the news live from that and then the gunman target iran's military elite dozens of dead and schools more wounded off the gunman opened fire on a military parade in the country's south west many only revolutionary guard soldiers are among the dead iran's military has vowed to retaliate also coming out . in germany a while fun as bob weeks ago by a military test is no menacing several towns with the flames threatening thousands of people german defense officials are facing a storm of criticism we'll get an update update from

a side of the flies. i'm rebecca has welcome to the program in iran at least twenty four people are dead and more than fifty wounded off the gunman if it opened fire at a military parade it happened in the city of near iran's border with iraq during a ceremony marking the anniversary of the start of the iran iraq war in the nineteen eighties state media is reporting soldiers dignitaries and spectators were targeted iran's revolutionary guard has blamed a terrorist group affiliated with saudi arabia for the attack. let's bring in saeed kamali the guardian newspaper guardian newspaper is iran correspondent saeed what are your contacts in iran telling you about what happened there this morning. i mean for all sailors disguising themselves as the personal opened fire from

behind being firm you know they were as you mentioned military personnel who have been killed as well as civilians including children and women. it was a terrorist attack an interest in iraq this is not very common rhonda was an attack in the ring in capital tehran last june but attacks of such scales are quite rare in iran so everybody was shocked in iran not counting when there are conflicting claims about who is behind this attacks iran is blaming a sunni separatist group that the so-called islamic state has also claimed responsibility do you know any more. earlier this morning spokesperson for a separatist group called our was the distance call themselves and we are a struggle movement for the liberation of our was. a separatist group that runs iran's hoess some provinces are the norwich province the home to the contras are a minority to be separated from from the country they claimed responsibility as

spokesperson gave interviews to numerous exam television they spoke to the b.b.c.'s persian in london these both iran international in london. and they claim responsibility for the attack and then hours later later unlike news agencies which is the isis the islamic state official agency day also claimed responsibility i mean it's unclear whether there's any links between to support his group and i sits or what it is i mean i asked in previous times isis is just exploiting the situation and to claim responsibility it is just too early to say if it was carried out by or as claimed by the separatist group by the separatist group right and iran's foreign minister has responded to this attack jeff azari of has tweeted that iran holds regional terrorist sponsors and they us must is responsible for such attacks iran will respond swiftly and decisively. what action is iran likely to

take now. in iran for many years has blamed the some of his regional enemies like saudi arabia. are not supporting separatist groups in the region especially around areas like was a stand which is like a indio rich area you know home to the arab minority of iran so iran has been accusing saudi arabia of supporting these groups and at the same time you know we are in a very critical time in the middle east where iran and saudi arabia all are involved in a number of conflicts in the region including syria including in yemen and they are the opposite against you know of these conflicts so. i mean and this moment in spades i mean big moment in iran a rare terrorist attack of such a scale and now it's raining prime minister pointing the finger directly at iran's regional rivals. saeed kamali dagon the guardian's iran correspondent thank you

thank you now to some of the other stories making news around the world the death toll following a ferry accident on like victoria in tanzania has risen to more than one hundred seventy according to officials the boat capsized on thursday state media media says the ferry was overloaded on the third day of rescue efforts workers found another survivor located in an air pocket. pope francis has touched down in lithuania as he makes the first papal visit to the baltic states in twenty five years he was grated on arrival by the country's president dalia grounds kiter their health celebrate mass and then visit a former soviet k.g.b. prison where many were murdered while sentenced to hard labor. thousands have rallied in sit across russia against planned increases in the country's pension age the proposed change would raise the retirement age for men for men from sixty to sixty five and from fifty five to sixty four women the reform plans of her

president vladimir putin's approval rating. the firefighters in northwestern germany are struggling to contain a blaze in the m's land region near the dutch border the fire was sparks nearly three weeks ago by military rocket test german defense minister on the lion has apologized on behalf of the country's military she's in the region today to survey the damage local officials are considering evacuating thousands of people from several communities near the town of meth and. in the elms and region in northwestern germany the wind has shifted and it's getting stronger and so could the remaining blazes the area affected is an army training site near the city of mecca and it totals eight hundred hectares one thousand three hundred emergency personnel are working hard to contain the blaze to be on the safe side nearby residents were told to prepare for a possible evacuation this year humvee we didn't have flying sparks yet so far

we've been getting off lightly over what's on the phone and i hope it stays this way we don't want to evacuate and we also don't want to see houses burning was on the wildfire was triggered by german army rocket test in the beginning of september the german military has been subject to fierce criticism for not dealing with the fire immediately there are also doubts whether the rocket test was performed correctly. on friday defense minister whose lafond line apologized to citizens affected by the blaze it didn't didn't we will find the causes of the fire especially regarding the question rather regulations were not observed or misinterpreted there will be an investigation and the results are of course going to be published and to. the defense minister is visiting the area today federal prosecutors have launched an investigation into negligent arson they've already searched the test site and have confiscated documents. but they don't you

correspondent on a red services in the town of starvin where residents have been advised they need to be ready to evacuate at a moment's notice donna the fire was sparked by army testing rockets how could something like that happen. well rebecca this is exactly what everybody else is asking here this is also why the public prosecutor's office in the nearby city of austin a book has opened an investigation into the incident and just where i'm standing right now a defense minister underlying was just visiting the area a couple of minutes ago and she was also confronted with the exact same questions from residents and also from authorities. asking exactly this how could this be who is overseeing these exercises and how could it be that the under her leadership was able to create such an incident such a disaster but is seemingly able to treat it so far from the line has issued an

apology and has personally apologized to people residents but unfortunately solutions and answers are yet to be given and played now can you give us a sense of the scale of the fire is it under control now. yes well we're talking about roughly eight hundred hectares of more land burning which just to give you some proportion we're talking about roughly one thousand football fields so it is definitely under control but i don't know if you can see or hear it right behind me the winds during this weekend here are very very strong up to eighty five kilometers per hour so this is death is definitely makes the work of the firefighters much more difficult the key word here is the weather every small change in the weather condition can turn things around under control yes but definitely far from being over. now as we heard residents evacuated as a possible how dangerous is it exactly for the locals.

while of earlier spoke to a representative from the health ministry here in meth and then he said that pollution wise health wise he thinks that evacuation is unlikely however local residents with whom i talked to earlier. say that nevertheless they consider to evacuate voluntarily simply because the air here is so thick and the smell is so bad some families here have children with assman and it's very very you could even where you can really felt the feel the heavy smell of fire and small. so it seems that at least in terms of like health and pollution and damage. there is no intention to tell people to evacuate although they were told to prepare so it seems that this is ok for now however as i said a lot of local residents are still feeling bad coughing and saying that they consider to leave on their own my form crossing their fingers down

a regular thank you very much. well german chancellor angela merkel is holding talks with her coalition partners to try to avert a political crisis it centers on the decision to remove hung's gaoled mileson as head of the country's domestic intelligence agency he was forced out after he made controversial comments about violence in the eastern german city of chemists last month but his promotion to a higher paid job in the interior ministry was particularly angered merkel's coalition partners the social democrats. more i'm joined by a political correspondent sadly and from the mark he's here with us now live in. tell us if the interior minister holds. from the sister party the c.s.u. doesn't agree to not the solution from austin what's likely to happen first of all i believe that he will agree to some kind of a new solution because he has already said that he's willing to talk and meet with

me and with the social democrats so he wouldn't have said that if there is no solution thinkable the question is what kind of a solution can they find it would certainly have to be a solution where he won't earn more money than before because that was one of the big criticisms in the first solution so they have to find some kind of a post where he earns basically the same amount of money or less and has a different field of work but if they couldn't find a solution at all then the social democrats would be the big losers in this whole thing but they couldn't let the government collapse as opposed to they have already once agreed to this come from a compromise that was found so far right and these renegotiations were sparked by the head of the social democrat saying that she and the other heads of the parties made a mistake by promoting mohsen well what does that say about the public outcry towards this the public outcry is enormous in germany we had huge debate here there was a lot of anger and people were absolutely outrageous they couldn't believe how the

politicians are so much out of touch with the public how they couldn't really think of a solution where someone who should be punished at the end of the day gets promoted but there was also a lot of pressure from the within the social democratic party there are social democrats who want to win elections in the local level that made a lot of pressure there were those who were already skeptical with being in a grand coalition with marriage in the first place and they basically forced. the head of the social democrats to write this letter and. renegotiate the deal. and there's a new poll out that suggest that the for the first time they have to have now forwarded to second place ahead of the social democrats what do you make of that well that was that's always in the background those great numbers for the d. the polling situation because all the parties know particularly the social democrats if they would lead a coalition collapse now in fresh elections the could be the biggest winner so in

a way that makes the social democrats. the hands are tied for them they don't want to risk fresh elections having fun thanks very much. on germany's world famous october fest has begun in munich where the traditional tapping of the first barrel of big. few the sun. over. the brew is served by the later known as a mouse in german the celebration of beer drinking and the varian culture last for two weeks. looks like a lot of fun and a reminder for the top of the top story we're following for you dozens are dead and

schools more wounded after a gunman opened fire on a military parade in southwestern iran iran's revolutionary guard has reportedly blamed a terrorist group affiliated with syria saudi arabia for the attack. now watching d.w. news from both ends sorry i have been staying out with you next hour don't forget you can get all the latest news and information around the clock. state by state. colorful. life. the most traditional. find you told at any time. check in with a special. take a tour of germany. w dot com. climate change.