ah, ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin weld leaders have been paying tribute to mikhail gorbachev, who has died at the age of 91, the loss leader of the former soviet union. gorbachev is credited with helping to end the cold war in his homeland russia. his legacy is mixed. but in the west, he is seen as a hero. chancellor will upshaw, it says germany in particular, is gorbachev a huge debt of gratitude for thinking of mikhail gorbachev. and know how important

he has been for the development of europe and our country as well in recent years. also coming out the team of un inspectors is heading towards the upper region nuclear power plant in ukraine. that visit comes as fears grow that shelling that could spark a dangerous radiation leak or nuclear accident at the site and devastation on an unimaginable scale. the un pools pakistan's floods an unprecedented climate. catastrophe, says the world is sleep will kick right into the next disaster. ah, i manuscripts mckennan, thanks for joining us. the soviet leader who helped end the cold war mikhail gorbachev has right the age as 91. gorbachev introduced policies that

encouraged openness and reform within the communist blog and ford warm, a ties with the west. this ultimately brought down the iron curtain that had divided europe since 1945 and put germany on track to re unification. but while often hailed as a hero in the west, at home, his legacy is complicated. dorothy of your machine, mikhail gorbachev. first speech as leader of the soviet union, it was clear he was a stark contrast to his predecessors. we thought he was the old right. i live in peace and freedom as the most him. you hold my basic right to viet shinla vigil brower chill area. gorbachev wanted to change the soviet union to bring it closer to the people. he promoted glasnost openness and perestroika reforms to words that will forever be associated with him. his new outlook was popular with

many his policies also applied to the military. despite the resistance of soviet generals issued to us in severe voters, all, unless i'm convinced that we will also have to reform our military. but he, we have far too many weapons, love safely. we have to seek dialogue with other superpowers and reduce our arsenals to a reasonable extent in that yourself. as a result of that dialogue gorbachev and you as president reagan find the 1st of many disarmament treaties in 1987. it was the beginning of the end of the cold war in october 1989 when he visited east berlin for the g d r's, 40th anniversary celebrations. gorbachev urged eric hanukkah to implement reforms.

he warned the eastern leader saying, life punishes those who come to late a month after his visit. the berlin wall fell and with it, the iron curtain that had divided europe for decades. it was gorbachev's, reformist, policies that helped unleash a peaceful revolution across eastern europe. in 1990 gorbachev was awarded the nobel peace prize for his key role in bringing about a new peaceful world order. internationally, he was highly regarded but at home he was increasingly under pressure. the economic situation was dire. the soviet union on the verge of falling apart, communist hardliner stage to cool against gorbachev in august 1991. at the end of that year, mikhail gorbachev announced his resignation and the soviet union was dissolved with

many russians holding him responsible for its demise. let's take a listen to what german chancellor will i shall, is had to say on the passing of the last soviet leda. be this in the same and upset your stall. we know that he died at that time when not only democracy has failed in russia. you cannot describe the current situation there in any other way above me. 5. but as russia and russian president, putin has created fresh divisions in europe, settled and begun a terrible war against its neighbor ukraine. and because of that, we are thinking of me how gorbachev isn't and know how important he has been for the development of europe and our country as well. in recent years, young at a political correspondent, thomas barrow has more about how jen. and he is mikhail gorbachev. there's a reason why god chose relation to germany and to the germans is described as

a special relationship as a reason why gorbachev's has been described here in germany. as germany's most beloved russian at the reforms that he put in place in the soviet union were absolutely significant. not only for the fall of the berlin wall for the whole process around that, for those peaceful demonstration in eastern german cities, the so called peaceful revolution. but also to germany's reunification. after that, it's important to remember that when german chancellor helmut coil was planning and discussing the possibility of german reunification, he not only sought the approval of the united states. he also sought the approval of the soviet union. and as a very memorable meeting in february of 1990 when he visited moscow. and he said that gorbachev was basically in favor of german reunification. and this clearly explains why gorbachev's until to day remains an incredibly important figure. not

only for the fall of the berlin wall, but also for german reunification. and that's something that, by the way, you see most of the statements that have come out to day responding to mister gorbachev's death. he w as thomas ferry. thank you so much. is around the world have been paying tribute to mikhail gorbachev. let's take a listen to some of their reactions did. could they thought in more school that i remember very well this is taught these days? well, let me highlight which of send we into freedom of russian society. he tried to change the come with the system from insight gerber. with mister gorbachev made positive contributions to the normalization of china. soviet relation, stuart, who did you get cargo highs? it's neat sandals. who say god has left behind a great accomplishment as a world leader and supporting the abolition of nuclear weapons or social steamers?

no, he did not. through. joe is a lead a great to hear man. because which of one of those people who changed the world and unquestionably changed it for the better that while in the west, gorbachev is often described as a unique elder statesman who changed the course of history for the better in russia . some blame him for the demise of the soviet union, even viewing him as a traitor. as day broke in moscow. so to did the news of mikhail gorbachev, death russia's news channels reported that president vladimir putin had expressed his deepest condolences. but musk invites themselves were not united in mourning, their former leader on weight was kaiser with i have a negative view of michelle gorbachev's time and power. we still, he did

a lot of damaging things to our country. we're the ones facing the consequences on you'll go, us was gone. i think he wanted to show all countries and also the western europe. i would say all countries around the world that we are a peaceful country on. if she wore beautiful gazette that we are ready to desire love from us from it. not thought of little rosalind, he introduced ballistic missile reduction, et cetera, et cetera. wagner, in gorbachev's homeland ambivalence reigns, kremlin spokesman dmitri pascoe of hailed him as a statesman who will go down in history, but dismissed his hopes, of a rapprochement between russia and the west. as romanticism that did not work out was in the face of what he called the bloodthirsty innes of moscow's opponents. he has dw yuri russia, so in riga lapierre with more on the next few the russians have of mechanical the tough mikhail gorbachev was arguably the most courageous politician of the 20th

century. he was able to change history to break apart something similar, unbreakable, as the soviet union. mister garbage was also responsible for her possible for a period of very difficult political reforms before the collapse of the soviet union. and i, it took russia a long time to overcome the economic crisis and poverty of the early, early ninety's. so many people in that pu russia came to feel that gorbachev reforms glasnost and perestroika were not enough to provide them with a dignified life. so mikhail gorbachev st. legacy after the collapse of this of you to noon a collapse at that he is risk arsenal, associated with a is a difficult one. and nowadays, more than a quarter century after the fall of the iron curtain, many people in russia say they feel betrayed by gorbachev and more generally that they feel betrayed by the west. can you tell us a little bit about the relationship between gorbachev and

a lot of nathan it was a very difficult russian ship and got a bunch of supporters like they put in many, many times. ah, he agreed with his policy ukraine, but he didn't agree reportedly with let a bit of let him put him swore in ukraine. and what about in former soviet countries, light latvia where you are, how is the gorbachev regarded there? when when mikhail gorbachev came to power, as the soviet union was an agent country, a con, economy was in shambles. the war ethnic conflicts cooking up in parks of the country. a bunch of new, the soviet union needed reformers, glosson at perestroika openness and restructuring, was the instruments used to try and save the country. but with their newly won freedom of expression, especially of the baltic states were pushing for independence. ah, yeah. gorbachev created the atmosphere for independence to blossom in the baltics.

and i think many people here appreciate that. on the other hand, he did try and suppress protests. in lithuania, a foot 14 people were killed and at least $700.00 people were injured. lithuanians put up as strong resistance that gorbachev had not counted on. and of course, and got much of his a symbol of the soviet union, which also means that the time of the soviet occupation at this time is called here . so to summarize, i think the view people have on gorbachev here is very, very mixed. it up is your 8 rossetto enrica thanking to ukraine now where the government has accusing russian forces of firing on a town close to the japanese or nuclear power plant. moscow has also accused kiva shelling the site, which was captured by russia back in march. and the attack comes as experts from the you and make their way to the plant. they have now reached the city of jeopardy

asia, and we'll continue from that to the nuclear plan site for leaving. they said they hoped to assess and stabilize situation. fears have been growing that the fighting could spark a nuclear accident or lead to a dangerous radiation leak. he w correspondent mathias bellinger isn't jack preacher, and he told us earlier what the un inspectors are likely to focus on during the visitor. there has been selling in our gar for now some weeks. some of it has it closely to the plan or to electric lines and other important structures near the plant, so they will as, as the damage. that's the 1st thing there will assess how the security systems are working. every power plan has a range of systems that are either need to be activated in cases of security or that protect the power plant or will ensure the cooling thiefs on. so there cannot

be no nuclear moat down. so this is the 2nd thing they want to do. and the 3rd thing is that they want to talk to the stuff the ukranian start from this power plant and see what they're working conditions are like, and whether this is do sustainable at his bellinger in a chef region. now, the flow of energy to europe, since russia's invasion of ukraine has changed considerably with both russia and the ease threatening to cut all energy ties. now russia says it is suspending gas deliveries to germany through a major pipeline russian energy firm gas prompts as the north stream. one pipeline will be stopped for 3 days for necessary maintenance work. russia had already reduced non stream one flow is to just 20 percent of their normal capacity. citing technical reasons. germany says the kremlin is weapon, eyes and gas supplies. in retaliation for western sanctions,

a german government leaders have just held 2 days of talks, discussing their response. to w political correspondent, nina hossa was following those government talks and has more on how prepared at germany is to tackle the energy crisis. where we've seen a cautiously optimistic counsellor here at this cabinet retreat in misa back outside of berlin. and i would say for the very 1st time, i will have schwartz has shown himself cautiously optimistic that germany is prepared for this winter, and possibly even the next. he said that the government started very early on to prepare such a scenario where russia would reduce or even caught his gas supplies to germany, even before russia invaded ukraine in february by the way. and so the laws are in place to launch all sorts of emergency measures. they've also sped up the approval processes for infrastructure project. so l and d terminals are being built in northern germany right now, where the 1st gas can flow from other countries into germany. coal power plants

will run longer than planned and possibly also nuclear power plants will run longer . so there is a variety of measures which is why gemini feels that it is prepared in terms of energy security. and yet many people here in germany, a really genuinely concerned about a huge increase in gas prices this winter was the government's planned to, to help people who are worried about their heating bills. well, that's of course a major concern. and again, all i showed said that the government acted, even before many other people saw that there was a problem on the horizon. and they launched to big financial relief packages in the course of the summer worth. $30000000000.00 euros and work is currently underway for a 3rd such package and finance minister can lintner said he wouldn't give the details yet, but he said that it will probably be a similar amount, a 2 digit figure when it comes to billions of euros that are going to be spent next

year and possibly also a single digit figure in the course of this year. but this is definitely something where germany is trying to help people like students, families, but also pensioners cope with those soaring energy prices. all i've choice has now repeatedly said to germans, you will never walk alone. and interestingly, he said it in english several times and so he knows full well that he is going to be measured by these words one day. it only is nina as a thank you so much. ok, let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. are you? iraqi president, bonham sala has called for early elections to settle a political crisis which has triggered some of the deadliest violence in years. at least 30 people have been killed since clashes between rival shiite factions broke out on monday, influential shiite cleric, not todd al sada, has cooled on his supporters. to end that protests was yorba. the taliban had been

celebrating the 1st anniversary of the withdrawal of us troops from afghanistan. president biden faced heavy criticism when his forces withdrew, allowing the taliban to regain control of the watchful country in a truck as plowed into a bus stop in jakarta, killing 10 people, most of them elementary school children. the truck also down to a telephone pole which crashed into motor bikes and a pickup truck driver has been detained by local police or the u. n. has called the floods in pakistan, an unprecedented climate catastrophe. secretary general antonia garish, said the world with sleep walking into the destruction of the planet, he urged leaders to prevent what he called the next disaster. millions of acres of farmland and pakistan have been submerged more than 1000 people have been killed and millions more. have lost their homes as the reins. finally, these,

the scale of the catastrophe becomes clear. the worst flooding in pakistan's history has lift more than one 3rd of the country. under water. satellite images revealed the sheer extent of the damage which pakistan's foreign minister has blamed on climate change. i want to emphasize here that the scale and magnitude of the current floods is unprecedented, whereby the country received rainfall equivalent to 3 times the national a national 30 year average. this is a grave manifestation of climate change induced disaster. the devastating floods have forced more than half a 1000000 people to flee to dry ground. many now shelter in makeshift camps where supplies of food, medicine and clean water are running dangerously low. the un secretary

general appealed to the international community for help. warning that the climate induced crisis poses a global challenge. pakistan is a washing suffering. the pakistani people are facing them on soon on steroids. the relentless impact of epochal levels of rain and flooding. let stop sleep walking towards the destruction of our planet by climate change to they. it is pakistan to morrow, it could be your country. the u. n. has cold for a $160000000.00 in international aid to help those most in need. but the pakistani government says it will need more than $10000000000.00 to recover and with more rain predicted in the coming weeks. that number is likely to rise. earlier we spoke to was seen off mad. he's the ceo of islamic relief. and he told

us what he's witnessed in the worst hit parts of north west pakistan. the friction everywhere where i'm standing this morning. we arrived in the shallow lady of the stigma. shad i'm kitty k programs. the 200 house is just washed away by the flood 3 days ago. we're trying to reach to this area, but there was summer, it's the water, and the house is behind me, all was covered in water. and this is the destruction that the monsoon season and the flooding is doing all the cost. unfortunately, getting this much made it really supplies such as food items, shelter kids and hygiene. give is challenging. we are trying for last 2 days to get to the stadium. what do you manage this morning to get to a wider dryer ground where we managed to really for white these relief items to over 200 families? i was washing on that. now the venice film festival, the wells, the oldest kicks off today after 2 years because it restrictions venice will be

mosque free this time with an all star line off of celebrities and films expected. it's also hoping to mark a return to the glitz and glamour the festivals past. oh, when it comes to old world movie magic, no one does it better than the venice film festival. for this year, the goal is clear to get film fans excited about going back to the movies. female figures are and focus on the lido gibbons actress on a day amass plays marilyn monroe and blond, showing the darker side of the whole wood icon. ah, the buzz around cate blanchett performance is a driven conductor in tar already as people talking about the oscars.

oh. ready ready ready jeff are upon a, he won't be in venice. the distant director was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment by the iranian government. his new film, which was shot in secret, explores the struggle of a band artist to live and work in iran as for the odd with him here for yeah, love mars, as long as they keep moving on to him was a little bit hot. again, i'm off that he handles our house fans will play to watch in venice this year. the big question is whether the world's oldest film festival can get them off the couch and back into cinemas. ah. so let's go to venice now and speech while garcia and scott rock sprout, who filed at that report. hi scott. now this is as we just heard the 1st venice film festival since corona restrictions were lifted. what are you hearing from the

movie lovers? are they having the best time? oh yeah, i did. you, as you can imagine, i mean, i was here the last 2 years where there were under corona restrictions, but it was very, very small audience. obviously, up and not that many film fans were allowed to attend, but just a few minutes ago i passed by the red carpet and there are already people camped out there a waiting for a tonight's opening night films, hours and hours away, but they're already a stack 2 or 3 deep, and i can only imagine what it's going to be like a going forward. i mean, we've got films with a heart throbs, a timothy shamay and a hairy styles coming. so i imagine we're going to have hundreds of screaming fans, and i have to say, i've really missed that. i've really missed that incredible excitement around movies that we haven't had for for so so long. i that i bet now netflix has full films in the running on the leader has the streaming giant, perhaps finally one of the cinema lovers. yeah, i think so. i mean,

venice was the absolute 1st to jump on the netflix bandwagon. they had their 1st netflix film screen here in competition, i think 7 years ago. and they've been netflix films here ever since. um, but having 4 films here, i think really a good is a, is a really strong sign for netflix, particularly a given the sort of bad news that we've heard from the company in the last few months with the subscriber numbers falling off. toxic cost cuts, i think having 4 big films here i'm in venice is assigned from netflix to say we belong here. we belong to the top of the cinema world and we have no plans to go. now, venice is of course, often seen as a bell. whether said the oscars, can you tell us what films are particularly standing out? 3rd, e yeah, i think this looks like a year of incredible performances a here in venice. i mentioned the piece a cate blanchett in entire which plays a classical composer. a composer of that film is already getting our oscar buzz of

next week. we're going to see a m and a mas, a plate. marilyn monroe in the netflix film blond. everybody's talking about that as a huge amount of buzz around that film. and i'm particularly really excited to see a brendan frasier of who's going to be here with a film called whale, a playing a 500 pound man. it looks like it could be a comeback performance ah, for frazier. a who's really one of my favorite actors, but really hasn't had that breakout a role to, to put him in. so the oscar contenders. i'm and maybe this will be the film to do it. but it wouldn't be venice if uh there were a lot of surprises to come in the next 10 days. sounds fantastic. scott, have a great time and thank you so much here for saying from then if you're watching the dublin. yes. as a reminder, at the top story, we're following fully tribute to being made around the well to full that soviet leader, me hell will the child has died at the age of 91 with policies that promoted free speech and reform within the communist bloc. gorbachev forged

a new dialogue with the west, but ultimately broke down the iron curtain and force about german reunification. you are watching daily news live from violet and coming up next. i'll show eco africa. and don't forget, you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock in the website at www dot com. i minute group is mckennan. i'll be back at the top of the hour with ah, with,

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