we expanded, i think the 3 largest challenges for adoption are, 1st of all, affordability availability, as well as infrastructure. from the affordability standpoint, e v 's are typically more expensive and we definitely don't want to put low income buyers out of the market. electric vehicles will be required to get 240 kilometers on a single charge. some californians concerned about global warming are right behind the decision. i agree if anything is gonna reduce things like buyers and enter natural disasters, i think why not. the new rule was made by the states air resources board and is expected to get the required federal approval. a spokesman for a group representing the u. s. auto industry says it would be, quote, extremely challenging for the industry to adapt in order to meet these deadlines. rob reynolds, al jazeera los angeles. ah,

so then this is our desert. these are the top stories and record monsoon dom pause of affected more than 30000000 people across pakistan. villages of submersion houses had been washed away in baluchistan, punjab and sin problems as well. the 900 people have died since june. same birth ravi has more from the city of san juan incent problems. the struggle here is very, very acute. seen this still the worst effect that place in terms of the humanitarian need in terms of damage to infrastructure. people need shelter. the government has asked for 1000000 tense, and that's just the initial ask to house people in the interim period before a permanent solution to this crisis can be found which may not be forthcoming before things get worse. we've seen images from the north of the country and swap. the valley of more strong currents coming down from rains and glacial melts. more strong currents washing away buildings tearing through hillsides,

tearing through villages up there. and all that water is headed down to the south of the country and it's headed this waste. millions of households in the u. k. a bracing for an 80 percent rise in the energy bills from october, on average, that will mean an increase from around $2300.00 a year to more than $4000.00. and the surgeon, food, fuel and energy cost is being blamed on the war and ukraine. i'm a pandemic. more than 100000 u. k. postal workers have gone on strike in a pay dispute that could cause major disruption for customers. the union is demanding higher wages that reflect the cost of living, or employees, or stopping work for $4.00 days spread over 2 weeks. ukraine's upper region nuclear plant is back online. the government's nuclear agency says it was cut off from the power grid, how to find damaged overhead electricity lines. there is growing concerned about the fighting. near the russian control facility. us 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 august the 8th, the justice department has until later on friday to disclose parts of the affidavit . it used to gain approval for the search. alright, they with headlines here. now here we got more news coming up right after inside story. ah, the ruling party in angola is set 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 1979 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 called his recent history. the country gained independence and 975, that marks the end of portugal, colonial congress, and goal 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, joseph edwardo. the santos became president in 979. he attempted to improve relations with the west, especially the united states. that didn't recognize the impair, lay lead government 2002. the 25 years of intermittent 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 the toria. he is a member of the day civil civic cross movement, an organization that works for fair and transparent elections. in angola,

borges now meet a joins us by skype from the total. he is a research consultant at the institute for security studies, africa, and merisa. lorenzo is an independent political analyst focusing on and gola 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 as showed that the m 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 and they 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 2 and a and janita. so the pennies got about 52 percent at the moment and you need to trading with about 24 percent. it's close, but what the vote all 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 marie said, 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 is the 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 already died. but fortunately,

the electoral commission wouldn't accept to remove those, those people. so you need to is 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 he was the head with the 60 percent. but today they say that's now like 50 percent. so what, what do you, what you look at this is like done in many years ago, that was, that was running by the center 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 a brigade selves. so that's why, you know, people went to fort, 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 her doing a parallel count. but that's obviously, apart 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

a federal fall was people a position in as soon as they don't trust an electron to body? so whatever it is that the national electric commission wanted to bring in terms of the few guys, people not trusting that, but also we can see that in elanda, which is their capital of color. and you need to is winning. and you will have to have a social network where we have a, you know, people speaking loud. so it means we can foresee some kind of android following the define. it was that learning center. 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 a, 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. busy national and total 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 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 sold a m, and a for example, try to and all. well, i mean during the course turn out the leadership of you need to. it ultimately wasn't successful. you know, we've, we've sort of seen a take various moos over the pulse hoffman indicating that it is nervous and that it does realize it has the kind and popularity over the past 5 years. ok, so 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? compare it to a company 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. for 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, the one was one of the right. is it, and the people is like now the people are the one was supporting, you need that. they mean the, 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 see and see if a web web page, you cannot control the, you can not 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 a libyan 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 parliament. ok. well, just now made a, how has lorenzo's presidency bein while the 1st 5 years also present government was, will say 3 things to the majority of it had been to land for almost my conducting a few different stitch desk people upset. because i'll say, you know, in, in turn i resigned, but also problems like a corporate pandemic. so then primary number lies. so high deposit number is increased ad m and prices are basically good, have been swearing a lot and we have this and draw which is killing people and it's livestock thought

and 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 your notice that it is down and now people find that okay, was better in 2017 saw people present dollars or deleting a very difficult time. probably also in the us, the price of the 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 present it's 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 in walla. and i did not improve at all. actually i'm going to read it as a non free conference in different internet and the next day crap don't exhibit arrives. society space is crossing international indefinite media. and while it's

not the reading. so i think the performance of present dollars was very, very low compared to what was expectation of okay marie seller. 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, and girl, isabel is only a nominal democracy, but i do disagree that he hasn't marked a 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 definitely 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 corporate $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 in waste 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 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 is 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 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 elections in 2020 . and this really came about because the m l a and the stand that you need to is much more popular in urban areas. but it also indicated that despite his promise to not be as repressive and 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 was new water from a 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 on testing regularly. the power of president the john ray saw and probably those, those are the ones who boards, i guess the, the employee, but 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 they're 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 really deal with them. so it's like a new structure, new new. 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 in 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 while protest in england. that's the president at john lawrenceville. and we think that's a $22027.00 it's. it's look like we are facing the emperor, the claims of april. yay. and the challenge that the dollar and so we live, live in place based 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 less the 10s of the 5 years. it fails, the filter points of with 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 fi shows from sun unrolled. that's a facing try. oh, all and allies by corruption. ok. boys. yes. not a unique to has been accused of not making it 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 to designate a candidate but of course, as junior is bringing pets, they say d, 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 duly tied to the written movement. he said,

by the time he is elected to present a phone, call that and now says delete that you need that so that he can 700 percent to gain access to government. and that's very important because it will look to one of one of them. but now we want to understand the difference between m p a n d, the state and state. actually, the one who is living in emperor live sometime living in the state and making all that confusion that create a kind of a citizen, a prime prime class. and 2nd class, the defense bank does run the primary class, the one who are members of m. p yes, so that's just one example of a dad liam proposal from you need to kind of do, but that's just an acquisition and that's brought to new ideas. that idea, that's why they have improve their life in terms of their followers. that's why we saw, you know, better message support you to do. you need to actually, i think he never had to cut his might lead us like a little bit. 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 the fontose. 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 ne,

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 that 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 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 and one on the failure of bread drama. so actually we're looking for the power. there was like a very big issue, but fiction. 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 the really but in probably a. so if you decide to save a, probably let's say for the best time there was it try it, try to improve. it was trying to promote some like more space of debate. but after

the 2 years it will not pull lies the, the media. so all the, me just now we're controlled by that are only but as a say, the president choose between saving the country in saving the saw in the state to be in size of that isn't that kind of as elected men and the, and you see also and those election saw the last, the last when was doing is released so he was concentrating attacking so blaming the enemy in the computer by the me as 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, murray, 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 game, but 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 say that you need to that the in piano and that's a balancing act that needs to take charge of. he also needs to they awesome internal divisions within, within the m p l a. some people that have not like nurses 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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