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ALJAZAM News June 22, 2024

U. N. Team investigates the deportation from dominican republic. Be a spending spree in the city of manchester. 80 million of sterling from liverpool. After 17 hours of marathon talks in brussels a multibillion be euro be bailout deal. Athens would receive over 86 billion euros in return, greece has to make tough reforms which include tax hikes privatization and austerity. Be tsipras has until wednesday to overcome be opposition in parliament. Without that the package dies. First Al Jazeera Jacky Rowland reports from brussels. Reporter a deal at last. After talks that lasted all night, eurozone leaders emerged atthat they i avoided the worst scenario a greek exit from the euro. Today we had only one objective to reach an agreement. After 17 hours of negotiations we have finally reached it. Someone can say that we have an agreekment. No laughing matter for the greeks. They need to agree to a large package and agree to sell off 50 billion of state assets. An exhausted Alexis Tsipras tried to put the best possible gloss on it. Translator the deal is difficult. But we have prevented the public property abroad, the plan of financial ax fiction yaition ax asphyxiation. We tried in this hard fight a refinancing of the debt and secure in the meantime. Chancellor Angela Merkel was groil thatcategorical that it not be written off. The most important currency, trust, was lost between us. As we know, paper is patient. Going forward whats most important is to implement what weve agreed to during the night. These were grueling talks for everyone who spent the night at the European Council but there process is far from over. The idea is half of the the money used to recapitalize the greek banks. A quarter would be used to pay off the greek debt and the rest of it would be reinvested into greece but eurozone leaders have made it clear that talks on the bailout cannot even begin until greek parliaments passes the whole package of measures into law. So the european leaders drive away into the gray light of morning. Most of them can now catch some badly nighted sleep but not the greek Prime Minister. For sure the night was brooding for him and he can only another bruising whether he faces the parliament and the people of greece. Jacky rowland, al jazeera brussels. In athens antiausterity protesters are gathering. These are live pictures in santagmus square. The vat increases the tax rises, the privatization all of the rest of it. Everything you insisted upon if the bailout is even discussed. Its going to take four weeks to confirm the details should the greeks pass all those testings. He is meeting with the Junior Coalition ally, and they are talking negatively about whether they are going to support the deal or not. And tomorrow early hes going to have a meeting with the rowdier elements of his own party syriza 148 seats in parliament but some of them far to the left of the political spectrum. They 2 dozen and counting are already saying they will not support it. Only eight days ago 61 instead of greek people voted no to more austerity in the belief he would negotiate a better deal than the one that was on the table then. Well that hasnt happened and to get a sense of how the greeks are feeling my colleague mohammed jamjun took to the street to determine. Reporter the deal may be done but so far this is worst day ive had in 30 years christos tells me. Christos tells me says now things have changed. Theres simply no justice. That these days, life in greece has turned into one big bad bet. The big fish eats the small fish he tells me. Poor tsipras went to stand up to merkel but with germany its not possible. He like the majority of greeks thought austerity measures were off the table for good. The lottery is more reliable than german government. That sentiment that germany was enthusiastically hauling greece over the coals was baddied about on the square. We have to put mr. Schaeuble with the euro. Yanis varoufakis, was the loser. In the game of poker you may lose dimes or dollars or euros but in europe you might lose more than that. Reporter a healthy doas of dose of pessimism. Did they just agree to disagree . Nothing is finished yet. Reporter its become little more than a numbers game. Here outside parliament there is a sense of spase a greek word, that means stagnation. People here feel stuck tied to forces wholly out of their control. Life seeming more dependent than the luck of the draw than ever before. Model jamjun, al jazeera athens. The banks have been closed. Whats happening with the banks now . Well, no change there. I think some greeks might have secretly hoped that had they agreed with this deal there would be some flexibility some easing of the pressure on the bank system. No chance of that. We have an official announcement that the banks will be closed at least through wednesday so 60 euros remains the limit there. Then threr there are payments that the greeks must pay. 3. 3 billion euros back to the central bank and this 86 billion euro deal doesnt take into account any of that so the european creditors are having to get together twefn between now and then to try to work out a bridging loan of eight million or so, and even then theres no deal on that unless there is capitulation and passing of the laws through parliament on wednesday, and empty that they wont get that either. Neave barker is in brussels, clearly they are waiting to see whether tsipras can push this through parliament. Talk us there what the european perspective is on this deal. Reporter well, a little earlier on i was at a press conference owner jeroen the full eurozone is holding its breath where the hope is for many within the eurozone, if that is the case there will be a collective sigh of relief before eurozone countries then ratify the be agreement within their own Respective Police departments. Once that happens the message will then go to the european stabilization mechanism to release the funds a process that could stay many weeks and months. But the first hurdle of course is that wednesday midnight deadline. Neave meantime, the discussions in the eurozone and how to deal with this, there are still schisms there if things start to unravel. Reporter absolutely. There is no doubt there are still tensions within the eurozone. We have seen throughout the last couple of days, negotiations, friction between the likes of frarches and italy who have france and italy, Baltic States germany and finland, the only hope of greek Financial Support is if they promise to pay debts and come up with a workable strategy for being able to do that. One cant imagine that now that an agreement has been reached that these divisions will disappear overnight. But the hope is that they wont rear their ugly heads before that crucial deadline on wednesday. Neave barker, thched. Thank you very much indeed. Now the Iraqi Government says it is gaining ground on i. S. I. L all taking part in the operation to retake iraqs largest province from i. S. I. L. Fighters. Imran khan reports from baghdad. Reporter the announcement came early on monday morning. An iraqi spokesman said the forces were taking a new be campaign to restay the Anbar Province against i. S. I. L. The. Now waging pitched battles and advancing towards the targets. Reporter military operations have been continuing in bawsh anbar for months but have been primary focused on ramadi. By retaking fallujah Iraqi Military commanders hope to often a corridor to cut offs i. S. I. L. From ramadi. They control border crossings in the town of trebil. Allowing them to use safe havens to a great advantage. Iraq has a real challenge on its hands to defeet i. S. I. L. But progovernment sunni fighters. The Prime Minister has control of the army units and the interior ministry runs the police units and the individual militia leaders run these individual militias, there are a half a dozen really big ones and several spall ones. What the administration is trying to do is capitalize on this, essentially make the best it can over a very disorganized situation. The Iraqi Air Force has just been given a boost. It received the first four of a consignment of 50 from the u. S. The Iraqi Air Force will be hoping they will help deliver a decisive blow on i. S. I. L. Fighters. But in Anbar Province i. S. I. L. Fighters have sympathy from some of the residents there and they have proved to be a very tough process. Still to come, ngos attempt to stifle dissent. No sign of a truce in yemen as saudi air strikes and houthi Ground Forces claim more victims. In the last hour the white house has said that significant issues still remain at the Iranian Nuclear talks taking place in vienna but genuine progress has been made. Talks are expected to continue into tuesday. World powers are trying to reach a deal that would limit tehrans Nuclear Program in the exchanges for easing of sanctions. Diplomatic editor james bays is live in vienna. What points are they trying to work out at this point . Reporter this is a complicated long deal, this is a legallily watertight deal that has to last for ten years and beyond. Thats why everyone is very concerned with the precise details of this deal. We dont know the exact sticking points. In fact the statement that came out in the White House Press conference was really the only ton record statement thats been made to reporters. Weve been shouting questions to people that go in and out of buildings but not a lot of detail coming from them. A great deal of meetings taking place with seven Foreign Ministers all in vienna for these talks. Optimism at the beginning of the day that perhaps there could be agreement by monday but one conversation 50 minutes of length, and with the chief u. N. Minister frederica mogherini. I tried to find out what happened. Is there a chance for a deal today her representative . Are you making progress . And james if they dont manage to do something by the end of monday, how long do they keep on extending these deadlines and selfimposed deadlines, how long do they go on with this . Thats not at alt clear. First thing to tell you is that theres the interim deal done in november 2013. Thats been extended lots and lots of times. But the latest deadline for that is today. So if they dont reach a deal by the end of monday, they will have to put out a statement as they have done already three times to extend it. Beyond that how long can you keep all these Foreign Ministers in vienna . They keep leaving and coming back. Obviously they have to be here if they have to get a deal and how long can the u. S. Seacts seacts stay here . Seacts secretary of state and the iranian minister stay in vienna . Civilians are among the dead, erica wood has more. Reporter Saudi Coalition air strikes over the capital light up the night sky. A clear sign for the residents that the humanitarian ceasefire is not protecting them. By morning, they try to find bodies under the rubble. Many homes whole streets and families destroyed. Translator just after midnight they struck us with a missile. They hit a house which was completely destroyed with the family inside. My cousin and my sister and my nieces houses were hit. Ten house he were struck and theres nothing left. One report suggests 10 people were killed in sanaa alone. Translator they killed my brother and sister and son. This is tragic. How is this the childrens fault . East of sanaa gun battles between houthi and progovernment fighters continue in the desert rocks of mareb. The Popular Resistance committees are committed to the truce but the houthis violated it in the early hours. The resistance fighters have a right to respond and defeat the attackers because they invaded our areas. Translator we welcomed the truce but the houthis didnt abide by them. Thank god we repelled them. Repelled them. The u. N. Says 80 of the population needs humanitarian assistance. Aid agencies say they are getting supplies through to some areas during this shaky truce. But if the ceasefire keeps being broken some region will be too dangerous to reach. Eric aherica woods, al jazeera. Down to both sides to adhere to the commitments of the humanitarian truce. Weve seen weeks and weeks and weeks of yemen people suffering. By all counts close to a humanitarian cat voaf. Catastrophe. The special envoy received the commitments that he felt were necessary for us to come out with this statement. It is incumbent on all the parties involved to abide by those commitments. Activists in syria say at least 35 people have been killed after the government bombed the town of albab 35 were wounded. This video allegedly shows the aftermath of the attack. Bombs hit a market area and isolated parts of the rebel held town. Near the border with lebanon, Syrian Forces are trying to push out Al Qaeda Linked fighters from the el nusra front. Policepeople in Police Custody are being tortured. Jamal al shayal has the story. These are the last breasts he took on friday. The 48yearold was held in a detension cell inside a cell in cairo. Dozens of prisoners piled on top of each other in a tiny cell with no ventilation. Aden suffered from chronic asthma. His lawyers say despite proving his medical condition and despite no proper paperwork to transfer him to a hospital. The Police Officers say they wanted him to die here. Death in prison is common here. 279 have dyed in custody, more than half died since abdel fatah alsisi became president. 40,000 people have been thrown into jail in the past two years most for their political beliefs. Prison authorities and the police have been accused of intentional negligence when it comes to dealing with political prisoners. In may faidistai ishmael died because officers denied him his medicine. Conditions inside egypts jails mean other prisoners may also face death without even being sentenced. Jamal al shael, al jazeera. Attack targeted u. S. Army base, afghan troops and civilians are dead including 12 children. Jennifer glasse reports. Reporter women and children were killed alongside afghan men and security forces. The injured are recovering in several hospital he, an attack took them by surprise. After a long day of ramadan fasting. Translator i was on my way home when suddenly in the middle of this. The intended target was camp chapman. The site of the worst attack ton Central Intelligence agency, the cia in decades. This attack, like so many others in afghanistan, its civilians who suffer the most. The United Nations say casualties in the first half of this year are up 16 compared to last year and thats before the fighting season began. Fight without the substantial support they used to get from nato. Jennifer glasse, al jazeera. Escaped prisoner joaquin guzman. And anticorruption are crack down. In support why two of cubas footballers wont be going home after their team is knocked out of the gold cup. Bls a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. Greek Prime Minister accepted a Bailout Program that will bring further austerity. And iraqis push to recapture Anbar Province from Islamic State of iraq and the levant. It is confirmed an interim deal remains in place on the Iranian Nuclear deal. Lets get on to the story of the day, the greek finance bailout. Hoda abdel hamid has part of the story. One unemployed man that voted no in the referendum said he knew some sort of compromise would be reecht with the eu reached with the eu but didnt know it would be so bad for greek. He was hoping to find a job pain now he says that his future looks bleaker than ever. Others are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the Prime Minister, as one woman put it, hes going to have to come back speak to the greek people and it will be the most important speech of his career. Part of the deal is for the port of thessaloniki to be sold off. They have been hearing about it for such a long time but nobody gave them details of what this privatization would mean. If theyre laid off then what happens with the Social Security and their pensions . Some of these workers have been here for 20, 30 years ago and they wouldnt have another option to find a job elsewhere. A lot of hanging in the air for them. They are worried. There are more than 100 islands in greece, and most of them live off tourists. So far the islands had lower taxes than the mainland. Under the new deal, Hotels Restaurants and catering businesses will face an increase in taxes that in some cases could reach 23 . That would translate in higher prices for tourists. Now this comes at a time where the industry is about the only one functioning in this country providing up to 15 of the annual ejdp. They are concerned that greece will become a less attractive hol did i destination. Do you think Alexis Tsipras can get this deal through parliament . Well, i hope that the unity of the government and the party is going to be conserved. Because you know, it is not an easy deal. It is a very harsh deal, we have tried to defend a different version of europe a social one versus the liberal orthodoxy. But we have been greatly outnumbered and we had to choose between these harsh measures and the lack of liquidity and the continuation of closure. We have a your responsibility this was in part mismanaged by the government. For example be many syriza government has tried to plunge greece back into a crisis. Creates a precarious humanitarian situation. Surely the government has some part in the way this has been handled. No. We have tried exactly to defend a different approach that these continuation of austerity which feed each other the liberate strategy of partners to quawft time and use the lack of liquidity of our economy as political weapons during the

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