certain crimes and peace numbers what matters is how we ensure that the police are responding to these criminal acts when they take place that people are brought to justice but what also matters is as a government that we know the issues that underpin that underlie this use of knives but britain's most senior police officer disagrees in the last few years police officers numbers have gone down a lot of there's been a lot of cuts in other public services i agree that there is some link between violent crime on the streets obviously and the police and police numbers of course there is not i think everybody would would see that mohammed has she is a youth worker on the front line in communities most affected by violent crime he's also a victim i was stabbed an attempted robbery and i was shocked when i watch on a break up a fight with some young people but for me again i was someone that was well qualified i was never involved in gangs of violence etc however that kind of reinforcing the dice is not really a choice for a young person to be

a victim or or necessarily a perpetrator just environment kind of pushes you in a certain direction. for us as i don't really let down our young people and you actually bear the scars yeah so i've. got shot in the show six stitches in my chest and i had another ten rifle. steel warriors is a charity that wants to take all the lives off the streets and turn them into something positive a ton of weapons is confiscated in london every month. and this is the result an outdoor gym in an east london park made entirely from recycled weapons allowing young people to refocus their bodies and their minds as police politicians and charities agree and disagree on new ways to tackle the symptoms and causes of knife crime children are killing children of britain streets leave barca al-jazeera london. it's being hailed as a potential breakthrough. fight against h.i.v.

a london man appears to have become only the second person to go into long term remission from the virus that causes aids the patient who was seeking treatment for cancer when he received a stem cell transplant three years ago because he was also a positive doctor has decided to give him bone marrow from a rare hiv resistant donor three years later he stopped taking drugs to control the virus and tests show he's still in remission timothy brown was the first case and he received similar treatment in germany twelve years ago and has since lived hiv free i would say take your time in if you if you want to become public do it it's been very youth for for santa and for giving hope to. profit people. as president of the international aid society he says therapeutic treatment of hiv is also making great strides we

have answer to are there at the effect not you not six i mean we had drugs before that we've had effective therapies and there are people who've been on therapy since then controlling the virus which means that they don't transmit the virus. and they live a healthy life maintains their health there's about twenty million people in the world now on the answer to our oh sweet but another twenty million dollars but that way that that package is you can take one pill a day and the future is now a long acting where people can have injections once a month or people working on implants and these implants could be put in every six months or every year so that there are people. getting medicines is really also what. a u.s. teenager who got vaccinated in defiance of his mother's wishes has appeared before a congressional committee to defend the national immunization program war americans

are refusing to get their children inoculated against preventable diseases such as measles. reports from washington. when ethan lindenberg turned eighteen he rebelled he went to a doctor and got the childhood vaccine shots his your mother had denied him since birth i grew up understanding my mother's beliefs that vaccines are dangerous and she speak openly about these views. both online and a person should voiced her concerns and these beliefs were met with strong criticism over the course of my life seeds of doubts were planted study after study that he read finding vaccines to be safe and effective he says he tried to show them to his mother and she responded with that's what they want you to think the paranoia is growing and so too are the consequences the centers for disease control and prevention reports two hundred six cases of measles in the u.s. this year more than a third were in the pacific northwest where the movement to not vaccinate has taken

root fueled by social media and anecdotes of children who suffer after receiving vaccinations robin sharon says her son was injured by back scenes he received as an infant i thought only conspiracy theories didn't vaccinate their kids i vaccinated mine in two thousand and nine i picked screaming brain swelling head went up to the ninety fifth percentile from the fiftieth in just a couple of weeks old body eczema followed by a diagnosis of twelve allergies to a very deadly my little boy has almost died by times and there hasn't been a definitive study whether vaccines can cause enduring and life threatening allergies but the scientific community has concluded that vaccines the measles vaccine in particular is not linked to autism we need federal leadership for a national vaccine campaign spearheaded by c.d.c. in partnership with states that counter the anti vaccine messages but the momentum is in the other direction now seventeen states allow parents to opt out of

vaccinations due to moral or philosophical beliefs and these parents convinced vaccines are hurting their children spilled out into the hearing room hallway tuesday angry the committee chose not to hear from anyone representing their side the hearing lasted a mere two hours with senators leaving no indication of whether any policy proposals are to come that leaves us. at the status quo the scientific community united in its campaign to vaccinate and the anti the x. nation parents who claim their voices are going on heard. castro al-jazeera washington. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the venezuelan president nicolas maduro has vowed to defeat the opposition accusing the leader and his supporters of destabilizing the country but there is calling for demonstrations on saturday to

coincide with an opposition march. this saturday we are going to the street. and march to commemorate the day of. the people who take to the streets to fight this saturday people take to the street . army chief as promised he won't let the country go back to what he calls years of pain he was talking a student protest urging eighty two year old president. to stand down from next one selection. countries are expected to ask saudi arabia to cooperate with the u.n. investigation into these murders it comes as u.s. senators push for a new sanctions on those behind the saudi journalists killing hundreds of feisal fighters defending their territory have surrendered to u.s. forces in eastern syria more than six thousand people have left the village of in

the past twenty four hours the mainly kurdish syrian democratic forces are trying to push out. aid has been rushed to. some of the worst flooding in years residents are salvaging what they can after ten days of heavy rain at least twenty people have died in kandahar another thirty were killed by flash floods in other parts of the. south korea's president has ordered his government to take extraordinary measures to combat air pollution seven major cities including the capital seoul have recorded high concentrations of particles that can cause a host of illnesses a number of cities and provinces have imposed them urgency measures for a sixth straight day those are the headlines on more news for you coming up right after the stream.

ok you win the stream today all ugandans being forced off social media i really could be glad we explore the fallout of the ugandan government's levy on dozens of online platforms and speak with activists who are demanding the government change course have you been affected by the tax tell us about it in the you tube chat on twitter and we will do our best to get you into this conversation.

my name is. john kerry and you are. more than two and a half million ugandans have reportedly abandoned social media to protest the government imposed tax on sixty online services including twitter and whatsapp longtime present us seventy says the tax which came into effect in july is meant to boost government coffers anchor up the spread of it critics say the law not only chill's free speech but banking systems which many people in the country rely on the uganda communications commission reports that internet subscriptions and mobile money transactions have both declined heavily but you see spokesman ibrahim both says users are simply adjusting their behavior still many ugandans have turned to virtual private networks to get around the tax while promoting the hashtags no to social media tax and this tax must go to demand change from the government and

joining us now from uganda to discuss rosa give me a day is the editor of african feminism a pan african feminist digital platform daniel bill o.p.o. is a lawyer and the executive director of cyber lyme a nonprofit group that takes a look at tech issues through a legal lens and one day is the founder and managing editor of uganda by month in the independent and in the u.k. . is an associate professor. essential. the stream also in contact with representatives of the government and we tried to invite them to take part in this conversation but they didn't give us a representative but we have excellent guests and we can't wait to get the conversation started so social media talk i mean one place to start i was concerned and i had a tauriel meeting who is going to be added join us from there is a social media tax news and we were also concerned just as concerned because two of the platforms of course that we use are going to be taxed for ugandan users and

that is twitter and you tube and yet they came out in droves ugandans have answered the call so take a look at just a couple of these personal stories that people are sharing this is joe nam on twitter who says he's using a virtual private network but it's a total inconvenience for example my village facebook page has close to ten thousand subscribers debate has drastically reduce but over the top services before the over the top service tax you would post an article and at least you would get five hundred comments now you're lucky to get just ten another story here from be a leo who says it's absolutely ridiculous it's millions of people from their loved ones it's killed thousands of startup businesses and it hasn't shown any benefit and just one more i'll share because we've got so many this is day and he says our president may not know that it is through social media that we obtained links to educational websites and job opportunities our colleagues from other countries will access this information faster as we ugandans continue to lag behind and you

heard the take of three people there what would you say to them. well i think for governments to make any decision that has to be a trade off i should tell you this country has been depending on foreign aid for fifty percent of her budget will very many yes when you have a government depending on foreigners for her fiscal survival it means it will listen what foreigners than citizens the ugandan citizen needs to contribute significantly to the states or was in order for the state to be able to provide a large basket of public goods and services that we so often demand and they give an example this country has forty million people home twenty million adults over eighteen years above the about fifteen years only six hundred disto then out of close to twenty million people who are of adult age pay income tax called pay as you earn or pay six hundred seven only. so because most of the

ugandans are employed in the informal sector it is so difficult that income the best way to tax ugandans is to use consumption taxes and the social media is the most used to pull out from by most ugandan so if you place a tax on social media you and you are able to spread the tax and it covers so many people and if the government has to raise money to sub the people of uganda then it must it is it is innovative for it to have a tax bill and that ought to be us out the last used way the largest number of our citizens so it's easy so surround your belka head yes i love to dispute some of the things that are being brought forth by andrew because if you look at the genesis of the tax the president wrote a letter stating that ugandans are idle talk was on social media and therefore there is a need for tax so there is no correlation between i don't talk on social media and raising revenue besides there are various other ways in which this country and resolving the civil society organizations that deal with budget and revenue

taxation are for him very brilliant ideas but the government has shunned them the social media tax is just a move to cut the lawn such a bridge and i was shocked steve also said that one other note about running the government said the subjective motivations of the president on this tax are irrelevant what is most important is object of outcome and reality of the stocks but why is that i that isn't a library taxes yes well i don't think i don't think we have an objective outcome when you have a home minister telling you they made a mistake they were misled and we get trying to defend undefendable because the government itself has already some extent accepted it through their report the tax revenue they got in the past month the third month it was already going down it shows that people are going to if they did in the end find other ways oh rosaries only when it's true and that already yes it is or should be a have to wonder how does a gay. visible i wonder oh no this is from below gander communications commission

report and they are showing that the revenue has gone down in the men the stays on record saying they are trying to look through this and i see to many commitment to build a bond with me still is a lot of money used to see uganda communications commission does not collect taxes but a collected by the gun revenue source i have just ten minutes ago been talking to the commissioner general you got to renew your story. and she has told me just sent me seegars that. has brought in an extra twenty seven billion in revenue by month twenty seven billion i don't vote i'm going to not all of us probably the public figures we have of from the government the same government syndrom then another or something like roswell and i don't know who they are you we have joining statistics here but let me take us back to july when the social media tax was announced it was implemented and people went out on the streets i'm interested in the response and how people are managing right now this is politician bobby wine he was in that

protest this is how mad people were havoc with the question the first i make at that because it is a personal attack on people of uganda for coming back as it was the worst thing i think was attempting to correct the spelling factor to get the president was right because we think we're going to be turning stake in this in such a major. bill as a young person who got a real gander for the volume of stupid it's got kind of i don't know how to. yeah yeah and i want to go to young as we're going to first of all three. hundred. you know you four but i want to go to a young person in uganda because i want to understand what it is that brought you out months pregnant and. i say no you know it's i was very very very respectful of . me yes yes firstly what what the president of

uganda is doing is hiding away from about one going international a bit on how to tax these. u.s. giant companies that dealing in this erosion on corporate shifting so there is a discussion on how to tax those entities but what you've done that he's doing he's going for the use of that platform which is not going to yield any results given that the economy's accelerating towards. we need to have lasting solutions not have taxes that is really be very good and can easily be our voided one of the good principles of taxation as in our stated by the o.e.c.d. in twenty fourteen was about what type system is a tax that is based on one that had not used to be very bit off we did so if a tax cut is the video and we did then it is up but over fifty percent or already that to one point three percent user uses of the internet in a band i'm now able to avoid the social media tax through use of why if i am using

virtual private networks it's already that tax is not based on any good principles or taxation but as young people there are so many i put out i've been thirty one social media platforms there was a young man who was called but still more to one of the leaders our wives because of opening markets from farmers in rural areas to to the market in the about areas using facebook and he has been transforming a lot of lives of many farmers but now this tax has prevented such kinds of innovations by young people the more you. are seeing is that you saying that if i do business that you know that the income for so many people should not be taxed i personally think that it's not fashionable ring but it was there was out there it's out we're told what to.