ah ah ah this is d w. news live from berlin. rockets, fly in the middle east and number of fired from the gaza strip into israeli. asked space after israel launched a series of air strikes in garza killing several people are wounding many more. also on the program, china conduct another day of life, fire military exercises in the waters around tie one. this is beijing announces an

end to cooperation with the united states and important areas including military relations and climate change. d, w meets members of kenya's, paid election, gangs. people prepared to harm and even kill political opponents for money. ah, i'm sure gail, welcome to the program. dozens of rockets have been fired at israel from the gaza strip. barrows comes after israel launched a series of strikes into garza earlier in the day. israel says it was targeting the mac jihad militant group was eliminating a, an imminent threat. a palestinian authors use at least 10 people were killed in the strike, and dozens more injured. is really forces target and apartment building and gas. a

city just one of many air strikes launched into the coastal strip. israel says the attacks were in response to an imminent threat from the palestinian islamic jihad group. the strikes come after israeli forces arrested a senior militant in the west bank early this week. israel carried out the precise counter therapy ration against an immediate threat. our fight is not was the people of gus islamic jihad is an iranian proxy. the taunts to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the head of islam jihad is in the heron. as we speak, we will do whatever it takes to defend our people. ah, and islamic jihad commander was killed in the strikes. and the group vowed to retaliate, ah, the airline, this is a declaration of all out war against the palestinian people. we will respond to

that. this is a violation and disregard for all the f as to to be made over the past days in order to restore comp. we dealt positively with these efforts, but the enemy was as usual, treacherous and carried out this rate. and now we clearly say that we will respond to this crime with all our might to had the jedi medical, multi nominal one as a 5 year old girl is mourned. fears of an escalation are rising. o palestinian militants fired rockets into israel as night fell. a strong dw corresponds to tanya kraemer in jerusalem. oh welcome tanya. what's the latest? well arid sirens half gone off in several communities and cities and this styles and center are of israel. after palestinian militant groups retaliated with rocket barrages, into our, the

a south and the center of the country. there have been intersections by the iron dome, the israeli defense as system. now this comes, of course, as we heard also the report after is very launched. our air strikes into the garza strip in the afternoon so far the health ministry in garza, the palace in house moves 3, put to numbers of a 10. are people killed and among them a young child and also a senior commander are off the islamic jihad, a smaller military faction in the gaza strip, which is rude by hamas and m over $55.00 people are injured. but of course we are expecting this number to rise as also israel is continuing to carry out airstrikes as it says, against palestinian argy, hard military targets. now we heard also the israeli prime minister, your ill appeared speaking to the israeli public and basically saying no,

this operation will take as long as it takes as well. has also are called up 25000 or reservists in from the army or to have reinforced the troops around a garza put, you know, the iron dome system and open up a bomb shelters, or amps and mainly in the areas surrounding of the gaza strip. right, so this is, this is, this sounds like quite a significant mobilization a what mores bruce had about this, this imminent threat both israel said it was still defending itself wise, suffering. now while there has been a built up here, our intentions and threats and warnings, but there were also mediation efforts or by egypt. now this comes on after a, israel's military actually arrested a senior leader off the islamic jihad in northern west bank in the occupy west.

bank in jeanine, they have been a lot of rates are in the area by the military. and israel had said that they are anticipating some kind of retaliation by islamic edgy heart. and there have been mediation efforts between our, the militant factions and garza and israel through egypt and other players. but it didn't seem to have are there, you know, made a difference right now because then we saw this either unexpected airstrikes by israel on our targets or this afternoon on garza and you've described what sounds like a significant mobilization of israeli forces to cease and desist risk escalating him to one another war? well, i think it's still too early to say whether this will be in or, or what is where i usually cause an operation. will it be in all out war, or will it be a days or weeks?

i think the main thing it's will be devastating for civilians that will be again caught or you know like multiple times a half in 4 was between ah mouse and got a m. as in israel for wasn't garza the civilian population there. let's not forget, this is also a small territory. it has been blockaded or israel, partly by egypt for, for almost a 15 years now. so far as civilians there this would be very, very difficult. there's a lot of warry as well as for civilians. of course, also the south of israel that will have to stay and year in their bomb shelters. and so there's a lot of worry among people here are, you know, what will happen here in the next hours. thank you for that, tanya. crime in jerusalem. a china is to suspend cooperation with the united states on issues including military relations, climate change, legal help, and criminal matters. this is in response to the lives of us how speak and nancy

pelosi to taiwan visit has enraged beijing. which regards to self governing island as its territory. his latest announcement follows days of intensive chinese military drills in the water surrounding taiwan. ah, chinese missiles began striking the seas north south and east of tie one hours after u. s. house speaker nancy pelosi left the island or did not meet young had a month up to shiny state television released video of warships 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 a new speaker. blasio visited a pretext to increase provocative military activity in and around the taiwan strait

blank in his, 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 speakers 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 is deeply opposed to any visits by foreign governments. jungle where what china is defending is its own sovereignty and territorial integrity. what sean is doing is safeguarding the basic norms governing international relations. and the common interests of most countries . not interference in internal affairs is a most basic principle for maintaining peace and stability in our world being a 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 should. 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 ty, one island. woman between, we crossed the middle line of the taiwan strait with military exercises. al mrs. flew over taiwan, which makes us feel motherland is very strong and makes a certain tie wants return, cannot be stopping. she can, he insisted that china's army says it's so called joint blockage operation. around taiwan will continue through to monday. a vladimir putin says he's looking to boost a trade and economic ties with turkey. the russian president was speaking at

a meeting with his president, reggie time early on in the black sea resort of saatchi president or early on, said he hoped the talks would open a different page in ties with moscow was to put in fact, the turkish lead of helping to broker a deal along the safe package if you craning great exports to the black sea. the meeting comes after 3 more ships carrying grade left ukraine. ukrainian president vladimir lansky has criticized a human rights organization, amnesty international. after it claim to ukraine had endangered civilians by basing troops in residential areas, then zalinski equated the accusation to victim blaming. meanwhile, there are reports of heavy fighting in ukraine. south close to the russian held a city of harrison and ukrainian civilians in the eastern denotes region of flag their homes because of constant russian shelley. a train station and on ask,

evacuating the old and the young all exhausted westwards. ordinary ukrainians caught up in fierce fighting and forced to leave their homes with whatever they can carry with. but do you think we are from a village near lucy chance kids between the live hands can donates regions? have village has been ruined. there's no gas, no water, no electricity. we were sitting in the basement for a month. the army brought us here. with the government has ordered civilians to lead combat zones in don etzky. but the danger may not be just from russian attacks. amnesty international accuses ukraine of basic troops in populated areas, putting civilians at risk and violating the laws of war. keith was furious. he

assured 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 aggressor does is ignored, this cannot be tolerated. somebody. i understand that this particular piece of work because it's critical of the behavior of the, of ukrainian forces is not appreciated by the ukrainian authorities and by the others. but the fact is that, you know, international law and applies to everyone. ukrainian soldiers face a grinding battle to keep the remaining regions of eastern dumbass out of rushing control for another. and to avoid shelling them over to, to learn us to sort of got the x to the wrong. we sit in the trenches, the, the, 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. to day there's 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 dennis continues. the question is whether that will be enough to keep them safe. russia and ukraine, or have accused each other of selling the zipper easier. a nuclear plant of planter, europe's largest, has been under version control since early march official se shells hit a high voltage power line. earlier this week, the united nations nuclear watchdog appeal for access to the plan. so it was crucial to avoid a potential catastrophe. march 2022. europe's largest nuclear power plant in sap militia. ukraine came under russian attack. fortunately, no react units or critical systems were hit in the fire fight. the nuclear power plant is now in the middle of a war zone. the international atomic energy agency says the situation is extremely

threatening and is warning of a possible nuclear accident. sabrina is completely out of control and we hear quite regularly and information and we receive information about project tires overflowing or flying, sorry, or, or, or falling on the place or drones or things like that which are, of course, compromising the physical integrity of the place. there are full active nuclear power plants in ukraine with a total of 15 nuclear reactors. zachary asia has 6 react to units 3 of which are currently active. the nuclear plants is located in southeastern ukraine. these images are from 2016, even then the technology was outdated and in need of maintenance. systems failures are becoming more frequent. and now that the plant is in russian hands,

the i. e a says the supply chain for equipment and spare parts is broken. we have these paradoxical situation of a place being controlled, metalli speaking by russia, whilst the ukrainian local operators continue to work every day. they're leaving to an inevitable moments of a friction, if not actual violence. grossey also says individual employees may have been abducted. the u. s. secretary of state says the russian military is using europe's largest nuclear power plant as a shield rentals now using the plant as a military base to fire at ukrainians. knowing that they can't and won't shoot back, because they might accidentally strike a nuclear reactor or highly radioactive waste. in storage, ukraine's deputy foreign minister has demanded that the air space over ukrainian nuclear facilities be closed. expert, say

a hit to the nuclear plant could lead to the worst case scenario. yeah, yeah, monsieur, mit an annoying demons yonder. yes, we are dealing with a new dimension of warfare here. it's the 1st time the great danger posed by nuclear power plants is included in the military planning. the russian army is turning the power plant site into a military base, and ukraine is also attacking that with combat drones. if there is severe damage, it could result in a meltdown. and then you have large scale radioactive contamination that could affect the rest of europe. hoping to prevent that, the international atomic energy agency is now urgently demanding that the russian military granted access to the nuclear power plants in sa, parisha. and take a look at some all of the stores making headlines around the world. now, the fire at night shopping thailand has killed, at least at 14 people on the left, dozens injured, broke out early morning of the mountain b music for about a 160 kilometers,

se bangkok video circulating on social media shows thick. smoke billowing from the entrance to which people were trying to escape overnight. rain given hope to fire fighters on the 2nd day of a forest fire, and gruen about forests on the outskirts of berlin. the still the danger that ammunition stored at the site could explode if ignited so far. no one has been injured. 10 people are trapped under ground. following a mine collapse in northern mexico rescue teams are working around the clock to get them out. authorities to try to make contact with the men 5 others as gained the us government has declared a monkey box as declared monkey pox of public health, emergency announcement freeze up money and other resources to fight the virus. ok box can cause a fever, aches, chills, and fatigues. more than 7000 americans become infected. now to kenya,

which is gearing up for next week's presidential election. it's likely to be a tight race between deputy president william router, an opposition leader riley, or dingo. and in election campaigns are often an opportunity for people to earn money as paid. supporters for candidates and campaigning also has a violent side with gangs paid to intimidate candidates and voters with violence. summary, prepared to kill the ws mario buller report. oh, election season and came yeah, means money making season canyon's was struggling to survive. earn a living by cheering for 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 and we had, there is a 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 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 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 leader there even higher to kill, you'll get an offer of like tens of thousands of euro's to kill someone or cut off some body parts. you'll probably never get tempted again to run for a political job. elizabeth were there, i was attacked when she ran for a seat in the county assembly never 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, there 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 our 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. critic 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 in a special edition of d, w. news africa on the canyon elections here on d, w. and at any time on the dw news channel on youtube now to nigeria, which has, or of course out one of africa's largest economies and like so many countries is grappling with high inflation. the millions of people living below the poverty line

many are struggling to survive, getting by on a day to day basis. this has led to a search in people buying only what they can afford. are buying that i've necessities in tiny quantities, a spike in single use. plastics has environmentalist worried ah shocks in la gus decked out with colorful ropes of tiny plastic packages, washing powder biscuits and cooking oil. even water is sold in single serve sa shades. the rise of nigeria sashay economy has followed growing inflation. many people can now only afford what's needed for one meal because i don't have money to buy those. i buy small, small med if i buy be cheaper. but as i don't have money by millions of nigerians live on less than to us dollars a day, global events like the pandemic and the war in ukraine have pushed up prices,

forcing millions more into poverty. environmentalists say that this is having a direct, ecological impact. the small packages are quickly discarded, adding to nigeria is plastic pollution, crisis. impact. obviously o'connor me means that we have more thing we think, been put into the environment either very, very alarming way. wasn't it, wasn't it, of course. and for the ocean, what people and planet plastic waste can also block canals and cause flooding, often in lago, says poorest neighborhoods. compounding, economic and environmental problems for residents struggling to survive. of lots people. wacken is more than just a music festival. it's holy ground fans from around the world to travel to the small town in northern germany. the heavy metal meet one of the world's largest, the previous to festivals while canceled because of the corona virus pandemic. for

this year, some 85000 metal heads have gathered for the 20 for the 2022 edition of the 3 day battle fest. the hot weather didn't keep the crowds away. heavy metal fans from around the world had been waiting over 2 years to return to what they called the holy ground. the revellers at this year's voc, an open air hail from as far away as mexico south africa and indonesia. i got all the way from autopay. i was like i said, you can really be yourself here because we've had the ticket since 2019 we finally made it. we're here and it's so great to 100 bands are in the line up headlined by big names like slipknot and judas priest, but covering the whole gamut of the genre, including the ukranian band i t who traveled from kia for the event.

it's not just the legendary line up that draws the crowds to vulcan. it's 3 days of middle lifestyle, a rare chance to let their hair down after 2 years of code restrictions. but despite that grim, aesthetic and the music's often violent lyrics, fans describe bokken as an oasis of good vibes responded thinking, what's interesting is that if you ask most fans what they associate with metal with concerts with festivals, beer is the 1st answer and of course, loud music, but the very next answer is piece. with you could say these middle heads have finally returned to their happy place. is remind of a top stories at this hour. israel says is to fan systems have shot down a number of rockets fired from the gaza strip into his ready asked space. rocket fi comes after israel wants to waive a vast rank. same garza saying it was targeting to be islamic jihad,

vincent group and china, ace, conducting another day of intense military exercises off the coast of taiwan. china's naval ships and planes are reported to have crossed the media line separating it from time as his date of linear is coming up for next eco africa out . environmental magazine show. i'll have well news at the top of the i'm good with with

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