the, the very 1st gold medal of the tokyo olympics has been awarded to china's young crime one the woman's 10 meter air rifle competition. putting her country straight to the top of the metal table with 2 golds. the host nation also struck gold after now he said to cato, one, the men's, 60 kilogram judo competition echo around south korea and cost of on among those with $1.00 gold a piece. ah, this is all, just, these are the top stories. demonstrators are taken to the streets and several brazilian cities calling for the impeachment of president jack, both sonata. they're angry over the handling of the pandemic, and allegations of corruption. protests in european cities, continually governments push for vaccine passport. police in front to tear gas to disperse protesters in the capital. paris demonstrated say that against are green

pass. i would only allow vaccination people free of the call, the 1900 virus into restaurants and other indoor areas. turkeys defends ministry, says 2 soldiers have been killed and 2 more have been wounded in an attack on a vehicle and they are bob area of northern syria. the ministry said turkish forces immediately fired back turkey had launched across border euphrates shield operation in 2016 to drive out iso and the city in kurdish y p g versus santa has more from istanbul, there are several of the turkish military posts across scattered across east and north, on april, and from many of these various positions, the turkish army has retaliated, white peasy, possess steel. the techs are continually seems that there's, that there's also going to continue to the night. and so turkey has cleared these area in 2016 from isis, which was the 1st major turkish military incursion into syria. and since then,

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news. news. news. ah, ah hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammered. jim john tiffany: as main opposition party is demanding answers after police arrested its leader. freeman, my boy, and at least 10 today my party members were detained during a night rate. police accused my boy of conspiracy to commit terrorist facts and killed government officials. but human rights groups denounced the arrest as a crackdown on democracy president sammy slew who hudson had promised to defend

basic freedoms when she took power 4 months ago, after the death of her predecessor, the today, my party was organizing a rally to discuss constitutional changes and reducing the president's powers, when move away was arrested. the constitution we are fighting for is not just for us, but for everybody. it is to foster unity. i make sure few individuals do not make decisions to hurt the nation. the constitution will hold ladies to account when they overstep their mandate. just after the arrests police insisted the party was breaking cove with 19 rules by holding public meetings. so much traffic, but we're just making sure people are here to the laws of the country that invited many people who are turning their plan, meeting from a party meeting into a public one, even though their plans were for an indoor meeting. when president john mcgill fully died in march, sammy slew hudson stepped into his position, making history as townsend. he is 1st female, had a state, she became

a member of parliament in 2010. then 5 years later, vice president hudson reached out to the opposition and pledged to defend democracy and basic rules when she took office. the opposition wants constitutional changes including reducing presidential powers. in one policy shift hudson has announced a cobra 1900 vaccine rollout in tampa. nia bugger fully had called vaccines dangerous and didn't release data on the outbreak often says her 1st priority is to grow the economy. but critics say she is not implementing changes quickly enough. ah. all right, let's bring in our guess in kampala, orient nicole townsend the researcher at human rights watch. in most times in the year, i can quote you political analyst and an honorary research fellow at the university of wisconsin, madison and in tina and belgium turned the list to vice chairman of de ma tens and he has main opposition party, a warm welcome to you on thanks so much for joining us today on inside story to do,

let me start with you. what's the latest you know about freeman my boy's condition as well as the other members of today who were arrested. do you have any idea of what will happen next to them and how concerned are you for their condition? thank you very much for having me. the last test information that we have is 5 of those ads that were being denied with the city of wanda. well traveled overnight yesterday to data alarm at this time, so, but 1200 kilometer and one of them has was released this morning for remain in police custody in dallas alone. i got the other 9 who remained in why was that? we 3 have be relieved. so they are about 6 walked in

in police custody. as far as chairman mo, it is concerned. since yesterday the police have prevented his lawyer, they have prevented a member of his family, his children in this cafe to see him. so we have not seen him, but he is not being seen. no one has as has talked to him, and therefore we do not know what his condition is and the police have said nothing about their plans, what they plan to do next. and so that is fine. as far as the last test updates. ah, i can the, the fact the 10th and the as main opposition leader has not just been arrested, but also accused of terrorism. what does that mean with regard to democratic reforms in tanzania? thank you very much. this is genie

t from the regime whereby we are sent out repression, i guess the more crusty and lack of provision packee. and in particular being tended my practice has been attacked to them and both the lead data from and the party is any solution. so we saw back track down from where we can trust feedback from 2016 have severely, but the position has been operating very restricted. but in the fullest administration, the extent of left restriction increased and we thought that maybe there is some life of change when the new administration following the

model fully. but we have realized that people just pretend and only rhetoric, which prevents somebody that has not been able to sustain for so long. and already we are expecting to see the same approach that have been used to crack down opposition. lead us to frustrate was held back in yes or him. president hudson had made gestures that indicated that she would be potentially moving away from the heavy handed leadership of former president mago fully from your perspective, what do these arrests signify when it comes to her presidency? the idea of her potentially inactive reforms because you heard, i can do there say that these are rest essentially mean that there's going to be continuity between the previous administration of president my go fully and his repressive tactics. and now the presidency of president has a well, yes, i agree,

i think that was very troubling. and its indicate as she described to continue to claim as a refund during the weekend general election, where arrest of opposition members were merely, hyphen, was extremely commonplace. during that period of time, i think that it, she had an opportunity to really bad tied. and i pointed out, it looked like that was going to be going to be some level of change in terms of the repressive tactic government was taking again, critic, but we can sort of dismantle that idea. and i think that she, she,

she and her government really ought to take steps to address that to do. let me ask your opinion when it comes to this issue because it was just a few months back that president half and had reached out to members out of the opposition. she had pledged to defend democracy when she took office. have you been hopeful at that point that things might change and are you what all hopeful now? well up we were the 1st to make the move where the fast to extend an olive branch immediately. she was wanting as president, i personally met a call to ha. i spoke to one of our systems telling, telling him to convey my message to how i hall that miss trisha would move away from the toxic legacy of john condom fully. now my phone call was immediately followed by an official letter from my party in which we

requested to invite us to a meeting in which will tap that dialogue. little bit country away from 5 year old repression. it was, i was extension of olive branch and asked when she med public document that you will be speaking to be opposition. now that was for low. my goal in between, she has had meetings with all and sundry, but she has not fulfilled her pledge to speak to the opposition and is now all we are getting now is more of the family, more of what we got doing 5 years of them. i will fully tyranny and therefore at this is that is difficult to be helpful that,

that this time yeah, administration is going to be different from battle defense. in fact, there is a reason to fear that we may be even worse to depression. even though our present mobile fully was, was that a group on his treatment of the opposition? he never bad to chat with as serious offense as i can. i need to present some yes, no, no. ted, ted are easy and that's, that's harold that we aim for better, tough day than weeks ahead. i kinda, its only been a few months since president hudson took office and obviously there was some hope from some quarters there that perhaps things would be different under her stewardship. perhaps there would be more of a push for reform. let me ask you this. what would you say to those who might suggest that perhaps it was too soon to be holding these types of gatherings that

you damn party were planning on holding? i mean, should more time have been given, or would the result have been the same from your vantage? point i think that it would have been the same. we actually had given her the benefit of doubt. we is analise that she might really mean changed. but actually we knew hungry back ground that she is actually a result of the legitimate election that was characterized by basil. did you like it a lot, it is valid set to that. thank you. thank. so we need to understand that ccm. field metrics, question and some. yeah. some, yeah. hudson herself is not confident especially because she knows that there really but also she feels like she needs to to be to

as there ought to please. they must go fully had lane as the least who preferred their had lying side and even the pilot itself is 100 percent of gross 100 percent. and each member of the problem is that, well, the problem is actually shell feel bubble fully. who brought them back and they would like mobile fool is approach to continue so that they can continue to supply . and she has a lot of pressure with that. but she was also part of that. so i would go, i agree with to do that. we might see what actually look optimistic and the more we saw that she because of their 1st coming election, which you think that you have and she has to, to sub i am really, it seems that he is really any regret,

repressive approach just so that she can maintain her presidency beyond 2025 yet or am i just like to take a step back for a moment? how much did the human rights situation in tans in the deteriorate under the stewardship? a former president muggle fully. what was it like in the country before he took power and then what happened after he took power? i think it's important to point out that you know, company like any country in the world and in the region. you know, there's always been a degree off our human rights abuse that, that has been, he had the need to be addressed. but i think after fully came to power in 2016, the situation did period dramatically to such a point that many people just felt that they could not be out of publicly.

we have always be turned to be a good example of the reprisals against government getting back to play with in being with him almost being needed and several instances that took place. we attacked them, the position attacked from the media a space with extended district organization. but typically will be involved in speaking out against kinds of abuses. we're not able to because they lived in fear all essentially being punished for criticizing the government. and i think that situation and bad got seemed to, as we've mentioned, we've all talked about. it seemed to be shifting and wanting time, but as i said, the recent events indicate but it might actually be getting better to do the to

them. a party has been calling for constitutional changes like the reduction of presidential power and an independent electoral commission. what else would the opposition like to see what other kinds of reforms do they want to see happen in towns in the year when the we have been calling for complete all of our constitutional and legal order in order to give the country a new bad, and democratic constitution and this call have been going on for the past 3 decades, is not jobs. recently they have been going on since 1991 when a potential commission commanded that the company did a new constitution and therefore, and therefore the issue of the day is just as close to

a talk. talk about home on our post to snow and the political order to create a more democratic company. but immediately in the, in the shop truck, we would like to see eric torres of political freedoms. that's got on t by the quote, that kind of situation we want to see an end to the use of criminal law to punish political opponents. we want to see an end to impunity to the impunity of the security forces which have killed the todd shot and maimed hundreds of people in the past 5 years. we want to see a repeat of bad at a press the button better draconian legislation that then acted soon after president fully capital office in 2015. we also want to see an ad at

a lead. i'm conditional and immediate relief of all political praise and the fashion of the legitimate criminal prosecutions that have been going to law against the democratic opposition. so these are the best, the best, the math that we, we, we, we are making. i can do how popular is president hudson and what does the public think of her leadership thus far? what i see and do that when she became very popular in the 100 base. because what he called my in terms of business environment political says even has tweets posts where very encouraging to the public. but after that, when she 1st said that she is not allowing the constitution and then at the public rallies because she wants to move the economy immediately,

we saw people starting to have reservation. that gets that and also to actually that and the standing or realizing that she's more of a teenage you then a change and i think right now with their new budget and then you levies and back session. very high, especially on the wall by melissa inception, which is a platform whereby many people will inform us that the form that i use the and now the government has introduced facts which, that to everybody. and it's actually very regressive taxes. and there's been lots of complaints about the egg together with that. the big supply mission from military has not been helpful. is lake that actually locking their pieces in who are blaming up the. ringback new practice, then you can move to, to wound, for example, using what's like that or saying we pass this,

we can move to change. so people have come plenty of time that this government, this administration is not ready to lead to listen and is going to to you power and fall to do anything that they want. combined with the ad list of their opposition lead as admin buzz as well as now come up chat. did i give you my why it has added salt to there will be coming to the popular baby. i get this little bit talking this week and i don't see that a lot in, in more hit so that that we're spending. but people are talking people, people are about these things. but i also see in their social media how people are talking, how people are expressing themselves, i guess this new levies. and also i guess that is their depression. i guess they open that or how much power is the president or rather the office of the

presidency have in tans. now i think that, you know, the, the fact that the, the, the countries shifted up dramatically and he did poll. i'm mostly election is an indication of the kind of power but he had, i think, one of the criticism that a lot of people have been government policy and generally approaches to way to the way the country is run. we're a reflection on cable personal views. so for example, rather as opposed to, you know, the way that the, any unofficial come into play, which would be reflection of a white thing. i'm sorry, i want to give an example of the ways in which the government policy was influenced

by a personal interview. one of which was inspected on pregnant school growth. returning to school, you were that they shouldn't and that eventually became government policy. that shouldn't be the case. and the law itself in the constitution of company equality. but the of use eventually began to reflect on company policy, and that i think is an indication of the amount of income and then have ideally shouldn't pack it. and i think that's part of the reason why they have been so many calls for competition on the want to restrict the kind of influence and power then the president has their to do, you know,

the government has said that there were covered 19 restrictions that the opposition was in violation of by having this meeting or by planning this meeting that should emma shouldn't have planned this meeting because of the restrictions imposed about covered 19 had members of to them been warned by the government not to hold the meeting and was permission needed festival bahama not covered 90 was to check in time, but that have never been since the outbreak of the damage. as you may remember, the president mother fully taught pallet infused to have and there is frictions on public gatherings on the policy ban on. and it's sort of public gathering because of covered 90, president refuse and the new president and how government have not instituted as

being god as christian on covered 19. they have not probably been said and the public gathering on it on the day that we have bred to be chucked them out, close to some of them. that was a met just part event in the city of wanda. i'm a premier league match between a team from the cost is and a local team which was attended not only by thousands of sports fan. it was also attended by better government officials in the same city in the same time as they were clipped, cracking down on them, i. yvette saw. there is not a single restriction of 19 that is not a single bishop of public gatherings because of public 19. and that is not a single prohibition in any law which require us to seek permission in

order to hold in time a positive event like the one that we plan. it was not a public riley, it was going to be an indoor public event, which is not elected by law, which did not require any discussion to the police. and then now you've been covered by team as an excuse to crack down on emma to crack down on, on, on our meeting at a time when they are holding meetings on a daily basis all over the country. and that you, that's for the president about all the way down to the junior office at the local level. so ccm, that will impact it. and the government are free to hold the meetings as they wish . the opposition today my particular cannot be called all non existent,

corporate main restriction. it's nonsense. all right, we run out of time, so we're going to have to leave the conversation there. thanks so much to our guests or nichol. i come to quote you and to do this and thank you to for watching, you can see this and all of our previous programs. again, anytime by visiting our website, al jazeera dot com, and for further discussion, go to our facebook page at facebook dot com forward slash ha, inside story. you can also during the conversation on twitter, our handle is at a g inside story from him. how much room in the whole team here? bye. for now. the news news. news.

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