georgia is such. a big political that the. area. this is d w news live from. iran contra claims victory in pakistan's general election the former international cricket star has appeared on television promising a new pakistan but votes are still being counted and rival parties claimed there was fraud. also coming up a special report from greece where g.w. has been following the rescue crews helping survivors of that wildfire she is like

these are replied was is that an unrelenting today yesterday when the fires broke out so they took a look so desperate he said she was alive then came the search for bodies. and debris uniting separating my separated migrant children with their parents happy seems now but a doctor specializing in child care tells t w that the u.s. and forces operations could have serious long term consequences. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program. the official result still hasn't been called but imran khan claims to have won pakistan's parliamentary elections the former cricket star went on national television and positioned himself as the next prime minister partial results give khan's party a significant lead but opposition parties claim the vote was raked final results have been delayed because of what election officials say is

a computer glitch. jubilation in islamabad supporters of iran khan's p.t.i. party took to the streets to celebrate what they deemed to be a change in direction for pakistan as promised by their leader. the pakistan like it's never been run before. we will give it the government it has never had before. and we will start with ourselves we will be transparent and clean or sob. his supporters may be celebrating tonight but without an outright majority in one can still has potentially tough coalition talks in front of him and pakistan may still have to wait a while for its new government a scenario that may prove difficult with the p.p.p. party of below well bhutto zardari. and the p.l.o.

led by the brother of disgraced former prime minister nawaz sharif claiming it wasn't a fair vote. for him this is blatant rigging results based on rigging would lead to a dependable loss we do not accept it we reject it. but for a number of ordinary pakistanis it's the everyday issues that concern them. main issue is education system and if a positive change can be made here i am very confident a change would come to pakistan that he went on holiday on khan has promised a lot to the people of the huge number of votes that people gave him is because he can do what others failed to do for them he should deliver on his promises and he should do a lot for the masses he should deliver now or else his situation will be worse than that love australia and. a warning that for now at least is drowned out in the euphoria of victory.

and joining me now from washington d.c. is ambassador akbar ahmed has been pakistan's high commissioner to the u.k. and to ireland and is currently teaching at the american university in washington thank you so much for joining us and i'd like to begin by asking you because you were in pakistan recently traveling to the countries interiors needing ordinary pakistanis from those interactions with them how do you see this vote so you know i see this as a kind of slow motion revolution taking place and imran khan in a sense embodying that tunisian is promising to change the lives of the poor people the ordinary people the tenants the landless peasants change their lives for the first time and talk son's history his emphasis is on lack of corruption of fair play on education for all of his the issues of trying to control despite an

instance rampant violence seeing this in books so these are huge issues chris important like sons and he's willing to put pressure on the rich and the corrupt that he will literally go off to them so that there is over no none of this is being heard or seen by the people of oxen and above all he's saying i will be the example so he's saying i will unite and that's really character sicko his you know as a as a cricket captain this is exactly what he did he literally the front but does he have the mandate to do so i mean we have to couch this in the fact in the that the final count is still awaited but how stable will a government led by imran khan be if he doesn't have the majority numbers. that's a great question because if he does not i think he'll make a coalition government he's got enough votes in bali going to attract a few more this is traditional tribal areas my knowledge has been to talk to him that's the pattern of excited politics now the big question is what about the

opposition if the opposition does what he did when he was in opposition which is truly positions to challenge the government to in fact try to destabilize the government he will be in trouble because you cannot dismiss all discount someone like shahbaz sharif who heads the most and leeks the shia in the punjab he says the bobbies hold the most in need and they have lost areas in order to change and he has been a very competent cheerfulness toward one job he's actually transformed the punjab so in that it's a sin not you it will be a very they tough situation for enron's he needs to relate i've gone down the oppositional been there will always soon as he can let's talk a little bit more about the opposition and about the challenges that imran khan faces as he seeks to take over the reins of pakistan because in the opposition for their part they have claimed the vote rigging hair they have claimed corruption especially you know among iran khan's military backers what do you say to that. i

see that these are jennifer's who are by the reverend not a spokesman for iran kamel the government or any particular onto your interests in parks unsolicited you know as an analyst so my analysis is that whenever they have action and the opposition loses this it is mean rigging now what that does is very often they come onto the streets this is decisions there's violence and very often and there's an emotional so what we have to note is you know all these problems that you're mentioning what we also have to acknowledge is there for the first time in spite of all the violence all the challenges that the people of iraq son face again i'm talking more of the ordinary people and a lot of violence in baluch some one hundred fifty people died in one occasion just yesterday at the. buxton use were determined to stay on the democratic number to the delicate balance between the military and the civilian establishment and which

meant that with all the temptation it's all a breakdown in law and order the army did not seem to be in to take over control they had sent out almost four hundred thousand soldiers to supervise election day in fact did not take over the government as such so they've been very very i would say mechanism holding off in terms of civilian apology in civilian jurisdiction so these are signs of i think very positive development and only takes and we should acknowledge it and we'd like to thank you very much for joining us this evening to share that perspective ambassador after on that as we mentioned you were pakistan's are having pakistan's high commissioner to the u.k. and ireland and they are currently teaching at the american university in washington d.c. we appreciate it thank you so much thank you. one hour the death toll in greece's worst of forest fires for a decade now stands at more than eighty people relatives and rescue crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins and d.-w.

correspondent. report from one of the worst affected towns that is mati where residents and tourists escaped the flames by running into the sea. a steady stream of supplies greets those battling the eye watering smoke and ash to reach survivors is a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who know all too well what they've endured for volunteers like these weak lifeguards it's been an unrelenting hey when the fires broke out they took to desperately searching for survivors then came to search for bodies now they're joining the many hundreds of volunteers handing out food and water to those in need. those still scouring the waters can do little but wait with dozens still missing fears are growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives. for the by this now if they are more in the water it is

a difficult job these because we know that everything we find now it's only for shards and but good for the very least of the phone people their beloved. at least. palest was among those who helped residents fleece the water before saving himself the horror of that night in his mind. me and will say i'm going to. board. and to put some. people or some to this out of the car to go to the scene. i see some guys we want to go to where you. did it because there's a fire but that kind of cuts. vary but since you. he's turned his bar into a makeshift food bank another beacon of hope for those in need this is a community whose resilience is breathtaking in the face of the tragedy the true scale of which is yet. when alex get

a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world as hellion authorities have begun to clear an officially sanctioned roma camp in rome according to some accounts dozens of families have been forced from their homes despite calls from the european court of human rights for the operation to be suspended rome said that the site had to be cleared because of what they called sanitary problems. more than six hundred migrants have crossed the border fence between morocco and the spanish territory of c o two hoping to claim asylum some had to be treated for injuries after scrambling over razor wire it is the biggest breach of the fence in over a year people who make it across are often deported back to northern africa. and a court in the belgian town of ghent has overturned a ban on women wearing so-called a public swimming pools these are the full body swimming suits often wore by worn by muslim women officials claims that the broken means were banned for reasons of

hygiene the court found that they were no more unhygenic than other swimsuits. well now to the united states where a 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 around twenty five hundred children about thirteen hundred are still separated and even those figures are uncertain as the reunions take place health professionals in the united states are sounding the alarm about the long term damage already done to the 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 said 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 that the change in the hormones actually causes physical changes in their body so an 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 patience 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 is 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 did 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 us. 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 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 votes three hundred parents have left the city in 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 a novel 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 so half of them not fifty percent of them have been so far reunited and the significant number and nine hundred one speed probably reunited 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 did portraits and 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. i mean time there is relief in europe after u.s. president donald trump and european commission president jiang called younger told us that a transatlantic trade route or at least for now has at least for now sarah at the german minister of the economy hailing it as a breakthrough saying the commitment to work towards the very terrorists could avoid a trade war and save millions of jobs but the french government has taken

a more cautious tone warning any deal must be limited and to the benefit of both sides. the american president was his usual confident self when he met the press together was. the deal was done the e.u. and usa have backed away from their looming trade war. on the other side of the pond some german political leaders welcomed the agreement. we have managed to avoid the outbreak of a trade war. and return to go shooting people instead. this opens up the opportunity for us to reduce terrorists instead of increasing them and it means we can strengthen the world trade and. as part of the deal the e.u. has agreed to buy more american products including natural gas in exchange the u.s. will hold off on its threats of increasing tariffs on your products and both partners will begin looking at ways to reduce trade barriers but some industry

experts warn wednesday's meeting was only the first step of a long road but we have to do this according to the w t o we have to follow the international trade rules and that means that if you want to trade agreement with the united states we have to do this on the multilateral basis we have to include other countries so it's a very complicated system of negotiations we would go into if the us is ready for that. for now it seems economic peace has broken out between the e.u. and us but only tomorrow will tell what twitter will bring. and billion dollars wiped off the value of a company in just one day when we know it can be rough on the markets the stay proved a tough day for none other than facebook the company's shares for as much as twenty percent and it's not just the biggest drop in the company's history is the biggest ever one day loss that any company trading in the united states one reason is

facebook's week of an expected growth partly due to the effect of data privacy scandals the tech giants costs also continue to rise as the social network says it is focusing on tightening security and improving content. well our financial correspondent and court is on wall street then sent me a tough day for a face that has looking now. you know there's quite some on the sentiment understatement it has clearly been a day for the record books here in wall street history at the end of the day of facebook stock lost about nineteen percent in value meaning it burned around one hundred nineteen billion dollars in market capitalization just in one day and that surpassed the record that actually entailed set in the year two thousand when that value of the chip maker dropped by about ninety billion dollars back then when the

dotcom bubble clearly the numbers especially if we're looking ahead we're not going to and then also use for example that for the first time ever daily active user numbers in europe for example declined to cause some concern to your concerns here on wall street. yang's saving light of this performance and the costs still to come do you sort of have to ask i mean could this be the beginning of the end face. well first of all facebook has a couple of growth drivers if we think about the watson for example or instagram and then what the talk is here on wall street if facebook in his prognosis and its outlook might have been true dramatic just to appease regulators worldwide after the whole scandal around cambridge broke about half a year ago that's when

a lot of regulators were really pressing hard on facebook and so now maybe they want to give in impression how hard they're working how much money it costs them to fix those problems but actually some analysts here on wall street i was skeptical if facebook is really going to change much and if the business model is really in question here at this point so that's a little bit of the sense that we're seeing here on wall street and we will wait and see if after the shocks that we saw you on the stock market on thursday that maybe things might be looking a bit brighter in the friday session so we will see you know right yes go to for us on a wall street he ends thank you. more now on that monumental discovery on mars scientists have detected what they're calling a huge underground lake of liquid water in your the planet's south pole the lake is thought to be twenty kilometers wide and sitting underneath around a one and a half kilometers of ice is the largest body of liquid water ever found on the red

planet the discovery has scientists excited because it raises the possibility of finding life on mars. and with me here in the studio now is felix learning one of germany's leading astronomers who is based here in berlin welcome to the program and thank you so much for joining us this evening how exciting is this discovery well it is quite exciting but not unexpected there were so many traces of water on mars that it was just the middle of time when you would phone to find the first and groaned lake but. the size of the date is quite embarrassing we know some of the dimensions right because it is now fifteen hundred meters underground twenty kilometers across what more do we know about it still not more we just have the radar echoes and they were pretty analyzed so we can assume something about the chemical consistency of the water and the

contamination with other chemicals but not more are are we closer to finding evidence of life on mars well at least we're closer to with the discussions about life on mars. there's still one point five kilometers layers of grown between the surface in the lake and we have to get there to find what is what might be in there so the. we can presume that there might be microbes or something like this we find microbes on earth in the impossible most impossible places. but we have to prove it of course one of the dreams also is to send a man to mars or you know we know that this is for example largest body of water discovered on mars what does that mean for the prospects for example of a mission to the planet will if it includes the true because human question how can

we use it to. give anything because it's very difficult to reach the water and we can take it as drinking water or something like this we have to carry all. or things of with us everything including water ok well thank you so much for telling us about this fascinating discovery of this evening it's learning we mention that you are one of germany's leading astronomers based here in berlin with the shade you're welcome. now to a bit of sports news and in the tour de france it entered its third last stage with government thomas holding a reasonably comfortable lead in the overall standings the yellow jersey holder was able to take a back seat on stage eighteen with the relatively flat course giving the sprinters center stage. a largely flood stage provided a good platform for the tools breakaway specialists and five riders julie took

advantage of one hundred seventy kilometer course from tree surveys to. but says is often the case the peloton soon caught up with twenty kilometers to go this princes were ready to take over. a sprint ensued with producing a perfectly timed dust to the finish line it was the first stage win for a french team at this year's toll main while garonne thomas twice in his grip on the late is yellow jersey but he's expecting a tougher run in the pyrenees mountains on friday yeah we're expecting the worst just because trying to go in there the break attacks may be young. and obviously the final climb and. so we're just going to be ultra vigilant as thomas goes into the final two competitive stages with a lead of just under two minutes. and a quick reminder now the top stories that we have been following for you imran khan has claimed victory in pakistan's general election the former international

cricketer has appeared on television and promised a new pakistan but both are still being counted and rival parties claim the election was right. and they just told him greece's worst forest fires for a decade now stands at more than eight hundred people relatives and rescue crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins in the town of residents and tourists the scaife the flames i'm running into the sea. and that you're up to date now on your news i'm sarah kelly in berlin thank you so much for watching don't forget you can follow us.

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iran truly want peace. the countries of homes of their. i think. you're wrong young person. d.w. . imran khan poised to become pakistan's next prime minister the charming former cricket star has claimed victory and promise to stamp out corruption but with accusations of vote rigging and intimidation from his ally the military critics say khan is the one who is corrupt i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day.