in the near future within the a.n.c. i would say that for now the a.n.c. has managed to mend some bridges there's clearly been a coming together within the party and i think a delicate balance has been struck and the party is probably quite hopeful that moving forward there can be a greater sense of purpose and of unity within the party of course there are some very very difficult challenges in the immediate future of both the party and the country and the new president of the a.n.c. has got a very full inbox when it comes to some of the issues that he has to deal with some of the immediately pressing concerns of the the court case that has deferred the appointment of a new director of public prosecutions from the current sitting president of the country to the deputy president which is also now the new president of the a.n.c. serum oppose it and i think that this this issue will be resolved in early january february and this has the potential to open it up again some of the the wounds that this conference that the n.c.a.a. has already i mean so mystify co

women's league and the a.n.c. youth league these are very critical components of of our struggle in fact of the mest democratic movement and as such she stands a very good chance of being nominated this weekend. delegates who were barred from this conference because courts deem that they've been illegally elected they were pro law means in their you concerned that's going to upset the vote well they is a suggestion that they were pro the meanies woman but that is not quite it you can never be certain of see in quite a lot of several of these conferences you can go to a conference thinking you've got in your bag certain delegates only to find that in fact you don't part of the tech ticks of conferencing in the a.n.c. is really to hold you or your final wood into your heart things changed we saw things changing in twenty two thousand and seven in fact in a conference in paulo garnier where the then president really thought he was going or when president in big who in fact in his ticket he was running against jacob z

we want to go now to do so he is serving the a.n.c. congress force in south africa good evening to you so let's talk about the new leader of the a.n.c. mr poe's i mean he has a watch on his plate right now he's got to regenerate this party he's got to put south africa's economy back on the map can he do all of that it. is a bit difficult task a full set of them of course is you knew that there were two signs one science does promise of musume in the other one so. when you look at the top six outlays and we did say meeks his deputies from the other side in the second didn't if the parties from the other side what sort of try and get these people what didn't get them the bequests and were able to say when did this. when they were complaining this way that you find that there's it in different who listens in terms of who they want to vote the economy oh the upper they want to oppose the units within the a.n.c. and now it is time to assume will try and get that december and into it to come up with it but you see after weeks or it direction

not really the a.n.c. is going to stay there and it's probably also going to be elected again in the next elections in twenty nineteen but one has to really say it's lost its importance its credibility in the last twenty three years there is corruption in the a.n.c. particularly in the provinces and cases in brazil and atol posts are being brought . politically motivated murders we've seen thirty of them this year alone. that's alone in the a.n.c. and then the president himself he's faced with hundreds of corruption charges fraud extortion and money laundering so all this together has led to the party losing vote to support and that has meant that the party has lost all the major cities in south africa so it's the opposition party the main opposition party the democratic alliance running the major cities now so obviously the hopes are now on the two main candidates. and fiddled around a pause there do they have a chance to actually change the party well the party is deeply divided and one has to also see t

and that sort of court action was eroding the authority of the a.n.c. right so jacob zuma trying to step in there he very much wants to be a part of this process he's. been calling for party unity what are the prospects for him though going forward. well this is where we've seen that you know really the enormous amount of influence he wields in the party and the reason really for him trying to will that at this instant is because he's in trouble legally himself the a.n.c. fighting amongst themselves for the president's name has been dragged into the courts in recent months and here is the real concern he must have many people in south africa believe in commentators as well and people within the a.n.c. which is why they believe the president has caused such damage to the party is that he does have the sit in hundred eighty three corruption charges hanging over him which the civil courts in south africa have ordered should be reinstated which he is still trying to fight now it is possible that if somebody who wasn't listen climbed to try and protect the p

the current chairperson of the a.n.c. who had put her hand up to say she wanted to be a.n.c. president she has withdrawn from the presidential race and says she supports so poster now so perhaps her followers will go along with him and lend their votes to him so perhaps you know a suggestion there that there was some sort of conversation worked out and possibly if he is even to win or she may have a top position in his. inner circle and there's so much riding on this not just for the a.n.c. as a party but also for the twenty nine thousand presidential election when will we finally know who the president of the a.n.c. is. exactly a lot riding on it and that's why nobody's and the her evil wants to make sure that it is done properly and particularly as far as the a.n.c. is concerned they want to be sure that the chicken of credentials of who can and who shouldn't be allowed to vote was because they don't want there to be any grounds for any of the legal challenges which have delayed the proceedings so far if you like so what they did earlier in the day was they now it's those c

and a on the a.n.c. . on the respective visions of the leading candidates the dos state indeed of the a.n.c. itself and the possible scenarios going forward as a q. and a right there if you go a little bit further down you can find access to an opinion piece by rooms on the right there which is well worth a read. well all in all of the stories that we're covering do keep in touch with us so you can tweet us at a.j. english or facebook dot com slash a.j. newsgroup or indeed what's at plus nine seven four five zero one triple one four nine and of course use grid is the hash tag a palestinian billionaire who heads up one of the middle east's biggest banks has been arrested in saudi arabia summit amount three is the chairman of arab bank it was on a business trip to riyadh but his family says that he's been detained for questioning saudi arabia recently arrested several businessmen and princes in a so-called corruption crackdown let's speak now to rami hoary who's a professor and professor and see media fellow

and the a.n.c. unself has been plagued by scandal and corruption allegations nevertheless it's almost certain to win the elections next year we spoke to philip divot his agenda for the mail and guardian in johannesburg and we asked him why the a.n.c. is still so popular votes on the ground tell us that they have a reasonable and that they could vote full so it does look like the a winner in coalition or not it will retain at least a great deal of policy. that this extraordinary speech by president jacob zuma showing us that he realizes just how much trouble he's using it was a very angry figure on that saying she was talking about how the media had turned against south africa in a certain trait cool docs made this with tears in his own party alliance hotness the judiciary holiness people who he says is to begin the a c. so now for the first time we're getting the sense that president jacob zuma realizes that he and his pontius very trouble and that it's becoming unified a good time for between two n

observers say it's in danger of splitting into the a.n.c.and at the battle against apartheid and has governed south africa since the country's first democratic elections in one thousand nine hundred ninety four 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 and 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 have a reasonable and that they could vote well so it does look like the weather and coalition will not retain at least a great deal of power throughout south africa but this extraordinary speech by president jacob zuma showing us that he realizes just how much trouble he's using he was actually very angry figure on that saying she was talking about how the media acted against africa in a certain trait called ox members with tears in his own party alliance

well the a.n.c. has easily won all elections that the whole. will in south africa and even the lawsuits of elections with a shock to climb and that's all it's the old saw around fifty four percent of voters voting for it at the moment its popularity is the climbing quite quickly but a lot of artists tell us that they are simply no alternatives yes no opposition parties that they believe and so chances are perhaps apply a coalition that soul of the a.n.c. will maintain power comes great in ninety all right phillip yvette in johannesburg thank you out of the other stories making news around the world romania is holding a hero of folk in michael who died this month off to a known struggle in kenya and skin cancer he died at the age of ninety six in exxon in switzerland my career on a new twice for he was forced to abdicate by the country's former communist regime in one nine hundred forty seven. german chancellor angela merkel's bavarian conservative sister party has reelected. it's needed but with his weakest support so far civil fire has been un

the a.n.c. veteran cyril ramaphosa is elected as the new leader of the party putting him in line to be south africa's next president. and after a billionaire conservative regains chile's presidency the stock market is on the rise but so too are fears about the future of the current government social reforms . the u.s. president has outlined what he calls a new and very different national security strategy trump warned of a great power competition with russia and china he promised to assert u.s. dominance abroad by boosting the economy and spending hundreds of billions of dollars modernizing the military and white house correspondent kimberly help it now from washington. 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

is fortunes the fear right now is that the a.n.c. is being pushed out into the room areas as a music support in this war urban areas and we saw that in the last government a local government election how they lost key metros the administrative capital pretoria being one of them and that was the middle class black south africans saying to the a.n.c. i'm not happy anymore and so a lot of people fear that this party this liberation party the oldest liberation. bhaji on the continent is going to be reduced to some party and that genuine fia has pushed people to say we need change and that change they see and they feel will come with sort of a poster who who buy it and large has that as a tia sort of record he's not been affiliated with too much scandal like i say has been outside of politics he came back five years ago he's been steadily building his base he's got good relationships in the political community good relationships within the business community within the international community as well art will have to wait and see what hap

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 w

the battle for power in south africa the ruling a.n.c. chooses a new leader who will probably be the next president but the successor to jacob zuma make a difference and does the a.n.c. still appeal to the eye.

and there was some talk about jacob zuma taking on a third term as president of the a.n.c. however we floated the kite about changing the constitution and so allowing him to be the third term president of the country of south africa that was shot down very quickly it was made very clear within the a.n.c. that no one would allow such change to the constitution and they decided that it simply couldn't have to see the ideology remains that the president of the party must be the president of the country and that students he must turn must come to an end. in ghana is that thanks for that. now some of the other stories making news around the world european royals have joined tens of thousands of remain ians at a state funeral for the country's late monic king michael diet died in exile in switzerland earlier this month had ruled romania twice before being forced up to kate in one nine hundred forty seven under remain his former communist regime. german chancellor angela merkel's bavarian conservative sister party has reelected post as its leader but with his weakest support so fa

a.n.c. south africa's ruling party prepares to choose a successor to president jacob zuma. it turns out all those conspiracy movies were right the u.s. military was studying it still might be. just around the world against the u.s. decision to recognize tourism as israel's capital are gaining new momentum tens of thousands around. outside of the u.s. embassy in indonesia against washington's decision earlier this month they called on president to stop plans to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem it's the fourth mass rally in tunisia sense to us announcement as he has more from jakarta than of thousand indonesians are gathering here in the late those and the biggest rally to protest u.s. president are not trying to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel men women children carrying palestinian flags and banners condemning them or feel the national monument in jakarta as early as today wearing what muslim people traveled from out of town to show solidarity to palestine. prayers an

if the a.n.c. doesn't vote what the country sees as the right way of what the electorate sees as the right way there's a very real possibility that come twenty nineteen the a.n.c. may well find itself not in power anymore or at the very least with a hung parliament that is becoming an increasingly real possibility we've got growth of less than one percent at present loads of unemployment many sectors currently shedding jobs so you have a situation where the economy is nosediving where there is the possibility in the very near future of a further ratings downgrade we're already at junk status it's a really a make or break election for the a.n.c. in that sense in terms of jacob zuma a lot really depends on whether this national elective conference actually decides to recall him as president of the country once the new president of the a.n.c. has been voted in if mrs zuma lovingly zuma wins it is unlikely that will happen will therefore probably see mr zuma remaining frezza didn't have the country til

obama's declaration that climate change poses a national security threat south africa's ruling party the a.n.c. is expected to announce who will succeed president jacob zuma as its leader and his party conference in johannesburg the winner will most certainly lead the party into the twenty nineteen election when zuma steps down as president after his second term the two official candidates are current deputy presidents around the poser and zuma is ex-wife because as honor lamine is huma. three gunmen who stormed a construction site in the afghan capital kabul have been killed after a standoff with security forces it's believed they took control of the partially built building in order to fire down at a neighboring intelligence training center. zimbabwe's army has declared an end to the military intervention that ousted former president robert mugabe armed soldiers have promised to shut down their last roadblocks in the capital and hand over to police those bad ones to stay with us on our toes or counting the cost is up next hour more news for you after that by phone or. hello i'm come on santa

president the a.n.c. is likely to win the twenty nineteen general elections so the opposition are hoping that in courses on a gets its can. get elected a president should know by the end of the day and it will either be celebrations here at nazareth johannesburg and celebrations in the streets of johannesburg or a more economic depression for the country. military chiefs in zimbabwe have officially ended their operation that forced former president robert mugabe to resign it was always just months concerns clear the who would replace him bob his longtime leader intervention paved the way for his former deputy emerson one on god to take power. and its main objective was to remove criminals that did sorrow and did the former president resulting in and haiti and disappointed in amongst our people while some of the individuals have been accounted for. as cuba the country this notwithstanding the objectives of the operation have to realize the extent been achieved. celebrations are underway and cats are for it

well the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates will vote in the secret ballot in the past vote buying and intimidation are acknowledged to have swayed leadership contest after years of seumas rule soaring unemployment and government corruption have left millions of poor black south africans restricted with the a.n.c. the candidates then to replace them are as we said deputy president cyril ramaphosa is a wealthy businessman backed by the business community which believes he offers the best hope for the economy and a.n.c. veteran and calls design a meanie zuma is jacob zuma six wife she's expected to deliver a continuation of his policies and is seen as more likely to protect him from the seven hundred eighty three corruption and fraud charges currently levied against him how do you pay just more from the conference in johannesburg. all of the nominations for the top six positions in the african national congress have now been confirmed and as expected it is down to a two horse

if the a.n.c. doesn't vote what the country sees as the right way what the electorate sees as the right way there's a very real possibility that come twenty nineteen the a.n.c. may well find itself not in power anymore or at the very least with a hung parliament that is becoming an increasingly real possibility so it's crucial for the a.n.c. it's also crucial for the country there are going to be implications for the economy which is already dire with growth of less than one percent at present loads of unemployment many sectors currently shedding jobs so you have a situation where the economy is nosediving where there is the possibility in the very near future of a further ratings downgrade we're already at junk status. it's a really a make or break election for the a.n.c. in that sense. funerals are being held for the four palestinians killed by israeli forces in the latest protests in gaza and the occupied west bank they were rallying against the u.s. decision to recognize jerusalem as israel's c

will go on most likely to be president of the country when the a.n.c. goes and disputes the two thousand and nineteen general election but of course it's much wider than that the a.n.c. is an enormously popular party here in south africa it's been in government since the end of apartheid to and it has enormous control over not only national government but also at the provincial level and that matters to all south africans because people want to see a leader and the leadership elected here that will get the economy back on track growth has been sluggish and unemployment officially is at about twenty seven percent time to page live in johannesburg tanya thank you. it's really forces have killed four palestinians in the latest protests in gaza in the occupied west bank they were rallying against us president all trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital of disabled man in a wheelchair among the dead abraham araya was shot by israeli forces while he was protesting in gaza it was an activists who were. he lost his legs during an israeli air strike

many south africans see this contest as a battle for the heart of the a.n.c. will the party continue in the mold of president jacob zuma by electing his preferred candidate or will it make a break with the past and choose a rival. his favorite candidate in courses that mean it may be able to protect him from legal action involving corruption allegations the other front runner is current d.p.t. president ceramic poser regardless of who comes out on top is likely to be replaced as president before the general election in two thousand and nineteen. the president will have to go earlier next year my sense is that the first quarter of next year he will have to goal. the question is how will he goal if. there might throw a big party for the president to go if. the president of the union building either way the president is going to have to call the polls my dispensation is being forged now the question is how different will it be from his most college child maybe protests. it isn't just the top job that's up for grabs so are dozens of positions in the n c's hierarch

not elected a.n.c. president in the a.n.c. is going to suffer in the elections there's also the issue of generational mix that has raised its head here at the a.n.c. it's conference opposition leaders are quite young you look at the likes of julius malema from the fair few look at the likes of musi my money from the da and they are in their mid thirty's while the candidates contesting for the election somewhere in this seventies and that needs to be watched closely so if the a.n.c. does not make the right election decision today in terms of its presidential election it could lose elections in south africa in twenty nine or very good to get your thoughts thank you. the un is calling on countries to ensure the safety of people on the move as the world observes international migrants day the total number of international migrants has increased from an estimated one hundred seventy five million in two thousand and two hundred forty four million in two thousand and fifteen nearly two thirds of those migrants are living in the europ

a.n.c. south africa's ruling party prepares to choose a successor to president jacob zuma. and a billionaire a palestinian businessman arrested in saudi arabia is released he was detained as part of the state anti-corruption campaign. place in australia have charged a man they say was a loyal agent for north korea who tried to sell missile components and coal on the global black market australian resident shanahan choi was arrested and sydney after allegedly trying to make sales on behalf of pyongyang worth millions of dollars or korea's cash flow has been severely restricted under un sanctions aimed at pressuring the government to stop its missile program australian prime minister says north korea is trying to support itself by selling illegal goods. north korea is a dangerous reckless criminal regime threatening the pace of the region it supports itself by breaching u.n. sanctions not simply by selling commodities like call and and other goods but also by selling weapons by selling drugs b

as ex-wife and courses on the dummy's in or of been formally nominated as candidates to leave the a.n.c. a decision is expected to be reached by monday battle for powers exposed deep divisions within a policy that shop the last public support of a time when the a.n.c. says that four thousand seven hundred and seventy six delegates will vote in that secret ballot in the past vote buying and intimidation or acknowledged to have swayed leadership contests after years of seumas rule soaring unemployment and government corruption of left millions of poor black south africans frustrated with the a.n.c. as you say the candidates to replace him the deputy president cyril ramaphosa is a wealthy businessman and is backed by the business community that they believe that he offers the best hope for the economy and then there is a.n.c. veteran and causes on the damini zuma who is jacob zuma as ex-wife she is expected to deliver a continuation of his policies and is seen as more likely to protect him from the seven hundred eighty three corruption and fraud charges against him tanya page has more from

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

a.n.c. officials go behind closed doors as they prepare to choose a successor to the south african president. the chorus of condemnation against u.s. recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital is getting louder a days of protests have been held in cities across the globe this was the scene a short while ago in the turkish capital ankara where hundreds wave flags in support of the palestinians the biggest protest was an indonesian where tens of thousands of people poured onto the streets of jakarta for this trump protest thousands of demonstrators also gathering in the pakistani city of karachi in a show of solidarity with the palestinians we have reporters covering several of the demonstrations underway. in islamabad but we begin with the tasha good name joining us live in ankara talk us through the scene there and what people are saying what they want. cheney it was three hours of singing chanting and listening to speeches things have just now wrapped up but there earlier there were proba

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 presume the current president of south africa still and half the vice president said on from a pause and say you has varied it leave way too many new there but he said in tears he's a very seasoned leader and if anyone can maneuver out of that position it would probably be him he is considered there but he's also jacob zuma as deputy. so how can we expect him to challenge the establishment to clean up the corruption when he's already part of the established when he has basically campaigned on a ti

the a.n.c. has voted in the pasta said that there should be no two since is how they go constructs of the a.n.c. and government and yet for the next eighteen months or so that's exactly what we'll have we have two persons booth refuses to struggle to get along and live on the other group much and i'm not going to have to work to get that as they get at the a.n.c. as they did a government to. make the next eighteen months and that's a goal for everyone has got a number of reflects hanging over him and the country is really hoping and looking to preserve the a zero zero zip to deal with some of these groups he's going to deal with some of the scandals of president and there's a real concern within the agency that. these scandals of the current president of south africa are dealt with that the a.n.c. may may have the next the first president in their post party to speak will not be president and also to stop the rot on the attack on the democratic process right i mean we've seen attacks on media we

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 trained to turn to the country's courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader. joining. us. begin to believe that the courts. some believe he has eroded the a.n.c. is all foreign. 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 lead as it is about the new if the president's preferred candidate is selected she may be able to protect him from legal action in his post-presidential years but if i why bill is selected i may be less inclined to help so there's a lot at stake for jacob zuma one comm

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 lead as it is about the new if the president's preferred candidate is selected she may be able to protect him from legal action and his post-presidential years but if a rival 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 the errancy has lost fifteen percent office and . so is the average there in say the day ended with the nominations in a race that some predicts could be close between current deputy president ceramic pulsar and in courses on it i mean is the president supposed favorite whoever wins has an enormous challenge to unite the a.n.c. at a time when its divisi

well the a.n.c. says four thousand seven hundred seventy six delegates will vote in the secret ballot in the past vote buying intimidation or acknowledged to have swayed leadership contest after years of seumas rule soaring unemployment and government corruption of left millions of poor black south africans frustrated with the a.n.c. deputy president cyril rama poso is a wealthy businessman is backed by the business community which believes he'll offer the best hope for the economy and then you have and see veteran and causes on a who is jacob zuma as ex-wife she is expected to deliver a continuation of his policies and is seen as more likely to protect him from the seven hundred and eighty three corruption and fraud charges against him tanya page has more from that conference and janet like. all of the nominations for the top six positions in the african national congress have now been confirmed and as expected it is down to a two horse race between courses on a zoom or who is the outgoing president

well the a.n.c. has easily won all elections that the whole. lot in south africa and even the loss of elections with a sharp decline in that supports the old saw around fifty four percent of voters voting for it at the moment its popularity is that climbing quite quickly but a lot of voters tell us that they are simply no alternatives yes no opposition parties that they believe and so chances are perhaps a flyer coalition that soul of the a.n.c. will maintain power comes great in ninety all right philip ivette in johannesburg thank you now some of the other stories making news around the wild romania has held a funeral african michael who died at it this month after a long struggle between tamia and skin cancer and he died at the age of ninety six in exile in switzerland microbrew germania twice before he was forced to abdicate by the country's former communist regime nine hundred forty seven. german chancellor angela merkel's bavarian conservative sister party has relented a horse as its leader but with his weakest supports are far zahle first

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 presiden

lead the a.n.c. into the two thousand and nineteen presidential election the party is deeply divided between an a.n.c. veteran and one of south africa's most successful businessmen tell you page is live for us in johannesburg is one you want the feeling is there tania how much excitement for this do people feel that there's change ahead. well it all depends on which side of the fence you certify. there are two main candidates but nominations will be open to the floor so they could be a few surprises in there as well all that any candidate needs is the support of twenty five percent of the delegates and there are about just over five thousand of them in some of the plenary halls that you can see just in the distance behind me there are locked in closed sessions after a very long delay we understand that the conference is going to be kicking off at some point in the next hour and one of the first things they will deal with is the issue of credentials and who is and who isn't allowed to vote many south

change the way we do things in the a.n.c. we shouldn't have any other voices influencing these decisions essentially what he was hitting out at is much of the economist in the end this who have been saying that he says his former wife is not the candidate that should be in the exit ok so not taking much responsibility for his own actions there. joining us in studio thanks for walking us through that christine right. now to some of the other stories making news around the world police in australia have arrested a man for allegedly acting as an economic agent for north korea south korean born chen hunch oyo is accused of attempting to broker sales worth tens of millions of dollars and missile technology and coal to third parties in indonesia and vietnam. chile has declared a disaster zone at the site of a village destroyed by a mudslide heavy rain caused a river to overflow and the side of a hill to collapse killing at least five people rescue workers are searching through the debris for about a dozen missing people. the califo