the, the, this is the w news coming to life from berlin. 10 years parliament in flames as tiles and storm the building. police fire live rounds of protesters opposing tax increases several or confirm dead in violent collection. also coming out julia and a son freed from prison in the u. k, which he likes founder is expected to plead guilty to violating americans. espionage law is now on his way to a us pacific time of the

little internally margin. good to have you with us will begin with breaking news from 10 years worth. thousands of protesters have stormed parliament. several people have been shot the after police open fire tv, but it showed the governors office and city hall were also burning to ride. the gun is parliament deliberated, a controversial tax bill that the protests are said would increase. the cost of living lawmakers were evacuated when the building was breached. while the w kenya corresponded either tamani, joins be now in the studio for more. i know it is your, you've lived in nairobi your base there. you were there just a week ago. you've been following his proud protest from the beginning. what can you tell us about what's happening now? up, this is just a combination of a year almost of what people have been experiencing this controversial bill that you're talking about is going to essentially set the framework for how the

government collects money, but also spends it. and on closer inspection, a lot of young people found that the taxes that were being suggest, it just simply didn't make sense for them as a country, the debt button is about 60 percent of the total g, d p, which is a lot higher than what the world box and the i am mess suggests which is 55 percent . and so the government of president utilities hoping that they're going to be about $2700000000.00 on increased taxes. and you can imagine that that does not look pretty, will not be slips. remind just why these protest started in the 1st place. i mean, they had, they turned horribly violent today, but they've been, they've been all going on for quite some time. when did all this begin? it started when the bill was the table, there was a 1st reading which happened last tuesday, which is when we saw the 1st wave of these protests and the legislative processes such that's today in parliament. the was supposed to be discussing that bill for the 2nd, for the 2nd time. and after that in 14 days present to, to would been either assignments internal or rejected. but the president has been

categorical that he will say anything to know. and young people, seeing no other way out, decided to stick to the streets, to have their voices heard. evidently, the members of fundament, i'm not listening to them, which is why it's accelerated to the pitch as a base thing. when i springs right now, you are mentioning young people specifically feeling that they will be affected most by this bill. that who are the people behind these protests? are they organized as a respond to any us? this is the 1000000 dollar question. who is behind this? it's an organic movement of young people who are frustrated to put it into on the continent of europe has an average age of 42 years in kenya, it's 21. we're talking about 60 percent of the population being even millennial origin. csi, these are the people who are most affected, who are going to continue being affected by these increased taxes. and that's why they organize themselves in a way that's never been seen before. we're talking about nationwide purchased across the country happening also online the, the movement has,

has really just spun out of a need and it's really truly been organic without any real need issues. give us a sense of what is like for a young person living in, in kenya today, trying to find a job, get an apartment, get on with their lives and, and provide a livelihood for themselves. how difficult is that, and what sort of pressures are they facing? in terms of prices, it's extremely difficult. i was speaking to an executive from one of these big tech firms who was telling me that in the 1st year of the ritual government, he lost 14 percent of his income taxes. and in the 2nd finance, through reading, he lost 20 percent of his income that somebody was adding an incredible amount of money. so you can imagine young people who are even under employed unemployed, who have to, you know, figure out a way to and they're leaving or supporting that service. it's extremely difficult and the taxes are going to be touching with things that they depend on bread, sugar, vegetable oil based, apropos tax on content create. so this is what they depend on for sustenance. and

so they're really been effective way pinches the most. now these protests of turned horribly by the we've seen reports that fires have been set inside of the parliament we, there are a number number of people have been reported dead or we're getting conflicting information about whether the police just been using rubber bullets or actually live amunition, we're told that a number of parliamentarians have had, i've had to leave their offices, we not really sure where they've gone other buildings being set on fire cars being set on fire in the streets. why has this turned so violent at this point? yeah, it's an ation from what we saw last week with the protest, basically begun and from the, the members of parliament. as i mentioned, the past, the 1st reading of the bill essentially saying to the people, we don't care what you're saying. we're going to go ahead and do what mistakes is right for the nation. and so today is what is being called they 5 or 7 days range, the sustained come paying to make it impossible for the members of fundament, either do their work,

which will then be moved over the weekend of churches not being allowed to speak to uh, to the massive and so this is just a continuation of what we saw from last week and 10 environment because they feel the protest us that the members of parliament just simply not listening to them. what about a political voice for these young people in kenya? because lots of countries have issues when it comes to the cost of living increases . we're seeing this in, in multiple countries. but they don't always turn into something like this. what we're witnessing right now. uh how, how difficult is that for, for the people to find a voice within the political system extremely difficult because at the moment kind of doesn't have a functioning of a position, party or position. and so there is a vacuum there. when young people have issues, they either go online and often what the rage that happens online dissipates and it doesn't transfer offline. and so without that person to represent the empowerment

they feel that the only way out, as i mentioned, is to take to the streets. you mentioned 7 days of rage and that this is day 5. so what can we expect in the next couple of days, either? well tomorrow, if expected, the, the protest is going to go to the police service to demand the release of people who have been arrested as a result of this process. they're also going to be demanding justice for the people who've been killed as a result of them. and on says day it's been called total shutdown. kinda the idea is to close all roads leading to the capital, a cold by business owners to help people not go to work at what we're seeing today . so just mall of that on thursday, assuming that they actually do make it to thursday blocking and the streets, labor unrest, the parliament burning. you just come on a r r can you correspond to? thank you so much. thank you, terry. now let's catch up on a few other stories making headlines around the world. today. the international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the former russian defense minister,

saturday, sugar, and the military's chief of general staff battery good rossimer. the warrants or for alleged war crimes in ukraine. they joined president flooding. they put you on the courts wanted let you, greece has issued a health warning, the visitors over the current heat wave, they're at least 10 for and torres, so either died or gone missing hiking. in 40 degree temperatures, grease has been hit by its earliest summer heat. with these really supreme court has ruled that the military must be getting drafting ultra orthodox men decision could bring down prime minister benjamin netanyahu. his coalition, government, powerful ultra orthodox parties, oppose any change to the current system. julian, this arch has left the u. k. under a plea deal with the united states, the way he leeks founder will appear in court in the northern marianna islands in the pacific that belongs to the us. he's expected to plead guilty to by letting us

espionage as long as the launch was wanted for publishing. classified military files on the wiki leaks platform, which he founded in 2006. now he fought extradition to the us and britain where he has spent the past 5 years in a high security prison. a 14 year fight for freedom is finally pots and end. after doing a song agreed to a us clean deal. he bolted a plane on monday. the found sitting us terry tray of the know the mariana islands in the pacific. that will go on to return. the once fugitive to his native australia, his brother said the family was overwhelmed. i'd been speaking to him this week and just going through all the details with him and you know, a very anxious, very excited. and he's looking forward to spending time with his family and,

and being for a being able to have the sun shine on on his i see that the go for a swim in the ocean back in australia. so i just very much looking forward to that for over a decade, the australian hawk attend whistle blower has divided public opinion haled as a champion of free pressed by many condemned as a trade to buy his detractors. it was in 2010. he became world famous after his company weekly, published a tribe of files and diplomatic cables. they included a video of an attack fight, an american apache helicopter, any rock but left 11 dead, including 2 journalists. and for some, his actions with a hallmark of a free press, the description of what it put so many of those the links so nothing,

shouts of treason and the song and an image of the states. and down here, a swedish arrest warrant for rape and sexual assault. so assange take refuge in london, ecuadorian embassy. he would stay there for the next 7 years. this is a victory by the time and kudos president, we vote sanchez, asylum status. it was united states where he was a wanted mon, a t c is the fault, is extradition to the us from inside the british prison. but the plea deal means a sound while as a controversial will that last be a free mon show while ago i spoke with rebec rebecca vincent about the issues the head of international campaigns are reporters, will that borders. she gave us her reaction to us on his plea deal. well,

we are usually relieved that he is now out of prison. he never should have spent a single day there. of course he spent 5 years in lemons, high security, bellmarks prison. he's been arbitrarily deprived of his liberty for more than 13 years. so this is a very long time coming, but a huge relief to those of us with campaign for so long for exactly this outcome. this is a huge development in such a closely watched k. so as you say, it's gone on for years, has the plea, agreement that we're learning about now, been on the table for a while. we're not yet able to comment on that. we haven't had the chance to scrutinize ourselves. so we're waiting for that to be released as well. um, but we have long applicators and i know others have as well for political solution to this case. there is a chance that there would have been a legal prevention of extradition. this was playing its way up through the u. k. courts, and we closely monitored that process. but we had to reset this as a political case and it may require a political solution. we had urged the us government long ago to consider other

means of bringing this to an end. ideally, we would have seen a situation where all charges were dropped and that the case was simply closed. but the most important thing now is that julian will not spend any further time, unjustly behind bars. now it sounds julian this on you always said that what he did was not wrong. and yet now he's pleaded guilty. has he changed his position on leaking the information that got him into trouble? i certainly wouldn't read it in that way and we don't believe he should have been targeted for this. we don't believe anybody should face such treatment for so more than a decade for publishing information in the public interest. so the way that this was done leave some room for concern. we also remain worried about the possible use of the us espionage asked against others in this way. so this is one next step is that law actually needs are to reform. it was not intended to be used as a target journalistic activity like this. but we have seen that it can be so

firstly, we need a public interest defense for other reforms that last so that journalists do not have to worry that they can face similar treatment. that was rebecca vincent from reporters without borders. now before we go, china has become the 1st country to bring the soil samples back from the far side of the moon, bringing them back to your china is tongue of 6 pro returned from space to enter. mongolia on tuesday with lunar watkins soil samples which could hold clues about the origins of the moon and yours, the success of the $53.00. the emission highlights china is growing capabilities in the space to just reminder the top story we're following for you this hour. thousands of protesters have storm kansas parliament building and set the building on fire. several have been killed in climate clashes with security forces. demonstrators are opposing new tax increases and we can leaks down,

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