to stop in your own adventure. now counter adding the so i'm gonna clock at the top stories here on al jazeera end to more than 40 promising. and women and children of waiting to be released from is really presence is part of the goal is to cease for ideal. earlier hundreds of for my male person is returned home to garza and the height was fine. and i'm having to remember to i'm very glad to be back with my family, but at the same time, i'm not happy. i saw my daughters and i didn't recognize them. they don't recognize me either. when we faced torture and beatings in prison, i myself was beaten as well. they kept us under the rain, they kept us natured, they threw water at us, electrocuted us. we also got skin diseases. i saw prisoner with worms coming out of

his body in the negative prison. i have seen a prisoner who lost 80 kilograms in one year. there was no food. when we woke up in the morning at 8 am, they would call on me the intelligence agency would take me and leave me in the darkness for 3 days. i'd be handcuffed and no food for 3 days. they don't give you anything but half a loaf of bread and half a glass of water. well, the longest serving policy in prison and now about duty is among the $97.00 release prisoners whom israel has exiled to egypt. opponents release, this is what now if i do to said the afternoon, people are happy today due to the release of some prism is not like to express my thanks to the people of cause up to the women and children of cause and to the resistance and the land of cause of all the words of all the dictionaries are not enough to express our appreciation to the braves. at least every pelican in the world must know that the brutal, these really occupation will never stay forever and tell us time will be totally

liberated. and finally, peace be upon you. is rarely president says the remains of full captive semester times a day relates on wednesday night have united to fight the bodies were examined at television national center. a forensic medicine developed quite westbank, where the is really ministry has rated the, but lots of refugee companies to not for this killing at least one posting the red cross inside. the 2nd man was injured on policy infections that being confronting is really so just is ready for us is on carry out a loan scale offensive. and the occupied westbank targeting refugee camp gunshot to disrupt, to the rally held by m. 23 rebels in the allies in the coffee in the east and democratic republic of congo. it was the 1st public radi organized by the rewinding bikes, groups since it's fine to seize control of the city nearly 2 weeks ago. also a rapid advances him the m 23 is now in control of large parts of east in jail. see including 2 provincial capitals. the prime minister says at least $7000.00 people

have been killed in less than 2 months. fighting the great per week as 40 week is held for more than a decade in jail, and thailand have been secretly deport it's china trucks with the windows covered in black tape receive, leaving the bank called immigration center early on thursday. chinese media have confirmed a group of reports, raise it without specifying the city to any train reports. now from the dental in china, thailand was cold between a rock and a hard place. it wouldn't send them on to a 3rd country. and yet it faced international criticism when it looked at returning them to china. but this year seems to have made a big change in the debt of nights around 2 o'clock in the morning. they were moved to an apple and then floated out to the west and city of cash go. thailand's prime minister said to the men would be treated according to the principles of human

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the kenyans are angry at their present. the last year, thousands of young kenyan hit the streets and protested the rising cost of living. and the controversial finance still put forward by president william router. the government's response was cracked down the left dozens dead and some shock waves throughout the country. and while the president ultimately backtracked and withdrew the bill, i have these to say i have, i do. and i have on you many claim that is government continues to stifle defense. i'm just behind the space of abductions of talking if we chose critic my guess tonight if kimani is showing what majority of the come in the national assembly, he's been in parliament for more than a decade, is

a close ally of president router. and it's been a storage defender of the president's policies. ringback ringback i made the hassle, and tonight i'll go head to head with kimani issue. i'll challenge him on his government, brutal crack down and protest as an ramblin corruption. and the president read talk is really the lead kenyans want us to be joined by 3 experts. a we know a catch professor of feminist and security studies and university level. so as you're in good health and executive director of amnesty international, kenya moses line got turned in community leader in the taskbar, based in the u. k. the

kamani soon was thank you so much for joining me here on the head to head. you are the majority leader in the kenya nationalist below. you are a close ally and simple tests of president william router who is unpopular right now because he and you and your party haven't delivered for the people of 10, you know, 2022 election manifesto made 281 promises. can you tell audience tonight, how many of those have been fulfilled over the last 2 in office? 2 of the say, the perception out there is that the administration is quite unpopular and nothing on characteristic of any of the station. 3 years of time election especially. and then with special ed came into office in a bucket dropped off a very deluxe conducted economy. we have very many promises that he said, but i'm assure you that with the change into your costs, the implementation of the money festival is page by page topped off the top. but you have it in 5 minutes of the problem comes it. they've been implemented. how

many under 200? 81. promise out how no good. i'll give you updates on solve to panel 200, but i'll tell you you're the 1st politician who said to me, i will give you it's free on. so just let me know. i can give you an answer. i can be on, so it's 40 out of $281.00 promises that means 95 percent of your buyers and i've not been met 2 and a half years in bodies and on but maybe not mine. so my number's the number and i mean the endo, a normal design, parliamentary monitoring organization and can hear the tracks all parties. dissing 14 out of 281. i mean, we can run through some of them off present, a router said he would give free internet and phone calls to kenyans. he has and he said it was not an inquiry into cronyism. he has not. he said he would rectify the international convention against enforce disappearance as he has not. i could go on and on. canyons are frustrated because they would like to during the election campaign. well, many of i told you about easy prospect. the phone of them is that land us, and that is we have to have the rectified kazi, rectified the international convention. we have again, symbols,

disappearances ratified, very many international con, but has the rectified the international convention against him, but he said he would do it. so it is, comes to power, going to an obvious, you can do it with the stroke of his plan. why is it not done that he is yet to notify? but it is while waiting for walk in progress was that time right forward slash kitchen. according to the lender, many things have per timelines. i was typing that he said he would do the timeline . he said he would do quite. he said he would do a public inquiry into cronyism within 30 days. has he done it? public? quite a. yeah. a public inquiry just to establish the extent of cronyism, state capture and make recommendations. page 61 of your manifesto. the 30 days it's been tune up here. the i'll tell you maybe a few read the not quite about that accommodations on what is to be done on step caught me live on step captcha or next or do they show killings that gives them cup to ended up. quickbooks, which you haven't done with the amount of less thoughtful for multiple things, you know, and you admitted to be fair. the people are unhappy as

a perception of the government that's unpopular. kenyans will be most upset about the cost of living. and yet when thousands of young canyons took to the streets and protests of your government last year, the finance bill, you'll government open fire on them, killed them forcibly, abducted and disappeared. them. how do you justify such a violent crack down on your own citizens in a democracy fund? let me so this monday, as you said, was going to allow me to answer the question on the promises kept. i totally, the manufacturer is being implemented. top top of the top right from housing to the costs of leaving, but you're speaking about because of course you kind of deductible. so what else would be the need? 5, yes. the national just we go. so you said you were doing 30 days and you haven't, but just deal with the volume we some how do you justify what happened last summer and can you are now coming to, let's say, the cost of living continue. what you've done with the cost of living and from the subsidizing of the production, rather than subsidizing consumption,

as they promised to more complaints. you remember the fast, the most special off of the electrical, you know, 2023 about the costs of living. which also and with granted with the defense unfortunately on the most special end up with that, which is a very unfortunate incident. and it is not surprising that people demonstrate a new open file. it is just the nature of what happens with the on demonstration on with a ton environment and the police have to intervene. let me say that at this point, it's not just unfortunate. we all regret the loss of life during the 2022 demonstrations and even the demonstrations on the june last year. unfortunately, the lights have to be lost but was locked up. what highway was opened, the yeah, the way to live has to be lost, lives would take the right people were shot and they had no nor life ought to have been lost and nobody can justify. and then also flies any way in the wall and out of demonstration, a lot of according to reuters investigation, 19 year old charles

a. we know when to protest was killed with a gun shot to the head, the police record at his desk as a road accident. 21 year old shaquille being gay. he does the same day as a, we know, also shortened the neck police record of his death as a road accident is desta. so regarded, but what is the canyon police covering them up a fortunately, maybe we have a very robust constitution in the country. the boss, the best constitution in sub saharan africa, this, this constitution has very good and clear safeguards that make sure that everybody's have to account for your options, including the police. you've mentioned 2 or 3 people i think from i pause because the independent police almost april 22 from that i call that you have recorded about 60 that's from last year as uh yeah, demonstrations and the some think about something about the investigation they have dismissed some of that close the file of the investigation that i can assure you,

the police may even somebody how many in the police force me to tell her what i was taught. how many bad against yourself in this country will not allow you to say that this is great rhetoric and how many police of them can you have been prosecuted for their own and the violent in 2023 or 20? 24. can you tell us how many i'll tell you from of the last last day of the demonstrations 3 already and course 3 for the somebody who's been process 33 i've been processing get an offering process you've been out of april nava, pod default cases before you prosecute somebody, you go to investigate. so you have to face the light source that allows you. bodies of people showing signs of torture, continued to turn up in rivers, forests, corey's more trees. the authorities have yet to investigate. will prosecute anyone for these crimes. can you have the history of police brutality and lack of accountability for serious abuse, or you will have to be one right to watch you want to believe what human rights, what say not what i'm saying. yeah. because i believe in human rights. remember the started by say i will give you straight on you. it is,

they'll take many. you do that take, i didn't come, you have to give you have to, i came, you have to give the magic and the possibility. so that right. the police officer not being held to account the at all because of police officers must be held to account, but they haven't been. that is why we have institutional haven't moved them to account. so what you said today about the desk sounded good. you said it's regrettable. no should be no loss of life. that's what you say here. what you say in kenya is a little bit different. this is what you said in the summer, about the abductions of young people. you said that there a way for people to basically re calling this is to me, you said these people quotes, they don't really abducted. you said quotes, they locate themselves in ad b and b's with the go friends and hiding you saying the oldest abductions, kenyon burns, crying of a missing children, bodies turning up and rivers. that's people pretending hiding with the girlfriends in the air b and b. do you understand how offensive that sounds? maybe i'll speaking in the county and the context was the comma for you know, bill the misconception that every of definitely the country was being perpetrated

by security agencies. but what i say is that we have rules in the country now that people what construed to have the broken the law in terms of the computer misuse insight, but thumbs up, ease their phone, comfortable, the dca o the police children, and must address them and take them before parts will float because that's what they dissolve and the police and security agencies have no business of ducting. anybody and nobody should be, but they are of duct try and pull by security agent. but they are allow me, allow me to make my point because you asked me a question and it is, your not caught them that i see. and again, it is not our case is maybe as that was out of the doctrines of what was possible to be of doctrines. let me tell you the cases where people to somebody was we hold up in that now b and b. ok. but the report ending sofa love doctor. but for you as

a leading politician in the country where people are being disappeared in a democracy in 2024, 2025. it seems a strange thing to focus on. not the kids whose bodies are being found in rivers and forest and warehouses with gunshot wounds to the head and then they, and instead of focusing on that, you focus on one case of somebody, an ad b and b seems strange. and maybe i also say the case is political conspiracies where people can we talk about the opening shot police intelligence services, abducting tips. you accept that happens in your country? we will government the new incentives that abducted innocent people. you accept that it has been claimed, though some of the claim this happened. it has been, claim you don't accept as happens. i do not believe the inform disappearances perpetrated by the stating can. now not in these damage, we have an administration which, so the 1st time none of and the president himself committed that never again was kenyans, have to disappear, and you fish their bodies,

our toll free by all over the time i like happened sometime buck. and therefore, why i said the claims the claims, but it's in both federal claims that are being investigated, that they don't claim on the give you a back. i'll give you my, my less will give me. i'm going to give you a back right now because the guardian around the world, what you may not notice the attorney general of can. his son was a doctor, literally a serving member of the government. if something was taken. how did he get them released? can you tell our audience? so you have to do is go to discuss the doors, just inventory, the farmers agent, how people move out, adopted the jostling, the possible, who has a ledge, but to some was not that easy for modeling. the generally just inventory. and i've, how did you get it started? and i'll tell you again. i have read from the media hub. justin, what did he, what he said, just as you, how did, if he's on vacation by justin, will to be somebody who has the majority says he's the president or the said president rudo, the intelligence service of taking my son present rudo called the head of your

intelligent service and his son was released of you have you had met the print the same have you had from the data itself and you're telling me what's the route of the night? have you had for me? no, i don't live in your but you as part of the need to tell you might need to because that's what takes place on what has been reported. so like i, i'm reporting the most. this is the member of your government, the position, a member of your colleague, a lawyer. and he said, it's not a hotel. that's why i told you justin was to do the full month on the, the kind of municipal public service. yes. have a reputation for the news, has beef with the most. okay. in the government, he saw out that he made up a story about the big of the reasons they rely on kenyan. well, we will allow me, will you allow me please if i for this please? this is just i'm he, the reasons why just and what to do was remove this. i've 20 dental. yeah. around the time one of the demonstrations. okay. in june of last year,

the reasons probably why dustin went to the nose verbally on his way out. if you see was maples allegations, factors and my thought and the active investigations as i told you as president of the show tonight. but we have got your need probably disinvite him and ask him as you call, i am the president williams with only about how do you spell, how do you tonight it it's a simple fact requested yes or no. i have no talk to him and i don't know, he painted us too. so one of the, let's just wanna recap from you is just to be funded. administer in the canyon government has said that his son was abducted by the intelligent services and the president, kenya, had to intervene to release his son. you suggest the minister is lying and on his way out, but the president hasn't denied any of the top. i don't suggest i tell you, particularly the minister has reasons to lie. okay. in front of the pods results and he's on his way out. he definitely knows it. all right, just inventory. sure. what are the rest of the new menu?

okay. because it's a lot of politics even, even if the sun is paula, is on politics is blink. all it takes me about very unfortunate incidence. let's bring it to a panel now to see what they think about all of this. i'm going to go fast to it. room, gu halton who is the executive director of amnesty international kenya in your organization has been documenting a lot of these abductions you yourself. i believe i've spoken to some of the objectives and their families kamani suggest this is kind of what are under the bridge. there's no real evidence for now. a lot of it's politics. what's your view? may i think there has been a trends of um, targeting defense people who are protested in our streets, excessive use of force against people ex, essentially just expressing the right to assembly. i'm in one case, for example, this young man was essentially held incommunicado. he was stripped naked. he was saved, not just on top of his head, but in his pubic areas. he was interrogated ad nauseum about whose connections with

an order he had done was to post cartoons an artificially generated uh images onto the uh, on his twitter handle. i just have one of the presidents in the casket. it does not appropriate to somebody makes fun of the present and can they get tortured like this when we're the i'm literally 10 president. when the box pop up to his desk, he took decisive action to end. the extra judicial giving level a happening to what it will say at least to the uh, a case of about the 3 or 4 young canals will allegedly abducted. and it went to the emergency, they were a doctor, there was adopted as it was reported the tongue back to the uh for just 10 bucks in their families. and it was a lot of case, well, one of them turned a box, a piano in a diesel night with a fully charged form. so you need to ask yourself with, uh, well, i don't understand what the battery power of phones has to do with even hulu,

or even if i, even if i am abducted and kept incommunicado without a phone or anything. i do not expect you to have a fully charged phone and to the office that you did not live with torch it. i mean up to the room, you just described. i am to i am, i am not denying in the thing. if you listen to me and please listen to me, king, because as i say, the mid the, the chase is of adoptions as to who is adopting people. is a question faithfully. am i wrong? and one good thing they thing that occurred in so they, they say they say, so the police say it is not us. or what do we do in a country with the institutional ziploc? allow the investigative and just because any specials we investigate and get to check, we have adopted who so on the some of the young middle thing that i'm a panelist. what that's a good point to braves that a we know ok is a professor of feminist and security studies at the university of london. so as community says, what do you in the country with the institutions, what i want to ask you, do the institutions work and can, is there accountability,

what is your perspective to i think we must begin by recognizing the states whether there's a huge trust deficit with 0 to reaching you all. everyone spoke about the fact that you're 2 years into a 5 year term we are unemployed. some of us have employees. your employer does not wait for you to reach your end of the contract details you have you performed well or not. we all have performance reviews and performance contracts. and i think the citizens who voted for us saying things are not working. i do not believe that institutions are working effectively because if i tell you that people are being abducted outside your house and you say it's not my people, then you also shouldn't be to tell us, pull those up, you're not giving tenants any confidence. if you say it's not the police, it's not the n i us, but some of we don't know who they're on. this is supposed to automatically assume that that's fine, thinks it's not the police and motion intelligence office. trust must be built. we states them. what if we have to trust the government to and to respond to it?

yes, i agree with how the trust must be not actually built you on your trusts from your options, and that is why it is on the right. the yellow, the institutions to investigate. so that those who claim they have been adopted. because as i said, the, the criminal elements that i've been involved in, i remember i left you a v shaped of the youth demonstrations in june last year. i think that on july left, if i'm not strong, but d is what this comes out in a place called quite a number of coffee just outside the airport and that will be and it turns out that somebody a, some sort of crazy cedar zillow was killing ladies and dumping their bodies there before you can imagine what will happen if we want or quick to judge and say yes, visa, protest probably on for the desktop in the bundle for, for the whole up any event who have disappeared. then all the bodies i've done that before, i go to what the problem should be waiting patiently. it wouldn't go very quickly. just comparing kimani seems to be suggesting that pre 2022. there was lots of bad

stuff. and since then things have improved is as someone is coming multiple governments of a multiple years. do you agree with that? no. i mean, i think what has happened the last 6 months has been really remarkable and very scary for many canyons. um 89 abduction. $63.00, that's $29.00. still missing. these are not normal times if you put together the number of people who were killed in 2023 in 2024. that is 4 times the number that was killed during the multi party is a period in the struggle for multi parties. and so we've seen a real jump in these figures, but it's not just the figures. it's just what happens to a family, to a community whose young one is, is, has had the live life ripped from them. so i think we have to get beyond the numbers to just think about what does it mean uh for the people that you mentioned, the find that finding their way into in body bags in, in what reason can you it last to stop moses land got i want to bring in your community lead

a kind community then the desperate i believe you're also one of the authors of the policy manifesto in 2022. so i don't ask you the 2nd question, i ask you money and stuff. what do you make of this study that was done by a non pods on group which said it shows 14 promises out of 281 in the manifesto have been fulfilled. do you think that's what's driving a lot of canyon frustration? maybe 1st and foremost, we need to understand the president as a decided to be a leader. no to be. i probably teach. i want to say that it and guiding the use products. they stopped in the conversation with the president. he listened to them . the youth said they wanted parts of a finance bill to be all the time the president listened to it. they had conversation. in fact, the members of the parliament went back date. it drafted the finance but that one loss at shootings while they were asking for the changes. trouble only started when we started having people going in gene tough here. we had to politician going in

the youngest us when we appreciate form over 7575 percent of canals population. about 20 percent of the drug tests were politically motivated, not driven by organic anger from young people. the young people will angry. these are well educated people, they have nothing to do. these are the message that the current government inherited and the food, the book to my procurement tests formation agenda was the president only spoke about the prioritize 5 year. yes. is to create jobs for these people to feed 60 to keep like inherited is a president router, was it be a long standing senior member of the previous government? what have you been here with something you were maybe maybe maybe by the let me let me just explain because it costs 2017 really a little was deputy president just by name. okay. that's

a fact of life. find that for when that there might be safe, it speaks about the and had it done, see, okay, you know, i do want to talk more about president router. we're going to do that in the 2nd half of the. sure. right now we're going to take a break. when we come back in part 2, we'll carry on to get to keep on eastern and to a panel. we're going to hear from our very patient audience here in london's con, we'll see often by the when did these incomes decrease the facts? hang in the balance. when voices the silence agendas prevail, systemic emissions. lean control the listening post d coding the media on out his era as temperature as rise due to climate change, morocco is experiencing at the system. the trunk, central shanese, set the level as on in the ancient traditions pass down through generations,

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