john siropolous has more. >> the run on greek banks have been extreme in the past days. the european bank held an emergency is are session. greek. ors withdrew for a toilet of 4.5 billion. the athens stock market plunged by more than 10%. it is the culmination of six months of no confidence in the tactics of brinksmanship. more than a quarter of deposits and a 5th of stocks have disappeared. there's still a real risk that athens can be forced to grows capital controls, as cypress did in 2013. prime minister was signing a pipeline deal in russia and he appears in no position to compromise. >> solidarity, democracy social justice. by sticking to policies of as you tairtd andausterity. >> athens must maybe a 1.1 billion loan payment to the euro zone, or potentially be forced out of the single european currency. >> we do not have a guarantee for that if the greeks are seriously ready committed to getting tear budget in order and to make steps towards it, then it is possible. >> we hope for best but we now must be prepared for worst. >> reporter: the pressure on greece's cash

john siropolous, al jazeera athens. >> still to come on the program it's due to be signed. but touareg agreement seems to be shaky. waterloo 200 years after the defeat of french emperor napoleon. u.s.tice department says it's treating the shooting of nine black people in a charleston south carolina shump aschurchas a hate crime. dylann roof heard victims' families forgive him. >>> parties in geneva broke up, with neither the saudis nor be houthis agreeing to meet in the same room. >>> greece tries to clinch a last minute zeal to pay its massive debt. touareg rebels are expected to sign a peace deal in mali. the agreement fails ogive automatic thatunanimity. all. to give autonomy. >> we feel this is the best we can get and the readiness to accept our demands. i think this is available to us now. >> reporter: announced what they call the independent republic of azawads there months ago. several years ago in burkina fasso, the new treaty will form the right to form local groups in the north role for armed movement, more economic and social development in the area. the local re

. >> john siropolous joins me from the capital right now. >> the crowd you are seeing behind me tonight is the no crowd. these people some 10,000 at some point earlier there evening are here to tell the government at a they're on its side. they disagree they should vote no not only against the austerity measures that have been imposed by creditors but against anything that might forced further austerity forced down the greeks' throats. because they believe they will only lead to more cycles and eng spending cuts. the greek has to make its own decision they are even prepared to leave the euro zone, in order to produce financial stability at home. the young people i spoke to earlier on the square feel that is only way they have any hope of either being hired in their area of expertise not being forced to emigrate abroad or to have the sort of money that will dignify their lives possibly something that isn't related to their university degrees or field of expertise. they want to be able to have families, to get married to pay their mortgages. they don't see thamg that happening right now.

. >> and john siropolous joins me. alexis tsipras is set to speak very shortly. what are people expecting him to say? >> he's going to be interviewed on national television and we expect that he will rebut the points made earlier today by the commission president jean claude yunker who delivered a stinging rebuke to the greek et cetera. he said they were playing tactical and even pop even populace games. he said i was preparing to give the greeks a 35 billion euro stimulus package out of the funds of 315 billion euros. an enormous chance more than 10% for greeks and he said the greeks have not been represented in a worthy fashion by their elected leaders. i think mr. tsipras will come back with a point for point rebuttal on the substance of the plan. that's what his office issued a short while ago saying what creditors presented to the greeks were full of recessionary measures, cuts to pension subsidies for low earning pensioners half a percent of gdp cut new taxes on vat consumer tax and there was an attempt to raise these taxes on the sensitive tourism sector w

john siropolous, al jazeera athens. >> autonomy the rebels have spent decades fight being for. mohammed val reports their people accepting it hasn't been easy. >> they've repeatedly said their goal is an independent state. now they try to convince their people much less than that. arab and tuareg movements have a tough task on their hands. >> translator: we think this is the most we can get in the current context and the europeans ready to accept our demands. this is what we will settle for now. >> reporter: the deal waiving their claim of independence in favor of limited self rule. the new treaty will allow only the right to form local institutions in the north. a role in the region's security for armed movements. more economic and social development in the area. the rebels have demanded mali's government spends 40% of its budget npt north. in the north. current agreement signed in 1992 and 2006. most we talked to in this meeting are dissatisfied. >> it is clear that we have been forced to sign this agreement but i don't see a single point in it that serves our interest. it is

john siropolous, what has the reaction been what this feels like an excruciating process where we seem to go from one agonizing deadline to another. >> reporter: lauren when you see is another outward sign of a growing frustration felt by the greek people, as negotiations have lumbered on for the last five months. sounding very optimistic about its own ideas 24 or 48 hours later being refuted from creditors, this has gone on for several months now and particularly in the last few weeks as the government has come back to creditors with more and more ideas. and in an almost more and more frantic fashion i would say. now the greeks that appeared on the square hind me here, what they were saying to me is that we are absolutely exhausted by this. our nerves are shattered. we want to see that there is some form of communication between the government and the creditors. we want to know that we are actually going somewhere and that the economy does have a prospect of recovery because everyone has now cottoned on to the fact that the economy is slowly dying. the consumption has gone down, consu

john siropolous has more from athens. >> syriza is unpopular in some parts of the greece but not herepeople believe they have a government on their side. weighing in at more than 600,000 people greece's public servants represent one in six still in work. >> our government is negotiating an honorable compromise. it wants europe united not divided under germany. we want to stay in europe as an equal member not as a debt colony. >> some are here to support the stand against austerity on the poor and middle class. >> we came here to support or government's efforts and to tell europeans numbers aren't everything. there are also people here and they are suffering. we don't want the same social classes to continue to lift this weight. >> reporter: centuries of laws have given workers tenure for life most were fixed term workers whose contracts expired. all took early retirement deals deals not available in the private sector. this is the most powerful and well organized group in greece, capable of swinging elections at nearly $1 billion a month it is also the mow expensive. these people have

john siropolous was with the straightors earlier there afternoon. >> greeks are becoming more frustrate. the country's financial aid program ends at the end of the month. threatened to default on a $1.8 billion bond to the international monetary fund if it doesn't have a deal. these people come mainly from the private sector. they do not want to see more taxes or austerity in public spending but today that is what they have heard the government may have capitulated to. growth to renewed recession and this time it's not been triggered by austerity but political uncertainty that has led to a collapse in investment and consumer demand. >> john siropolous in athens thanks. >>> europe's financing ministers have apparently welcomed the latest proposals by greece. >> the perfect way to start the day. be alexis tsipras had a lot to grin over. to get his country the next chunk of bailout catch it desperately needs but the smiles were not to last. first his finance minister turned up 45 minutes late, then the finance ministers said they could not accept because they had not been given enough time

john vop list siropolous is live for us.hat exactly are those demonstrating behind you hoping for? >> reporter: well, just a couple of minutes ago we saw hundreds of people in this pro-europe protest break through a police barrier in an attempt to reach the walls of parliament behind me. and that's something that was echoed previously, the sense of tension in this protest that you see behind me, by the fact that these same people openly clashed with a rival demonstration that arrived on the scene by prosyriza, pro-government demonstrators, urging the government not to make a deal with the government in brussels. these two groups did come to altercations, not to blows but police had to intervene in order to separate them. at the moment what you're seeing is the pro-europe crowd dominant in the square. certainly dominant in nurms. this wasnumbers.now trying to reach parliament in order to force the government or at least press it into reaching a deal sooner rather than later. i think the sense that we have here in athens is th

john siropolous has the story. >> the greek side saying it has put the best counteroffer it can on the table. creditors are demanding $4 billion of additional austerity cuts which would have to take place immediately. that means in the next six months in order to affect this year's budget and fiscal gap. have that's the tax revenue shortfall that creditors believe greece is in for. greece says we can't do $4 billion this year on top of the other austerity measures we have agreed to uphold. what we can do is a certain amount of that through consumer tax, at least a billion and a half through consumer tax but then we would like more concessions from creditors on how much of the debt to repay this year. creditors have made such a concession, they've dropped the amount of gdp that greece would have to spend on repaying debt this year from three and a half to 1%. greece wants a little bit more than that, a slightly better offer but nonetheless even if that's granted there still seems to be a gap between the two sides. not just for this year's measures but also for the next three or four yea

john siropolous has more. >> sound thrashing from the opposition exearmt parties the socialists and conservatives they said take the deal, it won't get better. what he's been given is the 11% discount on the amount greece owes. roughly a 50% discount on debt repayment for three years. that will leave him another 11 or $12 billion to spend on growth creation, but he hasn't gotten any relief on austerity measures that the creditors are have asked for more pension cuts salary cuts in the education sector, and vat taxes on sensitive goods like electricity services and on medicine and those are things that the socialist government or left wing government has said it simply will not do. it is a core election promise those are the measures that led to the downward spiral of the greek economy in the first place and the recession of the last four years. we are either at a situation where the greeks will reject the proposition that's on the table or hope for improvements. >> calling for the ceasefire in eastern ukraine to be fully respected. since the deal was broken in february nadim baba has more. >> ukr

. >> john siropolous reporting from athens thank you very much very much. i want to go back to ali velshi in tehran, iran. be ali, what happens if greece fails to make its 1.8 billion payment to the imf on tuesday what happens ali? >> well first of all you and our viewers will have seen from market reactions in the united states that people are betting on the fact that for the first time in history, a fully developed nation will likely default. that is what we are starting to hear now. the rumblings of that greece will not make its payment. now remember, unlike the iran deadline in which they have until the last minute and say they're close, this was a technical deadline. greece was supposed to make the payment at the middle of the month. they used a clause that nobody ever heard of and said you can pile up the payments and make it in the last day of the month. that means by midnight tomorrow they have got to have the payment to the international monetary fund, $1.8 billion. unlike in tehran, these are people sitting around a table that have a deadline. but

john siropolous in athens where thousands have gathered, we know negotiations with european partners terminated, a referendum set for sunday on these specific conditions that have been laid out for the deal on the table. we'll keep an eye out on what's happening there. top story the killing of egypt's top prosecutor barakat. he joins me live now from boston good to have you with us. this is not first attempt at targeting a senior official. >> good to be with you maryian. >> wonderful, just asking you this is not the first attempt to teargt a senior official in the past few years in egypt. but does the killing sphal some sort of turning point in the country? >> yes you're absolutely right marmayor yam. mariam. there has been a study campaign of violence waged by so-called islamic militants against the army and more generally against the regime of president abdel fatah al-sisi. so this latest assassination the successful assassination of the prosecutor general doesn't so much in my mind represent a turning point as a success for this movement, something that has been trying to do for q

and as john siropolous reports many are taking to the streets osay enough. >> syriza is unpopular inareas, not here in athens. these people believe they have a government that's on their side. weighing in at more than 600,000 people one in six greeks still in work. >> translator: our government is negotiating an honorable compromise. it wants europe united not divided under germany. we want to stay in europe as an equal member not as a debt colony. >> on the poor and middle class austerity. >> we came here to support our government's efforts and to tell europeans that numbers aren't everything. there are also people here. and they are suffering. we don't want the same social classes to continue to lift this weight. >> reporter: century old laws have given state workers tenure for light. the state has shed 300,000 jobs since the crisis began but most were fixed term workers who contracts expired. all workers who took early retirement deals deals not available in the private sector. >>> labor force in greece capable of swinging elections at $1 billion a month it is most expensive. want

. >> and al jazeera's john siropolous joins us from the greek capital. what else did tsipras have to say? >> well, the headline i think from that interview felicity, is he confirmed greece will not be honoring its imf bond tomorrow. it owes the international monetary fund 1.6 billion euros? but mr. tsipras is as dephi ant as ever on tone. he said that the europeans are trying to intervene in this upcoming referendum, they are blackmailing the greek people by refusing to extend liquidity and by refusing to pay off the imf loan by using international monetary fund fest profits. and he asked to return those profits this this fashion by paying off the imf bond but the ecb hasn't signaled that it has any intention of doing so. as of tomorrow we expect greece will be in arrears. on message mr. tsipras was a little befuddling. he said we never left the negotiation table. which of course greece did on saturday. he puts it in his own terms. he says after a no vote on the austerity measures, we expect that only then we will be able to sit down and come to a sustai