our sponsor is on the ground reporting from across the continent, all the french stuff, the mazda u. t. don't lose africa every friday on d. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is the w news. why? but from berlin, the author, salman rushdie, is stopped on stage in new york, and i witnessed as a man rushed on stage and attacked him. rush days writing 1st made him a target in 1989 iran called for his death. following the publication of his book,

the satanic verses are coming up on the show. another attack on europe, the biggest nuclear power plants. moscow and cave accused each other of shelling. this operation nuclear facility as the un warns of a potential disaster. germany so spends its mission in wally, the defense ministry saying the molly and government has repeatedly with health clearance for military flights, brought by german forces. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. we begin 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 state's local police to say he appears to have been stabbed in the neck is tacker. his attacker has been taken into custody. now rushed . he's a bulk of

a satanic verses has been banned in iran since 1988. and his blasphemous by many muslims. a year after the book was published, iran late liter ayatollah khomeini issued a phosphor, calling for rusty's death. and i wanna get the latest on this story from our washington bureau chief in as paul. you know, what more can you tell us about this? well, the longer mister rushed, he had just come on stage and was seated in a chair. as a staff member introduced him and the assailant rushed to the stage and assaulted the author. or by now, we don't know anything about possible motifs. eye witnesses say, however, that there was only one attacker who was dressed in black. we also know that the man got arrested by the police and that medical staff and police were immediately there and brought mr. rusty to a nearby hospital by helicopter. but as for now,

we don't have any further details about his medical condition and tell us a bit more about salman rushdie and the history around the fought. why that was issued against him. well, are some in russia spend about 10 years under police protection, living and hiding actually after i had to lock hominy of iran, called for his execution in 1989 because of his novel, the satanic versus rich was considered or by many offensive to islam though the booker was banned in india summer, russia actually is come and a colleague is coming from was born and where he didn't, or where he wasn't able to, a gold bag for more than a decade or the 75 year old novelist is the son of a successful muslim business man, and he was brought up in england. and i think what is also important to mention here is that the iranian government announced in 1998,

that it would no longer seek to enforce the photo in as paul, thank you very much for that. this is a breaking news update and we'll be keeping you posted moving on now though to ukraine and the head of the un nuclear watchdog has warned of a grave crisis unfolding at those apparition nuclear power plants. and he was addressing an emergency session of the un security council as moscow and keith trade accusations of new shelling near the nuclear facility. as fighting in the area continues, the us is backing calls for a demilitarized safe zone around is parisha plants. ukraine says that russia has turned the site into a military base for launching attack stefan you. her is a lecturer on radiation protection at our w t. h. oxford university here in germany. i earlier asked him how concerned we should be about the shelling at this operation nuclear power plants. well, 1st of all, i mean, it's horrible. the war into creating the 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 watch dog has called this a grave our i mean, of course, i generally agree with that. being the target of war. beyond the design of the apartment, 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 a totally disruption of our supply due to a lot of emergency coding. and essentially,

a similar scenario demonstrates 2 important areas like containment by high explosives with then facilitating the reduced off regular rated 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 trying to essentially with it but its own power production and the key, the emergency generators both quite sensible to for the military, military impact and event sales. we are in a book station about okay, thank you very much stuff on you, her lecturer on radiation protection at r w trade and thanks for taking the time to speak with us. let's take

a look now at some of the other stories making news. at this hour, protesters across brazil have marched in support of democracy amid fears that president valuable sonata could reject the results of october's elections. thousands gathered in sao paolo to read manifestos in defense of brazil's democratic institutions. boston aro, has repeatedly discredited the countries electoral system in the run up to the election. the canyon electoral commission has admitted that vo, tallying and the presidential election is moving too slowly. 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 bhutto on germany has announced that 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 participate in international peacekeeping missions in the country, but only if it is supported by molly's military junta and to be done. earlier i spoke with german lawmaker alexander miller, who sits on the parliament 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 monte 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 can explain a bit more about that. germany's foreign minister bare bach has accused molly's military junta of torpedoing the german buddhist 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 a us 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. and are there 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 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 the south region more broadly? are the reaching is 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, then we would have migration waves 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 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 the military mission jobs 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 were, you know, they have turned towards russia and i wonder why they did it. because i cannot imagine that russia has better interests for the molly government. you know, the minnes 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, 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, ostrich becoming thrown out slightly. and this worries us indeed i thank you very

much, alexandra, mother and p for the german free democratic party. really appreciate your time. 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. the scientists have warned that scorching summers and dryer winters will likely become the new normal due to human induced global warming. europe's rivers are 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 yourselves or what 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 the 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, predicted 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. a 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 a warning that it is set to become impossible for most boats within days as europe's drought drags on. and before we go, let's get a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. the author's

salman rushdie has been attacked in new york as he was about to give a talk. alisa, the writer appeared to have been stopped in the neck. they have arrested a suspect. new york's governor said rusty is alive and has been transported to safety. and asia is kind of next with my colleague parish energy after a short break. and remember, if you want more news analysis, you can find that on our website, d, w dot com. or you can check us out on social media that's at did all the units. i'm fly, richardson in for them community. thank you so much for watching. with these places in europe for smashing in the records. stepped into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters discover some