want democracy in men more than the country can move forward to develop but there's no indication the generals in myanmar are ready to give up power florence louis al jazeera. ah, and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just here now. hi, food in fall is hitting heavily populated regions of east in china. it comes days after flooding, forced a 1000000 people from their homes and killed at least $58.00. thousands of people have been moved to emergency shelters. and the typhoon has also hit taiwan, causing major damage. in some areas, wind gusts reached 191 kilometers an hour. even though the eye of the storm stayed more than 300 kilometers out to sea. afghans of ended the 1st night of a curfew hole, but 3 of the countries $34.00 provinces, will be subject to new restrictions. the army is trying to halt atalla bonnet,

vance, which seeing the group make large territorial gains. us defense secretary lloyd austin says he believes to africa, government science to consolidate security forces and major cities could help. well the taliban search. and i think the 1st thing to do is to make sure that they can slow the momentum and then, and then be able to put themselves in a position where they can re take some of the games that the taliban. some of the ground that they've lost. so i think, i think from my engagements with the afghan leadership, they are committed to that and. and so we look forward to, to them making progress, they have, they have the capabilities. i have a capacity to, to make progress and to, and to really began to block some of the taliban advances. thousands of

protested in several brazilian cities calling for the impeachment of president j at both scenario. the angry about his handling of the current of virus pandemic and allegations of corruption. the leader of australia's most popular state says she's disgusted by protests on saturday. hundreds of demonstrations will find for breaking, locked down measures. there are fears. the largest rally in sydney could turn into a super spreader event. japan is one skateboarding 1st to ever elim pick gold medal . util. hardy go me winning the main street event in the city way. lay learn to skate. those i headlines. the news continues here now just off the inside story, something was going to change as anything really changed. this is systemic violence that needs to be addressed at its core. we are in a race against the barrier and no one said, we are all say we're looking at the world as it is right now,

not the world. we like it to be. the devil is always going to be in the details. the bottom line when i was just there on a cruise . hello and welcome to the program. i'm hammer, 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 accuse my boy of conspiracy to commit terrorist facts and kill government officials. but human rights groups denounced the arrest as a crackdown on democracy president sammy as to who hudson had promised to defend basic freedoms when she took power 4 months ago. after the death of her predecessor, the today, a party was organizing a rally to discuss constitutional changes and reducing the president's powers. when

no boy was arrested the constitution we are fighting for, he's not just for us, but for everybody. it is to foster unity and 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 colbert 1900 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 before an indoor meeting. when president john michael fully died in march, sammy asked lou hassan 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 once the constitutional

changes, including reducing presidential powers in one policy shift often has announced a cobra $900.00 vaccine rollout in tampa. near margot 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's 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 you tend to need i can require 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 tends 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 held in the northwest city of wanda web. web traveled organized a 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 alarm. i got the other 9 who remained in ones we 3 have been 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 your family, his children in this cafe to see him. so we have not seen him, but he has not been seen. no one has, 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, the, the, the lead 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 tans in here? okay, very much this me it's not that it's punching a fee from the regime whereby we are sent out

repression. i guess they're more cressy and le hope legit provision packee and in particular the change in my practice has been talking about the fact that both the lead data from members and the party is any solution. so we saw back track down from where we can trust feedback from 2016 have severely, but their position has been operating in sounds very restricted, but in the full is administration the extent. so left restriction increased and we thought that maybe there is some life change when there were new administration following the bible fully. but we have realized that people just pretend and only rhetoric which prevents me. i have not been able to sustain for so

long, and already we are starting to see some approach that have been used to crack down opposition leaders to frustrate what she's putting yes or am 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 icon there say that these arrest essentially mean that there's going to be continuity between the previous administration of president mago fully and his repressive tactics. and now the presidency of president hasa. well yes i am really, i think best that are very troubling and it's

indicate as she describes continuing to refund october not doing the the general election where arrest position and that's what it means. hyphened extremely commonplace during that period of time. i think that it's she have an opportunity to really bad tied and i was 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 ah, we can sort of dismantle that idea, and i think that she, she, she and her government really ought to take steps to, 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 hudson 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 at all hopeful now when we were the 1st to make the move? what effect to extend an olive branch immediately after 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 i haul that administrative would move away from the toxic legacy of john ponder 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 was top that dialogue was that country away from 5

years of repression. it was, i thought i was extension of olive branch and asked when she meant that public men, that you would be thinking to be opposition. now that was for low mom. i go 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're getting now is more of the family, more of what we got during 5 years of them were fully tyranny. and therefore at this is that is difficult to be helpful that, that this some, yeah, administration is going to be any different from that to help with that. in fact,

there is a reason to fear that we may be even worse at depression. even though present mom fully was was better, replied his treatment of the opposition. he never bad to chat with serious offense as, as can i need to present some yes, more hot scott said pet out easy. and that, that tells us that we are in bed a tough day that we 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 had the benefit of doubt. we is analysts that she might really mean changed, but actually we knew from the back ground that she is actually a result of the me just to mit election. that was kinda nice bye bye. you like you to glad it is valid to that. thank you. thank so we need to on the back to c m field read expressed in 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 the mother fully had lane as the ladies who prefer their had lying

side and even the pilot itself is a 100 percent close to 100 percent. and each member of the problem is that, well, the problem is actually shell feels bubble fully. who brought them back and they would like mobile fool is approached to continue so that they can continue to supply. and she has a lot of pressure with that. but she was also have part of that. so i would go, i agree with to do that. we might see why actually it's not 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 survive through that. and he's ready. it seems that he really any regret, repressive approach. just so that she can maintain her presidency beyond 3035 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 the best company, like any country in the world and in the region. you know, there's always been a degree of human rights abuse that, that has been, he had in need to be addressed. but i think after fully came to power in 2016, the situation did period to dramatically to such a point that many people just felt that they could not be out of publicly. we have always be to a good example of the reprisals against government getting back to with

in being with him almost being needed and several instances that took place where attack on position attack from the media. a space with extremely restricted organization, but typically will be involved in speaking out against kinds of abuses, were not able to because they lived in fear all essentially being punished for, criticizing the government. and i think that situation and bad god seemed to, as we've mentioned, we talked about, it seemed to be shifting at this point in time. but as i said, the recent events indicate but it might actually be getting better to do that to them. a party has been calling for constitutional changes like the reduction of presidential power and independent electoral commission. what else would the

opposition like to see what other kinds of reforms do they want to see happen in tanzania? where be 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. and recently they have been going on since 991, when a presidential commission commanded that come to needed a new constitution. and therefore, and therefore they met jack usual the day is just close to a talk. talk about whole of our post. huge, know, and political order to create a more democratic time,

but me back immediately in the, in the chart rock, we'd like to see eric torres of political freedoms. that's guaranteed by the quote, the 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 fossil, which have killed the torture that named hundreds of people in the past 5 years. we want to see a repeat of bad and impressive, but better draconian legislation that then acted soon after president fully came to office in 2015. we also want to see an ad at a lead. i'm conditional and immediate relieve of all political praise and a fashion of legitimate criminal prosecutions that have been going to law

against the democratic opposition. so these are the best, the best, the money that we, we, we, we are making. i can see how popular is president hudson and what does the public think of her leadership thus far? what i see and do that? well. she became very popular in the 100 days 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 back and the standing or realizing that she's more of a teenager than

a chase. and i think right now with a new budget and then you levies and back sessions. very high, especially on the wall by melissa section, which is a platform whereby many people watching formulas for what i use the and now the government as introduced that tax which that to everybody. and it's actually a very regressive taxes and lots of complaints that bobby's egg together with that the big supply mission from their military has not been helpful. is lake that actually mocking their 50 then who are blaming their new practice. they, 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 complex times that this government, this administration is not ready to lead to listen and is going to,

to your 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 these concept chad, to give my has added salt too. there will be coming popular if you'd baby. i get this from the talk to the 3, 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 bad 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 they have their depression. i guess they open that or how much power is the president or rather the office of the presidency have in tanzania. 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 kinds of power but he had, i think, one of the criticism that a lot of people have that government policy and then generally approaches to way to the way the country is run. we're a reflection on cable person. all views, so for example, rather as opposed to the way that the any policy should come into play, which would be in our section of why they're very i want to give an example of the ways in which the government's policy was influenced by a personal interview one of which was inspected on pregnant

school growth returning to school. but you were that they shouldn't. and that eventually became government policy. that shouldn't be the case. the law itself in the constitutional company, equality. but the person of use eventually began to reflect on the policy, and that i think is an indication of the amount of info 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 constitutional reform 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. no carbon 90 restrictions in time, but they have never been since the outbreak of their damage. as you may remember, present mother fully taught pallet and fused to have and there is pictures on public gatherings on the policy ben on. and it's sort of public gathering because of my present model of the fuels and the new president and have gotten that have not instituted as being got as friction on probably 19. they have not probably be fed and public gathering on it on the day that we have breaking the

constitutional form. that was a major part event. in the sam c, p a was of a premier league match between a team from the cost is and a local team which was attend that not only by thousands of sports fan, it will also attended by better government official in the city. in the same time as they were cracking down on my event, saw there is not a single restriction of 19 that is not a single for he be sion of public gatherings. again, because of public 19. and that is not as female, prohibition in any law which require us to seek permission in order to hold in time to embed like the ones that we planned. it was not

a public riley, it was an in da public event, which is not elected by law, which is not to require an invitation to the police. and then now you will be covered by a 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 of the come. and that you, that's from 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 to check their mind particular cannot be called all non existent, corbett, 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 am nichol. i come to quote you and to do lisa and thank you to for

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