as the african national congress we launched our twenty nine. election manifesto we do so at a crush of moment in the history of our nation. after a period of our generation certainty we never minded a moment of oh and the promise of a new beginning for a party marge not only by corruption scandals but infighting between rival factions aligned to either roma or former president jacob zuma the a.n.c. has used this event to highlight some of its achievements as the last election and its future plans for south africa but for many here it's much of the same from a new party president competing with the formally he's popular in this province there were concerns about how reports i would be received was in a tall is the home of former president zuma who resigned last year during various corruption scandals involving him in the a.n.c. thunderous applause greeted zuma as he entered the stage with distinctly few a cheers for the president from up north as presidency however appears to have regained some support nationwide one survey shows sixty one percen

much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle. the weather is next but still ahead on al-jazeera south africa's ruling national african african national congress prepares for elections as its popularity appears to be on the wane when live from the party conference. hello there appeared to be some showers billed again from the southern philippines but generally speaking this more drive in the reason we're at around three minutes and indonesia at the moment and that's correct as the atmospherics at a moment so you do see some white top clouds and you'll se

to kick off the a and seize campaign here's some of what he had to say today as the african national congress we launch our twenty nine thousand. election manifesto we do so at a crucial moment in the history of our nation. after a period of diodes and uncertainty we have arrived at a moment of hope and renew oh how the teenager who fled saudi arabia because she feared being killed by her family for announcing a slam is about to land in her new home canada is granted asylum to the house. she gained the global attention for barricading herself in a hotel in thailand to avoid deportation to saudi arabia john hendren has more. in a desperate plea from a barricaded hotel room noone urged the world to come to her rescue i'm still and. i have no choice. they said i have to go to model and. no one can have been right now on friday she got her wish and we have accepted the un's request that we grant her asylum that is something that we are pleased to do because canada is a country that understands how important it is to stand up for human rights to stand up for women's rights around the world the can

participated in the protests we also invited robin obeyed he's a senior member with the ruling national congress party we'll see him back onto the show but he dropped out just a few minutes ago he said that he wasn't working appropriately and he didn't want to join us on the phone so. what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. there are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced to again with lies i mean issues and. rubber bullets if you guys got hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot thing some lasting disability so far more than fifty people have being killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and cool out with god and how many of our few who are paid the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to y

much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle. all right still ahead on al-jazeera a rise in attacks by israeli settlers on palestinians in the occupied west bank. their record breaking musical how milton goes off broadway to a homecoming in puerto rico. how the rain has gone for the most part we still got streaks of plywood running from myanmar trust north vietnam and through china and something bit more of this where the cold air sits but it's a dry forecast the sunday increasingly i would suggest it may not stay that way and i think if you pump it emo

what you are a stickler about that we should all together the government the national congress party and. it is a government of one accord the national unity we should look together to establish if you because we should not. right to say that this party is to be isolated or and this party should govern the country but we should work together to solve the political problem of the country we should work together to stablish a political system for peaceful exchange of power between all political parties and also should we have together so that this country we this. let ye for so that his people but actually some people to lose lose direct this is not actually the mets or to topple or octal. but has and refused to step down the orderly legal we now or toppling of the government in the election transparent election that elections be monitored by the international. review in an institution that specializes in monitoring elections and after that you will see the people who are supporting n.c.p. or end up are. all what is the mystery the number of the people who are supporting the opposition

south africa's ruling african national congress launches its election manifesto amid a growing party infighting. the white house condemns reports that the f.b.i. investigated whether donald trump was working for the russians plus i'm not leaving my room until i see you and. i'm going to. canada and says the plea of a saudi teenager is a new problem to renouncing islam. the runner up in the presidential election in the democratic republic of congo is challenging the results in court. says a vote counting by catholic church election observers show he won with sixty one percent of votes and he says that landslide compares with just eighteen percent won by the declared when a rival opposition candidate. both the catholic church and french government dispute the official results saying it doesn't match what election observers saw. as live from the capital kinshasa are you outside the constitutional court what's likely to happen there today. well martin for you still has not arrived more than three hours late would be called and he kept saying i'm in a meeting i'm in a meeting i know when

still in africa in fact south africa where the ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may durban was the city chosen to host the event in the province of course in a town where support for the a.n.c. remains divided from me to miller explains why. there is certainly a significant show of support at the most as maybe to stage him in durban where the african national congress is holding its manifesto launch at least eighty five thousand people have come out to you know what the ruling parties plans are around the election and what it plans to do following that the a.n.c. of course concerned about a drop of support in recent years a lot of that to do with corruption scandals has been embroiled in as well as the resignation of almost president jacob zuma president it's all we have this launch is taking place is the home of zuma this is a province where he enjoys a lot of support. these community members sing outside a courtroom lousy in the city of durban there seeking justice appearing in court an african national congress councillor accused of killing an

obaid he's a senior member with the ruling national congress party we'll see him back onto the show but he dropped out just a few minutes ago he said that he's working appropriately and he didn't want to join us on the phone so. what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced again with lies i mean issues. rubber bullets tear gas not hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot seeing some lasting disabilities so far more than fifty people have been killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and pull out the dogs and that many of our few who are paid the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to use the i fear justice and freedom people so it's like i will

for us because you're talking about opposition versus members of the ruling party which is the national congress party so before air time our producer talked to. the obey to of course was on our show two weeks ago and dropped out of our lineup minutes before air time but he told our producers that today things are going accordingly in a courtroom in the capital there are no protests like this back to normal i want to juxtapose that with this tweet we got from ahmed ahmed says the situation in sudan is catastrophic almost all the oil stations are empty big theories are out of wheat flour and an availability of cash money in the sudanese banks and a.t.m.'s is affecting people there to break this down for us what is the reality. well the reality is just like i tweeted a lot of petrol stations do not have fuel so people would line up for hours to try to fill their tanks and a lot of a.t.m.'s don't have cash and that's been an issue for the past few months it's not something that started with the crisis but it's been going on back way back for a few months now and yes there are protests today earlier

ramaphosa continued to play out the idea of a new dawn for south africa today as the african national congress we launch our twenty nine thousand. election manifesto we do so at a crucial moment in the history of our nation after a period of uncertainty we have arrived at a moment. of oath and the promise of a new beginning for a party marge not only by corruption scandals but infighting between rival factions aligned to either roma or former president jacob zuma the a.n.c. has used this event to highlight some of its achievements as the last election and its future plans for south africa but for many here it's much of the same from a new party president competing with a formal leader who's popular in this province there were concerns about how reports i would be received was in a tall is the home of former president zuma who resigned last year during various corruption scandals involving him in the a.n.c. thunderous applause greeted zuma as he entered the stage with distinctly fewer cheers for the president the more forces presidency however appears to have regained some support nationwide on

as the african national congress we launch our twenty nine thousand. election manifesto we do so at a crush of moment in the history of our nation. after a period of died out in uncertainty we never minded a moment of oath and the promise of a new beginning for a party modest not only by corruption scandals but infighting between rival factions aligned to either romney or former president jacob zuma the a.n.c. has used this event to highlight some of its achievements as the last election and its future plans for south africa but for many here it's much of the same from a new party president competing with the formal eda he's popular in this province there were concerns about how reports i would be received was in a tall is the home of former president zuma who resigned last year during various corruption scandals involving him in the a.n.c. thunderous applause greeted zuma as he entered the stage with distinctly few a cheers for the president from up north as presidency however appears to have regained some support nationwide one survey shows sixty one

much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle even as this government shutdown drags into its third week a weather update next year on al-jazeera then we'll take a look at how briggs it could affect the rights of brits who want to live and work in europe but europeans who want to live and work in britain will look at one of the main issues of the plagues of the page. south africa's ruling african national congress prepares for elections as its popularity appears to be on the wane. hello again a welcome back we're here cross united states we are watching

even the last few hours about whether or not to call this national emergency and he said to reporters today at the white house that if congress is not able to come to term agreement to fund his border wall that he still will declare this national emergency here's more of what he said. i'd rather not do it because this is something that congress should easily to this is something that the democrats should do and i want to give an easy way out of something as simple as this not only simple it's easy and it's going to secure our you know we have a country that is under siege you could actually you know a lot of people don't like the word invasion we have a country that's being invaded by criminals and by drugs and we're going to stop it so i want the democrats to come back to washington and vote. ok he seems to have batted the ball firmly back into the court of congress particularly the lower house where all the democrats that they will go away for the weekend what is their position on the situation now. well the democrats have left the congressional building for the weekend along with the republicans which is important to remin

what was wrong with his attempts at the iraqi national congress in the run up to the iraq war in iraq he created that organization. jalapa he was. to get out of this and you know they used false information and all that to death to actually to create that environment for the war against iraq under apartheid and look at the outcome of this if you go back to seventy years ago they used the same tactic look what happened to libya it's completely dismembered in that's next story i should also say that i know it's terribly serious calling for. portrayal in kingsman comedy film which is also implicated in that we're expecting more from the integrity initiative which employs journalists employees who knows. and you know you mention libya here is a young girl you is from the bench press and the u.s. military is all over africa despite not being at war in africa you know i believe you know they will clear it was why there are building a military base there in all of the preparing for the future war the trumpet ministrations as the seven of thousand u.s. military personnel it's as a thousand co

so a win tonight for kilmarnock would see them leap african national congress over rangers, this feelst win game for both teams. it feels like rangers and kilmarnock can't afford and you can ger across all the football action tonight on five live from seven o'clock. david beckham is set tojoin phil and gary neville, nicky butt, ryan giggs and paul scholes as co—owners of non—league side salford city. the "class of 92" bought the club in 2014 and have overseen three promotions in four seasons. subject to approval from the fa beckham will take a 10% stake. singapore businessman peter lim is the largest shareholder with 40% of the club. beckham already owns american club inter miami. five years of trying to get the team in miami going, and now it's finally on its way, now i'm able to get involved. seeing the story, seeing what they've done with the club, the stadium, obviously having peter is a huge part of this, it is a special group of people. to be part of this incredible team is going to be exciting. injust nine days‘ time, this year's six nations campaign gets underway. all 12 captai

president of the national congress the heads of state heads of government twenty heads of state twenty heads of government that are to me with your presence here today if you're. president republican pre-sale i want to morrow. with whom i went to the military academy negras. congressmen senators president of the congress. former president. former presidents certainly. the. supreme court justice. ministers. armed force commanders. general prosecutor. ladies and gentlemen governors senators and federal congress men. heads of foreign missions who are credentialed visibly the brazilian government my dear wife. michelle. my children and other family members who are here and colleagues from the lower house brazilians ladies and gentlemen first i would like to thank god for being alive because. and also i would like to thank the hospital that carried out this miracle that kept me alive now i'm humbled to come back to this house where for twenty eight years i was serving the brazilian nation i committed cumulated mucha experience in my struggles here this gave me the opportunity to grow and to

what the artistic about that should ought to get the government the national congress party and are killers it is a government of one accord the national unity we should look together to establish if you because we should not have it right to say that this party is to be isolated or and is part each should govern the country but we should work together to solve it for the problem of the country we should work together to stablish political system for useful exchange of power between. all political parties and also should we have together so that this country we this was. before so there is people but actually some people to lose the blue state this is not actually their method to topple or ought to make. too much about has a huge to step down the orderly legal we now or toppling of the government in the election transparent election that elections be monitored by the international. union institutions that specialize in monitoring elections and after that you will see the people who are supporting n.c.p. or any other. or what is the mystery the number of the people who are supporting the opp

be obeyed he's a senior member with the ruling national congress party we all seem back home to the show but he dropped out just a few minutes ago he said that he's working appropriately and he didn't want to join us on the phone so. what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. i have a process now it's becoming a way of clients. it's talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party activists down. are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being forced again with lies i mean issues. rubber bullets tear gas not hundreds of people have me paying for should go the lot thing some lasting disabilities so far more than fifty people have been killed being actual different from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and pull out the dogs and how many of our few who pay the highest prize for our freedom but they will also the underdog i meant to call to use the i fear justice and freedom people so it's like i will act

what you have a stick about that we should all to get the government the national congress party and. it is a government of one accord the national unity we should look together to establish it because we should not have it right to say that this party is to be isolated or and his party should govern the country but we should work together to solve it for the problem of the country we should work together to stab bush a political system for useful exchange of or between. all political parties and also should we have together so that this country we this was. before so there is people but actually some people too because the most direct this is not actually the method to topple or the auto. about has a huge to step down the orderly legal we was having now or toppling up the government in the election transparent election that elections be monitored by the international. union institutions that specialize in monitoring elections and after that you will see the people who are supporting n.c.p. or any other. or what is the mystery the number of the people who are supporting the opposition

so also remade his first speech in brazil's national congress now just after having being sworn in and yet really doubling down on the he's conservative campaign by strich he made to. liberalizing loosening gun restrictions in brazil to combat seeing what he sees as the spread of leftist ideology in schools. also also saying that you know he promised a brazil without divisions and without discrimination and also. praised the police officers to bring down he's tough nor are all of he said many times that he wants to give police officers in brazil called the launch to kill suspects so very much doubling down on his conservative campaign a great story in this speech and that will certainly please some of his fans and very distinctive vision that give us a sense of how much power he'll have to implementing it. well resumes presence has a lot of power as it has more defacto powers then the president of the united states in fact but. also our challenge will be congress now he does have a lot of support in congress. and how long that so-called will last boston or has. traditionally horse trad

the obaid is a senior member of sudan's ruling national congress party. is an activist stand out as a reporter i would use a hipper morgan hello everybody is really good to have you here here you've reported on sudan for a very long time these protests what makes them different as far as you're concerned. well i think the fact that it went on for so long was quite interesting we've seen protests over the past few years twenty top twenty thirteen beginning of january twenty equal have been protesting all all the signs over the park the economy about the rise in bread prices right and food i want to see prices but this what went on for more than three weeks actually not three weeks right now as i don't think and the response you know usually people are afraid once they are live ammunition and tear gas but this time they seem to be very determined. you've been out in the streets you have been protested you've even been detained what happened to. well firstly i would like to come back to the point why it's different it's actually different because the stone t

participated in the protests we also invited robin obeyed he's a senior member with the ruling national congress party we all seen back onto the show but he dropped out just a few minutes ago he said that he wasn't working appropriately and he didn't want to join us on the phone so. what is it like being in sudan right now how are the protests impacting everyday life. now it's becoming a way of clients in. its talk to one month ago on the economic crisis it was pretty good that this is done but now that people are demanding for the government and the ruling party i stand down. are marching peacefully but how about the government are you being nice or again a person lies i mean issues and. rubber bullets tear gas down hundreds of people have me pain or should i go there a lot things some lasting disabilities so far more than fifty people have being killed including our children and from here i would like to extend my heart still come down and pull out the dogs and the families of our heroes who paid the highest price for our freedom but the will of the band added i meant the call to me of the i j

much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle. weather is next about still ahead on al-jazeera. i arrive an attack by israel effective on palestinian then the occupied west bank. and south africa's ruling african national congress prepares for elections as its popularity appears to be on the way. hello again welcome back to international weather forecast with more snow is on the way here for central parts of europe where we're dealing with snow all week long it has been deadly in some locations because of the avalanche threat which will continue to stay

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government with a pledge to "brick -- reach across the aisle and cross the divisions in this great nation." congresse116th has been sworn in. the new senators meikle -- mingled with their colleagues as they walk up to the dancing groups of four to be sworn in by vice president pence. the new senators found their desks, some looking outside to see which senators had left their signatures. 29 reelected senators were sworn in. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell says house democrats legislation to reopen a partially shuttered government is "political theater and not a serious attempt because it can't check all three boxes of being bipais

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today at the african national congress, we launch our 2019 election manifesto. uncertainty, we have arrived at a moment of hope and renewal. the new leadership has vowed to raise millions of dollars in foreign direct investment to drivejob creation, particularly among the youth and women. there are more unemployed, you know? so cyril ramaphosa will take all the problems of south africa and will cover all of them. to fight poverty, unemployment — especially for women and the youth. another critical electioneering point will be the party‘s land reform policy. and with the amendment of the constitution to expropriate land without compensation passed, the anc believes it is keeping its promises. nomsa maseko, bbc news, durban. are this is bbc news, the latest headlines: the saudi teenager who fled to thailand in fear for her life has arrived in canada where she‘s been granted asylum. let‘s stay with that story. dennis horak is the former canadian ambassador to saudi arabia. he has first—hand knowledge of the two countries‘ often testy relationship, having been expel

so it's it's it's definitely a movement that some people will get a lot of people within the national congress party the ruling party are actually turning and thinking that they need change too so there's we've been hearing more and more voices from within the party that think this is over we need to move on and we need to reach a real democracy we need to have so those voices are coming out so i think there's a main street and consciousness in the sunni society because for years we haven't been talking about it in the mainstream and now people are talking about this and i even have my own family groups what's out groups and social media groups that are they used to always talk about. jokes and whatnot and now they're actually talking about this so there's this means to consciousness and people are talking about it and now with more marches with citizens and all these calls for a strike there's more and more talk about people wanting change and imagining the change so this is happening right now and i think is being we mean strong and if it wasn't for the strong violence that people are faced

today at the african national congress, we launch our 2019 election manifesto. y of our nation. after a period of doubt and uncertainty, we have arrived at a moment of hope and renewal. the new leadership has vowed to raise millions of dollars in foreign direct investment to drive job creation, particularly among the youth and women. there are more unemployed, you know. so cyril ramaphosa will take all the problems of south africa and will cover all of them. to fight poverty, unemployment, especially for women and the youth. another critical electioneering point will be the party's land reform policy. and with the amendment of the constitution to expropriate land without compensation passed, the anc believes it is keeping its promises. nomsa maseko, bbc news, durban. catherine downs has all the sport. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. premier league leaders liverpool made sure of a seven—point lead at the top of the table after a 1—0 win over brighton. mo salah scored the only goal from the penalty spot in the second half. it's a return to victory f

separate event urge the government to hold a second referendum and south africa's ruling african national congress has launched its manifesto for elections in may i spent several in office a promise to create more jobs and also address racial inequality at that launch and durban. are the head times the news on al-jazeera continues return you now to hard earned. i'm giving you an application for the national honor society it's basically like a membership where students who have really good grades are part of but not only that they need to be good citizens this is going to be a question asked in every type of application from here until college you know i was the first one in my family to graduate from college and the only one to get my master's i went to johns hopkins and finished in two years my mom paid my first year. that his degree through her home equity and then the last three years i got twin reimbursement if you work full time you get your money completely back and then my master's has thirty thousand dollars with. thirty four to be exact when i finish paying for. the close after school. ev

a courtroom lousy in the city of durban there seeking justice appearing in court an african national congress councillor accused of killing another councilor from the party it's been three months in sperm up more than was shot and killed him his family says he was targeted because of factional infighting within the party we can sort of the truth is that at home we live in fear because we don't know what's happening we can see now there are two factions in the organization. the government says forty councilors have been killed in the past seven years mainly because of power struggles and greed of a government contract so that africans a do at the polls in the coming months to vote for provincial representatives as well as a new president president at all is important for political parties the province has the second highest number of voters but it's also where the ruling a.n.c. which is riddled by disunity faces one of its biggest challenges. president jacob zuma resigned last year after a long running corruption scandal and was replaced by civil remark. but zuma despite the allegations contin

today at the african national congress, we launch our 2019 election manifesto. n. after a period of doubt and uncertainty, we have arrived at a moment of hope and renewal. the new leadership has vowed to raise millions of dollars in foreign direct investment to drivejob creation, particularly among the youth and women. there are more unemployed, you know. so cyril ramaphosa will take all the problems of south africa and will cover all of them. to fight poverty, unemployment, especially for women and the youth. another critical electioneering point will be the party's land reform policy. and with the amendment of the constitution to expropriate land without compensation passed, the anc believes it is keeping its promises. nomsa maseko, bbc news, durban. parts of germany, austria and sweden are suffering exceptional amounts of snow. a number of ski resorts and mountain villages have been evacuated in austria. bethany bell reports from annaberg in the alps. the little town of annaberg is blanketed in white. like many mountain regions in germany and austria, it's exp

deliver his annual state of the nation address to congress because of the government shutdown trump says he will deliver an alternative speech. russia's president says he wants iran to be part of a future summit to discuss the situation in syria the comments are likely to infuriate the americans who've tried to isolate iran within the region during talks with his turkish counterpart in moscow flood to be putin welcomed the u.s. troop withdrawal from syria turkey. and said his country will deal with any groups that may fill the void created by the withdrawal he was referring to kurdish fighters in northern syria who have fought against eisel with u.s. support turkey considers them terrorists were a challenge has been following developments in moscow there have been speculation that these two men might strike some sort of deal with russia saying that he could have its buffer zone against kurdish groups up in the north in return for ankara how in russia to finally return it live to government control well that doesn't seem to have been what happened at least not yet yes russia said we will

demonstrations i wouldn't take too seriously after three decades in power bushehr and his ruling national congress party have got a very extensive patronage network huge numbers of people on their direct and in direct payroll whom they can mobilize and it's remarkable how long it's taken them to mobilize any sort of pro-government protests i think the the momentum of public opinion and of the political class as a whole is overwhelmingly against president bashir but i think the real drama is actually going to pay it play out within the military on the national security and not ultimately on the streets and why is that because they're the ones you keep him in power or not. ultimately yes when when a dictator such as bashir is overthrown it would be because the army the army command takes the decision to stand with the people against the dictator now in bush's case he has a number of very strong cards to play the army that he has established over the last decades is very much an army that represents hill him and he has a very extensive personal network of loyalty and knowledge within the army officer

today at the african national congress, we launch our 2019 election manifesto.r nation. after a period of doubt and uncertainty, we have arrived at a moment of hope and renewal. the new leadership has vowed to raise millions of dollars in foreign direct investment to drivejob creation, particularly among the youth and women. there are more unemployed, you know. so cyril ramaphosa will take all the problems of south africa and will cover all of them. to fight poverty, unemployment, especially for women and the youth. another critical electioneering point will be the party's land reform policy. and with the amendment of the constitution to expropriate land without compensation passed, the anc believes it is keeping its promises. nomsa maseko, bbc news, durban. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: battling to clear the snow from roads and rooftops of central europe with another metre forecast to fall on sunday day one of operation desert storm to force the iraqis out of kuwait has seen the most intense air attacks since the second world war. tobacco is am

today at the african national congress, we launch our 2019 election manifesto.f our nation. after a period of doubt and uncertainty, we have arrived at a moment of hope and renewal. the new leadership has vowed to raise millions of dollars in foreign direct investment to drivejob creation, particularly among the youth and women. there are more unemployed, you know. so, cyril ramaphosa will take all the problems of south africa and will cover all of them. to fight poverty, unemployment, especially for women and the youth. another critical electioneering point will be the party's land reform policy. and with the amendment of the constitution to expropriate land without compensation passed, the anc believes it's keeping its promises. nomsa maseko, bbc news, durban. let's get some of the day's other news. there's still no sign of a breakthrough in the partial government shutdown in the us, which is now officially the longest in history. president trump is refusing to sign measures to pay all federal employees because democrats in congress won't include funding for t

call is coming so it's a different way a movement that some people a lot of people within the national congress party the ruling party are actually turning and thinking that they need change too so then we've been hearing more and more voices.

much on whether or not to call a national emergency to build the border wall mais yet change his mind his latest indication to reporters at the white house was that if congress does not come together to fund the border wall and he indeed will still pull the trigger and declare a national emergency republicans are still squarely in the president's corner because of his popularity with the republican voting base and democrats don't have reason to relent on not giving trump the border wall citing polls that show the majority of americans oppose the border wall construction so where that leaves everyone is there's very little incentive to meet in the middle. whether is next but still ahead on al-jazeera questioning his legitimacy to rule for another six years how the venezuelan president is struggling a credibility. however gentle spell of winter throughout a good part of japan at least as clouds putting it from the south that usually means it's not as cold so you going to snow for the hills or rain at lower levels but typically it's going to be allowed to drive pictures throughout sunday moniz two is a hard subpar zero but above freezing now on the korean penin