19/11/2017 BBC News at Ten

An extraordinary night in Zimbabwe

as Robert Mugabe addresses the

nation, but does not resign. And

after four decades in office, there

was still no goodbye.

The operation I have alluded

to did not amount to a threat to our

well-cherished constitutional order.

Nor was it a challenge

to my authority as head

of state and government.

From Zimbabweans, disbelief and

confusion about how the Mugabe era

will be brought to an end.

We need him to change his mind,

we need him to resign.

He does not speak for our interests,

at he only speaks for his personal

interests and his family.

We'll be live in Zimbabwe,

to assess what happens next.

Here, the Chancellor says this

week's Budget will set out plans

for 300,000 new homes

a year in England.

The international hunt

for an Argentine submarine,

missing with more than 40

crew on board.

The Royal Navy joins

the search effort.

And England make it

through to the semi-finals

of the Rugby League World Cup.

Good evening.

Robert Mugabe remains President

of Zimbabwe tonight,

despite a tumultous weekend that saw

popular protests against him

and an ultimatum from his own party.

In the last few hours,

a live address to the nation -

widely expected to include his

resignation - saw him pledge instead

to preside over his party's

congress next month.

But the party has already

replaced him, and said if he hasn't

resigned by midday tomorrow,

he faces impeachment.

Let's cross live to our Africa

editor, Fergal Keane, in Harare.

These are the hours after

anticipation. When it was announced

earlier today that Robert Mugabe

would address the nation, it was

taken to mean one thing, he was

going to resign. And that was

encouraged by officials, that idea,

by official said to be close to the

negotiations. The world's oldest

Head of State has defied predictions

and the hopes of many of his people.

The very music seemed designed to

drain any drama out of the moment

and perhaps the geniality of the

encounter was a giveaway. Robert

Mugabe did not look like a man about

to walk into the wilderness. And his

words, delivered 15 minutes into a

rambling address, confirmed that he

intended to stay as leader of the

country and party, at least until

the Party Congress in December.

The

Congress is due in a few weeks from

now. I will preside over its

processes, which must not be

repossessed by any axe calculated to

undermine it or to compromise the

outcomes in the eyes of the public.

He praised the military and

acknowledge the crisis in his

country and party.

The way forward

for us cannot be based on swapping

buying cliques that ride roughshod

over party rules and procedures --

defying. There has to be a net

return to the guiding principles of

our party, as enshrined in its

constitution.

This appearance as

shocked Zimbabweans, who were

preparing to witness his

resignation.

I think we are being

played. We are being played. I feel

let down. By now, we have produced

some sort of result. We have

nothing, we are back to square one.

But you make of that comment you

expected him to resign?

I think the

whole nation was expecting him to

resign. I think we are all shocked,

I think people are going to be at

depressed, confused. People don't

understand what is happening. But I

do think we are in a post-Mugabe

era. Tonight, tomorrow, the next

day, it is going to happen.

There

are big questions now. How can

Robert Mugabe preside over a party

which today removed him from the

leadership? Once loyal supporters

met to warn that he would be

impeached by Parliament if he did

not step down from the presidency by

midday tomorrow. An old friend read

out the sentence.

Tonight's non-resignation doesn't

change the feeling of the party. And

it's doesn't remove the bitterness

against his wife, Grace, and her

friends.

It has to be over now? Oh,

yes, it has to be over. What he

don't is enough, enough is enough!

The people of Zimbabwe so enormous,

but they are fed up with this. A new

era is beginning. Look at my back.

This is the moment when Robert

Mugabe lost power in his own party.

The party he dominated for so long.

And has now been replaced as party

leader by a man who was one of his

closest allies for decades. A

crocodile! The new readability macro

is known as the crocodile,

celebrated here for his ruthless

cunning -- the new leader Emmerson

Mnangagwa. He may have agreed to

pause, but he is unlikely to stop

until he ousts his own brushes old

comrades. On the streets of Harare,

the President's people seem to

already occupy a different nation.

Here praying for reconciliation and

healing. They have already started

to move beyond the trauma of the age

of Mugabe.

So how ordinary Zimbabweans reacting

the night?

Shingai Nyoka has been speaking

to residents of the city,

to get their reaction to Mr Mugabe's

refusal to resign.

We must learn to forgive. I came to

listen to what President Mugabe had

to say. After a meeting with Army

generals responsible for a takeover

earlier last week, they had expected

to hear his resignation speech. At

this bar, they waited and waited to

be told by President Mugabe in a

stumbling address...

All this now

has to stop.

That he was going

nowhere.

He does not speak for our

interests, he only speaks his

personal interests his family.

So

why are you so disappointed?

We are

suffering. We are suffering. We have

had enough of suffering. We need

him... We need him to changes mind.

We need him to resign.

He did not

actually saying he is resigning or

anything, so we are still waiting.

The people marched yesterday, they

expressed their views. I am beyond

Gloria in Zimbabwe. I have been

practising law for the past three

years. It is pathetic. The country

has gone to the dogs.

The consummate

politician appears at least for the

moment and on the surface to have

negotiated a deal on his own terms.

This is not the announcement that

some Zimbabweans were waiting for.

Robert Mugabe is still the President

and it is not clear whether

Parliament will now begin its

impeachment process. People here

today were expecting to hear the

resignation they have demanded. But

those hopes have been damaged. The

wild celebrations we have seen on

the streets stand in dark contrast

to the sombre mood in Harare

tonight.

After a night that turned out

differently to what people expected,

what happens now?

Frankly, I shudder

to speculate. Nobody is quite sure.

We were being told by a source close

to the negotiations that it was

definitely going to happen. We heard

that he agreed to resign and then

changed his mind. I believe the

generals have no intention of

forcing him out at the barrel of a

gun. They are going to be content to

allow the party to carry out its

procedures, worked through

impeachment in Parliament if

necessary. And remember, they are

backed up by huge public

demonstrations like those we saw

yesterday. We are told tonight that

tomorrow morning, the military will

give a press conference and so will

the war veterans, a very important

constituency. All of them opposed to

Robert Mugabe continuing. So I think

this is a pause, it is not a

conclusion.

All Africa editor in

Harare, thank you.

Here, the Chancellor,

Philip Hammond, has

said measures to boost

the housing market will be

at the heart of his

Budget on Wednesday.

He says he wants 300,000 homes

to be built every year,

a big rise from the recent levels

of around 200,000 a year in England.

But Mr Hammond stressed there was no

"single magic bullet"

to increase housing supply,

as Ben Wright now reports.

Building up expectations ahead

of the Budget for a raft of measures

to fix the housing crisis.

The Chancellor wants to stop

developers sitting on land that has

been given the green

light for housing.

There are lots of things we can do

using planning powers,

using intervention powers to get

planning permission that have

been granted built up.

We will use money, we will use

the powers of the state,

we will use the powers

of the planning system,

but we are determined to get those

missing homes built.

Today, Mr Hammond gave hints

and winks about government help

for smaller house builders

and the possible cuts to stamp duty.

Housing seems set to be

the centrepiece of the budget,

but will it add up to the giant

house-building leap another Cabinet

Minister has called for?

Wednesday will tell us.

Labour says the government

should borrow billions

more for house-building

and stretched public services.

Stop giving the tax cuts

to the corporations and the rich

and recognise you've got

an emergency out there

in terms of public services,

invest in those public services.

The head of the NHS in England has

said health needs an urgent

£4 billion spending boost.

The Chancellor said he would seek

to address particular pressure

points, but a spending splurge

on any front looks unlikely.

Balancing the books is still

the Government's aim.

There will be some cash

for driverless car technology

and artificial intelligence,

but will robots eventually put

millions of us out of work?

Mr Hammond said that

won't happen, but did say this.

Where are all these

unemployed people?

There are no unemployed people...

There are a lot

of unemployed people!

Because we have created

three and a half million

new jobs since 2010.

The Chancellor's clumsy claim

there are no unemployed people

was quickly clarified by him.

Mr Hammond meant that previous

periods of technological change had

not left millions out of work.

Phillip Hammond will walk out

of that door on Wednesday knowing

that the contents of his Budget Box

could be crucial to the political

fortunes of Theresa May's struggling

government, as well as his own.

Unusually, Cabinet colleagues have

been arguing publicly for more money

to be spent on the health

service, on house-building.

Tory MPs are urging him to come up

with some bold ideas to prove this

is a government that has

a purpose beyond Brexit.

The Chancellor knows as well

that there are critical Tory MPs

who want him out of his job,

because they don't think his heart

is in the task of getting

Britain out of the EU.

We won't be a government

that is defined just by Brexit...

The outcome of the Brexit

negotiations will matter much more

than any single Budget -

and tomorrow, a core group

of Cabinet ministers,

including the Chancellor,

will discuss how to unblock talks,

knowing that an offer of more

money might be the key.

Ben Wright, BBC News, Westminster.

Kamal Ahmed, our economics

editor, is here.

How do you think the Chancellor is

going to chart a course through this

terrain?

It is interesting, John

MacDonald's position shows some of

the problems Mr Hammond is facing.

His claim is straightforward,

increased taxes on businesses and on

the wealthy and pay for public

services from those increased taxes.

Mr Hammond has a far harder equation

to solve. He is hemmed in by the

politics. No majority in the House

of Commons. That makes tax rises or

spending cuts difficult to force

through. The one option left is to

borrow more, but that could

jeopardise the offer that party made

to the public to balance the books

by 2025. So more borrowing could be

controversial. It is also hemmed in

by the economics. We expect a big

productivity downgrade. The economy

has not been as good at producing

wealth as we expected, that means it

does not grow as fast, the

Government does not get the tax

revenues that it expects, so Mr

Hammond's room to manoeuvre is

constrained. Robert do something on

housing and also on health. And

let's look at that public sector pay

gap -- probably something. One big

question, can he sound big and bold

politically for all those families

who have got falling real incomes,

without putting the economy and the

public finances at risk?

We will see

on budget day, thanks very much.

A post-mortem examination carried

out on the body of the teenager

Gaia Pope hasn't identified injuries

that would suggest anyone else

was involved in her death.

The 19 year old's body

was found yesterday,

close to a coastal path in Dorset.

A British sailor has died

after being swept overboard

during an international yacht race.

60-year-old Simon Speirs,

from Bristol, was sailing

between South Africa and Australia,

as part of the Clipper

Round the World Race.

He was rescued from the water,

but never regained consciousness.

The broadcaster Aled Jones won't be

appearing on the BBC

while an allegation of inappropriate

behaviour is investigated.

A spokesperson said he accepted

the way he acted more than a decade

ago was "occasionally juvenile",

but he never intended to harass

or distress and he strongly denied

any inappropriate contact.

The Conservative MP Anna Soubry

says her office has received 13

death threats against her over

the last week.

She says the messages were directly

linked to the way she and other

party members were branded "Brexit

mutineers" by The Daily

Telegraph newspaper.

She said that she had been "quite

frightened" by the threats.

A huge air-and-sea search -

involving five countries,

and including the Royal Navy -

is underway to try and locate

an Argentine submarine.

The San Juan has been

missing since Wednesday,

with 44 crew on board.

Contact was lost as it returned

from a routine mission

near the southern-most tip

of South America, but there are now

signals being detected which may

provide clues as to its location.

Dan Johnson reports.

This is a vessel designed to play

hide and seek in the deepest depths.

So finding the San Juan,

its crew and the 22 torpedoes it

carries is a real challenge.

Fresh satellite signals,

albeit weak ones, have

revived hopes of rescue.

Seven call attempts have been

received, says the Navy spokesman,

but they were incomplete and need

to be checked to

pinpoint the location.

He stressed that they are making

every effort to find the submarine,

searching the open ocean

and the sea bed.

This is now an international effort.

The US Navy has flown

in deep-sea rescue equipment.

And HMS Protector,

the Royal Navy's Antarctic patrol

ship, has been diverted to help scan

beneath the waves of

the South Atlantic Ocean.

The San Juan left the Southern Port

of Ushuaia last Monday,

after a routine mission.

It was making the 2,000-mile journey

back to its base in Mar del Plata,

not far from Argentina's capital.

The search is focused around

halfway, in the San Jorge Gulf,

where the submarine last made

contact on Wednesday.

One of the 44 crew members is

Argentina's first female submariner.

The best hope of finding her and her

crew mates alive is that

a power failure knocked out

the submarine's communications.

Six countries are now

hunting for the San Juan,

but it's lost in a huge area

of ocean and bad weather is making

a difficult job even harder.

Dan Johnson, BBC News.

Now it's time for the sport.

Hello, Lizzie.

Thanks very much, Mishal.

Good evening.

England are still on course

to reach their first

Rugby League World Cup final

in over two decades.

They're through to the semis

against Tonga, after beating

co-hosts Papua New Guinea 36-6.

John Watson reports.

Flying the flag down under, a trip

worth making for England to make the

semifinals. Papua New Guinea, Rugby

league is that national sport and

they fanatical. Silenced the crowd

and you may silence the team and 12

minutes in, England that.

It is

going to be yet another try for

germane to McGilvray!

Ten tries and

ten matches. Papua New Guinea tried

to knock England of their stride but

the fast hands of Kallum Watkins, a

moment of magic as McGilvray found

the line again. The Huddersfield

flyer turned provider in the second,

Watkins eyeing the try line.

Is he

going to be caught?

No, he is not.

And a semifinal spot. He may have

hit Top Gear, but England have still

to do so despite Brian Hall

finishing with a flourish.

A bit

scratchy at times, still a lot to

work on, but really pleased to be

progressing in the competition. The

boys looking forward to it, we need

to better to be in a semifinal of

the World Cup is special so we are

going to make the most of it.

Time

for the plans to extend their stay

two games for England to find

fluency to take them to the title.

Match of the Day 2 and Sportscene

follow the news, so if you want

to wait for the results,

you know what to do.

David Moyes' reign as new

manager of West Ham began

with defeat at Watford.

They were beaten 2-0

at Vicarage Road and stay third

from bottom in the table.

Hearts drew their first game back

at the newly developed Tynecastle.

1-1 the score against Partick

Thistle in the Scottish Premiership.

Chris Coleman, who resigned

as Wales manager on Friday,

has taken charge of the struggling

Championship side Sunderland.

He led Wales to their highest world

ranking and took them

to the semi-finals of the Euros.

Sunderland are currently

bottom of the table.

Coleman is their eighth

manager in six years.

Well, it may not have been

the line-up tennis fans had hoped

for, but the season-ending

World Tour Finals in London finished

with a gripping duel,

as Grigor Dimitrov battled past

David Goffin to win the biggest

title of his career -

and the £1.9 million bonus -

for going the whole

tournament unbeaten.

Tommy Fleetwood held off a charge by

Justin Rose to win the race to do I

is the season's number one. He

finished 21st in the final event,

the tour championship, but it was

enough to stay top of the Money List

after Justin Rose fell apart in his

final few holes.

England's women's cricketers

could still draw their Ashes series,

after winning the second 20/20

in Canberra by 40 runs.

Australia have already

retained the trophy,

but England have closed the gap

in the multi-format points series,

and a win in the final game

will level the series.

Great Britain's four-man Bob sleigh

team have won a surprise World Cup

Bronze medal. They put aside a

difficult off-season to come third

at Park city in the USA, behind

Germany, their best World Cup result

for four years. That is the sport,

back to you.

Thank you very much.

A series of portraits of the Royal

couple have been released

to commemorate their wedding

on November 20th, 1947.

There are no public

celebrations planned.

Instead, the Royal Platinum Wedding

Anniversary will be marked

privately, with family.

You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel.

Including the ongoing situation in

Zimbabwe.

That's all from me.