reportedly attacked the. torpedo cruiser rescued leaving the ships adrift in the high seas. heightened tensions between washington. on the program leading research organization the welcome foundation describes the latest outbreaks the truly frightening virus has killed around 2000 people in the democratic republic of congo to spread to neighboring uganda.

after. dozens injured protesters say they will continue their campaign against me that allows suspects to be extradited to china. and. certainly. stay just after. over spoke. to the program. 2 oil tankers have reportedly been attacked in the gulf of near the strait of hormuz was hit by suspected torpedo crews have been rescued leaving both vessels to drift attacks come as tensions between the u.s. and iran run high white house says it is assessing the situation u.n. secretary general antonio terrace is warning the world cannot afford

a major confrontation in the gulf. oil tankers in the gulf of oman damaged under mysterious circumstances crews forced to evacuate. carrying a highly flammable petroleum product and the japanese courageous carrying methanol were both allegedly targeted in iranian waters near the strategic strait of homeowners a conduit for a 5th of all global oil consumption. you know iranian news outlets it local search and rescue teams had picked up 44 sailors from the front before it sank in the gulf of oman but the vessels norwegian owner says the tanker remains afloat. confusion about the situation prevails and norwegian authorities have called on its ships in the region to exercise extra caution shortly after the suspected attack prices soared jumping as much as 4 percent highlighting how

crucial the area remains to global energy supplies. today's incident in the gulf of oman is reminiscent of a similar episode last month in which 4 ships were damaged in an alleged sabotage attack off the emirates. let's get more on this from atlanta battered by political analyst specializing in iraq welcome to you who is likely to have done this and why . we in fact have 3 sets of actors that could be behind this obviously iran could try to escalate the situation in response to the us maximum pressure complain it called economic warfare against the country we have iran supply lines in the region that may want to drag through a false flag operation want to drag iran the us into war with iran and then we have the whole range of terrorist or militant groups in the region that may also seek to escalate the tensions in the region so it's very difficult to really look at who

has been behind this attack why is it so difficult because. the u.a.e. has been saying of the of last month's attack that it blames state act for that attack you can't launch one of these attacks against these enormous vessels with just a bit of string and a boat u. boat down the road these takes organization why is it so difficult to pin down who's behind it interesting lead that that report falls short of blaming a specific country or iran of that attack and unfortunately the situation in the region is such that states equipped militant groups with these kinds of equipment and but we cannot exclude anything so we should be prepared for any theory behind this and unless we see actual evidence we can only speculate about who was behind it it is interesting the speculation is that you as you say that the u.s. did not name any names the united states has blamed iran for the 12th of may

attacks without providing that evidence. this is going to ratchet up the tensions between the 2 isn't it. yeah i mean we see we see a situation where ambiguity seems to be a strategy or at least in the communication to keep things ambiguous and even the u.s. said it's almost certain that iran was behind it and that makes the whole situation a bit volatile and big ambiguous as i said and leaves us with with a lot of question marks and that the u.s. navy's 5th fleet is in the region and that she took part in part of the rescues today. escalation is is a significant possibility in this. we actually saw a lot of the efforts in the past weeks by regional countries such as oman kuwait and iraq but also the japanese prime minister is currently in tehran the german

foreign minister was there to in fact make sure that there are sent messages sent back and forth between tehran and washington and i personally actually believe that they have had a major impact into trying to avoid that kind of escalation which makes today's incident even more questionable with regards to who really was behind it you have to live with the mystery for now iran unless the adamant about and i thank you take a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world the british government has approved the extradition of we can leaks founder julian assange to the united states his lawyers are expected to challenge the decision which has to be approved by a court with a final verdict not expected for months he's wanted in the u.s. for leaking classified material in 2010. former british foreign minister boris johnson has overwhelmingly won the 1st round of voting to become leader of the conservative party and therefore prime minister he and 6 others go through to

the next round. of hardline and said he will leave the group thanks awfully. turkey has accused the syrian government forces of attacking a turkish observation point in syria's province 3 turkish soldiers were wounded in the attack and some equipment and facilities were damaged. veering past india's western coast he said to lash coastal areas with heavy wind rain and waves cyclon value had been due to strike the state of gujarat today but change course is now unlikely to make landfall. leading medical research organization has described the current outbreak of ebola and the democratic republic of congo as surely frightening the u.k. based welcome trust says the epidemic which has claimed more than 2000 lives is the worst since 2016 and shows no signs of stopping the world health organization is

considering whether to declare it a global emergency it is now spread to uganda where 2 people including a 5 year old boy have died. borders can't stop a virus but ugandan authorities are trying nonetheless 3 ebola cases have been registered in the country it's the 1st known cross border spread since an outbreak began in the neighboring democratic republic of congo last august fears are growing that this might only be the beginning worked out great in the dia the scene is still going on and by today we have over 2000. cases and so the probability over more cases. into uganda these very high. ebola isn't new to uganda the country has seen 5 outbreaks of the disease since the year 2000 it has now stepped up efforts to contain the virus screening everyone entering uganda from the eastern sea the government is also

deploying an experimental ebola vaccine for health care workers along the border so from friday's flush out of the box in that shot again more. frontline health walk us of the walk under a ring box the nation for the contacts. because of past successes in combating the disease uganda is widely regarded as being at the forefront of the fight against ebola few but given the most recent cases many ugandans feel uneasy and wish their country would do more to educate citizens about the virus the government does not done enough to sustain its people about that border because i think they are going to do it should have started the from there were areas but you know when people have the symptoms they want the height i mean the meets with the great opportunism which now spreads the disease to white areas. on friday the world

health organization will decide whether this outbreak should be declared an international health emergency. let's get more on this from terry savage who speaks for the world health organization he joins us from geneva welcome to day w. we saw in that report that uganda seems to be prepared how worried should other countries surrounding the day i see a big countries like rwanda and the central african republic. well this is the beginning of this outbreak that was declared on august 1st to last year we have been saying that there is a higher risk of regional spread because north q were any tory provinces in dar congo a very volatile there is a security. instability there is the hyde movement of population and there is a lot of movement to be done with neighboring countries so far we didn't have any cases until a few days ago and that time has been used by all these countries to step up their

preparedness levels so. uganda rwanda have vaccinated health workers who work in the areas near the border. travelers have been systematically screened over 63000000 travelers have been screened not only inside the r.c. but also at the border crossings those neighboring countries have been working on equipping and training health workers to be able to quickly detect and respond to any possible case for us from the border so this is exactly what happened a few days ago and the reaction of the ugandan health authorities was very swift they sent in teams to quickly. demi logic and detective work if you wish to find out. who could have been in contact with the doz people who have been the reason it doesn't just sound like they're probably racial in the groundwork is being done and that's that's good we heard in the report they have.

is looking at declaring this a look at whether to declare this international health emergency what difference would that make. well tomorrow as you have said the committee on ebola d r c will convene for the 3rd time and have basically to look into the latest developments and issue accommodations to the director general of each show whether to declare this outbreak as a global health emergency one said we had that you know passed 4 times the collaboration of global health emergency 4 different diseases and did means really that then director general has to each shoot temporary recommendations to affected countries to not affected countries although they are known by these are commendations a level out from the public health advice that we usually do there's also a need for the florida emergency committee to reconvene

a cleese every 3 months and review that argus and really what the major see declaration is is to bring the attention and necessary soup forts from the international community to a particular health crisis and do the countries involved in the region do they have everything that they need to fight this what do they prepared us work has been done and we hope the particular situation will show that did this work can they can can show some results that we are having issues with funding there is a shortfall of over $50000000.00 u.s. dollars for the current response plan we really are script donors to come up what we also ask a great involvement of the u.n. so our routines on the ground in the r.c. can get to what is necessary and that's a stable political and security environment so our teams together with a ministry of health a lot of partners can access all the communities without fearing for their lives

thank you so much we wish you well terakhir us out of it from the world health organization. a mediator stepping up efforts to end the standoff between military rulers and their civilian opponents in sudan protesters called off a general strike on a campaign of civil disobedience early this week and agreed to fresh talks with the army they say that more than 100 people were killed in last week's crackdown and they're demanding international guarantees to ensure that any deal with the army is actually a pal's is that if. you give any if any agreement needs to include i don't know an international guarantee. and had this follow up and were only prepared to discuss an agreement that leads to our proposal of a civil government. without discussion of any other issues. in my little one half of. the united states meanwhile has appointed

a new special envoy to promote a democratic resolution to sit downs political crisis veteran diplomat donald booth is in hot to them along with the u.s. top voice for africa t.-bo naki holding meetings with the transitional military government and key figures of the protest movement when flounced out is about to meet with ethiopia's prime minister and senior officials of the african union who are also mediating in the crisis. this week marks the 20th anniversary of the end of the war in kosovo in which the small state in south eastern europe broke away from serbia thousands of people were killed in the fighting now the humanitarian law center cost of in the capital prishtina is remembering was youngest victims of a special exhibition called once upon a time and never again. these

children knew nothing of weapons exodus or destruction how people home each other. but then the war ended their world a war that brutally ended the lives of many people. and exhibits and christina remembers the children who were killed in the course of a war 20 years ago. to this day those 9 monuments almost specials dates to on of these lost children we think it's very important that all those who lost their lives so disappeared back and will not be forgotten but that's why we chose this way to remember them as locals will know. more than 1000 children were killed during the war and this exhibition every one of the young victims is named also on display a personal keepsakes that parents held onto momentos associated with grief and pain . many mothers and fathers welcome the idea that the public can now take part in

understanding this tragedy. said that it was another not that i have the need to share the story and they want for what happened to be shine or that it doesn't say this country's institutions have so far done nothing in the sense. decision is that of yet must. i think that after 20 years we as a society need to process what this country went through when you said that it never happens again. that the city that. conflicts in kosovo began in 1998 the war lasted a year and a half hundreds of communities were devastated the past impacts people's lives to this day including this visitors back then his mother fled with him to germany that's why he finds the sad fate of those who stayed behind in kosovo particularly

moving because of the end for sure and so it is definitely a good idea to have an exhibition like this so that what we went through during the war can be seen and how the poor innocent children died that's definitely moving. in the congo is important for it to be shown and that you can also see how lucky you actually are to be alive today to live and went on to launch an all to live in 20 years after the war's end many people in kosovo still live with wounds. that may never heal. the exhibit in pristina is not attempt to deal with the pain and an urgent call for peace. measure of calm has returned to hong kong in the wake of a series of large protests against a planned new law allowing suspects to be extradited to china or thorgils have been clear in my barricades following a night of clashes that there 79 people injured a smaller number of protesters assembled and this is the center today to have the

security city legislators a half a spoke that next debate on the poser. which opponents fear will erode civil liberties. or to honshu i'm late years from hong kong. so i have the protesters come back today after yesterday's protests or it has been a relatively calm day of people have actually returned to work will return to normal life however a number of people protesters were still get that stu gathered around the parliament and in fact our correspondents talked to some protesters today let's have a listen. i mean such as at the bank i'm 17 years old and i'm a high school student and my classmates are having examined some bright but i decided to ski and to come here to protest. because the future of hong kong is more

important to me and this is something that will affect the freedom of every homecoming citizen it's not quite so crucial i think you. know you get used. to that i'm a bit frustrated but we must stop this spiel every few so it's all there for we are not giving out for example some are coming in here for the creek azaria trying to caroline is there a way to go on strike. and my bus was ok for us to come here what you can see some here today. i think there's no justification police to use tear gas and rubber bullets out i. happened to go out. and speak up on the reaction to the protest yesterday so they would tear gas was used where they were seeing the pictures behind is that was that was quite a scene what have people been saying about yesterday's events well of course they

are very angry still very angry about the extraditions all but they are furious about the police the behavior of the police many of them say that police used excessive unnecessary force to disperse crowds when a lot of the protesters were actually demonstrating peacefully and also today police arrested yesterday and today police have arrested a number of people and some of them are students and police actually searched the whole way to arrest the students and people are also very angry about that and tell us about the international reaction to yesterday's house so germany has already expressed some concerns about this. the foreign office tweeted that they are very concerned about the situation in hong kong and that examining whether the current. extradition agreement between hong kong and germany there is one between them and whether it can retain the lead a team if extradition is going to be adopted and the u.k.

. also had some reactions prime minister theresa may said that the rights and freedom set out and the 984 sign of british agreement should be respected because hong kong used to be a british colony and 984 they had an agreement and this is what a promise to rescind may have that and also taiwan also expressed concern u.s. president donald trump said he hopes that hong kong and china will be able to work out and also a lot of reactions from some other parts of the world ok so the very very 2nd reading of this bill that's been postponed for now so what should we expect over the coming days well and other huge protests has been cold on this coming sunday so we might expect another another pretty protest on sunday because this is the weekend and so people don't have to work so they may come out again and on monday

there should be another discussion to go on and that we can we can also expect some protests. i'm sure and we thank you so much for. watching d.w. news live from that still to come world the property victory the oval but it shows the germans are through to be your next thing the women's. rights chicks pacifically male chicks every year here in germany millions of them are cold because they don't buy eggs and require more resources to fatten them up for food than female chicks on welfare activists have campaigned against the practice for years now the country's supremes court has ruled that the killing can continue. thursday's decision was all about these little guys male chicks they're often gassed shortly after hatching because only the hens can lay eggs and

the males are too lean to clear for me but cattle industry justify the death of $45000000.00 chicks per year it's been a subject of controversy for years especially because the germans welfare states that no one is a light when slicked pain suffering or harm to an animal without good reason the federal administration of course has made its decision male chicks can still be killed for the time being because it isn't also given to us in the course understands this is a practice that's been tolerated the way it is for many years and in the near future we expect to be able to determine the sex of an embryo before the chicken hatches so in light of that the current practice will continue joining this transition period going side on the newsgroup wouldn't be beside the complexity by taking the stage but the process of determining the sex inside the egg is still not ready for industrial application or the court hasn't specified a deadline for the poultry industry to make the switch. sports of the women's

a world cup germany took on spain in their 2nd game of group b. a both sides won that opening matches making the winner of this fixture favorites to end up top in the group germany prevailed but it was a tough battle in the right. germany without injured star midfielder jennifer were under pressure again spain who created more chances early on but shortly before the break germany applied their own pressure off the cross alexander pops header popped out inside daybreak's was there to pick up the pieces giving germany a one goal lead after the restart germany kept up the momentum pop again with a header but this time the keeper kept hold. despite spain having the lion's share of the ball they couldn't crack the germany defense a late appeal for a penalty was turned down. we are really happy to have picked up this very important 3 points it took a lot of energy and we had

a lot of luck in the opening few minutes with the win germany now top the group with 6 points and are all but through. as a reminder of our top stories i think our 2 oil tankers are reported to have been attacked in the gulf and possible escalate escalation of tensions between the u.s. and iran reports say the crews have been rescued. leading biomedical research group the welcome trust has described the abode of outbreak in the democratic republic of congo as truly frightening more than 2000 people have died from the cities there and not 2 people have died in neighboring you kept. coming up next on news asia india ready to land the rover on the moon it's the country's 2nd mission in the. days ahead on the india pakistan a world cup cricket match the t.v.

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