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reece and its creditors. finance ministers are back around the table and brussels. on tuesday gets bailout agreement with the eu runs out. kurdish control in the town of kobani looks to be in trouble. a second bomb set by islamic state group reportedly went off after reports that the jihadists have killed 20 kurds in a nearby village.
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france should take the united states to court, so says julian assange who promises there are more revelations to come. eurozone finance ministers are gathering once again that around the table to find a deal for greece. a loan repayment of 1.6 -- 1.6 billion euros is due on tuesday. vital cash ingestion's -- injections could be -- as we saw , early morning talks. >> talks are high levels between the prime minister of greece and all of the important people into
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the talks representing the creditors and of course the president of the european commission. they finished up about a half hour ago. but we understand came out of them is two documents. one document has been sent over to the eurogroup year. finance ministers are arriving as we speak. the document the creditors have agreed on, we believe the greeks have another document. the finance minister of greece is here for his fourth time in one week. one piece of white paper in his hand but did not speak to press on his way into the meeting. we can figure out more or less what is on that document. it is certainly not what is on the other one. the reforms that are being proposed by the creditors would put the burden on pensioners and wage earners. eve: we are being told that they
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have only hours left to find an agreement between the sides. suppan has to be put in place before tuesday. best something has to be put in place before tuesday. >> the real deadline is the 30th of june that is when the bailout program for greece officially ends. the reason they have not gotten these 7.2 billion euros yet because the deal was we will give you the money if you present us with a comprehensive list of reforms. that list needed to be side off and agreed on by all the creditors. this is why we have seen all those months of negotiation. the recently we saw the austrian finance minister this morning on his way to the meeting say that someday best say that sunday was the deadline is that any deal reached needs to be ratified. hence, the pressure is on. as we go into this meeting, a few hours beforehand, we have
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two documents. they hoped the summit would deal with topics of migration. david cameron to discuss his reforms and we just -- and discuss his renegotiation -- eve: attention might focus on greece for a while. iq for that. -- thank you for that. stephen carl is with us in studio. it does appear the gaps, even though we have two documents the gaps have been closing, what are the hurdles? stephen: this has been a wiki set of negotiations. -- a leaky set of negotiations. a revised version of the -- we
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set the difference between the two size is worth about 1.8 billion euros. that is the spending cup cap they need to meet between the sides. the great proposal d relies more heavily on taxes. they have revised reforms they feel are better for greece. the issues include things like the greek government wants to place a levy on corporate profits of 12% to bridge that immediate funding gap. the creditors want an increase in corporate taxation to be reduced. the issue of the tax on goods and services has been thorny. the creditors did seem to take out one of their key demands the highest rate of vat, 23% should be based on electricity. in return, they want changes on the issue of pension reforms.
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alexis tsipras' -- the difference is down to the retirement age. they settled on six he seven. -- settled on 67. there's also an issue about top up payments for certain pensioners on low income. the international lenders want that process to be much faster. still some gaps but it is down to a small number of issues. eve: we are all wishing -- next tuesday is the day that the imf loan is due. it is also the day that it's bailout agreement ends. what could ask we happen? stephen: christine lagarde has told us the imf will give grace
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note -- give greece no grace period. as of wednesday greece would be in default. the question after that is a domino effect. if we look at the risk for the banks in greece which seem to be the shakiest area, if there is no extension of the bailout by tuesday, not only does part of that bailout fund come the 3.6 billion disappear for greece, it means they could stop having access to emergency bank funding. the ecb is increasing that ceiling almost on a daily basis just to keep those banks going. we heard from the bundesbank. the only thing keeping greece cost banks alive. the liquidity of those banks is in question. that is a big ask hanging over the -- axe hanging over the
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greek government. if we look at what is happening in the stock markets, investors do not seem that worried. it european markets turned to positive territory after we got news of this climax in negotiations. markets trading up today. investors not to worried. no huge change in the value of the euro. it will be interesting to see what happens later in the day. it will be a case of googling's first. -- a game of who blinks first. eve: moving on. taxis in paris protesting against uber. taxi drivers setting fires in order to make their presence felt. taxi drivers are complaining that uber is taking customers from licensed cap companies.
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-- licensed cap companies. enforcing that law is a problem. reporter: gridlock, gridlock and more gridlock. roads and motorways across rants scramble to a halt -- france scramble to a halt as -- an application they say is pushing them off the roads. translator: it is not an equal pain field. best playing field. i will not let this continue. reporter: cabbies blocked the carriageway. nearby, clashes broke out
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between drivers and riot police who fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. this was the scene at paris's shaw de gaulle airport -- charles de gaulle airport. cabbies want access to the terminals. there were scuffles between the drivers and those that work for uber. one of the busiest rail stations where euro star services depart from was also blocked off. similar scenes here in the city of marseille. the message of taxi drivers seems summed up best by this banner. eve: the union of taxi drivers are expected at the prime minister's office sector noon. -- this afternoon. julian assange says france should take legal action against the united states. assange said parents -- paris
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should launch an inquiry. reporter: the worst is yet to come. that is julian assange's message after his whistleblowing site released documents alleging that the nsa tapped the phones of three french president's. speaking from london's embassy on wednesday, the wikileaks founder called on france to hold a parliamentary inquiry into the surveillance. that looks unlikely after president obama called francois hollande to assure him they would not spy on him anymore. >> we are not targeting president hollande and we do not conduct any foreign intelligence surveillance
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activities unless there is some specific and validated national security purpose. reporter: that is not enough for assange who says, what does it matter if they say they are not produced by on hollande personally? authorities are currently investigating whether a previously unknown leaker provided the latest intelligence documents to wikileaks. eve: france has increased its own surveillance powers. parliament passed a bill which gives intelligence services the authority to monitor internet use and phone calls without judicial warrants. the bill will not take effect until a high court rules on whether or not it is constitutional. a second car bomb placed by the islamic state group has detonated in the town of kobani near the turkish border with syria. there are reports that 20 kurds
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in a nearby village were killed by the jihadist. kurdish forces helped by the u.s. coalition airstrikes. reporter: after four months of fighting, this was all that was left of kobani. in late january, kurdish forces and us-led coalition airstrikes drove out the islamic state group from the border town. this footage shows the kurds replacing the black jihadist flag with their own. booby-traps in homes in streets. five months later the iaf group has launched a fresh -- the eye as group has launched a fresh offensive. translator: the fighting that is happening now is violent.
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if followed a suicide car bomb attack in one of the town's neighborhoods. reporter: sherry syrian state tv claims the jihadist crossed over from turkey. the iaf group -- the iis group's offensive comes as the kurdish groups secured victories in recent weeks. they captured strategic positions from the islamic state group. eve: palestinian authorities are handing the international criminal court two files saying it contains evidence of -- the palestinian authority joins the icc last april and a preliminary inquiry into the gaza conflict was opened. reporter: after decades of failed peace negotiations
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palestinian authorities are taking israel to the international criminal court. >> we hold all the military economic, political and other leadership structures in israel accountable. many countries in this world allow israel to function and act as it is above the law. reporter: it looks that repeated israeli settling in the west bank, the nation's treatment of palestinian prisoners and how it acted when it went to war in gaza. that conflict left more than 2000 palestinians dead with just 73 israeli casualties. several reports have pointed to failures on both sides including one set to lay the blame for war crimes on both israel and palestinian authorities later this month. the israeli government has given such reports -- it will likely
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stick to its guns. >> israel was forced to protect itself. israel is an organ -- an open, democratic country and we are more than ready to explain exactly why we acted the way we acted. reporter: israel wants to act through its own justice system rather than the icc. palestinians hope the move will bolster their recognition on the international stage. the court proceeds at a glacial pace and israel itself does not recognize palestine as a state. eve: rudy's -- baroody's vice president has defected to brussels. a runtranslator: i was no longer
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able to continue to support the attitude of the president of the republic and his desire to lead the people of burundi on this path. he launched his bid to run for a third term. that is illegal under the constitution. crisis has broken out. accompanied by demonstration. the crisis is taking a violent turn toward consequences foreshadowed by his allies and the international community. eve: spain has sent a formal request to britain for the extradition of rwanda's intelligence chief. general karink is accused of playing a part in reprisal killings. spain wants to investigate him in relation to the murder of nine spaniards who were working
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with refugees and want at the time. -- refugees in rwanda at the time. reporter: his operations are in respect -- burned respect -- earned respect. one of the main commanders of the rwandan patriotic front. rebels have held power percent. roughly yield -- throughout the yields -- it was his role in the reprisal killings of hutu civilians in the wake of the rwanda and genocide that earned him an international arrest warrant from a high spanish court in 2008. it accused him as well as 40 other officers of war crimes. those charges were shelved in 2014 but terrorism charges related to several -- the deaths of several spanish citizens
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remain. the 54-year-old is accused of having known and approved of the killing of spanish aid workers and hutu civilians between 1994 and 1997. >> heard by the judicial spanish authorities, facing the alleged climbs -- crimes described in the international arrest warrant. reporter: rwanda's foreign minister was quick to respond. >> it is an outright -- an outrage to arrest a rwanda official -- reporter: in 2008, his tenure as deputy commander of the african union and you and he's keeping force was cut short when the order was issued. eve: a quick reminder of our top stories.
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talks continue between greece and its creditors. the clock has been ticking for months. athens needs to pay 1.6 billion euros to the imf. it's bailout agreement runs out on tuesday. kurdish control of the town of kobani in northern syria looks to be in trouble with a second bomb set by the islamic state group now reported. also stories that the jihadist have killed 20 kurds in a nearby village. france should take the united states to court, so says wikileaks cofounder julian assange who promises there are more revelations to calm. -- to come. it is time to take a look at the weekly magazines. nicholas rushworth is with us to take a look at the weekly magazines. what has caught your eye?
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nicholas: an italian magazine which is headlining europe shipwreck with the 12 stars of the european union floating at sea. the article is slamming france and the united kingdom for watching out for business interests in africa, their former colonies but closing the door on those african migrants who currently are in italy trying to get across the border into france. my grits trying -- migrants trying to get into the u.k. as well. eve: mood and despair reflected in germany. nicholas: you can see their spiegel, a cataclysmic cover showing the ifo tower crumbling.
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big ben -- eiffel tower crumbling. big ben going down. this is to do with problems with the grexit question and the rise of the far eyes. what we've got here is a situation that is happening now. europe is falling apart now. let's go to a cartoon in that magazine which shows the germans on the beach, a boat approaches named achilles and the question is, are you refugees from syria? no we are refugees from greece. will they be allowed to land? sticking with greece in the cartoon format. a hammer blow from charlie h ebdo. you can see the headline, save
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europe, drown a greek. i would love to give a point of view to counterbalance that. eve: i would like to hear it. a lot of french magazines concentrate on national identity. nicholas: we'll start out withl express -- l'express. it says being french entails the church versus state tradition they have come the separation. the respect for french revolutionary values. to protest, equality. the french language. " a danish novelist who sees himself as french. being critical, being open to the world and having the right to say non.
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reflecting this debate which has been sparked by nicholas sarkozy. the discussion about do we have integration. people are living in france, or assimilation where you are french and you live in france but you retain your original identity from which ever country you originally come from. le point interviews 40 individuals -- intellectuals. topic for those two magazines. eve: sticking with french magazines. looking to the future. nicholas: looking at this phenomenon of trans-humanism. the idea of being able to become immortal via technology. maybe in the end the only way we can solve the greek debt crisis
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or any personal problems you have. the pioneer of it is a russian who says we have to realize that with technology, the whole idea of a hand machine, the idea that -- a man machine, he says that is just the starting point or allowing technology to create longevity for us. the message is that one day there will be no old people, no city people and we will all be viewed -- no old people, no sick people and we will all be beautiful. profiling johnny depp who is leaving his village mansion. that beautiful house he is selling now with france sotheby's. you have europe thinking
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