Fully back to boyer watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up seventeen People Killed in a shooting at a school in the us a former student who had been expelled is held by police. Russia can push the regime to commit to seeking a real peace in syria the u. S. And russia again trade blame at the u. N. After the special envoy for syria says the violence is at its worst level for years and iran moves in on black market money traders as its sinking carrying same fix more economic pain on the people. Thank you for joining as jacob zuma has resigned as south africas president heeding orders from his ruling party the African National congress his departure ends almost nine years in power plagued by scandal tom de media has a report from chinas speck. A reluctant announcement from an embattled president i have the four coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect. Even though i disagree with the decision of of the leadership of my organization. I have always been a disciplined member of the. It came just hours before parliament was due to vote in a motion of no confidence against jacob zuma president s hand may have been forced but zuma says his party did not give reasons why he should resign thats despite being in broiled in scandal after scandal throughout his presidency including accusations of corruption and a court ruling that he had broken his oath of office when he ignored the public protect his recommendation that he paid back some of the state money used to refurbish his private residence despite all the criticism against zuma the a. N. C. Says the decision to recall him was a difficult one to make following zoomers resignation the ruling party saluted what it called his outstanding contribution and thanked him for the role he played in the a n c for many decades. Earlier in the day the home of zoomers associates a family known as the guptas was raided. Five people have been arrested after an investigation revealed that millions of dollars of state funds was siphoned from a dairy farm project into businesses linked to the group does. Next week the National Prosecuting authority will decide if the corruption charges against zuma that were dropped in two thousand and nine will be reinstated and an inquiry into the extent of external influence in seumas administration known as state capture is due to begin his removal as president may just be the beginning of zuma struggles for me to malaya aljazeera johannesburg serial rama poster faces a range of difficulties as he assumes the president this presidency despised the despite the n. C. S. Promises to build homes and improve basic services millions of people still live without electricity or water levels of Violent Crime remain among the highest in the World Official figures put unemployment at twenty seven point seven percent but some believe the figure is even higher and south africas second largest city cape town is running out of water ten b. Surf a coup de is a researcher at the Aljazeera Center for studies he says the n. C. Wants to move on from a tainted presidency before elections i think sort of the polls of accordingly seem. Insistence of removing jacob zuma was clearly to try and have a smoother electoral period because jacob zuma would have indeed impacted on the ng see winning the next elections and twenty nineteen because he sat around it and suddenly by all of these people who bring against his reputation down and again the corruption charges that are hanging over his head so it was an agent issue for the a. N. C. To get rid of jacob zuma and if that i mean if this is the only hope actually they had to replace him with sort of oppose it because if zuma was going to take and see today to the election next year many people argue that and aint seen might have is in the last elections in other world news seventeen people have been killed in the u. S. State of florida by a gunman opened fire at a high school it happened in parkland north of miami police say the suspect is a former student who was expelled well have a live update from our reporter Andy Gallagher in park and very shortly but first mike hanna has this report. Reports of gunfire will receive shortly before classes were dismissed for the day a code red alert was issued the school was locked down with many students still sheltering inside there are more than three thousand students registered at the school and the risk of operation was made more difficult by the vast size of the campus we have multiple casualties weve had approximately fourteen people transported to area hospitals with varying degrees of injuries there are multiple casualties aerial footage showed hundreds of students running from the area some of the injured being treated on the scene the suspect here we are in a maroon shirt was taken into custody. In this footage shes shown being placed on a gurney hes been identified as a nineteen year old former student at the school the Daily White House briefing was canceled because of the shooting and President Trump took to twitter my prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida Shooting he said no child teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American School in washington the senator from the state which up until now was the scene of the Deadliest School shooting five and a half years ago at sandy hook said yet again a very american tragedy had occurred the scorch of School Shooting after School Shooting it only happens here not because of coincidence not because of bad luck. But as a consequence of our inaction we are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else before this day that already being five separate School Attacks reported in this year alone a total of at least four students had been killed well over twenty injured and i was relieved parents are reunited with their children one stark fact remains the six and latest attack is likely to see reeves tragic numbers increase significantly. Mike hanna aljazeera washington lets get the latest now from Andy Gallagher who is in pocket and for us andy whats the latest shooter is in custody re understand what more do we know. Well were getting a clearer picture of what Nicholas Cruz the suspected shooter was doing and it seems like this was a very much a premeditated attack we know that he set off the fire alarm inside the school to create chaos to get the children students out of the classrooms he walked in there with an Assault Rifle a gas mask and two smoke grenades and its worth mentioning that this was a building that he knew well he knew where people would be he knew how to inflict the largest amount of damage his injuries are said to be not life threatening he is now. He is now cooperating with investigators but we still dont know what the motive is we know that he was expelled from the school some time ago the police say theyre already looking at his social media accounts at things on the internet they say theyre already finding disturbing pictures and disturbing messages so what is clear is that this young man the suspected shooter wanted to inflict as much damage as he did not the moment the death toll stands at seventeen and its becoming an all too familiar picture of attacks on school seles about the reactions the president has been speaking about this. I mean lets be fair here what you will hear from republicans is that people should pray and they will offer their condolences but when it comes to actual action to change gun laws in this country to prevent nineteen year olds getting hold of Assault Rifles when they clearly have some issues will not change it did not change after sandy hook five and a half years ago in which twenty children who were between the ages of six seven eight were killed it wont change now over the last fifteen years ive covered more Mass Shootings than i care to remember most of them the figure is way higher than this one and nothing changed then so the conversation will be had on the outskirts of politics but in reality will anything change highly unlikely the National Rifle association remains a very powerful lobbying body that gives money to politicians a lot of people in this country think the Second Amendment which gives them the right to bear arms should never be changed or even challenge to so the likelihood of anything changing even after something as tragic as this is extremely remote andy thank you very much for that Andy Gallagher life forests in parkland florida. The United Nations envoy for syria has warned that violence in the war torn country is the worst seen since taking the job four years ago so find a mysterious briefing at the Security Council prompted more finger pointing between the u. S. And russia using each other rocking past of peace from the u. N. In new york diplomatic editor james space. The deteriorating military situation dominated a Security Council meeting that was both grim ive been now for years special envoy this as violent and worrying and dangerous a moment as any that ive seen in my time he mentioned all the nations now fighting in syria the Turkish Operation around. The Assad Government is continued bombardment of an Eastern Ghouta civilians are being killed on a horrific scale and reports suggest more than one thousand see video and indeed first week of february alone he went on to describe developments in recent days the u. S. Attack on assad forces near dera zoar and israeli air strikes in syria including on iranian targets but both these operations were later defended by the Us Ambassador to the United States will always reserve the right to act in selfdefense. The assad regime has become a front for iran hezbollah and their allies to advance the irresponsible and dangerous agenda for the middle east outside the Council Chamber the french ambassador warned the situation in syria risks spiraling out of control all the ingredients are present if we do nothing about it urgently for a major. Regional and international confrontation the uns latest modest peace effort based on the outcome of a conference in the russian city of sochi seems now to be in doubt mr de mistura wants to select members of a new committee to come up with a new constitution for syria but president assads ambassador at the u. N. Rejected that one im not emotionally coffin madama i discipline of this conference did not grant any authority for mr de mistura to set up this community. Afterwards i asked him for further clarification dont get lost into the Little Details there was not me or what weve constantly seen is the Syrian Government not being prepared to fully engage with your plans isnt it now time as yet again they seem to be not engaging peter call them out on their obstruction im a diplomat and im up to thirty peter my job is not to call out anyway its actually do make sure that we move forward in the hours before the Security Council meeting the first convoy was committed since november. Every bit of help is obviously welcomed by a starving community but diplomats pointed to a familiar and somewhat cynical pattern by the Syrian Government its only when its in the international spotlight with a meeting like this with a small amount of aid is finally delivered james barrys out of his era of the United Nations. Egyptian police have arrested a prominent opposition figure accused of contacts with the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group abdel moneim aboul fotouh was a president ial candidate in the twenty twelve elections hes a staunch critic of president abdel fatah and call for a boycott of next months president ial vote a number of others who denounce their intention to run against sisi have either been arrested or forced to withdraw including a former army chief only a little known only little known politicians are left in the race to challenge sisi. Still ahead on aljazeera zimbabwean Opposition Leader morgan dies leaving behind a bitterly divided Political Movement he found it and will tell you why israel detained more than thirty palestinians in raids across the occupied west bank and east shows. How low we got a good mobile phone i weather across north america at the moment i was a cloud megan away from west to a step further routes of cloud remaining as we go on through day member only one of the weight was struggling to get celsius in dallas much warmer twenty three degrees and that was pushing up through d. C. Twenty one so just fourteen celsius there for new york north of the border into kuwait back into ontario we have got some snow flurries some snow flurries to just around the mountain states around the Northern Plains and then just some wet weather into that southwestern corner south of the border into northern parts of mexico that cloud of rain that will make its way up towards the Central Plains as we go on through friday some other weather pushing over towards the northeast including new Jersey New York maryland seeing some rather wet weather and thats case two into new england warmer though for us where temperatures getting up to one degree celsius should be largely dry laci try to into central parts of canada but some rain state the snow piling back into western canada and the phone Pacific Northwest of Washington State not too much the way of any wet weather across the caribbean over the next few days there will be want to see showers around nicaragua around costa rica pushing up towards honduras elsewhere a sloshy fine and glorious sunshine kingston with a high of twenty nine. For the congolese the journey to work at all or that means unimaginable hardship i prefer to live though because the only way to go back up into the chance of a life and live in a dangerous journey through the jungle ive gone on to the rail and nearly die. There are children of eight go to school and live because of the training risking it all the democratic republic of congo at this time on aljazeera. Welcome back a reminder our top stories on aljazeera jacob zuma has resigned as south africas president reluctant reheating orders from his ruling African NationalCongress Party hell go with immediate effect ending nine years in power marked by Scandal Police in the u. S. State of florida have arrested a man after at least seventeen people were shot and killed at a high school in parkland north of miami officers have identified the suspect as nicholas schools an eighteen year old former student who was expelled and the u. N. Special envoy for syria has warned that the violence in the water on country is the worst hes seen since taking the job four years ago Savana Mistura said hes received reports of up to one thousand civilians being killed in one week recently. As in bob ways political opposition has lost a towering figure with the death of morgan he founded the movement for Democratic Change and became a symbol of resistance against former president Robert Mugabe with whom he briefly shared power trying here i was being treated for colon cancer in neighboring south africa. Looks back at his life. To his supporters more good richard was a man who challenge zimbabwes long time leader Robert Mugabe at a time when few people day to do so but it was a long and sometimes painful journey in one thousand nine hundred nineteen get ive been a trade union leader form the Opposition Party the movement for Democratic Change in the years that followed he organized protests to try and force mugabe out of office he was beaten while in Police Custody charged with treason jailed several times and labeled a chaytor by mugabe supporters. In the two thousand and eight president ial election he won the most votes but not enough to win outright. Before a second round took place his supporters were targeted in a campaign of violence the Opposition Leader put out of the president ial race in protest regional leaders and the International Community intervened after months of negotiations saying that i was sworn in as Prime Minister in two thousand and nine it was a temporary power sharing government but mugabe was still the president. Remembered fundamentally in the sense that he broke. Into god this will include those in the eightys when we got before the first term of this did last. The first president. In almost the majority. Of the diligence in that is weve been done since then to doing. That. For years later another elections took place this time m. D. C. Party lost by a huge margin his critics