hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. we're expecting results from zimba bwe‘s presidential election to be released very soon, but the oppostion leader is already claiming victory. in all the constituencies where my mps were, i won. overall i have a majority vote. from deadly heatwaves in korea, forest fires in california, to record temperatues in europe, much of the northern hemisphere is feeling the heat in unprecedented extreme weather. we'll be asking why. apple becomes the first us company to be valued at one $1 trillion, buoyed by better than expected financial results earlier this week. and we'll be in new orleans at a conference of democratic party grassroots activists, where potential presidential candidates will be making their case for taking on donald trump in 2020. back to our top story, zimba bwe‘s election.

we're expecting the results of the presidential election imminently. we are waiting for a news conference given by the zimbabwean electoral commission. what we don't know it is how they will announce the results. there are over 200 districts in the presidential election, and whether they're going to go through those districts one by one or unannounced the overall result. but it has been since monday that the nation has been waiting for the result of the presidential election. the parliamentary results came out on wednesday, that shows an overwhelming majority for the rules and that's ruling party, zanu—pf. but the mdc are convinced they have won the presidential election, they

claimed the vote has been rigged. the fallout from the election on monday goes on, the president tweeting that he calls for an independent is up —— investigation into yesterday's violence in the capital, saying we believe in transparency, and those that —— responsible should be brought to justice. let's remind you of events in harare yesterday. widespread protests after the ruling zanu—pf party were declared the winner of the parliamentary election. the opposition says the polls were rigged to give the president and his party victory. the number of dead has been revised upwards today, we now know that six people were killed in clashes with security forces. it's been a very different picture in the city today, the streets are a lot quieter, businesses have shut and armed soldiers and police are on patrol. we also still don't know the outcome of the presidential election. we're expecting to start getting these results in an hours time. —— afew —— a few minutes' time.

oppostion leader nelson chamisa is already claiming he has won. we respect the law. but we are being abused for respecting the law. we have a percentage, we know that we'd defeated mnangagwa and all the constituencies where his mps were winning. in all the constituencies where my mps were, i want. overall i have a majority vote. he's urging patience. but foreign observers are pressuring the electoral commission to announce the results quickly. one of the international election monitors spoke to the bbc about why violence may have erupted, saying "people go in to an electoral process lacking some confidence. and then they have to wait and wait and wait and the information that comes out is drip, drip, drip and that creates some serious anxiety". remember, these are the first elections since long—time ruler robert mugabe was ousted last november. shingai nyoka is in harare for us. first of all we don't know what

format these results will come through, whether gradually or an overall announcement of who is one the president shall vote? know, and this has added to the anxiety, zimbabweans are waiting probably in front of their television sets, waiting for the electoral commission to start announcing those results. and it has said that this is only the beginning. it's not clear whether they will announce those results in one batch, and whether by the end of the evening, zimbabweans will know who their president is, or whether they will announce their constituency by constituency, there are over 200 of those. so zimbabweans are waiting to hear. meanwhile the mdc has said that they will also wait to hear whether those results tally with what they have. after the vote counting ended, there isa after the vote counting ended, there is a paper put on every polling

station with the results, and they said they have collected those results and believe that they have one. nelson chamisa, the main opposition for mdc leader, he said that once the commission has announced its results, he will show his hand. but he says as long as they do not declare him the winner, they do not declare him the winner, they will defend that means. how big have hopes been for this election, compared to others in recent memory? the expectation has been huge, and it shows by the number of people that turned up to vote. we hear that in some constituencies, up to 75% of the registered voters turned out, which was the highest number since independence from british colonial rule in 1980. there were high expectations that notjust locally but also from the international community, that perhaps would these

elections, zimbabwe would turn the corner. it's a critical election, the international community is waiting to see whether zimbabwe, after so many years of turmoil and instability, can deliver democratic transition, especially after the military intervention that ousted former president robert mugabe. so this is an incredibly disappointment democrats disappointing for people on the ground. i heard that after a relatively peaceful election campaign period, zimbabwe appears to have stumbled on the last hurdle. so this huge disappointment and perhaps that once these results have been announced, the losing party will be able to accept defeat so the country can move on. thank you very much for the moment. there is the room where we are expecting to hear the commission announced those results any time now, we were promised that would start about six have —— 6—7 minutes

ago, nobody has claimed their seats. we'll bring you any updates on that election result from harare. scientists are on the whole loath to say a specific event is "caused" by climate change, this man here the california governorjerry brown has done exactly that as wildfires continue to ravage his state. the red dots you see on this map are all the blazes that are still active, the worst one, the carr fire in redding, has destroyed 500 homes. james cook filed this report. this is all that remains of cheswick, a little mountain community in northern california. it was evacuated in time, but police say one man did not heed the order. he was found dead amid the ashes. the fires and the battle to stop them rage on. so far this year, nearly five million acres have been scorched in the us, one million acres above the recent average. the government of california says climate change is a major factor.

nature is very powerful, and we are not on the side , we're fighting nature with the amount of material we're putting in the environment. and that material traps heat, and the heat fosters fires, and the fires keep burning. the worst blaze swept into the city of redding last thursday, with towering tornadoes aflame, leaving death and and destruction behind. more than 1,000 homes are in ruins. two young children and their great grandmother are among the dead, and fire season is far from over. we are only at the beginning of august, we have been seeing extreme fire conditions early in the year. these kinds of conditions, in past decades, we may have seen a fire like we're seeing now in august or september. we are routinely now seeing fires reach 100,000 acres several times in one month, and it's in july. the state is bracing itself for many

more months of misery. this is what happens when the force of a wildfire comes head—to—head with human habitation. and more than a century after the american west was settled, it shows the continuing danger of establishing a community on the edge of the wilderness. james cook, bbc news, in northern california. to south korea now, which is undergoing an extended heatwave. as many as 29 people have died due to the heat. the seoul metropolitan government has tweeted it will now classify heatwaves as natural disasters, a change from its previous policy. for the last 15 days, temperatures have reached over 35 degrees celsius. across the border, north korea is experiencing similar conditions. on the front page of north korea's state run rodong newspaper, an editorial urges all citizens to engage in what it calls, "the struggle to prevent a drought from worsening." our asia pacific editor, celia hatton, told us more about this rare admission fom

the north korean state. it's a stark warning, calling on the entire country to mobilise its entire capability to fight drought. and you could imagine people across north korea might be looking at this, it was published on the front page of the workers party newspaper, to say, "how do we do that"? really, how do you fight record high temperatures? they've had above a0 celsius in some parts of north korea, the government admits this is the highest they've ever recorded such temperatures. so really, i think this is a warning from the government, almost an alert from the government, the hard times are ahead. and that really is the point of what such a belated, very public, unusually public warning from the north koreans might mean. europe is also in the grips of a heatwave. forecasters say the all—time temperature record could be broken in the coming days. here's a map of record temperatures set in europe over the years. the highest was 48 degrees celcius

recorded in athens in 1977. you can see spain and portugal weren't too far behind, hovering around 47 degrees. look at these latest images coming into the newsroom of hot weather around europe. spain's national weather service has put a warning in place until at least sunday, with temperatures likely to reach 48—50 degrees celsius. italy has issued its highest alert level across parts of the country, warning of widespread health risks in cities like rome, florence, and venice. and switzerland has had one of the hottest summers since records began in 1864, with temperatures hovering around 30 degrees celcius. and police in zurich are even urging owners to buy shoes for their dogs, in order to protect their paws from overheated pavements in the high temperatures. to explain what's happening across europe, here's sarah keith—lucas from bbc weather. different areas have seen that the

peak of the heat at different times, but at the moment, portugal and spain have seen the highest temperature. there is a 25—30% chance we could break the all—time record of 48 degrees as the high in europe. but it is more than likely over the next couple of days, it will beat records in portugal and spain, up to 47 celsius. tell us about the weather conditions that are creating these sorts of temperatures in europe? so what we have seen quite often this summer is the jet stream slowing down a bit. so during a normal summer, what we see is that weather system being driven across the northern hemisphere, that brings fresher in cooler conditions with weather fronts. then we tend to see he waves building and fresher conditions. but because the jet stream is a bit weaker, it is not bringing in that fresher air. so the air is really

stagnating across spain and portugal at the moment, it's been sitting there day on day, getting hotter and hotter, and there isn't much wind to drive the air masses around, which is why it gets hotter and hotter. we've been talking about what's happened in the us, what's happening in parts of asia, and then europe all in the northern hemisphere. what is going on and how are they connected? i think they are in some way, and that's all down to the jet stream. i would say it slow him down here in europe, and pushed further north to let the air stagnate. some areas have had poor summers with colder weather and lots of low pressure systems bring some rain. some areas have been stuck underneath the trough and the jet strea m underneath the trough and the jet stream bringing the poor weather. but in parts ofjapan and stream bringing the poor weather. but in parts of japan and south korea, parts of south america and europe, they're all linked because jet streams are up in jet europe, they're all linked because jet streams are up injet —— up and down. where it's pushed its way north into parts of asia and north

america, that's where we see those areas of heat waves developing. stay with us on outside source, still to come. apple becomes the first us company to be valued at $1 trillion, buoyed by better than expected financial results earlier this week. the labour leader, jeremy corbyn, is believed to be facing opposition to his plans to deliver a speech at london'sjewish museum in an attempt to defuse the row about anti—semitism. officials at the venue have described the here's our political correspondent susana mendonca. thejewish museum has said it is in discussions with the labour party about an event next week. it had been rumoured that it was supposed to be tomorrow, but now it seems to be next week. now the jewish museum, we understand, has been trying to seek clarification from the labour party about what this event would be about. what they have said is that they would be open to hosting an event that was about genuine healing dialogue between thejewish community and the labour party. but we've heard today from jewish community groups who are not very happy about a jewish venue

being used for a speech byjeremy corbyn, one group tells us that they saw this as a stunt. we've heard from people who have been saying to us thatjeremy corbyn hasn't engaged in dialogue with members of the jewish community, and that he hasn't talked to them about labour‘s new code of conduct, which has been particularly controversial. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story. we're expecting results from zimba bwe's presidential election to be released very soon, a day after the country's capital was rocked by violent clashes between police and oppostion protestors. other stories from around the bbc newsroom. bbc arabic reports that israel has ordered a halt in fuel and gas shipments to gaza. they say the decision was taken due to what they call "the continued terror of incendiary balloons and friction along

the borderfence." in recent weeks, burning kites and balloons released from gaza have ignited hundreds of fires in israel. a high—ranking chinese monk has denied accusations he sexually harassed nuns and coerced them into sex by "controlling their minds". the accusations against abbot shway chung were in a report sent to government officials by two monks from the beijing temple where he's based. that's on bbc chinese. and among the most—read on our website is a photo essay capturing australia's worst drought in living memory. reuters photographer david grey captured the view of the dried earth from the air. about 98% of new south wales is drought—stricken, and two—thirds of neighbouring queensland. let's ta ke let's take you live to harare and show you the scene, we are expecting any minute now, the zimbabwe electoral commission, promising that

from the top of the hour, 17 minutes ago, they would start announcing the results of zimba bwe's ago, they would start announcing the results of zimbabwe's presidential election. they're results of zimbabwe's presidential election. they‘ re running results of zimbabwe's presidential election. they're running a little bit late, and we don't —— do not know how they will make the announcement, whether it be by constituency by constituency, or they will give a comprehensive overview of that result. but whatever happens, we know the mdc opposition alliance will not accept the result if it goes in favour of the result if it goes in favour of the ruling president, mnangagwa of zanu—pf. they say the vote was rigged. whether they get the result and accept them is another question. we will hear from them any minute now, we'll go straight back there as they begin to make the announcements. china is said to have reached a draft agreement over a code of conduct for the south china sea. it happened at the 2018 asean summit in singapore. here's its foreign minister. today, i am pleased to announced yet another milestone in the coc process. at the recent coc talks in china injune 2018, the asean member states in china

have arrived at a single draft coc negotiating text. the south china sea is considered a key trading route. these six different countries all have overlapping territorial claims there. this map shows exactly where china believes it has sovereignty. and in recent years, china has inflamed tensions by carrying out military drills and building small artificial islands within that islands within that area. ?these satellite images are from may this year and appear to show a military base and chinese bomber planes on an island in the disputed territory. on that occasion, the us criticised china's actions and uninvited them from joint military exercises. karishma vaswani has been following the asean summit today and told us more about the discussions. what they've agreed on today is called the code of conduct, that's what helps asean and china used to help define how they should interact with one another in the south china sea.

what they've agreed on today is on a single draft document that frankly, after years of disagreeing with each other on the terms of this agreement, should be seen as a relatively remarkable step. it's important to note that we don't know what this agreement looks like, no one's seen it, and analysts that i've been talking to have said that's probably because there's not that much in it. but the fact that asean has managed to get an agreement at all is significant. remember, this is an organisation that works by consensus, so everyone has to agree on something before they can go ahead. and singapore as the host is very keen to position this as a remarkable achievement. so in some senses, it's a very important step forward. but it's also not the big deal that you might think it is. it doesn't solve the main issue in the south china sea, which is who owns what parts of it.

. 74, 25 seeing .74, 25 seeing and 2451. ascertained which of the duly nominated party for the problems should be elected as senators. members of the national assembly and... the following persons have been declared duly elected senators. mdc alliance, mdc alliance. mdc alliance. zanu—pf. zanu—pf. zanu—pf.

the following persons have been declared duly elected as members of the national assembly in the north province. mdc alliance. that is the beginning of the process of the announcement of the elections we are hearing about one particular province, where the sender is of the match —— members of the national assembly. we will go straight back there as soon as we hear a clear picture there from the zimbabwean capital of harare. after months of speculation and anticipation, apple has become the first us—listed company with a market value of over $1 trillion. here it is just holding above that level at the end of nasdaq trading. this is a company that was set up in the garage of its co—founder stevejobs in 1976. business correspondent paul blake

joins us now from new york. paul, this has been a long time coming? it started in the garage of steve jobs in 1976 in california. first publicly listed in 1980, and since then its stock value has increased by 50,000%. that is an eye—popping number, especially when you compare to the s&p 500, the stock index here taking into account a number of tech firms as well. that has only grown by 2000% compared to apple's 50,000%. it has not always been good news for apple, in 1997 it faced the possibility of bankruptcy. ten years later, it really started to turn around in 2007, introducing the iphone. that has shifted apple's business away from personal computers, which is what it was originally set up as, towards

smartphones, and it has since become a heavy hitter in that market. second only to samsung, the biggest yearin second only to samsung, the biggest year in the us. today he crossed the $1 trillion mark, the first us company to do so. is this really the first company to get to the one trillion dollar valuation mark? that's where this gets complicated. the first us company. a chinese company crossed the mark back in 2007, but the the point is that happened on the shanghai index. it's only at $200 billion right now, a fifth of what was in its heyday. there is some debate here in the us when you compare it to other us companies and adjust inflation. then there is a question about what other companies have been there in the past, the consensus here is that companies like ge and microsoft never quite got there if you adjust for of —— inflation. but we can say for of —— inflation. but we can say for sure that $1 trillion mark,

apple is the first company we've seen to get across that mark here in the us. thank you very much, paul blake in new york. google is developing a version of its search engine that will conform to china's censorship laws, at least that's according to this report by news website the intercept. it says google has been working on a project, code—named dragonfly, that will block terms like human rights and religion. well google hasn't confirmed or denied the report, but you may remember that back in 2010 the tech company shut down its chinese engine because of the country's censorship demands. our correspondent robin brant filed this report from shanghai. google is not in china, certainly not ina google is not in china, certainly not in a way that it has that ubiquitous presence across the rest of the world. google's search engine was pulled out of the mainland in 2010, because the company said it could no longer abide by these censorship laws put in place by the government here, which restricts what people could search for on the

internet. it has a presence in terms of its translation apps, it has a presence bore recently in terms of developing some gaming, and also investing in artificial intelligence. it opened innovation la bs intelligence. it opened innovation labs in beijing earlier this year, which has led to increased rumour that it wants to get back into search in this country, and you can see the business case for that, even if you don't accept the ethical or moral case, one billion people here, you have microsoft as a presence here, apple, facebook knocking on the door. there are reports here that google is looking at developing both a search app and also a news feed app, both of which would abide by the censorship laws in this country. we'll be back in a few minute's time with more from outside source. your next uk forecast is coming up

in halfan your next uk forecast is coming up in half an hour. this time of the evening we look around the world of weather. you may have heard there's more heat on the way, notjust in parts of the uk, but elsewhere in europe. the european tech —— temperature record is 48 degrees on the nose in athens in 1977. why am i telling you that? parts of iberia will come close to that temperature in the coming days, potentially record—breaking the europe record, as well as portugal and spain records as temperatures surge into the upper 40s on saturday. potentially record—breaking but certainly very dangerous heat wave here, rest assured that the bbc will the cooler. a big expanse of high pressure a cross the cooler. a big expanse of high pressure across western parts of europe, allowing that heat to build, heat and iberia being fed by hot air from africa. many places are dry, some showers around the alpine bridge —— regions, in degrees. temperatures after they've peaked

over the weekend look like trailing off again into next week, 42 degrees in lisbon on saturday, that is extremely difficult to contaminate. but by wednesday, back down to 27 celsius. let's talk about some very wet weather affecting easternmost parts of the usa, slow—moving weather system here, torrential and possibly flash flooding downpours and places, visiting some of the big cities here, there will be some downpours around new york. next week things will turn drier and sunny or again. parts of eastern canada into the maritimes, nova scotia towards newfoundland, also quite hot. temperatures around 30 celsius in some places. pacific northwest cooling down, but the southwest is cooling down, but the southwest is cooling a little but compared to where we have been. storms around the east for now, dry conditions on the east for now, dry conditions on the way. waiting for dry weather to come into northern india, the rain is very useful here, feeding the crops, but that flooding rain,

excessive rain is still falling and loucks mala dry induced —— new delhi and western parts of india. that rain has eased for now. a tropical system has been making landfall in china, here it is. even the friday it moves further inland, heavy rain for shanghai and brisk winds, but the system is thankfully not as strong as it once was. a spell of wet and windy weather through eastern parts of china, as i comes in. it won't be long before the sunshine comes back. the heat and sunshine comes back. the heat and sunshine still very much affecting the weather across the japanese highlands into the korean peninsula. some heat is affecting parts of the uk, mostly limited to southeast england. low 30s again tomorrow. back to the normal weather in half an hour. hello, i'm karin giannone, this is outside source. we're expecting results from zimba bwe's presidential election to be released in this hour, but the oppostion leader is already claiming victory. hour, but the oppostion leader

in all the constituencies where my mps ran, i won. overall, i have a majority vote. from deadly heatwaves in korea, forest fires in california, to record temperatues in europe — much of the northern hemisphere is feeling the heat in unprecedented extreme weather. we'll be asking why. apple becomes the first us company to be valued at $1 trillion, buoyed by better than expected financial results earlier this week. and we'll be live in new orleans at a conference of democratic party grassroots activists, where potential presidential candidates will be making their case for taking on donald trump in 2020. back to our top story, zimba bwe's election. we're expecting the results of the presidential

election imminently. this is the scene alive from endicott —— news conference given live by the zimbabwe electoral commission. they promised us that they would start announcing about half an hour ago. they started about ten minutes ago and what seems to be happening is that we are hearing it constituency by constituency, seat by seat. also listening and watching everything, you see the correspondent there. take it to what we think we are hearing from the zimbabwe electoral commission. well, a short while ago, the electoral commission began by announcing the special seats for women as well as the seas for the chiefs. but they have started to do now is to announce the presidential vote. they have now clarified how they will

announce that province by province. the country has ten provinces, and so the country has ten provinces, and so it is expected that the final tally of that vote will be announced at least at the very very end of tonight. right, so it can be very shortly when we hear who they are saying with the next president of zimbabwe. that is not in the story, does equipment that was it hasn't firmly they believe they have one absolutely. and yes, nelson chamisa earlier when he made his tour of the hospitals were some of the injured from yesterday's rights are, he said that he has his own set of results and if what the electoral commission announces tonight does not tally with that, that he will announce his own results that says he is prepared to defend the vote. he believes that

he has won this election. by law, though, the losing party has 14 days to appeal to the courts before inauguration can happen. it is not clear whoever loses this election will take that route. but clearly, they had are still tensions about they had are still tensions about the outcome of this result and whether the losing candidate will except defeat. zimbabwe has so much resting on whether there is a peaceful outcome to this result. so many companies looking as zimbabwe asa many companies looking as zimbabwe as a potential place to invest. the economy needs it so badly. this is ata economy needs it so badly. this is at a critical moment. absolutely. it's not just at a critical moment. absolutely. it's notjust a zimbabwe. it's about watching the outcome of this election, investors are waiting on the sidelines with pen in hand ready to sign checks if the zimbabwe does successfully make this a democratic

transition. but given what happened yesterday, the violence that surprised so many, it is not clear whether now these investors will just close their books and head home. so much had rested on these selections. man is one person said to me, it is almost as if the zimbabwe had run a race for the last eight months to a race that it was running so well and interest on this last hurdle. 0k, running so well and interest on this last hurdle. ok, for the moment, thank you. leskard by the scene there were the zimbabwe electoral commission are getting around to reading out the results of the presidential election stage by stage. we will come back as soon as there is a definitive outcome from that. mid—term elections in the us are fast approaching and beyond them, the 2020 presidential elections. and if it seems to you like donald trump hasn't stopped campaigning since he was elected, you'd be right. he's held dozens of rallies since 2016. this was tampa, florida on tuesday.

this was minnesota injune. nashville, tennessee in may. so all these campaign rallies over the past few months, and the mid—terms are in november. of course, the big question for the democrats is who they'll put up to go head—to—head against him. several of the possible contenders to lead the party in 2020 are gathering in new orleans, including elizabeth warren and kamala harris. they'll be speaking at netroots nation, a conference bringing together thousands of progressive individuals and organisations. one of the big conversations is the future direction of the democratic party. here's a'shanti gholar, who is political director of emerge america. they help women run for office. here at emerge america, we have 768 of our alums on the ballot. this is the most we have ever had in any election year in our 25 affiliates, and we are seeing these women just totally energised to run for office. some of these women are up for reelection.

several of them are first—time candidates. a lot of them are women who did not even think about running for office until after the 2016 election because they knew that our country was at a very pivotal point and they did not like the direction that it was going in. and if they wanted to see change, that meant that they had to step off the sidelines and get involved. they no longer could wait for anyone else to be the change they wanted to see, they needed to participate in the changes they wanted to see. are you saying that the election of donald trump is encouraging more women to get in politics because they do not like what they are seeing? after 2016, i think we actually saw that with the women's march. the women's march was bigger than the trump inauguration. it was women pushing back, saying, "hey, we do not agree with the direction that you want to take this country in." and in 2017, we started to see more and more women run for office. we are seeing that trend continue in 2018 because you also

have the #metoo movement, you have women becoming more vocal about the challenges of being a woman in this country and they want to make change. let's take a look at the latest data from pew research centre. these are approval ratings of the past three presidents in their first two years. as you can see, unlike most presidents, who start their term with a brief honeymoon period of high favourability, mr trump entered the oval office with a rating of 39, but it's remained remarkably stable, hardly moving. now at 40, as you can see here. compare that to president obama, who steadily declined, and george w bush. the orange line here. his ratings went up dramatically after 9/11 but then went down steadily, but finishing higher than when he went president trump's ratings

are also the most polarised along party lines. 84% of republicans say they approve of trump's job performance, compared with an average ofjust 7% of democrats. and take a look at this, a wave of republican retirements. several key committee chairs and speaker of the house paul ryan have joined a record for retirements from a majority party. is this a telling sign that they think republicans may not be a majority much longer? and this last graphic is from an article written by anthony zurcher, who's in new orleans at a gathering of grassroots democrats. i asked him if these republican departures are giving the democrats a spring in their step? i think absolutely. i think you have to realise that it is a lot easier to run in an open election where there is not someone running, and who has a huge amount of money, who has name recognition and knows what it takes to get elected than it is to run a campaign where whoever you get is someone who is on the same footing as you, trying to get better recognition, trying to raise money,

trying to introduce themselves to the voters. so if you look at the number of retirements, those are all seats where the democrats have an advantage, and some of them are, mind you, usually safer republican seats, but in a wave election where democrats have a strong tail wind, you could see them surprise. it wouldn't be the first time. we saw a lot of retirements back in 1994 among democrats, and the republicans used that to help sweep themselves to power in the house of representatives. does it seem to you being there that the democrats have fully recovered from what happened in 2016? i think they will always be haunted by 2016, and i can still sense that when i talk to people. one word used was angst. they feel like things are going well for them, the fundraising numbers are really great. honestly, donald trump's approval ratings are pretty low. traditionally, that's a sign of a wave election, a good election for the out party. but in the back of their mind, they're reminded of what happened in 2016. they had their hopes up.

they went into election night expecting to win and that is going to eat them up until they see those election results come in on that night in november at the midterm elections. until they see new members of congress being sworn in and maybe taking control of the house of representatives. are we seeing clear big figures being rallied around as potential rivals to donald trump in 2020 yet? it's still a grab bag of people. there are a lot of folks who are manoeuvring, who are starting to put out feelers, you are introducing themselves and are raising money, and we're going to see them here in new orleans. we have to kamala harris, the senator from california, elizabeth warren, senator from massachusetts. cory booker is a senator from new jersey. he is speaking tonight. tom stair's a businessman, he's speaking tonight. these are people who have money, they have interest but they do not necessarily have the momentum yet. the ones you talk aboutwith the momentum, any kind of following,

and the name recognition which is important is of course bernie sanders, who ran in 2016, joe biden who was barack obama's vice president, and then after that, the list drops off pretty quickly. anthony, are they at all put off or were by the fact that donald trump seems to have been on the campaign trail almost constantly since he was elected? yeah, it is, it's unusual for a president to have these kind of election—style rallies pretty much nonstop through the course of his presidency. i don't know if they are worried it. they're concerned about the rhetoric they see from donald trump. they're concerned by the people they see so fanatically devoted to him, that he still has support that's not necessarily showing up in the opinion polls and which might turn out in november in larger numbers than are expected. they talk of the democratic turnout, about how they're all going to show up at the polls, the big unknown is whether the incumbent party, the president's party's voters

show up as well. traditionally, during a midterm election, that level drops off because they're already in powerand don't have as much to worry about, as much to gain, but the test is whether or not donald trump can change these rules again and bring people out the way they did in 2016. about two years ago, us—supported libyan forces pushed the islamic state group from here, the town of sirte. is had used the city as its base, from where it controlled its caliphate that once stretched across 180 miles of libya's mediterranean coastline. fighting to take sirte back was intense, the area was left devastated and many people fled what had been a city of 140,000 people. now, residents have now been returning, but they say the government and international community have done little to rebuild their city. the bbc‘s sally nabil has more. it looks like a ghost town. the libyan city of sirte was once

a stronghold for the so—called islamic state group. they are gone, but it is still a struggle to survive. we visited the area which witnessed the final days of a deadly fight. this place was once full of life. if you walk here, you can see that someone wrote on the wall, "the islamic state will remain, god willing." the scale of the damage in this neighbourhood is absolutely shocking. it's as if the battles just ended yesterday. it is hard to believe that fighting stopped here more than a year and a half ago. everything here is dead. western backed pro—government forces fought for seven months to oust the extremists who were based here for nearly a year. fierce battles forced civilians to flee. most families are back now, but they miss the city

they once called home. translation: we wish we hadn't returned to see the city like this. some people fell ill when they returned. one of my relatives died of a heart attack when he saw his house in ruins. libya has been in a deep financial crisis for years. residents only receive government salaries once every three to four months. translation: we queue all day for aid. we don't want charity. we want the international community to help rebuild our city. we live on the shores of the mediterranean and can take the boat to europe if they don't help us. is remnants operate in the south of the city. this major and his forces remain vigilant. we accompanied them on one of their daily patrols. translation: it is a huge responsibility to protect

the city as big as sirte. it is linked to southern libya where security is pretty lax. if libyans don't join forces, the militants could return. sirte was the birthplace of libya's long—time ruler why muammar gaddafi. during the 2011 uprising, sirte was heavily damaged. as the city was trying to rebuild, is militants moved in. the coastline looks peaceful, but peace is very much missed here. residents believe the world and their government have failed them and their hopes for a bright future are fading away. stay with us on outside source, still to come: the vast majority majority of lemur species

are on the brink of extinction. that's according to a group of leading conservationists who've reviewed the status of the species. the bank of england has put interest rates up to 0.75%. that's the highest they've been since 2009. it means our mortgages, loans and savings could increase. and the governor, mark carney, has said people should expect more "limited" and "gradual" rate rises over the coming years. he's been speaking to our business editor, simonjack. some will say we've got pretty weak growth in the uk. you've got a trade war going on around the bigger economic superpowers around the world and you have the huge uncertainty of brexit around the corner. this is not the ideal moment for this. why don't you wait? well, a couple of things. on the first point of relatively weak growth, actually we have growth in the uk that's around the speed limit. it's a little faster than the speed limit. it goes back to we used to be able to run the machine at 3% growth. now it's around 1.5% growth.

so this is more the new normal, at least for a period of time. the second thing is without question there are these uncertainties. brexit dominates all the other uncertainties. and i think we are all hoping that by the end of the year, there'll be much more clarity about the future relationship and there will be a smooth transition to whatever that relationship is. there are a variety of scenarios that can happen with brexit. we don't have enough time to go through them all. but in many of those scenarios, interest rates should be at least at these levels. and so this decision is consistent with that. in those scenarios, where interest rates should be lower, then the mpc, which meets eight times a year, i'm confident would take the right decision to adjust inflation rates at that time. people will want to know, this interest rate is the first one above half a percent in nearly

a decade, how many more should they prepare themselves for? well, we have been saying, and i'm happy to repeat it, that this is not the world precrisis. this is not the world where we're on the road to interest rates being 5%, which is what the average was for the bank rate since this institution was put in place in 1694. this is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. our lead story is: we're expecting results from zimba bwe's presidential election to be released very soon, a day after the country's capital was rocked by violent clashes between police and oppostion protestors. let's remind you quickly over we are with that announcement. that is the electoral commission speaking live in the capital. it is a fairly long

process we are finding. very dense information. votes for each candidate in each province. there are ten promises to be announced. we are ten promises to be announced. we are hearing that tonight we will hear the results from a nine of them. that means we are still verifying results to the cabinet's satisfaction. this means we are still a ways away from hearing definitively who they say will be the president of zimbabwe. so it could still be a long process. certainly not instantaneous. we were wondering how will be done, but it seems it really done extremely ridiculously and gradually, province by province. —— extremely meticulously. donald trump tweeted this earlier. well, the white house confirmed today that president trump

received a letterfrom kimjong—un following up on their discussions in singapore. we're not sure if or when the two leaders will next meet. but what mr trump is referring to at the beginning of that tweet is the remains of american soldiers killed in the korean war being repatriated. today, they were flown from a us airbase in osan in south korea back to hawaii. the vice president was there. this is what he said. some have called the korean war "the forgotten war". today, we prove these heroes were never forgotten. today, our boys are coming home. now that the remains have been returned, the process of identifying them must begin. a forensic scientist has been talking to bbc america. identification of fallen servicemen is of the highest

priority to the us military. they need to sort those remains too different bodies. the process for dna testing involves taking the bone, sanding off the outside of it so that you remove contaminants, or drilling into it, again to get the dna that is deep in the bone and therefore uncontaminated. families provide dna samples to which this dna can be matched to. mother nature really made dna to be robust and resistant to degradation. it lasts for years and years. the movie jurassic park and even the more recentjurassic world is based on the concept that dna can be in insects from dinosaurs and still be intact enough

for us to do testing. overall, when we we're talking 55 caskets, we can ultimately be talking many, many months. perhaps a year. it is truly an important american characteristic that we want to identify every single set of remains. we want to repatriate every single set of military serviceman killed abroad. bring them back home for their loved ones. the vast majority of lemur species are on the brink of extinction. that's according to a group of leading conservationists who've reviewed the status of the species. these wide—eyed primates are unique

to the african island nation of madagascar. the conservationists reviewed found that they're the most endangered primates in the world. victoria gill explains why. the big problem for lemurs on madagascar and it's been a problem for a long time is destruction of their habitat. tropical forest is just being slashed and burned for agriculture. there are new mining threats that have really opened up as a big threat to its habitat as well. essentially, these animals are unique to madagascar. there are 111 species and subspecies of lemurs. they're only endemic to madagascar, and that has given this new update of status has suggested that that has driven and is of the very brink of extinction. this is an official uplisting to say some the species and subspecies are right on the cusp of extinction and are critically endangered. this kind of an organisation where you put your resources and emergency efforts in protecting

those habitats to just keep the very last of these animals alive. but what these conservationists also saw when they assessed the population and the assessments of what is going on madagascar are on the ground is in the threats of hunting are certain to emerge. let's just remind you of where we are with the announcement of the result of the zimbabwe election. the process has begun but it is ridiculous and a long process because ten provinces in total will because ten provinces in total will be announced. one is outstanding and they are still verifying results there. the process isn't meticulous. the process of announcing it has begun. thanks for watching. —— it is a meticulous process. the keyway that we have got right now across some southern the keyway that we have got right

now across some southern parts of the uk is not quite as intense as what it was last time, but it is still very hot and it is going to peak on friday when two brochures across some that are part of the uk could hit 33 degrees. that is going to be around the london area, east anglia, so low to mid 30s, just about you could call it. across the northern and eastern parts of the cover, you could see temperatures in the high 20s, especially around lincolnshire. in scotland, generally speaking, we are talking about 23 and he will be fairly similar values in northern ireland as well. so that he is reserved for seven areas. coming out of spain and portugal, across france, the heap is also spreading to other parts of the continent. but the really extremely hotair continent. but the really extremely hot air will be reserved for these southeastern parts of the spain here. we could see temperatures of around 48 celsius through friday and saturday. and that could be a record

for europe. the record is 48. we need a little of that to beat the record. back home then. into friday, we are expecting some rain for time across yorkshire but other than that, it is a hot and dry day. we've a lwa ys that, it is a hot and dry day. we've always said around 30 to 11, in the low 20s across scotland and northern ireland. into weekend, saturday, high pressure with the azores high, which builds from the azores which are round about here. then we see a lot of my whether building across the uk with the sunshine for me england and wales. a little cloud across scotland and northern ireland. notice the winds blowing off the ocean here so we had these at yellow, cooler colours here. two brochures and not so high in the western isles. about 15 in stornoway, where in the south, it will be around 30 degrees in london and comfortably into the mid—20s or high 20s across the midlands and into yorkshire. high pressures with us on into yorkshire. high pressures with us on sunday, pretty much covering most of the uk but we do have low

pressures , most of the uk but we do have low pressures, which are starting to nudge him and these blood pressures will bring some cooler weather into next week. but let's summarise these have the weekend and into monday. temperatures in the north mostly into the 20s, should be dried with sunny spells and in the south, we still have the heap. in fact, in london it looks like it will hover around 30 degrees into next week. monday, quite possibly tuesday as well. so monday's forecasting, this high—pressure tend to fizzle out across the south of someone and we start as a low—pressure developing in these blobs of blue here. this is an indication we will see front moving in. so on tuesday, it looks as though the levaquin. or to drag in cloud and some rain later on tuesday into wednesday. we expect he across the southeast, two brochures of around 32 degrees but in the western islands, mostly around the teams. this is really schematic of the airflow around are part of the

world until early next week. cooler air in the north there, hot air in the south then later next week, we think that that fresher where will push the heat away and temperatures will start to climb. i did not want to turn cool, that could be cool in the south as we could seek to bridge are still in the mid to high 20s. overall, will continue. tonight at ten: after historic lows, interest rates have been raised for only the second time since 2009. the increase, by a quarter of a point to 0.75%, will mean higher mortgages for some. every decision i make about what i'm doing in my daily life, i have to think, "do i have the money to do that?" and it's just really frustrating and it holds me back. what does the increase mean for savers and is the bank of england considering more rate rises? also tonight: calm on the streets of zimbabwe — an announcement on a new president is imminent, following the disputed election. she was murdered by

her adoptive father. now a review finds chances were missed to save 18—month—old elsie skully—hicks. a special report from nicaragua, where more than 300 people have been killed in violent protests over the rule of president ortega.