very close and so perhaps really a sign of just how divided the a.n.c. the winner ultimately of course of the current deputy president jacob zuma who has been criticized for not speaking out strongly enough against the men in the top job because she could argue that he couldn't really because he was ultimately his boss but i think he has drawn some criticism for that although he was really campaigning on an anti corruption pro-business pro a strong economy sort of ticket and in the end that was enough to sway enough of these four thousand eight hundred delegates who are celebrating half of them at least half of them not looking too happy on the screens i'm looking at and in terms of what he was promising for the economy will you refer to him as perhaps the kind of the darling of the markets will that. election result be reflected in kind of a degree of stability for the economy do you think. yes most definitely in

fact when it was confirmed that i had the majority of the nominations four hundred more nominations been inconsistent hitting into this election which wasn't really reflected in the end result i have to say the rand strengthened to about twelve to one to the u.s. dollar from about fourteen to one so that's a clear indication that he is believed to be the stronger candidate for the economy as far as investors and the markets are concerned he's an n c story who has a long history in the anti-apartheid movement he was a trade unionist during apartheid which can't be downplayed because the trade unions were one of the very few illegal ways when the a.n.c. was banned for many black people to go on the street and to protest for equal rights and fear were play and he was a lead negotiator in the peaceful transition to democracy and he was one of the founding right of this country is very progressive constitution he bowed out of

politics after he was passed over he was believed to have been the preferred successor of nelson mandela and he took a hiatus if you like out of politics over a decade he went into business became a very wealthy man and reentered in two thousand and twelve twelve as soon as deputy and now he's the man in the top job tony you mentioned his his career in business then one of the things that he was involved in was the mining company norman and he sat on the board and there was that kind of. bad publicity for him in terms of his his kind of role or lack of it in terms of preventing a massacre that took us through that and how much. difference that might make is that now water under the bridge will you think that people still remember that and hold it against him. almost definitely a lot of people remember that and a lot of people do hold it against him it is frequently thrown at him by civil opposition parties. because he was

a non-executive director on the board of longman which was the platinum mine which in two thousand and twelve they would take police officers security guards and some miners and what was was deemed at that time to be. a union rivalry and the police on one particular day the sixteenth of august two thousand and twelve they said we're going to bring this to an end and they shot thirty four of those striking miners in what was considered the worst act of police brutality since the end of apartheid and some of them oppose as a non-executive director on the board made phone calls to friends in politics at the time and called for concomitant action for action to be taken to bring an end to the strike and that's been interpreted by some of his opponents as being him being partly to blame for the police actions now needs to be pointed out that a commission of inquiry found there was no fault on behalf of civil reporter but

nonetheless it is something that hangs over him and i have to say that it is sort of the only kind of scandal that has. clings to him if you like what about the kind of the mention of the word scandal in r.c.m. without we remember zuma who has had a checkered sort of list of scandals attached to his name perhaps in congress at how much will any of those things be actually resolved under underground opposer now do you think. oh look this potential for them to be. president zuma has as you said a long list of standards he was once accused of rape a charge from which he was acquitted by a court he's been fighting the reinstitution of seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges relating to a multi-million dollar per curiam and the. which dates back from the one nine

hundred ninety s. when the a.n.c. government said it really needed to update its military and defense facilities and equipment and the person who was one of the people who was jailed imprisoned for corruption and for receiving a bribe during that scandal was a man by the name of should be a shaikh who at the time was a financial adviser because of that connection zuma has been linked to that scandal and the opposition the main opposition the democratic alliance are not too long ago won the right to have those charges reinstated because they argued successfully that they were wrongfully dismissed by national prosecutor at the time so president zuma has been fighting that reinstitution and he's won the right to make arguments to the national prosecutor but potentially it's been argued that whoever were to take over from him might not be so inclined to use the state resources and

machinery to try and protect him we recently just last week in fact really a damning judgement by another court on another charge all case that the president isn't boiled and which relates to what's known here in south africa as state capture which is basically the allegation that the president has been too closely influenced by a prominent business family called the gupta's he wants to block the findings of a they report into state kept by a public watchdog from being implemented the public predictors say that he needs to establish a commission of inquiry but he shouldn't be the one to decide who the judges are potentially because he could be able to influence that by inserting an ally into the process and so he's been fighting that and last week a judge saying look you're wasting the court's time you need to pay your own court costs the first time in south africa. history of an order like that has been issued

to a sitting president page thank you very much indeed for the moment will come back to you i'm sure later on we will also hear from sarah one opposers soon as he comes up to speak the new leader of south africa's ruling party the african national congress will bring you that as soon as he's up on the stage. we are not to the u.n. security council just getting ready to vote on a draft resolution rejecting the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital israel's ambassador to the united nations danny done on has called the vote a waste of time and has hailed the u.s. administration's plan to use its veto the security council is set to vote on it with aleutian condemning the courageous stance taken by president in recognizing jerusalem of the various capital we are grateful to the united states for this two and more stand they will take. this with pollution. those who will vote for this with allusion of these playing every dickless double standard every other

country in the world every other u.n. member state designate its capital city only when it comes to israel. the most basic national a bite it's question and condemned. our mike hanna is following all this person might we now know that britain and france will support the draft resolution how much support more generally is there for it at the u.n. . well the debate on the resolution introduced by egypt is still to get underway the security council continuing ships will discussions about the middle east palestine as you mention we heard both from the u.k. and from france that they would support this resolution it's expend of u.n. policy on the status of jerusalem set out over decades so for any nation to oppose this resolution would be in effect opposing those numerous resolutions that

the u.n. has passed concerning the status of jerusalem of course the u.s. likely to be the odd one out again so what do we know about how the u.s. is going to deal with it. well we heard from the u.s. ambassador during that previous discussion that i was referring to on the middle east palestine even before the resolution was introduced the ambassador making very clear that the u.s. was going to veto this resolution she said that mentioned a resolution that it was introduced into the security council exactly one year ago in which the a-bomb administration abstained from voting that was a resolution condemning israeli settlement building as an obstacle to peace now the u.s. ambassador that if this resolution was introduced now it would be vetoed by the u.s. making very clear that they are going to veto but in terms of the fact that the

defense perhaps is the best attack is the best form of defense we've got the u.n. ambassador the u.s. ambassador criticizing the very function the u.n. as a body. the united states refuses to accept the double standard that says we are not impartial when we stand by the will of the american people by moving our u.s. embassy but somehow the united nations is a neutral party when it consistently singles out israel for condemnation. for decades israel has withstood wave after wave of bias and the un and its agencies well the palestinian leadership making very clear that even if as expected the u.s. vetoes this resolution it will take it to the u.n. general assembly where no veto is present that would not be

a binding resolution but it would serve to cast a spotlight on the way in which the u.s. is divided from virtually every other nation on earth with respect to the nature of jerusalem state as my kind of thank you very much indeed. the u.s. president donald trump is set to lay out his national security strategy in a speech in washington d.c. centered around his america first campaign slogan document has been a year in the making trump is expected to label china and russia as competitors seeking to challenge u.s. power and the road at security the countries he will say aim to control information and data to repress their societies and expand their influence both countries are accused of cyber attacks against america across new strategy will pledge to go after malicious cyber actors and protect u.s.

infrastructure from cyber hacking and trump is expected to drop former president obama's declaration that climate change poses a national security threat to the u.s. and the strategy will cite north korea iran and what instruction calls islam most militants as threat threats to u.s. interests. you can move from our white house course one can read live in washington d.c. first so to me how fond of this agenda go in honoring trump's original pledges in the campaign. seems like it'll be a return to some of those statements we heard of the campaign trail but what's odd about what we expect we are going to hear in the president's national security speech is that it seems to be at odds with some of the president's own actions in his first months of office when it comes to some of the concerns about china as well as russia we don't expect that the president will touch at all on the fact that russia has been actively involved in threatening u.s.

national security with respect to the twenty sixteen u.s. election that certainly notable but also to in identifying the more hawkish tone with russia it certainly is at odds with some of the behavior of the president even in just the last forty eight hours where the white house was again the highlighting a telephone call between donald trump and vladimir putin the russian president where there was a sort of an extolling of the cooperation when it comes to security that was successful in apparently a attack in st petersburg so that's one thing of note and also with respect to china it certainly is unusual that the president is going to we expect call out some of china's economic ambitions that the u.s. hopes to push back particularly as well when it comes to its expansionist claims in the south china sea but at the same time we saw efforts and overtures by this president to president xi she rather very early in this administration with respect to trying to rein in north korea in the form of china exerting its economic

influence so there seems to be some inconsistency with the president's behavior over the last year or so and also in some of the statements that he made on the campaign trail and will again be making now and why is he making this speech now. it's congressionally mandated so the president is required to release this national security strategy he's not necessarily required to deliver it himself as we saw with barack obama and george w. bush not laying the strategy out themselves what we hear from the white house is in fact that this is something they don't or wanted to do on his own and also as you point out to begin the segment something that's noticeable or notable rather is the fact that one thing that is also a departure from his predecessors with respect to barack obama at least is the identifying of climate change as being of particular concern when it comes to national security we expect donald trump will in fact say that not exerting energy

independence by the united states is something that threatens national security in the united states so this is certainly a contrast from barack obama and also donald trump's own secretary of defense in testimony to congress said that global warming was of significant security concern can be how could thank you very much indeed. still ahead on our zero all bring you the results from a nail biting election in the indian state of gujarat. plus how small senegalese startup is helping communities with no access to bank accounts. hello there we're seeing fair amount of cloud on the satellite picture across the middle east at the moment it's all working its way in from the west and gradually tracking its way eastwards and this is a developing feature so there's not

a great deal of rain to it all and choose day but on wednesday as it works itself towards the east we'll see some more heavy downpours begin to develop and a fair amount of snow as well so particularly for some of us in turkey it does look rather wet and do expect a few disruptions here towards the east though largely fine and dry for most of us here with a couple getting to double figures up to ten degrees and the bit further towards the south and we've had quite a few showers around here in doha just a few but there's been plenty more around the u.a.e. and across into oh man that system though is moving away from us and easing now so i don't expect a great deal more rain as we head through the next couple of days temperatures in doha generally whoring around twenty three degrees at the moment which is seventy three in fahrenheit if we had down towards the southern parts of africa for a fair amount of cloud and rain with us at the moment you can see it here all swirling down and then working its way down into the eastern parts of south africa and this is a region where we've seen most of the heaviest rains over the last day or say that system just pushing its way

a little bit further north was there for tuesday durban will eventually see things begin to dry out.

from london on the top stories here now syria south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. has announced cyril ramaphosa will succeed president jacob zuma as its party leader . the u.n. security council is getting ready to vote on a draft resolution rejecting the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital. and u.s. president on trump is set to lay out his national security strategy in a speech in washington d.c. centered around his american first campaign slogan. an amtrak passenger train has come off the tracks over a major highway in washington state the train had just left tacoma around fifty kilometers south of seattle when a carriage final for bridge to interstate five it's unclear if there are any injuries or what caused the derailment. in britain

a man has been arrested after he drove a car at an air force base checkpoint used by u.s. service personnel nobody was injured in the incident which took place at our f. noland hole in suffolk in eastern england it's home to the one hundred and refueling wing of the u.s. air force bush pretty severely described the incident as significant. a presidential transition has begun in chile new leader billionaire businessman sebastian pinera as met the outgoing socialist leader me showed it after his resoundingly win in sunday's presidential runoff latin america editor lucien human has the latest behind me is the front door of president elect's of a stamping it out he had invited the international media here to his home for his first press conference with the foreign press he has said that he has been receiving congratulatory phone calls from all over the world but particularly from the conservative leaders of the region from colombia mexico argentina voiced chile's neighbor and he certainly fits into this new friend is going to the right

that is sweeping through the region. is certainly the markets favored are he was and that is being illustrated by the fact that the stock exchange has gone up seven points following his very comfortable win in sunday's runoff election the chilean currency in fact has also strengthened but is promising to maintain at least some of the social reforms that had made him unpopular with investors but popular with many chileans when he takes over in march while at the same time making good on his promise to create more of a better paying jobs for chileans military chiefs in zimbabwe have announced an end to their intervention which forced former president robert mugabe to resign they launched operation restore legacy last month as concerns grew over who would replace mugabe hermit reports from harare. when the military into the field and put relevant by the under house arrest on the fifteenth of november the army

say they were doing it to weed out criminal elements people that surrounded themselves around robert mugabe people they are trying to destroy and destabilize the country since then we saw soldiers stationed in strategic points in the capital city they've been doing joint patrols with the police to try to maintain law and order now the program the army called operation restore legacy is over and the army say the situation on the ground is now back to normal operation restore leaguers he was launched on the thirteenth of november twenty seventh. and its main objective was to remove criminals that did surrounded the former president resulting in. and disciplined insurmountable people when some of the individuals who had been accounted for. the country. this notwithstanding the object you saw operation of a large extent been achieved some people liked having the soldiers around the city

that in order stance of order especially when it came to dealing with the police some police officers here are known to be corrupt most recently complaining for many many years of having to pay huge bribes to corrupt police officials especially at roadblocks or that have somewhat stopped when the army sergeant is joint patrols with the police so people are wondering once the army has gone well the police behave but some people say soldiers belong in the baths especially when the country is preparing for elections next year they say you can't have a situation where people are campaigning registering to vote and voting and soldiers are still roaming around so mixed feelings in the country right now at this announcement that operation restore legacy is over what remains to be seen now is how the next few weeks will play out and if order really will be maintained without the soldiers on the ground. south sudan's government is blaming opposition forces for the abduction of six aid workers after clashes broke out between the two

sides in the north west of the country it comes as peace talks and the four year civil war get underway in ethiopia's capital addis ababa they hope to introduce a ceasefire so that the twenty fifteen peace agreement can be properly implemented tens of thousands have been killed since the fighting began four years ago and more than a third of the population has been displaced for the people to go to come back to. their homes for the children to go back to school for people to get good medical services and to get food. guns must must must be silent and put the gun to be silent you know we have to agree here we have to agree on a comprehensive peace agreement. all than two point five billion people worldwide don't have a bank account that means they have no access to services like loans or insurance in our small startup in senegal is hoping to change that by combining age old saving practices with new technology nicholas hack reports from dhaka. they get

together every month hard earned money on hand for two runs a fruit stall so cannot sells tickets clothes they're all working women and yet none of them have a bank account and bank banks one gallon 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 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 a take home the sum total 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 brother so there is a really really long vacation for you two for you to default on that form and let's take you straight to the u.n. security council which is discussing a draft resolution that would nullify troops decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's capital let's listen in to the japanese ambassador core of the show of

procedure i invite the representative of israel to participate in this meeting to do so decided. i propose that the council invite the permanent observer of the observer state of palestine to the united nations to participate in the meeting in accordance with the provisional rules of procedure and the previous practice in this regard there being no objection it is so decided . the security council will now begin its consideration of item two of the agenda. members of the council have before them document twenty seven slash one zero six zero the text of a draft resolution submitted by egypt. i now give the floor to those members of the council who wish to make statements before the vote i give the floor to the

representative of egypt. say there is. an absolute demand medalists the meeting of the security council is how today to consider the draft resolution of egypt on behalf of the arab group according to the resolution of the emergency meeting of the arab ministerial meeting that was held in cairo on the ninth of december twenty seventh. the draft resolution was submitted in response to imagine situations at a cross roads of the palestinian question. and. while security council is addressing the latest developments related to jerusalem. bearing in mind the serious situation in jerusalem and the repercussions of the

lateral decision of the united states to recognize that jerusalem is the capital of israel and the remind you here of the open briefing of the security council which was held eighth of december how many members astri cancel objected to that lateral decision and they stress that there are new legal implications to such a decision. the potential for jerusalem is an issue that lies in the hearts of many peoples around the world undoubtedly addressing this issue must take into consideration this very sensitive topic however we are. well aware that the only path towards addressing this issue is to rely on the one. aspect or pillar of any international conflict that is international law or away from any religious or other beliefs or else there will be huge repercussions a situation that will bring back the times of chaos which have gone beyond human

development. what is one of the final status issues that must be settled through peaceful negotiation between the palestinians and we as israelis any attempt at changing the facts on the ground in jerusalem is considered one of the illegal your artillery unilateral measures that would have a new legal impact whatsoever since it comes in violation of the international law and the resolutions of international legitimacy including general assembly resolution one hundred eighty one of the year nine hundred forty seven which established two states palestine and israel and considered jerusalem a corpus a parag him that a lie so a very particularly international system in addition to the security council resolutions two hundred forty two of nineteen sixty seven two hundred fifty two of

nineteen sixty eight. resolution two three hundred eighty three of one nine hundred seventy three which did not recognize any measure is related to. including jerusalem to the characters of israel since this comes in violation of the un charter which does not allow the annexation of territories in addition it comes in violation of security council resolution four hundred seventy six and four hundred seventy eight of the year one thousand nine hundred eleven which did not recognize any measures that will change the status quo in jerusalem. because both resolutions. refuse to refuted any. israeli laws that wanted to annex jerusalem and consider it as the capital of israel. security council resolution twenty three thirty four of ninety of two thousand and sixteen

re new dates stress so a very clear legal. language that is very clear it denied any attempts ad. altering the demographic or geographic nature of the occupied territories since nine hundred sixty seven including east jerusalem it also clearly stressed that the security council does not recognize any change on the lines of the fourth of june one thousand nine hundred sixty seven including all what's related to a call to show you for jerusalem. with the exception of those alterations that come as a result of negotiations between the two parties. excellent seize members of the security council the draft resolution stresses in its operational paragraph that any attempt to add changing. the order altering the character status or demographic composition of the holy city of jerusalem have no effect and our knowledge and void

and must be rescinded to the us so we have to object to such attempts in line with relevant security council resolutions the draft resolution calls upon all countries not to to establish diplomatic missions in the holy city of jerusalem. in compliance with security council resolution four hundred seventy eight of nine hundred eighty one the draft resolution demands that all states comply with the security council resolutions regarding the holy city of jerusalem and not to recognize any actions or measures contrary to the those resolutions it also read to rate its call for the reversal of the negative trends on the ground . that are imperiling the two state solution and for the intensification of international and regional effort since the poort provide support and achieving a comprehensive just and lasting peace in the middle east on the basis of the

relevant united nations resolutions of security council resolutions. in addition to the moderate terms of reference including the principle of land for peace and the arab peace initiative the quartet road map and an end to the israeli occupation the began in one nine hundred sixty seven. egypt was one of the very first people of supposed to the palestinian people since nine hundred forty eight we will continue to follow suit unless until that we reach full and durable peace. in light of what has been said i call upon all members of your council to vote for the draft resolution and to implement the international law which is our main term of reference related to a right.