Berlin Pride attack, India's exam scandal and D-Day beaches
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Hi, I'm Tara Oakes in Liverpool. It's Sunday, July 26th. Today, Berlin is left reeling after a vehicle rams into pride celebrations. How an exam scandal in India sparked a student uprising.
What happened when a vehicle plowed into Berlin Pride celebrations?
And what data centres could mean for your energy bills. This is Reuters World News, bringing you everything you need to know from the front lines in 10 minutes, seven days a week.
From celebration to horror. After a vehicle plowed into a crowd at a Pride celebration in Berlin. The incident in the Tiergarten Park near the city's Brandenburg Gate has left the German capital reeling. With more events for Christopher Street Day, one of Europe's biggest annual LGBTQ Pride celebrations, cancelled. At the time of recording, one person has been confirmed killed by emergency services. And a manhunt is ongoing, with police identifying the suspected driver as Abdul B and publishing his picture. Kirstie Knoller is our breaking news editor for Germany.
According to police, this guy is 21 years old, a German citizen of Lebanese origin. The interesting part is he was already known to police and intelligence services as part of a so-called Islamist spectrum. Sources told us that he apparently sought contract with Islamic State and that he had links to Islamist networks. The shocking part that security sources told us, he had actually been in jail, convicted under Germany's anti-terrorism law for preparing an act of violence. But he was released from youth detention just two months ago. This is what security sources told us. It's not confirmed. German broadcasters have reported that he tried to travel to Syria to join Islamic State and that he was arrested at Berlin Brandenburg Airport at the end of last year when coming back from Lebanon.
Police here has warned the public not to approach this guy. They say he is possibly armed and dangerous.
Wildfires continue to rage in Europe, with hundreds of thousands of people forced to evacuate in France and Spain. France's armed forces have been drafted in to help overwhelmed fire brigades as wildfires threaten the city of Bordeaux. On Saturday afternoon, an A400M military transport aircraft, the biggest in France's fleet, joined the effort by dumping liquid over a flame-hit forest. Reuters reporter Manuel Ausloos filmed the footage of the operation from a helicopter above.
So first off, when you're filming the fire from above, you really get to get a more global picture of how it's unfolding and evolving. Because when you're on the ground, you have a lot of obstacles between you and the flames. You have trees, you have buildings, which really impede your understanding of how the whole area is affected. Once you're in the helicopter, you can really see a line of fire that's progressing through kilometers of forest. And finally, I'd say also you understand the logistics that go into this whole effort because there's not only firefighters on the ground, but there's also various aircraft that both planes and helicopters that are either dousing the fire in water to put it out or spraying retardant on the forest so that the fire doesn't
take hold in the forest. So it's really similar to what you could see on a battlefield where there's infantry fighting, but there's also, you know, air support for them to be able to achieve their objectives.
This week's On Assignment podcast speaks to other journalists about the difficulties in covering wildfires. You can check it out wherever you get your podcasts. The Iran war has broadened further now to the Caspian Sea, despite a pause in US strikes. Iran is accusing Ukraine of targeting one of its vessels in the Caspian. Tehran describing the attack as an act of aggression and saying it would defend its national interests, accusing Kyiv of seeking to expand the war in Ukraine. The comments came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Russia was passing on its satellite observations in the Middle East to Iran to enable Tehran to direct strikes in the region. Celebrations have continued around India after the education minister announced his resignation.
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