i'm burned off in berlin we begin the day on a day that will go down in history now these are the first hours of a zimbabwe minus mugabi the embattled president turned iron fist ruler resigned today the man whose presence was matched for almost four decades by his omnipotence outside the rule of law did not show up to let it all go instead he sent word of his resignation by letter to the speaker of zimbabwe's parliament his absence some will say a final act of disdain for the democracy that he dismantled for others mugabe's sudden a strange moment didn't come soon enough. how quickly a new chapter of history in zimbabwe has been written exactly one week ago tonight there were reports of tanks rolling into the capital harare my colleague christine