the, the, you're watching the to view names coming to live from for late, military officer stage a coup ink of on soldiers his power and arrest the president of days after elections, proud secure the takeover in the capital neighborville. it's africans, it's the 2nd crew in just over a month. also coming up on the show, germany's government announces major corporate tax cuts to revive it's ailing economy. chancellor, all off schultz calls at 8 big boost to stimulate growth. the

hello, i'm clear. richardson, thank you so much for joining us. a group of military officers have seized power in government in central africa. the crew happened to minutes after officials declared president, i leave them go. the winner of recent elections. good ones, military says the boarders has been closed. and all state institutions, dissolved, president, bongo, has confirmed, he's under house arrest while crowds are celebrating the takeover in the capital neighborville. so many face companies worked to a dramatic announcement on national tv by a group of uniform men on wednesday morning. oh no. do you look up on it in the name of the people of god, long and as guarantee or of the institutions we have decided to defend peace by putting an end to the current present? well, gives you a month plus to this and the general election of 26th of august 2023,

and the truncated results or cancel that take a so i need a thing. come and president of the bunker on the inbox that claims victory and saturdays and actions. the result immediately disputed by the opposition. bongo was running for the 3rd time and hoping to extend his force in your room of the country . he took out in 2009 after his father woke up on foot over 4 decades. made election arrival under also excuse bungle fedex and fraud. after pole is closed, the board was month accusations of pulling stations hoping late, and salty election papers. the government cut the internet and post the cuff you after the election. tammy wanted to prevent on rest and the spread of fake news. i spoke earlier to him with a insight, a little nard, a analyst with africa, risk consulting, and i asked him if the recent elections were

a tipping point and gone after decades of one family rule a good afternoon. it is seemingly so the bumble family has been in power since 1967. and as a report indicated, t um the invalid president audible was interested by soldiers for me before he took over 2009. and this was his 3rd election that he had one instance taking power . he has been these with domestic of discontent. there are also been a suspect, the phenomena gone through the country face. they had little stuff. and then there's also been a lot of power to different reasons for middle income century, but then there's a 33 percent arguing and there's a 20 percent unemployment rate. then there's been, i go to this, the fact that the bundle found all these years, bytes having all of the access to resources, the food in which that is the benefits have been approved to the majority of the

population. so those people cheering for the military. um, we saw can we understand that as widespread public support for this group and it could be interpreted as such. the survey full done by october ometer has each had stipulated that 66 percent of the nice people surveyed said that in the event that the elected leaders are using power, they would not mind the military taking over to rectify the situation. the content as well as where it turned busy, whereby even the multi party alexis are carried out on a regular basis. that is, every 7 years, the institutions of democracy, the law office of rigid by the view of the family, which happens where the various society, the, the politic, political res, seem be the military and security apparatus as well as the phenomena social affairs . so that's kind of the over all of these parts of the society,

overtime teams where we, with these most recent elections, we also see it in the context of a wider regional trend news. there's who just last month, for example. do you think what we saw happened there has in bold, in the military and galvan to try their luck are definitely leaving the different regions and different concepts you can come to. you can realize that there is the confusion of sorts of military who were in the military leaders in addition to whatever person either since they have. they are the grievances of the population which are unhappy with the government, which are unhappy with the corruption which are unhappy with the fact that the disability is a democracy, not really to the rest of society. so, considering that not much has been done to counter these military clues in west africa. it assuming it seemed that the government needed military establishment as taking advantage of these as use that the current state of affairs to attempt to

take over power and government. and you have a sense of where things go from here. are we looking at potentially a transition to true democracy or will this result in years of military rule or? well, what i always said is that the issue of municipal was that it is not. it doesn't exist in perpetuity, the military leaders understand that some way they have to try and transfer power to civilian rule and re if it's impossible as an order. the situation at present is very fluid. we don't know why the corporate status of the, of the ongoing cool. um, it seems that is as if it's members of the republican guard. and the republican guard is led by general race thinking about who is both causing. so we don't know whether it is family dynamics, whether it's a desire to preserve some aspects of the resumes and just set aside the most undesirable aspects. or it could be a scenario where they are fines and actually re establish the whole some political

associates. another configuration to the country. so right now we can't tell, but then it is a very, very fluid and very unexpected situation. i've had a couple and drawing further and comparisons to the qu in new share. we saw after that military takeover. people waving russian flags, questions about how much influence russia would be exerting there? do you expect to see similar and gone in? no rush. it has a very, the exception of the central african republic. russia has very little influence in that region. france has been people who are arriving most influential. it's an arsenal, power in gap on most of the political lead. viewed within the last you, within the offices here, as well as in the business, if it's an honestly all have very close ties to france, so it will be very unlikely for there to be any sort of a right. so corporate reference basically, when you consider that

a lot of the andrews, you're not necessarily towards a security situation. there's no decrease in the security. there's no particular terrorist, cris dot one, but rather seriously phenomena reading suzanne, you know, and it's worth the fact that the family has been in power for over 60 years. so in that regard, i think that there would still be easily international the hours. but then there wouldn't be some sort of opening towards russ who thank you so much for joining us on tito. the news about for the enlightening interview that is late and say later on our political economist now at the university of cape town. thank you very much . and you haven't, so we can bring you up to speed now with some other world news headlines at this hour, ukraine says an overnight garage of russian muscles and drones has killed at least 2 people in cave. debris from targets intercepted by the capitals air defenses fell on several buildings. officials tied, there was the most powerful aerial assault on the ukrainian capital. since the

spring. china has arrested 5 officials on suspicion of under reporting the number of debts from a flash flood authorities initially said 6 people were missing when water submerged a construction site engine, young county and investigation revealed that the real number was nearly 50 and the court in pakistan has extended the custody of former prime minister in con, he'll remain in jail for another 2 weeks while authorities investigate allegations . he revealed the state secrets earlier, a different court suspended cons prior conviction on corruption charges. hurricane and dahlia has made land fall in the us state of florida as a powerful category. 3 storm is packing winds of up to 125 kilometers an hour and is expected to cost severe flooding. authorities in florida have declared a state of emergency. they are concerned about the storm surge that's expected to flood islands and other coastal areas. millions of residents of evacuated or

hunkering down in neighboring, and georgia and south carolina. they have also declared emergencies. well, germany has announced corporate tax breaks worth $32000000000.00 euros to boost its flagging economy, which is the biggest in europe and of crucial importance for the continent. leaders were under pressure to stimulate growth after the i am now forecast that germany would be the only major economy to frank this year. the decision was announced after a 2 day cabinet retreat in the countryside outside the capital in berlin. at the summer get together, an attempt was also made to resolve tensions within the countries 3 party governing coalition. so let's get more on this from mckayla kirsten, the reporting from mesa bag where that cabinet retreat took place to see you again . tell us about that economic stimulation package and germany has, after all, the largest economy in europe. and some observers are already calling it the sick man of the continent. yes,

that is the economists picking up an old very catchy headline from 2 decades ago most. but really what is being stressed here is that the economy of germany isn't being 6 that's uh or isn't sick. that's what the, what the government does saying that that's their job of tool. and we saw a 10 point plan here introduced, which emanates really and it's pretty much the same as the legislation that failed leading up to this gathering here because there was once again a major crash in class in that 3 way coalition. so we'll see, 7000000000 years worth of tax breaks every year and also costing down on red tape. there's a lot of talk of cutting down on red tape here in germany and recent weeks and months see amongst the government in the same time we're seeing new measures introduce that are somewhat under the suspicion that they could create yet more red tape. but that is something that will have to be seen. so for now, the in fighting is ended that was declared here. but at the same time,

we saw the finance minister and didn't know from the free democrats to say that will still be quite a bit of noise and the child. so then added that silence would be used. but then there of course, external factors like the chinese economy that also affect german in here's what does them tell us that to say or not to connect to these kinds. of course, we cannot launch an economic stimulus program in china from germany. but we have to make sure that our companies have an eye on the global economy as a whole, so that they have export markets everywhere. and that's exactly what set it like sheets. so german chancellor of schultz speaking there, mikaela, i understand there was also a decision on german migration policy today. what did that entail? yeah, that was already really pre discussed. in fact, the interior minister, who's an area this is, wasn't even here because she has corona, but little dover, and georgia as previously decided will be declared safe countries. so any assign

him applications when that will be deemed to have very little chance of success. and the government will seek an agreement with both countries to send people back from the both countries eventually want to join the european union. that is something that was stressed by the interior ministry here. so that's what came out of this concrete cabinet gathering here. it's supposed to be his back, just an hours drive from ballad. they've touched on it, but germany's 3 party governing coalition has been struggling to find common ground in recent months. this retreat was described by some as a therapy session of sorts. does all of this have an effect looking beyond germany, though, a well, 1st of all, it has an effect here on the perceived stability of the government. with the opinion polls pointing downwards, that also rise of the far right, a fee in germany. and that's something that is very closely monitored amongst its european pauses and internationally as well. um, germany cannot afford to be weak,

its economy can't afford to be weak, and europe's strongest economy needs to project some element of leadership. now that is thrown into question when there is a lot of in fighting and that's something where it would have salts will have to deliver nationally by showing that there is no more noise coming out of the coalition. and internationally, by uh, actually having a proof that his measures to strengthen the economy of working with. thank you so much. that is d w, as we have a customer reporting from mesa back it's and the world's most famous food fight has turned the streets red and the spanish city of bruno thousands came from around the world to do battle in the annual tomatoes throwing festival. they've charge more than a ton of age and over ripe tomatoes. after an hour the throwing stops and the clean up begins. the tradition dates back more than 70 years.

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