but the. objective of the liberation struggle was achieved and he's a stewardship and that is a very big achievement that he ducked will forever be part of its legacy he's also a renowned for the police of reconciliation when he implored us as the above reasons to turn our guns into plowshares after the liberation struggle in 1980 when we got our political independence he implored his in bargains to stop fighting our use to our colonisers. get to work with them and to move the country forward and for for a very long time zimbabwe has been very peaceful until a time when after the turn of the millennium he then insisted that the objective of the liberation struggle that of giving that zimbabwe the blog zimbabwean land

was supposed to be achieved and that's when. then zimbabwe was put under sanctions that's where we got he got quite a lot of criticism from outside but from where we stand we have quite a lot of things that you actually have not only given us land but also made very huge achievements in the education sector major and very huge achievement in the health sector you might talk about the collapse of the health sector now but we have the backbone we have the infrastructure that you did set up a set up. and at the design of the government that you learned that so there are quite a lot of things that. zimbabweans were remembering him for and he was very aware very very principled even at times when there was no way i would was against him here in mainly in seeing that zimbabweans got their land by. and we're

never saw anything like that in africa i don't feel like you. got to include it in the euro but we saw that in the development we might want about our got rights like yours but we're not going to if i could just jump in if i could just jump in here for a moment because i want to ask you about the point that that's been made to. his legacy since he died that well no one is doubting many of the achievements. under his presidency but in the early years in education and economic advancement and so on the years of repression they came after that. the. reports of sending sending death squads to to put down opposition the ruinous their economy the years of. huge inflation and so on is there a danger that his legacy will will be remembered more for that. i don't i don't think i. have

a short memory not to realize what he did and also not to put into context the covering problems that we are experiencing where experiencing these problems that we have in limbo because we. deliberately going to the police of indignation which was ended up on giving the people of zimbabwe their land back and that's when the country was put under sanctions and that's when you than they did during the ration of the health sector that you're talking about then. but i don't think zimbabweans would throw everything away you would throw the beggar with above water and forget what he did what he did is what we are proud of and that's what we are celebrating right now well not only celebrating having the land but we're also celebrating building zimbabweans instilled a form of them bobby inductees i think to some of them but when that is the result of some of them but when that is clear in the board and that is what we are going

through the member for for a very long time we are going to use all those principles that you can still really nice to to find each other in zimbabwe hands and to find you know if they actually try to see well how we can move this country forward and why do you show us was that if we stand united like we did in 1800 we can achieve something and we are going to do that as in but we end as we remember you might don't think we can both ourselves down to how. to the economic collapse when we know really that you can omit collapse also if you believe in something that a living they have. seen thanks very much for being with us. plenty more ahead on this news hour calling for a change hundreds turned out in syria's province to stand up against russian airstrikes. are akin dorian weakening after battering the u.s. east coast and causing destruction across the bahamas. and we'll tell you how

caster semenya has got a new sport after being shunned by athletics that's coming up later we judge. all of that ahead but 1st a train station has been closed in hong kong as hundreds of protesters gather there they're demanding the release of security camera footage of a violent confrontation between police and protesters at the prince edward station last weekend police officers were accused of using excessive force against the protesters gopalan is live for us in hong kong now so give you what's happening now with those protests. oh i was and this seems like an extension of more violence more aggressive extension about protests earlier today was the train station so people have now surrounded the police station this was stationed behind

me they're calling the police triads and calling for accountability for their actions that night in august 31st at the train station now what happened that night protesters say police stormed the train station trying to route out protesters had run into that prince edward's train station and they had used excessive force not only on the protesters but also on the passengers of the station the police also blocked journalists from getting into the station 2 people are now calling for an investigation into that event and seeing that the government has not responded people here and said it's run to the police station so far the police are far the few been backgrounds this morning they're telling everyone to go home but that seems to rile up the protesters even more and we're seeing more and more protesters join the fray here and now also damaging public property pulling up railings and blocking roads also they've also been checking bricks at the police station so behind me here you can see the protesters taunting the police there

a few of them on the balcony out there there trying thing them with lasers a calling them once again gangsters and triads. and if you watch what one of them had been saying in beijing about this was it was the government there and saying. look as you know has the government has withdrawn the extradition bill that is a huge move for beijing they actually had struck a conciliatory tone with these protesters and the government once again misread the situation thinking that would be enough to calm down the protests but instead we have once again seen protesters taking to the streets this time the focal point. it is not anymore that extradition law this time to protest the actions of the police for over 3 months that accused the police of using excessive force and using brutality against the protesters beijing so far for the 1st time has spoken out on these protests the 2nd highest ranking leader of china

a leaker chang is the premier he had said that hong kong a government can take care of its own affairs he also said that they beijing government stands by the hong kong government but he also made a very clear point to all the international critics saying that the whole concept fairs are very much china's internal affairs. given the pollen in hong kong thank you. other british opposition says it will continue to reject the prime minister's call for a snap election until he's asked the e.u. to delay bragg's it was johnson was in scotland way announced a 200 and they live in 1000000 pound boost for farmers there a bill requiring johnson to ask the you to delay breaks it preventing a no deal will likely become law early next week he was asked earlier if he would choose to resign instead that is not

a hypothesis i am willing to go to but i wanted us to get this thing done they don't want to have an election they don't want to move this thing forward far and we will get the deal on october the 17th 18th and then we'll come out of the e.u. let's go to nadine barber who is live for say in london sort of team how much trouble is johnson in right now. considerable show has i mean just invites interview there you heard him sounding fairly weary he's not his usual. self in front of the cameras listen it's been a disastrous week for him here in parliament and as you were saying on friday this bill to force him to seek an extension beyond the brits that deadline of october 31st is expected to finish passing through the house of lords if that does happen we know that prime minister johnson has said he'll choice again to do something he

failed to do this week which is to trigger an early general election now he's in scotland on friday and he's been talking with farmers there and people in the fishing industry and all along he's been saying that he is going to get this done he's going to deliver the bricks that he promised on time that's why he was asked that question about resignations become because these options are becoming more and more limited he says that he's confident now that this e.u. council summit on october the 17th he will get a deal asked how he'll do that he said by the powers of persuasion will many people in his own party as well as outside as saying that the negotiations for a deal really a joke they've come to nothing in the last few weeks given that it's really hard to see where he goes next because he said that he will he'd rather die in a ditch his own words than seek an extension so he's under extreme pressure right

now yes so despite the current deadlock nadeem. as far as the possibility of an election how soon could could there be one. well johnson wants one on october the 15th behind all of this there's the prospect the real prospect of the suspension of parliament for 5 weeks starting next week a court case to try to prove that that was unlawful has just been defeated here in london although there will be an appeal assuming that that does go ahead the opposition parties are very very wary about the limited time they have and machinations which could still allow a no deal which they really want to stop on friday they've talked and they've come up with a strategy which is basically that on monday they will not agree to a snap election according to boris johnson's timetable and they won't call

a no confidence vote because under the british legal system that would in fact would still leave the door open to no deal breaks it what they really pushing for now is perhaps at the earliest around october the 18th after that e.u. summit when they know that he will go and seek an extension in brussels that's really the bottom line is that that would be the worst case scenario what they call a crash out bricks it now the main opposition labor party has had some arguments within its ranks over when it should be but i think we're really looking at the earliest ready early november now the british public have no great appetite for another election but given that no deal has so far been acceptable to parliament many people see that as the only way forward. thanks very much.

now dorian is battering the east coast of the united states of the causing destruction across the bahamas at least 4 people have been killed in the united states and $200000.00 homes are without power storms now a category one hurricane and the coastal areas of north carolina and virginia remain on alert as it moves north by far the greatest impact has been in the bahamas where at least 30 people are confirmed dead and where the country's prime minister has called the devastation a historic tragedy and these are satellite images taken before and after dorian made landfall and they give you some idea of the scale of the destruction in the island nation nearly hearth the homes on the worst hit islands of abaco and grand bahama either destroyed or severely damaged. a memo rapper low is standing by in treasure king in the bahamas for smith 1st let's go to any gallica in charleston south carolina so andy how people been handling hurrican dorian there were right

where you are. well i mean i think you can see behind me the tropics back to normal the localized flooding has already receded nothing what we're seeing at the moment all the last gasps of hurricane dorian which has made landfall in cape hatteras in the outer banks of north carolina as a category one far weaker than it was when it hit the bahamas a few days ago remember this is a storm that's lasted for almost 2 weeks but essentially the u.s. east coast is now breathing a sigh of relief because forecasters say once it leaves cape hatteras and the outer banks it's going to speed up significantly and take a northeasterly course weakening more down to a tropical storm warning warnings do remain in effect in north carolina and virginia all the way up to even massachusetts but essentially the east coast as a skate what could have been a far worse situation i couple of 100000 people have lost power over the last 24 to 48 hours that will be restored fairly quickly because we haven't seen any

structural damage but this is a situation i think where everyone was prepared the emergency services did their jobs well people heeded the warnings for the most part but essentially in the next few hours as that storm leaves that north carolina coastline and it was always going to brush if not make landfall then the storm will quickly move away as a far weaker system but i've been covering hurricanes like this for about 20 years this is one that's hung around longer than any i've seen before but essentially the east coast really escape what could have been a far worse situation. and again here in charleston for assad let's talk now to man what i follow who's in transit key in the bahamas quite a different picture i would imagine there are many well we saw before and often pictures of the of the devastation now of people been coping with it. that's right i'm going to put down the sat phone this is our only way to

communicate while we're here on the island of treasure key on on abaco island one of the northernmost points in the bahamas and certainly one of the worst hit areas as far as how people are coping majority of people that we've spoken to here are actually trying to get off the island i'll give you a sense of what's happening behind us right now we are sitting right on the tarmac at the airstrip here on the island of a treasure what you see there is a rescue teams that have just arrived this airstrip was just rehabilitated on wednesday so flights were finally able to come in and people are finally starting to evacuate and what you can see in the background are hundreds of people that have moved here from marsh harbor this is one of the worst hit areas we're hearing estimates upwards of 13000 homes that were destroyed by hurricane dorian so what we're hearing from these folks here is that they've lost everything that the even though the official count is somewhere around 30 dead that's what the government is

saying people here say that a lot of the missing have have yet to be found that there are still bodies that have not been recovered from the mud in marsh harbor so it's still quite a dire situation when we clue in on wednesday you could see from from the airplane just the devastation trees snapped in half telephone snapped in half as i mentioned already there's no power no electricity there's no running water no no internet or cell phone service so people are scrambling to get ahold of their loved ones you can hear the airplanes taking off but this is started yesterday where we're airplanes finally. we were able to arrive on this island an airlift people out but there simply aren't enough planes so not only is there a concern over shortages of food and water and medicine which are starting to trickle in to the island but there isn't a sense of growing desperation among the people here a treasure king desperately trying to get out desperately wanting wanting help from the outside but most people here just want to get off the island manuel thank you.

let's get a better picture now of where our can dorian is heading at right now his camera that's right we're looking at the radar image that is currently off the coast and showing where during is right now you can clearly see the eye of the storm this is from windy dot com and the storm is now making its way past cape hatteras now it's brought a lot of storm surge to the outer banks right here especially up here towards the north i want to show you the back pass track of the storm for the last 18 to 24 hours let's go back to that satellite image and you can see the storm making its way up the coast getting very close to the outer banks there of course storm surge is a big concern but it's not just that we have had 24 tornadoes that have been reported from the storm now that is fairly common when these feeder bands push across the the land areas and we could see those come and go very quickly 24 have come through the area causing a lot of power outages a lot of damage on top of the winds that we have seen here right now winds 150

kilometers gusting even higher than that the storm is moving quite quickly to the northeast at about 22 knots and it is still that storm surge of one to 2 meters that is still going to be a problem so today it's going to be nor for that sees the big problem with the rain as well the storm is moving quite quickly appear towards the northeast but it's not just going to be the u.s. as we go towards tomorrow we expect to see a landfall in parts of nova scotia as a category one and then possibly as a tropical storm as we go into sunday in parts of labrador canada back to you. thanks kevin now still ahead on al-jazeera a new cabinet for c. dand including a historic 1st a woman taking charge at the foreign ministry. plus more on the signs that donald trump's trade war with china may be affecting u.s. jobs. and how taking the stay is can be faster than waiting for the lift joe we'll explain in sports.

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the costs on al-jazeera. but again you're watching edge there a reminder of our top stories this hour robert mugabe former. the president of zimbabwe has died at the age of 95 he'd been in poor health in a single poor hospital gobby had led his country for decades before being deposed in a military coup in 27. a train station has been closed in hong kong as hundreds of protesters gather there they're demanding the release of security camera footage of a violent confrontation between police and demonstrators last weekend police

officers were accused of using excessive force. the british opposition says it will continue to reject the prime minister's call for snap election until he's asked the european union to delay breaks it or strengthens in scotland where he announced a 200000000 pound boost for farmers there now military trial has begun for the leader of cameroon opposition maurice canto is facing life in prison for alleged sedition and insurrection after what many believe was a rigged election last year which resulted in protests the trial has been condemned by the united states france and the european union. is the central africa director of human rights watch and joins us now via skype from burlington in vermont thanks very much for being with us. q. 1st war how significant is this. well this is a significant trial maries come to is the de facto leader of the opposition in

cameroon and there were serious irregularities with last year's trial which gave paul b. you're the current president in 7th term and this is in our current opinion a human rights watch another example of the courts be used to crackdown on dissent and to crush political opponents it is worth pointing out that while those cases emblematic there are hundreds of others of members of his own party the m.r.c. by its french acronym who are also in detention and this is also occurring amidst a series of other issues happening in cameroon most pressing of which is the crisis that's continues to unfold in the angle phone regions and we've also seen the courts who used against separatist leaders in these regions as well so it's something we're following very much but it certainly does not bode well the trial of count 2 in this military tribunal for a cameroon that respects democratic principles so what what sort of

recourse is there to to address what you are bringing up then. well the fact is is that cameron has been on a continuing slide with regards to human rights principles for a number of years and this was regarded a few years ago as a country that many ways was was a beacon in the region and it's simply not that way anymore cameroon continues to have close ties with key countries such as the french the united states and the germans a lot of the support comes in military support and we continue to call on some of these countries to make sure that cameroon and hears to basic human rights principles but the fact is is that one of the crisis in cameroon is that's unfolding in the extreme north and when you have with this continued global war on terror you do have countries like the united states and france who while in some instances for example in the case of count go that have called on the

irregularities in this trial but on the other hand they continue to turn a blind eye to to this type of abuse when they double down on military support we do think it's high time that the the european union countries and the united states put their money where their mouth is and actually started to let cameroon know that this support that is vital to cameroon it's vital to their continuing campaign in the end with bone regions that the supporter is contingent on a basic respect for human rights fundamental. could just because you know a smudge thanks for being with us. thousands of protesters have turned down in northern syria to stand against russian airstrikes would 500 people have been killed in in province of the last 4 months russian backed syrian forces have been trying to capture the country's last rebel held stronghold since the offensive began air raids and fighting has displaced half

a 1000000 people jamila show ya'll is in hatay province in turkey which is on the syria border so what is the latest you're hearing from there. this is the 2nd week that protesters have taken out in significant numbers albeit considerably less than this time last week last friday when they gathered to protest as you say to the continued crimes committed business described by the russian military presence in syria as well as obviously the regime of bashar assad despite the fact that maybe syria hasn't been in the spotlight of the news is there has been previously there are still continued attacks taking place on residential and civilian areas particularly in the last remaining enclaves of rebel held areas in the north where civilians have been killed in these bombardments and what they've been calling upon essentially is for some sort of intervention by the

international community we should remind our viewers obviously that the relative relative reduction in hostilities or in those attacks that have taken place in syria over the past few months has been due to the different deals that have been made between sarkozy russia and iran however there was maybe some hope that that would bring about an inch of the continued suffering of the syrian people the fact that bombardments continue to take place is the reason why people are taking to the streets and saying that really there has to be more done in order to protect those civilians particularly in areas of the aleppo countryside in it live and closer to the border with the baba how are crossing where we had seen last week the protesters the syrian protesters that even crossed over into the turkish side of the border this week however groups like the that's one of the armed rebel groups there they put up with roadblocks in order to prevent the people from coming into

the turkish side probably with gas after instructions from the turks to ensure that that doesn't happen because turkey itself is grappling with trying to figure out what to do now that they've been speaking about this safe zone that they want to set up inside syria and also with the increased rhetoric of the refugee sentiment that's been expressed by some parts of the political spectrum here in turkey janetta share line 1st there in. egypt and she dan has his 1st female foreign minister abdullah is among 4 women included in the cabinet cabinet morgan reports. after days of deliberation by the country's prime minister the names of members for sudan's 1st cabinet of ministers appointed since the ousting of longtime president already bashir were announced the leadership going to do nice and you got to tell. you something. we start today a new face for a country of free manage well it will pave the way for us to build

a sudan that we are all proud of the 1st priority of the transitional government will be ending conflict and this decree confirms the appointment of ministers for the transitional period so that a cabinet made up of 20 members include sudan's 1st female foreign minister along with 3 other female ministers. the prime minister said it was a recognition for the role of women in the revolution which started in december with anti-government protests and led to the overthrow of bashir by the military april he also said that 2 seats in the cabinets will be filled in the coming days with further consultations needed to ensure representation of every region in the country the cabinet and bill by sudan's prime minister will ask for the transitional agreement implemented the vision of the protesters those include justice and accountability for the alleged crimes committed by for sure the government since it came to power in 1989 they're also calling for peace in the conflict zones in the country but implementing these changes may come with some

challenges. sudan's revolutionary front a coalition of armed groups and a part of the forces of freedom and change coalition that signed the power sharing agreement in august had previously expressed reservations over the agreement it says the deal signed it needs to address the core issues of the conflicts and the impact of war but i didn't know neither here nor here to go we need refugees to be able to return home and we need them to be compensated we want to rebuild sudan and restructure its economy and the issue of bringing pace is a long one and will take effect from all the countries including the international community. and hours before the announcement protesters took to the streets once again. hundreds demonstrated in front of the country's high judiciary court urging on an independent judiciary during the transitional period to ensure their demands during the 8 month protests are not forgotten. about your part of it was you know today we came out demanding an independent judiciary to represent us and we're

anyone who turns to that can get their rights not like the former regime where your rights were oppressed and the judicial system was bribed and politicized. here. today were demanding justice for those who've been killed we've got in the civilian government some people gave their lives for it to happen that shouldn't have been the cause so those who are responsible for choirs must be trite that's what i want from the transitional government. the government says it's working to build a new future after 30 years of rule under the former regime and present sudan in a new light protesters are not about to forget what it took to bring about that change people morgan on to 0. and i jury and is in south africa are being offered free flights home following a violent anti immigrant riots in johannesburg this week they targeted and burned a foreign owned businesses protests then took place in nigeria and zambia against the attacks in south africa tens of thousands of nigerians live in south africa i

mean idris has more from a budget. the reactions from such an african countries have been swift an angry regarding the events in south africa for example reports from zambia said rioters a typed south african businesses or south african own businesses in that country in nigeria police of a arrested dozens of people in the commercial capital lagos for rioting and also targeting south african businesses in that city similarly they've been some street protests in lagos and a buddha at a time when the nigerian government is walking behind the scene with a south african all forces try to resolve the crisis now i did us despite a high powered delegation to meet the president of south africa and people in his government to try to resolve this crisis only a one off you shal of the nigerian government is say that there will reach seek for redress and compensation for victims will been attracted by the xenophobic attacks in south africa now business between south africa and nigeria and particular

a is estimated at more than $60000000000.00 u.s. dollars so both countries up on lot to lose if that is any breakdown in sort of business activities between the 2 countries and and coup was also stepped in to warn that this could affect regional integration as specially you know that african countries are trying to come together and the the africa free trade agreement that is expected to take of probably in the next one year or so so basically this intuition is come on the streets of nigeria and other parts of africa especially here in the west africa wide the been some angry reactions from citizens because of the situation in south africa the u.s. economy and it added $130000.00 jobs last month few a then expect get experts say a maybe assigned the president donald chums trade war with china is to blame alan fischer has mall from washington it's