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ALJAZ NEWSHOUR November 20, 2017

Hello there im going with all this is the news hour live from london coming up. As about when students call for Robert Mugabe to go his party starts impeachment proceedings and the ousted Vice President prepares to return. To a half million yemenis at risk of disease as the capital joins the list of cities with i want clean water because of the side he led the hate. President trumpets north korea back on the list of state sponsors of terrorism Angela Merkel said she has preferred a new elections to a minority government after a Coalition Talks fail in germany. And ive yet to stand with the latest sports and sad news as nine hundred ninety eight wimbledon champion gone another has died from cancer at the age of forty nine that and more later in the program. A warm welcome to the news hour to bob was really xander party is set to begin pietschmann proceedings against mugabe presenting a motion to parliament on choose dick is accused of letting his wife use our power well the ninety three year old ignored a deadline to resign by midday this a day after he declared on t. V. That a plan. To remain as president the military says it has a world map for mugabes future and hell hold talks with emerson burning the Vice President that he sacked when he returns to the country was on a cliff has already removed the gobby as its leader but that hasnt stopped him from calling a Cabinet Meeting on choose day earlier hundreds of students marched to the capital harare demanding that he step down after thirty seven years in power how much hassle has more now from harare. The monday new deadline for president roberts macgyver to resign or face impeachment has come and gone later that evening the military said Operation Restore legacy is making progress there is a bubble of defense and Security Services i encouraged by new developments which include that to be driven the president and the former Vice President committed mustnt numbers of. Expected in the country shortly. Thereafter the nation will be advised when the outcome of talks between the two. Calls for the president to step down are growing louder the war veterans wants more gobbets closest allies say they are losing patience. Because what we dont want to see him as president anymore so we saw him go to the National Television to pretend as if everything is no more you are saying that. His Party Congress we are saying mugabe go no no no. Your time is up please lives that was and let the country start on a new or new page. M. P. s say they will file a motion in parliament on tuesday to impeach mcgarvey opposition m. P. s who decide whether to join them president mugabe is an increasing pressure to step down and regional leaders are trying to find a quick solution to zimbabwes political crisis. Students at the university of zimbabwe say its time for the ninety three year old leader to step aside they are refusing to take exams and threatening to shut down the investor. Being poor zimbabwean must be restored to. Him that he should we no longer want you in power so everybody does not does not understand the rule of the people is not become a constitution or delinquent. These are Uncertain Times its an charted territory for us about the events of the last few days have shaken both the party and the state. Well it was Vice President emerson when i gag was sacking amid a bit a succession battle with mugabes wife that led to the military takeover the seventy five year old was an ally of Robert Mugabe for decades serving his body as his bodyguard in exile and holding a range of ministerial positions including defense minister went to gag has been described as the one person war feared than his boss a reputation that led him to become known as the crocodile his supporters are known as the low cost group of the Clothing Company with the crocodile logo well with close links to the military hes most notorious for his part in a crackdown on rivals in the eightys which still finds since killed but he denies any role hes backed by the armed forces chief the opposition and powerful war veterans and is expected to take place as interim leader. Joining us now in the studio is nick branson a Senior Researcher at the Africa Research institute i think this story continues to capture people doesnt it make and so what were hearing now is that theres likely to be possibly an impeachment process but there is a road map one to one and i does that mean well its quite interesting that were almost returning to the very beginning of the discussions we had when the military first flex its muscles here where the road map as you know the terminology that theyre using seems to be more about reappointing former Vice President. Than it does about president regarding himself standing down so we after a very excitable week we seem to be returning right to the very beginning of what what caused this sort of christ political crisis how many theages are there to the impeachment process i mean how long are we talking well i mean its definitely be weeks rather than days so that the first stage would be tomorrow parliaments due to meet and with a simple majority of m. P. s they could possibly. Starting the process to impeach president mugabe that the second part is the long long and quite tedious process which whereby a select committee a joint Committee Rather of representatives from both houses the house of assembly and the senate including members of the political opposition assess the degree to which president mugabe has. Jeopardized the constitution of violating the constitution and the president himself would have the opportunity to defend himself so he could potentially be called before the parliament or at least a committee of nine individuals and sort of prove that hes in control of his for his faculties. And then the third part would be possibly the highest threshold here they need two thirds of all parliamentarians from from both houses. So were talking to two hundred seven. Politicians here which which remains on you would have to both bring people who were supporters of grace mugabi and also you know members of the opposition along with them if they were going to you know to get this get this vote passed so theres work to be done there and then in the background of course were told the deputy while hes on his way back or he will be coming back but for those people who perhaps see this is an opportunity for optimism and a different source of if at some point then he does become the leader were talking about more of this thing well quite possibly i mean as as you said in your introduction there i mean hes served alongside mugabe for decades and certainly schooled in the same principles i do think however. Is a lot more pragmatic he and some of his associates have been closely tied to reengage with the west and with the International Financial institutions and he personally is quite associated with something called the lima process a plan under which would repay its debts to the International Monetary fund the world bank and the African Development bank and then regain access to credit and hes got a lot more sort of policy options on the table than mugabe there were certain things we got he said well we will never do this we will never do that where is what could potentially make certain gestures that would appease people that have really been you know well that have suffered as a result of zimbabwes history im sure were going to continue to be glued to every twist and turn in this story nic thanks very much for joining us thank you. Kenyas opposition has dismissed president hu or kenya election victory as illegitimate despite the Supreme Court upholding the results of last months vote in a unanimous decision the Court Dismissed challenges that top us repeat election was conducted illegally Opposition Leader raila odinga insists the ruling was made under duress for me to miller has more now from nairobi it took just a few minutes for Supreme Court judges to end months of Political Uncertainty in the president ial election of the twenty sixth of october this year by a. As is the election of the Third Respondent the. Supporters were in a jubilant mood outside the court to be for president elect looking out his plan to swearing in the next week as soon as we. Havent read the supporting the. Benefits and outside the they say victory and that its a legitimate. Ruling Jubilee Party and the Electoral Commission say last months rerun was free and fair despite an Opposition Boycott and a voter turnout of less than forty percent of the opposition the National Super Alliance Says it wont recognise can yachters president it believes the Supreme Court didnt act independently when upholding kenyatta election when tension increased in Opposition Strongholds as demonstrators about to fight for what they say is political justice our democracy was jeopardize our democracy was put on a ledge and i want to show them to tory m. P. Victor tauriel government. Can is plagued by political and economic divisions worsened after two controversial president ial elections in just three months ruling party says it will go up to form an inclusive government the opposition not only the disability factor we want our colleagues in the op was. That kenya is bigger than you that all of us must reach out all of us must reach ethnic coexistence the opposition says the government has been using armed militia and bullets to disperse supporters. As the opposition ponders its next move its uncertain if any further protests will have the impact it hopes for as many other kenyans prepare to move on from aljazeera nairobi. Well coming up on the news hour from london why the head of syrias main Opposition Group and several other officials have resigned. Noises hard in the search for the missing Argentinian Navy submarine. And in sport when nascar racing is at a crossroads as the season comes to an end in the United States. The red cross says some and al bayda have joined the list of yemeni cities that are now without clean water two and a half Million People live in the five cities where a shortage of fuel costs by the side kate has cost pumping stations to shut down some yemeni ports have reopened to allow in desperate need of food and aid but critics say its not enough reports. In yemen where a humanitarian catastrophe continues unabated anger rises as supplies window. We have many people with kidney failure and cancer and many other diseases but there is no treatment where can we go. Hundreds took to the streets in the city of her date on sunday demanding the Saudi Led Coalition reopen air and sea ports to allow the unimpeded flow of much needed aid. In one of her they does hospitals where medical supplies are running dangerously low a baby diagnosed with cholera is seriously ill. Yemen which is on the verge of famine is also suffering from the worst cholera outbreak ever recorded nine hundred thousand suspected cases of the disease have been recorded since april was this fact of how hospitals need anaesthetic materials surgically switches and surgical to medicines and many other things and all these things enter through these ports if they are closed these materials decrease. The u. N. Is growing increasingly concerned that there is a point it becomes a second to think one where those people who. Runs the clinic for children under the age of five who are those very skilled. Which is that you see on t. V. Those people are living in a similar existence and if we interrupt their ability to project which is slow. Then those people get closer and closer to getting into the. Representatives of the uns office for coordination of humanitarian affairs in yemen are eager to travel to saudi arabia to discuss the issues face to face with saudi leaders but cant really afford to send a team to be able to discuss the procedures for or. We study to do but a leader with. Charts and saying something. In addition to the humanitarian concerns a new report from the s a M Organization a geneva based rights watchdog says that at least seven hundred sixteen cases of Rights Violations were committed against civilians in yemen last month. The alleged violations included extra judicial killings physical assault arbitrary detention forced displacement torture and violations of press freedom. More than five hundred were attributed to iranian backed who the rebels who are currently in control of the capital sanaa while the Saudi Led Coalition was deemed responsible for at least one hundred violations says the watch dog back in her data a vital port remains closed as yemenis grow ever more desperate for help. Lets talk more about the water crisis im joined from geneva by shock me from the International Committee of the red cross unit of a warm welcome to the Program Thanks for being with us lets just talk about the Current Situation on the ground and why it is that these systems and i being added to the list of those that no longer have access to clean water. Water Treatment Plants and sewage Treatment Plants are powered by fuel there is such a shortage of fuel in yemen that indeed last week as your report was saying three cities die is saddam and data were deprived of clean water today. And by the have been added to the list which means that as we speak two point five Million People in crowded urban environments. Deprived of clean water and sanitation why does is critical it is critical because yemen was only slowly emerging from the largest call it outbreak in modern times more than one hundred forty thousand people affected so what we fear is that if people are now again exposed to contaminated water color might flare up again and of course also other water borne diseases that we are also in a situation and we land the ports are closed supplies medical supplies you name it cant get through to people so they have blacked situation to deal with. Absolutely yemen was dependent on imports at ninety percent essential supplies such as food medicine and fuel come basically from abroad. Currently less than half of the medical structures in yemen hospitals and clinics are functioning about one third of needed medicines are entering actually this was the situation before the Border Closure that started two weeks ago so clearly yemen is already a very fragile country its twenty seven Million People have suffered a lot during these two and a half years of conflict so these additional constraints this bringing the country to an absolutely catastrophic situation and beyond the war is the i. C. R. C. Able to do to help people. Well right now we are very active supporting hospitals. We are treating about ten percent helping treat about ten percent of color cases helping people who need dialysis kidney people who have kidney issues but for example even in this case those centers that we are supporting are now overcrowded by people who come from other centers that have had to close down we have been very active in repairing water Treatment Plants that were either damaged by the fighting or that we are suffering from a lack of maintenance due to the conflict but right now what is needed is fuel and we do not have the large quantities of fuel that would be needed having said that i want to underline that we are optimistic and we trust that those who are behind the recent decisions understand very well the consequence of a very serious humanitarian consequences on the yemeni population and that disclosure will be reversed very soon. And theyre joining me live from geneva and thank you leader of heads of lebanons hezbollah has denied any involvement in the firing of a Ballistic Missile into saudi arabia which prompted the yemen blockade what i can tell and. What has been said about us. And peacefulness i want to emphasize to them that we have not sent any missiles or advanced weapons were even a pistol i want to fishery to my what was said by is out of the we have not sent any weapons to yemen or to pottery and or to kuwait or has a nasrallah also dismissed arab league accusations that his group is involved in terrorism as unfortunate so how to has more now from beirut. Well really i had two messages one to the arab league responding to their statement their resolution which called hezbollah a terrorist organization and they accuse that of supporting terrorist groups in arab countries hezbollah saying that no we are not sending advanced missiles or Ballistic Missiles or even guns to any arab country including yemen and actually mocking saudi arabia and its allies telling them what have you done name us a battle where you fought against i still not saying there is an International Consensus that i sell is a terrorist organization but it is hezbollah it is iran it is ir

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