South africas controversial president is asked to step down by the ruling a. N. C. But it sets no deadline. The u. S. Secretary of state warns World Leaders that stopping i saw on the battlefield does not mean the mission is complete. President c. C. s rivals in trouble of aid to egypt ex military chief of staff is also detained after threatening to release top secret files and. Taking over the Winter Olympics. Hits the heights with gold in the. South africas embattled president has been asked to step down the Ruling African National congress has recalled jacob zuma after rejecting his proposal to buy more time in office the partys top level executives have this past held a press conference confirming that theyve given the controversial leader on notice to leave office after nine years zuma faces hundreds of corruption charges but has refused to stand down before his term ends next year. Confirm that it wants seumas deputy civil run opposed to become president of the country. Certainly believe this Situation Requires us to agency in or that was the our congress was very top levels of unity in iraq. And the whole we are therefore determined to restore the integrity of the public is a situation of intrigue of the businesses and asian economies going to cover. And some of them up close. Or true is the. Motions of. The. Cause. Of go. Live to johannesburg and all serious. For a day where does this get us we expect to pay and see to give the president a forty eight hour deadline but as it is or nothing much has happened. Well you dont know about that the press briefing is over im sure the message out of the headquarters of the a. N. C. Behind us will be received with mixed feelings by South Africans yes the a. N. C. Has said we can from that we are recalling president jacob zuma this was an opportunity for the a. N. C. To come out with a decisive plan come up with a strong message and then they caved i suppose by not giving a deadline and not being firm when it comes to exactly when jacob zuma has to leave office so they continues to be this uncertainty confusion and im sure frustration around what direction the a. N. C. Is taking jacob zuma according to what the secretary general of the a. N. C. A said earlier jacob zuma wanted about he was six months to stay in office for this transition period as theyre calling it two to conclude over that period it seems the a. N. C. Was certain ok jacob zuma has to go but they say the bone of contention was the period over which the president leaves office now this is what a smuggler surely has to say earlier. This is over. The space. Tourist board. We have. Needed. To produce for. Two. Years a very good. So for me the a. N. C. Wants. To be president of South Africa Jacob Zuma says he wants this transition period of three to six months and whats to stop him holding out his term of office it doesnt officially end until next year hes committed no crime as far as a court of law is concerned. And thats whats very interesting coming out of the a. N. C. The secretary general again its said that were not removing him because hes done anything wrong and i think that would be really frustrating for South Africans because they would to welcome this admission or some sort of acknowledgement around why jacob zuma has to go but the Party Continues to sort of pad whats going on not fully accepting of the the the frustration by South Africans the bad leadership by jacob zuma and just how much hes embarrassed the party if he doesnt resign the next step would be a motion of no confidence in Parliament Opposition has said this is what theyre doing they want the motion of no confidence they have secured they wanted brought forward but also earlier the a. N. C. Had said this move by the opposition is this red an opportunistic so theres a really tells us that even if this goes to parliament the a. N. C. Is not going to vote in line with what the opposition wants in terms of removing jacob zuma dissolving parliament to certainly not having elections in about ninety days thats also what the opposition is calling for so this still this confusion and uncertainty around what exactly will happen next when exactly jacob zuma will resign what he might have secured when it comes to in principle saying yes i will resign we dont know when we dont know what form this will take and we also dont know what will happen with regard to these motions of no confidence a scheduled in parliament a budget speech that you later this month a state of the nation address that was abandoned that it has now been postponed indefinitely so the africans are still waiting for me many thanks they dont exist minute there in johannesburg with the a. N. C. Has been holding talks on zuma face since december when a new Party Leadership was elected so what can we expect to happen next if the president refuses to step down well the decision to remove zuma as head of state doesnt constitute. Usually unseat him from office thats up to parliament if he refuses to step down as we said the a. N. C. Can table a vote of no confidence against him in parliament the vote needs the support of two hundred and one m. P. s out of the four hundred. Sit in parliament for it to pass if that happens then the entire cabinet would have to be disbanded at a new president appointed within thirty days lets bring in grant masterson whos head of the Program Governance at the Electoral Institute for sustainable democracy in africa hes live for us in johannesburg it looks like the wily old political survivor has managed to do it again or at least buy more time he understands the internal processes of his own Political Party very well and he understands how to buy as much time is certainly possible and yes youre right it seems that prison zuma has been given a thought stay of execution but we do know because the instruction has been given that the anything expect him to resign and that he will not be the president throughout the full term his second term in office so we do know now officially from the end the that they have instructed the president they expect him to resign and what it would be unfortunate dont know is exactly when will it be the three to six months that the president is talking about or will it be sooner which would certainly be the preference of the a. N. C. And in easy here the any see at least that the secretary general said that the any see was keen to return stability to south africa and integrity and its Public Institutions by giving the president this soft stay of execution as you called it though theyve hardly done that have they. Well the recall is real it is a Political Force that the president would be very ill advised to resist he of course can constitutionally resist it but he would essentially be the worst of lame duck president without the support of his party in parliament but of course if this is all about buying time and then of course the a. N. C. Not setting a deadline was i think a little bit soft on the president and certainly not what a lot of people were hoping to hear there is a strong desire for clarity and for this method to be resolved now it has been dragging on for at least a couple of weeks and of course since president running for that was elected in the symbol we knew that this was coming and its come now and if if jacob zuma to be believed its come far too soon for me wasnt ready for it and he wants more time at the end he secretary secretary general said that that the executive committee which was keen to do all of this in a dignified manner help us get inside the mindset of jacob zuma here he knows hes got to go the executive committee has told him that hes got to go why does he want this three to six month deadline why not why not just go. Yes i mean this is this is the tough part is that the recently concluded press conference did not take South Africans into the conference very much we dont have a lot of new information we dont know what have the private talks between the president of the country and the president of the a. N. C. Sarong oppose have been about what have been the sticking points what have been the demands from the president zuma to resign voluntarily and we dont know why this three to six months we have speculation we can jump to conclusions but the a. N. C. Has given us very little new information that was not already an officially in the Public Domain by giving us this press conference and so this this is going to continue the speculation is going to continue the uncertainty and this is very problematic for constitutionally required processes that are coming down the line within the First Quarter of twenty eight in the National Budget has to be passed and this can only be passed by the cabinet and the minister of finance speaking on behalf of the president and we dont know which president will be delivering that particular budget to this African People and there are economic consequences to the delays as well we have the International Ratings agencies looking very closely at the ongoing Political Uncertainty and giving consideration to the ratings that they give the credit worthiness of the country which obviously has not gone effect economically grant really gets to achieve anything states of being with the scrum boss in janice both. U. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is warning but the end of combat operations against eisel doesnt mean that the fight against the group is over hes been speaking at the Global Coalition to defeat eisel in kuwait hes called for members to step up commitments to stabilize parts of iraq and syria that used to be on the ice will control to listen also since the us has pledged two hundred Million Dollars for syria but when asked which country was responsible for the creation of i saw this is want to listen had to say. I still emerged out of circumstances in iraq and syria there were certain territories that werent totally secure and the entire atmosphere allowed idol to emerge and they emerged from chaos and anarchy in the region thats why i still were able to take control of vast areas of land and thats why our top priority is to prevent eisel from establishing its caliphate or recruit further operatives or hold training in preparation for future attacks but joining us here in the studio is abraham frye has his conflict resolution professor at the Doha Institute what do you make of that answer well it was diplomatic answer a vague basically he said nothing because yes we know i mean our key is a cause for they about one of the start of. For i still working in these and i can see there but the question should be asked actually who was responsible for creating this aldgate yet and one key factor behind this the creation of the saki was this extending government in baghdad Nouri Al Maliki government that was supported that equally liked by washington d. C. So by the u. S. Government and thats why actually he tried to avoid answering the question really referring to aki as being the two things of interest that came out of Rex Tillerson statement at that conference one that i saw remains a determined enemy and is not yet defeated the other thing he said he spoke about the gulf crisis the blockade of cattle he said the u. S. Is of the opinion that reconciliation of the restoration of gulf unity is in the best interests of stability and security in. Whole region well thats actually a very Important Message because it also reflects the development in the u. S. Position that was divided from the one of this of the gulf crisis as we saw the division between the state Department Position that time but many. People around him and on the other hand so for this to continue the message that in for sizing reconsolidation the goal of the unity of the Gulf Cooperation Council is important and at this particular stage while he is talking about. War against isis i think there he is sending a clear message that the United States supporting this unity and the end of the crisis and supporting the kuwaiti mediation and this which is. Basically for the crisis itself is that no fear of the nation is expected from at least from the United States and this conference in kuwait was all about raising money for the rebuilding of iraq and in places that have been devastated in iraqs fight to get rid of isolate from its territory. And yet to listen announced that hes giving two hundred Million Dollars to help stabilize areas in syria. That used to be under eisel control and very little in the way of financial promises anyway to to iraq well this lacks this existence the message of a lack of a Clear Strategy and a clear leadership of this legal structure and process actually we can talk for longer about the management of this the construction process and how mismanaged it is to be quite honest with you in my view any post conflict reconstruction reconstruction process has two aspects two sides one is the heart of where what i call it and one is the software i mean theyre talking about you know fund raising and you know some building of houses and damaged properties is this is the hardware of the reconstruction process. But the most important thing get actually which is the Software Process which how to read which is you know represent things like how to begin the trust of the people how to engage the Iraqi Community the iraqi different communities they like a society in the process how to allow for and facilitate for that if they are of that if he is that you know the result of the war how to fight sectarianism in iraq that also came as a result of this war these are actually the tough questions and unless these Software Issues of the reconstruction reconstruction process are not the result the hardware process the hardware aspect of it will not be sustainable will not continue because you need a percentage of government in baghdad that all different communities including the sudanese who are marginalized during you know the past years to feel that the baghdad government is a truly representative of them thats when that he construction process succeeds thats when its complete and its not only about opening roads and rebuilding go forward as while leaving the software on the side iraqs Prime Minister said that he wanted to raise one hundred billion dollars for reconstruction in iraq ahead of this conference hes been sorely disappointed well the biggest disappointment actually that with the foreign minister of iraq they think that what they need immediately is about twenty two billion dollars so lets see lets assume that theyre going to succeed in raising one billion youre still twenty one billion short it was for the. Need for the reconstruction process that again and there are on top of those that are no good signs that even the one billion that they are raising well and again like back to your question about the u. S. Role this is not making any pledges and making the two hundred Million Dollars for for syria not for reconstruction in iraq always good. Many thanks indeed him for i hope we can take you out live now to work you eat city out a series of some he said and has been. Following that that Conference Since its beginning what are what are people there sunny making of of what Rex Tillerson had to say. Well we had to say quite a lot of adrian about the next stage for this Global Coalition to defeat i saw if you want to perhaps boil it down to one term its the phase of preventing the resurgence of ice all things like stopping foreign fighters he said from being able to get to their ranks preventing them from doing fund raising preventing them from being able to convey their ideology to people as part of their recruitment efforts was also interesting that he also said that what we need is communities need to be guarded by forces put around them some clarity needed there whos going to provide forces where are we talking how are they going to be guarded but he made a point of saying that previous experiences with defeating armed groups in the region of failed due to a resurgence of militant groups coming back and taking over in areas where theyve been pushed out and he wanted to make sure that communities arent left vulnerable again he also had some things to say interestingly right out of the top of the bat about the gulf crisis his first opening remarks in the press conference what about the importance of reconciliation how its in the interests of all parties he called it counterproductive to have this split between carter on one side and the boycotting countries of the g. C. C. He called it. Counterproductive dispute and said the United States was using all of its influence to encourage a settlement in the interests of g. C. C. Stability adrian. As far as the Donor Conference for iraq raising money for the rebuilding of our areas that were destroyed in iraqs fight to rid itself of i saw. How successful has that been. Well that is the big question how successful has it been the question ive put it to several iraqi officials and theyve said well to be honest up until now we havent had any formal commitments coming other than of course the ngo part of this conference n. G. O. S have committed t