ah ah ah, this is dw used to live from berlin. israel launch is a wave of air strikes on garza, the israeli government says he targeted an imminent threat from the islamic jihad group. as senior militant is among those kills, a barrage of rockets is 5 back from gaza into israel. also coming up,

shilling closes europe biggest nuclear power station. international monitors, a worried about the safety of the plant in ukraine, and local residents, fear a novice, tional plus an internet. conspiracy theorist must play must pay nearly $15000000.00 in damages over the sandy hook school shooting. alex joins claim the massacre was a hoax. ah, i'm jarrett raid, thanks to your company is riley air strikes have killed at least 10 people in the gaza strip, including a senior palestinian militant. this triggered a barrage of rockets fired back at israel from garza, most were intercepted by israel's iron dorm defense system. these railey government says it targeted the islamic jihad militant group for what it described as an

imminent threat. israeli 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 terror parisian, against an immediate threat. our fight is not, was the people of gaza islamic jihad is in iranian proxy, that wants to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the head of islamic jihad is in the harem. 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 efforts 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 have him getting him of the quilt in. i'm an old as a 5 year old girl is mourned. fears of an escalation or rising. o palestinian militants fired rockets into israel. as night fell well, relations between china and the united states are increasingly strained. following us how speaker nancy pelosi is visit to taiwan. now this trip in rage, beijing, which is conducting air and naval drills around taiwan in retaliation. beijing is

also suspending cooperation with the us on issues including law enforcement and climate change. taiwan defense ministry says it fide flares to warn off drawings and unidentified aircraft flying off. it's caused. let's go to taiwan now and speak to d w's. joyce lee, who's in taipei for us, joyce, great to see you. tell us what's the latest on these military, ju drills from china and how taiwan is responding to them. right, so once again, chinese drones flu. post your taiwan is cayman islands, late at night. and taiwanese military fired flyers to deter them. and on friday, 68 chinese war plains and 13 more ships, operators in the taiwan strait and dozens of them crossed the media line again. express. thank that beijing is trying to change the status court office. taiwan

straight and address could become a new normal in the meantime, cyber attacks are ongoing for some of the taiwanese government websites. when you click on it, it shows a huge chinese national flag, taiwanese tie who in housing, seeing a founder of a chip making company, has pledged to donate a $100000000.00 for the islands national security. the money will be used for counter cyber attacks from china and also to support defense education to resist china psychological warfare campaigns. ok, joyce, you've talked about what you've described as a new normal there. how worried are people in taiwan about what's going on? yeah, i've talked to a lot of people on the street and obviously fishermen are directly affected. so they're very worried about their safety. but for most of the people they don't seem to think there will be a you know, immediate war. and that is

a huge contrast to the reaction of the international world. many taiwanese are told me that they grew up with china's threat and it's become a part of that everyday life. but nevertheless, people are concerned about the drill with becoming a new norm, or somehow worried that the tension could drive up inflation and, and some say that they feel more disgusted than scared by beijing. bully ok, that was joyce lee in taipei. joyce, thank you. let's go to ukraine now, where europe's biggest nuclear power station has been shut down after shilling russia and ukraine to blaming each other for the attacks. the united nations nuclear watchdog is worried about the safety of the plant and local residents are living in fear of another chernobyl. russian rockettes

hit several areas in the separation region in southeastern ukraine. this green hanger has been destroy it through no one of only beaches. our biggest storage unit is ruined. 3000 square meters, rural formula, sunflower seeds are gone. as politically separation is home to europe's largest nuclear power. plant quotient forces seized control of the power station in march just a week after the invasion or the ukrainian workers still run the plant. it's now in the middle of a war zone and t as in moscow, are accusing each other of shelling the facility. at least 3 strikes had power lines, forcing the closure of one of the reactors local residents feel both shelling and already ation leak. including yourself is very dangerous. it could be another

chernobyl or even worse, leticia. it's chaos all around. we want peace and calm. we want people from both sides to stop losing their lives for no reason what more they move over. there are 4 active nuclear power plants and ukraine with a total of 15 reactors. separation has 63 of which were active until now. maybe ukraine's president is calling the attacks an act of terror even a year and a be soccer. this is the largest nuclear station on our continent, and any shilling as an overt plates and cry on a terrorist act. russia has to bear responsibility for this threat to the nuclear power plant. the international atomic energy agency says the situation is extremely threatening. although no radioactive leak has been detected, the agency is demanding that the russian military allow it to inspect the plant.

let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. russia and turkey looking to boot trade and economic ties of the summer in the resort of san she, turkey's president red chip tie boda one says he wants to reset relations with moscow. also on the agenda is safe passage for ukrainian grand shipments previously located in black c ports. at least 10 people have been killed in a house fire in the u. s. date of pennsylvania, a volunteer fire fighter who went to the scene last to close family members, including 2 children and 3 grandchildren. it's not get clear what started the fire in a remote rural community. it takes, this court has ordered an internet conspiracy theorist to pay nearly $50000000.00 in the defamation case. alex jones falsely claims the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. parents who lost a child, sued him,

saying they suffered years of harassment because of the claim. joins is notorious for spreading misinformation online, but this is the 1st time he's been told to pay compensation and joined here in the studio by d w reporter and a shorter he's got more and bring us up to speed. who exactly is alex jones? well, alex jones's really prominent right wing internet personality. he's a radio radio host and he's very well known in this right wing media ecosystem. he runs the website, it's called info was and it's parents. company is called free speech systems and i'm parallel to that. he has a business selling diet supplements and about 4 years ago and he, he does draw very, very big audience. about 4 years ago, social media platforms blocked him for violating their hate speech policies. but he,

he still draws a large number of visitors to his sites and lawyers for the plaintiffs. they suggested that he's worth around 270000000. this is something that alex jones himself disputes quite strongly. he says he's only got about $5000000.00 in in assets. so he's a, he's a well known internet personality, really. ok. and now, so he's been on trial. what was this trial all about? this? this trial is about the conspiracy theories and misinformation that alex jared spread in his broad courses web costs that actually resulted in real world abuse and harassment for the people who were at the center of these false claims. and so 2012, there was a tragic shooting in a school in a school in the u. s. sandy hook elementary school in the,

in the wake of the school shooting alex jones. and he said that this was a plot falsely claiming it was a plot by the us government and said that the grieving parents were actually paid actors in this shooting never happen. and to parents, neil has linen scarlett lewis. they lost a child in the shooting. and they said because of these conspiracy theories and assets misinformation spread, they suffered death threats, harassment, their personal details being shared online. and they, the, their lawyers said that james had created a massive campaign of law, is that targeted these families and also made money in the process. okay. and it's, i guess we're going to have to really see whether this is going to actually stop him. the fact he's being forced to pay almost $50000000.00 in this defamation

case. thank you very much for that shorter i'll d w reporter, bring out bring you up to speed on this trial involving alex jones. thank you and to sport. now the bundle lee is back with the bank by an unique, thrashed and trust frankfurt, 61 in the 1st match of the season, the opening fixture peter, the reigning champions against the road for league windows. it was a decidedly unbalanced if it finds roads of reclaiming the so called mice. a charlotte began in frankfort and the home fans hoped to steal some thunder setting off flag that clouded the view of their own gold. just before kickoff, 5 minutes in with the smoke still clearing user kimmy struck from far out, perhaps benefiting from the keeper's port visibility. just a few minutes later by and doubled their lead after a corner. defend a buzzer, my papa with a sense of forwards. finish in the mold of the recently departed, robert live in dusky,

the man who was that top scorer for the last 7 seasons. after goals from a mid field and a defender, it was the forward turn to shine star sunning. sedio manet came up with the good just before the half hour mark. and the floodgates were well into the open. manet put in an energetic display on his boon to cigarettes, ave you? and shortly after jamal marcial, a chipped in to make it for the 19 year old, got the not ahead of leroy sunday in the starting lineup and repaid the faith. it was men against boys in frankfort, as the reigning champions went up 5 mill from 5 different scores before half time. who needs row 11 dorski when half your team scores says can every whipping up another goal. after the break, frankfurt finally found the back of the net courtesy of manual noise mistake some assigning randall colo milanni with a goal on his debut. fine tuft the only highlight for the home side by an

would have the last laugh. substitute leroy son, a beautifully set up jamal lucila, who doubled his account to seal a 61 wind on opening day bombs, storming by and setting the ball incredibly high. you're up to date here on d. w up next. rob watts will have some surprising job numbers and in your business uptime directory in building a a tooth .