any other use, the federal election commission allowed them to do it. until 2008, they did not even exist in law. they existed in reality but the law did not recognize them until then. host: are there now restrictions on who they can raise money from or how much they can raise? there is plenty of those kinds of restrictions on the usual campaign committees. guest: on the campaign committees they do still have the limits on how much these leadership pacs can accept and there are limits on how much an individual can give and one another -- and what another pac can give. there are no limits on what the leadership pac can give out and spend. there are reporting requirements. you can see all the money that is coming in. $5,000 or $10,000 or $2700 from an individual -- those get reported to the federal election commission, and you can see -- if you take the time -- where the money goes. host: if i have a leadership pac, is there a limit on how much you can give me? guest: there are limits. the amount of money i can give your pac is the same amount i can give

result zimbabwe's election commission is set to announce the winner in less than an hour opposition leader nelson chemist says that he is the legitimate winner and he claims that the result could be rigged to favor the incumbent zanu p emerson minin god well international observers have appealed for calm and security after security forces killed six protesters last night today police raided the headquarters of the opposition movement for democratic change in herat. i think a little police and how forcing their way into the hat quotas of the opposition movement for democratic change they say they're investigating the m.d.c. is presidential candidate nelson chamisa and others for inciting violence after yesterday's deadly demonstrations chamisa repeated his claims that incumbent president amisom one get one break the polls and that he claimed victory for himself thanks to someone i know but no that is the last to say that if it won this election there's a little if they don't know something. just a day earlier so she has cracked down on the protests in the capital harare demonstrators

you'd expect a mix and commission managed to comment on the election results and. getting transmitted to the national tallies sent to. not have happened and the question was what's going on and we've been blazing this at the electoral commission now as we speak for mission has been issuing out. for house of assembly elections and i've given to them has been. the result of what i've been declared to the constituent center why not just proceed to announce the presidential designs reship not yet been. seem to amount to that. that it would have been declared any. regulations in terms of elections should be election results should be handled. when moved from the polling station to the workplace and send them to the constituent percent that. probably at the. end when they get to the national center what should happen is that the president should be the ones that. we have not yet been. given they didn't intend to. by this time. would have been that now this is something that to we. we think it plays a question that i'm transparency and accountability on the part of the el

the election commission says it's rejected his application because he's been convicted by the international criminal court bamba seen as a possible frontrunner for the job he were trying to take part in the vote after serving a decade in prison in the hague for war crimes he can appeal against the decision ahead of december selection. the international committee of the red cross says nearly a million ethiopians have been forced to flee their homes after a surge in violence fighting between the and people has been taking place along the border areas off and west googy. reports. these ethiopian families sheltering in a courthouse fled for their lives there among the nearly one million people displaced over the past four months. two men and we came here because we were attacked we left our village empty handed to save our lives we traveled and spent three days in the bush to get here. these internally displaced goodale people say they were attacked by mobs of oromo which is the largest ethnic group in ethiopia many don't have food and clean water and they're at risk of malnutrition and disease

election commission of pakistan says that days were fair and free elections the opposition alliance has also announced a day of protests they have blocked certain highway leading from the high book to inquire province to words send and upon jobs and also of blocking a man argyria lie where from quite to the of one border saw the opposition of god coming out on the road burning tires disrupting the traffic behind me you can see some activity this is the election commission of pakistan where all the legislators who took part in the election and had party take a thread of the last election or won the election are all going to congregate in front of the election commission for a protest because they have said that this will be a peaceful protest and they have called for the resignation of the election commissioner could this damage imran com well at the moment imran khan is in a strong correlation it is unlikely to have an effect on his government however there are some complications because some of the election results have been rigged . there's a recount going on there by the emraan s

no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced provisional results were that president abraham katter winning forty one percent rival somalia came second with seventeen percent. undecided led coalition in yemen has denied carrying out an airstrike in his data that killed at least twenty six people the strike hit a port fishing port and fish markets near the main hospital if the rebels say fifty five people died. because he was present daniel ortega is taking unprecedented action in order to question a nationwide uprising against him a new antiterrorism law target students and demonstrators who take part in street protests are latin america editor lucien newman has more from the capital. until a few weeks ago twenty year old man was a familiar face on the streets of managua a massive anti-government protests. as a student leader he took part in a short lived national dialogue with president daniel like mediated by the catholic church. today he's almost a fugitive implicated under a new anti-terrorism law and he says afraid for his life now you know th

raided its headquarters and detained party leaders today the election commission is set to release the official results within minutes also coming up. my dad made them their children he and them but they just started attacking us even mean viciously and my husband was lying dead in front of me after that i lost consciousness times a moment and exclusive reports on a series of attacks by four white gangs on the roma community in ukraine what is fueling the violence. also coming up alpha will become civilian first company u.s. company to topple one that trillion dollars in market value the latest while so for a company that began in a garage forty two years ago. and breaking through the great firewall of china google is reportedly secretly working on a censored search engine for the chinese market google for china with what controversial terms and websites not approved by the communist party. it's good to have you with us tonight the capital of zimbabwe is on lockdown the entire country bracing for the announcement of the presidential election results zimbabwe's election commission is se

laura: but election observers are as election commission has not yet announced the results of the presidtial poll. what could be the possible reason for theelay? peter: that is a real question. they announced results for all but 17 of the parliamentary races. 1-wood -- one would think the votes would have been collated.h e might be legitimate reasons for the delay. certainly within the legal timeframe. but in the climate and they histd everything, this feeds a sense of paranoia, it feeds a sense of suspicion. s ura: the opposition is saying that because thereis delay they feel that the votes are being stolen from them. peter: we dow't know. d urge the election commission to publish the results credibly and completely to dispel this. but their delay is adding to a very tenseituation. laura: wasn't this supposed to be such a moment of promise for zimbabwe, finally moving away from the era of robert mugabe? peter: i think that is what the people of zimbabwe were hoping for, and what many in the international community were hoping for, tt with a credible, free election, one that reflected the wi

the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote. i would like to guarantee you that we have a very strong case and we are going to overturn this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised we are going to defend yourselves our voice the people's what this involvement was. that. post-election clashes have already resulted in a number of people being killed including sylvia my foes a mother of two. although many zimbabweans are hopeful this case will put an end to the violence and uncertainty there's no guarantee that these judges will change anything. and here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world the afghan government have said it will not send a delegation to moscow for a russian brokered peace conference with the taliban next month a spokesman for the afghan government telling that it will only take part in talks initiated by itself the u.s. has also canceled its participation hundreds of elderly koreans have said their final emotional goodbyes to relatives at the end of a rare or un

vote the election commission announced provincial results with president if it came with a cock a to winning forty one percent his rivals ceasing came second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence in thousands of polling stations some election convoys were targeted by gunman or mohamed vall joining us on the phone from bamako mohammed how much of a surprise is it that the president hasn't won enough votes. rob it's not quite a surprise to many here because mahdi has always seen its election and when you think you've gone so that's your position has been gaining a lot of momentum going in the last couple of years remember. the opposition last year those big rallies last basically by position parties have been able to force president to buy a bucket he tried to withdraw from the constitutional amendment that he wanted to introduce so that was like a big win for the opposition party. and they built on the momentum coming up to the selection so my. you know i'm going to support through to him that he even that was surpri

has been told that he can't compete in the upcoming presidential election the election commission says it's rejected his application because he's been charged by the international criminal court with tampering with witnesses and there has been seen as a possible front runner for the presidency he came back to kinshasa to take part in the election after serving a decade in prison for war crimes he has a week in which to appeal for her even heard of an is a professor of government at georgetown university here in doha he says it's like the opposition could look at solutions outside the courtroom. it's extremely unlikely that this will result in a productive from his from his you point but then this was always going to be the case i mean the electoral commission which is supposedly independent has long been painted by and by his supporters is deeply partisan as coming up with inflammatory statements inflammatory rules so what is most likely to happen is indeed the supporters will take to the streets and will seek to find other ways extra legal ways to try to shape this this election this

is the commonwealth election observers are asking zimbabwe's looked royal commission to release the full results they also denounce what they call an excessive use of force by security forces. we cut to gary could be known as the excessive use of force against civilians and wish to engage all parties to exercise restraint zimbabwe electoral commission to exploit votes the announcements of. results. that the least creates opportunities for speculation about possible manipulation of the results before we bring in our guests let's take a look at the timeline of how we got here last november following mass protests and military intervention president robert mugabe stepped down after thirty seven years in power the same month it was replaced by emerson minh agogo who had previously served as vice president and in god promised to bring change she called general elections and and biden international observers to monitor them twenty three candidates were on the presidential ballot but the main contenders are men agogo and the opposition m.d.c. nelson chamisa. let's bring in our guests now and ha

the electoral commission said he won july's presidential election with just over fifty percent of the vote. i would like to guarantee you that we have a very strong case and we have a way to overturn this electoral fraud consistent with what we promised we are going to defend you know force our force the people's fault this in but with what i . post election clashes have already resulted in a number of people being killed including sylvia my phone a mother of two. although many zimbabweans are hopeful this court case will put an end to the violence and uncertainty there's no guarantee that these judges will change anything. for in recent months italy has tightened its border controls nelle spain has become the main just a nation for african migrants trying to reach europe and one in three point in spain's and northern african on claims of. hundreds of migrants have stormed fences in a bid to enter european territory at least one hundred fifty people managed to cross and in a bid to hinder more from entering the territory authorities have erected a six metre high fence along the eight

election commission says it's disqualified him because the international criminal court convicted him of tampering with witnesses who are seen as a possible front runner for ten time to take part in the vote after serving a decade in prison for war crimes peter sharp reports. the decision by the country's electoral commission to reject bemba and his opposition party from upcoming presidential elections in the congo will do little to lessen the tension on the streets of contrasts the former prime minister has a strong following in the capital but then because party secretary eva ziba appeared to call for calm. we'll stick to the law and contest the electoral commission decision and defend their. candidacy as president of the republic the first procedure of pearls will be to go to the constitutional court and after that we'll see what direction our political party wants to take member returned to the country to declare his candidacy earlier this month after eleven years in exile he was excluded because of his conviction by the international criminal court for bribing witnesses burma was

election commission says it's reject his application because he was convicted by the international criminal court of tampering with witnesses member who is seen as a possible front runner returned home to take part in the vote after serving a decade in prison for war crimes he can still appeal against the decision head of the election harry for hovan is a professor of government at georgetown university cata he says it's likely the opposition could look at solutions outside of the courtroom. it's extremely unlikely that this will result in anything productive from his from his you print but then this was always going to be the case i mean the electoral commission which is supposedly independent has long been painted by ben burned by his supporters as deeply partisan as coming up with inflammatory statements of inflammatory rules so what is most likely to happen is indeed supporters will take to the streets and will seek to find other ways extra legal ways to try to shape this this election this process perhaps even to boycott to try to derail it and of course to try to appeal for for intern

from election commission. who want to sponsible for the rigged elections. but the people of baghdad don't have warded for change many of the big all the gods who have been ruling this country for decades have suffered a humiliating defeat they don't have any option. for people like drop by get done they have blocked roads which had led to a long traffic jam and no doubt why bring the government down even before it gets taken over a photo journalist detained in bangladesh is back in police custody after being given the all clear in a medical exam shadow has accused police of torturing him in jail where he's been since sunday he was detained i was doing an interview with al jazeera about anti government protests human rights watch is calling for an investigation into allegations that he was abused or bangladesh has information minister says it was not detained for his journalism. he has been a student of sutton towns of which we are looking into it but as of today he will produce to the court the courtroom he said what will happen to him but he has not really

commission says the invalid p.f. won a majority of seats in parliament. elections were competitive. due to painful selection peaceful and overall political freedoms during the campaign including treat them as a movement assembly and speech the respected well of them is usual state reasons resources instances of creation and interests of intimidation parties in behavior by traditional leaders and over all but biased in state media all in favor of the ruling party meant that a truly little playing field was not yet achieved in other news congolese former rebel leaders on poor bemba has returned to a welcome from hundreds of supporters in the capital kinshasa bemba was convicted of war crimes of the hague but freed in may after an appeal in almost a one and long delayed elections shadowed for december catherine sawyer has more from can chasa. many many of the places accompanied him they polices whilst we're accompanying him there is a lot of security presence here he not only warning i may not be supportive who say that

days there mustn't mungo what has been declared as the winner by the then bob greene election commission do you think he bring about democracy in the country as he's promised. you know what it's for me it's difficult to tell what exactly it is mind but i can tell you what it is that he's expected to do as a new president he has to obey defend and fulfill the constitution so he has to do that in order to quell all these doubts about the capacity of zanu p.f. . to actually transform itself because this has been underlying issue that has been . for the last fifty years and even in the past elections there's a tremendous amount of skepticism about whether. an african problem transcends across the continent about how. change its spots so in this case he has to he's got to show that indeed he does have good intentions and have the capacity to deliver what was one of his close to deliver. zimbabweans want to. show that he can do that but the skepticism jessie is highest in the party the m.d.c. the leader of the m.d.c. the movement for democratic change nelson chamisa has described these electio

vote the election commission announced early results with president brahim. with forty one percent rival somalia say came second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence and thousands of polling stations the health ministry of the democratic republic of congo says it's identified the strain of a bowler in the country's latest outbreak medics say is the strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past and international team is in the town of benny in north kivu where the outbreak was detected on wednesday twenty people are confirmed to have died from the disease and four others are ill. tech giant apple has become the first company to hit a valuation of one trillion dollars on the u.s. stock markets the market was reach for an apple share price tipped over to one hundred seven two hundred seven dollars china has been overtaken by japan as the world's second largest stock market the shanghai composite index as drop six percent since the start of the year those were the headline

they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and he killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against the r.u.c. or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having a responsible man process is. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first african election history . meanwhile the city of cause me which is about one hundred fifty one letter southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between ta

they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against the r.u.c. or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of land grabbing and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first in the afghan election history let's stay in afghanistan because the city of around one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the

they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against the r.u.c. or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible man protested. the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's the first in the afghan election history meanwhile the city of gaffney iran one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing some of the fiercest clashes between. afgha

used by security forces and also question the a partiality of the election commission we will have more on this in half an hour to stay with us here on alt. corrupt officials have been ousted. and the activists of the chinese village of cam take center stage and on the precedented local elections. in the first of a remarkable series filmed of the five years al-jazeera documents of a village committed. rebels to politician. wanna be china's democracy experiment and i have to say. i am for me ok and you are in the stream today why is the us government run detention center at guantanamo bay is still open we explore why years after nine eleven some people remain jailed at the facility despite never being charged with any crime imo they could be and we are now live on you tube still leave your comments in the shop for us to include in the conversation this morning i watch president obama talking about went on about but which by the way which by the way we are keeping open which we are keeping. and we're going to load it up with. me we're going to load it up. that's why there's a donald trump

the election commission denies any wrongdoing. soldiers firing live rounds and zimbabwe's capital. the into streets in harare mid-afternoon reportedly at the request of the police. the country's justice minister said the military had been deployed to maintain peace and tranquility and accused opposition supporters of going on a rampage how what the protesters claim they didn't stop the violence. was going on . i just want to emphasize the demonstration. that the crackdown came after a day of protest in the capital people were taken to the streets to protest a delay in the release of the results of presidential polling. crowds gathered outside the offices of the country's electoral commission to demand the release and things quickly turned violent the electoral commission called for patience verifying the vote was more complicated than expected the commission chairwoman said the unusually high number of candidates was causing delays in the verification process. but a spokesman for the opposition said the situation was unacceptable

favor where would that leave the election commission. it is interesting if that is to happen there literal commission at the moment there were so many complains that we were brought by the opposition before the commission . prior to the threat of july elections and they were you know bringing up a lot of issues that they were complaining about and some were acted upon in some way ignored and then if the court is to over ten. election it will leave the election electoral commission with an egg on the face because some of the things that the opposition would claim we're claiming would then hold water but then what the process what will happen now is that. if the court overturns the result there will be sixty days in which the electoral commission is compelled to call for a fresh election in which the two leading candidates in muscle managua and nelson chamisa who have to contend tend again for their presidential seat and while the political wrangling goes on we know that six people died in post-election violence i wonder what ordinary zimb

good to have you with us at this hour zimbabwe's election commission is releasing the results of the presidential vote from monday announcements started about an hour ago and is expected. in. to friday ahead of the announcement both the ruling party and its major opposition rival the movement for democratic change have signaled victory the vote sparked a deadly crackdown on protests over alleged vote rigging and we will have more on this story a little bit later on in the program we want to go on to some other stories that are making headlines around the world speaking at a press conference a senior u.s. intelligence officials say that they continue to see efforts from russia to interfere with the upcoming congressional elections they also assured americans that president dublin trump is directing a quote vast government wide effort to protect the process pope francis has changed the catholic church is teaching on the death penalty declaring that it is now for habited in all cases the church had previously allowed for capital punishment in certain instances but francis called those t

election assistance commission. the honorable maggie oliver, secretary of state from new mexico, the honorable rick c hatch, auditor of weber county, utah. welcome pursuant to committee rules of laughter diminishment of don't ask you to please stand and racial right hand. [witnesses were sworn in] you may sit down. there's a lighting system that will help you. you may rest assured that your opening statements are in the possession of every member and it will be red city state are able to summers remarks in five minutes that would be great. with that, mr. krebs, you are recognized. >> thank you. chairman gowdy, ranking member cummings, and members of the committee thank you for today's opportunity to testify regarding the department of homeland security ongoing efforts to assist state and local election officials, those who own and operate election system with improving the resilience of election security across america. today's rate is timely, as primary elections are winding down and election officials have time to

day along with the election commission maintain that one all the opposite opposition can say. no they say they won't and they believe the. results which they say show that the nelson has won this election they say the fact that. a lot of parliament to see some rural areas they say doesn't mean that. there is some people are intimidated into voting for design and they say they feel that this election was stolen was going to happen is that. will give another briefing they will. remaining parliamentary. the presidential results i don't know how long that is going to take it could be very quick process it could be a couple of hours but everyone waiting to see. if he doesn't and what security measures are in place given that there has been violence around elections in zimbabwe in the recent past. the country is calm and quiet but they have to. trucks and drive around. in harare as a precaution. but they are. when the final result is announced presidential. could determine how the police react. and. in one isn't happy. and not resort to violence very much for that for now that's how

the opposition concede defeat do you think if the election commission announces that they have lost i mean that announced that they lost the parliamentary vote but what about the presidential reaction to it. this is a very sad moment for. your question is quite clearly. the leader of the main opposition two days ago. accept the results of the election in which he was the leader that i think was wrong and you know the time number one of a true quite clearly in part as a hero is suggesting the electoral commission said today the other day explaining one of the reasons why i did lead the process and although i really also don't quite understand why it should be such a complicated system so if they're trying to follow rules and procedures and trying to make sure that they came up with an equitable results that is understandable if the opposition really as it grounds to to do what they're trying to do now if i was advising them i would have asked them to wait for two days so that this life is much more substantial evidence other than that all of us are basically going to speak english and

commission announcing the winner. it appears each member of f that commission is going through each of the constituencies of the country. we will come back to this story a little later on when the numbers for up in the presidential election result. -- firm up in the presidential election result. here in germany, the summer scorching heat wave has depleted some of the country's most iconic waterways. rivers such as the right and -- reine are at far lower levels than usual. take a look. reporter: only a few pleasure boats are still not on the river in dresden. biggerer boats cannot sail. water levels have dropped to 46 centimeters here, 1.5 meters lower than normal. >> we should be up to our knees and water here. reporter: smaller vessels were able to operate until recently but now they are going nowhere. then older boats with -- >> older boats with a shallow draft are still able to sail. there had to produce or shut down operations. reporter: on the river reine,, barges arere still on the water, but most can only carry

any other use, the federal election commission or allow them to do. 2008, they did not even exist in law. they existed in reality but the law did not recognize them until then. host: are there now restrictions on who they can raise money from or how much they can raise? guest: on the campaign committees they do still have the limits on how much these leadership pacs can accept that you have limits on how much an individual can give and one pacher -- and what another can give. there are no limits on what the leadership pac can give out and spend. there are reporting requirements. you can see all the money that .s coming in those get reported to the federal election commission, and you can see where the money goes. host: if i have a leadership pac, is there a limit on how much you can give me? guest: there are limits. the amount of money i can give your pac is the same amount i can give your campaign committee or another pac. if you have an authorized campaign committee, let's say you're running for congress and you have your campaign committee, let's say i am the i give you $5,000 for

the election commission is not a a strong independent body the administration is highly politicized the political parties at the moment confrontation in any independent way so it's difficult to see how in december or so when the elections take place that the people will get of preach oyster voting to some extent i mean if they have it one should make these david i'm sorry to david it's very interrupt you it's just that we're almost out of time i want to throw one last question to omar omar from your vantage point and we only have about a minute left can we expect to see more more protests going forward. well i mean i think it is or has been i mean we need to see the streets again and. i'm going to push and we think she has a lot of goodwill towards. the response that those words showed was indeed movements and susan as the so they do to really enjoy. these situations time going around in the audience. as we've seen well all right we're going to have to leave it there thank you so much to all our guests are a lot to hog omar right and david bergman and thank you too for watching it c

they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and he killed himself and one other from from this who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against are you see or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible or man process in. the same way and they were accusing the government of . the process and they were angry and actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place more of these kind of events because it's it's a first in the afghan election history. regularly while the. mean which is about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital of clashes between taliban and af

the election commission announced provisional results that gave president of the forty one percent rival. and second with seventeen percent and millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence at thousands of polling stations and some election convoys were targeted by government now the election is still five months away in the democratic republic of congo bartlett's already becoming contentious former rebel leader. is back on the scene facing hurdles as he bids for the presidency now another potential candidate exiled opposition leader has been blocked from entering the country and the zambia border catherine soy has. john pierre bemba arrives at the electoral commission offices to submit his candidacy for president the last twenty four hours have been a whirlwind for him has been heavily guarded by police party officials say his movement has been restricted he's not allowed to publicly address his supporters and the government has denied him access to a residential home in the suburb called in the capital city. the police are telling us that have been

islands the commonwealth election observers are asking zimbabwe's electoral commission to release the full results they also denounce what they call an excessive use of force by security forces we cut to gary can lead the nose the excessive use of force against civilians and wish to engage all parties to exercise restraint zimbabwe electoral commission to exploit votes the announcements of who results it said that the lease creates opportunities for sick speculation about possible money pollution of the reserves before we bring in our guests let's take a look at the timeline of how we got here last november following mass protests and military intervention president robert mugabe stepped down after thirty seven years in power the same month it was replaced by emerson minh agogo who had previously served as vice president and god promised to bring change to call general elections and and bided international observers to monitor them twenty three candidates were on the presidential ballot but the main contenders are minute and the opposition m.d.c. nelson chamisa. let's bring in our gue

none of the donors in the 2012 john edwards case face any legal issues and the federal election commission ruled payments were not campaign contributions that had to be reported. both facts prosecutors tried to suppress at trial. why is it different from michael cohen? why he pleads guilty to these charges if that is how it worked out in this case? >> i think it is different with respect when you are talking about the candidate versus somebody who donates to the candidate. and donald trump's instance what i would say is his best defense is the government couldn't possibly prove beyond reasonable doubt that he violated campaign-finance law. one of the charges at the very least out of the two that are leveled against cohen and the charges he pled guilty to earlier this week donald trump couldn't possibly commit it because they are two different charges that are very different in nature against cohen. one is that he made excessive campaign contributions, he exceeded the $2700 limit that applies to individuals making campaign contributions, that doesn't apply to the president. he doesn't have

will go to a runoff after no one candidate secured fifty percent of the vote the election commission announced early results were present kater winning forty one percent rival. came in second with seventeen percent millions of people cast their ballots on sunday but the vote was marred by violence and thousands of polling stations and election convoys were targeted by gunmen. the health ministry of democratic republic of congo says it has identified the strain of a bowler in the country's latest outbreak medics a desire strain which has been successfully treated by a vaccine in the past and its national team is in the town of burnie in north kivu where the outbreak was detected on wednesday. more than five hundred fathers are holding a hunger strike in an immigration detention center in the u.s. state of texas the khans country county residential center currently houses hundreds of new levy united migrant families according to races that's an advocacy and legal services group the father's a striking to urge the government to expedite their cases tech giant apple has become the first

they were they were gathering in a nearby the independent election commission headquarters a suicide bomber according to police tried to approach the gathering but detonated his explosive ahead of approaching the gathering and they killed himself and one other from from this civilians who were nearby also killed two others wounded but this you know the protests against the i.e.c. or elect independent electoral commission all the presidential palace actually has been taking place since since a week almost yesterday we had another protest and a gathering that some m.p.'s who are accused of being and. having every sponsible armed man process that they the same way and they were accusing the government of. the process and they were. actually this process has been continuing today we have another one in a different place so we are expecting that it will it will actually take. take place in more of these kind of events because it's the first. election history. regularly was about one hundred fifty kilometers southwest of the capital is facing fierce clashes between taliban and afghan force