this is news coming to you live from berlin a long ruling senate p a party wins parliamentary elections in zimbabwe but the opposition movement for democratic change are questioning the results they're accusing senate p.f. of stealing the election eve observers are also raising questions about the poll also coming up a new gateway to europe with other routes cut all the refugees are now turning to the strait of gibraltar to reach the content and that is causing problems for spain . and those temperatures hit highs in northern europe we find out what people here

in berlin are doing to cool down and we talk to those i'm able to escape the heat. well i'm terry martin thanks for joining us two days after historic elections in zimbabwe the country's electoral commission says the rulings in a p.f. party has won a huge majority in parliament santa p.f. is poised to take two thirds of the seats in zimbabwe's national assembly that's enough to rewrite the country's constitution positions supporters have gathered outside the electoral commission offices in harare they say zenu p.f. rigged to the vote by delaying the election results official say they'll announce the winner of the country's presidential poll later this week. our correspondent

melanie curry the ball is in zimbabwe covering the elections for us she joins us now from the capital harare melanie observers just gave an assessment of the election what did they say. well they have been more critical of than the observers that i was listening to this morning from different african countries e.u. people actually have quite strong statements and to give you an assessment in person here with me is brock the head of the observing mission to zimbabwe of the you broken you tell me what is your assessment of this election first of all it was . much better than any other elections this country before it was free campaigning freedom of expression but a lot of shortcomings in favor of the ruling party financing state media intimidation and in the proper clothes specially in the countryside and such

questions until suddenly of in transparency and printing of the belo cheats the voters rolls and all such precious how great was it what happened is it but if it was not a fair election does the m.d.c. have grounds to challenge the result but if the result for the presidential election might be fifty point five to forty point four to nine point five and then does a lack of credibility especially not the possibility of. traceability of the voting pro-drug it's gone to the polling station but all of the parties had signs the results and i think there is a lack of i expecting the presidential result to be considerably different from the parliamentary one than the due to be considered different because by the presidential elections as well as a two person race most of the parties didn't get a vote in the parliamentary elections so

a procession fall apart in many many different parties because you have here is it induces them both for spouses to oppose you convene is forty percent of the votes the vast majority of seats in a parliament. so are you saying these elections i accept a boa they cannot be accepted that we have to see impact to all this shortcoming has over all of the and over day it's over after the month of the case and especially the have to wait also for their credibility of the counting process at the end of the day. but anybody can say it was a huge progress compared to the two thousand and thirteen and two thousand and eight elections thank you so much emma brock so if you had a major of progress and still considerable. shortcomings well have to see if these election can result can be accepted the way that they have come out so far. as you point out their shortcomings have been identified by the e.u. observers in this election the opposition or already voicing their discontent is

there any indication yet whether of the main opposition party the m.d.c. will accept the results announced by the commission. it looks very likely that they will not accept their results we have been seeing clashes on the streets between police and m.d.c. supporters m.d.c. supporters who went out on the streets last night already claiming victory and we've been seeing chamisa on social media saying that he will be the president of zimbabwe so we can expect the tensions to rise and see father demonstrations here in the country now we're still waiting for the presidential race the results of the presidential election to be announced melanie any idea when those results will come through. difficult to say the we are supposed to know at the latest by saturday but that's what it says in the constitution but right now we've been hearing that there will be some results trickling in we expect

them not to be the final presidential results but they will be told the constituency by constituency who the people have voted for so the result could be out consider the today and of course we'll keep you posted on that melanie thank you so much for now correspondent well of the core of the ball there in horary. so you look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today authorities say all one hundred three passengers aboard a plane that crashed tuesday in northern mexico have survived the plane took off in stormy weather and reportedly went down after being hit by a strong wind gust a crash left dozens injured but authorities said most people were not seriously hurt. blueprints for three d. will not be made available online in the united states after a u.s. judge blocked their publication in a last minute ruling the blueprints demonstrate how to make untraceable printed

plastic guns ruling reverses the decision by the trumpet ministration that would have permitted their release. migrants are increasingly using spain as a gateway to europe they were traveling the short distance by boat through the strait of gibraltar prone morocco the spanish coast guard rescued nearly a thousand migrants last weekend alone refugees are choosing this route as other countries such as italy crack down on arrivals correspondent marcus burnish reports from southern spain. rescue teams have just pulled another twenty one people from the strait of gibraltar off southern spain they consider this a slow day compared to most but these twenty one rivals present a problem for spain to maritime. rescue service wants to take these migrants to the nearest port but the port refused permission a common occurrence. of them are. over the

course of the entire past year we've rescued sixteen thousand people but this year after just seven months the number has already climbed to twenty two thousand. metres. the ship carrying the rescued migrants docked at the nearby port of august the rest instead but the situation there is no better the migrants had been stuck on the ship for days now they're on land looking for shady places to rest. a few kilometers away jose antonio gomez is waiting for the daily food delivery more than six hundred rescued people were brought to this gym over the weekend. they called us on saturday and then the people came they were simply too many of them. local authorities are responsible for looking after those arriving at the church has prepared food volunteers are helping out but people are getting

impatient. we aren't eating well we don't have a proper place to sleep to aren't enough toilets and we can't call our families to reassure them that we're still alive. spanish authorities are overwhelmed after talking to migrants it's clear that the strait of gibraltar is gaining in popularity as a crossing point. i was going from ivory coast to libya but they told me that morocco would be a better idea. by refugees want to go to say now before they chose libya or italy but that is close i was. just thirteen kilometers live between africa and europe at spain's southernmost tip with other routes closed the country has become the new gateway to europe for thousands of migrants. now to a major change in the way germany deals with asylum seekers the southern state

above area has opened controversial processing centers for migrants the so-called anchor centers or part of interior minister whole city hope has disputed plans to reduce the number of migrants arriving in the country the government says the centers are designed to speed up asylum processing the aim is for each case to be decided within eighteen months asylum seekers whose claims are rejected would then be deported from the centers critics say concentrating so many asylum seekers in one place could hinder integration and lead to unrest. well to help put this in perspective we're joined by political correspondent kate brady so tell us kate how much of a change do these centers represent in the way that germany deals with asylum seekers well the sense is quite literally put the entire asylum application process at least at the moment but the area under one roof says the registration the application and the final decision to grant asylum or not and the authority is

saying that that aim at least of the center. it's to speed up the application process for asylum because there are also concerns particularly when it comes to dating life or side them seekers who will be living in the center of course they are allowed to move around the area but they're not allowed to come and go as they please so there has been some criticism with some people comparing these centers to jail or even detention centers so these centers right now are only in bavaria they are the brainchild of the very in. federal interior minister of the last hole so you hold for any chance briefly if you can of these centers being replayed elsewhere in germany or in the e.u. for that well this is a pilot scheme that's expected to last around six months and there's been very little interest from other german states at the moment and it's even been touted in brussels as a possible measure across the european union but that some of the biggest criticism

has come from this concern that the census will actually hinder integration for asylum seekers of course time spent at the center this time that could have been spent in german society and learning german for example kate thank you so much to be a political correspondent. the heat wave here in northern europe shows no sign of abating here in berlin the temperature has been in the high thirty's for weeks people are doing all they can to cool off but what happens if you have to carry on working in the heat. on your shelf north went to find out. early and it's been sweltering for weeks and split the much of reaches record highs everyone here is not looking to get the heat. inside the knowing degrees here now in these temperatures oh you want to do is find a way to cool down but what if you've got a job that means you've got to state the heat oh. we asked three people with the

hottest jobs in the capital. as a champion i just took the temperature here and it's off the scale how does it get here as it is then you know we're not out if we get up two hundred eighty degrees and how do you survive as he does here by drinking a lot of thinking cool thoughts and you're just getting used to it so does that mean. i'm trying sausages how do you cope in these temperatures base saying to yourself that it's minus twenty four degrees it's all in the hat yeah it's all in the head absolutely definitely it's the manhunt you do that it's it's cool it's cold it's cold. this is that what i did works for me and really this is i don't know if there's a book right now i'm at the north pole i mean

a lot of people still want to even the current system as he would say oh well look you can see it. as a z. as a fun and you're used to high temperatures right but you still suffer in this heat . oh absolutely look at the fire department we're normally used to high temperatures for short periods of time when we battle a blaze but constantly having thirty seven degrees for several hours also affects us even when we wear these clothes which would normally protect us this can sometimes get on your nerves we sweat and we can only get our fluid levels back by regularly drinking a lot as well as getting some shade if we're an action outside and also regularly taking off our protective gear. and you want to able to find a cool place in the capital these days should help themselves enough. time for an ice cream you are watching d.w. news still to come

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