venture full of hardships, dangers, death, 3 years and that will change the world for ever. but jillions journey around the world. sports september 7th on d. w. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. germany asked israel for forgiveness for its handling of the $972.00 munich olympics massacre. president frank walter shy. myra acknowledges germany's responsibility for failing to protect israeli athletes after games. 11th israelis died following on,

attacked by palestinian militants. also coming up on the show, the u. k is getting a new prime minister lives trust is elected by members, the governing conservative party to replace boris strong set at the israeli army concludes. there is a high possibility that one of its soldiers killed a veteran american palestinian journalist, sharina block. i was shot dead earlier this year, covering ms. bailey army rate in be occupied west bank. ah. hello, i am clare richardson of our warm welcome to the show. 50 years after the deadly terror attacks at the munich olympics, german president frank vault. a shy meyer has officially asked israel forgiveness for germany's handling of events. in 1972, 11 israeli t members died after palestinian militant storms. their compound in gillem picked

village, and a commemoration ceremony attended by family members of the victims. shine meyer admitted germany had failed to protect israeli athletes. the speakers yield starts over this head of state of this country at once and in the name of the federal republic of germany. forget i ask for forgiveness, forgiven within mainland and for forgiveness for the lack of protection of the israeli athletes at the time of the olympic games in munich on friday. and for the lack of clarification afterwards. just for the fact that what happened could happen because soon as it is my duty policeman on my need to acknowledge our german responsibility on for don't. so the canon here and now and for the future on food. so groomed movie today lead to the relatives feeling that their pain is being taken seriously. wagner norman, now that they feel that we are serious about our responsibilities, this one's answer is it owns of on board. so let's take

a closer look at how those tragic events unfolded in munich, 50 years ago. munich, 1972. mm. by hosting the summer olympics, germany wanted to show the world that it was a cheerful, colorful, cosmopolitan country. and that it had overcome the shadows of it's not the past, but then a shock, palestinian militants took control of the israeli athletes residence in the olympic village. they shot to his railways dead and took 9 hostage, hoping to free prisoners in israel and germany. they demanded a flight to cairo with their hostages on board as well. the german authorities appeared to go along with it. helicopters took off from the olympic village and flew towards an air force base outside the city. hans fergus was a german soldier,

stationed in the air bases towered that night to come and canal from from the hill . the helicopters came up from behind. if it is over that building to boise, the rwandan that he turned around here and landed here. and here than here and here you landed, felker was just working the night shift in the tower. the long no one had told him what was unfolding outside his window claw. dishwasher usual. i was here. oh, and i looked down from this position until the shooting started to so and then she said, i don't. i got down under that dollar and a rescue attempt on the airfield was a fiasco. the police lost control of the situation and the militants set off hand grenades. nixon told his is the next day that his they said that the games would continue. no one understood his whole as well. the recognition was still then the t

rex. all 9 hostages were dead. a german policeman and 5 of the militants died as well. nationally. the continuation of the games felt like a cruel joke to the relatives of the dead that he knocked actually vanquished spitzer and ilana romano both lost their husbands. cindy, give them that 2 fresh and i can work a bit of that room is stuff. it was i there was a funeral service at 10 a and it was a real good but you use 18 basil to book it on the way there. i left and right and you should be aware. the athletes were training on the she made them know as if 11 members of the olympic family also law had not just been murdered. it was her effect. holly beach, alan got they on the law. after the shocking events victims relatives fought

for access to files and to compensation from german authorities. so lim, law, know the can yet. a shak, who shall my feelings has only gotten stronger over the years. michelle, if someone says time meals on wounds, i tell them your time heels, nothing much. it's as painful as if it happened yesterday, the car at lunch and shown wilson shot when he knew that it's been 50 years now that it's just shocking miss old one. a plaque in unix olympic village commemorates the victims of the killings. a memorial to horrors that for many have still not faded. and our reporter at benjamin, our group was after memorial ceremony near munich today, i asked him what stood out for him. was a very emotional ceremony,

so we had strong words by german presidents gunfighter stein, may finally apologize as the had of state for the failures that we saw during this olympic games during this terror attacks. not only by not being able to protect the israeli delegation, but also by the failures by german police. poorly prepared german police that had this botched rescue attempt that went to prepare for that. and after that all of the israeli athletes were killed. so we had that it was really, really strong. we also had israel's president, is a catholic and i'm q spits the widow of one of the israeli athletes. she said that many of ask it says now closure for her, but she said that the closure will never come. there's always will be a hole in her heart, and that it was important for them to continue pressuring the german government to finally find an agreement on not only compensation, but also on see exactly to find out with

a commission. what happened on that day and to finally take responsibility as a state of germany. and did we hear more from the victims relative? how did they react to the apology? there were really moved by it and we could see some of them saying that that still needs to be more done. let's remember that they even threatened to boycott this commemorative a ceremony today in 1st and felt what were on 30 kilometers away from munich, where this abbeys were. this m, tara at sac, found a terrible ending when all of the athletes were killed. so they will, several of them here. they threatened to buy, caught if there was no agreement between the german government and the family members. and they asked israel's president, i sarcastic who is in germany to do the same. so it was basically a last minute agreement found between the german government and the athletes. and they would have been a massive fiasco for germany. 50 years after this terror attack, to duffy's benjamin avarice, group reporting from the memorial ceremony near munich. now, after

a bitter contest liz trance has been elected leader of britain's conservative party and will become the you case next prime minister announcement that trust will be taking over follows 2 months of campaigning, sparked by the resignation of prime minister boris johnson. the british economy is set to be the new prime minister is most pressing tasks with the u. k. facing a cost of living process and spiraling energy charges. i asked dw correspondent barbara diesel in london about the biggest challenge is less trustful, faced. their calling is here in omni crisis because pretty much the whole economy is touched by. what's happening here in britain. it's a rampant inflation. it's an exploding gas price crisis, or the energy of the public health for is, is close to find no breakdown. there strikes already underway for our med train drivers and more strikes and public service from as public servants demanding

higher salaries because of the inflation that's already hit 10 percent are threatened. this is going to be the big winter of discontent. the worst that britain as seen in decades, and this trust really has her hands full and a mountain to climb of. she wants to sort of get her over even the worst aspects of this omni crisis. so trust taking off as at a very difficult time has she said how she is going to deal with these problems as she didn't really say very much during and during that campaign that you referred to as she only talked about tech scouts, she says she doesn't believe in hand bags, she doesn't want to give money to people. everybody is responsible for him and herself that sir classic tori, conservative ideology. but she wants to comp, texas, her gen, its growth and a sort of try to grow the country out of this crisis. not,

this is a notion that many economists here say is, is quite nonsensical. they fear that this is rather going to heat up inflation further, plus the taxes, care of the tech scouts. of course, they are good for richer and a medium and medium and we're better earning population. but they do absolutely nothing for the 1000000 sort of scraping along on minimum wage here in britain. or they really do need help heating or eating that. so what british papers are asking at the moment, and many people say, if if push comes to shove, probably we're not going to do either neither heat or how does not have enough food to eat. and so she really has a tremendous task and we don't know exactly what how she wants to deal with and what she wants to do. as barbara hazel speaking to me earlier from london, return our attention now to some other stories making headlines around the world. a court to in russia has sentenced former journalist even us are thrown off to 22

years on charges of high treason and spying cellphone off pleaded not guilty to the charges thing. he was only engaged in journalistic activities and that the charges against him were groundless. so front off will have to surface sentence in a maximum security facility. can yes, supreme court has upheld william root o narrow presidential election victory. his opponent, right yellow gender, had alleged that widespread fraud had taken place in the vote. on august 9th, the court said that his allegations weren't backed by evidence. rudo will be sworn in as kenya's 5th president next week. and voters in sheila have overwhelmingly rejected a progressive new constitution and would have replaced the existing one adopted during the pin or a dictatorship. the referendum on the proposed constitution included sweeping changes such as protections for indigenous peoples and women. julian, president gabrielle borage has bound to press ahead with efforts to overhaul it in

for the 1st time, be israeli army has said it, there is a quote high possibility and a soldier kills palestinian american journalist sharing. i will actually nearly 4 months ago in an internal investigation into her death. it said the shooting was accidental and no one would be punished. the israeli army pro found that it was probable. they had been shot, a soldier who mistook her for a militant al, jazeera journalist was wearing a helmet, and the vest identifying her as press when she was killed, while recording from the occupied westbank inmate have these corresponded in jerusalem. tanya kramer has more qual, it took the military now 4 months to come to this conclusion, what they call the final findings of the investigation. and they told us today, in a briefing for reporting that they took into account, you know, the, the soldiers were there all the materials to have forensic evidence, audio video matching era and also reports in the foreign media. now as you

mentioned, they have concluded that there's a high possibility that mississippi actually it's a quote, was accidentally hit by idea of gunfire and quote, but they maintain that this could have happened while there was an exchange of fire with palestinian metal militants. although this account was numerous times a question by palestinian eye, witnesses on the ground, other colleagues and policy genesis were with her on that day when she was killed and also by those media investigations and other investigations and video materials . now the officials said that she was not intentionally targeted as a journalist that the soldier likely to be involved could have not properly seen her. now, she and her colleagues had, you know, the flu, that labeled with price on it. when she was hit by

a bullet. now what follows all of out of it is that the israeli military advocate general's office also released a statement saying that it would not open an investigation into any soldier likely to be involved because they don't see. or there's no suspicion that criminal offense was committed, so this is likely to be expected to be the end of the military investigation for now that you know his tenure cramer injury. one for us that you need update this coming up next from neutral to nato. close up, look at finland better to join the military alliance for that ah, the landscape, a reflection of a turbulent history. the cities and mosaic of different people in languages he runs mountains, reveal unparalleled beauty.