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the show's there for reeks under the rain and we deserve better which is to ease the pressure jeff wilkinson of the u.n. refugee program says the situation is challenging with a priority shifting to help the new arrivals to quickly move on to other brazilian cities and that they are now looking at how to. make the process. more agile to identify and new locations and to negotiate them to push this because at the end of the day i think everyone realizes that i mean that really is the priority and that takes pressure off this in spite of the difficulties they face in brazil hundreds of venezuelans continue to cross the border every day escaping an economic crisis and willing to risk it all in search of a better life. still ahead on the bulletin the u.s. china trade will intensify as well that billions of dollars worth of new tabs
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taking effect plus. the israeli army launches a criminal investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers during protests near the gaza israel border. hello again it's good to have you back well here across parts of southeastern china and into the south china sea we are watching one area in particular notice all those clouds right there there were on the satellite well as we look at our forecast map we start to see an area of circulation in that region now this system is going to stay weak if it even develops but what it is expected to do is make its way to the north very slowly over the next few days and that is going to bring some very heavy rain towards parts of taiwan as well hong kong on saturday it is still going to be rainy few tempter there of about thirty four degrees well here across india particular down to the south west things are clearing up you notice on
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satellite not a lot of clouds down here towards carola state but we are picking up some very very heavy rain showers up to the north east and those rain showers are going to cause the potential for some localized flooding over the next few days so west bengal you can be seen as a very heavy rain as well kolkata attempt a few of thirty three degrees on friday staying thirty three but more heavy rain in the forecast as well as up towards katmandu that is going to be in the area all the way through the weekend as well the over here towards the arabian peninsula well it is humid across much of the the gulf regions we are seeing doha a forty degrees humidities a quite high at the time and saturday we expect that to go up to a temperature a few of forty three degrees. we know how much are we know the problems that affect this part of the world very very well that is something that we're trying to take to the rest of the world we have gone places and reported on
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a story that you might take an international network for months to be able to do it united nations these are things going on thai riot. we are challenging the forty's we're challenging companies we're going to places where nobody is going. to tally with us on al-jazeera these are our top stories ugandan opposition leader bobby wine has been charged with treason he was rearrested moments after a military court dropped two weapons charges against him winds and detention last week sparked widespread protests south africa's president says he totally rejects
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donald trump's statement on land reform the us president has ordered a study into farm seizures and what he calls the large scale killing of white farmers citing a report on fox news one of south africa's biggest farming organizations says killings are at a twenty year low the united nations has urged lashon american countries to ease entry for venezuelans fleeing a deepening economic crisis that's concerned about a new border entry controls in ecuador and perverse. now sixteen billion dollars of new u.s. tire of have come into force on chinese goods as the trade war between the two economic giants goes to the next level it came into effect a few hours ago china then responded with some of the taxes it's also announced it's filing a complaint at the world trade organization has imposed a twenty five percent taxes on billions of dollars worth of the obvious products the u.s. is targeting chinese chemical electronic and industrial goods fifty billion dollars
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worth of goods on the each side have been have had tariffs added since july adrian brown has more from beijing. well as advertised china has retaliated against the united states imposing a twenty five percent tariff on some sixteen billion dollars worth of u.s. goods in the past few months of course china has accused the united states of being responsible for the biggest trade war in history so no sign of this dispute ending anytime soon talks though are continuing in washington between officials from the u.s. treasury department and china's finance ministry the chinese side insists that it was the united states that invited china to take part in these talks but president donald trump or said he doesn't believe these negotiations will achieve very much of more concern to china right now is the fact that the u.s. trade representative's office is currently hearing arguments for and against
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allowing the united states to impose additional tariffs on some two hundred billion dollars worth of chinese goods if that were to happen it would hurt not just china but also the u.s. consumer because it would involve products such as bridal grounds parts for bicycles the sort of stuff every day consumer items here in china no sign of panic so far as we enter the second month of this trade dispute chinese consumers though are starting to spend less there are signs that the consumers are a tightening their belts on the horizon they see an economy in china that is slowing and they also see another red flag debt that debt pile is getting bigger because china's government is doing what it always does a times like this turning on the credit tap to ensure the chinese companies and businesses are insulated from this continuing trade war. the u.k.
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government has released its continuance and planned and event that question leaves the e.u. without a deal the threats that minister outlined what he called practical advice for people and businesses lansley report from london. there was a time during the long saga of breck's it when prime minister to resign may used to say maybe it is best to do no deal for britain is better than a bad deal for britain for i said on many occasions that no deal is better than a bad deal by which she meant that falling out of the european union without a trade deal was better than one which didn't reflect the referendum results but now it's becoming clear what no deal might look like and it's giving people the shivers food shortages if fresh produce rots at the border already stockpiling tins is actively being talked about what airports closed down heathrow has borrowed a billion dollars to protect itself against grounded flights would no deal mean economic collapse because businesses without fail to continue to see plans big
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money factures would close up shop they'd need to be used to since they started live on mass the pound which tumbles we've never seen before with the government survived things like giant manufacturers shutting down and moving out does the government's even have a plan breakfasters those who want a clean break with the european union this myth all of this is what they call project fear a deliberate attempt to undermine a democratic vote to leave the e.u. it will be absolutely foreign they say and indeed some argue that a little economic hardship is a price worth paying for the u.k. to regain its sovereignty or no deal breadth it would test that theory to destruction the first batch of advice from government calls on businesses to protect themselves from a new pile of red tape and bureaucracy that currently doesn't exist the nervous looking minister spent much time wiping the sweat from his top lip is of course in relation to those in the current. trading links with the e.u.
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they'll be some extra change that they'll need to be advised of the sensible thing to do is to give practical advice and work with them to make that a success come with me. and so again that. this sense of impending disaster the idea that politicians of fiddling while the u.k. burns has struck many is sufficiently surreal that it has a public value this video comparing it to the titanic disaster perhaps the very best expression that people's worst fears anything could happen nothing can be ruled out. al-jazeera. the united nations is one of the third wave of the cholera epidemic in yemen the outbreak is already the largest on record and the numbers could rise two thousand three hundred deaths and more than one point one million suspected cases have been recorded since april last year humanitarian partners are responding to avoid
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a large scale resurgence this month or partners have vaccinated more than three hundred eighty five thousand people against cholera in the high risk districts of her data and it more humanitarian colleagues are also disturbed by damage to health and water sanitation hygiene infrastructure due to the conflict access to the services is crucial to prevent another cholera epidemic all parties to the conflict must meet their obligations under international humanitarian law to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure ellen fisher has will from neighboring djibouti. it is in yemen of the morning since the start of august that the country was reaching a tipping point and there was a real danger of a third color epidemic sweeping through the entire country we already know that since april last year one point one million cases have been reported and more than two thousand three hundred people have been killed so the aid agencies have tried to implement a vaccination program that more than three hundred thousand people have been vaccinated just in the last month alone to the quarter of
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a million people the ele of this year received vaccinations in the southern port city of aden and you can see that they're trying their best to combat the difficulties that are being caused but the conflict is making things so much more difficult infrastructure is being destroyed and we all know that color is created when people are drinking infected water and eating infected food no the aid agencies the united nations of try to get clean water into many communities to try to rebuild infrastructure when they can but things aren't getting better and no they're saying all parties to this conflict really have to take this seriously quite simply because people are going to die the situation is not getting any better saudi arabia has denied a report that it's calling off plans to sell shares in an oil company around cars reuters news agency senior sources saying the flights had been canceled his energy minister. said it would happen when the time's right. israel has approved plans to
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build more than a thousand new illegal settlements in the occupied west bank they're the latest in a raft of approvals and us president donald trump took office israeli settlements and occupied palestinian areas illegal armed international law. and the israeli army has launched a criminal investigation into the killing of two palestinian teenagers during protests near the gaza israel border fence the army says the investigation is needed because this especially the military. child stratford report. sits with his grieving family. whose eighteen year old son was shot dead by an israeli soldier during a protest at the gaza border fence on march thirtieth. these radio me has launched an internal investigation into the incident and the shooting dead of another fifteen year old palestinian during a similar protest in july but. my son loved life and he loved the
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others loved life too when he heard about the protests he decided to go and see if he went peacefully do you really snipers fire on protesters like their turkeys it's like they're playing a video game israel thinks that when the old died the young will forget their rights but they don't need the international community to help us in order to get our rights they must help us have a homeland like everyone else. this is one of the places along the border fence where protests have been held every friday since the end of each one hundred sixty seven palestinians have been killed in those protests and there is clear video evidence that it was shot in the head was trying to help a fellow protester. this is running to help a man carrying a child which the protesters set fire to dust is kicked up by bullets hitting the ground around the street the shot rings out and i'm not being fleeced to the ground
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in the ambulance. to his pay to squeal. in july the israeli army announced that an internal military investigation into the deaths of one hundred fifty three protesters was expected to find that none of the shootings violated open file orders instead it called the incidents mishaps. the conclusions of that investigation i'm now with the israeli military advocate general who can order a further investigations if he sees fit. gaza based human rights organization say an independent international investigation is needed. but our experience is that all is already investigations that done to try to preempt all work before we send our findings to the u.n. in geneva what's needed is a. look what happened to. the united nations voted to send an
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investigation team into gaza in may and it was to produce its findings by march next year but there's no indication when the team will start work and israel has a long history of not cooperating with u.n. rights inquiries or allowing access to gaza. the un resolution condemned what it described as the disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force by the israeli occupying forces against palestinian civilians israel responded by saying it was being demonized. says his son was short for demanding a better future for the millions of young palestinians like you. who doubt anyone in the israeli me will be punished for killing. gaza. to india now where floodwaters are receding in the state of carolina which is seen as worst floods in a century more than a million people are in temporary relief camps after their homes were washed away
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more than two hundred died this month after torrential downpours caused devastating floods. now a controversial plan to close polling stations in a predominantly black part of the u.s. state of georgia is being considered by the local elections board who make a decision on friday voting rights activists say the proposed closures would suppress the turnout blackwater's and november's midterm elections the changes are planned in randolph county. australian prime minister malcolm turnbull is still clinging to power on the eve of another potential vote on his leadership parliament has been suspended as politicians and his party can set a challenging him for the top job on friday bellus reports. malcolm turnbull continues to charge food despite doors closing around him no astray in prime minister has survived the full term in ten years now it's timbales turn to fight the strike will be rightly a poll by what they witnessing in the nation's parliament to die in the course of
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this week he narrowly won a leadership challenge on choose day behind the scenes former allies have just to replace him this is a government which had lost the will to leave but i don't even think on tuesday we could have seen that cannibalistic be idea of a government who is aging itself alive some members of temple's ruling liberal party don't believe he can lead them to victory in next year's elections and so the rebellion began forty three liberal party politicians must sign a petition requesting a meeting on friday if that threshold is his term treat it as a vote of no confidence he says he will step aside to make his posse hold a new leadership ballot where his replacement will be elected former cabinet minister peter dutton as the front runner earlier this morning i called the other prime minister to advise him that it was my judgment that the majority of the party were no longer supported his leadership but doesn't challenge is also controversial
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the country's top lawyer is investigating his eligibility to hold office there are concerns of a government funding for his businesses taxpayers watched the state as the government ground to a halt the leadership chaos leading to the suspension of parliament the house stands adjourned until monday ten september two thousand and eight tonight. turnbull's grip on power has lasted three years now he faces an early exit from the strain in politics just like the three prime ministers before him. zero. zero again i'm elizabeth bron i'm in doha with the headlines on al jazeera and ugandan pop star turned opposition leader whose arrest prompted large protests will now face treason charges bobbie while it was
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a rearrested on thursday just moments after a military court dropped weapons charges against him winds and michelle detention last week prompted a violent street protests in the capital kampala what source acuity forces opened fire on crowds and other new south africa's president says he totally rejects the donald trump statement on land reform the us president has ordered a study into farm seizures and what he called the large scale killing of white farmers citing a report on fox news one of south africa's biggest foreign organization says killings are at a twenty year low while donald trump has responded meanwhile to speculation about impeachment following the prosecution of two former aides his former lawyer michael cohen implicated the trump implicated trump in a crime when he pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws saying he did so at trump's direction in an interview with fox and friends trump said there'd be an economic crash a favor removed from office i don't know how you can somebody who is not a great job. if i ever go to the market would prayer. i think everybody would be
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very poor. because without this you would see you would see members that you wouldn't believe. china and the u.s. are imposing twenty five percent taxes on sixteen billion dollars worth of each other's goods in the latest round of of since the trade war began in july the u.s. wants beijing to change what it says fair trade practices the u.n. has urged latin american countries to ease entry for venezuelans fleeing a deepening economic crisis the u.n. is concerned about new border entry controls in ecuador and peru more than four hundred twenty thousand venezuelans have entered ecuador this year the u.k. government has released its contingency plan in the event of brush and leaves the e.u. without a deal the secretary outlined possible outcomes for a range of sectors he warned britain's may have to pay more for credit card payments in the e.u. and e.u. businesses could be cut off from u.k.
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investment banks well those are the headlines on al-jazeera do stay with us the stream is coming up next thank you very much for watching. china is keen to win friends and influence you need oil rich middle east this is part of the wrong turn of china to secure its resources for the future of. our region as a whole balance expect growth we bring you the stories the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeera. i have many ok i'm your in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today please go on rest and jailing of a popular musician in uganda how will the arrest of bobby wine impact ugandan politics join us with your comments and questions.
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through his music and political platform uganda's self described ghetto president bobby wine has become an outspoken critic of president seventy who has been in power since one thousand nine hundred eighty six the popular singer turned politician was arrested last week along with at least thirty other opposition members after the seventies motorcade was attacked with stones soon after came accusations of treason now but we wian is being held in a military prison charged with illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. the jailing and alleged mistreatment of the musician by security forces sparked protests and unrest earlier this week in kampala online the hash tags free bobby why and release are being used to bring attention to this case since the week in one protester was killed and at least sixty eight have been arrested since the day we want to know how the rest of what we whine and the opposition voices will leave politics in uganda with us to talk about this in kampala. a journalist
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and the founder of the independent that's a newspaper in kampala and that's a barlow is a social media activists we also are a spokesperson ugandan government to join our program but they declined our offer the yes it is really good to have you start let's start with the president's own words. twitter this president with seventy which we did moments ago i have noted the issue of unprincipled politicians taking advantage of our unemployed youth to lure them into riots and demonstrations and this is something my government is addressing this is part of a longer statement that he's released on the official presidential website but grace what do you make of the president's comments there. thank you for having it once again so i think this is a kind of narrative that the president wants to make it sound like they're young
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and not interested at all in the. way it's going on but they maybe i'm employed and that's up many of them i mean nobody doesn't mean that they don't care about what's happening in the country and it doesn't mean they don't care that they don't see that will tell you i don't see what i've been to a book waiting so i think it's just a narrative that has been using. just to get people to feel guilty for participating in most of the demonstrations so yeah i bet or and for me it just does and. i want to show our audience some pictures from uganda from the last few days edwin shares this on twitter a photo journalists are voices photo journalists here covering the story and you can see what's been happening to him there he's been beaten then we have a member of parliament in hospital after also. being beaten and
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then there's a picture here i can't show you the picture but read if you want to get it at a tea party wine then you will see this story here police a shot my driver dead thinking they shot me and then you need to scroll down because i cannot show you that picture on international t.v. and what's going on. i should provide you context about four months ago the government of uganda. the general police. and he will be appearing in its general court martial but i think he had to go to law jeannette walk of civic activists to provide him information in time to be able to contain riots the new team india going to the police and the military and not to use it to containing quote this and i think there is a huge gap in the gun and security apparatus that is why you see them acting in such a desperate man i should also inform you that the photographer you see being beaten
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by the m. in the streets used to walk with me at the independent and is a bit across from me so means a very emotional picture that you have that you have shown me yet and as a journalist sees that and as a journalist when you see that and when you know that passing. do you feel that somehow something's gone wrong in uganda in the way that the media is even able to tell the story yes something is wrong what we're seeing are two things one the government has run amok the sense that the security forces seem to excise this a little restraint compared to previous times in the way they are trying to contain protests and to the government itself is absent because as you have said at the beginning of the show there is no government person to dissent the government on the show and even within uganda there is not what the only state of government provided in the explanation as to why the army and the police can act and such and
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president could retaliate against the population. you know when you talk about brutality that i think is what a lot of people are noting online particularly of course when it comes to the man we talked about at the top of the show and you guys have both mentioned bobby wine who's in p. this is tony who treats the detention and torture of bobby wine is why we protest we demand the state to free bobby wine such of the excesses proper medication he's using that hashtag which has been used several times ninety seven thousand as one day that was on tuesday and the number has only gone up talking about that and i want to pivot here to a tweet from our own correspondent this is katherine sawyer she says we spoke with edwin the way bobby winds brother says still in a lot of pain he has a ruptured kidney a broken toes and fingers the family will hold a press conference in the next twenty minutes to update on his condition rosabel
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the masses that we've seen on the streets the protests that have come out in support of bobby why do they surprise you at all. now they don't want and i'm like under saying this is unprecedented not it's not unprecedented we have had several protests and we have seen brutality on our streets of compiler let's not forget during the twenty eleven walk to what got us one of the opposition leaders were almost blinded and that was including there were aspects of their of their of their security that executed that and this is not the first time we are seeing such a level of brutality the difference here is the sheer courage that young people are bringing to the streets and willing to go to the streets and if you notice the court this one not just think they've been sporadic in sporadic in different parts of the country was in michiana town and there was today mourning in the eastern
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part of the country and as bobby wine is going to be already before the courts tomorrow there's upper haitian that's more is yet to come but we have not it's not new we have seen this kind of brutality and it's a difference is maybe the large scale of treatment of journalists that the military is unafraid to do the type of to really beat journalists on camera and always saw not only jets i cannot but very many journalists some journalists were charged with inciting violence were simply being with their microphones and doing live coverage and consequently the media is not teepees are not giving us a lead coverage any mob the events that are happening grace i see you not in go ahead. yes that being. what we see it's not new. then the election that. was the ruling and it always ends up meaning
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you know running by polls we do not know why it's always a i don't know where all the started i don't know why and we. will election but what i love every time we have an election always running but was between the hope of the show and the police there are willing to support them in the opposition so it's. just. not being you. it's just maybe things are on them the new younger will be waiting with grace and wrote i hear what you're saying so i want to give something to you actually because i hear what rosewell and grace are saying but there are a few people online not many in our community but a few who would disagree with them this is one person who says bobbie and his group have been intimidating and assaulting voters during elections it will restore sanity and uganda politics to have him out of the picture we won't accept intimidation and violence in our politics another person answering
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a question we asked why do you think the wind was arrested this person says he was inciting youths to stone the president's motorcade plus illegal possession of a gun things that his camp has denied but andrew what do you make of these two comments. well i have no evidence whatsoever that bobby wayne individually was inciting his supporters to sort of stones at the presidential motorcade neither do i have evidence that he had guns in fact i suspect that the guns were planted basically with this force is in his room less my suspicion but what i can say is that the people who protest against the government in uganda disassembly liberal democrats seeking a much more tolerant than the community government remember these are young people who are angry with us whatever the reasons and the approaches that expression of anger not an expression of the values. but i just want to come back we should
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remember that wherever there is a court this whether it is in sweden norway then it exists or in a country in the world the police and the protesters will not be kissing and hugging each other in the streets that is rare why is it this is unprecedented and i'm happy. what is two thousand and eleven which is eight years ago is that i have not seen the ugandan military police looking at generalists as targets of the attack was it went eleven when they beat the opposition politician the opposition politician according to such is a book that she's a listen to what specifically i get. that i could understand but what i see is a betrayal and restrained attacks on journalists who are covering this event they are not attacking protesters who are throwing stones at them who are throwing . october's at them attacking journalists holding to come in and who are not even
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fighting back i find that unprecedented yes i have to say that probably one has been a guest on the stream not once but twice and we talked about his politics and talked about what it was like as somebody who was just an ordinary ugandan saying i want to be part of this political process it's almost as if one tracked down bay we could fool see the kind of trouble that he could get himself into then they means pieces have a little listen to the words of the wind i think every appropriate for right now. we're not running. down our problems. for the moment. and the opposition isn't just about one musician ten politician there is this this rising need for people to say we want something different for uganda but the ones politics you don't like them
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you know i don't. find their way into the drilling. but most especially his supporters i find them in parliament i find them and democratic i find them and because i had to have told you before these are the people who are saying we want uganda where there can be. tolerance or they've lived in the ideas that you can have your own physician and be subject to disagree for them if you disagree with them with them they were abuses and instead it's up to you they will use what was said by bullying to. lie to blackmail to do practically everything instructed to try and worry. that i mean that i would always like to know the community you're talking. i should tell you grace actually interact logically with the popular and support us or middle position activists via my social media platform and i don't want to go to everybody's house but what i see from them
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scares me as a pastor who's interested in open and free debate i'm sure there are military related ugandans out there who strongly believe that we need to have an environment where we can debate our disagreements in the civic manner and agree to disagree but the answer is you are trying the years very thing so i don't mind peoples under and undermine our big section of society that is stuck right now and you cannot use a civility idea that just because you and i are city and top that the rest of the country when you say that every protestant in all of the world there's always some countries it's not true in uganda but speak it in the women's much in june on june thirtieth that for the first time the police were not engaged with anybody and we managed to walk peacefully and we obeyed but often we see that the government whenever the people come the street it's because something has gone awfully wrong
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because the government controls who can go to the street and pretty much nobody we have a public order management here it's like begging for your right to protest so when we're seeing the people that are supporting bobby wine and expressing anger under is a very important feeling and whatever is in charge of this country must listen to that because under so i don't agree with you that just because people are under it that they are not see for that they are not willing if given the state given their right to protest that they will not take it up not allow the arrows well i don't mind rows but i don't want people being angry what i am saying is when those who are angry indulge in cyber bullying use the lies slander intimidation lou. shut up with the one and then that is not the type of expression of anger that would like to see people angry but agree that you can disagree a suit me if you can use the under power you have which is the power of. government
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to intimidate and certainly you are opponents if you get into power and that you have control of the instruments of coercion under pressure the police and would you like to different because you must understand that that is not that you criticize the government the fact that it does it is it really does work like that that a liberal democrat i think you are just picking the really a bit off a few supporters you have done this with the best you tend to say but every support everything pretty much every open and the comes up just people who want to go for thirty five but once they are under people you can trust them with power when the man was ruling uganda for thirty two years was angry not when he was young he too guns we are not trying to take your gun and i don't try to take guns they are looking for a way to express themselves and that has not been allowed to them that would just aside the fact you have managed to get people elected into government so you
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cannot discredit him as some question on the street that has no end he has money to ride around supporters and get get elected himself but includes the like you think you are right i hear what you're saying and you're right here for years i want to jump in here because i want to bring in our unity and through someone online is hearing what you're saying and they think about your idea of tolerance they trade in is meat maintain and maintenance of the status quo so that's one person who disagrees with your viewpoint but i hear what you are saying i want to push on just a little bit to this point because a couple people have raised this this is i will on twitter he says bobbie one represents a new wave of revolutionaries that the president thinks can pose a threat to his grip on power and he gives hope to the youth who would be. helpless that that same theme is echoed in this facebook post this is madonna who says bobbi winds arrest has brought together the social classes that have been suspicious of each other in the past and in relation to what needs to be done about most of any use long stay in power it's reduce the chances of
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a class war in these time ends and now is a good time for players in the opposition and civil society to get their act together so grace i want to bring you in here on do you think that the government sees the wind as a threat and this is why we're seeing what we're seeing and relation to this facebook comment has this then brought people together against seventy. yeah i think. a lot of people together because already late you. love them on and. then they feel for them or the middle class because the songs. you know almost everyone saw gives the government now bit of work because you sort of thing even without knowing. all just people in the on the streets through those songs rule him campaigning and just you know presenting our so most of us. someone you on the blog so you know the government
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builds britain because there are more young people doing all remember more of the ruling government knows that some people will get more involved in politics then eventually there. will be a lot of that's true probably forty and twenty twenty one so that's way more than a beautiful. let me share this with you this is from the president's twitter feed so have a look here on my laptop i won't start to you get here catch out here again let me just press play and this is the president here saying violence so it's an intimidation in elections will not be tolerated this is his perspective of that local byelection that grace was telling us about a little bit earlier and this is where was the catalyst for a lot of the violence the comments underneath fascinating let me just stop one here steve says mina once spoke the way you are speaking now the army was a famous dictator in uganda please don't pick
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a war with the us it won't end well and so many young people in uganda so many young people who want to be employed i'm wondering if there's a body why any effect that's happening right now whether you for saying hey we can be politicians if we can be engaged we can be involved or do you think it's one spot he is has finished his his tenure as an m.p. then went on. oh well i don't i cannot isn't a predict the future what it can say is that the middle east in uganda increasingly agitated and they have given them a lot of exposure of course the exposure has also given them very high aspirations the challenge uganda is facing is that the rate of growth india especially is fust rate at which our economy can create opportunities for them so that mismatch between their aspirations and the available paternity is creating social frustration that is understandable if a society that has worked goes through the process of structural change like uganda
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has suffered but the challenge we face as a country is that how people manage that transition it is not a drug that because you could say some seventy or seventy that's where i disagree with. your. caller through a democratic election in germany and he was the restaurant in the world that does that make the fact that you can say it's defined by the public. good alternative in libya they had a horrible dictator who ordered the death and he was opposed by the miserable get the people who took over power after him what was i think in the senate the brigade have created a market in that country and we must be very careful how do you feel that you can you know isn't it funny and yes i don't we got a position of politicians in uganda. who are democratic. and some in other members of parliament some of the opposition i disagree with the two politicians don't use of the subject under body weight because i think that what delays radical extremism that is intolerance to democracy but to use and the district and establish is that
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you don't they are incapable of tolerating the opponents that's how they behave let me share this headline with him a seventy ignore probably whines injuries fake news so what do you make of the way your present right now he said ministration is dealing with this unrest a stealing with opposition with dealing with successful opposition so i have told you that i disagree i have called them her. well the security forces actually even fell into the president's reaction which she took to something but it is only the president out of the issue statements on a daily basis as if the government doesn't have a spokesperson and does more to. the communications bus and to respond so defenders of the government of uganda are very clear what i'm saying is that we should be very clear about this talk that you have the blood government you know authority but. it doesn't look in the senate make and. you can have
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evil or posing evil if i said would have been. terrible. the way that he supported experience is a horrible horrible time that people never want to see them govern our country i have a reply here from several people on twitter but i'll just read one most says dear and we've free bobbie one supporters do not appreciate you calling us unruly or cyber bullies or trying to speak out against injustice in mostly peaceful protest the police always come out to brutalize us how are we to express our dissatisfaction to several people with that but i want to move on to this point in the last few minutes of our show in say on you tube says the arrest of bobby wine is a watershed moment to ugandan politics it's the beginning of the end for your form seventy regime grace in about a minute would you agree with that. well i think we. kind of conclusively say that this. is really him but i see it as the beginning of
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something new and a beginning of a beginning. you know. about how they will see themselves in future right now at least see themselves in that i. hope so depends on how you know that because we have elections in. our ways so it would depend on how the next. go might be the beginning of something different and something or so i would say this is the beginning of something i do not know. yet rice well grace thank you so much for being part of this program we don't have a line in this program it would have been nice to have a make here he's for he's here but i am able to bring you his place his opinion by his music so evil and the show we're free again thank you yes thank you community i think part of this conversation because i will see you on the i.
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a week ago one set of charges against him were dropped but now he faces treason charges we are live in uganda where his supporters are demanding answers also on the news grid there we go again an escalation in the trade dispute between the u.s. and china both countries announced a new round of tariffs on billions of dollars of goods beijing is threatening a legal challenge against washington. and president donald trump waits until south africa's controversial land reform debate you want to study into land seizures and killing a white farmers south africa accuses head of misinformation inserting racial division . and the debate continues online wish strong reactions out of south africa and neighboring countries about trucks comments but we want to know what you treat should chumps trump stay out of the land grab debate or has he highlighted an issue that needs more attention i'm lee harvey connected us to the hash tag teams for.
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your live with the news grid live on air and streaming online through you to facebook live and at al-jazeera talk all his twitter bio describes him as one got our child that has something to say for music but the ugandan singer turned lawmaker bobby wine has now been charged with treason and a civilian court he was rearrested shortly after military prosecutors dropped weapons charges against him the opposition leader's initial attention last week well that sparked violent protests in the streets the government has denied accusations that he was beaten while in custody well this footage shows a singer limping on crutches as he left a military court at the. the wind rallying his supporters to attack president seventies convoy with stones catherine so he joins us live now from camp hala so a lot of twists and turns in this that are changing very quickly catherine what happens next well right now both the wind the.
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glue prison in reminding. the town in the north that's about three hundred kilometers from kampala he's expected to appear before courts before the high court i'm told on the set of this month's alongside sixty two other people who arrested last week in relation to those cases in another town in the north called. where presidential aaron was seven is convoy was stoned in local election campaigns that. the magistrate gulu also ordered. doxes all the wine as well as the other thirty two people allowed be allowed unfettered access to them and that he is given. medical attention. when he came to court today he was being aided he appeared to be very weak and in
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a lot of pain and that is something that is worrying a lot of ugandan hathorne why was he ever. with an military court in the first place as a civilian. well the reason why he was being charged in the military court is because of the nature of the charges that were preferred against him those charges have not been dropped so it's possession of firearms and ammunition which only the military is allowed to have that's why he was in the military court but a lot of people are saying that those charges are trumped up the thing that this has happened before when people someone who's overly critical of president you were in with seventy and his government comes up when these kinds of things happen to sort of tone them down and this situation richelle has caused a lot of tension particularly here in the capital kampala this morning with so huge deployment of soldiers and police as well in areas that are the thieves to be
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hawked for they were preventing people from gathering or trying to get to the city center to have any form of protests we also so some politicians some opposition politicians who were blocked from leaving their homes by security forces in fact one of the politicians key the better was arrested while we watched right outside right inside the compound of his home actually happens or live for us and kampala uganda thank you our online team takes a closer look at who body one is. you
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john campbell is a senior fellow for africa policy studies at the council on foreign relations and a former u.s. department of state foreign service officer who joins us from washington d.c. we appreciate your time very much said they government the ugandan government have anticipated this type of reaction this type of pushback to the treatment of. yes i think it should have been just that the one is very well known. further the history of human rights violations in uganda is also. it strikes me that the regime has handled this whole situation very well and they did issue an apology and he wrote about this and the crying what they called unprofessional conduct but then promising the arrest and punishment of those responsible for what but they as you said they have done this before who are they and are they actually
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feel accountable to if anybody well that's just it that's the whole problem of the problem is the regime is remarkably unaccountable to anyone except its own interests that's the issue then you have the really quite extraordinary charge of treason i mean it's it's really quite low it's. even written that that she think that this is an issue of a fear of youth and i hope i'm paraphrase paraphrasing that correctly but you write that uganda has the world's second youngest population seventy eight percent are under the age of thirty youth are an important constituency for the regime but are reliable is it the fact that they are unreliable that also emboldens the government to feel like yes they're upset now but they'll get over it down the slope though i would point out that they use bolt is characteristic of most african
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countries sub-saharan african countries in uganda it is particularly dramatic. what's what's at stake here for how the government proceeds with how they continue to handle him bobby wine that is well i think there are two there really true levels here the first is the regime's international reputation and the other is the extent to which this issue catches catches fire to mystically. on the latter we will simply have to wait and see. the regime has not been shy about using repression in the past john campbell we'll continue to follow this and i'm sure we'll call on you again thank you for your insight we appreciate it thank you very much and has been monitoring the online reaction for us and obviously with this being such a good driven thing obviously the youth take to social media to express themselves
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they do it's been trending and uganda and other parts of the region the hashtag free bobby wine is trending and we've received dozens of messages calling for his release now on twitter many shared messages and cartoons like this one sanding and solidarity with his cause this particular cartoon showing an army of bobby winds all wearing his trademark red berets up against the president of uganda one of them is saying here it doesn't matter how many of us you kill we will always outnumber you and sure defiance to the president now this poster is also demanding that he receive access to medical care his lawyer has been quoted as saying that bobby winds teeth are shaking his private parts have been squeeze and that he is in deep pain now people are also sharing this video of bobby once famous slogan take a listen we are not frighten you we are fighting for you. voters remember. people power our power our power.
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on twitter people are also calling for peaceful protests in countries like kenya the u.s. in washington d.c. germany and in tokyo japan. rebuilt the light of the hour when you got there also using instagram to share art images and video of the different events concerts and marches around the world this video from kenya showing students chanting slogans and holding free bobby wine banners down some of our viewers shared with us why they support by the way i'm supporting who i am because i like the idea of jude's study not again to describe the two leaders who have. joined in africa it is high time for us to see you at the chemical talking to him and bella because i did understand is that he does each despicable we have had our focus for the teleco this president over this for this business and there are
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still rules on this and it's time for almost a suit we are going to. run through him going to. the upcoming very very end of the line. and then you know. we're going to europe that these are the most of any month come the not yet is that the women of you know what we should be really really follow. our. friends. reloading go you. if you're following this movement you can get in touch with us with our hashtag a.j. newsgroup you can also use it to find out more about who bobby wine is and see more of our coverage on him you can also always get in touch with me directly. and fierceness an important question about this what does she want us treatment of bobby wine say about the state of politics in the country and could this be some.

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