sure activities and even infiltration into your work so you know the kinds of symptoms you might see in your children is your recent l.s.e. when you were trying to limit their time now you might say that all teenagers there are both when their parents are limiting their time but this is just that their level this attitude when you're away from your just lines or this irritability if somebody is calling you to do something that you might typically have enjoyed in the past so you're looking for changes in behavior and we know that most of us are already using our devices and what has happened now is children so those are trying activities to change because they're not able to go someplace for it they're not really nice in person so everybody was thinking ok how can we keep the social interaction growing but no we have we have had this or piece it. period hyperstimulation in this digital world and that has really taken over and when you're in teaching these hyperstimulation activities it can make other activities

seem rather under stimulating and boring so things that you may you may have previously enjoyed seen just to low interest. rates have a secretary for get here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. capitol is locked down with unprecedented security ahead of the inauguration of president elect joe biden a ministry green zone has been established and 25000 national guard troops are being deployed a plane carrying russian opposition leader alexina bound it back home has landed but the flight was diverted to another airport earlier police detained his lawyer and some associates waiting to greet the kremlin critic has returned from germany where he spent 5 months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning. some of the thousands of on durance trying to make their way north to the u.s. of fort with guatemalan police and soldiers security forces surrounded the group on

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millions of ugandans know no other leader thank you nobody must 70 yet again he has won another term in power but he's accused of cracking down on his opponents and critics so could dissent triggered turmoil in this african country this is inside story. i don't want to the program i'm convinced one of africa's longest serving davis is heading toward 4 decades in power after winning an election his opponent has branded a complete fraud but this time you got this president when he was 70 faced his toughest ever to challenge for the pop star turned politician bobby wine one has

been under heavy guard at his home and what his supporters say is effectively house arrest catherine so i reports from come. work it did not come as a surprise president yoweri museveni has maintained a decisive lead against his opponents from the start of the vote count the little commission declares you were 7200 were. elected president of the republic of uganda the president addressed the nation after his victory was declared and say despite attempts by some individuals to tamper with about metric identification kits the election was largely free and fair. for. numbers. and voting for the. and for the parties. i think this may turn out to be the most.

elections. supporters of the 76 year old incumbent handout to celebrates every got the most to support. the being the he's the one with. the electoral commission and they've done their best under the circumstances but already the results have been redacted by bobby y. ou have said had evidence of widespread irregularities including rigging in favor of president yoweri with 7050 members say they are considering moving to court to challenge the results. of the forms of grignon that are not restricted to for the question of the credits on forms including agents at the polling station including forcing people to vote in the open yet under the law i suppose

the power of the sekret. the result so wine received nearly 35 percent of the vote and his party the national unity platform has garnered a sizable number of legislative seats however he told us that his movements have been restricted and visitors including journalists have been blocked from accessing his compound by soldiers surrounding his home security official say they had information that he was planning to declare himself we know there's also been heavy deployment of police in the military in the capital and other areas perceived to be opposition strongholds the winner may have been declared by the country remains on edge catherine soy al jazeera. you know what it was 70 has ruled for 35 years and is now set to for another 5 he's seen off a number of challenges over the years in 986 my 70 and his national resistance movement came to power the end of a 5 year war and have led uganda ever since he's been reelected president several

times most recently in 2011 after 2005 constitutional amendment lifted limits on presidential terms went on to win again 2016 a year later parliament voted to remove an age limit of 75 years for presidential candidates allowing him to run again is supporters praise him for bringing relative peace and prosperity to the country while his critics accuse him of turning into yet another authoritarian leader. are now joined by our guests in london we have agnes gitau who is managing partner at g.b.'s a political and risk advisory firm on east africa and we have christophe teka singh electra at the institute of development at the university of antwerp she researches governance and conflict in uganda and because of the internet blackout in uganda joining us on the line is joseph the chair no senior member of uganda people's

congress an opposition party a warm welcome to you wall i'd like to start with you joseph you're on the ground before we look at the challenges that were 70 faces now bobbie one has rejected the results as we heard there from catherine's pace but the one says he's considering norm violent options to challenge the results how do you see this playing out. it is very very interesting that. mr 70 at the beginning suggested that this would be the freest elections this independence i think this will be an insult to democracy and indeed an insult to the people you can miss from a 70 knows very well but if he won the elections he wanted in a manner which is completely contrary to the processes and the basics of democracy about how it will play around. here nor there i think unfortunately for us ugandans and i can tell you that i never knew i would be in a strange and like this where the electoral process in this country takes place

within the context of. a people that would relieve themselves eritrean or indeed in the last case scenario a north koreans i think it would be advised for the opposition to speak to as legal and means as possible meaning going to court and gathering as much evidence as possible i don't know how much or the line you has in terms of evidence together with the rest of the other organized democratic opposition in the country and i think that should happen i want to be able to participate and be play a part strategically politically on that anything other than that. mr sevan would seek to do to rather crush it in a manner which he knows because having lost elections in $180.00 he went to the bush he came to power militarily and i believe and i suggest that he has maintained power including through the elections the military and quasi force we should point out you mentioned the name rather keep focus. which is of course probably want

a real name we should have mentioned that at the beginning of that because you know christoph as someone who researches governance and conflict in uganda how tenuous do you see the situation right now dozens of people died in protest in the lead up to the vote how precarious is the peace right now. well i can't give an answer for the immediate situation and for the longer situation. and longer term to run up to the election and the election campaign the kind of measures which were use and presidents of. election campaigns there has been the use of violence there has been arrests of positional leaders like you said decision before but their level of violence which is used has been and president that which even before the election actually happened raised more than serious concerns about them being free and fair about the election defend itself over the last couple of days well the

internet blackout is more than symbolic because it doesn't allow information well documented information to come out of the country doesn't allow this information to circulate within the country and this is a major problem coming back to the question of pace i mean we've seen in the us a very different case but the president inciting his support is and we saw what happened at the capitol then i know that bobby wine has said we're going to look at nonviolent options considering all nonviolent options but like i said we have had people die in protests in the run up to this vote is the pace precarious. well that's a difficult question and it's to a certain extent and predictable the riots which happened in november they really surprised the government the government throughout the years has been ruling true carrot and true stick to stick through a strong control and through repression of position but these riots that caught

them by surprise what will happen in the next weeks it's very clear that they will try to repress any form of protest as soon as possible but again it's had happened in the past also in 2011 when there were the so-called walk to work protests when you had a combination of inflation and this kind of this contentment and this can happen again to think lee because it will be one ski constituency is the young urban unemployed and they pose a potentially dangerous group for the regime agnes i had to bring in as christopher mentioned there the population is very young 80 percent of people in uganda under 35 how can my 70 work for them willingly work for them and even for the people who voted against him to say that he is the president of a of a previous generation who's only brought uganda so far but now it's time to hand over the reins. i think many of the allies is the importance of job for

collation any in his address last right up to whom he was very clear say he is going to do one thing provide more opportunities for that we're there for that for ugandans and also continue as a private private sector to vittie and a free education so these are just promises and it's a matter of going to election we get a lot of probably saved but the devil is in the detail when it comes to the implementation but he has a hard task ahead of the young people they know through. the use of internet and other forms of information they know what the capable what what leadership they get lucky and the result chilled clearly to and it's going to be another yes it's another temple 70 but isn't it going to be tough i guess what about the pollen mentality is the makeup of the new parliament reflects the country

right now. see we have focused what is the election under presidents but what have seen is the new parliament area which seem to resample long time probably to the new going and just that will not look to edwards and can't eat the vice president until you are nice but he has lost his he's well i'm interested to a young age expended candidate i don't like the minister of trade actually to me just as a all that elementary state to me he is the son of the new wave and he also sure that ugandans i do not know whether the robot of the army is this that you should where you going to but it's a clear sign that they are tightening and i do hope that a new kind of made for t.v. but they don't get to the heart of 78 the new hope for uganda if the fundamental choice of a china i'd like to bring you back on the line can you talk me through this

transformation or the transition in the 70 from a rebel of reform to a leader who has changed the term limit who has changed the age limit for a president who has overseen an internet blackout thus having you on the phone so also he can stay in the in power took me through that transition. that's more interesting because i would tell you that there are 70 you know and you see today is the same 70 that some of us knew and havel is known it's the same 7 and so very difficult message to convey across the ground and body polity and particular thing that is one of the misfortunes we have in a country in a country where many people who oppose and 7 do not sufficiently understand some 70 alyea part of the conversation was whether or not the 7 is going to govern for the people under interesting lee. he told the. popular journalists of color and angry kenyan and the brother closer brother to agnes that you know he's

a he's governing ruling wonderful for his children grandchildren and so people make fun of that but on a serious note this time of 70 has always wanted power and he has always thought that he has no friend and has a list sort of as you want to get what he wants by any means necessary i suggested that in 180 he lost elections political little in democratically he did not go to court but he went to the bush when he took over power he banned political parties when we compelled him and in fact my party and i was a party to through the process of successfully challenging the 70s a ban on political parties in 2000 fall into those 5 therefore he was compelled to open up a market but the same the opening up process meant political parties had already been killed he has continued transferring power using every means possible and so really the make up the of whatever happens after the legislative assembly while it is significant and address is actually quite right it's actually fairly huge hit in many ways the recent incident

a few years ago where he sent top security agents of he's basically gunplay teles on parliament and karate on religious little something unseen anywhere in a democracy mr mcclellan was saying that the legislatures of them are moving in that red mist ration really this election window dressing is identical to want the same movement in the position that can be. really the situation with them having to do so little 700000 by the way the reformers in the 7170 who are basically solving a particular problem or for western interests. and it was convenient for him and for them to back him and right now by him like every of this incident including his friend but unfortunately he's so entrenched that it's actually rather difficult for even someone who sided with in some era when the reason you're going to don't really want to boil on this one but you haven't haven't changed by the way when my 70 was pushing for the family. at milton of 101 of the time would

come from zambia and speak another time when the thinking limit for the country what at 70 the whole thing came time came home to him it is american if you can reprocess i think the hope is that generally because most of the population have caught up with him in the modern reality even many of the older generation people older than myself needing some of the senior politicians in the in the 70s disappear a few weeks ago in kampala people are too tired to want change the only thing is they don't know how i think people are going to review beyond the election especially because of the unprecedented manner in which is actually pretty good the violence leading the election under some down on social media lincoln is everybody in the country i think that was wrong but. critical to think i'd like to bring you back in one continuation another time of the 70 what does it mean for the region what is it mean for east africa for foreign policy and security. that's a good question as was just mentioned certainly has been

a very skilled politician not only nationally but also internationally he's been able to tie the face of his regime to deface of actors within the international community for a long time to regime it was a donor darling for the world bank for the i.m.f. because it brought development from a country which didn't have much and successfully implemented. the sterner policies . he also played a key role for regional stability in the war on terror well he supplied peacekeeping troops are to me some mission in somalia and recently uganda has been a major hosting country for refugees in the wider region. however the recent elections. puts more prominently or they put more in the spotlight vs more authoritarian tendencies of the regime the major crackdown on the opposition. its forces donors to more forcefully change sides or 2 sides for example the united states have been accused for tour of the regime and they have been key donor to

regime but in the last months or less 3 wks there have been lauren more critical voices from the u.s. so donors they will have to make up their minds but president 70 he always got what he wanted because he's been so skillful in tying donor interest or international interests to his own just just quickly to the end because i want to move on to the economy but but but before we move on can i ask you talk about the incoming u.s. administration do you think anything will change with the with a biden presidency. that's of very good of a very difficult question i honestly i don't know what i do know is that the biden astray she will have hard choices to make and what i do know is that in the last 3 weeks there has been a change of tone and official communication of the state department and u.s. embassy in which they for example warned of consequences when

a prominent human rights lawyer was arrested agnes if we look at the state of governance for the state of of the government's books uganda is described as having rampant corruption economic mismanagement of spending public funds in a way that they should not be spent on another time when the 70 will any of those things be addressed. isn't that the story of most of our countries and again show me in the last little. year which democracy and democracy that there is really work and believe but the end of seats in the us and 4 years ago here in the u.k. democratic processes can your own but multi-party politics that is competitive in my view of the what and you wonder is not is not unique to what we are we are custom we have custom too in a continent in regards to economic vision uganda has had a steady growth of over white point 5 percent and of up for the last sort of 10

years these are the big percent for sighted over by 70 and a lot of people sort of praise him for what he has done he has worked on a frustrate the development of regional shared vision with the region in regards to promoting connecting the region and promoting trade with the region he's also one of the key fonda's all needed championing the new 3 free africa continental o. trade so in terms of economic and economic policies actually not changes they're going to be business as usual you're aware they the project that say uganda and turns it here over about 3500000000 dollars of that new pipeline there's also a construction of the roads between uganda and your sea so there's a lot of economic activity going on in the region and people that the weapon was 70 is is in and he's going to continue one at a time i think that's the expel thumbprint but in terms of the political process

think ugandans i tell you. that yet and we got questioned again and again just democracy what is being out in the time and what we currently know is there an alternative. you know what i do not know what we how to mix who solutions that's to our money. and the u.s. mission that ensures that an $300.00 gulp every part is strictly sanction not the current system where. we're not evil i want to bring a dose of back on the line joseph i'm not sure if you heard what i was saying there about the 70s economic achievements economic development i want to know if you agree with all of that. no i don't think i'll ever guess that suggested that

this i.m.f. world bank stuff is one of the reasons why i think admission is seeking to question well whether or not we review the politics is actually what they would say in american economic politics tippett meaning that really the most important going on in town is politics whatever happens in the white house and what happens around the world in days of this and it's backed by bating realities that the uganda became a sweat economy together with ghana at the time when the 7 was the darling were 7 was a terrific darling of the way because they wanted the way the west wanted to change the dynamics of geopolitics for wonder and you know what happened in iran and genocide that countries are different other day conquered brute on their behalf conquered congo with the huge millions of people lost into done it was really not the seventy's liberating helped done 7 was playing the joke that bomb like most of the people wanted because of the battle between north and south sudan as it were so he was basically a strategic ally and so you kind of became the sweatshop place where you can get all the dollar money the u.n. bases in table all kind of stuff to the strategic geopolitical kind of stuff please

be good boy like actually i know or care if enough of an african people are being told by a british senior minister in washington as and i bet and world bank meetings behave like misunderstanding and you'll get everything that he wanted that's about 1015 years ago you know africa needs to wake up to the reality what i do say i also disagree with. the market back to democracy is the way forward it worked in uganda between 92 and 71 when india mean was imposed on us because of it it means we had a flourishing multi-party democracy that was actually the best time in this country after we got rid of the demeaning and 79 in 98 it doesn't multi-party elections in which you cannot officially reject the 7 until today the poor guy has got no evidence to show that election was really in disfavor he knew he wanted to control a little power as i suggested q 3 between 9 189842 candles standard of living rose for the for. for 71 years when the political stability. mounted

politics where there is competition of ideas that's what we need to do in this country. country not what we need to be working for going for this country we are going to get we are coming to the end of the show we're running out of time i'd like to put another question to you christoph what the. concisely as you can for a very large question what are the biggest challenges that was 70 faces now and is he equipped to face them. well for me the biggest challenge at the moment seems to be 2 things one you have a very large segment of the population rich and happy rich considered steve selections non-legitimate what will he do it are. these elections they had a very low voter turnout let's say around one to 2 people came to vote which meant that to produce results you had one to 340 for him which is a major success what will he do how he will he unite the secondly because

economically it's not looking that well. a lot of money has been spent in preparation for the election and when this happened in 2011 this led to major inflation which together with political discontentment led to major protests what will he do now and of course one of the big that is one of the big factors that we also haven't talked about of course the coronavirus and how that impacts things as economies around the world a look to get back on track we will have to leave it there for time thank you to all of our guests agnes to get our kristoff to take a and dose of our channel and thank you too for watching you can see the program again any time by visiting our website is there a dot com and for further discussion you can go to our facebook page that's facebook dot com for slash inside story and you can also join the conversation on twitter handle is as a.j. inside story from

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