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Tonight at ten, celebrations
into the night in Zimbabwe | 0:00:05 | 0:00:08 | |
after Robert Mugabe finally resigns
as president after 37 | 0:00:08 | 0:00:11 | |
years in power. | 0:00:11 | 0:00:16 | |
Tens of thousands of people poured
into the streets after the man who'd | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
had an iron grip on power
was swept aside. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:30 | |
I, Robert Mugabe... | 0:00:30 | 0:00:31 | |
I, Robert Mugabe... | 0:00:31 | 0:00:33 | |
Mugabe's resignation came
as a complete surprise. | 0:00:33 | 0:00:34 | |
His letter was read
out in parliament. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:36 | |
We're here right at the moment that
they've heard that Robert Mugabe has | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
resigned from the presidency. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:40 | |
And you can hear it from Zanu-PF
MPs, from opposition MPs, | 0:00:40 | 0:00:43 | |
from members of the public who've
come here to witness | 0:00:43 | 0:00:45 | |
what's happening. | 0:00:45 | 0:00:50 | |
It happened as impeachment
proceedings against 93-year-old | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
Mugabe were beginning after last
week's military take over | 0:00:53 | 0:00:57 | |
and days of protests. | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
It is a good steak for Zimbabwe.
This is a new era for our nation. I | 0:01:01 | 0:01:08 | |
think the only time I will be able
to comprehend what has just happened | 0:01:08 | 0:01:11 | |
is when I wake up in the morning. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:13 | |
is when I wake up in the morning. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:15 | |
For many people, Mugabe is the only
leader they've ever known. | 0:01:15 | 0:01:17 | |
We'll be asking what
now for Zimbabwe? | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
Also tonight: | 0:01:19 | 0:01:20 | |
Police reveal dozens of prosecutions
have been dropped after claims that | 0:01:20 | 0:01:23 | |
thousands of test results
were tampered with at | 0:01:23 | 0:01:25 | |
a forensics laboratory. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:35 | |
The DUP leader Arlene Foster says
Northern Ireland's border is being | 0:01:35 | 0:01:38 | |
used in the negotiations for the
Brexit negotiations. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:44 | |
The Chancellor Philip Hammond puts
the finishing touches to tomorrow's | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
Budget saying he will "invest
to secure a bright | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
future for Britain". | 0:01:49 | 0:01:50 | |
And coming up on Sportsday on BBC
News: No shortage of goals | 0:01:50 | 0:01:53 | |
in Spain as Liverpool
continue their Champions League | 0:01:53 | 0:01:55 | |
campaign in Sevilla. | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
Good evening. | 0:02:11 | 0:02:14 | |
Robert Mugabe took Zimbabwe
and the world by surprise this | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
afternoon when he suddenly resigned
as the country's president | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
after almost four decades in power. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
Without warning his letter
of resignation was read out | 0:02:22 | 0:02:25 | |
in parliament just as impeachment
proceedings against him | 0:02:25 | 0:02:27 | |
were getting under way. | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
In it Mugabe said his decision to go
was voluntary and he had made it | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
to allow a smooth transfer of power. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:36 | |
The news sparked wild celebrations
with thousands of people pouring | 0:02:36 | 0:02:39 | |
onto the streets in the capital
Harare. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
Our Africa Editor Fergal Keane was
in parliament when the news broke. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:53 | |
Tonight Harare, a city for so long
where people feared to speak their | 0:02:53 | 0:02:58 | |
mind, is a place of noise. It is
exactly seven days since the army | 0:02:58 | 0:03:03 | |
began its move against Robert
Mugabe. In the times since, people's | 0:03:03 | 0:03:08 | |
hopes have surged and faded as they
wondered if he would resign. Tonight | 0:03:08 | 0:03:13 | |
just before five o'clock Robert
Mugabe brought the waiting to an | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
end. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
It is the night of the free, and
night like no other in their lives, | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
a great tension has broken, the
Epoque of fear, of desperation, of | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
Robert Mugabe, has ended. How rarely
does politics translate into | 0:03:30 | 0:03:35 | |
something so truly felt? It is a
mystery in the making. We never | 0:03:35 | 0:03:42 | |
thought something like this would
happen in Zimbabwe. This is what we | 0:03:42 | 0:03:48 | |
have been fighting for since
independence. One man has been taken | 0:03:48 | 0:03:55 | |
as, but we are happy it is done now.
Suddenly we got the news tonight it | 0:03:55 | 0:04:01 | |
was over, he had retired, he had
resigned and he was gone and | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 | |
suddenly there was just this
euphoria and that is all of us. All | 0:04:06 | 0:04:10 | |
of us! The sense of surprise here is
deep. Because at the day's beginning | 0:04:10 | 0:04:21 | |
it did not feel as if Robert Mugabe
was going anywhere. | 0:04:21 | 0:04:26 | |
Parliamentarians, urged on by the
crowds, gathered to begin the | 0:04:26 | 0:04:29 | |
process of impeaching the president.
After a week in which he had refused | 0:04:29 | 0:04:34 | |
to quit, his own MPs led the legal
process. As MPs moved into | 0:04:34 | 0:04:40 | |
Parliament to prepare for the
impeachment vote, the decisive | 0:04:40 | 0:04:44 | |
political phase of the operation to
remove Robert Mugabe from power gets | 0:04:44 | 0:04:48 | |
under way. Will he be gone by the
end of the week? I really cannot | 0:04:48 | 0:04:52 | |
say. The process of Parliament is
determining whether or not he will | 0:04:52 | 0:04:58 | |
be gone by the end of the week. I
would have wanted him to go | 0:04:58 | 0:05:00 | |
yesterday. The MPs knew that public
patience was wearing thin. The | 0:05:00 | 0:05:08 | |
expectations of a nation were
focused on them. The crowd have new | 0:05:08 | 0:05:13 | |
heroes, the general who arrested
Robert Mugabe... And Emerson | 0:05:13 | 0:05:20 | |
Mnangagwa, the political brain
behind the coup and president in | 0:05:20 | 0:05:23 | |
waiting. By mid afternoon the MPs
and senators had moved to a hotel to | 0:05:23 | 0:05:32 | |
accommodate the special joint
session of Parliament. They were | 0:05:32 | 0:05:35 | |
watched by the public in what felt
like a rare moment of true democracy | 0:05:35 | 0:05:39 | |
here. People are suffering, this MP
said. And then the moment. A letter | 0:05:39 | 0:05:48 | |
was handed to the speaker. He read
it first himself and then to the | 0:05:48 | 0:05:53 | |
world. A letter from the
president... He was muffled but the | 0:05:53 | 0:06:03 | |
words were momentous. He hands in
his resignation. | 0:06:03 | 0:06:16 | |
CHEERING
Many who are we ago would have | 0:06:16 | 0:06:23 | |
cheered Robert Mugabe now exalted in
his fall. | 0:06:23 | 0:06:27 | |
And we are here right at the moment
that they heard that Robert Mugabe | 0:06:27 | 0:06:31 | |
has resigned from the presidency.
You can hear it, cheering from | 0:06:31 | 0:06:38 | |
Zanu-PF MPs, from opposition MPs and
from members of the public who have | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
come here to witness what was
happening. They did not expect it. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:46 | |
They thought this would be a
potentially elongated process of | 0:06:46 | 0:06:49 | |
impeachment but it has not happened.
He has gone, it is over. A week ago | 0:06:49 | 0:06:56 | |
most foreign journalists were banned
here. Today MPs were eager to speak | 0:06:56 | 0:07:00 | |
with me. This is a huge moment for
your country, what do you feel? This | 0:07:00 | 0:07:07 | |
is a revelation. The people, if they
speak their mind, they can change | 0:07:07 | 0:07:11 | |
what will come. What are you
feeling? I am feeling very happy | 0:07:11 | 0:07:17 | |
because there is no spilling of
blood in Zimbabwe. The people love | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
peace. Celebrations spilled into the
streets. They cheered Emerson | 0:07:22 | 0:07:34 | |
Mnangagwa and mocked Robert Mugabe.
Wherever they were met, the soldiers | 0:07:34 | 0:07:43 | |
were fated. We moved back up to the
city into the rapidly gathering | 0:07:43 | 0:07:50 | |
crowds. We have just come from
Parliament and we are on the streets | 0:07:50 | 0:07:57 | |
and the celebrations have started.
Many are celebrating the end of the | 0:07:57 | 0:08:04 | |
age of Mugabe. Now it is over. But
in their joy they also know they | 0:08:04 | 0:08:12 | |
must be vigilant. I think people
will rejoice tonight, after that we | 0:08:12 | 0:08:17 | |
really have to be about the serious
business of building our country. We | 0:08:17 | 0:08:23 | |
cannot make the mistake of having
the same kind of leaders in place to | 0:08:23 | 0:08:28 | |
build our country, we cannot afford
that. Remember the longer road to | 0:08:28 | 0:08:33 | |
this moment? The people who endured
white minority rule? And then they | 0:08:33 | 0:08:39 | |
saw their independence become
tyranny. They found themselves | 0:08:39 | 0:08:43 | |
suddenly free. Our Africa editor
Fergal Keane. | 0:08:43 | 0:08:48 | |
Our Africa editor Fergal Keane. | 0:08:48 | 0:08:50 | |
After nearly four decades in power,
Robert Mugabe is the only leader | 0:08:50 | 0:08:53 | |
many Zimbabweans have ever known. | 0:08:53 | 0:08:54 | |
Our Zimbabwe Correspondent,
Shingai Nyoke, has been talking | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
to some of the people celebrating
in the capital Harare. | 0:08:57 | 0:09:04 | |
Street parties are going on
throughout the night as people say | 0:09:04 | 0:09:08 | |
they have been reborn. On every
street, in every bar, the | 0:09:08 | 0:09:15 | |
celebrations continue, relishing the
national flag in a renewed sense of | 0:09:15 | 0:09:18 | |
patriotism. I witnessed first-hand
celebrations at independence in | 0:09:18 | 0:09:24 | |
1980. There was such an overwhelming
sense of hope. Now for the first | 0:09:24 | 0:09:30 | |
time in 37 years I have seen the
same glimmer of hope in the eyes of | 0:09:30 | 0:09:34 | |
Zimbabwe. I visited this bar to see
what changes this generation, known | 0:09:34 | 0:09:41 | |
as born frees as they were born
after 1980, want from a future | 0:09:41 | 0:09:45 | |
without Robert Mugabe. Can you
imagine all the years I have existed | 0:09:45 | 0:09:51 | |
on this planet I have only known one
president. For me it is certainly a | 0:09:51 | 0:09:56 | |
different thing and it is the best.
I will run with it and I will run | 0:09:56 | 0:10:01 | |
with Emerson Mnangagwa, I do not
care. It is ironic that Emerson | 0:10:01 | 0:10:06 | |
Mnangagwa, one of the symbols of
Zanu-PF repression, is now seen as | 0:10:06 | 0:10:09 | |
the face of that new hope. I just
hope that as the new president of | 0:10:09 | 0:10:16 | |
Zimbabwe he is aware that, unlike
Mugabe, he is leading with people | 0:10:16 | 0:10:22 | |
who have found their voice and if at
any time in his presidency he comes | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
short, we now have got the courage
and the will to put that into check. | 0:10:26 | 0:10:32 | |
That is what this period has been
about, that the president must | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
answer to the people. For many years
Zimbabwe and had felt an unspoken | 0:10:35 | 0:10:42 | |
shame as the economy crashed and
millions of Africa's most literate | 0:10:42 | 0:10:46 | |
workforce, young and old, fled the
country for new jobs in foreign | 0:10:46 | 0:10:49 | |
lands. I can start building a
career, I can start investing. By | 0:10:49 | 0:10:57 | |
the time I am 40 maybe I can own
property. For me I finally have a | 0:10:57 | 0:11:02 | |
future and I can start looking
towards something and not just | 0:11:02 | 0:11:05 | |
surviving. We are the future of
Zimbabwe, without us, there will not | 0:11:05 | 0:11:10 | |
be any Zimbabwe. In the streets of
Harare I saw a pride that has been | 0:11:10 | 0:11:16 | |
long absent and heard many say that
night they have shown Africa had to | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
effect peaceful change. | 0:11:21 | 0:11:24 | |
effect peaceful change. | 0:11:24 | 0:11:31 | |
The 1980 independence struggle one
Robert Mugabe the image of a hero by | 0:11:31 | 0:11:35 | |
some. | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
His part in achieving that won him
the status of a hero | 0:11:37 | 0:11:40 | |
in the anti-colonial struggle. | 0:11:40 | 0:11:41 | |
But then during his long years
in power he presided over decades | 0:11:41 | 0:11:44 | |
of political repression
and economic chaos. | 0:11:44 | 0:11:46 | |
By the end he was
reviled as a tyrant. | 0:11:46 | 0:11:48 | |
Here's our Africa
Correspondent Andrew Harding. | 0:11:48 | 0:11:49 | |
At every roadblock in every corner
of this long tormented country you | 0:11:49 | 0:11:52 | |
can feel the influence and the
damage wrought by Robert Mugabe. And | 0:11:52 | 0:11:55 | |
the fear. Today we went deep into
Zimbabwe's countryside. There it is | 0:11:55 | 0:12:06 | |
on the left. Robert Mugabe's
mansion. It is almost feudal, more | 0:12:06 | 0:12:11 | |
like a family business than a
country. Andrew, we want you to come | 0:12:11 | 0:12:18 | |
in and take a look. They would not
let us go in to admire the | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
chandeliers, so we visited the
neighbours. It was smashed down by | 0:12:23 | 0:12:27 | |
the police? Yes. To be poor in
Zimbabwe is to be powerless. Robert | 0:12:27 | 0:12:35 | |
Mugabe's wife Grace recently decided
she wanted this land so she said the | 0:12:35 | 0:12:39 | |
piece into destroyed dozens of
homes. They came here and started | 0:12:39 | 0:12:43 | |
demolishing my house. They said you
must go away with this process being | 0:12:43 | 0:12:50 | |
taken by the first lady. Grace
Mugabe? Yes. If she came here, what | 0:12:50 | 0:12:58 | |
would you say? She has destroyed my
life for the past 16 years. Tear her | 0:12:58 | 0:13:04 | |
to pieces. So how did it all go so
wrong? I, Robert, Gabriel Mugabe. 37 | 0:13:04 | 0:13:13 | |
years ago Robert Mugabe was a hero,
the man who liberated Zimbabwe, but | 0:13:13 | 0:13:18 | |
he soon proved to be a different
leader. After he had the least his | 0:13:18 | 0:13:23 | |
supporters on the country's white
farmer as the economy collapsed. He | 0:13:23 | 0:13:29 | |
rigged elections and terrorised his
opponents to stay in power and all | 0:13:29 | 0:13:35 | |
but a few suffered. This was me
shopping in a country ravaged by | 0:13:35 | 0:13:40 | |
hyperinflation. To give you a sense
of this country's spiralling | 0:13:40 | 0:13:44 | |
catastrophe I have come to a
supermarket on the edge of Harare | 0:13:44 | 0:13:47 | |
and we are using hidden cameras for
our protection. The first thing you | 0:13:47 | 0:13:52 | |
see are empty shells that should be
stacked with bread, but the bakeries | 0:13:52 | 0:13:57 | |
have stopped working. Robert Mugabe
shrugged it off, but he was older | 0:13:57 | 0:14:01 | |
and weaker than he knew. In the end
his fatal mistake was almost a | 0:14:01 | 0:14:06 | |
cliche, to pick his wife as his
successor, a woman who know one | 0:14:06 | 0:14:10 | |
trusted or liked. The man poised to
take over here is Emerson Mnangagwa, | 0:14:10 | 0:14:19 | |
for decades Robert Mugabe's
right-hand man, his brutal enforcer. | 0:14:19 | 0:14:22 | |
The worry is that Zimbabwe is busy
exchanging one tyrant for another. | 0:14:22 | 0:14:28 | |
Then again this has been an
earthquake of a week. The fear has | 0:14:28 | 0:14:35 | |
lifted, the genie of freedom may be
out of the bottle. This is a big | 0:14:35 | 0:14:39 | |
moment, we are so excited that
finally we are taking over the | 0:14:39 | 0:14:42 | |
country. 37 years of disappointment,
falsehood and dictatorship, all of | 0:14:42 | 0:14:48 | |
this is coming to an end and we must
have a fresh beginning. Tonight | 0:14:48 | 0:14:53 | |
Robert Mugabe leaves behind a
country warped by years of stubborn, | 0:14:53 | 0:14:58 | |
unnecessary cruelty. But he is gone
and Zimbabwe is celebrating. | 0:14:58 | 0:15:02 | |
But he is gone and
Zimbabwe is celebrating. | 0:15:02 | 0:15:06 | |
Let's go back to Fergal Keane who is
in Harare. We can hear the noisy | 0:15:06 | 0:15:11 | |
celebrations still going on. I am
sure they will be going on into the | 0:15:11 | 0:15:16 | |
night. What next now for Zimbabwe?
We know that Emerson Mnangagwa, the | 0:15:16 | 0:15:23 | |
president elect, will arrive here
tomorrow and be sworn in either | 0:15:23 | 0:15:26 | |
tomorrow or Wednesday. As Andrew
said in his report, there are | 0:15:26 | 0:15:30 | |
serious questions around him. He was
a loyal henchman of Robert Mugabe | 0:15:30 | 0:15:35 | |
for years. But it is important to
factor in the pressure that will | 0:15:35 | 0:15:39 | |
come from people like the Chinese,
major backers of Zimbabwe, and the | 0:15:39 | 0:15:44 | |
West. For me the biggest thing that
has emerged in the last week is the | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
power of our younger generation of
activists. They are people who are | 0:15:49 | 0:15:56 | |
tech savvy, allied to the power of
social media and determined not to | 0:15:56 | 0:16:01 | |
endure the prior patience and
depressions that their parents and | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
grandparents suffered. They will be
the biggest bloc against any kind of | 0:16:04 | 0:16:09 | |
tyranny in Zimbabwe again. Fergal
Keane, thank you. | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
More than 10,000 criminal cases may
have been affected by alleged | 0:16:14 | 0:16:17 | |
data manipulation at a forensics
laboratory in Manchester. | 0:16:17 | 0:16:20 | |
It's a lab that's used by police
forces across the UK. | 0:16:20 | 0:16:28 | |
Around 50 prosecutions
for driving offences | 0:16:28 | 0:16:30 | |
have already been stopped
because of concerns about drug test | 0:16:30 | 0:16:32 | |
results and there are fears
there could be many more. | 0:16:32 | 0:16:35 | |
Daniel Sandford reports. | 0:16:35 | 0:16:37 | |
A glossy promotional video
for Randox Testing Services, | 0:16:37 | 0:16:39 | |
used by police forces to check
samples for drugs, testing that | 0:16:39 | 0:16:44 | |
it's now clear has been
unreliable for years. | 0:16:44 | 0:16:48 | |
My advice from the forensic science
regulator was that up to 10,000 | 0:16:48 | 0:16:53 | |
cases, spanning back to late 2013,
could no longer be fully relied | 0:16:53 | 0:16:57 | |
upon in the criminal justice system. | 0:16:57 | 0:16:59 | |
10,000 cases. | 0:16:59 | 0:17:07 | |
Defence lawyer Nick Freeman spotted
the problem when one of his clients, | 0:17:07 | 0:17:10 | |
who'd admitted using a small amount
of cannabis, tested positive | 0:17:10 | 0:17:12 | |
for drugs he knew he hadn't taken. | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
When we got the report from Randox,
it suggested a much larger amount | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
than had been anticipated but,
more pertinently, it also suggested | 0:17:18 | 0:17:20 | |
that he'd consumed cocaine
and another substance, | 0:17:20 | 0:17:28 | |
and he hadn't consumed any other
substance, | 0:17:28 | 0:17:29 | |
as far as he was concerned. | 0:17:29 | 0:17:33 | |
Two employees from Randox's
Manchester laboratory are suspected | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
of not redoing tests that had
failed quality checks. | 0:17:35 | 0:17:37 | |
They've been arrested,
but not charged. | 0:17:37 | 0:17:39 | |
The company has apologised and is
paying for thousands of retests. | 0:17:39 | 0:17:43 | |
The actual number of miscarriages
of justice isn't clear yet. | 0:17:43 | 0:17:48 | |
The Crown Prosecution Service has
dropped 50 prosecutions | 0:17:48 | 0:17:51 | |
for drug-driving that hadn't come
to court yet and two cases of death | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
by careless driving involving drugs
have been referred back | 0:17:55 | 0:17:58 | |
here to the Court of Appeal. | 0:17:58 | 0:18:02 | |
And there are now concerns
about work done by these same two | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
employees on family cases
at Trimega Laboratories | 0:18:05 | 0:18:08 | |
between 2010 and 2014 before
it was taken over by Randox. | 0:18:08 | 0:18:11 | |
Daniel Sandford, BBC News,
at the Court of Appeal. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:21 | |
A drugs company has been accused | 0:18:41 | 0:18:42 | |
of overcharging the NHS by tens | 0:18:42 | 0:18:44 | |
of millions of pounds a year
for a thyroid medicine. | 0:18:44 | 0:18:46 | |
Ten years ago the annual bill
to the NHS was £600,000, | 0:18:46 | 0:18:49 | |
last year the company Concordia
charged the NHS £34 million for it. | 0:18:49 | 0:18:52 | |
The Competition and Markets
Authority says the manufacturer | 0:18:52 | 0:18:53 | |
abused its dominant position. | 0:18:53 | 0:18:54 | |
Concordia denies it
infringed competition law. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:57 | |
Northern Ireland's border
is being used as a bargaining chip | 0:18:57 | 0:18:59 | |
in the Brexit negotiations according
to the leader of the | 0:18:59 | 0:19:02 | |
DUP, Arlene Foster. | 0:19:02 | 0:19:03 | |
She's accused Ireland and the rest
of the EU of being "careless" | 0:19:03 | 0:19:06 | |
and "reckless" in the way
they are using concerns as part | 0:19:06 | 0:19:08 | |
of the Brexit talks. | 0:19:08 | 0:19:10 | |
It comes as the Prime Minister
Theresa May said she's ready to move | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
the Brexit talks forward. | 0:19:13 | 0:19:14 | |
Our political editor,
Laura Kuenssberg, reports. | 0:19:14 | 0:19:15 | |
The answers aren't written
in the sky, but Number Ten has got | 0:19:15 | 0:19:18 | |
ministers on board to dangle
the promise of a bigger | 0:19:18 | 0:19:20 | |
payment to Brussels. | 0:19:20 | 0:19:24 | |
Theresa May hopes that will shift
the EU to talking trade next month. | 0:19:24 | 0:19:27 | |
We are ready to move onto phase two,
to see those talks about a deep | 0:19:27 | 0:19:30 | |
and special partnership with the EU
for the future. | 0:19:30 | 0:19:32 | |
But a hypothetical bigger bill
isn't the only demand | 0:19:32 | 0:19:41 | |
the Brexit Secretary's
counterparts are making. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:42 | |
The EU's pressing the UK
to be more specific | 0:19:42 | 0:19:44 | |
about what happens at the border
between Northern Ireland and | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
the South when it's time to leave. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:48 | |
The Northern Ireland border cannot
be fully addressed if we're not | 0:19:48 | 0:19:51 | |
taking into account the shape
of our future partnership | 0:19:51 | 0:19:53 | |
with the European Union. | 0:19:53 | 0:19:56 | |
Final resolution of the financial
settlement depends on it | 0:19:56 | 0:20:00 | |
because nothing is agreed
until everything is agreed. | 0:20:00 | 0:20:04 | |
Serious slips can easily
be made by both sides, | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
one diplomat said today. | 0:20:06 | 0:20:07 | |
And serious awkwardness is emerging
over the Irish border. | 0:20:07 | 0:20:13 | |
The Irish PM, the Taoiseach,
demanding a hard border is ruled | 0:20:13 | 0:20:18 | |
out, concerned that putting up real
barriers could undo progress, | 0:20:18 | 0:20:21 | |
peace in Northern Ireland. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:24 | |
But the DUP who, remember,
have essentially the casting | 0:20:24 | 0:20:26 | |
vote in the Commons
and the Prime Minister's ear, aren't | 0:20:26 | 0:20:31 | |
happy about how Ireland and the EU
are playing their concerns. | 0:20:31 | 0:20:35 | |
I am accusing them of being reckless
because, if you listen | 0:20:35 | 0:20:38 | |
to some of the rhetoric... | 0:20:38 | 0:20:39 | |
Look, nobody understands
negotiations probably better | 0:20:39 | 0:20:47 | |
than I because there are people that
will come out and they will say | 0:20:47 | 0:20:50 | |
things to try and push agendas
forward, so it's almost | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
a full battle. | 0:20:53 | 0:20:54 | |
So you think some of this
is confected, would you say | 0:20:54 | 0:20:57 | |
it's a faux battle? | 0:20:57 | 0:20:58 | |
Well, I think some people
are taking their moment in the sun | 0:20:58 | 0:21:00 | |
at the moment to try and get
the maximum in relation | 0:21:00 | 0:21:03 | |
to the negotiations and I understand
that, but you shouldn't play | 0:21:03 | 0:21:06 | |
about with Northern Ireland. | 0:21:06 | 0:21:07 | |
It sounds rather, Arleen Foster,
that you're warning | 0:21:07 | 0:21:09 | |
off the Taoiseach? | 0:21:09 | 0:21:10 | |
Well, I'm saying to him
that he should know better | 0:21:10 | 0:21:12 | |
than anybody, that you don't play
around with Northern Ireland | 0:21:12 | 0:21:15 | |
to effect change in other places. | 0:21:15 | 0:21:16 | |
We need to get into the next phase,
to look at what does it actually | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
look like in terms of trade. | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
I hear this phrase "the borders
of the past", of course | 0:21:25 | 0:21:27 | |
the borders of the past
were there for a completely | 0:21:27 | 0:21:30 | |
different reason. | 0:21:30 | 0:21:31 | |
The borders of the past
were there to deal with terrorism. | 0:21:31 | 0:21:34 | |
They were there to deal
with a very difficult situation | 0:21:34 | 0:21:36 | |
in Northern Ireland. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:37 | |
What is that solution though? | 0:21:37 | 0:21:38 | |
People talk about the frictionless
border and for pretty much 18 months | 0:21:38 | 0:21:41 | |
now nobody has come up
with a solution. | 0:21:41 | 0:21:43 | |
What might that be? | 0:21:43 | 0:21:50 | |
The solution comes in the trade
negotiations and that's | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
the point I'm making. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:53 | |
We need to be able to move
to the second phase so we can | 0:21:53 | 0:21:56 | |
actually get more of the details. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:57 | |
But for Ireland, north and south,
for Brussels as well as Westminster, | 0:21:57 | 0:22:02 | |
the border could yet hold up
the deliberation of the next crucial | 0:22:02 | 0:22:04 | |
stage. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:08 | |
A reminder, Brexit is not just
about our departure, | 0:22:08 | 0:22:12 | |
not just about our Parliament,
and certainly not just | 0:22:12 | 0:22:14 | |
about our politicians. | 0:22:14 | 0:22:15 | |
Laura Kuenssberg, BBC
News, Westminster. | 0:22:15 | 0:22:24 | |
Tomorrow the Chancellor Philip
Hammond will outline his vision | 0:22:24 | 0:22:28 | |
for Britain's economy and spending
when he delivers his Budget. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:35 | |
He says he will use it
to "invest to secure a bright | 0:22:35 | 0:22:38 | |
future for Britain." | 0:22:38 | 0:22:40 | |
Our economics editor, Kamal Ahmed,
has been looking at what we can | 0:22:40 | 0:22:44 | |
expect him to say and asking just
how much room for maoeuvre | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
the Chancellor actually has. | 0:22:46 | 0:22:47 | |
Budget day and probably the most
important economic and political | 0:22:47 | 0:22:50 | |
event since the general election. | 0:22:50 | 0:22:51 | |
It's the day when the Government
lays out how it's going to tax | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
all of us and what it's
going to spend those taxes on, | 0:22:54 | 0:22:57 | |
that long shopping list of demands -
schools, hospitals, | 0:22:57 | 0:22:59 | |
the police and housing. | 0:22:59 | 0:23:00 | |
For many years the Government has
spent more than it raises in taxes, | 0:23:00 | 0:23:03 | |
and that's meant the Government's
had to borrow. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:05 | |
On that issue though,
there's been some good | 0:23:05 | 0:23:07 | |
news for the Chancellor. | 0:23:07 | 0:23:08 | |
The official forecast said
that the Government was likely | 0:23:08 | 0:23:17 | |
to borrow this year £51.7 billion. | 0:23:17 | 0:23:21 | |
But higher tax revenues and lower
public spending has made the picture | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
a little more positive. | 0:23:24 | 0:23:25 | |
Now, the forecast is expected to say
that borrowing this year | 0:23:25 | 0:23:27 | |
will hit £45.7 billion. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:36 | |
That would give Hammond a bit more
wriggle room if he wants to spend | 0:23:36 | 0:23:39 | |
more. | 0:23:39 | 0:23:40 | |
And will help the deficit,
that's the amount the Government | 0:23:40 | 0:23:43 | |
spends compared to what it
receives in taxes. | 0:23:43 | 0:23:45 | |
In 2010, the deficit was running
at 9.9% of national income, | 0:23:45 | 0:23:47 | |
otherwise known as GDP. | 0:23:47 | 0:23:48 | |
Last year, it was 3.8%
and the Government wants it to fall | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
to zero by the middle
of the next decade. | 0:23:51 | 0:23:53 | |
But talk to any budget
expert and they will tell | 0:23:53 | 0:23:56 | |
you all of the Chancellor's
calculations could be blown out | 0:23:56 | 0:23:58 | |
of the water by a huge
downgrade in productivity, | 0:23:58 | 0:24:01 | |
that's the ability of
the economy to create wealth. | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
A downgrade's definitely bad
news for Philip Hammond. | 0:24:05 | 0:24:07 | |
It's bad news both because a slower
growing economy means lower tax | 0:24:07 | 0:24:10 | |
receipts and more borrowing and it
reduces the amount of money he has | 0:24:10 | 0:24:13 | |
to play with to make the kind
of announcements he might | 0:24:13 | 0:24:16 | |
want to make. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:17 | |
Productivity downgrade is also
going to affect people's pay | 0:24:17 | 0:24:19 | |
and families living standards
and that creates added pressure | 0:24:19 | 0:24:21 | |
on the Chancellor to do
something about that, | 0:24:21 | 0:24:23 | |
whether it be via things
like public sector pay or cuts | 0:24:23 | 0:24:26 | |
to working-age benefits or changes
to the tax regime. | 0:24:26 | 0:24:33 | |
Mr Hammond already has
some bills to pay. | 0:24:33 | 0:24:35 | |
The Government has pledged
£2 billion to help students | 0:24:35 | 0:24:37 | |
repaying their loans. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:38 | |
There's another £2 billion
for affordable housing. | 0:24:38 | 0:24:40 | |
The Northern Ireland
coalition deal with the DUP, | 0:24:40 | 0:24:42 | |
that will cost £1 billion. | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
There is likely to be major funding
needed to deal with the aftermath | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
of the Grenfell tragedy. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:54 | |
What should we expect
from the Budget? | 0:24:54 | 0:24:58 | |
Will the Chancellor borrow more
to pay for all that housing? | 0:24:58 | 0:25:00 | |
Will there be more money for health
and public sector pay? | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
And don't forget, the Chancellor
doesn't actually control the biggest | 0:25:03 | 0:25:05 | |
factor affecting the economy
and that's Brexit, and that | 0:25:05 | 0:25:07 | |
remains the big unknown. | 0:25:07 | 0:25:09 | |
Kamal Ahmed, BBC News. | 0:25:09 | 0:25:18 | |
A fatal accident inquiry in Scotland
has ruled that the deaths of three | 0:25:31 | 0:25:34 | |
people who were killed in a rally
in the Borders could have been | 0:25:34 | 0:25:37 | |
avoided if people had been clearly
banned from standing in the area | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
where the crash took place. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:41 | |
The inquiry was held into the deaths
at the Jim Clark Rally in 2014 | 0:25:41 | 0:25:44 | |
and a fourth fatality
at the Snowman Rally | 0:25:44 | 0:25:46 | |
near Inverness in 2013. | 0:25:46 | 0:25:47 | |
Rodney Bewes, best known
for his role as Bob Ferris | 0:25:47 | 0:25:50 | |
in The Likely Lads, has
died aged 79. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:52 | |
English girls abroad with appealing
shoulders and flowery dresses, | 0:25:52 | 0:25:54 | |
like wallpaper on the march. | 0:25:54 | 0:26:00 | |
The series was a huge hit
in the 1960s and was | 0:26:00 | 0:26:02 | |
revived a decade later. | 0:26:02 | 0:26:05 | |
His agent described him
as "a true one-off." | 0:26:05 | 0:26:09 | |
UN war crimes judges
will deliver their verdict tomorrow | 0:26:09 | 0:26:14 | |
on the former Bosnian Serb army
commander Ratko Mladic after a trial | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
that's lasted six years. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
In 1992, after the break up
of Yugoslavia, the small republic | 0:26:21 | 0:26:24 | |
of Bosnia-Herzegovina descended
into civil war. | 0:26:24 | 0:26:27 | |
Areas dominated by ethnic Serbians
declared autonomy and began | 0:26:27 | 0:26:31 | |
a three-year war with Bosnia's
mainly Islamic majority. | 0:26:31 | 0:26:41 | |
Mladic, nicknamed the "Butcher
of Bosnis blamed for ordering | 0:26:42 | 0:26:52 | |
Mladic, is blamed for ordering | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
Europe's worst atrocities
since World War II. | 0:26:53 | 0:27:00 | |
Our special correspondent,
Allan Little, reports. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:01 | |
For years, he was the most
commanding figure on the Bosnian | 0:27:01 | 0:27:04 | |
battlefield and his men gave
to the lexicon of conflict a grim | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
new euphemism - ethnic cleansing. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:08 | |
But Ratko Mladic's son insists
The Hague tribunal is biased. | 0:27:08 | 0:27:10 | |
They are going to try to ignore
the Second World War | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
in which the Serbian people lived
through five years of genocide. | 0:27:13 | 0:27:16 | |
He was an honest, capable officer,
who did his job perfectly in this | 0:27:16 | 0:27:19 | |
difficult circumstances. | 0:27:19 | 0:27:20 | |
If it were not for General Mladic,
we would have repetition | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
of the Second World War. | 0:27:23 | 0:27:26 | |
This inherited memory drove
the Serb war effort. | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
For them it justified
the bombardment of Sarajevo, | 0:27:30 | 0:27:32 | |
were 11,000 died. | 0:27:32 | 0:27:36 | |
The murder and extermination,
the mass deportations, | 0:27:36 | 0:27:44 | |
the concentration camps -
all these are charges Mladic faces. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
And at Srebrenica, 8,000
men and boys killed. | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
For this, he is charged
with genocide. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:52 | |
When he took Srebrenica, Mladic held
meetings with local Muslims. | 0:27:52 | 0:27:58 | |
This engineer is almost too
frightened to speak, | 0:27:58 | 0:28:00 | |
within days he was murdered. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
Nesib Mandzic, then
a school teacher, also met | 0:28:03 | 0:28:07 | |
Mladic, he survived. | 0:28:07 | 0:28:10 | |
TRANSLATION: At one moment
he said to me, "Nesib, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:12 | |
the destiny of your people
is in your own hands. | 0:28:12 | 0:28:15 | |
You will decide whether they
survive or disappear." | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
I took it as a threat,
but I didn't think they would | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
kill so many people. | 0:28:21 | 0:28:23 | |
But in the end, they
even killed children - | 0:28:23 | 0:28:33 | |
14, 15, 16 years old,
and men over 70. | 0:28:35 | 0:28:37 | |
I couldn't believe that they would
kill people like that. | 0:28:37 | 0:28:43 | |
Among Serbs who fought for him,
General Mladic remains a folk hero, | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
but even here there's a weariness
with the past and the war | 0:28:46 | 0:28:48 | |
the country hasn't recovered from. | 0:28:48 | 0:28:50 | |
"You should know that
a good percentage of war | 0:28:50 | 0:28:52 | |
veterans on both sides",
he told me, "become alcoholics | 0:28:52 | 0:28:54 | |
or addicts or they commit
suicide in poverty. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:56 | |
None of us war veterans
would want our children | 0:28:56 | 0:29:02 | |
to fight another war. | 0:29:02 | 0:29:05 | |
We'd rather leave." | 0:29:05 | 0:29:07 | |
Two decades on, the divisions
of the war remain. | 0:29:07 | 0:29:10 | |
These children are Bosnian Muslims,
growing up in the Serb | 0:29:10 | 0:29:12 | |
controlled half of Bosnia,
but they go to a separate Muslim | 0:29:12 | 0:29:17 | |
only school because their parents
say the local state schools teach | 0:29:17 | 0:29:25 | |
an explicitly Serb curriculum,
one which rejects | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
their Bosnian identity. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:28 | |
It's what Ratko Mladic
fought his war, to separate | 0:29:28 | 0:29:30 | |
Serbs from non Serbs. | 0:29:30 | 0:29:31 | |
Alija Omerovic, who survived
Srebrenica, has two | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
children at the school. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:33 | |
TRANSLATION: I think he succeeded. | 0:29:33 | 0:29:35 | |
That plan, to divide us,
is still succeeding. | 0:29:35 | 0:29:37 | |
This in a way is also
ethnic cleansing. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:43 | |
Schooling is a basic
right for all children, | 0:29:43 | 0:29:50 | |
no matter what their nationality
and if we don't have schooling, | 0:29:50 | 0:29:53 | |
then we can't live here. | 0:29:53 | 0:29:54 | |
Ratko Mladic fought to dismember
Bosnia, a country he believed had no | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
legitimacy or right to exist. | 0:29:57 | 0:29:58 | |
The divisions that war bequeathed
are deep and enduring. | 0:29:58 | 0:30:00 | |
Allan Little, BBC News, Sarajevo. | 0:30:00 | 0:30:10 | |
Back now to our main story and the
sudden resignation of Robert Mugabe | 0:30:12 | 0:30:17 | |
after 37 years as Zimbabwe's
President. | 0:30:17 | 0:30:24 | |
Back to Harare now and our
correspondent, Shingai Nyoka. | 0:30:24 | 0:30:30 | |
As the curtain closes on President
Mugabe's era tonight I've cast my | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
mind back on his 37 year rule. He
began as a hero, a liberator, a | 0:30:34 | 0:30:41 | |
person who educated his people as
well as a reconciler of | 0:30:41 | 0:30:45 | |
black-and-white. But so much of that
has been eroded over the last 20 | 0:30:45 | 0:30:49 | |
years. I've been thinking of the
people who never really stood a | 0:30:49 | 0:30:53 | |
chance. The millions of people who
left Zimbabwe to find work. The | 0:30:53 | 0:30:59 | |
thousands who died in hospitals
because there was a shortage of drug | 0:30:59 | 0:31:03 | |
while he left and flew to Singapore
to keep him Seve live. In the end he | 0:31:03 | 0:31:08 | |
was a man obsessed with power and
that obsession became more important | 0:31:08 | 0:31:12 | |
than his people. Our Zimbabwe
correspondent, Shingai Nyoka, thank | 0:31:12 | 0:31:20 | |
you very much. | 0:31:20 | 0:31:22 | |
That's it from us. | 0:31:22 | 0:31:23 | |
In a moment the news where you are,
but we'll leave with some images | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
from what's been an extraordinary
day in Zimbabwe. | 0:31:26 | 0:31:28 | |
Good night. | 0:31:28 | 0:31:31 | |
I hereby formally tender my
resignation as the President | 0:31:31 | 0:31:34 | |
of the Republic of Zimbabwe
with immediate effect. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:38 | |
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE | 0:31:38 | 0:31:41 | |
He's gone, we are free! | 0:31:41 | 0:31:42 | |
We are FREE! | 0:31:42 | 0:31:46 | |
It's victory for our children. | 0:31:46 | 0:31:48 | |
Independence is finally here. | 0:31:48 | 0:31:54 | |
This is a new era for our nation. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:58 | |
37 years with one president,
it doesn't make any sense. | 0:31:58 | 0:32:08 |