Lets get going with this news breaking news out of a man state media has announced the death of Sultan Qaboos been side ill cite he ruled since 1970 but had suffered illness in more recent years there has been intense speculation for several years now about who will replace him because he never publicly named a successor well examine his legacy here on the news for you 1st matheson looks back at his life. Couple. Was an only son born in 1942 a life of royal privilege and to a father he would overthrow 30 years later what he did basically is modernizing the country opening the country to outsiders and thirdly looking at the domestic politics and try to move on to the state formation where building is institutions and related elements so to uncouple us was educated in oman and then at a private school in the u. K. Before graduating from Sandhurst Military Academy and serving in the british army for several months on his return to a man in 1966 his determination to modernize his country i
Says that he is going to seek an urgent judicial in view a review and that the courts will make a final decision with regard to what the Public Protector said we must also remember that the Public Protector does have a record of having some of her other reports overturned by the courts and thats of course has led to questions around her credibility and and even with some opposition Political Parties questioning her fitness to hold office but essentially the president saying im not going to take the report as it is i respect the office of the Public Protector but the courts are not going to deal with it so what whats going to happen next was going to be my next question and also how much damage what damage is this done to the president and his reputation. All fully the questions around the accusations by the Public Protector also cant be separated by the Political Climate in south africa where there are allegations that the African National congress is divided there are factions within
The whole robin this is the aljazeera news our lives my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next sixty minutes lebanons Prime Minister arrives in paris as the french try to mediate the crisis in this country. Also a major protest is underway zimbabwes capital against president Robert Mugabe as pressure grows for him to step down. No food no medical supplies and no help from outside of urgency calls to evacuate sick syrians whove been under siege for years. Under threat but caught on camera rests no leopard seen in the mountains of kurdistan. Welcome to the new we start with the lebanese Prime Minister saad hariri whos arrived in paris two weeks after suddenly announcing his resignation in the saudi capital harare landed in the french capital early on saturday morning with his wife but two of his children remain in saudi Arabia Hariri has told the lebanese president hell be back in the country on wednesday he resigned in riyadh on november the fourth saying he feared for his life
To crack down on radical groups. Thirty two crew members are missing after an oil tanker collided with a cargo ship in the East China Sea. Optimism in germany chancellor Angela Merkel says shes confident of finding Common Ground during coalition tilt but the social democrats plus. So the point is that entire treasury was rocked. The billions of dollars still to have been stolen by the deposed president of ukraine victoriana cuz it an aljazeera investigation reveals a secret plot by the powerful rich to profit from the proceeds. But first dozens of religious and political groups who are facing government pressure in pakistan are holding a demonstration in pressure our seeking see. Pulled for palestine and the cash miss separatists movement that led by jamaat ud dawa thats the group headed by the two thousand and eight attack suspect hafiz saeed for his son has recently blocked donations to groups named in the u. N. Security Council Sanctions list can go live now to a correspondent there
A political solution in syria under threat turkey warns the us against a plan to establish a kurdish led Border Security force in Northern Syria president is accusing washington of forming what he calls a tether on me and is vowing to crush it will explore where this leaves the various peace initiatives on syria also on the great tensions in the sky over the gulf qatar denies u. A. E. Claims that its fighter jets intercepted and iraqi civilian aircraft this amid a blockade against. The u. A. E. Egypt and bahrain which began in june last year and what would Martin Luther king say to donald trump as america celebrates the legacy of a civil rights icon a u. S. President is still having to defend himself against accusations that he is a racist after several days of controversy over his alleged remarks about haiti and african countries. Mohammed president wrexham. That allowed women to buy alcohol for the first time in sixty years and it sparked a strong reaction online we have all the late