Power in the early hours of wednesday president Robert Mugabe has been confined to his home but the army says its not a coup or im a tosser reports from harare. Parts of harare are now on lockdown and soldiers and Army Vehicles have blocked roads to government offices parliament and the courts people say they are cautiously waiting to see what happens next many are relief so far there has been little violence i can see every movement as usual no more business. Moving around freely. With. The countrys war veterans say they have had enough of president Robert Mugabe many helped keep him in power for nearly forty. God. Should have been recalled from is a role as the president insisting. The bobbies army said on wednesday the president Robert Mugabe and his wife are safe in their private residence south africas president jacob zuma said he was concerned about the situation in a phone call with mugabe confirmed he was fine we would like to call for calm in the strain. Particularly to the De
Led attempt to extend an International Inquiry into the use of chemical weapons in syria it means the United Nations Team Investigating the use of deadly sarin gas and syria will now be disbanded our diplomatic editor james bays reports the ten veto by russia in the u. N. Security council on syria and one that ends the councils efforts to hold to account those who use chemical weapons in the country. It was a vote that sparked outrage from the u. S. Ambassador and she gave this warning that the u. S. May now work outside the u. N. Russia has killed the joint investigative mechanism which has overwhelming support of this council the assad regime should be on clear notice the United States does not accept syrias use of chemical weapons as we did in april we will do it again if we must we will defend the International Standard against chemical weapons use there was drama even before the meeting began with ambassador hayley accusing her russian colleague of bad faith by refusing to enter i
The expectations of those wanting him out mugabe ended a televised address to the nation without announcing his resignation instead will stay on for at least seven weeks out of the toss of a ports from harare zimbabwe is president Robert Mugabe insists hes not going to resign speaking from state house flanked by Army Generals he said he will be at his on the p. F. Conference in december let congress a. Few weeks from now preside over it. Which must not be prepared. By any act calculated. Well to compromise the outcome. Of the public. The ruling party removed him as leader on sunday but he still as a party member of the party has given me day on monday to leave. They were expectations he would resign after massive demonstrations are saturday calling for him to step down these are Uncertain Times for the country a lot can happen in the next few hours days weeks president mugabe is ready to go he insists his fate should be decided at the december Party Conference the army seize control ea
A dehumanizing regime that amounts to apartheid based on a two year investigation the new report says has been segregating the ranter community in an open air prison by restricting their freedom of Movement Talk to the author of that report earlier and he says its pointless further ahead to refugees to return to me and mark the Government Policies dont change. On one hand they do have the right to go home and from our interviews conducted with refugees in bangladesh we do know that. Our is still their home and thats where they want to go but this is partially why were trying to draw attention right now at the height of this crisis to the system that has been in place and that has to be addressed before we can talk about representations with rights and dignity and protection this is why we are currently calling for real specific measures to dismantle the system of segregation and discrimination that amounts to a party and before any serious talk about repertory ation can take place heil
A national day of mourning in iran for the hundreds of People Killed in sundays earthquake an estimated seventy thousand People Living close to the iran iraq border of been made homeless and the government is struggling to get aid to those in need iran is one of the most seismically active countries in the world leave barco reports. Terms like the main road into the city of kermanshah hardest hit in sundays earthquake more than one hundred aftershocks followed by the survivors now feel safer living in the open with belongings salvaged from their ruined homes. All of a sudden we started to feel shaking we tried to take shelter next to the will but then left our building immediately one of our neighbors died and my brother was injured. When we felt the quake hit my wife and i took cover we managed to rescue our son but my wife fractured her back the seven point three magnitude quake lasted only four minutes but struck with immense force when it was over hundreds were dead thousands injur