♪ >> announcer: this is al jazeera. ♪ welcome to the news hour and i'm nick clark in doha and top stories saudi arabia king abdulla has died at the age of 90 new king soloman calls for unity and solidarity in the muslim world. democracy died in thailand and the former prime minister out after being ban from politics for five years. i have all the days sport including roger federer knocked out in the third around of the

australia open and the run without a grand slam continues. ♪ so then preparations underway this saudi arabia for king abdoulla and he died after being admitted to the hospital last month with a case of pneumonia and his half brother is now the new king and already spoken on saudi arabia television promising to continue the policies of the predecessor and we have this report. >> reporter: . >> translator: the world learns of the death of the monarch. >> reporter: and the power was shaped from his birth from conservatism. >> translator: the problems of the world are caused because of people rejecting justice,

terrorism and crime are the enemies of god and every religion and civilization. >> reporter: he was taught religion literature and science by islamic scholars and his mother was descended and spend long periods of his childhood living in the desert. as crowned prince he took control of the country in 1995 when the king had a stroke. ten years later he became king. the world hopes the conservative kingdom would at least open up. >> during his reign he has inspired a greater openness in two particular areas, in for women and in freedom of expression there is an out burst of criticism, social criticism and also of government policy in saudi arabia that has happened with the, let's say, tolerance to some degree of the saudi arabia government. >> reporter: he inherited a kingdom in an oil boom and terrorism and unemployment and

accusations of corruption and restructured the economy and joined the world trade organization and encouraged more private enterprise and failed to address the problem of jobless young saudi arabias and granted women the right to vote and run for offices and issued id cards and allowed for the first time to do business without involving a male guardian. but domestic concerns gave way to global ones when the united states was attacked on september 11 2001 15 of the 19 hijackers were saudi arabia citizens and he took on al-qaeda when the group began bombing westerns in the country and his record on human rights has remained controversial. in recent years activists who demanded change through petitions ended up in jail and political parties and public demonstrations were ban. his next major challenge after september 11 and al-qaeda was

iran the king's foreign policy focused on efforts to continue what the sunni monarch saw as increasing elements of the shy yeah led government and supported regime change in libya and to look to revolutions in egypt, tunisia and yemen and supporting bahrain against protesters he may have fears of an iran revolution next door and he confronted fears of up rising in a different way and spent $130 billion on jobs and housing and other social benefits and critics believe he could is done more given saudi arabia oil wealth to help the population. >> people were convinced that a new law for judiciary would actually make trials open and fair. that did not happen. people were convinced that there would be religious dialog between sunni, saudi arabia and

shia saudi arabias and since 2009 it has went down against the shia. >> reporter: a blogger faces being floinged after being convicted at the villages and the latest punishment delayed and despite efforts at reform saudi arabia conservetism seems likely not to change rob with al jazeera. reaction to the death has been coming in from around the world, u.s. president barack obama paid tribute to one of his allies in the region. as a leader he was always candid and had the courage of his convictions president obama said. one of those convictions was his stead fast and passionate belief in the u.s. saudi arabia relationship as a force for stability and security in the middle east and beyond. and speaking at the world economic forum the head of the

arab league prized king abdoulla for his work. >> he was a father figure in the muslim world and had a lot of stability and the cooperation and promotion and cooperation among the other countries. his role in peace between and putting an end to the arab israeli and palestinian israeli feud was instrumental. he would record the initiative of 200022002. i believe that the relations between saudi arabia and the egypt in particular will continue to be one of the cornerstones of the israeli situation in the middle east because it is a policy that this

well-built city is the first years of the kingdom. i believe that king soloman will continue along the same lines. >> reporter: reporters around the world monitoring reaction for us and we are at the world economic forum and we are in baghdad and we will go to jerusalem first and tell us what has been the reaction there? >> reporter: well nick palestinian president announced three days of mourning and on his way to participate in the funeral and offer condolence and he was absolutely instrumental in palestinian reconversation and sponsored the agreement of february 2007 where representatives from hamas met

for eight days of talk and signed an agreement that effectively ended the violence and the fighting between the two sides in the gaza strip and they both committed to forming a national unity government. while it had taken years for the two sides to form a national unity government and it's taking long for them to hold general election really this agreement sponsored by the late king abdoullah effectively and successfully ended the blood shed and the palestinian in fighting that prevented the palestinians from having a national unity government. now israel and saudi arabia don't have relations, but the late king abdoullah had an unique and important offer for israel to end the palestinian israeli conflict and that is the arab peace initiative which he first proposed as crown prince in 2002. it was later reendorsed by other

countries in 2007. now, this agreement tries to solve the whole of the palestinian israeli conflict by offering normalization of ties with all arab and muslim countries with israel in exchange for israel withdrawing from palestinian territories and east jerusalem. israel never responded to this offer but it's a very substantial offer, one that could let israel enjoy friendly relations with its neighbors and other countries farther afield so the late king abdoullah will be remembered as someone who tried to make huge efforts to end the palestinian israeli conflict. to tell you about uk and western relations with saudi arabia is my colleague, adrian who is in switzerland. >> when you control 10% of the

world's oil and you can afford to massively spend your way out of trouble, your importance on the world stage cannot be under estimated and we are witnessing that importance right now a lot of the talk is about just that. as saudi arabia uses its financial might to attempt to maintain its grip on the oil market driving down the price per barrel aggressively to effectively drive outcome peters. now western powers had effectively turned a blind eye to saudi arabia's questioning human rights record in order to tap into the kingdom's wealth and do business with it sometimes under controversial circumstances, there have been several high-profile cases with allegations of corruption when and surrounding trade deals with saudi arabia. china, the u.s. germany are saudi arabia's main trading partners and it's not hard to see why. under king abdoullah the saudi

arabia economy expanded five fold to $750 billion and the saudi arabia king was able to spend his way out of the 2008 financial crisis and as the arab spring rolled across the region a further $130 billion was used part of it to buy off political opponents and also in an attempt to influence political outcomes overseas. but of course the main focus remains oil and while other oil producing nations are feeling the pain of saudi arabia's actions, the kingdom itself can afford to ride it out as it sits on a $800 billion cushion, a mast under king abdoullah's future and let's get reaction from iraq and jane is in baghdad. >> reporter: thanks and condolence from iraqi leaders are pouring in to saudi arabia and the sunni speaker of

parliament is on his way along with other iraqi officials for the funeral but the relationship between saudi arabia and iraq is to put it very mildly complicated. it goes back to 1990 when saudi arabia invaded kuwait and saudi arabia made the step of inviting in u.s. soldiers and the next 25 years really have been a history between saudi arabia and iraq of betrayal drama and only very recently reconciliation. now, as you know there are institutions here but they don't really matter what really matters in this region are personalities and the saudi arabia king had one of the most important and forceful of personalities. he personally took a deep distrust to iraqi prime minister and only with the new iraqi government that relations have improved somewhat and still standing in the way is a specificer of iran that has been the saudi arabia preoccupation

and it will continue to be the saudi arabia preoccupation because saudi arabia doesn't have power just from its oil of course it has power because it is custodian of the holyist sites in islam and sees them as a threat and iraq as a potential stumbling block, nick? >> jane thanks very much indeed and wrapping up our series of reports there from baghdad. and so far the path of the world succession in saudi arabia has been clear but if you take a look at part of the family tree it shows how complex it could become abdoullah the latest in the line to the king who reigned until 1953 now power has passed to his half brother solomon and he is already 79 years old and in poor health and makes the other brother the new crown prince and he is ten years his junior. after that the picture is more complicated with hundreds of princes potentially in line for

the throne and the new king disappointed his nephew as deputy crown prince. and still questions remain over the stability of saudi arabia during the transition of power. king soloman moved to address some concerns and on television he plans to stay on the course his father had set for the nation. >> translator: we are going to continue with the approach of father, king abdoullah who built the state and followed by his sons and continue to implement the karan and the character of mohamed into our legislation. >> reporter: well joining me on set is al jazeera who covered saudi arabia and first of all we just heard from the now king soloman saying continuity is the theme, is that how you assess it? >> indeed i think that is the key message to take away at this point, keeping in mind of course the background of who king

soloman and the 13th son as you mentioned and look at his background he served in key posts within important saudi arabia institutions and military institutions. he is by no means from any sort of younger generation of saudis and his age places him in that sort of segment of population which stability, continuity would be key. so as we've heard his statements just in the last few hours talking about things like adhering to the path of islam, an indication that continuity in terms of the saudi king traditions are very important, i think at this point that any ex takes for any radical change may be a little too premature. >> what challenges lie ahead in the immediate future? >> saudi arabia is in a very interesting position both

regionally, i'm sure a lot of correspondence dens have touched on that and the fires burning around saudi arabia with syria and problems in iraq these are all issues not to forget bahrain and issues that are important for saudi arabia the oil prices and saudi arabia is a very important country that faces challenges internationally and it's an important country in terms of as i mentioned its oil capabilities, what happened in saudi arabia will impact you whether you are a farmer in china or whether you are a blue collar worker in america, the influence of a country with a large quantity of the world's known oil reserve and influence on pricing will impact industry and lifestyle well beyond its borders but i think one of the important things to look at the challenges domestically and not just foreign policy domestically saudi arabia has a young population that is growing within the working segment, the sort of age bracket of 15-30 has

shot up from 50% in 1980 to 66% in 2010. the patent of urbanization and large increase in percentage and now standing something near 70% or higher. so when you look at what is going on within domestically saudi arabia young population growing population high rate of education, thousands of people have been sent to study abroad and this is all placing domestic pressures, young people who want jobs and who have been exposed to different ways of thinking and will no doubt be looking for change and pushing reform which of course has begun before king soloman and before the late king abdoullah and i expect and one would anticipate a lot of people will be hungry to see more

domestic change too. >> to what extent do you think king soloman will take that on and really run with it? >> i think it's something no saudi arabia leader can ignore saudi arabia of course has not seen the sort of revolutions that have swept other arab countries but it does have internal pressures. we did see, of course the problems in the eastern providence with the shia minority with protests of allegations of human rights abuses arrests of some of the people and other problems and even been much smaller but there have been demonstrations taking place in malls, in some parts of saudi arabia in the peek of the arab spring that may have been quiet as people look around and see what is becoming of arab spring but reform process is important. it was not begun in the last, in the time of the last king.

it was begun in the time of king of saudi arabia who began with the introduction of the shura council or conservative council, all those members still appointed in 2005 in the time of the late king abdoullah you had municipal elections and promise of 2011 in the next elections women will be allowed to vote indications from the late king abdoullah he was favorable to women being allowed to drive. so there was a reform process which has gone through ups and downs and this is a challenge that the king cannot ignore going forward either. >> all right sammy thanks indeed for that. still to come on the news hour raising awareness we meet the family of the saudi arabia blogger and punishment has drawn widespread condemnation plus. >> i'm in india state with solar power production has potential to help relations between india and the united states.

sport coming up too and iraq and iran and going to the semi cup coming up. ♪ now thailand's former prime minister head to the country military backed rulers saying decision to ban her from politics of five years end democracy in the country and faces criminal charges over a subsidy program during her time in office and scott has this report from bangkok. >> reporter: the vote that removed one of the most recognizable names in politics for five years and appointed assembly voted friday to impeach her and 190 out of 219 voted to kick her out of office but it's a position she has not held since last may and that was the crux of the failed argument that

the hearing was illegal. she twice addressed the assembly during the two-week hearing and half are members of the military. the basis for the impeachment she ignored corruption and cost billions of dollars and defending it to the end, she said it was to help poor farmers. but some observers feel it was a move to oust her from politics regardless of the process. >> translator: impeachment is illegal since we no longer have a constitution military government did this for political reasons and want her out of politics and now they are working on a criminal case. >> reporter: just before the impeachment vote took place at parliament house thailand's attorney general confirmed he will file a criminal case over t the rights subsidy program and heard in the supreme court and if convicted she will face at least ten years in prison and not be allowed to reenter politics. ♪ with the news of the impeachment

one of the red shirts supporters of the party. a few leaders say they still take their cues from the parameter. >> the party do not want to rock the boat. they want the military government to function and to elect people just for themselves but i'm sure they are itching to come out. >> reporter: and the legal team said they will attend legality of the impeachment the current administration insists the impeachment was legal and critical to demand the positions that led to the coup last year. >> we are achieving both accountability and law and i don't think consolation will come. >> reporter: both agree on military rule cannot drag on. a past that returns thailand to democracy needs to be revealed soon. scott with al jazeera, bangkok. they are preparing for a second round of executions

despite objections from the international community. australia called on the country to reconsider its decision to execute two of its countrymen for drug trafficking and members of the barley nine at not clear if they are next on the list as the indonesia government is looking at the ones carried out last week and some were executed by a firing squad on sunday. ten missing after a chinese boat sank in international waters and the coast guard says it sank about 160 kilometers west of the southern island on thursday evening, three crew members were reportedly rescued by a fishing boat and the boat collided with a cargo ship. houthi rebels in yemen calling for the formation of military and presidential committees to run the country after resignation of the president and gerald has details. >> reporter: at dawn attack the yemen capitol sanaa and shia

houthi rebels look at damage and the leaders targeted in bomb attacks at a mosque and nearby home. across the country people have been reacting to what they see at the houthi take over some in celebration, others in anger. in the city here they demonstrated of the besieged and hadi resigned. >> translator: we say to the president hadi he must not run away from taking responsibility and complete the peaceful transition of power, we the people will stand with him. >> reporter: hadi decision was made under pressure and held up at his home since the houthis stormed the presidential palace and surrounded parliament earlier this week. in september the houthis signed a u.n. brokered deal after taking control of large parts of sanaa but they are demanding a bigger say in government. >> translator: i want to assert again the crisis cannot be

resolved other than what you agreed upon through the outcomes of ndc and peace and national partnership agreement and call on you all to have wisdom and national spirit and use the dialog and political action to re resolve disagreement. >> reporter: and comes security concerns and separatist are split from the north and some fighting in the port city of aden and supporters of the president there the only line of security there against al-qaeda are saying they will no longer take orders from the capitol and some activists view this as the unravelling of hard gained reforms. >> after the malitia of houthi and revolution they destroy the peaceful revolution and the most important thing they destroyed is the peaceful missiles. >> reporter: backed by iran and in control of the capitol the houthis are accused of colluding with the former president ali

and forces showing who now has power in yemen. gerald tan, al jazeera. it's a continually moving situation and let's bring in a security analyst consulting fellow with united institute and in london and good to see you and how do you assess where we are right now? >> it's a very fluid situation. it could go anyway at the moment. the interesting thing about it is in some ways what is happening in yemen is a micro cosom of the middle east and extremist and al-qaeda involved and you have former dictators who really want to have power. you've got sort of a democratic movement that are losing power. you've got rebels this time supported by the shia iran and

then you have influence from sunni-backed governments such as saudi arabia. so and of course you've got the western involvement through the intelligence and the military services. so you've got a very strange mix which i say is a very complex micro cosom what is happening in the middle east at large. >> given complexity and given that yemen is not a region it's a country and has different elements in the melting pot where do you see resolution coming from? it cannot come from within clearly so somebody has to step in from the outside. >> well that seems to be again, the response in most cases in the middle east isn't it and we need help from the outside, we cannot sort our problems out and someone needs to come in and sort it out. i don't see anybody stepping in right now. if things get desperately out of control in one way or another particularly if aqap al-qaeda in

the arab peninsula get the upper hand you will see immediate response i think from the west at least in the military sense if not a political sense also because they really are very concerned particularly after resent events in paris and with i.s.i.s. on the rise so i think that you will get a western involvement in that respect. but otherwise i see this taking its merry time playing out one way or another and it will be very interesting to see how the president reacts assuming that he comes into power now. >> absolutely. but it's a strange business of a parent colusion between he and the houthis and they do not want him in power and he doesn't want the houthis to have power. >> indeed and that is a very curious thing about this. and, you know as an analyst and observing it tempting to come to conclusions but i have to say

it's very confusing. how this is going to play out because what obviously has happened is that houthis were offered some very significant concessions through president hadi and they rejected those so they are expecting a lot more i think from president sali but will he offer that? i think he might in the short term because he needs the houthis i think to counter balance this but in the long-term a show down between these two forces so what we see are these four elements with an alliance between two of those, but that alliance i'm pretty certain will be temporary. but it will be very interesting in the short term how it plays out. >> very good to get your perspective, we appreciate that thank you. japanese government says it's doing its best to secure the release of two citizens held hostage by isil and a top

official to aman to try and secure the release of two people. isil demanded $200 million ransom for freedom and the deadline passed a few hours ago. egypt cici would like to say the case against three al jazeera journalist resolved and they have been in prison in egypt for 391 days and fahmy and greste and mohamed falsely accused of colluding with the out lawed muslim brotherhood, charges they deny. >> translator: we don't have any interest whatsoever to put any citizen under detention, journalists or otherwise outside the rule of law. but there is a. point i would like to highlight here and we are trying hard after four years to regain the rule of law and uphold the independence of the judiciary. >> reporter: still to come on the news hour the big thaw

continues and we have the latest from landmark talks between cuba and the united states. >> i don't think i'm going to be able to raise a family in greece. >> reporter: and we are talking to young greeks about their hopes and fears for the upcoming election. sport in 15 minutes or so the new england patriot star player answers accusation that his side cheated their way into the super bowl. ♪

you are watching al jazeera news hour and reminder of the stories king abdullah died and ruled the country nine years and 90-year-old was suffering pneumonia and funeral in the coming hours. the new king soloman and the crown prince since 2012 and a broadcast on state tv he promised to maintain the same approach as his predecessors and king soloman in power and the succession to the throne was not so certain and it goes to brothers and not sons and meant an aging royal now as we report. >> reporter: soloman is the next king of saudi arabia and became the crown prince in 2012 and the swift appointment by late abdullah was shoring up the line and avoiding a struggle for power and one of 7 powerful brothers known as the 7 and they are the sons of the founder of

saudi arabia king abdullah all from the same mother. all of the remaining sons are over 75 years old. he was governor for nearly 50 years, during tenure the saudi arabia capitol grew in a mayor modern city and prince aman attracted foreign investment and seen as politically and economically aligned with the west and developed a network of relationships in arab and international circles and became minister of defense in 2011 and also appointed to the powerful national security council that oversees foreign policies security and intelligence. socially conservative and close to the religious establishment aman is not likely to introduce significant change. but at 79 years old there are concerns about his ability to govern, his health is rumored to be frail and rarely spoke in public in resent years and the world success rules stipulate the oldest and fittest among the

brothers inherit the throne but the rules are not clear about complex situation, once all the sons of king dies and the crown passes to the next generation the several dozens grandsons of the founding king may battle for pour and prince aman with his well respected skills is seen as the most likely person to quell any decent whether he is able to rule a powerful country with many citizens agitating for change will be his greatest challenge. >> and we have a colonist based there and says the new king will not have trouble assuming his new role. >> the king soloman is very much known in the region and the west he has been governor since 1963 so that is obviously the capitol of saudi arabia and he is a diplomate and he has interacted with western leaders and been to the white house and to european capitols and i think that he understands that the

reforms that the king abdullah has introduced are essential for the changing dynamics of saudi arabia. human rights likely to be one of the most prominent issues the new king will be asked to address and they have prosper in the weekly floinging of a free speech activist and sentenced to public lashing and ten year prison term for insulting islam and we report from kansas quebec province and now she fears her husband's health is suffering. >> reporter: he just wanted freer speech in his country, instead he got this 50 latches, the first of a thousand to be administered over 20 weeks. now for the second time doctors postponed the flogging citing health concerns and it's from the wife and hidir with children refugees in canada since 2013.

in a tienny basement in quebec she works to keep her husband's case in the public eye and raise a family alone. >> translator: i need to be a positive person think positive thoughts. if i start crying and do nothing that will not help my kids so i have to be strong and save my energy so i can tell about his plight and get him out of jail. >> stop the flogging. >> reporter: a lot of public support and weekly demonstrations organized by amnesty international in quebec and canada capital outside the embassy and they have criticized his treatment but says there is little else it can do rights groups say that is not enough and say a big arms deal with saudi arabia signed last year could just be tying his hands. a canadian-based arm of the u.s. dynamics company will sell nearly $15 billion worth of

armored vehicles over the next ten years and canada arms export controls prohibits selling anything that might be used against civilians but so far he is not saying if it asked for and got such assurances. >> what is the point of having standards, what is the point of having export control policies what is the point of setting certain human rights thresholds? if you are going to do in the decision is driven and dictated by commercial interest. >> reporter: for haider is about ending her husband's ordeal and bigger questions can wait. >> translator: all i can do is to raise my boys and make countries help rice and he is a great person and great dad and husband and call countries to stand by our side and call for the release and freedom of rice. >> reporter: daniel lack al jazeera, sher brook quebec.

in saudi arabia where world leaders have started to arrive for the funeral of king abdullah who died last night after going to hospital with pneumonia. he was 90 years old and the leaders have been welcomed there in the saudi arabia capitol. the funeral is slated to take place from about 50 minutes time and maybe a little bit later than that certainly in the immediate hours the funeral of king abdullah will take place and world leaders just beginning to arrive and to be received in the kingdom. two days of land mark talks between the united states and cuba ended with both sides agreeing to meet again and digs focused on restoring diplomatic ties and no date was set for embassys to reopen. immigration and human rights issues repain sticking points despite optimism surrounding the talks and we have more now from

havana. >> reporter: the head of the cuban delegations said talks were constructive but the united states still has cuba on the official list of countries that sponsor state terrorism. and nadal said that is something that needs to end and the u.s. needs to drop cuba from this list before full diplomatic relations can resume and also said she told the americans that cuba wants their sovereignty respected. >> for cuban this is essential to normalize relation and the u.s. president willingness to have a debate that is honest and serious debate with the u.s. congress on this issue. >> reporter: jacobson and u.s. assist and secretary of state also said talks were productive and said the u.s. mostly focused on trying to reestablish a u.s. embassy here in the capitol havana and gave no timeframe on when that might happen and also said the issue of human rights

did come up with their cuban counterparts. >> we do have differences in that subject, profound differences with the cuban government and it was part of the conversation today. thank you very much. i think i can say that their response was they have differences with us on that subject. >> reporter: neither side was ready to announce any hard or firm agreements they did agree to continue talking, but when the next round of talks will happen and where has yet to be decided. the first ebola shipment vaccine is due to arrife if liberia and dispatched by glaxo-smith kline and it will be first to arrive in the ebola-effected countries. senators in the democratic republic of congo meeting on friday to vote on controversial changes to electoral laws.

thousands protesting against amendments which would delay the presidential election and political opposition leaders say dozens killed by forces in demonstrations over the past few days and we met the family of a man who died there. >> reporter: luke says his 17-year-old nephew had no interest in protesting or politics. thousands have been demonstrating here in congo's capitol, they say the president is trying to stay in power beyond the constitutional limit of two terms. luke were watching police arresting from the upstairs window window. >> translator: we heard boom we both went down. and i got up but he didn't. i tried to wake him. then i saw he was injured in the neck. a lot of blood was coming out of the wounds. >> reporter: he died here on the floor. luke thinks the shot must have

been aimed at him. his families say they want to take legal action against the government. here at the high court the government has been quick to begin proceedings against the people they say is responsible for looting and organizing the protests and police arrested more than 300 mostly young men who will be tried here in the coming days and says prosecutors will seek the harshest possible punishment and first were brought from police cells in the truck and sat here for hours and this man says he is innocent and didn't do anything. then lawyers arrive and the first trial begins the two suspects are charged with looting. one of them says he was a by stander who was arrested by police. the political opposition who called for the protest condemned the mass arrest and said detainees should be arrested and the government denies that planned controversial changes in election laws are intended to extend president's rule. >> translator: it's disorder.

the demonstrations calling on people to cause civil disobedience and the act is barberism and we are not responsible and in a legal process of improvement of electoral law, how can that lead opposition to send youth to destroy people's property? >> reporter: back at the house where he lived his family come together to mourn. his mother told us she has no money and she was depending on him to look after her in old age. meanwhile the government still wants to change the laws and the opposition plan more protests but the politics won't bring him back. malcolm web, al jazeera, in the democratic republic of congo. to greece where voters go to the polls on sunday for election that could have dramatic consequences across europe and a victory for the left wing party demanding europe cancel a large part of enormous greek debt burden and phillips went to athens to see how the younger

generation feels about the upcoming vote. >> reporter: on the verge of victory that will spread excitement and fear across europe, the left wing party and its leader. for young greeks he says an end to austerity means an end to those who suffered so much in the economic crisis but not excited about elections and thinks none of the parties can be trusted and planning to i'm great because he says young people cannot make a living in greece anymore. >> i want to have a family and i don't think i am going to be able to raise a family in greece because i'm not going to have the money. we have to do without things. and we can buy stuff for us. i haven't bought any clothing for a year i think now.

>> reporter: so many young greeks will vote for change and some want to leave the country altogether. but even those who are suspicious of the radical left agree the old political system based on corruption has ruined this country and should never come back. he is in his 20s will vote for the conservative new democracy who lead the outgoing government, not because he is happy with the way things are but because he thinks they offer the best chance of reform. >> translator: the old greece was where a country's dream was to work this public sector and be comfortable without contributing too much but we want to be a modern western country and not like living on deception like it was before the crisis. >> reporter: at the series and rally they feel the time has come and ready to risk confrontation with imf who lead

them money and harsh xhich policyies and young and old feel they have nothing to lose phillips in athens. coming up in sport the tour on the cycling event claims casualties and we will be here with more. ♪

♪ welcome back india is to push for a new solar energy deal with united states from an up coming visit with barack obama that starts on sunday and india

relies on coal for most of power and currently the third largest producer of coal and they have large and small projects. >> reporter: every time he turns on the light he saves money. he spent nearly $1500 setting up this solar unit and says it has been worth it. >> translator: to invest in this you save $400 a year and means you have investment in four to five years and after that it's all profit. >> reporter: saw long-term benefits and was willing to make the initial investment but not everyone is and electricity is cheap with two thirds power needs being met by readily available coal but advocates for solar power say the preference for coal-generated power will change. >> they may have high foot

prints and technology matures and it reduces the consumption of land as well as cost. >> reporter: the hope in several indians states is panels to be a more common site and the state already produces about 900 mega mega watts and they want to contribute 8% of the total electricity production by 2022. solar power generation will increase in india as governments and private sector invest to bring it mainstream but there are challenges in developing this technology including figuring out the long-term effects. traditionally large scale plants require a lot of land and some critics worry it will hurt the land but that is disputed. >> having no other applications and cannot be done any other thing. >> i think this. >> reporter: but

environmentists says there is no such thing as wasted land in india. he recommends building smaller rooftop units on family homes and government buildings. >> solar energy should be decentralized and used on existing land use and means large solar based and require huge amount of land and not something they can afford. >> reporter: trying to respond to criticism with this ten mega watts being built over an existing canal but right now there are not many plants like it. still his own experience suggests that no matter how small the power plant it pays to go solar, i'm with al jazeera. time toll move to sport. >> thank you very much nick. 17 time grand slam champion roger federer knocked out in the third around and beaten in four sets by italian who is tour 6 in

the world and the first time since 2003 he failed to reach the semi final stage and he has not won a grand slam title since wimbledon in 2012. >> the wrong points there today and knew how important the second set tie breaker was. so clearly that hurt losing that one. but the end was not pretty you know and wasn't easy to play with the shadow but it was the same for both of us so just a disappointing loss you know. >> reporter: andy murray had a more easy time the six seed advance in 6-1, 6-1, 7-5 and toughen counter -- tough encounter on sunday.

he is leading two sets in the women's draw and beason diaz in straight sets. and iraq and semi finals of the cup in australia after one of the most extraordinary matches in the tournament history and taking on i ran and fell behind in the first half but match turned when iran had a player off after 42 minutes and levelled after the break to extend the match to extra time and teams added two goals each at 3-all and came down to penalty shoot out where the iraqis prevailed 7-6. so they will now face south korea on monday in sidney and japan taking on the united arab in the last quarter final and uae holding a surprise one year lead and will meet australia in the semis. africa cup of nations and

favorites algeria will take on ghanna for place in the quarter finals and the desert fox's hoping for further improvement from their opening group c game and the algeria the highest ranked came down to between saudi arabia and iraq south africa 3-1 in the so called group of death. ghana looking to bounce back from their 2-1 defeat to sinagal on monday and less than pleased with arrangements in the small town where the first two matches have been taking place. >> allowed us to be close to hotel and arrive one hour to train and the change of venue of the training both of us need to train one hour before the game we are asked to come close to do it. and i'm sorry to say you need to say we are like ships and the only team that received this.

so when i say good words i want you to know other things. >> reporter: one of two played on friday and like ghana south africa desperate for victory against sinagal if they have contention for quarter finals 2004 tunisia took control of group b and came behind to beat 2012 on thursday and democratic republic of congo and cape verde took it with both sides level on two points. 15-year-old tipped as the next world futbol will start training with madrid after they paid $3.5 million. martin was officially unveiled on thursday. and he is only expected to play with the second-string team and he made the debut for norway

last august when he was 15 breaking a record that has stood for more than a century. new england patriots the biggest name player and coach have adamantly denied accusations of cheating in the case that has been known as the flate gate and they are investigating claims that the patriots deflated 11 of 12 balls used in the sunday match with indianapolis and it could be easier to catch in the cold rainy and won 45-7 to advance to the superbowl. >> i have no knowledge of anything. i have no knowledge of any wrongdoing yeah i'm very comfortable saying that and very comfortable saying nobody did it as far as i know. i don't know everything and i also understand that i was in a locker room preparing for a game. i don't know what happened over the course of the process with the footballs.

>> i have nothing. i don't have an explanation. i had no knowledge whatsoever of this situation until monday morning. i learned a lot more about this process in the last three days that i knew or talked about it in the last 40 years that i coached in this league. >> reporter: there has been a high-speed crash in a cycling event. several riders were brought down in the sprint to the line during the fourth stage from south australia and some forced to carry their bikes to the end and he crossed in the line first before the chaos and that is it for me nick. >> thanks and see you later and thank you and that is it for this news hour another full bulletin of news coming up up for me and nick clark and the rest of the team it's good-bye

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