ah ah ah, this is dw news alive from berlin. another attack on europe's biggest nuclear power plants, moscow and ki, accuse each other of shelling was operational nuclear facility as the un warned of a potential disaster. also coming up on the show, germany suspends its mission in molly, the defense ministry says the malia government has repeatedly withheld clearance

for military flights, run by german forces. canyons still waiting for the results of their presidential vote 3 days after the polls closed. if neither of the 2 contenders emerges as the clear winner, it will go to a runoff election for the 1st time. and extreme drought tightens its grip on europe . rivers run dry across the continent as scientists warn at the drought, could potentially become the worst in 500 years. ah! hello, i'm claire richard fenn. thanks so much for joining us. the head of the you ends nuclear watchdog has warned of a grave crisis unfolding at this operation nuclear power plant in ukraine. he was addressing an emergency session of the un security council as moscow and keep trade

nations of new shelling near the nuclear facility. as fighting in the area continues, the u. s. is backing calls for a demilitarized safe zone around those operational plants. ukraine says that russia has turned the site into a military base for launching attacks. washed up on you, how is lay lecturer on radiation protection at r w c h r in university in germany. and i earlier asked him how concerned we should be about the shelling app this operation nuclear power plants. well, 1st of all, i mean it's horrible if the war into creating a direct involvement of nuclear apartment are no direct danger to the life of the people in germany. locally. the situation is of course quite different and indeed i'm worried about that. ok, so obviously terrible for local residents there. what would you then say to the experts who have been warning of potential nuclear disaster if fighting in the area continues? i mean, the un atomic watchdog has called this a grave our i mean,

of course i generally agree with that. being the target of war, the onto design of the apartment. we can only hope that both sides the exercise and necessary same to prevent such a tragedy. i mean, i see no point in exploring scenarios in which radioactive materials are deliberately released and spread by military action. because this would simply be an escalation into a nuclear warfare. but the greatest danger from my perspective is the total disruption of our supply didn't to a lot of emergency coding. and essentially, like scenario damages to important areas like the containment by high explosives with then facilitating the reduced rate and looking at the possible accidents. you then think that a loss of power is the worst case scenario. what would that look like? well, i mean, we have the situation that dispute over where the power from content actually goes

to. and if somebody decides to destroy the power line, it would leave the plant essentially with its own power production and the emergency generators both quite sensitive to further military military impact and event sales. we are in a book test session about ok. thank you very much stuff on you, her lecturer on radiation protection at arbitrator, and thanks for taking the time to speak with us as the war rages on, a new crane. russian forces continue to fight and die in battle every day. while the fight for supremacy on the battlefield continues, it seems the fight for the hearts and minds of the russian people has already been one support for the war remains high. so to 2 levels of indifference on the face of it, it's a summer, much like any other in moscow. the fact that russian troops are fighting,

killing and dying in ukraine, seems far removed from life in the russian capital. i was told was losing. i was thinking about a change, anything to, to what extent does the situation have to do with me? remember from a, nothing's up to me are you? we can only look on smoking and wait for the outcome. what it's not that in a yes, i'm waiting for victory russian composure while the kremlin continues to attack its neighbor. despite the international sanctions that put the nation's future at risk, independent posters at the lovato center are trying to find out why the russian people appears so indifferent to what is going on. she thought it was an ocean. we asked vision, who is to blame for the fatalities on the destruction of 30 people to put nato 1st and you cran, at distant 2nd. russia was not seen to be at fault in any way that absolves people from thinking about the fact that there is currently a fratricidal war going on. mostly student birth obese to know anna.

precious deep propaganda is working. people only voice criticism we're down to those closest to them. the war has divided families and friends ethnic ukrainians and ethnic russians live on both sides of the border. italia, institute, i'm an ethnic ukrainian in the near the for me, it was of course, a shock. the coroner, so i've had roused with a lot of old friends because they do not believe that something ugly is going on there to put it mildly from your schedule. so the back where the lack of this and is also due to intimidation. anyone who criticizes the army or protests against a kremlin faces imprisonment or fines. marina of sienna cova described putin as a murderer on this poster. she now faces charges of spreading false information punishable by up to 10 years in prison. no, get rid of him, does one have a good many friends have phoned me and said, why did you get involved that will crush you 8 you up?

toast suicide and then kill you. we don't support this will either, but we think it's better to keep quiet white things out, keep our heads down. those are good. many musk events prefer to shrug things off and put up with the status quo. we're here in germany, a former chancellor. gerhard schroeder is suing the german parliament, an attempt to reinstate some privileges. he was stripped off in may. the 78 year old social democrat is demanding he be given back a parliamentary office. a budget committee removed funding for schroeder's office in the buddhist talk for widespread criticism of his close ties with russia. trotter was a german chancellor between 19982005. and he still received his pension and security detail. for more on this a let speak to you. d w as political correspondent, julia sedalia. so deli, excuse me, julia. this is the 1st time

a former german chancellor has sued the state a. what is this all about? yeah, as you said, this all started back in may when the boon this tags budget committee decided to withdraw shrew those right to an office and to a staff. and this is something that until now has always been a right of former chancellors. not because of their status as former chancellors buzz, but as the budget committee of the boon, the sex ed, because they still carry out duties because of their role as former chancellor is. and the bonus sug, in this case, they decided and agreed on the fact that according to them, sure there is not carrying out. these are these duties as former chancellor. and that is why they, how they motivated the fact that they took away the office and the staff from him. now this decision also came a while sure that was under heavy criticism because of his close friendship with russian president vladimir putin and his close business ties to russian state owned

energy firms. so it is tricky to sort of separate the decision of the boone, the suck, also from the political implications of sure those position. so are there grounds for schroeder's claims to be successful then? now a lot of it will depend on whether his lawyers will be able to disprove what the boon the sag commission is claiming. and that is that because of sure, does a position and also because of his ties to, to russia. he has a not condemned vladimir putin, russia's president after the invasion of ukraine. and he has even met with putting on his own volition in the last few weeks. now this position doesn't allow him to carry out his duties as former chancellor, and that is why they have taken away his benefits. and if the lawyers are able to

prove that this was actually a legal, then they might have a chance at winning this case to this how jelly for us. thank you so much for that . update your bring up to speed now with some of the other stories making news at this our former u. s. president donald trump has said he will not oppose the release of the warrant that allowed a f. b. i. agents to search his florida home. the attorney general has asked a judge to unseal the warrant and published the list of items f, b i. agencies from jamar locker resort. at least 38 people have died across southwestern yemen after torrential rains, cause severe flooding in the capital. so not over 40 buildings were damaged along with bridges and roads. yemen has been locked in a 7 year civil conflict, which has led to a lack of maintenance structure, worsening the situation. former sri lankan a president and got a by

a roger pox. a has arrived in thailand on a flight from singapore. the ty, prime minister said his visit was permitted on humanitarian grounds. as roger coxa was seeking asylum in another country, he was forced to resign as president after protests caused by a deep economic crisis. and the canyon electoral commission has admitted that bo, tallying in the presidential election is moving too slowly. as comes as kenyans have had to wait for a 4th day to find out who their next leader will be. early projections point a tight race between long time opposition leader relo dingo and deputy president william rudo. no presidential poll outcome has gone uncontested in kenya since 2002 security has been increased across the country as disputes over previous presidential votes have been followed by deadly violence. do you have your correspondent edith kamani is in nairobi and she explained why the vote counting and kenya is taking so long?

well, it's because here in kenya, we use a very slow process to count those results. are there have been a lot of trust issues between canyons and election officials as to what happens is those polls have to be read out one by one viewed there by so many election officials you saw in that story that has just run. and so they're correlated at the pulling station than that to control constituency level. and then they have validated again, at the national level. and that's what we're currently waiting for. a long and careful process. are people becoming impatient waiting for the results? certainly. and it's because in tenure, at the moment we're in what i would describe as a limbo schools are closed and most of the businesses are also closed. people are not going to work. and so a lot of people are just sort of glued to their t. v. screens waiting for the results which don't seem to be coming out. but the independent electron and boundaries commission chem, a person that that's the body that runs the elections here and did a show canons in an earlier press conference that in 7 days, which is the legal timeframe that they have,

that those results will indeed have been announced and what will be the biggest challenges facing whoever becomes the next president? suddenly the cost of living i was speaking to a lady earlier today who were saying that, you know, even after the election, she doesn't see any hope for the country that people are sleeping hungry. the schools are supposed to reopen, as she doesn't know where she is. going to get school fees from, it's not unique to her, it's what a lot of kenya's are experiencing. there's a drought, let's ravaging the region, making things even worse, reeling from the effects of a global pandemic, and not to mention the wine ukraine, which is also continuing to have an effect on us here. yet, there was relatively low voter turnout. our people losing faith in the electoral process. well, that's what a lot of people said. those who did not vote, and even those who did saying that there was simply going to the pulls to protest, to vote for somebody who they hadn't before. an unfamiliar phase, but the numbers a showing that the old god definitely still has the political upper hand in the

country. and yes, kenyans are very frustrated because of the things that i mentioned earlier. the state of the economy is not great. people are not happy with how the country was being run until these hope that maybe this will be the time that things finally changed. mckenna, dw correspondent edith kamani in nairobi. thank you so much for your reporting. well, germany has announced it is suspending its participation in the un military mission to molly. the move comes after molly and authorities repeatedly denied german forces overflight rights preventing troop rotations. earlier this year, berlin extended the deployment to molly, following a visit by germany's foreign minister anna lena bear bock to the west african nation. the german government now says it is willing to protect, participate in international peacekeeping missions in the country. but only if it is supported by molly's military hunter into the young alex and her mother is a german law maker with the free democrats party. that is part of the government

coalition. he also sits on the german parliament defense committee. thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us to day. has the german military mission in molly? been a failure? oh no, it is so small. say the problem is just the bureaucracy of the molly government. currently, we as germans, we are willing to continue almost a pause in this mission. but only if the government lets us do what we have to do. and this doesn't look like that currently. and explain a bit more about that. germany's foreign minister burbock has accused molly's military junta of torpedoing the german bundis fairs efforts time and time again. yes. and she is right with that because there are some needle picks. they do a mouse. they officially, they say they are content with a smile. they won't as military mission, but they make bureaucratic hurdles for us. a

couple of, for example, you, you called the the rotation and we have to be able to exchange our troops. and this is not possible currently, and they promised us it will be made possible from them. but currently it is the case that we may not rotate and that, that is unacceptable. we can work in that weight. now there are other examples of bureaucratic hurdles that they have put in place. yes, missing permissions for flights, for example, or other things. we have troops to secure an airport, and our troops may not live on the pulse any more, and the needle picks they do on us. and it's just always worsening. ok, so what will the suspension, bennett mean for security in the south region more broadly? are the reaching this quite insecure and we are, we are ready to, to help to,

to stabilize the and we want to, it isn't german interest to stabilize to say region. because if terrorists take over more regions than we would have migration waves in direction of europe, of course. so we want to help to secure but we must be able to do our work there. and this looks currently like it's not possible anymore. so it looks like you will not be able to do your work to that then. mean, are you saying that germany will not be able to participate to helping stabilize this region? it now depends. the german government has saved today. we stop our mission. so our troops stay in our camps currently, but we're not go out in patrol. they will not do their military mission drops and just to stay in the camps as long as those bureaucratic hurdles are still active and how it continues to receive the next days. now for months,

molly's military junta has turned away from former partners like france or germany, and toward russia. does that, where are you that they have turned towards russia into i wonder why they did it? because i cannot imagine that russia has better interests for the molly government . you know, the meanest mom mission is from the united nations initiated and we are looking for peace for humanity and so on. and russia has other interest and peace humanity. so i wonder why, what are the interests of the marty government to switch partners because they threw out the french and we are seeing now that also although western partners are becoming thrown out slightly. and this worries us indeed. thank you very much, alexandra mother and p for the chairman of free democrats. party. really appreciate your time. thank you. but as they nearly 8 nearly a year now,

since the taliban takeover of afghanistan forced tens of thousands of people to flee the country, the lucky ones were air lifted out, but many more were left behind. un estimates, there are still about 3500000 people internally displaced there. after decades of war. their situation is every bit as desperate as it was this time last year. this was the scene at capital airport a year ago. people massed together, trying to get on any plane that would take them. thousands got out. many more, were left behind, splitting up families, and leaving their loved ones in afghanistan at risk. well, 3 of shame and abdul's children are in the us now. their remaining 2 daughters worked in television under the old government. now seamus says she fears they may be put in prison. well they and she misses the ones who made it out. hm. what iraq,

i was saying. he had one of them and it's my deep desire to see my children and talk them long. we're having a lot of problems here. oh that the data didn't elena did, which we will overcome these challenges, but i want to be with my children. so the other one is almost what i heard that is on her son was a commando in the afghan army. now he's a refugee in the us, where he still trying to get his family cleared to come over and do some the, i guess what the new athens will apartment life is really difficult for us here. i've completed documentation for my family 2 or 3 times, but their clearances are still pending. unfortunately, the government ignores our files. ask them about another mckee. at least he made it all the way to america. millions of afghan evacuees are stuck in limbo in neighboring pakistan, waiting for visas. many were journalists, or had other jobs that made them targets for the taliban. thus, if one of the law,

unfortunately, we have not yet experienced the speedy transfer of evacuees, which is a breach of the pledge is made to afghans by the united states and european nations, all ought to follow the place where i get after he acknowledged headache. while she was in fresh i'mma and abdul's family life in afghanistan is a waiting game. it's one they have to play carefully with their lives potentially at stake. while europe is in the grip of its most extreme drought in decades record breaking heat waves linked to climate change have dried up rivers across the continent. and st. water reserves plummeting to historic lows. scientists have worn that scorching summers and dryer winters will likely become the new normal to to human induced global warming. europe's rivers, a disappearing. italy's po is yet another casualty of the severe drought gripping

much of the continent. the river would normally be teeming with taurus. instead, it's drawing bed is littered with empty boats. those living near italy's longest river say the situation is unprecedented. you're salazar when i'm young and i do not remember anything like this. but even the elderly of my village and the villages around here have never seen something like this. never, ever. with the po relied upon for keeping rice feels like this one irrigated farm as a warning of devastating consequences for the region known as italy's bread basket . spain is facing similarly di, conditions with reservoirs falling to their lowest levels since 1995. but this one in extra madura, the water has receded so far

a medieval bridge submerged decades ago is exposed again in catalonia. this night century church has also emerged from the depths with scorching weather, predict, continue, water supplies, a set to only dwindle. further, even the notoriously wet u. k is facing drought conditions with the source of the river thames drawing up for the 1st time since at least 1976 and made a record breaking heat and low rainfall in france, 2 rivers, a drawing up like here in the north west where the law the country's longest river has fallen so low in some places. it can be crossed on foot to the east, sinking water levels in the rhine, a threatening not just fish, but the german economy to the river is

a key economic artery with barges transporting millions of tons of cargo, including coal, oil and gas each year. but officials of warning that it is set to become impossible for most boats within days as europe's drought drags on. and we have some breaking news coming in, and the author, salman rushdie has been attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in western new york. his book and the se tannic verses has been banned in iran since 1988. and it's considered blasphemous by many muslims. around late liter, ayatollah humanely issued a fatwas calling for rushed his death. we're going to be following that story for you here on d. w. for now though, we're going to turn to some sports news. and there are just 100 days left to go until the men football world cup again in guitar. and organizers have faced relentless criticism throughout the build up to the tournament. owing to could tars human rights record and the environmental impact staging the competition is

expected to have with question marks also surrounding guitar stands on l. g. b t q . communities, safer is under increasing pressure to clarify the situation. ever since the world cup was awarded to kentucky, back in 2010, the nation's human rights record has threatened to spoil the party among the chief concerns guitars, policy on homosexuality. while confusion continues over, whether traveling fans will be allowed to express their beliefs during the world cup every day could tories face arrest and abuse. the conversation has been sequestered almost entirely, that of visitors to receive the flag or visitors to be able to rent a hotel room together. that conversation should be what is actually happening. g b q company following backlash from players as well as campaigners feet has already made promises to intervene in some areas of guitar. a human rights policy. the l g

b t q community wants to see action to while c for has promised to encourage reform when it comes to migrant workers, right? it has not been able to commit to any reform when it comes to the right to those people. fif has been accused of missing an opportunity to pressure guitar into positive reforms, with human rights issues still rising. meanwhile, l g b t, q football fans just want to know whether it will be safe for them to visit during the competition. yes, a accessible to everyone, but these events not only celebrate the sports, but some of the human beings that make the sport and possible with just $100.00 days to go until the tournament kicks off. fi fi is running out of time to provide the answers. and before we go, let's get a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. the head of the

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