ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. prize winning author of salman rushdie finds for his life, an attacker stab the writer in new york. some muslims see his writing is blasphemous, and the ron's former leader called for his death, also on the show still no result and kenya's presidential election 4 days after a vote enclosed a run off will be held. if neither of the 2 main contenders get a clear wind and authority suspect pollution killed thousands of fish in a river on the border between germany and poland.

ah, a mariner evans dean. thanks for joining me. the renowned author, salman rushdie, is in critical condition in the hospital. an attacker stabbed the writer several times at an event in new york state. rusty spent years in hiding and under police protection after iran's former supreme leader, ayatollah khomeini, called for his death. some muslims see his writing as blasphemous. a 24 year old suspect, his facing charges of assault and attempted murder. salman rushdie was flown to hospital for urgent surgery following the attack. is agent says he was stabbed in the liver at nerves, severed in his arm, and will likely lose an eye. witnesses say rusty's attacker stabbed him 10 to 15 times before members,

the audience grabbed him and restrained him. medical doctors attending the event gave rusty, life saving 1st aid. the audience had been waiting for a lecture by the author to begin when a man appeared from the back of the stage until the person then thrown readily a person entered. and we thought he was arranging his microphone or something like that. it happened so fast, so it took what am i know is here. then we entered from the right hand side and started stabbing him several times when the 1st one was here by the neck, blood started coming out. salman rushdie got up, i'm wrong for his life for you. but blue police have identified his attacker and believe he was working alone. here we have been working to identify the star suspect, who was involved in the act in the attack at the chautauqua institution earlier today, or the suspect has been identified as haiti. matar age 24, from fair view, new jersey. worst he spent more than

a decade in hiding after the release of his 1988 novel, the satanic verses provoked violent protests and several muslim countries. a year later, the former supreme leader of iran issued a decree calling for his execution. the 75 year old author has long been a vocal critic of religious extremism and a champion of free speech. you open it for more joy now by the dable you correspondence to me. so as canada who is in washington d. c. hello to you. see me so want, can you tell us about the extent of salman rushdie his injuries and his condition at this point in time? marina, we know these still hospitalized in pennsylvania. that's where he was air lifted to after he was attacked. that's where he's being treated at night of the hospital nor rusty's agent have provided an update on his condition. so what we know is what we heard friday and that is that salman rushdie is not doing very well. we learned as

we heard that report, that he might lose an eye that the nerves in his arm have been severed and that his liver also sustained serious injury. and he did undergo surgery after he arrived at that hospital in erie, pennsylvania on friday. and there have been so many eye witness reports pouring in . we saw some of them in that report. there. i at that institute or the institution rather in chautauqua, in upstate new york. there were scenes of chaos and confusion. and the attacker was essentially a, according to onlookers, unimpeded in his rush onto the stage. and some people even thought that it was a stunt because it happened so quickly. and then they realized what was happening. there was a new york state trooper president who was able to apprehend the attacker after the stabbing, but people were able to intervene and pull the attacker away from, from where she. but apparently, as we've heard a he caused serious injury. i do want to add marianna, that rusty has been living essentially under

a death sentence since 1989. but in recent years he has been emerging more and more into the public. a sphere more and more to the spotlight. he been relaxing. some of the security protocols according to reports that we've seen here, shown up at a vance, been more present. and indeed, he was on stage to speak at that institution on friday when this attack happened was to me also, as we've mentioned, the suspect is 24 a. he has now face charges of assault and attempted murder. has there been any more information released about a possible motive? not a lot. marianna authorities are still working to establish a definitive motive. we know that his name is how the matar, as we heard in the report of that he is from fair view, new jersey. we also know that he was born in the us to lebanese parents. it is early days, but we have also heard from the preliminary law enforcement investigations that his social media accounts showed that he was sympathetic to iran's islamic

revolutionary guard to corps and to shia extremism. i should say that those are just the 1st reports that we've seen. they haven't established hard and fast links to the revolutionary guard core. and again, we know that he was arrested on the scene and charged with attempted murder. 2 days you said officially, officials or rather certainly hoping to glean more information on his background in the coming days. that was d. w, as to me, that was gone to reporting for us from washington d. c. c. me. thank you so much. let's turn our attention to kenya now, where a vote counting in the presidential and parliamentary election has dragged into a 5th dame. the opposition leader railroad dingum, and the deputy president william rudo are running neck and neck with a history of disputed elections. the electoral commission is now under pressure to declare a winner soon. well, just how much longer will canyon voters have to wait to find out who is there next

president? i put that question to d. w correspondent, felix marina, in a ruby. what has in can now we'll have to wait for at least 2 more days because the constitutional deadline for they enter a independent electoral boundaries commission is 7 days. so people voted on tuesday . the latest that the results can be out is tuesday, because what have been happening? results have been they've been an going up verification process. i the bull muscles, kenya, where that's been national italian center. oh, of the independent electoral boundaries commission and the chair pass on to day in a, in a statement that was, you should to press he actually asked i the clots who are they are verifying the results through has been this been so that kenyans gun. and finally gets to know who is their elected president, a following that just concluded presidential election. that was the w corresponded

felix, my ring of reporting earlier from nairobi. all right, let's get a check now. some of the other stories making news this, our 3 people were killed when a van carrying migrants crashed on the check austrian border. lisa, the driver accelerated to avoid border controls around 20 people were inside the vehicle, including children, 7 our series, the injured the driver is under arrest. train drivers across the u. k. have walked off the job again. demanding pay raises to offset inflation. large parts of the network are at a standstill. britain has seen a series of strikes, overpaid, and more walk outs are scheduled later this month. the taliban have broken up a rare women's rally and the afghan capital cobbled militants fired warning shots and assaulted the women were marching past the education ministry. protesters were demanding food, freedom,

and permission to work. women and girls are largely banned from public life under taliban rule. or thousands of dead it's ish, have washed up along the banks of the order river on the border between germany and poland. officials have found high levels of mercury and salt in water samples. they're now trying to find out what went wrong. dead fish are filling the shores of the older tons are washing up in the river, which helps form german is border with poland. outdoor it is suspect that they were killed by chemical pollution. johan is gib berman is an environmentalist who lives in this area has been documenting the crisis from its beginning to help my mom, i've never seen so many dead fish in my life down the t or not mr. live. he says,

the whole ecosystem of the order has been affected. you. oh, i know most of it will hear a shellfish has been separated from its show most. but both are still lying here are and it smells very strongly of rotting fish, probably isn't in fusions vision. torn the odors, tots and check republic, and runs more than 800 kilometers to the baltic sea. an industrial accident installed in poland is the suspect that source of the pollution people are being warned not to make contact with the water. dose living in this area are angry and afraid. fiano and we have a water utility down there. no one knows what the drinking water is like now. it's a complete disaster. i'm thinking of my grandchildren of ourselves, and we won't be up to fish here any more young in dolton crispen. i'm angry. i'm shocked. the river odorous part of our home owned and now it's ruined. it was probably for the next few years. that just makes me incredibly sandwich. local

municipalities say they weren't warned by german federal or polish i'll tories. year in from yet. it's been on. we've been informed by anglers and burgess that dead fish a floating on the order. prime obvious here as i the from the official side that we haven't received any information beforehand. it's to put it mildly depressing, or even incomprehensible. koya heighten our tories have started to remove the dead fish to prevent other animals from eating them. the war in the region is that recovery of the river could take years t w's. aaron tilton was at the scene earlier and has more details. now i'm standing here on the banks of the order between germany on this side in poland on that side of the river. now for weeks now, locals here have been pulling massive amounts of dead fish from the waters and what people are calling the largest fish die off that the region has seen in decades now

initially, people thought it had something to do with climate change, with a hot dry summer the germany is currently experiencing, but now it appears that investigators are zeroing in on some type of industrial action accident rather on the polish side of the river. now we know polish authorities detected some type of chemical spills, some type of substance in the water that shouldn't be there back in july, but for some reason, they failed to notify the german government. now that's actually little lot of consternation on this side because a polish population was warned of the dangers that swimming in the river and being around the river could pose, but the germans weren't notified. now, poland has officially opened a criminal investigate ation into the matter and actually sacked several ministers for not actually responding quickly enough to this potential chemical spill. but that hasn't prevented this massive fished i off that we've been seen in the last several weeks or i had since forest news now and,

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