along mileage class and re imagined galleys teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy. shorts. august 6th loan b w. me sir. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, trying to conduct say, another day of intense military exercises in the waters around taiwan. the drills follow a controversial visit to the island by the speaker of the us house of representatives . nancy pelosi also coming up on the show president vladimir zalinski rebukes the human rights organization amnesty international. after it accuses ukraine's troops

of endangering civilians, kanyes paid election, gangs, or reporter meets the people prepared to harm and even kill political opponents. for money. plus rein brings relief for firefighters battling a huge blaze at ammunition dump any berlin forest. but efforts are being complicated by the risk of further explosions. ah hello, i'm clare richardson, a very warm welcome to the show. in the wake of us, how speaker nancy pelosi is visit to taiwan. a china has announced it is suspending dialogue with united states on a number of important issues. they include military relations, climate change, and legal help and criminal matters. a policy visit has enraged aging,

which sees the self governing island of taiwan as part of its territory. in response, china has been conducting intensive military drills in the waters around taiwan. chinese missiles began striking the seas north, south and east of taiwan hours after you as how speaker nancy pelosi left. the island barton though meet young, had a man's arm. chinese state television released video of war ships patrolling the taiwan strait for decades, and unofficial buffer zone between china and taiwan. as fighter jets cruise the skies above air cover for the multiple no go danger zones declared by china. in some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world, china has chosen to overreact and use speaker blasio visited a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the taiwan strait . lincoln is in cambodia for ministerial meeting of southeast asian nations.

although his chinese counterpart is also there. the lincoln says the 2 have no plans to meet. the fact is, the speaker's visit was peaceful. there is no justification for this extreme, disproportionate and escal atory, military response china seas. taiwan is a breakaway province, which will eventually come under beijing's control and as deeply opposed to any visits by foreign governments. don't go where you, what china is defending is his own sovereignty and territorial integrity. what john is doing is safeguarding the basic norms governing international relations under the common interests of most countries. not interference in internal affairs is a most basic principle for maintaining peace and stability. in our world view through that she been faced with the unprecedented scale of china's reaction. ty, one has put its military on alert and is staging civil defense drills

across the taiwan strait on the chinese side. taurus come to this coastal town hoping to witness the military exercises is indeed china is a powerful country and it will not allow any one to offend its own territory. they take photos in front of a sign which reads the closest place of mainland motherland to tie one island. between we crossed the middle line of the taiwan strait with military exercises. alumnis flew over taiwan, which makes us feel motherland is very strong and makes a certain, ty wants return, cannot be stopping. can he insisted that china's army says it's so called joint blockage operation around tie. one will continue through to monday. was get across here. did of is a journey on for a closer look at this story. i'm, as a policy touched down in taiwan, it seemed that many there weren't particularly concerned about china's potential

response. now that we have unprecedented military drills in the waters around tie one has that changed? yes. um yes, that has changed a little bit for the uh for in the last 2 hours. because for the time being, i'm not so worried as i was during the night of pillows, his visit to taiwan on the 2nd of august. because to message at that time from the half official chinese sides, there was 2 at least accompanies pillows. his plan to tie one's air space and even shoot at john if necessary. so one thing i have to point out is that this stands never came from the chinese military. oh, fearful though, but in china, where all kinds of information are extremely controlled and you go to suss such a strong statement. why the me spread. that is one way you could imagine the whole tins. the situation was steering. the knights of pillows is lending taiwan. and

today, china has now said that it will no longer cooperate with the united states on a range of serious issues. can you tell us more about that? yes, because today china has just announced several issues. several, several areas where trying to doesn't wedding to wedding to corporate. we say united states anymore. it includes like you have mentioned before i seen closed corporation and dialogue mechanisms in the area of military cooperation including oco also topics like fighting illegal immigration, a poll, providing judicial assistance, combating, transnational crime drac sitting and climate change and so on. so what we can say right now is that the china st to try to close its doors to, to the us and to show us that we really don't meet you if we want to go for the,

with our plan of a rising nation. so on balance, how badly do you think nancy pelosi is visit to so i want has damaged relations between the united states and china. whether the relations between the united states and china was already damaged a lot during the traces of trump since he's to and attrition started to trade disputes with china. our, what we can say is the relations between the 2 countries is there is no worse. there is no worst, but only worse. and now of course we're with the thing of, of the island of taiwan from how speaker pillow, see this situation is only getting worse. and really, it also really set are really bad tone, verse tongue for the china and us relations, tips in the years to come to w jan yon. thank you so much for that update. let's go now to russia's

war in ukraine. president vladimir zalinski has a sharply criticized the human rights organisation amnesty international. after it alleged ukraine had endangered civilians by basing its troops in residential areas, zelinski acquainted the claim to victim blaming. and meanwhile, on the ground in ukraine, there are reports of heavy fighting in the south close to the russian held city of her son in the eastern and ask region ukrainian civilians have fled their homes, forced to leave by incessant rushing. shelly, a train station and on etzky, 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 we are from a village near lucy chance kids between the hampton donuts regions. village has

been ruined. there's no gas, no water, no electricity. we were sitting in the basement for a month, and the army brought us here to the w. 2. the government has ordered civilians to leave combat zones in done at sc but the danger may not be just from russian attacks. misty international accuses ukraine of basing troops and populated areas, putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war. keith was furious to if someone prepares a report in which the victim and the aggress are allegedly the same in some way. if information about the victim is analyzed, while something the aggressor does is ignored, this cannot be tolerated. 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. ukrainian soldiers face a grinding battle to keep the remaining regions of eastern dumbass out of russian control and to avoid shelling, similar to deliver now the service kind of the exit. we sit in the trenches that the enemy shelves, us and we can't even stick our heads out in labrons. now there are no small arms fights as they used to be. to day it is an artillery battle evil as he just jump into the trench and wait for the strike. away from the front lines, the evacuation of civilians from done as continues. the question is whether that will be enough to keep them safe. let's dig into this with data. the correspondent matches about anger in

a keith mateus. i'd like to talk more about that report from an amnesty international that we just heard about. you've read it. what is the human rights organization accusing ukraine of exactly whether you are the i miss internationally saying that sir. ukraine is basing troops near civilian objects near residential areas that they're using scores on hospitals to host troops on that. that would put civilians at danger because these gosh schools or hospitals would then be bombed and, and, and, and her then also neighboring um, apartment blocks or whatever civilian object shops, et cetera might be also hit. so they are basically accusing ukraine of not duly protecting civilians. are by this, these tactics, and they are suggesting that ukraine would better keep its troops either in designated military compounds or they have also written in woods near by or, or similar places so that they would not be close to civilians. and that any attack

on them would not endanger civilians or you've been covering the war in ukraine since rush as invasion, based on your experience, how accurate are the reports findings? so the fact that her ukrainian troops are in the cities in the city, it's same cities, of course, that where civilian is lived, that's not a secret. and everybody knows that under i have also seen troops or being in public buildings in buildings that used to be used to civilian purposes before the war. so this is definitely happening and it's definitely happening that close to these areas. shells go down that people suspect that they were aimed at these specific facilities. um, but there are several floors in this report. first of all, of course, um we've asked the same question actually to manager commanders to civilian administrative personnel, politicians and ukraine. and what we heard was,

how do you protect a city? i'm the russians are trying to take the cities and we need to defend them. so how do you defend the city without being in the city and that something, of course a amnesty is a military advice might not be very adequate on. you cannot defend the city by hosting your troops in a forest near by and the ukrainian army. pretty much fears. open field battles because they say then don't have the capacity to meet russians in the open field. there would be a very dangerous tactics for, for the soldiers and lead to many casualties among the soldiers. and so in order to protect the cities they need to be in there. i was, there was a said that um, when talking specifically about buildings like scores or, or, or whatever, it was under a specific time that they always evacuated these buildings. they're not hosting the soldiers in the same facility where civilians are um and that there is often no alternative because these are the only sturdy buildings. but the biggest flaw of

this report is that they accuse ukraine of not doing enough to protect the civilians by evacuating them. and that's out rightly fours because ukraine has started a huge evac asian missions from the dawn bus in april live, asked every civilian to leave the region. and they've also offered transport and evacuation trains, bosses, et cetera. and these have been running until the last moment. they have been attacked by the russians. if you remember the attack on chroma tours, so this is all out rightly falls and they do not even mention these efforts. so this is definitely a problem of this report. how much is going on for us in ukraine? thank you for that update. a rush has president says he's looking to boost trade and economic ties with turkey. bottom here, put in was speaking at a meeting with turkey's president and the black c resort of so she red tie of our to one said he hope the talks would open a quote, different page in ties with moscow. the leaders are also set to discuss the grain

deal brokered in part by turkey, which allowed the safe passage of ukrainian grain. it's their 2nd meeting since putin invaded ukraine to a lot to him back there. let's bring in our correspondent dorian jones, in istanbul, and date of use russia analyst, konstantin. i got joining me from villainy. s. good to see you both. dorian, i'd like to start with you. what does target president air to one have to gain from this meeting? well i think he has packed agenda, but he is speaking ahead of his meeting with by the me, putin. he has a few cooking ukraine. grain deal will be a key. i come on there talks for turkey, which broke this deal with the un. it is seen as a major diplomatic try, and no one will be pressuring one who tend to continue with this, this ongoing process as well. because he sees is not only in diplomatic success,

but also an indication of these close ties, which he has takes a little christian from its west some allies. but he's always insisted that a painting relationship is essential for progress to be made. also, one will be raising the person syria, one to major military operation, game theory, and being says, i linked to an insurgency inside. now this operation is targeting an area where russia is in control and he needs the support of rush to get. go ahead with operation has been very reluctant. he's very aware of turkey's growing military presence in theory. and it's also where they get the key out of the speech, which is cool. greet people to russia, but also russia is ally in syria. iran and the assad regime, we strongly opposed any operation was one, i'm really at that managing differences and in many ways often coming up with very striking solution. it all depends on what has to offer an exchange or rushing.

green light was 1st digging a little bit deeper on to that diplomatic triumph as you call it, for the grain deal as partially broker to buy turkey konstantin. given that praise, do you think that everyone could also play a role in moving putin closer to some kind of piece agreement in ukraine? let's say it's a more kind of person with question today than it was even 5 days ago because after chaucer shredded for metropolis schroeder, of germany given it to you in which he said that putting his open to negotiation such act after actually meeting with boots. wheaton may think, i mean that there is a ground at say to think that moscow really wants to have some kind of talks and that this respect abraham is of course, the best candidate to be mediator since rushes fully out with israel. iran is pretty much the only global leader and definitely the only natal country leader who is still on speaking terms with lighting or put in so yes, why not?

maybe they will discuss something tentatively, although i think that even though they do, it will be put on the table straightaway after this meeting that usually takes a bit more time and are, and i wanna get a bit more about the interesting role that turkey plays here. it's been walking a political tight road when it comes to the war in ukraine, and on the one hand, it's not supporting international sanctions against russia, but on the other, it's delivering drones to ukraine. how do those 2 pieces fit together? will take it from the very onset of the complaint is always argued as being in a very difficult situation. give another crane. i'm russia on neighbors across the black to see i'm even before the conflicts found to took a president, richard play. but when i, very for nations with both ukrainian or russian presidents and in many ways this is conflict on folded turkey as well. they describe a balanced approach. yes. on the one side, they've been providing ukraine with very sophisticated drones, which have been very successful in and taking

a lot of damage on russia and hardware. at the same time they happen, they happen to impose russian sanctions from the west and allies. in spite of a lot of criticism coming from many of us, i like and i was always insisted, we have to play this approach. we have to keep on talking to russia, but the head of the flight to something he reiterated, we free the want a peaceful solution to you or crank complet. you've got to talk to russia on earth . one believe to position himself is really the only the west and leader control ukrainian because the washer neither one of the natal partner as well. so do you believe that even if it isn't, we get both sy fi for ukraine or all russia are ready for peace talks, yet if they are, when they all turkey in an ideal position, and i think that they will be looking going for the at least for early steps, and building on the great success possible present exchanges between russia and ukraine. and that's something i also want to bring up as a build momentum from the initial successful the screen power correspond. dorian

jones and stumble and russia analyst konstantin. edgar, thank you both so much for that update. kenya is gearing up for a presidential election next week that set to be a tight race between deputy president william rudo and opposition leader guy low dingo election campaigns in kenya or an opportunity for many people there to earn money as paid supporters for candidates. but there was also a violent side to campaigning as easily as mario miller now reports. gangs are paid to intimidate candidates and voters through physical violence. they're even prepared to kill ah election season and kenya means money making season. kenyans was drug willing to survive. earn a living by cheering for 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 us. 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 ran 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 there will be 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 a 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 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 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 will be they pulled her hair and a thought to sexually. she said she was so terrified, she gave up her candidacy. i had seen people been, i had seen people get in last. saw this kind of thing really made me feel so bad. so you really, really intimidate myself in recent months that have been

reports of aspiring politicians who've been attacked or found dead. electro commissioner, just as i says, the practice of politicians hiring thugs is only possible because there's no real accountability if people can be stopped and class to vote for somebody else. obviously that is lawlessness. the only thing that we can do is appeal to the government of the day to make sure that people are not intimidated. critic say these practices are undermining the democratic election process. the people pay to do this, say they are too poor and hungry. they don't have a choice you can watch the full version of that report on our news africa, special on the canyon elections later. say here on d, w in our media center and on our youtube channel. whenever some news here in

germany, police in berlin, a forest fire, sparked by a huge ammunition explosion, is slowly being brought under control, firefighters. they most of the flames have now been extinguished, bought the area still poses a risk. efforts have been hampered by the danger of further blasts at the police explosives disposal site. rein up last 5 fighters. hope this is going to had them raining to fire. it broke out on thursday at the sight of an ammunition warehouse in the area behind is vehicles, firefighters, from berlin and neighboring regions are monitoring the situation overnight, further detonations took place behind. it was like 2 major challenges at 1st. the ammunition warehouse. what's going on? what does it look like? they're the demolition expert has to assess their dog. second, we still have forest fires in the restricted area and on the side of an explosion before the fire. well, last night we have reduced that surface, but there are still some fires in the area with smoke also spreading over the city

. on friday morning, a bomb disposal expert and firefighters entered the exclusion zone. we were going inside the restricted area and that's a risk for our teams. uh, we're coordinating closely with experts. martha da damage can't be assessed yet, but officials are optimistic about the wildlife wars look, as we can only assess what exactly has burned was the area is secured, and when will be allowed in making home to your area, you're not. animals react according to instincts, and so you can assume that they perceive the danger situation much earlier than we humans lynch smell better. you better the better the hear the explosion and avoid the area the ocean on with the think neither the maiden gasket 1st responders expect to continue working on site for the next few days. was people asked to, to avoid the area nearby road, still closed, and public transport still disrupted. it's day 2 of the forest fire in gwin of ard here in western barely. and although rain has come in and given some hope to fire

fighters that they can master at these fire, a danger remains at the very heart of these forests. with these ammunition depot, where unexploded devices from woodward to which had been stored over 7 decades ago, still threatened to explode at demolition next. when seen earlier today to try and assess the situation. but the situation remains very volatile here. some breaking news now and israel has on least airstrikes on the gaza strip. is comes amid a rise intentions in the region after israeli forces arrested a senior member of hispanic g. hot. earlier in the week and responses law mac jihad said it was upping its alert. level, israel says the strikes targeted islamic jihad, there are also reports that on islam it jihad commander was killed. according to an official from the group, we will keep you updated as this story develops. and before i go, reminder for top story were falling for you at this hour. china is conducting

a nother day of intense military exercises. off the coast of taiwan. china's naval ships and planes are reported to have crossed the medium line separating it from taiwan at the sour stay tuned for d w, his asia, that's coming up next with their ashby energy. of course you can always find more news and analysis on our website. that's i d, w dot com or check us out on social media. s t w news. i'm clear richardson in berlin from the teams. thank you so much for watching. ah ah ah,

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