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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 of. the u.s. secretary of state pledges to help egypt to defeat i still. investigators in russia search for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board. and revealed for the first time the official portraits of iraq and michelle obama. are more welcome to the program our top story south africa is the country's state media is reporting that president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign the decision comes after a marathon meeting held by the ruling a.n.c. party's national executive committee to finalize whom his future in the last hour

the president of the party cyril ramaphosa was on his way to meet zuma to inform him of the party's decision he's facing a number of allegations of corruption but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year and i'll speak on the phone to for me to miller who's in johannesburg and for me given where the a.n.c. stands i suppose no surprise that they would have reached this decision for jacob zuma to leave within forty eight hours but does it mean that he will do that. well all indications so far that the president has certainly been very reluctant to stand down even when the top six leadership of the a.n.c. put this resignation to zoom a week ago he hadn't stepped down then either and in the days after that he's essentially ignored these calls to resign he has been in talks with durham opposer the president of the a.n.c. trying to negotiate some sort of exit deal local reports indicate that most of them

that they go she ancient and the conditions around an exit had to do with an indemnity from any sort of prosecution security for his family and also trying to stay in office for at least another three months but we understand from the staple cost of the s.a.b.c. that he's now been given forty eight hours to resign and that's offer the merest in meeting of the national executive committee it's the highest decision making body of the a.n.c. now as important as this any c. is it doesn't actually have the power to remove a sitting head of state if the summa chooses not to resign after they speak to him and ask him to do so the only option for the a.n.c. would then be to take this matter to call him and and proceed to with a motion of no confidence in the president

a position parties have done exactly that they scheduled to debate a motion of no confidence next week they've acted fact aust the presiding officer of parliament to bring this forward to this week saying if that's not done that approach the courts to push was too much to be removed but at this point it seems as if the boy is in the court of the a.n.c. which is very much wanted to find a solution. the problem with in the party there's a lot of christian to to have a decisive plan going forward we understand that this should be an answer coming from the president in the next forty eight hours if not the a.n.c. would have to reconsider its options right it seems as though from what you say the opposition might just be one step ahead of the a.n.c. because like you say there is already a motion tabled of the next day i think he said by the opposition for a no confidence motion but how important is it for the a.n.c.

to really put their stamp on this and to bring this motion forward for it to be under that terms. it's vital for the a.n.c. we saw in the last election that the national support had dropped quite significantly there's been a lot of pressure to have jacob zuma step down and the a.n.c. has been heavily criticized criticized essentially for protecting this president who has moved from one scandal to another throughout his time in office the public has looked for some sort of direction for the a.n.c. for the a.n.c. to pull itself away from this image that it has in terms of the scandals that have surrounded jacob zuma so it's very important for the a.n.c. to to be the ruling party that makes the difference in this case and that so remote poser isn't just a new party leader so grab just by the old guard that is known to be corrupt but one that is actually making a difference within the a.n.c.

uniting the party especially after all this division of around jacob zuma and what exactly should be done the a.n.c. has been very reluctant to listen and has ultimately protected jacob zuma around seven or eight other motions of no confidence in column and never voting along the lines of the opposition and being very reluctant to step in line with what the opposition wants and this is part of the frustration i think from south africans at this point that the country feels as if it's been hell granted by one party and one man despite the sentiment in south africa for a long time now and so the a.n.c. really is under pressure to properly read the mood of people in south africa and act decisively and always in the end he has a very unique place in public opinion in south africa there will still be a lot of support for the party but does that translate to support for jacob zuma.

certainly it hasn't in recent days i mean we've even seen branches with in the a.n.c. come out saying that we don't support jacob zuma and it's time to go at the same time the a.n.c. has been criticized and even its alliance partners not long ago. members of the a.n.c. as well as the alliance partners were fully behind jacob zuma they've changed their tune quite radically three sixty in the last couple of years especially the last few months around jacob zuma but the a.n.c. really is in a position now where it would want to look to ward the election coming up twenty nineteen it has a national support of about sixty two percent but speaking to analysts looking at trends listening to sentiment out there if the a.n.c. doesn't get its act together in terms of remembering what the people want and perhaps this thing thing itself from this image it has around. patronage

nepotism and protecting a president that has been accused of what's called state capture and acting in the interest of business deals his family and business. associates the a.n.c. could possibly be in trouble coming elections next year now the opposition is also saying apart from this motion of no confidence that it's pushing for is that it wants parliament to be dissolved it's saying this because it will ease at the agency will not make a difference despite having a new leader in terms of holding president jacob zuma accountable for some of the scandals he's been attached to especially in the last few years and if parliament is dissolved they say that this would at least bring some sort of renewal around leadership in the country and they also pushing for a snap elections within three months now the a.n.c. is not in

a position to do well. if elections are quarterback never mind twenty one people are all thank you very much for me the mill in johannesburg with the latest on that special meeting of the national executive committee the wise decision making body within the a.n.c. reports from the s a b c state broadcaster saying that they've given president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign those so far we have seen zuma resist that pressure. international donors are meeting in kuwait tasked with trying to meet a target of one hundred billion dollars needed by the iraqi government to rebuild that country iraq has published a list of one hundred fifty seven projects it seeking investment for to provide jobs in new homes for some of the two and a half million people displaced by the fighting sami's a dan has more from kuwait. n.g.o.s here at the conference of pledged over three

hundred million dollars to various humanitarian projects inside iraq and quite the n.g.o.s say well for about a third of that bill now that number still a far cry from the one hundred billion us dollars that iraq's prime minister said he needs in order to rebuild his country but iraqi officials i've been talking to say while the still more time they're hopeful of getting more money in from this conference some of the early signals from some of the countries like the united states of america haven't been all that encouraging you'll recall over the course of this last week also spokes persons for the state department saying things like one already in the business of nation building anymore when i spoke with iraqi officials about that sort of message well they said they hope to hear a different from the u.s. secretary of state when he comes to kuwait they have to have responsible t.v. about in arc no just to defeat but to rebuild which could lead to how much money

would you like to see listen to listen bring potluck if he is going to get was twenty billion dollars and all the buf so happy and very kind and they will be very good attitude for over the outside world to respond more positively to calls like that one made there by dr mustafa a l he'd see iraq will have to demonstrate to the outside world particularly to the private sector that it is a good destination for investment cording to transparency international iraq stands at one hundred sixty six out of one hundred and seventy six countries when it comes to its corruption index so still some work to be done there. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson says the trauma administration remains committed to working with egypt to defeat the threat of i still is discuss the issue with the egyptian pharmacist on the show create in cairo at the start of his middle east tour doesn't also hold talks with president sisi says the united states and cairo share the common goal for lossing 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 and are dealing with it certainly currently in the sinai we also discussed the importance of the protection and promotion of human rights and 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. if that occurs. a lot of most of the conversation was based on the bilateral relations but there was a deep and genuine interest from mr tillerson 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 more stability and security and push forward to achieving lasting peace in the middle east you're watching al-jazeera still ahead mounting criticism of oxfam's handling of sexual exploitation allegations now the charity's deputy chief executive resigns also. understand human in rio de janeiro and coming up i'll explain why soaring violence is no longer restricted to the favelas or sons that to see behind. hello there we've had some very active weather over parts of australia recently being over the southern parts of queensland where we've seen some of the most active weather doesn't show up very well on the satellite pictures of it but what it's given us is

a very active thunder and lightning very intense displays there over surface paradise now i think over the next few days they could well be some more because it's going to stay hot half of it could well be more fun to storms elsewhere well it's not looking too bad adelaide there were to around thirty one and force in perth we're looking at around twenty seven there are some showers in the land and those could give us one or two rather heavy downpours but around the coast mostly staying fine unless you're in tasmania now as we head across towards new zealand here all the wet weather has cleared away and for most of us here should be fine over the next few days but we've got to watch this system very closely this is all storm gets here as cross tanga and it's gradually edging its way towards the way. yes it should stay to the south of fiji fiji would just see the outer bands of cloud right 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 for the east it should be

relatively mild ten degrees there in tokyo. airborne vehicles harvesting every pic you take every click you make public to everything to all the waves most of. this time to watch the what can we blame that on the deep sea the first civilian. that. we are creators. back on all. the engineers at this time.

met for a marathon session to finalize his future non-governmental organizations have pledged more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with ice but the figure is well short of the one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government says it needs and the u.s. secretary of state says the trump administration is committed to working with egypt to defeat ice rex tillerson has discussed the issue with egypt's foreign minister in cairo at the start of his middle east toward. the investigations are continuing into why a passenger jet crash just moments after taking off from moscow all seventy one people on board lost their lives authorities are searching through the wreckage to try to find the cause or a challenge reports from the crash site south of the capital moscow. in snow covered fields 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 meant people i'm playing were blown to small pieces but the investigation is making some progress. so far only the promise of a lot of books was found the search for the voice recorder is underway the content 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 dumbell 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 of one for eight was flying to relatives they're giving d.n.a. samples to help identify human remains. catarina lost her mother natalia michel rickover was chilled 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 she'll be waiting for any information that can explain this tragedy will reach alan's al-jazeera moscow region. a number of buildings in tonga including the parliament have been flattened by siphon gaeta a category four storm tall roofs off houses downed power lines and caused extensive flooding in the tiny pacific nation officials describe service like on dieter is the most powerful storm to hit the island packing winds of excess of two hundred

thirty kilometers an hour teams it used to head out at first light to assess the damage the u.k. government is demanding a full account from the charity oxfam over allegations of sexual exploitation by staff in haiti the organization says it did take action back then but its deputy chief executive has just resigned it missing that not enough was done at the baba 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 and how were 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 van howard byron to resign those privileges. was to betray the trust of our supporters our dorna as and to betray the thousands of hard working oxfam 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 van how in my road was oxfam's country director in chat concerns were also raised about employees using sex workers there 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 aid workers and the id 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 good will

continue to receive from the general public and that could be their biggest concern . as era. crime and violence in the brazilian city of rio de janeiro has spiked to the worst in more than a decade particularly within the past year safety had improved significantly ahead of the world cup and 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 the 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 and 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

favelas or the slums 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 areas. within a million people using the app including architect and. started checking to see if there is something happening on the roads i would be driving it's alerted me to make a u. turn when they're being gumballs on my route. to sharp spike in violence is due in

part to brazil's acute economic crisis and its police department are now banker. but. and so in the absence of affective police protection residents of the emblematic neighborhood of some thought that is south 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 young face 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 the murders and assaults go unpunished you see in ulan i'll just see the rio de janeiro. the u.s. has denied claims by israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu that he has discussed an expansion plan for the west bank prime minister netanyahu told

a good faction meeting that he'd been talking to the americans about sovereignty of the settlements for some time in the last few hours the israeli parliament has approved legislation that extends israeli law to academic institutions in the west bank or u.s. president donald trump questioned israel's commitment to making peace with the palestinians he made the comments in an interview with an israeli newspaper owned by american billionaire trump back sheldon adelson in a rare rebuke of the israeli leadership the us president says he isn't necessarily sure they're looking to make peace he warns israeli settlements a quote something that very much complicates and always have complicated making peace he urges israel to be very careful with the settlements but then troubles are pete's 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. well in other news president trump has unveiled budget proposals to win new u.s. infrastructure but cut spending for the state department the blueprint for the twenty nine hundred fiscal year abandons the long held republican goal of balancing the federal budget within a decade can really help explains from the white house. for years republicans in washington promise to cut government spending if their party won the white house

but for the second straight year republican president donald trump's done just the opposite we will build we will maintain and the vast majority of americans want to see us take care of our infrastructure. on monday trump presented his twenty one thousand budget proposal giving the world a hard look at his administration's spending priorities they include a proposal for one point five trillion to rebuild roads bridges and airports and six hundred eighty six billion for the u.s. military a thirteen percent increase from the previous year proposal also reduces the state department budget by nine billion or twenty six percent that decrease includes the elimination of a program promoting climate change we have spent seven trillion dollars in the middle east seven trillion dollars was a mistake. as with his twenty eight team plan trump has again proposed cuts to

humanitarian and economic aid last december he threatened to link foreign assistance to support for u.s. measures that the united nations like recognizing jerusalem as israel's capital but when it comes to foreign spending congress largely ignored trump's last budget proposal and is expected to do the same for twenty nineteen. last week the u.s. congress approved its own to your spending deal that the president signed into law . keeping the government open with boost to defense domestic spending that congressional deal essential overrides the budgets released by the white house the president has merely when it comes to the budget the power to propose but it is congress that appropriates and decides and congress decided and appropriated last week but what is consistent about both proposals is unrestrained spending

tribe's budget projects a deficit of more than a trillion dollars with no plan for reducing america's spiraling debt kimberley health get al-jazeera washington and now the official portraits of former u.s. president barack obama and his wife michelle have gone on display in washington they were unveiled at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery on monday it's a rite of passage for most former u.s. presidents to have their portraits hanging in the iconic museum again they wiley and amy sheryl's are the first african-american artists the gallery has ever commissioned for official portraits of a former u.s. president i try to negotiate was great here. it is artistic integrity would not allow him to do what i asked or tried negotiate

smaller ears. struck out on matters well. i am a little overwhelmed to say the least i have so many thoughts and feelings rolling around inside of me now i am humbled and i am honored and proud. but look at the top stories for you about south africa's state media saying president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign the decision comes after a marathon meeting held by the ruling a.n.c. party's national executive committee to finalize zoomers future in the last hour the president of the party several rama poster was on his way to meet zuma to inform him of the party's decision he's facing a number of allegations of corruption but as previously refused to stand down before his term ends next year the media miller has more from jan is. or indication

so far that we britain certainly been very reluctant to stand down even when the be toxic leadership of the a.n.c. put this resignation to resume a week ago he hadn't stepped down then did the days after that essentially ignored these calls to resign you are going to talk to roma corso the president of the a.n.c. trying to negotiate some sort of deal. in all the headlines non-governmental organizations have pledged more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq with build after its war with i still but the figure is well short of one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government says it needs a donor conference is being held in kuwait to raise funds to help rebuild cities destroyed in the conflict meanwhile the u.s. secretary of state says the trumpet ministration is committed to working with egypt to defeat i still ranks to listen as discuss the issue with egypt's pharmacists

create in cairo at the start of his middle east tour to listen also held talks with president abdullah fatah sisi. investigators in russia are trying to determine how a passenger plane crashed just minutes after taking off killing all seventy one people on board the saratoga airlines flight was heading to or squat it plunged into a field in the countryside just outside moscow on sunday. and a number of buildings in tonga including the parliament have been flattened by cycling gaeta a category four storm tore roofs off houses downed power lines and caused extensive flooding in the tiny pacific nation officials have described it as the most powerful storm to hit the capital packing winds in excess of two hundred thirty kilometers an hour officials have declared a state of emergency and set up evacuation centers what's it for myself and the team here in london war news coming up from doha at the top of the next hour off to revel geeks which starts now.

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