oh, eye witnesses experienced the terrible events and this, the world should not forget the wall shuttle to $972.00 massacre starts september, 3rd on d. w. with this is d. w. news coming to from berlin. dozens dead after a fire rip through a church in egypt. the building was packed with worshippers, celebrating the coptic christian mass authorities are blaming and electrical fault

. also coming up, i've got to stand marks a year since the tele vans return to power women's lives are again severely restricted. as the anniversary passed, security forces broke up a protest demanding more freedom. plus, pakistan celebrates 75 years since the end of british colonial rule bonds. the ceremonies mask, a harrowing story of partition from india will hear from some of those who live through it. ah, a marion evanston. it's good to have you with us. more than 40 people have been killed in a fire at a church in egypt. the building was packed with thousands of worshippers attending morning mass and quickly filled with smoke. the fire broke out in the city of jesus, near the capital cairo authorities are blaming and electrical fault

or for more on this story. we're john join now by here, i mean, she's a journalist faced in cairo, the hero, 41 people killed at this comp. take church fire, why were there so many casualties? it's important to know the geography of the space that we're dealing with. services are relatively small building with low ventilation and it's a very populated area. and we know that it took quite a long time for emergency services to arrive. we have eye witnesses saying it took over an hour for ambulances to arrive a little less than an hour for fire services, even though the fire engine headquarters is near by 5 minutes away. actually, someone said, and so that's on one side. emergency services are very slow. people are saying that it was an impromptu rescue effort. the residents of the neighborhood were rushing

upstairs to carry children out of the fire. people were jumping out of windows to escape the fire and officials say that most, that all the casualties at this point they ruled to be adjudication. and now what can you tell us about the victims and so forth there. i witness reports that say that a lot of people being rushed out were children. we don't have an exact number of like confirmed reports of how many of the victims were children, but we do know that a little over a doesn't remain in hospitals in the neighborhood. and we're waiting on confirmed reports of how many of the casualties injured or children. we have been hearing the authorities say that an electrical fault was to blame for this blaze. to people believe this explanation at this point. yes sir. there is no information

just to say that this was arson. um, it's not, it's not an unfair question just because of had one churches that when a similar similar accidents happen, the local community does cast out upon suspicions off all my questions that there was, this was an accident. this doesn't seem to be the case here. what we know happened, according to the official sources on local reports, is that the electricity was out in the area and they were working with the generator. and then one deal tricity came back because they hadn't shut down the mean power line on the generator overloaded. and then the 1st thing to blow is basically the air conditioner, which is why the interior ministry saying that they're blaming it on an air conditioner. and that's been confirmed by with over a bridge as well. ah. and unfortunately, accidents like that, like this. i accents like this one are common in cairo and in egypt, especially in dusty populated neighborhoods where the buildings are a little older and infrastructure is inadequate. emergency services are slow. so

this point, yes, that is the information we have. you mentioned the slow reaction of emergency services and that of as a result, many of the people died of smoke inhalation. how are people in egypt reacting to this tragedy? right now we're hearing that a lot of frustration from the local community from the neighborhood that this could have been avoided. the scale of tragedy could have been avoided. at the same time, when something like this happens, the fear that grips the called the community especially is that usually takes a very long time for churches to get renovated to get reconstructed. there are bureaucratic hurdles and very long delays, even though there is the legal infrastructure in place to, to speed things up. but this time we just got an announcement from the presidency that the armed forces engineering authority have been tasked with renovating and reconstructing the churches. so hopefully that won't be the case this time. that

was been here, i mean journalist and kyra reporting for us. thank you so very much. 6 a year on from the taliban returned to power in afghanistan, women and girls are largely borrowed from public life. security forces broke up a rare women's rally in the capital cobbled. they fire and warning shots and assaulted protesters marching past the education ministry. the women were demanding food and freedom to work and travel. well under the taliban attending even peaceful protest is risky and organizing. one is even more dangerous, and that's why it many women have gone underground to rally support. i don't think it was a dangerous display of solidarity cattle. food leads emerge. calling for freedom, for justice, for women to be able to work that was before. now, cattle must work behind closed doors. i am here. she is covertly organizing

a protest action to mark the anniversary of the taliban takeover van as adam, she says, this is the only way to get anything done. site actually law was collect after our faces were recognized. they now know us. our photos were released and we gave interviews to the tv channels it on about on the tv channels, ada interviews and programs, ladonna. and now we are being chased. and this is a serious problem. so what that, that kind of thing. she's paid a physical price for her activism here. she displays bruises and cuts from scuffles at protests. one time she says she fled her own home when the taliban were about to arrest her. and broke her leg, jumping over the wall to escape. she also says she suffered a miscarriage during a demonstration. ah, many he showed their faces at protests last year were later detained. summer

suspected to still be in prison. others who were released fled to neighboring pakistan. the next woman requested not to have her name mentioned when they treated as very badly they insulted us and told us to give away our organization. and they asked us which party we worked for and accused us of working for the resistance front. and they took away our phones for those who stayed behind afghans then has become an increasingly dangerous place . and that has taken its toll. we have spent a very difficult and painful time. we have suffered more pain psychologically and physically. i'm currently not doing well mentally. and my family members are also not doing well mentally. meanwhile, the protests continue. just not outdoors. these women have gathered to send

a message to the world, calling for education, freedom, and access to work. the only safe place to do it is behind these walls. we spoke earlier to journalists, allie latifah, in campbell, who told us more today people, you have to understand that it's been a year now and people, regardless of how the taller bond try and log men and women in you know, p people, those people have to go back to their normal lives as much as possible. so there are more people out on the street. there are more women dressing the way that they use to under the republic, which is still in proper her job. you know, they are more men wearing jeans and t shirt and going out. and those who have some money, you know, are, are going out and trying to go on with their lives as much as possible. you know, it's not the same as it was a year ago where everyone where the streets were completely empty and people were

afraid to even step outside. and again, this is another example of the way that the people are trying to show the tall a bond that they will not be caged in as they were in the 97 journalist tv speaking earlier. all right, let's turn our attention now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world. prize winning author on the rusty has been taken off a ventilator and is able to speak after suffering severe injuries in a stabbing attack. friday, a 24 year old suspect has appeared in court, charged with attempted murder. rusty was attacked as he prepared to give a lecture in western europe, states, an explosion in a market and armine as capital yet, yvonne has killed at least one person. the bloss happened at a fireworks warehouse in his shopping area. at least 20 people were injured. rescue crews are still on the scene. and canyon deputy president william burrito has edge

to head in presidential elections. with almost half of the votes counted, rudo has more than 51 percent, while opposition leader, right, you would think is trailing at just over 48 percent earlier. right. police were called to the national vote counting center as tensions rise over the result. well, 2 more cargo ships carrying grain have failed from ukrainian ports in the black sea . 16 vessels have had safe passages, so far. grain is being loaded in the city of odessa bound for pm. it will be the 1st shipment of ukrainian corn to africa since war broke out. pakistan is marking 75 years of independence one day before india and the bloody partition imposed by the british as written and it is colonial rule in 1947. it's split the country into 2 states. some 12000000 people found themselves on the wrong side of a line, dividing the new nations by religion, hindus,

and seeks the newly created pockets and fled to india. and muslims headed in the opposite direction. as many as a 1000000 people were massacred in the sectarian violence that followed them in our next report we hear from those who witnessed the carnage. oh, i guess i was just going to be 40. so i had all those hurrying amenities of partition. he was ready, be sure loose. there was no this thing that he's a very what changes in my own change a loosening good. just some targets. then suddenly it started. this started dividing up. i might have, i thought i used to teach in a village in what is now the indian side. but allah,

he had come home on for the summer break. when all had rob you of santi altogether much better. milas broke out schools were closed indefinitely. how many? yes, look at it to her school, but look at it. got a lot of those bloodshed everywhere from countless dead bodies and injured people arriving to my city, which was on the new border. automatic, remember going there as a child to see what was happening? if any one day, only allan cur. he came to easily st. check dead. oh no, you go, because there is a danger lost your life is when we came to billy, we saw, oh shandon slain, jayden did. they was all john leslie, good, my father's business and gone and re we didn't have any money left just any. did you hurt as done you?

it prepared, i think felt other than the but as of august i don't even have gotten thumbnail if anyone speaks of that time, i can immediately conjure it in my mind. i don't know how much it's really difficult to talk about it for those of us who remember it in it on on. i'm emotional right now because i haven't spoken about that. diamond 75 years out to mom. i lost my uncle. i lost so many people do, do these partitioned east. i should when he said the dead dish did honey. each other why it has started. i see on my i beg pockets on programs and i love that language because i belong to god please. i love those good near me. the history of the world is full of stories of law, but was also nothing to so you can fight as when he was, as you like, nothing but meaningful decisions are only made at the negotiating table that hasn't

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