Of Opposition LeaderMorgan Chiang Rai the u. S. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson arrives in lebanon as part of his middle east tour. And its wave has it in one thousand eight hundred up exhibition that showcases the artist and technology that heralded a moment of unprecedented cultural change. South africa is awaiting a changing of the guard after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency sumos told a step down by the governing a. N. C. Party his nine year term has been plagued by numerous corruption scandals well the stage is now set for a. N. C. Lead a civil vom opposed to become the countrys next president he will face an election next year but in the meantime hell be dealing with the many challenges including high unemployment and crime family the mother reports from johannesburg. A reluctant announcement from an embattled president i have therefore coming to the decision to resign as president of the republic with immediate effect even though i disagree with the decision of the leadership of my organization. I have always been a disciplined member of the sea 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 paperbacks 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 good was graded. Five people have been arrested after an investigation revealed that billions of dollars of state funds was siphoned from a dairy farm project into business is linked to the. Next week the National Prosecuting authority will decide if a 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 well as several ram oppose a gets ready to become south africas next leader lets take a look at his path to the presidency he started his career as a lawyer then for the National Union of mineworkers in one thousand nine hundred two and became a leading trade unionists and one thousand nine hundred four rather poser became an m. P. And chairman of the Constitutional Assembly playing the lead role in drafting south africas apartheid constitution but after missing out on becoming Nelson Mandela as deputy he withdrew from politics and went into business a move that made him one of south africas richest men with a net worth of four hundred fifty Million Dollars he was also a director of lonmin mine with thirty four striking miners were killed by police in two thousand and twelve some suggested he was to blame for the massacre the commission of inquiry cleared him of any wrong doing well lets get more on all of this now were joined by correspondent farming the minute she is live for us in johannesburg so were finally at a point farm in the many South Africans have been. Waiting days if not longer for im sure if were going to get here what can we expect then from civil wrong the policy after he was sworn in as the president. A lot of South Africans are hoping that still run of course i will bring change to the African National congress a party thats been divided and also riddled by accusations of corruption the issue around jacob zuma wasnt just that its this is a president that is facing accusations but is also a party thats protected him and also have other high ranking members of the a. N. C. Implicated in these corruption allegations so its certainly hope that. Could possibly clean house we are waiting to see what he does next is two major tasks ahead of him one is the state of a nation address thats expected to take place on friday which will outline governments plans for the coming year but also the naming of these cabinets of africans are waiting to see if hell keep on some of the ministers that served under jacob zuma people that were aligned to jacob zuma regarded as friends even cronies if you keep those ministers on of their complete a complete change of guard and what happens next with zuma especially with all of these corruption charges and the recent police raiding of the family home which has been linked to. Well the special Investigative Unit of the police has a wristed eight people seven of them have appeared in court and thats linked to an investigation around a state project meant to benefit farmers but instead money was siphoned off into accounts belonging to businesses that are linked to the group does now police are looking for five other suspects and two of them are widely speculated to be a brother and one other perhaps the son of jacob zuma design the he is a shareholder in one of the companies linked to these allegations investigation around corruption all the time being not much has been said around what happens to jacob zuma specifically we do know that next week the National Prosecuting authority will decide if it will reinstate charges and these are separate charges relating to an arms deal in two thousand and nine and we also know that there is an inquiry that will begin to these issues around whats been called state capture and just how far external influence has been into the operations within the government but jacob zuma would certainly be worried around these developments the arrests that happened in the last twenty four hours at what it could possibly mean for him Going Forward father thank you very much for that for now that is far to the miller with the latest from johannesburg thank you. Well to other news now and members of the boys Opposition Movement for Democratic Change are holding an emergency meeting after the death of their leader Morgan Tsvangirai. The mourners are gathering outside the m. D. C. Party headquarters and hadi the sixty five year old died on wednesday after a long battle with cancer he was a towering figure of the opposition and a symbol of resistance against former president Robert Mugabe. Says the system was just starts to leave theres. Just started and it says he went its just leave he said the citys going to be its easy. To tell you this its going to be sides its just so its one step is this well how do we toss a has more from. Love. Mom was a. Major economy to make ends meet i mean. That maybe some temptation or the. Problem wasnt like that idea to me. Continued the mother all seem to want the job one is. 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Deportation of a prominent member of the opposition may go to me when i was arrested after taking part in a mock swearing in ceremony Opposition Leader last month that was held in protest over last years elections a judge says the order to deport him was illegal and that his kenyan passport must be returned to him going to home for july kenyan and canadian citizenship. The u. S. Secretary of state is in lebanon for talks as part of his tour of the middle east thanks to listen as meeting their bodies president bush and Prime Minister didi on wednesday to find and a deal with children more than a billion dollars a year for the next five years lets get more on this now our correspondents say in the hall there is joining us live from outside the Government Palace in beirut so whats whats on the agenda on this visit zain at a time of so many tensions in the region including between lebanon and israel. Well yes the u. S. Secretary of state is on a Mediation Mission he wants to try to resolve the crisis between israel and lebanon over maritime borders levanon wants exploratory drilling to begin for oil and gas reserves off its coast in the Mediterranean Sea and the israelis are laying claim to block countries laying claim over this energy bloc and the u. S. Trying to mediate now the proposals that the u. S. Is putting on the table have been rejected by lebanon in the past and lebanon is clearly not happy because this proposal involves lebanon giving up up to three hundred square kilometers of territorial waters and in fact the way in which the u. S. Secretary of state was greeted this morning at the president ial palace was a message from lebanon to the United States so we are not happy the u. S. Secretary of state waited for minutes before the foreign minister came in to greet him ahead of his talks with the with the president now president ial sources saying this is not a diplomatic snogged guests have to wait for the president but clearly this is the first time an american official has been treated this way by lebanese authorities. This is certainly no progress there what about the questions the thorny issue of hezbollah which the u. S. Administration has been tough on how is that being dealt with on this visit. Well yes the trumpet ministration its policy is to contain iran but it doesnt really seem to have any strategy tillerson being more pragmatic that is how it is being described saying that we have to acknowledge that hezbollah is part of the political process in the country yes it is an armed wing but it has members in government it has members in parliament so some are saying tillerson is more pragmatic but is it in line with the trumpet ministrations policy but clearly the u. S. Has lost a lot in the middle east it has lost a lot of influence a few years back it had strong allies in lebanon and this is no longer the case now some may argue the Prime Minister has a Good Relationship with washington but at the same time he is trying to find some sort of a compromise in this country for all the political factions to Work Together so how are you going to confront a group like hezbollah which has support in lebanon of course it has its enemies not just in lebanon but across the region so so im saying to listen being more pragmatic saying that you know in one way or the other we need to acknowledge this fact and help the lebanese government become stronger than hezbollah which really has a state within a state in lebanon saying i thank you very much for that and now thats the joining us live thank you. And still ahead on the bulletin. You saw my dead body there on the floor and blood all around the floor of. The u. S. Reels from yet another School Shooting a seventeen people were killed. And the declaration that opens up access to health and education benefits for six native american tribes. Hello and welcome back well look at the weather across asia this time weve got a frontal system which is pushing across such a pan at the moment behind it were going to see some cold air pushing in bringing with it the risk of some snow showers so if you look at the forecast temperatures are falling away for tokyo their highs of nine degrees but generally a fairly quiet spell or whether youre in the course of friday still some mild air across the Korean Peninsula but that changes as we get into saturday with temperatures going subzero and on the northwest the flow were getting showers developing across the sea of japan in across much for qaida and on the western side of the northern honshu elsewhere were looking at six over to mild conditions for beijing further south shanghai looking at highs of ten across more southern parts of china taiwan the was looking pretty decent temperatures then mid twentys for hong kong fuzhou in taipei and also pretty good temperature staff one hundred in northern parts of vietnam is fine across the rest of indo china temperature thirty five in yang gone so lets now head down into southeastern parts of asia brighter conditions across much of the philippines well find conditions across borneo pretty wet across java towards east timor but through them in a pinch the weather conditions are looking pretty fine so sunshine for singapore fine conditions extend it all well to bangkok with heis here of thirty four. A lifetime of a mutation. Struck by stroke copying. Selling reproductions can pay the bills but frustrate the artist. A pilgrimage to discover his hero inspires an awakening that its more rewarding to create then to imitate. Dreaming of vincent a witness documentary at this time on aljazeera. Its good to have you with us on aljazeera and these are our top stories south africa is awaiting a changing of the guard after jacob zuma resigned from the presidency the stage is now set for a. N. C. Leaders civil rama to become the countrys next Leader Parliament to set a voter men later on thursday. Members of zimbabwes Opposition Movement for Democratic Change a whole emergency meeting knowledge of the death of their leader Morgan Tsvangirai was a towering figure and the opposition and a symbol of resistance against former president Robert Mugabe the other u. S. Secretary of state is in lebanon for talks as part of his middle east told Rex Tillerson is meeting lebanese president michel aoun and Prime Minister. Seventeen people have been killed in the u. S. State of florida after a gunman opened fire at a high school it happened in parkland north of miami police have arrested a suspect is a former student who was expelled from the school. Nicholas i go briscoes remember i carry. Was the cure all using class three and weve already begin. I began to dissect his website some things the social media that he was on and some of the things that come to mind are very very disturbing now aid is starting to trickle into some of syrias rebel held areas which under heavy bombardment on wednesday the first aid convoy mainly three months previously the safe suburb of eastern me a damascus and aid from the Uns World Food Program is on its way to government control there as well and east of the seventy first un track to the city since it fell on the ice in control in two thousand and fourteen allowed on on may god is the Deputy Director of the World Food Program and syria says he and his team got rare access and travel into the city of there as a war and reports that its being largely destroyed. This was a milestone mission for the u. N. Team in syria while four program team visited there so or day before yesterday for the first times its. 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Hundreds of palestinians jailed in israel for administers of offenses have begun boycotting court the defendants have asked lawyers not to attend their Court Sessions they accuse israels military judiciary of torture and keeping detainees in presence without charge or trial for years. Doctors without borders has dismissed nineteen Staff Members for Sexual Harassment or abuse the International Aid group says it received one hundred forty six complaints last year of those were investigated internally no details were given on where the abuse happened but the agency says its released the photos to demonstrate transparency that follows a scandal that British Charity oxfam with staff accused of using prostitutes working in haiti. Now a damning new report has highlighted an apparent rise in Sexual Assault and violence against children and a war signs a new report by save the children says there is an alarming increase in cases of killing and maiming. Reports. 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