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this is d w news lawyer from berlin after a delay and deadly violence of the zimbabwe is finally discovering its new president the country's electoral commission is in the process of announcing the winner of monday's vote after days of unrest and an anxious wait for results incumbent emerson. is tipped to win the opposition have accused authorities of election fraud will cross wives to the capital harare for the latest also coming up . i beg them there are children here and there but they just started attacking us
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even little viciously and my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness a moment an exclusive reports on a series of attacks by four white gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the violence. also coming up al gore becomes the first company to the top one intro young dollars in market value the latest milestone for a company that began in a girl wrong forty two years ago. good to have you with us at this hour zimbabwe's election commission is releasing the results of the presidential vote from monday announcements started about an hour ago and is expected. in. to friday ahead of the announcement both the ruling
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party and its major opposition rival the movement for democratic change have signaled victory the vote sparked a deadly crackdown on protests over alleged vote rigging and we will have more on this story a little bit later on in the program we want to go on to some other stories that are making headlines around the world speaking at a press conference a senior u.s. intelligence officials say that they continue to see efforts from russia to interfere with the upcoming congressional elections they also assured americans that president dublin trump is directing a quote vast government wide effort to protect the process pope francis has changed the catholic church is teaching on the death penalty declaring that it is now for habited in all cases the church had previously allowed for capital punishment in certain instances but francis called those teachings outdated eases that the death
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penalty is an attack on human dignity. in jerusalem tens of thousands have marched in the city's largest ever gay pride parade the colorful festivities were mixed with a nigger following the passage of a wall that excludes game in from having children vs. are going to get back to that top story a developing story now and that is the announcement of those presidential election results in zimbabwe our correspondent melanie deval joins me now on the line from the capital harare good evening to you melanie can you hear me. ok good good we have been having trouble this evening with the connection we know that the electoral commission has only just begun announcing the results is there any indication which party is going to win. we cannot tell yet we'll have
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to wait a little bit longer but we now know that we're going to know tonight actually because they're going to go province by province mind they'll tell us and then one later and we're already on number six so maybe we don't have to wait as long as we thought we cantelli yet who is meeting ok the opposition we've heard the last forty eight hours raising concerns that there has been voter fraud is there any evidence to corroborate that. there is no evidence that we could pack but i've been speaking to international observers and they have been telling me that they are ready ready consent about the selections yes that has been some progress but to have been great irregularities ways in the election process so it could be true it could be if you look at the country's history we have been seeing rigged elections all of the time it could be happening now and the m.d.c.
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is worried that saying that number's abhi manipulated and told us earlier today that he knows that he has won the presidency so if his name is not the one being named tonight he will not accept the result. and miller before we let you go tomorrow i know that there are a lot of people concerned about renewed violence on the streets of harare. is is there something we can foresee and we know that the military basically has the capital walked down tonight does it. it is really like the it could happen tomorrow good thing it on the one hand people are really ready there are has been a ghost town to day the streets have been empty the markets have been empty and the shops have been closed so that kind of show is that people get to go outside after what happened yesterday so we might not see them going out on the streets tomorrow
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protesting i could we could also face and ask a nation to morrow has been saying that people will not will not be accepted and god won't be and that they will reject that result and he's basically been telling them his protests this is the quote this will be out on the street again tomorrow so that could be violent to. our correspondent melanie chord of all on the story for us tonight in the zimbabwean capital melanie thank you very much you know. the european union is marking romo holocaust memorial day in remembrance of the hundreds of thousands of cindy and roma who were murdered by the nazis in his speech european commission vice president franz timmermans so that cindy and roma people still face racism and hatred on a daily basis indeed in recent weeks roma people in ukraine have found themselves under attack from right wing groups one man was stabbed to death in front of his wife. connelly traveled to western ukraine to speak to his widow and to other
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victims of the by its. this is how it all began in april twenty eighth. july auntie's attacked a rome account in the ukrainian capital kiev a copycat attack soon followed across the country in late june twenty three year old david pappas was stabbed more than a dozen times in the western city of leave his death provoked an outcry inside and outside ukraine's borders the teenage suspect a noun custody but how could this have been allowed to happen i what has become the survivors. where in the village where david pappa grew up from here it's just a matter of kilometers to ukraine's western frontier with hungary in slovakia the region is home to ukraine's biggest roma community many of them live in extreme poverty since the attacks people here become wary of strangers and it's only with the help of past a failure of our guest that we were allowed in he takes us to meet david pap's with
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you boy the first time she's spoken publicly about her husband's murder. he says when those teenagers came to attack our camp they didn't say a word they just started going at us with their nods i beg them there are children here but they just started attacking us even move viciously my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness. on the day of our visit the boy received a call from the police in live asking her to testify in court she refused the fish she says was too great since the attacks police have responded to requests from community leaders to step up their patrols and roam a district. miroslav part of what is a roma community leader and a local councillor in the past most of his work was about helping roma people gain access to basic government services many here don't even have a birth certificate let alone a passport but in recent months he's been confronted with a totally new set of problems as the victims of the attacks come to him looking for
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support. i don't understand where this hatred comes from we've never seen anything like it more this kind of open discrimination these kinds of attacks. we need to get around to solving the roma communities problems now and not just kick the can down the road. to be able to meet us left takes us on a visit to rudd bunker a roma community on the edge it was sort of. there we meet claro a survivor of one of the attacks in libya. these old people and children they smashed my brother in law's head in and just left him for dead but i don't want the attackers to go to prison prison doesn't make people any better they were just kids after all that's up beat. up that did to it's a point of view we hear time and time again whether people here are ready to forgive we simply fear further escalation we can't get a clear answer as we continue our walk through
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a red phone call with miroslav the atmosphere suddenly turns out there's been a break in the political church and suspicion is full and the inhabitants of this road a community that it will move so if it wants them they'll give it all back. someone broke into the church the minute i do have pictures. we never do find out how the investigation ends but now the police need rather go without they can you arrest at a time when the roma community needs the police to protect them or the never relations below enforcement attends a moat but suspicion. there was an economy reporting from ukraine apple has become the first us company to top one trillion dollars in market value of this crowns a decade long rise fueled by its i phone it transformed the tech firm from a niche player in personal computers into a global powerhouse spanning entertainment and communications steve jobs founded
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the company in his garage back in one nine hundred seventy six. plea i feel no really any apple product has always been more than just a laptop or a phone it is still after the day a status symbol and design is playing a big role as well after all has had the reputation of the number one visionary in the industry with the steve jobs even more but in the past fierce competitors have caught up and offered just as advanced a product for less money and in some quarters the numbers have shown signs of slowing demand for i phones maybe not every consecutive quarter but cook is getting the company ready by focusing on services and turn them into a more important source of income but then again according to the youngest earnings consumers are just a swelling as ever to purchase high priced products so maybe the psychology is still working for apple here and maybe let me quote
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a morgan stanley analyst who is said that innovation lead price increases historically reboost apple demands a status symbol is just as long as a symbol of status and wealth as this expensive right so i think business just still working for apple here. that was over some empathy there at the new york stock exchange china is renowned for its historic great wall you see it right there building started on the mammoth fortification back in the third century b.c. to protect china from invaders well these days china also has another wall known as the great fire wall it's supposed to protect chinese citizens from undesired foreign influences first set up in two thousand the great fire wall blocks access to certain websites in terms that the chinese government deems dangerous now any whiff of criticism of the government or terms that refer to the student massacre in tiananmen square in one nine hundred eighty nine they are all prohibited in the
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past the take giant google has spoken out against such internet censorship in fact that's why it pulled out of china in two thousand and ten at the time google's co-founder said this our objection is to those forces of totalitarianism our hope is there is progress and a more open internet in china well that hasn't happened eight years later google is reportedly secretly planning its return a new report from the investigative web site the intercept says the tech giant has a team secretly working on a new censored version of its search engine for china earlier you spoke to the author of that report the intercept ryan gallagher and we asked him what he discovered about project dragon-fly google's secret effort to get back into john. yeah well basically. it is the. name for. an under.
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developed for smart phone users in china the idea is that it will get them to a censor diversion of google that is compliant with the really. censorship controls over in the people on the internet in china and then google is . using. this once it's launched at the moment as. it. would have it ready between the next six to nine months. but we've seen. that we published yesterday. that was speaking with us earlier we have breaking news coming in now from harare in zimbabwe the country's current president. has been declared the winner of the presidential election in the ten provinces. along the ruling party
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