tended by coalition partners at least in ascii close this wasn't just an expression of will to close a painful chapter for our country it was much more than back to the fate of the people in their strength is the desire to take our fates into our own hands and use to prove that we can do great things in our own country. the pressure is now on me to thank you's to deliver on his promise to bring growth to the greek economy and help create 700000 jobs in his 1st term he's planning to do it partly through tax cuts but greece can only afford them if the international bailout creditors agree to cut repayments it's a goal that eluded previous governments since the beginning of government austerity measures imposed in 2010 when greece faced bankruptcy because of its massive debts the victory of me took 4 and a half years of rule by cities a prime minister alexis to put us raised the coalition of the radical left from obscurity to seize power from the new democracy party in the last election and 2015

as promised he would be the vanguard of a left wing revolution across europe to defeat the austerity policies imposed on greece that caused recession and unemployment. ultimately capitulated to those policies in order to keep greece in the eurozone despite syriza raising the minimum wage cutting sales tax and offering more benefits to pensioners this year it seems to have been too little too late for that. receive mr mr tarkus into the palace set to hand over to him the office of prime minister as is done in the democratic state. i would like to from the bottom of my heart thank all the members and friends of our party who gave a good fight in a viable conditions in order to double its growth rate growth much faster greece will need huge levels of foreign investment in the coming years and that will be perhaps the biggest challenge on the economic front and that needs

a lot of structural reform which sometimes takes time there's more at stake here than the economy for the past decade greeks have watched their politicians being dictated to by their creditors the international monetary fund and the euros and because those politicians didn't want to assume ownership of unpopular reforms. like his predecessors it's a thank you says he wants to restore greek sovereignty and dignity but unlike him he wants to do it in collaboration with european union partners. al-jazeera. here's what's coming up for you on this news hour they won't be silenced hong kong protesters take their fight to a symbol of china's growing influence is also playing for time the migrants so desperate to reach the u.s. that even more are trying to make a dangerous river crossing and in sport the hosts celebrate success at south america's biggest international football.

become the latest nations to sign up to the african free trade deal with a summit in new share $54.00 of the $55.00 countries in africa are now part of the single market agreement eritrea the only one that hasn't signed up it didn't take part in negotiations because of its conflict with ethiopia and is still pretty hesitant the accord will remove 90 percent of trade tariffs between the states where trading set to start in around a year to give member states time to prepare and interest. more now from the african union summit in new jersey capital niamey. stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the sahara region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa 2 governments are struggling to contain communal clashes

and violent extremism african leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps fuel the fighting experts say an african common market will come with additional risks that as national organized criminals protect advantage of this free movement you know to rule for one country to another and that is can just his or to perpetrate the yeah and if i was activities so definitely there will be looking for the for the chink in the are you looking for the weak link in the countries do not have you know security architecture that at some countries risk safe heaven you know or terrorist or criminal or organized criminals the government say they're working to stop that from happening. we have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so that's africa union will come in and take charge this way the cell

region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained in the solved by africans themselves. the african continental free trade agreement is expected to create the world's largest single market the continent is home to one and a quarter 1000000000 africans leaders hope that the free trade agreement will help create jobs and spur economic growth but it's not clear whether investors will overlook the internal strife in many african countries and bring in the much needed capital to boost production of goods and services. african entrepreneurs say the agreement could be the answer to the continent's many problems the truth is we do have. a good economic times when you 1st get it so you are confident the investors will come from the. most trying to. create jobs. that are also

fears that corruption and we can force some countries success of what's being billed as a historic free trade agreement but you crease. the share a little earlier maryam namazie spoke to the founder of africa briefing magazine jonathan off. who's hopeful about the trade deal. africa's political leadership who will have to. someone that will that they had the 1st place to set up this trick body and implements it that's number one and about 2. that you're trying to eradicate those pretty suspicions among themselves because no one country could be an island we need to trade together so you you you leverage your comparative advantage in the production of a certain good right and then the other party too will do to save so it would be

like you know an essence otara free exchange here and there so you to boost it to boost straight from a one africa straight. countries 70 percent in. 27000 . troops and i percents and you open your plane on 6 i present so if we're able to push straight at all which is forecast to increase by about 15 to 25 percent in the media of tear it will be good for a country it will spread expertise. as a continent. let's look at hong kong with there's been more violence as protesters confronted riot police about controversial extradition bail the standoff followed a mass rally outside a train station which links hong kong to mainland china and support from pride. this was the 1st major demonstration since the storming of hong kong's parliament last week and it proves this dispute isn't going away.

protesters say the change in the law would mean critics of china could be extradited from hong kong to face summary justice in mainland courts the hong kong government has suspended the bill but protesters are still demanding its complete withdrawal from the alfredo arming of a male psyche efficiency delivers a message there's no no absolutely no disposal of the government it's also the 1st time the protesters have taken their campaign to the cow loo district of hong kong . with its luxury stores the area is a favorite destination for mainland chinese shoppers and many seemed bewildered by the crowds of demonstrators who goes ok hong kong is the only chinese city that permits demonstrations like this. the organizers said they wanted to tell the visitors about their struggle tonight and i don't really understand it said this

visitor so i don't want to comment because yeah i think they're very brave said this woman. the destination for the march was the terminus for the high speed rail link connecting hong kong to the mainland seen by many as a symbol of china's encroaching influence initially the organizers had been hoping for a couple of 1000 people to take part in this march but even before it began it was clear that numbers would be far greater than that also very obvious by this demonstration is that the anger. the spirit of resistance is still a strong people thought were t. spears of possible clashes with mainland tourists proved unfounded and many of the protesters seem to direct their anger at the police. who they accuse of using excessive force in breaking down largely peaceful protests. as darkness fell a breakaway demonstration blocks streets around cowley. sparking angry standoff

with both police and local residents. an ill tempered end to another day of anger on the streets of hong kong with the prospect of yet more protests bride al jazeera hong kong. the only functioning airport in libya's capital tripoli has reopened to take her airport had been closed following a series of missile strikes earlier on sunday 3 airlines employees were injured in a plane on the tarmac was hit 2 airports been repeatedly targeted by forces loyal to the warlord. who began a campaign to take over the capital in april also pope francis has expressed sorrow for the migrants killed of the detention center in libya after an airstrike on tuesday at least 53 people including 6 children were killed when he went to camp near the capital was hit the tripoli based un recognized government says half the and his forces are responsible however vase say they were targeting

a nearby weapons depo and didn't give orders to hit the shelter. this is sort of dear brothers and sisters even if a few days have passed i invite you to pray for the poor defenseless people killed or wounded by the air attack that hit a detention center for migrants in libya the international community cannot tolerate such serious acts i pray for the victims may the god of peace welcome the dead and help the wounded i hope that the humanitarian corridors for the most needy migrants will be organized in an extended and concerted way meanwhile dozens of migrants rescued off the coast of libya have disembarked in italy despite a government ban on rescue vessels docking there they were allowed to come on shore only after the charity that owns the ship declared an emergency citing intolerable hygiene conditions the full story now from laura bird many. thirsty and

exhausted but safe they survived the dangerous journey across the mediterranean from north africa after the italian charity mediterranea rescued them from the stranded dinghy. but arriving on the island of lampedusa they were surrounded by police and ordered not to disembark. the charity says they're lucky to be alive i think when madam to miss or not more of those new ones in that seat did die such a small digging does not even gets parted by the red they were lucky they were able to have one us shortly before we had met in the water and the rest of the ship wrecked. the italian flag rescue boat the alex had run out of drinking water and was carrying 3 times as many people as it should when the boat's crew were denied permission to dock by the italian government malta offered to take the vessel but the crew declared a state of emergency government so you can think it's

a good thing we are in emergency conditions that forces to go to the nearest port we finished our food and water supplies we are overcrowded with several cases of physical pain because principally by hot weather this boat is not suited to remain for 45 hours in these conditions therefore we ask you to risk or to strip or to. the island of lampedusa is closer to north africa than italy but migrants welcome. last month italy's interior minister and deputy prime minister met their salvini issue to create imposing heavy fines a migrant boats which trespass into italian waters. and you know yeah i am not reopening a tally imports especially if you ask me to there is a german ship and then you take care of it or we put them all on a bus in front of the german embassy vats enough and this applies to the french the dutch and to anyone who thinks anything can be done in italy. but just over

a week ago after rescuing dozens of migrants the captain of a german rescue ship was arrested when she defied italian orders and docked in lampedusa and italian judges since ordered corona rocketed to be freed from house arrest saying she'd been acting to save. the human rights group says 681 people have died while attempting to cross the mediterranean just this year but many continue to attempt the dangerous the crossing in search of a better life and rescue crews say they'll continue to put the lives of refugees before rules about a manly al-jazeera. venezuela's office says he will resume talks with president nicolas maduro government but he hasn't given a date on what those representatives last met with government figures in norway in may but those discussions stalled oil rich venezuela has been ravaged by 5 years of

economic chaos with shortages of food medicines and other basic necessities for a break on the news hour when we come back afghan politicians and taliban representatives sitting down for historic talks here in doha but on the ground in afghanistan the violence continues. up until a few years ago transpire a constant source of water now it's just a trickle and a report from the pall on the farm is having to adapt to the perils of climate change. and sport as well but the printing money world champion gets double figures in germany and he will have your sports a little later. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast where we have some some very

heavy rain here across fujian province which cause some rescues that had to be done across much of the area because of very high water there well the showers are going to continue and they're going to be quite heavy over the next few days and as you can see here in our forecast map those a very dark greens here and all the way back towards the central provinces as well for hong kong you can be right on the edge of the rain but it's still going to be off and on showers you even as we go towards tuesday a little bit a break here on the southeast coast by the time we get towards tuesday as a record down here across parts of southeast asia well things intellect into bad here across much of malaysia fairly dry conditions across the area what we are going to be seeing some very heavy rain is over here towards to march right now notice the showers that are really beginning to pop up and that is going to continue. here as we go towards monday as well singapore a rainy as well as a humid day there at about $32.00 degrees and bangkok we're going to be seeing some rain for you as well on tuesday at 33 and the monsoon is really kicking in and almost across much of the northern part and the northwestern part of india right

now and you can see those showers making their way over here just towards the west of new delhi we do expect to see a 36 degree day for you there and over here towards her coat of rain at about 34 degrees. the weather sponsored by catalonia is. in malaysia plans to abolish the death penalty a dividing the music there with more than $1200.00 prisoners on death row one of money invested. on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and. their future program is something which is a geopolitical issue that's for governments international institutions to monitor and refugees don't have the right to will freely on the other boards can will

freely as far and as much as they want it's a new multinational colonialism this is a v i'm not and over the democratic process these companies they just want the money europe's forbidden colony episode one on al-jazeera. this is the news from al-jazeera let's take you through the top stories u.s. president donald trump says iran will never produce a nuclear weapon he said that after terror on announced it would soon reach the limit of enrich uranium allowed under the 2015 nuclear deal. greece's opposition leader says he has a clear mandate to change the country after

a sweeping victory in a snap election win by. its center right new democracy party means it'll be able to rule on its own for the 1st time in 15 years. and more violence in hong kong as protesters faced off with riot police over a controversial extradition bill that was after a mass rally outside a train station which has services to mainland china. but taliban fighters in northern afghanistan are claiming responsibility for a truck bomb explosion which killed at least 14 security personnel close to $200.00 others were injured in that attack on an intelligence base in province well this happened on a day of groundbreaking talks here in qatar involving taliban and afghan government representatives support from charlotte dallas. so a lot of model of him tell a band delegate sit across from afghan politicians ready to talk peace for the 1st time everyone has come to doha in their personal not official capacity the 2 days

of talks are pitched as an ice breaker hopefully leading to more formal negotiations between the taliban and afghan government every step that can be taken for the peace it's an optimistic about that. happiest occasion of my life a person who waited for 41 years for this very day. i know that's not the end of it but i'm delighted to be when it begins a previous attempt in april to get them to talk failed mediators from karsan germany convinced both sides to try again i would like to express my gratitude to all afghan participants for agreeing to engage in a constructive dialogue with each other inspires and also because of all the suffering which the afghan people has endured and are still and during while the taliban's political look for common ground and door hard its military wing

designated a truck bomb in the central province of gosney for what they said they were targeting an afghan intelligence base they blame for targeting civilians it more than 10 people were killed nearly 200 civilians injured in the attack talking to the taliban here they say what happened in gaza and shows why door is so important and that the war will continue until a settlement is reached with the afghan and u.s. governments they ended that if the afghan government is so concerned with civilian casualties that it should stop its military operations. negotiations to end the 18 year war started in earnest a year ago the 7th round of negotiations between the u.s. and the taliban also in doha have been put on hold while the afghan talks on how it . they say they are close to agreement on the withdrawal of foreign troops and the policing of armed groups such as il qaida in afghanistan the aim is now persuading the afghan government and the taliban to accept formal talks but this is off on on

on the process this is the afghan for themself to decide the future we are just helping them so we manage today to bring them we want them to stay by themselves to the side without any kind of influence from anybody there is hope that these groups can turn 2 days of talks into a unified future shalah ballasts. georgia's tourism industry is facing a difficult summer with a russian ban on flights coming into effect on monday russian state media is reporting president vladimir putin made the decision because of math and the russian demonstrations in tbilisi and forrester walker reports now from the georgian mountain resort of gadhafi. russians will no longer be able to fly direct to georgia from july the 8th. that could take the wind out of the sails of georgia's tourism industry. who guides like

a trying to stay upbeat it's near or. if the number of russian tourists go down there are a lot of other visitors from other countries so we're going to just adopt. the flight ban is moscow's response to russian demonstrations in the capital tbilisi protesters were infuriated by georgia's parliament inviting russian politicians to visit demonstrates his accuse the government of collaborating with the enemy russian troops continue to occupy 20 percent of georgian territory it's breakaway region and south ossetia. now we are sharing with our georgia man this place called the arch of modern make up out of friendship between georgia and russia saw in reality colonialism communism and conflicts have all too often

defined relations between the 2 countries though georgia has a special place in the hearts of many russians more people because we love georgia with so happy to be here. nearly one and a half 1000000 russians who are ists came to georgia last year that's around 20 percent of the total number of visitors georgia's national bank estimates that fewer russian tourists could cost the economy as much as 300000000 dollars this year and there may be worse to come russian tourists are coming for exactly this kind of experience being the great tourist. the beauty of the place. but georgian wine exports may be next on russia's banned list russian officials talk of tightening controls on georgian food and beverages russia is a major market it's very difficult to quantify the impact of tourism ban or

even the ban on flights and potentially the ban on wine and vegetables and fruits that's going to be difficult to quantify in terms of g.d.p. impact but what i think we can't quantify is the number of people who are going to be affected the number of people is going to be tremendously high it's going to be at least half the population. that's because more than half of georgia's population works in tourism and agriculture fewer russian roubles they force georgia to find new markets but until then the country could be in for a rough ride robin 1st you walk i'll just hear a good dowry. germany's joint your bank is planning to cut $18000.00 jobs but expects a $3100000000.00 net loss in the 2nd quarter as a result of restructuring joint has been struggling for years with the decline of its investment arm and the failure to agree

a merger with rival commas back. now the parents of an israeli ethiopian teenager shot and killed by an off duty policeman are calling for widespread police reforms salomon tech is deaf in haifa last sunday provoked riots in other israeli cities and smith reports from the victim's family on. these people are in law as jewish as anyone else who has the right to move to israel and claim citizenship but many of them will tell you that their skin color means they don't get equal treatment in this country have solomon ticket been white his family and friends believe he would not have been shot dead by an off duty police officer during a confrontation in a part of the load people have empathized and supported me but it's not going to help what will help is if the police in israel change and go in a new direction that we need a new understanding from the roots all the way out. solomon's death prompted nationwide demonstrations led by ethiopian israelis who say they have enjoyed

decades of racism from the government and police. tens of thousands of ethiopians emigrated here in the eighty's and ninety's encouraged by successive governments 3 years ago a ministerial commission made a series of recommendations after widespread discrimination against ethiopian jews was exposed a coordination unit to prevent racism was set up the critics say what has been done on paper isn't being put into practice the police were supposed to wear 40 cameras to film every interaction. but they're not they're also supposed to be stiffer penalties for violent police officers and a reduction in the use of tasers but there's no evidence of any of this. according to the justice ministry the police have not published yearly reports on how officers who acted in a racist manner have been disciplined we don't want no one to hug us or say that

they understand or our feelings feelings won't make me feel safe in the streets what made well will make me feel safe is police officers being indicted over killing young black people in it now only young black men it's also. community we have the orthodox we have listed here and here they're suffering from police brutality this is an issue of civil rights. the police officer who shot solomon is under house arrest solomon's name is 11 on a list of people who've been shot by the police in the last 5 years according to official records no police officers have been charged over any of those deaths bernard smith al-jazeera hyphen. now that recent photo of a drowned father and his daughter brought the world's attention to the migration crisis on america's southern border and as the u.s.

clamps down on undocumented migrants there many of the desperate families are attempting a perilous swim across the rio grande a river as i report some of those attempting the crossing younger than 2 years old . on the banks of the rio grande the mexican 1st responders are searching for a missing person it's a joint operation between mexican authorities and u.s. customs and border patrol they're looking for a little girl about 3 years old the daughter of haitian migrants who crossed the river into the united states a few nights ago and. in this case unfortunately we are looking for a girl between 2 and 3 years old it's best that we search down stream because she's the baby she could have been swept away easier than an adult we've also had cases where bodies are stuck deep in the water or in the surrounding brush. at a nearby camp for migrants we met 2 brothers from cuba they've been here for almost a month while their asylum cases are processed in the u.s. they tell us it's quite common for migrants to get impatient and take to the river

although not like. there was one night we're 80 people cross to others across the river 20 or 30 at a time including children sometimes younger than 2 years old. the camp has become a temporary home to more than 300 asylum seekers most of them are from west africa haiti and cuba. but not of those from angola he's been at the camp for more than a month he plays music most days to pass the time. we are expecting to wait here 23 or 4 months because there are many people ahead of us on the asylum list. many of the people we spoke to at the camp like bit of an article say they plan to wait as long as it takes to cross into the u.s. legally. but illegal crossings at the rio. randi have increased in recent months and so have drownings we were at a municipal cemetery in pierre that us neda's mexico where the bodies of migrants

who died trying to cross into the united states are often brought in have these wooden crosses placed over their graves and this one here simply reads male not identified pulled out of the rio approximately 300 meters from the black bridge in the neighborhood. there are several other graves of unknown migrants near pine the groundskeeper told us he period 8 drowning victims just last week. back at the river looking just across the water in the u.s. soil authorities say they will continue the search operation for one week as per protocol we've been told however that at this stage now several days since a child went missing the odds of finding her alive are very good mood up a little. bit us neda's mexico. and these one person's been shot and several others injured in haiti in violence between police and protesters during a funeral of a murdered journalist just for their own was shot dead by gunmen in port au prince last month have been investigating corruption allegations and president jovan

almost seizes that government the violence follows days of street protests calling for my see they had to resign we spoke to me a little bit earlier an economist and professor at university in port au prince who says there are underlying problems fueling the unrest. except this case of israel yesterday i would consider moving right now it's very slow. and we don't have in the recent street protests. let's say for the last 2 weeks and president very uncertain. hope that the president should step down while the government support a theory of businesses things but how. about a new wire the time to meet and new suffering that's the main issue rana so. the president has the change because lately we have. soccer competition

and the national team was in competition for 2 weeks so people will really be watching the haiti soccer team were doing very little weight at the gold cup and then except that a size that we had asked that against and the west in the case and comes here to look for the arabs of those situation actually maybe lower an hour for the sort of position and make it more certain a little different results of staying power for a while. heavy rain in china's eastern provinces triggered severe floods nonpaying city was the worst hit area with several villages under water affecting thousands of people they were left cleaning up muddy water which destroyed houses vehicles and markets fast moving floodwaters which prompted a rescue operation with 3000 people taken to safety but no casualties were.