berlin. the former international cricket star has appeared on television promising a new pakistan, but votes are still being counted, and rival parties claimed there was fraud. also coming up, a special report from greece where dw has been following rescue crews helping survivors of that wildfire. >> it has been an unrelenting few days.

the desperately search for survivors, then came the search for bodies. >> and reuniting separated migrant children with their parents. a doctor specializing in child care tells dw that the u.s. and forced separations could have long-term consequences. i'm sarah kelly. welclcome to the program.. the official results still has not been called, but imran khan claims to have won pakistan's elections. he went on title vision of proclaimed himself iran's next prime minister. opposition parties claim the vote was rate. final results have been delayed because of what election officials say is a computer glitch.

>> jubilation in islamabad. supporters of imran khan's party took to the streets. >> we will run pakistan like it has never been done before. we will give it the government it has never had before, and we will start with ouourselves. we w will be transparent and cleaear. >> supporters may be celebraratg tonight, but without an outright majority, khan still has potentially tough coalition talks in front of him, and pakistan may still have to wait a while for its new government. >> a scenario that may prove difficult with the ppp party and the pml led by the brother of

the disgraced former prime minister claiming it was not a fair vote. >> this is blatant rigging. results based on rigging will lead to irreparable loss. we do not accept it. we reject it. >> before an number of ordinary pakistanis, it's the everyday issues that concern them. >> our main issue is our education systemem. if a positive change can be made here, i'm confident a change will come to pakistan. >> imran khan has promised a lot. the huge number of votes i came to him is because of what he promised. he should deliver now or else his situation will be worse than that of know why sharif. >> a warning that for now at least is drowned out in the euphoria of victory.

>> running me now from washington, d.c., is an ambassador currently teaching at the american university in washington. you were in pakistan recently traveling to the country's interiors. from those i interactions you've had with ordinary pakistanis, how do you see the vote? >> i see thihis as a slow motion revolution t taking place. imran khan embodies that revolution, promising to change the lives of the people for the first time in pakistan's history. his emphasis is on lack of corruption, fair play, education for all, health issues, trying to control the rampant violence taking place and pakistan, so these are huge issuess facing

ordinary pakistanis, and he is putting pressure on the rich and corrupt that t he will literally go after them so that their day was over. none of this has been heard or seen by the people of pakistan, and above all, he is saying, "i will be the example." he is saying "i will lead." that is very characteristic of him. >> says he have the mandadate to do so?o? that final count is still awaited, but how stable will a government led by imran khan be if you does not have the majority n numbers you can >> that is a a great questioion. i think he hasas got enough vovs in parliament to a attract a few more. this is s traditional tribal ars . minorities wilill flockck to hi. atat's the pattern of pakisistai politics. the big ququestion is whwhat abt thee oppososition..

if the oppososition es w what he did when he was an opppposition which is to lead possessions, to challenge the government, to try to stabilize the government, he will be in trouble because yoyou cannot discountt someone like that. there are vast areas loyal to sharif, and he has been v very competent traraforming the punjab. in t that scenario, , it will ba very tough s situation, so he needs to either calm down the opposition or address as soon as he can. >> let's talk about the challenges he faces. the opposition for t the -- for their part, have claimed folk rigging, corruption, especiallyy among military babackers. what do you say toto that?

>> by the way, i want to m maket clclear that i'm t aa spokesman for any partrticular pararty or interestst. i am here as an analyst. my analysiisis that whenever the election a and pakistan in the oppositionon loses, they say the has been riggiging. there are processions, violee, and very often in n the past, therere has been m martial law. wewe know of thehese p problemsu are mementioningng. we a also have two or k knowlede thatat f for the f first time ie ofof all the challenges the peoe of pakistan face, agagain, talkg about the ordinary peoeople -- 3 people died and e e occasion yesterday. pakistanis were determinened to stay on the democratic path.h. number two, the delelicate balae between the mililitary and civilian e establishment held,d, which h meant that with all the temptation, witith all t the

breakdown in law and ordrder, te armymy did not intervene t to te control. ththey sent out almost 4 400,000 soldiers t to supervise the electionon, but they and fact dd not t take over govovernment it, they y have been vevery, very,i would saimimmacute i in terms of pullining off civilian p policyd cicivilian jurisdiction. these are signss of i think v vy positive development in pakistan politics, and we should acknowledge it. >> i w would like e to thank you very much this evenening for sharining that perspective. as we mentiononed, you have bebn pakistan's high comommissioner o ththe u.k. ireland, and you're currently teaching at the american university in washington. the death toll in greece worst forest fires in a decade stands at more than 80 people. relatives and search crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins.

we have this report from one of the worst affected towns. that is moxie -- that is mahti where residents and tourists escaped the flames by running into the sea. >> and small token for a community that has lost so much, from rescue teams who know all too well what they've endured. for volunteers like these greek lifeguards, it has been an unrelenting rear days. they took to the waters desperately searching for survivors. then came the search or bodies. now they join the many hundreds of volunteers handing out food and water to those in need. those still scouring the waters can do little but wait. with dozens still missing, fears are growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost their lives. >> we're looking for the bodies now if there are more in the water.r. it is a difficult job because we know everything we find now, it

is only for sad, but good for the people who have the relief that they found. >> he was among those who helped people flee before saving himself, the horror of that night forever etched in his mind. >> me with the other guys, i'm going to go to the port. very bad things here. >> he has turned his bar into a makeshift foododank, , another beacon of ho f for those in need . this is a community whose resilience is breathtaking in the face of a tragedy, the true scale of which is yet unknown. >> let's get a quick check of

some other stories that have been making news around the world. italian authorities have become too clear and officially sanctioned -- have begun to clear and officially sanction roma camp. rome said the site h had to be cleared because of what theyey cacalled sanitary problems. morere than 600 mimigrants havee crcrsed the border fence e betwn rocco andnd the spanish territory hoping to claim asylum. some had to be treated for injuries after scrambling over razor wire. it is the biggest breach of the fence and over a year. people who make it across are often deported back to northern africa. and a court in belgium has overturneded a ban on women wearing so-called bikinis -- bur kinis at swimming pools.

officials claimed they were banned because of reasons of hygiene, but the court found they were no more unhygienic than other swimsuits. now to the united states where a court set a deadline of today to reunite separate migrant children with their parents. the department of homeland security claims it is on track to comply, but government figures show that out of around 2500 children, about 1300 are still separated, and even those figures are's -- are still uncertain. health officials sound the alarm about the damage already done to the children. >> the lucky few reunited after months of not knowing if they would ever see the children again. for others, even this moment soon turned to heart break. after being separated for so long, some parents said the children did not even recognize them. the difficult reunification's we've seen so far have highlighted just how hard it is going to be to bring these children back together with

their families and how much damage has already been done by the trump administration's original policy of taking them away from their parents. one of many pediatricians warning of the damage the separations may have caused already told me extreme stress from such an experience can result in lifelong health problems. >> the younger they are, the more vulnerable to a are, so we see changes in their stress hormones. we see changes in their brain development. that can also manifest in mental health illnesses -- ptsd, anxiety, depression. kids who have experienced toxic stress have higher rates of suicide as they get older. the change in hormones actually causes physical change in the body, so increased risk of heart disease, diabetes, liver problems, increased risk of cancer. >> why are migrants from central and south america williling to take their chances of exposing

their children to this type of future? >> i think these parents would say they do not have a choice. i have a mother who tells me her 10 euros son was asked to join a gang and if he dididn't, would e killed. another teenage girl who was repeatedly abused and if she stayed would be kidnapped and traffic. these parents and not thinking they have a choice. >> many who thought they had escaped the worst for a better life in the united states face even more trauma. >> for more on that, let's bring in our washington bureau chief who joins us from just outside brownsville, texas, on the u.s.-mexico border where a number of families are being held. i would like to talk about this meeting of the deadline to reunite these hundreds of children and parents. it must be a huge adjustable challenge. how is the operation coming together?

>> it is very challenging indeed. right now, i'm about 20 miles northwest from bronzeville -- from brownsville, a primary facility to house parents that cross the border illegally and were separated from their kids. you can see the ends behind me. we are not allowed to get any closer to this facility. we do not know how many parents are still being held inside this facility. i did not get any answer to that question from the authorities. i talked to lawyers and activists, and they tell me about 300 parents have left this detention center in the last days and were brought to a catholic shelter to be reunited with their kids. however, we have to say it has been a very chaotic process, that the parents were left in a sort of limbo. they did not know where their kids were.

they did not know if they were going to get together with their kids. some were hoping that is just happening, and they were brought to another facility and lawyers complained they did not have proper contact to their clients. >> of course, this is a situation that has absolutely torn at the heart of this nation. many people reacting, speaking out about this policy, and now, the administration, they have this deadline. based upon the numbers you are hearing, does it seem as if they are likely to meet it? >> at the moment, it does not seem that the government is going to meet this deadline. were talking about 2500 parents that should be reunited with their kids and not half of them, 50% of them so far have been reignited, and a significant number, 900, will not be properly reunited. some of them cannot be found.

some of them have serious criminal records according to the authorities and therefore are not eligible to be reunited with their kids. many of them -- more than 400 -- have been already deported, so just imagine they are now in their home country and maybe even do not know where their kids are. they have to find them. it is up to them, and the kids are probably already in the u.s. , maybe being put up for adoption. that must be devastating for these parents. >> thank you. meantime, there is relief in europe after u.s. president donald trump and european commission president jean-claude juncker calmed that transatlantic trade route -- wrote -- row at least for now. >> a breakthrough saying the countries could avoid a trade war, butut the french government

took a more cautious tone, warning any deal must be limited and b to the benefit of both sides. >> the american president was his usual, confident self when he met the press together with jean-claude juncker. the deal was done. the eu and usa have act away from their looming trade war. on the other side of the pond, some german political leaders welcomed the agreement. we have managed to avoid the outbreak of a trade war and return to the negotiating table instead. this opens up the opportunity for us to reduce tariffs instead of increasing them, and it means we can strengthen world trade. as part of the deal, the eu has agreed to buy more american products, including natural gas. in exchange, the u.s. will hold off on its threats of increasing tariffs on eu products and both partners will begin looking at ways to reduce trade barriers,

but some i industry y experts wn wednesday's meeting was only the first step of a long road. >> we have to do this according to the wto. we have to follow international trade rules. that means if you want a trade agreement t with the uniteted states, we have to do this on a multilateral basis. we have to include other countries, so it is a very complicated system of negotiations we would go into, and i'm not sure if the u.s. is ready for that. >> for now, it seems economic peace has broken out between the eu and u.s., but only tomorrow will tell what twitter will bring. >> $120 billion wiped off the value of a company of just one day. we know it can be rough on the markets. thursday proved a tough day for none other than facebook. the company's shares falling as much as 20%, and it's not just the biggesest drop in the company's history. it's the biggest ever one-day loss for any company trading in

the united states. one reason is weaker than expected growth partly due to the effective date of privacy scandals. the social networkrk says it is focusing on tightening security and improving content. our financial correspondent is on wall street. certainly a tough day for facebook. how is it looking now? >> that's quite some understatement. it has clearly been a day for the record books here in wall street. at the end of the day, facebook stock lost about 19% in value, meaning a burned around $119 billion in market capitalization just in one day and surpassed the record that intel set in the year 2000 when the value of the chipmaker dropped by about $90 billion back then when the dot-

com bubble hit. clearly the numbers were not good. for the first time ever, daily active user numbers in europe, for example, declined, causing some concerns s here on wall street. >> in light of this performance and the cost still to come, do you still have to ask, could this be the beginning of the end for facebook? >> first of all, facebook has a couple of growth drivers. we think about whatsapp for example, or instagram. the talk on wall street is if facebook and its prognosis and its outlook might have been too dramatic just to appease regulators worldwide after the whole scandal around cambridge analytic oa broke half a year a,

that's when regulators work pressing hard, so they want to give an impression of how hard they are working, how much money it cost them to fix those problems, but some analysts are skeptical if facebook is really going to change much and it's a business model is really in question here at this point, so that is a little bit of what we are seeing on wall street. we will wait and see if maybe things might be looking a bit brighter in the friday session. >> all right. thank you. >> more now on that monumental discovery on mars. scientists have detected what they are calling a huge underground lake of liquid water near the planet's south pole. the lake is thought to between two kilometers wide and sitting underneath about 1.5 kilometers of ice. is the largest body of liquid

water ever found on the red planet. the discovery has scientists excited because it raises the possibility of finding life on mars. with me here in the studio now is one of germany's leading astronomers. he's based here in berlin. welcome to the program and thank you for joining us this evening. how exciting is this discovery? >> well, it is quite exciting, but not unexpected. there were so many traces of wateter on mars that it was jusa matter of time. the size of the lake is quite interesting. >> we know some of the dimensions, right? 1500 meters underground, 20 kilometers across. what more do we know about it? >> we can assume something about the chemical consistency of the

water, but not more. >> are we closer to finding evidence of life on mars? >> we are closer to the discussions. there's still 1.5 kilometers, layers of ground between the surface and the lake, and we have to get there to find what it is, what might be in there. we can assume there might be microbes or something like this. we find microbes under the most impossible places, but we have to prove it. >> of course, one of the dreams also is to send a man to mars. we know this is, for example, the largest body of water discovered on mars. what does that mean for the prospects, for example, of admission to the planet? >> if it includes the typical

human question of how we can use it, it will not give anything because it's very difficult to reach. we have to carry our stuff with us, everything, including water. >> thank you so much for telling us about this fascinating discovery this evening. we mentioned you are one of germany's leading astronomers based here in berlin. thank you. now to a bit of sports news, and the tour de france entered its third last stage with thomas holding a reasonably comfortable lead in the overall standings. the yellow jersey holder was able to take a backseat on stage 18 with the relatively flat course giving sprinters centerstage. >> and largely flat stage provided a good platform for the tour's break to a specialist. five tiders -- riders, but with

20 kilometers to go, the sprinters were ready to take over. a mass sprint in suit with a perfectly timed dash to the finish line, a perfectly staged win for a wrench team. meanwhile, thomas tightened his grip on the leader's yellow jersey, but he is expecting a tougher run in the. >> expecting the worst, really. just guys trying to go into the early break. obviously, the fininal climb and dissent, so we're just going to be ultra-vigilant. >> thomas goes into the final competitive stages with a lead of just under two minutes. >> a quick reminder of the top stories we've been following for you -- imran khan has claimed victory in pakistan's election. the former international cricketer has taken to

television promising into pakistan, but votes are still being counted and rival parties claimed the election was rigged. the death toll in greece's worst forest fires for a decade stands at more than 80 people. relatives and rescue crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins. with that, you are up to date on dw news. thank you so much for watching. don't forget, you can follow us on social media. we will get the latest news and information on our website on dw.com. have a great day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪

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