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president trumps recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital it follows a wave of demonstrations in the west bank on thursday. let's turn now to zimbabwe just three weeks after the ouster of president robert mugabe a court in the capital harare has released the country's former finance minister on bail it. was detained on charges of fraud and corruption after the military seized power in zimbabwe he is the first mugabe loyalist to go on trial other members of mugabe's inner circle are believed to have fled the country or gone into hiding and with widespread misuse of state resources during the thirty seven years of rule of mugabe zimbabwe has been brought to its knees we will speak with our correspondent here in the studio to find out more but first her exclusive report from the capital harare. zimbabwe has been an uncomfortable place to live for much of the last two decades residents of more vocal

a township east of harare know the source who while access to running water in their homes has been a dream and they've had to rely on boreholes mostly provided by foreign donors. it's been like this for something like ten years now you have to wake up early for a player to get water like you say it was kill or after wake up so that you get enough water it's fair painful and it's really not a good buy for us to do this for. much of the bobbies infrastructure fell into decline during robert mugabe's rule and the former president's failure to deal with corruption and the economy has had a devastating impact on the country's public health sector it's very difficult to get permission to film inside a hospital here so i secretly recorded this video on my cell phone this is one of the biggest hospitals in the country and it's astonishing to see a facility relying on old equipment it's not the end of resourced and its staff are

overwhelmed medical practitioners often can't administer treatment because of a lack of resources. me it's haunch to have to walk away from a patient who can't afford healthcare a medical bill of ten dollars can be too much for some zimbabweans is very much a heartbreaking and. draining group. look at your purses when they are suffering with some problems you have to ask them if they do are. there but they're so coerced or for them to be able to afford to visit the provider then this is a public nuisance or sometimes you knew so many places from it was that it was a little trouble zimbabwe was once the bread basket of southern africa boasting some of the best infrastructure in the region today the vast majority of people here have no jobs and the country's infrastructure has been crumbling previous.

many of the railway tracks are no longer in use some roads haven't been serviced in years. with the persistent decline in zimbabwe's political and economic situation millions have left the country in search of greener pastures many of them young and skilled further impoverishing and already betted nation. and we are joined here in the studio by the reporter that you saw there christine one who has joined us straight from zimbabwe in fact i'm so christine how widespread is corruption really in the country. to put into context the most recent transparency international report cited that at least one billion dollars isn't lost in zimbabwe to corruption now to give the scale the country's g.d.p. only about twelve billion dollars so that just gives you a scale of just how widespread it will come and transpires as a national co-chair that much if it was politicians in the country this is not

surprising robert mugabe himself would preside over a party conferences and scold ministers for the level of corruption and i think the last time he spoke about the matter he said something along the lines of because there was. a lack of sufficient evidence it was difficult for police and the courts to actually bring charges in officials but that really is it's widespread in the country really to the point that you see the country dilapidating in the way that it has been how high are the hopes for the future now in the country now that there is new leadership because i mean for example if we just look at you know one element of zimbabwe in society the fact that the literacy rates there are among the highest in africa. you know what does that mean for zimbabwe's future what that means simply sorry is that the investment that zimbabweans dispersed we need into that economy when that comes through the incentive for foreign investors is the fact that you don't have to spend much money educating or skilling people because by and large people are skilled in the country and that's always an incentive to

people the fact that you're dealing with people who you could even give a loan to and could potentially start their own businesses right now we have a situation where the government is the biggest employer and that is not sustainable by any measure let's talk a little bit more about the new leadership you know that emerson i'm not god that he's been power for about two weeks time now you know there's a party congress that is coming up in the country what can we expect there what we're expecting there is you know by and large a lot of people were kicked out of the party on this military intervention including this one the finance minister ignatius was secretary so we are expecting that a lot of those people will be replaced i think people are watching closely to see who is going to be entering the party people are looking out for young blood right now we have a lot of old men forming our cabinet people on the field to see who are the people if at all that are going to be brought into the party what kind of ideas do they have what kind of policy direction is the party looking to take the people were really disappointed last week when announced he's his cabinet and by and large

because it was because of the fact that he brought in some of the old play is and the new players happened to be military personnel who people wanted what they had to do with certain positions that they had been given so the policy direction is what people. for new fresh young faces when it comes to anti corruption when it comes to stamping that out what are you looking for christine i mean is it enough for him just not to name corrupt officials to position is in the government or do you know are are zimbabweans are they looking for accountability do they want people to be tried yes people do and ignatius facing charges of corruption is a fist of the people are wondering just how much has this got to do with personal rivalry i mean ignatius trouble was a political rival of him he was grouped with the first lady and her associates and we do expect that by and large those people are the people that innocence is going to go off to but they are people that surround him with samantha who themselves are implicated so if this is going to be about clearing out corruption it conscious be

about his rival's it's got to be widespread essentially that he's got to go off to everybody but people are looking at corruption and they're saying it's part of the reasons why we haven't been getting investment in since economy if anything this is we need to clamp down you really get the sense that the future is wide open here and we will see which direction it does indeed take christine one with the very latest from zimbabwe with your exclusive reporting we appreciate it. let's head now back to german efforts to form a new government which are ongoing some ten weeks after germany's general election in september yielded no outright winner chancellor angela merkel's conservatives first failed to form a coalition with the market from the f.t.p. and the environmentalist greens well now merkel is turning her current coalition partners she's turning to them the social democrats of course hoping to extend their so-called grand coalition into a new term it is those talks that have dominated the findings of a new public opinion survey let's have a look because the approval rate for

a renewed grand coalition between chancellor angela merkel c.d.u. c.s.u. in the social democrats has risen slightly with forty five percent thinking that it would be good or rather good but still a clear majority of germans disapproving of this government option fifty two per cent of german voters think that a grand coalition would be a bad or rather bad idea let's bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow who is following the results analyzing the findings of this in for a test survey the polling institute that conducted this survey good morning to you thomas welcome back what do you think why do so many germans reject the idea of a new grand coalition. probably because they think it will be much of the same it will be much of the same that germany germans saw in the past four years germany had a grand coalition for the past four years and the traditional parties the conservatives on the social democrats suffered a lot in the elections that there were twenty four so that's probably the reason

why many germans are skeptical about a grand coalition although it's also important to say there's another side to the story because there was also an increase if we look at that poll compared to previous surveys so it does seem that germans at least a little bit are starting to grow into the idea of a possible grand coalition but again they are still skeptical indeed to the results change if we break it down by party certainly they do change the conservatives tend to be more in favor of a grand coalition the social democrats on the other hand are more skeptical of it and that's something that we are seeing during the s.p.d. party conference we saw it very clearly yesterday many members of the social democrats very skeptical of the possibility of a new grand coalition you know thomas the survey it also asked if a grand coalition that is you know if it cannot be formed what would people prefer let's have a look at those results and then get your reaction to them because

a small majority fifty one percent said that they would rather a minority government formed by america c.d.u. and its sister party this c.s.u. forty five percent want fresh elections. ok we have some breaking news actually to bring you are going to get thomas a little bit later in the program but first we're going to head to brussels where we know that brags that goes asians have been going on and there is now a press statement underway how the lesson is. that every nation i would also like to think we should ban you and david davies as well a step teams for the extremely hard and skillful work over the last weeks and months. we discussed the joint report to greet but to negotiate it's just a made as it should me that it has backing of the u.k.

government on that basis i believe we have now made the work food we need. to this result is of calls the compromise he does do result of a room and intense discussion between the condition of those ages and those of the u.k. . as you and you negotiate should move sites had to listen to each other just deposition i'm truly reading this to compromise this was the defeat of negotiation. union as right of its full united kingdom. all men's day last wednesday the college of commissioners gave me amended to conclude the negotiation of the joint report and you had to be concluded today not next be a good day because next week you have to review the constitution and the old it

will all publish to prepare in the best way possible the meeting of new pm calls you do you have to make the deed today. on the basis of the mandate which was given to me by the european council the commission has just formally decided to recommend to dupion collins is that sufficient progress as you know being made on the street terms. the evils as fluid and the new good folks get that seed of the need for us indeed spike the cause of their found living and didn't couldn't use up won't peugeot fail it for good a should use all people good days or may increase your aunt going on as the bigger steps will alter the why you need a renewal it will be an advance that the decision on sufficient progress will be in the hands of the twenty seven heads of state or gov i'm hopeful.

confident true that they will shed a lot of praise a and the last one for the next phase of the negotiations. among the last monday i also met with new pm polman two were presented to us from just outside of this process cooperation between european parliament and the commission has been close and all position close the a lot of decent biggest visions can only be shiksas food if we take an inclusive approach that's exactly what we did we vote going into all the detail that all need to touch on what do these agreements mean in quick as late the one to a day after a month the my friend we shall need it will be available to be explained all the details of the agreement reached today if you are nuts and seeds and what's. in this negotiation citizens have always come first it has

been a great importance for the commission to make sure that it was who designs in the u.k. would be protected after the u.k. leaves deal pin. it was citizens have made important life choices on the assumption that the united kingdom was a member of you can you would. created great uncertainty for those citizens and for their families today we bring back the. commission's negotiators have made sure that the choices made by the new citizens living in the u.k. will be protected we have made sure that their rights will remain the same after the u.k. has left the european union this is into deep without the case for you citizens right to live work and study you citizens right to family in it indication the

protection of the right of it was his and children and the right to health care pensions and other social security benefits we'll make sure that mr b. procedures would be cheap and would be simple this is an issue for with the commission we'd pay particular pay particular attention when drafting the we do all of it with the same goes for u.k. citizens living in the u. twenty seven. on the setting of the columns the prime minister said that in the market before one speech that the united kingdom would. its commitments including beyond two thousand and twenty this was detailed line by line process but she has been as good as what she was and it was fitting in a gentleman manner and i'm very grateful to understand for that on ireland the e.u.

has consistently supported to go to peace and to be consideration in trying to integrate five if we get the european union has made it the priority to protect the priest process on the ice i have been in regular contact with the two shook over the last days including last night. and including. the last negotiations. yes because that yesterday we've all i was friends the u.k. has made significant commitments on be avoidance of a hot border after it's we've thought from you can you. all of the twenty seven stand firmly behind ireland and behind the peace process let me be clear. we still have a lot of work to do the joint report is not that we've all agreed that the women believes to be drafted by the negotiators on the basis we have agreed to

yesterday and today and then approve but the consequent ratified but you could palm and and u.p.a. and. bought. five hundred done in four days ago the british people voted to leave the u.p.a. in you in twenty forty nine days ago united kingdom notified its intention to leave the u.p.a. and at the infanta done seventy seven days the united kingdom we do just that. i would always be set a boat does give out. but no we must be looking for the future the future in which the united kingdom will be untrue to remain a close friend and at.