we explain how these technologies work, how they can only go some for but how they can also go terribly. watch, you know, ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukraine a launch was a long anticipated offensive to retake the southern region of hair. san keeps as its force as have already broken. the 1st line of russian defense. moscow says it is the wording advances and inflicting heavy casualties. also coming up on the show

with deadly clashes in baghdad, fortified green zone in supporters of iraq's powerful shiite cleric, mach tata al sutter storm. the government palace after he says, putting politics for good and launch called off. nasa postpones the lift off of its automatic one rocket for running into problems. ah hello, i'm claire richardson. thank you so much for joining us. ukraine says it has launched a major counter offensive to retake the southern region of her son occupied by russian troops. the much awaited push comes after weeks of preparation. ukraine has been attacking russia, supply routes in an attempt to isolate troops. there russia captured parasol early on in the war, facing little resistance. now ukrainian president will it emer zalinski is vowing

to push russian forces out of all occupied territories. ukraine is returning its own and it will return hockey. lew, hands to don, yet sc separation, the house on regions, crimea, and definitely the waters of the black and the seas. so is this the start of the counter offensive that the lensky has been signaling for months earlier? did you put that question to military analyst and justin crump, he ceo of the strategic advisory firm, civil line in the u. k. yeah, they situation is still confused as battlefields tend to be. but it certainly looked like a much more significant defensive operations. but then we can say, it does seem to fall in line with what the president wanted. and of course, there was a, as we discussed before in the program, a timeline view grain of wanting to achieve something in kirsten before any

referendum could be held by ross, which is plan september. so, ukraine's had this, this deadline of doing something in, in the region by september. so it does seem to all fall in line with that. and certainly the scale of what we're seeing is much larger than the ukraine, i think, is all the see, make great use of the western weapon donations subject to the high mars. and the m l r. s. rocket systems to disrupt the russians we've. we've seen that going on, intensified in the region over the last few days. they've also been husbanding a certain amount of the equipment they've been donated in limited amount of pictures we seen today. show some of the western supplied on personnel car is being used in what appears to be quite a decent combined arms attacked by ukraine. so using tanks, infantry across and heavy got to tillery altogether to achieve lisa limited breakthrough in the rushing front. as far as you understand it now, obviously driven, i'm sued like everything and warfare. ultimately it's extension of this glens,

but the pity sense that there's a need for an operation and the possibility of succeeding in something. ang her said that this time as military analyst at justin crump speaking to us earlier or in iraq, tensions are soaring on that a political crisis that has left the country without a government since elections last october. at least 15 people were killed after supporters of the influential shiite cleric, mach tata. al sutter stormed the government palace after he announced he was quitting politics. ah, supporters of finance, shia cleric mcdonough, it's under reach. but does heavy fortify green's own? in india, whom do ministries and embassies the soon over and the government balice and i, i thought that out of a our revolution is so lena. rocky was it. it's not southwest, don't. this isn't

a rocky revolution with any of the iraq. it should be returned to people with anita up. why yamaha? i let what's your plan? oh, our demands are to dissolve parliament and to hold the corrupt to account and we say to saddler, we will sacrifice for you victory's aus on my son, alina. while lou inside, many was seen lounging in meeting rooms, used by iraqi heads of state and cooling off in a swimming pool in the garden, they were soon driven out by security forces using deal gas and gunshots. the un mission to iraq, as well as the united states, called on all sides for restraint. the plan up of violence follows months of political deadlock in iraq looked at those others movement as of this block was the biggest winner in october's election. but he failed to form

a government that excluded his. she or i was close to her on law moral myself. he would do his lawmakers from parliament in june. what was that while on my aunt buddy and his followers have since been stating a sitting outside the parliament calling for fresh elections? well, this isn't the 1st time the influential garrick has withdrawn from politics. you thought to know for the cotton deadlock in iraq appears hotter to resolve than in the past. and i'm very pleased to welcome daniel sir. we're a professor at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. i'm chaotic scenes in baghdad. can you tell us more about what has led up to this unrest? election results to make a long story short of mac does southern believe city one, the elections in the sense that he be arrival she a group, but he was unable to form

a government and he withdrew his members from parliament. you know, boy cutting parliament is never a great idea because in new members are appointed in, in they form a government without you and that's what he's trying to prevent. and he thought her husband, a long time major player in iraq's political scene. but it has been more than 10 months since elections. so what is his motive for leaving politics now at this point? i think he's trying to show that he's indispensable. i'm not sure he's leaving politics at all. i think what he's doing is rousing his supporters to make enough trouble that new elections are called and he tells a little bit more context about why it has been so difficult to form a government in this period. this a splintering of political groups in iraq and as i said,

it was unwilling to form a broad coalition. he wanted a majority arian government. iraq has been ruled by men, but broader coalitions since the american nation. you know, there comes a time for a majority. gerry, in government, in a place like iraq, but he didn't have the votes, and that's what really counts. speaking of the u. s. invasion or how much of a role have a foreign interests as such as the united states or iran, a plate and influencing the current situation? it's hard to tell. iran certainly supports the sheer rivals mcgonagall center. i think they're unhappy with him. the americans, you know, they're perhaps content to see the caretaker of go government the premises to come

to me, continue in power because he's friendly united states. they probably can't get better than him out of either a different coalition or new elections. so looking ahead, do you think that is what could end this crisis fresh elections? it's entirely possible that they will go to new elections. that would be frustrating. i think for a lot of the rockies, iraq is have wanted an effective government. they've wanted the government committed to clean government committed to providing services, and they're not getting. all right, we're gonna have to leave it there. but daniel sir, we're professor at johns hopkins. thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us on d. w. news we're going to bring you up to speed now with some of the other story

making headlines at this hour. international aid has begun to reach pockets on the army and volunteers try to evacuate tens of thousands of flood victims. unusually heavy monsoon rains have triggered flash floods, claiming the lives of more than a 1000 people this summer. brazil's main presidential candidates have laced often the 1st televised debate ahead of october's general election. incumbent desirable scenario accused his rival, former president louise enough to let a silver of corruption. lula who is leading in the polls accused president both scenarios of destroying the country and goal as presidential warrants, who has been handed the 2nd term in office after the countries electoral commission declared his party. the winner of last week elections commission said the long ruling m. p l. a party won a 51.2 percent majority. fewer than half of anger was registered,

voters turned out for the vote. well, it is one of the world's most ambitious space programs. nasa's multi $1000000000.00 artemus mission aimed at one day, getting humans back on the moon and eventually mars. but it has gone off to a disappointing start. the u. s. phase agency was forced to scrub the launch of its largest ever rocket after a number of technical problems. the next attempt is likely to happen friday. the 98 meter rocket and its unmanned capsule, a ryan were left sitting on the launch pad. as the minutes ticked by us, vice president carmella harris had flown into cape canaveral to witness the lift. off of the most powerful rocket ever built by nasa. tourists had flocked to nearby locations all keen to get a glimpse of the action. but a whole series of technical problems meant the launch had to be called off. it's

yet another disappointment for the ottoman new program after a series of postpone launches. but nasa said spotting problems is part of the exercise. that is the whole reason for this test flight to stress it and to test it to make sure it's as safe as possible. when artemus 2, when we put humans in the spacecraft at $1.00 0 ram, ram or buy up with more than half a century ago, landing on the moon captured the imagination of an entire generation. now the human race is looking once again to return to the moon. if all goes well with this test mission accrued flight could be launched as early as 2020 full. one of the stated ambitions of the ultimate mission is to put the 1st woman on 1st person of color on

the moon. it's expected to be astronaut, jessica watkins. i certainly would, would be just 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. it's the red planet. that's the ultimate goal. but the ultimate mission, it's to 1st build a permanent presence on the moon. it would then use the moon as a proving ground for a mission to mars. but 1st, it has to get its maiden test flight successfully of the launching pad and astro biologist and former nasa employee. he's having told us more about what went wrong . well, it seems that there's a valve that goes to one of the engines, and when they started to pump the very, very cold, liquid hydrogen through, it didn't get cold enough for the system to say, go ahead. you don't want these engines to be warm when you're starting to fire them . you want them to be very cold. free. the agents were fly but one was not. and

unfortunately they just, you know, took some time off. i thought, you know, do we have enough time today to fix this? and the answer is no. so they scrubbed when i worked for nasa, i probably tried to see more shuttle launches than i actually saw. and so this isn't unusual. and i actually was giving people 5050 odds today that they would actually launched in that something like this would not happen. unfortunately, what happened today. they admitted that, yeah, you know, we could have tested this last time. we did a test, but the last time they did a test, something went wrong as well. we're good enough with that. so you know, this is not unexpected. it's disappointing. but you know, again, as they say, it's better to be safe than sorry. as keith cowan speaking to us earlier, just before we go, let's get a reminder of the top stories we're following for you. ukraine says it has launched, it's long anticipated attempt to retake the southern region of her son. moscow says it is warding offenses and inflicting heavy casualties and deadly

clashes in baghdad. fortified green's out violence broke out after supporters of influential cleric walked hot. al sutter stormed the government palace after he announced he was stepping down from politics. patching his update at this hour stephen beardsley will be here after a short break with the business that lives. of course there's always more on our website at dw talk. com. i'm clear richardson in berlin for me in the team. thanks much for watching. several did and wide wing extremists, women's rights regressed, and again, world might be and coping weight and burned in south africa. people with disabilities more likely to lose their jobs. in the pandemic black lives matter of shiny spotlight on racially motivated to lose minds.