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♪ eurozone leaders meet in brussels as greece's rescue deal hangs in the balance. ♪ >> hello there. i am fell is it barr. this is al jazeera live from london. also coming up cautious optimism in ve en vienna as all sides claim an agreement with iran is within reach. jail break of a top mexican drug lord escapes for the second time. plus: >> i am faz jamil in indian india. one of the largest milk
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producers in the world. how government signits are trying to increase production using fewer animals. hello. european leaders are battling it out in brussels to try to find a way to keep near bankrupt greece within the eurozone. talks are being suspended while a bilateral agreement takes place between france and the european council. at the heart of the problem, a lack of trust by some countries in whether the greek prime minister can deliver. he has promised wide-ranging economic reforms. german backed by other hard line companies is skeptical. and say even if he can, the measures do not go far enough. france greece's closest ally would allow the european central bank to intervene once again. jackie roland is followingents in brussels and joins us live now. jaening, the main players in this saga are having a separate
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meeting. >> reporter: yes. they are, we are looking at the core players here, as you mentioned, a summit within a summit if you like. they are actually going over this draft document that is widely circulating now detailing all of the reforms for meyers that the partners of greece within the eurozone want the greeks to implement. talking about market reform privatization, tension reform, a list of demands really and, also, a requirement that the greek parliament should pass legislation putting it on the statute books and expressing commitments to those meyers by wednesday, the 15th of july so there we have yet another deadline in this process. the leaders of the 19 euro zone countries need to decide by the end of sunday whether the conditions exist for grease to
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remain within the current see union. the leaders need to be convinced that the reforms greece is proposing will actually be implemented. >> i am here for another compromise. we owe that to the people of europe who want europe united and not divided. we can reach an agreement tonight if all parties want it. >> a lot of factors are at play. economic political, and even emotional. germany is among the country's most skeptical about the greek proposals. >> we will have rigorous talks today, and there won't be an agreement at all costs. nerves are frayed but it has to be made sure that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. the future of greece as well as for the whole eurozone. >> the most important sposhter of greece is france. the french have dismissed an
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idea that greece could take time out from the euro. >> there is no temporary grexit. there is a greece in the youreuro zone or no more greece in the euro zone. >> would mean they are not going forward anymore. i don't want that. >> reporter: the partnership between germany and france is absolutely central to the euro zone and the european union as a whole the rift could have far-reaching consequences. >> there have been marathon talks on saturday and sunday. those negotiations were difficult at times ill-tempered. there is no reason to think the meeting currently underway will be any easier. >> thighs talks are about starting formal negotiations for a new bail-out for grease.
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there will be more difficult and painful decisions for the greeks before they see any new money. of course we heard from francois hollande the french president ruling it out. it's worth noticing at the bottom of that draft document in parentheses n brackets at the moment a significant sentence saying: if no agreement can be reached, greece should be offered swift negotiations on a timeout and also possible debt restructuring. it is, of course, at the moment as i said, in parentheses so it's not a formal part of the test. the fact that this idea of a timeout found its way can be seen as some sort of a victory for the german position on these talks. the latest on those talks in
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brussels. thank you. >> mine wheel frustration is growing over whether the country will stay in the euro zone or go back to the dragma. >> reporter: for nick on this these pocket watches are more than just collectors' items they are symbols of innovation and engineering, of hard work paying off, of a time in greece when things made more sense it's a fairytale. the referendum was a parrody. there was nothing substantial in this vote. the no vote became a yes, sir vote. like millions others on far less money, the 63-year-old feels betrayed by his government. it not allow them to take my dignity away. pensioners take care of the family. they are the pillar of the greek family. the grave they are trying to dig for us we should throw them in to it. he finds the situation
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contemptible and wants out of the eurozone before. ever since we joined the european union, he says only bad things have been happening to us. greece has everything. it has mineral wealth. it can take care of itself. it's an attitude gaining currency. some rituals continue like clock wells fargo bank grease's presidential guard amongst uncertainty. but this flea market is you believe bustling. typically there are thousands of people pouring over antiques and buying goods. nod today, there is a palpable sense of frustration and anger. people here wanting this drama about whether greece will stay in the eurozone or go back to the drogma to finally come to an end. vendors here are tired of
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standing over near-empty stalls. there is rage in the people he says and at some point it becomes the voice of god. anger may be rising but depression and desperation are what's in ample supply here when people's patients is running out. mohammed janjoom. al jazeera, athens. neg occasions of iran's nuclear program program. negotiators in vienna including u.s. secretary of state john kerry are trying to get a deal done by monday. kerry says there are some tough issues to be ironed out but he remains hopeful of a breakthrough. our diplomatic editor has this update from ve en in a.
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>> there have been some pretty positive and optimistic comments coming from some of the key figures involved in these talks. secretary of state john kerry said he had some good meetings with his iranian counterpart and other foreign ministers have been arriving here, too, including the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and the french foreign minister. >> despair, despair. >> i hope, i hope we are finally entering the last stage of this marathon negotiation. you know the positive of france. it is a position of constructive firmness. i hope it will allow us to reach the end now quickly to a satisfying result. >> despite that optimistic tone i have been told by those close to the negotiations there are still details to work out. this is not yet a done deal. i am also told that even if they were able to do a deal right now, there is still a lot of paperwork that needs to be worked on, and it would take
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some time so the guidance i am being given, the earliest a deal is possible if they reach agreement, it could be announced is sometime later on monday. >> to afghanistan where there has been a defendant bomb blast near the border with pakistan. the bates is still used by american forces jennifer glasse joined us from kabal. what more do you know about this? >> it was a very large car bomb outside. hold officials tell al jazeera 15 have been dead and 19 wounded and the ambulances continue to arrive. >> explosion happened at about 7:10 p.m. local time just before the ishtar immediately, the
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break of the ramadan fast here many people would have been trying to get home. camp chapman, the site in 2009 ied most legal attack. international people working at that base and that base was sentially was a place where intelligence was gathered for drone strikes in eastern afghanistan in the tribal areas of pakistan which we know are still going on. officials tell us 15 dead and 19 wounded. >> jennifer in kabul, thanks so much for that. still to come on the program, a hero's welcome a palestinian held by israelis for more than a year returns home. and we will meet the indian
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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. welcome back. a reminder the top stories here on al jazeera. still no deal. european leaders have been meeting in brussels to discuss the future of the greek economy. the final phase of talks in vienna as all sides say a nuclear agreement with iran is close to completion. 15 people have been killed in a bombing at a u.s. base in the afghan city. it is still home to american
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forces despite the end of combat missions in the country. the u.n. says some of libya's warring faxes have agreed a framework peace deal after months of talks in morocco. libya's internationally recognized government and regional leaders backed the agreement brokered by the u.n. envoy bernard leon. the internal leadership is under pressure to build a unity government to end a year of unrest. osama binjabaid reports. >> reporter: rival political faksz signed a draft agreement, a 6th meeting over a 4th draft in the moroccan city. the u.n. envoy sees is it as a breakthrough towards a binding deal. >> i want to emphasize this message: the door is open for those who are not present. they have also played a critical role in this text. as i have said many times, there is no text that is entirely satisfactory to all parties and a response to all of the
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demands. i am confident that in the weeks ahead, a key decision will be made and address all sides and issues. >> reporter: convenientives of municipal councils were there but the general national were not there. one mer calls it a one-sided agreement aimed at pressuring them to drop their demands. >> we want a main play in the dye log. we have tried our best and agreed to compromise on many issues. the other the other party decided to stick to certain conditions and not try to meet us halfway and insisted on these points because it had support on the international community. this is why we have not reached an agreement. the unenvoy and other parties tried to drag us into an agreement that does not dispel the least of our demands. >> there is disagreement on the framework deal which calls for a national unity government based in tripoli but recognizing the house of representatives as the
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ledge legitimate body. it creates a counsel of state with the power to resolve disputes. it creates a national army calls for the disarming of malitias implementation of a cease-fire and the drafting of a constitution. there is hope that a gnc delegation might return for consultations on the final point after the muslim holiday. this man remains a key sticking point, tripoli based gnc wants hafta removed. he has been declared the army chief. after years of chaos, many libyans want an end to the political tulsa and the fighting on the ground. al jazeera. security sources in iraq say isil has launched rockets located in an bar province between baghdad and fallujah. it's one of the last places in eastern anbar still held by tribunal and security forces. loan people are understood to
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have been killed. shia militia say they have already recaptured nearby villages held by the armed group. in neighboring syria, activists say heavy fighting is taking place on the outskirts of the isil city. it's home to the historic site of palmero, a unesco world heritage site. government fors launched an offensive to take the city on friday. hopes for a much needed humanitarian pause in fighting in yemen have faded. saudi-led coalition forces have bombed sanaa. rebels have attacked the southern port city of aden. the truce was supposed to come into force on friday to allow aid to be delivered to more than 21 million people. jamal reports. >> there is no cease-fire in yemen.
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after the un's announcement of a humanitarian pause in fighting there have been two straight days of air strikes and gun battles. houthi malitias and fighters have continued shelling several towns and cities. residential areas were attacked in aden taiz. popular committees fighting on behalf of hadi haven't laid down their weapons either. they fought off the houthis' advances in taiz and aden. the saudi-led coalition
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the occupied west bank. >> reporter: a hero's welcome for a man who is no stranger to israeli prime ministers. he has spent nearly six years behind bars under what israel calls administrative detention. that's a legal loophole allowing israeli aforces to arrest and detain palestinians without charge or trial, sometimes for several years. adan protested his arrest by going on a 55 day long hunger strike which ended when israel promised to free him. it's not the first time he has gone on hunger strike while in israeli detention. three years ago, he refused food for 66 days, a protest which drew international attention of israelss policy of holding palestinians without charge or trial. >> i see the happiness among palestinians flowing and their pain and hope for the freedom of all prisoners. the occupation made a mistake in arresting me the first time and
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a second time and all previous arrests. >> we met adanan at his home shortly after his release. he believes he was only set free because israel's leaders faced unrest if he died of starvation in an israeli jail. >> his release is no doubt very significant and a huge victory, but the fact of the matter is, is that more than 400 palestinians still remain in administrative detention. issits's policy is unlikely to change. salam padi worked for the library outside of ramala. he has been arrested nine times and spent more than 12 years in israeli jails, at least eight of them in administrative detention. while in prison last year he was one of 130 palestinian prisoners who started a 63 day long hunger strike. >> in prison you have no other weapons. your enemy had a military arsenal. your only weapon is your empty
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stomach. it's true many prisoners have lost their lives but the hunger strike, in general, has proved effective. >> israeli members are currently reviewing the law to legalized the forced feeding of palestinian prisoners who go on hunger strike. if passed it t would close the door to one of the only way prisons jailed without charge can protest against their arrest. ays, janeen in the om pied west bank. >>itsis police say they have arrested several jewish suspects after an arson attack on a historic catholic church the church of the multiplication of the loaves and fishes was set on fire. it damaged the roof but the mos aics were unharmed. top mexican drug lord guzman has escaped for a max sxhooument frinz for a second time. sfblz say he got out through a 1 and a half kilometer tunnel running friz his cell to a addition used prison known as
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el chapo, et cetera the head of a cartel that smulingz large amounts of drugs into the united states. victoria gatenby reports. >> reporter: mexican police set up checkpoints on roads near to the high-security prison from where joachin guzman escaped. cars are being searched. the nearest air point is being closed as they hunt for one of the world's most watched men. mexican security officials say he got out through a sophisticated 1.5 'til kilometer tunnel dug from a building outside the prison to his cell. >> the tunnel has pvc pipes presumably for ventilation and a motorcycle adapted for rails with a traction mechanism. >> coming up. >> the last time guzman escaped from prison it took the mexican military 13 years to find him. his capture back in february 2014 was hailed as one of the biggest blows to the drug trade in decades. >> el chapo, translated as short
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income english cuts an imposing figure in narcotrafficking. he has made magazine's billionaire list. his cartel is said to control some est most lukecrative drug smuggling routes to the united states. >> i see expertise is being a specialist in logistics. he is able to move cocaine from south america to mexico to move chemical processes reduced to meth from russia to mexico from southeast asia into mexico in order to be processed and can deliver it worldwide. >> guzman was arrested in 1993 but bribed his way out of mexico's highest security prison. he escaped in a laundry basket. this web of tunnels linking seven homes allowed him to evade cap tufr for more than a decade. during that time he consolidated his drug cartel and
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built popular support by providing people with money, jobs and security. when he was recaptured in 2014, thousands of people took to the streets to show support for a man they saw as that you are savior. guzman's escape for a second time is a major setback for the mexican government which is often accused of corruption by its own people. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> in western mexico sent people have been evacuated and an airport has been closed because of a volcano eruption. mount kalima has been active since it's initial disruption on thursday. it is displaying what is called atypical behavior. activity of this magnitude from kalima was last soon more than a century ago. myanmar's opposition party says a party will contest general lesions in november. the national league for democracy boycotted a vote held
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under military rule. this is being billed as the first legitimate election in 25 years and will be crucial for political reforms. the nld won looeningsz in 1990 but military rulers at the time ignored the result. >> thailand has returned 109 uighur people on their way to join armed fighting groups. it is said 13 have fled china after being implicindicated in attacks. though india is one of the world's largest milk producers, it has a poor yield per animal. it's hoping to change that by using the mora buffalo. the animals can produce up to 32 liters of milk a day, more than any other cow s or buffalos. faz jamil reports. >> this is uvarach, the proud father of thousands of calves weighing in at 1500 kilograms,
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this breed of buffalo called mora is becoming highly prized for longevity and toughness. for some farmers, the big money comes from breeding. >> he has made a lot of difference. i make more than $2,000 selling one of his calves where a rig one would sell for less than $200. people keep asking me if there are any more of his calves. >> reporter: aside from selfing calves singh sells hissemen about $475 per mil liter. many are repeat customers. >> the buffalo produced with this semen are very large. they produce a lot of milk and the calves produce good quality. they sell well. >> the potential of the mora buffalo to make farming more productive especially when it comes to milly has the state government involved in promoting the animal. there are very few buffalo bulls of his quality in the entire
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state because of the amount of milk the females can produce, nearly 10 times more than a typical indian cow, the government is using science to help increase the mora buffalo population. >> about 50 kilometers away at this government research center different types of buffalo and cows are being studied. semen samples are taken to determine fertility and health. scientists have studied the mora buffalo for decades, work to go breed a stronger varpt of animal they say is more robust than other buffalo or cows and produces better milkiant of animal they say is more robust than other buffalo or cows and produces better milk. >> it having more minerals. resistant to most of the diseases. buffalo is having more adaptability to the climate change. >> reporter: despite research, most states still haven't adopted the mora buffalo as a primary source of milk. recent efforts wants to change that with moras being ex poured
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to several other states and countries in eastern europe asia and south america with a goal to increase milk production in india and abroad. faz jamil. >> much more on our website, aljazeera.com. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm sheila macvicar and this is "compass" where foreign policy is personal. there is nothing more personal than heroin addiction. moved out of the inner cities and into the suburbs and towns like this one.
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