Jacob zuma to step down as south africas president but hes staying on for now. Iraqs Prime Minister says the war against. The battle for reconstruction must begin. Facing a lengthy jail term if shes convicted in an Israeli Military court. Competition for new yorkers some to europe instead. And im far as. Other star has burst on to the scene at the Winter Olympics seventeen year old american snowboarder chloe can win gold in the Womens Health i will have that and more from china. South africas ruling a. N. C. Party has formally asked president jacob zuma to step down the partys sector general says he expects zuma to respond on wednesday if zuma refuses to go it could face a vote of no confidence in parliament the secretary general says must now become president after taking over as leader of the party in december. The president of the a. N. C. Must be come to kind of the day. For the presidency overcome. Their own liberal havent we i didnt wish is this kind of this where we saw a light and it is a call for is not learned the lessons of old to come and i see where we did this war it was city we terms of always going to be ready to go out of their lives we can do what you can see the disputes really did this get. In between. Will who collect your vote that is the believe that indeed the president s of course on the table of the presidency. I mean to mina has janice back. While the a. N. C. Has decided to recall jacob zuma from office its not clear when exactly the president will give his resignation the a. N. C. Has said that its giving him time and space and hasnt given him a deadline now this hasnt helped to decrease the amount of confusion and uncertainty around what exactly has is happening the a. N. C. Has been dealing with the recall of jacob zuma internally this is a process that has been happening for a couple of weeks now we do understand that it would appear that jacob zuma might have resisted resigning the a. N. C. Has come out to say that in principle jacob zuma had agreed to resign but there seems to be an issue around the period over which that will happen jacob zuma had asked for perhaps three to six weeks or three to six months rather before he steps down the n. C. Says this is too long and has to happen over time a shorter time period but as of africans are becoming increasingly impatient and for straighted sitting on the sidelines of watching a process that they have little influence over given that the a. N. C. Has very much wanted to deal with the removal of jacob zuma as a Party Opposition parties have pushed for a vote of no confidence scheduled to take place later in february they want to move forward to this week they say they have no faith in a parliament that has an African NationalCongress Majority saying that this is the party that has protected jacob zuma throughout all these allegations that hes faced with allegations and scandals they Say Parliament should be dissolved and snap elections called in one thousand days. Or seumas nine years in power have been overshadowed by controversy and economic problems he survived eight no confidence votes in parliament most recently in august last year in twenty sixteen a court ruled that zuma should face charges of bribery relating to an arms deal dating back to nine hundred ninety nine is also being accused of accepting outside influence to make government decisions and cabinet appointments by the gupta is a wealthy indian born business family now living in South Africa Zuma and some of his family members along with the group has are being investigated on charges of International Money laundering zooms also accused of using twenty three Million Dollars of government money to renovate his private home which included a new Swimming Pool he later paid the money back following a public outcry. To talk more about all of this some joined now by ben payton whos head of Africa Research at the Risk Consultancy maple cross thanks so much for coming to talk to us and so initially the idea of being recalled as the party puts it. It doesnt have any weight constitutionally does it and so legally theory could get around it is that is that your interpretation thats right or has no legal force is purely an a. N. C. Matter it doesnt compel zuma to resign legally but it was it does show is that his position now politically is impossible his own party has turned against him and what would you think youll do anyway expecting his hand out his or his response to that recall on wednesday what do you think he will say well i think hell he maybe will continue to play for time hes done that very effectively over the past few weeks all he can really do now is prolong the agony for himself i think some point there will be a very its of no confidence in parliament unless he refuses to resign. And weve heard about those investigations into into corruption and interestingly since he became leader of the n. C. A. A. In december and oppose it has been seen very much removing those on i suppose thats good in terms of his leadership but it might set him up against a quite a powerful lobby within the a. N. C. Who are friends of zuma absolutely thats one of the key dynamics around imposer is going to have to face once he does take over as president hes clearly got to move the economy in the right direction and part of that is through tackling corruption to help shore up Investor Confidence thats very difficult to do politically and so many powerful people within the a. N. C. Have been accused of corruption and are going to zuma what do you make of the fact that the party in the end it is divided has come up with this with this consolidated position to say look he needs to go it does that signal that actually pose it has the upper hand and he could potentially sort of come out in this with a kind of functioning presidency and then be able to win an election ram opposes done very well in consolidating his power. For the a. N. C. Over the past two months theres no doubt about that he seemed to win a very narrow victory there now two months later he has pretty much unanimous support within the a. N. C. For removing zuma ass about does bode well but he still has to keep one eye on the fact that he does have a pain in sweden and he doesnt want to alienate them completely with just over a year to go before elections and patient thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thank you for the us if your state has warned that the end of combat operations against eisel doesnt mean the fight against the group is over Rex Tillerson made the comments was speaking at the Global Coalition to defeat eisel in kuwait has called for members to step up commitments to stabilize parts of iraq and syria that used to be and i still control to listen also says the u. S. Has pledged two hundred Million Dollars for syria the United States and the Coalition Forces are working with us to defeat isis to control thirty percent of the syrian territory and control a large no amount of the population control or large amount for syrias offer your so i think in terms of this observation that the u. S. Has little leverage or role to play or simply because iraqs Prime Minister hyderabadi told a conference that rebuilding cities is the governments next aim. Military operations are over and we have total victory over ourselves terrorism we must remember all of the states who have been supporting us in this battle. The war is over but now we have a new battle a battle of reconstruction and rebuilding samis a down has more from the conference in kuwait. The International Community managed to Work Together to achieve a military objective defeating eisel on the battlefield now theyve got to figure out how to hold together the International Coalition in achieving some nonmilitary goals we heard the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson today say dont forget this these lands which have been taken off of vice all are not rehabilitated they might fall right back into isolates hands again thats part of the problem whos going to provide the one hundred billion dollars that iraqs Prime Minister for example says he needs in order to get the job done not a lot of people lining up to volunteer that level of cash so far who provides the security on the ground again secretary tell us in saying its very important to provide security for communities that are no longer eisel control of the americans so far have been working primarily in syria with the syrian kurds now turkish allies dont see that the kurds should be the ones to fill that vacuum left by i saw they call those groups backed by the u. S. Terrorists they accuse them of being allied with the p k k a Kurdish Group in turkey which is been known for things like putting bombs in shopping malls then there is this the issue of course of political inclusiveness everybody agrees thats a good thing but the devil is in the details iraq is going ahead for example with elections in may two and a half million of the population many of them suddenly remain displaced thats a challenge how do you create inclusive government in an environment where a big chunk of your population cant even take part in elections still to come on the aljazeera news hour twenty years in jail for the friend of south koreas former president at the center of a massive corruption scandal. The founder of wiki leaks loses another appeal to have his arrest warrant thrown out hes still in londons Ecuadorian Embassy. Then i have a catheter and all eyes are on caroline with the arcade to see if she can build on her straining an i pad six that. Egypts former anticorruption chief gainer has been detained and i know has recently spoken out over the arrest of some a are not a former military chief of staff last month he was detained after revealing that he would run in the upcoming president ial election several Rights Groups have criticized egypts upcoming president ial elections saying that it is impossible for a free and fair vote to take place charles traffic reports this is egypts former anticorruption chief. Speaking hours before he was arrested. I had hoped at a party to be given to the chief of staff sami and then to give a testimony freely and without intimidation for the record so that all things come clear before the public can even have been increasingly critical of the c. C. Government since Egyptian Police arrested the former military chief of staff. Last month and then was arrested after announcing he would run against president up to fertile c. C. In the upcoming president ial election could mean a war and that top secret files would be released if a man was harmed in any way is his testimony or her say or supported with evidence hes in possession of documents and evidence which is not kept here in egypt you mean out of egypt yes could these pieces of evidence change the course of trials of course no doubt could they incriminate many yes give me his daughter says hours later thirty Police Officers stormed his home in cairo before leading him away. Analysts say the egyptian president is targeting anyone who could risk his chances of a second term in the march plus that he need to say with a secret documents exist or not president sisi isnt taking any chances i dont know what it is that would be so scandalous that it would be frightening to them but it could also cause that hes right in from other perspectives of making other people or trying to. Pressure on the government and if you know if it starts. Down or arrested and its fine and. Yet theres i mean theres no real its formality international and regional Rights Groups say there is no chance the march alexion will be free and fair Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of jurists see ccs government has suppressed freedoms arrested potential candidates and their supporters several other president ial hopefuls have either dropped out or being pushed out of the race in recent weeks these include Muhammad Anwar sadat the nephew of former leader anwar sadat he withdrew in january saying it was to protect his Campaign Workers from intimidation or arrest and the former Prime Minister ahmed shafik tweeted his withdrawal from the race earlier last month that was after he was deported from the United Arab Emirates where he had been living in exile should fix lawyers say he was arrested as soon as he landed in cairo egypts military said in a statement beginning his comments raised suspicion about the state and its institutions and that the matter would be referred to the relevant authorities to start Legal Proceedings guinean a had been among a mans top Election Campaign aides now they are both in jail just weeks before an election which president sisi says he will win. But aljazeera. Or the store and it said going out to buy d. Whose research is the middle east and north africa for Human Rights Watch he joins us from auto i thank you for being with us so what do you make of this latest arrest in the in the run up to the egyptian election. Well thank you for your time and for hosting me here. I think the Egyptian Government has crushed all basic freedoms that are linked to peaceful that are linked to free elections. I think. Egypt is party to several international and regional covenants and treaties that stipulate very clearly that free and Fair Elections are really tied to very basic rights especially freedom of Assembly Freedom of our situation and freedom of speech these these freedoms in egypt are almost not nonexistent over the last three or four years. Just to take to mention a few examples of freedom of speech there are scores of journalists who were sent to prison or persecuted for solidly for doing their job twenty of the twenty of them remain in jail at the moment according to the committee to protect jonahs if youre talking about freedom of Association Many of the leading human rights activists in the country are travel banned their assets are frozen their work under severe intimidation the new engine all o. That was issued by president sisi in may two thousand and seventeen effectively. Penders these organizations from any effective or meaningful monitoring of electoral process if we are talking about the right to free gathering or simply i think we have seen dozens of protesters over the last few years either being should and killed and brought this or taken to jail and served prison sentences solidly for processing and so you guys in there you said i saw a serious case there against the government in egypt but your organization and various others are calling for more International Pressure in the run up to these elections but yesterday we had a visit from to listen to egypt he didnt raise the issue or you said he didnt criticize the elections i was very careful to say that he thought it should be free and Fair Elections everywhere but he didnt wasnt critical of egypt in particular how likely is it that you will get any more pressure if People Like Us and im not prepared to speak out against whats going on in egypt. Exactly mr thompson was in egypt yesterday he avoided talking about the elections and only mentioned when he was asked by a drone that is about his comments and he just like give a very generic answer of that didnt three to raise any concerns or criticize the Egyptian Government for their own doings we think that the international egypts friends and allies their silence reading encourages the Egyptian Government to go ahead with. With their operation of civic space and all basic rights and the. In this statement we call on these countries to halt all security if that could be used to. Stifle peaceful dissent and internal. You know opposition. We hope. That these comforts radiative view the stance of egypt that was based on. The allegation or the claim of the different government that the egypt is in democratic transition because these. Measures and violations happening ahead of the president ial history to show that even the last three meaning again of the january uprising is being eliminated right now which is peaceful protests and. Thank you very much need to feel thoughts and subject the Us Ambassador to the United Nations says main mosque of mint is preventing the u. N. Security council from traveling to retire in state to witness violence then lets go straight to the u. N. Headquarters in new york where we speak to our diplomatic editor james bay so james what else is nikki haley been saying. Well nikki haleys strong comments part of a Security Council meeting an open meeting on the situation in myanmar she spoke after she heard from the eye commission of refugees speaking from geneva and another senior u. N. Official who both talked about continuing threats and intimidation of the remaining ringler Community Inside me and my they said that they felt at this st