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' banks may be closed but the door remains open. european leaders urge greece to come back to the negotiating table to prevent what could be a catastrophic default. fighting terror in all its forms. the investigation continues into friday's deadly attack at a tourist resort. and a vote counting underway in burundi. parliamentary elections are held. a boycott of the opposition and the looming threat of violence
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in the capital. good evening. we begin with the latest on greece, a country which appears to be out of money, and the prospects of a default looks really very that looks very real. many cash dispensers -- prospect's of a default looks a very real. many cash dispensers are empty. the possibility of an exit from the 19 member eurozone looks ever more likely. the greek prime minister has announced sunday a vote will be held in which the greek people will be asked to accept more austerity for a financial lifeline area that is a vote whether or not to stay or leave the eurozone. the european commission president said every thing
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possible has been done to reach a deal. he believes a fair package has been offered. european leaders -- olivia: european leaders are keeping -- european leaders are fighting to keep everything in the eurozone. he rejected criticism that his fellow negotiators have proved ineffective. them of these negotiations have been in the true european spirit. based on mutual trust. that has never been an ultimatum for a take it or leave approach. our sole concern is this. olivia: representatives of the greek government talked over the weekend with european creditors
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on the country's future in the eurozone. a move criticized by some in brussels fighting populist motives. angela merkel stressed that the existing timetable was nonnegotiable, but she added that the upcoming referendum is legitimate, and she leaves the door open to athens to renegotiate. angela merkel: we made it clear that they would obviously not refute them. olivia: french president friends all non-pledged his support adding it is ultimately up to the greek people to decide on their future in the eurozone. france hollande: we can only do so when there is a will to find such a solution. the olivia: creases facing a difficult choice. athens has to make a 1.6 billion
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euro payment to the imf by tuesday night. invoking a worst-case scenario some experts say should greece false out of the eurozone, the eurozone will take a hit. the monetary and the monetary union -- the monetary union was strong enough to get through this talk. tom: kate moody joins me in the studio. greece is dominating the markets and weighing very much on the minds of investors. kate: we have seen a lot of volatility on the world markets. uncertainty beginning in asia. it began in shanghai. leading to a close done at three points. the athens stock exchange has been closed for the duration of this week. we have seen losses on the other major european indices as well. same story in paris.
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the malan stock exchange down 5%. major lenders checked between 6% and 9%. wall street trading down, though analysts say the you -- say the list to the u.s. markets is fairly limited. the euro slant-in early training -- early trading. as much as 2% earlier. now trading at a dollar 12. thank you so much for joining us. let's start up by talking about this market reaction. our investors and the currency room -- and the currency markets reacting like you would respect -- like you would expect? demo
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we don't know what will happen next weekend and even the next week. until europe finds a political agreement there will be a mess in the final markets. if we don't find a political agreement -- tom: a report put out by the state department. john kerry saying in the last couple of minutes, he they really don't want to see that happen. they don't want to see greece leaving the single currency. is that where we are heading now we echo -- heading now? guest: we are close to the grexit. the germans and the french and
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everybody really wants greece to stay in the eurozone. if we don't find an agreement in the next few days i think the situation will be very dangerous for europe and the euro. we're discussing a lot about greece, the situation is dangerous not only for greece. >> we heard that if we did see a grexit, perhaps the contingent would be quite a serious as some people might fear. hugh have a different view. guest: we don't know. the situation is better than three years ago. we don't know the situation of french bring -- a french banks and european banks.
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tom: various governments have been trying to ensure -- the prettiest chancellor -- the british chancellor was looking for safeguard of a possible grexit. what are leaders of the european countries having to do? that's even further beyond, to protect in the event of a default. guest: i think they should come together and really try to find an agreement. i think angela merkel should try to find a political agreement. we see technical discussions are not enough. at some point when you are in negotiation we really need the leaders to say we will find an
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agreement and except that greece stays in the euro. >> thank you so much for joining us here. i will be back in an hour's time with the close of wall street. tom: thank you very much indeed for that. we move on to some of the world news, because the authorities have made a number of arrests in connection with friday's gun attack. most them british, lost in them -- 49 people, most of them british, lost their lives in the attack. >> sanding by -- standing side-by-side in a show of unity. paying tribute to the victims of friday's attack, laying flowers and a moment on's -- a moment of
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silence on the beach. ministers displayed the same unity following security meetings, under a data are -- under a banner. terrorism will be defeated. >> we will work together to defeat them. but united also in working to defend our values. reporter: european and tunisian officials those of the necessity of international cooperation in the fight against terrorism. >> we must make sure the economy of a young tunisian person develops and ensure security in this country. that implies cooperation between our services, as well as our border police, hiding against document fraud and securing
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tourist sites. reporter: cooperation is already taking place on the ground to assess tunisia's protective security needs. several suspects associated with the gunman have been arrested, though the interior minister did not get more information. in the neighboring libya. tom: for civilians have been killed in the -- killed in damascus today, right in the heart of the city. in the northern city, remain locked in battle. government reinforcements have been poured in. the city of the provincial capital until a few years ago was home to tens of thousands of people -- was fourth -- was home to 300,000 people.
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was a year ago the islamic state organization announced that it had arrived -- it had revised a form of islamic government. territory now straddles both sides of the syrian iraqi border. , it has been a decisive first year for the islamic state group. the jihadist group established itself as a self-proclaimed caliphate. months earlier they had taken the syrian city. in early june the second largest city, with its treasure trove of threat -- treasure trove of weapons and money. >> among many jihadist groups. turning an idea into a reality.
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reporter: early july the group's leader would order all muslims to obey him and to support a state that is growing daily. now in control -- now in control of 300,000 square kilometers, the group has managed to take the cities. killing and terrorizing thousands along the way. this despite vows to stamp out the terrorist organization. president barack obama: we are leading a broad coalition to destroy the terrorist group. reporter: and international group has driven the jihadist from the turkestan -- from the turkish border. the persecution of tens of thousands. a fight on a global scale is proving difficult.
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20,000 foreign recruits have joined the islamic state ranks. 30,000 terrorist organizations have pledged allegiance to it. tom: five police officers and's -- and the six militants have been reported to have been killed. the nigeria's -- the nigerian islamist group carried out the attack. chad is one of the leading sensors against this tournament -- against this issue. an explosion targeted at an egyptian prosecutors convoy. this comes in the backdrop of the second anniversary of demonstrations which led to the overthrow of the muslim brotherhood president mohamed morsi. no one has claimed response ability for his death. reporter: the remnants of the convoy of egypt's top public prosecutor after a remote-controlled bomb was
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detonated in the upscale district of cairo monday morning. he died of his injuries in the hospital a few hours later. m at 9:55 a.m. i heard a big explosion. i thought the building was collapsing. when i went outside saw the prosecutor's car and his security car on fire. someone had fallen to the ground soaked in blood. reporter: the -- the blast throughout windows of surrounding buildings. sparking fears of retaliatory attacks from radical milliman -- from radical militants. state groups in egypt have called for violence against judges. three judges have already been murdered in the sin i prodded -- in the sin i -- in the sinnai
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province. he was them a senior official to be killed since the toppling of morsi. tom: john kerry said it remains to be seen whether or not a deal can be struck with iran for nuclear program. that was a day ago. during the course of the weekend officials on both sides cautioned that the tuesday deadline is unlikely to be met and talks probably overrun by at least a couple of days. developments for us in the austrian capital, where talks are being held. reporter: there is immense
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political will on both sides. secretary of state john kerry last week made a comment that made some analysts question whether washington is changing its stance toward iran to bring to an end the 12 year nuclear standoff. he said washington is not fixated on iran's nuclear path. but many started to question whether there was a reversal in u.s. policy. i spoke to the state department spokesperson and this is what she had to say. >> what happened in the past matters. that is why we encourage by ron -- encouraged iran to work with the iaea. they will have to provide access as part of this agreement. what this agreement is out is about the future at the heart of it and preventing iran from getting a nuclear weapon in the future. both are important. so non-bank -- sanam bangm: they have
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to watch closely with critics not just in israel but back at home. tom: polls have closed in burundi, where people have been casting their ballots in a parliamentary election. that is despite looming violence and gunfire, which rang out across the capital. the cap -- the country was plunged into turmoil when he announced his intention to run for a third term. >> ignoring calls to postpone the vote of a fear of more violence. tensions were high after an early morning grenade blast and
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gunfire was reported in the capital. some were proud to cast their ballot vocally or complicit the. these local elections shouldn't be postponed. others at the polling station told why they were quick to watch from their fingers. -- washroom their fingers any proofs they had voted. a fear of reprisal from supporters of the opposition that potentially creates another problem. multiple votes by the same person. for months these elections, but especially next month presidential vote caused waves of violence. they got the go-ahead in late
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april to seek a set -- to seek a third term. members including the outgoing head of the national assembly, having increasingly decided to go into eggs out after fear of their lives. a fear shared by some 120 -- 120,000 people. it could spiral out of the -- spiral out of control ahead of the july 15 elections. tom: polls have closed in baroody. we have been following all the developments in the capital. >> it is difficult to get an overall sense of what is going on with the provocation of the election having been discontinued by the european union and the african union and various other body due to the fact of widespread concern of an
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action, given the violence we have seen not in just the last few days, the last few nights, but prior to that. over the last two months really. we have seen clashes between protesters, many people dying in those clashes, and the opposition has boycotted any action. turnout has been massive. there is one polling station. there was another polling censored in the capital, which had a bigger turnout. perhaps 30 or 40 long with about six or seven different -- and we moved into the interior. one official said to us around lunchtime 55% it does appear it
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is coming in from around the country. the ruling party might be claiming. tom: two executives are reportedly in custody here in france. that is following last week's strike and protests. cooper is threatening their livelihoods. they say it poses unfair competition because drivers aren't subject to the same taxes and regulations as they are. now past the point of no return, a solar powered plane trying to set a new record by becoming the first such aircraft to circumnavigate the globe. it is one of the most complicated legs of its journey so far. next on the said to be hawaii.
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reporter: the team behind sun or impulse are hoping to have the weather back on their side. for a frustrating for weeks their attempt to reach hawaii on hold. with it their goal of achieving the first round the world solar flight. as the battery powered aircraft climbed into the darkness in central japan, the adventure has begun again. that conditions forced the plane to divert. indeed since taking off in march, the first pacific leg of the journey will perceive -- was perceived as the longest and riskiest. there's no place to land in an emergency. 70,000 solar cells can make the distance.
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this duo is ever closer to accomplishing a new record in aviation and to achieving their aim of proving the potential of clean power. tom: you won't be surprised to learn the uk's one of the top wine countries. you don't think of it as being a producer of wine. as we are about to see, the times are changing. this used to be a paid farm. wine club -- one growing in the south of england. more than 40,000 bottles are produced per year. the u k wine industry starts in the 1990's and is worth 82 million pounds. >> we found production has
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increased in the last seven years. the main reason for that is the production of sparkling wine. reporter: is very similar to terrain and champagne. pinot noir and chardonnay. >> you need to hone in the quality factor, which will produce the best out there. reporter: this has won a number of awards in the past few years including a gold medal in 2014. one of the top wine consumption markets in the world.
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consumer still need convincing that british wine can compete with the best. >> nobody wanted to try english wine. if they did a blind tasting they are all very surprised. they thought it was champagne. reporter: new skills, training and technology having -- have improved the quality of the wine. that is just a drop in the ocean compared to the 300 million bottles of champagne. tom: alex well. that brings up -- brings us up today. we will be back with the top stories, so don't go away.
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rom pacifica, this is democracy now! >> today love wins. amy: same-sex weddings took place across the country this weekend after the u.s. supreme court ruled all 50 states must now permit same sex couples the "the fundamental right to marry." the ruling puts an end to same-sex marriage bans that remained in 14 states. we will go to michigan to speak with april deboer and ayne rowse
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