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now for more on this i'm joined by dee correspondent eyes that callet seat from accra is that can you hear me can hear you great isaac good to have you on the show i get the sense that binds election is generally welcome from africans but that there might be questions whether the america is going to play any more of a role on the continent what would you say. it is a factor that in many african countries happy that there is a change i don't fight especially because of the push of the not trump the right in iraq for you however even though it will come from the prism biting election and also surname the don't really expect so much to change because they live on what's in our ways of president barack obama really is the marching times of africa so even though african countries are excited there's a change and i think that's right and fighting will be able to respect them and you don't really have so much of the teaching that things would change overnight horace important note the just made there that this wasn't just a trump thing but obviously with obama too many africans felt like the

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we've invited esther armand to the program she's a political commentator in gaza and joins us from accra good to see you so as we just saw the clashes breaking out in parliament just ahead of the president's swearing in what is feeling this tension. a challenging and divisive political season the. presidential campaigning in the context amid the backdrop. so we have of the devastation of coded the look down the pandemic has absolutely fuel political tensions and so we've seen that explosion on the streets the culminated into scenes that would have triggered trauma for thousands and thousands of ghanians who lived through the military coups of the 19669791981 to see soldiers in battle fatigue coming through into the seat of government and scenes of unrest would literally hearken back to history the ghana has long left behind but it also echoed in some instances what was happening with the military in ghana was happening with the citizens in the united states of america so this global framework of i am ready with politics and campaigning in this moment is step the president his inauguratio

just after midday in calgary 7 pm in accra a 10 year old school this monday january the 4th welcome to. international my name's union o'neil. we begin with breaking news a british court rejected a u.s. extradition request for julian assange due to concerns about his mental health washington sees it will appeal the decision and still wants to try him on charges of espionage the president of mexico has offered political asylum to the wiki leaks founder we can take a look now at the reaction of a son just supporters are inside the courthouse when the verdict filtered art. i mean. it's true was it was you know was it was. was. was 6. was was was. was was was. was was as long as julian has to enter suffering in isolation as an unconvicted prisoner in belmarsh prison and as long as our children continue to beat the wrath of their father's love and affection. we cannot celebrate. we will celebrate the day he comes home a glimpse of hope to start the new year and hopefully a new era. it is a day. a day of with when for julian a song. we have people cautious it is not necessarily a win for jour

of the country's most beloved leaders has been laid to rest his burial in the military cemetery in accra followed a service attended by dignitaries and the general public jay-jay warnings as he was fondly called later military regime for more than a decade before running in democratic elections and winning twice rollingstone november last year the force of his stand has not been made of the. many names came out to pay their last respects to j.j. warnings at the burial service and they told us how they will remember him before long before his cars might meet him. you know those are. his given. to us so. there is a. very big huge. he was a father to all. that type of person who is very. he wouldn't hesitate to speak his mind so i wish. he would be. because i'm not bad he said. and i hope that if you tell him. you know i'm. strong and. well kick boxing champion patricia has humbled many opponents in the brain but she says her success is often undermined by prejudice but that hasn't she hasn't let that stop her now she's training and mentoring other women and girls and she's determined to st

appears to be holding up after a lot of concern that things could get accra moan use and messy at thember two sides did a terror free trade deal. they have that before, but the u.k. no longer enjoys the frictionless trade it had with eu nearly a trillion dollars worth of trade is now subject to a lot of red tape. that said it is still very early to say how brexit will affect trade in the long run. meanwhile president manuel macron said remain ally despite to leave eu built on lies and false promises but macron was very tough on trade negotiations and is likely to remain tough because there's still a huge mount to negotiate between the trading partners that was not included in the deal. the eu by the way just agreed a new trade deal with china this week. that was seen as a real cue for the chinese and a slightly defiant move by europe given how president trump and elect biden have been warning europe toe keep its distance from the chinese. now that the u.k. has joined the european union, it can make its own trade deals and is desperate to make a free trade deal with the united states.

wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in johannesburg, south africa, nairobi, kenya, accraana, new york city, atlanta, georgia, jackson, mississippi, or memphis, tennessee, the cry is always the same -- "we want to be free!" [applause] and another reason that i'm happy to live in this period is that we have been forced to a point where we are going to have to grapple with the problems that men have been trying to grapple with through history, but the demands didn't force them to do it. survival demands that we grapple with them. men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. but now no longer can they just talk about it. it is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world. it's nonviolence or nonexistence. that is where we are today. [applause] and also in the human rights revolution, if something isn't done, and done in a hurry, to bring the colored peoples of the world out of their long years of poverty, their long years of hurt and neglect, the whole world is doomed. [applause] now, i'm just happy that god has allowed me to live in this pe

we've invited is to armand to the program she's a political commentator in ghana and joins us from accra good to see you so as we just saw the clashes breaking out in parliament just ahead of the president's wearing in what is feeling this tension. so we have had a challenging and divisive political season the. presidential campaigning in the context amid the backdrop of the devastation of coded the lockdown the pandemic has absolutely fuel political tensions and so we've seen that explosion on the streets the culminated into scenes that would have triggered trauma for thousands and thousands of gagnon's who lived through the military coups of 966-979-1981 to see soldiers in battle fatigue coming through into the seat of government and scenes of unrest would literally hearken back to history the ghana has long left behind but it also echoed in some instances what was happening with the military in ghana was happening with the citizens in the united states of america so this global framework of i have read with politics and campaigning in this moment is step the president his inauguration

the kofi annan international peacekeeping training center in ghana he's joining us from the capital accra thanks for your time so for a company that's often described as a stable democracy we saw some pretty chaotic scenes coming out of parliament prompting the army to step in how do you explain what happens. well i don't know what happens to sarah flexion of the do you see dead mistrust. between the 2 but that is about also a certain drive to control the proceedings in parliament which led to the tortelli one percent. or lack september entry of them so i guess to play something says into the chimera of the house i think that is that was a very unfortunate development and gives there are other bittersweet in the sense of feeling today no ration of a new president the election of a speaker long as speaker of parliament from demand no ricci in pallid men what is our plan is something very new from government so cross them to cause us to walk you know happy and work or to get military we need to be a crew good data or that we're to spar this way and to take appropriate action but be less sum