posts in american history from the german empire to the present. starting february eighteenth. this is g w news live from for lent the pressure on jacob zuma to resign increases the south african president's party b. and c. is meeting to decide his future as he faces multiple allegations of corruption and . also coming up to used to be the president of georgia then mikhail saakashvili joins the ukrainian government then he became

a protest leader now he's been deported to poland we are at kiev to find out why. and the second in command of british charity oxfam resigned after it emerged that oxfam aid workers paid for prostitutes while working in haiti. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the leaders of south africa's ruling party the 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 a.n.c. leader by the country's deputy president cyril ramaphosa the seventy five year old zuma has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine he is currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred and eighty three corruption charges and if he refuses to step down the president could face another

no confidence vote in parliament or impeachment. for more let's bring in jacki sailors' executive director of the institute for security studies at the tory i thank you so much for joining us what are you expecting from today's meeting. where we are all also africans i think should be anxiously watching the television to find out to get some idea of what is happening but i think it's pretty clear that prison zumaya were resigned it seems like there's a great degree of brinkmanship being played at the moment in actual fact that as zuma saying if you don't exceed to the demands that i am making whichever they are with regard to payment of future legal fees then in a sense i'm going to force you to. take me to parliament and have a new vote of no confidence which would do the governing a.n.c. quite a lot of damage but the reality is that nobody really knows the national executive

council is in a closed meeting this so phones have been taken away and we're all sitting watching and waiting this is been a drama that's more than a week of day on day negotiations and discussions and zuma has certainly surprised before he is like a cat with nine lives lost certainly how high do you think that the chances are that he might decide to tough it out. i don't think he can do that the support and the a.n.c. in december last year the a.n.c. had the national executive council and by a narrow margin so little hope then deputy president of the a.n.c. won but since december power has shifted quite significantly in favor of incoming president sort of mccoy's up every day that passes policy to away from jacob zuma and he knows this so it seems like he's going forward and backward

trying to play hardball politics but at the end of the day the ainsley can simply wait this out and they can say listen mr zuma we're going to take you to a vote of no confidence in parliament the n.c. have gone to two hundred forty six out of four hundred seats in parliament so it's something that they can do but it will do them significant damage ahead of elections in twenty nineteen what to south africans make of all of this wrangling i mean is this being seen as internal a.n.c. politicking or is this really a battle for the soul of the country it is increasingly becoming a republic or friction of the extent to which the a.n.c. africa's oldest liberation party is split and divided and the internal fighting within the a.n.c. is split over the opposition parties the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters the two major parties in parliament of course seizing on this

opportunity calling for a vote of no confidence and insisting on marches and and even court action to force the the a.n.c. to come to a conclusion because they are exploiting this opportunity in knowing full well that the more dimage they can do to the a.n.c. now with a bit of their chances in twenty nineteen or the national generally elections. dr jackie sailors' executive director of the institute for security studies and for toria we thank you so much for joining us this evening to tell us a little bit more about the situation there in south africa at this hour it's let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world liberia's next president ellen johnson sirleaf has won the most ybor heene prize for african leadership a five million dollar award recognizes her efforts to rebuild the country following two civil wars the continent's first elected female leader left office last month

after serving two terms. egypt's army says it has killed twelve islamist militants and detained about 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 say that their latest air strikes just story dozens of militant targets. a train crash in the central austrian town of nicholas stores has killed one person and injured more than twenty others police say that one train hit the side of another in the train station the cause is being investigated. in her first interview since clinching a deal for a new government germany's chancellor has quashed rumors that she will step down early to make way for a new generation of leaders angela merkel has faced growing dissent from her own party as she has struggled to form a 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. and 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 but. 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 well it's time

now for some sports news because struggling stood guard to are hoping for a new dawn under a new coach typhon couric but he took charge of his first home game against much and stood guard the rest of the season is all about avoiding relegation and they managed some valuable points on sunday have a look. when bowled in his first home game starting with both daniel and mario gomez up top and it paid off in the fifth minute gomes set up again jack and he fired home to make it one nil to stuttgart. by keeper to be a circle left with no chance. to organise i had a chance to equalise the glass back but he failed to connect properly still got right in their luck to reach halftime in front. of proton raphael in a bid to pep up their attack in a second half and the brazilian had one of his trademark shots from range but run in the stock got 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 mess we're happy with the points they're important but they put a shine on the point we won last weekend with a successful first home games of course but got bashed crisis goes on. well canada has won gold in the team figure skating on day three of the winter olympics and kyung chang four years after a disappointing second place in sochi the ice dancing superstars scott moore and tess of virtue won their three dance event to give canada the win this after patrick chan had excelled in the men's free skate to give the team a comfortable lead over the olympic athletes from russia and the united states who finished second and third respectively. these allegations are standing

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 the village that was rented for them by oxfam employed prostitutes and the other. asians 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 bad and 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 like oxfam said that the 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 and that was our correspondent burgomaster been with us a short while ago she was a labrador on one of our top stories that's a top executive from the british charity oxfam which as we heard mention has resigned over allegations of sexual misconduct by some of its staff in haiti the deputy chief executive penny lawrence said that she was taking responsibility for the organization's failure to react to internally various concerns those allegations center on seven oxfam in four years said to have used prostitutes including some who were under age while working in haiti after the twenty ten earthquake concerns about some of those staff members were raised even before they started working in haiti oxfam has denied covering up the allegations. well

ukraine has thrown mikhail saakashvili out of the country the former president of georgia moved to ukraine became a ukrainian citizen and then became an anti-corruption campaign when he fell out with the country's president petro poroshenko identified men in army uniforms grabbed him for me from a restaurant earlier on monday he was then taken to an airport and put on a plane to poland the country in which he illegally entered from which he legally entered ukraine last year he is now landed in poland where he has been granted entry because his wife happens to be in the e.u. system there. for more let's bring in t.w. correspondent ikhlas connelly who joins us on the line now from ukraine's capital kiev with the very latest and nicholas we've heard reports of some dramatic developments tell us what more you know about this mysterious case. proceeding

fairly well we're just outside president or sinkers presence in this direction here there are hundreds of people out protesting on a very very cold evening there was a fight between. god and the president in the face of this before the dear old. carol but it's certainly been a day full of drama here because you don't seem to be. drawn. right downtown p.s. without much warning. he's rushing for main roads trying to kill it leaving the country but it turned out it was too late by the time they got there he was already on a private plane heading for the difficult to remember why so many people from out extremely the state that's the district if you can in the distance it while the poor law had to come in illegally get involved some of. the pretext ukraine government even them in place that you care to leave it appeals. to them.

yeah they say that they have deported him but he claims that he was kidnapped who is to be believed nicholas. grant definitely there's a certain defeat to go to the sense. that the people who are wearing for purposes uniforms these are people in camouflage uniforms and they sent out the. ukraine photographs of this he did say that since you gave one support over one of the flame he was. explaining on something to him there is going to be some form of equal procedure but that made it. pretty central crane here clearly this afternoon here in the restaurant in the middle of all of for three more monday off right and nicholas we just have thirty seconds here but if you could just tell us briefly a little bit more about the background because i mean there was a big falling out between saakashvili and poor shank all right what is his role currently in ukraine are you here you are courting on three. different reports in

georgia but then for center of the city we're actually going to be friends that they can sell out and that's actually been trying to bring people out of the street to bring for cinco to bring about a person to get in and it is definitely story that is not one of political and i'm sort of the last check in the place so a contentious relationship there and as we can see now he is now in poland apparently we will see if he tries to make his way back to ukraine you're watching news. thanks for watching. we may come home but we watch all of this and at that time we are the same system this. continent's future. are going to enjoy some stars as they share their stories. and. this is seven percent of these classes are for sure.