ah, if we don't do something, our children won't be able to enjoy fresh air. europe reduced dogs november 3rd on d w. ah . ah, this is dw news live from berlin, the husband of us house beacon, nancy pelosi severely attacked. police say an intruder broke into the capital's san francisco harm and used to hamlet to beat whole police police. and now investigating, if the assault was politically motivated,

we'll have more from our correspondent in just a moment. also on the shari, the world's richest man takes control of twitter. the lawn mask promises to cut since a ship thought stands by firing top executives. and growing anger over drawing a tax against ukraine. keith says iran is supplying the so called kamikaze weapons . bahrain and authorities deny any involvement. ah, i'm jared read. thanks so much for your company today. the husband of us how speak and nancy pelosi has undergone what doctors are describing as successful surgery. after being violently assaulted police said i found a man beating 82 year old poll pelosi with a hammer. the couples home in san francisco. early on friday, he was treated for

a skull fracture and our injuries and hospital all the suspect is in custody. police are investigating whether there is a political motive. nancy pelosi was not at home at the time. we can get more now from t w's. mckayla kiff. no, he joins us now from out studios in washington, d. c. mikaela. hi there. what more can you tell us about this attack? well, i can tell you that there is a lot pointing towards this being a politically motivated attack with the police stopping short of calling it anything like that, saying that the investigation is still under way. what we have heard from white media reports here is that the attacker who was named by police as 42 year old david did pop in and said, apparently where is nancy? and that is from several sources quoted here in the us media that points towards the fact that nancy pelosi, who is a complete hate figure amongst the far right here in the united states was

potentially the target. what we do know for sure is that her husband underwent surgery that seems to have been successful. she also issued a statement saying that she expected him to recover fully from this. and nancy pillows herself said to be on her way to california to be with her husband. this of course comes just 11 days ahead of the mid term elections here with great concerns that there could be violence surrounding those as well. mikaela you just mentioned at the us use heading into the mid term elections. just go into a bit more how much of a concern is violence against politicians in america? it's a big concern and what also was cited by several media here today is that there's an expectation that there will be an internal intelligence bulletin issued by the federal government over the coming days. which points to threats, not just from russia and china in terms of interference, but also

a real concern over the option of violence. and this is something that we, whenever you speak to someone up on the hill that is very personal to lawmakers. and we've also seen a tax and a particular verbal attacks, threats on the make a double over the past year, years up to $9000.00. at the moment. also we've seen an attempt to kidnap a governor here in the united states. the 3 men, i've just been sentence this week for that. so the climate is heating up. these maybe individual incidents, but they really amount to what is seen as a threat, also driven by the verbal, an incitement to potentially use violence that's alleged over the january 6 the attacks on the capital. but also recently we saw a donald trump speak of the minority leader here in congress, someone who may have

a death wish mitch mcconnell that is cooperating with the democrats. so very heated rhetoric and a growing concern that this could become accent, particularly also when you look at the polls, where depending on which pole you look at between 25 and 30 percent of an american, say that violence could be justified for political reasons. so that is a real change in climate and tend to be more such incidents here. he said divisive climate mikaela cushion in washington. thank you so much. well, he is calling himself the chief twist is on mask has finished his 44000000000 dollar tank over of twitter. the world's richest man wasted no time as the new boss firing for executives, including twitter ceo mosque says he wants to improve free speech,

which may mean a return of donald trump from avenue user to its largest shareholder. a new era began for twitter as ellen musk took control in his 1st post. after taking over the test, lucio wrote, the bird is fried an apparent not to his wish to see fuel limits on what users can post mosque, who describes himself as a free speech. absolute test has that he, once every kind of legal speech aloud and twitter critics fear his reign could allow hate speech and his information to spread among the 1st to react to the buyout was the german government. i'm going to be then going all denise, we will closely watch all the possible changes to the platform in the coming weeks

and months and we will draw our own conclusions that could lead to asking ourselves whether we want to remain present on twitter or not. any top european union officials are also watching closely. one responded to mosque street saying in europe, the bird will fly by our rows. rapper. can you west, whose account was recently suspended for posting anticipated remarks? is already back on the platform. though mask said the decision to allow him back was made before he took charge. former us president donald trump, whose account was removed after the attack on the u. s. capital could also make a comeback under elan mosque. twitters users have been wondering what must version of free speech on the network will look like. he gave them a plu in another tweet posted after the take over. seeing

a moderation council would be formed to decide on acceptable content and no accounts will be reinstated before it meet to russia. now, where the government is saying that it's sir completed, it's call up of 300000 military reservists defense minister. so gay sugars is over $80000.00 reserve troops have already been deployed to ukraine. the rest are still in training. vladimir putin issued the mobilize on mobilization order last month to beef up russian forces in ukraine. the call are led to protests and prompted tens of thousands to flee the country to avoid it. will radians living in ukraine are demanding that their government stop supplying russia with attack drones. ukraine says he just shot down hundreds of iranian drawings launched by moscow. but to ron insists, it is not providing russia with the weapons, the blood of ukrainians is on your hands. that's the cry from

a rainy and protease is in cave as rushes drone attacks and ukraine continue. caves waste and allies, including the european union and the united states, claim iran is supplying the weapons assortment. huh. so, but borland, this is especially painful for us, the iranian people living here, the country we were born in. and the regime now in power is sending drones to kill us, our friends and acquaintances, and keep us this year. iran denies that it's producing the drones which have become a key weapon for russia in the past month. the invaders of often use them to target crucial energy infrastructure. ukraine has been pushing back shortly. so from september, 13th, when the 5th shaheed, 136, kamikaze drone was shot down. until today. we have shot down more than 300 shaheed drones. there fools burger, you're asking away from it. others are here still seeing with the city. are you

standing alongside one of the down weapons president volota me. zalinski says 30 drawings was seen by russia in 2 days with defense courses shooting 23 of them down . nearly the ukrainian government has given iran a formal demand to stop supplying the drawings to russia. this is for, if in sobering words, from germany's president describing russia's invasion of ukraine as a turning point in history, in a national addressed address on file to stein, mice at the world is entering a period of confrontation. he warns germans will have to make sacrifices, and he called for a change in outlook of c, before jones for that, the president added that acknowledging this new reality is the only way people will be able to meet its challenges. well, it, it can kind of policy makers cannot what miracles, no one has been was, was it in and not even a german president can take away all our worries in these profoundly uncertain

times about us. feler does. on the contrary, i believe that many of these worries are legitimate. we are experiencing the deepest crisis. our united germany has ever known. a been about, sorry, i've been doing, but i'm firmly convinced that if we become consciously aware of this moment is turning point in history. if we begin to understand that one era has come to an end and another has begun done then. and only then will we be able to see more clearly was yet what is now required of us in fisher. and i am certain noise so that we will not have to face this new in fear without a fancy german president frank photo stone. my there will campaigning is underway in brazil's presidential election ran off left as challenger. louise in nazi or lula de sousa is pulling ahead of the current right wing leaders. i have also

narrow lula has promised to strengthen environmental protections, give more rights to indigenous people, and raised taxes on the rich. it previously served as president and had a corruption conviction overturned. critics say also narrow, has marginalized indigenous tribes and let business over exploit the amazon rainforest. opponents also condemn all scenarios, handling of the pandemic. let's go now and speak to d. w 's. johan ramirez who's following this for us in rio de janeiro. johann, hi there. how are people they're looking at this runoff election? what have they been telling you people are very divided. i've been talking to many people since i got here a couple of days ago. and that what i have fallen to is that people are very, very yvette in the one hand. i just people saying i would vote for lola or i vote for books, none of that is normal. but on one hand, we see people that are convinced that the left is candidates at lola, that somebody's going to wing on to. on the other hand,

that those will support variable to narrow who take it for granted that the current president is going to be re elected on that. but i think that at the end of the day, multiple procedures are worried. worried about the fight that day. as soon as we will know the 1st results on sunday evening, there will be problems in that country. why, if it does have precedent variables, football to narrow, has implied during the whole presidential race that he wouldn't want seating the face of an eventual defeat on every pole is forecasting that he's going to lose. so we wonder what he's going to do. he knows that he going to remain in power in me say cool, and that's why many people want that brazilian democracy could be at stake this weekend here in the country. but let's take a listen of what personals told me today in this hemisphere. it's here in rio de janeiro and they have a lot i love because i was the last the you left because his proposal, it's the right ones for our lives for the poor and the work helped me. did i buy land? finally pro, checked as a person for a half or so they may, a,

they are brown, james will find were from on the, i would, would almost on our own for me my family and friends will vote for both on our to waste management for the country is on the right, bought the vehicle, will be, went to the pandemic of the country has moved forward. you don't have to. so people may have concerns because of what happened in the past. but that will not happen again. but that we cannot go back to the paternalism of the past. why we need opportunities for everyone of us. i'm not molding because they don't know how politics works. we'll still hurry up. would each saw this? i even less because i think the countries in a very critical situation though they are so law, everyone has their opinion and the country is very divided. they might h pay to know that there is no more respect. but we don't know what will happen. the only god can help us lots of divided opinions there. let's go back to johan ramirez in rio de janeiro. johan,

one of the last few days of the campaign been like with a lot of violence. this has been a very violent so they try campaign, marked by insults and aggression. some of the candidates we have that we have seen, even supporters been keel to turn to presidential res, which is said disgrace onto this speech. as a full, both candidates have been very violent on today, birth is hauled in its last to presidential debates, and honestly, no one who suspected much more than don. that done, daughter insult, son, that personal attacks among the candidates. and that's why many brazilians feel that the main problems of the country haven't been on the table during this a presidential campaign. every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out to give you some tips one day indian.