rules or zimbabwe's resources plundered the economy decimated elections rigged and political opponents beat and tortured now he's dead zimbabwe's 1st post-colonial leaders being hailed as a champion of africa's cause against colonialism and the father of his country so when he's laid to rest will people come to pay their respects or to dance on his grave i'm phil going to in berlin this is the day. i lost a daughter she called my. local folks a lot of stuff because this is a modest accounts of my daughter it would be as a liberation hero i don't see it. through then betrayal of those values of justice and human rights and democracy of the freedom struggle and became a corrupt dictator but. it would be

a desert but it would mean. very very sick. in the stickers that you overstated. us if britney spears on my side and she gets sick. also coming up a month after your scrap kashmir special autonomous status and impose a security crackdown they put the rage inside their restrictions and jeopardizing life saving medical treatments. there are no communication channels mobile services are down everything's cut off my brother had an accident and some kind people came to our home 25 kilometers away to tell us that's how we found out. so bob was a former president robert mugabe has died at the age of $95.00 as the country's 1st post-independence a leader many zimbabweans still regard him as their liberator but during 40 years and part of a liberated became a tyrant crushing dissent and rich in himself and his inner circle and laying waste

to the economy 2 years ago when it became apparent that he was grooming his wife to succeed him the army removed from power. robert mugabe's political career began in the 1960 s. with the formation of a radical anti colonialist movement dedicated to fighting white. minority rule. after zimbabwe became independent in 1980 actions were held and robert mugabe's zanu party have won by a landslide. gobby became the country's 1st black prime minister striking a turn a free conciliation and forgiveness despite his militant past. but hopes for a peaceful political transition where unfulfilled. political tensions and violence between mcgarvie supporters and political opponents persisted now that government

forces were responsible for killing thousands of civilians. from. during the 1980 s. and early ninety's mugabe was a welcome guest around the world but by the mid 1990 s. the once venerated freedom fighter was attracting international criticism for his increasingly all to critique rule. that the white farmers were driven from their land by mugabe's supporters. that. dissent was violently quashed and opposition leaders when timid aged and beaten. here we have i believe he he he he yes. there will always be the. oval office even in control. but the people of zimbabwe suffered under

his rule when mugabe ordered a purge of zimbabwe's slums entire neighborhoods were raised to the ground and up to a 1000000 people made homeless. economically mugabe in ruins and bob with a country that had once been africa's breadbasket. while his people were starving mugabe has celebrated his 91st birthday with a lavish party costing a reported $1000000.00. he once said that only god could remove him from office but in the end robert mugabe's insatiable will to power proved his undoing. off to firing his followers president amas and to install his wife grace as his 2nd in command the military intervened good money in the field in a defacto coup they placed mugabe under house arrest after 37 years in power

he was forced to step down. sparking celebrations in the streets of her are a. 6 town that over. some especially africa will own amoco obvious legacy in the fight against white oppression. but many around the world will remember him as the continent's most notorious dictator. germany's chancellor has begun her 3 day visit to china after an official welcome of the great whole of the people in beijing and then back home and premier that they could show since this is primarily a trade trip the current dispute between time united states was high on the agenda but the trip is not just about money transfer that will told her hosts that the freedoms of the hong kong people must be guaranteed. and the people of hong kong

have taken to the streets in their thousands and they've been doing this for more than 3 months now they've also been protesting more than just the extradition law democratic rights like freedom of speech and freedom of assembly are at the top of their list and free elections. these videos were made just a few days ago and this conflict is on the verge of escalating even though hong kong's government leader retracted the disputed law on wednesday. the withdrawal of this bill came too late no longer matters to hong kong is like it's not that important anymore the problem now is the police force like you. and in the midst of this internal conflict the german chancellor is visiting china the visit to beijing is not expected to be easy politicians human rights organizations and activists in

hong kong expect on the american to take a stand protest movement leader joshua wang appealed to america before her trip for support in his push for democracy in hong kong. as in past years she is traveling to beijing with a large business delegation but yet again merkel's visit is being overshadowed by the issue of human rights not just because of what is happening in hong kong human rights organizations have been complaining about the situation of minorities in china for years for example how muslim leaders are being treated thousands have been moved to huge so-called reeducation camps in the northwest of the people's republic internet access is blocked and anyone who reports on social issues might land in prison. get access if i had the situation regarding freedom of the press in china has deteriorated considerably especially under xi jinping and china ranks 177th out of 180 countries in the press freedom ranking list no country

has more journalists in prison and currently at least 113 are imprisoned and what worries us most is that some of these journalists are in life threatening conditions. but the moment it's civil rights lawyers also end up behind bars like wang chung chang who represented victims of land expropriation in january he was sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison. the fact that the german government stood up for him was not well received in china. president xi refuses to accept criticism from abroad calling it unwanted interference. so what do germany and china want from each other. if that china and if they should exploit and balance free university welcome sir d. w. let's start with what's the chance of the ones from china where she wants to

improve political relations and of course economic relations we have 2 major trading partners to each other there's not a new story that has been growing over the last 15 to 20 years almost 40 years since china started its reform policies and as you can see from the sheer fact that it is the 12 visit of transfer america to china no other country she has visited more than china it gives you an idea how important bilateral economic relations are that's why she's there and do these visits do any good of course business people need political support in china china is a different type of a political system if you want to be economically successful you need political support at least in core areas of interest of the chinese government and without political support is very difficult that's why she's there so germany is one of the countries that is so far refused to follow america's call to ban of the chinese

telecoms from huawei from involvement in its 5 g. network does that by germany any credit with the chinese. not necessarily this is 1st of all a matter of internet security of technological security it is of course also a middle of the matter of transatlantic contra controversy the american ambassador to germany is openly blackmailing kind of the german government to deal differently with farai on the other hand no one has proof of it to have made any mistakes any serious mr rings or whatever so germany is insisting that he has the capacity to implement 5 g. technology no american company has that capacity you know european company has it it's an open race but china wants a china of course once there is a china 2025 program trying to nose and ones to use technology as the one leading instrument for its own positioning in the global world of the 21st century so china

wants technological leadership and china is pushing pushing hard to improve the technological leadership which is why there is a great chinese interest also in german technology which is why donald trump and the american government knows the future of technology will be decisive in defining the outcome of this made major race for power whether we're going to hear about the major race for power in just a moment 1st though let's let's talk about human rights let's listen to the german chancellor angela merkel talking about hong kong. one thought i mean on the one country 2 systems is the basic principle and i stand that we have an agreement signed by china and the u.k. in 1984 and the hong kong basic lul guarantees the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens. during the meeting i pointed out that the freedom and rights of hong kong citizens should be guaranteed and the agreement in 1904 should still be valid under the current situation we should do the utmost to avoid violence. k'naan didn't

listen. professor and i don't do those sorts of pronouncements of the chinese establishment or do they accept this is just stuff that visiting western leaders have to say to appease that domestic audiences 80 percent of the sense is not german chinese relations related but german domestic politics the german public german the german political elite expect the chancellor to say what she said and she did it job done that's it and the chinese elite on the other hand knows this is what they have to expect this is what they have to accept also and after the sentences have been so we're doing business and we get down to business are i saved you've done your bit ok. let's come back to. the point that you that you raised just before we heard from the chancellor about this this idea of china

forcing its way. into the world and into the the wider world the western world especially the united states. seems to be finding it difficult to accept china's emergence as an economic superpower so who needs to change more for world's trade to work or are we seeing a new order emerging. the letter b s e a new order emerging. know if you have a country the size of china growing at a double digit rate over 40 years it is absolutely enormous that that's a country can translate its economic performance into political power in the end also into military so china's rise has been one of the major issues of global changes ever since the beginning of this century and of course the united states who once thought to have a uni polar moment for it's of realizes there is a huge competition coming up as china and that is one of the reasons which will

make this trade for not only important for the time being but it will make this conflict important for the for at least for the 1st of the 21st century and so as china embraces the world buying up ports buying up land in africa and europe and developing this this belt and road initiative can actually afford it. because it's accumulating huge debts yes but it can't afford it because it has to you konami power and it is stretching out globally think of the simple fact that ever since the end of the 2nd world war we never talked about eurasia due to the bed and growth initiative we using this term eurasia meaning this huge duration for the 1st time again and not only and only jewel to china's influence this is happening so china is getting ever more global which as i said it is a very normal consequence of china's major economic rise and how do the expansion and those economic goals how do i swear with efforts to control pollution and

comply with their requirements of the paris climbers agreement well. the success of china comes with a certain cost and the pollution you're mentioned as one aspect of this cause is not the only one they have a number of serious huge problems that chinese government has to deal with not only globally but the united states or with europe but also domestically it is social inequality it is pollution it is the job market the list is unbelievably long the challenges for that for china's government enormous but no one has to tell china's government that leadership pollution is a serious problem and environmental protection is something you should take care of they know and thousands of people because it's affecting them now it's affecting them now and the people expecting the government to do something about it and the chinese government has already started working on this issue but that takes time and he was a country like that and the effect on the global climate situation may not be fast

enough is a this is a this is something that i think we rarely hear the idea that domestic political considerations have an effect on what we presume is a completely autocratic central government come ons that different in germany is not different in the united states. politics usually comes. 1st and foremost the basis of international countries in which they can say this is what's going to happen everybody else just fall in line everybody else inside the country it's interesting to hear that in a one party state like china those are considerations of course it's a consideration the major consideration of china's government and its easily connects with hong kong is at least 2 fold one is national sovereignty that's the case of and one is domestic stability and the pollution aspect you mentioned falls into that category of domestic stability if the government is not able to tackle these problems domestic stability may be lost and in due course and that is of

course not the interest of china's government fascinating talking to thank you for joining us professor everhart asuncion writer. for university. i was over the months since india scrapped kashmir special status on the pose a security crackdown across the disputed region locals say the restrictions are jeopardizing life saving medical treatments which indian authorities deny they wus that nimish are just well traveled to the region's largest city street to go to assess the situation and its hospitals. a city under siege. and a hospital struggling to care for thousands despite it not exist i was diagnosed with 2 months in february. she has been dragged you know only suffering bouts of pain. my sister is supposed to have surgery they told

us to come today. when we came here today the doctor told us that the operation theatre is a closed. only emergency surgeries will be conducted so as it is it will be a when he will be buzz. has been asked to return to read to check for a date he's waiting to request if she could miss not in only 0. but that looks impossible the problems of patients here are we doing in the hospital quote it goes to scheduling even if surgeries doctors here have told us off camera that they cannot schedule these toll g.'s because certain tito's are of standby for any emergencies that might crop up because of the tense situation on the ground. with many medical staff wonders though for emergencies doctors see that only house the usual amount of elective surgeries are taking place. malignant cancers take precedence. dr c.

anyone else will have to keep coming back every fortnight to see if the situation has normalized enough for regular operations to resume. a communication blackout imposed by indian authorities has meant that people cannot reach ambulances whatever their family about the health of hospitalized loved ones. and some people are angry that may get the medicine but so many they do see stated well my sister is very sick we can even call an ambulance because the ferns aren't working i had to bring on a scooter for over 15 kilometers. limited needed to keep going to communication there are no communication channels mobile services are down everything's cut off my brother had an accident and some kind people came to our home 25 kilometers away to tell us that's how we found out my. cousin was writing his motorbike to his hometown in southwest me a heavily restricted area to buy medicines for his uncle he had an accident.

passers by found him barely conscious and brought him to the hospital. the id card in his pocket help them identify where his family is. going to question. has been thought to be better. how could how my family didn't know if over a son is dead or alive. no nation in the world no civilized nation in the world no civilized people out there were that. good i have no ideas that a proper destructions of. hossam has been put on the observation point on the bleeding. he says his pain of not only physical it is the being a fish meetings here inexplicably and suddenly cut off from the rest of the world waiting for normalcy. russians voted regional elections across the country this weekend critics are

already saying that vote will be not afraid nor fair and the local governments of keeping opposition candidates off the ballots opposition supporters have held a series of protest in the run up to the vote much of the focus has been on the elections in the capital moscow which has seen the biggest police crackdown on protesters for nearly 10 years there was a correspondent your reports. this is the most moscow city parliament elections are just around the color and the fight for seats in parliament has been the fiercest moscow has ever seen. it all began in july when practically no opposition candidates went out to run for election. not even the usually young of the local body allegedly due to a technicality dozens of other candidates experienced similar problems this has

outraged their supporters. for weeks and there were protests like here with $20000.00 taking part at the beginning of august. when you pushed a new club or the fact that not a single opposition candidate got through something we really didn't expect. that's quite a foolish political. fire on the other side i would never have allowed a development like that just. says about the. budget she was allowed to run for office with no problems valerie yeah because some are a position to herself from the very outset as a loyal supporter of incumbent mayor serug a soviet union. and as someone who knows how to score points with photos of all move it appears the civil war the people are concerned about their daily lives running smoothly about the replacing of trees that have been cut down in their yards about their neighborhoods staying safe about improvements in their standard

of living above the sea and they want relations rid of artes to be trustworthy when you believe it is in the us gnashing yes. but is that a reliable relationship with the public or so it is only benefited candidates loyal to the government the opposition turns to protest even when the city refused to issue them the permits the result more than 2000 arrests many of which took place here on pushkin square in downtown moscow. and the police acted rigorously and at times brutally among the arrested were innocent passers by mind their son and the john honest. most who were released after several hours but some remained behind bars for weeks such as you know she was in custody for $33.00 days that they were the uprising was syrian the purchased the meeting go but another system forces us to take to the streets but the our media is controlled

here we're not allowed to take part in the elections we have left is the streets in order to make our ideas public even that's restricted of. the call it sold at stores or the car they have used to operate its image that i'm categorically against the opposition provoking the old dorothy's remaining close to dialogue but instead organizing demonstrations that are not approved and during which innocent people have to suffer. just like the candidates a rift has forum to between moscow vides who supported the current system and if those who want change but their conflict is unlikely to into. the outcome of this weekend's election. is the next the results are basically already clear of the exclusion of most of the independent candidates. now we finish cervidae with some sad news about

a gay couple in berlin who made headlines on big night in hope around the world skipper and paying male penguins and spent weeks taking turns to brood an egg that had been abandoned by females but now the zoo in berlin has announced that despite the couple's best efforts the egg has failed to hatch on her resume says it is optimistic that skipper and paying will get another shot at parenthood in the future. well the day is now over stop where the conversation continues online you can find the song twitter i've got the w. new so you can follow me out there without the forget use the hash tag that. have a good.

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