has given to us. goals of this nudge in that regard to look good stretching over that i do for you don't. have a guest blog. this is the w.'s line from brolin in south africa the ruling a.n.c. party has just announced who will become the new leader to succeed jacob zuma the winner is president sarawak run poza he fought

a close contest with seumas ex-wife sana limey zuma also coming up. turkey has ordered the release of german journalist and michel tulu from prison but says she won't be allowed to leave the country. in. a very warm welcome on layla iraq in berlin joined by my colleague christine moon because in south africa the country's ruling a.n.c. has elected the country's deputy president cyril round posing as its next leader he will take over from jacob zuma we're watching here live pictures of his supporters in the jubilation voting took place overnight and it was a tight race between the two front runners ramp. roser and former minister and

costars are meanies whom are present rumors ex-wife but in the end there was ram poser who won it was it is widely regarded as a pivotal moment for the country the winner will be well placed to become south africa's next president in the twenty nine thousand general election all right and of course here with me to explore what this all means was this a foregone conclusion kristie in many ways this was several sort of race to lose we saw this when the branch nominations came through he had more branch nominations than he's contained and courses and i mean you zuma of course we couldn't go by that because there is a tendency for for delegates to change their vote when they get to the actual voting process so by and large it was expected is of course the most anticipated decision that they and he has made today many people many south africans breathing a sigh of relief after this and why who is cyril ramaphosa and what does he stand for all right. to put

a long story short for you is somebody who was in politics he was chief negotiator for the south african will for the a.n.c. around the time of the apostate he was very closely aligned and also mandela in fact he was widely expected to take over from nelson mandela when that didn't happen he went into business and he's since come back one of south africa's richest men he came back into politics five years ago and it was pretty clear then that he was positioning himself to take over and to succeed jacob zuma he came from the unions he built he co-founded one of south africa's largest union so people have created him with being a good negotiator he also has very good and strong business links like i say one of south africa's richest men he knows how to talk to industry and he's he's been saying that during this campaign season he's been talking to to industry and to business saying that you know the policies will be more business friendly the relationship between business and south african government had deteriorated and jacob zuma there. a lot of distrust oftentimes you know the private sector saying

we simply can't trust the a.n.c. led by jacob zuma as a result the private sector said on billions that they would not invest in the into the economy citing political uncertainty this was not good in a country that has a rigorous unemployment rate of unemployment rate of twenty five percent this economy was in recession not too long ago there are fears of another recession that is seen as one who's going to turn the fortunes around so to say our goals are giving him the mandate so talk to us a little bit about the practical. aspects of this because there are general elections in twenty nine t. it is president zuma going to step down and allow for him to take over what's going to happen as a very good question and the simple answer is we don't know at the last conference all of the conference before the last one sorry two conferences ago when he who was then president of the country was sorted out and zuma succeeded him he went on to step down and zuma took over as president before the election there had been rumors

in the past in the build up to the conference that if i'm close as i had not had one that zuma would be stepping down in january and now that it's there all we don't know if that's the case is the thing which it gives him right now and why he wanted his former wife to was his wife his former wife was his preferred candidate he is facing a lot of charges corruption charges among them and it was seen as if if his former wife comes in that she would shield him from that kind of prosecution he doesn't have that guarantee of immunity when it comes to sort of a he may want to stay in power as long as possible using the presidential power tools to sort of protect himself and to guarantee himself a life free of prosecution after the presidency in two thousand and nineteen art christine thank you sir over there so much i want to still ask you i hope will get the opportunity in the next version but for now thank you so much for the lightning as thanks a lot christine right there and i've got more breaking news to tell you about this time from the united states. an amtrak passenger train has derailed on

a bridge over a major highway in washington state while the accident occurred near the city of tacoma around sixty kilometers south of seattle tipping a railway cars onto the road below while a massive emergency response is underway as we speak drivers have been warned to stay away from the area and our very own carson vaughn naaman is more monitoring this breaking a vent for you from washington d.c. carson what are you hearing about this incident. well the latest that we heard is that both the local sheriff and amtrak the company the runs the train have confirmed there have been several injuries we don't know yet how severe these injuries by the apparently several people affected by this as you said at least one of the train cars dangling over

a road the i five so instead interstate five a very important commuter road leading from seattle to tacoma and from there on to a limpia and all southbound lanes of that importance roads have been closed so thousands of people are stuck there the accident happened apparently at half past seven in the morning local time on the american west coast and interestingly this was the first day that the train was operating on that track this is a new track which was builds to reduce travel times on this as i said very important routes a commuter route and so this has gone terribly wrong on the first day of course we don't know if it is directly connected to the new track but at least it looks quite suspicious all right very early days indeed reporting from washington d.c. carson phenomena thank you and of course to you viewers and we'll bring you more on

this breaking a developing story as we receive additional details but for now want to tell you about some of the other stories making news around the world right now in india the hindu nationalist b j p has fended off a major challenge by holding on to power in gujarat it's the home state of prime minister narendra modi and has been under b j p rule for two decades it was the first real test for rahul gandhi the new president of the opposition congress party . at least ten people have been killed and more than forty injured and a stampede in bangladesh a stamp. it occurred as hundreds of people rushed to get free food parcels they were being handed out to honor a popular former mayor of the town she had gone after his death. the israeli military confirms it's carried out air strikes in the gaza strip targeting a hamas training compound it's in response to new rocket attacks from the palestinian

territory militants have stepped up rocket fire since u.s. president donald trump's decision to recognize to roussillon as israel's capital. meanwhile the united states says it will use its veto power to reject a u.n. security council resolution against that very decision by the trump administration all the security council is set to vote on a resolution that would require the u.s. to rescind the president's declarations about saying a foreign minister says they will seek support of the general assembly if washington exercises its veto. turkey has ordered the release of german journalist i'm a solid tool after nearly eight months in prison but german officials say she has only been let go on the condition that she doesn't leave the country was charged with being a member of a terrorist organization and publishing terrorist propaganda following a fellow military coup in july twenty sixth. a day of celebration from

a charlotte told to supporters and legal team to move seven months in custody in turkey the judges decided to release the thirty three year old german on bail. a little bit but you know i am happy again but this has been a bad year for me i certainly won't forget twenty seventeen you will help me. mashallah totally was arrested in her apartment in istanbul in april she's since been held in a women's prison along with seventeen other defendants she was accused of being a member of the extreme left turkish communist party which the authorities classify as a terrorist organization mashallah tolu denied all the charges when the trial began in october. she should have been freed earlier even the public prosecutor asked for her release he knew the allegations against her were not sustainable. we're happy that inshallah tolu has at least been allowed out and we will continue the legal

fight to have her acquitted he rejoined the limbs of the army just the judge's decision is only a temporary release until a verdict is processed the trial is due to continue in april next year in the meantime mashallah tolu is not allowed to leave turkey are told julia han is standing by for us in istanbul julia where is michele to. well that's so really the question of the evening it has been quite an intense evening with a fair share of confusion i have to admit we have been waiting for more than three hours in front of the women's prison that she was staying in in the past months together with her supporters together with her family her father only to be told that she's not in there anymore that she's been brought to a police station the police station right behind me and now we learned she's not here either so really the big question is where is michelle the tolo and will we

see the pictures of her leaving the police station leaving prison and having her father her family again that's really the big question of this even ng but the good messages she will be set free today right so that's already been determined by the court what does her release mean for the other german prisoners. well many here many observers say that's a hopeful sign that there might be developments in the other cases as well there are at least eight or nine german citizens behind bars here in turkey allegedly for political reasons one of them being of course german turkish journalist danny is you so now of course there is hope that some movement will come into these cases as well and they will be set free eventually as well. as you are as you know these arrests of german nationals have plunged to german turkish by a lot of relations could we and i know it's early days but could we interpret this

release this conditional release as a sign that the tide might be turning. well that's what many years say it's maybe a positive sign but you have to know that the relationship between turkey and germany is really strained so it's not enough to release maybe one german citizen and then think everything will be fine again and i don't think that german officials think that way they for example have said today again repeatedly that they will continue to fight for the release of the other german nationals behind bars here and i think until the last of them is free and gets a fair trial relays the relationship will not get any better soon but horace it's it's there is hope there is hope true we are reporting from istanbul thank you.

and cricket australia have regained the ashes after suresh england in the third test in perth the victory means the hosts taken on a salable three nil lead in the series and recalling the bragging rights for one of cricket's fiercest rivalries it's also australia's seventh win in eight ashes series at home. for us we've we've just batted really well against them and we've we haven't given them a sniff except probably a session in adelaide where they're on top of us but besides that it's just been about us just betting for long periods of time and making sure we're scoring big first innings runs and we've been able to do that which is it's probably been the difference spitz really disappointing i think one of the most frustrating things is that we haven't been blown away we've not been completely outplayed we've we've put up some really good performances just not long enough simplist not really are before i let you go want to remind you of our main headline right now. a

turkish court has ordered the release of a turkish german imprisoned in istanbul but she must remain in the country michel to charged with terror offenses. you've been watching. on behalf of the entire team thank you so much for spending part of your day with us. next. with different languages we fight for different things that's fine but we all stick up for freedom freedom of speech and free.