good to talk to you, sophie ikenye from bbc world in harare.ies during the bidding process which led to it being awarded the world cup in 2022. the sunday times claims pr firms and former cia agents were used to generate fake propaganda — in breach of rules drawn up by football's governing body, fifa. qatar says it rejects each and every allegation. the chair of digital, culture, media and sport committee, damian collins, has called for a full investigation into the allegations. well, these are really serious allegations, a whistle—blower has said he was involved in a kind of black—ops communications campaign seeking to undermine support in other countries bidding against qatar to host the world cup, to undermine support for their bids. that is a breach of fifa's rules, very specifically, and if the qatari bid team were involved in a campaign like that, it means they have broken the rules of the bidding process. it is a really serious matter that requires a proper investigation and fifa to be involved in investigating that as well. i think fifa

we can go to harare and speak to our correspondent sophie ikenye. there was a huge turnout, much more than there has been before in zimbabwe, because even as we went through the polling stations, we could see a lot more young people who, before, had actually avoided voting saying why vote when we know that the results will be the same? today generally was a peaceful day, a peaceful election. the head of the eu observer mission said he was pleased with the process so far and said the only thing that he regretted was the fa ct only thing that he regretted was the fact that voter roll was not available to the opposition. so generally speaking, it has been a peaceful process and the votes will be closing in about 40 minutes from now. those who are still queueing we have been told will be allowed to vote until they have managed to do so. we have seen the main candidates, the incoming president emmerson mnangagwa, who voted today and the main opposition leader, that is nelson chamira —— that is nelson chamisa and the former president robert mugabe, who als