so africa slammed an australian government minister for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's being described as quote horrific circumstances they face at home president pose as valid to escalate the pace of redistributing land from wealthy whites to poor blacks almost seventy five percent of south africa's farmland is still owned by whites more than twenty four years after the end of apartheid but rahm opposes says any chance for it would be done legally i can say now that we will not allow land grabs we will not allow land invasions and those who are tempted to resort to such activities must be wound not bombs that we will not allow would because it is illegal but apart from being illegal it begins to violate the rights of other south african citizens david mayne is the executive director of the refugee legal center joins us from melbourne very good to see you with us david maine what do you make of this policy is it ok just because they are white. well i think the first thing to say here is that internationally the need for protection is

also took the extraordinary step of replacing its south african c.e.o. and his senior management team they've also paid back the twenty three million rand they charge sars for the report despite these measures many questions remain unanswered for example which if any of the specific allegations contained in the report were actually true we requested an interview with k.p. m g but they declined in a written response they restated that the report's conclusions recommendations and legal opinions should no longer be relied upon. but the damage the reporters caused will be felt for years to come says one of south africa's leading economists iraj a bt and on a narrow the revenue collection impact this year source reported a shortfall of about fifty billion rent you have central government now short of revenues that means borrowing more debt means running into international credit worthiness problems or if you like being downgraded we asked to interview mr murray jani to discuss these allegations but sars didn't respond since twenty fourteen under his leadershi

two weeks ago he has said that he wants to speed up the transfer of land from white to black south africans now despite the fact that a party ended two decades ago you still have a situation in south africa where most of the land is owned by whites this is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party now it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair had this to say. the time for reconciliation is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the dignity of our people without compensating the criminals who stole our land malema is a controversial and somewhat radical figure in south africa in the past he has said that he's not calling for the softer of white people at least not yet in recent years there has been a spike in the killing of farmers in south africa now those who support the motion say it will go a long way to restoring justice but those who criticize or say it will do anything but there are those wh

from white farmers see used without providing any compensation to use paulus lear explains the south african parliament has backed a motion that calls for changing the constitution and allowing for land exposed creation without compensation essentially white south africans will lose their land they will not be compensated this despite the fact that it flies in the face of the current constitution it follows the inauguration of the south african president opposes two weeks ago he has said that he wants to speed up the transfer of land from white to black south africans now despite the fact that the party ended two decades ago you still have a situation in south africa where most of the land is owned by whites this is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party and it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair had this to say. the time for reconsideration is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the digni

plan impact south africans on both sides of the fray here with us to discuss the issue mean to play say is associate professor of law at northwestern university and see shanae go bass a is an industrial sociologist welcome to the stream both of you want to start with this tweet we got from a member of our community skip a twenty three who says it's not like black people were compensated when whites got the land this is a correction of the wrong about it was done in the past does she say do you see this in the same way that this is attempting to address the wrongs of a party. well in short there is an absolute need in south africa for legitimate and restitution where there have been and where there is evidence of black individuals who've been dispossessed historically that's not in contention for for anybody in this country the issue becomes the means and language group creation without compensation is essentially giving the complement the. little power to confiscate property from and it was who just white individuals it's also black individuals essentially what they. see have agreed

media consultant she also made the documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in capetown south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant in namibia kaylin read into she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics. in the united states welcome to the stream everyone so this is a conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from adam and his size it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking these questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.s. and move to namibia have a picture here on my laptop that i pulled up of you not too long ago you teach english to talk to us about that experie

african countries with an increasing dependence on space based technologies. with the explosion across africa space will be providing solutions to the continent's growing i.c.t. needs. and south africa is leading the african space race. the south african department of science and technology has said space science as one of the family grand challenges for the country in the a ten year innovation plan. in order to facilitate this sense of the south african national space agency has been forged dr jane hall which is the managing director of the santa earth observation unit quite excited about this whole experience personally i thought of space you know from the days of star trek and all of that but there's some people who would say why are we spending money on space technology when we have bigger problems in africa. today the biggest challenge about space when people still think about space technology is very expensive and then. wars and they say these. are not the core space the corridors are meant for both countries at the experiencing disasters that we experience. the one who has information actually a quarter of the future. centers earth observation unit to collect and assim

white farmers seized without providing any compensation artie's poorest clear as the story of south african parliament has backed a motion that calls for changing the constitution and allowing for land expropriation without compensation essentially white south africans will lose their land they will not be compensated this despite the fact that it flies in the face of the current constitution it follows the inauguration of the south african president several opposed two weeks ago he has said that he wants to speed up the transfer of land from white to black south africans now despite the fact that a party had ended two decades ago you still have a situation in south africa where most of the land is owned by whites this is a hugely emotive subject for south africans the motion was bought in parliament by the economic freedom fighters party now it did receive the support of the ruling african national congress that holds some two thirds of the parliament the leader of the affair had this to say. the time for reconciliation is over now is the time for justice we must ensure that we restore the

could i was with him with a team every member of the team should get some of the credit south africans to so it gets the credit because if it wasn't for the. people enforcing some of the decisions i made those decisions would not have been made and they traditionally in the media also played their roles in making sure that the truth came out south africa's national prosecuting authority has plans to announce in the coming weeks whether they're going to pursue eighteen charges for over seven hundred counts of corruption money laundering fraud and racketeering against zuma that date back to an illicit arms deal from over a decade ago it's a case that's been dismissed and reinstated in the court in the past do you think those charges against him still need to be pursued now he's out of office well he has charges have to have been sued with a person is out of his and you must recall that those charges that nothing to do with president zuma being in of his being relates to the i'm still clearer but having see it i think the most important issues that the president would have to answer to wo

yes it does say that they ain see all the african national congress which is the governing party in south africa needs to look back and say what is it that allowed president to rise to the presidency given the fact that he had no commitment to the. and that also applies to the current members of the highest decision making body is of the in seeing the in c has to ask should to these people end up becoming president do they have the right values which is the highest level of professional ethics is required by six and ninety five off our constitution but didn't mandela himself nelson mandela who you were understandably a great admirer of many of those were didn't he lay the groundwork in a way for all of the political dysfunction and corruption that we're seeing in fact africa today he laid the groundwork for president for controversial successes like tarboro mbeki and jacob zuma is it time to maybe also reassess the mandela political legacy in south africa. well you could but i wouldn't really necessarily say it's mental as old he himself see it but even the most been no villains of govern

today on innovate africa african scientists using satellite technology to map the future. for south is i'm a chronic no one who has information about two countries the question is how the african physicist invents the world's first digital laser so what we want to do is come up with that mystic tools for aids hiv but that effort to make space. and a new technology to bring low cost internet to the remotest parts of the continent . across africa science and technology are playing digital roles in our development in today's program we meet african scientists who off august striking the continent's future i visited the south african national space agency to find out how looking into the stars is helping improve life in africa. africa has become an increasingly complex network of i.c.t. systems space science and satellite technology is no bunkering new frontier. devices navigation systems radio and television signals internet connectivity and even designs the management. facilitated by thousands of satellites orbiting the. space science is now a critical pursuit for african countries. w

it's a massive signal to south africans that this idea that the political elite in south africa are somehow or have somehow been immune from the consequences of their own lived wrongdoing particularly in relation to corruption is finally over the south africans will have the perception now that action can be taken against the politically powerful and it's important to remember that when the court gave the ruling just in twenty sixteen that the decision not to prosecute president jacob zuma was irrational and unlawful judge president lord revealed waba stressed that the principle of equality before the law the constitutional imprints principle that isn't shined must be upheld and the president just like everyone else should face the charges that he is now accused of karen how likely is it that he will go to jail. there is a very real prospect of former president jacob zuma as a form of financial adviser should be a shake was convicted in two thousand and five of the corrupting him those of those seven hundred eighty three payments that were made to sumo who was there at that stage the cause

south africa's government slammed an australian government is set for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's described as quote. circumstances they face at home presidents aroma poses valid to escalate the pace of redistributing learned from wealthy whites to poor blacks. now to syria where the red crescent says a large aid convoys due to arrive in a rebel held parts of eastern goods on thursday the u.n. says fighting has subsided in duma after a deal with the main rebel group that allowed the evacuation of around one hundred fifty people in need of medical treatment to the capital damascus that these three hundred civilians of left east and do it in recent days despite the ongoing bombardment by government and russian forces at least thirteen people have died in the latest attacks on eastern syrian forces are making major advances nearly a month after stepping up this salt's on the besieged area in recent days they've sought to cut off sections of rebel held territory. further north texas chips and free syrian army faces a run the city of a

south africa slammed an australian government minister for suggesting white south african farmers should get special visas because of what's described as horrific circumstances they face at home so that they can presidents or all run a poser has vowed to escalate the pace of redistributing land from wealthy whites to poor blacks almost seventy five percent of south africa's farmland is still owned by whites more than twenty four years after the end of apartheid a drum oppose a says any chance for it would be done legally i can say now that we will not a long land grabs we will not allow land invasions and those who are tempted to resort to such activities must be wound not bombs that we will not allow it because it is illegal but apart from being illegal it begins to violate the rights of other south african citizens in return as the spokesman for the refugee action coalition in brisbane he says the decision highlights the astray and government's racist attitudes towards refugees. i think i think the racism of the coalition government to strike here is very very clearly on the sly that's

south africans face a collective test today.to these hearings will show whether they are able to expose the sins of apartheid yet free themselves from the desire for revenge against those who propped up a system. the truth and reconciliation commission allowed amnesty only if the perpetrator confessed that they committed the crime. i did terrible things. i did terrible things to members of the anc. i grew up in soweto. it was rampant with security police. it felt like hell. being in the city required a special permit if you were a black person. absolutely no freedom of movement. i had also suffered as an activist by being shot in the leg by the police while attending a funeral for my fellow students. it was at a graveyard where the police again started shooting. i survived. others were killed on the spot. it is a scar that is a constant reminder of where i come from. i knew the harshness of the system first—hand. yet as a member of the amnesty committee, i had to decide that these people had to be granted amnesty. not because th

there was a lighter moment as well in all of the intense press conferences when south african captainook at this. african captain was interrupted mid-flow. look at this. perhaps it needed what happened now it has been... phones ringing that's a shocking ring tone! wow. another question? can we report him to that ringtone. one of the few smiles today. that's all for now stop more sport three evening for you.

well that we'll finally get is the imports and i see a lot of south africans here on social media that are actually very happy about this this is actually a case as you said the case already goes back to the ninety's after that africa bought a lot of military equipment corvettes helicopter fighter jets and allegation is that zuma took about three hundred forty thousand u.s. dollars in bribes along status and that's where you know needs to go in front of the courts and then needs to be accounted for this is something that the opposition has been calling for for quite a while it's actually surprising that he's finally facing charges he's been shielded for so long in part by his own party of course is the opposition and in poland is just generally of zuma in the country are they likely to be satisfied though by by the scale of the charges now i think of definitely satisfy the fully satisfied. look they just want him to see if staying corpse and we might not see the end of it this might not be all the charges what's interesting as well that actually the national prosecutor decided today to

be south african. to the culture, to fashion, to the music.you are it. it. and white but we don't include asians, for example. asians, for example. everywhere she goes, how are you african? i am not even chinese actually. actually. understand that we are more alike than we are different. you have got to have a customary selfie. died at the age of 76. and popular culture. for new generations. scientists experimenting together. do it again! don't touch it. of their scientific superhero. how would you describe him? engaging, phenomenal. i've read a brief history of time, i thought it was very interesting. did you read all of it? i did actually read all of it. of lectures about them. so, yeah, it fuelled a lot for me. from the scientists of tomorrow. hawking as a modern—day genius. he's the intellectual follower of einstein and newton. he was getting to that level. he was incredible. his legacy will live on. for ever. space and time theories, while taking selfies. it's a lot in one lifetime for anyone. i think he's encouraged science as a field as

hinged with racism earlier this week peter dutton the immigration minister suggested that once south african farmers were being kicked off their farms could perhaps be given refugee status here in australia this for a man who has spent his career it seems to people here keeping other refugees in other places out this is what from the refugee action coalition said to me earlier i think the role of the demonstrations we're seeing around the nation today is precisely to say peter dutton is not legitimate he's not legitimate in saying that you know white south africans who haven't asked us for help a more deserving of australian asylum than the countless numbers of people fleeing war zones who have there are thousands of people here and thousands more in melbourne and in other places across australia but in the great scheme of things these are still relatively small protests australia's media rarely reports more than a tiny bit on these sorts of events and in terms of politics both the governing liberal party and the opposition labor party broadly agree on the tough policies and that's why not m

a questionable arms deal corruption charges are reinstated against former south african president jacob zuma. the f.b.i. deputy director has been fired but he's fired back at the u.s. president on the way out and mccabe has been sacked for misconduct just before he would have been eligible for full retirement benefits mccabe says his firing is part of the champs chunk administration's war on the f.b.i. he believes he's been singled out for events he witnessed off the trump fired f.b.i. director james comey rosen jordan joins us from washington d.c. and what happened. well essentially the timeline is this it's still very late on friday night march sixteenth here on the east coast of the united states andrew mccabe is turning fifty years old on sunday march eighteenth on that day he was going to retire from the f.b.i. and that way he could get his retirement benefits and health care benefits for his family and for himself well instead just about one hour ago it to g.m.t. it was announced by the department of justice that andrew mccain has been fired the u.s. attorney general jeff sessions

it would have been removed the company's recalled all its products south africans are now hoping that the outbreak can be brought on the control that nobody else will die. top u.k. sports stars have been accused of cheating the system after british m.p.'s published a new report into doping former tour de france winner bradley wiggins and fellow olympic champion mo farah are the biggest names accused of taking performance enhancing drugs using a medical loophole the wellings reports. he is one of the most successful and celebrated figures in the history of british sport but bradley wiggins and his former cycling team have effectively been accused u.k. parliament of cheating the question by the ethics of the use of medicines particularly medicines are being used not primary to treat medical need but couldn't hold performance as well and what we're recommending from the report is that this grey area should be cleared up at the center of allegations is the mystery content of a package delivered to wigan jury in the criteria did off in a race in two thousand and eleven claimed by team sky

and both want to become the latest country to ban south african meat imports after listeria outbreak and eight hundred eighty lives. through tranquil arabian cameos. in affiliation. hello there is much colder now for many of us in eastern china for us in shanghai the temperature will only be around ten degrees as we head through the next couple of days for to say though it should be dry this area of rain staying out towards the west but as we head into wednesday it will be galloping its way towards the so many of us here are going to see some heavy rain reaching us in shanghai probably late all minds day and into thursday even further towards the south and there's plenty of showers here will showing up very nicely on the satellite picture in the northern half of where there's more in the way of drawing weather and that's how things are going to stay as we head through chews day and into wednesday as well for the south always more showers hit the north a better chance of getting away with a dry day but even in the north it's not going to be completely dry i think for some of us in the

the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma the former south african president jacob zuma will face corruption charges. and we think it will be legally likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u.k. on the streets of yours for the first time since the second world war he a case foreign minister blames president vladimir putin directly for ordering the poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter plus a mentor it's almost in sydney which this weekend hosts a special as against summits but australia isn't faults about the other group of southeast asian countries so why is the something big here. russian airstrike on a besieged syrian on play this killed sixty one people warplanes had a market in the town of kafir but not within rebel held east and kota the syrian government and its russian and their radian allies launched an offensive to capture the area months ago which is now driving at civilians in their thousands further north turkish that forces are preparing to attack the city of a frame where th

you're going to make this work you need separate authorities within these territories and the south africans initially called them black self-government authorities and guess what oslo called the? palestinian self governed authorities. a great deal of conversations between israel and south africa about the bantustans. we can learn a lot of lessons from it. i learned that from the format in south africa, by the way. this channels palestinian or black or indigenous political aspirations to the local authorities rather than to the states to the dominant states. very convenient for apartheid state to just place the frustration innovations and the quest for rights for population dominating to their own leadership operating under constraints, of course. the pictures you are looking at at the top is a lineup of the bantustans leaders in south africa and the nine, there were ten bantustans, but nine of these leaders were in the picture. below is the palestinian authority. by the way, i don't mean to impugn the integrity or the authority of the people here is the structural one. they are put into a p

well so the count here on al-jazeera a south african food manufacturer under scrutiny as the w.h.o. points i deadly listeria outbreak is the largest in recorded history plus. i'm wayne hay on board the u.s. aircraft carrier the count vinson which is on a symbolic visit to vietnam but it's also carrying a message to china. hello there the weather is looking a little quieter across the middle east over the next few days still a little bit of cloud just rolling out of the black sea from turkey just pushed out it was a caspian sea even though too much wet weather to speak of as we go on through the next dial so there will be some sal as of maybe some snow over the high ground into turkey pushing a little further east was through georgia edging towards armenia further south it's generally settled and sunny and more of that sunshine as we go on through wednesday twenty celsius and by very best not bad twenty seven the in baghdad meanwhile a little more cloud over towards took my stand is back to stand seven celsius the massey as we go on through the middle pos all the way a warm sunshine

south africa's criticised australian government minister for saying white south african farmers should get special basis because of what he called horrific circumstances at home president has vowed to speed up our distribution land redistributing land that is from wealthy whites to poor blacks but he says this will be done legally almost seventy five percent of farm land is still owned by whites more than twenty four years after the end of apartheid. i can say now on that we will not allow land grabs we will not allow land invasions and those who are tempted to resort to such activities must be warned in advance that we will not allow it because it is seal ego but apart from being illegal it begins to violate the rights of other south african citizens and rental is a spokesman for the refugee action coalition and crispin says the offer of home affairs minister peter dutton highlights the australian government's racist attitude towards refugees. i think i think the racism of the coalition government to strike here is very very clearly on the sly and that's exactly what it is it's astoun

has now just made his historic announcement that a former head of state for the first time in south african history is going to be prosecuted for corruption dumas controversial president over prosecutors and the press billions of dollars of public money was stolen before and during his tenure south africans are still waiting to see if. anyone from his government will be held to account. al-jazeera pretoria south africa to israeli soldiers have been killed and two others are being treated for serious injuries after a car ramming in the occupied west bank the israeli military considers it considers it a deliberate attack the driver fled but was caught shortly after and taken to hospital unconfirmed reports say he's a twenty six year old palestinian. egyptians living abroad are casting their votes for who they want as president but elections being dismissed as a fix by some of the opposition after several candidates were arrested or intimidated into pulling out some experts say they're not going to bother voting. reports from washington d.c. . not everyone who came to vote in washington d.c. a

doha also coming up a questionable arms deal corruption charges are reinstated against former south african president jacob zuma. we meet the so-called agitators planning to challenge russia's president on election day. right now i don't have any indian suffers just like we should and why i have been and then a gyptian father's plea to the daughter he calls an angel died in the u.k. . fighting on two major fronts in syria is forcing people to flee in their tens of thousands as strikes rained down on civilians in rebel held eastern ghouta near the capital damascus at least ninety people have been killed most of them when a busy market was hit by strikes well activists say the bombs were dropped by russian jets the united nations estimates up to sixteen thousand people have escaped the clave in recent days meanwhile in the north west activists. the kurdish y p g are reporting the only functioning hospital in a freeman has been hit by turkish forces killing fifteen people turkey has denied this and the battle for control of the freeness forced almost fifty thousand people from their homes turk

tencent slumping by the most sense 2011 after a south african has made a $9.8 billion selling of 190f shares, sold at around 404 hong kong dollars, below thursday's closing price. tencent. in1% of 2001 and is now worth 175 alien dollars. petrochina rewarded shareholders by paying out its entire net income in dividends. investors will send $3.6 billion, adding to a surprise payout in august. petrochina is recovering from its worst ever performance as the rally in oil prices alters exploration and production. we are counting down to the open in hong kong. it is looking pretty choppy out there. selloff in thehe u.s. playing out across asia. rishaad: we are seeing absolute down inout there, 3.6% the premarket, showing further the futures contract. let's have a look at these movers. there we have it, 9.8%. we have a decline of 8% for tencent. some of that could the down to that discount they had. there we go. it is a broad-based market down. haidi: absolutely. you can see some of these stocks with these u.s. ties. what can china actually do though? rishaad: they could do something donald

a south african drought but it is a drought that has been with in the south an uptick and developmentcommunity so it is not something that. is just that you shot on the city of cape town but it is about the country aside and we must remember as well that south africa is and every country or did not really and that we have received much less than well about age of rainfall even at the best of times so when you have that happening and then you get it compounded by a drought for instance in the western cape that is the biggest in four hundred years obviously there will be a negative impact indeed but my question to you is why the government hasn't intervened more more quickly at the given that this is being three years in the making and some say this is because the a.n.c. as a making political capital because of course cape town is run by the main opposition party the democratic alliance. and that is why it is important. to separate the political. because while. the country remember that in fact what is happening in. cape town is. we have had very negative. problems of. fourteen thousand

the south africans interestingly call them black self-government authorities and guess what oslo called them, palestinian self-government authority. a great deal of conversations between israel and south africa about this, took a lot of lessons from it. i learned that from the diplomates in south africa, by the way. >> this channel, palestinian or black or indigenous, political aspirations to the local authority rather than to the state, to the dominant state, very convenient for an apartheid state to displace the frustrations and ambitions and the quest for rights of the populations dominating to their own leadership operating under very tight constraints, of course. the tickets you're looking at on the top is a lineup of the bantustan leaders in south african and the nine-- there were ten bantustans and nine leaders were in this picture and are below the palestinian authority. and by the way, i don't mean to impugn the integrity or political will of any of the palestinian authority people. my point here is a structural one, that they're put into a position where they are compelled to

while some felt it wasn't long enough they were still pleased it sets an example one concert skate south african law and garrison yet see just behind me now he's in johannesburg and he senses a video explaining the use of the k. words and why it's considered offensive in south africa. say the use of it in south africa. has been used by reese's to chris black people saw her for ten minutes it's reminiscent of a part of it it is goes back. days we you know you could see white people for me to mean. and it's the same as the n. word in the united states. in south africa it's not a word that you take lightly and nobody. resists to use. and get away with it. now this case has become a national talking point with many wondering if the judgment will pave the way for a legal crackdown on hate speech in south africa on sweat says if a man says says there's a difference between free speech and hate speech she use the k word forty eight times and another person says racism is evil and there really should be a short tolerance for people who harbor hatred for others based on skin color whether you're shouting