nationalizing the banks mines monopoly capital that's really well expressed through the economic freedom fighters the second opposition party getting about nine ten percent support and then as you say the south african federation of trade unions especially with the metal workers so that's basically the big left that's going to keep an eye on. and yes this is always easy to talk left when you're out of power and when you have to run a government under the constraints of power blocs like local capital and global capital and global imperial power then it does get tricky and the dilemma is if you've got a big nationalist movement that got rid of a party and you prestigious amongst the township activists the rural people it's slow but pretty sure that you waste that as we saw with jacob zuma and tub mbeki and even nelson mandela and here's the dilemma that means that they especially especially jacob zuma the last few weeks have been blaming the west generically never specific and they say look because we brought south africa to the brics the west is trying to even assassinate to physically poison jaco

practitioners of that rhetoric the south african federation of trade unions and of course the economic freedom fighters who appeared to be talking like mandela when he was fighting the guerrilla war oh that's right and the traditions in a way of the freedom charter of nationalizing the banks mines monopoly capital that's really well expressed through the economic freedom fighters the second opposition party getting about nine ten percent support and then as you say the south african federation of trade unions especially with the metal workers so that's basically the big left that's going to keep an eye on. and yes this is always easy to talk left when you're out of power and when you have to run a government under the constraints of power blocs like local capital and global capital and global imperial power then it does get tricky and the dilemma is if you've got a big nationalist movement that got rid of apartheid and you prestigious amongst the township activists the rural people it's slow but pretty sure that you waste that as we saw with jacob zuma and taba mbeki and even nelson mandela and here's

party voted with the economic freedom fighters on this issue for the first time how lengthy could the process be what happens next. it was meant to go to a committee now that it won't come back to the national assembly in till august and it could take some more months before this constitutional changes actually made there's an election next year we don't know who will be in power or what the political climate will be like by the time the government has this new power and what kind of policy of course they'll bring in to what extent they will radically redistribute land or not but we have seen in recent years the trend slow land distribute distribution general poor service delivery has led to the rise of more radical or more populist policies being discussed often led by the economic freedom fighters and now being adopted by the a.n.c. as well so if that trend continues then maybe we'll see more radical policies actually being implemented which may be popular with some voters probably won't be popular with investors and of course not with large landowners either thank you very much mal

practitioners of that rhetoric the south african federation of trade unions and of course the economic freedom fighters who appeared to be talking like mandela when he was fighting the guerrilla war oh that's right and the traditions in a way of the freedom charter of nationalizing the banks mines monopoly capital that's really well expressed through the economic freedom fighters the second opposition party getting about nine ten percent support and then as you say the south african federation of trade unions especially with the metal workers so that's basically the big left that's going to keep an eye on. and yes this is always easy to talk left when you're out of power and when you have to run a government under the constraints of power blocs like local capital and global capital and global imperial power then it does get tricky and the dilemma is if you've got a big nationalist movement that got rid of a party and you prestigious amongst the township activists the rural people it's slow but pretty sure that you waste that as we saw with jacob zuma and taba mbeki and even nelson mandela and here's th

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. its popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year and we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. a controversial plan to tax the question chechen jerusalem which led to the closure of one of its holiest sites has been suspended by the city's mayor the church allow the sepik are considered to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of jesus has been shot in protest since sunday christian leaders say the tax plan was a deliberate israeli policy and weakening their presence in the holy city eiffel's as well from outside the chechen occupied east jeru

nationalizing the banks mines monopoly capital that's really well expressed through the economic freedom fighters the second opposition party getting about nine ten percent support and then as you say the south african federation of trade unions especially with the metal workers so that's basically the big left that's going to keep an eye on. and yes this is always easy to talk left when you're out of power and when you have to run a government under the constraints of power blocs like local capital and global capital and global imperial power then it does get tricky and the dilemma is if you've got a big nationalist movement that got rid of apartheid and you've prestigious amongst the township activists the rural people it's slow but pretty sure that you waste that as we saw with jacob zuma and taba mbeki and even nelson mandela and here's the dilemma that means that they especially especially jacob zuma the last few weeks have been blaming the west generically never specific and they say look because we brought south africa to the brics the west is trying to even assassinate to physically poiso

connected to the national liberation movement they are very tied in as actually were the economic freedom fighters before they had a break in two thousand and thirteen now the critical thing is the communist party knows that sauron of course who they backed the head of jacob zuma is coming from an extreme capitalist standpoint but i think that's better than the corruption riddled zuma with his control family called the gupta family now those guys are on the run they're literally being chased as we speak the communist party deserves some credit as is the congress of south african trade unions still the largest adoration still connected to the a.n.c. but they very clearly said there's no honeymoon for storm of course and the big test is when the finance minister delivers the budget which is next wednesday and in that budget moody's the big new york credit rating agency is anticipated to put very strong pressure to cut the budget deficit probably by raising the value added tax probably by cutting social grants and possibly by even breaking the promise of free tertiary. the education that zuma made ju

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. popularity is declined the rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform and used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined the staff in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months we don't know who will be in power as an election next year we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical one change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. still ahead on al-jazeera as venezuela's president moves to tighten his grip on power the un's refugee agency warns of a surge in the number of people escaping the economic crisis plus access denied the u.s. president's son in law is reportedly excluded from top secret security briefings. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. and i will go day of active weather coming up a significant frontal systems develop digs in circulation rather tougher your stream w

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. is popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. one of the christian religions holy sites in jerusalem will we open on tuesday after the city's mayor suspended a controversial tax than the church of the holy simple are considered to be the sites of the crucifixion and burial of jesus was closed on tuesday it was in protest against the mayor's plan to levy substantial back taxes on the christian church. china's propaganda machine has gone into overdrive to defend the move to scrap term limits for president

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. popularity is declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined us in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical lunch change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. public hearing the service started into atrocities committed in zimbabwe more than thirty years ago during the rule of robert mugabe it's claimed the former president ordered the deaths of people he believes were trying to depose him however as haram a tassel report from the ton of many feel the hearings are in fact a waste of time. this public hearing was meant to encourage people to talk about atrocities committed in matabele land during the one nine hundred eighty s. but s

led to the rise of more populist more radical messages coming or being led often by the economic freedom fighters and now the a.n.c. of joined on board and in recent months the a.n.c. has said that they do need more forthcoming more radical policies that's what they're aiming to do to try and redistribute land the top extent their use this new constitutional provision will depend on the policies of who's in power at the time so we waiting to see in the months or years ahead to see how far they'll take this and if we're going to see very radical land redistribution or not thanks very much malcolm where with all the latest from johannesburg on our other stories we're covering a controversial plan to tax the christian church in jerusalem which has led to the closure of one of its holiest sites has now been suspended by the city's mayor the church of the holy sepulcher considered to be the site of the christian fiction and burial of jesus has been shut in protest since sunday christian leaders say the tax plan is a deliberate israeli policy aimed at weakening their presence in the holy city prosecuto

s voted into the parliament to represent an economic freedom fighters deciding to i guess exercise their democratic rights and leave the chamber julius malema saying that they didn't have the enough time first thing this morning the speaker of the house saying yes you did but now the business all this afternoon show joined this afternoon procedure is to make sure that is sworn in as president traditionally more of course something of a thorn in the side of the a.n.c. he was expelled from the african national congress although he has been touted by some people think as being potentially a south african president at some point in the future they're basically lying when they started that quite loud quite vocal protest against the process that the speaker wants to see the parliament through their basic line was we cannot go with this because we cannot give cyril ramaphosa the just a must see that you want us to give him and given that jacob zuma announced his resignation last night so that's where we are right now let's just listen in again to what's going on the inside the parliament were.

will last is very unclear my prediction is that a serious problem is going to be the the economic freedom fighters who's pushing for radical economic trance. mation and they want true truly radical measures such as in a very serious land reform and where the term oppose and he's more capitalist in clings is really going to go for that is a very big question as a political animal does he chime more with what nelson mandela's a.n.c. was about as opposed to what jacob zuma as a n c he was about. yes i think between those two and because of his history as you know one of the. writers of the constitution one of the makers of the constitution certainly he would like to see himself in that mandela. tradition rather than in the more populist. zuma tradition but there was something to that populism zuma promoted right there was something to to reaching out to the rural south africans right who can relate to move to generalizing now right to the position of someone like zuma than to someone who's more remote like that was who is more or most like tabu bheki for example right so one needs a combination in th

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. its popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year and we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical land change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors donald trump is to address congress about the need for a rouge restricting gun. ownership in the united states many people hope you'll convince politicians to finally move on stalled gun control legislation after the school shooting in florida two weeks ago reports. after days of student protests all eyes are on the u.s. congress to take action to limit gun violence following the florida school shooting earlier this month that left seventeen people dead

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. is popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year and we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. anger against the government is mounting in nigeria after a hundred ten schoolgirls were kidnapped by the armed group boko haram last week there's been criticism over the handling of the mass abduction at a school in the country's troubled northern region teachers have resumed classes but many school children say they're too afraid to attend parents of the missing girls have been speaking about their fears of the struggle to find their children which i kn

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. is popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year and we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. a controversial plan to tax the christian church in jerusalem which led to the closure of one of its holiest sites has been suspended by the city's mayor the church of the holy sepak considered to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of jesus has been shot in protest since sunday christian leaders say the tax plan was a deliberate israeli policy aimed at weakening their presence in the holy city al-jazeera as harry for said has more from outside the

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. its popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months we don't know who will be in power as an election next year we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. public hearings have started into atrocities committed in zimbabwe more than thirty years ago during the rule of robert mugabe it's claimed the former president ordered the deaths of people he believed were trying to depose him but as hard and were tossed out of course from the tunnel partly many feel the hearings are a waste of time. this public hearing was meant to encourage people to talk about atrocities committed in matabele land chill the one nine hundred eighty s

party voted with the economic freedom fighters in recent years as the a.n.c. its popularity has declined their rhetoric has got even tougher on land reform they used to object to expropriation without compensation but this time they joined in the effort in a move that will begin the process of constitutional change so by the time that's made it will take months and we don't know who will be in power there's an election next year and we don't know to what extent they will use this policy to bring about radical and change but it's something generally that may be popular with voters but on popular with investors. anger against the government is mounting in nigeria after one hundred ten. schoolgirls were kidnapped by the armed group boko haram last week there's been criticism over the handling of the mass abduction of a school in this country's troubled northeast comes almost four years after two hundred seventy six school girls were abducted in the checkbook area teachers have resumed classes but many school children say they're too afraid to attend parents of th

of coach really losing the no confidence motion was actually put into parliament by the economic freedom fighters which is a opposition party here led by a former supporter of mr xavier fight the a.n.c. would much prefer to have that motion for they want the opposition getting the credit for ousting zuma however that seems more or less what's going to happen and set it up. to a maneuver basically that i manged the motion so that looks a bit more like that motion but it's going to be voted tomorrow and i can't imagine anybody is going to say on the a.n.c. side oberstein on the on the opposition side is going to oppose it is right about it so we will not but i think that will go through that you called him that jason burke in johannesburg found here. germany's foreign minister has called for a german turkish journalist being held in a turkish jail to receive a fair and speedy trial than his huge role was arrested a year ago suspected of terror espionage offenses and he's not been charged signal comes after turkey's prime minister suggested there may soon be a movement in the case that he's utils co

is split over the opposition parties the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters the two major parties in parliament of course seizing on this opportunity calling for a vote of no confidence and insisting on marches and and even court action to force the the a.n.c. to come to a conclusion because they are exploiting this opportunity in knowing full well that the more dimage they can do to the a.n.c. now with a bit of their chances in twenty nineteen or the national generally elections. dr jackie sailors' executive director of the institute for security studies and for toria we thank you so much for joining us this evening to tell us a little bit more about the situation there in south africa at this hour it's let's get a quick check now of some other stories that have been making news around the world liberia's next president ellen johnson sirleaf has won the most ybor heene prize for african leadership a five million dollar award recognizes her efforts to rebuild the country following two civil wars the continent's first elected female leader left office last month after

that is the economic freedom fighters party leaving parliament now.eed with the election of the new president of south africa. the constitution requires the chief justice to preside over the election. i now invite the chief justice to take the chair. applause thank you honourable speaker. let me begin by reiterating that the purpose of this setting is to elect the president of the republic of south africa as envisaged by section 86 of the constitution. it is necessary to make sure that there is no lapse and that nobody is left with any doubt in the nation to compliance with the principles of because it is and i therefore begin. by because it is and i therefore begin. by reading section 86 of because as you should. it reads: " at its first sitting of the election, and whenever necessary to fill a vacancy, whenever necessary to fill a vacancy, the national assembly must elect a woman or a man from among its members to be the president. the chiefjustice must reside over the election of the president, or dissipate anotherjudge. election of the president,

to take private land without compensation the motion was brought forward by the left wing economic freedom fighters party south africa's new president still run the polls a said that land reform needs to happen and soon. one of the christian religions holiest sites in jerusalem is to reopen after the city's mayor suspended a controversial tax plan the church of the holy suppose her considered to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of jesus has been closed for three days it was important to get the mayor's plan to levy substantial back taxes in the christian church the german cities will not be able to ban people from driving diesel cars in certain areas the federal administrative court has approved rulings aimed to help cities tackle air pollution is expected to have a major effect on europe's biggest car market. there have been protests in hong kong over a plan to scrap term limits for the chinese president allowing chief paying to continue as leader in a rare show of public dissent within china two prominent figures will open les's arjun politicians to reject it and the move came in for cri

at the press conference earlier, the opposition party, the economic freedom fighters, have said thatle they will be present in the chamber to the reading of the resignation, they will not be participating in the election process. they believe the process has gone beyond the president jacob zuma and that the anc is not capable of governing. they say they will instead propose that parliament be dissolved today. the head of the official party of the democratic alliance says they will not put up a candidate. we expect the process to be these quick, because parties are not putting up a candidate. so for now, the only candidate being proposed for the presidency in south africa is cyril ramaphosa. anchor: ok, cyril ramaphosa said to become the new president. where does all this leave jacob zuma? facingr: jacob zuma is multiple criminal charges, including corruption, racketeering, money laundering, being veryed of close and cozy with an indian family. yesterday, the investigators ta compound,ump where they arrested family members and business associates who are in connection with a dairy far

ok and what about this proposed notion by journalist malema and his economic freedom fighters to expropriate land without any compensation i mean it's hugely controversial and we've seen it fail miserably in zimbabwe. well we saw a similar motion brought by the economic freedom fighters friendly in parliament last year there is now a new n.c. policy on the issue which embraces the expression of land without compensation but doing so within the constraints of the constitution so the constitution currently allows for land to be a expropriated in particular circumstances without compensation and the way that president drum up was up has defined this in these recent state of the nation address was to say land reform is an inevitability in south africa we all accept that not enough has been done so far but he says where expert creation does take place it would need to ensure that food security is not threatened threatened that job losses do not occur and in fact that he could actually adds to and contributes towards economic economic development in rural areas let me get would be done but on thos

of no confidence in parliament now it was actually the opposition party the economic freedom right economic freedom fighters that had pushed for this motion of no confidence in parliament now the a n c a can't bring for their own because there's an existing motion and so they're taking over that one and amending it to bring in their reasoning the a.n.c. is very much wanted to take ownership of the removal of jacob zuma and is very much in the past been reluctant to vote along with any other motion of no confidence that was brought by opposition parties the a.n.c. leadership has said that south africa needs closure and they need to move on and this is dragging out too long had been criticised for not taking any action against jacob zuma now that he's decided that he should be recalled that they decided to recall him developments are happening quite quickly once that motion of no confidence is held in parliament on. thursday they say they want to elect a new president in parliament and once that happens they're talking about the state of the nation which was address which was the address which was postponed e

land ownership the motion itself was brought to parliament by a radical party called the economic freedom fighters party now it has eighty percent support in the parliament but its motion was backed by the a.n.c. which controls some two thirds of the south african parliament the leader of the economic freedoms fight his party julius malema had this to say. the time for reconciliation is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land. now malema is a somewhat controversial and radical figure in south africa in the past he has said that he's not calling for the sorter of white people at least not yet you also have a situation in south africa where in recent years there's been a spate of killings of white farmers so you certainly have white south africans who have been very afraid now those who support the change and the motions say that it will go a long way to restoring justice but of course you have critics who say it will do anything but that if anything they argue it will merely heighten racial tensi

is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party that it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair had this to say. the time for reconsideration is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land but emma is a controversial and somewhat radical figure in south africa in the past he has said that he's not calling for the sort of white people at least not yet in recent years there has been a spike in the killing of farmers in south africa now those who support the motion say it will go a long way to restoring justice but those who criticize it say it will do anything but there are those who say it will lead to unforeseen consequences and also will be a scapegoat that the a.n.c. can use to explain away its own failures nonetheless it certainly seems as if we are far away from the storming racial tensions in a country that has so much history mya

link up and develop a bigger political agenda we'll see if that happens on the far left the economic freedom fighters south african federation a trade unions a united front or whether it continues to be fragmented or sporadic and part of that will be whether cyril ramaphosa revives his old left wing heroic stance he was a great trade union leader and can put down these protests and promise and divide and conquer and that's a tradition of they and see they've done it well they may not be able to continue given the contradictions because of how drawn thank you after the break. sixty is the date of the campaign for nuclear disarmament was founded we speak to one of britain's great just fine on just peter can a lot about why his work for the organization is more relevant than ever and with london opening its doors in this season's fashion week iconic design a dame's on the roads suggests brooks it may be anything but fashionable all this is all going to have a lot to him going underground. in america a college degree requires a great deal. paying a decade's long debt. studying so hard it requires trying

of coach really losing the no confidence motion was actually put into parliament by the economic freedom fighters which is a opposition party here led by a former supporter of mr xavier fight the a.n.c. would much prefer to have that motion for they want the opposition getting the credit for ousting zuma however that seems more or less was going to happen and set it up. to a maneuver basically that i manged the motion so that looks a bit more like that motion but it's going to be voted tomorrow and i can't imagine anybody is going to on the a.n.c. side oberstein on the on the opposition side is going to oppose it is right about it so we will not but i think that will go through without any problems that jason back in johannesburg thank you you thank. here in germany the acting leader besides a left social democrats has been appealing to party members to back a coalition deal with angry macas conservatives the party will start voting on the deal next week with the final result due on the fourth of march if they reject the deal germany may have to call another election the result of the asti pesty

the economic freedom fighters who walked out of the ceremony earlier on today they were very against jacob zuma and now it looks as though they're going to be holding several ramaphosa to account as well. as in love for us and jobs but thanks will. now the saudi owned television news station hour obeah has surrendered its right to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar it comes after a qatari complained to the u.k. television regulator of calm over the broadcasting of fake quotes attributed to the emir of qatar last may both a beer and sky news arabia analyzed and condemned a speech published online which later turned out to have been faked by hackers shortly afterwards the g.c.c. began its blockade of qatar let's take a look back at how the crisis evolved last may the count on news agency was hacked that fake remarks attributed to shake bin tunney were published in which he appeared to criticize us foreign policy saudi arabia egypt and the u.a.e. responded by blocking sites belonging to qatar including al-jazeera a month later the e-mail

government to take private land without compensation the plan was put forward by the left wing economic freedom fighters party and supported by the governing a n c the new president several. has promised to speed up the transfer of land to black south africans land ownership does remain a major issue more than two decades after the end of apartheid. and egyptian popstars been sentenced to six months in jail for a joke about the cleanliness of the nile river shereen abdel wahab apologized after a video appeared of her laughing with fans in lebanon in august she said drinking water from the nile could give people parasites judges accused of spreading fake news she's free on bail pending an appeal. some parts of the u.k. are set to be colder than the arctic circle in the next couple of days is because of a freak winter storm system which is hitting much of europe scientists say manmade global warming is a likely cause neave barkha now reports this is what many people across the u.k. woke up to roads blocked public transport come stalled and schools closed fun for some misery others in croatia the army were

blockade for pushing millions of yemenis to the brink of famine in al-jazeera south africa's economic freedom fighters e f.-f. set to introduce a bill to parliament which would allow the government to seize land without paying compensation malcolm what has more from johannesburg. ever since the a.n.c. came to power in one thousand nine hundred four its politicians frequently promised radical land reforms and often militant speeches trying to address the fact that the vast majority of south africa's farmland is owned by a minority of white farmers including several very large very profitable commercial farms and the black majority own just a fraction of the land ever since their ancestors were displaced by colonialists wrestling here in past centuries the a.n.c. has policies to try and redistribute land haven't been well implemented and some people think this is because of corruption and a lack of political will julius malema the leader of the f.f.a. opposition party thinks that's not the problem and the problem is the constitution needs to be changed to allow the government to expropriate land without

government to take private land without compensation the plan was put forward by the left wing economic freedom fighters party and supported by the ruling african national congress the new presidents are all ram opposers promised to speed up the transfer of land to black south africans lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has returned to saudi arabia three months after announcing his resignation from riyadh there were these officials accuse saudi arabia of forcing her to quit and putting him under house arrest riyadh has denied this really returned home few weeks later after french intervention and withdrew his resignation some parts of britain are said to be colder than the arctic circle this week it's because of a freak winter storm which is also hitting much of europe scientists say global warming is a likely cause of park reports this is what many people across the u.k. woke up to roads blocked public transport come sold from schools closed farm for som misery of those. in croatia the army were drafted in to rescue people trapped in their houses but as fast as the snow was cleared more quickly fell.

this morning saying that the motion of no-confidence that was put parties,y opposition the economic freedom fightersnot even be debated. that was scheduled to take place on the 22nd of february. the chief of the anc then stating that there may be no need to even go as far as another motion of no-confidence in president jacob zuma being debated in the national assembly. this, of course, would have been the ninth attempt to unseat him before the national assembly. it seems as though the critical decision will be made in the next two hours best next few hours, certainly before next week. -- the next few hours, certainly before next week. mark: great job. amo will be there for any developers in the story. vonnie: now time for our bloomberg "business flash," the biggest business stories in the news right now. a los angeles biotech billionaire is buying a local newspaper. he has agreed to buy the l.a. times. he was a major shareholder in tronc. he is also getting "the san diego union-tribune" as part of the deal. ipo is exploring a possible and minority interest in directv's latin america unit. the compan

well ahead of from a post as appointments more drama played out in parliament the far left economic freedom fighters party staged a walkout the leader there he is julius malema said his party would not take part in the election off the new president's matheson is live for us in johannesburg south korea saying it was a lively debate that took place and in parliament but just look ahead for us for a moment rob because we understand the new president is going to be sworn in in this hour. that's right it's going to take place in a building called the tane hayes here in johannesburg and that's more of just a formality the main business of the day the creation of sit around the forza as the president elect of south africa happened in the national assembly a few hours ago so all that there is going to happen at the dinner he said basically a rubber stamp if you like of the fact that he was now the president the fifth democratically elected president of south africa when that announcement was made in the national assembly a few hours ago there was dancing and singing and cheering amongst many of the parliam

i think that's absolutely correct and i think particularly in the case of the e f f the economic freedom fighters julius malema sparty as we were hearing earlier on they were absolutely determined that they were going to hold to account interestingly one of the main stances of the e f f when it's been in existence has been simply to get rid of. the previous administration now that zuma has stepped down in one respect they've almost been just for a brief moment a party looking for a reason to exist but very very quickly they have adopted the persona of we are part of the legitimate opposition in africa and we're going to hold the new president to account for everything he does it's going to be very interesting to watch over the next few months sitaram opposer is going to become one of the most watched presidents the south africa has ever had. in johannesburg many thanks rob. now the saudi owned television news station are a beer has surrendered its rights to broadcast in the united kingdom amid allegations of fake news broadcast about qatar it comes after a qatari complained to the u.k. television

difference i would also point out that the opposition parties the democratic alliance the economic freedom fighters both benefited enormously from zuma as derry bad popular reputation with zuma gone that particular gift to the opposition is also gone and that helped strengthen the a.n.c. well thank you john campbell from the council on foreign relations form a u.s. ambassador to nigeria. on our nikki haley the u.s. ambassador to the united nations has manuals government is preventing the u.n. security council from traveling to iraq and state to investigate the situation on the ground that hundreds of thousands of range of muslims have fled the country since a violent crackdown diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . well strong words from nikki haley at the security council meeting on the situation in myanmar where we also heard from the u.n. high commissioner for refugees and from a senior u.n. political figure who both talked about continuing threats and intimidation to the ringer community in iraq on state they talked about the number of people that have fled since august over six

might have hoped for and malcolm what about this proposed motion by julius malema and his economic freedom fighters that d.f.s. to expropriate land without compensation i mean it's a hugely controversial thing and we've seen exile miserably in zimbabwe. it's being discussed in parliament right now as we speak the a.n.c. ever since it came to power in one thousand nine hundred four what is politicians of a militant speeches promising radical land reform to try and address the fact that the vast majority of arable farm land is owned by a minority of white farmers including some very large very profitable farms whereas the black majority have been dispossessed from that land allege ascendants were violently during colonialism and rim any of them remain in relative poverty ever since some people say that this hasn't been addressed effectively because the lack of a lack of political will from the a.n.c. to implement policies they do already have a lot of people blame corruption as well collusion between wealthy white farmers and a.n.c. officials to buy off small amounts of land that inflated prices for