trust and other beneficiary accounts linked to remark was a good one this is from a poor search should have declared the donations to avoid a conflict of interest she was both the president and c.e.o. of the company gavin watson investigated for money laundering this is gone beyond the parameters of simply a parliamentary misdemeanor it has got into the realms of criminal justice and certainly it will provide ammunition for several rival pools as enemies within them within the a.n.c. who we know are many to go after his continued leadership of the party the public protector's verdict means that i'm up or so i will have to declare all donations to his campaign within 30 days the president says he'll study the report and make a decision on any further action corruption continues to be an issue the governing african national congress is battling not only is president facing a scandal of his own his predecessor president jacob zuma is appearing some would say reluctantly before

a commission of inquiry into state corruption during his 9 years in office zuma concluded his 4th day of testimony after withdrawing from proceedings saying he was being treated unfairly but later said he would return to the witness stand while south africans are looking for answers the promise of a corruption free south africa appears to be elusive leader mullah al-jazeera pretoria south africa thousands of algerians have returned to the streets once again to demand a change of government oh wow wow it's the 22nd week since the protests began across the country the demonstrations led to president underlies this beautifully because resignation ending his 20 year rule the mass rallies continued one with a flea in close known allies were kept in government protesters say they want complete political overhaul and the ruling elite be held accountable for corruption . turkey says its work lanes on drones have hit multiple targets in the kurdish

region of northern iraq near strikes were in response to the murder of one of its diplomats on wednesday a gunman shot and killed turkey's deputy consul general and 2 other people. turkish authorities are looking for a 27 year old muslim dog who is the main suspect is believed to have joined the kurdistan workers party or the k n 2014 the group is deemed a terrorist organization by the united states that's also a name has more from erbil on the investigation so far. investigators now have some answers regarding who assassinated turkish diplomat awesome on costa and why the shootings which took place in erbil restaurant on wednesday and killed a total of 3 people were all caught on security cameras now police are widely distributing a photo of a man they say is their primary suspect he's one of

a team of 3 people that investigators say with inside the restaurant to execute this hit his name is muslim dag he is 27 years old he's from a car turkey it's a kurdish region in the south of turkey sources say that he joined the kurdistan workers' party or p k k in 2014 the p.k. k. is an armed group it's deemed a terrorist organization by turkey and the united states this morning turkey conducted air strikes at a peak k.k. training camp on the outskirts of a town here called more they believe that dag was there 4 times last week and that he had trained there and that there was a possibility that they may have he may have fled there after the shootings all vote the p.k. k. is being pinpointed by investigators it's important to note that on wednesday hours after the shootings a spokesman with the military wing of the p.k. k.

denied involvement the group is very big and has been described as decentralized a political analyst tells us one thing is certain the motivation of this is sas the nation is intended to destabilize the relationship between turkey and the kurdistan regional government. mass demonstrations are taking place across iraq these are the latest pictures from baghdad where unemployment is high and there's also growing anger over the government's failure to provide basic services like electricity and water problem gets worse as temperature soars during summer. these clothes have been donated to russia she sells used garments to try and make a living her home is this small room which used to be a shop the owner has allowed her to live here every corner has its use one part of the kitchen the other corner is the bathroom. and adjacent to that is the sleeping

area. pardon me i'm forced to sell used clothes in this makeshift house you can see behind me some of these that i have stuart and other clothes are put on display just outside my doorstep. it's hard being a widow she says because she cannot afford rent or proper education for her daughter roger is among $7000000.00 iraqis who live in poverty which means they can only spend less than $2.00 per day and like roger many live without basic services then why are you telling us in your is scarce sometimes i have to feel buckets to store some water when it's cut off for a day or 2 state and city goes on for 4 or 5 hours a day and it's the same for water. years of war and fighting has meant essential services are either very poor or nonexistent in many places iraq faces a major electricity shortage even after importing almost $4000.00 megawatts from

neighboring iran each wire in the spaghetti of cables represents a household this is how private generators are providing electricity this thousands of homes across iraq because state electricity is intimately. and it's not just the capital baghdad electricity water sewage in reste disposal are lacking in most parts. running generators is profitable business but even those who are fed up with the lack of basics. talk about services than i can tell you we have almost none especially if we speak about the province of with little polluted water rampant corruption and unemployment people are overwhelmed our province is the most affected of the rest. and every few months that anger and frustration spills out on the streets and the protesters have come out in basra frequently to vent their anger and demand uninterrupted supply of essential services. prime minister either

live there maties government says it's trying to make things better but needs more time. but i don't deny that there is a power crisis concerning distribution and power overload but there has been big progress in production we need an overhaul of work across the power grid and we believe that we have a clear path ahead of us to get rid of the power crisis that has persisted for over 15 years but those who come out on the street see these but his promises which is remain unfulfilled by successive governments some of the job it out of the fact that. more had on the al-jazeera news hour including extending a humanitarian hand taiwan's president says these self ruling island could give refuge to protesters from hong kong. and in sport the world's best female cyclists continue to challenge tour de france organizers to give them their own version of the race.

but 1st libya's high council of state has expressed concern over the involvement of france the united arab emirates and egypt in backing his forces council said the 3 countries are helping the warlords and his fighters as they plan for new attacks on the capital tripoli it released this statement saying the council eagerly considers the intelligence information received which proves that certain states are providing military gear and personnel to have to add namely france the u.a.e. and egypt those countries are preparing for and involved at a larger scale in new attacks on the capital using jet fighters and advanced weapons. explains what this means for the battle for tripoli. the high council of his state and libya says it's received intelligence information indicating that the united arab emirates egypt and france are planning to support of the world have to do with advanced weapons including sophisticated weapons and fighter jets and

personnel to launch a new offensive to seize the capital tripoli that's after $100.00 days of the fighting. take control of the capital tripoli. sources with the government of national called say that french fighter jets namely c. $135.00 and also a boeing $202.00 french fighter jets were noticed over tripoli during the past 24 hours and. high council estate is issuing this statement probably for 2 reasons the 1st is to uncover the 3 countries which issued a statement on the july 18th saying that of calling on the rival factions to stop the fighting and the 2nd reason is most of probably toward the international community including the united nations and the european union and also the government of national accord to one of them of the consequences of this new

offensive if launch it by forces 2 people were killed and at least 18 others injured after a massive explosion at a gas plant in central china the blast took place in the city of you man that's in one province it shattered windows and doors of buildings in a 3 kilometer radius deadly industrial accidents are common in china where safety regulations are often poorly in forests in march an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern province killed 78 people and injured hundreds. taiwan's president says her government will follow humanitarian principles when dealing with asylum seekers from hong kong sighing when was responding to reports that a group of protesters fighting a controversial extradition bill in hong kong flights i want to seek protection victoria again be reports. during recent protests in hong kong millions of people rallied against the now withdrawn extradition bill that would have allowed people

to be sent to mainland china for trial. protesters who stormed the city's legislature was so concerned they could be punished unfairly they flown to neighboring thailand to seek asylum its president has offered them support. regarding the hong kong people who've arrived in taiwan who would deal with them following humanitarian principles taiwan has had its own government since 1949 and is opposed to reunification with mainland china beijing sees taiwan as part of its territory taiwan has no formal refugee law but amnesty international says taiwan's government can provide hong kong protesters refuge based on existing regulations in article 18 there's saying the necessary assistance should be provided to hunker down in macau residents who safety and i mean for political reasons so we believe there is actually a way that one how and his government could step those those

a cd ends the protest is a hoping to follow in the footsteps of hong kong bookseller lam when key he was held in china for almost 8 months for selling books critical of the chinese government he fled to taiwan in april the protesters who arrived in thailand may not be the last at least 30 others are reportedly preparing to leave hong kong fearing for their safety victoria is there and the world health organization has warned countries bordering the democratic republic of congo to be on. high alert for ebola on wednesday the un agency declared the latest international health emergency a rare designation only used for severe epidemics more than 1600 people have died from ebola in the congo in the past year anthony bambery is the former head of the mirror that's the united nations mission for him to respond to the 2014 ebola outbreak and he says the international community has been very slow to act.

unfortunately we have not seen the kind of international response necessary to stem the tide and many of us who are involved in the west africa crisis bola crisis in 2014 have been saying for many months that the mistakes that were made in that crisis are simply being repeated now and we've been predicting it's going to continue to spread and it's going to continue to get worse until the lessons from the previous crisis are applied to the current one you know we'll talk about some of those lessons that could have been learned in a moment but let me ask you this the u.n. agency the world health organization were saying earlier this week declared the latest outbreak an international health emergency 1st of all what does that mean in terms of international support and response well hopefully we'll start to see more international attention and leadership on this crisis one of the big turning points of the 2014 crisis when was when international figures like president obama prime

minister of japan the u.n. secretary general when they really got involved the world community the leaders need to treat this as a merchant see it is and in unless we see that international leadership the crisis is going to continue to get worse the way chose declaration of international public health emergency is a important step but i think it should have been done months ago still ahead on the al-jazeera news hour we'll tell you more on why the former president of kurdistan has been formally summoned for a 3rd time. and rugby league in australia gets its 1st female referee peter we'll tell you how she thought on coming up in sports.

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describes as violations of international law it follows a ruling by a court extending for another 30 days the detention of a captured iranian oil tanker. south africa as a corruption watchdog has found president cyril ramaphosa dilip. parliament over. unfortunate. former south african president drawn from a corruption. but has now decided to take. on the kurdish region of northern iraq. in the killing of a diplomat. deputy consul general was shot dead on wednesday by a. member of the armed group. let's get more on our breaking news iran's claim that it's the british or all tanker in the strait of hormuz. joining us on the telephone from to her on what more are we hearing from the iranians. there really they just released a statement

a short while ago saying she is the british oil tanker in the strait of hormuz on friday and they haven't specified anything else at this stage is just said by late at the international law in the strait of hormuz they haven't specified exactly what that means they said they will release more information but of course this comes at the right. kind when pensions are very very high in the strait of hormuz and again you have had a very serious diplomatic dispute with the british government over the seizure of the iranian oil tanker rates one in the strait of gibraltar on july 4th and on siding with the court there was the really the it's easier for another 30 days and the iranians are really hoping that that would not be the case but all this has come at a very very critical time being in such tide that there would be repercussions that they will not stand for the seizure of their oil tanker and today apparently this

incident to further escalate the tensions that exist between the iranians and the british government in the trade of hormuz i know this is a very much a breaking news story and a developing story right now door some but are you getting a sense at all that this could really escalate much further. of all that would depend on the response from the british government back for the evening in paris with something that is not. the most for the people in the country ok really defense minister the foreign minister the president and even the supreme leader on learned they commented on the tanker that were seized by the british navy in the strait of gibraltar saying that they would not be it would not go on respond that. many analysts here believe that the iranians that would respond in some way shape or form but that they think see here now 0 is really the most extreme with.

if in fact it is to that incident but really the raincoats that that they 5 are responding to a violation by the british tanker in that strait of hormuz they have yet to say what that violation specifically is when they do they will surely be swift reaction by the british government yeah ok for the time being doris i thank you for that update from tehran let's not get reaction from britain and bring in emma hayward she is joining us from london so presumably all thord is looking at this incident very closely emma what are you hearing. well the u.k. ministry of defense says it's seeking urgent clarification urgent information to try to clarify to exactly what has happened to this ship the stener imperio and its owners stead of a northern marine management have also issued a statement saying that 1500 g.m.t. it's vessel was approached by a number of smaller unidentified bethel's and

a helicopter and it is now moving towards the north of iran and they have lost contact with that ship now of course that is going to cause a great deal of alarm here it is not entirely unexpected the u.k. government had been saying to its ships operating in the straits of hormuz that they must be on their guard for any potential attack yeah man we're just getting news as well that the operator of the oil tanker that it's unable to as you were saying actually the operator of the oil tankers as it's unable to contact of the ship when it was approached by helicopters and vessels in the straits of hormuz talk to us about the the recent tensions between the united kingdom and iran particularly in the strait of hormuz. well the u.k. had raised its level to critical asking its ships to be on their guard because of

a potential attack coming from iran and it's interesting actually just going back to the statement from the company it doesn't say that their vessel was operating in international waters i think they will be very very concerned about their crew tonight where are they what is happening to them but really since the incident in the straits of gibraltar the has been a very angry rhetoric coming from to around towards the u.k. and you brought to which as dorothy was explaining has now extended that period to which it will hold that ship ok emma hayward thank you for that update from london let's get more contacts on all of this and speak to richard white is a security analyst that that's a global risk consultancy he is joining us from washington d.c. thanks very much for speaking to us on the news hour your reaction sir to this breaking news story that iran has captured a british oil tanker there arabian sea for not following international maritime

regulations what do you make of this development. it was your package said this is something we anticipated would occur one in 3 separate coal action for the seizure of the iranian oil tanker that was heading to syria off for baltar but more broadly this is just the latest in a series of these kind of sub conventional forms of provocative moves in other words our ran like russia and china north korea sees a weakness in the western defenses if they go ahead and seize another country like iraq did with kuwait well then they bring the entire western armies on against them in a conventional war that they will lose but when they gauge in these kind of proxy attacks or interfere with shipping are shoot down a drone that claimant and their waters are seize a tanker it's difficult for the west to respond so president trump i can see has

a genuine dilemma do you engage in an airstrike on rainin territory in response to this or do you go to try for an international coalition or reach out to the reins directly and so on so this is unfortunately going to continue because iranian see this is a useful way to raise the risk of escalation and put pressure on the u.s. and britain to back down from the sanctions and so on and so we need to think more clearly about a good response to this from the point of view of the west and and just on this particular incident though do you expect it to escalate we were speaking to emma hayward from london our correspondent she was saying all 4 of these they're looking very closely at this this incident that's just happened how do you think the u.k. is going to react. well most likely there will be diplomatic responses that will be perhaps statements of solidarity with your piano

in washington countries it's possible the british may see an opening to for example spend and send in our special forces to seize the ship back and so on but that's risky and it depends on the iranians making a mistake and we know that earlier. just a couple of hours ago in fact to the state television released a video which says shows a u.s. warship filmed by a drone because the u.s. had claimed that one if its warships had brought down an iranian drone the iranians say well no take a look at this video it didn't happen i know you've seen the video. does the video supports that theory we're playing it on our screen right now it's too it's not possible to tell it's too easy to dr these things so you know this is it reminds me of this fuel we had when the rain shot down and draw and they

said it was over their territory the pentagon said no it wasn't it's difficult for us as outsiders to prove but it does it is part of this law along this basic i think a reigning strategy they mention of trying to get this point of not escalating a full scale war but not basically sitting back and waiting for the sanctions to take effect and so i think we're going to see this kind of mid-level confrontations continue for a while but how do you explain the very divergent and conflicting stories on this particular drone and what happened the iranians say all of iran's drones were safely brought back to base the americans categorically saying no well we brought it done and we have very clear evidence that it was down but the americans have not provided any evidence. well i guess you know in this specific case it's bit too early to know for sure but on the iranian side they clearly don't want to say that they are other forces are vulnerable to us. against their drones or that they

take provocative actions the american side there may be a desire to protect sources and methods of intelligence or it's just useful for the united states to say look in the rain and shut down one of our grounds now we shot down one of their so these kind of trying to step back and rather than any of these particular incidents think broadly about the what the what the the challenge we're facing here in the gulf ok richard writes we thank you very much for joining us from washington and just a reminder that we've been following this breaking news story out of iran where the revolutionary guard say they've captured a british oil tanker in the straits of hormuz these are the latest pictures we're getting of the steno in piro vessel it was seized for what iran describes as violations of international law more on the story a little later on al-jazeera well the dutch supreme court has upheld a ruling that the netherlands was partially to blame for $350.00 deaths in bosnia

massacre let's cross over to marion in our european broadcast center in london for more on that story. yes thank you very much terry in the court ruled that the dutch state has a very limited liability because the peacekeepers it says had a slim chance of actually preventing the massacre the dutch had been guarding a un safe side when it was overrun by the poles and in subs in 1905 during the breakup of the former yugoslavia $8000.00 less than men and boys were killed by palestinian forces the dutch supremes also reduce the degree of state identity from 30 percent to 10 percent angering the bereaved relatives of the victims paul brennan has this report. the bereaved relatives of the mothers of srebrenica group of 40 for more than 2 decades for justice emerging from court they were bitterly disappointed. i'm shaken i'm surprised but i will never forgive them i will never

let go of this. part of charlie's server need surgery line 1905 a crisis became a massacre thousands of terrified muslim civilians crammed into the u.n. compound seeking refuge and when serbian forces entered the town for 400 dutch un peacekeepers were outgunned and outnumbered women and men were separated and the early 8000 men and boys were taken away and murdered the supreme court case focused on 350 muslim men with the dutch peacekeepers had handed over to the serbs despite knowing the man would probably be murdered but the judges estimated that the men would have had only a 10 percent chance of survival even if they'd been allowed to stay inside the un compound the outcome is that the state bears very limited responsibility in the case of the mothers of subject matter. that responsibility the liability is limited to 10 percent of the damages suffered by the remaining relatives of $350.00 male

refugees who are staying at the compound of dutch but the dutch case is regarded as groundbreaking in establishing that governments can be held liable if the peacekeepers they send on un missions fail to protect civilians during armed conflicts but it's also being legally controversial on the dutch advocate general had called the liability irrational the claimants believe it's the 10 percent decision that's a rational are and they are whatever those that are called they admitted 10 percent of liability but that still means that the admitted responsibility of the defense ministry of the netherlands and their government are responsible for genocide and it doesn't matter one percent 10 percent or 100 percent they are responsible it's not clear what level of financial compensation the relatives might finally get that will be decided in a separate court case paul brennan al-jazeera elsewhere in the region kosovo's

prime minister is resigning for a 2nd time because he's been called to appear in front of a war crimes court in the netherlands next week i wish deny it was a rebel commander in the kosovo liberation army it went on to become prime minister it resigned from his 1st stint in the job in 2005 when he was indicted by the u.n. war crimes tribunal for the former yugoslavia which tried and acquitted him twice he's now called on kosovo to hold a snap election to find a replacement for him wrong or can one learn. from this moment we are in resignation as a government the reason is that they have been invited to be questioned as a suspect by the special court where i will appear next week saw i consider that they cannot go to the question who is the head of a governor but as an ordinary civilian as a revolutionary. now in all the stories we're following the german chancellor has insisted she is fit to carry out her role until the rest of her term in office which ends in 2021 despite speculation over her health angle merkel has been seen

suffering several bouts of shaking in public in recent weeks the conservative leader who turned 65 on wednesday has been in office since 2005 she said she understands the concerns but insisted she is feeling good it's meant as a person i also have a high personal interest in my health because 2021 is the end of my political work but then i hope that there will be another life and i would like to continue that healthy on this from dominic came in berlin questions 1st emerged about uncle america's health several weeks ago when she suffered a bite of shaking during the initial ceremony welcoming a head of government to the german capital of the time she shrugged off the suggestions of her poor health saying it was dehydration but repeated instances of shaking during official visits had renewed speculation about her health.