and misinformation is right dismissal and denial of well documented accusation and evidence is part of genocide the listening post provides a critical counterpoint challenging mainstream media narrative at this time on al-jazeera. south africa must come first in everything that we. pose is sworn in as south africa's new president and promises to tackle corruption . hello there i'm joe to hold this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. the

saudi owned television news station out of beer surrenders its right to broadcast in the u.k. . a nineteen year old former pupil is charged with seventeen counts of premeditated murder after the florida school shooting. and ethiopia's prime minister resigns after months of protests he says he wants to be part of the solution. so rahm opposer promised to fight corruption as he was sworn in as south africa's new president rather poses succeeds jacob zuma who resigned on wednesday after months of pressure from the ruling a.n.c. party over corruption allegations one opposition party walked out during the parliamentary proceedings on thursday but the new president pledged to work with his opponents for the good of the country. i will seek to work with all

political parties and were started off. was started off with wanting to have a meeting with the leaders of all political parties so that we can try and find a way of working together and i'm heartened by some of the sentiments expressed here about working together which i will want to touch on well cyril ramaphosa will face a range of challenges including reducing unemployment building up the economy as well ultimately his performance will be judged by voters and elections set to take place next year alexia bron has more president of the republic of south africa. before becoming the new leader of south africa cyril ramaphosa was seen as the chief negotiator in the final days of jacob zuma as presidency he was elected

president of the governing african national congress in december by a slim margin i'll have to work tonight his divided party he'll also have to repair the political and economic damage suffered under zuma and improve the party's image after years of allegations of corruption. so the reporter is a different kind of president to anything we've had before this is a modernist this is somebody he's a negotiator he's a reconsolidate as well but here's a man of a very clear determined purpose he has stuck with jacob zuma for how many years sitting by as zuma embarrassed the country embarrassed himself and that's. going along with what had happened in south africa has given the impression that. i don't think he is. but rahm opposer remains tainted by criticism over his involvement in the americana killings in which police shot and killed

thirty four striking miners six years ago. as a board member of one of the largest mining companies in south africa at the time ram opposer was accused of being behind the government's decision to break the strike he later apologized saying he had stepped in to prevent further deaths as a politician turned businessman ram opposer enjoys the confidence of the financial sector and designer unemployment rose the currency and investor confidence weakened and the country's credit rating went down south africa's new leader has said he plans to create jobs and assist in economic growth target of three percent for this year that's more than double the rate predicted by the international monetary fund during the last election support for the a.n.c. fell to sixty two percent many hope the party of nelson mandela will be able to reverse this trained under the leadership of rahm opposer alexia brian al jazeera

well let's go live now to rob matheson who's in johannesburg for us rob brown opposer says his big priority will be tackling corruption it needs to be clearly but do people believe. there's certainly hope that he's going to be able to do something about it and in the time that he spent as the leader of the a.n.c. since he was elected last year there have been some tangible evidence that he sometimes will have and says that he's been able to point to that he is making at least some effort to deal with the corruption that is has been endemic in south african politics really for so long but the interesting thing is that people really are as i say wishing that this is going to be the case that he is going to be able to achieve these things but one of the phrases that we have heard regularly today is that we will wait and see that people are prepared to give him the opportunity to try to find solutions to these problems but they are aware that these problems are very very big and they're very long term and there are many of them so for one

man to be able to promise to be able to solve all these problems seems slightly unrealistic and therefore people as i say are hoping that he's going to be able to find some solutions but they are waiting to see what happens next and even as he sets about trying to deal with corruption and other major issues facing him the opposition not going to give him an easy ride are they there calling already for early elections even as the a.n.c. risks losing its majority potentially in elections when they do eventually come. jonah that's absolutely right i mean it was very interesting when we heard him speak at the national assembly and he said that he was going to try to put together all the opposition parties to talk about how to take south africa forward from this point a lot of the opposition parties were making the point that the problem did not lie with them the problem they said lay within the a.n.c. itself they said that they had been warning the a.n.c.

and settled on the pros for the ten years that he was jacob zuma as deputy about the allegations that were surrounding the zuma administration but nothing was being done they were putting forward suggestions for debates for votes of no confidence in each each of which was voted down by the a n c so they're going to be watching very very carefully to see whether or not several ramaphosa is intending to be as transparent as he says he's going to be and it is very clear that over the next coming months certainly in the run up to those elections that we're talking about they're coming in twenty nineteen his every move is going to be scrutinized very very carefully not least just very quickly by the f.-f. the economic freedom fighters who walked out of the ceremony earlier on today they were very against jacob zuma and now it looks as though they're going to be holding

several ramaphosa to account as well. as in love for us and jobs but thanks will. now the saudi owned television news station hour obeah has surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar it comes after a qatari complained to the u.k. television regulator of calm over the broadcasting of fake quotes attributed to the emir of qatar last may both a beer and sky news arabia analyzed and condemned a speech published online which later turned out to have been faked by hackers shortly afterwards the g.c.c. began its blockade of qatar let's take a look back at how the crisis evolved last may the count on news agency was hacked that fake remarks attributed to shake bin tunney were published in which he appeared to criticize us foreign policy saudi arabia egypt and the u.a.e.

responded by blocking sites belonging to qatar including al-jazeera a month later the e-mail account of the last of the two the us was hacked revealing links with a pro israel think tank in washington he was also found to be urging the u.s. to move its military base out of qatar well two days after that bahrain the u.a.e. saudi arabia and egypt imposed a blockade on qatar until it agreed to stop sponsoring terrorism groups they also demanded the closure of the al-jazeera media network qatar said it was the victim of incitement and lies last july qatar amended its antiterrorism laws and signed an accord with the united states to curb terrorism financing the us secretary of state rex tillerson praised qatar's efforts and called on the boycotting countries to lift the blockade t.v. compliance consultant liz munroe described what the decision might mean for. well it basically means that you will no longer be regulated by your own you won't

be broadcasting in the u.k. and europe and. you know you'll no longer subject to their regulations but it also means that you won't be able to you know you miss out on a chunk of the audience that you're off to which is the reason why you got a license in the first place i would imagine that it wanted to. you know get access to some of our o. diaspora and they won't be able to do that unless of course they reapply for a license at some point. now the gunman accused of killing seventeen people in a school shooting in florida on wednesday has appeared in court nineteen year old nicholas cruz who can be seen on the top right in the orange jumpsuit was

a former pupil of the marjorie stoneman douglas high school in part land the judge has ordered cruz to be held in jail without bond he's believed to have acted alone when he went into the school armed with a rifle and opened fire on students and teachers president trump says he will work to improve school safety but he avoided any comment on gun laws we are committed to working with state and local leaders to help secure our schools and tackle the difficult issue of mental health later this month i will be meeting with the nation's governors and attorney generals we're making our schools and our children safer will be our top priority. gallagher joins me now from parkland florida and the. a number of warnings have been there about nicholas cruz which will now come under heavy scrutiny warnings that were issued to the f.b.i.

in two thousand and seventeen also warnings emanating from the school itself that had banned him from its premises if he was wearing a backpack people presumably now will be are skiing could this have been avoided. well it's a question you could ask for this scenario general but it's also a question you could ask for almost every other mass school shooting or every other mass shooting in this country because so often these acts are carried out by individuals who clearly have mental health problems who clearly show early signs of being going to obsessed or even say outright on social media i'm going to go shoot up my school so this is not an isolated case the warnings here were there the teachers at the school were afraid of this individual and there's even one report that the reason he was banned from wearing a backpack is because he brought bullets to the school inside one so the warnings were there the f.b.i. even investigated one comment made on you tube last year as you were talking about

they said that investigation drew a blank but the real truth is here is that the second amendment the right to bear arms is so strong that even the f.b.i. in many ways have their hands tied if you remember the polls nightclub shooting just last year in which forty nine people died the individual carried out that attack how to actually been investigated by the f.b.i. for six months but was still allowed to buy automatic weapons and extended magazines and all the rest of it so president jumps at talk of improving mental health is a good thing but the fact that he didn't talk about gun control is making plenty of people very angry but what do people make of that because it's one thing of course going in and looking at school safety measures and trying to isolate the troubled individuals the individuals who might be liable to take dramatic action but it would be a far more definitive safety action to tackle gun. it

is the question of the day what you have to remember here is it already law in this country that schools have certain security measures in place this is not new this came up to colombine shooting in which there are electric doors put in place the children have to carry out drills along with the teaches that's already in place i don't see how you can improve that unless you start arming school teachers which is something the national rifle association has suggested in the past the simple fact is that the republicans will not and probably never will talk about gun control they take millions upon millions of dollars from the national rifle association to the tune of something like fifty million dollars it is not in their political interest to talk about this but there is a growing feeling in this country every time school shootings or mass shootings like this happen is that we have to sit down in a room and for the good of the nation and for the safety of its people actually talk about this i have to tell you that is extremely unlikely to happen to go live for us there in florida thanks. still to come on al-jazeera

zimbabwe's main opposition m.d.c. party appoints a new leader following the death of. on wednesday. survival of the fittest take a look at some of the films vying for. to kill testable. hello and welcome back now as we take a look at europe's weather is still pretty chilly in parts of the east not as cold as it has been without some snow across central areas which is dying away mala conditions out across some more western areas double figures for london looking fine in madrid though the maximum of fifteen degrees move the situation on twenty four hours more snow across the alps and quite heavy falls

a snow likely here and across you can western parts of france fine conditions and still relatively cool there across more eastern areas a low pressure across parts of greece and turkey should be moving away towards the eastern side of the mediterranean towards cyprus now on the other side of the mediterranean this low pressure is sitting in and bring cool winds in on the coast and will be quite windy some rough seas are likely here caro should be ok there are highs of twenty one degrees and then through saturday as the wind picks up kyle see temperatures dropping away or certainly cloud over that may stay dry for much of the day for central parts of africa we've got some significant showers across parts uganda towards d.r. congo central from republic of bonn much of west africa has a risk of showers there but jerry not looking too bad akron ghana looking at highs of thirty two degree celsius across southern portions of the continent we've got some heavy rain likely to affect in parts of some b.-a.

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africa's president a day after him battled leader jacob zuma resign he's promising to fight corruption and to revitalize the economy. the saudi owned television news station out of beer has surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar. the gunman accused of killing seventeen people in a school shooting in florida on wednesday has appeared in court nineteen year old nicholas cruz has been ordered to be held in jail without bail. and he theo his prime minister. has suddenly resigned following months of anti-government protests he says he's tried to solve the crisis in his country and he's resigning in order to be part of the solution mohamed reports. in a televised address. that is ignition was cheating the changes necessary sustainable peace and democracy in ethiopia. in other words an attempt to ease

rising tensions in the country losing the form which in my circle of unrest and political crisis have led to the loss of lives and the displacement of many i see my stepping down as vital in the effort to carry out reforms that lead to sustainable peace largely seen as a placeholder and a consensus figure hyla my embezzling has led if you have to since two thousand and twelve following the death of former prime minister and the architect of ethiope us a recent economic boom melissa and how he rolls from relative obscurity as an academy to president of the solvent region before being appointed foreign minister who's and deputy prime minister his departure follows the current wave of unrest on a national state of emergency doubt and last. ethiopia's lodge's regions only on how to have witnessed must have demonstrations in recent months with protesters mainly made up of youths calling for political and economic reform and an end to state corruption in recent weeks the government doesn't list thousands of

opposition supporters from jail but a protest of continued years of unaccountability and at an aside session of the country's politics a push if you appear to tipping point injustice repression on luck of minute full democracy some say have instilled a sense of despondency particularly among ethiopia's youth driving many to view protests as the only viable means of bringing about many people change their own going to stop and has also led to dip divisions within the governing coalition with some of ethiopia's powerful and it's coming to see the prime minister as weak and locking in focus hyla modi i'm surprised his ignition may not satisfy all of ethiopia's protesters but for some it's us that mohamed atta while jazeera. zimbabwe's main opposition party has names nelson chamisa acting president of the party he replaces longtime opposition leader morgan tsvangirai who died in south

africa on wednesday a roman tussle has more from harare. many opposition supporters are broken hearted. they say they are struggling to accept the man who led them for nearly twenty years morgan tsvangirai is dead. i was defeated in. the bus three days notice. ok so we are. headed to. prison as i have just seen this hour the m.d.c. is national council has appointed nelson chamisa as acting president for twelve months which is likely means he will be the party's presidential candidate when elections take place later this year chamisa is forty years old and popular with the youth we are just four months away from an election and we have lost the

commander but i can tell you is that we do not have a crisis. all of the generals on the field of those who are going to be left turn is to make sure that we win the battle in the war against the incumbents and will win this election. was but two senior party officials took a. majority did not attend thursday's party meeting is speculation they may split the biggest opposition party because they don't want to be their boss. i want to. be on my way to follow leaders in the opposition have to help me manage the transition if they want to keep me night. he was the face of zimbabwe's opposition to longstanding leader robert mugabe for decades thank you i live long enough to see his rival resigned. and i was a bubbly stacie its first election in nearly two decades without i think.

and as well in business when the runs are mendoza ruled out challenging president nicolas maduro as leadership in april's elections mendoza who owns a beverage company personally told workers he will not put himself forward despite widespread appeals to run the billionaire was the opposition's strongest potential candidate challenge murder a venezuela has been plagued with an unprecedented economic crisis since two thousand and thirteen the opposition says the vote is rigged for madeira to win the election. a study by a group of french scientists has found that people who eat highly processed food are more likely to develop cancer they look to the diet of more than one hundred thousand people and those who eat more cakes crisps and ready meals are at higher risk of developing the disease parker reports now from london. what

have you eaten today because what we innocently consume could be harming us. we've known for several years that certain food such as processed meat can increase our risk of disease but now french researches have made a worrying link between ultra processed food and cancer western diets are characterized by the intake of. an average of it could get to fifty percent of all time processed foods in our in our diets even a healthy product nutritionally can be processed because it can have food or preservatives or food color and or. or sweeteners so what do dieticians mean by ultra processed food and how do they differ from processed and processed foods on processed food or. is things like vegetables that are wrong not those kind of things then to take in not chop you might have things like milk

and then the next level up from that is things like bread so bread in the olden days used to be made of three things and now it's made of quite a few more things so that now fits into a process you know pretty processed products and then we have things which are just made out you know i think that you wouldn't necessarily recognize this food at all there's an awful lot of ingredients in this none of them really look like food at all said out with into the out process. where the ultra processed foods contain artificial ingredients designed to keep them fresh on the shelves and make them look more appetizing bang clued ready meals cakes mass produce bread and instant noodles there's an old piece of advice you should only food that your grandparents would recognize but the reality of life in the modern age is that fast cheap and inevitably highly processed food. it's very very tempting so how do we

navigate this coloring minefield the simple answer fresh fruit vegetables foods that are high in fiber more research needs to be done to definitively linked ultra processed food and cancer a rule out other factors many consumers of ultra processed food are more likely to smoke and be overweight both key causes of cancer but the overriding advice is clear if we must eat processed food eat it in moderation. london on in brazil the top prize in rio de janeiro's carnival has been won by a hard hitting display that highlights corruption and violence a somber school by joe floor was crowned champion for their performance featuring corrupt politicians dressed as rats wolves in sheep's clothing another entry sharply criticized president michel tamar who's facing ongoing corruption allegations in a carnival that had an unusually strong political theme. we wanted to

talk to the country to the rulers about discrimination and intolerance. it's the victory of the message the victory of talking about what happens every day in our city and in our country it's a struggle for greater dignity a better city more security basic quality education and how it's remind renowned as a showcase of hollywood blockbusters and high art european movies the berlin film festival which opens on thursday has an emphasis on cultural diversity and this year at other movie events the me two campaign will be highlighting sexual harassment in the film world from berlin dominic came reports. for many february in the german capital means only one thing the bellina a film festival which has helped put this city on the cultural map it's an opportunity for film goers and critics alike to view the movie's competing for the

ultimate prize the golden bear but this year it's a different animal that's gaining attention. isle of dogs is the latest anime to differentiate offering from the award winning us director anderson sat in a dystopian future japan where a film of canine flu has forced the all thora he's to quarantine all dogs on a remote island we follow the journey of a twelve year old boy as he struggles to find his lost pet rancid apic or two were mean banana peels and dried up pickled in a sardine bones of broken egg shells an old smashed up brown gives it with maggots all over it ok it's worth it was obvious to the people in this venture from german director christiane pets that. we observe the plight of refugees through the ages set in modern southern france but with characters the travel from the past to the present transit profiles a man of fleeing the nazi occupation. in his interactions with modern refugees we

get a sense of the fragility the collective experience was made because it. was this is not dominated by blockbuster films from hollywood studios one film critic says it means competition for the prizes will be fierce we don't have somebody really prominent movies so i think with this year it's going to be really discovery where perhaps a lot of unknown directors smaller films will sort of pop up and get noticed one of the issues many people are mentioning here is the me too movement which has highlighted the prevalence of sexual harrison. and against women in the film industry there will be really special programs after me too but also about diversity we as think said there are these cultural events but not only cultural events there are a sublight from now to discuss this and we are in the middle of his discussion one

of the draws of this festival has always been its combination of hollywood style glamour with european art house movies and as a showcase for independent filmmaking is to attract attention to the causes they hold dear as this festival opens there is no overwhelming favorite to claim the top prizes and so many of the people trading these red carpets have high hopes dominic came out zira berlin. don't forget to visit the web site w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. and a quick reminder of our top stories cyril ramaphosa has been sworn in as south africa's new president robert bowser succeeds jacob zuma who after months of pressure from within his own party finally resigned on wednesday from

a poser says he'll focus on rooting out corruption and revitalizing economic growth . the issues that you have raised issues that have to do with corruption issues of how we can straighten out our state owned enterprises and how we do with state kept is issues that are on our worry discreet a saudi owned television news station our obeah surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar it comes after a qatari complained to the u.k. television regulator of com over the broadcasting of fake quotes attributed to the emir of qatar last may both a beer and sky news arabia analyzed and condemned a speech published online which later turned out to have been faked by hackers shortly afterwards the g.c.c. began its blockade of qatar. the gunman accused of killing seventeen people in a school shooting in florida on wednesday has appeared in court nineteen year old

nicholas cruz spoke only to confirm his name before being ordered to be held in jail without bail he is a former pupil of the marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland and is believed to have acted alone in the attack president donald trump says he will work to improve school safety but of voided any comment on gun laws here if he had been prime minister. resigned after the worst anti-government protests in twenty five years i don't marry him says he'll stay in his role until the transition of power is complete but he hopes his resignation will allow planned reforms to create a lasting paints. members of zimbabwe's opposition movement for democratic change have been mourning the death of their leader morgan chang. team members gathered outside the m.d.c. headquarters at harare he founded the m.d.c.

in one thousand nine hundred nine. stay with us the stream is up next. hi i'm femi oke a and i'm really could be today a stream update on a story we've covered extensively here and across the aisle dizzier and that work there are hendra crisis the united nations is confronting several issues at once this is back to continue violence while the million mom military the arrests of journalists covering the story.