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♪ greece stays in the euro a deal is reached over a third greek bailout but at what cost? concern on the streets of athens will the new deal mean more years of increased austerity? ♪ hello there, this is al jazeera live from doha and ahead edging towards a decision world powers are closer to signing on the future of iran's nuclear program and and. >> i'm in mumbai and coming up,
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we will look at the fight over the state government's decision to start recognizing traditional islamic schools. ♪ hello there and well after 17 hours of intense negotiations and months of emergency summits finally we have this breakthrough in the greek debt crisis. euro zone leaders reached unanimous deal over a third bailout for greece and there is a new bailout which will last about three years and it will be worth between $82 billion and $86 billion euros and the greek parliament also needs to pass new reform measures by wednesday, that is this wednesday. and greece will be transferring 50 billion euros worth of assets into a fnd to fund to be prepared for eventual privatization and that fund will not be held in luxonberg but
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staying in athens. the german chancer angela merkel says trust with greece must now be rebuilt. >> translator: the whole paper that we agreed on today will have to be adopted and passed by the greek parliament before our national parliament can actually look at the matter. it will be a process as follows, first of all the prior actions have to be settled by the greek parliament, the whole paper has to be passed and then the three institutions and the euro group will give ourselves a certificate and what we have agreed has actually been passed and then afterwards we can invite the german parliament for a special meeting but of course we can talk about this in due course. angela merkel and prime minister given reaction to that agreement. >> translator: we have a strong battle over the past six months and to the end we fought hard for the best possible agreement to give us the possible for
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greece to stand on its feet again so greek people can carry on with their daily battles. >> and john is in the greek capitol athens and we have jackie roland in brussels where there is talks taking place and let's go back to athens and speak to john first so john what has the reaction been like? >> you are going to have a bad reaction from the far left of mps which was also at the heart of saturday's defectsion that parliament rushed through here during the weekend. we have already seen some of those statements begin to emerge but the moderate within the party are not going to be happy with the fact that at the best of germany more austerity is now being rammed down the greek's throats after they try hard to compromise and collaborate and
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cooperate with the euro zone to get the financing deal. in fact, the spokesman for the party earlier said fine we will do the deal a bad deal is better than no deal but we've got to work toward the europe because that is going to be a disaster for everyone and that man is a moderate. he is somebody who fully backs even this tougher deal that is being asked to pass. now, we are also hearing from the labor minister that an election is likely this year presumably this is further down the road perhaps in the autumn to clear out its own house, in order to separate the moderate from the extremists and to move its party to the center while the poll figures are still high and approval figures are still high. this is something that i think we are going to hear more about as he comes back to athens and he and his coalition partner the leader of the independent greeks holds talks and then of course
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he has to meet with his own military block of mps in order to brief them and what they are asked to pass. we have to see all details of those new upfront actions that got to be voted through parliament before wednesday. >> john, obviously what is important for people in greece is what they are going to have in their purses and wallets and when merkel was speaking earlier she did say discussions on these bridging loans would be commencing straight away. when do we know the banks are likely to open? >> well the banks are a different issue because their liquidity depends on the disposition of the european central bank one of greece's three institutional lenders and the ecb froze all further liquidity when greece declared referendum two weeks ago and now we are going to see whether it's
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going to feel favorably disposed enough just on the basis of today's agreement and principle in brussels to release some liquidity to get those banks to open even before wednesday's legislative deadline, in other words back at the moment where the agreement will be ratified by actions in the greek parliament and then signatures will be added to this agreement in brussels following those the legislation and the greek parliament so ecb may feel it wants to encourage the greeks to move in the right direction and may feel now is the time to make a positive political intervention if you like. >> okay john sir, thank you very much for that. jackie roland is in brussels and joins us from there now. jackie these have been marathon talks and eventually come to an end for this first stage in sorting out the negotiations for this deal. but essentially a great sigh of
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relief for all involved. >> yes, there is. and some people including the donald tusk the president of the european council were seeking to if you like inject a light note when he joked we have not got this but a greek moment but they feel there is not a lot to be joking about and sure they have a deal which is regarding the immediate sector of greece crashing out of the euro certainly they have laid the ground work now for the next stage which would be for more negotiations on a new bailout for greece. however, when you look at what has been sacrificed or if you like the damage that has been done over the last days certainly there is quite a lot of collateral damage there in terms of european solidarity,
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the fact that in the words of one official the greek prime minister was subjected to what he describes as mental water boarding and the fact that time and again leaders have complained about a lack of trust and the need to rebuild confidence and really this feeling that in many ways greece has been pushed up to the wall and, in fact, the greek prime minister has now left and showed the leaders here in brussels and secured a deal and it's on greece to go deliver yet another vote in parliament and so sure people can step out and say we have saved the euro the euro may have been saved but the casualties some might argue is the sense of solidarity and unity within the european union and the euro zone as a whole. >> jackie roland in brussels there thank you very much for that. well announcement of the deal has been met with mixed reaction
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and here is what some people in the streets of athens have been saying. >> translator: relief i feel relief because we had to have a deal. we couldn't help it. it would be a big mistake to go as the americans say down. >> translator: i'm disappointed. they were dynamic at first and then we were prepared for bad to happen and now the worst happen is what people think. >> translator: listen it is some sort of victory but the measures are very strict. people suffered the past five years and there is more to come now, this is what makes things difficult for us and we want to stay in europe and goes without saying we did but what about the terms, they are a bit difficult for us and hope we will make it. >> iraqi government says it is already making gains against i.s.i.l. as part of a new military offensive in anbar province and says the operation
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in the largest province began on monday morning and shia malitia and tribesmen are taking part and they seized ramadi the capitol of anbar in may. kaan has an update from the iraqi capitol baghdad. >> reporter: the operation was announced on state t.v. by interior spokesman and said it began at 5:00 a.m. and involved at least 5,000 troops this the province and 6,000 troops surrounding the province and likely to stop i.s.i.l. fighters for getting out of the province and to baghdad. it's a little confusing because they have been fighting in ramadi for a number of months and the town fell in mid may and has been in operation there to retake from i.s.i.l. fighters and operation is likely to come towards the town of fallujah which has been under i.s.i.l. occupation for a number of months. the timing is quite crucial as
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well and coming up to eat, the iraqis will be looking for propaganda victory to announce around eat and may be it for them and all of this happening and coalition air strikes have reportedly hit an i.s.i.l. radio station and media base which is just west of ramadi as well so there is a number of things happening, this operation does seem like it is quite big, bigger in nature than we have perhaps seen in resent months to try and retake anbar and fighters involved and seeing sierra malitias taking part and tribal fighters will be taking part in this as well as iraqi security forces and police forces. eastern afghanistan a car bomb explosion near u.s. army base killed 33 people and afghan troops and civilians are among the dead and attack happened close to camp chapman on the city of coast and none of its
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personnel were hurt and jennifer glasse has more from kabul. >> reporter: it happened in the early evening in one of the busy times of the day as afghans are rushing home to break their ramadan fast for the meal and is often the case in these situations, the dead and the wounded were all afghan security personnel and civilians including women and children. even though the target appeared to be an international base there camp chapman on the outskirts of host city in host province and champ champman in 2009 was the deadliest attack on u.s. cia in more than 25 years when 7 were killed by a double agent there, that base provides intelligence for drone strikes in eastern afghanistan and it's not far from the border with pakistan, just maybe 15 20 kilometers from the border of pakistan and host province one of the most insecure and seen
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suicide bombings in the last few months and a difficult fighting season for afghan security forces and fighting on their own without heavy weapons and nato support that they got from international forces last year only a very small nato force remains here mainly to train, advise and assist and there are u.s. forces engaged in counter terrorism operations as well. iran and major world powers holding talks to end a long standoff over its nuclear program and expecting a statement within hours and powers have been trying to reach a deal that would limit tehran's nuclear program in exchange for easing sanctions and earlier china foreign minister said progress was being made in the final stages of these talks and he also stressed that no agreement was perfect. our diplomatic editor james base has more from vienna. >> we have a situation where we have seven foreign ministers here, six of the foreign
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ministers negotiating with iran are some of the most powerful foreign ministers in the world because they are permanent members of the security council, the foreign minister of germany and european countries have a lot on their plate as you have seen from breaking news coming from greece they are all here stuck in vienna and some like secretary of state kerry and foreign minister have been here nearly three weeks putting aside the other troubles of the world and i don't think they can stay here forever and the iran foreign minister said there will be no extension and the deal is supposed to run out today so i think we are going to have to have some tough decisions in the coming hours of what to do but i have to say this i think if they can't reach agreement here it will not all be over i think the only choice they will have and it's one they don't want to take but the only choice they have is some sort of extension. >> james base. ahead on al jazeera strength in
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numbers and pope francis has the biggest open air mass of his south american tour. and we will hear from tennis world's number one as he celebrates a third title of success at wimbledon, stay tuned. ♪
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>> the show's called "third rail". we'll be talking about topics that you wouldn't ordinarily touch. people are gonna be challenged we're not gonna take sides... an approach that treats every single player in a particular story equally. it's something fresh and something new. ♪ welcome back you are watching al jazeera, let's take a look at the headlines, euro zone leaders reached a last-minute agreement on a fresh bailout loan for greece and donald tusk said they agreed on a deal based on
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serious reforms and financial support. the german chancellor angela merkel says a deal was reached despite lost of trust between creditors and greece and recommending the deal be passed by the german parliament if it is passed by the greek lawmakers by wednesday. and iraqi government says it is already making gains against i.s.i.l. as part of new military offensive in anbar and they seized the capitol ramadi in may. to yemen and dozens of people have been killed despite a week-long humanitarian ceasefire being in place. the truce started two days ago to allow aid groups to get much needed supplies to civilians and there have been reports of attacks coming from both sides in different areas of the country and erica wood has more. >> reporter: saudi coalition air strikes over the capitol light up the night sky. it's a clear sign for the
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residents that the humanitarian ceasefire is not protecting them. by morning they try to find bodies under the rubble and many homes, whole streets and families destroyed. >> translator: just after midnight they struck us with a missile. they hit a house which was completely destroyed with the family inside and my cousin and sister and nieces house were hit, ten houses were struck and there is nothing left. >> one report suggests more than 20 people were killed in sanaa alone in sunday's overnight attacks attacks. >> translator: they killed my brother and sister and son and this is tragic how is this their fault, they killed my brother's wife and son, how is this the children's fault. >> reporter: eastern sanaa gun battles between houthi and pro pro-government continue. >> translator: the popular resistance committees are committed to the truce but houthis violated it in early hours and the fight verse the right to respond and defeat
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attackers because they invaded our areas. >> translator: we welcome the truce but the houthis didn't abide by it thank god we repelled and defeated them. >> reporter: more than 3200 people been killed since the war started in march. millions more are at risk because of severe food and water shortages. the u.n. says 80% of the population needs humanitarian assistance, aid agencies say they are getting supplies through to some areas during this shaky truce. but if the ceasefire keeps being broken some regions will be too dangerous to reach. erica woods. al jazeera. cambodia's lower house of parliament approved a controversial bill that limits the activities of nongovernmental organizations, earlier hundreds rallied near the national assembly condemning the vote and robin mcbride has more from the capitol. >> tight security around the
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national assembly means this is as close as the demonstrators are allowed to get and police are all around this area the demonstrators and the opposition groups believe that this is an attempt by the long-term prime minister to try to stifle dissenting voices ahead of national elections a few years from now and the government denies they saying they are trying to regulate an unregulated sector which consists of literally thousands of ngo and association and there is intense international interest in this ongoing dispute, the european parliament passed a motion condemning introduction of this law a couple days ago and a feeling after billions of dollars spent by the international community here that cambodia is still falling far short of the ideal of a liberal democracy in the heart of southeast asia. >> muslim groups in india are threatening to take legal action over traditional islamic
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schools. the state says children in 2000 schools are not getting proper education and stopped recognizing them and critics say it's religious discrimination and we report now from mumbai. dedication and recitation are cornerstones of learning at this traditional islamic school. but that's not enough for the state government. it has taken away recognition from this and other islamic schools in the state as being educational institutes saying they do not teach an acceptable curriculum and students here disagree. >> translator: all i know is that we learn here so in life we can strengthen our faith and make a good part of ourselves and our country. >> reporter: some students on that path have had problems finding work after graduation such as jamal who studied nine years at a traditional school in
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mumbai, unable to find a teaching job he is now learning his family business. >> translator: when i left i spent months looking for a job but i decided to work in the shop and if i had gone to an english school i would have found a job. >> reporter: the government says it no longer recognizes the schools because of cases like this and it wants traditional islamic school students to be taught the same subjects as students in government and private schools along with islamic education. >> translator: our goal is to bring minority citizens in mainstream but it's in progress and the minority communities are being left behind. we only have one senior police officer in the state who is muslim and no one in the civil service, why should they be doing minor and manual labor jobs. >> reporter: opposition and muslim groups say many indians graduated from traditional islamic schools and each school should have been assessed for
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its quality of education rather than removing recognition from all of them. >> and this is from the commission and they cannot just stand up and say we are not going to recognize it. >> reporter: for now these schools are only religious institutions and won't receive the same support as other educational institutions in the state. muslim groups say they will challenge in court the government's decision to stop recognizing traditional islamic schools, as the debate continues on whether these schools are giving the students a proper education opposition parties say they will raise the issue as the state assembly session begins al jazeera, mumbai. roman yeah prime minister is part of a corruption investigation and viktor accused of fraud, tax evasion and money laundrying dating back to when he was a lawyer before prime
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minister in 2012 and he was indicted in an anticorruption drive and he denies the allegations. the race is on to replace barack obama in the white house, one of the republican parties hopefuls is scott walker and john hendron reports from madison wisconsin on how he is managing to attract support for his presidential bid. >> reporter: scott walker is an unlikely frontrunner for the republic presidential nomination. >> good evening, wisconsin. >> reporter: a minister's son and college drop out he was a little known and little noticed milwaukee executive when he became wisconsin's governor in 2011 and when the budget talked about bargaining rights for unions a few weeks later he made enemies and propelled him to the top of the tier of candidates. >> it made him a hero nationally among republicans and soar in the republican run and helpful on the national stage and it got
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him in controversy quickly and went with the pollinazation that set in and not let go since his time in office. >> reporter: led to daily protests and rare recall election. for months demonstrators protested outside the capitol calling for walker's resignation. in the end he won that battle and it's that stance on unions that makes him so popular with core republican voters. >> taking on the unions if it is assigning right to work and something that shows he is not scared. >> reporter: and they say walker's breezy style has a stubborn streak. >> what you see is what you get with him, very down to earth, straightforward, decisive, yes, his calm demeanor about it but at the same time anybody that would miss interpret that would find out different and like i said he is decisive. >> reporter: union leaders watched as walker won reelection in 2014 and went a step further signing a bill making wisconsin
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a so called right to work state and bars unions public and private forcing members to play dues. >> the u.s. economy needs to be fixed and he has broken wisconsin's economy and he is not the right leader for the nation. >> reporter: has not produced the 250 jobs he promised when first elected but he has cut taxes, passed a law requiring voters to have id and allow gun owners to carry concealed weapons and all are crowd-pleasing moves with the base of conservatives in a national election, al jazeera, madison, wisconsin. hope francis is flying back to rome after his week-long tour of south america, his final stop was in paraguay and our latin american editor reports. >> reporter: it was fitting perhaps that pope francis and his tour of south america's poorest nations in the world's most catholic country paraguay. here as an ecuador and bolivia
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had solace to prisoners and the old and poor like the resident here a slum on the outskirts. >> translator: we have no land we can't afford to buy proper homes on our salaries said this woman. >> reporter: with every leg of his trip pope francis added a new layer to his social gospel and to his defense the poor to his criticism a political intolerance and of a world economic order that he says creates widespread inequality. in paraguay where at least a million people turned out for his final mass the reoccurring theme is corruption which he called the gangrene of society and none of it matters to the tens of thousands who are here and many of them after having spent the entire night waiting to get a good position with pope
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francis and want not just a message of hope for themselves but also the pope to address their government directly. >> translator: i would like him to pay more attention to the humble and the poorest and the government does not and suffers from gangrene as the pope says. >> reporter: but the pope also acknowledged some of the catholic church's sins and asked for forgiveness against the crimes of indigenous people of the conquest of america and in paraguay he recognized the church has driven many away. >> translator: i ask for hospitality with those who do not think the way we do those will have no faith or have lost it. sometimes because of our actions. >> reporter: the pope's personal appeal especially here in his home continent is
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undeniable. the expectation here is that his message will not only be heard but heeded. al jazeera paraguay. >> plenty more on this and other stories on the website, the address al jazeera.com, that is al jazeera.com. >> a new deal to bailout greece, negotiators closer to an agreement over iran's nuke program. >> manhunt for a notorious drug lord, el chapo escapes from