Turn your attention to greece now because voting is underway in the general election there the 1st since the end of International Financial bailouts and the severe austerity which came with the opinion polls are predicting defeat for the left wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras he told the early election after his that as a party stinging loss in the european parliamentary elections in may the conservative new Democracy Party is expected to win John Psaropoulos joins us live here on the news from athens john over to you. Thats right and one of them principle reasons why people seem to be attracted to the message of the incoming new democracy is that it promises transparent governance of promises meritocracy and therefore Economic Growth based on private sector criteria not based on whether the government is spending more money or whether its giving favors to cronies it is supposed to be if it all comes true a more open type of governance than greece has seen in the person and here to discuss that with me is the journalist yannis by logos from customary need newspaper yanni do you believe this message of new democracies that its going to handle corruption in a much more efficient manner and is this an issue where it has an edge over seas or. I think certainly its an issue that has led a number of voters away from susan remember back in 20151 of the issues on which susan was elected was this pledge to get rid of the corrupt practices of the the old governing parties one of which was never moved at the end. They promised an end to playing tennis practices to collusion between business and politics and all the things that had helped undermine the Greek Economy and in previous years. I think any objective observer of the last 4 years we see that the series failed signally on this front and in fact actually went on to reenact many of these kinds of practices. In their own efforts to control the media to manipulate the Justice System now where the net look at the under mysteries of thank yous can do better that is an open question i think he has an honest desire to do so but lets not forget that there was heavy involved in these practices in the past and it will take a lot more than the will of one man to achieve Real Transparency and really meritocracy both in the greek Public Public sector but also in the way the markets and the economy operates one thing that surprises me about this race is precisely that if the message is receiving so much successful reaction that were going to run greece as a much more european style government an economy new democracy where the market at the when it last held our stuff to the Public Sector full of people this is exactly what syriza has done in the last 4 and a half years is there a cultural change in greek politics so i would say that never go there did what you described in its last term in power. Before the crisis so after 2009 in fact that was the period fact when they led the the deficit up to the astronomical level of 15 percent of g. D. P. And up was the reason why we we had the. The crisis in our ability to borrow i think in its last term when it was governing together with these the center left between 20202015 they made some significant efforts both to cut back on wasteful spending and to increase revenue for the Public Sector and i think its a thankless is even more keen on these kinds of reforms then then the previews and then look at the led government but again you know its all about implementation good intentions are no longer enough and i think people in greece are willing to try a more liberal program but they want to see it create positive results in the economy and they want to see it fast. Secure finally about one issue that is important to this country regardless of who is in power Greek Society is shrinking after 2060 and there are fewer live births than deaths and there is emigration there is a shrinkage of i would say an estimated 0. 4 percent of the population each year that means the tax base is narrowing and that means in the long term the economy could shrink how do you think that we said thank yous the leader of new democracy is going to handle that he has made it a priority so i think thats a huge issue for greece in the medium term i think ive heard from candidates that its one of the issues that is always asked in preelection meetings and rallies people are worried about it greece is one of the lowest 32. 00 ratios in the whole of europe. And its population as you said is already shrinking to thank you says propose a number of policies both specifically to give extra benefits to people who have additional children but also certain horizontal policies which make it much easier for mothers to return quickly to the workplace or to have flexibility within the workplace and and raising their children are social policy policies have not been very good and in that direction so far and i think if he can do certain of these things that can help but we also need to improve the way we. Immigration is country. He said of these people just going on benefits it would be much better if theyre able to be integrated into the economy pay taxes and social insurance contributions and help redress the increasing imbalance in the economy and also the 2 parties have a very different vision of what sort of political clientele theyre trying to reach new democracy is saying im going to alter the franchise im going to offer its diaspora greeks to roughly 2000000 greek voters living abroad in wake mainly western countries cities are saying we want the vote going to migrants we want to appeal to people who are 17 and extend the franchise to them what is behind these very different visions of how they want to expand the political client base but i think in terms of. New democracies effort to give the vote to greeks who have left and are living abroad these are people who are greek citizens these are people who most of them pay taxes in greece because of their property or because of other things. Other than the fact that i think its the right thing to do its also the case that these are the kinds of people who have learned to thrive in more meritocratic rules based societies so so presumably for the kind of Reform Program that mr mr biggs wants to push through they are very much the kind of people who he would like to be able to vote on the other hand syriza their effort in particular to give the vote to younger people. Was i think because of a presumption that they would be more willing to do vote for for them instead of the conservative party if you saw some of the ads that they had both before the euro elections and now theyre targeting younger audiences but unfortunately for them as we saw from the exit poll data of the euro election actually people 17 to 24 turned away from syria and preferred a new democracy so thank you very much jani weve been hearing from you on his pillow of us. Journalist from customary newspaper i think one thing that does emerge from this discussion and from the promises made by the new democracy is that enormous changes are in theory underway for which Greek Society doesnt appear to have been ready in the last 30 years but now they are finding that message attractive if it all comes to purse thanks john. Nigeria and bernina have now become the latest african countries to ratify a deal to create the worlds biggest free trade zone eritrea is the only member of the 55. 00 Member African Union not to sign up to the deal aimed at creating a Single Market of one and a quarter 1000000000 people the deals being finalized at the summit of a new leaders in asia where at militarist reports now from the capital niamey. Stepped up security in the hurt of the capital underlining the growing concerns not only here in the region of africa but in many other parts of the continent from north to south east to west and in the hurt of africa to government struggling to contain clashes and violent extremism. African leaders hope the new free trade deal is the answer to help reduce the poverty that helps the fighting. Experts say an african Common Market will come with additional risks that as National Organized Crime criminals take advantage of this Free Movement you know to flow from one country to another and that is can just as well to perpetrate their finest activities so definitely going to be looking for the for the chink in the are you looking for the weekly if the countries do not have you know security at some countries risk becoming safe heaven for you know or terrorist or criminal organized criminals the government say theyre working to stop that from happening for cement and some we have decided to escalate our security approach in dealing with these attacks and violence so thats africa union will come in and take charge. This way the cell region will be safer and all the flashpoints can be contained and solved by africans themselves but the african continental Free Trade Agreement is expected to create there was no 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 as breaking a growth but its 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 theyre grim and could be the answer to the continents many problems the truth is we do have change by the nowhere educate Economic Times when you 1st get in africa so youre confident the investors will come and come to visit all we need to open the wall problem was going to we develop policies create jobs i live in poverty there are also fears that corruption and we can forcibly get some countries could model success of whats being billed as a historic Free Trade Agreement but you crease aljazeera there may be share. Well supporters of the free trade deal hope it will create Employment Opportunities for millions of africans welcome web reports from kenya and what it could mean for farmers there. What betty tibet grows here on her farming kenya and up in more than a dozen african countries beings from these soya plants will make cooking oil. Added. Nor more. So we decided to call soya because theyre. For. And then it is the main class grow up for us. The oil from bessies beans is bottled at this food factory in the town of seeker as well as using locally produced oil its owners sometimes import oil from neighboring countries as well so thats subject to trade tariffs so it costs more the products made in this factory also subject to trade tariffs in some of the african countries that theyre exported to the proponents of a new christian continental Free Trade Agreement say that its seen. Nearly all of the Member States of the African Union have signed the agreement is due to take effect next year and progressively phase out 97 percent of tyrants. At the factory the director told us it will create jobs and reduce costs if its implemented theres going to be the single biggest market in the world where there will be Free Movement of goods and services big. Projects like to look very good but the implementation has to be done with a United Africa with a united thinking United Kingdom and patience while leaders promise free trade the African Union many still pursue protectionist policies at home selling manufactured products across africas borders often isnt easy its here at the port of mombasa that goods manufactured outside of africa are imported to the region. Most african countries trade more with countries in europe and asia and with each other economists say the Free Trade Agreements alone wont solve that and that theyll be resistance from a powerful few who make fast profits from the status quo the politicians have become beholden to these types of folks and i think youre breaking up much more than might appear at 1st glance here bringing in a system thats been there since independence the products from the food factory a truck to run. The region that this kind of manufacturing and export happens less in africa than any other continent economist say free trade within the continent would change that and create more jobs and income for people like betty but many feel its still a long way off malcolm webb aljazeera kenya. Time to Weather Forecast his efforts and were talking china we are talking china yeah you recall last week we were talking about the flooding in japan well that same where we are clouds and rain that stretching is way down across china so the satellite picture and you can see how it does come out of the East China Sea as it runs down across the eastern side of china right down towards the southwest and this is the my you buy front this is same front as the plum rains is the seasonal rains and boy has it been raining weve seen huge amounts of downpours over the past few days some areas saying excessive wealth daily totals 100 millimeters 200 millimeters of rain coming down in just a day and this is the net result of that we do have widespread flooding across parts of eastern and Southern China and it will take quite some time for this to recover as you can see major damage taken place here thousands of people have been rescued from their homes more rain to come as we go on through the next couple of days like this for example a 117. 00 millimeters of rain in 24 hours as we go through the next 24 hours it is still raining lets go through the next 48 hours its still raining if anything but choose day it might be even wetter across a similar area as a set you can follow that same line of cloud and rain up into japan thankfully for southern japan the systems made its way a little further east which dry weather now coming in behind in that ship. The southern part of japan as we go on through the next couple of days but we will see one or 2 shall is creeping into southern most parts by cheese day Peter Everson many thanks still to come for you here on the aljazeera news our peaks of change in the polls farmers are adapting to climate challenge use. World the father of boss a new brazil losing a musical legend. And in sport you know messi sees red at the pool of america will be here to tell us why in about 20 minutes. Mexicos most loved soap exposes the reality of more than live through fiction. Still box reveals the drama behind the camera this week the producers focus on the difficulties facing Indigenous Women and the power superstition still holds over a large section of society. Could be caught up on 2 worlds at his own 3 off soapbox mexico on aljazeera. The latest news as it breaks communities may be in disagreement accusing the other for these attacks 10 chilling with detail coverage thousands of protesters have been streaming away from here to go how but our goal have been a day gone from around the world sacrifice he said after the may bear the brunt of the sacrifice this is what this is all about. Welcome back youre watching the aljazeera news updates itll be in the chair this hour remind of your headlining stories iran will increase in reaching its uranium levels in the next few hours breaching the limits set on the 2050 Nuclear Deal Tehran and given the e. U. Until sunday to save the accord plans to scale down its commitments every 60 days but says it is still open to talks. Protesters have returned to the streets of hong kong in their fight to have a controversial extradition bill scrapped tens of thousands march towards the new train station which links the territory to the chinese mainland. And voting is underway in greeces general election the 1st since the financial bailouts came to an end opinion polls are predicting defeat for the left wing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras the new democracy leader is tipped to beat. Buddhist monks in discussing banning all nationalist religious and extremist groups thousands of monks are at a conference on the buddhist nationalist group. In the run up to the president ial elections in december other proposals being discussed include banning clothing that threatens other cultures face veils were banned following the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks of churches into tells which killed 258 people an elf and anders is in candy. The conference bringing together thousands of buddhist called by the boulder ballasts a now the general secretary to get out there now and started to row recently released from prison on a president ial pardon very much the kind of driving personality behind this conference he has said that a number of issues that need to be taken up and indeed here at this conference weve seen a 37 point set of proposals being tabled which cover a wide range of issues it talks about the need to strengthen National Security by strengthening the Intelligence Services it talks about everyone in this country coming under one common set of laws it talks about the need to basically ban political and religious parties that are based on those foundations it also talks a wide range of issues as safeguarding indigenous foods encouraging the use of these food items and things like that now in terms of some of the speakers what were hearing the talk about all the threats essentially to the country in terms of its history a lot of criticism of sort of extremist views of the head being concerned about the possibility that this forum would provide a sort of a spark that might sort of cause and to muslim violence as seen in the past last year candy was the scene of much violence but so far things have been relatively peaceful and for everyone concerned theyre hoping it stays that way. Opposition parties and activists in algeria are demanding elections in 6 months they want an independent body to oversee the poll several groups took part in a National Forum for dialogue meeting on saturday prodemocracy protests began in february which led to the resignation of the longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika has been tory gate and. That in the seaside resort of. Politicians academics and journalists met with the aim of finding a solution to algeria as political crisis talks discussed interim solutions such as the formation of a new cabinet made up of independent professionals as well as the establishment of an independent Election Commission once formed the visits to the president ial election would take place within 6 months. We agree to have these president ial elections that we all have accepted in order for our people to be able to have the 1st democratically elected president in a transparent why the president ial elections will grant a strong legitimacy to the new president so its for him to cares a gurgly bring the change. For 5 months hundreds of thousands of protesters have demanded a complete overhaul of the leadership entrenched in power for the past 57 is to tell gerrys independence from friends on wednesday interim president Abdel Kouddous ben salah called for a National Dialogue about arranging a president ial election but didnt set a date for when that might be and lists a protest as the likely to continue to reject elections if that organized by the ruling elite as they have many old people in the street yes and when you react. That they want a clear and transparent elections. Some of his issue need to say the interim president needs to do more to gain the trust of protest as. A lot of the release of prisoners of conscience is considered one of them. Most important steps to prove the sincerity and seriousness of those who are now in charge of the nation but all topics that help achieve the demands of the people should be discussed. Whatever is decided at this conference may serve as a roadmap to resolve the rest but for some in the opposition whats being suggested is a compromise to follow and they wont be satisfied until those in the establishment play no part in algeria. Victoria gate and be out as they are. Now the head of sudans military says he will protect and implement a power sharing deal with the opposition general abdul fattah says time has come to rebuild the nation after months of violence and people would go to. The 5th of july agreement with freedom and change and other powers is considered a win win situation and we are now late inning the way of the revolution because we will be seeing different practices in our country against corruption and against racism and against the dignity of the citizen and the honorable people of sudan we are now starting a phase of building a new sudan where everyone will face a transparent procedure and the law will be above everyone dozens of migrants rescued off the coast of libya have disembarked in italy despite an Italian Government ban on rescue vessels docking there the alex has been impounded on the mediterranean island of lampedusa at a german vessel with 65. 00 rescued migrants on board is heading for malta instead of italy laura but mentally. Thirsty and exhausted but say they survived the dangerous journey across the mediterranean from north africa after the Italian Charity mediterranea rescued them from the stranded. But arriving on the island of lampedusa they were surrounded by police and ordered not to disembark the charity says theyre lucky to be alive i think one montanus or not more of those new ones in that sea did die such a small dinghy does not even gets parted by the radar they were lucky they were able to one of us shortly before we had met in the water and the rest of the ship wrecked. The italian flag rescue boat the alecs had run out of Drinking Water and was carrying 3 times as many people as it should when the boats 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 thank you but i mean we are in imagine sea conditions that force is to go to the nearest port we finished our food and Water Supplies we are overcrowded with several cases of physical pain coast principally by whether this boat is not suited to remain for 45 hours in these conditions therefore we ask you to risk or to record. The island of lampedusa is closer to north africa than italy but migrants arent welcome. Last month italys interior minister and deputy Prime Minister met there said vinie is used 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 thats 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. Roller rocketed to be freed from house arrest saying shed 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 theyll continue to put the lives of refugees before rules youre about im only aljazeera. Increased enforcement along the Us Mexico Border is expected to deter people from trying to enter america with your authorities anticipating a 25 percent drop in the number of arrests but as manuel reports the more desperate are still willing to risk their lives and freedom as they try to cross the potentially deadly rio grande river. On the banks of the rio grande the mexican 1st responders are searching for a missing person its a joint operation between mexican authorities and u. S. Customs and Border Patrol theyre 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 its best that we search down stream because shes the baby she could have been swept away easier than an adult weve 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 theyve been here for almost a month while their asylum cases are processed in the u. S. They tell us its quite common for migrants to get impatient and take to the river but were not. There was one night were 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 hes been at the camp for more than a month he plays music most days to pass the time. Were expecting to wait here to 3 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 that of not go see the plan to wait as long as it takes to cross into the u. S. Legally. But illegal crossings at the rio grande day have increased in recent months and so have drownings were at a Municipal Cemetery n. P. R. s neda us mexico where the bodies of migrants who died trying to cross into the United States are often brought and have these wooden crosses placed over their graves and this one here simply reads mail not identified pulled out of the rio approximately 300 meters from the black. Ridge in the neighborhood. There are several other graves of unknown migrants near pine the groundskeeper told us he buried 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 weve been told however that at this stage now several days since the child went missing the odds of finding her alive are very good midlevel on to zita be that as nate as mexico a suspected gas explosion has torn through a Shopping Mall in the u. S. State of florida more than 20 people were injured 2 of them seriously powerful blasts and large pieces of debris almost 100 meters across the street firefighters been ruptured gas lines but say its too early to determine a cause of a can restaurant appeared to be the source of the explosion and the u. S. Capitol far right and far left activists of help rival rallies right wing protesters voice that anger social media by some of their leaders counterdemonstrators were mia by responding to calls to oppose White Supremacists she had pretends he saw what happened in washington. The white supremacist rallies all the way at the other end of freedom plaza. I think they were hoping for a bit of a bump because usually these these sorts of events that they were going to devolve into doesnt a few dozen people and their other embarrassedly escorted out after a few hours by the police a few more people than usual certainly over 100 i would think they were hoping for that but because of Donald Trumps 4th of july salute to america there were people who joined. A Unifying Force that said all the outright the rise of the white supremacist in the past there were disparate group of of racists white supremacist result in this problem. And so on all over the internet all over the country but now there is this unity thats being being seen i mean well over on this side is there is a counter protest thats been organized as a. Particular form of d. C. Funk. If you 100 people are here as well who are protesting. With a habit of futile skirmishes because people from over there are coming over here we know that enough will trump paraphernalia there escorted out pretty quickly towards the police line but that there have been skirmishes between the antifascist and the police so quite clear what. Happens always and 2nd so its it really is pretty reflective of whats happening. But there is that fear that certainly in the right wing the right wing channels of communication theyve been talking about revenge. And instead in Portland Oregon on saturday when they had a similar. Scuffles against protesters so i will just keep an eye on things the former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden has apologized for his remarks about working with segregationist sentences during his early days in congress rival Democratic Party white house hopefuls have highlighted his opposition to a federal policy in the 1970 s. To integrate black students into the Public School system folks now was i wrong a few weeks ago. To somehow give the impression to people that i was praising those men who i successfully opposed time and again yes i was i regret it im sorry for any of the pain or misconception i may have caused anybody but. That misstep to find 50 years of my record for fighting for civil rights Racial Justice in this country i hope not i dont think so. That just isnt an honest assessment of my record and im going to let my record of my character stand for self and not be distorted or smeared still to come on ill just see the netherlands im looking to cause a major upset in the womens World Cup Final well tell you about the buildup to the showdown with the usa in the sports news with on the other side of this break
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