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Supporters of jacob zuma its very hard to find real supporters ofjacob zuma even in his former stronghold, its hard to find supporters now. Well look at a legacy of allegations of corruption. And we are here talking to willian from the black eyed peas about a range of issues. Hello. Welcome to the programme, were live until 11. Throughout the morning well bring you the latest breaking news and developing stories and as always really keen to hear from you. Do get in touch on all the stories were talking about this morning use the hashtag victoria live and if you text, you will be charged at the Standard Network rate. Our top story today. The bbc has learned that the commonwealth has begun considering who might succeed the queen as the head of the organisation. Our reporter Caroline Davies is here. First of all, what is the commonwealth . Its a group of 53 countries, some of them used to be british, colonies, some of them have no ties to britain at all, the language mostly used as englis
Issue through comedy and satire. It is called dear white people. A group of black students at a fictional, predominantly white, Ivy League School. We will speak with actor Marque Richardson, an awardwinning firsttime director Justin Simien. I say to all the white people in the audience, on behalf of all of the black people in the world, you have the right to left. You get a free honorary lacquered with the two sundance ticket. It is meant to be a satire. I think if you start with the title for you get the kneejerk reaction it is going to be an hourlong indictment, you miss the point. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President obama is holding an emergency meeting with g7 leaders in the netherlands today following russias annexation of crimea. The session comes as the russian government continues to strengthen its control of crimea , seizing more bases and attaining detaining ukrainian commanders. The cr