almost every busy street is now a booming business. they have been issuing the license is about 5000 for the shops right now in thailand, which mean like there are a lot of shops, but not everyone is thrilled by marijuana's new status. some of the most passionate advocates for legislation, the found their arguments trampled in the stampede to get into the market. the people that i've been fighting along side to how this legalize, i'm not the one benefiting the one who are opening up shop every other bloody day. right now is not the people that i knew. i do not fight for this so that there are california, we'd all bang cough street and the law remains unclear in many areas, purchase and possession in private. his legal, but technically recreational use is still against the law. but those have been

pushing the benefits of medical marijuana. the original intention of the change in legislation has been loss consequent. hey, before the tourist come to thailand, the garbage informed them, they would only carried recreational use. but we do encourage medical uses that are and that they can get services and advice 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 their streets 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. i thought you all deserve me. several robin and doe holl reminder of our top stories ukraine's foreign minister says the country's military will soon have access to patriot air defense missiles. the earth pledged $1850000000.00 worth of military

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i of them. yeah. okay. 2022 in africa has seen political and environmental challenges, groundbreaking sporting achievements in the walk up. and now people across the continent are looking ahead to the new year to down the stream. 3 stories that will make headlines in 2023, including prospects for peace in sedan, and a present to election in st. bob way. 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 general election. we decide who will succeed. present mohammad, you 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. all we are so good about your intellectual for 10 weeks away. most people that feels like a very long time, but campaigning has been going on. pretty much all 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 mall. basically you're looking at an event that occurs probably once every 4 years nigerians and lots of large, excited. so the come back for some people, businesses, it's good business days. that will make money from the politicians and in preparing election mosquitoes and preparing company metrics and all that. again. on the other hand that are concerns regarding the elections that are hopes and aspirations that are also frustrations. people are frustrated about their policy. some of the past 4 years, 8 years since the return of democracy is a question of expectation is 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 the election. so 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, the board to people who lost the 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. let's look at, look at some of the candidates. 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 tonight. won't know till the end of february. but let's take a look. this is paula to newton. what do we need to know about bala?

while i was governor of state is credited with transforming and they go state from buried 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, from ministers from the vice, even the vice president with his 4 by 8 and when he was governor lots of things. yeah, absolutely. apc's are 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 product party candidate and peter opi. now he toby was running, made surprisingly. it will be with the rodney major worker in the previous election in 2000. and 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 what he told me right now. of course my jetta many nigeria is young. nigeria is 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 not yet, where 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 many projects. 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. there is an unwritten agreement by the way, to me because i didn't politicians after every 8 years of power in a particular region in the north for example, after bahati was 80 is the power power is supposed to ship to the south of the country. 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 candid or even won a presentation election in june at 692 sixty's. when the queen became the president wall officer morning role because it was

a positive interest 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 more vibrant person needed. and 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 3 human to 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 southwest of the country. and there are elements of the ruling part to the apc while willing to both boiler. i mentioned it to power. but again, in the know, the, there are a lot of, or just going to global also us, it's based in the south of the country in the southeast a peak just read to me from one of the south is stage. no, cool. now i'm going to,

i'm going to move them on a little bit because we could spend 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 nigerian. and this is from november. this is what they had to say about voting in february as live uh what's before, because now i get my right choice. that's lam, what's it? 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 rose our choice. it when we, if we have voted for our choice. huh. there will do monitor 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 election

. that is part of the story for not driven election. surely i tell us more absolutely. the infrastructure, the process itself is based on previous experiences. we're seeing how electrons run in such a stage. i lectures don't holding such an error and then you see snatching speed violence, manipulation, results, and all that. then they go to court and the court declared judgment on these cases . however, the elections this year 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 run off in that genet this. this will be the 1st step by the right. and this is because of the mix, the mix of the presidential candidate median position. so talking about, well, i mentioned it was parties. the governing party was just a solid base across nigeria. the pdp, which has been for 16 years, is also

a solid political party in the country. and the, the labor party which peter or b is a flag bearer, is an up and coming polish, took part in a jetta and his fraction. and again, the puzzles we are talking about is robin was so close from carlo. who is set to divide that more than vote. so that used to be in choosing procedures, right? i, he's own show. we obviously need to show that the know june election and it could just be ahmed and maybe want to guess, but i don't think necessarily needs guess. i'm going to bring one more. louis, this is really, this is abby old and 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 this day 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 not say 4 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 hit on my favorite play that's, that's what on. and by the way, it's not only in those local government 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 north west of the country at the central parts of large banditry and kidnapping kid but could not be across nigeria. and in the phone is what we witnessing over the past few years. if the rise of a separate just 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 elective commission to come back up very much. but a lot of nigeria, but leave the elections of such an interest in the country as a way things 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 opie, 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 my during elections about religion? have a look here on my laptop, ethnicity, tribalism. and in my jury of politics, pivots around economy and religion. we have 10 more weeks to discuss and june elections. and i'm an address will be with us,

but for now i think thank you very much and i really appreciate your analysis. the thing the next we need to see dad falling a piece still between military leaders and a coalition of pro democracy parties. could that be peace in 20? $23.00. hello. hey, is a political it adolescent 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 a deal that frank 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 of there that'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 has. the reality has made us remove ourselves and all political interests and place the interests of the nation and the people above all things. every time we speak, people are unhappy with whatever deal there is, whatever, till they is it. so if you were going to characterize this phrase, what deal? what would you say it is as, as neutral as you can be if that's even possible. what from the table? in many ways a deal is a placebo. it makes us feel good. it makes signatories feel like they're signing up to something that will, you know, realize the dreams and the sort of the desires of the 2018 revolution, which would have to remember, unseated the 30 dictates permanent machine. but it is a placebo. and this is just mostly an emotional reaction and very difficult to see

how we move from this to the actual difficult work of dealing with the issue 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 left out. there are always people who are left out of, of that, of, of that phase. and then that then means that we're 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 different, in fact, it has in many ways reproduced all the was characteristics of previous he'll be they physical settlements like this one or piece deal. and what's different now is that you have something you reported on many times, which is, you know,

very large body, call the resistance committees who are robust independent and have 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 who loyal to the ship and some former rebels who signed the pieces in 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 the people that i want to see if 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 was tasty, done out of the current political crisis. we respectfully urge also to nice stakeholders to see that opportunity that is optimism right there. why?

i mean, the international community needs this deal 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 with a new domestic communities and constituents. and so this is led to the sense that 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 mark funding that haven't been able to be spent since the qu, they get to re engage with the government. once again, there are, you know, certain countries, particularly in the region thinking of the us in particular, who wants to sign deals related to, you know, comic interest, et cetera. and all of that was on palatable also, the coo and now this 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 and for that is still very much up in the, an audio respecting 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 nissan told us earlier . this still is manifest 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. cotton resistance committees fox person, was described that it is not defined 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 his, in his population am, is also another kind of my, the international community. as 192019 to force

a government of killers 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 is a preliminary deal. the final deal is you said it 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 that meant to be consensus around that. but the already signed that actually the signature of audi agreed to some level of amnesty and immunity for the 2 main general to lead last year as 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 from the regime and cartoon about supporting those trials. we have currently several cases of miscarriage of justice as a 17 year old boy. mm hm. and adam known locally a to puck, who has 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 see done. appreciate you many. thank you for 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 placed in 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, you have said there are 2 major contenders. yes, the incumbent president, muscle, monongahela, and nelson and musa with 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 nothing. jim is on his twitter banner, change champion. behold the new. what is he afraid this new to the broadway?

you know, it's hard to say what's new that's being offered and 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 content and the if you know fucks now and the breaking patsy movement for don't democratic change to form the susan correlation for change. so what you can say may be probably is that the use energetic use somebody who is, who 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, your cause and you went on how 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 or you. he really needs more years for another 40 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 room a tasa 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 home less this month than they did the last was rico ever? no one will put us. there is nothing we can do and things are just too expensive. we try and stretch the little menu 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 by what will they 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 zimbabwe? and 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? that's a good question to ask them. i got to just leave it hanging for now. election. tiny, symbolic june, july. what month would it be? constitutionally the elections in bob we are supposed to come between july and august. the i'm putting to one. thank you. privilege. we come back to for the latest on said bob, bye thanks for watching everybody. i'll see you next time. take care. ah, course, the world, young activists and organizers are on the move need. you know what

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