medical uses gallon and that they can get services and vice from the tire traditional medicine clinics and hospitals. legislation may become a hot topic ahead of elections later this year. is many conservative ties remain opposed to the sale of drugs on this streets. who with the weed business now firmly part of thailand's economic revival, it could be hard to what route. tony chang al jazeera thank off. christiana ronaldo says he turned down many football, clamps around the world to join saudi arabia's. arthur. he's arrived in riyadh after agreeing to a 2 and a half year contract with $206000000.00 a year. the 37 year old was a free agent after his high profile split with manchester, united. hartman r t y j is a foot board unless he says or now does. signing will help the saudi need to grow and develop jamante, an investment in saudi football in the sport in general and the kingdom has been enormous. and i think it's only gonna be all going up from here that they're going

to try to get big names. who knows, maybe that we might get messy, maybe as latan and grandma bitch any, any of these players that we would normally see, go towards previously china because the other or previous or until now to the united states of america, where the analysts b, b could be coming towards a saudi arabia to play bubble, let's wait until we hit the 2030 mark, which is the benchmark or the deadline for a lot of these initiatives. by that time i think the target will be that the, sorry, the becomes one of the top 10 in the world. and by that time, i think as you can see from the and he loves dominance in the agent champions league, the sport in the content has been huge and is taking a big shift. and the next big step is just to be a big competition goalie in comparison to the other big top by european leagues in addition to the others ah,

flew again, i'm fully about to go with the headlines on al jazeera voting will resume on wednesday for a new speaker in the us house of representatives, members held 3 votes, but republican leader kevin mccarthy could not secure enough ballads from his own party to win russia, as blaming the use of mobile phones for one of the worst attacks on its troops since the war in ukraine began, the defense ministry says 89 soldiers were killed in the new years. they attack on temporary barracks. in macau. it says the unauthorized use of mobile phones allowed ukrainian forces to pinpoint the soldiers location. football legend pelley has been laid to rest in brazil. hundreds of thousands of mourners watched his funeral procession in santo's, the city where he played for 2 decades. he was buried in a private ceremony after the procession. the philippines president is on the 2nd day of his visit to china, ferdinand marco's junior,

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i have i me. okay. 20. 22 in africa has seen political and environmental challenges, groundbreaking supporting achievements in the well camp. and now people across the continent are look in your head to the new year to day on the stream. 3 stories that will make headlines in 2023, including prospects for peace in sudan, and a present to election in zimbabwe. and nigeria, if you look to join in the conversation, you can do so on the chip. ah, so we start with nigeria where they are less than 10 weeks to go before a general election that would decide who will succeed. present bahama, do bihari? joining us, we have out 0 correspondent ahmed address already. so good to have you here. welcome to the stream. welcome back to the stream. we are so good about knology or an election. 2 weeks away. most people that feels like a very long time, but campaigning has been going on. pretty much all of 2022. what is it like to be

nigeria right now? is there election fever? are people wary? what are they like? a combination of both and more. basically you're looking at an event that occurs probably once every 4 years. nigeria is a lot of like, excited. so the come back for some people, businesses, it's good business di there will make money from the politicians and that in preparing election materials in preparing compared to this and all that again, on the other hand that i concerns regarding the elections that are hopes and aspirations that are also frustrations people are frustrated about their policy to some of the past 4 years, 8 years since the return of democracy is a question of expectations not met, disappointments on the part of voters. but again, one of the most interesting things for me,

people may think that because of these frustrations nigeria is, was sort of sit back and forget about it. next is a rather showing some interest in the election. it's not so. a few months ago, the election commission conducted a new registration exercise for people who attend the age of 18, voting to people who lost their cards and things like that. and they registered many 1000000 just on the register. so it shows you that there is interest in the campaign process, but again, it also could be because of the new faces in the election lessons that haven't yet . yeah, i mean, let's look at, look from the candidate. i'm curious, are any candidates under 100 years old because my jewelry and politicians tend to be on the senior side. so we put together 3 potential presidents for niger won't know till the end of every. well, let's take a look. this is bullock to nubile. what do we need to know about bala?

while i was governor of state is credited with transforming legal state from barry under performing state to one of the most vibrant states in the past may go stages among. it's probably the only state, one of the few states in that kind of salaries without relied from grants from the federal government. it's economy, it's robust business, it's there, and he's been credited with transforming. they go. state is what it is today. he's also credited with raising a lot of political people in this country. ready from ministers from the vice, even the vice president with his 4 by 8 and when he was governor. not soft things, absolute. apc for the all progressive congress, we saw a little bit of attic who apple backer. this is from the he's a candidate from the people's democratic party. and then also we're going to look

at peace obee, who is from the labor party, tell us the difference between the people some credit party candidate and peter opi . now he toby was running, made surprisingly. toby was the rodney made of worker in the previous election in 2019. now peter will be dropped out of the presidential race and the pdp to join the labor party because he felt that if one of the shortest car for him to become president. and there is a lot of a band what good effect with port pitch. i'll be right now across my jetta. many nigeria as young nigeria are frustrated with the way people over the age of 7080. and even ninety's been handling this country. they find it difficult to relate with these elders. now you know how it is enough. okay. especially if not get away. we are told to respect our elders and people hardly criticize elders, but they see people will be a young man that they can criticize and confront when it needs to be. and that is

helping p, toby gather some support on, on mid approach. however, that is not the end of the discussion. see there's challenges, a piece that will be seems to be sort of becoming more and more popular with younger voters as well as votes from the south. that is an unwritten agreement, by the way, to me because i didn't politicians that after every 8 years of power in a particular region in the north for example, after bahati paid blood is 80 is the power. busy power is supposed to ship to the south and peter will be represent that not because he is from the south, but because a lot of people feel that they was hobbled, presented a presidential candidate, or even won a presentation election in nigeria. since 1961 number yes, equate became the president wall officer morning role because it was

a parliamentary system of government. so a lot of people wanted to give me that benefit of the doubt and they wanted to see a young and vibrant person leading. i did it, however, they feel there are many and i get us will feel that people will be as inexperienced and perhaps hasn't understood the re guess a politics in a country like it, but a format. so a formal yeah. yeah, yeah. but a form of government. absolutely. yeah. you mentioned, you mentioned 3 candidates by the way. yeah. but the fact of the matter is that it's another full force to the we're talking about revenue more so now a bullet to nibble is expected to do well in the south of the country. and there are elements of that really part of the a p c. while willing to both boiler, i'm achievable to power, but again, in the north the, there are a lot of voters are going for global also because it's based in the south of the country in the southeast a peak just read to me from one of the se,

page no cool. now i'm going to, i'm going to move on a little bit because we spent the entire show talking about potential candidates and the divide between the north and the south. i want to bring in some voters voices because they seem quite engaged with the process. and these voters were in my to carry, which is in the northern part of nigeria was often seen as the most part of the nigeria. and this is from november. this is what they had to say about voting in february as live uh what's before, because no, i gets my right choice. that's why i'm what's yes. yes, this is my choice. that's why i'm what's in these them are on your circle we are facing. is that the lead us we have no dear wound give was our choice it when we, if we have voted for our choice. ah, there will be one for optics. always so many opinions about nigerians when it comes to politics, but who is listening to how the election is run the infrastructure for the

elections that that is part of the story for not driven an action, surely my telephone absolutely. the infrastructure, the process itself is based on previous experiences. we're seeing how elections run in such a stage. i lectures don't hall in certain areas and then you see snatching speed violence, manipulation, results, and all that. then they go to court and a court declared judgment on these cases. however, the elections this yeah, will be so close, by the way. i mean, it's so close right now that the election commission is even thinking of the possibility of having a ramos in that genet. this, this will be the 1st start by the right, and this is because of the mix, the mix of the presidential candidate median position. so talking about, while i mentioned it was parties, the governing party was just a solid base across nigeria. the p d. p, which has been for 16 years is also

a solid political punch in the country. and the, the labor party which peter or b is a flat bearer, is an up and coming, polished party in agenda, and he's getting traction. and again, the puzzles we are talking about. this was a quote from carlo we set to divide that northern vote, so that used to be in choosing prestige. i don't show it, we obviously need to show this the not june election and it could just be ahmed and maybe want to guess, but i don't think we necessarily need guess. i'm going to bring one more less. this is really important. this is abby or the she's executive director of global rights nigeria, wondering about how well these elections will be run. this is what you told us. now it's already been estimated by the state newspaper that mom and 608 to 6 wards of the 8812 wards in nigeria and not safe for elections if almost 8

percent of all of the wards in nigeria and nazi for electrons can those electrons be considered free of fair? you need to think about the fact does that affect security as well? that there's so much divisiveness, so much hate speech. there's a lot of fake news out there. i so, and gave you had like a really that's, that's what on and by the way, it's not only in those local governments she's talking about. it's a problem that you're subtracting the whole of nigeria from the north east. well, quite, i'm still a little pause in that region where bender trees in the northwest of the country and the central parts of a better tree and cannot be good, but could not be across nigeria. and in the fall is what we witnessing over the past few years. it's the rise of a separatist will probably be operable, but be independent people. so yeah, for which has been burning and talking on the stations and election officers in the country. so

a lot of concern is being raised about the possibility of conducting peaceful elections in this area. this character was promising to support the elected commission to come up very much, but a lot of nigeria, but leave the elections of such an interest in the country as a way things stand. now remember, i'm going to stop us now because it will be 10 weeks election time. but i wrap this up right now on youtube. let me just tell you, some of the feedback that we're getting realize are says it's difficult for the youth to participate. they feel left out in government issues. emani, thank peter obee would have had a fighting chance as people see him as the only candidate who really had a vision. but his choice for the p was not well thought out. and then on twitter, some thoughts here. what are the and during elections about religion? have a look here on my laptop as mr. t. for liberalism and in nigeria, politics pivots around, economy and religion. we have 10 more weeks to discuss my during elections and i'm

an address will be with us, but for now i say thank you very much and i really appreciate your analysis the thing. so next we moved to sedan falling a p still between military leaders and a coalition of pro democracy parties could be peace in 2023. hello. hey, is a political analyst. she joins us from london. hello. it's really good to see you. i want to start festival with a little report about where we are with see done with the latest framework deal with the deal. that friend was a transition to civilian running of sudan. that transitional process has been for stored. and this is how we reported it on december, the 5th on out as a let's have a look, a new deal between for dance, military and political parties. the framework agreement aims to and the political deadlock. it allows for a new transitional government, more than

a year after the military depots, the previous one. or the longer the reality has made us all remove ourselves and our political interests and placed the interests of the nation and the people above all. or we could whose every time we speak people unhappy with whatever deal their ease or whatever till they is it. so if you were going to characterize this frame, what deal? what would you say is as, as, as neutral as you can be if that even possible what's on the table in many ways this deal is a placebo. it makes us feel good. it makes signatories feel like they're signing up to something that will, you know, realised in the dreams and then the sort of the desires of the 2018 revolution, which we have to remember, unseated the 30 addicted to a prominent machine. but it is a placebo in that this is just market and emotional reactions, very difficult to see how we move from this to the actual difficult work of dealing

with the issues that you know, lead people to take to the streets in the 1st place. i'm thinking about who's left out because whenever sudan gets together, the military political leads, sometimes the people often they left out. there are always people who left out of, of that, of, of that phase. and then that then means that where, wherever you've, whatever you've achieved, you can't then go on to the next phase because people be left out and then they become your position voices and they find up the progress from happening. if there is to be progress, are we in that same situation again? absolutely. i mean this deal hasn't really done anything differently. in fact, it has in many ways reproduced all the was characteristics of previous he'll be, they political settlements like this one or piece deal. and what's different now is that you have something you reported on many times, which is

a very large body called the resistance committee. if you are robust independent and had to maintain the momentum approach to democracy activities for the past 4 years this month. and they are completely outside of this framework. there are other groups as well who outside of, it's like the limits we're loyal to the sheer and some form of rebels who signed the piece of the 2020. but by and large, the people you want to have them for the future constituents in an election, a completely out of this deal. so thinking about how it's going to, you know, sort of bring about the kind of changes, transformational changes that people want to see. it could be very difficult without them is i'm just looking at my laptop here, the us ambassador to see dad. why does the us say there is now a credible path to find an agreement that will take that out of the current political crises. we respectfully urge all sudanese stakeholders to seize that opportunity. that is optimism right there. why?

i mean, the international community needs the steel to work out, and i think that that's sort of why you, you see a lot more optimism, a lot more support for the feel within the international community, particularly western countries. more than you see within, you know, so domestic communities and constituents. and so this is led to the sense of the steel is actually for the international community that they are the one who get the most out of it. they get to restart their age and they have all this in the funding that has been able to be spent since the qu, they get to re engage with the government. once again, there are certain countries, particularly in the region thinking of the us in particular, who wants to sign deals related to, you know, comic interest, the cetera and all of that unpalatable. also the 2 and now the sort of sanitize of the feel sanitize of relations and engagement with the sydney government. but how this sort of translates to steel translates into, you know,

transformative changes for people, for them is still very much up in the audio respective design. and she's a researcher and she was skeptical about this deal, which instantly has to be ratified and sign and signed off in within 30 days. so everything has to be achieved by mid january, which is an incredible task for that to happen. this is what design told us earlier . this still isn't. it has to very little change in our reality in sudan and from what i witnessed. it has no impact on the strength or the frequency of the process . they're continuing reject of any form of military rules. so dislike them, the hudson resistance committees fox person, was described that it is not different from the 2019 agreement as they are both agreements between fractions of the lead coming together to stop any realty in a real democracy in any real em redistribution of wealth. that serves the majority of facilities population am, is also another tempt my, their international committee, a site in 2019 to force the government of gallons on us and to sub list of the

needs revolution. i cannot forget the lease a $120.00 protest as few were killed during the crew of 2021. where is the justice for those people who died literally just protesting, raising their voice, saying, this is what we want for our country. where he sat in the still frankly, nowhere you know the deal and you have to remember the framework agreement, the preliminary deal. the final deal is you said, is meant to take place to be signed off on a month off the initial deal. so early january and within that timeframe, justice is a big issue that is meant to be spoken about. it's meant to be negotiated on the meant to be consensus around that. but the already signed that actually the signatories of already agreed to some level of amnesty and immunity for the 2 main general to lead last year to which already constrains the extent to which people can feel justice is done. and we have to remember this, the country where does this for the full? it's still 17 years in the making and 12 of the very sort of slow,

slowly coming together. there's a lot of resistance on the resume and call to me about supporting those trials. we have currently several cases of miscarriage of justice is a 17 year old boy. mm hm. and adam known locally a to park who had been, had undergone torture to exact a full confession. in his cases becomes of the landmark cases. it would show the extent to which traditional defense is going to be quite intrusive and has had thank you so much for giving us your view of what is likely to be making headlines in 2020 through 2023 from sudan. appreciate you. many. thank you. bye me. finally, 2023 is set to be a p t f, as in bob way with the countries present, expected to face a strong challenge in a general election privilege. my son, he is a journalist coverings in bob where he joins us. he's placing doha, qatar at the moment, but looking ahead to the election candidates privilege,

we have 2 options or other more than 2 options. privilege. where are we? was in bobby's elections. best kelly is you have said there are 2 major contenders. yes, the incumbent president, muscle, managua, and nelson shaneesa was leading the new opposition formation. the citizens cooperation for change. of course, there is a league you and of other small political parties, but these are the 2 main candidates to main figures. when you about when you talk about politics in zimbabwe in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. i'm just looking at nelson. she miss on his twitter banner, change champion. behold the new, what is the offering?

this new to the broadway? you know, it's hard to say what's new that's being often safe to say that you know, he is a person that has come out of the ranks of the movement for democratic change, which has been challenging the ruling party in the past 20 years. yes, of course you broke away from the can teachers and the ever, you know, fucks now and the breaking patsy. the movies were doing a democratic change to form the season correlation for change. so what you can say may be probably is that the use energetic use somebody who is that can identify with the younger generation that is also aspiring to see

young people taking the reins of leadership in zimbabwe. and he carries might as well, you know, you, you, of course, and he went on alone is involved, right. is that even possible? it's, it's not really possible. yeah. to just wait on korea. my only. that's why you find that those that are in the ruling party ranks the coffin human and say that he is much who are you that you really need more years for another 2 years then he can run in africa. all right, so i want to drill down into what is really important for the voters. so in november, i'll just have to re matessa reported on the cost of living in zimbabwe. have a look, have a listen once making hang a candle. marcia palazzo and her daughter joyce on

a tight budget. right now they can only afford to spend $30.00 on groceries. the only buying basics the family can't do without, but the price of some essential goods ins above we have gone up again. that means they taking homeless this month than they did the last was ever no, there is nothing we can do and things are just too expensive. we try and stretch the little money we have so we can buy me back. never enough. just very briefly. what are the key issues that are going to be important for voters come election time in bob? bye. what would i be? i think from these, the clips that we have just seen. this is the reality for many families in zimbabwe . the best seats. what makes people survive right now? it's a very difficult yes for a lot of families in barbara. so come going into this,

listen. what is the back of the mind of every ordinary in bible in? is that, how is this politician that is going to come into office where the, the one that we know already and may be the aspiring one from the opposition? what are they going to make the difference that they're going to make the people's lives? i think a question to ask them, we gotta just leave it hanging for now. the election, tiny, symbolic june, july. what month would it be? constitutionally the elections in zimbabwe are supposed to come between july and august. according to our point. thank you. privilege. we come back to you for the latest on the bob. why? thanks for watching everybody. i'll see you next time. take care. ah. in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world. whatever it did was

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