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a new chapter for zimbabwe as the nation inaugurate a new president and ceremonies are getting underway and president emerson in the guard what is due to take the oath of office shortly we'll go live to harare as zimbabweans look forward to a new era with robert mugabe. also coming up the leader of germany social democrats martin shows under pressure to enter a coalition with chancellor merkel's conservatives he said he won't but some in his party reckon it's time to think again. and brags it looms again over brussels european union leaders arrive for a summit with leaders of eastern european nations but britain's departure from the e.u. is likely to dominate the agenda. hello i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. emerson is to be sworn in as in bob boys

president shortly tens of thousands of people have poured into the national sports stadium on the outskirts of the capital harare to witness the inauguration we're looking at some pictures there the president the designated president in gaga has arrived for the ceremony a big cheer from the crowd in attendance he has said his presidency will mark the start of a new political era and he's pledged full democracy for the country. christine moon is covering that story for us and she joins us now from harare with more christine we were seeing preparations there under way for the presidential inauguration today a very momentous day in the history of zimbabwe the whole country must be watching this event here it's at terry and visually every zimbabwean has become a political commentator of some sorts that is the talk of the town everywhere you

go people had to live in corn is as sitting around radios sitting at ten a vision say it's many people at the stadium to hear if there is so much excitement in this country there is a song that is being played everywhere you go and you see chile at a low cost in zimbabwe wrote that song on the set about a few weeks ago full innocent i know it came to power but it's called told up loud and essentially people are saying it was prophetic it was making reference to the crocodile eventually ruling this country that is a national anthem that is plain right now so there is a lot of excitement about innocent men that were coming in and i think you can see it with the people who are gathered at the stadium christine stay with us for a moment we're going to take a closer look at the man some call the crocodile he's about to become zimbabwe's new leader emerson god what was a long time ally of his predecessor robert mugabe many are wondering whether the new president will mark

a real departure from the old. they call him the crocodile partly because of his hooded eyes but mainly because of his fearsome reputation and now emerson is the crocodile who snapped back sacked by the ousted president robert mugabe earlier this month returned in triumph this week after the military forced an end to mccarthy's thirty seven year rule. jaimie five zero zero you is done. for years a key mcgarvie ally in guard corps helped direct zimbabwe's war of independence in the one nine hundred seventy s. in the eighty's he became the country's feared spine muster during its years of civil conflict he saw himself as

a natural successor to his aging mentor the two finally fell out when it became clear mugabe wanted to install his wife grace instead. even among the crocodile supporters not everyone's convinced everything will now be different. superficially changes but what can we expect from them you know i'm really asking myself what we're going to get out of the bus that is seven years what's changed and they're bringing a lot of people would be happy with our expectations be delivered under this new dispensation robert mugabe's decades long drive to confiscate white owned farms has left him bob was ruined economy in ruins business leaders hope man and god can use his international connections to revitalize business activity. expectations to the new. president is without. doubt.

the market. markets. the crocodile is promising zimbabweans a new era of democracy hopes are high but changed with real doubts about what lies ahead. are still with christine. who's our correspondent there in in zimbabwe covering these ceremonies for us today christine i want to ask you we just saw in that report there that the incoming president is still closely associated with robert mugabe's regime do they expect him to bring about big changes. it's carried there is a healthy sense of skepticism around him assume that for a long time he was robert mugabe his right hand man and he was he is in full he's been associated with various human rights atrocities in this country so people know

who in the same non-god way is they know him to be a ruthless man one who has really been a part of mugabe's free cian cracking down on dissent they understand the zimbabwe that they've been living in for the possibly decades that amos in that way has had a pot to play in what the country has been but people say that he has turned a new leaf that amos and has realized that there is a different way to run this country they are hopeful some things that he has been saying like when he addressed the supporters for the first time upon returning to the country he said that he wanted peace in this country that he wanted a democracy in this country that no zimbabwean was more important than the other and that he was going to say he still has to prove it to zimbabwe and i think a lot of people will be watching him very closely some developments tommy that because of the tension that has been put on him by international media they look at the fact that he's allowed journalists like myself are pushing for a foreign news agency to be here and reporting on this issue perhaps means that this country is turning

a need that press freedom will be restored that people will be allowed to express themselves but of course he is yet to be tested we don't know if all of this that has happened up until now the freedom that is in the street it is going to be maintained or if it was just full of this process and till he takes power that yes i want to do have a healthy sense of skepticism and awaiting to see saying thank you very much the w.'s christine while there reporting from zimbabwe as it prepares to inaugurate a new president. let's go to some of the other stories making headlines around the world today south africa's top appeals court has more than doubled oscar pistorius is murder sentence the olympic athlete was jailed last year for the two thousand and thirteen murder of his girlfriend prosecutors called his six year sentence shockingly lenient you'll now serve the minimum fifteen years for murder as the finest time already served. several hundred asylum seekers who had refused

to leave in australia run detention center on monist island and pop on again a have been evicted from the facility one of the asylum seekers posted video showing authorities violently clearing people out some former detainees claim they were beaten with sticks. or torn yemen is facing another potential health epidemic with the least fourteen people dying from diphtheria many of the victims are children the world health organization has warned that at least one million children are at risk of contracting the bacterial disease more than two thousand people already died from color here in germany the president is pressuring the social democrats to reconsider whether to join a coalition government with chancellor angela merkel and her conservative party s.p.d. leader martin schultz has so far ruled it out but other leading social democrats

say they are open to dialogue they say the party has a duty to the nation to help end the political deadlock. the man of the moment s.p.d. leader martin childes arriving for his meeting with the german president frank walter steinmeier reportedly pressed a social democrat to reconsider forming another grand coalition with conservatives after the meeting however no indications of an outcome. earlier in the day schultz addressed protesting employees of tech giant zima and while there he hinted at what he thought of angular markets conservatives. mrs merkel and mr zero for can address siemens directly if they don't they may have a different opinion to mine. an opinion schultz is afraid will be drowned out in a grand coalition but within the s.p.d.

itself there are other voices emerging than the. ones that if we have the right ideas and can really employment then in the grand coalition is the better option for germany. but with schultz as party leader coalition talks seem difficult he'd rejected the idea of the night that parliamentary election results became known rumors that he will step down as party chief have now been rubbished. the other party's couldn't form this to make a coalition and now you ask if martin schultz will remain party leader they need to answer for their actions fast. later in the evening his speedy members met at their headquarters in between the long deliberations

a brief update for the press. not flocking to discuss the meeting between martin schultz and president. because. we need some time to analyze that in depth. we can't solve in a few hours what others have taken two months to mess up and. it's a tough choice for the s.p.d. to take political responsibility to new course. european union leaders are meeting in brussels at this hour with their counterparts from six members of that so-called eastern partnership they'll be discussing how to cooperate further to create stronger economies and better governance in belarus moldova ukraine georgia armenia and azerbaijan ukraine is just one of those countries with high hopes of moving toward e.u. membership but he ws catherine martin's is standing by for us in brussels where

that summit is taking place catherine what are these six eastern european countries hoping to get out of the summit. well it depends where you look at we have kind of two groups here the three the three countries who are really keen to do even more the ties with the european union this is ukraine obviously georgia and moldova these are the three really puryear opin countries who try really to get closer ties beyond just economic corporation for example to grand visa free travel for example the other three countries this is a little bit different so this is also guides on armenia and belarus and they are more reluctant to show this open and frank corporation with the european union in this context of the partnership because they are afraid to offend russia on this is

really an important. difference between these two groups because ukraine will de beauvoir and georgia they really acting in in a bitter opposition to russia armenia moldova moldova and belarus are trying to handle both moscow and brussels we see for example that the president off belarus lucas tankless not attending today the summit and observers say this might be a reason to show moscow very his loyalties lies catherine martins there in brussels thank you very much in while that summit could be overshadowed by another meeting in brussels today british prime minister theresa may will talk to you present donald tusk to try to close the deal on bragg's that divorce terminals british media are reporting that may could be willing to pay up to forty billion euros for her country's outstanding obligations but still far

short of the e.u. is estimate of sixty billion to science three weeks to agree with or they can move on to discussing post regs that train. and before we go just a reminder of the top story that we're following for you here today on the news ceremonies are getting underway in zimbabwe as the nation prepares to inaugurate a new president emerson god wot is due to take the oath of office shortly as zimbabweans look forward to a new era with robert mugabe. that's all you news for now sumi will be with you at the top of the next hour with another full bulletin and of course you can get the latest on all or stories online on our web site that's at d w dot com thanks for watching.