hi i'm jim screen thanks for watching france twenty four we start to the bulletin in south africa where the african national congress party is heading for victory with that over half of the votes in about maybe 60% at this stage in the evening the anc currently stand. at about 57% that means it is almost certain to hold on to power a year after jacob zuma was forced to resigngn amid corruption scandals this election is seen as a chance. for the ruling party to turn over a new leaf under the leadership of serial rumple so.

now we're joined from cape town by fancy force i isha. age male who's been following at the elecection at farro said toy are you sure. serial ramaposa had been hoping for a decisive a decisive victory in the selection. so far the score is somewhat lower than in the past can you give us a sense. of at the latest results. well the anc is standing at just under 57% by. agency leaders say that they are confident that the party won't reach over 60% once all the votes have been counted now they all banking on the rule vote and normally. the rural areas at that those results coming much later andnds i i said some of the agency peoe that i spoke to you after the i. e. c. center. in the western cape said that they are confident that they will get over 60% althohough political analysts are

predicting. that it's unlikely that the agency will reach the 60% mark. note this election comes archer jacobson was forced to resign last year tell us about the shadow of corruption that still hangs over. the a and c. with rumple set wanting a fresh start -- well we saw -- jacob zuma being forced to resign lost here following one scandal off to win off to another and also. the fact that he has a criminal charge pending. the e eighteen c. then brought n so we're ramaposa to try and win back the supporters that they had lost because ainsi support as we increasingly becomoming disillusioned and disenchanted with with the african national congress. and so ramaposa jewelry he's election campaigns promised to clean up -- government promised to get rid of corruption at the highest level and also promised

to revive the economy and to create jobs. so it will be important for ramaposasa to go back to parliament with a strong mandate in order to actualally in thesee new changes a and to make good n his election promises. and you can only do this if he has an overwhelming majority given the divisions with in the ruling party and the factions with in the agency that also they also some people that are very loyal. to jacob zuma. all right a i usually ishmael will be a following those results as they come in for a sec. are fronts for for love to see if they reach 60% -- bar that said the anc are. hoping to gas as the election results con continueue to come . no to saddam -- whwhere protest and opposition leadeders called for campaign of civil disobedience on wednesday protesters have been appealing for swift transition to civilian rule after the ouster of omar al bashir? what with the transitional military councncil s so far faig

to satisfy at those demands of protesters the presence of protesters were camping action central khartoum on wednesday evening? earlier we spoke to france reforms nadia massey who is in the sudanese capital she gave us to the test. and hi to him outside the ministry had. gone down ramadan. this place is robbing with the energy thousands of people the one to tell the ministry generals just over that. it's time for you to see authority to the demonstrations in the it's it has gone on now. and it seems to be something of a stalemate. with those negotiations with the ministry about what see down. should like how much you really. should be incorporated into the next administration. and should those elections.

all the celebrations can't tonight there's a warning from the street. to the campaignn of civil disobedience. from next week. now they must be there in the midst of a festive protests in khartoum. back to syria next where a government forces have captured the town of qalat as my deep in the north west of the country. they have come to that of course from rebel forces the government is pursuing an offensive against the largest remaining rebel territory in syria cuts on my dick is located close. to a russian airbase at which was targeted at by insurgents in the past. a decisivetep in a relentless offensive against the final rebel strongholds in the northwestern syriaian province f idlib. on thursday the syrian observatory for human rights and some residents of the town of cut out and maybe it said the town had been captured by syrian government forces. a lot and maybe it was the closest opposition area to the russian how may mean air base which has been crucial to the recent government offensive

against rebel held areas. the province of it live as well as some territory around it is mostly held by the jihadist. a sham group which was previously known as the al nusra front. the region is also home to three million people which is rings concern of a massacre this forces continue their advance. another bloody day for so then it may be a northern hama. thirteen days of continuous bombing targeting most villages in the area. our volunteers pulled bodies of nine civilians were killed today so far including two children and a woman -- last year negotiations between russia and turkey ended with a deal that created a demilitarized zone from which jihadists were reququired to withdraw. turkey was tasked with finding a solution to the problem but little has changed in recent months. syria and russia have now decided to act in order to recover all rebel held areas. ngos are concerned however the troops are deliberately targeting civilians including schools and hospitals. thirteen

health facilities have been hit by bombing in recent days and the fighting is because one hundred and fifty thousand civilians to flee their homes. the un securirity council will hold an emergency meeting on friday to address the situation. the trump administration has seized a north korean cargo ship used to supply coal to the isolated nation the seizure of the vessel detained last month in indonesia was announced. hours are for the north koreans fafar too suspected short range mimissiles in an apparent sign f trouble for nuclear disarmament talks. it also follows a pentatagon decicision to suspend efforts to reach to arrange negotiations on recovering additional remains of us service members. killed in the n north dururing e korean war let's take a listen to donald t trump speaking earar about those nuclear i thought the world of those miss short range missiles being fired off. what we're looking at it very seriously right now they were smaller missiles and short range missiles? nobody's happy about it.

but would take a good look and will say will say -- the relationship continues -- but we'll see what happens i know they want to negotiate they're talking about negotiating but i don't think thth're ready to nenegotiate. now on the l last we spoke a ise earlier to david smith of the guardian newspaper in washington let's take a listen. which seem to reach something of an impasse in these - -- talks - as you say -- to shortt range missile launches -- not to bite out of proportion i i think m my analysts would say if they will- long range missiles and that would be a clear sign. that north korea is turning away from these negotiations on adopting -- i'm not sure a tougher stance -- as it is -- nonorth korea's intenentions hal all very hog -- to read -- some eculate p perhaps -- it's trying to put pressure on south korea to turn away from the us a and engagingreater e economic -- corporationn but we have coming

around the same time as the cz - all of this -- this vessel carrying coal which is the the first time -- the u. s. is -- season north korean -- vessel likeke bass and it's in doing so enforcing them u. n. sanctions - this seems to be some kind of new low point in -- u. s. -- north korea relations -- but as as donald trump was saying there the white house and and mike pompeii -- the sacred state has been careful to say i think still not a deal breaker that's still open to it -- to further talks and using language about these missiles like have projectiles which i'm. sort of physics to down play the of the seriousness of it. the e. u. leaders have rejected turnarounds ultimatum to deliver on their end of the iran nuclear deal this a day after the us president on trump imposed new. sanctions on the country tehran caught cold on the e. u. n. all signatories.

of the twenty fifteen new car parks to come up with a plan to shield the country. from those sanctions set t to ce in i in two months time mode as young as more. in the face of renewed american sanctions against iran you leaders gathered in romania for some it. made it clear that for them up holding the twenty fifty nuclear agreement was paramount. france has been since the beginning committed to the nuclear agreement that we signed a negotiated. this agreement is not sufficient and we intend to improve it after twenty twenty five but our first objective is -- to behold the lamb of twenty fifteen j. c. p. o. a agreements it needs to be upheld around must stay in this agreement what if they don't say that go. the block also reacted to an iranian ultimatum to her and told the youth that if it did not implement a plan to shield iran. from us economic sanctions within sixty days it would resume a higher enrichment of uranium. dust partially withdrawing from

the deal. in a statement t. u. leader said they rejected any ultimatums and reaffirmed their commitment to lifting sanctions for the benefit of the iranian peoplee. they also said they regretted the reieimposition of sanctionsy the united states. the us measures aimed according to the president at pressuring iran to stop destabilizing the region. target to the country's already struggling economy i felt compelled. to authorized new sanctions on iran darn steel aluminum and copper industries [inaudible] because i hope to be able at some point maybe won't happen possibly won't just sit down and work out a fair deal we're not looking to hurt anybody. the e. u. has sent a complicated system to evade us sanctions dubbed in sticks. it says that now it's pursuing efforts to make it operational and enable trade with iran to continue.

the menu nicole has defended france's arms sales to saudi arabia and the united arab opponentnts crititicized a news shipment said to be from the port la. human rights groups have it regularly in critical of fronts for for supplying gulf states -- with weaponry despite allegations of war crimes and civilian deaths in chewing at their military operations inn neighboring yemen let's take a listen now to the french president. some twenty one is the majority of t the armrms that have been d to use within the territory -- at the border but they all use within the scope of the conflict your rightht about that. because we insisted on having the guarantee for the arms not to be used against civilians. now more than thirty thousand prototesters marched on thursday in paris against reforms to the public service those figures according to the cgt union. all of the major trade union leaders were present which is a rare event civil servants are being encouraged to take strike action. many of them also took to the streets around the country at

the junior minister in charge of those reforms alleviate. the soft categorically refused any withdrawal of the reformed comments he made on thursday morning now we're joined. at to discuss out by a doctor andrew smith was a lecturer at the university of chichester thank you for talking to us. on france t twenty four you hava familiarity with that at this speeeed for reform of the frereh public service give us a sense of one of m my unicorn wants. to do and why it's ruffling featathers. sure thank you -- well this really relateses -- to one of macros big projects and that is hardlyly evever since yeah you t startedd. and which you know is t thithis grand figure t that we've hadado much abobout it's about thehe reremoval of a hundred a and twy thousand and civil service post. and by twenty twenty two and that's part of a broader campaign to reduce the expenditure of the state. i'm i'm really that's that's part of this this wider imposed to actually try and introduce this package of reforms.

and the unions are on strike because they fear add this reduction of posts and we saw it way back when so cozy and brought it at and similar kind of reductions by not replacing people when they retired. and but this is really about kind of trying to to do away with posts to use contracted work and rather than a hiring people this also. and discussion of the minute things arrives at a walking time for civil servants as well to change the hours they do every day. so it's quite a broad suite of fact i brought package of measures and designed to really change. the way not at the civil servants and go about their daily business and whether or not they are actually employed by the state. now are for first yearr of successive refeforms wenent thrh pretty fast it's been a series ofofhallenges note. fofor the frenchch p presidency starting all summer with it at the scandal around hehe's -- gud to a gettingng involved a may dy protests that. then of course thehe yellow mass protests att will all of us perhaps strength in the case of ununions who were who were opposing at thesese are publilic

service reforms the fact that. to the frerench govevernment has been weakenedd guess by successive challenges. absolutely am i think one of the things we could see in -- in say the the yellow vest protest is you know something new something different this is very much an old school protest this is a a big meeting of the unions a big show of strength. and we have all those union leaders i was with that union leaders and saves you days if they take a forcece of the atlaa stuff. all of the big leaders arrives and to to to kind of take twowo sure sure a and your strength he andd i think one o of the r reas they they they feel that they are able to do that. is as you say because of the government's position at the minute because it has been slightly weakened and by the silvestro test so for example and in many mccall said when he was at dealing with. and the protestors by was cold the bass probably address that you know he would back off this hundred and twenty thousand figure. if it didn't look like it was gonna be achievable but for the union bosses they smell blood there they smell an opportunity

to really negotiate against that so absolutely there's something there about timing. i think you're also right there's something here as well about the the needs for the french government to do this and we mentioned first of all this that these. and these aims to try and reduce government spending i'm not both and because of things he promised at its response easily shown such as a reduction in income tax. who wants to reduce income tax needs to reduce state spent the eighties trying those savings somewhere but also through the european project as well see a lot of discussion recently about macro and medical and that his last trip across to germany which? really struck a different sort of torn and we see not i can have a criticism of the german growth model and an attempt to trying to have. you know which previously we also french attempt to reduce the deficit now we get a little bit more can have and reticence about that so the senses a couple different competing pressures. on the one hand yes european promises to make to try and reduce the deficit and normalize that budget across the u. result trying to avenge the kind of

evidence good years once having. grown there's been training cards northern europeans as they said best and we'll see this kind of pressure to try. and reduced income tax as well which is brought goats and would you brought about it's in response to some of the strong social problems and he's been facing. at the same time so there is a real issue i think here of timing and we're all these things have come together to strengthen the hand of the unions in trying to demand these changes from government. your parents and you mention to live you do so upset there's no room for negotiation. i think the unions feel otherwise. are is this just a few weeks ahead of a crunch european elections as well certainly tough times far. at the french president right now thank you for those faults andrew smith. pope francis has issued a new law requiring keryx in the catholic church report sexual abuse and cover ups to their superiors. in an effort to hold the hierarchy comfortable enough to select letter published on thursday which is set to become common law. the pope outlined a number r of measasures including providing quick sirir brick whistleblower protection for anyone who report

sexual abuse. selena sites as more. it's the first in the catholic church pope francis has made it mandatory for clergy to report cases of sexual abuse and cover ups giving new guidelines in a police state letter that makes clear that no member of the church. hierarchy w will be exet t from scrutiny. thank you we have had a universal long that's imposes the obligation of repeporting. and it protects those who reports. the bishops are at the service of people than not above the la. and if they do wrong they must also be reported [inaudible] yahoo chat. the pope's letter which iss set to becomome churchh lawaw outlis free forms of sexual abuse. the new rules will require every diocese to have an accessible and confidential system in place by june the first. twenty t twenty i willll provide whistlee blower protection for anyone who makes a sexual abuse

okafor claim. since being elected in two thousand thirteen part fronts has has come under enormous pressure to respond to the global sexual abuse scandal that has engulfed the catholic c chu. is less a comes off that he found to take more concrete actitionst's a club use during alums mall some without the vatican in february. ships and calls from across the woworld. superior and you'll see it as to responsibility on this meeting. commitment forces us to discuss innocence a deep white. how to phrase this evil and evil are fixed charge massey? the guidelines have been described as ground breaking by some vatican commentates as victims groups say they reinfoforce investigations that stay within the catholic church. the law does not require priests and nuns to report to police and does not apply to priests who here for peace during confessions. its center for business with kate movie act case.

is taking hello on the escalation tensions between the us and china you can keep an eye on us tell us what we're going on we're nine hours away in theory james -- from a donald trump imposing his threat of increased and expanded it tariffs on chinese goods -- it could take place just after midnight in washington no talks are under way there beijing has said it will retaliate if he goes ahead. us officials for their part say china has already backed off of commitments made in earlier discussions. president trump has said this evening he will speak to she jing ping by phone soon. he says the deal remains possible but that he believes terrace would otherwise present a quote excellent alternatitive take a listeten. i have no idea what's going to happen i did get last night a very beautiful letter from president xi. let's work together let's see if we can get something done. but they renegegotiated the deai mean they took a whether it's intellectual property theft they took many many parts of that deal and they've renegotiated you can't do that.

and i'm different thahan a lot f people. i happen to think that tariffs for our country. a very powerful. meanwhile the us commerce department reported that in march the trade deficit with china had h had a three yeaear . us exports t to china rising whe imports felt well industry leaders on both sides havee been calling for a longer term truce [inaudible] and reports. toyed with just like you found found a wholesaler in zhejiang province exporters across china a sick of the international trade war. pins on the law. contact with you before we've lost about home off about what is. cheers it's difficult to do business. and difficult to geget money bak trainable homee soon enough and now they don't get any orders from the us. most of our clients from from the middle east and but they're also under un sanctions on my

yeah. i personally have it affects the whole world not just our market not just china megan. since the us first increased tariffs last summer many chinese factories that serve the american markets have been devastated. last month chinese exports to the u. s. drop 13% from a year earlier and industries such as electronics havave seen sales to the u. s. plummets by up 240%. across the pacific the outlook is also bleach exports to china fell by quarter last month in the manufacturing industry is undergoing a significant slowdown. american soy farmers have been particulararly hard hit by chine retaliation. that now cooling on donald trump to end the dispute. our patience is wearing thin as prices remain low in the tariff dispute drags on the financial and emotional toll on us soybean farmers cannot be ignored. the health of all these industries hangs in the balance. this week the us will decide whether or not to stick to presidentt trumpss proposed massive increase on tariffs.

well uncertainty over the outcome of those talks has taken a toll on a global markets once again this thursday -- wall street is pared back some of its earlier very sharp losses we had seen the dow jones down as much as three hundred and fifty points -- we've got less than an hour to go until the closing bell we'll see how investors react to the possibility of a deal anyway. earlier on the major european indices closed sharply lower at the cat counts losing nearly 2% here in paris. well separately us authorities have dececided to block a china mobile from american telecoms operations. company had applied to provide a phone and internet service to us consumers. the federal communications commission voted unanimously to reject it. citing national security risks the move was widely expected as the trump administration is taking a similar stance against walk away. but the timing of the vote could further complicate those ongoing trade talks between washington

and beijing. boeing seven thirty seven max planes remain grounded around the world after two fatal crashes cost three hundred and forty six lives. this week the federal aviation administration it said it was convening a special board to review the proposed s software fifixes. which b boeing hopes wilill gets planes back in the air. i've been seeking to for a pilot and industry expert bjorn ferrum about boeing's brand problem and how much responsibility should be taken by regulatotors. i thihink they should be shoulderingg a about half of the blame for what happenened b baue ththr oversigight has been lackg andd once again it's very damaging for the fha and boeing. how the corporationon we we in . a. a. a and boeing actuaually hs been conducted the m more thahas coming up thee more you would question how they work t togethr faa?? givingng boeing far too much responsibility f far too much -- own. in a revealing all the whatever

problem they have with the ashcroft and not enough oversight so i think f f ace in equal. measure in problem as boeing is. how does a safety and pr crisis like this one affect the aviation industrtry as a whole? it's negative for the aviviation industry i talked to o an airbus executive just recentlyy and hee saidid this is n not good for a. safefety is somethi which iss which the lines a a the akrkron inindustry holdd v very dearr ay don'n't compete onn it. they don't say looook i wasas br yoyou were worse thahat's an absolute no no in this business everyone is working to put in the most safe allied transport system that we n. shshe in the world and this is d for the whole industry. you can see more of that interview in this week's people profit that's on our website principally for calm. well it was meant to be the most secure bank note in the world but israelis new fifty dollar note which was released in october has one in paris sing. for a typo repeated three times

austin corneil has the details. it's a gaffe there is certainly worth its weight in comedy gold an eagle eyed radio reporter in australia spotted a typo on a fifty dollar bank note. the word responsibility is misspelled three times. and the country's central bank has confirmed that yes all forty six million notes in circulation include the same mistake it's a huge mistake and all i made an absolutely huge mistake. australians were quick to give their own two cents about the typo seen around the world. there was the sarcastic you could say could be very answers possible then and stella jake. i think it's sad that people come spell probably anymore don't they have anyone checking it. andd the flat out pragmatic priscilla fifty bucks. that's on that is the fifty dollar bill shows an image of edith cowan the first woman electe to the australian parliament. the typo appears in an extract of a speech she made in.

nineteen twenty one the australian central bank has said it would correct the error in the next print run later this year. in the meantime if australians were looking for a brand new reason to laugh well it seems like

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