people are especially angry. jane and sue has failed the. people in. south africa's president says he will ask for a judicial review of a report by the country's corruption watchdog on friday serum apostle was accused of deliberately misleading parliament about a campaign contribution the public protector said the president failed to tell the truth to parliament when he denied knowledge of a $35000.00 donation from him to miller has the latest from pretoria. president has responded to the report by the public protector's saying that it's fundamentally flawed and not based on fact and this is after he responded to some of our questions earlier this year and according to his statements he's released he says that it's unfortunate that she's decided to to issue the strip or to given that he had concerns around it he has said that he is now seeking an urgent

judicial review and it will be up to the courts to decide if this report stands it's also worth remembering that the public protector has had a record of having some of the reports overturned by the courts given that there were issues around the legality and perhaps some of the foundations that these reports were written on the president says this is the case once again now is not dealt specifically with the accusations leveled against him by the public protector that he was that he lied when he responded to a parliamentary question around the donation his campaign when he was running for president of the african national congress when that campaign took place but he says that the courts will now decide the public protector had to prescribe some remedial action in that the report should go to the parliament's ethics committee for review and possibly investigation and also the president should be investigated for money laundering she says she has evidence that this is the case amounting to

perhaps $28000000.00 the president says that the report shouldn't stand as it is and instead the court should decide what happens next are less speak to. this she is a political analyst and human rights activist with a special focus on african governments and development and is via skype from johannesburg very good to have you with us on al-jazeera what do you make of the position taken by president obama or so was he convincing in responding to the allegations made by the public protector. yes i think so i think he's being quite rational in view of what he views or turns as an irrational report and one that is fundamentally flawed according to his legal advice so he's been quite rational he's saying that there is recourse within the law he's saying very clearly and emphatically that he has the will respect for the public protector's office that this is not

a person of attack on the personal. rather. poor review port given that his legal advice is that that it is factually incorrect would you say the actions of the public protector op and let's take a motivated given the divisions that we're seeing currently within the african national congress yes i would say that they are probably politically motivated given that in the last few weeks we've seen a concerted effort from the so-called fight back component of the and see who are resisting investigations into state capture investigations into corruption at the moment there are 2 big commissions running in south africa as you probably know what interstate cab trip which former president zuma has been appearing this past week and the other one into the public investment corporation which is one of the biggest investors in south africa and is responsible for investing government

pensions which is a huge amount of money of course. a judicial review of the public prosecutor protect us findings. find anything achieve anything you think what will the report be overturned as has been the case for other reports by the public protector. it may be overturned it may also just be found to be flawed in this or it may be upheld one can never tell we have a very thankfully very independent judiciary in this country so it's a question of wait and see but since mr rudd oppose that has asked for this to happen as a matter of urgency one assumes from that that perhaps he wanted to happen within the 30 day period which the public protector has given parliament to respond also because there are indications that with only in fees problem interest caucus particularly there are perhaps those who are particularly leaning towards the fight back against so-called state capture and therefore against the current president

regardless of the outcome i mean the political climate in south africa right now is a tense one with allegations that the a.n.c. is divided how much damage do you think this is going to run the pasar and the african national congress as a whole. i think already it has done untold damage to the african national congress many people have lost faith in the ruling party even those who are longtime supporters of the a.n.c. certainly under the administration of president zuma are and the increasing evidence at the time of great capture of the extent to which corruption had pervaded the public service became very disenchanted with the and see if a gargantuan task of almost around because that and his allies to try and rebuild trust in the party but it's also a huge challenge to rebuild what is now essentially

a real knight but it's not essentially a very very divided party it's a party that was always a broad church of interests and the issues of corruption and state capture have really shown clear cleavage is within its political framework whether the center can hold or not is of course the big question rebel mr m. oppose that can succeed in the self declared mission to reunite the party remains to be seen i would be interesting to see how things develop thank you so much for speaking to us great great to get your thoughts on this i should be joining us now from johannesburg. plenty more ahead on this al-jazeera news hour including. attacks on a police station and a hospital in pakistan killing at least 8 people and injured several of us. the u.s. secretary of state is in mexico city with immigration at the top of his agenda and

in sport manny pacquiao goes back the years in a boxing ring to the delight of his fans we will have the story coming up. thank. you craniums have been voting to elect a new parliament snap election was called by the country's new president voted me as an entity after his landslide victory in april let's go live to miami magazine our european broadcast center in london for more merriam. i there fully yes that's right polls have now closed across ukraine and early indications so far that the president has strengthened his hold on power according to exit polls then ski's servant of the people party is expected to get 43.9 percent of the vote in a distant 2nd place at 11 and a half percent is opposition platform for life which is co headed by ali got victim in-vitro a close ally of the russian president vladimir putin only 3 other parties exceeded

that 5 percent threshold which they need to win seats the party headed by the man selenski beat in april of former president petro poroshenko and his european solidarity party is projected to take just 8.9 percent fatherland headed by former prime minister yulia timoshenko is on 7.6 percent and the voice party fronted by rock star musician. but our chuck who is seen as a possible coalition ally for zelinsky is expected to get 6.3 percent. alexy horan is a professor of comparative politics at kiev academy and head of research at the democratic initiatives foundation joins us via skype from kiev so as we were saying there's a lenski has spoken about the possibility of forming a coalition with chuck's voice party this would potentially be a governing alliance headed by 2 political outsiders but would it be

a stable coalition in your view. well i see it will be stable look the problem is that coalition actually is needed all only formerly to approve. cabinet of ministers ok saw and others said even if you have a split enz a coalition it doesn't really matter for from the little boy the question is whether you will have. a stable majority which includes also those deputies who are aware that in superman that considers and while you have the clear as a result of the exit always a way bigger that sets of all together was our partners we still didn't know what i was a result in syndrome meant that considers according to some according to insiders it actually is the lives he's going to be in a lot or for

a lot of this places mr horan from from what you're saying is unless he is certainly in a very strong position as we await the final results he was elected 3 months ago on a platform for change and reform how important is this election for what he is trying to do. ok he's consolidating zapara you are right he promised a lot of reforms but we sure there's a lot of promises we are quite corpulent so it's we should see how it will go. he got things each shoes of foreign and security policy and this is very important because russian aggression is continuing against ukraine i do not predict any dramatic changes in ukraine's foreign poulos or any the shows enemy knows that morsi agree and 3 balls the e.u. and nato and more simple supporters of zilinskas party are also of the same view

and this is glamorous. because there are some aggression continues so will i do not believe the enemy of the cheaters of. creations only the forms. specifically with the forms we aren't talking with because he has a majority but his spirit is quite ill experienced so we are not to see who will be brought home in this because you green is the present village. we give it government bromine this who is not printed or dismissed by president so basically what we all saw all bristle who is the governor as you say as you say this isn't a country where all the power is concentrated in the hands of the president which is why is parliamentary elections carry so much weight we do very much appreciate your analysis thank you so much for taking the time to join us in our legacy here

on if you are now in the other stories we're following around a 1000 firefighters are battling a wildfire sweeping across central portugal after bringing 2 other blazes under control police have arrested a man on suspicion of starting a fire in the castello branco district where the fires began on saturday at least 20 people have been injured and an entire village evacuated several roads have been closed and 6 central and southern regions have been placed on maximum fire that humanitarian aid groups aid groups doctors without borders an s.o.s. mediterranean say they will resume migrant search and rescue missions off the coast of libya the groups have also launched a new vessel the ocean viking and were forced to stop the missions in december because of what they describe as obstruction by some european countries libya's coast is a main departure point for african migrants trying to reach europe. and just one other bit of news to bring in the british chancellor of the exchequer philip hammond says he will resign if johnson becomes prime minister on wednesday

johnson's rival for the premiership jeremy hunt says and no deal breaks it should not be ruled out but he's prepared to delay persons exit if required to get a new withdrawal deal however boris johnson has said that if he becomes the next leader which is likely he's willing to crash out of the e.u. without a deal if an agreement has not been reached by the end of october assuming that boris johnson becomes the next prime minister i understand that his conditions for serving in his government would include accepting a no deal on the 31st of october that is not something i could ever sign up to it's very important that the prime minister is able to have a chancellor who is closely aligned with him in terms of policy and i therefore intend to resign to theresa money before she goes to the palace to tend to her own resignation on wednesday that's it for me for now more from london later let's get back to folly and marion thank you very much for that as strikes have killed 9

civilians in syria province this video shows the moment shortly after the attack a syrian civil defense worker was among those killed it live as a last major rebel stronghold in syria government troops backed by russia have been bombarding the area for more than 2 months a suicide bomber has killed at least 6 people at a hospital in northern pakistan the attack happened in the city of daraa is mild khan soon after a gunman opened fire on a police checkpoint killing 2 offices their bodies were being brought taken to hospital when the suicide bomber struck the blast damaged emergency ward and warned of more than 20 people the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility sunday's attacks for the 1st ever elections in a nearby tribal region on saturday has more from islamabad. and what appears to be a planned and coordinated attack the target police men to police men killed at a security checkpoint after that randy wounded andy richter and were taken to

a hospital a suicide bomber was waiting there and detonated a deadly pack of explosives that killed a number of policemen at the hospital also and injured a number of civilians also including in the casualties a number of civilians killed this attack coming at a time when pakistan has just concluded a historic 1st time election and what was pakistan's former tribal region that then you get the other one pakistan has taken responsibility for this attack. still ahead on the news hour japan's ruling party brains a majority in parliament upper house but it may not be enough to enact prime minister shinzo abbes agenda plus digitally lending is how kenya's easy mobile phones that are pushing many into debt and in sport harry kane looks more than ready for the new football season p.d.l. explain.

how the heat continues to build across the middle east's no great surprises lost the clear skies always a chance of want to shout as it came up around the caucuses georgia mean you could see want to 2 shots to sliding out of the black sea world temperatures around 30 celsius the 4 by route and also for jerusalem it is the heat as you can see $4647.00 a possibility around baghdad kuwait city over the next day or 2 well quite as hot as that into afghanistan and kharaj but plenty hot enough that he 7 celsius 99 in found high he has abated slightly in concert 39 celsius if you go on through monday hopefully the winds just easing off a little bit but the winds tending to come in from the from the gulf so a little more humid than we might like so any feeling on the sticky side from time

to time little bit of cloud to just about the gulf of aden you might see want to 2 showers just creeping into the far south of yemen as a result of that possibility want to see showers along the spells of right just making their way towards the fossils of south africa through the southern capers we go on through the next day or so that will continue to build you can see there as we go on through monday 15 celsius in cape town in that state and pepping up by choose the afternoon. counting the cost of the trillion dollar. we find out why the. number of people going hungry has risen for the 3rd year running we find out. counting the cost.

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the top stories iran's foreign minister jobs a reef is accusing the u.s. of trying to drive britain into a quagmire after the seizure of a u.k. florida oil tycoon britain has written to the un security council calling for the shade street. police in hong kong have fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesters who had brought sproles hours after another largely peaceful march through the city demonstrators are trying to push the government to officially withdraw a controversial extradition bill and south africa's president says he will ask for a judicial review of a report by the country's corruption watchdog on friday a serial i'm opposed to was accused of deliberately misleading parliament about a campaign contribution. now u.s. secretary of state michael bail has recognized the progress made by mexico in stemming the flow of migrants into the united states he's visiting mexico city his latest stop on a tour of latin american countries tensions between the neighbors have been rising

as u.s. president trump continues his efforts to stop both illegal immigration and the wave of asylum seekers arriving at america's southern border and speak to my new rapinoe in mexico city. the mexican foreign minister has met with from pale what's come out of their discussions. this meeting between us secretary of state mike palm pale and mexican foreign minister is certainly a timely want to riving just one day before the 45 day deadline on that deal between mexico and the united states where the 2 countries managed to avoid slapping tariffs on mexican at exports unless mexico could rein in and curb the flow of central american migrants making their way north toward the united states the meeting that's of place here in mexico city appeared to be a very positive one both men took photographs shaking hands it appears as though they were in good spirits as though that that meeting actually produced some positive results specifically the topic of discussion between these 2 officials was

immigration is specifically again that change in policy in the united states regarding asylum seekers from central america being in eligible for asylum in the united states if they go through a in other country before reaching the united states in this case it would be something along the lines of a migrant from el salvador honduras going through guatemala going through mexico making their way into the united states and be automatically ineligible for asylum in the united states another question that was brought up again was the question of whether or not mexico is going to be designated a quote unquote safe 3rd country it appears as though it out of the foreign minister of mexico says that because of the advances in the talks with secretary of state pompei if there is no longer a need to consider mexico consider that mexico will at some point be designated a safe 3rd country so it appears at the end of this negotiation at the end of these talks it was a positive dave for both parties has mexico met the standards set by the trump

administration does stem the flow of migrants. with one day to go in that deadline and the smiles on both of these men's faces i would i would reckon that yes the the criteria have been met we can point to a few numbers we know that mexico has deployed thousands of national guard troops to both to both borders south with guatemala north with the united states but over the last $42.00 days there's been an 88 percent increase in captures of migrants for mexican authorities here in mexico that amounts to somewhere around $1000.00 captures of migrants every single day this is something that even u.s. vice president mike pence has spoken about saying that mexico is doing more to stem the flow of migrants into the united states than democrats are doing to to address the issue of immigration in the united states ultimately however it's going to be up to president trump it's going to be up to the trumpet ministration to determine whether or not that criteria has been met but judging by the tone today in that

meeting between pompei o. and evident here in mexico and looking at these numbers that appear to be successful in terms of curbing the flow of migrants heading into the united states it appears as though the create here has been met to thank you for that money wrap an eye for us in mexico city. negotiations between the u.s. and china to end a yearlong trade war may resume soon after donald trump said his treasury secretary had a great hall where this chinese counterpart it comes as china confronts its biggest slowdown in economic growth in nearly 3 decades when he has more on how this will affect the communist party's future policies. for thousands of years people in china have been gathering around tables trying to outsmart each other in the game of mahjong it's increasingly caught on around other parts of the world to a source of pride for experts in the game teach foreigners visiting the chinese capital beijing this game bring people together you know during this game it's not

about a winning but if a player does want to win they need to strategize something china's communist party has done very well to survive and succeed in the late 1970 s. the party changed its strategy of isolation to modernization by opening up to the outside world. by embracing capitalist ideals of business and trade china became the factory of the world with the 2nd largest economy behind its current trade war enemy the united states but economically china is slowing down recording its lowest quarterly growth in 27 years and the world is watching what happens next the great wall of china was built primarily to keep invaders out the greatest fear of today's rule is the communist party is of domestic political instability which could lead to their overthrow that's why they know they need to continue to reform and develop the economy to ensure most people have jobs and an opportunity to improve their

lives the theory being that as long as it's delivering those things it can run the country largely the way it wants continuing to restrict free speech and stamp out disinter long the way. if the economy becomes stronger the party has a last incentive to change it will only change we did feel its roots challenged in the opening and the reform process only happened because the economy was collapsing if the economy grows they will think the model is successful with more than one. and it's been able to use their model to become an economic superpower while rejecting scrutiny of things like alleged human rights abuses most recently the government denounced 22 nations for signing a letter condemning china for the detention of we get muslims in shin jang province but it embraced a supporter of letter signed by $37.00 countries including several muslim majority nations that have large economic deals with china. but many chinese believe there's

a lack of understanding about this country and its people which leads to what they say is unfair treatment by others particularly the united states they reveal that it'll look at another country the refused to look at another perspective so they only hear what they want to hear china's strategy is to be a modern powerful socialist country it's proved it's a serious player and in some cases is rewriting the rules of the game like wayne hay al jazeera beijing exit polls in japan's upper house election predicts prime minister shinzo. has won a majority of seats but abbie's victory was not enough for him to be able to rest struction is on japan's armed forces needed at least 2 thirds of the vote in order to carry out his constitutional reform plans in a speech to the nation and the victory as a vote for stability salami has more from tokyo. he thanked the people for

supporting his political and diplomatic agenda so he understands that the people are supporting amending the course and constitution but many of the people actually supported him because they were looking for stability. but i missed that i be has been office for 6 and a half years and he indeed he brought back stability to the political scene in japan after what so-called revolving door politics in which 6 prime ministers came to office within 3 and a half years many issues in this elections were economy and social issues so people. didn't actually give him a 3rd for a zation to amend the constitution but he's going to push forward with his long long time dream of changing or amending this constitution written which hasn't been changed for over 70 years since the end of the 2nd world war but he's going to need

the 164 the magic number the majority 2 thirds majority in the upper house and since his about 11 seats short of that number ethiopia is mediating talks between different factions within sudan's opposition alliance the forces of freedom and change some groups within the coalition say the deal signed with the military giunta in khartoum last week did not take their views into account here but morgan reports some advice about when to go station. for more than 2 weeks sudan's opposition coalition has been holding talks here in ethiopia to try to reach an agreement on how to form a transitional government with the ruling military junta they signed an initial power sharing deal in sudan's capital hard to last wednesday but some members of the coalition say their concerns weren't taken into account. there is actually a disparity in priorities the priorities of those who are inside not necessary the priorities of the arms group priorities of the groups of all one is how to stop the

war how to bring about the constitution of the status of these areas how to make. security are immense and at the end of the day the issue of i.d.p.'s and there are for us for the past 18 years the armed groups have been fighting the finney's government in the country's west in eastern and southern regions the would have left nearly half a 1000000 dead and displaced over $3000000.00 after the ousting of longtime ruler ahmed el bashir the armed groups joined the rest of the opposition in talks with the ruling military john town but despite the signing of a deal the opposition is struggling for a united stance but we're able to tell you we understand the concerns of the groups in the coalition and this is why we're here seeking to accommodate it in the final agreement through with that no agreement can stand without peace in areas where there are conflicts in the sudan and the armed groups they are part of our coalition and all partners in this revolution. the final agreements known as the

constitutional declaration is it to be signed that will determine the role of the various power structures in the transitional government but the final agreement cannot be signed without armed opposition approval and if that happens there are concerns that the armed groups in sudan will return to war a concern so great for the parties and the mediators that the and for and if you can mediate is between the 2 sides have joined the consultations in addis ababa i don't think clearly something very. difficult for. solved very quickly between himself whole issue the whole issue what happened was. very positive and it was a tremendous progress. in prove what was the rich and when we will be back to how we will make stick better and progress very quick. final from the cliff. asked talks continue. those back and forth some continue

to pressure the military to reach an agreement that will mark the beginning of a new face 1st to dan without were conflicts people were going on just they were. more kenyans are using mobile phone apps to borrow money but as it becomes cheaper to borrow hundreds or thousands of kenyans are ending up on the government's credit blacklist some companies are being accused of using illegal methods in europe people into debt catherine so we report. this is a hub of financial technology in africa so firey com kenya's leading mobile network launched the 1st mobile phone based load system in partnership with some banks 5 years ago since then more lenders have joined the easy access loans market do what it does it provides somebody who. wants to do business so the hostler segment able to take a loan and be able to extend the business it looks at what we call.

the ladies you can go to the market or to the 4 m. get the take a loan out for them go to market buy products and services go to a construction site cook food sell it and actually be able to to make a profit from the business and repay the loan but here is a problem many kenyans are often aware of heated charges interest rates up to 200 percent and what it means if they don't pay many people you talk to say the world. but the basic. transfer fees for their businesses other stores they use the money to place bets on sports events hoping to make a big summit meeting that they struggle to pay back their loans and end up being blacklisted by the country's credit crunch. comic conic joseph cohen jaros one of them he took out different loans with a $100.00 from several digital lenders 2 years ago he was unable to repay the loans

and now nearly $200.00 because of that he's been blacklisted by the credit trafford's bureau. i have to. buy food and took my children to school with money get businesses not been doing good even if i get $100.00 of the end of the month with all the responsibilities paying but my lawn is a little disappointed priorities 54 percent of people polled recently by the central bank in kenya bureau of statistics said they're financially status had wasn't the poll also indicates a credit reference bureau has blacklisted more than 400000 boras some $4040.00 bass littlest to dollars. back at the garage and his friends discuss how hard life has become most are repaying several loans some are on the block at least all tell us that even if the loan companies have helped them in times of need they still feel and trapped index.