Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, one in the morning in london and 3am in zimbabwes capital, harare, where around twenty four hours after the military mobilised to seize power, there have been mixed reactions to the intervention. Zimba bwes long standing leader, Robert Mugabe, is still president , but is believed to be under house arrest. The whereabouts of his wife grace, who was bidding to succeed him as president , are not clear there are unconfirmed reports that shes fled to namibia. Our correspondent in zimbabwe, shingai nyoka, has sent this report. This is what zimbabweans woke up to this morning tanks on the streets of their capital city, something that has never happened in nearly a0 years of independence, followed by a statement from the military on state tv, saying the mugabe family was safe and that this was not a coup. What the Zimbabwe Defence forces is doing is to pacify a degenerating p
The telegraph claims senior Cabinet Ministers are in talks with labour counterparts to come up with a plan to force the government to soften its brexit strategy. The ft focuses on the warning from the eus chief negotiator Michel Barnier to get on with brexit talks, or face the prospect of the uk failing to secure a deal before the country leaves the union in march 2019. The i refers theresa mays comments to the 1922 committee as her mea culpa, saying the Prime Minister pledged to stay only as long as she was wanted. The times reports that mrs may told tory mps that she was prepared to scrap further cuts to public services, in a bid to win back support for the party. According to the guardian the Prime Minister was contrite at the 1922 Committee Meeting and that she sought to reassure back benchers more would be done to reach out to younger voters. The daily mirror portrays mrs may as Princess Leia from the star wars films, paraphrasing the movies famous line, may the force be with you.
Public as well. The battle of china is a little over an hour and contains graphic scenes of war and death that some viewers may find disturbing. [bombs exploding] this was the battle of china. This is the great city of shanghai on a september day in 1937. This is the fearful beginning of a new kind of war. This is the first mass bombing from the air of the helpless civilian population. Why . Why are these innocent chinese men, women, and children to die beneath the hail of japanese bombs . To find the answer to these questions, we must understand something about china and japan. And to understand china, three facts must never be forgotten. China is history, china is land, china is people. Chinese history goes back for more than 4000 years, that is a long time. It was only 168 years ago that washington crossed the delaware. Only 452 years have passed since columbus discovered america. 1500 years since the world saw the fall of the ancient roman empire. 3400 years have gone by since mose
Public as well. The battle of china is a little over an hour and contains graphic scenes of war and death that some viewers may find disturbing. [bombs exploding] this was the battle of china. This is the great city of shanghai on a september day in 1937. This is the fearful beginning of a new kind of war. This is the first mass bombing from the air of the helpless civilian population. Why . Why are these innocent chinese men, women, and children to die beneath the hail of japanese bombs . To find the answer to these questions, we must understand something about china and japan. And to understand china, three facts must never be forgotten. China is history, china is land, china is people. Chinese history goes back for more than 4000 years, that is a long time. It was only 168 years ago that washington crossed the delaware. Only 452 years have passed since columbus discovered america. 1500 years since the world saw the fall of the ancient roman empire. 3400 years have gone by since mose
[bombs exploding] this is the battle of china. This is the great city of shanghai on a september day in 1937. This is the fearful beginning of a new kind of war. This is the first mass bombing from the air of the helpless civilian population. Why . Why are these innocent chinese men, women, and children to die beneath the hail of japanese bombs . To find the answer to these questions, we must understand something about china and japan. And to understand china, three facts must never be forgotten. China is history. China is land. China is people. Chinese history goes back for more than 4000 years. That is a long time. It was only 168 years ago that washington crossed the delaware. Only 452 years have passed since columbus discovered america. 1500 years since the world saw the fall of the ancient roman empire. 3400 years have gone by since moses received the 10 commandments. 3700 years have passed since the pyramids were built. But more than 4000 years ago, the chinese empire was already