without me, ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is, did you news lived from berlin? russia bids farewell to former leader mikhail gorbachev. crowds lined up in moscow to see the last leader of the soviet union laid to rest. that there is no full state funeral for the men. some russians reject as a traitor. also coming up, guys prom shuts down supplies to germany indefinitely. the russian energy giant has

been nord stream. one gas pipeline will stay offline blaming repairs. europe says that is a farce. and the tears flow as 23 time grand slam champion. serena williams bows out of the us open and possibly her career as she loses to australia is ayla. tom janet ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program. the last leader, the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, is being laid to rest in moscow. gorbachev died on tuesday at the age of 91. after a long illness. gorbachev's coffin is now with the knowledge of it. she's cemetery where he will be buried next to his wife rice. gorbachev's. earlier crowds lined up

in moscow to see the former president lying in state in an open casket at moscow's hall of columns. gorbachev is not being a given a full state funeral of the type, usually held for former leaders. russian president vladimir putin is not attending, citing a full schedule. most western leaders also stayed away because of putin's invasion of ukraine. and for more on this, i'm joined from reger by our correspondent uria reset. so and here in the who's lived in russia for the past 7 years and our political correspondent, simon youngest with me here in the studio in berlin year. let me turn to you of the russians are saying goodbye to their last soviet leader. how are they doing so well, many who came to the downtown of moscow to say good bye to mister gorbachev. many there thought very highly of him, like a young woman victoria,

our reporter has talked to. she said that a w that had she praised to the 6 years under garbage of as the best 6 years of her life. those was expectations of freedom and the best that could happen. she said unfortunately, russians could take advantage of all that any more. everything was taken away from there from them. victoria said, ah, but not every one appreciate gorbachev, and russia opinions like not everything was a bad under him, a common among the moskowitz, even as the ceremony today. and precisely, these words express some things that many russians feel about gorbachev. it's true that he gave russians freedoms as they could only dream on beef off before him about the price was too high. they say 9 out of 10 moskowitz, we talked to emphasized that it was garbage of who caused the collapse of their beautiful country of the soviet union as they say. and you're talking to us from riga yuri, as most western media outlets have, had to leave moscow because of

a situation. how is gorbachev remembered? not just in russia, but also in the former countries of the soviet union, such as latvia were, you are well, while many russians see the disintegration of the usaa as a catastrophe and criticized gorbachev for it, people in the former soviet republics hold him responsible for exactly the opposite for the fact that gorbachev didn't go on to the us, the sound to fall apart and to didn't wanted. for example, the baltic states and others of his publics to become a dependent marius of street protests in the early ninety's in georgia. and in the baltic states come to mind today, especially in neighboring lithuania, where they are war 14 dead and hundreds injured on the so called bloody sunday of videos. 30 years ago when soviet special forces tried to suppress the uprising. remembering these events, and gabriella is lance burgess, lithuanian foreign minister to beat it that lithuanians wouldn't forget how

gorbachev's army murdered civilians to prolong the occupation. awfully for anna, he sold yes. he wrote fired on an unarmed protestors and crushed them under his tanks. that's what's remembering how he are in lot van lithuania. you're going to ask you just to hold off instead to saved, stand by force as i turned to simon young, who's our political correspond here with ministry and britain at the legacy uri describe contrast, starkly with the memory of gorbachev here in germany, doesn't it? absolutely. i mean, here in germany we shall go which of ease. remember the above all is well the key architects of german reunification. that's why we've got flags lowered on the right stock parliament building here in berlin today. that's where we've got politicians from across the political spectrum. calling for some kind of official state memorial event to be held in gorbachev's honor. because in 1989, he came to east berlin. he met the east german leader, and he told him in effect,

the parties over here on your own. now, because he did say those exact words, but it was clear then that that was beginning of the end of the iron curtain. just a month later, the berlin wall fell. so i think they'll always be the sense of gratitude to go. which of here is the man who brought freedom to central and eastern europe at that time? of course he didn't always for see the, the consequences of his actions. well, let me get to that. i mean, do we know how gorbachev saw reunification at the time? it probably happened much more quickly than anybody was anticipating. well, i think that's definitely true and, and also for go which of himself in 1989. originally he did not think in terms of german reunification. i think his focus was on reducing the costs of the soviet military present. right in east germany. and i wanted to send the message to the

communist regime. as i mentioned, you know, we're no longer the guarantor, moscow will no longer be the arbiter and guarantor of communist power in these satellite countries. you have to do it yourself. now, at that time, you criticize, for instance, helmet coles. 10 point plan. we sent out a pathway to german reunification but by the beginning of 990, i think he already seen the writing was on the wall. he agreed to talk between the 4 allies, u. s. u. k. france and the soviet union. but also with the to germany and agreed the principal, they would be able to sort of determine their pathway if that lead to reunification and either a lot happened. or there's controversy, i just like to mention about whether promises were made at those talks that subsequently unfold folded about, you know, whether nato should expand to the, not an h to the was the right. that was used. gorbachev had different things to say

about whether he agreed to, you know, the, the plans for expansion. let me, let me turn to your, cuz you're setting off because that nato action is one of the reasons latimer putin used to justify his warren ukraine. i want to come back to you uri and, and ask you about vladimir putin, the current russian president and the departed mikhail gorbachev and how they got along and beyond that the, the nato expansion or what was the relationship like i want to describe the attitude of the ma gorbachev towards boot in his policy as a dramatic development and actually initially got a bunch of supported putins policy towards ukraine and crimea. ah, michele got a bunch of sad to the annexation was justified and a restoration of historical truth. ah gorbachev never commented directly on the so called a russian special military operation, ukraine recent months. but his

a long time english translator interpreter who worked with gotcha for almost 40 years sad. he spoke to him on phone just a few weeks ago. and he said he had been struck by how traumatized, shocked, and bewildered to call a bunch of wars by what was happening in ukraine. ok, thanks so much your every single year, a rossetto in riga and simon young talking about the passing of the last lead of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev. and his burial today. thanks so much to both of you. russia state owned energy supplier gas from has indefinitely halted the flow of gas through a key pipeline to germany. the company says it's discovered leaks in a turbine. it was expected to restart deliveries today after a short break for maintenance. instead, it announced a complete suspension without giving a time frame. it is still sending gas to europe through other pipelines. european leaders reject gas problems, reasoning to halt nord stream one. they see this as an extension of russia's war,

and ukraine seaman's, the german company that supplied gas problem with the turbine says, there is no reason the pipeline couldn't keep operating. earlier we spoke to an so she combo an expert on gas at the center on global energy policy at columbia university. she said the situation was dire for europe. we need to reduce all the men because what i'm afraid about is that the situation is going to. ringback go on for 3 years, right. can you me machine, how our industry or sector in europe is going to survive for 3 years? eva is eva shortage up in ashy because they're going to be just good of the asked to leave. we pretty crazy prices compared to anybody, s into what our industry just going to beat on competitive we are at war. we are at economic war. we've russia. i mean, people need to,

we ask that and we need to think. i said, we should be thinking in the ends of an economic war, not try to see maybe the fiscal year. maybe we can when you so we can be know. i mean, this is extremely serious situation that we are doing in terms of sports and the us open now we're, serena williams has lost what is likely to be the final singles match of her illustrious career. the 40 year old didn't go down without an almighty fight. however, as she was outlasted by australian miller can yonah rich in a 3 said ethic that lasted more than 3 hours. 23 time grand slam champion said later, she was ready to move on to other things in her lodge while she was still able to. yeah, it takes a lot of work to get here. clearly i'm still capable, but it also it takes a lot more than that. i'm really like your mom and explore a different version of serena. ok, and technically in the world i'm still super young, so i want to like have a little bit of a life. i'm still walking and to talk more about serena's exit from the us open.

anthony howard hears from the w sport. welcome, anthony. she, she didn't go down and she was without a fight. you think it was a fair result? it was, it was a favor. so and a conclusive result and a fair depiction and a conclusive depiction of way her game had really got to when she burst under the same all those years ago, she was able to quickly kill a point quickly, kill match quickly, kill a set, a whole whole game last night she was on court for 3 hours. and this was the, the perfect depiction of where it had got to what you saw in new york was not that the forehand was go on. the back end was gone. all the serve. on the far, she came back from a sit down to the level the match at want to pay, but what you saw that she couldn't get off the call quick enough 3 hours and this much was like a lot of others recently when she wasn't injured, you're spending too long on court so far the times marching on. and she was staying

on court longer and that was in the end. what brought her down. so this is being sort of billed as the end and she said her years and so on. but you know, a lot of these tennis stars have a kind of come back to her. any chance there is some sort of chance she's with the tow, even a slightly ajar. she was asked in the post match is this it and she says, yeah, and i'm more than likely and upset this and i can't go on, but i do love stria. you know, i wouldn't mind going back to it. but what i see is the ultimate alpha athlete is just struggling. decide this is it, i can't get to the record. she just can't bring yourself to say it in my view. she's the elf a competitor, and i think she just can't say that i'm not going to get to margaret quotes record is 24. she passed. if he gras record of 22, back in 2015. she's been sorry. 2017. she's playing playing for 5 years. chasing this record of 24 grand slam titles and hoping to get to 25. and it's been like not

so much a goal, but a ghost on the horizon that just can't quite touch. she's played on to 40 just to try and get to this record when it looks like the the evidence has been there for wall. and in last night's match. she was playing tom, you know beach was frank, 46. but it looked like an even match up. if she played someone $46.00 at her best, the game would be over an hour. so she's having trouble answering questions. let me ask you on see if you can answer it. sure. is she the best of all time? she's the best female tennis spider ever pick up a racket, i think pretty conclusively, and i'm a huge tiffy graph and that i think she's the best. ok at the our d. w. sports. thanks so much that it's very clear. yeah, this is deed of you news live from berlin up next, doc, film, racism down under violence against aboriginal australians, spicer unit, next hour. with

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