being that both warring here are in need of the basic humanitarian assistance those people are do not have the possibility for regular food distributions to receive the food when they revisit. the foreign policy chief says the reputation of bosnia and herzegovina is on the line as people are left dying in the snow and the chapelle how to 0. time now for a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the voice he says departing u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe canceled a planned trip to europe after luxembourg's foreign minister refused to meet him it's believed that he called president donald trump a criminal one pair scrapped his visit to brussels where he was shy jal to meet the nato secretary general and the belgian foreign minister today european visit was to

have been pump ales last as the u.s. says top diplomat. is president donald trump meanwhile has denied inciting the crowd that stormed the capitol building in washington d.c. last week in his 1st public appearance since the violence trump condemned attempts to see him removed from his office the house of representatives is the baiting emotion calling on vice president mike pence to invoke a constitutional amendment that would see trump ousted it's really a continuation of the greatest which it is your politics it's ridiculous it's absolutely ridiculous this impeachment is causing tremendous anger and you're doing it and it's really a terrible thing that they're doing. or then people are just to continue until then i think it's a good thing for men to day get to our country and it was implemented sanker i want no balance. indonesian divers have recovered one of the black boxes from

a passenger plane that crashed into the java sea with 62 people on board the devices which record the pilot's voices and flight data are expected to shed light on why the boeing 737500 plunged into the sea just minutes after takeoff on saturday indonesian military officials say that they expect to find the 2nd black box soon. police in the u.k. are said to get tougher on lockdown rule breakers as the country fights an infection surge london's police chief says people who breach restrictions are more likely to be fined there is now being more than 83000 coronavirus thefts in the u.k. . that's it the stream is coming up next the scots in uganda's future thanks for watching but i.

will be ok watching this story today to look ahead to january the full teams and uganda's presidential election what are your hopes and fees for the leadership in uganda for the next 5 years if you're on you tube you can jump into the comments section of today's program. the current situation in your brand now everyone is going to show and it isn't because of. who is going to re the current. they're going to look. at the different parties that are on board at least we have. a live in. and the situation is and

i pass one but we hope we have. to join today's discussion we invite the press to 70 but he's off the sistine did apply to any of the invitations we also had george presidential candidate but we want to be part of the conversation but early on today 'd he said he was able to join campaign commitments but we do have an excellent lineup joe it's really good to see you. thank you for being part of this change joe to everybody to you. thank you margaret my name is joy. and i'm the spokes. national unity platform put it to. some of the people. of one you know good to see you i've seen you on the news on al jazeera early on today tell everybody who

did what you did 'd. because if you. express any good. thank you for joining us now. ceased an international audience who you. didn't and again or will you then generalists. and democracy. video i am looking on my laptop at the true dates for the presidential elections in uganda 20212026 that will be that turn on and i'm just going to skew down look at the candidates here and of these candidates who stands out for you who is the most impressive from your perspective who seems to be capturing the public's imagination. and those are 2 different the one i find most captivating is the low prices are really the candidate's best. public imagination so i would say i would say

for the public there are 2 frontrunners the. president will save any incumbent with that to 5 years and then there is. most commonly known as will be a lion who was only 4 years old when presidents of any became presidents. out of the pool at the. most to run as in the risks. of. either necessary or. i'm just looking at the present seventies twitter feeds at counting down to election day and one of the critical issues that he seemed to be using to appeal to the candles for the citizens will be securing the future that with president 70 you

continue to have a secure future it's so difficult to be distracted by who are to small town tonight now i want you to really focus on issues of beginning of our conversation is that the biggest campaign promise of the government is giving the people he got into a secure future. yes of course in different years ago here in. this if instead you know i'm in nobody mentioned earlier this year most of us are is nothing make an american and not given the basics surest sword over the variance or there are no ablative there was no democracy in the media well many tremendous journey of transformation of empowerment over the previously imagined and they stood with us young people. this is. what we have. in that is the international community will want to continue with him said

ridiculous. so that we're going to endorse somebody i'm still sure that future we do believe they're good they're from foundation on which we can. tell you and so on. every indication is that you're a mystery is the preferred candidate former director of veterans there may be a little noise in telling but that is the exit was i was going to when he spoke to the leisure a lot assistance mohamed is wrong about winning the next president and the local governments of. our. conservative estimate 6070 percent 72 percent where i don't think there's going to be. from the current formations in the catapult corporations in the country are in let me bring in joe here joe i'll be following your outreach via social media uganda

herons sorry major problems you turned it out recently one leadership to leadership 3 leadership critical issues as you approach election day if you think your peeling to be kind of public what are they. gel ahead for. when i tell can you hear me critique wishing is approaching. the general 44 action i saw you tweet out leadership any of the points any of them and i. can't. see my character. i'm back now so i don't know about that street specifically i say. 3 leadership leadership because i've been in the everything is revolving our leadership when you go to our hospitals there's no medicine we are giving back on the floor why but leaders because all of the people there full of all those we

spend billions of taxpayers' money government officials flying over for treatment and so little because on the whole the ordinary text but in addition to that these are children studying under trees in 202125 years later mr 70. does that when you look at our economy these guys keep talking about progress oh my goodness if you like strongly reach the gulf between the rich and the poor the way so when you look at g.d.p. and you didn't back up into this it will show you that there's a bit of progress but he did be happy you know it means for years that somebody with extremely returned to poor there do it then good enough and so many young people are unemployed in this country when you look at the human rights record for even sick. of it is like a death sentence before being cute being maimed hundreds of people behind buys because one man once drew our country or iran for us for saying no we can't do better we should do better within the 5 years same time some 7 has done what he's

been able to do but his dose of things that he has messed up corruption in this country is skyrocketing you know government officials. on a daily basis billions of taxpayer money that is meant to fix education and all these different things and so that's why i keep to get back to religion once we get leaders. of the deep was a. thing themselves this can change it should be able to change. i'm just looking here that. they can't make this part of the conversation that we were having and she says a pretty seventies the night she's truly tested strategic others not to get anywhere. you take i'm not. yeah i think that's definitely one of the ways in a race president museveni ampules to people he said he appeals to set and kind of people who are dry that. pool will who are risk of us to think whatever

we have now have this then you know. what's the unknown but i wouldn't say those people are the majority of so be honest i think joel is saying there's lots of people who are disgruntled mister who are not open doors talking about you know where i'm 7 brought us from. failed states and all of that but why is talking about the change that they're in rowlett in the 19 eighties and nineties is not necessarily the simplest i think lots of people feel that we have regrets the ones who are on a you know on the revolutionary cause and we've since regressed so i think i would say yeah some people feel some people risk of us they don't want to risk what they were what they already have is visually people who are comfortable but there are also people who are also feel excluded and magnetized in many many ways

economically as members of certain ethnic groups. people do not see themselves are presented at all by the government is a government run my old man will very often do auld many things. you know slowing down the intended closing social media oh you were you know that sort of i think it's not this is not a universal it's nothing and it was a perception for sure. i want to bring in a bell going to prosper lou lou who picks up media and your point about this being a young people and next this is what he told us when he looked at who was running who were the potential candidates have a listen to beltway favorites and it is seen that surely you have come to the highest office of the last president is obvious so you look people are going to learn where the fish is they are is a little kind and you know what. the title is and. people are excited here of all

his people and they all are going to be pushed into a lawsuit or a say in it and really excited whenever you see or listen to these people dog all these men whatever they will go. yes we have so much activity happening on each of i want to open up some of the questions and said i'm with you so david any sense how the post putting activities like vote counting insured to be safe and fair by the politics any chance of one well let me ask that of you very direct more than a brief response planes. were about the premise or who was transporting. through. car business where who said it was if it's yours. at the national never truly forming station level trillions the president wants aborting started closest at 4 under voting is down but the counting is

a band in the open i've been calling station. and it is a sign that this is as announced at the polling station before the ticket before turning i to the district level so that because i was with the media we expect and it was in a book and it would have sufficient number on the label agency to take care of business or the president with. the book with a voting i saw did it should be pretty. well. i have no doubt about it so. yeah susan what is interesting here and it was known is for some time have a look at my laptop here john i'm going to go straight to the e.u. says one wanted to get down to election limiting polls international scrutiny and that's because they say the last time they looked at uganda's elections they weren't happy the it was free and fair joe how confident are you that this election

general the 14th the number of people who fronted the sites that went to various candidates they will be accurate. oh elections are very. there is a lot of intimidation but happens on a daily basis. and you see an election is a process it's not just an event so we're doing the hard 40 but it began a long time a war then it really hit 14 and thereafter it's an entire process it begins of course i dish and for example you know waited for within our laws and if somebody is the last to stand for president they can go across the country what we wind trying to do that they stopped and they said no you want more out there as we have before community in which now our government uses these as an excuse to secure the opposition to people which is the ball that you're. trying to protect him from community and so it's an entire process of course of decisions do not happen on money nation do opposition candidates was bundled up any of us who have been to him and so on and it's been. happening people have been cute people i meet people you

know and so as we head to 14th in this too many questions you know to issuance that so. for example seems well broken and the e.c. said you see because of your aunt's that's why this is broke but this is just wrong and so this forms on the board all these different things so all of what saying that you see the media will be there and so on but government and they literally should have come out to say we're not allowing cameras i polling stations and we're saying wait a minute why you should be caressed what i'm trying to hide or you know what you're going to. what exactly. i can i think there's i don't know i hear. you know briefly in a. go ahead lydia read about a month come as at polling stations i mean that they were to commission has clarified it's not allowed within the cordoned off what's an area but journalists

will still be able to terms and their actions and this time people. you know make the e.u. teams that are no longer in the elections because. ugandans are very familiar you will be. documented or told they were to wrongdoing and nothing was done about it now how many every election since $2062006.00 has been a challenge in court and the courts have and the court has made your list so recommend ations most of which are just ignored under was talking about. procedural things that will happen on election day as they aren't but in practice they don't necessarily happen that way in i live just about 6 kilometers from the electrical mission in 26 to in my polling station. at 3 pm and work is telling it then wanting ends at 4 pm well when are people going to avoid so i don't i think it's

one thing to put things on there but it's quite another to actually ensure that those things happen and when things fail to happen as they sure remedy is you know that what does have remained. a correction is made to our void those things being repeated which we haven't seen so far so i really understand people don't feel like this is this is going to be a fair election i think we haven't seen sufficient commitment from the government to make it fair and it does this certainly doesn't help that unfairness benefits the regions and it it. if you have been fooling uganda elections as you can do you will notice that some of the opposition candidates have had quite a challenging time i'm pretty not knightly i want to present you candidate will whine just a little while ago when he was campaigning on what happened. i'm buggin i'm 30 i live. in my girl.

to the really. big. want. so i'm wondering a phone why why a presidential candidate ace wearing a helmet and a flak jacket and in an armored vehicle campaign but you has an even tougher questions here lou and maria says censorship is our biggest problem. and it's the biggest issues that. are killing innocent ugandans. how would you respond to those 2 lines of questioning we're in the 1st one to have to say i'm very glad that india has the bank mr jordan said plainclothes claims that there isn't a turnout there is

a limit or should i say and indeed the regulations that committees are not allowed to. station is to protect the integrity of the sacred. so that nobody dresses who or how they got how is what i'm getting now. the claim is. leading in that there is no way to verify it with inhibiting is credible again is not correct because i think it is the onus of the government to choose credible. i just want to correct you distort the truth sometimes. more than they said it was a 2 month book the election they were going to be sending over there was wrong there was picked a country. then i want to send observers from already their mission this time were they in that mission in uganda i have been to see that their national organising committee of this election as

a spokesperson of government we have now created. from there were 60 women were granted but. there was that was from their british a commission in the stuff that's already been un obviously because of the fear desk of 2 of sending their. stuff people get to gather where they don't know how to manage now lives with us work we could to the issue of iraq there's. no point just remember if you. lose your job to judge is it time for a man because i don't need. why yes. when when everyone speaking this is what really is a present you can't make haven't read flak jacket and a helmet to ringback. as because of that it is very special kind of sick way to go once happening for a cause when the police does too and when you can get is it more than

a 100 times that they would have called that this campaign this election to be faster below the trip to the circumstance to civil disobedience in the hope they can make the menace into a better post hole and hopefully overthrow the government will run well i just want to push it because we only have so much trying to invent. a wearing. some of it is a drama they want to get sympathy from people a cure for the public the media and to international observers so we want to look at them to believe that kids are going to follow. people care whether just. on those who are better than many attempts. are drug to go on the right sick as you can see it is painful it's very painful just.

means your bills your limits every bit as i told her when. you're behind you with force. i don't go home i just go oh look it's very interesting here in i'm an old man like a former corner on t.v. luxury you know international television until you realize that is that you know that so it's demeans and all of this mean in many attempts on what when's life we just saw a video yesterday miss lee numerous times they have shot at somebody very close to him clearly targeting him and so he's trying to shield himself or not want to say is that my candidate but no one said he's going to defy all the laws which was about because this company should you she was out there to convey an industry that is meant to be in on the police's no you cannot he goes to speak at radio stations and they pull him out police officer so is this raid including $1000.00 even when he's on radio but there's a question i wanted to ask a former port au about you know yourself so he says is that

a christian or these examples and all of that but he see all the reports that these people produce and evolve to the point and that's why they're saying you know i told him that would be part of this but it's not just your puzzle for no or no that's a good over the country didn't issue out the community center of the can try and sanitize our elections the government of uganda which are you speak has not implemented even one soul well one who are around settlers and say yes we are bridging them and they are around but of what use is it for you to accredit them they are on the make recommendations and you don't upset that. their community. yes liz you know what i thought. i mean that's shocking that you think that the government spokesperson would say that quote trickle renditions quote you know a court ruling can be rejected or taken that was shocking we're talking about the

highest court in the in your granda but i don't have a question for a different question when you talked about ensuring the credibility of the voting process you talked about. candidates picking agents credible evidence and all of that but i'm not a candidate about and it's candidate i'm just one direct to cast my vote i live just 6 kilometers from the electoral commission is 3 pm my ballot. as you know we had one minute i had initial arsenal question ok what if you don't resolutely and reverse a constant sense of what my brother were briefly for the 1st of the little matter whether to let you use is not the dimension is it going to look you're a limitless what he had calling station as you have. this is who. voted isn't this rule by foot look at all really good

even if it was after midnight and so that it was if this will form you vote. all right so guess we have so many we have so much conversation happening on each e.p. this is a very timely. showed to be looking ahead to what may happen in uganda com voting day on january the 44th floor joey you cheap us thank you for your excellent questions i would have a look here back at my laptop because there are so many issues that we haven't yet discussed but there are stories that are running right now on al-jazeera dot com phrasebook shuts down ugandan accounts ahead of general elections big story has you'll you choose as you are online connectivity in uganda has not slowed down that is a big story and i also want to look at my colleague. she is tweeting as she is reporting from camp colleague who is to be on al-jazeera dot

com to see on al-jazeera english as well so keep following this story it is a quick one thank you for what he for being part of the show us the next time. and. business later. in the brush.

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