of pakistan of course all of these allegations have been denied by the election commission but as you can see that the result even before it's come out completely it's already controversial and it is an election as you mentioned that has already been marred by violence and even before the voting began there were these allegations by the human rights commission of pakistan that this is going to be the dirtiest election yet in pakistan's history by their very nature the fact that he's questioning the results it sounds like he is believing that a man khan's party and indeed a man khan is is the leader just give us a timeline as to when we will actually know for sure who it is it's taken this ballot. well the election commission of boxes made it clear that the official results will not be announced until friday but these results have been compiled by various polling agents of political parties who were there at the election commission offices the election commission itself has tried to make the process transparent by announcing the results as they come in the state broadcasters have been

but having said that this is this may be one of the most professionally held elections but the human rights commission of pakistan has been saying that this is one of the dirtiest elections. taking place in entire parties have been wiped out even before it began thank you very much as some avenger of it with all the latest from. syrian state media are saying one hundred forty seven people have died in iceland tax in the southern province of slater the area is held by the government still has a presence in the desert region atax calm as the government continues its offensive on the south near the front tail of the israeli occupied golan heights from there stephanie decker reports. a rare attack in the government health town of psuedo syrian state television says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the market and two more attackers were killed before they could detonate their explosives according to the reports. we heard the sounds in the early morning people started screaming there's an explosion stay away . i salute claimed responsibility for the attack it says it targeted government soldiers the grou

changes to the legal framework with the new elections act and a stronger and more transparent election commission the electoral process of twenty eighteen was negatively affected by the political environment the number of violent attacks targeting political parties party leaders candidates and election officials severely affected the campaign environment. many of our interlocutors acknowledge the systematic efforts to undermine the former ruling party through cases of corruption contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and candidates are let's go live to our correspondent some avenge of ages in the political heartland of pakistan punjab province and the whole of the capital of it i guess the question is the sama whether these especially that are being cast on the whole conduct of the election are enough to invalidate the final result. well that remains very very unlikely because the election commission the facts on has done the tally for more than ninety percent of the results and in the next few hours be expect that the election commission announced the final results in one bo

thousand security forces pushed in and have been deployed across the country according to the election commission no foggiest on food aid instructed to boarding a fair and free election the ballot bowl could ever already be defeated. a false long day sharon fanning across the country forward broke and candidates really be trying their luck for border national and provincial assemblies for the election going to tame. turnout is expected to be high but the figure to go to the fraud are varied to be proud of the election coverage you know far good standard in russia very good responsibility of conducting fair and free elections in a country where the electorate go away and become controversial and that could go to the forehead of god that all go out in large numbers because of the return deadly attack by element to have all. share in making a bloody and varied bridge over one hundred fifty people cared including the leader of the political party the preparations are now complete and all the people now are reading for it for the foreigner to open on their trip the fifth of july so they can cause thei

and redoubt the military connection would be important the election commission of pakistan is an independent body. who will have to get it fair and free election what the military doing and only shifting the election commission as far into distribution of the ballot boxes as concerned and to provide security to a one hundred million unregistered ward who will be coming out. toward indian actions redoubt. military component these elections would be near impossible ok well we will certainly keep following this vote every hour throughout the day for the moment to come out thanks very much. now rescuers in greece fear they may find more bodies after wildfires swept through coastal areas in the capital athens at least seventy six people have died the government has declared a state of emergency with many fires still burning. in the seaside resort of matty twenty six people were found dead. with ferocious intensity the flames tore through homes cars and livelihoods. and the wildfires quickly turned deadly. locked in a final embrace dozens of bodies discovered in the popular seaside village of mart

inside the polling booths that people should be given more time however the election commission saying that that was not going to happen this has indeed been. a number of people lost many malls there have been still slogans between the political parties but one thing that has come out of days and despite the criticism of the military forces trying to micromanage things i have also been able to go board and see election. day dad died with from the military didn't even out they. were running high going to have political parties with the next guy all words we would start acting preliminary reader does. this election is going we'll have a clearer idea there mornings are in fact this are already election commission is going to make up for this all my life and now it's main. on friday the twenty seventh of july. well let's go to the city of lahore now where it joins us live so how close a race is it expected to be between enron khan and the sheriff's. department but according to local media they have started calling it sort of brought on but you have to make sure that the results are going t

will be responsible for security of polling stations across the country on the request of the election commission the fact that . more than three hundred seventy thousand troops are in more of the operation. this election campaign was more bitter than most and some say the dirtiest ever in pakistan. no distinction. is a blow to the defeated you mean looking. begin to build a lego everything. you lead no devoted living is something that had been destroying. those. we could be a colony very many. imran khan's the front runner his promises of change of been clouded by the inclusion of so-called electable politicians who previously won seats for other parties opponents draw parallels between him and members of his party when he criticizes the musharraf family for having children and assets abroad imran khan's also been accused of being the favored candidate of the powerful military establishment an allegation he denies. why can't the international media say there will be a new pakistan after july twenty fifth. the party of no jailed former prime minister has been struggling to contradict the image of

that bucket thought that in south has been winning and they welcome the arrangements made by election commission of pakistan so this whole delegation thing is sort of. the every allegation election of two thousand and eight and who doesn't thirteen we see that some political parties were losing they come up with allegations ok table but i mean the electoral commission has invested heavily as the into state of the new technology that was supposed to help with the with the processing of the of the votes and that seems not to have i mean how do you account for the delay in in having an official count an official result. right. here in pakistan we do all this forces the whole process of election ing in just one day which is a big challenge for election coverage out of pakistan but i think the bigger thing is that if there is a delay election commission of pakistan would certainly be coming up with some strong argument for that if it is a delay i think delay might be there but this allegations of these allegations of irregularities or rigging i think are not justified and we have to accept the mandat

last year to get announcing results and this is the election commission and harare but still no sign of them. there was no breaking nor cheating and the ballot but some observers have raised concerns about the commission's independence have been lining up outside polling booths to see who's ahead in the area present. opposition leader nelson chamisa say they are confident of winning. is also waiting for these results in the capital harare so what's happened we expected these results election commission them said themselves said they would be released an hour ago but now we're not saying why they. needed another thirty minutes before they can start releasing the results they do have this is. probably released in the back problems by province so it will take a while then they'll take a break maybe for a couple of days and then come back with received another batch of results to guarantee. results today both. parties and the opposition m.d.c. is. going to win what we hearing and from indications we've seen from some of the polling agents they say that the ruling partie

minister minister nawaz sharif saying that the polling needs to be extended by an hour the election commission is still deliberating on whether to allow it or not their request is based on the fact that in many polling stations the process of polling is gray's low this therefore many people have not been able to cast their vote so we hope by according to the election commission's announcement it is going to end thirteen energy to be a million one hundred send it by an hour and then results will start coming in from the smaller polling stations and we will see much later into the night when polling centers and polling stations will be compiled into constituencies and results of unofficial results will start coming in and it will be it will not be before friday when the election commission of pakistan announces the final results or follows the day's proceedings with you. to some of thank you let's bring in. parag shah in a some of these the director of the of the ali khan university based dan good to have you with us on the program have you ever witnessed an election seemingly been so polarized

their own and they are bringing seats for them but it is going to be until friday before the election commissionof comes out with the official results so far the counting is under way and there have been concerns raised by political parties and their supporters that if the two asian if the situation does about the rules if the election commission of pakistan does not take notice their supporters might take matters into their own hands. and these two hundred fifty. people have died in islip tanks in the syrian province of sawyer that's according to the province's health department. is held by the government i still still has a presence in the region the attacks come as president bashar al assad's forces continue their offensive on the south and the frontier with the israeli occupied golan heights from the deck or reports a rare attack in the government held town of psuedo syrian state television says a suicide bomber blew himself up in the market and two more attackers were killed before they could detonate their explosives according to the reports. we heard the sounds in the early morning people

well the election commission of pakistan came out in its defense saying that all those parties who have reservations about this particular form it is called form forty five it is the tally of the vote that needs to be given to a polling agent need signatures those have not been given in plain papers but stamps of election commission have been given to these people now it just brings into question the whole impartiality of this election because if polling agents working out if doors were indeed and if seals were broken in their absence then even if there is a recount these political parties allege that there has been some sort of manipulation or rigging of but they have not been clear about what is it that they want the box on this in the new laws the box on people's body the various parties have announced in their individual capacities the religious alliance of the moment they have all announced that they drag ject these results they have been questioning why is there a delay and they have said that they will come together at some point they will have there will be a consultation amongs

the election commission insists that the election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results. him unconscious body has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred day plan but it forms a government the value of the pakistani who pre-history can a news dive in recent weeks there's an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians and on khan's challenges may have already begun even before he sticks in charge of what he promised as a new pakistan simon job it out of the era. so just who is emraan hashmi now sixty five he was rates in lahore by his ethnic pashtun family and became one of pakistan's most famous cricketers as captain of the national team he led pakistan to win the world cup in one nine hundred ninety two he immediately retired from cricket to devote himself to social work he founded the p.t.i. political party and promised to ensure in software justice for all he won his first seat in the national assembly in the two thousand and two general election khan led

before friday prayers that we are expecting however the election commission had the results for eighty percent of the election. in iran. surely hundred ten feet although it is anticipated that the real get over one hundred twenty five feet by the time the final results are announced but to wait and see however. a day in negotiations that party the negotiation with at least five of the party they've also got a number of seats. to be independent and independent candidates. candidates normally range toward the party that gets the maximum war dead that's been the trend dad's all emraan it's really all of them all gone for days but as you rightfully know i mean this is budgets on and on everything is announced or face really and the operators are not kept everything nothing is final of course and one consideration imraan khan has to have thinking about coalition partners kemal is the type of coalition partners pakistan is very diverse country we have very forward thinking people but we also have religious right wing we also have the autocrats. it when you look at the independent groups he m

afraid of the election commission. speed up the process of the ward counting down to patently friend apart because of any communication whatever go all the parties and particularly the religious parties. after all. they have been defeated. and some of them are on or drilling through it kept defeat of course all kind of act your nation against the government some insinuation that micro-managing thing so far rating fall. from the election commission and the mood from the opposition parties are they going to go for more political instability something that this country can order for or are they going to take their word they already the muslim league now watch. mr. happy to go and get in the open. the people. then that created the award and the religious parties might find them isolated we shall have to wait and see all right thank you for that come on let's go live to us on the binge of ages in the capital of punjab province lahore and they do say they are some of that to have a wins in punjab wins the the leadership of t

the religious school and others but the election commission denies there was any foul play. here the complaints that we received procedural in nature and there's no complaints of misconduct in the elections so we are satisfied that the execution of the elections this free. of change and people in pakistan even those who did not vote for him want him to deliver by improving living conditions healing the economy and fighting corruption . whichever government comes it should do good for us we want water gas and electricity. other problems as well they should solve our problems. to form a coalition government but he has promised to fight tooth and nail to save their provincial influence the challenge for the cricketer turned politician is to create an inclusive government and then keep it running for five years so far all the major political parties apart from the have reservations about the results they've called for an all parties conference in the federal capital islamabad it is going to be a numbers game to form a government and does not have those numbers alone the big quest

changes to the legal framework with the new elections act and a stronger and more transparent election commission the electoral process of twenty eighteen was negatively affected by the political environment the number of violent attacks targeting political parties party leaders candidates and election officials severely affected the campaign environment. many of our and to look at to acknowledge the systematic efforts to undermine the former ruling parties through cases of corruption contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and kind of it's frightening to correspondents on this because i'm a binge of eight who is in lahore for us and in the capitalism of a big. come all those objections that are being raised by the european monitors how significant an impact will they have on the way this election result is. this bug astonished and and if you look at the boston anything to go by there already is no objection on the elections that happen in progress don they've already been controversial the opposition had already been shouting fall but as you saw in this latest report by the e

it is terrific there is already a federal elections assistance commission that does help with some of these questions, that does help -- there is now, election infrastructure has been dedicated as critical infrastructure. of an alltill a lack of government response from the top. a lack of urgency in terms of passing the bipartisan legislation which is in the senate, which would help move states toward some of these minimum baseline standards. some states have been taking actions in front of the 2018 elections, which is wonderful. we need to start looking at 2020 and what we need to plan in terms of a secure election. host: based on what you just said and where we are now and where we are moving in 2020, congressman pete sessions is the chair of the house rules committee. this is what he said about the issue. [video clip] funded provided $380 million for the election assistance commission which was a final payment that was made in 2002 of $3.65 billion. 2002, just back in before that, there was an election that many people thought the outcome was wrong. , we would putreed $3.65 billion

next on c-span with the election season underway, the chair and the commissioner of the election assistance commission talked about ways to prevent election corruption. then the meetings that the president had with leaders at the nato summit. after that, president trump holding a news conference taking question about his upcoming visit with russian president vladimir putin. elections in the u.s. this summer, the chair and the commissioner of election assistance commission talked about election security. they talked about efforts be made to prevent cyber security threats, and attempts to corrupt the upcoming election. >> good morning. the committee will come to order. i am grateful that two of our colleagues from the senate will start us off with some observations they have about this critically have an important issue. i am glad that my fellow missourian scott is here. i had a chance to learn more about his growing company, and in this area a few weeks ago and look for to his testimony as i do the testimony of all of the others. this is the second in a series of hearings on election security. as we kn

aspects that the legal framework has definitely been improved thoughts of the confidence in the election commission they have been very communicate if they have contacted civil society organizations and relevant stakeholders so in this area we have seen definitely an improvement but the election environment that was definitely marred by. a situation where the press was. particularly precious and certain journalists and certain media outlets that was different from twenty thirty that was the question as well i have to say such environments lead then to an overall assessment that we that the twenty third. better in regard to their environment also has. meant all. a certain direction towards a former ruling party that that was perceived by many as as targeted. ways and means to the particularly. prospects there's been a lot of talk that the army was behind this meddling you do you point your finger to indeed can you point your finger as an observer well in pakistan when people speak of the as temperament they mean the military establishment that is for the international. when they come to establishmen

warding protests inside the polling booth that people should be given more time however the election commission saying that that was not going to happen this has indeed been a tense election number of people lost many more wounded there have been scuffles between the political parties but one thing that has come out of this despite the criticism of the military forces trying to micromanage things i have also been able to avoid a fair and free election the politicians. from the military everybody and even. because tempers were running hard between the political parties with. our words we were very limited or doubts as to which way this election is going we'll have a clearer idea on thursday morning aaron. over the election commission is going to make up all my lead now about the winners on friday the twenty seventh of july. we can down two to share as part of his also in islamabad he's a director of university thank you for talking to us how confident are you the results when they start coming will be an accurate reflection of the will of the pakistani people. we have yet to see the main battlef

last year, pakistan's election commission refused to accept council election results in the areas noat least 10% of voters must be women in each constituency for an election to be valid. and it's notjust remote and far—flung areas like these where women were barred from voting. here in the heart of punjab, which is the most developed province in the whole country, women were hindered from casting a ballot for over half a century, despite the fact that they had been given the right to vote since the foundation of the state. this young woman wants to vote. men took it away in 1962, after a feud involving women on polling day. it's a sensitive issue, and she doesn't want to reveal her identity. translation: the men of my village don't like to send their women to polling stations. it has almost become a tradition, and there is not a single man strong enough to take a stand and let women from here cast a ballot, because he has to survive in the society too. not a single woman voted in 17 polling stations in the previous election. a local ngo is trying to mobilise women, but getting access

aspects that the legal framework has definitely been improved all of the confidence in the election commission they have been very communicated if they have contacted civil society organizations and relevant stakeholders so in this area we have seen definitely an improvement but the election environment that was definitely marred by. a situation where the press was. particular precious and certain journalists and certain media outlets that was different from twenty thirty that was the question is where they had to say such environments lead them to an overall assessment that we that the twenty third. better in regard to their environment also has. meant all of. a certain direction towards the former ruling party that that was perceived by many as as targeted. ways and means to particularly harm their prospects there's been a lot of talk that the army was behind its meddling you do you point your finger to indeed can you point your finger as an observer well in pakistan when people speak of the as temperament they mean the military establishment that is for the international crowd one day to es

the money is now in the hands of the election commission on the ways to the states. it ought to be used to bolster security. unfortunately it's not clear at all how the election assist tan commission is using the money to do this. my concern, as you and i have talked about, is the states could go out and buy more hackable technology from these tonewalli stonewalling companies. before we conclude, the states of the commissioners who is number two at the commission, commissioner mccormick, also concern me greatly. she stated last year she disagrees with the intelligence community that russia fought to influence the election. you and i have heard again and again it is the view, and senator langford has heard this as well, it is the overwhelming view that russia sought to influence the election. so i can't figure out for me why the number two officials at the elections commission is dismissing the analysis of the government, the administration's intelligence experts. you can set aside the outcome of the 2016 election. no matter who you pulled the lever for the last time a

the president of course has grown gradually did the election commission the election commission. free and fair election under the circumstances given the security detail so as far as the government is concerned it does believe that. time and so that's the situation on the ground so far and i suppose con has a heart to be in task ahead what do we know about how he'll go about coalition building and i know that having to compromise along the way. well not necessarily i mean first of all we are getting that from the old days. madeleine. willing to sit in the open ocean and the. prime minister mr gone up by sea speaking to our. very long. awaited the election. and. indeed decided. we do have the open trying to get together we've got the religious right we're just trying to get together to try and see some sort of agitation and bring the other parties on board that had. produced the needed dollars. and are going to accept the election results because many or. ruled this country for decades have been thrown out by the electorate and they said of course the new electorate and new phenom

well i'm outside the election commission. electioneering campaigning of game two and the election commission of august on it saying that they have distributed that ballot bowl clinic cross country very high i think yoder g. or more to eight hundred. eight million new for that election and it is going to be the most expensive election and budgets on the history made saying i did it is going to cost. two elections or to get that indeed everything in that million. have deployed that security force to all the areas where they are going to be acquired and all the ballot box have been moved to the boiling station of course to a speculation as to who might win it's a close election. get small members of parliament elected of course will become the prime minister but what's have been the tangible issues that the candidates have been discussing with the potential electorate. well the big issue of. me the rupee which. he has taken and. the outgoing government has borrowed. from the international organization is doubling the national de

the election commission insists that the election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results in one khan's party has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred new plan when it formed a government. the value of the pakistani rupee has deacon unnerves dive in recent weeks there's an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians imaan khan's challenges may have already begun even before he's taken charge of what he promised as a new pakistan. law or pakistanis are still waiting for a government a coalition will have to be formed because no party has won a clear majority but the shock on him has more on the transformation of imran khan from cricket captain to political leader. imran khan has lived many lives he's been a world cup cricketer a philanthropist and a long time opposition leader for two decades he's tried to disrupt pakistan's entrenched political system often plagued by corruption scandals now as the leader of the largest political party he's poised to become

mark that they very fit the strength is that on the top price also complement the pakistan election commission for how it's organized v.c.s. election now there's also lots of talk about the minority candidate. running and pakistan's general assembly sets aside sixty seats for women and ten for non muslims that includes hindus christians and sikhs as well as smaller groups but this year we're also seeing many minority candidates and women running for the remaining two hundred and seventy two seats general seats which are directly elected now a record one hundred seventy one women are campaigning for those seats this year that may be partly because of the elections x. passed in october and it says five percent of general assembly candidates from each postie party must be women there are also five transgender women running for general assembly as well for those seats and transgender people have long faced harassment in pakistan they can struggle to find jobs as well but the government passed a new law in may to outlaw discrimination against transgender people and guarantee them basic rights of th

the election commission insists that the election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results in mankind's party has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred new plan when it formed a government. the value of the pakistani to be history can a nosedive in recent weeks there is an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians imran khan's challenges may have already begun even before he can charge of what he promised as a new pakistan. israeli forces have reopened the gates of the mosque compound in occupied east jerusalem after closing them for several hours on friday the soldiers stormed the compound firing tear gas and stun grenades two palestinians including a fourteen year old boy have been killed in the latest friday protests at the gaza israel barrier both were shot in the head by israeli soldiers gaza health officials say at least another two hundred forty five people were injured syrian government forces have recaptured the southern city of the israeli occupied

changes to the legal framework with the new elections act and a stronger and more transparent election commission the electoral process of twenty eighteen was negatively affected by the political environment the number of violent attacks targeting political parties leaders candidates and election officials severely affected the compay environment. many of our and to look at to acknowledge the systematic efforts to undermine the former ruling parties through cases of corruption contempt of court and terrorist charges against its leaders and candidates as on the vinge of it is and will who are for us and in the capital islamabad we have come all higher so we're going to go to call first so. assessment from those observers what what might it mean for the official results if anything at all where obviously the strong state mean bard as far as the election commission of paul get on is concerned they've already issued a statement saying it were fair and free election the president had already gradually everybody forwarding the election in fact just a little why in a go the outgoing prime minister gonna

has been fraud so sure east party is principally concerned about a technical glitch with the election commission of pakistan's vote rigging voting process but actually the real driver of the of the of these allegations is really the mistrust between sharif's party and the military the two bodies of the military and the party have had a long running confrontation particularly since twenty thirteen and there's a history between sharif's and the military's constant interventions in politics stemming from one thousand nine hundred ninety nine thousand and specifically. now the opposition as we're saying you know it's repeatedly claiming that the military is backing on and you say that the military has been accused of interference or how much influence does it really have been pakistan and why is that. so the military has a number of sources of influence of firstly it is remains very popular with the general population but secondarily the military has shown an demonstrated inclination for direct intervention so it really has the ability to remove any sitting government and the time it wants so that's

the election commission insists that the election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results in one cons body has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred day plan when it forms a government. the value of the pakistani rupee history can unnerves dive in recent weeks there's an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians iran khan's challenges may have already begun even before he's taken charge of what he promised as a new pakistan common job with al-jazeera lahore pakistan is are still waiting for a government a coalition will have to be formed because no party has won a clear majority natascha going to aim has more on the transformation of a monk khan from cricket captain to political leader. imran khan has lived many lives he's been a world cup cricketer a philanthropist and a longtime opposition leader for two decades he's tried to disrupt pakistan's entrenched political system often plagued by corruption scandals now as the leader of the largest political part

election in the next hour or two we're expecting the official final count to be announced by the election commission but khan's main opponents allege she benefited from massive vote rigging we're going live to islamabad in a moment but first a somber binge of it has the latest from lahore. supporters of pakistan tehreek e insaf party celebrated their victory even before results were announced initial vote tally gave in the party a decisive leads on honey i'm getting a borehole khan has promised a lot of the people the huge number of votes the people gave him is because he can do what i must fail to do you should deliver his promises why should do a lot for the masses should deliver now otherwise his situation will be worse than that of our sharif and the dari. his supporters voted for change and after twenty two years in politics it finally worked for their leader. i'm thankful to god for the twenty two year struggle today god has given me the opportunity that i have dreamt of a dream for pakistan accountability will start with me then my ministers and then we will work our way down. but the vote co

a level playing field for all parties concerned now the announcement comes after pakistan's election commission officially declared him drunk on the winner of the country's election in lung cancer. paul whose are celebrating the victory but results show that his spark is something a leaky party who failed to win an outright majority and need to form a coalition to govern so far iran can sparty has one hundred and fourteen seats are out of to sixty nine with counting nearly complete his nearest rival sharbat sharif from the governing pakistan muslim league in sixty three seats. a chorus for a new me congress is covering the spikes on the elections for us and joins me now from the capital islamabad official results are now in iran can has been declared the winner of the election what is the opposition saying will it accept the result . well last night they were still saying that they were thinking of mobilizing the masses and taking to the streets but today things have calmed down i mean me parties that when now probably opposition parties are meeting here in islamabad they'll let us nato tonight

in particular had to say about this. the election commission in particular had to say about thism couldecause after a ll khan himself, could an end? because after all being against corruption was very much the central point of his campaign. absolutely. that is why i said that he has to come out in his party has to come out and make a statement about this and make the claims that will prove their righteousness to the people who voted him in, to say that yes, we are hearing what you are saying and we are going to look into this process and we are going to see what the results are, because you're absolutely right, that the opposition parties can take to the streets and do the turnout that his party did in return, to say well, what you did before we can do now and we can bring the country to a standstill and save this election has not been fair. but from the reports also that have come and, it seems that the election omission is performed better than it did last yearin performed better than it did last year in terms of how it randy election, but there have been issues of course there was al

spectrum of political parties see that this is a flawed system of vote count they rejected the election commission has stolen the mandate from them and they're right now meeting to figure out a future course of action to try and salvage the results of this election because according to the box. they see that it was a three pronged rigging process at first people who were part of their party were broken off by coersion then there was the delay and the actual voting process was still down and then they see that the results were compiled behind closed doors and the appalling agents were not allowed inside right now we have just spoken to some leaders who say that the concentration within the party as well as trying to negotiate with other political parties to try and find out what will be the best course of action going forward because of course a damage to any kind of tarnished election result doesn't bode well does it for the unity of the country so there's there's quite a challenge to overcome for the authorities in pakistan. absolutely and you you saw that in the speech as well he knows the threa

accused the ruling party of attempting to rig the vote by delaying the official results the election commission has rejected these claims and says it needs more time to count the ballots for the vote count is also still underway in mali's presidential election violent attacks disrupted voting in many polling stations across the country the european union has called on the authorities to provide a list of the worst affected areas. we're turning now into northern iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from so-called islamic state when it swept through the region are yes targeted minorities like the z.t. don't follow the islamic faith militants killed or kidnapped and enslaved thousands of yes scenes and even now the group is still recovering from what the united nations describes as a genocide or returning and starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital singe are or shingle as it's known in kurdish because it's a show traveled there and brings us this exclusive report. seeing on the capital of the yes you to slice in ruin

held on a warm welcome to you i'm honored cheema in pakistan the election commission has officially declared cricket legend and charismatic politician imraan khan the winner of the country's election in non-con supporters are celebrating the victory the results showed that beattie i possibly fear to win an outright majority i need to form a coalition to govern even don khan's botching the pakistan tehreek e insaf has won one hundred fourteen out of two hundred sixty nine seats were. counting nearly complete his nearest rival shahbaz sharif from the government pakistan muslim league one sixty three. chorus for a near me conrad is covering the spikes on the elections for us and joins me now from the capital islamabad the official results are now in iran can this be declared the winner of the election what is the opposition saying we'll accept the result. well last night they were still saying that they were thinking of mobilizing the masses and taking to the streets but today things have calmed down i mean the main parties the way in now probably opposition parties are meeting here in islamaba

officially the boycott was averted cambodia's national election commission claims about eighty percent of registered voters cast their vote the opposition however believes that number is inflated former opposition leader sam rainsy now living in exile tweeted that no credible election observer would confirm an election process that was quote falsified from the outset. for a majority of cambodians unsent is the only leader they've known he began his career as a military commander for cambodia's camaro rouge but as the regime carried out genocide on its own people don't send defected to vietnam to help overthrow his own government he was named prime minister of cambodia in one thousand nine hundred five when he lost the country's first elections in one thousand nine hundred three he dismissed the results and refused to step down from thirty three years after his career began he remains at the helm. but that. was before there were so many competitors but now there's just one. tell me i hope this country in the future will have a real democracy not fake. vote counting is under way though m

the election commission insists that the election was transparent but it failed to keep its promise that it would quickly announce the official results in mankinds party has agreed to investigate allegations of rigging and fraud it also unveiled an ambitious hundred new plan when it formed a government. the value of the pakistani rupee history can unnerves dive in recent weeks there's an agitation movement brewing amongst opposition politicians in one khan's challenges may have already begun even before he's taken charge of what he promised as a new pakistan common job with al-jazeera lahore pakistanis are still waiting for a government a coalition will have to be formed because no party has won a clear majority to touch going to a much more in the transformation of imran khan from cricket captain to political leader. imran khan has lived many lives he's been a world cup cricketer a philanthropist and a long time opposition leader for two decades he's tried to disrupt pakistan's entrenched political system often plagued by corruption scandals now as the leader of the largest political pa