you mean you need to do good. discomfort. subscribe to the documentary. this is g.w. news africa on the program today diffie is in uganda i head off thursdays general election the campaign has already been modified so that she is now the main opposition candidate say's today's been full tide of those. last night. one of our 2 members was shocked by the ministry and the process that we this morning. and again this morning. my house was raided.

and south africa shops all of that city and thought is as a 2nd wave of covert 19 branches in the country. hello i'm christine window it's good to have your company the ugandan government has deployed a massive military presence across the country ahead of the general election not those days voters comes off to one of the bloodiest election campaign and he is the veteran v.j. you weigh in with 70 who's been in polyfill 35 is is seeking a 6th to his main challenger is the singer to make a rabbit known as bobby why as the election draws near they're all growing fears about. violence. violent scenes of become common during

election campaign. and there are many victims such as just the number who was coming walk. on the today where was it when i boarded with them but when. there was. this number was shortened to buck last year on nov 18th police clashed with supporters of the opposition candidate will be one leaving at least 54 people who did. the police can and started shooting. i wasn't. suited to hold.

on to know that there's a short well given that people who are rare think. people who are going home. on christmas eve sophie another war and her daughter were attacked by unknown people she saw spates they were attacked because she mobilized support for president jordan was 70. we want one more everyone should be given the right to support a candidate of his or her own choice but whoever wins should not mistreat the other party because we all need peace we are all ugandans we must unite in. their governments and cleanse the violence on the opposition watch the opposition counter accuse the police and the military for pressing ugandans the president must have any. idea why now once the international criminal court 3 to get to the i laid

human rights abuses we have information that they needed and people that are not in uniform have been deployed with automatic rifles. sitting on top of buildings snipers to shoot and the kid anybody that would be seen with that with a black eye no matter how peaceful the president must have and he has assured ugandans the election will be peaceful and across the country security forces have been deployed to enforce this. no one will threaten peace in uganda. but what we would like to tell all the people who were previously done this. we will not accept anyone destabilizing uganda. no matter who you are not already. the election on

thursday is important to many ugandans especially the young people who make up the majority of the electorate. the country's youth have been the biggest victims of violence activists of them to exercise their democratic rights in a peaceful manner. for more on the human rights situation in uganda ahead of thursday's election we've invited mr kamath volley onto the program he is the un special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association welcome to news africa you recently urged the ugandan government to drop charges against all those who have been arrested during the election campaign but many opposition supporters are still behind bars it appears president you are most if any is not listening to peel's by the u.n. . thank you very much and yes as you mentioned we caught in one of the press release not to be sure the end of december to read your

book on not to release your mother defenders but also what is it gonna do to start because we're seeing the darks. it's important to have a fear and fair election is important for people to be able to start who can lead the country for the next year is important or school for the peace in the country that this election these are the nies we practice the vision because we don't believe that having said that then do you think that those days the election is going to be free and fair. well i don't even be at it because then you know and we are seeing a lot of pressure on the opposition a lot of pressure on the basis that to be the honest weaver a person of the baseball world this and we have created as if nothing is down to free those of positionally this story short on these environments this election will need fear because you have to fear and really be split

a lesson you need to back to the vision are you need to book affords me that you need or still be able to do. to be part of these process it is like there are not any just a list of really is uganda a true democracy where i mean what we ask you essentially i mean it's really what in us because we are seeing it in the country on the thing that we saw in terms of. this election what is happening currently is our games are democratic to do the kinds of needs that's sort of got to inform the conduct of that election and we have to be up and down with all of these reversing going on the democracy again that it was democracy is really it is really in there in that in that regard what recourse do the people off uganda have to to challenge a state that continues to suppress opposition. well i think for one that

people are seeing garage from the information that we have. time to decide about a national nightmare but also at the international level and according to you know make it nice in there but then there is also that these go we do ask them to be brown not able to really. dark is used i do not live and he's important for the international community to really be out there to not what is going on and i can't eat that this election is also did if nothing is done really to ensure that this election going to go on that it will be the by the supervision of all position members right that is a warning effectively from the u.n. they miss a payment via a un special rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and association thank you. thank you very much thank you very much. since new year's day we have recorded nearly

a 190000 new coronavirus infection. the country has recorded more than 4600. 19 deaths so far this year. that is president settled on the poles said they with grim new numbers about the spread of coronavirus in south africa he also announced that the closure of 20 border points for entry and departure to neighboring countries he'll so say the existing restrictions due to expire on friday will be maintained including limits at public gatherings such as funerals which he said had become a death trap for many south africans and he has extended extended excuse me a bad on alcohol sales kept balls closed with a nighttime curfew in place. and the country's new covered $900.00 variant has prompted some countries to ban visits to and from

south africa making the situation even worse for the hospitality sector that depends on tourism now a visit to tourist hot spots in johannesburg shows a sorry sight of struggling restaurants and street findus. mobile lincoln's inn at tiny place in downtown hans blake is one of the. spots so over the years it is in vast development but it maintain it has reversed those gains empty chairs and just waiters and waitresses and the absence of foreign produce is now the new normal 29 year old. is a pro or not at his shop at morning. african. a big way and many other defects. so it's a safe she has lost 75 percent of your foreign tourist customize the men didn't travel stiction just affecting us a lot because now we have she used the money that you have saved them and that you

did not plan to use on the business here except for other things now you have to use it to pay the employees cheech should pay your bills and everything because at the moment it's like from hand to mouth each of which is not enough picking nits and american ness now living in tanzania is one of the rare foreign parties decided to travel to south africa recently to seems worth at this point uncovered because everyone's been stuck inside and you just want to get out and see the world a little bit like we used to and find that kind of joy from exploration so it's hard but i think it's worth it on the other side of town in some way to another tourist attraction along the street resembles a costa town of many businesses like that of. buckling due to the absence of. general believes you better say nothing not even one nothing. it's not easy

target haha but what can you do the tourism business council of south africa say's 19 left again type industry on its knees but the people were not allowed to come into the country and the fact that a lot of south africans were not allowed to travel within the country many of our hotels were closed attractions were close parks were close and so forth and with a number of countries now banning flights to and from south africa as a result of the recently detected new variant of 1000 it could be a long before international flights with more tourists stop and i've been going. on . and that's it for the program today be sure to check out our other stories on deja dot com forward slash africa we're also on facebook and twitter today we'll leave you with an. look at south africa's head and i think i see the full eco device took its toll let's hope that that vibrancy will soon be back to see an extract of.

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a new documentary german. followed retraces a historic journey once to buy his i don't the italian director. welcome to arts and culture well if there's one thing we can say about the year 2021 it's that it's a great year for watching movies and because of production times there's a lot of new releases happening this year all made before the pandemic of course that are positively brimming with talent so let's have a look at some of the biggest names to watch for. this hope i also have an actress vanessa kirby goes from t.v. star to oscar favorite with her performance in pieces of a woman she plays a mother who loses her newborn child a tragedy that tears her family apart. it's about you have to

face the years the biggest thing is i am facing kids. yes well i don't think you are we need we need some justice you know you need that is what you want that is what you need that is that is your way that is not my way because we are fighting. fellow brit kingsley ben a mere shines a smell comics in one night in miami playing the civil rights leader as they contemplate an intellectual good question what's on the agenda. this would be one of which is for us to reflect on what's happened that night whether there's no denying that greater forces were work. you know. no one else is coming the rest assured my brother and i'm missing anything. irish newcomer claire dunn makes her mark with herself as a mother trying to escape an abusive partner which done also wrote the screenplay.

i want to give you the last leg get the money to build your house. the smarts he can i can you can pay me back oprah's many years is as we decide. what do you say. it's not a yes. i don't see why it's also that. i would say that after. problem. american sidney flanagan was working as a janitor before being cast in never rarely sometimes always has

a girl who travels from pennsylvania to new york to get an abortion. judging by her quietly stunning performance she's definitely a talent to watch in 2021. a selection made there by our film guru scott ross through who's joining me once again to talk about the talents to watch in 2021 welcome scott some amazingly powerful performances there and i want to start with an s a kirby because i know she's a favorite of yours and i'm also seeing pieces of a woman and she's she simply blew me away and it's amazing is that i mean it's interesting so i really think kirby is going to be the breakout star of 2021 i mean this role is just gut wrenching i think she's in a front runner for the oscar this year for this role and what i think is interesting is that this really is a huge leap from from the previous work that she's had i mean i know you're a fan of the netflix series the crown there and she said that you know smaller role as princess margaret but kind of as a role that placed her strengths you know you saw herself an upper class brit with

sharp sharp wit and that's kind of like the character margaret in the series and i've seen as well in sort of small roles she was in some action films so she had a small role in mission impossible and she's been in one of the fast the furious movies but this a role in pieces of a woman this is her 1st leading role in a film and it's really sort of a meaty role and i had a chance to interview were in venice when the film premiered and that these are the kind of role she wants in the future playing sort of complicated dark. complicated female characters i can't wait to see which is going to the future absolutely and you say of course that she could be up for an oscar other are there any other. contenders in this in this cohort of the 4 fields i think if i pick i think all 4 performances are oscar worthy but if i had to just check which is one maybe kingsley. playing. which is a phenomenal performance and it's also another sort of jump for him because he's

almost in a weird way become typecast for this role playing this sort of a cute boyfriend in the us a t.v. series. for example is the x. of the stars kravitz in high fidelity which is a series about who is often the sort of cute brit with malcolm x. so it's a revelation to see in this play this i don't think anybody could play malcolm x. after denzel i don't want to you know who can transform that role but he's phenomenal i think we will see a lot more of complete benami ok so just quickly these performances are all from independent films how to how to what extent has corona made streaming difficult to identify new talent given that all the festivals have been yeah it's become very difficult i mean i think it's key here these 4 films they did premier in festivals tour and sundance before the us and 2 were in venice which was held in between the lock downs in the us i think that's very important or was it took off last but luckily. these films are online. piece of woman's on netflix herself and one night

miami on amazon and there are really sometimes always is available but you know i mean it's not can't see them plus go out go online and order these things to look forward to and a reason to stay optimistic thanks for that cinematic outlook at least for trying to 21 thanks scott roxboro. and speaking of off to ms i'm there were tears in germany on monday out the news that signing rafa would step down as conductor of the london symphony orchestra and take up the baton in munich on the bavarian radio symphony orchestra there has been without a chief conductor fins the death of modest young in 29003 simon will take over in 2023 with guest performances already planned for this spring. simon rattle already has a close relationship with the bavarian radio symphony orchestra having worked with them on a number of occasions over the last 10 years he said he felt at home in the orchestra i would like now just tributes so all these extraordinary musicians before

i have created this is. such an artistic. mention shite. fractal 1st saw the orchestra $970.00 when they performed in his hometown of liverpool under the baton of conductor who believe russia was 15 at the time and already dreaming of becoming a conductor. i saw for the 1st time. what this total commitment between an orchestra and a conductor as one animal could be. 40 years later and trying to turn he too would conduct the orchestra. it was clear from the outset that there was a very deep musical relationship and a deep musical understanding between us did. it. matter was previously principal conductor at the pearl in fillmore nick he will step down from his

current job as music director of the london symphony orchestra in 2023. italian. was best known internationally as a film director but he was also a major talent as an actor journalist's novelist and poet politically outspoken he remains controversial because of his willingness to address social and sexual taboos and now a formative journey that he made in 1059 has inspired our german director people. my heart pounds with joy all alone just me and my militant oh and all the south ahead of me. in 159 writer night of filmmaker pierre paolo pasa leni traveled across italy from north to south and back he wrote a travelogue documenting the structural changes the country was going through as it entered the age of morton mass tourism 60 years on just before the pandemic hit

german documentary filmmaker pepper don't quote repeated the journey taking his camera with him. there was this bypass leaning in the shop window along the serbia or the long road of sand as i'm such a big hassle and a fan and he was such a big influence on my life and on my cinematic work i bought it got this car that he drove at the time of viet merely cento and retrace that journey. in these eyes and not. the legend of passably any poet filmmaker anti fascist homosexual is death remains unexplained to this day he radically exposed the double standards of the boy's waze some hated him for it others loved him but in fishing ports fishermen would come out and say what are you doing i'd say i'm making a film about pass a loony think kids would run out asking questions everyone knew him i like company . this is facile any talking to us this is me this is no pets oh we were at

this dump looking for things to sell you and yours and pull it out of your singles . and counters in the crisis torn italy of today with pasolini thoughts in his back pocket the tax from 1959 describes a country on the move and the loss of cultural identity it's only as an object of yearning back in 959 passing the need already understood the high social cost that came with the new material wealth and saw that cultural diversity was a. prerequisite for an open society. slanted eyes ation to conformity with fascism failed to impose is now imposed through today's power structures the power of consumer society. while the selling of design drives some to head south the 1st migrants and families from the south to head north the meaning

of that in the 1st to emigrate south and italians because there was no work in the region today i run a bar that caters to transients migrants and migrant women all. over the southern italians went north and the northern italians call them italian the african army that is the african italians now the real africans are coming 60 years on. the further south and call travels of pasolini in this wonderfully poetic and intelligent road movie the more the images intertwine the landscapes which themselves seem african conjure up images of dead migrants on europe's does but you know it's an awful leni saw his hope for the transformation of society in africa in that sense i'm extremely saddened by these many deaths by the way rescue missions are prevented. like pasolini don't quite heads back home with a lot of questions raised by his love for

a country that with its beauty and contradictions is representative of the broader european crisis the question that confronts us does the journey go from here for all of us. looking back to look forward there well more on our web site and until next time all the best from us here in berlin states.

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want to know their story in full migrants terrified and reliable information for margaret's. state of the news life from the donald trump says he is not to blame for last week's riot in washington d.c. u.s. president defends the speech he gave but many say incited the violence in the capital faces democrats renewed their push to remove him from office the immediately the face being in pinch for a 2nd time also on the program. many of germany's doctors and nurses are skeptical

about getting vaccinated against coronavirus despite 1st time knowledge of coverage 9 teams potentially fatal consequences health care workers in baghdad tell us why. the time for gale welcome to the program. donald trump ahs dismissed moves by house democrats to impeach him outgoing president of the united states says the drive to remove him from office before next week's inauguration his successor is causing tremendous anger was to trump is on his way to texas to review progress on the border with mexico and was speaking to reporters for the 1st time since a mob of his supporters invaded the capitol building last week lawmakers will reconvene lasing women are expected to call in the vice president to declare mr

trump unfit for office despite this the president says he is committed to an orderly transition of power. we want no violence never violence one absolutely no violence on the impeachment is really a continuation of the greatest which is your politics it's ridiculous it's absolutely ridiculous this impeachment is causing tremendous anger and you're doing it and it's really a terrible thing that they're doing. for. people just to continue this i think it's causing tremendous danger to our country and it's causing tremendous anger i want thank you very much. straight to washington i rejoined the dove there's a bureau chief in this poll in this this does not sound like a president accepting any responsibility for last week's events.

no absolutely not off the days of silence he finally made his public statements in person before departing the plane to allen more taxes and he told the white house press corps what we just heard that you once know widens when referring to the days leading up to inauguration but on the other side he also said. it's possible 2nd impeachment would be which fund which would be possibly cost may have island so it's the opposite of kind of really trying to come this country down he also had debate tech in his sights. yeah well you know instead of really taking responsibility for the actions we keep blamed big tag for the anger is of his supporters indeed saying

that. a cow and his accounts being suspended were the reason why we might see more violence in this country. so. his comments likely to further insight action from his followers. well we don't know you know i mean now he kind of was calling for calm but we also know that he is changing his mind and mood very fall so we shall see what he says once he has landed in alamo we definitely will follow these developments as develop very closely i mean it's really hard to say what what what is in his mind he has been really caught off and what we learn is that he is really really anger because his twitter account was shut down so everything is possible with all possible over the next hours in this poll in washington thank you. meanwhile

germany's biggest lender deutsche bank says it will no longer do business with donald trump or his company's that's according to a report in the new york times bank is the biggest lender to the trump organization which is currently being overseen by the president's sons the move comes in the wake of the trump supporters assault on the capital a spokesman for the back to climb to comment on the report. is look at some of the other stories making news around the world flooding has left more than $10000.00 homes in southern serbia without power days of heavy rain and snow in the balkans have caused rivers to burst their banks inundated houses and fields and disrupting transpose. ganders opposition front runner bobby wian has warned of possible vote rigging in this week's presidential election the singer turned politician is the main challenger to a long time leader ignoring us of any seeking a 6th term authorities have ordered internet providers to shut down social media

ahead of thursday's. india's supreme court has suspended the implementation of new agricultural laws that have led to widespread protests from farmers the court will form a committee to hear their grievances thousands of farmers have been camped on the outskirts of delhi for weeks they say the last benefit large private buyers at their expense. i drug maker astra zeneca has applied for authorization for its coronavirus vaccine to be used in the european union if approved the drug developed with oxford university it would become the 3rd of a double for the e.u. after those from pfizer but on tax and mcdonough the european medicine sages he says it is accelerating its approvals process procedure and the decision could be ready by the end of the month. now the premier of the german state of bavaria has raised the possibility of mandatory vaccinations for staff in nursing homes the

call comes as many medical professionals in the country are openly questioning whether to get inoculated despite their collective proximity to danger if you don't do reporter tessa vow to visit the hospital in burnet to find out why. putting on his protective gear before entering the room of a covert patient of routine for intensive care nurse sebastian schmidt he has been working with corona patients for months now and knows how important it is to protect himself when coming into contact but an even better protection would be the current jab. you see. every day i see people dying from corona i see how patients are suffering how seriously though they become because of this virus that's why i would definitely like to be vaccinated against it this is a real horse. in for nasa and i also find that i have a duty of care towards the public mcgrane of who wrote it.

but not all doctors and nurses in germany share this opinion. is not against vaccination in general but when it comes to the corona she says she would rather wait and see. is condemn us f. i'm still very cautious when it comes to the vaccine i'm still of the defrayed of it because it hasn't been around for a very long time so i can say right now i'm 100 percent convinced of it. skepticism about the jab is apparently not rare in december a survey of the german society for intensive care medicine t.v. show that one in 4 doctors and one in 2 nurses do not want to get vaccinated against the corona virus but according to devi that might have changed now that the vaccination process started health minister ban has appealed to nurses and doctors

once again. that's why i can only keep calling for health care workers to get vaccinated not only out of a sense of responsibility for themselves but also for there was a careful way to treat him from dust and. more information about the corona backs a nation is therefore planned to be provided and more information is also what nurse vivian common would like to see with that she says she would probably be totally convinced. let's get more from the dublin political correspondent simon you're welcome simon what else can you tell us about this reluctance amongst medical staff. well phil as you heard there the main reason that people give when they're asked why they might be nervous and cautious about new vaccines is that any potential side effects long term effects of these vaccines are not yet known everybody knows these substances have been developed and approved in record time

and the new and more in a vaccines like the 2 substances that is so far been approved in the e.u. the bio on tech and we've done a vaccines they work in a slightly different way from commonly known vaccines so that might have put a few people off some people say they're worried about some effect on their genes even so i think people are looking at there's another point is that it's not yet been shown that taking these vaccines actually prevents trans mission of the of the coville virus and so the argument that you know medical workers should get vaccinated in order to protect patients that might not be as strong an argument as people would like less of a quick look at a suggestion from one of germany's most high profile politicians this is but variant state premier marcus soda who wants to make the vaccinations mandatory for

medical staff he said it would be useful for the german council to suggest whether compulsory vaccination would be complicity and for which groups simon young what sort of reaction has that had. the broadly pretty negative reaction i mean both the chance langley medical and the health ministry and spawn have said before now that there will be no mandatory vaccination program during the corona pandemic but a lot of politicians on marcus his own conservative side have said well it's probably better to rely on recommend day sions rather than rules and others from parties sort of opposed to marcus to c.s.u. they say well you know the 1st problem is not requiring people to get vaccinated it's having enough vaccine because the conservative run health ministry has so far been slow to get the vaccines distributed around the country there's been

a little bit of support the president of the world medical association which is a body representing doctors said it was sensible to have medical personnel vaccinated if they're treating vulnerable people but others have suggested that in fact this kind of discussion about peripheral ideas compulsory vaccination in fact is likely to undermine confidence in vaccines think about simon atlee political correspondent simon young. some of the other developments in this pandemic now the german tabloid newspaper billed says chancellor merkel has told her party to expect another 8 to 10 weeks of tough coronavirus restrictions germany has received its 1st supplies of the medina vaccine $2000000.00 doses should be available by the end of march world health organization is warning that herd immunity will not be achieved globally by the end of the year even if axion make is

increased production and the israeli government is to ensure that holocaust survivors around the world are given the vaccine within israel health workers can immunize survivors in their homes. indonesian navy divers have recovered the flight data recorder from the wreckage of the airliner that crashed on saturday it was found on the seabed north of jakarta divers are still searching for the cockpit voice recorder officials hope information recovered from the devices will help to to to determine what course a boeing 737 to come down 4 minutes after taking off from jakarta with 62 people on board there was no emergency call no reports of technical problems. and spoke up in speaking with air accident investigator julian bray and i asked him about what investigators can learn from the boat from the flight recorders the one they have at the moment is the flight data recorder this is an endless loop

if you like and what you will recall that every trickle signal that the plane is generated with the pilot which is about that will be recorded i think causes a lot of movement that will be recorded as well so the idea is this is on a timeline so they cannot cheat piece together when they get this box this black box back to the lab they can find out exactly what happened before it went down now that is half the story the other half of the story is the is the their voice recorder. married that out with the data and then you have a complete what was happening i was saying and what the atmosphere was like on board the aircraft. julian bray there's growing opposition to ballerinas co-hosting this year's ice hockey world championship following president of the shank as brutal the crackdown against opposition protests the president had

a big hug ready for international ice hockey federation the chief ready for in minsk on monday a promising a safe and secure tournament mr for south said he hoped the championship would be a unifier rather than divide but co-hosts via some european politicians saved by the rules should not be rewarded with the tours. as it you up to date private golf will have more world news at the top of the hour right focus and as your business updates in just about how to get to. germany to learn german i looked in the. why not learn with him d w z e learning course plecos vic. why did this person. there are.

laws that can be to. make up your mind. what is the relationship between social media and the debate are raging on twitter shut down and $70000.00. can steer. nearest this after last week's riots at the u.s. capitol. meanwhile in contrast passions flare and had a few ganders general election the government bonds all social media and messaging

ups. and there is always a catch scotland's fisherman and women are struggling to force their part because of the excess related complications. for joining me last week's riots in washington has once again raised questions about the role of social media in society after banning u.s. president donald trump from its platform twitter has now suspended a further 70000 accounts sharing content from q and on conspiracy theorists here's to the reporter matthew more on how we got to this point. it was the culmination of years of grievance conspiracy and encouragement brought to bear in the hallways of the u.s. capitol. mantid on social networks like twitter. and facebook know big tech is striking back after kicking the u.s.

president offline for inciting violence twitter called thousands of accounts spreading the far right conspiracy theory. causing twitter share price to plunge. the markets a little bit worried song legislative backlash especially near term and of troubles not impeached in the meantime has a republican leader not the senate until it changes beyond the stock market reckoning social networks are now at the center of a global debate about how much power they have and how the wield it is the how he even the german chancellor waded in with their spokesman telling journalists he must pick the chancellor seize the suspension of the u.s. president's a contest problematic. there are concerns that private companies may set a dangerous precedent elsewhere facebook has been busy amid uganda's upcoming

election the social network deleted a slew of government accounts which it said were attempting to boost the president's popularity with big posts. and in a sign of just how volatile the relationship between social media companies and governments has become uganda has since banned all photo media and messaging out ahead of thursday if the us i want to talk about that now with t.w. correspondent. he's in the ugandan capital kampala ideally us bring us up to speed on this what's going on. so this morning many ugandans will come to india black out of social media we have millions of ugandan see is facebook and they rely on it to keep their relationships with the our colleagues with their friends people they work with but most importantly they rely on facebook and other social media platforms to access news mosul during this time when we are drawing near as to the elections very important elections have very many ugandans

now many ugandans woke up this morning they wanted to access facebook to know what is happening and many could not do it but it's also comes with a background uganda has many people who have been using virtual private networks 2 years ago when the government introduced an over the top talks called. famously known as the what's up tuck's many people chose to do they all posed it and they've been using virtual private networks now this v.p.n. helps them go past the government file or at some point the government say that they hadn't done it but we later on so some evidence that they did and we understand it's in retaliation of the social media platforms from blocking some of the government is. hundreds ok here it is that take a step back here tell me a little bit about the role that social media has played in the election campaigning. a very important role i should say

because we are in a situation where there's been a lot of reports of gagging the media by the government and quite a number of opposition political candidates they have chosen to go to social media case in point robot shangri-la new who is the main challenger to presidential where he was 70 he has relied heavily on facebook and you tube is had quite a number of he has had a big team that has been moving around with him broadcasting live he's come pins he's reilly's have been broadcast to across the water using social media platforms people have been putting loads of acquirements on following the kind of it like that but also wants to mention that the government tells us to use social media to sell the the country this shelve presidential where it was 70 so the politicians really use social media more than before this time around ok kate i want you to stay with us for a moment because you've also been looking into the role that the economy is playing

in these upcoming elections let's take a watch of judy if this report now hussein musher faces a tight deadline to deliver these companies in post has why they lectured says on started these business off to the local don't mush ses that business this time it's slower than in previous campaigns thank you 16 it was really good we're really making good money during that time during the elections we're kind of disappointed because right now we're just breaking in. to the times before that's due to the state of uganda as the corner me growth was originally forecast to communist 6 percent. but in $1000.00 pandemic revised downwards to about half that figure now with the political rugs ahead of the general elections economists are predicting a slower recovery especially in the short term for a typical investor in the country. if it does look at that we're going to have they

don't know whether they should invest money in the green because they don't know on what side the price will be by the time they want to sell. if you look at those that are planned for the factories to put up enough to pass these unfortunately the security will be in security so q one accord on one will transfer into one i expect a flock of the recent violence in election campaigns has also affected hopes for the recovery of tourism which reportedly and uganda over $1600000000.00 in 2019 while the development of a corvette $1000.00 vaccine has raised hopes for the resumption of safe global travel your government to operate may have to wait longer for bookings because many tourists don't want to visit during politically sensitive times and so one day when the internet didn't get to all these images and all these you know killings and why

they need makes them think that ok maybe that's a place i'm going to visit tonight you know to yes to come with me yes so you're off now the priority list of the travelers but i mean the low projections some sectors i've been able to thrive. your grammar school fee exports have been rising in the last quarter of 2020 that's raised hopes that you for sure productivity is sustained and uganda starts to make revenues with its oil and gas the economy will get to from lift my people and then i have some foreign culture coming through and so on that i then have to ask myself what was the want to go up to within the country. or have now. come we have this corner of this room is probably too wide you for when i'm expecting a sudden influx of cash. there's lots of activity in many african countries when the government directs resources to elections it's often at the expense of economy

. and once you governments of voted on the 14th of january business people like must hope for political stability so that the focus can shift to economy crick are very unfortunate we seem to have lost the line with julia fair but we'll try and get him back later let's in the meantime look at some of the other business stories making is google has launched a global fund to fight misinformation about kobe 19 the aim is to support efforts to conduct fact checked and highlight incorrect information about the immunization process the fund is worth up to 3000000 dollars and will support projects that aim to help people disproportionately affected by misinformation. u.s. carmaker ford is closing its 3 factories in brazil after more than a century of operation the pandemic exacerbated already slow sales in south america

the move will affect some $5000.00 workers and cost the company over 4 $1000000000.00. u.s. steel industry and union groups have urged president elect joe biden to retain a 25 percent import tax on chinese steel the tariff was imposed in 2018 of the industry says it is essential to ensure the viability of domestic steel production . bank will no longer do business with donald trump and his companies after last week's storming of the u.s. capital according to the new york times bloomberg the trump organization has been a major client of deutsche bank with 3 $140000000.00 in outstanding loans. the issue of fishing played a huge role and direct the negotiations between britain and the e.u. the last minute deal agreed on christmas eve was supposed to placate fisherman and women on both sides but in the weeks since then it's been anything but plain

sailing in scotland border checks and additional paperwork are already causing frustration. catches in but where is it going for now scottish langoustines scallops or mussels won't be on the plates of upscale diners in paris brussels or madrid. scotland's biggest logistics provider has halted exports to the e.u. until wednesday what used to be a one day delivery has turned into a much more complicated and sometimes uncertain endevor. it appears that every warty every poet every books. instead of 45 minutes to one or 2345 or britain's departure from the e.u. is the biggest change to its trade in decades now reams of people work must be completed to move goods across the new customs border those trading in livestock or perishable goods so use the toughest requirements so fears are growing that the

seafood industry could become viable. fishermen bleeding you know. moment you know bleeding marcus interest more job meeting you know because everybody losing everything and. there is hope that. people work bottlenecks will be resolved going forward if not scottish fishery representatives born to the centuries old market could be destroyed. and finally a bakery in the western german city of documents has been celebrating the arrival of the corona virus vaccine with syringe shaped cakes the owner was concerned that the idea could be to macabre for some customers but this version is one that even on t.v. accessible enjoy and best of all you don't have to wait 3 weeks for a 2nd book last year at the bakery poked fun at the panic buying in supermarkets by selling cakes shaped like toilet paper rolls.

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16. they want to know what makes the dems just get the jump in love on banning going way up. i'm not even allowed to push my own cars and everyone with little holes in every basket are you ready to meet the 2 of them than join me right just do it on you. this is g.w. news africa on the program today the feeling is in uganda hit off those days general election campaign has already been modified so that she is now the main opposition candidate ses today's been full kind of stuff. just names. over to members was shocked by the new treaty and the process the small.