Challenges president jacob zuma successor will lead the party in the next president ial election in two thousand and nineteen tanya page is in johannesburg. The African National congress elect of conference is underway and its going to be unfolding here over the next five days but most of the discussion and debate will be happening behind closed doors in those buildings there just in the distance behind the fence we can see some of the delegates there about five thousand or so have come here from branches of the a. N. C. All over the country they want to just be voting for the top job president but deputy and in fact all the top one hundred eighty decisions but of course its the presidency that is the most contested the most important to the future of the a. N. C. And there are really two main contenders the first being and course as many zuma she is a very experienced politician. She was a member of parliament and a minister under successive governments of the a. N. C. Shes a former c
Has called for unity in the governing African National congress as it prepares to select a new leader jacob zuma who is facing corruption allegations is stepping down as head of the party before a new leader is elected on sunday the contest has been marked by deep divisions within the party on your page now from johannesburg. The conference started with two warnings dont to saying divisive songs and to keep the chairs on the ground everybody its beds that chairs will be flying around this conference or we can say that you will not happen in this conference. A. N. C. Members from competing factions have hurled cheers at one another in the build up to this crucial event there have been allegations of vote buying and intimidation those accusations have led disgruntled members to take legal action that delayed the start of the conference by several hours but the trend to turn to the countrys courts was criticized by president jacob zuma and his last speech as party leader it is actually. T
Im down with a quick reminder of the top stories on the al jazeera has become the latest latin American Country to shift to the political right by electing conservative billionaire Sebastian Pinera as president and. His opponent in the runoff vote its the second time hes been elected to the countrys highest office in america. Reports in santiago. Chiles billionaire president elect of god what he wanted another crack at the presidency for the second time in twenty seven years chile has swung from the center left to the center right both times the city. The markets favorite the former president a successful businessman promises better times ahead as he extends an olive branch to the uk if he does i want to renew our commitment to all chileans a commitment to unity and dialogue and so i invite all of our previous president s to share their experience and advise with me so that we can reach National Agreements to tackle the biggest problems. At the headquarters of center left candidate. Th
Southeast. It freezes in a freeze but right now its completely iced over. We found out that the city is well aware of the problem. Everyone from d. C. Water officials to mayor bowsers office themselves. They have been contacted about the problem and nothing has been done. The people here want one thing. It cant be a spring that runs water. If it was a spring the water wouldnt come so much. We are not doing anything with it. We have no means of anything like with it. Somebody has to be responsible. Q is live look at the flowing a live look at if flowing water. It doesnt stop. I contacted the city and they told me they sent an inspector out here and they are wor out where the water is coming from. No one complains about having extremely high water bill. We will let you know what they find out. That is the latest in southeast d. C. Im q mccray for news news. Michelle thank you. They are pretreating the roads for snow overnight. Chief meteorologist bill kelly is tracking the alert. Bill we
Sliding. Reporter lets get you to satellite, you can see there are more clouds around this morning. We are expecting the clouds to maintain dominance in the skies today, theres a possibility of some breaks in the morning, but things are clouding up. Out to the west you see a sprinkle or shower moving in, that will hold off until this evening, and not be that impactful until sometime tomorrow morning. 39 degrees in philadelphia. As matt said, 30s feel good compared to where we were recently. 35 in allentown, were above freezing no chance of icing for a change. 1 00 p. M. , 48 degrees, and then were up around 50 degrees by 3 and 5 00 p. M. Im going for a high of 52 today, but we may not get that until later in the evening, maybe close to midnight, its one of those weird nights where mild air is surging in overnight and temperatures will be on the rise. Karen were looking at steady rain ill have details on that and well take a look at the eagles football call tomorrow afternoon. We have a