this is the tour unleash on violet pass and re imagine these teachings for relevance to gandhi's legacy store to august 6th on b, w. ah, ah ah, this is deal you news live from berlin. israel launch is away with air strikes on garza, the israeli government says he targeted an imminent threat from the islamic jihad grew. a senior militant is among those killed. the barge of rockets is fired back

from gaza into israel. also coming up shilling closes europe's biggest nuclear power station, international one to the worried about the safety of the plant in ukraine and local residence fear another chernobyl blossom. internet conspiracy theorist has been ordered to pay nearly $15000000.00 in damages over the sandy hook school shooting. alex joins claim the massacre was a hooks. ah, i'm jared read. welcome to the program. 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 gaza. mars to were intercepted by israel's iron dorm defense system. these rally government says it targeted the

islamic jihad militant group for what it described as an imminent threat 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 gossip is lama. jihad is in the raymond proxy, the taunts to destroy the state of israel, and kill innocent israelis. the head of his lamp jihad is an immense interferon. 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 calm. 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 mother quinn loyalty and i'm an one as a 5 year old girl is mourned. fears of an escalation are rising. good. palestinian militants fired rockets into israel as night fell to china now, which is doubling down on its retaliation for the us house because nancy pelosi visit to tie one. now this trip enraged beijing, which is conducting several days of air and naval drills around taiwan in response

. china is also spending cooperation with the us on issues including law enforcement and climate change. ty, one's defense, ministry says eat 5 full is to warn off drones and unidentified aircraft flying off its coast. earlier i spoke to joyce lee in taipei for more details on these rules and the reaction from taiwan. so once again, chinese strongest fluid, post your taiwan is cayman islands, late at night, and taiwanese military fired flash duty to them. and on friday, 68 chinese war planes and 13 warships, operators in the taiwan strait and dozens of them crossed the media line again. express thank that beijing is trying to change the status quote off as taiwan strait and the drews 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 ins,

housing seeing founder of a chip making company, has pledge to donate $100000000.00 for the islands national security. the money will be used for our 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 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 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 dre 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. go to ukraine now, where europe's biggest nuclear power station has been shot down after shilling, russia and ukraine of blaming each other. for these attacks, the un 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 this apparition region in southeastern ukraine. this grain hanger has been destroy it through northern of only beaches. our biggest will storage unit is ruined. 23000 square meters. rural formula,

sunflower seeds are gone as politically separation is home to europe's largest nuclear power plant. question. first this she's 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 g as in moscow, are accusing each other of shelling the facility. at least 3 strikes, hit power lines, forcing the closure of one of the reactors local residents feel both shelling and i ready ation leak. good yourself. it's very dangerous. it could be another channel or even worse, the tissues, it's chaos all around. we want peace and calm, we want people from both sides to stop losing their lives for no reason. so 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 you cranes, president is calling the attacks and act of terror even a year to maybe cycle. this is the largest nuclear station on our continent. and any shelling 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 to day. japan is marking the 77th anniversary of the nuclear attack on hiroshima, in the final days of world war 2. the us dropped the world's 1st atomic bomb on

august the 6th 1945. the explosion destroyed the city and killed 140000 people. indiana has become the 1st us day to pass new laws, restricting abortion. since the us supreme court reversed universal access, there are some exceptions. the ban including cases of right and insist indiana is controlled by the republican party. staying in the us and the texas court has ordered an internet conspiracy theory to pay nearly $50000000.00. in a defamation case, alex jones falsely claimed the 2012 sandy hook school shooting was a hoax. parents who lost a child, sued him, saying die. suffolk youth of harassment because of the claim, joins is notorious for spreading misinformation online, but this is the 1st time that he's been told he must pay compensation.

i'm joined now by g w reporter and a shorter who's got more. you've been following this and tell us 1st, who is alex joins? well, i'm alex jones is a prominent right wing internet personality. he's a web costa, a radio host. he runs a website called in for was and i'm parallel to that. he has a business setting diet supplements, so he's very well known in the right wing media ecosystem and also outside it. so he's just been on trial. what was this trial all about? so this trial is actually about the false claims that alex jones set out in his webcast. some websites that actually lead to real world abuse and harassments of and harassment of grieving parents 2012 back in 2012. there was a very tragic school shooting at the sandy hook elementary school. and in the aftermath of the shooting, jones made the false claim that this shooting didn't actually happen. it was

a hoax that was staged by the u. s. government and that the grieving parents were actually paid actors and to parents who lost that child in the shooting. neil heflin and scarlet lewis, they brought a defamation suit against alex year, alex jones. because as these conspiracy theories spread and these false claims spread, they suffer death threats and abuse and harassment from people who had read these false claims and believe them the lawyer for the parents. they argued that jones had what he described. jones had created a massive campaign of lies that targeted the families of these victims and had made money in the process. and the parents of the mother to one of the children who died . it was killed in this, in this mascot. they were asking for a $150.00 in damages to redress that, but the jury awarded them fall. s okay,

$103000000.00. now he ended up missing that he was wrong, didn't he? and sandy hook actually did happen. that was, that was one of the points in his trial. now he's been ordered to pay all this money. do you think this is going to stop him from possibly saying more falsehoods or things like that in the future? well, he's always maintained that he says these things because he actually believes they're real at that at the time. and that he's covered by the u. s. rights for free speech . and he's still facing many more, 2 more actually defamation cases. and his lawyer after this, after the latest try this 1st trial and said that alex jones would still be back at his desk. he will still be on air today, tomorrow. and next week he will still continue running his shows, running his website info was. and it says this multi 1000000 damages award has not

silenced him. norco and a shorter. there are d w reporter and i thank you very much bit of a change of pace. now, one of the world's biggest, heavy metal festivals is back vatican is once again hosting 85000 metal fans for 3 days in the field in northern germany. the event was cancelled for the last 2 years because of the pandemic. vulcan is the name of the small town near by both for die hard metal heads. it's also very holy ground. 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 in the open air hail from as far away as mexico south africa and indonesia by greece put covering the hold. and ah,

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 the grim, aesthetic and the music's often violent lyrics, fans described bokken as an a waste of good vibes. responded vicky. 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 all that, you could say these middle heads have finally returned to their happy place. ah, is reminded now of our top story. israel says its defense systems have shot down. the number of rockets fired from gaza into is riley, a space,

a rocket 5 comes off to israel, launched away the veil strikes in gaza, saying it was targeting the islamic jihad. militant, grew up next on dw, our signs magazine to morrow to day. stay tooth with torture into the no to day this week, wanting to a foreign planet in the 16th century, it meant being a captain and setting sail to discover a route a race leads to military interests. a race linked.