Jacob zuma says hes being victimized by his own party as the a. N. C. Piles on the pressure to step aside. The this as violent and dangerous a moment as i need to see in my time a chilling report card on the situation in syria the uns special envoy briefs the Security Council in new york. Billions of dollars are pledged to help iraq rebuild after i saw it but its far below whats needed. Im joined again by the way a days sport shaun white makes snowboarding history at the Winter Olympics but just to see thinks of his third gold medal the american also angers the meteor movement by. South africas embattled president jacob zuma has broken his silence over the growing calls for him to resign in a forty five minute Television Interview zuma called the instruction from his party the African National congress to step aside unfair because he says hes done nothing wrong as soon as been given an ultimatum by the a. N. C. Resign by the end of the day or face a vote of no confidence he says theres no evidence hes done anything wrong. Its the first time i have the feeling that the leadership is unfair is not given helping me to understand what is it that is so good to go. Its just so you know must just go you must have got a problem with. It does not run. But in all the time and theyre not defying im not different ive said no i dont agree i dont agree with the decision from in a minute joins us live from johannesburg so he says hes not defiant what do you think hes going to do its really not clear what jacob zuma will do hes always been a very unpredictable but we do know hes always been a fight even if you look back to scandals criticism over the time in the presidency jacob zuma has always come out fighting and hes always also looked at himself as a victim blaming any difficulties on political conspiracies or blame it on his enemies so what is done this afternoon really is no surprise for many south africans and i dont think hes come out as terribly convincing but rather as grasping at straws to stay in office still we are expecting jacob zuma to make some sort of statement at some point this evening we dont know if there will be a written statement if youll appear on the street broadcast again because even that appearance earlier today was a surprise just all of it is seems to be a mystery around jacob zuma and what will happen next but we do know that the African National congress is now going to use a motion of no confidence there was actually brought by an Opposition Party theyll use that motion in parliament on thursday to get zuma out of office this appears to be you know one of their only remedies in the situation because despite jacob zuma saying hes not being defiant he has refused until now to leave office and in the meantime investigations have been carrying on into potential corruption talk us through whats been happening with that. Well the pressure certainly increasing around jacob zuma and his associates at least five people we understand at this point were arrested when there was a raid on the residence of the gupta family here in johannesburg now this is an immigrant family that has strong ties to jacob zuma they have long been accused of using their relationship with zuma to benefit themselves and thats with regard to government contracts as well as even the appointment of government ministers and and Government Policies that have been put into place and it jacob zuma and his family have come under strong criticism for some time now so those arrest took place and that was in relation to an investigation about a round a dairy farm in the free state province that was supposed to assist farmers but money from that project was instead siphoned off into businesses owned by the good and one of those companies are also has jacob zuma son as a shareholder so we are expecting more arrests these people who have been arrested already are due to appear in court also on thursday so it does seem that. The move to have jacob zuma removed in parliament is just the beginning of his troubles because we are also expecting the National Prosecuting authority next week to decide if it will reinstate charges around corruption allegations that go back all the way to two thousand and nine so certainly difficult times ahead for jacob zuma having to miller thank you very much lets take a closer look at how the group to family ties into the corruption allegations against zuma shallot palace takes a look at just who they are. Twenty five years after immigrating from india to brothers a. J. And brijesh one of the richest families in south africa they went from success to success with investments in media energy air travel mining and technology they first met president jacob zuma more than a decade ago one of the Company Events wasnt long before several xoom as well working for the govt is but their relationship didnt become controversial until the go to strew a luxury waiting in twenty thirteen and chartered a plane with more than two hundred wedding guests to an air force base that is reserved to state dignitaries it was a National Scandal about the same time allegations surfaced that they had pushed president zuma on certain ministerial appointments allegations that guptas and zuma denies i am in charge of the government im in charge i point. In terms of the constitution there is no minister who is the here who was appointed by the does. The accusation stuck the National Ombudsman published a three hundred fifty five page report on the mess around twenty six doing its title state of capture the kind household term the normally media shy go tos had little choice but to respond. Lobbyist marcus to capture. As far as concern of their army friend only. Going to do to me as a friend of the people that being met office what all of the panelists explain and understand that captured is that. When you are taking any advantage of anybody a. J. Good to say at least them two percent of their business is government related the image was talented now with the arrests of several members of the gupta family many will be looking to see how this case will impact the president. Of more than some done by Bobby Fletcher south africa analyst at Security Consultancy firm control risks thanks very much for coming in so weve got this sort of odd situation where a president zuma has spoken for forty five minutes and said these are nothing wrong and yet we still dont know if hes actually going to resign as his party wants him to do or not whats your expectation of how this is going to play out. At the moment hes refusing to resign this could be a game of brinkmanship but it looks most likely that it will go to a no confidence vote the ruling African National congress has said that they will hold this vote in Parliament Tomorrow and they certainly have the numbers for the opposition parties have already tabled motions like this so they will support it and see deputies report it also and the difference between the previous no confidence which they have been some in the past and this time is that the that the bulk of the a. N. C. Is no longer as much behind him as they were is that what you is that exactly since in december you had the n. C. National conference where. The Current Deputy president was elected president of the and c. And therefore next in line for the presidency effectively the party is now very keen to unite behind him to tackle some of these corruption issues that all putting off voters and zuma as an electoral liability and what we just had to know is that came in this this afternoon from the a. N. C. And i believe that mention for instance the court ruling that zuma was reckless when replacing the former top prosecutor in their reasons for supporting the no confidence vote because in the past hes managed to escape the corruption allegations in some ways hasnt he so do you think thats all part of the n. C. S. Anti corruption drive that we are seeing and arrests and unprosecuted looking into cases in the past have been been pushed aside exactly i think its important to note the scale and number of allegations against zuma not only then can the use of public money to prove his and cons the homestead but theres also seven hundred eighty three counts of corruption against him currently going through a Legal Process that date back to an arms deal in the ninetys and theres the recent investigations around the group that is alleged they captured him using his ties to benefit them so the a. N. C. This is causing a lot of public anger and you have an election coming up in two thousand and nineteen and the answer is very keen to be seen to take a hard line against this before. The election and on that do you think theyre going to be able to do enough to think sirena poza can cast himself as this of leader of the n. T. Corruption angle in order to win back those a. N. C. Supporters you are disillusioned the way things are going so i think theres clearly some quite deep rooted problems that have taken hold in south london this culture of corruption within the n c its its pervasive right down to the lowest levels of government youve had state institutions that have had their independence on the mind youve had state owned companies which have racked up massive debts and obviously the economic challenges do not get turned around overnight but having said that run poza can come in and provide this level of policy carty that has been lacking and that will encourage investors and secure some big wins and he can make some symbolic moves around getting rid of a lot of ministers that have been implicated in a lot of these crops and scandals and he wont solve everything in time for the elections but there will be certain kind of low hanging fruit that he can walk but of effect i thank you very much live coming to talk to thank you. The u. N. Special envoy for syria has been briefing the Security Council on the Current Situation there and his update was a grim one stuff under mr a said the violence is the worst hes seen ive been out for years especially in boy did it as violent and worrying and dangerous a moment as any. In my time of day in your full far therefore i strongly rate to rate the appeal of this to all concerned in syria and the region and beyond that to this collate immediately and unconditionally and urge all stakeholders including the ground to use their influence to help reduce violence. Our diplomatic editor james bays is one in Development Set for us at the u. N. Headquarters in new york so again some strong words from the de mistura giving thats going to carry any more weight than the others have been calling for a cease fire for things to improve in in syria i dont think there is any prospect of that cease fire any time soon having just heard from the Russian Ambassador this was a Security Council meeting that was supposed to talk about the political process but was dominated by the grim military situation the ongoing onslaught of east and globe where the special envoy said that civilians were being killed in a horrifying way in fact he said over a thousand in the first week of february alone of course we have the turkish offensive around freeing we have recent developments like the u. S. Airstrike on assad troops near their resort and we also have the involvement of the israelis taking out targets in syria including iranian targets more and more countries and nations involved in a spiraling military situation certainly the french ambassador was deeply concerned all the ingredients are present if we do nothing about it urgently for a major. Regional and international confrontation and james given that sort of prediction where are we with the the uns Peace Process. Remember this is the geneva Peace Process where we were at the end of last month was that sort she conference which was obviously russian organized and the u. N. Grabbed one part of that which was the idea to set up a new committee to look at the syrian constitution a new constitution for syria even though that was a russian proposal weve heard the Syrian Ambassador to the u. N. Bashar al assads. Here in new york saying that its not for mr de mistura to choose the members of this committee which was specifically what was outlined in sochi making his efforts look of this latest proposal look already dead before theyve started he was speaking to reporters the special envoy a short time ago i put these points to him and whether it was time for him now to call out the Syrian Government for his for their obstruction he said no he remains a diplomat and diplomacy is his only way forward when it was put to him that his efforts had really failed already on trying to get this committee together he said his job is not an easy one but there is a small amount of good news with aid getting into it in good health the First Time Since last november. And given the desperation of the situation there any bits of aid is absolutely vital but it is worth remembering this is just one convoy and the people need that who are that need a great deal more than that and of course nice and good that is not the only besieged area in syria the u. N. Obviously welcoming this one convoy but privately u. N. Officials and diplomats saying they believe its somewhat cynical of the Syrian Government to allow one convoy in just before this meeting weve seen this pattern before when theres been a big set piece meeting at the Security Council the Syrian Government just before the meeting allow a little bit of an aid in to try and reduce the pressure i think at the Security Council meeting james face thank you very much. Much more to come on the news hour including colombia calls for help to deal with hundreds of thousands of venezuelans crossing the border to escape economic hardship. More than one year on and britain remains deeply divided on bricks it but foreign minister Boris Johnson insists its an opportunity for us. Our new wellings of the Winter Olympics simply young child now be unified korean hockey star gold but a pair of north korean style turns but i can quite an impact. On the thirty billion dollars has been pledged to help rebuild iraq following the defeat of eisel all in seventy six countries promised donations at a summit in kuwait but mainly in loans which need to be paid back and the money falls well short of what iraqs government says it needs some as a down has more from kuwait city. Iraqi Officials Say its a case of a Glass Half Full yes they didnt get the full amount they need for reconstruction they didnt get that one hundred billion dollars that the iraqi Prime Minister said the complete reconstruction of his country would cost about thirty billion dollars which the foreign minister of iraq said in todays world is not a small amount of money ive been speaking with the head of the Iraq Reconstruction Fund and he said frankly we got more than we thought we would out of this conference this thirty billion dollars go to the private sector government for investment is going to be what you call it like revolving also gives the money back after a few days we dont expect that you are going to spend all this money in a day and then. Within ten years in fact the plan for a close election the framework for a close election and development is stand forth and till two thousand and twenty eight there were very strong words of cum graduations from the u. N. Secretary general there saying it was an indorsement and impressive indorsement from part of the world in the Economic Reforms that have been made in changes made in iraq was also a word of encouragement to from a regional director of the world bank saying he would encourage the private sector to come forth and invest in iraq some key questions remain will all this money pledged to actually materialize weve seen in the past pledges made in two thousand and three adding up to thirty three billion dollars in a madrid donors conference but a year later only a fraction of that has actually materialized and there is the challenge of making sure conditions stay secure and stable enough in all the parts of iraq that really need reconstructing so that money can be spent. Colombia is calling for International Aid to help deal with the humanitarian crisis caused by venezuelans flee across the border colombian authorities had a number of venezuelans living in the country has increased by sixty two percent to five hundred fifty thousand people i was under a bit she joins us live now from the border town of so what is the colombian government doing this under to stop to stem the flow of people. Well ari the president one way the census came here to cool down the border with vinifera where the biggest the most important bridge crossing the two countries is and put in place a serious of measures that are already having consequences here to try and bring a level of what he called legality in order to this influx of venezuelan migrants for example he decided that colombia will not issue any more migration cards these are cross Border Crossing cards that lead to venezuelans coming go freely they could come here stay up to seven days and continue coming and going for at least a two years and million and a half of these cards have been granted but no more will be given now if you dont have one of these cars then once you come into colombia you have to show a passport which only few venezuelans have in that as a ready importantly reduce the number of people trying to cross here illegally does who dont have a crossing card or dont have a passport are sent back at the same time. Sent those same to some two