this is. the pressure on south africa's president to resign increasing. his future as he faces multiple allegations of corruption also on the program. second in command of british charity oxfam resigns after it emerged that oxfam aid workers pay for prostitutes working in haiti. against the search for clues about sunday's passenger plane crash in moscow.

welcome to the program the leaders of south africa's ruling party of the african national congress a meeting to decide the future of the country's embattled president pressure on jacob zuma has been growing since december with him she placed in science the leader by the country's deputy president cyril ramaphosa seventy five year old zuma has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine is currently fighting in reinstatement of seven hundred eighty three corruption charges if he refuses to step down the president could face a no confidence vote in parliament or impeachment. correspondent christine. welcome christine what are we expecting from today's meeting all right so we do know that if the. two things will come out of that meeting. we will

know how jacob zuma is going to leave office is it going to be that he has voluntarily agreed to resign that would mean that him and sort of a managed to reach an agreement and that agreement will flesh out details about what happens when he leaves the presidency key things they have been for example he has demanded that the states continue to pay us legal fees for example if they have failed to reach some kind of an agreement that sort of can take to the party we know that he is then going to open up the floor for the party to recall president jacob zuma to recall him the. i've heard this and i don't quite understand how a political party can depose a president who is elected by a country that's a very good question so jacob zuma is not obliged to heed to that recall what the a.n.c. would be saying to the president is we deployed you to the presidency as a party you are a party member first and then of course we deployed you to the presidency he

doesn't have to heed that call constitutionally he can stay the president you're quite right it would force the a.n.c. to have to take the matter to parliament and in parliament they've got two options they can take the i the table a motion of no confidence against the president or they initiate impeachment proceedings the duration of that depends on which option they take and it looks like a motion of no confidence would bring the results quicker why is this happening now there have been all sorts of allegations about jacob zuma over the years and as a top eight hundred. years of corruption and so why now well this is the thing that the people the zuma supporters in the party had always insisted he's term is coming to an end i think towards the end of his image ministration is when the depression and the in the end the intensity really started to come out that we saw more than just the level of corruption the extent of the corruption that that existed and the party up to the route of he's going anyway use two terms are coming to an end let's wait for that that formality has now come. and the

a.n.c. is now under a lot of pressure he has cost the party a lot of support we saw it in the last local government election but before that really this man had been a big brand to the zuma brand of the a.n.c. really commanding a lot of support and had been at some stage one who could bring in votes for the a.n.c. and the corruption charges that you talk about. had been dropped against him conveniently just a few days before he was sworn in as president but the opposition never left that issue go and it was lost that the supreme court of appeal essentially dealt him a blow and said those charges were dropped irrationally and that they should be reinstated he appealed that he lost that appeal and this is where we are today so this is a party that has waited for the formalities so to say if only he could not heed the call briefly what would a room oppose a presidency look like anticorruption growing the economy and these all the things that south africans want sort of up was a has a very good sort of reputation and image he is associated with the the mandela school of politics so to say so people are looking at this person who's quite

a good and clean record and he is associated with the place for what the what people would call the best of the a.n.c. and he is a business person he's one of south africa's richest names of people say he's not in this for the money to to grow he has his pockets but this is somebody who really genuinely wants to come in and clean up the country and grow the economy christine with thank you. phil now a top executive of a british charity oxfam has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its stuff in eighty deputy executive probably lawrence said she was taking responsibility for the organizations a failure to react to internally raised concerns the allegations say that several of us from employees use prostitutes including some who are under age while working in haiti after the twenty ten earthquake concerns about some of the staff involved were raised even before they started working in haiti oxfam has denied covering up the allegations. let's get more from d.w.

correspondent mass in london welcome back and so untangle this for us then the deputy chief executive is growing because of alleged misbehavior or allegations of occur cover up. well i mean the fact that these allegations are standing are really quite severe you have to imagine that after the devastating earthquake in haiti for people as it is alleged for aid workers to go in and in a village that was rented for them by oxfam employ prostitutes and the allegations are under age prostitutes you know that is something that's quite severe and as it's being discussed it was known that some of these workers were already investigated internally there were already allegations that they had misbehaved in a similar way in and so the allegations as it stands is that the

information was not fully disclosed for example not to the haitian or thirty's the police and also not fully to in the u.k. for example the charity commission who oversees charities like so i like oxfam said that they had there were there were reports that there were these internal investigations and but they didn't know the full extent of what had really gone on or else they would have acted differently so at the moment it's still unclear but the allegations are really quite severe. oxfam is a huge brand it's a huge charity operating internationally it's also partially funded by the british government now that funding seems to be in jeopardy. yes it's one of the household names really when it comes to to foreign aid especially here in the u.k. and there's an oxford phone shop almost on every high street

a charity shop so it's really extremely well known and i think also held in quite high regard by the majority of british people and as a consequence of this whole scandal which you know is only just now unwrapping the international development secretary has said that she needs to see real moral leadership at the top of the organization or else that the state could not continue to work together with them for the last financial years over thirty thousand million pounds where we're given talks from so really quite large sums of money lots of small donations as well that they distribute worldwide and also the international development secretary said they are a lot of people who do really great work at a time when foreign aid anyway is being discussed and the amount of as being criticised by a lot of conservative m.p.'s it comes at a at a very a time for the organisation burgomaster in london thank you. for some of the other

stories making news around the world a train crash in the central austrian town of nicholas store has killed one person and injured more than twenty police say one train hit the side of things in the station of course is being investigated. egypt's army says it has killed twelve islamist militants and detained about ninety others are 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 their latest airstrikes destroyed dozens of militant targets. liberia's ex president ellen johnson sirleaf has won the most abraham prize for african leadership the five million dollars award recognizes her efforts to rebuild the country following two civil wars continents first elected female leaders left office last month after serving two terms. london city airport has been closed after the discovery of

a world war two bomb in the nearby river thames parts of east london area have also been cordoned off as the navy and police deal with the unexploded device and police are being asked to stay away from the area. for a very turbulent week on the markets so how are they doing today back and pretty much call it a roller coaster ride hasn't stopped it's going up and down like nothing on earth unless you're investor of course roller coaster rides aren't that much fun the last couple weeks or new york stocks down ten percent and officially entering a correction amidst wild volatility this week trading got underway with the dow jones on wall street leading by three hundred points at the start this is all back slightly to about three thirty points and certainly sparked by fears of growing inflation which could force faster than expected rate rises of the federal reserve all eyes this week will be on the us inflation figures that a jew out on wednesday if the rate tops one point seven percent it could be

a case of hang on to your hats again. well asia struggle to mount a recovery today but there was a strong rebound in european markets let's bring in ali bots he's been tracking the dax the main index of german companies in frankfurt and it's one of today's best performers only the germans know something the rest of the world doesn't. i don't know if they do but i think i think they suspect that probably the losses incurred here in the german market compared to the losses elsewhere were a little bit unfair perhaps were a little bit exaggerated when you consider the state the economy is in here in germany compared to other markets and countries that were affected by this turmoil last week and when you look at the stock market valuations which for most of the major german shares are still quite reasonable i mean they're high but they're not really overly high and i think that goes for the present situation as well but

having said that the visible thing is what the dax did better than the rest are better than most others but the traders here are just as worried as elsewhere not very many smiles here on the floor to be honest actually none because people are seeing that went down with a lot of volume and it's recovering now with less volume partly with very little volume that's a bad sign ok so you know survey of smiles on the floor bringing in a big fat zero all the what do you make of the world's biggest hedge fund bridgewater and its warning of an even bigger shakeout. this makes people nervous additionally of course these hedge funds are always active usually they're under the radar but in a situation like this they can serve to. worsen the turmoil and exaggerate in this case the downward trend and a technical analyst i spoke to said he doesn't know whether they're right either i don't either for that matter but they usually engage in this way and crease their

bets when they see the reason that the market has veered off the property been quiet too long which has been the case now it's been quiet for a very long time and seems over valuations and you do see over valuations for example and a lot of us shares believe out of the frame. stock exchange for us i hope you've got good nerves this week will be economic data thank you. lunar new year celebrations may not be as bright this time. of the government's bad fireworks of the four hundred forty four cities a victory for mentalists but the bands are taking the bang out of the millennium old business. it's known as the pyrotechnics capital of china here in the southern city of new young there's even a stop to to honor the man locals believe invented fireworks more than a thousand years ago. and produces two thirds of china's fireworks much of that

production still takes place by hand but now in an attempt to curb pollution the government's banned fireworks in hundreds of cities including in the capital beijing as lunar new year approaches shopkeepers are of freddie feeling the hit. by. the if you look around the markers you can see only a few shops remain open. i don't see many customers previously at this time of the year we used to have customers stocking up on supplies. or. fireworks are traditionally believed to drive away bad spirits and to bring good luck but the year of the dog isn't looking like it will bring much good fortune to china's fireworks industry even if it isn't quite ready to give up the ghost yes. and no work can you hope so with its latest reality t.v.

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give agriculture in kenya the boost it needs to be a long term pillar of the country's economy. and i think some of those candidates need to nail clippers well you might say so i couldn't possibly come back here now to german politics her first interview since clinching a deal for a new government germany's chancellor squashed rumors of she will step down early to make way for a new generation. of growing dissent from her own party as she 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 to help promised and i am one of those people who keeps their promises. knacker 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. conference there will be a successful party conference. it should be clear who the ministers will be by the cd use upcoming party conference on february twenty sixth the chancellor has promised that they will include young up and coming politicians. russian investigators have begun the search for clues about the cause of sunday's airplane crash outside bosco all seventy one people on board died when they sat atop airline's regional jet came down after disappearing from radar screens about four minutes after takeoff russia's president vladimir putin has ordered a special commission to lead the investigation. they're battling the biting call to find answers to one of brushes 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 is good we plan to continue the main stage of search and rescue operations fifty seven days. the wreckage is scattered across a very large area the snow is heavy and the terrain is difficult people just believe that really if your. plane came down just outside moscow minutes after taking off for the southeastern city of. 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. to sports and wind is wreaking havoc in the in the on the olympics and killed a child crying from tito his forces his talk about the effects of the weather welcome there's been a lot made about the wind so far these games will certainly yeah i mean when for lympics you'd expect it to have wintry conditions when you get a lot of people have been speaking out about safety issues because of the wind as you can see from these pictures here blustery conditions wind speeds of up to fifty miles an hour wind chills down to fifteen degrees minus fifteen degrees celsius and with several events already been postponed so the men's downhill on sunday they're women giants it's a day alpine skiing events obviously the higher up the mountains you out the window it's going to be now the i.o.c. has come out today and said look we're never going to jeopardize the safety of our athletes safety is our number one priority but they obviously think that is still

safe enough to have some advance go ahead they've also said that this should be no worries about this said joe because obviously we've had some cancellations there are some buffer time to fix everything in a big fight of buffets how the athletes been reacting well some of the athletes are quite angry because they're saying that we shouldn't be competing in these conditions and they think the event should have been canceled and for those was the snowboard slopestyle final today look at this white house all over the place. and even the eventual winner jamie anderson is we're going to see his she was also struggling every right to fight at least one of the at least one run but she was the one that came out on start she had of the conditions better than a rival successfully defending her title the slightly conservative eighty three points in the end now compared to ninety five point two five points so that kind of reflected how cautious the athletes the big but off of the race she said this is part and parcel of the sports. i feel like honestly every event i've been at this

year there's been a lot of drama about weather and snow and flat late in the safety of everything which definitely is an important role but i think when we all signed up for snowboarding it wasn't always bluebird perfect sunny days like we get in california. like her attitude a jelly having more success in the biathlon yes more success for germany more successful to fill our dow maya now where she got gold in the sprint event on saturday and because of that she had a twenty four seconds a head start going into this race she was under pressure. and of stars it could mean on the street but thankfully the shooting that so her through and she won in the end by nearly thirty seconds we can see even having time to grab the flag there if she was going down the home straight so that makes her the first woman ever actually to complete an olympic biathlon sprint and pursuit several should be going for hat trick of golds in the must start race on saturday now

a platform is one of the probably one of the most physically demanding events in the winter olympics because not only does it combine the insurance side of things with the cross-country skiing you've got to be precise with the shooting and it's very difficult to monster but it is a sport that she took its origins from the norwegian army in the seventeen hundreds when they were training ok germany not quite a successful low in men's pursuit that's right had won the sprints events on sunday like down but on like he was unable to then convert that into a win today he only had a four point four second head study eventually finished eighth but that man there you can see full of fronts he was disappointed on sunday he was one of the favorites for the spring's event only if finished eighth in the end but he's one of the sport's most successful athletes and he turned it around today where he was disappointed with the shooting on sunday he was near perfect today nineteen of twenty targets hit for him as pic gold medal some good news there for germany benefit to all go on the podium in place of bronze medal for germany just

a great thank you. this is d.w.i. reports are coming in that so former georgian president mikheil saakashvili has been deported from ukraine to poland this happened shortly after his ally said he'd been detained in a king for care restaurant by what they described as unknown kidnappers in green cab of large uniforms the information posted on the site has released the official facebook page the post included this mobile phone physician of the moment he is said to have been detained. there is no lawyer said it was not clear who was responsible was able to illegally extracting a secretary from a country he moved to you try to twenty fourteen as an ally of ukrainian president petro poroshenko the two men fell out last year and saakashvili has since led anti corruption protests against the president. let's get more from the date

of your correspondent nicholas a commonly who joins us on the line from the campus welcome nic tell us more about this it all seems a bit james bond issue really. worked it out until this has been pretty dramatically here and here we just had confirmation from the political ukraine saying the secretary has been returned to power in the country from which they say he entered ukraine illegally last summer seemingly on board probably playing we've seen of the c.r.t. supporters rushing from one to the next trying to stop this arrest and deportation there are even reports people going to the main road heading west towards poland trying to search come to find him if you go term is actually an active state the person he was stripped of his ukraine if it's in ship while he was out of country last year and he did any last two months trying to apply for asylum here those appeals cases failed in the recent weeks and he was trying to bring out the people on the streets this sunday for big protests in kiev and across the first across the

countries that had give incentives for his political opponents to try and get him out of the country both before ok so now he's in poland as a stateless person was likely to happen today. what's difficult to imagine sacristy retiring to politics isn't fifty years old and with someone who is known to really live off the treadmill in the street politics in your history to carry on as an example to see if you weakened it's important to remember the fallen wasn't the only option the table we heard from off the record from ukrainian government sources says threatening sent him to georgia his home country where he's president where he faces a prison sentence he was sentenced to three years absentia earlier this year they were definitely anxious to avoid a diplomatic clash with the west and actually western backers boiled in poland will remain to be seen but he is someone who has been good for a surprise the last few years so i wouldn't put it past him getting back into ukraine what's going. on and just very briefly. this is not the

first time he'll have clashed with all sources. but just for christmas we saw we looked at a window in office here in kiev and saw him running across the roof the first time they tried to detain will and to quote him he managed to make it will drag on so long that his force level to free him but he's definite a friendship with prison person could turn sour and very personal to something that i think won't end with his reputation today they totally thank you. that's right you're up to date small talk i'll be out in the meantime of course there's always the website that's called good.

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