right and increase in capetown south africa thank you very much. that's being called a milestone for the ride industry and the so-called sharing economy we will is set to make its stock market did do today and washington correspondent head of the humphreys made one would driver who like many office comics is struggling to make ends meet. offshore no move flight there's no shortage of weary travelers eager to jump in here at washington's ronald reagan airport right hailing services have never been more in demand but drivers say they're not seeing the benefits of choice been an uber driver for three years enough time rival so obviously he's come on the scene meaning greater competition a few acosta mous it used to be relatively easy to just go online you know turn the. go online and know that you would make decent money and now it's having to be more strategic with it in terms of where and when i drive. these days troy has more down time than he used to and on wednesday he went on strike in solidarity with other drivers around the world who are also

is the time where people are waiting if you will really walk his talk under increasing in capetown south africa thank you very much for your reporting on the south african elections. time now to look at some other stories making news around the bond north korean state t.v. has released images showing at least one being launched to the country five two suspected short range missiles this is for the raised tensions in the shaky good tone between north and south korea and in negotiations with the u.s. . two friends soldiers have been killed while rescuing four hostages in burkina faso to hunt the hostages for french tourists who disappeared while on a visit to a wildlife reserve cash reserve last week and the two other american and south korean nationals islamic extremists have become increasingly active in book enough aso. a thai activist who was jailed for sharing an unpatched flattering article about thailand's king on facebook has been freed after a royal pardon judgment but a blown up a crowd outside served more than two years behind bars it comes three try activists pressing charges of insul

increase in capetown south africa thank you very much for your reporting on the south african elections and we have this news just coming in at least seventy refugees are reported to have drowned when their boat sank in the mediterranean sea off to new zealand now this is being reported by the tunisian state run news agency this is six six sixteen others have been saved that's all that we have on the story so far seventy refugees drowned but of course be following that story and bring you more details as soon as they come and meanwhile let me bring you up to date with some of the stories making news around the wild german turkish journalist denis future has revealed to a course that he was tortured while in prison in a turkish jail and says he holds turkey's president. personally responsible spending a year behind bars without being formally indicted and is known trial accused of making terrorist propaganda. and militias set up to fight islamist terror group boko haram has released nine hundred children that it had so court listed the civilian joint task force a regional militia allied

people are getting concerned and more and more people demanding an audit under increase in capetown south africa thank you very much for your reporting on the south african elections. paris maybe wealthy and chic but like many other large cities it has homeless people living on the streets one of them started using social media to draw attention to what it's like living rough and he soon collected more than thirty thousand twitter followers and got the year of the authorities that was the start of a passionate fight for better living conditions for the paris home this. christian posh knows what it means to lead an insecure unstructured life he spent over three years hanging out with this group of homeless people at the plus sun mart in paris he used to have a well paying job as a sawmill year but after his wife left him he developed a drinking problem and when he could no longer pay the rent he ended up on the streets and. this is one of the places i slept in but a few weeks later they installed these typically anti homeless barriers in their place deliberately so no one can bed down here. and t

and asia but change is in the air microsoft recently invested in 2 q does it is in south africa in johannesburg and capetown the global leader in cloud computing amazon web services will open its 1st african data center next year and chinese telecoms equipment maker away is on board it's planning to open to new data centers in johannesburg and capetown as well data storage on the continent is critical for africa's economic development in a survey of hundreds of i.t. decision makers 84 percent of nigeria said. computing has a high impact on innovation compared to 77 percent of those asked in kenya and 43 percent in south africa to ponder has been following this story for us to ponder 1st of all explain to me why all these data centers. cit already set up in south africa solely south africa in terms of african economies of africa is of course one of the 2 biggest markets the other being one geria and in terms of ease of doing business obviously south africa trumps nigeria so that's probably one of the reasons they chose south africa it's more stable and more attractive but what does it mean for other african

dropped at the freedom charter one south africa which is united which is nonracial non fixes democratic and prosperous for more on this he. joins me now from capetown tell us about the mood there because the a.n.c. has won with a healthy majority but historically with their worst when ever the so that is that tempering celebration someone right i mean on the one hand days this downward trend clearly the a.n.c. has been experiencing its throughout the last 34 elections on the other hand they still have 37 percent more votes than the 2nd strongest party the democratic alliance so that certainly gives them some reason to celebrate and why did they lose support since the last election. so the a.n.c. has been in power for 25 years ever since the end of apartheid and they made huge promises and honestly speaking they did not manage to fulfill many of them a lot of people here still living in poverty inequality here is a massive problem you have a few people. huge parts of the wealth of the country and a lot of people who don't own anything and the other problem that is very big is the issue of corruption and it has grown over the past 2 years under the w

this al-jazeera news hour including south africa votes in the most tightly contested election since the end of apartheid twenty five years ago when live in capetown plus we assess the impact of dams and reservoirs on the world's longest free flowing rivers and the communities who depend on that and the raptors get their cars into the seventy six is in the n.b.a. playoffs people have the best of the action coming up major. u.s. president donald trump has used his executive privilege to keep democratic the democratic controlled house from getting the full uncensored report by special counsel robert muller into alleged russian interference in their twenty sixteen presidential election meanwhile the house judiciary committee is voting on whether it will hold attorney general william barr over his refusal to release an redacted report on release an edited version of miller's investigation last month his refusal to submit the full report has led to accusations that he lied to congress. i urge my colleagues whether or not you care to see the full mode report and we should all want to see the complete report to stand up for the institution we are proud t

into southern africa mozambique could still see a few showers into those central areas on friday and also into west sassed a further south there's a warm sunshine coming back in capetown with a top temperature of 23. people have to weigh your record on this trial in fact a few years ago there is place only for one state on the land of israel i do not believe in a 2 state solution the official story isn't there no one can really feel sorry i don't care about the official story if you were to go visit today you would say what has the media been telling fun the world is watching wife there's lots of brazen here join me man the hot sun on our front of my guests from around the world take the hot seat and we debate the week's top stories and big issues here on al-jazeera. big story generated thousands of headlines with different angles from different perspectives to separate the spin from the facts with the listening post on al-jazeera. the toll fine thanks. 2 ringback ready 2 2 2 ringback. india's prime minister narendra modi will form a new cabinet after his b j p party is re-elected with a landslide majority. i'm fully back to watching al jazeera live from doha also com

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south africa, a country of about 59 million people, about twice the size of texas. about a fourth of the people don't have access to clean water. you've heard about the drought in capetown that seems to have ended, but, you know, capetown's city water managers use a very effective approach to count down to day zero, right? so if you were following this, every day is like 100 days to day zero, and it got down to maybe 30 or 40 days to day zero when there would be no more water in capetown. so there was a crisis there. part of the issue was a three-year drought that was would be expected to occur once every 300 years. part of it was just water management because capetown essentially doubled in size in the last 20 years, but their storage capacity had not changed. so my mission was to work with some water agencies in south africa on kind of a data system. the u.s. has a science and technology exchange committee with south africa focused on health, space science. south africa is really important for space science because of their location on the globe and telescope systems. advanced materials, energy, agriculture and water. so this science and technology exchange which had