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ALJAZAM Weekend News June 22, 2024

To be on several of the most difficult issues. But the u. S. Secretary of state says a deal on curbing Irans Nuclear programme has never been closer. Thousands in ecuador welcomes pope francis as he returns to his home continent for the first time in two years. I have all the sport including willens World Cup Final kicks off in vancouver, as the United States take on japan in a rematch of the 2011 final. Greeks vote no by a large margin to reject an e. U. Bailout deal. Its a triumph for the greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who campaigned for the no vote. He says hell work to find Common Ground with greeces international partners. How the lenders will respond is unclear, the coming days will be crucial. A eurozone summit on greece is set to take place on tuesday. The e. C. B. Is also set to meet. Greek banks cant open on tuesday as scheduled, because they wont have access to the emergency lending. Jonah hull has more. Athey cheered the result. Reporter outside parliament they cheered the result. Greece said no to International Creditors in a sensational act of defiance. We are greek, we feel proud. Its making us feel hopeful. Weve been very scared for the past week. Reporter even as they celebrated the result all will wonder are what happens next. Translation considering last weeks difficult circumstance you made a brave choice. However, im aware the mandate here is not a mandate to break with europe but a mandate to strengthen our position to seek a viable solution. Reporter the Prime Minister got the result he hoped for, vindicating his position in europe, and cements his power at home. Already the former Prime Minister and Opposition Leader samar as resigned in defeat. The promise of a good deal for grease is something that cant be karntd. We are not sure about anything now. We had a plan about, yes. No, we dont have anything. It may be better or worse. Well find out. Reporter in greece, these continue to be worrying times. Amid the jubilation here, its reported that negotiators bags are packed for an immediate return to brussels. Greece need a deal, and one quick, to allow the banks to reopen before they go bust. The trick will be keeping the promise of the referendum, not to accept a deal they dont like. Who knows what the mood will be among the creditors. In brussels berlin frankfurt and washington the vote was framed as an inout referendum on the euro. Will greece be shut out . The majority here refused to give in to that fear. Im very happy and proud. Reporter what do you think greece has achieved . Independence. We shall not be slaves, well be free people. And we deserve that. Reporter a part of europe . No. Reporter a part of the eurozone . No. Why . Reporter after five years of spending cuts tax hikes, job losses, pain and humiliation, those that voted no roared back, enough. Most do want to remain at the heart of europe and the euro, but dont want to feel as if they are being punished any more well soon after the results of the referendum came out, greeces conservative Opposition Leader samar as resigned. The new Democracy Party campaigned for a yes vote in the referendum. The former Prime Minister said his party needs a new start under a new leader okay lets cross to Barnaby Phillips standing by for us in athens. Everyone is talking about athens being free democracy ruling the day. Democracy is not going to pay the bills, is it . No it isnt. And after the euphoria of tonight, greeks are going to wake up tomorrow and they and their government will confront a difficult situation. Greeces banks on life support now for the best part of a week capital draining away. Reliant on the European Central bank to keep going. The economy, which has been in a bad condition for many years now has deteriorated at an accelerated rate. Economic activity is limping along. Tax collection pretty much collapsed in all the uncertainty, and there is enormous bad blood and an extreme lack of trust between this greek government and the European Partners its creditors. The lack of trust has been building up over the past five months over the past six days or so you had posters on the streets of athens put up by the no camp by the government, with a picture of the german finance minister saying this man has been sucking your blood, you had the greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras talking about blackmail and humiliation. It means it will be difficult to come to an agreement. I will bring in my guest to see if he agrees with some of my analysis. Wolf, a political analysis. Would you agree with what i say, now the euphoria goes away. Right. We have a real problem on our hand. We are short of time here in addition to what you outlined. The banks, by tuesday, will be without money, atms will run empty, and will not move until the summit on tuesday is over. It will move in the right direction of Alexis Tsipras, it could move in the other direction. As of today theres more uncertainty that we had over the last couple of months. Alexis tsipras has a point that his position however much the european leaders didnt want to do business with him, his domestic positioning is reinforced. Hes a power at home and they cant close the door on his face when he tries to meet with him. Theyll never close the door thats not what you do. But theyll listen to him. If he goes with a list of proposals. The problem now as you say, hes stronger than before but the economy is weaker. From a european side there could be a request for more concession. More taxes. Whereas here he has to play more. Theres a collision of some sort, and we are running short of time. That could depend on the mandate. Its not clear what every greek votes for. They are conviewing the question in different ways. It may be that they were telling Alexis Tsipras, keep us in the euro thats what we want. Get us a deal under the best possible terms, and he could read that in different ways. He can certainly read it in different ways. Clearly he doesnt have a mandate to take the country out of the euro hes calling to a 30 cap. That selling this to the europeans, voters parliaments. They have voters parliament. It will be difficult. We are basically set for a collision, and its unclear which will give in first. The banks will remain closed. Atm will run empty and the situation deteriorating. He has a point about debt relief it is unsustainable, some needs to be forgiven. There is a point there. The question that comes in exchange for conditionality, nothing for free. Thats the way the eurozone works. Debt relief has been on the table for some time. Government after government fail the conditionalties, the implementation was weak. Its not going to get it because he got 61 of the votes. He has to put something on the table. Its unclear what they can put on the table. Thank you for your analysis. Thats it from athens. 2 oclock in the morning. Crowds have drifted away. Greeks will wake up monday to a fascinating, but uncertain new reality. Its been a long day for you, barnaby. Thank you for that. Well the president of the European Parliament martin sure, says that the no vote is creating a difficult situation. But that the will of the greek people must be reported. The humanitarian programme for greece should be discussed within days. Ordinary citizens pensioners, sick people or children in the kindergarten should not pay a price for the dramatic situation in which the country and the government brought the country, no. Therefore, humanitarian programme is needed and i hope the greek government makes in the next coming hours meaningful proposal allowing that it is meaningful and possible to renegotiate. If not we are entering a dramatic time. Well Jacky Rowland in brussels is looking at the next stages following the no vote. The big question now is what a no vote means. The greek Prime Minister said that a no vote would strengthen his hands in negotiations with the europeans. E. U. Officials said that a no vote would mean no more negotiations and possibly the end of greece as a member of a eurozone, and even foreseeably as a member of the European Union itself. There are various scenarios for what could happen. The worse scenarios would be for banks and lenders to suspend all support for greece. We would see the greek banks coming insolvent, a return to the drachma, which would be immediately devalued several times over. Hyperinflation, and the poorest members of society are the ones that suffered the most. Another scenario which is hinted at at some european officials, including members of parliament, martin schulz, in fact, that there could be more e. U. Money for greece in the event of a no vote, in the shape of loans and keeping public services, and Services Like hospitals and transport going. Ultimately, lenders, including the i. M. F. May have to look at the question of how sustainable the greek debt is. Is it realistic to imagine that greece can ever pay off the debt and the interest accruing on it. There are those that argue there may have to be a form of debt relief. Obviously the words Debt Forgiveness or writing off debt is something that many in europe, partucularly Northern Europe are not happy about. Stephen king joins me from london. What are your thought on this seasonings results. Im impressed by the scale. Almost all polls predicted a hung result. This is a no vote. It strepingens the hands of sirz rsh, and start negotiating, all the way it strengthens the hands of syriza. All the way through the troika has not netted. Now theres a prospect for the drooecks greeks do go back and play hard ball saying you have to consider debt reconstruction and lift conditions on austerity. Mr Alexis Tsipras can go to the cred fors and say i have the power of the people behind me do they care . They have not cared for a while. They thought they could break the syriza government. They have been trying to run a putz an expression. Thats the team to break syriza, drive them out of power and lead a coup by an unelected group of officials. That failed. The troika is no longer in a position to thing they can destroy the party they negotiated with they have to live with them. From an economics point of view here what is the next step that greece should be accepting as reality. They got the no vote. They sent the message to europe. In reality, tuesday is looming fast. What needs to happen next . They have to put forward what they stood for, a stimulus programme. A large part of it needs to be written off. The i. M. F. Has this week admitted that debt restructuring is necessary. A large part of the debt is because of failure of the troika programme, which is supposed to cause g. D. P. To fall by not even 10 . It fell by 25 . A large part of the debt ratio is g. D. P. Collapsed beneath the level of debt that greece reduced over the last few years. Theres a large reason for debt release and a stimulus programme, because austerity failed, and its time they broke the connection between the euro and austerity. Quickly, looking at debt relief, and something we heard a lot about and has been discussed, is that germany should be looking at itself it was helped with debt relief coming out of world war ii. Should they not be more understanding of greekss position . Yes they should. Not just in terms of sympathetic understanding, but an imperial one. The german miracle was kick started by writing off the debts they had at the time. Remember again, that the collapse of germany, and the rise of nazism is because after the First World War the allies insisted on punitive debt terms and germany getting to relief leading to the world war ii. We are not going to get the third world war out of this. The failure of the harsh debt terms imposed on germany to the successive Debt Forgiveness and restructuring after the second shows that the germans should for the sake of the economy of europe and the globe in general, they should agree to Debt Reduction now. Okay its been a pleasure thank you very much. Youre welcome. Before we move on lets we cap on the results of the referendum so far. And just taking a look at the screen there, 98 just over 89 of the vote has been counted. Nos have been leading from the offset. 61. 3 . And the nos below 40 at 38. 7. Lots more to come on Al Jazeera Newshour including we report from the yemeni city of tiaz where children are the latest casualties as fighting between rebels and progovernment groups rages on. Also opponents of burundis president fears for their lives, days ahead of a president ial election. And in formula 1, the World Champion Lewis Hamilton wins again at the british grand prix and is on home soil. Sanaa will tell us later in the sport why he didnt quite have it all his own way. Negotiators trying to iron out a nuclear deal with iran are continuing their talks in vienna days before the selfimposed tuesday deadline. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry says that they are close to an agreement, but have to make very hard choices in the days to come. Our diplomatic editor james bays reports now from vienna. Time is running out. That is the clear message from the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry, who spoke to reporters after two sessions of negotiations with his iranian opposite number. We are not yet where we need to be on self of the most difficult issues, and the truth is while i completely agree with foreign minister Mohammad Javad zarif, that we have never been closer, at this point this negotiation could go either way. If hard choices get med in the next couple of days, and made quickly, we could get an agreement this week. If they are not made, we will not. Reporter Foreign Ministers have been arriving in vienna, and are expected to stay until 7 july, the new deadline. What happens if they dont reach a deal by then . Reporter do you have a plan b . No. The rule is, i guess i said it on other occasions, if you work on plan a, you stick to plan a. That deadline stays, the 7th. Reporter im told we got to the stage where all the sticking points can be laid out on one sheet of paper for the foreign minister, some are technical, all requiring political decisions, and without the decisions there can be no dole deal. Theres been fierce fighting in iraqs largest province of anbar, most is under the control of i. S. I. L. Fighters. Suicide bombers tried to attack a dam. The government says it managed to foil the attack. Elsewhere in anbar 22 soldiers were killed in two bombings in alshaya, northwest of fallujah. In another City Government air strikes killed 23, injuring 40 others. Mortars destroyed a number of homes, forcing families to flee. Jarar has more from baghdad. Reporter fighting has continued near fallujah and ramadi, appearing a pattern of iraqi air strikes, including banned barrel bombs, killing civilians. Now, as iraq tries to dislodge i. S. I. L. From cities it is controlling, they are launching artillery and air strikes against the cities, but the problem is they appear to be in populated areas. One was in ramadi, near a football pitch where young men gathered after midnight during ramadan. They were playing football and other games. The Iraqi Government says they were aiming at i. S. I. L. Fighters. Local forces that there were members of i. S. I. L. In the area, but most of the young men were, in fact, civilians. Mark kimmitt was the assistant secretary for political and military affairs under the former u. S. President george w. Bush and joins me live from washington d. C. Thank you for joining us. How are the iraqi army doing against i. S. I. L. . I think they are doing better than they had been in a past couple of months when they were fleeing from certain cities to include ramadi. The fact they were standing and fighting, the iraqi army and Police Forces indicates that the i. S. I. L. Forces are not gaining more ground than they had gained up to this point. What are your thoughts on the u. S. Stepping up. They avoided putting troops direct action troops on the ground. Is it time to do that. I. S. I. L. Are pushing on. They are not necessarily pushing on. They have hit a point close to baghdad. That has people concerned to include not only the Iraqi Security forces, but i dont think that at this point its time for the United States to do anything more than to add advisors into the battalions and grenades. The notion of putting brigades on the ground i dont think its necessary or politically feasible at this point. Why not though . Why not. The u. S. Have been helping with training. Why do you think its not feasible for them to be more hands on. Well, what i said is i think that the United States could be more hands on by putting joint controllers in the iraqi units, advisors in the iraqi units, but i dont believe theres military necessity to put the battalions or brigades on the town. But they are doing a genuinely acceptable jobs plus the backlash from the United States and other nations would be unnecessarily severe. Third, it would be a great political victory, propaganda victory for i. S. I. L. Because they could turn the fight na one that is no longer terrorist against the iraqis but as terrorist against the United States of america, the coalition nations. Thats not helpful at this point. A delicate balance to achieve there. Thank you mark kimmitt. Saudiled air strikes hit houthi positions across yes answer as the u. N. Envoy arrived in sanaa to try to broker a ceasefire. The humanitarian situation contin

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