Fresh wave of holiday makers. Powered by the sun. Solo flares in hawaii after a recordbreaking flight across the pacific we begin the newshour in greece where campaigning for the bailout referendum ended. A day before voting begins, the greek finance minister accuses them of terrorism. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras wants greece to vote know and rejected what he calls blackmail. Tens of thousands took part in rival rallies in athens and this is the scene in athens on saturday. Long cues outside atms. Finance minister says the banks will reopen by tuesday. They have been closed all weeks to stop mass money withdrawals. Jonah hull has more from athens. The word okki means no. The no campaign gathered in front of parliament backed by the government wants a future in europe, but with a better deal for greece, less austerity, less money lost to debt repayments. A no vote for me means theres a possibility that this country will have a future. Not far away, the yes crowd met in greek. They are for a bailout, and quickly, one that will allow the banks to reopen. We are all here to show that we want to be european citizens, and if possible, return to drachma would be a total disaster. Sundays referendum called unconstitutional by some, and a dangerous gamble is the next act in a drama already five years old. The conclusion has never been less certain. The no vote will write history. Our people will move on. Within a europe of democracy and solidarity. The left wing Prime Minister believes a no vote will strengthen greeces hand in future negotiations, a National Mandate to demand more for less. A yes vote then would in effect be a no to him and his party. Actually, many people are voting yes, are voting against current government. Definitely a yes vote continues with the membership of euro. What strikes me about the two sides, the yes and no camps, is not just the strength with which they are willing to defend their position, but the way they illustrate a real division in greeks society, one driven deeper this week, between the largely middle class voters of the yes camp willing to sign the country up to more austerity measures to defend what they have got, and many of those here, workers, with no jobs, little or nothing left to lose. A no vote for the workers and the young people in greece says that we have to stop the negotiations with the european union, take our lives back and fight for our money, jobs and democracy. We are not enemies with the other party, of the yes. I have friends belonging to yes. Tomorrow they will still be my friends. On this square, where greeks so often demonstrated anger in the past, the no crowd stand with the government of the day. If they win on sunday, there is not one person here who truly knows what will happen next. Lets look at the main problems. Pensions across the bored cuts in exexpenditure and in military spending. Creditors want to double the it 220 million cutbacks. And the sales tax. Its another key demand. Greece as agreed to raise rates, but cant agree with lenders about how much to raise them by. Crossing to john psaropoulos. A day before the referendum the greek finance minister making comments, saying what they are doing, saying what they are doing is terrorism. How are the comments going down there. Its no surprise this is the language hes usingful he expects to be able to talk to the interlocuteurs. The important thing about what he said, apart from the red flags that he raised such as terrorism is that the government here has been receiving renewed variations of the offer that it received on 25 june. That is the offer that is on the table. To be decided on on sundays vote. That is a dead letter. Because greeces Oversight Programme ended on tuesday at midnight. Many people said if thats the case the offer made four days earlier is no longer valid. They say it is because the government continued to receive variations upon it. Therefore, he says its a living document. And it is still a valid subject for this referendum. A no vote he says will allow us to go to brussels after the referendum on monday and complete the negotiation. A yes vote will bring a change of government a tougher government which will be legitimized by the yes vote and is referring to the political opposition at home waiting to oust syriza after a yes vote, and that will bring back creditors with vipped ictive intentions vindictive measures. Both of scenarios put board by the greek finance minister. Tell us how divided the country remains over this referendum. Well, as you have seen from the polls, they are roughly split down the middle. We have spoken to people on both sides of the divide. The yes camp. The private sector educated. They want an integrated economy. Also in the yes vote the pensioners and the elderly, people about to take a pension, because they are afraid of cuts and worst cuts if greece leads the eurozone than the austerity cuts that the eurozone is proposing. In the no camp we have seen a larger number of people altogether the dispossessed reckoned to be 40 of the population the People Living below the 2008 poverty line of 7,500 euros. So that number of people was not poor before the crisis but by that standard they have roughly doubled in number. And they are they are the no votes. They are the people who have little to lose now if the worst comes to the worse. Thank you very much for reporting for us from athens. Hamas is calling for the Immediate Release of dozens of members and supporters detained on thursday. It is saying more than 100 people were picked up in raids by the west bank. A spokesman said the hamas member planned to sow chaos, but gave no charges. The raids are politically motivated. It was a Large Campaign of arrests carried out by the Palestinian Authority in the west bank. They arrested more than 100, major city academics and university student, part of the security coordination between israel. Crossing to gaza and speaking to imtiaz tyab, telling us more of hamass reaction from the gaza strip. How much pressure can hamas put on the Palestinian Authority to release those detained and arrested. Theres a lot of anger from hamas over the arrest of those activists in the west bank well over 100 the largest crackdown on hamas supporters in the west bank since 2006. 2006 of course is a significant year and hamas seized control of the gaza strip, in that year. Sparking a bitter subdivision between the leadership in the west bank and hamas in the gaza strip. Many thought things would improve with the National Reconciliation government formed between hamas and the factions in the west bank. Since then they have lurched from crisis to crisis. And culminating with the arrests of these activists in the west bank. But to answer your question about what hamas can do at this stage little. All they can do is issue statements and under score how angry they are at the move. They put into question the political union, at this stage all we had from hamas is the angry statement. What are the Palestinian Authority or the israelis saying about the reported security coordination between them when it comes to these arrests as the hamas spokesperson is claiming . The israelis have not said anything about whether or not they were involved in the arrests of the activists over the last 2448 hours or so. However, a few days ago israel announced it was involved in the arrest of 40 activists, which it described as a terrorist cell. As for the palestine leadership we heard a statement from the Palestinian Authority, and he said we can expect more rests of hamas activists for what he described as trying to destabilize the west bank. So this crisis between hamas and the leadership in the west bank deepening with more expected rests. All right. Thank you very much for that from gaza. The u. N. Nuclear watchdog said a report on the past Nuclear Weapons programme could be ready by the end of the year. U. S. Officials say talks may go behind the deadline. The ia ex a chief held meetings. With the cooperation from iran i think we can issue a report by the end of the year. On the assessment of the issues related to possible military dimension. Once an agreement is reached on the joint comprehensive plan of action the i. A. E. A. Is ready to implement the nuclearrelated elements when requested. A group linked to i. S. I. L. Says it fired three grad rockets from egypts Sinai Peninsula on friday. Egypts president abdul fatah alsisi has been visiting sinai days after 100 people were killed in fighting between allies and security forces. One person has been killed while protesting in egypt. Security forces opened fire in a rally in cairo fighting in Eastern Libya killed more than 25 people. The army of the u. N. Recognised government battled fighters from the surer council. The rebel group said that firefighters were killed. Three civilians were reported to have been killed. Here with the newshour on al jazeera. Hundreds of families forced to leave burundi, following instability and electionrelated violence. Border disputes. Kurdish forces accused of pushing forces out. Dutch trying to turn their love of cycling into success on the biggest stage. Well now, the Political Tension and uncertainty in afghanistan the vital post of defence minister has been vacant since the election and remaybes that way. Parliament rejected one of Ashraf Ghanis key nomination the agreement between the president and his challenger the chief yourself officer means other key possessions remain vacant. Jennifer glasse joining us to tell us what the defence minister posts and what it means for the government. Its a big below for president ashraf ghani and his chief executive. This is the second defence minister to be rejected by parliament and it was not close. He only got 84 of 104 votes. It is a key post and its at a critical time. Heavy fighting around the country. 18 Afghan Security forces have been killed, there has been fighting in the north in kunduz and helle monday. Without a defense miles per hour, program oweses are frozen key decisions are on hold. He had been the acting defence minister. A failure to be confirmed throws a failure into the roots here. Its hoped they gind a new candidate that the parliament will improve. What other posts are we looking at that need to be filled . Thats right. Parliament has to confirm the head of the central bank and two Supreme Court posts, including african women. We are expecting that to happen in parliament tomorrow. That also is that confirmation process is contentious because conservative parliament objected to the nomination as the first woman nominated as a judge in afghanistan. Thank you for that ub date from kabul. The Lebanese Group says the battle has begun. 2,500 soldiers and allies went into the city near the lebanese border on friday. Dozens of barrel bombs have been dropped by the aircraft. If they are successful a main supply route will be cut off. The syrian army carried out air strikes, following an assault by rebel groups and a capture of a military base. Syrian sources say the rebel attack has been propelled. Government forces controlled most of the city and different rebel factions hoed the eat. In northern syria, kurdish fighters have been advancing on raqqa. Its a main base of the kurdish fighters and seen as a threat to i. S. I. L. The kurds are the usled collisions only partner. Sunni arabs are questions that alliance. They have been expelled from their homes, syrian kurds are no longer welcome in i. S. I. L. s capital city. Families moved north to a border down under i. S. I. L. s control two weeks ago. Living under i. S. I. L. They were forced to pledge allegiance to the group. After the y. P. G. Advanced, i. S. I. L. Accused the kurds of cooperating with the crusader coalition. They gave us 24 hours to leave, else theyd behead us. They are afraid of the kurd and worried about losing raqqa city. I. S. I. L. Had been digging trenches around the citys perimeter. The y. P. G. Closed the main route i. S. I. L. Used. The main stronghold far from under siege. They have no plan to advance towards the arab city. Any future battle would be by arab forces. Those in contact with activists operating secretly believe that i. S. I. L. Can be easily defeated if the coalition cooperates with syrian rebels. Y. P. G. Is not cd in taking the stay. There are units in the air ready to fight i. S. I. L. They need air support. The coalition is not aring to support them. They only support the kurds. Many question the cooperation between the coalition and the wpy, accusing the forces of fake taking control, and fighting areas called western kurdistan. For now the kurds are treated as the only viable partner on the ground in syria, which is angering arabs, who think theres only so much the y. P. G. Can or is willing to do. There has been a series of attacks on the outskirts of maiduguri in in northeastern nigeria. Many are believed to have been killed in suicide bombings and gun battles lasting several hours. Its not the first time boko haram tried to overwhelm the nigeria army and the area surrounding that city. Well so far what we here from borno state is that the Nigerian Army repelled the attacks on the villages of maiduguri and one other village. Boko haram attacked the villages around the time muslims are breaking the fast and sustained a gun butle for hours battle for hours. Right now they have the insurgents trying to launch attacks. In the last 24 hours or 48 hours, we have seen several attempts by boko haram, to attack or Suicide Missions inside maiduguri and the environs. One opposition member has been shot dead overnight in burundis capital. After raids on the homes of suspected opposition members. There has been violence during and after elections on monday. Reporter its been a difficult week. At night we hear gun fire. In the morning they start to count the number of dead we are not seeing protests because opposition members say they are scared. Police are wondering what could be going on why are people quiet. They allege that some militants are going door to door looking for weapons. Opposition members deny this. People are waiting for results at the parliamentary election to be realised on wednesday. That has not happened. Opposition members boycotted the polls. The they are concerned the government is trying to cook the results. Theres another attempt at negotiations. African leaders will sit and try to find a decision to burundis crisis. Opposition members say dialogue is not the way to go. They say they are the ones killed and the president is still determined to run for a third term despite it violating the constitution. Now the weather with rob, and the typhoon in the pacific. Yes, its the western pacific where we tend to grow the concerns. Its a bit further east than normal. The satellite pictures show you might think clearly a string of potential storms here. They do form. Theres one in the south, south of the equator, spinning the opposite direction. Turns out there are three in the north, and they are all named. The ones in the Solomon Islands are falling apart. These two out in the ocean have the potential to become typhoons and may head to japan in the next 45 days. One that is it of immediate interest is one weve been following for a couple of days. This has a name. That is locally different to the one used internationally. However, here it is. This spinning disc its not going to be a dive on it will calls a lot of trouble less so gusting. It will turn out through lawson to taiwan and may give rain. For the next two days its a rain feature, and over lausanne. Much of the area is wet and malaysia too, but the breeding ground is interesting at the moment thank you all. Russia is not at the top of tourists favoured destinations. Theres fighting in ukraine, the plunging value of the ruble, and this means travellers are not going elsewhere. The russian government is looking to welcome the neighbours in china. Charles stratford has that story from moscow. 25yearold connie lieu is on holidays, shes here with a group of students and shes loving it. The construction i feel the different cultures its different from china. Its the height of the tourist season. But theres no longer the mix of foreigners there used to be. The russian Tourism Industry said the deterioration with the west means fewer are coming to russia these days. For the first time last year the chinese was the Largest Group of foreigners to visit. More than a million visit russia last year and half were tourists on holiday. This group are spending their last day in moscow. This is the soviet. They have the monument depicting the former states. About fewer westerners coming the russian Tourism Industry is focussing on attracting industry from asia and china in particular. Chinese tourists coming in groups dont need a visa. Its one of around 15 hotels credited for chinese tour companies, and they cater for what is described as specialists for chinese tourists. All are demanding free and have destruction, which is about the hotel. There are trainees and they have two trainee tv channels from english and china. The chinese guests are offered discounted accommodation. Tourism experts say the government realises the potential of the chinese market. This attempt to adjust the tourist market requires a lot of work. The government hopes it will not take too much time. Before the government didnt consider tourism. It was ignored. For colleen and her fellow travellers, this trip is one theyll never forget. Still to come on the al jazeera newshour. Morality before politics. A message from one of the women used as a sex slave by japanese soldiers. And why the possibility of an exit from the e. U. Is causing an exodus. Find out in sport if the formula 1 World Champion can get up to speed in time for his home grix grand prix. Youre with the al jazeera newshour. The Nuclear Watchdog says a report on the past programme could be ready by the end of the year. U. S. Officials say talks may go beyond the july 9th deadline. One opposition member was shot daud days after the elections. It happened after police raids targeted the homes. The greek finance minister is accusing the e. U.