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renovation or the god. those are some of the issues as bangladesh. the civil societies is pressing forward to address along with of course that are in gauges. the academy of motion, picture, arts and sciences has apologized to a native american actress who was booed on stage during the oscars in 1973. such in little feather appeared at the request of marlon brando to decline his best actor award for the godfather. they wanted to raise awareness of the abuse suffered by native americans in the film industry. ah, this is out here and these are the top stories, canyon opposition leader. either a dinger has rejected the results of the presidential election, but he stopped short of announcing a legal challenge at the supreme court. his rival router was declared the winner on monday. the figures another which should go to another void and must be crushed by
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a court or law. in all of you. there is no legally under body declared winner nora, president elect. on monday, the electoral commission announced that deputy president william router had narrowly won the election he received at just over 50 percent of the vote. 2 points ahead of a thinker election observers say the results are fair. he lug therefore called an o king on to remain calm and maintain peace under the circumstances we father call on the candidate to resolve disputes over election results, including results for the presidential election peacefully through legal channel. moscow is blaming a saba term for a fire at an ammunition depot in russian control, crimea. 2000 people were evacuated from the area. the defense ministry says no one was seriously injured,
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but civilian infrastructure was damaged. or un chartered ship has left ukraine, bound for ethiopia, with thousands of tons of wheat on board is the 1st shipment of food aid from ukraine to africa since the russian invasion. russia's president vladimir putin says western countries want to build a security alliance. similar to nato in the asia pacific region, he called a recent visit to taiwan by u. s. house big nancy pelosi, a planned provocation. in e u delegation is in garza where members have signed the funding agreement worth $249000000.00 over 3 years with you and relief agency for palestinian refugees have also paid a visit to the she for hospital to assess the condition of health care a chinese research vessel has docked in sri lanka several days late. it changed it, shed you off to india res security concerns india fears beijing will use the port as a military base. those are the headlines that his continues herron out as her as after
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inside story. ah, he was vice president can yep for years now, will you so if president, is he up to the job and wants his plan to tackle the countries many problems. this is inside story. ah hello, welcome to the program, i'm kimberly l. on monday the head of kenya's electoral commission declared deputy president william route went up nearly a week off the presidential vote. it was
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a narrow victory where the official results showing brutal gained just over half of the votes at 50.5 percent. while relo digger received 48.8. but just before the results were announced, for an action commission is cast doubt on the results. while relo dingus agent also disputed them. an edging irregularities are doing. it is a former prime minister and this was his 5th attempt at running for president. he received the endorsement of his longtime rival, president to whom kenyata, but results show router won in mount, kenya, president kenyata, stronghold before we go to our guests, here is how we will tulsa from costume mustang. enjoy the bob rated and it's about the economy. how are they going to see the family, how they're going to pay school fees at a time when the economy is really, really struggling? many families say the high cost of food prices and rising inflation is making it really difficult for them to make in to meet president elect william retailer,
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he's going to turn around the economy and help low income household survive. if you'll do that by introducing social welfare programs and subsidies, but economists say that is not going to be easy for him to do this. country is heavily in depth about a lot of money from countries as, as china, infrastructure projects, where that money has to be paid back at one with a kenyan taxpayers who end up doing that. the king and hope that the economy is going to be turned around by him right now. a lot of things are going well in the sample behind me. some businesses are close partly because of the political uncertainty, but also because for months many businesses have been struggling. the king of looking to see you're going to offer them anything in the let's bring it i guess all joining us from kenya's capital nairobi we have dentist and the campaign secretary for president elect william rudo,
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the rima walker, chief executive director of the alpha, a non profit that works on youth political engagement in kenya, and we have bobby and conky constitutional lawyer ad form. a member of the committee experts that wrote can use new constitution, a very warm welcome to old. i'd like to start, would you dennison to be you were the campaign secretary for the now present legs? how are you feeling with the results and with the fact that not all the election commission is we're endorsing the results? ah, thank you very much and greetings to view as we are elected, we are thankful to god that the elections. why knowledge to the free of the well being of the vision. and the process was the most integral process that i have been the nation we've ever gone through. i think we have to give it to i b. c . this time for you know, giving us a process. the, todds almost negligible mr. flows fast from the election day,
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the department of the working process was largely peaceful. and also the process of validation and verification was one of the most truthful and open source of this country. they were going through and box it will be established as a case study across the watch. but i don't, i don't think there's any global process, the global electric process that has to be open as we have ever seen. and we are thankful to god that there is a strong progression in terms of the electro democracy in this country. so we have very little we are looking forward to essentially a government that is going to be inclusive. and the government that is going to, you know, perform a, you know, absolute struggling issues that are affecting business, let them till they will come back to, to the, to the future in a moment. but you did not. so my question for election commission is coughed out on the results. what's your reaction to that?
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are you going to that is that i was on the floor? the ball must i was driving to the dealings. in fact, a device chair who is a part of the team that is complaining read the lecture of 20 to read, read that lists. and we are surprised that the part of the team that is completely bailing booked all through. and then, you know, if there's anybody was issues, i think they should you know, book the constitutional mechanisms to complain. i think now they have, the law provides the question to provide 7 days and you know what the litigation and 14 days to the same. we are confident that the process was there was very viable and we don't see issues for my and i'm the law is very clear that it is the chairman of the commission. that is the position on the market and they want to get it to. busy call the president elected to be ok,
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so you're happy to see the process through narry and walk out while doing obviously isn't happy, should we expect his support is to continue protesting and what's the feeling among young people in the country? how did they vote. 1 thank you for having me. this time around, the tunnel was a little bit lower compared to what we're used to 65 percent. when you look at the overall number that could what 22 point. 1000000. that 109.8 percent were young people and young people between the age of 18 to 35 in kenya, which was about 8800000. so young people already a little bit fewer from 2017. they were 50 percent of the which is blog. so there's a big many of them just decided not to particularly participate. when we look at these particular election, both coalitions, very, very strong,
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gardner in half of the country war for them. so yet, once i had the 6 junior lated and excited, i'm not my grieving and even this afternoon he did mention he and i press briefing, that he is going to take them out to court. so some of his supporters are excited about that. some of them are feeling drained and frustrated about the entire process in time will temp they do have the right to do so. feel that the process was not adequate enough for them. ok, bobby and connie, from a legal perspective with the legal challenge that looks likely to happen. how does that work? what should we expect in the coming weeks? well, um, as well. my coupon alyssa just said, ah, oak hon rayleigh, dinger, this afternoon did mention that he and his coalition party as him, you ah, we'll seek if i may caught him. are all constitutional and legal options. and
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so we're to assume that he's going to file a petition or in the supreme court as seeking being bullied is shown offer. ah, chairperson fullerton county's pronouncement yesterday saw the constitution dusted that after her the declaration. any parcel so it doesn't have to be the contestants. it's any kenyon who feels that they have an issue with the process and the declaration or they have a period 7 days. and that to begins county from b and ending and next tuesday to present their kiss before the supreme court of kenya. and us deli, sally, a seed, the supreme court or will have a 14 days to, to, to clear to receive her evidence. and also for respondents wherever they will be to find the defenses. and then at the end of the day,
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after 14 days there will be added to determination. and the determination can go to . ready is only either validate or they're there. the pronouncement from the chairperson, which means that the president, a letter will be moving forward, are now are towards a been sworn in which will be a pat after 7 days or in validation, which are with only route now will be a fresh election, which must be conducted within 60 days of this green book, the dizzy shall, okay. of incoming before we move on from you, explain the process and, and you know that the constitutional basis for this my question is to people trust the process to people trust the courts. will they accept whatever the result is? will the um, an option,
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but to accept it or whether they agree with the decision or not, or you know, their prerogative and right now this would be the part time for if, if we have petitioned since the constitution was promulgated in 22 or the foster election in 2013 for petitions. similarly in 2017. and now if we do, how are one this would be the contact changes being visited with the scenario. so at the end of the day, bills will be happy with the decision that the supreme court to the right. but those are, those will not be up. ready it but as i said earlier, i accepted the have to because that's what the constitution demands and prescribe. i agree with that prerogative of each and a retainer and there you know, other people dennis, until the, assuming that the supreme court validates these results and everything goes through
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for the mr. router. how does he plan to unite the country? i mean, the numbers speak for themselves, it was an almost equal proportion of people, almost not quite. who don't believe that he's up to the job. i agree. while the things that we have to look up to the democracy within the voting electric is that it is not equally proportional to the entire percentage of the nation. and therefore, we have a segment of people that are essentially getting the government of the a to play it, but the president seat of the nation as the symbol national gee, there specific instruments. and the chapter that goes in the constitution is that then rectify him to be the president of the entire nation. and so one of the opportunities that he's excellent, the reason why it was easy to unite the country and his campaign has largely been
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about unity. you realize that if you study that much of this campaign, one of the things that day it was not present, you can, you strive boys. and why was that not there? because the unifying, fucked up that he brought on board was about the social economic developmental. the people are $42.00 article for the peak of the constitution that grants giving us their rights to social and economic stability. so the same around the various while issues we're not about regionally seen or it wasn't about ethnicity negative with the needs to be as we've seen before. so already he's been, seem is uniting the nation because the nation is and economic burial. you know, they're critical questions about starting inflation. the critical questions about the tax regime that is extremely punitive and they draw bless this of millions of young people and meters opinions at the end of the day we have just got them up and
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demick exiting in administration. i think critical issues in terms of the quality of the efficacy of us. so he has a lot of work to unite the country and not just do not the country to get the country to reality. so should go on the goals. and that is what he will do before the election. what one of the things he did. busy on the whole, right. and they had a chart for about an hour on the discussion that were both ways a, what we'll be able to do, how many posts of government, whether who loses should concede, if they have worked with hon right before, i mean, he's a political player that has been in the fields and before in various positions and government, he knows is where the political infrastructure to pro fee. and therefore you will be able to get himself and establish the one tenure notion under the banner of economic prosperity, which is the language. of course, there is no issue that is specific to
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a particular tribe. the issues in this country, whether been being socioeconomic coils or the other issues are cuts across the board. ok from the company. there's already a united proctor and i think that you will have the responsibility going forward to united country based on issues, ideals rather than the concept of trip boise. okay. no, a malackle, a chair. what if the selection has and in fact evolved, i guess, is the word from being asked about it as necessity or regional issues into these broader issues that affect old canyons. are there still chances then this may escalation to violence because that's, that's been the concern, isn't it isn't. and looking back through history, there has been a concern that things could escalate into violence. looking back to history, it was a concern. but i believe that the point of concern happened yesterday, most of the attention was around the declaration of president. and the fact that
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that has already happened. and that's why we, so i little bit, i little bit of chaos. i would call it conflict. it hasn't escalated to the extent that we should be concerned about. for many, they were going out to the streets to celebrate for some they were frustrated and they did come from the streets. but they were also some people taking advantage of this situation. like we've already mentioned the high cost of living, there's no employment opportunities for young people. so there's a lot of crime that happened last night. but i do believe that now that we have a we fro it the fact that 100 a loading i did have a pretty statement and he did not agree with the results. and they have decided that they're going to the court. he's up, what does have a way for it and they are going to wait. that is one thing that we have practice is taking issues and petitioning them to the court and waiting for them to give us whatever their opinion on their budget is going to be and can end up with that. so
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i do think that this is one election. we have managed well as a public and we will continue to wait and see on the way forward and tell me correctly, i'm wrong. but in 2017, the presidential vote was notified by the supreme court citing irregularities. so how is this time different or similar? well, i wanted to mention is that and perhaps, you know, in agreement with what dennis did, will aaliyah in my opinion, i think the supreme are, sorry that the i d b. c. the electron management body this time around, did put effort in ensuring that it does conduct the electrical and as was prescribed a upon notification offered between to 17 presidential elections by the supreme
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court of kenya. and that is why we have seen a lot of infusion or for transparency. we have seen a lot of the infusion or are inclusion of other players. we have seen the appropriate use of technology or where the failure rate was very, very low. it's the teams kicks for verifying and identifying ortez, i think it's less than $250.00 out of her $46000.00 plus there, but it is free and we've seen the transmission of resolve or digital voice are available to an open. i do see portal as the elections, active, tender prescribed and coming forth in. that's why this time around.
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you find that many, many people. why included in tallying and endo, verifying the results in comparing lot i b c was announced c a at the end of the day a you look at this and you can see that a i d, c has very much a tried to conduct the electrons. it was ordered by the supreme court, and this is in line with the constitution because in magnifying the election in 2017, there are supreme court of kenya, actually a, by all intents and purposes, ordered a b. c to conduct then repeat election as prescribed by the constitution. i'm betting this time around despite exam we regulate irregularities which i expected. i mean, this is a human endeavor, so a certain irregularities ah, will be expected. but at the end of the day, in my assessment and up to now, yes,
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we wait to see and what evidence or those will go to court will produce. but to my observation, as i will see, this has been to a mini mall low margin, all negligible. ready degree and i don't see any, oh, you know, a substantial reason why her id see could be held for fault it to the extent of it. hail an incredible are in there and not free and fair election. okay, and innocent and bi weekly, as i mentioned earlier about some, the challenges facing the president to lex and talk to me a little bit more about the state of the economy and then what his plan actually is to address it. thank you very much. that is a vital question and that has been the premise of his company platform, the fund that discount needs her social economic resuscitation,
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or is subject to assume because kenya is traced with a multiple of economic tissues. many of them really depend upon what it is. i recall mismanagement within the governance even before we got to the pandemic, which made things worse. it, you know, there was an after tax increments in tax. the issues that came about that, you know, made the cost of living on essentially commodities aspect where you're looking at a, you know, aspect of their food items, a gas and many other, many other things, including passport rates. they really affected the citizens of this country. and therefore, also the question of joblessness we had about almost about 7000000 there, about young people or canyons who then have no job at all. and then also what it is
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that happened is that our economy moved from almost about 40 percent for more to almost now about 90 percent in that even if you graduate from the university, you have to start pops as being a well or selling something in the streets and they're about as well. this country has major economic issues. also we have reality from very expensive external debts, which is commercially based majority even over a lot of payments then about we are using back to player way. so then added a raft of issues that especially our economic base that he must deal with. and that failure to be fair, many of those issues. in fact, the political question was, was kind of going to put this or lack away or not. but so he asked also to deal with very expensive that corruption within a, you know, governor b as a matter of my, he was talking about the composition and the question of instituting a quasi judicial permission on state culture. which if you look transparency
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international, persuasion, national series of the many that gets done loaded forms and what it is that we call an important anger. there is nothing much that has come out of the fight to corruption and they are all the way to go. maybe the south africa way in terms of doing a public hearing or nurse did come about. so here, traced with the raft of issues. but big key that he has to deal with is the cost of living in ability or bring us to port even affordable food on the table. because what has happened, for example, if i give you just the 1st example, is that we are unable to get it. it's not like us to, to look at it in the country in january 15, 50 kilogram of their box was going for about 2900 today, going for about 6100. and it's available on many of the small and medium sized mila are shut down on the. busy as. busy well, we are the exiting president,
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hard to team a subsidy program to be able to by based internationally and mil locally, which again, that one has a cause. i monday i hear you saying about the cost of living crisis. we are coming to the end nearing the end of the program, so i just want to throw it over. before we run out of time to new rima walker. because your non profit works with youth political engagement in kenya. we've talked about how youth unemployment is high. we've talked about the cost of living crisis. how hopeful are young people about the possibility of change about the future, about the political establishment being able to offer them hope many of them did not participating this election because they do not believe that major change is going to happen. and frankly, a lot of them believe that a lot of their candidates are very similar and the same, but they have been raised. all young candidates enter politics,
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as many of them were kicked out during de zoning with their political party primaries. but a number of them did sales through, so they some hope that where young people are investing in other young people in leadership. but also these conversations around perhaps we need to change how we engage young people. zambia in the election last year had the high majority of young people participating. but it's also because they had the option of online registration. the i b. c is not there as much as the registrar political parties that has a platform for young people to register to join parties online. that is where we can start because when we look at political party engagement or membership, real true membership, young people out there, minority members in our 85 political parties combined, or i will have to leave at that time. but thank you to all of our guests, dennison, to be a remark, ochoa and bobby and connie,
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