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in doha i'm a clock welcome to the news grid will change at the a in c. but the vote for a new leader of the only party that has ruled south africa since the end of apartheid is too close to call we will have the latest. funerals held for palestinians killed by israeli forces they were rallying against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital and monks them the activist who lost his legs in a previous radio strike now dead after being shot in the head the raul over the words report to be done from abuse by the trump ministration why diversity transgender and fetus is a red line for use in the health agencies budget. and africa's running. as a conversation bubbling online about the same as promised to grant people frank higher education. the hash tag spreads.

so you know with the news grid live streaming online through facebook live and al-jazeera we begin in south africa where the ruling party the african national congress is meeting in johannesburg to select its new leader whoever is chosen to succeed jacob zuma trying to buy corruption allegations is likely to lead the a.n.c. into the twenty nineteen presidential election well the party is divided between an a.n.c. veteran and one of south africa's most successful businessmen so will there be change your head let's go straight to johannesburg where tanya page is live for a start there's been quite a battle going on and it's all pretty tense. yes absolutely because there is so much at stake as you said and we started this conference many hours later with the speaker can speak. with two warnings firstly

don't sing any divisive songs we've already heard delegates are about five thousand of them here singing songs in support of one candidate or the other she says we can't have any more of that we don't want to be sowing any seeds of division here in the secondly she said don't throw any and that's because at the branch level at the grassroots level of members meeting to choose their delegates and to choose who each of the branches will be supporting for the top leadership can positions they have been changes flying across rooms fists flying and lots of pushing and shoving allegations of intimidation allegations of vote there have been some chaotic scenes and chaotic allegations so that's why you know coming into this there is really this atmosphere of tension and that has spilled over from the a.n.c. because many members simply don't trust their own party's problem solving procedures and they've taken their battle into court alleging that because of these

irregularities and some of the branches some of the people who. supposed to be here voting shouldn't be now off the back of those three court rulings which came out on friday the national executive committee the top and c. one hundred leaders they decided that yes they will set aside those delegates and they will not be able to vote so that could be important if it comes down to a very tight race in a matter of one or two hundred votes or more are also pretty lively tell you it's all supposed to be about voting for a new leader of the equally the current presidency as we make it about himself. well it really he's naturally going to overshadow proceedings here this is someone who's been leading the n.c. for a decade now and president of the country almost almost at the end of his second term the reason that he's gained so much and in the african national congress his

opponents would say is because he's really fostered this environment of patriarchy and we have also seen the spilling over into the private sector just a short while ago we heard another court judgment against the president saying he needs to pay his own legal costs the first time that the happened for trying to defend himself against the findings of a public watchdog report that basically said that he's under the influence of private business individuals he's got an enormous network of support but many of his opponents allege that it's been built through nefarious means if you like so he's really cost quite an influential important shadow over the proceedings here and one of the reasons many people believe he's trying to influence the outcome of it is because there are still hundreds of corruption charges hanging over him and these are charges that the opposition the main opposition the democratic alliance

has been pushing into the courts the supreme court of appeal has found that the findings of an earlier court ruling that those seven hundred eighty three corruption charges against the president should be reinstated he's still fighting that in court so whoever takes over as a.n.c. president may either decide to try and protect him in a legal sense or perhaps leave him exposed or tell you just how it will come back to that in a second i just want to jump into the conference itself because jacob zuma has. a lot of your questions about what he's talking about. in the. intensifying over the. they have now come to a head and they are threatening this up by the a.n.c. as we intensify organization over you know what. at this conference let us be

reminded of the words of. walter sisulu who said and i quote it is a law of life that problems at rise when conditions day for their solution unquote so that's jacob zuma the current president of south africa speaking at the n.c. conference let's return to tanya paige who's outside the conference hall in johannesburg so intensify organizational renewal says jacob zuma tania many of course would say that he is responsible for the collapse of the a.n.c. when it collapsed there and. exactly and that's the irony of the situation we're talking about someone who's presided over the a.n.c. in the local elections last year when the a.n.c.

lost almost ten percent support an enormous blow and quite a wake up call to the a.n.c. as well earlier in his speech which is his last as a.n.c. president he talked about the need for radical economic transformation the need to transform the lives of the black majority and the need for a higher development trajectory trajectory to release up the pace of change in south africa because that's part of the reason why so many voters have so few lost faith really and turn their backs on the a.n.c. now let's not also to get that image enjoys enormous support and is still by far the biggest political party in this country but nonetheless the signs are there that it is in trouble and so that's why we're here at these sorts of confidence conferences and being emphasized by the president there this idea of renewal the question will really be aware that these five hundred thousand five thousand or so delegates will go for renewal and veer away from the style of leadership of president zuma by by choosing

a rival or someone who represents something new or go with the person understood to be his favored candidate. or i tell you thanks very much. reporting there from johannesburg it will take a closer look at those two leading candidates tanya was talking about that you replace the jacob zuma we start with the president with president jacob zuma ex-wife because on. the sixty eight year old is being projected as somebody who can become south africa's first female president she is a veteran who served as a minister and every leader in the post apartheid era because of. radical economic transformation to redistribute wealth to the black majority she's also the former. african union chairperson and her rival is this guy sixty five year olds who are opposed and he's the deputy president of south africa and he was closely involved in the negotiations to end apartheid the former trade union leader is now one of

the country's richest men with a net worth of four hundred fifty million dollars he was criticized for his role in dealing with the two thousand and twelve miners strike that left forty four people dead he's pledged to fight corruption and revive south africa's ailing economy. now the backdrop to all this is president jim's announcement on free higher education which i'm sure has got quite a response online a very very strong conversation online nick so let's break it down for you zoom i just a nels that he will be granting free higher education for poor and working class students salton with those beginning beginning university next year and the initiative will be fully phased in over the next five years and we're seeing a lot of conversation around this today with has hags like free education zuma and see the size and fees must fall and the last one refers to largest student protests that took place last year and the a before that they will mobilize around the hash

tag fees must fall the protests force people to debate the issue around equality in the country and also address whether higher education is a right and who should pay for it. as we said there is a mixed reaction to zuma as announcement and saw me says this announcement is the result of the student protests he says remember zuma didn't give you free education he facilitated we gave ourselves free education but despite that short says that this is a good thing and that it will provide enormous financial relief for poor african families. and then there's others who are cautiously optimistic access way who calls it cynical timing but as of this is a much better policy then the status quo and then you have justice who also very crucial question he says that the national treasury had no say in this now with the fifty billion rand revenue shortfall where will the money come from so if you are

currently in south africa would love to hear from you how significant do you think this latest announcement is connected us using the hash tag a.j. news grabs a message me directly or him khalid really excellent thank you very much will you get to grips with all the issues issues in this very informative q. and a on the a.n.c. . on the respective visions of the leading candidates the dos state indeed of the a.n.c. itself and the possible scenarios going forward as a q. and a right there if you go a little bit further down you can find access to an opinion piece by rooms on the right there which is well worth a read. well all in all of the stories that we're covering do keep in touch with us so you can tweet us at a.j. english or facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup or indeed what's at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and of course use grid is the hash tag a palestinian billionaire who heads up one of the middle east's biggest banks has been arrested in saudi arabia summit amount three is the chairman of arab bank it

was on a business trip to riyadh but his family says that he's been detained for questioning saudi arabia recently arrested several businessmen and princes in a so-called corruption crackdown let's speak now to rami hoary who's a professor and professor and see media fellow at the american university barry joins me now from cambridge massachusetts as i read me at how do you perceive what's happening and what's going on. it seems to be that the saudi arabian leadership is using yet one more tactic to try to pressure a smaller more vulnerable arab country to form in line with its wishes that seems to be the analysis that most knowledgeable people about jordan and saudi arabia and palestine are thinking now and this is basically another move by. the

saudi crown prince who effectively runs the country to bring jordan and palestine in line with the saudi wishes to have a close working relationship with israel and the united states to push through a legit peace plan that the. son in law of president trump jared questionnaire has been working on to try to achieve a palestinian israeli peace agreement which everybody who has looked into this and heard about what it contains virtually everybody i've talked into and read says that this is a totally unrealistic one sided israeli deal that is being pushed by the americans are now supported by the saudis and the saudis are desperate to get jordanian and palestinian support they try to pressure jordan and palestine not to go to the organization of islamic cooperation summit in turkey a few days ago to take a united position on the jerusalem issue of both cases really are you suggesting

that on the basis russia and saudi arabia would be happy to let the situation proceed with jerusalem being the capital of israel. well we don't know that the saudis have issued statements saying that they think that the american move is unhelpful and dangerous or whatever they think there should be a palestinian state with these true islam as capital that's their clear position at the same time they seem access to work with the israelis mainly because they feel that israel the u.s. and saudi arabia and others in the arab world should be united in opposing iran in the region whether this is realistic or slightly hysterical is up to history to show us but so i think to be fair to the saudis they're not basically saying give israel anything it wants but they're probably saying that close relations with israel are probably more important right now than anything else for saudi arabia and the united arab emirates and other arab countries who are word genuinely word

about iran most of the world thinks this is exaggerated and so there's a kind of middle ground here where it's not very clear but the thing about this is if somebody had musri is you know he's like michael bloomberg for the economy of new yorkers he's just a massive figure in jordan and palestine he's the chairman of the arab bank their bank is the bank that the jordanian government turns to it's a commercial bank and the jordanian government when it needs money it turns to the arab bank to get some advances and so this is a massive sign that saudi arabia is sending to jordan that we are prepared to rattle your whole economic structure and to the palestinians as well where musri is a leading investor so it looks like this is following the attempt and cut out of the attempt in lebanon to put stress on these smaller countries to have them fall in line but the likelihood is that it won't succeed because the jordanians have

been through this before many times they've been under great pressure and they've always found a way to get out of it by reorganizing their relationships giving in a little bit for instance some. when the saudis pressure jordan to follow saudi in leads to cut out the jordanians didn't go all the way they just withdrew their ambassador and they closed their jersey at office which are symbolic gestures to the saudis but nothing really substantive and they'll probably find a way to get around this the ultimate lesson here is that the consent of your people and your own sovereignty are the only true guarantors that any country has of its well being and future prosperity and security and i think this is the message that we'll probably hear coming out of jordan while the king of jordan abdullah tries to find the middle ground that ok allows the you know the economy not to collapse are they ready appreciate that thanks very much indeed robin hood speaking to us from cambridge in massachusetts in united states set out funerals

being held for four palestinians killed by israeli forces in the latest protests in gaza and the occupied west bank a gates the u.s. recognition of old jerusalem as israel's capital one of the men shot by a sniper in the confrontations was a double amputee and the activists to him. he lost his legs during an israeli air strike back in two thousand and eight and he had become a symbolic figure of god gaza protests all official has more now from the funeral procession encounter. thousands on the street for the funeral of bringing three he was killed during clashes with these release at the border with gaza on friday the twenty nine year old most both legs during the warning gaza in two thousand and eight became an unlikely figure the palestinian resistance and defiance he would often leave his wheelchair home and attend rallies and protests are you guys a city just counting his palestinian flag he was carrying nuts like when he shot by the israelis on friday there were several key points of protest along the border

between gaza and israel on friday thousands one and so young palestinian men targeting israeli positions with stones the israeli shoes live bullets and tear gas trying to force the crowds of thousands are we from not booked on why the palestinian health authority tell us that hundreds were injured two people were killed there will be another funeral in gaza on saturday ismail haniyeh the leader of hamas spoke at the funeral he said the death of keeping him three i'm sure that there were people who were willing to die for the idea of jerusalem being the capital of a palestinian state something he said the donald trump didn't understand and with other groups and factions here and gaza calling for more protests the people here are placing themselves for more funerals in the days and weeks to come. for the seventh time israeli police have questioned the prime minister benjamin netanyahu as part of two corruption allegation investigations netanyahu strongly denies the

accusations against him saying he has done nothing wrong meanwhile thousands of protesters are expected to gather on the streets of tel aviv in a few hours time to monday not yahoo's resignation will be the third weekend in a row for the protests or for sent as mall. throughout december this is what saturday night in downtown tel aviv has looked like while international attention has been on the latest crisis in the peace process with the palestinians and these protesters the focus is on domestic politics and the corruption allegations against prime minister benjamin netanyahu they have managed one victory netanyahu directing that a controversial proposed law preventing police from publishing their recommendations on charges in any investigation be amended to exclude criminal cases involving him one legal expert says either way the message is clear in some ways it doesn't matter as much whether it's passed whether they have to follow the case or not if they pass the law it will be a message from the ten yahoo and from the government sort of embarrassing that the

police are mistreating him on friday police arrived in netanya whose residence to question him for a seventh time one case concerns allegations he tried to manipulate media coverage in his favor and other centers on expensive gifts received from wealthy foreign business executives. the prime minister denies one leak from the investigation suggesting he and his wife requested expensive cigars and champagne when stocks were running low from hollywood producer on the strain billionaire james packer and others welcome to a promise. that his lawyer has admitted what he calls netanyahu as weakness for wealthy people his wife sarah is awaiting indictment on a separate case involving alleged misuse of public funds they're seen as working very well together. wealth wise again strange for us here not the kind of. recent taishan that public leaders really like to show

there's increased scrutiny to regarding another case involving alleged corruption when german submarines were built for the israeli navy netanyahu is not a suspect and he hasn't been questioned but two of his closest and most senior associates have been detained benjamin netanyahu is doing all he can to fight off the separate investigations insisting his innocence will be proven in due course but as each one years its conclusion the political pressure on israel's prime minister is only intensifying very force that al jazeera westerners. to greece now where refugees are increasingly attempting a new route into europe with deadly consequences the old route was across the gnc to the greek islands of lesbos and shields and once there many had to enjoy a dark conditions in refugee camps well now thousands are using a new route by heading north to cross the land border from turkey into northeast ingres but that means crossing the everest river and hundreds of refugees have drowned laurence li has this exclusive report from alexander openness and warning

you may find some of the images as if you want to see how dangerous it is to be a refugee this hospital morgue is a good starting point is a book. with. the day before two months ago. pub loss is parts hospital doctor detective the bodies are usually discovered half naked they've been in the water for weeks and the river or the fish take their clothes sometimes they're a possible effects a clue to someone's mind says this syrian woman drowned along with her son she was identified by another son already in europe but usually they remain unidentified silent witnesses to the horror of the refugees journey. it's very good to go through that is it will work every woman will have

a little boy get those who haven't seen the. all harm. will be. here. and there was poor found sealed and yes it's very difficult. sometimes the bodies are found by police on patrol. sometimes they discovered by fisherman in the shallows more died hypothermia frozen from leaking boats discovered in outbuildings half eaten by wild dogs others still killed by trains sleeping on the railway is afghan says he crossed the river six times before dodging the police by that time he left behind three of his friends dead on the border. you know there were three of my best friends we were out in the open it was so dangerous so cold we didn't have any food or clothes where the river winds into turkey

a fence becomes the border paid for by the european union to keep the refugees out either side the turkish and greek troops refugees have been blown up by land mines here in the united nations says this year twenty thousand have been stopped on the turkish side it's becoming a favored route for refugees to avoid the greek islands what is france does is to force the refugees into the river either in the hands of illegal smuggling gangs or by themselves it's really dangerous are the way and yet again exposes the lack of safe routes at the edges of the european union for refugees well away from the fence and the watching troops the motorway is used by the smugglers they camp out here after crossing the river into greece the greek government says a thousand people a month are being caught it is unclear how many get through but they have nothing.

this is a this is a medical no from a charity it's from december last year he says could this person please be referred to a psychiatrist. the hospital doctors believe the river contains many more bodies it will soon give up and that their impoverished hospital they showed is their new addition from the red cross a huge fridge they've run out of room for the bodies lawrence leigh al-jazeera on the greece turkey border. that is the all for reality for so many people see here a new life or i turn now on facebook and look at how gang tattoos are being used to sell immigration policy united states that had all these great strides it's the longest power outage in recent u.s. history we'll take a look at why the government has not been stored electricity for hundreds of thousands of for three months devastating phone.

had over the clouds are gathering across parts of the arabian gulf at the moment you can see them on the satellite picture here gradually working their way eastwards and some of us in iran of things have fairly sharp showers after that system also extends up through parts of afghanistan to gradually tracking its way south would say for many of us here through iran and through afghanistan it looks like that cloud is breaking up as we head through sunday towards the west we've got another weather system here that's making its way across parts of turkey say for some of us here it's likely to be very wet if that rain really does get pretty heavy it's gradually sinking its way eastwards there as we head into monday ankara is looking pretty wet a maximum temperature just of nine degrees so a bit further towards the south end and here's that rain band that we saw across

the gulf again you can see it's very close to the u.a.e. and through a man that's where we're going to see the majority of the wet weather as we head through sunday but here in doha there's also the risk that we could see a few more showers and on monday it could be a little bit damp time so the risk of a shower here three u.a.i. into i man so a lot of a looks dry and here will be twenty eight degrees than towards the southern parts of africa got a usual rush of showers from end goal way across into madagascar we've also got some rain gathering in the eastern parts of south africa. after fifty years of occupation and un condemnation of illegal israeli settlements . of i'm from carry out and i want to preserve the safety of the village i've clashed several times with suppers on these lands al jazeera world tells the story of a palestinian village that's struggling to survive and the growing threats to the residents

desperate to preserve their homes village under occupation at this time when the news breaks it was an announcement few were expecting to hear by announce my resignation as prime minister from the lebanese government and the story builds i can't stop thinking about the bullets my life when people need to behead a mass exodus hundreds of thousands of rolled in just have fled ethnic cleansing imeem are for bangladesh al jazeera has teams on the ground to bring you more award winning documentaries and live news on air and on line.

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covering tweet us a.j. english or facebook dot com slash aging is great of course what's opposite plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and a.j. news grid is the hash tag now to top story the selection of the new leader of south africa's ruling party the african national congress for whatever is chosen to succeed jacob zuma who's tainted by corruption allegations is likely to lead the a.n.c. into the two thousand and nineteen presidential election the party is deeply divided between an a.n.c. veteran and one of south africa's most successful businessmen but will that be changing head nomo body so it's a political analysts an adjunct professor public law with the university of cape town she joins us live now from johannesburg so nobody i'm hoping that you can hear me or i'd say the a.n.c. needs to build itself rebuild itself there or move on beyond jacob zuma that but

how do they go about that all seems to be a this is me a lot of division. hi. good good afternoon from south africa how will the end sickle be on jacob zuma well firstly the results of this conference if the conferences are allowed to continue without disruption until the end the results of this conference are very very important there is no doubt in terms of looking at the numbers from the nominations in the branches and the support of arm of the us candidates in supporting someone not just talking about public perception here there's no doubt about the fed. is not a favored candidate in south africa and that many people actually would prefer to see mr mop warsaw taking over and that's the first thing and that doesn't mean that

people are very happy if people with them of course are but in terms of the choices of south africa has to make at the moment it's a very very difficult choices people would rather take him over. the minute or any other kind of date that is available you know the a.n.c. is very much struggling isn't it if not some would say in terminal decline how important is it for south africa as a nation that the a.n.c. sorts itself out and gets these divisions resolved and becomes a party that well led well. in many ways it actually it's ok it's quite important and quite significant for south africa but the insight is startling. not just in terms of internal our strife and and contradictions and factions within the a.n.c.

but also in terms of you know also the africans seeing that in c. for what it isa sent basically it's an organization that is riven with factions it's an organization that has lost touch for south african men with south african populists so many people in south africa think that the more the in struggles to get a letter of support it might actually be better for south africa's democracy that the incentives to be humbugged. what about we could see jacob zuma he's still addressing the conference right now what about the man him self where will this this change of change of god leave him going to be frog marched out of office. or i mean obviously you would have to address the inference is he's the president

of the n.c. until i think on sunday when our when the results are final out when the elections are finalized and we'll probably at the space at the pace of the conference on the see the results on sunday saw until the next president of the ins is elected. remains the president of the in c. one of the bottom. when when he's no longer the president this is an issue that the in c. firstly has to wrestle with do they keep president zuma as the president of the country but not president of the n.c.p. how is this going to. play out given the fact that the n.c.a.a. is not favored what it calls two centers of power before meaning the president of the insane the president of the country differently so i think that's one of the things of the instance going to have to deal with but from a south african broader perspective i think it would be wise for the insane as

soon as they have elected a new president to try and figure out how to get rid of president zuma and and also to figure out how to ensure that the next president of the incipit becomes the president of of the republic with is small ok a transition in that as possible. it's great to get your perspective on all you do appreciate that very much thanks very much indeed. now imagine a caribbean island now imagine that same island where thousands of people are without power and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes well that's what's happening in puerto rico three months after the island was devastated by not just one but two hearkens and maria many hospitals still rely on diesel generators and the deadline to restore ninety five percent of mains electricity by

december the fifteenth has been missed sixty percent has been restored but it could take until the middle of next year before all puerto ricans switch back on to silver as this report where to reconsider each harry can season there at the mercy of nature but three months after him and then maria battered the island they're also learning they're at the mercy of u.s. government officials to help revive life as they knew it can and must come you see only we want my mother to live a house was destroyed she hasn't many years left and we want to live decently is that too much to ask from the beginning puerto rican officials have been asking for a more robust response from the trumpet ministration the island is american territory and its three point four million residents are american citizens but many have complained that not only do they feel like second class citizens they feel forgotten. during a visit earlier this month the new york governor said one third of where to

reconsider are still in the dark most have to boil water before using it and one thousand remain in shelters in the federal government should be ashamed of itself in the way they've handled this puerto rico has not gotten the care and the attention that they deserve the administrator of the federal emergency management agency or fema says a series of disasters from harry can harvey in texas to wildfires in california have burned through its budget and burned out its staff. in puerto rico obviously it's the power it's an antiquated power system that we're rapidly trying to figure out day in and day out on how to get in there the complexities of it being an island and the logistical complexities you know adds to it the goal is to not only rebuild the electrical grid but make it better able to withstand the hurricanes that are expected to become more frequent due to climate change this period of recovery is excruciating for so many. i cry for what happened for what we

lost. the island has also lost thousands of residents who have relocated to the mainland the exodus combined with the country's poverty and debt burden could make the puerto rico of the future a very different place on the silver al-jazeera. when i say this on we can now speak to every male who's the national chair of the unity much for puerto rico that's a grassroots movement working to provide aid and relief to puerto rico joins us now live from san juan welcome to the program evan good to see that it's a very important story this and one that must not be forgotten because it's been three months since the hurricane you know very well you speak to people every day about the situation there just give us an idea paint the picture for us what everyday life is like. yes thank you for having me and now allowing me to be a voice of the people that actually need

a very loud voice globally so that people understand that the situation in puerto rico three months later is still a very dire situation i am going to highlight just one story from this morning it was really impactful to me and just so you know how things are there's this couple his wife in a ventilator and he was literally trying to manage to power her oxygen tank through the battery of his car and so he did the battery of the car died and just luckily he was able to get a generator today and so this is life and that situation that people are facing here in the island so you know the fact that we still have these types of situation three months later it's unacceptable and they're happening and they're very crucial and they're all over the i mean the fact that we are projecting more than we're

reporting that seventy percent of the island has power that is accurate or many many families that are still in these types of dire situations life but the situation do not have power in the army so people like you are speaking about the what about those who don't have an opportunity to speak about it and know how angry are they. you know this is the thing we are very angry these people aren't just desperate they're not they're not even tapping into their anger we see a lot of resilience we see a lot of tenacity in the people we see a lot of passion to move forward to make sure that they survive in indoor we also see a lot of sorrow in their hearts and a lot of fear anger we haven't seen that much a day happen gotten to that point because they're still on survival money three months later dirt just still thinking how am i going to survive the day they're not thinking about an outrage that they should be feeling so we're definitely out rich or that there's they're not there but we know that the injustice and the lack of

response have been unfair unjust and not representative of what united states stands for tell me about the work that has been done in the. seventy's and listen to you. who has been responsible. for that and maybe because of the work of the federal government too or just don't to local people or both. you know we had a very interesting conversation with it's a combination of both but has definitely taken the heat for to actually mobilize and organize so that we can move forward i was talking to the mayor of and what they were doing they were literally recycling just wires and poles and things like that they were recrown being down they were trying to bend the wires so these are local people taking matters into their own hands to be able to power up their

minutes of powerless so it is definitely a combination it is a very slow response people are still very much in need but definitely the power of the people is starting to be seen in a very impactful way like i said in this minutes of policy other municipalities are starting to do the same. thing there you know this this particular mayor got to you know the first thing that he did was take generators to wales to be able to pump water to the minutes of polities and in ten days they had water and so obviously communication had been such a huge challenge but we're taking models like this so that we can duplicate it throughout the island and trying to communicate what it's been a flagship what it's been in a and so that we can move this forward but it's definitely taken the power of the people organizing mobilizing to be able to get put to recall where is at and it's nowhere near where is should be even when we appreciate your time speaking to us

and good luck with your ongoing efforts to help those in the impreza rico and spreading the word you would like you know the thank you thank you thank you so much for sharing your story thank you where we are the motive you can see what's going on around the world in the jacob zuma addressing the a.n.c. conference of course the selected new leader he's the current leader of course the president of south africa as they head into new elections in two thousand and nineteen or let's see what's going on the rest of the world mara miles is standing by. hi then right now beginning with the story of two mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's yazidi minority which have been found near the northwestern iraq a town of sin john nine thousand bodies have reportedly been discovered including women and children i still took of us and jar in two thousand and fourteen killing and in slaving thousands of members of the religious minority group has retaken

a year later of my us back kurdish fighters the un has declared the massacre of the yazidi as a genocide. yemen's government forces of seize more land from whose the rebel fighters in the southern part of the country military sources told al jazeera the yemeni army has taken the town of area after three years of fighting it's located in shabwah province is by hand or actress a key oil and gas region the province is one of the last positions held by the who sees in the country's south at least three people have been killed in flooding as tropical storm lashes the philippines made landfall on saturday barreling through the eastern region of the zire is packing wind speeds of eighty kilometers per hour eleven thousand people are now stranded at various ports in the region while thousands of fled to evacuation centers power has also been cut off across the region. india's main opposition congress party has elected rahul gandhi as its leader gandhi used his acceptance speech to knowledge an attack on the ruling

bharatiya janata party which he accused of taking india back to the medieval ages gandhi who takes over from his mother sonia is now the sixth member of his family to head the party doors in power in india today are shaped by the very structures that keep india. the congress look india into the twenty first century while the prime minister is kicking us back bricks to medieval past with people of church because of who they are. for what they believe and for what the. austria's president says his country won't lurch to the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right freedom party so if you want your old sebastian kurtz who leads the more moderate peoples party is set to be chancellor both parties campaigned against immigration. chancellor alexander vander balance says he's been assured austria will retain a pro european focus is by the freedom party take on taking over both the foreign

and interior ministries. polls show next week's regional election catalonia is likely to leave the political crisis there on resolved spain impose direct rule after october secession referendum and jailed some pro independence politicians called paranoia spoken to one of them about the fight for freedom. yellow ribbons a sign that their jailed independence leaders are not forgotten and neighbors in this quarter boss alone are rallying to form so-called committees to defend the republic the three bow our heads that bill just stomp on news and crush us we must hold our heads high. in the wake of october secession referendum spanish authorities imposed direct route imprisoned separatist politicians. just one of those cattle and government ministers who have spanish prosecutors arrested

on charges of rebellion. he's free on bail after a month in prison he recalls every moment. specially the noise of the of the doors closing it and forget of all nice stereo means that you are not demonstrations in support of the secession referendum will last but peaceful yet rule and his fellow ministers were held in a cell block with convicted murderers and drug traffickers we where political prisons prisoners and now there are political prisoners in the spanish chains because if there is no violence they jailed us only to defend our i.d.'s until his trial rule is free to run for reelection on december the twenty first. there on the campaign trail this exhibit taking care of these things is that our thinking and thinking time defending america to the land

spouting the self-determination against a heavy handed central state. rule is cautious when describing what tactics might persuade spain's catalonia to break away dialogue dialogue them across there were crossing the one percent those rebellion charges are still hanging over him if convicted he could spend thirty years in prison mrs three year eight year old sons growing up. every day my two little children every day everyday. because i don't know what will happen in next future so all i faced life in a different way. with catalonia in turmoil politics comes with a heavy personal price cult pen while just zero while other spring. tip from london for now i'll be back in about ten minutes time now back to nic

burns thanks very much and the nothern there's something of a war on words in the united states where he lives. thanks nic now one of the biggest conversations we're seeing in the u.s. right now is a ban on words and let's go through some of them for you vulnerable entitlement diversity transgender fetus evidence space and science space now these seven terms we're not seem to have much in common but the center for disease control in the united states can no longer use them the top administration has reportedly banned the c.d.c. from using those terms and its budget proposals for next year now instead of science based or evidence based the government suggested that the c.d.c. say is based on recommendations on science in consideration with community standards and wishes now none of this is particularly new the administration was accused of censoring the environmental protection agency in october allegedly

downplaying the risks of climate change and they were also criticized for anti transgender policies earlier in the year like removing information about the l g b t community from a government website now there's been no official statement from the white house but the stop it has been generating a lot of talk online dictionary dot com responded with this tweet saying that they are defining the word vulnerable and also pointing out that language two can be vulnerable and this one was one of the top ones that we saw about the c.d.c. today this is amy saying that this is the scariest thing the trumpet ministration has done so far. really thanks very much of a very interesting all right sonorous coming up in just moments tell us about the top trends in sports all more specifically why football fans online and not get excited for saturday's finals of the fee for club well. once well come now see. dividing

a nation. al-jazeera explores germany's long term economic strategy of pursuing immigrants from the arab world to be sure i feel knowledge among done in syria and the. money it doesn't refute you get those people who don't think it's been going on in germany and i'm not the new germans at this time on al-jazeera but i think one of our biggest strengths is that we talk to normal everyday people we get them to tell their stories and doing that really reveals the truth people are still gap and outside these gates waiting for any information most of them don't know whether that loved ones are alive or dead or miami really is of two worlds meet we can get to washington d.c. in two hours begins on jurists in the rest of central bankers about the same time but more importantly why those two cultures north and south america has to teach it like it's a very important place for al-jazeera to be. let's

find out what people are talking about in the world of sport his own thank you nic well today might be a case of what full fans are talking about and that's the final of the fee for club world cup well on the day they're taken on brazilian side then you know in just over an hour this. is an animal tournaments that is held every year for the champions club of each football region this year it's been in the united arab emirates real madrid are two time european champions and they can become the first team to win this tournament for a second straight year but we usually use these here to the maps to show you

how many people are tweeting about an event a global lead but to be honest this time and hasn't performed particularly well online real madrid semifinal was the only game that garnered much traffic the majority of the tweets have come from brazil well let's get the perspective of jason partygoer over who is a football broadcaster and does us live from the holland on in the u.k. jason first of all give us your take on this tournaments like why does it struggle to get fans behind it and i think you find that it's just unnecessary. to game is between the champions of europe and the champions of south america and invariably those two children the champions league and the cup you consider race there seen in those regions as we always have to go to tournament stats where the big teams play to win you know you have to play against the best and i think when it comes to them having just an extra tournament thrown in

a specially the time of day when they do play which is always late december i think you know but by now people are already thinking about christmas about spending time for their family the lakes in most areas ashamed after the christmas break and you know people just not really interested ok if you're saying people are not interested and it's unnecessary and he can't get the fans behind this tournament why have they stuck to it for the past seventeen years. my own opinion is it's a marketing tool for them of say you know the brand feature brand they need to get their point so reagents is why we've seen a move to the far east and office of the emirates there's a lot of things that say for doing both i think regions and i think you know essentially for they may each trying to get you know the locals interested as much as anything else to to bring that brand forward and you know as we look towards well in the future may be seeing if those regions are no china particularly will be

looking to host the world cup within the next ten years or so you know maybe that's what they're doing it for i know from a supporter perspective however. many people actually say that they just see it as a necessary didn't they said that well they've been said that they're going to be few changes in the tournaments soon what do you know about that ok you know grow supertramp woke up as i have termed it is due to begin in two thousand and twenty one which is the year before. the idea of being in fact is going to be every four years that replaced the confederations cup which was an international country to them and so now we are close to him and as a the idea would be the country there is hosting the next year's world cup would host the super cup of cup that really can't happen in qatar you can have a summer tournament there so they're talking again as having china as the you know

. venue that you know country i'm sorry maybe twenty four teams which we believe will be made twelve teams from europe the third last for champions league we know this the last four champions league runners up and the four with the highest coefficient and then there will be some from each of the other thing and confederates they found federal have to leave it there thank you very much for that . now to another story that was trending online a little earlier and that was steve smith the australian cricket captain scored two hundred twenty nine runs and he's still going against england in perth while if you're not familiar with cricket it's a pretty amazing score a lot of english and australian cricket fans were making a joke about this one of the fans to eat it at this rate you will get trump out before steve smith says paul hayward well just uncivil and says that at this rate

britain will be out of the e.u. before steve smith is out my favorite one here is tim peters showed the picture of his newborn baby saying introducing england's new plan to get steve smith out william peach born last week possible open up for the twenty thirty nine ashes congratulations to team pete well i'll be back with more at eighteen g.m.t. but for now i hand you back to nick. well good about what you school four hundred that's it for the news group remember keep in touch with us by all those methods we'll be back tomorrow here in studio forty fifty hundred.

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