>> egypt's former army general is sworn in as the country's president. i am mariam mazi. watching amount of al jazeera. dozens killed in iraq, a market in ramadi was among the targets. heavy fighting in eastern ukraine, a day of the country's new president takes. plus. >> inside the studio of one of florida's most unique photographers. we will show you how his work is helping save an entire eco

system. egypt's former army chief abdul fatah el sisi has been inaugurated. he takes office at the time of a failing economy the the new president promises to bring stability to the country after years of upheaval. a report. egypt's former army chief abdul fatah he will mvp sisi in the post populous country in the arab world. this is the moment his porters have been waiting for. the swearing in sceremony of th constitutional court was followed by the hand over at the palace. the president spilled out his plan for the future. >> egypt will witness development at all levels. we feel solve problems of the past and build the egypt of the

future, a powerful, just, stable, country it's the firsthand over ceremony in egypt's history, the first time that an out going president and his successor shake hands during an inauguration. arab and african leaders were there to show support for egypt's new leader. one of the leading judges of the constitutional court describes sisi as the man who saved the nation from what it called the tierney of the muslim brotherhood. the army and the people united against tierney on the 30th of june. it is an event celebrate today. it was not a military coup. it was a revolution of the people. >> now that he assumed power, the new president faces a string of delicate issues. poverties rising unemployment, and an economy in at that timers. his inauguration was held under tight security. the country has been beset by

violence since the july, 2013 coup that disposed mohamed morsi. morsi was egypt's first democratically elected president. he is now in jail facing charges of treason. sisi ruled out any compromise with the banned muslim brotherhood and insists restoring security will be his top priority that led many to believe the clampdown may not end any time soon. joining me, the professor of middle east politics and international relations at the london school of economics. good to have you with us. talk to me about the sale of the challenges faces el sisi? >> tremendous challenges, severe economic and political challenges, high unemployment, in particular among the youth. abject poverty.

40% of egyptians are until poverty or below the poverty line. a country that's deeply divided. not just the islamists. limits on political speech inside egypt. it would take a political miracle for any person, not just el sisi to tackle challenges facing the country. >> what is his priority at this point? what do you expect him to focus on the next three months? i think there is one key word. stability, stability, stability. he has been treeing to convey the message egypt can't afford more protests, cannot afford social and political turmoil. they must buckle up, work harder, tighten their belts. this is reality. he is trying to lower expectations that they can cannot go through the process it has gone for in the last three years. >> what about the polarization? he has ruled out rec olciliation processes with the muslim brotherhood. is that a sustainable possible?

>> i don't think so. >> it's not just about the islamists. since mohamed morsi with a thousand egyptians have been arrested so far. there are limits on political speech. many egyptians are anxious about the limits crackdown, political activists >> not just the islamists. sec regard critics. president el sisi not only will not reconcile with the muslim brotherhood but it seems his major goal objective is political stability and security, apply an iron fist against the low intensity insurgency raging in egypt. >> i guess there are significant sections of the population that crave the security, stability, a new strong leader. >> this is a very important point. the question really is why he believes in what he does about the fact the importers of --

importance of security and stability and why millions of egyptians voted for president el sisi. many are exhausted. three years and a half of turmoil. when you are talking about 40% of the egyptians who live in poverty or below the poverty line, almost 40%, you know among youth in particular declining water, i mean serious problems. so egyptians wants to go on, want stability. >> that's why millions of egyptians have been basically cheering for el sisi. >> thank you for your analysis. axis continues to demand the release of journalists detained in egypt. three al jazeera staff accused of supporting the outlawed muslim brotherhood have been held for 162 days. he job description prosecutors have demanded the maximum penalty for them. they want seven years in jail for greste and 15 for mohammed fatny. >> the lawyer for el shamy has

demanded his release on medical grounds. he has heldbeled since last year and has been on hunger strike more than four months. he insists he won't break his fast until he is released. now, flash floods have killed at least 81 people in northern afghanistan. officials warn the death toll could rise. thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding in bahglan profess. hundreds were killed in the north and west of the country. dozen of people are been killed in a series of bollings across iraq. 17 died in diala province and there has been three attacks in ramadi. fighters launched a series of missiles into a city market killing 5. an assault on an army base left 7 dead and 12 injured and a police control killing four officers. imran khan has more. >> reporter: a series of attack across iraq, firstly to ramadi

in western an bar prove incident where pan attack took place against a military barracks which killed nearly 5 people and injured dozens more also. we have seen attacks on a marketplace which also again killed five people. and injured twelve others when the market was at its busiest spread across a huge area. we ha we have seen a hit and run attack. ramadi has been under a lot of pressure. there has been an abbying are ap army operation mounted there since january. there has been a number of attacks there since the last, in the last 24 to 48 hours which suggests that the islamic state of iraq, the one who the governments say are responsible for most of the attacks are resurgent trying to cause as many problems for the iraqi army as possible. 18 peel were killed andons more

injured in a suicide bomber and car bomb attack on a kurdieish political attack that has caused so much controversy in the north have said we need to send all forces in to iraq all this means many people here in iraq are very worried. there has been silence from the government. there have been no official statements on what's going on. only the occasional statements from the miles per hour industry of the interior saying the situation is under control. >> a historic meet something about to get under way at the vatican with pope francis hosting the israeli and palestinian presidents. the leader of the roman catholic church extended an invitation to shimon peres and mahmoud abbas. he hopes it will create a desire to restart the middle east peace process. the latest with nick speicer from the vatican cementbolic,

incredibly symbolic to see leaders coming together in prayer. we see israeli president shimon peres has arrived at the vatican city. he is meeting the pope right now. >> i think he is the first leader slated to arrive and the schedule says 15 minutes later, the mac mood abbas will be arriving and be received by the pope. it's symbolic as you are saying and just symbolic. the pope believes prayer is powerful as he tweeted in the run-up to this meeting. it all began when he was visiting the holy land, went to bethlehem, touched the separation barrier and apparently on the spur of the moment just decided to invite leaders from israel and from palestine to come and pray with him he recognizes the peace

process as it's called is broken. spokesmen say this is not a series of negotiations. they are not going to get into the political nitty gritty. this is just a chance to give peace a chance full. >> nick, what about the order of events? we know they will come together in a united press but what happens after that there will be statements by leaders after the reading of relimingous text first by a rabbi, after, by a christian cleric and by a muslim cleric who will all read many songs because they are shared bu jews and christians and the themes will be forgiveness and peace. after that, there will be the planting of an olive tree, a symbolic tree in the region, many being uprooted and palestinian land occupied by

israel, and then the pope will have private meetings with the two leaders. we are expecting hearing anything about what is said then. it's all going to take place in about two hours. so not that long but time enough to send a message, the pope hopes, that there is still reason to hope and that the religions from the region can come together, leaders, in prayer and send a message to the peel who are discouraged by the state of events in the hol, land. miriam? >> thanks so much, nick speicer at vatican city where israeli leader shimon peres has just arrived. he is in a meeting with pope francis. more on that later. still on al jazeera, accepting responsibili responsibility, going to be live from colombia where farc rebels are acknowledging victims' rights and. >> we just taking things into our hands, think outside the box and do something to find this

plane. >> frustrated relatives of passengers from the missing malaysian airlines jet launch a $5 million reward campaign.

>> welcome back. you are watching al jazeera america. let's take you through the top stories this hour. he script's new president abdel fatah el sisi promises to fix the mistakes of the past after years of turmoil. dozens of people have been killed in a series of bombings. three separate attacks in

ramadi. the israeli and palestinian president are due to hold talks with prop-francis at the vatican shiman perez has arrived ahead of a speech aimed at prospering dialogue. >> focusing on ukraine and a day after poroshenko took violence, in the east is showing no signs of subsiding. the military is warped not to over-step the mark from ukraine. kim vinnell reports. >> slovyansk is a city under siege. al jazeera cannot verify this video but it claims to show residential areas coming under fire. doctors at the city's hospital told us civilians are among the wounded. tir fear good-byes are a matter of the human cast of this conflict. bus loads of coven were seen

leaving their parents as they were evacuated. a major offensive to regain control of the surrounding villages last we're. we found a hospital in donetsk where some of the wounded separatists are being treated. armed men sparrowstormed the bu earlier this week. a doctor who didn't want to be identified showed us through the building. he told us it's becoming increasingly difficult to get medical supplies which are coming from russia. >> supplies are easy to get but hard to get across the russian border. they can weight at the border for months. >> a few streets away, separatist fighters remain ol alert for a possibility military sort continuing to man checkpoints in and out of donetsk. a sense of lawlessness reins. >> military fatigues are an ordinary site in donetsk.

many of the people who live here believe kiev is to blame. we support them. it's right. >> the ukrainian army is wounding us. these men are protecting us. >> violence in the east is not the only battle the country's new president now faces. petro poroshenko says he wants peace. the people watching on have yet to be convinced. kim vinnell donetsk. >> president vladimir putin has toughened the foreign agent law. the legislation already obvious blooijsz non-governmental agencies to register as foreign agents if they receive funding from entreat. now, the justice handwriting ministry can put an ngo the on the list if they haven't filed themselves. from moscow. >> reporter: the offices aren't glamorous but the work is

invaluable. employees constantly monitor the political pulse of russia with polls and surveys. last may, though, prosecutors told the independent polster having foreign clients meant it must register as a foreign agent. there are no signs this will be rolled back. the next steps are most likely to be prohibitive: will we be banned? possibly? >> it is functioning election watch doc geros wasn't so fortunate. it's activities were suspended last year. human rights watch has documented dozens of court cases, prosecutions and warnings targeting russia's ngos. this was the catalyst for the crack dope following 2011's parliament elections, perceived by many to be rigged, there was a surge of public anger.

moscow's square and prospects were crammed with people calling for vladimir putin to go and the government was shocked into action. >> these days, the square is emp empty of protesters following the wave of civil unrest, the government unleashed a raft of new lemlation targeting freedom of assembly, the independent media, and, of course, those ngos. >> for the architects of the laws, they were necessary steps because there is no sfwlus embassy. through u.s. embassies, they put soft pressure on civil society. we have witnessed it in our neighboring countries. >> this analyst suggests russia's government wants the tools to help specific ngo's if

it so chooses. >> russia has ruled not on the basis of law but with the instrument of the law when we saw that law, it is selectively dependent on political situations. >> in russia, the term "phon agents carries the cold war era tarrant of espy onnage and only one ngo has voluntarily registered. some, like lavara center have forsaken foreign money to avoid it. the new amendment means many may find themselves on the list whatever they do. rory challands, al jazeera, moscow. >> it's the final day of cam papering in columbia mvp ahead of next week's election. the farc rebels have for the first time acknowledged they are partly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths in a 50-year conflict. the rebels and the government have now embreed to involve surviving victims in historic peace talks. marian sanchez is live for us.

tell us a little bit more about this truth commission that's been established. how significant is it that the farc is acaming that there were victin hopes in this conflict and that they now get to have their voices heard? >> it's zaire important. everyone seals to point out here the president and many people here who are following the process seem to say that this is a very important breakthrough, especially as you were sawing, the acknowledgement not only by the rebels but also the government, that they had responsibility in front of the victims that they committed human rights violations. this, president santos has said is the center of the solution to the conflict, recognizing the victims. now, there are about between approximately between 5 and 6 million victims of the war in

colombia. president santos said that there will be rep arrestations for all of them and, also, he said there will be guaranteed protection and non-repetition of the crime. president santos also said that he will -- that this is very positive because it will push the process forward in a fast track, and he believes that peace in colombia could be possible by the end of the year. >> that's what he said in his last -- in his last talk with voters on saturday. now, his main opponent from the center of democratic party has reacted in a different way. he has taken a different approach saying, the victims should receive rep arrestations but those rep arrestations, he said, should be coming from the farc rebels who he said have been processing with drug trafficking and victims should

receive reparations from that drug money. >> good to talk to you marchian a sanchez reporting to us from colombia. >> relatives of passengers from the missing malaysian airlines are setting up a multi-million dollar fund. relatives say they are frustrated with the lack of information and that someone somewhere must know something. it's three months since the boeing plane since the passengers and crew vanished. $5 million fundraising campaign is due to be launched on monday. >> we have been cut off so many times that we are just now having to take things into our own hands, think outside the box and just try and do something to find this plane. >> they are say there are tracking systems to prevent planes from going missing. our technology reporter explains. >> after thousands of hours of searching, the exact location of the location of the malaysian

airlines jets remains unclear. a few final signals have allowed search teams to focus that you are efforts. but the lack of progress has put pressure on airlines and aircraft how does realtime tracking work? every passenger jet in the air and thousands at any one time would transmit data to a satellite. >> information would then be september to a ground station where it would be recorded. some aircrafts do this already for engineering regions. a new system could include the plane's location, second by second data on the a lltitude a crucial about speed and direction. aircraft engineering can youp companies tract the performance of some planes this allows them to pick up airlines even while the aircraft is in flight. one suggestion is that the same technology should be expected. to include detailed location data. >> not on all airplanes but more

modern airplanes, there is a connection with the ground station. >> goes through satellite. we pick up that signal at the crown station and it goes through the internet. we pick it up from the internet and look at it with our own specialists. >> with thousands of aircraft in the air at any one time, each producing a vast amount of data, experts say any effective tracking system would need to be selected. it would have to sends some data, only some of the time. perhaps only what plane deaf it's a from a planned route or a lot to you or makes an unexpected man ivy. >> the technology is essentially there now. what we need to do is to find a way of applying it in a consistent way and globally standardized way so not having to do different things in different parts of the world but in a way that enabled airlines to do it in a cost effective manner. >> the business of commercial aviation is on the verge of being transformed on a global

scale. >> satellite companies are arguing over the cost and value of their competing tracking system. it's the aviation authorities who will ultimately decide what sort of tracking is required and whether equipments such as trans ponders that identify the aircraft should be designed so pilots can disable them in flight. until then, they need to be implemented, a process that could take up to tea years. al jazeera. >> sometimes, pictures can be more powerful than words. when it comes to environmental conservation, they have been known to inspire people to act. andy gallaher reports on the influence of one man and his photos in the u.s. state of florida. >> this gives me a lot of lied? >> clyde butcher is one of north america's most celebrated landscape photographers. his work has been credited with raising awareness of the florida everglades. >> put the black edge there.

>> it always that way. when he moved out here in the '80s, conservation wasn't a priority am over the decades, his stunning black and white images of the so-called river of grass have helped change that. >> photographer has been a dramatic force in change. it makes me feel good that i am educating people that of the awareness of florida and that maybe this will help protect it. >> butch ever has become more than just a photographer, guided swamp walks a part of a consulted effort to make each of these amateurs an ambassador for the environment. >>. >> when i went to see the photographs, that's how i found clyde butcher. >> a lot of people can't come out here on this walk. he brings that right to the regular guy. >> he has brought a lot of people down here and once they get here like myself, they love the place. >> clyde butcher's unique way of processing pictures has maud him

one of the most sought after nature photographers in the u.s. >> clyde butcher's work is more than just a commercial success. over the years, his photographs have often a glimpse into a threatened world most will never see firsthand. >> makes his entire collection a force for conservation. florida's everglades needs all of the help it can get. it's the u.s.'s third largest national park and often described as most threatened. it's been drained polluted and developed but clyde hopes his work will prize ever it. when people look at my photographs, they say, hum. >> that's commonplace? qua see what's so special. it's still here. >> that's what i would like to hear. >> andy gallacher, al jazeera, florida. >> in france, there have been more events to mark one of the most pistol months in world war ii, the normandy invasion. hundreds of parachuters trace

the flight that landed there were in 1944. the town was taken by allied forces early on d day, the first to be captured during the i hopevation. >> you -- i am lisa fletcher t the world cup approaches. the popularity of soccer is as high as ever, putting incredibility expectations on team u.s.a. i sat down one on one with head coach of the u.s. men's national soccer team to talk about the pressure and controversy. you will hear from two u.s. players chosen to go to brazil. later, security forces preparing for the worst at the world cup. controversy swirling around who may be training