Afternoon watching out international was sent in through the top of the hour here because we brought you that very important shot with a christian have france and just now theres another big bit of news is coming this afternoon as well let me tell you about that next the former egyptian president Hosni Mubarak has died at the age of 91 after a long period of illness the countrys 4th head of state ruled for 30 years until he was deposed very publicly joining the arab spring protests that erupted in cairo in early 27 our correspondent middle east correspondent. Is joining us now and appalled as mentioned last hour when this news came in i was telling our viewers here in egypt for us when the arab spring uprisings began talk us through Hosni Mubaraks life and legacy. Well thats correct i spent countless hours reporting from taqiyya square in february 2011 in the early stages of the arab spring the jefferson revolution and then some time of in the years that funded and i remember in those
Elections even advised to support us not to vote for the governing party so this whole dispute about whether god will be laid to rest we can these shows a the a division that you can that is still visible here in zimbabwe or around the ruling party we mentioned already there are many people paying tribute to one copy others are just staying away he was of course of very controversial figure so what kind of legacy does he mean. Well absolutely on the one hand hes seen as a liberation hero somebody who fought the white minority rule but then theres also this other side of the story of Robert Mugabe who basically run down this country in the almost 40 years off his presidency the economy went completely down it is still struggling a quarter of zimbabweans left the country because of this and of course we also still must remember the human rights abuses that were committed on the his watch im sitting in harare thank you. Lets get a check now of some of the other stories making news around