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ALJAZAM Weekend News June 22, 2024

In america. Hillary clinton accuses china of stealing commercial secrets at a Democrat Campaign event. Im at daytona speedway, the home of nascar racing where fans have been asked not to display the Confederate Flag. But many people are ignoring that, and well tell you why. We begin the news hour with breaking news. Chile has won its first football title ever and wins the copa america. The tiebreaker well report live from outside of the stadium later in the bulletin. Stay tune for that. Back to our top story and the greek finance minister has accused International Creditors of trying to terrorize the greek people into expecting more austerity. He made the comments as final preparations continue. Voters will decide whether to accept the program of budget cuts and reforms from lenders in return for financial aid. Voting gets under way at 7 00 a. M. Local time. And the first projected results are expected at 9 00 p. M. El polls suggest that the yes and no side are neck and neck. We have more from the capital in athens. I meet olga outside of the hotel where she worked until it shut down a week ago and she was fired. I was three years here. It was a family not a job. Olga, like the rest of her generation, is trying to make sense of the referendum. I feel sad because i see our society split in two. Some say yes and some very loudly say no. Thats not right. We know for sure that the fall out of a yes vote will be a situation even worse than we had before. And by say nothing there is the fear of uncertainty. We dont know what will happen the next day or how well deal with it. Marcus is a graduate economist who knows hell be voting yes but admits the choice isnt an easy one. So i think that a yes is probably our last chance of bringing sanity back at the table. And now what do you think that will bring . You know, our government is claiming within 48 hours after a no that theyre going to go back and sign a deal. I highly doubt that. I. Credibility has been lost on both sides. Marcus and olga have done nothing to cause their countrys problems but they still must carve out a future. Much of europes media says its a contest between pro and antieurope proposal here, but thats not the case. Yes it could turn out to be a referendum on the future of this government, but make no mistake an overwhelming number of greeks on both sides of the question do want this country to remain inside the eurozone. But time is not on their side. Within days if the Bank Closures persist business also start to shut down. The banks themselves to collapse, and there will be shortages of Food Supplies and pharmaceuticals. I believe we can make a future in this country because greece gives us hope. It gives us faith. All the young people, my generation, we have our dreams. I dont think any one of us will stop dreaming. In the end whether the euro goes on or the drachma returns hope is one greek currency more valuable than any other. Al jazeera athens. Tunisias president has announced a state of emergency a week after the killing of 38 tourists at a beach resort. Police now have extra powers. The president said the measure was necessary to maintain security and safety. Peter sharp has the report. Announceing the emergency measures to the nation the president said tunisia is now in a state of war. It wants to establish a caliphate. It deserves support. There is no country in our region or europe that is immune from terrorism today. The sudden declaration of a state of emergency announced by the tunisian president is a week after the massacre. 38 tourists died. 30630 of them from britain. Theyll have more flexibility and will hand the army and police more authority. The state of emergency is being brought into force as Tunisian Security forces continue to track down other militants involved in organizing and coordinating the attack. The suspect interviewed by police said that the gunman was just one member of a sleeper cell. Part of a network which is believed to stretch from london, tunisia and on to libya. The president has openly criticizeds the Security Forces for their delay in the responding to the shootings and has made a public promise on friday to guarantee the safety of future visitors to tunisia. The state of emergency is something that is quite legitimate to impose in the situation. In a new and young democracy is a double edged sword. It is going to stop to a certain extent the threat of terrorism but its going to play in the hands of those who advocateed the return to the police state we had before 2011. The declaration of the state of emergency comes on the day the last of britains 30 dead were finally flown home. Peter sharp al jazeera. Egypt says its carried out airstrikes in north sinai killing 25 fighters loyal to the Islamic State in iraq and the levant. The military said that it destroyed weapons and explosives near the town dozens of affiliated fighters have died of violence in sinai over its past week. But egypts president elsisi insists the region isthe situation in the region is stable. He made the comments during the surprise visit to troops stationed in north sinai. Hamas is demanding the Immediate Release of more than 100 supporters in the west bank. The Palestinian Authority which is run by the rival fattah group made arrests and warned there may be more. The signs read traittraitor, and. The gaza strip reacted angrily to the arrests and called them politically motivated. The consequences of these arrests will not weaken hamas. There have been years of Bitter Division between the two palestinian political factions with fattah mostly confined to the west bank and hamas in control of gaza. In a rare sign of hope differences were put aside just over a year ago with the formation of a National Consensus government. A government which by most accounts has been a failure because it has not been able to make any major decisions. The timing of the arrest call into question Mahmood Abbas tempt to pull together the National Consensus government, which includes the fattah party and hamas, a government which has been on the verge of collapse for months and which is why so many here believe the crackdown is politically motivated. One of the hamas supporters who was arrested. She said its especially painful during the holy month of ramadan. Last time he was an israeli prison. This ramadan he is in the palestinian jail. Its so hard when a fellow countryman puts chain on your sons hands. This latest crackdown on hamas have been building for months. On wednesday after an placing lasting weeks the Israeli Military announced the arrest around 40 hamas supporters for allegedly planning attacks on israel. Officials have warned of more arrests to come soon. The arrests are related to civil peace and security. Our priority are national interests, and that is to maintain civil peace and security. Whatever the case the arrest will only deepen the political crisis between hamas and the pa. Al jazeera gaza. Lets return to our top story. That is, of course, the greek referendum. Im joined now by the director of Political Research in washington, d. C. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Theyre not going to come out of this too well, are they . Im sorry . I said whether it goes for the yes or the no, greece is going to have to pay . Well, i dont know about pay. They cant pay the debt they have. The imf just did a paper acknowledging that. That the debt is unsustainable basically acknowledging one of the main points of the greek government. That there has to be more debt relief. But you have just seen in these negotiations that have dragged on for months that the european authorities are unwilling to consider any further debt. They want more pension cuts, and they want regressive taxes rather than taxes on profits. So those are some of the main differences. And mark, when we say debt relief are we talking about cancellation of greeces debt . Well, its interesting. There are many forms of debt relief. The people on the European Authority side including some of the media are always saying how the german tax payers, they dont want to pay any more. Thats not it necessarily. There is debt relief that does not involve the german tax payers paying any more money. Extend the the maturity of the bonds. The quantitative easing program. That could be used for greece even though theyre refusing to do it now. Its not about money at all. Its about politics. The European Central bank is doing is that no other bank has done. Its strangling the voters into doing something, its political. Its not about the money. Its partly the fact that there is no framework in place for this sort of activity at this level . Well, no, there is a framework in place. I mean, they are in the process of negotiations. What the greek government wants is they want a deal that will allow the economy to recover after six years of depression and with depression levels of unemployment, 60 for youth, for example. Thats what theyre not giving them. Theyre not allowing them. Theyre not allowing the economy to recover. So there is a framework. Its just that the european authorities, which includes the ecb, of course, the most powerful part of it, and the imf, and the European Commission and the euro group of finance theyre all trying to basically strangle the economy right now. They cut offyou know, people dont understand what they did its really unprecedented. On sunday they just decided that they werent going to give the greek Banking System enough money to be able to open the banks. Now thats the opposite of what a natural bank does. Can you imagine the Federal Reserve of the United States, for example when lehmann brothers collapsed and then we went into a deep financial crisis were going punishyou guys lived too high before the crisis, so were going to punish you until you agree to the program that we want. Instead of acting as a lender resort i just want to interrupt there because you brought up america. And there have been commentspeople have said what greece needs and what europe needs is something very similar to the chapter 9 and the way in which america deals with bankruptcy on a much smaller scale, on the corporate scale we need Something Like that on a sovereign scale. Oh, i absolutely agree with that. And its not just greece. There are a number of countries in the world in a have unpayable debt. But the thing about the greek situation that is more relevant right now is that this situation was actually caused not only just immediately in the last week with this strangling of the economy and the financial system, but it was caused over a period of six years. You know, you dont get a sixyear depression just from some bad event from overborrowing or some financial crisis. Were the center of the whole world financial crisis in 2008 in the United States, and we had a recession that lasted just 18 months. It was very bad but it was over at year and a half. Weve been growing ever since. That to get what you have in greece, you have to have a whole continuous series of really wrong policy decisions and those were made by the european authorities. Those were forced upon the greek people. Now theyre punishing them for saying they dont want to take it any more. Mark, thank you very much for that. Lots more coming up on the al jazeera news hour including living under isils shadow. We report from an iraqi town still under government control but where going to the office could get you killed. The election in guyana will this give rise to racial tensions . And another shock at wimbledon as the womens defending champion is knocked out. Details coming up in sport. Hillary clinton is accusing china of hacking and she wants china to rise peacefully but warned washington needs to be vigilant as its military grows rapidly. They are also trying to hack into anything that doesnt move in america stealing commercial secrets, blue prints from defense contractors all looking for an advantage. Make no a mistake they know theyre in competition, and theyll do everything they can to win it. Well, Hillary Clinton has expressed hope that the u. S. Could soon reach a deal to curb are a Irans Nuclear program but warned that even if it does tehran will remain a destabilizing force in the region and a country that supports terrorism. Meanwhile, watchdog has returned to vienna. More diplomats will return to the austrian on sunday. They have until tuesday to reach an agreement to lift sanctions in return for access to Nuclear Nuclear energy. The iaea leader is just back from tehran. It wants to know how it got the know how and components for its nuclear program. These issues are closely related to talks going on here in vienna. Although there are some sticking points at the talks its clear that both sides are looking at how to sell a deal. Thats why i think it was in the interest of both of iranians and the p5 1 for the iaea chief to make this public statement. Its a corporation from iran. I think we can issue a report by the end of the year on the assessment of the issues relate ed to possible. Once the agreement is reached the iaea is ready to implement the Nuclear Related elements when requested. Were expecting more Foreign Ministers back here in vienna from sunday evening. Theyre then expected to stay in this city joining negotiations which are going on around the clock. Western diplomats say the seventh of july, thats tuesday is their final deadline. Germans base reporting there. Next the Islamic State in iraq and the levant is spectators including children can be seen watching it all unfold at the amphitheater. In the video isil claims to have blown up a notorious jail used by the Syrian Regime where Political Prisoners were locked up. The syrian army has begun a major attack with the help of fighters hezbollah. Its the last important town held by sunni muslim rebels. Its also strategic because of its proximity to a highway linking the capitals damascus and beirut. If the offensive is successful, the main supply root to the al nusra front rebels will be cut off. To another war zone in the middle east. Yemen were armistice looks possible. Houthi rebels are in discusses with the United Nations to pause the fighting it would allow much needed aid to be delivered. We have reports on the situation in the capital of sanaa. They said that her house was destroyed in an airstrike in northwest yemen. She escaped in sanaa and is living in a disused school with several other families. There is a war. So we do the best we can. We Work Together as a group to bake the bread and we thank god for that. In saada which were living in a terrible state. We were short of water, good everything. Weve been living in fear. Saudiled Coalition Airstrikes have targeted Houthi Rebels and fighters loyal to former president ali abdullah saleh, but the hoties continue to control large parts of yemen including the capital. This man said the families who are forced to leave are angry at being caught up in the fighting. We left because of the constant attacks. The shelling. We wouldnt sleep day or night. Thanks to god we now have some kind of protection. Charitable people are helping us at least we have a place to live. Humanitarian agencies are warning of the devastating consequences the war is having on sylvesterans. Many have fled their homes and many are stranded. Their only hope is the end to the fighting. Al jazeera. The iraqi army said that it has destroyed one of isils camps out of baghdad but that its struggling to control the group west of the capital. Journey arraf met with locals where nearby isil fighters are a constant threat. Just going to work here is risky. City Council Members survive this attack by a suicidebomber. The attack interior nearby fallujah killed one of the guards. He has learned to stay away from the windows. If the isil terrorists are able to take amariayat or fallujah theyll have the seven provinces. The tribal fighters hold one of the last lines of defense between isil territory and baghdad. On the outskirts is the last point in eastern al anbar not controlled by isil. There is an isil position and 20 minutes down the road is the isil stronghold of fallujah. After that its thousands of kilometers. There are no heavy weapons and no armored vehicles. One of 20 city Council Members all of them also fighters. Before isil three of his sons died fighting alqaeda. One killed himself rather than be captured and be headed. He called me on the radio saying he had run out of ammunition and that he was going to kill himself. We ran back for help and came back and killed 14 of them. In is a traditional way of life with an unforgiving code. One of them hit this Grocery Store on the first day of ramadan. Seven people were killed. Even the hospital is targeted. 14yearold aiya was in her garden when she was hit by shrapnel. There are places where families can go. The shop next to the bakery was destroyed by a mortar but as long as the bakery is intact they get ready for the evening rush. Jane arraf al jazeera, iraq. A controversial symbol of southern independence in the u. S. But nascar fans have been discouraged from flying the the Confederate Flag. They can he can change it for the stars and stripes. Following the charleston shootings there have been growing pressure to remove it from events. As Andy Gallacher reports many nascar fans are resisting. Many had been asked to leave the Confederate Flags at home. Within minutes there were these flags all over the camp sit

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