for more let's bring in jacki sailors' executive director of the institute for security studies at the tory i thank you so much for joining us what are you expecting from today's meeting. where we are all also africans i think should be anxiously watching the television to find out to get some idea of what is happening but i think it's pretty clear that prison zumaya were resigned it seems like there's a great degree of brinkmanship being played at the moment in actual fact that as zuma saying if you don't exceed to the demands that i am making whichever they are with regard to payment of future legal fees then in a sense i'm going to force you to. take me to parliament and have a new vote of no confidence which would do the governing a.n.c. quite a lot of damage but the reality is that nobody really knows the national executive council is in a closed meeting this so phones have been taken away and we're all sitting watching and waiting this is been a drama that's more than a week of day on day negotiations and discussions and zuma has certainly surprised before he is like a cat with n

well foreign i'm joined now by the spillover draw she's a researcher at the institute for security studies in south africa and she joins us now. at from pretoria thank you being with us on france24 tonight now this has to be the most polite attempts to ousted leader in history at the a. n. c. really austin jacob zuma to go not. telling hihm to go the question is will he. yeyes i think that is a very good queststion b b y y know we have a full in septetembr twtwo thohousand i mean thed see it also augustt. former presidents a are make you to sit down and he e does. of e luluy s so. those in the anc would say that the agency has a very strong culture o off calal e deployment and if you alady called. by your partrty youou do soso and sn so ihink everyrybody in the. i in any c case in the afrn national congress are coununting onn this samee qualality mechanism to work but nonow we've had. high pololitical drama thee alalso liveses days a actuad it looked at it sounded as if presidedent jacob zuma ws really kicking in easier also with u us. hihilights f record a says a as you put t is going to

take this up now with abdullah khan who's the managing director of the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies mr khan thanks for coming on to international i mentioned that figure really in fact it was underlined only a few hours ago in kuwait by the director general of iraq's planning ministry they need twenty two billion dollars now sixty billion later on it's an eye watering some more really who should be paying realistically where's it going to come from. the basically whatever we talk about it are the must acknowledge and this should be the bill of every talk and every i think that american occupation of iraq was illegal because there were no w m d's present in iraq and now was that it was a belief of nation building is actually the america and its allies. as announced during is election campaign and that there will be no nation building and this certainty now that they are not going to let anything for the nation building up the building of. destruction in iraq this is actually part of the trump policy of no nation building. actually they actually have have destroyed the iraqi nation th

a doctor jackie ciliates is executive director of the institute for security studies in pretoria welcome to day w what are you expecting from today's meeting. i expect an announcement that president zuma has agreed to resign but as you indicated the national executive council all the agencies here are still in meeting and it's unclear exactly what has been negotiated there feel sions for prison zuma the a.n.c. can austen to resign we should means that he would then. resign from parliament all they can have a vote of no confidence vote which would mean it has to go to the national assembly all he can be impeached and the question is does he want to just come or does he want to get pushed and how is they speaking viewed by south africa's voters today say this is internal and saying rightly or is about the soul of the country. no this is this is become a national obsession we don't know sitting in front of television screens and waiting and watching our twitter feed to see what is court is going to happen. the national executive council which is the eighty six elected members of the top str

billion dollars in humanitarian aid in iraq alone after the conference the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies thinks that there's a high risk of a new insurgency if iraq is not rebuilt quickly but the sunni population are already there them are going to live by the the shell.

billion dollars in humanitarian aid in iraq alone after the kong for the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies i think that there is a high risk of a new insurgency if iraq is not rebuilt quickly. the sunni population are already there are marginalized by the shia led government and they're actually in the previous some years that led to the insurgency and i.s.i. is capitalized on that now there is another group recently we have some reports that another group is emerging just like i.s.i. yes in some parts of iraq saw the emergence of another insurgency that may not be. that may have another them on their guard if the iraqi government is unable to rebuild these sunni areas visual badly destroyed during this fight. russian athletes have won their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea a silver in the figure skating with canada getting goals and the u.s. bronze the medal was secured by a fifteen year old alina ziggy to the who is making his debut at the games but a fellow athletes not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter account a twenty six year old american

from the pakistan institute for conflicts on security studies think that there's a high risk of new insurgency if iraq is not rebuilt quickly. the sunni population are already marginalized by the government and they're actually in the previous some years there led to the insurgency and i.s.i. . is on there now there's another group recently we have some reports that the other group is emerging just like i.s.i. yes in some parts of iraq saw the emergence of another insurgency there. are other there is on the guard if the iraqi government is are they able to rebuild the sunni areas which were badly destroyed during this fight. russian athletes have won their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea a silver in the figure skating with canada getting gold and the u.s. bronze medal was secured by fifteen year old alina as the gates of a here is making her debut at the games but fellow athletes not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter account twenty six year old american figure skater ashley wagner accused the russian soul the medalist of killing time in her program

can from the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies things that there's a high risk of a new insurgency if iraq is not built rebuilt quickly. the sunni population are already marginalized by the shia led government and they're actually in the previous some years they're led to the insurgency and i.s.i. . is on there now there's another group recently you have somebody or the other group of them are doing just like i yes i yes and some part of. it i saw. them suffer another insurgency there at mid r.v.o. years and years to me this is all the god if the iraqi government has other boys do we rebuild these sunni areas which were badly destroyed during this fight. russian athletes have won their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea and so far in the figure skating with canada getting gold and the u.s. coming in third day three has seen seven sets of medals handed out and there's still ski jumping biassed long and speed skating among other sports ahead today as well as the competitive side there's also the social aspect to the games with most nations hosting the

abdullah come from the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies thinks there is a high risk of a new insurgency if iraq is not rebuilt quickly. the sunni population already marginalized by the shia led government and they're directly in the previous some years they're led to the insurgency. because lives on that now there's another group recently we have some of the fourth of another group of them are doing just like i yes i yes in some parts of iraq saw. himself another insurgency that men are. another there is on their guard if the iraqi government as i'm able to rebuild these sunni areas which were badly destroyed during this fight. ok switching gears now are russian of pleats one their second medal at the winter olympics inside korea a silver in team figure skating with taking gold the u.s. bronze fifteen year old. whose dip in the olympics took place in the free skate section to ensure an overall second place finish but a fellow athlete not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter account twenty six year old american figure skater ashley wagner accus

billion dollars in humanitarian aid in iraq alone abdulla kong from the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies i think that there is a high risk of a new and didn't see in iraq if it's not rebuilt quickly. the sunni population are already there are marginalized by the shia led government and they're actually in the previous some years that led to the insurgency and i.s.i. is capitalize on that now there is another group recently we have some reports that another group is a marketing just like i.s.i. yes in some parts of iraq saw the emergence of another insurgency that may not be. that may have another them on their guard if the iraqi government is unable to rebuild these sunni areas visual badly destroyed during this fight. russian athletes have won their second medal at the winter olympic in ellen picks in south korea and silver in the figure skating with canada getting dulled and the u.s. bronze the night it was secured by fifteen year old alina as the gates of a haze making her debut at the games that's a fellow athletes not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter acco

from the pakistan institute for conflict and security studies think there's a high risk of a new insurgency if iraq is not rebuilt quickly but the sunni population already marginalized by the shia led government and they're directly in the previous years they're led to see. that now there's another group recently we have somebody or the other group is doing just like i guess i guess in some parts of iraq saw. himself another insurgency you. know them on the guard if the iraqi government is unable to. build these sunni areas which were badly destroyed during this fight. ok switching gears now russian the pleats have won their second medal at the winter olympics in south korea still very figure skating with. the u.s. winning bronze well fifteen year old alina who's deputy at the olympics took first place in the free skate section to ensure overall second place finish but a fellow athletes not actually competing was far from complimentary on her twitter account twenty six year old american figure skater ashley wagner accused the russian teen of killing time in her program and condemned her tac

as director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the institute and a professor at the university of york and he says the u.n. security council's resolution allows for further conflict. it is almost common and that when you have this kind of positions which does not give you a specific start date or time that all parties on the ground will try and gain as much as possible they're trying to gain more ground as they push forward because they anticipate that at some stage the resolution will come into interaction but so far i think this phase of the coming few hours will see all parties trying to perform we should also remember that back in september two thousand and sixteen. some of those fighters were in the liberal and before that they were in hands and in homes now all of them have been displaced and they've been evacuated stage after stage where they ended up today i think they do they have no other way out is going to be very very difficult for them to decide to give up or to vacuum way to say it live. and the only way. this should work could work is for them to accept a humanitarian cease fire allow for for assist

a research affiliate of the peerson institute for the study of global conflicts he studied international relations with a focus on international security. the author of two books, the economics of war and organizing democracy. he is authored or co-authored academic papers in numerous journals and has been featured in various news outlets as well. he received his ph.d from the university of michigan am masters or of science from to the london school of economics and political science and a ba from miami university, and before coming to the university of chicago, he was an assistant professor in the department of political science at rutgers, and taught in the department of economics at the ohio state university. next to professor post is austin carson, an assistant professor of political science at the university of chicago, where he currently specializes in security and intelligence, and their relationship to international relations theory. international security and global governance. at the core of his projects is an interest in understanding how government selective reveal and conceal what too and the juncture this creates between t

security clearance. >> reporter: catherine dunn temest studies this for the bookings institution. >> the secretary is what makes the wheels turn every single day. >> reporter: cbs news learned porter is dating white house communications director hope hicks and she is one of the staffers who was involved in drafting those earlier statements defending porter. >> julianna, the chief of staff says this is new information. it wasn't new information. so how did the white house first handle it? did they investigate it or did they try and find some work-around so he could keep his job? >> well, that's right. the white house learned about these allegations back in november and actually in december porter was considering leaving but he didn't. and, in fact, his role was actually expanded. he became involved in more policy decisions. even helping draft the state of the union speech. and this was all done with the full support of the white house chief of staff. >> okay, julianna, thanks. >>> this raises a number of ethical questions. >> it does. >> it really does. because as julianna pointed out this is an important

is calling for their immediate release let's talk to a grand robinson she's chief editor at nikkei asian review and seen a fellow at the institute of security and international studiesalong commun of s.t. in thailand she joins us on skype from bangkok where robinson saw the journalists back in court today in myanmar clearly is not letting go of this case why is that. no they're not and it's clear that this kind of hostility towards particularly western media was now being obviously throughout last year the media became very active covering the rakhine crisis but this particular case really has i think galvanized them and they are determined it seems to make an example but particularly i think because of the nature of this case and it forced the military . as we subsequently saw to actually admit incredibly to some killings of villages i think it's really route to security forces as well so there's a confluence of interests that are really out to make a case over this i do know just recently. coming out of some myanmar officials including the myanmar ambassador to the united nations has shifted a little bit to stress that this is not about press freedom it's about na

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