john siropolous, al jazeera athens. >> concerns are adding new fuel to the new cold war simmering between russia and the west. last week ali velshi sat down with general wesley clark at the milkennessmilken conference in new york. pitting the pro-russian government against the rebels. ali asked the general had a kind of support the united states should be giving to the ukrainian government. here is what clark had to say. >> they have got to be able to control the provocateurs in ukraine. night vision goggles and sniper rhythmsrifles and that sort of thing. infiltrators. it is a very sophisticated political military media operation. and if you're going to deal with that you have to have the right tools. so you need intelligence. actually ukrainians are getting a lot of on the ground intelligence because a lot of people in russia don't agree with putin. they are telling their friends in ukraine what's happening. but they need the night vision goggles the flak jackets and all the other things. all the regular tools ukraine has plane plenty of. >> you have familiarity with that theater what i

john vops siropolous explains. >> it's the end of a long and dangerous journey. the greek coast guard pluks plucks these 34 syrians from a life raft. >> i am coming from dead. i am and my family. coming from dead. i want any any any 50. >> these people have seen their family murdered. they spent all their savings on this crossing, $3500 but others choose to bypass the smugglers. all they had was this dinghy. it is only five and a half kilometers from turkey, the coast guard has picked up 1500 people so far more than it collected all of last year, that's because tactics have changed. >> last year we were facing a kind of invasion of very fast boats with a smuggler on board. and a kind of a sophisticated transportation. and we needed to deploy our means, our patrol boats in order to be able to tackle the situation, also to make some hot pursuits as well. >> smugglers tried to bulletproof their casings in vein. a new method was to put their clients in a rubber dinghy. maritime law demands they be rest constitute. >>> temporarily housing and feeding people in this di

john siropolous reports. >> partial agreement this month with its main creditors the european union and the international monetary fund. the consensus among many is that greece is going through its last cash reserves. series questionsserious questions remain, if the talks in brussels do not go well then creditors will not give the greek government government $8 billion in financial aid but it still needs money 50 end of the month to pay nawments installments on its debt. greece has not received any financial aid from its creditors for the last nine months. local government pension funds and public trusts is been ordered to lend the government their bank deposits in order to prevent a default. >> in the philippines two people have been killed after typhoon noul hit the coast. forced into shelters because of the bad weather the force 5 storm has damaged many houses. >>> buildings destroyed concern that ancient traditions can be lost in nepal as well. andrew simmons visits a fifth century temple. >> there is a different tempo to the relief operations two weeks after the earthquake. attempt

john siropolous is here with the story. >> the government is optimistic that it will reach a partialeement, but the consensus among financial experts is that grease is now going through its last cash reserves. serious disagreements remain between greece and its creditors, pensions, labor law and economic reform. if the talks do not go well then creditors will not give the greek government $8.3 billion in economic aid. but it needs to pay salaries and pensions and installments on its debt. greece hasn't received any financial aid from its creditors for the last nine months so state suppliers are not any longer being paid and pension funds and public trusts have been ordered to lend the government their bank deposits in order to prevent default. >> peace deal agreed in minsk in february is moving forward. vladimir putin made the comments as he welcomed angela merkel to moscow. she was there to mark celebrations marking the 70th anniversary of the world war ii. >>> bad period because of the differences in assessment of events in ukraine. there is every reason to believe that although th

. >>> john vop siropolous has more from greece. >> the european union and the international monetary fund but the consensus among financial experts is that is now going through its last cash reserves. serious disagreements remain between greece and its creditors. if things do not go well, creditors will not give greece $8 billion in financial aid. but it will still face bills of $3.5 billion to pay installments on its debt. scraping that money together has proven increasingly difficult because greece hasn't received any financial aid from its creditors for last nine months so state suppliers are no longer being paid and local governments pension funds and public trusts have been ordered to lend the government their bank deposits nor to prevent a default. >> up next, ongoing migrant crisis controversial plan that the group is now considering it involves the military. >>> and on this mother's day a mystery involving stolen babies, a demand for answers as concerns grow. were missouri moms lied to when they were told that their newborns had died? and from an early strop cal storm to --tr