into our own hands and used 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 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 to thank you 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 in 2015 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 cities are 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. i will receive mr mr tarkus into the palace so to hand over to him the office of prime minister as is done in the democratic stage. 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 an viable conditions. in order to double its growth rate of 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 eurozone

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 socrates and dignity but unlike when he wants to do it in collaboration with european union partners. john meese there is a pass he's been ousted from office the election seen a crushing defeat for the far right golden dawn what was behind that. golden dawn was one of the phenomena this arose in 2012 when the electorate in greece began to move away from mainstream parties the conservative new democracy and the socialist party the movement was in both directions to the right with golden dawn and to the far left. which effectively took over the socialist party selection and it seems to be holding on to it now but people are moving gradually fact towards the center new democracy is there to benefit from that and that is

largely thanks to its leadership which has shown that he has me to thank you for has shown that he is someone who's willing to take risks is willing to do difficult or unpopular things in order to liberalize the economy in order to bring greece closer to each of the rest of the global economy. has done very well that was the party that was really about to end to be thrown onto the dust heap of history it was a failed experiment in left wing unity it had gone down to 4 percent of the popular vote and then it found a new lease on life really by going off to the center left those realising that there just wasn't enough of the political market on the far left golden door laws trying to do the same thing and pick up mainstream conservative votes as they did not succeed because they are a neo nazi party and most greeks simply didn't have any sympathy with that clearly

now john he's at the very beginning day one day 2 of a honeymoon period how long until greeks begin to see real change. i think that if i can use the words come out true and he does not like sleeping in the heat of the summer very quick enough he's promised that his tax cuts will not only be passed immediately but will take effect as of the 1st of january 2020 so people might feel. a certain euphoria in the economy looking forwards towards that state towards the end of the year as they expect to pay fewer taxes next year even though they won't be circumstances won't be changing immediately in order to make those tax cuts worth major thank you fast until to the country's credit says he's got to persuade them to lower the so called primary surplus the amount of money the budget sets aside each year to repay them

but that may take months and he's not willing to wait for that process to be over he's going to present them with effect a complete he's also going to be legislating and law and order legislation he has criticized state is not heavily in the last 2 years for allowing an accused run amok in central athens he does not like the fact that petty criminals seek refuge on university campuses because police. it's a regime known as asylum and it's quite sacred to to grief to greece because it has traditionally protected campuses from unwanted intervention but it's also created problems so he's going to show immediate effects but the long term structural changes to the economy even if they happen within the next year oh so always take time to show results there may be problems in the middle of me to thank you ms people people's expectations have been raised and they may be dashed at some point

the poll results are seen john thanks very much. ok let's go back to our top story here on the. the conviction of the congolese warlord gunda of the i.c.c. at the hague for war crimes and crimes against humanity joining us now here on al-jazeera is jennifer is today she's a human rights lawyer co-founder and executive director of just peace lab an organization working for human rights around the world jennifer is today welcome to al-jazeera what do you make of the verdict. i think the verdict is an important indicator for victims of crimes in the terry region in the congo that the i.c.c. can. make good on its promises of justice i think it's a strong symbol and a strong verdict today what does it say to the people of the region. and i think it says of the people of the region that there can be justice and accountability for the crimes that the attorney region has experienced and frankly continues to experience to this day that there is help and hopefully there's going to be some

space for reparations if the trial conviction is upheld why does this kind of thing still happen many many kilometers away from the continent of africa the i.c.c. has been criticized in the past for dare i say it imposing white man's justice on the continent. but i think it fits a need for accountability that is currently lacking there have been some national trials in the d r c but that project is still under way and has seen mixed results as far as the seat of the court being located in the hague there are some criticisms and there has been some. indicators that they should have held at least some hearings in the region but the judges and the court has decided that it's not secure and practical could do that and so the trial does remain located in the hague which is unfortunate for victims on the ground who have difficulty accessing the day to day trials national justice and therefore international justice be

better if they work through those issues that you're talking about and they conducted this kind of legal process in africa. absolutely so i think of the premise of the i.c.c. from the beginning has said that a successful international criminal court means that they will have no trials because those trials will be handled on the national level international jurisdictions i think that's what happened in an ideal world but unfortunately we don't see that national jurisdictions are always willing or able to take these cases on i mean a lot of the trials that the i.c.c. currently has are from self referrals where states are asking the i.c.c. to get involved and they say they see that there are shortcomings in their own systems and so i think that while we could hope for a national level trials in an ideal world we're not quite there yet and so there is a real need for a strong international criminal court is a cliche but i guess the word is accurate closure when it comes to achieving

closure for the people directly affected cedes by this individual talking about the case we're talking about today in the hague tens of thousands of people fled literally for their lawyers many of them have not returned because they were in the country for so long they decide to stay where they settled i mean does that impact their ability to achieve a states of closure regardless of where the courts is. yeah i mean i think closure on a scale of work crimes and crimes against humanity is always going to be something that is difficult if not impossible to achieve and i don't think that we can put that in that this on the international criminal court they do have mechanisms in place for vide reparations but the very nature of victim participation and frankly the very nature of bringing these charges on a relatively limited scale means that only a small slice of those victims can even be represented legally at the i.c.c. only some villages and some attacks in certain areas can be the subject of charges

and so closure for the community in the region as a whole is a really difficult ongoing process i think that that conviction that we saw today especially if it's of held on appeal especially for victims of sexual violence and sexual slavery in particular men and boys who are included in that conviction i think it's a very important message for them and hopefully can help bring closure but on a larger community scale i think this is just one drop in the bucket of a really difficult and ongoing process jennifer used today in barcelona thank you. the parents of an ethiopian israeli teenager shot and killed by an off duty policeman according to widespread police reforms solomon teaches deaths in haifa last sunday led to riots in the israeli cities has been dismissed. 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 skin color means they don't get equal treatment in this country. had 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 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 are supposed to work thought it

comes to film every interaction. not there also supposed to be stiffer penalties for violent police officers and a reduction in the use of tasers but there's no evidence that any of this is. 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 our war 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 and it's now only young black men it's also. a. community we have the orthodox we have. and here that are suffering from police brutality this is an issue of civil rights

. the police officer shot solomon is under house arrest solomon's name is 11 on the 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 bernat smith al-jazeera haifa ok let's talk now. she's a lawyer for the association for civil rights in israel she joins us on skype from tel aviv sup here. how widespread is this as an issue as a problem. i think we can see into the us and we could sense that the most precious instance the shooting was in the dumpster he started then we can go in we can see the demonstration are going to go away since people understand it's a widespread problem in all of israel that not only specifically against. their own european jew community but also as a fight said before the edge of the stick you community and to the altar ducks and

palestinians of course we understand that the police is getting support from the government and for. officers if they want to be a change in the ground in the field and we can continue seeing those incidents happened without any responsibility to dame him a policeman that shot their son a month ago this week there are these calls now for police reforms how likely is that. i think that they're only talking about it and now there was demonstrations but every time you're trying to make a real change they're flushing us back and we talked before about them cameras by camera us but the officer the charts that i'm on take that was of unity and anyway we don't see. we don't see the body camera. in 1st and from of stand. in for the t.v.

and to stop. i think they're talking about those changes now if they have to because of the most precious but soon enough and we try to go to the parliament and we try to make any change yes only things we policed there we say no we're not going to do it now or let's think about it and that's talk about it afterwards so the lang and change that can actually bring. equality oh stop police brutality in the field in east with these allegations of police brutality they have been circulating around people from the horn of africa who've moved to israel because of this idea of that is a wider jewish homeland and it is welcoming to jews from other parts of the world but are you saying that this is systemic or cultural or indeed i guess a marrying of both those ideas. i'm saying that and it's not maybe it's not common to say but someone has to say it is whether it was billed as in iraq's estates it's

to be this arrest or to put a stance and now it's also wasted to all the jews to count your p.s. that came after was found out country and from washington form a g.o.p. of course public just in the beginning in the eighty's it's important to say that israel didn't want to or that was that she was fine with europe yet to come to israel and the only came here because of the pressure of american jews claiming that israel is the racist state we can see now that even. in the department of you investigating the police and or sewing i rank in the governmental they saying you very. is things about the european jews calling them. in races and him in using racist terms just the actually some of them don't see them as even just and it's very hard and also it's important to say that we can see

the same tactics the 2 or busy m. against the palestinians in the occupied palestinian territory east they brought them farmed occupied palestinian territory east to east ran and do you think them against it european jews and using them against it all at the top of the at us. including. taking them cutting the police coming to houses so fame and underling of voting full of teenagers and am just taking them in the middle of the night because there were some things on facebook and but if we see white people writing the same things nobody even can see they're approaching them all talking with them about it so we can see the same tactics also the way that they want the demonstration their. do. the same. you know the same sure. i'm going to stop you there just for the sake of

clarity those allegations that you're talking about to do with facebook that is an aspect of the story that we have covered here on a semi-regular basis on al-jazeera but they are just claims and allegations of course we cannot substantiate those but thank you listen thanks so much for joining us here on the news hour we do appreciate your time thank you. heavy rain in china's eastern fujian province has triggered severe flooding nonpaying city is the worst hit area with several villages on the water affecting thousands of people houses vehicles and markets have been flooded rescue services have helped about 3000 people reach safety no deaths have been reported. well the arrival of monsoon rains isn't causing the queues for drinking water in india's 5th biggest city people in chennai a waiting for hours in the sun having to pay for water from emergency tankers many operated by private companies some of the 10000000 people that make up the population they're blaming years of drought and government mismanagement because of

the water crisis. now in a moment we'll have the weather for you with some but also still ahead here on the news. between police and protesters in haiti during the funeral of a murdered journalist. and we'll take you to alaska where the resigns of trouble one of the state's most iconic sites. and in sport the stakes are high of the african rally championships and not just for the drivers details coming up in about 20 minutes. well we'll take a closer look at those rains across southeastern china to see this big line of fun

beheads which is running from the southwest right across into the eastern side of the country and for a day off the day off today we have seen some really heavy downpours coming through as you can see grilling we had 127 millimeters of rain in 24 ross over the coals of today's almost 200 millimeters of rain and that's been the case really for the past 4 or 5 days i'm hopeful as we go through the next 4 or 5 days the west the weather will tend to sink it's why a little further south with an ace was so some relief for those flood affected areas you can see the kind of awful conditions we're talking but we are going to see the heavier rain just shift a little further southwards at least with over the next couple of days and so this is the line all the wet weather that we do have there you can see how that just runs just to the south of shanghai and just to the north of vietnam as we go on through the next 24 hours or so you can just follow the darkest shading on that chart here's a synthesis way further south which at least was just edging a little further south with stu was the southeastern corner so we are going to see

the focus of the worst of the flooding just sinking its way further south over the next couple of days but signs of some dry weather just pushing in from the north and west it means kind of turning for eastley wets and when the hong kong. sponsored by countdown to. the term pre-crime comes from this movie minority report in which a prediction is made about something an individual has not yet done but is going through and a preemptive arrest is made of someone before they perform that. if you would have asked me 37 years ago if we would have gunshot detection or video cameras in neighborhoods or be able to predict what crimes occurred i would have said you're crazy pre-crime coming soon on al jazeera in the 7180 we're going to tell you not. and set out on an extraordinary journey marco polo followed the silk road to santa to the hot of complete carnes empire. retracing his

steps our modern day explorer discovers the descent distance echoes of most worlds and a reminder of what and who survives history. marco polo on al-jazeera. welcome if you're just joining us you're watching news hour mining's pieces we are live in doha this hour these are your headlining stories the i.c.c. the international criminal court has convicted a former war lord of war crimes and crimes against humanity his boss good time gunda he was found guilty on all 18 counts connected to the killing of thousands of civilians in the region of a touring between 200220042 be sentenced at

a later date. greece's new prime minister mr tucker's has been sworn in his new democracy party won an outright majority in the snap election on sunday defeating the left wing syriza party the far right golden dawn was knocked out of the parliament. the parents of an ethiopian israeli teenager shot and killed by an off duty policeman according to a widespread police reforms solomon tech has death in haifa last sunday but protests across other israeli cities. unicef says it's concerned about the growing number of children killed in the russian backed syrian government offensive in it lib and hama provinces $100.00 of the $500.00 plus civilians killed since the assault began in late april were children the u.n. special envoy to syria says he hopes cooperation between turkey and russia will stabilize the crisis so far that has not happened and seem to hold the reports now

from beirut. it seems planes never leave the skies over rebel held northwest syria. a war. all. air strikes have been relentless. oh bother it's day 70 of the russian backed syrian government offensive the southern countryside of it the province and the northern countryside of hama province are battlegrounds. the bombardment has been intense and indiscriminate human rights groups say why the areas in populated neighborhoods have been attacked nowhere is safe. i civilians are dying and i am rights groups say more than 500 have been killed more than 100 of them children since the beginning of this year as you need to say i have very right all.

4 children being killed even over the last 24 hours children have been given these are only the cases we have been a very. actual number of children killed like. the united nations has repeatedly called on russia and turkey who sponsored a cease fire last year to revive the truce which collapsed at the end of april. president vladimir putin and russia order god spoke on friday and plan to hold a summit in august that will also involve iran apart from that there is no sign they are close to a deal that would deescalate tensions it has become a bargaining card even between the countries that are supposed to be working together in syria. instead their local allies are engaged in a proxy war but rebels backed by turkey are resisting because of the balance this has given their political leverage rescue workers find themselves digging through

the rubble of flattened buildings every day if not every few hours. the muslim of. the campaign is being described as the most destructive against province since the opposition to control in 2015 war monitors have recorded 46000 airstrikes and ground assaults. parents are burying their children some of them more than one like this father who lost his 2nd son in the bombardment and many here say this is all happening as the international community looks away. amnesty international is urging the u.n. to investigate the philippines president's war on drugs which is described as quote murderous the human rights groups extrajudicial executions are continuing unabated and in some cases can be directly linked to the police reports victims of the crackdown are overwhelmingly from poor and marginalized communities the president.

continued his war on drugs one of his final 3 years in office will be the most dangerous for people into drugs. from the capital manila. the amnesty international report released today is a continuation of what it is shared in 2017 but this time it focuses on one key area the province of bullock on in the northern part of the philippines according to its researchers it says the drug related operations by police and killings are linked with armed groups on the air is similar to the patterns made in different areas in the past since president to really go there to launch the so-called war on drugs in 2016 but it there is one pattern that strikes the most to researchers of amnesty and that is the commanders coming from different parts of metro manila have been moved with higher ranks and positions in conn and that follows the sharp rise

of killings in the area and as expected based on the different kinds of statements issued by the philippine government in the past when it comes investigations like this the philippine government through exports person has been dismissive of this report according to the spokesperson today it says amnesty is politicizing. the situations and there should be other avenues in which amnesty can try to compile its reports with other human rights organisations and instead of going to the media according to the philippine government it should fall cases instead but you see amnesty international is saying that statement alone is problematic because out of the thousands of killings believed to be linked with police and other armed groups there has only been one prosecution that has happened since the so-called war on drugs was launched in 2016. the only functioning airports in the libyan capital tripoli has reopened following a series of missile strikes on sunday 3 line employees were injured on the aircraft

was damaged in the attacks airport has been repeatedly targeted by forces loyal to the warlord after his 3 month campaign to capture tripoli and depose the un recognized government. the police in haiti have opened fire on mourners some protesters at the funeral of a journalist shot dead last month rusty pencil is investigating government corruption his killing by gunmen in port-au prince spot street protests demanding the resignation of the president of n l moans. that's a meal as an economist and professor at the keys cairo university he says there are underlying problems fueling the some rest. except. of this funeral 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 but in the very uncertain. hope that the president should step down while the

government support of the liberals the sustain pot. but a new wired economy is moustafa really that's the main issue right now so. the president has that seems because lately we have. soccer competition and the national team was in competition for 2 weeks so people will really be watching the heelys soccer team were being very great at the gold cup and then except that observes that we had passed that against and the west in the case and comes here to look for the arabs of those degrees and actually maybe lower and how far. was eaten and make you more certain of the reported results of staying power for a while. signs of global warming are appearing all over the world including in alaska the northernmost u.s. states is sweltering in an unprecedented heat wave and that's helping to melt the

places at the fastest rate that melted for centuries is on a gallon. in a state known as the last frontier there's no easy way to reach a glacier on foot for climate research of brian brettschneider though it's become an increasingly important part of his work below as the stunning sight of the portage glacier a vast structure of ice and rockets being here for tens of thousands of years in recent decades this another glaciers in the region a melting at an alarming rate we're used to thinking about things changing over time spans that are longer than human lifetimes but when you come back here year after year and you notice with your own eyes not with any kind of fancy equipment but you notice how much it's changing it's really dramatic and it really causes you to think about you know where we're at and where we're going and what we can do about it all kind of a limited show the rate of change a transformation researchers say is driven by rising global temperature is one

startling example of just how far and how fast this glacier is going to perhaps this building it was constructed in 1986 for one reason alone and that was to give tourists a direct view of the face of the glacier but if you look out here now all you see is water and to get to the glacier it's a half hour long boat trip. the tom again cruise ship has been taking tory's out to the glacier if a decades and deck can david mazak joined a crew in 19971 tells us back then the portage glacier was very different. giant fires of ice they shot up like bunkers and they went up over 130 feet into the air. on the side to the glacier you had huge monoliths of ice like big walls of ice and they would come crashing down. like. many of the tourists that take the cruiser away a glacier is a disappearing for those who have traveled far to see one of alaska's most iconic

sites there's a sense that this might be their last chance it can treat me frankly me. with kind of half the best we can tear children if it is wasting away like this and they won't have any painting till a year. showed us a picture a while ago i think it was 114 and the lake was just like writing there and now look how big it is and there's like it's like a 100 times bigger so. researchers say the effects of global climate change can be reversed giving glaciers the chance to slowly recover but time is running out and the gallacher al-jazeera portage valley alaska. georgia's tourism industry is facing a difficult summer with a russian ban on airline flights russian state media says the russian president vladimir putin made the decision because of anti russian demonstrations in the capital tbilisi al-jazeera as robin for a state walker rip.