this is news live from berlin south africa's president jacob zuma addresses and then nation as his party calls for him to resign he says he does not fear losing a vote of no confidence or exiting political office but he says that he will only leave any matter prescribe by the constitution. also coming up at zimbabwe an opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has died after a long battle with illness we will look at his legacy. of seroquel and welcome to the program we have team coverage this hour with my colleague christine one south africa's president jacob zuma has announced his resignation he made the announcement in a televised address to the people of south africa a short while ago the move coming after an order by his a.n.c. party to resign by the end of today or face a no confidence vote in parliament let's listen to what he had to say. actually i've just been told by my producer we don't have that statement from zoom us to we're going to get straight to the analysis now christine when he was here with us on the set and you have been covering this from the very beginning christiane wh

zuma out it seems that those talks collapsed there were a number of demands from jacob zuma which the a.n.c. as a party even though the governing party can't necessarily meet around around prosecution related to these poor corruption charges and and even the state covering the cost of legal fees as well as security for his family now these reports around what the president may have wanted he's not stepped down yet and so the expectation is that this if he see meeting does come up with a decisive plan and a push for jacob zuma to step down from office so the media will continue to report out that story you can follow on twitter the media minute so what will be jacob zuma is like as the and what are the ramifications of a resignation we're here to help us on pack this story in johannesburg lobby is a talk show host aesop is a researcher at the society work and development institute at the university and community who is the chair of africans rising but the pan african movement of social justice activists and civil service organizations welcome everyone to the stream i want to get starte

where does all this leave jacob zuma?ingr: 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 farm, and it also relates to the fact that the government millions of rand for uplifting farmers, but that money actually found its way into the pockets of this family. so that scandal is a bound and jacob zuma's son is a close associate, a business associate, of this family, so all eyes will be focused on that court case to see how president jacob zuma is implicated in this scandal with a dairy farm. it goes, it is actually much bigger than that, he faces and ite criminal charges is only a matter of time, because the national prosecuting authority has said that they will be looking at implementing and reinstating the charges against president jacob zuma. one of the things that came out of the dis

speculation builds about the future of south africa's president jacob zuma often on the president to delay to his state of the nation address plus. three. left off from florida for the world's most powerful rock and what could be a turning point in space exploration. a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit eastern time on killing at least four people and injuring more than two hundred others it happened in the port city of while then very far far to say at least five people remain trapped inside a hotel on the brink of collapse one hundred and forty five people remain unaccounted for. has the latest. working against the clock to search for survivors. rescuers are using cranes to get to those trapped in what's left of while ins marshall hotel when the earthquake struck just before midnight local time the ground floor katie dean leaving the entire building slanting on its site. one of them says. there are two people left inside one is my older brother and another is a colleague who is in the rescue is a tried to dig further down to look for my brother that's the situation for now

he was to have faced a vote of no confidence in parliament tomorrow unless he resigned tonight well jacob zuma in just the last few moments there has resigned with immediate effect welcome to al-jazeera this is the news hour from london and of course our top story tonight jacob zuma the president of south africa as just in the last few moments resigned with immediate effect he said he would do so even though he disagrees with his own party the a.n.c. and their decision to force him to vacate office he had asked them for reasons for his transgressions but in the end the pressure it appears has proven too great he avoids of course a motion of no confidence plan for parliament on thursday at which it is likely he would have been voted out of office he's avoided that by resigning tonight and we can talk to our correspondent for media miller who's in our bureau in johannesburg listening to all of that for me the it seems for an awfully long time didn't it that he wasn't going to to resign that he was going to submit himself to the rule of the constitution as the supreme law of the land but in

m for me ok so if african president jacob zuma political future is uncertain after days of negotiations between him and the country's ruling african national congress this comes more than a year before his second term is due to expire and today we discuss once there was a possible departure means for both the future of the a.n.c. and south africa's political landscape. and you're now in the stream live on al-jazeera and you too have a shortened you send us your questions and your comments i know you have a lot to say and we are trying to get it into the show. social. worker but it is. president zuma has been at the center of several scandal since he first took office back in two thousand and nine or he faces more than seven hundred charges linked to allegations of bribery and corruption zuma denies any wrongdoing and maintain support among a segment of the n c but his scandals have been considered by others in the party to be a political liability ahead of next year's general election amid mounting pressure from within the party and protests demanding zuma must go a.n.c. officials led b

jacob zuma was never going to resign because he thinks he is the a.n.c. and he thinks because he is that leader the chief the government of his personal possession in the a.n.c. is his personal process and that then demands a different approach to get him out or items one early than from what we're hearing it sounds very much to say the a.n.c. today in twenty eighteen is split beyond recognition those who are broadly speaking presume and those program oppose and reform. twenty eight hundred now with our new players and present them a pause i wish you all fully support. city and myself as a full support to our off the person i'm up going forward i don't just think that there was some technicality bitch in the town season this is why the c. had a process of managing transition and i do think that william is totally in quality knees analysis if he's positioning president zuma some would do that to but it tends to be a bigger than the party if you listen to the clip he would know i think what perhaps it could have happened differently which is of president zu

you know age you know early in the day there were reports that jacob zuma would be given forty eight hours to resign and now that the n.c. has come out with the official word on the way forward they continues to be that confusion around exactly what will happen because there's no deadline around when jacob zuma has to resign south africans are uncertain we do know that jacob zuma is expected to respond to what the a.n.c. has said that they're recalling the president as a deploy of the a.n.c. they recall him from this position as president he is due to respond on wednesday we don't know if will address the nation if this will be an internal process we do know that previously jacob zuma had asked for about three to six months to stay in office for this transition to take place over that amount of time the a.n.c. it seems is unwilling to do that but at the same time the air in c. the doesn't appear to know exactly when the president should step down this is what the secretary general is to say earlier. that this is the season of years where you can speak. to the sport. we have. two trut

you know there were times listening to jacob zuma the evening and trying to sort of. unite what he said with what he said earlier in the afternoon when he spoke about not understanding why the a.n.c. had a wanted to recall him and then being quite defiant that this wouldn't be the case and i think we're continuing to see that sort of tone from the president even when speaking about his imperfections he has said that he's not perfect of but no one is so there isn't this a sara lee and acknowledgement of of why he's been criticized what do these allegations of corruption against him could mean why this is so serious and why the african national congress finds itself in the position that it does he you know he has also spoken about his relationship with the a.n.c. a party that is the loyal to that he served from a young age and that it is a position that he's been grateful to be into service south africans the a.n.c. is very much wanted a dignified exit for jacob zuma but we've seen him resist the so call for him to step down and we know that if he doesn't he'll he'll be

time africa's embattled president jacob zuma has broken his silence over the growing calls for him to resign you know forty five minute television interview zuma described the instruction from his party the african national congress to step aside as unfair because he said he's done nothing wrong rumor has been given an ultimatum by the a.n.c. to resign by the end of the day or face a vote of no confidence he says there's no evidence against him. the first time i have a feeling that the leadership is unfair is not even helping me to understand what is it that is so critical. is that a new must just go you must just i've got a problem with that the a.n.c. does not run things like that. that i've been in all the time and they're not defying i'm not defend i've said no i don't agree i don't agree with the decision of some of the middle drones us live from johannesburg could see from of the surgery could be. clinging to power it seems he says he's not defining the a.n.c. that rather suggests he's going to do what they are asked to think there's any chance of that happening before a no conf

this is deja vu newsline for no way but out for south africa's president jacob zuma . i have therefore come. to the decision to resign as president of the property with immediate effect the leadership crisis and one of africa's biggest economies appears to be over we'll look at what comes next. seventeen people are dead following a shooting at on the flop florida high school the suspect a nineteen year old former student there had been expelled is now in police custody will get you the latest from washington. and berlin from paris force annual film festival we preview some films and ask about the impact of the me to movement here in germany. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show we begin this program in south africa where president jacob zuma has resigned the decision comes after his a.n.c. party ordered him to stand down or face a no confidence vote in parliament his departure clears the way for the wealthy former businessman cyril ramaphosa to be elected as the country's new leader later today he's promised to fight the legacy of corruption left behind by

for president jacob zuma to resign. a former aide to egypt's military chief of staff is arrested after threatening to release top secret files. the u.s. secretary of state is warning that the end of combat operations against doesn't mean the fight against the group is over breaks to listen has been addressing a meeting of the global coalition to defeat in kuwait he's called for members to step up commitments to stabilize areas in iraq and syria that used to be under eisel control tillerson says the u.s. has pledged. two hundred million dollars for syria seventy said and as more from kuwait city. this is a key moment you don't have to really read between the lines too much of what rex tillerson the u.s. secretary of state had to say there to realize the concern among some members of this coalition about whether complacency is setting in the u.s. secretary of state reminding everyone that the job isn't done he made a pledge of two hundred million u.s. dollars to help rehabilitate some of those areas which have been recapt

good jacob zuma be pushed out.he south african president in the hot seat as the anc meets today to get him to leave after he rejected last week's request to resign. am meeting today after a deepening sex scandal after in haiti. china's fireworks industry is blowing up, not in a good way here it that is -- good way. that is coming up. we will shake our way over to rio, where carnival season is in full swing. more on that but first, our top story. u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is in egypt, the first stop on his middle east tour. from there, he will be headed on to kuwait and turkey. justnded in egypt sunday, one day after israel carried out major air raids in syria, against what it called a rainy and targets. it is the first time israel has publicly ignored should targeting iranian targets. metalk more about this with is a commentator. how could this complicate things2 --? >> the israelis have accused violation ofzen the syrian sovereignty -- israeli sovereignty. israel said it was retaliating against that an

with me elizabeth cohen i'm also ahead speculation bells about the future of south africa's president jacob zuma after an unprecedented delay to his state of the nation address. ninety one people killed in just twenty four hours the syrian and russian jets hit rebel held areas an adlib an east and class. three. that's left often florida for the world's most powerful rocket why it could be a turning point in space exploration. a magnitude six point four earthquake has hit east in taiwan killing at least four people and injuring more than two hundred albums these are live pictures where rescue is in the port city of say many people trapped and badly damaged buildings which look like they could collapse at any moment. has the latest. working against the clock to search for survivors. rescuers are using cranes to get to those trapped in what's left of while ins marshall hotel when the earthquake struck just before midnight local time the ground floor katie dean leaving the entire building slanting on its site. to go to the. one of them says. there are two people left inside one is my older brot

south africa's ruling party says little more than no confidence motion against president jacob zuma if he doesn't resign by thursday. and welcome to al-jazeera life or my headquarters in doha with me elizabeth purana also ahead rebuilding of iraq kuwait pledges two billion dollars to help the country become a from years of conflict. police recommend the israeli prime minister's a document on corruption charges but benjamin netanyahu says nothing will come of it plus. a mentor thomas in sydney well autistic responded to the incidents recorded at australia's offshore refugee person. trouble is mounting for south african president jacob zuma who's facing pressure to resign after a corruption probe the ruling african national congress says it will move a no confidence motion against zuma if he doesn't step down by thursday meanwhile police have raided the home of the prominent business family with close ties to the president and arrested three people they sailed off the roads around the globe. the family home and to harrisburg with the area designated a crime scene. is accused of being inf

south africa's state media says president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign after the a.n.c. met for a marathon session to finalize his future. i know i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up rebuilding iraq donors aim to raise billions of dollars to help its people restart their shattered lives egypt has been a very important member of the defeat of. the u.s. secretary of state pledges to help egypt to defeat i still. investigators in russia search for the cause of the plane crash which killed all seventy one people on board. and revealed for the first time the official portraits of iraq and michelle obama. are more welcome to the program our top story south africa is the country's state media is reporting that president jacob zuma has been given forty eight hours to resign the decision comes after a marathon meeting held by the ruling a.n.c. party's national executive committee to finalize whom his future in the last hour the president of the party cyril ramaphosa was on his way to meet zuma to inform him of the party's decision he'

towns president jacob zuma that his time is up but zuma who faces many corruption allegations has so far refused to step aside also coming up dramatic scenes at a kiev restaurant as border police deported opposition media mikheil saakashvili ukraine says he was in the country illegally saakashvili is calling the move a kidnapping me get the latest from our correspondent in creating capital. plus the obama's make history again this time of with their portraits. i tried negotiate was great here. and there's. artistic integrity would not allow him to do what else. the former u.s. presidents kasuri hume all once again on display at the on dealing office converse destined for washington's national portrait gallery. hello and welcome i'm a touchy mom we start with south africa where the ruling in c. party has given embattled president jacob zuma forty eight hours to resign the decision follows a marathon meeting of party chiefs that ended overnight it knocks the in sees the. latest attempt to calm the country's turbulent political situation that's been stood by a president because you're l

i also wish to extend a widow of god teach you to former president jacob zuma the would return. yes. i do wish i do wish to thank former president jacob zuma for the man ah for the man and we approached this very difficult and sensitive process. also we should thank him. for the service to this nation. during his two terms as president of the republic. during which our country made significant progress in several areas and development. dad. i spoke i spoke to president zuma yesterday. and we have say these wonderful pleasantries. and he wished us well for the holding of this on up. south africans. in just over one hundred fifty days from now the people of the world. and indeed our people in this country will unite in celebrating the hundredth anniversary of notice and holly. thank. a day under which we south africans were remember the life of one of the most remarkable leaders this country and indeed this continent and the world has ever know. thank you we have an opportunity to recount madiba long walk to freedom we will also have an opportunity to reflect on his wisdom his unf

a n c r six jacob zuma to step down as south africa's president but he's staying on and now. the world is watching and waiting for burma to act. the u.s. envoy to the united nations says me on mars blocking a u.n. investigation into the situation in iraq kind state on the war against i still may be over but iraq's prime minister says the battle for reconstruction has only just begun. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is saying that he will continue to lead the country despite the police recommending that he be indicted for corruption and bribery now it's alleged that netanyahu and his wife received illicit gifts worth tens of billions of dollars from billionaire benefactors including a major hollywood producer that is following this developing story and joins us now live from west jerusalem we see a very defiant reaction from prime minister benjamin netanyahu he is adamant that the recommendations the police recommendations against him will end with nothing he says. that's right i think and i'm sort of us but we should start with just one quick corrective it's not

our top stories: the governing anc tells south african president jacob zuma "you are being removed as head of state." north korea's leader speaks of a "warm climate of reconciliation" with the south after a delegation returns from the winter olympics. a special report on the people — including thousands of children — fleeing the violence in the democratic republic of congo. and dodging the dogs in india: fear on the streets where thousands die every yearfrom rabies bites. hello. reports in south africa say that south africa's ruling anc party has formally requested president jacob zuma to step down. it follows marathon talks by senior party officials that continued into the early hours of this morning. if the 75—year—old does not go, he will face a vote of confidence in parliament that he is expected to lose. jon ironmonger reports. cyril ramaphosa left a 13 hour meeting of the party's executive committee under the weight of a momentous decision: to remove jacob zuma is the head of state. earlier on monday night, the anc leader visited the president in person, telling him to step down

in front of hundreds of drama poser takes the helm a day out of jacob zuma palace to party oppression resign our correspondent christine money will be join me in the studio. also on the program deep divisions in nato put their forces heading for a possible confrontation in syria the u.s. defense secretary clashes with his turkish counterpart in drugs. welcome to the program i'm on the thought she. south africa has a new president he's sitting. his election comes a day off the jacob zuma finally agreed to step down after his spotty the a.n.c. give him an ultimatum to quit or to face a vote of no confidence south africa spot have been convened this morning to elect the new president the session in pretoria also some festive scenes and then this is what the chief justice said. one candidate has been nominated to men. or. polls song the nomination is an auto. accordingly in terms of item five of part eight of shade real threat to the constitution i declare. the owner montgomery ala said obama. julie elect the president of that it probably goes on. joining me now on the studio is christine

and she asks jacob zuma to step down to south africa's president but he's staying on for now. live from london also coming up iraq's prime minister says the war against may be over but the battle for reconstruction must begin. twenty years in jail for the friend of south korea's a former president at the center of a massive corruption scandal. and catwalk competition for new york as some designers. said. you know south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has formally asked president jacob zuma to step down the party's secretary general says he expects huma to respond on wednesday if zuma refuses to go as he has done until now he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament the secretary general says cyril ramaphosa must now become president after taking over as leader of the party in december. president will be in c. . must be come to kind of the day. for the president is going to come to. the only people we haven't we i didn't wish is this kind of this where we start all night and it is your home for it is not until the next instruction to come and i see where we did this war it

grid the home of prominent business family at the heart of corruption allegations involving president jacob zuma that's as a nation waits for his response to demands from his body that he resign also coming up german journalist a dentist you're chill has spent the past year behind bars in turkey with the indictment uncle wrote in pieces about terrorism but insists his detention is politically motivated but as the turkish prime minister visits germany could there be new hope for his regime. and the man known as the flying tomato and round up the top of the podium at the winter olympics we tell you how american samoa border sure why that is gold. telling a woman come to you i'm to touch him a south african police of a risk that several people in raids on a business family with kills ties to president jacob zuma the raids on several properties in johannesburg included this compound belonging to the gupta family they are accused of links with the embattled prime minister both sides deny any wrong doing all financial impropriety the reads come just a day off of the ruling a.n.c. paul. demanded z

insistence of removing jacob zuma was clearly to try and have a smoother electoral period because jacob zuma would have indeed impacted on the a.b.c. winning the next elections and twenty nineteen because he sounded and all of these people who bring lays his reputation down and the corruption charges that are hanging over his head so it was an agent issue for the a.n.c. to get rid of jacob zuma and if i mean it's the only hope actually they had to replace him with sort of oppose it because if zuma was going to take a seat to the to the election next year many people argue that the a.n.c. might have is in the last elections perhaps you can summarise the fact that zuma now is not the president he's not the leader of the a.n.c. he doesn't have the protection afforded to someone in power how vulnerable is the now to some of the cases that were brought against him that was sort of shoved to one side over corruption coming to the forefront again what we're looking to sort of figure is the country of or flow with a very strong and independent judicial system so it is believed that he's going t

has been very badly damaged by jacob zuma the a.n.c. itself no one has openly said that it has been badly damaged by the allegations that have been surrounding the zuma administration we should keep repeating of course that these are allegations nothing against jacob zuma orders administration has yet to be improved in a court of law and part of the process as you rightly say is that this whole thing has been dragged out it's part of a very long ongoing legal process the a.n.c. felt that they had to do something to try to draw a line under the zuma administration to stop these allegations creating more harm to the a.n.c. in the run up to the election than they were going to do had the allowed him to stay for say even an extra three months which he had wanted to do in the week so the a.n.c. decided to cut effectively cut the ties from with jacob zuma and try to move forward but in terms of the perception of the party itself you've got to remember this is the party the brought liberation to south africa this is the party the negotiated at

——jacob reece mogg. —— jacob rees—mogg. unfold. ——jacob reece mogg. —— jacob rees-mogg. from the audience, a few minutes after he started speaking, a group of protesters came into the back of the lecture theatre, and started shouting anti—conservative rhetoric at jacob rees—mogg. started shouting anti—conservative rhetoric atjacob rees—mogg. very loudly, trying to shout him down. rather than halting the event, or ignoring them, jacob rees—mogg approach them, walked to the back of the theatre, where they were, and tried to talk them down. at that point, various other members of the audience got involved and that is when this scuffle, various pictures have circulated, you may have seen it happen, a lot of people got involved. it looked to me that jacob rees—mogg himself was pushed and shoved, although he insists he was not. it was a very aggressive and an expected scene. seeing some footage of what happened, as i am talking to you, certainly looks as though of what happened, as i am talking to you, certainly looks as thouthacob rees—mogg was pushed around. one report i'm s

may make next that if jacob zuma doesn't resign the a.n.c. would then have to look at his options as to how to get jacob zuma out of office one of the options would then be a motion of no confidence in parliament another option would be impeachments now opposition parties have a motion of no confidence scheduled for next week they want those brought forward in fact they want to go as far as dissolving parliament they've written to the speaker of parliament to start these proceedings but they're waiting to begin talks around that so they continues to be a lot of uncertainty but certainly a lot of moves around pushing jacob zuma out of office and the a.n.c. and specifically jacob zuma really are in a difficult position you're absolutely fine with a lot of developments too and we will of course go back to. when there are any more but for now she is joining us live from pretoria thank you. let's move on to other news now kuwait says it will lend one billion dollars to iraq and has committed another billion as an investment that happened at the co

jacob zuma around this ex a deal that you've mentioned around looking at a way to get jacob zuma out but it appears those talks might have broken down because of demands made by zuma including. protection from prosecution if you were to go to court around corruption allegations he would then receive state funding to assist him with the legal fees also making demands for security force family and possibly even a longer time in office up to three months now we understand that those talks did break down now any c. meeting takes place and this is the opportunity for the african national congress to recall jacob zuma that's how they would remove him from office but even then what's important to note is that zuma doesn't have to resign constitutionally he doesn't have to step down from office and if that's the case the a.n.c. would then have to approach call them it to institute its own proceedings for a motion of no confidence now we know opposition parties had already spoken to parliament to have a similar ocean debated in the coming weeks that's due to happen on the twenty second of feb

south africa is awaiting a changing of the guard after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency sumos told a step down by the governing a.n.c. party his nine year term has been plagued by numerous corruption scandals well the stage is now set for a.n.c. lead a civil vom opposed to become the country's next president he will face an election next year but in the meantime he'll be dealing with the many challenges including high unemployment and crime family the mother reports from johannesburg. a reluctant announcement from an embattled president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of the leadership of my organization. i have always been a disciplined member of the sea it came just hours before parliament was due to vote in a motion of no confidence against jacob zuma president's hand may have been forced but zuma says his party did not give reasons why he should resign that's despite being in broiled in scandal after scandal throughout his presidency including accusations of corrup

nobody could accuse the anc of rushing to remove jacob zuma. the leadership did nothing while corruption scandals multipliedye during nins of his rule. an indian immigrant family was allowed to purchase vital national enterprises, employing the president's son, in what became known as state capture. now the oppositi believes jacob zuma no longer cares about party or country. >> now he is just defian the last kicks of a dying horse. but it becomes dangerous. he doesn't care. he is not even scared of impeachment. he is prepared to lose everything. fergal: jacob zuma has lived and ruled in the shadow of greatness. however it comes about, he will leave office a humiliated figure. fergal keane, bbc news, johaesburg. jane: for more, i spoke earlier with an associate fellow at the institute for policy studies and a member of the international working group for afri rising. thanks so much for coming in. you and i have been here before. >> many times. jane: is it safe to assume that zuma is going to go? >> w the question is when.. clearly, the anc has m

south african president jacob zuma remains defiant as the ruling party threatens a no confidence vote if he doesn't resign by thursday. but on as i'm sick of this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. pledges a made to help rebuild iraq but is there enough money to do the job properly. police recommend the israeli prime minister's indictment on corruption charges for benjamin netanyahu says nothing will come of it. on untruthfulness in sydney well this of responding to the woman incidents recorded it will strike you as a refugee person it's. a low pressure is growing on south africa's president to step down from his own party but jacob zuma says he's not going anywhere right now president said he had proposed a longer transition period handing over power after june the a.n.c. rejected that plan and demand that he step down by thursday. so i found it very strange that i'm going to be told by my organization you now must go. because. we now have two new president thomas comey not to following any policy of the a.n.c. there's nothing of that nature i need a miller has more now fro

more of question of when jacob than if.ign he is a great political survivor, so watch this space. we know the speaker of south africa's parliament has gone on the record saying we will know more about jacob zuma's future probably wednesday and that will come from the deputy president and leader of the ruling amc. onwill outline "progress zuma's future." we also know there was a urgent meeting of the national executive of the amc wednesday night. that has been postponed for now for a couple of weeks and here is where we get into rumor bill -- rumorville. south african media are reporting it's because a deal has basically been struck to allow jacob zuma to resign, to step down in a dignified position as possible and what is being negotiated now are the preconditions of that resignation, the terms on which he will leave. they are finalizing those details. it's not officially confirmed so we have reports coming out. on the other hand, we also have reports completely contradictory from the south african communist party sang jaco

jacob zuma's corruption against the anc.“ 1's jacob zuma's corruption against the anc. " 1's corruptionnc." 1's corruption set into institutions like this, he is not the only one taking money and usually there are genes and it's certainly very top. assuming he doesn't get into power, there are institutions fighting corruption and it isa institutions fighting corruption and it is a complicated country. they are all trying to make it clean, but i think it is quinn to be very difficult after the long history of corruption for the next person, not just for historic reasons, but because argued with their hands out. think that is what cyril ramaphosa's problem is now, because he doesn't wa nt to problem is now, because he doesn't want to make it look like he is sanctioning this system, which doesn't begin and end with jacob zuma, but at the same time, he doesn't want to rattle the infrastructure of corruption which exists. he doesn't want to make it look like... it reminds me of the transition in angola when he left his position and handed off to other people and meacher that this network of

so at this point jacob zuma is just deploy of the a.n.c. and he is president of south africa and this is the difficulty the a.n.c. is facing these two centers of power we saw this previously in two thousand and eight with top one becky was president of south africa jacob zuma was president of the a in c. and that's when the record in paki and now we see this happen again and this is why the a.n.c. is finding it easier to recall zuma rather than in the years preceding the situation they're finding themselves in this because he's no longer president of the a.n.c. the a.n.c. is say that they want jacob zuma to reside within a day or two that's according to reports from the state broadcaster the c.b.c. the a.n.c. itself hasn't issued an official statement yet but there has been a lot of pressure on jacob zuma to step down now if he refuses to resign the a.n.c. then could go to parliament to institute proceedings for a motion of no confidence if they recall and it doesn't mean jacob zuma immediately loses his job that they need to follow certain

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the

she faces a groundswell of dissatisfaction for her only rank and file also coming up a showdown with jacob zuma his party needs to decide the fate of the embattled sometimes new president is he on the way out will ask her for so long. and russian investigators searched the snow for clues as to why an airliner went down soon after taking off from moscow killing all seven to one on board. i'm simply so much going to thank you for joining us on america has promised to remain both chancellor and conservative party leader for another full term in her first interview since clinching a deal for a new government she squashed rumors that she had stepped down early to make way for a new generation of leaders many in her party are not satisfied with merkel will talk about that in a moment but first this report. the german chancellor stepping up to defend the coalition deal specifically the key foreign and finance ministries going to the social democrats it was the only way to stop the talks collapsing she says. so himself now or as i also find it painful. i would like to have kept the finance ministr

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state board cost that was the jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country tropical cyclone keda has caused havoc in the pacific kingdom of tonga the country's parliament house as one of many buildings that are now lying ruins there's no word yet on any casualties the power is out there and the flooding is extensive as president arnold trump has unveiled a four point four trillion dollars budget for two thousand one thousand and ramps up spending on infrastructure and the military and proposes deep cuts to health care programs for the poor and elderly it also includes eighteen billion dollars towards tribes promised a broader wall with mexico. don government organizations are pledging more than three hundred million dollars to help iraq rebuild after its war with eisel its will short of the one hundred billion dollars the iraqi government is trying to secure at a donor conference in kuwait cities and infrastructure had been destroye

met with jacob zuma to relay a message from the a.n.c. and according to the state broadcaster that was jacob zuma has a day or potentially to to resign as president of the country now the n.c. has been meeting throughout the day in fact so rob returned to the ne see so it would appear that the conversation they're having isn't entirely over yet jacob zuma is certainly under pressure all indications are given his behavior in the last ten days or so he is resistant he's resisting this resignation he doesn't want to step down and if that continues to be the case the a.n.c. would then have to institute proceedings for a motion of no confidence to be debated in the parliament now the opposition parties in south africa have done exactly that expected to debate a motion of no confidence next week they want to put forward by parliament if the speaker of parliament doesn't agree to the demands by the opposition they say they're going to court ultimately jacob zuma is under fire from all sides what most a tremendous to him is the position that his

recall, jacob zuma, in .22 1.2ce with rule 12 of the anc constitution. it gives the anc the authority its [indiscernible] there should be cocontinuing interaction betetween officialsf the anc and president jacob z za . and the decision by the anc to is onlyly employee taken afteter exhaustive discussions. the decisions of the anc provides certainty to the people of south africa at a t time when the economic and social challenges f facing the country require a resolute response by all sections of society. it is critical that south africans are united around growth, job creation, and economic transformation. that decisioion will be communicated publicly, as s we e doing now, and throuough appropriate forums in all structures of the anc. over the weekend, national executive committee members will go through all the country to brief and inform our fractions about the decisions we are takiking. anand all necessary parliamemeny ensue.es will also now from tomorrow, we will briefefur about thembersrs decisions we have tataken. we are happy there was cooperation

ok so that's the new president looking forward what happens to the old president jacob zuma while we wait to see just how the law will take its course we know from hearing from opposition parties from civil rights groups within the south african society they have made it clear that they will be pushed suing courts to have them go off to prison jacob zuma of course we have talked about a president whose time in office has really been clouded by corruption allegations we know that a lot of those charges are going to stick phil that he would have to see his day in court so he is looking at not a peaceful retirement certain say but a lot of court appointments potentially coming up and we can see that justice has been taking place we know that people associated all those who have to be christmas that it's a sensation with the president a family that has close ties with the president to that has been accused of having access to state resources because of the affiliation to prison jacob zuma the law is already camping down on those people and we expect that in no time president jacob zuma s

president jacob zuma addressed when he recognised he could not win.jacob zuma addressed the south african nation and face reality. i was just yards from him when he said those words. the anc should never be divided in my name. i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. and, with that statement, jacob zuma has brought to an end the most controversial period in the history of post— apartheid south africa. history, happening in the late at night. after a day in which it seemed he might still fight on. in pretoria, the seat of the presidency, rumours of an imminent resignation had rippled all afternoon. yet when he made his first appearance of the day on state television, he was defiant and defensive. zuma the victim. what have i done i have explained many times that this process... there is nothing i have done wrong. this is politics. it is a new phenomenon. what is the problem? at the same time, in cape town, anc mps were meeting to decide whether they would support a motion of nonconfidence to dr

had said that it would be difficult to remove jacob zuma because he is the president of the party now that he's no longer the president it's possible that the party could now step forward and take seriously these calls for jacob zuma to be recorded and that would then push for the president to tender his resignation remember this this is a party ruling party that is split jacob zuma does still have his supporters within the party and it's not known exactly who would devote all that isn't a vote specifically that would be held but because he does have supporters of the a.n.c. there is a split around what exactly the future holds for the president and this is where the difficulty comes in for the ruling party they have seen a loss of a lot of support in the last election given the unpopularity of jacob zuma but this is a party that would want to maintain stability ahead of elections next year but also maintain the foundation of the party and maintain a stability if jacob zuma had to be removed for me to military joining me live from johannesburg for me to thank you still to come on al-j

out of the discussions around jacob zuma the opposition to jacob zuma has as been in place will for more than two years now around allegations of corruption as well as his relationship with a specific family that's been accused of influencing politics in the country and the policies of jacob zuma a puts in place but now that civil rummel course is the president of the ruling party the african national congress and the judge a consumer is no longer part of the top six leadership but remains president of the country until elections in twenty nineteen there is now a more of a push to see the end of jacob zuma as time in office he is expected to make the state of the nation address on thursday this week the annual address to the country around what the government's plans are and there is has been a request by opposition parties to parliament to the speaker of parliament specifically to have that pushed out until after a vote of no confidence against jacob zuma and that's due to take place in february twenty second which parliament says this will happen after spokesman's of the state of the n

national congress are meeting to decide the future of the country's embattled president pressure on jacob zuma has been growing since december when he was replaced as leader by the country's deputy president cyril ramaphosa some to five year old zuma has been dogged by scandal since coming to power in two thousand and nine he's currently fighting the reinstatement of seven hundred eighty three corruption charges if he refuses to step down president zuma could face another no confidence vote in parliament or impeachment. double correspondent christine can tell us more christine what are we expecting is that so they're meeting now what are we expecting to in about three hours now and what are we expecting to come out of today's music we will know today if president jacob zuma is going to be pushed out of office or if he's going to jump essentially . has been holding talks and negotiating with jacob zuma and we will know today if those talks have yielded fruit if the two gentlemen have managed to reach an agreement although if president jacob zuma has resisted all pressure to to step down an

decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect forced out by his own party jacob zuma resigns amid numerous corruption allegations. hello i'm joe hold this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. viable is opposition leader morgan chang or i dies after a long battle with colon cancer. there are reports of numerous deaths suffer a shooting at a high school in florida plus. a mentor thomas in sydney where artists have responded to the woman incidents recorded at australia's offshore refugee proceedings. well after nine years as the president of south africa jacob zuma has resigned the seventy five year old was given an ultimatum by his own party amid numerous allegations of corruption speaking a short time ago zuma said he disagreed with the way he was being forced out the a.n.c. should. be divided in my name. i have therefore come to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. even though i disagree with the decision of my of the leadership of my of going to zation i have always been a disciplined member of the sea will soon on

asks jacob zuma to step down a south africa's president but he's staying on for now. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up iraq's prime minister says the war against eyesore may be over but the battle for reconstruction must begin. twenty years in jail for the friend of south korea's former president at the center of a massive corruption scandal. and the palestinian teenager facing a lengthy jail term if she's convicted in an israeli military court. and our south africa's ruling a.n.c. party has formally asked president jacob zuma to step down the party secretary general says he expects zuma to respond tomorrow if sumit refuses to go he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament as extra general says cyril ramaphosa must now become president after taking over as leader of the party in december. we have room for the constructive engagement of the dems it looks to me and we have set up the unit process for. this in oded every one of the oafish of the presidents have agreed in principle to resign. and have proposed time for the insects they knew for th

jacob zuma has lived and ruled in the shadow of greatness.s about, he will leave office a humiliated figure. the government has unveiled an online tool, powered by artificial intelligence, that it says can accurately detect extremist content and stop it from being viewed. the home secretary, amber rudd, says she wouldn't rule out bringing in a law, that would force technology companies to use it. but with propaganda from so—called islamic state appearing on more than 400 platforms last year, there are concerns that such groups will simply adapt their methods to reach new audiences. our media editor amol rajan has the story. militaristic, cinematic and often shot with high—level production values, these propaganda videos for the so—called islamic state espouse terror and hatred. they're also easy to find on the internet right now. so what we have here are two videos, one of which is extremist content, the other which is perfectly legitimate news coverage. now an artificial intelligence firm in london has used home office money to target such e

jacob zuma said he will sign.n the line is david 0valle, a journalist with the miami herald — he's been covering the story. phone you are very busy, i be looking at your twitter feed. what is the latest from you? the police detectives are still trying to piece together exactly what happened. you can imagine it was a huge crime scene that is going to take days to process. an expected shooter by the name of nicolas cruz is being questioned. he will most likely be booked into state courtjailed to be charged with murder. they are trying to identify all of the dead. they think they have identified 12 of the 17 people. now, the main question is, why. what is known about the suspected shooter? we know he had never been arrested before but there was a lot of troubling things in his past. 0ne was a lot of troubling things in his past. one source tell us he was in foster ca re. past. one source tell us he was in foster care. he had been expelled from school because of disciplinary reasons. he was suspended forgetting in fig