ah, eye witnesses experienced the terrible events and this the world should not forget the long shuttle. the 1972 olympic massacre start september 3rd on d w. ah, ah, this is deed of you news live from berlin, high profile, killing in russia. the daughter of a russian ultra nationalist is killed and a suspected car bomb attack. the vehicle belong to alexander dugeon. an advisor to russian president vladimir putin report suggests he may have been the intended

target. also coming up, much of the world currently face is drought conditions. china is worried, the lack of rain could weigh on its brain harvest. so now it's planning to seed clouds to generate rain. a team of researchers in the united states is teaching rats how to drive and some of the rodents enjoy the new challenge. the scientists hope to gain clues on how to solve human mental health challenges. ah, i'm next by cert. welcome to the program. the daughter of alexander, duke, and a close ally, a russian president vladimir putin, has been killed in a suspected car bomb attack near moscow. her father, alexander, duke, and may have been the intended target. he's an ultra nationalist whose ideas have influenced the government's policies. the russian foreign ministry has speculated

that keys may have been behind the bombing. alexandra duke and is believed to have been the target of the attack. he's seen in this video circulated by pro russian government media minutes after his daughter was killed in the car explosion. the vehicle belonged to duke and but he was using another one at the time of the blast . fairly in the morning, as investigators continued their work, the power of the blast became evident parts of the toyota land cruiser were strewn across the large area. a burned body was reportedly found in the vehicle which sleet of the road both dugan and his daughter derrier were on their way to moscow from an event where he was said to give a lecture on that. possibly, alexander dugan is one of the staunchest allies of president vladimir putin and a far right philosopher and author. he has been pushing for a revival of the russian empire. his daughter, although less known, was also

a prominent member of the ultra nationalist movement and supporting rushes invasion of ukraine, e on the piece of work that she called for genocide of ukrainians. she called greg in so soft human race. she called for public, ah, public killings of the ukrainian prisoners of war, et cetera. so yes, she's against daughter bart. she is, 1st of all a very active member of our russian, a fall right nationalist, neo nazi, our influential scene. a spokesperson for ukraine and president involved him. a zalinski has denied keith was involved, but pro russian separatist say ukraine was behind the blast and rushes foreign ministry spokeswoman murray. as a heroine said, if the investigations trail lead to ukraine, it would amount to state terrorism. and for more on this less cross to d, w's, russia, analyst constantine, i guess, who joins us now from vilios. constantine, what's the reaction been to the killing in russia?

so far, well, when i woke up this morning, i saw the russian to the sphere, the russian sort of social media, really exploding with this news and predictably those who are support a president, putin. and he's war was saying, this is an act of terrorism. and those who oppose him and the lot of ukrainians was saying, serves duke in the right. even basically, if he was the target of this or a parent assassination attempt, although frankly what i've seen in the last 23 hours, is quite interesting because a new report of servicing that the car in which her daddy, our duke in our travels, was really a her car and not dugan's car. so now a new version is that actually she was the intended victim of this hit. if this was indeed a hits, but it seems like it was are certainly, and that would appear to be,

but just to help us understand a little bit more about the man at the center of this, the survivor and the father, alexander doogan. who is he, how much influence does he have with president putin? no one knows he is 60 years of age, are met him a few times and interviewed him in my previous job. he is a very brisk man who doesn't suffer contradictions lightly. ah, he modeled himself very much on the early 20th century authoritarian philosophers, especially the italian yulusef allah, who was one of the fathers of italian passion, as many claim about at the same time, he was very much a personal. he is very much a person with a specific russian imperial nationalist twist. he actually things that are the soviet union, all the russian. why should be kind of re composed and no blood should be spared in a, in the quest for this goal,

he sees the united states and generally i think the west as eternal enemies in russia. oh, with whom there could be there could be no compromise or as force he's in. no one really knows because he's great at self p. r. but no one has seen him all together with present boots and he doesn't hold any official positions of the criminal. although one has to say his project in the sphere of social media lectures and stuff like that, a pretty well funded and just briefly, if you don't mind, is there any way you can see this affecting russia's war and ukraine? well, i think there's going to be a propaganda fact, and of course, if it was indeed a hit by some kind of ukrainian connected entity, this is a signal to a lot of other people in moscow, but i do not think it's going to be something like a turning point, something really dramatic, the battlefield remains. the main focus for us. okay. w's russia analyst,

konstantin agger. thanks so much. and earlier our correspondent young philip sholtes in keith told us about the reaction to the death of daria davina in ukraine. the ukrainian government has immediately denied any kind of involvement, a top adviser to president lensky. immediately went on tv and said that ukraine has nothing to do with the bombings instead he, he blamed internal power struggles in russia. of course, the sadness regarding the killing is very limited. here in ukraine. davina is considered as a top and a me by many people here in ukraine and many western countries sanctioned her because of because of the lies. and she spreads evolve about ukraine and the war in ukraine. at the same time, there are fierce here of ed, so the bombing could be followed by x of revenge. and as we heard before,

some prominent figures in moscow have already called for some sort of retaliation, a text on here. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. to albanian soldiers were injured in a suspected espionage incident at a military plant. the soldiers confronted 2 russians and a ukrainian attempting to enter the plan to then attack them using a spray. the suspects were taking photographs of the facility. soldiers were treated in hospital for their injuries. a bloody siege in somalia has come to an end. somali forces overcame is less terrorist who stormed a hotel in the capitol, mogadishu, the battle with the al qaeda. lincoln al shabba militants lasted 30 hours and left at least 20 people dead. many others were wounded in the siege. singapore will repeal its colonial air,

a law banning gay sex prime minister lieschen louis made the announcement at the annual national day rally saying that society was more accepting of gay people. but he said there would be no change in a legal definition of marriage as being between a man and a woman. china says it will try to protect its grain, harvest from intense drought by using chemicals to generate rain. the country is in the midst of a severe water shortage after his hottest and driest summer since the government began recording rainfall 61 years ago. but can china or any one really change the weather? firing rockets into the clouds and hoping for rain. these meteorology workers in china's hu bay province, or participating in a 3 month project. now. sure, hoping to save this year's grain. harvest people around the world have been trying to seed clouds for decades, but it's not clear whether it really works. what is clear is that southern china's

farms need water badly as a lawyer, homemade, if the situation is like this every year, we can, but we will have to find new solutions to a guy that they along that for example, we will build up, natalie to block the sun one guy pendleton, and irrigate every day with him without. and we will install automatic spray systems to reduce our loss of excellent, loosely, clearly, just a little since the mach one way to get water to the fields is to divert rivers and reservoirs using heavy duty pumps. rice paddies require a huge amount of water and are especially sensitive to drought any met without timely irrigation. the rice would buckle, which would lead to crop failure longer, but reservoirs are already depleted by the hot, dry summer. oh yeah, that's why authorities are trying everything to save the harvest, whether the technology is proven or not. researchers at the university of

richmond in the united states are teaching a group of rats, how to drive little plastic cars. the rodents are rewarded with small treats. learning to drive seems to relax the rats a finding that could hold potential for solving human mental health challenges. this is black tale. yeah, we have the training, this is multi colored tail. and they are taking driving lessons. it's not always easy, but if they find their way, they are rewarded with a treat. her usually have a little bit of a moment there where you see them sniff bang, trying to figure out what's going on. and then they'll put their paws on to the lever, and they just have to push the lever down and that makes the car go. and it looks like it's not only human who enjoy getting behind the wheel. scientists say some rats seem eager to drive just for the fun of it,

while others do so just for the treat. so those 3 test also shows that driving right are more resilient, unless dressed. we want to sort of get out this aspect of these effort based rewards and on what driving might be for them as far as an enriching experience and on something that may combat against negative emotions. things like that that we can sort of generalize into our human lives as far as doing things that bring us joy that we are involved in that also reward us. the head of the program believes behavior therapy, like learning a new skill is key to treating the mind. one of the great failings of modern medicine has been its inability to cure a mental illness through drugs. she believes her teams findings could help fine alternative treatment for a range of mental health conditions, including and city,

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the daughter of an alternation was russian idealogue has in killed and a suspected car bomb attack vehicle report a belonged to put an ally, alexander doogan, who wasn't in the car at the time. that said, you're up to date. now world stories is up next, including a report on afghan girls dreaming of education. and remember, you can always get the latest news and updates on our website at d, w dot com or follow us on twitter and instagram. i'm nick spicer. thanks for watching. ah. people in trucks injured was trying to feed the city center more and more refugees are being turned away at the border. families playing phone tag with.