where every. three people are killed in zimbabwe's soldiers opened fire on opposition protesters . all of them julie went on this is al jazeera live from london also coming up tens of thousands crowding the streets to welcome former rebel leaders here ben but back to the democratic republic of congo relations between turkey and the u.s. to tear it further as the white house sanctions two turkish officials over the imprisonment of an american pastor and food security fears here in britain farmers call an emergency drive summons.

first is in bob way with three people have been killed in post-election violence in the capital harare soldiers fired live runs on opposition supporters who were protesting against the slow release of election results president emerson meant to gag was spotty has won two thirds of the seats in parliament but the results of the presidential vote isn't yet know how much house has more now from harare. opposition supporters say they vote was stolen they are demanding transparency from the electoral commission official results show the readings on the party has won a majority in parliament these people are convinced the results are already. there got. the police moved in to disperse them but when that failed the army took over those who tried to resist but don't.

isn't innocent and gaga has won the opposition against causing trouble the alliance and its leadership has forthwith to remove its violent supporters from the streets so peace returns to our country you know asking them to take business that a step government is simply reminding them of their duties as the responsible political players and its citizens the main opposition alliance say the army used unnecessary force three people have been killed. and this or that may be dealt with five a place of that kind of public order thought of trying to kill during war. we have three of them after one what this means are we in war or civilians the enemy of. the e.u. election observer mission says presidential election results should be released as

soon as possible to avoid more violence but the longer it lasts to count the more. lack of credibility trumps up something single before therefore it's needed that it must be a trace abilities of the road to the police station level. but opposition supporters say if they can is it an isolationist that doesn't win the one expected results center is over they opposition supporters have been trying to get in but the police have been pushing them back so they've been burning tires a poet is they insist that their candidates the main opposition leader nelson chamisa has won this election there they are over there they are refusing to leave in protest. by long presidential results have to be announced by saturday most anxious about what could happen if the lisa doesn't accept defeat. al jazeera. well earlier i spoke to zimbabwean journalists

gina god when and she gave me our reaction to the claims of election fraud. these allegations of rigging which is one of the things that sparks the solve these are not just arbitrary allegations these are documented by n.g.o.s by citizens organizations people have been working towards this for a very long time because there is a precedent we've known for years and years that this is what happens at elections and so for weeks and weeks people have been setting up hotlines their information all of those v eleven forms that come up outside polling stations have been photographed or as many as possible there will be a correlation between all of that information it will be out there and if the election monitors can sign off on this that it's an absolute travesty because i believe there will be proof that nelson chamisa has won perhaps he was wrong to announce that in advance but the the point is that the directly there are so many

people in zimbabwe who have worked so hard for a peaceful resolution and to make sure that the correct results are known if the international community walks away from us now then really i don't know where we can turn to. democratic republic of congo opposition leader and former rebel commander shown here ben bus returned home to a hero's welcome at the ten years in prison for war crimes then before back from the netherlands after a successful appeal the international criminal court in the hague has already said he wants to run in december sprezzatura elections kaffir and so i was with the cheering crowds in the capital kinshasa the pair bambara marched from the airport in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa thousands of his supporters went into a frenzy and i know you was there although many of them say they never thought they'd be back home any time soon. i have a contingent of police escorted his convoy who was not allowed to make any stops to

address the many people who lined the streets to catch a glimpse of him his first order of business was a meeting at his party headquarters he's expected to submit his document to the electoral commission in the coming days so he can run for the presidency john the abend back in august we know all these bodies had poured in way i bet hundred of them here and they have been singing its praises and saying that really all you want we can provide a change of the leadership of this country or even bring the opposition together to support one candidate. was arrested in belgium for crimes against humanity a decade ago he was sentenced to eighteen years in prison by the international criminal court in twenty sixteen the judges held him criminally responsible for militias of his former rebel group convicting him of political killing raping and pillaging in the neighboring central african republic between two thousand and two

and two thousand and three he appealed and in june the conviction was overturned his supporters say the trial was politically instigated. unhappy because bamboo has . vindicated by the same court that convicted him now he's here and we're just glad to see him oh we're suffering in this country children are not going to school things are not moving his return gives us hope then both faces some hurdles in his bid for presidency the low ses a candidate has to be in the country where he stay yeah before contesting an election the fact that the has been away for ten years and still has a pending witness tampering case at the international criminal court could hottest chances katz was on al-jazeera kinshasa. turkey's condemned the us decision to impose sanctions on to its top ministers it's

the latest effort by the champ administration to get the turks to release an american pastor and you burn some was detained and sixteen that he's accused of helping the turkish government say was behind an attempted coup elicia has the latest from washington d.c. . angry words have been exchanged between the u.s. and turkey over possible sanctions now the u.s. has decided to act at the president's direction the department of treasury is sanctioning turkey's minister of justice and minister of interior both of whom played a leading roles in the arrest and detention of pastor brunson the two ministers targeted a senior figures in the turkish government still a man so i loue is the interior minister abdul hamid gul is the justice minister the u.s. says they are involved in organizations responsible for the continued detention of this man american pastor andrew bronson the taxi he's a spy who was involved in the field twenty sixteen coup in turkey the americans insist he is simply

a christian pastor who's been targeted because he met many people from different communities while in the country the u.s. sanctions says that any property or share in property the two men may have in the united states is no blocked and it says that any u.s. citizen business or entity should no longer carry any transactions with the government ministers from talking. president donald trump has tweeted his support for the pastor well vice president my parents has repeatedly called for his release the president to one and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences. pastor bronson was recently released from prison it is me if it remains under house arrest he has yet been set for his trial. i'll just you know the way. iranian lawmakers

are given president hassan rouhani one month to appear before parliament to answer questions on his government's handling of the country's economic problems it's the first time parliament summoned their way and president who's under pressure from hardline rivals to change his cabinet since relations with the u.s. deteriorated well makers want to question him on why the country's currency has lost more than half of its value since april cut says main stock benchmark is now fully recovered losses since a blockade was imposed on the gulf state by a group of neighboring countries almost forty months ago the q.e. index rose one point five percent of the close of trading on wednesday which in levels not seen since may twenty seventeen so the arabia the united arab emirates a crane in egypt severed economic and diplomatic ties with qatar in june twenty seventh team accusing it of funding terrorism qatar denies those claims. yemen city rebels civil 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 babble mendip straight ahead seeing a vital lifeline for yemeni struggling much needed food and medical care home of the door just across from yemen. this is the impact of more than three years of war the city of sodom 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 a farm in rural roads and bridges have not been spared either limiting the supply of vital supplies of food and fuel to a population already suffering monetization is up an old time high at a teen shack that now serves as a temporary health center acutely malnourished children upset high protein peanut based food. that i'm not going to forget the vinnell scared to death every hour we see

a plane i'm not exaggerating at all revision 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 other who think rebels trying hard to keep control of huge swathes of the control on the other pro-government militias buck 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 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 causing father devastation 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 well goes into djibouti. still ahead on the program france approves a bill to speed up the deportation of failed asylum seekers and wishing a happy fiftieth birthday graham breaking cartoon character from the one thousand nine hundred six.

welcome back a cold front is the main feature on the weather charts for straight here for thursday and there it is down through south the strait here having see very strong winds associated with it so could be really quite squally as it goes through some would be big gust of wind some thunderstorms along here said damage i think is quite likely and this cold front so you see temperatures drop or a sharply outlay going from twenty back to thirteen the time we get through to friday and during the day it will be in melbourne's turn to see some of that really severe weather fine for much today for sydney with highs of twenty two and post cold front conditions in perth so a fairly quiet highs of seventeen but could be a little bit misty at times across into new zealand we've got this frontal system give me some rain across the south island on thursday by friday should be clearing but the north island when take its turn to see some rain or can a look at highs of fourteen but a rather wet day up into northeastern parts of asia and junk dari which has been

around for days on end is no pushing into ward shanghai likely to result in some heavy rain the co-op be some flooding across parts of shanghai friday into saturday meanwhile we've still got heat wave conditions across much of japan temperatures about five degrees above average tokyo once again you're looking at a high of thirty five. the middle east's most religiously diverse country you still have one thousand you just communities you don't have one vision for the future you have nineteen of them divided along sectarian lines the confessional system in lebanon has destroyed the only really real problem and heavily influenced by regional allegiances and have only one thing bending over the other you have civil war so it's always this balance that said he kept following its first parliamentary elections and nine years people in power investigates the state of lebanon on

a just zero. now remind of our current top story sierra mountains iraq soldiers in zimbabwe's capital of fired live ammunition of opposition demonstrators killing at least three people concerns them i'm seeing over the country's election campaign just still going on two days so the vote. democratic republic of congo opposition leader john deere bad as the welcome by thousands of supporters 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 on drugs and who led

a pulse to the church is near has been unfair the to. thousands of south africans have marched against gender based violence the total shutdown both says that's taking place across the country organizers say abuse against women is systemic and they're demanding government action overall it's estimated one in science says 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 when reports from johannesburg. yolanda kyunki had just started a degree at rhodes university in south africa but 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 kid and i mean it has affected my relationships with him in their eyes. obviously the encounter after that i had my trust in people in

general. and i guess i just was a becoming prisons really and gets a state mostly you landers met many other students who were tired of their universities and police not acting on reports of sexual assault. on the 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 thirty's to act her boyfriend was found guilty of the

murder earlier this year ten james won 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 you're 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. ported rapes result in conviction we asked the state prosecutor what she thinks about frustrated victims receiving justice on social media instead confidential i love there are a few dish will go from i think it works 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 if it can convince

the court that someone is guilty that person really is guilty you'll understand rapists have never been held to account this is the authorities failed her no justice has been done malcolm webb al-jazeera johannesburg the french national assembly voted in favor of aggression that reduces the time refugees can claim asylum from eleven months to just six its aim to speeding up the deportation of those denied asylum and the processing of those who are accepted david chase has more from paris. the number of refugees in the suburbs of paris maybe 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 in fact 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 i 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 baking 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 what the food court orders zeph to follow them you must understand them you treat become an alkie for everybody start 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 hope we pray and we keep all the deputies at 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

house. the southern german state of bavaria has opened its first my good sense i called congress and says the facilities are designed to reduce the number of refugees in germany by speeding up the deportation of unsuccessful asylum seekers but they're controversial and critics warn the anchor censors will create ghettos john mccain explains. this institution is one of seven up and running now anchors centers places where asylum seekers are rife are evaluated as it were and find out what their fate will be will they be allowed to stay in germany indefinitely or will they find out where they're going to be sent back to the country they came to germany from the point here is that this institution is really basically part of the of the plans put forward by. by the government you will recall the the arguments between the different conservative parties in the grand

coalition about exactly what sort of shape the sentence would would take when you go inside the center you can see that there is considerable capacity for family some of the children here walking through the classroom areas the bedroom areas the kitchen areas one gets the real sense that the or for a season ten for there to be many people coming here remember the most important thing about this center from the federal government's perspective is to accelerate the process from the refugee from the asylum seekers arriving and putting their case forward and being told what their fate will be that's what the center is all about question remains what sort of civil liberty questions are thrown up so far at least the government thinks it's all of them sin pretentious protesters have been sprayed with water cannons in chile's capital santiago they were demonstrating against the government plan to restructure restrict the work the students can do

much they can earn their working hours student activists are also demanding the government fully fund public schools stop funding private schools and provide free transport for students. while fires in california are showing no signs of abating but the u.s. state set to record one of its worst fire seasons in history where firefighters are still battling seventeen blazes which have killed eight people in the last week the fast moving flames have destroyed nearly one hundred and twenty thousand hectares of land that year was the worst season on record but nearly five hundred thirty thousand hectares burned was the wave in northern europe continues pharmacies in britain have called an emergency drag summit to address the impact that the heat is having on food security farms in many parts of in the name wales haven't seen any significant rain since the end of may which could affect for some quotes 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 for your lives. and it's got to 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 which of crucial component of the future of the culture 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 is a lot of uncertainty a. and why are you going forward and always saying as

a politician's. as the drought continues both briggs it and the challenging climate looks set to ensure challenging times ahead jonah how al-jazeera hertfordshire fifty years ago of the height of the us civil rights movement a leading cartoonist made a small but significant contribution to racial equality. introduces first black carrots or.