zuma was recalled by the party a lot of people said well the power that president jacob zuma had to protect his family he doesn't have any more we've also seen various cabinet ministers who have been staunch zuma allies in public all of a sudden turning changing their tone insisting that he go warming up to sort of a poster who they could clearly see was coming into the fourth so yes we will definitely see more of the stand there is currently an ongoing probe into what they call state capture in south africa essentially looking at the extent to which people in cabinet were influenced by outside is and assisted looting state resources essentially so we know that a number of people were taken into custody today this have said they would have themselves over voluntarily and we know that most such raids and arrests will be taking place in the days to come down to his very own christine one dog reporting on this breaking news just to recap for our viewers south african president jacob zuma resigning as president of south africa heeding orders by the ruling african national congress to br

where does all this leave jacob zuma? facingr: jacob zuma is multiple criminal charges, including corruption, racketeering, money laundering, being veryed of close and cozy with an indian family. yesterday, the investigators ta compound,ump where they arrested family members and business associates who are in connection with a dairy farm, and it also relates to the fact that the government millions of rand for uplifting farmers, but that money actually found its way into the pockets of this family. so that scandal is a bound and jacob zuma's son is a close associate, a business associate, of this family, so all eyes will be focused on that court case to see how president jacob zuma is implicated in this scandal with a dairy farm. it goes, it is actually much bigger than that, he faces and ite criminal charges is only a matter of time, because the national prosecuting authority has said that they will be looking at implementing and reinstating the charges against president jacob zuma. one of the things that came out of the

zuma out it seems that those talks collapsed there were a number of demands from jacob zuma which the a.n.c. as a party even though the governing party can't necessarily meet around around prosecution related to these poor corruption charges and and even the state covering the cost of legal fees as well as security for his family now these reports around what the president may have wanted he's not stepped down yet and so the expectation is that this if he see meeting does come up with a decisive plan and a push for jacob zuma to step down from office so the media will continue to report out that story you can follow on twitter the media minute so what will be jacob zuma is like as the and what are the ramifications of a resignation we're here to help us on pack this story in johannesburg lobby is a talk show host aesop is a researcher at the society work and development institute at the university and community who is the chair of africans rising but the pan african movement of social justice activists and civil service organizations welcome everyone to the stream i want to get starte

zuma you know jacob zuma he's view on governance and which you know a lot of analysts including myself assess before he he thinks he is above is bigger than the a.n.c. itself and there is a and that is very very sad and i think also he looks at his presidency or you looked at it as almost a chief that because he is a president he can change the rules of the party and the rules of the country now it was of is a very important thing to understand now i think the a.n.c. national executive committee was not prepared did not look at that reality because if one looks at def reality they would have had a different strategy they would have a heart of plan b. jacob zuma was never going to resign because he thinks he is the a.n.c. and he thinks because he is that leader the chief the government of his personal possession in the a.n.c. is his personal process and that then demands a different approach to get him out or items one early than from what we're hearing it sounds very much to say the a.n.c. today in twenty eighteen is split beyond recognition those who are broadly speaking presume and t

is the news hour from london and of course our top story tonight jacob zuma the president of south africa as just in the last few moments resigned with immediate effect he said he would do so even though he disagrees with his own party the a.n.c. and their decision to force him to vacate office he had asked them for reasons for his transgressions but in the end the pressure it appears has proven too great he avoids of course a motion of no confidence plan for parliament on thursday at which it is likely he would have been voted out of office he's avoided that by resigning tonight and we can talk to our correspondent for media miller who's in our bureau in johannesburg listening to all of that for me the it seems for an awfully long time didn't it that he wasn't going to to resign that he was going to submit himself to the rule of the constitution as the supreme law of the land but in the end those extraordinary words i have decided to resign with immediate effect. john i think given the tone of jacob zuma as address it for his ninety percent of the time anyone could be forgiven to think t

you know there were times listening to jacob zuma the evening and trying to sort of. unite what he said with what he said earlier in the afternoon when he spoke about not understanding why the a.n.c. had a wanted to recall him and then being quite defiant that this wouldn't be the case and i think we're continuing to see that sort of tone from the president even when speaking about his imperfections he has said that he's not perfect of but no one is so there isn't this a sara lee and acknowledgement of of why he's been criticized what do these allegations of corruption against him could mean why this is so serious and why the african national congress finds itself in the position that it does he you know he has also spoken about his relationship with the a.n.c. a party that is the loyal to that he served from a young age and that it is a position that he's been grateful to be into service south africans the a.n.c. is very much wanted a dignified exit for jacob zuma but we've seen him resist the so call for him to step down and we know that if he doesn't he'll he'll be

zuma the relationship with the cook the family and also link to his own family jacob zuma is really is in a difficult position now the pressure is certainly mounting and we do expect to see more arrests around investigations on his allegations of corruption. thank you very much for that for now that's our correspondent on. the millage one is live from pretoria we're going to get more on this now we're joined by mia say with a visiting fellow at bro brookings doha center very good to have you with us thinking on al-jazeera so we'll be in saying that the pressure is mounting on president zuma and has been mounting for a very long time and we have been here before with no confidence motions but this time his own party the a and c. is supporting it yes this is very significant and the fact that the national executive committee recalled him yesterday is of enormous and balik significance because this shows a united move on the part of the a.n.c. and it really shows that the bell has told for him you know this is the end the question is just how exactly this will go forward and my predict

has a new president while jacob zuma remains president of the country there is now more room for the a.n.c. to make a decision given that previously they had said well we can't just get rid of jacob zuma he's the president of the party but it seems that at this stage given that there are reports that rome of course are spoke with jacob zuma overnight and there's an indication that they have come to some sort of resolution about the president's future the a.n.c. could be taking charge but of course or oppose or could to news to be under pressure and even criticism him self wondering people wondering if the prison. the a.n.c. has the guts to make a decision and push jacob zuma out you're fruitful and constructive is what we've heard that those discussions between rival poser and zuma word but we don't know what's come out of it the state of the nation's been delayed this crucial meeting of the a.n.c. is delayed so how are people feeling there about all this uncertainty. well this national executive committee meeting that was meant to take place later today was supposed to discuss the f

for president jacob zuma to resign. a former aide to egypt's military chief of staff is arrested after threatening to release top secret files. the u.s. secretary of state is warning that the end of combat operations against doesn't mean the fight against the group is over breaks to listen has been addressing a meeting of the global coalition to defeat in kuwait he's called for members to step up commitments to stabilize areas in iraq and syria that used to be under eisel control tillerson says the u.s. has pledged. two hundred million dollars for syria seventy said and as more from kuwait city. this is a key moment you don't have to really read between the lines too much of what rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state had to say there to realize the concern among some members of this coalition about whether complacency is setting in the u.s. secretary of state reminding everyone that the job isn't done he made a pledge of two hundred million u.s. dollars to help rehabilitate some of those areas which have been recapt

towns president jacob zuma that his time is up but zuma who faces many corruption allegations has so far refused to step aside also coming up dramatic scenes at a kiev restaurant as border police deported opposition media mikheil saakashvili ukraine says he was in the country illegally saakashvili is calling the move a kidnapping me get the latest from our correspondent in creating capital. plus the obama's make history again this time of with their portraits. i tried negotiate was great here. and there's. artistic integrity would not allow him to do what else. the former u.s. presidents kasuri hume all once again on display at the on dealing office converse destined for washington's national portrait gallery. hello and welcome i'm a touchy mom we start with south africa where the ruling in c. party has given embattled president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign the decision follows a marathon meeting of party chiefs that ended overnight it knocks the in sees the. latest attempt to calm the country's turbulent political situation that's been stood by a president because you're l

good jacob zuma be pushed out. the south african president in the hot seat as the anc meets today to get him to leave after he rejected last week's request to resign. am meeting today after a deepening sex scandal after in haiti. china's fireworks industry is blowing up, not in a good way here it that is -- good way. that is coming up. we will shake our way over to rio, where carnival season is in full swing. more on that but first, our top story. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in egypt, the first stop on his middle east tour. from there, he will be headed on to kuwait and turkey. justnded in egypt sunday, one day after israel carried out major air raids in syria, against what it called a rainy and targets. it is the first time israel has publicly ignored should targeting iranian targets. metalk more about this with is a commentator. how could this complicate things2 --? >> the israelis have accused violation ofzen the syrian sovereignty -- israeli sovereignty. israel said it was retaliating against that

our top stories: the governing anc tells south african president jacob zuma "you are being removed as head of state." north korea's leader speaks of a "warm climate of reconciliation" with the south after a delegation returns from the winter olympics. a special report on the people — including thousands of children — fleeing the violence in the democratic republic of congo. and dodging the dogs in india: fear on the streets where thousands die every yearfrom rabies bites. hello. reports in south africa say that south africa's ruling anc party has formally requested president jacob zuma to step down. it follows marathon talks by senior party officials that continued into the early hours of this morning. if the 75—year—old does not go, he will face a vote of confidence in parliament that he is expected to lose. jon ironmonger reports. cyril ramaphosa left a 13 hour meeting of the party's executive committee under the weight of a momentous decision: to remove jacob zuma is the head of state. earlier on monday night, the anc leader visited the president in person, telling him to s

zuma has to resign south africans are uncertain we do know that jacob zuma is expected to respond to what the a.n.c. has said that they're recalling the president as a deploy of the a.n.c. they recall him from this position as president he is due to respond on wednesday we don't know if will address the nation if this will be an internal process we do know that previously jacob zuma had asked for about three to six months to stay in office for this transition to take place over that amount of time the a.n.c. it seems is unwilling to do that but at the same time the air in c. the doesn't appear to know exactly when the president should step down this is what the secretary general is to say earlier. that this is the season of years where you can speak. to the sport. we have. two truths for. the bill but to. leave it to you is a very good food. commentator is also saying this really is an indictment on the a.n.c. in terms of the leadership role that it's supposed to play doesn't seem to know what it's doing the a.n.c. is eighteen months away from any election when still room of course o

time africa's embattled president jacob zuma has broken his silence over the growing calls for him to resign you know forty five minute television interview zuma described the instruction from his party the african national congress to step aside as unfair because he said he's done nothing wrong rumor has been given an ultimatum by the a.n.c. to resign by the end of the day or face a vote of no confidence he says there's no evidence against him. the first time i have a feeling that the leadership is unfair is not even helping me to understand what is it that is so critical. is that a new must just go you must just i've got a problem with that the a.n.c. does not run things like that. that i've been in all the time and they're not defying i'm not defend i've said no i don't agree i don't agree with the decision of some of the middle drones us live from johannesburg could see from of the surgery could be. clinging to power it seems he says he's not defining the a.n.c. that rather suggests he's going to do what they are asked to think there's any chance of that happening before a no conf

this is deja vu newsline for no way but out for south africa's president jacob zuma . i have therefore come. to the decision to resign as president of the property with immediate effect the leadership crisis and one of africa's biggest economies appears to be over we'll look at what comes next. seventeen people are dead following a shooting at on the flop florida high school the suspect a nineteen year old former student there had been expelled is now in police custody will get you the latest from washington. and berlin from paris force annual film festival we preview some films and ask about the impact of the me to movement here in germany. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program in south africa where president jacob zuma has resigned the decision comes after his a.n.c. party ordered him to stand down or face a no confidence vote in parliament his departure clears the way for the wealthy former businessman cyril ramaphosa to be elected as the country's new leader later today he's promised to fight the legacy of corruption left behind by

zuma there's also wide speculation of that police may be looking for jacob zuma son to design a who is a oh she'll hold him in one of these a group telling companies so we do expect more arrests those who have been arrested will be back in court in all goods so we do expect to see quite a lengthy process around stamping down corruption and this is a very much an area that presidents will run oppose or maybe under pressure to clamp down on to make a difference given all that's happened the criticism of jacob zuma faced and also just the issues around corruption south africans have seen for the last eight or nine years under jacob zuma ok fine i will leave it there for the moment we'll come back to you of course after mr rahman poser has started speaking we're looking at live pictures in parliament of the ceremony of the ceremonial welcome of the new president so ram opposer as he prepares to give his state of the nation address. world leaders have gathered in the german city of munich for a three day conference to discuss global and regional security challenges the u.n. secretary gen

may make next that if jacob zuma doesn't resign the a.n.c. would then have to look at his options as to how to get jacob zuma out of office one of the options would then be a motion of no confidence in parliament another option would be impeachments now opposition parties have a motion of no confidence scheduled for next week they want those brought forward in fact they want to go as far as dissolving parliament they've written to the speaker of parliament to start these proceedings but they're waiting to begin talks around that so they continues to be a lot of uncertainty but certainly a lot of moves around pushing jacob zuma out of office and the a.n.c. and specifically jacob zuma really are in a difficult position you're absolutely fine with a lot of developments too and we will of course go back to. when there are any more but for now she is joining us live from pretoria thank you. let's move on to other news now kuwait says it will lend one billion dollars to iraq and has committed another billion as an investment that happened at the co

a n c r six jacob zuma to step down as south africa's president but he's staying on and now. the world is watching and waiting for burma to act. the u.s. envoy to the united nations says me on mars blocking a u.n. investigation into the situation in iraq kind state on the war against i still may be over but iraq's prime minister says the battle for reconstruction has only just begun. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying that he will continue to lead the country despite the police recommending that he be indicted for corruption and bribery now it's alleged that netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts worth tens of billions of dollars from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer that is following this developing story and joins us now live from west jerusalem we see a very defiant reaction from prime minister benjamin netanyahu he is adamant that the recommendations the police recommendations against him will end with nothing he says. that's right i think and i'm sort of us but we should start with just one quick corrective it's not

south african president jacob zuma remains defiant as the ruling party threatens a no confidence vote if he doesn't resign by thursday. but on as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. pledges a made to help rebuild iraq but is there enough money to do the job properly. police recommend the israeli prime minister's indictment on corruption charges for benjamin netanyahu says nothing will come of it. on untruthfulness in sydney well this of responding to the woman incidents recorded it will strike you as a refugee person it's. a low pressure is growing on south africa's president to step down from his own party but jacob zuma says he's not going anywhere right now president said he had proposed a longer transition period handing over power after june the a.n.c. rejected that plan and demand that he step down by thursday. so i found it very strange that i'm going to be told by my organization you now must go. because. we now have two new president thomas comey not to following any policy of the a.n.c. there's nothing of that nature i need a miller has more now fro

welcome to the news hour jacob zuma has resigned as south africa. as president reluctantly heeding orders from his ruling party the a.n.c. will go with immediate effect to bringing an end to almost nine scandal plagued years in power the n.c. told him to quit on choose day and when he had gone by wednesday the party and else that it would bank moves in parliament to force him to leave i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of my of the leadership of my organization i have always been a disciplined member of the sea as i leave i would continue to serve the people of south africa as well as the a.n.c. the organization i have served my all of my life in it. correspondent for me to miller joins us now from johannesburg he kept us going on for quite a while and there was a thought perhaps when he did that he would stay old. certainly is a hell until jacob zuma actually said that he's resigning one would have thought that this was a speech of defiance we d

tackle that and talking about zuma taught for the outgoing president jacob zuma he was a liberation fighter who flipped against apartheid and do things so this political legacy has been completely mobbed by all these many and deep corruption allegations against unfortunately so for a lot of people president jacob zuma personifies corruption all that people associate with this man is corruption even though he has he's credentials and he for example is credited with dealing with south africa's hiv aids crisis getting a lot of people onto treatment these are things that south africans don't even remember anymore because of the allegations around corruption unfortunately it specially towards the. and of his presidency on a regular basis there were more allocations more charges about graft and looting and it just didn't help that sam the opposition was also very very strong in making sure that these allegations were kept alive and well in the media so that is unfortunately the legacy that he leaves behind that he is probably one of the the worst that the a.n.c. has ever put forward as a

speculation builds about the future of south africa's president jacob zuma often on the president to delay to his state of the nation address plus. three. left off from florida for the world's most powerful rock and what could be a turning point in space exploration. a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit eastern time on killing at least four people and injuring more than two hundred others it happened in the port city of while then very far far to say at least five people remain trapped inside a hotel on the brink of collapse one hundred and forty five people remain unaccounted for. has the latest. working against the clock to search for survivors. rescuers are using cranes to get to those trapped in what's left of while ins marshall hotel when the earthquake struck just before midnight local time the ground floor katie dean leaving the entire building slanting on its site. one of them says. there are two people left inside one is my older brother and another is a colleague who is in the rescue is a tried to dig further down to look for my brother that's the situation for now

has been very badly damaged by jacob zuma the a.n.c. itself no one has openly said that it has been badly damaged by the allegations that have been surrounding the zuma administration we should keep repeating of course that these are allegations nothing against jacob zuma orders administration has yet to be improved in a court of law and part of the process as you rightly say is that this whole thing has been dragged out it's part of a very long ongoing legal process the a.n.c. felt that they had to do something to try to draw a line under the zuma administration to stop these allegations creating more harm to the a.n.c. in the run up to the election than they were going to do had the allowed him to stay for say even an extra three months which he had wanted to do in the week so the a.n.c. decided to cut effectively cut the ties from with jacob zuma and try to move forward but in terms of the perception of the party itself you've got to remember this is the party the brought liberation to south africa this is the party the negotiated at

south africa's state media says president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign after the a.n.c. met for a marathon session to finalize his future. i know i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up rebuilding iraq donors aim to raise billions of dollars to help its people restart their shattered lives egypt has been a very important member of the defeat of. the u.s. secretary of state pledges to help egypt to defeat i still. investigators in russia search for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board. and revealed for the first time the official portraits of iraq and michelle obama. are more welcome to the program our top story south africa is the country's state media is reporting that president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign the decision comes after a marathon meeting held by the ruling a.n.c. party's national executive committee to finalize whom his future in the last hour the president of the party cyril ramaphosa was on his way to meet zuma to inform him of the party's decision he'

out of the discussions around jacob zuma the opposition to jacob zuma has as been in place will for more than two years now around allegations of corruption as well as his relationship with a specific family that's been accused of influencing politics in the country and the policies of jacob zuma a puts in place but now that civil rummel course is the president of the ruling party the african national congress and the judge a consumer is no longer part of the top six leadership but remains president of the country until elections in twenty nineteen there is now a more of a push to see the end of jacob zuma as time in office he is expected to make the state of the nation address on thursday this week the annual address to the country around what the government's plans are and there is has been a request by opposition parties to parliament to the speaker of parliament specifically to have that pushed out until after a vote of no confidence against jacob zuma and that's due to take place in february twenty second which parliament says this will happen after spokesman's of the state of the n

and she asks jacob zuma to step down to south africa's president but he's staying on for now. live from london also coming up iraq's prime minister says the war against may be over but the battle for reconstruction must begin. twenty years in jail for the friend of south korea's a former president at the center of a massive corruption scandal. and catwalk competition for new york as some designers. said. you know south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has formally asked president jacob zuma to step down the party's secretary general says he expects huma to respond on wednesday if zuma refuses to go as he has done until now he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament the secretary general says cyril ramaphosa must now become president after taking over as leader of the party in december. president will be in c. . must be come to kind of the day. for the president is going to come to. the only people we haven't we i didn't wish is this kind of this where we start all night and it is your home for it is not until the next instruction to come and i see where we did this war it

president jacob zuma addressed when he recognised he could not win. presidentjacob zuma addressed the south african nation and face reality. i was just yards from him when he said those words. the anc should never be divided in my name. i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. and, with that statement, jacob zuma has brought to an end the most controversial period in the history of post— apartheid south africa. history, happening in the late at night. after a day in which it seemed he might still fight on. in pretoria, the seat of the presidency, rumours of an imminent resignation had rippled all afternoon. yet when he made his first appearance of the day on state television, he was defiant and defensive. zuma the victim. what have i done i have explained many times that this process... there is nothing i have done wrong. this is politics. it is a new phenomenon. what is the problem? at the same time, in cape town, anc mps were meeting to decide whether they would support a motion of nonconf

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the

so at this point jacob zuma is just deploy of the a.n.c. and he is president of south africa and this is the difficulty the a.n.c. is facing these two centers of power we saw this previously in two thousand and eight with top one becky was president of south africa jacob zuma was president of the a in c. and that's when the record in paki and now we see this happen again and this is why the a.n.c. is finding it easier to recall zuma rather than in the years preceding the situation they're finding themselves in this because he's no longer president of the a.n.c. the a.n.c. is say that they want jacob zuma to reside within a day or two that's according to reports from the state broadcaster the c.b.c. the a.n.c. itself hasn't issued an official statement yet but there has been a lot of pressure on jacob zuma to step down now if he refuses to resign the a.n.c. then could go to parliament to institute proceedings for a motion of no confidence if they recall and it doesn't mean jacob zuma immediately loses his job that they need to follow certain

jacob zuma has lived and ruled in the shadow of greatness. however it comes about, he will leave office a humiliated figure. the government has unveiled an online tool, powered by artificial intelligence, that it says can accurately detect extremist content and stop it from being viewed. the home secretary, amber rudd, says she wouldn't rule out bringing in a law, that would force technology companies to use it. but with propaganda from so—called islamic state appearing on more than 400 platforms last year, there are concerns that such groups will simply adapt their methods to reach new audiences. our media editor amol rajan has the story. militaristic, cinematic and often shot with high—level production values, these propaganda videos for the so—called islamic state espouse terror and hatred. they're also easy to find on the internet right now. so what we have here are two videos, one of which is extremist content, the other which is perfectly legitimate news coverage. now an artificial intelligence firm in london has used home office

jacob zuma's corruption against the anc.“ 1's jacob zuma's corruption against the anc. " 1's corruption jacob zuma's corruption against the anc." 1's corruption set into institutions like this, he is not the only one taking money and usually there are genes and it's certainly very top. assuming he doesn't get into power, there are institutions fighting corruption and it isa institutions fighting corruption and it is a complicated country. they are all trying to make it clean, but i think it is quinn to be very difficult after the long history of corruption for the next person, not just for historic reasons, but because argued with their hands out. think that is what cyril ramaphosa's problem is now, because he doesn't wa nt to problem is now, because he doesn't want to make it look like he is sanctioning this system, which doesn't begin and end with jacob zuma, but at the same time, he doesn't want to rattle the infrastructure of corruption which exists. he doesn't want to make it look like... it reminds me of the transition in angola when he left his position and handed off to other pe

zuma people that were aligned to jacob zuma regarded as friends even cronies if you keep those ministers on of their complete a complete change of guard and what happens next with zuma especially with all of these corruption charges and the recent police raiding of the family home which has been linked to. well the special investigative unit of the police has a wristed eight people seven of them have appeared in court and that's linked to an investigation around a state project meant to benefit farmers but instead money was siphoned off into accounts belonging to businesses that are linked to the group does now police are looking for five other suspects and two of them are widely speculated to be a brother and one other perhaps the son of jacob zuma design the he is a shareholder in one of the companies linked to these allegations investigation around corruption all the time being not much has been said around what happens to jacob zuma specifically we do know that next week the national prosecuting authority will decide if it will reinstate charges and these are separate charges relatin

jacob zuma around this ex a deal that you've mentioned around looking at a way to get jacob zuma out but it appears those talks might have broken down because of demands made by zuma including. protection from prosecution if you were to go to court around corruption allegations he would then receive state funding to assist him with the legal fees also making demands for security force family and possibly even a longer time in office up to three months now we understand that those talks did break down now any c. meeting takes place and this is the opportunity for the african national congress to recall jacob zuma that's how they would remove him from office but even then what's important to note is that zuma doesn't have to resign constitutionally he doesn't have to step down from office and if that's the case the a.n.c. would then have to approach call them it to institute its own proceedings for a motion of no confidence now we know opposition parties had already spoken to parliament to have a similar ocean debated in the coming weeks that's due to happen on the twenty second of feb

has formally asked the scandal hit president jacob zuma to resign it says that he should go so the country can move toward political stability and economic recovery the pressure on president zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as a.n.c. leader a by south africa's deputy president cyril ramaphosa he is ready to take over the top job but zuma remains in power saying that he will give his response on wednesday here's what the a.n.c. as secretary general had to say a short time ago. through as we were really good for business is moving. if you were do the space. tourist boat. we have here he wouldn't be needed. to tourists going where we have to go what do you believe to be exploited by the deep blue to do a good job that is if you expect him to do so i don't know if you love him but to visit leave you to visit with your books. from art let's bring and journalist alice van gelder who is joining us from cape town we just heard there the chair saying that he doesn't know what will happen let's leave it up to jacob zuma the party wants him to goes in the saying that he will

zuma the law is already camping down on those people and we expect that in no time president jacob zuma solve will have to be on a host of charges president retires to spend more time with his lawyers christine thank you. first day of the bold and national film festival on d w's that david leavitt's is on the red carpet welcome david action is up it's opening night what's going on behind you. well this is what the belly nine is really all about this is where the mere mortals get to meet celebrities from all over the world and filmmakers and movie stars right behind me you can see there's where there's been a line of cars with various celebrities getting out and the fans are down there with their cell phones they're ready for anyone to get out a little while ago we saw patricia clarkson how in mirrors. elle fanning the german star down the road crew everyone screaming ten year old daniel trying to get their autographs so other unlike some other film festivals around the world this is really what the belly knowledge is all about fans getting to meets their heroes and you will i should als

had said that it would be difficult to remove jacob zuma because he is the president of the party now that he's no longer the president it's possible that the party could now step forward and take seriously these calls for jacob zuma to be recorded and that would then push for the president to tender his resignation remember this this is a party ruling party that is split jacob zuma does still have his supporters within the party and it's not known exactly who would devote all that isn't a vote specifically that would be held but because he does have supporters of the a.n.c. there is a split around what exactly the future holds for the president and this is where the difficulty comes in for the ruling party they have seen a loss of a lot of support in the last election given the unpopularity of jacob zuma but this is a party that would want to maintain stability ahead of elections next year but also maintain the foundation of the party and maintain a stability if jacob zuma had to be removed for me to military joining me live from johannesburg for me to thank you still to come on al-j

well after nine years as the president of south africa jacob zuma has resigned the seventy five year old was given an ultimatum by his own party amid numerous allegations of corruption speaking a short time ago zuma said he disagreed with the way he was being forced out the a.n.c. should. be divided in my name. i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. even though i disagree with the decision of my of the leadership of my of going to zation i have always been a disciplined member of the sea will soon one two presidential elections but his presidency was hampered by several corruption scandals his position had become increasingly untenable since december two thousand and seventeen when he was replaced by several ram opposers leader of the a.n.c. of the miller reports now. he's path to the presidency began in one thousand nine hundred nine as deputy under the leadership of topple mbeki but personal differences in power struggles put a strain on their relationship in june two thousand and five president mbeki fired jacob zuma and

asks jacob zuma to step down a south africa's president but he's staying on for now. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up iraq's prime minister says the war against eyesore may be over but the battle for reconstruction must begin. twenty years in jail for the friend of south korea's former president at the center of a massive corruption scandal. and the palestinian teenager facing a lengthy jail term if she's convicted in an israeli military court. and our south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has formally asked president jacob zuma to step down the party secretary general says he expects zuma to respond tomorrow if sumit refuses to go he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament as extra general says cyril ramaphosa must now become president after taking over as leader of the party in december. we have room for the constructive engagement of the dems it looks to me and we have set up the unit process for. this in oded every one of the oafish of the presidents have agreed in principle to resign. and have proposed time for the insects they knew for th

zuma as well so the aim being to put pressure on jacob zuma the region to hear about his fate again we expect raids and other allies of jacob zuma we understand that the hawks will be carrying out trades at several different locations today but these raids are in connection with for example there was a dairy farm scheme where money that was meant to be allocated to go given to poor black farmers instead was siphoned into the accounts of the group says but there is also this ongoing state capture inquiry at the moment and that has to do with the extent of corruption between people in government and people close to the president and for example the. key center to that and so the implications could really really reach far and wide and reach right up to the top of president jacob zuma because essentially what this family is accused of is benefiting of state resources because they are close to the president it was expected from president jacob zuma. today in response to the ensues call that he step down what's the latest on the we're expecting him to come out at some point today we conse

support has been has been solid for jacob zuma in fact a lot of the elections that they've won before was because of this man's brand he had somehow managed to to get those charges pushed out of his way just before coming becoming president but it was last year when the constitutional court dealt in a blow and effectively said that those charges should stick that they were dismissed irrationally and that they should stick but what's happening now is the a.n.c. realizes that the zuma brand has cost this party a lot of support and this is the time that they want to get rid of them especially because south africa's of general election next year taking zuma and having him still being associated with the party is bad for the a.n.c. and the hints the pressure to have several come in now and start doing the groundwork in terms of buying south africans of support for the agency. so sir robert is currently deputy president he's out leader of the party he's sensed used in fact to be deposed zuma from a position of what ward around oppose a presidency look like well for starters you know you're

jacob zuma said he will sign. following corruption allegations. 0n the line is david 0valle, a journalist with the miami herald — he's been covering the story. phone you are very busy, i be looking at your twitter feed. what is the latest from you? the police detectives are still trying to piece together exactly what happened. you can imagine it was a huge crime scene that is going to take days to process. an expected shooter by the name of nicolas cruz is being questioned. he will most likely be booked into state courtjailed to be charged with murder. they are trying to identify all of the dead. they think they have identified 12 of the 17 people. now, the main question is, why. what is known about the suspected shooter? we know he had never been arrested before but there was a lot of troubling things in his past. 0ne was a lot of troubling things in his past. one source tell us he was in foster ca re. past. one source tell us he was in foster care. he had been expelled from school because of disciplinary reaso

even if they do recall him constitutionally jacob zuma doesn't have to resign it's then that the a.n.c. would have to put in put forward a motion of no confidence in parliament and get the president out that way but what has happened this afternoon kemal what is important is that opposition leaders have come together saying that they want jacob zuma out as soon as possible they had a motion of no confidence that would happen on the twenty second of february they say that's too far along it has to happen this week and if they don't get an answer from the. officials of parliament by tomorrow morning they are going to take quick action and most importantly what they want is parliament to be dissolved and full snap elections to be held in ninety days this quickly from a ticket can you put your finger on just for of us why jacob zuma seems to be so desperately clinging to power he is no longer the leader of the a.n.c. there is all this controversy there are all i mean the swirling for years now and the people are fed up as well it looks like the time to make an exit. jacob zuma has been emp

. -- prepares to give details on jacob zuma's future. rerescue teams and taiwan n are trying to locate survivors trapped in the rubble after a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck on tuesday night. program, a up in the major court case underway in san francisco pitting two tech giants against one another in the race to self driving cars. all of that coming up in business. -- snow suitesr across northern france, causing chaos in the french capital and far beyond. we will have all of that and plenty more. you are watching "live from paris." ♪ first, our top story after marathon turks, angela merkel's conservatives and -- talks, angela merkel -- form a coalition government. the talks end months of political wrangling following elections last september. let's bring the latest on this, jessica is in berlin. jessica: we are getting more and more information about what exactly this agreement contains and also which of these politicians from the conservative side and social democrats will hold which post in which ministry.y. so cold -- social democ

meeting was meant to discuss jacob zuma future especially given that earlier in the week jacob zuma had met with the top six leadership of the african national congress and reports indicate that at that point he had refused to resign now since then we understand that the president of the a.n.c. so remote posts are met with jacob zuma and from of course as office has described those talks as fruitful and constructor vent once those talks were over the national executive at executive excuse me committee meeting this top decision body of the a.n.c. that meeting was then perspire own so it seems a lot rests on the outcome of the talks between roma porsche and zuma and i reports that the leader of the a.n.c. has been under a lot of pressure to make a decisive move against zuma to push the way open the way forward push zuma out potentially given all the controversy surrounding the president of the country and the demands that he step down we've already seen that the state of the nation address it was due to take place on thursday the address that was due to be given by zuma that. it was also

the pressure on jacob zuma to resign increases. the president's. future as he faces multiple allegations of corruption also on the program. resigns after. paying for prostitutes working in. the state. despite taking flak from. both the new german coalition deal. and he used to be president of georgia that. the ukrainian government. now has been deported to poland. to find out why. welcome to the program the leaders of south africa's ruling party the african national congress a meeting to decide the future of the country's embattled president president. jacob zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as i had seen by the country's deputy president. has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine is currently the reinstatement of seven hundred eighty three corruption charges if he refuses to step down the president could face no confidence vote in parliament. all impeachment. doubly correspondent christine one drunken tussle welcome christine what are we expecting from today's meeting or it's so we do know th

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the n.c. has been meeting throughout the day in fact so rob returned to the ne see so it would appear that the conversation they're having isn't entirely over yet jacob zuma is certainly under pressure all indications are given his behavior in the last ten days or so he is resistant he's resisting this resignation he doesn't want to step down and if that continues to be the case the a.n.c. would then have to institute proceedings for a motion of no confidence to be debated in the parliament now the opposition parties in south africa have done exactly that expected to debate a motion of no confidence next week they want to put forward by parliament if the speaker of parliament doesn't agree to the demands by the opposition they say they're going to court ultimately jacob zuma is under fire from all sides what most a tremendous to him is the position that his

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state board cost that was the jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country tropical cyclone keda has caused havoc in the pacific kingdom of tonga the country's parliament house as one of many buildings that are now lying ruins there's no word yet on any casualties the power is out there and the flooding is extensive as president arnold trump has unveiled a four point four trillion dollars budget for two thousand one thousand and ramps up spending on infrastructure and the military and proposes deep cuts to health care programs for the poor and elderly it also includes eighteen billion dollars towards tribes promised a broader wall with mexico. don government organizations are pledging more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with eisel its will short of the one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government is trying to secure at a donor conference in kuwait cities and infrastructure had been destroye