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Living in fear. Political activists in burundi threatened by political violence. The first latinamerican pope makes his return to south america. We go on air tonight and the results so far suggest greece has voted decisively against the bailout deal offered by lenders. Nearly 10 Million People were eligible to vote. They are asked whether theyre for or against a bailout proposal. That was the question on the paper put forward by international creditors. A simple yes or no answer to that with more than 50 of votes counted. Latest results show that over 61 are in favor, over 38 against. Well, after casting his ballot in athens Prime Minister tsipras said greece was determined to take its destiny into its own hands. Lets go to Barnaby Phillips in the greek capital for us. Barnaby, it looks as though Prime Minister tsipras political gamble might have paid off for now. Tell us more about reaction after this result. Reporter well as i speak large crowds are assembling in the center of athens. The streets have been closed and people are waving the greek flag. This will already go down in history as a second day after that in 1940 whether the italian facists are defyieddefied. Again, an extraordinary act of defiance from the greek people. All week lets not forget we had european leaders queueing up to tell the greek people that a no vote means a return to sliding out of the euro zone and economic disaster. They defied that message. They defied a message i felt that came from the majority of the greek media, Electronic Media was telling greek people they should vote yes, that nobody would be catastrophic. The message that Alexis Tsipras gave throughout this breech chaotic Referendum Campaign was that no meant he could go back to brussels with a stronger mandate. No would instead mean a rejection of austerity, and he could still get better terms from his creditors. Let me bring in my guest at this point. Hes from new democracy, the center right conservative opposition. You would have obviously voted yes today. You were a minister in the previous government. No fan of Alexis Tsipras. Why do you think the greek people voted so decisively for a no tonight . Because the greek people believed what Prime Minister tsipras promises that he will get a better deal and promised we will stay in urow zone. It will be less austerity on the outstanding dekt. We hope he will deliver. He promised a new deal in 48 hours. When you look at the referendum only 40 of the voters believed that the question was euro zone membership. 60 of the voters believed that the actual question at hand was whether this specific awe austerity is a good deal for us. Its not a good deal. Actually, as the economy is getting back into a recession, the gap is increasing. We hope now that the Prime Minister will deliver. The greek people sent a strong message not austerity but a very, very strong message they want to remain part of the euro zone. Reporter are you saying tonight that the opposition rallies behind the Prime Minister and you heed the call from the greek people and he has the whole country behind him as he goes back to brussels . Absolutely. Greece needs to be part of the euro zone. The only Sustainable Way to keep the Greek Economy from falls again into a debt trap but now its up to the Prime Minister that has the historic strength but also the historical responsibility to deliver on his promise. Do you toous him to deliver both keeping greece in the euro zone and ending the ruin yus austerity policies . 60 of the greek people believe he has the mandate, and we hope he will deliver the mandate. Thats what matters, delivery. You know full well that european governments including perhaps the bubble of the germans desperately hope that this referendum would result in the fall of this government because they do not see this as a government that they can do business with. I cannot accept any government telling the greek people how we were the government, but on the other hand i understand that i said before that only with a balancing budget and it was a gain competitiveness. Thats the only sustainable recipe for greece to become a growth economy again and create the level of welfare people expect but created by our own economic growth. With the benefit of hindsight, all those interventions across europe over the past week telling the greek people why they should vote yes were not very helpful to your side of the campaign. With hindsight every nation wants to make its own decisions. Reporter theres an urgency to the situation. Absolutely. Reporter are greek banks going to open on tuesday as this government says . Its up to the ecb, but i understand the way i understand the situation, the ecb is anticipating an agreement that will be ratified from all parties involved in the proper way before they inject liquidity. I hope the government gets a better deal than that. Reporter theres many people in the opposition in your own party who think that mr. Tsipras in his heart of hearts doesnt care whether greece is in the euro or not. That is not what advertise practice believes in. How do you read his intentions now. Theres a fracture that oez posing european membership and return back to dragma. They think it will create a higher standard of living but thats not true. The Prime Minister was very publicly and openly promised that his priorities is euro zone membership. I have to trust him for what he said, and im sure the greek people will expect the deal to come in the next 48 hours as he promised. Reporter thank you very much. Thank you so much. Reporter giving us some instant reaction to the results as they come in here in athens. It seems as if its a night of try jump for Alexis Tsipras. Lots of things are up in the air as we look ahead as to how negotiations proceed between greece and the rest of the euro zone. Barnaby phillips live in the greek capital of athens. Were joined now for her a people of how people feel elsewhere in the country. It was a very decisive vote but not as close as people expected. Tell us what youve heard from people where you are. Thut the day ive been saying how do you think it will be . They say we dont know. Its neck to neck. While that didnt happen we dont know the specific results of this. This is quite interesting to see, because people here do point to the differences between them and maybe People Living in athens. They say this is a more conservative society tradition traditionally. The mayor of this city who is very popular came out in favor of no campaign. That said it is the evening of the yes campaign. Its behind me on the square where the headquarters is. There were young people from the city waiting to hear the results. As soon as they heard those results and they went up and chanted a big no. They were underlying the fact that this is a big no. Elsewhere, we have to see if people pour in the streets. Elsewhere, there is a certainly worry. A lot of people said yes, we will vote yes or no but everyone said that come tomorrow nothing much will change in the daily lives. Some said that things will get worse because politics will make things more complicated, domestic politics gets in the way as things get more complicated. Some said that it will come two, three months from now theres another crisis and theres another decision. Certainly a decisive vote on paper, but whether things will be changed it will bring the outcome people are hoping for a more settled life, i think not many are pinning their hope on it. There is a greek saying that there is a hole in the water. That is something i heard from a young chap just a couple of hours ago. Voted no he was safing at the end of the day this is a hole in the water. Nothing will change. Just a little point as well. Earlier in the week i was on one of the islands and over there people live off tourism. Tourism levels are high this year. Nothing much has changed there. There i heard much more people say i will vote yes. They were afraid the consequences of this referendum would be for greece to come out of the euro zone to return to the drakma and they say that would be disastrous for the tourism industry. Thank you very much. Live in greece there. Lets widen this out now and get a sense of possible reaction elsewhere in europe. We can head to frant further and dominic kane is standing by. Angela merkel cast this election as a vote on greeces membership of the euro. What is her next move now . Reporter factually tomorrow she goes to paris tomorrow to meet president hollande at the palace where they will discuss the greek crisis. Its worth making the point saying theyve had this referendum that mrs. Merkel said a few days ago to vote no as the greeks appear to have done would be the equivalent of driving into a blik wall with your eyes open. That gives a clear sense that the German Government very much wanted a yes vote here. Rather than in the manner that the french government and others said equally thats what they wanted to have happen. There was a slight difference in policy, though between the german and french governments in the sense that the germans were very clear, no negotiations before a referendum. The frefrn a few days ago appeared to suggest that perhaps there could be room for negotiation. That is ancient history. We have a no vote. Of course, whether the position is strengthened whether mr. Tsipras position is strengthened is a moot point. The other no we heard is from the European Central bank when the Greek Central Bank asked for more emergency liquidity assistance. The greeks and ecb said no to that. Whether the position has been strengthened, its very much open to question. Lets remember also that as things stand the greek government has to repay 3. 46 billion euros to the ecb on july 20th or it will be again, in arears. Rather than in the manner it is with the imf when it failed to pay back 1. 6 million on june 30th. So very much a sense of uncertainty in the euro zone following what would appear to be this resounding no vote in greece. As reaction continues toe come in to this vote dominic, one senior german lawmaker said greece might be better off outside the euro. Might those calls go louder in the coming days . One thing we know for certain. The German Government is very wary indeed of making more bailout commitments without consulting the German Parliament parliament. They said to the euro zone finance ministers at a meeting last week he couldnt guarantee being able to get support for another series of bailouts. There have been opinion polls in german newspapers which should ask people, are you prepared to consider more money for greece and increasingly the suggestion is no they are not. That definitely puts a sense of the irrelevant irresistible for of the immovable object. The greek government has a mandate for more negotiations. Clearly the euro zone leaders believe that the package they put forward was the best package put forward. Quite how to mix that and square that circle is very unclear right at this minute. Thanks very much. Im joined in the studio by tom who is a fellow of the Financial Markets group at the London School of economics. As we were hearing there, if Prime Minister tsipras is very keen to claim this as a victory and to say that his party, that his government has won. That might be one view. One view from greece at the moment. As we heard from Dominick Cain in frankfurt there, the ecbs help is needed to prop up greek banks. This is a Banking System this crisis and are running out of money and have another payment due in about a weeks time. Its a banking crisis. People find it harder to get cash out a cash machine and atm. Eventually the banks will have no more money, and once they have to pay back to the ecb, they will cut the lifeline and the banks will close. You think the ecb will step in soon in the coming days . Because there are reports that the 60 euro limit people are able to withdraw right now, that might have to be cut. The banks in greece will find it difficult to survive in these conditions . Nobody wants to be seen z athe last man that cuts the lifeline. In brussels or berlin or paris. People will try to be as cautious as possible and as slow as possible. What will probably happen is one day there will be no more money left in a bank machine, and in a way the economy has already switched to a cash economy. So this will be all fine. When you think there will be another kind of referendum in three months time probably not. It will be a months time when the government cant pay wages and pensions and the banks will be shut for good. Tom, thank you very much. Youre going to be sticking around. Looking forward to get more analysis later on. There are other stories were covering on the program as well. Hitting isils stronghold in syria. The u. S. Led Coalition Targeting key supply routes in a battle against the armed group. We look at the latest sites to be awarded World Heritage status by the united nations. As greece plunges deeper into financial crisis. Greeces choice, a bad deal. And no deal. World markets react. Its a grim picture. The consequences could be catastrophic. For continuing global coverage, stay with al jazeera america. Welcome back to al jazeera. Lets go through the top stories. With the majority of the vote counted in the greek bailout referendum, the no cap pain ahead by a clear margin. Supporters of the no side have begun celebrating in the capital of athens. Here are the results so far. You can see 61 voting no 39 voting yes. Thats with around 60 of the vote counted so far. So just to be Crystal Clear about that 61 so far are a clear majority decisive majority in greece voting no meaning they are rejecting the terms. The other main story, negotiators trying to iron out a nuclear deal with iran continuing their talks in vienna days before the tuesday deadline. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry says theyre close to an agreement wutbut have to make hard choices in the day ahead. James bay sent this report from the talks in vienna. Reporter time is running out. Thats the clear message from the u. S. Secretary of state john kerry, who spoke to reporters after two sessions of negotiations with his iranian option member. We are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues. The truth is that while i completely agree with foreign minister zarif that we have never been closer at this point this negotiation could go either way. If hard choices get made in the next couple of days and make made quickly we could get an agreement this week. If they are not made, we will not. Foreign ministers have been arriving again in vienna. Theyre expected to stay until the 7th of the july the new deadline. What happens if they dont reach a deal by then . Do you have a plan b if you dont get a deal by then . No. The rule is and i guess i said it also on other occasions. The rule is that if you work on plan a you stick to plan a. So the that deadline stays the 7th. Reporter im told were at the stage where all sticking points are laid out on one sheet of people for the foreign ministers. Some are technical issues but all require political decisions. Without those decisions, there can be no deal. James bays al jazeera, vienna. Dozens of civilians have been killed in Iraqi Government air strikes in the isilheld city of ramadi. Air strikes hit a football field where a group of young people were reportedly playing. Ramadi is the capital of an br province that isil took full control of at the end of the may. We have more from baghdad. Reporter theres fighting continuing near fallujah and ramadi and it continues a pattern of iraqi air strikes including, according to local sources, banned barrel bombs that have been increasingly killing civilians. As iraq trying to dislodge isil its launching artillery and air strikes against the cities. The problem is theyre in populated civilian areas. One of them was in ramadi near a football field. A football pitch where young men had gathered after midnight during ramadan. They were playing football and other games when air strikes hit. The Iraqi Government says they were aiming a isil fighters. Local sources on the ground say there were some members of isil in the area but they say most of the young men that died were in fact, civilians. The u. S. Led coalition has hit isils stronghold in syria in whats described as one of the largest deliberate engagements so far. Isil video shows the casualties caused about i the attacks targeting raqqa. At least 15 isil fighters and civilians were killed. 38 strikes on saturday blocked key supply routes to restrict the movement of isil fighters. Syrian forces and hezbollah say she have stormed the rebelheld city taking krout of the distribute in the west of the city. Activists say the government has been dropping barrel bombs on the city 45 kilometers northwest of damascus. Of the offensive began on saturday in a bid to cut off a major supply route for Al Qaedalinked fighters. Now a Palestinian Movement hall mass dismissed israeli claims it supported the attacks in sinai by fighters pledging allegiance on isil. They say the claims were propaganda and an attempt to incite against them. At least 70 people most of them soldiers, were killed in wednesdays assault and the clashes that then followed. At least five people have been killed by a suicide bombing in nigeria. A team bomber targeted a church service, and its the latest in a string of attacks blamed on the armed group boko haram. East African Leaders will meet on monday to discuss the crisis in burundi. The president is boycotting the meeting and will campaign for elections on july 15th. Opoints nor the president fear for their lives. Reporter these men say their friend called out to them before he died. Please help me. Theyre killing me. From a distance he was stabbed, shot and set on fire by attackers they dont know. Theyre terrified to be recognized and killed if theyre seen telling journalists what happened. The 28yearold friend was an opposition activist. Translator a lot of people are scared. After my friend was killed many people leave. How can they stay when people are being killed . Reporter the International Community wants the president to delay the president ial election on skwul 159. He continues to campaign, his party denies targeting opposition members. The president s Spokesman Says the election has to go ahead. We cannot go beyond whats provided by the constitution because we must have the president elect come on the 26th of the month, the 26th of august. Reporter the number of People Killed on both sides keeps rising. Sometimes opposition activists are targeted. Other times its progovernment supporters. African leaders meet again in tanzania to find a way out of the crisis. Some opposition leaders want a Transitional Government formed until conditions on the ground are free and fair. They dont want the president to be part of it. Something the ruling party says it will never accept. Others say one man is to blame. Translator the president cannot come together. They can give them another candidate. Its only one man who take the country in. Reporter people are watching their back. Voting may go smoothly. Its what happens afterwards that terrifying many. Bosnias serb leader said the genocide is a lie. He was speaking on the runup to the 20th anniversary of the massacre the biggest mass killing in europe since world war ii. Serb forces murdered 8,000 muslim men and boys in what was supposed to be a u. N. Protected onclave in july 1995. Victoria has the report. Reporter hes speaking at a Commemoration Service for the serbs killed during the civil war. He said the killing of male muslims in 1995 was Weather Channel a genocide. Its an opinion rejected by the International Community as well as by the families of victims and the survivors of the massacre. For 20 years she has searched for the remains of her son. The last she heard of the 26yearold was he was wounded by a land mine as he escaped from Serbian Forces. Translator its a long period of time especially for someone still searching. Each year im told this july 11th i will bury him and feel the same the next year and the year after that. Its been 20 years now, and i still havent buried him. Reporter it was a u. N. Protected muslim town in bosnia. Service surrounded by forces between 1992 and 1995. Serb troops invaded the town on july 11 1995 forcing thousands of Bosnian Muslims to leave. United nations peacekeepers looked on the as Serbian Forces separated thousands of muslim men from their women and children and murdered them. He was indicted for his part in what became the worst atrocity in europe since the second world war. Recently hundreds of bodies have been identified using dna evidence allowing some relatives to grieve properly. Many remain unidentified. Translator id be satisfied if i found a single bone so that i can bury him at the place i keep reserved for him next to my husband. Reporter during this weeks commemorations the newly identified remains of 136 People Killed in the city will be buried. For the families of the genocide survivors, its another painful moment. Hedra can only wait and hope that one day shell bury her son. A recap of the top story now. The majority of the vote has been counted in the greek bailout referendum and the no campaign is ahead by a clear margin. Supporters of the no side have already started to celebrate in the greek capital athens as you can see there. Heres a picture of the results so far. You can see that 61 , actually a little bit more than that 61 vote now in the referendum and 39 voting yes. Thats with around 60 of the vote counted so far. So this vote shows that the majority of greeks have votes decisively with the government and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rejecting the terms of the bailout deal on offer by europe. Lets listen in to some supporters of no campaign in athens reacting to the preliminary results. Translator its a great joy for the no campaign to win. We want no to prevail. Its not only hope for greece. Whether theres 10,000 suicides and 3 million are below the poverty line how can we expect just to win . Translator i want no to win in the end, but i hope there are no scuffles after the result so we can continue from that point on

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