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Presidential election. they want to put democrats in jail for not participating in this fantasy that trump won the 2020 election. >> its deeply troubling, right? i mean, i dont think thats profound for me to say but when you are talking about jailing election officials, and i havent read the article or seen the sourcing of the reporting, but that is deeply troubling. you look at the changes taking place, the big issue when you talk to even republicans on this is whats happened in these secretary...

Repercussions? >> so thats a great question. it was referred, the matter was referred to the doj because records preservation is a matter of federal law. normally this would not be that big a deal except for the fact that we had a whole litigation of this issue in 2016 in the lead up to that election in which donald trump was clearly on the other side of the coin, arguing not just for the prosecution but the jailing of hillary clinton for her records retention practices. so this is really a matt...

So some of these countries were not l prepared for the changes that tookl place, and that is why... the expectation, the failed expectations didnt work, i and therefore the only solution was go back to military rule. i the military rule didnt i work and there is chaos. 0k. and you need to analyse somalia, you need to analyse ethiopia, - and you need to analyse both the sudans, you need to look at even egypt right now, - the entire west african region. its because the democracy that they were ask...

In countries that have had democratically—held elections. you know, we saw it in somalia, we see it in mozambique. you still have conflict. democracy does not necessarily deliver stability and prosperity, does it? in africa. its a complex issue. at the risk of sounding like a coup—monger, if you look at the recent coups, for sure, there was deep public disillusionment. in guinea, for example, with alpha conde, extending his term, jailing a lot of his opponents. in mali, with a rigged parliam...

Implement was not home—grown. it was forced. 0k, murithi, i mean, we are seeing conflict in countries that have had democratically—held elections. you know, we saw it in somalia, we see it in mozambique. you still have conflict. democracy does not necessarily deliver stability and prosperity, does it? in africa. its a complex issue. at the risk of sounding like a coup—monger, if you look at the recent coups, for sure, there was deep public disillusionment. in guinea, for example, with alph...

Injail in russia, he is a kremlin critic, he has called on russia to stage daily protests against the war and he has put a statement out on social media with the help of this team asking russians to come out every evening at 7pm on weekdays and every evening at 7pm on weekdays and every weekend at 1a00 so were going to have to see what comes from that. his jailing triggered large protests here and he remained a thorn in the kremlins side for top you will perhaps remember this is the man who suff...

The guy is the richest -- one of the richest people in the world because he steals the russian people blind. lets take his oligarchs. all of his buddies. take their rich apartments from them. sell their yachts and put them in jailing for being war profiteers. do you know what i would do if i were president of the united states i would declare putin an international war criminal he is invading a neighboring nation that signed an agreement with russia in 1994 to give their nuclear stockpile to ukr...

Russian forces bombard ukraine. risking full scale war with nato. social knead media isnt helping. its hard to know what to believe anymore. living in an information age at our fingertips. there are serious doubts over which parts of it are true. >> moscow was increasingly using harsh tactics to control information about war. this included jailing journalists. >> they aimed at bringing belarus into the conflict. the biological weapons are becoming a key part of the russian disinformation campaig...

Hey, what happens there? if they can achieve all that, we can too. so he has -- he wants to stop it by all means, including -- and he does a lot now to close the russia. its like new iron curtain. he wants to silence people inside russia and deafen these people so they dont hear, make them blind to what happens outside. but ukraine is closed to be curtained. >> and blinding people like ending independent journalism, punishing and jailing journalists, but i want to see that picture again of putin...

Russian forces bombard ukraine. risking full scale war with nato. social knead media isnt helping. its hard to know what to believe anymore. living in an information age at our fingertips. there are serious doubts over which parts of it are true. >> moscow was increasingly using harsh tactics to control information about war. this included jailing journalists. >> they aimed at bringing belarus into the conflict. the biological weapons are becoming a key part of the russian disinformation campaig...