this is d.w. news live from fallon it's been a roller coaster ride but today south africa has a new president and thank you all for this great opportunity that i've been given and i will try to work very hard not to disappoint the people of south africa thank you very. much so what can south africa and the rest of the world expect from president robert person also. because layover not just let's march into night you have a festival begins with

a big with an alleyway set feature set in the future we'll bring you the latest from the bell that alley and reaction let me to come back. i feel good to welcome to the program south africa has a new president cyril ramaphosa his election comes a day after jacob zuma agreed to step down after his party the i had say orders him to resign or face a parliamentary no confidence vote presence around the person who is back with a standing ovation and dancing in parliament in the country's legislature capital. i. want to go the country's new president addressed the legislature. and many of you have spoken about unity yes. broken up about procure tism is spoken

largely about how we can all work together to improve the lives of our people that has a great deal of resonance with i believe in and what intends to do so what hospital going on the double correspondent christine has been following this story and christine what a difference a day makes the last time we spoke with say i'm going nowhere bring it on so tell us what's happened yes seventeen hours they say he he has we now have a replacement seventy dollars since president jacob zuma officially handed in his resignation now i'm up also will will officially be sworn in later today and tomorrow is the big day south africans await because that they say is the new president of south africa is going to deliver the state of the nation address ok so who is cyril ramaphosa i'm glad you asked. he's made it

a whole month of his campaign rallies we could do with this is the that's. why he. gave the snow. and sleet from who up. to just this. was not good enough you could want. some of his new president cyril ramaphosa had hoped that this would set him apart from his former boss jacob zuma but after nine years on to zoom in scandal ridden reign as south africa's new leader he faces many challenges ahead with a political career spanning more than four decades from opposed it was a close ally of nelson mandela played a major role in the country's post apartheid democratic transition more than two decades have now passed since the end of the racist regime but inequalities remain

firmly entrenched south africa is rich in resources but many lives without electricity all running water health care and schooling remains rudimentary eight out of ten nine year olds are classified as a literate unemployment levels of sky high more than two thirds of young people are jobless economic growth has been pretty much stagnant and to zuma ram opposed it will be hoping to cash in on foreign investment since seumas resignation sent the rand soaring high that could also help generate more needed jobs elected as soon as vice president in two thousand and fourteen rahm opposed it was never a lapdog he's criticizing the in the past but will have to rebuild a lot of trust for a population that's fed up of seemingly endless stories of the a.n.c. the corruption so many young people this is a far more present issue than the party's post apartheid legacy but i want to go to plan if he manages his first most important task uniting his ruling party for the

two thousand and nineteen elections his election as a.n.c. leader in december was labeled as a turning point for south africa and now he's also the country's new leader. let's pick up that point with christine christine we saw the happy faces in politics everybody just singing and dancing and clapping but we need to remember that civil right opposed only just beat his challenger to become and see president so can't face the unite this party he didn't even get fifty percent this is the challenge though and if actually listening to the m.p.'s the song they were singing . is to say your time has come but it has come at a time where the party is really divided and what's going to be interesting to see still is how he's going to handle these party divisions is he going to shine resume annoying this in the party would he go kaput is the public expects him to do so because they say many people who are as i'm annoying those who've had their term in

government are known to be corrupt and so if he shuns all of them entirely it's going to be seen as he is not making if it's to heal the divisions of the party but also publicly that is what the people want and president has said that he'll make fighting corruption one of his biggest problem priorities exactly and that's the campaign he's run on and that's what south africans expect him to do he alluded to that in shortly after being elected as president let's hear from the man himself. issues that have to do with corruption issues of how we can straighten out our state owned enterprises and how we do with state care. is issues that are on our radar screen those are issues that we're going to be addressing and tomorrow we will also have an opportunity to outline some of the steps that we are going to be taking. so that's the future what happens to yesterday's mad about jacob zuma while jacob zuma now awaits the law essentially which we understand is

coming off to him the opposition has made it clear that they are going to court they want to challenge the fact that the constitutional court said he breaks the constitution and he's facing a lot of charges we also know that people associated with the president also right now facing the old people were arrested yesterday people members of the group the family that's the family that visits into is said to be closely associated with to the extent that they benefited state resources because of that relationship so this is a president or a former president still looking at a future where he could be having a lot of appointments in a courtroom right christine thank you. now let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has died of cancer at the age of sixty five just a jogger i found at the movement for democratic change was a fierce critic of president robert mugabe he won almost half the votes in the

first round of the two thousand and eight election but boycotted the right of handing victory to. the ethiopian prime minister stepping down seen here in twenty thirty. solid set in his resignation letter that he would continue in the role until the transition of power is complete but this comes amid a few used words and government protests in a quarter of a century hundreds of tens of thousands have been detained after months of demonstrations. a gunman in the u.s. state of florida has killed seventeen people in the latest school shooting to shake the country the suspect is a nineteen year old former student who was expelled last year from the high school north of miami. united nations says the number of civilians killed and wounded in afghanistan went down last year they welcomed the news but pointed out that it still means as many as ten thousand men women children lost their lives in the

country in twenty seventy much of the violence has been carried out by the taliban and militants linked to the islamic state. for seventeen years the wail of sirens has provided a disturbing soundtrack to afghanistan's suffering often the fast response to violent attacks like this one at a government office last month ninety five people were killed and hundreds were injured when the taliban took aim with a car bomb. the united nations has been counting the civilian cost of conflict in recent years in two thousand and seventeen he managed documented ten thousand four hundred and fifty three civilian casualties and nine percent decrease from two thousand and sixteen. there is this reduction is an important step

but i must emphasize that two thousand and seventeen was the fourth consecutive year where the mission recorded more than ten thousand civilian casualties much of the violence has been the work of a result didn't taliban and the americans of militants linked to the islamic state area this month security officials raided an i.a.s. hideout packed with explosives. of the more than ten thousand victims last year many are so young they have known only a world of war. the sixty eighth birthday an international film festival began today and d.-w. says sarah harman is on the red carpet welcome sara so we sent who he sent us this glittering do you put on your part frock and you've got to see a car too. that's right phil i have gone to see

a cartoon aisle of dogs from wes anderson open this year's berlin film festival it's a really interesting choice we've never had an animated feature as the opening field in the entire almost seventy year history of the berlin film festival and for viewers who are no wes anderson's work stuff like the world ten involves or moonrise kingdom this is very much in that vein except it's a cartoon it's about a pack of dogs set in japan who are banished to trash island and they have a pretty bad experience there this film though it's it's very very cute and why don't we let our viewers have a look at it and get a little taste for themselves. i love dogs is set in the distilled future japan due to a dangerous dog flu the canine population is rounded up and banished to trash island time atari has a young boy whose dog is among those seized he goes to the island in search of his

beloved pet spot and he's helped by the other dogs. because layover noxious sludge marsh leading to a radioactive landfill. garbage that's. why shouldn't because he said. it's one of those we'll find him. to find your dog during his search covers a conspiracy that threatens to destroy the city's dog population for ever can atari and the canine crew save the day for somebody langridge the. looks of a recognizable voice is. less about me too that's also on the agenda this year. absolutely need to has been rocking hollywood for the last couple of months and of course it's an issue this year at the berlin film festival in advance of the

festival the director dieter caustic announced that me too would play a large role and in fact will be panel discussions about the issue of female representation in film they'll also be counseling booths available for people who are attending and want to talk about their experience with discrimination in the film industry it's also coming through in other ways for example this year we have a gender balance jury led by tom baer so equal number of men and women on the jury and also for women in the competition category as directors four out of nineteen it's not amazingly high but it's better than we've seen in a lot of years past so definitely need to is going to be an issue at this year's berlin film festival you know they like those political topics never one to shy away from a controversy the berlin film festival. the never true word spoken. we will speak again for another thank you. football in champions league football last night there

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