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Does the power-sharing deal in Zimbabwe hail a new dawn?

By Jonathan Miller

Updated on 16 September 2008

Foreign affairs correspondent Jonathan Miller asks Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai how much power he now really has.

Some evidence of a new Zimbabwe: 24 hours after President Mugabe signed a power-sharing deal with the oppostion, the country's beleagured currency has had its strongest day for years.

Many ordinary Zimbabweans are largely hopeful about the future. But Channel 4 News has filmed evidence of opposition supporters beaten and rounded up - hours after the deal was signed.

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