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was military is now in charge soldiers block of access to government parliament and the courts. and i'm jane that in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming out condemning the violence against the hanger muslims the u.s. secular state visits men but stop short of calling for sanctions. supporting cattle turkey's president flies in as the five month long gulf crisis drags on. an expedition to the french alps where disappearing glasses are seen as a major indicator of climate change. tension and uncertainty are growing in zimbabwe after the army announced it's seized power the military says it wants to target criminals around president robert

mugabe the army has taken over the state broadcaster and soldiers have blocked roads to the government parliament and the courts but the army says it isn't a military takeover and mcgarvey and his family are safe and of. an uneasy calm in harare this after confusing scenes on the streets of zimbabwe with a night of on rest as military vehicles rolled him though also reports that soldiers were seen loading ammunition these developments followed a warning on monday that the military would step in if the sacking of candidates they favor within the ruling party didn't stop a statement was read by soldiers on state radio saying that this is not a military takeover and things will return to normalcy. and used. and sound and security. we are only dead that including those around him who are committing crimes that are causing social and economic

suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice. but this has sparked fear of a military coup even now with all the confusion we do know that the army in sirte is this way and running the country and telling the people what to what to do what to believe and hundley in the news taking over their broadcast those are very unusual in other countries we've called those who zimbabwe's army chief constantino chiwenga earlier this week the military would step in if party purges didn't stop but she went it was quickly accused of treasonable conduct by the zanu p.f. in a statement he was reacting to the firing of the vice president when i gagged was the week before when i grow i had close ties with the military and was revered for his revolutionary work in fighting for the country's independence a fight that also boid president mugabe to power in one nine hundred eighty when i

gag was removed apparently followed a series of disputes with the first lady grace mugabe her leadership ambitions to succeed her ninety three year old husband had triggered infighting within her party she is popular with the zanu youth faction of the g forty but her ascension contradicts an earlier promise mugabe had made saying only those who fought in zimbabwe's liberation can preside over the country being fifty to grace mugabe is not a war veteran unlike have amazon moon and gaga. the generals who threaten to intervene the first lady has ambitions would like to govern after her husband but i don't know anything that says that that is illegal and the military moving clearly to stop her does not ring like a like a good move to me one of the first announced casualties is the finance minister who stated they had detained despite the military emphasize that the president and his

family are safe these look like troubled times ahead how to hawkster al-jazeera let's go over to turn your page she's live in jazz because of what happens above will often have an impact on south africa and i believe that jacob zuma has been speaking out about this what's he had to say. he has just in the last ten or fifteen minutes or so the presidency has released a statement you know south africa a close neighbor of zimbabwe zimbabwe is south africa's biggest trading partner in the region but also south africa is currently the chair of the southern african development community the regional body so on that basis obviously the president has come out pretty quickly and made a statement which is basically saying that he's watching what is happening across the border with great concern and appealing for calm appealing for he says the south african government and defense force to reach an amicable solution and one

that would not result in basically any unconstitutional changes of government in zimbabwe which he says would be contrary to not only said it but also the african union's position there are many zimbabweans here in south africa are also watching what is happening across the border which is still very unclear and still quite a fluid situation as well yet what sort of details are you getting about what is happening in zimbabwe at the moment i mean we still have no idea where them mugabe's might be. exactly the military and when that spokesman was broadcast live on state television after the military took control of said b c said that the president and his family was safe obviously not giving away exactly where he was his family right now we know from the visuals we have seen broadcast on local networks that of downtown harare that there

are people going about their days if you like certainly less people on the street than they would be normally but they have been people going to work going to school however i've also seen video from context there from their mobile phone or all of several military checkpoints around the city we understand they have been set up close to government buildings and there is a high presence of us soldiers also at the airport however flights are still coming and going and certainly at this stage south africa has its nearest neighbor is not telling south africans or zimbabweans not to travel to zimbabwe so as i say it's still a bit unclear as to exactly what is going on and i think many zimbabweans really waiting to see what happens next thank you turn in a much of the political crisis is a result of the division within president robert mugabe's ruling party there are two main factions within zanu p.f. vying for succession the low cost group is made up of supporters of the vice

president emerson. those who back in the garbage wife grace are known as the g forty last week president mugabe sacked many saw it as a clearing a path for grace mugabe to succeed her husband on monday the head of zimbabwe's defense forces warned the army would step in to end purges within the party in response to youth wing accused general constantine and she went of what they called treasonable conduct joins us live from harare i wonder how this is playing out on the streets and who's calling the shots a lot of people are debating whether this is a coup or not. well it's calm but differently tense one woman who came to work says that she's glad she managed to come to work because it is relatively quiet on the street but she hopes it stays quiet so she can go back home been mixed emotions some people are celebrating what happened not too far away from me they're

having drinks they're very happy that the minute he did what he did but some people are say that they scared and they shock this happened they're concerned that for now the military has seems to be in control the army says and they insist this is not a coup they say that they did what they did because they want to remove criminal elements within the regions on the pier party some ministers have been arrested and the army general has said that once the rest of the criminal elements the other ministers who aligned to grace mugabe have been arrested going to go back to the barracks and the mcgarvie is i mean what sort of role might they have in this where are they in this situation any idea where they are now. we know they say the army says that this and some people are saying that they are at their house what the future holds then we don't know because until the army actually comes out and says this is a coup then we can have some idea which way the country is going to go over there

saying it is not a coup for example. people are speculating the many scenarios some people are saying. if the president is told to step down they could be our traditional leader how long will that transitional process take away with the country. economy but the army saying for now president mugabe is still the head of state and there are still calling him the commander in chief and that he is safe robert mugabe is considered by many as a disaster for the country when you look at the economy and the safety aspect but what's happening now because it depends on long it takes is not good for the come countries it considering how many tourists it attracts. it depends on long it takes some of the flights and the airport is open and flights are coming in but some of them on full and this is the busy route especially from johannesburg but some of the flights and for which could indicate some people are

cautious and watching the scenario play out in terms of the economy it's a wait and see really it depends how long this process takes it depends what the army comes out and says and does later it depends where the prism of garbage is seen in public it depends what happens to the former vice president who is said to be still out of the country so lots nerves playing out people very careful not to speculate too much i think for most of barbarians they're just glad that for now the streets are calm some people have gone to work some people have gone to school . or mythos or thank you. other news now u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has called for a credible and impartial investigation into the real crisis he's made leader and son in capital to listen once those who have committed crimes to be held accountable he described the scenes of what happened to the right hand at the hands of men ma security forces as horrific six hundred thousand rand afraid to

bangladesh to escape a brutal crackdown on. capital naypyidaw scott what the listens reaction to the military's own investigation into a kind said what is a. well jane you know this press conference between those two leaders and the secretary of state rex tillerson and it just within the last twenty minutes and he didn't specifically say or mention that report the military released the findings from just on monday through its facebook page over the last couple of months from any wrongdoing he didn't say anything specifically about it but what he did say he called for an impartial investigation into what's been going on in rakhine state now he also went on to say that the united states reaffirmed its commitment to the transition here in myanmar into a full democracy and he also underlined that how they handle this crisis is critical for the future of this nation.

orderly. and scott when it comes to sanctions anyway any indication of how he's going to play this. well he said that he doesn't believe at this stage of broad based sanctions against myanmar economic broad based sanctions against myanmar are the way to go at this stage but what he did say is that there needs to be there is a possibility for specific targeted sanctions possibly and this is been coming out of the state department before this press conference here in naples or today wednesday that those if there is direct intelligence direct evidence that those who

carried out these attacks these are what the military called anti terrorist attacks what appears to be from that body of evidence from those. interviewed eyewitnesses in bangladesh say that what some of these atrocities that were carried out if there is direct evidence then there should be sanctions targeted sanctions against those individuals that said he said is still a possible of the broad base economic sanctions against me and my right now are not really what he feels is the right step but possibly with that evidence and again this ties back into what he said at the beginning jane and that is that there should be an impartial investigation that digs into what happened over the last several months in rakhine state thanks for that scott. the president is in doha for talks with the cats. no one has been a major supporter since june when countries cut ties and imposed a blockade on cats on tuesday they miss it decided it has no desire to end the crisis he says it capsized looking for sustainable ways to meet its needs. is

following the story indeed. this is a second visit to the region and two in july he also visited saudi arabia and kuwait and expressed a desire to have all the parties set aside their differences and negotiate a political. crisis but. sided with sending troops at the peak of the crisis here and also sending cargo planes and vessels carrying food supplies. there's no indication that we might see any political settlement this explains why qatar and turkey are expanding trade and economic cooperation here qatari investors are now looking into opportunities in turkey and turkish investors are stepping in sending supplies from different parts of turkey to qatar to ensure the food supplies continue on the same time

relations with saudi arabia the united arab emirates and would like to maintain those races and this is why turkey is willing to see an immediate political and to the crisis in the g.c.c. countries. frankly i had no recollection of this meeting. these news reports i do now recall the u.s. attorney general facing tough questions about russia and the presidential campaign plus. can pay its bills and he blames the u.s. . however still sees a big downpours with those seasonal rains across southeast asia lively showers

coming further thunder heads rolling in across the region in indonesia hundred fifty eight millimeters of rain twenty four hours that's a typical kind of value for the central and southern parts more big downpours coming back into jakarta thirty one celsius there on thursday more heavy showers and similar values as we go on into friday well weather increasingly wet weather will make its way back in across the philippines miss some sunshine interspersed in between we see the fair amount of warm sunshine across eastern areas of australia recently that's going to change we've got the rain now pushing out of south australia into victoria we've lost the temperatures getting up into the thirty's near the mid teens there for advice or rule change coming in here just sixteen degrees celsius twenty one in melbourne as the rain sets in for the weekend may well be getting up to around thirty in perth on thursday make the most of that because again we're going to see something of a change which is no higher than around twenty two degrees and to row twenty is once again there for melbourne and the weather does cling on this in

a little bit damp weather into northern parts of new zealand recently skies are now clearing for a time but more heavy rain will push towards awkward on friday with a high of twenty degrees. in ecuador ingenious developments in the battle against illegal deforestation these are basically old cell phones the people sent to us would not increase it was new for us to get anything like chainsaws or gunshots and in australia indigenous practices have been used to fight fire with fire if you make a fire break about the time that point if i get scared to start yeah innovation and tradition. at this time.

begin in mind of our top stories this hour zimbabwe's army has seized power the military says it wants to talk of criminals around prison draw but mcgarvie the army has taken over the state broadcaster and soldiers have blocked rights to the government parliament and the court. the turkish president is and have talks with the cattery a marriage of thai better what has been a major supporter of the since june when four arab countries cut ties and imposed a blockade on qatar. state rex tillerson has called for a credible and impartial investigation into the rangar crisis he met the leader and son in manaus capital he described the scenes of what happened to the rangar at the hands of me and my security forces as horrific. on the iran iraq border rescuers

continue to dig through the rubble of buildings toppled by sunday's earthquake the quake killed more than four hundred thirty people but many victims are still under the day breeze so the death toll is likely to rise it's also injured almost eight thousand people and they have tens of thousands homeless in the mountainous area of kemah province. the u.n. has renewed its arms embargo on eritrea but it says previous restrictions may have been violated by the united arab emirates and foreign arms companies u.n. monitors say saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have a military presence in eritrea as part of the campaign against the who in yemen the use of eritrea is not considered a violation but the u.n. warned any weaponry compensation to present a size of a way would be the u.s. attorney general has denied he misled congress during use testimony last month sessions was questioned in an investigation into alleged russian meddling in the

two thousand and sixteen presidential elections chipper tons of reports. raise your right hand. swear that this isn't the first time the attorney general has been accused of not being honest with congress but jeff sessions was adamant i don't think i'm. is right there me doing something wrong i had no participation in any wrongdoing at issue sessions previous testimony that there were no contacts between members of the trump campaign and russians claiming to represent the kremlin since his last congressional appearance to trump campaign staffers have testified that they told sessions they were in contact with what they thought were russian officials and that's joel sessions memory i do now recall that the march twenty sixth team meeting at the drop out tail that mr papadopoulos attended but i have no clear recollection the details of what he said at that meeting after reading his account into the bath to my recollection i believe that i

wanted to make clear to him that he would not authorize to represent the campaign with the russian government or any other foreign government for that matter democrats on the committee working to pursue another issue as well it's emerged that the department of justice is evaluating whether to appoint a special counsel into hillary clinton into among other issues lingering questions about clinton's foundation donations and government policy while she was secretary of state for example republicans welcomed the prospect but were impatient what's it going to take to get a special council democrats were less enthusiastic in a functioning democracy is it common for the leader of the country to order the criminal justice system to retaliate against is political opponents they department of justice can never be used to retaliate politically

against opponents and that would be wrong however sessions reiterated his. commitments made during his confirmation hearing were there to be an investigation into clinton he would recuse himself she had returned see washington levin's prime minister has tweeted that he will return home from saudi arabia in the coming days said hariri also called for calm he said his family would be staying in riyadh on tuesday really met with the head of lebanon's maronite church patriarch bashar roy is the first lebanese official to visit saudi arabia since are wary and expected he announced his resignation more than a week ago they have been in foreign minister says the only way for saad hariri to prove that he's not being held against his will is to return to beirut he also said that if saudi arabia has an issue with iran it shouldn't punish lebanon if the. problems they can be solved if they have problems with iran let them have

these problems solved with iran iran is not lebanon lebanon is not syria lebanon is not iran we have an independent foreign policy where the end of lebanon comes first australians have voted yes to same sex marriage and a change in the law was expected soon supporters celebrated in canberra when the result was announced in a non-binding postal service sixty two percent voted for change in the law one in four opposed to same sex weddings prime minister malcolm turnbull campaigned for marriage equality hopes the law will pass by christmas. people have spoken in their millions and i have voted overwhelmingly yes for marriage equality they voted yes fairness they voted yes for commitment they voted yes

for love. and now it is up to us here in the parliament of a strike to get on with it to get on with the job the australian people of task is to do and get this done this year former cambodian opposition leader sam rainsy is returning to politics he resigned as head of the cambodian national rescue party in february the supreme court is due to decide on thursday whether to dissolve the party which prime minister hun sen says is trying to topple his government it follows a crackdown on opposition members and civil rights groups. but as well as blaming the u.s. for make it impossible to we pay its debts the rating agency standard and poor's has declared the nation in selective default often failed to make two hundred million dollars in repayments due and john hendren reports. then this whalen is in default with apparently little hope of paying off its creditors the

declaration by the ratings agency standard and poor's comes after venezuela with sixty billion dollars in debt in just nine point six billion in its bank accounts missed the second deadline on a debt payment the red carpet was rolled out for a few foreign investors who might be willing to keep the country afloat at a price that as well as vice president tariq ali seamy said the country is the victim of an economic war being waged by the us and foreign lenders. this is salt of the us government is made jointly with the venezuelan opposition today venezuela is limited to seek financing find and also is faced with the need to consider a new formulas to get out of this complexity critics say then as well as leaders have prioritized clearing debt over a growing humanitarian crisis that has left many of its people hungry and children dying in hospitals with medical shortages venezuelan president nicolas maduro blames the u.s.

for his country's crisis so he's turning to his traditional rivals the compromise that i'm not sure not a whole lot i pointed up the international agreements with the people's republic of china are working perfectly and will continue to go that way i can announce that we have reached a renegotiation a refinancing agreement with the russian federation. in spite of president we do rose plans u.s. firms still own much of venezuela's debt and the trumpet ministration wary of providing an economic lifeline to his administration has blocked americans from protests a paid in any debt restructuring talks with diminishing cash revenues venezuela's financial problems are likely to get even worse john hendren al-jazeera scientists are warning that glass is in the french alps are heating so fast they are threatening popular tourist villages research shows climate change is to blame and they work in the andes and tells some of the story craig leeson joined an expedition to mont blanc. the french alps mystical maze memorising and

moody every day thousands of hikers extreme sports people and alpinist make their way to these mountains to conquer their peaks but the alps a changing the glaciers that used to sweep down to the valleys below a melting in some places they have anything. by scientists are at the forefront of measuring and monitoring these glaciers it's important and dangerous work their office for today is glassy adu took a three thousand five hundred meters high on the north face of mont blanc we tried to set up. our instrument in order to make. measurements up to this glacier these scientists also measure the temperature of the glazier what they are finding is astounding the base of the glazier ne the bedrock is that minus two degrees in the first with the climate warming and with the ice dam percha rising the glacier will become temperate at the melting point the work these scientists

doing on this mountain and grace is like takamine is important not just to understand how much more this glacier will heat up but because it has a bearing on towns like chamonix down here which is one of the most recognized extreme sports centers in the world if this glacier heats up. it could threaten villages. as we filmed the glacier begin to break away not once but three times within an hour further evidence of the danger it presents almost eighteen million people visit the french alps every year generating close to fifty eight billion dollars in turnover and providing around twelve percent of jobs under this graph we can see. an increase of things nineteen eighty and a north increase of two thousand and three and this melting this increase of

melting directly. to climate change the climate at one of the world's oldest scientific ice institutions research allows the scientist to mitigate risk with global warming and the fact that strings and gets warmer there could be new legs forming and this place could collapse and then produce fruits destroying towns. and sleep on this bed and then again can create and destroy towns below that the institute says these sorts of events are not isolated research shows climate change is causing glacier melt and water shortages in the andes and in antarctica melting ice sheets resulting in rising sea levels craig leeson al-jazeera. and again the top stories on al-jazeera zimbabwe's army has seized power the

military says it wants to target criminals around president robert mugabe the army has taken over the state broadcaster and soldiers have blocked roads to the government parliament and the courts but the army says it isn't a formula to take either and mcgarvie and his family are safe is in harare. the people we've spoken to some say they shock this happened some say they are scared. but some have come to work some schoolchildren have gone to school others have not it's a wait and see on the streets of ari this is what the bobbins woke up to hear if you want to hear anything about that the state has to do what the state is thinking you read here that's how you get the down so to speak and this headlines on unfazed by cantor whose general seemed to just the most obvious and the allies were very confident that the general would not do what he did and he has done that lebanon's president michelle loan says that the prime minister saad hariri has been in his words detained in saudi arabia he says it represents

a breach of human rights and that it's an act of aggression against lebanon this is after such a really surprise resignation from riyadh usage of state rex tillerson has called for a credible and impartial investigation into the crisis he's made leader and son suchi and myanmar's capital to listen once those who have committed crimes to be held accountable he described the scenes of what happened to the rangar at the hands of myanmar's security forces as horrific six hundred thousand range of fled to bangladesh to escape a brutal army crackdown the turkish president is in doha for talks with the cattery emir type one has been a major supporter of since june when four arab countries cut ties and imposed a blockade on qatar on chooser the emir said the saudi lead blocker has no desire

to end the crisis he also said katter is looking for sustainable ways to meet its needs those are the headlines the news will continue here in just under half an hour but for the moment let's turn over to our programs and rights. is captivity the only hope for china's panders. ventures deep into the mountains of western china. while. at the.