Back in one thousand nine hundred eighty but years of misrule and corruption have made him a pariah especially in the west mugabi many times warned western powers not to intervene or tonight the irony this forced transition of power if it succeeds appears to be a home made gamble with the military and mugabes own party both declaring a new era has begun minus mugabe good money in the soldiers took over a national t. V. Station to say it wasnt a coup to put our people and you will beyond what us. We. Clear that this is not a military threat or of. But with tanks and military vehicles blocking off parliament and government buildings in the capital it sure looks like a coup and a coup is something the rest of the African Union has said it will not accept. If indeed you know you know we in the African Union are against any violent government overthrow. Issued a statement saying the army should retreat and return to constitutional order. We support the legitimate zimbabwean government and in no case of good will we accept a forceful seizure of power for the fate of president Robert Mugabe and his wife grace is unclear but they appear to be in the custody of the military who say the couple are safe the military intervention comes after months of power wrangling over who will succeed the ninety three year old mugabe he has ruled the country since one nine hundred eighty but is frail and ailing last week mugabe fired Vice President emerson manana he was widely viewed as the heir apparent and backed by some of the countrys most powerful generals the sacking seemed to clear the path for grace mugabe but now the military has stopped her ascent at least temporarily and an Influential Group of war veterans one staunch supporters of mugabe themselves is calling for him to step aside completely prostration has been growing in zimbabwe it used to be wealthy but thirty seven years of mugabes rule have left the economy in tatters and the question of who will take over and try to repair it has now been thrown wide open. Well joining me now is tony hawkins from the university of harare in zimbabwe good evening to you tony im so this is certainly not what we were expecting to see in zimbabwe just twenty four forty eight hours ago do we know who is in charge of the country tonight. Well as well as the me is in kentucky. The expectation is that. President in this in the in god will return from south africa with a currency is. To take over as leader of some form of Transitional Administration until elections are held next year. The head of zimbabwes war veterans just hours after this takeover began called for an end to mugabes political rule lets listen just a little bit to what was said we aired that robot governor to debate it called from is the role as the president and first victory over the new pier. Or the political parties. No one person or one Political Party can solve our problems so we want Political Convention so we hear right there the head of the veterans saying no one party can solve our problems. It sounds like theyre saying they want an end to one Party Domination in the country in is that possible at this point. I dont think its possible because the opposition is deep be divided fragmented and i dont myself believe that veterans really want that essentially the coup that weve seen is a coup within the ruling party to remove one faction section that was. Surrounded was surrounding mrs mugabi who was the sort of. Spokesperson for the socalled group group of forty. And just a modern guy that was militaristic wing if you like. The rest of the country has been rather lift outs on the sidelines and marginalized but what is being going on its its an internal fight within zanu p s and we know that the South African president has reportedly been in contact with mr mugabe and with the zimbabwean military here is part of what he said earlier today ive taken a decision to send and boy to be able to conduct the leaders of the Defense Force who have undertaken these operations but also to meet with president mugabe we are hoping that this situation is going to be controlled so that peace and stability comes back to zimbabwe and thats what mr zuma were white to see happen but i mean tony like you said this is a domestic event and a domestic crisis is and it can seem like any have any impact on whats happening. Well because he is chairman of the Southern AfricanDevelopment Community the fourteen states which zimbabwe is a member and he is in a position to be able to convene a meeting of the Senate Council to discuss the situation in zimbabwe and possibly recommend to even take measures. Whether this will happen or not is obviously unclear especially as mr zuma. Has his own domestic problems and we just i think like to see the problem go away if you can see a relatively smooth transition from mr mugabe to mr man and god well i think he would be quite happy with that but with the rest of africa and the International Community will be happy to see a military. Coup to. Dislodge a constitutionally elected leader is another matter you know i mean thats a very interesting point you bring up then you know throughout the years mr mugabe has always warned of foreign interference in the Domestic Affairs of zimbabwe yet it appears his undoing came from within i mean its quite an irony isnt it is it is. It. Is this long being. Festering problem with ins on it appears that they have not been able to agree on a successor and mr mugabe is reluctant to step down and his reluctance to nominate a success so groom a successor. Had added to the pressures that finally brought him down. Tony hawkins in harare giving us some valuable insights into what is happening in sergeant zimbabwe tonight tony we appreciate it thank you i think if. Well are we journalists or Foreign Agents labels matter when you are trying to report a story in a foreign country and that may help to explain what russias lower house of parliament did today the duma unanimously passed legislation that would force some International Media outlets to register as Foreign Agents of the movie is seen as a retaliatory step against the United States washington recently demanded that a criminal funded station register with the u. S. Department of justice and as you guessed it a Foreign Agent the legislation has now received the backing of russias upper house of parliament and president Vladimir Putin but is expected to have no problem and be signed into law all i want to bring in our correspondent in moscow now Emily Sherwin emily good evening to use the legislation has now passed the duma can you explain the next steps for looking at. Well as you said it will go in front of the Federation Council which is the upper house of parliament and then it will have to be signed by putin as well now what this log means is its an actually an addition to an existing media law and what it means is that all Media Outlets that are registered abroad or that are funded from abroad could have to register as Foreign Agents and now in practice what that means is that the ministry of justice here in russia will decide which outlets could become Foreign Agents and those Media Outlets will have to go through additional audit so theyll have a further bureaucratic burden and theyll also have to label all their content with a label for an agent so its not clear how that will affect the work of Media Outlets it might mean more restrictions on who you could talk to where you can film and so on so you could make the work of Media Outlets labeled as such harder of course i mean it could be a lot harder to get interviews if you if people have to label themselves as a Foreign Agent the Deputy Speaker of the duma spoke with v. W. About this legislation heres part of what was said. At themselves when you do not give into the temptation. Of making vulgar statements about our country and enough octave which are based not on facts but on speculation as has been happening recently i mean for most of the none of your Media Outlets will be restricted. Would be luddite if you restrict the Russian Media more than russia will have to respond to. If you restrict restrict the Russian Media that sounds like a tit for tat through their media how should we interpret that. Well absolutely i think this is definitely part of the tit for tat sort of diplomatic downward spiral of relations between the u. S. And russia that weve seen in recent months and today the deputies at the duma repeated again and again that this is a reciprocal measure aimed against the u. S. After all russian state funded International Broadcaster r. T. E. Was made to register as a Foreign Agent on monday so tolstoy told us that you know the u. S. The u. S. Has really forced forced excuse me forced russias hand on this and that there had to be a response to the u. S. But also it sounded a bit like a threat you know this is a very broad law and it sounded like if another government were to accuse Russian Media of meddling of propaganda then there could be measures for that countrys media as well so this is kind of an all purpose weapon that the russian government could could wield at this point even though its reciprocal at the moment your weapon i think is the operative word here or at a correspondent in moscow emily sure went on the story for us tonight emily thank you very much. Ill stroll you and have shown their support for Marriage Equality and they did it through the mail sixty percent of australians said yes to legalizing same sex marriage in a nonbinding Postal Service a nonbinding but the Prime Minister says he will Tell Parliament to obey the will of the people and to pass the legislation by years end. She is of jubilation in a strange. And some spontaneous proposals as its announced that the majority of australians voted for gay and lesbian people to be able to marry. Today i mean everything to hear that a strike is started by the sixty one percent of the o. G. T. T. Were just going to love and were just so thrilled and happy thank you its right thank you so much yeah. In mice and so high as thousands gathered in parks around the country to celebrate the results of the national Postal Service and. Watershed moment for gay rights in australia where it was illegal in some states to engage in homosexual activity up until nine hundred ninety seven yeah its been a really special moment its and its a similar with my mom and i think. Its the point you know history well way of saying. Weve got resoundingly for a better. Country and that is so special. The voice is nonbinding been destroyed his Prime MinisterMalcolm Turnbull said parliament would now legislation on the bill. I voted yes for a commitment i voted yes for love and now it is up to us here in the parliament of a strike to get on with it. They get on with the job these dryland people of toss just to do and get this done this year before christmas. Eve the bill passes muster and it would be the twenty sixth country known to legalized same sex marriage. Lovers in the year in australia and thats why ive pulled in jared read my colleague here at the big table he is from the church its good to have you on the show i mean it was it an easy or a short road for australia to get to this point was it now its been quite a long journey i mean when you look at the history the Gay Rights Movement in australia began in the one nine hundred sixty s. And it wasnt until nine hundred Seventy Eight when this seminal moment occurred when there was the first mardi gras which sprang up out as a protest movement against Police Violence and discrimination in the law and in are slowly slowly things have been changing isaura tweet today that quoted a seventy five year old woman who said ive been fighting for this fifty years and its so important to remember people like a because you know shes lived three times when being gay was illegal when you needed to worry for your safety for your employment but its also you know we need to keep in mind that it was as recent as two thousand and four when the conservative government at the time passed a law that restricted marriage to being between a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others and so weve seen that since then polls have consistently shown that you know a majority of australians support same sex marriage but the political will to do anything about it hasnt really been there until recent years and this is where we are today i think is interesting to someone as we did day is in australia kind of late coming to the Marriage Equality party but the United States did it but the United States didnt really do it the way the australians did i mean the United States got. Marriage equality because of the Supreme Court but australians got it because basically you surveyed the voice of the people well thats right one were getting it i should yeah well its not binding so we have to see what what i want. What form it would take in the parliament but a big criticism a lot of people have been unhappy that their rights have been sort of determined by a yes no vars and that really. You know this issue has been left to the whims of direct democracy when people have you know wanted parliament to do their job i mean theyre elected to pass these kinds of bills through parliament a big question has been why has is that to happen its also to come enormous cost like around one hundred Million Dollars and people have said that could be better spent elsewhere like in aged care for example and as i said at the beginning it wasnt easy getting to this point the campaign itself has been very heated it times and who are the voices here who oppose same sex marriage in australia will probably the most famous voice that opposes same sex marriage is the former Prime Minister tony abbott and he actually has long been against a pity actually has a lesbian sister who lives in sydney and so theyve sort of been you know not against each other but its theyve been held up has been on one side has been on the other yeah but. What the no campaign basically good was that same sex marriage would have further implications on things like freedom of speech and what children would be taught in schools about gender and about marriage and it seems pretty overwhelmingly australians have rejected those arguments and because of that a lot of people on the nice side say ok will respect this result but under certain conditions and so were seeing some lawmakers trying to come up with bills that have certain exceptions for religious organizations for example going to the people who provide services. Things like that youre convinced though that by the end of the Year Parliament will say yes to this i mean is that all you and i know what youre what youre down under spirit tell us. Will have to wait and see im skeptical ok oh ok well well come back and talk to you more you closer to the end of the year to see what theyre doing in the capital of australia jared reed at the big table with us tonight chair thank you very much. Its the defining threat of our time that is how the head of the un antonio who has described Climate Change she spoke today along with other leaders at the un climate talks in the german city of bonn it was a warning and a pep talk at the same time at a conference that is trying to build upon the success two years ago in paris the session opened with a message from a very special representative of fiji the country presiding over the conference. How did desmond do hes done that and i think this is the people the big excuse for not knowing