had this investigative body that says it's credibly investigating but is in fact not at all an accepted and acceptable sort of substitute for the states themselves actually carrying out credible investigations the charity save the children says that yemen is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child right now because the leaders have in the last few hours called on international bodies to do more to stop the fighting in yemen and they see the international community's silence on the attack two weeks ago and this most recent attack is nothing short of shameful alan fischer al jazeera djibouti. still ahead on al-jazeera australia has a new prime minister for the sixth time in eight years and soon the government's majority could be under wraps. signs of more trouble in saudi arabia's economy as it tries to move away from dependence on oil exports.

hello again we're here across the levant we are still working those temperatures into the mid forty's for many locations dry here on the satellite image not much to talk about in terms of clouds mcquade city on saturday we do expect to see a very high temperature a few of about forty eight degrees not much of a break as we go towards sunday maybe dropping down one degree there up towards tehran thirty four and even warmer up towards back who form what we have seen over the last couple days you can be seeing about thirty degrees as a forecast a high there well unfortunately not good news in terms of humidity across many years of golf don't have forty three degrees but over the next few days the ability is going to be on the rise sunday is going to be a fairly humid day we do expect to see the top you admitted a reaching maybe eighty percent there so thirty nine degrees a factor in the heat index is going to be very uncomfortable for many there down towards the south a lot of clouds over parts of oman and with scott we do expect to see thirty three

degrees and your forecasts i now want to take you down here towards the southern parts of africa we are watching one funnel system that has moved through but for the next few days keep to not looking too bad in terms of the forecasts we do have one just off the coast that is making its way on so fifteen degrees few there on saturday and as we go towards sunday dropping to attempt or a twelve. the foreigners.

rushing out to syria let's pick out the top stories for you federal prosecutors have granted immunity to allen burkey is the longtime chief financial officer of the trunk the administration this is part of the investigation into u.s. president on trump's former personal attorney michael cohen zimbabwe's highest court has upheld the results of last month's presidential election ruling there was no proof of irregularities. narrowly won the vote but the opposition as refuse to accept what it calls fake results united nations says a saudi airstrike has killed at least twenty two children in yemen it struck a camp for displaced people near her data and human rights watch has criticized the

saudi panel investigating alleged war crimes in yemen saying it's not transparent nor end dependent. at least one hundred eighty nine people have been injured on gaza's border with israel the protests have been going on for months the great march of return israeli government accused some of the demonstrators of being what they call terrorists wanting to cross into its territory and carry out attacks. more from the gaza israel border. this is the twenty second week in a row that we've seen these protests on friday along the gaza israel we've seen a lot of gas fired in the last couple of hours what sounds like live ammunition as well i think it's fair to say though that there are less people here this week than we have seen in recent weeks hamas says that the protesters have every right to continue these demonstrations and will continue them i must say until israel's near twelve year land air and sea blockade is lifted now so many people here we've been

speaking to this speculation that one of the reasons why the protests the protests have been less this week is because we are expecting a resumption of these talks being mediated by the egyptians in cairo between hamas the armed factions and israel israel denies that there is any direct conversation going on between them and how mass but we do know that the egyptians have been very keen i've been working very hard to get both parties to. agree to some sort of last thing ceasefire here we also understand that fatah will be sending a delegation from ramallah to participate in those talks as well there are concerns that anything that is seen by either side as being a provocation could initiate another escalation in violence between hamas and israel and of course that would seriously jeopardize those talks in cairo the mass exodus of migrants or venezuela's building towards the refugee crisis in the mediterranean that's the stark comparison coming from the united nations for the

numbers are fleeing economic meltdown and political turmoil in venezuela threatening to overwhelm neighboring countries alison iraqi any reports from from the chalk on the ecuador venezuela border. on bitterly cold morning these venezuelan migrants are trying to catch a ride city ecuadorian border they've been traveling for two weeks some food or in the back of trucks hoping to reach their. final destination before new immigration restrictions take effect on saturday. for the last student says the restrictions should be lifted but going to help the muslim him we get we are not regular immigrants we are displaced by the dictatorship that has kidnapped our country kids are dying of hunger the elderly for lack of medicine and the young who should be the main engine of the country a leaving penniless. south american countries are making it harder for them to enter in their countries in the early august their first declared

a state of emergency when twenty thousand migrants arrived to its border in four days then began requiring a passport to let them in this has left many stranded. and made it to the border with her husband and five year old daughter but unlike bears her passport is about to expire. they told me i can't pos it knocked me down how can my husband and daughter leave without me what am i to do i tried to renew my passport for two years before we left it was impossible. man office says she filed a challenge to ecuador's decision is. demanding protective measures for these people based on our constitution and humanitarian law crime and we hope the judge will. hear there is some help provide free shots for children in need to fix scenes there are tents to spend a night in even

a day care. but most migrants are deciding to continue their journey this fight to the new measures arrivals at this former crossing have gone down from forty five hundred a day to less than five hundred and while some might be remaining in the great majority or taking the risk of crossing illegally while hundreds are now walking through ecuador others get stopped trying. if there's no other way we'll have to pass illegally we can't stay here and we can't go back there's no life left in venezuela none but with no end in sight to the economic crisis back home then it's where loans will continue to migrate well the countries in the region will need better solutions to cope with this more severe crisis and listen to them you know we checker under-development just coming into the news from ecuador has agreed to open what they're calling

a humanitarian corridor for venezuelans wanting to come through their country to get to another destination that is the latest development. saudi arabia is reportedly looking to borrow money from international banks to help stabilize its economy according to the financial times riyadh is seeking eleven billion dollars in loans the decision comes after plans to list at state oil company aramco and the stock market since those plans were delayed they crown prince mohammed bin someone has been looking to use the revenue to launch economic reforms including and besting and high tech companies like over and tesla is thought to be the world's largest oil company that a drop in oil prices and the war in yemen have affected the saudis economy. as editor in chief of the international interest a current affairs website is a saudi arabia's political and economic situation has changed since the i.p.o. is announced. i think what we have to remember first and foremost is the context to

which i feel was originally announced it was technically designed to build confidence to show the world that nothing is off limits that side really is genuinely sincere it's this useful diversification so i think it wanted to leverage this particular big event it was also designed to garner support from donald trump or to help boost up foreign policy by dangling around the potentially being in the new york stock exchange since however that enough of i.p.o. things have changed once the oil prices have started to go back up as opposed to being low as they were before but also saudi arabia finds that donald trump is having more and more the mystic troubles and that their foreign policy that they've built around him is now under threat in other words it doesn't want to give up a stake in it and a state secrets and a stake in it because that cash cow to anybody it was to be able to navigate the difficulties that it faces let's remember that in pakistan they've lost an ally in the wash in recent imraan khan has become prime minister they've lost an ally in

the g. resnick in malaysia and now they have allotted one of who is revamping this particular foreign policy but also one of the samantha the crown prince of saudi arabia faces if this domestic troubles of the two also political prisoner prison as from somewhat of one of these men are all there all of them got only after they didn't believe who cemented their wish all of these other various religious authorities who have lamented wildebeest a man dr who was a liberalization of the particular society one of the cement doesn't want to press saudi society to what australia has and their prime minister after the ruling liberal party replaced its leader scott morrison defeated up on turmel and internal party vote it is the fourth time since two thousand and ten that a prime minister isn't voted out of the job by his or her own party kathy novak reports from sydney i felt john marsden to swear australia is introduced to another

new prime minister to power not in a popular vote but rather installed by colleagues in a party ballot facing a tough job to ensure that we not only bring our party back together. which has been bruised and battered this week traditional grandson here is jack malcolm turnbull became prime minister when he pushed out his predecessor tony abbott in twenty fifteen now turnbull is the latest australian leader to leave before the end of his term a strike will be just dumbstruck and so appalled by the conduct of the last week he blames a campaign of what he calls insurgents within his party and outside it who wanted to see the moderate prime minister replaced with a more conservative peter dutton as minister for immigration done and was known for his hard line in foresman of the country's policy of sending asylum seekers to overseas prison camps he first challenge turnbull in

a leadership contest on choose day and lost he then demanded another vote on friday saying this time he had the support to win and turnbull didn't run as a candidate how the insurgents were not rewarded by electing mr dutton for example but instead the successor who i wish the very best of course scott morrison a very loyal and effective treasurer goals like that in mars and was once immigration minister in charge of controversial asylum policies he had backed turbo to remain prime minister before friday's vote has been a lot of talk this week. about his side people are on in this building. and what just annoyed me to tell you. is the new generation of liberal leadership. is where on your side australians are generally unhappy with what they see as a revolving door system of leadership scott morrison now faces the difficult task

of uniting his party before facing the australian public in a federal election in less than a year. before that morrison government which has a majority of just one seat is likely to have another electoral test. malcolm turnbull says he'll leave parliament soon triggering a byelection for his electorate kathy novak al jazeera sydney. a large global study published in the lancet medical journals says there is no safe level of alcohol comes on consumption previous research suggested that high light light to moderate drinking could protect against heart disease but the new study of alcohol use in one hundred ninety five countries found that even an occasional class increases the risk of health problems or dying the reporters repeats two point eight million premature deaths worldwide every year to alcohol and it found that an average of two drinks a day led to a seven percent rise in disease compared to people who do not drink max chris wall

from the diversity of washington is the study's lead author he says any benefit to drinking alcohol is far outweighed by the risks. well it did both diabetes and heart disease which have on occasion and protect that but we also looked at a whole other battery of conses specifically cancers a wide range of them some you know diseases and injuries found that when you take into consideration all of these factors there's no real benefit to drinking across the spectrum of consumption is the study will consider cutting your consumption in half or just a little bit any amount can be hugely beneficial given the shape of the risk for it rises exponentially with consumption so we're very heavy drinker you'll see huge benefits by cutting down by a drink per day and if you're still drinking one drink per day you'll see huge benefits of the down as well she said re not every year you have a seven out of one hundred grams of developing one is condition and when we look at the global population that's an immense amount of harm the average male drinker

it's not consuming around two drinks per day a lot of recommendations still say up to two drinks per day is good for your health i want to counter that evidence by really looking at the full spectrum of the research that's been performed on alcohol is nearly a million people remain displaced from their homes in the indian state of curl as it recovers from the worth of life and a century many are now questioning whether the disaster could have been avoided in a state that's otherwise who's to have a monsoon season and a center thomas reports from the town of some claim over a development and the mismanagement of reservoirs. hundreds of people have died more than a million fled their homes but how that trip was carolyn's disaster the quantity of rain it was unprecedented two and a half times the normal figure for office so far but environmentalists say properly managed its land and rivers would have absorbed it and channeled it to the sea over

development in flood plains is to blame left but. claiming that even as an wetlands for other uses that is one of them a good thing which i agree we did was to do it another way the flood plains in the form of paddy was on about plants what are they going to accommodate on morsels of water. the floods were made worse a environmentalist by quantities of plastic rubbish clocking rivers stopping them flowing faster instead the rivers burst their banks but even with those issues the floods say some could have been avoided aside from the long term impact of environmental mismanagement and pollution there is another way that some here are seeing this as a manmade disaster they're blaming those who manage the dams and reservoirs carola has fifty three large reservoirs with a collective capacity of nearly seven trillion liters of water they are managed primarily for hydro electricity production and irrigation for farmers meaning operators are reluctant to let the water go when it's not needed so they were near

capacity before the worst of the rain fell when it did the water had to be suddenly released to stop dam walls breaking people think infrastructure is a security against flood but more of the flood waters did not come from the rain they come from the release of their downs never happened before if we know too much rain is coming dams should releasing water as gently and not impounding the last drop and then flooding people's out of their homes it's likely no one factor caused carolus flooding but human activity and inactivity so. wes anderson as al-jazeera call them. these are your headlines on al-jazeera federal prosecutors have granted immunity to allen weisel berg the long time chief financial officer of the trump organization and this is part of the investigation into u.s.

president onil trump's former personal attorney michael cohen some bobby's highest court has upheld president emerson and god was election when at last month. the supporter celebrated in the capital harare the opposition launched the challenge saying the vote was rigged the judges say they found no evidence of irregularities and goggle will be sworn in on sunday. yeah because it is dismissed with schools. in terms of six nine two three subsection four. progress. in months on number two number one. is. do we know of the prison. and it's the july. two thousand the. united nations says a saudi air strike has killed at least twenty two children in yemen and struck

a camp for displaced people near who data at least thirty people died and human rights watch has criticized a saudi panel investigating alleged war crimes in yemen saying it's not transparent or independent ecuador's opening what it calls a humanitarian corridor for buses carrying venezuelans escaping economic crisis back home hundreds of thousands have been leaving for neighboring countries like brazil peru and colombia the u.n. is comparing this mass exodus to the refugee crisis in the mediterranean. yes republican senator john mccain's family says he is stopping all treatment for brain cancer mccain announced he had the disease last year his family says he's surpassed expectations for his survival eighty one year old mccain has been a vocal opponent of the u.s. president on a trump he is a military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam australia has a new prime minister after malcolm turnbull lost his second leadership challenge in a week as former treasurer scott morrison has been sworn in as the sixth leader in

eight years those are the headlines please to keep it here on al-jazeera much more to come inside story that's next. uganda's pop star turned opposition m.p. bobby wine is facing a charge of treason and his supporters say he was beaten while in custody as the government faces protests and widespread condemnation so what's behind the recent unrest this is inside story.

welcome to this edition of inside story on the whole robin perhaps the best known face of the ugandan opposition bobby wine is in custody once again facing a charge of treason which carries the death penalty the singer who became an m.p. last year has been a strong critic of president yarima seventy who's been in power since one thousand nine hundred eighty six his arrest last week led to widespread protests and a crackdown by state forces and when he showed up in court on thursday why showed signs of injuries his supporters say that he was beaten while in military custody well we have a lot to discuss with our guests but first this report from katherine saw in the ugandan capital kampala. this is the man many ugandans had been wanting to see twelve you wind up popular musician and member of parliament appeared at a military court in the north end town of looking weak and in pain he had been in military cassidy's since last wednesday he was arrested following violence in local

election campaigns in the north after president yoweri in the seventies mottaki it was attacked the state withdrew the military related charges of possession of firearms and ammunition. set free i'm less than him on how to judge if. it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not really free in the future grain to want to and they're resisting him now he was immediately taken to a magistrate's court where he was charged with treason with intent to more harm to the passing of the president of the republic or uganda i don't know fully. understand moved towards their faith. and smile she. the real when screwed over the pretty sure. income part of the government's deployed belief and soldiers in some parts of the city but i mean it's hard to

quantify if you're living where we are right now trying to prevent people from gathering or trying to get to their town center security forces also blocked several opposition politicians from leaving them. opposition leader who has been arrested and detained often over the years was again taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off their new people cutting off forty million people. so people whenever the they must be able to widen the current we are wired to the heart of the magistrate in gulu ordered that wind gets argenta medical care and that doctors be allowed and he needed access to him he will remain in cassidy until the end of the month when he appears in court the thirty two others also charged with treason. all the while he supporters in good

cheer him on saying the want to relent until he's free catherine so i al-jazeera. before we bring in our guest let's take a quick look at uganda's political history it gained independence from britain in one nine hundred sixty two with milton obote as prime minister in one thousand nine hundred eighty one about it was toppled in a military coup led by army chief mean a means time in power included expulsion of asians and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of his own people in one nine hundred seventy nine tanzania invaded uganda forcing i mean to flee the country the year later milton obote he regained power after elections and became president but five years later he was deposed in another military coup and in one thousand nine hundred six national resistance army rebels took compiler and installed yarima seventy as president and he's been in power of a sense. all tautologous in a moment but first let's go to the ugandan capital kampala where we're joined on

the telephone line by opposition m.p. alan says one yama good to have you with us on inside story can you tell us what the situation is like on the ground it must be quite tense here of course this ration is not. it is quite tense. this month where we had an election campaign going bad. and some of our members of the opposition who are going to campaign for a member. where is checked by police clearly one of the grave. grave in one of the image problem in. some of them we originated from guru where it states when we need to rebalance income parlor over allegations of satan various and some of the entries i'm another one corner broad. for having we pour news which is the limits pillars of this country because we are the opposition we have had such problems and we know. what comes along

with proposing a government which does include freedom of movement freedom of speech and cannot give peace to the opposition if this is the valley if this is the underbelly of what you're experiencing right now as a member of the opposition and from the phone calls you must have been having with many of your supporters across uganda how do you feel about your own safety considering what's happened to bobby wine of course much concerned more on makes trusted because we've been into this. with you know posing the government together with the same age and the main problem that we are causing to the government now since we are youths we call on the message to the youth family tickets to. much. i'm concerned for any more because i know that what i do watched by government and that's why even to get me on the phone it has been

a problem to you. we don't have any security we don't have anything we or is being taken to preserve and police like yesterday when i tried to go on their witness a good session of my friend juggling me i was arrested at home which clearly states that i'm not eva or go to milly problems our supporters are being detained or you see the big gun people being from where homes and arrested have been killed so we are for tougher taman gonda due to the repeat which is not going on well indeed i think you color a very concerning picture for the global audience so watching this edition of inside story allen sus one yama thanks very much for joining us income policy. well let's bring in our guests now from london we have joseph sheena he's a commentator on african affairs in the ugandan capital kampala rose bellecourt

america a blogger and writer of african issues and affairs and also in london alex vines who's the head of the africa program at chatham house welcome to all of my guests robin i'll start with you because we heard what an opposition m.p. is thinking and saying and feeling in the capital that you come from this evening how much concern is that amongst the public and on social media about what's going on. thank you for having me there really is the man wouldn't come but i like the owner m.p. has say it's really tense ugandans were shaken yesterday seeing images of bobby one who could hardly walk but himself he was i'm glad chair and for a whole week we've been looking at images of another empty voice own are in hospital and it's been our life support so that the money is really tears in people or really afraid of what future will have elections it's

a do or die indeed those elections twenty twenty one just to see let me bring you in from london i mean how much of a threat can a songwriter singer x. rapper really be here's a shocker isn't this so here is i think in context this is really not new seven has been in power for thirty two years he came to power violently but he also used violence for the fast ten years of his government to suppress the democratic opposition over a period of time coming to about twenty years when the traditional recenter position like is a basic a mean he was one of their own dissident got as much a beating as made of this opposition leaders have had what is new is that what we want is relatively young as you i guess seem to suggest but also too because he came from a cycle that was supposed to know and he was three years old when seven came to power so i think there is an element of him. unity and complicity in government but the fact that this guy came means two dozen independent m.p. went to parliament has not supported two independent candidates and they've won and

he's able to stand up he's a singer is an artist and by the way he's also able to talk to articulate without prejudice where in politics we probably assume that at least not necessarily guys would actually play intellectual rigor when it comes to politics would be politics it is substantially new what is it is the case that the international community is now joining all ugandans and listening for the kind of messages but really has been across the country for the last nearly thirty two years and that is what is going on it is a new it's being impacted factor social media indeed and we'll talk about what the international community hopefully later in the program alex vines play bring you in here from london as well how much of a breath of fresh air is bobby why and how much of a threat is the to be seventy in the lead up to presidential elections in twenty twenty one under mr i'm a seventy as is nervous he's worried he has been as you know the previous speaker said been in power since one thousand nine hundred six over thirty and coming up to thirty years of that's a tremendously long period of time and there's a desire for change there's a desire for change in uganda particularly because so many ugandans the majority of

them were born after mr mo seventy became president so there's an a there is a desire for a new narrative new politics new ways of doing things and somebody that doesn't come from the stable of of of liberation if with some way we call it from the national resistance army background is something that's completely new system a seventy will be very concerned about his chances for a sixth term and alex how important is he one when the elections are next held how important is the youth vote in recent elections in pakistan we saw how important social media and the youth vote were a youth vote where they weren't following the designated political parties here in in uganda we're seeing the same sort of trend where we have a generation who won't remember as you say. the liberation so to speak of uganda from various military coups and. democratically elected governments as the as and

when they were how influential are is such a young population in uganda at the moment when they have someone like bobby wine who speaks their language i mean bobby wine is a charismatic young politician he speaks their language he is the the standard bearer of change and representing new politics and so plenty of ugandans will will be interested in him not only that i think there's international interest because of this and also we have to look at the historical pattern that's developing the pattern that we're seeing at the moment across africa is that longstanding leaders lightness missed in the seventy are increasingly under pressure a couple of longstanding leaders left office last year this is a trend we're going to see continuing as these leaders get older and older and more divorced from the politics of you indeed i mean rosabel in kampala bobby wine seems

to cross cultural barriers and doesn't really care about tribal affiliations or political divides even if somebody is fighting a member of a seat in parliament and he's not from bobby wides party bobby is still supporting him and that's very important it's showing sort of a cross political support that wasn't in ugandan politics before is that correct and how is that resonating amongst again the younger generation or even the older generation how they viewing this i think you have to realize uganda is the second youngest country in the world with an average age of nineteen abhi wine came to the national scene around two thousand and three through his music saw we grew up pretty much myself the university gave up on wines music and. and that's the experience the first experience and his music slowly began to appeal to the political to carry political messages and you have to see also he story he grew up

in an informal settlements in the suburbs in fact he'd look at iran as the get a president so he fled god and in people or ten feet from a particular their issues he knows what it means to come from the trenches and be somebody and seat in a place where nobody expected you to be and bring your own tape bring your own feet to the table he has done that to the state of war so that the story young guns relates to rather than somebody who was part and parcel of the military of the current establishment they are seeing a new face somebody they can relate to finally and he cuts across tribal lands because we have been a young generation that a pretty much can see beyond tribal lands jason i bring you in here because all realize that he's a fresh young face of the political stream but if you take away gun charges and the new charge him with treason which is potentially

a capital crime but you put him behind bars you take that face away from the potential electorate how dangerous a game is the government playing right now with these charges extremely dangerous of course the been to this before and obviously. rosemary would rather would suggest and like i said my challenge we've been at this game for the last thirty three years the only difference is that we're not covering them on al-jazeera you know the truth is that was having a charge to people with treason from as early as ninety six from some of his many friends of people who've been charged with treason driven in uganda in their hundreds perhaps so kids are basically himself was judged retrieve and many of this that would have been trumped up charges the more you charge people like bobby one and there's a case of this world and put them in prison the more you make it much more difficult the reality today is it's not even perhaps about even bobbie one person. it is very much about where uganda is at the moment and in fact the talk about the questions of identity and even ideological divides is no longer part of that

ugandans are very much focused about basically wanting change basically wanting to do anything they would like onto to basically simply say not to most of the extant that actually people now came into the streets of london across the world in unprecedented numbers they're really not caring about. bubby wind power lies double substructure but mostly point to this simply just a tad so anything the line or two at the moment is about it will be way. beyond where they don't act independently they quite surprised me i don't know who advises this government this days but i actually did what they did last week if they did anything far worse than what they've so far done today they would make this trip it was for themselves it only so bring you in here because the international reaction to this is pretty varied we've seen demonstrations by m.p.'s in neighboring kenya we have question marks as to whether the commonwealth or even the african union will make any statements but the us certainly has and it says in its.

text in its social media message that it decried the decried the brutal treatment of m.p.'s journalists and other security forces by the incumbent government and when you have musicians such as chris martin christy hein brian and the african great for me cutie also getting in weighing in on this arrest and the situation in uganda again there is concern there is a lot in the international realms there that there is look uganda is seen as an anchor state it's a country that has seen a significant degree of stability. since the the eighty's and there's been significant investment it is a rough neighborhood it's got south sudan next to it it's got the democratic republic of the congo as a neighbor but there is increasing concern that mr ms seventy after so many terms in office is increasingly becoming a source of instability i think the reading is that his own ambition missed in the

seventies vision is probably to remain in office for many more years and maybe die of natural causes in office that's not a sustainable proposition so i can see increasing international signaling. that things need to change in uganda the reality though is things will only in change ugandan in uganda if ugandans themselves graphs graphs the opportunity and i think clearly the new politics that's happening partly of van guarded by bobby wine is exactly what is occurring which is that mr mo seventy really doesn't want. to countenance any you know any exit and you know is convinced he will be elected or reelected should i say in twenty twenty one so he wasn't trying to interrupt alex that's just bring up to speed with the more information for our viewers back at home because uganda has

a population of over thirty four million people with more than three quarters of them under the age of thirty as has been mentioned earlier in this conversation agriculture is an important part of the economy employing one third of ugandans but an estimated fourteen point two million people are still half the population of ought to be living in extreme poverty both leading in from what alex just said there about you know what the population must really need what the international community looking at if you just look at you know in your neighborhood of zimbabwe we saw and we still see that over the garbage there was still a great deal of poverty a great deal of nks them on the public because they wanted to see their lives better i mean the average wage for a household according to the ugandan national household survey of twenty sixteen that's the most recent we have is forty five dollars a month it's one percent g.d.p. and eighty five percent of the population are in informal paid work i mean they're terrible statistics for

a country that is rich in resources and potential and a lot of the population where you already just don't feel as if they're part of that growth i think you have to realize that we have a very high youth unemployment in this. untrained and several reports from the world by from other agencies sure but for every three ugandans that's help managed to go out of the four buttons keep the poverty line two of them four but because they're not the full security mechanisms as all young people can cause the majority of those who fall back into poverty and they're increasingly you know i just teetered with that every day have hundreds of ugandans the lining up at our airports going to the middle east to do educate the ugandans with graduate degrees to do seem queer led by jobs to be house helps to do a domestic work and that really shows the day our need of any economic reform that

is necessary to turn things around but unfortunately the government of president was seventy is well known for its financial hundred of this nation he runs a very highly. political or a political system that benefits him where he has to reward his people the people he chooses with a lot of money he just paid of a lot of letters for him to bust that to remove that edge limit which would have deterred him from running again so he has a lot of ways he finds a way through all these monies that find their way to his supporters but they don't find their way to the budget alive and to invest in the key areas which are supposed to spark their unnecessary development we've seen a constitutional change joseph where the president stands now will continue though and i'm quoting here from two thousand and twelve to a local television station where he said that he did not want to lead uganda beyond

the age of seventy five we know that's not going to happen. one has to sort of work in the realms of hypotheticals now to a certain extent and we've seen people and people in power in africa deposed by the military uganda is no stranger to that what is the role of the military at the moment are they in the seventies pocket or are they an independent group that can think for themselves if the situation with the public gets worse. uganda is perhaps the most unique only followed by rhonda is basically in the seventies baby moby whine as you hear the talk about the gun with seven immediately mention anything to do with guns he gets scared he's a former police chief who himself a general he's actually facing trial today gun related part of this is actually linked to that year politics of the region where seven and because i'm a not particularly good friends with each other and all of both of them are collect using the other of wanting to ferment opposition to the other you can read into between that but the point alex was making about stability that's part of the challenge for us in africa you know australia has had the fourth prime minister

since two thousand and ten australia is not in step and several in africa in particular in uganda where grist with the seven way. the narrative of stability was used to actually entrench one man in power and with seventy regular responsible really for most of the instability in the region of stability in africa when as long as to means one person who is able to hold state power but using military might back to one live by the west it becomes rather unfortunate for us going forward those seven didn't as i said no no that he would be challenged in this with the reality that he fears that come the next elections the threshold is such that perhaps it might even be harder for him to get fifty one percent of the water and therefore be taken to second run and ugandans would rally around whoever is the alternative and that alternative is likely going to be backed by the vast majority of young people so it's a scare for him ok alex of what can see for the last questions were at the end of the program nearly if we fast sold to the future we don't know what that will bring

if wind is incarcerated and sentenced to death for treason housecoat how's that going to play out from the seventies government and also within the domestic public do you think in the international community. i think it will be very difficult for uganda i think that you'll get western countries. don't regard uganda strategic so there can be a moral element to their foreign policy and the ugandan economy is very vulnerable it's not us as a strong economy it needs foreign direct investment it is in a difficult neighborhood so i hope that the ugandan government will think very carefully on how it progresses at the moment because it is a vulnerable economy and if the economy deteriorates further that would in turn in packed on the politics even more it would exacerbate things even further for mr i'm a seventy so this is a really important watershed moment for the country i think and its future political trajectory well i think your other guests as well on the show will do

nodding in agreement turned their unfortunate we have to leave i'd like to thank all of my guests joseph sheena roosevelt quite dramatic and alex fine for joining me on this edition of inside story and thank you for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website at al-jazeera dot com and for further discussion go to our facebook page that's at facebook dot com forward slash al-jazeera inside story you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is inside story for me said holroyd and the entire inside story team thanks very much for your time and your company by phone and. i.

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about alleged payments. celebrations as a boy's highest court upholds president. election win. good news for the thousands of venezuelans who were stranded at the border with ecuador after leaving their country in search of a better life. changes leaders for the sixth time in eight years the country's treasurer wins a party showdown. and in sport all the latest from the asian games where japanese teenager a capo and becomes the first glimmer to win six gold medals at a single game. prosecutors in the u.s. have granted immunity to a top executive at the trump organization allen weisel berg is the chief financial officer of that organization and this is part of an investigation that involves

president ronald trump's former personal attorney michael cohen on choose to. cohen pleaded guilty to campaign finance violations and other charges accuse the president of ordering him to pay two women allegedly had an affair with sheraton's he joins us live from washington d.c. i think this is clearly indicative of the fact that investigators know far more than the public and journalists do about what's really going on what else have we learned she had. right but do their work i mean the lot of unanswered questions now lots of speculation about what investigators know and what they're up to but it appears from the reports that weisel bug testified before a grand jury in that case against michael cohen longtime fix cohen admitting eventually to being part of what he said was a criminal conspiracy to break campaign finance law at the request of donald trump by paying hush money to two women who who claim to have an affair with donald trump

that would be a violation of campaign finance law because of the amounts of money being used to help donald trump's presidential campaign allegedly and some of that money is allegedly thought to have gone through the trump organization so clearly our weisel book would know how that how that transaction or those transactions might have been made he would also be able to give information i would imagine to prosecutors about when donald trump knew and what he knew and so on he asked for immunity he received immunity that suggests two things one he thought that his testimony would put him in legal jeopardy and he was granted that immunity which suggests the prosecutors thought it was worth waiving any criminal prosecution off to get that information. that speculation begins to intensify why give weisel this gate keeper of doldrums finances immunity to go after cohen are there other investigations underway or to simply about getting cohen to plead guilty or other investigations underway into

the rest of the trump organization the business dealings of tories lee murky organization notoriously private organization and if there are then who would prosecutors be going after well who's above weisel bugg members of thomas family and old trump himself that's the kind of speculation that's going on but it is speculation we don't really know what the deals are the terms of the immunity deal we don't know the scope of the immunity deal and we don't know whether prosecutors are actually doing any of this other stuff so end this past week just like the not . past few days a couple other people from donald trump's inner circle have been in legal jeopardy obviously a former campaign manager and convicted on a charges of fraud donald trump praised him on twitter his former attorney michael cohen to get guilty he did not say kind things about him on twitter has he responded to this yet not to this actually in the last few minutes and i'm sure you'll mention this in a minute he's been tweeting about the prospects of a deal with north korea he hasn't been talking about this and there's been reports that he hasn't gone i mean he's things are tense in the white house but he hasn't

had the kind of meltdown that was in the new york times i think but yes i mean there is there are lots of cliches being thrown around the of if you don't win those falling and walls closing and i haven't thought of a better one frankly i believe don't really know what is going on in the in the in the investigation and of course this has nothing to do with the russian vest occasion which is where this all start of this prosecution did begin with special counsel robot mode he was going through affairs and took a look at this and then referred it to the new york prosecutors say well you might want to take a look at this about those actually help them from in some ways because this is nothing to do with russia you can people are saying it's a witch hunt that resonates with his his base this was supposed to be at russia but instead all these people around him are being being prosecuted for things they would never been prosecuted for howard's donald trump lost the election and hillary clinton won because actually quite frankly for most of the financial crimes and so on the one percent tends to get away with it while america's prisons are filled with the nation's poor. press in washington d.c. she had thank you. john you say no suppressor postal science and international

studies that i own a college she joins us via skype from newark we appreciate your time very much so this this immunity deal for the former chief financial officer of the trump organization it didn't just happen it happened a while ago we're just now finding out about it having said that the prosecutors have been making these kinds of deals those kinds of progress for quite some time what does that say to you about where where they are in this investigation or where they're going with this investigation. well it's a significant development today as you mentioned previously out twice for the head of the transplant organization the national arm of drums organization has gotten its grant of immunity and we don't know about the specifics as you mentioned we don't know when you mean it covers we don't know cover state charges for instance but it's a significant development because one of the challenges prosecutors had when it came to michael cohen these of the president trump is now occasions against donald

trump is that michael cohen is not the most credible witness and there's a lot that depends tourney prosecutors attorneys of all crime do to discredit him what you have when you bring weisberg what you have when you bring in or is you have somebody else to potentially we we assume corroborate what michael cohen is saying these are b. donald trump so that is even norma's concern for donald trump although i would underscore again what you were just talking about which is this has to do with finance violations has nothing to do with russian pollution but it does raise the specter that there is going to be a lot more because this is motor investigation has been far reaching it has that methodical and so far incredibly successful and i are getting pleased or convictions many people close to trump right exactly and although did this particular thing with weisel berg and michael cohen isn't specifically about russian collusion as donald trump it likes to say. to robert muller has gotten

other plea deals in his russian collusion and best acacia just not these very specific people so when you think about that you think about the fact that just this week three people in trump's inner circle have come in contact with with the legal system is there some point at which republicans will have to be more pointed and what they say about this how they address this. you know republicans are in a real bind i think we're not going to hear a lot from republicans and someone unless mother comes out with his report or the midterm election if republicans have a very core showing in the midterm elections we may hear a lot more in terms of peeling off away from the president of course their concern right now is that as they started to speak out against the president they're going to feel it at the ballot box this november so they are between something a rock and a hard place when it comes to balancing between you know their inclination is to say that this is important the type of corruption is not what we wanted when we got

out front then and of course the idea that they have to get about a thirty forty percent they really does support the president and they could feel it in a low turnout republican election in november jeannie what does that say that this still all seems like the bottom line still comes down to winning elections and not of help the rule of law not about the stat the status of the presidency. yeah i mean it's you know it is what politics is and has ben and i wouldn't even say has become but has then you know you have a party here and that is trying desperately to hold onto power in washington d.c. and we've seen many many republicans hold their nose and support the president for that very reason and there's no other reason they would stick by donald trump through all of this from the access access hollywood take on down to as you mentioned these three cleveland convictions this week all dealing with torrid

issues of prostitutes you know of allegations of massive corruption of campaign laws and all of this from somebody who promised to clean up washington d.c. or drain the swamp as he like to say so it's a very bad week for republicans and there's almost nothing they can do about it now except try not to talk about it which is what we see mitch mcconnell the majority leader in the senate and paul ryan the party and speaker of the house trying to do is stay above or out. he will really tough for republicans this week jane is a no good to talk to you thank you very much so bob wise highest court has upheld president there were some in god was election went last month. ah. the supporter celebrated in the capital harare the opposition launched the challenge saying the vote was rigged the judges found no evidence of irregularities and in god will be sworn in on sunday. because it is dismissed with cause.

in ninety three subsection four sabato graph of the. number two number. is jordan. do we know of the prison. on the. two thousand and two you. are a has more from harare. just. lions only gave general allegations nothing specific no proof no evidence that the election was rigged he declared innocent agogo the winner of the july thirty polls to what happens next according to the constitution he has to be sworn in within forty eight hours the swearing in ceremony will happen on sunday at the national sports stadium in harare what's the way forward for the opposition the m.d.c. alliance they think that on wednesday the national council is going to meet and

decide a way all would be political which could involve including the regional body that it's asking the united nations to come in and intervene they haven't ruled. on the first of august when opposition supporters were angry with the delay of the presidential results and went on the streets the violence that erupted often with its own people six people was shocking killed by soldiers so i'm well aware of our going back on the streets they've also said they haven't quite ruled out the possibility of a power sharing deal with the rulings on a party that of course has to be discussed in the national council meeting the plan to have an wayne say. they have no plans to shape our position according to them they say they want this election and it was three and three. and dependent africa policy analyst some former executive director for africa action he says this experience was good for democracy election also involved wrong.