>> the new man in charge - abdul fatah al-sisi is sworn in as egypt's president. and the new president is expected to speak shortly. hello, you're watching al jazeera. also coming up, dozens die in new attacks in iraq after 50 were killed by car bombs in baghdad on saturday. deadly flash floods in afghanistan. the number of victims continues to rise. and columbia's f.a.r.c. rebel group declares a ceasefire until presidential elections are

over. hello. egypt has a new president. in the last hour the former army chief abdul fatah al-sisi has been sworn in as the country's leader. he'll be in office for the next four years. he promised to bring stability to the nation, which suffered years of upheaval. this is what he had to say as he took the oath. >> translation: i swear by god that i shall loyally preserve the constitution of the republic and respect the law. i shall preserve the people's interests and maintain independence, interests and security of the nation it's worth taking a look at how abdul fatah al-sisi came to power. it was in july last year that the military deposed mohamed mursi. the head of the judiciary adly mansour was installed as the sprim president. the -- interim president.

the next day security forces cracked down on the media. in august hundreds were killed as security forces stormed protest camps in cairo. the muslim brotherhood said the numbers of those killed was in the thousands. in isn't the interim deposit banned the muslim brotherhood. then in december the brotherhood was declared a terror group and reporting on them became illegal. in that same month three al jazeera journalists were arrested for reporting on the muslim brotherhood. their trial continues. in march the map band the coup abdul fatah al-sisi quit as army chief to run for president. that was an election he won in mail, with 97% of the vote. joining me in the studio is kirsten. he is a senior lecturer in the study of muslim and the arab world. thank you for being with us here, a momentous day in the life of egyptians.

they are used to upheaval, was it four presidents in the last three years they have experienced. he is ipp her itting a country used to upheelal and weary -- upheaval and weary of instability. >> that is the sentiment in egypt, with all the changes and upheaval egypt has not fared well. the people are fed up and this day couldn't have come sooner. symbolically it offers an opportunity to close the chapter of a difficult, painful and embarrassing year in the politics of egypt. the judge presiding felt it necessary to take a swipe at the muslim brotherhood basically blaming them for the shambles in which the country found itself, vindicating the intervention by the military in july and august, stressing that we should not see it as a cue day tar.

abdul fatah al-sisi has an opportunity with this act of swearing in to start looking at the future, and the challenges are formidable. huge challenges. this is a divided country. we say we want to close a chapter on an embarrassing period. but the problem is, of course, there's a large part of the population that feels disenfranchised. particularly those who supported the rev lurks and those -- revolution and those that support the muslim brotherhood. they don't feel a part of egypt. >> it's a huge liability. we'll see how it pans out as the country perhaps for the next stage, which is to put a parliament in place, which dissolved and effectively egypt hasn't had a democratic body for a while. >> how does that work? >> they have disqualified, declared illegal one of the major players in politics, and

no matter how you turn it, the support base of the muslim brotherhood, until last summer, was an absolute figures as big as the people who voted for abdul fatah al-sisi to take office. how that will work out with a huge vacuum and people feeling disenfranchised has to be in effect of that elelent toral process. it will be an interesting process. >> he came to power, 97% support. presumably on the back of the fact that the muslim brotherhood - we didn't know how many who didn't vote were supporters of the muslim brotherhood, or felt there was no point in voting. >> the group or the electorate of egilt decided it was not worthwhile or -- egypt decided

it was not worth while or say aware - it's difficult to engage. it shows that abdul fatah al-sisi's mandate is small and embarrassing to win close to 100% of the vote on a very small turn out. usually you get these approval rates in countries like north korea. >> stay with us as we continue to monitor the event out of egypt. the pictures you see are pictures of a palace in the east of cairo. that is where the new egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi is heading to. he may be inside right now. tee took the oath of office at the supreme constitutional court and he agreed to have another ceremony and inauguration in front of an international audience of invited guests. we are not sure when that is due to get under way and when the president will make a speech, but when and if he does, we'll return to cairo as soon as that happens. >> al jazeera continues to

demand the release of its journalists detained in egypt. three staff accused of supporting the outlawed muslim brotherhood has been held for 162 days. egyptian prosecutors demanded the maximum penalty for them. they want seven years in gaol for peter greste, and and 15 for badakhshan, and mohamed fadel fahmy. the lawyer for abdullah al-shami requested his release on medical grouped. he has been held without charge since august. he insists he will not break the fast until he is released. >> to other news and dozens of people have been released. many are dead or wounded. there was a series of bombings in baghdad, in which more than

50 people died. security sources say five people have been killed and 12 injured. let's get the latest and spoke to imran khan in baghdad. >> the latest violence was the attacks in ramadi and other places. >> what i can tell you is unknown assailants attacked a marketplace. two hours ago. now this was a busy marketplace. they killed five and injured 12 others. i have seen pictures from ramadi. the damage is intense. there has been an iraqi army operation in anbar province, ramadi is a big town. it had quietened down, relatively speaking, compared to fallujah. where there is a battle against

il forces from islamic state of iraq and levant. ramadi had seen intense violence. it was this time on saturday, there was a hosting scenario at the anbar university where fighters were supposed to have taken a number of university staff and students hostage. they were released and fighters disappeared into the rear of the up to. and now you have this. there was a hit and one convoy. there was a push into ramadi. while that happens, there was a push into the kurdish areas. one of the kurdish officers has been attacked like we reported. this happened a few times, and up in the semiautoon nous region people are saying we need to defend our people in these place, on the border with the rest of iraq. and that is what i.s.i.l. fighters want, to draw the

kurdish into the fights. there are several attacks that took place in baghdad, killing 52, injuring 110. >> it point to a picture of security forces in iraq simply unable to deal with the number of fighters prepared to launch these attacks wherever they are in the country. that absolutely is right. what we are seeing is a number of people questioning whether iraq's security forces are able to bring the country to - bring the country to stability and insecurity. the problem here is that this is being framed in sectarian ways. the language that the islamic state of iraq and lef vapt is sectarian. there has been shia politicians talking in sectarian language. the last time it happened was 2006. it was a similar level of violence. that escalated massively

throughout 2006, 2008, nearly bringing iraq to a civil war. many worry na is the track iraq is back on. >> imran khan joining us live from baghdad. thank you very much. at least 74 people have been killed in flash floods in northern afghanistan. local officials warn it could rise after thousands were displaced. we have this report if kabul. >> trying to salvage what is left. these homes were badly damaged in flash floods after days of heavy rains. this distribute is the worst-affected area. the government and international aid agencies struggled to get to the remote region. most of the surrounding roads and bridges have been washed away. >> reports show 74 have been killed and bodies handed over to

the families. hundreds of families have been destroyed. >> resident who lost loved ones bury bodies wherever there's dry groundful often the vulnerable suffer the worst. these people were given first aid after a house collapsed. a government minister promised to airlift them to a hospital. many do not want just aid, they want their houses re-built. >> translation: i want president hamid karzai to know we don't just want food, we want a house to live in. as citizens we deserve this. don't feed us for a few days and forget us. >> reporter: given the scale of the disaster which affected four villagers, it's unlikely that will happen soon. >> floods and landslides are common in afghanistan. 2014 will be remembered as being particularly bad. over the past several months, thousands of people have been

displaced and hundreds lost their lives, raising questions about the government's ability to take care of those at risk. still to come on the programme - we are hoping to hear from egypt's new president abdul fatah al-sisi. also ahead... ..rapes and torture in a syrian president in front of her son, and abandoned by her family. plus, how argentina's female footballers are tackling misconceptions to prove they are on the ball.

hello again. a reminder of the headlines in al jazeera. the swearing in ceremony for the egyptian president abdul fatah al-sisi has been held in cairo, he is expected to speak at a reception shortly. dozens have been killed in a series of bombings across iraq. the kurdish headquarters were targeted and ramadi was hit by a missile bombardment. a blast hit the shia neighbourhoods off the capital. >> 74 people have been killed in flash floods in northern afghanistan. around 800 homes have been destroyed in the province. >> human rights groups and opposition activists say women in syrian government-run prisons have been raped and tortured. al jazeera correspondent met

former prisoners. >> reporter: it has been two years. this woman can't forget watching soldiers rape and kill four of her daughterers. she calls out the name of her children. the women here remember their pain. miriam can't cope without taking sed tifs. the syrian women were prisoners - locked up in government-run detention centers. they were tortured and raped. >> yes, great. they bring you to the commander's office and get drunk. they invite others to take a turn. tell me there is nothing worse, but there are many women like me, like my friends here. >> it is rare for women from society to speak about rape. fear of being sunned by their

families is another. miriam's family disowned her. these women live in southern turkey and decided to take her silence since there was nothing nor lose. >> translation: they took everything and did it in front of my son. now they suffer psychological problems. >> that boy was locked up in prison with his mother, since the release he barely speaks. he was too young to understand what he saw, but he watched his mother being raped. >> translation: the prison guard was in the room. my son was on the lap. he pushed him away. my son was two years old. a two-year-old will know how to look away and face the wall. >> reporter: this woman is angry because of the way people have reacted. >> i was a virgin in prison. i as 18 years old. a university student.

my father left my mother because he was ashamed at me and people looked at me with disgut. >> these women want more victims to break their sellens and come forward and while they wait for justice they hope for compassion from an unforgiving society. the u.n. security council is due to be given a briefing on the violence in libya, a political and military stand off led to confrontations between armed groups. the special envoy has a plan to bring together all sides of the conflict. >> reporter: this man faces a challenge - how to get all sides in a web of ai leejances to compromise. he has a plan. >> i want the endorsement of the international community. everybody i have talked to says

if we are able to agree on a document, say, can the international community provide a guarantee that all parties will respect what they have agreed to? will the international community be able to name, shame and blame, put pressure, sanction. >> he insists libyans must find a sol ug, and without foreign intervention. >> they say it's week. there's no force that can impose its legal force that can impose itself. this is a problem that has to be dealt with politically. no matter what they say politically they have half a measure of influence.

dmitri believes in the ability of all sides, whether they are political, revolutionary or tribal leaders to reach a basic agreement. he is realistic. i have no high expectations as to what they may be capable of agreeing on. there needs to be a minimal agreement that sends to the libyans a signal that nothing is irreversible. that you can reverse the process of going to an all-out protracted conflict. >> that is something that must be done soon. many people will tell you that libya is close to sliding into chaos, and not far away from becoming a failed state. a local leader of the indian

b.j.p. party has been shot dead. angry b.j.p. workers gathered at the site and set the vehicles on fire and vandalized buses and other vehicles. more than 60,000 people in bangladesh are displaced by river erosion every year. some are calling it a silent disaster. one that destroyed the lives of many families. as we report, a simple solution is giving hope for an end to the crisis. >> four years ago this man was an av fluent man. he owned his home and had plenty of farm land near the river. today he barely gets by. there were thousands of us in the old village. hindus, muslims. the river took away our land and we had to leave. we went to different places, our community was gone.

>> reporter: he says his home will be safe for now but he may have to leave next year. >> 700 rivers run through bangladesh, it's a country the size of new york. it has more than 150 million people. that means that small changes to river systems end up affecting millions. >> it has been growing wider and wider every year. a group of engineers believe they have hit on a simple solution that can bring the river under control. they are lining the shores with sandbags, a method far cheaper than the slaps used before. >> there's no more river erosion taking place here. we hope once the work is done there will not be any erosion in the future. bangladesh doesn't have many resource, but sand and cheap labour are two things it has plenty of. that gives the engineers hope that river erosion will become a

problem of the past. an aide to a separatist group has been shoot dead in donetsk. separatists say the murder was an assassination attempt on the leader that went wrong. investigators have been inspecting a car riddled with bullets. no group claimed responsibility for the attack. columbia's f.a.r.c. rebels declared a ceasefire, a period coughing the run-off election. it follows a decision by the government and the group to set up a truce commission. it investigates the death of 5,000 people. they are un running against a right-wing candidate. there's more from bogota.

>> it's a few hours before the campaigns are over here in columbia. the candidate for the democratic center, who won in the first round, it's a very small up to in the central part of columbia, where most of the people are farmers. they have been the worst victims of the violence, and would want peace in the country. many say that the peace they want is one offering. they say he offers social peace, meaning health, jobs, education and security, and they say that president santos is only offering political peace. columbia has been at war for 50 years. no one has been able to get us close to achieving peace as president juan manuel santos. he has been able to cabinet the

f.a.r.c. rebels to the negotiating tables and get agreements from them. and many people believe that it is the first time they can feel that there is that peace, that there's a real possibility. the peace process is at stake. 50% of columbians didn't vote on the first round. they are telling people they'll have to go out and vote. whatever they say will become irrelevant. there's a full week ahead. what the candidates are doing is putting this in place. people like mayors or community leaders. they are the ones out there trying to get the vote. >> months of rain in paraguay caused the river to burst the

planks. thous apts of houses have been affected. >> argentinian footballers stoked unrest before the final world cup. lionel messi and his team inrolled a banner saying "the talk lpd islands are -- falkland islands are argentina"" referring to a long running dispute with britain. arge tenia beat slovenia 2-0. some of the famous players like messi and maradona have a legion of fans. we have this report where women are making a name for themselves in buenos aires. >> reporter: this is a big shanty down in buenos aires. it's a maize of ramshackle homes.

22-year-old constanos expresses hopes on the football pitch. it reflected survival. what each faces. it's fighting between us and crime. she's part of a team trying to change perceptions in a country where football is considered a man's game. >> translation: they call us tom boys and say it's a sport for men "why don't you wash the dishes?" that sort of thing. now they ask where are we playing and what positions? . >> reporter: these women in the shanty up to fight for a few hours each week on the patch of space. they are winning a battle against adversity. it is slowly being changed.

at the center is this trainer. >> translation: football pitches have been men's territory. from a woman's point of view what we fought for and run is the right to play. when we talk to young women teenagers play the role of adults. there's a little leisure time and a time for play. film-maker was so inspired by the story from the rise and rise that she made a documentary about them. "girls with balls." >> we have been on a live show. the girls have been going to the media. the film went on release and it had an&cluesive showing.

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