union ambassador to the u.s. said during a discussion about how to take me to the quote in africa the conversation is not even begun we are nowhere near where we need to be what's your reaction to that. i very much agree with embassador and my country ghana conversation has been extremely muted about me too and the sense that people have not been publicly name in those who have violated them those who have assaulted them people have actually been speaking about the need for us to have this conversation but no one is really speaking of that's because the consequences for woman who name people who violate them is really still to hash in about a few years ago in twenty fifteen that prominent. public personality quickly changed the chua was allegedly accused of raping a young woman there were people who were witnesses to the fact that she had been abused by this man she went to hospital the doctors verified that she had been sexually assaulted the state of gamma took up a case back to this woman was vilified in the p

mediation of the african union the hype limitation twenty one others but i think at the end of the day it's for sudanese if there is if there is the political will among sudanese then we can do so legally but the problem is the question is the n.c.p. is ready to engage seriously to actually move the country for and agree on how this continues going to be governed and ruled by also the knees that is the that is the question which is remain to be seen the orchestrated the so-called national develop and which is indeed did nothing and that you condition is not been implemented are nothing happening and now. i think the sudanese have to agree on how to govern the country that yes we need the support of the international community but at the end of the day is this the sudanese they have to address that they have to agree on how to move things war and how to work together to serve the country from actually the brink of collapse and bankruptcy i think that is what we need to do as a sudanese and we need the help of our friends from the international community they waited for the process of re

need the lead of the african union in order to shore european partners that we know what we're doing and we know what other are concerned what is what is the most urgent task right now for this body all of these need to be addressed sumo tenuously you cannot just take one separately from the others they have to be taking that into account in your sleep when we're talking about the how there is also a development branch of the g five so how called. meaning that you cannot take away the security aspect of it without addressing the development needs of the region so we're doing both at the same time again it's a complex situation it's a multi-dimensional situation so all of those issues need to be addressed at the same time ok let's move on to the issue of human rights if we can foreign minister one of our teams was recently at the mali mauritania border and they encountered a number of mali and specifically from timbuktu who had crossed into mauritania that currently some fifty seven thousand refugees at the matter refugee camp in mauritania and most of them say they come from money ca

we are in trouble to come pilger the african union has agreed on a vision twenty three and above the need to put an end to instability conflicts wars and the issue of the people displaced in places like sub-saharan africa south sudan different parts of africa and your critics say basically you've paid to address those issues and then you come into the richest nations to provide you help or to police the world order that you've failed to protect yourselves. there first before i respond to that and i just also want to add. those must is that i skipped you can understand you know you can't avoid. to discuss the demographic impacts of migration on their own that was doing states. you know very well that it's done to prevent blindness for its people you know. they missed on the demographic. figures about a bore and. needs a plan and here all the civil service education and all of the social. services that acquired to be provided to the people by government and so they. and primed for. the influx of people to some strange words on a variant exactly you imagine especially for there was more

the rudy has issued arrest warrants for its former president and other officials for years now the african union's representative in mali is accused of being involved in the nine hundred ninety three assassination of show undervalue burundi's first elected leader italy's foreign minister some of the egyptian ambassador to demand justice for those behind the murder of italian student julia regaining it follows prosecutors in rome announcing plans to investigate members of egypt's secret service the cambridge graduate student disappeared in january twenty sixth seen his body was found the following month with signs of torture in the desert outside cairo and a british students facing trial in egypt after taking a photograph of a military helicopter nineteen year old muhammad fathy hossam was detained in arrival at alexandra airport last week on the marriott international hotel chain says it's been the victim of a major data breach involving at starwood reservation database the hack may have affected five hundred million accounts marriott says it's been happening since twenty fourteen the data

but has issued arrest warrants for its former president and other officials for your years now the african union's representative in mali he's accused of being involved in the nine hundred ninety three assassination of. india's first elected hutu leader the murder in the two years of civil war between the hutu and tutsi groups. unicef is warning of an unprecedented humanitarian disaster the children in central african republic it says tens of thousands could starve to death as rival groups battle for control of land and resources reports. these are the victims of one of the world's most forgotten conflicts starving children fill central african republic only pediatric hospital and their frail bodies are fighting an invisible enemy hunger to inform on placed in one place. it's really sad because it's an illness that can be prevented but we see dozens of cases if for a day sometimes children arrive here in a very serious condition they go straight to the emergency ward and some die it's really painful. the u.n. says children a suffering the most in the fighting that began in two thousand and

union and french soldiers but it's had limited impact several ceasefire deals have been signed and violated leading to a worsening humanitarian crisis and both sides accused of war crimes all feel kroc is an africa analyst and author of distant justice the impact of the international criminal court on african politics he says the i.c.c. isn't actually doing a good job at bringing high profile suspects to court. yes it's all me is in effect a middle ranking act in the violence in central african republic there's no doubt that he's charged with extremely serious crimes but but within central african republic he's not considered one of the big fish and so the suspicion around his case is that we're seeing something that we've seen with many of the other i.c.c. cases across africa which is that the court is going off to suspects who are available rather than those who have potentially the most responsible for these crimes in fact the i.c.c. only issued an arrest warrant for ye khatam when he fired this rifle in the palm and he was then arrested by the current government so he was in jail and th

it's a strong message to the leaders of armed groups as the political dialogue with the african union approaching us. central african republic has suffered years of violence u.n. forces have recently been on the streets of the capital bangui and elsewhere fighting just a few days ago reportedly killed at least forty people tom's extradition to the international criminal court in the hague is thought to be the first from ca our prosecutors say they're determined he won't be the last rob matheson al-jazeera in northern california the search for human remains has been stepped up in the aftermath of the raging wildfires there seventy seven people are confirmed dead and about one thousand i'm missing as christensen we discovered the city of chico is struggling to accommodate an influx of event. evacuees from the wildfires take solace in some music in the company of newfound friends but their retreat to a church shelter has brought new challenges an outbreak of norovirus and other gastrointestinal problems i threw up for three days in. my parents for three days i was sick three day. about t

it's a strong message to the leaders of armed groups as the political dialogue with the african union approaches. central african republic has suffered years of violence u.n. forces have recently been on the streets of the capital bangui and elsewhere fighting just a few days ago reportedly killed at least forty people yet on his extradition to the international criminal court in the hague is thought to be the first from ca our prosecutors say they're determined he won't be the last rob matheson al-jazeera government leaders in tanzania may soon have two hundred thousand tonnes of cashew nuts on their hands the government plans to buy the entire crop to try and end the price dispute between farmers and traders as catherine sawyer reports the army's brought in and as processing workers are sent home. day nest number is have a sting the last of her cash not crop that it's been a bad idea a disease or dries of food has men she's only managed to fill seven sacks instead of the usual forty on average to make matters worse middlemen offered to buy them at an unacceptably low price that of c

backed african union initiative has stalled russia together with sudan is trying to broker a peace deal between the fourteen active militia groups. or. the i'm here is to avoid a blood she'd so i've traveled the country and meet with various rebel leaders to get them around the table. in july three russian journalists were killed in car they claimed these russian instructors are in fact mercenaries working for a private security company called wagner's which has close ties to the crowd and. so how tough denies these claims that i was about what wagner this is just an urban legend these are russian reservists nothing more than. wherever they are twenty seven years after the fall of the soviet union the russians are stepping back in the heart of africa at a time when the west and notably france the former colonial powers retreating. with more weapons and instructors on the way this may be just the beginning nicholas hawk al-jazeera baringo the central african republic. since an argentine navy submarine with forty four crew members on board went missing in the self atlantic ocean and sea s

calls a forgotten conflict in central african republic. of into the new the u.k. prime minister truth may has won the backing of the cabinet for a draft deal struck with the european union this is may says the decision is a decisive step towards a final deal paul brennan reports. the maritime cabinet meeting concluded after five hours the outcome theresa may has the backing of her government ministers at least. the choices before us were difficult particularly in relation to the northern ireland backstop the collective decision of cabinet was that the government should agree the draft withdrawal agreement and the outline declaration and there was a deeply personal phenolic i believe that what i owe to this country is to take. decisions are in the national interest and i firmly believe with my head and my heart that this is a decision which is in the best interests of our entire united kingdom since the first leaks of the draft rex a deal emerged on choose the evening has been a feeble use fear in westminster ahead of the cabinet meeting there was a boisterous sess

union and french forces already there but since the cease fires have been signed violated all the sides have been accused of war crimes. one man wanted by both the us government. he was once rebel but is now in charge of the neighborhood p.k. five in the capital buggy and in this exclusive interview with al jazeera he tells nicholas her kill stay and defend his people in hiding but still in charge surrounded by young heavily armed teenage boys is. otherwise known as general force accused of war crimes including a murder torture rape in extortion the government wants his arrest. but he's not ready to give himself up and if. need is he said we are nine thousand in this neighborhood ready to defend our people they are safe when they pick a fight a neighborhood because of us they are under threat from the christian militias the government forces and u.n. soldiers. in april soldiers belonging to the un stabilizing force in car backed by the central african army stormed forces hideout in an attempt to arrest him. but despite being better equipped they were outnumbered and retreated the raid w

libya's difficulties of further complicated by the competing interests of european union rivals italy and france both have energy investments in the country and back opposite sides while france wants to stabilize the lawless south with its proximity to former french colonies in the hell italy wants an end to the flow of migrants across the mediterranean if all concerned can rally behind the new un plan that would be a minimal measure of success here but it would amount to little more than a contribution to the peace process still a long way from peace itself jonah how al-jazeera sicily persons prime minister tourism a says her government is close to a proposed deal with the european union on brecht says a process has been stalled over how to keep the irish border open after the u.k. quits the e.u. and by deep political divisions within the british government and parliament speaking at the lord mayor's banquet in london she said talks was an intense stage there casey ations for our departure now is the endgame and we are working extremely hard through the night to make you progress on

on the one hand the north african states the bilateral so we are not only in the middle of that but also there are discussions going on between individual states in the e.u. the european continent with these countries and i think what the europeans are trying to do is to share the burden of the hundreds of thousands or millions that have crossed during the last few years and try to diversify their locations where processing centers can be put up other shirking their responsibilities. who the the european nations they saw that during the last few years they received millions. and they believe that many countries in africa where transit countries where we know some countries like egypt became a destination and transit and the transit in other words some people come and remain a digital some try to go further so many countries in north africa became distillation but all across it so not only europe i think there is a there is a way for the europeans and also africans and others in the continent to really find. find a way out of this the way out of this is really a policy robust policy

union she's also a mother and brings her five month old daughter to work she says she does this to show people that they need to change their minds about what women can do. or not is just one of five women candidates competing against thirty one men to be president . women have for years stepped back from political power and so america as a society has become used to that but i work hard to promote women there are minimal i guess a proverb says a woman cackle like chicken they talk too much these ideas have to change. just seven percent of political parties in madagascar have women in leadership roles while madagascar's constitution does protect women there are no specific laws promoting gender equality with the african development community had called on member states to get hard for all government positions filled by women white twenty fifteen madagascar didn't achieve that target before the country's last election a new law was proposed that with the equal representation of men and women in political leadership a male dominated finot rejected that poll. long after in the build up to

union women's rights and peace on top of her priorities one thing that you would see it taught to the absence of peace mainly victimizes women to drink my presidency my main focus is to ensure peace by moving all ethiopian women peace loving men and all peoples of the world who love peace. change is underway ethiopia's reformist prime minister ahmed last week appointed a streamlined to twenty person cabinet in which half the posts are held by women including in charge of the defense ministry and the newly created ministry of peace supervising police and domestic security the new president is also a strong advocate for an end to religious ethnic and gender discrimination it is the prisoner shows that tempers that washington every fiscal year two boys houses the opera and there are houses to gaiety you know i like the guy the guidance of the government's activities for in coming years so it's it's not just saturday morning i would say but from her speech this morning i also gathered that the presidency is always can become what you make of it the determination in her speech is quite qui

secretary general antonio to be his key link to the african union is the thoughts of. chief at the standard newspaper she says even though this role is largely ceremonial the president still has potential to lead reform. ambassadors how they work has. very extensive experience in being a diplomat serving your country as a diplomat first and also moving into a separate post as was in the united nations. position her last one was in nairobi and i know i'm sorry her last one the one that she just resigned from was the representative of the u.n. secretary general and to the african you need she was based in ethiopia but she has had more than thirty years of experience as a. diplomat in the past. you know many say it's largely ceremonial by the course to shoot it is also easy to depict it as a ceremonial but it's important to rick recognize that it is the prisoner shyness that tempers that motion every fiscal year two boys houses the after and there are houses. being you know the guy and the guidance of the government's activities for in coming years so it's it's not just c

and in late july some 600 africans did just that, breaching the border en masse. thastactic of the migrants h been to gather in sufficient numbers so they can overwhelm the spanish guards. normally in the past, scores of sub saran africans could be seen along the road between tangier and ceuta making their way to a from camps deep in the forests near ceuta, waiting for an opportune moment to enter the spanish enclave. d but now it'sifferent. we are trying to find african migrants who are hiding out as they attempt to find a way through to get to europe. but the locals we've spoken to so far say the africans have disappeared. back in the old town in tangier we found some lying a cheap hotel, where they face consta eviction. we met a 29-year-old man from senegal, who didn't want to be identified. he said he feared being murdered. he was sharing a room with two fellow nationals. and had just made his way back to tangier after twice being arrested by police andd to the south of the country. >> ( translated ): they wanted to take us, to put us somewhere, a long way fro

union do you accept that in the past your government has been involved in repression in that areas in those areas and is that something that's ending. you know what was taking place in south kordofan and blue nile was very much connected to what takes place in south sudan the movement that took up we were punched in those two areas was for the time being part of the governing party in south sudan it was religion between them was obvious. because of what is happening right now in south sudan we believe that it is now very much timely to either raise the issue of the willian in south kordofan and blue nile. which is really really in the eye perspective and to see to it that also level of violence in those areas subsites but clearly there are people on the ground in those areas who have grievances how do you meet those grievances we address that matter before we respect the south sudan. formula for peace and equally asian for social healing and we feel that the same would also apply to those two areas because the other issue is human rights and there are still human rights abuses accordi

in two thousand and nine mama to get their feet was elected chairman of the a fricken union he mediately vowed to pursue his vision of pan african unity including a unified african army and the single african currency all part for united states of africa later that same year get their female his first ever visit to the united states of america and took the stage at his maiden united nations general assembly a millennium of just eleven about me yes. yes yes yes other than i did they. don't. know some as. well as. far from having been rehabilitated the man called the mad dog of the middle east by a us president was showing his true colors and baring his teeth at those who believed they'd brought him to heel. they were trying to rehabilitate him and the international community but if you see his speech in front of the arabic summit and also in the. in the u n it seemed like he didn't change when he called the security council the council of terror but he came to the united nations i think that's what he. destroy all of the hope that those countries they had in this show the so the real gadh

in the days of the soviet union the kremlin maintained strong ties with african nations but the collapse of the soviet union in the ninety nine thousand schools russia to retreat it would now it appears of ready to once again establish close relationships on the continent in recent months russia has built minute she partnerships with uganda democratic republic of congo and the central african republic the kremlin has also shipped arms to cameroon and has announced plans to build a nuclear power plant in sudan for some african countries the attention from moscow is tempting so how would this situation develop and what does russia want out of it joining us to discuss this in moscow. she's a senior research fellow at the institute for african studies of the russian academy of sciences in new york ro not go potus he's a director at signal risk and exclusively african risk advisory firm also in new york ideality dot here he was in nairobi based reporter with quartz africa and here in our studio he's a senior fellow with the carnegie endowment for international peace working in the russia and

union or r t codd which is japan's relationship with africa you know it gets the the leaders of all of the countries thinking of themselves not only as representing one country but also as part of a region so from that perspective they're sitting there the leaders of these countries are sitting there with sheen's abbay the prime minister of japan and they're representing a region so certainly i think that play some role in bringing them together other considering do you think whether this is good for the rest of the world in a serious question here because this time yesterday on this program we were talking about the u.n. latest report on what's going to happen to the world's climate and in theory if it edges towards being a temperature rise of getting towards two degrees celsius as opposed to one point five degrees celsius the geography of this entire region might be dramatically different and it might also be underpinned by an increasingly dangerous trend for global weather events yeah absolutely i mean i think that you know there are when it comes to the issue of climate change t

two boats have been detained in malta a tiny island state off the african coast which is the smallest member of the european union it has received nineteen thousand people since two thousand and two almost all were rescued at sea the numbers of those attempting to cross have fallen since ngo ships were barred from operating but official figures make clear the result the u.n. says one thousand seven hundred migrants have died at sea since the beginning of twenty eighteen need barker reports now from malta the capital letter the lifeline is in limbo. the refugee rescue ships been impounded here for one hundred days the volunteer crews played a vital role in saving thousands of lives but the maltese all thought he ses being carrying out missions without a proper license there is simply no independent minds for magnussen long central mediterranean route specially bear witness to how many people are drowning. the ship's german captain was in court on tuesday he faces a possible prison sentence proceedings were adjourned to december this case is all about the maltese government wanting to s

when gadhafi was elected chairman of the african union in two thousand and nine u.s. officials squared concerned in an embassy cables revealed by wiki leaks they noted that libya will seek to use a chairmanship to aggrandise him and promote his united states of africa proposal. u.s. multinationals were also unhappy with the libyan leader especially his decision to cancel it one billion dollars deal with the bechtel corporation the largest engineering company in the u.s. with powerful connections in washington. the fact that an operator with bechtel's connections and deep pockets was ultimately unable to secure its contract serves as a caution airy tale for the many u.s. and western companies seeking to enter libya's booming market and for other u.s. companies considering major investment projects here. gadhafi also antagonize france after being courted by president nicolas sarkozy the libyan leader canceled major arms deals. and reacted. to the feel of the short. cut of. the call cost even shipping list of some more acquire if you don't bow to the. best you know you d

the policy of the african union come for critical structure and development. this is in addition to egypt's hosting of the african union center for post conflict reconstruction development and the community of foreign states counterterrorism center second we need to continue our efforts to implement the initiative launched by egypt during the membership of the un security council to put in place a comprehensive international framework to develop policies and both cooperation in order to counter terrorism and terrorist narratives in this context we welcome the secretary general's initiative to convene the un conference on counter terrorism last june. following your degree view of the united nations count there is a strategy. you know it. as you're aware where egypt is engaged is the beginning of this year in the comprehensive cooperation operation sinai twenty eighteen to combat and decisively eradicate terrorism this is taking place through a comprehensive strategy that integrates security ideological and development dimensions based on this experience on egyp

the african asian african union mr koga me will be inviting to a summit in vienna and i'd like to thank president hugo for his support on this as well finally but thanks to all of the inhabitants of south spork i know you've had to face a lot of disruption and massive security and inevitably a lot of traffic over the past couple of days in your city i'd like to thank you nevertheless for your kindness and your hospitality during this summit i'm very grateful to the executive side of things the administration and the organizers i think the summit has been very successful i hope you such a home here as austrian federal chancellor is very much hope that the midges you send across the globe will encourage a few tourists here and there to maybe come to austria for the holidays next year and many thanks if you've enjoyed please come back privately as well chaffed the summit you've been council president done since. let me start by thinking that beautiful fifty a valve to. the australia your presidency and your personality it's about. the whole thing it is remarkable summit it's truly impressi

and north african countries to try to help them keep refugees out of the european union even though it's the legal rights to try and come and seek asylum so it is fortress europe in absolutely full tilt under the austrian presidency ok lawrence lee thank you still ahead on al-jazeera starvation on an unprecedented scale aid agencies say more than five million again many children are at risk and needles in strawberries the australian prime minister val's to get tough for those threatening the country's fruit industry. hello once again the relentless heat continues across a good parts of iraq into kuwait either side of that temperatures not ferentz. badly across much of the middle east chiles of one of two showers just around the caspian sea but essentially it does look largely fine and dry thirty celsius there in beirut there's a heat for baghdad forty two degrees forty four for kuwait city could be even a touch warm as we go on into friday little further east kharaj it thirty one celsius pakistan looking good over the next day as i didn't get to work across the arabian peninsula hig

union mission which has been mandated to set up the hybrid or for south sudan the un can only prove he is which is what the commission has been doing to hand over to a prosecutor one day with the hybrid forty six we've also ensured that the way in which we have you need our evidence is to allow all of those states who are able to prosecute on the basis of extraterritorial jurisdiction those who are responsible for torture and six will violence our rights sukkot we thank you very much for speaking to us from geneva. and a few moments we'll have the weather with kevin but still ahead on the al-jazeera news our camp david accords turned fourteen we look at the historic peace agreement between israel and egypt and the new n.f.l. season is only into its second week and there have been are ready to have already been some shop results the town has got all the details coming up a little later in sports it's. from the neon lights of asia. to the city that never sleeps. it has been about seventy two hours since we saw florence make landfall near wilmington north carolina now the rain is final

now the european union is debating whether hungary should lose its voting rights in the brawl congress prime minister viktor orban is accused of implementing policies that go against the e.u. is democratic values critics say his undermining the electoral system judicial independence and press freedom is cracked down on immigration has also proved controversial speaking in the parliament obama defended defended his record on law is less likely schmidt retiree we do have contentious issues and we will have them in the future we have a different picture about the nature of christianity in europe about the role of nations national culture we think differently about the essence and purpose of the family and we endorse a radically different view on immigration if we want to be united in just these differences cannot be a reason to brand other countries and have them be excluded from joint decisions there isn't a butler has the latest from the european parliament in strasburg. well victor orbán hungary's fov right prime minister had come to strasbourg to defend himself and he made a defiant

the trade union federation cosatu says it will fight any resistance to transforming the economy where it would have a central leader and have this very same people who were previously beneficiaries of drivers of us in them lamenting about the police are just trying to redress the imbalance of the past is beyond mr vyas and within an organisation like solidarity is a very strong it's lucullus leaders of the solidarity trade union say the share scheme will only worsen divisions between workers and the union says if sasol executives don't change their minds complaints will be made to south africa's human rights commission and the united nations. al-jazeera sikandar south africa. let's bring in our panel joining us in johannesburg dirk herman who you just saw in the piece he is the c.e.o. of the solidarity trade union and from cape town via skype. lecturer of the university of western cape and author of turn can several save south africa also in johannesburg denis george general secretary of the federation of unions of south africa walk on to all mr herman what's wrong with suttles share

union has to find ways to move forward on its own. very much taking the time to join us there from new york a protest has been held in the yemeni city of tire ahead of friday's un led peace talks to end the country's three year war the protesters are calling for the warring parties at the geneva meeting to address the plight of tarsus residents they've been living under siege for years friday's talks with the first between yemen's government and who's the rebel since two thousand and sixteen it's unclear if a delegation from the rebels will show up. at this hour journey even before the start of the geneva talks to who these claim they have the right to control and govern yemen their claim is rotten and puts pressure on the international community to deal with them what kind of peace can we have with such a group that does not believe in the rights of other people. joins us live now from geneva so david these talks have already been delayed by a day any word on whether the hooky delegation will turn up. the latest we have from the unit

union wanted to send in five thousand troops to protect civilians two years ago the boring to government refused to accept outside interference. the european union suspended direct financial aid to the burundian government in protest against the violence in defiance but indeed became the first country to officially withdraw from the international criminal court. shortly after the pullout last october i.c.c. judges announced they were investigating whether they'd been crimes against humanity in burundi and why at least one thousand two hundred people were killed in the last three years the streets of beijing border are now quiet there be no major protests in a while opposition leaders say that's because many of the supporters have fled or are scared local groups such as the people attached to the ruling party the are occurring which is really in part as you swaying are taking land of people taking property of people and doing sign a climate of total impunity because the government one tactic against them because these are the people in two thousand and sixteen who went on the streets beat

the un african union mission in darfur is. almost worthless as a reporting source unum had just lied shamelessly claimed that they've been completely successful all their goals have been achieved there was no fighting just small arms banditry. this was nonsense and they knew it was nonsense but they couldn't afford to say publicly just how great the failure was they won't say anything that khartoum doesn't allow them to say and in that sense without the lifeline of radio to bang the news the lives and livelihoods of people in darfur are at deep deep risk. despite the critically important rule that radio de bunga plays for sudanese audiences the broadcaster now finds its future under threat the station relies on funds from a consortium of e.u. states and n.g.o.s but european governments are now working with the sudanese authorities to fight terrorism and to stem the flow of refugees heading north and that is having serious effects on the station's funding it's drying up which could mean that radio debunkers days are numbered. o

much trade as much business as she possibly can in readiness for britain's pulling out of the european union. well there has been a longstanding focus on deepening the economic relationship with key sub-saharan african economy is a lot likely preceding this trip for some time however there is this greater impetus behind being able to secure additional trade agreements looking post twenty nineteen most african countries certainly the key ones with which the u.k. has engaged have had a reasonably robust growth track record and this is what this trip has to be seen in light of being able to strengthen those existing economic ties so it's win win pretty much isn't it south africa let's just concentrate on so that ruka for today but it is win win is the south africa is in dire need of as much business as it can possibly drum up for its own economic prosperity which is in the doldrums at the moment. certainly if we look at the regions two big economies south africa and nigeria growth are certainly disappointed in the recent past anything that can be done to raise the level of investment to raise t

union the united nations a veto body that they can intervene. still in the all that the politics may be aware me about going on the street can ride and give our good boy speculation some people in the leadership among the opposition not happy would now think chinese are the only shit all over when morgans like it i died a few months of going from people wanting to leave it felt he was a few inexperienced politically he promised things that he wanted the election the cockpit he didn't know we're hearing from people want him out he may not be the media but he like maybe twenty three we could see a lot of pressure on him to step out of the darkest part of some people feel he got the right person for the job but what it's actually very much for that for now that is how to mythos and live it and how to thank you. let's move on to other news now and u.s. senator john mccain has died of the age of eighty one they've been suffering from brain cancer mccain spent more than five years as a prisoner of war in vietnam and more than three decades as a republ

s in neighboring kenya we have question marks as to whether the commonwealth or even the african union will make any statements but the us certainly has and it says in its. text in its social media message that it decried the decried the brutal treatment of m.p.'s journalists and other security forces by the incumbent government and when you have musicians such as chris martin christie hein brian and the african great for me cutie also getting in weighing in on this arrest and the situation in uganda again there is concern there is a lot in the international realms there that there is look uganda is seen as an anchor state it's a country that has seen a significant degree of stability. since the the eighty's and there's been significant investment it is a rough neighborhood it's got south sudan next to it it's got the democratic republic of the congo as a neighbor but there is increasing concern that mr ms seventy after so many terms in office is increasingly becoming a source of instability i think the reading is that his own ambition missed in the seventies vision is probably to rema