it isn't like coughing on me though all that actually has to do so all actually. good luck. in high drama in south africa as president zuma defies his party's order to resign he says he's being victimized the i can't see you says he must go by the end of the day take it to parliament also on the program. israel's prime minister lashes out at the police after they say he should be charged with bribery when even that yahoo says their allegations are baseless the opposition says he should step down. the top brass of germany's social democratic party start a fresh push to persuade members to vote for a coalition deal with. failure could bring a new election for many a prospect to try to contemplate. the flying tomato lives

at the top of the podium at the winter olympics we'll tell you how american snowboarder shaun white managed call. me. i feel gail welcome to the program south africa's president is refusing to resign despite an ultimatum from his party that he leave today or face a vote of no confidence in parliament speaking on state television jacob zuma described the end sees moves against him as unfair and said the arguments are wrong . president zuma remains defiant in a live television interview he responded to his party's calls to resign i need to be friendly. on what i have done unfortunately. no one has been able to provide what is it about done where found it very strange

that. you must go. because. we now have two new president must come in. not to follow in any policy of the in c. there is nothing of that nature. early is in his party the african national congress agree to remove him his refusal sets the stage for a no confidence vote in parliament a high ranking party official said the motion is already scheduled for thursday. decided to recall residents and since taking office in two thousand and nine zuma has been accused of numerous corruption scandals including making some deals with the influential group to family on wednesday an elite police unit raided the family's luxury home in johannesburg detaining three people. the copters are accused of using their connections to the president to win lucrative state

contracts and several of the ms relatives work for the family's companies to rate the resistance i think you ought to bow to. it's about time this happened i think iran has been waiting for it to be wondering why. it hasn't happened but now that it's happening governance that's good and as i say you know about time it happened i hope any hidden secrets may come to the surface and it will give a lot of people in our country a bit of peace of mind philippe and hopes that moving forward with south africa will be a bit of an easier task not just drugs post in this war what was going on in here about her in the news and i just think it's quite a watershed moment in south africa to come in with this what's going on. soon the successor would most likely be deputy president and a.n.c. party chairman cyril ramaphosa here have to tackle rampant corruption and cronyism

to revive his party support ahead of next year's elections. let's discuss this watershed moment where for jason burke who's a journalist for the guardian newspaper he's covering the story from johannesburg welcome to day w. does jacob zuma have a point despite the with of corruption swirling around him for years he's been convicted of nothing i mean i am say haven't discovered demonstrated that he's breached any of their rules he seems only guilty of being an electoral liability. well yes and no i mean the fact that he's an electrolyte ability is based on pretty solid reasons i hasten to make to liability because in the nine years he's been running the country all the major indicators for unemployment crime infrastructure economy have been degrading pretty steadily so the last three or

four years has seen the economy basically flatlining unemployment among young people is up to some about sixty five seventy percent nobody really knows so i mean his management of the country has been pretty abysmal more broadly you're right to say that nothing is ever been pinned on him there's no conviction of corruption there are something like eight hundred counts of corruption against him the ought to be considered in the coming months almost certainly they date back to the late ninety's but more broadly he has run a system that is profoundly corrupt and that will detail by the constitutionally mandated. independent office oversight head in a report a couple of years ago state capture and that capture was by businessmen such as the coaches who were just over a rest of the day of the. of parliament of ministers i know suman self so the charges against him

a pretty serious and i don't think anybody's down saying that he's controlled his route of the country as being pretty cool and so when jacob zuma was apparent confidence come from. well i'm sure he is not confident any longer i mean if you watched his hour long rambling statement this afternoon it was a sort of justification that was based on the idea that he's being victimized and that the n.c.a. aren't following the proper part of the party procedures or getting rid of him he appeared pretty nervous actually i he was clearing his throat a lot he did not pay to beta avuncular almost junket a figure that we've seen in the past i mean when i saw him last it was just before christmas at the a.n.c. conference and they are seeing much much more comfort and there's that like a man who's got his back to the wall and i think he will almost certainly have gone if not by later tonight then tomorrow morning it will be him. ok so

unless events overtake us that the next step is likely to be a no confidence votes in palm and other a.n.c. in the operating on the opposition cooperating on this. either way also an extent i mean that they kind of coach really losing the no confidence motion was actually put into parliament by the economic freedom fighters which is a opposition party here led by a former supporter of mr xavier fight the a.n.c. would much prefer to have that motion for they want the opposition getting the credit for ousting zuma however that seems more or less was going to happen and set it up. to a maneuver basically that i manged the motion so that looks a bit more like that motion but it's going to be voted tomorrow and i can't imagine anybody is going to on the a.n.c.

side oberstein on the on the opposition side is going to oppose it is right about it so we will not but i think that will go through without any problems that jason back in johannesburg thank you you thank. here in germany the acting leader besides a left social democrats has been appealing to party members to back a coalition deal with angry macas conservatives the party will start voting on the deal next week with the final result due on the fourth of march if they reject the deal germany may have to call another election the result of the asti pesty dean vote is far from certain as the party is divided over the agreement. with the social democrats in turmoil this is the man who no has the task of picking up the pieces the s.p.d. is new acting leader shots. the hard parts behind us he says now it's time to look ahead. his immediate task is to calm the nerves of

a deeply unsettled party social issues large parts of his speech today to list the s.p.d. policies the party leadership managed to push through in its coalition agreement with chancellor merkel's conservatives. addressing supporters in the southern city of bhutto from he urged them to support that agreement and to build on what he called the espy's long tradition of approaching the future with want to miss them. then get these not to miss most up if we are optimistic if we give citizens a perspective that allows them to view the future we're going to miss them and if they bet on us as the right people to govern the country then our future as social democrats will be guaranteed and it will be a great future. by doubt i'll just bet on the growth of the big enough i'm going to ask. this all comes just a day after the resignation of former s.p.d. leader martin schultz whose position had become untenable after

a string of strategic mistakes. breathing in a positive mood into a demoralized party is no a priority with the s.p.d.m. entire membership to to vote on the coalition deal sued. in the mean time other parties have been preying on the s.p.d. as weakness with chancellor merkel's bavarian allies the christian social union c.s.u. leading the way. on obvious types of torn we're dealing with a party at the moment that cannot quite decide whether it really wants to go into government the self destructive social democrats. but it's the chaos of their party is such that we have to worry about whether germany will after all get a stable government. you don't get out. lashing out at political opponents has a long tradition of what germans call political ash wednesday the often vitriolic rhetoric doesn't usually affect the mood between future coalition partners but this

year it's all happening against a backdrop of political deadlock. dr fred so falcon's froyo is an s.p.d. member of the german parliament a welcome to d w. obvious social democrats self destructive no i don't think so but the fact that we have suffered the worst setback in elections in our party history of course have had has had its effect and has caused some unrest and some loss of confidence i think ok so it's not that you're destroying each other it's that the voters don't like you well the voters we had we didn't we were not able to convince the voters during the last elections that we have to go back there so they s.p.d. is now done they still with the. conservatives will you vote for it absolutely i think it's. a disappointment in time we have to take responsibility for the country ok that leaves that of course the a.f.p.

the right. if the as. the but as part of its main opposition voice yes i would have preferred of that could have been us but after no other constellation has emerged that could govern this country i don't think we can that things run the run their course that would be a being in power would be the least worst of all worlds yes absolutely and yet it seems so strange to people looking at this from outside that party is falling apart over the opportunity to govern why is governing germany so unappealing to so many of your party well i think we've we went into the election campaign with the goal of governing germany and we wanted to do that but we have been governing germany for quite some time and the so-called grand coalition with our main opponent with the conservatives and we have always come out of such

a coalition as the loser of the of the of the elections afterwards that is something that of course. destroys confidence before entering the next grand coalition the next constellation of the same type and that's why many people warn many party members warn us and say we shouldn't do that because the book cause us to lose yet another election and four years from now so let's go back to that area question that given that you say in the past and you go into a grand coalition you lose votes you go into another grand coalition you lose even more votes why go into another one well because we don't know what the future will bring but we believe in the light break the pattern they start ups look they were not i mean the important question is that this country has a good government and that we can put some of the public and political aims we have into effect to the benefit of our voters and yet. broaches you having at the last election lost so many votes as not voters are watching your party squabble and

fight each other before you are actually in government what will happen if you actually get in government cattle germany have a stable government if you're all at each other's throats i believe so me because we are now discussing cussing whether to enter government or not once we have made our decision we will stand together and come up with good work for the causes that mean that these are the party you're arguing your back and your knife each other and then once the decision is taken everybody says we're all friends now well not necessarily we're all friends now but we have met already we've come up with a decision and now we have to carry it we have to carry it through and that's the that's what we're going to do thanks very much for speaking to us dr fritz thank you you're welcome. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has sent that work on a new middle east peace plan is fairly well advanced he was speaking after signing a five year aid package for jordan president trump reversed decades of u.s.

policy in december when he recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. a new york judge has sentenced my condo brahimi to multiple life prison terms of planting bombs in downtown manhattan thirty year old brahimi a u.s. citizen was captured on security cameras planting the bombs in september twenty sixth no one was killed but thirty people were injured. only guatemalan president alvarado column has been arrested in a corruption investigation alongside nearly his entire former cabinet prosecutors are the united nations anti corruption body are investigating a public transit deal they say financially benefit to public service. is out of the health of the world's biggest economy but it was all in can tell us more and it's a very sensitive time so stock markets around the world are following wall street's lead and watching closely stronger than expected inflation sending u.s.

stocks mostly down in initial trading on wall street consumer prices were half a percent up in january driven by closing costs and a spike in the cost of car insurance still the movements haven't been too dramatic yet with a poll retail sales report showing some way to offset inflation fears. let's bring in ali but our financial correspondent in frankfurt well the i can see the european reaction to that economic data right hi jim. that's right and it's an astonishing reaction you just said that the retail sales in the united states being a bit slower mitigated the effect of the inflation but you know everybody was staring so decidedly and waiting so intensely and anxiously for the inflation figure when i saw that two point one percent figure i thought that's going to make the dax thank the euro stocks and wall street and the euro and that's what happened initially but it's amazing it's been a long time since i've seen

a recovery like this basically the docs being sent to jail not passing go not collecting two hundred dollars and immediately the get out of jail free card again and some people you know what do you make of this recovery inflation and rate fears of the market you know but there's scrambling themselves for a really plausible explanation but this does show is the market still really nervous but tell me why the new about rate hikes when there are merits to rate hikes if inflation is galloping away. certainly and wages also merit it and of course what's to come for the u.s. economy also speaks for higher rates higher inflation donald trump's infrastructure program should it kick in and actually have some effect but above all also those tax cuts and the fed has to act and it's taken as a given that it will raise rates in march because of the state of economy of the economy and because of the very good condition of the labor market in the united

states but it's up in the air what it does after that that's what the fears were both and there's still differing opinions on what will come one was said now it's a given that there will be four rate hikes another trader i talked to said no can't afford to do that only three. the fear might come back into the market but for the moment the worst has not happened to people imagine what happens ok so as you hear from there the fed has to. reacts it's just a question of how it will thank you. u.s. president donald trump was clear from the very beginning on how global trade should be done it should be fair and that means that america needs to benefit now he's acting on that considering a range of options including tariffs and quotas to address steel an alum in human ports he says are fairly u.s. produces. the president met with lawmakers at the white house to determine whether to slap tariffs on foreign steel imports from countries like china trump insists

that new tariffs on chinese steel would be fair and the word reciprocal is a very important word we have countries that are taking advantage of us they're charging this massive tariffs to for us to sell our product into those countries and when they sell to us zero we judge them zero. we're like to stupid people and i don't like to have that anymore so we're going to change that and we're going to make it fair and that i call that fair trade. china's foreign ministry responded by emphasizing that no one benefits from imposing tariffs. countries have such massive economies such a high volume of mutual trade and such a deep degree of joint mutual benefits so within the domain of trade to have some differences and friction is difficult to avoid but what's important is that we need to look at these with a rational and objective attitude and act in the spirit of mutual respect and fair benefits you know to have dialogue and consultation to appropriately handle and

control the matter. but trump seems to term and to follow through with his plan no matter how the chinese might try to explain the situation to him now german companies fear that they'll be the next targets of donald trump's fair trade tariffs even more so. in germany cash is still king but for how long according to the country's central bank some three quarters of purchases this still paid for in cash but bigger buys of fifty euros or more are now mainly paid with plastic still before you moan little clyne of the traditional coins and notes rest assured ninety percent of germans say they're in favor of a cashless society ok fact there's nothing like being stuck in a german sukiyaki behind the german. fear. yahoo says he will stay on as prime minister despite calls from the police for him

to be charged with bribery the year long police investigation found evidence that mr netanyahu taken money from billionaires in return for political influence the opposition has called on the prime minister to resign mr netanyahu denies wrongdoing and says the allegations are full of holes like a swiss cheese. after nearly a decade in office i mean it's on yahoo his political future has been thrown into question almost overnight on tuesday police turned it over the results of more than a year of intense investigations into the prime minister. to probe the known to israelis as case as one thousand and two thousand. case one thousand claims the ten yahoo and his family accepted lavish gifts from business people and rich friends champagne cigars and other items worth nearly two hundred thirty thousand euros in return for political favors case two thousand claims the

prime minister tried to influence the publisher of a daily newspaper in order to receive more favorable coverage. the police recommendation was a bombshell natanya who they say should be charged with bribery fraud and breach of trust. in the hours since the conservative leader has been fighting for his political survival trying to paint the allegations as a political witch hunt. it's a biased extreme documentary full of holes like swiss cheese and doesn't hold water . netanyahu has insisted he's not going anywhere but the public pressure is growing with several protests this weekend even longtime loyalists appear to be positioning themselves as a non-flying. unfortunately receiving gifts of a wide scope for so long does not meet the expectations of the citizens of israel.

i don't know if you know where a state of law and prime minister netanyahu has a presumption of innocence. but whether he will face prosecution is now up to that tiny general that decision could drag on for months. all day five of the winter olympics that the snowboarding legend has added another goal to his tally nick mcculloch life has not been competing but can tell us all about the action i wish it was me as do i. sure what we're talking about on top of the podium again how did you do it it was actually incredible how it went down as half by because you know him he's a household name he's been in this is for for the impacts and the pictures we're about to see you see the speed he first had going into the half pipe in the mouth of he managed to get off the side of this and we go see him i think goes turning four times altogether and i guess they would talk about chloe came to it three

times he did four and he said after the event that this is the first time he's actually cleanly landed the trick at any one ever and it just happened to be today he was planning on doing it but he needs to do something special so i almost perfect score of ninety seven point seven five to win his third and gold when you see how extensive he was because of course he missed out on medals in sochi four years ago he was very very disappointed about that and finally getting a gold again he talked about that trauma from sochi and also talked about this victory let's listen to what he has to say substandard sochi with the winning runs in my hands i just couldn't deliver it's like today was a it was a deja vu situation of the same thing i'm standing there but i'm so proud to say that i've kind of like found the love of the sport again you know through my friends through my family the people that support me and i was able to stand up there and deliver the performance that i knew i could. well got him now let's talk about germany leading the b. medal count to appear on chalk six goals in the latest was today in the us of today

actually the seventh is by our expenses the us making it seven now he won seven the nordic combined as the name suggests it's a combination of two sports of ski jumping and cross-country skiing so in the ski jump he has no particular good finishing speed but then in cross country steve you see him here at number five just one of the picture he's incredibly good at his strongest event of the two in the middle of pacman this wave breaks away. evey's these competitors in his wake and edging out what's harvey along the finishing line to retain his gold medal that he won in sochi four years ago it is the first time that someone has retained this medal in thirty eight years so quite the win for him he was understandably ecstatic as well just think about shaun white having done all those flips and you say he was ecstatic about it that's a long way to go out a very dangerous thing to do to come home with nothing so indeed good for that meanwhile britain's tea accused of cheating. cheating but there was questions were

there was it was questions over arise about their skin suits for as you know if you see them bobsled you see skeleton they have various tights skin tight suits receding in here and so there's been interest was just getting started yesterday american saying that this suits that hearing to the rules of the rules state the no elements whatsoever maybe a task outside under the race suit and these particular suits have been developed by the english institute of sport with that with their techies and what they have is a turbulence effect so what they essentially create is a second layer above the skin above the suit which stops drag means that the the athletes can go a lot faster while they also have is drag resistant ridges which we've seen for example in swimsuits at the olympics you see those white lines yes stop dragons they can go quite a bit faster now these suits are also custom made these athletes all go through three d. laser scans to make sure this. actually for every point of their body fitz really believes they can reach speeds of up to one hundred fifty clumps of kilometers per

hour and this is actually expected to give them a second advantage over that that's offend someone what's the one of the americans well going on about so while they were they thought that something then added to the suits to make that happen well it has but it's within the rules and that says so it's ok the international association has said there are competing in this week on friday ok so america shut up and sit down and. take out a clive relieve you of that you're watching in america we'd love you. more for you at the top of the hour are all scratched otherwise you can see more on the web site that's the don't you dot com have a good. little .

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