South africas ruling party the incentives heading for its worst Election Results in twenty five years of government we ask whats going wrong with the party of nelson mandela. I would welcome im on but that shima more on the story soon but first some breaking news coming in this didnt down the tragedy involving refugees from africa in the Mediterranean Sea dozens of people are feared to have drowned when their boat sank around seventy five kilometers from the to new zealand coast the vessel was in International Waters off the town of safad south of the capital tunis the International Organization for migration says the boat had set sail from libya. Joining me now is joan milan he is from the International Organization on migration in geneva just firstly can you confirm the number of casualties from this tragedy we understand that it is at least fifty weve seen reports various media of up to seventy we havent heard that but we believe at least fifty is correct sixteen survivors is what weve heard and what can you tell us about the circumstances of the tragedy i dont know a whole lot there have been a little bit more activity and weve been hearing more about rescues at sea in the last few weeks its been a remarkably low transit year we have talked about in a press release today mediterranean arrivals across the region thats three routes including the libya route. Seventeen thousand so far this year and that compares to as recently as two summers ago wed have months where we had twenty thousand arriving so its really relative to what has been the emergency since the mid part of this decade has really come down in numbers significantly and yet still remains deadly for some not you know what has issuances the boats was coming from libya any details afterwards as to who was on the boat. I havent heard of any i know that this boat is believed to have left from sowada in libya on the coast which is a popular disembarking location we understand theres another boat that must believe to have disembarked from homes another city known for its coastal activity the. The passengers tend to be subsaharan african or horn of africa refugees and migrants but it weve had different mixes of nationalities over the years but the. Subsaharan is the most consistent and we havent heard any details on any of these boats yet. But we should know that by the end of the day the boat sent a distress signal in International Waters closer to nis a you talked about survivors who went to their rescue and this im not i dont have that information we understand tunisian authorities first reported it but we understand that in the case of the other boat that was involved and not now i am not sure who was anywhere near the same location as a libyan coast guard so Different Actors different waters i cant really say i dont have those details at the moment yeah the details are still very skinny sketchy distills coming in a jungle month like you very much for bringing us up to date of from geneva youre watching with the International Organization for migration thank you very much. Thats an international standoff that could have far reaching and negative consequences for the Global Economy at the stroke of midnight washington time the United States increased tally of on some to two hundred billion dollars of imports from china the move comes as the two sides failed to resolve the dispute over trade over the last year as investors appear to have taken a fine hoss from the fact that talks are due to start up again today. Joining me now is cliff its comin and analysts from the dove News Business says welcome clifford what do you make of these latest developments now the status so imposed on china by washington as talks are set to continue on trade yes and as you remember as well these are coming after they were already extended so it is its quite a significant move i think it means that america is trying to show that its strong and that goes the nation its going to follow true and also show a little bit but its not worried by by the developments and it doesnt fear china its almost its almost like a boxing match you know weve got a lot of flexing of muscles in the in the build up and people say i can do this i can do this so i think thats just the drama we heard it from say that these talks are going on in what he called a congenial man a but do you see this movie as an escalation of the dispute i see it as an escalation i see two very different goes aging styles that work he may describe as congenial and he likes to see himself as the master of the art of the deal for china this is a negotiator who goes and has the talks and then comes back to xi jinping and she says no so its two very different styles of work china has said it read retaliate does it have the means to retaliate well one of the things weve seen in recent weeks is just the strength of the chinese economy i mean this is a battle between the the worlds two biggest economies china second its on its way to becoming the biggest so it certainly has a lot of economic clout behind it that it can it can carry into this conflict on both sides the people in the u. S. And china other large about. The impact of this trade dispute i think they are i think in the u. S. Theres a worry that it will feed into difficulties for the u. S. Consumer and maybe lead to a Slower Economy and in china theres also fears about how this china is viewed whether china is seen as weak and also its translation its difficulties particular in the southern part of china where a lot of the manufacturing takes place so i think this is being closely watched on both sides and what about the markets what kind of outcome other hoping for of the hoping for an agreement there jeffrey to hoping for an agreement initially we saw that they had they the markets had risen which suggested they were expecting one but just in the in the last few hours with america opening up we see the markets are falling again so hard to know what the market is expecting theyre looking at a little bit more pessimistic than they were a few hours ago and they want to implications of this dispute isnt there cliff that given that so much of the world is dependent on trade with china and the u. S. Absolutely i mean the spillover particularly here in europe a lot of big Car Companies here in europe are watching this big economies like germany are watching this to see what will happen because some of the rules of be applied to china will also be applied to to other markets such as germany france the spillover potential also in terms of peoples sentiment and how they feel is is quite significant so theres going to be a lot of fear about that perhaps right cliff its good and thank you very much for that analysis. If you listen to look at some other stories making news around the was german turkish journalist and is a huge deal has revealed to a court that he was tortured while imprisoned in a turkish chain and says he holds turkeys president. John personally responsible you just spent a year behind bars without being formally indicted and is now on trial accused of making terrorist propaganda. And anti book militias set up to fight the extremists terrorist Group Boko Haram has released nine hundred children that it had enlisted the civilian joint task force resul militia and im with the Nigerian Military has signed an agreement to end child recruitment to friends soldiers have been killed while risking four hostages in book enough aso two of the hostages the french tourists who disappeared while on a visit to a while back reserved last week the other two were american and south korean nationals islamic extremists have become increasingly active in. Me to south africa now where the Ruling African National congress is in the lead after the general election more than ninety percent of the votes have now been counted but is that in sees worst performance in a National Poll instead of five years in government the vote is a first test of public sentiment since president saddam replaced the scandal head jacob zuma last year and he. Joined chris joins me now from cape town and south africa and didnt want does this result mean for the African National congress did they anticipate a drop in support as a result of a showing so far. In front of the South African Parliament that has been dominated since the end of apartheid by the a. N. C. But since two thousand and four the number of the voters has been declining and this is the trend we also see in this election as you can clearly see that more and more people are not satisfied with their performances specially when it comes to the economy of the country there is the countrys going through an economic crisis theres hardly any growth and the unemployment rates are skyrocketing more than every second person in the country is not employed and this is of course frustrating a lot of the young people and this is obviously one of the reasons why they might not have gotten as many votes as they did put in past elections we have to say they still have a comfortable majority and the second Strongest Party has still thirty five percent less votes than the n. C. Now given the been some complaints about of the electoral process was this a free and fair ballot. See there was a video that emerged on twitter shortly after the elections of a voter who took of the income from his stump the ink that you got on you get you get on your thumb after the process of voting and that sparked a huge speculation whether it was possible to double vote to basically just cast a vote in one polling station move to the next one and vote again today there were thirty five smaller parties who walked out of the meeting with the Electoral Commission demanding a proper audit into these allegations of double voting and Mike Christine one who has been talking to people in the city of johannesburg about it and they were also quite concerned you still have youll encounter them can you show to us some people say that people were able to avoid twice because the in came off no no one to two eyes would do once and. I think it was being investigated because of people voted twice to see just to be investigated so that it results because no you. Voted with. The results. So im going for what christine was saying and what youve been saying this appears to have been some a lot of irregularities in these elections how have South African parties reacted to these allegations. The Police Arrested about twenty suspects for a legit stubble voting but the Electoral Commission said there is no evidence whatsoever that there was any double voting going on so what more people are getting concerned and more and more people demanding an audit under increase in capetown south africa thank you very much for your reporting on the South African elections. Paris maybe wealthy and chic but like many other large cities it has Homeless People living on the streets one of them started using social media to draw attention to what its like living rough and he soon collected more than thirty thousand twitter followers and got the year of the authorities that was the start of a passionate fight for Better Living conditions for the paris home this. Christian posh knows what it means to lead an insecure unstructured life he spent over three years hanging out with this group of Homeless People at the plus sun mart in paris he used to have a well paying job as a sawmill year but after his wife left him he developed a drinking problem and when he could no longer pay the rent he ended up on the streets and. This is one of the places i slept in but a few weeks later they installed these typically anti homeless barriers in their place deliberately so no one can bed down here. And the homeless barriers have popped up all over paris some in places where people sleep due to warm air from the Metro Christian reacts to them by tweeting with results. To the city of paris and put in iron rods to prevent access you can still see the traces. They would have stopped people from being able to sleep there in winter when its cold. I posted it on twitter and the next day the authorities removed the iron rods. From is a good. Christian began tweeting three years ago after his possessions were soaked by street cleaners in winter he wrote this is how the homeless are treated in paris within a few months he had over thirty thousand followers. In the morning to say hello to the planet and at night to talk about what was going on on the streets. I take a picture of my sleeping back and say good night guys and go to bed. And people who dont say goodnight see you tomorrow what i thought that was cool. People who live on the streets often feel like pariahs but christian part has given them a voice and his activism has spread beyond paris people now send in pictures of barry a spell swear in fronts this ones in front of an air store in not born in the country south will certainly get rid of those barriers. This busy christian is glad that his tweets can change things for the better. His own situation has also improved his no longer living on the streets but has found accommodation with a christian aid organization. Thats big day on wall street the Ride Sharing Service is having its long awaited i. P. O. Listing shares for the first time in its history shares the price at forty five dollars each in the initial Public Offering thats lower than expected the still raising its point to one billion dollars but it could be a few hours before interest and levels among the investors are clear the cautious start may have been driven by doubts about the ability of right here in services to make much money which have been raised rising since it was named driver lift went public six weeks ago. But despite all this excitement and was st its a decidedly bumpy a rifle on the main street in the same week drivers bent to strike a working conditions a new study is putting a dent in one of was Central Claims the davies reporter william know of new craft joins me now for more on that welcome so what does this study would have what does it say well of course one of the Central Claims that Companies Like it make is that they are reducing congestion and traffic in cities because you dont need a private car when you can use your lifter or other ride hayling companies so a team of experts from the university of kentucky wanted to see if this was true and they decided to focus on San Francisco on San Franciscos request which is one of americas most congested cities and the home base of goober and lift and what they saw was no its not true actually between two thousand and ten and two thousand and sixteen which is the years that lift were getting really popular all around america congestion in San Francisco actually went up more than sixty percent and they attributed more than half of that congestion that added congestion due to and lift they were able to take away over a lift in their studies and they saw that congestion only went up twenty two percent when you dont count in love with private cars so what that suggesting is that there is more traffic because of lift in those kinds of companies and more private cars in San Francisco look you know the study is the San Francisco the cool off but the problem isnt and that does it no certainly no this is not unique to San Francisco congestion is a major problem with cities all around the United States and really all around the world as infrastructure tries to keep up with population booms a major study from last year by one of the experts leading experts on transit mobility in new york city show that in nine of americas densest cities ride Healing Services arent that far off from Public Transit of overtaking Public Transit rides. That there were more than six hundred thousand more cars on the roads there between two thousand and twelve and. Sixteen private cars this is the same time that we are getting a lot of traction in these cities and its still more private traffic or gargle so the fact that were now existing as an option to get around the city so what is the program like taking in over another form of consulate well sure i mean the cost of taking the new ball or a lift is not really reflected in what users pay its an incredible burden on City Infrastructure on roads im climate of course and when you are in that when youre using these services youre taking money away from other kinds of services and theres a huge income disparity as well this this survey from last year shows that the richer you are the more likely you are to take in live while poor people are taking Public Transit so people who are earning in the United States or in these nine major metro areas over two hundred thousand dollars a year are more than nine times more likely to use it for a lift or lift per year than people making less money people making less than fifty thousand dollars now this kind of a two tiered system where richer people take more comfortable modes of transportation and poor people taking mass transit thats not