square she's an assistant professor of african studies at wellesley college good to have you with us on this news archives to be with us and ask you what you were nischelle thoughts feelings were when you heard of the death. i think i had been like most people expecting that it would happen any time soon he was 95 years old but i was also quite intrigued and waiting to see what the reaction would be from that of p.s. your listeners might recall that just 2 years ago barely 2 years ago in november 27th team we saw as an appeal of celebrating the fall of roberts we're going to through it cool but he's dead beat his deputy and now president emma some that were so i was quite intrigued as an appeal seems to be taking over leading the funeral in assuring the country that he's going to have a state sponsored funeral in the last few weeks we've had that that's something that riveting that wasn't interested in but beyond that i've also been paying

attention to what zimbabweans are saying and is hiram to say his sede his legacy is very complicated on one hand we have young people that see that they're very said that he has died but i think that is more a reflection of the current president that in the last year and a half somewhat way hasn't been able to resolve the economic conditions so there was always a feeling that when robert i'm going to be days everything will get better the economy will get better the political system would get better and that hasn't happened and so i think that's where we hear some of that feeling of free morse or missing robert mugabe but on the other hand there are people that are quite adamant that he's he's straight particularly windy that violence in 2008 that he's legacy is one of violence and brutality in that that's what he'll be remembered for and what was it like for you growing up in mugabe's zimbabwe. i think i was just tweeting about this

a couple of hours ago that you know for me personally it's quite a journey to try and unravel all of those feelings i didn't grow up in a home that supported senate p.s. so it's not as though my parents taught me to love robert mugabe but instead i grew up in a country that was quite stable i went to good schools we had food and so as a child i always believed that he was a good leader that he was committed but when i entered high school in any 2000 the country began to unravel pretty quickly and so it was really hard for me and i think for many children at that time to reconcile this leader who was we'd see and funny with this aura that we were beginning to to come to terms with with people losing their homes our teachers were quitting their jobs and going abroad i and many others made the decision to come and study abroad not because we didn't value the education and zimbabwe but because it had become quite scary and so for many of our families it was you know the sense was of agency that you have to leave and you

have to give right now as over the last 2 decades i think of our lives of really been focused on the end of robert mugabe and this really hopeful sense of when robert mugabe leaves then we can all go back home things will get better our lives will improve but we've seen that robert in the midst leaving office didn't really change things and zimbabwe instead what we've seen is that the military has become more brutal the government is not improving the economy so it's complicated when you think about that and i'm also quite cognizant of the fact that rebuttal of the played an important role in the liberation struggle he was jailed in 1064 for speaking out and during the time that he was jailed that's when he became quite militant and very outspoken against the smith regime and but then to reconcile that with the men who were just a few years later in 1803 orchestrate the death of 20000 people i mean it's really

difficult to put it very fascinating to talk wish i had longer with you but thank you so much for joining us thank you. coming up on this al-jazeera news i agree protesters in hong kong say they won't back down after police fired tear gas and rubber bullets and yet another night of clashes. as north prepares to vote in sunday's city elections why there won't be a single candidate representing family of putin's united russia party. buses sports arena williams faces a player hard age shades to be a 6 year old. to palestinians have been killed and several others injured during clashes on gaza's border fence with israel nearly $270.00 protesters have been killed since

palestinians began rallying in march last year thousands more have been injured by israeli troops deployed near the buffer zone demonstrators automatic an end to israel's 12 year old blockade of the gaza strip which has shattered its economy and deprived its $2000000.00 inhabitants many basic amenities processa been taking place in northern syria against the continuing russian air strikes and what they see as the international community silence more than 500 people have been killed in italy province over the last 4 months russian backed syrian forces have been trying to capture the country's last rebel held stronghold says the offensive began air raids and fighting have displaced half a 1000000 people. tens of thousands of algerians have demonstrated against the army chiefs call for elections before the end of the year algeria has been without an elected president since october adik abdelaziz bouteflika resigned in april following months of protests many algerians want

a transition period while others want elections but with conditions it is the 29th straight week of protests in the capital cheers. police officers in hong kong have fired tear gas and rubber bullets approached him ocracy demonstrators who've been surrounding a police station. earlier the protesters forced the closure of a nearby train station they're demanding the release of security camera footage of a bond confrontation between police and demonstrators last weekend when offices are accused of using excessive force to do the part and has the latest now from hong kong. now here we are again and protesters confronting right police to take it over a major highway that the meters away from a police station they had surrounded the earlier that set fire to that's been their will to try to turn to the police with the laser and earlier they were talking bricks at the police station that protesters here say their shoes really under the

extradition bill that was how the protests started 3 months ago they say now the issues are the hong kong government has handled these protests and how the police have behaved towards the protesters they believe the protesters have accused the police access of various they want an investigation into several incidents that have taken place over the past few weeks what i'm seeing is that the police are remaining rather come they're being backgrounds a couple of times to grind the protesters the better by spray run through the battleground that they are about to fire tear gas at the protesters leave but instead of dispersing the protesters these actions are inciting bad man. joining this protest down this made my way here the contentious area of monkeypox. well china has warned that the end could be coming for hong kong antigovernment protesters beijing has said it will never allow the chaos to continue indefinitely prompting concerns that chinese soldiers could be deployed on the streets of hong

kong white house looks at that prospects and the role of the international community was the was as protesters have marched in gathered in different parts of the city over the past 3 months 2. 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 call winkie 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 for taiwan to avoid the possibility of being sent

back to the mainland and to 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 so the government can ignore their opinions and the moment this is one of them 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 united states which is involved in its own dispute with china that donald from administration has named the hong kong crisis with its train of faulty so be doing is also under pressure not to be seen to be intending to hong kong is. 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. the british parliament a house has approved a bill that blocks the u.k. from crashing out of the e.u. without a deal that bill will now become law on monday it is yes another setback for prime minister barak's johnson he's struggling to gain support to his bed to call an early election and the hayward reports from the houses of parliament. he's been struggling to control parliament and even hundreds of kilometers from westminster

forest on sunday wasn't having an easy time of it britain's prime minister was in scotland to announce the extra funding for bombers 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 go down but i want to get this thing done and you know i think the people of this country. and there's no 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 we're all going to go there are going to be 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. and 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. on thursday his own brother resigned as an m.p. a minister 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 an exit and a bill to stop the country crashing out of the e.u. is going through parliament there's been a small victory but the government no 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 he would al-jazeera in westminster. voters head to the polls in the city election on sunday the ballot papers won't show a single candidate openly running for president vladimir putin's united russia party instead they'll be standing as independent candidates for the regional parliament known as the duma if alos the declining popularity of united russia protests against a ban on some opposition politicians running so fast in 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 state. 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'm a member of this body everybody wants to have a lot of people if there are a problem with your party you know we haven't any problem i brought out that i am a member of the right and that's all thank you very much. great things for the party which was founded soon after 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 and you see the candidates here say they're here the

1st of all people in moscow and they don't need to use the park if named but i will say it shows how deep united russia has fallen. the usually low key moscow elections have attracted worldwide attention after more than 30 opposition candidates were banned from running government officials cited administratively mistakes the decision led to weeks of protests candidates and protesters being detained and one leading opposition candidate lobo sabol going on a hunger strike. this shows that in moscow the opposition is strong enough to 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 sasa disqualification of the opposition candidates is legitimate and calls the election process fear. the moscow elections a totally legal electoral process has followed the rule of law candidates can be

registered according to the documents we saw in 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. alright washing out is their ally from london and still ahead small the amazon continues to burn south american presidents travel to me tribal leaders with one voice of all exception. job growth slows in the united states take a look at the challenges facing donald trump as he goes for a 2nd term plus. oddly welling's in the midst of anger weren't extraordinary voting for your old folk a lot is still breaking records and still is going god's. we've

got some quotes where the pushing into western parts of europe over the next couple of days still a fair bit of cloud just piling across the british isles down across the low countries i will concede to sink its way southward in these fires as we go on through the weekend as is the case to around italy and the balkans this area cloud continues to pull its way down we'll see some showers long dispose of rain some lively showers a possibility of some thunder quite weather across a good part of the med for the time being as is the case to eastern parts of you that's like watch weather across the western side if you saturday sees process guys come through on a northerly pass there for london 18 degrees celsius is because through into sunday process guys still pushing in across a good part of western europe shows all the spells of right now make they were

across the adriatic bright skies come back into a good part of italy but still want to rochelle's just up towards the with the south of that fine and dry more warm sunshine in the warm sunshine across the good parts of north africa we're going to have a bit of wet weather enough will cause the over the next day or so northern parts of morocco could see some rain little bit of cloud here making its way across algeria's well that will pep pop as we go on through sunday cloud and rain setting in here algiers with the top temperature 27. september on al-jazeera with ethiopia taking its 1st steps into democracy al-jazeera meets for diversity europeans who are reshaping the country's political landscape world leaders gather in new york for the united nations general assembly global issues are on the table

a listening post dissects the world's media how they operate and the stories they cover global warming and possible solutions to climate change are on the agenda of the united nations a special 2 part series exposed how human activity has damaged much of the planet and cause some of the biggest environmental threats to mankind september on al-jazeera. the costa priceless results under threat the amazon rainforest is a blaze on its links to brazil's drive from will be a sort of production look at bats are always global ambitions which have left investors missing some big losses. counting the calls on al-jazeera.

again undermine to the top stories on al-jazeera form a zimbabwean president robert mugabe has died in hospital in singapore at the age of 95 his successor allison when god has called mcgarvey a national hero and champion of zimbabwe another african rights others have criticized his human rights records and accused him of destroying the economy. police officers in hong kong and fired tear gas and rubber bullets at pro-democracy demonstrators who've been surrounding a police station. hundreds of people are still missing in the. as officials warn the death toll from hurricane dorian could be staggering at least 30 people and known to have died but rescue workers are still discovering bodies in the ruins and floodwaters left behind by the storm the u.n. says the international office on migration is providing 1000 tall paul ince to

replace the roofs stripped from homes on the islands of avocado and grand bahama dorian was the most powerful hearkened to ever hit the bahamas flattening entire neighborhoods and knocking else infrastructure. well out of there as manuel joins us live now from freeport in the bahamas tell us more about where you are what you've been seeing. we're in freeport grand bahama we just arrived today from the island of abaco want to give you a sense of where we are right now because this is one of the worst hit areas by hurricane dorian you can see behind me this is what's left not only from those strong winds wind gusts upwards of 350 kilometers per hour but it wasn't only the when it was the storm surge this area that we're in right now was under at least 3 meters of water behind me is everything from home appliances refrigerators washing machines there's telephone poles trees snapped in half basically people's entire

lives and livelihoods lying in the debris here so it really is wide scale devastation when we were flying in from the outer island of abaco today we really got a sense of that of that devastation there were entire neighborhoods that appeared as though a bomb had gone off some sort of large large. it sounds cliche but almost as though a nuclear bomb had gone off it was just absolutely flattened the big concern here as this crisis continues to unfold are the shortages of food shortages of medicine shortages of water we do know that the u.s. coast guard is working closely with the with the bahamian government to deliver supplies to the places that need it the most there's another concern however which is the evacuations and islands in the northeastern behind those would include freeport people are desperately trying to get out so runways have finally been cleared earlier today we saw hundreds of people gathered at the airport on treasure k. but there simply aren't enough airplanes to evacuate everybody and there are the the

number one priority right now for the bahamian government is search and rescue operations in places like grand bahama and places like abaco there are still many people who are unaccounted for unaccounted for and there are still search and rescue operations taking place and bodies being pulled out being pulled out of waters that haven't finished receiving just how difficult those rescue and recovery operations manuel i mean do they do the authorities actually have the equipment the people that they need to carry out these operations. when we were leaving the island of abaco today we saw search and rescue operations from the united states finally being able to arrive remember it was 36 hours that it took for the storm to make it across grand bahama it's a historic storm for the bahamas is the strongest hurricane to ever hit the nation so it is a major challenge not only for the bahamian government but for other countries that are trying to lend a hand as well i mentioned that airports and air strips are finally baby being

cleared off that's giving that's giving rescue workers finally an opportunity to get into these places that are harder hit but there are other islands there are other communities that have not received aid yet that have been that that still have people trapped that are trying to get out so the challenge it is getting better but the challenges they continue and those who have being evacuated where are they taking them tick. it's amazing we've heard estimates that there's the destruction it's upwards of 13000 homes that have been destroyed so we're talking about thousands of people who have nowhere to stay nowhere to sleep some of the folks that we've spoken to that have been that have evacuated say that they actually don't plan to return to the bahamas so for the moment that that's another big question where they're going to be staying a lot of the people that are being evacuated for medical reasons are being transferred to nassau given that there are a limited number of health facilities and hospitals and clinics that remain

standing on the island of abaco that's a major concern given that there's only one there there's only one health clinic in the community of marsh harbor where the worst hit places and it really was a chaotic scene when we visited there yesterday so it's a concern for us as well we don't know where these people are or are going to be taken but are what we expect is that all of these evacuations all of these air lifts are being are taking people evacuees hurricane survivors to the island of nassau where they can where they can be taken to temporary shelters and at the very least be taken to somewhere where there are still electricity because where we are here in freeport where we were on the island of abaco there's still no electricity no running water and the major concern right now is the shortages of medicine food and of course water absolute terrible situation i'm all right and i join us live report from jacki thank you well i reckon during has flooded homes and damaged businesses on north carolina's coast with hundreds trapped by high water medical

work is being sent to ocracoke island following reports of people being forced to retreat to their ass ticks off to define mandatory evacuation orders the rest of the southeastern u.s. has the knowledge the sped from door and the wall evacuation orders in south carolina next stage says however see he's still continue further up the atlantic coast dorian has now been downgraded to a catholic we won but it's still packing winds of $150.00 can almost as alice. the indian space agency has lost communication with its chandra and 2 lunar mission just before it was about to land on the moon into a plan to land the unmanned probe near the lunar south pole the agency's chairman told a room of distraught scientists and prime minister narendra modi that data is being analyzed india hopes to become only the 4th nation to land on the moon after russia the us and china. when i saw that the communication went off

i was watching all of your faces but this wasn't a small achievement that you can hold on our country is proud of you also mark wright childfree is the director at the n.c. university center for astronomy and astrophysics and joins me via skype from pinay thanks for being with us on the program do we have any idea yet exactly what happened because it seems to be that chandra and 2 came very very close and then they lost contact with. him but we will we will looking at this. that and there was was approaching the news that. the 4 legs of the lander can take about a speed of about 7 meters per 2nd. at last so that's a soft landing and to do that from of you know many kilometers per 2nd in orbit to the to the to the surface one uses thrusters the rate trusters on the land

that that slows it down and when we lost contact about 2 kilometers from the surface it was still going at about 50 meters a 2nd and that's 10 times it's a larger landing speed so. you know it could be the trust that one of the thrusters worked very well it reminds us of the ship are really land there on mars 3 years of . the weather advertised you know land in which exactly at the last moment like this didn't work and we still hoping that that it's not as disastrous as we think because we knew that after about 2 hours after landing it would pick up a lot of dust and and then we would see what's going on for a while and that is why. the rover was supposed to come down 2 and a half hours after after the landing and now we know the dust that we build

inevitably be kicked up by the trustor from the rock. to dust there so. it could be that the communication is hampered by that. but we have just lost communication because the equipment to be broken because of the high speeds we have you think it's crossed the 8 instruments on the orbit to working which is which is also a major achievement with a big and if we can regain communications even if the lander is. the 3 instruments on the land. to work and send back. and this is the optimistic part of us. that we are trying to steal what would happen has made an announcement that we should wait for. hours to see. what they can do and and to keep trying to gain. certainly our wasting game and i know many

indians around the world are waiting just like you to see exactly what happened some outcry choudhry appreciate you joining us there think i thank you. the leaders of several last an american countries of be meeting tribal leaders in colombia up to discuss ways to stop the record number of fires in the amazon rain forest colombia's president even do k. peruse president last visit carra bolivia's ever over ron a as were among the leaders who greeted the trival medicals brazilian president jaya both an our own miss the meeting slicing health reasons on the to america at a sell you see an human has more from outta mirror in the presume you have states accra heads of state in representatives of the sick south american countries the chair the amazon rain forest tried to put on a united front as they signed the packed of lid d.c. schaeffer amazonia it commits them to taking concrete action to prevent a 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 jade bull slow not all will be undergoing surgery on sunday it will be has force 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 the brazil has the right to open it up to cattle ranching and it to agriculture for example i am in in one of the largest municipality's of the amazon of brazil which is a larger of fact then the sized of all of the england and it has been burnt large chunks of it in order to allow agriculture and ranching to take over tens of thousands of nigerians in south africa being offered free flights home by the airline at peace following violent anti immigrant riots in johannesburg this week by derrius says it will see compensation from south africa for tax on it citizens south africa closed

its missions in nigeria on thursday off to a wave or for tommy a tree violence well he's accepting a huge strain on relations between africa's 2 largest economies often it is rest has more from nigeria's capital a beach or reactions from such an african countries have been swift and angry regarding the events in south africa for example reports from zambia said rioters attacked south african businesses or south african owned businesses in that country in nigeria police have arrested dozens of people in the commercial capital lagos for rioting and also targeting south african businesses in that city similarly there been some street protests in lagos and a buddha at a time when the nigerian government is walking behind the scene with the south african authorities to try to resolve the crisis nigeria's despite a high powered delegation to meet the president of south africa and people in his government to try to resolve this crisis or one of of the nigerian government who

say that they will seek for redress and compensation for victims been affected by the xenophobic attacks in south africa now business between south africa and nigeria in particular is estimated at more than $60000000000.00 us dollars so both countries up a lot to lose if there is any breakdown in sort of business activities between the 2 countries and who was also stepped in to warn that this could affect regional integration as specially now that african countries are trying to come together and the africa free trade agreement that is expected to take of probably in the next one year or so so basically the situation is come on the streets of nigeria and other parts of africa especially in west africa where they have been some angry reactions from citizens because of the situation in south africa siddhant has been readmitted to the african union its membership was suspended in june after a day.