the results and will give us further assessment later the presidential election result that's not declared either a big day in zimbabwe but unrest is feared if mugabe successor emmerson. in power the opposition m.d.c. aligned cells are ready to carry its candidate nelson chamisa. millions were drawn to polling stations on monday and turnout was around fifty seventy five per cent i think two first time candidates are in a close race for the presidency after he was deposed in a military coup last autumn his former right hand man. took over and is being challenge for the top job by the electoral commission has until saturday to declare the results african affairs expert io johnson told us the results will the fines and bob waits relations with the west on its own future economic development. this will be huge challenges and huge repercussions for whoever wins if. n.b.c.

wins. then more than likely the west will be happy if. wins and it's deemed that there was some irregularities the question is if the the west doesn't feel that they had a fair shake in terms of this election then they could keep the sanctions going they could keep some of the the factions that have actually helped or prevented zimbabwe from developing an evolving and for it's in a growth to to happen and of course. it's in limbo so. these elections are pivotal this is a crossroads and the decisions that are made from there from now want to especially that of the presidency mr chairman or mr. terming whether the west would support their claim. of being on a twitter again find itself at the center of the debate over center ship the latest . diversity comes after it imposed a twelve hour suspension on austin peterson

a republican candidate in the u.s. state of missouri senate race for what it described as abusive behavior but his suspension came after a writer for the left leaning sure blue website drew a link between peterson's acceptance of bitcoin for campaign financing and the alleged russian hacking of a democratic senator petersen responded to that with a gif featuring joseph stalin some users flag the candidates post offensive and it was subsequently deemed to have violated twitter's roots but the image was actually from the platform's own collection one can be found on its database well twitter say the tweets amounted to targeted harassment which it sees is often used to silence voices on the platform but often peterson claims there was more to the suspension three different emails were sent to me about this saying that i had not done anything wrong mysteriously two days later the band was issued it almost seems

as though something had gone on behind the scenes and that this was this was an attempt to suppress my speech during a critical election and it is quite ironic because my response was a was a picture of joseph stalin which was meant to be humorous saying off the gulag and then of course they mass reported me as if i have access to a gulag here in the state of missouri that i could that could be a credible threat mr peterson comes on twitter brings together a special research team to come by prejudice and promote what it defines as collective health and openness on its platform but the plan seems to be causing controversy with the assembled team already being accused of a strong anti donald trump bias. why don't we can trump johnny.

something tells me you will suddenly start seeing republicans in congress testing the waters and pushing. trump's twenty sixteen digital team in cambridge on this week to help the russians figure out how to tell gates he's campaigned on facebook. the team will work out algorithms. incivility and intolerance on twitter and assess the extent to which people engage with different viewpoints austin peterson claims however that the platform despite what they say he's is actually making a concerted effort to censor certain ideas and talking points we don't have free speech in the united states in order to be able to discuss the whether we have free speech of the united states so that we can discuss very controversial things i don't mind if a social media network has a bias i assume

a bias but what i prefer is transparency about that bias twitter suppresses conservative and libertarian voices from being able to get their message out because they have a bias and it's deeply disturbing at a threat to american democracy white farmers in south africa have been dealt a further blow the details coming up after the break. most of the people in you know. we were in. this. all day period insists all of this him.

again turkey's foreign ministry busted us plans to sanction two turkish government ministers has called on washington to reverse its decision the punitive measures came in response to the tension of an american pastor in turkey and is accused of

being involved in the attempted coup there two years ago with more details in washington d.c. here's some your account. well washington sanctions target two turkish officials number one the justice minister abdul hamid gul and the interior minister silliman solo the white house explained the decision saying that they did not find any evidence implicating pastor brunson calling him a victim treated unfairly by the turkish government but what do the sanctions entail exactly well sarah huckabee sanders explains any property or interest in property of those ministers within u.s. jurisdiction is blocked and u.s. persons are generally prohibited from engaging in transactions with them for some background on bronson he's an american pastor who was detained in twenty sixteen under suspicions of having links to the movement who orchestrated the coup against air to one he was held for twenty one months in prison until he was placed under

house arrest amid u.s. pressure now the two sides didn't mince their words the u.s. threatened turkey with sanctions and turkey responded saying that they wouldn't bow down to any threats and the president are the one and the turkish government i have a message on behalf of the president of the united states of america release pastor andrew bronson now or be prepared to face the consequences we will move down to any threats it is unacceptable for the united states to use a threatening language against to keep using an ongoing case as a pretext u.s. turkish relations haven't been so strong lately over the syria conflict turkey's a weapons deals or missile defense deal with russia as well as iranian sanctions so we'll just have to see if turkey does indeed retaliate. maria but it's enough made headlines last month after being arrested in the u.s. on charges of acting as a russian agent in addition to allegedly working on behalf of the kremlin to

interfere in u.s. politics it's also being claimed she was trying to lure american money here to russian or to america has spoken to his lawyer about the case. well i think if you read the indictment the case is alleged to be an agent over russia who failed to register with the attorney general and so essentially that means is they haven't charged with espionage and if you read the allegations against or know the allegations or parenting spy like about it the sense of the government is conceding that even under their own theory if she had filed a piece of paper with the attorney general's office at the beginning of her trip to america everything she did was legal and so my point is this is more a registration type crime than a crime and yet the media and the government some extent are treating it like an espionage crime. well i mean i think that allegation was particularly

damaging to maria because it makes it more like a spy novel and frankly easier for the public to digest and so editors and producers like those kind of allegations because it seems like this is more like the red sparrow and that was an allegation that was set forth in a proffer by the government meaning they did not produce evidence to back up that allegation at the time we're still waiting to see that and we're not sure it exists or it exists in any meaningful form in the interim it's very hard to see your client kind of dragged through the mud like this which is why i've been trying to push back on that. moving on south africa's ruling african national congress committed on tuesday to amending the constitution to allow the state to sing without paying compensation currently over two decades from the end of apartheid or racial segregation white farmers still own the lion's share of the country's privately held the a.n.c. being buying up some of it for distribution however opinion among lawmakers has

shifted from the majority support taking on without offering compensation but for the the constitution to be changed that is the president ramos who is it wants to push ahead with he sees the amendment will help drive economic growth. the a.n.c. to. its position that a comprehensive land reform program. that and neighborhood access to lead and. economic growth. by bringing in more or less and in south africa to fully use and enable the productive participation of millions more south africans in the economy well as you might expect the plan has been met with sharp criticism from white farmers who've called it simply a catastrophic here some of the flush there's been a life and we're going to live happily ever after south africa doesn't

have a line problem it has a political problem this is disgraceful what an appalling situation in south africa where are all those protesters. and see explained to you that you won't be own in their land by tomorrow barren to need from them and won't be for free. well i got reaction earlier from a scythe african cultural union leader who told me among other things the change will scare off investors south africa do have a huge problem with poverty and unemployment and so as this is a pity that they make these choices because no one will invest in this economy and we need growth to actually address the realities of south africa so we have great concern about this approach already a lot of countries will really contact us as an organization and say is that will be the case we are not willing to invest in your country anymore i can give you a lot of examples of people really stop investing in south africa and that's the

starting point of economic growth until now it's a first and that they make this promises to the bubbly because they need for the election i think the if he's busy challenging the much on the other try to save himself and that is what's going on now. investigation is underway into the deaths of three russian journalists in the central african republic on tuesday journalists organizations have called on the united nations to get involved in the investigation the three reporters were killed. by an identified militia fighters near the town of support people in moscow have been paying tribute to the slain man laying flowers at a room where you are going through what we know spoke earlier to jacqueline. what more do we know at this point well definitely a tragic incident and certainly

a great loss for all journalistic community first of all what we know so far officially is that they're dead bodies were discovered by u.n. peacekeeping person hour some twenty five kilometers north of the central city of seabird. on the road an abandoned car was also discovered at the same with multiple gunshots yes it looks like the crew. was attacked by a large group of gunmen we do not know right now who they were and we also know that the driver of that car a local man according to some reports he was recommended to the team by u.n. . central african republic so by this incident we know that he's currently called and with investigators we also hear that the crew didn't have press accreditation. officially they did have the right to work in central african republic as a journalist and we also hear from the russian embassy that they were not notified about their arrival that we hear from the russian officials that their buddies

expected to return to their homeland to russia this saturday has there been any indication as to why they were killed they don't discuss who is behind the killing of three russian journalists but more interested in what their assignment on the ground was shortly after the news about the death we started receiving unconfirmed reports were heard that from journalists friends and colleagues that they were filming a documentary about mercenaries in central african republic possibly with links to russia some would go further calling a group name known as wagner although these were all unconfirmed reports some media news personalities. started using this information as if it was the matter of fact and it created kind of like hysteria but not about the killing the terrible incident that happened in central african republic but about russia's involvement

in the conflict there and illegal personnel there and russia's foreign minister as a reaction to these claims i read in here all of this nonsense about an investigation into russian mercenaries in the central african republic there is nothing sensational about the presence of russia's military instructors in the country no one covers this base of the. of the bodies the russian journalists were not heading to an area where the instructors work this march russia officially and five military and one hundred seventy civilian instructors to central african republic apart from being one of the poorest countries on earth definitely on the african continent it is very unstable place is divided between different groups so it's like a very dangerous place and this was the reason behind the invitation of russian experts to the republic and i think this with russian ministry is trying to say that this is not the news that's quite fair because the news is the killing of the

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