this is d.w. news live from berlin high drama in south africa as president zuma defies his party's order to resign he says he's being victimized and see says go by the end of the day take it to parliament also on the program. german journalist and as usual has now been held in a turkish prison for a year without charge his detention has soured relations between brown and ankara now there may be hope for his release. and the leadership of germany's social democrat party start

a fresh push to persuade members to vote for the coalition deal the ongoing battles conservatives failure could meet a new connection for many prospects to die to come to a place. to the program for south africa's president is hiding his position despite an ultimatum from his party that he leave today or face a no confidence vote in parliament speaking on state television jacob zuma described the n.c.s. moves against him as unfair and said their 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 you say to that have done so i found it very

strange that i'm going to be told by my organization knew now must go. because. we now have to know president who must come in. not to follow in any policy of the in c. there is nothing more that makes. early is in his party the african national congress agreed 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 and decided to recall him since taking office in two thousand and nine zuma has been accused of numerous corruption scandals including making some deals with the influential gupta family on wednesday an elite police unit raided the family's luxury home in johannesburg detaining three people. the captors 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 raids to residents and i think you ought to bottle 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 i mean it starts but and as i say you know about time it happened i hope that any hidden secrets may come to the surface and it will give a lot of people in our country a bit of peace of my family and hopes that moving forward with south africa will be a bit of an easier task than just drives past in this war what was going on and heard about it on the news and i just think it's quite a watershed moment in south africa to come in with this what's going. to zoom a successor would most likely be deputy president and a.n.c. party chairman cyril ramaphosa he'll 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 is 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 the whiff of corruption swirling around him for years he's been convicted of nothing and the amc hard disk haven't demonstrated he's breached any event rules he seems only guilty of being an electrolyte ability well yes and no i mean the fact that he's an electrolyte abilities based on pretty solid reasons i hasten to make a 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 something like 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 by the constitutionally mandated . independent office oversight head in a report a couple of years ago. state capture that capture was by businessmen such as the coaches who were just over a rest of the day of the of the of parliament of ministers and of zuma and self so the charges against him

a pretty serious and i don't think anybody's doubting that he's controlled his rule of the country has been pretty poor and so where does jacob zuma as a parent confidence come from. well i'm sure he is not competent any longer i mean if you watched his hour long rambling statement this afternoon it was a self justification that was based on the idea that he's being victimized and that the a.n.c. aren't following the prophet part of the party procedures or getting rid of him he appeared pretty nervous actually he was clearing his throat a lot he did not pay to beta avuncular almost jocular 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 sing much much more comfort and there's that like a man who's got his back to the wall and i think he will most certainly have gone if not by later tonight then tomorrow morning it won't be him any longer ok so

unless events overtake us that the next step is likely to be a no confidence vote in parliament are the a.n.c. in the operating on the opposition cooperating on this. either way also an extent i mean that 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 what's 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 say 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 that you called him that jason burke in johannesburg found here. germany's foreign minister has called for a german turkish journalist being held in a turkish jail to receive a fair and speedy trial than his huge role was arrested a year ago suspected of terror espionage offenses and he's not been charged signal comes after turkey's prime minister suggested there may soon be a movement in the case that he's utils continued detention assad relations between . this maximum security prison in istanbul is where denise is being held one year after the journalists arrest and no formal charges have been made so why the state nation it's a question for which turkish prime minister banally has

a simple answer. it is not my decision to make but the courts. i hope that he will be released soon. and i'm confident there will be developments soon. critics are don't feel that the judiciary will treat you case fairly. but you drams remarks have given germany renewed hope. in this time optimistic that there will be a judgment soon. and i hope you will be a dentist you chose favor we've been working for weeks to ensure that happens. it is now up to turkey's high court to decide if one year will mark the beginning or the end of you just incarceration. now to some of the other stories making news around the world to the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has said that work on the new middle east peace

plan is fairly well advanced he was speaking after signing a five year aid package to jordan president trump reversed decades of u.s. policy in december but he recognized jerusalem as israel's capital. police have recommended the prime minister benjamin netanyahu bribery fraud and breach of trust the country's attorney general will now have to decide whether to file those charges mr netanyahu denies wrongdoing and describes the allegations as biased extreme and full of holes like sweden she's. here in germany the acting leader of the said the left social democrats has been appealing to party members to back a coalition deal with angela merkel's 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 results of the s.p.d. vote is far from certain as the party is divided over the agreement.

with the social democrats in turmoil this is the man who now has the tasca of picking up the pieces the s.p.d. his 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 so schultz used 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 votes often he urged them to support that agreement and to build on what he called the s.p.d. is a long tradition of approaching the future with optimism. then it does not do you 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 dow this but i did go through 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 now a priority with the s.p.d. as entire membership to to vote on the coalition deal sued. in the mean time other parties have been preying on the s.p.d. is weakness with chancellor merkel's bavarian allies the christian social union c.s.u. leading the way. on obvious knock me down about how it's a torn revealing with a party at the moment that cannot quite decide whether it really wants to go into government the self destructive social democrats. 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 delve. lashing out at political opponents has a long tradition on what germans call political ash wednesday we 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. and people all over the world are celebrating valentine's day today red roses and hearts our common symbols of love in san francisco special heart shaped valentine's are also helping with matchmaking in the animal kingdom. this. is valentine's day for the penguins at the california academy of sciences. well it's become

a tradition that we will hand out some parts to the birds we used to hand out construction paper cards but they were a little messy he found some fabulous nesting material we also found it in red and they cut the mounds of little hearts and the birds actually use them in their next mail but it's all for the felt time outs to the females one pad did indeed get together and produce two eggs but the course of true love never did run smooth. unfortunately they haven't been very careful with their eggs in the past so the biologist decided to step in we kept them on artificial legs and we incubated their eggs because they were both fertile it was great. both chicks are now doing well the nesting program is part of a species survival plan for the endangered african penguin for the scientists as well as the birds it's a project which is especially close to their hearts. you've

got to love a penguin still to come here all day w. news as if life on the high seas it wasn't rough enough baltic sea fishing when i also have to contend with an op that follows that every move. stories coming up in d.w. business with ben facility and just about which i'll be back at the top of the hour with more of the day's headlines of the day. every journey begins with the first step and every language but the first word published in. eco is in germany to learn german why not learn a simple online on your mobile and free shop for d w z e learning course he can speak german made. dangerous and while. adventure.