the cruise one documentary. from the forest starts. on d w. this is d w news live from berlin tonight in what was once called africa's breadbasket voters in zimbabwe have gone to the polls hoping to sow the scenes of real democracy this was the first election since independence without robert mugabe on the ballot zimbabweans way to do long lines beginning at dawn to cast their ballots will go to the capital harare for the latest on this bland mark bowden's

also coming up because president trauma meets italian prime minister decepticon take a european leader he actually agrees with on several issues in fact trump has praised italy's increasingly hard line approach immigration and cambodia's leader claims victory in sunday's election but the united states and the european union are attacking the vote the white house saying it was neither free nor fair we'll hear from an exiled opposition leader. also coming up a german farmers begging the government for aid as crops shrivel in the sun in parts of germany it hasn't rained properly since april farmers are having a tough time so they're asking the government for billions of euros to see them through. it's good to have you with us tonight. counting of votes has begun in zimbabwe's

landmark election it is the first time in nearly four decades where the people voted but the name of the former authoritarian leader robert mugabe was not on the ballot zimbabweans turned out in large numbers today forming long lines at polling stations around the country the w.'s adrian creech spent the day on the ground with voters. here's in the back with a capper to our hour long very long for the first time since robert mugabe was chased out of office by the military last year people are allowed to go to the polling stations and the turnout is huge. and very very. this is their first time flood seeing i hope you are going to bring a change to our country it's a special day because it's all fist time is a new generation to choose who aren't ever since we were born is never expressed our choice everyone is able to put cheese flowed freely

not being intimidated intimidated by is just free so look if it is going to be just think so after waiting the people are finally allowed to come in here to cast their vote but before that they have to come over here to pick their ballot paper where they find a total of twenty three candidates. neck and neck race is expected on the one side there's emerson on guard worlds the ruling zanu p.f. although he has been part of the ruling elites minister and vice president under mugabe he's portraying himself as a reformer in his short time in office to try to open up the country to investors and also allowed zimbabweans to express their opinion freer than under mugabe his opponent over there nelson chamisa however does not believe in the sudden change of heart of the ruling party that has been suppressing as a position party m.d.c. for years it could be the first relatively free and fair elections in the history of them back with the opposition where allow it to campaign even outside the

capital harare without fear and for the first time since two thousand and two also an election observer mission of the european union was invited so the people are not so afraid anymore there is no violence physical violence but perhaps some intimidation and there's an clarity about the procedure to come to the elections concerning the. it's the better cheats to be have to shake that old so there's reason for optimism but also a reason for concern for the future of zimbabwe the questions how will the opposition react if the president will win these elections will they accept the results on the other hand how will the powerful military react who has been interfering in politics in the past will they allow a peaceful transition of power. that was a dream greece there reporting from zimbabwe want to go now to our correspondent melanie crystal ball she is in harare the capital of zimbabwe good evening to you melanie the ballot counting we understand is under way right now how did the

election itself go were voters able to cast ballots freely and in peace brand it's been truly amazing to see how significant this day has been here in zimbabwe there was six million voters and people were out queuing to put in their vote to put the cross next to that candidate from the very early hours three hours before the polling station even opened and i've been talking to the people of them they've been telling me that yes they do believe it will be free and fair elections that they will be able to to put in the vote and that they're really excited that this time it will be the first time in zimbabwean history that that vote well actually count this is the first election in sixteen years in which international election observers have been allowed into the country we know there were some observers from the european union there in zimbabwe have we heard what their

assessment of the voting is. we've been talking to observers from the e.u. commission here throughout the day and they've been telling us in the morning the chief of the observing mission and he's been telling us in the morning that he does think people will be able to cause the vote that everything that he has been seeing in the early hours has been very peaceful and later today he was saying though that throughout zimbabwe there was some areas where it was truly distressing to see how does organize the vote taking was that some people were waiting in line for hours and hours and some people even left and they weren't able to put in their vote so that of course has been a bit upsetting for some zimbabweans we of course have to wait until later this week until there is the official statement house and then we'll be able to see as well how critical the observers will be how chris how high they will set the bar in

order for this to be a truly free and fair elections we've been seeing of the elections for example in kenya they didn't really put the highest that maybe will be different this time and we know this election is so much about the future of zimbabwe we can't escape zimbabwe's past in the past four decades with the robert mugabe we saw today cheering him when he turned up to do some zimbabweans do they missed them. maybe i think sums him up means doing this and he does still have a political sway with a lot of them and he's been trying to really use that for him it's been upsetting that his name is not on the ballot paper he was in the polling station for ten minutes some people were thinking that he's maybe still looking for his name on and just couldn't believe that's not fair anymore he brought a lot of support us with him to the polling stations we don't know if he asked them to come or if they were there from the very beginning and they were tearing his

name they were also cheering chummy says name and of course as you know yesterday mugabe said that the only option for him would be to vote for tunis and not for these m.p.'s so we'll see if that maybe we'll have a big effect on the maybe a lot of people who would have voted for this and otherwise well now listen to mugabe and put in the vote for him except you have the point it could be an interesting side effect of this entire process and if the opposition candidate should be so worked to win what would change in the country meeting stiffle to say what we can say is that he has promised to change a lot he's been using big words and big statements saying that of course he will fix the country's economy which is in a disastrous state at the moment that will be a difficult task to fix he's also been saying that he's going to take care of the infrastructure that he's going to introduce fast speed but the train he's not

clearly outlining what he's going to take the money for from that so we don't know if he can actually attain the change that he is promising but if he were to win what we can say is it would be a big change for the country because it would show that there is an alternative to this and m.p.'s which has been running the country for almost four decades are the correspondent on the grid the ball on the story for us tonight and there's a bubble in capital harare melanie thanks very much for. and we will have more on this historic election coming up on the day you can also find more information about the election on our website www dot com slash africa you can also follow us on twitter at the. now to the united states u.s. president obama has been meeting with the italian prime minister decepticon day in washington the talks came amid a simmering trade dispute between the u.s. and the european union county arrived earlier on monday was received by president trump at the white house ahead of their one to one meeting the italian prime minister is seen as trump's major ally in europe they share similar views on

policies such as closing borders to migrants and a friendly your stance towards russia the bilateral talks focused on migration trade and military cooperation here's part of what trump had to say earlier. to the prime minister to focus on the urgent need to protect our nations from carers and uncontrolled migration our countries are learned through experience that border security is national security you know one and the same like the united states italy is currently under enormous strain as result of illegal immigration and they fought it hard and the prime minister frankly is with us today because of illegal immigration ili got tired of it. there was the u.s. president there saying that italy got tired of illegal migration let's go to washington

our corresponded carson phenomenas on the story for us good evening to you carson before we talk about the issues let's talk about the men and we know that the u.s. president he has welcomed the german chancellor to the white house the french president and at first it looked rosy later is this any different with mr cong. well i guess so because there is an ideological closeness between the two the u.s. president praised the italian prime minister for walks he called mr qantas firm stance on the border and he also called on other e.u. leaders to follow italy's lead on this issue so clearly i think mr trump sees mr concert as an ideological ally within the european union as opposed to for instance german chancellor. we have seen time and again that the

trouble ministration seems to be interested in aligning with supporting some of the new right wing leaders and some european countries such as in hungary in poland the czech republic austria and italy that is maybe the difference of course mr trump often says one thing today and a completely different thing tomorrow but once again there is an ideological connection between the two here and both leaders similarly like minded when it comes to russia aren't they. absolutely mr consul was the only other g seven leaders who supported donald trump's idea to russia to this through the club if you like the recent g. seven summit in canada is the close connection between an italian conservative and the russian leader is not that you serve your bias kone

a former italian prime minister was seen as a close personal friend of russian president vladimir putin he even invited putin to parties at his home in italy now. is a very different person he's a quiet law professor he's not a party animal like a silvio berlusconi but once again on the issue of how to deal with russia he's probably closer to president trump than to other european leaders like. the u.s. president karzai was also asked about the situation with iran today trump saying that he is willing to meet with the iranian president mr rouhani. how serious was that off. well i think it was serious in the sense that on trump was trying to emphasize that he believes in dialogue he believes in sitting down with

other leaders even adversaries and try to hammer out a deal mr trump got a lot of criticism in recent weeks for his meeting with russian president vladimir putin has and also for his a summit with in north korean leader kim jong il and in both cases critics said these meetings were just talk with little to show for in concrete results and basically he was handing those at the salaries a propaganda win with no benefits for the u.s. and donald trump basically today doubled down on this saying i believe in meeting people i believe in discussing things i believe in establishing personal relationships even when it comes to iran and so he said i would meet with an iranian leader without preconditions of course he also mentioned that there is little likelihood that this meeting was actually take place because the iranians might not ready for it yeah that's an important point to make our correspondent question the number in washington tonight question thank you. here are the other

stories now that are making headlines around the world wildfires in northern california have killed at least six people and destroyed vast swathes of land some residents of the worst affected area have been allowed to return to their homes near the city of reading but around ten thousand other people further south have been ordered to evacuate india has effectively stripped citizenship from four million people in the world eastern state of some of they could face deportation if they are unable to produce documents proving their citizenship in the claims it wants to root out illegal migrants from neighboring bangladesh but critics say the measure targets and sums muslim population. malaysia's government says that it cannot determine with any certainty why flight m h three seventy mysteriously disappeared in two thousand and fourteen its official report says that the pilot in the first officer were well rested and showed no signs of anxiety or stress some wreckage has been located but it's still unclear where the plane carrying two

hundred thirty nine passengers went down. on the philippine president reagan to tear day looked on as bulldozers today flattened luxury vehicles worth almost five million euros the government wants to crack down on smuggling and this destruction is a warning to anyone trying to evade paying import duties this is the second fleet of cars destroyed in this way the international community has widely criticized sunday's election in cambodia as being neither free nor figure of the official results will not be declared until the eleventh of august but longtime prime minister hun sen has already claimed victory his ruling party says that it won all one hundred twenty five parliamentary seats up for grabs the principal opposition party was able to take part in the vote as it was dissolved by a court order last year its leader was imprisoned for trees. orly always been to my social and the vice president of cambodia's main opposition movement known as the c

n r p a party was banned last year and this is no lives in exile in indonesia she told us that after this election democracy is dead in hamburg this doesn't send a plane himself to be illegitimate leader of the government of kenwood yet it will not be illegitimate a government of cambodia and their group is reactions from the e.u. from the united states from other countries show it very well it was a scenario of mr and sen to run with that real pet. we represent the will of the people we cannot accept that we were not hired at this election because the will of the people who is dead democracy is dead in cambodia this is nonsense has been given a sick not wanting to big that the bring that in to marcus's but

he doesn't care because the only thing that he is hungry for is more power but we do care what is going to happen is economic sanctions and it is imposed it will be a disaster for the economy therefore if he wants to be overcome nice as a legitimate leader even a government that has a legitimate leader there has to be a reelection. that was so she was speaking with us earlier you're watching news live from berlin still to come is this a soccer hawk starting a revolution that's what the united nations is hoping we'll check in with the first ever listen this sports organization to be certified carbon neutral. you have to be that way on the pitch these days and you need a good air conditioner these days the hot weather here in germany is taking its toll on us and the farmers saluting i hate to i don't i right on the parade anybody

with us you know enjoying those sizzling temperatures but the fact of the matter is here in germany it hasn't rained properly since april and it's a real problem now the record drought is threatening the livelihoods of many follows they want government aid so that you know one billion euros to make up for lost crops his own clear whether or not they'll get it. from horizon to horizon with the crops. farmer heiko turnovers harvest is history. we've got to raise the three that we've been storing for winter nothing in the fields we can put the young animals out to graze they get winter feed in the sheds because there's nothing else the fields are totally scorched. heiko turner expects his losses to top two hundred thousand euros and he's only one of the many farmers who face ruin. beyond the we're facing the worst harvest of this

century existence many farms face the prospect of going under crop losses are in the range of fifty to seventy percent we're calling on the government for a crisis aid program. germany's farmers association would like a billion euros from berlin it says that would go some way at least to ease the effects of harvest which are projected to be well down on last year. farmers aren't likely to see any fast cash though agriculture minister yulia kleckner wants to wait and see what the final losses are before deciding at the end of august. climatologists say the parched fields droughts and rising temperatures mean the future could already be upon us by the money because we keep going like we have been then by mid century we'll be at a two point four degree increase that would make extreme weather events like to rental rain and heat waves more frequent or you wouldn't to an imprint and that's across the world this year even the far northeast struggling with unusually high

temperatures. well germany's one produces it seems a better able to adapt to the hot temperatures that the conditions are forcing been to harvest their grapes a lot earlier this year they'll begin the harvest one week from now so that's the sixth of august the german wine institute says this is the earliest that ever started picking and it's expected to produce a very tasty to full measurements taken in the wine growing region show that temperatures have risen every year since one nine hundred eighty eight. well the world's biggest earthmoving equipment make ups caterpillar has raised its twenty eighteen profit outlook off to posting record second quarter earnings revenues were up by almost a quarter to come in at fourteen billion dollars now the illinois based company credits the results down to rising global demand especially in its business with china as well as increasing oil and shale gas production in north america

caterpillar had been expected to lose revenues because the u.s. china trade. so let's go to a financial correspondent yens quarter on wall street yes castable or seeming to shake off any of those trade tensions with china can we expect this to last. there are some challenges ahead of caterpillar especially if you look at the higher tariffs on steel and. that in q creases costs quite a bit caterpillar just here on a monday announced that cost because of the terrorists this year might go up by as much as two hundred to million dollars they're quite confident that they can come up was that it was increasing prices and then olds all the overall environment is not bad for cater pillow we saw material prices go up there also a big producer off equipment machinery for or the mining industry and as you

mentioned they hired there for cost for this year but wall street seems to be a bit skeptical and the stock actually traded to the downside by almost two percent talking about those tensions with tyson the biggest meat produce in the u.s. issuing a profit warning to the ratcheting up of those trade tensions i mean tell us more about that. in the broader agricultural industry usually is one of the few industries here in the u.s. where you see a trade surplus meaning that those companies of the sector or export more than it imports but now especially was tariffs was counter-measures from countries like china or mexico we do see that there was quite some pressure on the industry prices are falling if you look at chipping dress for example or also. those prices hit their lowest in about nine to ten years and that's why tyson food is all the

need to lower earnings expectations so quite a bit they will come out with their earnings reports by the way next week and the stock got hammered by almost seven and a half percent yes close to a new york. well as another brags that relates a blow for the city although london germany's biggest lender deutsche bank has moved much of its caring activity from the british capital to frankfurt instead it will be handled by eurex a division of the frankfurt stock exchange theory houses work as middlemen between buys and sun as a financial instruments london dominates the business with daily transactions worth about one trillion euros but which a bank says the move won't cost jobs. well as of right now because we're talking about saving the planet and football and on the the beach i don't know what is how green these soccer players are and the english soccer club is changing the game when it comes to caring for the environment forest green

rivers has become the first of the world's first sporting organization to be certified as carbon neutral by the un club chairman has even banned meat from being served at the stadium making for his green the first v good soccer club as well here's a look at the march of the green army. home matches it forest green rovers on the surface appear just like any other football game players give their all on the pitch and fans cheer them along but forest green known as the green army vastly differs firstly only vigen food is served because of animal welfare and health reasons secondly this pichot forest green is organic and rainwater is recycled in fact the entire facility is powered by green energy and now the club has signed up for a united nations initiative called climate neutral now. so we become the first

sports club in the world to be climate neutral according to the un which is quite exciting and. have he would do more with them i think we will because they're on the same page as we are sport looks to be a great vehicle to carry this is going to be the messenger the united nations hopes that forest green becoming carbon neutral will set a precedent for others to follow where we're working on these sports for climate action initiative where we hope all are going to say shows we'll also step up the reaction on climate and for as we always will be definitely an example that we shared. their green credentials have also been matched by strong performances on the pitch forest green was recently promoted to the english football league for the first time in its history. and here's a reminder of those top stories that we're following for you long lines started forming at dawn is involved we inserted in the first elections will take place

since the removal of former president robert mugabe's counting has now begun in what looks to be a tight race between the governing zanu p.f. and the main opposition party us president i will try has held talks with the italian prime minister do something conte migration was the main focus conti said that he had one trumps agreement for organizing a conference to find ways. stabilizing libya the main departure point for migrants to europe. you're watching news longer from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through to stick around for that.

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that hundred pages we ought to send with seventy percent. being one to shape the continent's future to. be part of enjoying african youngsters of testing share their stories their dreams and their challenges. to seventy seven percent of the platform africa is charging. for the first time says independence the people of zimbabwe have a choice at the ballot box that does not bear the name robert mugabe instead voters are deciding between a pastor and a crocodile tonight elected zimbabwe's future how much to remember how much should voters forget berlin this is the day.

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