nairobi and nairobi still the place where we come for work we come from school will probably raise our families to a certain extent here and then we will go and retire somewhere else but there is still a generation now that is born here and that actually has now we could ties with the so-called rural base and that is for me the beginning of that nairobi and and one of the things that i'm keen to see is how do they sort of take ownership of the space as their spaces their home how do they engage with it how do they participate in making it the sort of city that they would like it to be the story of nairobi is in many ways i suppose a typical story of a post-independence african city. incredible demographic growth. enormous wealth for some but terrible inequalities as well who would you agree with that absolutely absolutely and it's clear i mean in fact when you look at the city of course the city was the segregated city before independence and you can see the effects of segregation but now religion white areas absolutely in areas absolutely there is absolutely that doesn't exist that do

if i ask young kenyans today do people think they are nairobi and they think of themselves as nairobi and i don't think so i think that the majority don't actually know that sense of identity is still business it's a work in progress you know because i know that about you know sort of half a decade ago we started a conversation around nairobi identity and of course we it was very clear to us that many of us do not see ourselves as nairobi ensnare ruby and nairobi still that place where we come for work we come for school we probably raise our families to a certain extent here and then we will go and retire somewhere else but there is still the generation now that is born here and that actually has now we could ties with the so-called rural base and that is for me the beginning of that nairobi and and one of the things that i'm keen to see is how do they sort of take ownership of the space as their spaces their home how do they engage with it how do they participate in making it the sort of city that they would like it to be the story of nairobi is in many ways i suppose a typical stor

if i ask young kenyans today do people think they are nairobi and do they think of themselves as nairobi and i don't think so i think that the majority don't actually and that sense of identity is still business it's a work in progress you know because i know that about you know sort of half a decade ago we started a conversation around nairobi identity and of course we it was very clear to us that many of us do not see ourselves as nairobi ensnare ruby and nairobi still the place where we come for work we come from school will probably raise our families to a certain extent here and then we will go and retire somewhere else but there is still a generation now that is born here and that actually has now we could ties with the so-called rural base and that is for me the beginning of that nairobi and and one of the things that i'm keen to see is how do they sort of take ownership of the space as their spaces their home how do they engage with it how do they participate in making it the sort of city that they would like it to be the story of nairobi is in many ways i suppose a typical story

nairobi and nairobi still the place where we come for work we come from school would probably raise our families to a certain extent here and then we will go and retire somewhere else but there is still a generation now that is born here and that actually has now we could ties with the so-called rural base and that is for me the beginning of that nairobi and and one of the things that i'm keen to see is how do they sort of take ownership of the space as their spaces their home how do they engage with it how do they participate in making it the sort of city that they would like it to be the story of nairobi is in many ways i suppose a typical story of a post-independence african city in incredible demographic growth. enormous wealth for some but terrible inequalities as well who would you agree with that absolutely absolutely and it's clear i mean in fact when you look at the city of course the city was a segregated city before independence and you can see the effects of segregation but now religion white areas absolutely in areas absolutely there is absolutely that doesn't exist tha

take two of the polls been marred by deadly clashes a boycott and low turnout we'll have more from nairobi. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the standoff between spain and catalonia is coming to a head at this hour with the spanish senate about to vote on invoking article one fifty five of the constitution now they're expected to back the government and put catalonia under direct rule from madrid yesterday catalonia as president through the region into confusion by backtracking on his plans to call new elections that move could have staved off the threat of rule from madrid. when separatists gathered outside the regional parliament they had hoped to hear from castle and president callus preach demond has been expected to call a snap election to stop madrid taking control of catalonia. but he didn't. summon. the spanish government knows that i was ready to call an election if they had given guarantees that it would take place under normal conditions. that the guest has got there is no guarantee that justifies calling an election today. preached a month said it was up to the

get the latest with julia spears in nairobi. xi jinping kicks off his second term of president with a new leadership committee, but there is no talk of a possible successor. the e.u. postponed the vote on extending the license for the controversial herbicide glyphosate. first, our top story. opposition supporters have taken to the streets in kenya after the supreme court announced it could not hear a last-minute petition to postpone thursday's presidential rerun because there are not enough judges present. demonstrators have barricaded a westernhe -- in city, while outside the capital -- the supreme court in the capital of nairobi, hundreds of gathered to call for peace. this appears to clear the way for thursday's rerun. opposition leader raila odinga is set to address supporters shortly. supreme court justice david marengo had this to say. justice: with due apologies to all the parties, this matter cannot proceed to a hearing this morning. rochelle: let's get the latest with julia, standing by in nairobi. julia, talk us throug

nairobi in fact and that is the opposition leader raila odinga so we've been saying that we do expect him to speak and i believe they're heroes right now and the world be speaking on where he stands on the election that is scheduled now to take place in kenya on thursday that is according to the electoral commission chairman who was speaking a few hours ago let's listen in. the over. the years. ok so that's a run from it are you still with us. if i mean if you can hear me right loading guy speaking right now in nairobi as i'm saying we've been expecting him to to come out and and say we're just just can you set the scene tell us what you know off where exactly he is and what's going on right now. well the radio dingo had promised to make a big announcement on wednesday the day before the election we know that the the opposition the national super lion has continually said that the he's a sham election that you need a railroad to go both participate because of the supreme court ruling we had in september where it's had a no the election based on a what if i mean i let me just jump in t

three cities just weeks before the repeat presidential election is held demonstrations be banned in nairobi krista move and mombasa the government says protesters have looted and attacked police stations baghdad has denied that it's planning an attack on the autonomous kurdish region of iraq kurdish authorities say they received a warning from the iraqi military of a planned attack on kurdish controlled areas tension has been mounting since iraqi kurds overwhelmingly voted in favor of secession two weeks ago. and i had lines here on al-jazeera i'm back with an update for you in twenty five minutes the stream is coming next. hi emily could be and you're in the stream now live on you tube today the political turmoil in kenya is the country's upcoming presidential election in jeopardy now that the opposition candidate has withdrawn from the race. i am being tony and you know i mean and and i am in the stream. on thursday commune officials banned all protests as the election standoff between the opposition and ruling party escalates this week the opposition leader and presidential candidate wit

correspondent catherine joyce that joins us from the kenyan capital of nairobi. catherine we've seen buildings on fire we've seen these terrible images of people covered in blood is there any hope that politicians will be able to bring kenya back from the brink well it's a lot of people hoping that it will and not really politicians as such right now it's probably more the professional people the technocrats the you know the working class that needs to do something about whatever is going on because it seems that the politicians both don't want to have dialogue. so people are left in limbo that both their supporters are left in limbo and right now it's quite uncertain because last night we saw violence here in nairobi in informal settlements known as. we saw some violence in western kenya as well so the right death toll of about nine we're expecting that to rise and time soon so right now kenyans are just waiting for some sort of solution but more so they're waiting for an announcement of the election results by the chairman of the electoral commission and this i

correspondent catherine and wonder who joins us from the kenyan capital nairobi welcome catherine so we've been getting those reports of clashes between opposition protesters and the police tell us more about what's been going on. well it's very interesting because just a few moments ago the cabinet secretary for interior. he said that at least ninety percent of the polling stations across the country were open for voters to vote but we're getting a completely different story on the ground in nairobi itself we've seen tension between youth and police in my various but the action is really. where it's almost a cat and mouse game between youths and police and then it calms down and then they start again so they have been trashing for the past five hours since you know polling started at six am. so they were blocking ballot papers going to two polling stations especially the one polling station where i loaded who's the main opposition leader usually votes so that was that was very very problematic scenes there it in canberra but we're also seeing problematic scenes in kisumu where polic

kenya's electoral commission rallies have been taking place despite a government banned by the police in nairobi disperse protesters with tear gas opposition supporters took to the streets ahead of planned presidential election rerun. in south africa the president jacob zuma says he's disappointed after the supreme court of appeal up held a ruling reinstating hundreds of corruption charges against him the accusations relate to an arms deal dating back to the early one nine hundred ninety s. mr zuma had appealed against a twenty sixteen high court ruling to review the decision to set the charges aside . in the u.k. the big car ride company has filed an appeal against the london transport regulator that's t.f. else decision to strip it of its operating license is large the documents at a british court saying it wants to continue quote constructive discussions with t f l while the decision is being made to transport for london stripped of its license last month citing safety concerns. those are your headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after the scream i will see you at the usual times tomorr

from nairobi to discuss this we have got joe he's a constitutional lawyer and former commissioner with the commission for the implementation of the constitution. she's a member of the national assembly and supporter johnson said he's a member of the ruling jubilee party and senator for nairobi city county and my colleague catherine soy she's a reporter with al-jazeera english covering east and central africa welcome to the stream now catherine you know the government good to have you here we know the government has banned protests in three major cities as you can see this headline here on my screen this is what our community thought about that. is totally unacceptable it's a direct attack on our bill of rights our constitution enshrines freedom of peaceful demonstrations someone else though says it's a good thing this is an insurer who says we welcome that decision these demonstrations are purely for right loading us selfish interests and they do not represent us how what's behind this move to ban protests and how were other people reacting. absolutely and thank you for having me and.

vote that has polarized the nation opposition calls for a boycott could mean a low turnout we'll go to nairobi for more. a final farewell for thailand's beloved king from upon tens of thousands of mourners attend a five day long ceremony in bangkok for the monarch. and emotional release in turkey a german human rights organizer is freed from prison on bal does this signal german turkish relations could be on the mend. welcome to the show i'm brian thomas police in western kenya have reportedly been shooting live ammunition and tear gas to break up protests as kenya goes to the polls for a rerun of his presidential election the opposition leaders of called for voters to boycott the ballot and in nairobi supporters of opposition leader rollo dana were throwing stones to stop people. from getting into polling stations are doing us says today's vote is quote a sham in areas where president hu rukun yaba has support voting has proceeded but in smaller numbers compared to the vote in august the kenyan supreme court nala five that election because of irregularities in the voting process. did abuse ca

katherine i want to joins us from the capital nairobi a welcome. what's the situation now. ofen now the situation is relatively calm but during the day we did see police in gauge protesters and running battles especially here in nairobi and in kisumu now this comes only a day after the interior minister fred my chinese told protest and protest within the central business district of the three cities which is mumbai nairobi and consume so the opposition still insists that they are defiant and that it is their right to picket and that they will continue with these protests and in fact after dinner with do they said that they will have protests at least every single day starting from next week and tell us more about the backgrounds of these demonstrations. what these protesters want is reforms and according to the main opposition they're about eleven irreducible minimum that the opposition want the electoral commission to undertake so that at least they can provide kenyans with free and credible elections come the twenty sixth of october that is if the elections will take plac

for me to malaya al-jazeera nairobi. well the opposition stronghold of kissimmee has experienced some of the worst violence catherine saw is there and said the strong. it's been running battles almost all day between police important stores in parts of key so we're at a place called can barely hear police have been firing tear gas at a group of mostly young men who are behind this truck they've been trying to push them back but the men have been using slings to throw stones are the police the police are also using water cannons to disperse the crowd has been very difficult also getting to this particular location a road blocks have been set up by people have been put up by people we spoke to some of them were trying to get through and they were saying that they want to make sure that no ballot materials get to the various polling stations or people here are very angry and frustrated they say that they will not recognize are who are looking at a win there will not recognise his presidency either. this is not our election

my good friend i stop osiris the new senate the new woman ripped from nairobi and to serve this i think we must recognize the context in which we are in the reality is that we do not have enough policemen to protect the city from demonstrators and demonstrators may have the estimate of the best of intentions and i don't doubt it but i don't think when you have a thousand two thousand five thousand young men coming into the deep there is any way in which you can ensure that the circumstances in which as there is talking about which are very reasonable can be can be dealt with i would because sunday fred monday and you had said very much and is a cabinet secretary that you are not going to allow demonstrations in arabic but if you are talking about the central business district i think that is reasonable we should be saying in there of the because the people not to be anti to demonstrate what is it we can do so that we. also respect the rights of those that are. in the c b d. that is what you should be asking i don't think we're going to do it is also the answer and part of the problem in

election a vote marred by low turnout the claims of voter intimidation we'll get you the latest from nairobi. thank you very much for your company we want to begin with bows breaking developments out of spain the senate's in madrid approved government proposals to take control of catalonia just after catalonia has regional parliament voted in favor of declaring independence from spain in an unprecedented move the senate in madrid voted overwhelmingly in favor of spanish prime minister mariano rajoy worked . yes to trigger the infamous article one hundred fifty five of the spanish constitution allowing the central government to remove cattle and regional leaders from office starting with president carter shortly before seventy out of one hundred thirty five cattle and lawmakers approved a motion to the cleric catalonia and in the pendant republic opposition lawmakers walked out in protest before the vote began. all right the outcome of both parliament sessions historic plunging madrid and barcelona are further into uncertainty and we have team coverage of these breaking developments in barcel

it's very tense in nairobi it's very tense you can tell from the conversations people are having you can tell from the people who are in the shopping centers doing their shopping you can tell from conversations being had in church. so far what we know is that we saw some youth burning tires in kimbrough which is one of the opposition strongholds here in nairobi in western kenya we're getting reports of at least four people shot and are receiving treatment in hospital so the situation right now is a bit tense heavy police presence heavy police presence especially in opposition strongholds so tomorrow morning everyone is just at home waiting for tomorrow morning to see what happens catherine wander reporting from nairobi kenya thank you . all right we're going to turn now to turkey where a german human rights activists is standing trial and estimable peter starting or was detained back in july during a meeting with other human rights activists he is being accused of having links to terrorism and of having ties to the men to the man allegedly behind last year's failed coup the islamic c

correspondent catherine and wonder joy is that joins us from the kenyan capital nairobi. catherine we've seen buildings on fire we've seen these terrible images of people covered in blood is there any hope that politicians will be able to bring kenya back from the brink. well it's a lot of people hoping that it will and not really politicians as such right now it's probably more the professional people the technocrats the you know the working class that needs to do something about whatever is going on because it seems that the politicians both don't want to have dialogue. so people are left in limbo that both their supporters are left in limbo and right now it's quite uncertain because last night we saw violence here in nairobi in informal settlements known as we saw some violence in western kenya as well so right with a death toll of about nine we're expecting that to rise anytime soon so right now kenyans are just waiting for some sort of solution but more so they're waiting for an announcement of the election results by the chairman of the electoral commission and this

in nairobi, thank you julia. police in northern california remainleast 150 people unaccounted for after huge wildfires swept through the region. at least 17 people have been killed, and authorities fear the death toll could rise. people have been assessing the damage to their homes. 1500 have been completely destroyed. picking up the pieces of shattered lives, residents of santa rosa return to their homes with the painstaking task of sifting through the rubble. the flames from several major wildfires in golfing entire communities in northern california. >> it is memories, all gone. .othing we can do we will start all over again. >> i do not have anything left anymore. it feels pretty empty. reporter: the devastating fires have swept californian wine country since late sunday night, destroying thousands of homes, businesses including wineries, and claiming at least a dozen lives. 100-year-old charles and his 98-year-old wife are just two of e victims.s. the coupuple rececently celebrad their 75th wedding anniversa

two of the paul has been marred by deadly clashes a boycott and a low turnout look at the latest from nairobi. polls waggling the world's biggest carmaker says it's burning as long as fifty three percent in the last quarter now that's partly due to the costs of the diesel prices. a low on brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show the standoff between spain and catalonia is expected to come to a head today the spanish is due to vote on the government's proposal to invoke article one fifty five of the constitution now that would put catalonia under direct rule from the dread yesterday colonias president through the region into confusion by backtracking on his plans to call new elections that move might have staved off the threat of rule by madrid. when pro separatists gamut outside the regional parliament they had hoped to hear from catamaran president canas preached amount he'd been expected to call a snap election to stop madrid taking control of catalonia. but he didn't. summon. the spanish government knows that i was ready to call an election if they had given guarantees that it would ta

catherine and want to joins us from the capital nairobi a welcome katharine what's the situation now. often now the situation is relatively calm but during the day we did see policing gauge protesters and running battles especially here in nairobi and in kisumu now this comes only a day after the interior minister fred my chinese told protest and protests within the central business district of the three cities which is mumbai certainly ruby and kisumu so the opposition still insists that they are defiant and that it is their right to picket and that they will continue with these protests and in fact after dinner with do they said that they will have protests at least every single day starting from next week and tell us more about the backgrounds of these demonstrations. well what these protesters want is reforms and according to the main opposition there are about eleven irreducible minimum that the opposition want the electoral commission to undertake so that at least they can provide kenyans with free and credible elections come the twenty sixth of october that is if the elections

the streets of kenya's capital nairobi are unusually quiet worried about the prospect of violence many are staying indoors those few who have ventured out have had enough after months of political tension. i would like politics to quieten down so we can continue with our work we don't want people to fight or kill each other we want kenya to be peaceful. we want life to continue as normal. our incomes are being hurt and we are struggling. old we're tired of politics. thursday's repeat elections were marred by skirmishes between police and opposition supporters the clashes stop some ten percent of polling stations from opening and delayed voting in many others in the kibera slum area of nairobi the situation was particularly tense. they decided to keep people from the voting existence there because very difficult for us because we had a lot of violence from the probe youths were going to be forming officious. voting in four counties was initially postponed until saturday because of the unrest. opposition leaders continued to call on their supporters to boycott the vote citing security co

the media miller al-jazeera nairobi alice speaks out as a lot of though who's live in nairobi for us so most of the polls have now closed what happens next. well the vaults while being calm to until a few minutes ago in most polling stations now they are all but in most of all sporting stations on the falsest malls and home to their cars to transits harding's sun time which then puts together. the results from. the polling stations from each of the two hundred on mine to constituents is before transmitting the final results to the mush will tollywood sent that which is going to tani that is old school is again full they had results coming from the different parts of the country its. however. it won't be until after so today well some all counties are hot the elections postponed call them out we would be receiving on all to come this elections would not go down in history as being at the most a three more years of why in the history of kenya but also probably the most time out because of the not only the call from the opposition leader a loud dingo was boy called of the cold weather t

has more from nairobi. there's little doubt present. headed for months later when of the thousands election. by the opposition parties shrunken electoral mandate due to a timeout continues to tarnish the credibility of a process depletes. opposition leader leading the company to discredit. i think. the busier it is. i think elections. look at the turnout. the. from. the kim. we said than the. three point five million people. but it didn't in the so-called election on thursday. was on the bottle of and boy declared that he would play no part in the run up to the repeat tell action but didn't get demand of the electoral commission make reforms that he believed necessary to avoid previous mistakes that did not happen the election commission has promised to announce so one voltage will take place in twenty five constituencies and was then kenya where security fears and violence prevent the polling from taking place with voting incomplete it's unclear whether the commission would wait or declare victory. it's vi

just nairobi. is one of africa's biggest dumpsite. but what is the cost of someone is a treasure for others. here in the thousands make their livelihood from trash such as plastic bottles paper and electronics. specialize in a rather unusual sort of west yeah both synthetic and real. they are many different types of hair if you're lucky you may find and human hair someone may have voted but didn't like it and three to weigh the boys from the dump sell it to me for the equivalent of two u.s. dollars and then i sell it to a saloon for five days it goes. there is a growing business here in the center of nairobi just one week. after five hundred dollars the current trend for weeks and here extensions has created a million dollar market. here in korogocho a poor districts across the river from than there are dump sites dozens of women want to have their share. clint oiled and combed mary went by as they have from the rubbish dump and then prepares it for customers they pay a fraction of what they would. like these pieces because they are c

by the country's parliament more than a thousand people gathered in nairobi one for the demonstrations are said to be held in western in the western city of which is a stronghold of the main opposition leader. on tuesday a dingo withdrew his candidacy for the vote of iran later this month citing a lack of electoral reform. on and passed a bill that would change our future elections or manage it opens a field for other candidates to stand in the rerun let's go live to florida miller who is in nairobi for us from there bring us up to speed for us with the situation on the ground there's a lot of tension right right now on the streets of nairobi. we're outside the offices of the electoral commission and this is we're expecting protesters. here in the day in fact we've seen some protesters motorbikes come this way and behind us there's a significant police presence in preparation of these protesters police that fired tear gas at hundreds of protesters are in the middle of the city now we've seen these protests happen at least twice a week. these protests could possibly go off to see the wh

weeks before the repeat presidential election is due to be held demonstrations have been banned in nairobi kisumu and mombasa the government says protesters of looted and attacked police stations they also say the police have used force on the opposition leader announced this week that he would be withdrawing from the race throwing the nation into political turmoil catherine soit has more from nairobi. the reason given for this ban is in security and it's not a blanket ban it's a ban on protests in the central business district of nairobi in western kenya and . at the kenyan coast this is where protests have been most sustained and increasingly particularly in nairobi and been seeing incidents of people be robbed shops being vandalized as well the opposition says that have been hired to infiltrate what they see as peaceful demonstrations they also blame the police for using excessive force for example a couple of weeks ago we saw video of police heresy and beating up university students inside their campus here in nairobi yesterday and during the protests dozens of people who were injured

correspondent catherine on wonder joy is that joins us from the kenyan capital nairobi. catherine we've seen buildings on fire we've seen these terrible images of people covered in blood is there any hope that politicians will be able to bring kenya back from the brink. well it's a lot of people hoping that it will and not really politicians as such right now it's probably more the professional people the technocrats the you know the working class that needs to do something about whatever is going on because it seems that the politicians both don't want to have dialogue. so people are left in limbo that both their supporters are left in limbo and right now it's quite uncertain because last night we saw violence here in nairobi in informal settlements known as we saw some violence in western kenya as well so with the death toll of about nine we're expecting that to rise anytime soon so right now kenyans are just waiting for some sort of solution but more so they're waiting for an announcement of the election results by the chairman of the electoral commission and this is

picking through the ruins of shops and nairobi is covering where a neighborhood. rival gangs from different ethnic groups clashed here friday night at least one person was killed this woman recounted her escape from a burning building. so then she held up when we fled we michelle group the demanded we show them our hands they wanted to see if we had nothing because from voting to decide whether to beat. some shopkeepers in coming where i have decided to move their goods to safer locations in case violence breaks out again. uncertainty has gripped kenya voters in four western counties still haven't been able to cast ballots it's uncertain now whether polls there will ever open that could result in the rerun election being declared invalid and forced yet another election that's a prospect few welcome. the people being beaten if this. election goes to bed the most a little things to do the destruction the. destruction and more violence like yesterday in nairobi unable to hold a presidential election that everybody recognizes kenya appears dangerously close to the bri

there was a fairly steady stream of voters coming into this polling station in the center of nairobi but just two hours into the polling day it's now slowed to a trickle it has been raining so that of course would impact the number of people coming out but essentially it's the spoiled cart that the opposition has told as well as security concerns now we did speak to the president thabo mbeki who is leading the african union observer mission in kenya he said about half an hour ago that it's too early really to judge how the election has gone we had asked him if there was a concern around this boycott and how would would impact our credibility here he wouldn't really answer on that issue but of course this is an issue for many observer mission some of them even withdrawing now at this polling station we do know that in august the with the initial presidential election there were lines around the block leading into the main street in nairobi this time around it looks as if a number of voters are staying away. from either we can show our viewers now live pictures of disturbances happenin

was a yes yes i was sure korogocho nairobi is the largest slum it's home to one hundred fifty thousand people who will live below the only rubbish dump for a city with a population of four million they live with and off the rubbish of the rich from the neighboring districts and like vultures look for anything edible one of them's hamilton i he was born in the slum and grew up there there is no hope for the youths of floods of canaan general there is no hope for the future so. a modern city of person and does way i'm living at today and i've become a be a cynic i know islam because i was born near lake at thirty two years ago i have gone through a lot and at some point i was forced to drop out of school because my parents were not able to pay for my secondary school fees after being my primary level for well and i have no option but return of the nearby dumping set of covering for food and for myself just like many other people do a talented footballer when he was twenty two hamilton had the chance to play. the homeless world cup in south africa it was an experience that changed his lif

we'll be live to nairobi in just a moment i'm fully back to watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead spain's government holds an emergency cabinet meeting after catalonia leaders signs a symbolic declaration of secession but calls for talks at least fifteen people are dead after three days of wildfires in the u.s. state of california will tell you the story of one family's narrow escape and a new exhibition in paris tries to capture the magic and mayhem of one of france's most famous artists. we begin with some breaking news out of kenya where the parliament has passed a controversial. amendment to the election laws the reforms say sorry for one candidate withdraws from a repeat presidential election the other one would automatically when it has been heavily criticized by the opposition whose legislators boycott of the vote on tuesday the main opposition leader right now didn't go with join his candidacy from the rerun citing a lack of electoral reform let's go live to florida in nairobi for a so a number of rulings this morning talk us through what they mean for the election that's

asking was ok yes he was yes i was sure korogocho nairobi is the largest slum it's home to one hundred fifty thousand people who live below the only rubbish dump for a city with a population of four million they live with and off the rubbish of the rich from the neighboring districts and like vultures look for anything edible one of them's hamilton i he was born in the slum and grew up there there is no hope for the youth of flanders of canaan general there is no hope for the future so. a modern syrian person and does way i'm living here today and i've become a be a cynic i know islam because i was born near lake of thirty two years ago i have gone through a lot and at some point i was forced to drop out of school because my parents were not able to pay for my secondary school fees after doing my primary level so well and i have no option but return of the nearby dumping set of covering for food and for myself i have all just like many other people do a talented footballer when he was twenty two hamilton had the chance to play. the homeless world cup in south africa it was an experienc

for me to we saw you in the middle of a huge protest what seems to have been going on certainly in nairobi and across the country with regards to demonstrations over rollo dingoes withdrawal. well as soon as a rodent got officially withdrawn from the elections that are due to take place later this month he also said that they planned demonstrations across the country and we certainly saw some of those demonstrations here in nairobi where supporters backed his move to withdraw but also tracing the electoral commission demanding that they should be reforms to allow for a free and fair election if we look back to the ruling from the supreme court after the august elections the court had said that they had been irregularities around how the telling of results in that election took place and this of course leading us to the rerun later this month but now that withdrawal from reloading has raised a number of questions about the raid forward and kenyans in general are looking for answers especially from the independent electoral and boundaries commission around the way forward today hasn't been a

boycott of affected turnout for an election that has polarized the nation we'll take you to the capital nairobi from also on the program a final farewell full time and he's a kingpin we pop five days of ceremony and ritual for the moment you buy millions as a father figure second life to bangkok. the german human rights organizer is freed on bail from a turkish prison so does this signal an improvement in relations between the left. and in the german cup topside leipzig guided by a munich played even right to be at last night's big match had all the drama fans expected to let you know which clock on top in the final six hours. i'm phil gayle welcome to the program. police in western kenya have reportedly been shooting live ammunition and tear gas to break up protests as the country runs its presidential election opposition leader run out of danger has described today's vote as a sham and called for a boycott in the capital nairobi mr a dingo supporters have been throwing stones at people trying to enter polling stations voting has proceeded in areas that support president kenyatta but turnouts

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was ok yes he was yes i was sure korogocho nairobi is the largest slum it's home to one hundred fifty thousand people who will live below the only rubbish dump for a city with a population of four million they live with and off the rubbish of the rich from the neighboring districts and like vultures look for anything edible one of them's hamilton i he was born in the slum and grew up there there is no hope for the youths of floods of canaan general there is no hope for the future for like me a modern city of person and does way i'm living at today and i've become a be a cynic i know a slum because i was born near lake at thirty two years ago i have gone through a lot and at some point i was forced to drop out of school because my parents were not able to pay for my secondary school fees after doing my primary level so well and i have no option but to turn at the nearby dumping set of covering for food and for myself just like many other people do a talented footballer when he was twenty two hamilton had the chance to play. the homeless world cup in south africa it was an experience th

court not an election had been or was for alleged irregularities we get the latest on going live to nairobi also coming up a german human rights organize a goes on trial in turkey today his case has become a flashpoint in already strained relations between berlin and on korea. and frank loesser steinmeyer becomes the fall is just one head of state to visit moscow in seventy as this is the russian government prepares to return a few good to the evangelists a neutral in charge. of a warm welcome to you i'm on the thought she we start the show with kenya where the supreme court has announced it could not show a last minute petition. delayed thursday's presidential election the chief justice is not enough judges were present the announcement means tomorrow's vote will go ahead as shared the decision has triggered protests in a key so more an opposition stronghold people have taken to the streets many are saying they will boycott the presidential really. this vote comes after the supreme court knowledge results from all the selection due to irregularities since then dozens have been killed in el

catherine i wonder reporting from nairobi thank you for that update. right now some of the other stories making news around the world a proposal to expand the world's largest marine sanctuary in arctic has failed after not getting the unanimous support needed and a meeting in hope that australia the plan to extend protection by linking existing sanctuaries fell through when russian and chinese delegates failed to endorse it. u.s. defense secretary jim mattis has warned that north korea would face a quote massive military response if pyongyang ever used its nuclear weapons tensions have been running high on the korean peninsula the north conducted its sixth nuclear test last month and tested missiles the regime claims all capable of reaching the u.s. mainland u.s. special counsel robert when his investigation into alleged russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election may have produced criminal charges u.s. media are reporting a federal grand jury has approved the first charges in the case but it's not yet known against whom or for what. well this w

you're driving folk around in nairobi. go ahead. >> yes, and so i had many customers. i bought another vehicle. i bought buses. these buses could take people across kenya and it was called mullyesyd express. that how i traded in that name and it was like a dream. it never took a long time. and therefore, i grew up again on the side of -- and again, on insurance company. and so my income grew and i became a wealthy man. >> you become a multimillionaire is what you become. >> well, i can't call me myself that way. but i felt like yes, i had everything that i needed and my family and then we would go everywhere where we wanted and really enjoyed ourself. but something happened. when i was in nairobi, there, i found street boys, a gang of young people and they said, well, give us money. and then i said, why should i give you money? and i started having bad feeling. when i saw children crying, when i saw women carrying, you know, children and these women were in poor state. i saw myself in their faces. >> oh, yeah. >> when they cried. >> you had a flash back to what you had

nairobi and mogadishu, somalia. when we come back, a lot is toog set of the me campaign online. but overall, it is being attributed to the wrong person. we have the originator of that campaign in our studio. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: courtney love said this week her 2005 public warning to women about serial predator harvey weinstein got her blacklisted by the powerful hollywood telling agency creative artist agency, writing "although i was not one of his victims, i was eternally banned by caa for speaking out against harvey weinstein raped." this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. as we talk about the latest news right now. once all the allegations are not being made against disgraced -- thrusting his genitals. he tried to kiss me again with my hand still on his chest and i said, dude, you're tripping right now. attending the make it clear i was not interested. those allegations are not being made against harvey weinstein, but against now pre

met church leaders and supporters in a part of nairobi that seen violent clashes since the election and iraq's kurdish regional leader massoud barzani is set to announce his resignation at a sitting of the region's parliament on sunday has been under pressure to step down during last month's controversial secession referendum. criminal organizations are recruiting children to smuggle undocumented migrants into the us there has obtained rare access to some of the teenagers acting as guides in juarez just across the border from texas john home reports. your train is the united states so close to see that what is mexico you can almost reach out and touch it. the dream of many is to get to the other side and that's where mexican cartels have scented knopper to take smuggling across those without visas for a price. what's little known is to do that they're increasingly relying on minors as people smugglers they call them towards. this fourteen year old boy is one of them like others we talk to two hundred dollars for every mexican he takes across five hundred percent true americans with the

the ban applies to central business district of the capital nairobi and the cities of kisumu and heard of the rerun in two weeks' time several people were injured in demonstrations up to parliament passed controversial electoral reforms and a court ruling that allowed all previous turned it to stand in the fresh poll the main opposition candidate quit the race on tuesday though the electoral commission is yet to receive his official withdrawal papers well earlier i spoke in nairobi the reason given by the interior minister because of valen increasingly we've seen people being robbed a shop being vandalized particularly here in nairobi and in some way as well. opposition. who've been hired. third have been hired to infiltrate their peaceful demonstrations they've also accused our police of using excessive force a couple of years a couple of match a couple of weeks ago so here we go the deal of police beating up university students inside the lecture hall yesterday in protest thinking more people were injured some have been hospitalized with bullet wounds they blame the police so are the

kenya only nine percent of kenya the money to be different from forty and i doubt it has more from nairobi. the results been targeted by the independent electoral commission in various parts of the country dividing the people of kenya just like the election process before that opposition supporters are saying that the governing party they do believe is tinkering with numbers to make up for a very little. pull to the government we've just come back from interviewing the deputy president of the william brutal. time out is. more than ninety five percent of the votes cast it's just a mater of time before president who took. him. for another tom in office now kenya's most concern however is the killings going on in some parts of nairobi with some militias allied to politicians cutting out killings of different ethnic groups police say the looking for the politicians small order. talks. somalia's government has fired its place and intelligence in response to attacks in the capital. at least twenty seven people died in saturday's attack which has been claimed by the. report. hours after the attac

thanks very much for me to milla in nairobi. china's president of his to be consolidating his grip on power at the communist party's nineteenth congress in beijing in a three and a half hour speech changing pain laid out his political and economic vision for his country of the next five years he highlighted china's successes and vowed to further open its economy but also want to survey challenges like rising debt and inequality he also reaffirmed his vow to stamp out corruption promising new rules to tackle the problem which is currently handled by a shadowy internal policy process he also talked about the dangers posed by climate change saying china must cooperate with other nations to as he put it ensure the survival of mankind china correspondent adrian brown has more from beijing. president xi jinping can control a lot of things but he can't influence the weather to the superstitious and many people here are the damp grey start to this congress was perhaps a warning sign. in spite of the weather this was a day of choreograph

catherine i wonder reporting from nairobi thank you for that update let's get you up to date now with some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. defense secretary jim isis is warning that north korea would face a quote massive military response if pyongyang ever used its nuclear weapons tensions have been running high on the korean peninsula the north conducted its sick nuclear test last month and tested missiles the regime claims are capable of reaching the u.s. mainland. thailand's new it kingma cohen has led a royal ceremony for the relics of his late father king on the king was joined by other members of the royal family i'm good asst monks in the throne hall of bangkok's grand palace the ceremony marks the fourth day of an elaborate five day funeral capping a year of mourning that the late king. arthur mahler's former president auto put as money in and his vice president will stand trial for corruption charges prosecutors say ring involving government officials customs agents and businesspeople to forwarded the state of millions of dollars in a alleged scheme to