this is music line from the bird land in front conn claims victory in pakistan's general election the former international cricket star has appeared on television promising a new pakistan but both are still being counted and rival parties claim there was fraud. also coming up a special report from greece where g.w. has been following the rescue crews helping survivors of wildfires the one tears like these are replied god it's been an unrelenting day yesterday when the fires broke out as they took a look to desperately searching for survivors then came to search for bodies. and

reuniting separated migrant children with their parents happy scenes now but a doctor specializing in child care tells t w that the u.s. is forcing separations can have serious long term consequences. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program the official result still hasn't been called but in rome khan has claimed victory in 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 party a significant lead but opposition parties claim the vote was raised final results have been delayed until friday because of what election officials say is a computer glitch in his t.v. address con promised the country a fresh start. hassan cresset's

a langar the pakistan like it's never been run before. but we will give it the government it has never had before. and we will stop with ourselves we would be transparent and clean water 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 he's 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 is emphasis is on lack of corruption of. education for all of his the shoes of trying to control this violence this rampant violence seeing this in books so these are huge issues creasing or 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 fight and that's really kind of just sicko his you know as a as a cricket captain this is exactly what he did he led trying to 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 the battle of exciting politics now the big question is what about the opposition if the opposition does what he did when he was in opposition which is too late positions to challenge the government to in fact try to destabilize the government he would be in trouble because you cannot dismiss all discount someone like shahbaz sharif who heads the most and least the shia in the punjab he says the bobbies hold the muslim league and they have lost areas in order to show my show he 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 iran's he needs to relate i've gone down the oppositional been there will was 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 of the government or any particular interest in x. unsolicited as an analyst so my analysis is that whenever there is action and the opposition loses this it is mean rigging now what that does is very often they come onto the streets the decisions this violence and very often and the last there's an emotional so what we have to note is we know all these problems that you're mentioning what results have to acknowledge is there for the first time in spite of all the violence all the challenges that the people of iraq some face again i am talking more of the ordinary people and a lot of violence in village sanju fifty people died in one occasion just yesterday

at the. box news 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 the election and in fact did not take over the government as such so they've been very very i would say american it's in holding off in terms of civilian apology and civilian just action so these are signs of i think very positive development impacts on politics and we should acknowledge it and we'd like to thank you very much for joining us this evening to share that perspective ambassador akbar ahmed as we mentioned you are pakistan's are have been 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. the death toll in greece's worst

forest fires for a decade now stands at more than eighty relatives and rescue crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins correspondent charlotte charles impel sent us this report from the worst affected town. where residents and tourists escaped the flames by a stream of supplies grease those battling the eye watering smoke and ash to reach the by this time it's a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who know all too well what they've enjoyed the volunteers like these week lifeguards it's been an unrelenting hey when the fires broke out they took desperately searching for survivors then came the 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 a growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives were

looking for that by this now if they are more in the water it is a difficult job these because we know that they're fine now it's only for sad and you know but good for the people who have very relieved that they found the people their beloved. yes at least. payless was among those who helped residents fleece the water before saving himself the horror of that night for ever in his mind me and will say i'm going to. read the board. and to put some. people some to this oh they've got the gold machine. i see some guys we want to get away. because the fire but that kind of guts. maybe but sinks 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. now let's get a quick check of some other stories that have been making news around the world a mass funeral has taken place in syria's psuedo province a day after a series of attacks killed more than two hundred people in the southwestern region the so-called islamic state claimed responsibility for the word unaided assault it is the group's deadliest attack in syria in years more than six hundred migrants have crossed the border fence between morocco and the spanish territory of hoping to claim asylum some had to be treated for injuries after scrambling over a razor wire is the biggest breach of offense and over a year people who make it across are often deported back to northern africa. one out of the united states where a court set a deadline today to reunite the separated migrant children with their parents

government figures show that out of twenty five hundred children about thirteen hundred are still separated and even those figures are uncertain as the reunions take place health professionals are sounding the alarm. 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. 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's in 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 is 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 to 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 is the operation coming together there. it is very challenging indeed right now i'm 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 this facility i didn't get any answer to that question from the i talked to lawyers and activists and they told me that the votes three hundred to parents have left the tension in the last days and were brought to a couple bleak 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 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 the significant number of nine hundred one speak probably real night and 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 probably already in the

u.s. force a caste system maybe being put up for adoption that must be devastating for these parents alexandra phenomena in the u.s. thank you. and with that you are up to date now on t.w. news i'm sorry kelly and for atlanta thanks for watching. this story no i just couldn't get this song out of the. music ologist began searching for the source of these captivating.