it. >> we can reach an agreement tonight if all parties want it. >> greece pushes for an economic life line but germany is holding back. hello there i'm barbara serra you're watching al jazeera live from lobd. alsolondon. appear to be on the cuss much of an historic nuclear deal. the criminals abducting boys in south africa and forcing them to undergo harsh rituals.

plus the elaborate tunnel which allowed one of mexico's biggest drug lords to escape from prison. again. hello there thank you for joining us. eurozone leaders have told greece's government that it must enact keys reforms before it will consider any rescue. key is the lack of trust by some countries about whether the greek prime minister alexis tsipras can actually deliver the promises he's made to them. germany backed by other hard line countries says, if he can the measures don't go far enough. france is pushing for a deal that would allow the european central bank to intervene once again. we have this story covered from both sides. neave barker is live in brussels while simon mcgregor wood is standing by in athens.

first, jacky rowland reports from brussels. >> reporter: the leaders of the eurozone countries need to decide whether greece can remain. the reforms that greece is proposing will actually be implemented. >> i'm here for a compromise. why owe that to the peoples of europe who wants europe united not divided. we can reach an agreement tonight if all parties want it. >> reporter: a lot of factors are at play. economic political. even emotional. germany is among the countries most skeptical about the greek proposals. >> translator: we will have rigorous talks today and there won't be an agreement at all costs. i know that nervous are are frayed but it has to be sure that the advantages outweigh the

disadvantages, for greece as well as for the whole eurozone. >> reporter: greece's most important supporter is france and the french have dismissed an idea floated by germany that greece could take time out from the euro. >> translator: there is no temporary grexit. there is a grexit or there is none. or just to speak more clearly: there is a greece in the eurozone or no more greece in the eurozone but that would mean that europe is going backwards and not going forwards anymore and i don't want that. >> the partnership between germany and france is absolutely central to the eurozone and the european union as a whole. so the rift between them over greece could potentially have far-reaching consequences. there have already been marathon talks between eurozone finance ministers on saturday and on sunday. those negotiations were difficult, and at times ill-stem perked and it's no reason to think that the meeting currently underway between heads

of government will be any easier. these talks are only about starting formal negotiations for a new bailout for greece. there will be more difficult and painful decisions for greeks before they see any more new money. >> jacky rowland reporting there from brussels and in brussels for us as well is neave barker, so bring us up to date what is the latest neave? >> well barbara eurozone leaders have been holding bilateral talks. they have now returned to full session of eurozone leaders. we expect there be more talks later in the evening this could go well into the night as it did on saturday when eurozone finance ministers held nine hours of talks and then continued negotiations into sunday as well. a lot of the information that we're hearing has been strategically leaked by officials taking part in negotiations behind closed

doors. as part of one of those key leaks was a document, a series of recommendations made by eurozone finance ministers to eurozone leaders that include a series of extra austerity measures that would essentially be on ton of stop of the proposals the greeks put forward for consideration on thursday. we're talking about a cause to further streamline vat labor and trade laws as well. on that list too things that weren't put forward by the greeks efforts to further privatize areas within the greek economy, privatization of energy companies for instance something that the greek government in the past had worked hard to resist. also on the cards too the recommendations from eurozone finance ministers is a return of imf monitors to the country as well. well, all in all the greeks have been given until wednesday

to possibly consider this long list of recommendations. they are expected to put this list to the greek parliament, but considering that the greek people rejected austerity in a referendum last sunday, this long list may well be a very, very difficult pill to swallow not only for the greek people, most certainly for greek parliament. >> another thing that was leaked that i thought was really interesting is this idea of a sort of time-out for greece from the eurozone if they don't come to an agreement. the time frame that's floated is five years. what more can you tell us and when more are people saying there about that? >> reporter: yes that's absolutely right. the latest list of recommendations do come with a plan b and that plan b is something that was really initially cooked up by the german finance minister, something that was first mooted

on saturday afternoon. the suggestion is that basically that greece would take a five year break from being part of the eurozone. it would still of course be part of the european union and still would, to some degree, receive help when it comes to humanitarian and administrative support from greece's european allies. but of course, this does raise some quite difficult questions as to whether or not greece is willing to push forward with any further austerity measures that are being expected by the country. as i mentioned last sun the greek people people rejected in a referendum calls for further austerity. but it looks like the greek government could be cornered into introducing just that. >> neave barker, in brussels, thank you. neave was mentioning that referendum. let's cross to athens, simon mcgregor wood is standing by

for us. simon, just a week ago there was such a celebration of that no vote that rejection. what is the mood like in athens now? >> well, that's one of the surprising things barbara as you say exactly a week ago today the square in project of the parliament behind me was filled with jubilant greeks who had signed up to the defiant policy of prime minister tsipras and voted no in the referendum rejecting the last proposal, rejecting the concept of austerity because he had promised them if they voted no, they'd get a better deal. and what they're hearing today of course is that the opposite is the case. they're going to get a worse deal than the one that was rejected a couple of weeks ago by the parliament. you'd expect them to be out on the streets expressing their age are perhaps but there's an overwhelming sense i think of acceptance this stringent

control of 60 euros a day from the cash point people realize that actually they have been backed into a corner. and although there is greater austerity coming down the pike, if this deal is agreed. they realize if they want to stay in the euro and most greeks still do, there is nothing they can do except accept tougher medicine from the eurogroup if a deal is done. >> we're going to have more analysis on the situation between greece and the eurozone, later on in the program. simon mcgregor wood, in athens, thank you. negotiations over iran's nuclear program appear to be on the cusp of a historic agreement that would place limits on iran's atomic work in exchange for relief from sanctions negotiators in vienna including u.s. secretary of state john kerry are trying to get a deal done monday.

there are still details to be worked out but he remains hopeful of a break through. diplomatic editor james bays reports from vienna. >> secretary of state john kerry said he had some good meetings with his iranian counterpart mohammed javad zarif and sergey lavrov and the french foreign minister, laurent fab euz. fabeuse. versus. >> despite the optimistic tone i'm told, there are still deals to work out. this is not yet a done-deal. and i'm also told 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 some time. so the guidance i'm being given the earliest that a deal is possible if they reach agreement and could be announced is sometime later on monday. >> at least 25 people have been killed in a bomb attack on a u.s. military base in afghanistan. it happened in the city of coz cos near the border with pakistan. hopes for a much needed humanitarian pause of fighting in yemen have faded. saudi led forces have bombed houthi rebels in sanaa. the u.n. brokered truce was supposed to come into effect on friday. jamal el shael reports. >> reporter: there is no ceasefire in yemen after the

u.n. announcement of a humanitarian pause in fighting there have been two straight days of air strikes and gun battles. houthi troops and rebels loyal to the former president ali abdullah saleh popular resistance forces fighting often behalf of abd rabbu mansour hadi have not laid down their weapons either. the saudi led coalition which has been bombing yemen for more than two months now said it didn't receive any request from yemen's legitimate government to halt its air strikes. coalition air strikes bombs part of sanaa. many are questions on what grounds did the u.n. authorize

ceasefire? but the need for a ceasefire is more apparent now than ever. the humanitarian situation in yemen is disastrous. more than 20 million yemenis are in need of aid.the most basic things such as water are becoming hard to find. each yemeni it seems is fighting their own battle just to survive. yemenis are digging holes in the roads to try and find water any which way they can. neither side have been weakened into submission all the while though it is suffering of the average yemeni that continues to increase. jamal el shael, al jazeera. still to come. laying down a framework is one of the rival governments at the table.

and pope francis speaks on the power and powerless.

>> 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. >> now a reminder of the top stories here on al jazeera. still no deal on greek debt as discussions continue between european unioneuropean leaders in brussels. >> all sides say a nuclear deal with iran is close to completion. and hopes for a much-needed ceasefire fade as both sides breach a u.n. brokered humanitarian truce. more on our top story now that is of course greece

correspondent joins us, here on al jazeera once again. correct me if i'm wrong, the situation is there is now a deal on the table which is actually more punitive to the greek people and the greek economy than the one that had previously been rejected or put through to a referendum to which the greek people said no. in light of all of this why is prime minister alexis tsipras sitting down with the european negotiators now? is he backed in the corner? from more than 80% want to be members of the european union. so it's very clear right now if tsipras doesn't compromise with the -- what the solutions say to do, he most likely the country will go out either from euro or probably even from the european union. he doesn't have another option. he needs to sit down.

>> he needs to sit down but he has to justify to the parliament because he has to get the parliament to vote. how reliability is anything that tsipras may or may not agree to in brussels, how likely will it pass through the parliament and be enacted? >> very good question, not an easy answer. most likely he will have problems in his own party but again most likely the other party will support him. that probably will need -- kind of problems in his government. >> we know quite a lot about this because of course there has been a leak in brussels, this document released after the finance ministers met. one thing about a temporary exit for greece to potentially exit for five years and then go back into the euro which sounds a bit strange. what do you make of it? >> my personal opinion let's say greece goes out of the euro and stays out of the euro for five years, if things go well for greece i cannot see why the

greek people would not want to join again the euro. if things go well for greece i cannot see why the european union would like to take greece back. so -- and at the same time, if right now greece goes out of the euro, we will have extremely serious problem in the greek society, extremely serious problem with the greek economy. who is going to trust again greece and furthermore the european union the eurozone countries to invest or to do something for the sake of the greek economy? >> very briefly now you say there are about 80% of the greeks are in favor of the euro but again a lot of people voted against the measures in the referendum last week, there was no secret it would make negotiations harder. do you hi the mood has changed? do you think the greeks are saying look, we need to buckle down, whatever they ask in the eurozone if there is still defiance? >> it is hard to answer this question. the feelings are mixed i think.

>> do you notice a change though? >> yes of course. i think the people start realizing that when they are members of a big club they need to play with the roots of this club, they can not do whatever they want, i suggest that. >> journalist from the greek antenna tv thank you so much. >> thank you. >> at least 14 people killed and 40 others wounded in a series of bombings across the iraqi capital baghdad people killed at a checkpoint in a suicide bombing and car bombing on a commercial are street. a road side bomb on another street killed two other people. the united nations says some of libya's warring factions have agreed on a peace deal after months of talks in morocco. regional leaders backed the agreement proposed by bernardino

leon osama ben javid reports. >> reporter: in a much anticipated ceremony rival factions in libya signed a draft agreement. a sixth meeting over a fourth draft in the moroccan city of scarab. >> i want to emphasize and enhance 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 that responds to all the demands. i'm confident that in the weeks ahead a clear decision will be made and will address all sides and issues. >> reporter: representatives of municipal councils and tobruk based government were there but the general national congress and the militia were not there. one group calls it a one sided agreement aimed at pressuring them to drop their demands. >> translator: we were a name play in a dialogue.

we have tried our best and have agreed to compromise on many issues. however the other party decided to certain conditions and have not tried to meet us halfway. it insisted on these points because it had support from the international community and this is why we have not reached an agreement. the u.n. envoy and other parties try to drag us into an disagreement that is not fulfilling the least of our demands. >> the framework disagreement calls for a national agreement for government, the deal creates a council of state. it also creates a national army, calls for the disarming of militias, implementation of a ceasefire and the drafting of a constitution. there is home that a gnc delegation might return for the final points after the muslim holiday of ed. tripp li based gnc wants

general hafta removed. after years of chaos many be liians want politicians to end the political tussle and the fighting on the ground. osama al javid, al jazeera. >> government ss 13 wiegers fled china after being implicated in attacks. every year thousands of young boys in south africa attend initiation rituals. more from johannesburg. >> it is from this football pitch that 22 boys were taken by force or lured by the promise of gifts. the mother of one of the boys says days later she received a call from the men who had taken

him. >> they told me they want money for a ritual they would pomp on my child and i don't even know what that ritual was. then they said we should buy groceries so our boys would be protected. >> they were to undergo the cultural tradition and circumcision. >> they used to hide maybe during the day. so this is door. they actually have you know were using to go in and out. as you can see even ten-year-old cannot go in properly. you need to crawl on your knees and then this as you can see it looks like a pigsty and, you know not any normal human being can live, you know, under these conditions. >> beaten cold and having not eaten for days several of the boys would go in search of food and water in the nearby

township. >> translator: we tried to offer them clothes but they refused and said they'd be killed so they just had some food and water and left. >> reporter: the boys were finally rescued after community leaders alerted police. one of the township's residents shows us the weapons he said he found at the time camp during the rest accuse. a report during the affairs department says abduction by illegal initiation schools are increasing at an alarming rate police have rescued hundreds of boys across the province. to operate within the laws initiation schools should register with the government. the deputy minister of traditional affairs says illegal schools could lead to a national crisis. >> criminals are unfortunately now hijacking a noble pride.our nation where people still love this practice, love their culture and love their

traditions. >> this mother says not enough people are speaking out about the legislatorrors of the abduction. she wants her son to be last. al jazeera johannesburg. >> mexico's president says he is confident authorities will soon recapture the drug lord el chapo. escaped through a tunnel had a was dug under his cell. victoria gatenby reports. >> officials located near the high security prison from where joaquin guzman escaped. highways are closed as they hunt for one of the world's most wanted men. mexican officials said he got out through a tunnel dug from outside the prison to his cell. >> the tunnel has pvc pipes presumably for vend laition ventilation

and security mechanism. >> his capture back in february 2014 was hailed as one of the biggest blows to the drug trade in decades. el chapo translated as shorty. his sinaloa cartel is said to be controls drug trade into the united states heroin, marijuana cocaine and methamphetamine. >> he is able to move cocaine from south america to mexico, meth from russia to mexico, processed to create meth and

delivered worldwide. >> guzman was arrested in 1993, escaped in a laundry basket, this web of tunnels linking seven homes allowed him to avoid capture for more than a decade. during that time he consolidated his drug cartel and provided 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 their savior. is guzman's escape for a second time is a major set back for the mexican government which is often accused of corruption by its own people. victoria gatenby, al jazeera. >> pope francis is in paraguay on the last day of his latin american tour. the head of the catholic church held an open air mass in the capital acencion lucia newman

reports. >> this is the largest mass pope francis has given throughout his three nation tour, here in paraguay the world's most catholic country where more than 90% of the people say they are roman catholics they spent the night ankle deep in mud to get the blessing of the pope. they were not disappointed. they wanted the pope to speak directly to their leaders who quote open up their hearts to the poor and dispossessed. people here are applauding his very progressive message particularly here in paraguay which has a very conservative catholic church hierarchy. the pope had said earlier that corruption was the gangrene of society. that's another message that people here say that they hope that their leaders will hear. the question of course is, how much of this message will

really, really have an impact or how much of an impact will it have once the pope has left? >> lucia newman reporting there and you can find out much more about the pope's visit or anything else we have been covering on our website. the address is on your screen right now aljazeera.com. ran of today. host americans knew her as sister mary, a spokesw