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zuma confirms robert mugabe is under house arrest after the army seized power in zimbabwe. i'm in harare with things quickly zimbabweans want to know what is going to happen to president robert mugabe and his wife grace. lookin al jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha today with me peter also coming up an act of aggression lebanon's president says nothing justifies the detention of the prime minister. in saudi arabia. just horrific the u.s. secretary of state visits me in ma and condemns the army crackdown against her ngo muslims but stop short of calling for sanctions.

the zimbabwean president robert mugabe is under house arrest after the army seized control of the country although commanders denied the military takeover is a coup soldiers are patrolling the streets of the capital harare and they also control the state broadcasters t.v. and radio stations the takeover follows political infighting about who will succeed the ninety three year old hailing president the world's oldest leader. as more. and easy calm in harare this after confusing scenes on the streets of zimbabwe with a night of unrest as military vehicles rolled in there were 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 this is not a military takeover and things will return to normalcy. and his family. and sound and their security is gallant. we are only targeting

criminals 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 is sparks fear of a military coup even now with all the confusion we do know that the army and said it is so this way running the country and telling them. what to do and what to believe and handling the news taking over their broadcast those are very unusual in other countries we call those who. zimbabwe army chief constantino cheering i want earlier this week the military could step in if party pages didn't stop but she was quickly accused of treasonable conduct by the zanu p.f. in a statement he was reacting to the firing of the vice president in a seminar the week before when i got well had close ties to 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 got was removal apparently followed a series of disputes with the first lady grace mugabe her leadership and vision to succeed our ninety three year old husband had triggered infighting within her party she is popular with designing of youth faction dubbed 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 zimbabwe being fifty two grace is not a war veteran and like of amos and managua nor the army generals who threatened to intervene. the first. 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. like a good move to me one of the first announced casualties is the finance minister who

the army stated they had to take and despite the military emphasizing the president and his wife are safe these look like trouble times ahead. i mean just to be clear on this one if it's not a coup what is it. that's what people are asking if the president is said to be under house arrest if the president has been told by the army he can't leave his home then a lot of survivors are saying it smells and looks and sounds like a coup but the army is determined they're saying that it is not a coup they saying president robert mugabe is still head of state and commander in chief we were out on the streets earlier talking to people in harare in the city center it is busier than before it seems a lot of karma and people are just waiting to see what is going to happen next one man we spoke to said thankfully there was no violence no one died in the hope things stay like that the war veterans gave a press conference

a few hours ago in the press conference they said that they're happy they're taking back the party they say the support what the army did and they say they want president mugabe to go. dark room go back to the belief. from his role as the president insisting that some fear. we will see one far salute. ruled out running and most wanted to go out in the forthcoming election so her it's gone pretty quiet over the past couple maybe three hours or so but whatever is going on is still ongoing those military people that have taken over the t.v. station on the radio station but they saying whenever they think when this will finish. no they're not they're basically saying that the reason why they

doing this because they want to get rid of criminal elements within the rulings on the pier party who are trying to destabilize the party and the country all they said is once all of these people these criminals have been arrested then the soldiers will go back to the barracks we do know some ministers some senior ministers who are supporting the first lady grace mugabe has been picked up has been arrested but on the grounds of i was really don't know how long this is going to last thanks very much we'll talk later i'm sure. well president jacob zuma did confirm as we've been hearing that he has spoken to mr mugabe he says he's been confined to his home and we're hoping that the defense force will not move and do more damage that they would be able to respect the condition of zimbabwe as well as the people of zimbabwe so that this situation does not beyond. the situation where it is now. page with me from johannesburg. aside

from confirming that president mugabe is under confinement is under house arrest in harare and that he is fine south africa's president jacob zuma said he would be sending envoys to zimbabwe and and he's doing that in his capacity as chair of sadoc the regional body here and he's called for calm and restraint by all parties and he's also said that south africa is in communication with zimbabwe's a defense force of course whatever happens in zimbabwe has an enormous impact on the south africa there are already many hundreds of thousands of zimbabweans here in the country driven out largely by not only political but also economic reasons behind me is the main fast stop here in downtown jo'burg and this is with zimbabweans get on the bus to go and it's where they arrive and we've been talking to people here to get their reaction one man told me look we're replacing one state

one snake with another snake another woman says she doesn't want to be here but the economic situation at a higher means that she's got no choice she's got to come here to get a job to earn money not only for the family she's born here but to send back to zimbabwe another person said look we don't know if this is the kind of change we want but it is the kind of change that perhaps we need because we can't continue as a country zimbabwe in the way that we have been so undoubtably this still an easy among the zimbabwean community here some of whom are too scared to talk to us because they are as i said getting on buses to go back to harare to a situation that is still pretty unclear. lebanon's president says nothing justifies the prime minister saad had a good he being detained in saudi arabia michel aoun says it was a saudi act of aggression mr hariri something announced his resignation enjoying a visit to saudi capital last week the iranian president hassan rouhani has also condemn saudi arabia saying it's meddling in lebanese affairs camptown. we have

rarely seen such obvious meddling in another country in an independent country like lebanon they tell somebody you must resign and tell another one you his brother you should take office and tell a party you should not be part of the government who are you to say that what is your job do you have any power to do that. so in a hot and i reports from beirut. lebanon is stepping up the pressure on saudi arabia the president saying that he believes resign prime minister saddam how did he and his family are detained in saudi arabia very strong language against the kingdom saying that this is an act of aggression that saudi arabia violated the vienna conventions and saying that lebanon will continue efforts and will do whatever it can to secure his release now sad and heavy and the saudi authorities say that he is a free man in fact saudi is how do how do you sunday night in his first public comments since his sudden announcement that he would resign on november the fourth

said he's coming to lebanon in a few days two days later he tweeted and said he's coming in a few days and just a few minutes after the president's latest remarks he tweeted and said trust me i am coming back i promise you i am coming back but many in lebanon do not believe that he is speaking freely and especially when he made his first public comments in this live interview he looked very very stressed it wasn't the prime minister that the many lebanese know so a very confusing picture really on the well being and the fate of the prime minister but here in lebanon the authorities believe he is he is a prisoner and they have reached out to france france is trying to mediate the former french foreign minister will be in saudi arabia late on wednesday to discuss how to the situation so a very confusing picture but in lebanon there is officially the official stance is the resign prime minister is a hostage in saudi arabia the turkish president is in doha for talks with the

catcher mia purdah one has been a big supporter of since june when for arab countries cup ties and to post a blockade on cattle on tuesday the emir said the saudi led block has no desire to end the crisis he also said council is looking for sustainable way used to meet its needs. is following that story from doha. this is. second visit to the region and to qatar 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 turkey has also sided with qatar sending troops at the peak of the crisis here and also sending cargo planes and vessels carrying food supplies to qatar there's no indication that we might see any political settlement of 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 but at the same time qatar has strong 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. still to come here on al-jazeera efforts to stem afghanistan's drug trade appear to be failing. and demanding justice nigerians evicted from prime real estate locations in lagos fighting for their rights.

how the weather remains largely dry unsettled across the middle east little bit of cloud just pulling out of afghanistan towards the himalayan plateau another area cloud just running in across the caspian sea but elsewhere it is largely sunshine all the way to around seventeen celsius in the sunshine baghdad at around twenty six degrees that fine weather continues to just around the levant by rote getting up into the mid twenty's over the next couple of days mid twenty's to on friday for baghdad further south while striving to get to twenty seven in kuwait city it is starting to cool down a little now not too cold across the peninsula getting up to around thirty here in doha over the next day or two with light winds feel pretty pleasant so lots of hazy sunshine coming through meanwhile has seen some rather heavy rain coming into parts of south africa recently the southern and eastern cape in particular supports lisbeth with fifty six millimeters of rain and that wet weather will remain in place as we go on through thursday perhaps

a little bit of snow there you know just over the high ground some rain to coming into central parts of mozambique into zimbabwe at times that rank could be pretty heavy. be seeing some big downpours so it's a big down polls recently entered fifty one millimeters of rain here those heavy showers continue across the gulf. oh is that when they're on line we were in hurricane winds for almost like thirty six hours these are the things that new u.k. has to address or if you join us on saturday i'm a member of the ku klux klan but we struck up a relationship this is a dialogue tweet us with hash tag stream and one of their pitches might make them actually join the global conversation at this time on al-jazeera.

welcome back you with al-jazeera live from your headlines so far today the zimbabwean president robert mugabe is under house arrest after the army seized control of the country the military denies the takeover is a coup this all follows a week of unrest over who will succeed the ninety three year old. lebanon's president says nothing justifies the prime minister saad hariri being detained in saudi arabia he shallow and says it's a saudi act of aggression hariri suddenly announced his resignation during a visit to the saudi capital last week. efforts to curb the opium trade in afghanistan appear to be failing the united nations office on drugs and crime has

released its afghan opium survey for twenty seventeen now compared to last year opium cultivation is up by sixty three percent across the country cultivation has increased by seventy nine percent in helmand province and in bulk provinces up by a massive eighty seven percent political instability a lack of security and corruption have allowed the trade to flourish and lack of employment opportunities. cation unlimited access to international markets are pushing farmers to grow the crop and for them it is the chief of the research and friend analysis branch of the un office on drugs and crime she joins us on skype from vienna and these figures are going in the wrong direction so what's going on here that are leaving first of all to fuel is a record high of production now. we have the production increased by eighty seven percent since last year reaching one thousand tonnes of soul and that this we have a tremendous implication both enough ghana in neighboring countries often gunnies

that much to all around the world or wherever. from afghanistan we saw breach who's involved in this because it's obviously not just local farmers who decide to grow drugs. what is that combination there are some small farmers so that the seeing. opportunities for livelihood are but that there are also rich low order in afghanistan but determiner very logical to vision and there are also very it is also the role of the anti government entities like the taliban but not only there to be a tax and they are where they profit from all we have heard for a long time because this is not a unique report you do publish similar documents every so often but we have heard for a long time people say look the country is heading in the right direction when it carries on doing that the opium trade will fall away so what has to be brought in in its place to give people an income to give people an education. well as we are

doing now is there you know do you see first of all to promote a ruler projects a committee of development or provides a working way for rural communities or to give that as tentative livelihood to saw create access to market to for lissett crops or giving employment opportunities to farmers and their families are but also to work with the government of afghanistan to restore the trust of the rural community into the government or and also to provide the security and that will give us the ability that is needed in order also to implementor and to this development projects and thank you very much thank you. now the u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson is calling for a quote credible and impartial investigation into the refugee crisis he's in myanmar he described what happened to the rain at the hands of the security forces as to reflect he said he stood next to the myanmar leader aung sun suu kyi who

called for a peaceful solution scott hyla reports from the capital naypyidaw. these are scenes that the u.s. secretary of state calls just horrific the military crackdown in rakhine state has sent more than six hundred thousand richenda refugees fleeing into bangladesh in the past three months rex tillerson arrived in the capital neighborhood or at the end of a high profile trip to asia with president donald trump there were hints of crisis was the focus of this stop for only a few hours we've. heard reports of widespread across the middle of i mean wars of the security forces. who are strained biosphere the forces during the recent violence say. to listen that military chief men and said that impartial and credible investigation is needed and anyone implicated needs to be prosecuted and broad economic sanctions against myanmar are not the way to go now

targeted sanctions could be imposed once there is evidence of atrocities after meeting with on song suchi both spoke to reporters myanmar's leader defending her much criticized handling of the remains a crisis i guess in my posts. i have. to be concerned about. my office or the state for. what i see just. what i meant to be excited. to listen announced an additional forty seven million dollars in u.s. aid to the refugees and urged more coordination for the repatriation of the region while reaffirming the united states is commitment to myanmar as transition to democracy to listen emphasize that how this crisis is handled by the leaders here will impact the future of the country men margaret price and to the. permanent. trade of the more democratic. through the

war. it is the responsibility of a government and if you're going to the people who respect human rights the war within the borders there's a whole we'll all go. well the u.n. has called the range a crisis textbook ethnic cleansing to listen says the u.s. administration is still evaluating that description it's got harder al-jazeera neighbors or. save the children says extreme hunger and disease are killing one hundred thirty yemeni children every day and it's warning that at least fifty thousand children could die this year if the blockade of yemen continues on monday servia arabia announced it will start reopening some yemeni ports and airports it had closed them after you see rebels fighting this silent the saudi capital riyadh last week but yemen is denying reports the country's main port has been reopened

you might come with a no no there's no truth to the news that any ships were given permission to enter the port of a data situation is still the same and nothing is arrived at the port even the ships that were asked to leave when the saudi led coalition announced the closure of the yemeni ports have not yet returned. thirty five thousand yemenis have escaped to djibouti since the war started two and a half years ago many of them unwilling to stay in a camp in the north of the country due to poor conditions and harsh weather reports from northern japan. this is the mark because they come for yemeni refugees in the dusty poll. it's a place many don't want to stay long the sweltering heat then throw shells some storms have driven most of the residents to town of the capital you bootie about two hundred kilometers away. those who have chosen to stay say. yes that there are there are great but life here is difficult which is to flee certain death

in yemen only to face a slow and here we have nothing when you see just six kilograms of fry sperm on it's far from enough at one point this camp was home to six thousand refugees many of them have left to rent accommodation a that in all the town or in the competent djibouti yet others have a ton to yemen prefunding the us something told the war zone to life in this column . they ignored warnings from the un refugee agency the un i'd see that the security situation is still. yet the must have his security and should to some basic supplies in yemen is forcing many more if you just to cross the sea. set a house on a not three children have to settle the matter because they come from the city of tire which is under the control of the fight. now.

there are no electricity or water in the city we had no source of livelihood and there are diseases we live in fear for our lives every single day. all of us say they're fleeing flossed corruption all the young men by who fight is. those sort of how do i buy the mark because it comes up just days ago we're going to hear that. these were forcing us to join their militias and wanted to use us in their fighting they were telling us to join the forces of god we had no option but to flee here nearly thirty five thousand people have made the jenna's southwards across the bubble in the street to go to since march two thousand and fifteen. to open its doors to yemeni refugees but this only so much it can do the country husband if it did for a must see foreign investment in recent years due to its strategic location but the extreme poverty is still widespread. from now much because it comes continues to

host some one thousand two hundred refugees it's a number that's expected to grow as the conflict in yemen shows no sign of mohamed atta well just. djibouti. 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 the un monitors say saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have a military presence in eritrea as part of the campaign against the fees in yemen the use of eritrea is not considered a violation but the un did warn any weaponry compensations of president would be protesters hold a rare demonstration against government brutality last month. people evicted from their waterfront communities in the niger in city of lagos have taken to the streets to demand that the government resettled them human rights groups say more than thirty thousand people have been evicted over the past year they say police used bulldozers and set homes on fire to force people out killing at least eleven

made it worse has more now from lagos. within a one year period more than thirty thousand people in two waterfront communities have been everett or displaced after agents supposedly or allegedly agents of government invaded two communities to forcefully chase out these people from their homes now where there are seven thousand people who are in desperate need of shelter or some form of accommodation in various communities thousands of others of gifts crossed into sixteen different communities in lagos state now here to press home that demands that the government return them to their homes hundreds of people gathered here they are planning to march to the government to force the government or other to remind the government to respect the court order that said that they should be resettled immediately and that the egyptians were illegal madam can you

tell us your name and why are you here may name is. from a to do clinical need seem to be a aid to remind the glove may honestly tell you he paid the goods on. me given to them to the by me every ts that issue to set it up on the people until now not enough to have done well the argument of the government is that you are occupying that area illegally and that most of you are foreigners that they are not nigerians our latest toggled made to one track and even to get it again because the people that are living on the land i made from all of them are from but that three on the out. in the house way. even iran ariel's thank you to the argument of the lagos state government which by the way has appealed the decision of the lower court is that these people are occupying that land illegally and that the victualling process was not done by its agents it said that those who

it pictured these people from their homes were actually owners or agents of owners of that piece of land so it's appealing that decision in a higher court. australians have voted yes to same sex marriage and a change in law is expected soon supporters were celebrating in canberra when the result was announced it was a non-binding postal survey sixty two percent voted for change one in four oppose same sex weddings the prime minister malcolm turnbull who campaigned for marriage equality hopes the war will be passed by christmas. it's trail and people have spoken in their millions and they have voted overwhelmingly yes for marriage equality they voted yes for the fairness they voted yes for commitment they voted yes for love and now it is up to us here in the parliament of a stray to get on with it. they get on with the job the astroland people of task

has to do and get this done this year. france has unexpectedly been named as host for the twenty twenty three rugby world cup the country won despite an official report that gave its backing to south africa at the end of last month the world rugby evaluation study concluded that south africa should be given the tournament ahead of the rival bids from ireland and france but the majority of the thirty nine voters rugby's governing body ignored that report and then back from. more news on the website al jazeera dot com you can find out lots of places stories including lots of background reading for you on what's going on in zimbabwe and also trying to predict what will happen next in zimbabwe to al-jazeera dot com.

this is al-jazeera these are the top stories zimbabwe's president robert mugabe is under house arrest after the army took control of the country the military denies the takeover is a coup if follows a week of unrest over who will succeed the ninety three year old the south african president jacob zuma has confirmed he's spoken to mr mugabe says he's been confined to his home i am hoping that the defense force will not move and do more damage that they will be able to respect the quantization of them by as well as the people of them by. so that this situation does not go beyond. the situation where he's not. lebanon's president says nothing justifies the prime minister being detained in saudi arabia mashallah it's a saudi act of aggression hariri suddenly announced his resignation during

a visit to the saudi capital last week the iranian president hassan rouhani is also accusing saudi arabia of meddling in lebanese affairs turkey's presidents in doha for talks with the cattery m e a wretch up typer the one has been a major supporter of doha since june when for arab countries cut time isn't imposed the blockade on tuesday the emir said the saudis that bloc had no desire to end the crisis the us secretary of state has called for a credible and impartial inquiry into the rangar crisis he's met a young son suchi in naypyidaw he described the scenes of what happened to the rating at the hands of the security forces as horrific six hundred thousand have fled to neighboring bangladesh the un has renewed its arms embargo against eritrea but it says previous restrictions may have been violated by the u.a.e. 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 rebels in yemen

using eritrea as a base is not a violation but the u.n. is warning that any weapons falling into the hands of the country's president would break the embargo australians have a guest to same sex marriage and a change in the law is expected soon more news on the web site al jazeera dot com up next is the stream following that come here with the great i will see you tomorrow bye bye. documentaries. at this time. and you're in the stream live on al-jazeera and you tube today it shouldn't be illegal for american companies.