Hello and welcome to the aljazeera news hour live from my headquarters and me and its a purana coming up in the next sixty minutes but. The end of an era celebrations in Zimbabwes PresidentRobert Mugabe resigns after thirty seven years and power. Former Vice PresidentEmerson Mangala Gore has second treaded the crisis is expected to take over as the next leader. Lebanese Prime Minister returns to beirut more than two weeks after announcing his resignation in riyadh. And at least fifty people are killed in a Suicide Attack at a mosque in northeastern nigeria. Robert mugabe has resigned as im bob ways president after thirty seven years in power thousands of people have poured out onto the streets to celebrate gabi announce his resignation and that it is a bob noyce parliament to stop efforts to pitch him out of a. Extensive coverage from her body. Jubilation on the streets of harare across the country that Robert Mugabe rule for thirty seven years while to liberation was maybe even days. News demagogy was stepping down came as both houses of Parliament Sat in an extraordinary session to debase the president s impeachment to speak at the speed of the session and told m. P. s that hed received a letter. If. Mugabe wrote that he was resigning with the medias effect voluntarily in order to facilitate a smooth transfer of power. To the crowds outside those who was many thought theyd never have ever since i was born i have never see this day im so for thirty seven years we have been our fathers were there when. You went to war. What were going to bury. Here. Comes an emotional week after the military first took to the streets intervening in Party Politics over his succession it likely means that this man. Will become zimbabwes interim leader i had of elections in. The exuberant now some a cautious. And a person whos been proven. To have learned to listen to people simply what you see what. We want to be one lives. And politicians for you to hold. To trouble me a couple through these demonstrations and which. Was to play the game fairly if it is. We will touch him on you also we are sick and tired. I had for decades been a faithful mugabe lieutenant described as the president s enforcer close to the army and nicknamed the crocodile if you would describe him as a democrat. Many are right to wonder with this era be much different from the past on this night and finale not many care. No one knows whats going to happen next its a new dawn for the country for a people who have only known one leader since the one nine hundred eighty. And lets join her live now just after one oclock in the morning on those historic day harder to salivation is continuing yes they are we are seeing zanu p. F. Supporters opposition supporters still on the streets savoring the moment these are people who up until maybe a few weeks ago didnt see eye to eye musically but they came together and one goal they say the goal was to remove Robert Mugabe and he has resigned so loss of jubilation and amongst them go tell you the personal stories graduates who find work end up selling tomatoes and bananas and cigarettes on the side of the road saying its been you million ating for them theyve wasted their brains everything i just gone downhill in terms of the part of me in zimbabwe so people are still celebrating savoring the moment hoping that the means good news at least for the economy and life can improve for the poorest of the poor and as for what happens next how do you know where is man and god when can we expect him to be sworn and as the next president. Well the army told the marbles yes then t. V. That he is out of the country hes expected to be sworn in either way. And then the real work begins people will wait to see him make his first public appearance and they want to hear what he has to say about the economy and people also killed. Hes going to be anger simmons has this report about him and. Two leaders one side by side who became sworn enemies this is how an extraordinary sequence of events started this is in relation to tell me. Of. Vice president emerson my god what i had been sacked by Robert Mugabe accused of being unreliable disloyal and deceitful speculation pointed towards grace mugabi the president s wife as being behind the move the two had publicly fallen out in the jockeying for position over who should succeed ninety three year old mugabe. That highlighted the two factions splitting the ruling party at the time the military and the war veterans loyal to him and i got grace mugabe as you dubbed g. Forty my god fled abroad but his supporters planned their response and it was dramatic the head of the Defense Forces warned the army would step in if the purges of politicians it favors didnt stop now as later Armored Vehicles rolled into the capital harare we wish to assure the nation that hes excellent the president of the republic of zimbabwe and commander in chief of the same up with different forces. He and his family. And sound and the ass security is going to teach many of my gob is long term supporters had clearly abandoned him. To court. As the president and first. Man god was stayed quiet a tactic that didnt surprise observers of the man who has been nicknamed the crocodile for his style in dealing with opponents he is a one man boy is not allowed to use culpability when you look at it when it was his prose is calculated to. Cause until the person is not knowing what is going to happen. Had been a powerful and loyal member of mugabes inner circle serving as Justice Minister speaker of parliament and Vice President his supporters praise his business acumen and hope he can improve zimbabwes dire Economic Situation if given the chance hes also suggested reengaging with the west after years of International Isolation under the gobby Andrew Simmons aljazeera. No rebuilding the economy is not going to be easy its going to be a lot of hard painful work they also know they need outside help they hope the International Community looks at zimbabwe differently now that the country is no longer going to be isolated economically and politically they are people coming out of it so jobs are created so people with these degrees and cant buy work actually gets to find work and have a their lives improve so a lot of pressure on. What is he the right man for the job only time will tell people watching him very very closely they have huge expectations and people dont want to be disappointed thank you very much for that for now that five correspondent joining us live from harare thank you or people around the world are reacting to mugabes resignation celebrations took place in the streets of neighboring south africa tanya page has the latest from the capital johannesburg. The happy scenes on the streets of harare were echoed here in johannesburg and also in pretoria outside isnt bob with embassy there are many hundreds of thousands of them bob wins in south africa because theyve been driven out of their home country by political persecution and many for economic reasons theyve come here despite lee searching for work although south africas president jacob zuma as the chair of the regional body sendek has tried to take a lead role in encouraging a negotiated settlement in terms of reacting to president mugabes resignation that was left to president of the m. B. A a good long go to take the lead he said he wanted to see a quick return to a political normalcy for the army to return to its barracks and has about wins to now focus on social cohesion and unity the Main Opposition Party in zambia led by hockey and a hitch lemme hes come out and congratulated the zimbabwean people and say that should be a warning to African Leaders that power lines with the people the Opposition Party the main one here in south africa the Democratic Alliance have congratulated his own zimbabwean people and said that they wanted to see free and fair in. That was tanya page from johannesburg now Robert Mugabes wife grace had positioned herself as his potential successor that was before the events that led to his resignation and named grace expensive taste the fifty two year old had become an unpopular figure in the country made baka has more. Rapid rise to prominence has polarized Zimbabwean Society a former secretary in the president ial typing pool she had an affair with her boss forty one. A married soon after. The but the event was described as the wedding of the century shes remained gobby side ever since moving quickly through the ranks of the ruling zanu p. F. Party. She even managed to gain a University Doctorate in two months receiving had to agree from mr mcgarvey himself. As the economy fails a political ambitions have grown the fifty two year old as head of zanu p. F. Swimmin and enjoys an energetic support from the partys youth faction g forty shes also openly flirted with the idea of succeeding her ninety three year old husband to the presidency. But she remains deeply unpopular with wider Zimbabwean Society shes gained a reputation for extravagant spending earning her the nickname grace. The first lady was also accused of assaulting this young model in johannesburg narrowly avoiding an Embarrassing Court case she has become not just a divisive figure but somebody who has been violent and who has frankly been into scrapes and turns of the head of state or certainly the first lady of state and she has been just to public you really humiliate this weeks military operation follows the sacking of the Vice President. After a series of disputes with the first lady grace but gabi may have the president s ear but now god has something potentially more valuable influence over the military many of the o. P. s old guard who fought for independence from britain have grown wary of grace mccarthys intentions putting the military on a collision course with the first lady the president may have barkha aljazeera and we will have more on from barbara a little later in the news hour but lets move on to some other news for now lebanons Prime Ministers have had a day has arrived and bayh vote two weeks after announcing his shock resignation from saudi arabia that it is expected to attend lebanons Independence Day celebrations on wednesday president michel aoun has refused to accept her resignation previously said he was being detained by saudi authorities the op has denied those accusations saying one hundred percent the some day they havent. Have a day back in beirut for the first time really since his sudden resignation on november for sudden resignation which was delivered in a televised address from the saudi capital riyadh it raised a lot of question a resignation that it might take a crisis two weeks really of a lot of uncertainty not just surrounding his resignation but about his circumstances while in taba arabia many in lebanon believe that in one way or another really was being held off really now back in beirut definitely. Like i mentioned those mysterious circumstances there was a diplomatic turmoil over his fate but. There. Really is not immune to political crises or political instability and. People were worried because you found it really at the center of a worsening of a really between saudi arabia and one. Nation was in saudi arabia move against hezbollah hezbollah being an ally of iran a lot being a member of. Government they wanted to curb hezbollahs influence. Who moved lets say backfired because the lebanese came together from across the political divide. The fact that the Prime Minister. Was practically a hostage that is the feeling here of course saudi arabia denied this. But the country came together but how long will this unity last because the differences are still there and the question remains. Just on his resignation or is he going to withdraw it we understand is that the president is going to try to dissuade him from resigning. To try to find a way. Out of a compromise. He will withdraw his resignation. Well lets get more on that now and put some of those questions to our guest political analyst at the outset of washington d. C. Hes joining us live from there very good to have you with us on aljazeera so hes back in beirut but do you think he was percent has resignation i mean i dont clearly he went so far with all the saudi calculation here not basically rescind. I think theres addition no theres talks. Between lifting the promise of french and egyptian living diplomacy to basically go between. Saudi arabia and to find what would. Also of course. Which what kind of government we will have when the election some are talking the election will be could be maybe early next year to basically make it. But at least the crisis. The beginning of the crisis. The. Liberties issue became a nationalized. Local issue as it was between two thousand and four two thousand fourteen. Thousand seventy. More aspects of. Well see what will happen theres a lot of scenarios that you can expect moving forward and we have seen so far since the resignation and credible unity as will hurt from our correspondent in a sense the resignation by everyone from president our own to hezbollah. In the days in the months ahead where the Political Uncertainty now do you expect that unity to last. I mean it should stay for the minimum its indeed a mizuno was right its a rare moment of you have a culturally basically who despite all the International Intervention in it at least she was also a problem and stood they stood by each other in that sense they said to the players that we dont want to go for this point that we have a stability we have other big plans in mind and thats a bit of maturity for liberal sr thousand and five when the syrian left liberal basically was struggling to to basically have a Decision Making process who are going to be influential serious anybodies were learning how to govern themselves and it was a moment of maturity in how they dealt with this and nobody is excluded from that except a few politicians who had their own interest which is expected but now we have to see has to say get out of iraq the saudis are asking we have to have more demands from yemen as well also say in the government the saudis are saying you. Should be out of the government so a lot theres lot of complication there should be a compromise at some point led by the french and by egyptians to focus maybe on the election postpone any big problems have a neutral government with no trying to take stands between iran and saudi arabia and try to basically overcome the crisis that was partly you know more external than internal had was not basically produced by the system there are a lot of moving parts and i cant thank you very much for your time your insights on this story. Well we have plenty more ahead on the new zeland clothing syrian president bashar asad makes a surprise visit to russia. The latest in the search for an argentine submarine thats been missing for nearly a week plus. Im Andy Richardson in leigh sales thats all at the exact point where in five years time the world cup will be kicking off. At least fifty people have been killed a suicide bomb attack at a mosque in nigeria the attack took place during morning prayers in the town of movie in the northeastern state. Sponsibility police say the bombing bears the hallmarks of the. Nigerias president home of the hard core the attack very cruel and pledged to secure the state of the us has the latest from the capital of. The attack came as washable as were gathering for Early Morning prayers Movie Service been relatively calm since its occupation by boko haram and later they were chased after one month stay in the city so the city its obvious not far away from the boundary of that border state the epicenter of boko haram insurgency weve seen in the last few weeks or so how but what are the fighters from the forest this and the supporters have invaded communities like medically like. The headquarters of medical and have killed a lot of people they attempted in the last one week particularly to retake the town but were repealed by the military so a lot of people still believe that fighters belonging to boko haram although the group has not claimed responsibility have infiltrated communities that are no far away from the boundary with but no state so we probably will see the rise in the number of the people who died or who will die because. The severity of injuries they sustained in the Early Morning said jack the Security Services say theyre stepping up their operations in the north east of the country to calm things down and to finally get. Over the last few months weve seen how bookworm has adapted and continuing to target soft targets in the north east of nigeria so in president Bashar Al Assad has held talks with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and a surprise visit to russia on monday i mean the head of a summit in sochi where person will host the leaders off turkey and a Syrian Opposition conference and solving arabia challenge reports ahead of a crucial few days for syria. Put on a last minute show with political Stage Management a surprise visit by pascha to russia had a meeting with the military top brass who prevented his government from collapse. And he told me today during their own talks of the thanks of the efforts of the russian army syria has been saved as a state much has been done to stabilize the situation i