that report from dick abuse melanie cora deval and she is covering the historic election for us in zimbabwe she's in harare and joins us hi melanie good to see you where are you what's happening right now. hi sue me alvin harrar ed one of the parenting stations on this very significant day for zimbabwe the queues behind me a mess of people have started to queue at four o'clock this morning just to be able to put that cross next to that candidate that they are voting for today they're hoping it's going to be a free and transparent election and in order for that to really happen in order to everything to run smoothly he had joined by brock german politician and the head of the european union observer mission here and zimbabwe and i brooke thank you so much for speaking to us can you tell us a bit more about your what are you monitoring for specifically for monitor gold procedure for people under started to be on the ground and begin to go join already . increase the davy of hundred forty people who are on the ground who had a visitor on seven hundred to nine hundred police stations or close t

overdue change to zimbabwe which is suffering from high unemployment and an economy in meltdown melanie cora deval and adrian krishna sent us this report from harare. that tending our granny with the effigy that is something quite extraordinary campaign events like this one organized by the opposition m.d.c. party used to be extremely dangerous brutal crackdowns by the government was commonplace that was would you know. i was beaten up and had to spend three months in hospital i was bedridden and could only eat porridge my back was badly injured and i thought i would never be able to become a father but by god's grace i recovered. because i know. now many are hoping for a fresh start with a new president the preacher and lawyer nelson chamisa. i was there. was there what it was there like this is no woman who died that one day. but the past is never far behind in zimbabwe the country's economy has collapsed down by high unemployment high fence nation and billions in foreign debt the legacy of thirty eight years of rule by the party. now cheer the military having our president robert mugabe. and i