reconciliation or to stand a chance. cities or start september second d. w. . this is d w news live from berlin and a plea for a national unity after is involved ways a new president is sworn in emerson and god want to take the oath of office before thousands of supporters he now faces the difficult task of uniting the country after a narrow victory in the election and the opposition says it was rigged we'll go live to our correspondent in harare also coming up the man known as the maverick senator is dead senator john mccain has lost his battle against brain cancer his

wife cindy paid tribute to her late husband saying he passed the way he lives on his own terms. hello and welcome to the program i'm mary and i haven't seen we begin in zimbabwe where the president who's now been officially inaugurated has called on the country to unite it comes just a day after a court upheld emerson and god weighs narrow election victory the results have been disputed by the main opposition party which claimed the vote was raked. tens of thousands packed zimbabwe's national stadium in harare to watch their leader take the oath of office. they must.

say this. is president of zimbabwe. i will be serviceable to zimbabwe. but despite all the pomp of this inauguration the election result has been bitterly contested only twenty four hours before zimbabwe's constitutional court confirmed that more on god quark had won the july ballot after claims it was rigged m.d.c. opposition leader nelson chamisa still won't accept the results when the president is disputed. is a little. village made game doug are you supposed to be leading the peoples above the. post-election clashes resulted in violence with sylvia my foes one of those killed the president has promised an inquiry and also talked of

political unity. zero merkel lutes and other political parties who are interested in has just ended a minor election we are. what you know us is. going to work every hour dividers. but the president too to cover from veteran leader robert mccarthy last year must know it would take more than one words to unite this country. to be a correspondent parallage was fun here it was at that inauguration ceremony in harare and he joins us now for more so privileged we heard their president him up men and god was making peace and unity the key themes of his inaugural speech just how are his statements being received. you find that since friday and coming to today when he was you know granted some of

the people that you would not think we're going to congratulate him or even we're going to warm up to him are beginning to a soft in op and you know saying that it is high time maybe zimbabwe should be given a chance to move on one of the lead does it you know gratian today you still goes on. leading the other faction of the movement for democratic change which broke away from time you saw she was there and that tended to you know gratian and congratulation congratulated president. and even if you hear the statements that are present when i got proceed today to extend a hand to. opposites to say that now it's time to put hands together to work as a nation it's a sign that. most zimbabweans want the country to move one and the

opposition has vowed more protests against the new government just what do they think they can achieve. i think if you look at it he used. to say that you won the july fifty election and he should be the one we should be leading the country right now but you also on the other hand he's accepting the court verdict so a lot of critics and i'm at least saying that if they're going to go ahead and start to demonstrating to say that to you once legitimacy to lead the country he's only shooting themselves in their food because regionally we also even saw some of the presidents who came out to come into our tent you know gratian they seem to be going on decide or for the ruling party for him a sort of a non-god for president run up or so as you. got me i was also here.

president was also here zambian president was also here the president was also here so you can see that if the opposition then goes i had to demonstrate the only saving to isolate themselves from the region. correspondent privilege was found here reporting from harare thank you now tributes are flooding in for a u.s. senator john mccain died overnight at the age of eighty one mccain had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since july of last year and friday his family had announced he'd discontinued any further treatment after a long military and political career he passed away at his ranch in arizona surrounded by his wife and other family members. the flag flies half staff over the white house for a man who dreamt of occupying the nation's highest office. born into

a family of navy admirals john mccain served in the vietnam war as a navy pilot when his plane was shot down over one noir in one thousand nine hundred sixty seven he became a prisoner of war enduring five and a half years of torture and captivity. there he entered politics after his release and went on to be the senator of arizona for more than thirty years the republican also made two failed bits for president in two thousand and two thousand and eight he was known as a man of integrity and willing to stick to his convictions rather than toe the political line tributes are coming in from both sides of the political aisle. i'll be honest i'm a democrat but i love what. i don't know i just always he's caring. he listen to us and i just advice had high respect for him and just deeply

saddened i heard about it and immediately started crying just thinking about what a man of integrity and just cared so much for his country in vietnam he's remembered for his efforts to build peace post war but it's a sad day and i send my condolences to his family he was among those americans who supported vietnam the most in normalizing relations with the u.s. he also fought for peace in many countries including vietnam. for. mccain will be buried at the u.s. naval academy cemetery in maryland the final resting place for a man who fought for america and its people. well tributes to john mccain have also been pouring into social media and for. closer look at their reactions and condolences from across the political spectrum i'm joined here in the studio by delhi reporter william william we saw those reactions

coming immediately after the news of mccain's death and from both sides of the aisle what have people been saying the outpouring of condolences can really be summed up by two of mccain's most frustrating opponents the ones that kept him from being president on opposite sides of the aisle george w. bush in two thousand and barack obama in two thousand and eight and i think that bush's statement actually really said it best when he wrote his a library website some lives are so vivid it is difficult to imagine them ended some voices are so vibrant it is hard to think of them still and that really was john mccain this massive presence in u.s. politics regardless of where he stood on a particular issue or others stood on him he was a navy pilot p.o.w. torture survivor congressman senator presidential candidate the list goes on it's really an exhausting c.v. and that's what barack obama's statement focused on he talked about how little in common she and mccain had but he still said for all our differences we shared a fidelity to something higher which of course talking about public service but

particularly notable here is obama's qualifier towards the end he wrote at johns best he showed us what working for the greater good means at johns best which many obama probably included would say over mccain was not always at his at his best well over a span of nearly sixty years of public service so many things you mention some of them how do you believe mccain is likely to be best remembered well how he liked to be seen which was as a maverick as we've talked about he really love that maverick name his straight talk express from the two thousand presidential campaign has become stuff of legend in u.s. political history. he went he went against his party on torture during the bush administration years he stood up for some environmental policies that were against his party's line and he's probably best known for pushing through bipartisan campaign finance reform in two thousand and two but maverick can also mean erratic and red. klyce remember mccain the put sarah palin on the ticket in two thousand and eight which his own campaign staff have later said was a big mistake it can even hurt him he was he surprised many when he suspended his

presidential campaign to deal with the global financial crisis that was exploding at that time and that left many people wondering well how can someone running who can't run a campaign and deal with a crisis is he really fit for president he's famous for his literal thumbs down of trying of republicans efforts to repeal obamacare but he himself voted against the obamacare two thousand and nine along with all other republicans so if you look at the big picture his decades long voting record he's really quite squarely in the middle of the road of conservative politics even donald trump who we sparred with publicly he's voted more than eighty percent of the time with trump's positions according to five thirty eight statistics platform well william mccain's term as senator was actually supposed to go on until twenty twenty two briefly if you can what happens to his seat now yes rather complicated so the arizona governor appoints someone to fill his role in till the next general election is twenty twenty of the winner of that election two thousand and twenty will fill the rest of

mccain's term and until twenty twenty two and then it will go on as normal senate races go it's an important moment for republicans who are trying to launder senate majority now in two thousand and eighteen mccain's junior colleague also republican senator is retiring and democrats are giving that seat a real run for its money. reporter william brokaw for many thanks indeed and now to some of the other stories making news around the world hope francis has said mass to around half a million people on the last day of his visit to ireland earlier the pontiff asked for forgiveness for the catholic church and its sex abuse scandal he said it had to take firm and decisive action in the pursuit of truth and justice. italy's interior minister matusow vini is under investigation for his role in preventing migrants rescued at sea from disembarking in sicily. only allowed people to disembark after five days on board when albania ireland and the vatican agreed to

take in the migrants. force news now and racing and forming the ones belgian grand prix where the red flag was out on the very first lap halting the event because of a crash that put three drivers out of the race but luckily none of them injured before the safety car was deployed ferrari's the boston federal slipped past lewis hamilton with stars in pole position for mercedes settle held on from there to take the win and cut hamilton's lead in the driver's championship. english football side liverpool has shipped their goalkeeper loris carlos out to the turkish side besiktas on a two year loan deal the twenty five year old's mistakes in the champions league final versus real madrid cost liverpool the match and the german has since been demoted to the bench the errors lead led to the reds signing brazilian alison becker from roma as

a replacement car hughes has made forty nine appearances for liverpool and will aim to rebuild his confidence with the turkish the champions. well from the dignified and somber sport of chess comes a world championship for a select few as in the select few who are willing to play the game underwater in a london pool on a weekend in august players dies beneath the surface to play with magnetic pieces bought without breathing apparatus and once they go fully under they have to complete their move before coming up for air or the eventual winner war and orange fish hat to intimidate or at least distract his opponent. and a quick reminder now of our top story. tributes are flooding in for u.s. senator john mccain who has died at the age of eighty one mccain had been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer since july of last year

a maverick republican served more than thirty years in the u.s. senate. they're up to date now on d.w. news i'll be back again with more at the top of the hour omarion and in spain from all of us here in berlin thanks for watching. things from being told. his work goddess for two. months straight into the. twenty.