19/11/2017 BBC Weekend News

An extraordinary night in Zimbabwe

as Robert Mugabe addresses

the nation but does not resign.

He spoke under house arrest

and with the generals watching on --

but after nearly 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 watching -

disbelief and confusion about how

the Mugabe era will now be brought

to an end:

We need him to change his mind,

we need him to resign.

He does not speak for our interests,

he only speaks for his personal

interests and his family.

We'll be live in Harare

to assess what happens next.

Also tonight....

Here - the Chancellor says this

week's Budget will set out plans

to enable 300 thousand for 300

thousand new homes a year

to be built 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 tumultuous 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 oversee his party

congress next month.

But the party has already

replaced him -- and called on him

to resign by tomorrow.

Let's cross live to our Africa

Editor, Fergal Keane in Harare.

Well, these are the hours after

anticipation. When it was announced

earlier today that Robert Mugabe

would address the nation it was

taken to mean that he was going to

resign and that was encouraged by

officials, that idea was encouraged

by officials said to be close to the

negotiations. The world's oldest

head of state has defied the

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

outcome in the eyes of the public.

He praised the military and

acknowledge the crisis in his

country and party.

The way forward

thus cannot be based on swapping

lying clicks that ride roughshod

over party rules and procedures.

There has to be a net return to the

guiding principles of our party as

enshrined in its constitution.

This

appearance has shocked the people of

Zimbabwe who were prepared to

witness his resignation.

I think we

are being played. I feel let down,

by now we should have had a result,

but it is like we are back to square

one.

What did you make of that? I

think the whole nation was expecting

him to resign and we are all

shocked, I think people will be

depressed, confused, people do not

understand what is happening, but I

think we are in a post-Mugabe era.

It will 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 does not

change the feeling of the party and

it does not remove the bitterness

against his wife Grace Mugabe and

her friends.

It has to be over now?

Yes. Enough is enough.

The people of

Zimbabwe have shown in numbers that

they are fed up with this dynasty

and a new era is beginning.

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. The new leader

Emmerson Mnangagwa is known as the

Crocodile. Celebrated for his

ruthless cunning. He may have agreed

to pause, but he is unlikely to stop

until he ousts his old comrades. On

the streets of Harare the people of

the presidency to 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 are the ordinary Zimbeaweans

reacting? Our correspondent has

followed this crisis from the

beginning and she has been out

gauging the feelings of fellow

citizens.

They came to listen to what

President Mugabe had to say. After

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. But he was going nowhere.

He does not speak for our interest.

He only speaks for his own personal

interests and his family.

So why are

you so disappointed?

We are

suffering. We have had enough of

suffering, we need him to change his

mind.

We need him to resign. He did

not say he was resigning or anything

and we are still waiting.

The people

marched yesterday and expressed

their views. I am a young lawyer 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

Zimbeaweans were waiting for, Robert

Mugabe is still the President and it

is not clear whether permanents will

now begin the impeachment process.

People here today were expecting to

hear the resignation they have

demanded but those hopes have been

dashed. The wild celebrations we

have seen on the streets stand in

stark contrast to the sombre mood in

Harare tonight.

After a night that turned out rather

differently to what some people were

expecting, what will happen 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 have heard that

he agreed to resign and then changed

his mind. I believe that the

generals have no intention of

forcing him out at the barrel of a

gun, they will be content to allow

the party to carry out its

procedures, work three impeachment

in Parliament if necessary and

remember, they are backed up by huge

public demonstrations

like we saw yesterday. We are also

being told that tomorrow morning the

military will give a press

conference and so will the war

veterans, and important

constituency, all of them opposed to

Robert Mugabe continuing.

This is a

pause, not a conclusion. Thank you.

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 thousand homes

to be built every year,

a big rise from the recent levels

of around 200 thousand

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 have 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 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 do not 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 this week?

It is interesting. The position of

John McDonald showed some of the

problems that Phillip Hammond is

facing. His claim is

straightforward, increase taxes on

businesses and the wealthy and pay

for public services from those

increased taxes. Phillip Hammond has

a far harder equation to solve. He

is hemmed in by the politics, no

majority in the House of Commons,

that means tax rises or spending

cuts difficult to force through. The

one option left him is to borrow

more but that could jeopardise the

offer that that party made to

balance the books in 2025 so any

more borrowing could be

controversial. He is hemmed in by

the economic is, we are expecting

this big productivity downgrade. The

economy has not been as good at

producing wealth as we expected and

that means it does not grow as fast

and the government does not get the

tax revenues it expects. The room

for manoeuvre is constrained,

probably something on housing and

health as well and let's look at

that public sector pay cap, what

will he do there? There is 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. Thank you 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 nineteen 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

thirteen 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 2000 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 is 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.

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 where England to reach

the semi-finals but for Papa New

Guinea, Rugby League as their

national sport and they are

fanatical for it. Silenced the crowd

and you may just silence the team.

12 minutes in, England did that. It

is going to be yet another try for

Jermaine McGillvary. Ten tries, then

matches Papua New Guinea tried to

knock England of their stride, but a

moment of magic as they found that

the line again.

In a second, the

Huddersfield flyer turned provider.

Watkins eyeing the try line.

He is

not going to be caught. That

semifinal spot. He may have hit top

gear but England have still to do

so, despite Ryan Hall finishing with

a flourish.

More than happy to get

through this quarterfinal but it was

a bit scratchy at times. Really

pleased to be progressing in the

competition. We know we need to be

better but to be in the semifinal is

special.

Time for the fans to extend

their stay. Two games for England to

find the fluency that will take them

to the title. John Watson, BBC News.

Match of the Day 2 and Sportscene

follow the news, so if you want

to wait for the results,

you know what to do.

There was one game in

the Premier League today.

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.

English golfer Tommy Fleetwood held

off a late charge from Justin Rose

to win the Race to Dubai title

as the season's European number one.

Fleetwood only finished 21st

in the final event -

the Tour Championship -

but it was enough to stay top

of the money list after Rose fell

apart in his final few holes.

England's women's cricketers

could still draw their Ashes Series,

after winning the second Twenty20

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.

With less than three months before

the Winter Olympics,

Great Britain's four-man bobsleigh

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 all from me.

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