Hello welcome to the news hour im so ho raman coming up in the next sixty minutes Robert Mugabes party in zimbabwe meets to decide the president s future also palestinian leaders threaten to suspend ties with the u. S. If the government closes the p. L. O. Office in washington and cautious optimism signals have been detected from a missing submarine in argentina. On world toilet day im rob mcbride in cambodia a country dealing with a universal problem. Welcome to the news i would start in africa was a bad boys embattled president has been given an ultimatum get out of office or will unleash the crowds it was made by the leader of the influential War Veterans Association as pressure mounts on Robert Mugabe to step down several meetings are underway to decide his future the big question now is will the gobby quit or be forced out. Business. Has been steadily losing support since wednesday when the military seized power the army chief was angry of the sacking of Vice President and. His longtime. Party the ruling zanu p. F. Is discussing how to call him president and expel him from the Party Youth Wing has said that Political Support for his wife grace destroyed the party and the government this all follows extraordinary scenes in the capital harare where hundreds of thousands of people marched on saturday celebrating the apparent end of his thirty seven grip on power while following events forces our correspondent. And it does seem that this is a day for. Central committee is concerned as well as the youth wing. Has started the members behind. To discuss firing president robert firing his wife grace and removing her. Party the course for president. Ten provinces have said they want him to. Have said they want him to go. Have. A press conference here in this building and this is what they said. And of course while the political meetings are happening there are talks apparently between the military and the catholic. About that. Hearing president is the one who asked for this. And the Catholic Priest later in the day were also hearing that the president is wanting to go to south africa to meet president jacob zuma as opposed to continue. To negotiate. To. Have a dignified exit thats what hes pushing for. Feel that this process is taking. Him to suspect that the army is protecting the president but in terms of negotiations and meetings are we waiting for official. Update the nation on how far things have gone well. Join you develops in harare thank you now the palestinian authorities are threatening to cut off all communication with the u. S. Over the ministrations plan to close a perilous office in washington d. C. The plant closure of the palestinian liberation Organizations Office in washington prompted shock and a threat from a Senior Palestinian official to freeze time with the us this is very unfortunate and seven this is the pressure being exerted on this administration from the if you know government the time when we are trying to cooperate to achieve the ultimate you think such steps which would undermine the Peace Process the u. S. State department announced its decision to close the office late last week citing a twenty fifteen law placing conditions on the u. S. Mission office those conditions relate to the palestinians pressuring the International Criminal court to seek charges against israel over the issue of israeli settlements and crimes against palestinians the move comes as the troubled ministration is trying to broker a peace plan between the palestinians and israelis President Donald Trump said such a deal would be a cornerstone of his administration he very much in september he met with palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on the sidelines of the u. N. General Assembly Meeting of World Leaders in new york and a last month the president sent his son in law and adviser jared cushion or to the middle east in part to work out a blueprint for a deal the white house says closing the p. L. O. Office doesnt mean its cutting off communications with the palestinians and could be viewed as a way to expedite the Peace Process but a middle east analyst says the trumpet ministration is not bargaining in good faith the u. S. Is not an honest broker the u. S. Is representing its own interests and they correspond primarily with the right wing of israeli interests the closure isnt a done deal President Trump has ninety days to review the decision and could keep the office open if he thinks the palestinians are engaged in meaningful and direct negotiations with the israelis die on Estabrook Al Jazeera washington lets get more on the palestinian reaction now from malcolm webb hes live for us in ramallah of course one does have to ask the question where does this leave efforts ready to try and restart the Peace Process. Well ever since he came to office President Trump has talked about the ultimate peace deal he said hell bring a peace deal to the middle east but hes never said what kind of deal that might be whether it would be a two state solution or otherwise palestinian Officials SayTrump Administration officials who theyve met since trump came to office they thought on the stood what the conditions were conducive for a Peace Process but they said to date trump ministration officials havent put anything on the table or made any kind of proposal and one of the reasons that the trumpet ministration says it may close the p. L. O. Is office is if the p. L. O. Pursues cases against israel at the International Criminal court now the p. L. O. Says since truman came to power israels continued always expanded its development of illegal settlements in the occupied west bank on the International Law its illegal to build settlements in occupied territories and this is something that the p. L. O. Had wanted to pursue at the International Criminal court a short while ago here in ramallah we spoke to no bill shatner who is the palestinian president ial advisor on International Affairs lets hear what he had to say we are punished for threatening to go to the court and mr netanyahu is not punished for committing the crimes for which we are going to court which is the settlements on the. Land of the west bank and in jerusalem occupied them it is sixty seven so what would you make out of this pressure to do what the palestinians certainly making their voices heard now after the reaction from the u. S. So one wonders can this argument be contained is that possible. All waiting to see but these are precedented events and unusually strong response from several different palestinian officials but on the an unprecedented amount of pressure on hostility as they put it from the u. S. Much more so than in any recent other recent administration the u. S. Says it will gives itself ninety days to decide whether its going to close the pillows office or not so were waiting to see if the u. S. Is going to follow through on these threats and if it does several palestinian officials have said this will be massively detrimental to any Peace Process he said that it means that the u. S. Would no longer be qualified to be a broker in the Peace Process and that it would be the end of u. S. Palestinian relations or for the moment welcome well leave it there. In ramallah. Well staying in the region lebanons Prime Minister has confirmed who returned to be reached by wednesday saad hariri that he will then clarify his position after his sudden resignation more than two weeks ago hariri is now in front president Michael Mccaul is trying to mediate lets bring in our correspondents in beirut what we know where the Prime Minister is now and hes offering clarity on his position this resignation of his relationship with saudi arabia when he speaks to the lebanese president but its a bit of a waiting game. Well yes he confirmed that he will be on wednesday to attend the Independence Day celebrations but we do not know if hes going to arrive before that because he needs to meet with the president of the republic he did say that he resigned that was the word he used in paris so that means if he comes to beirut he has to sit with the president and submit his resignation in person now there are really many scenarios is he going to insist on resigning and ending his political career or is he going to resign and stay on as a caretaker Prime Minister of a caretaker government until elections next year or is he going to withdraw his resignation and reach some sort of a compromise with the president to discuss contentious issues issues like hezbollahs arms or is he going to condition drawing his resignation to guarantee that it will not engage in military activities beyond lebanons borders so really a number of scenarios that this still quite uncertain and also we need to see whether or not he agrees to stay on as Prime Minister on condition that hezbollah doesnt take part in his government this is a Saudi Arabian demand and if he insists on the demand then the political vacuum could continue because hezbollah will not accept that it is a Political Party with strong Popular Support and also the Prime Minister hes going to have to convince many in lebanon that he is a free man and he is not a political hostage of saudi arabia who actually does. Make that statement say not just hariri but most both probably many of the political stakeholders in lebanon will be casting an eye to cairo today because of the extraordinary Arab League Meeting thats been called by saudi arabia to talk about groups like hezbollah the influence of iran and. Its lebanons position as they sit around the round table. Yes like you mentioned saudi arabia calling for that emergency meeting to discuss what they call iranian interference in arab countries as well as hezbollahs role beyond the eleven on the borders particularly its military role what we understand is that lebanon will not be sending its foreign minister it will not be attending at the Foreign Ministry level they may send a low ranking official from the Foreign Ministry or maybe the ambassador of the Arab League Lebanon of course wanting to avoid a confrontation with saudi arabia this is a deeply divided country yes hezbollah has supported has allies in government but it also has opponents who believe that its armed wing should be disbanded now how far is saudi arabia going to push or is it going to demand for example outright condemnation of hezbollah is it going to demand that lebanon you know that come from hezbollah and not allowing the group to take part in political life and in the government so what we understand is that the foreign minister is there it will not be attending a low level representation to avoid a confrontation with them i will leave it there and follow this very closely thank you. Well keep your message and say the mentioned weve been discussing lebanon is expected to be one of those issues on the table of leaders meet in cairo not saudi arabia requested the meeting to discuss irans activities in the region and it comes at a time of heightened tension between the two regional rivals that smith explains. After more than two and a half years of fighting in yemen saudi arabias coalition and iranian backed the fighters are at a stalemate while the country is on the verge of famine and cholera is spreading wherever the saudis look in the middle east they see iran yemen isnt the only country where theyre facing off and iran always seems to be one step ahead in syria iranian soldiers and hezbollah fighters along with the russians of help shift the civil war in favor of president Bashar Al Assad thats at the expense of the anti outside forces riyadh has been supporting the saudis have been accused of allowing thousands of its citizens to fight eisel in syria the iranians have done very world they backed president bashar assad very solidly in very determinedly from the beginning of that contrasted with the behavior of the u. S. To western governments in terms of their support for the Syrian Rebels and the iranians have always been very strategic in their and i think the view from riyadh the the outcome of the Syrian Crisis has definitely been one that has consolidated irans position in the region in lebanon Prime Minister saad hariri resigned citing an assassination plot hariri accused iran and lebanon based iranian backed militia has bala of sowing strife irrate was in riyadh when he resigned the saudis say they didnt force in lebanese politicians accused the saudis of holding her hostage and destabilizing that country. In iraq after its invasion of kuwait in nine hundred ninety relations with saudi arabia never recovered while iran has helped the government in baghdad fight eisel but here at least the saudis of trying to improve diplomatic relations in february the Saudi Foreign minister visited baghdad for the first time in twenty seven years and iraqi Prime Minister hyde our body has been to react twice in the past four months the line is the iranians no control or influence in four arab capitals in in baghdad damascus beirut and most recently in center the yemeni capital again you can exaggerate these things and iran does things deftly and quite intelligent clee but the overall effect is the sense that it is encroaching on areas that were traditionally the. Heart of the arab world the saudis can rely on the u. S. For support but crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon is a new player in middle east politics iranian leadership in contrast has been doing this for decades. Well bullets with joins me here in studio its a complex situation of scenarios that involves the call but why do they want to have this meeting in cairo well because this meeting was backed up by the u. S. Bahrain in kuwait as well but the saudis are behind it and theyve chosen now because of two specific events recently that the saudis say of force them to call for this meeting first was this on november fourth a rocket was fired towards the towards riyadhs International Airport the saudis say that came from who controlled territory in yemen they say that hezbollah or the iranian backed lebanese based a militia was behind the launching of that rocket and the u. S. Air force confirmed the remains of it have a rainy and markings on it the iranians would say though that the accusations that theyre behind it are baseless and provocative or those saudi arabias crown crown Prince Mohammed bin salman he says he accused iran of direct military aggression and it may be considered an act of war and then just over a week ago there was an explosion and a fire at a pipeline that between saudi arabia and bahrain and again the bahrain is in the saudis accused iran of being behind this the iranian Foreign Ministry says we should say that any accusations being behind that attack on that pipeline a false accusations and childish so we should wait and see exactly what comes out of this meeting with a member of the thank you well three backers of the socalled the escalation zones in syria are meeting in the turkish coastal town of antalya russian turkish and Iranian Foreign ministers are gathering ahead of a planned talks in the russian resort town of sochi the president s of the three countries will attend that meeting on wednesday well are some a bit of it isnt entirely for us now just three days from now those president s will be meeting in such i mean what are the fms discussing apparently before laying the groundwork. It is absolutely that laying the groundwork in a preliminary meeting to assess what has been done so far where we are now and what can be done in the future according to these three countries separately theyre better rated that there is been success in the deescalation zones and in the process there has kickstarted what they called stall the geneva talks i wear nothing was moving forward ever since the agreed to establish the these deescalation zones there has been a reduction in the number of civilian casualties so yes there is a lot on the plate for these three Foreign Ministers to meet and discuss ahead of the meeting in sochi because right after the meeting inside to you you have on the twenty eighth of this month the meeting in geneva about the future process of syria it is worth noting that yes iran and russia see eye to eye on the issue of syria but turkey has been on the opposite and has in the last couple of months become closer to the iranian and russian position visibly the future of syria and were hearing from the plea matic sources that there is pressure that there should be some sort of reproach for some sort of agreement on the future of president Bashar Al Assad