democratic change both are promising a better future we'll talk to our guests shortly but first malcolm webb reports from the town of quick way. zimbabweans of voting in the fast election in need of the full say yes' that. robert mugabe on the ballot he was pushed out by the military in november and his film a right it's ok that he's got one of these the ruling zanu p.f. candidates in this election ever since he has been promising to revive the economy says he's getting pledges of billions of dollars of foreign investment from investors who return jobs in the economy. key issues but here in the town he was a parliamentary candidate lost two elections here in the early two thousand and was only reelected to parliament when he ran the newly created rural constituency near here in opposition say it's in the rural constituencies prezi it's a bribe and intimidates voters he's going to be running against this man nelson chamisa is leading the main opposition alliance he's also been talking about the economy and jobs and he says if the election is free and fair he'll definitely be the one to win if

malcolm webb joins us now from zimbabwe second largest city of fullaway i so malcolm both candidates saying they think they're doing really well what does a vote counts so far. is still on the way polling station staff of being counting ballots throughout the night and then the results are displayed on posters outside the polling station that's what's being done here there's a polling station here at the city hall in boulder wire and then later on these results for the presidential election will be forwarded to tallying centers provincial tilings centers across the country in the one for this province is also in this building so they'll be counted and then in a few days from now we'll get the presidential results turn out been from the places it's been reported a between seventy and eighty percent eighty percent that would be the highest turnout since the independent election here in zimbabwe in one nine hundred eighty s. i mean while opposition candidate nelson chamisa says that they've got the results from ten thousand polling stations and that they have a safe lead president and g

malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. you want your knowledge is there i'm still rather these are all top news stories pakistani cricketer turned politician imran khan is inching closer to victory in wednesday's general election our correspondent mile high the says unofficial cal snell suggests that he may not need a coalition his opponents say the vote was rigged in favor of him the official results are expected shortly. emraan now had regarding the better board that we have been repeating in our ward that he will be really be able to form the neg government provided be aboe you can make. it all the buggers can mostly lead now wide lead by trade and already had dared the idea would be really good on the open if in theory and i've got to be both barbie regards good god rarely better than large relate then. hold the pig in parliament buy it big question mark go far on bad because the religious right party line they say that they want this war degree or go but i get data and. north korea's hundred were the remains of fifty

taxes including a levy on access to social media abs the moves provoked widespread outbreak as malcolm webb reports from uganda i. many people here in uganda's capital kampala on tapi now having to pay to use the internet's most popular services i hope the wine a pop star and then peace that a demonstration against the new social media tax crowd quickly gathered. to their first summit at that because it is their proximity i am people of uganda i said some it got even i forgot it's really i think i think that if you could not. force a little back to god i the president maybe could be put in the team and attending stake to mislead in such a media uses have to pay about six cents a day to be able to access whatsapp facebook and other services. president during a seventy said the tax will help to reduce costs that the activists here safely indiscriminate tax cuts the poor most left of the people here in town i am going to leave the internet using i access to dates is kind of on the map if they have a bit of money twenty cents fifty cents i buy some credit i would have done that they'd be all ri

malcolm webb how does iraq come paula uganda. let's get more on this joining us from the accountant capital kampala is sally hayden who's a journalist there thanks for joining us on al-jazeera how much is this to do with attacks on gossip as it seems the government is putting out and how much is about stifling freedom of speach. i mean i think that the idea of the idea of free speech are not necessarily distinct well. the president has made an argument that they do need to raise more taxes and i have spoken to very very few number of ugandans who have said that they recognize that ugandans pay a lot less tax than other people do but critics and most people i meet are either critics or they're quite bewildered by the whole thing they say that it's stifling free speech it's crushing opposition and they also say that the government mismanages funds so why should they trust a government to give them more funds anyway if the government is going to mismanage them and they also say that it's going to affect business people around the wo

malcolm webb al-jazeera come pala uganda a turkish court has sentenced five mining executives to up to twenty two years in jail over a coal mine disaster that left three hundred one people dead a fire in the soma mine in may twenty four thousand was turkey's worst ever industrial disaster and the world's biggest mining disaster of a century triggered mass protests against president adams ruling ak party which was considered too close to industry bosses critics say turkey's industrial safety standards have not kept pace with the country's massive economic growth. italy's hardline interior minister has condemned a group of rescued migrants who fought efforts to return them to libya comparing them to hijackers are prejudiced threaten the crew of a tugboat which rescued and earlier this week and what it transferred to an italian coast guard ship or two seventy said they should be jailed and then sent back to their home countries the changing take i mean not shot at all if you are going to top it for people who are threatened and attacked but end up in a jail and not in a hotel i will not g

but people here hope the election will provide a chance for things to turn around malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. in just a few moments rob will have the weather also coming up here on the al-jazeera news our floods from a collapsed in laos are slowly receding but many complain they should have been moved to safety sooner. pressure to ban whale hunting in iceland why activists say the killing has to stop. and find out what has made the chicago cubs so happy tatiana i'll have that story and more coming up in store. the nice pink sky by the time. or is the sun sets in the city of angels. how they use the heavy rains this time the it should be at the north most extent and they are there in bangladesh northern india nepal and to some degree pakistan some of the figures are really quite outstanding if that's true in cox's bizarre two thirds of the july average six hundred thirty seven millimeters it tails off when you get to northern pakistan thirty millimeters so soon if there are so i feel however this is the effect cox's bizarre and down the peninsula right to the end of bangladesh

move for young ugandans especially social media has become a platform for expression and protest malcolm webb reports. many people here in uganda's capital kampala on happy about having to pay to use the internet's most popular services i haven't polled the wine a pop star and then p. that a demonstration against the new social media tax crowd quickly gathered we have a picture there for somebody at that because it is their personal i doubt they aren't people of uganda i said to make out even that i forgot it's really i think they don't think that if you had not read the third not to judge the the president was still angry because they think i don't judge you and they're telling steak to my face and such a media uses have to pay about six cents a day to be able to access whatsapp facebook and other services. president during the seventies had the tax will help to reduce costs that the activists here say it's an indiscriminate tax that hurts the poor most left of the people right here in that i am going to leave the internet users access to states is kind of them out if they have a bit of mone

move for young ugandans especially social media has become a platform for expression and protest malcolm webb reports. many people here in uganda's capital kampala on happy about having to pay to use the internet's most popular services i hope the wine a pop star and then people that a demonstration against the new social media tax crowd quickly gathered we have a picture there for somebody at that because it is their personal i doubt they are people of uganda i said make out if it was filmed for us it's really i think they don't think that if you had not accepted the credits for say little that to the judge the the president was still angry because they think i don't suffer to be telling stake to my face in such a media users have to pay about six cents a day to be able to access whatsapp facebook and other services. president during the seventies had the title helped to reduce gossip the activists here say it's an indiscriminate tax that hurts the poor most left of the people right here in that i am going to leave the internet users access to states is kind of the map if they have a bit of

is independence day for the second republic we are going to be voting overwhelmingly for change malcolm webb has more now from harare. nelson shimmies the leader of the main opposition has announced that he will proceed in answering monday's presidential election in spite of the opposition having grave claims about the process they forwarded to the electoral commission they say among several things there are serious the regularities with the ballot papers with the polling stations and with the votes of the registers they said the electoral commission has ignored these complaints with the electoral commission and the ruling zanu p.f. party say that a jew process is being followed and everything is legal to resist says in spite of the problems a boy called is not an option. donald trump's former attorneys released an audiotape to the american media and which the para allegedly heard discussing a payment of an apparent affair between the president and a model michael cohen made a series of recordings which were seized by the f.b.i. during raids at his home and office in april conversation ed on

in some areas disorganized in those let's now focus on the pani district in west is in bob way malcolm webb is there for us malcolm tell us about how voting has been going that today. well this morning there were long queues at this polling station here it's about to close now any minute now it's finished the polling for the day became quiet in the afternoon but it had about seventy percent turnout at this station about to close the door then they'll be a short break for the agents then they'll to pound the boxes start counting those votes when they finish counting here the data will go to the provincial tally center this we happening across the whole country just in you know within the next hour in that data will go to the tally centers and be aggregated but it's going to take days before we actually get a result that's going to come till saturday fourth of august so that's quite some time before we're going to find out who's going to be announced the winner and the verdict from observers so far has been mixed they said voting been smooth in some part of the country but just organized else

malcolm webb how does iraq come parlor uganda. island senators given its backing to a draft law that would ban the import of god goods from occupied territories around the world including illegal israeli settlements it was backed by all parties except the governing phina gael foreign minister simon cover any said it risk fanning flames in the middle east the bill now goes to committee the government expected to continue trying to block it. japan's prime minister has visited areas hit by the worst flooding in the country for three decades and promised to help the survivors while pledging four billion dollars towards recovery since our base spoke to survivors sheltering in an evacuation center in the western city of coeur shaking more than forty of the one hundred seventy six people who died in the floods and landslides live dozens remain missing bride has more. visit comes as emergency teams continue to search through debris and destroyed houses looking for some of the people who are still missing thousands of people remain displac

well malcolm webb has been speaking to voters and sent us this report from blown away a second largest city. zimbabweans will be voting in the first presidential election in nearly forty years with former leader robert mugabe on the ballot paper he was pushed out by the military in november his right hand man took over president emerson and god were and he's the presidential candidate for the ruling zanny p.f. party ever since he took over he's been promising to revive the economy and he says he's got pledges of billions of dollars of foreign investment that could soon come in he's up against several candidates but the main opposition contender is here nelson chamisa is also promising to revive the economy he says he'll bring change to tackle corruption and build infrastructure in this town where we are called he says he'll turn it into the new political capital zimbabwe but the key issues for most voters are the economy and jobs. trades clothes on the street to get by he struggles with zimbabwe's shortage of currency in circulation of which for far from for new situations where i want

malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. china's latest vaccine scandal has served a lively debate on social media in spite of strict censorship the country's second largest maker of rabies vaccine that was found to have violated regulations on producing a quarter of a million doses for children the government's own for clean two actually before the story was reported on state controlled media so is social media now influencing the government's decision making or china correspondent adrian brown has more china's social media users were unusually energized this week it's one of the few ways people here can let off steam. the hash tag chung chung the vaccine case was viewed more than four hundred and seventy million times chunk chunk is the name of the company that sold fake vaccines that were administered to more than two hundred and fifty thousand children. food is involved in a project that tracks censorship on china's social media he's based across the border in semi autonomous hong kong where laws governing freedom of spe

but people here hope the election will provide a chance for things to turn around malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe. activists are pushing to ban whale hunting in iceland industry is back under the spotlight after a cross between a fin whale and a protected blue whale was killed and brought ashore for processing to reykjavik at clark explained. iceland has much to boast of when it comes to natural resources its dramatic scenery and geothermal springs draw tourists in their millions and there's a marine environment to tens of thousands of people go whale watching every year there's even a whale museum where you can immerse yourself in an ocean of life size whale replicas the one thing iceland tries not to publicize too much is the fact that whales are still killed commercially here which in rage is a big sector of society doing these they are going to steps backwards into the viking times and the whaling nowadays especially well not just in iceland but whaling in iceland show that people is not doesn't have a low buzz they really think to show the world that they are so it's somethin

movement for democratic change nelson chamisa is also holding a rally in harare today al-jazeera is malcolm webb is there let's take you live now to the venue for that rally nelson chamisa sounding fairly confident ahead of monday's poll malcolm saying that after monday he will be president what makes him social. that's what he's got many several thousands of supporters who gathered here to come to the rally this is take a look at them all the rallies follow the same for hours and hours of build up loud music musician cheerleaders waiting for the leader to arrive at this is the biggest of the campaign here in the capital harare and it here in the capital harare and other urban areas that for many years the opposition at a very solid base people here waiting to see what he's got to say but the message throughout the campaign be very much one of a promising transformation that we can be very critical of the past nearly forty years of the rulings down u.p.s. parties rule criticizing them for human rights abuses collapse of the economy the opposition of also being complaining to the electoral commis

little is change for this the first election since he was deposed that's being held on monday malcolm webb reports from the capital harare. just days to go until the presidential election. from school and opposition parties say the receiver reassess regularities with the electoral process including problems with the ballot papers and i don't think it's sensible for elections to be described as they've raised them in a series of meetings with the electoral commission and all the parties the commission up late. and the police. the representatives of the ruling zanu p.f. the party of former president robert mugabe walked out of this meeting saying they've been insulted the opposition represents is necessary to be implying that isn't impartial and that it is on the side of the only but they participated in selecting. and. it does not engage some people we only hear is political parties and those accusations are completely untrue. with no agreement reached opposition supporters came to hear what their leader nelson chamisa had to say make sure that we the people. took the deception and will sto

of july it is independence day for the second republic we are going to be voting overwhelmingly malcolm webb has more from her already. nelson chamisa the leader of the main opposition alone has announced that he will proceed in ensuring monday's presidential election in spite of the opposition having grave complaints about the process they forwarded to the electoral commission they say among several things there are serious the regularities with the ballot papers for the polling stations and with the votes of the registered they said the electoral commission has ignored these complaints with the electoral commission and the rulings on a p.f. party say that process is being followed and everything is legal but jimmy says in spite of the problems a boycott is not an option. the u.s. government has until thursday to meet a court imposed deadline to reunite thousands of children with their parents after they were forcibly separated in the us mexico border a federal court has ruled that all two thousand three hundred detained minors must be back with their families by july twenty sixth according

use of disparaging language against female political candidates more now from our correspondent malcolm webb in the capital harare. nelson chamisa leader of the main opposition alone has announced that he will proceed in answering monday's presidential election in spite of the opposition having grave complaints about the process they forwarded to the electoral commission they say among several things there are serious the regularities with the ballot papers with the polling stations and with the voters registered they said the electoral commission has ignored these complaints with the electoral commission and the ruling zanu p.f. party say that process is being followed and everything is legal but she says in spite of the problems a boy called is not an option. president transformer lawyer has released an audiotape to u.s. media in which they seem to be discussing a potential payment for former playboy model now michael cohen recorded what appears to be a conversation with trump in twenty sixteen a few months before the presidential election this was weeks after a tabloid newspaper paid form

malcolm webb how does iraq come paula uganda. don't forget there's plenty more on our web site of news video and features just click on al-jazeera dot com. this is a reminder of the top stories on our read the u.s. president is calling on allies to increase their defense spending to four percent of that country's economic output as two percent higher than the group's original go or will trump also launched a public attack on germany saying it's totally controlled by moscow because it buys billions of dollars of russian oil and gas the outburst came during a breakfast meeting with nato secretary general younes stoltenberg. you know if you look at it germany is a captive of very rich they should work to get rid of their call to get rid of. the good so much of the world is there for a russian i think it's something they are still looking at i think it's very appropriate you're going to the program i don't know what you can do about it but it certainly doesn't seem to make sense that they pay billions of dollars to russia we have to

violence of the past he needs the polls to seem credible the opposition already say they're not malcolm webb al jazeera harare zimbabwe auctioneers in the united states are ready to sell off pieces of civil rights history the home of activists rosa parks is up for auction along with dozens of other african-american rarities gabriel is on a reporter from new york. it's not just any door it's historic and opens to history of the civil rights movement in america the door was on the home of rosa parks he black woman who famously refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man which led to the montgomery bus boycott one of the most instrumental moments in black struggle for equality in america parks is considered a historic figure and recently the house she lived in during that period was saved from be demolished and put back together and as a piece of historic art most recently touring germany the tiny one room house is now disassembled and is going up for auction organizers hope it will be showcased to the public but rather end up in a place where the public will have access to it where tho

there is malcolm webb has more now from harare. nelson jimmie's the leader of the main opposition alone has announced that he will proceed in answering monday's presidential election in spite of the opposition having grave complaints about the process they forwarded to the electoral commission they say among several things there are serious the regularities with the ballot papers with the polling stations and with the votes as registered as they say the electoral commission has ignored these complaints with the electoral commission and the rulings on a.p. after the parties say that the g. process is being followed and everything is legal but jesus says in spite of the problems a boy called is not an option. the u.s. government has asked a federal judge to allow the quick deportation of undocumented immigrant parents once that reunited with their children it has until thursday to reunite families separated under president trump so-called zero tolerance policy i did jocasta reports on the toll the policy is taking on families trying

the opposition says the upcoming polls are already fraught with problems from the capital harare malcolm webb reports. just days to go until the bob ways presidential election. from school and opposition parties say the risk of regularities with the electoral process including problems with the ballot papers and i don't think it's sensible for elections to be described as they've raised them in a series of meetings with the electoral commission and all the parties the commission that led. display but there. again is. the representatives of the rulings and who p.f. the party of former president robert mugabe walked out of this meeting saying they'd been insulted the opposition represented in this ng to be implying that isn't impartial and that it is on the side of the only yes but they participated in selecting those commissioners and. it does not engage them people we only hear is political parties and those accusations are completely untrue. with no agreement reached opposition supporters came. to hear what their leader nelson chamisa had to say make sure that we the people stopped. the dece

after his death in february he's proved popular among young people particularly in the city's well malcolm webb has more now from pani district in west in zimbabwe. this polling station has now closed as have others all across the country after twelve hours of voting on the counting has begun to clear plastic ballot boxes are emptied out and first the ballots are counted in the polling stations before that data is forwarded to the provincial tallying centers opposition say they deployed extra agents to observe this process carefully they've complained of a lack of transparency in the process of some and irregularities but the electoral commission deny that anything untoward is going on meanwhile the chief european union observer said in some parts of the country the voting was very smooth in other parts of the country totally disorganized he said his teams had witnessed queues of young people waiting for up to six hours leaving in frustration when they were told they were in the wrong queue he said he also heard reports of people being passed from one district to another to vote in polling stat

zimbabwe's second city as a stronghold of the opposition malcolm webb has been speaking to voters there. zimbabweans will be voting in the first presidential election in nearly forty years with former leader robert mugabe on the ballot paper he was pushed out by the military in november his right hand man took over president emerson and god were and he's the presidential candidate for the rulings that he p.f. party ever since he took over he's been promising to revive the economy and he says he's got pledges of billions of dollars of foreign investment that could soon come in he's up against several candidates but the main opposition contender is here nelson chamisa is also promising to revive the economy he says he'll bring change to tackle corruption and build infrastructure in this town where we are where he says he'll turn it into the new political capital zimbabwe but the key issues for most voters are the economy and jobs. trades clothes on the street to get by he struggles with zimbabwe's shortage of currency in circulation of wood floor far from the four new sometimes i want to

malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe ugandan president yoweri museveni looks like you'll be able to run for six term thanks to a court ruling kandice currently need to be under the age of seventy five to run this then he is seventy three so would have been blocked from entering the next election due to be held in twenty twenty one but now a new bills been saying scrapping that age limit it's has the opposition accusing mess of any of the power grab. prime minister alexis tsipras says he takes full responsibility for devastating wildfires the broke out on monday he promised the government would work quickly to improve safety regulations follows accusations from opposition parties that the government failed to do enough to save lives and protects people like officials suspect the fires which killed more than eighty people were caused by arson. activists pushing to ban whale hunting in iceland industry is back under the spotlight after a cross between a fin well and a protected blue whale was killed across the shore for processing from reykjavik the clock explains. iceland has much to

violence of the past he needs the polls to seem credible the opposition already say they're not malcolm webb al-jazeera harare zimbabwe south sudan's rebel leaders have agreed on their latest power sharing deal which is aimed at ending the almost five years of fighting both uganda and sedan helped broker the talks president salva care and the leader of the armed opposition react much are expected to sign the final accord next month silva care is due to lead a transitional government while react match our would return as one of four vice presidents a cease fire greeting june collapse just hours after it started the war in the world's newest country has killed tens of thousands and forced millions from their homes. the people in greenland have long relied on sled dogs to hunt and to fish on the i spot this tradition is slowly fading as unstable wind to seize and now forcing fishermen to use boats instead and it clogs reports from a little earlier lisa tom greenland's west coast. opponent of it in the remote northwest there's a wedding on it's an occasion for traditional innuit dress to herald