xenophobic attacks are not new to south africa. in 2008, attacks on foreigners led to more fatalities. 67 people were killed around johannesburg. jean pierre misago is from the university of witswatersrand in johannesburg and says the violence did not come as a surprise. >> political pronouncements again. but it showed there were no concrete measures to prevent violence from happening again. >> reporter: the killing of mozambique man was captured in chilling pictures by a photographer with the sunday times of south africa, james oatway. >> they were angry and full of hate. the expression on their faces, they weren't going to be satisfied with anything but killing. that is the one thing i could tell. >> reporter: the attack lasted just 28 second and then stopped. the men fled. this man was still alive an conscious, oatway rushed him to a hospital in a car but it was too late. >> i don't have regrets of my actions taking pictures of the attack, i think i did what i could and i think my being there was an intervention of sorts. my onl

africa if we see the law being implemented. >> acute problem in south africa and good to speak with you from joe j johannesburg and let's lok at the weather. >>> if you look here you can see them spiralling around and sammy not a problem i don't think, this is north towards japan and then it gets caught up in a jet stream flow and goes way out towards the east. this one, different fish altogether and this is going to tonight to move northward and northeast wards and close to taiwan. the problem with the system is it's getting slower,, in fact, it's going at such a pace at the moment it has a slow jogging pace at 9 kph and it will produce an awful lot of rain going by the island and you have seen the impact and the philippines and you can see the eye wall across the philippines and across central and northern areas of the country and had vast amounts of rain coming down over the last 24 hours and also powerful gusts of wind and 200 kph and i suspect as the system continues to move to the north the gusts in the valleys are possible for taiwan. we are still going to get heavy showers e

africa. >> reporter: south africa's economy has not been performing well. gdp shrank by 1.3% in the second quarter this year. but many japanese companies are showing an interest in gaining a foothold in the country and expanding their business on the african continent. >> translator: our company is interested in the energy and mining industry. i'm here to listen to any updates on those areas. >> translator: south africa's economy is down as one country, but if we take a look at the southern african region as a whole, the country weighs a lot. >> reporter: like many other countries, south africa has been hit by the slowdown in the chinese economy. ramaphosa says they're facing challenges. >> the whole world is concerned about the slowdown of the chinese economy. we are also going to be affected because we are a very key trading partner to china, and they are to us. we are going to focus on our own economy, make sure that we have a stable economy that will be able to withstand the turmoil that the world economy is going through at the moment. >> reporter: he

. >> reporter: winder in south africa brings with it the hunting season. we are at a private game reserve, home to thousands of wild animals. this local hunter and his team are on the lookout for their first kill. >> this is the right place? >> normally occur, this type of area. >> it's winter time now, there is a flat area, we go through this mountain. >> it can take days to find the right animal. >> old matured bull. >> pretty fresh from the signs of it. >> yeah. >> exhilarating, it's a challenge, walking up to the animal, stalking the animal, looking for the animal. >> at this reserve, specific game is selected for hunting to keep the numbers down and maintain the ecological balance. for this 50 year veteran, hunting is a way of life. >> we stayed on the farm and yes, it was part of life. you know, the hunting scenario. we stayed on the farm where there was no meat available for us and we lived off the land. >> his target in sight, he takes aim. more than 7,000 international hunters visited south africa two years ago, more than half of them from the uni

dollars. >> reporter: currencies in markets like brazil and south africa are struggling. but turkey has added domestic pressures. >> in order to yield the turmoil, turkey needs a strong government. this could not be established after the election. so the turkish economy is more fragile against external risks and also we have already have huge currency account deficits and high inflation. >> it's lost 20% of the value against the dollar. >> there will be another election probably at the beginning of november. >> what happens could play a role on whether they win back the majority it lost in june's election. >> breast cancer kills more than half a million women worldwide. if caught early, stage 0, many women make the decision to remove one or both of their breasts. now a new u.s. study says this may not do much to stop the disease from spreading. >> more are being diagnosed with dcis, a possible precursor to what could be a deadly tumor. treatment involves removing part or all of the breasts. a new study suggests getting a mastectomy makes little difference. >> 25% of the w

august is women's month in south africa. that's when a series of events are planned to mark the appalling rate of violence that happens in south africa against women and girls every year. that oscar appalled pistorius, who is jailed in october last year would be coming out just 304 days after being jailed. laura: what happens now? he is still to be released earlier, just not friday. reporter: absolutely. what the justice minister has said is that the parole board was wrong to announce oscar pistorius would be released on friday. the justice minister said according to the law, oscar pistorius's release into correctional supervision or house arrest should have considered at the end of 10 months, after he completed 1/6 of his sentence. he said announcing in june, which was not won six of the way into the sentence, but two months too early, the parole board were already ahead of themselves. no doubt oscar pistorius will come out of resin -- come out of prison, but it will not happen this friday. the justice that esther said the

south africa has one of the highest levels of violence against women. there is a dedicated call center for victims. since the center opened a year and a half ago, it's received more than 4,000 calls, all of them from women and children. they are referred to the necessary services in the area. the center employs dozens of social workers available 24 hour as day. >> we have also changed the way we deliver social services. we never had social workers giving counseling. we recognize that technology can play a vital role in delivering social services including gender based violence. >> reporter: there are concerns that some abuse victims still afraid to ask for help. south africa's minister of women's affairs. >> the challenge is the issue of the mindset. and moving towards making sure that the change of attitudes, change of mindset. we still have a lot to do. >> reporter: while new laws protect women, there are concerns about how they are enforced. >> when women get killed every day. some get killed with protection orders in their hands. as a country, we ha

south africa has one of the highest abuses of women by men. a call center has been set up for victims of domestic violence and allows. bus -- and abuse. >> reporter: since the center opened it has received many calls. the center employs dozens of social workers available 24 hours a day. >> it changes pt way we deliver social work. we never had social workers giving counselling over time. true, we recognise that technology can play a vital role in delivery all social services. including gender based violence. >> there are concerns that some abuse victims are afraid to ask for help. south africa's minister of women's affairs says they need to be at change. >> the change is the issue of the mind-set. to what extent we are moving forward to making sure there's a change of attitudes, mind-set, that it's okay within the continent. >> now laws protect women, there are concerns about how they are enforce said. >> when women are killed every die, some are killed with protection orders. we need a dialogue about how different police stations, how do they

. >> it's not one down deliberately to oust black people >>> the racial make-up of south africa's rugby team is under question in the rugby world >>> the top tories on al jazeera - austria's newspaper is reporting as many as 50 refugees have been found dead in a parked truck. it appears they suffocated. thousands are arriving in the e.u. each day. european and balkan leaders are at a crisis summit. campaignersers marking 500 days since a group of schoolgirls were abducted. more than 200 girls are missing. >> the army is fighting boko haram, and the government had been unable to rescue of the girls. >> police in china arrested 12 people over explosions in the city of tannin. 11 government officials have been prosecuted for negligence. 129 died when a warehouse stores hazardous chemicals explode. >> u.s. president obama said he's heart broken over the killing of two journals. the shooter was using an illegally obtained gun when he filmed himself shooting tv reporter alison parker and cameraman adam ward. he turned gun on himself and in a faxed message he said the attack was in revenge for

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. >>> and on the trail with hunters in south africa who are making the controversial case of killing wild animals. ♪ turkey has been hit by four separate attacks blamed on two different groups and istanbul a squad officer and another were killed in a gun fight after a vehicle packed with explosives was used to attack a police station and elsewhere in the city two women fired shots at a u.s. consulate and one woman wounded was arrested and reports to be a member of a ban left wing party and in the southeast a soldier and four officers were killed in two separate attacks in the province and the warning of the report contains strong images from the start. >> reporter: chased down to a back street near the u.s. consulate in istanbul a woman who earlier opened fire on the building refuses to surrender, i did it for my party she shouts before being shot and wounded by a police officer. her party is the extreme left wing and anti-american revolutionary people's liberation army frount the d.h.k.p.c., a second attacker also female escaped from the area. in 2030 the d.h.k.p.c. said it was be

and surrounded by sewage, why these people in south africa are forced to live in dangerously unhygieneic conditions. ♪ >> now, new cutting edge technology that could help prevent future disasters... >> the system has really evolved. >> and what it means for new orleans. >> our big take away is new orleans is on a good track, but the job is not done here. >> techknow investigates 10 years after katrina. ♪ hello again and top stories on al jazeera, north korea says it ordered troops to be ready forward with south korea after exchange of artillery fire and the south put the military on highest alert level. police in macedonia fired on people trying to cross the border from greece and declared a state of emergency on the southern and northern borders on thursday and 42000 entered the country in the last two months. greece party split, 25 members of parliament say they will form their own government and comes just hours after alexis tsipras resigned as prime minister and call for new elections. the syrian army says an israeli air strike killed one of its soldiers and left several injured

south africa. you're quite excited about this. >> i am. i am. >> please go ahead. >> south africa second quarter gdp rating is out later on today. it's expected to slow to a half a per cent in the second quarter. peter is still with us. emerging market economist, what are your expectations for south africa's gdp. it comes back to what you were talking about now around china. economies have to take advantage of demographics so they're creating the right environment for growth to happen. that's not happening in south africa. we have poor energy security. there's been intensification of electricity outages through q-2. there's a huge amount of regulatory uncertainty going on, particularly in the mining sector which is leading to quite significant job losses at the same time and given the sort of odd structure, the currency doesn't help the economy at all really. and there's a very inadequate growth rate when they have the potential to be growing at 5 or 6% if it had the right structure in growth. >> you eluded to some but we're seeing a multi

africa civil society and south africa courts had ordered his arrest, a party to the international criminal court. he got away with it and i think this could be a case of trying to push the boundaries and to continue the sort of masquerade that he is a leader on the world stage. >> will he actually be able to attend summit next month? he did plan to make an appearance a couple of years ago but his visa was denied. will it be protested and granted this time around? there that is almost impossible to predict. the questions of sovereignty and questions of whether he is technically in the united states and whether the united states would want to arrest him and if so under what t members of the international criminal court. these are huge questions which nature myself nor anyone really has the answer to. but i imagine there are rooms full of lawyers in sudan, united states an the united nations who are going over those quis. >> what is the case against omar al bashir, what does all this say about the limitations of the international criminal court? >> i think it does say something about the limi

most known what, the movement in south africa. his career as an athlete and activist, straddling the civil rights and black power movements, ashe fought against racism and injustice from the political center and welcome to public and private debate. our speaker today will explore asheearly life's -- will explore is an and eric allen hall assistant history professor at georgia southern university, where he teaches courses on the history of popular culture and african-american history. and native of suburban chicago heat, he earned a ba in history from the st. joseph's college in and phd from the never the -- from purdue university. of arthur asked, entitled "arthur ashe: tennis and justice in the civil rights 2014 bys published in john hopkins university press. focuses on the intersection of popular and political culture, particularly the relationship between sports and the black freedom movement. so please join me in giving a warm welcome to eric hall. >> [applause] professor hall: professor hall: -- professor hall: good will and

. >>> he is one of the south africa's most controversial politicians once described as a future pred. julius malema was expelled from. anc in 2012. and already has a conviction for hate speech. within the last hour, he has arrived back in court to face charges of rack tearing fraud corruption and money laundering. charges he says are politically motivated. now, in the last hour or so we saw hundreds of his supporters march on the ground to the court. they have been move odd by the police and as we mentioned he is in court now let's bring in our correspondent outside the court. what can we expected to? >> reporter: in fashion jane, julius has arrived at court with other leadership from the party as well at security. he didn't say much to the media when entering, expect the trial to continues for about six weeks. and the state is expects to bring in over 50 witnesses during that period. julius malema is of course facing serious charges ranging from freighted corruption, money laundering as as well as rack tearing the penalties are expected to be quite hard if in fact julius malema is fo

. ♪ he is one of south africa's controversial politicians once described as a future president and he was expelled from the anc in 2012 and already has a conviction for hate speech and this morning he arrived in court to face charges of racketeering fraud, corruption and money laundering charges he says are politically motivated and these are pictures just outside the courthouse where hundreds of supporters have gathered. they are being kept well back from the courthouse by tight security right now south african police not allowing supporters to get any where near the courthouse while he is inside. let's hear now from our correspondence miller. >> we want the president to answer a simple question when is he paid the money. >> reporter: in resent months he has been at the forefront for calls for south africa's president to address allegations of are corruption from his private residence paid by taxpayers. this week he goes to court to face the music along with two others charged with over 50 counts of corruption fraud, money laundering and racketeering. it's alleged he had ties with co

. >>> i'm tonya page reporting from south africa on how difficult it is for a disabled child to get an education. ♪ the worst ever attack on thailand that is how the country's prime minister described the blast at the shrine in the capitol bangkok that killed at least 20 people and cctv footage of a man that could be the bomber and pictures minutes before the explosion. and in a moment we will be crossing to wayne hay in bangkok where the situation remains tense but first this report from veronica. >> reporter: picking up the pieces, this is a shopping district in bangkok that has seen dramatic political conflict several times before but nothing like this. dozens of people were killed here on monday, among them victims from malaysia, china, hong kong and singapore. many more were injured. it was an attack apparently designed to kill as many people as possible at a high profile target, the shrine. the government acting urgently to restore a sense of security for the public and millions of tourists. >> translator: in our country there are individuals or groups of individuals who are se

. ♪ ♪ >>> here is one of south africa's most controversial politicians, julius ma legal aways excelled from the anw krkic. in 2012 and already has a conviction to hate speech, he's back in court faces charges of rack tearing, fraud, corruption and money laundering. tell us about the charges and what we are expecting today? >> reporter: well, jane, we are expecting proceedings to begin at any time from now. in plc fact julius ma legal a ht arrived but people have. barbed wire has been set up preventing supporters from getting too close. it's likely julius melema will likely the support us the charges he's facing are very serious. >> we want the president to answer a simple question, when he is paying the money? >> reporter: melema, in recent months opposition party leader julius melema has been at the forefront for calls from south africa's president to adam gameses of corruption. stemming from the $24 million refurbishment of his private residence paid by for by fax taytaxpayers, but this week wees melema that goes to court he was charged with 50 count including corruption, racketeerin

companies went going to africa saw south africa kind of the only gateway and so many of them had set up headquarters in johannesburg and were using that as a kind of staging point for their growth. many of them found growth to be slower in the region starting from another part and a kind of grew to the most neighboring countries, botswana, mozambique, but often didn't make it as thoroughly or deeply into the other markets. you do have with the shift of nigeria and the public mind becoming bigger with the gdp over a hundred billion dollars economy and essentially you have come me thinking maybe i don't need to set up shop right away in south africa and although straight into lagos. there is a shift in corporate strategy and it comes to market entry in response to that. >> is a nigerian, do you feel that shift? have you wondered why everybody is looking at southern africa for an entry point? >> for technology investments and part of what we figure out our companies and africa has been an intriguing continent and card because the south african the south african stories such as easy stor

and crisis point, some communities in south africa. ♪ >> welcome back. you're watching al jazeera. let's take you to the top stories. the white house says it has killed isil's second in command. he was killed in a military strike near the iraqi city of mosul on tuesday. at least 15 people have been killed in syrian government airstrikes which targeted the town east of aleppo. hundreds of refugees in an tas attempt to enter greece. now all the stories we're following, greece' main opposition parties are trying to form a new government. it follows the resignation of alexis tsipras on thursday. after 20 members announce they're formering a new party. we report from the capital of athens. >> the notion of a second election in a year appeals to supporters of prime minister tsipras. >> maybe he'll be able to do better. we expected a different deal, but he tried very hard. >> most greeks want more stability. >> it's a bad idea. we're voting every six months. that suggests something deeply wrong with the political system, and it especially effects those of us who are unemployed. we believe

this is one of the poorest regions in south africa. the project offers a welcome source of additional income. >> this project is very good for us as a community. because when we get money out of this project we buy things like chairs and tiles to make our community all beautiful. >> in this one valley, ten thousand trees have already been planted. there should be a million more to come. >> our education with the local people would have them taking care of those trees for the next 25 years, for the next 100 years. as these forests grow up and big again. that's what we are looking to do: is keep this growing. establish ourselves one hundred miles to the north all the way down this mountain range. that we will do this with all the communities, maybe 50 communities by the end. so this is a big idea all for one parrot... we need to restore everything we've done. specially to the forests of the world. the lungs of our planet. >> and parrots are where we part. that's all for this week, (you can find more information on global 3000 on our webs

from south africa. >> winter in south africa brings with it the hunting season. we are home to thousands of wild animals, on the look out for their first kill. >> do you think this is right place to start stalking. >> yes. >> do they normal occur, in this area? >> this is the winter area. >> it can take days to find the right animal. >> old bull. pretty fresh from the signs of it. >> it's exhilarating. stalking the animal looking for the animal. >> specific game is selected for hunting to maintain the balance. for this 50 year hunting veteran, hunting is part of life. >> yes it was part of life the hunting scenario. we stayed on a farm where there was no meat available for us and we actually lived off the land. >> he finds the game in his site and takes aim. >> thero pssional hunters association of south africa said they have contributed millions to the economy. these lions are kept at a separate reserve. they are not hunted. but it's the killing of a famous lion in zimbabwe that has called controversy. audrey kitchoff says the hunting was illegal. >> to make imp

we shouldn't be surprised that this would involve south africa for all the powers south africa was a boost to become a spent on annexation. during the war, south africa documented german atrocities to the case for its own rules. but once the mandate was to secure the policy changed. german sellers were urged to stay and offered south african citizenship and additional native lands were handed over. africans were confined to shrinking reserves into the weapons were taken away. then attacks were posed to prevent them from leading off the living off the land and forced into labor on white farms. by 1922, the policies have driven to a group of about 1500 they are the orange river. you can see it listed right there at the south of the country. into despair. it also brought one to the administration's attention. he was a famous guy locally that fought against the germans in the war and acted as a scout for the south africans during the invasion. he was in south africa and when he crossed the river into the mandated territory in 1922 with companions and if you rifle's, the new administrator

and we visit the south africa wildlife park which says hunting is good for conservation. ♪ we begin in turkey where a series of attacks have taken place across the country, the latest happened when suspected kurdish fighters opened fire on a military hospital in the province, four police officers were killed by a land mine in nearby the border with iraq. earlier two attackers opened fire on the u.s. consulate building in the country's biggest city, istanbul and followed an explosion outside of a police station on the other side of the city which injured seven people and bernard smith has more for us from istanbul. >> reporter: outside of the consulate general in istan ball early monday two attackers a man and woman opened fire outside of the consulate building, the woman was subsequently injured in a shootout with police and she is heard on the video saying i did this for my party. the man has not yet been caught by the security services. he remains at range. and earlier on monday morning an attack at a police station on the asia side of istanbul and injuring at least ten people and as

. >> the racial makeup of south africa's rugby team is once again under question ahead of the woeshld cup. ♪ >>> one community, 276 schoolgirls and 500 days. that's how long it has been since the girls were abducted in northeastern nigeria. 57 escaped, but nothing has been heard of those left behind. the girls were taken by boko haram from their school in the middle of the night. they were preparing for their final exams, getting the kind of education that boko haram strongly opposes. outrage at the government's inability to find the girls and clamp down on boko haram has fuelled mass protests in nigeria. >> we here to urge the government to do better. we want our girls now, and alive. >> reporter: >> the campaign hashtag bring back our girls rapidly spread around the world. it drew the of big names, and became one of the biggest stories of the year. >> this unconscionable act was committed by a terrorist group determined to keep these girls from getting an education. grown men attempting to snuff out the aspirations of young girls, and i want you to know that barack has directed ou

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>> team south africa. >> hey, i'm impressed. i'm very impressed and it started with, as you said, these seemingly slim books, and they were more than that. you are in bed-stuy. >> right in the heart of bed decide. >> and sole man's add -- solomonsbooksonline.com. >> solomonbooksonline.com. >> the biggest thing that they have now is when we met at the consulate for, to determine the debate, south african consulate, their counsel said if we win the trophy, we will introduce it tour leader so, we said if we win the trophy, we're gone to present it to our leader. world leaders's cup trophy has been wound of us, and -- one of us, and so now we need to present it to the president. we certainly want to make sure that if he can, he can receive that because they work very hard to allow this to be put into his hands. >> all right. thank you all for being with us. and keep us posted. we want to know how that turns out. >> we'll be right back. announcer: you taught him how to hit a baseball. how to hit a receiver. the strike zone. the net.

. ♪ >>> eight police officers have been found guilty of the murder of a taxi driver in south africa in 2013. the 27 year old from mozambique was videoed struggling with police who tied him to the back of a van and tied him behind it. he was accused of parking illegally. let's take you live to tania page. tell us about what the judge had to say while delivering his verdict. some pretty harsh words for the convicted. >> reporter: yes, they were. i have been covering court cases for many years and i don't think i have ever heard a judge use such strong language. he releetedly called these police officers liars. he said he lied about their defense that he had assaulted one of the police officers, that the crowd was violent and threatening their lives. he said police lied about handcuffing him? that they should have known that in doing so, he would have been dragged and seriously injured. very damming words from the judge there. he also of course as well as that really dramatic mow bell phone video, and relied on the pathology. saying that he was assaulted in the police cell, kicked while h

south africa has outlawed canned hunting. that's when animals are shot in cages or tranquilized before being shot. president of the safari operation of zimbabwe his company organizes hunting trips which he says are a vital source of income. >> it helps 800,000 peoples directly. in terms of building of hospitals, education, schooling for the kids and sanitation. so we consider hunting as part of tourism which contributes directly to the livelihoods of those families here in zimbabwe. we pride ourselves quite significantly in terms of conservation efforts, and in terms of security we provide procedures around that control. we are trying to demonstrate how valuable hunting is as a conservation tool. not only in terms of providing economic livelihood [ inaudible ] in africa but also should be considered as part of an economic tool which really can upgrade and uplift the standard of life -- of living of people. >>> religious leaders in senegal are being urged to help solve a nationwide problem with plastic bags. they continue to l

he was born in south africa. we spoke to him at the hague many compared israel to apartheid south africa. >> i have lived through apartheid. i'm no hesitation in saying israel's crimes are infinitely worse than those committed by the apartheid regime of south africa. for seven years i visited the palestinian territory twice a year. conducting a fact-finding mission after the operation in gaza 2008-2009. i am from a he with the situation and familiar with the apartheid situation, i was a human rights lawyer and apartheid south africa. and i like virtually every sub african who visits the occupied territories has a terrible sense of dÉjÀ vu. we've seen it all before, except it is infinitely worse. what has happened in the west bank is the creation of a settlement enterprise has resulted in a situation that closely resembles that of apartheid in which the settlers are the -- they enjoy superior rights over palestinians and they do a press palestinians. one does have a system of apartheid in the occupied palestinia

south africa police are often accused of using excessive force. many say they don't trust them although that is unlikely to change with this verdict, at least one family has justice. but justice is not enough. >> we need compensation. >> there is a sense of relief over the guilty verdict. six moves before he was six the police shot dead 34 striking miners. and a month after he died seven police officers caught on cam tradition shooting protesters with rubber bullets. they had this message. >> by the end of the verdict, they are now in custody. the people who were supposed to protect are now convicted killers. al jazeera, pretoria. >> well, the executive director of the african immigrants caucus or aic, he joins us live from washington, d.c. thanks for being with us on the program. just how important are these convictions, do you think? >> i think they're very important. as mention, we have incidents of police brutalizing and killing ordinary people without being held to account. this is very welcomed. one hopes that this is the beginning of a new

. >> south africa will name its squad on friday and racial makeup will be heavily scrutinized. officials have been accused of not including enough black players. we have this report. >> south africa's biggest township soweto is officially football territory. slowly, rugby is making in-roads. this 12-year-old has played for two years. his interest is driven by the soweto rugby union. it wants to develop the sport in the township. >> i want to play and be famous. >> achieving his dream may not be easy. the local union said this is the only playable field. >> by the time you finish, who's going to play in those facilities? because there's no support for programs or for events to take place. >> the spring box are one of the best teams in the world, but their recent performances have been overshadowed by criticism that the team does not have enough black players. >> the spring box won their second world cup in 2007 with just two black players on the squad. now as the box prepare for next month's championship in england, the rails debate has resurfaced, with the current squad having

he is in south africa studying abroad. now the search is on to try to find him. george washington university officials say upton a junior was studying abroad in south africa and was traveling in a break in classes. officials say upton has not been seen sunday night while swimming in cape province. local officials in capetown are conducting a search and are coordinating with the program representatives there in south africa. the family as well as the u.s. embassy. the community here at g.w. is praying for his safe return. >> i lived in south africa. it is pretty crazy. i don't know where he was, but that is tough. especially in the wildlife area. brianne: this is the first day of classes here at g.w. a lot of students getting in the swing of things. some heard of this and others had not. coming up at 5:00 what the fraternity is saying about this. reporting live, brianne carter, abc7 news. jonathan: thank you. tonight president obama calling for urgent action to tackle climate change. he left this morning with john kerry, secretary of state. he and the president wi

. ♪ a thorn in the side of south africa's government and faces corruption charges. flooding brings uncertainty to thousands in myanmar and gift of life and meet the sisters who gave up a piece of themselves to save their father. ♪ iran nuclear deal with wars in syria and yemen and the complicated relationship between the united states and the middle east all on the table at a high-level meeting here in doha. we have the leaders of the gulf cooperation council, long time allies of the united states and rivals with iran. saudi arabia is leading the coalition against houthi rebels in yemen. united states and secretary of state john kerry architect of the iran nuclear deal and sergei fedorov one of iran's closest allies and russia is a defender of russia president assad and here at the meeting in doha and important topics and what do you hear about what is suspected and fears of the g.c.c.? >> crucial gathering indeed jane, the americans are not trying to sell the iran's nuclear deal to the g.c.c. saying this is something that is going to curb iran's nuclear ambitions

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still, several southern african nations rely on south africa for up to 80% of their maze imports. >> neighboring countries have to buy maze at a much higher price because we link to the international market. if there is a drought, there is not enough, it pushes up our process. >> while those countries receive most of their supply, it's added additional pressure on an already struggling south african maze industry. >> thousands of dead fish have washed up on a river bank near the site of last week's explosion near tianjin. the government denies it's caused by chemicals from the blast. officials say tests for the chemical were negative. >>> police in denmark released surveillance video as part of a global search for two art thieves. the man with the broken nose, was stolen from a copenhagen music in july. a security camera picture showed two men taking it in broad daylight. it's worth $300,000. >>> a british street artist unveiled his first show in six years. he convertedded a swimming pool into a thought provoking art, dismal land. >> the castle looks vaguely familiar. the attractions

in south africa and generally has a very strong art language, so we do not live in isolation, and we are not far terms of the materials we use, the media, or even the themes we explore. i think having a space like this where art from different parts of the world or different parts of the art hasse been collected so far his house is really going to be an eye-opener. the museum, which is expected to become a major draw for tourists in south africa, will open next year. that brings today's show to an artistic close, but you can find much more on our website. thank you for watching. have a great weekend. >> funding of this presentation is made possible by the freeman foundation, newman's own foundation, giving all profits from newman's own to charity and pursuing the common good, kovler foundation, pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs, sony pictures classics, now presenting "irrational man" and mufg. >> it is a global truth. we can do more when we work together. at mufg, our banking relationships span cultures and support almost every industry across the globe. because succes

africa when he -- and he was somebody who traveled with ashe to south africa, and he took some slack for that because he was a white man, and some are wondering why he would hire a for his career, and he would point to causes, so dell was one of them. when he was married in the late jeanne i think his wife took on that role, but beyond that, stan smith was a great friend of his. together andrds would travel throughout vietnam together, traveling to africa together, and there is a story with stan smith, he is an africa, and ashe is being mobbed and cheered by the month, and they were in tanzania, and smith saying,ing there everywhere we go, i am like the evil, white person, and he said, we go to thehen deep south, you can be the great white hope. he had a very good core group of people. cliff drysdale. he got along fairly well with >> thank you all. thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer bank you are

. ♪ >>> we start, though, this south africa, eight police officers have been found guilty of the murder of a taxi driver in 2013. the 27 year old was videos struggled with police who then tied him to the back of a van and dragged him behind it. he was accused of parking illegally. we'll take you live to our correspondent who can tell us about that a little later. >>> in the meantime, though, let's go to yemen. the red cross is suspending aid operations in aden after an attack on its office. the group says that armed men looted equipment and money. all local and foreign staff are being withdrawn. it says it hopes to resume operations if the security situation improves. the city has been under pro-government control since july when houthi rebels were forced out of it. well, there's more fighting in other parts of yepmen as hashem ahelbarra reports. >> reporter: an anmorred vehicle is hit by a rocket. this is the southern saudi arabia province along its border with yemen, where houthi fighters say they launched this attack to target saudi troops. [ explosion ] >> reporter: fighting has als

south africa follows tomorrow, and the racial make-up will be scrutinized. a long-standing point of controversy, officials have been accused of not including enough black players. we have this report. >> south africa's biggest township is football territory. >> slowly, rugby is making inroads. >> 12-year-old has been plays for two years. his interest is driven by the soweto rugby union, it wants to develop the sport in the township. >> i want to play rugby very much. i want to play for the springboks, go to london in different places. i want to be famous. >> achieving his dream may not be easy. a local union says it's the only playable field here. >> you kill the support. by the time you develop the facilities, who will play, because there's no support for events to take place >>> the idols, the springboks, are one of the best teams in the world. the recent performances have been overshadowed by criticism that the team does not have enough black players. the springboks won the second world cup in 2007. with just two black players on the squad. now, as the bo

south africa released its second quarter gdp and about two hours time. this on a day after the rant tumbled to record lows and stocks sink.and vernon joins us from johannesburg. expect the gdp numbers to come out at .6% for the second quarter. that would be the lowest pace of growth since the three months in 2014. that underlines that the president's struggle to reignite growth in the economy which has been hampered by a lack of electricity supply and also strikes in labor disputes in berries industries. at then: when i look rant, it is a brutal chart. exporters in south africa, when do i start to see that become a benefit? appreciated 4% against the dollar in the last five years and we have not seen that translate in manufacturing or export gains. what that means is that the economy is struggling to grow. with the rant at these levels, it pushes the risk of interest rates going up. ratesill make interest the highest since 2010. and companies are already struggling with high levels of debt. at the same time, it increases the dollar interest payments that

so procter & gamble alone with half a billion dollars with south africa ament nigeria but i would say competitive challenges that they stem from operating in developed markets just like if we all looked out the window to think the rest of the world thinks like we do we actually are abnormal for the rest of the world with traffic, the urban cities of though world operate very different purpose 7/8 - - what i see them struggling with is they are working the way they always have worked and one of the vintages from india or china but they have villages in their own countries so they are used to that messiness of rapid development. we reduced to that in the 1890's but it has been a while. >> but for two generations so can you talk about those challenges? >> what do i say? [laughter] but there are lots of little challenges and to power through them and the question ended say good one to stop and think about it as they come from different countries they are funded it ubique is with balance sheets. the american accompany has a balance sheet of loan reading the of rules are a little bit differ

she said everything done in south africa is legal. just because we hunt them doesn't mean we don't have respect for them. >>> delta airline is banning the shipment of many big game trophy. schimpf lion -- shipment of lion, tiger,el fans --el fans as freight. >> the death of cecil the lion touched the create of of the benny baby. they will create a sisel the lion beanie baby to raise money for animal conservation effort. she hopes the toy will give comfort to those saddened by the loss of cecil. the money will go do the wild life conservation research units in england. >>> a south bay hotel is showing off the newest staff member, a robot named dash. the robot is three-feet tall, 100 pounds and makes sure guests have everything they neat. >> dash is robot is sought off santa clara and is serving customers in millipedees. the hotel claims dash will serve amenities to the hotel guest. the robot three-feet tall, weighs less than 100 times, it can navigate between floors and call the elevator using a wifi connection. the rest of the employe