this is either the news live from berlin the vote count is underway after a strong turnout in zimbabwe landmark election these are the first elections since long serving the robert mugabe would ousted zimbabweans hope whoever wins can get the country back on track after decades of corruption and mismanagement we'll go live to iraq also coming out u.s. president donald trump says he is willing to meet with iranian president hassan rouhani the surprise offer comes a week after he warned him don't threaten us or you'll suffer historic consequences . the city islamic state turned into

a ghost town center and more than iraq liberated three years ago but remains haunted by violence and turmoil we have an exclusive report from my council of the young people. and there's a heat wave baking the northern hemisphere right now but if you thought that song and scorching temperatures mean more green energy thanks again we'll look at what happens when the weather gets too hot for solar. is almost going to welcome to the show votes are being counted in zimbabwe's lead market election final results are expected in five days time the first national vote nearly forty years without former leaders robert mugabe's name on the ballot is expected to be tight the two presidential frontrunners are mugabe successor president emerson magog off from the zanu p.f. party and opposition leader nelson chamisa turnout was high averaging around seventy five percent of the electorate. the lines outside the polling stations have

to be seen to be believed but that didn't deter zimbabweans from turning out to vote for the next president. many hope this election will mark zimbabwe's transition to democracy after decades of poles that were anything but free and fair it's a special day because it's all of this time is a new generation to choose who aren't ever since we were born is near it's praised our choice everyone is able to put cheese forth freely not being intimidated intimidated but is just free so look if it is going to be just free and fake more than twenty candidates are running for president but the election is really a battle between two men incumbent m.s.n. money from zanu p.f. and opposition leader nelson chamisa from the movement for democratic change

although many to to win opinion poll show finished the campaign strongly. after casting their ballots both candidates expressed their hopes for a democratic and peaceful election there's no doubt that if the ballot is an appropriate run a genuine and not a bus that dies or effect one victory certain for the people there may be that. the process will become greely was peaceful this is the fourteenth the day is this i removed out of there in the presence of the entire political presence will remain . well elections under the oath or a tarion rule of robert mugabe were off to marred by violence and voter intimidation this time there were few reports of unrest but observers were of the short comings. some would be to have some very.

disorganized. people but. we have not found that. bad organisation. robert mugabe was among those who voted this time his name was not on the ballot paper many in zimbabwe hope that means real change could finally be coming. let's bring in melanie she is covering the elections for us from harare hi melanie good to see you counting is underway after a historic day of voting what is the latest on what happens next by counting started last night and of course we won't know anything until the results are finally out this week at some point but what we can say is that very confident that he will win the presidency he has been tweeting that he has information from ten thousand polling stations and he knows that we that he will win the election

the thing is we don't know what he has that information from because there are some civil organizations collecting information alongside the editorial commission but they're not allowed to release those results until we've heard from the electoral commission and have about five days constitutionally until we will hear from the results that's the day when they have to tell us who will win but we are expecting the results by thursday already and we saw international observers in our report you spoke to them as well what was their assessment were these free and fair elections. we've been speaking to brock during the day as well and he's been telling us in the morning that he is very confident that this will be the past relatively free and fair elections in zimbabwe of course there are some things that still need to be checked but as you've heard in the report during the day he then said there was some areas in which it was catastrophic. this organized and so we'll have to see until they give us their final assessment which

we're expecting on wednesday and it will be very interesting to see how high they set the bar for this election we've been seeing in other african countries that they haven't said it as high as they would in european countries so we'll keep you updated on that one moment we saw images of the former ruler robert mugabe voting and we saw cheering crowds there greeting him as he arrived to cast his ballot do some voters miss him. they might there are some people in the country who do still miss him and he still has a political sway with many of them and he was planning on using that yesterday there was a lot of cheering crowds when he arrived to put in his vote as a normal voter for the first time in four decades and it's been a bit of a painful experience he's been saying you could tell that when he went into the polling booth it took him about ten minutes to put down the crosses and you could have almost gotten the impression that he was desperately searching for his name on

the paper because he didn't find it and when he did come out people what cheering for him and that's exactly what he's been wanting he's been telling the day before he's been saying that he wants to research to win that he will vote for me so rather than here and people might follow suit and do that we don't know about the support melanie reporting for us from harare thank you very much. and for more on the zimbabwe election check out our africa website at the dot com slash africa you can also follow us on twitter for the latest our handle there at. now some other stories making news around the world vote counting is also underway after presidential elections in mali president. says partial results show he is substantially in the lead while the opposition candidate somalia say claims he has gained enough of the vote for runoff attacks disrupted voting at hundreds of polling stations mainly in the north and center of the country hundreds of people

have attended a vigil in the greek capital athens to remember the victims of the country's deadly wildfires one week on more than ninety people died and dozens more were injured when blazes tore through several towns east about this last monday dozens more are still missing russian police have rearrested four members of the pussy riot punk moments after they were released they have spent fifteen days in prison for invading the pitch during the world cup final between france and probation in moscow the group said in a tweet they could face another ten days behind bars. our's russian authorities haven't said why they were again to take. turning now to northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from the so-called islamic state when it swept through the region i asked harshly targeted minorities like the don't follow the islamic faith militants killed kidnapped and enslaved thousands of your c.d.'s and even now the group is still recovering from the i asked genocide we're turning it starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital sin jar or shingle as it's known and

kurdish. and send up it does mine trouble there and how this explosive report. on the capital of the years he dislikes in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when so-called islamic state took the city and killed then it's left thousands now that the slimmest have been expelled only a few residents have returned in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from my ex only three cells and families have returned to a city which once had more than eighty thousand inhabitants. there's still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools or functional administration . living in shingo hill abandoned by their politicians. we've got no electricity and the water is bad. there are bombs and mines all over

the place. they have to clear them. they'd never forgive us you just can't live here there's no work so people aren't coming back. because the situation doesn't improve soon then we who have returned will leave again very soon got in our. stephanie yes wants to stay no matter what the twenty four year old studied to be a teacher but there are no schools so he opened up a glass workshop with a friend the problem is that nothing is being rebuilt which means even his business is struggling. with people won't come back as long as there are so many different political groups here working only for themselves there are thousand different groups and they're all only looking after their own interests.

he means the different militias that are still active in the city they run their own checkpoints and have their own agenda all parties want influence here in the singe amounts being close to the syrian border the region is strategically important to kurds to the central government in baghdad to turkey and iran. she goes mayor fatemi says the city's people are suffering from this clash of interests he is the yazidi put in office by the central government then left to fend for himself. and is. treated like a horse or stiff class citizens let me give you an example i had to live in the mountains for three years and five months there were six thousand families in the mountains if we weren't you know c.d.'s they would have taken care of us like they did other people. more than residents come to him every day asking for money for reconstruction but he can't help them the government says it wants to

press on with rebuilding but almost pessimistic after the latest protests he says he expects any available money to be spent elsewhere. getting sent up a dozen on film that report with baker to shock and she joins us in our studio to tell us more about this story good morning sandra thank you for joining us we should say that shingle is what the kurdish call singe are for some of our viewers who might not know that name why is the reconstruction of this place taking so long well it is still disputed territory first of all plus it is the homeland of a minority and of course other parts of iraq like mosul have also been destroyed mosul being the second largest city so you know it's not that the iraqi government has a lot of money to throw around for reconstruction and. it's also a rather isolated area i think they don't really see the need to put money into an

area which is really this huge it between central government and the kurdish autonomous government and also other forces playing out there like you know you could take a kurdish forces syria and wipe the g. force is a shiite militia so you know it's really very congested up there we also heard one man say in europe. bed you know you see these are like fifth class citizens did you see that as well they're well i mean if you see how people are treated there that they don't really receive any oficial aid for reconstruction you know for rebuilding their destroyed houses for road clear and for the clearance of booby traps unexploded devices remnants of war you must assume that yes they are treated as for a fifth class citizens they don't feel that they are taken care of and protection they lack a sense of security given all of that and the appalling crimes that they've faced yes he does feel safe enough to go back home i would say at the moment there is

snorri a clear indication why they should feel that you know they can retake their home and like this young men said. if nothing happens those people that they have to reach will rather leave again as we have shown in other reports there is the holy mountain off the year's eve is not too far away mount center you still have about ten thousand people living up they are on the barren plateau in tents why do they choose to do that because they left that sense of security and they don't really feel that the former capital is still their capital and thousands of women and girls were also captured by the islamic state in slave by bam what is being done to find them and free them i would say petty little it's not like official missions go out and try to search for them there is a missing people it's office but mainly you know it lies with a family stay contect smugness smugglers who know the routes between iraq and syria which is right next door to sit in job runs the main connection line between mosul

iraq up for example to four miles from holds so they try to use the established smuggling networks to try you know and find their loved ones who were so like cattle over the border from one jihadi group to another from your reporting what is your sense of how the u.c.d. feel about their sense of home does that still exist for them. yes because they frankly tell you we only know this one home so we try to make it work for most of them no those that we spoke to they all really want to leave iraq not just their homeland of iraq at all all right good at the center pitch as man bring us the very important reporting thank you so much sandra. by moving on to some other news now u.s. president donald trump says he is open to meeting with the leaders of iran any time they want this comes only a week after trump posted a tweet warning iran not to threaten the u.s. or quote suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever

suffered before that trumpeted the offer after talks with italian prime minister giuseppe conti in washington condi is seen as trump's major ally in europe they share similar views on major issues like immigration and russia we are both outsiders to politics can you believe we are outsiders the power of a look at all these wonderful politicians. it was the meeting most of my project both men were elected after a surge of populism both came to power in large part due to their migration pledges . i agree very much what you're doing with respect to migration and illegal immigration and even illegal immigration it was taking a very firm stance on the border. a stance a few countries have taken and frankly you're doing the right thing in my opinion. something trump me hope to replicate after he threatened to shut down the government if he didn't get backing for his proposed wall along the southern u.s.

border with mexico the leaders also find common ground regarding moskos rule on the world stage. we need. those who think russia can be excluded well as president trump said if we want to solve problems we cannot choose our counterparts. we must accept things as. and see that the type with them and negotiate and have a dialogue with those who are our counterparts. the trump administration has more in common with conti's coalition government than it does with those of other european countries despite warm words for the french president and german chancellor due to their visits to washington the us president recently described the e.u. as a fellow to be may well be a welcome and useful friend at this meeting from painted at another one which may be on the cards so i believe in meeting i would certainly meet with the rent if they wanted to meet and i'm ready to meet anytime they want if we could work

something out that's meaningful not the waste of paper that the other deal was i would certainly be willing to make. this after trump who date of the iran nuclear accords and warned its leaders against threatening the u.s. in the strongest of terror. if a meeting happens it would be the first between the u.s. and iranian president in nearly forty years and mark another foreign policy turnaround for this most unconventional of president. now to what is perhaps the world's greenest a football team forest agreeing rover has become the world's first sports organization to be certified as carbon neutral by the united nations the club's chairman is even banned from being served at the stadium making for screen the first megan football team 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 begin 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. i have who 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 insane ability messenger the united nations hopes that forest green becoming carbon neutral will set a precedent for others to follow through we're working on these sports for climate

action on initiative where we hope all are going to say shows we'll also step up what with area action on climate four as we have always will be different we had an example that we shared with. 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. ok from green football to green energy in europe's heat wave is that putting energy suppliers under pressure and that's right several coal nuclear power plants have. had to reduce their output for all it's not for the overheat river as. with cooling water they're also shortages in coal feeding pos they should because increased water levels have made some rivers navigable for coal ships you'd think at least in solar energy industry. must be happy in the middle of europe's heat wave while not necessarily sunbeams are

good of course but he doesn't help because when it gets too hot solar power performance drops so despite all that sunshine thirty degree plus temperatures that come with it could actually cut solar energy output in germany. and i'm now joined by author out of on copper chip he's with the institute for international solar energy and constance why is too much sunshine not necessarily good for solar. there's hello from bombs once you're it's extremely hot that's twenty degrees or really now and it will be thirty five so electricity from solar panels is actually called by the sunshine not by the heat that he just actually partly. decreasing the solar power output however it's not so so large. we are working on it to do to be more

stable and limpid that's a big i really like the coal power plants that actually generated the heat increases in in europe and the whole world has to be you know shut down so actually this is good for solar energy you know that we can put more electricity into into that river which it does the heat wave also mean rising electricity demand people turn up add condition supermarkets have to crank up their phrases and so on does that increase demand help for solar business. yes definitely it does actually i myself now boards and that condition on so the heat wave is now creating people to buy new conditioners and the things like that so it definitely helps now for for the p.v. industry and as i said temperature this is not good for solar panels it's the light

bulbs they always hold to overcome this so all the other incidents are now working on solar panels that. can actually tolerate even temperatures above thirty degrees and so to decrease the temperature but officials very briefly if you can what about those huge solar parks in the desert they have these connections all the time. exactly zero so maybe your talking about there's a tank and then things like that so i never thought it's a good idea to want to like blue solar in one place and to transport electricity into to europe because you have a lot of electrical losses however of course they have more sunshine and what is even more important because they are closer to the equator the summer and. in so. your ideation is is very similar so what what is made maybe a major drawback in germany is that like in the times you don't have

a lot of sunshine and that's why you have to overcompensate it's like the. solar electricity and it's not generated but you can do it by another two months of energy is like wind right on top of things thank you very much and thank you. some so missed its latest earnings projections due to lower demand for its flagship galaxy devices and the latest sign of a slowdown for smartphones as the market seems to get saturated the south korean company recorded a thirty five percent drop in operating profit in its smartphone division from a year ago competition from chinese device makers has grown in recent months and even as consumer demand for new smartphone sales fall and some some rival due to release its latest numbers today. taxi drivers in madrid and barcelona are still striving today after talks with spain's public works ministry

after these talks broke down last night the strikes began last week in protest of what the taxidriver score unfair competition from riot hailing services like and cappy far. monday night passed without a resolution between the drivers and government strike leaders said they'll go on. today's decision is that we continue hundreds of taxis have paralyzed barcelona and they're refusing to budge until they get results the strikes have since spread to madrid and smaller cities like that are going to happen this is the first time the taxes have taken a decision where one hundred percent together on this. has to be thirty to one nothing else will do he means that in the future only one permit should be issued for every thirty normal taxi permits among those worst hit by the strike tourists trying to get from barcelona airport to the city center extra bus services have been put on but they're still packed full. we're trying with all bail because the

best way is for suitcases is very difficult for us on the street it's a tough day today especially with children six hours jet lag and then the airports are empty things are hard that i mean. a cab if i if they're working here because this morning in barcelona they were jammed last option would be a train or think. thousands of taxi drivers across spain are now part of the strike they say ride sharing services like threaten their livelihoods as of now they continue to wait for a resolution. to the world's biggest earthmoving equipment maker kate's appeal as raised its twenty eight hundred profit outlook after posting record second quarter earnings revenues were up almost a quarter to fourteen billion dollars the illinois based company says the result is due to rising global demand especially in china as well as increasing oil and shale gas production in north america to pull out as been expected to lose revenue

because of the u.s. china trade. and that's all your business is a reminder of the top story we're following for you right now the votes are being. elections in the vote was high averaging around seventy five percent ok electorates those who presidential from the president's. position lead on nelson chamisa final results are expected in five days time. etc. as an update for you the top. thank you very much for watching.

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