internet regulators obviously they've caught up with it and now made efforts to block it look chinese internet users routinely jump over the firewall to access internet websites as social media around the world it's not unusual that they would have tried something new that became popular they heard about it the technology and the capabilities and frankly the intelligence of internet users is always going to be several steps ahead of regulators whether in the west or in china. when it gets onto the agenda of the chinese authorities and it always comes after it was popular with net is in this is just another example of that but it also shows once again that the tolerance level for this kind of conversation within china is very limited and it can only take place within the confines that authorities in china are comfortable what.

coffeepots they are these are the headlines the u.s. senate has voted to move forward with the 2nd impeachment trial of former president donald trump impeachment managers rejected the defense argument that it's unconstitutional to prosecute a president often leaving office and tunisian investigators say a plane crash last month of which 62 people died may have been caused by technical problems. or flight 182 crashed shortly after it took off into casa in the java sea. protest as a return to the streets of maine moderate day after rallies were violently broken up by security forces demonstrating against last week's military coup in miles military rules of imposed a curfew in the 2 biggest cities and banned large gatherings more from scott. they are coming out in the thousands again today and it's interesting we've been speaking with some people who are there in yangon for those protests we know that there were a couple of vents planned we know that there was going to be a gathering at the u.n. office and gone to elevate the international profile of what's happening there as

well as at the japanese embassy and also there was going to be a a prayer of vigil at one location within downtown yangon that is because one protester was severely injured and is in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head couple of the stories at least 4 people killed and 5 others injured in 3 separate bomb attacks in afghanistan's capital one happened near the ministry of labor in kabul city center of the 2 explosions targeted police vehicles the government blames the taliban but no group has claimed responsibility so far and rescue is in india racing against time to reach dozens of workers trapped in a tunnel this area flooded after a glassie it collapsed on sunday washing away dams roads and houses at least 30 people have died you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera next year in the story. talking to owners there are windows tell us are we in

a case where us will be compensated civilians will we listen to the only music you hear is the only the most beautiful music in the world and silence we meet with the global news makers and talk about the stories that matter now does iraq. i after me ok you're watching the stream on this episode we are spending our full 25 minutes with george and panga also known as the spoken word artists george the tyrant george great having on this glow thank you very much i'm proud to be my aunt i am thinking to wish that there were going to be times when you create content you do performance since your audience who know you they know you know what so there's a shorthand with talking to them and there be other times when you know you're speaking to a much broader audience who joe you know you your background how do you introduce

yourself to people who are discovering it if people would discover you right now in this conversation out of people who are on a spoken word artist tends to talk about political or social questions. we have been in this conversation that we have comments from in people in uganda we have comments on twitter and comments right here in the comments page if you want to toss to george the palate you are very welcome to jump into the comment section and you can be part of that conversation we are particularly talking about a new film code black yellow red which will get seen in a moment got questions about that and get straight to the top of the king just keep on thinking about need growing up as a young star and i.q. up as a black brain from the african diaspora us sort of that the asp rap is one of the

ugandan diaspora moments as a youngster were you acutely aware that you were ganda. well i was. i was raised in a jamaican community the only ugandan family in our neighborhood. there's american had been there for some generations and they had different relationship with the country 2 of my parents' side story and my friends their family is ours already or where our ugandan experience was different from most people in the country. identify who. i'm looking here at a picture of you as a youngster and this is about 10 years ago and you as a budding artist how did you. how did you know

that they would be a new audience for what you didn't get even matter. well the ideas came from rap music in the 1st place and we had the good fortune of being able to record ourselves with whole technology for the 1st time when i started out as a rock so that was my introduction into what i'm doing now one of the things and piece of what that you can very well known for alls a punk cast and a cause has been hugely successful you could awards for it and there was a moment where you wanted to celebrate on the anniversary of the polkas what the pull cost act he was let's have a listen see that clip when it comes to this beautiful priscilla. look. communities about skin and it came out 27 years of experience to. come out war

stories come up in the papers about trigger happy john and stay dependent single mom. i remember every. first time. in fact we all do it so why is it that we as a community have no control over our narrative. i mean storytellers all wrapped up as of today are facing the same struggles and offer you waited around the time i was born. how. housing schools crime unemployment. we now provide if you will from our teeth $1000000000.00 storytelling industry i know we have to show for it these new versions of the same story. have you have your genes pluck as students listening to you in south he was smiling why waste money if you're listening to yourself because are any of us also there though there's also. in the most thoughts.

and really my hope some a dreams sort of the parked cars or as a vehicle i use to communicate some of these artists as many people as possible this in moments where i know is as an artist as a creator that they are going to be milestone moments in your kuya and then moments when people discover him if you could name one or 2 when you thought that was that was a milestone where more people knew about mike will call that was a breakthrough shimmy what would some of those milestones be featured much well a few years ago i wrote a poem for the royal wedding between the maker marco impreza ari a lot of people turned on to me from the moment. a few years before that i opened the rugby world cup in 2015. with my own poem people might know if i'm not a been the face of

a few global ad campaigns because i write poems. in collaboration as a brand and you know fortunately many of those poems get broadcast across the world so there's been a few moments. this some comments here are new chief i really like this if you like you've got a big family of fans out there we've got gabrielle hi george shout out from donning a new kate born and raised in uganda very proud of you i want to play here a critic from black yellow ranch before i do you. explain what this new short film is about and the significance of the date ok or black killer it was released on the 14th of january 2021 just a month ago and that's the day that i turned 50 is north of the day of the ugandan presidential elections this year. both of these are big moments they were

in my mind for obvious reasons. and they just the moment gave me a time of reflection the coincidence of the meter effect on 10 years of just a poet. also was. the presidential race between the incumbent president was 70. what was taught me or what that reinforced for me about politics on the role of. creating change what stand stands out mean what stood out for me was how you talked about leadership in uganda in a very memorable way simply said. there's a faction of you down in society whose reaction is angry and violent who can't stand be inside and but then there's another perspective. what does it take to

govern effectively. one school for was say the rule of law but no ugandans feel that given what the country is going through before tribal persecution and gruesome war 70 came to power in the eighty's and as of 201880 percent of ugandans were under 45 years. you had me right. they've never experienced another leader and whoever that could be proved they've got the requisite experience to govern evil in fact the other 70 gave a speech in a way you're just a country was particularly candid. grandkids. bear in mind 6 he hasn't really had to win popularity with the propaganda machine or use and the tricks he's self-made and he's well paid to many kids doesn't have any mix these times come the next election with 7076. but there is something grand black about him that's why so many can't imagine life without him

he represents to familia. julian and go straight to some questions and some thoughts from you tube for you theses team and he as he began to in the adage black yellow red seems not to resonate with the masses given the current state in uganda any sickening having to wake up to traumatizing headlines within and across the ganja george thoughts is sickening and it is disturbing across the diaspora as well which is why i thought through my platform i can provide space for all or who are interested in the future of uganda to reflect and to take stock of both sides of the argument. and what the opportunities for us might look like moving forward and look look i'm beyond politics frankly. what was your experience in this is from nietzsche

began shooting divisions in uganda some the shot in uganda someone not explain the film impressed. great question so we actually did a film pilot in uganda that was my 2nd time filming and of us now it was a few years before i created a music video with the director isaac and their producer kenya and of continuo very talented people that was great but this time this was or the director called megi alavi british nigerian he does like order big afro beats. videos music videos but he's also a friend of mine and. i expressed to him my interest in creating material 'd like this that wasn't just a song by it was also based on the continent i said to him as soon as i wrote the

piece of black yellow red that ended up in the film i said to him we're going to go out to uganda and we're just going to do ever we can really get there and that's what we did fortunately we were well taken care of in the community of come a shot where we did not most of the filming shots. and the rest of the team. but people were very supportive and co-operative excited and it was a great experience in a couple of bt she state you pick up on and when you're introducing in the performance in a film of black yellow ranch i want to have anything to see tina she's a nurse she's based in uganda and respond to her thoughts. and. that's really not that i'm. as under your knowledge. does she remember when j. shootings. on ija never been to me. most

of them used. this frees him from doing the action and. the nice inside the meek. way. so i recognized. the link between the decisions and the habits and the truck record of this regime and the lack of progress in some areas of public concern over the us health care infrastructure etc what i also recognize and i really want to be respectful 'd here because i'm not on the african continent but i recognize some patterns i read i recognize the consistencies with the ugandan political situation and the situation across many countries and in africa though when i see these patterns when i see leaders staying in power for longer than the people expected longer than they said they would in the 1st place when i

see them changing the constitution to allow to stop and when i see young people becoming increasingly frustrated and even becoming divided because there are people that do support this regime when i see these patents why that why. what i take from these patents is that. africa needs to needs a way of rethinking change rethinking social change rethinking development we as young africans who are often find ourselves at odds with other leaders and older asian games who always talk to us about how things were before they were in power and how they are maintaining stability and allowing the economy to expand we need to figure out how a not going to get looked into fruitless arguments with these regimes and i think

we do know already we might not realize we might not recognize it in the way that i'm describing but through art through our film through our music through our culture which plugs us into audiences across the world and creates commercial opportunities as well as broadcasting our experiences between the home of the motherland and the diaspora through our culture we have created the biggest opportunity for change that we can imagine and if we're really ambitious about the opportunity we can achieve a lot of what we hope part of the politics will take care of. c i n a coup she's missing your voice and this is the cautiousness of of being in the ask diaspora and i can hear people saying you know being a new dad how how do you mean even at i mean you had an early education said it had continued to speak about the and and i i know that the of those criticisms that come back to maybe biking how do you respond to that is. i think

it's important to respect these criticisms because even though i might not want to hear them there's validity in them and i think what the what those ringback criticisms indicate is that it can't be up to one person one of the for us or one of the frustrating things about our electoral system and about politics in general is that i have become so focused on personalities so many of us. load all of our hopes inside them or 70 or but we one where in reality there is a system and claim this is what i talk about plans across the continent there are systems that we just need to be sent into combat we need to be objective about these systems so from sendai i see similarities in the direction of ugandan politics with the way that. i don't want to draw direct comparisons with any particular country but if i'm saying i see sort of similarities what what i have

the opportunity to do is try and figure out where i sit in those problems and from a diaspora perspective. the solution or the response that i will offer is that i am an east an audience i am at least an injury of ugandan culture and at least a young person who participates in uganda from overseas and in me you have an opportunity and guess what i'm not the only one there are many many young ugandans and old ugandans across the diaspora who are passionate about the country's future who want to make the best contribution they can otherwise they were just not be engaging with the future of africa will commit all of the talents and their resources so whatever country that they sense what it so i what i'm saying to anyone who feels that i alone can't speak for the future of uganda i'm saying the

up i'm here for you so you so talk to me what can we work on what can we develop and the 1st. the 1st arc at the core of is that the sharing the broadcasting the recording the promotion of our culture. that's what we do in the arts. here and you cheap out by and 5 cents what influence has poppy wind had on the church in the film black yellow red you are critical of bubbling point out that puppy reality doesn't mean that you're good company. popularity alone is not the same as being good at governing and i have had to recognize that you know we don't we haven't necessarily had evidence but he hasn't had the opportunity to show he could do as a head of state however in terms of what we want to influence me he has reminded me

of the importance of speaking truth to power but you are has been someone who has stood by his beliefs and he has stood by his criticisms you know many of them very valid criticisms of the way things are before but we were in that role there was no one prominent in our generation who were in that who we necessarily identified with no almost ready to in the way the view i just are so that really pushed me to start to get it saying my feelings about you kind of future hopefully to motivate other people 'd in the diaspora who might also want to start developing their opinion and their contributions here gunda she bangs is a student he's based in uganda and he has a question for ya. how can we include everyone in this cause for social betterment and in the aftermath from a leadership standpoint once we other leaders who started this race and intruded

everyone once we get to that point how do we ensure that we do not confuse long term progress for no progress where we ensure that change is progressive and the treaty an open mind and that we are willing to pass the baton on to the next man survivors as a great question and in that question are so many things that we need to as individuals we need to continue to apply our energy to thinking about these programs so one of the things that you identified as the you know when we do see change and when times move on how we're going to ensure that we have a system of understanding each other and sharing power and responsibility and the answer is there is no single answer. on an individual level every ugandan this is why i said that at the end of my film black yellow red your honest future is not

just in politics alone it isn't that destiny of every ugandan and so i said individuals we need to 1st of all accept our social responsibility ok unfortunately or fortunately we don't have central power we don't have central authority as young ugandans there is no across the diaspora and for many people who do not identify with the current leadership we do not relate to the current leadership we don't have a single way of communicating we don't have a single agenda of priorities that we're 'd going to work through however we will have a shed passion for it on a future so what that means is that you as an individual servant you need to start a continuance of what can i do for my country where do my skills like where or opportunities do i have to connect to people overseas overseas ugandans like george

and everyone else that he represents how can i offer my services my skills my know my knowledge to these people 'd in a way that we can build anything any opportunity any commercial. arrangement any trade between us that we can control that's the big project for our generation . to him i'm looking in the last occurrence lots of thoughts and lots of thanks for your watch and to making sense that i now after which i feel a team since go i took some big decisions in my life based on his ideas one of the big powerful ideas that we're left with with black yellow red is the impacts and the effectiveness of music as a force for change people want haven't seen everything. maybe you know a politics. music even

a 70 knows the power of music busy busy busy busy. come on music's a great way of making a string given us so many ways of making a drink we got the juice in a car and we won't stop producing the genocide on stage because all over the world . all over the world it's the most common beverage. giving us a lot of leverage a lot of privilege a lot of heritage and. all of this comes from the streets here we still concept our doors and songs from the streets because a famous artist will come with guns on the streets and food still runs to alternate funds on the streets we want our music to be our savior from all it is self destructive behavior. for us just a soundtrack to us really happen in order issues that were not really tackled in suing dude and i were chatting about the it was really obvious and he wanted to be

able to help how do i help people and one of the ways that he is doing this with these with these work is he's taking a ph d. and this only of interest ph d. this topic the subject where he is using these could help young ugandans this is going to help the african diaspora jews can you can you make the connections between what you'll do your ph d. and how you feel you can help the african diaspora and young people around the world who is struggling with how do they help their own country to trucks. thank you for asking about this for me well absolutely what i'm trying to understand with my research is how young people for 100 years from all corners of the world. have come up with their own ways of making music that have gone on to be really commercially successful with out changing the term

prospects of the communities that they come from. i don't see how it's possible i don't see how we can. have you know young black people not just ugandans black people for as long as we've had access to recording equipment there's been jazz there's been rock n roll that's been our b. there's been reggae that's been here put there's been funk so disco. grime african music now we have afro 'd beat now dancehall reggae all of these things came from young black people in very similar situations to walk 'd i grew up in and to what many young ugandans are currently growing up and so real innovation came from their music and real change came from their music and real money was made from their music now uganda is one of those countries that has

a music scene that is more prominent than other countries with a bigger population on the continent right so there's a launch and it's either just it's been a pleasure talking to you and sharing the riviera the cheap audience and our audience around the world on multiple platforms one more thing i have to have a look at my laptop that's what a black yellow red is currently available for me to watch on nietzsche you can also follow george to play on twitter and of course have you heard just podcast if you haven't you can do it where you find all good podcasts josh the patrick thanks for joining us. as information on governments responses to covert 1000 across the world emerges so to as a deeply disturbing question. people in power investigates allegations of systemic discrimination against a pandemic disabled victims and asks has there been

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