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dead bodies are there and says more troops are needed. the youngest prime minister has a first test in parliament and why not everyone thinks he has what it takes to lead the country. ♪ we begin in ukraine where the acting leadership is moving fast to reshape the country and let's look now at the latest developments and we go where alexander has been the new president and the newly freed prime minister klitschko and he says he is saving them on european integration and the whereabouts of viktor yanukovych
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is unknown and not everyone supports what has been happening in the capitol kiev. in the strongholds in the east, pro-russian supporters are on the streets and more on that in just a moment but mohamed is in the ukrainian capitol and thanks for being with us and there is speculation to yanukovich's whereabouts and any idea as to where he might be? >> the speculation continues. now what happened today is that the acting interior minister has posted on facebook that the former president was spotted in crinea and posted that his security details that was traveling with him so far had been dismissed and that ukraine had issued an arrest warrant against viktor yanukovych for his role in the killings here
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last week. now, we spoke to an aide to the interior insterwho -- minister who said it was on facebook but did not confirm the content of the note and tried to talk to some people and journalists said if it happened it happened overnight because they couldn't find anyone who had actually seen the former president in that area. then we spoke to the prosecutor general's office. from what we understand the arrest warrant is still not officially out. the prosecutor is going through the legal proceedings as we speak. so this warrant is still not official as of yet. so i think there is still a lot of speculation going on about the whereabouts of viktor yanukovych and i would say that, you know, the press officer of the interior inindustry would not deny nor confirm these
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reports and are tight lipped and said at some point today they will have a statement and clarify the story. >> reporter: and what has happened in the last few days and tuesday is a very important day for particularly in kiev, that's the deadline for forming a unity government. how is that going? >> well, as we speak, there are consultations going on between the different political factions and that is happening in the parliament building. we do know that later on in the afternoon parliament will reconvene. now, there are two names that are floating around for the role of prime minister. one is the man that led the party, the party of klinschko when she was in prison and an independent who in the past held ministerial posts and also very successful business man.
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we have to see what role was the party of regents and the party from which viktor yanukovych stands. it has the former president and i think you are talking about a government of national unity it has to be included. we don't have very much information about what is happening or if there is any favorite for any of the other postings but i think this is something the acting president knows has to get it right to get this country out of this crisis and also somehow to kick start the economy again and catherine ashton is due to land in this country in a few hours. as she is coming with some economic package, stimulus for the country, but that is tied also to what kind of reform and also what kind of government will come out after the negotiations and then you have the unknown, what is happening to viktor yanukovych, what is he doing. and a lot of people will tell
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you that as long as he is in hiding, as long as nobody knows where he is, that puts a lot of uncertainty on this country. >> reporter: certainly is. and we are hearing that the arrests warrant for yanukovich is about to be issued or in the process of being issued and we will of course get you up to speed on that and she was speaking to us from kiev. protesters are not going anywhere in madan square and this is overlooking the square in kiev. a lot of tense and signs that people there are bedding in. one of the people in that particular square was former georgian president and he welcomes the west. >> it vanished and got burned in the fire and i think nobody should know and what happens today as i said the end of
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russian empire started here in kiev. >> reporter: and that is not a view that is shared by everyone in the country. in viktor yanukovych's stronghold in the west many people still support russia and we traveled to kiev, the ukraine second largest city where the governor is calling on people to reject the rebellion that has unfolded in the capitol. >> reporter: still standing high and proud in the main square, a statute of lennon determined to protect it and stand by the links of moscow. and they asked them to be peaceful but this is the rebellion sweeping from here. >> translator: we are not going anywhere and do not trust anybody and i'm still the governor. i will not resign. >> reporter: the words were in russian. this is one of the heart lands of support for viktor yanukovych. his whereabouts are still a
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matter of intense speculation. if he is seeking sanctuary this would be where to find it and his votes got his democratically elected and he has been evicted from headquarters and the spirits from the independent square has taken root even in this city and arming themes with sticks and other things and molotov cocktails being carried in the building. tensions grew throughout the day with police keeping the two sides apart but events moved so quickly they should be called progovernment protesters. in the south of ukraine violent clashes broke up when they had a demonstration staged to honor those killed in kiev. scenes like these are spreading. sunday night the standoff
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continued in scenes that are an eerie image of months of demonstrations on independent square. but here they want to turn towards russia and keep their backs to europe. it's the statute of lennon and people are in the main square to protect. there is no denying the positions are getting deeper and the situation is getting dangerous. the occupiers of the governor's headquarters are determined to stand their ground. they may be heavily out numbered here but they feel history is now on their side. and i'm david with al jazeera, kiev. >> reporter: french troops in the central african republic says violence in the country decreased since the arrival in november and has 1600 troops in the ground to help a 6,000 strong african force. but as tonya page reports tens of thousands of muslims continue to flee out of fear of attacks. >> reporter: this street is the
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gaunlet to leave but some don't make it and they are all members of the same extended family killed by antibalica christian fighters who mounted into the uneasy crowd. the teenage survivosurvivors arn and happen toy to be alive. >> translator: we left here and on the road to balica they had guns and machetes and they said they are muslims, they are muslims. my father and two brothers are dead but we managed to run away. >> reporter: about a kilometer in that direct is the camp where the young men are sheltering and this is the street where it happened. just before the ambush a car
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with female members got to a safe zone on the other side of town. and she is alive but now she is a widow, her husband had all of the family's money on him so now she cannot buy food. >> translator: i want to find my family, my brother and my mother are already in camaroon, if i can't go what do i do with my children. >> reporter: the money could have gone to pay for the convoy to camaroon and it's for protection and only supplies and it's not a humanitarian mission and some people were kicked off but some paid the truck drivers $150 and it's commerce out of chaos. as soon as the general is gone they reload their bags and are stow aways hidden for an uncertain future. it will be a long, hot, risky journey but at least they made
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it this far and it's not safe for the surviving members of the family to collect the dead, three more killed, a family torn apart, a country in crisis. tonya page al jazeera bongi central african republican. >> reporter: this is a humanitarian coordinator and we spoke to him earlier and said more into national help is needed. >> we need to have more troops on the ground and also we need to increase our financial support in order to overcome the problem that we are facing here in central africa. this crisis is a multi facetted crisis and it's political and the response also is about military. the response is humanitarian and another one that we may be facing in the next coming days is an economic crisis because that part of the group of the
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people who are doing business in this country disappeared and if you go to the market today you don't find the product and if you find them they are out of control. you cannot pay them. so we really are pulling to have more troops on the ground and really also operating for more financial resources to address the different problem that we are facing today. >> reporter: and a pakistan taliban has been shot dead in the country and he was killed when gunmen opened fire in the area of ranchistan and he was killed in a drone strike in november and there are no claims of responsibility for the attack. afghanistan's defense minister hinted at the involvement of foreign intelligence agencies on an attack in an afghan army on a post and 21 soldiers tied in the
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incident, a memorial service has been held in kabul and mr. smith has this report. >> reporter: the killing of 21 afghan soldiers as they slept at a remote out post is the worst blow to government forces in years. and would have had little chance when their base was over run by what the government says were hundreds of taliban fighters. >> translator: the attack was organized from the other side of the border and it was very intensive. and the one army defended their country until the last drop of their blood. >> reporter: the defense minister accused of foreign intelligence service of helping plan the attack and did not name pakistan but the inference was clear. 18 afghan soldiers have been killed in combat with taliban and measure of the challenges this army faces as it looks after security of its own
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country without the help of nato forces. the air support nato would have once provided was not available this time. and the son imir had been a soldier more than three years. >> translator: . >> he was the only bread winner his father says. there has been an out pouring of sympathy in afghanistan for the soldiers and families and plenty of frustration voiced in domestic media that they are poor equipped and may have prompted the memorial and it's the first for the afghan army which is normally reluctant to publicize the rapidly growing list of casualtys. i'm in kabul. >> reporter: let's look at how this latest incident could complicate relations between islamabad and kabul and i'm joined by nts and head of the
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center for research and security studies and thank you very much for joining us on the show. we know the ties between the countries have long been tense particularly over the taliban, what is the main issue of contention here? >> well, the issue of contention is the border region is where the afghans and the american-led forces believe one faction, one major faction of the intelligence has been hiding out and using this pakistan border territory as the command and control center for attacking troops inside afghanistan and mostly it has been talked about, the most talked about is the one located in the region that is east of afghanistan as well as in the areas that looks to the
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pakistan territory on the western side. so at the root of the network as well as the afghan intelligence switch, a week ago pakistan accused of having overseen, overlooked the execution of 23 troops by faction of the taliban and pakistan which has been waging war and insurgency against pakistan. >> reporter: this is more complicated than what it seems. is this something that either government can actually control given the taliban and the afghan taliban or pakistan taliban groups tend to act independently? >> i think most of the afghan taliban are of course acting independently and even if there was some part of pakistan intelligence agencies, that could probably, would be a
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fraction of what is happening inside of afghanistan. the pakistan and taliban, however, have been acting independently. they are, in fact, waging a war, a war of attrition against the interests of the state of pakistan. and then of course the pakistan intelligence and pakistan security forces believe most of the factions, or the core of the taliban and pakistan is somehow getting funding or support from external sources. so this is a war of mutual delegations and delegations fly across the border on both sides and it's pretty complex and very difficult to pinpoint as to how the two countries could sit down and address this issue. >> reporter: thank you very much for your insight. and that is nts-gould head of research and security studies. more to come on the al jazeera news hour and we hear from a
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syrian family fleeing a conflict saying they have been denied entry go jordan. also on the high alert, why school children in beijing are told to stay indoors. in sport atletico madrid is off court and a surprise and we will have all the details. venezuela president and opposition leader are due to meet on monday, a move that hopes could ease weeks of protest and the rallies in venezuela are laying the deep divisions if the country and growing discontent over inflation, food shortages and police oppression and from cacacas rachel reports. >> reporter: they are frustrated and angry and fed up
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with a government they say doesn't listen to them and three weeks ago student had a protest movement that is spreading across the country. some want the government to change while others want to change the government. >> translator: we always dream that venezuela would advance instead of regress. they don't build anything here. security is table. we have food shortages and we feel for the first time our dream of a different country might happen. >> reporter: with 15 years of first president chaves and now maguro most students have never known any other system of government. but so far their price for change are mostly resonating with the upper class and people who have historically supported the opposition. in the neighborhood where the president enjoys almost full support people have similar grievances and mainly high inflation and soaring crimes and the protest has been limited.
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that's because many here have benefitted greatly from the social programs chavez funded with oil revenues and free medical care and better schools and government housing. students like 18-year-old ellen and friends are getting a free university education thanks to chavez and have not gone to a single protest and have no plans to do so. they don't know what they want and are protesting because they can't by flour and milk and wait in line at the market but the truth is they do not want maduro, it's the same old story. >> reporter: on saturday at the biggest rally so far opposition leader warned the students that the movement has little chance of succeeding if it doesn't spread to other sectors of society. . >> translator: i ask those who are protesting not to lock yourself up with people and who will you convince looking yourself in on your own streets when everyone there is already
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convinced? >> reporter: how many people hear his call might determine the future of the movement. rachel with al jazeera, caracus venezuela. >> reporter: the syria government is ready to cooperate with u.n. resolution calls on bothed sides of the conflict to allow aid deliveries and more than 9 million people are in need of help and supplies. earlier this month humanitarian convows went to homs during a truce of fighters and government fighters and managed to evacuate hundreds of people and mostly women, children and elderly. and many syrian families have told al jazeera they are being denied entry into jordan and stranded at the border and they fear they will be targeted by the forces of assad. >> please let us in for god sake
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and for the same of the children have some, mercy. >> translator: why have you come to the jordan borders now? . >> translator: should we wait to see our children slaughtered or slain? we are losing a loved one everyday. >> translator: how long have you been here? we have been here since morning but others have been here more than three days. >> reporter: and jordan is already home to hundreds of thousands of syrians who fled conflict in the country but many of them are choosing not to live in former refugee camps for cultural reasons and we report. >> reporter: since the syrian refugee crisis began the jordan government built official camps like this one to cope with the human influx. but it also wanted to avoid these, informal settlements set up by the refugees themselves.
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here hundreds of families left the camp to live on privately-owned land. and he is poor and prefers to live in a tent among people from his hometown in syria to living among strangers. >> translator: i don't have $300 to rent a flat and i'm not getting $70 a month to spend on food and it's better to live in a tent to face a landlord that wants his money. >> reporter: they belong to the same tribes as the jordans who live here to help and protect your relatives, that is what this jordan man is doing. >> translator: i have given the land to build tents and a bathroom and shower for them and make sure assistance is distributed. >> reporter: that helps but there are fewer services here than official camps and people here have to buy their own water. but they say that is fine in exchange for the freedom and sense of security and familiarity they goat through their tribal ties. most refugees who have left the
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camps to live in nearby tents say returning isn't an option, that is because refugees from the providence make it up there and people from homs do not feel kofrptab ablabl ablabl ablabl a minority in the camp. she is used to an nomadic lifestyle and cannot have a fenced camp. >> translator: there are differences between those who live in refugee camps and farmers and we cannot live together. we can only live with our own people. >> reporter: these settlements have been springing up all over jordan. the government has so far been tolerant but there are limits and some people can be evicted. >> people who are occupying public land without having the authorization or approval to do so or families who are not properly registered through the government's registration system. and in those cases the
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government has declared that it will take action. >> reporter: jordan is the third largest host country for refugees and those coming from syria is only likely to keep rising and that means more tent cities, this means i'm al jazeera. >> reporter: moscow court ordered 7 activists to serve jail time for attacking police in 2012 against vladimir pootin and one is leader here and demonstrators were heard shouting my dun, a reference to the square in kiev at the heart of antigovernment protests there and called for another demonstration near the kremlin on monday and it's 2 1/2 to 4 years. japan will lift an order around the fukushima plant and 300
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people allowed to return to the homes in tamira city and 200 kilometers west of the plant and the exclusion zone was put in place to protect people from radiation and 100,000 people still remain displaced. dense smog is in beijing and china and it's orange level and that is the second highest and kindergartners closed classes and we will look at the weather and doesn't look pretty at all in beijing, any sign of letting up at all? >> it's looking gloomy at the moment but signs of improvement and by thursday we should see an
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improvement taking place across the region. in the meantime you see on the satellite pictures and they are saying nothing much is happening because we have an area of high pressure there and it keeps it at low levels and what you need to do is move the system along at low pressure coming along and mobility in the situation and what will transpire and we have 428 pollution levels and most people will feel the effects of it. it's not as bad across the region and it's unhealthy at seoul of 120 and in tokyo you have lower pollution with the same weather and goes to the heavy industry across much of china. on the forecast for tuesday things are looking moderate and temperatures in seoul should be about 4 degrees at this time of year and now it's 12 so it's on the plus side if you like the area of high pressure but at
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japan it's dry and fine. tuesday into wednesday we have a high pressure and conditions across korean peninsula and japan and the weather front will push across china and see the fresh weather pushing from beijing. >> reporter: richard thank you, still to come on this news hour, many talks, the scottish and british government and independence. in sports the nets win with their first openly gay player in the nba on their team. ♪ i must begin my journey, which will cause me to miss the end of the game. the x1 entertainment operating system lets your watch live tv anywhere. can i watch it in butterfly valley?
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welcome back, you are watching the al jazeera news hour and a reminder of the top stories. a warrant is in the process of being issued for ousted president viktor yanukovych and the information was posted on the acting interior minister's facebook page and the policy chief catherine ashton will arrive in kiev in the coming hours and will enhance ties between ukraine and the trading block and could involve billions of aid for the economically troubled country. afghanistan's defense minister hinted at the involvement of foreign intelligence agencies in the attack on an afghan army out post on sunday. 21 soldiers died in the incident. a memorial service has been held in kabul. we are returning to our top story and that is the crisis in ukraine and many are now
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wondering how russia will respond. moscow has already recalled its ambassador and withdrawn a $15 billion loan and patty says they are watching closely at what moscow will do next. >> reporter: as the olympic fireworks fade into darkness the spotlight is very much on russian president vladimir pootin and wonder what his next step will be in ukraine. his ally president viktor yanukovych fled and stripped by parliament and his whereabouts unknown and warning not to send troops in to bring him back to power by force. >> that would be a grave mistake. it's not in the interest of ukraine or russia or you're op or the united states to see the country split and it's not of interest to see violence return and the situation escalate. >> reporter: ukraine is a
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country with divided loyalties and in the west the worry is the country will be split in two. in a phone call u.s. secretary of state john carry told sergei expects the sovereignty to be respected and european ledders echoing the call. >> the information thing is ukraine have int integrity of t country and safe. >> reporter: russia stopped giving financial aid to ukraine and will likely force the country to look to the international monetary fund and done it before but lost the help when it did not cutback on government subsidies or worker salaries and ims say there still will be strings attached. >> if the ukrainian authorities were to ask for imf support, whether it's policy advice, whether it's financial support,
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together with economic reform discussions, obviously we stand ready to do that. >> reporter: in the u.s. there is clearly concern about what will happen next. >> russia and moscow and pootin will pressure and they own the gas and it provides gas for the countries and when putin doesn't like their behavior he cuts it off and raises the prices out of sight and has the pressure. >> reporter: president obama said it's not part of a cold war chess game with russia but it's clearly russia's move next and i'm patty in washington. >> reporter: breaking news coming in and we have reports that egypt's government has resigned and that's according to the state-run website and we will bring you details as we get them. moving to other stories and
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british prime minister are holding rival cabinet meetings in scott land. this is the second time in more than 90 years that the entire uk cabinet has met in scottland and as alexander make their cases for and against the remaining part of the uk. scottland is holding this on defense in september and setting out plans for the future of the lucrative north sea oil and gas industry. joining me live from london is james midway, an economist with the new economic foundation. mr. medway thanks for joining us on the show and let's talk economic issues here which may influence undecided voters ahead of the september election or poll. there are now reports that scott land would not be able to keep the pound and the eu says there will not be automatic membership
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for independent scottland and how do you see this effecting the economy? >> if scottland want to do that or can do nothing and the uk government can do to prevent people using it around the world as long as it's freely traded currency and it's smoke and mirrors and this is critical. if scottland gets the oil and concede in the independence it will then the scottish economy can function happily and well with the oil revenues. that is partly way david cameron went to aberdeen to present this to the uk and the bribe if you like say there will be more more out of the north sea for scott-land and everyone else so they can support what is needed there. >> reporter: the treasury pointed out tax revenues have
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fallen from previous years and the economy should be able to absorb absorb the utility but scottland cannot. >> unfairly lowest in the few decades left of north sea oil is still in the sea. the value of this stuff is usually placed around a trillion pounds if you take the total amount of oil and dig all the oil up. that is one part of it and scottland faces a need to get away from dependency on fossil fuels and in the case of scottland this is more urgent but they are a leader relative to the rest of the uk with renewal energy and wind farms all around the coastlines and plants and extension over the next few years and that is the same kind of situation the rest of us case and need to get away from fossil fuels like oil, like gas. >> reporter: a lot of focus on
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how scottland's economy will go with independence and what about the uk and how will that be effected? >> in is where you get into seeing why there is now desperation or something approaching panic, approaching or bearing down at the moment which is why you get the cabinet and statements from the services released guy george osborne last week on the dire consequences of scottland and the rest of the uk could be severe and britain has a weak international position and runs a current deficit of 3% gdp and jumps up to 6% if the rest of the uk looses the oil and that is a serious economic impact on the rest of the uk and potentially and poses questions about how we run this and dependency and even on the city of london so it's a major up set
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which is why they take it so seriously. >> intriguing and james thank you for your insight and that is james medway a senior economist with the new economic foundation joining us from london. an update on the breaking news we brought you earlier about egypt's government that resigned according to the website. we are now hearing that the current prime minister has been tasked to form a new caretaker government and we will of course bring you more details as we get it. now, after four failed attempts the part of the town of nitrovika has a new mayor and has claimed viktor based on the official preliminary results and took four months to get elected to the position in the ethnically divided town because of violence and intimidation and
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the rival is in detention on suspension of war crimes and kosovo declared independence from serbia in 2008. they have a law to have tougher penalties for homosexuals and they will put it on hold on as malcolm webb reports it reflects the enormous president they are both from within uganda and from the west. >> reporter: and he is gay and he has aids. i in, uganda it is difficult and illegal and changed his name and hidden his face and he has high risk workers of gay men and came for life-saving drugs and is
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worried the new law will make that impossible. >> i don't think the government will allow us to be here and have access and the hospital is promoting us which is not true. reporter: here in parliament the antisexual bill was passed in december after years of discussion and increases jail time for homosexual acts and said medics and teachers must report homosexuals or they go to jail too and after delays he signed it into law. and it's widely supported here but attracted heavy criticism from the board especially uganda's main financial and military supporter the u.s. and president barack obama said they shouldn't sign it but that won't go down well at home and he threatened to resign over it. and uganda population is one of the fastest growing in the world he is concerned it will be reversed if every one is home
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sexual. >> it's regarding aids. it is really, wasn't in terrorism which you are fighting left and right. and let's wipe out the whole humanity and what is left of it. >> reporter: religion is important to people new g ugand you can buy some outside of the church and they mobilize the people who support the homosexuality bill and it's rarely enforced and few people go to court or jail and unlikely that the new law could be fully enforced either but gay rights say the rhetorics surrounding it has made life increasingly difficult and dangerous and say the bill contradicts codes and health policies and say it's unconstitutional but they are a
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tiny minority and others say it's a disruption of corruption and lack of public services but paul and others like him can only hope the politics won't cutoff the medicine that keeps them alive, malcolm webb in, uganda. >> reporter: an antigay trend across africa content and illegal to be gay in 35 african countries and they face punishments including imprisonment but the penalty is far harsher including northern nigeria and somalia and they face the death penalty there. and in 18 african countries it's legal but they are easily the minority across the continent and gay rights are steadily being eroded and we are joined
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by skype and the president is caught between powerful players on both sides of the argument. >> it's confusing as to why he's on one hand saying he is going to sign and on the other sign he says he is not going to sign. you know, there are talks of how homosexuality is western influence and speaking from u.s. scientific evidence. so it's sort of a puzzle. we don't know where he stands exactly. equality is something that we as uganda have always had and have been a society and the british law took it away from us and for me it's very disturbing we are holding on to, we choose, we
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select what we want to stick with and then also give back some of the things. i mean british, the british law we are using today, britain itself does not criminalize homosexuality any more and why don't we follow that if we are so hung up on the british. >> reporter: let's return to breaking news now, egypt government resigned according to the state-run website and now hear that the current prime minister has been tasked to form a new caretaker government and let's get inside from nicole who joins us on the set and what does this actually mean? >> this is a real shake up for egyptian politics and egypt government and a lot of pressure and a lot of strikes and labor problems over the last month and it really started to increase into become quite a problem on the streets.
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we are hearing about strikes and picketi picketing syndacit like with the pharmacist and unrest about different issues and some cases it's a matter of pay increases, different organizations and sindacites demanding things and putting pressure on the government and seems that a decision has been made by the interim president to get rid of that interim cabinet and try and form a new one. now, just background people a bit, this is a cabinet that has been in power, in place since the military coup on the third of july and interim and only meant to be there ahead of parliamentary and presidential elections which are expected sometime this year. so it was meant to be a government of tecnocrats but clearly there is unrest on the
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streets at the moment and it seems that the interim president would like a new cabinet in place, perhaps to make it look like they are doing something and responding some of of the calls the street for change. >> reporter: you mentioned a lot of this was internal pressure and mentioned stripes and a lot of unhappiness with the economy and what is actually happening within egypt itself. do you think any sort of foreign pressure could have pushed this decision as well. >> it's difficult to know and i wouldn't think so at this stage because they are largely in control of its own affairs and in terms of i mean it's a military backed interim government and no doubt there has been a very strong push by the military on the front to get something done. so, no, it seems to have come from inside egypt. >> reporter: that being the case what will happen to the general? there are a lot of rumors that are floating around he will be running for president. how does this cabinet shake up
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effect that? >> well, this cabinet shake up is really only an interim phase. it might be something that is being carried out to try and sort of make it look as though the country has things under control and it's trying to put steps in place to deal with this sort of unrest, no daughter the president cc if he decides he will run for election will want it to looks like the security situation is under control, they are responding to concerns on the streets. so whatever the interim government can do to try and stop the unrest will only bode for those running up to the presidential and parliamentary elections this year. >> reporter: interesting developments and we will see what happens nicole and nicole johnson speaking to us about the shape up in egypt. from local governor to mayor to prime minister and a fall before
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