on saturday in which hof the registered voters are below the age of thirty five. reforms. nigeria's young new voters say they are to change their country. they want to see more young nigerians in politics but admit that it's not easy in a country why running for office is expensive. but they know what they want from those they would be voting for and they want to. represent in the people and that is trustworthy that the one that will help in the by not in the education think tribal conflict time and that's why in good conscience. being able to vote for the first time in their lives is proving popular so this time around a little and very excited i was very honest when i just do i really suffer. younger jurors because of the biggest voter bloc this election. bestows in key battleground states that politicians are concentrating on in the final days of

campaigning with almost five and a half million registered voters most of whom are under the age of thirty five years around australia is second only to lagos in the number of nigerians eligible to cast their ballots wherever winston states would probably be in a better position to take the presidency that's why the leading candidates are focusing their energies and resources here. since the last elections in twenty fifteen a bill has been introduced lowered the age restriction on candidates wanting to run for public office from thirty to twenty five. sally satel barak is taking up the opportunity but admits it's tough fighting established parties and candidates those the end voters court the old order it's very difficult for a young person like me to contest what is very important for the ship because i know how about i believe god does the right temple meters and then does very particular order. come pretty soon for to put people like sally some of the pilot

say the number of young people standing in this election is disappointing when it comes to their initial quests we have dropped in the long battle of personal legend elite and unless you had kept the kind of force the balance the expenses of our contest in so. we have. i can say a reasonable number no it's exactly what we asked that the majority of young nigerians are social media enthusiastic and many are well aware how the politicians target them with messages on various platforms solution we can ask. how freeness and spread of must mean the sound of mice he wants how is he short i don't really inflames as. to how big that influence this may become clearer after saturday's vote. on the decrease i'll just kind of nigeria. an american

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right now it's inside story. nigeria is about to choose a new leader it's africa's most populous country of one of the world's largest oil producers but its economy continues to reel from crisis to crisis so will elections make any difference and is democracy the also tonight jarius wounds this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program dennis millions of nigerians finally had to the polls on saturday to elect a new leader after the election was postponed by a week that whoever wins will have to address at least three pressing issues the sluggish economy security problems and corruption it's expected to be a tight race between president mohamed bihari he's seeking a second term and atika of a hookah the main opposition candidate now bihari has promised to fight corruption but his opponents of focused on what they see as his failure to fix the economy the main contenders made their final appeal for votes on the last say of campaigning on thursday. our this have a quick look clearness of the key moments in nigeria's democratic history fifteen years of military rule ended in nineteen ninety nine and the first civilian to win elections going of us and joe was himself a former army general who motto. was next before good luck jonathan

became president in twenty eleven his time in office was widely considered to have allowed for rampant corruption and he became the first democratically elected president to be defeated in an election four years later losing to opposition candidate mohamed bihari. well nigeria has a population of more than a hundred and eighty million people it's also got all oil lots of it is africa's largest producer of crude but the economy consistently underperforms a variety of reasons are given including corruption and internal conflict with armed groups like the her despite its riches nigerians have got steadily pour cording to a report last year by the world poverty clock network there are now more extremely poor people in nigeria than anywhere else in the world.

by this introduce our guest now in a village in the nigerian capital we have. director of the center for democracy and development in london antony goldman you see of pro media consulting and a former senior africa analyst at the economist intelligence unit also in a bit via skype we have the investigative journalist. he was winner of the twenty seven hundred nigerian invest it is it of journalist of the year award welcome to you all it's airplane we come to you first because this delay in elections is being greeted with a great deal of skepticism hasn't it both inside nigeria and out how much is this delay would you say eroded confidence in the actual process of democracy in nigeria today and i think the deluded elections are for their kid that short of the people in democracy itself of damp in the more valid that people they view disappointment and there is the believe that what is there has

a sense of democracy and attempt to you risk you did the i'm a christian but if hillary were come to vellum and people who are also in several parts of the country g eight to call in the forthcoming elections scheduled for their return to toward. thank you not right. do you think it's going to have a big impact on turnout the fact that the election has been delayed by a week absolutely it's going to have a big impacts. and i say this because of the nature of what's in a nigerian so people have to do weird you need to stand so if for instance you are living in the southwest and you registered to vote and then over the last four years you have course you look it's an up out of the country you have to chug buck you know and people are already knew it is joining is the last time so the question

is what is it don see that nick in so journeys will do fruitful at the end of the did so it's clear that it's. what our party is already in place right and antony this seems to become to have become a little bit of a regular occurrence isn't it the last two elections were also delayed weren't they by some time i mean after twenty years of holding elections shouldn't nigeria be at least able to hold an election every four years. well yes it it should but i think it is very difficult nigeria as you've indicated it has a lot of infrastructure constraints a lot of capacity issues a lot of problems with in the system in terms of the capacity of people who are in it and i think these problems in the abstract when you translate them into something practical like all that organizing an election begin to show themselves on the issue i suppose is what can you fix in

a few days which wasn't ready by this time last week and i think the pressure will be on the commission to show that actually it's able to to to to to deliver on an election that meets the minimum standards i think that there is a perception amongst the rival parties that perhaps there's been accusing each other of trying to delay the process there is also the logistical challenge but there is also and i think this speaks of the culture of the culture if you like of mediocrity and public administrator in is it possible to attract the best people to the best jobs at the right time and the election commission in a rather have a have a good birth as soon as the elections out of the way everybody disappears and you said people come in and there's a real lack of institutional memory and i think that this creates a challenge in building up that kind of institutional strength if you like what the pillars that on which democracy since i'm deficit coming back to you you've argued

for more electronic voting you think that the whole process should go completely digital but in a country that can barely guarantee power supply to its people is that really feasible is that the best way forward when you have these electronic machines that are now having to be rebooted because of this this delay in the election. yes if nigerians are really serious about getting this done to be done don't forget we demolish in stick country does have to be before she got simply because they were programmed to work on the south end it from a southern town to another town in us or let me guess the country's population is huge millions of people landmass really even begin sizable it creates constraints but then it's something we can do right now you have a system where banks. identification numbers for individuals and i've

known businesses bindi's him so if you can compile all these days and i'm one thousand to one it's very possible to go to a point with them is electronic and it's only we need to do so that we can tuck rule was a blue what our party if people could who was in the car for the or use use online you know the problem of people having to travel long distances to vote wouldn't our eyes and it means that i'm in him and god forbid even you have to win elections twice or thrice next it's still dissin inconvenience is minimal so it's something right we definitely need to start going to do it i am just wondering whether all of these problems that are associated with holding elections in nigeria actually cause people in the country to question the very system of governance the very system by which their leaders are chosen does democracy actually work for a country like nigeria with more than three hundred fifty ethnic groups and this

vast country with some of the problems that we've already outlined. but there is that you know not substitute to that more question and one to answer with no point in time however i want to go back to a military regime now and then with a yeah i mean if very strong demand for democracy yes there are challenges in terms of the democracy delivering development to the people in tempe in forms of public good and fair busy but the main challenge for democracy is the quality of we leave death itself the quality of the leaders when you have people we will mainly in these too busy kelly in which themselves or bullet politics if in the means of a restraint and not to the people but this is him that's just me isn't this that is that sorry to interrupt but isn't this isn't this the crucial problem not just in nigeria but on the continent as a whole the fact is that in many ways politics is determined by personality not by

policy. not. gradually actually there is beginning to you fall that change in terms of politics of personalities to go towards the politics of issues and policies in the country but the truth of the matter is that when we are busy kelly the people with the watch it look at the forthcoming elections on saturday there are seven to treat candy did vying for the office of the president of nigeria some did three different political parties platform three different policy ideas but the three main that is dominant parties i didn't know you want had it been discounted because they have the resources to lobby life and let people know about them they have what we call political

structures achoo of the several of us and if one local government of nigeria and the i have to to reach the people does the becalmed only option i believe because of the people of nigeria and the air of the senate in one of the political parties and antony i mean a lot has been said about the political godfathers in nigeria and it's a big money business pretty much like it is in the united states isn't it and i just wonder whether this is a system that is about to be unsettled in any way given the new ways of of the younger voters i mean obviously there is a great use bulge in nigeria like in the rest of the continent. i think part of the problem with politics in nigeria over the years is that there has been a level of it's an industry every four years and the campaign is about money as well as much as it is about ideas and when you have a number of candidates not just for the presidency but also thousands of people

trying to get themselves elected into the national assembly state governors this speaks of a thing that is as much about generating money over a few weeks period as it is about changing public administration or ideas or or policies and i think that the challenge i think is to find a way of engaging with young people to give people a sense of attachment to the process and we there are new technologies and new ways of communications that perhaps open up some space but i think that if you look at the pattern of elections in nigeria and as you say this is twenty years since the end of military rule you know the challenge is creating a democracy that goes beyond simply how governments the effectiveness of elections even with a free and fair election in twenty fifteen level of voter participation was barely forty percent in some cancer of the country significantly less than that and i

think that this is a warning sign i think unless you can get people involved in it if the biggest block of people if the biggest block of voters are people who don't vote at all then i think that this is something that should be over concern to all of those who are the genuine interest in trying to change nigeria for the better rather than trying to use the political process to extract fronts and. there is obviously now this this huge swathe of young people first time voters in nigeria many of whom probably can't remember military rule how do they feel about the scenario about the incompetence is many would say of the electoral commission for instance not being able to hold the election on time and so on how do they feel about the state of politics in their country. well it is the population choose that i mean largely. she was that it's time to elect younger and it's you know it among them understand the worry in these mid seventy's was in these

early seventy's it's time for nigeria to start. looking on to giving young up and it is a chance whether that will up one you know we have to see we have to see because those work and can do is we need to be judge of the idea if they are given to school have an idea of how sister was walking out our countries and wonder since when i do that what is your talent is that the meiers or electorate in that you know people who were in rural areas way in the hinterlands people who are all politicians blind where he has supporters who've never been to school i don't care who does want that man to be their article has a scene so it's looking like it should be digital because we don't of the english our social media election you have to go out no well the ones in the bucket list is one it's illegals are the guys who are ready to die will you william woods and.

let's come to the challenges now because we've we've identified three main challenges for whoever wins this election and those challenges and remain pretty much the same haven't they throughout this twenty year period and that and chief among them is going to be corruption there's the economy and then there's the security issue of hari to give him some credit has at least attempted hasn't he to overturn this this endemic corruption for which nigeria is is well known but it doesn't seem to succeeded very well. no because corrupt and the problem of corruption in one thousand goes beyond fight in political corruption what we save where we as johnson has been voted into office in twenty fifteen these it has waged a war against him punitive that has been lead to on our attempts to actually he is

to to shun the allies the fight against corruption and deceit will continue to decline mean if people in one thousand the citizens we eventually been their feet from the dividend of democracy so corruption is defining in this campaign it's about the forces of wes' actually mockups than the other and at the same time the jurors do not to be i agree that any of the tools frontline can't and can't get it and their parties are completely clean because they are every dense is from all sides to sure that. remains our endemic but why don't we move forward from the elections the most important thing is what will nigeria look like posts posts much much ninth's trying to nineteen when all the elections would have been conquered it the fact remains that. number of insecurity devlin the country in five out of the six geopolitical zone

there can now me an attendant where even on employment especially among the young people we define what it will look like and there was a lot of this problem don't see that what we are actors are trying to do at this point in time you begin to money just practitioners because there is that you lost to go one and how to of these problems nigeria lives in the globe but if im ignored by religion itself if security will are cut out able to do improve on it economy what happens we all pick we'll learn at least in part on our economic shifts when you look at it that we are still all right so to be sent home to find dense economy right let me take that point and put that to anthony because that also comes to the core of the issue and that is isn't it that the nigerian

economy is surging pendent upon the price of a barrel of oil that it is pretty much shattered isn't it the minute prices go down and what steps have been taken what what. a positive moves have been put in place that could possibly wean the nigerian economy off of this destructive dependency. yeah i think these three things are all linked there's the distortions created by an economy that has over reliant on oil for export revenue there's the issue of corruption and there's the broader issue systemic issue of the rule of law and how it how it's applied and i think that actually for the bahari government this is something they had they had to deal with very early on because the collapse in oil prices in the months after it came into office in twenty fifty created the kind of fiscal challenges that i think it would have created huge issues of public order in

many other countries that face a basically a collapse in. in government revenue of about half or even slightly more than that because. as prices more than half the production also quite significantly because of security issues in the niger delta now production has come back a little bit you know the security issues of the east a little bit but i think that what the government took away from that was the need to really make progress on the diverse cation of the economy this was something that the high was always very keen on and as it turned out in twenty fifteen sixteen there was really no alternative but to try to find ways of injecting urgency into getting people back on the land to niger from a country that was importing rice to a country that was growing rice and now is close to being self-sufficient in production and also processing not just of rice but of a number of other agricultural products and so if you move away from the cities in nigeria if you go to some of the the smaller towns villages and rural areas

actually there's a quite different perception of how the last four years have gone and i think that there is some positivity but of course this is. incremental process it took nigeria a very long time to slip away from the country that had commercial agriculture was able to deliver on service right it was involved in mining and i think that this process. the reconstruction recalibration will take a long long time there's no quick fix. coming to you what do you make of them and what do younger nigerians make of what has been i think essentially a gentlemen's agreement about switching the leadership of the country between the north and the south at the moment apparently it's a northerners tan and you've got to northerners battling it out for the top job i mean is this something that is that is redundant now i mean do younger people feel that the country should be divided between north and south between muslim and christian. it's it's will it went beyond the younger people

it's existence in many resonates across the country you know don't forget now you know politics is played along the lines of ethnicity religion on to political violence so the sentiments exists among the youth and even beyond but the reality is that it's never going to work i mean right now where he's going in and saying that if we win isn't senator it is going to hand out to someone from the from the southeast and then the decision is made said the southwest so i think that those who truly follow now you know in politics who understand the intricacies do know that it's just it's doesn't know it's not cheap talk about i mean the politics of twenty twenty two we determine it because president eternity to guide us also. to goodness of the promises that are being made or the expectations that people have for his about good luck that i found never become president easy boss didn't die in

office and the dynamics change immediately does buy that argument that the passions to me did not add up time yes men do not and became so it is indeed it was controversial wasn't it have it i at i'm i'm just wondering you know nigeria is is often seen as being the sleeping giant of africa it's just hit this most depressing of statistics of having the world's largest community of extremely poor people overtaking even india what on earth is going wrong with nigeria and what do you think might help it. i think of the biggest challenge with like one theory a is the lack of inclusive economic growth progressively before the country went into the economic recession you found that at a point in time our growth g.d.p.

was that of a thumb of percent. i was growing at tempe think this year it will grow around two percent at least have which one hold the rate but what continues to unveil it so that these growth is not inclusive so the mardy rich are getting richer the more did poor get poorer which is actually a paradox in the land of plenty really and what you'll have to happen really for nigeria at this point in time is deemed best he needs the youth in it's young people which is the next i am focused when we have thinking in terms of diversifying how i cannot how their countries are hedging we continue to have younger people but the biggest challenge is also confident in this young people is the quality of education and campania employment so we'll have to walk a lot on improving our not human development index these combatant corruption at all levels not just political corruption but illicit financial flows and also

cover action that almost i remind you and is actually involved in the hideout vent that plea in that event tentatively there may be there will be part definitely they'll be positive development right evolving few years to come well thank you all very much indeed. and to the goldman and. thank you all very much indeed for just touch someone is a really large su i know that thank you so much indeed for a really interesting conversation now if you want to see this program again remember you can always go to our website al-jazeera dot com should you want to discuss and you can go to our facebook page. that is facebook dot com a.j. inside story there's always the choice as fair as well at a.j. inside story i'm at dennis from the whole team here in doha it's bye for now and thank you for watching.

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hosts the latest round of trade talks with china. shutting down the border venezuelan president nicolas maduro doing all he can to prevent foreign aid supplies from getting into the country. and broken machines rejected ballots and long lines concerns remain over nigeria's upcoming election. alone the past few hours there's been two explosions in syria in different parts of the country one was a suspected car bomb near in a village in days or an area held by u.s. banks syrian democratic forces at least fifteen people were killed and dozens injured the other blast happened in africa where another suspected car bomb went off in the center of the city at least four people are dead and many injured well this comes as the s.d.f. and other groups battle for control of

a bug. last remaining territory in syria and for now the evacuation of civilians from the eastern village has been put on hold imran khan has more. on the turkey syria border. early on thursday morning it was announced by the s.d.f. spokesman for northern syria most of all bali that trucks would be sent to alba whose village to pick up the remaining civilians now we're hearing reports of those trucks actually came back empty handed and we don't know why there's been no word from the s.d.f. as to the reason those trucks came back empty now at the very beginning of this conflict we saw the s.d.f. tell us that there were at least six thousand civilians in the village itself over those two weeks a number of those civilians have actually been able to leave the largest number was on wednesday when some two thousand civilians including some myself fighters were able to leave now what happens is when they reach s.d.f. safe areas the ice will fight as a taken to a prison where they detained and interrogated the i saw wives and children are

taken to a separate part of a refugee camp where they are put and then the civilians of put on another side of that camp now the fight is incredibly difficult for village because of the civilians that remain there just to give you an idea of the sense of the village itself most of it's actually been destroyed there's a tented city on the outskirts of the village and that's where all of the civilians that remain allegedly. to be now the fight itself is going to be incredibly difficult because i still had a very long time to prepare for this the hard core of those fighters are now in tunnels waiting for the s.d.f. to come in but certainly there are enough civilians who remain in whose village to slow the fighting down and for the s.t.'s to be very careful about going into the village. the iraqi military is on high alert for iso fighters who try to escape across the border they're concerned they might regroup in areas i saw once

controlled in northern and western iraq and has more from most. iraqi forces far mortars at eisel targets across the syrian border the village of bug who's the last eisel controlled territory in syria isn't far from here the mainly kurdish u.s. backed syrian democratic forces or s.d.f. estimate there are around three hundred eisel fight is still inside the iraqi military and pro iran armed groups are determined to stop them escaping across into iraq. they've set up cameras around ten kilometers inside syrian territory to monitor eisel fighters as the s.d.f. offensive goes on while the iraqi military operation against eisel across the border in syria continue we on this side are fortifying our positions we have installed thermal surveillance cameras across the border inside syria territory

there is joint cooperation with us the pro iran armed groups and the tribal sheikhs we are getting aerial support from the u.s. led coalition u.s. intelligence says i still evolved from the last remnants of al qaida in iraq and by two thousand and fifteen it controlled around ninety thousand kilometers of territory across syria and iraq an international coalition of more than seventy countries has been involved in the fight to reclaim that territory. this is all the . more than four. he declared himself. what he described as the caliphate now is fighting continues on the syrian side of the border against the last pockets of eisel fight is there a fear of i saw sleeper cells among iraqis living close by. these are iraqi military checkpoints around the town of heat in western anbar province.

weisel was defeated here in two thousand and fifteen but sleeper cells have kidnapped and murdered a number of people in recent weeks. and his wife son sit with their grandchildren at the home they both suffered under the brutality of isis rule and terrified by the thought the group could ever one day return. to more s.d.f. in syria have pushed toward the border the more difficult it has become for iraqis to work in the countryside nearby there i saw in the desert around here it's terrible that i kidnap innocent people the government and the army need to thoroughly search this area because i still are still hiding here the people here have suffered so much and there i celebrity. the head of iraq's intelligence says eisel fight is a regrouping and recruiting mainly in the rural areas of north and west in iraq they want controlled u.s. military intelligence believes the territorial battle against eisel across syria

and iraq has been won but the fights against small groups of fighters and sympathizers across this vast region will go on. mosul. other latest round of trade talks between u.s. and chinese leaders are underway in washington chinese vice premier league who is meeting with u.s. treasury secretaries stephen minutiae the us president has threatened to raise tariffs on a range of chinese imports worth two hundred billion dollars if a deal is not reached by march the first a sea of autonomy returns he joins me live now from washington so she of how are those talks going. well from what we're hearing both from u.s. and chinese sources rather well the they say that there was a great deal of progress made in beijing last week and it's being built told now in washington several memorandum of understanding being discussed and we're going to get some detail about what sort of proposals are on the table specifically there is

reports that china has offered to buy thirty billion dollars more of us agricultural products each year beyond what it was already purchasing also the last hour we're hearing probably proposals for the chinese to buy more liquefied natural gas from the u.s. and semiconductors this would all go some way to addressing the u.s. trade deficit with china which is something donald trump mentions quite a lot which is particularly concerned about other member under understanding we understand being discussed about forced technology transfer that's what the u.s. call it china is often denied it does this does this but that's what the accusation has been that in order for u.s. companies to do business in china they have to hand over sensitive technological information about their products which then the u.s. which on china uses in order to compete against american companies memoranda of understanding is about cyber theft currency and then the most interesting one non-tariff barriers to trade in this is the most fully issue perhaps because the chinese say the u.s.

is basically all saying it to to abandon the sovereignty over its own economy china has a plan b. made in china twenty twenty five plans to invest heavily in its domestic industry particularly high tech high value services so you can compete on the global stage in these areas the u.s. says these a market distorting subsidies and they have to have to end if they can come to some agreement on that that would be fascinating because i mean this would be a huge climbdown by china we have to see whether whether that is actually now on the table whether some face saving measure is being discussed but at the moment she had got to try and get this all done by march the first which is a deadline that they've set themselves but how committed is the u.s. to this deadline. the trade negotiator himself keeps saying it's a firm deadline but we don't know whether there's some good cop bad cop situation going on don't trump says it's not a magical dates there's lots of rumors about there being a sixty day extension if the negotiations are going as well as they seem to be but

there is also the sense that both sides do want to reach a deal as quickly as possible don't try to walk away from these negotiations because it would it would suggest that he's not the great deal maker he was present see is present himself as there's also regular economic pain that's already underway particularly in the republican agricultural. agricultural imports of china have dropped enormously and that the other economic effect is going to the twenty twenty alexion of the whole trouble is to avoid all of that from china as well will be economic effects there's also a feeling that if they walk away from talks having got to apparently this great stage then the u.s. might be even tougher in another round of negotiations starting again and also president xi is under some pressure domestically because of the economic slowdown in china and this would be very good for him to shore up his base and suggest that he is a competent economic steward if he does richard deal with the trauma of ministration all right she had thanks for that she had live. in washington the rescue

mission has been called off in bangladesh's capital dhaka that's after a huge blaze sold to several buildings in the old town at least seventy people were killed and forty others injured the fire broke out in a residential complex which house they chemical and plastics warehouse it took hundreds of firefighters nearly twelve hours to bring the whole thing under control ten via cherry has more from both. we are in that dark medical college hospital near the morgue it's a very tragic scene out here we saw many people actually carried their loved ones in their coffin i spoke to the authorities here the police officer in charge who is supposed to identify and process this he said so far they were able to identify thirty seven bodies many other bodies might need even d.n.a. testing but a lot of relatives are waiting here they want to know and see if their loved one is among the dead bodies that is in the market

a very really tragic thing as far as the government goes the industry minister made a statement saying the cause of the explosion was not the chemical warehouse but rather the gas cylinder the bang of the human rights commission made a statement terming this as a third largest disaster in bangladesh which is quite dramatic actually after rana plaza and another chemical explosion near this one and today is one would be time the third largest now as far in the medical lot of the forty one patients out there in the burn unit where when i love to get in there we don't know their real condition we heard that several of them are critically injured and their relatives are also waiting to find out their condition india has stepped up its response against pakistan a week after an attack in indian administered kashmir or killed.