it's way towards the west it should stay to the south of fiji fiji will just see the outer bands of cloud of rain so we could still see some flooding here but the worst of the storm shouldn't hit us i mean further towards the north and there's plenty of wintery weather again for us in japan most of that is in the west further east it should be relatively mild at ten degrees there in tokyo. this is. a low i'm maryanne demasi this is the news hour live from london coming up in the next sixty minutes pressure mounts on jacob zuma as the a.n.c.

needs to decide whether to ask him to resign as south africa's president. rebuilding iraq donors aim to raise billions of dollars to help its people restart their shattered lives. egypt has been a very important member of the defeat our coalition. the u.s. secretary of state pledges to help egypt to defeat i still. did with the charity new scrutiny from the government after allegations of sexual exploitation in haiti. and i'm far is small with all the sport as high winds again cause havoc at the winter olympics and kyung chang some riders complain the slopestyle final was a lottery due to the condition. low

pressure has been mounting for jacob zuma to stand down as south africa's president for the past nine hours his party they and c has been meeting to discuss his fate a formal gathering which has been dubbed as hashtags exit on social media is a final attempt to pressure zuma into resigning a.n.c. president still post ramped up the pressure on sunday saying the issue is causing disunity and discord is facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year for me to mila has more from johannesburg. the agency's national executive committee the top decision making body has been meeting for hours it's expected to recall president jacob zuma from his position the president would then need to resign but all indications are the smain not happen zuma has resisted calls to step down for months including the last few days where we understand that the

president of the a.n.c. . has been in talks with zuma to agree on some sort of x. a deal but those talks reportedly failed and now it's up to the ne seed to decide what next for president zuma even if the any c. decides to recall zuma it doesn't have the power to remove a sitting head of state so zuma would have to resign if he doesn't the a.n.c. is likely to move for a motion of no confidence in parliament now opposition parties already have a motion of no confidence debate scheduled for later this month but wanted move forward to this week and a following of that they want to parliament dissolved and south africa to hold a snap elections within three months then sees in a corner dealing with a divided party an increasingly frustrated public and opposition parties demanding decisive action and the unseating of the ruling party. well earlier we spoke to

chris van dam who is a research analyst for the africa program at the international think think tank chatham house here in london it's all this it's very likely that jacob zuma will step down eventually. this is been going on since the top six of the a.n.c. last weekend moved in the direction of coming to the decision that jacob zuma was ready to go i think that the outcome of the meeting today will likely be one. that will see zuma come to a decision for zuma to leave but that again doesn't necessarily mean that he will this is something that's very tricky within the party there's this moment of unity following last year's elective conference where civil run opposer took leadership of the party and since then he's been pushing to get the leadership of the country but those who supported jacob zuma has chosen successor and has honored didn't mean the zuma who lost that election there is still this latent support for zuma within

the party from those people who want to make sure that he can determine his his own exit there are two big things hanging over his head one of them the prospect of facing corruption charges there allegations of corruption against him from an arms dealer back in the one nine hundred ninety s. and there's also the commission of inquiry that he's just launched into states capture and so he'll be trying to find a exit strategy that. leaves him well in both of those. our building iraq after nearly three years of war with i.c.l. is going to cost nearly one hundred billion dollars this is according to iraqi officials who are attending an international donors conference in kuwait iraq has published a list of one hundred fifty seven projects that it's seeking investment for to provide jobs and new homes for some of the two and a half million people displaced by the fighting it includes hospitals schools

businesses infrastructure and telecommunications iraq says about one hundred thirty eight thousand homes and apartment blocks were damaged during the fight against i still of of which were completely destroyed some as a down reports now from kuwait. this is what so-called liberation from i sort of looks like to has nally and his family it's been six months since iraq's prime minister declared nineveh province freed house is still in ruins so is much of robbi a town. he used to work as a farmer tilling the soil now he plows the rubble of his home and reads what others have sold in his life. with given up hope in returning home we've been displaced for with three years look at how our house has been destroyed and alan fled when i saw fighters seize the nearby city of mosul four years ago he's not alone more than two and a half million iraqis remain displaced by the rule they have no money to rebuild their lives so they live in tent camps such as south of mosul and then i'd like to

say the government should look after us on the only breadwinner i'm supporting six children my parents and a sick family member these are the people the conference in quite this week must help if it's to succeed ejecting eisel from the third of iraq the fighters once controlled has left a wasteland human rights groups such as amnesty international blame both i saw and the u.s. led coalition for unnecessary destruction and civilian deaths. the nineveh reconstruction committee says the conflict destroyed three quarters of mosul's roads almost all its bridges and two thirds of the electrical network unicef says three quarters of a million children in mosul region lack access to health services it's you know sort of. basins and the government does not get into a great. war children will be forced to leave schooling while girls will be forced to marry

early we might see him more young boy during the fight in iraq if issues come to court looking for investments and over one hundred projects everything from the agricultural sector to the energy industry is on the table and iraq's prime minister well he says he needs one hundred billion dollars to get the job done. it's a huge amount of money we know our budget can't cover nor can the notion that it's almost impossible that's why we are resorting to investment iraq is counting on outside help to salvage itself into a united and functioning state but when asked what commitments they're ready to make in the quite conference our policy pastor has changed since previous administrations remember we used to be in the whole nation building in the united states government is not doing that any longer that outside interest may determine whether iraqis thirst for a normal life will never be quenched sam is a van al-jazeera kuwait meanwhile in anbar iraq's largest province residents are

valid to take revenge on the families of i saw fighters if they returned and i was one of the last places to be freed from myself as charlotte ellis reports. ramadi was once a thriving city of hundreds of thousands of people after i saw was pushed out rubble lines where houses once stood and is a tribal province where people often take justice into their own hands tribesmen have warned the families of eisel fight is not to return to the area. we don't want to go back to square one we're totally against that if they come back the blood will flow and neither tribes nor military operations will be able to stop it but now they have destroyed the homes of eisel family members a tech to isolate itself has used in the past thirty. yards groups whipped into a province in two thousand and thirteen the cities of fallujah ramadi and soon

became urban battle fields civilians enjoyed it all in ramadi alone some ten thousand people were killed according to forty counts tribesmen warned families of i saw fighters will pay if they return the whole is what we are not against them or tourney but the timing is bad and would risk provoking unrest and a return to bloodshed in the streets. i salute once enjoyed support in the region some sunni tribesmen hope to take control of fallujah in twenty thirteen but they had to end against the armed group. we the fighters think that families of vyas group members should be in a camp under the supervision of iraqi government and expert such as clerics professors and intellectuals they should receive a daily training session. around three hundred eighty families of fighters including women and children are already detained in two camps across the province

they remain out costs in the cities charlotte ballasts. well the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says the trump administration remains committed to working with egypt to defeat the threats of i so is discuss the issue with the egyptian pharmacist on the show create in cairo at the start of his middle east total for this and also held talks with president sisi he says the united states in cairo share the common goal for last peace in the region we agreed that we would continue our close cooperation on counterterrorism measures including our joint commitment to the defeat of isis in egypt has been a very important member of the defeat isis coalition from the beginning they egypt deals with the threats of isis themselves that are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai we also discussed the importance of the protection and promotion of human rights in the vital role of civil society in egypt with the

presidential elections planned for the end of march the united states as it does in all countries supports a transparent and credible electoral process. that occurs. with most of the conversation was based on the bilateral relations there was a deep and genuine interest from mr tillotson with the u.s. to continue to work and support egypt and work together to achieve our common interests this is what i reiterated to him egypt is keen on maintaining this positive friendly relationship which will no doubt bring about most ability and security and push forward to achieving lasting peace in the middle east. there is bennett smith has more on this now from gaza. before the u.s. secretary of state left for the middle east his officials admitted that most of rex tillerson as discussions here would be difficult in cairo he raised the issue of human rights of a free and fair election egyptians vote for a new president of the end of march an incumbent sisi standing for

a second term most of his opponents have either been jailed or silenced but most of the talks between rex tillerson and his opposite number some of shakuri seem to focus on security and israel and the palestinians on security because the egyptians are involved in a major crackdown on isel forces in the sinai and the u.s. is providing significant security and intelligence cooperation on that front and on israel and the palestinians the u.s. needs egyptian backing for the u.s. to continue its mediation role following donald trump's decision to announce or to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel u.s. says it still believes it has a mediating role to play on the egyptians have said that they believe the u.s. should be involved until there is a final settlement between israel and palestinians the problem is the palestinians at the moment no longer see the americans as independent arbiters in the go see actions with the israelis rex tillerson is due to visit turkey later this week also

with relations between the two nato allies strained over syria meanwhile the u.s. defense secretary james mattis isn't as admitted that some american backed syrian kurdish fighters are coming to the aid of fellow kurds fighting turkish forces in african province the turkish army says at least thirty one of its soldiers have been killed and more than one hundred forty wounded since it launched an offensive against kurdish forces in africa last month turkey's foreign minister says that relations with washington are very critical point over its ongoing support for the kurds. developments opposition activists in syria. to highlight the suffering of around three hundred fifty thousand people trapped in the besieged area hundreds of people have been killed in as strikes and shelling by government forces and their allies in recent weeks the u.n. has been calling for a cease fire so aid can reach people affected by the fighting there reports now from beirut in neighboring lebanon.

said. appeals for help coming from the children of eastern. watched we are being killed by your silence before it is too late mohammad says. opposition activists have launched a campaign on social media to highlight what they describe as the suffering of those trapped in. the intensity of the airstrikes targeting the rebel held area has been unprecedented the bombing. syrian and russian aircraft have stepped up to the recent days in a military operation that began in late december. since then over four hundred

people have been killed half in the first week of february alone. according to the syrian observatory for human rights at least one hundred of the casualties were children. nowhere is safe the united nations says people are under extreme danger calls for a cease fire have been ignored three health facilities have been hit in the past week the u.n. has been trying to evacuate hundreds of critically ill and wounded patients for months now. eastern who has been encircled by government forces for four years as of late the seach has been tightened and no aid has entered in months the u.n. is appealing for access to provide the people with food fuel and medicine international aid organizations say they cannot imagine the scale of the humanitarian disaster if a cease fire does not take effect the u.n. security council failed to support a proposal for a truce russia

a veto wielding member of the council called it unrealistic saying it's not sure what it called terrorists are in agreement was. the people of eastern huta still have their voices they are hoping to be heard but campaigns like this one have been tried in the past they didn't stop the bloodshed . residential areas are being hit buildings are being flattened there is a wide scale destruction and the international community is still silent. that was over the line of the civil defense volunteers have been overwhelmed since the battle for control of east of escalated one of them discovered the body of his mother under the rubble there is desperation but little sign that scenes like this will not happen again. beirut. for you on this news hour from london

investigators are searching for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board in russia. we meet some of south sudan's demobilize child soldiers as they face the challenge of a return to civilian life and then later on. and i'm tatiana sanchez and doha west several formal while tennis number one a path that fast may just stop after the australian open. the u.k. government is demanding a full account from the charity oxfam over allegations of sexual exploitation by stuff in haiti the organization says it did take action back then but it's there pretty chief executive has just resigned it missing that not enough was done and the bomber reports. as more questions are asked about sexual exploitation by oxfam staff in haiti the international charities fighting to save its reputation ahead of

a meeting with oxfam bosses in london britain's international development secretary warned they must be transparent about what happened in twenty eleven or risk losing government funding worth forty three million dollars last year if the moral leadership at the top of the organization isn't there then we cannot have you as a partner i would also just note that there are enormous numbers of people who are doing good work and they're good people working. and they have been betrayed in this as well the charities been hit by reports it's country director for haiti roll on by on how our myron was alleged to have invited prostitutes to a villa rented for him by oxfam following the twenty ten earthquake the organization says it didn't vest a gate at the time and fired four people while allowing three others including mr vaughan howard myron to resign those privileges. was to betray the trust of our supporters our dorna as and to betray the thousands of hard working

folks fund staff who put themselves out risking their lives to do this work of saving people's lives children's lives on monday it emerged that back in two thousand and six when about how in my road was oxfam's country director in chat concerns were also raised about employees using sex work as their hours later deputy chief executive penny lawrence resigned saying the organization failed to adequately act on the allegations concerning both the child and haiti oxfam has announced a series of measures in response to the scandal it says it's improving its recruitment and vetting process and setting up a new independent helpline for people to report abuse but some industry insiders say there's a wider culture of denial warning for years predatory paedophiles have been allowed to target the aids sector and juba crowd a former senior adviser to the united nations agrees. he's calling for prosecutions we've got to fix this i'd work because and the idea industry needs to be full of

humility now they are a very very many good aid workers out there and certainly not every aid worker is a pedophile far from it but the systematic problem is the culture of the industry the paternalism and just think of oxfam not even reporting it to the local police what was going through their head charities like oxfam are going to be under intense scrutiny from politicians here in britain how they respond could determine not just how much government money they continue to get but how much goodwill they continue to receive from the general public and that could be their biggest concern . is era. full scene. at the u.k. charity war on want she says it is not enough accountability between aid and the countries they walk again. the real problem here is that we bring people from outside these countries often from the west to join and have a background in that country or an understanding of the cultural history and they go in there and they're in charge they're in

a position of power where they get to dictate the terms in which change happens and how they perceive poverty eradication to look like in that particular country so really there is a problem of the vetting and of impunity that happens in these countries but also why is it that we need to be bringing in people from overseas in the first place and there is a really troubling situation i think in the aid and development sector of not really recognizing or allowing local people to be determining the terms of development on their are in and so we say not just with certain large aid agencies but also with private aid contract is which to fit also kind of fund that they use local stuff and when they do their stuff and not in positions of power they're not paid the same amount and so of course it just it breeds this sense of of racial and gender hierarchy which is exactly what aid and development should be

working to destroy not to cement and so that's where i really think we need to be considering what is this model of age that we're ok with something happens under the guise of charity or in the under the guise of military assistance or peace building and we consider that because this is done with good intentions that that's sufficient and what that's led to is it is it is a crisis i would say you know this is not about just oxfam this is about a number of different charities. well investigations are continuing to why a passenger jet crashed just moments after taking off from moscow all seventy one people on board lost their lives authorities are searching through the wreckage to try and find the cause or reports now from the crash site south of moscow. in snow covered field seventy kilometers southeast of moscow there's grim work going on this is where a passenger plane fell out of the sky on sunday killing all seventy one people on board it's freezing cold and the force of the crash many people i'm playing were

blown to small pieces but the investigation is making some progress. so far only the promise of lot of books was found the search for the voice recorder is underway the contents of the recordings would allow the international aviation committee to restore the history of the flight in detail and to establish the cause of the crash . also early eyewitness accounts that the plane was burning as it fell and now being discounted them all in the still money at the moment of the crash the airplane was intact with no fire on board the explosion took place after the plane crashed but it's too soon for the earth ortiz here to say with any confidence why the plane came down sifting through all the fragments scattered across the fields here is going to be a laborious process hampered by the deep snow hundreds of body parts have already been found and investigators say they're going to keep looking for perhaps another seven days or ski is in mourning the city of the southern tip of the euro mountains

is where the answer no one for eight was flying to relatives there they're giving d.n.a. samples to help identify human remains. catarina lost her mother natalia michel rickover was to the very end yesterday we believe that at least someone would survive we call the airports barely managed to get through and then they published the lists and mom was second from the bottom of the list. like all those who've lost loved ones should be waiting for any information that can explain this tragedy retirement's zero mosque a region the newly elected co-leader of turkey's proca dish opposition party is being investigated for a possible violation violation of sedition laws pervan bolden was elected to the h d p party leadership on sunday turkey's state news says she's under investigation for allegedly gauging and what it called terror propaganda cheering a victory speech well dan was elected to replace former cody to slide. who's been

in jail since two thousand and sixteen facing terror charges. india's defense minister is one that pakistan will pay following an attack on an indian army camp at least one paramilitary soldier was killed off to fight his open fire near the camp in indian controlled kashmir the attack happened just hours after government troops ended a two day gun battle at a separate army camp where five soldiers and one civilian were killed imtiaz tayeb reports. smoke rises above a paramilitary camp in indian administered kashmir is largest city srinagar police say two fighters started shooting from a nearby location several buildings were evacuated and the area has been cleared of all civilians investigators say they are in control of the situation with and going to start their own one of the rules they have been for not for the congress will think what is in them but it will be on the expected to do good things will think

that even if they do you really want to see that he do on his injured you know to be gone than from the long distances just hours earlier government troops into the gun battle inside another military camp in the regions jumbo area of these three fighters were killed and in the attack that began at dawn on saturday because fear has suffered a rest for years several of the armed groups have been fighting for independence since the late one nine hundred eighty s. the himalayan region is divided between india and its rival but his son both claim because mir in its entirety. around seventy thousand people have been killed in indian administered kashmir in the nearly three decade uprising india accuses pakistan of supplying weapons and training to the armed groups a charge islamabad denies. al-jazeera. still to come for you barclays bank is charged with making an illegal loan to prop up its own shares also

. a machine human in rio de janeiro and coming up i'll explain why soaring violence is no longer restricted to the favelas or slums to to see behind me. and then in sport a country football team plays a match in the u.a.e. and made a diplomatic rift. hello there over europe at the moment we've got one belt of rain after another here's monday's and it's making its way steadily now towards the east and sort of fizzles out as it makes its way east was still for some of us in the mediterranean there we're likely to still see some pretty stormy weather as we head through into choose day i don't choose day here's the next system then that's making its way into the western parts of europe and is just on the cusp of rain or snow so don't be surprised if you see some wintery outbreaks over parts of france or over the

british isles as that one makes its way eastwards that will fizzles out as well and then we've got yet another weather system for us on wednesday and this will be giving some of us some or all the heavy outbreaks of rain meanwhile for the eastern parts of europe we still got that system that's making its way further eastward still that's going to be giving some of us in the southeast a fair amount of snow but up towards the northeast no snow for moscow wednesday and our maximum temperature will be rather chilly minus ten for the other side of the mediterranean there's plenty of fine dry weather to be found here and the temperatures aren't too bad bengazi there it around sixty degrees at matching the temperature that we're expecting him or about they could just be a little bit more cloud in the chance of a few showers across the north coast about syria and tunisia as we head through the day on wednesday. airborne vehicles harvesting every pic you take every click you make collecting

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welcome back you with the news outlets update you on our top stories south africa's ruling a.n.c. party is holding a special meeting to decide the fate of president jacob zuma in a final attempt to pressure him into resigning nongovernmental organizations of pledge more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with ice but the figure is well short of one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government says it leans on the u.s. secretary of state says the trauma administration is committed to working with egypt to defeat rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister sameh shoukry in cairo at the start of his tour of the middle east. one of the stories we're following monday marks international day against the use of child

soldiers according to the u.n. more than two thousand children have taken up arms in the past three years but in south sudan hundreds of children recently released by armed groups are being given a chance of a normal life they've been handing in that weapons and exchanging their uniforms for civilian cars ever morgan met some of them. at a demobilization ceremony overseen by the u.n. children's agency unicef. these moves are not need to john he's been taught how to carry them out for the past two years since he was fifteen he didn't learn the drills willingly john's one of at least seven hundred children forcibly recruited by the south sudan's national liberation movement that is new then and there they are going to they. did it got a life to want to go alone or if you take it easy and that you want to live in the day except if you define you do that taking over again by force.

the civil war in south sudan now into its fifth year has killed thousands and displaced millions many vulnerable kids were recruited by armed groups to fight both boys and girls such as thirteen year old sarah. i was wounded in the family knows said this before and only start to think on new day to nicole manning and i still don't know this is to live it is to live in love couldn't said to leave from. the start family. rights groups they nearly all armed groups took you to children to fight the south sudan's national liberation movement has recently released more than three hundred children that they were not really forced by their condition to buy and then first today and now all of us to get up to stay so in fact we did not dent over the years that they may be a. meeting to fight does well you see we have decided also as we are now in tones

of that the best sort of we decided to release them so that they can go to school in. communities. nearly two thousand children have been demobilized in the past five years but they are being replaced according to unicef the number of child soldiers in the armed groups and forces has been on the rise since the war in december to fifteen that despite all were inside agreeing to stop recruiting child . soldiers and releasing those already enlisted but even for those who have been demobilized life is a challenge. many children who've been released have no idea where their families are for others fighting has become a way of life the biggest challenge is reintegration it's a process that takes time to do three years for that child to go back home and resettle we still have more kids to be released so access big thing that we need more kids to be released all real concern is the reintegration of these children so that they don't get we rooted again. john and sara say they don't want to return to

the battlefield but they also fear what lies ahead after their past experiences and wonder if they may be forced to fight again he will mourn al-jazeera young south sudan liberia's for president ellen johnson sirleaf has become the first woman to win the most abraham prize for african leadership sirleaf was recognized for efforts to rebuild her country after two years of the two civil wars africa's first elected female head of state sirleaf became president of liberia in two thousand and six and served for two terms coveted five million dollar prize is only handed out if there is deemed to be a worthy candid the us has denied claims by israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he has discussed an unexceptional plan for the west bank prime minister netanyahu told a faction meeting that he had been talking to the americans about sovereignty over settlements for some time now in the last few hours the israeli parliament has

approved legislation that extends israeli law to academic institutions in the west bank. yes present all trump is questioned meanwhile israel's commitment to making peace with the palestinians he made the comments in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billion antrim back sheldon adelson in a rare rebuke for these radio leadership the u.s. president says he isn't necessarily sure that they're looking to make peace he warns israeli settlements are quote something that very much complicates and always have complicated making peace he urges israel to be very careful with the settlements but then trump also repeats what he's been saying about the palestinian leadership he says they are not looking to make peace and threatens to withhold aid unless they agree to talks what president trump spoke of was the idea of a quote peace deal that's very different than peace peace requires at least a modicum of justice that was not on the agenda here

a deal implies ending resistance essentially to israeli power that is not on the palestinians agenda that's been the position recently of the palestinian leadership bringing it closer to matching the position of a wide majority of palestinian. civil society so i think what we're seeing here is certainly not the end of the u.s. role as a as an honest broker because it never was an honest broker this is simply a clear acknowledgement of that reality crime and violence in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro has spiked the worst doubles in more than a decade particularly within the past year public safety had improved significantly out of the wealth cop in the rio olympics but it's now deteriorated so sharply that residents are resorting to unprecedented methods just to stay safe you see in human reports. a gun battle in a busy rio de janeiro's thoroughfare terrified motorists and pedestrians look for

cover desperate not to become the next victims of stray bullets. violence is again out of control in the city where a person is shot every two hours confrontations between rival drug gangs or with police. the intensity of confrontations in urban areas is new we're seeing younger criminals with more and better weapons last month alone there are more than six hundred and forty gun battles here in rio and not just up on the hills in the. but right here on the asphalt as people here like to refer to the main part of the city these rifles have become so common that residents are resorting more and more to technology rather than turning to the police. where are the shootouts it's a nonprofit application the tracks gun battles in real time based on eyewitnesses media and police accounts so that. you know trying to help.

and. to avoid those. what in a million people are using the app including architect and. started checking to see if there is something happening on the roads i will be driving it's alerted me to make a u. turn when they're being on my route. the sharp spike in violence is due in part to brazil's acute economic crisis rio and its police department are now bankrupt. and so in the absence of affective police protection residents of the emblematic neighborhood a sense that that is are taking extreme measures. that. explains that closed circuit t.v. cameras were not enough to deter criminals so the neighbors installed sirens i can just. to this. very unfit every day

i get it when i come home and when i leave i'm scared. it's a fear that's well founded in this city where ninety percent of murders and assaults go unpunished you see inulin i'll just see that rio de janeiro the most powerful storm to hit the pacific nation of tongue has made landfall packing winds exceeding two hundred thirty kilometers per hour in the capital feiglin gets a tour of roofs and downed power lines has also been one hundred sixty millimeters of rain which has caused extensive flooding earlier officials declared a state of emergency and set up evacuation centers the storm has already caused damage after passing through samoa and american samoa over the weekend. the u.s. vice president says washington and seoul have agreed on terms for further diplomatic engagement with north korea mike pence told the washington post that it could possibly lead to direct talks without preconditions between the u.s. and north korea and made the comments as he returned from south korea where north

and south korean leaders met on the sidelines of the winter olympics meanwhile on tuesday a verdict is expected in a south korean corruption case that brought down the former president park in hey it centers on her childhood friend is accused of controlling the president and meddling in state affairs it's actually going to be reports from seoul now on how the case has been impacting the country. to a soon she'll is a longtime friend of former president park who behave she's accused of using their forty year shared history to influence and control the presidency this is not a democratic special persecution i'm being forced to confess to committing crimes with the president. prosecutors say choice greed ultimately disrupted the political process and shook the foundation of south korean society a total of seventeen million people protested weekly last year and poc became the first president in the country's history to be impeached and removed from office is

fighting eighteen charges including bribery coersion and abuse of power she's been defiant telling reporters the case against her is simply political revenge is facing a twenty five year prison term which your attorney says is tantamount to a death sentence for the sixty one year old. this is so unfair i don't deserve to be treated like this. prosecutors say unapologetic stance only reaffirms their position that she deserves the maximum sentence they say she pressured fifty companies including samsung to donate more than seventy one million dollars to two foundations she controlled trade is just one of many it sneered in the country's biggest political corruption scandal ever. the fundamental problem is that too much power is concentrated in the presidency if we stick to this current system transit

presidents will continue appearing so trust casey with isn't just an isolated issue it's also problems stemming from the system through lation ship with the trade runs she was also close to choice father when he was alive he was a cult leader who said he could communicate with her dad mother the verdict in the pa case is expected later this year natasha going to. the u.k. serious fraud office is charged with providing an awful financial assistance to country invest as during the banking crisis a decade ago in two thousand and eight to avoid a bailout from the government. barclays borrowed more than sixteen billion dollars from country back as and other investors under this deal barclays loaned three billion dollars back to cattle holdings the s.f.o. says that the loan was used either directly or indirectly to buy shares in barclays it says this amounts to unlawful financial assistance the same charges were made

against the bank's holding company last june for former senior executives have also been charged with fraud the bank says it intends to defend itself against the charges robert rhodes is a barrister specializing in business crime and fraud voters about why barclays had to take such action and how it could impact the bank's future and that of its shareholders. ten years ago our financial system almost went under the british government had to invest over one trillion pounds into banks including something like forty five billion pounds into r.b.s. and the taxpayers salut over twenty billion pounds back is the learn of the big banks managed to avoid going to the government for assistance and it had its own fund raising methods in two thousand and eight it raised twelve billion pounds most of it through katter and little is generally in october two thousand and eight

barclays lent catarrh holdings it's a three billion dollars billions of pounds worth of shares were bought and barclays was a paid character holdings three hundred thirty two million pounds for advisory services what the government is saying is or there's a first say look this was an awful financial assistance because this money was went round in a circle simply to prop up its own share price which is illegal is unlikely to affect the future parties but what it might affect of course is the dividends that shareholders and barclays get from the company most shareholders and parties aren't oligarchs living in mansions a nice fish their pension funds who invests money for retire policeman nurses and so on and small shareholders early age pensions and so on so barclays is convicted and loses and is find a lot of money or if it has a big reputational hit as

a result with less money available to pay dividends to the shareholders. despite volatility in the price of bitcoin the farms which mine the cryptocurrency are continuing to boom in iceland raising concerns about the long term environmental impact is the a so called bitcoin mining data centers are likely to use more electricity than all of iceland's homes inside the mine rows of computers a task with solving math problems to validate a new bit quaint transactions allowing linus to claim a fraction of a coin not yet in secularization about eighty percent of bitcoins have already been mined or nearly seventy million more and more computing power is needed to beat the competition and icelandic energy h.s. orca's says the small nation will not be able to keep up. so i have for this hour.

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business up the. odd. thank you so much merriam high winds have began to hit the action at the winter olympics in pyongyang more events had to be postponed and some of those that did go ahead were adverse li affected in the women's slopestyle snowboarding all of the riders fell on at least one run one athlete said it after it was like riding into a wind tunnel defending champion jamie anderson in united states stayed on her feet long enough to win gold but many competitors born happy. i feel so

so happy. if i can fend to got another gold definitely was a struggle out there today for everyone and i'm just. one of our correspondent leigh welling's who is in pyongyang says the decision to proceed with the slopestyle was taken by the sport's governing body not the international olympic committee. well yes you can understand the frustration and on happiness of many of the competitors in the women's five star never voted for years for these winter olympics in kyung china and to not be i was to get down one of your vans also not be able to complete all either of the runs so a medal prospect like ana gasteyer of austria as a finishing first it's terribly disappointing for them and many of them felt that the event should have been taking place should have been postponed the kind of events have failed but you would also say that jimmy anderson who stayed on

a boat twice actually does of the gold medal those are a little doubts about that but it was certainly spoke to an extent it has of course affected all the events the men's downhill had to be postponed until thursday i think you've got to be john solomon responded to first thing stankovic i went over seventy kilometers an hour like a wind tunnel many of the competitors of said but safety is paramount and this is what mark adams of the international olympic committee has said in defense of events going ahead as advised by the scaife out of our action each federation has a wealth of experience on this sport and we really really about that of course we have to coordinate the whole show edulis quite a quite a headache getting all the different sports and so on to run it in a different way but obviously we would never take a decision. that would that would put in jeopardy the safety that leaves one thing that will help the guys here it is forecast to get

a lot warmer it's been so cold here that obviously that's been the story record breaking low temperatures but it's average is set to rise as much as ten degrees or even more and that's going to take it into a situation where events once we hope be affected so badly and hopefully the winds will die down as well. six other gold medals were handed out on day three of the winter games howlingly cent has more. germany's the red on lion made history in biathlon on monday i ding the fish titles to her sprint crown she's the first woman to complete an olympic biathlon of all. the men's was she it was won by mark time for cart of france successfully defending his title from sochi elsewhere canada claimed their first goldsmith kingsbury triumphing in moguls they won team figure skating two i'm so proud of each and every one for delivering such

phenomenal skates and caring our national anthem on the podium tonight was something truly special in ski jumping mara lundeby got norway's second gold of the games in the women's noble final. was and more history was made as the rain this one the fifteen hundred meter speedskating title ten and then picked the medal i think now the netherlands most successful olympic of all time helen gleason is there. more medals will be up for grabs in ski jumping later this week abby richardson explains how they'll be won and lost. the first ski jumping events were held in norway back in the nineteenth century and events has been in every winter olympics but it wasn't until the sochi games in twenty fourteen that women were also allowed to compete of a lympics feature three ski jumping events the normal hill which is ninety meters high the lower chill which is one hundred and twenty meters above the ground and

the team large scale which is concerned by fourteen members who combine their scores now from a seated starting position skiers glide down a steep hill and then hits a builtin ramp which propels them into the air at speeds of around ninety kilometers an hour the distance traveled is important but competitors are also scored on how they control their flights let's have a look at what the panel of five judges are looking for a chill has a minimum distance the scoring take a lot chill or you get extra points for every meter past the one hundred and twenty five minutes and mark additionally jumpers receive style marks depending on their poise through the air and the style of their landing the jumper or team with the highest number of points gets the gold medal many of the world's best tennis players are in katter this week the latest stop on the women's tour could see

a rematch of the australian open final one caroline vs the iraqi be thrown a how up to take her number one ranking tatiana sanchez reports. women's tennis is enjoying a resurgent thaw ready this year and the best female tennis players in the world are in doha for their first major test of after the australian open last month tournament empathized the fifth rivalry in the women's game with a thick session of tightly fought and lengthy matches. as women's tennis becomes more competitive it helps sean certain people's view the men should be paid more. for men's world number one novak djokovic was criticized two years ago for saying that men should be paid more than women and for saying that men's tennis should fight for more pay because the stats show that the men's game is far more popular to watch i think we put the same effort like the men's during a lot of practice and we try to make the quality of all the sessions of

courts the same and we are going on courts to give our best many top female tennis players were appalled by djokovic his comments including serena williams who said i think it's unfair to compare we've had so many great women champions and players who have brought such great vision to the sport there have been great men players too but women's tennis is the biggest sport for women period serena had dominated the game for years the twenty three time grand slam champion career came to a halt though after her twenty seventeen australian open title after announcing her pregnancy paving the way for other players to shine and take the top top it's just one or two points who can decide if you win the match or if you loose a match and you know it's just i don't know i don't think that we're looking this way that syria is not there i mean of course she is the champion she is a legend while carter insists arena isn't part of her focus this tournament in doha

give several formal while number one the chance to make their mark and become v new pace that are tatiana al-jazeera doha. and that's all your sport for now thank you for more news from south africa now where the a.n.c. special meeting on the fate of president jacob zuma has now finished we can speak to for me to miller who is in john is bug for me to what this decision have they reached. well this meeting took place over hours throughout the monday and we understand from the stage broadcast of the as a.b.c. citing sources they've spoken to that one said meeting concluded that the president jacob zuma has been told to resign by the any c. and he's been given up to forty eight hours to do so we do know that the president of the a.n.c. so room of course and the secretary general of the body did go to the presidential

guest comes in pretoria to convey this message to president jacob zuma but what devoted to remember as well is there is a lot of speculation that the president may still not resign just a week ago the top six leadership spoke to president jacob zuma saying the same thing that he should resign and at that point he said no even after that the metal working committee said the same thing and we've actually seen jacob zuma essentially ignore the top leadership of the a.n.c. in the days after that they all reports around what jacob zuma has wanted in terms of an exit deal including staying in office for another three months to try to avoid any prosecution around corruption allegations but at this point. we understand is that the has once again been told to resign and he's been given up to forty eight hours thank you very much minimal or for me to minute there in

johannesburg reporting on that special meeting of the a.n.c. the national executive committee the highest body within the ruling party having met for a marathon meeting last thing some eight to nine hours reports on that they have given president jacob zuma forty hours to resign this according to the s.a.b.c. state broadcaster i'll have more on that just a couple of minutes they would out of there. for the congolese the journey to work all aboard means unimaginable hardship i

prefer to live both the just plain white good cop can truth chance a good life and live in a dangerous journey through the jungle i fell into the rails for i merely dug. their own children to go to school and live because of the trade of risking it all the democratic republic of congo at this time on al-jazeera. jeannette morales was just ten years old when a devastating earthquake struck mexico city in one thousand nine hundred five the quake damaged her family's apartment and the government moved them to distant shack around seventy families who lost their homes in that earthquake still live in this camp say going to be up at the gala the government raised our hopes and then abandon us politicians have promised that they won't allow a repeat of what happened after the earthquake in one thousand eight hundred five but the cost and complexity of housing hundreds of people living in camps is a major task and one that many people here think the government will fail. and

a lifetime of emulation struck by stroke copying. selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. a pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that it's more rewarding to create than to imitate. dreaming of vincent a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. south africa's state media says president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign after the a.n.c. met for a marathon session to finalize his future. i

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