people in zimbabwe will want to know what that means.ions for example floating around the country about missing billions, revenues from the diamond industry that appeared to have gone missing off the government balance sheet, and frankly given the way power works in zimbabwe for so many years the buck would appear to have stopped at robert and grace mugabe's door. people want to know, are you prepared to take robert and grace mugabe into a court room? prepared to take robert and grace mugabe into a court room7m prepared to take robert and grace mugabe into a court room? if i'm to be given the chance to drive the vehicle called zimbabwe into a new dispensation, i cannot be that driver who is driving looking in the rea rview driver who is driving looking in the rearview mirror. the past is important but the past will not arrest us. i take that as a no. yes. robert and grace mugabe can rest easy? let's look at robert mugabe's contributions, omissions and... of course we need to make sure those affected a re course we need to make sure those

for the general these say those of a low end and organizations i think can think of to coming to zimbabwe it takes weeks and months to be created that's assuming i did some of the still being bought from for the cutting does and bob with bags of the lip service what they say is they want to visit the media freedom to visit but this too is for that to the reality we have to wait for another day or maybe another month or what we know in columbus that you're dealing with conditions that you know we hear for example in europe don't have to worry about and on this world press freedom day i want to ask you what does being a journalist what does it mean to you. it's fun for me as a person some of that i want to do but i think in the eyes of some government. agency is it's it's a trying to be is in on this because we exposed the bad that this did i didn't see as the do in the country well columbus muffling a journalist in zimbabwe columbus we appreciate your time tonight and we certainly do on are the valuable work that you are doing for your country and your fellow citizens in zimbabwe thank you

we now have to zimbabwe where we met with. she has an innovation that's in the environment by cutting down on energy consumption it's a bug. and it's made from crush see how this inventive lady and her family from zimbabwe are doing their bit for the environment. did you know you can save energy but cooking in a temperature bag. stara from litter has become a huge problem worldwide and to. clean up is expensive and once broken up into pieces the plastic can clog the digestive systems of animals. and zimbabwe has found a way to help a temperature back. there to use a styrofoam granules as insulation. produces the bags and her family business. is how it works you cook your food for a few minutes the part in the back the temperature takes over until the food is ready using the traps heat. depending on the. cost between fifteen and forty us dollars. you save both money and energy. and joy. if you are also doing your bit to tell us about it. this is the website or send us a. hashtag to me we hear your story. when i got to the ugand

in zimbabwe has found a way to help a temperature back. there to use a styrofoam granules insulation. produces the packs in her family business. here's how it works you cook your food for a few minutes the part in the back the temperature takes over until the food is ready using which. depending on the. cost between fifteen and forty u.s. dollars. you save both money and energy. and joy. in life. if you are also doing your bit to tell us about. the website or send us a tweet. to do more with. your story. when i got to the ugandan capital kampala where there's a lack of land to grow crops like in many other cities around the world people are starting to do farming now even schools are getting in on the act they are encouraging a vast students to use the limited space in school yards for farming the five alarming important new lessons it's also a lot of fun as our reporter saw. angel luciferian is harvesting spinach and mangold she's a student simply as a high school in the ugandan capital kampala. linked to the schools an area of land just

shingai nyoka, bbc news, northern zimbabwe.gular season games at west ham's football ground in london next year. the boston red sox and the new york yankees will come to the uk injune. baseball is following in the footsteps of american football, basketball and ice hockey. this picasso portrait is expected to fetch $70 million in new york, going up fetch $70 million in new york, going upfor fetch $70 million in new york, going up for sale from the rockefeller collection, the single biggest private collection to come under the hammer, all the proceeds expected to be more than $500 —— $500 million, and going to charity. thank you for watching. hello. wednesday gets off to a fine start for many of us but for some it's not going to last as we get rain heading in from the west. we saw a weather system move through on tuesday. this one here, the leading edge of cooler air so things cool down for many. not quite into east anglia and the south—east of england, but in the day ahead, that process is complete. low pressure to the north—wes

shingai nyoka, bbc news, northern zimbabwe.eart of rome, sending a plume of black smoke over the city centre. the bus stopped near the trevi fountain, and driver and passengers all managed to escape before the flames took hold. it's just the latest in a number of incidents, raising more questions about the state of public transport in the italian capital. facebook has banned foreign advertising linked to ireland's referendum on liberalising its abortion laws. there's been concern that campaigns by well—funded american groups could swing the vote. facebook is saying it wants to protect elections and referendums from undue influence. baseball, that most traditionally american of sports, has announced plans to play two regular season games here in london next year. the boston red sox and the new york yankees will come to the uk injune, following the path already laid by american football, basketball and ice hockey. earlier i spoke to craig calcaterra, baseball writer for nbc sports about the decision to play these matches in londo

and convinced there's not going to be a zimbabwe style mess? i doubt it, i doubt it.eriously, i do. and start our productions. i don't think we'll fail. but there is still plenty that could go wrong here. it is now going to act urgently, but what if it fails? poor south africans may not be patient for much longer. some are already being pushed to the brink. this was another illegal settlement. we arrived just hours after it had been bulldozed by the authorities. we found a community in shock. where will you stay tonight? i don't know. let them come and talk to us, as humans! we are humans over here! that's our country. south africa needs to confront, fast. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. to rescue a small boy has been likened to the superhero spiderman. now, as a thank you, he's been promised french citizenship. lucy williamson reports. france has nicknamed him spiderman. his real name is mamoudou gassama. and began to climb. of the building, a neighbour holding onto the toddler until he arrived. the child to safety. leaving him at home alone. climbing the bui

both garnered popular support as freedom fighting heroes in south africa and zimbabwe. but in the end, they were ushered out against a backdrop of disastrous economic policies and rampant alleged corruption. now, it's not all good news, and there have been recent instances of violence at the polls. but the point is that africa is trending towards stronger democracy far more often than we typically know. we often speak about the death of democracy around the world, and those fears are real. but those conversations rarely include africa. and they ought to, because this is the region where the population is set to explode in coming decades. africa may not hold much global clout now, but it will make up a quarter of the world's population by 2050 and in the decades following that, it will grow larger still. so good news there is good news for the whole world. next on "gps," speaking of world

and convinced there's not going to be a zimbabwe style mess? i doubt it, i doubt it.nd there, getting a little bit of finance and start our productions. i don't think we'll fail. but there is still plenty that could go wrong here. after dithering for years on land reform, the government here insists it is now going to act urgently, but what if it fails? poor south africans may not be patient for much longer. some are already being pushed to the brink. this was another illegal settlement. we arrived just hours after it had been bulldozed by the authorities. we found a community in shock. where will you stay tonight? i don't know. let them come and talk to us, as humans! we are humans over here! that's our country. our country, but not our land — that is the dilemma that south africa needs to confront, fast. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. no hiding the emotions there in south africa. stay with me on bbc news, i'll be back with the business briefing in just a few moments — we'll have more on all that political turmoil in italy. hello there. monday was the warmes

and convinced there's not going to be a zimbabwe style mess? i doubt it, i doubt it.ed a little bit of a push there and there, getting a little bit of finance and start our productions. i don't think we'll fail. but there is still plenty that could go wrong here. after dithering for years on land reform, the government here insists it is now going to act urgently, but what if it fails? poor south africans may not be patient for much longer. some are already being pushed to the brink. this was another illegal settlement. we arrived just hours after it had been bulldozed by the authorities. we found a community in shock. where will you stay tonight? i don't know. let them come and talk to us, as humans! we are humans over here! that's our country. our country, but not our land — that is the dilemma that south africa needs to confront, fast. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. a man from mali who climbed up the outside of an apartment block in paris to rescue a small boy has been likened to the superhero spiderman. now, as a thank you, he's been promised french citiz

we carry the hope of zimbabwe, and zimbabwe is in good hands.campaign launch — "unite, fight corruption, develop, re—engage and create jobs." it is a slick election campaign being launched here. dozens of billboards have been splashed across the country and just across from here, a row of brand—new campaign cars are ready to go. even some of these party members also have on the new regalia for the elections. but all of this masks a deep problem within the ruling partly. zanu—pf‘s internal elections were held over the weekend and there were some surprise defeats of key emmerson mnangagwa allies including several ministers as well as war veterans. on one end you have a ruling party that is going to squabbles in terms of primary elections, disgruntlement. but on the other end, it is a paradox. you have an opposition party that is trying to recover from the death of morgan tsvangirai, the current split that is looming. now that this launch is over, emmerson mnangagwa must get down to the real work and that includes uniting his fragmented party. stay

and she's now trying to attract international investors to zimbabwe including its time and industry. if this is the way to wisdom or stop definitely we can very closely with everyone this to sink in to defense forces everyone the police to make sure that that will stop. zimbabwe's forbid and diamond fields a testing ground for whether or not the country's new government can keep its promises. football now in nuremberg will join fortuna decide often about his league of their season after sealing their promotion from germany's second division they won two nil inside the house to leapfrog dusseldorf at the top of the table the two will meet all the day of the season to decide which team goes up as champions first. they'd already got their hands on a brand as a league spot next season now the question for fortunate dusseldorf could they make that fans even prouder by wrapping up their league title. despite being happy to defend it was visions keil who looked the more likely to lead at the break while they couldn't dent just a door in sand how is the nuremberg date baroness reacting passe

next, we go to zimbabwe.t mugabe sent troops to matabeleland in the west of the country to put down opposition supporters. and a warning, this report contains distressing material. thousands of zimbabweans have been killed by the soldiers of mr mugabe's fifth brigade. the gukurahundi, the whirlwind. well done. robert mugabe, he was a power—monger. they were taking people, slaughtering them all over. my family was shot by the army, with my grandfather and his two sons. did they question them before they shot them? no. they just walked into the village and shot them? yes. innocent people, they were being killed by the mugabe regime. mugabe's zanu party draws most of its support from the majority shona tribe. in matabeleland, support for nkomo's zapu comes from the minority ndebele. joshua nkomo, grand old man of african nationalism. to these people, he is king of matabeleland. it is the rivalry between these two men that threatens zimbabwe with tribal conflict. zanu is the people's party, and all those who stan

the country of zimbabwe just emerged from the strong man rule of robert mugabi for decade and there'sa new president there that we went to africa and zimbabwe and would benefit from the presence of an american ambassador, south korea, turkey, saudi arabia, there's a long list. chairman corker has done a great job with the ranking member of moving nominees quickly. i wanted to see if we'll be able to move forward in the way the nominees particularly in countries like zimbabwe where there's an upcoming election and opportunity for the voice of the united states in a country that at times looked to china and at times looked to the west and with we can and should play a role in their transition to restoring a real democracy there. >> careful what you ask for. i'm working through them and have prioritized to make sure places like south korea and saudi arabia are front and center. >> south africa and zimbabwe. >> there you go. >> we agreed to what we agreed to and i know there's beginning to be a freakout by staff as it relates to time, not by the secretary himself, i'm sure. if there are t

and will face several opponents will be ruled zimbabwe since independence in one nine hundred eighty and stepped down last year after the military briefly took power thousands of rango women who say they were raped when they fled a military crackdown in myanmar's rock kind state last year a jew to give birth more than seven hundred thousand reign the muslims have sought refuge in neighboring bangladesh and out of there in squalid and overcrowded refugee camps one hundred ports. fatima was just sixteen and newly married when she sees me and my soldiers killed her husband as they burned her village she fled into the forest but soldiers caught in the air and she says one of them raped her after the trauma of trying to make it to bangladesh she discovered she was pregnant but she doesn't know who the father is her late husband or the soldier who write to her more and more more more he's my baby how can i throw him away i have to love him. more than seven hundred thousand muslim or henge or create a military crackdown on me in mass rakhine state late last year nine months on first that re

he did not do anything illegal under the laws of zimbabwe or the united states.out 43% of the lion population in africa in the last 20 years. >> reporter: a cause he reminds me, we cannot let die. >> he really looked into it. and that revelation that the lion appears to have suffered for a great period of time. >> it's hard to watch, isn't it? you almost want to apologize to folks to have to put them through hearing about that. but we have to hear about it. everybody around the table was just watching just kind of, with your jaw on the floor, about, you know, a good question you asked. i don't know why he had to suffer that long. >> right. >> i don't know why someone didn't intervene. >> and the author doesn't have insight into that? >> we don't have an answer to that question. >> and the lion population is declining. >> that's the important part. let's get beyond cecil and think about saving, you know, his brothers and sisters, if you like, other lions. >> the dentist's lawyer says they didn't break any laws. >> exactly. >> all right, >> sometimes it d necessari

and convinced there's not going to be a zimbabwe style mess? i doubt it, i doubt it.our productions. i don't think we'll fail. but there is still plenty that could go wrong here. after dithering for years on land reform, the government here insists it is now going to act urgently, but what if it fails? poor south africans may not be patient for much longer. some are already being pushed to the brink. this was another illegal settlement. we arrived just hours after it had been bulldozed by the authorities. we found a community in shock. where will you stay tonight? i don't know. let them come and talk to us, as humans! we are humans over here! that's our country. our country, but not our land — that is the dilemma that south africa needs to confront, fast. andrew harding, bbc news, johannesburg. that's all from us tonight. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello. this is bbc news with lukwesa burak. silhouette portraits — profiles cut from black paper — have been around for centuries. but as an art form they've been pretty much ignored by museums.

there is no way he's going to win an election in zimbabwe.ght a fresh sense of hope for the future. a record five and a half million zimbabweans have registered to vote in the elections. i'm just waiting for the day to vote. previously we could not express her feelings come out we could not express ourselves if you want to vote. you were scared to say what you want to say, but now i think 2018 is a different year from all other years. the promises, to be open for business, so everyone who voted for the election, maybe things would now be at her. we're just hoping. he has promised free, fair, and credible elections. the opposition says even at this early stage, his government is refusing to allow an audit of the voters rule. with the elections, zimbabwe faces its first test of democracy after years of robert mugabe's misrule. the world is watching to see whether his former right—hand man will be able or to deliver. now, menstruation remains a taboo topic in many places around the world. here in the uk, more than 137,700 of girls in the uk miss

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our country right now was about ready to fall below zimbabwe. anyway, you talk about money for these programs. the problems we are having with kids that start in junior high and high school with math and science is killing our kids. there is huge amounts of money for kids in math and science. oak ridge national laboratory million. hit $30 they could not spend it because they were not any kids that came in to apply for the programs. i wanted to see if you were aware of this. host: talk about these specific skills. guest: again, there is a large pushe happening and a big in college and by the public to increase the number of students going into the so-called stem fields, science technology engineering and mathematics. there are a lot of well-paying jobs out there for those folks. whether they are prepared coming out of junior high and high school, there is a concern whether the elementary and secondary schools are adequately andaring kids for college if the goals we are seeing in middle and high school are aligned with college, being ready to go t

it failed in zimbabwe. it failed in cuba. it failed in venezuela. it failed in russia. in china, all of those countries, and they are basically saying that we arela going to try the same thing but this time it's going to work. >> tucker: so last question. it's considered basically immoral in the united states to talk to you or to hear stories like this for reasons that nobody bothers ever really to explain, but it's just understood. if you could speak to our media, the people who are dismissing your claims as false, what would you say? >> i think there are three things. firstly, everything we say is fact based. it's based on research. but in terms of what we hope to achieve and what people can do, people who want to invest in south africa, we want them toan call on the south african government to say listen, you are calling on us to invest in your country but you want to expropriate those investments. number two, we are speaking with the u.s. government and asking them to put pressure on the south african government, which could be done in a variety of ways. and number

jason sawyer comes from neighboring zimbabwe. he tells us he was evicted from his own land there, just like many other white farmers. now he himself is said to have pushed zambians from their farms. he denies this. jason: we are here to stay. i'm going to raise my kids here, my father wants to be buried here. with regards to the locals and the resettlement, we are certainly trying to come to a compromise so that everyone is happy. reporter: sawyer built stone houses for some of the displaced farmers. he shows us dickson chisenga's new home. sawyer insisted on taking us along. we can tell he's proud of what he's done. and it's obvious he expects chisenga to sing his praise, but chisenga actually has a different take on things. dickson: i'm very unhappy here. my old house was larger. it had three rooms, a kitchen, a toilet and a bath. this one's only got two rooms. and the farmland here's not so good, either. reporter: jason sawyer's visibly annoyed. but he wanants to keep up the dialogue with chisenga and his family. he insists th

. >> tucker: so you just watch something like this happen in a neighboring country, zimbabwe, which went one of the poorest in the world because of attacks and because of the theft of private property. is the anc, the ruling party in south africa aware of that lesson? >> they are, but real communism has never been tried, that's what they keep saying. it failed in zimbabwe, it failed in cuba, it failed in venezuela, he failed in russia, it failed in china, all of those countries and they are basically saying are we going to try the same thing and this time it's going to work. >> tucker: basically it's immoral to talk to you and hear stories like this for no reason that nobody bothers ever really to explain but it's just understood. if you could speak to our media and people who are dismissing your claims as follows, what would you say? >> i think there are three things. firstly, everything we say is fact based. it's based on research. but in terms of what we hope to achieve and what people can do, people who want, we want them to call on the south african government to say you want to exp

and even zimbabwe just to witness this moment. and to have stories to tell their grandchildren. that was absolutely glorious what he really was is beautiful to be part of history to see that up close like that she was absolutely radiant when they come possibly cabbage white in every bottle the whole state is just a magical place it was just unbelievable i loved every single minute it was worth every night on the street i really was. prince harry bride left windsor council after a lunchtime reception for six hundred to prepare for a smaller party in the evening at frogmore house nearby setting off a new one nine hundred sixty eight eat time jaguar retrofitted with any electric motor classically elegant yet modern rather like the newlyweds themselves. of the young cellist shaker conny mason who we saw there earlier and who played at the wedding has been garnering lots of attention lately we actually featured him on our show a few weeks ago more on this biting talent at the top of today's express. the young cellist who played at the royal wedding on saturday is suddenly world famou

. >> the woman many pegged to become harry's bride was zimbabwe-born chelsy davy.n-and-off for seven years. she even attended william and kate's wedding as harry's plus one. >> it spooked her. completely spooked her. and really was the moment when i think she realized however much she might love harry, this was not going to be the life for her. >> harry's final longterm girlfriend before he met meghan was british actress cressida bonas. they were set up by harry's cousin princess eugenie. >> she likes a nice bohemian quiet life, so to be thrust into the spotlight as prince harry's girlfriend was really tough. i just don't think she was in love with harry enough to make the sacrifices that meghan markle is being prepared to make. >> and talk about being friendly with your exes -- >> my sources tell me that both chelsy davy and cressida have been invited to the royal wedding, and i'm sure we will see them there on the day itself. >>> by the way, props to meghan with being okay with harry's ex's show up. another of harry's exes is british actress jenna coleman. they o

laura: a woman who was attacked by a crocodile inbe zimbabwe das re she was due to get married says she is lucky to be alive. the 25-year-old was in a canoe with her fiancÉ went the crocodile bit her and tore off one of her arms. she refused to delay her wedding, and the couple were married days later ielhospital chap day, it: on her big wasn't the wedding she had in mind. the two had planned to marry on may 5, butook a quick pre-wedding honeymn. she took this picture before they jumped on the dinghy. >> a couple of seconds to realize that this is actually a real crocodile this is really happening. we got into the water, and then he grabbed my arm and pulled me it would grab me main and pulldown. at least three times. and then it had a little bite here. my first thought was i was going to die because the water was now bloody. of hung in there eitil they were able to save me and get me onto canoe. reporter: she was airlifted to a armivatetal, her right and he dated. armleft arm -- her right amputated. her left arm, she would discover, was broken, too. five days later commit they pushed a