ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live in from berlin tonight, the author who has lived for decades under an iranian death threat has been stabbed in the us. solomon rushed was attacked on stage in new york state to day. is there a link to rusty's book, satanic verses which offended iran's supreme leader so much that he ordered, rush a be killed. also coming up tonight,

germany of suspending its peacekeeping mission in the west african country. molly. it comes after molly repeatedly denied german military plains, access to its aerospace and a un watchdog more of a potential disaster after another attack on europe's biggest nuclear power plant. moscow in heave or accusing each other of shelling the zephyrs area, nuclear facility. ah, i bring golf, it's good to have you with this as we in this friday we start with some breaking news. the author, salman rushdie, has been attacked on stage as he was about to give a lecture in the us in the state of new york. police there say that he appears to have been stabbed in the next. is attacker apprehended by police?

no rusty's book from 98, the satanic verses has been banned in iran since it was published. it's considered blasphemous by many muslims. a year after the book was published the wrongs supreme leader at the time, the ayatollah khomeini issued a fatwas calling for the death of salman rushdie. hundreds of people were in the audience when rusty was attacked. one of them was charles 7 or here's what he saw. they, i sat down and then with within 15 seconds someone jumped up to the stage and began to beat him. and then i think the assailant had him on the floor ah, with ins. second, security had run up to the stage to help him, and then people began to exit and within 3 minutes, there was an announcement that every one should evacuate the outside empty theatre

. i can tell you that the, the pounding that he took on that stage as reverberated, i, ah, amongst the people who were there in attendance amongst this really quaint to up, ah, you know, community ah, and is now reverberating unfortunately throughout the country. and, you know, throughout the world that was, i witnessed there. here's what the new york governor said after the attack. well, it is heartbreaking to learn that within the last hour, a prominent in vidual salman rushdie was attacked on a stage in western york just before he was about to give a speech he is alive, he is a then transport near lifted to safety. but here's an individual who has spent decades ah, speaking truth to power. someone who's been out there unafraid. despite the threats that have followed him his entire adult life, it seems. and it happened at a site that is a place of very familiar to me, a very tranquil,

rural community known as chautauqua to talk with institution, where the most preeminent speaker is in thought, leaders and politicians justices. and everyone come together to have the free expression of thought. so this is a place ideal, ideally suited for him to be able to speak. and that's what he was attempting to do . just in the last hour before he was attacked, w washington bureau chief in his post. you told me earlier that it is still not clear why your rusty was attack of i know her, we don't know anything about possible motives. brand eyewitnesses say that there was only one attacker was dressed in black or we also know that the man got arrested by the police and that medical staff and the police were called to the and fi theater right away and that mister rushed the gun. allister to a nearby hospital and is apparently undergoing surgery right now. we don't have any

further information about his health condition or what we do know is that he was able to walk off stage with him. and we know that because we, when we heard the report ourselves in the name salman rushdie around the world, people were shocked on the news that he had been stabbed to talk to me about the reaction or in the united states to the news. right. so some raised the question why and he has been living without police protection since 2002. no, despite the fact that there still was a bounty on his life. so i think there is a, well, a question or there is solidarity online with him and his family here in the united states. and as you just said, brand around the world, the governor of new york, we just heard him also of the british prime minister boris johnson, put out a statement a. so there is

a lot of solidarity going on all across the globe. and i think it's also important to mention that as for now, at least i haven't seen any statement. 1 applauding this is po with the latest in washington illnesses. always thank you. let's take a look down some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world. for you as president donald trump is under investigation for potentially violating the espionage act. that is, according to the search warrant that was unsealed to date by a us judge. that warrant shows that the f b, i removed classified documents from trumps, florida estate, in a raid on monday. some of those documents marked as top secret protesters across brazil had marched in support of democracy, amid fears that president shire boston aro, could reject the result of october's presidential election. thousands gathered in sale palo to read manifestos in defense of brazil's democratic institutions. also

narrow has repeatedly discredited the countries electoral system in the run up to the election. a gunman has killed at least 10 people and wounded 6 others in montenegro central city of continue. now state television reports that the attacker fired at people on the street at random after a family dispute. the gun was shot dead by police after a tense stand off that wounded one officer. the canyon electoral commissioner has admitted that vote county in the presidential election in that country is moving much too slowly. kenyans have had to wait for a 4th day to find out who their next president will be. early projections point to a tight race between long time opposition leader, while dingum and deputy president william and or germany has announced that it is suspending his participation in the you and military mission. to molly,

the move comes after mowing authorities repeatedly denied german forces over flight rides, preventing true rotations. the german government. now saying that it is willing to participate in international peacekeeping missions in the country, but only if it gets the support that it needs from. molly's military won't. ah, the movement gary willow has been jumping up opposition to the un peacekeepers in molly, calling them to withdraw from the country pressures. those have been coming from the military junta in july, you shorted the spokes person of the un peacekeeping mission to leave molly. and this has repeatedly denied overflight rights. this time to an aircraft carrying german troops, england is home to get some background. the flight was part of a troop rotation. approximately 140 women and men who were supposed to take the flight could not be transferred to molly long and approximately 110 others could

not be transferred out of molly. molly, also li cadden. the un peacekeeping mission was established in 2013, to support molly in its fight against islam. es militants, germany sat without flight, clarence, it would have to stop its participation until further notice it and you look in who we are very pleased with germany's decision and why it proves that germany respects molly's suffer energy. and we consider the un troops to be an occupation force in front of it to keep us your secure serum on. i think germany's move to suspend its mission will create a security vacuum in our country. i don't think our army is in a position to replace all the troops that will be leaving to suit him in germany's leaving the door open to continuing the mission. but the tensions with marley's military leadership are clear when foreign minister and elaine

a bare bulk visited in april. she criticized the hunter for cooperating with the russian wagner mercenary group which has been accused of committing atrocities against civilians. i made an urgent appeal explaining why it's so important not to cooperate with russian contractors also for the protection of the civilian population in the middle of this not to been here for get germany has one of the biggest peacekeeping forces in molly numbering around 1000 soldiers, but with the government and bound co deepening its ties to russia in its fight against she had isn't. the future of germany's involvement now hangs in the balance . for earlier we spoke with german lawmaker alexander mueller, who sits on the parliament's defense committee. he says that he is concerned that molly's military junta is pulling away from partners such as france and germany and moving closer to russia. they have turned towards russia and i wonder why they did

it, because i cannot imagine that ross 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 on humanity. so i wonder what are the interest of the marty government to switch partners because they throughout the french and we are seeing now that also other western partners are becoming thrown out slightly. and this worries us, indeed the head of the winds and nuclear watchdog has warned of a great crisis unfolding at the separation nuclear power plant in ukraine. he addressed an emergency session of the un security council to day at the same time, moscow and keith were trading accusations of new shelling near the nuclear plant. as fighting in the area continues, the u. s. is now backing calls for

a demilitarized safe zone around the nuclear power plant. grain says that russia have turned the site into a military base for launching missile attacks. as the war rages on in ukraine, russian forces continue to fight and die in battle every day. while the fight for supremacy on the battlefield, it continues. it seems that the fight for the hearts and minds of the russian people has already been one support for the war remains high. so to do 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 the wasn't i was thinking about it, change anything from this 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 wait for the outcome of 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 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 erosion. we ask as, who is to blame for the fatalities on the destruction of federal people? port 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. oh, we finished good breath obese when they, when a fresh and steep 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 julia institute,

i'm an ethnic ukrainian and then the other for me it was of course, a shock. the corners 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, if you're still at the back, 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 you. i'm just going 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 keep quiet, wait things out to keep our heads down. it goes up like many musk events prefer to shrink things off and put up, but the status quo. well this weekend, the world's most famous annual meteor shower the prissy. it begins falling,

shooting stars are known for being colorful and for having bright, persistent trails. they can be spotted from anywhere in the world. like, here you see right there in bosnia where it is, one of the most popular celestial events for photographers while the meteor shower will peak on saturday. the best time to watch it is right before dawn because we know it's always darkest before the dawn. business news as of next ah 50 years ago the international gathering of peace and cooperation becomes the scene of a horrible tragedy. arab terrace armed with sub machine guns, went to the headquarters of the israeli team.