experienced the terrible events and this, the world should not forget the low shuttle, the $972.00 olympic massacre. start september 3rd on d. w. with this is d w. news line from berlin. the palestinian president sparked outrage in germany accusing israel of committing 50 holocaust against his people. in german chancellor, all of sholtes faces heavy criticism for failing to immediately respond to the commons. also coming up of the program, kenya's president elect to william root tow,

says that if there are legal challenges to his victory, he will follow the rule of law for members of the like told commission object to the way the results were handled. and the u. s. face agency, nasa prepares to launch the most powerful rocket it has ever built. the massive craft is part of a multi $1000000000.00 effort to send humans back to the moon. ah, i'm here in tilton. welcome to the program. german chancellor. all of schultz is facing criticism for his slow reaction to the remarks made by the palestinian president mahmoud abbas during a visit to berlin. speaking a press conference with the german chancellor on tuesday evening, abbas said israel had committed quote 50 holocausts against palestinians, sparking in 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 long tomorrow in since 1947 for taken back to the present day. and feel israel has had carried out 50 massacre in mazda for the, for me, in 50 palestinian village of the elephant dora 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 is 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 our bass. he should have told him to leave

tweeted conservative opposite lead africa to rec mats. you shouldn't go into a press conference visit 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 would emit, 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. there wasn't cancer of either. the german chancellor expects the palestinian president to recognize the singularity of the holocaust without any qualification

his gaff yesterday caused sir dark shadow over germany's relationship with the palestinian authority. mackwood abbas turned down his message in a new statement, but as holocaust remarks have already strained german palestinian relations. earlier we asked e w political correspondence, simon young about the outrage spurred by the palestinian leaders remarks and his host reaction. yeah, well this whole incident has sparked a storm of reaction with even for instance, the normally reticent former chancellor angle america who hasn't said much since he left or left off his last year condemning the remarks of the palestinian president . but it's not just about his remarks, as you say. it's also about the slow reaction from chancellor schulte and some people have called that unprofessional. and there is the story that the

chancellor's meteor adviser effectively brought the press conference to an end before the chancellor was about to say something. well, you know, that's fair enough, but i think the chancellor of germany ought to be responsible for his own actions. the leader of the opposition christian democrat, party is called incomprehensible. he says that ab as should not just have been contradicted, he should have been told to leave the chance story. rather than being offered the handshake that showed survey deadly thereafter, did offer him. and there have been some negative comments as well, from jewish leaders here and other opposition politicians. i think you're, you're seeing a lot of aftermath, a 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. that was d, w simon young. they're reporting for us here in berlin. the chair of kenya's electoral commission as issued a statement regarding the legality of the disputed presidential election results. fuller, triple khaki says that he is confident of the results and of his actions in announcing that will be rooted at one. the president elect himself said he's ready to move forward following his victory runner up, reloading it says he will challenge the results legality or the countries. 7 electoral commissioners have said that they cannot in good faith support the outcome data use, felix marina in nairobi explained earlier the chairman's comments to us. let me just give a background of what happened. so on tuesday, just be on monday, just before the presidential election result was announced in kenya, for commissioners stormed out of the national, telling center and went to

a different location and give a press conference thing that they were not as they were not in agreement with their results that was about to be read 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 jones 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 aggrieved, then they can actually go to court. but it was standing 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 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. that was date of his felix barrenca nairobi. several people with an injured at least 3 of them seriously. after they jumped from a train that had drawn close to a forest fire in eastern spain, the driver had stopped the train and was preparing to reverse away from the flames . when panic passengers tried to escape, cellphone video captures the moment inside the train, which prompted some panic passengers to break the window and jump. the train was traveling north from valencia when this while fire brought it to a halt. the driver asked passengers to stay on board while she reversed away from the danger. not every one listen. some ran back to the station. others returned to the train with severe burdens. weep, emergency services were dispatched to the train, stopped in cordiality, eastern spain to treat the shaken and the injured people in the small community

also helped out with that i had that with the whole said, we have to get out of here no matter what, because it's a diesel train me nearly humble out of the eyes. she alhashan yoga, ambulances came and severely burned. woman was evacuated to hospital by a helicopter woodward, but landed on the local football pitch. and i have, i don't, what out of the tank lose her you those my the injured women? bad condition. the passengers miscarriage. i waddled. we gave them water and did everything we could for them. then a bus came and took them to safety down the road. a bit 2 people had to be evacuated by helicopter, while others, including a young girl of about 10, were transported tenure by hospitals, valencia the latest region to experience severe forest fires caused by spain's prolonged eat way. at least 3 firefighters were injured this week badly. the blaze and eastern spain, which is for some $1000.00 residence to flee their homes. investigation is underway

to determine why the train was permitted to travel into an area with an active wildfire stain with climate change. we now turn to the war valley, which is the unesco world heritage site and attracts visitors from all over the world. but this year, even its flat bottom barges cant ferry tourists around thanks to low water levels. river flow is about 40 cubic meters. less than a 20th of average annual levels de la river and france is famous for the historic castles dotted along its banks. it's also famously a shallow river, but with water levels at mere record lows. even the locals, a shocked m. m m y m, at least it makes me sad in my place because it makes me sad because i grew up in the village. i music and i had never seen the river like this toy dog. we used to go to the water holes over there with the children and fish, because the water wasn't too hot, a lunatic,

but i should let no one. yep. now there's just algy and frogs, lafferty sal good decline. the reduction in water has been disastrous from much of the areas ecosystem. many islands i now connected to the shore, cutting off various waterways. fish have been robbed of the space they need to survive and reduced to living and pawns. scientists say the current low water level is something of a wider wake up call. it changed no. during the 100 that the low water level this year is quite exceptional. it's due to a major deficit in rainfall that began last winter g. it's led to many small tributaries of the lower to dry up on jessie roland dickory, more with france currently facing severe droughts and several regions in torrential rain and flooding. in others. many experts are calling for a rethink when it comes to the use of essential natural resources.

a climate change is under way and it's undeniable, and it must encourage us to reflect on our rules for sharing water resources. we must understand that we're all affected with extreme weather events only set to increase in the future. the issue is not going away any time soon. but turn out to some other stories making headlines around the world. officials in afghanistan say there are multiple casualties following a powerful explosion at a mosque and cobble the blast hit during evening. prayers in the northern neighbourhood of the capital. local media say that the mom is among the dead. thousands of protesters descended on the street and when it was aires to demand government relief for a cost of living crisis. argentina is battling one of the world's highest annual inflation rates of a staggering 70 percent. in nearly half of its population live in poverty,

demonstrators are calling for wayne shikes and more social spending. human remains have been discovered in a lake near las vegas as a result of receding water levels. authority say this is the 5th set of skeletal remains found in the lake mead reservoir, which is shrinking due to an unprecedented drought in the western united states. russian and u. s. officials say a space walk outside the international space station was ended early on wednesday. moscow ground control called off to walk after an electrical issue was discovered in one of the 2 cars, but not space suits. both returned to the laboratories, air lock safely. the u. s. space agency nasa has begun preparations to launch the most powerful rocket it has ever built. the long delayed space launch system is part of a multi $1000000000.00 effort to return humans to the moon by 2023. as part of the art in his program. and his practice for future missions to mars the enormous 98

meter tall rocket is scheduled to undergo its 1st on men test. at the end of the month. and almost 50 years after the last mission to the moon, what took us so long? we put that cast question rather to keith cowan, 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 that here we've only flown one person in space. let's go to the movie 9 years, get it. i never got a 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 see anybody walking in the world. so for them, it's as if it never happened before. so it's going to be kind of interesting from several different perspectives when we do put people back in the m also means wonderful in spanish and to paddle borders and argentina at

a wonderful hour off the coast of monte her money here more. so they say that about a dozen whale surrounded 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 him paddle borges valentine vol. alba and diego, shall it say that the unexpected experience was exciting and worth every minute. you know, all right, you're up to date, my colleagues will lease up next, the latest headlines from the world of business. and remember, there's much more of a website that's d, w dot com a .