with the original ballot which president putin with 39 really won but mostly called once the electoral commission to cancel the results of this 2nd vote and call a 3rd election. monitoring events from zimbabwe's capital. plazas to close when wasn't too much of a surprise since people voted in choose days presidential rerun different polling agents had been doing their own tally they had unofficial results which clearly show that she clearly was in the lead although waiting for was for the later commission to officially announce just by how much she'd won and he won by 58.5 percent of the votes that he is now the president elect and it's expected he's going to be sworn in on sunday in the capital a long way he's in his mid sixty's he's a former pasta he's the son of poor farmers in malawi he's a university graduate and he has managed throughout his campaign trying to galvanize especially the youth and he's promising them that when he became when he becomes president he's going to focus on poverty create jobs and fight corruption and the say this is a big deal for africa a continent sometimes known

really the court stepping in to say that the elections were not run properly and then the electoral commission returning a different result in the rerun. the president elect is promising to fight corruption and create jobs are to be sworn into office a country of roughly 80000000 people will be watching him closely to see what kind of leader he's going to be how to al-jazeera. the justice minister of democratic republic of congo has been arrested as the country deals with a crisis over proposed judicial reforms the plan sparks demonstrations earlier this week with people blocking roads outside parliament. to send a has reportedly been taken to the prosecutor's office after police surrounded his home include chaucer and saturday. well london forces have killed 4 gunman during an attack and yet a good home near the border with iran does army says 3 of its soldiers were injured in the cross border assault tensions are high between the 2 neighbors with blondie accusing rwanda of arming rebel groups to oppose the late president. who dies suddenly earlier this month in the u.s. hopes for a quick reo

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opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says lazarus check where i got just under 59 percent of the vote making the 1st african opposition leader to win power in a court ordered rerun but the ruling party the incumbent leader. says it wants the result an old hermit also reports on a historic moment for african democracy. by the time lazarus shapiro was declared the winner of the presidential election rerun many malawians already knew from the unofficial results that he would be the next president what they wanted to know was exactly how much he had won by losing the stuff with. the candidate was a genius 5570 percent. has attended with the majority of electronics as a kid did you know it is good just. a few hours before she was declared the winner president peter metallica say they'd been voting irregularities including violence and intimidation against his party election monitors suddenly. there were. literally. but. surely you cannot buy this great. russia in february allows you dishy overturn his victory saying there was

opposition leader has declared the winner of the country's presidential election the country's electoral commission says chuck where a won more than 58 percent of the vote the incumbent leader peter rico's ruling party wants the result an old saying there is evidence of irregularities he says his party workers were beaten and intimidated with a rico was the clear the winner of last year's election but a top court overturned the results over irregularities. the commission to its. listen to be. counted was a speech to the city 1st. posited it was the majority job it was. to do it is to do this. spring and is monitoring events from zimbabwe she's joining us from harare so was this results expected. well as a quitter as when i was usually suspected by it expected by many maligned because jane when people voted in choosing a presidential rerun a lot of the polling agent and the local election observers were doing their own tally had their own and official results that they were giving out in these an official results so that the creator had a huge lead over. over the president so he wanted to know basic

i think it is of the end of the road for the time kerry cut the electoral commission has only going to pretty lengthy to make sure that the process is as been a transparent what raised it all even during the issues including scrutinizing each and every thought to that was the. null and void and in the process of there who does get it some of those ballots that's a body be under reapportionment them to the right of candidates so even if a court of cortez they didn't idiot the in the speech that interpretive yesterday i don't think if they were delayed plea succeeding did i say you are not there what's up into their bridges if the courts i mean they've tried to remove the chief justice of their who dissented to their rulings of the concession on the supreme court so they are unlikely to get the you know much sympathy from either the public or all you know the courts or the one hope so that to the courts we demonstrated this in level of independence that there were done in recent months you mentioned that the party of lazarus check where i was in power during the author of terry and iraq

possibly parliament will have to sit again and have a meeting or the makah go to court the electoral commission is saying that this time they will not be rushed they want this election to be as credible as possible they say it could take them as long as a today to make sure things on order because they're under a lot of pressure to make sure this election is free and they know it's a national election observers because the coronavirus pandemics are right now a lot of churches micheline n.g.o.s on the ground trying to monitor these polls a lot of people seem to relieve the churches on the ground the church is respected is trusted and people hope that as many as possible of the church officials remain neutral just briefly harder is there any strong challenge to. his rule. well when you listen to all of the i'm in the speaking thinking to be in a canoe and people say this election is quite exciting especially for young people in malawi they're saying for the 1st time they feel reinvigorated they say the fact that this time the word has more than 50 percent of the vote to win means that there will

really the quote stepping in to say that the elections were not done properly and then the electoral commission returning a different result in the rerun so it's a completely unique event in the african continent president milosevic i says he wants to ferret election is going to get it well he's now on on the other side of this because he's alleging the irregularities that he denies took place in the 1st election there are some very interesting synergies here in the court judgment that in all the elections the votes affecting 1400000 votes were tallied up by the courts and were considered as evidence and in this particular case the president is allegedly saying that the votes of about 1400000 voters have been affected by various irregularities in the rerun as well so it's going to be very interesting to see of course the the sense that that is coming out of this right now is that the the victory margin in this case is so large that it would really be a very unusual circumstance with the court would a null these elections again that the victory margin by to clear here is simply too large to be b

these so-called volunteers for the constitution in the moscow region are working with russia's electoral commission they've been tasked by the author words to inform citizens about what's at stake in the vote including about an amendment that could keep president vladimir putin empower the volunteers insist their messaging is completely neutral and that's. our job is to get people to the ballot box so that they can make whatever choice they want we want people to come and vote for them to know that their opinion makes a difference rather than thinking this vote has been a daughter decided enough down so why bother i personally think our country is on the right path and that path depends on our garrincha our leader so i think it's important that one of the amendments could give an opportunity to the man who put our country back on its feet. which in himself is absent from the information banners around moscow which simply present this as a vote on russia's future. across moscow there's official information about how and where to vote on many apartment buildings and some of the posters even seem to b

malawi's electoral commission declares the opposition leader, lazarus chakwera, the winner of the presidentialction. a re—run was called after last year's poll, won by the incumbent peter mutharika, was annulled by the constitutional court when evidence emerged of widespread vote rigging. here in the uk, the government's to ease travel restrictions meaning arrivals from certain european countries will no longer have to self—isolate. the 14—day quarantine will be scrapped for passengers coming from places, including spain, france and greece. the new rules apply from july 6. a resident at a glasgow hotel where six people were stabbed on friday says the man who carried out the attack had warned that he planned to hurt people. the 28—year—old, who was shot dead by police, has been named as badreddin abadlla adam, who was from sudan, and believed to have been an asylum seeker. alexandra mackenzie reports. the cordon remains in place around the park inn hotel, a grim reminder of yesterday's multiple stabbing. armed police arrived within minutes, shooting dead the attacker. he's believed to have been

these so-called volunteers for the constitution in the moscow region are working with russia's electoral commission and have been tasked i authorities to inform citizens what is at stake at the boat including an amendment that could keep vladimir putin in power. the volunteers insisted their messaging is completely neutral. [speaking foreign language] >> our job is to get people to the ballot box so they can makee whatever toythey wanant. we want people to come and vote and for them to know their opinion makes a d difference rather than thinking thihis foot has been bought or decideded in advance so why bother. i personally think our country is on the right patand that depends on o our errant tour, or leader so i think it's important one of the amendment's could give an opportutunity to the men who put our country back on its feet. >> pushing himself is absent from the information banners around moscow, which simply present this as a vote on russia's future. across moscow there is official information about how and where to vote up on many apartment buildings. some of the posters evenn seem o be en

council opposition leader lazarus ahead with 60 percent of the vote reka trailing with 39 electoral commissionas until july the 3rd to announce the winner now the justice minister of democratic republic of congo has been arrested as the country deals with the crisis over proposed judicial reforms the plan sparked demonstrations of this week with people blocking roads outside parliament celeste in to send a has reportedly been taken to the prosecutor's office after police surrounded his home and can shatter on saturday it's thought the arrest of follows a recent disagreement with president felix just a candy rwandan forces have killed 4 gunmen during an attack in. near its border with burundi rwanda he says 3 of its soldiers were injured in the cross border assaults tensions are high between the 2 neighbors with burundi accusing rwanda of arming rebel groups to oppose late president pm crazies who died suddenly alyea this month in a residence in the indian city of guru ground that's close to new delhi have been asked to keep their windows shot because of a swarm of deaths at locusts india is cu

opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says there are more than 50 percent off the votes. demonstrators have filled the park outside the police headquarters in the u.s. city of aurora colorado they're protesting against the death of a lie john mcclane an unarmed black man who died in 29 days after being detained by police on injected with a powerful sedative colorado's governor has promised to reexamine the case the death is one of many being given renewed attention following the death of george floyd last month legislators in mississippi have taken steps towards removing the confederate emblem from the state's flag the state house voted to file a bill to remove the symbol many of you as racists the governor tate reeves says he'd sign a bill to remove the confederate symbol but insists it should be the voters' choice whether to abandon the flag mississippi's flag is the last in the country to feature the confederate emblem. and the producers of the u.s. animated series the simpsons say they will no longer use white actors

malawi's electoral commission declares the opposition leader, lazarus chakwera, the winner of the presidentialled by the constitutional court when evidence emerged of widespread vote rigging. after months of deadlock, ireland has a new leader and a new government. michael martin leads a three party coalition that was made possible after the green party backed the deal, but it sees sinn fein, which won the most seats in february's election, excluded from power. a resident at a glasgow hotel where six people were stabbed

well the head of the collect electoral commission has said that voting will be safer than going to the supermarket and part of that safety net those safety measures is the fact that they've actually spread the vote out over a week so today is just the 1st day of voting voting will go on until july 1st but critics say that actually some of these measures make it easier for ballot stuffing to happen and opposition media and monitors have already been reporting on schemes for online voting so people buying sim cards to vote for pensioners in the place of pensioners and being paid for those votes that's been reported in the media this week so it seems that the pandemic could actually play out in favor of that vote and in favor of more voting schemes in the worst case scenario and only thank you so much steve w. moscow correspondent emily sherman 70 years ago today communist north korea invaded the u.s. so starting the korean war 3 years of bloody fighting ended in 1953 with a peace treaty but only with a truce meaning that the war is technically still going on and animosities between the 2

malawi's electoral commission has declared opposition leader lazarus chakwera the winner of the country'sved 58% of the vote, easily defeating the incumbent peter mutharika. president mutharika has described tuesday's poll as the "worst election the country has ever had", saying election monitors from his party were attacked on polling day. here in the uk, a private vigil has been held in reading tonight for the families of three men who were stabbed to death in a park in the town last saturday. khairi saadallah, who's 25, was today charged with their murders, as well as the attempted murder of three others. caroline davies has the latest from reading. we heard this news just in the hour leading up to the vigil that 25—year—old khairi saadallah had been charged. now, there have been no terrorism—related charges, despite the fact that the police had said previously that they were treating this as a terrorist incident. now, today's vigil, which was held here, happened exactly one week on from the attack and it was attended by family members of the three men who died — that's david wails, jo

well the head of the russian electoral commission here elop on feel of if she is insured people that voting will be safer than going to the supermarket that's what she said voting has been stretched out over a week to allow social distancing and people can vote online in moscow and in need not get another big city here people can also vote from home but the opposition and also independent election monitors like the organization goalless have been saying that some of those voting measure is actually will make it easier for votes to be kind of falsified. with empty polling stations you can have more ballot stuffing that's what they say and people have also been asking questions about whether online voting will actually be safe so critics say that the pandemic could actually play into the kremlin's hands. thank you emily. emily sherman in moscow. and some sports news for both the berlin and the new york city marathon have been canceled due to the coronavirus. race widely considered the fastest track posting numerous world records was scheduled for the end of september the new york city

malawi's electoral commission declares the opposition leader, lazarus chakwera, the winner of the presidentialction. a re—run was called after last year's poll, won by the incumbent peter mutharika, was annulled by the constitutional court when evidence emerged of widespread vote rigging. after months of deadlock, ireland has a new leader and a new government. michael martin leads a three party coalition that was made possible after the green party backed the deal, but it sees sinn fein, which won the most seats in february's election, excluded from power. a resident at a glasgow hotel where six people were stabbed on friday says the man who carried out the attack had warned he planned to hurt people. the 28—year—old, who was shot dead by police, has been named as badreddin abadlla adam, who was from sudan, and believed to have been an asylum seeker. alexandra mackenzie reports. the cordon remains in place around the park inn hotel, a grim reminder of yesterday's multiple stabbing. armed police arrived within minutes, shooting dead the attacker. he's believed to have been an asylum seeker from

malawi's electoral commission declares the opposition leader, lazarus chakwera, the winner of the presidential annulled by the constitutional court when evidence emerged of widespread vote rigging. here in the uk, the government's to ease travel restrictions meaning arrivals from certain european countries will no longer have to self—isolate. the 14—day quarantine will be scrapped for passengers coming from places, including spain, france and greece. the new rules apply from july 6.

bring in just say that the elections were not run properly and then the electoral commission returning a different result in the rerun. the president elect is promising to fight corruption and create jobs. a country of roughly 80000000 people will be watching him closely to see what kind of leader he's going to be how to. in other wild news a number of u.s. states have put reopening plans on hold because of a surge in corona virus cases the u.s. has recorded more than 2500000 calls in 1000 infections that's about a 3rd of cases globally florida is one of the states changing course the government's hoping to avoid more scenes like these in miami where beachgoers have been failing to observe health science on saturday florida and arizona recorded daily highs for new infections vice president mike pence has canceled campaign events in both states as a result gave it his own bill is in new york he says the states that push to reopen 1st son now see a dramatic rise in cases many ways the corona virus outbreak in the united states is worse now than it was back in march april or even may 1 of

opposition leader has been declared the winner of the country's presidential election the electoral commission says laws are stuck where one with just under 59 percent of the vote making him the 1st african opposition leader to win power in a court ordered rerun but the ruling party says it wants the result an old crowd masterson is from the electoral institute for sustainable democracy in africa he told me the result is significant it's not just a river it's unique in the african context we have never had a.

who's criticised a presidential run saying when i was electoral commission known as the ne c. made a mistake these are perhaps the worst elections are held in the history of mali and we believe in me see means to ensure that he took holds the principles of quality elections in milan otherwise researching a very very bad precedent for future elections in most. jacquier is promising to tackle corruption poverty and create much needed jobs in one of the poorest countries in the world most of his budget comes from foreign aid the greatest challenge now is how do we set things right how do we rebuild malawi and this is a task that is huge great promises were made by the politicians and now it is up to them to achieve those promises or else pay the price at the next elections i i i i it's the 1st time in africa a court ordered election has led to victory for an opposition candidate over the decades the continent has sometimes had a turbulent history with democracy some leaders a stage in office for much longer than a mandate required people are closely watching shakira who is promis

to have a presidential election result overturned it 1st happened in kenya 3 years ago the electoral commission is under pressure to operate another round of protest its official say this time vote telling is being done manually to avoid allegations of tampering with computer service. this point is not speed. we want to put in place the process not when we. put it in an issue and everybody across the country confidence than 3 years. that is the reflection on the we will know what. samantha say malawi's election is a test case for other nations in africa to see how allegations of voter fraud are handled and just how effective pressure groups are when it comes to keeping political elites. in check malawi civil society to whoever wins this election service or don't treat us. algis or. it is good to have you with us hello adrian for going to hear doha the headlines and al-jazeera a suspect in a stabbing at 2nd glasgow has died after being shot by police 6 other people are in hospital including a police officer it happened in the stairwell of a hotel in the city police say they're not looking for an

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back then and stood up the judiciary, back then and stood up to that pressure, but also the electoral commissionion and then holding this historical action. for many, this is a sign that democracy can win on the african continent. there are interesting, thank you very much indeed. voting is taking place in poland in the country's delayed presidential election. andrzej duda — a close ally of president trump — is hoping to win a second term to carry on his conservative agenda. his main challenger is the mayor of warsaw, the orginal ballot was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. the bbc‘s adam easton is in warsaw and following developments. the reason this election is important is because in poland the president can veto legislation, so that is why it is crucial for the nationalist law and justice government, whose ally is the incumbent, andrzej duda, which is why it is crucial for them to govern freely that president andrzej duda is re—elected. he is seen as the guardian of the government's policies. some of those are very popular policies, for example his very generous welfare benefits

malawi's political history i think it is at the end of the road for the time terry cut the electoral commission has only gone to great lengths to to make sure that the process this has been a transparent and the what race to all the very issues including scrutinizing each and every quarter that was declared i snarl and void and in the process there will be disappointed some of those ballots as of early the andrea pushed on them to the right of candidates so even if they go to cortez they intended at the in day in the speech that interpretive yesterday i don't think if they were to lately succeed indeed as you're so not there what's the danger there preaches if the courts i mean they've tried to remove the chief justices there who dismissed to their rulings of the constitution on this supreme court so they are unlikely to get the you know much sympathy from either the public or you know the courts or the one up so that the courts would demonstrate the same level of independence of that that they have done in recent months millions of people in poland are now choosing a president in elections del

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really the court stepping in to say that the elections were not run properly and then the electoral commission returning a different result in the rerun chocolate or the president elect is promising to fight corruption and create jobs after he's sworn into office and a country of roughly 18000000 people will be watching him closely to see what kind of leader he's going to be so her knowledge to work. will be top of his list. well the 1st thing you have to deal with is the economy that's perhaps the main thing is to deal with the 18000000 people in malawi most of them are poor rural farmers who are struggling when you go into the towns and cities many people they live hand to mouth most working in markets also struggling to make ends meet the government's budget comes mainly from international donor aid that is not sustainable to have say that he one thing from the state in 1904 when much multi-party elections were happened that party was voted out of power and look 25 years they were in the opposition now the n.c.p. is back in power people are watching and he is going to be a different type of

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announcement preliminary at least announcement by the electoral commission stands that the ruling party candidate general. is the victor in this election with 69 percent of the vote against 24 percent of the vote that. the u.n. say that the police in the philippines may have killed tens of thousands of people since the government began its war on drugs and 2016 he says president roderigo deterred his crackdown may have grown to police permission to kill its calling for an independent investigation government for you suggest more than 1000 people have been killed over estimates put the number at 3 times higher. it shows how the very heavy handed national security response to problems like. terrorism has really led to very serious human rights violations including widespread feeling. to take action but also a real tightening. of oppression the same thing using. a danish scientists have developed a robot powered by artificial intelligence that can take coronavirus swabs it scans the patient's id column prepares a sampling kit performs a swab and puts a sample in a container ready for testi

what happens next it could mean the matter goes back to parliament or back to the courts the electoral commission made up of new commissioners because the ones who organized the last elections was what disorderly and seemed to be not credible had been removed most and i've been moved i've been saying that this time they're going to take their time they need at least 80 days to try and make sure all complaints are heard to try and make sure everything is counted properly chime it so the i know issue they're asking people to be patient but all eyes are now on this little commission and of course when the polls close in counting start how credible is that process going to be under 0 as her words are so live in harare many thanks indeed. south africa's former president jacob zuma has appeared in court on several charges of corruption his case has been adjourned until september 8th when a trial date is expected to be says soon as charged with fraud racketeering and money laundering relating to a deal to buy european military equipment for south africa's armed forces in the 1990 s. he denies any wrongd

announcement preliminary at least announcement by the electoral commission stands that the ruling party candidate general in the schmear is the victor in this election with about 69 percent of the vote against 24 percent of the vote that. russia's president has declared a state of emergency in the arctic circle after a huge oil spill where 20000 tons of diesel have leaked into a river from a power plant is paul brennan. footage released by the russian investigative committee suggests the sheer volume of the spillage overwhelmed the concrete levees intended to contain minor leaks tens of thousands of tons of diesel escaped into the surrounding area it was 2 days before the regional government raised the alarm to moscow and in a televised video conference of visibly angry president putin rated them for the inadequacy of their response even questioning whether the governor had taken leave of his senses and what's going to be done you're the governor or we go to learn about emergency situations through social media now have you lost your mind over there norilsk is home to the world's larges

officers aren't equipped to be election officers and it marginalizes the role of , our electoral election commission. unless there is a major constitutional or legislative reform, it would not be constitutional. obviously, it is a very different setting, but it is interesting, because it touched on the issues it raised. >> that so fascinating. >> [indiscernible] >> i'm not sure. i'm not sure. but obviously there was a , pretextual situation where the ruling government thought that by holding the election sooner they would be more likely to be , reelected. so clearly that was going on. , >> i want to emphasize the point that surveillance and privacy issues are probably going to become more salient in this next phase than they were in the past. if you just say everybody has to stay home for a month, we are treating everybody alike. but when you get into a situation, especially on contact tracing, i know of cases in some states where people have been asked to quarantine. and an out-of-stater, completely asymptomatic, as to quarantine for two weeks, and the police come to your house week later to make s