ah mm oh this is dw news live from berlin, the palestinian president sparks outrage in germany, accusing israel of committing 50 holocausts against whose people and german chancellor are left shots, faces heavy criticism for failing to immediately respond to the comments also on the program. can you as president elect to william rudo says if there are legal

challenges to his victory, he will follow the rule of law for members of the electoral commission object to the results of the u. s. face agency, nasa prepares to launch the most powerful rocket it has ever built. a massive craft is part of a multi $1000000000.00 effort to send human back to the mood. ah, i'm nicole really welcome to the show german chancellor. olaf shots is facing criticism for his slow reaction to remarks made by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas during a visit to berlin. speaking at a press conference with the german chancellor on tuesday evening, abbas that israel had committed, quote, 50 holocausts against palestinians, sparking an outpouring of anger here in germany. the chancellor later said he was

disgusted by the comments, but critics say he was too slow to respond. it was this moment at the very end of the press conference that caused outreach. oh, come out to me. since 1947 for to come back to the present day can feel is real. hasn't hurried out. 50 massacre in melody for the for me in 50 palestinian village of the a lot from flora 50 massacres. 50 holocaust hill. and until to day, every day, every day our people get killed by the israeli army. this about germany is needing tablo bait cost as a holocaust scandal at the chancellor's office. but it wasn't only abbas comment that sparked outraged. it was also this reaction from olaf choice. the press conference was concluded as planned with no visible attempt specialists to contradict are bad. he should have told him to leave tweeted,

conservative opposition, lead african bitmaps. you shouldn't go into a press conference was, was the of us without having saw before about publications of this kind which should be expected. and then you know that you have to react because it's berlin, it's a german chancellor. and as a german chancellor emmett, growing pressure shows responded with his own tweet for us germans in particular, any relative i zation of the singularity of the holocaust is intolerable and unacceptable. during wednesdays press conference showed spokesperson took the blame for the lack of immediate reaction and made it clear there would be consequences that wouldn't cause of either. the german chancellor expects the palestinian president to recognize the singularity of the holocaust without any qualification

his gaff yesterday. costs a dark shadow over german. his relationship with the palestinian authority. mackwood abbas tone down his message and a new statement that his holocaust remarks have already strained to german palestinian relations. he asked steadily of political correspondence. i am in young about the reactions this controversial press conference has spurred here will this whole incident has sparked a storm of reaction with even a for instance, the year normally reticent form a chance langler merkel who hasn't said much should see less thought left off his last year or condemning the remarks of the palestinian president. but it's not just about his remarks, as you say. it's also about the year slow reaction from my chancellor schultz. and some people have called, that are unprofessional. and there is this story that the,

the year the chancellor's meteor advisor effectively brought the press conference to an end before the chancellor. or was about to say something. am, well, you know, that's fair enough. but i think the chancellor of germany ought to be a responsible for his own action, sir. and the leader of the opposition christian democrat party is called incomprehensible. he says that abbot should not just have been contradicted, he should have been told to leave the chancery rather than being offered the handshake, that shows immediately thereafter did offer him. and there have been some negative comments as well, from jewish leaders here and other opposition. politicians, i think, you know, you're, you're seeing a lot of after martha lot of broken porcelain as they say on the floor. and there's a lot of repair work for the german government to do. they have some and the palestinian representative in berlin today and told him of the government's

position on this. you're talking about broken porcelain. how do you think this will affect german palestinian relations? while some a politicians are saying that it's time to look again at the development funding for the palestinian authority, more than a 1000000000 euros has been promised from germany, making it one of the biggest donors. if not the biggest, some people are saying are, you know, our boss is a supports terrorism. he's also holocaust denial. he's not the put sort of person who should be in receipt of these kind of funds. it's fair to say in that press conference about was saying he hoped the just the shows would soon visit ramallah in the west bank. well, the chancellor's press, spokesman, today was saying, it's very hard to imagine that happening any time in the foreseeable future. he w political correspondence. i mean young thanks so much. the chair of kenya's

electoral commission has issued a statement regarding the legality of the disputed presidential election result. but full of triple cut. he says he is confident of the results and of his actions in announcing that william brutal had in fact one, the president elect himself says he's ready to move forward following his victory, but runner, ab rayleigh. dinger says he will challenge the results legality. 4 of the country, 7 electoral commissioners have said they cannot in good faith support the outcome an earlier dw felix marina, and they robi explained the chairman's comments. good evening. so let me just give a background of what happened saw on tuesday just before on monday, just before the presidential election result was announced in kenya. for commissioners stormed out of the national, attending center and went to a different location and give a press conference. seeing that they were not, and they were not in agreement with a result that was about to be led by the chairman. so it turns out today from

a statement that has been released by the i b. c chairperson or for legible, cutty, that the commissioners wanted that they result altered so that there would be no clear winner in joined one. then secondly, he also said that according to their kennel constitution, but there was no demand for any effort him to console to their commissioners in telling canyons who they had rightfully voted for. so he said, if any one was grieved, then they can actually go to court, but it was tending to see that just their justice. that day the commissioners were accusing the chairman that he was not a democratic boss on. he did not give them space and to discuss it over the results . and he turns out today that the commissioners actually wanted the results altered . so this is just playing out and we will see what our, what more will get to know in the, in the days to come. meanwhile, the controversial president elect would very much like to hit the ground running

what we've been hearing from him. so deputy. 6 i'm sorry, president elect to william root or just getting used to him now being president elect william router today met with all the elected members of parliament, governors, and sanitize everyone who has been elected under his volition. and he told the members that it was time to go, it was time to deliver for canyons. he said that there were more pressing needs as compared to other other things that probably as they were being pushed into. and he said he was ready for court processes, but he also c devices, the members of parliament and everybody within his team needed to walk to alleviate their cost of leave, to lower the cost of living for kiddos to ensure that young people go to jobs. and to ensure that the promises that they made in their care cons, that team was delivered to the country as soon as possible, helix. marina in nairobi. thanks so much. let's get you up to speed now

on some of the other stories making headlines around the world. today. officials in afghanistan say there are multiple casualties following a powerful explosion at a mosque and cobble the blast head during evening. prayers and a northern neighbourhood of the capitol, local media say the a mom is among the dead veteran us politician. liz cheney has lost the republican primary in wyoming to trump endorsed lawyer harriet hagerman. cheney has been an outspoken critic of the former president and was one of only 10 republicans to vote for his impeachment. russian and u. s. officials say a space walk outside the international space station was ended early on wednesday. moscow's ground control called off the walk after an electrical issue was discovered in one of the 2 cosmonaut space suits. both returned to the lab's airlocks safely. the u. s. based agency,

nasa has begun preparations to launch the most powerful rocket it has ever built. the long delayed space launch system as part of a multi $1000000000.00 effort to return humans to the moon by 2023. and as practice or future mission to mars, be enormous, 98 meter tall rocket there, you can see it is scheduled to undergo its 1st unmanned tests at the end of this month. almost 50 years after the last mission to the moon. so one took us along with that question to keep calling who used to work at nasa and is now the editor of space ref dot com. well, look, i'm 67. i remember those missions, and i remember growing up as a boy. they said here, we've only flown one person in space. let's go to the movie 9 years, get it. and then we'll go to mars in 1981. well, it never happened. so for some of us older folks we, it's okay,

it's about time. but for more than half of the people on this planet, they'd never seen anybody walking in the world. so for them, it's their zip. it never happened before. so it's going to be kind of interesting from several different perspectives. when we do put people back on the moon and what's different this time around, what have we learned from past missions and other players, of course also joining the game. well, the other players is important because part of the launch system that on meeting the autonomous mission that will go up is a european stage. that is why prime to capsule with the crew is and are on board actually for this flight. if there's no humans of, or there's 3 dummies, volkhart, some sorts of medical equipment to or from europe. so we'll be learning a lot more about how the spacecraft works on this test flight. but then on the subsequent flights with web crews in about a year. so we'll learn more about how they survive. a lot of it is remembering what we did back 50 years ago. what with 50 years of experience since then on how to design says them. so it'll be nostalgic,

but i'll also again brand new. at the same time, nasa is clearly very excited about this. i can tell you until and what's so special about the faith launch system. well, it's interesting it's, it's a saying in english is something new old, something new, something tried something true. the engines in the bottom were used to fly on actually blue with spatial for number of years. the rockets in the side are derived from spatial a hardware. the tank is something like a spatial and on top of an apollo capsule shaped thing. so it's, again, looks retro, but it's all smashed together and it's got the old nasa logo in the new nasa logo on it. so it's, it's, it's bringing everything together. but again, we've got a half a century war experience under our belts. so that's what's exciting about this is we're bringing it all together and the landing system will actually be a space ex rocker. so something brand new on top of this will be part of the whole new expedition that since the moon. all right, so after the test flight,

how long until we'll have boots on the moon again? well, you know, i keep hazard, you guess like, everybody else gets the way it, i would say within the next several years. and i'm not really had to go back there, not exactly sure, because each flight depends on the one before that. and this hardware has had some delays. so i would say within the next several years, we'll see humans walking in the moon again. keep calling editor of spacecraft dot com always a pleasure. thank you. and also means wonderful in spanish and to paddle borders in argentina. had a truly wonderful hour off the coast of montana, mosul. they say they saw about a dozen whales that's around at them and swam right up to them. being as close as they were. one of the men was knocked off his board as a tail brushed by him. but paddle borders, valentin vialva and vehicle shoals say the unexpected experience was exciting and

or every minute more. and i can't say i don't believe them is a reminder of the top story we're falling for you. at the sour chancellor, olaf schoultz has said he is disgusted by comments from palestinian leader mahmoud abbas during a visit to berlin. mister abbas accused israel, of committing quote 50 holocausts against his people. my colleagues, stephen parents is up next went the latest headlines from the world of business. make sure to stay tuned for that article really for me and the entire team. it's very company. people in trucks injured when trying to free the city center more and more refugees are being turned away. families played on the tax in syria to these critical illness with.