20/11/2017 BBC News at One

The crisis in Zimbabwe

continues as the deposed

President Robert Mugabe ignores

today's deadline for him to resign.

More protests on the streets,

as moves begin to impeach

the President, who's led the country

for nearly four decades.

We'll have the latest

from our correspondents in Zimbabwe.

Also this lunchtime: The EU's chief

Brexit negotiator says an ambitious

free trade deal with Britain

is on the table but only if the UK

meets its conditions.

Angela Merkel holds crisis talks

with Germany's President

after the collapse of negotiations

to form a coalition government.

Jana Novotna, the winner

of the 1998 Wimbledon

women's singles title,

has died at the age

of 49 from cancer.

The scene live at Westminster Abbey

where the bells are ringing to mark

a royal platinum

wedding anniversary...

as the Queen and Prince Philip

celebrate 70 years of married life.

And coming up in the sport,

West Brom sack manager Tony Pulis

with the club just one point

above the Premier League relegation

zone and without a win since August.

Good afternoon and welcome

to the BBC News at One.

The deadline set by Zimbabwe's

ruling party for President Robert

Mugabe to resign passed this morning

with no response from

the head of state.

His party, Zanu-PF, has now begun

discussing the impeachment

of the embattled leader,

calling him a "source

of instability", and blaming him

for the country's economic problems.

In a speech to the nation last

night, Mr Mugabe defied expectations

and made it clear he had no

intention of stepping down,

despite intervention

from the military last week.

Ben Brown is in

the capital, Harare.

When Robert Mugabe went on

television last night with that

address, there was a real

expectation across the country that

he was going to resign and when he

didn't there was shock and

disbelief, and real anger as well.

Today Zanu-PF, his party which has

already sacked him as leader, is

launching impeachment proceedings

against him. They will need a two

thirds majority in both houses of

the parliament behind me, but one MP

has said that will take weeks or

months and even then it might not be

successful.

The next age of the battle is set,

Robert Mugabe is on one side and his

party on the other.

I will preside

over...

Last night he didn't step

down as expected. Party leaders had

given him until today to do so. The

midday deadline to resign has come

and gone. The Zanu-PF party is

planning to put the final wheels in

motion, it has summoned its

lawmakers to the Zanu-PF

headquarters behind me to discuss a

possible impeachment. The process

will then move to Parliament with --

where the constitution says a two

thirds majority will be needed to

remove the leader. Lawmakers can

cite misconduct, violating the

constitution or mental or physical

incapacity as grounds for dismissal.

But it's not clear how long the

process will take and this president

doesn't appear to be in the mood to

play ball.

It depends how fast it

moves, it could take days or months,

but the beauty is it's a process

that has provided the constitution

in section 97 so I think it is now

the only hope for the country that

the president is removed in terms of

that section of the constitution.

Unprecedented waves of protest

across the country have failed to

persuade the only leader of this

country has known to go. And they

continue to spread. Students at the

main university are now boycotting

their exams.

We are sick and tired, we want him

to resign.

We want change. The

constitution should change, the

parliament should change.

And the

war veterans say they will escalate

their protests this week.

Mugabe, go

now, go now. Your time is up, please

leave the house and let the country

start on a new page.

It's been a

long week of events never witnessed

here before and the desire to at

least give the appearance of

removing him by the book is slowing

the process down, but finding the

quick resolution to this impasse may

prove very hard to find.

Over the weekend we saw a massive

demonstration against Robert Mugabe

here on the streets of Harare, tens

of thousands of people taking to the

streets, another huge demonstration

has been called for tomorrow. But Mr

Mugabe has shown he doesn't care

about pressure from his own party,

the army, and he doesn't care about

people Power either.

Ben Brown, thank you.

The EU's chief Brexit negotiator,

Michel Barnier, has warned Britain

that it can't cherry pick parts

of the single market

it wants to keep.

But he said that Brussels was ready

to offer the UK the most

ambitious free trade deal

if its terms are met.

Theresa May is chairing a meeting

of senior Cabinet ministers

to discuss the size of the so-called

divorce bill - the money the UK

needs to pay to start trade talks.

Our Political Correspondent Eleanor

Garnier reports from Westminster.

Busy ahead of the budget on

Wednesday, highlighting the

Government's plans for investing in

technology and engineering but the

Prime Minister and the Chancellor

too know that Brexit is the backdrop

to everything. And it is the money,

the so-called Brexit bill that is

the sticking point in the

negotiations.

We have been very

clear we will honour our commitments

but I want to see developing that

deep and special partnerships with

the European Union for the future

and I want to see us moving together

because a deal that is good for the

UK is a deal that's good for the

rest of the EU.

The EU's chief

negotiator said the preference was

for an ambitious trade deal but only

if divorce issues get sorted.

I'm

settling the accounts accurately, we

owe this to taxpayers as well as to

all those benefiting from EU funding

projects.

But there was also a clear

message on sticking to the rules and

the free movement of goods, capital,

services and people.

Those who claim

that the UK should cherry pick part

of the single market must stop this

contradiction.

The two sides have

been sitting down to negotiations

for months with no major

breakthroughs. There's increasing

pressure from Brussels for the UK to

come up with solutions, and back

here calls on the Chancellor to

watch how he spends taxpayers'

money.

He cannot afford play Santa

Claus to Jean-Claude Juncker and

Donald Tusk, a needs to make sure we

are paying for what we are

absolutely contracted for, and for

every pound he unnecessarily gives

away to the European Union is a

pound not being spent on British

public services.

When Theresa May

and senior ministers meet later to

discuss the size of the Brexit bill,

they will know agreeing to pay more

will quicken the talks but also

caused anger amongst some. Getting

agreement within cabinet is crucial

and as EU leaders keep pointing out,

the clock is ticking.

In a moment, we'll speak

to our Assistant Political Editor

Norman Smith in Westminster,

but first, to Brussels

and our Europe Correspondent

Damian Grammaticas.

Damian, what is the message the EU

negotiator Michel Barnier is trying

to send?

I think it's very

interesting, the speech this morning

clearly comes within the context of

the things you are hearing in the

debate in the UK. The highlight at

the top, Michel Barnier saying the

EU wants the most ambitious free

trade agreement with the UK but to

achieve that his speech went on to

lay out conditions, and of course we

all know about the exit agreement,

dealing with things like money. He

moved on quickly from that, the

speech was all about Michel Barnier

point in the UK towards difficult

choices that the EU believes the UK

has to make to move things forward.

Ireland, he pointed to that, he said

the UK has said it would apply some

EU rules in Ireland but what rules?

What is the UK willing to commit to

prevent a hard border? They want the

UK to focus on the question of

Ireland. And participation or access

to the single market, he said that

would depend on how much the UK

sought to divert in the future

because he said the legal

consequence of Brexit is that the UK

is quitting the single market, and

UK banks will lose their access. He

said the further the UK diverges,

the harder it will be to get a deal

that gives the UK good access to the

single market in the future.

Norman,

all of this as Theresa May appears

poised to pay a bigger divorce Bill,

how likely is that to happen?

All of

the signs are that Theresa May will

agree to a bigger bill, certainly

than the £18 billion floated by Mrs

May in Florence and that's because

they know they have to put more cash

on the table if the EU will move

onto crucial trade talks. The extra

cash will come with strings, so

there's likely to be an insistence

this money is only for past bills

signed up for, not ongoing EU

commitments, but they will also want

an assurance the EU will move onto

trade talks. In other words they

will not take the cash, put it in

their back pockets and say how about

more money. But the risk is of a

significant backlash from a public

who were told during the referendum

campaign that we were going to get

£350 million per week for the NHS.

Instead we are having to hand over

billions as part of a divorce Bill.

Already we have heard from Tory MPs

saying we have got to have an

itemised list of why we are having

to spend all of this money, and this

in the week of the Budget when the

Chancellor is under massive pressure

to ease off on austerity. I doubt we

will get a fixed figure of how much

we are prepared to pay today or any

time soon, more likely though a nod

and a wink to Brussels that down the

line, yes, we are ready to pay more

and maybe a lot more.

Norman, thank

you.

Meanwhile, the European Union

will decide this evening

where two major EU agencies,

currently based in London,

will be relocated after Brexit.

19 cities are bidding

for the European Medicines Agency,

while eight want to host

the European Banking Authority.

More than 1,000 people work

for the two agencies.

Our Business Correspondent Theo

Leggett has the details.

London's Canary Wharf is home to

some of the worlds biggest banks and

two prestigious EU agencies, the UK

banking authority which monitors the

health of the region 's biggest

banks and the European Medicines

Agency which supervises drugs used

on humans and animals. But now we

are leaving the EU, both

organisations will have to move and

today they will find out where they

are going. Two dozen cities are

scrambling to host them. The

European Commission says the

agencies employ about 1100 people,

many well-paid, but they also

attract many business visitors for

meetings, conferences and expert

panels. Between them they book about

40,000 hotel rooms per year. The UK

will lose 1100 good jobs of

regulators who spend money in the

capital but there is more to it than

that. Having a regulator creates a

halo effect because lots of American

and Japanese businesses set up shop

in London because they want their

staff to be close to the regulator

so they can help its decisions.

It is a similar story in the banking

sector, the European Banking

Authority may be a relatively small

agency but it wields a lot of

influence.

It tells us a lot about

where the Europeans once their

financial centre to be, and secondly

there is a whole ecosystem that's

built up around the banking

authority here in London. Will that

move as well? Quite possibly there

are more jobs that will move with

retail banks moving to follow the

regulator.

The result has been a

kind of beauty parade with cities

across Europe setting out their

stalls. They have to provide

offices, good transport links and

hundreds of school places.

Bucharest

is...

And they have been offering

extra perks such as subsidised rent,

language lessons and free visits to

the zoo. Even heads of government

have been helping with the hard

sell. Other EU members may not

necessarily be keen on Britain's

departure but they are happy to pick

up benefits where they can.

The German Chancellor Angela

Merkel's attempts to form

a coalition government have

collapsed, raising the prospect

of the country facing

another general election.

After weeks of negotiations,

the centrist Free Democrats -

the FDP - pulled out of talks,

with its leader saying there was no

basis of trust between the parties.

Mrs Merkel has been meeting

the German President this morning.

Damien McGuinness is in Berlin.

What does this now mean

for Angela Merkel and for Germany?

It is certainly a blow for Angela

Merkel because she was responsible

really as the potential Chancellor

of making these coalition talks

work. Some people say it will be

hard for her to survive politically

which means this will be the end of

the Merkel era, unexpectedly sooner

than thought, but it depends how the

public reacts to this breakdown in

the coalition talks because the

recriminations are already starting

and this morning most German

commentators seem to be blaming the

liberal SDP party, the ones who

walked out of the talks, for the

breakdown -- FDP. If there is a

backlash, Angela Merkel could be

strengthened because often when

things get rocky, either abroad or

domestically, she is often seen as

an anchor of stability so she could

even emerge stronger from this. What

is clear is that we will see a

period of political instability in

Germany because none of the options

going forward for the new government

are good. We either have a minority

government, fresh elections, and

they would mean months before the

next elections take place and this

would lead her effectively in

political limbo which could have a

big impact on the German economy.

Damien, thank you.

The former Wimbledon singles

champion Jana Novotna has died

of cancer at the age of 49.

The Czech tennis player won

the Championship in 1998,

after losing five years earlier

to Steffi Graf in a memorable match.

Ms Novotna, who also had

an outstanding doubles

career, has been described

by the Women's Tennis Association

as an inspiration.

Our sports correspondent David

Ornstein looks back at her life.

It is one of Wimbledon's most

enduring images. Jana Novotna may

have lost the final at she got a

shoulder to cry on from the Duchess

of Kent and the hearts of the

British public.

She just told me,

you will do it. I believe one day

you will do it. And I just became

very emotional. It was very nice. I

appreciated it.

Novotna finished

runner-up again but a year later she

finally won the trophy. News of her

death has been met with a mixture of

shock and an outpouring of tributes.

I can only describe her as a

ruthless competitor on the court but

utterly sweet and charming of it.

She was such a warm person, always

very friendly. She would come up and

give you kisses and smile, she was

really loved by everyone.

She rose

to prominence in the early 90s and

went on to become one of the most

exciting, popular and successful

players of regeneration. Wimbledon

was her only grand slam singles

title but she collected 16 in

doubles and 100 tournament wins

across a glittering career, laying

her way into the International

tennis Hall of Fame. She was back on

the lawns of Wimbledon as recently

as 2016, rolling back the years in

the invitational mixed doubles. But

Jana Novotna will always be

remembered for the tears and then

the triumph, refusing to let the

setbacks keep her down, eventually

coming back on top and writing her

name into history with a smile.

Jana Novotna, who has died at the

age of 49.

Our top story this lunchtime:

The crisis in Zimbabwe

continues as its deposed

President Robert Mugabe ignores

today's deadline for him to resign.

And coming up, a change in culture -

the new head of UK Sport calls

for more to be done to improve

the welfare of top-level athletes.

In sport, the cricketers relax ahead

of the Ashes Test. Jake Ball

confirms he has recovered from his

ankle injury and is fully fit.

The notorious cult leader

Charles Manson, who directed his

followers to commit a string

of brutal murders, has died aged 83.

He'd been in prison in California

for more than four decades.

In 1969, his followers,

known as the Manson family,

killed seven people.

Among them was the heavily pregnant

Hollywood actress Sharon Tate,

the wife of Roman Polanski.

James Cook reports from Los Angeles.

Charles Manson.

The name itself is

synonymous with evil.

A killer who did no

killing but whose crimes

shocked the world.

In August 1969, followers

of his cult broke into the

home of Sharon Tate.

The pregnant actress,

who was married to the director

Roman Polanski, was brutally

murdered along with four of her

friends.

The next night, the so-called

Manson family killed

again, tying up and murdering

a wealthy couple.

This was the ramshackle

ranch in Death Valley

where Manson lived in a commune

with his runaway fans.

They apparently used LSD

and saw the guitar playing

ex-convict as a kind of saint.

Or perhaps a devil.

Charles Manson was charged,

not with wielding a knife

or firing a gun, but with

controlling and directing the

killers.

I don't accept the court,

I don't accept the whole situation.

I was in the desert

minding my business.

This confusion belongs to you.

It is your confusion.

I don't have any guilt,

I know what I've

done.

No man can judge me.

I can judge me.

What have you done, Charlie?

Why had he done it?

Apparently to spark

a race war, it would be

called Helter Skelter,

and

he would use it to seize power.

In 1971, he was

sentenced to death on

seven counts of murder,

later commuted to life in prison.

Over the years, Charles

Manson applied for

parole time and time again, but he

died a prisoner, having shattered

the peace and love of the 1960s

with diabolical violence.

The owner of British Gas, Centrica,

has announced it will scrap standard

gas and electricity tariffs

for new customers.

It claims this is part of a series

of measures which will be

significantly more effective

than the government's proposed

cap on energy bills.

Our Business Correspondent

Simon Gompertz is here.

What difference is this likely to

make?

Two thirds of gas and

electricity customers are on what we

call standard variable tariffs.

These are the tariffs the Prime

Minister last month condemned as

rip-off prices and promised that

there would be a price coming in.

What British Gas and Centrica are

seeing is there's a better way, but

they will start phasing it out from

next spring. If they come to the end

of a fixed-rate deal but will not be

put on the expensive one as they

have up until now. They say there is

not a catch. Some people might be

suspicious. It will be difficult to

negotiate this. They will need to be

more wary. The other thing they've

said is £200 should be taken off the

average bill. How do they get that

number? Adding together the cost of

subsidising renewable energy,

putting high-tech smart meters in,

subsidising the bills of people on

low incomes. People say that should

come out of taxation because it is

government policy. The company is

trying to put out it is not them

responsible for all of the expensive

bills.

A BBC investigation has uncovered

claims of child abuse

within the Jehovah's Witness

organisation, and there are fears

the Church's own rules could be

protecting alleged perpetrators.

Some experts believe the problem

could be widespread,

and the Charity Commission has now

launched an inquiry.

Felicity Kvesic reports.

Louise Palmer from Halesowen

was just four years old when her

brother started sexually assaulting

and raping her.

She's waived her right

to anonymity to tell her story.

It just felt normal.

Growing up I thought that's

what you did with your brother,

that's what happened.

They had been born into

the Jehovah's Witness faith,

an organisation that preaches

kindness and unity.

She feels let down by them

after they told her not to go

to the police when she revealed

the years of abuse.

I asked them, "What should I do?

Do you report it to the police?

Do I report it to the police?"

And their words were

that they strongly advised me

not to go to the police because it

would bring reproach on Jehovah.

Louise's brother Richard Davenport

was found guilty in 2015

and is serving a 10-year sentence

for rape and abuse.

She wants the Jehovah's Witnesses to

rethink their protection policies.

I believe children aren't safe.

Safeguarding policies

need to be updated.

No child is ever going to feel

like they can come forward,

and they're not going to be

supported if they come

forward either.

In 2013 the Charity Commission

started a statutory inquiry

into the organisation known

as the Watchtower Bible

and Tract Society after

safeguarding issues.

The inquiry is still ongoing

and an MP says he wants reassurances

that safeguarding is top

of the agenda.

People must be free to practise

their religion and we don't

want to intrude upon that

but if it is established

on the basis of a rigorous inquiry

that something is going badly wrong,

that is going to have to be ripped

out root and branch.

I tried to speak to some elders

at several Kingdom Halls

across the West Midlands.

Their phones either rang

out or they referred me

to the Watchtower in London,

which is their headquarters.

The Watchtower refused to put

anybody up for interview.

Instead they've given

me a statement...

For Louise, a survivor of years

of abuse, the message is simple -

don't stay silent, tell the police.

Three people arrested in connection

with the disappearance of Gaia Pope

have been released from the police

investigation without

any further action.

The 19-year-old's body was found

on Saturday in a field near Swanage,

11 days after she was last seen.

Dorset Police are treating her death

as "unexplained" pending

toxicology results.

The new chair of UK

Sport Dame Katherine Grainger,

has called for "a lot more" to be

done to improve the

welfare of athletes.

Several governing bodies

are embroiled in bullying

allegations, and Dame Katherine,

an Olympic rowing gold medallist,

says they must "rise

to the challenge" of improving

the culture in top level sport.

UK Sport is issuing new guidance

to coaches on how to treat

athletes with respect,

as Richard Conway reports.

It has been an era of unprecedented

success for British sport but with

complaints and enquiries under way

within a number the UK's leading

sports federations, many are asking

if winning has been prioritised over

welfare. In response, Dame Katherine

Grainger, who cheers UK sport, the

funding authority for elite

athletes, is urging them to improve.

Nobody believes it should be medals

at any cost. There is an

understanding that the healthiest

atmosphere you can have, to keep

people in the system, you want them

succeeding and being pushed hard but

also, you need to enjoy it, you need

to be passionate about it.

British

gymnastics is the latest body to be

dragged into the crisis after care

standards were questions at other

organisations. Change cannot come

soon enough for those who say

they've experienced a culture of

bullying.

For us there was no one to

talk to. You fear that if you speak

up you're going to be kicked off the

team. There needs to be something or

someone we can speak to, with no

repercussions, who will have her

back.

UK sport has now released new

guidance to help sports such as

Britain's hugely successful cycling

team. It includes advice to coaches

on how to treat athletes with more

respect. The hope is that a greater

focus on welfare can forge a new

winning combination.

The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh

are today celebrating their 70th

wedding anniversary -

the longest in the royal

family's history.

They are marking the occasion

privately with family

and friends at Windsor Castle.

The church bells are

ringing out this lunchtime

at Westminster Abbey,

where the Queen and Prince

Philip were married.

Our royal correspondent

Nicholas Witchell reports.

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For any girl,

wedding day is the day of her life.

As the 21-year-old princess arrived

at Westminster Abbey,

it was her moment too.

A November day two years after

the end of the Second World War.

At Westminster Abbey a wedding

of the then Princess Elizabeth

and Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten.

And now the solemn service begins.

I, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary...

Take thee, Philip...

Take thee, Philip...

To my wedded husband.

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BAND PLAYS THE WEDDING MARCH.

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's early love, as far

as I can understand,

so it's a love match,

essentially, it's

a great love story.

Deeply loyal sense of duty,

which is bolstered and encouraged

and uplifted, as it were,

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.

At Westminster Abbey

bells are being rung

to mark the anniversary.

As for the couple themselves,

they are spending the day

quietly at Westminster,

where there will be a quiet family

party in their honour tonight.

Time for a

Time for a look at the weather. I'm

sure you will have noticed a change

in the feel of the weather. Rewind

to yesterday morning and many of us

started the day like this, with a

touch of frost and temperatures

below freezing. This morning was

completely different. If you dressed

for cold weather you probably

regretted it because some of us were

in single digits by the rush hour,

but with that, some cloud and

outbreaks of rain. There are

conveyor belts of clothes streaming

in from the Atlantic which will

continue to bring outbreaks of rain

at times throughout this week. It is

all about this mild air wafting up

from the south-west. Something

colder is holding on. Most of us

cloudy with patchy rain, some

brightness for Wales and the

Midlands but most places will not

see any of that. Still a little bit

colder across Scotland, in fact

three degrees is the afternoon high.

As we grow through the ceiling and

tonight it will stay cloudy. Some

heavy rain for Northern Ireland,

southern Scotland and northern

Scotland. Everywhere else, mild.

Very mild across southern areas.

Elsewhere, wet start. Heavy bursts

of rain. Northern Ireland, largely

dry at this stage. Cloudy and damp

and murky for parts of northern

England. Look at these temperatures,

11, 12 degrees as we start off the

day. As we go on, we keep the feed

of mild south-westerly wind. The

rain is slowly trudging north. We

will see a batch of rain pushing in.

For central and eastern areas it

should stay dry for much of the day.

There's a chance of seeing some

glimmers brightness through the

cloud. It will be that bit colder

further north. Through Tuesday into

Wednesday we tried to lose this area

of low pressure but there's another

one hot on its heels and this

weather front threatens to bring

some heavy rain in places on

Wednesday. There could be some

issues. In the south-east, very

mild, quite windy. Further north and

west, single digit temperatures

across Scotland. As we head towards

the end of the week it looks like

the cold weather will stage a

comeback. There will be some jurors

at times but particularly across the

northern half it will turn colder

again by the end of the