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neither of the 2 contenders emerges with a majority, the voting will begin all over again. ah, i'm michael ok. welcome. author salman rushdie is alive, but breathing through a ventilator after being stabbed on stage as he was about to give a lecture in new york state. rushed. he had spent years in hiding and under police protection after iranian leaders called for his execution over his 1988 novel. they see tannic versus a 24 year old man has been taken into custody panic as a man rushes the stage and attacks at salman rushdie as he's about to speak. the author fell to the ground. police said he was stabbed in the neck. his assailant was tackled and taken into custody. people are on the stage with him.

oh, immediately rushed to the attacker. and people jumped on to the 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 for 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 transported air 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, we earlier turned to our culture editor scott walker, who gave us a reminder of why exactly salman rushdie is most controversial, were the 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 a book more famous of than rad, especially now, since it's, it's a 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 very pent 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 are 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 liter. calling for a fat while religious edict calling for the that for the death of the song. how was outrage over the book manifest back when it was released 30 years ago? yes, a legal 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. 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 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 said also by several assassination attempts, and people connected with the book were also attacked of japanese translator of the satanic verses was stabbed to death. the norwegian, publisher of the book was shot and nearly killed and rushed himself, had to go into hiding and be under police protection for nearly a decade. living under the pseudonym a joseph and hon. published later, a memoir in the words and based on his experiences at that time called joseph anton. it was an unbelievable attack of many would say on freedom of speech and of course transformed a rusty's life. and his persona, i'm as, as a,

as a sort of living literary celebrity because you came not only a celebrated author, but a symbol of the defense of street speech, against extremism of all forms. that's our scot, rocks, beau, or many, many. thank scott. and again, the motive for that a attack not yet clear. canyons are facing a task of patience as vote tallying. and the presidential election drags into a 5th day early projections point to a tight race between opposition leader regular again a dinger and deputy prime, a deputy president, i should say. william, brutal with a history of disputed elections. kenya's voting commission is under pressured to declare a winner. for more on this, i am joined by d. w. corresponded felix marina, who is in nairobi. phillips, there's no official result yet, and lots of criticism about the slow count. what more can you tell us at this point?

good morning. so they're independent electoral and boundaries commission chair, pass on. yes, that day in a press conference actually blamed it on the potty agents are presenting the different parties a saying that they were delaying the process with the verification. so what is going on either national italian center is verification off of the woods that walk of cust head and counted or they are pulling centers and now the white shows committed to the national are telling center. so the physical forms are being verified by their different party ids. and so that's now the final tally. couldn't be updated in form or in their form by the national air pass on who will now use that. and the updated results to announced their election results. so he, he blamed it on their political parties, political party events, that they were derailing the process and he asked them to help them foster this process so that kenyans consult banks being anxious and know who their next leader

will be. felix have been or concerns about hacking attempts on the voting systems. what do you know about that? so they say the c u for their independent alex are all in boundaries commission. hussein marzano was seen yesterday again in a press conference said that between thursday evening and friday, mid day, there had been about 200 attempts to hock the i, b, c. c. them. and for obvious reasons. in the past we've had cases where paul, so i rigged. and actually yesterday one of their secretary general is to one of the main political parties. actually the ruling political party jubilee said that they were rec, doting their in their mount can their region and they, they see your for a b, c said that part of the things that were being done to try and re guar to just infiltrate this is them and derail their electoral process. but he said they had put in the

necessary security misses. and the necessary checks and balances to ensure that nobody was able to access the system. but from there, or from their server itself to their tally and every single beats about their electronic system, that nobody would be able to access that. so yes, i be said they have set their necessary security measures. but those attempts are there and there are $200.00 as that. yes. that did me d. ok. that's a d. w. correspond in felix marina. in nairobi. many thanks. in europe is in the grip of its most extreme drought in decades. record breaking heat waves linked to climate change of dried up rivers across the continent. and sent water reserves plummeting to historic lows in germany, water levels in the rhine drops so low that some cargo ships using the river are moving with a quarter of their normal load. desolate,

dry and desperate for rainfall. this is the current state of the river, right in western germany. normally, the water level of the rhine here in cologne is about 3 meters. at the moment, it's just 85 centimeters. at other points along the river, the waters already below 40 centimeters. this boat restaurant is supposed to float, but the low water level means it's currently on a lean your from the tourist us. of course we're hoping that it rains in switzerland and in southern parts of germany. then we'll get the water that we need to be a boat restaurants again and floats as usual. women. still, guests are happy to come and see the unusual view as if as i stand the water level of the run, certainly wearing at the moment compared to its usual level. my son's death. flo so hot, it's muggy voices or i'm very worried about the drought in the low water. i can see the shipping is suffering fish a suffering, and the environment is suffering with dozens of fairies transport tourists and

commuters across the rhine. but nicholas teal service could grind to a halt in a matter of days. he's already thinking about long term solutions. re remnants of iron will have to adapt, adapt the ships accordingly, and if necessary, we'll have to use new ships that have a lower draft. but there will be solutions, the rhine could be deepened, for example, that's already under debate because everybody's for big freight ships. however, the economic consequences could be more extreme. the ryan is used to transport masses of industrial raw materials including coal. but many bodies have been loaded at just one cause a capacity to keep them higher in the water, which means dividing up cargo among more boats. just full years after a historic drought in the region, the low water levels are also running home, the impacts of climate change. knocking out faithful often after the drought in 2018, we asked ourselves whether this was a great outlier,

whether this would only occur once every 200 years. now we have this situation again, 4 years later, in a similar form. it seems that these conditions will occur more frequently and future bender in control if it goes through, argued that many people, he a fear that water levels will sink even further in the coming week, which could lead to even more disruption of traffic here on the rhine weather forecast point to some potential rain, but that won't ease the situation overnight. earlier i spoke to andrea to ratty, a scientist at the european drought observatory. i asked him if it's possible things could yet get even worse. a good morning of my looking. got this shorter my forecast though, we see that the finally some rain will come on next week. but by looking at the system forecast the for the next 3 months, that is the low risk of dryer than usual low conditions. so it's

a bit early to say, but clearly that is still some risk. so what happens on the ground is at the mercy of what comes from the sky. it's an overused phrase, i suppose. but do the current conditions represent the new normal for europeans? not yet the, but they might become the new, the new norma. if we do nothing in terms of the effect legally mitigating, go climate change through cutting the emission a basically these kinds of events will become the norm already in there was projections, a meat sensory, meaning that the whole, the car almost every year. i'm curious, is this drought as historically bad as it actually seems? or we just paying closer attention to all things, climate change it seems to be actually the was the on our, on drag or the we yet not completely. and i just because the event is still on

going up, but by looking got there was the event, the one of 2018 i was there was looking back at the a list of the last, the 5 under d r d. c. at event the same street, it will be much worse than the 2018 in terms of special extent in terms of persistence. as well as in terms of both the scientists are mostly proud, pragmatist as you well know, but are you worried by what you see around you? of course i am because you see dean bucks off, but these are these events of what he really worrying me a lot. these are the odd the occurrence of concurrent events all around the world because the draw to europe is only one draw. we shouldn't forget the, the other one's foot east, affecting east africa, is incredible. you might, you might that in crisis, deborah,

or the persistent the mcdonald drought in south america, affecting girl up lot of base in so that this is what really worrying me the most well noted climate scientists, andrea to read in many thanks. thank you. that's all from me for now. doc film is up next, bella luce and short dream of freedom. as always, you can find more news on our website at d, w dot com a michael. okay, for me in the entire news team here. thanks for watching the w imagine how many push a now in the world climate change, very half the story. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much was can really get we still have time to act. i'm.