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 and suggested that something unusual was going on it is everyone citizens right to demand that the results are produced in reasonable time ok the fact that the results far right is central that its just next door to zach had not been released by off by by midday today is inappropriate and suggests that something wrong is opening weve been here before. As tensions remain high in the country the International Community is becoming increasingly concerned with governments calling for restraint on all sides. Well for more tonight im joined by eddie cross he is a member of zimbabwes Opposition Party the movement for Democratic Change and he is a former parliamentarian mr Cross Its Good to have you on the program tonight the
opposition your party is claiming that this long delay in releasing the president ial results is a sign of fraud has this election been rigged. The city being manipulated. Whether its been rigged in a traditional way isnt is a moot point i think its been running very intelligent and and i think theyre going to get away with it but as a consequence is a great deal of suspicion and cross and anger at the results that have either he said or from mr cross thats as quite a statement there theyre going to get away with it so in other words the Ruling Zanny Party with mr manning gone as president is going to get away with an unfair election result well theyve done that five times in the last twenty years every election ive participated in this country since independence has been wreaked to some extent and its become the norm and it
is the norm in many african states. Were struggling to get back to a democratic environment and it is just a struggle this is this is not something its going to just happen because people are going to suffer in in terms of getting back to a democratic country and this is just another step in that direction we were struck today by how quickly the military was called out to deal with protests relating to the election i mean that is an extreme measure for any government to undertake soldiers firing shots at their own citizens is that for you proof that the president has no intention of going anywhere. No i dont think so and we had live ammunition used in the food riots in this country along a long time just just before in b. C. For refugees or authorities want to hold Asylum Seekers there while their applications a process which can take up to eighteen months they will Deport Anyone whos rejected critics say that this system will get a why new arrivals. For many refugees arriving in germany in future this is what home will look like this Reception Facility in a former u. S. Army barracks in the bavarian city of bam bag is the model for the new Refugee Centers to be known as sentences the Acronym Stands for a Rival Decision and return the key idea various departments which look at Asylum Applications will be together in one place Migration Agency labor office well federal Authority Even the cools the claim is that will mean applications of more quickly as high as the us those with these centers the Migration Agency will in most cases be able to issue documents in three or three and
a half months when the people are to be granted Refugee Status rejected them. This new approach is the latest chapter in germanys effort to deal with migration since the increase in the numbers fleeing to europe and the governments decision in twenty fifteen to open the borders the challenge of Making Migration on this scale work has become clear in many cases it has taken too long for people to find out whether they have a chance of staying in germany and that in turn has held up any chance of them finding a job or integrating into society. The residents of the Anchor Facilities will be able to leave to go shopping or for other reasons despite that critics say they have tantamount to deportation centers. The plan is to open these facilities all across germany but in most parts of the country that will lead to a massive worsening of conditions for Asylum Seekers. Currently holds around
turn germany takes a lot of time or will they become holding sentence for those who are rejected for the long term and that is not a good idea because that was in very oblique way attention if i if i hear you correctly i mean that means you have some doubt about whether or not theyre working it sounds like and this is just a Political Tool used by the countrys Interior Minister who of course zahle for he was from the very is that what were talking about here is just a political to to to make his constituency happy and nor what he can be against accelerating inside of procedures least of all the people who want protection and get protection they have a decision to better but if these centers are presented as the solution to the problem of returning those who are rejected then its a bluff because the real problem the returning people who have rejected for asylum is their relations with the countries of origin and not just read no its really not france nor germany has solved this problem without cooperation by countries of
origin. Return is impossible right and the sentence will not change that all right stand by we want to talk about many of the migrants that we are now seeing come into europe are coming via a new route theyre using spain as a gateway to europe now theyre travelling the short distance by book through the Strait Of Gibraltar from morocco spanish coast guard rescued nearly a thousand migrants last weekend alone the refugees there choosing this route as other countries such as italy crackdown on iran. Rescue teams have just pulled another twenty one people from the Strait Of Gibraltar off Southern Spain they consider this a slow day compared to most but these twenty one arrivals present a problem for spain the Maritime Rescue Service wants to take these migrants to the nearest port but the port refused permission a common occurrence forty. Of them are. Over the
course of the entire past year weve rescued Sixteen Thousand people but this year after just seven months the number has already climbed to twenty two thousand. Or so. The ship carrying the rescued migrants docked at the nearby port of august the rest instead but the situation there is no better the migrants had been stuck on the ship for days now theyre on land looking for shady places to rest. A few kilometers away Jose Antonio Gomez is waiting for the daily food delivery more than six hundred rescued people were brought to this gym over the weekend. They called us on saturday and then the people came they were simply too many of them. Local authorities are responsible for looking after those arriving the church has prepared Food Volunteers are helping out but people are getting
impatient. When we arent eating well we dont have a proper place to sleep to arent enough clothes and we cant call our families to reassure them that were still alive. Spanish authorities are overwhelmed after talking to migrants its clear that the Strait Of Gibraltar is gaining in popularity as a crossing point. I was going from ivory coast to libya but they told me that morocco would be a better idea. Refugees want to go to say now before they chose libya or italy but that was just thirteen kilometers lie between africa and europe that spain southern most tip the country once again has become the gateway to europe for thousands of migrants. I missed you see weve got a new way for migrants to get into europe are we going to have to come up with a new dio the way we did with turkey i mean how does your deal with this new form
of migration. Well it would be incredibly helpful if the European Union would have or would not do the things its been talking about for three years we need two things to solve a crisis like this the ability to quickly decide who of the people who arrive Need Protection in europe and who doesnt if it takes like in italy in recent years four years until a final decision is made it basically we dont need insight into something anybody arrives stace you need speed so we need speed and we need to organize this in the way the dutch have put it beside in six weeks including appeal but in spain or italy or molto and this requires a european effort so thats the first thing secondly once we have a decision and then a lot of the people who are now coming to spain who came to italy out from countries with out high recognition Rates Senegal Southern Nigeria Ivory Coast these are not countries where a lot of refugees come from if we would then decide quickly dead one in ten getsRefugee Status the others dont and then we need agreements with those countries of origin they dined interest of those countries to work with us and that meet requires them to take back their citizens after a fixed date so its a limited number if they do that less people will come and in return we should offer them legal Migration Quote Us that want to be done in a relatively short amount of time but im sure well be talking about that again but i hope this chance is an opportunity to do it because spain once and needs a solution that is humane and works mr joe canals director of the European Stability Initiative we appreciate your insights tonight thank you you thank. Are you going to go over to helena now and she is that the leaders from the u. S. Fed and i think were talking about Interest Rates we sure are brant the u. S. Federal reserve desiring to leave its key lending rate on hold for now now after its regular policy meeting the fed was upbeat about the economy citing strong
consumer spending and Business Investment a strong jobs market and inflation near its two percent target that probably puts the fed of course for a September Rate Hike off to its next meeting now fed chair german powell said at the start of the year that Interest Rates would continue to be raised in small order it steps they now stand in a range of one point seven five to two percent off a small hike in june President Donald Trump has warned against further hikes fearing it could slow economic growth. Lets go straight over to our financial correspondent so Fisherman Skiis on wall street for us sophie trump seemingly intervening there in Central Bank Policy is there any sense that the fed actually listened to him took his concerns on board. I wouldnt say so first of all Monetary Policy in anything concerning the fed is usually not anything
for the president to comment on the independency off the fed has been has high and last years and decades so it could be freed from the whims of politics now trumbull once again is breaking the rules and surveys show investors disapprove Larry Summers who last served as president obamas top economic adviser told c. N. N. Money that nothing of this kind have happened in the past twenty five years one concern might be that the fed will now be reluctant to slow the pace of rate hikes even if it is thinking that this is the best thing to do right now it will look like they are responding to political pressure that is what summers said i think the fed is going to do what the fed has to do and the thing that they now raise didnt raise these rates is just a sign that they keep doing what they were planning to do anyway it doesnt imply that they actually listen listen to the president lets face it the trump the fed
rather has rather a lot on its plate right now the fed warning against steps towards a full blown trade war for example rule so Hearing Rumors at the same time the trial will raise further tariffs against china so what is what are investors making of that. Well markets were slightly negative on wednesday but movements also came from more earnings as investors are focusing on how companies have been performing that being said it seems to me that this new round of Terror Groups would be a part of a Negotiating Strategy that Tramp Administration is trying to force officials to back to the Negotiating Table through these threats of even higher tariffs but china fed on wednesday that blackmail wouldnt work and that they would retaliate on their side. Its a vision for us in new york good as ever to talk to thanks i think. The European Commission says us so we being important to the e. U. Have almost quadrupled Commission President ial go to youngcare held it up as a sign that the e. U. Is in their promises made soon us President Donald Trump last week in an apparent effort to dodge a trade war between the two sides donald trump has certainly disrupted global trade flows especially when it comes to soybeans u. S. Soybean firmus of seen prices for their produce plunged by twenty percent after their prime Export Market china imposed high tariffs in retaliation for u. S. Tariffs on chinese goods the trade has almost ceased the e. U. Was quick to take advantage of the cheap the u. S. Crop something that must have been clear to Commission PresidentJohn Claude Younger last week when he promised trump the e. U. Would step up u. S. Soybean imports the latest figures show that that process was already well underway. Today that you can commit commission has published the latest figures on e. U. Imports of soybeans showing an increase of Two Hundred Eighty Three percent in imports of slayer beans from the u. S. Bringing that used to a sheriff in parts of u. S. Soybeans to thirty seven percent from nine percent just one year ago washington had already promised Twelve Billion dollars to compensate farmers hurt by the dispute with china but with harvest time approaching many of the most still uncertain i think theres maybe just a little bit of comfort there knowing the administration is backing farmers but you no longer werent looking for any kind of an aid package we want markets to work and markets to be in china was us Soybean Farmers main market and its doubtful increased e. U. Imports can make up for the loss soybeans made up sixty percent of u. S. Agricultural exports to the country. Beijing meantime has ramped up Domestic Production and lowered import tariffs on other producers and one side effect of the
dispute is that countries like brazil are emerging as the winners brazilian soybean exports to china soared twenty five percent in june. Today the first of august is Earth Overshoot Day now is the day that humanity has used up all Natural Resources that the earth can regenerate revive to stain a plea for this entire year from now on were moving into well what is essentially deep debt current estimates suggest we would need one point seven earths to satisfy our needs for one year now in One Thousand Nine Hundred Seventy while consumption much the Renewable Resources available since then well consumption has risen continuously consuming the equivalent of five earths worth of resources in one year alone the United States uses the lions share germany while it uses three planets when it comes to china you can see there two point two that is phenomenal when you
compare it to a country with a population the size of india which only uses zero point six all the planet in the same period now the planetary overload can only be slowed by a drastic cutting consumption by rich countries when we talk about energy food and other resources we need to cut back on all of them and we need to combine that with a massive global increase in Sustainable Production as well are that some food for thought for you back over to brant now what are we doing to ourselves thank you. Well Swedish Police are hunting the. Jewels in a daring Daylight Robbery of the thieves took th