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a corruption case that led to the downfall of the country's president. donald trump spending plans how the us president wants to divvy up more than four trillion dollars. south africa's embattled president has been delivered a deadline state media reporting that jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign by his party the african national congress it follows a marathon meeting to discuss his fate and see president zuma post is understood to have met zuma and person to inform him of the party's decision on a poster ramped up the pressure on sunday saying the issue was causing disunity and discord zuma faces hundreds of corruption charges but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year to be the miller has more from johannesburg. there's been no official word from the african national congress as to the outcome of this

meeting held by the national executive committee this talk decision making body of the a.n.c. but we do understand based on reports from the national board cost of the c.b.c. that still remote force as well as the secretary general of the a.n.c. met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and ok. forty two the state broadcaster that was jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the n.c. has been meeting throughout the day in fact. returned to the ne see so it would appear that the conversation they're having isn't entirely over yet went jacob zuma is certainly under pressure all indications are given his behavior in the last ten days or so he is resistant he's resisting this resignation he doesn't want to step

down and if that continues to be the case the a.n.c. would then have to institute proceedings for a motion of no confidence to be debated in the parliament now the opposition parties in south africa have done exactly they're expected to debate a motion of no confidence next week they wanted put forward by parliament if the speaker of parliament doesn't agree to the demands by the opposition they say they're going to court ultimately jacob zuma is under fire from all sides what most a tremendous will to him is the position that his party the african national congress has taken in that they've said now it's time to go well seumas nine years in power have been marred with controversy and economic problems he has survived eight no confidence votes in parliament most recently in august last year in twenty sixteen a court ruled that zuma should face charges of bribery in

a nine hundred ninety nine arms deal zuma has also been accused of accepting outside influence in government decisions and cabinet appointments by the gupta's not so wealthy indian born business family now living in south africa zuma and some of his family members along with the good are also being investigated on charges of international money laundering he was also accused of using twenty three million dollars of public funds to renovate his private home including a pool and outdoor theater he later paid the money back when the equator is an africa policy analyst he says the a.n.c. is decision is an exercise in damage control ahead of next year's elections. this is largely a political decision yes the courts have we are talking legal issues we are talking about possible whether he will be. charged gays but it is a political decision it is their perception south africa goes to the polls next year to elect a new leader i think the a.n.c.

is worried about the e-mail because this story has been played so much as the litany of that you read about mr zuma shows there's me and long he has this image he has been knighted that he has done anything wrong it hasn't been proven in court but this is a political decision and i for one thing the n.c.a.a. is worried that if he doesn't leave quickly and mr opposite comes in to show that things are changing spruce up the economy also do some things that the grassroots want to include in londra form the n.c.s. worry that if they don't do that their chances in the next year's elections will be pretty bad so this is a political decision and so i'm saying if the errancy wants to it could given the concessions that he he does want several people have been seriously injured after a powerful storm last the south pacific island nation of tama the government's declared a state of emergency reports. the powerful category four cycle

own poor roofs off buildings downed power lines toppled trees and flooded low lying areas its belief cycle on guitar is the worst storm to hit the tiny south pacific island nation in decades tongueless an archipelago comprising one hundred sixty nine islands around three thousand kilometers east of australia more than half of all homes and buildings including congress parliament house are said to be damaged or destroyed very serious about. much more concerning. its. here and there and also there's a lot of theory. but. there's a lot of public talk a lot of it is a lot of. people. believe the cycling was packing winds of two hundred thirty kilometers per hour and emergency management

teams are now out assessing the damage trying to clear roads and working to restore power and water. the cyclon is now moving towards an area south of fiji it's expected to weaken and bring rain and winds to new zealand by the weekend paul chowder gian al jazeera u.s. president donald trump has sent congress a four point four trillion dollars budget for twenty nineteen it proposes a huge infrastructure program and an extra seven hundred billion dollars for the pentagon along with deep cuts to domestic programs that provide medical and food aid to the poor and the elderly but as kimberly hellcat now reports it's really about setting out the administration's priorities since congress is likely to ignore it. for years republicans in washington promised 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 what 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 of 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 trumps budget projects a deficit of more than

a trillion dollars with no plan for reducing america's spiraling debt kimberley health kit al-jazeera washington or brian riddell is a senior fellow at the manhattan institute he says the poor state of infrastructure in the u.s. is costing the economy trillions. we're a big country we have three hundred million people and we're out we have a large geography and so when you have that much land that many people you not only need the classic infrastructure highways bridges airports electrical grid but you also need the new infrastructure of things like broadband and we are falling behind in these areas and so at a certain point something's got to give because what happens is you end up reducing productivity neck and economic growth there is a difference in approach is right now the republican approach is very very focused on leveraging the private sector in state and local governments democratic party is more focused on washington taking the lead on that and so you kind of see a philosophical approach right now we're seeing this

a lot with airlines an air traffic control where the republicans want to move towards private sector control and the democrats are very nervous of that you also have the issue of funding democrats are much more interested in raising taxes raising gas taxes raising income taxes republicans are very nervous about that so until they come to an agreement on how to pay for it and how much to leverage the private sector it's really going to be gridlock on this issue two police officers in the u.s. city of baltimore have been found guilty and what's being described as the biggest police corruption scandal there in a generation daniel hills marcus taylor facing life in prison for selling drugs and guns robbing homes and arresting innocent people they were part of an elite squad other officers from that unit are also on trial now a verdict is due in the south korean corruption case that brought down president park and hey it centers on her childhood friend choice and sil who's accused of controlling the president and meddling in state affairs she's arrived at the court

in the last half hour the scandal saw some of south korea's most influential business figures and politicians arrested and convicted one attack and i am joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul natasha this is a case as we're saying that brought down a president so what exactly is choi being accused of. to a is being accused of disrupting the political process and shaking it down division of south korean society that's according to the prosecution. has a forty year long history with the former president park geun hey she's accused of capitalizing on that relationship to control the presidency and to meddle in state affairs she is facing a range of charges eighteen coersion bribery abuse of power prosecutors say that she forced fifty conglomerations in south korea including

samsung the biggest one in the country to donate more than seventy one million dollars to foundation she controlled she's facing a twenty five year prison sentence she says that this case is simply political revenge that case it shows that there's a huge bias against her and that she is innocent her attorney says that if she is sentenced to twenty five years in prison that that is tantamount to a death sentence and there is real concern among some that it will not receive a fair trial because she is basically enemy number one right now in south korea a deeply dislikes figure connected to an even more unpopular former president. and what's been the political fallout from this case in south korea natasha. well let's bear in mind that this is the first time in south korean history that a president has not only been impeached but

a president has been removed from power and trey is believed to have played a clip a critical role in the unraveling of president pocs presidency and analysts say that really this is not the first time that a south korean president has grappled with corruption charges that it's really the system that is flawed and there's a thinking that goes that two things there need to be reforms that make it difficult for those to have access to the president those who are allowed to work in the presidential blue house that's the south korean equivalent of the white house and that constitutional reforms need to be in place so that it limits the power of the presidency natasha thank you the north korean leader kim jong un says he's satisfied with the talks held this week with south korea on the sidelines of the winter olympics is influential system was part of a north korean delegation that made an historic three day trip at the start of the games south korea's president is considering a rare invitation to pyongyang extended during those talks him said it was

important to boost the current climate of reconciliation and dialogue with the south. the u.s. is facing criticism for inviting me and mas military to a multinational military exercise in thailand this week the annual cobra gold war games involves twelve thousand troops from twenty nine countries been mas inclusion comes despite its security forces being accused of atrocities in its recent crackdown on the country's written just muslim minority when haye has more from. the opening ceremony for the thirty seventh cobra gold military exercises has been held in attendance at that opening ceremony was at least one member of the forces initially they were supposed to be three representatives of the me and my military coming as observers only so they will not be taking part in any of the exercises over the next ten days but they will be observing only now we understand that that status may have been downgraded even further and they will not be observing the

whole ten day program but only one aspect of the khobragade military exercises and that is one that is designed to provide the soldiers with training in providing humanitarian assistance which in itself of course has caused a lot of controversy given the humanitarian crisis that has unfolded in myanmar's rakhine state it's time for a short break here and when we come back investigators search for the cause of a plane crash in russia that killed all seventy one people on board plus. smaller ears barack obama's take on his official presidential portrait more on the status. hello there things are turning wet a force now across parts of the middle east it's all thanks to this weather system here it's edging its way eastwards and it is bringing us

a fair amount of rain now as well so plenty of wet weather stretching from the mediterranean there all the way across through parts of iraq and into iran over the high ground in the north as you might expect it is turning wintery that system then gradually edges its way further eastward still as we head through into wednesday so turkmenistan missing a fair amount of rain and some wintry weather too now some of that cloud is also dangling a bit further south so we're seeing it in the northern parts of saudi arabia where the systems also doing is it's dragging the wind up from the south of the temperatures for many of us here are higher than you might think for this time of year so we get to around thirty three in riyadh and for us here in doha will be up at twenty eight which is eighty two in fahrenheit we might even sneak a little bit higher than that or wednesday it's just the outside chance that we could squeeze out the old shower out of this but i think generally speaking it's quite unlikely here in doha further towards the south of course in cape town looks like the weather is going to stay more or less draw over the next day or so instead

will see heavier showers towards the east durban will catch one or two of those we've also got this huge massive cloud that stretches down towards madagascar have a showers here. a young somali refugee thrilled to gain u.s. residency in twenty sixteen. i was told i was lucky to get to say i was really really happy said the god answered my prayer but with anti immigrant sentiment under the trump presidency al-jazeera world ask sally was when his american dream is still alive and so molly in america at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back time for a quick recap of the top stories here this hour south african media reporting that embattled president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign by his party the african national congress that follows a marathon meeting on monday to discuss sumus fate he faces hundreds of corruption charges as refuse to stand down before his term ends next year. several people have been seriously injured after a powerful storm lashed the south pacific island nation of told the government declared a state of emergency the country's parliament house is one of many buildings now lying really. under verdict is due in the south korean corruption case that brought down president park geun and it centers on her childhood friend choice and still has a ride to court within the last she's accused of controlling the president and meddling in state a fact. just occasions are continuing into why

a passenger plane crashed moments after taking off from moscow on sunday all seventy one people on board were killed really challenge reports on the crash site south of the capital. 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 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 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 so is in mourning for the city of the southern tip of the euro mountains is where the answer of one for eight was flying to relatives there giving d.n.a. samples to help identify human remains. catarina lost her mother natalia michelle rickover. 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. ukrainian opposition leader mikhail saakashvili has arrived in poland after being deported from kiev he was detained by men in a restaurant in the ukrainian capital and then taken straight to the airport saakashvili is a former president of georgia who later became a provincial governor in ukraine more recently he's been an opposition leader in ukraine leading protests against his former ally president petro poroshenko the palestinian teenager i had to meet me is due back in an israeli military court on tuesday she's charged with assaulting an israeli soldier but she isn't the only child detained by the israeli military as a reports thousand a.d. is sixteen years old and already a veteran of the israeli prison system in december he was visiting shops in his home city of hebron when protests started around him his arrest was caught on camera his parents gave us permission to interview he says he tried to flee the protest and didn't take part despite that israeli soldiers pushed him to the ground

with something that had been on one of them called me hit me on my chest with the butt of his rifle he pushed me to the ground and then all started beating me they arrested me and took me into detention and beat me again and cursed at me. he spent twenty days in detention and he's currently out on bail he was arrested on charges of throwing rocks and resisting arrest the israeli army says it's investigating his claim venison is having regular hospital treatment because this soldier was broken during his arrest. his case is far from unique. the lives of their parents in the jails in refugee camp in ramallah. the decision but it made me go no one enters prison as a child then leaves us such they didn't allow me to call my family or a lawyer before investigation they used pepper spray on me called me names and big me up. the help group a defense of children international is concerned that the israeli military often makes violent arrests the group says children often lack

proper legal representation joining the court process and the impact of detention loss well into apples and what we see is that those three months or four months in military prison for having the first stone throwing for example which is the most common charge and impacting the year entire trajectory of that child's life palestinians in the occupied west bank subject to israeli military law now for a very long time international human rights groups and local human rights groups have criticized the israeli military courts for handing down harsh sentences the illegal occupation of their land by israeli forces is never far from children's lives here the latest available total from the israeli prison authority in november said three hundred thirteen palestinian minors are in jail for security offenses imraan khan has brought us secretary of state rex tillerson has arrived in kuwait for the second leg of his middle east tour earlier on monday he was in egypt where

he said the trump administration remains committed to working with a country to defeat eisel he discussed the issue with egyptian foreign minister sameh shoukry in cairo tillotson also held talks with president abdel fattah el-sisi he said washington and cairo share the common goal of lasting peace in the region but of smith's been monitoring to listen visit 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 and of a free and fair election egyptians vote for a new president of the end of march an incumbent fattah el-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 eisel 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 and to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel the 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 negotiations with the israelis the u.s. defense secretary says turkey has legitimate security concerns along its southern border with syria he also admitted some american backed kurdish forces had moved to syria's border region of a three in where turkey launched an operation last month to push kurds out the u.s. has supported kurdish forces in the fight against eisel severely straining ties with turkey which sees them as a terrorist group. the u.k.

serious ford office has charged barclay's bank with providing unlawful financial assistance to qatari investors or in the banking crisis a decade ago in two thousand and eight to avoid a bailout from the u.k. government barclays borrowed more than sixteen billion dollars from qatari backers and other investors under the deal barclays loan three billion dollars back to cattle holdings the british government says that alone was used either directly or indirectly to buy shares in barclays it says this amounts to unlawful financial assistance the same charges are 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 but robert rhodes a barrister specializing in business crime and fraud he explained why barclays took this action 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 a learnt 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 creates twelve billion pounds midst of it through katter and middle east 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 backed his will to paid catarrh holdings three hundred thirty two million pounds for advise the services what the government is saying is or this if they say look this was a new financial assistance for me because this money was this went round in a circle simply to prop up its share price which is illegal volatility in the price of bitcoin has been

a cause for concern over the past two months well now the senses which mine the cryptocurrency in ireland in iceland rather are raising worries about its long term environmental impact this year the bitcoin mining centers are likely to use more electricity than all of iceland's homes inside the mine rows of computers are tasked with solving math problems allowing miners to claim a fraction of a coin not yet in circulation about eighty percent of bitcoins have already been mined or nearly seventeen million now barack obama wanted a little less of the silver fox look but the grey has a still there in his official portrayed as a former president the pictures of a bomber and a former first lady michelle have been unveiled at the smithsonian's national portrait gallery in washington d.c. they were painted by him to wiley and a mission around the first african-american artists the gallery has ever commissioned for official portraits of a former u.s. president i tried to negotiate was great here.

it is artistic integrity would not allow him to do what i asked tried negotiate smaller ears. struck out on matters well. i am a little overwhelmed to say the leaf i have so many thoughts and feelings rolling around inside of me now i am humbled and i am honored and proud. all the news of course on our website the address al jazeera dot com. a quick recap of the top stories here on al-jazeera south african media reporting that president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign by his party the african national congress it follows a thirteen hour meeting on monday to discuss his fate he faces hundreds of corruption charges as refuse to stand down before his term ends next year i mean

a million has more from johannesburg. there's been no official word from the african national congress as to the outcome of this meeting held by the national executive committee this talk decision making body of the a.n.c. but we do understand based on reports from the national broadcaster the c.b.c. that so remote force as well as the secretary general of the a.n.c. met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was the jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country several people have been seriously injured after a powerful storm lashed the south pacific nation of tong or the government's declared a state of emergency the country's parliament house is one of many buildings now lying in ruins a verdict do in a south korean corruption case that brought down president park geun hye centers on

her childhood friend choice and still arrived at court within the last hour she's accused of controlling the president and meddling in state affairs u.s. president donald trump has unveiled a four point four trillion dollar budget for twenty nineteen it ramps up spending on infrastructure in the military but proposes deep cuts to health care programs for the poor and elderly it also includes eighteen billion dollars towards trump's promised border wall with mexico. two police officers in the u.s. city of baltimore have been found guilty and what's been described as the biggest police corruption scandal in a generation daniel hills and marcus taylor facing life in prison for selling drugs and guns robbing homes and arresting innocent people ukrainian opposition leader mikhail saakashvili has arrived in poland after being deported from kiev he was detained by men in a restaurant in the ukrainian capital and then taken straight to the airport saakashvili is a former president of georgia. potential governor in ukraine but those are the

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