the, the, this is dw news line from berlin. poles have opened entry long as the presidential election. some 17000000 eligible voters will decide and will manage the country's recovery from its worst ever economic crisis. and he needs to some sequential social upheaval. also coming up in his release for i can be rude, kills a top, his bullet commander. a lot of these officials say at least 14 people were killed in one of the dentist attacks on the 11 east capitol executives. the

i'm aaron to berlin. thank you very much for joining us. for long things are heading to the polls for the 1st presidential election since the countries crippling financial crisis. in 2022 border space, a choice between 38 candidates for the presidency, for the race looks set to come down to just 3 kind of candidates. current president direct me over run. this thing is taking a 2nd term, but he's facing strong challenges from the leader of the opposition as well as a socialist lawmaker. or early or dw correspondent shallow jada joined us from sri lanka, is capital colombo. she told us what's most important, just re lumpkins as they had to the point stations. oh yes i didn't. of voters have started coming in uh at the forwarding station. so just for the last hour as appointing began at 7 am, look at the memories of 2022. austin refreshing people's minds. here. that was the

time before they was doing up for people to cook and gas, tardies of medicines and electricity. and the entire sort of like came together in their collective suffering. and over to the last government whom they name for driving the country to bankruptcy to today, even though some things look good on the people, that completion has come down off of the i'm a deal for them. results are getting stronger, but qualitative means high in the country. the cost of living remains high and so does the unemployment situation. so the end of the day, it's all about, uh, you know, economy. uh for the people. it's all about what they can put on the plate a 3 times a day, or whether they can afford to see me is a date in the 1st place. the economy is this thing. the largest issues issue on the mind today as a building in know all the other elections in the country. they've seen religion and reese and even more to be the top texas, when people voted like old. that is history though, and because they've been french so hard because of the allegedly economy, blunders of the previous government, the confidence in politics and politicians is that an old time know of many locust

that we spoke to in the last few days. if you've been here, i've had been telling us that they don't even want to vote because though they don't see much of changing for the the ground. so economic issues waiting on voters minds in sri lanka. so the election will be decided between the incumbent president, the main opposition leader, and the 3rd party candidate. can you walk us through who they are and what they stand for? the yes. so of course, you know, the incumbent president running vicar missing gate is speaking the to be, to be as retaining disposition. remember he was put into this additional present in chip off to the last president. the biological itself was over to the office. see the by the people's movement. no, he literally had to, uh, sort of in headed the economy mess of the country was in, and you got the hook julian task of putting the economy back on track. and he's been asking the voters to sort of reward him for all the hard work that he's put in

. but people don't seem to be very happy, especially the poor people in the country who say that because of the i am at the, the taxes would raise and the electricity prices and other things of the cost of each show. but res, especially a, which had part of the pool of people. so he is not very popular at this time. i have to say the 2nd candidate is the leader of the proposition. so i'll just stay with us. so he's a son, a former president, quite a season politician. he is promising a lot of subsidies for the pool. i like the fisherman, the farmer, and the took to drive most of the country and it also says that he's going to tweak some of the, uh, you know, the, the provisions, hopefully i'm at the end to make it more a pool pool. so the 3rd candidate is a mock, so sleep on a rock, i'm out of this a nike and you have to keep a, keep an eye out for this guy because he is so turning out to be really popular. and the fact that he doesn't have much government in 6 feet and seems to be working in favor of him. because the sentiment on the ground is uh, so strongly, uh, anti establishment. that he is. he's sort of the most at this as

a new face. but there's a history that his body has worked hard because they were behind this. so moscow test that took place in 2022. so they've been working hard ever since then. and i'll just come to a point where they seem to have people's confidence. he's very popular amongst the youth and the women as well as the protest, those who came out of. so they said that's the fact that people are so fed up with the establishment. it should work in their favor, and now i'm told that it's going to be a very tight race ahead. people because people are keeping the cards close to the chest. we been, though of only under the we will not know till the last minute who is going to be elected. at the end. this election comes at a time when um, india and china irvine working full of the pacific region. now, how will this election likely effect for the longest relationship to both india and china? india and china. i have always had

a close eye on too long ago because you know, they are the big sort of, of the giants neighbors of the island nation. and they both have been sort of buying for influence in the country for the obvious reason because of the geopolitical, you know, the strategic location of this country in the pacific of the previous government of the drudge of both sides was not they uh, india friendly because it allowed a lot of for chinese investment to happen in the country. so india is obviously, you know, keeping of a close eye on who because the next the that will be a towards that the india is likely to, oh, see, a saw the same with us. i'll come to follow because he's been traditionally a pro india in his policy so and you know, thinks that he's started full in the last of the time that he's been in the opposition. but if out of the commodity somebody comes to fall, or he is seemingly more to china and during his campaign, he's also talked about the fact that of cub, uh, indian investment of the a donnie's, a donnie is a big uh, indian. uh uh, businessman,

who has investments in the neighboring countries as long as asian sri lanka. and so it's, it's going to determine whoever comes to follow uh, in this selection is going to determine a mass chunk of where the foreign policy of the country goes towards. i'm afraid we have to leave it there. that was dw correspondents, shalumi yonder. thank you very much for your reporting. we turn to the mid east now we're 11 and hezbollah has confirmed that one of his top commanders was killed in his revenue. strongly going, the route malicious said, the room, a q o is a leader in this. a lead rad one unit had died. israel's errors frank was one of the dentist attacks and lebanese capital in decades. authorities, they were say at least 14 people were killed, with dozens more wounded to apartment building through and in this densely populated neighborhood in the route. the strike happened during rush hour

as people were leaving work and children heading home from school. oh, it's late to rescue teams. we're still on the scene looking for a new one, still trapped onto the rubble. he thought he's real, says civilians being used as a human shield, but has bullied us and the quote into israel come on to a brushing my to one of the most amounts of man on the planet had got up here on the ground with all the has the operative on the residential building. if he's the bottom, you've not to push back from the little bottle to north of the lead time. either. will the blow magic efforts as well, would it be left with no choice, but to use any means within our rights to defend? i will see them and enable the back to use of the nose, the withdrawn to the home in a corner of the policies to act. now,

black now before we do late because we don't want to see escalation in the region, we have no intention to enter. well, we'd see by that and live on on. but we cannot continue with the way these for people 11 on the lines between what is bull and what isn't becoming increasingly blood war. i don't know if it started or not, but nothing. it's reassuring. it is clear that the 2 sides or not stopped. oh no, i'm not afraid for myself, i just want the country to get better. but it's not, the boy just keeps going. i don't know where we're hitting for bucks, watson. and the fierce of not knowing with this flurry of to, to protect tax having a rising by the date hours before israel's the root strike has bull upon to know them. israel with thousands of rockets. and this came up to the deadly explosions of hezbollah pages. and all the communication devices earlier this week,

israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement in the bluffs of the devices. the united nations high commission for human rights has condemned to devise explosions in lebanon as violation of international law. the un spokesperson into in those old punch is to de escalate immediately. saying that the region is on the brink of like a tester fee. to really i spoke with ben ben kelley blue. he's a senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies in washington, dc. he told me, if it is real, is risking escalation with around and it's proxies with its latest strikes. well actually i think there has been a change in is really national security, doctorate, perhaps not officially, but philosophically since october 2nd. whereas when you looked at the way is real dealt with many of these groups and even dealt with their patriot news on a public of run. it was more about managing the situation now i think post october

7, given issues is your opinions on many fronts. now i think it's quite seen to solve some of these problems. and militarily is really, is indeed doubling down it's added, for example, to it's more aims by the more cabinets, either bringing back of the 628-0000, internally displaced persons which requires a measure of peace and calm and quiet on the northern border. and israel appears united in the sense of achieving that means using the military option more frequently and with greater vigor and trying to get as many mid to high level hezbollah commanders as possible. so it usually is indeed engaging in some short term escal atory steps, with the hopes of restoring insurance for a longer period of time. there's a base of now and some other stories making headlines around the world. this emergency crews in northeastern easily are helping clear areas flooded by the remnants of storm boris. at least 1000 residents had to spend the night from shelters. after being evacuated from the worst effected areas, emilia reminded region you guys just experience as

a worst black out of the year. we didn't really have behind the dark for hours, for the say a malfunction in the terminal electric plants, the lack of parts to repair them, was responsible for the outage. the cuban government has implemented scheduled for accounts due to severe electricity shortages. security has been tightened. that in unix world, same as october 1st following last month's deadly knife attack in the western german city is only in millions of visitors are expected over the course of the festival that set to begin later today. munich, slowed me, is the 1st person to enjoy your cowardice. so right at this, you as october 5th after the lease knife of tax and germany, one message has priority for the city stop official. the festival will be a safe event between our lives. the film we doing everything to guarantee visit the safety. of course there is no absolute county similar to writing a bike instead of the car, but we believe the october 5th is safe. otherwise,

we would not go through with the sudden you've told the fest happening on 85 acres in the heart of munich, is expecting more than 6000000 visitors in 16 days. b o. u has been completely fenced in all visitors. we'll have to go through security guides and says we have for the 1st time we will use metal detect us. we also have a strong police presence and we'll do security checks when necessary. and things oh, well in secuity is supported by a high definition civilian system, delivering images that are being monitored at the october fest police station knives, a band at the festival inviolate as might value will end up in the present selves on location of the info. those enjoying the traditional votes, checking in one of the large butte tents. it is illegal to take knives and forks outside the tent. belly need security is on the alert. do you have any guns, guns we have great security that has been working for us for decades. and then now

even more focused on this issue. because people have always tried to take o bellmarks. that's why we have to be unlock checks in front of the tent and they're taking care of this problem as well. and that's very sort of most bags and backpacks of band anyway, the atmosphere among the october 1st businesses relaxed. we have, we have no security concerns with trust to munich police, a sentiment sent by the tourist that have come to munich for some sightseeing and a visit to the top of that. we've heard it's very safe. we've heard that the many for crosses are taken and we're looking forward to having a good time. we have done lots in this country. so we're still state for in germany, frankly. yeah. such as the founding fit. i guess you just kind of issue not security has just improved and improved the 5th thing to assume off the whole. this is the 118 9th october 1st and unix message to the world has remained the same over

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