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3 dates that stop the world. from the favelas of caracas to the battlefields around also i would drop just to get to the truth and then our people through knowledge. president yoweri museveni has officially declared the winner of uganda's election the main opposition candidate says soldiers won't let him leave his house. a lot rick lot of this is out there and live from doha also coming up germany's ruling christian democrats elect on the left it is the new leader will be the top contender for chancellor when i get most of the latest from. india launches the world's largest coronavirus vaccination campaign but there are concerns over the safety of a locally developed that. the u.s.
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carries out its 13th federal execution in just 6 months donald trump has now overseen more excuses than any president since the 19th century. so you got his electoral commission says us he was very has officially won a 6 term as president to extending his 35 years in power according to their final results a 76 year old won nearly 59 percent of the vote his main challenger bobby wind got almost 35 percent but he says the election was rigged and soldiers are preventing him from leaving the. county did you worry him 7 to have a couple times having obtained the highest number of votes in the election and the votes cast in his favor being more than 50 percent with a very diverse cast. they let the commission declare your way 72. elected president of the republic of uganda.
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so he joins us live from come so katherine most of any has been announced as the winner no real surprise there. no surprises a toll and the president is expected to address the nation within this hour and he we basically expect him to thank he's the voters to call for peace to octagons to go back to work and alia when asked the electoral commission declared the results they took some questions and one of the question was how can this election be described as free fair and transparent following the pre-election violence we've seen in the last few months security forces violence should be spazzing protests denying opposition leaders opportunity to come pain what we wanted for example has
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said that some of his team members are still being detained others have been killed the electoral commission chairman answer to that saying that some of these measures especially during the campaign taken because of calls with 1000 regulations they said that it was important for the security forces to be there to. enforce the laws because some of the candidates were flouting especially called 19 regulations he also said that he is confident that the electoral commission has run a credible election we have also seen a preliminary report from the original body ethos of the community and basically they say they are concerned about the internet shut down which they say infringes of the right on the right of information and they also say that this internet shutdown house greatly hampered transmission of results they also talked about what happened on voting day we saw late delivery of voting materials in several polling
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stations the biometric identification keith was not one not working in some political polling stations and so on the u.s. has said that the election is deeply flawed looking purchaser but we want would we be sure you know what's been the reaction from across the country. i have talked to bobby why and i talked to him a little earlier and he has rejected the results he yesterday he was rejecting those words today he says he does not accept he does not accept this he says he has information he has evidence of widespread irregularities rigging in favor of president yoweri was 70 and he says that he's going to present this evidence once the internet is back abd now the electoral commission will ask about that as well and they say that he needs to prove beyond reasonable doubt that there were there was voter rigging he needs to back she's claims and he did also tell me that how
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his home is still being surrounded by security forces particularly the military he's movements have been severely restricted visitors including journalists have been blocked from accessing these compounds security officials i spoke to the tallying center say that this is because they got information that he was planning to declare himself when a which is illegal what's going on across the country we have been talking to police who are saying that in some paths central uganda the that has been violent protests against the results but the police say they have been able to sort of resolve that order from time to start talking through their income. germany's ruling party has elected a new leader last it has been chosen as the next head of the christian democratic union making him the top contender for chancer in elections later this year and america will step aside after 16 years in power but when it came reports now. he's
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led germany's most populous state north rhine-westphalia finale for years now arm in russia it will soon be leaving his national party with a clear direction in mind in mid after i'm vote on divorced i'm aware of the responsibility of the strobe and i will give my all to walk to give the through this year to win the regional election in only a few short weeks to make sure that we will win the next general elections and provide the chancellor of germany thanks although this vote needs to be confirmed by the entire party membership on friday so many army lash it is a continuity candidate his slogan was that i am the representative of the executive branch so if you vote for me you can be sure you get a leader you get someone actually who had won elections so none of the other 2 candidates actually ever won an election governing in his state during the pandemic has been an ordeal for lash it the numbers of infections and deaths there have been
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among the highest in germany back when the incidence of covert was much lower he argued for less stringent lockdowns hoping to protect the economy as much as the people it's important to point out that winning the party leadership on its own does not bring with it the right to work here the german chancellor angela merkel has already said she intends to serve out her term here so in order to replace the new party leader must win september's general election. but before he can do that he may have to deal with another leading conservative marcus's head of the cd used to varian sister party the christian social union many say they would rather vote for him as chancellor. congratulations to i mean lash it i'm very happy i think this was an exciting party congress it was a very fair contest it was a very good introduction to 3 excellent candidates and in the end i believe there was a result from which the c.d.u. deserves congratulations it offers an opportunity for great cooperation. but what
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form that cooperation will take in terms of who runs for chancellor remains unclear meaning there is much still to do if armin lasted wants to replace angle america in the autumn of dominic came early in. the us government has carried out its 13th and final federal execution under the trumpet ministration justin higgs was executed by lethal injection in indiana he was convicted of killing 3 women in 1960 president donald trump resumed federal executions in july after a 17 year pause and fisher is in washington d.c. he says federal executions aren't likely to continue on the joe biden. well the flag up there we're going to do in 21000 bill barr who was the attorney general of the time said that if people didn't want to the death penalty to be applied then they should remove it from the statute books published as long as it was part of the law as long as juries decided someone should be executed they would carry out their job now the last one that was carried out was as you say dustin hicks he
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killed 3 women in maryland in 1996 it was at a nature reserve which was owned by the government that's what made it a federal crime that is why he ended up being executed by the federal government the argument of course was that he didn't actually fire the gun and the person that actually killed the 3 women physically fired the shots that murdered them a set of being a life sentence he's not going to be executed his lawyer certainly tried to get the execution postponed they were looking for a 90 day delay that is because that would take that end to the realms of the joe biden presidency and he of course has said very clearly that he is against the death penalty and against the federal death penalty there's every possibility that on january the 20th he will announce that he is stopping the federal death penalty across a number across all. offenses where people are waiting in prison and there are still a number of them it's unusual for
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a president to push ahead with executions during any transition in fact it's been more than 130 years and donald trump has used the death penalty more prolifically than any president in more than a century the u.n. refugee agency is calling for finally in central african republic to stop they say the number of people fleeing to neighboring countries has doubled to 60000 in just a week a coalition of armed groups wants to overthrow president fast an arsonist who are there who won a 2nd term in office in december michael webb is in the capital of benghazi. fighters from the coalition of rebel groups just down this road a few kilometers away on the outskirts of the city and another significant group of them about 12 kilometers in that direction also on the edge of the city and in both areas there was heavy fighting 3 days ago now security sources say they also now have several cells here within the city in preparation for an attack the coalition
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of armed groups has given an ultimatum to the government to give them 48 hours to get out that ultimatum expires on sunday evening now this comes ahead of a constitution ruling that due on tuesday which will potentially reaffirm the office of president there bring him in for a 2nd following the announcement of his victory in elections last month but that victory is disputed the civilian opposition say that election was rigged and the armed opposition who were just down the road refuted the legitimacy of the whole election in the 1st place and the situation is tense the u.n. of reported widespread rights abuses kidnapping tortures killings of civilians cause many people to flee their homes now more than $60000.00 is the un refugee agency said and people are still on the move right now people are waiting to find out what's going to happen here in the next couple of days but many of them aren't
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risking it on sticking around to see what will actually go down. still ahead here on al-jazeera a search for survivors after a powerful earthquake in indonesia dozens are dead and the toll is expected to runs . out in the cold refugees started to near the post you heard the governor border are forced to come in subzero temperatures. from. the last few showers i think a fortnight of the sky in the arabian peninsula largely because all the action is going on up here in the eastern med it's looking fairly stormy for the next couple of days out of the water that we saw affected northern agent that story levant to turkey where it's particularly snowy. the city it's like to be fairly windy for a couple days 3 days maybe some showers of blows through i think it's going to look
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worst and this might suggest to be quite honest this is quite an active system it will blow through so all monday you still got a fairly breezy picture in syria but the sky is will be clearing dropping their snow in the far north of iraq or just in iran still in turkey but there's more rain to come that's coming out of the tuesday or wednesday. the active wet weather in southern africa's changes orientation a bit the southern indian nations looking more active now i think we've got developing tropical cyclone here to take a few days but it's eventually forecast will take it towards madagascar south africa looks quite dry but if you get to go down through the suit to this 14 need that looks fairly wet and not construct their ear of heavy rain is moving into southern mozambique and sons in bob and botswana on sunday. frank assessments you've got colleagues on the ground in the canaries what is the
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situation there is only one doctor and one nurse or 2200 people informed opinions of how big this foreign policy in the early stages of a bi ministration he comes into office with a huge amount of foreign policy experience in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines how will a place like good live get the vaccine when there's no money at all the rest of rich countries are fighting for an inside story on al-jazeera. you're. going to get what she had 0 amount of our top stories this and that uganda's electoral commission says us he was a very hands officially won the 6 term as president extending his 35 years in power
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officials say the 76 year old one nearly 59 percent of the vote his main challenger but we whine he won nearly 35 percent. germany's ruling party the c.d.u. has just to let saddam unless it is its new leader that says chancellor angela merkel prepares to step aside after 16 years at the helm germany will hold a general election in a month's time. the u.s. government has carried out its 13th and final federal execution under the trumpet ministration that's the most by one president in more than 120 years just an exe was executed by lethal injection in indiana. a strict security measures are in place across the united states ahead of wednesday's presidential inauguration road closures in parts of washington d.c. have already begun including major bridges and some metro stations speak to gabriel is under who joins us live now from washington d.c. and a game say 4 days in county and the security buildup continues in unprecedented fashion
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. there really as you just drive around washington d.c. or walk around washington d.c. and you can't get too far because there are just so many roads that are closed but some of the major bridges leading into the district of columbia closed and as you can see behind me this is just one of dozens of roads that have been blocked off by the. national guard there are now over 25000 guardsmen that will be in washington d.c. by wednesday there are over 20000 that are here already and an absolutely unprecedented show the security forces spread out throughout this entire city it's impossible at this juncture for anyone from the public to get within about 2 blocks of the capitol just something that we have never seen here in this city ever even going back to september 11th the days after the september 11th 2001 terrorist attacks
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lots of security here in d.c. but not even as much as we see now there was some talk of perhaps protest armed protest this weekend as early as today here in washington or other state capitals but i can tell you at least here in washington everything is quiet no signs at this juncture of any sort of pro trump protests at all all right gary thanks very much then washington d.c. we're going to go live to. you when he must have any is speaking and been 50 old is one of the things i've been if i do. remember. you know how much of these straw uganda has distorted by a new type of the free election. the people distorted the election to
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96 to. do what it was. people. who believed in the and. who was so older than me. who are under age. you do not own a vote but you would they sometimes. does . of that. then you had covered. with the. course used. tribal ideology they were engaged in intimidation intimidated the d.p. supporters in vogue and cutting their coffee
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if you if you didn't i would do them so that people again did not express their opinion that were the beginning of of the trouble. since that time i have been struggling to make sure that every means of what when we say one person one vote it should be one person one vote and as i said in my speech the other time on the eve of the elections i told you that. if you interfere with the voting. then you are interfere with accountability because if i can win whether the people vote for me or not doesn't mean that don't have to go back and sort of their problems because even next time i will i will do the same method and when without the people voting for
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me it is therefore treason to interfere with the principle of one person one vote after all struggle i think i am or i'm about to succeed in controlling that criminality. this one as it has been head up by the introduction of the thumbprint. read by the computer to know that this is no no other person no other person other than a servant no i am told something we were trying to avoid witty by the machines. and i'm told that some people may be where disability the machine is so that they allow the cheating but i'm told that the machines were rectified. and in many cases
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people were to buy the machine is know what even a machine is mitt bit sure there is no cheating we are going to audit because on account of the removal of the internet there was no immediate transmission of the voting patterns from which polling station but we're going toward it and see how many people voted by fingerprints. and how many of those who voted without. by just using the register so there are 4. on a cult of the. thumbprint identification machine machines this may turn out to be the the most cheating free election in the 5080 s of uganda's independence.
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on this occasion i will not address the political economic and social factors that all one could see in this election's these issues up to the very good but i believe them i said it because. they are taking us into the rhythm of real politics. real politics of war of principles and we shall do our part in terms of using this. growing population of uganda which was only a foot in 1000000 in $1000.00 it is actually set up with the $6000000.00. so the issues are coming up. and we are very happy and ready to engage in the
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debate in the debate of the political economic and social factors that influence politics. on this occasion. simple admission the 2 points that started in our aim which set of our party. the n.l.m. when we were in the bush had one lie there must lie in the reign of the people we are people who put political actors out on a day in the interest of the people not a lot of the interest of anything it is not in the interest of the elite
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not in not in the interest of foot in as not in the interest of war this will require that 2 or that $82.00 group but in the interest of the people the ordinary people the farmers the factory walk as the people of a desperate. to call the muscle and the muscle a new kind of good is the line of the people's interests now when we come into government when when when when the when the bush the muscle aid will do the only way we want it did what was important for the people and nothing good is how or when we took over government we had to work with other people the people had been elected.
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none of this we played acted. or the world a dictator by their masses but we know them do not remain royal to the muscle and the quicker it bring in their elite interests. therefore it is important for you to know that within the inner ear there's been a struggle between the muscle a day. early training that i know of the elites. know what is the message i. number one display in. the must mean is it is.
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when you see security of us or what who understood living. nor the devotees parted for all the muscle i did it must lie in the secular to the must reign is the. political picture it is. as you can as you're already mr van he won the 6th term as president in uganda extending his 35 years in power speaking after his disputed election win saying that he says that this may turn out to be the most free election talking about the origin of how many people visit. officials saying that the 76 year old won by 59 percent of voters main challenger bobby wine 135 percent but he alleges that the election has been rigged and says that soldiers are preventing him from leaving his
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house let's cross to our correspondent a cousin so who's been listening in katherine's. victory doesn't come as any surprise and he's saying that it was smooth and was all done well and good. while his victory does not come as a surprise at all he has been leading against he's 10 opponent the start and it could have been a decisive margin so we all expected this to happen here feel talking is still outlining the history of the country and thing that this is the more shit free election in the history of the country he has however mentioned something about the biometric system he had said and we he had said this before on tuesday he had an address another address of the nation where he warned the politicians i guess. that
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you were being. electoral commission officials and he had mentioned that again today he has said that he has information people who he did not mention trying to disable the biometric voter finger identification keith then he said that there will be an audit of this he has however as i mentioned that he feels the election has been a free and fair with him towards a funk and just tell you. has to go back to work a lection period is over but on the other side bobby wine he's main content his main challenger has already said that this election has not been free and fair he has rejected the result saying that there has been my c.v. regularities thing that he has evidence that he's going to present once the internet is back up we've also had from the 5 original body that you start a community and the preliminary reports talking about the same biometric.
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identification system saying that some of the machines failed and that was a problem talking about the delays. in delivery of voting materials in some polling stations and we did see that as well especially in auburn areas there was a lot of delays of delivery or voting materials so people started voting late so that his own son the electrical. e.s.e. that you saw for the community observers also raised concern about. about the internet shut down says that it infringes on the right of people to get information but again we have also been listening to what we have been up to tally center all day that actual commission is saying that they did the best they could and of this that constance's and they believe that they have run a credible election or a covering for information that comes from sort of their income partner.
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this is drugs or these are the top stories as we've just been hearing uganda's electoral commission says that you are the most of any has officially won a 6th term as president extended. and the 6 year old has called the election the most cheating free since independence in the 1960 s. his main challenger bobby wine alleges the election has been rigged. candidate your team 7 to have a workable time having obtained the highest number of votes in the election and the votes cast in his offense being more than 50 percent who they voted to vote cast at the lection they lead to a commission they care your way 72 how will work of will power.
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