is the time of robert mugabe now over the remnants of robert mugabe his rule still existing in zimbabwe and if there are what do you see are going to be the problems as a result of that i think there are 2 chief hanging from the robert mugabe years the 1st is a lack of operational planning or productivity the idea of going out and borrowing yet more money to rescue the country that seems to be the only idea in the head of the planners and the head of the minister of finance the other having a republican base years is the use of violence against citizens great violence as if the government has no response or the proper dialogue with its own citizens it is this that will continue to name people in the months and the years to come do you think as a result of that that zimbabwe has the checks and balances necessary to avoid

another situation involving another robert mugabe and 2 to occur in the future or do you think that there is a risk that we might see as you were talking about an inflammation of the people as the economic situation becomes more intense i think there's a very great risk of a 30 meltdown dating to greater violence the government has got to produce operational economic times as i said it's also got to rein in that strong militarized forces it's got to listen to the people get the people a chance to express their grievances come to understand the terrible living conditions that many people are not having to go through without a listening government that can only be difficulties and impending violence and civil strife in the years ahead very interesting to get your point in the steven chance thank you very much indeed for talking to us from. thank you more

ahead in the news including elections are taking place in moscow but not a single candidate is standing for the party of president putin. protesters surround a police station in hong kong there met with officers firing tear gas and rubber bullets. and slip sliding away find out who was able to go fastest and where practice session the head of the italian grand prix. has been quite a week for u.k. politics with some crushing defeats for britain's new prime minister boris johnson the latest blow came earlier from parliament's upper house which is approved a bill to block a no deal bragg's it let's go live now to london to felicity and the team in a european broadcast center. thanks rob yes that bill is now set to become

law on monday and it means mr johnson will have to ask the e.u. for an extension to the deadline of october 31st if no deal is agreed on you can brussels by october the 19th he is basically opposed to delaying breck's it wants parliament to vote again on holding a general election and the hayward reports. he's been struggling to control parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster boris johnson wasn't having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce extra funding for farmers he hasn't got the election he wants yet both photo opportunities like this the campaign certainly feels like it's on the way johnson insists he has no intention of resigning if he doesn't get britain out of the e.u. soon that is not a hypothesis i am willing to be called but i want us to get this thing done and you

know i think the people of this country do and there's an opportunity to be so much more positive about this earlier at a fish market he promised again that britain would leave the european union by the 31st of october there are going to go together to get their opposition parties are continuing to pile on the pressure saying they'll vote against his plans to hold an october the 15th general election just days before what could be britain's last e.u. summit. is hoping that he'll be able to secure the support of 2 thirds of m.p.'s in the commons to push through a general election and middle tobar over 15th is the date he's proposing but the opposition just simply aren't going to budge they don't trust him and they want to make sure that this extension is in place before they agree to anything it's been quite a week the prime minister johnson so. on thursday his only brother resigned as an m.p. i'm. saying he was torn between family loyalty and the national interest his majority

has been obliterated through expelled 21 m.p.'s trying to stop and breaks it and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament there's been a small bit to put the government though with the high court in london ruling that the decision to suspend parliament put 5 weeks is legal the saying we can politics is a long time has never felt more appropriate boris johnson is a man under pressure to deliver the promises he's made and keeps on making there may not be able to keep a general election seems likely but the electorate is wary of rex it and they would al-jazeera in westminster. and anderson has joins us live now from the houses of parliament so andrew boris johnson keeps saying the u.k. will leave the e.u. by october 31st but by law come monday by law he is going to have to ask for an extension if no deal has been agreed beforehand. that's right felicity it's

a mess for the bars johnson right now it's been an appalling week for him 48 hours ago he had his 1st crushing defeat and now this defeat in the house of lords with this bill being passed on for royal assent that means the queen will be signing off on it it's a standard process for an extraordinary measure which basically does box in boris johnson who wants to go for a vote on monday a 2nd attempt at a general election but all opposition parties saying they will vote against ready it there was a conference call on friday morning to discuss it and fair and square everyone was agreeing that they did not trust boris johnson that they felt that he could as long as that deadline was that he could still push for a no deal brix it somehow but as things stand now he has to have some point go to

brussels and either get a deal all extend by 3 months the deadline for breakfast and ask for permission for that it's likely the european union will agree to it but certainly not guaranteed right now david frost the government negotiator is in brussels but there are no signs whatsoever of any progress from any quarter and what we're seeing from boris johnson is the sort emma's report is a rounds of electioneering on thursday he was criticised by the chief constable of west yorkshire for what he did he was using an event which was police recruitment police officers all behind him it effectively literally staged this process in which he then made a passing reference to police recruitment and extra police officers in fact the number is 20000 but used the majority of his time there or all of these offices waiting more than an hour for his arrive. they used this event to effectively

electioneer to actually push forward criticism of the opposition and suggestions that he needed to go to brussels to fix it to actually go for a no deal. everybody andrew knows that a general election is going to have to happen sooner or later he obviously wants it before time 31st and looks now unlikely that's going to happen what are the best bets for when it might happen. well that's a big question october the 15th is his preference it certainly isn't the preference of the opposition parties they feel their best strategy it is a democracy after all and effectively now the opposition is in control of events until this parliament is suspended which was an action of boris johnson so when is the election what the opposition would prefer would be a november election after the october 31st deadline when everyone knows that it will be 3 months just the end of january 2020 before the next deadline for brics it

so slightly milder atmosphere than the toxic one that prevails right now allowing britain to go to the polls is not election anybody wants and boris johnson himself has said that but then look at his language right now you're hearing from him all of the election talk and very little about any substance in the how he can possibly get a deal through with the european union extraordinary times just in his life there in westminster thank you several villages have been evacuated in spain after the outbreak of several wildfires there burning in the country's north western region of calif here having already destroyed more than 500 hectares of forest more than a dozen aircraft are helping firefighters as they try to contain the blazes which is being fanned by strong winds in hot dry weather he say to you off the fires have been stabilized but to office a selective. now in moscow's voters head to the polls for the city election on

sunday the ballot papers won't show a single candidate's openly running for president vladimir putin's united russia party instead they'll be standing as independent candidates for the regional parliament known as doom up comes on the back of united russia's declining popularity and large protests against a ban on some opposition politicians running step fossil reports from the russian capital. only the presence of a beer it's a way that this is an election rally for united russia the animal has often been used to symbolize the ruling party and has been hired here to entertain supporters of this day been called but the united to russia veteran who has been a member of the moscow duma or regional parliament since it was founded in 1903 is not running for her party on the ballot she's an independent candidate running for the money i'm running i'm

a member of this body i remember this body everybody wants to have a lot support of people if there are a problem with your party i know we haven't any problem i brought out that i am a member of the right at the outset that's all thank you very much. great things for the party which was founded soon after bloody may put in became president in 1909 dropped 11 percent to 28 percent last year after the retirement age was increased a move that led to a nationwide protest during last year's regional elections united russia lost for governor positions analysts say the party's very name has become a liability a campaign rally for united russia but not a single party flacco banner can be seen the candidates here say they're here to hurt people in moscow and they don't need to use the park if named but others say it shows how deep united russia has. paula the usually low key moscow elections

have attracted worldwide attention after more than 30 opposition candidates were banned from running government officials cited administrative mistakes the decision led to weeks of protests candidates and protesters being detained and one leading opposition candidate lubow sabol going on a hunger strike. this shows that in moscow the opposition a strawman after cause problems to those in power problems they did not have before when in previous elections candidates were not allowed to run it was fine today it has led to major political event the chairman of the moscow duma here on campaign trail so as a disqualification of the opposition candidates is legitimate and calls the election process fair. the moscow elections a totally legal electoral process is followed the rule of law candidates can be registered according to the documents we saw and court rulings that have taken place they failed to get proper documents although the moscow duma is not seen as

an influential body the elections are considered a task for national elections 2 years from now without a strong party in parliament it could be more difficult for president putin to stay in power beyond his last term which ends in 2024 steps fast and al-jazeera moscow. and that's it for me on the team in london let's take you back now to die hard up. thanks for listening now police officers in hong kong have fired tear gas and rubber bullets at demonstrators have been surrounding a police station earlier the protesters gathered at a train station nearby forcing it to close they're demanding the release of security camera footage of a violent confrontation between police and demonstrators last weekend officers are accused of using excessive force there gopalan has the latest from hong kong. now here we are again it protesters confronting right believed to take another major highway that no problemo meters away from the police station they had are

surrounded earlier that said finally. that's been their will to try to challenge the police with the laser and earlier they were taking breaks at the police station mapping the testers here see the issues mainly under the extradition bill that was how the protests started 3 months ago they say now the issues had their hands on government to handle these protests and how the police have behaved toward the protesters they believe the protesters have accused the police access of things they want an investigation into several incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks we've been seeing that the police are remaining rather than being backgrounds a couple of tightenings to behind the protesters the fancified spray run to the basket run that they are about to fight here again at the protesters leave but instead of dispersing the protesters the factions and fighting them and people are driving this protest down this may demand way the contentious area of money top. to

palestinians have been killed and several others have been injured during clashes in the border fence with israel since the gaza rallies began in march last year nearly $270.00 protests as have been killed and thousands more have been wounded by israeli troops deployed near the buffer zone demonstrators are demanding an end to israel's 12 year blockade of the gaza strip which has shot at the coast along close economy and deprive its $2000000.00 inhabitants of many basic amenities. head of the u.n. nuclear watchdog is set to meet top iranian officials as the country continues to scale back its commitments under the 2050 nuclear deal canell photo will be in iran's capital tehran on sunday the nuclear deal has been unraveling since the u.s. pulled out last year and we imposed sanctions president hassan rouhani has warned his country's energy program will soon operate without limits thousands of people

have turned out in northern syria to protest against a russian air strikes more than 500 people have mean being killed in italy a province over the last 4 months russian backed syrian forces have been trying to capture the country's last rebel held stronghold. thousands of algeria and several turned to the streets demanding an end to the current regime has been without an elected president since demonstrators forced former president abdelaziz bouteflika to resign in april the testers want sweeping changes in the country including members of the former regime being put on trial. still ahead on al-jazeera fears about staggering death toll as the bahamas begins to clear up the devastation left by how the condoling. and facebook under fire the social media giants being investigated in the u.s. plus. i'm a weddings in the east of england where an extraordinary scene when you're on a still breaking records and stills going dawgs.

you know welcome back here in the national weather forecast what could be seeing a few showers appear cross parts of turkey those were making their way towards the east across the caspian as well those shows could be heavy at times across parts of georgia our division we could be seeing some heavy rain coming out of those thunderstorms there here on saturday it is going to be a nice day for on her with attempt a few of $27.00 degrees as we go towards sunday the rain showers continue but we do think they'll be a little bit lighter but down towards the south aleppo it's going to be a hot day for you with a temperature of 34 degrees there well here across much of the gulf it has been quite humid but we're going to be seeing those temperatures rising in usually when the temperatures rise that also means humidity goes down as well so for here on saturday expect to see about $43.00 degrees less humidity but we do expect to see

the winds come up as well so $43.00 in our forecast over towards a temperature of 40 as we go towards sunday really expecting much of the same and then down across parts of southern africa we have been dealing with the storm system that caused a lot of winds across much of the area a lot of rain as well durban johannesburg has been seeing a lot of that activity we're going to be seeing those clouds start to dissipate and move a little bit more over here towards the east so for johannesburg here on saturday expect to see a cool day at 70 degrees durban at 20 and capetown a beautiful day at 27. to strengthen the good you have to show do good all the more with you come still fight against corruption. destroy new cheering heroes like know who are bad who refuse to $15000000.00 brian the achievement of heroes like him to showcase by the

international ace award it shines a light on these heroes because the best way to find a dark used to shine a light let's make a rule to bid to please nominate your anti corruption nero now. be the cost of priceless results under threat the amazon rainforest is a blaze in its links to brazil's drive for full beef and soy production and look at that plus as he had always global ambitions which have left investors missing some big losses. counting the costs on al-jazeera.

what you want to see a reminder of our top stories this hour zimbabwe has declared days of national mourning until the burial of its former leader robert mugabe has died at the age of 95 the country's president emerson when god was bestowed national hero status in zimbabwe's highest pasta most on. the u.k.'s house of lords has approved a bill to block a no deal brags that it's now set to become law on monday it's the latest blow to prime minister bulbous johnson earlier. opposition parties announced they will continue to reject his call for a snap election. police officers in hong kong have fired tear gas and rubber bullets and demonstrators have been surrounding a police station earlier the protesters gathered at a train station nearby forcing it to close. on kong is now its 14th week of anti-government protests but china's warning the end could be near beijing says it won't allow the chaos to continue indefinitely raising concerns that soldiers

could be deployed on the streets of hong kong when he has more. the. as protesters have marched in gathered in different parts of the city over the past 3 months. one of the cries has been stand with hong kong. it's a call to their own people and to the international community to support their action against the increasing control of china that runs hong kong under a one country 2 systems policy of sorts solidarity with taiwan which china views as a rogue province that it will eventually retake well what. we. all used to sell books in hong kong that were critical of the chinese government and in 2015 was detained in china for 8 months this year he decided to leave to taiwan to avoid the possibility of being sent back

to the mainland under hong kong's now withdrawn extradition bill which was the catalyst for the protests. the power of the hong kong government comes from beijing and it's become a dictatorship the people have no voting rights to the government can ignore their opinions and demand of this. there have been protests both pro and anti china in many cities around the world the government in beijing says the movement is backed by foreign powers who want to destabilize china the main suspect is the night. states which is involved in its own dispute with china that donald trump administration has linked the hong kong crisis to the trainable sea still be doing is also under pressure not to be seen with the impending hong kong issue. beijing has warned that it may get tough soon prompting concerns it could deploy soldiers who are based in hong kong since the start of the protests many world leaders have

expressed concern about the situation in hong kong and china to respect the rights of the people here those words of course given encouragement to the protesters but those world leaders know that given china's economic power there's only so much pressure they can apply for now china seems to be willing to be patient in the hope that the momentum of the protests will fade along with the international attention on the street those fighting for the city's future are determined to achieve the opposite wayne hey al jazeera hong kong. a weakened her condolence flooded homes in the outer banks of the u.s. state of north carolina the storms now a category one hurricane and over the atlantic ocean but coastal areas remain on alert as it makes its way of these coast at least 4 people have been killed in the u.s. and more than 350000 people were without electricity because of the storm darren's expected to make landfall in nova scotia canada late on saturday and gallacher has the latest from charleston south carolina. well hurricane during has finally moved

off the u.s. east coast after briefly making landfall in north carolina in the outer banks there is taking a north east course that takes it away from all the states that were in danger for so many days remember the storms lots of for almost 2 weeks since it 1st formed about 200000 homes in north and south carolina have lost power they're expected to get it back fairly quickly because there was no damage to the infrastructure basically hurricane during after spending days crawling up the u.s. east coast to spend almost everybody there was no damage in florida not in georgia very minor damage here in south carolina or north carolina pretty much dodged a bullet as well so the emergency services working on restoring power there are still warnings in place in places like virginia but ultimately the storm is now headed to canada or nova scotia where it's expected to hit landfall as a category one storm in about 2 days and how it can do and has already left at

least 30 people dead and thousands more homeless after devastating the bahamas manual that apollo has the latest from marsh harbor on the island of abaco. it's early morning in the bahamian island about the cole and esther is sifting through what's left of her home. in the same house she's lived in for the last 56 years. oh my but you know they get things back. and it was more than how. you quoted. the woman. down the road at a nearby airstrip a chaotic scene is playing out everywhere and everything so often that never goes off the face of. the 1st airplanes have arrived to evacuate survivors of hurricane dory t.r.e. nubile is here with her children but there are hundreds of others trying to evacuate and there simply aren't enough planes it's a disaster a lot of people don't live. that's passed away a lot of bodies it's ridiculous no have no homes there's no shelter and it's really

really bad here. driving down the road toward marsh harbor it becomes clear why so many people are fleeing this region of the bahamas was the worst hit by the storm. this is about as bad as hurricane damage gets as you can see the scene here in marsh harbor is nightmarish there is debris everywhere there are boats in front of people's driveways the floodwaters have not receded yet and for thousands of residents we've lost their homes here that nightmare is far from over. for many of the injured and displaced one of the only places to go is this hospital the only health facility left standing after the storm it's just. this i don't know what the faith of. any minute you can check it they were they would take all get from here. and they give you no hope for you know there's no hope. it's the but.

7 it could be months before life returns to normal on abaco. some of those who have managed to evacuate may never return in the meantime there are still hundreds of others waiting for their turn to get out. zita morse harbor of the bahamas. the leaders of several latin american countries are meeting to discuss ways to stop the record number of farmers in the amazon rain forest this illian president jalal sonata joined by video conference many of blamed his policies for the problem both are not of deployed 44000 troops to help but declined funding from g 7 leaders and saying it would make brazil like a colony. in america it is at the scene newman has more from ultimata in the brazilian state of part of heads of state and representatives of the 6 south american countries that share the amazon rain forest tried to put on

a united front as they signed the pact of amazonia it commits them to taking concrete action to prevent the uncontrollable destruction of the amazon but conspicuously absent was the president of brazil the country that has the largest share of the amazon president j. ball so not all will be undergoing surgery on sunday it will be his 4th since he was stabbed in the stomach exactly one year ago while he was on the campaign trail but many see his absence at the meeting as a sign of lack of commitment towards the amazon because he has been long arguing that brazil has the right to open it up to cattle ranching and to agriculture for example i am in one of the largest municipalities of the amazon of brazil which is larger in fact than the size of all of england and it has been burnt large chunks of it in order to allow agriculture and ranching to take over nigerians in south africa are being offered free flights home following violent anti immigrant riots

in johannesburg this week it targeted and burned foreign owned businesses as then took place in nigeria and zambia against the attacks in south africa tens of thousands of nigerians live in south africa. so the un has been readmitted to the african union its membership was suspended in june after a deadly attack on protesters in khartoum this comes a day after sudan's newly appointed prime minister named his cabinet members part of a transitional power sharing agreement between the military and pro-democracy demonstrators it's the 1st cabinet since longtime president or whatever she was ousted in april well as part of that cabinet the country has its 1st female foreign minister women have been praised for their contribution in bringing down bashir and now they're demanding a bigger role in sudan's future mohamed reports from khartoum. is a filmmaker and activist. that's the name

given to female protesters who led rallies and faced tear gas and live bullets to bring down the former of the she. she was arrested in january and spent 39 days in jail along with 50 other females she's unhappy with the limited role of women in the political power sharing deal that's been agreed to. women's contribution in the lucian was no less than 70 percent but when we came to forming the councils we got a very weak representation of the f.f.c. documents depleted 40 percent of seats for women but if we look at nominations we've got less than 10 percent that's why we've started a campaign to demand an equal share women say that can see that in their important role in the revolution they deserve more than what they've been offered. out of the 11 supreme council seats they got to and in the 20 member cabinet only 4 female

ministers have been appointed as although that. is one of sudan's most outspoken feminists she says women abilities are undermining going ahead of me to question. the purpose is to crush women self-esteem by saying they're not qualified or can't even qualify for these positions the male culture organizes the world according to a binary order in which men enjoy the best qualities such as wisdom ability well even women with a lower category of values such as emotions stupidity or also wily ness for that matter. one of the main writers of the new constitution of the document disagrees with knight. and i would not. use it to empower women rather than to give them places. they say they don't need they say they already know. just give them the positions. so you think they're not qualified. they must

and it is also our duty to. ringback addressing a mostly male crowd now had said after a long history of exclusion it's time to give women a chance in public office. they speak to us about qualifications but look at this 60 years of rule since independence it's been a heap of failures linking qualification to james as an excuse they used to exclude women and it has no basis sudanese women have been graduating from medical colleges since 951 is it logical nobleman is qualified to take up the job of minister of health for instance. as these debates go on so then these women are starting to break new ground for the 1st time since independence a woman is appointed our stock diplomat but didn't other women the rights campaigners say more needs to be done. and investigations being launched in several u.s.

states and whether facebook is stifling competition and putting its users at risk the antitrust probe is being led by the new york state attorney general as part of a wider investigation of major digital companies into further the gaijin competitive practices google and all are thought to be among the firms also being targeted. the philippine government is accusing the opposition of plotting to oust president ordering go to turkey dozens of people have been taken before the courts where they've denied the allegations jamil and organ has more from manila. they are politicians priests actors and human rights workers more than 30 of them are accused by the philippine government of committing acts of sedition inciting people to rebel against the government and other criminal complaints the office of the solicitor general says they plotted with the vice president when it opened.