ah ah ah ah, this is data we news live from berlin. no sawing that tensions in the strait of taiwan may be calming. 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. ukraine's president rebukes the human rights organization amnesty international after and accuses keeps troops of endangering civilians plus kanyes paid election gains. our reporter, me to the people prepared to harm and even kill political opponents for money. and a new era begins for byron and the bonus league without cool. wesley vaughn dorski the new look champion, some must find their goals elsewhere as they kick off the german league sees and tonight against frankfort. ah, i'm nichol further. welcome to the program. chinese military drills around the time around taiwan have entered a 2nd day naval vessels and air force plains, from china's armed forces of 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 bakery li reports. now from there, the drills have raised fears that a full blown war could start and 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. yeah, not a went got out. yeah. yeah, well i heard about the live fire exercise. i wonder if so we're scared scared of being hit by 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 exercise has become the new normal here? i 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 merely their exercise. this in 6 areas in water surrounded taiwan wrap and nancy pelosi live in one of the areas is lead lintel miles from where i am a put the d insulting i one and this cool mark, a new phase of frequency. i say the chinese people's liberation army begins to military drills from august. 4th to 7th, please pay attention. and jackie, you, i did actually get, and 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 is, i won't care 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 wall. poor me obama to read. i can't predict if war will break out or not just 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 help out. i wish i had the him, if a vol, greens, and they've been saying that for a long time, china has said they will attack us, but it has never happened. this time. they probably just want to scare us. shy, so i shall take my kids a word to baltimore. 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 want to 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 men can change to him. what really matters is going out to fish to earn a living for himself and for his family. earlier, d w is joyce lee in taipei updated us on the latest developments around the island nation. 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 drill was out of the 5 misses falling into japanese waters. 4 of them appear to have flown over, ty, pay,

china claims its massage, 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 wrists saying in a statement that the misses 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 than 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 with some cargo ship saw re rooting around the island to afford the dangerous zones that could add 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. houston, a smartphone is computers and cost. so any significant disruption would create

shock waves to global industries. any thanks, joyce lee in taipei and to the war in ukraine were the country's president has sharply criticized the human rights organisation amnesty international villa. premier zalinski has accused of victim blaming. after amnesty alleged ukrainian troops had endangered civilians while fighting russian soldiers on the ground. and ukraine, there's reported to be heavy fighting in the south, close to the russian held city of her son and in the eastern dang, it's region. ukrainian. civilians have fled their homes, forced to leave by incessant russian. shelly with a train station and done at sc, evacuating the old and the young pool exhausted westwards. ordinary ukrainians caught up in fierce fighting and forced to leave their homes with whatever they can carry

with. but we are from a village near lisa chance kids between the la hans can donuts grievance. have village has been ruined. does no gas, no water, no electricity. we were sitting in the basement for a month. the army brought us here to the. and that will give the government has ordered civilians to lease combat zones in donnette sc. but the danger may not be just from russian attacks. amnesty international accuses ukraine of basing troops and populated areas, putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war. keith was furious. it shook to if someone prepares, the report in which the victim and the aggressor are allegedly the same in some way . if information about the victim is analyzed, while something the aggressive does is ignored,

this cannot be tolerated in wage. ah ukrainian soldiers face a grinding battle to keep the remaining regions of eastern dumbass out of russian control for another. and to avoid shelling another 2 until he was on us the service of the x to the wrong. we sit in the trenches, the enemy shelves, us and we can't even stick our heads out of it. now there are no small arms fights as they used to be. today. it is an artillery battle, even as he just jump into the trench and wait for the strike. away from the front lines. the evacuation of civilians from donetta continues. the question is whether that will be enough to keep them safe. and for more on this, let's bring and on until our rivera, she's a senior crisis response advisor at amnesty international welcome rover your organization accuses ukrainian forces, violating international law. can you give us more details?

yes, the press release. we issue this based on the documentation carried out over a number of months in different areas of ukraine, where our researchers observed ukrainian force sees basing themselves in schools. residential buildings, time hospitals, in close proximity to where civilians live, which of course and dangerous does civilians who live in the buildings where the soldiers located themselves right next to them. and i'm mister international. our concern is with the protection of civilians. and such conduct is in violation of international law and puts

civilians at risk. so that's why we are raising disease. you know, the report has been met with quite a fierce backlash from the ukranian president, though he is accusing amnesty, a victim blaming. what do you make of that? well, that is regrettable because i think he see takes a look at these websites. he will find a very significant body of work. several reports, many more press releases based on our field investigations where we document extensively and in great details. war crimes and other serious violations of international law by russian forces including use of weapons indiscriminate and deliberate strikes and civilians, extra judicial execution, torture abductions. so we, as on this international, have been carrying out field investigations on the ground in ukraine and

documenting a great details. russia's work crimes for the past 6 months. all this information is available on the public record on our website dot does reports, generally be met with trainings now. the team that carried out the research on these particular press release that we issued yesterday, the same team of people, the same researchers using the same methodology. so not really credible to say that 99 percent of our work is great and proper and good. and that one a piece of work that details violations by ukrainian forces, which have also been documented by others, including the un human rights which another to don forget who was more important to interject there. i want to talk about something that has kind of caught her attention,

the head of your ukraine bureau on up cultural road and social media post that she tried to stop the publication of those reports, saying the country team was not involved. and that the findings are based on quote, in miscible and incomplete material. what went wrong there? and i don't know. i think that the only person who could explain that would be the person who made the statement. i would simply point out that amnesty ukraine has not been involved in carrying out any investigation or documenting the war crimes committed by russia since the beginning of the crisis that has been done by the same team of researchers. you of the carried out the research into, into the statement that we made yesterday. so i cannot speak for, for santa i think that she would have to explain her position herself, but i don't have anything to, to comment on that. if there are these kinds of internal divisions, so can your,

your crew, your organization be trusted to, to objectively defend civilians, best interest and human rights and ukraine. i think again, the enormous body of work that i miss the international has published to date on war crimes. committed by a rush and forces all over ukraine and you know, that is available on the public record and anybody conceit so you know, the methodology. same stuff that of carried out to work the same. i understand that this particular piece of work because it's critical of the behavior, all of ukrainian forces is not appreciated by the ukrainian authorities and by many others. but the fact is that international law applies to everyone. and

we as amnesty international, have a duty to investigate and report on human rights abuses, violation of international law, regardless of who are the perpetrators or the victims. i mean in this case, of course the victims arossi ukrainians, so we're going to have their thank you so much. thank you. the united states is calling on the kremlin to accept what if described as a substantial offer to swap before the basketball player. brittany greiner, the white house has not disclose details on that offer earlier. a russian court sentenced griner to 9 years in prison for drug possession and smuggling. brittany griner entered the cramped court room and defended cell, hoping the sentencing judge would be lenient that the judge would consider that greiner admitted her mistake, but had accidentally packed cannabis oil prescribed by her doctor and legal in the

us, yadda. i never miss her even to put in jeopardy ref population. i never miss break any laws may have faith, hope that in your ruin and it doesn't in my life. griner was stopped in mid february after putting her bag through screening and moscow. airport customs officials searched her bags and she was eventually detained. she was on her way to join the russian club. she played for after the w n. b. a season in the united states. griner is considered one of the top basketball talents in the world. her $206.00 centimeters stature, 6 foot 9 inches, helps her dominate pro basketball and she's helped when to olympic gold medals for the us in court, she held up a picture of her team in russia after several teammates had served as character

witnesses for her. but she knows russia and the us are now on opposite sides of a global conflict. i know everybody who's talking about political pawn and politics, but i hope that that is far from the courtroom. in a quick decision, the court showed it was unmoved by grinders call for leniency. she was sentenced to 9 years, one less than the 10 year maximum. without disappointment. you know, one way it's so brittany, i think it was tuesday, anamosa elemental to see on thursday and she said c on doomsday. so looks like she was right. long as she was led away words of love for her family, but her future may well rest with diplomats for 2 countries. barely speaking to each other. calling on to canyon, which is gearing out for a presidential election next week. that is that to be a tight race between deputy president, william roto and opposition leader rylon odessa election campaigns and kenya

r. so an opportunity for many people to earn money as paid supporters for candidates. there is also a violin side to campaigning. as d w 's, maria miller, now reports gangs are paid to intimidate candidates and voters through physical violence. they're even prepared to kill for money ah, election season and kenya means money making season. kenyans was struggling to survive. earn a living by cheering for a candidates. it's not about at the ology. it's about putting food on the table. single mother, marina. we know mobilizes crowds when i robes. women representative as if we don't have any jobs. like for children, they're supposed to go back to school. we don't have any money. so when we had the verizon 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 a pistole. 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. her parliamentary candidate was injured. brutal blamed a dingo for the violence writing he hyatt, 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 euro's 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 and assaulted her 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 feel so bad. so it really it really intimidated the 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,

coils to vote for somebody else. obviously that is a lawlessness. the only thing that we can 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 their say. they are too poor and hungry. they don't have a choice and you can watch the full version of that report on our news africa, special on the canyon elections later today. here on the w in our media center and on our youtube channel already now. but we also have more on the topic earlier i asked d w's, felix, marina, and i robi, these kinds of violent practices in election season have become widespread. a sizable number of politicians, especially if they're parliamentary in the county assembly level, have been resorting to this practices down majority. 2 of the politicians have been

national level. that is the presidential and or air. gubernatorial majorly have crowds for hire, saw that people are hired, they come to portray the politician has numbers. but this practices have been a wide spread in, in this particular lecture, especially at that crowds have been hired to good destruct political meetings. either a bow, a politician as the speak or even inflict bodily harm on the people who are, are seen or viewed as competitors to that particular political candidate saw. 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, their politicians in the ganglia does do not meet in their pipe in the public eye. they usually mid air in secret. and so you may not be able to clearly point to

who is involved and i financed 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, 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 thing that youths in their area are being harassed. and so when this you actually release the do or their activities that are protected 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, his sean and integration commission has mapped out 6 areas, which are, they believe will have pockets of violence after the election. so with guns being

hired of 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 gang disruption, they will end up financing. the guns are over and over again. a just a quick statistic in 2010. we had that 3 guns in the country in 2017. there were a boats, over 30300 gangs that were operating in the country. so that is how are this has affected the political situation in the country that this gangs keep growing, and then i must keep going up in las helix. marina reporting for us from nairobi. thank you so much for that update for sports now. and the start of the bonus league season is just hours away in champions, byron munich, and their newly acquired superstars study of money travel to frankfort. that's the club that managed to win the europa league last season while finishing in the

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