Piron im also ahead rebuilding iraq its the last day of a conference in kuwait to rebuild the country devastated by war. Israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu says nothing will calm of a police recommendation that he be indicted on corruption charges. What we have seen so far is cruel and barbaric to top it off they have the gall to blame the media the United Nations steps up the pressure on government over the crisis. We begin in south africa where police have raided the home of a prominent business family with toys to president jacob zuma and one person has been arrested the roads around the home of the family in johannesburg have been sealed the area has been designated a crime scene president zuma is under investigation of alleged corruption linked to the family well hes accused of being influenced by the group those to make government decisions and cabinet appointments and some of his family members along with the guptas being investigated on charges of International Money laundering and thats just one of many corruption accusations against the south african president hes been linked to bribery of a mind to ninety nine. He was also accused of spending twenty three Million Dollars of money to renovate his private home money he has since paid back well lets get more on all of this now were joined by correspondent fahmy the minute shes live for us in johannesburg firstly family the what can you tell us about the police raiding of the home and one arrest were hearing now. Elizabeth we understand that this raid began in the early hours of the morning and its come as quite a shock for South Africans because essentially its something theyve been waiting for for several years now given that these allegations have been swirling around the group does for some time now this investigation we understand is linked to a dairy farm project in the in the in the freestate province here in south africa we reports indicated in investigations havent uncovered a scam essentially this farm that was supposed to assist poor farmers supposed to empower quote farmers money was used through the local government was siphoned through this farm to pay for a family wedding of the good of this money was laundered wired to buy this issue around the script a wedding goes back to twenty thirteen when the gupta as it were given permission to land a private aircraft at a military air base here in south africa they were always murmurs around the group does what their relationship was to is and was to president zuma and his family the influence they might have and the influence they might have on government decisions even if he the posting of ministers to cabinet positions in the country so this raid and these arrests we understand has been at least one is really important and the timing is is is significant given that jacob zuma has been recalled by the African National congress we are course waiting for resignation from him but this really is quite monumental given that the president has been protected by the African National congress for the longest time and in that way the group has evolved also stayed away from any sort of a rest or mass of investigations and we are expected to hear from president zuma soon family there. Well elizabeth we are waiting to hear from president jacob zuma at some point during the day the African National congress had said he would respond to their decision that he would be recalled theres been a lot of speculation around whether or not president jacob zuma will actually resign this recall by the end see only then you know becomes effective once that happens as a process needs to be followed the a. N. C. Is also having a parliamentary caucus meeting and. Speculation is that it could possibly be around the next step if jacob zuma decides not to resign and that would of course involve parliament a possible motion of no confidence in the president the other option for the a. N. C. And for the country would be impeachment the n c up till now has said it has no plans to do that they appear confident that jacob zuma will resign but theres just so many unknowns and we are really waiting for word from the president all right father thank you very much for that for now thats funny the men are joining us live from johannesburg and we will of course be going back to her for any developments on the story thank you. Lets move on to other news for now and organizers of a summit in kuwait aimed at reconstructing iraq are expected to announce just how much money has been raised a senior iraqi official says up to one hundred billion dollars is needed after the defeat of eisel the u. S. Has already agreed to a three billion dollars credit line to baghdad now separate his state Rex Tillerson is calling on other Coalition Members to help out iraq to clear victory of ice in the december after a three year war some is a there are reports from kuwait city. Displacement is a cold world a life where the only warmth is the smile of your last surviving child and i have the smiles wife and two of the children were killed in a u. S. Led Coalition Air strike in two thousand and four his house in ramadi turned to rubble now have been near camp is the inhospitable host of these unwilling guests these are the people the u. S. Secretary of state told a conference of the n. T. Eisel coalition not to forget. Countries manage to work. Together to achieve a military goal defeating eisel on the battlefield but now that that phase is over comes perhaps an even more challenging one how do you keep an International Coalition together in achieving the next three key objectives reconstruction on land recaptured from i saw political inclusiveness and security but who will stop isis return and provide security americas top diplomat says Ground Forces a crucial but his own troops have already started to draw from and in syria washington has mainly relied on Kurdish Forces to fight i saw forces turkey is fighting ankara views the missing plane another terrorist group that cant be allowed to fill the vacuum. Young the ship must we have seen some very serious mistakes and wrongdoing from our ally the United States our relations are at a very critical juncture we will either mend our relations or they will break apart completely assignment wasteland of destruction is nonetheless the subject of a noisy argument over who protects it both tillerson and iraqs Prime Minister are urging attendees at a reconstruction conference to help iraq rebuild what. The war is over the battle for reconstruction has just begun and our invitation to invest in iraq is a real invitation but who will come up with the one hundred billion dollars are bad he says is needed to listen maybe urging the private sector to commit its cash but his president was busy describing money spent in the middle east is a waste of a couple of months ago seven trillion dollars in the middle east and the middle east is far worse now than it was seventeen years ago when they went in the children of have been in a camp know what far worse looks like all they want is to go home and a real shot at a peaceful future samis a down aljazeera kuwait. And these are live pictures from kuwait city where were expecting to hear from both the kuwaiti amazed and the iraqi Prime Minister but lets get more on this were joined by. Now very good to have you with us on aljazeera as always messed about it. Why of the massive discrepancy so far between the some one hundred billion dollars needed and that iraqi officials are asking for and just a few billion that have been pledged do you think its not uncommon to have a gap between what is requested whats plagued but i think what we see here is that its a huge. And the number of reasons that have combined over the last few months i think which lead to a degree of suspicion as to how. Feasible is a treaty to invest in the reconstruction of iraq at this particular moment now everyone agrees on the need to do it but there are many many concerns some of those concerns have got to do with the nature of the iraq state the state fragility is a problem and of course there are kids have tried to reassure everyone that they are gaining control over their territories you know they pushed against the kurds in the north and other measures but the bigger issue is concerns are around issues of corruption and securities and corruption the iraqi document does talk about a number of measures that theyve promised to undertake that they have started undertaking and so on but it hasnt really gone far enough to encourage the International Community to come forward particularly this time when theyre talking about the private sector taking that he the private sector requires a much much clearer idea about how youre going to counter corruption we have had six. Series of very important aspect that they still have to demonstrate that their government is inclusive enough their strategies are it was enough to bring the sunnis into the fall to really address the root causes of what has driven and have allowed isis to thrive for such a long time but as the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson himself has pointed out. Iraq as a rebuilt its now the same forces that took control over the last ten years and you know led to al qaeda and iraq becoming the Islamic State and the devastation was seen now unless we rebuild the country of these forces can come back can they not. Of course hes right but theyre the United States politics in particular does not seem to go in that direction or supporting his rhetorical around undermining isis and radicalization there that hes absolutely not an ample one is you know the same day they announced winning a war against. Trump announced their goodness and of jerusalem as a as a capital of israel now thats going to create a huge wave of for the collaboration across the middle east whether he likes it or not and even in the conference theyre focused very much is on syria not on iraq their commitment of quarter of a billion is to stabilize syria and by this really they mean the triangle across the euphrates east and north and that doesnt mean stabilization in their mind is about the military leading development in those areas can you stabilize syria without stabilizing iraq especially given the sort of the flow weve seen off forces between the two countries i dont think you can but the betting on iraq strengthening its Border Control of strengthening your state presence in the north and hopefully driving a division between iraq and syria again things that require a lot of money which has not been pledged so far but we will wait and see just what comes out of this conference but ill thank you very much. Thank you general think. But still ahead on the. Hundreds. Of responded to the incidents reported at australias offshore refugee. How has been the turn of the western med in the central med in the adriatic to turn stormy the last one thats been lost twenty four hours nascar across the adriatic sea hes cloudless rain with it into possible snow beyond that the next one is already forming in Northern Spain so overnight that will develop into a proper little system has sleet snow across the lowlands even in france including paris and then rain across the mediterranean through it today and thats where it sits jiri and wednesday that system ahead i was mentioning just now is by this time across what hungary in place left snow to remain here and ukraine where to start i think quite insistent plea on the next system comes in so come thursday there will be snow sweeping across germany and france and the output following that theres no chances to pass its twelve degrees a mild spell at the same time this house developed further south in the last one and its like pretty unpleasant weather for greece so were going to have wind rain and ready chilly weather clipping algeria tunisia and then developing rather more properly throwing winds through the gulf to see it catching the eastern side of libya and eventually probably cyprus as well but the Stormy Weather is certainly now mediterranean based. Good to have you with us on aljazeera and these are our top stories South African Police have raided the home of a prominent business family with ties to president jacob zuma and one person has been arrested the roads around the home of the gupta family in johannesburg have been sealed all in the area designated a crime scene of president zuma is under investigation of alleged corruption links to the family. Organizers of the psalmist aimed at reconstructing iraq are expected to announce the amount of money theyve raised. Iraq secretary general says up to one hundred billion dollars is needed following the defeat of i so declared victory over the armed group of december off a three year war. Egypts former anticorruption chief has been detained comes off that hed spoken out of the arrest of sami im not a former military chief of staff whod been planning to run and marches president ial election child stratford reports. This is egypts former Anti Corruption chief. Speaking hours before he was arrested. I had hoped in a pretty 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 Adoption Police arrested the former military chief of staff sami and last month and then was arrested after announcing he would run against president up to fattal sisi in the upcoming president ial election guinean a warned 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 given 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 they 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 threatening to them but it could also be that hes trying to disrupt regime from other perspectives of making other people or trying to. Pressure on their governments and if you know if it. Were but it was down well rested and. So yeah i mean theres no real its formality international and regional Rights Groups say there is no chance the march election 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 all being pushed out of the race in recent weeks these include Muhammad Anwar sadats 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 schiff weeks 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. Israeli part of the israeli Prime Minister says hell keep leading the country despite pleas recommending he be charged for corruption and bribery Benjamin Netanyahu is accused of accepting nearly three hundred thousand dollars and gifts from billionaire benefactors hes also suspected of backroom deals with a publisher of an israeli newspaper for favorable coverage the attorney general will now decide whether to pursue formal charges against him. The trial of a palestinian teenager charged with assaulting an israeli soldier has been adjourned until next month the judge has ordered the case be heard behind closed doors with seventeen year old to me was arrested in december after a video of her slapping and hurting Israeli Soldiers went viral she faces twelve charges and could be sentenced to up to ten years in jail a found guilty. The u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Nikki haley has accused of. Its minority for hendra Muslim Population a death sentence while the u. S. Is increasing pressure on me a lot to end violence against the revenger with senators pushing for more sanctions to be imposed on the army mike hanna reports from washington d. C. The plight of the rigging is highlighted in this exhibition on capitol hill around the table discussion on the crisis is joined by some of the senators who are adamant that the time has come for military leaders to be held accountable for the world documented abuse of iraq current state. This example right here on capitol hill well help bring to the american people. For us to help the Rohingya Muslims and to prevent in the future atrocities in our community we should speak out and and world the civilized world against the