rural zimbabwe. it is the political heartland. for many, the state broadcasts are monitored on radio. newspapers rarely make an appearance here. ♪ state radio and television are dominated by one-sighted political propaganda. the government declined to promise greater media freedom in one of the poorest neighborhoods, take a look up there. at it is an achievement. the people of zimbabwe are finding ways to circumvent broadcasting restrictions. with the push for elections next year, the political news here is changing and demands that media freedom, the basic human rights, are growing louder every day. bbc news, zimbabwe. >> and do stay with us, if you can on "bbc world news." still to come for you -- scientists are trying to find out more about a giant fossil. but first, and still no is going where many might prefer not to. it joins the euro on january 1. it is daniel will be the 17th member, but to whose benefit -- estonia will be the 17th member, but to whose benefit? >> the weather may be frosty, but the outlook for the economy

also on the program -- zimbabwe's fragile coalition government under severe strain. does mugabe want elections early next year? shia muslims are around the world marking the holiest day in their calendar amid tight security. it is midday in london, 5:00 p.m. in islamabad and 9:00 p.m. in tokyo where china's growing power prompted a major shift in military strategy. the japanese government announced plans to overhaul the fences, with an emphasis on china's military buildup to the south, as china looks to tie it up billions of dollars of trade deals with pakistan. more from islam about in a moment but forced the report from tokyo on a move china is already calling irresponsible -- more from islamabad in a moment. >> japan is reshaping its defense in response to the shifting balance of power in asia. cutting the number of tanks in the north and expanding forces in the south. defense will be strengthened to guard against an unpredictable -- also be strengthened to guard against unpredictable north korea. >> troops with mobility is a program for the tough security environ

the president of zimbabwe's says of the power-sharing government said that this should not continue. he said that there should be elections next year. he is also threatened to seize western-owned businesses as retaliations for sanctions. >> despite being forced to share power, he arrived with the red carpet treatment. this is the last conference before elections. in a rabble rousing mood, he sounded the death knell for the power-sharing deal, a deal that was put together for the sake of peace. the marriage between two parties has been fraught with difficulties. promised electoral reforms are not in place and the expiration of the power-sharing deal could not come soon enough, say many here. there are pledges that foreign assets will be transferred into the hands of the citizens of zimbabwe and this is used to win support among the party faithful. there is the promise of land to secure votes, now it is minerals and other riches. >> we must read the riot act to the british and say to them that this is only 51% we are taking a less and you remove sanctions, we will go 100%. >> outside o

it is the reflection of the new tensions and one of the world's >> zimbabwe's president has declared that a power-sharing government should not carry on. he says there should be elections early next year. he has threatened to seize foreign-owned businesses as retaliation for western sanctions. >> robert mugabe has been forced to share power, he's still got the red carpet treatment when he arrived with his wife. this is the party's annual conference which is certainly the last before elections. the 86-year-old sounded the death knell for the unity deal, the deal that brought former foes together for the sake of peace. >> we agreed to work together in the global political agreement as a compromise. we also said that this would not be the permanent agreement for the country. >> the marriage between the two parties has been fraught with difficulty. promised electoral reforms are not in place and the expiration of the deal could not come soon enough for many here. the party faithful, this was once the promise of land that helped to secure votes. now it is minerals and foreign assets. ther

that she made tremendous profits from zimbabwe's diamond fields. they have some of the country's richest reserves. a court in denmark has ordered police to compensate 250 people arrested during the climate change summit in copenhagen. they said that the protesters suffered a legal deprivation of liberty and inhumane punishment. european court justice has ruled that the netherlands can ban foreigners from the cannabis coffee shops. they want to introduce and a membership system that would keep foreigners out. good to have you with us. stay with us at if you can. there is a new treatment for chronic headaches, but it involves drilling a hole in your head. the world's two most heavily populated countries, china and india have agreed on ambitious trade targets by 2015. the prime minister signed a deal on green technology. she reports. >> india rolled out the red carpet. this was ahead of the talks with the indian prime minister on monday. the two sides have never been the best of friends. china says that it is keen to move forward. >> china and india a

reporting now from zimbabwe. >> arrived in fighting spirit. the mood of campaigning has already begun with the 86-year-old leader adamant that there should be elections next year despite the significance of electoral forms. some 10,000 of the party's faithful are expected to seek his endorse meavent and called for the power sharing deal to come. relations between the two sides have grown increasingly bitter fueled by diplomatic cables released as part of the wikileaks saga which have shown both sides in an unfavorable light. he's used these revelations saying he believes the other is the in the pocket of the west. meanwhile the wife is suing the zimbabwe newspaper for $15 million for publishing a cable thatal suggested she profitted from a diamond mine that was the subject of human rights abuses. >> mothers force tods abandon their babies are on dismay at a new exhibition in the museum in london. built on the old site of the hospital, the children's charity created by flan throw pist. emily buchanan has been along to take a look. >> here, ever

repression in zimbabwe and china around the world never get a chance to have their their day in the international spotlight which is needed to combat victims why is israel still not able to have a rotating seat on the security council whereas countries like libya saudi arabia iran which have far worst human rights records are israel was never admitted into the regional group that it by geography ought to belong namely the asian group its neighbors syria jordan saudi arabia belong to the asian regional group but because of the arab states objection to israel they refuse to let israel joint and so israel has never been able to join its regional group asia and the result is that many of the elections for important un bodies occur within the regional groups there are sometimes an allotment that will be x. amount of seats for the asian group for the european group for the south american group and so forth so israel was denied access to many significant un bodies because of this system ten years ago there was an important shift israel was admitted into a group which is called a western europe and other

determined to oppose israel and many dictatorships at the un automatically oppose israel countries like zimbabwe north korea and so forth vote with the islamic states in their campaign and so even if israel were to submit it's kind of a c it's not clear that it would be elected do you still support the existence of the un is it still relevant in our world today we believe the un could be something else we believe that the un has an indispensable role in this world there's there's no replacement for the one if un didn't exist we would have to create it. and the when when it started in the early years it was very well respected by all countries . and its its mission was respected by israelis as it was by arabs but in the past several decades it's been taken over by an extreme agenda. thank you very much for talking to us here. thank you my pleasure. welcome to the. what makes a big splash in the world of high tech business what turns in science and i just use products they don't understand oh he's got he followed russian invaders to egypt bitters abroad and their big break through back home spotli

gbagbo's spoken say he's for a coalition government as we saw in kenya or zimbabwe, something that we saw happen. is that an option? >> i don't think that would be a workable option because many people are critical of what happened in kenya and zimbabwe and even the prime minister of kenia himself has said he doesn't think a -- prime minister of kenya himself has said he doesn't think it viable. >> ifill: who has force on their side? who has the army? who has the u.n. support? there are 10,000 u.n. troops on the ground there. how would that play out? >> that's part of the dilemma right now, because we have the forces, but also there is the hope that if all of the forces are aligned on one side that they may send the message to the other side that there is no need to resort to force. right now the u.n. forces are -- in abidjan, we have the former rebel forces who have not been completely disarmed who have pledged allegiance -- their loyalty to latera, so if we were -- to alassane ouattara. >> ifill: what has to happen for civil war to be avoided, this meeting with the same three leader

they just returned from zimbabwe. >> a new independent daily roles of the presses. with six months, the reporters are being threatened with jail. despite political pledges, the editors here know they could be cut down at any time. >> it seemed like restrictions would be relaxed. more journalists have been arrested. >> there is a problem of general harassment. that is a big problem. >> that have been reported worldwide, there have been demands for multi-million dollar lawsuits. they now have a bit more choice in terms of what they read. but simply the government of the newspaper. >> [unintelligible] >> what they listen to is still dominated by the state. they have no plan to license private forecasters. >> the political heartland. it is broadcast on radio. and the newspapers ha ha make an appearance. radio and television are dominated by one-sided political propaganda. the government had declines to discuss its. >> these are cheap satellite dishes. with the push for elections next year, the political mood is changing and demands that media freedom is a basic human ri

. >> the wife of the zimbabwe president is suing one of the country's newspapers over how reports from wikileaks session made profits from the country's diamond fields. they have one of the richest diamond fields in the world. she is clammy $50 million in damages. a court -- she is claiming $50 million in damages. according to marx says that protesters have suffered illegal deprivation of liberty and inhumane treatment. the copenhagen police said that the they will appeal. a powerful summer storm has ripped across australia, a lightning strike that killed a golfer, and hailstones the size of squash balls. the netherlands can then foreigners from their cannabis coffee shops. critics say that this would break equality laws. stay with us if you can. still to come, a new treatment for chronic headaches. this involves drilling a hole in your head. first, the u.k.'s foreign office is investigating reports that two white british men have been killed in an american drawn attack in afghanistan. >> pilotless drones planes like this are what america uses to kill suspected militants in northwest p

where that's where countries have gotten into trouble and gone into high for hyperinflation like zimbabwe or like germany in the one nine hundred thirty s. i'm sorry the eighty twentieth's but if you would just create credit for your internal purposes in other words for your own infrastructure so you create the credit to pay the workers pay the materials to build the thing to generate the profits which will then pay back the loan that is a sustainable system that's an internal currency that that is required in order to have growth in the system ok so in the in the example of ireland to some grace the government can simply create a new bank called the new bank of ireland start floating money that's non-interest bearing money to liquefy the economy and at the same time i would imagine that they would want to prosecute the bankers that in fact bankrupted their country they are free to do so because they are no longer being held hostage by the interest willing banking thieves who are basically holding the entire economy hostage the reason we call them too big to fail is there's no i'll turn i

automatically oppose israel countries like zimbabwe north korea and so forth vote with the islamic states in their campaign and so even if israel were to submit it's kind of see it's not clear that it would be elected do you still support the existence of the u.n. is it still relevant in our world today we believe the u.n. could be something else we believe that the u.n. has an indispensable role in this world there's there's no replacement for the u.n. if the u.n. didn't exist. we would have to create it. and the when when it started in the early years it was very well respected by all countries. and its its mission was respected by israelis as it was by arabs but in the past several decades.

here's the thing if that's the case we all know what happened in zimbabwe during the recent years when the hyper inflated their currency could anybody argue that that was a growing economy you know it was it was a socialist rat hole where people suffered tremendously the government horrifically mismanaged that economy and they thought they could mitigated by printing up trillions of their currency no all they did was that they turned would few products there were you know into such an expensive venue that people couldn't afford it it was insanity see real wealth doesn't come from expanding the money supply. a real wealth happens when you expand production business start up business formation business development more producers you know you increase the stock of goods and services that people use that lowers the price you expand the wealth building capacity of the country through production ok all the inflating the money supply does is increase the cost of these things but does it increase the value of these things so we've got about thirty seconds left on the back to the issue of the s

frankly other towards relatively laudable goals another one is taking a look at trying to prevent zimbabwe the zimbabwean government robert mugabe from achieving any sort of position of influence at the u.n. so frankly the goals of the intentions are by and large correct not all but i mean yeah you could say that in trying to monitor people and how they're going to vote on sanctions on iran that's not necessarily a lot of oh well i mean i guess that's true but you know there definitely is room for debate there but still do they have to do this by taking biometric scans getting you know d.n.a. fingerprints iris scans that seems a little bit over the top it's bizarre and if you look at the people for whom there's authorize this sort of intelligence collecting apparatus a lot of them include frankly americans american service plenty of americans served at top ranks at the u.n. and u.n. agency is you know the former national security adviser to bill clinton is the head of unicef a former top ranking state department officials the head of the world food program lots of american officials. top r

if they truly believe this we would be in zimbabwe now. this issue runs much deeper than tony blair's latest money book -- deeper than politics and budget cuts. this is issue of fundamental right of a human being's life and by withdrawing our troops in the next two years it will be our government's first steps in sorting out the mess it created. i want to see tony blair and david cameron to look is extended of old afghan girl and i was dad was shot and killed in the crossfire of the war the government is responsible for entellus we are going to keep our troops in there for years to come so the terror of her walking down the street not knowing if she will step on a roadside bomb and a shot by her -- like her dad. bringing the troops home the next two years is essentials, not just because of the massey -- massive negative impact but because of the simple fact. this government is killing innocent human beings. [applause] >> tim, thank you for that introduction to the debate. to oppose the motion i hope you will welcome him as i call mr. -- [a

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and i also think -- i mean, just one personal regret, we've been able to do more on the zimbabwe front i would have been very pleased but that would have been difficult to do. but i guess, yeah, of course, there are lessons -- here's, i think, the bigger point really that i would make about this. because i think what's all about government, this is a far more general point, is, you know, as i say in my book and thank you for the plug, by the way -- you know, when i came to office, the prime minister was the only job i ever held, right? i'd never been a government minister before. and then your prime minister. and then running the country. and what i've actually learned over the 10 years is that the business of running government is -- believe it or not, it's like anything else. why i was surprised in itself absurd and it's like anything else. you get better at it the longer you do it, in fact, or you certainly learn more about how to do it. and you don't -- there are lessons out there that had they come to me in the sort of identifiable form would have been quite useful to know. [laugh

international ranked russia 154th out of 178 countries perceived as more corrupt than pakistan, yemen and zimbabwe. the world bank considers 122 countries to be better places to do business than russia. one of those countries is georgia, which the world bank ranks as the 12th best country to do business. president medvedev speaks often and at times eloquently about the need for russia to be governed by the rule of law. considering the likely outcome of mr. khodorkovsky's show trial, it's not surprising why president medvedev himself has lamented that his anticorruption campaign has produced, in his words -- quote -- "no results." russians who want better for their country and dare to challenge the corrupt bureaucrats who govern it are often targeted with impunity. one case that has garnered enormous attention around the world is that of sergei magnifky, who uncovered a theft of $230 million from the russian trerb rhode island because of his -- treasury. because of his relentless investigation, the russian interior ministry threw him in prison to silence him. he was deprived of clean water, left in