zimbabwe has been struggling for decades during robert mugabe's 3 decades in power zimbabwe entered a state of near perpetual crisis between 1901 and 2008 the economy shrunk by 50 percent analysts blame overspending corruption and mismanagement while mugabe blamed foreign sanctions over his human rights record. by 2008 inflation hit 231000000 percent rendering zimbabwe's currency worthless when mugabe was ousted in 2017 emerson and god were promised reforms to revive the economy but so far he's had little success there have been protests over widespread shortages of fuel and other necessities the world food program says half the country's population will struggle to get one meal a day by early next year. all right let's go now to our guests joining us in wellesley massachusetts cheaper than dollar a she is a professor of african studies at wellesley college and in london patricia kay she is the spokeswoman in the u.k. and ireland for zimbabwe's opposition party the movement for democratic change or m.d.c. we had the zimbabwean government spokesman lined up for the show but he pulled o

zimbabwe has been struggling for decades during robert mugabe's 3 decades in power zimbabwe entered a state of near perpetual crisis between 1901 and 2008 the economy shrunk by 50 percent analysts blame overspending corruption and mismanagement while mugabe blamed foreign sanctions over his human rights record by 2008 inflation hit 231000000 percent rendering zimbabwe's currency worthless when mugabe was ousted in 2017 emerson and god were promised. forms to revive the economy but so far he's had little success there have been protests over widespread shortages of fuel and other necessities the world food program says half the country's population will struggle to get one meal a day by early next year. all right let's go now to our guests joining us in wellesley massachusetts cheaper than dollar a she is a professor of african studies at wellesley college and in london patricia kay she is the spokeswoman in the u.k. and ireland for zimbabwe's opposition party the movement for democratic change or in d.c. we had the zimbabwean government spokesman lined up for the show but he pulled ou

zimbabweans celebrated hoping for a better future after decades of authoritarian rule under robert mugabe at his inauguration president and. promised change there is. no no turn see. do you know. but daily life is still tough zimbabweans queue day and night for. cash and fuel food prices are rising sharply economists say the country is in an economic meltdown the 1st protest start at the beginning of the year when man and god was government hiked the price of fuel by 130 percent police shoot at protesters leaving at least 17 people did and goals in jet. in early august the united nations announces that about 5000000 zimbabweans one 3rd of the population is in need of food aid many are close to starvation. and the government bans protests called by the opposition those who defy the ban and turn up anyway a tear gassed and beaten. leaving many zimbabweans angry and frustrated. when i know you're not going to go not for do everything we're somewhat the way everybody restaurant it every without people or it could not then protest bands are still in place your position though has vowed not to

zimbabwe has been struggling for decades during robert mugabe's 3 decades in power zimbabwe entered a state of near perpetual crisis between 1901 and 2008 the economy shrunk by 50 percent analysts blame overspending corruption and mismanagement while mugabe blamed foreign sanctions over his human rights record by 2008 inflation hit 231000000 percent rendering zimbabwe's currency worthless when mugabe was ousted in 2017 emerson and god were promised. forms to revive the economy but so far he's had little success there have been protests over widespread shortages of fuel and other necessities the world food program says half the country's population will struggle to get one meal a day by early next year. all right let's go now to our guests joining us in wellesley massachusetts cheaper than dollar a she is a professor of african studies at wellesley college and in london patricia kay she is the spokeswoman in the u.k. and ireland for zimbabwe's opposition party the movement for democratic change or m.d.c. we had the zimbabwean government spokesman lined up for the show but he pulled out

synagogue where he was inaugurated one year ago today following the state of longtime leader robert mugabe will talk to someone from the government shortly but 1st let's take a look at the situation in the symbolic way. a year ago zimbabweans from the great hoping for a better future after decades of authoritarian rule and the robert mugabe at his inauguration president. promised change there is. no mr turner said oh do you know. the way. but daily life is still tough zimbabweans queue day and night for cash and fuel food prices are rising sharply economists. say the country is in an economic meltdown the 1st protest start at the beginning of the year when man on god was government hiked the price of fuel by 130 percent police shoot at protesters leaving at least 17 people did and calls in jet. in early august the united nations announces that about 5000000 zimbabweans one 3rd of the population is in need of food aid many are close to starvation. and the government bans protests called by the opposition those who defy the ban and turn up anyway a tear gassed and beaten. leaving many zimbab

kept very secretive because they involve i wanted to surprise such as ambushing president robert mugabe of zimbabwe in london in 1909 such as going to the pulpit of the archbishop of canterbury dr george carey the year before in 1980 mostly used to in terms of the this is what robert mugabe will still pursue and i go after the u.k. foreign office and nobody else still in that the pomp of his power. would tell in london a bit to your personal cost of other book about the what exactly happened there well together with 3 of the members of the group outrage we sought to make a citizens arrest the president mcgarvie on charges of torture this was an l.g. beauty plot issue it was about torture and so when he drove out of his hotel james called hotel near victoria we ran in front of his the machine forcing it to hold i opened the rear car door amazingly it was unlocked and pretty much door rest under charges of torture and in front of the law president robert mugabe i hereby arrest you as a citizen under international law because of your abuse of human rights as above exactly and you should've

mugabe tried it and was defeated. mugabe tried it and was defeated. is trying it, he will be defeatedm the run—up to the process, human rights groups say six people were abducted and tortured for mobilising demonstrators. authorities denied they were involved, but there is a sense year of a deepening fear that goes beyond friday's events. the government, less than two years in power, is battling widespread discontent that could potentially escalate. for now, the protesters have left empty streets are quiet again. but given the mounting frustration they are not to be gone for long. —— not likely to be. in the world of classical music, women are rarely the ones holding the baton. in britainjust one of the leading orchestras has a female principal conductor. there are efforts to change this, including at the welsh national opera, where a new role of female conductor in residence has been created. sian lloyd went to meet tianyi lu, as she began her first week in thejob. ‘toreador song' plays. taking on one of opera's best known and best loved pieces of mu

crackdown on dissent is getting worse under his leadership than under the leadership of president mugabe what do you say to that. because of bad people make between brothers and that they and this is never onerous to meet a central point which is that the only impression left of the mess was letting back to everyone else the masterminds are you know balance and breakdown in government and that the challenge for him is a massive way back to people in his government and the same people that actually implementing places of violence as i do you are supposed to have me on the show back to work out if you go back to the street one of the interesting exchange of this been having with people is trying to sure that that this new government is doing things differently so if you teach us things like oh it is no longer a plenty to be test people and then the best the mission will win message the plan is the ash can we see some language that is reasoned out a way you set up a memo to the police to say you know a lot of the such people you know with a lot of deaf people because what we do see is that

out a summit in the tanzanian city of daraa salada sanctions were imposed back in 2002 when robert mugabe was involved when president. for hundreds of thousands of video game fans the wait is over this year's games con the world's largest computer games trade fair has opened its doors to visitors in cologne monday's opening was streamed live on the internet meaning viewers as far away as the u.s. and asia could see the glamorous spectacle there were $370000.00 at the event last year and this year even more visitors are expected to check in on the unveiling of several new titles from some of the world's most prominent developers. but this year's game column is also going to big on smaller studios with the indie game village being a new addition we visited one of them in games columns home town of cologne here in germany. welcome to the good to have a it's like our super cozy office space. there's lots of computers of course because we do computer games you get the whole tour. as this is our kitchen flesh meeting room it's a tiny operation and the studio is games are no match for major deve

summit in the tanzanian city of daraa salonen the sanctions were imposed back in 2002 when robert mugabe was the scene but when pressed. why not a story that will go down in history as one of the biggest ever auction flops over the weekend of the piece put up for sale a 939 sports car designed by automobile giant a nazi party member fed in and porsche the vintage vehicle was expected to go for $20000000.00. didn't go to plan. this was the vehicle presented to a crowded room in monterey california on saturday night experts had predicted that bidding for the car designed by ferdinand porsche for a race that had been due to take place in 1939 would start at $13000000.00 but things didn't go to plan. when the so the b.'s auctioneer took to the podium to call at the starting price the figure on the screen behind him wretch 30000000 not 13 that figure was followed 540-5060 finally 17000000 evoking gusts from those assembled realizing what had happened the auctioneer reportedly a dutchman who some believe had been misheard by the screen operator tried to backpedal telling potential bidders that

ok robert mugabe had a massive long back story but when it comes to the suffering of the people in the country where is the change. well magog are many of the people around him were also part of that mccarthy story and long story and so you know we see a number of continuity is in the policies and practices of the zimbabwean government and this attempt to refashion itself as a new administration as if it has some tabula rasa from the past i think you know initially fooled certain number of people but hasn't done today whether one describes was government as a regime administration is really semantics at this stage but what we are seeing and particularly in terms of the role of the security forces the lack of accountability in demick impunity and corruption and a patronage system that remains very much intact we're seeing both the strength of the structural continuity is so yes i mean it's understandable that people see parallels but i think within that we have to also search to see what the government has said it is committed to do and it's on the basis of its own commitments that we m

hainje since the mugabe era plus. we're in the home of tango when design reads to see who's dancing their way to the top of the world championships. good to have you with us and welcome to the news hour israel has banned 2 us democratic party congresswoman from visiting because of what it describes as that boy caught up to tease against israel. that they lead with due to be in the occupied west bank and east jerusalem this weekend john hendren possible from washington d.c. . president donald trump's feud with congressional democrats just crossed international boundaries with 2 democratic house members planning a trip to israel in the occupied west bank trump urged israel to ban them from entry they are very anti jewish and they're very anti israel i think it's disgraceful that they can save said that they've become the face of the democratic party i can't imagine why israel would let them in a thursday morning tweet to that effect from trump is apparently all it took for israel to reverse its earlier position barring

under robert mugabe.th africa could fall to economic devastation like its neighbor to the north. emotions about land reform run high and misinformation abounds. here are the facts. expropriation without compensation has happened before in south africa. in 1913 the government passed the natives land act. back then it grabbed 87% of land for whites. and corralled black south africans onto reserves where they had no individual ownership rights. black livelihoods were destroyed. today not enough has changed. of all the agricultural land owned by individuals across the country, 72% is owned by whites who make up just 9% of the population. 4% of that land is owned by black south africans who make up 79% of the population. nelson mandela pledged 30% of south african land held by whites would be distributed to poor black citizens after apartheid, but progress is painfully slow. it's not hard to see why. land reform is disruptive in a robin hood sort of way. as which economist notes, it involves the government gra

margot mugabe tried it, and was defeated. mnangagwa is trying it, he will be defeated. reporter: in the run-up to the protests, human rights groups said six people were abducted and tortured for mobilizing demonstrators. authorities deny they were involved, but there is a sense of a deepening fear fat goes beyoday's events. the government, less than two years in power, is battling widespread discontent that could potentially escalate. for now, the protesters had left, and the streets n.e quiet agai but given the mounting frustration, they are not likely to be gone for long. laura: today the story of the two u.s. lawmakers originally banned from israel took another twist. rashida tlaib was given otrmission to visit her palestinian grandmher in the west bank on humanitarian grounds. but then she said she wouldn't go, twee these oppressive conditions stands against everything i believe in, fighting against racism, oppression, and injuste." the back-and-forth has ignited much political debe, and a brief time ago i discussed it with alana abramson, congressional corresponden

opposition says 18 people were arrested accusing the government being worse than former dictator robert mugabe tasso reports from harare. what was meant to be a protest over the economy turned into chaos police in zimbabwe had banned the demonstration saying they were expecting violence alleging some opposition supporters were armed a high court judge dismissed an application by the opposition movement for democratic change to overturn the ban opposition leaders then called off the march but some of the supporters were defiant saying they had a democratic right to demonstrate in a show of force right please remind people what happens in a country with a history of brutally silencing voices of dissent from one of the worst 100. 1000 boys not free where are we growing as a country we're suffering we're hungry we can't afford to send our children to school the thank god. but every time the police dispersed the crowd some of them kept trying to come back some opposition supporters are refusing to disperse so riot police are slowly trying to push them back the aim is to get them out of the city cen

olonga and andy flower wearing black armbands during a world cup match to protest against the robert mugabe regime the current suspension just the latest setback for the men's and women's game reports from harare. everyone here says they just want to play international cricket but right now that's not possible the international cricket council the world governing body has suspended zimbabwe of a government interference in the running of the sport which is a breach of the i.c.c. constitution for us it came at a time when when the day before we're supposed to go for an island in legal and horse so you can only imagine really even camp for a couple of weeks actually really had been looking forward to it and then just the day before we'd been told that there's no more funding because you know that he would have had been suspended the suspension came after the entire zimbabwe national cricket board was suspended by the country's sports and recreation commission last month for a last mile of ministration and interim committee is now in charge many players are frustrated and nervous time is runnin

freedom no money for food or fuel zimbabweans prepared to protest saying nothing's changed since the mugabe era. and russian pilots hailed as heroes after a flock of birds forces them to make an emergency landing. welcome to the news are good to have your company israel has banned 2 prominent us democratic congresswoman from entering the country because of what it described as the boycott activities against israel. had planned to visit israel and the occupied palestinian territories this weekend both have supported the. boycott movement against israel under israeli law supporters of the campaign can be denied entry the man comes up to donald trump tweeted it would show great weakness if israel allowed representative and representative delegate to visit they hate israel and all jewish people and there was nothing that can be said or done to change their minds minnesota and michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office they all read this crisis well a short time ago reiterated this they are very anti jewish and they're very anti israel i think it's disgraceful the things they've

of course they do these demonstrations are coming after watch we saw in 2017 when president robert mugabe was removed from power people with protesting of course you the government. it looks like we've lost the line to harare we will we'll move on or so for that with very brief i was privileged most on here in harare will move on now to some of them so it's making news around the world u.s. democrats democratic congresswoman rashida to leave has rejected an offer from israel allowing her to visit her palestinian grandmother in the west bank she deli received a special permission which reversed a previous israeli on entering the territory israel's off ok after congresswoman tillie agreed not to permit to boycotts against the country during her visit. protests have broken out in indian administered kashmir fall on a friday prayers the people rallied in the main city a shrine ago which is that it's 12 day of a security lockdown after india's strip the region of its political ptolemy the news agency has reported that police clashed with demonstrators. the united states city of new york vacuit

opposition says 80 people were arrested accusing the government of being worse than former dictator robert mugabe. reports now from harare. was. what was meant to be a protest over the economy turned into chaos police in zimbabwe had banned the demonstration saying they were expecting violence alleging some opposition supporters were armed a high court judge dismissed an application by the opposition movement for democratic change to overturn the ban opposition leaders then called off the march but some of their supporters were defiant saying they had a democratic right to demonstrate in a show of force right please remind people what happens in a country with a history of brutally silencing voices of dissent from one of the words. in boys not free where are we going as a country we're suffering we're hungry we can't afford to send our children to school. but every time the police disperse the crowds some of them keep trying to come back some opposition supporters are refusing to disperse so riot police are slowly trying to push them back the aim is to get them out of the city center the police f

robert mugabe doled out land to cronies which called deep economic suffering. the narrative was that it was an unmitigated disaster. ben cousins points out the legacy of zimbabwe land reform is more complex than the dominant narrative. particularly when you consider the case of tobacco farmers. as "the new york times" reported which 2,000 mostly white tobacco farmers were forced from their land tens of thousands of mostly black farmers took their place. at first production ebbed but rose creating livelily hoods for the once landless. in the end, the case for land reform in south africa is not merely a moral one. properly and sensibly executed, land reform is also good economics and good politics. >>> next on "gps" -- over the last century the world's wealthiest countries have been the main drivers of the climate crisis while the world's poorest suffer from its effects. is it possible to change that calculus? my next guest, a powerful woman on the world stage has made that her mission. the alzheimer's assn is going to make it happen , has made that her mission.

his government is mismanaging the quantity they say all the public to be made to go the pub robert mugabethe former president has been really materialized. and they want him gone or at least to try to. put people off with a straight i right now why people also coming back trying to push some of the voters who had been good trying to put them back out. to go home some people who are refusing to leave and what we want to try to attract off coming back into the area of course trying to get them out to be all physically the more passive. side of. her the pictures are looking at her really and question them and there are police that we can see beating people with but taunts a seems to be. and in the face of all this apart us are still saying that they will continue. exactly some of them seem to find 9 it sad and also as we can see here is you know basically when the prototype of the. riot police who used back to 6 was the cannon charged tear gas trying to put the spirit of the to be the last 2 major protests. over. i mean generally even the soldiers were deployed on to the people were shot and

longer and andy flower wore black armbands during a world cup match to protest against the robert mugabe regime occurrences suspension is the latest setback for the men's and women's game. reports. everyone here says they just want to play international cricket but right now that's not possible the international cricket council the world governing body has suspended zimbabwe of a government interference in the running of the sports which is a breach of the i.c.c. constitution for us it came at a time when we the day before we supposed to go for an island in the village hall so you can only imagine really even camp for a couple of weeks actually didn't really had been looking forward to it and then just the day before we'd been told that there's no more funding because you know he would have had been suspended. the suspension came after the entire zimbabwe national cricket board was suspended by the country sports and recreation commission last month for a list maladministration and interim committee is now in charge many players are frustrated and nervous time is running out we need to g