tv Inside Story Al Jazeera August 17, 2022 2:30pm-3:01pm AST
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spanish region of valencia burning out of control despite the efforts of hundreds of firefighters. 3 people about the injured when a passenger train drove through one of the blazes more than a 1000 people in the eastern province so that it can have been evacuated. in portugal, a massive wild fi there has been, which was brought on the control last week is blazing again. more than 12055 is a 1000 flames. inside the unesco designated nature part, it's been burning for more than a week. tearing through 15000 types of land indonesia celebrating is 1st independence day. i think future capital nissan thought is on the east coast of the island of borneo. present joker would though, is that the move away from chicago? would you flows thinking, ah,
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and let's take you through some of the headlines here now just there are now. kenya's president says he's moving ahead with efforts to form a government. william root o says there'll be no room for exclusion under his leadership. it comes a day off days defeated, rival rejected the result of last week's election as a travesty. malcolm webb has more from nairobi. it was tuesday afternoon at via dinger, rejected those results and said that he would pursue all legal and constitutional means to overturn them. petitioners have 7 days after the announcement of the results, so there's just 5 days left to anyone who wants to challenge them legally. we way through to see if why learning is, is amy a coalition or anyone else will do say, comparable to what happened. 5 years ago, when the results of the election was challenged by writing and who was leading the opposition of the time while getting reform said,
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israel and turkey have re established full diplomatic ties. according to talk is foreign minister, an ambassador. it will be reappointed to israel will bring you more information on this as it comes through. one of donald trump's most prominent republican adversary's has lost her reelection bid in the us days, wyoming. the chinese said she would do whatever it takes to deny the former president. the 2nd term strategy is former prime minister scott morrison has a visit. he secretly swore himself into 5 additional ministerial posts during the pandemic. he's facing criticism over the move and for fighting to disclose its republic. united nations, new envoy from me and mar is on our 1st visit there since being appointed last year . no lien hayes is a visit, is expected to focus on the deteriorating situation across the country. busy have lines. the news continues here. now just sarah, after inside story. ah,
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he was vice president can yet for years now will you do 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 on kimberly l. on monday, the head of kenya's electoral commission, declare, deputy president william router went up nearly a week after 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 $48.00, but just before the results were announced to for an action commission is cast down on the results while relo dingus agent also disputed them and edging irregularities, noting 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 route o one in mount, kenya, president kenyata, stronghold. before we go to our guests, here is how we will tulsa from case to move. must king enjoy the bob raising, but if it's above the economy, how the 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
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william retail sales, he's going to turn around the economy and help low income household survive. you think 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, people infrastructure projects where that money has to be paid back with a kenyan taxpayers who end up doing that. so kenyans hope that the economy is going to be turned iran by him right now. a lot of things aren't going well in the example behind me. some businesses are close partly because of the political uncertainty, but also because for months, many businesses have been struggling. the king, looking to see you're going to offer them anything in the let's bring in our gas all. joining us from kenya's capital nairobi we have dentist and the campaign secretary for president elect william rudo, the remote walker, chief executive director of sci alsa,
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a nonprofit 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 that todd's almost negligible. i, mr. flores foster from the election day. the department of the working process was
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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, of course, to watch that 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 cost out on the results. what's your reaction to that? are you going to that is that i was on the floor?
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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 the tickets. 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 course you 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 lawyer 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, so you're happy to see the process through narry and walk out while doing obviously
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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? well 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 watch 22100000 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 their which has blocks. so there's a be many of them just decided not to particularly participate. when we look at these particular election, both coalition very, very strong. gardner in half of the country, both of them saw yes,
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once i did the junior liter and excited. i'm not my grieving and even this afternoon he did mention in our press briefing that he is going to take them to 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 tend they do have the right to do so. we feel that the process was not adequate enough for them. ok, bobby, i'm calling me 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 as well. my coupon alyssa just said, ah, oak hon rayleigh, dinger, this afternoon did mention that he and his coalition party as im you, i will seek if i may caught him. are all constitutional and legal options. and so we are to assume that he is going to file
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a petition or in the supreme court as seeking being bullied is shown offer. ah, chairperson fullerton county's pronouncement yesterday. so 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 of 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, and 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 confined 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 court. will they accept whatever the result is? will the um, an option, but to accept or whether they agree with a decision or not,
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or you know, their prerogative and right now this would be the part time if for if, if we have petitions since the constitution was promulgated in 22 or the foster election in 2013, the key shawn's similarly in 2017. and now if we do how one this would be the contact that changes are being visited with this scenario. so at the end of the day, bills will be happy with the decision that the supreme court will arrive, but those are, those will not be happy with it. but as i said earlier, i accepted the have to because that's where the constitution demands and prescribe . agree with that prerogative of each and a retainer and you know, other people dennis, until the assuming that the supreme court validates these results and everything
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goes through for, for mr. brutal. 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 at 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 and that goes in the constitution 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 development of the people are 42 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 on 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 demick exiting in administration. i think critical issues
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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 all right, and they had a chart for about an hour, and they discussed 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 ought to pro fee. and therefore, he 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 a particular trade. the issues in this country,
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whether been being socioeconomic coils or the other issues or cuts across the board, ok from the company. there's already a united factor and i think that you will have the responsibility going forward to unite the 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 that has already happened. and that's why we, so i little bit,
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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 courts. he's not what does have a way forward 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 i do think that this is one election. we have managed well as
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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'm wanting her to mention is that and perhaps you know, in agreement with what dennis did little earlier, 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 lecture. cloned as was prescribed a upon notification all through the 2017 presidential elections by the supreme court of kenya. and that is why we have seen
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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 team's kinks for verifying and identifying ortez. i think it's less than $250.00 out of her $46000.00 plus there, but it is for you. 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 are coming forth in. that's why this time around. you find that many, many people. why included in tallying and endo,
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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 their elections in 2017, they 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, that this has been to a minimal marginal and negligible. ready degree and i don't see any, oh, you know, a substantial reason why. oh, id see could be held for fault it to the extent of it. hail an incredible air and not free and fair election. okay. an innocent on the 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 discontinued or social economic resuscitation,
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or is subject to the same because kenya is traced with a multiple of economy tissues. many of them really pegged upon. what it is that we call miss management within the governance, even before we got to the pin demick, which made things worse, is that, you know, there was rosco tax there increments and issues that came about that you know, may the cost of living essentially the commodities aspect where you're looking to, you know, aspect of their food items ga us and many of the many of the things including passport greg, they really affected the citizens of this country. and they saw also the question of job les this. we had about almost about 7000000 there, about young people who have no job at all. and then also what it is that happened is that our economy moved from almost about 40 percent for more to almost
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now about 90 percent in that even if you graduate from the university, you have to start parts of being a well or sending something in the streets and they're about as so these country has major issues. also we have from very expensive external debts, which is commercially based majority even over about a payment that about we are using that to pay that. so then out of issues that especially our economy based that he must been with and that failure to refer medical issues. in fact, the political question was not going to put this or lack away or not. but so he asked also to deal with very expensive corruption. they said that, you know, governor of the masters and when he was talking about the composition or the question of instituting a quasi judicial permission or capture, we can look transparency, international persuasion,
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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 on their way to go maybe the south africa way in terms of doing a public hearing or nurse did capture there 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. and before we run out of time to 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 the 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 day lecture. 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 denison, to be remark, ochoa and bobby, and coney and thank you for watching. you can see the program again any time by
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