mugabi holding talks with the military there's also a delegation from south africa including jacob zuma zuma says the political situation in zimbabwe will become very clear shortly the opposition has called on mugabe to quit but reports from the capital harare say he is refusing to step down. these images show robert mugabe meetings in bad ways army chief and two says african envoys brought in to mediate at his official residence in harare reports claim the longtime president is refusing to step down. but mugabe is under pressure to resign. zimbabwe's opposition leader morgan tsvangirai said the president in power since one thousand nine hundred eighty should go quietly in the interest of the country and elections should be called. a transitional mechanism. and that the nature and character of that mechanism. by all national. reforms for a free and a fair and credible election to be held. rumors have been flying about whether mugabe's wife grace is with him or whether she managed to flee the country before the military action on wednesday grace's ambitions to succeed her husband are said to

information that all this is no shock for him if he gets out of june to go and meet to jacob zuma maybe jacob zuma will give him some kind of real awakening meaning from somebody other than south africans but quite clearly the wizard of p.f. has done it and i think is going to find it very difficult to do anything but basically to allow zimbabweans to do what they've got to do in fact the guys who are actually pushing this are saying well so that leave needs to leave you need to leave them to sort of their own problems quite clear of course who wants a military coup the monitor done it is rather question what i'd really don't know is what the zimbabwean national constitution provides for whether or not the incoming new interim president can legitimately guy hadn't take over until fresh elections perhaps they may be going to have. some kind of government of of of not unity going forward but quite clearly i think the time from the garbage well we should see what happens certainly in this fast moving story for the moment when i thank you for joining us from london let's go now back to southern africa

we know now is that he has been able to speak to the south african president jacob zuma and south african president jacob zuma has issued a statement and he essentially dedication that discovery that is due to arrive in writing by the end of two days it is coming together with the number one indication for. a parent maybe in mediation between this elaborate defense forces and president mugabe and what do people there saying about the developments there a privilege we heard one person say in our report that was almost a relief that this is happened people are taking it is a relief indeed the same time they have cautious. relief in the sense is that what is been happening you know a lot of people will express concern with that factional fight this succession of better words that have been happening. there willing but these we are fixing. it do it now cascade into all national institutions where you have people working in offices. trucks your lines and then you have the same. people also question us to say if they used to remain in control they are weary about it being a military government. is opposed to a civi

members of a you see that goes on as i mean this woman who is the ex wife of jacob zuma son claim she still married to jacob zuma wanting to take over after jacob zuma leaves the president of a.z. next month so this would have indeed said her own president is something that his corn and other can pull a text and i think the d.d.e. the duck tennis or the direction of the military in zimbabwe would be remembered in history as having prevented something extremely detrimental in african politics. to be so good to talk to you thank you glad you could join us here is to take their online reaction which i imagine has been huge today yes huge would be an understatement like you're saying earlier with heroin because this is easily the biggest conversation in africa at the moment there's been hundreds of thousands of people sharing content and a lot of it is confusion as to what is really happening on the ground so people in zimbabwe took to social media to try and figure that out hundreds of thousands of people like i said are tweeting and sending out conversations that are spreading across the continent you see a lot of

really clear president robert mugabe spoke by telephone with the south african counterpart jacob zuma on wednesday zuma says mugabe is confined to his home however some ways military says it is not to post the president the army supporters describe the move as a bloodless correction said the military is focusing on what they call criminals in the. hazard and circle that suggest that what's really going on is a struggle among political leaders around mugabe who is ninety three years old and the world's longest serving head of government. reports on harare. parts of harare are now on lockdown and soldiers in army have blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts people say they are cautiously waiting to see what happens next many are relief so far there has been little violence i can see. movement as usual no more business. moving around freely it is a good move. the country's war veterans say they have had enough of president robert mugabe many helped keep him in power for nearly forty years we. should have been recalled from is a role as the president insisting. the mob his army said o

which was sent by presidentjacob the envoys, which was sent by president jacob zuma, the the envoys, which was sent by presidentjacob zumaer of defence in south africa, the minister of intelligence, nothing was said that robert mugabe agreed with what they were doing. we‘re waiting to see what will happen on tuesday when the summit takes place in the angolan capital rwanda, where presidentjacob in the angolan capital rwanda, where president jacob zuma will try in the angolan capital rwanda, where presidentjacob zuma will try and resolve the zimbabwe crisis. but we have always known with mr mugabe‘s background that the man who spent ten yea rs background that the man who spent ten years in prison fighting white minority rule, that he does not give in easily. he does not give in easily, i know that his people know that, but there has been an expectation that having dismissed as party leader today, he would file to the inevitable and resign, has not done that, what will be the reaction of the people in zimbabwe, many of whom demonstrated yesterday against him? yes, huge disappointment not just in zimbabwe, but across the ri

zuma put on the new leadership to to achieve that. look i think there will be a private conversation with between south african president jacob zuma and. former president things you never thought you might say mugabe tomorrow because jacob zuma is still we understand going to take a visit to harare along with the angolan president a lot n.c.o. where the bet message is delivered we simply don't know and we really probably won't know because that really doesn't follow in the style of diplomacy traditionally the southern african development community of which south africa is the current chair is takes a pretty minimalist approach they would not want to be seen as overreaching their mandate and overarching and to be honest many zimbabweans we have spoken to here in johannesburg and we saw some of the n.t. said ak interference posters in that enormous historic march in harare on saturday buses and darwin's don't want sex help and don't want sex and to be ended because the fact of the matter is that for many years ascetic has in its worst instances turned a blind eye to the discrepancies in elections if i can say like that and particularly and foremost south african president thabo mbeki adopted an approach as quiet diplomacy and

between jacob zuma, party, the anc, which isjust weeks away. betweenjacob zumaching who is going to ta ke people are watching who is going to take over from jacob zuma as party leader, and therefore eventually as president of the republic. so people are watching with very, very close eyes events unfolding over there. milton, what are your thoughts on this momentous weekend, seen robert mugabe after almost four decades in power, while still clinging on to the presidency, but stripped of his role, humiliatingly as the leader of zanu—pf? role, humiliatingly as the leader of zanu-pf? this is indeed a historic moment, because we know that president mugabe had one thing in mind, he wanted to die in office. he had no intention of stepping down. we know that during his whole military intervention in the last few days, he never gave one inch in those negotiations, he still wanted to remain president until his last days. i remember very to remain president until his last days. i remembervery well during the land invasions, we went to speak to one of his oldest comrades, a

jacob zuma? -- what would it mean for president jacob zuma? who knows? he best performer this year to the worst. all over the place here. what we are looking at is what perceptions we are seeing from currency traders. implied volatility to its highest in two years today. fortrade has been hedging big moves in either direction as we go to the leadership election. that is the white line here. the blue line is the one month risk reversal. this is the premium of options to sell the rand versus those who want to buy it. taking some bearish bets off the table and. . put those things together, and you see general confusion. scarlet: no matter what happens with jacob zuma, they will be movement. julia: yes. opposite directions. taking some chips off the table. joe: finally on commodities, julia already mentioned it, but look at crude. west texas intermediate up another 2% over $58 a barrel. gold futures ticking higher. iron ore over 3%. there is a story about the industrial commodities. well.ther ones are doing i just picked iron ore today because it had a nice m

zuma and robert mugabe? we know that presidentjacob robert mugabe? we know that president jacob zuma has robert mugabe? we know that presidentjacob zumaugabe of zimbabwe is under house arrest. his office, jacob zuma‘s office, issued a statement and i can read you the paragraph about robert mugabe‘s whereabouts. he said he spoke to robert mugabe earlier today, who indicated he was confined to his home but said he was fine. and he also spoke to the zimbabwe defence force. presidentjacob also spoke to the zimbabwe defence force. president jacob zuma also spoke to the zimbabwe defence force. presidentjacob zuma has also announced that he is sending envoys to zimbabwe to meet with president mugabe and his zimbabwean defence force. was there any mention in that phone call about robert mugabe‘s wife grace or any mention of her whereabouts? there is no clarity about where president mugabe‘s wife is always she has gone to or whether indeed she is still at home with her husband. it has not been clarified at all. remember, she was in a tight race with the vice president, emmerson mnangagwa before he was fired by president mugabe for the topjob t

something from jacob zuma but also i wonder if south africa is going to tread carefully over this next coming weeks and months. here is very carefully south africa's president jacob zuma does south africa is currently the chair of the regional body sadek they had an ounce tony a few hours ago that president zuma along with angola as president. were going to go to harare on wednesday and we spoke to them on a wee while ago and they that is still the plan they are still going to go although obviously they also tonight will be playing catch up because clearly the situation has changed enormously perhaps that might be a difficult conversation when they come face to face said in the past has played a bit of a controversial role in zimbabwe and but it will also be a respectful villa visit if it does in fact go ahead robert mugabe although disliked despised perhaps by many people was also someone who was respected perhaps at times grudgingly respected but nonetheless an enormous figure who has who has cast a long shadow over the. southern africa so south africa's role in going forward and speaking to president former president mugabe slip of the tongue there will be importan

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wife are safe in their private residence south africa's president jacob zuma city was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm in the strained. particularly to the defense force and also to the two forces in zimbabwe i have also. conducted he said president mugabe. whom i had. time to to talk. and he is fine but confined in his home zuma plans to send a special envoy to the country. the crisis began on tuesday with reports of military vehicles rolling towards the capital good morning the army gave a statement on state television insisting the situation is not a military takeover we are only targeting criminals are only. committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice hours after issuing the statement the army again restated its position. the state run newspaper printed a special edition on wednesday are in the army says president robert mugabe is still head of state and commander in chief. zimbabweans and only known one leader since one thousand nine hundred eighty the mugabe family is

are safe in their private residence south africa's president jacob zuma said he was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm and restraint. particularly to the defense force and also to two forces in zimbabwe i have also. conducted. president mugabe. whom i had time to to talk. and he is fine but confined in his home zuma plans to send a special envoy to the country. the crisis began on tuesday with reports of military vehicles rolling towards the capital good morning the army gave a statement on state television insisting the situation is not a military takeover we are only doing criminals are only. committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice hours after issuing the statement the army again restated its position. the state run newspaper printed a special edition on wednesday afternoon in its of the army says president robert mugabe is still head of state and commander in chief. the bobbins of only known one leader since one thousand nine hundred eighty the mugabe family is an in

it is jacob zuma said he was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm and restraint. particularly to the defense force and also to two forces and i have also. conducted the president. whom i had. time to talk to and he is fine but can find in his home zuma plans to send a special envoy to the country. the crisis began on tuesday with reports of military vehicles rolling towards the capital good morning the army gave a statement on state television insisting the situation is not a military takeover we are only targeting criminals are only. committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice hours after issuing the statement the army again restated its position. the state run newspaper printed a special edition on wednesday are in it the army says president robert mugabe is still head of state and commander in chief. zimbabweans and only known one leader since one thousand nine hundred eighty the mugabe family is an institution some people love the pre

are safe in their private residence south africa's president jacob zuma said he was concerned about the situation in a phone call with zuma mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm and restraint. particularly to the defense force and also to the two forces in zimbabwe i have also. conducted he said president mugabe. whom i had. time to to talk. and he is fine but confined in his home zuma plans to send a special envoy to the country. the crisis began on tuesday with reports of military vehicles rolling towards the capital good morning the army gave a statement on state television insisting the situation is not a military takeover we are only targeting criminals are only. committing crimes that are causing social and economic suffering in the country in order to bring them to justice hours after issuing the statement the army again restated its position. the state run newspaper printed a special edition on wednesday afternoon in its in the army says president robert mugabe is still head of state and commander in chief. zimbabweans of only known one leader since one nine hundred eighty the mugabe family i

african president jacob zuma has spoken directly to robert mugabe to jo'burg my colleague china page what else do we know about that conversation. the most important point that president jacob zuma made was that in that conversation president mugabe confirmed that he was in confinement in his house under house arrest if you like but he also said that he was fine and that would seem to reiterate and. the comments made by the time the president and his family were safe but let's just have a little listen to some of the rest of what president zuma had to say. i am hoping that the defense force will not move and do more damage that they would be able to do. the quantization of zimbabwe as well as the people of zimbabwe so that this situation doesn't or beyond. the situation where it is now ten years there is a very big zimbabwean population in south africa what are they saying about this. what we are at the moment is downtown johannesburg and just behind me is the main bus stop and this is where zimbabweans going higher and coming into the country this is where they come in this is sort of the main transport hub of life for zimbabweans and conversations we've had with some of the pe

jacob zuma. in the lords, the peer gave a warning. there are disturbing questions, around both the complicity, witting or unwitting, of uk global financial institutions in the gupta—zumaetwork, and also about these institutions' wilful blindness to the reality that the laundering process most often necessitates financial systems with lax regulation and controls. unless we urgently find ways to leverage our respective capabilities to coordinate and influence action between the law—enforcement and banking sectors domestically here in the uk and globally, we cannot win this battle. mr zuma and the guptas deny any wrongdoing. a report into the experiences of the families of the hillsborough victims has called for a change in culture to stop the "burning injustice" in the way bereaved relatives are treated. it was in 1989 that 96 liverpool fans died in the crush at an fa cup semifinal match against nottingham forest. in a second inquest into the tragedy last year, the coroner ruled they were unlawfully killed. at prime minister's questions, the report was raised bya labourmp. an hour ago, the government published this report — the patronising disposition of unaccountable p

send president jacob zuma to harare from angola with there was an emergency said it so much of the southern african development community that my son is still going to send president zuma at the stage we suspected there might be a message delivered in that visit but of course all of that's been eclipsed by events that have been forwarded just in the last couple of hours we understand in downtown johannesburg the lights of which you can see behind me there there is about wins on the street knowing echoing some of those things i want to smaller sure that we see coming live from harare there are many hundreds of thousands of zimbabweans here in south africa driven out some for political reasons many for economic reasons looking a little broader across the region to zambia we've had a statement from the opposition leader. saying congratulations we stand by our zimbabwean brothers and sisters and calling for other leaders around southern africa to take. i'm a surely adopt the stance that this is power by the people for the people and to the people. and on the one of the things i suppose that to they must be relieved about to talk about it a moment ago was the fact that this

who called on the south african president jacob zuma is currently chair of the regional body to call on mugabe to step down and now we're hearing that president zuma will be traveling in fact to harare is he likely to heed that call from the war veterans association you know asking mugabe to step down what is he going to be saying in harare. well we know that it is not only south african president jacob zuma who's the chair of the regional body said but also and goal is presidential order in c.e.o. who will be going to harare on wednesday they have been meeting in angola today to discuss this emergency situation and other than saying that they're extremely concerned about what's happening there and announcing this visit they didn't give any details about whether they would be delivering a message to the president and what that mrs might be it would not that would be a break if you like and from said extradition and traditionally it takes a very cautious approach quite a minimalist approach it wouldn't want to be seen as sitting in a sort of a precedence however it would seem most likely if there were to be a swift exit of mugabe from the presidenc

jacob zuma and become one of his key allies. carol: they are very smart on a lot of levels. they did hedge political bets and tie themselves to zumaployed members of zuma's family before he became president, and that created some kind of relationship. >> that is correct. particularly president zuma's closely associated with the guptas. he has become a director or shareholder in many companies in their orbit. he was hired in 2005 when he was in his early 20's. a very indicative detail is that he was involved in a very serious car accident that killed one commuter. his first call after the crash was to the youngest of the gupta brothers rather than to anyone else. that tells you how close he is to that family. i should stress that the family denied all of these claims. they say they are merely businessmen who are not engaged in politics, or not lobbyists, arrangements with the government. since these allegations have not been proven in court, they have not been charged with any crime. what emerges is a picture of savvy operators. three men who understood that they were operating in a fluid system. south africa is a place that had a

jacob zuma, the president of south africa — which has a border with zimbabwe — says he's spoken with robert mugabe. he says robert mugabe is safe. president zumahave taken a decision to send an envoy to be able to conduct the leaders of the defence force who have undertaken these operations, but also to meet with president mugabe so that we have a more clear picture of what is happening in zimbabwe. iam hoping picture of what is happening in zimbabwe. i am hoping that the defence force will not move onto more damage, that they will be able to respect the constitution of zimbabwe, as well as the people of zimbabwe. nigeria is another major power in africa. a spokesperson for president buhari posted this comment on twitter. once again, lots of appeals for calm. the african union has called for the military to stand down. alpha conde, the president of guinea said it "seems like a coup. clearly soldiers are trying to take power by force." but zimbabwe's military is insisting that they have not staged a coup. so what is this? what is happening in zimbabwe? my online team are looking at different content taking place. let's have a look at some of th