this is bbc world news today. our top stories... zimba bwe‘s newly relected president insists he won a free and fair election — and calls for calm after the violence that left six people dead. i ask everyone to be calm and peaceful and to look for work, and peaceful and to look forward, to remember that we are all brothers and sisters. but the opposition leader, nelson chamisa, refuses to accept the outcome — saying he'll use all means necessary to challenge the result that he believes was rigged. this election is fraudulent, illegal, illegitimate and characterised by serious accountability gaps. with temperatures rising in spain and portugal — forecasters say the all—time heat record in mainland europe may about to be broken. plus, new kids on the block in idaho,

as dozens of hungry goats take over a neighbourhood — devouring everything in sight. hello and welcome to world news today. zimbabwe's president emmerson mnangagwa has called for peace and unity after being accused of winning a "fraudulent and illegitimate" election. opposition leader, nelson chamisa has refused to accept defeat and claims he can prove that the electoral process was rigged. our correspondent nomsa maseko reports from the capital harare. the day started quietly. no celebrations the morning after an election which declared emmerson mnangagwa leader. but there were pockets of disruption. press conference by opposition

leader nelson chamisa was interrupted by riot police. mr chamisa was allowed to speak eventually. he claims the election was rigged, and that the results announced by zimba bwe‘s electoral commission do not reflect the will of the people. if you go around the country, you will find that there is no jubilation, no celebration. if anything, today is a day of mourning. mourning over democracy. it is a black day because we are seeing a repeat of what we saw during the regime. very late last night, the electoral commission declared the result. therefore, mnangagwa emerson of zanu—pf party is therefore duly declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe. this legitimises his position following a military coup that ousted former strong man

robert mugabe last november. the ruling zanu—pf party has dismissed allegations of vote—rigging and president mnangagwa has extented an olive branch. to nelson chamisa. i want to say you have a crucial role to play in zimbabwe's present and in its future, and its unfolding future. let us both call for peace and unity in our land. call for both, louder and even. the opposition is yet to provide solid evidence to prove that the vote has been stolen. it will also be hard—pressed to persuade the international community to turn its back against president mnangagwa. with the results as close as this, there is no doubt that the next few days will be crucial for this

deeply divided nation. i've been speaking to a former adviser to the opposition mdc party, alex magaisa. he says the result is still too close to call. it's been an incredibly close election, very highly contested, no opposition leader who has obtained 2 million votes, that is a huge credit to the effort of him and his team, what is important is to understand that the people of zimbabwe, the people uploaded, should have their well—respected and if there are any disputes or any issues about the result, then they need to be resolved, i do not think that the issue of pieces, it does not detract

from the need to make sure that we have a government in this country that has got a clean and legitimate mandate. clever governs the country, are you not accepting the results that he has won this election?” think the opposition is disputing the election result and there are issues that need to be resolved and i think it's important that the opposition in any other party, who may have questions that need to be resolved, that those things be resolved. because it is using the legal and constitutional channels that are available that if they are donein that are available that if they are done in peace, no violence, it is critical to achieve that. the point really is that the people of zimbabwe need to be allowed to have a chance to exhaust all the channels that are available in order to provide a clean mandate to the ruler. it is great if it's either

one, whoever it is, we need to move forward but it is to move forward with a clean slate. they say they have evidence of rigging, why did they not just produce have evidence of rigging, why did they notjust produce it? there are channels that there are avenues, that evidence is presented, i do not think it is fair to ask the opposition to use means that are not pa rt opposition to use means that are not part of what is provided by the constitution, they will do so as far asi constitution, they will do so as far as i understand it, that they are unable to do so, then they can move on with no legal challenges.” wa nted on with no legal challenges.” wanted to ask you, the president has said that they have a role to play in the country, do you think that he will accept a role if it is offer ten? i have not spoken to nelson on this particular issue, i know that

he contested to this election with the alliance, the coalition of several parties. if they are given an exclusive and legitimate mandate ina an exclusive and legitimate mandate in a different way, if there are any negotiations or any issues that may arise because of time, that is entirely up to the political leaders. but at the moment, at the moment, they are pursuing their rights and providing the constitutional rights, and you persuade to do so, i think that done well to make that statement, which is useful, zimbabwe needs it. and i think also, that meets a important state m e nts think also, that meets a important statements regarding the need for zimbabwe to move forward in peace. alex speaking to me earlier. as europe sweats its way through another heatwave — portugal and spain are bracing for more soaring temperatures. forecasters say the continent's all—time—temperatu re record — could be broken in the coming days. the current mark — 48 degrees celsius —

was set more than forty years ago. but southern europe could see that mark beaten. sima kotecha reports from spain. a city exhausted by the heat. in monduro, there is little movement today. and the sweltering conditions are having an impact on the younger and older generations. i drink a lot of water. i go to the swimming pool and i have a siesta in the afternoon. translation: old people do not go out, between three and half six or seven in the evening here. you will see nobody on the streets. everyone is at home with their fan and these days, air conditioning. if you can afford it. temperatures here have been the highest in the country over the last few days. with the gauge peaking at 45 degrees yesterday. an hour or so away in cordoba, in the southern region of andalusia, there is concern about those who are visiting. of course, people coming to cordoba,

they want to see everything, they want to visit all the places in cordoba, but they are not used to these temperatures, so, it is ok if they are inside the places, but do not walk around in the midday, it is dangerous for them. of course, summers in this part of the world are hot, but this heat is exceptional. most of it is down to the hot air coming in from northern africa and stagnating over the iberian peninsula. that, in turn, could affect conditions in the uk. the great mosque dominates the centre of this city. its ancient heritage, an intricate detail that attracts tourists from across the world. for those from britain, the torrid weather is unbearable. we just feel like we are absolutely melting. it is so hot, i think we are just kind of dodging the sun and trying to find some shade, get some ice creams, trying to stay hydrated, it is absolutely boiling. we just got in the car, put on the air con, we had just travelled for an hour.

we will get back into the car soon. is that ice cream cooling you down a bit? yeah. yeah? in neighbouring portugal, it has also been intense, with similar temperatures. it is often said that britons like complaining about the weather, but now it seems even the spanish are catching the habit. the british prime minister theresa may has met the french president emmanuel macron for talks on brexit — as the clock ticks down for a breakthrough in the negotiations. the two met at the french president's summer residence in bregan—son, on the french rivieria. theresa may is breaking into her own holiday to meet mr macron — trying to find support for her brexit blueprint. it's led some french commentators to describe it as a "cry for help". theresa may's visit comes as the governor of the bank of england mark carney,

warns the chances of a ‘no—deal‘ brexit, are "uncomfortably high". but his comments have been criticised by some of the prime minister's own conservative mps who are in favour of brexit, and say he's scaremongering. here's our business editor simonjack. wish you were here. this is no holiday. government ministers are touring the scorching capitals of europe, hoping to persuade leaders to get behind its proposed deal with the eu. the prime minister even cut short her own holiday to join the french president on his. meanwhile, the governor of the bank of england cranked up the temperature at home with this strongly worded warning. the possibility of a no deal is uncomfortably high at this point. it does mean potential disruption, it does mean disruption to trade as we know it, and as a consequence of that, a disruption to the level of economic activity changes, higher prices, for a period of time.

the governor of the bank of england doesn't say anything by mistake, he knows his every utterance is carefully scrutinised, so this was a deliberate intervention at a crucial moment from a governor who thinks it is hisjob to highlight risks to the financial system, a governor that others think is too political by half. the canadian bank manager who won't be here in a while or so has told us that everything will be terrible and the end of the world. well, he said that before, but the british people have said no, we're coming out of the european union, and i'm afraid they, people like the manager of the bank of england has got to accept it. i mean, he can go back to canada if he wants to but we are coming out. but the boss of rbs said today the uncertainty over how we leave is affecting the value and prospects of a bank still largely owned by the taxpayer.

so we are preparing this bank for a very slow time in 2019. no matter what happens through brexit, we are able to look after our customer base, but it does bear down on the share price. so there is a brexit discount on uk focussed stocks? there is, any uncertainty brings some sort of discount. the bank of england may be sweating over the brexit outcome, but the governor also today offered this reassurance. the financial system will be ready. for that undesirable and still unlikely possibility. the financial system will be ready. ready but hardly willing. tonight, french president macron is entertaining a guest on a mission. not the holiday either would have hoped for. stay with us on bbc world news, still to come: and after a wave of anti—government protests in nicaragua, what do those representing the goverment think

of the situation? we'll hear from the vice minister of foreign affairs. this is bbc world news today. the latest headlines zimbabwe's newly reelected president has called for peace and unity after being accused of winning a "fraudulent and illegitimate" election. the opposition leader says the result was rigged. much of europe sizzles in a heatwave — forecasters say the all—time temperature record on the continent could be broken over the weekend. the youngest woman to be convicted of plotting a terror attack on british soil has been given a 13—year minimum jail term. safaa boular was convicted of preparing acts of terrorism and attempting to travel to syria — tojoin militants from islamic state. she was part of britain's

first all—female cell with her mother and sister, who were jailed earlier this year. june kelly reports from outside the court in central london. elder sister and their mother are already in prison for one terror attack being planned by this female terrorist cell, all members of the same family, she was killed today. same family, she was jailed today. planning her own separate attack, now this whole issue of this e—mail family terror cell was exposed in april last year, when police moved in on a house in northwest london and arrested her sister. she was shot during that police operation. she was already in custody and during the trial it emerged that she had lived in this, what was described as a very extremist household, it's that she had been radicalised by members of her family. although today in

court that she was a strong individual despite her age. the judge said that she was, she knew her own mind and then she became radicalised by this man that she met in syria where she was groomed by this man that she met in syria. so it was a combination of being groomed and radicalised, it was said. what was also said in court today was that, since she had been in custody, she has reflected on what she had done and she is now expressing remorse and basically, there was a transformation in her behaviour. but the judge didn't accept this, he felt that she still posed a risk to the public and she wasn't, the evidence wasn't there that she was a transformed individual and he handed down the life term and told her she must serve a minimum of 13 yea rs. more than 300 people have been killed in nicaragua following a wave of anti—government protests which first started in april over pension reforms. those on the streets are demanding democratic changes from the country's president daniel ortega. but others say that's not possible —

and want him to step down so early elections can take place. earlier i spoke to the nicaraguan vice minister of foreign affairs, started by asking him about the violence protesters have suffered. the treatment of the protesters,.m heavily true because, the authorities are accused of human rights violations. that's it for themselves, haven't they? peaceful protests are met the same way all over the world, yet violent protests, and the police act exactly the same way as it would happen there. emily had was a mixture of violent protests, which have

committed violent crimes, even killing police with gunshots. at the bbc has itself filmed masked armed men, we have seen this first—hand, who are these masked men? mask, the use of masks is widespread all over the world among police forces. but they want to set the record clear, speaking about more than 300 people are dying in the country. we are talking about president ortega, who clearly stated that number is 195. which, over 65% of them are police officers, our government sympathizers, so would you happier is violent protesters are using weapons and using different forms of violent expression, to shoot at police, burn people in the streets and carry out these violent actions.

nevertheless, there are protests happening in nicaragua, it cannot be denied. thatjust as content, what you think should be done about that too into protests —— to end the protest. dahl we have constitutional process in place, many mechanisms, the election was held in 2016 and we believe that we have to maintain the process therefore, the interest of the group of people who have never achieved more than 15% together, more than ten to 15% of the electorate, to try to change and violate the constitutional process. the nicaraguan vice minister of

foreign affairs speaking to me. lizze greenwood—hughes has all the sport. we saw five for at the close of the plate, the media get tantalising 84 rose to victory, patrick reports. this incredible matches heading into a fourth day and that didn't always seem to be the case, this morning, trigger yet another batting collapse, the spinner got rid of them and lured him into a trap, getting entrapped that the legs slip. he ripped the heart added england's, caught in the slips, ben stokes, slip. all before lunch! 99 ahead with four second innings and was saved by the youngest player, sam karen, plaintiff second match,

he smashed it all and 63 today. that allowed england to set 194 to win the match, loud and boisterous as they charged him, got rid of them and they all chipped in. three more wickets and see that they might be in charge, but they're the interplay, once again was the captain scored 149 in the first inning and while he's there, will feel that they have a chance, would leave now, if this five wickets in hand, 110, and but you can never tell with this incredible test. here's a reminder of how the match stands, india need 84 more runs or england need to take five more wickets, whoever does it first winds it should be a real thriller. let's hear from it should be a real thriller. let's hearfrom england's it should be a real thriller. let's hear from england's james, it should be a real thriller. let's hearfrom england's james, folks know their teams have a good chance,

but they also know it all depends on india's captain. we've just we've just got to give it everything we've just got to give it everything we've got. leave nothing, absolutely nothing out there, does give it everything we've got. it's really exciting place to be because, we could do something special by winning this match. such a close match. so we'll go to bed dreaming. someone who always gives you the positive, the big thing because you know, you always wanted is nothing special for the team. everybody knows how professional he is sucking is pretty good to have that. the new look of the multiformat is under way in glasgow in scotland, seven sports brought together over 11 days competition. france 12 goals with

pretend's hannah taking bronze in the 400 metres, and british swimmer still qualified for saturday's 100 metre brushstroke, and the 13th fastest ever. meanwhile in glasgow, laura returned to competition with gold she and her team—mates, were near evans, brushed aside italy to win one more and 80 seconds. golf 110w win one more and 80 seconds. golf now and thailand's leads the women's british open at the halfway stage, she's at 10—under par, and put a record into the event well behind her by hitting a second successive rounds of 67. and that is all the sports for now. sometimes a tiny local story gets a lot of attention and right now it's the turn of boise, idaho which started trending on twitter —

all after a suburban neighbourhood was invaded by goats. the news was broken by ktvb reporterjoe parris, he tweeted about the mysterious goats after nobody could explain where they had come from. and his post attracted 75 thousand likes and 33 thousand retweets. joe posted this video of the apparently hungry goats, devouring residents' lawns and shrubs. the party was brought to an end when the owners of the escaped animals — a firm called we rent goats — were identified, and called to come and get them. don't forget you can get in touch with me and some of my team on twitter — i'm @alpapatel the weather is looking great for

most of us. temperature to be too hot and soaring for the past two days, up to 33 degrees so a scorching hot day in the southeast. over the next couple of days, we will see those temperatures easing bya will see those temperatures easing by a couple of degrees. this is what it looks like on the satellite, you can see there is actually weather front during the course of the south of the weather front that is a we have, this, he can barely see it on the forecast. that basically means that slightly fresher weather is moving off the atlantic, sven is that scotland, northern ireland have been more comfortable tonight with temperatures dipping down to maybe 11 to 14 degrees was in the southeast we still hang onto that heat. so another muggy night on the way. it finds a today weather across england and wales, looks as though the clouds will come and go, might even be a few spots of rain, first

for glasgow, and 19 for belfast, probably just for glasgow, and 19 for belfast, probablyjust shy for glasgow, and 19 for belfast, probably just shy of 30 degrees for glasgow, and 19 for belfast, probablyjust shy of 30 degrees in my den on saturday. and saturday night is going to be dry as well, a beautiful evening on the way tomorrow. we'll get a bit more cloud in some spots of rain. sunday we see that high—pressure continuing to build, that is why its called be high, because it builds up in the southwest, but there are sewer lurking, they are approaching the northwestern parts of the uk, so we'll see amounts here, scotland and northern ireland, eventually sunday into monday and will see spots of rain here, but to the that, temperatures around 29 and 30 degrees, beautiful around the coast as well. i was the weekend, come monday those low pressures started nudging it did and it approaches west of scotland and northern ireland, and to the south of that, thatis ireland, and to the south of that, that is a reactive heat. but this low—pressure, with the fresher winds

off the atlantic is going to deflect some of that heat, a little further towards the east, so that means it's just the southeast where the heat wave of beer on tuesday and in the north, it will turn a lot fresher. this is bbc news. here are the headlines. the newly elected president of zimbabwe has called for peace and unity after being accused of running a fraudulent election. the president said he was set up an independent commission of inquiry to investigate violence which left six people dead. the other shindler has refused to accept the outcome, and promised to amount a legal challenge against the result he says was rigged. and as europe experience is a heat wave, forecasters and the all—time demerger on the mainland to be broken in the coming days. temperatures in spain and portugal may reach 48 celsius. theresa may hasjoined may reach 48 celsius. theresa may has joined the french may reach 48 celsius. theresa may hasjoined the french president at his summer retreat as she steps up