for more let's bring in do that you correspondent melanie corrida ball who is live in harare for us this afternoon and melanie as we just heard there the electoral commission said that the results would be released very soon what are you hearing well sarah constitutionally the electoral or commission hands above what has time until such a date to the release the results but because of the mounting pressure especially by the international observers after the violence yesterday we've been hearing that the electoral commission will release all stock releasing the results rather tonight at ten pm my personal emphasis will be on stott that means constituency by constituency so it's not sure we will actually know who the president is tonight it could take until tomorrow still and the tension is high we know that the foreign governments and international organizations they're all calling for calm calling for restraint but meantime security forces within the country they've reportedly sealed off the headquarters of the main opposition party that sounds like an escalation what's the mood on the s

melanie corrida ball joins me now from harare melanie election observers from the commonwealth have been commenting on the election and the violence so what have they been saying. well terry goes to a restaurant yesterday they denounced the excessive use of fine again on civilians here in harare and both parties to exercise restraint it was talking about the election itself though they raised concerns about voter intimidation about the local media being biased in favor of the rulings and m.p.'s and now they are asking the electoral commission to come out with a full report the full results as soon as possible because the delays are of course raising suspicions come to teach me we know that they have to give us the results by saturday but we will get pressure mounting up on them it could be that the child knows who the next president will be today if they do so we are expecting them to do that during the evening or at night even to decrease the likelihood of protests . so yesterday we did see. the government would crack again if there were any further anti-government protests what's it li

praying for peace it is a difficult time especially for those burying their dead correspondents melanie corrida ball and adrian krege sent us this report. friends and family paid their respects to sue on the fourth and final journey the mother of two was killed in zimbabwe as post-election violence last week she was on her way home when she got caught in the crossfire hit in the back by soldiers bullets it's the death of the rather tumble still can't be. sure as it would look she was a bit delayed and the offend me. it was a big. day when you would hit. up and. he says god wednesday opposition m.d.c. supporters took to the streets and were met it was crucial by and inspires them. what they can and tear gas rubber bullets and life any mission to crackdown on opposition demonstrators. president elect emerson has promised consequences that was. is eat less and. less and i'm going to institute and indeed and it. to inquire into these fears of violence have been subsided and the opposition is vowing to challenge the election results nelson chamisa insists the presidency has. lupus. business. and pos

melanie corrida ball with the very latest there from harare thank you. to some other news now and varia has become the first german state to open controversial new processing centers for asylum seekers authorities want to hold asylum seekers there while their applications are fast tracked and deport anyone who is rejected critics say that the system will get a wise new arrival. for many refugees arriving in germany in future this is what home will look like this reception facility in a former u.s. army barracks in the bavarian city of bam bag is the model for the new refugee centers to be known as anchor centers the acronym anchor stands for a rival decision and return the key idea various departments which look at asylum applications will be together in one place migration agency labor office welfare or thorough even the courts the claim is that will mean applications are dealt with more quickly. with these centers the migration agency will in most cases be able to issue documents in three or three and a half months when the people are to be granted ref

god does but it remains very very tense here in harare very tense in harare that's our reporter melanie corrida botha it's very much. well they have been subjected to an imaginable cruelty of some seven thousand is the women and young girls in northern iraq were abducted tortured and sexually abused by the so-called islamic state this hour for the militants over ram iraq's northern district just across the border from syria four years ago now i ask has been driven out but some three thousand you see the women are still missing many of them were sold into slavery a reporter brigade to shock i met two people who are trying to find. it breaks my heart she says. shareen sheeran is showing us her hometown singe the ruined city of the yazidi says she's just come back from syria where many young is still being held as slaves who stop at her old school. oh is that a big time to one mother my best friend and i held hands around here. i just took her and made her a slave. she killed herself while she was there prisoner. and i have other friends who are still in their hands. so it's difficult to cope. she

international community after this election so people here are very very skeptical to a large extent melanie corrida ball with the very latest for us from harare thank you very much. let's catch up on some other stories making headlines around the world senior u.s. intelligence officials have accused russia of carrying out what they call a pervasive campaign to influence public opinion ahead of upcoming congressional elections they say moscow is aiming to undermine u.s. democracy by attempting to spread false information and launch cyber attacks to trump administration says it is directing a vast government wide efforts to protect its democratic processes. the presidential election in mali will go on to a second round after initial results show that none of the candidates attained the fifty percent needed for an outright winner current president. came close with forty one percent of the votes while his closest rival some majlis you say won almost eighteen percent the two will meet in a runoff vote next sunday. health officials in the democratic republic of congo say the type of the bowl and the coun

our correspondent melanie corrida ball is in zimbabwe covering the elections for us now she joins us from the capital harare. we've seen some reports of clashes what do we know so for. the situation here in harare it is getting more and more tense it's incredible to see how many helicopters have to pass me they have been made to a major clashes between the m.d.c. and the police and the military just two hundred meters away from me off to scene five minute period tanks passing by and people running a ray from the city center from town they must be incredibly afraid we've been hearing gunshots they're supposed to be rubber bullets but as you've mentioned there is one report of one man having been killed as soon as we have more on better we'll of course inform you now observers have been monitoring this election what have they been saying about it i've been speaking to the head of the e.u. observing commission here earlier today brooke let's have a listen to what he told me i am a broken you tell me what is your assessment of this election first of all it was. much better than any other