Brent we will take you live to harare for more on this historic day for the people of zimbabwe. Also on the show, can she hold on . Angela merkel under pressure as germany plunges into political uncertainty. After the collapse of Coalition Talks, the german chancellor says she would rather run in new elections than lead a minority government. Is this the dawn of a postmerkel era . Brent im brent goff. Its good to have you with us. We begin with a zimbabwe minus mugabe. In a bombshell announcement delivered today in zimbabwes parliament, the countrys ruler, Robert Mugabe, resigned. It follows a tumultuous week that saw a military takeover, mass demonstrations, and a desperate mugabe clinging to power in the face of impeachment proceedings. And now the ending that few saw coming. Reporter joy and relief on the streets of harare. 37 years of Robert Mugabes rule has come to an end. Dw correspondent chrstine mhundwa on hand to witness history. Christine people are chanting things like Rober
Last our correspondent in the capital harare. Failed Coalition Talks are looming large over german politics well ask the deputy leader of the social democrats why his party isnt stepping up to form a government with them apples conservatives. And goobers cover up of a massive hack data of fifty seven million fewer customers were exposed to the high end of the yuvraj paling firm kept quiet and then paid the hackers to delete the stolen information. Below im terry martin good to have you with us. Elation on the streets of zimbabwe citizens have celebrated late into the night after president Robert Mugabe announced his resignation ending nearly four decades of rule the shock announcement followed a tumultuous week that saw a military takeover mass demonstrations and a desperate move gob a clinging to power in the face of impeachment proceedings. To me underneath on the streets of harare thirty seven years of Robert Mugabes rule has come to an end d. W. Correspondent christine one on hand
Zimbabwe last our correspondent in the capital harare. Also coming up a bird it does do this morning in the war crimes trial of the right code law bitch to serve warlord who terrorized balls in the one nine hundred ninety s. Is expected to be convicted today for the last genocide committed in europe. And his cover up of a massive hack data of fifty seven million customers were exposed but the ride hilling firm kept quiet and then paid the hackers to delete the stolen information. Also coming up in the next hour qatar accuses saudi arabia of undermining security in the gulf region in the exclusive interview with g w compost foreign minister slams what he calls reckless behavior by his nations gulf neighbors and reject accusations that contact is financing islamist organizations. Then in football but dark out of the Champions League after losing to the english side tottenham will go through up through the fallout with our sports correspondent. Oh im terry martin good to have you with us
Agreement or going to war. We will watch that News Conference now. It is half an hour. Morning, good morning everyone. Today after theenough. But my goal looking at the government the American People gave us a divided government, which is not unusual, we have had divided government more often than not since world war ii. I think nay are saying why dont you look for things you agree on and try to make progress for the country. So what i tried to do is empicizeemp says empicize empicize there was agreement. We led off o the it passed by a pretty overwhelming bipartisan majority. As indicated we pass a budget. Thats not a bipartisan exercise typically typically and it was this year but we have also done every Nuclear Review every right of no child left behind a multiyear highway bill. Clearly the senate is up and running and trying to focus on things where we can make progress. What is not helpful is rhetoric like the president has been using as recently as this morning comparing republic
Example, out of trenton, where an in mate by the name of sean washington in 2013 he was a clerk at the library and he wanted to leave the library to go bring some legal papers to one of the other inmates but a corrections officer said you cannot leave and the facts are disputed but the worst facts, the facts that the state claims, is that mr. Washington then said mother fer, dont tell me what to do. What was his punishment . 90 days in solitary confinement. That is a real example we see all across the nation. So just for time. So we know that people are being sent to solitary for many Different Reasons and some of them have to do with administrative issues and the like. Right. Does it work in terms of somehow effecting the behavior of prison str any is there any productive value in the bureau of prisons. Im going to push back on the language they use and some people are sent to solitary for administrative reasons and that is a loaded term because the bureau of prisons commonly call sol