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Transcripts For ALJAZAM Weekend News 20240622

Deal, no end in sight. Euro zone leaders continue to huddle in brussels trying to work out a short term deal that will keep the country afloat for now. Meanwhile, people in greece are reacting angrily the reports trickling out of the talks deal or no deal, it is becoming clearer they are facing tough times ahead. In athens, they are lining up to get their money out of the banks, but they are running out of money and is so the government, all sides saying something has to give. Lee barker has more from want talks in brussels. The negotiations here have gone on for more than 20 hours. They began an saturday with a meeting of euro zone minutes ministers who carried on talks into sunday afternoon. The mantel is now picked up by europe zone leaders pouring over a list of austerity recommendations that greece would need to adopt if it has any hope of attaining a 59 billion bailout to keep the country and its banks afloat for the next three years and avoid the country sliding into bankruptcy. Among the recommendation put forward, the fact that greece has been requested to streamline v. A. T. , reform its labor and trade markets and to privatize its energy grid, as well. Greeks have some demands of their own. They want the European Central bank to continue propping up the banks. They want a restructuring package to allow greece to better handle its 356 billion debt. They also want off the table a plan that would see greece handing over control of 55 billion worth of state assets regional airports, handing over assets to external third parties. Also as part of this list of requirements recommendations is the fact that greece would need to meet these obligations and ratify them within 72 hours. Greece feels there is completely unattainable. Lets go to athens tonight. Patricia, how are greeks reacting to these developments . We know it is early in the morning there but already news is trickling out. Some of those different proposals they are not reacting to well at all. We sat down with pensioner today and their initial reaction, they were stunned incredulous. The more me talked it, the more emotional they became and the overriding emotion was anger. Theyre angry as what they say are the very short memories of the germans. Germany had half of its debt forgiven after world war ii and one country that for gave them is greece. These pensionerring are working hard hanging on by their fingertips. One woman was 67 years old and shes out cleaning house us once a week to try to get by to put just that little bit more money into the family coffers to weather the crise. Its not just the pensioners caught in the crosshairs. Young People Convention whether they have a future in greece and many of them are considering actually building their lives abroad. 24yearold he elena is grateful for the job she has even if its not what she hoped for when she graduated college with an advertising degree. This isnt what i dreamed about. I thought id be working at a company in the Marketing Department creating advertising. With greeces economy in at that timers, she knolls the odds of landing her dream job are slim, but shes not giving up on her country. I will stay in greece. I dont think its a better solution to abandon your country and to go to another one. Better to stay here and support it through what its going through. Her situation will look familiar to american mill millennials. A lot of people in this country are looking to build their futures abroad. There was never really a trend to leave and now there is. Maria heads Career Services at the Business School in athens, a program with close ties to the capitals business community. The brain started five years ago, when the crisis hit and it has intensified this past year, so our best and brightest are leaving the country. Over 200,000 greeks, ruffle 2 of the population have left the country since the economy tanked. The vast majority of young people looking for opportunities in wealthier country like this group which graduates, all planning to work abroad. Is it a more attractive option now . Well, you know, for most of us i think it is. After reflection of the whole political instability, this is more, you know, more tempting option for all of us. All of them want to return to greece eventually. At what point does greece become attractive enough for you to come back again . Greece will always be attractive for me, because my familys here. My friends are here. Hopefully, in a few years greece will give us more opportunity. My friends say if you go abroad, you will return either in five years or you will never do so lets hope five years from today. Those are just some voices of greeces young people, the best and the brightest. Youngs people are just an indense bensable link in any nations economic system. They bring energy to the table and pay the taxes if theyre working to keep pensioners afloat. Thank you very much he. Optimistic language from vienna today but still no deal in the iran nuclear deal. They have been in vienna for more than two weeks. Last week, a frustrated secretary of state john kerry said the u. S. Would walk if tough choice were not made. Today, kerry and others seemed to be more upbeat. James bays has more on the negotiations. There have been some pretty positive and optimistic comments coming from some of the key figures involved in these talks. Secretary of state john kerry said he had some good meetings with his iranian counterpart. Other Foreign Ministers have been arriving here whereby too including the Russian Foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and the French Foreign minister. I hope, i hope we are finally entering the last stage of this marathon negotiation. You know the position of france. It is a position of constructive firmness and i hope that it will allow us to reach the end now quickly to a satisfying result. Despite that optimistic tone, ive been told by those close to the negotiations there are still details to work out. This is not yet a done deal. Im also told that even if they were able to do a deal right now, theres still lots of paperwork that needs to be worked on, and it would take some time. The guidance ive been given the earliest a deal is possible if they reach an agreement and could be announced is sometime later monday. In this country, there is Congress Republican leaders saying even if an agreement is reached soon, it will have to be approved by congress. President obama being criticized for his approach to the talks. He knows that the resolution disapproval is likely to be introduced is very likely to pass. And very likely to get over 60 votes. If he then vetoes that in order to sustain the veto, he would need 34 votes, which i referred to earlier. Right, right. I think its going to be a hard sell. I think people understand that if this is a bad deal that is going to allow iran to get a nuclear weapon, they would own this deal if they voted for it, so theyll want to disapprove it. On the other hand, if we feel were better off with it, people will look to approve it. An in aian american journalist who just covered those negotiations in vienna is in los angeles at this hour. Thanks for being with us. More and more, the talk is that there will be a deal, but even before the ink dried its denounced by republicans object capitol hill as locking. Are we ever going to know whether this was or was not a good deal . I mean, there has always been this talk that the deal could be better at every stage of the negotiations, but if we want to live in a practical life and pragmatic life, the perfect deal doesnt exist. Whatever comes out of these negotiations, im pretty certain both sides have been pushing to their maximum to try to get the best out of these negotiations for the u. S. Side and for the iranian side as far as iranians are concerned. Whatever is coming out of this, i think would be the best deal that would be possible out of these negotiations at this stage. Some say without a deal sooner or later the u. S. Will be at odds with iran militarily. Is war the only option in this case to diplomacy . The only alternative to policy correct but i mean, the two years of constant diplomacy and negotiations that have been going on between the u. S. And iran are exactly to avoid a military option. The Security Council resolution and sanctions put on iran from the u. N. Security council were very serious. Most countries that were put into that position were at the end facing some sort of military intervention. The fact that iran and the u. N. Are able to resolve this eventually diplomatically if a deal comes out of this, it would be a very special case and it will essentially be to avoid the military intervention and the possibility of a war. You are an iranian american journalist. Americans want to know, is this the same tehran that we saw in the late 1970s . Not at all. The late 1970s, the revolutionary iran, this is before i was even born or even the 1980s iran that was fighting very long war with iraq, which was supported actually, by some of the western parties and these negotiations, its very, very different. My generation, the generation that was born after the revolution after this war its sort of passing the revolutionary phase. You see the iranian negotiators. This is the new phase of irans foreign policy, of iranian diplomacy, of how the iranian 70 of iran is under 35 years of age, how the new generation in iran wants to be treated in the world, seeing itself in the world. They want to rein gauge with the world, be part, a responsible member of the world community. They are tired of tensions, they are tired of threat of the possibility of war and i think iranians the iranian people sent a clear message in the past president ial election when they voted for president rouhani that they want to resolve with peacefully with the u. S. And the went and the world community. You saw Mitch Mitch Mcconnell and the senator. What do you say to them, you dont represent the hardliners, the people that could attack the United States if iran gets a bomb or for that matter, attack israel. Well, i dont represent the hardliners who are by the way not the majority at this moment in iran. Just like they dont represent the majority of the American People, the majority of the American People voted for a president who ran on a campaign of ending war and resolving situations. He won a Nobel Peace Prize for the election campaign, president obama. The majority of the American People are supportive of trying to resolve this with iran diplomatically peacefully, without a military intervention, so that they can in fact reduce the threat of any military intervention from iran towards anybody in the region so that they can increase the possibility of collaboration with iran. Iran is a fairly pragmatic player in the region. Its this pressure and cornering of the iranian government, some sort of collaboration starts he between iran and the u. S. , i think will be a Brighter Future for iran and for even u. S. Allies in the middle east. Thank you very much. Thank you. In eastern afghanistan, a suicide bomber attacking outside a u. S. Army bails killing as many as 20. At least six other people have been wounded according to local officials there. Many of the victims are women and children, all of this happening in the city near where u. S. Forces are stationed. No one has claimed responsibility. In east africa, somali officials killed al shabab fighters. Three men were responsible for attacks on two hotels over the weekend. On friday, the Group Setting off car bombs the gunman killing by shooting at random. U. S. Led coalition is launching a new round of airstrikes on saturday, Coalition Aircraft attacked positions near several cities. Syrian airstrikes happening around the same time were not done in coordination with the u. S. Iraqi fighters are advancing on villages 35 miles north of baghdad that are said to be controlled by isil. Associated press footage shows rockets fired at targets. Isil is taking control of the area during a blitz last summer. They managed to retake positions and small villages. Rack has received 350 million in loans to rebuild towns that were recaptured from isil. World Bank Officials and iraqi officials signed that agreement today. This is direct tangible existence for stabilization efforts by the government to normalize life and liberate it from isis. A third of the funding will go to rebuild bridges and roads the same amount building electrical water and assuming infrastructure. In yemen the fighting continues, at least 10 people were killed there today. Neither side seems to be able to reach an agreement on permanent ceasefire. Both sides continued their assaults for a second day in a row. Millions of yemeni civilians are now paying the price. There is no ceasefire in yemen. After the u. N. s announcement of a human pause in fighting, there have been two Straight Days of airstrikes and gun battles. Houthi militias and fighters loyal to deposed president Ali Abdullah Saleh have continued shelling several towns and cities. Residential areas were attacked in a aden, taiz. Popular resistance committees fighting on behalf of adou Rabbo Mansour hadi havent laid down their arms, either. The Saudiled Coalition bombing yemen for more than two months now said it didnt receive request from yemens legitimate government to halt airstrikes. Coalition airstrikes bombed sanna. These pictures show the aftermath. Many are questions on what grounds did the u. N. Announce the ceasefire. With neither side demonstrating willingness to stop the fighting. The need for a ceasefire is more apparent now than ever. The humanitarian situation in yemen is disastrous. More than 22 million yemenese are in need of aid. The most basic things, such as water, are becoming hard to find. Each yemeni is fighting their own battle just to survive. Yemenis are digging holes in the roads to try to reach water any way they can. This war will soon enteritis third month yet neither side seems to have been weakened into submission. Its the suffering of the average yemeni that continues to increase. Al jazeera. On the run again a mexican drug lord escapes prison a second time. Coming up, the search for el chapo, the leader of a drug cartel. Flocking to see pope francis for his final mass in south america. With xfinity from comcast you can manage your account anytime, anywhere on any device. Just sign into my account to pay bills manage Service Appointments and find answers to your questions. You can even check your connection status on your phone. Now its easier than ever to manage your account. Get started at xfinity. Com myaccount u. S. Officials today are ready to help mexico recapture a drug dealer. Mex yo launched a manhunt for el chapo. His cartel is one of the most powerful organizations in the world. His arrest in 2014 was considered a major coup for law enforcement. We have more on his escape. Mexican police have set up check points on roads near to the high security prison from where El Chapo Guzman escaped. Cars are being searched and nearest airport closed as they hunt for one of the worlds most wanted men. Mexican Security Officials say he got out through a 1. 5kilometer tunnel built from outside the prison to his cell. The tunnel has p. V. C. Pipe and rails with a traction mechanism. The last time guzman escaped from prison, it took 13 years to find him. He was captured in february, 2014 and it was hailed as one of the biggest blows to the drug today in decades. El chapo shorty in english is small in stature but cuts and imposing figure in the world of narco trafficking making Forbes Magazine billionaire list. He controls some of the most lucrative routes from mexico to the United States, trafficking heroin cocaine methamphetamine and marijuana. His expertise is a specialist in logistics. His organization moves cocaine from south america to mexico to move chemicals used to make meth from mexico to russia to Southeast Asia into mexico to be processed and create meth and deliver it word wide. Guzman was arrested in 1993 but bribed his way out of mexicos highest security prison. He escaped in a laundry basket. This web of tup knells linking seven homes allowed him to evade capture more than a duck cade. He built Popular Support providing people with money jobs and security. When he was recaptured in 2014, thousands of people took to the streets to show support for a man they saw at their savior. His escape for a second time is a major setback for the Mexican Government often accused of corruption by its own people. Pope francis is wrapping up his latin american tour today in purr guy. He is visiting slums before holding mass. He called on people to show solidarity with the poor. We have more from paraguay. This was by far the largest mass of all that pope francis has given throughout his three nation south american tour. Here the worlds most click country,ing where nearly 90 of the people say that they are romeen catholics. They spent the night here in the mud to get the blessing of the pope. Many have told me they want the pope to speak directly to their leaders, to open their hearts to the poor and dispossessed, that very much in line with the popes social gospel. People here are applauding his very progressive message particularly here in paraguay with a conservative hierarchy in the church. The pope said corruption was the gangrene of society, thats another measure that people here say that they hope their leaders will hear. The question is how much of this message will really, really impact or how much of an impact will it have once the pope has left. There was a gift to Syrian Refugees from Malala Yousafzai who turned 18 today. Instead of gifts she opened up a school for syrian refugee girls. She became a symbol of defiance after s

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