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, hoop their presence will become a more permanent part of the game. denton mullin, al jazeera. ah laura, let's just have a quick check for the headline, turn out 0 and ukraine's is up region. nuclear plant is back online. the government's euclid agency says it was cut off from the power grid after 5 damaged overhead electricity lines and growing concerned about fighting the russian control facility. i think what we seen today is a yet another reminder of why it's important to get the

e technical team in there as soon as possible. we are continuing to work with our partners. we're in the lead, and i know there's an intense, intense discussions ongoing as we speak. the u. s. judge has ordered the release of evidence that prompted an f. b i search of donald trump's home. federal agents entered the former president's florida state on the 8th of august. the justice department is until later on friday to disclose parts of the affidavit. it used to gain approval for the search documents already made public show that at least 11 sets of classified documents, marked secret were retrieved from the property. my kind of has moved from washington dc. what's important about this affidavit is that it is the evidence on which the request for the search warrant was based. it will contain details of exactly what the f b i was investigating. it's concerns, but what is likely to be the main point of reduction is whether there were any

witnesses involved to possibly even somebody within the, in a trump ring who gave the f b. i evidence at that, sparked off the search at the former president's home. there's also the possibility that this document will reveal the timeline and basically indicate how many times the former president was approached to return the documents. california is banning the sale of new vehicles powered by fossil fuels, starting in 2035 mox, a major step in the u. s. states battle against climate change at the state. now hers as some of the world's toughest regulations for transitioning to electric cars trucks and s u. v. 's decision by the states resources board looks at to secure approval from the federal government. a former british ambassador to me and more arrested by the military governments is due to appear in court on september. the 6th vicky bowman,

who heads of business ethics advisory group was detained along with her husband. and she was charged with violating immigration laws. and she served as ambassador from 2002 until 2006. all right, we're up to date with the headlines here in our desert. got more news count here on our desert right after inside story. so you later which side is winning payoff or control guy? what does a new forever prompt more mean for america and nato? as long as americans keep consuming? prices are gonna keep going up. why didn't joe biden see inflation comic? how did we get so much raw? the quizzical look with you as part of the bottom line. the ruling party in angola is set to remain in power following widely contested elections. the peoples movement for the liberation, although gold 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 you nita 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 m p l a has reuben goal, the finale, 5 decades, most of it's under 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 and gold is recent history. the country gained independence and 975, that marks the end of portugal, colonial conquest of gold that took place 7400 years, but also the start of civil war between the in p l. a and opposition movement. you need a former president shows a lot of samples, became president in 1979. he attempted to improve relations with the west, especially the united states. that didn't recognize the impair, laid covenant. 2002, the 25 years of intimation. conflicts came to an end. the last election was held in 2017 when incumbent president john lorenzo succeeded, shows a blood samples. ah, let's bring it out. guests. josie gama joins us from toria. he is a member of the move, a civil civic crowd, the movement, an organization that works for fair and transparent elections. in angola,

borges now meet a joined us by skype from the to tow. he is a research consultant at the institute for security studies, africa, and merisa low. and so is an independent political analyst focusing on angola, 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, my reseller and so. so as we've been saying, polling so far, it 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 it will result once it is finalized, especially because it does look like the m p and they will come out with a 50 plus one majority, which would allow it to retain its 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 m p a n. janita. so the pennies got about 52 percent at the moment and you need to trading with 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, josie, 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 that in this election there was 14000000 people resistor of water. but unfortunately, we don't know many people really what was on the list of the electoral votes. they are like 2500000 people who already died. but fortunately,

the electoral commission order the steps to remove those, those people. so you need those doing like parallel counts. and according to what they announce, they say they are willing to these election, but on otherwise, yesterday the commission election announced that the employee was a hand with the 60 percent. but today they say that's now like 50 percent. so what, what do you want to look at this is like done in many years ago was that was running by a lot of the stuff for many years. and after some time, people realize that the, the problem on 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 stance 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 is itself. so that's why, you know, people went to what went to cars and decides to remove 2 votes against applegate. right? so these kinds of dissolution was to penalize the really but or just not made a was heard there you need doing a parallel count. but that's obviously a part from the national electoral commission. so if these 2 sides, if you want to call them that are coming up with different results, what is going to happen? could that lead to post selection violence? thank you. i think yes, was elected by this is something that was already expected. in walla, said,

was people that are position and as soon as they don't trust an electron to body, so whatever resides the national electric commission to bring in terms of the few guys people not trust in that. but also we can see that in elanda, which is the capital of color, and you need to is winning. and you wonder where we have to have a day social network where we have a, you know, people speaking loud. so it means we can foresee some kind of android following the define of is 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. yes. and that's because in november last year, parliament obviously led by the m p l a past a know that would centralize vote counting in wanda. and this meant that instead of

votes being counted prevention, eat they'd be counted centrally. and what that's done effectively, it's remove the layer of transparency from the board count. and this is raise a lot of concern that because the national inventory commission and because the court partial to emulate that, they could be more widespread manipulation. i think what we've also seen in the meet up to the connection over the past 12 months is we have seen the holding party quite nervous of you need to great and 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 m and a for example, try to and all, well, i mean, during the quarter now the need to ship of you need to, it ultimately wasn't like say, a full, you know, we've, we've sort of seen a take various moves over the past 12 months, indicated that it is nervous and that it does realize that has the kind of popularity over the past 5 years. okay. just say gama. even if the m p l a wins,

it has one a much smaller percentage of the vote than previously. how has this election been different in your opinion? compare it to a competitor to the previous election. so in this election, the people, the people, the fault, this 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 to the, i mean, the police, i mean to the pull, they went to the one where i realized that when was the nouns, there was like people on this, on the least of the time the people are the one why not the right? is it? and the people is like now the people are the one was supporting you need that. they mean i said the the civil side. so what do we expect in these election, especially on these the results the, they're not, they're not the results,

but it should be the results by policy, by policy, by monday, the policy and what they're doing, they're just not the faults from provincial and this kind of this, this is what's that they announced there's no technical value cars. yeah. actually there's not, they 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 that's the sci fi fi in a web web page, you cannot control the, you cannot realize if this really feasible, so if there's a credit 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 lithium events and that's

ones 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. well, just now made a, how has lorenzo's presidency bein while the 1st 5 years also present government was safe, threatening to the majority of the garland had been to land for almost mindset, conducting a food assistance people upset ad because i'll say no. and in turn, i resigned, but also problems like corporate pandemic. so then primary number lies, so high deposited number is increased ad m and price is also basically good. have been swearing a lot and stuff and we have this and draw which is killing people. and it's livestock, so in summary,

and they live and not improving that is did want to return to see how much difficult with the life in 2017 when president is already started his term. and now people find that okay, was better in 2017, i saw people present john russell did, leading the very difficult time. probably also in the last the price of oil has been, you know, reducing and moreland. oil is demand export to food, men export for us. so unfortunately, did 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, democracy. ready non walla, and i did not improve at all. actually i'm going to let richard, there's a non 3 conference in different internet and the next day. crap don't stupid arrives. civil society space is crossing international, a independent media and well,

it's not about the reading. so i think the performance of the present or it was very, very low compared to what was expectation of okay, maurice hello. and so would you agree with the assessment of president lorenzo's time? and i mean, has he been presiding over a non free country? i agree that he's been providing over an honestly country. i mean, girl is the 20 and nominal democracy, but i do disagree that he hasn't marked the departure from his previous i think that we are looking at 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 much of that. he hasn't at least recorded some achievements. and i think really, the main achievement of the administration has been happening. the debt load, there's a massive load and it reached over 120 percent of total gdp in 2020. and of course,

we had to manage the throughout global shocks, like the curve at $900.00 and then make and of course, the russia ukraine conflict. and this of course has not been easy at all, but what than the rinse administration did since coming into office in 2017. it really 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, 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 budget has already pointed out, the actual standard of living hasn't improved one goal. so while we sort of had the broad achievement of the talk to the economy, it hasn't really trickled down and you know, and girl, if any, one of the most, an equal society is 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 as political reforms,

he did tackle 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 inaction in 2020. and this really came about because the impact a 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 to open the political space, he wasn't really going to follow through on that promise. so again, really and mix bag of successful or in so, okay, there'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 age 2018 to 24. 60 percent of the 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 unemployment and those are the ones contesting regularly. the power of president john ray saw and probably those, those are the ones who board against the, the m. p. a on otherwise really, but refused to accept that this, that these young people, i mean when those young people come to they go to street and, and profess the 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. that's that people that they never, never, they never knew. i mean, and they didn't, they're not related to those who came in from the gorilla. well, familiar rise 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 terms of this 5 years. it failed, failed to its points of with corruption. both the central point from corruption in a goal, it was the sun and gold, the state come and it is 5 years. never touched on gold. you never go. there's no, there's no visuals from sun and gold. that's a facing tri oh, of 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 a veteran. good position. we see that neither candidate ad but of course, as junior is bringing pets, they say d, i can just mention some of them. one of them said something which is a bit relevant for the context of walla and african counselor, will have a link to the written movement is said by the time he is elected to prison,

to find that and now says the lead that you need that. so that he can 700 president to deem actually the government. and that's a very important because this will look on his end. but now we want to understand the difference between m p a n d state and state. actually, the one who is living is emily sometime living in the state and making all that confusion that create a kind of a, it's a prime prime class. and 2nd class, the sense bank does run the prime class, the one who are members of m p l. yes. so that's just one example of a dad clear proposal from. and you need to kind of do that just an acquisition in the depth brought to new ideas, this idea that's why they have improved their lives in terms of their followers. that's why we saw at, you know, better message supported to do. you need to actually, i think he never had to so charismatic lead us like either. but of course, the junior 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 desantos . and you know, he extended a hand to them. he promised to make the media landscape much more, but from 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 m p

n a. 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 harsh 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 really give biased reporting towards the m p l a. so you got the main tv news channel tpa. it basically just ran stories about the party about lorenzo. and 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, or 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 jordan. 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, then to realize that i think he made a choice between saving and goal in saving really, but in probably a. so if you decide to stay a probably let's say for the 1st time there was it try, try to improve. it was trying to promote some like more space of the bait. but

after the 2 years in one of the lies the, the media. so all the me just now were controlled by that are only but as a say, the president to choose between saving the country in saving the and probably i saw you decide to be in the 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 is released. so he was concentrating attack in those. so blaming the enemy and that's created by them in the one that's embedding not deliver. it is everything that's easy to promise during the, during the last, i'm sorry, i have to try to be there. we've come to the, almost to the end of the show. we've got about a minute left, reseller 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 economic reform agenda. i don't expect that it will reverse any of the games that it has made that it will stop 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 connections. 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 say that you need to than the impaler. and that's a balancing act that needs to take charge of. he also needs to, they also internal divisions within, within the m p l a. some people that have not like nurses changes, he's also got 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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