ah ah ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin tonight, a team of you in experts preparing to cross ukraine's what was on their way to the russian occupied zap reaching nuclear power plant. the head of the mission says that they plan to stay there and prevent a nuclear catastrophe. also coming up tonight or leaders paying tribute to mikhail

gorbachev, the last leader of the former soviet union and the man credited with helping to end the cold war will get reaction to his passing plus the u. s. approved updated post 19 vaccines that target the latest strains of the o micron variant. the new booster shots could be going into arms in a matter of date. ah, i'm raghav, it's good to have you with those experts from the u. n's nuclear watchdog are on their way to these upper ricci a nuclear power plant in ukraine, to carry out long awaited inspections. now to get there, they have to cross the front line between the city of separate here which is still under russian or ukrainian control rather. and then go into russian occupy territory around the nuclear plant. the mission fall is weeks of

a growing concern over fighting around the reactors, arriving to conduct what the head of mission calls of very complex task un inspectors are preparing to visit bizarre parisha power plant on thursday. for now, the team remains in ukrainian controlled territory. but the head of the un mission was clear that they are heading to a walls own, insisting his team house one job to prevent a nuclear accident. you know, we don't carry demi his antiquity with his admission that seeks to prevent a nuclear accident. and to preserve as it's important, the largest, the biggest threat, bowers and in europe, the whole of europe, not only in ukraine. so this is what we are concentrating. ukraine and russia had accused each other of shelling areas near to the facility last week. damage

to a transmission line, not the plant off line heightening fears of a radiation leak, or even a react to meltdown. ukraine's energy minister said to visit by the un should drive home the dangers posed by zakiria. the bottom bottom that this wizard should, ah, underlying the importance of nuclear security and that the russians should understand that they cannot play with this. any games. as combat continues on ukraine's eastern front, all eyes runs up parisha hoping to prevent a disaster that could reach far beyond the country's boulders or corresponding mathias rolliger. he is in the city of zachary jumped. he told us what he's learned about the un inspectors, nuclear inspectors chances of crossing into russian hill territory. we are hearing

conflicting signals, russian officials have announced that they will arrive to morrow morning indicating that it will be a speedy process. on the, on the other hand, the occupational authorities have said that they will not be handed a pass through the checkpoints and then they will, they will have to queue up like everybody else, potentially delaying their arrival. it will be very important for them to reach the site and to figure out what's really happening. they're selling a has occurred today again, and we really don't know how safe the situation is at the moment. but they original plan is that they will travel there to morrow and that they will get access to the plant. that was monte is bellinger reporting from ukraine. tribute are being paid to mikhail gorbachev, who died yesterday at the age of $91.00. the last leader of the soviet union, he helped in the cold war by forging better ties with the west. today germany

chance are all up schoultz said the gorbachev had been a courageous reformer who dared to do many things. russian president putin to day held gorbachev as an extraordinary global statesman. but the kremlin also said that gorbachev had been badly mistaken about the prospect of friendly ties with the quote, blood thirsty west e. now we want to take a look at mikhail gorbachev. legacy as seen through the eyes of his fellow russians . some blame him for the soviet union's collapse. some even see him as a traitor. 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. one waiter was cousin go. he laid the foundation for democracy that existed in the late ninety's and early 2, thousands was much more. he was a remarkable politician from the only and last president of our country who did

good and bad things of that as i, you'll see that the country fall apart. and now my relatives live in a different country. the ex soviet republics aren't together anymore. that's that ocean front, we lost her home country and i restoring it. now. it was a big one. now it's a small one whiling and gorbachev's homeland ambivalence rains, kremlin spokesman dmitri pasco, 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 opponent's t w's. russian affairs analysts. constantine eager to join me earlier from vilnius . in lithuania, i asked him why president dugeon and mikhail gorbachev avoided, criticizing each other publicly despite their very different perspectives on the soviet union's final days. well,

i think because both for their own reasons in they disliked boris yeltsin period, 99 his in russia's history. and gorbachev saw yeltsin, evidently as some one who took away not only his chair and the kremlin, but his country. the soviet union, which she tried to reform and put in of hers hated yeltsin for pro western policies for trying to curtail the parasol the k to be and essentially by basically reducing russia's growth, standing as a great power in the world. so both had their attitudes to yelton, but putin being a politician understood that she cannot avoid declaring national mourning for yeltsin because that's just the protocol. we know that mikhail gorbachev supported the 2014 annexation of crimea. but what happened afterwards? it's not to clear me, do we have an idea of what gorbachev thought about vladimir putin in the invasion

of ukraine? you know, brent, i think that's my impression. gorbachev was always very careful to keep his bill to himself. and although we had some hints that he was disappointed with what happened from the 24th of february, oh, this 8 years since put in invaded, he craned 2014. she never said any word of direct criticism. he supported, as he said, the annexation, he supported put his policies that his official, what he thought maybe will know eventually, but not now. his public record remains as such. constant innagot is always with excellent insight. russia and the passing of mikhail gorbachev. constantine, thank you. let's take a look now at some of the other stores that are making headlines around the world. germany has reached a compensation deal with relatives of his release killed in the attack at the munich olympics. in 1972 german media are reporting that the families will receive

28000000 euros. 11 israelis and a westerman police officer were killed when palestinian militants broke into the olympic village and took hostages. the death toll from pakistan's catastrophic monsoon flooding is still rising. authority say more than 1100 people have died since the middle of june, efforts to get aid to millions of people of stranded and homeless. have begun that the united nations is appealing for a 160000000 euros in emergency funding. u. s. health officials have approved updates to coven 19 vaccines that target. the latest strains of the omicron buried the tweaked booster shots made by madonna. in 5 or by on tech, could be available in a matter of days. they will only be administered to people who have already received their primary vaccinations. we have more now on why could be the vaccines needed that update and how it's being done. to help fight off coven 19 vaccines

induced defensive measures, and the body among them are the production of protective antibodies that can recognise and latch on to the surface of the corona virus. especially it's spike protein that can stop the virus from docking on to cells to infect them and flag it up for destruction by other immune system defenders. but if the structure of the spike protein changes due to mutation, it can have consequences. the immune system might no longer quickly recognize the invader. ami kron has over time adapted to become all the more efficient for infecting human cells. there are a number of parameters and characteristics that make it a really difficult virus to deal with. one of which is because it is change some of

its surface structure by a mutation. and the spike has a number of changes m r n. a vaccines use snippets of genetic code to make the body produced to spike protein to stimulate an immune response to starz cove. you to re writing the code is a pretty fast and straightforward process and changing it changes to vaccines associated spike protein. so why have on a cron specific vaccines taken so long to arrive? this has a lot to do with 2 factors. factor one, we're not sure that better adapting and refining the vaccine is genuinely going to afford a market improvements in protecting against future infections. and then, of course, at the level of the manufacturer, decisions have to be made. when do we bite the bullet and actually now produce

a new vaccine. experts hope messenger r n a vaccine technology will help us keep pace with new variance of stars covey to . as the virus continues to evolve. earlier we asked eric fagel, dean and epidemiologist and co founder of the world health network. if vaccination efforts will be able to keep up with the mutating buyers, why? i think if we stay ahead of the game with the most current are variance adapted back seen. i think we can stay ahead because right now be a 5. is the dominant strain worldwide, and this new booster is for the 5. so it's perfectly tailored for the virus at the current moment. just like over a year ago, the one point, oh, oh, vaccine was tailored for the vaccine for the virus at that time. but we have to stay ahead of it. and this is for the same reason we have flu vaccine updates every

year as well. but again, we cannot just let the virus spread. it's good to reduce both hospitalization, an infection because it's infections. oh, massive number of people's though only breed more very there was eric fargo doing speaking with me earlier. the world's oldest film festival, the venice film festival has kicked off after taking place under covert restrictions for the past 2 years. this is the 1st time that the event is happening without mask since 2019. with an all star lineup of celebrities in films. it's also hoping to mark a return to the glitz and glamour of festivals past 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. cuban actress on a day amass plays marilyn monroe and blond, showing the darker side of the hollywood icon. ah, the buzz around cate blanchett performance is a driven conductor in tar. won't be in venice. the distant director was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment by the iranian government of his new film, which was shot in secret explorers, the struggle of a band artist to live and work in iran, as for the odd with him equal yeah, love of mine has no initiative and now on to him, was of it a little bit holiday. i'm off that and the last our house fans will have 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 cinema's

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