ah, ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin, fears of a nuclear accident grow in ukraine. a team from the u. n. is on its way to the nuclear plants captured by russia. people there are preparing for the worst as shedding is stepped up near the facility. also coming up the number of dead and

this place is increasing by the hour as pakistan struggles to cope with devastating monsoon floods. the government is calling it a climate catastrophe and appealing to the international community for health. and counting down to left off, nasa hopes its powerful new rocket will mark the start of a new era of space, exploration and return human kind to the moon for the 1st time in 50 years, plus a back and forth in the bonus. niga with frankfort eventually coming out on top in brain goals galore and much more coming up in sports later. ah, i'm pablo foley, as welcome to the program experts from the international atomic enter. the agency

are under way to ukraine's upper region nuclear power plants, which was being captured by russian forces. i a, a head fell. grosse says the team will visit the plant later this week. as concern grows over security at the site, russia and ukraine accuse each other of artillery strikes in the vicinity. the attacks are fueling fears of a catastrophic radiation leak official se radiation levels are still normal, but people living in the area are preparing for the worst people are queueing up in towns. neil this apple deja power plant for this green tablet. it's iodine and could help protect them against a radioactive leak. pillow issue, we were told an adult should take one tablet. i have a child, they should take half a tablet, a computer with google, and they've been worried about a nuclear disaster since polio, the seal ross soon after russia invaded ukraine. ah,

a simple polish. we brought up the false diamond window when the plant was shelled, the frost. i'm with emergency workers, a training for the worst moving victims who have been exposed to radioactive cloud, cleaning them, and testing levels of radiation on each other does up or asia power plant as europe's largest nuclear facility. ukrainian workers have continued to run it throughout the war, but it's occupied by russian forces. but you currencies compromises safety with with if they could come by and where there's lots of heavy equipment. anthony planned in country compet, vehicle trucks on tanks all sudden in the vine. the worst of all is that in the last 3 weeks, they put this equipment near the power units. number one, and number 2 in a little while fish lead means there are now like minds to norma,

russia, and ukraine. blame each other for shelling around the facility as the power plant stands exposed. well, earlier i asked our corresponded yon phillip shelton, keith about the fact that you and nuclear inspectors were on their way to these operations. nuclear power plot. yes, exactly. we are also hearing reports that say the international inspectors are on their way right now, and they will probably arrive at the plant and the 2nd top of the week. this is also consistent with announcements. announcements that the agency made says some days ago. a lot of observe us expected the trip to be imminent, especially after putin gave up his opposition to the idea of the inspectors traveling through non occupied territories in ukraine. it here in ukraine bay observers, the inspector is the team of experts. they are definitely very welcome and some

people here i seriously concerns about a possible disaster. there have been reports regarding our, our, to just over the weekends, new power outages, and also renew renewed fighting directly around the plans in the past 24 hours. yon phillip there being contradictory kinds from ukraine and russia by what's going on after his apparition plant. is there any way to verify what's actually happening? international report has contributed to the site at the moment, so there is no possibility to verify the information 1st. hence, however, we have talked to many employees that are still working at the plant and we've also talked to the towns mayor where the plant is located. at the same time we had for rush us history of a systematic disinformation, disinformation vets can easily be falsified. so we can almost say for certain that

russia is using the plant as the military bases, and that there have been false flag attacks by russia on the plant. but having set this down, also strong indications that ukrainian troops have attacked the plant several times in the past 2 weeks. and also the towns may or didn't deny that there have been ukrainian attacks around the plant. john philip, we've seen in the report and you've mentioned this, well, there's obviously concerns about radiation. what do we know though about the radiation levels at the plant? the good news is that the reason so measurements at the plant answer very close to the plant have all been within the normal range and the emergency system seems to be in place as we heard. and the reports offered in the report, authorities are continuing to distribute io, dean, i'm tablets. so there is no way to say everything is okay about the

radiation levels. are a normal range at the moment and everybody's looking forward for the team of international experts to arrive. thank you. yon phillips, yan full of shells and keith. now to pakistan, where a top cabinet minister has told d w that much of her country looks like a small ocean over 1000 people have been killed by weeks of devastating flooding and an estimated 300000 homes have been destroyed. the latest floods are heading areas in the north west, further south, but who, justine, and seemed provinces are taking the brunt of the extreme. whether the flooding has not that transport and communications and the state of emergency is in force or with millions left homeless. the prime minister is appealing to the world for help . it's hard for people in southern pakistan not to feel that all is lost. vast moving currents have swallowed up their homes and swept away their belongings. sakina dod is in disbelief as she and her family wade through waste deep water

rather than what i did re laboured and built a house by investing money. now look out at envoy that we're poor. how will my husband build another house with no job? there's not enough money to feed the children were all hungry about okay, then how can i write down the destruction is all around 300000 homes. last farmland, destroyed road ways rendered impassable. the future from millions here uncertain, amada, bother or big. another storm is coming on, the water will flow into the industry that we're scared of the river by. we don't know when the embankment will break. yeah, i got a, a bic was put on use gun. the government has declared an emergency. prime minister, shabazz sharif, joined flight crews, delivering relief supplies. soldiers help local authorities pluck people from the

floods. well, aid workers handout tents and other essentials. but help isn't reaching everybody quickly enough. some of the displace field abandoned by the government. and wonder how they will stay safe in the coming weeks. monsoon season is not yet over. and more rain and flooding is expected. authorities say by the time rains were seed, a quarter of pakistan could be underwater or pakistan's climate change. minister sherry raymond has just returned from the worst affected regions on she gave us heritage of you a 1st hand account of the devastation. well, as you can see, the image is a heartbreaking. it's not the sad part is it that it is not stopping. the rain is relentless. the water is coming down in buckets from a month to the sky. and we have now in our it's leak in the south of the country

where it is beginning. many districts are beginning to look like they're part of the ocean. our helicopter sorties are not finding dry land to drop, you know, rations essential services. people on the roof and on, on bits of high ground. we've had to deploy the navy for the 1st time to operate in, in the bucket because much of it looks resembles a small ocean. so yes, it's quite devastating. it is a climate catastrophe. and very clear, because the whole of this year we have seen one after another cascade of one after another event, extreme weather event and a guest time that good after season. and that started live to the in early march, late february, when we went straight from winter to spring pakistan became one of the hardest

places on the planet. 53 degrees in the south. and that in its triggered agreed de la public strength. it triggered the thought as a whole season, a fire, which we had to back in areas that we already have little cover. so it's been a very stressful time. and then of course, this unrelenting pakistan's climate change minister sherry raymond, speaking to us earlier. all right, well let's take a look at some other stories making headlines. the u. s. navy says to of its warships of sale through the taiwan strait. it's the 1st such show for since a recent escalation of tensions between china and us back to taiwan. the self ruled island is under constant threat for mainland china, which says it could use military action to bring taiwan under its control. brazil's

main presidential candidates have faced off in the 1st televised debate ahead of the general election in october, the incumbent chatbox from an accused. his once jailed rival ex president weaver in our seo left the silva of corruption lula whose leading impulse charged that also not. it was destroying the country. thousands of cyclists serve held a protest to taking over a stretch of mount weight near frankfort there, calling for improvements and public transport and for better road spaces for cycling and walking in the german state of hess. well, the u. s. space agency nasa is counting down to a high stakes lunar launch space enthusiasts have flocked to cape canaveral, florida to watch the maiden mission of the artemus program. blast office schedule just hours from now. the plan is to send an unmanned capsule around the moon and back to earth. if all goes well, future flights will carry astronauts to eventually set foot on the moon again. and

although it's beset by delays and cost overruns, artemus aims to use the moon as a springboard to mars alive look at nasa space launch system rocket and orion spacecraft ready on launch pad $39.00 b and less than 2 days. the rocket is ready and so it's the us space agency this year. this is the single step that starts the journey of a 1000 miles buckle up. everybody we're going for ride to the moon. charlie's last, it's been half a century and nasa is feeling the pressure as a nation. it is a new rocket and a new spacecraft to send humans to the moon on the very next flight. this is something that has not been done in over 50 years. it is incredibly difficult or, or buy up with

a lot has changed on it since neil armstrong uttered those iconic woods these days, they are better cameras and fast superior technology. the apollo why computer i have heard out about the same memory and processing power as the bob on your car key. think about that for minute. we flew to moon that for the international space station. what's also evolved the my is society. one of the stated ambitions of the autonomous mission is to put the 1st woman and person of color on the main likely astronaut jessica watkins. i certainly would, would be a jess absolutely thrilled to be able to be a part of the effort to, to go to another planetary surface, whether it be the moon or mars. the latter goal looms large in nasa sites. the agency views the ottoman program as a stepping stone for

a voyage to the red planet and the establishment of infrastructure in space. need. we need landing pads, we need communication systems, we need distributed power, and we hope to have a sustainable presence on the moon. maybe with our bases research stations on the moon, maybe with industry on the moon. we would like to demonstrate technologies and operations to live and work on a planetary surface, other than her power. back of 50 years after they made history on the surface of the moon, it's clear that nasa is eager to do it again. that they saw the american dream of living there can become a reality. monday's test flight will need to be a success. oh for more on this let's go to zill, fee car, albany for arm d, w science in bon good to season free car. so as we heard in the piece, this sad test flight needs to be a success. what's at stake here?

we're in a word a lot as it stake here, not only in terms of technology and science, but also culturally um, but let's what was back a little bit because we often talk about this being the time when we take people back to the surface of the moon, such as we did in 1069 with the apollo 11 mission um, but were ashy and about apollo 45 and 6. so about 2 years before that 19679068. you can sort of imagine that what we have to do is test the rocket. we have to test the or the that the spacecraft, the ryan spacecraft, which includes a european service module that has live support missions, earth light support services such as with water and oxygen. fuel and we're also testing the, the amount of radiation that astronauts as and when a crude mission takes place to the moon, the radiation that they will be there that they'll experience. so at the, at a loss is at stake. it's a lot as at stake, but today's mission is just the start. can you tell us more about the vision for

this program? well, the vision is um it at the latest is to put people on the moon. um by 2025. now it's just 3 years away or 2 and a half years away if you like. um, what we want to do though is not only set foot on on the moon. we want to explore the moon delete the moon has not been explored for over 50 years. and when it was explored the last time, it was only a very small part of the moon. but as we've been hearing, we want to set up a space station around the moon that can stay at remain as her as a, as a permanent base for future missions to, to mars. we want to be able to look for resources because you're only takes a short look out the window to see what we've done to the pilot earth. so we need more resources and being humanity as we are. we look further afield to we look into the moon, we look into mars to look for materials and fuels that we might be able to get

there. um and of course we want to live on the moon paths more high for thank video that are neither. i to be honest, but i think are this the start of a new space race? yeah. you know, a lot of people talk about a space race and there are indications of that. um, you know, a lot changed since the 50s, sixties, and seventies. when we had the cold war, there was a space raced them between the united states and soviet union. what was the soviet union back then? we have russia are, again, only these to the down of headlines to see what's happening there. but we have new players like china, china was the 1st country to land, a spacecraft on the so called the far side of the moon that the bit we can't see, we call it the dark side of the moon with just a bit that we can't see the americans haven't done that, the europeans haven't done that. the japanese haven't done that. you have other players such as the u. e on board, or india as well. however, scientists would prefer to call this more of a, as a space rate for humanity, or let's say in rural or technical terms, our biology, you know,

how can we as animals, human animals, and other animals and other species on this planet survived and progress into the future, so it's about, it's a, it's a race to, to maintain our biology in the universe. because of course, as we being, you know, who we are, we believe that we're at the only sort of biology that matters. being a little cynical but that's basically what it's about it's, it's about us. so few car, a bonnie from dw science. thank you . foreign ministers are meeting today where they're expected to make it more difficult for russian citizens to travel to the european union. to set a suspend a 2007 agreement giving preferential treatment to visa applications from russians. the measure falls short of the total travel band, some member states demanded. poland, latvia and lithuania, have already stopped issuing these as to russians,

and others may follow. well with us now is our brussels bureau chief alexandra from nam, and who's in prag? good to see alexandra. so how far are you foreign ministers prepared to go? well, apparently there is no agreement for a total ban on tourists to visa for russian citizens. instead a, we expect them to agree on the suspending of the suspension of her this visa agreement you just mentioned. and that means that it will be more difficult for russian citizens to get a visa. it will be more expensive, it will take more time, more waiting time. and then of course, they could be asked to provide more documents. and dad, the goal here is to reduce the number of russian citizens entering the european union's territory. but as i said, it seems that there is no will there among old members states to say, okay,

we are going to ban all tourist visa for russian citizens. as some member of states are demanding saying that it cannot be that people of ukraine are dying on the battlefield. and russian citizens are still allowed to travel and to go on vacation in the european union. however, some member states and among them germany, and we expect the german chancellor to be here in proc today are saying that you cannot punish the entire russian population for the war that was launched by their leadership. what you just mentioned that there, the german transfer all of charles in prague and he's expected to give a major speech about european policy what we expect from that. well, i think it's very telling that the chancellor has chosen proc and their child's university as a location for his key note on europe and europe's future. because this university stands for deep ties between the chap,

republic and germany and proc stance for the many highlights and also very a deeper points in europe's history and the fact that he is holding that speech. he has also stressing the importance of this eastern part of the block. we expect him to speak more about that site and then that, that he announced after russia's invaded ukraine. he will speak about the necessary reforms. the european union has to undertake to welcome a new members and of course, europe's sovereignty. thank you. alex sandra dw brussels bureau chief alexander phenomena joining us from prag ah, newly promoted bremen, and europa league winners. frankfort, rounded off the weekends bonus league matches, and it was a case of saving the best for last. the 2 sides, cheated out in a thrilling encounter that saw the goal mats bulge over and over again with

frankfort. eventually coming out on top, frankfurt were all smiles after their 1st ever champions late draw this week bout without to win yet this season and with key play a date g, canada room it to be leaving the club. there was cause for concern not so at breyman, who were in fine spirits after beating dormant last weekend. thanks to new signing oliver burke. but it was visitors, frankfurt who started on fire mario gut. so with the opener, the midfield, a scoring his 1st goal since arriving at the club in just a 2nd minute. breyman struck back though antony young hammered in the equalizer in the 14th minutes. and there was plenty more action to come before half time. first, breyman took the lead through leonardo bitten courts header, the frankfurt defense, nowhere to be found, leaving keeper, kevin traps stranded then it was frankfurt,

turned to school again, randal colo, milani's fancy, footwork, making it to, to with just over half an hour on the clock. but that wasn't all. yes, but lindstrom kept an incredible 1st half with a delicate chip. the pendulum swinging frankfurt way again at the end of a frantic 1st half. and after the break, they picked up where they left off. jib brill so curling home to make it for 2 that appeared to be that until breyman were awarded a penalty. in stoppage time, nicholas full crew converted and raymond needed just on more goals for a drop. but frankfurt just about held on for a, for 3, when their 1st league victory at the new campaign. let's take a look at the bonus league table after matched $84.00,

and byron. stay on top of the only on goal difference ahead of surprise package noon. glad back dropped to 6th in the bottom half labor couldn't jump out of the relegation zone, which is now made up of chalka. hatta and full max for stoppin has won the belgian graham pre great penalties in qualifying forced to form one champion to start the race in 14th place. but that didn't stop the red bull driver who took full advantage of his opportunities for our re driver. carlo side started in pole position instead of the penalized max for stopping. but by lap 6 red bull a's for stop in past sebastian federal to move into 5th, one laughed later, he overtook fernando alonzo to take for its place. and then he grabbed 3rd away from george wrestle. on lap 12, the 24 year old champion snatched the lead from teammate sat k. o. pettis for

stopping made his 1st pit stop by lap 16, and then 2 laps later he passed sides to retake the lead. for a good the world champion crossed the finish line, 17.8 seconds ahead of pet is with science a distant 3rd. this was reached athens 9th. when out of 14 races so far this season . quite a hectic for us. laugh to try and stay out of trouble. so many things happening in front of me either. once we settle enough for the safety guy. yeah, the guy was really on rails. i think the right places to the bus people. and now we could look after our tires, and that's how we made our way for them. after that, once we were in the, the, it was all about managing everything that they had this whole week. and it's been incredible. the wind puts fresh up in $93.00 points, clear of pettis and is another big step towards the 2nd straight formula. one title

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