i spoke to the chief executive of the electoral commission. parliament set a remit for the electoral commission, which is about making sure that there's transparency and accurately of how monies spent is reported and where money comes from. that's what we're looking at today. it's for us to make sure that where we do find people who have broken those rules, we make that clear, we point that out so people can see what's happened, and indeed they can by looking at our 38—page report that's on our website. but it's a matter for parliament what happens with the referendum. vote leave have said this morning that the electoral commission report contains a number of false accusations and incorrect assertions that are wholly inaccurate. they say it's astonished nobody from vote leave has been interviewed by the commission. it concludes that you are supposedly impartial but perhaps motivated by a political agenda. your reaction to that? i'm disappointed nobody from vote leave was interviewed as well. we asked them five times over a period of three mo

he said checking is the electoral commission's job, not his. but something was amiss with the crc from the very beginning. a small thing, perhaps, but enough to merit a fine from the electoral commission. any unincorporated association like the crc which donates more than £25,000 in a single year, must be registered with the electoral commission. the crc wasn't. spotlight understands the crc was fined £6,000 because it wasn't registered with the electoral commission as required. and because its donation was to a northern ireland party, where the crc got its money remains secret. the electoral commission had urged the government to make all donations since 2014 fully transparent, but the government resisted. we were very disappointed about that. our expectation had been that transparency would be from january 2014 onwards, and we think it's disappointing for the public that they don't get to see that information. and it means that any big donations recently, including the 2016 eu referendum campaign, remain shrouded in secrecy? yes, that's rig

but now the electoral commission says vote leave overspent and broke electoral law. like any other group campaigning in the referendum, vote leave was entitled to spend up to £7 million. but the electoral commission said it overspent by half a million, and it has fined vote leave £61,000. the electoral commission says vote leave worked with another campaign, beleave, to pay a data analytics firm £675,000 for adverts targeting voters. now, the money was sent to the company by beleave, but it came from vote leave. and the commission says vote leave should have declared it. vote leave claims the commission's report is politically motivated. we repeatedly sought co—operation from vote leave, which we didn't get. but we were able to get a whole range of evidence from different sources, which we have closely inspected and looked at in the course of our investigation. and i think we have produced a detailed, robust and impartial report. so i would strongly refute any allegation that the electoral commission isn't independent and impartial, because that is fundamental t

but now the electoral commission says vote leave overspent and broke electoral law. like any other group campaigning in the referendum, vote leave was entitled to spend up to £7 million. but the electoral commission said it overspent by half a million, and it has fined vote leave £61,000. the electoral commission says vote leave worked with another campaign, beleave, to pay a data analytics firm £675,000 for adverts targeting voters. now, the money was sent to the company by beleave, but it came from vote leave. and the commission says vote leave should have declared it. vote leave claims the commission's report is politically motivated. we repeatedly sought co—operation from vote leave, which we didn't get. but we were able to get a whole range of evidence from different sources, which we have closely inspected and looked at in the course of our investigation. and i think we have produced a detailed, robust and impartial report. so i would strongly refute any allegation that the electoral commission isn't independent and impartial, because that is fundamental t

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 tuesday seemed to involve buying the rights to a story by former playboy model karen dougal she was paid eight hundred fifty thousand dollars for her story but was never published president has always denied her claims of an affair. catalonia suppose president carter has pushed him on says he'll head to belgium where help keep pressing for his region's independence it comes after a spanish judge dropped a european arrest warrant for him last week he was detained in germany in march over his role in last year's illegal cason i

but now the electoral commission says vote leave overspent and broke electoral law. like any other group campaigning in the referendum, vote leave was entitled to spend up to £7 million. but the electoral commission said it overspent by half a million, and it has fined vote leave £61,000. the electoral commission says vote leave worked with another campaign, beleave, to pay a data analytics firm £675,000 for adverts targeting voters. now, the money was sent to the company by beleave, but it came from vote leave. and the commission says vote leave should have declared it. vote leave claims the commission's report is politically motivated. we repeatedly sought co—operation from vote leave, which we didn't get. but we were able to get a whole range of evidence from different sources, which we have closely inspected and looked at in the course of our investigation. and i think we have produced a detailed, robust and impartial report. so i would strongly refute any allegation that the electoral commission isn't independent and impartial, because that is fundamental t

the electoral commission. will the prime minister guarantee that her cabinet ministers will fully co-operate with the police investigation? prime minister may: i say to the right honorable gentleman that i actually question the way in which he put his question. mr. speaker, he has made an accusation in this house against members of this house -- [indiscernible] >> order. the question was heard and the prime minister's answer must be heard. the prime minister. prime minister may: the right honorable gentleman has made an accusation in this house against individual members of this house and of the government, and i suggest that when he stands up, he reflects on whether or not it was correct to do so. the electoral commission is an independent regulator, accountable to parliament, not to the government. they have taken steps. the have, as we know, taken steps in relation to the vote leave campaign. i would expect that all those involved and required to do so will give the evidence that is required, and respond ap

commission and opposition parties can be resolved. very the prince you for those. reasons from something while i was doing some concrete provide for some countries of what we discovered in different places is that when. we come. in and actually credibility problem by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if nothing is done to resolve the stalemate his party will announce their own final results will vote counting is complete a move some say could jeopardize the credibility of the polls. al-jazeera. thank. the second world cup semifinal is underway in moscow with england playing croatia for a place in sunday's final against france and the riches in moscow for us and they at the moment it's still england winning one nail would just say it's a scoreline is a fair reflection of how the game has gone so far. seems to be at the moment they came into this game with seemingly that the p.r. vibe coming out of the squad was that we're not nervous we're excited about this opportunity and they've certainly played in that way so far i thi

and the electoral law exists to ensure their campaigning and the electoral commission has determined that those rules have been broken. both the vote to leave and be leave have been referred to the police. it would not be appropriate for the government to comment on ongoing police investigations. that electoral rules have been breached is rightly a cause for concern but it does not mean that the rules themselves were flawed. the government will continue to work closely with the electoral commission along with many other stakeholders in the electoral system to protect the integrity, security and effectiveness of referendums and elections. let me also make it clear for the record that we will continue to implement the referendum results and to make a success of it. labour's chuka umunna, accused vote leave of being an affront to democracy sot) theirfindings of their findings of the electoral commission are shocking and vote to leave's action is an affront to our democracy. that fundamental british value of fair play. the commission's legal counsel described vote to leave's behaviour as

electoral commission to be given the power to impose largerfines. at electoral commission to be given the power to impose larger fines. at the moment they are limited to just £20,000. some campaigners have warned mps against overreacting. we have also heard from the former director of vote leave, who actually lea ked director of vote leave, who actually leaked this report after refusing to be interviewed by mps for it, and he has described it as fake news. a 24—year—old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and sexual activity with a child, after the death of a 13—year—old girl. lucy mchugh‘s body was found in woodland in southampton on thursday. she'd been reported missing the night before. the man remains in police custody. a raging wildfire in northern california has killed two firefighters and forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. officials say the fires are being sucked up by strong winds to form "fire tornados" that are uprooting trees and overturning cars. more than 3,000 fire fighters are trying to prevent

when the electoral commission the focal point in the civil society organizations political parties were confident this is going to go through and so far we haven't had any complaints about open little thank you so much progress and that's it from a syrian bomb acoa adrian thank you so much mohammed vow now i want to being described as flaming tornadoes have destroyed entire neighborhoods in northern california us police say that at least five people have been killed by the wildfires including two small children seventeen others are missing in the city of reading cable is on the reports. tornado like funnels of fire ash and combustible gas residents say was unlike anything they've seen before just like in oklahoma you see like on the wizard of oz there also uses seen points like a wall flames and then there are sheets of metal for an around like two hundred feet near. fueled by steep terrain hot weather and dry brush what was left the smoldering remnants after an out of control wildfire that scorched northern california you know five hundred structures burned to the ground including hund

through a field saw the pakistani electoral commission for the first time this year is using a special software that is use that to tally and to collect all of the results from different polling stations across the country and of course the idea behind that was about you would get to the resolve much quicker but as we see it we're still waiting for the final results from the electoral commission but i can first of all show you how this software is supposed to work so at every polling station there is somebody who supervises the whole electoral process and that person is supposed to download an app this app is then used to take a photo of the so called form forty five now this is the form that shows how many votes it's candidate for each party has received so you take a photo you also manually enter the number of the votes that the candidates have received and then you send that to their database of the central database of the electoral commission that is the idea behind the whole system but then last night when the results started coming in it was just too much for the services of the

zimbabwe's main opposition party and its supporters have marched to the country's electoral commission to demand reforms it says are vital for a credible vote this month the movement for democratic change insists there needs to be a deal on how to design print and store ballot papers to ensure the system is fair the country will pick a new president and members of parliament on july the thirtieth in the first election since gabi was forced to resign late last year haiti's prime minister jack entente has given no indication he will resign despite widespread antigovernment protests in four days of unrest over the government's plan to raise fuel prices in the impoverished nation which have left several people dead. those the top stories that from may but do stay with us analogise are people in power coming up next. the i.m.f. said riyadh's breakeven although price twenty eighteen is likely to be around eighty eight dollars a barrel why is argentina again turning to the i.m.f. to help now we bring you the stories that are shaping the economic world we live in counting the cost on al-jazeer

well the electoral commission is telling people to be patient until they start releasing official results they said so far that the voter turnout was really good more so than in twenty thirty with us a lot of voter apathy with does indicate a lot of people excited to vote in terms what we know so far at individual polling stations results in just one polling station. these for the national assembly and you can see over here the m.d.c. alliance led by the main opposition leader nelson chamisa got three hundred thirty eight. thirty eight votes by the station and then we have got two hundred and seventy three now depends where you go in some places. that's needed and not be in d.c. people were excited about voting because they're hoping that this could turn around the economy lots of people queued up to vote on monday many of them young unemployed hoping that whoever wins does something to turn around the stagnant economy. it's the first vote without robert mugabe on the ballot in nearly four decades. the man who is now in charge president in a similar promise of the general elections period

should be examined modest officials at the electoral commission said i had said that the algorithm to listen to the concerns was listened started but they say it was not even they don't know was to vote says on the votes are all either the inside proposition or someone said they see off the ballot paper but they are demanding to say they want to be able to be taken to make so they don't know it and that is they had anxiety that is glad to try to make this election the next or the most insistent bob was law does not allow an opposition supporters to look at the paper before god said for security reasons but these people say they are not having that and they threatening to try and stop the election from going ahead if that does not happen the next time it was on june i think here international observers already in the country are watching the games and very very closely are going to be the first election without robert reviving the former president on the ballot so was. sixty s. . they are just an hour away from kickoff in the second world cup semifinal and you end up playing croatia fo

commission is using new software which it never actually tested before we were told so now they have to get the server back up and running so that itself is not a sign of things going wrong i mean if you look at the white a bigger picture maybe but it looks as if we should get the results later on in the day. and concurrence so far. is leading what is it promising the country does he represent the kind of change the country wants and needs. so he's running on an anti corruption platform and that is definitely what the people i've been talking to is one they're sick of they're basically two main parties here in pakistan they're dynastic parties where offices are passed on from family member to family member over the years these two main parties own credibly corrupt they're known for bestselling funds and people want that to change they want a new start and they want someone who can address the issues they really care about which is the economy which is poverty alleviation which is electricity and water the incredible water shortages here electricity shortages and that's what the peopl

commission was a disaster the settlement problem we have is this ten million elector we have seen with. no fingerprint so. this problem have to be silva because you go to the election otherwise what is the sense of an election where the day after devoid will be contest for what i think congo need the stability and stability to restart always a peaceful electoral process do you think that president kabila will be worried that you will focus the opposition forces and change the corruption change everything about the d r c do you think he really poses determined to make sure that you don't succeed. not very survey i mean in the politic i think that the most important for me is what the people of congo want and if i'm doing politic is to forbes solve a problem for the people of congo that is what i'm the most interesting so of course i'm understanding that some people maybe worry about but this shouldn't mean just someone trying to find solution for his country and for the people of the country were my brother and sister but you're going to register as a candidate by the deadline and alrea

given what we have just heard about the draft report from the electoral commission, how can the result of that referendum still be considered valid? i think there were many reasons why people voted as they did in the referendum. they were worried that globalisation had passed a number of communities and concern about immigration and concerned about the perceived threat to independence and sovereignty. there were home—grown reasons why people voted as they did, independent of the influences the noble lord looks to. if one looks at the potential involvement of the russia, the number of tweets involved in no way accounted for the 1.3 million who voted for leave rather than remain. when the noble lord stood ten or 11 elections in the 1970s, 80s and 90s, would he accept that had he been found to have overspent to any material extent, that his seat would have been forfeited and he himself or someone else would have had to refight his election? does the principle apply to referendum? we should respect the result of the referendum. there are a number of inquiries going on the commission are

we seem to keep on hearing, given the electoral commission has not definitively declared a winner? those announcements started very early this morning. soon after the vote counting process was finished and the polling stations. there is a requirement that the results posted outside each polling station so ordinary people, political parties, were already doing their own permutations and coming to their own conclusions. but the electoral commission is warning that false declarations or announcements that are not officially verified could be misleading and there might be tension when political parties celebrate and then the result is contrary. so that really is a concern here. and what about what we are hearing from observers and those monitoring the vote, pointing out a number of irregularities in what they have seen? many of the observers have said that voting was largely peaceful. the electoral commission itself has confirmed that about 1% of the people that turned up to vote were turned away because their names did not appear on the voters roll. but generally the observers that we

commission is criticizing adrian thanks. chris there in harare. to the u.s. to our emergency services are battling wildfires in northern california that have killed eight people and destroyed thousands of acres of land tinder dry conditions and very hot temperatures have calls almost twenty wildfires to ignite one of the worst affected regions is the area around the breading city in shasta county police there have confirmed the pirates killed two young children and their great grandmother. neighborhoods reduced to ash and rubble the smell of char still hanging in the air some families in this northern california community had only fifteen minutes to flee. the wind just took off and i don't remember exactly what they called it it's almost like a tornado with fire in it and it came over the hill and. it wiped out our house and wiped out our next door neighbor's home. firefighters and emergency personnel have been working around the clock to alert residents before the wildfires reached them in shostak county some thirty eight t

the secretary of the electoral commission saying there is no conspiracy nor any pressure in delay of the results the delays being caused because the results transmission system has a color lapse and we're also seeing of people calling for or wanting these people that are responsible for this software to be held accountable for example here we have a statement of the head of the information technology board of the province of punjab says the last time it was technology is failure to very five votes this time it's a failed system that is transmitting of these results technology of national importance should not be left to such amateurish attends those responsible must be punished and meanwhile we've heard that all of you opponents of iran contra said that they will not accept the results for example here we have his closest rival if he said this yesterday already in fact saying this is an outright rigging and the results based on massive rigging will cause irreparable damage to the country but of course i'm rita meanwhile iran khan has already declared himself winner and in his first s

fines of just electoral commission can only impose fines ofjust £20,000. there have been warnings from some campaigners who say mps risk overreacting and impeding people's right to freedom of speech and we heard from dominic cummings, the former director of vote leave the official campaign to leave the eu, and healy this report yesterday —— he leaked this report. he refused to be involved in the report, he was not interviewed. he has described this as fake news. we have heard from the government, as well, and this is a report from backbench mps and so the government would have to take on these recommendations for this to come into play, they have said they will look at the report and by looking at online safety laws to make it much more safe than it is now. thanks for joining us. much more on that tomorrow when the report officially comes up. a man travelling by horse and cart has been killed in a collision with a car in south east london. the victim, who's in his 30s, was pronounced dead at the scene on the a2016 near thamesmead this morning. the hors

the official results could only be announced by the electoral commission we're not. the actions. civic organizations individuals and other interested groups. are pretty clear in that they will a mouse was also respect for the progress of the law ladies and gentlemen sure no one wants to provoke the ruffled. so into you. with both the rulings on party and the main opposition to see alliance confident of victory the stakes are high there can be only one winner and should all be a window be a loser. but zimbabwe as a country will be that world winner if everybody please their part of the world whoever wins must be magnanimous in victory and whoever loses must be gracious in defeat. in africa elections often the stakes are very high and nobody has a backup plan for losing diplomats and observer groups say the race we saw a turnout of seventy five percent is too close to call. al-jazeera. south africa's president says the ruling african national congress will push ahead with plans for the expropriation of land from white farmers without compensation so around opposers says the a.n.c.

at the same time the electoral commission has asked zimbabwe and is to remain peaceful and said there has been an element 01’ and said there has been an element oran and said there has been an element or an atmosphere of peace throughout this election period, and also police have urged all members or supporters of the various political parties to shun any form of violence while the country waits for the official result to be announced. we also heard from the electoral commission, saying it can guarantee and it is confident there has not been any rigging or cheating that has taken place and also said it will not subvert the will of the people. thank you. "wow" — that's how geraint thomas summed up his feelings standing on the podium in paris after winnning the tour de france. the first welshman to wear the famous yellow jersey, thomas started the tour as a 14—to—1 outsider. well, nowjust a couple of days after riding to victory, the cyclist has been reflecting on his extraordinary achievement. natalie pirks reports. it's a geraint thomas! he's a double olympic champion and thre

the zimbabwe electoral commission overseeing the election insists it is different this time. the opposition and many in civil society do not believe them and the problem is the longer it goes on without a declaration the greater the suspicion will be. i think you will see pressure from the international community, perhaps from the church, for a winner to be declared. that will not end the crisis and along with that you will see the international community pressing both sides to damp down rhetoric which is essential to stop the war of words between the two size so when a winner is declared there will be negotiation that might see nelson chamisa of the mdc and president mnangagwa as he is now come together and agree to disagree on how they got to that point, and at least go forward in peace, so this country can have stability. thank you. there are calls for labour to suspend a member of its ruling body, after he was recorded calling some members of the jewish community "trump fa natics". peter willsman — an ally ofjeremy corbyn — claimed that accusations of anti—semitism

and civil society groups in zimbabwe is seeking a court order that would all stay electoral commission to publish results from all polling stations off to monday's vote. also developments in syria the army along with its allies has reportedly taken full control of the are moved by some in southwestern syria after driving out myself elsewhere in the country forces loyal to the president have continued on the province of idlib activists have reported shelling on just assure south of ellipse city and in neighboring hama province they say the nearby town of bug i first alms is the only significant territory still held by rebel fighters. meanwhile the u.n. special envoy to syria says he wants agreement. from iran russia and turkey on the formation of a body for drafting a new constitution to found a mysterious says he hopes to finalize the plan in september make the comments is the latest round of peace talks wrapped up in the russian city of sochi all parties vowed to work towards the resettlement of syrian refugees as well as a pilot project for prisoner swaps between the government and t

at the moment the largest fine the electoral commission can impose is just £20,000 which is not very much you are talking about massive companies which make billions in revenue. “— companies which make billions in revenue. —— if you are talking about. there have been warnings about some mps possibly overreacting, though, from campaigners, and dominic cummings, the director of vote leave, he refused to be interviewed by the electoral commission. vote leave was fined by the electoral commission a few weeks back for overspending during the referendum campaign, and he has described this as fake news. both sides of that town have been accused of that. and still are. —— both sides of that camp. let's talk to tom baldwin — author of the book: "control; alt; delete: how politics and the media crashed our democracy". he is also a former spin doctorfor ed miliband in the 2015 election. fake news is another name for propaganda which has been around for hundreds of years, but it is easier to do now. easier to get to people with it? my book sets out a 30 year abusive relationship be

commission and opposition parties can be resolved. very different from something while. some provided for in some countries are. in different places is that when. we have. the ability part the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if nothing is done to resolve the stalemate his party will announce their own final results will vote counting is complete a move some say could jeopardize the credibility of the polls. there are reports of an agreement between the syrian government forces and rebels in the city the syrian state news agency says rebels will hand over their weapons and people who are trapped will be allowed to leave the syrian government's widened its offensive to recover southwestern territories including an enclave held by isis a linked fighters russian warplanes are backing the assault on yarmuk bases which borders the israeli occupied golan heights and jordan rebels from the free syrian army are also battling eisel fighters in the area the syrian government has recovered a large parts of the province from the rebels

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 former playboy model karen mcdougal one hundred fifty thousand dollars for her story about her affair allegedly with the with mr trump they then never printed it. nine days after the helsinki summit in the white house is still hasn't released any of the details of the one on one meeting between president trump and president putin that will be one of the questions put to trump's top diplomat as he goes before a senate panel on wednesday our state department correspondent ruslan jordan has more. when u.s. president donald trump w

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 to a filing by the government and the american civil liberties union at least eight hundred seventy nine children have so far been reunited with their parents but the administration says four hundred sixty three parents have already left the country and it's not known if they were removed by force and it's also not known how long families will be given to decide whether to seek asylum the government's proposed a four day waiting period but that's three days shorter than what the union the says is fair well heidi jocasta is joining us n

commission and opposition parties can be resolved. the prince you use. for instance. some countries provide for some countries of what we discovered in different places is a. credibility problem but the main opposition leader nelson chamisa says if nothing is done to resolve the stalemate his party will announce their own final results will vote counting is complete a move some say could jeopardize the credibility of the polls. i'll just. say with us on the news hour still to come on the program japan's prime minister visits the areas worst hit by doubly floods a promising to return things to normal as quickly as possible. dislike ugandans take to the streets over a new social media tax and former world number one novak djokovic battles his way through to the semifinals when. on the details coming up in sports. still plenty of warm sunshine across western parts of europe at the moment largely clear skies once again little bit of cloud just spilling its way out into the atlantic and that will not just well little further research as we

here's more from the electoral commission. repeatedly sought co—operation from vote leave which we did not get what we got a whole range of evidence from different sources which we have closely inspected, and at and over the course of an investigation, we have reduced a details, robust and impartial reports i've reviewed any claims that we are not impartial because it is fundamental to what we do. vote leave released this statement saying the report contained "a number of false accusations." and saying that it "provided evidence to the electoral commission proving there was no wrongdoing." we also know the founder of beleave, darren grimes, has been reported to the police. you may well remember this bus. it was a big part of the vote leave campaign. so were people like borisjohnson who you can see getting off it. the opposition labour party wants key members of vote leave to be investigated for possible misconduct. vicki young has been following the story in westminister. laws on spending during elections we re laws on spend

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 to cross into the u.s. . it's over forty degrees celsius as the sun beats down on the u.s. mexican border atop a concrete bridge connecting the two countries a few dozen families huddled under what little shade they can find some have been here for three days the heat is unbearable but we've already suffered to get here this man and his five year old son are from hundred us they travel twenty days to make it this far near steps from the u.s. now they're waiting to claim political asylum and eleven courteously

parliament set a remit for the electoral commission which is about making sure there is transparency and accurately of how the money spent is reported and where it comes from. and that is where we are looking at today and it is for us to make sure that where we do find people who have broken those rules, we make that clear. i am voting to leave the european union. the commission found that vote leave linked up with a youth brexit group, beleave, run by darren grimes, he has been fined £20,000 and has been referred to the police. the investigation centered on a donation of more than £675,000 made by vote leave to this smaller group. the commission said they should have counted towards vote leave's £7 million spending limit because the two groups were working closely together. it means vote leave exceeded its limit by almost half a million pounds. my name is ann and i am calling from vote leave. but vote leave says it is confident the findings will be overturned because the report contains what it calls false accusations. it is a very one—sided report and we wish they'd followed d

the two presidential candidates have both hinted at victory, but zimbabwe's electoral commission has warned final results may not be known before the 4th of august. >> we're absolutely confident that there was no cheating. we're absolutely confident 2w4r was no rigging. we would like to assure the people that we as an electoral commission will not steal their choice of leaders. >> according to preliminary figures, monday's vote attracted a high turnout at 60% to 78% in some areas. the election was also the first to allow international observers in 16 years. amid concerns of fraud and voter intimidation. >> a the process of collating those results ward by ward, constituency by constituency and then having them sent to us for the presidential results, this is why it will take us a few days. >> if no candidate wins at least 50% of the vote, a runoff will be held on the 8th of seseember. claire: mali's election might go to a second round according to the opposition party. he's set for a runoff against the antetokounmpo. sunday's election was calm in the capital but there was violence in

the electoral commission in relation to the vote leave matter has said that will consider representations it has received and will publish a thorough and detailed closing report in order to provide a balanced account and we will of course consider that report when the government receives it and we will also consider any recommendations arising from it when it is released. now, let us take a look at some other news in brief. child welfare organisations told mps that some children were being groomed by internet live streaming services and they called for a more robust system of age verification. i have seen it myself. for bbc and channel 4 news reports. i did them a few years ago. you would almost have, like predatory adults, live grooming children. you would see children just sitting there, innocently in their bedrooms, talking about their day, very innocuous content and then you would start to see, almost like a pack mentality, adults coming on, saying, can you lift up your top? text messaging, can you lift up your top? and then you see this child, responding, in real—time, saying, what

the electoral commission is blaming computer glitches for the delay in the counting of votes. for the baileys i have our correspondent me only congress by she's covering the pakistani elections for us the counting of votes as a result has been delayed is that a warning sign. i'm not entirely sure it's a worrying sign maybe it's just a sign of things not going quite as smoothly as they should here the problem is that a server crashed it turns out that the electoral commission is using new software which it never actually tested before we were told so now they have to get the server back up and running so that itself is not a sign of things going wrong i mean if you look at the white a bigger picture maybe but it looks as if we should get the results later on in the day. and from current so far and there we can is leading what is in promising the country does he represent the kind of change the country wants and needs. so he's running on an anti corruption platform and that is definitely what the people i've been talking to is one they're sick of their basically two main parties

commission says this is down to software problems they using new software that and it's also a question of getting the results in from the different polling stations we have more than eighty thousand polling stations all across pakistan the opposition is calling foul they say the devotes were rigged and that they do not want to accept the results as they come trickling in the big question is what they will do with that they will mobilize. people they have the potential of mobilizing loads of people and whether they some might get turned violent but i really would prefer shahbaz sharif and the other opposition parties have that this vote has actually been rigged. so they're saying that the party officials were not allowed in when the votes were being current to they said this happened in quite a few million stations that would contravene election rules that would in fact be very difficult so we need to see what the e.u. election observers say there's a press conference tomorrow afternoon whether they indeed uphold these these allegations of breaking now this comes after of a violent and

the electoral commission has said so, the information commissioner's office has said so. i think that will actually pass but it has to do is fairly quickly. is there a danger this will get caught up there a danger this will get caught up in the argument about how the new referendum was conducted, and people will end upjust referendum was conducted, and people will end up just been referendum was conducted, and people will end upjust been pushed back into their traditional partisan positions on that rather than engaging with the argument behind it, which is about more than just that referendum campaign, it is about every election still to come. i hope not. the way that i see this, it is not just i hope not. the way that i see this, it is notjust about i hope not. the way that i see this, it is not just about where i hope not. the way that i see this, it is notjust about where the tech is now, where is developing? we are producing more data and they will be more of this coming. this report to me is about the long—term integrity of elections. people trust that they are fai

at the moment the electoral commission can only impose fines of £20,000. there have been warnings from some campaigners who are saying that mps risk overreacting and actually impeding peoples right to freedom of will be have also heard from dominic cummings, he is the former director of vote leave, which was the official campaign to leave the eu. he actually leaked this report that is supposed to come out tomorrow. he leaked it yesterday. he refused to be involved in the report when mps wanted to interview him. he was not interviewed. he has described this is fake news. i have also heard from the government today. this was a report by backbench mps. what would have to happen as the government that had to take on those recommendations for any of these to come into play. the government has said it will consider final recommendations but is looking for new, online safety laws to make being online much safer than it is now. a man travelling by horse and cart has been killed in a collision with a car in south east london. the victim, who's in his thirties, was