oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's best suited to his disability but the bad will be the only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her phantoms for murder. as an athlete pistorius did not want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest court has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page al-jazeera pretoria. british police say a major security alert in london's main shopping street was caused by altercation between two men police took action after reports of gunshots being heard on oxford street close to the underground station the reports were later found to be false with no evidence of shots fired several people were injured fleeing the scene kalidas prime minister justin trudeau has apologised to tens of thousands of indigenous canadians who were forcibly separated from their families around twenty thousand aboriginal children were taken from their homes between the one hundred sixty s. and one nine hundred eighty s. and placed in either foster care or with normal indigenous families ma

let's go over to south africa tanya page is following the reaction for us from pretoria we know that jacob zuma is not making his way over there what's the response why not what's the. well there are some people here suggesting that that is some kind of snub to will soon be the new president of zimbabwe however we did have a risk statement from the president's office and he said look he's currently in fact today hosting the end goal and president the new president. they have just inspected the god of all i here and he's given that as as part of the reason he also in full sized in a statement that on wednesday he did meet with him a seminar before he departed south africa for pretoria and congratulated him on his us exemption to the top job in in zimbabwe and in that statement also president zuma wished mcgarvie well and emphasized the important role he had played in contributing to the liberation across the continent and what about the hundreds of thousands of zimbabweans living in south africa any idea of most of them are glued to the t.v. today but any idea what it will take for th

this event or i'm a tussle brings us reaction from the streets in harare tanya page joins us from pretoria in neighboring south africa but we begin with anderson's is inside the stadium where the ceremonies taking place. focused a lot on economic recovery didn't he said he's tired and it's not time now for speeches but rather to hit the ground running i'm sure everyone was happy to hear that. yes hit the ground running was one take away from this another wall stuff he was committed to peace really this was a message of reconciliation he talked about all creeds all colors of skin and also whole political backgrounds showed the country that there would be free and fair election he said that. had been the fault of the father of independence and he said that this was the second phase of the birth of zimbabwe and he related to. a business plan effectively here to show the country that he would do something about the pos that he would change things he didn't speak directly of the stakes mugabe had made he just implied that he ran out of steam he made no mention of grace mugabe who was the key fi

oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's best suited to his disability but that will be the only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her sentence for murder. as an athlete pistorius didn't want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest court has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page out is there a particular area. the u.s. says it is deeply concerned with the release of a pakistani man accused of planning the two thousand and eight mumbai attacks of a sayed was freed after a pakistani court rejected the government's plea to extend his detention by three months so he has founder of the band group. has been under house arrest in the horse and since january he's the head of a charity that's accused of being a front for armed groups. when rights groups are calling for international agencies to monitor their repatriation. never hench refugees in bangladesh signed a pact on thursday that will allow those displaced to return home and start paperwork is completed about six hundred thousand one hu

this stucco head pretoria is the king at the height of his reign. but how more a death mask crafted of jade over his body lay a heavy slab and on it i inscribed words the truth of which we took for granted col the naming shield by the power of his divine ancestors vanquishes the lords of the underworld. which was true because son john bathroom window into what trends and his spirit journeyed to the realm of the dead very his father pock all gave into his keeping the rearward head of the two headed serpent as a symbol of power. at least that was what he later dictated to me. john by clue who was now the new ruler it was he who had the three temples built and it was my task to record our king's good relations with the gods. the office of scribe was an important one but without the expertise of the master builders and their workers i should have had no suitable place to display my own skills openwork facades were a specialty of blankies builders. between the temples to the altar stone where human sacrifices were me. we believe the gods would have been

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with palestinians twenty pages more from pretoria. during a long list of apartheid south africa was an isolated state and israel very close ties with it for their mutual isolation in fact israel was a major supplier to the apartheid regime. and to apartheid activists so there wasn't a natural alliance between the anti party movement and the cause of the palestinian people on nasa mandela was imprisoned on robben island. yes arafat reached out to him and expressed his support for. friendship and support between the palestinian people and particularly the black majority here in south africa yet today it doesn't mean a.n.c. on the streets it is the second largest opposition party the economic freedom fighters or they were picketing outside the israeli embassy here in pretoria they say that's because. government has lost its way and that it is now more on the side of the israel and on the side of the palestinian people the n.c. refutes that says it's one hundred percent behind the two state solution and behind the palestinian people u.s.

covering this event or metastable as us reaction from the streets in harare tanya page joins us from pretoria in neighboring south africa but we begin with anderson's who is inside the stadium where the ceremonies taking place he focused a lot on economic recovery didn't he said he's tired and it's not time now for speeches but rather he hit the ground running i'm sure everyone was happy to hear that. yes hit the ground running was won't take away from this another war.

help me go was we have a team of reporters covering this is sturrock event tanya page joins us from pretoria in neighboring south africa however in the task brings us reaction from the streets of harare but let's begin here in the news i with andrew symonds who's inside that stadium where the ceremony took place andrew momentous events tell us what the atmosphere was like it looked pretty electric. well it's normal it is surreal also because. an excess of sixty thousand people in late since the been nice little because of the future oh yes this is one cone will still release files. for decades. old hole that was absolutely totally absolute in every sense of the would also hold because. to the point where he would not see reason losing relinquishing any form of power he was absolutely can since he could hold until he died and he was prepared to hand over to grace his wife who was for decades his june someone who started at the recruiting. in various places within the zanu p.f. . so many people who would from the war from day so many people who. hold the loan so. the only. the ozone forces. wh

oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's best suited to his disability but the bad will be the only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her phantoms for murder. as an athlete pistorius did not want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest court has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page are desirable toria now it's black friday in the united states the day after thanksgiving and traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year so millions of eager shoppers have been trying to grab the best bargains the crowds at actual shops appear to be down when taylor say the main shopping action has in fact shifted online. or many of those bargains are cheap imports transported to the warehouses of major firms by an army of truckers but as jacob reports from one of california's busiest ports the drivers are complaining of exploitation. freedom drew paul bomber to trucking over ride me in the throat and i love. then to stay closer to home he became a poor trucker paid by the look he did so well he wo

convicted of killing his girlfriend back in twenty thirteen twenty pages the full story now from pretoria. it only took a moment for the supreme court of appeal to deliver its ruling that respondent sentenced imprisonment for appeal. and five. oscar pistorius shot his girlfriend reeva steenkamp on valentine's day two thousand and thirteen as she cowered behind a bathroom door he said he thought she was an intruder last year prosecutors successfully argued his original conviction should be upgraded from culpable homicide to murder which carries a fifteen year minimum sentence but the judge was lenient and only gave him six years shockingly lenient according to prosecutors who said pistorius hasn't shown true remorse. steam comes parents say they're placed he will spend more time in prison you know you can get on with. it everything is coming in. i right from the beginning. justice and. the story has grabbed the world's attention as the paralympian who was the first disabled person to compete in the summer olympics he broke records and barry is glad his defense lawyers argued he made a fata

was also a haven for those zimbabweans who didn't quite see eye to eye with robert mugabe and for pretoria had to be very careful how it dealt with robert mugabe. absolutely and has never wanted to do anything to inflame the situation there as you like because we have seen over many years an enormous influx of up when it's not only to south africa but to and into all the neighboring countries as well really driven out by their job prospects affectively they're not able to put food on the table at home so lots of people come here botswana. namibia looking for jobs you know so that they can feed their children and save them to school and get them an education so therefore has a bit of a potted history when it comes to where they're obviously closely tied historically as you know the a.n.c. being also a former liberation movement but particularly i'm thinking in terms of former president taba vickie's presidents he was highly criticized for his quiet diplomacy toward zimbabwe and in fact said m. the a you have been criticized i've seen a lot of commentary and some comments on social media as

based on this pretoria was more than confidence the tenth world cup was in the bag. it didn't count on the world rugby council to choose france. i think a lot of our friends has been depredation ships with. some of the voters and they obviously have the big stadia. they host the tournament before we have to accept that it's a. the ballot box does not lie. for some of the votes tell a different story what had been an attempt by world rugby to clean up a process stalled by allegations of thigh cream horse trading. has fallen flats. but that's not going to stop france from relishing the prospect of facing its second. rugby world cup. the annual international for amount on peace and security in dachau and it'll kyi stay in all of france24 was on in sherry a met the french minister of the on forces from most poly. in this week's exclusive interview he discusses the saw health first multinational milicz reports. the g. five. going to take a short break cat coming up. overall hello and welcome to the interview on france24 we are here in senegal. at the car for the fourth fo

thirteen after pistorius fired four shots through a closed bathroom door by his gated compound in pretoria. having claimed that he mistook steenkamp for an intruder pistorius was originally convicted of manslaughter but following a separate appeal this was changed to a murder conviction and two thousand fifteen. once a celebrated in record breaking paralympian pistorius is fall from grace shocked the world. the new sense since is likely to put an end to the five year legal battle surrounding him. that his lawyers will be able to raise an appeal in south africa's highest court the constitutional court. after nine days of waiting fofor news family members of the forty four crew members aboard missing auction time submarine how started heading home from the naval base. what they've been holding vigil this as hopes fade the love ones are still alive? records the latest evidence looks increasingly like that being of. splosion aboard that vessel. the options i navy is vowing however not to give up the search effort which involves some fussy. and across. exactly one year ago a peace deal was sign

we start in pretoria where at 9am gmt, presidentjacob zuma is due to face tough questions in parliamentt of appeal ruled that the south african president must face charges of corruption, fraud, racketeering and money laundering. and a story that we have already been looking at this morning, here in london, we're expecting the bank of england interest rate decision today at midday. many economists have predicted that we will see the first rate rise sincejuly 2007. and keep an eye out later in the day for this — apple's fourth quarter results will be announced at 9pm gmt from its headquarters in california, while apple's new iphone x is available from friday. baseball, and the houston astros have won the world series for the first time in their history. they beat the los angeles dodgers in the deciding game. the astros came flying out of the blocks — racing to a five run lead by the end of the second inning. the dodgers did manage to get one back by the bottom of the sixth. but it was too little too late. houston are world champions — only weeks after hurricane weather severely damaged mu

oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's based suited to his disability but that won't be the only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her fame to inspire murder. as an athlete pistorius didn't want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest courts has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page out is there a potato. president is holding talks with party leaders to end a political deadlock on forming a new coalition government social democrats leader martin shells has rolled out taking part of another government headed by chancellor angela merkel it pretty insisted his party should go into opposition that he now says party members will get a vote on any coalition deal dominic cain has the latest from berlin. for the past two months germany's social democrats have been licking their wounds after the worst electoral performance in modern german democratic history the watchword has been opposition leader martin shields who presided over that worst ever defeat but said opposition was what a spade a

oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's best suited to his disability but that won't be the only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her sentence for murder. as an athlete pistorius didn't want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest court has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page out is there a potoroo. syria's main sorry bank opposition group now has a new chief negotiator. who will lead the high negotiation committee in the un back talks in geneva next week he replaces riyadh job resigned last week the group is insisting president bashar al assad leave office and how he says everything is on the negotiating table. police in china are investigating reports that toddlers at a child care center and. were sexually abused drugged and molested this is the latest in a series of similar cases step dance and reports from beijing. they're in shock and demanding an explanation these are parents of toddlers who attend the prestigious red yellow blue kindergarten in beijing children as young as

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the streets relieved happy of a real mood of celebration not only here in johannesburg but also in pretoria outside the zimbabwean embassy there and as harry was saying they really it's the economy that people want to see get back on track because there are also lots of people here qualified teachers scientists nurses people who work experience of just can't get jobs and so they've come here to south africa to work in supermarkets to do manual labor to work as car guards for a few dollars a day and that's better than nothing that they would earn back at home basically and time you want. that for cup play in the next ten to steps that zimbabwe takes. well over the past few days we've been talking to lots of zimbabweans here and there felt pretty adamantly and pretty across the board that they didn't want south africa all southern african development community to the regional body sadek to interfere in their business a lot of people really resent the role that cedric and south africa have paid over the past many years because people believe that by approving what i have at times many people b

oscar pistorius is currently in a prison on the outskirts of pretoria that's best suited to his disability but that while they are only allowance made for his disability as the supreme court of appeal has more than doubled her sentence for murder. as an athlete pistorius didn't want any special treatment now one of south africa's highest court has decided he wanted to get in a tiny page out is there a potato oriya. still ahead an al-jazeera. winner is good as bashing. world high jump champion leaps to one higher level details with after the break. a new era in television news. because it's a tough to do since in secret we had actually. temps had survived torture detention and saying this was the cause of my arrest if you could. just stay the fuck would you have still got this conviction that everyone has a deep reservoir of time it better to have people give them the opportunity and wonderful thing stop. looking at the actual distance there's at least twenty thousand for him to refugees live we badly need at this moment leadership and president hosni mubarak has resigned donald trump is go

. >> reporter: in the capital, still widely known as pretoria, many street names have been changed from white colonial and apartheid-era figures to liberation struggle leaders, mostly black. the larger municipality itself is now officially called "tshwane," after an 18th century indigenous chief. and, still the most prominent face of the new south africa, a huge statue of nelson mandela stands in front of the official seat of the national government. the statue that previously stood here, of an afrikaner nationalist leader, was moved to a far corner of the gardens. in "church square" in the center of the city, another contentious site is getting a makeover: the monument to 19th century afrikaner leader paul kruger is now surrounded by fencing after being vandalized several times. mayor solly msimanga plans to keep the statue, but transform the whole square into a new kind of monument that's dedicated to free speech. >> we are advocating that you tell a complete history, not only one side of our history. >> reporter: so you are against taking down the old statues? >> i am against taking

well derek is a senior research consultant at the institute for security studies in pretoria joins us now via skype from harare were you surprised at the decision by the supreme court by the high court i wasn't surprised at the decision. considering that judge you gave that. judgment it's clearly a d.v.d. and sustainable. why why do you think it made that ruling is that an indication of the control which the military has over the judiciary and lack of independence. it does an indication of the lack of independent thought that you dish re. the situation you have that nobody wants to recognize that the military intervention that took place was in fact too because the moment that recognition is a wanted to the events certain international particle of kick can which affect the relationship of that zimbabwean government to the other governments that are party to those perfect homes so for example the african union charter required at the member to get peace suspended when i have constitutional change of government taken place and everybody but some of you get to see the back of my god if y

the happy scenes on the streets of harare were echoed here in johannesburg and also in pretoria outside isn't bob with embassy there are many hundreds of thousands of them bob wins in south africa because they've been driven out of their home country by political persecution and many for economic reasons they've come here despite lee searching for work although south africa's president jacob zuma as the chair of the regional body sendek has tried to take a lead role in encouraging a negotiated settlement in terms of reacting to president mugabe's resignation that was left to president of the m.b. a a good long go to take the lead he said he wanted to see a quick return to a political normalcy for the army to return to its barracks and has about wins to now focus on social cohesion and unity the main opposition party in zambia led by hockey and a hitch lemme he's come out and congratulated the zimbabwean people and say that should be a warning to african leaders that power lines with the people the opposition party the main one here in south africa the democratic alliance have congratula

the court proceedings are under way at the moment in pretoria.too lenient but gave no adequate reasons why she deviated so much from the sentence. they are worried in a country with such a high murder rate and a country where there is such a high rate of them aside, leaving the sentence unchanged will set a precedent. we understand that today's seedings will take the day and thejudges today's seedings will take the day and the judges will then go away and come back with a decision on whether to grant the state permission to appeal the sentence. to grant the state permission to appealthe sentence. -- proceedings. thank you for updating us on that. 0scar pistorius has supporters in many countries, including british based heather malcherczyk, who has followed his case from the start and met his family. we can also talk to dr lesley ann foster, who is from the masimanyane women's rights international, which aims to end violence against women. first of all, doctor foster, do you think that 0scar pistorius sentence should be increased ? think that 0sca

and of course south africa and certainly pretoria will be watching very closely as to the proceedings of what happens south africa have a strong vested interest in stability in zimbabwe and also a very strong political affiliation to the country. yes absolutely and there are lots of reasons for that some of those feelings on the street that her was just talking about there will be echoed and mirrored across the border here in south africa because there are many zimbabweans in this country forced out of their homeland by the economic decline experienced in zimbabwe because of some of president robert mugabe's economic policies have come across the border for jobs and are here in high numbers and just to give you a sense of the sort of a grip of on power his head foremost forty years as. people we was talking. earlier in the week out on the streets and darwin's some of them we're still too scared to really speak to us that openly and uncritically because they they still feel his presence hanging over them even though they are many many miles away the strength of ties between south afric