well we're going to have really influenced by regional allegiances whenever we have one prevailing over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that's if you count following its first parliamentary elections in nine years people in power investigates the state of lebanon or just zero. point people are killed in zimbabwe as soldiers opened fire on a position. of them to be and we don't all this is al jazeera live from london also coming up tens of thousands crammed the streets to welcome opposition leaders care ben but back to the democratic republic polls. u.s. turkey relations under pressure the white house sanctions two top officials over the imprisonment of an american pastor. and food security fears here in britain

farmers call an emergency dr solomon. first says i'm bob way with three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital harare. soldiers fired live rounds on opposition supporters who were protesting against the slow release of election results the opposition m.d.c. paunchy believes the election commission is taking too long to nimes the winner of monday's poll president emerson when a god was bossy has won two thirds of the seats and on the result of the presidential vote is not yet know the plane the opposition leadership or the i would break the violence. in its leadership there is forthwith to remove is a very subdued was from the streets so. you know

asking them to take business at a step government is simply reminding them of their judges as the responsible political players and as citizens in any electoral process it is understood that some win while others lose but those who would lose should never translate their disappointment into what. is following events for us from harare. president agogo is clearly warning the opposition that they should not cause any more trouble the police issued a statement and they said some of the protesters really they were blocking roads burning tires breaking into stores they said the numbers were too much for them they were overwhelmed they had to call in the army but the main opposition is

saying that the way things happened today were wrong they say the country is going back to the dark ages and they're very very worried and they told us that the country is moving into dangerous times today we saw the deployment of military tanks and firing of live ammunition on civilians for no apparent reason. civilians are allowed to demand the respect of their rights in a lawful manner. disorder may be dealt with by the police who are best trained for public order. soldiers are trained to kill during war. we have serious limit to wonder what this means are we in a war of civilians the enemy of the state harare is generally calm most soldiers we saw earlier in the day have gone back to the barracks there are a few rise soldiers on the street outside key buildings like the electric commission and the zanu p.f. headquarters but things are generally calm all eyes now on the presidential results

when would they be announced right now no one doesn't really know people are concerned especially from the opposition the longer it takes the more suspicious they will be and how when people react what people have been told is that the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if you lose this he will not accept defeat and if that happens how will his supporters react on joining now in the studio by zimbabwean journalists or cino god when and why they're just you know very warm welcome to the program good to have your company what do you make of the seeds as we see them folding i think it's just very very clear to everybody that all this talk about the regime being gone and this being a completely new thing is a sudden. this is this is times two this is the genie out of the bottle as one person put it they removed mugabe but actually what they've done is inflate the lungs of the dragon which is now shooting innocent people with live ammunition in the back we've seen photographic evidence of that i think it would be

an absolute travesty if the international monitors signed off on this election it's absolutely vital that they call what they see and what we're seeing is not only this violence but also evidences rigging the international monitors have used the words it wasn't a level playing field what is that called for what does that mean well and also why should it not matter you know it wasn't a level playing field but it's kind of ok it's no that's an insult why should we not be held to the same standards as the rest of the world it wasn't eleven level playing field as zimbabwe electoral commission is that you see very much state controlled or at least that's what it looks like and there are all sorts of bits of evidence coming out with the numbers not tallying and and various things that have clearly gone wrong the longer they delay in giving us the presidential result the longer the the more the. what do you think is behind the delay well they have

said that the v.l.f. in form which is the form that gets posted outside the polling station that all the polling agents or indeed i think the candidates need to go and check that those forms of in harare they need to look at the forms before it can be announced now that's twenty three separate people who may have dispersed all over the country it's a way i think to to blame those those people for for the delay even even election monitors have said there's absolutely no reason for this to happen you know there are results from from very very far away from the capital that have been announced in the parliamentary elections and still not right in harare on their doorstep it's extraordinary it's something odd isn't going on i have. no idea what's up so the results that we know of so far tell us watch the results that have been reported to tell us war in terms of the voting that's being reported they tell us that the sun appears has a parliamentary majority which means of course they can change the constitution if they want to it also shows us if we look at those v eleven forms which was which

were photographed by many people that the voting patterns are very very odd that people are giving zanu p.f. their parliamentary vote but according to these forms of giving m.d.c. their presidential vote because in the as far as the m.d.c. can see and indeed as anybody who looks at the the coalition of of this information can see d.c. is in the lead i mean i think nelson chamisa was correct when he said they were winning. perhaps he shouldn't have made that announcement i know he's been blamed for the violence he didn't pull the trigger the people that have blamed the that are responsible for the violence all the people that used live ammunition i find it absolutely extraordinary that a country that needs the international community to sign off on it so badly should behave in this way that the army should be called in one part of me wonders if this isn't because the police were largely sympathetic towards the opposition remember they were horribly signed lines during the two not of two and i think that perhaps

but still feeling sore about that i saw some footage of police interacting in a very friendly way with citizens and i wonder if that wasn't the issue if the army then thought that perhaps they they they they need to take firmer control in terms of the international community and all the u.s. as has used the well worn phrase of being concerned that if there is and i would cite country that perhaps has any influence which country are we talking about south africa south africa has always been the place where zimbabweans look for for guidance for leadership when mbeki was in power he was called. bush's point man on africa and it usually is south africa but of course south africa's got its own problems right now and so i'm not sure that that's that's an option the african union is definitely somewhere that we can turn to subject so it's really the region i think that the region is very very concerned at the moment and i think it's

absolutely vital that their election monitors and not just the e.u. or the americans or the british that are there do not sign off on this this is not any ordinary election this is absolutely a story we've been waiting for so long for a free and fair election this is not free it's not fair and now they are murdering people generally after that they're just never going to be talking about this throughout the evening thank you. democratic republic of congo a physician the former rebel commander sean pierre is back home after serving ten years in jail for war crimes was welcomed by sizes of supporters of the airport and on the roads of kinshasa obama was freed from jail in the netherlands us are successful a few at the international criminal court in the hague now wants to run in december

elections catherine sawyer has been following events in the capital. so the highlight for many people today was when john pierre bemba peered through a window at least party headquarters and 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 that he is the only leader out who can provide the change the sort of leadership that this country needs on the other a 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 blocked on the road all wanting him to address them but i think one of the conditions he was given is that he cannot make stopovers to address his speedball they're saying that he provides the much needed momentum aiden's politics of the d r c over the years the

opposition has been divided and weekend 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. a presidential run off and a lot of people yes saying that he. was stolen from the white house says it will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over the detention of an american pastor andrew branson was arrested in twenty sixteen accused of helping the group ankara says was behind the fair military coup two years ago alan fisher is in washington with the details what's the situation then allan well there have been some i.q. arts between turkey and the united states over the last few weeks because of this

pastor what the americans have no decided is that they're going to levy sanctions on two senior government officials we're talking about abdul hamad girl who is the justice minister and solomon so our lawyer who is the interior minister what did the sanctions mean well essentially what they're saying is that if they have any properties or share in properties in the united states access to that will be blocked and they are saying that any u.s. citizen any u.s. entity should not be doing business any transactions with these two men no i'm drew brunson was a pastor who is working in this mere he was arrested just after the failed coup in twenty sixteen of the taxi that he was a spy he was gathering government and military information to be used during the coup the american scene he was simply a pastor who was working there in the christian ministry and what he was doing was meeting many people from very different communities right across the area and really they are saying that he should be free now he's been held in prison for

a long time but was freed at the weekend to house arrest you know wears an electronic tag a new date has yet been set for a trial the turks have said though that intend to respond and they will respond in a similar fashion ellen fish of their life in the white house allan thank you. well you're watching al-jazeera live from london still to come on our program france approves a bill to speed up the deportation of failed asylum seekers and a u.s. judge blocks how to print your own gun guide from being published online all that more when we come back. hello and welcome to international weather forecast apart from stockholm in the north. i'm correct in the south and moscow in the east is thirty degrees plus

across the whole of europe in our chart for thursday and indeed can interfere in potential is in excess of forty degrees with every prospect of temperatures over the weekend rising to between forty five and forty eight degrees celsius across southwestern parts of spain and on into portugal so basically very hot situation across many parts of europe but also with some isolated but quite severe thunderstorms across the alps stone through the balkans did up towards the baltic states we could see one or two storms developing so heading down into north africa the weather here is looking fine and fairly quiet at the moment temperatures much you'd expect at this time of year thirty seven in cairo and then heading on into friday conditions remain cheery fine tunis looking at my sort of thirty six degrees into central parts of africa we've got some heavy showers across the ethiopian highlands across parts of sudan and south sudan and then particular towards the gulf of guinea and indeed further north chattanooga share also picking up some

significant shower i seventy that's expected to continue on into friday bamako mali could see some heavy showers with highs of twenty nine. where were you when this idea to be. where they're online which i'm going to be. cool oh ok nicole if you know but today or if you join us on sat criminal justice system is dysfunctional right now this is a dialogue what does it feel like for you to go back for the first time everyone has a voice and allow refugees to be the speakers for change join the global conversation on our to zero.

the remains of our current top stories here on al-jazeera soldiers in zimbabwe the capital of hard live ammunition at a position demonstrators killing at least three people and so on as mancy over the country's election campaign just still going on two days after the vote democratic republic of congo opposition leader shown here bemba has been welcomed by supporters so on his return to the country the former rebel commander who spent a decade in jail plans to run for president. the u.s. will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over the trial of an american pastor in turkey washington says andrew bronson who led a protestant church and its mayor has been on fairly detain. as south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land for white farmers without compensation the

issue of land all was shipped as one of the most contentious in south africa critics of the plan points to the case study of neighboring zimbabwe where the economy collapsed after land reform was carried out of the reports. was that and redistribution is an emotive issue in south africa a series of public hearings has just ended now and i'm out policy shift the ruling african national congress says it will push ahead with land expropriations from white farmers without paying compensation supporters of the move say it's time to address a lasting legacy how tight. variation is to put in a flint ownerships three pieces where over eighty percent of the most detail is still in their heads as i mean of the minority while black people are quite fun to do to deserve was since one thousand nine hundred four the governments used the willing seller willing by a mortal to change the balance of land ownership is brought about five million hectares or four percent of south africa's territory for redistribution but almost

a third of that has not been allocated to anyone but the problem lies with what has been done with all the thousands of acres that has been built that's still not the property of individuals it's in the hands of the state and emily chelas parents were forcibly removed from their land in south africa's northwest province in the one nine hundred sixty s. she says she's worried the redistribution process is being rushed section twenty five of the constitution says if land is taken from the property owner compensation must be just and equitable b a n c now plans to amend that to clarify when expiring is going to happen without payment are really needs to amend section going to five all even the constituency really are not that that's why. because we haven't done. the process over getting the so sure you couldn't

pick the assessment i president see rather a poser with want to go to elections next year knows he needs to watch his promise there will be no zimbabwe style london versions and says the process would be allowed to threats of the economy the only which is iraq. while farce in california are showing no signs of abating with the us state set to 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 this last week but the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred twenty thousand hectares of land. well as the heat wave in northern europe continues farmers in britain have called an emergency dr summit to address the impact the heat is having on food security farms in many parts of england and wales haven't seen any significant rain since the end of may which could affect the yields for some corpse john holl

explains. with an almost rain free july following the driest june since one thousand nine hundred twenty five britain is sweating its way through both the heat wave and drought at the moment the news we're hearing about the lack of rain for speculation about shortages it's not a local sort of northern european or british issue this time it's the whole of the northern hemisphere i'm reading hearing reports from the us canada russia sweden about long periods of high temperatures drought conditions and it's affecting harvests everywhere farmer robert lord takes me on a tour of his parched land wheat prices are way up that's good for farmers but bad of course for consumers he's worried about his livestock so your big concern now is is the grass that you have lost effectively that would mean feat. and it's got

the situation in the last few days that we've actually had to get in and bring it out of the field the national farmers union has called it a crisis we have off on our shelves twenty four seventh's and we often don't actually ever really think about where food comes from or indeed how it gets on the shelves so i think it's a wake up call in many areas and not least around the situation of market failure volatility. crucial component of the future of the cultural policy the long hot summer of two thousand and eighteen is a reminder says the national farmers union that britain shouldn't take its food production for granted and a timely one at that as concerns grow about the possibility of this country exiting the european union without a trade deal resulting in food shortages even stockpiling in the months ahead we cope with it whether we manage with whether the one thing is giving us

a lot of uncertainty. and why are you going forward and always saying as a politician's quarrelling as the drought continues both briggs it and the challenging climate looks set to ensure challenging times ahead jonah how al-jazeera hot future it waning in lawmakers have given the president has some rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his government's handling of the country's economic problems is the first time parliament has summoned the u.a.b. as his under pressure from hardline rivals to change his cabinet since relations with the us have deteriorated the french national assembly has voted in favor of changes to a new immigration law it's aimed at speeding up the deportation of those denied asylum and the processing of those who are accepted david chase has more now from paris the number of refugees in the suburbs of paris may be as high as four hundred

thousand according to a parliamentary report city authorities are struggling to cope the conditions in the parks and streets are becoming intolerable in the middle of the heat wave raids by riot police have cleared the large tented camps where many of them found temporary refuge but the tough new laws just passed by the national assembly will cut the time period during which they can claim asylum. the claim is rejected that only have fifteen days to lodge an appeal and the time they can be kept in detention waiting for deportation has been doubled to ninety days not via a sale voted against the bill she believes france would take in more refugees and be less scared influx coolies all but once people have left their home there it's a whole deal and we cannot just send them back i believe we have to look at the situation differently you can't just say we don't want that it's a way of closing your eyes that is meaningless it's

a way to deny reality their original here. charity workers have described the situation as explosive the refugees are being forced to share the streets with drug addicts and dealers in crack cocaine public bars are being closed and fights are breaking out to find supplies of water it's been estimated a total of five hundred refugees are arriving in paris every week the government say the new reforms are meant to make a much more efficient system for asylum seekers to to actually try and sift out those who are genuine refugees and those who are economic migrants we found william and his wife begging for food they have a four year old child they escaped violence in ivory coast but never applied for asylum here they now face deportation the police are constantly moving them on. zeph to follow them you must understand them you treat become an alkie figure would you start to sleep on the streets everywhere sometimes i don't know where to sleep

i sit on the bench i chip my little wife by my side i hug her we pray and we keep. the deputies of the national assembly will not have heard of william he has a master of arts and philosophy he's passionate about french culture and literature but it's no life for him on the streets here and he's already lost everything in his homeland there are tens of thousands more like him david chaytor al-jazeera paris. u.s. jobs has brought the release of software that allows consumers to three d. print guns and my one thousand u.s. states have filed a lawsuit against the ministration after it reached a settlement with texas based defense distributed it's a publish the printed files online reports from l.a. 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 goes 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 one the designs have already appeared online and have been downloaded

thousands of times three d. printed guns have no serial numbers so they're 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

lawmakers 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 los angeles fifty years ago at the height of the u.s. civil rights movement and they didn't cartoonist made a small but significant contributor contribution to racial equality to them schultz introduces first black carrots or. brown in the famous peanuts newspaper strip all modern consonants that carrie johnson looks back at the legacy of frank. my name is carrie johnson i'm a professional caricaturists and cartoonists as a kid and really didn't have

a lot of people of color to look up to the characters caricature illustrators or cartoonists when i see franklin in the newspapers i realize wow that's good to see a person of color of color in the charlie brown series someone asked me do you think frankly having franklin and newspapers really helped the black community or the way people look at african-american cartoonist you know maybe i can only say that because there are so few of us out here doing doing this if it's never took the risk to put franklin in his strip who knows would have made that that happen because one thing about it was already popular he didn't need it frankly but he i think a lady wrote him a letter i remember reading about it a few years ago and he said well i don't want to thin the african community however you took a chance and it worked ok. frankly i wasn't stereotyped you know getting praise

will do this here but he still was pretty straightforward with troy brown and then when the holidays are coming around you'll see franklin. with the peppermint patty lucy and then we're just interacting it's they want to missed you most of the war but i enjoy that they can find out much more about the stories we're following had to al-jazeera dot com. let's take a look back at the main headlines on al-jazeera three people have been killed in confrontations between the military and protest as in zimbabwe's capital. soldiers fired live rounds as opposition demonstrators took to the streets of harare they accuse the government of rigging the country's election as the vote count drags on president emerson mom and dad was spotted looks poised to win a majority of the seats in parliament but the result of the present presidential vote is not yet known. today we saw the deployment of military tanks and firing of

live ammunition on civilians for no apparent reason. civilians are allowed to demand the respect of their rights in a lawful manner and any disorder that may be dealt with by the police who are best trained public order. soldiers are trained to kill during war. we have serious limit to wonder what this means are we in a war of civilians the enemy of the state. democratic republic of congo opposition leader and former rebel commander sean pierre bemba is back home after serving ten years in jail for war crimes was welcomed by thousands of supporters of the airport in the capital kinshasa them but was freed from jail in the netherlands after a successful appeal at the international criminal court in the hague now wants to run in december elections. the u.s. will impose sanctions on two turkish officials over the trial of an american pastor

in turkey washington says andrew burns and he led a protestant church is near has been on fairly detained. iranian lawmakers have some of the president for parliament to ask to answer questions about the country's flagging economy iran's currency has lost more than half its value since april after the u.s. pulled out of a nuclear deal with the country. has come under increasing pressure from odd line rivals who oppose the deal to begin with. the wildfires in california showing no signs of abating the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons ever of firefighters a still battling seventeen blazes that have killed eight people in the last week you're up to date those are our current top stories the stream is coming up next we'll see you in just under half an hour's time.

i am for me ok and you're in the stream today why is the u.s. government run detention center at guantanamo bay still open we explore why years after nine eleven some people remain jailed at the facility despite never being charged with any crime i really could be larger and we are now live on you tube still leave your comments in the shop for us to include in the conversation this morning i watch president obama talking about get right donna moberg which by the word which by the way we are keeping open which we are keeping. and we're going to load it up with the big dude split we're going to load it up. that's why there's

a donald trump speaking in twenty sixteen about president obama's plan to shut down the prison complex at guantanamo bay.