aware of christians being persecuted in i.s.i.l. portions of iraq. christians many fled during the iraq war and haven't been able to return to their homes, is that right? >> well, i can't give you exact numbers. for sure, some 100,000 people
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more than 3 to 4,000 people from baghdad left after 2003. and now it is not a matter targeting about the -- on ethnic or religious basis but gangs and mafia for money. and it is just recently, like two weeks and now we are calling government to take care much more and to stop those militia on the streets under the umbrella of popular mobilization. popular mobilization are fighting i.s.i.s. it is not on religious or ethnic basis. >> all right really good to hear from you, that is be joining us from baghdad thank you very much for your time. and still to come on the program. the long wait for help. the people in iraq who are struggling to get even basic aid. plus, green fields, a farming lifestyle. may be surprised when we reveal where this rural retreat
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>> putting loved ones in a nursing home... hoping for the best. >> my father died because of the neglect. >> are they betraying your trust? >> it's a for-profit business. $. >> hello again a reminder of the stop stories here on al jazeera eurozone finance ministers are in brussels to discuss greek latest bailout proposal. and an iraqi mp says outlaw political parties are kidnapping members of the christian community in baghdad. houses being seized. a truce which the u.n. hoped would allow the delivery of desperately needed aid has failed to take hold in yemen.
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fighting continues on the ground as saudi led forces carry on targeting houthi rebels from the air. osama ben javid reports. >> for thousands wounded in yemen medicines are running out aden saada ibb ta'izz have been cut off for weeks. if humanitarian aid doesn't go through over 6 million so face famine. >> cannot survive without external add it, without getting food assistance. they do not know where their next meal will come from. it is paramount that we reach these homes and families quickly with the humanitarian aid and the supplies and the food. or the situation will certainly move into a much more difficult scenario. >> reporter: this is the city of ta'izz. forces in exile have been
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battling houthi forces. >> in fact we don't have much hope for truce to succeed. this experience with the previous truce that's why we don't think it will hold this time. because its success is conditional on the commitment of the saudi regime and their mercenaries. >> the saudi coalition says it has little reason to hold fire. >> translator: first of all before the coalition agrees to any conditions, we need to know the houthis stick to it. to ensure the truce is not broken. without these two terms the truce cannot last and there cannot be one in the first place. >> in the hours leading up to the truce both sides expressed distrust in the truce. >> no one expected this
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ceasefire to be complete because yemen is a lawless country. controlled by militants and without a government. >> reporter: some people showed cautious optimistic optimism and a desire for peace. >> we ask for this be humanitarian truce to remain longer. we all need peace so people who work can move freely, especially before eade. >> the possibility of a fragile truce, osama ben javid, al jazeera. >> ceremonies at the srebrenica massacre have been marred. crowd threw stones forcing the leader to flee. anger still felt 20 years after more than 8,000 muslim men and boys were killed during the
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bosnian war. >> prayers at pottichari, for victims of srebrenica. 136 more people were being laid to rest 20 years after they were killed, in many cases just partial remains were found. nora came to bury her brother who was 33. she says it was a painful day for her. >> translator: i feel better because i know where to come. i wish this would never have happened though. or at least that i would have the entire body. i only have three bones. but at least now i can come and visit my brother. >> reporter: among the preliminary figures invited on saturday former u.s. president bill clinton in power at the time of the killings. >> i am begging you not to let this monument to innocent boys and men become only a memory of
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a tragedy. >> reporter: and the current serbian prime minister, alexander, vucic. he met several relatives in the massacre. later turned on by a small section of the crowd here. they're angry he has consistently denied a genocide took place. >> denying a genocide is a factual misrepresentation. it is ultimately solved to the victims. >> beyond the age are of the cause there's renewed grief as this sell industry fills up. speeches from leaders around the world. year in and year out what the events here really mean for families of the victims is a chance to remember their loved ones. still there are an estimated
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1200 srebrenica victims whose remains have still not been identified. they're likely to be digging fresh graves here for years to come. nadim baba, al jazeera pottichari. >> country at wawr war after islamic state of iraq and the levant claimed responsibility for a car bombing in cairo. one of the busiest intersections in the egyptian capital. about 100 affection have been allowed to use a key bridge to get away from fighting in iraq's anbar province. the bridge was closed earlier this week. the government is worried that i.s.i.l. fighters are hiding among civilians. >> well as fighting continues in iraq aid agencies are finding it hard to reach people in remote areas. jane arraf traveled to latafia.
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>> reporter: they have been waiting for hours. this is first aid delivery for weeks. by the international committee of the red cross the icrc has brought aid to 250 families it recently registered. latafia, 50 miles southeast of baghdad. the packages contain a month's supply of food also kerosene and blankets. the icrc goes to areas other organizations won't go. there are now three million displaced iraqis, many of them don't are access to help. >> they need the food assistance they need clean water, most importantly they need medical assistance. there are tons of hospitals around the country that are not receiving the required medicine
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to operate. they have no electricity to operate their equipment. >> reporter: to minimize the risk of aid being diverted the icrcrc oversees the distribution itself instead of through local participant. this administration was delayed when staff members were stopped at military checkpoints. between the numbers of of dismissdisplacedpeople even the distribution of aid is difficult and there are hundreds of thousands of people that aid agencies canned get to. >> a widows lives in an abandoned shop with her five children and grandchildren. three of her daughters are blind and disabled. she says they left their home when their village came under attack. >> translator: there were mortars and air strikes. everyone left. we were the only ones still there. >> reporter: a lot of these
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women are here without their husbands and adult sons. she says she last saw her husband four months ago when security forces took them away. she's left three young children at home to see if she can get help. she's not on the list, they tell her she can register for the next time and the women can wait to see if there's anything left over at the end. so they wait. they at least have a hope of getting help. jane arraf, al jazeera latafia iraq . >> the leader of an i.s.i.l. link group has been killed. killed in a drone strike on friday. the agency says around 30 other fighters from i.s.i.l. were also killed in that attack. in syria air strikes in the northern city of al bab have killed almost twrien people, dozens of people were also injured. alba bfertion has been under the control of i.s.i.l. since the
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beginning of 2014. he haiti's foreign minister is accusing dominican republic of dumping people like dogs on the border. crack down on migrants, the families of haitian dissent adam rainey went to meet some of them. >> reporter: a camp is growing in this dry desolate landscape we're in haiti just a few minutes from the dominican border. most people there were living on the other side until recently, working raising families. many now feel they're in a foreign land. one they know little about. where life is hard. for two months this has been home for juan and his wife. the dmn kahn dominican republic says
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they are not deporting people, but that's not true according to juan. >> it's been two months since i last saw my family. >> the couple lived in barona, a three mile drive from here. >> translator: every day in barona, they are deporting a lot of people, every day they send them to the border. >> reporter: there are signs of expansion everywhere. people are staking out whatever land they can. a pastor who lived in this area for years showed me the new camp pointing out all the new arrivals. >> in the first few days i made a list of 160 deportees who arrived, every day i added and now have stopped. >> when told what we found a dominican immigration official insisted not asingle person has been deported. this man says he lived for 15
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years in the dominican republic working on farms, more than hundreds of thousands much of migrant workers whose labor helped power a agricultural boom. many also feel abandoned by haiti's government. the people who have come here say its a struggle just to meet their basic needs. no food and water closest river is a half hour walk away and the haitian government last only been here once in the past two months to deliver food. before we left we lent juan our phone to try to call his kids. i'm alive i'm alive the signal dropped, call lost, who knows who he'll get a chance to talk to them again. adam rainey, al jazeera haiti.
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