house of parliament and for provincial assemblies these the front runners the former cricketer imraan khan heads the center right pakistan to wreak and south party he's up against shahbaz sharif the brother of jailed former prime minister nawaz who rules the pm and policy and then there's also the pakistan people's party that by bilawal bhutto zardari the twenty nine year old son of assassinated former prime minister benazir attash are going to a has mall. eisel claimed responsibility for this suicide bomb attack outside a polling station in quite a tough dozens were killed another suicide bombing in the same province earlier this month at a campaign event killed one hundred forty nine people including a candidate pakistan has deployed eight hundred thousand security personnel across the country below while bhutto's adare one of three main candidates for prime minister said voters would not be deterred the diaries mother former prime minister benazir bhutto was assassinated in two thousand and seven. in baluchistan is an attempt to disrupt the political process the people will not be affec

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 islamabad they'll let us know tonight so what their plans are

story could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office without the military backing natasha to name the disease. more now from our correspondent kemal hide who's in the capital islamabad . po

cheema in pakistan the election commission has officially declared cricket legend and politician imraan khan the winner of the country's election. all celebrating the victory but results showed that his p.t.i. party. to win an outright majority at least to form a coalition to govern iran can spawn to one hundred forty to sixty nine with counting nearly complete his nearest rival shahbaz sharif from the governing pakistan in one sixty three series. chorus for a near me congress is covering this pakistani elections for us and joins me now from the capital islamabad the 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 know tonight what their plans are but i've got the feeling that things will remain calm that they realize that the pakistanis actually support

dory could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appealed to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office. without the military's back natasha getting to zero. sum avenge of eighty's life for us and long haul some of these claims there's a

imraan khan poised to become pakistan's next prime minister the charming former cricket star has claimed victory and promise to stamp out corruption but with accusations of vote rigging and intimidation from his ally the military critics say khan is the one who is corrupt i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day the in the. congress it's a very good to talk to sound like it's never been run to full office should preserve the measure of the seventy's or good vote but the trend is that the do you do you think the people who probably will give it the governments it has never had before or bush who couldn't get everybody stopped but also to say we're going to be transparent and clean. on this piece blatant rigging results based on rigging will lead to an repairable loss we do not accept it we rejected the offer but that's the reality you pull whichever government comes it should do good for us and we want water gas and electricity. and also coming up on the program europe and the united states declare a trade truce in washington has younger rebooted the relationship can trump be trusted we

dory could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khanhas campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office. without the military's back natasha getting to zero. and the sama benj of eight has the latest from the whole. counting is underway in p

our economy is in a miserable condition because of the massive corruption and money laundering imraan khan not only created awareness but is the only non financially corrupt leader in our country so there is some excitement there earlier today he actually came out and run conduit and talked about corruption in a sense he talked about how lavish the prime minister's residence is and how he will not be taking it if you assumes office right now this whole thing has been you know i'm going to be anti-corruption and that is how he took down by this time the previous prime minister nawaz sharif the whole idea was these leaders have been corrupt they have been looting by august on both and now is the time to actually not only hold them accountable but kick them out of power so what's been really interesting in what this person has said is exactly what a lot of young people are saying that you know regardless of everything else you know there may be allegations about the fact that you know he has what are so-called electable people who have been part of the setup that has brought august on to the

lead and also from a quick imraan khan.yes but we are seeing is going underway in turning up at the polls now i mean we mentioned the lead up to this vote has been marked by accusations of the military meddling behind the scenes let's listen to what pakistan's ambassador to germany had to tell me about the vote. this would be deterred consecutive polls that we having are in a fully democratic dispensation and i have no doubt in my mind that this would be a free and fair pool is a level playing field for everyone and peg sunny's for the choose the new government and in china that would bring a new dawn for the country now i mean we heard the ambassador there but the voters you've spoken to do they believe this will be a free and fair vote. well and most of the journalists until a tickle analysts i've spoken to a very clear that this is not a free and says those on the on someone has been reading the elections the coverage of the pm l.n. is very much different it's very hard generalists of talk to receiving intimidating phone

sure this video is coming to you live from berlin its official imraan khan is one pakistan's general election is promising a nail pakistan but for the former cricket star would have to seek out advice to form a coalition government also coming up natural disaster will often break apart you seriously think this week's deadly bonfires was said deliberately but the government is also facing criticism over its response. on going to isn't there was defective community but the latest. and cambodians head to the podium to speak and do they have any real choice other than prime minister hun sen who has ruled for more than three decades our correspondent reports from compaq and. lost in the next thirty minutes and really of all the lucky ones to catch sight of this. the longest still do not clips of the twenty first century begins tonight and feature a blood mill and find out what's behind this special astronomical event. i am. a european union monitoring team i said pakistan's election campaign showed a lack of equality. and wasn't a level playing field for all parties and their announcement

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 may have to make a coalition with will two of the smaller parties that have won a round about a lesson seat he could be looking at possibly two coalition partners what does he have to consider in the bigger picture of what's going on in pakistan at the moment . well we don't know what imran khan is thinking right now i think there will be concentrating on making sure all that they've got the right number of reported all of the right number of walls however it is something important to understand there and progress on the signals coming out from the all police in at this moment are make. no why why why should he be the leader of the bugs on muslim league now was he's already in big eight days he's quite happy to trigger on

of protesters there say the government is neglecting the region while exploiting its resources imraan khan has more from baghdad. protests in iraq of failed to materialize in the kinds of numbers that we've seen in recent weeks in basra and here in baghdad also that despite a campaign a very active campaign on social media trying to encourage people to come out in the streets now why is that it's likely to be because the protesters demands have been listened to by the government the government has struck deals with its neighbor kuwait to supply electricity generators in kerosene to fuel those generators saying that will supply electricity for at least seventeen hours a day in the south and you'll remember that these protests were sparked when iran says it wasn't paid a billion and a half dollars in electricity bills by iraq and cut off the supply to the south and now the protests didn't blame iran for that they said this was government incompetence government corruption and simply that the government wasn't functioning now also on friday we had the hope by the sermon given by the spokesman

story could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office without the military backing natasha to name just the. right less so to share his in the pakistan capital he's director of abdul wali khan u

dory could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office. without the military's back natasha getting zero. sum avenge of it is life for us now in the whole saga we just saw she was sheriff tha

number of people killed during weeks of protests against poor services and unemployment to thirteen imraan khan reports now from the capital baghdad where many of also been rallying in solidarity with the south. protesters face off with security forces in baghdad although a smaller gathering than seen in the last two weeks in the south of iraq it's still a significant number for the capital showing solidarity with protesters in the south on the edge of the matza here more than two but we came out to protest the injustice and lack of job opportunities for the unemployed the government isn't listening to us. even with a small amount of people involved we will continue to protest this time it's make or break for us the protesters break free of a barbed wire cordon set up by the federal police. the protests spreading to the capital and then nationwide it is a concern for iraq's leaders. of the government and i'd say the big quite slim was i put in place that unprecedented security operation they say they are trying to beat the protests tomorrow but they may not be able to meet all of them their sou

story could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office without the military backing natasha to name. and his. in is on a bond with more on how the voting went in the capital and elsewhere in

from the united nations and western power as an election candidate from the party of front on a imraan khan has been killed in a suicide attack on the poor was a candidate of the pakistan to weaken south party which is currently pulling ahead his vehicle was targeted in the northwestern province of kind of a punch as he was leaving the meeting a pakistani taliban says it carried out the attack for which from foreign policy a court of pages denied allegations he worked with the russian government in the twenty sixteen election the f.b.i. believed carter was involved in russian led collusion with the trump campaign and had him placed under surveillance recent court documents show applications place carter page on the watch were approved by several judges trump has condemned the investigation into alleged russian collusion as a witch hunt g twenty finance ministers and central bankers meeting in argentina a warning that heightened trade tensions are putting global growth at risk meeting comes in the wake of escalating trade tensions between the u.s. china and europe following a wave of tariffs

story could help form a coalition government if no party wins a decisive victory opposition leader imraan khan has campaigned on an anti-corruption platform and is popular with young voters. this is the first time we've had the chance to defeat the two parties who have been in control here and those who have been taking turns at power in this country for the past thirty years. the other main candidate is shahbaz sharif the brother of former prime minister no wash who is in jail charged with corruption. and i appeal to the nation to come out to polling stations cost the votes and change the destiny of pakistan and make a great prosperous and progressive country make it great in its real meaning. election observers from the european union are monitoring polling stations there have been widespread allegations of rigging and concerns that the military is engineering the outcome analysts say no matter who becomes the next prime minister they can't remain in office. without the military's back natasha getting to zero. at least two hundred fifteen people have died and i saw the tanks in the southern

and our other top story this hour the former cricketer imraan khan has declared victory in pakistan's elections with a round hole for the votes counted. official results are expected later on say. you know the stories we're following syrian government forces are inching closer to the front today with the israeli occupied golan heights as they continue their offensive on the south west regime forces could be seen raising government flag over the village of how media the villages three kilometers north of connector city which is the main border point with the occupied golan heights state media is also reporting the government has taken the town of jelly in there which was held by isolate fight has. elsewhere the military wing of hamas in gaza says it's on high alert after three palestinians were killed by israeli attacks a commander for the brigade says israel will pay a price for the strikes and tank fire israeli army says it responded after its troops were shot at near the border with gaza hamas leaders agreed to a cease fire with israel a few days ago to prevent hostilities from esca

imraan khan poised to become pakistan's next prime minister the charming former cricket star has claimed victory and promise to stamp out corruption but with accusations of vote rigging and intimidation from his ally the military critics say khan is the one who is corrupt i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. for us it's like good. luck it's never been run for office or bizarre that's for the seventy's or good old me but the trend is to be do you think a group of people we will give up the government it has never had people who couldn't get people to talk but also we would be transparent and clean. this is blatant rigging the results based on rigging will lead.

imraan khan poised to become pakistan's next prime minister the charming former cricket star has claimed victory and promise to stamp out corruption with accusations of vote rigging and intimidation from his ally the military critics say khan is the one who is corrupt i'm sorry kelly in berlin this is the day. congress until i get to. like it's never been run to fall off you should deserve to go through the seventy's or get go but the trend is that video you think. we will give it the government it has never had people who got in there and people stopped but also to say we will be transparent and.