horace campbell, thank you very much for joining horace campbell, thank you very much forjoining us.talks to form a coalition government in germany have collapsed. christian lindner, the leader of the liberal free democrats, said his party was pulling out because it had not been possible to find a basis of trust with chancellor angela merkel‘s christian democrats. mrs merkel said she would now meet the german president who has the power to call a new election. andrew plant reports. after three terms in office, angela merkel‘s hopes of staying in power rest on forming a coalition. an election in september left angela merkel without a majority, with some voters angered by germany's liberal policy towards refugees. translation: the fact is that we could not finish the exploratory talks successfully. that means i will contact the federal president tomorrow, inform them about the state of affairs, and then we will have to see how things develop. to form a stable government, she needed to reach agreement with the free democrats and the greens. it was banned from left to right on germany's

horace campbell is a visiting professor at the university of ghana.sing president mugabe's speech, he said that changes to zimbabwe's constitution should not be decided by the ruling party. it's not a speech about zimbabwe. it was a speech about the party. and the party was part of the problem. so the questions of the future constitution of the government of zimbabwe will not be decided by the party. so the focus should not be on the party. the focus should be on an inclusive government, and robert mugabe will be irrelevant. to that inclusive government. the people of zimbabwe, in their tens of thousands, showed that yesterday when they came out on the streets. but he didn't resign. how surprised were you by that? i'm not surprised by that, because robert mugabe has enough information on the general, on mnangagwa, on the head of the war veterans, that he's playing for time. the question is, can they call his bluff? can they cut off his telephone discussions with zuma ? can they ensure that he does not move any money around, that he may have in banks o

we speak to professor horace campbell, currently the kwame nkrumah chair at the institute of africana. he joins us from accra. it is wonderful to see people happy like this, but it was hardly a people's revolution. it was eight power move by numbers of zanon pf and the army. you worry they are exchanging one tyrant for another? -- zanu-pf. exchanging one tyrant for another? —— zanu—pf. power struggle between powerbrokers, power struggle in the army that could not have been completed without the involvement of the people. and that was the crucial question, that the people of zimbabwe were those that made the decisive intervention, by demonstrating on the streets. that decisive intervention comes after many years of sacrifices by the people of zimbabwe. and yes, there should be major worries about the replacement and the military, and those worries will depend on what the people said: if there is continued vigilance and dismantling of the institutions that has kept people down for the past 37 years. as you know, it is not hard to find people who say that they are just as scared of emme