Or intended this is the news hour live from london coming up the two main contenders battling to lead south africas a and c. But whoever wins inherit an increasingly divided party. Sebastian cortes becomes the worlds youngest leader as he agrees a Coalition Deal which brings the far right into austrias government. The seven words and phrases Trump Administration is now banned at the countrys Health Protection agency. And personal effects that tell a story of refugees who died on a dangerous new line crossing into europe. And im santa hummus with over the days sports as real madrid when the defeat Club World Cup but thanks to one nil when the over brazilian side graeme you know that and more later this next hour. South africas Ruling African National congress has been meeting to choose a new leader the current president jacob zuma is accused of corruption is stepping down as head of the a. N. C. But the party is deeply divided over who should succeed him the main contenders are former cabinet minister because on a meanie zuma whos also his exwife and Deputy President and prominent businessman cyril run a poser the winner will be announced on sunday and zuma has himself acknowledged that threaten the partys future. For the National Conference is taking place at a time when i was. At a crossroads. Why i did you find corporate. As. A serious threats to the a. N. C. We need to look at. Them reeks we. Are saying a closer look at the two clear front runners to replace zuma. Zuma is a former cabinet minister who has served under every leader since the end of apartheid with portfolios including health home and Foreign Affairs a former chairwoman of the African Union commission she has the backing of her exhusband jacob zuma her rival the Deputy PresidentCyril Ramaphosa is a veteran trade unionist who was closely involved in the negotiations to end apartheid in the one nine hundred ninety s. He was seen as Nelson Mandela a successor instead of a poser became one of south africas most successful businessmen or as a director of the mining firm lonmin he was criticized for calling for Police Action against striking miners at marikana in twenty twelve when forty four people were killed tanya page was at the conference in johannesburg. This African NationalCongress Elective conference opened with a warning by the current speaker of the house bill akin betty she said delegates shouldnt sing a divisive songs in support of one candidate or another and she also said no one should be throwing cheers thats because at the branch level the grass roots need to be live a live and see members some people have been hurling chairs across the room they have been pushing and shoving accusations of vote buying and intimidation and thats led to an unprecedented amount of legal action people who challenge the outcomes of those branch level meetings at which delegates chosen to come here and represent and a mandated by their branches to vote for one particular candidate or another president jacob zuma in his outgoing speeches and see president was critical of that legal action he said the agency should be able to deal with its problems internally and he said that by people going into the courts they were undermining the or farsi of the a. N. C. The president himself was no stranger to legal action he has at the moment hundreds of corruption charges hanging over him which could be reinstated if legal action launched by the main opposition the Democratic Alliance is successful and that is why many people believe hes trying to influence the outcome of this elective conference because if he manages to get an ally into power they may be able to protect him from any postpresident ial legal action but if a rival comes in they may be less inclined to help discuss this further im joined by martin plowed whos a Senior Research fellow at the university of london and joins us on skype from manchester what do you make of these two candidates who do you think is likely to come out on top. Thats the sixty four thousand dollar question and one that nobody that ive approached in the last days to come down on one side or the other i mean at the moment to be honest with you they were imposes slightly ahead because there were three court cases which meant that a number of branches that would have probably said supported these rumors were disenfranchised but then theyve been also allegations that the actual number of delegates in particular provinces have been packed and that theyre more delegates than actually were elected at Branch Meetings so whats happening now is absolutely crucial tonight right now there are very intense discussions inside the a. N. C. Behind closed doors about who has the rights to be a delegate at this conference and once that is decided in essence you know who is going to be the next leader of the a. N. C. But until we know who who is that who are the delegates who have the credentials to be there and the right to vote you have no idea whos going to win and what theyre different and theyve got fairly different visions that theyre promising how different would it be in south africa depending on who comes out on top. Well you know i suppose you might say that the super imposes rhetoric is slightly more business friendly. Appears a bit more radical but you know one shouldnt judge people by their kind of manifest as they put are they mean absolutely nothing the what really is going on is a struggle for power between two groups of people first of all those who are around jacob zuma and those who believe that he is utterly corrupt and go to destroy the a. N. C. But the two groups also represent particular strands in the ins hes history those people around zuma were essentially the exiles the people who fought apartheid from outside the country all with the Armed Struggle and the people around civil room opposed with the trade unionists the Civil Society activists who were in things like the United Democratic front which fought the police on the streets day to day they two very different groups and have a different kind of ethos the a. N. C. Exiles are much more disciplined sort of party hacks the people around or oppose up on more in a spirit of you know personal involvement and civic action its a different kind of ethos between the two people and that is also something it would be a transition would be the first time that an insult somebody who was fought the party from inside came to party for oppose against it why i mean terms of and see them in different ways either of these figures as car inspirational enough for the voters because the better theyre generally recently been looking as though theyre starting to abandon n. C. And there were some other big cities that are being lost for the first time in any instance history thats absolutely correct and the big problem for the a. N. C. Is this gradual feeling that no youre not doing anything for us you only look are to yourselves i mean according to an opinion poll it was brought out i think this week let me zuma has only a c. Sixteen percent support amongst the general public so are opposed to has a higher support but you know this is is going to come down to which of the delegates in the hall votes for four candidates and it is said that very large sums of money on are to change the hands of course one of the problems of the people with the money is that the actual those who the secret so who knows might take the money and vote one way we might might refuse the the money and vote a different way nobody has any idea which is why this whole process is so unpredictable its a fascinating thing and tomorrow sometime probably around the middle the afternoon we should know who the next president of the sea will be and then of course we need to know how the president of the sea will get on with jacob zuma who still remains the president of south africa so there could be a struggle between those two characters if they are if it is so room pose it was he screwed it will be at odds with jacob zuma if its let me zoom in she will probably be more on line with with jacob zuma its a fascinating battle white in plaid thank you very much indeed deaf ear and said thank you. A to mass graves containing the remains of dozens of iraqs yazidi minority have been found near the northwestern town of singe our ninety bodies have reportedly been found including women and children i saw took over us and our town in twenty fourteen killing and in slaving thousands of members of the religious Minority Group senior was retaken a year later by u. S. Backed kurdish fighters here in a declared the massacre has hedys a genocide. Funerals have been held for four palestinians killed by Israeli Forces during protests in gaza and the occupied west bank on friday they were rallying against the u. S. Decision to recognize jewish women as israels capital one was an activist who lost both his legs during an israeli air strike in two thousand and eight and fisher was at the funeral. Became in the thousands to say goodbye to a man and what he represented the. People he three a lost both his legs in a near strike during the two thousand in the gaza war he became an unlikely symbol of palestinian defiance and resistance. The twenty nine year old often went in his wheelchair to fly his flag at demonstrations and protests all over gaza he went on friday to the border with thousands of others to protest Donald Trumps decision to declare jerusalem as israels capital. Donald trump must reverse his decision jerusalem as the capital of palestine i call on all arabs to support the palestinians and if they dont we palestinians will do it ourselves. Ibrahim three it was flying his flag on friday when he was short and killed by the israelis that cannot get us to the very moment we helped them are to abraham in the wheelchair tear gas was fired at us and abraham was hit in the head he fell to the ground and was killed instantly by a single bullet to the head. At his funeral in gaza city hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the protesters death was not in vain you should know that you are he tried to protest despite his condition became famous all over the world and he is shaping the consciousness of the world two people were killed in clashes in gaza on friday for several hours and in seven places along the border palestinians protested. And rocks at israeli positions usually fire bullets and tear gas trying to force the thousands back from the border line hundreds were taken to hospital many suffering from the effects of gas and with other groups and factions here and guys are calling for more protests the people here are bracing themselves for more funerals in the days and weeks to come plus was alan fischer aljazeera. Protests have been a restraint to television for the third weekend in a row demanding the resignation of the Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu hes being investigated of a corruption allegations which he denies are a force it was at the protest and has all. These protests have been going for a year now against the corruption allegations leveled at the israeli Prime Minister but its really this month that they have intensified as people have been especially angered by a war that politicians are trying to put through the Israeli Parliament the knesset which many felt was trying to shield the israeli Prime Minister from the allegations against him so theyve been here on the streets of tel aviv again shouting shame shouting b. V. His nickname go to jail and also shouting for the corrupters to go home this is the third weekend to december to tell b. B. C. Scenes like this. Throughout december this is what saturday night in downtown tel aviv has looked like while International Attention has been on the latest crisis in the Peace Process with the palestinians and these protesters the focus is on domestic politics and the corruption allegations against Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu we dont want the corruption of the government in the state of israels autographed peoples to go home we are asking bibi toys during bibi must leave. On friday Police Arrived in netanya whose residence to question him for a seventh time one case concerns allegations he tried to manipulate Media Coverage in his favor and other centers on expensive gifts received from wealthy foreign business executives. The Prime Minister denies one leak from the investigation suggesting he and his wife requested expensive cigars and champagne when stocks were running low from hollywood producer on the strain billionaire james packer and others welcome to a promise that was already his lawyer has admitted what he calls netanyahu as weakness for wealthy people his wife sarah is awaiting indictment on a separate case involving alleged misuse of public funds they were seen as working very well together to hedonistically wealth wise again strange for israel not the kind of. Peace and tension that public leaders really would like to show theres increased scrutiny to regarding another case involving alleged corruption when german submarines were built for the israeli navy netanyahu is not a suspect and he hasnt been questioned but two of his closest and most Senior Associates have been detained Benjamin Netanyahu is insisting that when these investigations have run their course he will be proven innocent again on friday on to this latest round of questioning his spokesman quoting him said that he was more certain never that it would be true that there is no there there however the closer these investigations get to the final conclusions the more the political pressure is mounting on the Prime Minister of israel Benjamin Netanyahu. Still to come. Keeping light on the situation catamaran probing dependence demonstrators refuse to be silenced by spain ahead of next weeks Regional Elections. Palestinian businessman arrested in riyadh saudi arabias anticorruption drive appears to widen. And sport our habit he tells. Another. World cup title tackle actual. Austrias president says his country well lurch to the right despite the announcement of a new government featuring the far right Freedom Party thirty one year old sebastian courts who lead the more moderate Peoples Party will be the new chancellor of the Freedom Party will control several of the most important ministries report hes been nicknamed c. Or wizkid now hell be known as chancellor Sebastian Kurtz let the overpay Peoples Party to a thirty two percent winning share of the votes in the general election two months ago but to govern he needed a coalition on the far right f. P. O. Is his chosen partner in this stock if we have a good strong statement concerning my party the Peoples Party that will be women and two thirds of our team are experts who will bring a lot of knowledge to the Political Leadership regarding the Freedom Party and mr struck his team hes also put forward his suggestions so that the kids i mean if i hope this is about responsibility for our wonderful republic of australia and it is about ensuring good cooperation for the future too it can be difficult to tell them apart cuts in his conservative Peoples Party bills itself a center right but its policies borrow freely from far right ideas in january cuts demanded a ban on Public Sector workers wearing headscarves he was instrumental in having full face veils banned in austria too and his anti migrant policies slammed the door on Syrian Refugees trying to reach europe via the socalled balkan route. Its not the first time farai politicians have been government ministers in austria it happened seventeen years ago e. U. States reacted then by downgrading bilateral contacts the prospects in this coalition of the far right in charge of austrias foreign interior and defense ministries is likely to create concern in other european capitals yes senator graham party will get the lot of barry or minister. I have to add to the three things that so specially was respected in Foreign Ministry that woman who is supposed to become the ministry is not a party member. And what is more in court in the european perspective all the european policy agendas will transfer from the Foreign Ministry huge chancellorship other kurts not struck or have detailed the new governments approach to european policy cuts says he is pro european but the far right is traditionally euro skeptic dont forget austria will hold the e. U. Rotating presidency in the second half of next year paul brennan al jazeera. More and more refugees are attempting a new route into europe with deadly consequences if you are taking the old reach across the aegean sea to the greek islands of less boss and chaos where many have had to endure dire conditions now thousands are heading north across the land border from turkey into northe