>> this is dw news, live from berlin. kenya announces its next president. william ruto wednesday election with several election officials say they won't stand by the results. the violence breaks out just ahead of the announcement. also on the program, the taliban mark a year since their takeover of afghanistan. they sing industries as millions of afghans struggle with severe

hunger, a sinking economy and the loss of women's rights. plus, some european countries have closed their doors to russian tourists says put his invasion of ukraine but countries are at odds on the issue. germany's chancellor says ordinary citizens and dissidents should not be shunned. welcome to the program. can you have declared william ruto the country's next president. the one with a campaign promising to award hard-working, low income and -- low income canyons. scuffles broke just ahead of the announcement. several electoral officials said they refused to stand by the results. >> flares marked the victory of

king's new president-elect, william ruto outside of his headquarters. elsewhere, the announcement was met with flames of anger. scuffles broke out in the center after an unexpected announcement. four out of seven electoral commissioners said they could not stand by the election results. >> because we cannot take ownership of the results that will be announced. we give details very soon. >> in his acceptance speech, william ruto urged the country to pull together. >> i want to promise that i will

work with all elected leaders and all leaders in kenya so that we can fashion a country that leaves nobody behind. >> he has championed himself as a hero of the poor and downtrodden. he takes the reins at a time of convergent crises. kenya is suffering its worst drought in 40 years which has left millions of hungry. soaring global prices of food and fuel have exacerbated a cost crisis. many are also angered by the previous president's collier to and rampant corruption. unrest is bubbly and the prospect looms of a supreme court challenge to the election

results. that could pose another crisis for kenya. >> felix miranda has been following the events in nairobi for us. i asked him if the opposition will work together with william ruto after his call for peace and unity. >> yes, he actually called for peace and he called for the opposition to walk with him. but he also mentioned that he is calling for them to walk on the side of the position so they could check his government. he seemed to throw a jab at the handshake that took place between -- in 2018. he says he does not want a government where deposition will come.

he says the only thing that he wants is for the opposition to come and have their full mandate of keeping the government d check so that they can be able to soak with their cities. it remai a case of wait and see but he has extended an olive branchnly on the basis that they will come and be in opposition. >> what do you expect tsee in the coming days given all of the contesting of the election. >> as some of the commissioners contested the election results, the deputy president said this was the first election he had seen which was very credible and one might say that it is because

he said it is very credible but it is also because it is the first time people have been able to access results on a public portal. yes there was contesting but william ruto said this was the most credible election h has seen in years. it remains a wait and see. now the push and pull has begun. william ruto has said it is writable. some of the commissioners have improved the election -- approved the election. we wil see what side has more weight in the days to come. >> thank you, felix. our correspondent in the

hometown of the defeated raila odinga. >> we are in western kenya. it is the home of raila odinga. the loser in this election. the situation is very tense. the riot police are here. they have fired tear gas at protesters because they started to become aggressive. they started to throw stones. police were trying to fired tear gas to disperse the crowd. they can see the road is now empty. sometimes you can hear people throw stones. this morning, when we arrived here, this place was packed with people. people were celebrating, they were so convinced that raila

odinga would win this election. they were devastated when they heard the news that william ruto has one. that is why the mood shifted and changed very quickly. at the moment, the police have run out of tear gas. it is not confirmed but we can hear now, police are firing live rounds instead of teargas. >> to afghanistan now. it has been one year since the taliban regained control of the capital, overthrowing the democratic government. the 20 year long u.s. military mission and the presence of nato troops and it chaotically almost overnight. thousands of people fled to the airport to try to warn any plane dashboard any plane that would take them. >> since the return to power, the former insurgents have presided over an economy of freefall which has fueled one of

the world's worst humanitarian disasters. two our viewers at home, please be advised that the report contains images that you might find disturbing. >> she was born just before the taliban returned to power. they challenge the best efforts of doctors here in kabul trying to help her. >> she is suffering from seve pneumonia and severe malnutrition. her pneumonia has caused the malnutrition. the prognosis of children like her with severe now nutrition is not very good as their growth development and intelligence may be affected.

>> her mother did not want to be filmed but she told us she has eight children and is pregnant with her ninth. there is never enough food at home she said and no money for medicine. half of afghanistan's people are experiencing acute food insecurity. that is 20 million people who are so hungry that their lives are at risk. as we drive from kabul, facts and figures become faces. this is one of the food program centers in the east of the city. the worst part of the job is choosing who should get supplies. >> it is very difficult for us how to choose the right person over here. many of them are hungry.

many of them are in nd. many are running after us when we are doing the selection but we cannot provide food for all. >> does he picks it 50 kg of wheat, just over six kilograms of lentils and 5 l of cooking oil. there also packets of peanut butter paste for children. and special nutrition for pregnant women. it is supposed to feed a family for three months. it hardly ever does. as this guy starts to darken over kabul, witnessed the bakery in the north. people with money buy fresh bread for dinner. sometimes they buy extra for the desperate women who are outside, hoping for charity. many of them are widows. many of them have walked for more than an hour to get here. >> why else would we sit here all day?

two -- two -- to beg. our stomachs are never full. because the bakery owner has registered around 1000 women for the blood donations. only those with the car get a loaf. it is his way to try to help but also to keep the situation under control. >> i started this project out of a strong sense of patriot and because our paper -- papal -- our people are jobless. >> afghans are -- point of

dollars of national assets are frozen. street markets continue but the wider economy is collapsing and the taliban have no experience of serving millions of desperate people in crisis. not a single country has recognized the regime. >> the then president fled the country. his predecessor chose to stay in the capital. he hoped to be able to act as a mediator with the militants. they placed him under effective house arrest and in an inclusive interview, he spoke to dw about the vital role of education in afghanistan's future. >> lack of education means lack of abilities.

at least half of the society, men have also undermined their abilities. at least half of society not being able to produce and participate. >> there is more. you can watch the fullest list of interview with the afghan president on our youtube channel. let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world today. francis says troops have left molly. they have been fighting islamic militants in the west african nation since 2013 but the decision to pull that was made after relations deteriorated. the troops had become increasingly unpopular with the malian public. china says it has carried out more military drills around taiwan in response to the latest

visit by u.s. lawmakers to the self-governing island. they met legislators just two weeks after a similar trip by nancy pelosi into beijing. myanmar passed military and send the formulator to six more years in prison for corruption. she has already been sentenced to 11 years on similar charges after being removed from power in february of last year. analysts say the charges are an attempt to legitimize the military seizure of power. tehran has denied any involvement -- involvement with the assault on salman rushdie. it is all from the new york stabbing attack but blamed rusty and his supporters for insulting islam.

the ukrainian president, bandar zelensky has called for european countries to introduce a ban on visas for russian tourists. his appeal has been echoed by estonia and finland who share borders with russia. they want other states in the european union to stop issuing tourist fears -- visas to russia. germany's chancellor, olaf scholz has undermined his opposition to a possible visa event for russian citizens. here is what he had to say. >> it was an important decision for all of us that we impose sanctions on those who are responsible for the war and oligarchs and those who are financially and economically profiting from this regime. i think this is not the war of the russian people. it is britain's war and we have to be very clear on that topic.

>> while your debates how to -- europe debates how to handle visitors from russia, the war has raged on. officials in the region of dundas -- donbass report shelling. civilians who fled the city are watching closely in hopes of returning to their homes. we spoke with woman who fled to the city of odessa. >> looking for something pretty among donated clothes at the refugee center. she left nearly everything behind her when she fled her home in the russian occupied harris on region. she and her children have been in odessa for three weeks now.

>> the situation under occupation grew worse and worse every day. i spent five months there and i always thought why should i leave? this is my home. but things became more and more intolerable. >> she says her hometown became a place of fear and intimidation and empty streets. she stayed at home with her children most of the time, only venturing out to get groceries. >> around the russians, i would always lower my eyes. if you looked at them in the eyes for too long, they would say you are looking at me, you must know something, let us go talk. the people who were taken like that, sometimes the relatives would take them for a long time. some came back, others did not. >> authorities and volunteers in odessa had around 150,000

refugees. it is difficult to leave. soldiers at checkpoints don't let many past and fighting makes the roads dangerous. even so, many still want to leave. we are hiding this woman's identity. she has brought many people out. >> there are more military personnel now than before. it feels like there was a military checkpoint by every trade. ey you to just take a quick look at our phones and make them an address to look for tattoos but now they check the database for information on us and they look for deleted messages on our phones. there are more snipers. we used to move around the city quote freely but now we don't care to even go into the center. >> even so, volunteers at the refugee center register new arrivals from occupied territory

nearly every day. even those who held on this long show pictures of damage to her home. five months have left her and her children. >> there are tanks shooting. >> it is not a tank. there are no tanks here. >> no? >> no. the tents were in the other place. >> she is waiting for the day that she can take the children home. >> india is marking 75 years of independence, one day after pakistan and the bloody partition of british india as

britain ended its colonial rule in 1947, it split the land into two states, some 12 million people found themselves on the wrong side of a line that divided the new nation by religion. muslims flooded in the opposite direction. up to 2 million people were massacred in the violence that followed. in our next report, we hear from those who witnessed the carnage. i have all those harrowing memories of partition. it was a very peaceful place.

>> my father used to teach in a village on which is now the indian side. he came home for a summer break and all hell broke loose. schools are closed indefinitely. there is bloodshed everywhere. i remember going there as a child to see what was happening.

we did not have any money left. i tell you. >>, anyone speaks of that time, i can immediately kontaveit in my mind. it is extremely difficult to talk about it for those of us who remember it. i am emotional right now. i have not spoken about that time in 75 years. >> i lost my uncle. i lost so many people. i feel very sad that it started. i love that language because i belong to that place. >> the history of the world is

full of stories of war. but war is also nothing. you can find as many words as you like but meaningful decisions are only made at the negotiating table. >> it is only the top leadership that makes us fight with each other. someday we should become -- we should come together. yes. >> officials in germany and poland are baffled by a massive die off. a joint task force has been set up to investigate the ecological disaster on the river it would have. they are struggling to find the cause of the highly toxic conditions that have killed at least 80 tons of fish and concerns are growing over how the pollution could further impact wildlife. >> on the lookout. the conservationist is searching

for dead fish in the waters of this nature park in northwestern poland. so far she has not spotted any but she is very worried. >> we know nothing about this chemical. it harms the fish but also all the fun in the river and we hear it will penetrate into the earth. the whole area consists of water canals. this chemical can flow into the marshland. not only do organisms live there but also mammals and many birds. the wave of dead fish is getting closer. 20 km from here, firefighters are pulling dead fish out of the water. there are still only a few here. a bit further upstream, it looked like this the previous day. it is still unclear what cost the mass deaths. german and polish water samples have shown high levels of salt. the polish government suspects that chemical waste was dumped into the river. critics say the polish side has

reacted too slowly. two high-ranking officials have since been dismissed by poland's prime minister. ministers from germany and poland have met to try to agree on a joint approach. all of those who hold political responsibility must provide clity on this violence to identify the perpetrators. i hope this meeting today has made a real contribution in that direction. the results in the water samples will be shared and discussed together. at the meeting, we agreed on faster decision-making and an appropriate course of action for the hours and days ahead. on the german side of the river, the situation is relaxed. the disaster is not yet visible here. but things could change soon. >> finally, some of the world's most athletic chess players have gone head-to-head underwater.

this is the final of the world dive chest championships in london where it is as much a battle of lung capacity as of wits. players have to hold their breath while considering their moves on a board, submerged in a swimming pl. this polish man took the victory. it is not white as exciting for spectators as it is for players. that is big, you are all up to date. do stay with us. after a short break, i will be back to take you through the day. this time with an in-depth look at afghanistan when you're on. hope to see you there.

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♪ anchor:lence in kenya with the result of the presidential election. ruto's narrow victory prompting a face-off and more violence on the streets of nairobi. france has pulled out the last of its soldiers from mali. the operation ends in bitterness. women vowed to fight for their rights on the first anniversary of the