preferred better science better results julian assange will soon be a free man. assad claimed his mission was to shine a light on evidence of war crimes and abuses of power if everything goes well, julian will be on a plane on the way to freedom biden is preparing for whatever version of donald trump might show up thursday night before for this thursday's debate, will give donald trump far fewer opportunities to score with those unscripted, colorful moments. >> over the next few days. >> more than three-quarters of the country will see temperatures over 90 degrees fahrenheit live from london. this is cnn newsroom with max foster hello, will warm. >> welcome to our viewers joining us in the us and around the world. i'm max foster. it is tuesday, june the 25th 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4m of the ceiling studios in atlanta with the first us presidential debate will be held in just two days president joe biden huddling with top aides at the camp, david presidential retreat in maryland. and his republican rival donald trump says he's been preparing for the debate by going to events and taking questions hey indicated podcasts, maybe the best way to get ready for the showdown how are you preparing? >> i'm preparing by taking questions from you and others if you think about it, but i'm preparing by dealing with you. you're tougher than all of them. >> cnn's mj lee has a closer look now the biden camp and how it's preparing everybody knows he's a liar, but you i just want i want to make sure that you wanted lasting get less. >> first four years after this hunches debate between joe biden and donald trump be during a torrent of insults, name-calling, an interruptions or she did that because the question is justice left, would you president biden, is again preparing to face off against his unpredictable predecessor on the debate stage. >> cnn is learning that biden is preparing for whatever version of donald trump might show up thursday night including a potentially disciplined donald trump recreating the experience of going up against trump, a key feature of the mock debates. >> you want to find some balance between recreating the experience and not attempting to, if you will, audition for saturday top campaign aides insisting that regardless of whether the president is unhinged or more demure on thursday, there is simply no altering his record. people are going to know that he's a twice-impeached, convicted felon, who has been found to have defamed somebody sexually abused somebody, and gone bankrupt six times. they will always there's no that ahead of the high-stakes debates set to unfold inside cnn's atlanta studio. biden hunkering down with more than a dozen of his top aides at camp david, the campaign hoping to showcase to starkly different visions on a whole host of issues. the economy democratic institutions, and reproductive rights, decades of progress shatter just because the last guy got four years in the white house, you know what will happen to begets another floor or maga republicans row is just the beginning. >> democrats on monday seizing on the two-year anniversary of the supreme court's overturning of roe v wade in place singh blame squarely at trump's feet, a new biden campaign ad featuring testimonial from one louisiana woman who says she was turned away from two emergency rooms after a dangerous miscarriage at 11 weeks of pregnancy, he's now a convicted felon. trump thinks he should not be held accountable for his own criminal actions. chins but he will let women and doctors be punished vice president kamala harris, who has emerged the administration's leading voice on the issue. >> one of many top democrats blanketing the country today in the case of the stealing of reproductive freedom from the women of america donald trump is guilty now, if it's impossible to predict how former president donald trump might behave on thursday, even biden allies would acknowledge that presence is it a biden's performance can be mixed. there are dates and events were the president is very focused and sharp and other times when he is simply less on his game so there's no question that the president and his group of aids that are huddled right now at camp david are also going to be working on the performance aspects. and there certainly hoping that at the present, biden that gave his state of the union remarks back in march, that that is going to be the version that shows up to the debate stage on thursday night mj lee, cnn white house, every debate presents opportunities for shocks and twists of course, and thursday showdown will be no exception cnn senior data reports and harry entin looks at some of the great debate unknowns how rusty will these candidates be? we're dealing with record all candidates and neither from debated during the primary season. that is the first time that that has ever happened where neither candidate debated during the primary season, usually at least one, if not two, has done going into a general election debate. so how rusty will they become thursday, we're just going to have to wait and see all right. how about some other great unknowns heading into the debate, this trump name a vp, he's kinda ties that a little bit because if he does, it might be the only thing that we talk about post debate up all of a sudden you have a complete ticket on the republican side, it could cover up for a potential gaff that he in fact might make. maybe if he feels like the betas going well, he won't actually say anything. all right, that's two unknowns how about a third unknown? >> which donald trump shows up at the debate on thursday night, or we didn't get that first debate, donald trump from 2020, where he's trying constantly trying to interrupt folks or are we potentially going to get a calmer trump a comma trump to maybe throw by north whose sole prepping for trump to try and interrupt them at every turn. >> but all of a sudden we got to trump that is dare i say a little bit more presidential. of course presidential and trump, not necessarily two things that i always go together in a sentence finally, one other thing i'll note. what will be the impact of the fact that this is the earliest debate on record by four this is happening three months before any prior general election debate. it could make for a maximum effect, right? oftentimes we have these debates and then you see a debate a week later, a vice presidential debate, which basically keeps the sort of bump a candidate. my cap at a minimum. maybe we could have a maximum effect on this one especially sintering. there are no other debates anytime soon. so this is going to basically take up a chunk of the new cycle, not just this week, not just next one. bug going into july be sure to watch cnn as it hosts the u.s. >> presidential debates. it's on thursday, june the 27, 9:00 p.m. eastern the us. that's 9:00 a.m. friday and ongoing 2:00 a.m. here in london will tampa sled during a long day of hearings and the classified documents case against donald trump. but one point, the judge told the prosecutor she did not appreciate his tome. she also appeared skeptical about placing a gag order on trump, who had appointed her the special counsel's office says the gag order is needed because law enforcement officers are facing threats after trump repeatedly and misleadingly claim that the federal agents who searched his mar-a-lago estate, we're authorized to murder him but judge aileen cannon said prosecutors must show connecting facts between what trump said and the actual threats cannon hasn't yet issued a ruling on either the gag order on allegations from chunk that the special counsel's office is being improperly funded a temporary election worker in arizona is under arrest after allegedly stealing a security fob and keys from an election center in america per county court documents reveal walter ringfield was seen on surveillance video last week grabbing a lanyard with keys and a fog attached to it it was later confronted by supervisor and the fob was founds during a surge of his home ringfield now faces charges of fift and criminal damage. arizona america, the county specifically has been a hotbed for election conspiracy theories since 2020. but arizona officials say ringfield's the rest shows that election safety he protocols in the county are working wikileaks founder julian assange is expected to appear in a us courtroom on wednesday to accept the plea deal with the justice department, but it won't be in new york or in washington. the 52-year-old australian is heading to the northern mariana islands after spending the last five years in london prison he's expected to plead guilty to a single count in one of the largest ever leaks of classified us government material in return, assange will avoid spending any time in an american prison and return to australia, a free man, a spring in cnn's claire sebastian, we're expecting this in a sense, we were because we had heard back in april comments from president joe biden that he was considering a request from australia to to stop this case to end the prosecution against assad just really had been labouring for a while, but that really did shift to the narrative. there's comments from biden and when we saw the last hearing that he had in the uk courts in may, there were a lot of banners up saying let him go, joe and the wikileaks head at the moment, told me that he was placing a lot of hope on the political process. what we didn't expect. and i think this is characteristic of a tail with so many twists is how this is all now unfolded he is a sign as well, having to plead guilty to one count, and i suspect that we shall hear more about that from wikileaks. he is avoiding having to ever set foot on us soil. he is going to make that plea on a remote pacific island chain, the town of psi pan, the northern mariana islands, which has a us territory and the pacific near guam he will make that police there. a federal judge in a federal district court based there will then either approve or not. but we suspect approve the deal and they will sentenced him to 62 months. that's where us prosecutors are asking for, but that will be offset by the time he's already served in bohmer high security prison in the uk. so this is something that seems to have happened very quickly, but his team recorded a video a week ago where they seem to be already confident that this was going to go through, take a listen to a portion of that video with his wife, stella assange throughout the years of julian's imprisonment. and persecution. an incredible movement has been formed. a movement of people from all walks of life from around the world who support not just julian and not just us in our family but what julian stands for, truth and justice truth and justice is the argument that you hear from his supporters, his team, that this was all about journalism, and that the charges against him there were by the way, 18 charges 17 of which one under the espionage act in the u.s. >> only one of them he's not having to plead guilty to. but as i said, we we will likely hear more about that. we think that a plane that is believed to be carrying him has now landed in bangkok. that will then be heading on to the northern mariana islands. the hearing set for wednesday morning. their time around 9 am, about 15 hours or so from now, it has been 12 years since he has walked free. >> yeah. okay. claire, thank you so much the us some regions are receiving very heavy rainfall while other areas experiencing blistering temperatures cities like sioux falls in south dakota, over a month's worth of rainfall and flood warnings are still in place in waterlogged areas and along rivers as water levels, there are running well above normal and as rivers in the region swell and aging dam in minnesota is said to be on the brink of collapse. authorities say they don't know if the rapidan dam, their, the city among carto will totally fail. but for now is still intact. and there are no plans for mass evacuations emergency officials say the blue earth river cut around the west side of the dam, carrying damaging debris and causing power outages. the dam has been around since 1910 and was only and was once a source of hydroelectric power now the us national weather service is warning that temperatures will continue to soar across parts of the country today, states in the central plains could see temperatures over 100 degrees fahrenheit, more than 37 degrees celsius. cnn meteorologist chad myers has your latest forecasts another hot day in places across the southeast, across parts of the midwest, across parts of california, still fairly cool across the lingula and, and even upstate new york. >> but we've seen all of this very heavy rainfall. keep mainly the northern part of the country cool here across the us with heavy rain in fall, some spots picking up a foot and a half. now that's just about a half a meter of rainfall in 72 hours. and every place there is flooding. some places major flooding other places record flooding. a lot of water still to get down into those bigger rivers. there'll be a few scattered storms across the midwest, across parts of iowa all the way through the cargo land later on today. but the storm's keep moving. notice they're not just sitting in one place when they sit. that's when they create all of that havoc, when it comes to the flash flooding could feel like 110 degrees though with the heat and humidity in places before it does decide to rein later on today. and over the next few days more than three-quarters of the country will see temperatures over 90 degrees fahrenheit. so, yes, a couple of cool days in store for boston, even new york, 90 doesn't feel that bad compared to where you were almost 100 dc, you did get to 100. it'll be 93 later on today. and even for atlanta, a high 97. so stay cool if you can a few more days of this still on the way for more now, julian assange is released from a uk prison. >> i'm john bye rebecca vincent. she's director of international campaigns for reporters. without borders. thank you so much for joining us today we, some people suggested something something was moving in this case and then the news came in, didn't it? last night how did he react to it i mean, we're hugely relieved to finally have some good news in this case. >> it has certainly been a long time coming. we've been campaigning for many years in support of julian assange because of his contributions to journalism. and although we were following the legal proceedings in the uk courts, we've long said that this is a political case that a political solution could be possible. and we've advocated with the us government and the other governments involved for precisely this outcome. so frankly, we're delighted so voids us prison hill, avoid any prison time, won't he has. i understand it, because he served so many years here in the uk. already. he has admitted one point of guilt though, hasn't just take us through that so the full details have not yet been released, and i believe that there's still helps under legal still, so i'm not able to speculate fully. >> were very much waiting to see the details of this, but it is true. he's already served more than five years in prison in the uk, and he's been deprived of his liberty in fact, for 13 years in various means so we've maintained on a point of principle that he should not have spent a single date deprived of his liberty. we believe that the publication of these documents was in the public interest. nobody should be pursued like this for publishing in the public interest. so this is now a victory for journalism, for press freedom and for everyone's right to know can i just go through the journey? >> on this as well because just to explain why this is so important to journalism, because there's obviously shades of gray here, isn't it? for many parts of the journalism industry, because there was releasing what many people see as a public interest document but with that was released a list of unredacted names, which is an issue lot of journalists do have with it. so where do you stand on that? because it put many lives at risk as well? >> so actually, i would refute that framing a little bit that was part of the us government's legal case against julian assange, but it was far more complex by that. actually wikileaks republished the leaked information. it was another party that accessed the unredacted documents and it was never intended to be released in that way, wikileaks had worked in partnership with a coalition of professional media the organizations to treat the information journalist journalistically before it was published but indeed it is a complicated case. it is one that has put our democracies to the test that is tested what journalism means, what press freedom means, what we really mean by freedom of information. the reason that we have defended this case. so ardently is because of the implications would have for journalism around the world. this is the first time that the us government has pursued a publisher under the espionage act in this way, we've seen that law used against whistleblowers in the past, but never a publisher if they had succeeded in bringing him to the us in possible sentencing him up to 175 years. that precedent be applied to any journalists and immediate organization, anyone around the world working with leaked classified information, which is normal journalistic process. so it's not just about the rights of this one person, although that matters to is about the future of journalism. and i have to say now, we think journalism is a little bit safer with this release but there will be some preston that will be broken here because he will be facing he will be found guilty, and he will be accepting guilt. and it will be received a sentence on part of what you've been fighting so what matters now is that his free in principle, we would we would have liked to see it done in a different way. we have been calling for all of the charges to be dropped and for him to be released. but most importantly, this man will not spend a single day further unjustly deprived of his liberty his mental health has been up serious concern. his physical health has been of concern up and really worried following some of my prison visits to him, the conditions there were grim. it wasn't really as bad as he would have possibly faced in the u.s. i'm pleased that we will never find that out, but enough is enough. we can't undo the past 13 years, but we can do the right thing now, i'm glad that the us government finally has, frankly, we expect better from the country of the first amendment. and i hope this kind of a case will not be repeated. we need to see in the earliest stages, urgent reform of the espionage act. so it cannot be used again in this way to target journalistic activity are you already come to know him well, what you expect him to do, and it gets back to australia i think first and foremost, we'll probably want to spend time with his family because of course he has two young sons who have only seen him in belmarsh prison i also hope that he'll seek some medical care and take some us frankly, we're hoping to be able to speak later today. >> the last time i saw him was about a month ago in prison and he seemed more upbeat than during some of my previous visits. so perhaps good news was already on the horizon, but as a person, i think he probably need some time to recover okay. rebecca vinson in paris really appreciate you spending your time with us today. thank you princess, on the youngest sister of britain's king charles, in hospital with a head injury suffered during a walk and our home on sunday, buckingham palace's the 73-year-old is being treated for a concussion and other minor injuries should make a full recovery. the exact cause of injuries unclear, but her medical team believes a princess may have been struck in some way by a horse king charles and queen camilla are preparing a lavish welcome for the emperor and empress of japan. the royal couple arrived in the uk on saturday, they spent the weekend attending informal engagements today's festivities will start with a ceremonial welcome at horse guards parade. the state banquets scheduled for tonight, a buckingham palace royal-watchers will be looking for prince williams, wife, catherine, who attended only one royal engagements since announcing her cancer diagnosis in december more high level talks today in washington where israeli defense minister yoav gallant is meeting with us officials to discuss the war in gaza and the growing tension between israel and hezbollah. the details next, plus iran is gearing not for its presidential election this week will head to tehran to gauge the mood and the country ahead of the votes. and later celebration in south florida, data bells unexciting winner take all 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hezbollah in the north could spark a wider conflict. in the hours ahead, you have golan will sit down with us defense secretary lloyd austin yesterday. he met with us secretary of state antony blinken, who emphasized the need to stop the war in gaza from escalating the two also discussed efforts to reach a ceasefire and hostage release deal. gan answer. visit comes as prime minister benjamin netanyahu told local media on sunday that he was prepared to agree to a temporary pause in fighting in exchange for the release of some hostages and that the war would continue after ceasefire with the goal of eliminating hamas. that move appears at all with the recent proposal that would result in a permanent ceasefire a day later. and the knesset, mr. netanyahu said the war would not end until all hostages are returned to israel and insisted he wasn't walking away from the proposal lotto. so you met dummy end the war until we return all the hostages. >> 120 hostages, both the living and the dead we are committed to the israeli proposal that president biden our position has not changed on a c biden sin is nada bashir joins us in london with more. please explain to our viewers what's going on here. >> well, look, we're seeing this in yahoo walking back on those comments before. but what we've also been seeing is mounting pressure on the israeli prime minister from his own citizens, particularly, of course, the family members hostages currently held captive by hamas in gaza. we've been seeing the protests in the streets of tel aviv for months now, what we've actually seen over the last day is one organization which represents hostages and their family members releasing footage showing the scene on october 7 as three hostages were abducted. i believe we have the full video warning two for view as it is distressing and graphic, you can see the three israeli citizens being abducted by hamas medicines on october 7 are being placed on the back of a pickup truck. one of those hostages and the american israeli citizen at hersch goldberg-polin, can be seen with his face bloodied, his arm, seemingly injured from what we've been hearing from these family members, from these organizations is continued pressure and calls on the israeli prime minister on the israeli government to focus more on securing the release of these hostages. and of course, those comments that you mentioned from netanyahu and his first one-on-one interview since october 7, with israeli media suggesting that there would be a pause in fighting, that there would be a partial deal, but not a full deal as has been laid out on the table by the biden administration. now, of course, let's now who has walked back on those comments? he says the war will not end until all hostages our return, and that is what is stipulated in this three-phase ceasefire agreement, which has been according to the white house put forward by the israeli government, which would see a full release of hostages in exchange of palestinian prisoners currently held in israeli jails, many of them, of course important to note under administrative detention, meaning no charges laid against them. and we've been hearing from other israeli sources who have said that the israeli government has reiterated its commitment to mediators in qatar, to stand by the steel. but again, that agreement still currently stalling at this stage, continued pressure, of course, from us officials on both sides to agree to this deal. okay. thank you. >> so let's come a new finance bill in kenya as young protesters ready to shut down the nation's capital, will explain why the bill has jennifer, jenna, gen z upset the most anticipated moment of this election and the stakes couldn't be higher. the president and the former president's one stage moderated by jake tapper and dana the cnn presidential debate thursday night at nine live on cnn. and streaming on max america. >> you love alien tape and now you can get two roles for free. that's 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wednesday to a single charge, assange will avoid spending anytime in an american prison and return to australia a free man. lawyers for hunter biden are requesting a new trial in his federal gun case disputing his conviction on a technicality. us presidency son was found guilty earlier this month on three felony charges, all related to his lying about illegal drug use when he bought a handgun in 2018? louisiana is being sued over a new law that requires all public classrooms to display the ten commandments some parents and civil rights groups say the state is violating the first amendment and with pressure, students into religious observance present joe biden's team says he's getting ready to encounter any other many incarnations have donald trump, including a very disciplined version, but trump has a track record of being very undisciplined during debate. cnn's brand it has more donald trump or first hint of donald trump's pension for being an unconstrained debater came in 2015. when then fox news anchor meghan kelly challenged him over his treatment of women who had drawn his disdain you've called women, you don't like that pigs dogs, slavs, and disgusting animals your twitter account only rosie o'donnell what i say is what i say an honestly, megan, if you don't like it, i'm sorry. >> i've been very nice to you, although i could probably maybe not be based on the way you have treated me, but i wouldn't do that. >> it was the first indication that this is an unpredictable force in american politics that we had never seen before. >> the former president has pulled visual stunts to knock his opponent off their game, like the time in 2016 when his campaign had three women who had accused former president bill clinton of inappropriate sexual behavior. sit front and center at his debate against hillary clinton. at that same debate, trump stood very close behind hillary clinton as she book clinton later joked about it on the ellen degeneres show. >> and i would just feel this presence be me. >> i thought, wow, this is really weird. >> in the first 2020 debate, trump repeatedly unashamedly interrupted joe biden to the point where the venn democratic nominee just couldn't take it anymore but justice left. >> would you listen who is on your list? you this when you write, gentlemen, i think trump has often scored points off these moments by feeding off the audience in the 2016 primaries, trump definitely parlayed audience reactions in the use of insults to confound his gop opponents there was a repeated salvo towards senator marco rubio. >> don't worry about it a little. marco rubio responded by making fun of the size of trump's hands, but trump had a comeback for that too. >> he referred to my hands of this fall something else must be small. i guarantee you there's no problem. i guarantee trump also struck a nerve by often limb blasting former florida governor jeb bush's energy levels not you're trying to build up your render ways yet, but it's not working one at a time. did that change perceptions of jeb bush? >> it did and jeff butch, frankly, never recovered from some some of that created this narrative around the bush campaign and around events that jeb bush was participating in that that did start to seem low energy analyst matt visor points out the format for this thursday's debate will give donald trump far fewer opportunities parties to score with those unscripted, colorful moments with no live audience for him to feed off off and the candidates microphones muted unless it's their turn to speak donald trump will have to find possibly more traditional ways to try to knock his opponent off his game. bryan todd, cnn, washington, be sure to watch a cnn as host, the us presidential debate is on thursday, june the 27th, 9:00 p.m. eastern in the us, 9 a.m. friday in hong kong, 2:00 a.m. in khan in london now the final stretch of campaigning is underway in iran. >> i had a friday's presidential election. six candidates are running in snap elections following the death of president ebrahim race in a helicopter crash last month. in the coming hours, all the candidates will meet for the last presidential debate. there. let's go over to cnn's fred pleitgen, his life for us in tehran, fred either max, yeah, and that last presidential debate is set to get started any moment. now there should be some public viewings around the city, but i can tell you, looking around iran, that the entire city here, i'll tear ban is plastered with electric posters of most of the candidates. you have some that are commemorating ebrahim raisi, of course, the late president who was killed in that hell lakoff, crashed, which is of course the reason why we have this election coming up in the next couple of days. but then you see also on that house over there that's one of the main conservative candidates ahmed robleh, qalibaf food is also running in the election. he's actually the current speaker of a ron's parliament and the former mayor of tehran. he's of those six candidates is one of them people who could be considered a favorite in this election. one of the others is someone who is actually pretty well known in the west, as named saeed jalili. he used to be iran's chief nuclear negotiator there are a couple of years back, so many officials in the western countries, especially the united states. we'll still know him very well. interesting about this election is that there is also a moderate candidate who has made its to the final six were allowed to run in this election is also taking part in the debate that is taking place set to start in the next couple of minutes as names must to possess qian, he's the former health minister of iran, and he's a heart surgeon actually by training, and he's also running very closely with iran, former foreign minister zarif, who is also supporting his campaign very much. it's quite interesting to see because this election, of course happening very soon after that chakra topper crash took place. that was on main 19. so just a little over a month later, the iranians already conducting these elections that we have had iran supreme leader maxey came out earlier today, he held a speech because today is also very important religious holiday here in iran. you obviously spoke about that religious holiday, but also spoke about the importance of the upcoming elections on friday, saying that they are of course very important for the legitimacy of the political system here in this country. one of the things that he said is that he believed that there was low turnout, that it would help you'll wishers as he put it, of iran, of course, first and foremost meaning western countries, meaning specifically the united states as well. so it's very clear from being on my ground here. but the iranian authorities of the government, they believed that this is a pivotal election for this country that's coming up. they are trying to get people to come out and vote. and if you look at the makeup the candidates, you do see that there are some very conservative candidates, so huge illegally, for instance, is a very conservative individual, but there are also moderates, namely awesome pezeshkian who could mobilize some of that moderate voters. of course we know that in the last presidential election, where ebrahim raisi was elected, that the turnout there was fairly low they are hoping for more this time there were very quick to michelle electrodes and certainly are say that they believe that it's important to show that the government functions are continuing to show that they can reelect the president very quickly after the tragedy that happened on may 19 okay. >> for pleitgen in tiran. thank you know, ahead of plans for mass protests at nairobi is parliament today, amnesty international tells cnn at least 12 prominent social media users have been abducted it comes ahead of talks about a controversial finance bill that has sparked a nationwide protests for more than a week now, protesters argued the bill would raise the cost of living but the international monetary fund insists it's unnecessary. move to reduce kenya's budget deficit and government borrowing. cnn's larry madowo is following developments for us are my roby take us through mary get assigned of tear gas and these are mostly peaceful protesters. >> never time to mask the police, give them up how to just get away from this the house by my joining us i want to find here in this confusion here but how about obama comes back to us. >> i live on cnn. >> why are you here today i'm here because look at what's happening young kenyans i'm demonstrating for their rights they're demonstrating with flags and banners. >> i can't even see anymore yeah. gosh. we i can reach when the whole you carry on you do what you need to do to stay safe. >> we just saw using explain to the viewers that were watching their larry in nairobi visa protests, that are around this finance bill. and they're also using tear gas, which is extremely uncomfortable for everyone there. but we'll check in on larry for you, but these are the scenes as their unfolding there. i'm clearly a very strong response from the authorities to try to clear the area and prevent those protests we need to check in on larry, but he's been in these situations before and i'm sure be fine. also, those protesters, but larry can you hear me? just take us through what's happening yes max, we are ready i'm here with elmo obama, who tend to join these protesters the mostly young people, gen z, who have been raising their voice online against over taxation the finance bill now that is currently being discussed in the national assembly. >> and just a little began to speak. she has been tear gas. it's deeply uncomfortable you struggled to breed you cannot speak and she's in this moment where asieh, the banner, she has nothing more. she's unarmed. >> all of the people the around here. >> all they have is the phones that is all they have and they're getting teargassed actively being broken up here in the middle of the capital. o my position to talk to me again set up i can't believe that these young people just trying to demonstrate for their rights. >> i to tap them down. we understand that they need to use voices. ever been tear gas were being gassed. we have flags and banners nothing else nothing nothing else. you want? flags. and banners. the kenyan flag geog, as you listen to them. these georgia and got no fill percent of our population doing now so get to these i've been involved in the liberation struggle in canada for a long time. have you ever seen a movement like this? a moment like this? not like this because this but doing it on their own, they're not going with politicians. they came out on their own a young people about future and they said they will win. and so we need to listen to that. listen to them because knives for me the most important thing is that part of the thing i'm what we're very, our people can you tell us what that belong to us? since time immemorial, how are we going back to colonial situation? it is not young people need a future jobs 50% of our population i thought you had no jobs. we got taxing them without no jobs were taxing the jobless, attending to check alone but they said working he does not write that is why i'm here to tell them. i said what you have never involved yourself in politics before until now. >> why now? >> i want my daughter to have a future. i want my grad charts have a few taiwan and other future and. that's something that they keep saying it's a nobody's that's why down you see, that's why they out i would need to take it serious jobs. jobs oh my husband teargas with her daughter that is not gutter over there it's an incredible scenes there was thinking on the streets of nairobi with the props are going into movement. >> we need to move back we're getting diego smoke coming to us again, you'd have to get away from that so much, but good. everywhere. the sounds of tear gas everywhere, fabs keep moving forward, keep moving forward. so we can escape that teargas smoke it looks like a war zone. it's a heavily militarized response to peaceful protest in kenya it's unjustified larry, how does this compare to other? >> responses that you've seen in these situations obama said, one, these protests have been organized by the young people it's not a political party it is 30 group is the young people who are adria potentially fighting for their future. >> and actively getting tear gas. look at this see that these throat, there's a tear gas canister just go and pass bear. this is one of the most heavily militarized responses i have ever seen. they have tanno, the middle of my robbie into what appears to be a war zone. and all these young people have the banners and their phones. they've organized with tiktok, they've come out here to defend themselves, to fight for their rights. >> and they're getting hasn't been filing distressed 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