south africa's ruling a.n.c. party and likely successor to president zuma. and train carriages fall onto a motorway in washington state police say there have been multiple to. us president donald trump says he will assert american dominance abroad by boosting the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the u.s. military in a wide ranging speech on national security trump also warned the u.s. was facing new competition on the international stage from china and russia but will cooperate where possible a white house correspondent kimberly hellcat reports populism has been a hallmark of his presidency and donald trump again struck that note as he announced a strategy for u.s. national security is an approach he says began when voters rejected the security policies of his predecessors on january twentieth two thousand and seventeen i stood on the steps of the capitol. to herald the day the people became the rulers of their nation again in a rambling and often disjointed address skimmed through the s

party leader it is actually. we can begin to believe that the courts. some believe he has eroded the a.n.c. is all for it. under president zuma the party has lost considerable support he's no stranger to legal action himself he's fighting an ongoing battle to keep hundreds of corruption charges at bay this race is as much about the old leader as it is about the new if the president's a preferred candidate isolated she may be able to protect him from legal action and his post-presidential years but if i wyvil is selected they may be less inclined to help so there is a lot at stake for jacob zuma one commentator said president zuma is legacy is a damaged a.n.c. possibly he might be the worst president ever had. the alliance is almost nonexistent. they lost fifteen percent off. so that average then see the day ended with the nominations in a race that some predicts could be close between current day p.t. presidents. and in courses on a day i mean isn't that the president's supposed favorite whoever wins has an enormous challenge to unite the a.n.c. at a time when it's divisions have been laid to be a tiny pag

this is g w news live from berlin tonight south africa's ruling a.n.c. party elects a new leader to secede jacob zuma it was a tight race with a recount but cyril ramaphosa emerged as the party leader putting him in prime position to run for president in twenty nineteen how does he plan to get from here to there also coming up in washington state in the u.s. a fatal train derailment several people are dead and many more injured after a train drunk jumped the tracks on the bridge will bring you the latest and turkey orders the release of the german journalist michel a total loser from prison but says that she will not be allowed to leave the country. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us today so one of the most important political changing of the guards in post apartheid south africa the country's ruling african national congress elected a new leader deputy president cyril ramaphosa defeated president jacob zuma is exwife in a clogged closely fall race thousands of delegates took part in the vote and much of south africa it was watching as the a.n.c. an

a.n.c. blame the party itself for being him. inefficient responsible for embezzling public funds isn't this something that could undermine the chances of the a.n.c. to win the elections in the future if it doesn't get its act together. i mean every government ought to get its act together in today's global economy complex it is. the advent of the. digital economy globally in fact this revolution experienced seeing has. really disturbed a number of economists or he's not the only one that is disturbed by side. changes in global economy. indeed one must not underscore and base to meet the the corruption element that has been experienced and so are free to however it is not the only issue that we have in fact it does affect your moral and so forth but in terms of the sheer numbers if we were to be just cold to it and deal with the numbers sort of because budget is roughly around one point three trillion ranz and it collects roughly about the same amount in terms of tax revenue you don't see more than five percent of that disappearin

now to south africa where delegates from the country's ruling a.n.c. party are gathering to elect a successor to president jacob zuma whose term as leader of the party has come to an end when it's shaping up to be a tight race one of the frontrunners is xena's ex-wife and former foreign minister and causes on a new zuma she's a leftist who's voted to improve prospects for the country's black majority she's up against deputy president serial ramaphosa he said business friendly trade unionist and one of the way wealthiest people on the continent. well for more on this we're joined by journalist philip divest from the mail and guardian in jenna's both philip the a.n.c. is deeply divided some of the delegates have been in exclude it from this convention at the very last minute tell us more about that last six hours be i'm sure julie. is this conference a great deal of their time was taken up by. trying to figure out what to do with a number of cases that came to me yesterday that excluded some of its delegates now today up to this afternoon we have cases where b

well if you talk about atmosphere in general i would say it's the typical a.n.c. party meeting with lots of singing and dancing delegates supporting their candidate it's songs but colorful. underneath the strong song tensions and divisions within the a.n.c. . it's all about two factions in the party one faction supporting of the now president jacob zuma and his favorite candidate his ex-wife and then the other people within the party who want to have a change and how harsh that fight is being licked you can see always visible when discussions are possible bribery around election process evolved there was people being void about that maybe money was being paid by candidates to make it to delegates in their favor so how would that work i mean if someone would get money a bribe to vote in this way all the other person would need to truths that he or she did exactly like that and one. would be using your cell phone take a picture of your ballot paper and send that picture off serious those allegations being taken by the party you can see by looking at the rules they were se

country and what this could mean for the rest of the world also coming up south africa's ruling a.n.c. party alexei new leader to seceded jacob zuma it was a tight race but zero room opposed. and is now in prime position to run for president in two thousand and nineteen and freed after eight months in a turkish prison authorities released the german journalist michel a total but say she is not allowed to leave the country. i bring coffee it's good to have you with us it was billed as a yes. speech on the united states' new national security strategy but president donald trump offered many familiar messages in a major foreign policy speech today that included chastising past u.s. leaders for failing to protect america's national interest and promising to pursue a doctrine of america first outlining his new strategies for main pillars trump valent to boost homeland protection promote american prosperity demonstrate military strength and advance u.s. influence in the world. we want to go now to washington our correspondent carsten phenomena is on the story for worse good evening to you karsten

zuma to account over a scandal related to state funded upgrades to his private home gym is ruling a.n.c. party says it will discuss the judgment at a meeting in january. in new york at least twelve people have died after a fire tore through an apartment building for others in a critical condition the city's mayor calling the blaze in the bronx neighborhood the worst the city has seen in. a quarter of a century. an injury at least fourteen people have been killed by a large blaze in the financial capital moment by officials say the fire started in a popular restaurant and quickly spread through a four story building more than fifty people were injured. and improve police have been clashing with people demonstrating against the pardon granted to former president are better for him already thousands of people taking to the streets of lima in the biggest protest yet since the pardon was announced would you morty has served less than half of a twenty five year prison sentence for corruption and human rights abuses. now people in italy will be heading to the polls in march of next year to elect a ne

party's candidate. now to south africa where the ruling african national congress is fighting for its future the a.n.c. scandal prone party needed jacob zuma said the party's future depended on members unify behind its new nida well zuma also admitted to many failings in the past his ex-wife and former foreign minister and then closes on a mini zuma one of is one of the front runner as she's a leftist who's vowed to improve prospects for the country's black majority a main competitor is deputy president cyril ramaphosa he's a business friendly trade unionist and one of the wealthiest people on the continent. for more on this we're joined by journalist philip divest from the man and guardian in johannesburg philip jacob zuma just gave a speech an admitted failings which have weakened the ruling party the a.n.c. has been plagued by scandal and corruption allegations nevertheless it is almost certain to win the elections next year so why is that well voters on the ground tell us that they are reasonable and that they could vote well so it does look like the weather and coalition or not it will retain at le

now to south africa where a potentially historic vote is set to take place the ruling a.n.c. party is gathering right now to elect a successor to president jacob zuma and the race is shaping up to be too close to call one of the front runners is due much ex-wife and foreign foreign minister. suma she's a leftist who has vowed to improve prospects for the country's black majority she's up against deputy president cyril run oppose out he's a business friendly trade unionist and one of the wealthiest people in africa the winner will likely be south africa's next president. for more on this joining us from johannesburg is journalist with the mail and guardian philip devitt philip it's good to see you it's a close race between the two potentially splitting the party rather evenly could this balloon into a larger crisis for the n.c. well it could indeed in the race it's got closer in the last couple of minutes you know. who would expect it to poach will go some of the smoke will. elicit it seems now so to speak and that means that these two frontrunners all within a couple of percentage

this is g w news live from berlin tonight south africa's ruling a.n.c. partyelects a new leader to secede jacob zuma it was a tight race with a recount but cyril ramaphosa emerged as the party leader putting him in prime position to run for.

account over a scandal related to a state funded upgrades to his private home soon his ruling a.n.c. party says it will discuss the judgment at a meeting in january. in india at least fourteen people have been killed by a large blaze in the financial capital moved by officials say the fire started in a popular restaurant and then quickly spread through a four story building more than fifty people were injured and we stay in india where lawmakers in the lower house of parliament passed a bill that could prosecute muslim men who try to divorce their wives and a practice known as instant divorce the bill outlaws to solving marriages by saying or reading the word luck which is arabic for divorce three times in succession while offending husbands could get up to three years in prison the bill comes after in the us supreme court ruled instant divorce is unconstitutional more than twenty muslim nations around the world have already banned the practice. while the bill is not without controversy. is in india for a us ashish how important is this bill and how widespread is this practice in india . b

account over a scandal related related to state funded upgrades to his private homes humans' ruling a.n.c. party says it will discuss the judgment at a meeting in january. in india at least fourteen people have been killed by a large blaze in the financial capital mumbai officials say the fire started in a popular restaurant and quickly spread through a four story building more than fifty people were injured and in new york at least twelve people have died after a fire tore through a no apartment building four others are in critical condition the city's mayor called the blaze in the bronx neighborhood the worst this city has seen any quarter of a century. here in germany the case of a fifteen year old stabbed to death this week has become a focus of national attention the suspected killer was her ex-boyfriend a young refugee from afghanistan he reportedly threatened and harassed her prior to the crime and we'll talk to our correspondent about the reaction to this case in just a moment but first this report. they want to show their grief and mentos for the girl who was killed in this drug store p

s line from brolin in south africa the ruling a.n.c. party has just announced who will become the new leader to succeed jacob zuma the winner is president sarawak run poza he fought a close contest with seumas ex-wife sana limey zuma also coming up. turkey has ordered the release of german journalist and michel tulu from prison but says she won't be allowed to leave the country. in. a very warm welcome on layla iraq in berlin joined by my colleague christine moon because in south africa the country's ruling a.n.c. has elected the country's deputy president cyril round posing as its next leader he will take over from jacob zuma we're watching here live pictures of his supporters in the jubilation voting took place overnight and it was a tight race between the two front runners ramp. roser and former minister and costars are meanies whom are present rumors ex-wife but in the end there was ram poser who won it was it is widely regarded as a pivotal moment for the country the winner will be well placed to become south africa's next president in t

the new leader of south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. is calling for unity so around a poser who is currently the deputy president will take over from president jacob zuma. ex-wife. zuma in the vote at the party conference which was preceded by a bitter campaign. campaigning for catalonia snap parliamentary election is drawing to a close catalans head to the polls of thursday for a vote that could decide if that province breaks away from spain members of the party of full mccaslin president praised among calling for his government to be reinstated those are the headlines but stay within around his area inside story is next. living life in partial or total darkness according to the world health organization approximately two hundred fifty three million people globally the vision impaired to protect the blind. today on technique.

africa where a potentially historic vote is set to take place delegates from the country's ruling a.n.c. partyare gathering right now to elect a successor to president jacob zuma is shaping up to be a tight race one of the front runners is zuma ex-wife and former foreign minister and poses zuma she's a leftist who's vowed to improve the prospects for the country's black majority she's up against deputy president cyril rama poza he's a business friendly trade unionist and one of the wealthiest people on the continent the winner will likely be south africa's next president. for more on this we're joined by journalist philip yvette from the mail and guardian philip thanks for taking the time the race between the two candidates is too close to call there are new developments though this hour that could make it even closer can you tell us about that. well in the next hour of this conference we find. five hours later the reason for that delay some last minute legal action came to me yesterday that has now seen the exclusion of what reach out to be a two point five percent of the voting delegates at

took part in the vote for party leader much of south africa watched as the party announced who had won the poll now the a.n.c. which is known as the party of nelson mandela has ruled south africa since the end of apartheid the last three party leaders have all served as president of south africa. here is what here is that moment when it became official that cyril ramaphosa had clinched the agency's top job. i mean is the received. two to six one. and come great sinner am of course received four zero zero zero one thousand. three. hundred thing you. should know. you can see right there in that hall how divided the a.n.c. is i'm joined here at the big table by the servant and she's a south african journalist she has joined me here many times to talk about the situation in south africa it's good to have you back on the show so what do you make of this very close vote what does it tell us i mean the new a.n.c. president he doesn't have a strong mandate from the entire party does he know he doesn't have stolen that at all it's basically the dip the party is now divided right down the middle and the top six is of

tries to influence people next to its focus will be on making sure the a.n.c. is party policy is adopted by government and implemented so that becomes a reality for the palestinian people the u.s. sanctions against to north korean scientists known for their role in the country's missile program kim jong sick and the repealing choi are thought to be senior figures in the north korean leaders kim jong un's ballistic missile development team the sanctions or the latest move in a pressure campaign by the u.s. to denuclearize the korean peninsula. much of the world's plastic waste ends up in oceans where it impacts badly on animals and their habitats in the u.s. city of seattle a group of activists have found a unique way to limit the damage inflicted on the environment while friends reports . the streets around seattle's famous pike place market are full of cafes and restaurants the coffee is delicious but single use cups utensils and straws generate q.j. amounts of paper and plastic waste in this environmentally conscious city an activist group called lonely whale is urgin

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in the town of central philippines the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. party is calling for unity after a bitter election campaign so who is currently the deputy president will take over from jacob zuma as leader i'm oppose a bit zimmer's ex-wife in the leadership vote the party conference on monday tanya page has been getting reaction from around the poses hometown so. several is from soweto most people here are pleased he's the new president of the governing african national congress oh i'm so happy i'm so happy it's a good thing really it is there we were we're you know we waved outing we're just drowning but now i am happy he may have lived it's noisy busy streets behind to become one of south africa's richest men but some thought he'd never get his humble roots i think you take the country to a better live or the news business big grown i don't think is that and he's been to school you know and he's you grew up you were born and grew up in soviet so you know news of the people and there are many problems increasing numbers of south africans no longer vote

apartheid was a mass movement across civil society religious groups trade unions and political parties so the a.n.c. doesn't have a monopoly on that close connection to the palestinian cause in fact last night it was the second largest opposition political party the economic freedom fighters that protested outside the israeli in the sea and the torah when the one hundredth anniversary of the balfour agreement was marred which helped lead to the creation of israel. this is the johannesburg office of b.d.s. a global movement calling for the boycott divestment and sanctions on israel they were the people lobbying and c delegates to downgrade south africa's embassy in jerusalem we're here to talk to its spokesperson quote i can garner about the significance of the move when the a.n.c. asserts itself as the oldest liberation movement in the african continent in a way that also sends a message to other african you know that fricken governments but also other liberation movements formulation west african continent that this is the kind of you know wave on a need to riding this wave as well these posters a

focused on change in the sense of doing away with corruption or new will of the party making sure that this idea of the a.n.c. is corrupt party is put to be because on attorneys zuma singing the song of which equals a radical economic transformation so she has promised to change the economy full debate to the she for black people in south africa but given the split between them in the party and the delegates he need to be slow to write in the middle it seems that there are big portions of the ng see that doesn't believe that one will either of them are telling the truth why didn't jacob changing that put his hat in the right. and there was some talk about jacob zuma taking a salute as present of the a c. however it will be slow to the kite about changing the constitution so the line can be the search of precepts of that country of science again that was shut down very quickly it was made very clear within the sea that no one will allow such changes to the constitution and they see decided that the crew have to see how the ideology remains but the presence of the arch it must feel present to the country and m

a close contest south africa's ruling a.n.c. party votes to choose a new leader to replace jacob zuma plus. two point five billion people across the world don't have a bank accounts many of them live right here in africa by now that's how a small city police company is using not banks but in old traditional saving methods to try to bridge this gap. and he is ruling be j.p. looks set to retain prime minister narendra modi's home state of his rod overcoming a child. and for the main opposition party after early poor showings the p.g. paper moved ahead in the election which was seen as a test for modi he's been the chief minister of chris rock for three terms and the party has ruled the state for twenty two years in his life largest city amid a pot so. what's what's the work coming from the beach a.p.'s sense of relief perhaps that they seem to pull this out. that's right official results haven't come in yet but what is clear is that they have a majority of the legislative assembly yes huge amount of relieved this is b j p state it's bee

jerusalem as israel's capital to the united nations and we could soon know who south africa's ruling a.n.c. party will choose as its new leader to replace jacob zuma. but again with breaking news out of afghanistan an attack is under way at a military training center in kabul gunman stormed a partially constructed building near an intelligence training center this is in the west of the city a government spokesman says the attackers are battling al. and security forces and reinforcements have been dispatched we'll continue to follow that developing story for you. chile has become the latest latin american country to shift to the political right by electing conservative billionaire sebastian pinera as president you know easily overcame his center left opponent in the runoff vote it's the second time he's been elected to lead america to see a new miniport some santiago. chile's billionaire president elect to got what he wanted another crack at the presidency for the second time in twenty seven years chile has swung from the center left to the center right both times the civil stamping it out the mar

the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. partyis calling for unity after a bitter leadership election the country's deputy president cyril ramaphosa will take over as party leader from president jacob zuma tanya page been getting reaction from roma for rather post says hometown so what's up. several posts from soweto most people here are pleased he's the new president of the governing african national congress oh i'm so happy i'm so happy it's a good thing really it is that we were we're you know we wait now dealing with but now i am happy he may have left it's noisy busy streets behind to become one of south africa's richest men but some thought he'd never get his humble roots i think you take the country to bits and every news business big groan i don't think is that he's been to school you know. he's you grew up he was born and grew up in so it so you know needs of the people and there are not many problems increasing numbers of south africans no longer vote for the a.n.c. which they feel has failed to deliver on its promise of

a.n.c. head the party is deeply divided though between former cabinet minister and the ex-wife of jacob zuma. and the deputy president cyril ramaphosa zuma successor is likely to lead the a.n.c. into the presidential election in two thousand nine hundred fifty four the national conference is taking place at a time when. his movement is at a crossroads. why do we identify corporate. as pull through a serious threats to the a.n.c. . we need to look at the term memory chips we. were going to our other top stories to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraq's yazidi minority of been found near the north western town of sin jar nineteen bodies have reportedly been discovered including women and children i still took over this town in two thousand and fourteen killing and in slaving thousands of members of the richest minority group more and more refugees are choosing to take a new dangerous route to get into europe few are taking the old route across the seat the greek islands of less boston kiosks now thousands are crossing the land border from turkey into northeastern greece which m

after a big three four campaign to lead south africa's a.n.c. party that counting the ballots to see who will replace jacob zuma. jane dutton this is al jazeera life and also coming up. we. do celebrations as india's ruling party looks set to hold on to the prime minister's home state of gujarat also. political crisis in the gulf add special meaning to qatar's national day celebrations plus. two point five billion people across the world don't have a bank account to me you can live right here in africa by next how a small so the company is using not banks but in all traditional saving methods to try to bridge this gap. votes are being counted off to thousands of delegates from south africa's ruling party voted for the new leader the secret ballot began pos midnight's in the elections seen as a decisive moment in the country's post apartheid history deputy president cyril rama pose a wealthy businessman and former minister and. zuma who is president jacob zuma ex-wife of the two main candidates the new leader will lead the a.n.c. into the two thousand

south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has announced it's their leader cyril ramaphosa who is currently the deputy president he'll be taking over from president jacob zuma paid a fee to zuma as ex-wife and the vote at the party conference tanya page reports in johannesburg hundred seven member because it is the new president of the african nation the very i. have a lot of posters supposes erupted in cheers as he was late to the stage if penned the hopes of the african national congress and the country on him i'm sure they'd be about the president because the president has been a member of the n.a.c. the debris the president has been in the business sector for a very long time. i'm sure during the close in the crisis that we save the economy karl is a country who will have some improvements but i'm of course a has a head for fishnets and that could be what's needed to get the economy back on track so millions of unemployed south africans can have hope he helped write the constitution and helped negotiate the peaceful transi

the new head of south africa's ruling a.n.c. party is calling for unity after a better leadership election poser who is currently the deputy president will take over from president jacob zuma. exwife in the leadership post on monday and base of a good day is research at al-jazeera centers for studies he joins us from johannesburg so is robert is the man who can unite the a.n.c. . all the branches of spoken and according to them they do believe that sort of opposing ease the men who could unify the ac and the signs are that he might just do that. ok and what are his plans for jacob zuma do you think you think he can persuade him to step down for the next presidential election. while i think they're trying to avoid a repeat of what happened in the previous conference of the scene in the corner where the incumbent tub mbeki was forced to resign after jacob zuma was elected into power so there might just want to see him throw his tenure as a president of the country so the chances by the the looks of things and what you hear from some of

south africa's president pleaded for unity as the ruling party the a.n.c. prepares to elect a new leader and jacob zuma as a last convention as head of the party he said it's time to repair the deep divisions within the organization tanya page reports under hannah spark i the conference started with two warnings don't to saying divisive songs and keep the chairs on the ground everybody expats that shares will be flying around this conference or we can say that you will not in this conference. a.n.c. members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the country's courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. sort of. we can begin to believe that the courts. some believe he has eroded the a.n.c. he's all for it. under president zuma the party has lo

south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. is expected very shortly to announce who will succeed president jacob zuma as it's needed it's party conference in johannesburg the win it will almost certainly lead the party into the twenty nineteen election when zuma steps down as president often second term the two official candidates are current deputy president zero on the poza and zuma is ex-wife and closes on a meanie. on your pages at the conference in johannesburg and spence is killing us isn't that we've been waiting for this for quite a while now any hints and clues as to who is going to. no i don't have any so close i think if you start giving you sort of fall into a bit of a trap because they had said earlier it would be closer to midnight and then they said five or ten minutes of that was about an hour or so ago so without a doubt they have never been closer but exactly when we just can't say this wasn't just the race for the presidency but for all top six positions in the. the four thousand eight hundred delegates had q