Interview with Morgan Tsvangirai; Uhuru Kenyatta Sworn In As Kenya's President
ANDERSON: You're watching Connect the World live from London. I'm Becky Anderson. It's 18 minutes past 9:00. Now Kenya has sworn in its new president.</s>UHURU KENYATTA, PRESIENT OF KENYA: That I will diligently discharge my duties.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And perform my functions.</s>KENYATTA: And perform my functions...</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ...in the office of the president of the Republic of Kenya.</s>KENYATTA: In the office of the president of the Republic of Kenya.</s>ANDERSON: Uhuru Kenyatta took the oath in front of thousands of supporters in Nairobi, including the American civil rights activist Jesse Jackson. At 51, Mr. Kenyatta is Kenya's youngest ever president. And he wasted no time setting out his political agenda inside what was a packed stadium. CNN's Nima Elbagir was there.</s>NIMA ELBAGIR, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Kenya's fourth president Uhuru Kenatta taking his first lap of the stadium and hear the voices. You can see the crowd is going wild. It's been a historic day here in Nairobi, a day of fun. The first time a president has been sworn in under the new constitution, a constitution that mandates, legally, that he be sworn in, in this public fashion to really draw a line behind the dark days that characterized the 2007 inauguration of the previous incumbent Mwai Kibaki where many here felt that the surreptitious, after dark nature of his inauguration added to the violence that marred the 2007 contested poll. But of course, after today there is always tomorrow. And with tomorrow will come business as usual. High up on that list will have to be the indictment, the charges that Uhuru Kenyatta and his vice president William Ruto face for crimes against humanity under allegations that they played a part in the violence that threatened to tear apart Kenya in 2007. President Kenyatta and Vice President Ruto both believe that many of their supporters here would stand behind them in saying that the can both do their jobs in running Kenya and, as they put it, clear their names. There is, of course, a long road ahead, but there is no denying today how far Kenya has come. Nima Elbagir, CNN, Nairobi.</s>ANDERSON: A marriage of convenience, that is how Morgan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwe's prime minister, describes his country's power sharing agreement with Robert Mugabe. A general election is due in Zimbabwe this year. And in a moment, we'll be hearing more from Mr. Tsvangirai. First, a look at how this political pairing came to be.</s>ANDERSON: 1980, Zimbabwe gains its independence from Britain. And guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe wins the country's first parliamentary election. He's ruled the country ever since. Among Mugabe's early and most ardent supporters was Morgan Tsvangirai, an ambitious union leader who has since become his fiercest rival, leading strikes and forming his own political party. During his bid for the presidency in 2002, Tsvangirai was accused of treason and a suspected plot to assassinate Mugabe, but was later acquitted of the charges.</s>TSVANGIRAI: It was not Morgan Tsvangirai who was on trial, it was democracy and the freedoms of the people of Zimbabwe.</s>ANDERSON: Undeterred, Tsvangirai continued to challenge Mugabe. And in 2007 was arrested on his way to an anti-government rally and severely beaten in police custody.</s>TSVANGIRAI: This physical threat of physical harm to individuals, me included, has not had any effect at all in discouraging further (inaudible) of the opposition.</s>ANDERSON: Indeed, a year later he claimed victory in the presidential election with a majority vote over Mugabe. Though it ended in farce, with the electoral commission calling for a runoff poll.</s>TSVANGIRAI: We in the MDC resolve that we will no longer participate in this violent, illegitimate sham of an election process.</s>ANDERSON: In the end, a compromise, Mugabe remained president and Tsvangirai was declared prime minister in a power sharing agreement that, to say the least, has been uneasy.</s>ANDERSON: Morgan Tsvangirai is in London. I asked him earlier to explain the reason for entering into that power sharing agreement with Robert Mugabe five years ago. This is what he said.</s>TSVANGIRAI: It was a bleak situation. And I think what was important at that stage was to intervene and save the country. So, what were the objectives? Firstly, is to contain the hyper inflation and stabilize the economy. Secondly, to reform, to give reforms that will be necessary to carry out a free and fair election. And thirdly, to intervene in those critical social sectors like water sanitation, education and else. So, on those three benchmarks, I can tell you that anyone will confirm that things are much better than they were in 2008.</s>ANDERSON: Many people I speak to in Zimbabwe, with respect, are frankly fed up with your leadership. They say that you have compromised the power sharing agreement. There are stories about your social life. There were stories about your finances. So some go so far as to say you have legitimized Robert Mugabe. Does your MDC party, and do you still have any teeth?</s>TSVANGIRAI: Well, the -- let's look at it this way, the MDC was formed to achieve a certain benchmark. We have gone through a road map that we have designed, we have outlined for ourselves. What are we going to do to confront this crisis? Firstly, we said we're going to drag -- we're going to apply pressure to drag Mugabe to the negotiating table. We are going to negotiate a transition. We're going to have a constitution and we're going to go to free and fair election. So far, the three steps have been achieved. We are on the rail on the objectives that we set for ourselves. Now, when people criticize, they want us to go back to the confrontational state. We are part of the government. There's no way we can be confrontational when we have set a path for ourselves.</s>ANDERSON: Let me put this to you again, they don't want to see, it seems to me, your social life and your finances making headlines when for so many years people in Zimbabwe and on the outside world relied on you as this sort of official opposition figure who might be able to take Mugabe down. At this stage do you think you're still in the position to do that? Or is it now time for a new generation of Zimbabwean leaders?</s>TSVANGIRAI: Well, I think that I cannot determine. I mean, the determination of who is going to be leader at any one point is to the people. We go to a congress and the people elect their leaders. I've just come out of a congress, people still have very good faith in my leadership. But it's not about the personal, it's about the objective. I have (inaudible) Mugabe down. Let's not be paranoid about an individual, let's be clear about what the role road map and the objective of why we feel the MDC is all about, it's about change, it's about transformation. Are we on course? Definitely on course. Are we going to deliver this? Definitely we're going to deliver... ANDERSON; Does it include Mugabe or not, though?</s>TSVANGIRAI: No. President Mugabe will be contested, just as I will be contested. And it will go to the people. and the people will choose. ANDERSON; How would you describe life in Zimbabwe today?</s>TSVANGIRAI: I think there's comparatively, comparatively better than it was in 2008. People have food. People can actually have real money. People can have stability and normalcy, that was uncharacteristic in 2008.</s>ANDERSON: It's a country worth fighting for.</s>TSVANGIRA: It's everything worth fighting for.</s>ANDERSON: Morgan Tsvangirai speaking to me earlier. You're watching Connect the World. The latest world news headlines as you would expect at the bottom of the hour here on CNN. Plus, it's been described as a complicated relationship as the queen prepares to attend the funeral of the former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. We're going to take a look at how the pair got on. And fasten your seat belts and do hold on to your hats, our resident aviation expert Mr. Richard Quest will explain why turbulence is -- well, it's on the rise. Plus, ahead of their Champion's League showdown with Barcelona, we're going to put one of PSG's stars through what is our quick fire challenge. Stick with us.