lauren: a political analyst lecturer at the university of nairobi says the focus needs to be on solvingya's economic crisis. >> i think there is not much difference, to the extent that the country is facing a grim political situation. because of living is bad. everything is bad. there is despair ruling the country. people are definitely spending most of their time fixing, not the economy, but the high cost of living. funding certain programs to be able to mitigate suffering by way of subsidies. lauren: a military base in russian occupied crimea has been hit several large explosions. the region is an important supply line for russia's invasion of ukraine. witness videos show blasts in the northern part of the peninsula. russia's defense ministry labeled the attack sabotage, but ukraine has not confirmed whether was responsible. it disrupted trains and forced evacuation of around 2000 people from a nearby vigil -- village. >> of course there are houses that are damaged, as we have already seen. several buildings have burned down. we just don't let people into the cordoned off zone. so we

catherine saw al jazeera nairobi. hammond, menorah is a political analyst and lecturer at the university of nairobi. he says the focus needs to be on solving kenya's economic crisis, where i think, well whether a low router that's not much difference, to the extent that the country is facing a grim political situation. the cost of living is bod. everything is but this disband gloom in the country. but in all these people doesn't want to spend most of their time fixing, not necessarily the economy, but the high cost of living. you know, i've been here subtracting ending southern programs, young projects to some money, to be able to mid to get the suffering by way of subsidies under such a such a major base in russian occupied crimea has been hit by several large explosions. the region is an important supply line for russia's invasion of ukraine. witness videos show blasts in the northern part of the peninsula. russia's defense ministry label the attack sabotage. but ukraine is not confirmed whether it was responsible, abbas engulfed, and ammunition disco disrupting trains and voting about tuition of

and maria from the university of nairobi, he says the focus needs to be on solving kenya's economic crisis. what i think when i, when i lo router did not much difference to the extent that the country is facing a grim political situation. the cost of living his bod, everything is but this despair and gloom in the country. but in all this, people different to spend most of their time fixing, not aside the economy, but the high cost of living, you know, i being here subtracting out, pending southern programs, young projects, year to so money to be able to mitigate the suffering by wheels subsidies and it's such a such. now it's the 1st official day of campaigning ahead of brazil's presidential election june october, president jab bolts, mara held his 1st campaign, had been for reelection in the city where he was stabbed in 2018 opinion. polls show his left, his rival, former president lula da silva, has a 12 point lead. he's been campaigning outside a car, making blonde in the state of south palo, where he rose to prominence as a union leader decades ago. all of campaigning, heating up. some

with me is professor community canyon from the university of nairobi, a political analysts. why do you think the turn out is so much lower this time? let me begin by correcting the impression that, that the panel is lori. we. we are back to the 1990 s. that was the average performance in the 1900 ninety's. when many people did not turn up for different reasons. so this time round one can see that yes, it's lower than 75 percent, 300 in 2017 lower than 83 percent. dr. hardy in 2015. and this could be attributed to several reasons. some of them are, you know, specific other general in the context of vermont. can you region where president to who can you comes from and where are the deputy president seem to have the mid day . very good. there are cheaper mon same types of results so far. the penalty is not in the ninety's thing. they do not linked apartments that you seen the last few to general elections for several, for one simple reason doctor. will the leading allowances go to the deputy running mich running mich or they will be the deputy president from the region and ther

nairobi. i'm in the new or as a political analyst. electra at the university of r o. b jones has sent from the canyon capital. so we had that that potentially a kind of long drawn out neil process. what do you expect to happen next? and all the impact be on kenya's ability. well, it is true, it will be long because 7 days to file the petition. 14 days to be hard. and it is, i repeat the lecture within 60 days. all of these, while i think from my experience in 20 part interest, so in doing, people are likely the weights may be at the very end of the process. but the body level, if the supreme court may be, doesn't modify the election. we would experience little demonstration of something wants to show us, but not much bio less. and what do, did you make of the turn out? i mean a 65 percent compared with 80 percent in 2017 and just 40 percent of kenyans under 35 registered to vote in the selection. what does that tell us about people's expectations from politics? i think people are kind of these allusion on that with the leadership in terms of the politicians, not a par

university, a hotel complex. it really seems to be expanding its work in the country. >> disturbing development there. all right, larry madowo in nairobi, kenya, thanks so much. >>> following news reports out ofussia that the daughter of a russian intellectual known as putin's brain was killed when the car she was driving blew up near moscow. according to a russian news area, dario dugina died when there was an explosion and she lost control. acquaintances say the vehicle belonged to her father, alexander. video shows a vehicle in flames. you can see it there. her father is a prominent right-wing ideologue who's been called the spiritual guide to russia's invasion of ukraine. >>> in ukraine, three more victims have been recovered from an apartment building razed in a russian rocket strike on kharkiv. the death toll from the attack on ukraine's second-largest city stands at at least 18 people. ukraine says the attack hit a three-story building wednesday night and emergency services are still searching for victims. in the south, ukraine is showing video of a strike on a russian counter-artillery radar. the footage shows a massive explosion that recordedly destroyed a number of russian military