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and zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has defied pressure from his and a p.f. party to step down in a televised address he said he would preside over a party congress despite earlier being sacked as the party's chief his opponents are threatening protests and impeach. you're watching news coming to you from berlin we have more for you at the top of the next hour and don't forget to get all the latest news information around the clock on our website e.w. dot com thanks for watching. oh my song juror no six. once a victim of the cultural revolution now a celebrated bach interpreter pianist. after over three decades in exile she now returns to her native china with a very mixed feelings. defeat in my. mind with. crime fighters the new season of radio crime thrillers begins. for investigative cases that will keep you on your toes. crime fighters stories are the best idea ever so every young person needs to listen to crime fighter and shout tell a friend tell a friend tell a friend. cried fighters don't miss it. state by state. the most colorful. the liveliest. the most t

in zimbabwe as robert mugabe digs in the beleaguered president defines pressure from his senate p.f. party to step down his opponents are now threatening protests and impeachment. and the best of the bonus league will have all the thrills and spills from the weekend's game. flow i'm terry martin thanks for joining us. exploratory talks on forming a new coalition government here in germany have collapsed the business friendly f.t.p. bailed out of negotiations saying it failed to find common ground on key issues with chancellor angela merkel's conservative alliance and the greens rakhal announced she would talk with the german president later today it's not exactly clear what they'll be discussing one option is to call fresh elections or talk about that in just a moment but first here's how the night of negotiations played out. it was for a climax of a coalition talks the head of the free democrat sleeze for building to make an announcement he said his party was pulling out of the negotiations. we were being forced to cast away our principles and everything that we fought for over the years.

was sacked as vice president and expelled from the ruling zanu p.f. party it's understood his ousting father to raul with the president's wife grace mugabi. when a gag was removal it's been seen as boosting the first lady's leadership. the faction dispute and the ruling party is nothing new with the ailing president forced to publicly intervene last year when the g forty or generation forty section clashed with the war veterans within the zanu p.f. . you know this fracture that fracture. shatter you. know mugabe is the world's oldest leader at ninety three years old having been in power for the food he is secure engine ways independents throughout his time in office has counted on support from the military the army has always maintained it would only support candidates to succeed him who fought in the independence war. a . crisis fifty two year old wife it's not only new veterans the latest route is pushing roman grabbing and a difficult position ahead of the zanu p.f. for the next month i don't know. alex my guy so what as an adviser to the former prime mi

noon today and then that will be the next step which will be looking at now mugabe's party the zanu p.f. gathering that's not for its congress is mugabe implying that the party congress will be deciding his fate. you know by implication what he was implying was that he's going to be in charge of the proceedings of that party congress but the reality on the ground and you could obviously sense that from these things he's speaking that he's so detached from what events took place today where you still things that he's in charge but the reality on the ground points to shifting is well within his own political party the president mugabe's really trying to show is from bravado of sorts or you can really use you know not in sync with what happening in order to be in the prevailing mood and sentiment within his party where people have moved away from him so basically he's politically isolated socially rejected and the military. is no longer we see him as you saw them moving into to take control of the leave of government so it's a very very difficult position that prisoner but we're going to f

would like to return now to our top story and a zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. party has sacked. obert mugabe as party head for the very latest we're joined now by d.w. correspondent privileging fun hearing who is joining us on the line from harare a privilege here as of the ruling party's headquarters we understand after so many years of rule under mcgarvie and its historic moment what's the mood like where you are. quite is it again we're. talking from the. left the. prisoner about the. political party. or the. chief for the political. support to be the truth of course to be. p.c. very very quickly. my. question is is the. government. all right so that's why it is important as you say to bear in mind he may have lost his job as head of the party but from a legal standpoint robert mugabe is indeed still the president of zimbabwe you mention these impeachment proceedings that the party will begin should he continue to refuse to step down but what about the army is it prepared to remove mugabe by force it's needed. they will not do that because that's why. they want to follow the c

party has removed president robert mugabe as leader and expelled both him and his wife grace zanu p.f. party has installed the country's former vice president emerson on ganga in mugabe's place party members celebrated after an official announcement obvious sacking zimbabwe's room party has now given mugabe less than twenty four hours to step down as president threatening him with impeachment if he doesn't comply if this ignores the. need to get more of the twenty. two thousand and seventy. we. ordered to thousands. of good lives being simplistic in a dissident. all right for more from harare we're joined now on the line by journalist ray in ray thanks for joining us so is mugabe going to step down in the coming hours or will he have to be pushed out. thank you for sharing the. gold indication of friendship right now in. pretty good macabre he's not going to make an announcement . that that's not protocol there are. three separate dance at stake now that we're expecting bring your book to the nation it might not actually be our third quarter sort of just carry. on drinking a couple of minute

mugabe stressed that he was still in power and would preside over a congress of his ruling zanu p.f. party next month this is although the party removed him as leader or earlier today sunapee have also said it would launch impeachment proceedings if mugabe did not step down let's listen to some of what mugabe had to say. i as the president. and. chief do. the issues. and believe that. in this period of on. and out. and. for this. nation and for the welfare of people from or from herat i were joined by journalist right in the love all right president mugabe did not resign the presidency despite being expected to are we in crisis mode in zimbabwe how are things looking now. well i think everyone is stunned by the fact that the live television interest did not actually. how much or less expected his resignation so they still are saying. they were trying to. be given by president private. patients that he would get the nation farewell. and i want to play a quick excerpt from his speech in which he talks about what he calls the way forward let's take a lesson that way for what. would be based.

chapter of zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. party all right i'm back here in germany failed coalition talks have catapult at this country into major political uncertainty president to find out their steinmeier has been meeting with his heads of the with the heads of the country's main parties to take stock of the situation steinmeier says he wants to meet with leaders of the far right populous alternative for germany as well as the left party to find common ground all right now we want to go to that dramatic footage that has emerged of a north korean soldiers defection the picture show him racing across the border under fire from former comrades the soldier is now recovering in a south korean hospital this is one of the most heavily guarded places on earth and this is a north korean soldier about to make the most dangerous and dating decision of his life to defect to the south. as he career's past a north korean checkpoint his comrades raise the alarm and give chase. over the bridge of no return the driver is within touching distance

more than twenty thousand opposition supporters were slain in a brutal crackdown by mugabe's downy p.f. party in the 1980's. in one thousand nine hundred seven mugabe tightened his grip on power after a merger with the main opposition party he effectively declared one party rule and himself the president. in election after election mugabe won amid charges of vote rigging media intimidation and violent clampdowns on opposition supporters and politicians. always. mcgarvie his heavy handed rule turned more and more zimbabweans against him the once thriving country began spiralling out of control. mugabe launched a bloody campaign to seize thousands of white and found the new one his daughter lacked family experience an agricultural production went into a noise dive once one of africa's breadbaskets zimbabwe was now struggling to feed its own people. and made rampant poverty and political upheaval in two thousand and five mugabi turned his attention to the country's slums his demolition campaign left at least seven hundred thousand people homeless many of whom supported the opposition just a few

and zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has defied pressure from his zanu p.f. party to step down that is despite being sacked as the party's chief he now faces a deadline to step down or face impeachment. you're watching from berlin had a website dot com for all the latest around the clock thanks for watching. no fees to. evolution to don. john morning miles thinks in movies. and does choreography to some of the best songs come from some of the. an encounter with an exceptional all to. me gloria with john morris my. one dream give special gentleness. this is god's coalition told to come last summer and fall under the new view of the slave sauced of a gemini and its ninety one night and international debate but then. just uses been said to the stunned look on kind of the beach and if the venue go via that move if you want to go in sixty minutes. i am told by tens of thousands of fans for their mega life sets. of a movie it's just a really beautiful moment when you're able to share with people and wound up. with a cloak of more air miles than some pilots. like concert

more than twenty thousand opposition supporters were slain in a brutal crackdown by mugabe's danny p.f. party in the 1980's. in one thousand nine hundred seven mugabe tightened his grip on power after a merger with the main opposition party he effectively declared one party rule and himself the president. in election after election mugabe won amid charges of vote rigging media intimidation and violent clampdowns on opposition supporters and politicians. always. mcgarvie his heavy handed rule turned more and more zimbabweans against him the once thriving country began spiraling out of control. mugabe launched a bloody campaign to seize thousands of white owned farms the new owner's daughter lacked farming experience and agricultural production went into a noise dive once one of africa's breadbaskets zimbabwe was now struggling to feed its own people. amid rampant poverty and political upheaval in two thousand and five mugabe turned his attention to the country's slums his demolition campaign left at least seven hundred thousand people homeless many of whom supported the opposition just a few y

zanu p.f. party supporters of the party travelled to the running from across the country the president is fast losing support after days after the army seized power. we have it right that god is not. part of zimbabwe every year more. like it one years very obviously. it would be the modern day why didn't people use. well how tossers following events for us in the capital one has to say that we can hear what the mood is like but certainly the call to come on to the streets of the capital has been sort of taken on board by the general public. something i had never seen before one woman said to me the last time so many people in the capital matching celebrating muslim prison was back in one thousand eight hundred how things have changed. but. people are going in that direction they're going to meet. and in march to with a war for the way the one with the above it. often that. people are going to march to take out there are a few people already in the area the plight of thousands of people in. that house

so what happens now already having voted him out as their leader the ruling zanu p.f. party told president mugabe to leave voluntarily by a round about this time in fact an hour ago it was an hour ago the deadline passed otherwise he will face a no confidence vote in parliament which would then pave the way for his impeachment his party is meeting in the coming hours to discuss those proceedings now the influential war veterans association has also repeated its demand for the president to go to. the people who don't want to see. we saw him go to the national television to pretend as if everything is no more if you are saying that. we are saying mugabe go no no no no no no your time is up please leave that i was and let the country start on a new or new page well this is some of what the president said in his speech to the nation last night the congress. in a few weeks from now preside over it. which must not be preposition by any act calculated. to undermine it all to compromise the outcome in the eyes of the public. but let's go to kenya now where the supreme court has uphe

zimbabwe's ruling is the new p.f. party has introduced a motion in parliament to impeach longtime leader robert mugabe and accuses him of allowing his wife grace to quote usurp power the motion is also supported by the opposition people have gathered in front of the parliament to celebrate what they hope will be the start of a new political era however parliament speaker jacob said the impeachment proceedings will take place in a hotel while mugabe's refusal to quit following a military intervention as plunge this african nation into crisis for decades in a gobby sight no one time allies of the embattled president signed the motion to remove him as their party leader next its impeachment. the party is instructed. to proceed. we've been pitchman processes i gave. is not going to get. a confirmation of medicine from this because. mugabe has stunned the nation on sunday when he refused to quit plan to hold a weekly cabinet meeting today. meanwhile the general who led this bloodless coup said there had been contact between mcga

p.f. party is meeting and will push ahead with trying to impeach mcgarvey now that motion could be filed in parliament as early as tuesday frustration is turning to anger with hundreds of students out protesting calling for gabi to go and the pressure on him to leave is coming from almost every direction zambia's has sent its former president an elder statesman age ninety three now kenneth coward to harare to try and convince mcgarvey to step down now the leader of zimbabwe's war veterans association is among those demanding the garveys resignation. because what we don't want to see him is in the moore's law we saw him go to the national division to pretend is if everything is normal if you are saying that you will be dealing with but we are saying. now. you would tell me please leave. and lead the. new or new page so it looks like we're heading down the path of robert mugabe's impeachment and for that to happen there would be a vote in parliament a two thirds majority is needed for proceedings

representative of the country's ruling zanu p.f. party with thirty five years of bloodshed on the house and the economy really has no business today have continuing to govern. and shunting blood. imaginative. and. in some places we'll show. you up still department stores tries to outdo each others christmas decorations. they produce in the eyes of the young and denying. their robes in sixty minutes b.t.w. . your children like chocolate. you can't live without your smartphone. your tomatoes the supermarket. as we go about our daily lives schuman lights off and the last thing on the minds. invisible hands of slavery in the twenty first century starting december second on d w. a new president has taken the oath of office in zimbabwe but is he any different from the old one my guest here in london is nick bang while the u.k. representative of the country's ruling zanu p.f. party with thirty five years of bloodshed on their hands massive corruption and an economy in ruins what business have they got continuing to govern. i want to welcome to c

mugabe has given up power was announced mugabe's resignation had been a key demand of his zanu p.f. party and the army the opposition supported the impeachment motion against him who had been accused of allowing his wife grace to usurp the constitutional power. all right we want to take you now straight to harare a to raid the loo for a journalist in harare where a first often describe the the situation around you. well scenes of jubilation and not out of the rain but our of the way out of the fray new m.p.'s at their death rates to vote for the impeachment of president robert mugabe and regular gluckstein to shooting proceedings again they're. going to there's the justice minister came and spoke to the speaker of parliament to notify most the letter of resignation by the engineer get in there right now see that you're getting a stream of people away overjoyed and screaming and happy that finally president or government decided to resign step down from office re the scenes of jubilation around you're also showing pictures as well of that was this expected at all or were some bobby gearing

association now the protests were called by the war veterans and because of its own ruling zanu p.f. party it is hoped could be a dramatic fall from grace for the embattled leader who's been in power for thirty seven years. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri just wrapped up a meeting with france's president in paris in a bid to solve the political turmoil surrounding his resignation hariri landed in the french capital on saturday with his wife but two of us children remain in saudi arabia harry resigned in riyadh on november the fourth saying he feared for his life and blamed iran for stoking tension in the region his two week stay in the saudi kingdom prompted suggestions he was under house arrest which he really denies just moments ago he spoke to reporters for sixty. politique with regards to the political situation i will be in beirut in the next few days to take part in the celebration of our independence and i'll express opinions on all subjects once i've made president. let's bring our correspondent in beirut zehava who was listening in to that i mean despite thanking the french f

your without jazeera these are the top stories zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. partyis set to vote on whether to strip robert mugabe of the presidency and the party leadership hundreds of thousands of people marched on saturday demanding he resign there's been growing pressure for mcgarvey to set down since the military seize power on wednesday palestine has threatened to suspend communications with the u.s. over the trumpet ministrations warning that it could close the palestine liberation organization office in washington the state department says the p.l.o. has violated a law by calling for an international criminal court prosecution against israel's building of illegal settlements. lebanon's prime minister saad hariri has confirmed he'll return to a route by when say he says he'll vend clarify his position after his shock resignation more than two weeks ago he hasn't been back to his country since he abruptly resigned in the saudi capital riyadh he's now in france which is trying to mediate in the crisis. the arab league is holding an extraordinary meeting in cair

to the to the zanu p.f. party as to how they should proceed in future. sure well these very quickly unfolding events a lot of the reaction if you like from south africa and the southern african development community sort of being eclipsed by what's happening in harare we know from the first statements released by president jacob zuma that he called was calling for a negotiated settlement and amicable agreement to a political impasse he said it would seem that better wish and desire has come true and also for the country's constitution to be respected beyond that and south africa's government has been very careful and not overreaching its mandate and not impinging on zimbabwe's sovereignty with anything sort of firmer than that we have heard in the last half hour or so from zambia's president. and he has said in a in a short statement to us that reiterating that point we want to see the constitution of zimbabwe follow a followed and a normalization of the situation there is calling for zimbabweans human rights to be protected and for the army to return to

party the ruling zanu p.f. is discussing how to call him president and expel him from the party youth wing has said that political support for his wife grace destroyed the party and the government this all follows extraordinary scenes in the capital harare where hundreds of thousands of people marched on saturday celebrating the apparent end of his thirty seven grip on power while following events forces our correspondent. and it does seem that this is a day for. central committee is concerned as well as the youth wing. has started the members behind. to discuss firing president robert firing his wife grace and removing her. party the course for president. ten provinces have said they want him to. have said they want him to go. have. a press conference here in this building and this is what they said. and of course while the political meetings are happening there are talks apparently between the military and the catholic. about that. hearing president is the one who asked for this. and the catholic priest later

primarily still believes that he's in charge of charge of the country he's in charge of fees ruling parties on the p.f. it's either. that exposes the depth of how out of touch ease with the reality that he is isolated not only politically because under pm rejected him as the party leader and socially we saw in march he's being rolled out across principly as well within so this is a man who seems to be very much in denial or doesn't know exactly what is happening and the extent of developments around you. stay with us for a moment we're going to listen to an excerpt from president mugabe's speech in which he talks about what he describes as the way forward. for what nice cannot be based on swapping vying pleats that dry the rough short of a party rules and procedures there has to be net region today guiding principles of our party as enshrined in nice constitution. we must have brian fairly and equitably you know. situations and before all nameless president mugabe they're saying that it must respect party principles and procedure is he implying that the approaching exam no p f congress is going to dec

longtime president robert mugabe addressed the nation for the first time after being sacked as p.f. party leader his expected resignation was not forthcoming merely an acknowledgement that mistakes had been made as the president of zimbabwe and. chief do acknowledge the issues they have drawn my attention to and do believe that these were raised in this spirit of honesty and outlook. and that tree are to. for this. nation and for the welfare of our people not only did mugabe not announce his resignation as expected he further pledged to preside over the upcoming zanu p.f. party congress a clear slap in the face to his own party who had given him twenty four hours to resign or be impeached. zimbabwe's main opposition leader morgan tsvangirai said he was baffled by his failure to step down as were many ordinary citizens. to his roots nation. despite everything that he has done to be with dignity and to just walk away. and with his dignity to do that. is so stubborn. with the confusion following mugabe speech the way forward for zimbabwe suddenly seems unclear let's get the latest from harar

laura carlisle zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has ignored a deadline to resign his ruling zanu p.f. party had told him he must step down or be impeached now it says that process will begin the parties accusing mugabe of being responsible for political instability and an unprecedented economic tailspin and that frustration is spilling on to the streets with hundreds of students out protesting demanding mugabe get out of office a powerful war veterans association is also demanding mugabe step down and threatening high court action to have him removed. we want the war population to send up on our it in giving an unmistakable message that we want to see mugabe's back to the countries to start on a new bridge is the rule is the desires of us but the reality of the last fifteen years no country has been reduced to the level of debris decision which is what with going through with the only country which is going to war it is totally or believe just the damage which has been due to the missing because it is mobile who played with the we with indulging this. in the dirty way that's what has been h

to resign he's been voted out as leader of the rings and p.f. party which could try to impeach him if he doesn't resign mr mugabe has so far refused to step down. now the iraqi supreme court has declared that the kurdish secession referendum that was held in september is unconstitutional let's go live to our correspondent imran khan who's in the iraqi capital baghdad so what significance then that the supreme court has ruled rather late in the day must be said although in on that referendum which was held at the end of september. let's write it is rather late in the day but this going on to discuss it now. was actually a decision by the police officers made money federal supreme court last week saying it was unconstitutional this is now the final decision now what this means it will open up negotiations between baghdad and that is still not here on the supreme court what they did here was testimony from both condition for swift and rotten officials before coming to this decision but like i say it's really about what the future holds nobody was really

tensions are rising in zimbabwe armored vehicles have been spotted outside harare in the ruling zanu p.f. party has accused the army chief of treason after he threatened to intervene over the president's party purge zanu p.f. also warn the army against meddling in politics. lebanon's absent prime minister's tweeted that he would turn home from saudi arabia in the coming days saad hariri also called for calm and said his family would remain in riyadh earlier hariri met with the head of lebanese maronite church in the saudi capital by truck bashar is the first lebanese official to visit the kingdom since harry unexpectedly announced his resignation more than a week ago meanwhile lebanon's foreign minister said saad hariri is freedom will only be proven once he returns to beirut and of saudi arabia has an issue with iran it shouldn't punish lebanon if. they have problems they can be solved if they have problems with iran let them have these problems solved with iran iran is not lebanon lebanon is not syria lebanon is not iran we have an independent foreign policy where the end terrorist of lebanon

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for a little over the top stories here at al-jazeera the youth wing or zimbabwe is reeling zanu p.f. party has demanded the president sat down and that his wife be expelled from the party it says robert mugabe's attempt to have his wife grace succeed him destroyed the government party members a meeting to decide on the president's future. palestine is threaten to suspend all communication with the u.s. over the trumpet ministrations warning that it could close the pillows office in washington. the arab league is holding an extraordinary meeting in cairo at the request of saudi arabia to discuss iran's recent activities in the region iran is being accused of being behind a missile launch from yemen targeting riyadh as well as being behind an oil pipeline explosion in bahrain. voters in chile are heading to the polls to elect a new president the conservative sebastian pinera a businessman who served an earlier term as leader is the favorite but that presidency was plagued by huge protests over inequality and education is a latin america editor lucianne human reporting from santiago. he left

we're following here for you zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has defied pressure from his on a p.f. party just stepped down in a televised address he said he would preside over a party congress despite earlier being sacked as head of the party. this is news from berlin more coming up at the top of the hour thanks for tuning in. your children like chocolate. with on your smartphone. or two major hopes the supermarket. as we go about our damon live human rights all from the last one mine. in. the twenty first century starting december second on the. my name is helmet up by the. i'm a mexican conductor. come with me and meet great musicians and friends from all over the world. i just assume the title of music director of the crazy for the orchestra in brisbane and i'm really honored for that because this is an institution that's been going on for seventy years actually this is its seventieth birthday so join me in exploring our hustle space. subject creatures that we get to work with. this is joking that no longer are composers write and become part of my favorite conductor how do you save j

and zimbabwe's president robert mugabe has defied the pressure from his zanu p.f. party to step down that is despite being sacked as the party's chief he now faces a deadline to step down or face impeachment. now india's bollywood movies have become famous worldwide for their bombast drama and above all romeo and juliet where they romances but a new film is showing that there are limits to the love some indians will tolerate wherever social media editor federica boy baggio here with us in studio to talk more about this controversy how are people reacting to this what is the story so it is about. this movie called padmavati padmavati is an indian queen she's a mythological figure from a centuries old poem and she is a very revered figure in indian literature now many hindus in india are angry because in this upcoming film they believe she's being portrayed she as a as a hindu queen is being portrayed as having a romantic relationship with a muslim king and this is why they might think that. so so many clearly a lot of is being portrayed there which for many indians is con

former president robert mugabe facing intense pressure from both the public and his own ruling zanu p.f. party the ninety three year old mcgarvey stepped down just one week after the army placed him under house arrest of course the conversation about the end of mugabe's thirty seven tenure is buzzing online of a closer look at that his make up allow a buzzing might be an understatement when it comes to this story from the high hopes of saturday's solidarity march to being disappointed by mugabe's speech on sunday and if he defied calls to resign many zimbabweans are now openly celebrating the resignation. of the only president they've ever known a saddam god his departure from office ignited a huge discussion online and these are just some of the hashtags zimbabweans have been using in the last few days to share their stories from the streets of harare from save them to mind the zimbabwe's two mugabi must go and it was news continues to break a number of people have weighed in on what look obvious departure means to them including a zen o.p.'s parody a cowed our jima gobby has resigned the new

and joining me now is a member of zimbabwe's ruling zana p.f. party nick i'm gonna is chairperson of the u.k. chapter has joining us from london a good evening sir extraordinary events unfolding in your country and coming leader emerson he was mugabe's deputy does that make him the right man for this job yes it does make him the right man for his job. and. he's a revolutionary yes but a lot of it has been a long history of doing things is on way. being used on man one of the examples that we give anybody is that. when the end reform happened between two thousand and two thousand and five and let in let's say is. every minister president is governance top government official including military ones to all funds from the white commercial farmers and muslim. so it's not just on mines you know needless previews where he is considered to be. where he lays his biggest wallets he used the one who protected a lot of white farmers leaders province. they use a lot of. daily. you know street wise because you've got one part of the white farmers one of the bigges

p.f. is going on here with the impeachment process and we have some information coming from the party that all it senate does in all its members of parliament have been asked to meet at two thirty at the party headquarters for a caucus meeting and i suppose that's where they will get direction how to proceed in terms of the impeachment which is going to be taking place and under way within zimbabwe's parliament when it resumes tomorrow after a two week break ok so if impeachment proceedings are going to be started today how much longer can robert mugabe really hold on to power and why do you think he hasn't bowed to the pressure so far. well walls are caving in on prison but that's the reality and it's most likely you know by the end of this week he's fate will be known and you will probably be out of power the reason why he's holding on i suppose is the fact that he hopes he can come in and intervene in some way or that you try and risky him from the situation where basically he's been rejected by his political party he's been rejected by the people of zimbabwe who came out on on saturday

arliss a look at the top stories here at al-jazeera zimbabwe's ruling zanu p.f. partyis set to vote on whether to strip robert mugabe of the presidency and his party leadership hundreds of thousands of people meanwhile march on saturday demanding he resign there's growing pressure for president mugabe to step down since the military seize power on when the say has more from harare. well they're considering firing the president and firing his wife grace as head of the women's league if they decide to do that been the most should be put in parliament to impeach him if that happens and you'll no longer be president if it doesn't happen he could suggest that maybe politicians are trying to remove him at the party conference in december where the delegates or then of voting him out palestine or threaten to suspend communications with the u.s. over the trumpet ministrations warning that it could close the pillows office in washington d.c. the state department says the p.l.o. violated u.s. law by calling for an international criminal prosecution of israel for its building of

president on monday emerson who has fled to south africa now has been expelled from mcgarvie zanu p.f. party witness now continues but the news hour is coming out in about twenty five minutes time i'll see that. you. know how any. one of us think it would. work. we. will never go into. the booth. but i think you have a. bit of which of course you. know we'll see the book for. me he said to hold him but i would have you know most of. them seem to be having. you know forcing you to keep it's calm or. so i thought of. them when a bit of one of the big. like he was hidden away and i gave him a sunny day and no. less a window in their midst so he was. only eight years you're going to want me. same problem that i stick up ok yes this is what i'm hopeful at the moment so long when you're not being a thing i notice. only. last thing. i meet a man who know me. been so not done to give me. one minute. ok you. know. there's a lot better in ca you gotta pay when the lawyers and. see you said i was. saved. in the new millennium that. you're going to. need. to send them away up with a replica. that . you

worse than monk the fate of its all president is becoming clearer the country's ruling is than a p.f. party says robert mugabe has been granted immunity from prosecution along with his family and that's being met with broad acceptance by people in zimbabwe as they attempt to put the worst of the mugabe era behind them and focus instead on the future. it's business as usual in harare. and a time to digest the excitement of the past few days. focus shifted briefly to the announcement that robert mugabe and his family will be immune from prosecution. but zimbabweans are trying to put their country's past behind them many are hopeful that a new leader emerson and then god will make good on his promise to move towards a democratic future. like is we have we tried to lecture people will be free to make a selection of their choice of their own we that would to being intimidated and if they invited me and should be. giving people that the freedom that they want i think is going to do things. being done by the past but i think. you know we want that prison for be united with. the people with the con

fellow liberation fighter and comer was leader of the party with gabi merge them with his zanu p.f. party their alliance was uneasy i don't cum i was relegated to the figurehead role of vice president. at the turn of the century the gobby started seizing farms owned by whites to a peace supporters angry at the slow pace of land reform the economy shrank by a third unemployment soared about eighty percent. out of this economic turmoil another rival emerged we must to give them more garbage is sounding defeat morgan chang form the movement for democratic change it became popular enough to risk defeating mugabe in a presidential election runoff in two thousand and eight. i was beaten up frequently arrested and intimidated dozens of his supporters were killed allegedly by zanu p.f. thugs and the m.d.c. leader withdrew from the election worried about the stability of its neighbors south africa forced both men into a coalition chiang or i became prime minister but mcgarvey retain control of the police army and secret service and with that the real power of god he won the election four years ago

representative of the country's ruling zanu p.f. party with thirty five years of bloodshed on the loose on the economy tomorrow it was business today have continuing to double. double. gold and shunting loads. imaginative things here. and in some places and we'll show. you up stuff department stores try to outdo each others christmas decorations. they produce in the eyes of young and old alike. euro. sixty minutes d.w. . we take it personally you went with all the wonderful people in stories that make the game so special. for all true fans. my. little more than football on line. a new president has taken the oath of office in zimbabwe but is he any different from the old one my guest here in london is nic by one of the u.k. representative of the country's ruling zine.

that highlighted the two factions splitting the ruling zanu p.f. party at the time the military and the war veterans loyal to him and i got grace mugabe as you sam who dubbed g forty one god were fled abroad but his supporters planned their response and it was dramatic the head of the defense forces warned the army would step in if the purges of politicians it favors didn't stop hours later armored vehicles rolled into the capital harare we wish to assure the nation that he is excellent to the president of the republic of zimbabwe and commander in chief of these and i would defend forces. i-g. mugabe and his family are safe and sound and the vast security is going to teach many of my gob is long term supporters had clearly abandoned him. that. should have been recalled from is it as the president and first. man gaga has stayed quiet a tactic that didn't surprise observers of the man who has been nicknamed the crocodile for his style in dealing with opponents be the one man boy is not to be allowed to use culpability when you look at it when it wants to a

scenes of utter jubilation as robert mugabe's downing p.f. party sack him as leader officials have set him a deadline to resign as president or face impeachment. or that i've received already watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up our foreign ministers arriving cari for an extraordinary meeting to discuss iran's alleged violations in the region is that a good luck trying now it is it would like to be simple but sebastian pinera may not need much luck a billionaire businessman on track to win around one inch selection of. tens of thousands take to the streets in tokyo is just the latest protest calling the president for passing by to get. say we begin with. political turmoil in zimbabwe where an official changing of the guard could be just hours away president robert mugabe's ruling party has sacked him as their leader and given him until midday on monday to resign as president or face impeachment they were jubilant scenes that is on a pier party meeting in harare where the governor was replaced by his side deputy and. ninety three year

to resign he's being voted out as leader of the ruling zanu p.f. party parliament is expected to begin pietschmann proceedings if he doesn't leave office so far has refused to do so. and the leader of zimbabwe's influential war veterans association has made fresh demands for president mugabe to go. this was because what we don't want to see. we saw him go to the national television to pretend everything is no more you are saying that. we are saying mugabe go now go now go now no your time is up please leave. and let the country start on a new all a new page. iraq's of course is ruled septembers kurdish referendum on secession was unconstitutional and the result avoid iraq's kurds voted overwhelmingly for secession defying the central government in baghdad which said the ballot was illegal. in germany weeks of talks to form a coalition government of collapsed raising the possibility of a snap election the print business free democratic party claimed irreconcilable differences for pulling out it was one of four parties in the case the asians chancellor mer

that it's holding talks with members of the army president robert mugabe's family and his zanu p.f. party the talks aimed at. smooth transition of power with a catholic priest acting as middleman between the gobby and the generals the army seized control on wednesday and placed mugabe under house arrest but it denies staging a coup instead it says it's focusing on what it calls criminals within the president's circle it's thought that any new government could be led by the former vice president who was sacked by mugabe last week but opposition leader morgan tsvangirai has also returned to harare after being treated for cancer in britain and south africa. reports from. harare on thursday is calm and quiet the government has. to go back to work shop owners have been told to open the businesses and functioning normally there's a delegation from south africa in the country they're talking to members of the army officials and to the mugabe family. that they're trying to arrange an exit package for prison and make sure that he and his get family will be safe if he decides to stick it down is al

warning came from the army chief who wants mugabe to stop a so-called purge of the party the zanu p.f. party leadership after he sat his deputy last week may believe that mugabe's wife grace mugabe is being primed for the position design and p.f. party youth league supports grace of god vienna suggest said it would stage an uprising against the army if it interferes with the government and we're just getting reports now that there are eyewitnesses saying that they've seen tanks headed toward zimbabwe's capital. harare will of course bring you more information on this as and when we have it earlier we spoke to george sharon who is a zimbabwe political analyst and he explained the complex to say succession situation is in bad ways facing. nobody is opals the idea of intergenerational politics in zimbabwe the question is what does this new mean and i think the uncertainty invent the uncertainty people have both within and involved with is that they don't know how to be in the driving seat that's how the argument is playing itself out of course they kind of qualities around. but i don't think di

immunity all right to since mugabe has not stepped down up to now according to party sources we're hearing the rulings on a p.f. is going to meet tomorrow to dismiss mugabe as party leader can you tell us briefly about this you're following this endorsement by the provincial structures to. for him to step down the next stage that they have to do since he's not doing that voluntarily they will have to meet is what they say cause the central committee they're supposed to convene and agent central committee a central committee is there. is the governing. in between congress so they will have to meet and endorse. he's stepping down and we hear that is law you might be impeached and choose that if he doesn't step down after the meeting of the central committee privilege was fine here reporting for us from harare thank you. well minnie's prime minister saad hariri is in paris where he's been holding talks with the french president aimed at resolving the crisis sparked by his resignation the pair met at the emmys a palace in the french capital on president emmanuel micron's invitation is the first time hariri has lef

now the march was called by the influential war veterans association and the ruling zana p.f. party supporters all the party traveled to harare from across. the country the president his losses in support days off of the only seize power. is a correspondent there in harare her. the. writing. and here are some of the. was and everything else was a lot of people. came to one particular case. the e i was. all right we seem to have lost the sound of the connection with her room. who is speaking to people as she can see that thousands and thousands and thousands of people are assembling there in the center of harare the zimbabwean capital to protest against the continued presence of president robert mugabe so that's the situation there the members since we get some sound back we'll try and get back to her room a toss a correspondent there. but we've got a lot more to come here at al-jazeera including. russia is wasting our time a second veto in today's russia block the u.n. resolution which would have extended the investigation into his behind chemical attacks in syria. hundreds of innov

find a solution to the political crisis a catholic priest is mediating between members of his zanu p.f. party and army generals the military seized power on tuesday night surrounding the girl his home and government buildings. in harare and has more on those talks. this african delegation is at state house meeting president robert mugabe and then coming out on the records telling people what exactly is going on seoul information that's out there is from an unnamed sources that maybe in telling media and analysts that are the talks have been the and sometimes not easy they're saying the president robert mugabe has been making some demands which include he wants guarantees said he and his family will be safe and that he also feels that he should be forced to leave now he says that the ruling party is on a period has rules and regulations the party should stick to the constitution he's the suggesting let people wait until the december conference we delegates in the party will vote for the wanted to step down as leader of the party and head of state we hearing some people in the army may not be t