when the cigarettes it was like a loss of innocence for me do you have much of a relationship with her do. not really we we were having a really good relationship for a while and she had just gotten out of prison but then she got back with her old boyfriend and i know that the old boyfriend leads to getting back into her old life so i own i don't want to be a part of it i've gotten used to saying about my mother as great as your grandma has been to she fill that hole in your heart that's the shape of your mom you know . now. if my parents weren't ever on drugs say when have i ever met that's just how far back the darn use goes i mean my parents started out on weird and they ended up carolyne and opiates and it's i mean i wouldn't have been born if it wouldn't have

been for. the choices that were made and sometimes i wish that i hadn't just for the. the life i might have given me. would be me. but my parents were never on drugs. and i just wish they were don't tax. your on your very existence is tied up and not me to do collision drugs so how do you reconcile that. i mean their lives are. even more precious than my own i think when a life is taken away from drugs it's just not fair. and even though i treasure the life i have i just sometimes think i sometimes just. wish that it could have been better for them.

in the rest of the nation struggle to contain the damage. there's no doubt that the next generation is being shaped by. a question which will take years to resolve is how. the norm back in the day. to kids now it's maybe a parent maybe a grandmother maybe an uncle or maybe a foster home maybe just a whole lot of meaning nothing set in stone nobody really looks at their head and can say you're going to have a wonderful life when you're older. because they're not.

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kenya's presidential election will take place on thursday a last ditch attempt to delay it was unsuccessful when five judges failed to turn up at the supreme court to hear a petition kenya's opposition leader is urging people to one call the vote while president hu to kenyatta says it must go ahead peacefully mahama the door begins our coverage from nairobi. they gathered here. they want as president of the big promise to make. opposition leader i loading goes by quoting that iran presidential poll he says nothing has changed you know. the news. is a. few of us are. or dingoes national supplies coalition also will

now be transformed into what he called a resistance movement he supporters say that will heed his call we want to stand for. you has been fighting what i saw you can not any chance. you have to sacrifice whatever. yes actually five maybe not. chief justice david but i got most aliyah that the petition to delay the vote could not be hot because of judges only two of the cult seven judges had showed up in the supreme court on mild the original election held on august eighth saying they had been must have had a glad it is president to who can yet always seeking a second tom has said that i'm bottle must go ahead tomorrow we have yet. another but unity. to show the world

that we. are a free. maki stayed. with just hours to go before kenyans head back to the polls a general mood of where in the us off the country the capital might all be emptied out it did last august when many people left the city to go back on the boat in the middle and yes many only one thing that some are hitting opposition calls for a boycott they independent election and bundles commission says it's ready to hold the elections papers books and other material have been delivered to polling stations across the country but the chairman of the commission is complaining of threats to stuff and say good anti this security while out to walk with me the decision to serve your country home in the hollow it was supposed to do midwife in a democracy becomes as it is going to war then that will last for the last

two months kenya has had a tense post-election period marked by protests police shootings and illegal but it's unlikely things they say paul would bring old law and mohamed atta well just iraq because. what can you glean from use tear gas to disperse protesters and opposition strongholds catherine store has more from western kenya. yes protestants have been out on the streets all morning long road just install them both sides lighting bon fire this is well they said that very angry and back up to the supreme court they said that for a straight that tomorrow not going to go well they were not looking out and when they were not even ready he was real they said you know you can do with the police . brutality this is all just during protests people who don't have been killed including children. saying

that police have killed my most of those people people saying that was not reality it's going to give you can't even to see how things are falling material and we'll get you the money to morrow and you know you see the people who would want to go to that would you want to see how that would happen because i'm not going to get a lot of attention but let's get more on this now we're joined by joshua obama a professor of international development and global studies at the university of ottawa he's joining us via skype from montreal on the very good to have you with us on al-jazeera is a thursday's vote going to be free and fair do you think. i mean this is this is definitely the question and. then attention yes. i think the vote is not necessarily going to be here in the big and. we're going to

see a spectacle i think tomorrow. more of a surreal election i think is going through the motions of democracy. certainly in the government that you believe stronghold areas. there will be a lot of emphasis on trying to get people turned out. very dissatisfied. have been even paying or subsidizing sending buses ferry people or constituencies people have to vote in their homes. so those you'll see long lines of people showing up to vote and absolutely. i don't expect to see violence and i don't expect to see any sort of incident at the time. of an election but i think it's going to be very questionable whether that's actually. you say that you don't expect to see why then so you're not worried then about the protests that opposition supporters have been participating and the sort

of sentiments of here from of heard from a dentist supporters who say that they're willing to die given the given the history of the election violence in kenya. i think that's understandable i mean you heard we're doing it today was. promising his supporters when he withdrew from election a week and a half ago. he said he was going to make a very large and important announcement. he's been telling people repeatedly orders not to go anywhere near to the polling stations and police to us is it was his language he knows that. the state is ready to crack down on him sort of perceived demonstrations so i think it's going to be quite. the sense that unless the police are really going out looking for. their likely to be that sort of

violence i think it's the day after and things to calm that are really unknowable. that there is such a thing as the politics of living on in kenya isn't there it's coming out to does when the election you know will he do what it takes to all of the calmed the divisions do you think will he reach out to the opposition does he need to at this point. he's been doubling down on. i mean i think it's been very clear from his language that he believes he won the election in august. he's been stoking certainly the comments amongst the people that i know who are supporters. are the supporters the view that it's the singular. man and. obviously there are millions of people supported by a lot and his opposition party not just this election but previous elections feel

that justice has never been done and that reconciliation is never happened so it's very unclear whether the president has any interest at all in reaching out and i think just to add to that i think it's really striking that. at least unlike other rounds where there's been a very. either. or international community or the diplomatic community trying to meet. you there's not a lot trying to bring these two individuals to go out or their supporters together and that is were and why not and where to go from here what both sides actually doubling down. when it's fair i mean i think. riley has been insisting that he's not looking. he's not looking. how are brokering deals like happened after. the post-election violence ten years ago. i mean he's been insisting that.

the elections proceed with a new independent. i think we have lost joshua ramesh our guest in. there but we were nearly at the end of that interview so let's move on. to other news now and brazil's lower house of congress has voted to reject corruption charges against president michel tema the seventy seven year old has been released from hospital after being treated for you obstruction he's accused of taking bribes which he's always denied the lower house had voted in his favor and decided he was a lot face trial of the supreme court on charges of criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice let's get more on this knowledge on by correspondent daniel his life arrived in buenos aires how did the voyage to unfold daniel.

well it was a mother dramatic day elizabeth in brasilia they're becoming quite used to them now each of the deputies who attended the congress was invited by the speaker of the house to take to the microphone they had fifteen seconds to speak before the microphone was cut off to cast their vote in favor of president or against him some of them a short speeches other one others simply said yes or no schools were marred although the votes were marked on the big board with the whole country i guess watching closely to see which way it went but it very soon became apparent the opposition was not going to get the two thirds of the votes it needed of those present in the congress to suspend the michelle tema from his office to allow the supremes court to try him on those charges you mentioned criminal conspiracy and obstruction of justice here as you mention missed most of the vote he was taken to hospital a few hours before they started voting with the you're an ear infection released

after treatment shortly afterwards we assume going back to the congress to watch those final crucial votes still going to come in they are still voting but it's done and dusted. is safe and will serve out the final fourteen months of his time in office what so the survival of the lower house vote what does it mean for the presidency he will serve it out but what does it mean for him and for the country daniel. well this is a president with some of the very unpopular not very trusted president he has something like four percent approval rating right across brazil so he's not very well lives he survived a similar vote to suspend him and try him on corruption charges back in august on that occasion it was reported in the city spent something like one point three billion dollars on trying to win that support on promising projects in various parts of brazil he's done the same again some reports are saying he's you spent as

much as two billion dollars this time around making concessions on some laws one of which has lowered the paid the penalty for people for landowners who pollute the environment and the other one has changed labor laws. to change the definition of what constitutes slavery in the workplace although he survives he's got fourteen months where he wants to push through policies which he says are vital to boost brazil's ailing economy at the same time he has been weakened by some of these promises that he's made people will be expecting him to pay back for the support they've given him in congress but that's it now there should be no more corruption charges against him he says he's going to push those policies through and have to see now how much strength he has to serve out those final fourteen months all right daniel thank you very much for that for now that daniel joining us live from when a side is thank you. now in a joint move with the u.s.

qatar has imposed sanctions targeting alleged leaders finance years and facilitators of i from and iraq syria and yemen and of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula eleven yemeni nationals a charitable organization and a supermarket make up a list of thirteen the sanctions against them include asset freezes and travel bans the two countries have a strengthened their joint commitment to combat terrorism and terrorism fine. lancing rather enjoyed and has moved from washington d.c. . a number of yemeni citizens into yemeni organizations are now in the sights of the u.s. government and of several governments in the gulf that's because they've been accused of providing financial support to al qaeda in the arabian peninsula based inside yemen as well as to i sold in yemen these two groups have been accused of carrying out deadly attacks on yemeni citizens and institutions for several years

now and as the u.s. treasury secretary steven minucci and said on wednesday these two groups pose a national security threat to the united states and to its allies what is significant about this new round of sanctions it's that it's being done through something called the terrorist financing targeting center this is an organization that was set up by the u.s. and by the gulf countries back in late may of course it goes without saying that just a couple of weeks after this organization was set up the blockade against the government of qatar was launched into question whether that country itself was doing enough to fight terrorist financing even though the government in doha has argued strenuously that it is doing its part and even signed a new member random of understanding with washington to prove its commitment there are still been questions from other gulf countries namely saudi arabia about whether doha is doing enough to crack down on terrorist groups now with the joint

announcement coming from washington doha riyadh and other regional capitals there might be no question that this work is actually taking effect the real question is whether the people listed on this new list of sanctions on wednesday will actually see their assets being frozen and find it impossible to travel anywhere around the world as the u.s. and other governments have found in other sanctions regimes the way that these will be successful. will be if in fact money is cut off not just from the people accused of doing this financing but of course whether al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and eisel in yemen actually are starved out and lose their capability of launching new and deadly attacks.