tons of plastic pallets of coated nearby beaches. the navy says it is also preparing for an oil spill with the toxic cargo still on board. the thinking ship has already caused one of the country's worst environmental disasters. let's get the latest on the story now. we can speak to jemila who's saying she's the deputy editor of the daily mirror in colombo jamila. thank you for joining us. we mentioned that the, the navy, the coast guard have frantically been trying to stop this ship from thinking bring us up to date on the latest when high, the latest, what we have from colombo is that the time off creation have come to a standstill. and because the end of the vessel has hit the sea bed, and while the ship is now hot sung, the salvage company is trying is best to prevent it from thinking any further. the operations which started in the morning to tour the 50 nautical miles into deep

seats has come to a complete standstill raising fear that the ship can think even overnight. so right now the discussions are going on between the government authorities and the sandwich company to see how they can prevent a major the from happening. because it appears that if the ship things that can be a massive oil leak, i was just in fact, speaking to the navy and while ago and what they were saying is that they are in fact prepared for a possible leak. and if this happens, that want to try to continue within limits because they do have the facility so that the towing operations are concerned. that is why we have the near does that cost operations have come to attend the how was the ship allowed to burn? just off the coast for so long. so basically, the ship entered she, duncan, bosses on may, may 19th in fact and may 20th caught fire. the ship has come from the you eat.

when i was told you had contacted the, the dubai or to authority. they said that the ship was cleared and he said, but at that time he could not going to the indian port, which is why she's not going. authorities had given him permission to enter the columbia seeds still an investigation is going on as to how the fire actually started. i mean teams on board because the fire was actually on the late last night, which is why the team teams on board at the moment. so that investigation is still ongoing as to what actually the fastest and how it caught fire from an environmental point of view. what is the bigger danger right now? is it the ships cargo? so the plastic, the plastic waste the chemicals or is the potential of an oil spill. more than seen as imminent direct. when only one is concerned, the only will be,

i'm not seeing any speed as yet, but, and i told you before they, the threats that might happen within minutes or even hours so that you've been closely monitored by the authorities. and hopefully that shouldn't be contained within a limited area within the closer to the ship and bad the marine environment. it's something well actually that has already happened because as of now, as i speak to right nowadays, the fishing been in all the way from pon, which is the sudden caught all the way up in the gum, which is the best course. and you know, she like being island country, the city brings in a lot of foreign exchange and also a long cash. and now this has come to a sensitive also, the b shows along the southern course after the rest course has been completely damaged, completely destroyed. because as you know, this was carrying chemicals and this was also carrying. we says now wash the show

and what authority is now here is that these are my break into smaller papers in the coming did friend. this is going to be, he was use us on the money like already we had the in the disaster happening because a lot of my life had died and he's being watched the show will have to leave it there. jamila, hussein, deputy editor of the daily mirror in colombo, thank you so much for joining us. thank you. let's get a round up now of some other headlines. the largest shift in the iranian navy has sunk in the gulf of oman, after catching fire the vessel, the i r i s card was dispatched to international water several days ago. it is unclear what caused the blaze, but the iranian navy says nobody was killed in the incident. israel parliament has elected the veteran politician, i think has august, the country's new president. he'll take up the largely ceremonial world next month . and it comes to the opposition lawmaker scrambled to 4 to coalition,

to unseat prime minister benjamin netanyahu. they have until midnight local time to reach an agreement. in a jury, relatives of dozens of school children taken up by gunman over the weekend of appeal to the government to help free them more than a 150 students were abducted from the islamic school and no north central night or state authority say they're they are negotiating to bring the children back safely . now, a prominent russian opposition figure who was stopped and detained just moments before his playing departed for poland, says he now faces 2 months in detention allies of under people bato say his detention by russian authorities. the pretext for boring him for running from in september parliamentary elections. european union has called for his immediate release, secretly taken images of andre. people are of being led away by police after being hold off a plane about to take off moments before his arrest. the activists tweeted

a picture of the officers boarding the air croft up to you, and i had already turned to stone off as the plane began to take off a few minutes later. andre went back online and wrote me that the plane had been stopped and he saw the police driving to the gangways after us and it was a course it from the plain alone. the vincent, who is somebody with them, people, vera was taken to his apartment, which was searched before. he was driven away. he has been brought to the southern city of crowds. no dye is all i say to keep him ma'am. so, i mean, taken for questioning. now the remarkable thing is that there had been no information about this case earlier. if i had been asked to come for questioning, i would have come. that's why this is all a very big surprise. the social people of our, of the rest, st. petersburg airport comes days after his open russia foundation felt that it's

active as ease to avoid persecution under rushes, repressive laws and opposition groups. but the police did not stop there on tuesday, they rated the offices of opposition. politician, dimitri good cause, who is planning to run an upcoming parliamentary elections. now go into the next department. i've never felt so important before. there are 60 people working on our case today. we're not allowed to speak to everyone. thank you. good call was then we'll so arrested on some of his associates taken in for questioning . the question if seems as if this is a personal case against opposition, figures to pressure them, push the massive politics and prevent them from running in the elections. with such scenes, repeating themselves all over russia. the opposition is bracing for a tough time before pose open in september. let's bring it to be used, emily? sure. when in moscow, for more on the story. hi,

emily. what is the latest that you're hearing on these arrests? well, the latest is that andre people have out of, has been placed in pre trial detention for the next 2 months. there's an ongoing investigation into him for a working with an undesirable organization. and he could actually face up to 6 years in prison depending on what the court decides with when it comes to me that a good cough. he is also currently in detention and is waiting for a court to decide whether he will remain in pre trial detention. he's suspected of not paying rent on the premises that he rented in 2015 from the moscow mayor's office. and apparently he also could face a very serious sentence, 5 years in jail. people bought it was removed from a flight, essentially just before it took off. i mean, how unusual is that?

i say it's very unusual. usually the russian authorities are pretty happy for opposition. say years to leave the country. in fact, there have even been cases where opposition figures laid a report that they were actually actively encouraged to leave and to sensually get out of the kremlin hair. in this case, we saw this rather theatrical arrest. you know, where water was actually taken off the plane. and i think it's hard to ignore the parallels with neighboring bella roof, where a plane was actually landed in minsk in order for or for then, for us to see then an opposition journalist being arrested. there are, i'm on the see which i think people here certainly will see those parallels. people have been talking about the parallel with the bellow, bruce, they've been watching the protests there last year. the violent crack down that followed that. and it almost seems like the russian authorities are sending a signal that it could, that they could do

a bell roof on russia and essentially up their crack down even more. yeah. how are people they're reacting to these, the rest why i would say the rest of, of, to high profile opposition figures like people have out of and good cause usually would have sparked some sort of outrage. we might have seen protests, or at least a picket line here in moscow, but there's been nothing and that shows us 2 things. i think 1st of all, the fact that this has almost become the new normal over the past few months. almost every week we see the arrest of opposition, figures activists, even critical journalists. we see media outlets being declared. foreign agents and g o is being declared undesirable. and also i think it shows that people are intimidated by what's happening after the protests at the beginning of the year, even after the protest people were arrested,

they were identified using surveillance cameras and some people and fired from their jobs. so i think a lot of people who might be willing to protest about this certainly aren't, aren't willing to take the risk at the moment. and beyond that we, we've seen russian senators adopting legislation a so called the extremist bill that would essentially keep critics from running and elections. is that really the ultimate step to silence opposition? well, it's certainly a new extreme. and i think a lot of critics have been saying that that law is aimed specifically at vine. these organizations, there's a trial next week that could mean that 3 of his organizations are declared extremist. and that would mean that anyone who was even vaguely associated with those 3 organizations, or even just posted in support of one of these organizations on facebook, for example, that they could be barred from running in the upcoming duma elections. and we've

seen now with good coughing people, a lot of that. it's not just anything associated with no vine. it's really all descent and all opposition voices. and it seems the kremlin wants to stamp out and stifle ahead of the september duma elections. he w emily sure. when reporting from moscow, thank you. you're watching d. w still to come on our show a look at how a shadow we p our agency isn't listening. social media stars to peddle misinformation about the biotech spider vaccine that is coming up in a moment. but 1st, joe biden has become the 1st sitting us president to visit the site of the tulsa massacre in oklahoma. he marked 100 years since a white man killed as many as $300.00 african americans in the middle class district and known at the time as black wall street biden says, rights for black americans are still under assault to this day. are now the survivors of the tulsa massacre over 100 years old,

but never in their long life. have they seen a president commemorate the event. president biden held a minute of silence in tulsa to remember a black community that was subjected to one of the worst racial attacks in us history for much too long. the history of what took place here was told in silence, cloaked in darkness. but just because history is silent, it doesn't mean that it did not take place. in 1921, a mob of white people looted and burned tulsa's, thriving greenwood district. a profit count of the dead was never completed. but some estimates say hundreds of black americans were killed. those now living in the city said the president's visit was a vital for racial justice. and it's important because there's a beginning of admittance. there's a beginning of, let's speak on these things and let's try to deal with this or that we can grow and

move forward. we need his presence. we need for people to continue to learn about the race massacre and to continue to invest to really help us move forward. we're looking back is one thing, but thinking about what's next is sort of the big part of it. like, what are we going to do to make things right? what are we going to do to improve our community? but it has stayed clear of the commitment for reparations to survivors and their descendants. that says his administration is aware that more needs to be done to address racial qualities. the u. k. government is hosting a global vaccine confidence summit as international leaders look at ways to improve uptake of covered 19 vaccines. while their job hasn't been made any easier by online skeptics raising doubt about the safety of an occupation, one coordinated campaign appears to have targeted the bio tech pfizer vaccine by offering payment the social media influences who are willing to spread

misinformation. on his youtube channel code to watch, man, and present his take on current affairs. a couple of weeks ago he received an ominous e mail to me and it has an influence. an agent based in london contacted me, which is not unusual on but what was strange was in the very 1st e mail, they said we had some information here that we would like to disseminate. i will pay you for it. at the time, they asked him to discredit biotech and reference supposedly secret information that allegedly approved. hundreds of people have died from a vaccination. he played a long and took up their offer to find out more of the gulf. don't know how late he got further instructions saying, for example, that my post them should come across personal opinion vital, and that i should not back in my sponsored posts, which by the way, illegal in germany, you got that. i should say that i came across this information myself around the

world. youtube is being offered money in similar circumstances, like leo casa, who lives in france. we are at the center of something going on like information war. and people need to be super, super cautious of what they read about when to hear about france's health minister responded sharply to these attempts to manipulate public opinion before they thought last. one was the vast majority of french people want to be vaccinated. and i don't think anyone from, from, or abroad can dissuade the frames with such a negative communication campaign that they told me to call for the business. according to research by german broadcast a r d, youtube is from other countries have already spread the dubious information in india. for example, on this. so here, there are 2 companies who acts in the sense this brazilian youtube or is also seen warning view as against what he calls the dangerous vaccine ski blow to the

mountain. forget, there are lots of famous people out there who won't do almost anything for cash that it's dangerous, especially when it comes to things like elections, influences are being paid to place certain messages go higher and fewer, get them to both of them to play the daniel loafer and editor at germany's net politics, not all new side has been researching the issue close. and the thing that this company doesn't even exist in the british commercial register, a dummy company, that doesn't happen to have a doorbell at the address provided clinton did. is that we found it's customers seem by and large mostly to be russian line. mia co, dutchman stopped researching the topic. the supposed agency apparently figured out who was leading them on and cut all contact for the w pablo fully aliya, following the story for see join us here in studio. hi pablo. we are there that agency that is pushing these were mirth clients in russia, but appear to be really intent upon spreading misinformation about the biotech

pfizer vaccine. why is that? well, they're targeting this vaccine that was co developed by germany and the united states, as we know, it's one of the main vaccines being used here in the u. and in the us. now, a french investigative media report at pointed to the similarities between at dot miss this information. com and the official twitter account of russia. sputnik fi. now we're going to see now a tweet here, where at, from splitting these came where it's a place like this one where they're attacking m r n a vaccine such as the by on tech visor and madonna vaccines appear to be something that they, they put on there as social media counts now, the use foreign service warned against as state sponsored vaccine, this information campaigns from russia and china. and also there was a report from the you, the concluded that basically moscow and beijing were aiming to so mistrust in western vaccines by sensationalizing safety concerns. so how do you combat these

types of rumors? well, how very interesting conversation with the head of the center for countering digital hate. now what they do is they analyze thousands of social media posts spreading vaccination myths and was very interesting why he had to say. so let's take a listen and then we can maybe discuss it after the platforms themselves. facebook, instagram, google, youtube, that are critical in spreading this misinformation. they are all american and of course the legislations that can most effect the regulation of those companies. american, however, york is legislation additional service zach the u. k is legislation for the online services bill. so as you can see there, you know, there is legislation being brought out here in the european union and in the u. k. and in the united states. but does seem like some social media companies are in a way partly to blame for the spreading of some of these rumors, how they responded. well,

social media platforms say that they do remove millions of posts which violate their policies on spreading harmful mis information. now they're also introducing features such as for example, you will get a message day for via messaging service. and, and also what people do is they read the headline or you will get it on facebook for example, and they just send it on. and there is, you don't have to click anything to say, i've read this was what they've introduced now on facebook and twitter is that you have to basically read what you're going to forward on to perhaps your contact. so it's a way of sort of putting in some sort of safety measure that you're not forwarding on something that perhaps when you do read it, you don't agree with it. so that's one area as well, from what we've heard there from, from our guest. and basically, you know, legislation as well as the guidelines that are in place from ad these big social media companies. perhaps the combination of all these elements as well as the user is being a little bit more aware of what were spreading. well,

all that combination will ease will say, the spreading of miss information. okay, very important reporting there are public fully al. yes, thank you so much and let's catch up. now on the latest in the corona virus pandemic, the world health organization has approved a copay. 19 vaccine made by china, the final back for emergency youth and adults over 18. it is the 2nd such authorization had it is granted to a chinese company. a corona virus lockdown in australia, 2nd to biggest city melbourne, has been extended by another week following a cluster of cases. and a report says, africa faces recession growing violence and higher unemployment because of the pandemic. that's from the mo abraham foundation, which promotes good governance. pressure is growing on tokyo olympic officials to cancel next month event, japanese media. se organizers have admitted $10000.00 volunteers recruited for the

games have already quit. and the core of our crisis. tokyo plan for 80000 volunteers, but might have to make do with significantly fewer opinion polls in japan show a big majority of people think the game should not take place. the final decision, however, rests with the international olympic committee. and it has that the game will go ahead. now, fears are easing that. germany's corona virus entry restrictions could play habit with football european championship later this month. germany now says it will make exceptions for the tournament despite britain being classified as a virus variant area. currently, people who have recently been in britain can only enter germany if their german citizen are a resident and then they still have to court team. a quarter, final of the euros will be held in munich with one team having previously played in london. and others, a young woman in california got

a little closer to nature than is probably advisable. after tackling a bear in her garden for villains video shows a mother bear taking her for a walk along a garden wall in a suburb of los angeles. that didn't go down well with the family dog. so in a 17 year old hailey, maureen, go to separate the animal. haley says she only thought about phasing or dogs, and although she escaped with just a scrape and a spray, and she advises, do not do this at home. or let's get a reminder now of our top stories off the coast to see like a smoldering container ship that build some of its cargo of chemicals and plastic is now partly thanks. it was already the country's worst ever marine environmental disaster. but now a big oil spill is a possibility. the prominent opposition figure in russia was pulled off a plane just before take off for poland, says he faces 2 months in detention allies of hon. botto se russian authorities are

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