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line. this is t w news coming to you live from berlin zimbabwe's president emerson winning god what calls for a new beginning after being declared the winner of his country's presidential election his supporters are euphoric but the opposition is refusing to accept the result raising fears of more bombs. also coming up in india false reports on social media about child kidnappings have led to the murder of innocent people now local police are taking action to try to prevent any more killing. international football
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star visit through zoo sparked a debate on racism here in germany now a new poll shows that the majority of people here also think that the issue is a serious problem. also coming up apple becomes the first privately owned company to talk a trillion dollars in market value the latest milestone for a company that began in their garage forty two years ago. hello i'm terry martin good to have you with us in zimbabwe president. 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 and nelson result last night saying that a god was secured just over fifty percent of the ballots but zimbabwe remains on edge following post-election violence the main opposition is questioning the polls
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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 missing money 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.
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you know. what good fellow. like you very much like you to look up when you see a. man on goggles policy is that o.p.'s is also celebrating its victory in parallel palm entry 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 cost freedoms there was concern about the in the pre-election vironment pressure on prospective photos 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
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correspondent adrian krishna standing pa 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 timber he is the chief election agent for the pan presidential candidate off 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
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not accepting the results of these elections why. discrepancies in this process in terms of. and process and the money. and opposition is very clear we've not accepted the outcome of this election and. what's your reaction to that. well it's no surprise these guys have been fearing this elections for a very long time they even say that. 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 a price. from where we stand is one of the if. you engage in a process of process when there's a process. 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.
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zach must put before the election audience before the presidential candidates the v twenty three fall short of the presidential result. which is that the twenty three which must be verified by each of the ideas. that dissolved before it is announced is it indicated to us that before we do. show you the result in terms of the twenty three ok. and then announce and it didn't help you but what's the way forward and what switches your plan will be indicated to you. that we are not accepting this result and you're not accepting this outcome so are you going to court. we have. to tell you how we've seen. 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. and.
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that's age they didn't go to the streets to protest they went to the streets. they went to the streets to made him their brain design a piece of bus they tried to bend. a provincial headquarters they tried to invade it get us out of there to end 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 a protest no it was vandalism that's eight it's unfortunate and very sad that's people lost their lives and it shouldn't be said he's not sure if there will be demonstration was the way forward is we can still see a massive security force presence here will demonstrate be allowed. to speak for government and speak for the security organs either but demonstrations are not allowed in zimbabwe what's most a lot is people trying to smash up things people burning buses people been in cars people. people move. around to search with machetes no that's not
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a lot so he's saying basically that members of your party states that violent protests is that true and that is not correct what happened today was a spontaneous reaction to taft that has been taking place in. the. ordinary people have been suffering with that. 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 state people's freedoms. you cannot have. i i'm a nation against a defenseless population it cannot be justified and in the circumstances last quick question to you he's mentioned ninety percent unemployment zanu p.f. has run down the economy of this country have really in-depth it's about a lot of people say there's no way out of that what will the new presidents do to
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get the country back on track is there you know president is getting the country back on track with seventy thousand people employed in a period of six months but he has there's been a little. president a guy but there's a lot of things just as if they're calling for this some sense that this country has been under which still and the other ones that image of what it's what they should be in d.c. . d.c. the party represents they are still in these moves with the country missile crisis mode is that gate to supposed to put or to bring it to visit rather 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 terry with that thank you adrian thank you so much for rounding that up and thanks also to your two guests are they doing crease there in harare. now to some of the other stories making news
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around the world today at least twenty people have been killed in afghanistan after a suicide attack on a mosque in the eastern city of gardez dozens more have been wounded tucker blew himself up inside a shiite mosque as worshipers were attending friday prayers there is no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. 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 who the w.h.o. has called for a three day cease fire in the north of the country in order to carry out attacks a nation program. and students in bangladesh's capital dhaka have held a sixth day of massive protests after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus tens of thousands of demonstrators have blocked roads throughout the week to demand safer streets road fatality rates in bangladesh are among the highest in the world. india has been rocked by
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a wave of mob lynchings across the country in recent months more than twenty people have died after birol rumors about child kidnappers circulated on the messaging service what's up the indian government has set up a committee to try to curb the murders in some areas local law enforcement officials have started their own campaigns are india correspondent sonia pollack a travel to the western state of maharashtra to find out more. it isn't every day that this village sees gifts like these. on a special mission dispelling vital rumors spread and what's that have killed people across the country not the model ought to be the daughter who's also trained lawyer is the brains behind the campaign he appeals to the crowd to not be fooled by fake news of the internet and use that own mind to judge what's true or false.
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misleading videos like this one which claim to show corpses of children have gone vital voices peeves disguised as harvested the organs all because she explains how the video was adopted to create panic. another clip suggests this woman is an outsider and was trying to abducted that's why she was beaten up. fake news like this is spreading like wildfire in india it is a major problem because these are very close knit communities where almost everyone tends to know each other the spread and acceleration of this news can be very very quick but the fact that it is about child lifting is something for primal something so provocative that your child could be taken away from you i scarcely think there is a greater fear than that for any family or any parent. that can precipitate violence very easily. that's what happened here in the neighboring district of totally about three hundred fifty kilometers from mumbai. this heavy security in this remote
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village it only has women and children many of the men have fled ever since a lynching to place in this building. fake news is killing people in india right here in this village council office five people were beaten to death by a mob last month the police say the people were driven by videos and whatsapp claiming that kidnappers are on the loose the victims were beggars from a nomadic tribe. the lynchings here were particularly brutal the police have arrested twenty eight people so far. try to help the victims by locking them in here but the mob forced their way in a lot. of the sharpton and. the people would sticks with the rods put stones in which is in the office the crowd was bloodthirsty i've never seen anything like this there was a video on someone's phone warning people to stay vigilant because gangs were
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kidnapping children and stealing their organs. in mali girl police have trekking jail time if anyone forwards explosive messages that can cause public panic. it's part of the campaign to quash rumors before they boil over and lead to violence the measures taken and added urgency in monaco's melting pot into religious tensions are never far from the surface here. today officers are in the hindu temple it's part of the campaigns are preached in french and religious leaders the message is familial remain skeptical of what you read online and don't resolve to buy tickets . the campaign continues a traffic junctions across the city. leaflets with police help like numbers to handed out. to raise awareness about the deadly consequences of fake news. who filed that report poorest joins us now from delhi sonia we heard in your report
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about police working to prevent lynchings numerous killings have apparently been motivated by rumors circulating on. how has this happened. hi terry that's right well i think there are several reasons for this you know for one there are millions of indians who are really getting online for the first time on their mobile phones this is especially in areas where literacy levels and all and you know they're really bombarded with information that they tend to believe everything they get on their phones another thing i learned on this reporting trip for me is that the field of kidnapping is outside as it's really not new you know it's prevailed for generations in some areas and what social media has done has given these rumors you don't i'm president a breach in speed which has led to. some cases and totally i think experts have also said that this problem also us to do with deep rooted problems of the police and traditionally in many cases you know that
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a very few police officers of the ground especially those on the job often poorly trained or the unprofessional so in many cases the police has really failed to react quickly or simply failed to get a grip of the problem though of course that's changing slowly as we saw in that report when you tell us why there's so much of a focus on what's here in this story i mean what's popular around the world why is that particular messaging service being singled out as potentially dangerous in this environment. well terry you know india is what saps largest market that an estimated two hundred million users off what's up in this country and the messaging service remains the single largest internet service available to people here so just simply has an incredible reach the other thing is that because what's up with the person messaging out there is a greater inclination i think for people to really believe the information to get through it because it mostly comes via friends and family and the analysts here say that the technology that whatsapp employs is also making the situation more
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complicated you know what type of course is encrypted into and which means that these messages that we're not stored in whatsapp servers so the company country. uses messages for misinformation or for deliberate false information or so what's being done to address the problem then what measures are policymakers in india and what's perhaps taking to stop a rumor mongering being pushed to lethal extremes. when the indian government has set up you know it was pushed by india's top court to really frame a law specifically to deal with issues of lynching and mob violence the indian government has now set up a panel to look into this it's also threaten to take legal action against what's up for really failing to adequately address this problem and sort of part of what's happened said that it has now come up with new rules for indian uses for example it said it's limiting the number of times messages can be forwarded it's also say that's going to remove the quick forward button on mixed messages containing video
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or photos but whether all that will help to break up the violence really remains to be seen sonia thank you very much on your phone the car there talking to us from delhi. country is a big problem. the issue. because. he even won the world cup for germany football player. was recently caught in a backlash. he then resigned from the national team accusing the german football association of racism. now. the country have
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a problem with. racism in germany is a very big big problem for. sixty four percent of the according to latest polls only thirty five percent think it's a small. government . asked which party they'd vote for. twenty nine percent would currently cast their ballot for the conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. bloc the social democrats would get less than a fifth of the votes only eighteen percent the right wing populist would reach a record high seventeen percent the liberals. ten percent while the greens would move up to fifteen percent according to this poll if there was a general election next. the coalition parties would lose their majority in parliament but had. health and pension policies among the most important issues to
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be taken by the government. after. september. former n.f.l. player colin kaepernick has had a reference to him deleted from the soundtrack of an official n.f.l. computer game madden twenty nineteen the game's publisher e.a. sports has apologized kaepernick has been unable to find a team since kneeling during the u.s. anthem in two thousand and sixteen he staged as protest against police violence against racial discrimination in the u.s. is action sparked the take and the movement in the u.s. rapper big show on tweeted this his disappointment that is. being taken out of the song big banks saying the player was not a curse but a gift. here with
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a truly historic record in the business world that's right to become the first company to reach a one trillion dollar market capitalization historic feat apple's values life and to slip in and out of trillion territory in the next days thought its bumpus second quarter results on thursday christine mountain helped to breach that barrier. the share price had two hundred seven dollars and all of a sudden apple was worth a trillion dollars the company made its market debut in one thousand nine hundred eighty with a share price of thirty nine cents if you bought ten thousand dollars worth of shares back then your investment would now be worth six point four million apple's clearly come a long way in one nine hundred ninety seven the company found itself on the brink of collapse when the macintosh wasn't selling consumer seemingly unwilling to pay more for it than its microsoft alternative. but with the introduction of the i pod
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and the i phone things began to look up again the devices the design winning apple a cult following after the death of founder steve jobs tim cook took over at the helm under his leadership apple became the biggest stock market success in u.s. history brings some new features today that the everyone has i phones i pads i products and no oil to be on there is significant they had been able to continue to sell product increasing prices high margins the question of course always is can they continue it you know what's the next fight if they'll have what's the competition doing you know with the joke being that the next apple competitor is an eighteen year old sitting in a garage somewhere apple's still has its current competitors to worry about earlier this week china is well way over took apple as the number two smartphone maker in
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the world. financial correspondent standing by in frankfurt don where do you go from one. dollar. yes exactly where do you go when you take a look at the earnings reports this year guarantee apple delivered and delivered that's why investors are actually telling us that they find the current company valuation actually quite realistic this was a by the way not the case with tech companies during the dot com bubble crisis almost ten now eighteen years ago we should say that time there were many companies mostly in the tech field with crazy high valuations and the result was a crash at the stock market but investors they are also telling me that they're a little bit toward it of course we have this big apple hype at the moment even if they're very expensive i phone ten is a success story but new innovations are kind of missing there really needs to be something new with upstate a new product and that's why they're warning that this valuation might again change
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so there is that competition who's next to be valued that jaimie. well there's always this competition between apple and amazon when you take a look at their valuation of amazon amazon is estimated to have a valuation of about eight hundred eighty billion u.s. dollars they could be the next to hit the one trillion us dollar mark down a coping fine for thank you. here's another tech industry for you ambien b. is ten years old today home sharing website has disrupted the travel industry like none of us shaking up business models turning tenants into hotel years and putting small independent hotels out of business altogether b. and b. is one of the first to capitalize on the so called sharing economy but resistance is growing fast in many places around the world from residents and regulations
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alike. munich has the highest rents in all of germany it's also a major tourist destination some residents here only good returns of the air b.n. b. apartments as these officials in the local thought are you know only too well meaning homeowners and tenants need a permit to rent out their apartments for more than eight weeks a year. the investigators suspect a tenant here of illegally renting out properties all year round. suddenly from going up front as if some of it is it started in twenty seventeen with this apartment it was a kind of big player few rented lots of flats and then subset and then be. on the biggest for metered the investigators pay a visit to the apartment and speak to vacationers to gather evidence. their landlord will receive a hefty fine potentially up to five hundred thousand euros in music.
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from it all you can rent the place per day four hundred to two hundred fifty euros or if you do the math on the monthly rent is covered up to just ten days of. finance europe and after that you start making a profit with a park but given all the idea behind air b.n. b. is that tourists like to feel at home since its founding the company has grown from one hundred thousand registered listings to four and a half million air b.n. b. rents out more rooms in munich than the five largest hotel chains combined. you know how northern germany some landlords have even kicked out long term tenants so that they can profit from the air b.n. b. boom money could be about suspected that's what's happened to her she lived in her apartment for thirty three years she raised her children there and knew all her neighbors and she got an addiction notice the land of claims you needed the flat for his own use. that. became someone suggested i take
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a look at abbey and be. if they suspected it was being offered on their website and law. yet this is the out on air b.n. b. part of her kitchen are still in the apartment it now costs fifty nine years polite that's eight hundred a month more than four times the original rent money going to be able now is to pay much higher rent elsewhere and is suing. b.n.p. for tourists a cheap option by holidays around the world but for residents looking for rentals it's a potential nightmare. and that's it from watching the news a life from more coming of the top of the hour don't forget you can also get the latest news and information around the clock on our web site which is of course. thank you very much for watching bob.
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