iranian premier leave matches for years and i have been craving to see such scenes . you can tell from the excitement and eagerness of the men to enter the stadium. how important this milestone outside the stadium. those not looking up to your spot were still eager to show their support. and how we are very happy when we heard that girls would be allowed into the stadium, i was so excited that was crying. was that we can go inside. we couldn't get tickets. the fans are touring on as to go. it was the favorite team of so har khodiyar re, a woman who was detained in 2019 after sneaking into a match disguise the man facing a possible jail sentence. she said herself on fire and later died of her injuries widespread outraged lead to pressure from fever. let women attend matches, but progress has been slow and 2019. shortly after cody or a death women were allowed to attend a match for the 1st time. and in january this year,

they got the iran be the rock to qualify for the world cup, but plans to allow them to see another major international game in march were reversed of a last minute. this concession is on a smaller scale, a domestic match rather than a big international game. hundreds of women instead of the thousands permitted on the previous 2 occasions. but the female football fans hope their presence will become a more permanent part of the game. denton mullin, al jazeera. ah, i forget check of the headlines here on out 0, the russian occupied upper region nuclear power plant is back online. ukraine's nuclear agency says it was brief, disconnected from the pal, great off to fire damaged overhead electricity lines. there growing concerns in the fighting near the complex to he's a bo has more from keith. what most people here are demanding right now is

a 3rd party to visit that location to have access to get to and to know whether what type of damage has been going on. and that's why the united nations nuclear watch doc, the, i am planning a visit in the next week. there we've been hearing right now. they talk to you yet how that visit is going to happen. on one side, the russians are saying that that visit should happen to moscow while the craniums are hope queens, i'm the united nations. i hoping that it will happen. so you crate the crania officials at least 25 people were killed in russian rocket attacks in the eastern city of chop line. on the wednesday, some of the missiles landed in a residential area. others hit a train. russia claims the attack killed over 200 ukrainian troops and destroyed military equipment. the heavy rains of devastated large parts of pakistan at least $100000.00 homes have been destroyed. and the damsel began in june authorities and mamma, the rest of the former british ambassador to the country. vicki bowman and her

husband were detained in young gordon, johnson, violating immigration laws, and us judges over the lease of the evidence that spartan f. b. i search of donald trump's home federal agents and the former president's state on the 8th of august, at least 11 sets of classified documents retrieved from the property. so those are the headlines. the news continues here on out to 0 after in fact story. thank you, and thanks for watching by ah, the ruling party at angola is said to remain in power following widely contested election. the peoples movement for the liberation of angola has governed for nearly 5 decades. the opposition disputes,

these results could that lead to renewed turmoil in the african country? this is the inside story. ah hello mark into the program. i'm kim vanelle and golden election commission said on thursday the ruling party m. p l a. had a strong lead over the opposition, the opposition unita had hoped to capitalize on young people's frustrations of poverty. the election is and goal is 4th, since the end of its civil war in 2002, the emperor lay has ruled angola, finelli, 5 decades. most of it's on the president shows a while don't those santos, who was in power from 979 until 2017. the opposition had pinned its hopes on mobilizing young people frustrated about high unemployment. the lack of basic

public services in a country with great oil wealth. let's take a look at some of the key moments of an goal is recent history. the country gained independence and $975.00, that marks the end of portugal, colonial conquest of angola that took place of nearly 400 years. but also the start of civil war between the m. p. a lay and opposition movement to nita former president. joseph edward woodall santos became president in 1979. he attempted to improve nations with the west, especially the united states. that didn't recognize the impair, late government. 2002, the 25 years of intermittent conflicts came to an end. the last election was held in 2017 when incumbent president, charlotte lorenzo succeeded, shows a blood samples ah, let's bring it our guests. josie gama joins us from toria. he is a member of the move, a civil civic crowd movement, an organization that works for fair and transparent elections. in angola,

borges now meet a joined us by skype from the total. he is a research consultant at the institute for security studies, africa, and merisa. no, and so is an independent political analyst focusing on and goal mozambique and south africa. by the way, she is not related to and goal is present. lawrenceville. she joins us by skype from johannesburg. very well. welcome to each of you. i'd like to start with you marissa lauren, so, so as we've been saying, polling so far as showed that the n p l a is out ahead. we are waiting for the total vote count the announcements. do you think though that this is a done deal, the m p l a will retain power? it seems to be, although of course you need it has already indicated that it will challenge that. it will result once it is finalized, especially because it does look like the m p n a will come out with a 50 plus one majority, which would allow it to retain as parliamentary mon majority and then very easily

install incumbent president lorenzo, for a 2nd term since the a 3rd of the result to announce last night, the gap has closed between the p a n janita. so the pennies got about 52 percent at the moment and you need to training was about 44 percent. it's close, but what the vote all this at the end of counting, it would mean that you need to is unlikely to catch up to the m p l a. to come up with the most votes on top at this point. ok, jose a comment pretoria, as we heard there from merisa, the opposition is disputing the results. how is that likely to play out? what's going to happen next? good afternoon. thank you for having me. so what i, what i look so in this election there was 14000000 people resistor of water. but unfortunately, we don't know many people really what was on the, the list of the electro, what they are like 2500000 people who already died. but fortunately,

the electoral commission order the steps to remove those, those people. so you need there is doing like parallel counts. and according to what they announce, they say though they're willing to these election but don't otherwise. yesterday the commission election announced that was i hadn't with the 60 percent, but today they say that it is now like 52 percent. so what, what do you want to look at this is like that in many years ago, that was, that was running by the sun for many years. and after some time, people realize that the, the problem, one goal it was from, was from those from, from a single person that was at the, one of the centers. so in 2017, it was some step down and lowercase. okay. so lower. and so people were believing that the solution was there. so after sometime lawrence was coping the sons was

doing almost the same as the santos, the life of the life. the people didn't change that much. so now people belief that's the problem. but the single person is not the, the leader of the really but, but the problems in the system itself, the problems itself. so that's why now people went to what went to cars and decides to remove 2 votes against the gate. right? so these kinds of dissolution was to penalize the really butts or just not made a was heard there you need doing a parallel count. but that's obviously apart from the national electoral commission . so if these 2 are sides, if you want to call them that are coming up with different results, what is going to happen? could that lead to post election violence? thank you. i think yes, was elected by less. are expected in the federal fault,

was people a position and as she did not trust an electron to body, so whatever resides and national electric commission would bring in terms of the few guys people not trusting that but also we can see that in the wanda, which is the capital of angola, and you need to is winning. and you wind as well, we'll have to wear every day. it's just such a network. what else we have, you know, people speaking loud. so it means we can foresee some kind of android for and define that it was that maria seller. and so what's the playing field being like in the lead up to these elections? so there has been greater concern over transparency, avoid counting more than in other inaction. years and that's because in november last year, parliament obviously led by the m p l a passed a know that would centralize vote counting in lawanda. and this meant that instead

of votes being counted prevention, me that be counted centrally. and what that's done effectively, it's removed the layer of transparency from the board count. and this is raise a lot of concern that because the. busy national editor commission, and because the court are partial to emulate that, they could be more widespread manipulation. i think what we've also seen in the meet up to this connection over the past 12 months is we have seen the holding party quite nervous of you need to great popularity. you need to has really modernized, it's moved away from its reputation as, as a party of war veterans. it resonates with the urban youth and we saw the impact, for example, try to and all what i mean during the quarter. now the need to ship of you need to, it ultimately wasn't like faithful, you know, we've, we've sort of seen take various moves over the past and indicated that it is nervous. and that it does realize that has the kind of popularity over the past 5 years. ok, just say gama. even if the m p l a wins, it has won

a much smaller percentage of the vote than previously. how has this election been different in your opinion, competitor to a competitor to the previous election? so in this election, the people, the people default us was the one or try to control for the self, the election. so mess this election, most of the people went to the for the policy. for the, i mean the police, i mean to the pull they, they went to the one where i realized they went to the nouns. there was like people on the, on the lease to the bottom. the people, the one was not the right. is it? and the people is like, now the people are, the one was supporting, you need that, they mean the, say the, the site. so what do we expect in these election specially on these the results the, they're not, they're not the results, but it should be the results by policy,

by policy, by policy and what they're doing, they're just not the, the, the faults from provincial and this kind of this, this is what's the announced, there's not technical value because yes, actually there's not that can go value. you can, you can calculate that with the actually, we don't know whether it comes from, i think the what the, what is, even even though you can go to what is the cnbc and cmt in a web web page, you cannot control the, you can not realize if this really feasible, so if this that reads ability on the i think, comparing to the previous for the previous election. now we is according to the results of the new outcome and we're going to have like an environment and that's

one's will be good for democracy. so this is the one that i'm going and read with needs a balance of balance in terms of, of the, of parliament. ok. but just a made a how has lorenzo's presidency been while the 1st 5 years also present. delores, the government was safe for stripping to the majority of the garland being to land for almost mindset. conducting an executive assistant. people upset because i'll say, you know, in, in turn i resigned, but also problems like a corporate pandemic. so den prime minty number lies. so high deposited number is increased ad m and price is off of basically good to have been as storing a lot and stuff that we have. it's a draw which is killing people and it's life stocks and in summary,

and they live and not improving them. or if did want to add at the time to see how much difficult, what the life in 2017 when president is your notice that it is down. and now people will find that ok was better intensive indeed saw people present john russell did, leading a very difficult time globally. and also in last the price of oil has been, you know, reducing and garland oil is demand, export to food, men export for us. so unfortunately, not improve a lot. that's why i presented. there's only one the 2nd element to make it different. but it is not only in economic sector, but also in the political sector, democracy to democracy now. nor does not improve at all. actually i'm as rigid as a non free country, indifferent to international the next day crept on our civil rights society space is crossing international, a independent media and i'm not reading so i think the performance of dollars

was very, very low compared to what was expectation of okay, marie seller, and so would you agree with that assessment of the president lorenzo's time? and i mean, has he been presiding over a non free country? i agree that he's been dividing over an honestly country. i mean, girl, isabel is only a nominal democracy, but i do disagree that he hasn't marked the departure from his previous i think that we are looking at an a girl that in some ways is a very different to what it was before he came into office i think his political and economic reform agenda has different the been a mixed bag of success. i think it's been full of contradictions, but i don't think that we should say that he hasn't changed model that he hasn't at least recorded some achievements. and i think really the main achievement of the, the rent administration has been happening. the debt load, there's a massive debt load and it reached over 120 percent of total gdp in 2020. and of

course we had to manage the throughout the global shocks. like the curve at $900.00 and demick and of course, the russia ukraine conflict. and this of course, has not been easy at all, but what that rent's administration did since coming into office in 2017, it rarely committed to fiscal prudence. it rained and wasteful expenditure. it predicated its budget on a worst case scenario for the oil price. and it really showed commitment to not spend the, you know, to raining and superfluous spending, which was quite a big talk because it, it didn't have much room to do that. and i think that that commitment has been really good, of course. so as i was just has already pointed out, the actual standard of living hasn't improved one color. so while we sort of has a broad achievement on the top for the economy, it hasn't really trickled down and you know, and go to any one of the most, an equal societies in the world. and i think that that's very clear to see. and that's something that hasn't improved. and then if we look at his political reforms,

he tackled some cases of corruption. but of course they also some murky figures in government that you know, have not really had to answer for the full corruption under that assumption administration. and then i think one of the biggest disappointment, fuller in so was the failure to uphold his promise to hold local elections in 2020 . and this really came about because the emperor lay understands that you need to is much more popular in urban areas. but it also indicated that despite his promise to not be as repressed for them to open the political space, he wasn't really going to follow through on that promise. so again, really expect successful or in so. okay, here's a comma. over in pretoria, people under 30 make up more than 2 thirds of the goal is population. many of them obviously have no memory of the civil war. how does that shape what they want to see? what's important to them and who they vote for. so one of the things that you

have to understand is that in this election, so there were new water from a 2018 to 2460 percent of the photos youth. and in the goal, and we do have in terms of unemployment rate, it's 605058 percent. so that's mean 58 percent of those bought the employment. and those are the ones on testing regularly. the power of president john ray. so, and probably those, those are the ones who vote against the, the employee, but on otherwise, really, but refused to say that this, that these young people, i mean when those young people come to, they go to street and in process they really say to them that they have been instrument the life by you need that and they become very, very,

very angry with the way that the really deal with them. so it's like a new structure, new, new water. that's that people that they never, never, they never knew a mean and they didn't, they're not related to those who came from the gorilla. well familiarized with what the war and those ones people, i mean they're coming from university in that the visual ones. well protest and then john lawrenceville. and we think that's a $22027.00 it's. it's look like we are facing the claims of april. yay. and the showings, and so we live, live in face to face on the following 5 years. it will be going to be talking with the people and the rest of the flags. they use the flexible corruption. and during

those 5 is this last the 10s of 5 years. it fails, you felt the same points of will corruption. both the center points from corruption in the goal. was the sun on gold? the state come and it is 5 years, never touched on a goal. you never go, there's no, there's no fee shields from sun unrolled that's a facing try you up and allies by corruption. ok, boys. yes. not a you need to has been accused of not making strategies clear other than being and t m p l a. what's your take on that? i think that that is very wrong position. we see that neither candidate ad but of course his junior and his bringing ideas. i can just mention some of them. one example, they said something which is relevant for the context of walla and african counselor. we have a really tight as did he, there is a movement. he said,

by the time he is elected to present a, found god with that. and now says the lead out, you need that so that he can 700 percent you to deem to the government. and that's very important because it will look to i'm one of one of them. now, we want to understand the difference between m p a, n d, the state and state. actually the one who is living in emily, sometime living in the state and making all that confusion that create a kind of a 6 and a prime prime class. and 2nd class, the sense bang does run the primary class, the one who are members of m p l. yes. so that's just one example up a dad liam proposal from you need to kind of do that just an acquisition and get that brought the new ideas, this idea, that's why they have improve their life in terms of their followers. that's why we saw and you know, better message support you to do. you need to actually, i think he never had to cut as much. can you like better requested union

merisa, lorenzo. all of you have expressed concerns about the transparency of the elections, the freeness, the fairness of these elections. if that is the case, if these elections were not free and fair, has there been any improvement that you see in terms of the health of the countries democracy, the health of the country's political life? not particularly so i think at the beginning of lawrence's term in 2017 and also in part of 2018. he invited civil society activists, some of whom had actually been imprisoned under the administration that by the fontose. and you know, he extended a hand to them, he promised to make the media landscape much more, but i'm around 2019. he went back on those promises. so there was quite a lot of hope that it would become much easier, much more critical kind of political environment, but from 21000 we saw the m p l a kind of up to the same old tactics, you know. and then of course, because the police are partial to the emperor. anytime you see any kind of

demonstration, any protests that is anti government and because of the ambulance dominance by extension, anti m p l a u c, a very hard cracked on, on this, there's very little breathing space. and then i think if we look at the election periods specifically we've seen stayed on media rainy, give biased reporting towards the m p l a. so you got the main t v news channel tpa. it basically just ran stories about the ruling party about the red. so if we look at some of the state newspapers as well, they made sure that all of the main stories were about the president for consecutive days. so we haven't really seen much of an improvement, although there was optimism at the beginning that this would be a little bit different and a little bit better. so gama, how difficult is life right now for ordinary and goldens in terms of the cost of living, the ability to access basic necessities well,

the i think what we're going to know like we have like a 2020. we have 28000000 off 28000000 of people. 28 or 30. yes. 28000000 of people and the point, the level of it over the very, very, very high in one on the failure of bread drama. so actually we're looking to the power, there was like a very big expectation. so president was trying to move and go into pretty good standards. but after some, after some time, 2 years present, realised that i think he made a choice between saving and goal and saving really. but in probably a. so if you decide to save a, probably let's say for the 1st time there was it try it, try to improve. it was trying to promote some like most space of debate. but after

the 2 years it lies the, the media. so all the, me just now what controlled by that are only, but as i said, the press them to choose between saving the country and saving the emperor. so you decide to be in size of that isn't that kind of as elected man. and the end you see also and those election saw the last, the last of when was doing these release. so he was concentrating, attack in the blame in the enemy, and that's created by them in the one that's embedding does not deliver. it is over think that's easy to promise during the, during the last. i'm sorry, i have to be there with come to the, almost to the end of the show. we've got about a minute left marie seller. and so i'd like to end with you, assuming the piano does get into power in one minute. can you give us how it plans

to improve people's lives, to diversify the economy, to, to make, i guess the cost of living more palatable for people to be honest, i don't know if it does have a specific plan to do that, but i think what we can expect over the next 5 years, is the government to continue with it economic reform agenda. i don't expect that it will reverse any of the games that it has made that it will start to spend while the again, i think it will remain quite conservative. i think one of the biggest challenges that it is going to face is that it needs to hold local elections. it needs, it, needs to show that it's moving into a more democratic space. i'm not sure how that will play out because it would more likely favor you nieto than the in piano. and that's a balancing act that needs to take charge of. he also needs to, they also internal divisions with the m p l a. some people that have not like nuances changes, he's also going to manage those. so i think he's really got his hands full and it's going to be an interesting 5 years to see how people respond. all right, thank you very much for that. thank you all about guess just a gama or just meet

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