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ALJAZAM News June 22, 2024

Weeklong tour of latin america and the u. S. Is the first to win the womans world cup for a third time and japan on the receiving end of goals and hat trick from u. S. Captain carly lloyd. So a referendum win for greeces government has done little to ease the sense of crisis over the state of its economy, there is still serious concern about the health of the great banks which were supposed to open on tuesday and has been meeting with Political Parties on monday as he prepares to return to negotiations with International Lenders and wants a credible solution to his countrys debt crisis, before that though he has to pick a new finance minister to replace this man who announced his resignation with his presence of the bailout talks have not been welcome. That resignation came the morning after millions of greeks say they decided no to the bailout terms proposed by International Creditors who want big cuts in return for their latest loan and 61 of greeks supported the government and voted against the deal. All of this leaves some Big Questions hanging over greece. Businesses and people still want to know if the banks are going to reopen on tuesday and have been closed for a week and are still in trouble surviving on emergency lending from european bankers and after they rejected the bait out deal can another one be struck and they have the backing of the people but there needs to be some kind of compromise and if there is not could greece still leave the euro zone and Prime Minister says he wants to stay in the single currency but return to the drakma is very much a possibility and we have coverage of this and dominick cane in frankfurt and athens and first from barnabie phillips getting reaction from voters. People are out again hoping to get their 60 euros out of the cash machines but many people im hearing in this cue say they are very worried and there are pensioners who do not have cards and do not know how much money they will be allowed to take from the bank today. Given this situation, given these cues why did greeks vote as they did and why did they not heed advice of creditors that the country is close to financial collapse and the answer is that attitudes in greece have been created not just by the banking crisis of the past seven days but by a greater economic depression that has lasted five long years. This word here means friends in greek and synonymous for the countrys collapse and i dont know what the abandon shop was and maybe it sold cloths or shoes and empty apartments here and look another empty shop here, its typical of what happened in central athens the collapse of Small Businesses and when you combine that with an Unemployment Rate which for young people stands at over 50 you begin to understand why so many greeks felt they simply have nothing left to lose and why they voted no. Lets start with john who is in athens for us and explain the resignation of the finance minister because his party got what he wanted but he admitted yeah, maybe nobody likes me that much. That is right, the resignation is a concession to creditors and he made himself very difficult to talk to. He had created enormous dislike across the table with his interlock interlockers and the rest of europe and difficult for him to bring an agreement that the creditors would live with and spent six months suggesting things they have rejected within 24 hours, all of his ideas have been nonstarters. Now the greeks the government has to start the business anew of getting down to reaching an agreement along the terms outlined by the creditors in their various reports in the Greek Economy and laid down in the week before last and the weeklong series of euro Group Meetings and government leader summits so i think the greeks are signalling they are ready to conclude their process. John just to return to the Big Questions we outlined at the start of the hour the banks the banks and what happens with them and they are scheduled to reopen tomorrow on tuesday, this must be the biggest concern for greek people and forget the politicians for the moment and just the people. Absolutely. You are correct and i think the real economy as we say, that is the key issue today because the head of the greek banks here in greece have said that the liquidity will last them until today and as of tomorrow unless there is some sort of extra liquidity that the European Central bank is willing to send over just to keep them ticking under under the current capitol regime and not anything more than that and unless there is that we may see a total bank closure as of tomorrow or a drastic reduction of what cash they will give out at atms and they are concerned and rightly pointed out their concern for the longer term growth of the Greek Economy is overriding and willing to go through the ultimate difficulty even of leaving the euro zone if necessary and of going through weeks or months of hardship in order to establish they will have prospects of growth at the end of that. Is thank you, john and from athens we go to dominick cane in frankfort and what voters said to europe is we dont want what you got so back to your court, are there any noises coming out of european capitols this morning about what could happen next . Well the ecb, kamal is in a quandary now because there will be e understand some sort of teleconference to take place today between the central bankers of euro zone and could conceivably decide to extend further elas we were hearing about last week and resent weeks and emergency liquidity and the financial lifeline for the bank and Greek Economy and perhaps 90 billion euros drawn down through this facility but we know that was capped last sunday the sunday of the previous weekend the decision was to cap that at a level of the previous friday and no further money was made available so its conceivable the ecb decides we cannot afford to have a further banking crisis in athens and perhaps another ela but there is one other possibility which is quite the reverse and they could decide that actually the collateral that the greek banks provided to draw down ela is not sufficient any more because assets are not worth what they were worth when the political advanced and if that were to happen it would place four major lenders in a terrible situation and what ecb has in mind and lets remember the grooek government has to repay by the 20th of july and remember they are in arrears to imf of 1 nf billion euros they have to pay so that is effectively what is at stake in the immediate sense here at the ecb. Reaction in germany from people and media and how are they reading this situation . Well official reaction has been i wouldnt say cautious certainly the vice chancellor from the social democrats here last night was effectively saying this was a tearing down of bridges between greece and the euro zone and negotiations between the two sides were barely mentionable. Today the spokesperson for Angela Merkel the chancellor has said that they dont see the basis for negotiations as things stand but the ball is in the greek court as it were, there is potential room for monday ver and to give you a sense of the media this is the compact edition and the photo of greek voters and the headline 09 0, no and sums up the sense the german media or perhaps the german people have the position taken in greece was not what they hoped for. I have to leave you there even though we can hear you we cannot see you abthat was dominick cane on reaction to the greek situation. Other news, in fact, a bit of breaking news coming m fro syria and i. S. I. L. Fightered captured the town from Kurdish Forces north of raqqu in the north and the stronghold in syria and Kurdish Forces took control of the town just two weeks ago with the help of air strikes by the u. S. Led coalition. Two blasts hit the nigerian city in Plateau State killing at least 44 people, one bomb exploded at a restaurant and the other at a crowded mosque with a clerk known to be critical of the Group Boko Haram was preaching and at least fever People Killed by a suicide bomber who targeted a church the latest violence brings the number of People Killed in boko haram attacks to more than 200 in the past week and have been a series of attacks with places of worship, villages and markets. On friday a group of suicide bombers blew themselves up in the village which killed many people, thursday two girls detonated suicide bombs in another village in borno and 50 stormed chad killing up to 100 people after people were shot after prays in the town and we will talk you through some of this and talk about the big picture in the moment and bring us up to date with the most resent ones. Well what we know speaking to Emergency Services on the ground as you said there in the introduction, the death toll appears to be pretty significant, the National Emergency Management Authority are putting it at 44 and say 67 people at least have been seriously injured and are Receiving Hospital treatment. We know as you said in the intro to the target of the first blast, one of the blasts was a clerk who denounced boko haram and who had preached peaceful cexistance and one was at a restaurant that is targeted by Business People and its not clear if the target that was mentioned was injured or killed and trying to get detail on that and speaking to people on the ground and where the blasts went off are quarantined off as they try to establish exactly what happened. As i read off list of attacks that happened in the last week extraordinary amount of attacks and number of people who died and you sought to wonder is the government making headway against boko haram when this much can happen in just one week . Well, that is a question everybody is asking. Since the new government came to power at the end of may and barari is sworn in as nigeria president and he came to power on a promise to defeat boko haram, there has been a lot of activity political activity. He moved the militarys headquarters, command and control center of fighting boko haram to the northeast and doesnt make sense when 21 million was released an ordered it to be released to fight boko haram and doing the diplomatic rounds and g 7 summit in germany and south africa and been to chad and nigere and go to cameroon and at the end of july he will go to the United States to meet with president obama where its expected that boko haram and the whole insurgency will be top of the agenda. There is a feeling however when we keep reporting these terrible attacks that much of the diplomatic effort is not filtering down to the ground in terms of protecting civilians and protecting property in it and many will say that boko haram is still a force to be reconed with even though Authorities Say they are defeating the group. Thank you for that live in abuja for us in nigeria. Point to make is nigeria is not the only country to be hit by Boko Haram Violence and then chad and military opposition fores against the group and then at taxattacks as well and we have a middle east and africa specialist and senior fellow with the German Institute with international and Security Affairs and we thank you for your time, short story has boko haram simply not been weakened with four countries committing forces against it and still managing a huge number of attacks in one week what is really happening here . Of course its learning organization and its more than a weakening and we see the increasing attacks in the resent days it was also maybe a response to the increase of tact ty activities from the new government as we just learned. Is it because boko haram is a harder enemy to defeat as the countries thought . As you said its got sort of tentacles everywhere and people working all over the place and trying to defeat Something Like that is more difficult than these countries first thought. I think this what we see everywhere and alshabab and other groups and the military has a strategy by traditional conservative military strategies cannot hold but seen with the attacks in resent days its increasing boko haram increasing use of suicide attacks and this as we know also from the euro, is it possible to counter with military strategies and what we see is boko haram was there and maybe they dont hold not enough but not as much territory as they did lets say in january of this year but what we have seen and you mentioned it before is they spread in regionally and if you look at the region there is enough ground for them to position themselves and find more people supporting them. I dont know if you heard us talking before and they keep telling us or people of nigeria they are making ground against boko haram, obviously they want the people to believe that and they need to be on the front foot but the evidence suggests otherwise, doesnt it . Well i think what we have seen the last couple of years and decades is exactly the problem, that it needs to go much, much deeper, the Nigerian Government is not really seen by northeast nigerians as the center they can relate to and rely on in terms of security and in terms of economic and political stability and i think this is what is necessary in order to really counter an organization that is not just militarily quite strong in terms of boko haram but also has almost a winning ideology blaming the government for the business and blaming the government for being absent, for marginalizing the northeast so to counter boko haram needs to be much bigger. Joining us from berlin there and talking boko haram and thank you for your time. Plenty ahead on the news hour and report from the yemen city where children are the latest casualties in the fighting. Find out why china is trying to attract Foreign Workers and chinese immigrants to work there and in sport why the team is bringing something new to the Tour De France. Developing story out of iraq for you where the military says it accidentally dropped a bomb on eastern baghdad and there are reports of casualties. Lets go to jane in baghdad for the latest on that jane. Reporter kamal we have seen the Defense Military spokesman and says indeed russian fighter jets used by iraqis had what he called mechanical failure dropping a bomb on a residential neighborhood in the neighborhood of new baghdad and according to the interior ministry at least seven were killed and several more were injured and they are investigating exactly how that happened but clearly something winterably wrong with that bombing run but they are as they say investigating how it happened and exactly what number of casualties there were when that bomb fell on those houses kam ashgs lshgsal that is one problem they have and fallujah trying to fight i. S. I. L. There and running into problems there with civilian casualties. Reporter well anbar itself is the scene of fighting across the huge province which is closer to the Syrian Border and seen new attacks by i. S. I. L. Including suicide bombers on the town. Its one of the few areas that is not held by i. S. I. L. Its really a pocket in eastern, sorry western anbar that is Still Holding fast but against severe attacks and fallujah and anbar heavy fighting in the last days and consists of i. S. I. L. Sending in suicide bombers and gunmen and trying to repel them with air strikes and artillery and the problem is a lot of air strikes and artillery are in residential neighborhoods and they tell us they do make an effort to minimize civilian casualties but says for instance following reports that the iraqi airforce bombed a soccer field with people playing soccer yesterday and said that is an i. S. I. L. Controlled area and do not allow the young men to play soccer and the implication being it is actually an i. S. I. L. Position and a complicated conflict very difficult to get Accurate Information out of there and clearly the offensive is on that kamal. Jane thank you for that update. Foreign ministers from the United States and five other world powers are in vienna for talks with iran over its Nuclear Program and say there is still work to do ahead of tuesdays deadline and lets check in with diplomatic editor james base and do we take something from the fact the ministers have arrived and getting serious and all coming to the party . Absolutely. This is a key phase now. It could be the final key phase. We have to be weary of saying that because these talks have been extended so many times and have gone past the deadline and the deadline was june the 30th. Let me tell you what is going on in the hotel behind me its a luxury hotel where talks are taking place and have all of the ministers of p 5 plus one, five permanent members of u. N. Security council as well as germany, they are all here and so are the iranians and p 5 plus one and the eu high representative for Foreign Policy are meeting among themselves and the people negotiating with iran and i think they are trying to get their position absolutely straight and negotiating a tactics straight ahead of forthcoming meetings with iranians and significant progress has been made and progress was made with the interim deal but significant progress since they have been here in sienna and we are to the point where there are a few sticking points and told by a Senior Iranian official and a few sticking points and iran has some red lines it doesnt want to cross but believes the red lines would be part of any deal so those sticking points are put as we understand it on one sheet of paper because these, some of the issues but

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