that means prison when god was in operation would be on sunday opposition leaders insist the lesson was reg's and they say they'll carry on fighting the course decision is final there is no room for an appeal we are to wait it within the law whatever we are going to do we are going to do these things within the law we we have convened we are going to convene sort of the national council of the. of the party on wednesday ended with a way for what violence shortly after voting day itself had raised tensions the army shot at protesters who are unhappy with the delay in releasing the results six people were killed the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says his supporters are still being systematically targeted. gore won by a narrow margin political analysts say he now has a child night a deeply divided country he also needs to turn around some other struggling economy but he needs outside help to do that. mind on board an

italian coast guard ship for more than a week and i one hunger strike italy and the e.u. have clashed over who should take them in the european commission says a wind down to threats made by italy over the one hundred fifty people being held off the coast of sicily deputy prime minister louis today miles says he would withhold twenty three billion dollars of e.u. funding unless other member countries took in the refugees prosecutors in sicily have opened an investigation into whether the migrants are being held against their will. here's what's coming up your knowledge is here a medical workers fighting the ebola outbreak in democratic republic of congo are now facing another threats bad news for those who believe that a drink a day keeps the doctor away. from the waves of the sounds. to the contours of the east.

hello there we've had a phenomenal amount of rain in taiwan it really has been incredibly wet here all thanks to this developing system that's over the top of us at the moment it is expected to move away towards the northwest slowly over the next day or so but while it was with us it gave some places eight hundred millimeters of rain in just twenty four hours and this is why eight hundred millimeters of rain does you see that call there beginning to float away and clearly it's just a phenomenal amount of rain that's on the streets that now as i say the worst of the weather does appear to be over because the system is moving away towards the north be can see many of us in the southeastern parts of china three taiwan and across the philippines are looking at some very wet weather not only for saturday but also on sunday as well a bit further towards the south and for the southern parts of the philippines actually plenty of drawing weather around at the moment and it's also dry for most of us in the southern parts of borneo to java and across into bali look fine and

dry bit further towards the west there's a few more showers here singapore will see most of them as we head through saturday sunday should be a slight you draw a day over towards india and the wettest weather at the moment is in the northeast is also affecting us in bangladesh plenty of rain here for saturday to. do with sponsored by the time he's. been there and there's something intrinsically linked to the slave trade where you are so one can. system and insurance companies there's no way to separate that kind of terror from the labor on the plantation from the profits that lou produced. had asked in europe industrialized slavery and amassed its great wealth resistance began to take full. from shoulder to rebellion episode to have slavery when it's on al-jazeera.

you are with al-jazeera and these are the top stories this hour donald trump's blaming china for a lack of progress on the denuclearization of north korea it's the first time he has acknowledged there are problems with the outcome of the deal he signed in june with north korea's leader kim jong il and federal prosecutors in the u.s. meanwhile have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire alan russell book has been questioned as part of an investigation into michael cohen trump's former personal lawyer of course has implicated the president in breaking campaign finance laws and a judge in ecuador has suspended the recently imposed entry restrictions on venezuelans earlier this month ecuador not spent as well as would need

a passport valid passport to get in the court order means they just need their id cards for the next forty five days. the story has a new prime minister after the ruling the party replaced its leader scott morrison and internal party vote after his predecessor malcolm turnbull lost the support of the party this is the fourth time since twenty ten that in australian prime minister has been voted out of the job by their own party kathy novak reports from sydney i spoke john morris in this way 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 now 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 just to die for example but instead the my successor who i wish the very best of course scott morrison a very loyal and effective treasurer girls 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 it's 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 mars and government which has a majority of just one seat is likely to have another electoral test. now can turnbull says he'll leave parliament soon triggering a byelection for his electorate having know that al-jazeera sickening. u.s. senator john mccain is stopping treatment for his brain cancer his family says he

has quote surpassed expectations for survival a prominent republican senator and true and eight presidential election candidate announced he had the disease last year mccain is a distinguished military veteran who spent years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and investigation in the u.s. state of arizona has found the border patrol there has been under reporting the number of migrant deaths for years but it is being used to help identify those who have died trying to cross that us mexico border and he gallacher has our report from tucson. north we're going to hit this site for years overall enciso has been scaring the sonoran desert with one goal in mind the colombian born artist wants to expose its secrets by on or in the dead along with a team of volunteers alvarez planted six hundred crosses each represents a life lost on a deadly frontier. when the families see that because there's somebody here that

cares i'm doing this to sort of give them a little bit of a voice to the casualties to the fallen heroes you know that the me they are fallen heroes do come all the way from there to leave everything behind the to look for a better life here it's it's quite a journey that should be. then aerated in some way works inspired by arizona's so-called death map it's a joint project between state officials and activists that shows close to three thousand people have died in the last fifteen years this does it covers an area of more than a quarter of a million square kilometers in the summertime temperatures exceed one hundred degrees at night it gets very cold and yet those seeking a better life continue to try and cross and they continue to lose their lives what's happening here in the borderlands of arizona is nothing short of a humanitarian crisis you can see we have some of the long bones from the lower

extremities and we have portions of the power of us around one in three of those found to go unidentified but karner gregory has who helped develop the map wants to change that you have somebody is missing and people are looking for them clearly that provide can provide a sense of closure if they are found even if it is kind of tragic but it also provides us a sense of satisfaction to try to answer those questions for families activists say was the number of illegal crossings has fallen migrants are being forced to take bigger risks this is the consequence of paramilitary techniques being used over fifteen years of death mapping what we see people are dying closer to the international line and farther from towns and roads we're literally pushing people to their death there's sonoran desert has a secret three thousand people have died here two thousand are missing overall will continue to plant crosses in the desert but says he doesn't have enough to pay tribute to those who lost their lives and

a guy like rogers era tucson arizona. hurricane lane has weakened further on friday it drenched eight islands in hawaii but u.s. federal emergency officials are warning it still remains a threat as it moves towards the islands of. residents there have been warned they may lose water and electricity heavy rain has already caused. me flooding and landslides on hawaii's main island the big island heavy gusts of wind fueling a large wildfires well on the island of maui nigeria's shut down its busiest bridge for maintenance the third main land bridge as it's called links lagos island to the shores of the capital and it's nearly twenty million people so i mean interest has been looking at that aging bridge and the disruption that will follow the shutdown. for just the third time in just forty year history nigeria's busiest bridge is shut to traffic. and this is why. cracks and damage in the

structure are source of concern for motorists who say they're worried by the recent bridge collapse in italy that killed several people ask rock. what was on the beach and there is a gullible want. to do not to be fancy go on with his lawyers lol. it will remain closed for three days as engineers conduct a variety of tests. this is a typical day on this bridge an important road connecting lagos financial and commercial centers. an average of one hundred thousand cars plus the name of their friend margaret every day eleven thousand eight hundred metres from china is nigeria's longest and resist bridge the maintenance was being carried out is by far the biggest that was not was realized as solid as financial joints are ready getting back and the need to be changed and this there is will also review the most

critical ones that require replacement divers sent in to investigate also discover damage caused by pollution to sections of the bridge under water some of this aggressive chemical. let me say. horse. little problems they are in there which needs to be taking care of engineers explained that despite the evident faults the bridge does not have any major safety issues for now if you do it on spring because of the spring underneath the so in the way it is just part prove your expression for a city already struggling with congestion the bridge closure has led to further destruction in certain parts of lagos island. that appear work is expected to start informant's it will last for more than two years and that could mean more traffic headaches for a city of twenty million people. degrees al-jazeera lagos nigeria

the world health organization says the ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo has reached a point it had been dreading a doctor in the east has become the first likely case in what is one of the country's most violent inaccessible zones his latest outbreak declared in the town of north kivu where aid workers and government officials are being held hostage the full story now with sharp bellus this is a united nations video of a thirteen year old boy in manga the a.p. center of the latest ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo. is also a conflict zone journalist conquered unsafely so the u.n. films. before. they all died of ebola was my entire family was my mom initially and then my sister's an answer followed another is in the hospital i've lost family members again. this month ebola has spread from the

town of manga across two provinces and is now in six locations the area sits stage four on the un security scale stage five is evacuate immediately. it requires a daily risk assessment of how to reach people who vaccinations investigations and psychosocial here fifty three children have been orphaned in the outbreak. and i can't just kill myself i must continue to live even in this situation. the world health organization has one hundred fifty staff and east india say this week for the first time health workers used a military escort to reach a town where a doctor had died of a bowler because which is almost entirely surrounded by one of the main insurgency groups called the a.d.f. on pretty much all sides of the town and there's been many security issues including. civilian deaths. the a.d.f.

or allied democratic forces is a ugandan rebel group it's feiss ambushed a un base in december killing fifteen peacekeepers. where the a.d.f. is the un isn't which opens up blind spots for ebola detection and treatment. but where conflict is complicating the response science is helping us for forty years ebola has been incurable with a fifty percent fatality rate but now a breakthrough more than a dozen people are being successfully treated with two experimental drugs another three treatments have been approved for use. thirteen hundred others have been vaccinated but the concern remains health workers can immunize against ebola but not against the threats of an active conflicts are in dallas al-jazeera. now apparently there is no safe level of alcohol consumption so says a study in the lancet medical journal and look at alcohol use in one hundred ninety

five countries and found even an occasional glass increases the risk of health problems or death the report attributes two point eight million premature deaths worldwide every year to alcohol and found an average of two drinks a day led to a seven percent rise in disease compared to people who didn't drink at all here is max griswold from the university of washington the study's lead author who told us any benefit of drinking alcohol is unfortunately far outweighed by the risks. both diabetes and heart disease which have on occasion in fact that but we also looked at a whole order battery of causes this difficult cancers wide range of down 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 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 or day and if you're still drinking one drink per day you'll see huge benefits of the down as well he said re not every year you have a seven out of one hundred cans a developing one is condition and when we look at the global population that's an immense amount of our the average male drinker it's now consuming around two drinks per day a lot of recommendations still say up to two drinks per day is good for your health want to counter that evidence by really looking at the full spectrum of the research that's been performed on. headlines for you know an al-jazeera donald trump is criticize china for a lack of progress on the denuclearization of north korea it's the first time he's acknowledged problems with the outcome of the deal signed in june with kim jong il and he says paging isn't helping as much as it should be since he launched a trade war against china last month with more from washington. just

a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters about pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization of missile testing and stalled and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said mike compares last trip to north korea was a bit of a disaster by many accounts kim dragoon even snubbing compare there was a great deal of pressure for something tangible to come out of this one from the more hawkish people around him john bolton as national security advisor for example but it is striking in these tweets but it's still very diplomatic very respectful towards chairman kim and he says he still does want a summit to take place at some point in the future federal prosecutors in the u.s. meanwhile have granted immunity to the chief financial officer of donald trump's business empire an imbecile because also treasurer of trump's charitable foundation he's being questioned as part of an investigation linked to michael cohen who is

trump's former personal lawyer of course on tuesday cohen pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws and accused the president of directing him to do so and is now assisting the special investigation into russian interference in the twenty sixteen election. a judge in ecuador has suspended the recently imposed entry restrictions for venezuelans who are fleeing the deepening economic and political crisis early this year could or announced that venezuelans needed to have a valid passport to get in the court order that means they will now be allowed in with just their id cards for the next forty five days and zimbabwe's highest court has upheld the results of last month's presidential election ruling there was no proof of irregularities in the narrowly won the vote but the opposition refused to accept what it called fake results means money will finally be sworn in on sunday those are your headlines here on al-jazeera we're back with more right after inside story.

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 listing him on other charges. it was an emotional moment for wine but he was not really free in the future grain to run to and they're risking 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 a game taken by police he had talked to the media cutting off been a people cutting off forty million people. so people boil over the they must be able to widen the can 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 seeing the wintry length and to his 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 chiefs it mean i means time in power included the 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

regime is not. it is quite tense. this month where we had an election campaign going bad you know and some of our members of the opposition who are going to campaign for 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 brought . for having we pour news which is our limits the laws 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 not 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 are much 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 anymore 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 good session 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 you see the big gun people being from where homes arrested have been killed so we are for tougher are saying wanda due to the treaty 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 the other thanks very much for joining us income policy . well let's bring in our guest now from london we have joseph machina 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.

but 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 isn't what didn't come but i like that on our 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 m.p. voice own are in hospital and it's been our life support so that the money is really to have him 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 the 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 men 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 to 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 going to 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 miss seventy in the lead up to presidential elections in twenty twenty one under mr seventy as is nervous he's worried he has been as. the previous speaker said been in power since one thousand nine hundred six over thirty in 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 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 hold 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 the 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. 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 abi wind 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 the winds 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 can defeat the meticulous at their issues

he knows what he needs 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's 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 the game is the government playing right now

with these charges extremely dangerous of course the been through 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 one thousand and six from some of his many friends of people who'd been charged with treason driven in uganda in the hundreds perhaps the so kids are basically himself was judged retrieve and many of this 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 about 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. 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 suffered on 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 vang guarded by bobby wine is exactly what is occurring which is that mr i'm a 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 you 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 thought to be living in extreme poverty rather vote 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 buy 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 for 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 lining up at our airports going to the middle east to do educate the ugandans with graduate degrees to do simple lead 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 hummer edge of this nation he runs

a very highly. political or a political system that benefits him where he has to reward his people or the people he chooses with a lot of money he just paid of a lot of letters for him to bust that to remove the edge limit which would have deterred him from running again so he has a lot of ways he finds a way through all of these monies that find their way to his supporters but they don't find their way to the budget lines and to invest in the key areas which are supposed to spark the necessary 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 you're going to be on 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 collected 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 australians vote instead and several in africa in particular in uganda were 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 backed by and lived 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 way the result is 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 will 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 forward 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 of 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 rosabelle quite dramatic and alex fines for joining me on this edition of inside story and thank you for watching you can see the

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this is the story of a world whose territories and borders were drawn by the slave trade a world where violence subjugation and profit imposed their roots. this criminal system shaped our history on the island of the portuguese invented an economic model with unprecedented profitability the sugar plantation. in doing so she discovered just to. give a kind of us to cook. the sixteenth century by then all of europe was trying to imitate them. a quest for profits would plunge

a whole continent into chaos and violence. nearly thirteen million africans were thrown on to new slavery routes to the new world where the english the french and the dutch hope to become wealthy immensely wealthy. because the caribbean has the same geographical and climatic features a south pole may eventually became the crossroads of the slavery routes. nowadays these islands are synonymous with holidays. the sweet life sunshine and nature killing mythical memories of a lost paradise. confine themselves to the beaches of santander.

but they could easily cross the threshold that separates the islands to realities. of. skeletons were exam within yards of the barriers. between five hundred in one thousand graves are still buried beneath the sand. beach is one of the fifteen slave cemeteries that have been excavated among the thousand that exist in the caribbean. eighty nine skeletons were exam for study by the archaeologists of the national institute for preventive archaeological research judging by the state of their bones the

archaeologists concluded that these men and women had not reached the age of thirty . of their death working on sugar plantations had so deformed their bodies that they looked like seventy five year olds. these people were guinea pigs for the sugar experiment the collateral damage of an unprecedented commercial war the sugar war. seventy four percent of all slaves carried off. because of sugar if you want to understand the slave trade you just need to know but show. more dicta of them pepper or cinnamon sugar spread throughout europe like wildfire from the seventeenth century on this rare and expensive food went to people's heads in the sun all of london amsterdam and paris sugar fever abounds leading a new generation of adventurers to do anything to have their piece of the pie. shipowners merchants and pirates everyone knew that to produce sugar he needed a lot of slaves. in this one john hawkins was one of these new entrepreneurs for

whom only profits matter. was privateer was a pioneer the first to understand that you could make a fortune by shipping black captives to the new world he convince queen elizabeth the first to lend him a ship the jesus of new back. for the expedition hawkins conspicuously set the tone by choosing a trussed up black man as his coat of arms. i confirm your rule mine is i will respond to you a prophet of forty thousand mosques without causing offense to any of your friends and allies i will operate this enterprise for the benefit of your power if you give me agreement the expedition i propose involves saving me was to get me on sunday in the west indies in exchange for gold that never was but i intend to bring back in abundance.

sixteen twenty a century after sugar plantations were introduced in brazil the atlantic became the battleground for the sugar war holland england and friends wanted to break spain in portugal as had germany over the new world they call is the caribbean an archipelago suitable for cultivating sugar. the dutch took over curse central station is and some of. the french sunda mang loop mark me. and granada. the english prevailed in the bahamas jamaica and barbados and dominica. only cuba and puerto rico remained under spanish rule after the extermination of the arawak indians the first sugar canes flourished on this fertile land. the caribbean became a space of conquest for the europeans very early on really was the first place the columbus landed in the new world the first place that the spanish began to search for gold and the first place they began to enslave the indians so they were

thoroughgoing spaces created by design of european planters and imperial policy makers and for their profit right there aren't so many places where you can completely overlay a territory like that so there are in some ways the caribbean is a space where you find the purest of colonial territories where the masters of the space actually get to create the space to suit their own needs. in guadalupe every plot of land every single square inch of ground contains traces of this violent and deeply rooted history. and. today all that is left of the sugar war is a field. of

the two hundred fifty sugar refinery is active in the late nineteenth century only to remain in operation. in two thousand and seventeen at home in iraq archaeologists examine the remains of the son shocked residents and sugar refinery. a mill stock rooms and three rows of so-called negro huts where hundreds of slaves used to be confined. in this concentration camp like universe man was but one tool among others he was a mechanized emaciated body consumed by work until.