tony, our services be our guest at frankfurt airport city, managed by frank bought the this is dw, and use live from berlin. ukraine claims responsibility for killing a top russian general in moscow. eager to read off the head of russia's new fear and chemical forces was killed by a bomb planted inside an electric scooter. also coming up a massive earthquake strikes the pacific islands a nation. yvonne watkins with reports of casualties and widespread damage plus the democratic republic of congo, filed a lawsuit against the apple. the african nation says the tech giant is using a legally mind minerals. it's devices the

pop up only s thanks for joining us. ukraine has admitted to killing a senior russian general in moscow. lieutenant general igor, carrie luff was the chief of russia's nuclear, biological and chemical protection forces. he died when a bomb hidden inside and electric scooter exploded outside an apartment building in central moscow is assistant, was also killed in the attack. a dash cam footage shows the moment an explosive device killed. general e gore keira last and his assistant outside of moscow apartment building the investigators are searching for clues to piece together the circumstances of what appears to be the targeted killing of one of russia's top military leaders by ukraine. the bomb was so powerful

that it shattered several windows and damaged the front door. shortly after the attack, the ukrainian officials said keep security service was behind, it must not attend the school. this was a really filigreed job. i don't know how else to say to ensure i take my head off towards special forces, would accomplish this task section to meet you. but it's no secret that we have a fairly extensive network in russia, which is coordinated by the security service of ukraine, which is the main intelligence directory court, and the special operations forces of the for an intelligent surface pros. if you feel that much potentially corporate, i'd ceaselessly sewing machine, you also have to russian authorities said the explosive device was planted inside an electric scooter and was detonated remotely. since the incident has been classified as a terrorist act, murder, illegal, trafficking of weapons, and ammunition and investigation is underway at the scene of the incidents to

establish the circumstances of the crime. and those involved the same as we have looks as far as your carry love was the head of the russian military's chemical, biological and radiological weapons unit. he was also considered a key figure why you've been in russia's war against the cranes without the a lot of those, just the day before he was killed. so she knew that cara love was charged and up sent to you by ukrainian court for russia's use of band chemical weapons in ukraine . he had also been sanctioned by britain for using chemical weapons on the battlefield. luncheon telling you, well, joining us now from vilnius is our russian affairs analyst, constantine aggregate constantine could see you. so is this a huge cause of concern for president vladimir putin perhaps even, and shoot me an the ation for shortly. no. the dresser is not a democracy, so no one's going to resign. no, he's going to put questions and comments about the, essentially,

but for the intelligence service operating in the nation's capital. so it is not the accumulation which will have any political repercussions precludes. but the fact that it is talk, ministry official, i think it's the top minutes with this intense interest in russian social media regarding this actually a lot of videos and photos we already have from independent blogs. so yes, that was a big contention to that also because the general video became inform us for he's allegations against the graeme and one of them. i mean, probably not the time to joe, but one of them is become actually a mean. you want to say that america is using in ukraine, poisoned mosquitoes against russian pools. so i think that there, there is an intense interest. i'm sure there is an intense interest. i feel that

the input this bureaucracy because as i said, it's not every day that left and the generals cube by explosions in russian cities . but also what's important, i think it is a very, very strong signal by the premium admitted for you branding and special uh, services that's in russia in inside most go no one you say. and i think it was this operation was design is exactly to achieve these go thanks, konstantin. you don't use konstantin agra joining us from the 20 and capital values a time to take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. military officials in ukraine on the us say that north korean troops have been killed in combat. they were fighting against ukrainian forces in russia's course region. there, the 1st report of casualties since north korea sent

a thousands of soldiers to help russia's war efforts. ukraine launched a cross border incursion into course in august are to make sure you will get an extra 1000000000 euros. and e, you funding to support the syrian refugees? european commission presidents are so the founder lines made the announcement following talks with turkish president treasury of tire of early one in ankara. feel society brussels would intensify its engagements with serious new, easily misled rulers warning against a resurgence of the so called atlantic states. you and says at least 34 people died after sex on chito, smashed into mozambique on sunday. it levelled homes and cook power in the southern african nation before reaching mozambique. the storm hit, the french islands of my york, rescuers res. seem to get supplies to people of parties feared the death toll could be in the thousands. for several airlines have suspended slides to the sides. pacific island to nation, yvonne y 2 after a powerful earthquake. the magnitude 7.4 quite struck around 30 kilometers of the

coast of underwater is main island. cctv footage showed the moment the quite sure of the capital port villa for us the words are looking for it. survivors under collapse, buildings therapy, at least 6 confirmed depths, but the photo is still on tier ation. i'm a warning was cold of less than 2 hours after the tremors. local residence is a, the damage to the waters pool villa. this is the billabong building one of the chinese goals and ctf. this collapse. i would put the rescue team in that now are rescued when they're trying to get some people out. wait for a walk on the route. there's definitely some people in the hopefully still a lot. we're trying to get some machinery out at the moment. the injured people have been arriving at the hospital. some reports of casualties,

and building housing, civil embassies, including those of the us, person from any zealand was significantly damaged. the quakes triggered several land slides near an international shipping terminal. much of underwater was communication networks have been knocked out with the full extent of the damage. still imaging to the democratic republic of congo has filed a criminal case against apple subsidiaries in france and belgium. the african nation accuses the tech giant of using so called conflicts, minerals and its computers and smartphones. the eastern new york city is rich in minerals like 10 tons of them and tungsten. these minerals are often extracted in unofficial mines run by armed groups. you an experts and human rights activists say those militias are responsible for massacres of civilians, mass rapes, and polluting apples and nicely allegations. and it says it does not directly

source its primary minerals well for more of this let spring in the cli stuff, marshall. he's a lawyer on international and criminal and is representing the democratic republic of congo in the case brought against it in belgium. welcome to dw, so to begin with, could you briefly outline what exactly you're accusing apple of doing so. uh, today we just uh, uh, filed a criminal complaint with um, investigative judge here the colt of brussels. and so the accusation that is made is possessions of money laundering, also conceal moves, and also the fact of misleading the consumers on the origin of the products to all settings. all right, so if the d r c, things there are conflict minerals in apple products does not also mean that you're pursuing, you're also legally pursuing the suppliers. you know, so the thing is,

this is the that we think that the, that apple is using the minerals, it's just that we base or analysis on numerous reports problem. and g o is a force, but also officiated reports from united nations. i mean, everyone knows and we menda, i went up to them quickly, got another privacy with showing his awful phone, saying everyone knows that in this phone, blog, minerals. so the fact that this region of the world, he who is now new, we're, let's by look minerals. these are facts. now, next steps after having said that is to show the apple knows it. and the apple directly uses real minerals in the supply chain. and that's what we demonstrating the complaint. now, earlier this year, there was a case in the united states were plaintiffs tried to hold all tack giants a comfortable for as a separate issue for child labor in coal. both mines in the d. r. c. that the case was rejected. are you hopeful that your case will be more successful as well?

i'm completely convinced after what we've been doing with all the teams here, legal team in belgium, but also a legal team in the u. k. in the us and the companies team in the french team, the legal teams that we have enough evidence to show that brought me the rules that were gathered on some mines where there are some international crimes committed step. those brought me the rules were actual sold to fund raise the afterwards gave what were put in the supply chain of apple and apple knows that. and if you want to, can mention the facts that we mentioned, the complaints, but we have pretty, pretty sure that we have all the evidence. we need to bring apple to a criminal trial and built to tell us more though about the end goal here. so what exactly do you want to achieve from ad from this case? would you like to see an end to these products being used at not just in,

at the or say, but in other countries on, for these allow us to be sort of at it and basically followed what i seem to go. i'm presenting the states of google, so the goal of the republic is to show to the consumers. that's the don't do the project. they're having to hands is contaminated by international crimes. and to show the world of the international community, which doesn't really care what's, what's happening and keep or seen such yeah. as was 1000000 of the that the situation has to come to an end. and that this conflict is mainly driven by this industry of those minerals, and that's what the view is she wants to show to the world just and of course, trying to put an end to the situation as d r c is considering that the system that has been put in place, but i'll pull up and folder organizations to control the origin of the minerals is

not working very well. even more than that. it's a complete fader. very interesting speaking to a lawyer, kristof marshall and joining us today from belgium. so here are some more stories making. the news today, european union regulators say they are investigating whether kicked off breach the blocks digital services act, the prob, centers on allegations russia use the social media platform. this way, the results of remaining as presidential election last month, which is the country's top court later note, the pro rush of far right candidate colleen projects can one be 1st framed on the waiting activist full watson has been released from detention after denmark refused a japanese expedition request. watson had been detained in greenland, which is an autonomous danish territory on a japanese arrest. warranty is accused of damaging a waving ship, india and tar ticket in 2010. believe what they're doing. and that's all for now up

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