an adventure full of hardships, dangers, and death. 3 years that would change the world forever. my jillions journey around the world. start september 7th on d. w. ah . this is d w. news live from berlin prize winning author salman rushdie stab intellectual hall in new york. the writer has lived for decades in fear after ron supreme leader of hold for his death as rushed. he lives in hospital investigators

look for a motive for the attack. for days after voting close, kenyans are still waiting for final result of its presidential election. if neither of the 2 contenders emergent with a majority, the voting will begin all over again. and polish, and german authorities suspect foul play as they worked to determine the cause of a mass fish die off in the auto group. ah, welcome to our viewers around the world on michael oak, author salman rushdie is a lie breathing through a ventilator after being stabbed on stage. as he was about to give a lecture in new york state. rusty had spent years in hiding and under police protection. after ronnie and lee is called for his execution over his 1988 novel,

the satanic verses, a 24 year old man has been taken into custody panic as a man rushes the stage and attacks salman rushdie as he's about to speak. the author fell to the ground, police say he was stabbed in the neck. his assailant was tackled and taken into custody. people who are on the stage with him immediately rushed to the attacker and people jumped on to this stage from the audience to the point where there are probably 20 people on stage coin the attacker off and keeping him contained. and there happened to be at least 4 physicians in the audience who were able to come up on stage and, and help the author was transported to hospital via helicopter. the attack happened as he was about to deliver an address about artists living in exile under threat of persecution in western new york. he is alive, he is

a then transport year lifted to safety. but here's an individual who is so spent decades. ah, speaking truth to power, someone who's been out there, i'm afraid, despite the threats that have followed him, his entire adult life, it seems, brushed, he was forced to spend more than a decade in hiding after the release of his 1988 novel, the satanic verses provoked protests by muslims in several countries and the supreme leader of iran called for his execution. the 75 year old author has long been a vocal critic of religious extremism and a champion of free speech. the motive for the attack is not yet known. for more on this story returned to our culture editor, scott roxborough, who gave us a reminder of exactly why salman rushdie is most controversial work. they satanic

verses caused such an almighty stir. i think a lot of people talk about sam versus without really knowing what it's about, because i think it's of a book more famous of than rand, especially now since it's, it's so many decades old. i'm the book itself is not on merely about religion or, or islam. it's a story of 2 indian ex pats living in london who miraculously survive a terrorist attack. and like a lot of rusty's work, it's a satire and it's, it's the repent, has to sort of magically realistic elements throughout the book. and what's caused because defense at the time and still does for some people ease our dream sequences which are in the book which are sort of re collins of the traditional story of the life of the prophet mohammed and many muslims. at the time i took great offense that saying it was an insult to their religion. and that is what sparked a protest against the book at the time and led to the idaho many arranged around

the spiritual leader, calling for a fat while religious edict calling for the the, for the death of the song. how was outrage over the book manifest back when it was released 30 years ago? yes, we will. didn't live through it. it's hard to imagine the outrage that came at the time. it initially actually started not in iran, but in india. refuse home country where the book was banned up, there were riots, books were burned, number of people were killed in riots at the time. and then the a protest spread around the muslim world and were, and of the country. the book was banned in many countries. and as a leading up to then, the religious edict by the supreme leader literally ran, calling for ashley to be killed. he's also by several assassination attempts. and people connected with the book were also attacked of japanese translator. the satanic verses was stabbed at the norwegian, publisher of the book was shot and nearly killed and rusty himself had to go into

hiding and be under police protection for nearly a decade. living under the pseudonym a. joseph and hon. publish later, a memoir in the words and based on his experiences at that time called joseph anton. and it was an unbelievable attack of many would say on freedom of speech and of course, transformed a rush to life. and his persona, i'm as, as a, as a sort of livid literary celebrity because you came not only a celebrated author, but a symbol of the defense of st. speech against extremism forms. that's our scot rocks bo, or many, many thanks scott, to east africa now. and canyons are facing a tasser of patients as vote, tallying in the presidential election drags into a 5th day early projections point to a tight race between opposition. re liter morrila or dinger. and deputy president william, brutal with

a history of disputed elections. kenya's voting commission is under pressure to declare a winner. national broadcasters of stop sharing provisional tallies after conflicting information caused confusion among the public. for more on this, i'm joined now by a d. w corresponded felix miranda, who is in nairobi. felix, we still have no official result and there are concerns about rigging in this election. what more can you tell us? good morning. so yes they are they one of the leading political parties, which is an affiliate of as im, your party yesterday give are pressed. it went saying that and then the members of parliament from their specific areas are actually rig doubt. and there was evidence of massive vertebrae body, so those are claims that are yet to be some substantiated. they said that they were following their necessary procedures and be that they had raised questions with

their inter room electoral boundaries commission on those specific of votes as again claims um it, it remains to be a case of what will happen when their entire room electoral boundaries commission actually responds to their claims because on the other hand, some of the observers, both from the european a union, ah, the africa union in the east africa community. all of them said that from the observation the elections were conducted in a free and fair manner. so with this particular glimpse coming up at this stage of, of what counting then it just remains our case of wait and see on what are the entire room electron and boundaries commission will respond to this particular claims. there has been a criticism over the slow pace of the official count. what are the initial tallies telling us about who could be kenya's next president?

so their media houses in kenya, the tally that they were doing, should that they to candidates? why head to head? i and other either time where are when they're telling was talked by they several media houses, then i kenya's have to know wait for the interim electoral boundaries commission to give their figures. and yesterday evening there i b. c was announcing some figures . there's not clear from china as yet on what the a, b, c announcing, but um, with their figures that already they're probably cars from their public portal or the i, b, c, vit, to leading content as that is, are william rudolph cannot ones are end re loading or vimeo, they seem to be neck to neck and 8 if any one of them will when it's may, a very small my gym, or they could even go for a tie and that will take kenya to iran, love in the next 30 days. okay. that so d, w, correspond, and felix miranda in nairobi many, many thanks,

felix. let's take a look now. some of the other stories making news at this. our former u. s. president. donald trump is under investigation for potentially violating the espionage act. according to a warrant, unsealed by a judge, the warrant shows the f. b. i removed 11 sets of classified documents from trumps, florida home, in a read on monday. some marked as top secret. a gunman has killed 11 people and wounded 6 others in montenegro central city of setting you state television reports that the attacker fired at people on the street at random after a family dispute. the gunman was shot dead by police after 10 stand off that wounded one officer. the british defense ministry says rushes black sea fleet has been significantly degraded after a string of explosions walked

a russian operated airfield in crimea. earlier this week, the ministry said russia last 8 combat jets in the blast. moscow has so far tried to downplay the incident. 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 in germany, water levels in the rhine of drop so low that some cargo ships using the river are moving with a fraction of their normal loads to river on the other side of germany now on the border with poland. authorities are trying to establish why thousands of fish have died in the odo river. local authorities have warned residents and their pats and livestock to avoid contact with the river water. the exact cause of the mass fish die off remains unclear. german environmental groups are blaming

insufficient water conservation measures and are calling it an ecological disaster . d w report it aaron tilting is at the oda river next to the german polish border. aaron, a river full of dead fish. it's hard to imagine and yet one can't imagine. it's probably not very pleasant. no, definitely not. i've been talking to locals here over the last 2 days, and they've been telling me that for weeks now, they've been pulling tons of dead fish from the river right here. and initially, all indications were that this had something to do with climate change with the low water levels or the extreme heat ways. we've been grappling with here in germany. but now it does seem that some type of industrial accident on the polish side of the bar border further up river may actually be the culprit. now we know the polish authorities detected some type of chemical spill in the river, actually as late as july, but unfortunately, they never communicated that information on to the german side. instead,

they warned their own citizens to avoid the water and avoid eating fish from the river. now so far they been rather tight lipped as to exactly what that chemical substance could be. but we do know that they fired to ministers over their slow response to the detection, and they've also opened a criminal investigation as part of their attempt to figure out what the actual source of this chemical pollution could be. i'm thinking about the local community, what impact is, is having on their lives. well, that really is a remains to be seen. we don't actually know what this chemical could be. now on this side of the river, environmental protection groups say they have detected some type of organic solvent in the water that shouldn't be there. and also higher levels of mercury. and that could have some serious long term effects on the health, both of the river and the populations around it. now, mercury is of course, an industrial on waste product. it has a habit of unsettling in the major organs is carcinogenic, and it can basically make food producing river on edible can also make it very

dangerous for animals and livestock to get involved in anything to do with the water as well. so on the environmental protection groups we've spoken to thus far have said that cleaning up this type of waste can take years if not decades. and that can have a major impact on, on the local economy. we've already seen tourism having to be revoked in we've also seen any type of activities to fish in the river. also having to be restricted until the environmental protection groups actually know what's going on with the water and the health of the water. it could really make it difficult for the people in, in, around this river. and on top of that it could take years or decades to clean this up. and what we're actually talking about there is basically the environment just continuing to take that pollution up north up into the baltic sea. and of course, that's a major fishery region for on northern and central europe. and so we could be seen knock on effects from this pollution for years if not decades to come met said t w's. aaron tilton at the oto river. many thanks. eric football. now,

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