any other use, the federal election commission allowed them to do it. until 2008, they did not even exist in law. they existed in reality but the law did not recognize them until then. host: are there now restrictions on who they can raise money from or how much they can raise? there is plenty of those kinds of restrictions on the usual campaign committees. guest: on the campaign committees they do still have the limits on how much these leadership pacs can accept and there are limits on how much an individual can give and one another -- and what another pac can give. there are no limits on what the leadership pac can give out and spend. there are reporting requirements. you can see all the money that is coming in. $5,000 or $10,000 or $2700 from an individual -- those get reported to the federal election commission, and you can see -- if you take the time -- where the money goes. host: if i have a leadership pac, is there a limit on how much you can give me? guest: there are limits. the amount of money i can give your pac is the same amount i can give

party was certain of the well i cannot say we were in the presidential election until his quote filmed by the electoral commission but just by their votes. you did see their political elections will tend to be inconceivable and reasonable for anyone to think that we could win two thirds majority in the parliamentary election and then proceed to lose the presenter election it is quite clear that just going by that logic alone we must have won the presidential election but we are waiting for sick to confirm. and that was paul a spokesman for zimbabwe's ruling zandu p.f. party speaking with us earlier tonight here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world an international delegation has arrived in north kivu province in the democratic republic of congo to help combat an outbreak of ebola twenty people have died so far it comes just a week after another outbreak in the northwest of the d.r. c. was declared over pope francis hasn't changed the catholic church's teaching on the death penalty declaring that it is now prohibited in all cases the church had previously allowed for capital p

election process. not only i think twenty four hours after. you'd expect a mix and commission managed to comment on the election results and. getting transmitted to the national tallies sent to. not have happened and the question was what's going on and we've been blazing this at the electoral commission now as we speak for mission has been issuing out. for house of assembly elections and i've given to them has been. the result of what i've been declared to the constituent center why not just proceed to announce the presidential designs reship not yet been. seem to amount to that. that it would have been declared any. regulations in terms of elections should be election results should be handled. when moved from the polling station to the workplace and send them to the constituent percent that. probably at the. end when they get to the national center what should happen is that the president should be the ones that. we have not yet been. given they didn't intend to. by this time. would have been that now this is something that to we. we think it plays a question that i'm trans

thread of the last election or won the election are all going to congregate in front of the election commission for a protest because they have said that this will be a peaceful protest and they have called for the resignation of the election commissioner could this damage imran com well at the moment imran khan is in a strong correlation it is unlikely to have an effect on his government however there are some complications because some of the election results have been rigged . there's a recount going on there by the emraan sparge years gone further and that they have the numbers they have got the independents on their side and it is expected that he really be taking all this one here to prove they are the leader of the house the opposition of god is also going to field a candidate for the leader of the house and it's going to be a tough fight inside parliament the opposition also saying that they will continue this protest both inside and outside parliament come out thanks very much. turkey's announced it will keep buying natural gas from iran despite the new sanctions push from the united s

afghan city of jalalabad others were injured after attackers detonated explosives in near the election commission office dozens of protesters had gathered in support of a parliamentary candidate who was disqualified over suspected ties to armed groups of parliamentary election. now turkey's foreign minister is warning against a possible syrian government offensive in a province it is the last remaining opposition stronghold and also the world's biggest cluster and an elite displaced people a military operation will put millions of lives at risk said of course the owner of a port city. nearly three million people are trapped in the northwest. of syria's largest remaining rebel held area if the government launches a full scale attack two and a half million syrians could try to flee to the turkish border that's been a factor list sealed since two thousand and fifteen. many here are now preparing themselves for the worst case scenario. of why should i be scared assad has already been killing us for seven years our families brothers and sisters even the children it does no difference i did mama dummy

leader has rejected what he calls unverified fake results of the presidential election doesn't condemn the electoral commission after embassy mother merged as the winner is now calling for peace and unity while these presidential election is set to go to a runoff on august the twelve after no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced provisional results were that president abraham katter winning forty one percent rival somalia came second with seventeen percent. undecided led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an airstrike in his data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a port fishing port and fish markets near the main hospital if the rebels say fifty five people died. because he was present daniel ortega is taking unprecedented action in order to question a nationwide uprising against him a new antiterrorism law target students and demonstrators who take part in street protests are latin america editor lucien newman has more from the capital. until a few weeks ago twenty year old man was a familiar face on the streets of managua a massive anti

commission we're going to listen in right now to see how far they are in announcing these presidential election results. for you. these. it's not that. you are. here. because we just want to. pictures of the zimbabwe electoral commission in the presidential winner and it appears right now that each member of that commission is going through each of the constituencies of the country we will come back to this story a little bit later on when the numbers firm up in the presidential election result . well here in germany the summer scorching heat wave has depleted some of the country's most iconic water ways rivers is such as the rhine and the elbow are at far lower levels than usual and that is wreaking havoc for boats big and small take a look. only a few pleasure boats are still out on the river elba in dresden bigger boats can't sail water levels have dropped to forty six centimeters here about one and a half metres lower than normal. we should be up to our knees in water here but students need smaller vessels were still able to operate until recently but now they're going nowhere the. older bo

iswould urge the election commission to puthe results credibly and completely to dispel this. tobut their delay is addin very tense situation. laura: wasn't this supposed to be such a moment of promise for ymbabwe, finally moving a from the era of robert mugabe? peter: think that is what the people of zimbabwe were hoping for, and what many in the international community were hoping for, that with a credible, free election, one that reflected the will of the people, that the internatial community health zimbabwe put this chapter behind it and move forward. with the scenes we are seeing now, that will be difficult. laura: and yete with adow of robert mugabe looming large over all ofst this, is st of the process part of his legacy? peter: it is certainly part ofle higacy, as well as the action of the military and police.e theyconditioned to brutality and violence over so many years.rt i'm ceain that the presidentng lymerson mwa did not want what he apparentlaims to be his victory or will be claiming as victory to be tainted this way. but after years of coning, one should not be

elections going to go to a runoff after no candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced provincial results with president if it came with a cock a to winning forty one percent his rivals ceasing came second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence in thousands of polling stations some election convoys were targeted by gunman or mohamed vall joining us on the phone from bamako mohammed how much of a surprise is it that the president hasn't won enough votes. rob it's not quite a surprise to many here because mahdi has always seen its election and when you think you've gone so that's your position has been gaining a lot of momentum going in the last couple of years remember. the opposition last year those big rallies last basically by position parties have been able to force president to buy a bucket he tried to withdraw from the constitutional amendment that he wanted to introduce so that was like a big win for the opposition party. and they built on the momentum coming up to the selection so my. y

jalalabad four others were injured after attackers detonated explosives near the offices of the election commission dozens of protesters had gathered there in support of apology candidate he'd been disqualified because of suspected ties to armed groups afghanistan's parliamentary election is due in october. that china says it is serious e concerned about u.s. allegations it is partly responsible for a lack of progress in denuclearization talks with north korea on friday u.s. president donald trump said a planned visit by his secretary of state to pyongyang would be delayed announcing the move on twitter trump accused beijing of easing pressure on north korea following the start of a trade war between china and the us south korea has cooled trump's decision unfortunate she have returns he has more from washington. just a few days ago doldrum been pretty upbeat about negotiations with north korea telling reuters that pyongyang had taken steps towards denuclearization of missile testing and stalled and he was looking forward to another summit with north korea however house to be said might compare as

from election commission. who want to sponsible for the rigged elections. but the people of baghdad don't have warded for change many of the big all the gods who have been ruling this country for decades have suffered a humiliating defeat they don't have any option. for people like drop by get done they have blocked roads which had led to a long traffic jam and no doubt why bring the government down even before it gets taken over a photo journalist detained in bangladesh is back in police custody after being given the all clear in a medical exam shadow has accused police of torturing him in jail where he's been since sunday he was detained i was doing an interview with al jazeera about anti government protests human rights watch is calling for an investigation into allegations that he was abused or bangladesh has information minister says it was not detained for his journalism. he has been a student of sutton towns of which we are looking into it but as of today he will produce to the court the courtroom he said what will happen to him but he has not really

candidate secured fifty percent of the vote election commission announced provincial results with president. winning forty one percent. with seventeen percent millions of people. but the vote was marred by violence and polling stations and some election convoys were targeted. the saudi led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an airstrike in hyundai that killed at least twenty six people who think rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the un special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end the three year old civil war. the health ministry of democratic republic of congo says it's identified the strain of a ball in the country's latest outbreak medics say it's the czar years strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past and international team is in the town of beni in northern kebo with a outbreak was detected on white and state twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and four others are ill take giant apple has become the first company to hit a valuation of one trillion dollars in the u.s. stock markets th

wanting garak was an election victory last month claiming it was rigged moron and can't quote replace him bob ways veteran ruler robert mccarthy in november last year. the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote. i would like to guarantee you that we have a very strong case and we are going to overturn this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised we are going to defend yourselves our voice the people's what this involvement was. that. post-election clashes have already resulted in a number of people being killed including sylvia my foes a mother of two. although many zimbabweans are hopeful this case will put an end to the violence and uncertainty there's no guarantee that these judges will change anything. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the afghan government have said it will not send a delegation to moscow for a russian brokered peace conference with the taliban next month a spokesman for the afghan government telling that it will only take part in talks initiated by itself the u.s. has also canceled its participation hundreds of elderly koreans hav

listen wanting gant was an election victory last month claiming it was rigged moron and replace him bob ways veteran ruler robert mugabe in november last year. the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote. i would like to guarantee you that we have a very strong case and we have a way to overturn this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised we are going to defend you know force our force the people's fault this in but with what i . post election clashes have already resulted in a number of people being killed including sylvia my phone a mother of two. although many zimbabweans are hopeful this court case will put an end to the violence and uncertainty there's no guarantee that these judges will change anything. for in recent months italy has tightened its border controls nelle spain has become the main just a nation for african migrants trying to reach europe and one in three point in spain's and northern african on claims of. hundreds of migrants have stormed fences in a bid to enter european territory at least one hundred fifty people managed to cross and in a bid to hinder more from entering t

of congo opposition member has been told he cannot run in december's presidential election election commission says it's reject his application because he was convicted by the international criminal court of tampering with witnesses member who is seen as a possible front runner returned home to take part in the vote after serving a decade in prison for war crimes he can still appeal against the decision head of the election harry for hovan is a professor of government at georgetown university cata he says it's likely the opposition could look at solutions outside of the courtroom. it's extremely unlikely that this will result in anything productive from his from his you print but then this was always going to be the case i mean the electoral commission which is supposedly independent has long been painted by ben burned by his supporters as deeply partisan as coming up with inflammatory statements of inflammatory rules so what is most likely to happen is indeed supporters will take to the streets and will seek to find other ways extra legal ways to try to shape this this election this process p

afghan city of jalalabad four others were injured after attack as detonated explosives near the election commission office dozens of protesters have gathered their support of a parliamentary candidate who was disqualified over suspected ties to armed groups afghans will vote in a parliamentary election in october. they've been protests in the iraqi city of basra where hundreds of people are in hospital after drinking contaminated water iraq's government has launched an investigation into the mass poisoning but residents in the oil rich city say it's just the latest example of basic services being neglected some of binge of aid has more. people in basra have been uploading videos of what comes out of the water tanks contaminated water which appears to be unusable and unsafe some have conducted particle tests on their own and see the water being provided is not fit for drinking hundreds of people have been treated in hospitals in the last few days but stomach related complaints including aches and diarrhea said there are many poisoning cases my own family members have been affected and when i took th

turbulent days there mustn't mungo what has been declared as the winner by the then bob greene election commission do you think he bring about democracy in the country as he's promised. you know what it's for me it's difficult to tell what exactly it is mind but i can tell you what it is that he's expected to do as a new president he has to obey defend and fulfill the constitution so he has to do that in order to quell all these doubts about the capacity of zanu p.f. . to actually transform itself because this has been underlying issue that has been . for the last fifty years and even in the past elections there's a tremendous amount of skepticism about whether. an african problem transcends across the continent about how. change its spots so in this case he has to he's got to show that indeed he does have good intentions and have the capacity to deliver what was one of his close to deliver. zimbabweans want to. show that he can do that but the skepticism jessie is highest in the party the m.d.c. the leader of the m.d.c. the movement for democratic change nelson chamisa has described these electio

monday's vote these are live pictures from the capital harare of opposition supporters the election commission says the invalid p.f. won a majority of seats in parliament. elections were competitive. due to painful selection peaceful and overall political freedoms during the campaign including treat them as a movement assembly and speech the respected well of them is usual state reasons resources instances of creation and interests of intimidation parties in behavior by traditional leaders and over all but biased in state media all in favor of the ruling party meant that a truly little playing field was not yet achieved in other news congolese former rebel leaders on poor bemba has returned to a welcome from hundreds of supporters in the capital kinshasa bemba was convicted of war crimes of the hague but freed in may after an appeal in almost a one and long delayed elections shadowed for december catherine sawyer has more from can chasa. many many of the places accompanied him they polices whilst we're accompanying him there is a lot of security presence here he not only warning i may not be s

or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first in the afghan election history meanwhile the city of gaffney iran one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between. afghan forces official reports say hundreds are being killed on both sides facing again has more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghan government. the minister of interior said that confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the taliban in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i have. heard from some local source

some of the main salient points they still want to the authorities in zimbabwe the zimbabwe election commission to release the results of the presidential vote they also critical of the excessive force used by security forces and also question the a partiality of the election commission we will have more on this in half an hour to stay with us here on alt. corrupt officials have been ousted. and the activists of the chinese village of cam take center stage and on the precedented local elections. in the first of a remarkable series filmed of the five years al-jazeera documents of a village committed. rebels to politician. wanna be china's democracy experiment and i have to say. i am for me ok and you are in the stream today why is the us government run detention center at guantanamo bay is still open we explore why years after nine eleven some people remain jailed at the facility despite never being charged with any crime imo they could be and we are now live on you tube still leave your comments in the shop for us to include in the conversation this morning i watch president obama talking about

favor where would that leave the election commission. it is interesting if that is to happen there literal commission at the moment there were so many complains that we were brought by the opposition before the commission . prior to the threat of july elections and they were you know bringing up a lot of issues that they were complaining about and some were acted upon in some way ignored and then if the court is to over ten. election it will leave the election electoral commission with an egg on the face because some of the things that the opposition would claim we're claiming would then hold water but then what the process what will happen now is that. if the court overturns the result there will be sixty days in which the electoral commission is compelled to call for a fresh election in which the two leading candidates in muscle managua and nelson chamisa who have to contend tend again for their presidential seat and while the political wrangling goes on we know that six people died in post-election violence i wonder what ordinary zimb

party of president emerson has rigged the results of monday's elections the election commission denies any wrongdoing. soldiers firing live rounds and zimbabwe's capital. the army into the streets of harare midafternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampage however the protesters claim they didn't start the violence. it was going on. i just want to emphasize the demonstration that. the crackdown came after a day of protest in the capital people were taken to the streets to protest a delay in the release of the results of presidential polling. crowds gathered outside the offices of the country's electoral commission to demand the release and things quickly turned violent the electoral commission called for patience verifying the vote was more complicated than expected the commission chairwoman said the unusually high number of candidates was causing delays in the verification process. but a spokesman for the opposition said the s

election assistance commission. the honorable maggie oliver, secretary of state from new mexico, the honorable rick c hatch, auditor of weber county, utah. welcome pursuant to committee rules of laughter diminishment of don't ask you to please stand and racial right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] you may sit down. there's a lighting system that will help you. you may rest assured that your opening statements are in the possession of every member and it will be red city state are able to summers remarks in five minutes that would be great. with that, mr. krebs, you are recognized. >> thank you. chairman gowdy, ranking member cummings, and members of the committee thank you for today's opportunity to testify regarding the department of homeland security ongoing efforts to assist state and local election officials, those who own and operate election system with improving the resilience of election security across america. today's rate is timely, as primary elections are winding down and election officials have time to

or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of land grabbing and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first in the afghan election history let's stay in afghanistan because the city of around one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between taliban and afghan forces official reports say hundreds have been killed on both sides facing again has more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghanistan government minister of interior. confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield. with the taliban in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i hav

commission they were displaced by the police move now to. a party headquarters in harare water trucks are being deployed. as well but they determined to stay out there and they insist on the. election observers from the african union for the site and. voting according to the peaceful. opposition of the regularities. commission to release as soon as possible. time to avoid suspicion and commission to allow people living abroad to have a chance to vote. to make an announcement in a few minutes time on the. point and so what happens as we wait for international observers to pass their verdict if the. day along with the election commission maintain that one all the opposite opposition can say. no they say they won't and they believe the. results which they say show that the nelson has won this election they say the fact that. a lot of parliament to see some rural areas they say doesn't mean that. there is some people are intimidated into voting for design and they say they feel that this election was stolen was going to happen is that. will give another briefing they will. remaining parliamentary. the presidential results i don't know how long that is going to take it could be very qui

good to have you with us at this hour zimbabwe's election commission is releasing the results of the presidential vote from monday announcements started about an hour ago and is expected. in. to friday ahead of the announcement both the ruling party and its major opposition rival the movement for democratic change have signaled victory the vote sparked a deadly crackdown on protests over alleged vote rigging and we will have more on this story a little bit later on in the program we want to go on to some other stories that are making headlines around the world speaking at a press conference a senior u.s. intelligence officials say that they continue to see efforts from russia to interfere with the upcoming congressional elections they also assured americans that president dublin trump is directing a quote vast government wide effort to protect the process pope francis has changed the catholic church is teaching on the death penalty declaring that it is now for habited in all cases the church had previously allowed for capital punishment in certain instances but francis called those t

has rejected what he calls unverified fake results of the presidential election nelson chamisa condemned the electoral commission. emerged as the winner but the guy is now calling for peace and unity has more from harare. after days of tension the window opposite bobbies presidential election is finally declared the end for what. party is there for julie declared elected president of the republic of zimbabwe with effect from the third of august twenty eighth to. opposition supporters are not happy some try to announce their own results saying they have evidence the election was rigged. jackets. that election officials deny the allegations of fraud so to do supporters of the ruling party it's unfortunate and that's raising these claims because there are procedures that. that if you claim that you have been rigged you can operate the courts the streets of our area car by tens after violence on wednesday when soldiers dispersed opposition supporters who say the vote was stolen some shops and businesses will close of the day as people waited to see what would happen next the police have taken away opposition support

headquarters the ruling party you have a major five star hotel here the election commission offices also here that's the zanu p.f. headquarters with a big banner of the current president in a seven hundred one he's confident he's won this election and then that side with the army truck is that is the way the electoral commission building is and people have been trying to get into that place but what it hasn't been allowed so a lot of important buildings in this area you can understand why authorities want to try and make sure nothing is destroyed in the area for the ordinary zimbabweans watching this the last time they saw soldiers on the street was in november last year when army tanks army vehicles rolled into the city up to some roads and eventually after a few days we saw them force robert mugabe to resign and then people came out to celebrate and enjoy the fact that the army help remove robert mugabe but now things are different this tension now because people don't know what is going to happen next right now as you can see it's just so distraught.

significant doubts whether the government is really committed to any free and fair elections the election commission is not a a strong independent body the administration is highly politicized the political parties at the moment confrontation in any independent way so it's difficult to see how in december or so when the elections take place that the people will get of preach oyster voting to some extent i mean if they have it one should make these david i'm sorry to david it's very interrupt you it's just that we're almost out of time i want to throw one last question to omar omar from your vantage point and we only have about a minute left can we expect to see more more protests going forward. well i mean i think it is or has been i mean we need to see the streets again and. i'm going to push and we think she has a lot of goodwill towards. the response that those words showed was indeed movements and susan as the so they do to really enjoy. these situations time going around in the audience. as we've seen well all right we're going to have to leave it there thank you so much to all our guests are a

or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having a responsible man process is. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first african election history . meanwhile the city of cause me which is about one hundred fifty one letter southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between taliban and afghan forces official reports say hundreds have been killed on both sides so again as more details on the newest taliban threat facing the afghan government minister of interior said. confirmed the death of seventy security forces in battlefield two with the. in gaza that has been taking place since four days but also i have. heard from some local sources in

any other use, the federal election commission or allow them to do. 2008, they did not even exist inthey existed in reality but the law did not recognize them until then. host: are there now restrictions on who they can raise money from or how much they can raise? guest: on the campaign committees they do still have the limits on how much these leadership pacs can accept that you have limits on how much an individual can give and one pacher -- and what another can give. there are no limits on what the leadership pac can give out and spend. there are reporting requirements. you can see all the money that .s coming in those get reported to the federal election commission, and you can see where the money goes. host: if i have a leadership pac, is there a limit on how much you can give me? guest: there are limits. the amount of money i can give your pac is the same amount i can give your campaign committee or another pac. if you have an authorized campaign committee, let's say you're running for congress and you have your campaign committee, let's say i am the i give you $5,000 for your

for the parliamentarian elections they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and he killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible or man process in. the same way and they were accusing the government of . the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's it's a first in the afghan election history. regularly while the. mean which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital of clashes

election. condemned the electoral commission after it was the milingo emerged as the winner they were going to court the calling for peace and unity well these presidential election is to go to the twelve no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission those provisional results with president. winning forty one percent rival somalia came second with seventeen. the saudi led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out airstrikes in her data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a fishing port and fish market near the main hospital who the rebels say fifty five people died. the is the head of the fishermen union in her data he accuses the coalition of targeting civilians say that in fact that the targeting of fishermen was not expected the port and market were full of people there was a massacre at least twenty five people were killed and forty others were injured we believe more fishermen were killed in the sea near the port fishermen were targeted by the coalition everywhere the gate of the hospital and the fishing port are not a military target and the

election was rigged. pleasese rated its headquarters- police raided its headquarters today. the commission is set to release official results within minutes. also coming up -- >> i begged of them, but they started attacking us more viciously. my husband was lying dead in front of me. after that i lost consciousness. brent: an exclusive report on a series of attacks o by far right gangs on the roma community in ukraine. what is fueling the violence? travel becomes the first u.s. company to top $1 trillion in market value -- apple becomes the first u.s. company to top $1 trillion in market value, the latest milestone for a company that began in a garage 42 years ago. breaking through the great firewall of china -- google is portedly working on a cenensored search engine for the chinese market. google for china wood block controversial terms and websites not approved by the communist party. brent: i'm brent goff. it is good to have you with us. tonight the capital of zimbabwe is on lockdown. the entire country bracing for the announcement of the presidential election results. some of what's -

none of the donors in the 2012 john edwards case face any legal issues and the federal election commission ruled payments were not campaign contributions that had to be reported. both facts prosecutors tried to suppress at trial. why is it different from michael cohen? why he pleads guilty to these charges if that is how it worked out in this case? >> i think it is different with respect when you are talking about the candidate versus somebody who donates to the candidate. and donald trump's instance what i would say is his best defense is the government couldn't possibly prove beyond reasonable doubt that he violated campaign-finance law. one of the charges at the very least out of the two that are leveled against cohen and the charges he pled guilty to earlier this week donald trump couldn't possibly commit it because they are two different charges that are very different in nature against cohen. one is that he made excessive campaign contributions, he exceeded the $2700 limit that applies to individuals making campaign contributions, that doesn't apply to the president. he doesn't have

the parliamentarian elections they were they were gathering out in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from the civilians who were nearby also killed and two others wounded but this may you know the protests against they are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been at. since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first afghan election history meanwhile list city of gallons in which is around one hundred fifty kilometers south west of the capital is facing so

opposition has rejected what it calls unverified fake results of the presidential election nelson chamisa then the electoral commission to the ruling zanu p.f. anderson with emerged as the winner but again calling for peace and unity another potential candidate for the democratic republic of congo's presidential election in december is confronting problems to exiled opposition leader. has been blocked from entering the country at the zambia border it comes a day after a former rebel leader submitted his bid to join the race. more than one hundred thirty thousand people have been ordered to shelters around shanghai time for engine dari news china has raised its time for an alert level at least one hundred fifty flights have already been counseled an outdoor activities suspended in july cools outages to thousands of homes in japan those were the headlines here and as of next it's inside story to stay with us. uncertainty and zimbabwe there have been protests and violence after a tightly contested presidential election the military is on the streets and a tense situation may be about to get worse so what chance is there

for the parliamentarian elections they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we had another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first african election history meanwhile the city of gosney which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fierc

or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having a responsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of manipulating the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first india. election history yeah we also know the parliamentary elections they are happening in october on there the fear that that a toxin this could exacerbate that's that's a big fear we also are hearing that there was fierce fighting boule today the last number of days what do we know about that so. i just i was just hearing. the press conference by minister of interior minister of defense they were specifically talking about clashes in gaza need to minister of interior said that confirmed the death of seventy security force

the president and the country's election commission deny foul play.he court said it would deliver a rulingg on friday. >> a mid tigight sececurity, zimbabwe's constitutional court has become the stage for the countrtrs latestt political showdown. all u.s. are on the nine judges who must decide whether to throw the case out, declare a new presidential winner, or order a fresh election. >> they must do it in good faith so that eveveryone must be satisfied after the ruling of the courts, no matteter which party is it or no matter which candidate is it. reporter: the opposition party is challenging president emmersonon mnangagwa's electctin victory last month, claiming it was rigged. mnangagwa replaced robert mugabe in november last year. the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over 50% of the vote. >> i'd like to guarantee you that we have a very strong case and we are going to over-tend this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised you. we are going to defend your voice, the zim babwan voice. reporter: post el

presidential election will go to a runoff after no candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced early results with president evo hymn book akeda winning forty one percent rival somalia sisi came second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots and sunday but the vote was marred by violence and thousands of polling stations and some election convoys were targeted by gunmen. beside a large coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an airstrike in hard data that killed at least twenty six people the strike at a fishing port and a fish markets near the main hospital there who think rebels say fifty five people died meanwhile the u.n. special envoy for yemen is convening a new round of talks in the latest bid to end the three year old civil war. the health ministry of democratic republic of congo's says it's identified the strain of a bullet in the country's latest outbreak medics say it's desire years strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past an international team is in the town of benny in north kivu where the outbreak was det