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co founder of the rock band ac/dc, who has died aged 64. and stay with us for the latest on england s rugby triumph against australia and all the rest of today s sports results on sportsday. that s in half an hour here on bbc news. good evening and welcome to bbc news. tens of thousands of people have been marching in the zimbabwean capital, harare, and in the second city, bulawayo, calling on president mugabe to step down. crowds have been singing at the gates of the president s official residence, urging him to go. mr mugabe has been under virtual house arrest since the army took control of the country four days ago. well, the country s ruling party, zanu pf has said it ll dismiss mr mugabe as its leader tomorrow and reinstate the ousted vice president. ben brown is in zimbabwe. good evening from the capital of zimbabwe. it has been an extraordinary day here and historic and momentous day. you can still hear from the streets below me cars honking their horns in cele ....
it s a humiliating end for the decorated war hero and the party s longest serving leader. our people, colleagues, are demanding from us gathered here to show leadership and to give effect to their demands for the recall of the president and first secretary of zanu pf, comrade rg mugabe, from his position in the party and government. applause bruising infighting for power has taken its toll an empty top table, no robert mugabe, and no first lady. this is the beginning of the end of an era. president robert mugabe will no longer head the party he has led for more than a0 years. the question now is who will take his place? the central committee has sacked not only the president but also the first lady as the leader of the women s wing, but she still remains the head of government. parliament are expected to impeach him if he refuses to resign. war veterans who fought alongside him in the war of liberation have warned of an undignified exit if he digs in. we re hoping tha ....
history. as member of zimbabwe s parliament began debating whether to impeach the president, the speaker of the parliament interrupted. he had a letter of resignation to read. i hereby tender my resignation as president of the republic of zimbabwe with immediate effect. well, mr mugabe s letter said his decision was taken to allow smooth transition of power, and that it was volu nta ry. transition of power, and that it was voluntary. well, voluntary is one word for it, unavoidable is another. he refused to resign last week after a military takeover and refused to resign after mass protests at the weekend. he refused to resign when he was sacked by his own party on sunday, and he ignored a deadline to go on monday. he even called his normal cabinet meeting for today, tuesday, but there was nothing normal about this tuesday. the pressure has told, his 37 years as president has ended. look at these pictures we have seen in harare today. this is inside the parliament as the ....
will have the latest from brussels. oscar pistorius has had his murder sentence more than doubled by a judge. the south african athlete was jailed last year after being found guilty on appeal of murdering his girlfriend, reeva steenkamp, on valentine s day 2013. hello. welcome to the programme. we re live until ”am this morning. we re going to be talking to two primary schools headteacher is about the difficulty of the teaching jobs with questions about whether the job is too stressful and worries about funding. we will also have the latest from zimbabwe as the new president is sworn in. do get in touch on all the stories we re talking about this morning, use the hashtag victorialive. and if you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate. our top story today.. theresa may will meet the president of the european council, donald tusk, in brussels today, the first such high level encounter since the prime minister secured the backing of her cabinet to increas ....
it s 5 o clock. our main story is the military takeover in zimbabwe where president mugabe remains in confinement at home and armoured vehicles are patrolling the streets of the capital, harare. appearing on state television, an army general denied that a coup had taken place and said they were targeting what he called ‘criminals‘ associated with robert mugabe, who s 93 and has ruled zimbabwe since independence from britain in 1980. the atmosphere on the streets is said to be calm but tense. the british embassy in zimbabwe has advised british nationals to stay indoors until the situation becomes clearer, as our diplomatic correspondent james robbins reports. snatched video filmed furtively tells some of the story, troops on the streets of harare, as the generals take control after 37 years of president mugabe s increasingly dictatorial rule. heavy gunfire could be heard in parts of the capital early this morning, but the picture overall is of uncertain quiet. it loo ....