billions of plastic pellets have washed ashore, prompting a fishing ban and concern for the environment. now with this ship is causing environmental damage in the local area. it's fuel is mixing with the sea water that increases the mercury level in the fish in the water. so we can't really eat the fish. what will have them in the whole system? he does them in the ocean. he does the living beings, and fish and corners are lisa had been destroy the vessel which was ablaze. the 12 days had nearly 350 tons of oil in its fuel tanks. tons of toxic nitric acid, was also in its cargo, among other chemicals. a criminal investigation has now been launched into the countries west maritime environmental disaster. jimmy la hussein as the deputy

editor at columbus daily mirror newspaper. and i asked her about those fears of an imminent oil spill. well, the latest, what we have from number is that they know i've been, has been detected as yes. navy divers are on the see right now trying to see what the effect has been. and actually that has been thought that from underneath the day yet to come back up to surface and daisy to be in depth. but appreciate the, the navy maintaining that, you know, i feel, but if it happens to be in the coming, i will probably even becoming did that because they have the facilities to contain the content area near the rest of the day event from being from coming on shore and affecting the night and the marine that we have delayed just at

the moment. okay. we mentioned that a criminal investigation has also been launched into how this could happen. so what information is already known? yeah, so basically the captain of the ship and the crew members who are right now held in a hotel in cap colombo, they have been questioned by the criminal investigations department as to what exactly went on. and we had a conference by the municipal court earlier today, and he said that assess operation was also on to locate the wage data recorder. know exactly the conversation between the captain and the crew members just before and after the highest thought that you know what we do the more months away investigation is concerned. i feel that there had been a need from one of the containers when it entered the court, but at that time they did not know how bad it was. so or how the fire not

yet to be officially announced. but defeated had been a neat from one of the container, probably the container, which was getting the nitric acid. how is all of this impacting sri lankan when thousands of families have been affected today? because as you know, she's not going depends very heavily on the fishing effect and allow right along, of course, houses of fishing families who occupy these in and within the past 13 days has been a temporary man. we just commented all the way from the sudden course, right up to the court. so they're nice people that actually come to the sensitive and our tourism is also likely to be impacted by the right. now we do have an island wide lockdown in the 19, but when we open up, the tourism is likely to be impacted as well. because if you're not ready for the

beaches then right now, which is not accessible because we've had chemicals which had been washed to show we've had plastic and wash special. so everything is looking at probably weeks and even months. everything is jamilla. hussein reporting there from colombo, thank you. now to some other stories making headlines around the world, the use top court has rebuked to germany for failing to clean up dirty air in cities. the european court of justice has ruled that between 20102016 germany quote, systematically and persistently violated the maximum permitted levels of nitrogen dioxide. berlin is now compelled to take action or could face has defined denmark's parliament has passed a controversial new law that allows the government to relocate asylum seekers to another country under the new law, so called partner countries would be responsible for processing asylum seekers

cases as well as offering them protection and approved cases and the u. s. space agency nasa has unveiled a plan to send twin probes to venus. the mission aims to study the atmosphere and geologic features of earth, sister, planet, and better understand why this you developed so differently. the $500000000.00 program will be launched by 2030 now israel look set to get a new leader after 12 years with benjamin netanyahu as prime minister, former opposition leader ja la pete from the yes, a t t or future party has put together a coalition of 8 parties from across the political spoke to spectrum, and he hopes he'll be able to form a new government. now, under the deal, the hard line religious nationalists, natalie bennett here, would initially become the prime minister. this is the man who might lead israel for the next 2 years. natalie bennett has made his political career with provocative statements that established himself to the right of outgoing pm

benjamin netanyahu. this is him last year. he a bowl long enough show. we will not allow the israeli government to recognize a palestinian state under any circumstances. we will not allow israel to hand over even a centimeter of land to the arabs. this is what we are here for, to guard the land of israel. who will ship them either? but bennet is also a generation younger than yahoo has broken with allies on the religious right. on the role of religion in public life. he's also comparatively liberal and gay rights and other issues. bennett is the son of american immigrants to israel. he made a fortune in high tech before jumping into politics in 2013. revamping the right wing subtler party jewish home model. he served as secretary of defense, and secretary of education under netanyahu. bennett would bring very little public support to the role in 2019 elections. has the amino party received no mandates and

in the most recent round it one just 7 out of the 120 seats in the connected. i think it's a bit of a disgrace that someone who has elected with only 7 mandate is the person who decides the fate of the country. i think that it's good for is although i'm from the left side. i believe that the new prime minister will unite israel because it is now divided into many pieces. and we need to change. bennett has promised to work for all israelis, not just his supporters. then shallow because of the government like this will succeed only if we work together as a group, not i, we are not, we will bring back. so we was his real secret weapon day of its foundation. call on the floor. got with them or not leak. on this lemon, shallow bennett would have his handful guiding a coalition that spanned the entire political spectrum. and israel would have its

1st taste of the post netanyahu era, for as long as it left. the w. tonya kramer is in jerusalem with the latest ty tonya. let's start with natalie bennett. he's been described as an ultra nationalist. so what would is leadership mean for the direction of the country and resolving the israeli palestinian conflict? well i think that is still too early to say, because at the moment the focus is on whether this coalition will actually work and will put an end to the political crisis. this country has seen over the past 2 and a half years before elections, mostly inconclusive. and now trying to form this coalition government also, it will be one of the most diverse and one of the broadest correlations that the country has seen in recent years. which of course, we'll see, you know, the hard line is among them. natalie bennett with his amino party religious,

national religious writing hotline, as he is known to be a pro settlement pro annexation, at least in part of the occupied wes thing and against the palestinian state. other of the smaller writing parties are in the same line, but he has as a leader, he has to put this coalition together and work with the central parties and also with the left parties. in this new coalition or perspective coalition, i have to say and also has the support of an hour party. that is something new that is a 1st this time, which is the political branch of the stomach movement in israel. so the focus is on whether he can make that coalition work. it's been described as a fragile coalition. so what hurdles is that still facing? well, they can agree on one thing, and i think this is how they came together is to spend you mean that yahoo and to

bring something new to bring a change. they cannot agree on many other things, ideologically, they're very far apart. differences are quite extreme in some cases even and i think what they will trying to do is to leave at 1st the most controversial issues. for example, when it comes to the israeli palestinian conflict aside. if they can afford this this, we cannot say for sure. but they're still also other issues they have to deal with many of the economy, the social economic affairs, also the budget. they have to look at. but even when you talk about religious affairs or as you to be q issues, there are quite far apart. but also have to stress, this is not done yet, is a whole procedure. now ahead of this coalition, they have to undergo confidence food in the connected and already there are reports that there's a lot of no intense pressure on some of the writing. lawmakers especially on your mena, or whether they will all really support this correlation. it's

a radius and majority of $61.00 seats out of $120.00 seats before this government could be sworn. and where does all of this? we've benjamin netanyahu because he is israel. the longest serving prime minister. so what would israel look like without him at the helm? well, i think this is also still to see. i mean, what you understand if this coalition comes together this government unity, government, then he would be in the opposition possibly be opposition leader. but of course he has been dominating is ready politics for the past 12 years in israel internationally. and he has still a lot of supporters and among his supportive there's a lot of frustration as well. they say he should have been or should have continued as a prime minister because he has still also the largest party after the last election . his opponents would say he has been too long and his post,

he also has to face. he stands trial for several corruption charges. and he has to be replaced to move the country forward because they say he has polarized the country too much. and it will take a long time to over come those division between the different political comes w tenure, kramer reporting from jerusalem. good to talk to you. health ministers from the g 7 . group of industrialized economies are meeting in oxford, england. it's a symbolic location, as researchers at oxford university developed a cove in 1900 vaccine, together with the pharmaceutical company, astrazeneca the ministers are discussing, the prospect of joint protection against future pandemic se and sharing vaccines with poor countries. german health minister again, sean is attending, he is called from philadelphia in the distribution of corona, virus vaccines. what we need is corporation. we want the companies like biotech,

pfizer cio back as sort of in a car to cooperate with other companies in india and africa in asia to really make it possible through taste transfer to have production sites there too. and the 2nd approach is kovacs international cooperation. the international facility to actually finance vaccine, those us for the rest of the world, $1.00 and $5.00. inoculations on the world, financed by germany. and so actually that shows how much we are committed to this go to vaccinate the world. blacksburg and dw burger's mom. she's been following the summit for us. i better get how much unity is there behind that message. that appeal for solidarity from the german health minister while experts in the u. k. have appealed to the ministers. the g 7 countries to really find that unity desperately. they say they have the chance to be super heroes, but they need to share the vaccine. the. it's clear that the in poor countries that

much less vaccine, the, even less than one percent of all the occupations have been in poor countries, low income countries. but of course, it's tough choices for the ministers meeting and london because they are debating here in europe, for example, whether that will be booster shots for the adults in the autumn where the children should be vaccinated. and if they do that well west of the vaccine that they could also share with developing countries where we know that, for example, health workers are not even at this point inoculated. so it will be tough choices. but experts say, and it's all the international bodies are the world health organizations that they really need to find this unity. well, they also want to discuss the possibility of an early warning system of sorts that would warn of further waves and also future pandemic. so what could that look like?

well, according to ukiah, officials, they say that they are planning to implement a global pandemic radar, where they track and covey data on possible variance. because it's clear that international collaboration is super important when it comes to packing that pandemic. and this is what the u. k has been working on. some experts here say that that may be, this is a little too early, that this could be something for the next 7 summit and they are really urgent need to tackle now this pandemic, and to come forward fund. also more tech transfer funds, more vaccines for developing countries, so that that should be the step that comes before the putting all the work into a verging future pandemic theories burger must from london. thank you so much. let's take a look now. it's

a more headlines from around the world. relatives have gathered to more than a politician from india's ruling b j. p. party, after he was shot dead in the disputed region of kashmir. police say on identified gunman opened fire on rakish auditor who is visiting the town of trial authorities plain separatist rebels to be attack. a russian court has ruled to keep prominent opposition activists and a people vitals and custody for 2 months pending trial. the former head of open russia disbanded pro democracy group was pulled off the plane bound for poland on monday. she's the latest opposition figure to be detained had of elections in september. the french settled, senegalese writer, and academic w deal has won this year as the international booker price for his novel at night. all blood is black. it tells the story of the senegalese who fought for france during world war one. the 50000 pounds prize. money will be split between d up and the books translator. in the u. s. the nfl or national football league has

announced it will stop categorizing black players as having a lower cognitive function than white players. the practice is known as race norming. it had been used to work out the amount of compensation of player was due for brain injuries suffered while playing the sports. the nfl is pledge it follows to black players filing a civil rights lawsuit. we have mark meadows from d. w. sports with us for more in the story highmark. this is a pretty shocking story. how did this come about in the 1st place? well, the nfl is said, it basically developed this policy because it wanted to be fairer. now obviously looking at it in 2021 you think, well, how can that be the case? and they got a pro is very wrong, but they kinda set up this policy with doctors. and originally it was to stop bias in testing, not perpetrated, but unfortunate exactly what happened. i mean, they were basically saying that people who suffered more brain injuries due to playing american football should receive more money. so therefore they had to set based limits for the players as to what their cognitive function would have been

before they started playing and fell, and they set the bar low for black plays and a bit higher for white and hispanic players. obviously, that's quite incredible thing to, to hear in this day and age. but at the time they felt they were actually being fair to players in general. now obviously there's been a huge backlash, and this has gone to court, and it was kind of bubbling along in the background where the 50000 petitions headed into one court house in philadelphia from nfl family saying, hey, how can this be right in the 21st century and yes, finally they've accepted that this isn't right, it's completely backfired and they will phase out this policy. it really is pretty unbelievable, but it's not the 1st time that the nfl, a face controversies surrounding racism. indeed, i mean, we remember calling company the summer cisco 49 as quarterback. he started to take a ne protests back in 2019. he was the one of the 1st ones to do it. and as

recently as 2018, the nfl said no, you mustn't do it. you have to stand during the u. s. nation, i'm some, this is offensive. you see donald trump got involved and said though, you shouldn't be taking a knee. and it was only in 2020 after george for his death and all the protests that we sold at the nfl actually changed the policy on this and said, no, we were wrong. were wrong, not to listen to the play as concerns. but racism taken is completely acceptable. so this is too massive. you turns from the nfl relatively recently on to huge race racial subjects. and they've been on the wrong side of history and the hope now that people look to move on and say, well, eventually they got to the right position. all right, mark meadows from dw sport. thank you for bringing us that story. now the world's elite athletes are counting the days to the started the tokyo olympics next month, despite the uncertainty caused by the corona virus pandemic. the american team could be a major advantage given they return to competition quicker than many other nations

. be a max is one sport where the u. s. could thrive american b m x, ride the corner field is one of the lucky ones. the corona virus pandemic means athletes have been struggling to prepare for the tokyo olympics. but with the sports events returning in the u. s. quicker than in many countries, the 2016 goals me, the c is ready. so i've got plenty of gate drops. i've gotten from november through to may of this year. i've raised just as much as i would typically rates, which i think is a huge advantage for us. i'm in that rhythm and europe is just kind of getting started racing again. now. feels training plans for most of the last few. what are still up ended by depends on the mac, but the chaos let hands to explore new methods of saying and shape by drawing a new exercises, setting up his own gym as a whole lot of just what do i do now? so i just did as best i could to stay in shape. you know, i did

a lot of things that i enjoyed doing that were active, that maybe i wouldn't normally have time to you whether it was hike in mountain bike and things like that. i didn't want to run a couple times which not going to be out again. opinion polls say a large majority of pennies warm to talk your olympics to be cancelled because of that pen dummy. but field is still planning for the games as he usually would. i hope that this happens. i hope it can happen in a way that everybody feels comfortable with, especially those in japan. but at the end of the day, it's so far above my head, out of my control, that i just trying to do what i can do and i'm training, i'm preparing as best as i can. and i'm hoping that it happens. and if it doesn't work, nothing, i can do one of the fastest on the, on the psyching disciplines, the m x will take its place and the them fix for the 4th time that b m, x champion is hoping for another golden rides. and so he'll now it's been called

the longest distance migration of wild elephants ever recorded in china. a herd of 15 wandering elephants have embarked on a 500 kilometer journey after stirring from a nature reserve in china southwest. they have now which the outskirts of cushioning, a city of 7000000 authorities, there are trying to steer them away from populated area an epic truck through southwest in china. destination unknown. no one certain why this heard of 15 wild asian elephant strayed from a peaceful, national nature as the united province. one theory is that their leader lacks experience and lead the group astray. other experts say the journey is the result of human development and the elephant of searching for new habits, half, whatever. the reason that track has become the longest distance migration of wild elephants ever recorded in china. that is, that this is the 1st time in history that we've seen anything like this. it's never

happened before. so everyone is trying to figure out why it's happening. we need to observe the elephant further and study them movements. you can have the group set out as 16 animals that 2 turned around and went home and the baby was born during the track. the hood has moved through villages broken into bonds, trampled crops, and caused more than a $1000000.00 of losses. and wild chinese social media is full of posts and videos of sightings. a task force of 360 people. and 9 drones is busy tracking the heard, desperately trying to keep them away from the most populated areas. coming up next on d, w, news, asia with candlelight vigils gone dark under beijing repression. we look at how hong kong are, are trying to keep the memory of the gentlemen square massacre alive today.

meanwhile, workers that one of hong kong last independent independent media outlets carry on even if they feel like the end is near. melissa chan has those stories and more coming right up d, w, news, asia state use use the use

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