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 di
Fairly polite relations between hong kong people that may line visitors theres been an awful lot of anger and abuse directed at the police and quite a few verbal altercation is going back and forth it has to be said that on this day given the numbers here the police have showed restraint stay out state in the background and the police will be hoping that the thousands of people who are still here around the male main Railway Terminus will gradually as the evening proceeds and we are still having these rain showers that we have at this time of year gradually those crowds will dissipate herself and prime the latest on rob thank you. Still ahead on aljazeera a great spot and our 1st general elections since the end of the financial bailouts. And putting refugee lives before the rules and other boat defies the Italian Government. Follow on places say because some quality weather now coming in across japan whether making its way out into the open waters this seasonal rain will continue to pu
Of change how farmers in the pound are adapting to climate challenges. Well last week we were talking about the flooding rains affecting japan now this weather system is the same one its c. M. I. You by front its the other the plum rice thats stretching from the southwest right up into that eastern side of china and again we have been producing some huge amounts of rainfall large hail as well damaging winds we have seen a fair bit of damage across a good part of that is the side of china the size of those house days golf ball sized big enough to cause some damage and as you can see there has also been some flooding there that wetter weather tended to sink a little further southwards and a swiss but you can still pick out the chain of thunder has that run across the southern half of china well continues just a little further south as we go on through the next few days but the wettest weather is up towards that eastern side of the country monday going on into or choose day 6 a little fur
Politicians are also weighing in on the issue we cast young is a member of parliament and a former minister. Explanation for the people of your government of the b. To convince b. Why do you need to abolish depth we all know the is a deterrent we dont get it all crime rate is going down. Most malaysians seem to agree. In a poll conducted last year by 3 major publications and 82 percent of 22000. 00 respondents opposed the governments proposal. It is a very contentious issue saw for a push back to to come to for a supposed not surprising. But we must focus on why the government nice doing it the government is doing it because it is putting a lot of emphasis on human rights this is what we. Really need here to do is record a salary cap to russia to smile is a lawyer and past president of the National Human rights society. Hes also a member of malaysias anti Death Penalty coalition every legal system since hes a minister im a human being it is prone to mistakes they release off executing
Raised this party from nothing from obscurity it was 4 and a half percent of the popular vote 10 years ago and he rode the wave of dissatisfaction with austerity policies to steal away the socialist voter base from the socialist party and to bring his party gradually toward towards the Political Center and get what appears to be 27 to 30 percent of the popular vote even in defeat that is an enormous testament to his political talents. But because we know that this election was ready for on the economic crisis in greece isnt expected to really recover to the sort of enjoyed before the crisis until the early twentys not for some time to come so one of the challenges now facing the task. Its a turkeys has won this election on one basic campaign. Plank which is economic reform that will liberate the power of the Greek Economy to become more productive more competitive within the Global Economy more extroverted and export driven so that it can bring in the world from abroad syriza had been