oh oh oh oh oh this is d w news life from bar lend russians vote in local and regional elections that have spark the bigots antigovernment protests in the country in the year just local media suggests that pro quo in the united russia party navy dealt a glow losing seeds in moscow opposition leader a net alexina baal maze advising voters to cast their ballots for anyone other than prudence party also coming up to to british airways pilots launch of today's strike that's paralyzing the carriers operations d.a.

says it's just fling to be really all flights from the do pay airports task to reporting from a communications blackout to cashmere e needy ever being under strict control on the lung after india's dispended the regents autonomy to our correspond it visits kashmir or to be journalists working with how internet for phone connections for and in tennis and at the us open final up see use props on a dollop beading to daniel med the aether have been pies drilling sags it's the spaniards the money teen grand slam title and now old just one off the man's a tone times record player played i'm sarah cali welcome to the program russians have cast their ballots in local elections that were preceded by weeks of antigovernment protests news agency is say that vladimir putin's united russia party facing major losses in the capital

moscow opposition leader alexina vali has called on russians to vote tactically to block candidates from united russia after some opposition candidates were banned from running the election was marked by low voter turnout. even the mascots outside the polling stations don't seem very enthusiastic by early evening turnout in moscow had reached only 17 percent of the city council elections drew candidates from the governing united russia party and other kremlin friendly parties but no opposition candidates were allowed president vladimir putin cast his vote early and the lack of choice didn't seem to bother him much. in some countries there are 3050 even 100 candidates but that doesn't mean to say they do better work it's quality not quantity that counts or that i think we have with the candidates. the exclusion of opposition candidates has inspired weekly protests since mid-summer

the police have cracked down hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested. the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. i guess then you look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them the perceived local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. correspondent erin telltale is standing by in moscow with the view from there so how were the results looking so far aaron. well so far the numbers we're seeing coming in here in moscow indicate that at least within the russian capital that the opposition has managed to tack up a major victory when it comes the likes into the city council now outside in the more regional areas of moscow it seems like they do now to see and i did russia as

men able to maintain their grip on power but really all eyes were here on the russian capital i mean this is been the scene of some of the most violent protests we've seen in recent weeks and i think part of that has actually kind of turned around and given the opposition a real gust of wind a real boost of support which is part of the reason that we've seen them make such extreme inroads into the the local seats of power in government so the opposition the big winner in this election you highlighted some of the factors why do you think that they were able to pull this off well there's kind of 2 things that are really kind of working together on the one side and there's a been a lot of a simmering resentment within the russian capital for quite a while now i mean this summer has seen an unprecedented wave of public protests on a huge variety of different issues you know everything runs ranging from police corruption to the election we've seen just now and also issues like trash collection and pension reform it really seems like there's an untapped protest

potential among the russian population in the major cities and the opposition has really been able to capitalize on that in recent weeks now that's also part of the reason that this smart voting. bloc that we've seen election of ali call for has also been so successful i mean basically election of all the in his opposition forces have been attempting to create a new model which would they would which they hope will allow them to have elections success moving forward and that basically would see them encourage voters to vote for any candidate who could be a candidate for me i did russia and it seems like at least in the initial tallies that this voting bloc has had a lot of success which is part of the reason they were able to pick up 20 seats in the local government here erin what does this mean for putin as he and his united russia party. well that really is the big question as i was saying earlier i mean they were able to hold on to power in most of the regions outside of moscow but it seems that within the russian capital and also within the other major cities that

support is starting to wrote i mean some political experts we've spoken to is i have actually referred to the brand as toxic which is part of the reason that many of the candidates actually chose one these independents out of fear that while association with the party might actually hurt their chances in polling i mean that's not to say that blood on your putin is in danger of losing power here in the country but it does kind of speak to the fact that a lot of the apparatus he's built up over the last 20 years his party which has helped kind of for the foundation of his government his power well their support is starting to erode among the muslim population now many people i talked to really kind of point to socio economic issues they say that i'm the economy is really doing poorly and has been for years and it's always been kind of the major issue with putin basically said is long as the people in keep their hands off of politics his party will guarantee of them economic success and we're starting to see that slipping a little bit i mean as one moscow resident i spoke to put it he said you know the city's gotten a new coat of paint but we're dealing with much more real problems than we have

been at any time in the last 5 years and i think you know those hands are kind of coming home to roost and his party is now having to deal with the fallout from that area and interesting element to this election we have the russian election watchdog saying that google and facebook distributed political ads today tell us a little bit more about that. well it's it's it's an interesting point but i'm not sure exactly what the overall relevance of it is basically we saw that the russian internet watchdog said that facebook you tube and google were still linking towards political ads saturday and sunday now that's actually against russian law within the country basically all political ads need to stop within 24 hours of an actual election and i mean all political parties have to stop their rallies they can't go out and have any type of actions and because these american internet companies didn't actually follow suit they're saying that amounts to foreign intervention in the democratic process within russia now the question really is you know how serious is that complaint you have to remember these are

complaints that the west has often leveled against russia saying that you know some of the troll factories based in st petersburg or other of the internet influenced groups are attempting to influence western elections this might be a little bit pushback against that we don't know if it's going to have any real consequences for these internet giants so far all we've seen is that they are complaining writing these western it companies are doing something similar that russia is accused of errant tilton in moscow thank you. thank you a quick check of some other stories making news around the world a powerful typhoon with fox i lashed the japanese capital tokyo leaving one person dead and at least 10 injured caused major disruption to transport bringing train services to a standstill and grounded flights about 400000 people have been advised to evacuate their homes. protesters in hong kong have marched outside the u.s. consulate seeking support for their months long pro-democracy movement but hong kong's government is warning foreign governments not to interfere in what it calls

the territories internal affairs and sudan has sworn in its 1st cabinet after the ousting of longtime ruler omar al bashir it's led by the prime minister abdullah hummed the 18 member governments including 4 women among them foreign minister the cabinet is part of a power sharing agreement between the military and police democracy activists. british airways says that it is canceling almost all of its u.k. flights as pilots begin a 2 day strike tens of thousands of passengers have been left stranded it's the company's 1st pilots strike the 1st time that they have taken this industrial action which could cost the airline almost $50000000.00 a day the strike was called after pilots rejected the offer of an 11.5 percent pay rise over 3 years in a says that it offers quote world class salaries but pilots say they should be

getting a bigger share of the company's profits. let's get more on this we're joined by ben fizzling from business what are we talking about here i mean if you are a traveler today what are you facing it will be about 300000 travelers 1st of all who are going to get on a b.a. flight today they've almost canceled 100 percent of their flights now. what they're up for is compensate. a reimbursement travel at a later date or a arrangements for today with someone else b a's know in this for a while now so they should be handling this quite well but already they've told some passengers that they have flights will cancel which wasn't the case and there's been quite a few people quite on happy about this ats as i might imagine so so what exactly are the pilots to man day well as you mention they what what a lebanon huff the send more all have rejected the payoff or of a livin hof percent will rather that would have increase that paid to $250000.00

u.s. dollars now that's quite good i mean pilots used to be one of the best paid professions in the world that still quite good pay and his in the up a scale of what pilots actually get paid it's when you look at the pay that junior coat pilots were being off and they're on about $30000.00 of the maroon now do you want a junior co-pilot in charge of things if something goes wrong on a flight views are any getting 30000 and he's heavily in debt up to 100008 costs them up 210-0000 dollars just to do their training i don't want someone like that who hasn't changed properly or is under stress of having dead in charge my flight and these of the concerns that they have but also the pilots who are getting good pay they say they jobs a getting hotter and hotter to do the pay is less the companies making more and basically the brand itself which was a great brand is being dumb down how significant is this action i mean

a when we look at the bottom line when we look at the dollars and cents because it's the 1st time that they have taken such and industrial action the pilots it is and on the scent 10 or a of this company this company been round for of 100 years for 100 years now and that's what it celebrating this year its glory days of the eighty's or when it dubs itself the world's favored airline a far i mean do you ever hear any passengers getting excited about getting going to british airways flight i mean a new zealand to fantastic see poor airlines great you know you're looking forward to the service the food in this case you know you've got to be worried about whether or not your passenger daughter is going to be breached you remember that scandal just recently 100 hundreds of thousands of passengers thought it was breached there was also recently an i.t. failure the ground of flights worldwide and the company has been busy for the past 20 years now cutting costs this is the result that facility thank you for the hurricane that ripped through the bahamas last week has now hit the

east coast of canada though downgraded to a tropical storm dorian still costs damage whipping up waves and flooding waterfront areas the storm lashed the canadian coast with strong winds and heavy rain knocking out power in hundreds of thousands of homes officials asked people to stay off the roads but the damage there has been nothing like the devastation that dorrian freaked in the bahamas have a look. a 13 hour ferry ride to bringing the homeless to a safe haven. hundreds of survivors from the worst hit areas of the application and grand bahama islands a streaming south to nassau the capital of the bahamas was largely spared dorian's destructive force it's a time for reunions and rejoicing at being a life. i had that stayed with 3 kids. actually 5 kids but 3 young ones to me nearly 3 dead and it was all i'm very grateful that

i did not go out and i could give thanks to god. a lot nice to see another good good without love when my home collapsed and i feel like i don't was that i know because a lot of people died and i thought i was going to be one of them and i just we just started praying in there with thing and then we survived. dream homes on the up because reduced to match would by the nightmare hurricane. locals talk of the bodies still buried in the rubble the smell that pervades everything the lack of food and safe drinking water. for those unwilling or unable to leave the battle for survival is not yet over. there you're watching t w news still to come on the program how many grand slam titles does rough and it's all need to match roger federer's record not many that's for sure following the

spaniards triumph at the u.s. open we have more. but 1st pope francis wraps up his tour of africa today with a celebration of diversity on the island of more rishis the pontiff landed just a short while ago to be paying tribute to a 19th century french missionary who worked for tolerance on the island in the indian ocean. or francis of arrived on russia's following stops in mozambique and madagascar. and crucial ports from war rishis on the missionaries and door legacy. interfaith family outing to the grave of jack. beatified french missionary. was born a hindu but is now a christian by the mondays hindu and and mary is christian each year they come here together. and you get thought if i have problems i come here to talk about it with

father love the answer doesn't always come right away but it does come but. i usually prefer the children i want them to be growing nicely give them good health . and education good manners that is impacting. the that you're not going now growing man is saying they. would have started. in the middle of the 19th century. to have converted tens of thousands of people on their riches but he did more than preach he treated freed slaves as equals and gave a voice to the poor many years still call them the apostle of more riches. literally. every one of. these a symbol of the country's unity if you if you. people flock to him you can

see this is a disgrace and. people from all religions and cultures honor him as a spiritual father. and as a father figure. out the population of more resources into the rest is made up of christians muslims and buddhists. the mosque right next to him to temple in morris's that is totally normal it is a very religious country but in the same time very tolerant. the pope's visit is a special honor for all faiths here. we do not consider to be divided up what the whole muslim community here welcomes the pope's. moldau duty after all we are all one people dr yes and. what about just we were through with one paper john paul the

2nd visited in 1989 the 2nd cd we just as thrilled by the current pipes visit we welcome everyone who stands for peace yesterday to publish it why did they want these it was evil. by new mandate and her family visibly moved after the visit to father levels grave. i don't know. you can explain later she says it gave her strength next year at the latest the family will reunite to come back here just for more than a month after india suspended indian controlled kashmir is autonomy reporting from the region still faces severe restrictions local media are struggling to report freely under an unprecedented communication shutdown correspondent walt travelled to srinagar in indian administered kashmir as she found out kashmiris are often

left in a state of confusion without access to reliable news. a news room without internet phone lines all more connections this meet in 2019. pantry a reporter for a national newspaper. the computers at work simply to write stories on. to get his work to the papers headquarters in another city he has to save it on a pen drive and take it to a media facilitation centered on by the government. the center has one internet connection and 5 computers for hundreds of local national and international journalists. it's also where he can catch up with other reporters on what they are hearing but these aren't the only hoarders he and his colleagues in kashmir face.

really it's really difficult to get off from version 4 that instance already and what are we really geared for and concerned there have been so many journals have been someone about the officials where did you get from this information this sort of against a threat and of course and also. there are occasional briefings like today when reporters are invited to hear from army and police of a show that. the focus of the briefing however is not on the situation in the media . it is on pakistan and its alleged efforts at infiltration. officials insist that the past month has been the most peaceful and kashmir and shutting down communications has been a legitimate means to achieve that we have. this. is. one of them in. the. book. but it isn't just troublemakers that the government is what it about gog's

on the media are evident when security forces stand down but as always reporters cannot argue. bob it is a place that maybe in the absence of communication networks and reliable knew was hearsay and conjecture are rampant if an e.t.s. order went off by security forces for example if people assume that weiland has broken out that bought best norway to ratify it. these unofficial channels are amplified because dress events do not trust little clue people was on national television news. they believe those journalists are toeing the official line from the hindu nationalist government and refusing to portray the hardships on the ground. good news don't get any news media reports fake news the schools are open shops are open traffic is moving but look around you you are in the heart of srinagar shops are closed schools are closed people are distressed by the show on

the good news many of the news i've watched is totally fake we can't trust the media anymore we can't trust what they are saying. and i'm a spock is grateful that his edit does do not dictate what he can and cannot write but he what he is that all journalists do not have that freedom. they don't even carry their duty is not a single comment on the street and what has happened to the people not a single comment their discourse there are some of those are precious little places for the precious in. the right to speak freely want simply be distorted when the phone stopped ringing again. to tennis now and rafael nadal beat my dead have in 5 sets to win his 4th u.s. open title in new york and dull was pushed to the brink of the 1st sets great big by 75 they did have lost the next next set $63.00 but then mounted

an improbable comeback winning the 3rd and the 4th sets to force a decisive 5th of the span came out on top winning 6 for the da now has 19 grand slam titles to his mean just one behind all time leader roger federer. joining me here in the studio to talk through rough and a doll's 4th u.s. open title is only one who talk if it so the tease the 2900 champion was he the favorite in new york though iraq is always a hit in new york and i think it comes down to his style his never give up attitude . the fact that he's come back from injuries i mean you know they were caught they hard and you going to get rewarded for it it's very unlikely that the american work ethic as for the new men to deflect just say he's had a very tumultuous relationship with the crowd in the united states and that's understandable but there's so many warmed up to him and that's because at one point the hostilities was so great that he even flipped the finger at them he's come out and he's apologized of a sins and i think maybe down the road he too can become

a fan favorite not as raw but perhaps because more of his personality and the fact that he is so unfiltered from the da we have to return to talking about him because he's the one title away from beating roger federer having the most grand slam titles to their name can he do it or will he do it well yes it's very doable and i mean here's the thing roger federer i mean he has been ahead for a very long time when it comes to having the most men's singles grand stem wins and that record for the longest time people thought no one would even come close to it that's why they call federer the gold but now we have nadal who's just one behind him and of course also has time on his side he's 33 years old compared to roger federer who is 38 but there is criticism directed often at not dolly and that is that people often say he's very one dimensional and they say this because he tends to dominate k. so for example 12 of his 19 france sam wins have come at the french open and this

is why that win yesterday at the u.s. open that was so important because it shows that he's also slowly growing very comfortable on the hot courts that he can find more success on them and so yeah it's very realistic that he will pass federer and move yet if i mean how much of a threat does he pose in the future to the big 3 that's the question i mean he's had an incredible summer but is this a one off a can he keep it off to men's tennis right now need some medvedev somebody who can break the dominance of the big 3. watch. and djokovic the last 12 grand slams actually have been won by that trio and let's also remember that and medvedev he came very close to winning the last night you know he almost made a comeback so he is tennis is big. hope right now alina cho talking sports thank you. well british airways pilots have begun

a 2 day strike that's paralyzing the carrier's operations be a says that it's canceling nearly all flights from u.k. airports you can find out more about that and all the other news i d w dot com i'm sara kelly in berlin thank you so much for joining us here on d.w. have a great day. form

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