Harry fawcett reports a lustrous on the Corruption Scandal has swirled around him for months but never at this intensity addressing the nation Benjamin Netanyahu was determined to project resilience and confidence im sure will be with you know obviously i will continue to lead israel responsibly and by the way as long as the citizens of israel choose me to lead you i am certain i am certain that the truth will be revealed and im certain that at the next elections which will be held on schedule i will earn your trust again. Israeli police are recommending that he be charged in two cases the first case one thousand involves gifts of cigars and champagne made to the Prime Minister and his wife sarra the gift givers israeli born hollywood mogul shan and a stray and billionaire james packer the police are reportedly recommending milchan also be charged with bribery they say in total the netanyahu has received a quarter of a Million Dollars the accusation that netanyahu back to bill that would have saved his friend much more money if he wanted to repatriate to Israel Netanyahu rejected any such suggestion in his late night rebuttal saying only that he helped him with the visa application not in return for cigars but because it was a friend of israel and it will come to the last what route through im not here for personal gain that much if that was what was driving me i would have been somewhere else long ago what drives me is one thing to assure the future of our state. In the second case israels Prime Minister is accused of trying to get favorable coverage in the countrys second biggest newspaper by offering to help of the activities of its main competitor the police are also reportedly recommending the proprietor of the get you off her and off newspaper be charged with bribery the question now is how much the Prime Ministers carefully cultivated image of a wise economics jude and Strong Security pragmatist will be undermined by the tawdry details in the Police Document was distasteful is there is the pettiness of it he is personally a millionaire. He doesnt need. A billionaire to buy him cigars more important in the voters reactions may well be those of netanyahu his political allies will his Coalition Partners continue to back him and perhaps the most consequential decision will fall to the attorney general whether or not to follow the police recommendation and indict the sitting Prime Minister of israel army forces aljazeera west jerusalem this ambassador to the u. N. As accuse me on mars government of making lives of her hands on muslims a death sentence hundreds of thousands of them have fled the country since a violent military crackdown began in august unfortunately the Security Council has so far failed in its responsibility to act in response to the clear threat to International Peace and security that has resulted from recent events in northern Rakhine State we cannot look the other way in this situation what happened in burma and is still happening in burma is not ok this council must hold the military accountable for their actions and pressure on sun city to acknowledge these terrific acts are taking place in her country. The scandal surrounding the British Charity oxfam is widening with the new allegations of abuse by its staff and south sudan that follows allegations that aid workers choose prostitutes in haiti following the two thousand and twenty earthquake and also in chad and oxfams International Chairman has been arrested on corruption charges in guatemala. Pointis knight is among ten top former guatemalan officials to be charged who used to be the countrys finance minister these allegations relate to guatemalas Public Transport Network and south africas president is expected to address media on wednesday after his party the African NationalCongress Formally asked him to step down if seventy five year old jacob zuma does not quit he could face a vote of no confidence in parliament hes been accused of corruption during his time in office those are the headlines here on aljazeera keep it here the big picture is next and more news after that visit our web site as well aljazeera dot com. Venezuela is gripped by crisis. Ravaged by economic collapse and mobbed by political to k. The government of Nicolas Maduro faces an existential threat. Mother who has been a bully in the middle of a big storm. Latin america is once model democracy struggles to maintain order and feed a divided people. Have never seen a detour a show of Living Standards of this moment almost and world war a nation boasting the Worlds Largest oil reserves fight the economic survival as its pulled further apart. Polarization is there racially is there regionally is there by choir its there in lol to pull multiple ways. But the seeds of its current demise was a century ago. When the events of its formative years in shared that the fate of venezuela would be written in oil. Rig the. This country that was once that the wealthiest in the region what went wrong how did we get to this point in venezuela. The country starts among the installation process that is shaped by all of this puts a state becomes more and more powerful and they shape their country through the state charges and then my goodness regime try to create. List revolution and that will lead this people to destroy the whole business of herat those of the country. That unemployment did go down equality increased per capita g. D. P. Of course you could say thats because of the oil wealth are at the same time or are that only wealth could have been distributed completely different there and i would say it was distributed much more equitably. And it was a very backward country before birth of one of the poorest of latin america. Life expectancy was in your early thirties and about three quarters of the country was a mature. Its very difficult to speak of a National Policy much less of a national culture. Then we have an extraordinary developments in one thousand nine hundred scene when venezuela sings its those wells begins pumping oil for the first time. In this way that enters the era of commercial heavy Oil Production and not only is the british and the dutch involved but now the us also comes to venezuela to partake in oils production. Foreign oil giants such as Royal Dutch Shell and the American Standard oil company were granted concessions by the military dictatorship of one percent take on as allowing them to drill for oil and allowing us to get rich. Rival of the Oil Companies the development of the industry parallels the rise of one be sent to gomez and the rise of the venezuelan state even though venezuela really begins to develop its all economy the venezuelan state doesnt benefit hugely because in essence its only charging rent for the land. By the mid one nine hundred thirty s. The once lease collective of largely coffee exporting regions had become a consolidated nation state formed and transformed by oil. We have the beginnings of a mass process of illinois ation so people coming out of the rule country signs in city the big cities because the major london is the selling off their land so the Oil Companies the very idea of oil became imbued with the notion of modernity that the oil camps with the north american presence the british presence with electricity water sewage would then become social laboratories that other venezuelans should emulate on the one hand there were people who were living in the oil camps who received all the benefits of working for all companies and then on the outside of these comes you have the majority of Venezuelan Society who didnt have access to all of the health care and benefits and education benefits. One percent take on as died in one thousand nine hundred eighty five but he laid the blueprint for other dictators to follow developing infrastructure suppressing to sand and getting rich off oil deals. The first half of the Twentieth Century would see venezuela ruled by oppressive military regimes for all but three years on a popular push for democracy in one nine hundred forty five briefly on seated dictatorship. But the Political Party cemented in that democratic interlude democratic eighty and capacity question democrats remained a persistent opposition to authoritarian rule. By the mid one nine hundred fifty s. The rule of another dictator general marcos paris and then as it creates a vastly expanded and increasingly unequal state we enter what some of called the bulldozer years in venezuela the state will now use the funds the profits of oil to engage in broad Scale Development those projects those are all great opportunities for development but also for corruption because in the process of developing those projects the military and their associates were all benefiting from industry the big problem is that the only way pessimists commencing himself in power is through brutal repression. What we see is a real climb down brutal climb down position. You start to seeing also the very clear parameters of two venezuelas venezuela the benefits from oil and the venezuela that actually still remains in the shadow of the oil industry. And that venezuela is rural that venezuela is poor that venezuela is illiterate that going to sway isnt seeing and looking at the evolution of the other but is not benefiting from it. As venezuelas elite rich and its poor getting left behind the forces for democracy once again dad to take on a dictator. You begin to see rumblings in the military you begin to see younger officers protest in much the same way they had protested before theres also an active social movement being led by dissidents in the communist party in our own democratic even the social democrats and others theyre actually cooperating to undermine the menace. Said perez humanise who is the effectively have thrown through another coup which then brings us to moccasin venezuela in one nine hundred fifty eight. Democracy had fallen to dictatorship a decade earlier right now to survive unity was a must. There is an attempt to form a pact so eydie comes to the table with its union impossible its who framework copay comes to the table the christian democrat right so what you have around the table is essentially all of the key financial and political interests in the country the Roman Catholic church is also essentially politics in these negotiations as is the military these parties signed. And began was being called in venezuela. Meaning there was an agreement which the parties. Agreed not to go in conflicts that could risk with mr allen democracy. Venezuela was moving inexorably toward the socalled first world with growing confidence. It had broken the cycle of military coups and now the printer fiar pact ensured progress would be underwritten by democratic process. In a certain length is a kind of golden age because it has more than inflation going on now for two decades and it also has now a democracy that means to be an example for the rest of latin america. In one nine hundred sixty venezuela helped establish the organization of Petroleum Exporting countries back and in one nine hundred seventy three following the hike in oil prices after war in the middle east it was awash with patronage dollars. Venezuela was asserting itself as a global player. And in colors andrus perez it would have a president ready to take the next big step and take back its well. That was the dream of democracy and so colors and this is ive got the money why not lets do it. So we nationalize the oil industry in one nine hundred seventy five its called with it. What it essentially donts is it nationalizes the bureaucracy of Oil Exploration its nationalization to create a Company Rather than nationalization all Venezuelas Oil sector to say many of the world workers maintain their privileged status in the oil camps and this is the period in venezuela that many refer to as loving as well as the image of saudi venezuela in which the notion is that one of the terms in venezuela. Is cheap to me to venezuela have that kind of wealth. The dream of a state oil company had been realized with bad investment. Paris now im on a nationwide spending spree funding social programs housing projects and nationalizing industries with the price of crude oil at a record high such lavish spending could also be supplemented by borrowing. He wanted. An industrialized country and he could be good we had a lot of. This also puts us in loans and more loans and more than that continues as long as the price of oil is good as the all price begins to fall back venezuela doesnt reduce its financial outlays. You have this huge bureaucracy which will surges in venezuela and huge amounts of corruption government high post implicitly have the benefit of helping yourself and helping others in your Social Circle but instead of addressing any of these problems the strategy of the government is instead to or of money there. Becomes more difficult to. Under that environment. Is the election one thousand nine hundred to go to war to have a market economy. Inflation begins to take off corruption becomes an even more profound problem and yet we have no made by any of the governments in the one nine hundred eighty s. To actually address the overwhelming reliance on oil which is falling in by. Successive governments of democratic and copay did little to check the economic decline social inequality and the corruption of the ruling class. In december one thousand nine hundred eighty eight. Paris was reelected to office promising to bring back the cash which grew or years of his first. But rhetoric would be trumped by reality was he his sworn into power. He. Fills the reserve people. Go. To the. Venezuela to go to an agreement with the International Monetary fund saying there was no choice no choice at the time because an assailant was in the business. To some adjustment structure roche adjustment to launch. Their growth again the problem is greg this i. M. F. Loan comes with some very difficult terms and conditions you have you have a segment of the population that hasnt benefited from the boom times Living Conditions have been deteriorating through the eightys and now comes this i. M. F. Loan where yet again theyre feeling the effects should parents have anticipated this. Sort of certain. Because it distracted again the poor who have been already suffering it affects them even more but i would say just one step back also in terms of an alternative i think we have to keep in mind on the one hundred at that time the new liberal kind of policy paradigm was absolutely had to monitor and around the world and so it certainly appeared that way i think that there was no alternative i would argue from todays perspective there probably were some alternatives one of them would have been perhaps to actually default on that which of course you know has all kinds of other consequence in part about trying to for example tax the wealthy more or some other way of raising revenues other than cutting back on. The parts that. Have an impact on the poor what do you say to that cost people are still suffering in terms of unemployment and wages yeah because the when you change when you have to the idea in the second last on this but as a government was that the country couldnt be resorting all Oil Resources couldnt be at the pending on the state resources they had to promote private an intrapreneur ship they have to promote the participation of a business we had to promote for a National Investment in oil and in all other industries that where state owned how we could change always. Pain and but who are less sending to lessen the pain for the majority there were some of the most advance parole or arms about timing. That later on where. You know taken by brazilian man made mexico to. Have a meeting then i have a different perspective on that i mean you would you want to change us from from one day to the other into a free market economy when we have been a state economy throughout all the Twentieth Century i mean you cant do that and i think the problem was not that the taint had to come and we have still we still havent been able to have a market economy in some way that will lead us to to feed the population the thirty million of innocence that we are but the problem was the way it was put out it was a political problem the political problem was gunderson that said you know what we cant take this in what with change and were going to do a radical change would also how to play the major role in the moment were trying to cover some of those photos run on a platform and tony a liberal when he ran for president and then made this big turnaround i mean thats why there was a hundred eighty degree turn after he came into Office Actually i think it was a major impact on what happened afterwards as well actually i think thats not accurate because he said in his Electoral Campaign that he was going to bring made huge changes in in a Straight Line the economy and political round but what is true is that he represented. All the years that. We had in the senate in one thousand seven hundred standing he was perceived in one way and then does the oppo