Before the president. And another. President. Of poland. And i. Walk down the. South africas ruling party has formally asked president jacob zuma to stand down the secretary general of the a. N. C. The African National congress made that announcement he said it was about restoring integrity and political confidence in the posse and remember this is about the policy its not a government decision here jacob zuma is the leader of south africa yes but hes no longer the leader of the a. N. C. And it is the a. N. C. Which wants him to pass power to the new party leader Cyril Ramaphosa just have a look at this quickly we went online to the African National Congress Website found their constitution which was last updated twenty twelve it says there and if you go to the various rules it is numb but a number twelve point two one goes this isnt working very well but what im trying to say to you here is that the any see the National Executive committee of the a. N. C. Can recall any public represe
Almost a million homes across four states are without power. And side story is coming up next on counting the cost well talk to i. M. F. Chief Christine Lagarde about how the economic model is changing here in the middle east can ireland break regs it find out how the emerald isle is caught in the middle of a big between the u. K. And the e. U. The year of the dog in china counting the cost at this time. A fake news story that triggered a major geopolitical crisis and the effects is still being felt across the gulf nations more than eight months old how dangerous a store is to to suit vested interests and what could be done to stop fake means this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im Martin Dennis now in may last year katters National News agency was hacked on its pages were comments attributed to the amir of qatar comments that were completely false but despite the fact that they were made up they were broadcast by al out of beer and other channels and that led saudi a
A peaceful settlement in syria that will pave the way for reconstruction and despite president Bashar Al Assads gains in recent months peace still seems a long way off. Aljazeera tripoli in northern lebanon. Will plenty more have him on the aljazeera news hiring pleading im giving up on him in hong kong and they are next thanks for this and when we meet the young talents representing the next generation of artists. And a very Public Statement from the Vice President does mike pence holds out of an f n l k i have a feeling players those details coming up in sports which are. At least twelve people have drowned after a boat carrying ruhi endure refugees from me a martyr bangladesh capsized ten of them were children lets cross over to mohammed germ june in coxs bazaar with the very latest and of course another boat capsizes what more do we know about the circumstances of this incident mohammed. So were told that this happened late sunday evening that it happened close to the southern tip
Closing up for the fourth week in a row the nasdaq once again closing at another high and lets take a look whats been happening in asia overnight markets in japan and south korea are closed for public holidays. You did have the china markets open with the shanghai markets being closed after a week long holiday. That index was up by. 7 of a percent. In europe this morning in some of the lerl i traearly trading, like things are relatively flat. Slight declines, very slight declines in germany and france the ftse down. Spain is up by. 7 of a percent finally, check out crude oil prices and youre going to see that right now it looks like wti is down by by 10 cents still below 50 a barrel at 49. 20. Thanksgiving in canada. Today unless someone is playing a joke on me they tweeted that in there i dont know what that means exactly. Is it the same they didnt have. Turkeys, pilgrims thats our holiday, isnt it . One of ours. Come on, joe. It can be a totally different reason to give thanks maybe.
Particularly hard. At t points out their phone start, the turn is lower they are going to get their numbers. And everybody is trying to move to some of these issues i would say it was more media, but it is all the same, i guess. Telecom and media are the same now. Tmt. Thank you tmt. New network . No. Lets take a look at what happened overnight in asia you saw the japanese stocks this week have been sitting at new records just about every day that continues once again today with the nikkei up another 200 points this is now putting the nikkei at its highest close since september of 1996. 21,155 hang seng slightly higher. So was the shanghai composite yesterday. And in some of the morning trading we are already seeing, in europe youre going to see as we wait things are up for the most part. Looks like the ftse is down by. 20 right now. But these are modest advances from the other markets take a look at what is happening with crude oil prices. Yesterday crude oil settled down by 1. 4 . It