when zuma was deputy president. and for more let's bring a journalist there who is standing by with the latest from cape town so tell us what does this mean now for jacob zuma. well that we'll finally get is the imports and i see a lot of south africans here on social media that are actually very happy about this this is actually a case as you said the case already goes back to the ninety's after that africa bought a lot of military equipment corvettes helicopter fighter jets and allegation is that zuma took about three hundred forty thousand u.s. dollars in bribes along status and that's where you know needs to go in front of the courts and then needs to be accounted for this is something that the opposition has been calling for for quite a while it's actually surprising that he's finally facing charges he's been shielded for so long in part by his own party of course is the opposition and in poland is just generally of zuma in the country are they likely to be satisfied though by by the scale of the charges now i

mr zuma has representations unsuccessful. mark webb has more from outside the prosecutor's office in pretoria. it began with a two billion dollars on the deal in the one nine hundred ninety s. a french company sold south africa fighter jet speedboats and other weapons allegedly according to prosecutors some people in south africa were paid bribes to make the deal go ahead including jacob zuma he's always denied it was through the charged with corruption in two thousand and five the charges were dropped in two thousand and nine prosecutors said they had audio recordings of conversations with richard suggesting that there was a philosophical meddling in the case with those recordings were never published and the opposition weren't happy they didn't think this was a valid reason to drop the case so they proceed it ever since in the course last year the high court ruled that the charges should indeed have not been dropped so that's why the prosecutor here has reinstated them today but also the change of leadership here in februar

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

when zuma was deputy president. and for more let's bring in journalist alice van gelder who is following that story for us from cape town welcome to you alice you know political big man like zuma they rarely have their day in court how much of a surprise is it that charges are being brought against him now. well these are actually were charges that are already on the table in two thousand and nine and at that stage to cross security i actually decided to abandon the case because he said that he thought that it investigators had a political agenda according to the prosecution then and it might have been the case that the allegations were brought against zuma because whom i had again visions to become a president and that they were there working and the supreme court last year in a set that's totally irrelevant it's totally irrelevant if the bar of political and he has to e.s.p. countable put it so it's not a surprise that that is reinstated today it's kind of part of a longer process that was already going on and thi

former south african president jacob zuma will face corruption charges. overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the you killed the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war the u.k. foreign minister blames president vladimir putin directly for ordering the poisoning of a former russian spy and his still. and i'm far as small have all the day's sport as a draw for the quarter finals of the champions league has been made to tom holders around the dribble faced eventis and a repeat of last season's final. affair warm welcome to the new say russian air strike on a besieged syrian enclave has killed sixty one people one planes hit a market in the town of kufa but not within rebel held east and kuta of the syrian government and its russian and it radio and allies launched an offensive to capture the area months ago which is driving out civilians in their thousands for the north turkish led forces are preparing to attack the city of a free with the un says forty eight thousand peop

zuma denies any wrongdoing. and russia's expelling british diplomats in a tit for tat rao over the poisoning of a former spy foreign minister sergei lavrov says it's in retaliation for the u.k. ordering twenty three russian embassy staff to leave the log british police have launched a separate probe into the death of another russian nicolette bush got in line. now egypt's foreign ministry is demanding answers after a teenager's death in the u.k. marion mustapha sustained severe head injuries in its heart by a group of young people in nottingham last month she died on wednesday and the heywood reports. well liked and bright my i'm a staff i had everything going for her a promising future she come to live in the u.k. from egypt and was studying engineering. you don't do anything for anyone so very. last month my arm was attacked by a group of young people in the english city of nottingham marion was taken to hospital placed in an induced coma but never recovered it was about eight o'clock at night when merriam boa

also on the show jacob zuma was forced to stand down as president of south africa last month i'll talk to his nemesis the anti corruption czar. about his fall from power and the future of the a.n.c. . common union crew thanks for joining me front it's been five months since hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory of puerto rico where you are the mayor of the capital city san juan right now what in your view is the single biggest challenge for people living on the island how bad is the situation there still. first of all mary thank you very much for the opportunity to continue to other viewers in the united states and around the world right now the aftermath of medea has if that had to summarize it has contributed to our social melt them suicide rates have gone up crime is at the same level that it was before madiao which just was at a high level still about thirty percent of the population does not have any electricity we have towns in the inner side of the island that have no electricity whatsoever and the reconstruction and transformation of puerto rico does not seem to get off

zuma denies any wrongdoing. russia is set to expel british diplomats in a tit for tat rao over the poisoning of a former double agent in england last week the farm and sergey lavrov says the expulsions are in retaliation for the u.k. ordering out twenty three russian embassy staff moscow continues to deny any involvement in the chemical attack but lavrov the u.k. counterpart boris johnson accuses president putin of ordering and self meanwhile a murder investigation is now underway into the death of another russian in the u.k. earlier this week business than it was found dead in a west london suburb on monday police have confirmed the cause of death was compression to the neck is death isn't believed to be linked to last week's attack in seoul spree and tens of thousands of slovakians have turned out to demand early elections the demonstrators are angry at the failure of political leaders to address high level corruption slovakia's prime minister robert feet so resigned on thursday following the killing of invest

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago, he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in rural nkandla. the current charges he is facing have nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship will with the controversial gupta family. the prosecuting authority said it has more than 200 witnesses lined up for this case. this is going to be a long and complicated trial. this is bbc news. the agencies say over 50,000 people have fled afrin in the last few days alone. syrian allies deny hitting civilians in their offensive against the kurdish militia who control the northern town. police have launched a murder investigation after the death of a russian exile in south—west london. nikolai glushkov had been a critic of vladimir putin. an iraqi teenager who smuggled himself into britain on a lorry to seek asylum has been found guilty of the london tube bombing at parsons green. 18—year—old ahmed ha

and prosecutors say this man jacob zuma was paid bribes to secure the deal. he was charged with corruption in two thousand and five but the charges were later dropped shortly before he became president zuma resigned in february and now south africa's prosecutor says the case is back on i am of of of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon after consideration of the matter i am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma and the charges listed in the indictment. charges one of several scandals that hung over as soon as nine presidency. here he's seen leading one of his many court hearings press in opposition accused him of handing control of parts of the state to private interest is always denied charges and accusations the prosecutors who work in this office drops the arms deal corruption charges against zuma the that he became president they said they had recordings of conversations that showed that there had been political meddling in

zuma. reporter: this case dates back to the early 1990's when the state pumpsed fighter jets, patrol boats and other arms in a ssive defense overhaul, now known as the arms deal. the charges relate to allegations that m zuma solised the brides for his person benefit there a french arms company through his financial advisor. sheik was tried and found deplingt of corruption backn 2005 but the former president has always maintained his innocence. this is what he told me when id as him about these corruption allegations back in t 2012. re's nothing to clear my name on, absolutely. nothing. i'm sure that is just politicking more than anythg. it's nothing. you know, there was onlyne issue that was raise some time ago, the arms deal issue and i was never even involved in the processes of trm deal. i was still a provinyl minister. so i never -- pvisual minister. so i never got involved. there will -- there were allegations. i have no corruption to clear. reporter: mr.uma is no stranger to controver

abandon the island one of his biggest critics mayor of san juan come and cruz also on the show jacob zuma was forced to stand down as president of south africa last month i'll talk to his nemesis the anti corruption czar. about his fall from power and the future of the a.n.c. . common union crew thanks for joining me on front it's been five months since hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory of puerto rico where you are the mayor of the capital city san juan right now what in your view is the single biggest challenge for people living on the island how bad is the situation there still. first of all mary thank you very much for the opportunity to continue to other viewers in the united states and around the world right now the aftermath of medea has if that had to summarize it has contributed to our social melt them so aside rates have gone up crime is at the same level that it was before madiao which is was at a high level still about thirty percent of the population does not have any electricity we have towns in the inner side of the aisle that have no electricity whatsoever and t

abandon the island one of his biggest critics mayor of san juan come and cruz also on the show jacob zuma was forced to stand down as president of south africa last month i'll talk to his nemesis the anti corruption czar. about his fall from power and the future of the a.n.c. . common union crew thanks for joining me on front it's been five months since hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory of puerto rico where you are the mayor of the capital city san juan right now what in your view is the single biggest challenge for people living on the island how bad is the situation there still. first of all mary thank you very much for the opportunity to continue to the viewers in the united states and around the world right now the aftermath of madea has if that had to summarize it has contributed to our social melt them so aside rates have gone up crime is at the same level that it was before madiao which just was at a high level still about thirty percent of the population does not have any electricity you have towns in the inner side of the island that have no electricity whatsoever and

in two thousand and nine jacob zuma came to power having sold himself to south africa as the people's president he promised to grow the economy fight poverty and create millions of jobs. nine years later and it hasn't ended well last month zuma amidst growing corruption allegations step down a south african president forced out by his own governing african national congress the liberation party voted for to party it and one of them. to the decision to resign as president of the power within the bank. his links to an influential billionaire business family the captors were revealed last year in a mess of paradise paper style data leak the cooked leaks appear to reveal how these three brothers a.j. are tall and rich who are friends with former president jacob zuma and in business to one of his sons set up a vast network of patronage offering monetary rewards in return for political loyalty to zuma. so hard trenched is corruption in south africa we are someone who know a businessman who pays bribes to put in government tenders he spoke to us on condition we hid his identity there's an ex

zuma denies any wrongdoing as malcolm webb reports from pretoria. it began with a two billion dollar deal between south africa and a french arms company in the one nine hundred ninety s. . these fighter jets were part of it. and prosecutors say this man jacob zuma was paid bribes to secure the deal he was charged with corruption in two thousand and five the charges were later dropped shortly before he became president zuma resigned in february and now africa's prosecutor says the case is back on i am of the view of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon after consideration of the matter i am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma on the charges listed in the indictment. charges one of several scandals that hung i resume as a nine year presidency. here he's seen leading one of his many court hearings press in opposition accused him of handing control of parts of the state to private interest is always the night charges and

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago, he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in rural nkandla. the current charges he is facing have nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship with the controversial gupta family. the prosecuting authority said it has more than 200 witnesses lined up for this case. this is going to be a long and complicated trial. milton nkosi, bbc news, johannesburg. three african countries that are home to the majority of the continent's elephants have signed a petition asking britain and the rest of the eu to ban the legal trade in antique ivory. at a wildlife summit in botswana, the country's president said a complete trade ban would help protect the remaining elephants. 0ur africa correspondent alastair leithead reports from botswa na. botswana is the last sanctuary for africa's elephants. half of the animals left on the continent live here and on its borders.

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago, he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in a rural location. the current charges he is facing have nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship with the controversial gupta family. the prosecuting authority said it has more than 200 witnesses lined up for this case. this is going to be a long and complicated trial. milton nkosi, bbc news, johannesburg. about a dozen people are reported to have been injured after a ski—lift ran out of control in the caucasus mountains in georgia. video footage of the incident in the gudauri ski resort shows a chairlift apparently moving in reverse, pulling skiers back around the pulley to the start of the lift. as it malfunctions, the cable doesn't stop and the chairs start smashing into each other. several skiers try to jump off the moving lift to avoid the pile—up. a local mayor said the lift stopped in a po

in two thousand and nine jacob zuma came to power having sold himself to south africa as the people's president he promised to grow the economy fight poverty and create millions of jobs. nine years later and it hasn't ended well last month zuma amidst growing corruption allegations step down a south african president forced out by his own governing african national congress the liberation party voted for to party it and one of them. to the decision to resign as president of the power within the bank. his links to an influential billionaire business family the captors were revealed last year in a mess of paradise paper style data leak the corrupt leaks appear to reveal how these three brothers a.j. are tall and rich who are friends with former president jacob zuma and in business of one of his sons set up a vast network of patronage offering monetary rewards in return for political loyalty to zuma. so hard trenched is corruption in south africa we are someone who know a businessman who pays bribes to put in government tenders he spoke to us on condition we hit his identity there's an e

zuma denies any wrongdoing as malcolm webb reports from pretoria. it began with a two billion dollars deal between south africa and a french arms company in the one nine hundred ninety s. . these fighter jets were part of it. and prosecutors say this man jacob zuma was paid bribes to secure the deal he was charged with corruption in two thousand and five the charges were later dropped shortly before he became president zuma resigned in february and now africa's prosecutor says the case is back on i am of the of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon after consideration of the matter i am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma on the charges listed in the indictment. charges one of several scandals that hung i resume as a nine year presidency. here he's seen leaving one of his many court hearings press in opposition accused him of handing control of parts of the state to private interest. in ways the night charges and accu

mr zuma has representations unsuccessful. the director of public prosecutions because imma tell will facilitate the necessary process is for mr zuma and his coke used to appear in court lastly an application for the permanent state of the prosecution of mr zuma has recently been filed in the cape high court. in geo. i along with the national prosecuting authority. had been cited as respondents in this matter. i've been struck to the state attorney. to brief senior counsel to oppose this application. members of the media ladies and gentleman. concludes today's announcement thank you for coming. so we join that and progress but basically that is the chief prosecutor in south africa saying that his department will pursue charges against former president jacob zuma specifically in connection with alleged corruption over an arm steal and also he has already notified jacob zuma of this before that press conference we will gather much more reaction to that and more details about this prosecution that will happen against the former p

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in a rural location. the current charges he is facing have nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship with the controversial gupta family. milton nkosi, bbc news, johannesburg. let's get the weather forecast with philip avery. the story of the weekend is a winter ‘s tale, back when if you saw any spring warmth of late, forget about that, snow and ice and potential disruption and it starts as early as tonight as the band of snow gradually tumbles from the eastern side of scotland and the north—east of england into the southern half of britain, wintry showers are plenty as a night—time temperatures rarely away. it is a raw start to saturday and i am showing you the snow showers only, no cloud. the white is the snow showers and perhaps something more continue in the side for a time. and it will feel so

and some people have been josh even zuma's often hapn. the of peopleho being ashot strong allegations authority in rebels as canada day offeo that. being accused of corruption as well. so it's it's. at the moment aro because it is kind of for canton providing until elections next year have adf corruption hanging over their heads. okay well thank you so much for sharing that with us. lethal of the voucher and at the is the chief security saris in. pretoria thank you very much indeed. if you're in france the former lead singer of the rock group no while disease is a back in the headlines beth home called dar was released from prison bactw e serving a four year sentence beginning of his girlfriend. will now freeman he's been embarking on nationwide tour disposables alison sergeant now explains. is not exactly receiving a red carpet welcomes everywhere he goes. even outside every concert venues since is for began. protesters french musician. should be back on stage after serving time in prison for killing his girlfriend. former front man of r

up a vast network of patronage offering monetary rewards in return for political loyalty to zuma. so hard trenched is corruption in south africa we are someone who know a businessman who pays bribes to put in government tenders he spoke to us on condition we hid his identity there's an expectation that they need to get something. for them. or just think it's a stomach that bribe is then transferred to an intermediary then the intermediary company either transfers it to another company and bronzes of the corrupt or it's funds for the offshore trust. is not in the fort or. in some parts of the country corruption is so imbedded it's not become a deadly business. to tell for example zoomers home province. they've been over two hundred politically motivated killings in the last four years. because he caused a former politician left the party last year in protest to corruption within its ranks she's been targeted ever since i was receiving death threats on a daily basis and my children were also being way to receiving death threats as well for killing she says i'm a need you to turf war

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago, he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in rural nkandla. the current charges he is facing has nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship with the controversial gupta family. milton nkosi, bbc news, johannesburg. the reason may have been a... it comes the reason may have been a... it comes at a transport secretary chris daly said there would be no border checks at dover when britain leads the eu next year. chris grayling last night reassured the question time audience in dover, saying gridlock would not because by laurie delays in a post—brexit britain. we will maintain a free—flowing fraud at dover. we will not impose checks on the port. it was utterly unrealistic. —— we will maintaina was utterly unrealistic. —— we will maintain a free—flowing port at dover. lorries are checked here every lorry bound for a non—eu country has t

zuma denies any wrongdoing. and tens of thousands of people have joined anti-government protests in slovakia they're demanding an early election to end a political crisis triggered by the murder of journalist. top prosecutor is warning federal authorities would investigate the death of a popular rio city councilor if the local police don't perceive the case aggressively mario franco was shot on a wednesday night and what the president's calling an assassination the thirty eight year old had repeatedly criticized police violence and a hoax to reports. despite the music and dancing this is not a happy occasion classed as brian streets of sao paolo to mourn the murder of prominent politician once described as a timeless social warrior the biggest marches were in her hometown of rio de janeiro where tens of thousands of brazilians gathered outside the city's council this is the woman whose killing has provoked such outrage marielle franco the thirty eight year old councilor has become a voice for gay and black right

this is d w news live from south africa's former president faces trial jacob zuma is to face charges of fraud racketeering and money laundering the chief prosecutor believes there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution and we will be live with the latest from cape town. also coming up tension in germany's new government the interior minister says that islam does not belong in germany but chancellor angela merkel has previously contradicted ham and british foreign secretary boris johnson says it is likely that russian president vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on a former spy and for ten. plus despite years of controversy of the niger delta is still nigeria's one of its most polluted regions in the world in a new report amnesty international accuses oil giants shell of and any of responding to oil spills to supposedly we will look at why so little progress seems to have been made. welcome to the program thanks for joining us south africa's chief prosecutor has announced that he is charging former president jacob zuma with corruption the ruling a.n

mr zuma is no stranger to controversy. two years ago he was ordered by the highest court in the land to repay some of the public money used for security upgrades at his private residence in a rural location. the current charges he is facing has nothing to do with his latest corruption scandal, involving his relationship with the controversial gupta family. milton nkosi, bbc news, johannesburg. one in four council—run secondary schools in england is running at a loss, according to new research by the education policy institute. the proportion of schools in deficit has nearly trebled in the last four years. the government says it doesn't recognise the report's findings, and is putting an extra £1.3 billion into schools. joining us now from devon is head teacher paul gosling, who is also a local secretary for the national association of head teachers. mr gosling, welcome. it seems there isa mr gosling, welcome. it seems there is a particular problem with this in the south—west of england. why would that be the case? well

abandon the island one of his biggest critics mayor of san juan come and cruz also on the show jacob zuma was forced to stand down as president of south africa last month i'll talk to his nemesis the anti corruption czar. about his fall from power and the future of the a.n.c. . common union crew thanks for joining me on front it's been five months since hurricane maria devastated the u.s. territory of puerto rico where you are the mayor of the capital city san juan right now what in your view is the single biggest challenge for people living on the island how bad is the situation there still. first of all mary thank you very much for the opportunity to continue to the viewers in the united states and around the world right now the aftermath of madea has if that had to summarize it has contributed to our social melt them so aside rates have gone up crime is at the same level that it was before madiao which this was at a high level still about thirty percent of the population does not have any electricity we have towns in the inner side of the island that have no electricity whatsoever and

and south africa's former president jacob zuma is set to face prosecution on. and sixteen corruption charges causing you to say thank you counts of fraud racketeering and money laundering. let's discuss this and more now with some of the kenny has a policy and political scientist at university of south africa he joins me from pretoria via skype thank you very much for speaking to us how difficult and are tracked and do you expect this trial to pay well i do think that it's going to be difficult and protracted. almost as. if you do have witnesses which drew on the witnesses for the state the defense may bring just as many witnesses so it's likely to be a long drawn. you know try. do you expect it to last several years how drawn out could it be. it will hold on the weather for macos the access to resources or whether the state made cover some of these defense but if it doesn't have as many of these sources to bring the best lawyers and basically to delay the process than we can expect it to laws be true in a year and two years. do you expect that to be new eviden

when zuma was deputy president. and for more let's bring in journalist alice van gelder who is following that story for us from cape town bookham to you alice you know political big man like zuma they rarely have their day in court. how much of a surprise is it that charges are being brought against him now. well these are actually were charges that were already on the table in two thousand and nine and that seems to cross security i actually decided to abandon the case because he said that he thought that it investigators had a political agenda according to the prosecutor and then it might have been the case that the allegations were brought against zuma because whom i had to be ambition is to become the president and they were just playing and working and. the supreme last year in a set that's totally irrelevant it's only relevant if they are political and he has to in the s.p. countable put it so it's not a surprise that that it's reinstated today it's kind of part of a longer process that was already going on an

weapons deal mr zuma resigned last month after losing the support of his party the a.n.c. zuma his lawyers say they will challenge the case against it if found guilty he could be sentenced to prison. the white house says president donald trump a strongly denies having an affair with adult film actress stormy daniels this a day after she said that she had been threatened and told to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with a truck she received a one hundred thirty thousand dollars payment just days before the presidential election was a night spain's most wanted fugitive is back in jail as he waits to hear whether a german court will allow him to be extradited cattle on separatist leader carlist bridge to mom was detained on sunday while traveling through germany to get to belgium where he's been in self-imposed exile he's wanted by spanish authorities over his role in catalonia unauthorized independence. pushed the most attention has ignited anger in catalonia supporters of the former leader brought traffic to a standstill near the region's border with the rest of

agent attack on a former double agent we'll get reactions from moscow and london also coming up jacob zuma faces trial south africa's chief prosecutor says he'll charge the former president with corruption in an arms deal but a lot to capetown. one of the biggest german initial public offerings in decades as siemens spins off its health care business. plus outrage in brazil of the murder of a popular politician in rio de janeiro tens of thousands of people take to the streets to protest the outspoken critic of police violence was gotten down by unknown assailants. and michelangelo's frescoes in the sistine chapel are brought to life in the new high tech extravaganza even though that it can be approves. i'm sumi so what's going to thank you for joining us well it is another salvo in the standoff between russia and western allies over the poisoning of a former double agent in britain and remarks made a short while ago british foreign secretary boris johnson said it was likely that russian president vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on circus grip all and his daughter l

they were filed, but then dropped shortly before zuma ran for president in 2009. south africa's highest court reinstated the charges in 2013. in brazil, there have been vigils held for marielle franco in what is being called a political assassination. spanish]ing in reporter: these demonstrators have taken to the streets in remembrance of malarial franco, an outspoken critic of police violence who was murdered on wednesday. she was a victim of the violence she tirelessly worked to end. >> we are not going to allow this to continue. marielle is here. marielle is here. woman, ana black activist who had firsthand experience with the violence that had ravaged the area. she grew up in a complex of slums in northern rio where the militias were inn control of the streets. but she became a leading voice against police violence and scored the fifth highest vote count in 2015. politicalrs expect a assassination. >> the characteristics are those of an assassination. inadmissible.tely reporter: the councilwoman felt that comes weeks after the federal government gave thehe all

zuma was deputy president at the time and he was linked to the deal through his former financial advisor who was jailed for corruption zuma denies any wrongdoing nigeria has the largest economy and population in africa but nearly half of its people live in abject poverty three years after democratically elected. president the list changed one year before the next election many are demanding action mohamed valve reports from the capital of. the next election is not until february next year but nigerians are already debating it campaign messages inspired newspaper headlines and opinion columns at opposition headquarters the faces of potential rival candidates to president mohammed to hurry on show their subtle east one confirmed challenger in september a sovereign state governor announced his decision to stand in two thousand and nineteen others including some within the ruling party are impatient to know if he will seek reelection that those who have a space ship whether he wants the presidential to make his position known if you're going to wrong that i will help you to make up my mind t

for the slaughter of white people at least not yet despite that the country's former president jacob zuma described him as being a future leader the rate of murders and violent attacks on farmers and landowners has risen in recent years according to official figures seventy two percent of the country's farmers are white early we've put this issue up for debate. people do not own land in south africa legally white people out of ideas from europe in six inches to two they killed our people they stole our land all oppressed us all the land they have his land up there was taken from us by force and in many instances by my success we all visit the shirt every king proving there was the blood type of south africa that came from the north that is well documented. even thank you for

zuma denies any wrongdoing and malcolm webb reports from the torah. it began with a two billion dollar deal between south africa and a french arms company in the one nine hundred ninety s. . these fighter jets were part of it. and prosecutors say this man jacob zuma was paid bribes to secure the deal he was charged with corruption in two thousand and five the charges were later dropped shortly before he became president zuma resigned in february and now africa's prosecutor says the case is back on i am of the view of the view that a trial court would be the most appropriate forum for these issues to be ventilated and to be decided upon after consideration of the matter i am of the view that there are reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution of mr zuma and the charges listed in the indictment. charges one of several scandals that hung i resume as a nine year presidency. here he's seen leading one of his many court hearings press in opposition accused him of handing control of parts of the state to private interest is always denied charges and a

slaughter of white people at least not yet despite that though the country's former president jacob zuma has described him as a future leader the rate of murders and violent attacks on farmers and landowners has risen in recent years in the cording to official figures seventy two percent of the country's farmers are white earlier we put the issue up for debate. people do not own land in south africa legally white people out alive from europe in six inches to two they killed our people they stole our land all oppressed us all the land they have his land there was taken from us by force and in many instances by my success we all visitors to south africa including there were the blood types of south africa that came from the north that is well documented. thank you for the land and the position of the black tribes that only the first occupants of south

the former president of south africa, jacob zuma, is to face prosecution for alleged corruption. mr zuma denies the 16 charges, which relate to a multibillion—pound arms deal before he took office and include counts of fraud and money laundering. the father of a female engineering student allegedly attacked by a group of women in nottingham has called for "justice" for his daughter. 18—year—old mariam moustafa died on wednesday, nearly a month after she was assaulted on a bus in the city centre. the case has caused outrage in egypt where mariam's family are from. nottinghamshire police says there is nothing to suggest it was a hate crime, though they are "keeping an open mind" the clothing chain topman has apologised for any offence that was caused, after criticism that a t—shirt it had been selling could be seen to refer to the hillsborough disaster. the red top, which has now been withdrawn from sale, has a large 96 on the back, is being interpreted by some liverpool fans as a reference to the number of people who died in the 1989 disaster. topman say the design was ins

loyalists to some jacob zuma in the cabinet at present. whether that will be the case is still to be seen. it can be used as a way of gesturing to the business community itself, saying that we you now ousted a man who said and thought was really key to the corruption story in south africa. vonnie: thanks, reporting from johannesburg. just to reiterate, the rand at 11.9 to the u.s. dollar now. let's get to first word news now. hasor: boris johnson escalated the dispute between the u.k. and russia. johnson says it is overwhelmingly likely that vladimir putin personally ordered the nerve agent attack on a former russian spy in england. the common cause that remark inexcusable. the u.k. has ordered that 23 russian diplomats be expelled. russia is likely to retaliate against british diplomats. the white house denies a report that president trump has mcmaster.. the president has made the decision to remove mcmaster, but according to the paper, he wants to make sure mcmaster is not humiliated and that a successor is lined up. special counsel robe

the only functioning hospital in kurdish controlled a frame so that because former president jacob zuma is facing prosecution for corruption the charges against him include fraud racketeering and money laundering over a two point five billion dollar arms deal signed in the one nine hundred ninety s. denies any wrongdoing. brazil over the death of a popular politician has been a second night of protests in rio de janeiro. city council mario franco was shot on wednesday in what has been called an assassination. those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after witness nowhere to hide. in the chain. of. command in no way how can one get any. help at home we don't eat. the big energy whatever you do initially what i mean i don't know what you want to do you make sure the only thing is you have it down look for what it is you know what yeah i did. i don't like it at all. but that much there getting to the bottom of anything i like i don't know what it is but. the. mental side of the. mother son such. love the slot machines my system. of the law. without the political. power. i.

south africa's former president, jacob zuma, has been charged with corruption — a month after he was forced from office. mr zuma denies the sixteen charges which relate to a multi—billion—dollar arms deal completed in the 1990s. the french arms manufacturer thales has also been charged. the father of a female engineering student allegedly attacked by a group of women in nottingham has called for "justice" for his daughter. 18—year—old mariam moustafa died on wednesday, nearly a month after she was assaulted on a bus in the city centre. the case has caused outrage in egypt where mariam's family are from. nottinghamshire police says there is nothing to suggest it was a hate crime, though they are "keeping an open mind" sima kotecha reports from nottingham. 18—year—old mariam moustafa, an engineering student in nottingham. her family are from egypt and came here for a better life. her sister and father described her as loving, cheerful and intelligent. mariam was always looking at, looking forward to being in engineering. she was a hard worker. she always put all her effort

their real experience fighting yet and we will talk about that outside help more definitely but mr zuma let me bring you now so they've had of course suffered losses but they've also proven on the set anniversary of the saudi led intervention in yemen that they capable of hitting so is saudi arabia secure well i think in terms of like. the truth is nearly two thirds or four of the young men none of the one from the whole of these and in terms of. making the whole of these only come to tell it's important to control the capital but they lose. said they lose most of the land and. they lost most of the their cup abilities in terms of. weapons. that doesn't mean they didn't get so many missiles from iran to launch to saudi arabia in order to send different messages to saudi arabians and to the arab politicians do to the outside world and to the yemenis inside to the supporters inside to say that we are strong we are we are still strong we are still able to send to launch missiles story out to different cities inside the saudi lands so yes in some aspects we can and so many governors provinc

former president jacob zuma has been charged with corruption. and an outpouring of grief over the death of a popular politician brazil's president calls it an assassination. and the. fifty thousand people to leave syria's eastern about sixteen thousand have fled the rebel held on five just over the past two days there has been under heavy bombardment since the government stepped up its offensive there and february on friday at least sixty one people were killed in strikes and shelling by the syrian government and its ally russia further north at least twenty one people have been killed in a freeness turkish forces trying to take the town from kurdish fighters turkey launched an offensive in january to remove the kurdish. militia buffer zone along its border turkey considers the group a terrorist organization the assault has forced tens of thousands of people to flee let's go to alan fischer who's near the turkish syrian border. let's let's pick up there with efraim allen where are these people going and has there been any more of a response to t

zuma denies any wrongdoing tens of thousands of people have joined anti-government protests in slovakia demanding an early election to end the political crisis triggered by the murder of a journalist. and the president of cyprus says he's ready to resume peace talks with the breakaway northern region nicos anastasiades told our jazeera he would jump at the first opportunity to discuss the issue with the north's leader moustapha kenja russia's poised to expel british diplomats in a tit for tat round over the poisoning of a former spy foreign minister sergei lavrov says the expulsions are in retaliation for britain booting out twenty three russian embassy stuff due to leave on tuesday u.k. foreign secretary bars johnson has accused president putin of ordering last week's attack on a former russian spy our quarrel is with putin's kremlin and with his decision and we think it overwhelmingly likely that it was his decision to direct the use of a nerve agent on the streets of the u.k. on the streets of europe for the first time since the second world war that is that is why we are at odds wit

zuma denies any wrongdoing. russia is poised to expel british diplomats in a tit for tat rao over the poisoning of a form of double agent in england last week the foreign minister sergei lavrov says the explosions are in retaliation for the u.k. ordering out twenty three russian embassy staff moscow continues to deny any involvement in the chemical attack but lavrov counterpart boris johnson accuses president putin of ordering it himself meanwhile a murder investigation is now underway into the death of another russian in the u.k. earlier this week businessman nikolai bush gov was found dead in london on monday police have confirmed the cause of death was compression to the neck it's not believed to be linked to last week's attack insoles free bush called was a close associate of prominent putin opponent boris berezovsky is found dead in the u.k. in two thousand and thirteen an iraqi teenager has been found guilty of attempted murder for planting a bomb on a london train last september eighteen year old ahmed ha

because malcolm zuma says he's innocent what's next. well now this will begin court proceedings some of the people who've covered this for a long time we were just speaking to a short while ago outside the press conference they think that basically there's still a long way to go there will be a lot of resistance from zuma challenging everything that can possibly be challenged in the court but nonetheless. they say that this is still a great step forward the people who have been campaigning for this some of the opposition parties and so on saying this is the first time that a south african former head of state is going to stand trial for corruption and they say that this is the beginning of of bringing some finally some accountability for all of the corruption scandals that played. welcome way up there from pretoria malcolm thank you. some bob weighs president emerson and jaguar says robert mugabe is free to express himself but the country's moved on it was responding to criticism from the gobby who declared mom and dad was president the

and sub based in switzerland mr zuma has denied any wrongdoing. i. can hear discussed sanctions that the president has placed on argentina and he's what he's done is he has actually put a ban on the petro the petro is the crypto currency used for several things it's including gold oil and diamonds and it's based it was supposedly going to help the argentinean economy grow out of the sanctions of the u.k. u.s. placed on earlier and away to join us now the currency and futures expert from simpler trading is rajeev horner well she thanks for joining us what do you make of the late breaking news on the sanctions thanks for having me on to be here these very way then as well and petros cryptocurrency story is an interesting one because it was it it's a fascinating way that mature us trying to backdoor the cross border transactions that he knows would not be allowed under the current sanctions but it opens the door up to what russia and iran might do in response. right now you know they've also talked about doing crypto currency but does this say something

and sub based in switzerland mr zuma has denied any wrongdoing. and here discussed sanctions that the president has placed on argentina and he's what he's done is he has actually put a ban on the petro the petro is the crypto currency used for several things it's including gold oil and diamonds and it's based it was supposedly going to help the argentinean economy grow out of the sanctions of the u.k. u.s. placed on earlier and away to join us now the currency and futures expert from simpler trading is rajeev horner well she thanks for joining us what do you make of the late breaking news on the sanctions thanks for having it's an honor to be here the these very well then as well and petros cryptocurrency story is an interesting one because it was it it's a fascinating way that madeira is trying to backdoor the cross border transactions that he knows would not be allowed under the current sanctions but it opens the door up to what russia and iran might do in response right now you know they've also talked about doing crypto currency but does this

zuma denies any wrongdoing. illegal applications been filed in australia against me and. she's in sydney as part of a special asean summit of southeast asian leaders lawyers are attempting to prosecute her on charges of crimes against humanity in relation to the treatment of me and. those are the headlines talked to al-jazeera is up this is really an attack on itself is a lot of misunderstanding of what free speech is supposed to be about the context of hugely important setting the stage for a serious debate up front at this time on al-jazeera. the. political position in the mediterranean but it's been a big dispute. the republic of cyprus is controlled by greek cypriots and is recognized by the international community in fact it became a member of the european union in two thousand and four the northern part of the island is ruled by the government of the self declared north in cyprus. it's recognized by turkey and guarded by its armed forces. the conflict has gone through many ups and downs but things escalated recently when the turkish navy blocked access to an italian

and sub based in switzerland mr zuma has denied any wrongdoing. i. can hear discussed sanctions that the president has placed on argentina and he's what he's done is he has actually put a ban on the petro the petro is the crypto currency used for several things it's including gold oil and diamonds and it's based that was supposedly going to help the argentinean economy grow out of the sanctions of the u.k. u.s. placed on earlier and away to join us now the currency and futures expert from simpler trading is rajiv horner well she thanks for joining us what do you make of the late breaking news on the sanctions thanks for having me on to be here these very way then as well and petros cryptocurrency story is an interesting one because it was it it's a fascinating way that majoris trying to backdoor the cross border transactions that he knows would not be allowed out of the current sanctions but it opens the door up to what russia and iran might do in response right now you know they've also talked about doing crypto currency but does this say something