seven to ten years in prison and there are two sets of eyes charges the other in the media case so i would say yes there is a very serious charges for the prime minister. and even and

ease he continues. in his role he will be damaged by these. and every seat is netanyahu essie confirms that the place was may well making this recommendation he went on tv and. right before the news broke that the place i was making this recommendation tentative it about what he had to say. it was like a battle cry if you like he can. she could see the lines of his defense. already in that speech he gave his personal history. at from the time that he was a soldier in the israeli army. and he went on to say that the good israel has always been what motivated him he said he wanted a process he wouldn't be he would be elsewhere he is in the strawberry because he cares. about israel these accusations against him a baseless you guys some detail as to why that is so true. a and then he went on to say that because the because he is here in this job out of commitments he

intends to say he said he's not thinking of going he's not even nsidering going. he's not going to resign.. get a. browse we have to see if you can do this. and if you can't do this is the coalition will holes that he has months until the attorney general decides whether or not to press charges so we could see him. continuing in office until the turning it as any general decides whether or not. he will face these bribery charges that the police are recommending tonight's and and every state allegations have been hanging around for a while at what. do you think they'll be doing so you and that you know he's support among the public. it depends which part of the public i guess is the answer to that. in the left wing. he says i've heard already tonight said according to him to step down even before the police recommendations went on i think that in certain parts of the public he is no longer popular. there is a feeling that there that there was something corrupt going on

even if people don't know where to put a finger on it and even if these are only allegations. amongst his base amounts to support his. a by the line that he is that this is a a politically motivated persecution of a politician who is devoted to his country. so amounts hee remains popular with his face we have to see if that changes now that. have gone from being allegations nearly allegations to police recommendations is thanks very much indeed is an actor the ripples in from the recent. may well the palestinian teenager he was filmed hitting and kicking to israeli soldiers went on trial tuesday i had to maybe faces charges of assault and incitement offer video of her exchange with israeli forces went viral. israel has been widely condemned for holding this seventeen year old in prison for over a month considered a hero by many palestinians many israelis believe she has been manipulated by her family. for propaganda purposes.

uncertainty in south africa now after the ruling a. n. c. party said it was recalling president jacob zuma but stops short of saying when he must step down sooner he's been in power since two thousand and nine. has been plagued by corruption scandals and it's no secret that his deputy cyril ramaposa is came to replace it seems expected to respond tomorrow morning of our press conference at exiled oakland has the stor. the agency's decision to recall jacobs in that was supposed to be a step towards stabilizing the government. that the lack of the timeline for his departure or response from xena thirty times the country into further uncertainty. . day andnd see sesecretary general did his best not to upset the president's supporters assuring him respect but made it clearr that it's tie zuma to go. to the new party leader cyril ramaposa can take over. engagaged and wee looking forward to. a. couple solution..

and. . we will then see. what did? montnth since one sees. one is is o oy about the everyone ovever is awful st. as the president of some of. junior is said to have agrees to the principle of resignation and asked for three to six more months in office a timeline the party has rejected. his presidency has been marred by corruption scandals. growth and record unemployment. local media reported that the seventy five year old was pushing for an exit steel that included legal protections for himself his family and other associates involved in controversial deal's. body from a poser agrees to help protect zuma from prosecution in any way is our leadership will be tainted from the get go. who's in the sure that he can revive the economy and crack down on rampant government corruption if he's to be used the parties tarnished reputation ahead

of next year's elections. while is the anc makes slow progress with its power transfer. position request is beingng considered by the parliamentary speaker. well foreign i'm joined now by the spillover draw she's a researcher at the institute for security studies in south africa and she joins us now. at from pretoria thank you being with us on france24 tonight now this has to be the most polite attempts to ousted leader in history at the a. n. c. really austin jacob zuma to go not. telling hihm to go the question is will he. yeyes i think that is a very good queststion b b y y know we have a full in septetembr twtwo thohousand i mean thed see it also augustt. former presidents a are make you to sit down and he e does. of e luluy s so. those in the anc would say that the agency has a very strong culture o off calal e deployment and if you alady called. by your

partrty youou do soso and sn so ihink everyrybody in the. i in any c case in the afrn national congress are coununting onn this samee qualality mechanism to work but nonow we've had. high pololitical drama thee alalso liveses days a actuad it looked at it sounded as if presidedent jacob zuma ws really kicking in easier also with u us. hihilights f record a says a as you put t is going to work will havave to see a app probabably by tomorrow morng it'ss it't's not clear yet whether they will be. a press conference as had been announceced. up tomorrow morning but but. that might happen w war eatt

might go out. and. the south african economy has as we had a lot of problems in recent years hasn't would tt syndicate that god economy to grow again. a decent hee we sold at election also have a blues and met the same as president of f the . n. c.. it was dave nineteen optimism from the in the internatational community fm bases in the economy in south africa anyway to double seeeen january and there was this real opt beats. feeding around. reviving the economy just by the fact that. so what was it you seem to be somebody who is as i've got those at corruption allegations that jacob zuma had you will appoint a hope

for the ministers and team in government that will be a few shows. that won't be way down by. thee pool these accusations that jacob zuma i've had for years now really. but it will be a great testostorm us locals at you feet because present rather eighties tomorrow or in two weeks time. or maybe less about of the expectationon s that he would take over soon and like that. but that the countries that economy is really does stress and that he's gonna baftas skate. nasal over john thank you very much indeed films us. now iraq is trying to secure more funds from international data is on the state to have a conference aimed at rebuilding cities devastated by the war with isis safe on the conference in he waits has raised three hundred million dollars. of baghdad says it needs more like ninety billion housing a particular priority united states has page a three

billion dollar loan and he's urging other countries to follow suit. the ones that we've announced. that we've already committed any additional money should we announced today. they were are committing are all around stabilization in iraq and syria this is the first step that then provides the conditions for reconstruction. we have the first restore those basic utilities and keep the area safe and secure and our whole reconstruction to do yeah. well according to the united nations aid to two and a half million iraqis remain displaced by the world isis into creates many are still homeless despite the fact last city was liberated from the jihadists back in twenty fifteen. orient that day and seven fourteen of that theyy sents s this reporort. over two years have passeded sisie iraqi forcess f free e industririal town of meiji from the islamic state grou. not much has changed since then. the town remains unknown man's land afield of

ruins controlled by different militias. tired of waiting for government support some citizens have decided take reconstruction into their own hands welch's remote missile job. isome here to ask us what we need. . i've bebeen here for o one monthd even a month and a half and nobody's come. might even hahave electriricity orr w r onone down made up out arere laws. like m my o oer people who have fled beieijing when hihis family lives in nearby to create. the capitol soliciting province face farmers destruction than some of the neighboring cities still three years after liberation the main hospital has yet to be rebuild. that is a membeberf the municipal council hilemon's over the state of these facilities were his own son was born. and grew up on how the the these of medical records of the patient all the information about that patient the entire medical history treatments of central campaign in this folder. it's like we've gone back to the middle ages us of by the in that it. in the absence

of governmenent funds of the united nations plans to renovate the hospital billions will be needed to rebuild the rest of to create. but the owners are wary of pledging funds to a government knonown for corruption and misismanagem. then there is the on quantifiab becausese o of te psycholological damage suffered by y those who live under the rulele of the terr group. this organization helps children displaced by war catch up on years of lost education. and to deal with trauma. the children all kidding about t men. in front of their eyes. ththese are things that shod never of experieee. the first step in healing the wounds left by this war is to rebuild infrastructure so thatt families cacan retn home. few trust the government with this task and so many have pinned all their hopes on the international community. i u. k. judge has upheld an arrest warrant for judas songs that he's found his vanity in ecuador london embassy since t twenty twele officer he's ordered his extradition to sweden to be

questioned over right allegations was swedish authorities have since dropped the case is on still faces arrest in. the uk this giving bail and you had it has the story. it looks like julia sounds will continue calling across london embassy home. the judge's ruling is the second time in eight days that the uk arrest warrant not held against the wikileaks founder. his lawyers had trying to argue that it was no longer in the public interest to arrest him. they said the five years he had already spent inside the building was adequate punishment. the judge m. outlets not rejected that case. she said it is on the pier to impose his own terms on the course of justice. and that he considers himself above the rule of law. i songes wanted for breaching his bail conditions back in two thousand a and twelve. when he first walked through the doors of the embassy to avoid exclusion to sweet. where he has been accused of rape? this swedish

investigation was eventually dropped last year. the uk warrant is still valid. meaning that he faces arrest as soon as you step foot outside the nbc. the wikileaks founder has always believe that efforts to arrest him apostle wider conspiracy to send him to the u. s.. when he would then supposedly be prosecuted for releasing classified documents. here in france and other cases of people calling for the government to change the law and bring a legal age of consent last year twenty nine year old man was charged with sexual assault after he admitted. having sexual relations with an eleven year old girl because there's no legal age of consent here is not charged with child rape which carries much high sentence the lawyer for the girl's family argues that that is wrong as today the trial we opened yet at least has the story. parents of an eleven year old girl press charges of rape a against twenty eight year old man who had sex with a deal with a in a

parisian suburb april twenty seventeen. bus prosecutors brought the charges down to sexual abuse of a minor under fifteen years of age denying that the girl had given her consent. the decision sparked outrage from the family and children's rights groups. they want the charges to be re qualified. your phone was in these circumstances the child's terrorize a mobile she was scared. on the french rule rape requires evidence of coercion threats or violence elements ones was prosecuted state didn't exist. the defense lawyer to use that the sex was consensual and added that the man could not have known the gulf age. a sexual act between adults and a child under the age of fifteen is automatically qualified as sexual abuse. in this case the adult faces five years in prison instead of a potential twenty if you were to be charged with raping a child. this case is the latest of several that has prompted an uproar in

from. the country's one of a handful in europe with sex with a minor under such an age is not necessarily considered to be a great. president emmanuel maccoll's government is working on a new role to protect mine as. if we don't we should set the age of consent a fifteen years old it would because herring with the existing law on sexual abuse of children. and would protect our miners. an adult who engages in sex with a child under new age and it would face charges of statutory rape. the government will present these plans to parliament as a part of the sexual violence bill later this year. now it is a muddy girl i in rio de janeiro and that means the end of the economy will the world's biggest party is loved by everyone including believe it or not the city's evangelical met. you believe it is an invitation to say in. this year mcconnell hit back to victory riffles. israel's shop windows.

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message. at the head of this recession minister light could build. studies show that after carnival the indicators of criminality death of the roads violence wanted pregnancies which often end in abortion all increase. the role of the church is to be here in the middle of this party where everybody tries to have fun. offered jesus is the best option. must. he's in office until twenty twenty. among his. what is his business he's way ahead reason this is yeah i'd i'd hate horror? years president donald trump is ramping up the rhetoric on trade right now was just a few weeks of course after he imposed tariffs. on washing machines and solar panels is president is now turning his focus to commodities he suggested he could impose tariffs or quotas on steel and aluminum imports. although republican lawmakers who are meeting with him one that could raise prices an impact sectors of us industry like

car manufacturing. trump and others have long queues china of dumping we're exporting steel and aluminum at artificially low prices. usually what happened with ours scale and aluminum industries they're being decimated by dumping. and from many factors. or what but many guys he said dumping and destroying our industry my administration is now reviewing the reports and considering all options. and part of the options would be terrorists c coming in as a double cd of a terror of substantial terrace which means the united states would actually make a lot of money. and during that meeting fifteen republicans and for democrats president also vowed to revise america's trade deal with correo which she described as disastrous. and he said he would push for a reciprocal tax against countries including us allies impose tariffs on american products. meanwhile canada's nothing to go share his at the pace of talks on of those re on that regional trade deal made into fast.

overall progress has been limited in part because of resistance from the top on the american side. it remains in groups of political uncertainty threatening to further its economic problems. country emerged from recession in the second half of last year but growth prospects remain weak the imf predicting just point nine percent expansion twenty eighteen. is also grappling with a major drought regardless of how declared a national disaster and which is threatening to leave cape town without water supplies as well as and she agricultural industry. robertson masks has more. in a gleaming tom looks in johannesburg it's easy to see how south africa is seen as the most sophisticated economy on the confidence. that in the shadow of the towers there is real fragility. south african bones were downgraded to junk status by standard and poor in november twenty seventeen. and the country is suffering unemployment rates of over twenty six percent. in a corruption perception index south africa's dropped

from fifty first in the world in two thousand six to sixty fourth in twenty sixteen. critics point the finger president jacob zuma for enriching a small political elites at the expense of ordinary south africans. many years after the end of apartheid much of the economic wealth is still launched in hands of white minority. one of the difficulties is the balance talking inequality without scaring off international investment. in twenty seventeen over three billion euros was wiped off the value of south african mining companies. whwhen the government released in your child's a requiring you minds to be thirty percent black owned companies to pay one percent of revenue to the government. and seventy made i isouth a aica. still the country has the world's largest reserves of classroom and crime and is the source of one third of all goals have a minds. with the election a successful businessman cyril ramaposa as leader of the a. n. c. there is increasing confidence investors of warm to his promises to reattach

corruption and kick start the ailing economy. as you can on the day's trading action now tropic choppy trade a for global investors was returning positive is its trading session continues. of doubt had been down nearly two hundred points. numbers about a hundred that less than hour to go a bank and textures are leading gains across the board there. made european is these clothes lower vester so cautious about volatility a lot of focus on inflation this wee. nikkei prices rose rate of three percent in january that's higher than economists had predicted well above the central bank's to percent target. moving on some days of the business headlines now. right there has accused unions in spain of blocking agreement on pay rises for pilots. only recently begun recognizing unions for its staff members. ceo also said the airline has been cutting fares on flights to catalonia buys much as thirty percent. monsters terrorist attack in barcelona and independence referendum float towards

numbers temporarily. america's oldest gun makers file for bankruptcy remington outdoor reached a deal with creditors right off about seven hundred million of its nine hundred fifty million dollars at. sales in many years firearms firms it didn't last year it and the rise of the democratic presidentss consumers worried about n n diststractions. iraq plans to sharply increase its own. oil output capacity even though it still complying with the opec agreementnt w which frs out but for thahat ourselve. said much research group is currently pumping just four point seven million barrels of oil a day. but hopes to raise that to seven million. years. the government is planning new measures to cut down on electronic waste of the system appliances the appliances will carry a label with their estimated lifespan tell consumers with their purchases. ratings will try to encourage manufacturers to avoid programming their products stopped working after a certain number of years some

john has the details. there's already a system to tell consumers how much energy their new free enterprise or consume. now the french government once shoppers to be told how long that microwave or washing machine will last and how easily it will be repaired breaks down. to fight against was cold programmed obsolescence the french government is setting up a rating system to inform consumerers how long will it drawing goooods should keeep working. on a scale of one to ten. they're also looking into bolstering the sector for repairing broken machines for non out of ten french people their purchases are constructed to last. and rather than being able to get their broken technology and household appliances fixed sixty percent choose to buy a new one. a system that fuhrman varmints london sumer standpoint isn't working. lobby groups claim some manufacturers are even sly about it. nothing else the threat is watching because this is a conscious entity

but it's not. it's just that this ship as counted as a number of different ages that's on th. the government's rating system will be voluntary for manufacturers until twenty twenty for it to be completed tory and widespread france will have to get a similar measure

[captioning made possible by democracy now!] from pacifica this is democracacy now! >> this has been a week off soaring bloodshed and casualties in syria. we have rereived repororts thatt 277 civilians were killed. 230 of thesese people were killd in airstrikes by the syrian government and their allies. in addition, 812 people were