To resign as president of the republic with immediate effect south africas scandal plagued president jacob zuma steps down after the ruling a. N. C. Party told him to go also. At least one person killed and more than twenty injured by a government who opened fire at a us high school. Russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u. S. And russia again trade blame at the u. N. In response to a chilling report from the special envoy for syria plus. Im Andrew Thomas in sydney where artists have responded to the moment incidents recorded at australias offshore refugee crisis. Welcome to the news hour jacob zuma has resigned as south africa. As president reluctantly heeding orders from his ruling party the a. N. C. Will go with immediate effect to bringing an end to almost nine scandal plagued years in power the n. C. Told him to quit on choose day and when he had gone by wednesday the party and else that it would bank moves in parliament to force him to leave i
Order, which means the man known as the black cab rapist is staying in prison, for now. Worboys, who attacked his passengers after plying them with drink hed spiked, was sentenced in 2009 to eight years injail plus an indeterminate sentence, to be decided by the parole board. That trial involved just 12 of his victims, because the then director of Public Prosecutions decided that the evidence of those 12 was the best way to secure a lengthy sentence. Tonight, we speak to one of the two women who won todays ruling. She was raped on the 6th of may 2003, but the police dismissed her story. It was only five years later, when the met appealed for victims to come forward following many more rapes, that she was believed. After worboys went to jail, the woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, successfully sued the police for violation of her human rights in the initial investigation, a decision they are still contesting. I spoke to her today, before the new worboys ruling, about her own 15 year
Europe correspondent peter oliver has met with locals in capas. Period both around one hundred twenty kilometers to the south of. The they cant take any more refugees the citys mayor is saying that the infrastructure is being stretched to its limits. We have to realise that in court both social systems including kindergartens and schools overstretched and under stress more is not possible we cannot do more now. Since the beginning of the year the city has been plagued by violence between refugees and locals just last week a german couple were attacked just outside of the Shopping Center by three syrian teenagers armed with way one of those boys a fifteen year old has since been ordered to leave khat bourse and the surrounding area germany should start controlling its borders and stop the uncontrolled migration that has been going on for two and a happy years and america must go the government changes or it wont get any better because thats on. Very Different Reasons why people have to
What everyone should remember is if you cast your mind back to the 1970s and the labour government, they were trying to do deals with all kinds of people, including the Northern Irish mps. It requires a huge amount of discipline and a lot of hard work. The other thing it requires is something that i think is pretty lacking in the Prime Minister and thatis lacking in the Prime Minister and that is the sort of chumminess but shes quite an iceberg and that doesnt augur well for the sort of relationships you need to build. It will be quite difficult to hold in place. Very interesting. Thanks for being with us. Nick timothy and Fiona Hill Have resigned in the last half hour. They have now gone and we will wait to see what happens next. More from here throughout the day. Lets just pause and catch up with the weather forever you are in the United Kingdom this afternoon. Very lovely in london. Lets find out what it is like everywhere. Quite a variety of weather across like everywhere. Quite a
In the area of the social conservatism which, will chime with some parts of the Conservative Party, but others very unhappy with that. There is an awful lot to do in terms of penning that deal down, i suspect, in the next couple of days. In last minutes, we have also heard that theresa may has got herself a new Chief Of Staff which will be central in trying to sort those things out before the queen s speech on monday. Monday week. There was a lot of scrutiny over Jeremy Corbyns dealings with figures in the ira and there have also been questions over the dups dealings with loyalist extremists and then sinn fein saying this is not acceptable under the terms of the good friday agreement for the westminster government to be getting into bed with one of the parties in Northern Ireland. I think the last point there is going to be a very important Stumbling Block because we know that the Power Sharing Agreement broke down. We know that there is an intention now to open negotiations to get it