this is news coming to you live from berlin zimbabwe's president ever samina guy what calls for a new beginning after being declared the country's winner in his presidential election his supporters are you for it but the opposition is refusing to accept the result raising fears of more violence also coming up to the actual football star mr cruz you'll spark a debate on racism here in germany now a new poll shows that the majority of people here also think the issue is a serious problem.

hello i'm terry martin and welcome to the program in zimbabwe president emerson and god has called for unity after being declared the winner of the country's first presidential election since the ousting of robert mugabe the electoral commission announced the result last night saying the new dog was secured just over fifty percent of the ballot but zimbabwe remains on edge following post-election violence the main opposition is questioning the polls outcome and demanding the release of what it calls proper and verified results. after days of unrest the long awaited results were delivered in the middle of the night zimbabwe's electoral commission declared a narrow victory for the country's incumbent president. of the party

is therefore julie declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe with effect from the third of august twenty eighth. with fifty point eight percent of the vote and listen man on god avoids a runoff against his nearest rival nelson chamisa who won just over forty four percent his party the movement for democratic change has declared it will challenge the results. of those. are fair. well say what. you very much like you get worked up when you see a. man on goggles poxy zanu p.f. is also celebrating its victory in parallel parliamentary elections officials declared a voter turnout of almost eighty percent but european union observers said the

election could not be declared entirely fair it wasn't a level playing field there was a misuse of state resources bias in the state media and also with the guys freedoms there was concern about the pain the pre-election vironment pressure on prospective voters through intimidation and coercion. the country was left shaken off the six people died in clashes with soldiers during protests while awaiting the election results. now mon god has promised zimbabwe a new beginning. for the very latest now let's cross over to harare were our corresponding increase is standing by adrian the results came in in the middle of the night what's been the reaction so far this morning. well the situation here are still a little bit tense i would say is not fully back to normal it has improved compared to yesterday for example when you could only see police and military on the streets today you still see police and military on the streets but some of the shops have

opened some banks even opened so it's slowly getting back to normal but some people have the feeling that the whole election drama is not yet over and we will talk about the reasons right now we have two guests here one representative of the opposition party mr jameson timba he is the chief election agent for. a presidential candidate of the opposition party and we also have a representative of the zanu p.f. the governing party in the one gun a. representative in europe i would like to ask you first mr timba your party is not accepting the results of these elections why. discrepancies in this process both in terms of. and process and the money. and opposition is very clear we have not accepted the outcome of this election and they say. what's your reaction to that. well it's no surprise these guys have been feeling does elections

for a very long time they even say that they would accept is the one in which they will be able to come out victorious now this is a result of the way so they will not accept there's a price. from where we stand is going to be if. you engage in a process of process when you know the process. personal position what's your way forward then if you will not accept the results are you going to challenge them of course or are you calling for demonstrations. not. zach must put before the election audience before the presidential candidates the v twenty three fall short of the presidential result constituency which is the twenty three which must be verified by each of the i guess. that dissolved before it is announced indicated to us that before we do any announcement we shall call you back to show you the result in terms of twenty three ok. and then announce

and it didn't help you but what's the way forward then what's what does your plan be indicated to you but i can tell you that we are not accepting this result and we are not accepting this outcome so are you going to court. where we are going to be challenging but i'm not going. to tell you how we've seen an outbreak of violence on wednesday in particular when opposition demonstrators went to the streets to protest and the security forces apparently killed six people the government is in charge of the security forces why did that happen i don't speak for the stuff. and . that's eight they didn't go to the streets to push a protest they went to the streets to vandalize property they went to the streets to cause mayhem they burned as on a piece of bus they tried to burn. a provincial headquarters they tried to invade. there and they couldn't be allowed to do that they tried to come in here this march

to the polls today as you can see it's all smushed up so you cannot say that it was just a protest no it was vandalism that state it's unfortunate and very sad that's people lost their lives and it shouldn't be said he is not sure if there will be demonstration was the way forward is we can still see a massive security force presence here will demonstrations be allowed. it will go for the security organs either but demonstrations are not allowed in zimbabwe what's not allowed is people trying to smash up the people burning buses people burning cars people. people move. around the streets with machetes no that's not so he's saying basically that members of your party stage their violent protest is that true and that is not correct what happened two days ago a spontaneous reaction to taft that has been taking place in this fight is this election it was a spontaneous response by ordinary people have been suffering for the last thirty eight is. ninety percent of our youth today. and all they need is

a very small trigger and that's what happened what we are living under now is a police state it is a military state and these people. you cannot have. i'm a nation against a defenseless population it cannot be justified and any circumstance a last quick question to you he's mentioned ninety percent unemployment zanu p.f. has run down the economy of this country and dept of zimbabwe's a lot of people say there's no way out of that what will the new presidents do to get the country back on track or your president is already getting the news and the country because with seventy thousand people employed you know in a period of six months but here there's been a little bit of. president but there's a lot of things these guys have to account for there's some sense that this country has been under which still and the other one's that image of what it's what they do in d.c.

they see the party represents they are still. moved to the country missile crisis mode is that gate to supposed to port or to bring it to visit russia is softening up on the people of zimbabwe so that the protests are going to the government and in their protests will be to what they have no program their program is a protest thank you very much gentlemen and we go back to terror with that thank you adrian thank you so much for rounding that up and thanks also to your two guests are they doing creech there in harare. now some of the other stories making news around the world today the presidential election in mali we'll go on to a second round after initial results show that none of the candidates attained the fifty percent needed for an l. right when the current president ibrahim boubacar came close with forty one percent of the votes while his closest rival the c.s.a. won almost eighteen percent the two will meet in a runoff vote next sunday. yemen may be on the brink of

a new wave of cholera the world health organization says the risk of a high death rate is greater due to widespread malnutrition and conflict the w. . called for three days in the north of the country in order to carry out a vaccination program. health officials in the democratic republic of congo the type of ebola in the country is a strain which has been successfully backs unaided against in the past people have been tested positive for the virus and. there is a high risk of the outbreak spreading including to neighboring countries. majority of germans say racism here is a big problem that's according to a new survey by polling institute in protest the issue of racism came into focus after football. retired from the german national squad saying he faced racism and

disrespect because of his turkish roots. he wore the german jersey he even won the world cup for germany but football player. was recently caught in a backlash regarding his german turkish identity he then resigned from the national team accusing the german football association of racism. now germans are publicly debating this the country have a problem with. racism in germany is a very big big problem for two thirds or sixty four percent of the germans according to latest polls only thirty five percent think it's a small or no problem at all a high political summer in germany but with nothing to gain for the government in berlin approval rates for the grand coalition continue to plummet. asked which party they vote for less than

a third of german voters twenty nine percent would currently cast their ballot for the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc the social democrats will get less than a fifth of the votes only eighteen percent. the right wing populist if t. would reach a record high seventeen percent the liberals and left each still rank below ten percent while the greens would move up to fifteen percent. according to this poll if there was a general election next sunday in germany the coalition parties would lose their majority in parliament but had to make up fort germans consider health and pension policies among the most important issues to be taken care of by their government so work awaits parliament after its summer break ends in september. heat wave currently gripping europe could set a milestone in the coming days forecasters say there's a good chance that the continent's all time record high temperature record will be broken into spain or portugal could reset that mark which stands at forty eight degrees celsius in germany the extreme weather is making life difficult for farmers

firefighters and shipping two of the country's main waterways the elba and run rivers have been reduced to a relative trickle ryan is now so shallow that it one point even world war two munitions have been exposed and in dresden on the elbe a few boats are able to move. only a few pleasure boats are still out on the river elbe an interest in bigger boats can sail water levels have dropped to forty six centimeters here about one and a half metres lower than normal. i mean we should be up to our knees in water here but students need smaller vessels were still able to operate until recently but now they're going nowhere the. older boats with a shallow draft are still able to sail but it's difficult for them to dock so they've had to reduce or even shut down operations. on the river rhine near calls for barges are still on the water but most can only carry half their normal cargo

so as not to run aground in the shallow channels but very passengers here don't need to worry yet these boats can still dock. about favorite tape is eight years old so there is can still operate even if the water levels drop further by default and couldn't but if i can but it's possible that some of our passenger service is won't be able to run just reduced field couldn't near the city of mines low water levels on the rhine have brought history to the surface police divers have found sixty six anti aircraft shells from the second world war they say removing them entirely is too dangerous these and i'm too scary condition is such that we don't want to transport them and cheating so we've decided to explode them under water through. the low water levels have also attracted treasure hunters on the lookout for precious time to act or to. coming up about a business segment with darryl hodson a decade after air b.n. b.

burst on to the scene regulators and tenants are complaining about rising rents and housing shortage as we look at whether air b.n. b. is tenth anniversary marks the end of a honeymoon period. that had much more still to. come. they make a commitment. they find solutions. they inspire. africa . stories from both people in a different shaping their nation.