a senior commander has told al jazeera that he rejects the group's new leader mullan akhtar mansoor, st high-ranking figure to speak out against the appointment. >> translator: the reason we are not accepting mullan akhtar mansoor as our leader is because he is the cause of disunity. the close family of mullah omar is not happy with him and left the taliban movement and his appointment was without consulting with a jaw had leader on tribal elder or people and especially the family of mullah omar which is very respected and should have been informed about the election of mohamed and has chosen himself as a leader and elected mohamed shows he has been appointed by an outsider and wanted to impose it and that is the reason for disunity. >> al jazeera's jennifer glasse sent us this update from kabul. >> reporter: well mullan akhtar mansoor is considered by afghan intelligence as the third most powerful taliban leader and shows how deep the split is here over the new taliban leadership and objecting to mullan akhtar mansoor as the successor to mullah omar saying he believes it was outsider

a senior taliban commander has told al jazeera he rejects the new leader mullan akhtar mansoor, the latest the group's higher ranks to speak out against the appointment and myanmar made appeal for international aid after the worst flooding in decades. the corruption case against julius malema has been thrown out of court and was facing racketeering, fraud, corruption and money laundering and al jazeera miller reports. >> reporter: welcome words for julius malema for the judge hearing his trial for corruption, racketeering and money laundering and opposition leader and two business men implicated in illegally obtaining a government contract worth $4 million but one of the accused was ill and wasn't in court for the resumption of the trial which has already been delayed several times over the last two years. the judge refused another postponement and state prosecutors did not want to have malema tried separately so the case was dismissed. >> i gave the state a practical option, they did not use it. why they did not use it because they didn't have a case against me and they had one postponeme