this is. one. lawmaker in jail says he was tortured in prison faces charges of treason we take a closer look at the former pop star taking on who got this political elite and we'll hear from his lawyer also on the program. for fast food fresh anti immigrant protests tonight after days of violent confrontation we'll hear from chemists

residents and ask what is a doing to calm the escalating situation. welcome to the program. united nations outgoing human rights chief says he's deeply concerned about allegations that ugandan all thoughts he's tortured lol make a body wine and several other politicians while they were being detained on charges of treason cases touched a nerve in the country a high profile challenger to uganda's longtime president yoweri museveni he was arrested in august after stones were thrown at the president's convoy he was released on back in this week on crutches. julia. reports on how ugandans a venting their frustration over the case and what they make of the man taking on uganda's political elite. for to see uganda's capital kampala.

the focus of the be more stringent this month known as bobby rush i just as demanded his release after hearing about sizzling torture under our wrist. in an interview will be wind told d.w. about his role in uganda it's politics nobody should look at me as a messiah nobody should look at me as a solution i'm just part of the puzzle i knew that i was that is watching me he also part of that puzzle i cannot do it unless if we choose to do it together and yes that is this solution because if we are to attain. what we want as a country they need to get that. a large majority of ugandans population is under twenty four and many see they thought the six year old hopes to was their voice so

it would not be when he's presenting me. a voice of me as a youth because me twenty years because what do you think is real and it is this you've seen will come from when it's clearly and socially he speaks a lot of things and neutrally speaking i wouldn't. say that he inspires me like. going to the street song doing whatever he has been doing because either ways of handling things yeah very is it my voice really he represents my voice because he talks about the things that i think. and he's a us he talks about unemployment education or option despite the supports a but b. one enjoys especially among young people mainly because beetle complex present during the seventy's government seems to have a different perspective of the margin politician who is also bottling christened charges in court does the. moment and i don't think it is

largely that that is even viewed as the president to deal of course there's been a lot of framing around events our own him. by his group and on his one hundred hours where he's been portrayed largely as a victim but this is just a fleeting moment it will probably pass. but the wind was voted to parliament last year in a by election where he defeated four challengers including one backed by president must have been. less than two years in office this singer has been strongly critical of government. anyone who is a serious political needs to fit buck and evaluate that quote is will be weighing reprise into when he talks about people power you know what is he trying to say is in there any weight in the words that he's

expressing to us today right and shouldn't the president to keep. the rig a star has enjoyed more than fifteen years of the success formulas the cargo hold voisey's making it an entertainment has been a knob he will struggle but challenging a government that has been in power for forty two years could prove to be his biggest struggle yet. loyal is a necklace of hero he joins us from uganda capital welcome to day to you so your client was charged with treason what was your response to that. challenge for the crime and treason is a capital offense the tracks of death penalty and. he says china must know. it must be charged based on concrete evidence of criminality in the

instance case we have not yet seen any credible evidence to suggest in the very least that probably why own and yet accused persons were involved in the ass of treason the chinese are really laughable i think that they don't fall apart producer now your buddy who i was supposed to attend court today but didn't will he appear for his next court date. but no one is committed to attending to this trial ph cordwainer quacked you know here today because he was attending to a medical doctor because ever since his release he's been unwell. suffering from the effects of the torture method against him well and so he was attending to a boston doctor who was caring not just him and the next court hearing of the pastoral p.o. you have what you will. and let's talk about the these injuries are what we're

seeing pictures of of bobby wind on crutches what do you say happened to him but no one was to v.n. beat it by the presidential protection. call the special process when he was arrested and district on the other night that he will last he was severely subjected to severe beatings keep beating that black. guy comes yes now get him to tell us the story he was subjected to several injections the quantity which has no idea is what he's reacting to make it into the seat in the hands of the i don't. care if you don't wait for me to ask of doctors and his family for nine days because they were carried out p.r. in this case in which was a pia somebody went into general. went with the claim it helps the unseen and looking great is coming out in practice coming out of the kidney problem is coming out of the rock and this board he was the very project and. i say i know it

when you said of the sun the this interview the state's evidence against your client was was flimsy at best what is your evidence for all of these things that you allege happened to your client well you have not been subjected to tests so we can see exactly what has happened to. these disks has broken medical tests i'm not sure it is but this has been struck as just look at it as well. practiced it can't wally's on so these are the things that we have been talking about evidence of what if you see is. how to get it done is quite an area and getting data because of the effect what it became because of the effect of the medical approach i was subjected to right ok thank you for joining us sir nicholas. thank you very much for joining us here at. now to some other stories making news around the world three

people have been killed during the looting of foreign owned shops in the south african township of so wetter the violence was reportedly sparked by accusations that foreign nationals were selling fake and expired south africa has seen current space observer for the attacks and recently. u.s. secretary general antonio good terraces warned of a potential humanitarian disaster in northwest syria says the government for pass a major offensive to retake it in the province for the last rebel stronghold in syria and home to nearly three million people the u.s. called for a humanitarian corridor to a lot of civilians from. the government of president that who is behind a comprehensive campaign of repression to put down four months of protests in the correct year that's according to a report by the un's high commissioner for human rights the report goes on to describe illegal arrests torture and close to trials that your take as government

has dismissed reporters baseless. you defense ministers of failed to resolve a don't pass resulting from italy's refusal to continue taking in migrants rescued at sea the government in rome wants the a unit to rotate the ports where rescued migrants disembark the issue is threaten the future of the use migration rescue operation code name sophia his mandate expires at the end of the shoe. thrower. right wing groups are staging fresh protests in the eastern german city of cabinets around twenty people were injured this week when seven thousand protesters many of the far right nationalists clashed with left wing protesters the death of the protests a follower fatal stabbing in the city two suspects a syrian and an iraqi of been arrested in connection with the crowds more anti immigrant protesters are gathered in the city center this evening but so far the numbers are in the hundreds and thousands press are also absent force for the scene

right now is calm is a look at life in cabinets a city where violence and hatred of foreigners was dominated recent headlines a snapshot of daily life encampments turned out coon runs a cafe in an art center it's a bit of an ivory tower he says here things are fine but he also knows the city has a problem with right wing radicals. we don't see marauding bands of murderous nazis in the streets every day but things happen and the instrumental wise it and use it as a pretext to whip up a crowd. last sunday eight hundred took to the streets in response to the killing of a man the night before on monday the far right mobilized about five thousand demonstrators and they weren't just locals the rally wasn't about the dead man it was a protest. now the state premier of saxony has come to canada to hold

a town hall meeting on the issue. what would you like to tell him about what's been going on here. that he's totally misunderstood the situation and that he's out of his depth this is given the right wing radicals a platform and they're rallying their forces it wasn't just people from cabinets here on monday but from all over germany i find out painful this too will be is there a general sense of frustration among local people are there problems with refugees here this man's answer shows how a rejection of neo nazis and concern about the presence of foreigners in candidates are not always so far apart. this is not what i expected i like to sit in the park when the weather's good but i see more and more foreigners there and they behave as if the time belongs to them. they don't sit on the benches but on the backs of the benches with their feet on the seats drinking beer. that's not acceptable so i'm not

a right winger but it bothers me it's just not right the specific issue which. gets . a city feeder company is rehearsing for a video with dancers from twenty four countries we ask if they feel they're under threat they say no but in fact it is not that simple. principle to completely tell them they should try to avoid any possible problems if they go home late they should go home together or not alone of course they're all trying to cope with the situation because. it's not easy in kennett's living together takes practice we have some catching up to do. most people we talked to here say they want to have nothing to do with the far right demonstrators but there is something that bothers them they feel marginalized the mayor explains. the city has changed it will take

a while for some particularly the elderly i would say to get used to the way things are now days it's different now. and in the meantime nobody seems to have any answers to that question with all of the heated debate the thirty five year old killed on saturday is no longer the focus of attention flowers and candles but no crowd of mourners. now flying fish the rest of utah has revealed its latest method for replacing tribe stocks in its high mountain lakes looking at fish being dropped from a specially fitted airplane from the ground to force the meters above the water despite the likely shock for the fish experts say that more than ninety five percent of them survive the fall and they say it's less stressful than the traditional method a long ride on horseback and sloshing containers of them are to ensure. they watching d.w. flying from ballard still to come a revitalizing energy food store

a danger to health the sale of high caffeine soft drinks to children could soon be banned in england being linked to obesity and bad behavior or not coming up in your business updates with monica jarvis. i'll have more world news for you at the top of the hour in the meantime of course so where's that d w dot com have yourself a good day. when. you land our fighters want to start families to become farmers or engineers every one of them has a planet for you soon so nothing is just the children who have already been the boy and those that will follow are part of a new process. i.