warning, modern lifestyles and it had to re meeting people and hearing their dreams. mm hm. and to germany, 10 episodes starts august 14th on the w. ah ah, the sustainable you near his line from berlin. no sign that tensions in the strait of taiwan may be comic. china is conducting another day of intense military exercises off taiwan coast. the drills follow a visit to the island by the speaker of the us house of representatives, nancy pelosi, also on the program. kenya's paid election gangs,

our reporter meets the people prepared to harm and even kill political opponents for money. ah, i'm nickle furnish. welcome to the program. chinese military drills around taiwan have entered a 2nd day naval vessels and air force plains from china. the armed forces have crossed over the median line, separating taiwan from its neighbour. the drills show that tensions between the us and china over a visit by house speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan, are not calming down. beijing has imposed sanctions on pelosi because of her visit earlier this week. the military maneuvers are the biggest china has ever conducted off taiwan without. as dw zachary lea reports now from taiwan, the drills have raised fears that

a full blown war could start in the region. this was the very 1st time that captain shin home in has had to return to port due to chinese military exercises. he says he's never before felt so threatened by beijing's actions, and he doesn't want to take any risks. they went godaddy. well, i heard about the live fire exercise. i wonder. so we're scared, scared of being hit. my missile, we go about, i was supposed to work for 10 days. now i will lose more than $3000.00 us dollars for shortening my fishing time. it's fine for me this time. well, but what of chinese military exercises become the new normal here? how may i know? chin is not alone. hundreds of fishing boats a lying idle in ports across tie one. many of their crews are worried that the drills might affect their livelihoods over the long term. china started military

exercise this in 6 areas in watches surrounding taiwan and wrapped in nancy pelosi left in one of the areas is less lentil miles from where i am a put the d in south and i one and this cool mark, a new phase of frequency i say that chinese people's liberation. army begins military drills from august, 4th to 7th, please pay attention. and jackie, you, i did actually didn't. yes, this is the 1st time that the national fishery radio station has made such warnings in don gun, which has one of tie, one's largest fishing harbours. even the announcer herself, finds it unusual. which in i won't share for 29. yes. and this is the 1st time i need to announce a warning about police military exercise. this. the situation here is very tense to getting some. china's military drills have already effected and worried many fishermen in taiwan, the taiwanese military is on high alert. however,

most of the residents here don't seem to be worried about a possible wool. poor new bullet read. i can't predict if war will break out or not, is away. i don't want to think about it. if it happens, it happens, jehovah, i'm not too worried about us. thinking too much. it doesn't tell bother. wish on her to him. if of a reason they've been saying it for a long time, china has sent. they will attack us, but it has never happened. this time they probably just want to scare us with shy so i shall be again, my kids are worried about will they asked if it was possible here and that height. i told them where the shelters. ah, but we have no control over it. i don't worry about something that i can't control china's life. i. a military exercises have already raised tensions in the taiwan straits to the highest level in decades. but that is not anything that fishermen

chin home in can change to him. what really matters is going out to fish, to earn a living for himself and for his family. let's expand on this with d. w as joyously in type. hey joyce, what's the latest on the military maneuvers to day? dozens of chinese wall plains and warships crossed the taiwan strait median line again. now it's not just about china and taiwan, but regional stability on thursday, china 55 ballistic missiles into waters that are part of japan's exclusive economic zone. this is the 1st time such a thing had happened, told co strongly condemned the ag, demanding beijing to immediately stop the drills out of the 5 misses falling into japanese waters. 4 of them appear to have flown over tie, pay. china claims it's miss o's crossed the island for the 1st time. and now this has caused a bit of a panic here in taiwan. but the islands,

defense ministry down play the risk saying in a statement that the miss o's through high into the atmosphere and post no threat to the ground area. some military exposed in taiwan that the over fly was more of a psychological warfare. they real threats in the report, we heard a fisherman who's really concerned about these military drills. i'll extend his question to you. what if this really does become the new normal? what right now, some cargo ships are re routing around the island to afford the danger zones that could at around half a day of for shipping. so if the drew is become a new normal, that could be 2 further delays. and keep in mind that taiwan produce us more than half the semiconductor chips used in a smartphone is computers and cost. so any significant disruption would create shock waves to global industries. and he thinks directly in taipei

and let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today. ukrainian president volota me or zalinski, has lashed out at amnesty international after it accused his forces of violating international law. in a new report, the human rights group said ukraine was endangering civilians by establishing bases in residential areas. the lensky said the findings amounted to victim blaming. the u. s. is calling on the kremlin to accept what it describes as a substantial offer to swap russian prisoner for a basketball player. brittany greiner early a russian court sentenced greiner to 9 years in prison for drug possession and smuggling. the white house has not disclosed details of its offer. a fire at a nightclub and thailand has killed at least 14 people, and left dozens injured. the fire broke out in the early morning at the mountain b,

music bar about 160 kilometers. se of bangkok, video circulating on social media showed thick smoke billowing from the entrance through which people were trying to escape. kenya is gearing up for a presidential election next week. that said to be a tight race between deputy president william rudo and opposition leader royal o dingo election campaigns and kenya are an opportunity for many people to earn money as paid supporters for candidates. but there's also a violence side to campaigning. as d w is malia and mila now reports gangs are paid to intimidate candidates and voters through physical violence. they're even prepared to kill for money o election season and kenya means money making season kenyans who are struggling to survive. earn a living by cheering for a candidates. it's not about ideology. it's about putting food on the table. single mother, marina. we know mobilizes crowds when i robes. women representative i so we don't

have any jobs. like for children, they're supposed to go back to school. we don't have any money. so and we had very that rally somewhere we live, run fully on a good day. each woman goes home with around $4.00 to $9.00, says marine enough to feed a family for about 3 days, but it's not only women who are paid by politicians. criminal gangs around nairobi do their best business during election season. they're hired by incumbent and aspiring and peace governors and even presidential candidates. they tell us without us in our violence, without us being sent to intimidate others. these politicians would never be where they are. he sent us this video from a couple of weeks ago. his gang preparing for a rally, armed with sticks, one carries up his stone. it often ends in a confrontation with the police. earlier this year,

they were paid to attack supporters of presidential candidate william router. the gang leader says the goal was to disturb his rally, to make it clear that this was his opponent. parliamentary candidate was injured. brutal blamed a dingo for the violence writing. he hired innocent, desperate and jobless young people to shed innocent blood. according to the gang leader there, even higher to kill, you'll get an offer of like tens of thousands of euros to kill some one or cut off some body parts. you'll probably never get tempted again to run for a political job. elizabeth, why there? i was attacked when she ran for a seat in the county assembly ruby. they pulled her hair into thought to sexually. she says she was so terrified, she gave up her candidacy. i had been people been killed. i had seen people get in last saw this kind of things really made me beautiful back. so it really, it,

it really intermittently been myself in recent months to have been reports of aspiring politicians who've been attacked or found dead electoral commissioner, just listening. i says, the practice of politicians hiring thugs is only possible because there's no real accountability. if people can be stopped ah class to vote for somebody else. obviously that is a lawlessness. the only thing that we could do is appeal to the government of the day to make sure that people are not intimidated. critics say these practices are undermining the democratic election process. the people pay to do the say they are too poor and hungry. they don't have a choice. now you can watch the full version of that report on our news africa, special on the canyon elections later today. here on d, w,

and our media center and on our youtube channel. we do want to dig deeper into this topic and for that i can now welcome dw felix marina in nairobi, felix politicians, resorting to these kinds of practices. is this a widespread thing? haley called now a sizable number of politicians, especially the parliamentary and the county assembly level have been resorting to these practices. now majority of the politicians have been national level that is the presidential and her air. gwinnett told y'all may gently have crowds for hire, saw that people are hired, they come to portray the politician has numbers. but these practices have been a wide spread in, in this particular lecture. and especially at that crowds have been hired to go disrupt political meetings. either a bow, a politician as they speak or even inflict bodily harm on the people who are, are seen or viewed as competitors to that particular political candidates. or yes,

it is widespread and we heard complaint about a lack of accountability. why is it so hard to arrest and prosecute the perpetrators? it is hard one because the puppet, the politicians in the ganglia does do not meet in their pipe in the public eye. they usually meet in secret. and so you may not be able to clearly point to who is involved in a finance that particular british. and then secondly, it is very hard to keep people accountable because most of the young people who are used in slam dwellings, or area, informal settlements where majority of them are struggling to survive. so if they get a politician who's willing to pay for their services, then yes, and they are paid. and then lastly, when this young people are vested the politicians go and bill them out from the police, custody in their, in their seeing that youths in their area are being harassed. and so when this you

actually release the do or their activities that are potentially and felix, we don't have much time. but i don't want to ask you how all of this is that affecting kenya's election process and the political environment as a whole it's affecting because one, the national co hassan and integration commission has mapped out 6 areas which they believe will have pockets of violence after the election, so with guns being hired at this particular juncture, it shows that they could exponentially grow or we could have pockets of violence immediately after the elections. if this trend continues and again, politicians who are taken to office through a gun disruption, they will end up financing the guns and over and over again a just a quick statistic in 2010. we had that if 3 guns in the country in 2017, there were about over 300 at 300 guns that were operating in the country. so that

is how this has affected the political situation in the country that this guns keep growing. and then i must keep going up. italy is felix my ring. a reporting for us from nairobi. thank you so much for that update. and that's all it is for now. stay tuned for business with ben fizzle and i'll be back with more at the top of the hour of to say that ah ah, my do contrast of ambitions of equality 75 years ago mahatma gandhi peacefully led the country to independence.