unleash on, on violet boss. and recall, imagine all these teachings or relevance to gandhi's legacy store to august 6th, phone b, w ah ah, the state news line from berlin, no sign that tension is in the strait of taiwan, may be calming. china is conducting another day of intense military exercises off, ty wants coast, the drills follow a visit to the island, buying 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 keys troops of endangering civilians, plus kenny as paid election gangs. our reporter meets the people prepared to harm and even kill political opponents for money. and a new era begin for byron in the buddhist lego. without all badly, randolph ski, a new look champions must find their goals elsewhere as they kick off the german league sees. and tonight's against frankfort. ah, i'm nichol further. it's good to have you with us. chinese military drills around taiwan have entered a 2nd day naval vessels and air force plains, from china's armed forces have crossed over the median line, separating taiwan from its neighbour. the drills show that 10 since between the us

and china over a visit by how speaker nancy pelosi to taiwan, are not calming down. beijing has imposed sanctions on policy because of her visit earlier this week. the military maneuvers are the biggest china has ever conducted til off taiwan to the ship. as dw zachary lea reports. now from there, the drills have raised fears that a full blown war could start of 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 weren't gonna tell you, well i heard about the live fire exercise. i wonder if we're scared scared of being hit by miss. so 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 for you. i won't,

but what of chinese military exercises become the new normal here? how may i law, chin is not alone. hundreds of fishing boats a lying idle in ports across taiwan. many of their crews are worried that the drills might affect their livelihoods. over the long term. china started merely their exercise. this in fixed areas in water surrounding taiwan and wrapped in nancy pelosi live in one of the areas is less lentil miles from where i am a put the d insulting i one and this who mark the new phase of frequency. i say that chinese people's liberation army begins to military drills from august. 4th to 7th, please pay attention, 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 when i won't care for 29. yes, and this is the 1st time i need 10 knots of 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. who in the obama to retail? 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 it. thinking too much, it doesn't help either. we shall hathaway him. if a vol rooms are, they've been saying it 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 with shy, so i shall take my kids a word to baltimore. they asked if all 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 war 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 fisherman 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. earlier, dw joyce lee in taipei updated us on the latest developments around the island. 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 fide 5 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 missiles falling into japanese waters. 4 of them appear to have flown over, ty, pay, china claims its misses, crossed the item for the 1st time. and 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 ost through high into the atmosphere and post no threat to the ground area. some military exposed anti once at 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 dangerous 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, houston as smartphones, computers and cause. so any significant disruption would create shock waves to global industries. any thanks, joyce lee in taipei to the war in ukraine. now where the country's president has sharply criticized the human rights organisation, amnesty international followed. amir zalinski has accused it of victim blaming. after amnesty alleged ukrainian troops had endangered civilians while fighting russian soldiers on the ground of ukraine, there is reported to be heavy finding in the south close to the russian held city of her son. and in the eastern donnette region, ukrainian civilians have fled their homes, forced to leave by incessant rush and shelling, a train station and donnette scan, 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. miss, but from a village near lucy chan skids between the ham scammed on that's regions. village has been ruined. there's no gas, no water, no electricity. we were sitting in the basement for a month in the army bought us here, who did not think the government has ordered civilians to lead combat zones in donnette sk. 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. he shook to if someone prepares, the report in which the victim and the aggress our allegedly the same in some way.

if information about the victim is analyzed, while something the aggress does is ignored, this cannot be tolerated. and 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, you know, international law applies to everyone. ukrainian soldiers face a grinding battle to keep the remaining regions of east and dawn, both out of rush and control and to avoid shelling. to the. so that's going to see if we sit in the trenches to do the enemy show that we can't even stick our heads out. now there are no small arms fights. they used to be today . there's an artillery battle. he just jump into the trench and wait for the strike

. away from the front lines. the evacuation of civilians from dennis continues. the question is whether that will be enough to keep them safe for more on the topic or join. now, by under as shallow, he is the director of the international crimes and accountability program and the european center for constitutional and human rights. and especially good to see you . what do you make of the international report? or the report shows who pays the biggest price in the war and in every war. so that's the civilians they, they pay for me, huge fries, especially if they are caught between the $2.00 fighting parties and forces basically, nevertheless, their obligations under intentional or for armies to spend the civilians to protect them. and they need to be obliged to buy it by all parties at 3 months, up for years that russia and the aggressor here, aggressor here. and that,

that's the number of very val, documented war crimes by russia. but again, also em all, all parties to the conflict of certain legal responsibilities to spans the civilian population. nonetheless, ukraine's president responded with harsh criticism, saying that the report precisely equated the victim with the aggressor. what is your take on that? i think it shows that impartial, independent investigations are needed and if possible also caught judgment in unfair and international style procedures to basically come to conclusions here. i mean, this mother navigation of war crimes, but i'm neglecting the, the rules of war and humanitarian law. and that theories can be corrected, of course, but it's also clear that it's used and such a war by both sides of, from, from

a more propagandistic view. and that shows that independent investigation extremely necessary to shed some light into the situations. what could be the legal consequences for ukraine and his forces, if these accusations proved to be true? i mean, we are not talking about war crimes here, so it's not criminal prosecutions. that could be some forms of reparations for the victims who suffered in the situation be at stake. but overall, you also have to see that armies worldwide. unfortunately breached the law and, and use civilian installations to also have military installation. they're providing the site basically a basis to shelves of area potentially legally of it's not on proportionate. so it's, it's something in the, in the fork of laura that happens in each and every war and, and so legal consequences are wanted reparation side, but not so much on the,

on the walk from the prosecution side here. you recently wrote that the conflict in ukraine could transform international criminal justice and how so as if such as focus on the dentist and criminal justice sarah chances and, and roost. so the chances are it's the body of flaws at the practice. jurisprudence develops out of the conflict through so many cases, but the risk analysis instruments that states and others, instrumentalists, international criminal law, and so in a very bad and boring direction, as at sync, impartial, independent investigations, and court cases and legal cases are important to it draws the right balance here because it's not black and white, you have a clear russia here. you have a clear war crumbs here, but you need lots of proper investigations to prove that address a lot of the european center for constitutional and human rights. thanks so much

for your time. and for the 2nd time since the beginning of the war and ukraine, turkish president, ridge of type ardon is meeting with his russian counterpart flooded. we were prudent this time in the black sea resort of staci. the summit is taking place in the same week that a ship carrying ukrainian grain was finally able to set sail. it was the 1st since the conflict began, and it did so under an agreement between the warring sides, arranged by the united nations and on car, off or is a lot to talk about it for that. let's bring in our correspond and dorian jones and assemble and dw russia analyst, constantine egg joining us from villainy as good to see you both. dorian, i'd like to start with you. the relationship of putin and ardon is often branded as a marriage of convenience. so what's in it this time for the turkish president? i think president, one will be we are looking to continue. what is the, the ongoing momentum of the great deal?

the parents success more ships of control or expected to be passing through. and i think president one will be pressing on the importance of maintaining this great deal, given the fact that it was seen as a turkey u. n broke with deal lot of prestige dispatch because our parents fix it. and also, once he is of indication of he maintaining these close relationships with russia, president lead me in the face of strong criticism for many of his western allies, but also will be looking to address the question of syria. he wants to launch a major military operation against theory and kurdish forces in an area controlled by russia. he has been pressing putin to give a green light for the operation until now to be very reluctant either were they aware of what is growing military presence in theory. and he doesn't really want any clever expansion to take me as his coastal, like syria, iran, i'm the outside regime also deeply opposed to any operation. no, no one are really skilled operators of managing differences and sometimes coming up

with very unlikely compromises really depends on what one has to offer. who's in such a green light such an operation over to you, konstantin, turkey didn't make a name for itself in the crisis by brokering the grain deal could earn on help move closer to some kind of piece agreement and ukraine. personally i think that today doesn't want some to put out so feeling regarding i mean the fact that he threatened my job and just just give them an engineer to one of the gemini of germany magazine thing. quicken is open to negotiation. i think he wouldn't have said it if put getting into that when they met in moxley a few days ago. my suspicion is that no deal is possible now just because your crane is not go for it. but yes, i think no harm. right to south own be pretty much the all week where lucas nature leader was on speaking terms with putin who cameron clean conduct them can ring

succession or sorry, a can ring of some kind of concessions of them the gram as the grain you show. so maybe there's going to be some tentative conversation about the possibility all you piece talked. yeah, it, dorian? oh, it constantly mentioned it. there. turkey is and nato member. how much do you think are darn, is harmonizing hands. relationship with bruton, with the alliance. well that really has been a very difficult balancing one has been before me. in fact, it's a multi balancing act. on the one side, he's been courting and maintaining very close ties with the russian president vladimir putin, not in enforcing western sanctions against russia. yet in the face of much criticism, at the same time he is kept very close ties with ukraine as well, continues to provide very important turkish drones which fill him fix a lot of pain on the russian forces. and this one says is key for him going forward

to some, at some point possibly broke up a ceasefire and ultimately into the conflict. and he will point to the initial successes is great deal saying yes, a see far or even in the conflict may be far off when the parties already for this than turkey is in a position to play a key role. and that is why he says that the nice about is i could ration with nato and ukraine. constantine dorian mentioned it before or dawn has raced the prospect of another operation against aaron quarter kurdish binders. how crucial is russia's role in? well, it is because essentially without russia support of the awesome regime will not hold for a long time, probably something but not for a long time. and i think the difficult decisions because frankly speaking he is very much tied to us, but now he's very much dependent on of justice. also the dependent on you can't

leave us without losing a lot of prestigious. but at the same time, it's counseling for waste for them to leave for him today, because as i said, he's pretty much the only well global leader that talks to him. i suppose we'll have to go on some kinds of compromise. probably this should be irrevocably. they will talk about the timeframe of all this and say, kearney operation, syria, but has to give everyone something that is my convictions de la rush analysts. constantine i got n d w correspondent. dorian jones is stumble. thank you so much to the both of you and it's on take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. the u . s. is calling on the kremlin to accept what it describes as a substantial offer to swap for basketball player. brittany greiner on thursday, a russian cord sentence prior 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 bank hawk video, circulating own social media. you can see it on the screen here showed thick smoke billowing from the entrance through which people were trying to escape the u. s. government has declared monkey pox, a public health emergency the announcement freeze up money and other resources to fund the virus. monkey pox can cause fever, eggs, chills and fatigues. more than 7000 americans have become infected already. kenya is gearing up for a presidential election next week. that is sent to be a tight race between deputy president really rudo and opposition leader, viola o'denza elections campaigns in kenya though are also an opportunity for many people to earn money as paid supporters for candidates. there's also

a violin side to campaigning. as dw mario 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. i said, 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 maureen, enough to feed a family for about 3 days. but it's not only women were 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. 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 leda there even higher to kill. you'll get an offer of like tens of thousands of

euro's to kill some one or cut of some body pots. 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 intermittently been myself in recent months to have been reports of aspiring politicians who've been attacked or found dead electoral commissioner. justice, meaning 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 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 the 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 to day here on the w in our media center, or on our youtube channel already. now, moving on to sports, and the start of the bonus league season is just hours away, champions, byron munich, and their newly acquired superstar sanyo money travel to frankfort. that's the club that managed to win the euroleague last season while finishing in the bottom half of the bonus legal they'll be hoping to find their european form against buyer and the perennial team to beat. we're not even

a week into august and already there's talk that this could be the year, but someone, anyone finally supplants by a munich a top, the bond is legal, polish gold machine. robert levin dove sky has moved on. but liverpool stand outside. your money has moved in after 10 straight. been this league a titles in munich. there's still plenty to worry about for an opposing coach. head of the season opener is ach viewing is for down the much of these and it's hard for other teams to make up the gap that's grown over the past 10 years. oxygen in just one season because emphasis on indic. but that doesn't mean will be raising the white flag. his minish diversified m. f will give her all to start the new buddhist legacies, analyst hunter with a home when and i am seeking to know up on that he has his on system burn, will not take frankfurt lightly, even if it never quite clicked for the euro. believe champions in the league last season, there's too much talent. plenty for an opposition coach to worry about. that matter

. molex after the rope, a league when they've built up the self confidence they may have lost in the bonus liquor. or that just wasn't there because of the league results yet, but the fans are euphoric. and ali glassner is an outstanding coach, only glasses now on atlanta to top, teams brimming with confidence. going, taught to talk on a hot night in frankfort. a tantalizing way to get the new bend as league a season off and running. well, as i heard one man who won't be in the monthly other season as, as one 0, but live and ascii. he has a new home in price. a lot of them are buying striker was unveiled and the count know on friday and it didn't take him long to win over the fans. he showed up to greet him under pressure to perform the pull a star did. she asked them and he gave boys fans a little taste and went to come is

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