ah ah ah ah ah, business did of the news alive from berlin prize winning all past so mon rusty stopped in a lecture hall in new york. the writer has lived here for decades after you round supreme leader called for his that asked rusty, lies severely injured in hospital investigators are looking into the life of his alleged attack up forties of the voting. closed canyons are still

waiting for final results of its presidential election if night all the to contend as images with the majority voting will begin all over again. and drought dried up one of europe's most important waterways. low water levels means some ryan river ship. sure operating at just a quarter of their normal capacity. ah . a michael ok, welcome. author shellman rushed. he is alive, but breathing through a ventilator aft over his 1988 novel. does he panic versus 24 year old man has been taken into custody and motive as yet to be confirmed. solomon rusty was taken to hospital for urgent surgery following the attack. his agent says he's been stabbed in the liver,

had nerve severed in his arm and will likely lose an eye. witnesses say, rushed, his attacker stabbed him 10 to 15 times before members of the audience grabbed him and restrained him. several medical doctors attending the event gave rusty, life saving 1st aid. the audience had been waiting for an interview with salman rushdie when a man appeared from the back of the stage. frontal representative, suddenly a person a man entered and we thought he was arranging his microphone or something like that . it happened so fast. he entered from the left hand side from the right hand side and started stabbing him several times. but the 1st one was here by the neck and blood started coming out. salman rushdie got up and ran for his life. momentos at my door. he for your fighter blue yellow police have identified his attacker and believe he was working alone here. but we have been working to identify the star suspect, who was involved in that, in the attack at the chautauqua institution earlier today,

or the suspect has been identified as haiti matter. age 24. from fair view, new jersey rushed. he spent more than a decade in hiding after the release of his 1988 novel, the satanic verses provoked violent uproar in several muslim countries. in 1989, the supreme leader of iran issued a decree calling for his execution. for 75 year old author has long been a vocal critic of religious extremism, and a champion of free speech are cultivated ask auth roxborough, joins me now. hello scott, we still don't have a motive for this attack, but many one die if it's related to that see tonic versus what was so controversial about the book. yes, and he thinks it is difficult for lot people to imagine the sort of uproar that this book caused people who didn't live through it. i'm really i think a lot of the critics of the book and love people praised is on rusty. actually

haven't read the novel itself and the book itself is not primarily about religion or about um islam. it's primarily a story of 2 indian ex pats living in london who miraculously survivor, a terrorist attack. and, and the, the story like so much of rusty's work is magically realistic. it's sort of a sort of fantastic a tale. i'm within that rushed. he has a certain number of dream sequences and those are what caused the controversy. because in some of these dream sequences, he imagines a fictional retelling of the story of the prophet muhammad, that a number of people found offensive, or even blasphemous. and that's what led to the of the book being banned in some of countries with large muslim populations. and even to the extreme case of iran's religious liter, calling for rusty to be killed because of what he had written. i was gonna ask you what it was like when the book was released that's years ago by you've given us

a bit of that. but also after more than a decade, rusty came out of hiding in 2001. what had he been up to before this attack? well, he came out of hiding after almost 10 years under police security, living in secrecy under a pseudonym, a use of anton. and he continued to work and continued to, to write books. but he wasn't a public figure in any way up after that, that period of british government reduced the security threat against him. they said it wasn't as serious. the reigning government had come out and said that they didn't want to see rusty killed though. the fat war against him, the, the religious eat at calling from to killed was never left it and there was a bounty, a put on his head valued at over $3000000.00. i'm but a rusty said he, one to re enter society. he went to become a public figure again, and he really did. he became a public figure of, of the support of freedom of speech. he spoke out for in support a freedom of speech everywhere. um, and also an op, as up as an opposition to extremism, religious extreme, or,

or other forms of extremism. i'm and that sort of became his, his role living as a public figure in new york or where, where he lives until the moment of this attack. yeah, scott roxborough many thanks. kenyans are facing a test of patients as vote tally in in the presidential election racks into 5th fe, any projections, points to a tides raised between a position leader rylon with nga and the deputy presidents. william rudo. what a history of the students at elections canyon's vote is okay. i suppose in commission is on the pressure to declare a winner. from on this, i'm joined by our correspondence, either commodity in nairobi, hello, eat it. so there's no official results yet. and people are criticizing the slow count. what's the latest? well, the very latest is that party officials from presidential hopeful railroad digger

issued a press conference not too long ago. and they all like declared themselves the winners. and this is what is shocking for us here in kenya. they're running meats to that and to the top candidates, like a said, and i want to put here briefly that this people in a ruby, she's talking to her. the officials should distribute themselves to various places where drink in order to get the god i will we because we have one naturally the making canyons. very anxious. i spoke to some of them on the streets and this is what they had to say. we haven't gone back because people are nervous. in fact, when you look at the road, people are not using that car so much because they're afraid they'll be burned guy, joe, more than one. i normally leave work at 5, but today i left to 11. my employer keeps looking at the time because they don't want be staying late. they're afraid something might happen on the way home. yeah. like if everything's at a standstill. business is stalled anxieties rising. we don't understand what the

officials are planning. so either it seems people are anxious via the people. sorry it it, sorry. and if you go on. okay, so we clearly had that tab. people are shortly anxiously waiting for their results, but it isn't all that's going on when you think or for sure, results will be out your guess is show you as good as my what we do know for a fact is that the independent electoral boundaries commission, this is the body charge taking field the election 7 days. so now all that up until tuesday next week? yes, on this, but he has a deadline and he's doing his best to make sure that those results are announced. one time, i mean he's bound by the constitution, so that's what we're expecting. it could be sooner, but based on how things are moving right now, probably not. ok, the respondents either the money and i will be good. thank you.

let's the got some more stories making headlines around the world for my us presidents, donald trump is on the investigation for potentially violating the espionage act according to we weren't on sued by judge the wire and shows the i b. i removed 11 sets of classified documents from from florida home, you know, read on monday, some marked as top secret. the taliban violently broke up the women's rally in the african capital couple. militants fired one in shots and assaulted women who marched in front of cities. education, ministry, and for food work and food on women and girls are largely bound from public life on the telephone. a government has killed 11 people and wound at 6 others in once in a ghost central city of senior states. the division reports that the attack are fired, a people on the street at random. i'll tell you family disputes. the gun man was

shot dead by police to be tens. stand off that one officer mexico has deployed. it really cheated. the board us the, to your joy as the following. a bloody gang battle. what the gun, i see that the prison right, involving rival tails spread to the city streets where at least 9 people were gunned down by alleged gang members. environmental groups in germany, a calling it's an ecological disaster. thousands of fish have washed up dead along the river, which runs along germany's eastern border and then flows into poland, lifeless, and sick fish have been present in the order since the end of july, over a distance of several 100 kilometers. officials think it's likely they have been poisoned. you know, the reporter aaron telson joins me now from frankfurt. oda, authorities think it's

a key. so poisoning, but others are blaming climate change. do we know for certain why all these fish have died? okay, one standing i'm sorry im standing here on the banks of the odor in between germany and poland and for weeks now. and people who've been living around the river happened pulling tons of dead fish from the waters. now. initially, people thought that it was actually caused by the extreme heat and drought that germany's been facing the last several weeks. but now it seems that investigators are a little bit closer to figuring out exactly what is behind is massive fish die on a die off. basically, it looks like there's been some type of release of some type of caustic or on poisonous chemical from a factory in poland. now we know that polish authorities actually detected the leak sometime back in july, but for some reason, they didn't notify german authorities in europe, find their own population that they should avoid the waters in and around the odor . but they didn't notify the german government whatsoever. and i,

the polish government has opened a criminal investigation into the matter. they've also actually sacked, run to ministers for their slow response to actually informing the german government and investigating the matter, but so far on this really led to some consternation on this side of the river. basically, a people i've talked to on the streets are saying that they don't understand why pole has been so tight lipped about this potential chemical spill, of course, because it has extreme ramifications for people living here in and around the odor . yeah. and people live in the ab, i have been told to stay away from the water. what impact is this having on the local community? well, a massive one specifically because they don't actually know what this contamination if his is indeed a contamination actually is. i mean there have been samples taken from the water and they've indicated that there are some the presence of some unusual salt, maybe some mercury, and also some type of organic solvent. but environmental groups and local activists don't really want to say what this is yet. because they're waiting for more

extensive chemical analysis for the local population, that means people to stay outside of the water. people, people with pets, have to keep their pets away from the water. and of course, the fish that are present in the water can no longer be consumed. now of course, it's having a huge impact on tourism in the region. and also local authorities say that this is the type of damage that could take years if not decades to clean up. so we're looking at a major impact both on the lives and the livelihoods of people living around the river for the foreseeable future. and what's worse of the solution is also being carried down river towards the baltic sea. and of course, that is a major fishery hub from northern and central europe. so we could be looking at a, a mass contamination that will really take, oh, could we could be living with for the next years of not decades. did abuse iran. tilton are the old i river. thank you. so football now in the abundance league doth mont came from behind to beads, fryeburg and friday nights, action. i fry both the lead and that that to fit minutes. when michael gregory's at

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