European Interior Ministers Visit Site of Sousse Terrorist Attack; Kuwaitis Come Together in Wake of Terrorist Attack
MAGGIE LAKE, HOST: Terror in Tunisia, the North African country makes its first arrest in the wake of last week's beach massacre.</s>HABIB ESSIN, TUNISIAN PRIME MINISTER: I think he was mainly radicalized online.</s>LAKE: Hello, you're watching CNN. I'm Maggie Lake in New York. Coming up, we're going to have some video from -- or exclusive interview with Tunisia's prime minister. Becky Anderson just completed it. And also, we want to update you on the situation in Greece. And sorry we are closed is the sign that a lot of people are looking at. Long lines in Greek banks as Greece and EU officials blame each other for the worsening crisis. I want to go over...</s>JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER: After all my efforts, and the efforts made by the commission, I feel a little betrayed.</s>LAKE: Let's bring in Richard Quest right now who has been tracking this situation in Greece. He is live in Athens for us. I believe we have Richard -- anyway, yeah, Richard, great to see you. So, we have after months, and some would say years, of negotiations to try to come to some sort of deal are now facing a situation where the banks are closed in Greece, people are only able to take out a certain amount of money, talks have broken off with creditors. What is the mood where you are?</s>RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The mood is one of resigned resentment by the people I have spoken to. They always knew this was a possibility, but it rather has come to fruition. And now they can't immediately see any way out, because there's not talks planned. The European bailout program expires Tuesday night. They go into default with the IMF tomorrow night. And there is a referendum on Friday. And then you throw in this extremely bitter language -- remember, Tsipras described the IMF and the commission as having criminal responsibility, who had responsible for financial asphyxiation. And now Juncker says that he feels betrayed because of all the work they've done. All that said, nobody should be any illusion. They will be trying to get this back on track somehow. Unfortunately, to me, it's just not obvious how.</s>LAKE: That's the thing, when the rhetoric gets to this point it's very hard to see how you get this group around the table now. Though some have been suggesting that maybe the referendum is the cover that they need. If the Greek people vote that they want to stay with the euro, that will give everyone the possibility of a fresh start. But you and I have been talking, Richard. When you have a country that is facing a banking crisis, it's not always clear that officials have a handle on the situation. How high is the risk that events start to spiral out of control of authorities?</s>QUEST: Oh, it's very high. And once again, the answer lies with the ECB, the European Central Bank. It was their decision yesterday to withdraw any more emergency funding that led to the bank closures. Now, if -- if, if -- and I'm going to say it one more time, if there was some sort of deal, talks, arrangements in the offing, then the ECB may turn on the taps again and offer more money. Then, you're back to the banks being open. Without the ECB funding the Greek banking system, it's almost impossible to see how a deal moves forward. There is one other thing that mustn't be ignored. The Greek referendum. What are they voting on? As of tomorrow night, there is no bailout for them to vote on. So you have to frame the question about what they vote on Sunday. And then you have to remember -- let's say the Greek people vote yes. The very government over there has been saying no. So how can that government negotiate when they've been politicking and campaigning against the very thing they're now having to negotiate. The reason I throw all this in, Maggie, is not to confuse, to obfuscate, or to make things more difficult to understand, it's so we can appreciate this is a minefield of -- and now I can hear various demonstrations that are starting to build up. Lots of cheering and the like. But it's complicated. It's difficult. And there's no easy way out.</s>LAKE: That's right, Richard. And for all those uncertainties, the people who have money at stake, global investors, have looked at the situation and the fact that Angela Merkel came out and said, for all the strong rhetoric, that talks are still possible and that Juncker said they want Greece in still. And they have decided that it's not over yet and there may still be talks. That's why you're seeing selling, but no panic. Richard Quest in Athens, Greece for us as you will be throughout the day. Right now I want to toss it over to Becky Anderson.</s>BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Thank you very much indeed. And back to Greece of course, which is a developing story and an incredibly important one, not just for those in Greece, for everybody around the world as we watch and wait to see what this European project is -- stands for these days and where it goes next. Maggie, thank you. You join me here in the capital of Tunisia in Tunis. We moved here from Sousse today, the Mediterranean resort town, which was quite frankly shocked and horrified by what happened there on Friday when 38 people were massacred on a beach, as many as 30 of those -- as many as 30 of those potentially could have been British. We have had a press conference today in Sousse. In attendance were interior ministers from European countries, including the British interior minister. They say there has been progress in the investigation into exactly what happened on that beach. I spoke earlier to the Tunisian prime minister Habib Essid who says the attack won't stop the country's democratic reforms. You're going to hear from our correspondent live in Sousse on the investigation momentarily, but let's just listen to what the prime minister told me today in an exclusive interview, giving some details of the investigation as well as his government's response to that massacre.</s>HABIB ESSID, PRIME MINISTER OF TUNISIA: I think he was mainly radicalized online, but it's -- when we look to his passport, he didn't have any -- he has a passport since 2015. And then he didn't use his passport to travel. But you don't know. Sometimes, they can go abroad, especially this circulation between Tunisia and Libya. It could be done through irregular ways.</s>ANDERSON: We do know that he was studying at a local university. And there have been reports that he was part of a militant cell at that university. What can you tell us about that?</s>ESSID: We cannot establish at this moment, but there is some information that he belonged to some organization. And he was very, very close to a mosque who has training at least at the intellectual way a terrorist.</s>ANDERSON: It's clear that there are young Tunisians slipping across the border into Libya getting trained and coming back here. It is clear that our young Tunisians going to Iraq and Syria and coming home. What sort of impact is the conflict in Libya and are the conflicts in Iraq and Syria having on Tunisia?</s>ESSID: The situation in Libya is very bad. And then time is running. And we should together work in order to stabilize the situation in Libya. For us, we have 520 kilometers of borders with Libya. Everything could happen through this border. On the other side you don't have a state, you have groups, you have -- so it's very important for us, the dangers comes from Libya. People are (inaudible) and people come back to Tunisia.</s>ANDERSON: Critics will say that this is destined to revert back to authoritarianism, back to the era of Ben Ali, offering incentives to people to basically inform on their neighbors. This smacks of a police state. What do you say of the -- to those critics.</s>ESSID: Things are completely different. What we did in Tunisia in -- to 2011, this is irreversible. We choose a way, and then this is the difference. All what we be doing, actually, and the actually be taking with respect to the law. This is very important, with respect to the constitution. We won't take any decisions without respecting the institutions.</s>ANDERSON: It is clear that this economy relies heavily on tourism. Just how damaging has these attacks been to what is a crucial lifeline for the Tunisian economy?</s>ESSID: It's very damaging. It damages -- it's a heavy damage, because it's actually is drowning. You know, more than one million people live directly or indirectly from this sector. And we should do everything in order to save the situation.</s>ANDERSON: An exclusive interview with the Tunisian prime minister just an hour or so ago here in Tunis. I'm Becky Anderson. We're going to take a very short break. But when we come back, new amateur video has just surfaced that shows moments of sheer terror on that beach on Friday. We're going to get you more on that with the investigation. And my colleague Nick Paton Walsh in Sousse. That, up next.