of power is threatening to tear the a.n.c. apart for months the party's former leader south africa's president jacob zuma has refused to step down despite growing pressure to do so zuma faces widespread corruption charges funneling some nine years in power including allegations he used millions in a state funds to upgrade his private home he denies wrongdoing at the celebrations rehm oppose us start to come party discontent. over here as you do want closure we hear more of our in store keeping our what are. on what is under control all of the oh i at all we continue to organize. but that unity could have made the a.n.c. end its top leaders are meeting to decide zuma sfi today but he's already shown he's unlikely to go without a fight. russian federal investigators say the airliner that went down outside moscow exploded when it hit the ground and there was no previous fire on board the saratov airlines regional jet disappeared from radar screens shortly after takeoff on sunday all seventy one people on the plane died now the re

the a.n.c. is nearly air rousing party supporters with the n.t. apartheid rallying cry of nelson mandela cyril graham of poser was addressing crowds in cape town at the start of celebrations marking one hundred years since mandela's birth. but gone are the days of relative unity of the party enjoyed under its most famous icon a drawn out transition of power is threatening to tear the a.n.c. apart for months the party's former leader south africa's president jacob zuma has refused to step down despite growing pressure to do so zuma faces widespread corruption charges funneling some nine years in power including allegations he used millions in state funds to upgrade his private home he denies wrongdoing at the celebrations rehm oppose assad to calm the party discontent. over as you don't want your job we're doing for kids we now want. what is in their interest or not. at all we continue to organize. but that unity could have a the a.n.c. end its top leaders are meeting to decide zuma fate today but he's already shown he's unlikely to go without a fi

i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. 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 kn

and we know we have the power lies right now because when we heard from the a.n.c. chief we've been treasurer of this morning that the party was going to proceed with a no motion over the motion of no confidence tomorrow that was pretty much telling that this is a party that no longer once zuma at the helm of the country that those who were fighting in his corner have been outnumbered by those who simply oppose him and it's come down to that a power struggle between. the camp and the jacob zuma camp and unfortunately he finds himself on the out riveting stuff christine when well thank you very much for bringing us up to date on the latest twists and turns of south african politics they surely. less articulate at some other stories making news around the want is really police have recommended prime minister binyamin netanyahu be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust israel's attorney general must i examine the police recommendation decide whether to file charges a senior and i said netanyahu was not living up to the standards of the office netanyahu denies a

of power is threatening to tear the a.n.c. apart for months the party's former leader south africa's president jacob zuma has refused to step down despite growing pressure to do so zuma faces widespread corruption charges funneling some nine years in power including allegations he used millions in state funds to upgrade his private home he denies wrongdoing at the celebrations from oppose assad to calm the party discontent. over there as you do want closure we're more knowing still keeping our eye on what is in their interest or zero zero zero at all we continue to organize that they but that unity could have a the a.n.c. yant its top leaders are meeting to decide zuma is fate today but he has already shown he is unlikely to go without a fight. to sports now and then football bundestag aside vosper travel to bremen on sunday both teams were desperate to avoid being dragged deeper into the relegation fight but it was the home side that managed to pull off an important win . max cruz and his brain teammates rendered a two goal l

south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has postponed amazing which had been expected to decide on the potential removal of president jacob zuma from office zuma as under increasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations. we decided to approach the. droids. much. the palestinian man has been shot and killed by a security guard in the. occupied west bank the palestinians stabbed and injured an israeli settler on wednesday morning tensions have risen in the occupied west bank since u.s. president donald trump decided to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and another palestinian man was killed during raids by the israeli army in the occupied west bank city of nablus thirty people were wounded as israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated steel bullets during protests on tuesday on monday an israeli settler was stabbed and killed in the illegal settlement of. now billionaire entrepreneur on mosques company space x. has successfully launched its most powerful rocket yet three. g. twenty three story falcon

to tear the a.n.c. party apart new leader cyril ramaphosa pledged a new beginning at celebrations honoring party icon nelson mandela. m r r the agency's new leaders cyril run pose a rousing party supporters with the anti apartheid rallying cry of nelson mandela and celebrations marking one hundred years since his birth the nuvi chance of unity here but the discord is palpable live in south africa's ruling party. rather a poser is the main rival of a battle president jacob zuma he's valen to tackle the corruption that has tarnished the most government. after attending a church service a day ahead of the meeting room opposer spoke of transition. so it's not. like they are not taking. their money this. is around three hundred. nine your presidency has been beset by allegations of graft and economic mismanagement zuma denies wrongdoing but he has been involved in scandals surrounding multimillion dollar upgrades to his private home using state funds a day ahead of monday's crunch decision rahm opposer recog

in south africa the a.n.c. party is holding a special meeting to decide the fate of president jacob zuma the meeting known as d.-day by local media as a final attempt to pressure zuma to resign and president cyril ramaphosa said on sunday the issue was causing disunity and discord soon mr downer's n.c. leader in december faces a number of corruption charges after nine years in power i mean a minute has more from johannesburg. the agency's national executive committee the top decision making body has been meeting for hours it's expected to recall president jacob zuma from his position the president would then need to resign but all indications are this may not happen zuma as existed calls to step down for months including the last few days where we understand that the president of the a.n.c. . spin in talks with zuma to agree on some sort of x. a deal for those talks reportedly failed and now it's up to the any seed to decide what's next for president zuma even if the any see decides to recall zuma it doesn't ha

the party leadership so remote post that became president of the a.n.c. in december last year and now that the a.n.c. 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 ther

the a.n.c. has formally asked the scandal head president jacob zuma to resign it says that he should go so that the country can move toward political stability and economic recovery pressure on president zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced by a.n.c. leader by south africa's deputy president cyril ramaphosa he is ready to take over the job but zuma remains in power saying that he will give his response on wednesday here's what the a.n.c. secretary general had to say a short while ago. through as we were really good for business is just do a. space. to support. we have here. you need. to respond where we go what do you expect that you blew through the door and that is you are expecting to do so i don't know what will happen but today there is new to do because there are groups who. from art let's bring in journalist alice van gelder who is joining us from cape town we just heard there the chair is saying that he doesn't know what will happen let's leave it up to jacob zuma th

all right to south africa now with the ruling a.n.c. party has postponed a meeting which had been expected to decide on the potential removal of president jacob zuma from office the meeting is being delayed to the seventeenth of february as the end of creasing pressure to resign over corruption allegations and several scandals the postponement of the meeting came after zuma state of the nation address was also delayed let's go live to our correspondent farm in a minute now she's joining us from johannesburg this is of course the latest farm in the latest step in a very familiar story but is the government in crisis. well elizabeth it's not so much about a government crisis as it is about a party grappling with what to do with a president of a country that is not a popular one that has come under a lot of criticism and as you say it is under fire and there's increasing calls for him to step down now that top that meeting of the stop decision making body of the a.n.c. has been postponed which is very confusing for south africans given tha

to become the country's next leader the governing a.n.c. party demanded of his resignation after numerous scandals and has in line years in office. zimbabwe's political opposition has lost a towering figure over the death. of the movement for democratic change and the time a symbol of resistance against former president robert mugabe was being treated for colon cancer in south africa. and the un's on one to syria has warned that the recent surge in violence there is among the worst he's seen since taking the job four years ago last week was one of the bloodiest in the conflict as government forces bombed the last major areas east and. the province. to the u.s. now with seventeen people have been killed in the state of florida by gunman opened fire at a high school it happened and parkland north of miami police say the suspect is a former student who was expelled. reports from the campus. reports of gunfire came as students at marjorie stoneman douglas high school were about to leave a code red alert was issued the school was locked down its

would be one the party regrets the a.n.c. says if zuma doesn't resign by this evening it will press on with a motion of no confidence in parliament on thursday and this is how it will get zuma out of office allowing the national assembly to elect a poster as south africa's new leader and as soon as under a lot of pressure that says the whole of his associates the gupta family was raided and three people arrested the good does have been accused of using their relationship with the president to benefit from government contracts and also to influence appointments and policies childbirths has more now on the gupta family's ties with zuma. twenty five years after immigrating from india to brothers a.j. and brijesh one of the richest families in south africa they went from success to success with investments in media energy air travel mining and technology they first met president jacob zuma more than a decade ago one of the company of events wasn't long before several xoom is working for the govt is but their relationship didn't b

of the same party but i think i mean the a.n.c. is still a very important party for south africa as being the former liberation from and that's one thing and then of course he's played a bad role in amerikana massacre which he admitted to the now. i think people don't see him being part of fraction he's talked at. he would fight corruption. and also i think he is a spy and people. he's developed a vision for south africa that he might be the right one to enforce that but you know he promised the public for example that's it was future would be finalized during the meeting on monday that obviously has not happened yet how badly has that damaged his position well i think it has damaged his position because it makes him look weak but i think he looks weaker than he is. it's as i said it's a big party and they have different factions still and there are people who support . means if i'm up was there doesn't want to divide to party he somehow has to find a solution. and. to work together with the two fractions and he will also get suppo

for the a.n.c. to pull itself away from this image that it has in terms of the scandals that have surrounded jacob zuma so it's very important for the a.n.c. to to be the ruling party that makes the difference in this case and that so remote poser isn't just a new party leader so grab just by the old guard that is known to be corrupt but one that is actually making a difference within the a.n.c. uniting the party especially after all this division of around jacob zuma and what exactly should be done the a.n.c. has been very reluctant to listen and has ultimately protected jacob zuma around seven or eight other motions of no confidence in column and never voting along the lines of the opposition and being very reluctant to step in line with what the opposition wants and this is part of the frustration i think from south africans at this point that the country feels as if it's been hell granted by one party and one man despite the sentiment in south africa for a long time now and so the a.n.c. really

own a.n.c. party is also raising doubts about his future party members are set to discuss his fate at a meeting next week and a vote of no confidence is not desired although most important consideration is that we don't believe. should we. didn't of. this week protesters have already been sending messages to the a.n.c. as the party weighs its options on zuma some are convinced his time is up but others say pounds off the president until his term ends next year. so tensions are running high there in south africa in the country's future is at stake for more i'm joined here in the studio by our very own christine good morning christine here now there are reports that zuma has actually agreed to go but the south african president c. has not confirmed this what can you tell us and sorry the. decision making body was today and it was expects to take the decision to recall president jacob zuma. late last night we got word that that meeting has been delayed we also learned that sauron of course the who

a break away from the a.n.c. failed back in two thousand and seven and that was the moment a lot of analysts will tell you that was the moment to create something that blacks all evidence could feel like there was still not selling out nelson mandela stream so to say so that is a problem is of africa's political space that black south africans feel for them it's the a.n.c. or nothing at most what we could see is support slipping for the a.n.c. but we are not going to see an opposition party assuming the presidency just yet so tomorrow is the day should look out for when dangerous area is forms a christian would rather hew. ukrainian opposition leader mikhail saakashvili has said that he will continue his fight against corruption and to rally people against the country's authorities despite being deported yesterday he was dragged out of a restaurant forcibly detained incense to poland he says he was kidnapped. dozens of meek are circus really supporters braved the cold kiev night to protest his deportation they're

confident that zuma will step down or is prepared to wait it out the a.n.c. says it expects zuma to respond to his decision to recall him by wednesday for me to milan al-jazeera johannesburg earlier i spoke to john campbell he's a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations and a former u.s. ambassador to nigeria i asked him what president jacob zuma his next move might be . he'll resist pressure to stand but not indefinitely and i think he will at the end of the day resign resignation preserves more of his dignity than any of the other alternatives it certainly preserves more of his dignity than losing a no confidence vote the other option for removing him from office is impeachment that would be devastating to his personal reputation and it would also cost him his pension it's easy to forget that within parts of the south african electorate jacob zuma is popular he's popular amongst his fellows zulus who are about twenty five percent of south africa's population he is also popular with the rural poor these are both constituencies that cyril ramaphosa

as the a.n.c. piles on the pressure for him to step aside. out of their own job well this is al-jazeera from london also coming up. did this as violent and boring and dangerous a moment as any she in my time. but chilling report card on the situation in syria the un's special envoy briefed the security council in new york . colombia's government appeals for international help as venezuelans continue to cross the shared border in search of a better life plus. a mentor thomas in sydney where artists have responded to the former incident recorded at australia's off shore refugee first. 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'

jacob zuma a.n.c. party orders him to step down paving the way for the end of his scandal plagued presidency but he defines refuses to go saying he's done nothing wrong it is a power struggle for the soul of a nation i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. with. a group who are in the pose for a few figures river bridges or groups who could refer to divorces for. good reason or good order over all three shows that there is going to go through the improved. truth. that the group who's going through six booth with three to six moves all the groups these in the long back these days more is going to cost us . from madhu's close down so very uneasy apne going to be paying enough for. grabs in in south africa but only if you don't think for change for the better especially club music could move away from john street as it was rolled out will be made to say about that it's time for you to step down. we begin with an on certain political future in south africa the ruling a.n.c. party has confirmed it has to

resign he says that he is being victimized in the a.n.c. status go by the end of the day if you will take it to parliament. also coming up zimbabwean opposition leader morgan talk to me has died after a long battle with illness we will look at his legacy. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us south africa's president jacob zuma is about to make an address to the nation it comes after he defied an order by his a.n.c. party to resign by the end of the day today or face a no confidence vote in parliament tomorrow now earlier zuma called the and sees moves against him unfair more on that address in just a moment but first this report. because president zuma remains defiant in a live television interview he responded to his party's coast to resign i didn't need to be for a new. one what i have done i'm far from the truth. no one has been able to provide what you say to that i've done so i found it very strange that i'm going to be told by my organization you now must go. because. we now have three known president who must

in south africa the a.n.c. party is holding a special meeting to decide the fate of president jacob zuma the meeting called d.-day by local media is a fun attempt to precious zuma to resign and he president cyril ramaphosa said on sunday that the issue was causing disunity and discord as you mr downer's a.n.c. leader in december you faces a number of corruption charges after nine years in power coming to miller joins us live from johannesburg what are we expecting from this meeting. well those meetings been going on for a couple of hours now and the expectation is that the national executive committee will come out to push jacob zuma to resign all indications so far is that his resisted that and that's even through talks with the president of the a.n.c. so remote pours out over the last few days where they were trying to come to some sort of solution some sort of exit plan to get jacob zuma out it seems that those talks collapse there were a number of demands from jacob zuma which the a.n.c. as a party even tho

one the a.n.c. is mandate in december to take over this party and to also go on to assume the presidency and carry out the mandate zuma refusing to go is essentially leaving civil looking like a weak man would still commanding all the power and why i understand that some of you tearing it in in every time when you talk about this issue he's still saying i don't want to disgrace jacobs's i am affording him the opportunity to do this in a dignified way but he is getting frustrated himself and i can see the pressure building on him as he faces more criticism that the opposition is now going on to say even sort of was himself must be required as a deputy president the entire a.n.c. must be must be dissolved essentially because this president is proving ineffective so the longer this drags on the more zuma insists on staying longer it looks bad on several balls and makes him look weak and ineffective christine thank you very much for your analysis on south african politics. ukrainian opposition leader mi

the a.n.c. has been meeting to discuss his fate for more gathering which is being dubbed as hash tag zax it on social media is a final attempt to pressure zuma into resigning and see president cyril ramaphosa ramped up the pressure on sunday saying the issue is causing disunity and discord he's facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year for me to milan has more from john is bug. the agency's national executive committee the top decision making body has been meeting for hours it's expected to recall president jacob zuma from his position the president would then need to resign but all indications are this may not happen zoomers existed calls to step down for months including the last few days where we understand that the president of the a.n.c. . has been in talks with zuma to agree on some sort of ex a deal those talks reportedly failed and now it's up to the any seed to decide what is next for president zuma even if the any c. decid

turning out in south africa where the ruling a.n.c. party has given in battle to president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign the decision follows a marathon meeting of party chiefs that ended overnight it marks the in sees the latest attempt to calm the country's turbulent political situation that's been stirred up by a president whose long to neil has been marred by allegations of corruption observers say seventy five year old zuma is unlikely to go without a fight. for some analysis i'm joined by the obvious correspondent christine i'm andrea a welcome christine well the a.n.c. was supposed to make a statement right now at eleven o'clock our time but it's postponed the statement for another two hours what's going on in the in the last hour we know that two of president jacob zuma has seen the allies in the party if he's home it's understood that they personally delivered. from the african national congress that was essentially telling the president that the party has recalled him we understand that the other structures of the a.

is expected to hold a news briefing in the next few hours with state media reporting the party has given president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign it follows a marathon thirteen hour meeting by the african national congress to discuss his face and see presence around a person is understood to have met zuma in person to inform him of the party's decision zuma faces hundreds of corruption charges but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year meta miller has more from janice berg. there's been no official word from the african national congress as to the outcome of this meeting held by the national executive committee the stop decision making body of the a.n.c. but we do understand based on reports from the national broadcaster the c.b.c. that as well as the secretary general of the a.n.c. met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was the jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the a.n.c. has been meeting throughout the day in fact will rip him up also returned to the ne s

here led by a former supporter of mr xavier fight the a.n.c. would much prefer to have that motion for they want the opposition getting the credit for ousting zuma however that seems more or less what's going to happen and set it up. to a maneuver basically that i manged the motion so that looks a bit more like that motion but it's going to be voted tomorrow and i can't imagine anybody is going to say on the a.n.c. side oberstein on the on the opposition side is going to oppose it is right about it so we will not but i think that will go through that you called him that jason burke in johannesburg found here. germany's foreign minister has called for a german turkish journalist being held in a turkish jail to receive a fair and speedy trial than his huge role was arrested a year ago suspected of terror espionage offenses and he's not been charged signal comes after turkey's prime minister suggested there may soon be a movement in the case that he's utils continued detention assad relations between . this maximum security prison in istanbul is w

comes as the a.n.c. marks the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of nelson mandela. i'm up on. a man power and sue knew on cause i was the anti apartheid rallying cry of the struggle led by nelson mandela born one hundred years ago. his resistance eventually delivered power into the hands of the a.n.c. but it is the transition of that power that is threatening to test south africa's ruling party apart the birthday celebrations were launched by the a.n.c. is a new leader cyril ramaphosa he's the rival in the a.n.c. of embattled president jacob zuma. after attending a church service a day ahead of the meeting rama poso spoke of transition but avoided questions about seumas fate. personal commitment to people. like thank you very much for getting the conviction that the supreme court has the money just. think it's wrong do you think i don't think never but soon as nine year presidency has been beset by allegations of graft and economic mismanagement zuma denies wrongdoing that he's been involved in scan

party late on monday evening. the u.s. secretary of state is warning that ending combat operations against eisel will not guarantee the group's defeat rex tillerson has been addressing a meeting of the global coalition to defeat eisel in kuwait. crime and violence in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro has spiked to the worst levels in more than a decade particularly within the past year puppy. safety had improved significantly ahead of the world cup and the rio olympics but it's now become so bad that residents are resorting to unprecedented methods to stay safe in america and its reports. of gun battle in a busy rio de janeiro's thoroughfare terrified motorists and pedestrians look for cover desperate not to become the next victims of stray bullets. violence is again out of control in the city where a person is shot every two hours and confrontations between rival drug gangs or with police. the intensity of confrontations in urban areas is new we're seeing younger criminals with more and better weapons last mon

party in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the dollar. it's a positive sign that investors are banking on a change in south africa's fortunes. joblessness in france is now declining at a rate not seen since before the start of the financial crisis ten years ago the french economy added more than a quarter of a million new jobs last year mostly in the services sector machinery makers an i.t. companies are also recruiting heavily boosted by low interest rates on the global upswing france is a commie grew by almost two percent last year. he u.s. ports to the u.s. jumped to sharply last year while the bloc imported only marginally more from the u.s. the use resulting trade surplus rose seven percent more than one hundred billion euros. u.s. president donald trump highly critical of the trade imbalance has accused the europeans of unfair practices saying e.u. import tariffs in many sectors are higher than those imposed by the us. posted losses of four point five billion dollars last year this as the on demand taxi service has a real from scand

comes a day after he was sworn in as successor to jacob zuma who was forced to stand down by his own a.n.c. party on wednesday of a corruption allegations from a poser is expected to address corruption and economic issues in his speech well some of the miller is outside the parliament building in cape town for us and some of the we heard from a puzzle when he when he was sworn in in parliament raising the issues of corruption rebuilding the economy is the big themes of his term during the state of the nation address is an opportunity for him to go into sort of more detail as to how he intends to deal with these things. and there will be a lot of people watching to see exactly how the president fleshes out some of the policies that he's touched on or while he was president of the african national congress and now that he's been sworn in this is his first opportunity addressing south africans in the state of the nation to talk about some of the plans he has around the economy and corruption now yesterday he did say that now is the time to act act boldly and decisively and change the trajecto

a weary figure abandoned by the a.n.c. which he'd served for over sixty years he said violence and party infighting that swayed his decision to step down. see should never be divided in my. i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. zuma became president in two thousand and nine with the a.n.c. i call the looking on zuma had been jailed alongside mandela in the apartheid years but his rule was soon dominated by economic stagnation and corruption scandals. and see became odd in wrangling over his fitness for office that culminated this week in a demand for his resignation but even on wednesday zuma insisted he done nothing wrong i have a feeling that the leadership is unfair is not even helping me to understand what is it that is so critical. it doesn't you know you must go you must just got a problem with that but the allegations of corruption aren't going away on wednesday armed police staged a dramatic raid on the home of zuma as close associates the wealthy gupta

but uniting the nation or even the a.n.c. party is proving a difficult goal to achieve in south africa. he's been forced now and been asleep beside voles berg travelled to braman sunday with both teams desperate to avoid being dragged deeper into the relegation fight but it was the home side that managed to pull off an important when. max presented his brain when teammate surrendered a two goal lead in midweek such slip ups must be avoided if they want to stay on as an laver couzin they caught off to a flyer against wolves back in the news of a cheese capes corner powered home by new vic augustin since. the hosts looked out for the fight even when they were clearly punching above their weight. but sometimes football's as much about beauty as it is brute force mariam heintz was treated for that. his standard doubling brain winsley it was no more than they deserved for their first half dominance i do school coach martin smith would have settled for any kind of goal at this point and his side got one after this saw found in the

he says that he is being victimized the a.n.c. says go by the end of the day we will take it to parliament. also coming up german journalist dennis you cello has now been it held in a turkish prison for a year without charge his detention has soured relations between berlin and ancora now there may be new hope for his release plus celebrations in ethiopia as the government releases some political prisoners and drops charges against others so what's behind the boom. i'm sara kelley welcome to the program thanks for joining us south africa's president is hanging on to his position despite an ultimatum from his party that he leave today or face a no confidence vote in parliament speaking on state television jacob zuma described the agency's moves against him as unfair and said that their arguments are wrong because president zuma remains defiant in a live television interview he responded to his party's cause to resign i don't need to be for news on what i have done unfortunately. no one has been able to provide what is it to that i'

party leader cyril ramaphosa as president. so it's africa's economy took a beating under ex president jacob zuma it's fall into recession the country's bonds are rated junk and its political elite is no longer trusted. due to political mismanagement its second largest city cape town is running actual water fast growth has declined steadily for more than three percent seven years ago to less than two percent in recent years one of the weakest rates of all of sub-saharan africa. the country's hope is resting on the newly elected president still ram opposers a former union leader who's become a wealthy businessman since he was appointed head of the ruling african national congress in december the country's currency has surged by ten percent against the dollar remember during the. conference. that's a good sign that investors are banking on a change in south africa's fortune. france's unemployment rate dropped below nine percent for the first time since two thousand and nine i added weight to efforts by president to manually mark

it's to south africa now where the governing a.n.c. is demanding president jacob zuma is resignation that's after the party held lengthy closed door talks on his future the seventy five year old has been facing mounting pressure to step down amidst a series of corruption scandals now he has survived numerous attempts in the past to oust him. it could soon be the end of the road for jacob zuma a.n.c. party chief cyril ramaphosa left marathon talks in pretoria with a message for the president zuma own party has decided he should step aside his critics say a series of corruption scandals have left the president unable to credibly lead his country. to do so as it left his resignation would break a political stalemate that's left south africans uncertain over who's running the country. who was elected to lead the n.c. in december he's poised to assume the presidency if zuma steps down but the country's largest opposition group says that's simply not enough. to look with it but it is he is the home police the viability of the institution in

the ruling a.n.c. party is called for a special meeting of its top committee to design sumos fate. to barclays main opposition leader morgan chang is critically ill in a south african hospital the sixty five year old and ends in june twenty sixth in that he was having treatment for colon cancer he returned to hospital in johannesburg early last month the supporters have been told to quote brace for the worst. kenyan politician has been charged for his role in a controversial swearing in ceremony opposition leader raila odinga the good of a good lesson here on the left was at last week's ceremony for didn't get to clear himself the people's president rejecting all who are kenya his reelection in october has been released on bail after being charged with treason i'm awful assembly and engaging in organized criminal activity. they're up to date those are current headlines stay with us though innovate africa is next in trade in the story of how a thirteen year old boy is using technology to stop lions atta

south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has reported they get. and president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign or face being recalled from office that's according to the country's state broadcaster s.a.b.c. zuma has faced pressure to resign over a series of corruption allegations. ukraine's border service says it has deported former georgian president mikhail saakashvili to poland closed caption footage appears to show saakashvili being arrested in a key of raw.

african president jacob zuma has come under a new pressure to resign top officials from the ruling a.n.c. party met with him sunday to persuade him to step down his term expires next year but the party's popularity has fallen amid claims of corruption linked to the president and a polish opposition group has demonstrated outside the president's residence in warsaw urging him not to sign into law a controversial bill on the holocaust the bill would impose jail terms for suggesting that poland was complicit in nazi crimes israel the u.s. and international organizations have strongly condemned the proposed law. germany's two biggest political parties say they need more time for coalition talks they had set a deadline for sunday but there was still no breakthrough they'll pick up negotiations again today an agreement would move germany a step closer to a continuation of the grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel's conservatives and the social democrats but there are still sticking points including labor law and health care. this is where the parties hope to clinch a coalition deal

party met with him on sunday to persuade him to step down his term expires next year but the party's popularity has fallen amid claims of corruption linked to the president israel has begun serving deportation notices to tens of thousands of eritreans and sudanese who have been seeking asylum there and a crackdown on what it regards as illegal immigration hundreds stood in line outside of the immigration authority offices on sunday seeking to renew their papers until now the africans have been on short term visas but now the israeli government wants them to leave and is offering them money and plane tickets to unnamed african destinations israel's government says that it has the right to decide who is living there and protect israelis from what it calls infiltrators but the africans are worried about what will happen to them if they are deported. cramer reports. to keep lettice home country every tree or more than twelve years ago and sought asylum in israel now his future is once again uncertain because he's facing possible deputation the station are always very sensitive especially

his party the a.n.c. that he said he'd serve all his life their decision to ask him to vacate the office of president he was to have faced a vote of no confidence in parliament tomorrow unless he resigned tonight well jacob zuma in just the last few moments there has resigned with immediate effect welcome to al-jazeera this 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 end.