the tragic loss of life. on al-jazeera. live fire on the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare as the army is the ploy to break out fall physician protests over monday's and lection results. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program opposition leader john receives a hero's welcome when his return home to the democratic republic of congo plus. i'm saying in the south of tehran where iran's water crisis is making it more difficult to beat the summer heat. and the three d. technology making it possible to print guns at home the u.s.

courts are debating whether that's a good idea. thank you for joining us military vehicles and our troops are on the streets of zimbabwe's capital harare to try to disperse hundreds of opposition. the soldiers have been firing live rounds and there are reports that at least one person has been killed the protesters are angry about alleged vote rigging in the country's election the president them assuming god was parsi has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known. how to live now from the capital harare so what is the latest on the situation on the streets of the capital where you are. well it looks like the soldiers have gone back to the barracks the area outside the national results center is now quiet they

are a few riot police that are being deployed in the guarding key buildings like that when you see over there this involved the electoral commission and then the one coming up the zanu p.f. party headquarters because somebody up with his supporters had tried to jump over that wall jump over the fence and try and destroy some of the posts this day you seen a few people walking around the soldiers when they came out here the reason why they were deployed is because the riot police see many couldn't handle the protesters so when the soldiers came to city people if you want to walk past this area you do so quickly you don't stop and loiter because understandably people are quite tense at the moment now things are calm as you can see people awaiting of course to see when these final presidential results will be announced and if the main opposition leader nelson chamisa loses it how will the supporters react i'm ok harris as you said we are still waiting for part of the results of the presidential ones but talk

us through the other election results and why they're proving so controversial. well all the parliamentary salts have been announced and the readings on a pier party has two thirds majority in parliament they got most of the votes from the rule areas to dish and the people in the rural areas have always voted for sunapee if you speak to some of them because i gave us a lad and gave us food the opposition insists they did well in the rural areas and they say that they allege that people in the rural areas some of them were intimidated into voting for been allegations other people fissionables have denied to the opposition insists that they have their own set of results and they're threatening to release them but according to know here in zimbabwe if they do release those results they could be arrested and that how i mean obviously we've seen how the opposition supporters feel they've made it very clear we could hear anything from the party and. do you think they're just waiting until we get the rest of the results of the presidential vote. well we're told that nelson chamisa

was planning to have a press conference sometime in the day it just never happened we don't know why it's we know that the leadership are in meetings possibly planning a way forward i stiffed him to make some kind of statement or appearance if not tonight then certainly by tomorrow when we could get an indication of some of the presidential results i know that the police are in a meeting right now assuming possibly to talk about what happened today how to prevent what happened today from happening again i'm standing be a lot of the anxious because one cease fire the results are announced they're concerned they could be violence if the one who loses doesn't except. for her you'll be monitoring all developments for us from harare for the moment her because so thank you. democratic republic of congo opposition leader and former rebel commander. is back

home after serving ten years in jail for war crimes he was welcomed. by sauza of supporters of the air force and on the roads of conscious or member was freed from jail in the netherlands after a successful appeal of the international criminal court in the hague he now wants to run in the centre's elections catherine sawyer has been following events in the capital. the highlight for many people today was when john pierre bemba peered through a window at this party headquarters he was there for about fifteen minutes with his wife waving at the hundreds of supporters who were here to welcome him in the town people went into a frenzy singing his praises and chanting remember for president member for president saying that he is the only candidate he is the only leader who can provide the change of leadership that this country needs are very dramatic scenes from the airport to this place he was this court said by

a very huge police contingent who fired tear gas and supporters were blocking the road wanting him to address them but i think one of the conditions he was given is that he cannot make stopovers to address his speech there saying that he provides the much needed momentum in the politics of the d r c over the years the opposition has been divided and we can and people are saying perhaps he could bring them together to rally behind one candidate and all this really making a lot of of of his opponents both in opposition and the ruling party very uncomfortable because people say he is still a very popular leader and in back in two thousand and six he did he was a runner up to president joseph kabila in a presidential runoff and a lot of people are saying that he was his fault was stolen from the afghan army says it's taking control of the eastern city of jalalabad after

a series of attacks the decision follows the deaths of fifteen people in a laundry on a government refugee office office in the city on tuesday in the past three months one hundred sixty civilians have been killed and i saw taliban attacks in the us. 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 province the government says more than one hundred fifty fighters were killed and one hundred wounded. well afghanistan's election body has announced presidential elections will be held in april next year all afghans must register to vote a drawn out process that has been marred by accusations of fraud and abuse. reports from kabul. hundreds of women recall the names of the countryman compiling an electronic list of who decide afghanistan's new. nine million people have

registered to vote a quarter of the population but here that means nine million trees and this is the . name of that person. there it is very day then business. next. with seven hundred people working for two hundred dollars a month out of an old u.n. compound on the outskirts of kabul the registration forms are being flown all trucked here on to military a schools the nation's election chief wants afghans to feel they can trust the process despite logistical and security challenges. unfortunately they're 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 addiction watchdogs observers about the registration

process that there 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 chips more thorough early and voters assigned to specific polling stations there is a willingness among the people although they are not very comments about stopping by election that is neither needed for the election but it made their life better. afghans died in the hundreds this year for a chance to make their lives better the worst was in april in kabul with 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 critical elections one keystroke at a time. from power outages to bombings patiently they pushed charged

with holding an election that cannot be disputed. syrian government forces have regained control of all the land along the border with the israeli occupied golan heights i saw linked fighters gave up their last pocket of territory in the area after a six week military campaign and according to russian media pro iranian forces withdrew to eighty five kilometers from israeli health territories israel had asked from moscow support to help keep keep back pro iranian troops yemen's who the rebels say they will stop attacks in the red sea for two weeks to support peace efforts it follows attacks on two vessels last week in one of the world's most important trade routes the strait the attacks are hitting a vital lifeline for yemenis struggling to access much needed food and medical care mohammed the reports now from djibouti just across from. this is the impact on

three years of war the city of. fighters was most known as humans bread basket much of it is now destroyed people are desperate and on the brink of. 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 children of that high protein peanut based food. reading out of a get the vin are scared to death every hour we see a plane i'm not exaggerating at all be vision 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 a failed on one side other 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 that 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 there are many people now desperately in 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 humanitarian crisis some twenty two million people in the yemen

need many of the war displaced have no way of surviving without food hundreds and 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 azita djibouti. still to come here on al-jazeera. as rates of violence against women store protesters take to the streets of south america demanding government action and flames continue to rage in california but even in areas where the fires have been contained residents face and the air quality threat details next.

hello there shanghai's weather is about to get rather wild again if we look at the satellite picture we can see this spiraling area of cloud just in the far eastern corner of arm up there that is gradually working its way towards the west and it's strengthening as it does so this used to be a thai food is the one that worked its way across japan then fizzled out and began to reform off q shoot and now it's working its way steadily towards the west so by the time it hits shanghai then we're expecting it to have the winds of a tropical storm so fairly ferocious but it's the rain that's going to cause most of the problems so shanghai and the surrounding region could see some very very heavy downpours as we head through friday and into saturday to further south you see plenty of showers here some of them very heavy and they stretch all the way towards the west and across into me and ma to it's over towards a little bit further west with still low that we've got the worst of the weather over many parts of bangladesh in the eastern parts of india very wet at the moment

and that's the way it's going to stay for thursday and friday actually that what weather was there with this in nepal and here we have had reports of flooding towards the west though generally looking a fair amount dry ahead many of us are seeing plenty of dry spells maybe even some blue skies in places around the coast though still some of the showers could turn out to be a little bit lively. capturing a moment in time snapshots of other lives other stories. providing a glimpse into someone else's work. inspiring documentaries from impassioned filmmakers everybody's going to. be. on al-jazeera.

television barbara sarah here's a reminder of the top stories from al-jazeera soldiers in zimbabwe's capital harare have fired live ammunition to disperse opposition supporters protesting at delays to the presidential results the electoral commission says the rulings on the p.f.a. has won the parliamentary vote democratic republic of congo opposition leader has been welcomed by supporters on his return to the country the former rebel commander was freed from jail in the hague after a successful appeal at the international criminal court and the afghan army says it's taking control of the eastern city of jalalabad in nagar province after

a series of deadly attacks fifteen people died in an attack on the government refugee office in the city on tuesday. thousands of south africans are marching against gender based violence the total shut down protests are taking place across the country organizers say abuse against women is systemic and demand they are demanding government action overall it's estimated that one in five south african women will experience sexual or physical violence in their lifetime well some women in south africa are now using social media to seek justice malcolm webb reports from johannesburg. yeah land that yankee had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa when she says she was raped she went for a drink with friends she doesn't remember anything else the following day other people told her that two different men had sex with her it's just really made me angry.

really angry and through kids and i mean it has affected my relationships with men in their eyes. obviously the encounter after that i had my trust in people in general. and i guess i just was a become a prison's really and it's a sad most. lenders met many other students who are tired of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault. on exchange students marched in broad university in twenty sixteen as part of their campaign they published a list of students and university staff on social media they said were responsible for sexual assault students have also protested here the university has run in johannesburg and since the student movement began thousands more south africans have taken to social media to express their anger at the lack of justice for women who have been raped or killed when carol mcqueen i was found murdered in

johannesburg last year it prompted hundreds of thousands of tweets activists say the pressure pushed all four of these to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the murder earlier this year ten james one a study the movement she says the social media activism and the naming of suspected rapists may not always bring justice but it breaks the silence because of the of help quickly hashtags pick up your able to call out your rapist and there's a bunch of people who say i believe you this is your first interaction been going to the police and saying this is happened to me and the police saying well what we were where were you what time was it south africa some of the highest rates of sexual violence in the world activists say less than one in ten. supported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on social media instead. of the dangerous i love. you do you go for three hundred were extremely well where the burden of proof is on

the accuser at least as a prosecutor i know i can sleep soundly at night because i know. it can convince the court that someone is guilty that person really screwed you learn the says a rapists have never been held to account she says the authorities failed her justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg the democratic republic of congo's health ministry has confirmed four cases of ebola in the northeastern city of goma the ministry says there is no evidence linking these current cases to the outbreak that killed thirty three people that outbreak was officially declared over last week wildfires in california are showing no signs of abating with the u.s. state set a record one of its worst fire seasons in history firefighters are still battling seventeen fires burning across the state where eight people have been killed in the last week the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred twenty thousand

hectares of land last year was the worst season on record and nearly five hundred thirty thousand hectares burned. one of the hardest hit areas is near the city of reading what hundreds of homes have been destroyed or the flames have now been put out there are others facing another threat that really is on the reports. 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 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 little ash falling. all over town in air quality indexes 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 brew 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. till the smoke is lifted. al-jazeera ready fornia. cvs in a speedboat would have a got away with two crowns and an orb from sweden's crown jewels the seventeenth century royal treasures were taken on tuesday during a lunchtime fair at a cathedral west of scots stockholm two men seen running away from the cathedral where also some escaping across the lake by motorboat the crown jewels were being displayed behind the locked and alarmed that this play case. iran is suffering its

most serious drought in half a century it's estimated that there's a chronic shortage of water in ninety seven percent of the country some blame the weather others think it's a us conspiracy and environmental experts blame government mismanagement saying the reports now from tehran 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. citizens to 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 last and 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. 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. i remember my childhood i mean my friends used to bike here and swim now it's fifty square metres but 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 unconcerned perhaps that when

they have children of their own the little water they have left probably won't be here the same bus route the old jazeera to her on a u.s. judge has blocked the release of software that allows consumers to three d. printing. nine u.s. states have filed a lawsuit against the trumpet ministration after it reached a settlement with texas based the fence distributed the publish the printing files online has the story now from los angeles. this is the computer generated weapon that's causing the uproar a crude single shot plastic pistol the united states of america will be the biggest exporter of terror. if we fail to stop these goals gun specifications for the gun were developed by cody wilson a self-styled anarchist as long as you have the right to keep and bear arms you have the right to make them in june the trumpet ministration of broccoli gave up on

a years long legal battle to prevent him from putting the gun plans on line wilson's diagrams allow a variety of firearms models to be made by anyone including convicted criminals mentally disturbed people or children this means that more people who are dangerous will have guns and they will hurt more people with them in three d. printer technology machines extrude minuscule layers of plastic or resin that gradually build up three dimensional objects using computerized patterns we asked professional three d. printer peterman adi to make one for us consumer printers are available for as low as three hundred dollars so anybody that has three hundred dollars can essentially print on the designs have already appeared online and have been downloaded thousands of times three d. printed guns have no serial numbers so there are untraceable they don't require permits or background checks so anybody can have one and because they're plastic

they can go through any metal detector law enforcement officials are opposed and president donald trump questioned the action of his own administration tweeting that the idea of three d. printed guns quote doesn't seem to make much sense but the guns may be less dangerous to the public then to the person wielding them in tests by the government firearms oversight agency three d. printed guns often exploded when fired they are not as strong or precisely machined as metal guns it could explode on you you could lose a finger you could use a hand. it could catch fire there is so many things that can go wrong which is why printing it is one thing using it is an entirely separate thing democratic lawmaker. yours are calling on trump to overturn is the administration's decision and are introducing legislation to ban the weapons but in a last minute decision a federal judge granted a temporary injunction blocking wilson from distributing his blueprints online the

ruling came after nine states and the district of columbia brought the matter to court the legal fight will continue robert oulds al-jazeera while sensuous. is a reminder of the main headlines on al-jazeera one person has been killed in confrontations between the military and protesters in zimbabwe's capital. armed troops have been firing live rounds as opposition demonstrators took to the streets of iraq it is the government of rigging the country's election as the vote count a drags on president was party looks poised to win a majority of the seats in parliament but the result of the presidential vote is not yet known democratic republic of congo opposition leader a former rebel commander. is back home after serving ten years in jail for war

crimes he was welcomed by hundreds of supporters at the airport in the capital kinshasa and that was freed from jail in the netherlands after a successful appeal of the international criminal court in the hague he now wants to run the same elections over the years the opposition has been divided and we can't have people i think perhaps he could bring them together to rally behind one candidate and all this really making a lot of people ponens booking opposition and the ruling party very uncomfortable because people say he's still a very popular leader and in back in two thousand and six he did he was the run up to presidential the kabila even a presidential runoff. and a lot of people yet say that. he's built what dylan. yes going army says it's taking over security control of the eastern city of jalalabad after a series of attacks there killed dozens of people the government decided to

withdraw responsibility from the police after yet another bombing on a refugee office on tuesday fifteen people were killed in the past three months one hundred sixty civilians have been killed in the province by isaw or taliban it's. russia says iranian forces withdraw into a position fifty three miles from syria's frontier with the israeli occupied golan heights but the mere putin's envoy to syria says of the session was taken in order not to irritate israel syrian government forces backed by russia and iran have retaken the entire frontier from isolated fighters those are your top stories i'm going to have more news for you in half an hour coming up next it's witness thanks for watching us you soon.

so so sad. so sad. it has you in this country that. i certainly didn't want to be this one but i just feel like. both afghanistan and sardar won't. always be.