it is a zuma problem. but it isa problem. it is a zuma problem. but it is a movement problem.nk, it is a movement problem. you could call, ithink, go it is a movement problem. you could call, i think, go back to spring, you meet a call for zuma to go. not just as party chief, but as president. yes. my belief is that if you are in the leadership position, you are in the leadership position, you have the responsibility of guiding others. whatever they get off the rails, you have the ability to pull them back. in that same conscience should help you as well will stop and so, when, you you don't thinkjacob zuma has a conscience? , when, you know, at leadership level... you don't think jacob zuma has a conscience? the degree to which europe is in one of those figures who has a conscience, ten yea rs those figures who has a conscience, ten years you served. you are an activist through the struggle. you have been a former interim president of the country yourself. widely respected, i think it is that you say. when you stood up to read out the eulogy to one of your colleagues in the s

that is not what mr zuma says. well...ns "confronting the enemy, and always understanding who we are and who they are." and he says — and i am going to quote him directly — "0ur enemies, trying to destroy the anc and take control of the country are," to use his phrase, "the representatives of white monopoly capital." well, let me tell you what's the nub of the problem. is that he uses himself and his name as a metonymy for the anc. and so for each one of his personal indiscretions, he expects the anc to defend him, and, by so doing, he is then in a position to say "well done, you have defended the anc very well." but it is the anc. you see? so you think that is a complete abuse, a manipulation of the movement? he is a member of the anc. he is the leader of the anc. he found it already in existence with a culture and values and laws. so he cannot impose a substitute of his own indiscretions for the anc. but it's notjust mr zuma, though, is it? i mean, the chief whip, jackson mthembu, he's talking about disciplining renegade

the same organisation which propped up presidentjacob zuma into power ten yea rs up presidentjacob zumahe opposition. they are from his own alliance and they are calling for him to go. but it is notjust the grassroots people you had from, it is also ministers who are serving in presidentjacob is also ministers who are serving in president jacob zuma's own is also ministers who are serving in presidentjacob zuma's own cabinet. you are deputy minister in president jacob zuma's cabinet, you are marching against him now? this is not a march against president zuma, this is a much against corruption and state capture. anyone who is involved in corruption, this is a march against them. if ever there was any doubt about how divided the governing party, the african national congress is, this is your a nswer national congress is, this is your answer and they want deputy president to be his preferred successor. they want him because they believe he is not corrupt. next, we are going to talk about mount agung. it is an active volcano and it could be about to erupt. hywel griffith is there. forced t

aren't high enough of jacob zuma abduction examines. not of jay's marching peace actions is not true. numbmbs frankly seems christians marches. lucky significant is that today's searching an the spot you sure you can't take to the streets art puppetry protests are shown with weapons function. according to james in march and corruption garments so is it will zuma be worried then that he is apparently losing support from within his own and sea bass. were. a good be looking christian but were younger president jacob zuma in t tt each and every agency singer playining soccer he's words. are marquise people were nicer marches today our her sandra athletic income this holiday any christian. during the hapappy to responsible for courses stool blackie not happen because they were not able to train. margaret sign in t seeing ocean or w watch to five years in jaill. verdict in absentia its use fleled e cocountry and thatt was the sign according to the mimilitary joins us. that se is guilty. as supporters on the other hand say she had no other cho

business family to gupta we've seen several emails leaked in the past months that showed it to zuma was giving them in friends over governments and they call it here states captured they said it is indian government has captured the state for example they at influence over to signing who would run state owned companies they even had influence over who was becoming minister so that's basically what woodward got people on the streets today there's been a lot of corruption allegations against zuma but it just building up and building up and they are said we've got enough now as you say there have been so many allegations against president zuma related to corruption how has he been able to stay in power. well he is the president still has a lot of a lot of backing from his own party and see we saw there's also been a lot of motions of no confidence tabled by the opposition and the last motion of no confidence because they are saying he's corrupt and he should step down was actually a secret ballots and still zuma got enough backing from the a.n.c. i mean they are the majority party stil

this isn't the first time scandal has rocked zuma's grip on power. back in twenty sixteen he was ordered to repay twenty four million dollars for using public funds to carry out upgrades to his private residence. the president's close relationship with south africa's wealthy gupta family has also been placed under the scanner. with many accusing them of influencing the president's political decisions. seventy five year old jacobs zuma's have to remain in office until twenty nineteen although he is widely expected to step down from his party's leadership at the end of this year. should the court cruel to reinstate charges it would increase the pressure on the president even further. and make the election of his ex wife his preferred successor to the head of the anc and even harder challenge. just time to bring in update on our top stories again this hour there's been more international condemnation for them over the making a crisis. is more refugees arrive in bangladesh the u. s. actors states because of the violence. so is the donald trump may of had

calling the president jacob zuma to step down. and all aboard the corruption coach for a ride on a money laundering lane the london bus tour that takes in properties allegedly bought by crooked and high profile nigerians. hours after winning a landslide in the secession referendum the government of caracas kurdish region has rejected by. demands to hand over control of airports ninety two percent of kurds who posted about have voted yes the results been announced despite a last minute appeal to cancel it by the iraqi prime minister charles traffic reports from. so liberations on the streets of the build up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession for the kurdish region of northern iraq. the referendum is very important it will for my future and i hope at least that baghdad will eventually to be independent. with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result that alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy of the

tens of thousands take to the streets in south africa calling for president jacob zuma to. rights activists welcome a saudi decree allowing women to drive but many say the king must go father. will report from the. killing of members of an tribe. follow the results of kurds in northern iraq have voted yes in monday's controversial secession referendum kurdish officials announced that ninety two percent were in favor of missing from iraq. turnout of seventy two percent but this was the scene in so many people celebrated following the announcement there is still strong opposition to the poll itself. should be a no it's to moan to the kurdish leadership relinquish control. to iraq you. already several. jordanian have announced they will stop flights to the regional capital. and hold this referendum an overwhelming result for the. people are still celebrating. people are expected. to be. real with the way. everybody expects a lot of. people for example. is the reaction from the reaction for. the reaction. in this part of the region where does. the time where we were. located an

earlier court ruling to reinstate almost 800 dropped corruption charges against the president jacob zuma. in paris gets the official go-ahead to host the summer games. coming up in business paris may be celebrating being officially chosen for 2024. are already wondering if the city can bring the games in without going over budget. that's coming up along with more olympic fever in the press review. first our top story live from paris. the un security council has made first statement is nine years on the growing crisis in myanmar. on wednesday it condemned the violence thahat forced clolose o 380,000 muslims s to flee to neighboring bangladesh. the human secretary-general is now hinting that military action amounts to ethnic cleansing. the government defenses that military action is to prevent the risk of terrorist attacks. more from london. >> the government has said there is a risk of imminent terrorist attack in the country. a spokesman took to social networks two hours ago saying there is a direct link between the fighters and al qaeda. has always denied any links with international te

the files take to the streets in south africa calling the president jacob zuma to resign. saudi decree allowing women to drive. and we're in bali where the. only intensify along the banks exits. the results is incurred so in northern iraq yes controversial secession referendum officials announced ninety two percent in favor of splitting from iraq this was the scene in cinema near where people celebrated just off the announcement was made but there is still strong opposition to the poll by dad says the vote should be a no it's also demanding the kurdish leadership relinquish control of the exports of the region to the iraqi authorities on some airlines he couldn't find you by and will jordanian have already announced they will stop flights to the regional capital. let's take you to speak to al-jazeera is hot. whose life right now and. it's a non-binding referendum of course what are people saying that. people . are given for everybody speak to people in the past few days. by how much. and many were quite. a result. of. this is not something that's going to be easy. and it's

for the president jacob zuma down. south korea shows off its military muscle as it celebrates another armed forces day more on that stay with us. from. flowing i mean when it's to an enchanting desert breeze you're. we've got more wet weather just around the black sea which was the caspian sea the line of cloud here just getting pulled out says to keep pushing across georgia armenia into azerbaijan elsewhere across the love ants across well in part of the middle east generally stays dry northern parts of iraq could see one of two showers that area of cloud as you can see making its way up towards you might even see a little bit when she weather over the higher ground here but elsewhere it's generally got to be settled with will warm sunshine kuwait about thirty celsius and that's the sort of temperature we're expecting in doha over the next few days right across a very good potential well so of hazy sunshine a little more cloud just a bit was the southern end of the red sea but nothing much to speak of it a bit of clou

the calling for president jacob zuma to step down. the results are in ninety two percent of kurds voted yes in the controversial kurdish referendum on monday but there is still strong opposition to the poll the government in baghdad is called. the kurdish leadership to relinquish control of airports in the region and several airlines are suspending flights to kurdish cities stratford has more now from. celebrations on the streets of appeal up to ninety two percent of voters said yes to secession from the kurdish region of northern iraq. the referendum is very important it will form our future and i hope at least that baghdad will support us eventually to be independent. with the federal government in baghdad has called the referendum on constitutional and he's refusing to even recognize the result let alone start negotiations with the kurdish regional government ok allergy over future independence for iraq's. events of the last few days here can only be described as some of the most momentous in this region's history but the political

the president jacob zuma to step down. and saudi women welcome to the city to scrap the ban on them driving could the guardianship system be next to go. the result is in kurds in northern iraq have overwhelmingly voted yes in monday's controversial so. referendum. kurdish officials announced that ninety two percent were in favor of splitting from iraq on a turnout of seventy two percent now this was the scene in suliman year where people celebrated following the announcement but there is still strong opposition to the polls baghdad says the vote should be a no it's demanding the kurdish leadership relinquish control of airports in the region to iraqi authorities and several airlines are moving fly dubai and royal jordanian have announced that they will suspend flights to kurdish cities well the transport minister for the iraqi kurdish region says the flight ban will have far reaching consequences for you was there about. its effects the diplomatic channels and the representatives that opposed to the kurdistan region to fix

strong show of force from south africa's largest workers' union the number one demand president jacob zuma must go. to. the kurdish regional governments transport minister has rejected a demand from iraq to relinquish control of its airports baghdad says it will ban international flights from landing in kurdish regional airports from friday it follows monday's succession vote unofficial estimates say the referendum has passed earlier russia called on iraqi and kurdish leaders to avoid pursuing actions that may further destabilize the region get more now from how to go home a joining us live from erbil how did you think iraq will go through with these threats. well actually just moments ago did you rocky civil aviation authorities said it had notified international airlines that it will be suspending all flights international flies from fifteen hundred g.m.t. on friday prime minister said from twelve hundred g.m.t. and now we also are seeing reports but i cannot confirm that yet at least one airline middle east which is the lebanese carrier has actually announced that it was stopping all fl

her range of issues primarily president jacob zuma to step down they say he's presided. and one of which could. intimidate. there. to stay capture. refuse to understanding the belief here in south africa that some private business and i've been able to exert . over the president and government decisions and. i say rising unemployment rising to a simply unacceptable but the question is really how much influence does precisely to have its in a governing alliance with the african national congress and the south african communist party but even though they. have been. stepped out on the street now that he hasn't tells us that that alliance. in trouble and that the saudis and fluence is waiting. representatives of kenya's president who can yatta an opposition leader raul meeting the electoral commission ahead of next month's rerun of the presidential poll and choose the hundreds of people protested outside the commission's office calling on stuff to step down stephanie decker reports from nairobi. it is the first time that both parties both jubilee and nasser sitting down wit

major trade unions aligned with zuma is opponents in the ruling african national congress organize the protests in several cities senior members of seumas party of called on him to quit over corruption allegations. officials on the indonesian island of bali say almost one hundred thousand people have fled their homes amid fears that a nearby volcano will erupt hundreds of tremors from mt i go only in the north of the island are being recorded daily volcano last erupted in one thousand nine hundred sixty three killing more than a thousand people so says within germany's conservatives say the chancellor merkel's finance minister vulcan's choice to leave his position instead of finance minister he could become president of the german parliament the move would help the negotiates with potential coalition partners following sunday's federal elections let's get more from political correspondent simon young who's at our parliament studio welcome simon how much credibility should we give this story and what's likely to be behind to be behind the move if it's true. well sure blair has been prop

how much of a relief will this foruma -- will this see zuma?he economy has emerged from two back-to-back quarters of contraction. it is quite good. if you look under the hood a little more closely, it is not all good. private consumption is very slack. retail sales figures are not showing a particular recovery. underlying this, we have seen the recovery in metal prices. there was a big jump in the agricultural sector in this quarter. the central bank itself has cut its forecast for growth for this year and marginally for next year as well. south africa still has 28% unemployment. is not all good. we might see some rate cuts ahead from the central bank. yousef: turning away some foreign investors, especially when it comes to the steep interest rates. guest: absolutely. with this hunt for yield around -- with lowth rates of the u.s. and japan, south africa not withstanding the recent rate cut is still a very attractive play for investors. of course, the whole emerging-market story has kind of listed all boats, south africa has come with that. it

south africa's high court's has overturned the reaction to jacob zuma.ay the outcome of the race to leave the party and the country. more from johannesburg. >> a very important decision because it has the power to sway the outcome of the presidential race. what we know now is the tide seems to be turning. it seems as though the deputy president of the country may be garnering more support, particularly as it is quite divided at this point in time. have said they will look at the ruling yesterday and consider whether they can appeal the decision are not so we are waiting to see as we go towards the conference in december. will the comforts get postponed until this is resolved? >> that is really the paramount question is whether there will ,e an election of a new leader possibly someone who will take elections.l they do not see a postponement and they will advise in the way true, so it does anticipate thean performance itself. may adopteral reserve -- that is reducing riskier assets. welcome to the program. i want to jump to the bloomberg. >> key takeaway

aid south africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma claims corruption has become endemic under his leadership tens of thousands of people took to the streets catalonia says it'll go ahead with an independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring the vote illegal the spanish government is planning to deploy police at polling stations to prevent people from posting their ballots the regional government has warned of public disorder if that happens ukraine has been russia for a fire at a military ammunition depo which triggered multiple explosions the blast started on tuesday evening the base is around two hundred kilometers southwest of kiev rescue services had to evacuate thousands of people from six nearby villages and south korea is marking its sixty nine forces day with a show of military might some of the strategic weapons were put on display including their ballistic missiles tensions have been high on the korean peninsula for months as north korea ramps up missile and nuclear weapons tests but those were the headlines the

her range of issues primarily president jacob zuma to step down. and one in which. to capture. that refers to understanding the belief that some private. decisions. by sight rising unemployment rising. simply unacceptable but the question is really how much influence does have its alliance with the african national congress and the south african communist party but even. that hasn't. aligned. and that the saudis and is waiting. still to come here and out in this one more space to tweet you won't have to limit yourself to just one hundred forty characters. and it's a welcome break from the fear of an. there x.x. south korea holds a film festival calling for peace. had iran has been spreading from china to south korea and to japan at this combination band one camera from the south one from the north is fairly active and is given seventy six millimeters in the last twenty four hours on the island just the south of the major on to japan and of course it's going to be mostly honshu to see the rest of that rain push through too as well behind it sounds come out so that in south korea

as it marches on city holmes banks and the chamber of mines is demanding that the president jacob zuma step down and open an investigation into state corruption tanya pages our correspondent there at one of the demonstrations in johannesburg tanya this union is huge but give us a sense of how powerful this. show one of those one point eight million members and up to it sound i think right here on the streets of johannesburg they just started to move in you can see a lot of the signs they're holding up for a range of issues that. they're protesting against one of the most important ones being the. president jacob zuma they are and of course into organization but they aren't his influence influential as they once were which they would like to be they are in an alliance with the governing african national congress presidency of his posse and the south african communist posses well and both is a c.p. and cosatu marching here today a cooling for the president to step down and the fact remains that that hasn't happened that he's refused to that most of the a.n.c. at least appears to be stick

holding a nationwide strike against government corruption and unemployment they want president jacob zuma to step down. if a drive is a marching in london against the company's working conditions the firm's license to operate was not renewed in the british capital because of customer safety concerns and unemployment appeal tribunals forcing it to give drivers a minimum wage holiday and sick pay peeling against both decisions there's the headlines and news conditions but right now it is zero world. i. know that. this temple is a crowded city at the best of times. with often impossible traffic busy street construction and road bikes. having to navigate it without being able to see is a challenge. it's one that the four people in the story have done every day of their inspiring line. decided to this event to the residents in a subtle month. he did miss it it from a study that took out the letter alluded among will not miss anna is i'm learning a question which i couldn't. miss it i wonder since i've been you know one of those sent to young's lushness a little a lot of the end that. her her.

tens of thousands of people in south africa held street protests against president jacob zuma they say corruption has become endemic under his leadership the marches were organized by the country's largest workers' union twenty pages more. miners teachers and laborers are among the thousands of workers taking part in a nationwide strike against corruption. and the man they say is to blame for it is president jacob zuma they say he's been compromised by private business leaders have kept control of the state the president has indicated that he's not willing to go and we know the reason is because he has been the brain of. the president. says ninety members of the. camp is that. was the demonstrators switched through the city delivering their demands to government the banks and big employers like the mining industry. because it was pressure on the president. and then. lions with the african national congress and the south african. history not only. tells. it's deeply divided. the a.n.c. says its partners are free to protest but it can't be happy at the level of corruption being uncovered

scarce south africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma he claims corruption has become endemic under his leadership tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets. says it will go ahead with an independence referendum on sunday despite spain declaring it illegal the spanish government is planning to deploy police at polling stations to prevent people from voting the regional government has warned of public disorder if that happens. people on sunday will go out and vote massively peacefully also for only one reason and one of the most important reasons regardless of what their votes will be there is a firm conviction that the state today is an inheritor of franco's spain that wasn't overcome in this transition stage today more than ever it is a problem that we need to fight democratically the u.s. is threatening to slap a two hundred twenty percent tariff on jets made by canadian aircraft maker bomb body it comes after a legal challenge by u.s. plane maker boeing boeing has accused the canadian government of unfairly subsidizing the

with close links to jacob zuma, they are accused of rampant corruption, which they deny.british pr firm bell pottinger a call. forseveral months, bell pottinger ran a disinformation campaign stoking racial hatred, and targeting hostile journalists. all the journalists who were writing about state capture who were interested in this new crony network, really, you could see almost daily there would be, largely driven on twitter and social media, quite insulting images of them made. and only now do you understand that it was actually a constructed campaign. the scandal has claimed the scalp of several staff at the firm including partner victoria geoghegan and ceo james henderson. now the trade body that represents britain‘s your industry has chucked out bell pottinger. it is the harshest penalty available to was and the harshest we have ever imposed on members and that reflects the fact that it was the worst piece of pr work that i have seen in ten years. the pr industry is overwhelmingly professional, bell pottinger neither of those. last night, the former adviser to margar

how much of a relief will this be for zuma? news such as this, figures showing that the economy has emerged from from two back-to-back quarters of contraction is good. quite clearly, but if you look under the hood, a little bit closer it is not all good, , private consumption is very slack, retail sales figures are not showing particular recovery. underlying this, we have seen the recovery in metal prices, there was a big jump in the agricultural sector this quarter, and the central bank itself, has cut its forecast for growth for this year and marginally for next year as well. south africa still has 28% unemployment, it is not all good, but we might see some rate cuts ahead from the central bank. yousef: it is not really turning away some foreign investors, especially when it comes to the steep local interest rates. the hunt for yields, south africa is at the top of the reader, is it not? justin too absolutely. with this whole hunt for yields around the world, with very low core rates in the u.s., japan and so on, naturally, f

strained the protesters are demanding an investigation into state corruption on the president jacob zuma leadership. residents of the indonesian island of bali are spending their sixth day on high volcano alert as mount a go threatens to erupt the volcano in northeastern bali is spurting smoke and ash and the intensity of tremors is increasing almost one hundred thousand people have been evacuated from a twelve kilometer exclusion zone those are the headlines i'm going to have the al-jazeera news hour for you in about twenty five minutes before that witness is next. and for me. to say. there barb on the. put the author said still. no longer on how most a moment could not put down some how color cell phone or turo they were to the war or harmless joke or myra or and said koreans are clear enough on sex it the sex in a yes or no you don't look down on i. need to fear more some football. can clean our marks you can hear yet i am pedophiles. are they go back on mars. or sansa me come all the oil for new fin where. hundreds silver farrior tour or the love for me. or you know i'm on some war h

the president jacob zuma to step down. and then sports far we'll have the latest as this former world number one goes for her fourth title this year. the head of the un's migration agency says he's shocked about the increasing reports of soldiers in myanmar raping a range of women and girls the government denies the claims but has refused to allow international observers to investigate four hundred eighty thousand have fled to bangladesh in the past months from kuta palang in bangladesh joanna hall has more. two sisters twenty five year old me and twenty two year old aziza share their story of escape from me and my both say they were raped by soldiers. the military tortured us they murdered our parents even our sisters they took us to the jungle they pushed us down on the ground there were two of them they raped me and then i became unconscious. some people came and rescued us and took us to a group of people who were going to cross the river to bangladesh but they wouldn't take us in the boat as we had no money we told th

tens of thousands of people in south africa have held street protests against president jacob zuma they say corruption has become endemic under his leadership the marches were organized by the largest workers' union the unions alliance with the ruling african national congress is looking increasingly strained tanya page has more from johannesburg. miners teachers and laborers are among the thousands of workers taking part in a nationwide strike against corruption. and the man they say is to blame for it is president jacob zuma they say he's been compromised by private business leaders have captured control of the state the president has indicated that he's not willing to go and we know the reason is because he has been the print if you shout it from. the president. says ninety members of the scene they have to stand on. the demonstrators switch through the city delivering their demands to government the banks and big employers like the mining industry. because i'll just brace on the president has apparently and then. alliance with the afghan national police and the south african communi

south africa's largest workers union has organized marches to protest against president jacob zuma they claim corruption has become under his leadership tens of thousands of people took to the streets. a u.s. airstrike in the afghan capital kabul has caused a number of civilian casualties according to nato the strike came hours after an attack on kabul airports during a visit by u.s. defense secretary james mattis the taliban says massa's was the target of the failed rocket attack the airport bombing which left at least five civilians injured after he and nato chief jens stoltenberg left the airport their trip follows u.s. president donald trump's pledge to send more american troops to afghanistan afghan security forces struggling to defeat the taliban. refugees who escaped a military crackdown in me and i have spoken to al-jazeera about how they were raped by soldiers government denies the claims but refused to allow international observers to investigate four hundred eighty thousand have fled to bangladesh in the past month. has more from long in bangladesh. two sisters twenty five ye

demanding an investigation into state corruption which they say has become endemic under president jacob zuma selling to ship. rights groups around the world are welcoming the king of saudi arabia's decree to allow women to drive for the first time will be allowed to get behind the wheel as of next summer but will still probably need a man's permission to buy a car and a burst of money to the opposition labor party says it's the government's in waiting fifty of the parties on the preference in writing for an open set of ruling conservatives are on the verge of collapse the prime minister to resign by to resign and attacks what he called the bungling of bricks it was a she shares with the view. and those were his headlines here on out is there out well for me in twenty five minutes time when he says coming next i would buy. want to hit on them it's a. little. nobody is much me no me yes some water. thing or. set of issues in my state. i have a hole in my eyes anybody when you say they let me look nice you're chilean mine. was one of the last call noni of massacre on this ng up oh yeah the mone

a show of force from south africa's largest workers' union its main demand president jacob zuma must. be expecting the fischel results from monday's session referendum in northern iraq kurdish region any minute now an official estimates say kurds have voted yes there have been scenes of celebration in some areas but tensions are high rock in turkey . forces have been conducting military drills near the kurdish border the referendum was held the spider there despite their objections and those of syria and iran a bill has rejected a demand from iraq to relinquish control of its airports to iraqi authorities baghdad says it will ban international flights from landing in kurdish airports from friday unless regional leaders backed down russia has called for talks between the two sides while france warns a kurdish declaration of independence would trigger a crisis is good morning from what our goal has made joining us live from. we are expecting results within the next hour talk us through how it's going to work and what we're waiting for. well we're actually waiting for the electoral commi

the guptas have been accused of benefiting financially from close links to south africa's president zumaed bell pottinger to change its image. the trade body says the secret media campaign is the worst breach of ethics in its history. well francis ingham, director general of the prca. thank you for coming in. it was a difficult decision. we have expelled bell pottinger for at least five yea rs. bell pottinger for at least five years. the breach of ethics is the worst i have seen in my ten years as director general and it is important to show the industry has standards. james anderson's decision to resign was not enough? it was necessary but not sufficient. the industry needed to make a stand and a kind of work, staring up racial tension in a fledgeling democracy, in many ways, is just unacceptable and we have expeued is just unacceptable and we have expelled them. we have not done anything of this magnitude before and we wanted to make clear we have standards and we will enforce them. it isa standards and we will enforce them. it is a very well—established pr company, one of the world ‘s

terms of who wins the election in december to lead the anc and possibly take over from president jacob zumations in 2019. this is something that not only the markets but the country and large will be keeping -- the country at large who be keeping an eye on. angie: thank you very much. we will leave that there but bloomberg subscribers can continue watching the interview. eventshis week, more that you may have missed earlier are all available on the bloomberg app. ♪ ♪ angie: we are counting down to the market opening in the emirates in about half an hour. yousef, what is in focus for investors right now? yousef: let us run you through this, fixed ratings have been downgraded qatar from eight to a positive. the outlook has been changed to negative following on qatar's sovereign rating. qatar'sngraded rating to a negative rating. the qatar government directly and indirectly owns 68% of the stock and s&p global ratings are running the ruler over qatari banks in general as well. its rating onrmed qatar's national bank and a few other names with a aa negative and a positive. the agency says the n

demanding an investigation into state corruption which they say has become endemic of the president jacob zuma leadership. rights groups across the world are welcoming the king of saudi arabia's decree women to drive for the first time they'll be allowed to get behind the wheel as of next summer but will still probably need a man's permission to buy a car. in britain the leader of the opposition labor party says it is the government in waiting speaking of the party's annual conference in brighton gary coleman said the ruling conservatives are on the verge of collapse the prime minister to resign major resign and attacked what he called her bungling of bricks it negotiations. and those are the latest headlines here on al-jazeera i'm back with the news hour in about twenty five minutes time so with this inside story is coming next. women in saudi arabia are finally allowed to drive from next year is lifting the ban the fine of real reform in the kingdom but it speed up for auction with a powerful religious establishment this is inside. hello i'm sam is a than welcome to the show now it's the onl

demanding an investigation into state corruption which they say has become endemic under president jacob zuma as leadership. the us government has sent the flu to load shit ship sent thousands of military personnel to puerto rico to address the growing humanitarian crisis caused by hurricane maria u.s. president on trump has promised to visit the territory next tuesday those are the headlines that people and power is coming up next but i. on october the first catalonia plans to hold an independence referendum yet the central government insists it's unconstitutional and the courts have judged it illegal as the state clamps down and catalans take to the streets where will this crisis and what al-jazeera for the latest. six years ago during and after a patiently contested election savagest make tools to cope to a former president his own string to the international criminal court for those events but other crimes have not been investigated and other perpetrators have not been held to account victoria both went to find out why. ivory coast november two thousand and sixteen at these friendly atten

in south africa thousands of protesters staged anti corruption marches targeting president jacob zuma major trade unions aligned with seumas opponents in the ruling african national congress organized protests in several cities senior members of seumas party have called on him to quit over corruption allegations. iraq's prime minister has called on kurds to a null the outcome of monday's independence referendum after the region's leader claimed victory for his campaign as the fallout from the vote intensifies iraqi authorities have imposed a flight embargo on kurdish airports saying it will only end when regional authorities hand them over to central control. and ukrainian authorities have evacuated more than twenty thousand people after a fire at an ammunitions depo caused a series of explosions the blasts happened late on tuesday at a military base some two hundred seventy kilometers west of ukraine's capital kiev one person was injured. well the global financial crisis is about ten years behind us but the world economic forum is warning there could still be tough times ahead well i

with close links to jacob zuma, they are accused of rampant corruption, which they deny.bell pottinger ran a disinformation campaign stoking racial hatred, and targeting hostile journalists. all the journalists who were writing about state capture who were interested in this new crony network, really, you could see almost daily there would be, largely driven on twitter and social media, quite insulting images of them made. and only now do you understand that it was actually a constructed campaign. the scandal has claimed the scalp of several staff at the firm including partner victoria geoghegan and ceo james henderson. now the trade body that represents britain‘s your industry has chucked out bell pottinger. it is the harshest penalty available to was and the harshest we have ever imposed on members and that reflects the fact that it was the worst piece of pr work that i have seen in ten years. the pr industry is overwhelmingly professional, bell pottinger neither of those. last night, the former adviser to margaret thatcher who founded the firm but left after falling ou

with close links to jacob zuma, they are accused of rampant corruption, which they deny.social media, quite insulting images of them made. and only now do you understand that it was actually a constructed campaign. the scandal has claimed the scalp of several staff at the firm including partner victoria geoghegan and ceo james henderson. now the trade body that represents britain‘s pr industry has chucked out bell pottinger. it is the harshest penalty available to us and the harshest we have ever imposed on members and that reflects the fact that it was the worst piece of pr work that i have seen in ten years. the pr industry is overwhelmingly professional, bell pottinger neither of those. last night, the former adviser to margaret thatcher who founded the firm but left after falling out with mr henderson said the company was finished. i think that it probably is getting near the end, yes. you can try and rescue it but it will not be very successful. this scandal has sent shock waves through the british pr industry and also young democracy of south africa. the prca is a t

the company had been hired by the controversial gupta family, who have close links to president zuma. pottinger had spread misleading information. 0ur reporter nomsa maseko is in johannesburg for us. what was this campaign about? what we do know is that bell pottinger, the pr company, was hired by a private company owned by the controversial the bitter family, which has close links with president jacob zuma, to actually do work for particular organisations and that's what has brought outrage in this country because of family and bell pottinger were accused of derailing tension and making the family look good while, at the same time, fuelling racial tensions here in this country using terms like white monopoly capital, and also the fact that white wealthy families were attacked. and also white journalists we re attacked. and also white journalists were attacked in this country because of the things that they were doing in terms of fuelling these racial tensions, made a lot of people in south africa very uncomfortable which is why we saw the democrats, the main opposition party, going t

of thousands of people have taken to the streets in south africa to protest against president jacob zuma and the corruption they say has become and demick on the his leadership the march is being organized by the country's largest workers' union whose alliance with the african national congress is looking increasingly strained tanya page has more now from johannesburg. miners teachers and laborers are among the thousands of workers taking part in a nationwide strike against corruption. and the man they say is to blame for it is president jacob zuma they say he's been compromised by private business leaders have captured control of the state the president has indicated that he was not willing to go and we know the reason is because he has been the print if you shout it from. the president. says ninety members of the same thing happened is that. was the demonstrators switched through the city delivering their demands to government the banks and big employers like the mining industry. because soldiers pressure on the president has apparently been ignored and that. its alliance with the afri

from those who said that the family was profiting from its close relationship with president jacob zuma bell pottinger helped popularize the term used. to discredit critics of the president and the family white monopoly capital essentially playing the race card against its clients opponents bell pottinger had a long list of controversy of clients on its corporate c.v. including oscar pistorius the former paralympics champion convicted of murder syrian first lady saad and the late chilean dictator augusto pinochet the american network fox news is making more changes to its evening the lineup necessitated by another high profile anchor losing his job under scandalous circumstances eric bolling is now out one month after the huffington post broke a story alleging bowling had texted unsolicited images of a sexual nature to at least three of his female colleagues he denies those allegations but fox said it has parted ways with him nonetheless this is the fox specialists bowling was the co-host of a program that aired at five p.m. a show created after the departure of the network's biggest ra

they are very close to jacob zuma.l known question lord tim bell has worked with some people like to who have less than clea n people like to who have less than clean records. bell pottinger were accused of doing some pretty nasty things, setting up fake twitter accou nts things, setting up fake twitter a ccou nts to things, setting up fake twitter accounts to spread false information, and stoking racial hatred. this report that this law firm have published today which was commissioned by bell pottinger, and they have said they did some pretty bad things, but they did not set up a fake account and they weren't the first to use this loaded term what monopoly capital, although they did spread this term in south africa. —— white. this legal firm, spread this term in south africa. —— white. this legalfirm, there has been a response in south africa, they have said they have given bell pottinger and easy right, but i understand the pr body, —— an easy ride, but i understand the pr body are going to give their own findings, a

with close links to jacob zuma, they are accused of rampant corruption, which they deny.an a disinformation campaign stoking racial hatred, and targeting hostile journalists. all the journalists who were writing about state capture who were interested in this new crony network, really, you could see almost daily there would be, largely driven on twitter and social media, quite insulting images of them made. and only now do you understand that it was actually a constructed campaign. the scandal has claimed the scalp of several staff at the firm including partner victoria geoghegan and ceo james henderson. now the trade body that represents britain's your industry has chucked out bell pottinger. now the trade body that represents britain's pr industry has chucked out bell pottinger. it is the harshest penalty available to us and the harshest we have ever imposed on members and that reflects the fact that it was the worst piece of pr work that i have seen in ten years. the pr industry is overwhelmingly professional, bell pottinger neither of those. last night, the former adv

party is suffering from leadership failures the trade union is demanding that the president jacob zuma step aside. human rights groups are welcoming a decision by saudi arabia to allow women to drive king solomon is suited to create ending the kingdom status as the only country where it's forbidden it goes into effect in june of next year. of ok no is expected to erupt on the indonesian island of bali any day now they have been hundreds of tremors around the area of mount a growing and more than seventy thousand people living in villages on the slopes of being relocated. jane see with the news in half an hour i will see you soon up next technique. here is a very important fourth of information for many people around the world when hold the camera have gone i'm still here go into areas that nobody else is going to talk to people that nobody else is talking to and bringing that story to the forefront. water everywhere with less and less to drink. in space the earth is a big blue planet covered seventy percent in water the explosive reveals the only two and a half percent that is freshwat

allegations of high level corruption in south africa involving president jacob zuma and his ties to the wealthy gupta family. have been field with the leak of confidential emails. no not the group to leak the publication have embarrassed the country's elite. to clean up their image in the family virus investment company i think capital height british p. often felt put into. aiming to shift attention away from the xena gripped if gandalf. and focus on the racial divisions in the country's economic distribution. two of the slogans used in that campaign upped opposition politicians were exploiting race. that's well. radical economic tongs for mason and white mind openly capital. items that we invented by battle platoons are. apr firm in london. and in fact they've been soon that you thought terms this line. to. and paul walk a video equipment to delete. the uk's pr and communications trade body launched an investigation. about that that's them breach the pr ca's code of conduct. view the prca board was that no post introspection is would deliberately intended. the crate exactly the results

union and a branch of the governing party who organized the protests they want the president jacob zuma to stand down and an investigation to be launched into those allegations of state corruption. drivers are marching in london against the company's working conditions the firm's license to operate wasn't renewed in london because of customer safety concerns and unemployment appeal tribunals ruling is forcing it to give drivers the minimum wage and you are right up to date with all the top stories i will see you soon up next elizabeth see it with inside story button. thank. you ed thank you the it the kurds in iraq have voted in the betterment of the hopes of getting their. votes rejected by the iraqi government and neighboring countries to talk an estimate. of the battle of the need for the region. with. with. with with hello and welcome to the program i'm elizabeth brought him the kurdish referendum and iraq has been a long time coming it finally happened on monday on after years of campaigning the kurds living in northern iraq have been pushing for independence and the end of world w

pottinger had produced reprehensible work by portraying opponents of the south african president, jacob zumausiness interests. the syrian army is closing in on the eastern city of deir al—zour, besieged for nearly three years by the extremist group that calls itself islamic state. is has surrounded more than 90,000 civilians, protected by an army garrison. most of deir al—zour is under is control. sarah corker reports. the syrian army and its allies have been rapidly advancing through the desert towards deir al—zour, the largest city in eastern syria. so—called islamic state controls half of the city, and much of the surrounding, oil—rich province. these pictures from syrian state tv show burnt—out tanks abandoned by is, some 20 kilometres from deir al—zour. a syrian army reporter says this village has been liberated. and, as troops continue the advance, they cut off is supply routes. deir al—zour borders iraq, and is is's last major stronghold in syria, with the group's de facto capital of raqqa under siege. an estimated 93,000 civilians are living in a government enclave in deir al—zour, d