so. slightly essential to be a right or is it. still to. see if you kids are really still liberated as a journalist while. getting to the truth. of the. south africa's ruling party gathers to decide who should replace jacob zuma his

ex-wife or his deputy. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up austria's new conservative chancellor becomes the world's youngest leader in a coalition giving major posts to the far right palestinians mourn for protesters killed by israeli forces including an activist who previously does both his legs in an israeli airstrike. and don't mention diversity by the trunk of ministration is banning health officials from using certain words and phrases. and they've been tense scenes in johannesburg south africa's ruling african national congress is meeting to select its new leader the current president jacob zuma who's accused of corruption is stepping down as head of the a.n.c. up. artie is deeply divided on who should succeed him form

a cabinet minister and. zuma who is also his ex-wife is vying for the leadership a main rival prominent businessman and current deputy president cyril ramaphosa zuma successor is likely to lead the a.n.c. into the twenty nineteen presidential election the fifty fourth national conference is taking place at a time when i want his men is it a close role. why do we identify corporate it. is posing a serious threats to the a.n.c. . we all sort of need to look at. them makes we feel welcome as. let's take a closer look at the two contenders to replace zuma and courses on a damini zuma is a former cabinet minister who served on the every leader since the end of apartheid

with portfolios including health and foreign affairs a former chairwoman of the african union commission she has the backing of her ex-husband jacob zuma her rival deputy president cyril ramaphosa a veteran trade unionist who was closely involved in the negotiations to end apartheid in one thousand nine hundred eighty was seen as nelson mandela successor instead ramaphosa became one of south africa's most successful businessmen as a director of the mining from longman he was criticised for calling for police action against striking miners at marikana in two thousand and twelve when forty four people were killed let's go live now to tanya pages at the and see need thing in johannesburg can describe for us the tone that of the debate tenure and how much concern there is about this leadership contest reinforcing existing divisions within the a.n.c. . well there's enormous concern about that and it was something that president zuma did speak about in his speech he warned against

factionalism he warned against division even though many people believe he's actually sort of fostered in fuel that and if we look at the overall the speech overall he did do a little bit of campaigning for his favorite candidate he talked about his pride in elevating women candidates because if she were to win she would be the first woman president of the a.n.c. and he also spoke out in support and created to the organizations within the a.n.c. like the women's league and the youth league which have both been audience of porsches of black meanies sumo so on the one hand he's saying no to factionalism while on the alpha he's sort of fueling it himself by doing that kind of campaigning in his final speech as a.n.c. president a speech which one political commentators said struck really a vengeful tone he said that really the should have been

a speech of unity that's what we've heard the secretary general talking about that this is about the n.c. coming together and taking a hard look at itself and trying to be unified however that not really coming through in the president's speech in that short clip you play your talks he pokes out and hit south. the media he hits out at what's described here as white monopoly capital that is the the tight grip that largely white business still holds on the economy which is largely not in the hands of the black majority which the n.c. believes has has really fueled inequality in this country and is part of the country's issues so on the one hand talking about ending factionalism but on the other taking steps to sort of fuel it as well as some strong controversial remarks from jacob zuma why might he be taking this approach now. if you really mean is to try and influence as much as possible who takes over in the region linked fate court battle and now it is possible that they could be

reinstated so if president zuma is able to get someone an ally into the office after him then that person may be able to try and protect him from legal action and his post-presidential he is on the other side of that if a rival comes into play there may be less and climbs to help him tanya thank you very much tanya page following the a.n.c. leadership contest there in japan is by. now austria's president says his country won't launch to the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right freedom party thirty one year old sebastian kurtz who leads the more moderate people's party is set to be the new chancellor but the freedom party will control several of the most important ministries or brown reports. he's been nicknamed c or wizkid now he'll be

known as chancellor sebastian kurtz led the overpay people's party to a thirty two percent winning share of the votes in the general election two months ago but to govern he needed a coalition and the far right f.p.o. is his chosen partner it is good this stock if we have a good strong team concerning my party the people's party half of it will be women and two thirds of our team are experts who will bring a lot of knowledge to the political leadership regarding the freedom party and mr starr has a team but he's also put forward his suggestions so that the kids are going to follow this is about responsibility for our wonderful republic of australia and it is about ensuring good cooperation for the future too it can be difficult to tell them apart kurtz and his conservative people's party bills itself a center right but its policies borrow freely from far right ideas in january curt's demanded a ban on public sector workers wearing headscarves he was instrumental in having

full face veils banned in austria too and his anti migrant policies slammed the door on syrian refugees trying to reach europe via the so-called balkan route it's not the first time far right politicians have been government ministers in austria it happened seventeen years ago e.u. states reacted then by downgrading bilateral contacts the prospects in this coalition of the far right in charge of austria's foreign interior and defense ministries is likely to create concern in other european capitals yes senator markey will a lot of barry or. i have to add to this three things that so especially was respected or. it woman who is supposed to become the ministry is not a party member. and what is more in court in the european perspective all the european policy agendas will transfer from the foreign ministry huge

chancellorship other cuts nor struck i have detailed the new government's approach to european policy cuts says he is pro european but the far right has traditionally euro skeptic difficulty austria will hold the e.u. rotating presidency in the second half of next year old brennan al jazeera. will than two hundred fifty refugees have been rescued by the libyan coast guard east of tripoli they were trying to cross the mediterranean in small boats bound for italy or than four hundred sixty have been rescued this week alone arrival so it's a day of fallen by two thirds since july from the same period last year after the un backed libyan government crackdown on people smuggling. more and more refugees are trying to take a new route into year out with deadly consequences few of taking the old rouge across the sea to the greek islands of less boss and kiosks where many have fled have tried to engineer the diet conditions well now thousands are heading north to

cross the land border from turkey into northeastern greece but that means crossing the ever which is proof fatal for hundreds of refugees aren't sleep has this exclusive report now from alexandra palace and a warning that you might find some of the pitches hit distressing. if you want to see how dangerous it is to be a refugee this hospital is a good starting point is working with. the day before to morrow for gore. is paul's hospital dr paulus detective the bodies are usually discovered whole kids they've been in the water for weeks on the river or the fish take their clothes. sometimes there are a personal effects a clue to someone's mindset 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 is a very little girl think that is because we're here but woman will have a little boy those girls who haven't seen the all harm in the. world. they come here to buy that there was. a law saying 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. and 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. 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 while this fence 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. which 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 lee al jazeera on the greece turkey border. in watching out is there more to come a billionaire palestinian businessman is arrested in riyadh to saudi arabia's anti-corruption drive appears to widen also. a month ago here in the u.s.

state of georgia where rural hospitals are closing at an alarming rate we'll tell you what the effect is on the local communities and why it could be the difference between life and death. 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 gradually sinking its way eastwards there as we head into monday ankara is

a few pretty wet 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 also be a little bit damp time so the risk of a shower here three u.a.i. into oh man so a lot of a looks dry and here on maximum 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.

right. welcome back without is there a quick look at the stories making headlines have been ten scenes in john is but west south africa's ruling african national congress is meeting to select its new leader party is deeply divided those it chooses between jacob zuma ex-wife or his deputy. austria's presence as his country to the right despite the announcement of

a new government featuring the far right freedom party and more and more refugees taking the new generous route to get into europe thousands are now crossing the land border from turkey into northeastern priests with hundreds die. now in all the stories we're following closely funerals have been held for four palestinians killed by israeli forces during protests in gaza on the occupied west bank on friday they were rallying against the u.s. decision to recognize true islam as israel's capital one was an activist who lost both his legs during an israeli astrakhan two thousand and eight alan fisher was at the funeral. became in the thousands to say goodbye to a man and what he represented. three a lost both his legs in a near strike during the two thirds of the gaza war but he became an unlikely symbol of palestinian defiance and resistance. the twenty nine year old often went in his wheelchair to fly his flag at demonstrations and protests all over gaza he

went on friday to the border with thousands of others to protest donald trump's decision to declare jerusalem as israel's capital. donald trump must reverse his decision jerusalem as the capital of palestine a call on all arabs to support the palestinians and if they don't we palestinians will do it ourselves. ibrahim three it was flying his flag on friday when he was short and killed by the israelis. are going to do the very moment we helped the martyr abraham in the wheelchair tear gas was fired at us and abraham was hit in the head he fell to the ground and was killed instantly by a single bullet to the head. that is generally gaza city how most leader ismail haniya said the protesters death was not in vain. he tried to protest despite his condition became famous all over the world in the shaping of the consciousness of the world two people were killed in clashes in gaza on friday for several hours and in seven places along the border palestinians

protested. and rocks at israeli positions usually fire bullets and tear gas trying to push the thousands back from the border line hundreds were taken to hospital many suffering from the effects of gas and with other groups and factions here in gaza calling for more protests the people here are pressing themselves for more funerals in the pyrenees and weeks to come first was alan fischer al-jazeera. to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's yazidi minority have been found near the northwestern town of sin jar ninety bodies reportedly been discovered including women and children i still took over this in georgetown and twenty fourteen killing and in slaving thousands of members of the religious minority group has retaken a year later by u.s. backed kurdish fighters the un has declared the massacre of the as a genocide now the trouble ministrations told officials at the top u.s.

public health agency not to use certain words and documents relating to the budget staff at the centers for disease control have been told to avoid the words evidence based and science based to the surprise of the agency's scientists. also on the banned list vulnerable entitlement and diversity a word criticized by some trump supporters as reflecting liberal bias and equally unmentionable are fetus and transgender echoing previous steps taken by the administration in pursuit of its social agenda this year the department of health and human sciences which oversees the c.d.c. removed information relating to sexuality and gender issues from its website or more tom ackerman joins us live now from washington d.c. and so we can see the ministrations ideological positions reflected in the ban of some of those words but there are others like evidence based in science space have left many people scratching their heads. well in fact when the

spokesperson for the department of health and human services was asked what alternative words could be used for in place of evidence based or science based the best she could come up with was science in consideration with community standards which is a pretty subjective term of course other subjective things for example are not not so subjective foetus for example is a medical term and yet many of the basis for the donald trump's event jellicoe and other religiously based followers believe that life actually is conceived or should be thought of as a life at conception and therefore they either use the term pre-born or unborn rather than premature or as you said a fetus as a as we said fetus so you do see a change in the language and this is in line with the ideological convictions of

many of the top line officials in that department to one of them for example who is in charge of programs to to deal with family planning she says that the federal government she has said that the federal government should have no role whatsoever in family planning the administration has already cut off funding to international flat family planning programs irrespective of whether or not they are support abortion and for example one of the one of the officials who was was in charge of the teen pregnancy prevention program. has called for deep cuts in that program despite the fact that the pregnancy rates among teenagers has actually fallen to great levels since that program was implemented several years ago however followers of donald trump the jellicoe followers primarily of donald trump are still convinced that abstinence only programs are the only ones

that should be employed. tom ackerman with all the latest on this from washington d.c. . now police in saudi arabia have arrested a palestinian billionaire who's the boss of one of the biggest banks in the middle east. musri is a saudi possible holder it's the latest move in an anti corruption drive ordered by the crown prince mohammed bin so mun m.p.'s to have reports. he's one of jordan's most prominent businessmen and among the wealthiest but since wednesday musri has been detained in saudi arabia for having what's been described as information relating to corruption the eighty year old palestinian who has a saudi passport is the founder of a major investment group and the chairman of arab bank one of the middle east largest and most influential lenders his detention has shocked family and friends in jordan where his multi-billion dollar portfolio is an important part of the economy that employs thousands of musketry is you know he's like

michael bloomberg for the economy of new yorkers and he's just a massive figure in jordan and palestine and 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 what it needs money in terms of their bank to get some advances. these detention follows a major anti corruption crackdown in saudi arabia which began last month around two hundred members of the royal family and businessmen have been implicated among those detained are eleven princes for government ministers and several former ministers it's thought many of them are being held at a luxury hotel in the capital riyadh several had their bank accounts frozen and were put on a no fly list they are the latest in a series of measures ordered by crown prince mohammed bin some months the thirty one year old heir to the throne is being seen as trying to assert his power shortly after the first arrests were made king someone been abilities all some announced

that his son known as n.b.'s would oversee a newly formed anti corruption commission and it would purge the country of what the king described as widespread corruption 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 a mystery comes from a prominent palestinian business family from nablus in the israeli occupied west bank with majority holdings and real estate hotels in telecoms he initially made his fortune from partnering with influential saudis in a major keith business to supply troops during the gulf war in one thousand nine hundred one since then his income has grown dramatically through regional investments and his boss of arab bank for the past five years although there's no saudi comment on the bus routes detention it's

a sign that the kingdom's anti corruption crackdown is widening india's type al-jazeera. and i chair in military says it's arrested more than four hundred people associated with the armed group. of fighters as well as women and children were found hiding on the island of lake chad close to the cameron border military leaders said many of the fighters were killed during the offensive argentina has fired the head of its navy following the recent loss of a submarine relatives of crew members from the missing sabah demanding the search operation continues until a vessel is found. ok. contact with the a.r.a.'s on one was lost a month ago forty four crew members were on board argentina's navy ended its search two weeks ago following news an explosion had been detected near the subs last known location croft and ships from eighteen countries have been looking for the submarine in the southern atlantic. the deadline for americans to sign up for the twenty eighteen insurance coverage through the government's health insurance marketplace or obamacare has just passed that's not the only health care related

problem in the u.s. now experts say so-called medical deserts becoming more common since two thousand and ten more than eighty rural hospitals have closed and hundreds more risk of shutting their doors. gallagher reports from one such area around met in georgia. glenwood really is a blink and you'll miss it kind of rural city only a few hundred people live here even on busy days it's sleepy but at one time it was home to the only hospital in the county an area of almost eight hundred square kilometers that was our kind of our walk to a better term claim to fame with the hospital within three years ago the facility closed its doors and with that the city lost its biggest employer it devastated economically i mean it just took away our lot blood our you know just the beginning of a domino effect in a small town you know in

a larger town if you lose one hundred twenty jobs you know you could probably overcome it but here it's just hard to do that you have to run. but for the residents many who are elderly and poor it's the loss of health care that hit the hardest with folks on you know have a job here or there is. it would be good if we have something about an hour's drive away is met or there the county hospital is still open but state officials say it's financially stressed like hundreds of other rural hospitals across the u.s. it's facing serious challenges in the state of georgia there are around two hospital beds for every thousand people but in rural communities it's a very different picture hospitals have a hard time attracting doctors many of the patients don't have insurance and simply can't pay their bills and medicaid a social welfare program designed to help the poor hasn't been expanded here all of that means that hospitals that are still open a struggling to get by. we have

a lot of folks that come in for heart attacks or strokes hospital c.e.o. david flanders is working hard to turn things around and says serving the community is about more than health care in a great hospital to be able to prosper as a community and that's kind of our mission and everybody that works here wants to take care of patients they want to see this hospital survive and they don't do it for monetary reasons for sure they do it because they're genuinely concerned about the patients and the people in this community according to the national rural health association a third of the u.s. is rural hospitals are in danger of closing for good leaving the u.s. is most vulnerable without timely access to health care for many the situation is the difference between life and death at a gala crowd zero matter georget now the largest privately owned mammoth skeleton is going up for auction in france fifteen thousand year old skeleton was found in

siberia and has estimated to be worth more than half a million dollars sales taking place in new york where the same auction house sold a dinosaur skeleton last year for one point one million dollars. to go away and a million dollars. thank you through the top stories now ten scenes in jana's bug where south africa's ruling african national congress has been meeting to select its new leader the current president jacob zuma is accused of corruption and is stepping down as the head of the a.n.c. but the party is deeply divided now between former cabinet minister an ex-wife of jacob zuma and causes. and the deputy president cyril ramaphosa zuma successor is likely to lead the a.n.c. into the twenty one thousand presidential election. to force a national conference is taking place at

a time when. is it a close role. why. don't you fry corporate. is posing a serious threats to the a.n.c. . we all sort of need to look at. them mix we. austria's president says his country won't do the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right freedom party first you want your old sebastian kurtz who leads the more moderate people's party is set to be the new chancellor botch the freedom party will control several important ministries more and more refugees are choosing to take a new dangerous route to get into a year a few a taking the old regime across the asian sea to the greek islands of lesbos and chaos now founds and are crossing the land border from turkey into northeastern greece which means crossing the every river journey that's proved fatal for

hundreds of refugees to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's the minority have been found near the northwestern town of saenger ninety bodies have reportedly been found including women and children i still took send jar in two thousand and fourteen killing and in saving thousands of members of the religious minority group. and yemen's government forces have seized 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 ajdabiya after three years of fighting it's located in. a key oil and gas region you're up to date with all of our top stories much more coming up and the news hour and twenty five minutes time so do join me then inside story starts now.

the battle for power in south africa the ruling a.n.c. chooses a new leader who will probably be the next president but the successor to jacob zuma make a difference and does the a.n.c. still appeal to the eye.