going to change has anything really changed? this is systemic violence that needs to be address at its core. we are in a race against the variance. know what to say. we are all saying we're looking at the world as it is right now, not the world. we like it to be, the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line. when i was just around me, this is al jazeera. ah, either i'm doing, but now you're watching the new the law from coming up. a wrong new president is about to be sworn in taking over at a time of soaring regional tensions economic trouble. the world, the bosses, 200000000 recorded covered 19 infections as well. the country, the edge to hope vaccine booster shots,

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as we wait for things to get underway, proper early hashim joins us live from tehran alley. just run through what's happening today. kim, this is the beginning of the ceremony of the rainy and falling and speak guy's giving speech, then we'll hear to the judicial achieve. and then brian, by you see, we'll take those turns off into national delegations, arrived in the wrong most the also from neighboring countries, sending senior delegates said the primary president of iraq, the president of august on the prime minister of armenia, foreign minister from all man. and kuwait and many others, a deputy vice president of venezuela. the, the relations of utah with these countries are being reflected on the level of a deli gets sent to to the ceremony. grain bracy, as of today will the thought working in full capacity till he also submitted

a list of ministers to the following in the coming few days. and then he'd be waiting for the confidence vote for now there are many challenges. as you said. economy challenges, health challenges, we're going to numbers going over 40000 infections daily, more than 400, or maybe more than 300 deaths every day. so these are the main challenges, the countries, it's racing and this was, this was reflected in his speech informed of the supreme leader on the day of what they call the execution of the, of the election or rectification of the election results. why the georgia council and then by the supreme leader i was, he was concentrating mainly on the internal situation because the economy isn't. and in real quick, i says, one of the reasons is the sanctions related to the nuclear program. but there are

other reasons, corruption, mismanagement, so these issues are, are the, the, the fire ball that hi sandra honey, left for everything. but i usually brian by easy will have to deal with all these challenges. other challenges also on the international regional fronts on the international front. as we all know, the nuclear negotiations continue with the $5.00 to $4.00 or 4 plus one and the united states aside and the regional front. yesterday we had this incidents in the goals day before yesterday. there was another incident situation is, it's very alarming. it's really threats. iran is responding also with, with, with, with threats. so it's not, it's not a clear situation for now. and government in transition is just receiving the, the, the, the office is getting into, into the office with all these challenges. it would be really easy for everyone.

right. you see however many thing that's given the support he already have from the bottom and the support of the supreme leader. the blessings of the military. these are all are going to help him pushes on plans and try to find solutions. however, he might lack some tools because the country currently isn't, isn't a bad situation. that's why he won't really have an easy task to do to, to achieve that. you talk about him not having the blessings of the political establishment, but how much support does he really have from the people? how much confidence do the people of iran haven't him given the election that brought him to power had take his sword, low voter turnout. well, given the low, low, low turnout, which is the lowest in the history of the,

it's not me, lucian, this is a real challenge. however, he got more than 65 percent of the votes, the votes of those who voted. so this is the lead, the, this is the, the, the confidence he's maybe building gone. and this also might mean as but what, what many iranian analysts are saying this might mean he needs to extend his hand to the other 2 other parties in the country to the lines of thought. and we know that are other streams here to present to the principal lists all the conservatives . there are still the reformist and the moderates. and these people right now who represent them or whoever support them see themselves or regard themselves miss represented in the and then you a government. so this is, this is also going to be one of brain, but i use is made challenges. the national unity is going to be able to get people

out on time. so many say that in case right, right, you see was able to and his government was able to get on out of the economy crisis it's facing. this would be reflected on the street more confidence in him, and this might create a different situation, maybe for the next elections and in 4 years now it's, it's a long time to, to think about what this is from today. from from day one, people are counting from day one, people are waiting from day one, fee pool are going to ask many questions. given the fact that it's not the same situation as hot central hot, his government has had several 100 government, didn't enjoy the support department in the 2nd. and the 2nd 10 didn't really have a good relation with the, with the military. at the same time, it's relation with the supreme lead that was, you know, it had a lot of down. so with, with writing, but i see everyone is saying that you already have the, the support,

the full support. so few he can, he can come complain less ok, respect to the the blessings around him. all right, thank you very much for that update. i will be checking back in with you as as things progress there inter on for now. thank you and the hash him as of hello. so if he comes into office facing multiple challenges as a big takes a look now, what's most pressing during the election campaign, the state of the economy dominated the debates. it's been effected by a combination of us sanctions and mismanagement in the past years. despite the promises that have been made, the problems won't be easy to fix. more at mann middle that we are going to make sure the sections are lifted, but we are not going to connect our economy to lifting the sanctions. there are a few issues that the government is facing right now. the budget deficits investment and the stock market. and also controlling the inflation corona virus,

and many other basic needs. so i appreciate what the 12th government has done, but we need a short term immediate program to resolve the issues we are facing today. has not been much detail on policies or how they will be implemented. and the continued mistrust of some western governments could be an issue in future talks, every race they want. the thanks have listed that the only way they're going to be listed. and i assume that means the oil and banking factor sanctions, as if the talks in vienna continue. and right now they've been installed since june 20 as and if they really want to see things change, they're going to have to sit down with the remaining signatories of the nuclear deal and makes them hard compromises. because right now, the iranian economy is in shambles. sensation and national debt, or at all time highs. recent protests of a water shortages in the sun. i've seen solid dirty protests in the capitals thereon man. and as to what the age of which the presidential mandate that was

given by the supreme leader teresee had 2 major points support for domestic production and increasing the value of the national currency that depreciated over recent years. both of these issues are related to governments. revenues and economic prosperity. economic policies should be relevant with methods used to resolve economic problems. that in return would lead to increasing prosperity, family income, employment, and enlarging families, food baskets. pensions in the region are still high, as iran and israel engaged in a shed, a war several tankers have been attacked most recently, one of the coast of oman that killed 2 crew members, israel, the u. s, and the u. k. blamed iran thereon denied it was involved was the last year has seen iran's nuclear facilities attacked, the country's top scientist assassinated and a conservative leg parliament responding by restricting international inspections on the ruins, nuclear facilities. braimer is seen as the chosen candidate of the political

establishment. oh, but if he cannot address immediate and pressing issues of the economy and sanctions, he's picked a future and ascendancy could be effected. i said big, i just 0 with 200000000 infections and climbing rapidly, the world's groan of ours diagnosis is getting more bleak. it took a year to reach the 1st $100000000.00 and half of that time to double of a 3rd is driven partly by the delta vary and it also highlighting the gap and vaccination rates between wealthy and poor nations. and that's why the world health organization is urging rich countries to pull plans to administer booster shots. i understand the concern of all government to protect their people from the delta vote and but we can not. and we should not accept countries that have already used

most of the global supply of vaccines using even more of it. while the world's most vulnerable people remain unprotected, indonesia is now the epi center of a who's our break with the death toll exceeding 100000. a quarter of a 1000000 infections have been recorded in the past week alone. and in japan, there's anger's infections, rise faster than ever. and then picks, host city tokyo has recorded 5000 dany cases for the 1st time of her minister says the games are not to blame. and richardson is in tokyo, he says pandemic fatigue is setting in among locals and the numbers are escalating very quickly. i was standing hit a few days ago talking about the fact that daily tases wedding 3000 for the 1st time. now we're up to 5000 and the state of emergency here in so care has already been extended until the end of the month. that's significant from

a supporting perspective, at least because they were hoping to allow fans and spectators in after the start of that event. it's still possible they could get them in the final few days because apparently picks runs until september, but it's looking increasingly unlikely. and the reason covet 19 figures have been relatively low until this point. a lot of people think is because of their personal sacrifices and not government policy. the vaccine rollout was slow. the back story there was that in the 1990, the japanese government was found liable for the side effects to 2 other inoculations. so there was a very slow process of approving the vaccine and then you have this state of emergency as we've discussed, although it sounds extremely dramatic. it's a request to people to perhaps stay at home and not go to the office. it's a request for restaurants and bars to close early. it's not a law or an old us. i with it with a bit of panoramic fatigue setting. and it's perhaps not surprising that some people are following those rules quite as closely as they might once have done, particularly when that same government is also allowing the olympics to continue. so this line that the organism obtaining that there's no provable link between

what's happening within that's quote unquote bio secure bubble of the lympics in the wider community is increasingly difficult to maintain. as we mentioned to indonesia to receive a spike in cases and a health system is struggling. jessica washington has more farm jakarta as alarming as that figure of surpassing 100000 sounds. it's only a partial picture of the situation on the ground. some months ago, the indonesian government pledged that it would seek to scale up p c r, testing and, and devotee test around $400000.00 people each day. and that still has not happened . so the reality is, is that at this point, we cannot be certain how many people died as a result of the virus. in particular, as more deaths have happened at home, what we do know is that 40 percent of the current death toll 40 percent of those people died in july and august alone. we also know that as jests at home has

increased, as people were turned away from hospitals, we've seen more cases of multiple deaths within the same family. now, as some local groups, some independent data groups are trying to get a more accurate picture of the scale of the crisis on the ground. and according to some estimates, they put the confirmed dest hole in recent weeks, at around 3 to 5 times higher than the official numbers indicate. now the government is keen to stress that they are seeing signs that the crisis is easing in some cities, in particular in the capital. but happy to me all just say it is too soon to be optimistic. and in fact, they are concerned that fall from the situation easing. they are seeing signs that the crisis is spreading into provinces into remote areas with even lower rates of vaccination, with low rates of testing and with health care facilities that struggle under normal circumstances. yes, trailing and city of melbourne is being put into a fix. the locked arm already is trying to trace the thoughts of mystery covert 19

cases, but not everyone in the city is happy about when you restrictions. they are happening . protests, sidney is reported. its highest number of new infections. australia is struggling to bring its delta outbreak under control despite snap locked downs and border closures. that measures mean more than half of the strategy as population is being ordered to stay home. there is anger and france off the government made it mandatory for health workers to get vaccinations. hospital staff of al day demonstration in the southern city of norfolk, frances health minister says those not vaccination by next month, risk not being paid. confusion and panic set in vaccination centers in the philippines. the head of tough new restrictions. a 2 week long down in the capital, manila has begun falling a surgeon cases earlier. thousands of people lined up the jabs faring. they wouldn't be allowed to leave home for work if not fully, vaccinations. officials have since clarified. that's not the case. i want to come

here on al jazeera, including perilously close to a power plant. turkish wildflowers board under control before causing catastrophic damage. half of all new cars must be electric by 2030 joe biden promise for a revolution on us roads and in sport, to indian delight for breaking a metal. ralph that has lasted more than 4 decades. ah, more than 100 wildfires are raging across greece. a major fire on the island of area has forces for the evacuation of dozens of people while the 1655 is a bad thing. the plagues, more being flown in from from in other areas firefighters have managed to save archaeological sides from the approaching flames. and the major plays in athens has also been put out. meanwhile, in south with turkey,

a wildfire that reached the compound of a coal fuel power plant has finally been contained to raging for more than 11 hours . strong winds drove the fire to wood, became mccoy powell, ponson bullet province. navy landing craft were deployed to help evacuated residents by the sea. at least 8 people have been killed in dozens of wildfires across turkey. i shortly will speak to andrew there is russel through the r, who's near the power plant we just mentioned. but 1st, let's go to zane bas ramsey, who's standing by for us in athens vein. just bring us up to speed on the situation across greece, dozens of wildfires at the burning look him. i'll start by giving you some unfortunate updates to the situation, just north of athens that you mentioned you and i last spoke about 3 hours ago. and since then we have an indication of how fast and unpredictable these wildfires are in the north of athens. 3 hours ago it was official,

the fires have been put out. now just 3 hours later, we're seeing mandatory evacuations being ordered once again into areas. the neighborhood of very, bobby and firefighting crews are back in the same place. they have been for the last 48 hours trying to put new fires that have re ignited out once again, the fire this time moving north up the base of the part neetha mountain. the situation very serious, very big is being described as very serious once again by civil protection. officials here in the capital of athens elsewhere in abbey. as you mentioned, 13 neighborhoods, 13 areas have been evacuated under mandatory evacuation conditions. and we've been looking at the footage coming in from that island and the air is getting increasingly unreadable. smoke is billing over entire mountain ranges on that island along the g and coast elsewhere. and the peloponnesian in southern greece, we've seen 8 different areas now. being given mandatory evacuations today, and we're continuing misty fires, burning elsewhere in different hotspots around the country. the prime minister

wasn't olympia earlier today to say that the mission there had been successful, that fire suppression had been successful. that ancient sites had been saved and preserved. now we're hearing reports that he is in emergency cabinet meetings with his senior leaders to try and figure out how to get a handle on the wildfires that have been flaring up in other parts of the country. our by or the situation is changing and we're seeing new fires come up almost every few hours. then how prepared are the greeks to deal with all of these fires. we're reporting earlier that some firefighters are being flown in from france. how much help to the greeks need just to give you a sense of how serious the situation is. we're the greek authorities for greek officials as well as the civilian volunteers and the residents in these areas. one official just earlier this week described it no longer as climate change, but climate threat, seasonal climate threat. so successively year on year things have been getting hotter, the fires have been getting more wilds more predictable,

more extreme. so the weather changes are making it so that greek authorities really here are having to play catch up. it's really like playing, walk them all. they take one step forward and one step back, one fire and then rush to another one, sometimes in the same area. sometimes across to different parts of the country, as you said, there is help on the way that is the good news used countries including cyprus in france than in firefighter cruise. we're also seeing 2 plans being offered up from sweden to help dump water on as many fires as possible. the prime minister has greenlit the use of the military to try to suppress some of these fires. but there is also ongoing bad news. it is hot and it is windy today, things that help the fire and the forecasts are that tomorrow will be hotter and the winds will be stronger. and that doesn't seem to be going away. things are only going to get hotter and stay, and the winds are only going to get stronger in the coming days and weeks. so the challenges are growing faster than it seems. the resources are becoming available to firefighting rescue teams to try and tackle the blaze. all right,

thank you for that update. tampa thrive a lot from athens. let's go live now to resume sir dawn who is standing by for us and meet us in southwest and turkey and russell firefighter. there have managed to stop the flames from reaching that plant. how upon i think we can see behind you what's the latest there while we are in it, come out. as you said in mill us, the power plant is right behind. but this is the distance that you are just low to stand because the security forces here are 2, went in, people from going back to or going to the surrounding areas close to the power plant as it is still too risky. so the, the, the fire work was getting closer and closer through the last 4 days to there's a thermal power plant here. but the, the bid, the story reached its peak yesterday,

particularly in the morning when the fire got into a very much critical distance to it. is the to the terminal power plant here, but the firefighters managed to control it, and then at afternoon the fire returned back. it was the 2nd way and the firefighters managed to put it out again. but the tour came at nighttime and it was the worse because for the 1st time the blazes lease to the walls surrounding the power plant. and even some of them have got inside the power plant . no authority saved that. the hydrogen tanks that were used to cool the plant had been, have been emptied and they are being filled with the water, the precaution, and all of the stuff that we're working in this power plants have been created. then the surrounding areas, the, the cooling operation is still going on. we can still see here here and see here

that the traffic is quiet. be the, the how to cope the choppers or packing the water from the mediterranean sea and put in dropping, damp over the surrounding areas in around be the power plant here. but the danger is still far from over because the given the conditions which is going to interrupt . so there to take your life from hereon, where we have the flooring in as runs next president. let's listen and all that. i will dedicate myself to serving people and elevating the country, promoting religion and push on you have to support right and promote justice coffee to avoid dictatorship, already off to support the dignity and

the right side of the people that the constitution dick noise for the nation hall and protection on the border political economy and culture independent of the country would not hesitate to take any action with the help of long and following the may i talk with long and short term a lot of power nation has in trust me. i'm trying. i mean, all the federal court will save court, pious devoted trustee, missile of them. my so chosen person of the nation.

the rotors are the sure thank you very much. the so the 6 the item on the agenda is on the on the comments by the president of it on just on this was for me general thank you very much thanking mister moss and he is she lets me a lot of pain in the name of god know me a little over another together,

not hon. megan not applauding. ah. when to be alone. the believe you can only, you know, want to have all the more fear fellow and the other on each alone. all normally do try to, you know, multi salome and all him and the double imagine that as a math teacher. so we are wanting long fixes now all the things on in as around as president. he is about to address the crowds there into iran is coming in facing some major challenges not least of which an economic crisis in iran, inflation over 40 percent, a huge budget deficits. of course, in iran, in the middle of nuclear talks, the 6th round of talks ended in june to return to the j. c. p. o, a,

the around nuclear deal let bring in. while we continue to monitor this is bringing out a hush and who is standing by for us that are correspondence any by for us into iran alley. just run through the order of events today and who is there at the swearing in and what we can read into that this can be a president right now, as we see is given his speech, the 1st speech, af, after i took dough just before him, the head of the judiciary also spoke and ok, well then we'll go back to the, to the speech right now. since tracy's back on the explaining his own plan for the next 4 years. the president still former president steve form of vice president

prime limits hall of foreign affairs as well as the heads of the departments, the head of the international organization, the ambassadors the head solve. busy the got your hobbies group, i salute matter to all the members of the parliament. that's how long about how many subject to the military leaders of the country. the members of the court in council, although my high ranking officials to do it and me said the beginning of the revolution and need on opened a new chapter of freedom, political participation,

democracy and the history of our country on when i thought the constitution of iran was how many in the heart of math at all the amount of kick knives is that all the departments, all the different powers the self, the government is elected by the people. and once again, people elected to be elected another president. and i should be some medical you have people who don't need all or the terminal to.