now in south africa and malcolm webb our correspondent there it must be hugely disappointing them for caster semenya and indeed the south african government to the hilt on this. that's right enormous disappointment here among the supporters of caster semenya rights groups activists who've said all along that these kinds of regulations that discriminate three and that they're not aware of the rulings that caster semenya and for athletes like her you have not true but on usually high levels of testosterone would have to take medication to reduce the cost for him to be able to compete in an event that is the races that are four hundred meters up to one mile without going to be seen as a massive blow by so many are by the south african government rights group campaigners and everyone else here who feel that these kind of rules of discriminatory and unfair and as we've already said i mean she's in the olympics in a world eight hundred meter champion what does it mean for her career and indeed said titles. well so far she said very little sometimes she tweeted that sometimes the best way to

democratic alliance party cast his votes as polls opened in the township off so well so let's bring in malcolm webb is joining us from johannesburg to talk us through the polling malcolm and where you are. in the township of alexandra just down the road from a polling station is another one just up the road. but this township has been one of the hot spots for protests ever since the early two thousand but it was a series of protests just in the last month or so leading up to the election residents here been complaining for years about poor housing poor delivery of public services low employment and over successive elections here in south africa the first a turnout has been increasing also the ruling a.n.c. . has been steadily decreasing the turnout has been going down one election after the next the people in this township won't be going to the polling station today and with me is one of them thomas. who's not voting today you told me that your parents were involved in the struggle for democracy but you don't want to vote now . because ever since my parents voted for our well we were still kids and

is also holding a rally in janice burg malcolm webb is there for us so malcolm what message do leaders there have for support as. the leader of the very prettily is malema speaking right now if you at least promise to get over equality we're going to be putting a lot of the racial divide why did it all very odd even the racial divide divide like this. is one of the ways that they were. africa's. arsenal i think. he's risen very quickly since it was first for the earlier. caller a massacre. on the floor. of the presidential candidate or an accident. the big talking the only critic over there is a move to russia or the abramoff. relationship. with the growly not massacre of mind and that was about seventy. a lot of properties here. have had a handful of tainted mob and for the last election which was just the elements for this in the period called jesting i got about ten to said. that they tried to take my time out my know you were only at the ruling party rally the a.n.c. what did you hear there. similar situation with a couple of tens of thousands of people who cannot get a stadium gra

was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want to change this elections on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. a rival parties in south sudan have agreed to delay forming the unity government by six months representatives of president salva kiir and rebel leader requests sharp trying to salvage a peace deal signed last year they were meeting in ethiopia's capital but haven't resolved several differences before the may twelfth deadline to form a government i uganda's opposition politician bobby wine has told he's willing to sit down with president yoweri museveni to discuss the challenges facing the country the popular musician turned politician was released after three days in custody for taking part in what the authorities called unlawful protests catherine reports from couple. this was the moment the town home on thursday after three days in cassidy for leading protests against a social media tax many of his supporters like young john to his music and political views most have grown up with president yoweri in the seventies in charge has been in power fo

popularity has declined recently many of fed up with the continued inequality and unemployment malcolm webb joins me live now from malcolm a deep sense of frustration being felt there among many people particularly in the shanty towns. where we are right now the rally of because largest opposition party the democratic alliance the leader of them across england to see my money speaking at this moment thousands of come to hear what he's got to say although not every seat in the stadium is it is messages one of change very critical of the a.n.c. government support service delivery says he'll tackle poverty says he'll tackle corruption in the last election the democratic allies won just over a fifth of the vote share not mean proportional number of seats in parliament that's what i've heard for the last five years they say they're going to get much more this time but opinion polls suggest they'll get about the same vote again but over the last thirty years they have had a steady increase in support not partly because of growing to. content with the ruling african national congress many people w

and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who is responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. among the top stories on our jazeera more than one hundred fifty thousand syrians have been forced from their homes as government planes backed by russia continued to bomb parts of italy province at least twenty civilians have died in airstrikes the un has called for an urgent deescalation in the violence saddam's military council says it may call for early elections within six months if it doesn't reach an agreement with the opposition the council says it agrees with part of the opposition's proposal for a transitional government but wants the system to be based on islamic sharia laws they are also divided over who will eventually leave the country. and our estimates document represents a genuine will towards finding an exit for the country that will lead to democracy stability and freedom and justice. we agree with them regarding with general structure of the form of government to be a transitional period based on the sovereign council will exec

before they've also been allegations of voting irregularities in wednesday's general election malcolm webb reports from the national results center in pretoria. since the 1st results were displayed the ruling african national congress has had more than 50 percent of the vote it's one every election since apartheid ended and democracy began in 1904 but this time has a smaller majority than ever before. we hit. this is. the data we now have good. ideas that are participating in these elections the a.n.c. is declining popularity followed a series of corruption scandals especially under former president jacob zuma an ongoing protests over poor delivery of public services president say will run a poser who's been credited with halting the party's decline since he took over just over a year ago he's been promising to tackle corruption the largest opposition party the democratic alliance has just over a 5th of the vote as it did in the last election it's one of a number of opposition parties who have complained to the electoral commission that some people voted more than once the parties and the

include nationalizing mines and taking land without compensation to give to the poor let's bring in malcolm webb following the elections joining us from johannesburg you are adding a polling station there malcolm tell us what you're seeing. in the township of alexandra in johannesburg where the housing in this area is quite school or in poor condition other people in this area live in shacks made of high unemployment it's not. area the people at this polling station which is in a school since before the polls opened you can have a little walk around historically there's been quite some enthusiasm for voting in south africa since it became a democracy in one thousand nine hundred four and one of the key reasons for that is the legacy of apartheid that came before it and the hard struggle that was fought over generations for people to have the right to vote many people were killed the democracy eventually came in one thousand nine hundred four initially a very high voter turnout but that turnout been steadily decreasing ever since the a.n.c. is one every election all six of them but also its vote

cast his votes as you can see right there at the polls opened in the township off so let's hope malcolm webb has more from a polling station in johannesburg. well we're in the township of alexandra in johannesburg where the housing in this area is quite small or import condition other people in this area live in shacks made of iron sheets it's high unemployment it's not a wealthy area to be in people at this polling station which is in a school since before the polls opened you can have a little walk around historically there's been quite some enthusiasm for voting in south africa since it became a democracy in one thousand nine hundred four and one of the key reasons for that is the legacy of apartheid that came before it and the hard struggle that was fought over generations for people to have the right to vote many people were killed and democracy eventually came in one thousand nine hundred four and initially a very high voter turnout but that turned out it's been steadily decreasing ever since the a.n.c. is one every election all six of them but also its vote share has steadily decrease

and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. venezuelan opposition leader one who i don't know is leading a meeting of the national assembly that's after he failed to get the military to remove nicolas maduro as president last week at least four people were killed after two days of street protests and riots the pro-government constituent assembly says it may strip parliamentary immunity from opposition members who backed why does latest bid for power. that i suppose is live for us now in caracas so today so just what could happen today then. well we're here right in front of the national assembly and we've been seeing some tense moments when members of the national assembly opposition lawmakers try to enter the palace this area of business surrounded by supporters of president nicolas maduro and there were streaming screaming at them harassing them among other things what we do know is that what you know is that in size and there are many issues that are going to be debating today one of the

youth league is third with nine point eight percent of the vote but let's speak to malcolm webb who is in the central results center in the per taddeo imo what are you learning and what are the current results shown about the voting trends in south africa because it was looking like even before the a.n.c. was going to win but with a reduced majority. with us right we would see results come in on these screens these big screens. in the big blue panel to the side getting the votes results for the provincial elections because we were able to vote for provincial governments at the same time as voting in the national election the results of the national election are in the panel in the middle so far about sixty five percent of the votes being counted now part of the seats in parliament are divided up proportion. to the parties wins and he possibly gets a majority it's leader has to be the president on this side of the room is. officials from the electoral commission who are processing some of this data that's coming in one of the things we've learned from there is that turnout it's like it

alliance currently has twenty five percent of the vote official results are expected on saturday malcolm webb as the latest from a counting center in pretoria. was in the day to come in on these big screens up here in the blue panels we can see the results of the provincial elections people voted provincial governments at the same time in the sense that we see the results of the national results so that tells us when it's finished that will dictate which party gets how many seats in parliament and any party with a majority its leader will be the president there are officials from the electoral commission here processing some of the data so far just over half of all of the votes are being counted so that means that things could in the hours ahead could change quite a lot still fifty percent of the votes yet to be counted but the results that we're seeing so far are pretty much exactly what was expected what the opinion polls showed. you said we have the ruling african national congress keeping its majority but so far with a smaller margin levels for the moment it's nearly fifty seven percent a

poor and we have correspondents across south africa covering this in a moment we'll hear from malcolm webb in johannesburg but first for me to miller has this report now from cape town. on prime real estate along cape town's waterfront is a building that was once a medical residence it became fake and when the city moved its nurses out in twenty fifteen two years later people who had nowhere else to live moved in one of them a sixty nine year old sicilian mother bella went to sit in a classroom you can give it wherever you would like to be. there's no rich or poor people we are all the same and it allowed to stay in the city. in a group here the conditions are not great sanitation is poor and space is a crime and despite the government building millions of free homes south africa still has a shortage of two point three million as other africans prepared to vote there are a number of issues that may influence who they vote for land ownership and the redistribution of wealth rising unemployment and a poorly performing economy are just some of the concerns that people want the government to a

popularity has declined many are fed up with the poverty gap and unemployment which has risen malcolm webb reports in johannesburg on what to expect. twenty five years after south africa became a democracy these people are tired of having no jobs no land and poor housing these kinds of protests happen every week even more say with an election coming. this one last month in a township in johannesburg. has lived there in a shack for thirteen years politicians have always promised better housing but she says they don't even organize trash collection. we don't have enough space we need . i'm not going to avoid they took us to a place. not the same for everyone south africa's the most on equal country in the world since apartheid most white people remain relatively wealthy economically things improved to some black people. but not in the shanty towns each one of these toilets is shared by dozens of families they smell bad they're only emptied about once a week across south africa there are millions of people living in similar conditions in informal settlements and the only way to get out is to

was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want to change this elections on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa an airliner carrying u.s. marines has crash landed into a river in florida the boeing seven three seven charter flight slid off the runway as it landed in jacksonville all one hundred forty three passengers and crew managed to scramble to safety from the shallow water but two dozen suffered minor injuries are going to the movies is becoming more high tech than ever virtual reality is the latest phenomenon as one of the big screen highlights of this year's tri beca film festival in new york kristen salumi has been along to take a look. the technology on display in the virtual arcade at the try back a film festival is cutting edge from the headsets that allowed viewers to interact with the films to the latest projectors to display them. i'm hungry people need a leader but storytelling has been around as long as humans themselves and this animated film called cave which takes the viewer back to the days of talking around the campfire actually point th

hasn't fallen below sixty percent a national election since one thousand nine hundred ninety four malcolm webb is and the main result center and pretoria. as the results are tallied they're displayed on the screens in the two screens to the side showing results from the provincial elections they were held at the same time people got to vote for provincial governments as well as the national government and the national results are shown in the middle seats in parliament divided up according to the share of the vote that each party gets and any party that gets a majority its leader becomes the president of south africa and all the parties all have desks over here we have their agents who are watching the results as they come in the african national congress as expected looks like it's going to keep its majority but with a smaller margin than ever before in second place the democratic alliance south africa's largest opposition party in third place economic freedom fighters sitting here dressed in red it's their second election the party was founded just six years ago by politicians who were pushe

alliance currently has twenty five percent of the vote official results are expected on saturday malcolm webb has the latest from a counting center in pretoria. was in the day to come in on these big screens up here in the blue panels we can see the results of the provincial elections people voted provincial governments at the same time in the sense that we see the results of the national results so that tells us when it's finished that will dictate which party is how many seats in parliament and any party with a majority its leader will be the president there are officials from the electoral commission here processing some of the data so far just over half of all of the votes are being counted so that means that things could in the hours ahead could change quite a lot still fifty percent of the votes yet to be counted but the results that we're seeing so far are pretty much exactly what was expected what the opinion polls showed as you said we have the ruling african national congress keeping its majority but so far with a smaller margin levels for the moment it's nearly fifty seven percent

was simply to rear two weeks ago many people want change this election's on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. thousands of muslims have attended the reopening of a historic mosque that was flattened at the beginning of the bosnian war the sixteenth century allowed sum of squares one of the most prominent masterpieces of classical also an architecture in the balkans it was destroyed in the war by bosnian serb forces trying to carve out what they saw as an ethnically pure state the reopening ceremony was aimed at encouraging religious torrence between deeply divided communities an airliner carrying u.s. marines as crash landed in a river in florida the boeing seven three seven charter flight slid off the runway as it landed in jacksonville all one hundred forty three passengers and crew managed to scramble to safety from the shallow water twenty one of them suffered minor injuries the jet was flying military personnel home from the guantanamo bay base in cuba scientists are hoping the world's deepest lake is harboring secrets which could help us all new typ

the leaders of this country a fair mandate to a bird a better south africa for all let's go to malcolm webb live for a seat on the news hour at the national results center in pretoria malcolm in a couple of weeks time when he's sworn in again does he have to temper his central message given how the arithmetic broke to get him back into office. definitely the supporters would say that this is a success a victory for him one of the things they would point to would be 3 years ago in elections in some parts of africa the a.n.c. actually got less than 50 percent. and then opposition coalitions even took over some of those municipal or storage fees so now with 57 percent of the votes and the majority in parliament. oppose their supporters are going to say that means that he's on the whole to the decline of the party and that's going to give him a mandate to push through the anti corruption drives that he's promised to the list of candidates that was submitted from the a.n.c. to the electoral commission he's parties have to submit parliament you can that is the list that they submit before the ele

and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. golfing champion tiger woods's received the presidential medal of freedom from donald trump the u.s. president is an avid golfer he made forty three year old boards one of the youngest golfing athletes to receive the civilian honor woods has won eighty one p.g.a. tour victories and last month made a dramatic comeback at the all this national golf club his visit to the white house comes as more athletes are declining invitations to the white house and fisher explains why. it's wonderful to have you here it's been a tradition at the white house for years when u.s. sports teams talk off their celebrations with a visit to the president but like many other things it's different under trump the patriots are an incredible organization of the twenty teams that have won major titles only ten have gone to the white house the rest have either not been invited or more unusually have declined the invite our current president is a very divisive. you know indivi

saturday so far there are no great surprises but signs of a steadily shifting political landscape malcolm webb al-jazeera pretoria south africa. israeli forces have killed one palestinian and entered at least 30 others during weekly protest garza after more than a year of mass demonstrations hundreds of palestinians have been killed many more left maint for life by the name reports from the gaza strip some have lost limbs now have new heart. jaime's food you is what you might call a wounded veteran of the march of return protests in gaza on a friday last august he was shot in the left leg he came one of the growing number of protest amputees i was out there i'm not disabled being disabled is a state of mind i believe if my mind is disabled i'm disabled but if i lose a part of my body i'm not disabled and i'm at the. food you is one of 20 people who will soon be fitted for a state of the art prosthetic leg at the newly opened how mad hospital for rehabilitation and artificial limbs there are already 40 people on the waiting list the executive director of the hospital says there are 6800 amputee

could lose ground see opposition parties when malcolm webb joins us now from one polling station in johannesburg malcolm what's the atmosphere like where you are. so far it's quiet but there is a line of people who've come early to vote. in the exam alexandra township which you can see here housing here quite small other people many other people living in shacks it's not a wealthy area this is the entrance to the polling station political parties are allowed to set up a desk here so that they can check their own members in their register so this is the desk for the ruling african national congress they've been in power every election since one thousand nine hundred four and this is the desk still being set up for the opposition economic freedom fighters who are small but rapidly rising opposition party as we go and you can see the people who've come. to vote the people here for at least an hour to two waiting in line. for democracy in south africa which definitely is a legacy let's go get closer we can all look at some of these people a legacy of how hard it was for people to win the right to vo

popularity of the ruling african national congress one of them involved in mental health facility malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. elizabeth says her brother christopher didn't have to die he had epilepsy and lived in a mental health care facility in the last. three years ago she says health officials moved him to an unregistered on licensed and ill equipped building he was among more than a thousand patients taken out of care at the time weeks later he was dead manny cleanness. and get enrolled in is one point six. along with christopher more than a hundred and forty patients died nearly sixty are still missing campaigners say the officials responsible were stealing public health care funds that the officials deny it but it's just one of dozens of corruption scandals here in south africa that lighted the ruling african national congress specially in the last ten years it's made it increasingly difficult for the a.n.c. to retain votes. in. the worst scandals surfaced under former president jacob zuma treasury says billions of dollars of public money was stolen presidency will run oppose

two percent of the vote official results are expected on saturday that speak to al-jazeera as malcolm webb who joins us from a vote counting center in pretoria marcum tell us about how things are going where you are and what the trends are whether they're due to change or in the next few hours. we're watching the results come in on these big screens here the blue panels the results for the provincial elections people voted for provincial governments at the same time the panel in the center shows us the results for the national elections so let's go parties are allocated seats in parliament according to their. peers up here the party that gets a majority. is the leader of that party that becomes president parties each of their desks over here including the a.n.c. you as you mentioned at the moment do have a majority it's just over sixty percent of the votes being counted so far and see has about fifty seven percent of the vote. the democratic alliance which is the largest opposition party has about twenty three percent at the moment which is almost the same as the vote share that they got i

saturday so far there are no great surprises but signs of a steadily shifting political landscape malcolm webb al-jazeera pretoria south africa. to algeria now where tens of thousands return to the streets for a 12th consecutive week of protest against what they call the ruling elite they want key figures connected to our surprise and abdul-aziz that if we could to cede power presidential elections are expected in july but protesters are unrelenting in their demands for complete regime change pressure from demonstrators and military force the president to step down last month and has led to multiple arrests. well over in sudan pro-democracy protesters there are defying $45.00 degree heat in the fasting month of ramadan to continue their 5 week long session outside the army headquarters protest leaders are threatening a civil disobedience campaign are growing increasingly frustrated with the military's delay in handing over power more than a month after it ousted president tomorrow bashir military rule is a promising elections in 6 months if an agreement can't be reached but the opposition. fre

many people want to change this elections only likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa calm has been restored to the largest city in between following two days of riots spawn by election results at least two people were killed in court a new police force supporters of opposition parties which were barred from last sunday's election. now in and caring u.s. marines as crash landed into a river in florida the boeing seven three seven charter flight slid off the runway as that in jacksonville one hundred forty three passengers and crew managed to scramble to safety from the shallow water about two dozen suffered minor injuries. though it's kentucky derby day in the united states that means horse racing fans are getting ready for one of the biggest events in the sport but a spike in horse deaths is overshadowed this season as rob reynolds reports from los angeles the high fatality rate is causing will make has to take the reins. on the eve of the kentucky derby the biggest race day of the year the u.s. horseracing industry is in a crisis there is a public outcry

and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa argentina celebrating the memory of its former first lady eve apart on sixty seven years after her death as she was popularly known was a champion of women's rights she died in one nine hundred fifty two but as daniel swallow reports image that song. she once said her greatest fear in life was to be forgotten one hundred years after her birth one hundred of eaters marched to the center with osiris to ensure that they played on is remembered last week that said her whole life as a young beautiful woman and actress she was an example of what a woman can be. the name in the image of the former first lady still shine in all corners of argentina. books a story written about schools hospitals and restaurants are named after this desert concocted in her own a rare we're incorporating the image the figure of the values she represented the sensibility her main value was her sensibility which is necessary to overcome the difficult times are facing now david

worst ever performance by the end see in the 25 years that it's ruled since the end of apartheid malcolm webb has the latest for us from the national results and. as the results are being counted being displayed on these screens the middle panel shows the results from the national election and almost all of the polling stations votes have been tallied very small number of remaining but it's taken quite some time for them to come in here because of disputes or technical issues in a very small number of polling stations if issues from the electoral commission here they've been compiling this data but the complaints being brought against the electoral commission by some opposition parties who say there's been some irregularities they allege that some people voted more than once or 2 or more times in some cases and so there's an audit on the way to try and assess the extent of these irregularities there are a lot of observers have said that they don't believe or haven't seen any evidence that this is happened on a scale that might affect the result of the queues for food fuel and common ensuite a

former leader jacob zuma the main opposition democratic alliance has almost a quarter of the vote malcolm webb is inside the main result center and pretoria. the results are displayed on the screens in the two screens to the side showing results from the provincial elections they were held at the same time people got to vote for provincial governments as well as the national government and the national results are shown in the middle seats in parliament divided up according to the share of the vote that each party gets and any party that gets a majority its leader becomes the president of south africa and all the parties all have desks over here we have their agents who are watching the results as they come in the african national congress as expected looks like it's going to keep its majority but with a smaller margin than ever before in second place the democratic alliance south africa's largest opposition party in third place economic freedom fighters sitting here dressed in red as their second election the party was founded just six years ago by politicians who were pushed out of the a.n.c

in the 25 years that it's ruled since the end of apartheid let's cross over to malcolm webb who's live at the national results center in pretoria and of course malcolm over the last few days we have got a clearer idea more so now with much of the vote counted and completed as to how really the parties stand. those results being counted they've been posted on the screens up here 3 screens to the side showing us the results for the provincial elections people got to vote for the provincial government the same time as voting for the national government that results displayed in the middle you can see they've counted $99.00 of the votes that were cast but those last few polling stations to be counted at the slowest reasons for that include problems at the polling stations disputes and so on that we're talking about a very small number of polling stations but it still might take quite some time to get those last sets of data in we've been here reporting since wednesday's poll let's take a look at what's been happening. since the 1st results were displayed the ruling african national congres

one was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want change this election's on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa still in africa or in camps in the lake chad region in nigeria have become home to hundreds of thousands of people they were forced to flee attacks by the. manager says the latest now in our series a life displaced from the city of my degree. at the height of the crisis she. met a group of people fleeing attacks in two thousand and thirteen when. they were out in the streets of my degree hungry and exposed to the elements there so temporary shelter on his property before moving to displaced people's camps. i know you know this place was my main source of income but they sent all tenants away to make room for the displaced currently there are three children displaced people here haven't anything. right one. six years or the refugees sure more signs of leaving mystified is one of them he says is going to wait out this crisis and this camp no matter how long it takes yeah yeah yeah only a few days ago people. were killed and if you others escape you h

though seen as the most crucial since transition to democracy in one thousand nine hundred four malcolm webb has more from johannesburg. so this is the final rally of the ruling african national congress thousands of people are gathered at the stadium. to hear president civil run it was a speech. for the poor president jacob zuma just over a year ago to the time the n.c.a.a.'s popularity was at an sign following a series of corruption scandals deceivers rule. that it was a wave of what is now never in school floria remember that the government out the window was because of rule corruption scandals including was implicated members abramoff family but still the african national congress back to the majority did. not have a say it was credited with ending white minority rule the one hundred ninety four but it really was a gentle wind with a lower margin and it was hot divorce. thank you no not about the corruption of the livery of public service is still the main opposition parties which are the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters still on. the a.n.c. . divisions over race in

a major challenge from the democratic alliance as well as the economic freedom fighters party malcolm webb has more from johannesburg. so this is the final rally of the ruling african national congress thousands of people are gathered at a stadium in johannesburg to hear president civil runaways this was a crowd from former president jacob zuma just over a year ago to the time and space popularity was at a sign following a series of corruption scandals on this leader's rule. that it was a wave of whatsoever in school run a warrior remember that the guy that window. because of more corruption scandals including was implicated members of ramaphosa family but still the african national congress is back to the jersey as it has had ever since was credited with ending white minority rule the one hundred ninety four but it really was a gentle win with a lower margin than it's ever had before it's taken a lot for the corruption because of delivery of public services and still the main opposition parties which are the democratic alliance and the economic freedom fighters still on the. scene. of the

was actually ferrying as many as 400 and some were teachers travelling to collect their salaries malcolm webb is monitoring developments from kampala in neighboring uganda . dozens of bodies have been pulled from the water dozens more still missing and it's unlikely at this stage that survivors will still be found in the water more than 24 hours after the boat sank survivors say it was overloaded with cargo and with people and that's common for boats on congo's many waterways on the rivers and the lakes which are crucial for connecting up the interior of the country there's little infrastructure many of the roads are only possible on a motorbike and it gets even difficult to pass them after heavy rains so the waterways a crucial also there's a lot of poverty so overloading from the point of view of boat crews is a way to get a little extra desperately needed income and to the point of view of passengers is just the only means to get around to carry out their business and in the case of many of the passengers on this boat they were teachers going to collect their monthly salary which is essent

that speech malcolm webb who's at a polling station in johannesburg the president says people are energized this election. definitely not for others in the township of alexandra. you can see the some of the neighborhood here typically people living in quite the conditions for housing a lot of people don't even live in houses they live in shacks made of metal sheets and ever since the early to thousands have been protests. against the government you see the government is being very poor at delivering public services but similar protests have been seen in townships across south africa since about that time there was actually a spike in the protests here in alexandria coming up to the election you're one of the reasons why there's some police here. small. disputed and keep voting to the police stepped in. not sure exactly what happened to the police quick to step in and try and break it up. the government said it would deploy extra police in the hot spots where there have been spikes in protests recently. and alexandra is definitely one of those areas for a couple of hours this morning there w

to leave it there and hopefully we'll be able to rest the connection better for our next shows malcolm webb on the line there from kampala honester a boat accident in the democratic republic of congo which has killed dozens of people in zimbabwe the opposition leaders promised to ramp up pressure on the government to save the country's dire economy on sunday nelson chamisa was chosen to lead the movement for democratic change replacing it sounded morgan chang or i who died last year arm which are sorry for some greater role in central assembly. after months of infighting over who will be leader of opposition party nelson chamisa is the elected president of the movement for democratic change he ran unopposed after some who wanted the top job left the party or dropped out of the race we have shown the world we have shown zimbabwe with on africa that it is possible to be democratic it is possible to renew it is possible to. nonviolent peaceful contests internally and that is what we have shown the world look at the number of people we have come all on their own accord. zimbabweans are watching

and her mother say they won't find peace until they know what happened and who was responsible malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa these fifty eight people have been killed and dozens injured in a fuel tanker explosion in. people have been siphoning gasoline from the overturned truck when it burst into flames on sunday night it happened on the highway linking new shares international airport to the capital niamey. now the u.n. says thousands of farmers in colombia have been displaced since the signing of a peace deal with the fog rebels forced displacement was common during the civil war which lasted more than fifty years but it largely stopped during peace negotiations over people are again fleeing their homes due to violence by small armed groups as. the reports from southern cordova. for more than a month two thousand farmers and indigenous people have been living in makeshift tents in the village of. in a remote area of northern colombia. armed men arrived in the rural communities with one message everybody had to leave. they said we had less than twenty four hours to vaca

political landscape malcolm webb pretoria south africa. tens of thousands of algerians have returned to the streets for yet another day of protest against what they call the ruling elite they want to keep ideas connected to answer president of the disease beautifully had to cede power presidential elections are expected in july protesters. are unrelenting in their demands for a complete regime change pressure from demonstrators a military force the president to step down last month. now u.s. president on trial and says he doesn't consider north korea's latest missile test to be a breach of trust. north korea has conducted 2 drills in less than a week tensions have risen following the failed summit between the america the north korean leaders in february. sri lanka's army chief says security services have dismantled a criminal network led to the easter sunday bomb attacks my headset and i told wash this news agency that the threat to the country has been contained authorities have also ordered a d.n.a. test to confirm the death of the suspe

before we speak to our guests malcolm webb has this report from johannesburg. this is the final. south africa's ruling african. wednesdays an exodus. ever since it was credited. minority vote in one thousand nine hundred forty one every election but is the violence that was issued was capitalize on a series of russian scandals those eyes on russia that the delivery of public service is. sufficient. still considers keeping the sources we pollute the good from. has handed in budget and as a. whole lot has to come into. some of. the opposition economic freedom fighters doesn't it he was pushed out of the a.n.c. about six years ago his posses rapidly risen ever since the last election. for the state's involvement to see to disrupt proceedings and change the course of salopek of politics. and see the corruption promising to nationalize south africa's four. hundred five this is going to say loss is one of a long time for the fed opponents and also putting them under a civil servant i don't really know who the just on duty right now we are saying this will never come back up to me south

party's worst performance in the 25 years it's ruled since the end of apartheid let's go live now to malcolm webb he's joining us from the national results center in pretoria so melcombe the numbers and the arithmetic how's it all unpacking. we're waiting for the final results announcement which is going to take place here just a short while this is where they've been counting the votes for the last few days expecting presidents who are closer to come and speak here as well in his capacity as outgoing president but of course expecting to get sworn in again as south africa's next president in about 2 weeks from now the a.n.c. came away with just over 57 percent of the vote that's the 1st time that they've had on the 60 percent it's the worst or the lowest majority they've ever had and still some people will see it as somewhat of a turnaround or a victory for rahm opposer is according to the results of 2016 municipal elections that was the a.n.c. the lowest point that it's ever had and that was towards the end of the 9 year old of president jacob zuma a series of corruption scandals blighted the a.

hasn't fallen below sixty percent and national election since one thousand nine hundred ninety four malcolm webb is inside the main results center and pictorial. the results are displayed on the screens in the two screens to the side showing results from the provincial elections they were held the same time people got to vote for provincial governments as well as the national government and the national results are shown in the middle seats in parliament divided up according to the share of the vote that each party gets and any party that gets a majority its leader becomes the president of south africa and all the parties will have desks over here we have their agents who are watching the results as they come in the african national congress as expect. it looks like it's going to keep its majority but with a smaller margin than ever before in second place the democratic alliance south africa's largest opposition party in third place and economic freedom fighters sitting here dressed in red it's their second election the party was founded just six years ago by politicians who were pushed out of t

one was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want change this elections on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. thousands of muslims have attended the reopening of a historic mosque destroyed in one thousand nine hundred two when the bosnian war erupted the sixteenth century allowed mosque in the town of furniture was a masterpiece of classical autumn in architecture one of many mosques blown up by serb forces during the conflict which tore apart the former yugoslavia for sure had a muslim muslim population of about twenty thousand today only one thousand remain the ceremony is aimed to encourage reconciliation between bosnian serb and crow at communities now scientists are hoping the world's deepest lake is harboring something which could maybe help us all types of antibiotics have been found in organisms living in the depths of lake baikal in russia but a step thousand reports that needs to be more research before any patients can benefit. it's more than twenty five million years old six hundred kilometers long and holds a rich history of information abou

one was in pretoria two weeks ago many people want change this election's on likely to bring it malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg south africa. the king of thailand has been crowned in a coronation ceremony full of buddhist and hindu tradition he succeeds his father who died in twenty sixteen after waiting for seventy years when a reporter in bangkok. after more than two years on the throne along corn was crowned king of thailand by wearing the great crown of victory the sixty six year old formally became the tenth king in the czech read in a. radio two i shall continue preserve and build upon the royal legacy and shall reign with righteousness for the benefit of the happiness of the people forever. he was crowned at the start of a three day ceremony steeped in buddhist and hindu rituals. became king in two thousand and sixteen after the death of his father king a do new day he reigned for seventy years meaning this was the first royal coronation most thais have known large screens were wrecked around the city but few showed up to watch the ceremony which was held inside the grand palace

actually find out when those ballots have been counted and thank you very much for that al jazeera is malcolm webb reporting there from a polling station in johannesburg south africa in a spot today that muslims around the world are fasting during the holy month of ramadan but people in yemen are finding it hard to buy food some making do by buying products that are past the expiration date or burden manly as a story. father for is preparing for with his pick of sweets and dates but most of the food he's buying is approaching all past its sell by date. so he works for yemen's un recognized government but like most employees he hasn't been paid for almost two years cash strapped he says he has little choice but to buy low quality food. usually in the past we used to buy a lot of things for ramadan but now we can't afford it and we look for the cheapest alternative because we don't have enough money. before the war the capital sanaa is bubbles of our market would be bustling but in the past four years yemen's currency has. sunk as the cost of food has soared that's become a major driver behind the f

alliance currently has twenty five percent of the vote the official results are expected on saturday malcolm webb joins us now live from pretoria the vote counting. stand center there tell us how things are going where you are come and what the trends are and whether we're expecting to see any changes in the coming hours. within the data coming in on these big screens up here in the blue panels we can see the results of the provincial elections people cited provincial governments at the same time and in the sense that we see the results of the national results so that tells us when it's finished that will dictate which party gets how many seats in parliament and any party with a majority leader will be the president there are officials from the electoral commission here processing some of the data so far just over half of all of the votes are being counted so that means that things could in the hours ahead could change quite a lot still fifty percent of the votes yet to be counted but the results that we're seeing so far are pretty much exactly what was expected what the opinion polls showed as y