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our colleague, edith came, i need talk to young ugandans about their views on sports betting. and let me tell you the street debate is on via the hello and welcome back to the 77 percent strict debate this week. we are in the balance of full capital of uganda compiler. now the city is linked to with what people here called betting or gambling houses. so today we want to find out from the young people here is going to bring a net positive or negative for the society. i don't want to begin with my friend chris here because i hear you were speaking. and despite the fact that here in composite of the legal age for betting is 25 probably the highest in the world. you 1st came into contact with gambling. when he was the 17. do you remember that 1st i was given a fusion? yeah. the base school fees at school. so i said, if i bought my 400000 shootings, i'm going to get it maybe, you know, i lost that for sure. i did it. but you know, with studies. well, yeah. so that's how i can stop on. and i was a little bit to go out, you know, how does it a little bit to colorado go way back to ba

young people. a dw corresponded edith kimani has just returned from nairobi and i asked her to tell me more about the protests there. we're seeing what is the said of such protests in a period of 2 weeks and they're expected to continue throughout the week. as i mentioned, the approaches against this legislation that essentially determines how the government collects money and spends it, and young people having investigative this bill thing. but they don't like what they're seeing. the talks of a to a to many times. they absolutely cannot handle it. and with no other resort, they went to the streets. now we are hearing reports of the internet services being disrupted. we're actually having quite some trouble getting through to your colleague. felix isn't covering it on the ground. is that a common tactic during protests and can absolutely not. in fact, it would be unprecedented if in fact the government has shut down the internet. and this is really rare because in africa, in 2022 at least 7 governments shut down. the internet canal was not one of those, and residential to a jeff law still was talkin