ah, ah ah ah ah, business dw, live from berlin, french writer, any are no wins this year's noble price in literature. she's written more than 20 books and has been praised by the nobel committee as uncompromising, courageous, and enduring. also coming up as shooting in thailand, leaves more than 30 dead,

including more than 20 children. a man opens fire in a day cast and russian rocket slam into homes in the ukrainian city of what is ya rescue a search for survivors. as authorities say, some residents are still tracked under the rubber and lead us for more than 40 countries gathering frog. for the 1st meeting of the new european political community. but what does this new organization spend for and what can it achieve? ah, this is dw news, i'm gabelle, as well come to the program. the swedish academy in stockholm has awarded this year's nobel prize in a little it to the french author. any or no, i know as

a professor of literature as well as a writer. she was born in 1940 and grew up in normandy. literary work is mostly autobiographical, that maintains close links with so she ology chair, anders olson explained some of the reasons why the swedish academy chose ano for this year's award. annie eleanor was born in 1914 and grew up in the little town of eve tore in normandy. her setting was poor, but ambitious. and in her area, she consistently explores the experience of alive, marked by great disparities regarding gender language and class. her literary work, dealing with her class experience, andrew background began early as memory project with the ambition of widening the boundaries of literature beyond fiction. in the narrow sense,

any to construction of the past. it liens on myself posts. i le chapstick don't pell d, but he guides the search in an entirely new direction. despite a consciously plain literary style, he declares that he is em, quote ethnology east of herself, and quote, rather than a writer of fiction. well, form on this, i'm no jumper, david levitz from d. w called so david, tell us a bit more about this is when a well, i mean i knew has said good, it's the novelists job to tell the truth. certainly that's what she thought to do across her work, which is all mining of her own autobiography, as, as we just heard, some really, a key points in her career have been her 2008 book. the years later, i near which launched her to international renown. this is a story of a woman. it's told in the 3rd person that it's very clearly her from the time in

france after the 2nd world war up until the early 2, thousands and it shows the shifting of french society through one life another, another book of hers that made a lot of gotten a lot of attention is her 2000 novel happening about her own abortion that she had at the age of 23 at a time when that was illegal in france. and frankly, quite dangerous. and the film version of that book, one, the top honor at the venice film festival last year. she's also written about her relationship with her parents. her own bout with breast cancer, her mother's death and her affair with a russian diplomat. so she minds a lot of very personal details that a lot of authors may write about, but not in such a public and personal way. she's also, by the way, the 17th woman to win the prize and the 17th author from france, france, the country with the most nobel prizes in literature thus far. okay. so, and the that it was much a speculation ahead of time who will get it this time. and there's always a,

you never know whether it's going to be a rather obscure pick or somebody famous. and this year the salman rushdie was, was a band around as well as michelle. we're back. she is more obscure. she is certainly more obscure than those 2, although i have to say she's not that obscure. she is. this is the 1st time in years that we at dw, have had pictures of the laureate, ready to go. so that hasn't been the case in the last years. we've been caught totally by surprise. she was actually a favorite to win last year. although it seems that she herself didn't expect that she wasn't by the phone when the swedish academy tried to call her this morning. but it seems that she has found out by now that the she is this years laureate. but you're right it's, it's really unpredictable. and actually i think that they like to keep it unpredictable. so the, the word about rush d for this year was he survived this knife attack this year. it would have been a very symbolic award for him to get a sign of support for freedom of speech. that is true. i personally believe the

moment that people start talking, but this person is going to get it. you can almost forget it. okay, thank you very much. david d, w culture in thailand, more than 30 people, mostly children have been killed in an attack at a daycare center. it happened in the town of no b, u r. loved fool. in the countries north east, a man wielding a gun and a knife is said to have entered the nursery and opened fire before later taking his own life, thailand's prime minister, as described the incident at horace area. talk to journalist jacob goldberg and talent capital bank, coke. and he described what happened at the childcare center? yes, it's been a dark day in thailand and i'll just recount some of what type police have reported so far. so it started when there were around 30 preschool students napping around

mid day in this preschool, in northeastern thailand and a man came in who seemed agitated and he reportedly began searching for his own child. and when he realized his child wasn't there, he opened fire on several teachers including one teacher who was 8 months pregnant and tie. please say that people on the scene who heard those gunshots said that they thought they were fireworks at 1st. and the gunman went on to force himself into the room where the children were sleeping and began attacking them with a knife. and he also attack several children and adults at a nearby government office and then took his truck to his own neighbourhood where he also killed several people, including his own wife and his child, and then tortured his truck and. busy over the death toll stands at $36.00 people, including himself and his wife and child. and that also includes $23.00 children according to what i've last seen. and there been video circulating on social media

showing the relatives of victims gathering at the preschool and coming to terms with what's happened and it's, it's very difficult to watch jacob water else. do we know about the gunman and his possible motive? so for i don't think police have identified a particular motive, but they've really some information about the alleged animal. they say that he was a 34 year old police officer who had been suspended from the force last month for. busy allegedly selling drugs and they also please also said that he had attended a court hearing earlier today, before he began his killing speed journalist, jacob goldberg, that reporting from hancock. thank you very much, jacob. thank you. to the one ukraine now were russian missiles have struck residential buildings in the southern city of the podium. the governor of

the region, which is mostly occupied by russia says at least one person was killed in the dorm strikes and several injured, including the 3 year old child rescue crews are racing to free residence, believed to be still trapped in the rubble of these attacks come as russian forces suffer fresh defeats with ukraine, continuing to retake territory in the south and east the ukrainian flag going up again in a recaptured village in the hockey region according to the proper over just one of many places back under ukrainian control. as a result of recent advances, the blue and yellow flag is also back flying overhead here in the strategic eastern city of la man as locals q for aid ukrainian troops

re took the key hub, the dynette screeching over the weekend. just hours after rushes, president putin announced the illegal annexation of the whole region. signs of the fierce battle fought here recently, as well as the months of russian occupation are everywhere. with russian troops forced to retreat here and across the south and east. and with a chaotic military mobilization sparking widespread criticism, putin said that changes will be made to the conscription rules for students, bella. but despite all the recent setbacks, moscow hasn't lost its power to strike far beyond the front lines. as residents of this city, just 85 kilometers south of keith were reminded on wednesday their shippers, who were come to a buzzing sound. a woke up, but i heard that sounds getting closer and closer. one of sibley and somewhere near

my house it exploded. according to officials, at least 6 so called cannon kazi drone struck buildings including an army base in the area, injuring one person. while moscow has ramped up its use of suicide drones, which keith claims or iranian made since september wednesdays attack was the closest they've come to the ukranian capital. a little earlier i spoke to the w corresponded mathias bellingham. he is in usually in southern ukraine. i asked him about the russian forces, which are the run from advancing ukrainian forces in the rounds, zapora asia. yeah we've, we've seen in the past few days that the ukrainians have been able to advance quite a bit and that russians have retreated in many areas in the old list. and that has one region northern part of the has one region and also in the east in the guns and

hockey regions. russia has replied to these losses by firing again on the city of selves up, what is your this morning? 7 rockets have hit apartment buildings. this is a pattern that we're seeing that whenever russia is under pressure, they fire on cities often on civilian objects on just apartment buildings on residential areas, mostly on the city of hark. if nikolai and patricia that are near the front lines in the past 2 days before to seen these jones, while attacks with mid range miss isles interpreter is deeper into ukraine, have receded, they don't just don't seem to be as abundant as they were. these rockets, they have acquired these loitering munitions that they can fly deep into ukrainian territory and ukrainian. eddie pens hasn't really figured out how to meet them yet . they fly, fly very low. so they're under the radar. often. you train has shot some of them

down, but a, quite a few of them also get through the differences. now it is russian special forces also said to have suffered high casualties in the fight fully. mon, what does that do for the morale of the newly mobilized reservists? there's definitely probably not boosting or are what we've seen so far from this mobilization that has been very random that people have been picked off for their classes or have been hunted down on the streets, men of a military age. and then just taken in, some of them have been camping in the woods because there were not the facilities. there was no preparation for this. so don't expect them to be very motivated. the ukrainians i have talked to on the front lines are saying they're not very worried about them. because sending untrained personnel to the front lines will not really change the course of the war. ukraine has is much more tactical, is much more strategic strategically in month than the russian's womb are basically

attacking, always straight away and are taking a lot of losses in these operations. and that would probably not change by sending untrained personnel to the front lines. but he is also hearing that ukrainian forces have been making more disturbing discoveries in the wake of the russian retreat. what more, you know, that's another pattern that we are seeing that whenever a large, our parts are taken back under control by ukraine. what they discover is mass graves and torture chambers. and it seems that the russians, when they were entering these territories in the beginning of the war, a, one of the 1st things they did is that they pick men of military age. suspecting may be that they were soldiers in the army, but also families are those they might have suspected to be handing over information to ukraine, taking them to these facilities and often killing them. it seems that once they had entered,

they imposed this regime of terror on the population. and that was how they were operating, how they were trying to gain control over the people living. there wasn't the same everywhere to seems to be depending a lot on who was there, which army units were controlling the past. there were some who were really notorious for their brutality, but we've also spoken to people in some villages, mostly who have said they didn't really encounter the russians. they weren't that they were kind of staying side by side. it seems to be depending a lot of that, but in the bigger settlements, almost everywhere that they're ukraine's of entered so far, they have seen something similar. what he has bellinger, the reporting from, usually in ukraine, many facts more than 40 leaders from around here, a bar in prague for the 1st meeting of the new european political community. this european union initiative will bring together you leaders with countries beyond the

blocks borders, including britain, turkey, ukraine, switzerland, and norway. the meeting takes place as europe battles, an energy crisis, and economic turmoil that has been worsened by russia's war in ukraine. this is where the european union's leaders assemble when they meet in brussels. the 27 seats at this table represent more than 450000000 people in the europe. it's a club at some neighboring countries on the continent have been waiting decades to join. but the requirements to qualify for e u membership makes the process both long and slow minis. cami, sir. so when francis president emmanuel mc crohn introduced the idea of the european political community, there were immediate concerns from some that it was somehow a 2nd tier substitute for him to e u. membership assembly not let's bring europe together in a very, on the basis of almost geography. so on the basis of democratic values with

a desire to preserve the unity of our continent to know. and we also want to preserve the strength and ambition or integration because the whole joining wouldn't mean in the future. i couldn't join the european union for simone, and it also wouldn't be limited to refill to those who have left the european union . so can keep, this had been the new european political community or e p. c will be made up of $44.00 countries. these include the 27, e u member states. countries who don't want to be in the e u like norway and switzerland. those that do and the one that recently left, oh, you've got to hand it to the easiest leadership for getting an ar sep, from everybody that they invited to join the european political community. but there is still the feeling that the purpose of the format is far from clear. and with so many nations gathered at the table, some of them friends and some of them froze. the skeptics are doubtful about what the e p c can accomplish and whether it will be anything more than just

a nother talk shop. this is about diplomacy in a different route. this is about making sure we keep our neighbors and our enemies close and making sure we speak to them on a regular basis. and people will genuinely feel. is it possible to have a conversation of this nature with that kind of difference? and that kind of difference, a difference in ideology. and i think the only good thing about this is, is making sure we keep diplomatic channels. open the e, you council president, char michelle, will leave the discussions at the 1st european political community meeting in prague. there won't be a formal declaration issued after the summit, but should this 1st one go down? well, the aim would be for the leaders together once or twice a year. and earlier, i spoke to our brussels bureau chief alexander from nama. she's in prague and i asked her what this european political community is, maybe a e u x excel. no, it's not sir,

least according to you officials who were at great pain to a pains to at great pains to point out that the european union is just facilitating this meeting, that this is not an e u driven process. and that is also was german chancellor. oliver shots indicated here upon his arrival and at prague castle writer behind me, he said that it's not about establishing a new institution, not about to more bureaucracy. it's just important for your opinion leaders to be able to have a good exchange about matters that are important to them. other leaders stress said it's not a consolation prize for those countries who are eager to join the block that it's not an alternative. and many here pointed to the fact that a seeing older 44 leaders here were invited is a positive signal. just imagine, even the british prime minister is here written,

has a laughter, european union. and there are very proud not to be a member and still less trust is a sets to be intending to play a leading role during this meeting. or what has been the goal of this summit. while the goal is just to have further kind of exchange the meeting itself as sir the purpose here, of course, we have to say that the war in ukraine is looming, large over the meeting here in prague. and luncheon prime minister stressed how this war is impacting all possible aspects of our life. and he, he said that he is hoping that to this a summit here, i could send a good impulse to realize that the older leaders here and in a kind of a sending a strong message to moscow off brussels bill. she thought i saw

a phenomenon reporting from prague. thank you. alex summer. there has been no let up in the anti government protests that are sweeping iran. the unrest began when a 22 year old woman died while being held by the morality police for allegedly violated iran's strict islamic dress code for women and girls. moss, i mean is death has drawn international condemnation power. now these university students in it on are chanting them in life in freedom. it's a slow conduct stretching the hearts of many white, including members of the european parliament. the hands of that we deem of them were lost in iran is stained with blood. neither history, no a law or god almighty will forgive you for the crimes against humanity that you are committing against your all citizens. until the moment of your on awfully. we are

going to stand with you. d n g m. as id. when men lies freedom. friend star flag, you get burnett shuttle, it's extending this report with diff, symbolic act. oh, is it on the clerical leadership? see its western enemies are behind the antique government demonstrations. these people have taken to the streets to support it on supremely dead, ayatollah hominy. and the countries strict dress court, he job was the excuse of our enemies to destroy our unity. the u. s. and israel are the root of all this unrest just because they cannot fight us. they are trying to attack us by creating internal problems. but the anti government buddhists intend on show no sign of letting up full weeks on this latest video posted online appears to show female students heckling

a member of it on both its force, the much feared, but a military organization is blamed for the violent crack down on the demonstrations the death of martha, many has clearly exposed the fort lines that exist in the islam country. and that on to willingness to brutally crush any opposition that challenges. it's paula. the opec plus oil cartel has announced a major cotton production meeting in vienna. the group of the world's top oil producers, which is led by saudi arabia, agreed to cut out foot by $2000000.00 barrels a day from november. the decision is expected to raise prices at a time when much of the world is struggling. soaring energy calls, it could also undermine g 7 attempts to reduce russian or revenues that are being

used to finance it's war in ukraine or i spoke to cynthia bianca from the european council on foreign foreign relations. i asked her if she was at all surprised by opec's decision. i wasn't necessarily surprised just because the, the, the saudis had been talking about this possibility for a couple of weeks already. and the americans had been trying to put the saudis off before for several days. already, so it was in the air and also it was a pre logical follow up to the fact that despite president bite in visiting saudi arabia, in to a great extent, sort of getting a lot of political toxicity for that visit. the saudis were really not so happy with the outcome and with what sort of the americans d i d l a u. s. saudi partnership that the americans as ad brought forward to so there wasn't much love lost there. now the opec decision came to us, as of the european union, agreed to a us plan for

a price cap on russian oil exports. are these 2 decisions linked somehow? i mean, they could be linked to, to expand that opec plus includes russia. so of course, you know, the russians have to be on board to when a decision is taken at the open plus level. but i do think that the price comp is just one of the many technical arguments that the saudis are throwing around in the discourse. just not to admit the fact that this was a very political decision. and the matter of the fact is that sadly we as europeans really can, can only count on ourselves and on each other. and we really should stick together in close ranks because it's a very, it's a shark tank out there in the energy world. no one. the veteran oil analysts says that by siding with russia, saudi arabia has, quote, set opec on a collision course with the free world. would you agree? i definitely think that there is a lot of anger and frustration in the white house. and i definitely think that we

can expect some sort of reaction from, from washington d. c. and it's, you know, it's clear that the saudis, in particular have seen so far, no value in sort of sticking out and supporting the u. s. and europe, in particular, against russia, in this very burning question of energy. so, definitely, you know, there's, there's some collision coming up, i think from a european point of view. our real problem is that we have to come to terms with the fact that the americans can no longer exert the leverage that we expect them to have on saudi arabia. for example, that has also served our interest because it has served stability in the oil market . the middle east, douglas center, bianca. thank you very much for joining us. john did of you news. thank you very much for having me. coming up next in a dw news, asia delhi is on track to creating greener infrastructure with the solar pilot

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