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Vote Counting Under Way in Landmark Zimbabwe Elections

The opposition is hoping to end nearly forty years of rule by the ZANU-PF party.

Votes are being counted in Zimbabwe's presidential and parliamentary elections, in which the opposition is hoping to end nearly forty years of rule by the ZANU-PF party. We hear from our correspondent in Harare, Andrew Harding. Plus, what would it take to create a real economic recovery in Zimbabwe? A question for Knox Chitiyo, Associate Fellow in the Africa Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Also in the programme, as rules on sports betting in the US are relaxed, GVC, which owns betting firms Ladbrokes and Coral in the UK, has announced a tie-up with MGM Resorts, which owns several casinos in Las Vegas. We find out more from Jennifer Roberts, associate director for the International Center for Gaming Regulation in Nevada. Hundreds of hikers have managed to make it safely down Indonesia's Mount Rinjani volcano, a day after a powerful earthquake led to landslides that trapped them on the mountainside. Our correspondent in Indonesia, Rebecca Henschke, updates us with the latest. The US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, is heading to South East Asia. Our State Department Correspondent, Barbara Plett Usher, tells us what we can expect. Diamond mining firm De Beers plans to start selling a range of synthetic diamonds, and we find out what impact it might have on the diamond industry. Plus our workplace commentator Alison Green considers the etiquette around attending office social events.

We're joined throughout the programme by Jason Abbruzzese, Senior Tech Editor at NBC News Digital in New York and Lulu Chen of Bloomberg News in Hong Kong.

(Photo: Ballot box. Credit: Reuters)

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Tue 31 Jul 2018 00:06GMT

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