20/11/2017 BBC News at Ten

Tonight at Ten - Robert Mugabe faces

a formal process of impeachment

following his refusal to step down

as president of Zimbabwe.

A day after his defiant

appearance on national

television, the 93-year-old is still

clinging to office.

On the streets, more voices raised

against the man who's

ruled for four decades,

as the military suggest

there might be a way forward.

We have made further consultation

with the president to agree

on a road map on the prevailing

situation in the country.

We'll be reporting from

Harare on the likely

moves in the days ahead.

Also tonight...

At No 10, ministers are said

in principle to have agreed

on an increased Brexit divorce

payment to the EU.

But in Germany, the future

of Chancellor Merkel,

one of the EU's strongest voices,

is in doubt after the collapse

of coalition talks.

There's been a sharp fall

in the number of community

nurses in England -

just one feature of

the strain on the NHS.

And the bells of Westminster Abbey

ring out again, to mark the 70th

wedding anniversary of the Queen

and the Duke of Edinburgh.

Coming up on Sportsday - the tennis

world remembers Jana Novotna, who

who has died at the age of 49.

Good evening.

Robert Mugabe is now facing a formal

process of impeachment,

following his refusal to step down

as president of Zimbabwe.

The country's ruling party,

Zanu-PF, has agreed

to begin the process,

hours after he appeared

on national television,

and demanded the right to continue.

He's accused of allowing his wife

to usurp power and,

at the age of 93, of being

incapable of governing.

The military said tonight

that there could be a "road-map"

to a transfer of power,

as our Africa editor Fergal Keane

reports from Harare.

They are still the muscle behind

the political manoeuvring.

And, when the generals speak,

people and politicians listen.

Tonight, they hinted in a rare press

conference that talks

between Robert Mugabe

and his would-be successor,

Emmerson Mnangagwa,

would happen soon.

The Zimbabwe defence and security

services are encouraged

by new developments which include

contact between the president

and the former vice-president,

comrade Emmerson Mnangagwa,

who is expected in

the country shortly.

Thereafter, the nation will be

advised on the outcome

of talks between the two.

A suggestion of talks and a road map

has encouraged speculation that

Robert Mugabe is starting to feel

the political pressure as, piece

by piece, his power is shredded.

His MPs gathered in Harare to begin

the legal process of impeachment,

removing him from office

by parliamentary vote and telling us

it could happen in days.

We are expecting the motion to be

moved tomorrow and a committee

to be set up tomorrow,

and hopefully by Wednesday,

because the charges are so clear,

we expect that we should be able

to vote in parliament.

It could be done that soon?

Yes.

In the audience, a First Lady

in waiting, Auxilia,

wife of Emmerson Mnangagwa,

whom the party wants as president.

How are you?

Will your husband be coming soon?

I'm not commenting on that.

Everybody is waiting to see him.

I'm also waiting to see him.

Thank you very much.

Well, you can hear the emotions

are building here, and this

is a parliamentary party set

on getting rid of Robert Mugabe.

They share that ambition

with the people of Zimbabwe,

with the military.

Listen, when the people

have spoken, that is it.

The people have spoken in Zimbabwe.

Zanu-PF is speaking.

And we are good to go.

But the generals are in a bind.

They banked on Robert Mugabe

caving in quickly.

However, last night's rambling

speech to the nation made no

mention of resigning.

I will preside over

these processes...

He appeared detached from reality,

talking about presiding

over a party congress.

The question is why the generals

allowed this to happen.

Partly, it's to do

with a changed Africa.

The old days of shooting

leaders are gone.

Human rights lawyer

Beatrice Mtetwa was once

persecuted by Robert Mugabe.

She says the generals

and Mr Mnangagwa want to be seen

to be acting constitutionally.

Zimbabwean culture has always been

that you make the law,

you justify your actions

on the basis that this is the law,

and this is in line

with the Zimbabwean way

of doing things.

Give it respectability by making it

law, however bad it is.

The talks mooted tonight might

yet end this crisis.

But the people are

ready for impeachment.

And that legal path

is about ensuring the legitimacy

of those who rule Zimbabwe next.

Our Africa editor,

Fergal Keane, is in Harare.

Tell us a little more about this

process of impeachment and how long

do you think it could take in

reality?

We're being told by

Zanu-PF's constitutional lawyer, two

days. And he says critically that

they have the support of the

opposition. That matters because

they do not have the two thirds

majority necessary otherwise. The

difficulty in this very swift

process is that if Emmerson

Mnangagwa and the military want this

to look like a legitimate cost

additional exercise, 48 hours looks

very desultory, so it might go

beyond that. And remember this is

also about piling pressure on Robert

Mugabe. Emmerson Mnangagwa and the

generals hope that instead of facing

the humiliation of impeachment, he

will decide to resign. However

nothing we saw in that address last

night suggested he was in any mood

to do that.

Fergal Keane, thank you

very much.

The BBC understands there was broad

agreement at a cabinet committee

meeting tonight that the Government

should increase the

Brexit financial offer to the EU,

but only in return for the EU moving

onto talks about

a future trade deal.

Earlier today, the EU's

chief Brexit negotiator,

Michel Barnier, said

that the two sides had to agree

on what he called an orderly

withdrawal, and warned that the UK

was unlikely to secure

an advantageous free trade deal

if it tried to transform

itself into a low-tax,

low-regulation economy.

Our political editor,

Laura Kuenssberg, has more details.

Her report containis

some flash photography.

Have you agreed to pay more money,

the Foreign Secretary...?

They are

never going to agree every single

thing.

Was there a row in there?

He

said we would get money back when we

leave. SHE said it would cost us

billions. Ministers have tonight

agreed that the Prime Minister can

at least promised to pay more to

settle our accounts.

We have been

very clear that we will honour our

commitments. But I want us to

develop that special partnership

with the European Union for the

future, and I want to see us moving

together.

Together. Notice the Prime

Minister in a factory this morning

hinting that one will not happen

without the other. Rest of the EU

will not get their version of the

bill if they don't agree to move on

next month to talk about trade and a

settling in period, the transition,

where factories and firms all over

the country can adjust to the idea.

That sort of promise is something

which in Brussels simply has to

happen.

Do you want more money from

the UK to move forward on talks?

If

you missed it, about was a yes from

the Germans. And the Dutch say, get

on with it.

It has to be concrete

and on the table instead of in the

press.

There are already real

consequences of Brexit. The moves of

the medical and banking regulators

from London to the continent,

announced like diplomatic bingo

today.

Based on today's voting, we

have selected Amsterdam to be the

new seat of the European Medicines

Agency and Paris will be the new

seat of the European Banking

Authority.

And the chief negotiator,

Michel Barnier, was clear that the

UK and the City can't have all the

benefits of the single market,

but...

If we manage to negotiate,

there is every reason for our future

partnership to be ambitious. This is

our preferred option.

What was

agreed tonight is a long way from a

detailed blueprint for Brexit. But

ministers did accept that Theresa

May can put hypothetical extreme

billions on the table, only if,

though, the EU agrees to talk trade

and about transition. The mood

around the table - the government

will move, but not on its own.

Tonight's decision should, hopes No

10, yet the negotiations shifting.

But it is not just events here which

will determine if there will be a

deal, or we will walk away. Laura

Kuenssberg, BBC News, Westminster.

One of the strongest

voices on the terms of any

Brexit deal is that

of Chancellor Merkel of Germany.

But her future as Chancellor

has been put in doubt

by the unexpected collapse of talks

to form a coalition government.

Mrs Merkel said she'd rather

have another election

than lead a minority administration.

The crisis was provoked by

the decision of the Free Democrats

to pull out of talks

with Angela Merkel's Christian

Democrats and the Greens.

Our Europe editor, Katya Adler,

reports from Berlin.

Her report contains some flashing

images. Ask a European about strong

and stable government, and this will

be their focal point - Germany, a

country proud of its post-war

political stability and careful

consensus-building. Until today. The

day Angela Merkel won the dubious

honour of becoming Germany's first

leader since World War II to fail to

form a government. But it is not

over yet. Coalition talks have

collapsed for now, but Mrs Michael

is nothing if not a seasoned

political fighter. She has been

German Prime Minister for three

terms already. Would she consider

giving up now?

TRANSLATION: No.

Resigning is never an option. I have

always said that I am ready to serve

Germany for a further four years.

This coalition failed in its

negotiating talks but that does not

mean that I will forget the promise

I made.

Earlier today, Mrs Merkel

met the German president to discuss

what is next. New attempts at

government forming, or fresh

elections? Both carry the real risk

that the far right could benefit.

TRANSLATION: This is an

unprecedented situation in modern

Germany. This goes beyond party

interest. Concern may well start to

grow outside Germany, too. That's if

politicians do not live up to their

responsibility in Europe's biggest

and economically strongest nation.

So, what does this all mean? It

depends who you speak to. Here in

Germany tonight the biggest question

is, can Angela Merkel survive this,

the biggest political crisis of her

career? Political up evil in the

German chancellery has repercussions

elsewhere. Take the EU, for example,

which has been fairly bullish of

late, planning reform of the

eurozone and closer defence

co-operation, all with Germany in

the driving seat. And what about

Brexit? A source close to Angela

Merkel insisted to me today that

Germany's attitudes to Brexit would

remain unchanged. But is that

realistic? With her not in the game

at the moment, keeping her own act

together, trying to form a

government, the impact on Brexit in

the short term is that nothing

moves.

They can talk as much as they

want in Brussels, but they're all

waiting from the signal from Berlin.

Angela Merkel promised Germany a new

government for Christmas. That now

seems more than unlikely. The irony

is that this political crisis comes

at a time this country economically

has never had it so good, and when

Europe, faced with international

uncertainties, relies more than ever

on stable German leadership. Katya

Adler, BBC News, Berlin. We can go

to Downing Street to speak to Laura

Kuenssberg now. That meeting which

took pace at No 10 - what did they

settle?

They settled one big thing,

which Theresa May had hoped for,

that she was able to show a little

bit of movement to the EU side. She

got an amber light rather than a

bright green flashing light, but she

will be able to go to Europe and

say, if you play ball then I have

permission from my cabinet to hold

out the possibility of a lot more

cash in principle. What is not

settled is any discussion of an

actual figure. There is no agreement

between the UK and the EU about how

you would actually count up the exit

bill, let alone an agreement inside

the Tory party and among people who

voted leave thinking they would get

money back about what kind of figure

would actually be acceptable. For a

long time there has been expectation

that something around £40 billion is

roughly where officials believe this

might end up. But I underline, there

is no agreement on that and it is

still a long way off. There is also

nothing settled about the cabinet

position on the kind of relationship

they want between the UK and the

rest of the continent after we

leave. That division around the

Cabinet table and inside the Tory

party remains. It is also not clear,

as we were hearing from Katya Adler,

what kind of impact the German

instability will have on all of

this. One Cabinet minister suggested

to me today that this was an

important additional layer of

complexity. How will the EU really

be able to consider what Britain is

willing to put on the table when its

biggest, most powerful decision

maker is understandably distracted

with its own issues? But Theresa May

HAS got a bit of movement which she

felt she needed politically. She

will take that with her to Brussels,

where she has been summoned either

president of the EU council.

Police in Dorset say

that three people

who had been arrested in connection

with the disappearance

of the teenager Gaia Pope have

been released from their

investigation, and will

face no further action.

The 19-year-old's body was found

on Saturday afternoon,

near the town of Swanage.

A police spokesman said that

after a postmortem examination

they had concluded that no-one else

was involved in her death,

as our correspondent

Duncan Kennedy reports.

From the town that had

helped search for Gaia,

today came a place to remember her.

In the briefest of words,

the most heartfelt of condolences

for the teenager they had

hoped would return.

Gaia had been missing for 11 days,

when her body was found on Saturday.

Today, her father Richard thanked

the local community for their help

and spoke of Gaia's magnificent soul

and overflowing spirit.

Well, the loss of her,

in one way, is immeasurable.

We will treasure her

and honour her always.

And I say, Gaia, you're not in pain

any more, my darling.

We...we love you, I love you.

Hundreds of people had searched

the hills above Swanage.

Police say there's nothing

to suggest someone else

was involved in Gaia's death,

but her family have been left

distressed over the time it

took to discover her.

This is not something that

should have happened.

And it should not have taken 11 days

to find her so close.

And we need to know why.

Three people were arrested

and released during this inquiry.

Detectives said today the three

would face no further action.

But the father of Paul Elsey,

one of those detained,

said the police went too far.

What did they do?

They decided that my family

were involved in it,

when all they've tried to do

is show kindness.

Dorset Police said today

their investigation may have caused

stress to some individuals,

but that it had an obligation

to explore every possible

line of inquiry.

Gaia Pope's family say

they now want to be left

to grieve in private.

Duncan Kennedy, BBC News.

Every year, the NHS in England

is put under growing strain

during the winter months.

Health experts say it needs

£4 billion more next year

to maintain levels of patient care.

But ministers say it needs

different ways of working.

One possible solution is treating

more people at home.

Back in 2010, there were

7,500 district nurses

providing crucial home

care in England.

There are now just over 4,000

nurses doing the same job.

Our health correspondent

Dominic Hughes spent two days

with a team in Leeds.

As a health professional,

you know what you're signing up to,

you know you're going to be

working round the clock.

This is highly-skilled, demanding

work.

There are all these people looking

at you to make a decision

or come up with a plan.

Erm, and that can be

quite difficult.

In a service under pressure.

We do constantly struggle

with the supply of staff to do

the job that we need done.

Good morning, Nora.

Good morning, Maurice.

District nurses form the backbone

of health care in our communities.

You are on the mend.

And I think the antibiotics

have done the trick,

so I'm really pleased.

A stroke, throat cancer,

diabetes and liver problems have

left Maurice dependent on the

support of his wife Nora and

community matron Temba Ndirigu.

In many ways, Maurice

is a typical patient.

Is this where you're

getting the pain?

Without people like Temba, he'd be

constantly in and out of hospital.

No matter what time of the day,

you can ring them any time.

The district nurses,

they'll all come.

You know, the carers.

We...

I wouldn't be able to keep him

at home without them.

In a hospital, it's your

environment, as it were.

In someone's home, the tables

are completely reversed.

You are a guest in their home,

and this sense of being alone.

It's just you and the

patient or their family.

There is a ten year difference

in life expectancy between some

of the more deprived areas of Leeds

and wealthier parts of the city.

And that presents a challenge

to the community nursing teams,

who are seeing patients

with a myriad of complicated

different health problems.

But the real issue is, there

are simply not enough qualified

nurses who are willing or able to do

this really difficult job.

Back at base, the team are trying

to manage a growing number of cases.

It's not easy.

I can't do it...

We just have pressure day in,

and day out to do it.

If services like mine aren't

there 24/7, our hospitals

are completely full.

Hello!

Staff nurse Lisa is on another

call-out, this time to check up

on Colin, who has

problems with his legs.

Is your skin all right

everywhere else, Colin?

Yeah.

Not getting sore anywhere?

No.

Keeping patients like Colin at home

rather than in hospital is central

to plans for the future

of the NHS in England.

Would you be able to get

the prescription sent to the chemist

and delivered to his

home address, please?

This is work often unseen,

requiring dedication and compassion,

but it is vital if the health

service as we know it

is to continue as we know it.

Britain is to lose its seat on the

International Court of Justice in

The Hague for the first time since

the body was founded in 1946. The

candidacy of the UK judge said

Christopher Green was withdrawn

after voting was deadlocked. His

pace will be taken by a judge from

India.

The United States has

designated North Korea a state

sponsor of terrorism,

which allows the Americans to impose

additional sanctions and penalties.

Donald Trump said the move "should

have happened years ago".

It follows North Korea's continued

efforts to pursue a nuclear weapons

programme in defiance

of UN sanctions.

Our North America editor, Jon Sopel,

is at the White House.

What is your view on how significant

this is?

I think it is significant.

I think this should be seen as part

of Donald Trump's effort to give

maximum pressure on North Korea to

get it to fall into line. Maybe the

biggest threat will not be

unsanctioned and posed by the United

States, but in the actions of third

party countries who made trade with

the US and North Korea, who may feel

they will face the wrath of America

if they continue to trade with North

Korea. The US Secretary of State was

talking today about how some of

those countries are having an effect

on North Korea, where fuel supplies

may be falling short and revenue

streams may be affected. North Korea

state newspaper yesterday talked

about Donald Trump again being an

old lunatic who is spouting rubbish.

It is two months since Donald Trump

talked about little rocket man,

about US weapons being locked and

loaded and fury raining down, and

there has not been a ballistic

missile test since then. It may be

pure coincidence, or it may be the

noisy diplomacy from America, and

the more quiet diplomacy from China

is having an effect.

Many thanks.

Jon Sopel with the latest

thoughts at the White House for us.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer

Philip Hammond will deliver his

Budget on Wednesday,

and one of the main challenges he's

set himself is to boost

Britain's productivity -

that's the amount people

generate per hour of work.

Low productivity is a drag

on the wider economy -

and ministers have now outlined

plans to spend £4 billion

on research and development

and on regional investment to boost

growth, as our business

editor Simon Jack reports.

The first industrial revolution saw

the amount businesses

could produce rocket,

using machines that did

the work of thousands.

It was a leap in productivity

that in recent years

has slowed to a crawl,

and that matters.

If you can increase productivity,

you can pay workers more,

they feel better off,

and crucially they pay more tax.

Otherwise none of those good things

happen which is why the biggest

challenge for the Chancellor this

week is to persuade businesses

to invest in the machines

and the skills of the future.

In order to improve it,

the Government outlined plans today

to spend £2.3 billion on research

and development, with a further

£1.7 billion to improve

links between cities,

hoping improved connectivity

will drive greater productivity.

A new revolution is at hand,

being driven by technology

companies like Google,

who today opened a digital

garage in Manchester,

a drop-in centre for those looking

for digital skills.

When you look at economies that are

online, relative to those who are

not, there is productivity boost

to the businesses.

There is a substantial untapped

opportunity to go online.

Still the majority of commerce and

advertising is not online and yet

the reach you can have when you're

online is quite profound.

Retraining workers costs government

money, money they get from tax,

tax that Google has been accused

of legitimately avoiding.

The governments make the rules

and we apply those rules,

and that's what we are doing.

We are very much of the view that

being responsible citizens

within every jurisdiction is the way

we conduct ourselves.

Not only is the UK less productive

than Germany, France and Italy,

the north of England is less

productive than the south,

a gap that needs closing according

to the Mayor of Greater Manchester.

I think the single biggest thing

holding the north of England back

and giving us a productivity

challenge is our transport

infrastructure or the poor quality

of it because we haven't had

the investment over decades in road

and rail and consequently we see

more and more congestion,

people arriving late for work.

This is a real problem.

These investments in new technology

are welcome but won't spare

the Chancellor a productivity

downgrade by the Budget watchdog

on Wednesday that will tighten

the squeeze on the public

finances even further.

Simon Jack, BBC News, Manchester.

The killer Charles Manson -

who organised a series of murders

in Southern California,

by his group of young followers -

has died at the age of 83.

Manson had been in prison

in California for more

than four decades.

In 1969 his cult -

known as the Manson family -

targeted several people including

the Hollywood actress Sharon Tate.

Our correspondent David Willis

reports from Los Angeles.

Once described as a metaphor

for evil, Charles Manson took

the trappings of the '60s hippie

subculture and reframed them

as tools of mass murder.

A charismatic criminal who set up

camp at this sprawling branch

in the Californian desert,

he attracted people who shared his

passion for sex and drugs.

Young, mainly middle-class

women who bought in to

Manson's delusional claims that

he was the reincarnation of Christ.

Around 100 of them in

total, they became known

as the Manson Family.

In the summer of 1969,

Charles Manson assembled some

of his most ardent followers

and sent them on a killing

spree that horrified

and mesmerised America,

in roughly equal measure.

The most notable killings occurring

at a house in this canyon,

which belonged at the time

to the film director Roman Polanski.

Among the victims, Polanski's wife,

the Hollywood actress Sharon Tate,

who was pregnant at the time.

Manson had convinced his followers

the world was on the brink

of a global race war

that he called helter-skelter.

Murder?

There is no murder.

There was a murder of Sharon Tate.

There's no murder

in a holy war, man.

It had nothing to do with...

Was it a holy war?

Was Sharon Tate's murder a holy war?

The whole thing is a holy war.

Manson and his followers

were arrested not for

murder but for car theft.

It wasn't until one of the so-called

Family boasted of the killings

that they were charged

and brought to trial.

I once described Charlie Manson

as evil incarnate.

I mean, he was a man who had

absolutely no conscience.

He wreaked havoc.

He had seven people at least killed

and never showed any remorse.

These were really gruesome killings.

Charles Manson and four others

were convicted in 1971.

He applied for parole

time and time again,

only to die a prisoner,

a messianic figure who shattered

the generation of peace

and love of the 1960s

with diabolical violence.

David Willis, BBC News, Los Angeles.

Sportsmen and women have been paying

tribute to the former Wimbledon

champion, Jana Novotna,

who has died at the age of 49.

She won the singles title in 1998 -

five years after being consoled

by the Duchess of Kent -

after losing to Steffi Graf

in her first Wimbledon final.

The All-England Club has described

the Czech player as a "true champion

in all senses of the word".

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

have been celebrating 70 years

of marriage with a family dinner

at Windsor Castle.

The Queen is the first British

sovereign to celebrate a platinum

wedding anniversary.

At Westminster Abbey - where the

wedding took place in 1947 -

there was a special three-hour peal

of bells to mark the day,

as our royal correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports.

Ringing out from Westminster Abbey,

a peal of bells to mark

a 70th wedding anniversary.

For any girl her wedding day

is the day of her life.

It was to the Abbey on this day

in 1947, that the then

Princess Elizabeth came for her

wedding

to Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

Now the solemn service begins.

I Elizabeth Alexandra Mary.

Take thee Philip.

Take thee Philip.

To my wedded husband.

To my wedded husband.

It was the start of a marriage

which has endured for 70 years

and which, from the moment Elizabeth

came to the throne in 1952,

has underpinned the success

and stability of her reign as Queen.

Those who know them have no doubt

that the bride and groom who signed

the marriage register that day

at the Abbey, were deeply

committed to each other.

Obviously they were very much

in love, it is early love as far

as I can understand it,

so it is a love match essentially.

It is a great love story.

A deeply loyal sense of duty,

which is bolstered and encouraged

and uplifted by their faith.

The early years of the Queen's

reign were not without

difficulty for the Duke.

He felt he had no clear purpose

but he adapted to the role

of consort to the Monarch,

and for decade after decade

they toured the world and fulfilled

official duties together.

A couple so much of whose

lives have been public,

sustained by the private bond

between them which remains strong

and deep, as the latest photographs,

issued to mark their platinum

wedding anniversary, make clear.

Tonight their 70 years together have

been celebrated at a private party

at Windsor Castle.

Nicholas Witchell, BBC News.

Newsnight is coming up on BBC Two.

Tonight, what next for Germany,

Europe and Brexit after Angela

Merkel's government runs aground

both Mac