able to stay out of60 euro a day. if the ecb does not come to rescue that will decrease to 20 euro a day. the ball is now clearly on the ecb court. as well as european union because now it s for greece and europe to decide what the next step is. ecb is leadmeeting later today to decide if liquidity is coming to greece. greece has 5.5 billion euro of payments left this month. 3.5 of which, christine and john is the ecb alone. that is how much it owes. it has to pay by july 20th. if it is not paid they are cutting off support completely. really tough day for greeks and many counting every penny. looking to try to find all currency to exchange for euro. there are no good choices and
difficult these days for all those who need more than 60 euros. for shop owners to market. i think it s mostly harder for the market. it s been only two days. we cannot tell how hard it will get. it will last a week. but it could last longer from what we hear from the media. it s been two days so far. personally i can cope. translator: i m a pensioner and i have a cash card because i need it. however, when they tell you you can only withdraw 60 euros and now we hear it will be 120 euros per week i don t even want to think about it. we will not be able to pay our bills and obligations in time because we greeks have been through a lot. i hope everyone will say yes. translator: we cannot go on with our daily business. these 60 euros are not enough to feed the family. the situation is very wad bad. i see a glimmer of hope from what i heard this morning. and we want to give you a
now the huge failures of the euro grup led to ultimatums. after all these failures, after five years, the greek people have the opportunity to decide on the final ultimatum by the euro group. it s a time of hope for europe, the common monetary union hope that everybody can live together. so the finance minister of greece, mr. varoufakis saying it s a period of hope to try to stay to the. there s a very divided european union with the north doing okay with lower unemployment rates and less debt. and the entire southern half of europe like greece with very high unemployment, very high debt, and no hope. let s just take a picture here of a pensioner that kind of summarizes the entire story, holding his hand on his head and basically saying i don t know if i ll make it or not. in the last week they ve introduced capital controls. some of these pensioners can t even get access to the 120 euros a week to survive. in that camp of the nos, many, many of the south say our youth unemployment r
collapsing on the ground weeping openly and here the 77-year-old assisted by a police officer and a staff member of the bank. all he was allowed to withdraw was 120 euros. that s about $133. the future of his country remains uncertain. but he expresses it there in one picture. now that the greece s economy lies in the hands of its people. cnn asked greeks how they might vote today? i am in europe. i want to stay in europe. i believe there is no solution within the euro zone and within this european union. i m sure about this. hopefully next sunday we re going to vote yes because we want to remain in the european union. i came here to say no because i cannot leave. they are trying to play the future of greece in cards.
was lining up outside a bank and some banks in the country have been opening the doors to pensioners who don t have have bank cards. you can see him collapsed on the ground weeping only. he was assisted by a police officer and a member of the staff of the bank. he visited four banks i m told to withdraw a pension on behalf of his wife. all he was allowed was $ 120 euros, $133. the man s future along with the country remain uncertain at this hour. we can take you back to the finance minister voting, yanis varoufakis the picture is frozen. he goes into a space where he will fill out a ballot form and he will put it into a box. he s also quite a media figure and he s there posing in front of the cameras as well. but it is a key moment in greek