Supporters of jacob zuma its very hard to find real supporters ofjacob zuma even in his former stronghold, its hard to find supporters now. Well look at a legacy of allegations of corruption. And we are here talking to willian from the black eyed peas about a range of issues. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories and as always really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The bbc has learned that the commonwealth has begun considering who might succeed the queen as the head of the organisation. Our reporter Caroline Davies is here. First of all, what is the commonwealth . Its a group of 53 countries, some of them used to be british, colonies, some of them have no ties to britain at all, the language mostly used as englis
Shared challenges and what has been developed in the face of fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the hadnsland premier, who i the pleasure of meeting during my travels to australia. She will tell us about what is innovationenslands a, in what role you see the United States playing in that. Good morning. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and lovely to hear from our Prime Minister. We have a lot of opportunities to work cleverly together and share ideas. This is my fourth visit to the United States as premier, and every time i tried to visit a new state and a lot of the ideas i pick up i take back to queensland. We have a very diversified economy and we have a program called advanced queens land, which is a fund in which we are investing and business development, industry attraction , in scholarships, especially for women, to allow women to , and ivolved in research am also proud that in my cabinet we have 50 women as well. It is a world firs
Gentlemen, i want to pivot the conversation to hear from our australian counterparts. Workingitment to together beyond this dialogue is critical to the growth and development of our state of economies. Increasingly, across our two countries, we have seen hurdles and opportunities to Economic Growth created by new innovation. Today with my fellow governors andthe australian premiers chief ministers, we are hoping to learn from our peers on different approaches to these shared challenges and what has been developed in the face of fastpaced changes. So now, i want to turn to the hadnsland premier, who i the pleasure of meeting during my travels to australia. She will tell us about what is innovationenslands a, in what role you see the United States playing in that. Good morning. Good morning. It is a pleasure to be here with all of our counterparts and lovely to hear from our Prime Minister. We have a lot of opportunities to work cleverly together and share ideas. This is my fourth visit
[background noise] [background noise] ladies and gentlemen. We are about to begin. Your seats and silence all cell phones and other electronic devices. [background noise] [background noise] as we mentioned, state governors from across the country are meeting in washington, d. C. Well be covering their meeting this morning and throughout the day, the National Governors association will host panels to talk about jobs, the Opioid Crisis, and the future of agriculture. We will be getting underway in just a minute. Governors and distinguish guests. Guests, pleased rise for our National Anthem of National Anthem, which is being performed by a distinguished a Cappella Group from st. Marys high school. Nal anthem] [applause] please be seated, everyone. Good morning. Im brian sandoval, the governor of nevada. To washington, d. C. And the 110th meeting of the National Governors association and lets give another big thank you to nothing but trouble, who were pitch perfect. A big hand for them. Ma
And also the inspections direct inspection to stop them not to obtain nuclear weapons. This iswe would hope for more than this. Thats not just afternoon but all of the middle east. That is this agreement. So what have you achieved, especially other issues we have discussed in syria yemen and regarding these steps steps especially those reasons of terrorism. Since the crisis started in syria, we will always in contact with our friends and our friends in the United States. Todays meeting is to complete the other meetings which have taken place with the gcc countries, and and also to be present in order to discuss the syrians syrian dosier and find a solution so the solution cannot be military. It had to be political. We talk with our friends also in russia. I think i was asked this a few minutes ago but i can be more specific. We agreed to expedite arms sales that have taken too long in the past. We have agreed to engage in very specific training to upgrade military capacity of the regio