international gateway to the best connection, sophia, road and radio. located in the heart of europe, you are connected to the world experience and standing shopping and dining office and try our services. be our guest at frankfurt, airport city, managed by from board. ah ah . ah, this is b doesn't you lie from berlin a mixture without a mandate? ultra conservative, ever aim right. he takes 2 thirds of the votes and runs presidential elections.

when voter apathy is the real winner. as more than half of iranian stay away from the old folks on the program, poland holds its 1st l. g p. t. prize parade in 2 years is the 1st year fee and officials condemning the countries record on gay rights and euro 2020 in germany. recover from their opening the fees to from support for goals past or to go and send a warning that they're far from a spent force. ah, on pablo. totally as welcome to the program, hard line cleric and swept to victory in iran's presidential election. abraham right, he is a harsh critic of the west and stands accused of human rights abuses. but while he won nearly 2 thirds of the vote turn, i was low. many iranians think is election. it was

a foregone conclusion. they brought everything played out as expected in the morning after the election. president elect, crazy, met without going president, her son ro, honey. right. easy vowed to strengthen public trust in the government. well, i'm a servant of the people and i hope i will fulfill that expectations during my term and office. of course, i would also benefit from the experience the previous government job number raises. victory was widely anticipated, and soon after the vote counting began, it was clear he'd win with a large majority, but voter turnout with low hash and mill, you know, she said his 28600000 of our esteemed citizens participated in the election, which are the cap yeah, that was just under 49 percent of those eligible to vote. some people boycotted the presidential poll. others simply weren't interested to raise. he was successful as

chief justice. i hope you'll be just as successful as president. for now, if you want to the game, it was clear in advance there, right? easy would be elected. anyone could tell you that the 4 other candidates were only there. so the charade could be played out for $200.00 iran supreme leader toller early from the ne praise his proteges, when, but with the support of less than half the electorate. right, easy will have his work cut out for him. well, earlier i spoke to iran expert, i told you about the low turnover, the lowest in decades and asked him if this could cause problems for raise the further down the line. well, i mean, in the eyes of most iranians, this has been the least legitimate elections we have seen over in decades. also in the past, you know, elections in the san republics, we need to fan or free. but this term at this time around there was not even

a choice to be made. hands the largest group or those who actually did buy cars because of a widespread disillusionment of many iranians, the most radi and one should say about the entire lease. so the moderates included by the way. so the moderates are not, you know, are not really progressive forces in iran. we have to remember that. and it could pose a problem down the line because he also seems to have the ambition to succeed pretty to harmony in his position. and it could also be a trap, so to speak of that a, he is widely considered to be a selected president and often elected president that has a huge, popular man that it could become. but it doesn't necessarily has to become a down to mind because after all, we are in the very autocratic system. let's take a look at some of their stories from around the world. americans are marking,

june 13th, the day commemorating the end of slavery in the united states and celebrating black americans in brooklyn, bust of george floyd was unveiled. his murder last year made him the fates of the black lives matter movement. the world health organization has officially declared an end to an outbreak of abolla that emerged in guinea and every guinea respond to it quickly with a vaccination campaign building on its previous experience fighting the virus 12 people died in this year's outbreak. brazil's official death toll from the corona virus pandemic has now top half a 1000000 people. protestors have taken to the streets in opposition to president charles from out of handling of the crisis. tens of thousands have been demonstrating, and major cities, also known as opposed to virus restrictions and failed to ensure a rapid nationwide vaccine ro lives. other brazilians are taking action in their

own way to remember the names of the victims of the pandemic. and they say of the president's policies, maria eugenia estrada and maria benedetto mora slowed this banner on a time of sadness on it. you can see the names of covered 19 victims from rio de janeiro. also, the 2 pensioners want to make people more aware of the corona virus tragedy in the country. and the government's pandemic policy, which they say is abysmal. missiles are going to certify we really want to do something. so we came up with the idea of the names. after all, in the panoramic, there were no real funerals, no traditional morning ceremonies, because everything was different and the victims disappeared. so suddenly, upon the media especially saw me since they began this project, they have a mortal lives 1800 victims. they won't move them, he was a good but as if some of them were friends of mine and i saw the names on myself. it was the only way i could, honest man,

i house the situation in intensive care unit hasn't eased up for months. experts, even a 3rd wave and cannot rule out the possibility that further code is $900.00 mutations will emerge due to a lack of restrictions. angry brazilians are demonstrating more and more often against both scenarios. corona virus policy, they say the president is partly to blame. now we've already did not want to quickly invest in vaccines or in the health system. his actions did not respect the science associate chief because the sewing pension is angry for the same reason. together with fellow campaigners from other parts of brazil, they have soon a total of 14 banners. this is the silent form of protest. what we saw together to transform individual grief into a common struggle is to kill. we want to post healing of diversity in brazil, ross,

we will achieve that and then president out of office of them what they've got to perform on cope. on a beach, they spread the message to tourists, neighbors marking the sad milestone of more than 500000 victims. we cannot remain silent. we must show our fellow human being something needs to change in our country. thank you more diamond right now. nothing suggests the number of casualties in brazil will decline. so they will keep on sewing. well, let's get you up to date now and other developments in the pond demick. i've got to start is racing to increase oxygen supplies as new infection surge across the country. the government is working to install new oxygen supply plans. moscow has 7 daily record of covered $900.00 cases for the 2nd day running. the city's mayor says the surgeon, being driven by the delta vary into regionally identified in india. and tokyo has

canceled plans to hold mass open air screenings of the limbic games of several sites around the city. now instead, be used as the vaccination centers and l g b t. pride parade has taken place in war. so after a pandemic and juice break last year, the event was held on a smaller scale this year. assume corona virus restrictions remain in place in march 20 years since the 1st equality parade in the polish capital. tensions are high in the region after poland and hungary, so a backlash against l. g. p. t. activism tried to prejudice and the pandemic in poland. the country celebration of l g b t writes had been put on hold for 2 years because of the corona virus. but people took to the streets of war. so in a jubilant mood, joining the thousands of demonstrators waiving rainbow flags. their excitement is not necessarily universally shed in poland, a largely catholic and conservative nation. the time demick induced absence came

amid backlash to l. g. b t writes in the country as well as in hungry, where prime minister, victor oberon's nationalist government, allied with pose and governing lauren just as party, has introduced new laws banning the display and promotion of homosexuality among under eighteens. a fear for the future, for gay rights was a dark backdrop to the days cometh and events that go into the situation of l. g. b t. community intelligence has changed for the worse. we are now stigmatized and it can be seen at every step in every aspect of life. we are not allowed to live normally. we have no rights in talent, and yet we are here and we are a large community in poland. but the cities, math spoke out at the gathering with unequivocal support for equality. the simple type,

what i'm calling i am here again to show that we will always stand together and fight those who are weaker. those try to marginalize or attack because he thought back of body. and in all sorts of that, those in the see of solar charity searching through the city center gave that show of strength. the hero 2020 germany recovered from their opening to feed to france as they be portugal for 2 and a thriller in munich. robin goes and was the star of the show for germany. he crime the center performance with the 4th go for you will have taken an early lead through christiana, rinaldo, but they couldn't stop the pace and power of the german attack. well, joining me to talk about the germany game is oliver moody from d. w. sports. hi oliver. welcome to the show. water relief for germany. fines. right? absolutely. i mean a little while into this game probably,

you'd have been forgiven if you're a germany fine for feeling like things were looking pretty bleak. one nail down to the good seem like portugal, staring down the barrel of a 2nd defeat into games at the tone, but they turned around they played with real intensity in this game from the start germany did. and i think they got the result in the end that their performance really deserves. and we could think as well, this has been a long time coming to germany for the last time they had a real convincing. when a major tournament, the 2018 woke up was obviously a shambles. so you could go back to about 20165 years since jeremy had a real big when to celebrate out of major tournament. well, now they certainly can, and now it feels like anything is possible in this group again. well, you've touched on some of the things which have led to this results. we'll say give us a little bit more. it was obviously more than that that gave them this result, right? well, of course, and anytime you have a result like this, you know, there are going to be a few big performances among the same. but the guy that we have to talk about,

we see here, robin goes and this is a guy who a few years ago was not figuring as old for germany. he only made his day d for the national fame and back last year. he was just not someone that people talked about really as being a potential play for the national team. now he looks like one of the most important players in your lives set up from the beginning. portugal just could not cope with his runs forward from left. when that he had a goal disallowed early on that would have been a brilliant go, had been allowed to stand after that. he was involved in germany's next 3 goals and then he scored the all important forth as well. so this is somebody who say, you know, was not somebody that people thought about, but now he's the key figure and someone, the gemini will certainly be looking to in the upcoming games as well. maybe a new hero there, the same. what's the state of plane? i grew bethaly was looking a little better now for germany than it was before kick off. i tell you. so germany a one point behind france, group f and level on point with portugal at but germany in the last game play on

paper. the weakest team in the group, hungary and they play that game as a whole, him as well hungry. the other games have been in front of the pat stadium in budapest. now germany have them on home turf. so that's the game where you would expect germany to get something. portugal on the other hand, has to play against france. the well, the champions are going to be a very tricky game for them. but the way that qualification from the group stage works out, the euro's a point for either germany or portugal in their games will probably be enough to get straight to the next round. give us a quick prediction. they're going. yeah, i think both will make it through. i think germany will be hungry. i think we'll see germany, france and portugal all make it out of the group of death. alright, you heard it here, oliver moody from dw sports. we'll leave it there. thanks for that. all that analysis well inside of a late game, spain we're looking for their 1st win of the tournament, but they could only draw against poland in their group a match. a 2nd half goal for byron units. robert levin dusky drew poland level.

after i had put spain one nail up in the 1st half and out of the morning, i missed a penalty for spain, who said a disappointing 3rd in their group behind sweden. slovakia informed one red bulls max. first stop and has taken pole position for the french grand prix. it's a 2nd pole of the season for it. the dutchman, who is looking to stand his championship lead over mercedes louis hamilton. the british world champion was a fraction of a 2nd slower than for staff and adults and teammate alteri will star 3rd on the grade on sunday. well that's all we have time for now of next the shift for me and the rest of the team here in berlin, take care. see very soon the

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he's a dead daughter again, using virtual reality. more on that later. the digital mortality our topic today on 7 the in the science fiction series upload instead of dying, people are uploaded to a resort, and they lead the internal virtual live alongside of a digital. and then it's not for me. in fact, as of the nose and academics who believe they can give people its own life, for instance, the russian invest. dimitri, it's cost is 2045 initiative and to be available, a hologram body and an artificial brain. by the year 2045, it could have individual personalities uploaded onto it. not a technology, and bank computer interfaces will supposedly make this possible. our model bodies will be replaced by technology will stay the life would be the part of

a person that can speak, act, and think. you think that could be possible in a few decades. the german author hands block and his co author movers, either we have been meeting people around the world, we're working on digital mortality. the book is called the digital sold. you need to digital sol as the idea that because we leave behind so much online data every day. it's possible to create a digital so of internet users. on the algorithms that artificial intelligence can analyze online behavior to create something akin to a personality profile, which can continue to exist after we die when he was present. this is what's many companies emerging around the world, claiming on for the future. it's reminiscent of religion money but instead of monotheistic places for sure, if you've got this all we know have companies from silicon valley, silicon valley ones and zeros instead of jesus and walls. extracting our personalities out of big data seems to be pretty simple. the study by stanford

university and the university of cambridge shows that with just 10 likes an algorithm can understand our personalities better than our colleagues. the 300 likes a computer program can understand our personalities better and our partners. so can programs credibly represent us after death? few companies are convinced they're working on chat bots, that enabled virtual interaction between the dead and those left behind the u. s. company also for example, office speaking of a task. nice are based on interviews in which people talk about their lives. i create a chat, thought that your family can access through an app or a voice assistant. we simply ask a question relating to the life of the deceased and the bought will answer in their voice. are you facing any big challenges in your life right now? yeah, sometimes you just need a little perspective. the idea came to found a james louse when his father was dying from cancer blouse,

began by recording his father and then programming a lot from the data that bought a typical story. tons block says philadelphia. dionte binaries have in fact been effected personally, coughing the nasty, and mentioned they've lost someone close to the skin from the, from this pain and dealing with such a huge loss. these entrepreneurs developed a digital coping strategy. done it on south utah out and via created bots. of the deceased loved one for storm then mention stay there, exploring the idea that there might be another way to deal with grief and loss in the digital age and grieving and digital times. very emotional videos on youtube has received more than 27000000 views and has given rise to controversial discussion with the help of the eyeglasses south korean jung d. so nice to see his daughter now yawn in a park. she says she wanted to say good bye in a nice atmosphere because her memories had been dominated by the suffering of

a daughter in hospital. so anytime oh, oh oh, it's streaming moving. but for me it's also somewhat disturbing. the idea was carried out by the south korean tech company via studios technicians, synthesize the voice of the 70 year old, using private videos and recordings of face and body reconstructs, and virtually, and animated by a computer using data of typical human movements. how did the mother feel about it? after the union i'm the mother said that it had done her good that to see her daughter again. you know, i'm saying for, well, again, in a virtual version of a heart that should be into real life with her daughter since peace. i know we're fresh off, but this may be detrimental to a very delicate grieving process in the constant reminders can we start the grievance from knowing i was can lose. it's actually an experiment experiment often

and right now we don't know how it might affect us to have these repeated encounters with digital entity look so similar to real people who might be the beginning of them. what do you think of these virtual resurrections? would you do something like this to see a loved one? again? i would love to see your comments and emails about this. whole grams has also become amazingly realistic, albeit less immersive than be, are. come us. if can condition a hologram of a dead father? robert as a present. he's doing what you're doing. kimberly. you are beautiful. so and that musicians standing as holograms on the stage, a pretty common side these days. oh come said by the author of maria carlos, who has been dead for more than 40 years, actually seem real when you really feel like she's there. and i don't even know how it's possible that it's a pretty striking effect. mr. gonzalez has always moved me. this time she didn't

buy, and i think that's a real chain much art nonsense. he's supposed to like it. it's mesmerizing terrifying because she wouldn't maria carlos have approved of going on to after her death these days some celebrities even specified during their lives. what is and is not allowed to happen to that pictures and videos, some even striving to become digitally a model like canadian actor william shatner, best known as captain kirk on star trek. tell me about the meaning of life. it was probably the longest interview that william shatner had ever given in a total of 45 hours based over 5 days. he answered questions about his life, his attitude on the basis for his immortal plumber, which future generations will be able to engage with. people will be able to ask william shatner's hologram the question. and the artificial intelligence by the he

was firm story file will provide the appropriate answer. about 650 answers you gave to questions. they go into a database and then they're transcribed. and then the artificial intelligence looked at transcription and create a set of, of questions that you could ask to get to that answer. so call natural language processing. and the natural language process. story file enables you then to ask a question of williams video. and it will then go through a database and find the most appropriate answer to the question you asked william shatner to become an interactive how the gram he had to be filmed from every angle in his volumetric studio chapter says that he also disclosed information that he's never shared publicly before. wednesday a telegram is ready. it will be available not just to his family, every one. so this is a legacy. this is like what you would leave your children,

what you would leave on your gravestone, where you would, you know, and then the, the possibilities are endless. even video games are in place for digital grief. the people who play games with the advertiser then that siblings 2 feet closer to them and the football computer game fee for $21.00 features a player who is no longer with us. can prince. the dream would only come true to death. chi and prince clean for the london team. queens park rangers, carson and 6 at h 15. the talented british for claire was to be trying to stop the dispute back then he was playing for kewpie. yours youth team now is avatar features and fee for $21.00. painful plays father fee for $21.00 in credible the effort of everybody involved in this project to bring it to life, to make this a reality. and the reason,

the power behind the stall who the player will become, my son was as a young man. what he would have turned out to become a 30 year old technology was used to live in prince into novels, photos of him as a teenager, and of his father's a young man. we used to create a game version for coaches and teammates to develop studying finality prince can celebrate the success of virtually that we rob from him in real life and memorial in the game. fever. pretty cool. i would definitely pay a virtual visit to queens park rangers. the typical place for many of us to grieve is still the cemetery, but it is becoming more normal to grief digitally and it doesn't have to be one or the other. you can now get the gravestones with q r, codes, german, stonemason,

and he has always been, comes, has found a way to tell stories about the dead gravestones with q r codes. yes, not a lot of nuclear tight. i'd rather have the opportunity to create their own commemoration of the c start at the grades of students who can help me scanning. the key work code takes you to a website that the relatives can design themselves a visit to a great can immerse you in an individual world. for example, think of all kids. in 2011 the 20 year old, drowned during the surfing holiday. for younique's father that you were cold is a contemporary way of dealing with his untimely death in the middle. so i think it would have been annoyed if we just planted countries over him. i think you'll be proud of owns as a grade. you can go straight to the online memorial sites for younique's, kitten,

and be reminded of the times he had, for example, with this song by a friend, young self lane in him. and i've been this will that i just believe in an afterlife is fading in the western world. but at the same time, many people don't want to accept that death is the end. this leaves a gap that big tech might soon be able to fill. but we really want to keep our memories of loved ones alive with technology. i have very mixed feelings. they use up the most talented by the company. my heritage, for example, transforms upload photos of the disease into videos. this uses deep learning to combine photographs for the movement of other people. but personally, i really don't want my descendants to remember me this way. what do you think would you like to be in the digital cloud after you die? and would you like to use these services to keep in contact with that right to us

and tell us so you next time. go by the the enter the conflicts with sarah kelly and i citizens cope with unemployment and inflation. president hardy is getting attention for the lock in twitter, around for an apparent violent crack on protesters who call for police violence. my guess this week from berlin is material ambassador usa, gar. how does he explain the track record of this conflict with non negative on d? w. green cities.

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victims you want to highlight the negative stuff. even when there is no evidence the government ban twitter, can you explain that most nigeria as a democratic system and government nigeria has been making headlines for all the wrong reasons. lately, kidnappings and violence are on the rise in large areas of the country. i made talk of, i willing security crisis and i citizens cope with unemployment and inflation president to hardy is getting attention for blocking twitter and for an apparent violent crack on protesters to call for an end to police violence. my guess this week from berlin is nigerian ambassador usa garcia. how does he explained the track record of this government as he tries to attract his family, needed investment to africa, the largest economy, the ambassador too, are welcome to conflicts down. thank you for having me. nigeria is said to be facing

a spiraling security crisis, terrorism kidnappings, inter communal violence dramatically on the rise and recent month has president to hurry, lost control. certainly not. he has not lost and drove. he has done a lot in terms of security. when he came into office in 2016 book, her on the north east was holding about 18 local government areas today. it doesn't hold a single local government area. however, it does not mean that the violence being unleashed why a vocal around, for instance, has ended. so it hasn't continued to move and strike and, and run away. it's a very difficult terrain. so it's not surprising that it has stretched out, as indeed such conflicts stretched out in other countries. but mr. investor, when, when you look at the sheer numbers though, the situation does not appear to be improving. in fact,

in the 1st 3 months of this past year, it's been reported more than $2800.00 violent killings around the country in the media. and there's also, of course, the repeated kidnappings of school children. i mean, this is what really has been making international headlines in may for example, more than 130 school kids. miss young as 7 years old, were kidnapped in broad daylight in niger state. what do you tell those parents? this is of course, most unfortunate. it's tragic. it's not what we're hoping for. government is doing. it's best to bring this to an end. it's not been easy because of law decades of may lives in nigeria. this administration is looking to correct and the negative media report sometimes also few these acts of violence, the kidnapping, the terrorism. so it's the media's fault. it's the media's fault that there's an

estimated $700.00 students kidnapped for ransom since december in your country. that's not what i'm saying. certainly not. it's not the media's fault, but it has for the few of some of the violence as we've seen of recent. you have to bear in mind that nigeria is the most populous country in africa. it's a nation of 200000000 people, so certainly there would be absolute violence. there would be all sorts of issues, particularly since we have endured years of, of, of under development, which this administration is looking to reverse. you mentioned that the government is taking action. i want to look at some of that action because the senate is considering making it illegal to pay ransom to kidnappers. is that the government's plan to punish the victims the parents in the face of the government's own

inability to provide security for their children. what is the niger a practice is a democratic system of government, you have the principle of separation of power. you have an executive legislative, an independent judiciary, a bi camera legislature. so its not every single action that is, that should be attributed to either the president or the executive view. it has several moving parts. it has several clog in the democratic wheel. but mister ambassador, do you think that this is a useful law? does the president think that this is a useful law? do you think the parents, who fear for the life of the child could really be prevented from paying ransom by law, from governments that is not capable of protecting the children in the 1st place? is this useful? we practice a deliberative democracy where there's discourse and within that

framework of discourse, we eventually come up with a position. this is how democracy works and this is what is happening in nigeria, which is the most populous country in africa. it's a country of 200000000 people, so you cannot just take decisions by fayette so you're not, you're not taking position on that. that's what i'm hearing from you. let's look at the overall cuz i'm allowing the process to i'm allowing the process to, to take its course. okay. let's look at the overall situation. a lot of these kidnappings and violence, they're happening in the north. of course, the military there. let's look at their strategy, their regrouping troops into super camps or, or garrison towns where they wait to repel the attacks rather than go on the offensive against the militants militants, for example, like, like boca whole rom in their hide out. can you explain that what bob, some of the techniques on the strategies employed in

a symmetric warfare which takes place in different parts of the world. niger is not unique when it comes to that you have to bear in mind that your often taking on an invisible enemy that's continuously on the move. i'm sure. where in germany here, i'm sure the, by the winehoff was taken on, you know, using similar strategies or the i a, or, you know, several other insurgents routes and inter is groups that governments have had to take on the bus. so why should i be unique? yeah, but the point mr. ambassador is that we are looking at the situation specifically in nigeria and in nigeria. do you admit that it has left a significant portion of the population quite exposed to this particular strategy? i mean, you have the u. n, for example, saying that it's making it difficult to get internally displaced, people aid. you have leading security organization saying that these vocal harass

factions that these affiliated, you know, and similar groups are taking advantage of the space can created by the super cap military strategy. and they're moving around more freely. they're building support, they're building their networks. you have to bear in mind that this is a conflict that is taking place in a very difficult terrain. as i said earlier, within a very complex cross border area where 4 african countries meet, where there are hundreds of islands due to the receding late chad. so you know, it's not that straightforward. you can also, if you want focus on the reset the, the, the return of, of individuals that have been living in, internally displaced comes to, to towns and villages. that is all equally happening. so it's, you know, while, while some might be moving to internally displaced camps,

others are moving back home. so it's a very complex thing and it's very dynamic and it's for ever changing the state of your military capacity is also in question. the senate has confirmed that massive recruitment procurement of equipment is needed for the security forces. resources are said to be stretched thin. so why has the government failed to even secure the best equipment for the military? i mean that the pledges from to hardy to crush these armed groups, aren't they just empty words? if you don't have the resources, we haven't been able to, as much as we want, because many of the manufacturing countries would not sell it to us. you know, we've had to contend with certain acts such as the lazy act and, and several others in countries and the negative propaganda sometimes that is unfairly used to label the niger in military as committing abuses and what have you and that is highlighted instead of the positive acts

that should be associated with them. so again, it's the fault of others so. so just tell me then, because i'd like to move on to another. you know what i'm saying? and i know what i'm saying. well, let me, mr. are you saying it's very 1st we be on security? perhaps you can clarify for us, you know, what the priority is in the country. the priority is to address most of these issues holistically and to tackle the root cause instead of the symptoms. this is what the niger and government is trying to do. so some of the root causes of violence of insecurity happen to be poverty, a lack of effective governors at the local government level. and this is what the nigerian government is trying to tackle. we have a social investment program, you could talk about it, it's a, it's a noble cause you could focus on something like that. certainly have to make the

choice whether to buy, to spend more on on weapons or whether to spend on solving the issue of problems. and we're going to learn about the weapons. many, often, most often we're not sold the ones that we need. and mr. about that, we're going to talk about the economy. i assure you, in our conversation. so we will be returning to that. but i just like to ask you 1st about the state of human rights in the country because, you know, it's not just the tax in the north kidnapping. you have, you know, many hotspots all over the country. and in response to some attacks blamed on separatists, for example, in the south east, the military has launched operation restore peace to heart set on twitter. we have given the police and the military, the power to be ruthless, the power to be ruthless. what does that mean? it just means what every country, every government believes that we're living in a way that is primarily defined by nation states,

sovereign nation states. and the sovereign nation states are meant to have the monopoly of violence. so that non state actors will not unravel such countries and unleash may him and death and murder and my soccer and such territories. this is what every country does. but i think the concern among, among many is that there are these previously documented evidences of mass extra judicial killings by securities in this region in particular. so the question is, when do harvey says roofless? is that what he means? extrajudicial killings, it's happened before. that's certainly not what he means because he has used the same phrase with regards to the violence way by banded and by, by terry, by terrorist activities in north eastern nigeria,

in north western nigeria, it applies to the whole country. wherever you have non state actors, you see there's no states if a country, if, if groups or individuals or pow was that do not subject themselves to the jurisdiction of a nation state, allowed to dictate the cause of political life in nobody that that country sees this break this but that's what we're talking about. or we're talking about the approach of the military in terms of handling this. the session is movement and these, these particular groups that you are targeting and see says you have a reckless and, and a trigger. happy approach to crowd control and, and it's not only when it comes to this particular area. in fact, i'd like to ask you about another incident. there were reports of at least 12 civilians killed. one forces shot at police at people. protesters excuse me. at

leki toll plaza in lay goes back in october. is this the strategy that your forces use to help calm protests, peaceful protests in the country shooting at peaceful civilians with live ammunition. ok, so unfortunately this report that i know you've done your homework. what unfortunately, this report happens to be the very same report that was exposed to be and to by none other than the state department of the united states. they had their own investigation and said the report was untrue. but i have not seen that before, but, but i have heard from where killed sir. i have not seen that report, but i have heard from, from the un high commissioner for human rights, michelle bachelor. and she has a position of authority. as you know, she says quote, there is little doubt that this was a case of excessive use of force,

resulting in unlawful killings with live ammunition by nigerian armed forces. this did department report is easy to access. busy you can google it online, it's that it's, it contends that that report that you're referring to is inaccurate. and to date, that has not been any substantial proof just to show it to show otherwise. well, you know, your prove that, let them then let me, let me follow terry. it's easy to cherry pick and decide. you want to highlight the negative stuff, even when there is no evidence and you don't, you cannot use, you know, reports that i chose out bye, bye, bye bye bye, by the united agents the united nation take. no. this is their thing in your country. they said in the incident witness time. 6 that c, c t, v. cameras and lights were switched off shortly before soldiers opened fire on peaceful protesters. the un says this indicates

a disturbing level of premeditation. your government has apparently set a panels of inquiry to look into. there's to look into other incidence by you know, a group of your security forces which rights group say routinely practice torture. i just like to ask you, you know, how, how can the public trust that they will, that you will really get to the bottom of what happened when it seems as if you don't want to really look at it, the nigerian, the nigerian public, the overwhelming majority of the niger and public trusts that the government, the niger and government will get to the bottom of it as it always does. but sadly, due to lobbyist due to fake ends, your due to fake websites due to the equity was created on social media where knee jerk reactions follow such incidents. the the

substantial segment or section of the western media and such countries get the wrong mr. mr. i and they allow this, subsist on it, mr. acid or i think we can both agree though, that there were protesters who were there and what they were there for was to protest against police brutality, especially from the elite unit called sars, which writes, i think would be really broad store generous, ward. sure. ill treatment? extrajudicial killings. let me ask you, why were there no charges brought against members of this unit? earlier? these abuses are well documented itself was disbanded, the unit itself was be disbanded, but the evidence of torture can re dated but not for you. if you can cherry pick what to highlight, sorry, excuse me, you can pick what to highlight when it comes to digest. yeah,

you are not in danger, or perhaps you are not aware that when this very same unit size was created in response to an armed robbery in les was in the ninety's that this course of action was celebrated. so now it's our lives, it's use and when there were protests and complaints and comp and petitions, president how much? hi, re, bonded, he brought it to an end. he did it, but then he created a unit swat in the same breath to replace it. so the question is, if you haven't addressed, if you haven't brought charges in the past, who can really trust that this new unit will be any different? and as you know, that is that is a question that a lot of people in your country in fact are asking because there's still judicial panels of inquiry that are taking place looking into these allegations of abuse.

we're not saying we have a perfect police force just as is the case in most countries or in every country, i should say, you would have bad eggs that would do things that are not sanctioned by the government, but it does not. it does not mean that the only course of action is to highlight the negative, and i like mr. ambassador with me. i really busy nigeria. nigeria operates a democratic system of government. like i said. so what was the rule of law we uphold? so let's talk about democracy in earlier this month. the government band, twitter. can you explain that move? i can explain it because the simple explanation is that niger, as i said, operates a democratic system of government. we've had 6 successive elections every 4 years and made since 1999. 1 of the the, the important the most, one of the most important norms of,

of democracy is freedom of speech which nigeria of holt's, which nigeria celebrates which nigeria for tex. but you cannot use, you cannot allow that certain elements to use those democratic, mr. ambassador, i want to ask why? so it was down, wasn't it? because the platform took down president to harvey's tweets for violating its abuse for me here, policy. and no that's, that's not the reason. the reason why it was shut down. it was because twitch has been airing pictures, videos, and the vituperation of, of people that are looking to unravel. nigeria, which, well, i know many people are looking at the situation and they are, is tweet with them in the, in the burning later. what are what band is this,

the proportionate response? and now we have the attorney general ordering the immediate prosecution of offenders of the federal government ban on twitter. so it's twitter users. now that your government is going to prize, i said your own citizens. that's why, as i said earlier, as i said earlier, sadly, regret regret to be this cherry picking approach creates the wrong narrative. if you go back to 2019, you will see that further mama to body has been consistent about the adverse effect of social media when it chooses not to be responsible, their real life, the real world. but the question is whether banding proportionate robots, wilbur ambassador, and right now 901, china and north korea. iran on issuing a ban on twitter. do you feel comfortable in the company? can i just make the point i was trying to make?

if you go back to 219 president obama to address the word the united nations general assembly. he spoke about the christ church attacks and the, the negative effect of live streaming of such violent acts and, and encouraging terrorist groups and, and violent groups to, to have that space within social media which spreads others on into acts of violence. this is no less different than that. so what has been consistent when it comes to that? but you are, you are forgetting what he, what you said in 2019. and just looking at his reaction was social media a week after a very prominent politician was killed in south eastern nigeria. a few days after the i called a few days after i pub had burned,

electro commissions offices in the same region, mister ambassador, moodily, people reaction please. let's look at the international reaction because canada, the e, u, the u. k, the u. s. they have all condemned this twitter band, i mean the, the u. s. s that has no place in a democracy. don't you need foreign investments to help build your economy? we need for an investment. we also need for those countries to be mindful of the fact that i pub, and such groups have been engaging lobby firms like mike, you re, public affairs for instance, that it's being $85000.00 a day to churn out, such negative stuff to, to go and a full court press on us senators and, and prominent people, prominent politicians. so that would create this negative narrative about nigeria

and which is far from the truth. and those who are on ground know that. and the, for instance, the british high commissioner in nigeria is aware of that because now she's on the receiving end. she's being threatened by the same april by now because the lead of april. and mister ambassador, i'd like to ask you because i mean what, what is clear is that the economic situation in the country is not good. unemployment has more than quadrupled sins to hurry, took office more than half of young people can't find jobs and that's, that's more than half of your population that is under the age of 24. and furthermore, nearly half of adults say that they plan to move to another country within the next 5 years. half of the adults want to leave the country within the next 5 years. with whom do you plan on building the future of your country? with nigerians, as we've always done, we have an economic downturn just like other countries in the world.

it's important to remember that we're living through a global pandemic. nigeria, unfortunately has dependent depended overwhelmingly on foreign exchange coming from crude oil sales. this current government is looking to diversify nigeria as the last general and economics with figures like this, do you risk the last generation? no, we don't. which is why we're we're, we've put our heads down and we're diversifying nigeria economy. if you look at the plans that we have in place, the national economic plans that we have in place that a diversifying look at what is happening. look at the rights revolution going on in niger, i look at the foot, eliza blending that is going on in nigeria. look, as i said earlier, social investment program, look at the 2nd major bridge,

look at the rail projects, look at the gas pipeline projects. look at what siemens is doing with regards to electricity. these are the things that you should look you'd be looking at. look at also the media and entertainment sector. nigeria is one of the fastest growing when it comes to that. these are the sort of things you should be concentrating on, inflammation and digital technology ambassador to that we have to leave it there. thank you so much for joining us on conflicts on. been a pleasure. thank you for the the

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