a 3 years that wouldn't change the world forever. but jillions journey around the world starts september 7th on d w. ah . ah, this is did you use live cumberland, russia bid farewell to former leader mikhail gorbachev. crowds lined up in moscow to see the last leader of the soviet union laid to rest. but there was no full stay funeral for the man. some russians reject as a traitor. also coming up a tennis legend place last match. tears flow is $23.00 times

grand slam tennis champion. serena williams bows out of the us open and possibly her career. she loses to australia is ayla from ah spicer, welcome to the program. the last leader, the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, has been laid to rest in moscow. gorbachev died on tuesday at the age of $91.00 after a long illness. in the past few minutes, gorbachev was buried at mosque was the whichever she cemetery next to his wife reisa earlier crowds lined up in moscow to see the former president lying in state in moscow's hall of columns. gorbachev has not been given a full states funeral of the type, usually held for former leaders. russian foot president vladimir putin is not

attending, citing a full schedule. most western leaders also stayed away because of putin's invasion of an ukraine. we heard more on the funeral and gorbachev's legacy from our political correspondence, simon young and d. w correspondent, yours rossetto. i asked yury how russians were saying good bye to the last. so his leader, 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 the w that had she praised to the 6 years under gorbachev as the best 6. yes. alive. 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

bad under him. a common among the most glides 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 the could only dream on, bef, off before him. but the price was too high. they say 9 out of 10 moskowitz, we talked to emphasized that it was garbage 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 the situation. how is gorbachev remembered? not just in russia, but also 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 got a bunch of didn't to go on to the u. s. a sound to fall apart and to didn't wanted,

for example, the baltic states and other subjects to become a dependent memories 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, lithuania as foreign minister to be to 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 protesters and crushed them under his tanks. that's what's remembering her here in in lot van lithuania, you're going to ask you just to hold our said to saved, stand by force as i turned to simon young, who's our political corresponded here within the studio in britain that legacy uri

describe. contrast starkly with the memory of gorbachev here and 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 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 he 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 calls 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 reification. and either a lot happened, or if there's controversy, i'd 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 east 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 pollution used to justify his warren ukraine's. 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 put ins 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 in recent months. but and his 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 year every single uri rossetto in riga and simon young. talking

about the passing of the last leader, the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev, and his burial today. thanks so much to both of you. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making headlines. gas from has shut down. gas applies to germany indefinitely. the road russian energy company says nord stream at one the pipeline linking it to germany will stay offline blaming maintenance problems. european leaders say that's a farce. calling this an extension of russia's war in ukraine. tree lank as former president got to buy a raj. a pack sir has returned to his country. 7 weeks after fleeing the island, he was forced out of office after months of mast protests over an economic and humanitarian crisis. there are calls for his arrest and an investigation into corruption. in pakistan, the humanitarian crisis is caused by weeks of monsoon. rain and flooding is worsening. areas in the south are likely to be flooded again as water surges from

major rivers in the north. more than 1200 people have been killed and much of pakistan is under water. the un says the scale of a disaster is unprecedented. and officials or warning of the danger from disease and even famine. has uri, debbie was forced to flee her home as pakistan's? floodwaters rose when they receded. she returned to a house, kate, in mud. the mother is trying to look after her newborn baby in unsanitary conditions. her husband is worried for their health. but better the water has gone down, but the flood water was very dirty, very muddy. all the children have rashes and their health is getting worse and worse. on autumn, however, the floods have created the perfect breeding ground for waterborne disease. with

many areas lacking clean water, children bathed in pools of flood water shed with buffalo. the u. n. is wanting as a high risk of deadly diseases like cholera and malaria spreading rapidly. huge swathes of farm land have been flooded, washing away millions of acres of crops, nearly half the population already lacked, reliable access to food before the floods. now their fears a humanitarian disaster is learning. and mab boughten as b r. i can see a very big family and i had very soon that out i am, i can see the initial stage is already the crown right now. there are people who've been hungry for a week, or even 10 day us heard about our international aid has started to pour in that with an estimated $10000000000.00 in damage. it's still a drug in the ocean of what's needed time for sports and to 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, when she was out last and by was trillion, i let none of it in the 3 said epic. it lasted more than 3 hours. 23 time grand slam champion said later she was ready to move on to other things in her life. while she was still able 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 via mom and explore a different version of serena. ah, and technically in the world i'm still super young, so i want to like have a little bit of a life where 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 for, 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 a 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 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 that match at want to pay, but what you saw that she couldn't get off the call quick enough 3 hours and this match 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 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 we're in a more than likely and upset this and i can't go on, but i do love australia. 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 the i can't get to the record. she just can't bring yourself to say it in my view. she's the alpha competitor. and i think she just can't say that i'm not going to get to margaret quotes record is 24. she passed iffy grass recorded 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 her and that she just can't quite touch. she's played on 240 just to try and get to this record. when it looks like the evidence has been there for a while. and in last night's match, she was playing tom, you know, it 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 and 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. it's pretty clear. yeah, this is deed of you news live from berlin up next world stories the week in the report. stay tuned for that. next. spicer, thanks for watching. nico is in germany to learn german pollution pinnacle. why not learn with him online, on your mobile and free t w's, e learning course eco's vague.