business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together. this is al-jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news a lot from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes a new leader for south africa cyril ramaphosa prepares to step in after the jacob

zuma is resignation. over the. morning in zimbabwe after the death of the opposition leader morgan tsvangirai will be law even harare. the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson writes eleven on this popular tour of the middle east. and i'm peter seventy it's day six of the winter olympics and at thirty five norway's excellence window has become the oldest man to win gold in alpine skiing after victory in the downhill. south africa is awaiting a changing of the god after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency zuma was told to step down by the governing a.n.c. party his nine year term has been plagued by numerous corruption scandals the stage is now set for the a.n.c. leaders. to become the country's next president he'll face an election next year

but in the meantime he'll be dealing with many challenges including high unemployment and crying for me to miller reports now from johannesburg. a reluctant announcement from an in vattel to president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of my of the leadership of my of going to zation i have always been a disciplined member of the. it came just hours before parliament was due to vote in a motion of no confidence against jacob zuma president's hand may have been forced but zuma says his party did not give reasons why he should resign that's despite

being in broiled in scandal after scandal throughout his presidency including accusations of corruption and a court ruling that he had broken his oath of office when he ignored the public protect his recommendation that he paid back some of the state money used to re her dish his private residence despite all the criticism against zuma the a.n.c. says the decision to recall him was a difficult one to make following zoom was resignation the ruling party saluted what it called his outstanding contribution and thanked him for the role he played in the a n c for many decades. earlier in the day the home of zoomers associates a family known as the gupta's was raided. five people have been arrested after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars of state funds was siphoned from a dairy farm project into businesses linked to the group does. next week the national prosecuting authority will decide if a corruption charges against zuma that were dropped in two thousand and nine will

be reinstated and an inquiry into the extent of external influence in seumas administration known as state capture is due to begin his removal as president may just be the beginning of zoomers troubles so for me to those allegations of corruption their lives they live on beyond the events of yesterday and today so what happens next. well they're not going away for jacob zuma certainly and those connected to him now we know that thirteen people have been arrest warrants issued for thirteen people the police say they've arrested about eight and they're still looking for five others they don't know where two of those suspects are now they are being sought out and it really is being speculated that those two suspects could possibly be a talk of one of the gupta brothers links to jacob zuma and also take observe my

son do design me we do know that to do zani is a shareholder in one of the companies that's been linked to this very farm project in the free state province that's really what this investigation is about the money that was state money that was siphoned out of this project and then found its way to companies linked to the group the family the hawks the special investigative unit has said that they do expect to make more arrests these suspects are due to appear in court at some point today we are waiting for confirmation of the charges and given the seriousness around these allegations we do expect to see more come out of this scandal around corruption that deals with jacob zuma hand his family and his associates we've also always come to the end in syria to meet the end of a period of public squabbling infighting within the a.n.c. does the a.n.c.

now need a very public period is almost like political healing if you will. well that's what we're expecting to hear from a celeron more posts in parliament when he makes his first address after he is expected to be small in as president i just have to remind you that's all room of course at the moment is the acting president that happened as soon as jacob zuma stepped down he will go to parliament as a nominee of the african national congress for the position of interim president and that is likely to be the message coming from seoul rome oppose it he certainly would want to present a united front and also i suppose speak to opposition parties in parliament just because jacob zuma has been removed it doesn't mean the opposition's going to sit back we also know for example the democratic alliance would be fielding their own candidates i mean it won't go very far they wouldn't win that election in the national assembly to be named president but there is

a lot that needs to happen in terms of the african national congress the squabbles as you say that it's face the factionalism we know jacob zuma has been continues to have supporters within the party we also saw a very reluctant resignation from the former president so the a.n.c. is facing quite a tough time in terms of pulling itself together looking forward and then there is just lastly peter the issue of the ministers coming from with the events from the a.n.c. and whether or not the new president who reshuffle his cabinet we know that he will have to try to appease certain factions within the a.n.c. so really a delicate balance you have to trade going forward more questions than answers perhaps a meter for the meantime thanks very much well as cyril ramaphosa gets ready to become south africa's next leader let's take a quick look now at his path to the presidency he started his career as a lawyer he then formed the national union of mineworkers in one thousand nine hundred two and became a leading trade unionist in one nine hundred ninety four he became an m.p.

and chairman of the constitutional assembly playing the lead role in drafting south africa's post of party constitution but after missing out on the. coming nelson mandela's deputy he withdrew from politics and went into business a move that's made him one of south africa's richest men with a net worth of four hundred fifty million dollars he was also a director of the longman mine with thirty four striking miners were killed by the police and twenty twelve some suggested he was to blame for that massacre but a commission of inquiry cleared him of any wrongdoing solution i do as a political analyst focusing on democratic transition in south africa she joins us now from cape town what does he bring to the table. but now you know. the chairman is one last year i think i'm fresh in presidency up to now i knew him as our president not much and having seen what happened to both the economic political and social landscape of the country people are just so i think in one

respect him being something more but he's also a businessman and some people are oh there's definitely a sense there in certain parts of the country they're expecting him to reap recalibrate the country's social economic landscape is political let's get it but typically it's economy we've had are almost zero percent growth in this country and to a large extent this is perhaps one of insurance there has basically and the like it implies presidency but not to actually they only get you thought that i think towards the end of in their presidency as well we saw a growing inequality so the growth and employment issues have never really tick not in terms of the economic direction of the country the other thing that still does mean is that he isn't that he's a businessman that people expect him to be more pragmatic in the way that we conduct policy i think we actually now we're going to see are perhaps some people may argue that a kind of boring set of politics in

a sense becoming not about. wells except but it's about seeing that magic and focus on today let's do this and it's up how does he put that pragmatism together with another plus or people are describing it as a plus about him the fact he is astonishingly wealthy because there are people now today saying look he's too wealthy to be corrupt this is a union leader who flies first class literally he always turns left when he gets on the plane that's what people are saying about him it's an observation not a criticism so when it comes to those questions of corruption those those inquiries moving forward he will be able to say look i can rise above this from day one. well i think that's the new issue the issue right now with the opposition up until the resignation last night of. what was that that that that they had is that they had somebody who are slanted he was compromised he was a contested individual he was the actor that was part and parcel directing this

whole issue of state capture of state resources except sort of comes not misses and what's going to bed but he's not going to bed when example there's maracana that you mentioned and at the opposition parties i think i'm going to not raise that as the barrier as the bought into the saying well you know what i had fun and you were unionists you spoke about you you're right you spoke about noble rights and you know we'll see you next miracle and. so i think we're going to begin to fly at and we cast the die in only in times of crisis and position themselves and so. you know one of the things he did say it. but then again you read a statement and immediately it's about to go to meet. the president of the party you know he started to think about if that neatly wanted amending it one you could go to the devil but it does blood economics sort of the one demented i'm

looking like and rich playing the. good that's an issue i'm going to interrupt you there which i apologize we're having problems there without skype landscape time but we do appreciate your time and we got a good sense of where you think politics is going next in the country we appreciate your time. members of zimbabwe's opposition movement for democratic change are holding an emergency meeting after the death of their leader morgan chang. mormons are gathering outside the m.d.c. party headquarters in harare the sixty five year old on weapons to help for a long battle of camps and he was a towering figure in the opposition and a symbol of resistance a. the former president robert mugabe shortly we'll take you live to aruba tasa who's in harare but first here's her report. to his supporters morgan richard was a man who challenge zimbabwe's long time leader robert mugabe at a time when few people day to do so but it was a long and sometimes painful journey in one thousand nine hundred nineteen guide in

a trade union leader form the opposition party the movement for democratic change in the years that followed he organized protests to try and force mugabe out of office he was beaten while in police custody charged with treason jailed several times and labeled a traitor by mugabe supporters. in the two thousand and eight presidential election he won the most votes but not enough to win outright. before a second round took place his supporters were targeted in a campaign of violence the opposition leader put out of the presidential race in protest regional leaders and the international community intervened after months of negotiations i was sworn in as prime minister in two thousand and nine it was a temporary power sharing government but mugabe was still the president. remembered fundamentally in the sense that he broke. into god this will

include those eight when we got before the first of this did lost. the first president. in almost the majority. of the diligence in that is we've been done since then to doing. so for dogs. four years later another election took place this time in d.c. party lost by a huge margin his critics said he had ignored the plight of the poor and got caught up in the trappings of wealth and power allegations of party infighting and corruption also tarnished his image some of his closest allies left accusing him of being a dictator. but in twenty seventeen the m.d.c. alliance was formed those who had left hungary returned for me a coalition to challenge and grab at the polls. they were occasional anti-government protests the bar was economy was on its knees there was a shortage of foreign currency and the government couldn't pay salaries on time and

the military intervened in a van by twenty seventeen and putting a guy be under house arrest and zimbabweans from all political parties marched together in solidarity say mcgovern must stick down eventually mcgarvey resigned and emerson when i was sworn in as president. despite having cancer tank i supporters insisted he was a presidential candidate for the twenty eight thousand elections they were confident he could defeat at the polls but he never got that chance opposition supporters say that i will be remembered as a brave man a charismatic public speaker and a symbol of resistance. so harry moving forward what's this do to the m.d.c. . well it was that place. in the building behind me that having a. mob that can have a place like this and not. take up the front of them like that i would know them you know keep busy with the youngest among them even if you gave them one you

should be the one to leave them that is if i could have played they could be another bit of the citadel of the house that painted it was that what they think you think has been done to me he commanded them all the time that i flew three will be going to govern the problem of love in the form of the president back in two thousand and nine and he said that sounds like i will always get a name a brave man a man who always says that at election in zimbabwe forty three of the big and credible some people are saying that the opposition now has to become less frank should than it's been there are three people in the mix we understand to a kind of positioning themselves to carry on with his legacy if you will of those three which one should we look out for. i think was the god force to be had if he got the wrong type history in the fight he gave that he told him the other to get down to me that was going to forty years old some people

say they knew what the judges probably made rally behind him they have top of the to me was also the only woman at the time that and she had the support but some people also feel that perhaps she won't get the seat because women in the country may not be ready for a woman who leaves a lot of fun facing the keeping of course you can they agree on one person to rally behind and if that is done then what will they do to galvanise well to take not only to be fully expects they think in a few months but i like to take right now the people outside waiting to head to measure the funeral. well the thing that i was for my five minutes that they made me one of them in from other people. arab peoples right up to date i'm sure in the meantime thanks very much. still to come for your on the news hour including these stories after three months with almost nothing much needed aid finally arrives in serious eastern time. and pledges are made to help rebuild iraq but is there enough money to actually make

a difference. to the sportsmanship peter high winds of the winter games into spectators and officials we'll have more on that in about thirty minutes. hundreds of palestinians jailed in israel for administrative offenses of boycotting courts the defendants have asked lawyers not to attend their court sessions they accuse israel's military tradition of torture and keeping detainees in prisons without charge or trial for years. nepal's prime minister has resigned after his party lost in parliament reelection the share. has been leader there for eight months his departure opens the door for a new government alliance two major communist parties are expected to take over puff. doctors without borders dismissed nineteen staff members for sexual harassment or abuse international aid group says it's received one hundred forty six complaints last year of those forty were investigated internally no details

were given on where the abuse happened the agency says it's released the figures to demonstrate transparency it follows a scandal that the u.k. charity oxfam with staff accused of using prostitutes was working in haiti. the u.s. secretary of state is in lebanon for talks as part of a tour of the middle east rex tillerson is meeting the lebanese president michel aoun and the prime minister side how do you bring on wednesday to listen signed a deal with jordan guaranteeing more than a billion dollars a year for the next five years. joins us live now from outside the presidential palace in beirut says into this visit clearly coincides with so many escalating tensions across the region the in-tray very full mr tillis. well yes no doubt just a few days ago we saw a very serious confrontation between syria israel and iran and lebanon and israel are facing a dispute over its maritime border is eleven on wants to drill for oil and gas and

israel is saying well some of the areas that you have tendered to the international consortium well they belong to us so heightening tensions between israel and lebanon what we understand is that the u.s. is trying to mediate in this dispute the u.s. envoy was in lebanon a few days ago but the lebanese are not happy with the american proposal what we understand is that america wants seven on to give up three hundred square kilometers of its waters and what happened this morning at the presidential palace really was a message from lebanon to washington the secretary of state arrived at the presidential palace and he was not greeted by anyone he waited a few minutes before the foreign minister showed up ahead of his meeting with the president now sources at the palace say no there was nothing wrong this is protocol guests need to wait for the president but clearly this is the first time it has happened and sources saying that lebanon is not happy with the u.s. proposal. coming out of the state department certainly over the past twenty four

hours specifically about this part of the trip has been look you've got hezbollah you've got the lebanese government and you've got the lebanese people it's not perceived where you are is someone. will finessed attitude a well financed approach that we haven't really seen on the part of mr to listen to date. very true many people will call it the pragmatic approach but many will say is this the trump administration's policy or is tillerson speaking on his own behalf because we've seen this happen in the past dollars and says something the president says something else and we do know that the foreign policy of the u.s. is to contain iran and one way to contain iran is here in lebanon it has a lot of influence through hezbollah and now we're hearing the u.s. secretary of state say we need to acknowledge that hezbollah is part of the. political process it has members in government it has members in parliament yes it is an armed organization so tillerson saying we need to acknowledge this but really times have changed i can tell you that the u.s.

secretary of state is arriving in lebanon at the time it has really no allies it was very different a few years ago it had a lot of allies in lebanon and across the region it had proxies on the ground today what proxy that the us have across the region apart from the kurds who really are quite weak at this point in time so he arrives he doesn't have much allies to rely on even the prime minister who is considered to be an ally of the united states taking a more compromising approach with hezbollah and if you reach this idea of a he used he's used the word legitimate before a legitimate part of the lebanese security forces that presumably will not get done very well with israel particularly if one offsets that against what he's also saying about gerrard middle east peace plan. well at the end of the day like i mentioned hezbollah as part of the government it's part of the parliament but it has an armed wing and not it is a divisive issue in lebanon and i can tell you that there are people who do not support hezbollah they believe that they operate outside the state but it is

a very tense time in the region just a few days ago the lebanese were threatening israel saying that we will not allow you to take any interviewer territory israel is building a wall along the border and they're warning israel to not build on disputed territory and now you have the disputed in the sea now both sides really everyone is talking tough but at the same time while talking tough they say nobody wants an escalation i guess nobody wants an escalation because things have changed the balance of power has clearly changed in the region so america until or seems we're being more pragmatic maybe we can call it that thank you. well the u.s. secretary of state's five country tour of the middle east follows his recent trip through latin america mr tillotson arrived in egypt on sunday before he continued on to kuwait then on to jordan lebanon is his latest stop he will wrap up his tool in turkey where talks are expected to be tense over the crisis in syria the u.s. backs kurdish fighters there in turkey considers terrorists seventeen people have

been killed in the u.s. state of florida by a gunman who opened fire at a high school it happened in parkland north of miami police say the suspect was a former students who was expelled and alabama with the latest. reports of gunfire came as students at marjorie stoneman douglas high school were about to leave a code red alert was issued the school was locked down its peoples let out with their hands in the air. while those still trapped inside could only hide as gunshots rang out you say fell down stairs and they were putting personnel the students also baseball fields but i heard stories of people shooting that going to shoot the crowd so i ran the opposite direction and i got up campus obsolete before the police got here the rescue operation was made difficult by the sheer size of the school it's one of the largest in broward county with more than three thousand students but the scale of this latest tragedy soon became clear twelve victims were

in the building. and sure true victims are outside just outside the building one on the street at the corner of pine island. and two people who lost their lives at the hospital police say nineteen year old nicholas cruz seen here being arrested by police is the suspected shooter he'd been expelled from the school and came back reportedly with an assault rifle and smoke grenades the scorch a school shooting after school shooting it only happens here not because of coincidence not because of bad luck. but as a consequence of our inaction we are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel

anywhere else president trump took to twitter offering his prayers and condolences saying no child or teacher should feel unsafe in a school at the staging area relieved parents of being reunited with their children but even as this community begins to mourn its dead one stark fact remains this year alone there have already been five separate deadly school shootings and few believe anything will change and gallacher al-jazeera parkland florida. in a few moments will have the world with the fourth with richard but also still ahead here on the al-jazeera news hour another opposition politician is arrested in egypt accused by the police of having links to the muslim brotherhood. and a special night in the champions league for knowledge of peace and has the details in the sports news in about twenty. three tranquil raby in kenya. and in on can free will to use

and if any should come to live. well i thought we'd start by taking a look at weather conditions across china a massive country of course with many different climatic zones but everybody will be interest in the weather the next few days in that part of the world because it is the chinese new year the year of the dog not necessary domination just have to choose a shot of mild dog but for millions of people be traveling across the country getting home to visit family and friends so weather conditions are going to be hugely important and was quite interesting moment is that really there's not a great deal of significant weather around so truffle should actually be well favored so if you're viewing in japan excuse me for standing in front of your wonderful country but across much of northern china at least we've got an area of high pressure this frontal system is a very weak affair and it should be moving away so if you look at weather conditions across the northern areas then it is a fairly quiet picture the moment we have got cold air getting quite a long way north harbin up in the north will see temperatures down as low as minus

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leader cyril ramaphosa to become the country's next president the parliament is set to vote him in the later on thursday. members of zimbabwe's opposition movement for democratic change holding an emergency meeting up to the death of their leader morgan tsvangirai he was a towering figure in the opposition a symbol of resistance against the former president robert mugabe. and the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson zillah. the top spot in the tour of the mideast was to listeners meeting the lebanese president michel i mean and the prime minister. later today. let's get more on our top story jacob zuma is resignation it's marked the end of an era which has been dominated by scandals infighting and very public divisions. for texas through the years. his path to the presidency began in one thousand nine hundred nine as deputy under the leadership of tabone becky but personal differences and polish struggles put a strain on their relationship in june two thousand and five president mbeki fired

jacob zuma a south africa's deputy president of the allegations of fraud related to a multi-billion dollar arms deal four months later zuma financial advisors schabir shaik was convicted of corruption and fraud by december zuma was charged with raping and hiv positive family friend but was acquitted by april two thousand and six despite the scandals zoomer remained popular and by december two thousand and seven he was elected president of the ruling african national congress ten days later zuma was charged with fraud corruption money laundering and record hearing in two thousand and nine zuma was elected president just a month off to corruption charges were dropped in two thousand and ten and he announced a major overhaul to south africa's hiv aids policy rolling out life saving anti-retroviral drugs but his government faced criticism for poor economic performance growing

unemployment poor service delivery and corruption. in his second term zuma faced one of his biggest scandals the twenty three million dollar refurbishment of his private residence with taxpayers' money. when their money as directed by the public protector there's no money that i'm going to be paying back all i said to him about is that south africans will remember all the bad. was my dad we are not going to forget who's come out so i fin but he would be gotten off very scandalous. we did not know what to do with him if by the end of two thousand and fifteen zuma was accused of acting in the interests of his political and business associates his close and allegedly corrupt relationship with the group has a prominent and influential family was a source of discontent within his party and the public several questionable cabinet

reshuffles and allegations of influence by the group has further weakened public confidence in zuma still zuma resisted calls from within and outside of his party to resign is the president willing to take accountability for the decision and resign in front of the people of south africa. in two thousand and seventeen zuma return to court to fight the reinstatement of decade old corruption charges throughout this time zuma faced several motions of no confidence in parliament by december of that year deputy president of the a.n.c. so ram oppose a replaced him as party leader no longer president of the ruling party zuma is position of strength weakened making way for a dramatic end for a leader who many say routinely courted controversy rather than inspiring confidence. for. aid is starting to trickle into some

of syria's rebel held areas on the heavy bombardment of weapons stay the first take . void really three months to reach the proceeds suburb of east so close to damascus aid from the un's world food program is on its way to government control to resume war in eastern syria is the first u.n. trip to the city since it fell on the ice and control twenty four teen drama make a step to director of the world food program in syria he joins us on skype from damascus. people who kind of situation of encountering on the ground as the try to do their jobs good afternoon this was a milestone mission for the u.n. team in syria. brought on team visited there so our day before yesterday the first times that it was our. forty. under the city charter of seats on of the seats where we sit with the city is majority of the city is uninhabitable eighty percent

they don't miss it has been destroyed we have seen that there's a lot tricity if you don't make sure that you're on the trees there the water is not running the sewer system is dysfunctional majority of the people dependent for assistance rely on the poor from the international community. for a year i don't know what you had on how well you're into the operation and their source p.t. and we kept the people alive but however they need more than that we had to do i don't want to be asking this question if you look desperate people are going back we need to be having our operation the road to to asia and that now has to be we intend to deliver the food by road from damascus where almost near all the it will . sort. of peak. oil but if you are that far away from the country but we are now. just.

a light. ok i think we will pull away from our conversation there. because we've got problems with the line deteriorating to where you are on skype we'll come back to you if we can in the next hour or so but in the meantime thanks very much. at least thirty billion dollars has been pledged to help rebuild iraq after the defeat of eisel there seventy six countries promised to provide money at a big summit in kuwait much of the cash will come in the form of loans which will need to be paid back but the figure falls well short of what iraq's government says it needs my colleague reports from kuwait city feeling the heat of another day of waiting for the world to help. aid agencies provide supplies and tents that have been the air campaign in iraq but it's just survival they haven't been given enough to return to a normal life. is through other areas have been liberated but most people say they

can't go back because their houses have been destroyed either by airstrikes or by isis. the iraqi government to has had a day of waiting for the world's help at the reconstruction conference in kuwait. it didn't get all it needs either but it's still got significant money most of it in credit in loans. this huge gathering has produced commitments towards reconstructing iraq amounting to turkey billion dollars. that's far short of the one hundred billion dollars the prime minister says is needed to complete reconstruction but the president of iraq's reconstruction fun told me it's more than he expected. to be honest with you i mean if you ask me i was thinking this. it's unclear when that money will make a visible impact on iraq's wastelands nevertheless it was a case of a glass half full for iraq's foreign minister. the amount which was

committed with a grants or loans doesn't meet our needs but thirty billion dollars is not a small sum in today's world. in fact it's a lot of money for these people and more so on their street needs running water their homes and businesses lie in the rubble of despair. we hope the culprits will pay the people who everyone is rebuilding their shops with their own money no one has received anything from the government. international figures called the fund raising and quite impressive impressive for these people is when their markets peddle more than losses. to get the wheels rolling on reconstruction the country faces the challenge of maintaining security there's also the merry go round of corruption to overcome will all the money pledged actually come through in two thousand and three thirty three

billion dollars was promised to iraq at the madrid donor's conference but a year later they had to have a follow up meeting in tokyo because only a fraction of the money had actually come through the quite conference is open the door to the winds of change for iraq the government must now show that this chance won't be squandered by another gust of turbulence sami's a down al-jazeera kuwait. police in egypt have arrested a prominent opposition figure accused of having contact with the outlawed muslim brotherhood abdel moneim aboul fotouh was a presidential candidate in the elections in twenty twelve on thursday morning here right at the state security prosecution in cairo amid tight security for her as a staunch critic of the president. and called for a boycott of next month's presidential election a number of candidates who announced their intention to run against sisi have either been arrested or forced to withdraw including a former army chief. on cole is a professor of history at the university of michigan he joins us on set here in

doha is this individual a member of the muslim brotherhood you know this is the charge against him is that he is a member of the brotherhood and they have defined in egypt the brotherhood as a terrorist organization which is frankly ridiculous but even then i will for too broke with the brotherhood because he is a liberal he believes in popular sovereignty believes in democracy and so he hasn't been a member of the brotherhood for years what does this say about egyptian politics today or does it say about mr el-sisi and as much as they seem to be going after people they're using the accusation of you're a member of the muslim brotherhood but on top of that there's another layer surely they going after people. who on the face of it don't seem to have looking for which the elections real political power today so somebody someplace is feeling threatened by this maybe yes. aboul fotouh has called for a boycott of the upcoming presidential elections these elections are phony and

everybody knows that it's a shadow play and a kind of referendum but there's one way in which c.c. could still kind of win a referendum which would be if there's large turnout and he's obviously popular so . call for a boycott is the extremely threatening to the regime a kind of referendum in what world could that be spun as being a plus if mr el-sisi gets the result he wants well it's the character of referendums and they're favored by dictatorships that. there's no way to lose one and sisi is not going to lose this one but if you know eighty percent of people came out and they they voted for him then that would be a popular mandate between now and the referendum slash election referendum you'll work in the house are we likely to you think see more of the same. well sisi has gradually been cracking down i mean the human rights situation in egypt is worse

than it has been in its modern history even in the late mubarak period people were not so arbitrarily arrested in and so many instances and so this is a moving towards north korea territory it's just a. totalitarian state is this a crackdown for its own sake or does this crackdown have an end point or is there an end game that they want to get to it's all about power for the officer corps in general and for. sisi in particular it's about the power of one man. power of one man that man will stay in place after the election after the referendum so the country just carries on as it's been carrying on for a good few years that's right the military made a coup and a hunter has been in charge of the country since two thousand and thirteen and these things like arresting aboul fotouh is just our way of ensuring their

continued dominance of the country on coal thank you so much a report by save the children has highlighted on the parent rise in sexual assaults and violence against young people in war zones it says there is an alarming increase in cases of killing and maiming the human rights group says three hundred fifty seven million children live in conflict regions syria afghanistan and somalia considered the three most dangerous countries in which to be a child. the u.n. says more people were killed or wounded in suicide bomb attacks and attacks in afghanistan last year than any previous year in the conflict they accounted for two thousand three hundred of the more than ten thousand afghan civilians killed or wounded in violence in twenty seventeen the worst attack was a truck bomb in may that one killed twenty two people all the number killed in bombings and attacks was higher than in twenty sixteen the overall number of casualties is slightly less than in the previous year airstrikes by the u.s. and afghan forces inflicted a rising toll on groups have responded to the more aggressive u.s.

strategy with a wave of violence that's killed nearly one hundred fifty people in recent weeks daniel bell is with the united nations assistance mission in afghanistan she says hold the decrease in the total number of casualties is good news far too many people are still being hurt or killed. the mission documented over ten thousand five hundred civilian casualties in a year and while it is a nine percent reduction it is the fourth consecutive year where we've seen more than ten thousand civilians killed or injured and in terms of how this impacted life for everyday people one of the things we look to first is the children and children were killed maimed injured by ground and gave him an unexploded ordnance pressure plate i e.d.s. we saw a child recruitment cases as as the report documents so it has been indeed a very difficult year in terms of the taleban the report notes a twelve percent reduction in civilian casualties caused by taliban in the area

including from my e.t.s. where we saw the biggest increase in two thousand and seventeen was attacks attributed to die yes so while we did see an improvement on the battlefield by taliban and by pro-government forces more still needs to be done because a nine percent reduction is a beginning but much more needs to be done. and explosions killed four people during carnival celebrations in bolivia the bomb went off in the city of the capital of the president able mobilises home province police say as appears to be in a homemade device but they haven't said who might have been behind the attack eight people were killed in another explosion on saturday night just two blocks away. a performance featuring gang warfare and corrupt politicians taken up the top prize at the rio college of liberals ill that betrayed politicians of rats with money stuffed briefcases other floats were critical of the president's michelle tema who showed him sitting on a cycle of money thomas faced corruption allegations since he came to power twenty

sixteen. a new friend study has found a link between cancer and what it calls old crow processed food research has examined the food intake and health of more than one hundred thousand people they found that there is a twelve percent hung a risk of developing cancer for people who consume a higher amount of processed foods those ultra foods include packaged bread cakes chips and first means.

even the. museum hosting the exhibition. some of the surprises in the six edition are really from the materials that the artists use this was a time in which some of the artists were looking at commodity and consumer goods and so you have interesting juxtapositions whether it's the now mass to work by jeff koons where he combines a fluorescent light with a hoover vacuum cleaner. or can love who has created a living room out

a square of calculus but you can't actually get into it so he's shutting you out we have a number of works that used to. refer to m.t.v. or even the best kept secret cars that. this was a moment i think when t.v. became actually almost. a creative op form and a number of the other squat from that kind of t.v. culture a big shift was this we're using in adopting the strategies of marketing and advertising and you see quotations from advertising a lot in the work of these artists a lot of the things that happened in the eighty's are feeling very familiar right now whether it was stock market high economic prosperity. a turn towards kind of critiques around ideas of value and towards the

end of the one nine hundred eighty s. there was also a new sense of politic you saw the aids crisis in that decade happened and even if we fast forward to today i think we're seeing a new found sense of identity politics in the. think. ok it's time to get the latest from the winter games his peter thank you so much peter it is skiing superstar michela schifrin who is one of the first of what could be several olympic gold medals in pyung chang the twenty two year old prevailed in the giant slalom on thursday second the olympic gold having won the slalom in sochi as an eighteen year old shifrin has been almost unstoppable on the world cup circuit this season and could become the first skier to win four gold medals at

a single games. norway's x. bundle has become the oldest person to win an olympic gold medal in alpine skiing the thirty five year old claimed the men's downhill in the first norwegian to win the events and also the first man to win a limpid gold in both speed events the downhill and super g. that event was one of three from alpine skiing that had to be reshipped earlier this week due to high winds organizers have confirmed that sixteen staff and spectators suffered minor injuries on wednesday due to flying debris tense signposts and steel fencing were ripped from the bases throughout a limb pick park journeys pay off. and bruno must

sought clinched gold in the figure skating pays event the ukrainian and french whom do you say it a would record school in the free program north korea's pay finished in thirteen. and canada's a women's hockey team claim the first on is against their fierce rivals the united states the canadians are aiming for a fifth straight a limpid gold medal and they won this encounter two one to finish top of the group with three wins from three germany continue to lead the middle table on day six with eight gold medals in total norway the netherlands and the united states of america on next best with five golds each three medals events still to come in by a fun lose and speed skating over the next few hours while millions of people across the world are gripped by the games right now it doesn't eliminate the pay to all concerned about legacy for olympic venues and with john

chiang's paralympics just around the corner that question is very much being raised the weddings reports this is the time in the olympics that hosting can seem like a really good idea. action comes to come fast the excitement bounces from venue to venue and each host nation medal provides a podium step closer to justification of the expense but with them the olympic games the question needs to be asked what next well there are actually be a legacy or the olympic stadium project along cost one hundred nine million dollars and yet that stadium will be used just four times for the opening and closing ceremonies of the olympics and paralympic games. i asked michael sheehan of the p.r. organizing committee poco if it's true it will then be demolished he insists they do have plans for the sites it looks like i'm a pentagram and then so we are still having the main building which can be called

a main building so after the games it can be used for. a lot of a culture of the bands and activities showing something and showcasing something. those who closely followed the long journey to this northeastern part of south korea no concern of apathy usually turns to positivity during the olympic fortnight and there are all sorts of concerns raised trav about the lack of people who are going to be a lack of interest that the snow. man oh man over there just to go and organizational frags and i think it's been clearly some teething problems but generally speaking the crowds are being. compared with the last games i was that's where it's been a lot easier what about the power lympics that type place here next month is that event going to be a success tickets for disability sport can be a hard sell to the positive vibe of an olympics can kick start

a ticket surge poco they are proud of their fall they also point to the social impact it will have in korea olympic games distances sports parent gives disagree related to the peepers added to the two people with an impairment do you think the korean people will respond to that i believe so when the circus departs reality can sink in that it was a party not a legacy but in this region they're confident koreans will return here remember the historic winter olympic year and be proud they welling's al-jazeera people in china . real madrid star cristiana rinaldo has become the first man to school one hundred champions league goals for a single club were now those first goal on a wednesday against paris st germain brought up he's saying sharif he would score again later in a three one win for rail in this last sixteen first leg tie norman. this

is a great night i think we deserved to win we worked really hard on this there was a lot of planning for this game was going i can say that today we played very well great team worked up everybody played their role and i'm very happy regarding rinaldo we always end up saying the same things about him always makes the difference in important games and that's what he did tonight because. it was a night to remember for five time european champions liverpool you're going flops main hammered f.c. porto five nil in the last sixteen first leg time away from home saudi helping himself to a hectic exactly as necessary so at the end it was a. high result but i think everybody saw in the game even them and all the moments when we were not as complex as we wanted to be then was immediately strong and they had their moments we scored fantastic goals and the right moment. in the n.b.a. the washington wizards completed a remarkable come from behind victory over the new york knicks on wednesday the

knicks probably thought they had the game won when they led by twenty seven points towards the end of the second quarter but the wizards had other ideas as they overturn the deficit to win the game bradley beal scoring thirty six points as washington won one hundred eighteen one hundred thirteen the knicks losing their eighth straight game. the name of roger federer is a familiar sight at the top of the world tennis rankings but he has not actually held that position since two thousand and twelve that could be about to change that the swiss needs to know wins as the rest of them to a meant to reclaim top spot in the rankings on wednesday he so well for ruben better months eighteen straight say it say in the first round if he makes the semifinals and in so doing take speck the number one ranking he would become the only this man to do so at the age of fifty six. and that's all the

sport for me i'll have morgan later peter peter thanks very much we'll see that last one is of course if you want it on our web site al jazeera dot com is the web address you need there you can see a story we've been reporting on this stuff and in a store saying that it was the most dangerous moment in syria in four years liz is here in about three minutes i'll see you after the of i think. these explosions when. no it's not to. these nuclear bombs were experiments by the

soviet union. to the kazakh people who lived in the vicinity the motives make little difference rewind silent. at this time a mountain scenery. in archaeology graduate from iraq he's also a part time going to billings pergamon museum which includes a reconstruction of the famous ishtar gate in babylon most of the people he's showing around came to germany as refugees this is just one of several billion museums taking part in the project called a meeting point and as well as bringing people together one of its aims is to emphasise the contribution of migrants right up to the present day to western culture. because i've been here for some time i can help them with lots of things that mrs ford to me the great thing is it's not just about museums about forming a new life it is a part of life it's culture from satellite technology to three d.

printing and recycled waste to fill up our classrooms africa is transforming young innovators are propelling change building communities creating employment and solving problems they're challenging systems and shaping new one it's about creative thinkers shaping their continent's future innovate africa at this time on al-jazeera. a new leader for south africa. jacob zuma resignation. and welcome to al-jazeera headquarters in doha with me in the wrong time.