from the forest starts. w. . this is d w news life from birth land and run conde claims victory in pakistan's general election the former international cricket star has appeared on television promising a new tactic down but both are still being counted and rival parties claimed it was wrong. also coming up reuniting separated migrant children with their parents happy

to see him now but a doctor specializing in child care tell d w that the us and poor separations could have serious long term consequences and. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the official results still hasn't been called but imran khan has claimed victory to have won pakistan's parliamentary elections the former cricket star has given a televised address positioning himself as the next prime minister and promising a new pakistan partial results give his p t i party a significant lead but opposition parties claim the vote was rigged final results have been delayed because of what election officials say is a computer glitch and when his t.v. address mr khan promised the country a fresh start. the pakistan like it's never been run

default. given the governments it has never had before. but also we've been too transparent and. saw. for more let's bring in correspondent naomi conrad who is standing by in the pakistani capital islamabad and naomi you know khan has promised change we heard him say it there he's also promised to stamp out corruption has pakistan turned a corner with this result well that really remains to be seen what's interesting is that even though he promises corruption he actually took on a lot of power lets a politician from the if. there is. corrupt if everything themselves of the last couple of decades so a lot of people question whether he can actually continue to portray himself as anti and be corrupt and it's also the question of whether you have the going to

call if you will maybe one of these two established parties or whether he has to go into a coalition with maybe some independent people so it may actually turn out that he's going to close this deal at least work together with sadness politician alternator that remains to be seen what he actually does when it comes to something and you know his background is that that he was a former cricket star now turned politician he's that's actually been a politician for more than two decades but ultimately he lacks this governance experience you know which is required of a prime minister or at least desired of prime minister do you think that that would be a handicap or an advantage as he looks to take the reins of pakistan. yes exactly he lacks experience with his his posse does have some experience governing in one of the provinces. where people say he did not make too much of an appearance in a lot of the parliamentary debates in the provincial capital but he is surrounded by very eventful the pistons experiences politicians with decades of experience maybe

you can let them take the lead when it comes to certain policy areas where there is a hindrance of whether it is actually in the vaunted we'll have to see in the coming months naomi conrad in pakistan thank you. when i was in bad boy his going to the polls for the first time since the dictator of almost forty years robert mugabe was removed from office last november the army led the coup and installed the seventy five year old emerson and then god as president now he's hoping that the nation's five million voters will give him democratic legitimacy when they vote on monday but the main opposition party is putting up a challenge. he's charismatic and approachable could his be the face of the future in zimbabwe nelson chamisa has surprised pundits by how quickly he has amassed public support since taking over as the head of the m.d.c.

in february. the lawyer and pastor has won over the younger generation and unemployed voters disillusioned with the decades of zanu p.f. rule. on monday that said it will july it is independence day for the second republic we are going to be forging overwhelming fortunes. close to twice his age incumbent. is the establishment candidate he's standing on a platform of stability and reform one got what took over the presidency and the leadership of the zanu p.f. party last november. but the man nicknamed the crocodile for his political stealth and guile was an ally of mugabe's for decades he says it will be a clean contest. we misinformed people we weren't. we were

misinformed gross's of. want it transparent and that led to the election these. e.u. electoral observers have been invited into zimbabwe to monitor the polls and opposition parties have been freely allowed to campaign the un is hopeful. in the. two elections previously in zimbabwe were very different very much modified violence and from what we have been seeing what we have been monitoring there has not been that scale of violence in fact civil society people that are that are calling to spoken to have expressed his cautious optimism it is far from from from perfect but the there are encouraging signs. monday is going to be a historic day for zimbabweans for the first time in thirty eight is there is a chance that the people will speak and be heard. and let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world the

annual bric summit opened today in south africa bringing together the world's fast developing economies brazil russia india china and south africa this year's meeting is expected to focus on revitalizing africa's industrialization. more than six hundred migrants have crossed the border fence between morocco and spanish territory say c.-o. tough hoping to claim asylum some had to be treated for injuries after scrambling over the razor wire it's the biggest breach of the fence in over a year people who made it across are often deported back to northern africa and police in china say that a man with a firework device was behind an explosion at the u.s. embassy in the capital beijing today authorities have identified the suspect as twenty six year old from china's inner mongolia region and that the suspect was the only person injured the man's motive is currently unclear. a u.s.

court set a deadline of today to reunite separated migrant children with their parents the department of homeland security claims that it is on track to comply but government figures show that out of two thousand five hundred children around thirteen hundred of them are still separated and even those figures are uncertain as the reunions take place health professionals in the u.s. are sounding the alarm about the long term damage already done to these children. the lucky few reunited after months of not knowing whether they'd ever see their children again and for others even this moment soon turned to heartbreak after being separated for so long as some parents had their children didn't even recognize them. the difficult reunifications we've seen so far have highlighted just how hard it's going to be to bring these children back together with their families and how much damage has already been done by the trumpet ministrations original policy of taking them away from their parents. dr lucy is one of many

pediatricians warning of the damage these separations may have caused already. she told me extreme stress from such an experience can result in lifelong health problems the younger they are the more vulnerable they are so we see changes in their stress hormones you see changes in their brain development the long term that also can manifest as mental health illnesses so p.t.s.d. anxiety depression kids who've experienced toxic stress actually have higher risk of suicide as they get older then the change in the hormones actually causes physical changes in their body so increased risk of heart disease of diabetes of liver problems increased risk of cancers so why are migrants from central and south america willing to take their chances on exposing their children to this kind of future i think these families would say that they didn't have a choice i have patients a mom who told me that her ten year old son was asked to join

a gang and if he didn't that he would be killed have another patient who's a teenage girl who's repeatedly abused and was worried about getting kidnapped and trafficked so on these parents take their kids and other belongings in the middle of the night and they flee they're not thinking that they have a choice now many who thought they'd a skate the worst for a better life in the united states are facing even more trauma. and for more on that let's bring in washington bureau chief alexandra for naaman who joins us from just outside of brownsville texas on the us mexico border where a number of families are being held welcome to alexander and i'd like to talk a little bit more about this meeting. of the deadline to reunite these hundreds of children and parents i mean it must be a huge logistical challenge how was the operation coming together there. it is very challenging indeed right now i am about twenty miles northwest from

brownsville at the port isabel detention center and that is according to a soroti the primary facility to house parents that crossed the border illegally and were separated from their kids you can see the fence behind me we are not allowed to get any closer to this facility we don't know how many parents are still being held inside of this facility i didn't get any answer to that question from the i talked to lawyers and activist and they told me that the boats we hundreds of parents have left this attention center and the last days and were brought to a couple of weeks shelter to be reunited with their kids however we have to say that it's been a very chaotic process that the parents were left in a sort of limbo they didn't know where they kids were they didn't know were going to get together with their kids some of them were hoping that that's just happening

and then where they were brought to another facility and lawyers complained that they didn't have proper context to their clients and of course this is you know a situation that has absolutely torn at the heart of this nation many people you know reacting speaking out about this policy and now you know the administration they have this deadline based upon the numbers that you are hearing there does it seem as if they are likely to meet it. at the moment it doesn't seem that the government is going to meet just deadline we are talking about twenty five hundred parents that should be reunited with their kids and not to have told them not fifty percent of them have been so far reunited and their significant number and nine hundred one speak probably real nigh to some of them cannot be found some of them have serious criminal records according to the rotis

and therefore they are not eligible to be reunited with their kids and many of them more than four hundred have been already do portraits just imagine they are now in their home country and they maybe even don't know where the kids are they have to find then it's up to them and they could are probably already in the u.s. force or caste system maybe being put up for adoption that must be devastating for these parents alexandra phenomena in the u.s. thank you. all now time for some sports news and the winner of the eighteenth stage of the tour de france has just decided after a frantic sprint to the finishing line in power sprint specialist are no demaio managed to edge out frenchmen kristoff the poor two for the stage when meanwhile britain's goron thomas team sky retained the yellow jersey tightening his grip on the overall lead with just three stages to come. and meantime the world of

tennis pablo kenya and nicolas really have advanced to the next round of the german tennis open and will face each other in the quarter finals who step seen here at the top of the screen have a little trouble defeating the genius of the ants the d.n.a. who had to quit the match because of these back injury while trailing for love in the second set georgia's nicholas really didn't have it so easy against europe wise pablo best as you can see there he lost the first set but bounced back to win seven six six four. well how fast can a camel run the city well min in southern iraq oh finds out every july at the festival of the camel as locals in the region try to hold on to their heritage through this event tourists get to see some camel racing and it's exactly what it sounds like riders on camels and racing through the sahara at up to sixty five

kilometers an hour communities in the region regard calorie saying as an expression of their culture and say that it deserves to be maintained with plans to further develop the competition. in the best camel when and with that you're up to date now on t.w. news i'm sorry kelly and you very much for watching have a great day. when. we make up we want times over after the end of budget we are this summer some of this is. the one to shape the continent's future to be part of it and join dumpsters as they share their stories their dreams and their championships the seventy seven percent plus one for africa jordan.