3 years that will change the world forever. but jillions journey around the world. start september 7th on d. w. ah ah, this is d w. news alive from berlin. dozens dead to offer a fire rips through church in egypt. worship is with celebrating the coptic christian mass when the blaze broke out. authorities are blaming and electrical folds. also coming up on locks a year since the taliban is returned to power. women's lives are again severely

restricted on the both the anniversary security forces break up a protest demanding more freedom and the ship carrying desperate they needed gray is ready to sail from the black sea. the brave commander will transport you cranes, 1st to famine relief cargo to africa since the start of the war. oh, lou, i'm all i was like a welcome to the program. or the 40 people have been killed and a fire as a coptic church in egypt. the building was packed with worshippers and quickly filled with smoke. many of those trapped inside jumped out of windows to escape authorities to say an electrical fold started the blaze in visa, near the capital, kyra, thousands of christians were attending sunday mass here. when the tragedy unfolded

the abu se same church is located in a densely populated neighbourhood, egypt, 2nd largest city, gazda. eye witnesses say the blaze blocked exits and trigger destin paid. many worshippers were trapped inside the style of baba, some people who threw themselves out of windows. so with this constant it where a man hid it, jumping from a window of and now we saw hospital with a broken back. i'll look a little more of that. all bottom before you, the full story building also housed a nursery with the doctor. there was a day care center on 2 floors, a church worker managed to rescue the kits downstairs. oh, he didn't know. there were more upstairs than the noise and yelling started to bubble up when we finally got upstairs. we found people, dan, give me a shout back of all over. not very terrible. i saw them bringing that people from the upper floor, dead from suffocation,

including children. we didn't know how to get to them. i know we can't even tell who sons or daughters they are. how can something like this happened? egypt sin tyria ministry says the blaze was caused by an electrical fault in an air conditioning unit. the prime minister and other officials visited the scene. they promised funds to help restore the building. and they visited survivors in hospital literally, in the coming i was, those was condition has stabilized, it will be the charged safety regulations are poorly enforced in egypt. and this is one of the worst fire tragedies in years earlier we off journalist, but here i mean, in cairo, whether the local community accepts the official explanation for the file. at this point. yes, there, there is no information just to say that this was arson. it's not,

it's not an unfair question just because all the time one church is that when a similar similar accidents happen, the local community does cast out upon suspicion off all my questions that there's, this is an accident. this doesn't seem to be the case here. what we know happened, according to those official sources on local reports, is that the electricity was out in the area and they were working with the generator. and then one day of tricity came back because they hadn't shut down that main power line on the generator overloaded. and then the 1st thing to low 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 oprah rates as well. and unfortunately, options like this one are common in cairo, and in egypt, especially in the populated neighborhoods where the buildings are a little older and infrastructure is inadequate. emergency services are slow 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 comp, 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 see things up. but this amp, 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 a urine from the taliban for turn to power in afghanistan, women and girls are largely barred from public life. on saturday, security forces broke up a rare women's rally in the capital cobble. they fired warning shorts and assaulted protest. this marching passed the education ministry. the women were demanding food and freedom to work and travel. dw correspondence under

appeared. osman is in cobble for us. sandra, you were a fat protest. tell us more about what you experienced yet was about 11 local time when the women assembled, it was about 3040 of them and they were marching in front of the road that runs past the ministry of education. there were already quite a few security forces in the area, so they let the women march and chant for about 500 meters, i would say. and then the scary moment came, a couple of taliban fighters started firing life rounds in the air to disperse this very small crowd of brave women. and now we all started running and seeking shelter because what goes down in the air at some point obviously also comes down. and then towards the end of this, quite a few of my colleagues got arrested, detained, held for about 10 hours. and it really took till the evening that they were

released and they were questioned and they were asked about who was behind this protest, who are the organizers they were asked to pass on phone numbers and what show what this clearly shows is that the taliban struggle with voice is off the centering. cobble, sandra, what are the women that you've been talking to in kabul, saying about the future in afghanistan? it really depends on who you're talking with yesterday. for instance, i spent the entire day with a young woman who feels like a prisoner schifflet's confined to her home. she used to be a student, a student of journalism. she used to be a working woman doing her status in even in classes and all of that is not possible anymore for her, for she really spends her days at home. i got the feeling that she is quite depressed and really she is experiencing dark days. that was the term that she used . and yesterday she also wrote a letter into my notebook. the letter was addressed to her own country and it was

a letter full of tears and you know, hopes that you might have had for her life are not there anymore. she clearly has the sense that under this regime she cannot continue the life that she wants to live. now if you travel to the countryside to areas where and people really experienced the brunt of war where they experienced nitrates, air strikes drones tracks. if you speak to women there in the more traditional and conservative areas here, people that have a strong sense of we are now more liberated because there is security and we are not targeted any more. the war is over and that it's really the prevailing sense in the countryside that more security means a little bit more freedom to them. although we have a regime here that is really having a tight grip on power. the telephone ceased control a year ago today. have they been able to run a function and government i mean,

they clearly have a firm grip on this country. and a lot of analysts say that this is probably the strongest in terms of force, the strongest government in the past 4 decades. but what you must keep in mind only is that we are experiencing here, country and crisis. afghanistan, as the country of 40000000 people and about half of them are in dire need of food 8 . so they need food distribution. and the taliban might know very well how to fight and when an insurgency but, but we see here on the ground is that they are really struggling to serve people in crisis mode. sandra peters, man, are correspondent in cobble. many thanks. now a ship carrying a grain for ethiopia has set off from ukraine. it's the 1st ukranian famine relief, cargo bound for africa. since the start of the war, 16 grain ships have had safe passage sofa, under

a dealer drawn up by the united nations, dw mathias burling. our reports from ukraine. loading 23000 tons of grain. this ship, the brave commander, arrived at the port of p. den 2 days ago, the car was destination is it fuel pier? the u ends. world food program ordered the shipment. the 1st humanitarian who died shipment leaving ukraine since the beginning of the war. we trust that this is just the beginning of many ships that will be leaving to provide hope and food to people across the globe. it has been 3 weeks since the great deal was closed, allowing ships that were stuck in the port since february to leave 16 ships that have been sitting in the ports have already left. now it's empty. ships coming in being stocked here and leaving the ports like this one the route goes through

a see that not only sees fighting but is also heavily mine ships have to follow a fixed road that both sides have agreed to the mine. however at the moment it is unclear how many owners are ready to send their ships on this route. much depends on the success of missions like the brave commander we bring him, i'm sure the much a lot of water to we understand the scheme is working and freight prices have started falling a little. but of course, insurance remains expensive. after all, the ships that are sent into ukrainian ports are still sailing into a war zone. for the goal is to have 5 ships

a day coming in and out of ukrainian ports. but that remains some way off. let's take a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world. a delegation of us lawmakers has arrived in taiwan amid heightened tensions with china following the visits of how speak a nancy pelosi beijing used the self governing island as a province of the mainland and considered visits by the united states as undermining the one china policy authorities in western mexico have arrested a 167 members of a criminal gang. during the operation over $200.00 weapons and $25.00 vehicles was seized. local media reported that those detained were part of a gang fighting for territorial control and the state of michal can and 5 people have been killed at least 15 injured in the ecuadorian city of why kill and

incident government officials have blamed on organized crime. echoes interior minister said gangs we are now attacking with explosives. the city has seen a recent wave of crime fuel by drug trafficking. an explosion as markets in armenia has killed at least one person. dozens more were injured in the blast at a fireworks depot in the capital yerevan. cellphone video posted to social media shows thick smoke rising over the market. followed by a loud explosion, sending people running through the streets of the popular open air shopping area. ah, the blast ripped through a fireworks warehouse, causing nearby buildings to crumble. it happened in the afternoon during peak shopping hours. witnesses say the pyrotechnics continued to explode as rescue workers and civilians searched the debris for survivors. while it was an

explosion of fireworks, the smoke. everything shattered in a 2nd. there are warehouses and other stores. i don't know. it was just fireworks fireworks fire when everything happened and a minute people could not even get out of the shots with fireworks. can be heard going off in the background as rescue workers carry out, survivors found trapped under the debris. authority say the cause of the blast, and the number of victims is still unclear. fire fighters worked for several hours to extinguish the blaze. the plume of smoke visible kilometers away. and a quick reminder of the top story with following for you at this hour. more than 40 people have been killed in a fire as

a caustic church in egypt. the building in visa, near the capital cairo, was packed with worshippers with horse, he say, an electrical fold started the fire. you're watching the debris news live from but and off next on the channel world stories takes us to ukraine, spain, taiwan, and germany. stay tuned for that and remember as always, you can find much more news on the website d, w dot com. i'm all out. sika, thanks for watching. take away. ah, if you ever have to cover up a murder, the best way is to make it look like an accident raring to read you've never read a book like this. literature list.