ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. the author salman rushdie is attacked in new york . his writings have long made him a target after iran issued a fatwas calling for his death following the publication of his book, the satanic verses in 1988. also coming up on the show, another attack on europe,

some biggest nuclear power plants. moscow and keep accuse each other of shelling, those apparition new for their facility as the un warns of a potential disaster. and in germany suspends its mission in molly, the defense ministry says the malia government has repeatedly withheld clearance for military flights. run by germany forces us canyons and still waiting for the results of their presidential vote. 3 days after all, close. if neither of the 2 contenders emerges as a clear winner, it will go to a runoff election for the 1st time. ah. hello, i'm clear, richards and a very warm welcome to the show. we start with some breaking news. the author salman rushdie has been attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in western new york. and his condition is currently on. now. russia is

book, the se tannic verses has been banned in iran since 1988, and it's considered blossoming by many muslims. a year after the book was published, iran late leader, the ayatollah khomeini issued a fortune, calling her rusty's data. going to speak more to our washington bureau chief for more on this story later. for now though, let's go to ukraine and the head of the un nuclear watchdog has warned of a grave crisis unfolding at this operation nuclear power plants. he was addressing an emergency session of the un security council as moscow and keith trade accusations of new showing near the nuclear facility and fighting in the area, continues the u. n. is back, the u. s. is back in calls for a demilitarized safe zone around was operational plants. ukraine says that russia has turned the site into a military base for launching attacks. stefan you, her is a lecturer on radiation protection at our w t h r in university in germany. and i earlier asked him how concerned we should

be about the shelling app is operation nuclear power plants. well, 1st of all, i mean it's horrible the war into creating a direct involvement of a nuclear power plant are no direct danger to the life of the people in germany. locally, situation is of course quite different and indeed i'm worried about that. ok, so obviously terrible for local residence 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 watch dog has called this a grave. our of course i generally agree with that being the target of war the on to design also, paul said, we can only hope that both sides the exercise and necessary 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 totally destruction of our supply due to a lot of emergency coding and essentially a similar scenario, dimensions 2 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 actually goes to. and if somebody decides to destroy the power lines, it would leave the plant essentially with its own power production and the, the, the emergency generators both quite 10 to the 2 for the military, military impact and event sales. we are in a book test session to god 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 . well, 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 and 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 still wasn't, it was, isn't i was thinking about it, change anything. or to what extent does the situation have to do with me? i'm going from a, nothing's up to me, are you? we can only look on smoking and where for the outcome. look at it that in him. 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 risk. independent posters at the lovato center are trying to find out why the russian people appears so indifferent to what is going on gentle. it is an ocean we ask as, who is to blame for the fatalities on the destruction of 30 people, 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 with your students. but the beast, when they, when a fresh and state propaganda is working, people only voice criticism or doubt to those closest to them. the war has divided families and friends ethnic ukrainians and ethnic russians live on both sides of the border. rid, clear musical climbing ethnic ukrainian and then the other for me it was of course

a shock, the coroner. so i've had rose with a lot of old friends because they do not believe that something ugly is going on there. to put it mildly, have you thought of where the lack of descent 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. bring it with him to find out that would have many friends of 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 keep quiet. wait things out, keep our heads down. those are many musk events, prefer to shrink things off and put up with the status quo. a former german chancellor gerhard schroeder, is suing the german parliament in an attempt to reinstate some privileges. he was

stripped of 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 dog after widespread criticism of his close ties with russia. trotter was german, chancellor between 19982005 still received his pension and security detail. and he w. political correspondent, julius, our deli, told me how this raw has developed. 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 chancellor's buzz, but as the budget committee of the boon, the sex said, because they still carry out duties because of their role as former chancellor is. and the bonus sug, in this case,

a decided and agreed on the fact that according to them, sure the 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 though 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 bonus suck also from the political implications of sure this 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 illegal, then they might have a chance at winning this case to this so jelly for us. thank you so much for that update. let's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news at this hour. at least $38.00 people have died across southwestern yemen after torrential rains cost severe flooding in the capital, santa over $40.00 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 infrastructure worsening. the situation. former

u. s. president donald trump has said he will not oppose the release of the warrant that allowed 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 at the i agent seized from dimaro lago resort. and buchanan electoral commission has admitted that vote tallying in the presidential election is moving too slowly. this comes as canyons have had to wait for a 4th day to find out who their next leader would be. early projections point to a tight race between long time opposition leader relo dingo and deputy president william router. no presidential po outcome has gone uncontested in kenya since 2002 security has been increased across the country as dispute over previous presidential votes. haven't followed by deadly violence. w correspondent edith kamani is in nairobi and she explained why the vote counting is taking so long.

well, it's because here in can now 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 so 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, then they had to control constituency level, and then they're validated again at a national level. and that's what we're kindly waiting for a long and careful process. are people becoming impatient waiting for the results? certainly. and it's because in kenya, at the moment we're in what i would describe as a limbo schools are closed, most of the businesses are also close. 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 he had did. a sure can, has in an earlier press conference that in 7 days, which is the legal time for him,

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 and she doesn't know where she is. going to get school feeds from, it's not unique to her, it's what a lot of kenya's are experiencing. there's a drought that's ravaging the region, making things even worse, reeling from the facts of a global pandemic, and not to mention the wine you cream, 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 seeing that there was simply going to the ports to protest, to vote for somebody who they hadn't before an unfamiliar face. but the numbers are showing that the old guard definitely still had 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. and so these hope that maybe this will be the time that things finally changed. for kenner. d. w, correspond either kamani in nairobi. thank you so much for your reporting. when germany has announced it is suspending its participation in the un military mission to molly. the move comes after molina authorities repeatedly denied german forces overflight rights that was preventing troop rotations. and earlier this year, berlin extended the deployment to molly, falling a visit by germany's foreign minister, and a lena bear back to the west african nation. the german government now says it is willing to participate in international peacekeeping missions in the country. but only if it is supported by molly's military junta. earlier i spoke with a german lawmaker alexander miller,

who sits on the parliament's defense committee. and i asked him if the german military mission in molly has been a failure. oh no, it is. so this no failure, the problem is just the bureaucracy of the multi 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 hardly explain a bit more about that. germany's foreign minister bear bach has accused molly's military junta of torpedoing the german bonus fairs efforts. time and time again. yes. and she is right with that because so there are some needle picks. they do a mouse on 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. 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 let us know that it's 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 pallets anymore. and the child, the needle picks they do on us, and it's just always worsening. ok, so what will this suspension, bennett mean for security in this all hell region more broadly? are the so reaching this quite insecure and we are, we are ready to, to help to, to stabilize. and we want to, it isn't from an interest to stabilize to say reaching because if terrorists take

over more regions, then we will have migration ways in direction of europe, of course. so we, 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 he 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 said to day, we stop our mission. so our troops stay in our camps. currently, they will not go out and petrol. they will not do their military mission jobs and just stay in the camps as long as those bureaucratic codes 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 were you that they have to and told are russia and i

wonder why they did it? because i cannot imagine that ross has better interests for the molly government. you know, the minute 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 and humanity . so i wonder what the interest of the marty government to switch partners because they throughout the french and we are seeing now that also other west on partners, ostrich becoming thrown out slightly. and this worries us indeed. thank you very much, alexandra mother and p for the german free democratic party. really appreciate your time. you are watching d. w still to come on the show with a 100 days to go until the football world cup l g b t q fans are still waiting for guarantees over their safety in guitar.

and we're returning now to some breaking news with the author. salman rushdie being attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in western new york state. local police say he appears to have been stabbed in the neck. rusty's book, the se tannic verses has been banned in iran since 1988 and is considered a blasphemous by many muslims. a year after the book was published, aaron's late liter, ayatollah home, any issue they fought while calling for rusty's death. when i get the latest on this from our washington bureau chief, even as paul i in as what more do we know about this attack? now we just learned that he was just about to start giving his speech in western new york when someone like entered the stage and a stab to him and punched him a police and and 1st aid was immediately around. we don't have any further details

about the person who attacked someone, rusty a. there's obviously a lot of media attention there and it's, it's kind of really breaking news around the world as he is such a famous author and highly praised. and i mean, he's like, facing of these death threats, su, just mentioned since 30 years. and now to day it happened in his poll. thank you so much for that. we will of course, be keeping you updated on this breaking news story. meanwhile though, this monday marks the anniversary of these holly bonds, takeover of afghanistan in the chaotic final days before the fall of cobble, thousands fled the country, and many others fled their homes. and the u. n. a puts the number of officially registered african refugees world wide at 2600000 people, but warns at the real number is probably much higher. the vast majority of those people are now in pakistan,

and iran. germany is home to about 180000 african refugees. and within afghanistan itself, about 3500000 people are internally displaced. after decades of war, political repression and food shortages. 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. 3 of shame and abdul's children are in the us now. their remaining 2 daughters worked in television under the old government. now shame as says she fears they may be put in prison, but they and she misses the ones who made it out. hm. what do you think he had her well remembered and it's my deep desire to see my children and hug them. mom,

we're having a lot of problems here that the lady didn't l o. lydia which we will overcome these challenges. but i want to be with my children, so they are a local is almost what i are doing. some her son was a commando in the afghan army. now he's a refugee in the u. s. where he still trying to get his family cleared to come over and do some of the i guess what the new athens hula what'd 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 from obama. then again, 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 at the law, unfortunately, we have not yet experienced the speedy transfer of evacuees,

which is a breach of the pledges made the afghans by the united states and european nations office for a place where i could have thought. he acknowledged that it was. he 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. that's bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news at this hour. j wylie, the vice chairman of samsung electronics, has vowed to work hard for the national economy after he was pardoned by the south korean president unit. so eula lee has already served 18 months in jail for bribery, making the pardon largely symbolic protesters across brazil have marched in support of democracy amid fears that president shire bull sonata could reject the result of october selections. thousands gathered himself how to read to read manifesto in

defense of brazil, democratic institutions. wilson ira has repeatedly discredited the countries electoral system in the run up to the election. a suspected bank robber in rome has been forced to call the police for help. after the tone he was digging collapsed. the injured man was taken to a hospital after emergency services spent 8 hours taking him out. we have taken 3 other suspected gang members to custody for 3 years now and there are just a 100 days to go until the mens football world cup begins in katara. organizers have relentless criticism throughout the build up to the tournament owing to guitar, human rights record and to the environmental impact staging the competition is likely to have. but with question marks also surrounding guitar stance on l. g. b t q. communities. fever is under increasing pressure to clarify the situation. ever since the world cup was awarded to guitar, 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 can tories face arrest and abuse. the conversation has been sequestered almost entirely about that of visitors. today's the flag or visitors to be able to rent a hotel room together. that conversation should be what is actually happening. q following backlash from players as well as campaign is fee for has already made promises to intervene in some areas of good, sorry, human rights policy. the l g b t q community want 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

sci fi fi has been accused of missing an opportunity to pressure guitar. it's a positive reforms with human rights issues still rife. meanwhile, l g b t q football fans just wants to know whether it will be safe for them to visit during the competition gets into the excessive in the event. not only celebrate the sport extended the human beings that make this for when possible, with just 100 days to go until the tournament kicks off. fi fi is running out of time to provide the answers. and this weekend, the world's most famous annual meteor shower of perseids, but again, following the shooting stars are known for being colorful and for having bright, persistent tales. they can be spotted from anywhere in the world like here in bosnia, where it is one of the most popular celestial events for photographers. the meteor

shower will pick on saturday and the best time to catch it is right before dawn. you are watching the w news coming up next on d. w. news. asia threatened and tortured by the tale by afghans. women go under ground, but it's in you to press for their rights and 2 stories from across borders on the partition of india and pakistan. and more coming up with my colleague, garage energy, a short break, richardson, and for lynn for me, and the team, thanks much for watching. ah ah, with

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