it's almost as much weight nowadays ok the a.n.c. run the company in saying that there's. corruption how else could they have. to gain support for the party. one way. to use what we call the i'm all for meaning that. the happiness. because as you as i hit it in your. lives he was talking about that when you say that he's been talking about since november twenty eighth during the african national conference here in johannesburg where he announced this new dawn so apparently i associate you with a you know every invention of the agency and that is the message that you have yet if used to move away from the old tie at nine years off last year is the quality in some of the god of jacob zuma that he said didn't you honestly she's the one that they have used to say we have a new president is going to fight corruption he's going to deal with the legacy of the past trustee give us a chance out of this now according to early results the democrats. have not really taken advantage of the fallen support for the a.n.c. why is that you think. on the one hand the democratic alliance carr

ok the a.n.c. run the company and seen that. there's no corruption how else could they have. to gain support for the party. why don't we go. to use what we called meaning that. the happiness from up was up because as you hit it in the. lips he was talking about that he. said that he has been talking about since november twenty eighth during the african national congress conference here in johannesburg where he was this new dog so apparently i associate you with a you know every invention of the agency and that is the message that you have yet if used to move away from the old tired at nine years off last year is the qualities of the call of jacob zuma in the sense they did you on this that he's the one that they have used to say we have a new president is going to fight corruption he's going to deal with the legacy of the trust you give us on the edges of this now according to early results democrats . have not really taken advantage of the fallen support for the a.n.c. why is that you think. on the one hand the democratic alliance carries a bi gauge it is increasingly being.

a.n.c. has been running on its heels essentially julius malema as message of taking back lead from the white minority and giving it back to black south africans has resonated with a lot of poor black south africans who really have had no comfort from the a.n.c. all they've seen is a government that is full of corrupt officials people mismanaging state funds only a few benefiting and so when julius malema goes out and speaks of message to people who are desperate to have been waiting to hear broken promises from the african national congress you can imagine this is the only party by the way that's for costa to grow in supports the a.n.c. and of course to decipher his biggest opposition party the democratic alliance they're both expected to support so right now that if a very young party only about five years old is expected to take about ten percent of the electorate that is quite something so to this malema is a force to be reckoned with and that is something the a.n.c. knows all too well r.d. wus kristina with some first analysis on this election nights in south africa christina thank you n

but scenes like this showed the kind of challenges facing run opposer and the a.n.c. back home protests across the country at issues including government corruption a lack of jobs and poor public services and the troubled state utility eskom rationing power causing rolling blackouts that have hindered efforts to boost growth. in addition ram opposer is under pressure because the a.n.c. is losing voters to the more populist land reform policies of the f f so he's pressing ahead with the expropriation of white farmers without compensation but risks losing white support and that of the international community. cyril rama poses future is all but certain his preferred path is one of stability and growth but if this election doesn't hand the a.n.c. enough votes from a poser could find himself losing his grip altogether on the divided party so what issues do matter most to south africans in this election did he is christine one who has been testing the mood. i'm outside a polling station in so way to about four thousand people are expected to vote here today and these are so

a.n.c. was returned to power in national elections as expected run the poso was the only nominee to be inaugurated on saturday and will name a deputy president and cabinet shortly afterwards. ukraine's new president former comedian followed amir's a lengthy scene here during this week's inauguration has announced his new administration several posts have gone to his former television colleagues like him who are political novices also before his election president selenski is only political experience was playing the president in a popular t.v. 6. british prime minister to resign may is facing renewed calls to resign that she asks lawmakers to approve her redesigned brags of proposals the government's withdrawal agreement bill sets out the terms under which the u.k. would leave the european union the parliament has rejected previous versions 3 times and even some of mrs may's own ministers are asking her to cancel the vote saying not enough has changed many within her party want her out and one of her top allies has quit the cabinet over. her attempts to push the brits a deal through but earlier to

in addition run opposer is under pressure because the a.n.c. is losing voters to the more populist land reform policies of the earth so he's pressing ahead with the expropriation of white farmers without compensation but risks losing white support and that of the international community. cyril run a pose as future is all but certain his preferred path is one of stability and growth but if this election doesn't hand the a.n.c. enough votes from a poser could find himself losing his grip altogether on the divided party. and i agree on ram opposed to he came to power replacing jacob zuma who was plagued by scandals he was supposed to really clean the house in the country and his party how successful has he been in doing that. well it's too early to say because he's only been in power for about a year but he has been coming out with very strong words when it comes to fighting corruption and it was the same also during the campaign time this time around he was really strongly saying that people who are corrupt will be spacing the consequences no peo

final campaign rally ahead of a general election on wednesday president cyril run oppose it told the tens of thousands of a.n.c. supporters that victory was certain despite high levels of corruption and unemployment he said his government was entering a new era of accountability and he'd be stepping up if it's to fight corruption and graft he also promised new jobs and economic growth. christine milne who has been at that rally she sent us this update. the official figures are not yet out but the n.c. was expecting a crowd of about one hundred thousand people to come out today to listen to saddam opposed to give his final address before wednesday's election as expected and i'm up also addressed the issues that south africans are facing he talked about houses being built in the next five years jobs being created he talked about investment coming back into the country most poignantly he addressed the issue of the party having neglected its mandate of looking after the people saying we've looked into the process we've seen where we've gone wrong and we will now be putting the people first that message appears to

a.n.c. governments provided millions of south africans running water electricity and free education is being criticised for the slow delivery of services at 27 percent more south africans than ever before and employed expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but in the at large we are told it's the option. to stop the flow of the slightly expect that it did decisively with corruption to take our culture for what and i know all the investor will come back in the coming days and of course as expected to name a new cabinet he's under pressure to rid the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a in c. if his appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans for me to malaya al-jazeera pretoria south africa reilly speak to me or schwab his research director at the human sciences research council she's joining us live from johannesburg via skype thank you for talking to a smear for meters repo

a.n.c. member he was also an election observer in cape town in johannesburg ralph metallica a political analyst and author of several books on south africa including run the poses turn can serial save south africa and when zuma goes and also in cape town we have bongani him been dwane a.n.c. member and former national security advisor to the police minister in south africa he joins us on the line welcome to you all let's start with last if we can how happy should you do you think the n c should be today i think they certainly relieved i think with the arc of this election results i think they were probably expecting perhaps a little bit to do a little bit worse than they actually did i think 57 and a half percent you know has given them a mandate which they perhaps feel that they don't deserve because of the poor governance of the last 10 years in particular and i think they've lost the confidence of many of their supporters and i think that's demonstrated in the election results and as you pointed out earlier in the lower turnout in the election as a whole and so i think the a.n.c. a relieved party but i think they will recognize that this time they

a.n.c. governments provided millions of south africans with running water electricity and free education is being criticised for the slow delivery of services a 27 percent more south africans an ever call for an employed expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but in see it lights play out be told it's the option of a servant to stop the flow of the slightly expect that it did decisively with corrupt. to take our culture for what and i know all the best i will come back in the coming days and i'm a force is expected to name a new cabinet is under pressure to get the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the see if these appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans from al-jazeera pretoria south africa. the weather is next still ahead on al-jazeera venezuela's opposition leader rallies to forces the head of a new round of talks aimed at ending the political crisis. and concerns over

corruption scandals referred to some are still running there's a complete national prosecuting authority hasn't yet sent anyone to jail. i asked the a.n.c. spokesman why so far most of us this is a very broad for what we know to m.p.'s as especially. on issues which are based on commissions to ensure that where possible they can investigate it as a trial in the proper sanctions given to those who are in conflict with the law. bring in series expected to win wednesday's general election polls suggest it'll have the smallest majority it's ever had came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority party. from oppose the stays in office south africans are waiting to see how far his fight against corruption will go i hope that it won't just be that none of that this isn't just about the politics of survival the appetite to send the correct signals to the public to the international community and to potential voters to potential investors i would hope that this is a much deeper more sincere undertaking than that but i'm not sure an inquiry into the health care scandal that killed christopher hasn't led to any prosecuti

a.n.c. governments provided millions of south africans running water electricity and free education is being criticised for the slow delivery of services at 27 percent most south africans an ever call for an employed expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but in see it lights play out be told it's the option of a servant to stop the flow of the site looking for expect that. it did decisively with core ups to take our culture for what and i know all the best i will come back in the coming days and i'm of course is expected to name a new cabinet is under pressure to get the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a in c. if these appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans from al-jazeera pretoria south africa. still to come here at al-jazeera president trump is in japan the visit child ceremony but serious trade talks are on the agenda. as it was main opposition party meets to ele

a.n.c. governments provided millions of south african. running water electricity and free education is being criticized for the slow delivery of services at 27 percent most of africans an ever khufu unemployed we're expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but in the at large we are told it's the option. to stop the sale of a slightly expect that he did discuss with quarter ups to take our culture for what and i know all the investor would come back in the coming days and of course is expected to name a new cabinet he's under pressure to rid the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a in c. if his appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans. al-jazeera pretoria south africa. at least 3 people have been injured during protests in indian administered kashmir the demonstrations against indian authorities follow the killing of rebel leade

a.n.c. governments provided millions of south africans with running water electricity and free education is being criticised for the slow delivery of services at 27 percent most south africans an ever call for an employed expecting. a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but a.n.c. at large we are told it's corruption. over and over to stop the flow of a slightly expect that it did decisively with corruption to take our country forward and i know all the investor will come back in the coming days and of course is expected to name a new cabinet he's under pressure to quit the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a n c.

a.n.c. governments provided to millions of south africans with running water electricity and free education is being criticised for the slow delivery of services at 27 percent more south africans than ever before unemployed we are expecting a lot of jobs to be there the best from them not only him but in the at large we are told that the option. to stop the sale of the slightly expect that it did decisively with corruption to take our culture for what and i know all the investor will come back in the coming days and of course as expected to name a new cabinet is under pressure to rid the government of ministers who underperformed or implicated in corruption but he's also facing the risk of further dividing the a n c if his appointments don't appease factions within the party but for now it's a day of celebration for a man who carries the hopes of many south africans from al-jazeera pretoria south africa. now demonstrators in the bangladeshi capital dhaka have gathered to protest against forced disappearances they're calling on the government to release activists and members of the oppositio

corruption scandals referred to some are still running there's a complete national prosecuting authority hasn't yet sent anyone to jail i asked the a.n.c. spokesman why so far most a justice of the group for what we know is especially bad just follow up on issues which are based commissions to ensure that where possible they can investigate because a trial in the proper sanctions give the bulls were in conflict with the law oh re-instill is expected to win wednesday's general election polls suggest it will have the smallest majority it's ever had since he came to power in one thousand nine hundred four the end of white minority rule. from opposes stays in office south africans are waiting to see how far his fight against corruption will go i hope that it won't just be that none of that this isn't just about the politics of survival the appetite to send the correct signals to the public to the international community and to potential voters to potential investors. i would hope that this is a much deeper. undertaking than that but i'm not sure an inquiry into the health care scandal that killed christopher hasn't led to any prosecutions

several run opposes ruling african national congress has won reelection with an absolute majority in parliament the final result results are expected later on saturday but preliminary results show the a.n.c. with around 57 percent of the vote while its closest rival the main opposition democratic alliance is barely over 20 percent now despite its victory the result is the end scenes worse national showing since the end of the passage. and for more on this news out of the unfinished joins us now from cape town i do and we are still waiting for the official results but the winner is clear have a.n.c. supporters started celebrating yet. some supporters started celebrating already a senior member of the said of the a.n.c. that without serum up or so the party would have likely even gotten less than 40 percent of the votes but we're still waiting for the official statement of the party and of course also of the president that will probably only happen in the evening when the final results will be announced. the a.n.c. may have won the absolute majority but they still lost a lot of support why is that. you have to salute me ever since the election 2004 the a.n.c. has been losing voters and tha

a.n.c. is on course for its was performance in a national poll in its twenty five years in government the vote is the first test of public sentiment since president cyril run a poser replaced scandal hit jacob zuma last year. christine one has more from johannesburg. we're outside the african national congress is headquarters and while the results of final results as much as ours that it's pretty clear that the a.n.c. will retain its my joy by what margin will only be known on saturday when we expect the final result but that might not happen because there is a video that has fun viral in south africa and that is off a photo of a gentleman who voted in the day wiping off the ink that voters will mocked with on his stem the implication of that is if he was able to do that potentially others did too and were able to float twice now it's a big talking point here the electoral commission has held several briefings addressing questions on the matter from journalists we are downtown johannesburg and we're going to talk to some voters who took part in your city's election who some of them believe that it's not true here is. scuse me ladies. are you voted in guess

a.n.c. comes under in parliament in the years ahead it's going to depend a lot on who said will run a pose a keep seein who's in the cabinet who actually comes to be sworn in to parliament and if you seem to be really cleaning the house then that might take the pressure off from the opposition somewhat but if it's a lot of the old players who've been implicated in some of those corruption scandals that we just talked about then we could expect to see a lot more fire from the opposition in the national assembly in the 5 years ahead i'll leave it there for the moment malcolm thank you. know a u.s. warship designed to learn the u.s. marines is on its way to reinforce naval forces in the goals iran is dismissing the deployment of psychological warfare and intimidation the arlington is joining the abraham lincoln craft carrier strike group which sailed through the suez canal on thursday commanders say the deployments are a response to possible operations by iran against u.s. forces in the region jordan has more from washington d.c. . earlier this week the trumpet ministration ordered the commande

a.n.c. policy wins the general election thought gets its lowest ever. cheryl vote. plus leading the charge an island in south korea where traditional cars are running out of road. people including 3 gunmen have been killed in an attack on a luxury hotel in pakistan that happened in the southwestern port city of guardia in the province of started a separatist group called the stan liberation army claimed responsibility for the attack on the pearl continental hotel has come up with the latest from islamabad. i have been. able to. get. according to. whatever. however. from the. hall where they were. all 4. were to have been trying. to. that investing tens of billions of dollars and of course. maximize the number of ever time. i had there were made. to see rebels. in their. other groups need to fulfill the yemeni government says it's just a ploy to see faces of pulling back from 3 major ports expected to continue over the next few days under u.n. supervision it includes an important gateway for humanitarian aid but millions of yemenis rely on reports. the battle for the ports of data has been at the heart of the humanitarian crisis in yemen aid agencie

a.n.c. voter turnout was also low people are believed to have been dismayed by corruption allegations and the lack of jobs. leader president still run opposed had promised to clean up south africa and boost the economy his party is being criticised for failing to deliver on many of the promises for ram opposed the says the election results show the still faith in the a.n.c. for me the mirror has this report from the capital pretoria. south africa which is now to declare the elections to be free and fair. thank you. a victory for the african national congress comes as little surprise to many but with 57.5 percent of the vote it's a reality check for the party that's been in power since the end of apartheid in 1915 years ago almost 70 percent of south african supported the a.n.c. our people have spoken and they have done so clearly and emphatically they have voted for a more equal society free from poverty hunger and want they have voted for a country that they would like to see at peace with his self whether it's continent. and with the world at large the party always knew this would be a tough election in the past year a.n.c. presid

run and during that entire time the african national congress has been in power people say south africa is mired in crime corruption and economic stagnation even president cyril ramaphosa who's from the a.n.c. admits to the problems corruption walks into the way. the turn age got into their way of not focusing on the it's a popular got into the way that admission may not win over voters the way the a.n.c. did at the last election five years ago when they took sixty two percent of the vote we just won them to take care of us take care of the take care of a way to train make sure that our kids are having topes listen to what the people and it's very easy to stand they make promises bad enough it's another thing to actually implement and become the government that people vote for you don't switch up on us because now you and power. another possible winner could be center right democratic alliance leader of musi my mana here who cast his vote in so went to the cradle of the fight against apartheid but the biggest challenger to the a.n.c. could well be leftist leader julius malema of the economic freedom fighters he's pushed for a redistribution of prime agricultural land much of which is owned

the end of apartheid in one thousand nine hundred four presidents to run a poser of the governing african national congress or the a.n.c. has cast his vote his party is expected to win but by a smaller margin enough to be hit by a series of corruption scandals in recent years opposition leader. may need from the democratic alliance party in julius malema from the economic freedom fighters have also cast their votes to. let's speak to michael webb who is at a polling station well i think you're at a polling station there. that's right the polling station decided to tend to people coming in here they were queuing up since about an hour before it opened in the morning. still quite some enthusiasm for voting here in south africa although turnout has. reduced steadily. since democracy first came in one thousand nine hundred four. then seize vote shares also declined as well. that's because of those corruption scandals and protests over public service deliveries that you mentioned as well. here in the township of alexander in johannesburg in a lot of those protests this take a look around the polling station we can see what'

run and during that entire time the african national congress has been in power people say south africa is mired in crime corruption and economic stagnation even president cyril ramaphosa who's from the a.n.c. admits to the problems corruption walked into the way the turn age got into the way . not focusing on your record into the way that admission may not win over voters the way the a.n.c. did at the last election five years ago when they took sixty two percent of the vote we just want them to take care of us take care of the take care of a way to train make sure that our kids are having topes listen to what the people want it's very easy to stand there make promises. it's another thing to actually implement and become the government that people vote for you don't switch up on us because now you and power. another possible winner could be center right democratic alliance leader musi my mana who cast his vote in so went to the cradle of the fight against apartheid but the biggest challenger to the a.n.c. could well be leftist leader julius malema of the economic freedom fighters he's pushed for a redistribution of prime agricultural land much of which is owned by the white minority and no

a.n.c. what did you hear there. similar situation with a couple of tens of thousands of people who cannot get a stadium gray lightly corralled. for the run across the spectrum a bill that you probably heard they say would be the only about the little program in the south africa a little over about everything in the way regarding the. baby the corruption the there's a lot of little ongoing process services out of deliveries that ever get that they were delivering lovely they would love for others and applied to be a key issue for many south african to overdramatize. the the only doctor even if it's not as many south africans believe that is the year that is why they have back for another opposition party the pick a lot of enemies of the. brain to suppress the baby the pride their perfect mate with the. now they get the same side of life. that really would you think as well for the if it involves a medic that i'm going to they believe that the likelihood just about leaving the door of the apartment because like it's just to get out of the city that's the vibe with the election but with a smaller didn't have a full the following the movies

a.n.c. is declining popularity followed a series of corruption scandals especially under former president jacob zuma an ongoing protests over poor delivery of public services president several run opposer has been credited with halting the party's decline since he took over just over a year ago he's been promising to tackle corruption the largest opposition party the democratic alliance has just over a 5th of the vote as it did in the last election as one of a number of opposition parties who have complained to the electoral commission that some people voted more than once the parties and the electoral commission of agreed to all the result before they were officially announced it was rotten we do not know is the extent of the problem and we hoping that that all that will show the extent of the problem if we have a nationwide phenomenon or whether it's just localized in 3rd place is the economic freedom fighters whose leaders promise radical economic reforms exposure has increased to about 10 percent it's also complained about double voting but observers say it's not on a scale that could affect the national election result agents from all of the political parties in. sitting h

a.n.c. people say has been given a 2nd chance is the 6 elections it's not a 94 so it's the 6 chance not the 2nd 2nd chance full force or will run the toes of for sure well from one demographically young country do another demographic place today is not red day you think that what you came back about i did. bad is what you came back to tax on gaza in effect britain of course selling ever more sniper rifles to israel at the moment what we hear about nonstop the mainstream media and from the israeli government we invite the israeli ambassador on this show israel says it just retaliates 2 iranian backed rocky. oh yes you know. this is this is the language of apartheid south africa they would say had to defend themselves against terrorism because they were occupying a people a leg would just as a sayings that african people have land is the palestinians land has been. taken and robbed hijacked from then. the killings the genocide which is incremental. cleansing of the lack of real rights by people let alone you know occupied taught that within israel itself is bad that i've seen as bad as colonial oppression that bain and her reigne