basically creating money out of nothing and it's rather complicated because zimbabwe is a dollar rise economy but basically the government began paying off the debts by infusing electronic money into the banking system which wasn't really backed by any u.s. dollars a tall so the value of that electronic money these electronic book in trees zimbabwe basically operates a cashless society and depends on electronic transfers the value of this electronic money has declined steeply it's now about a third of the real us dollar and of course people are paid in the sea electronic in this electronic form so the the purchasing power of the salaries declined enormously and of course when the fuel price was high by about two hundred fifty percent this represented yet a further decline in the purchasing power of workers' salaries and that's what sparked the violence the military have been deployed once again live ammunition is

being used and people are being arbitrarily dragged from their homes and being beaten up if they are suspected of having taken part in the demonstrations that took place between monday and wednesday it's a very heavy handed approach it's very reminiscent of the mcgarvie era there's also been arbitrary arrests of people who are simple society leaders and activists and the internet was completely closed down from tuesday afternoon. wins day evening and social media platforms remain closed by the government of zimbabwe so it's a very heavy handed response whether in fact and then find out why nigeria's big political spending the whole thing back in this presidential election season.

hello again we're here across parts of north asia we are going to be seeing some clouds up here towards another part of japan down here across the southern part of japan for tokyo not really looking too bad over the next day you can be seeing some partly cloudy conditions with a temperature there of about ten degrees down towards osaka nine up towards support of though it is going to be a cold day here on friday at minus four we don't expect to see much of a change maybe getting a little bit warmer but not getting above freezing for you as i make our way down here across parts of china well things have been quite nice they're going to continue to stay that way in terms of not a lot of clouds not a lot of rain on the forecast map over the next you days up towards shanghai it is going to be a little bit warmer than it has been noticed that the winds are coming out of the south for show at sixteen hong kong you can be seeing those winds coming out of the south china sea so a little bit cool a few at about twenty degrees there and then as we go towards saturday things warm

up just a little bit we do start to pick up a little bit more clouds as well as rain across parts of the interior and then here across parts of the philippines we are going to watch what is happening just to the east of you very carefully there is a circulation out there and over the next few days from friday to saturday we could also be seeing the increase of clouds the increasing rain gusty winds in your forecast there up towards millo though it is going to be at most a cloudy day with rain at twenty nine. ard.

hello again you're watching al-jazeera has reminder of our top stories this hour. to work together on a deal for the u.k.'s withdrawal from the e.u. just hours after the government survived a no confidence vote called by the opposition. red cross says everyone missing opposite tack on a luxury hotel complex has been accounted for at least twenty one people died in the. group behind the attack says it was in retaliation for the u.s. presence in direct jerusalem the capital of israel. and.

sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after protests this week that hundreds of people including prominent rights activists. russian president vladimir putin has just touched down in belgrade for talks with serbia's leader alexander. playing at the airport where delegates are waiting for him to. a very warm welcome as planned including a parade will run through the center of the capital. aspires to join the european union kept its close ties with russia. she's in belgrade for a young what's expected from this visit. well this is the fourth the meeting of alexander. the last meeting. in moscow four months ago in october two thousand although this is the fourth time

that. good says two thousand and one. the same a bit of door it is they're talking about historical visit and alexander which has a great expectations of it here in the palace of serbia the most important part of the day will the have the because the members of two delegations with signed twenty one agreement several hundred million euros and of course the press conference of two president will be held. before his arrival in belgrade about the miracles and said that russia has many friends here in the balkans about that serbia is a russia strategic partner. russia will respect the decision of serbian authorities about the european future of serbia and the western partners russia doesn't try to put serbia in front of an artificial choice rochelle or european union of course

you expect also it to be one of the major topics today. put it said that she was quite surprised by read the massive reaction of the european union in relation to decision of course of the security forces to transform into a real army especially as he said because it was obvious that slips in costs of all . the serbs in kosovo experienced such a move as a direct threat to their security and alexander which is in his interview to the russian news agency said that the situation in the west the balkans is very difficult and that despite this it be an attempt to maintain peace and stability in the region belgrade and pushed very far from making and the agreement on the cost of an issue and let me just say more than six hundred journalists are in belgrade covering them visit here ok many thanks for joining us that from belgrade.

now the international criminal court has blocked the release of former ivory coast president after a new appeal by prosecutors the court at the hague had said bag was free to go a day after his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity he was tried of a post-election violence eight years ago in which three thousand people were killed . in libya five people have been killed in fighting between rival armed groups on the outskirts of tripoli the violence fractures a four month old u.n. brokered ceasefire libya has been in conflict since the two thousand and seven uprising that toppled gadhafi the government in tripoli has been working on a new security plan but little without a national police force or army yemen's opposing sides are meeting for a second day in jordan as part of the united nations led peace effort the talks between the yemeni government and who the rebels are aimed at making a deal on prisoner exchanges

a shaky cease fire is holding around the key port of data which is helping to allow food and medicine into the war torn country. voted unanimously to deploy up to seventy five observers to data the monitors will be sent for six months to supervise the cease fire and withdrawal of rival forces reports from the un. a unanimous vote by the security council to extend and expand its monitoring mission in her data they've now authorized up to seventy five unarmed u.n. monitors for a period of six months the big worry on the ground is that the ceasefire won't hold for anything like that long it came into force last month but is extremely fragile and shaky with numerous violations reported u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorist says keeping and extending the peace is one of his key priorities for the year ahead last month stockholm agreement on

yemen helped to avoid that gets us traffic military confrontation in the data it would have greatly increases the risk of femen. but much more needs to be done to ensure that the parties live up to their commitments and that the true political process finally leads to peace beyond her day in amman jordan talks about an exchange of prisoners something that was originally supposed to happen before last month's stockholm agreement have finally got underway the prisoner exchange is one of the confidence building measures that the special envoy has negotiated so it's a very important part because it shows good faith and it was part of the agreements reached in stock and confidence building is good in its own same areas there's still not enough confidence though to name a date for the next stage of political talks they've now slipped to february kuwait was talked about as a venue but the who things are on easy about going there and now germany is being

mentioned james zira of the united nations. and tunas here thousands of workers are on strike demanding better wages a process follows a breakdown in negotiations been powerful labor unions and the government the strike is affecting public transport ports and hospitals governments under pressure from international monetary fund to freeze public sector salaries in exchange for loans. just one month to go until nigerians vote in elections dozens of political parties a bridge sudden there are more than seventy presidential candidates and elections are often big business with hopefuls spending hundreds of millions of dollars but when it just reports from sokoto states this election season the parties have cut back. nigeria's campaign season is underway and candidates are seizing the moment the crowd here may be huge but they're not close to numbers

seen during the last general elections in twenty fifteen then the country's banks politicians every day of the week most nigerians including politicians of noted how that has changed. our democracy is growing and we're doing over some of this culture that is necessary that the that should not be the case in a democracy of the democratic process with all of the need to allow the people to elect their leaders without necessarily being influenced. there through violence or through into the addition of the use of money and their complete materials. today many politicians and public office holders have been taken to court for allegedly diverting government money to fund their campaigns including money meant for the fight against boko haram the scope of theft has shocked many nigerians. and they are fighting finding money me to be an empty money been distributed so to fund

activities activities but negative for the nigerian economy it made until after the temptation to find out something. there appears to be a lot of caution this time and the era of big spending for elections is disappearing in previous campaigns traders struggle to meet the demands of politicians will buy food and other goods to share with voters in the hope of securing their support cells why good but this year is different these bags of rice now you're a staple i've been here for days with few buyers. traders say the lack of spending is hurting their business and. their village politician time here in huge numbers to buy rice to give to what is nothing much is happening. some pleasant surprise for us. print to say politicians saying creasing really turning

to social media to campaign and that's not good for business for many here at the market they say this is one campaign season they don't want to see in future but for others this is a good sign of an increasingly democratic nigeria. freeze. so. brazil's national museum has opened its first exhibition since the building was gutted by a large fire last year just eight of the one hundred sixty pieces on display were recovered from the ashes including the bone from the terror that the newseum is trying to rebuild its vast collection most of which was wiped out by the fire in september two hundred institution was conceived last america's main natural history museum more than twenty six thousand fossils the palace in health ministry in gaza is warning that at least three hospitals may be forced to close to to power shortages there isn't enough fuel to power generators that backup unreliable electricity supplies charles rapid reports on what's cause the latest short for.

the money de beers one of the around three hundred women a month to give birth in this withered hospital in rough southern gaza. the first child has just been delivered a bunch of syrian section. there are daily blackouts across the palestinian territory so this and many hospitals like it rely on generators for power for at least twelve hours a day but the fuel for the generators is fast running out again or as much as a lot of chicken if you cross the sea and the israeli siege in general for twelve years has got worse over the last year we have to delay many procedures because of a lack of electricity and we having to distribute more plank it's because it's so cold for the children without heating with the latest fuel crisis started when israel banned the transfer of the third installments of millions of dollars from qatar to pay for fuel on the salaries of from us employees. with an election looming in israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu has bowed to pressure from

politicians and people accusing the governments of allowing the payment of hamas to keep the situation in gaza calm which it has been relatively speaking in recent weeks was all over the course gaza's two million people just suffering a fuel crisis this is a protest by palestinian authority employees in gaza angry with president mahmoud abbas for increasing taxes on their salaries the. the repeated egyptian and un reconciliation efforts have failed to heal the more than decade long rift between hamas and the palestinian authority which is dominated by abbas is fatah party people are increasingly angry with abbas and the p.a. which has for years withheld money and fuel supplies to hamas controlled gaza before i was handed in today we are calling for a general strike among a workers because of the new palestinian authority and all increasing the taxes it is hurting us a lot we won't stop until the p.a.

listens there are protests like this virtually every day in gaza now how must say this that said the palestinian no forty's refusal to allow like the funds to pay for this and you know authority you always hear it. he's upbeat by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas to cause whatever us describes a civil unrest for anybody to remember how much from how. i do believe that the palestinian authority with owned a concession that we've been giving to them from hamas and something like that doesn't sound that out interested to have a gain by what she had in building boats shooting system and toward to get out again. talking about the election talking about different things that we both full to have but unfortunately that is the easy or the template to get us to the kitchen hit and they have to make it more difficult for up each of us two in the division and to distort our unity at least two hundred fifty palestinians have been killed

mainly by israeli army sniper fire since we can be friday protests started near gaza's border fence almost a year ago. i'm only deaves postponed some lines in an e.q. place in this hospital his life and sounds like him depended on where the palestinian m d's rady politicians will one day put the differences aside stop al-jazeera gaza. and you can find plenty more on our website the address the bottom of your screen. dot com all the latest on the kenya attack and of course. go with al-jazeera these are our top stories. has reached out across the political divide urging m.p.'s to work together on a deal for the withdrawal from the european union she made the playoffs the

government survived a no confidence vote called by opposition leader jeremy corbett. so now i have made clear what they don't want we must all work constructively together to set out what parliament does want that small army inviting m.p.'s from all parties to come together to find a way forward one that both delivers on the referendum and to the support of parliament this is now the time to put self interest aside kenya's red cross says everyone missing off to choose days tack on a luxury hotel complex has been found at twenty one people died in the assault on the first funerals of the victims have been held in nairobi. group behind the attack says it was in retaliation for the u.s. president's decision to recognize the capital of israel. doctors in zimbabwe say at least sixty eight people have been treated for gunshot wounds after

mass protests this week more than a dozen had emergency surgery days of demonstrations and protests against the doubling of fuel prices for his arrest of hundreds of people including a prominent activist. the a special envoy on afghan reconciliation has just arrived in pakistan to try to revive talks with the taliban. as meeting pakistani leaders to try to bring the taliban back to the table last week taliban leaders canceled a meeting with him the cues in the u.s. deflecting from the issue of withdrawing forces from afghanistan they've also rejected the involvement of the afghan government in the dialogue of a president of ivory coast remains jailed in the hague despite his acquittal on charges of crimes against humanity prosecutors a petition international criminal court to keep him detained whilst they appeal against his acquittal he was tried over post-election violence eight years ago in

which three thousand people were killed. with all the headlines more news on al-jazeera after inside story. celebrations on the streets of ivory coast after the international criminal court acquits former president of crimes against humanity what will this mean for the concierge in the country and the future of the i.c.c. after this latest setback this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program. he was the first former head of state to stand trial at the international criminal court. was arrested in two thousand and eleven and charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the violence that followed disputed presidential elections in two thousand and ten three thousand people were killed and more than half a million displaced during the rest but after a three year trial at the hague i.c.c. judges said the prosecution had failed to show bagwell as involvement in the violence and ordered his release prosecutors say they will appeal against the ruling the majority dissenting rejects the prosecutor's request. and mr blair in detention. directs the religious tree to obtain the necessary assert the servants' assurances from mr bungle and.

in their respective lead counsel. in ensuring the return of mr boggle and or mist of legal duty if and when the presence of the seat of the court is requested as we said this morning for bible supporters the acquittal is a major victory but victims of a policy election violence are volleying to continue the fight for justice we're bringing our guest in just a moment but first nicholas hock has this report from. supporters a former i rico sleet alone by both celebrated as news of his acquittal spread across the country. in the international criminal court ordered his immediate release. but it is a moment of incredible joy we feel like we all have been freed he is a leader our president a man of peace eighty witnesses gave evidence thousands of documents were produced

but after seven years in prison the judges say the prosecution failed to prove that by going codefendant charles bleakly they were guilty of crimes against humanity including murder rape and persecution for all these reasons the chamber by majority here by decides that the prosecutor has failed to such as. the burden of proof to the requisite standard as for seen in article sixty six of the rome statute. grants the defense motions for acquittal from all charges against mr bloomberg bull and mr. bug who was arrested in two thousand and eleven found hiding with his wife simona in a hotel room in the ivorian capital abidjan a humiliating moment for this former head of state unwilling to hand over power after an election defeat to alison ouattara supporters known as the young patriots

went from house to house killing anyone they thought were foreigners or supporters of ouattara three thousand people were killed in the four months long civil war now they're back on the streets in the popular neighborhood of hugo a backdoor stronghold. the chance is finally free for the people of. this is a cause of celebration that was this trial at the international committee of the the. the judge's decision is a setback for prosecutors and thousands of victims of the civil war who continue to call for justice to no one under way it. is free to violence will come back and it could get even worse maybe i know the person will take power and create the same problems we don't want to see he will come way from these crimes. will we still be considered a war criminal by some a hero to others the this in a country trying to move on from a violent past in search of reconciliation and

a brighter future because hawke al-jazeera. or let's bring in our panel jim warmington is on skype from abidjan ivory coast's is a researcher at the africa division of human rights watch also on skype from the cost senegal is a political analyst and founder of the watty think tank and in berlin is mark harris sin deputy director of the foundation and author of justice in conflicts the effects of the international criminal court interventions on ending wars and building nice gentleman thank you all for being on inside story thank you for joining us jim warrington in abidjan the acquittal of law back both celebrated as we saw by his supporters but disappointment of course for the victims of the post-election violence of twenty ten twenty seven what implications for peace and justice in ivory coast. i have asked the question that everybody is asking here in

but i just want to touch on on your point about victims and. as you sir in the reporting that preceded this conversation this debate there's no doubt that awful crimes were committed in could you aren't and idea that when people were alive in the streets women were raped people were killed simply because of their political affiliation and it's important to say that this decision doesn't change any of that it simply shows that the prosecution was unable to connect in the courts. to what happened on the ground and for many of the victims that i've spoken to that's the the contradiction they know what they suffered they know what they saw and they find it very difficult to understand how of course the case in the hague with foreign judges and lawyers can come to a different conclusion in terms of what happens next and it could be for i think that's the question the first narrative of course that's offered by back those of course it is is that this is good for reconciliation is what allow countries to

comes together but of course the other narrative is that many of the factors that underpins the two thousand and eleven violence the lack of security sector reform and reform in the army and of course most important need to compete in putin sees the crimes committed by back both and most powerful says is still very much present in the yabby into kajal fonts as does good for reconstitution as might both supporters believe. well. i'm not sure that it is good for reconciliation i'm not sure that. this is going to change the political practices in the country and my opinion as i always be that lessons have to be grown from the crises that the country as witnessed and the greatest was post-election our presence it was deliberate conflict was just and it is a in a very long conflict which has been you know which has magic on t.v. for what it to decay and i'm not sure that grant can we are not seeing kind of. the

reporting gratian the political reconfiguration that we make the election in two thousand and ten again and again as and possibly about ants in do we like to come back to yes i was just going to go touch on that point that you make eight years on in d.j.o. the same political actors that led to the post-election violence of twenty eleven and twenty twenty ten and twenty levon are back in the picture whether it's by boa ta. how worrying is that for the upcoming election in two thousand and twenty. yes i think that is not a good sign the fact that there is no clear. recognition by of those personalities that they have been collectively responsible for what happened to the country again not just what happened during the puzzle apricot think that what happened in the concrete and destroyed the country for many years

and i think that the fact that we're seeing these actors and we're also seeing a situation that have not been strengthened after the conflict i think all be pointing to some reason to be worried about the two thousand and twenty but again i will lead to come back to the decision itself because i think it's important also to say that the decision by the i.c.c. was logical in the sense that from the very beginning the way these kids as it's under by the at the and especially magnus former prosecutor luis moreno ocampo i think is was problematic and some investigation by media probably the french newspapers made it very clear that there was too much political and difference in the way the case has been under as i never understood for example why you know that because of the bible and league with the and not for example if you military commanders and security actions iran a prison by group which would have made it possible to shoulder ten of come on you

know from the political decision to make the question about and act on the wrong let's bring a mock umbrella in into the conversation mark what do you think went wrong for the prosecution in the bible calls the political interference in the contest. well i think it's important first of all not to get too carried away from one a vent at the international criminal court i think it's important to recognize that the i.c.c. is neither as good as its greatest success nor as bad as its biggest failures but this this this is worrying because clearly if our expectation is and maybe it shouldn't be but if our expectation is that the i.c.c. holds people to account in and gets convictions for senior level perpetrators of atrocities then then this is the this is disappointing i think it the judges were very clear in this instance that quite frankly they did not believe that the

prosecution put forward good enough and sufficient evidence to proceed to to proceed to the second stage of the trial they don't believe that there's enough evidence to convict. or charles blow a good day beyond the reasonable doubt and this this i think sheds casts doubt right now on the ability of the i.c.c. office of the prosecutor to successfully gather enough evidence in particular to successfully prosecute high level state officials and this is i think a very worrying trend we saw earlier this year john here ben by the former vice president of the democratic republic of congo before that the current president of kenya or kenya then the deputy president william ruto indeed and now. i think there's a very worrying trend that the i.c.c. may not be able to hold senior state level government officials to account when

they allegedly perpetrate crimes while let's just pause for a moment if we can and give our viewers mark some context some background on the international criminal court and its work on africa the i.c.c. the world's first permanent war crimes tribunal it was established in two thousand and two it took the court nearly a decade to deliver the first very big finding congolese. rebel leader. guilty of recruiting child soldiers there are twenty eight cases before the court it's handed down eight convictions and two acquittals in six of the cases and it's indicted forty four people including sudanese president omar bashir and saif al islam the son of the late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. the international criminal court have accused it of being biased towards africa and twenty seventeen the african union passed a motion urging its members to leave the tribunals that's because all of the forty four people facing charges at the africans.