A Ghost Town Center and more than iraq liberated three years ago but remains haunted by violence and turmoil we have an exclusive report from my council of the young people. And theres a heat wave baking the Northern Hemisphere right now but if you thought that song and scorching temperatures mean more green Energy Thanks again well look at what happens when the weather gets too hot for solar. Is almost going to welcome to the show votes are being counted in zimbabwes Lead Market Election final results are expected in five days time the First National vote nearly forty years without former leaders Robert Mugabes name on the ballot is expected to be tight the two president ial frontrunners are mugabe successor president Emerson Magog Off from the zanu p. F. Party and Opposition LeaderNelson Chamisa turnout was high averaging around seventy five percent of the electorate. The lines outside the Polling Stations have
to be seen to be believed but that didnt deter zimbabweans from turning out to vote for the next president. Many hope this election will mark zimbabwes transition to democracy after decades of poles that were anything but free and fair its a special day because its all of this time is a new generation to choose who arent ever since we were born is near its praised our choice everyone is able to put cheese forth freely not being intimidated intimidated but is just free so look if it is going to be just free and fake more than twenty candidates are running for president but the election is really a battle between two Men Incumbent m. S. N. Money from zanu p. F. And Opposition LeaderNelson Chamisa from the movement for democratic change
although many to to win Opinion Poll Show finished the campaign strongly. After casting their ballots both candidates expressed their hopes for a democratic and peaceful election theres no doubt that if the ballot is an appropriate run a genuine and not a bus that dies or effect one victory certain for the people there may be that. The process will become greely was peaceful this is the fourteenth the day is this i removed out of there in the presence of the entire political presence will remain. Well elections under the oath or a tarion rule of Robert Mugabe were off to marred by violence and voter intimidation this time there were few reports of unrest but observers were of the short comings. Some would be to have some very. Disorganized. People but. We have not found that. Bad organisation. Robert mugabe was among those who voted this time his name was not on the ballot paper many in zimbabwe hope that means real change could finally be coming. Lets bring in melanie she is covering the elections for us from harare hi melanie good to see you counting is underway after a historic day of voting what is the latest on what happens next by counting started last night and of course we wont know anything until the results are finally out this week at some point but what we can say is that very confident that he will win the presidency he has been tweeting that he has information from ten thousand Polling Stations and he knows that we that he will win the election
the thing is we dont know what he has that information from because there are some civil organizations collecting information alongside the Editorial Commission but theyre not allowed to release those results until weve heard from the Electoral Commission and have about five days constitutionally until we will hear from the results thats the day when they have to tell us who will win but we are expecting the results by thursday already and we saw International Observers in our report you spoke to them as well what was their assessment were these free and Fair Elections. Weve been speaking to brock during the day as well and hes been telling us in the morning that he is very confident that this will be the past relatively free and Fair Elections in zimbabwe of course there are some things that still need to be checked but as youve heard in the report during the day he then said there was some areas in which it was catastrophic. This organized and so well have to see until they give us their Final Assessment which
were expecting on wednesday and it will be very interesting to see how high they set the bar for this election weve been seeing in other african countries that they havent said it as high as they would in European Countries so well keep you updated on that one moment we saw images of the former ruler Robert Mugabe voting and we saw cheering crowds there greeting him as he arrived to cast his ballot do some voters miss him. They might there are some people in the country who do still miss him and he still has a political sway with many of them and he was planning on using that yesterday there was a lot of cheering crowds when he arrived to put in his vote as a normal voter for the first time in four decades and its been a bit of a painful experience hes been saying you could tell that when he went into the Polling Booth it took him about ten minutes to put down the crosses and you could have almost gotten the impression that he was desperately searching for his name on
the paper because he didnt find it and when he did come out people what cheering for him and thats exactly what hes been wanting hes been telling the day before hes been saying that he wants to research to win that he will vote for me so rather than here and people might follow suit and do that we dont know about the Support Melanie Reporting for us from harare thank you very much. And for more on the zimbabwe election check out our africa website at the Dot Com Slash Africa you can also follow us on twitter for the latest our handle there at. Now some other stories making news Around The World vote counting is also underway after president ial elections in mali president. Says partial results show he is substantially in the lead while the opposition candidate somalia say claims he has gained enough of the vote for Runoff Attacks disrupted voting at hundreds of Polling Stations mainly in the north and center of the Country Hundreds of people
have attended a vigil in the greek Capital Athens to remember the victims of the countrys Deadly Wildfires one week on more than ninety people died and dozens more were injured when blazes tore through several towns east about this last monday dozens more are still missing Russian Police have rearrested four members of the pussy riot punk moments after they were released they have spent fifteen days in prison for invading the pitch during the World Cup Final between france and Probation In Moscow The Group said in a tweet they could face another ten days behind bars. Ours russian authorities havent said why they were again to take. Turning now to Northern Iraq which was liberated nearly three years ago from the socalled Islamic State when it swept through the region i asked harshly targeted minorities like the dont follow the islamic faith militants killed kidnapped and enslaved thousands of your c. D. s and even now the group is still recovering from the i asked genocide were turning it starting afresh is a mammoth task very few people have tried to start a new life in the region and its capital sin jar or shingle as its known and
kurdish. And send up it does mine trouble there and how this explosive report. On the capital of the years he dislikes in ruins devastated by invasion and the fight for liberation most people fled when socalled Islamic State took the city and killed then its left thousands now that the slimmest have been expelled only a few residents have returned in many parts feels like a ghost town to end of years after liberation from my ex only three cells and families have returned to a city which once had more than Eighty Thousand inhabitants. Theres still no sign of reconstruction there are no hospitals schools or functional administration. Living in shingo hill abandoned by their politicians. Weve got no electricity and the water is bad. There are bombs and mines all over
iraq up for example to four miles from holds so they try to use the established Smuggling Networks to try you know and find their loved ones who were so like cattle over the border from one jihadi group to another from your reporting what is your sense of how the u. C. D. Feel about their sense of home does that still exist for them. Yes because they frankly tell you we only know this one home so we try to make it work for most of them no those that we spoke to they all really want to leave iraq not just their homeland of iraq at all all right good at the center pitch as man bring us the very important reporting thank you so much sandra. By moving on to some other news now u. S. President donald trump says he is open to meeting with the leaders of iran any time they want this comes only a week after trump posted a Tweet Warning iran not to threaten the u. S. Or quote suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever
suffered before that trumpeted the offer after talks with italian Prime MinisterGiuseppe Conti in washington condi is seen as trumps major ally in europe they share similar views on major issues like immigration and russia we are both outsiders to politics can you believe we are outsiders the power of a look at all these wonderful politicians. It was the meeting most of my project both men were elected after a surge of populism both came to power in large part due to their migration pledges. I agree very much what youre doing with respect to migration and illegal immigration and even illegal immigration it was taking a very firm stance on the border. A stance a few countries have taken and frankly youre doing the right thing in my opinion. Something trump me hope to replicate after he threatened to shut down the government if he didnt get backing for his proposed wall along the southern u. S. Surface appear just like any other Football Game players give their all on the pitch and fans cheer them along but forest green known as the green army vastly differs firstly only begin food is served because of Animal Welfare and Health Reasons secondly this Pichot Forest Green is organic and rainwater is recycled in fact the entire facility is powered by green energy and now the club has signed up for a United Nations initiative called Climate Neutral now. So we become the first sports club in the world to be Climate Neutral according to the un which is quite exciting and. I have who would do more with them i think we will because theyre on the same page as we are sport looks to be a great vehicle to carry this insane ability messenger the United Nations hopes that forest green becoming Carbon Neutral will set a precedent for others to follow through were working on these sports for climate
good of course but he doesnt help because when it gets too hot solar power performance drops so despite all that sunshine thirty degree plus temperatures that come with it could actually cut Solar Energy Output in germany. And im now joined by author out of on copper chip hes with the institute for International Solar energy and constance why is too much sunshine not necessarily good for solar. Theres hello from bombs once youre its extremely hot thats twenty degrees or really now and it will be thirty five so electricity from solar panels is actually called by the sunshine not by the heat that he just actually partly. Decreasing the Solar Power Output however its not so so large. We are working on it to do to be more
stable and limpid thats a big i really like the Coal Power Plants that actually generated the heat increases in in europe and the whole world has to be you know shut down so actually this is good for solar energy you know that we can put more electricity into into that river which it does the heat wave also mean rising electricity demand people turn up Add Condition Supermarkets have to crank up their phrases and so on does that increase demand help for solar business. Yes definitely it does actually i myself now boards and that condition on so the heat wave is now creating people to buy new conditioners and the things like that so it definitely helps now for for the p. V. Industry and as i said temperature this is not good for solar panels its the light
bulbs they always hold to overcome this so all the other incidents are now working on solar panels that. Can actually tolerate even temperatures above thirty degrees and so to decrease the temperature but officials very briefly if you can what about those huge solar parks in the desert they have these connections all the time. Exactly zero so maybe your talking about theres a tank and then things like that so i never thought its a good idea to want to like blue solar in one place and to transport electricity into to europe because you have a lot of electrical losses however of course they have more sunshine and what is even more important because they are closer to the equator the summer and. In so. Your ideation is is very similar so what what is made maybe a major drawback in germany is that like in the times you dont have
a lot of sunshine and thats why you have to overcompensate its like the. Solar electricity and its not generated but you can do it by another two months of energy is like wind right on top of things thank you very much and thank you. Some so missed its latest Earnings Projections due to lower demand for its flagship galaxy devices and the latest sign of a slowdown for smartphones as the market seems to get saturated the south Korean Company recorded a thirty five percent drop in Operating Profit in its Smartphone Division from a year ago competition from chinese Device Makers has grown in recent months and even as Consumer Demand for new Smartphone Sales fall and some some rival due to release its latest numbers today. Taxi drivers in madrid and barcelona are still striving today after talks with spains public works ministry
after these talks broke down last night the strikes began last week in protest of what the taxidriver score unfair competition from riot hailing Services Like and cappy far. Monday night passed without a resolution between the drivers and government strike leaders said theyll go on. Todays decision is that we continue hundreds of taxis have Paralyzed Barcelona and theyre refusing to budge until they get results the strikes have since spread to madrid and smaller cities like that are going to happen this is the first time the taxes have taken a decision where one hundred percent together on this. Has to be thirty to one nothing else will do he means that in the future only one permit should be issued for every thirty normal taxi permits among those worst hit by the strike tourists trying to get from Barcelona Airport to the City Center Extra bus services have been put on but theyre still packed full. Were trying with all bail because the
best way is for suitcases is very difficult for us on the street its a tough day today especially with children six hours jet lag and then the airports are empty things are hard that i mean. A cab if i if theyre working here because this morning in barcelona they were jammed last option would be a train or think. Thousands of taxi drivers across spain are now part of the strike they say ride sharing Services Like threaten their livelihoods as of now they continue to wait for a resolution. To the worlds biggest earthmoving equipment maker kates appeal as raised its Twenty Eight Hundred profit outlook after posting record Second Quarter earnings revenues were up almost a quarter to Fourteen Billion Dollars the Illinois Based Company says th