#KENYA: Shots fired. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
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#KENYA: Shots fired. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/explainer-kenyas-finance-bill-why-has-it-triggered-protests/ar-BB1oSXin
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| 0:00.0 | This is a series, |
| 0:02.0 | a series of CBS, I on the world. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm John Batcheter, |
| 0:08.0 | a great copy of the editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs |
| 0:11.0 | is breaking news from Kenya. |
| 0:13.7 | Part of the Commonwealth, King Charles and Queen Camilla made a visit to Kenya early on and now this |
| 0:21.8 | trouble is alarming. |
| 0:23.2 | Kenyan police open fire as tax protesters storm parliament. |
| 0:27.8 | This is the Wall Street Journal headline. |
| 0:29.8 | Several people were killed in demonstrations led mostly by young Kenyans. |
| 0:34.4 | It talks about tear gas being used liberally. |
| 0:37.7 | Footage broadcast by Kenyas Citizen TV, writes the journal, showed smoke rising from one section of the parliament |
| 0:44.8 | Gregory this does not look positive what brought it about well literally as you |
| 0:50.9 | said there are tax protesters. The Kenyan public is perhaps one of the most |
| 0:55.8 | over taxed populations in Africa and yet they are very low wages and the president |
| 1:04.3 | President William Ruto just rushed through another bill in parliament which is |
| 1:09.4 | increasing taxes yet again and it's interesting that the main protesters were young |
| 1:16.8 | millennials and Gen Z Kenyans who are saying that they even in the city they can't live on the on the city wages |
| 1:25.4 | let alone the people in the countryside in the villages so it is almost an act of |
| 1:31.6 | desperation what was interesting is that these were all extremely peaceful protests and the |
| 1:38.5 | government from the beginning said that these were these protests |
| 1:42.2 | were hired people and gangsters basically denigrating the |
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