and there. this seven percent. platform for. business t w news coming to you live from. south africa mourns the loss of an anti apartheid i called winnie mandela has died at the age of eighty one and activist and wife of nelson mandela for many she was the mother of the nation but she leaves a mixed legacy south african president cyril ramaphosa at this tribute for her. she

was not only and inspiration but she also touched the lives of many millions. do it in the dark days apart the. israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu sos confusion by suspending him deal with the un on african migrants just hours after announcing. and people in france brace for months of travel chaos as rail unions begin a series of major strikes come as resistance grows to present amount of well i call ins plans to modernize the french are calling. us in the champions league final munich tried to end their bad run against spanish sides the germans visit soviets in night hoping to continue their goal scoring form following their thrashing of dortmund over the weekend.

hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. many across south africa are mourning today following the death of winnie mandela the ex-wife of former president nelson mandela she was a towering figure in the fight against apartheid for she was also a broiled in of the controversies in more recent years she died peacefully in a hospital in johannesburg at the age of eighty one this young bride the first black social worker at the south african hospital where she worked and winnie mandela fight against apartheid would dominate her marriage and the rest of her life in one thousand nine hundred sixty four her husband nelson mandela began serving twenty seven years on charges of sabotage and plotting to overthrow the government during that time when he supported him and the anti-apartheid cause eventually also serving time in prison my husband has been fighting for the liberation of the african people for the weekend from one to three of all direction in the country. in the one nine hundred ninety s.

when his reputation also began to suffer she was implicated in the kidnapping and killing of a teenager accused of being an informer she was also convicted of fraud. when her husband was released from prison she was there to greet him although she later described the marriage as a sham. the mandela's divorced shortly after he became president. nelson mandela died in two thousand and thirteen. winnie mandela is mainly remembered for her unwavering commitment to the end of apartheid. for many years she bore the brunt of this senseless perk. of the apartheid state with stories and fortitude despite the hardships you faced she never doubted that the struggle for freedom and democracy triumph. you know. after

a lengthy illness winnie mandela died in hospital surrounded by her family. however for many her image as a fighter lives on. when he mandela was considered a giant in the anti-apartheid movement earlier i spoke with jason burke a journalist for the guardian newspaper in johannesburg and asked him about her activism. the president himself the senior members of the a.n.c. church leaders inside will have already told a key role in maintaining the determination of tens of millions of people to overthrow the assad regime particularly in the seventy's and eighty's when many of the more established leaders of the african national congress were in prison. nelson mandela she was somebody who was imprisoned and tortured herself for short periods or eighteen months i think was the longest she was out on the streets

in the thick of the struggle in places like silhouettes or leading more it was a increase in abuse brutal and intense battle to overthrow the state also its his regime. and ellen was clearly a positive role model for many and will remain so but she was also a controversial figure convicted of several crimes even after apartheid ended tell us more about her fall from grace. well there is really are after the end of apartheid. in all the negative elements of. what he meant as controversial life began to be better noted in particular a result when seen the extreme violence of so when the townships in the late eighty's as i say this is a great part of the environment she was sucked into its and people very close to her. personal bodyguards accused and in fact found guilty of killing

a fourteen year old who they thought was an informer he was tortured just one of many that other miletus that they were alleged to have been involved in she was found to have been the least responsible for one of those killings in the sense that she gave the orders or at least near of it. then she was and she was fired effectively from nelson mandela's first cabinet after being appointed a minister for. at achieving basically and also for rising fears of corruption she once had a glamorous lifestyle at that stage it's my home and also brain finance. and there are all sorts of not stock elements characters which have the same dissension in the last decade all star. that was jason burke journalist for the guardian newspaper in johannesburg talking to us just a short while ago now some of the other stories making news around the world today saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin mon says israelis have a right to

a homeland it's a notable shift in the kingdom's position towards the jewish state saudi arabia does not recognize israel but ties between the two countries have improved in recent years. egypt's election authority says president. assisi has officially won a second term in office after taking just over ninety seven percent of the votes in last week's ballot. was around forty one percent opposition groups a call for a boycott clearing the vote a sham. and a circus truck carrying five elephants has crashed in southeast spain killing one of the animals and leaving another two injured emergency services used a crane to remove the body of the dead elephant as well as the survivors from the crash site. israel announced

a deal with the un to resettle african migrants to western nations but just hours later put it on hold a minister binyamin netanyahu said he wanted to consult more widely on the deal which some hardliners had attacked because it allowed many of the migrants to stay in israel under the agreement with the un some sixteen thousand of them were to be sent to western countries including germany some of these migrants mostly from eritrea and have been living in israel for a time bomb and offered them a stark choice leave the country voluntarily go to prison or be deported to an african country such as rwanda. if that's the choice i'd rather go to jail at least i'd be safe that. but many israelis and many supporters abroad condemns the plan as unethical must deportation so prime minister benjamin netanyahu turned to the united nations refugee agency for help. sixteen thousand two hundred fifty migrants will be sent to countries like canada or germany or

italy or some of the world's most developed countries that's the commitment of the u.n. high commissioner. but that plan has also run into trouble hardliners say it allows too many migrants to stay in israel. that seems to be want has driven nessun yahoo to suspend the deal just hours after announcing it but it also remains unclear exactly how the u.s. . germany and italy both mentioned as possible destinations for the deported migrants were taken by surprise they had not been consulted although the german interior ministry said berlin always respected its humanitarian obligations. let's bring in our political correspondent hans blond to try to explain what's going on here hans the israeli prime minister announces a plan to send an want to decide i'm seekers to other developed countries like germany and italy but germany and italy claim to have no knowledge of this possible

frankly it's it's a gaffe on the side of netanyahu and diplomatic and something he shouldn't have said and he has explained that mentioning germany and italy and canada in fact that these are just examples that they weren't really concrete agreements with these countries although canada has said that it is talking tonight on you know what did happen is that there is an agreement between the united nations high commissioner for refugees the united nations refugee agency and israel in fact to try and find countries that will take these sixteen thousand or so refugees from israel and you know take them up for various reasons humanitarian reasons family reunion that kind of thing but they have been as far as we can find out no concrete agreements with any country at the moment to take up refugees from israel ok so the israeli prime minister going out on a limb there but apparently the u.n. was informed at least can you give us an idea

a rough idea at least of how this plan this deal was supposed to work well the united nations refugee agency has said that they would look for countries other countries in israel to take up refugees for various reasons possibly if they have family members in those kind. possibly if those countries would grant them political asylum but as i said they have as far as we know been no concrete agreements with any countries so far actually to take up these refugees so it's a matter that's really in the hands of the united nations at the moment and not really israel but if this plan is further developed and if israel if netanyahu gets his cabinet the rest of his government on board with it is it something that germany might be willing to go along with well the german interior ministry has said that germany is always prepared to accept its responsibilities its humanitarian responsibilities in terms of refugees and so on so i think the germans would be prepared to talk about this whether they would be actually prepared to

take up refugees is another question since obviously germany also has quite a large number of refugees already and this is a very controversial political issue in germany as well so there's no guarantee in fact that germany would take up any of these refugees at the moment thanks so much hans but from our political desk. you are watching news still to come after three years of war and a blockade on food millions of yemenis are living in a desperate situation what are the chances a u.n. donor conference in geneva today will improve their plight it's. difficult times for french commuters monika's more now i wouldn't want to travel in france today teria have to admit france faces months off travel chaos a first wave of roading rail strikes is underway today the four main rail unions have called two days of strikes in every five days for the next three months to

protest against a shake up of the national s.n.c.f. rail monopoly on the status from energy to garbage collection joining the walkouts this of course in opposition to french president in mount calls the labor market reform agenda. rail workers are especially angry with the government it plans to do away with train drivers right to retire at fifty two the administration also wants to make cuts to their current holiday entitlement of fifty days per year those kind of privileges cost a lot of money and state owned railway s.n.c.f. has accumulated a debt burden of forty five billion euros the disruption to france's regional long distance rail services is expected to last for three months the four unions involved will strike for two days and then work for three programmed chaos. alicia time i work in paris i need to go to the north and i don't know how i'm going to come back. we're going to mention it's beginning to be a problem all the trains that are showing up on the platforms are full council to

me. only one high speed t.g.v. train out of eight is running and it gets worse for the french as workers in other sectors will also be striking. electricity and gas sector workers will be joining in the dispute they're resisting plans to privatized their industry and want to. remain a state employees trash collectors are going on indefinite strike they want workers who have to deal with hazardous chemicals to be able to retire earlier and air france employees are battling for a six percent wage hike. the unions have coordinated their onslaught skillfully attacking the government from several sides at once that's because many voters chose him on the call for his platform of making labor law more flexible and ending privileges in some industries but i know it's warned that if public life in france is paralyzed for more than two weeks or so the government would face increasing

pressure to back down. before the latest let's cross over to our correspondent lisa noises standing by for is in paris lisa first of all what's the situation right now how are people there getting to what other places. well the situation is very calm at the moment here in paris i just walked through the gather less behind me one of the major train stations in paris it's very quiet and calm i must say for this time of the day and also across the country people are taking the cow that's hiking taking buses way they can or working from home because they know that very few trains are circulating on certain lines only one in ten trains is running however there are already four hundred kilometers of traffic jam in the paris region and that could get more over the days so the situation could get more complicated for those who want to go to work and what's the move to like do french

people there sympathize with the demands of those rail workers and making for example fifty days of paid holiday or retirement to the age of fifty two. but for the time being it's about fifty fifty half the french are saying we understand that they're striking for their working conditions many people attached to their public service here in france they think it's a very important part of this country and they support the strike but obviously over the long run we need to see how this will pan out as you said it's an ongoing strike there will be to strike days every three days over three months so let's see what they're going to say in a few weeks time as quite a lot of disruption led to daily life and of course this is the first major strike wave under president emmanuela call how will he or his government handle it will he have to make concessions. absolutely it's the major test in the first

major test for him and he will try not to make any concessions at all in the run up to this he's been talking to the unions he's been telling everybody we are actually consulting them we're trying to find a common solution the unions are saying well he has talked to. yes but he hasn't hasn't actually taken into account anything we have said so it seems to be that the two sides are not really communing with each other very well for the time being the government is adamant not to give in though because they want to show that they're actually governing the country that they can reform france as i am in my car promised his european partners as well and he is as we know adamant to push through some european reforms and his ability to push through these reforms and to convince other european partners to go along with him also depends on the fact if they believe that he can actually do what it is needed in france all right lisa lewis there reporting for us from paris where at the moment at least everything seems to

be calm thank you so much. china's ambassador to the united states say any new u.s. tariffs on chinese goods withdrawal counter measures of the same proportion the fear of a full blown trade war between the world's two biggest economies continues to weigh on markets asian stocks traded lower today taking the lead from wall street where the markets were largely way to down by tech stocks fears that further tariffs could be imposed on tech products by china that spooked investors the u.s. is expected to release a list of chinese products that will be hit by the punitive tariffs announced by the u.s. government last week. and among the biggest losers on wall street economist giant amazon it's led by more than five percent of the new attacks from president donna trump and the relationship with the united states postal service claims that

the u.s. p s is losing money on delivering for amazon and to taxpayers a financing the losses on this point out the online retention giants payments actually supports the postal service is often money losing businesses and its massive pension obligations they say amazon is helping the u.s.p.s. stay afloat but estimates say amazon pays the u.s.p.s. roughly half of what rival pasta services would be charging. that's more bloodshed in yemen terry because it's no end in sight but perhaps some humanitarian aid monica airstrike by the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has killed twelve civilians in the coastal city of hadera the attack destroyed a house where people displaced from other provinces were living witnesses said the dead were all from the same family saudi led coalition's reports of the attack would be fully investigated or data is the port where most humanitarian aid arrives

and yet. the un is hosting a meeting. in geneva today to raise money for war torn you have and then discuss humanitarian issues related to the called clicked organizers are hoping to bring in some three billion dollars in new pledges to meet the rising costs of providing aid three years of fighting in yemen have claimed around ten thousand lives the proxy war between saudi backed government and iranian backed with the rebels as also driven an estimated two million people from their homes un has been revising upwards the number of yemenis in need of assistance the organization estimates that since last year more than three point four million more people depend on outside help for survival ayesha is mother to five young children. and she's also alone in the world since her husband died she has to track for two hours of her day just to fetch water from

a well. she struggles to look after her family. had things which before the world even if you didn't have much money you could buy things but prices have skyrocketed i don't know how i'm going to buy food. years of conflict in yemen has devastated the country thousands are dead and millions driven from their homes two thirds of the population that's nineteen million yemenis need humanitarian assistance according to a u.n. report from last year half of the country has no access to clean running water that's caused a widespread cholera epidemic yemen's health care system is under extreme strain the young are worst hit. but i'm a little bit what would even before the war more than one in five newborns died now

the death rate can hit seventy percent because of the current situation in the country yet at a center there will be at. for ice and her family the future looks bleak without help and already critical situation could become desperate. or more all the situation in yemen i'm joined now by martin millions from the aid organization care international he's the regional emergency coordinator for north africa in the middle east and he's based in jordan as capital amman jordan we heard some disturbing numbers there about the situation in yemen as someone who deals with humanitarian crises in many countries can you put the yemen crisis into context for us yeah it's it's mind boggling i mean looking at the numbers this is the biggest humanitarian crisis of our times. we have i think eighty percent of the population more than twenty two

million people in need of humanitarian aid. it's i mean looking at the numbers that something is really difficult to understand the situation because you know i frequently travel to yemen out and when you look at the situation you still see people industry it's used to markets. food in the shops and then you know at the same time that there's eight million people that the brain call famine conditions sometimes it's very very difficult to comprehend what it means for the families and i think your report showed well that the people are just struggling to buy the food that's available in the market but they just don't have the means to purchase for that's happening as we're talking donors are gathering in geneva with organizers they're hoping to collect three billion dollars in aid for yemen even if that target is reached is it going to be enough.

you know i mean to put it in perspective last year we are for much less and it was funded by around a little more than fifty percent and you know to situation as we see it now i mean there's no was a silver lining that didn't get any better basically the peace negotiation the peace process the u.n. peace process has kind of derailed and there was no progress made in the last year so first and foremost what the people need of course is you know for the warring parties to come back to the table and ceasefire i mean that is the minimum i don't think with humanitarian aid you will solve the situation in yemen even if the fighting in yemen word and to morrow they come through and still leave massive a what kind of challenges will the people of yemen face after the war i think now

is it's also the social fabric fabric this social cohesion that the country is very much divided now into at least two parts and of course you know there's a lot of. you know infrastructure that was damaged infrastructure that was destroyed and i think there's yeah i mean that would be for me i guess those two elements would be the top priority peace building so secretions social fabric as well as a recovering economy recovery from the damages of the war martin thank you very much for talking with us so as martin really is there with care international he spoke to us from jordan's capital among. widely make a visit some via in the first leg of their champions league quarter final this evening by owner all the verge of winning their sixth straight bonus league title but it's been five years since they won the champions league in recent seasons

spanish sides have always been the stumbling block. biren haven't won the champions league since twenty thirteen every season since they've crashed out against spanish sides. but coach. is keen to point out the things were very different when he was last in charge. when i was here in two thousand and twelve and twenty thirteen we be two spanish teams to reach the final the two best teams in the history of spanish football barcelona and real madrid. and so for me the last four years aren't relevant. severe may not have as impressive a record in europe as spain's top two sides but they have won the europa league three of the last four seasons. they're also on a high after knocking manchester united out in the last round severe coaching someone tele says the key to success is taking the game to buy and. are

used to scoring lots of goals in every game they used to having control of the ball we have to do the same and keep the ball for as long as possible that way you force them to do something they're not used to. but shutting down by and will be no easy task they scored eight goals against us in the last round and six against dortmund at the weekend. the scene is set for a classic champions league encounter. and forgo just a reminder of the top story we're following for you israeli prime minister binyamin netanyahu caves into pressure from the right wing to suspended deal with the un african migrants just hours after announcing a. choice news for now thanks for watching.

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