part series al-jazeera investigates the world of performance enhancing drugs. sports doping the endless chase at this time. and. where every. after a big three four campaign to lead south africa's a.n.c. party that counting the ballots to see who will replace jacob zuma.

jane dutton this is al jazeera life and also coming up. we. do celebrations as india's ruling party looks set to hold on to the prime minister's home state of gujarat also. political crisis in the gulf add special meaning to qatar's national day celebrations plus. two point five billion people across the world don't have a bank account to me you can live right here in africa by next how a small so the company is using not banks but in all traditional saving methods to try to bridge this gap. votes are being counted off to thousands of delegates from south africa's ruling party voted for the new leader the secret ballot began pos midnight's in the

elections seen as a decisive moment in the country's post apartheid history deputy president cyril rama pose a wealthy businessman and former minister and. zuma who is president jacob zuma ex-wife of the two main candidates the new leader will lead the a.n.c. into the two thousand and nineteen general election as incumbent president jacob zuma stepped down it's been two hundred pages at the n.c. convention in johannesburg where the vote counting is underway i'm hearing we'll get the results about midnight what are you hearing. something similar jane i think nobody really. because we had been told at the beginning of this conference that we were going to have a result by the end of sunday but of course we saw a very lengthy delays because of they needed to resolve the legal challenges effectively and that gives us an indication of just how hotly contested this

leadership race is the voting has finished the counting is underway they may count twice if the result is particularly close and let's not forget also that not just counting the delegates votes for the top job of president but all top six of the. leaders are being chosen in this one round of voting that includes the treasurer and the secretary general among others what does each of the presidential candidates often delegates choosing between. what. was president jacob zuma as. one point four children together and that has played for her and against. him if you like although it is highly criticized by many sectors of society is still very popular a very powerful man and so she has drawn on his substantial support base and she's

also been able to get on board her campaign two important structures within the a.n.c. the first being the women's league she would be the first woman president of the a.n.c. if she succeeds and also the youth league so it's played for her in some senses but also against her in other ways because as we know president jacob zuma has been modern bogged down in controversy and scandal for the better part of the last ten years or so and with any truth in connections between the two of them in. the zuma surname carries with it a fair amount of baggage if you like on the other. side of the ballot paper is to be present president obama pose that he's campaigned very strongly on an anti corruption message though of course he's never named his current boss jacob zuma as being linked to any of those things and he's very pro-business he's

a very wealthy man a very successful businessman so a lot of people perceive that he could be the right man to get the economy back on track and ultimately for most south africans that's what this is about whoever wins the a.n.c. presidency is most likely to go on to be president of the country so their economic policies will have an enormous bearing on millions of south africans who are desperate for jobs and to desperate for economic growth i'm sure it will all right tanya thank you. it is prime minister says a clear victory in two state elections including a closely fought race in his home state of narendra modi thanked voters for their trust in the ruling be j.p. on twitter the party also managed to snatch power from the opposition congress party in him a child pradesh to figure pollen as more from largest city matter but. the b j p may have retained power but this race was watched so closely as it's being called the political fight of the century in the state of the congress has for the

first time launched a campaign that's made the b j p nervous and made many believe that congress could actually win over the states but alas they fell short of seats although they have taken away seats from the b j p this also has been watched closely by the rest of the country as the country's prime minister narendra modi had a personal stake in the goods or rather his home state he came here personally to campaign on behalf of the b j p a loss for him would have been a loss of faith and a lack of confidence in his policies now what these elections have done is raise certain issues in the state particularly unemployment inflation and the fact. the state's economic growth is not benefiting everyone particularly the rural population and those of low income backgrounds and the land john has written a biography of he says the result may force him to pursue populist policies bill

for the first time in the last three and a half years with some of these being really seriously challenged by an opposition leader and it so happens that the whole gang the has just chosen this particular moment to take charge of the congress party so definitely the next one and a half years before elections parliamentary elections are held in the middle of two thousand one hundred is going to be a usually challenging period from some movie so it's a very important because there will be several state elections in now in the parliamentary elections and in a few of these important states mr moody's party is not a challenger but the incumbent of experience from which iraq in early in the previously the smallest state of war shows that mr moody and his party is not very good at defending the states where they are in power here because they're going in challenging the performance of an incumbent government so this is something that is going to have a bearing over the next two years in indian politics belittled definitely going to

cause some of these government to be more economic leap populist in its programs he's going to look at various other schemes to move the poor he has to shed somehow the broad elite image which this government has acquired in the last three and a half years and attack them but i still at a military training center in afghanistan's capital kabul is a gunman stormed a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center in the west of the city explosions and gunfire were heard there were reports of at least two attackers inside the building at least now say they've been killed. the u.n. security council will vote on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem in the coming hours following as a u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital the move has sparked almost two weeks of protests around the world it was more anger across the palestinian territory overnight with protesters burning effigies of years president trump and

israel's leader benjamin netanyahu. egypt is circulating the draft resolution calling for the u.s. recognition of jerusalem to be withdrawn it states that any decisions and actions which purport to of altered the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no legal effect nolen void and must be rescinded in compliance with the relevant resolutions of the security council mike hanna as the details from new york. the draft resolution being circulated in the united nations has been drawn up by egypt with input from other parties it would appear now the resolution may change in form or shape before it's actually voted upon probably in the scumming day however the resolution as it stands at the moment does not mention the us by name i understand that various parties such as the united kingdom and indeed egypt wanted to try and keep the language as neutral as possible in an

attempt possibly vain to keep the u.s. from exercising its veto within the security council the resolution as it stands at the moment is actually a restatement of the un's position on jerusalem as outlined through decades of security council and general assemblies a resolution the most recent being in november this year in which the general assembly voted overwhelmingly to declare any unilateral acts in jerusalem as null and void that phrase null and void is contained in the current draft resolution the draft resolution calls on all states to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions within jerusalem i understand the palestinians somewhat angered they didn't want to single out the u.s. by name however it appears from this draft resolution that egypt and the u.k. have had their way too in attempt to avoid the u.s.

veto however it would appear that that vetoes likely to happen with israel's enthusiastic backing which describes the resolution as a palestinian attempt to reinvent history despite the fact that it is rooted on u.n. resolutions as they stand at present but palestinians making very clear that should the u.s. veto this resolution in the security council they will attend to have it introduced in the general assembly where there's nobody to at play. the israeli military says it has attacked a hamas training compound after rockets were fired from the palestinian territory of gaza this video is said to show the israeli air strike on the hamas facility no deaths were reported it was no response to two rockets being fired into israeli territory where no one was killed rocket strikes from gaza have increased since the u.s. moved to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. the u.s.

president is due time valley's national security strategy in the coming hours is expected to take aim at america's jip political rivals and identify important global challenges tameka one has a story from washington d.c. thank you very much for the you know from the outset donald trump is focused on undoing or redirecting his predecessor's priorities on the world stage but his rhetoric hasn't yet been matched by measurable change generally he's followed the same policy and he may have wanted to radically change our policy toward russia but he's been unable to do that. in his national security message mandated by congress trump is expected to brand both russia and china as quote revisionist powers whom america must recognize as adversaries despite drums and willingness to say a bad word about vladimir putin i feel that having russia in a friendly posture as opposed to always fighting with them is an asset to the world

he's grudgingly approved added sanctions against russia which obama launched to retaliate for the reported cyber intrusions into the american electoral process since taking office trump has softened his campaign language about china which he did cues to economically abusing the u.s. we can't continue to allow china to rape our country. the president has escalated his verbal bluster and shows of military muscle in response to north korea's mounting nuclear threats. but a clear course of action has been muddied by friction between the white house and secretary of state rex tillerson a few days after he suggested talking to the pyongyang government quote without preconditions tillerson fell back in line with the administration's tougher tone our communication channels remain open north korea knows they're open. they know where the door is they know where to walk through that door when they want to talk . after claiming much of the credit for ousting eisel from its strongholds white

house national security adviser ager mcmaster promised the u.s. would prevent a fractured iraq from turning into an iranian client state we are committed to want to work together with kurdish leadership iraqi leadership mediate as best we can and to also limit the destabilizing influence of of others in the region but the administration has deferred action on its threat to abandon the iran nuclear deal at the risk of isolation from america's western partners to the agreement. yet trump has reversed course on one of obama's prime machinea security concerns climate change this despite the pentagon's judgment that over time global warming will destabilize more governments and societies with unforeseen consequences tom ackerman al-jazeera washington. still ahead on al-jazeera donald trump prepares to lay out his vision for america's national security. back on the streets in the

election when he's declared non-injurious but calls for a rerun continues to grow plus. hello there we don't have a great deal of cloud over parts of china at the moment to that's allowing it to get pretty cold these pictures are from chong change showing just how chilly it's been here the temperatures are clearly well below freezing and that's giving quite a spectacular display of frost and rime there lots of ice around plenty more clear skies still to come for many of us the wind still feeding down from the north so it's not going to feel particularly warm despite that though the temperatures should make it still fits a chunk i will get to around ten and around eighteen in hong kong on tuesday the cloud and the heavy rain that's away across the philippines the main storm has

cleared away from the philippines but still plenty of cloud a plenty of showers following in its wake we do expect more heavy downpours here if we had out towards the west for many of us in india it's fine and dry we do have this little area of cloud hair that's making things a little bit gray really this felt a great deal of significant rain on that during the day on tuesday and to the south of that slush fine and dry into you head down towards for like karen here we're expecting some more rather sharp showers those will be spreading their way into the southern parts of india there as we head through the day on wednesday then the area of cloud that sticks around across the central belt snaking all the way up towards nepal but again not really any significant rain on the. facing the realities if a piece of machinery goes wrong is there a chain of litigation through which we can bring a legal system to bear getting to the heart of the matter i don't think we need of the wall but some of my british is just the hear their story on talk to how does

iraq at this time. well again the top stories on al-jazeera votes are being counted after thousands of delegates from south africa's ruling party voted for the new leader the new head of the african national congress will lead the party into the two thousand and nineteen general election. india's ruling. party has overcome a challenge from the main opposition party to retain prime minister narendra modi's

home state of gujarat but the main opposition party has made significant gains in the state under b j p control for twenty two years. the un security council will vote in the coming hours on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem follows the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital there was anger across the palestinian territory of a night of protesters burning effigies of the u.s. president donald trump and israel's been human it's you know. i'm on our top story on the vote to elect the leader of south africa's ruling african national congress . is the political editor for power at nine hundred seven radio stations she says the n.c. will finally have a new leader by midnight. south africa gets to say goodbye to president jacob zuma today after ten years of rule when president jacob zuma walks into office about a bout in two thousand and nine we had

a five percent economic growth rate when he leaves office we've had a zero point three percent economic growth rate so when the new president gets elected here today after ten years of being president many here. is national conference and in south africa as a whole hoping it will improve south africa's economic potentials four thousand seven hundred and sixty seven delegates have cost their votes it is been counted and having covered the national conferences before it doesn't get counted once it gets counted six seven times but by midnight tonight the a.n.c. should have a new presidential candidate having spoken to the opposition earlier this morning i can tell you there quivering just a little bit because the election research that is if several of them up was as elected a.n.c. president the a.n.c. is likely to win the twenty nineteen general elections so the opposition are hoping that in courses on a gets its can. get elected

a president should know by the end of the day and it will either be celebrations here at nazareth johannesburg and celebrations in the streets of johannesburg or a more economic depression for the country. military chiefs in zimbabwe have officially ended their operation that forced former president robert mugabe to resign it was always just months concerns clear the who would replace him bob his longtime leader intervention paved the way for his former deputy emerson one on god to take power. and its main objective was to remove criminals that did sorrow and did the former president resulting in and haiti and disappointed in amongst our people while some of the individuals have been accounted for. as cuba the country this notwithstanding the objectives of the operation

have to realize the extent been achieved. celebrations are underway and cats are for its national day. as i showed off its military muscle with a parade of the forces in front of them near chatham in been how many funny this year's celebrations come in the middle of a six month long crisis in the gulf side arabia the u.a.e. back when and egypt all cut ties with cattle back in june accusing it of funding terrorism charged has strongly denied. joins us live from has waterfront i believe it's been quite spectacular today talk us through what happened and how important today it's been. just as the night fell and we see this crowd becoming kharma now after those two exciting hours of military display. we have seen in qatar showing its military might in many ways here today both the heavy artillery. heavy weapons gunships and told to commit this street outside the deal

and out of so in front of this huge crowd of people thousands are still here probably sending and watching videos that they took from that but i have seen also the fighter jets. making those amazing displays in the sky drawing lines of all of the hostile lines including a huge hot for qatar is to see under so it's partly as you came here by the thousands and also that's another aspect of this year's celebration when it's coming in the big numbers to show their support for qatar in this extraordinary moment and this comes. the background of this is these six months of more paid by qatar the neighbors three gulf neighbors and also egypt who tried to subdue qatar according to the qataris and you know imposed on them a lot of policies qatar has refused this and we have seen that qatar has now according to what the reports here say that qatar has been able to absorb. this

shock and the change its commercial routes and its relations eighty percent of its imports came from. us now they have been able to decide to compensate out and import from other countries qatar also has been striking deals huge multi-billion dollar military transactions with the americans with the british with the french over the last few months and we have seen the results of this military display today a strong message to its neighbors who according to reports almost ten were about to invade it last june at the beginning of this crisis so the gist of it is not cut out today has sent a strong message trying to say to its neighbors and to the world that it has halves of the shock that his house compensated the losses a lot of so it is now socially stronger than ever before this huge and this extraordinary mixing today and fusion of qataris and exporting is one of us having

has never been seen before so that's also another message that's got has not only you won the support and hearts and minds of its nationals but also that of its guests coming from abroad working here but also that mom involved. the secretary general of the organization of american states is calling for a new presidential election in honduras have been protests after last month's contested vote between the incumbent upon orlando numbers and the opposition leader that salvador. charter ballasts reports i've. been journos react to the announcements that one lender hernandez is back as president supporters of his challenger so for donors rana a convinced of electoral fraud. and convinced they can stop hernandez from taking office. this is the moment the announcement was broadcast to the nation and to computing all of the ballots of to resolving all the challenges with the

tribunals has got the final results and we may. it's known to the honduran people in this declaration from the president of the republic we have the national party of honduras one orlando her nun this with forty two point nine five percent it was meant to put an end to three weeks of unrest after nasrallah challenge the results initial count suggested the leftist candidate had won then the tally was reversed giving conservative hernandez a slim late. on sunday nasrallah flew to washington d.c. to argue his case for a new election updating his supporters on the way. the struggle continues and will continue or any other things that are scheduled shouldn't be surprised they are obviously peaceful has back a former president manuel zelaya wasn't so diplomatic he will never leave the electorial court imposes a fraud in favor on one orlando mendis and violent popular action would change their vote for salvatore. the vote was contained long before it was house and his

opponents argue he should never have run the one juror and constitution limits presidents to one term but two years ago the supreme court dominated by judges appointed by hernandez rule the term limits don't apply to him then came the allegations of voting irregularities. the electoral observer mission has observed a process of low electoral quality and therefore cannot settle the doubts over what has been announced the organization of american states is calling for a new election a president who named his posse is defiant. electoral court as the only electoral authority brings the final and definitive results for that reason the organization of american states or another institution cannot see anything different about the story but his words appear to change a little on the streets where there is no certainty the division between hernandez

in this role is increasingly entrenched with more protests planned shallop ballasts al jazeera. the european commission is investigating swedish furniture giant eye care of attacks still the company's made in the netherlands regulators will look at ways the company allegedly used a dutch subsidiary to slash its tax revenue from stores around the world is the latest crackdown on tax arrangements between multinationals and e.u. countries i kid denies reaching european. more than two point five billion people worldwide don't have a bank account that means they have no access to services like loans and insurance a small startup in senegal is hoping to change that by combining age old saving practices with new technology they can attack reports from that. they get together every month harder and money in hand for two runs a fruit stall sells chickens clothes they're all working women and yet none of them

have a bank account and banks one gatton tease people trade they make it difficult for women we don't have millions just a five hundred thousand there are ten thousand central african francs max financial institutions see the poor as unreliable prone to debt and unlikely to pay back loans for traditional banks to go on low income earning customers is costly and not worth the risk two point five billion people across the world have no bank account in africa more than a half of the continent's population are financially excluded this is especially the case in the francophone region where eighty five percent of the population have no access to banks. the economy is booming people continue to trade and save but without bank accounts they put their monthly savings into a communal pot. each month one of them gets to take home the sum total made this cycle continues until everybody has had to turn to get the one thousand dollars

saved together. they call this eighteen it's a widespread saving practice used across the continent for centuries. tontines gives me time to think and plan ahead if i kept the money in my pocket i would have spent it without thinking and never saved this much this nigerian entrepreneur believes providing services to poor women saving as a group is not a risk but a safe bet you do tontines with your friends your family your mom sister or brother so there's a really really low we're to ration for you not for you to default or not right and that's why twenty one because every developing country does that a form of accounting have default rates of one to two was and so bernie and his sister created an online platform it brings don't teens and financial institutions together providing services traditional banks refused to offer to poor women depending on their repayment rate each gets a score like

a credit rating the higher the score the more services they are offered i didn't say i'm human if there's an emergency someone dies we don't feel the costs anymore we have insurance we have health care things we never thought we could get. after your team has just five hundred customers it's still not profitable getting banks to invest in african startups is difficult too but with so many without a bank account and getting to teens bertie believes there's an untapped potential in the region. these women are time to come together. share their body and celebrate things you just can't do easily in the back. of the. car. and i guess let's take a look at the top stories votes are being counted after thousands of delegates from south africa's ruling party voted for the new leader the new head of the african

national congress will lead the party into the two thousand and nineteen general elections india's ruling. party has overcome a challenge from the main opposition party to retain prime minister render modi's home state of gujarat but the opposition parties made significant gains in the state and the b j p control for twenty two years. in security council votes in the coming hours for on a draft resolution regarding the status of jerusalem follows the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital was anger across the palestinian territory of the night with protesters burning effigies of the u.s. president don't trump and israel's benjamin netanyahu. celebrations underway in cattle for its national day. as i showed off its military muscle with a parade of the armed forces in front of the emir to mean been a month of funny this is celebrations come in the middle of

a six month long crisis in the gulf saudi arabia the u.a.e. back rein and egypt cut ties with qatar back in june accusing it of funding terrorism charges doha has strongly denied. the military chiefs in zimbabwe have officially ended the operation that forced former president robert mugabe to resign it was launched last month as concerns grew over who would replace zimbabwe's longtime leader and its main objective was to remove criminals that did so rounded the former president resulting in. and disappointed in amongst our people while some of the individuals who have been accounted for. as cuba the country this notwithstanding the objectives of the operation here realize the extent been achieved secular general of the organization of american states is calling for

a new presidential election in honduras only a present one or longer and then this was declared the winner three weeks after the vote defeated candidate salvador and as the dollar claims the bitterly contested election was fraudulent and has renewed calls for street protests as the headlines and news continues after talked. counting the cost the mouse wins over the fox we'll look at disney's acquisition of twenty first century fox impact on media landscape also net neutrality and with the changes that affect how we view all that content and making the most of the greeks with solar power counting the cost at this time on al-jazeera. you can. see. the miami launch in the southern your birthplace of the soviet.