i could bury him. on al-jazeera. zimbabwe's ruling party wins a majority in parliament. we're taking you now to live pictures coming in from harare we understand the electoral commission is announcing the results let's listen in to what they're saying. they're right in the in a move to make and finally i will give a summary of the result of provinces. by a matter of conclusion. irrespective of when with a constituency the result as follows the weather in d.c. eighty two thousand five hundred seven. francis hash tag ninety eight he didn't vent to and ninety two both over. my passion came to see alliance four

thousand five hundred thirty. our idea that the night. would be good fun i just being in c eight fifty eight can check a lead agency into both will square it again than seven thousand seven hundred seventy two votes with a. fifty one votes. cité p.p. eighty one foods sample mcdonald p r c fifty four votes accordingly. of gin fun of party has been declared julie elected member of the national assembly for mckinney with constituency. in respect of the national assembly constituency the results are as follows. the type e.p. five hundred ninety six votes. of twelve thousand seven hundred eight votes.

in d.c. alliance six thousand five hundred sixty three votes. no look clear what independent seven hundred seventy seven votes lucy caving am d.c.t. five hundred eighty four votes share or else an independent ninety five votes to appear as simon p r c one thousand two hundred sixty seven votes accordingly. he or i were listening for viewers who are just joining us there were listening and watching the official results being announced in zimbabwe's election that's reelect will commission official very thing out is live for us from the capitol and haro just put it all into context for us i gather what we're what we're listening to right now is an announcement district by district for the parliamentary results right. exactly election officials are reading out what's left of the parliamentary

results after that they say they will start reading out the presidential results i don't know how long that's going to take it could be province by province which could take hours we just don't know people are just waiting for the final presidential result to be announced we have the results and a lot has been happening if you look behind me water cannon trucks and riot police cars some opposition supporters very very angry adamant that this election has been stolen have marched to the results aren't allowed inside and they're saying things like why have election observers allowed the rulings on to steal this election they're very very angry they're not happy that the african union sadek have said that voting was peaceful they are happy that they're saying was free and fair and the election of service have been saying that the current verify these claims made by the opposition that there was a massive rigging and ballot stuffing. there's a lot for us to go through their room and what you've just been speaking about

let's take it one step at a time just to clarify the situation for us first of all the results that we were listening to being read out for the remaining fifty eight seats correct in other words zanu p.f. has got at least one hundred nine that's not going to change unless it goes down correct. exactly it's pretty clear that the parliamentary. party is very clearly in the lead. all right so now tell us a little bit about we understood what you were saying the authors of the opposition are not happy with this result what about the opposition leader himself from the party what are they saying about the results of. well today they haven't officially spoken and we spoke to some of the senior officials in the party and they say they do have proof that this election was rigged they say they have evidence of extra ballot boxes ballot papers being taken to rural constituencies they say some

results have just gone missing in opposition strongholds and they want to know what's going on they are adamant that the selection has been what i expected maybe when we get the presidential results the main opposition leader nelson chamisa may give an announcement he's really said that he's confident he's won and he's not going to accept defeat now of course people are concerned about the security situation it is karma at the moment opposition supporters are being allowed to march in protest but people are concerned if it turns violent what does it mean if this election is disputed of course in the country into another crisis precisely point are we hearing from the opposition party members calling on supporters to at least remain calm and how many of the scenes exist like the one behind you we have people you know standing not very far from i think you said water cannon trucks very angry. localized i mean in harare to say they

are outside the opposition party headquarters a lot more people are outside here the results and it is people just waiting for this presidential result the opposition leaders themselves have said that they have not told people to come on to the streets they said this is all spontaneous they have nothing to do with it and they are urging their supporters to be calm and not accept the result if their leader nelson chamisa doesn't win is confident that they have. pretty much the day or also actually waiting for that final announcement what is clear is that whoever loses this election is not going to accept it what's happening now is that the european union observer mission are giving a briefing on how they think the election went a few days ago the voting in some areas in some areas was totally disorganized but they weren't sure where they were just logistical errors or it was deliberate. or right it's clearly a very fluid situation thank you for now i'm sure going to come back to you in

a little bit. congolese opposition leader former rebel leader is back home after serving ten years in jail for war crimes short time ago he was welcomed by hundreds of supporters in the capital kinshasa was freed from the hague after an appeal and now wants to run elections catherine soy is in contrast. yeah many many of the companies they khalifas well were accompanying him there is a lot of security here and that all morning and the supporters who say they never expected to be here when any mention of it was the bit of a problem. the airport. had been happening between them he. was one of the police saying that they wanted to watch him directly to the.

people but then he was saying that there is no way up that he can. hear it coming and. very. likely then. i think that election was a lot of people think that he and the political. mentum to the politics here are all over the yes the opposition has been. canceled and they like me right now. the president will have the bill or he can you can call them i got the reason to rally behind one and i think he played

him like he is already. a typical one candidate because that's the only way to defeat the ruling classes now the afghan army says it's taking control of the sin city of jalalabad after a series of attacks that killed dozens of the folks the government made the decision to withdraw the responsibility from the police after an attack on a government refugee office from chewstick fifteen people were killed in the past three months one hundred and sixty civilians have been killed in the province by ice so far for taliban attacks. and the afghan army says more than one hundred fifty eisel fighters surrendered on tuesday that's after a heavy gun battle between eisel and the taliban in the northern jos jan province the government says more than one hundred fifty eisel fighters were killed and one hundred wounded. and afghanistan will hold presidential elections on april the twentieth next year the announcement comes as people prepare for palm entry

elections in less than three months all afghans have had to have to have had to register for a chance to vote but it's fraught with difficulties shall about us reports from kabul. hundreds of women recall the names of the countryman compiling an electronic list of who decide afghanistan's next. nine million people have registered to vote a quarter of the population but here that means nine million manually trees and this is the. name of that person and their father named them for their it is very day then business. next to. this hospitalized with seven hundred people working for two hundred dollars a month out of an old un compound on the outskirts of kabul the registration forms are being flown or truck to a military a schools the nation's election chief wants afghans to feel they can trust the

process despite logistical and security challenges. unfortunately there are in secure areas in afghanistan so we can't register people there those areas that are under the control of the government and that we have access to people should go there for registration the government assisted in putting our registration centers there there's been a lot of criticism from election watchdogs observers about the registration process that they may be fake or duplicate registrations are you concerned about that. of course there is some complaints about the registration when it's not possible to do biometric registration and if it's a manual system like ours it's natural there may be some duplicate registrations. name is in charge of ten thousand observers on election day and says registrations need to be chicks more thorough and voters assigned to specific polling stations there is a willingness among the people although they are not really comments about what's happening but without an election that is neither and then if i did think election

where they made their life better. afghans died in their hundreds this year for a chance to make their lives better the worst was in april in kabul where fifty seven people were killed and more than one hundred wounded in a suicide bombing at a voter registration seem to afghanistan is working its way towards credible elections one keystroke at a time. from power outages to bombings patiently they push on charged with holding an election that cannot be disputed chelate ballasts out jazeera. now there's no letup in california's wildfires and what's now shaping as one of the worst seasons in the state's history seventeen fires are burning across the u.s. state where eight people have been killed in the past week the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred twenty thousand hectares of land last year was the worst season on record when nearly five hundred thirty thousand hectares burned

but in some parts of california where the fires have been put out people are facing another threat governor i was on the reports from the city of reading. the city of reading in the state of california remains envelop by a thick layer of smoke and ash that is blocking everything including the sun it's been like this for the past five days making homes is heating advice from health officials who say any time people are outside the should wear masks i've lived here for twenty five years and and you know i've seen a lot of fires in a lot of fires but it's it's pretty bad this time we've had like ash and embers falling by our house and. you know still it's been a week still you see you know little. ash falling. all over town in air quality index is any number of above two hundred is considered dangerously

unhealthy in reading it's registered as high as two hundred seventy three in recent days local hospitals are busy with people suffering from breathing problems particularly the people most vulnerable some people have something called c o p d which is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease typically it comes from smoking for a long time what happens to them though because of their breathing in these fine particles and it's getting in the lung and fortune causes inflammation and there are ways and their little muscles in their lungs constrict and so it makes it very difficult for them to bring you it's not only the smoke in the air that's causing problems it's also what's happening here on the ground when the fire came through here it completely incinerated all of the natural vegetation there's not one single tree that's still alive not even one leaf is still here it's causing the temperatures to be even hotter warmer drier and causing more health problems. the

ash plank it's the ground that was once fertile land for plants. in a city where the flames are gone but the health hazards are not people still can't breathe easy was till the smoke has lifted gabriel's andro al-jazeera ready for nya. still ahead on al-jazeera south africa's president says he'll go ahead with land reforms which would see why farmers denied compensation. a makeshift medical center for people on the brink of famine in what was once known as yemen's breadbasket. hello there is quite quiet over the northern parts of asia the moment we do have this is a snaking area of cloud head that's bringing us

a little bit of rain and it looks like it's going to be picking up as it sinks its way southwards across parts of mongolia there for thursday and friday on thursdays chart there you can also see this is larry of cloud that's making its way towards shanghai this is a depression is reformed actually it was a typhoon is the one that worked its way across japan is now reformed and it's still strengthening again as it makes its way towards shanghai so shanghai may see a few outbreaks of rain on thursday but the main event will be friday that's when we see the worst of the storm with some damaging gusts of wind and some very heavy rain that is likely to give us a problem with flooding if we had a bit further south we can see that system again that's working its way toward shanghai thursday few showers for us in shanghai but the rain really gets going on friday with all strong winds as well further south as also some showers here over many of the southeastern parts of china including for us in hong kong actually that what weather than stretches further west across into chung do that all the way down into me and mo where we've had reports of flooding recently on the rains hit remain

heavy before the towards the south and for the philippines very wet for thursday and particularly friday i wouldn't be surprised if we heard reports of flooding here. the british.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap on have lines the e used chief observer says he doesn't understand why the outcome of zimbabwe's presidential vote is taking so long to be announced supporters of the opposition are already refusing to accept the results of monday's vote the electoral commission says the ruling. won a majority of seats in parliament. congolese former rebel leader. back home but was convicted of war crimes of the hague but he was released in may after and the peel now wants to run the long delayed elections scheduled for december. the date for afghanistan's presidential elections has been announced the vote will be held on april twentieth next year the presidential vote will take place six months off to the parliamentary and local elections scheduled for october

. south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation sir ramaphosa says the a.n.c. will try to amend the constitution with the support of the left wing economic freedom fighters the issue of land ownership is one of the most contentious in south africa with some pointing to neighboring zimbabwe's economic collapse after land reforms there the intention of this proposed amendment is to promote redress advance economic development increase our going to cultural production and food security it will also transform their unjust spatial realities in urban areas to accelerate agrarian reform the a.n.c.

has further directed government to urgently initiate farmer support programs in depressed areas before the festival this year this should include supporting farmers with two tractors fertilizers c extension services finance and access to key infrastructure. yemen's who three rebels say they'll stop attacks in the red sea for two weeks to support peace efforts it comes after attacks on two vessels last week and one of the world's most important trade routes the bab and strait the say they targeted warships belonging to the saudi amorality coalition the saudis say one of their oil tankers was damaged the u.n. special envoy to yemen has been shuttling between the warring parties he wants to avoid an assault by the coalition on the port city of her data which is on the red sea aid groups are worried the fighting could make

a humanitarian crisis even worse they're warning of a second cholera epidemic and more than a million people are on the verge of starvation how about a report from djibouti just across from yemen. this is the impact of more than three years of war the city of sardar stronghold for both the fighters was once known as humans bread basket much of it is now destroyed people are desperate and on the brink of all farming roads and bridges have not been spared either limiting the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already so free. is at an all time high at a teen shack that now serves as a temporary health center acutely malnourished children are that high protein based food. and the women are scared to death every hour we see a plane i'm not exaggerating at all we wish for peace peace and safety. but the

prospect of peace in yemen remains of a more distant relentless efforts by the u.n. to broker a peace have failed on one side others who think rebels trying hard to keep control of huge swathes of the control on the other pro-government militias back by the sooty u.a.e. coalition. in recent days they have intensified their outcomes to wrestle control of the vital part of the data from both the fight is the city has been heavily militarized forcing half of its population to flee controlling the day that is important to both sides it's the main and two point four much needed aid and most imports into yemen this is with from australia more than anything else the yemeni people now desperately need peace with peace and stability we can start to get people back on their feet start to rebuild their livelihoods their

fears any escalation in the fighting could cause a shock tunneled of white told put holes in poverty bus station in what is already the world's last two monetary in crisis some twenty two million people in the yemen need many of the war displaced have no way of surviving without food hundreds on their fears to outbreak of diseases strikes have destroyed yemen's water and sanitation facilities something that's already call from outbreak of cholera the u.n. now say the complete could be one asked like a wave form on the brink of the fatal disease how many other wild aziza djibouti. now dozens of people were injured when a passenger plane crashed and caught fire in northern mexico shortly after takeoff all one hundred three people on board survived the brazilian built embraer jet belonged to the national carrier aeromexico it was flying from durango to mexico city the state governor says the plane was hit by

a gust of wind as it left the runway the remains of more than fifty u.s. soldiers who died during the korean war six decades ago are heading home there's been a follower on a ceremony at a south korean air base before they were taken on a flight to hawaii experts say the identification process could take anything from days to years rob mcbride reports from seoul. one of the clearest signs yet of improving relations on the korean peninsula. the return of the remains of u.s. soldiers killed in the korean war remains that are being sent to hawaii in the hope d.n.a. testing can identify them it is appropriate to go to recognize what it is we are doing. encouraged by recent cooperation with north korea on this humanitarian effort we're going to name all the

trends for fifty five sets of remains on the twenty seventh of july last friday the remains began their journey from north korea last week. but it's estimated the remains of five thousand three hundred u.s. soldiers are still in north korea waiting to be unearthed. the u.s. continues to make extensive efforts to recover those killed in battlefields in viet nam laos and south korea but recovery from north korea has always been hampered by poor diplomatic relations the promise to repatriate these remains was one of the agreements reached in the single poor summit between u.s. president donald trump and north korea's kim jong il and we have many others coming but i want to thank chairman kim in front of the media for fulfilling a promise that he made to me and i'm sure that he will continue to fulfill that

promise as they search and search and search if relations continue to improve it's thought the u.s. and north korea could organize joint searches for more remains. and possibly declare a formal end to the war in which these soldiers died sixty five years ago so our next step. probably will be taken by u.s. north korea south korea and china will be how to deal with. a potential declaration or fishel end of the korean war there has been suspended. fifty three critics of the singapore summit to point out that the return of these remains was reasonably easy to deliver and that the main object of the summit north korea is denuclearization is as elusive as ever none the less this is a chief meant is rich in symbolism for all the former enemies offering the prospect

of what improving relations might lead to. and for some of the families of missing u.s. soldiers the prospect of final closure a generation on rob mcbride al jazeera so iran has a chronic shortage of water it's estimated that some form of drought ninety seven percent of the country some blame the weather others think it's a u.s. conspiracy and environmental experts blame government mismanagement them by stopping reports from to her on every day a small group of iranian farmers meet up at the edge of their town once where the fields of despond lush with crops now barren land by a dry can now they beg for government help. where rainin citizens too we are aliens who live in this part of the country we just want to be hurt people are really tired the can't make ends meet they go to bed hungry most of the lost an eye

during fighting between police and protesting farmers in march acute water shortages are worsening problems such as inflation and unemployment. and there are warning signs of rising anger. more conflicts are expected to break out an empty stomach doesn't have any religion people are going to have to fight for every single drop of water especially in dry regions like this that are hit hard by drought and climate change environmental experts say weather is a small part of the problem they blame years of government mismanagement for the manmade water crisis since the islamic revolution in one nine hundred seventy nine the government's rush to develop industries meant skipping environmental impact assessments before building dams and piping water around the country one solution has been to try using less water for things like these but most of iran's water is used on farms where old ways of watering crops means waste on an industrial scale environmental experts also say the government needs to take the problem more

seriously. first we need to revise some laws and adopt the procedure for the stable development and management of water resources so we can better preserve water and control usage so we can be hopeful to have better conditions in the next one or two decades even by summer standards these river beds in the north of the capital tehran are drier than usual that's being felt downstream where they feed ancient underground springs. from up here you can really get a sense of the impact of the country's water shortage on public facilities in just twenty years a single generation what was once a sizable body of water has been reduced to little more than a waiting for. people who live here say they had to plug part of the pool to collect enough water for kids to play and escape the summer heat. some of them are old enough to remember when the pool was full oh does something you know that's what i remember my childhood i mean my friends used to bike here and swim now it's

fifty square metres back then it was about five thousand it was deep and considered dangerous for swimming. for now it's enough for these kids to cool off and have some fun and concern perhaps that when they have children of their own the little water they have left probably won't be here same bus ravi old jazeera to her own. welcome back let's recap the headlines now the used chief election observer says he doesn't understand why the outcomes in bob ways presidential vote is taking so long to be announced supporters of the opposition already refusing to accept the results of monday's vote the electoral commission says the ruling zanu p.f. won a majority of seats in parliament. congolese former rebel leader. has returned to a welcome from hundreds of supporters in the capital kinshasa bamber was convicted

of war crimes at the hague but freed in may after an appeal he now wants to run in long delayed elections scheduled for december catherine soy has more from can shasta. and from the political. momentum to the five hundred yard the yes i'll be seventy five beggarly cancer. right now perhaps the most formidable final. well when i got the recent. one. was. one. anyway the. gunman targeting a convoy carrying election material in mali have killed at least four soldiers eight attackers also died after

a shootout in the southern region of segue to vote counting has begun in mali following sunday's presidential election thousands of polling stations were disrupted by violence. the date for afghanistan's presidential elections has been announced the vote will be held on april the twentieth next year the presidential vote will take place six months after parliamentary and local elections scheduled for october there's no let up in california as wildfires and wants now shaping up to be one of the worst seasons in the state's history seventeen fires are burning across the u.s. state where eight people have been killed in the past week since side story now.

reaching out to teheran donald trump says he's ready to meet iran's president any time and with no preconditions so what's behind this sudden off and how will trump and gauge iran when he's trying to build a regional alliance against this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. u.s. president donald trump has extended an olive branch to iran just a week after he threatened the country now says he's ready to meet iranian president hassan rouhani any time and without preconditions but his secretary of state quickly backtracked from statement adding a few caveats to any potential meeting my palm pale wants.