history from the german empire to the press. starting. with the pressure on south africa's president to resign increases. allegations of corruption also on the program. i'm going to battle says she will stay on. despite taking flak from her. critics say she's making

too many concessions. russia stops the search for clues about the passenger plane crash near moscow this week. welcome to the program the leaders of south africa's ruling african african national congress are meeting to decide the future of the country's embattled president pressure on jacob zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as leader by the country's deputy president cyril ramaphosa some to five year old zuma has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine he's currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred eighty three corruption charges if he refuses to step down president zuma could face another no confidence vote in parliament or impeachment. double correspondent christine can tell us more christine what are we expecting is

that so they're meeting now what are we expecting to in about three hours now and what are we expecting to come out of today's music we will know today if president jacob zuma is going to be pushed out of office or if he's going to jump essentially . has been holding talks and negotiating with jacob zuma and we will know today if those talks have yielded fruit if the two gentlemen have managed to reach an agreement although if president jacob zuma has resisted all pressure to to step down and resign voluntarily and that then means the party is forced to take this to parliament because that is the only place that a party can impeach a sitting president and when they get to parliament they have two options they can two routes that they can take they can either table emotional confidence or they can go the route of impeaching the president ok so that's the big stick resign nicely or will go to parliament trying to kick you out seven hundred ninety three.

corruption charges one wonders why we see has chosen now to go after him well up until now it hasn't been an issue for the a.n.c. support has been has been solid for jacob zuma in fact a lot of the elections that they've won before was because of this man's brand he had somehow managed to to get those charges pushed out of his way just before coming becoming president but it was last year when the constitutional court dealt in a blow and effectively said that those charges should stick that they were dismissed irrationally and that they should stick but what's happening now is the a.n.c. realizes that the zuma brand has cost this party a lot of support and this is the time that they want to get rid of them especially because south africa's of general election next year taking zuma and having him still being associated with the party is bad for the a.n.c. and the hints the pressure to have several come in now and start doing the groundwork in terms of buying south africans of support for the agency. so sir robert is currently deputy president he's out leader of the party he's sensed used

in fact to be deposed zuma from a position of what ward around oppose a presidency look like well for starters you know you're looking at a man at let me give you a bit of a profile of this man this is he comes from the nelson mandela school of politics so to say this man was expected to take over from nelson mandela last minute promising to face him that didn't happen eventually but i mean here we see him in the picture theory is women holding the microphone and then he's closely associated with them and in a brand so as we clean sort of record if you will when he didn't become president he went into business and that kept him off the political scene and so a lot of the political scandal and and all these things that could damage a politician's career he's not had to suffer and so he's come back one of south africa's richest men and people think oh he's not in it for the money surely he's going to come into this office and it's going to be about cleaning up this country getting rid of corruption and and we've seen it i mean by the fact that he's denied any sort of immunity not that it's his to give but he's made it very clear that i'm

not going to give this president any immunity that he should face is jane koch well when they cut you off they really cut you off. beyond the political wrangling south africa's economy is suffering so what is cyril reposes plan well sir has has told south africans that i know the business community and it was confirmed when he was announced the president effectively making him president and way to the markets reacted so positively to that people trust him in that he's got good business ecumenism good negotiator he comes from the field of law so people are very optimistic about the fact that he's going to repair the south african governments relationship with the business we saw that relationship deteriorate so badly and assume that we can say today but the corporate sector is sitting on billions of dollars not investing into the economy because they don't trust the system it on the station they have embraced sort of a pause this is why if we can say the man in charge is going to take care of the country's economy for us christine want to thank you. first interview since

clinching a deal for a new government germany's chancellor has crossed rumors that she will step down to make way for a new generation of leaders are going to macro has faced growing dissent from her party actually struggle to form a new coalition government. angela merkel defied her critics and prime time t.v. vowing to see the coming legislative period through. the four years what a help promised and i am one of those people who keeps their promises. merkel has come under criticism from within have party funding key ministerial positions to the social democrats and for disregarding young c.d.u. talent. there's frustration among the rank and file i've been hearing that every day for the past three days nonstop. i think we need a big team of younger people but also older ones a mix of new minds and experience ones and if we can manage to present ourselves as

a team at this party conference then it will be a successful party conference. it should be clear who the ministers will be by the sea to use upcoming party conference on february twenty sixth the chancellor has promised that they will include young up and coming politicians. let's get more obvious from kraus us from is a political scientist from bowden's a humble to university welcome to d w this is a chancellor who doesn't do interviews so what's behind this interview i think it's because she was really or she still is on a lot of pressure not only from the voters from the citizens but also from her very own party from from the other politicians in the conservative party so how much it's true i mean she's definitely not in as much trouble as want to chill for example or any other s.p.d. candidate right now but still i mean is specially for her as you special for the

relationship between the conservatives and merkel it's a really difficult time for her because usually she has been seen as sort of the the very most important person in the c.d.u. but right now other people are coming up and trying to follow her but the deal with the s.p.d. involve giving the social democrat democrat some some key ministries including finance foreign ministry and justice government a coalition necessarily means doing that so why is this being seen as a loss for the conservatives because i mean they had this time they really had to give up a lot of these very important ministries and especially the finance ministry that was really important in the last couple of years especially with regard to the european union right so the austerity politics within the european union so right now i think. the members of the conservatives are rather unhappy with the

distribution of ministries especially because the c.d.c.'s you actually got the interior ministry so there's not a lot of these very important for us left or for the c.d.u. such so the leaders of the conservatives and the s.p.d. have agreed this deal is that it now is the deal done. definitely not let's i mean we still have the party convention from the conservative party and then most importantly we have the. referendum off the s.p.d. where they have to approve the coalition agreement so we'll see what happens then yes when you cross thank you. dallas take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world egypt's army says it has killed twelve is the missed militants and detained ninety others after gun battles in the northern sinai region the operation was part of a government campaign against insurgents blamed for a string of attacks in the area security forces said the latest strikes have

destroyed dozens of military militant targets. liberia's ex president ellen johnson sirleaf has won the most him prize for african leadership the five million dollar award recognizes her efforts to rebuild liberia following two civil wars a confidence first elected female leader left office last month after serving two terms. by russian investigators searching for clues about the cause of an airplane crash on sunday outside moscow killing all seventy one people on board the subtleties of airlines regional jet disappeared from radar screens about four minutes after takeoff russian president vladimir putin has ordered a special commission to lead the investigation. they're battling the biting call to find answers to want to brush his worst ever plane crashes but what the site covered in six no is like looking for a needle in a haystack. nearly one thousand people as well as drones and snowmobiles have been

deployed to comb through the icy fields. we plan to continue the main stage of search and rescue operations fist seven days. the wreckage is scattered across a very large area the snow is heavy and the terrain is difficult it was very nearly a year for. the plane came down just outside moscow minutes after taking off for the southeastern city of course all sixty five passengers and six crew members were killed three children were among the dead. what exactly caused the crash about whether technical failure or human error c.c.t.v. footage caught the fatal last moments. something like a firework and then it fell and there was a big explosion. but authorities say they received no distress signals as the search operation continues investigators believe one of the black boxes found on

the site could provide some answers. brian and on sunday both teams were desperate to avoid being dragged into the relegation zone the home side. max cruiser and his braman teammate surrendered a two goal lead in midweek such slip ups must be avoided if they want to stay on as an laver couzin they got off to a flier against wolves go back in the news of a cheese capes corner powered home by need vic augustin sent. the hosts looks out for the fight even when they were clearly punching above their weight. but sometimes football's as much about beauty as it is brute force marianne hines was present that. his stunning doubling brains lead it was no more than they deserved for their first half dominance. even then it wasn't pretty as captain pools were

hard needed to attempts to school. the drayman weren't going to repeat she's days mistake and counter to good effect to see all the way kinds again on target. it was a critical finish from the austrian midfielder running braman a crucial three points iness vital bit. elsewhere struggling struggles are hoping for a new dollar and a new coach typhon cut of cuts who took charge of his first home game against my back but still got the rest of the season is all about avoiding delegation and sunday saw the win some folly of all parts. when bowled in his first time game starting with both daniel gain jack and mario gomez up top and it paid off in the fifth minute gomes set up to inject and he fired home to make it one nil to stuttgart. but i keep it severe physical left with no chance. to

organize i had a chance to equalise for got back but he failed to connect properly still got right in their luck to reach halftime in front. of proton rafael in a bid to pep up their attack in a second half and the brazilian had one of his trademark shots from range but in the stuttgart goal was equal to his effort. the visitors had more of the ball but most of the threat came from set pieces substitute your sadr image missed their best chance to equalise stuttgart managed to keep their opponents at bay to win in front of their own fans for the seventh time this season. it's a massive we're happy with the points they're important they put a shine in the point we won last week in a successful first home game for coker but got bashed crisis goes on. it's time to recap our top story at this hour the leaders of south africa's ruling south african national congress are waiting to decide the future presidents of jacob zuma could.

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