i really think we need to talk about all the topics that most divides and deny that and this i have invited many deer and well, i guess, and i would like to invite you in . ah ah, this is d, w. news lied from berlin. another set back for now says moon rocket space agencies launch team castles. a 2nd attempt at a lift off citing technical reasons. we'll ask an expert why nasa is our to miss moon mission keeps getting held up. also coming up, russia bids farewell to mikhail gorbachev. crowds lined up in moscow to see the

last leader, the soviet union laid to rest, that there was no full state funeral for the man. some russians rejected as a traitor and $23.00 time grand slam tennis champion. serena williams bows out of the us open and possibly her career as she loses to australia is ayla tom janet ah, i'm nik spicer. welcome to the program. nasa has called off today's moon rocket launch. it's the 2nd time this week. the launch has been postponed. technicians were unable to fix a fuel leak. the rocket was due to take to the skies from the kennedy space center in florida within hours. the next generation craft is the most powerful ever built by nasa. it was set to be the 1st launch for the agencies are to miss program which

aims to eventually return a human crew to the move that's go now to keep calling the editor of space ref dot com. he joins us from washington. d. c. thanks for joining us, keith. i'm the launch has been postponed. what can you tell us about that? well, this is the 1st time that this particular rocket has been launched, although it is built out of components that were in the spatial. so we can see some problems that may be familiar to some people in this case and had to do with the valve that connects to the rocket. it since liquid hydrogen extremely cold temperatures. and because hydrogen is the smallest element there is it can leak to almost anything. and the 1st time they tried this, they had problems the 2nd and 3rd. so again, today when they tried to get everything to go together, it was a leak. they tried option a option b, then option c was option a again, and they just could not get the rockets to load safely. so eventually they said,

scrub for today. and in order to help us understand, are these kinds of teething problems typical for, for a completely new rocket. it's rocket science. i mean, is probably the 2nd page of the rocket science book that fueling is a difficult issue and yet to do it right. otherwise, you could have a very bad days, they say, but it's not, not unexpected. the space shuttle had problems early on, as well as did the 1st centered fi boom. so eventually they'll figure out how to get this little disconnect valve to do the right thing at the right temperature. and then we'll hopefully watch the rocket and case we get us get to the program itself. assuming you know, take off occurs at some point, ah, what makes this are to miss mission different from the last time americans walked on the moon. that was, you know, 50 years ago and i was around to see that. and at that time, we were doing it to neo here in the states because we were in the global conflict

with the russians of the soviets. and so we had up some different mindset. we got there as fast as we could and we are the risks that we took, then we probably would not take now. so it's similar in regard to a big rocket in a little capsule. the top, the difference is that this time we're going back in it's, although we keep saying it's an american mission. the other service module is something you're built, that there are 3 mannequins inside to european. and although the 1st the astronauts to land will be american, shortly thereafter, there will be european and canadian japanese astronaut. so we're going back in, i sort of a global since this time, not just a unilateral us versus the soviet. so to me that's important. and i guess one thing that has changed since the glory days of apollo 11 is that there's a private sector that is launching rockets, island mosques, company space acts has already sent up a powerful rock. it's much more cheaply. so mike, mike, my question is, you know,

it is, are there questions about why the government is financing financing this? nick, this is interesting because, you know, the phrase that was then this is now companies always built these rockets, at least here in the states. it's just a nasa really had a control over everything that was put together. now private companies have learned from half a century of nasa stuff. and some of these rich people have more money than some nation space programs. and they just do this because they care. and because of their successes, the way the american these are artemus aspirants will eventually in the mood he is in a modified space, ex rocket, not our nasa, lunar lander. and so we're already seeing sort of the transition here. and while mass was having the problem of getting artemus one to watch space x is building it . starship rocket so cheap that when they blow them up, they just roll out another and they put a blooper reel on g b. now the real question is, if they delay an artist until october,

we'll space next. launch their starship 1st. that's what people were wondering. ok, another kind of space race, keith cowan, editor of space rest, dot com. thanks for your time. richard. the last to leader of the soviet union is held. gorbachev has been laid to rest in moscow or which have died on tuesday at the age of 91. after a long illness, crowds lined up to see the former president lying and state, or which hans coffin was then taken to the nova debit. she cemetery. he was buried next to his wife rice. gorbachev was not given a full state funeral of the type, usually held for former leaders. russian president vladimir putin did not attend, citing a full schedule. most western leaders also stayed away because of putin's invasion of ukraine. dw correspondent, you are a chateau in rigo, spoke to us about how russians were saying good bye to mikhail gorbachev. 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 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 bad under him or common among the most glides even at the ceremony today. and precisely, these words express some things that many russians feel about. got a batch of. it's true that he gave russians. freedom says 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 got a bunch of who caused the collapse of their beautiful country of the soviet union.

as they say, russia estate owned energy supplier gas from has indefinitely halted the flow of gas through a key pipeline to germany. the company says it 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. z means the german company that supply gas problem with the turbines says there's no reason the pipeline couldn't keep operating. and earlier we spoke to and so she como, who is an expert on gas at the center, on global energy policy at columbia university. she said the situation was dire, it's for europe. we need to reduce older men because what i'm afraid about is that the situation is going to go on for 3 years, right. can we machine,

how our industry or sector in europe is going to survive for free years, even if they are either shortage of energy because they are going to be the 1st good of the asked to leave. we pretty crazy prices compared to anybody s into walked out this week just going to be on competitive. we are at war. we are an economic war. we've workshop. i mean, people need to realize that, and we need to think, i said we should be thinking in the ends of an economic war, not try to see maybe fiscal year. maybe we can win you so he can be no, i mean, this is extremely serious. situation that we are in let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world. authorities in the you are state of mississippi say a stolen plane has landed safely after the pilot threatened to crash it into a supermarket. aircraft circle the store for several hours in the city of tupelo

and the building was evacuated. india has shown off its 1st locally built aircraft carrier that i can't, is going to into service as one of the world's biggest naval vessels. after 17 years of construction and test and is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign weapons and counter chinese assertiveness. sri lanka, former president, got to buy a raj epoxy has returned to his country. 7 weeks after fleeing the island. he was forced out of office after months of mass protests over an economic inch monitor in crisis. there are calls for his arrest and an investigation into corruption. in pakistan, the humanitarian crisis caused by weeks of monsoon. rain and flooding is getting worse. areas in the south are likely to be flooded again as water surges from rivers in the north or the $1200.00 people have been killed and much of pakistan is

under water. the un says the scale of the 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 that over to 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 are not on 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 color and malaria, spreading rapidly. huge swathes of farmland 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 of the art. 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 days 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 and we turned to sports now to the us open, where hopes of a fairy tale farewell for serena williams have been dashed. the american went down

fighting, however, but couldn't stave off a defeat, that she says will likely be her last. aaliyah tim genevieve advances to the 4th round. but in new york, when lose or draw. this was always going to be about serena reader . she entered the arena like a prize fighter, and it wouldn't take long for her to realize that a fight was exactly what she was going to get. ah, my little man of which was clearly not interested in fairy tales. she took the 1st hit with a heavy blow and forced williams to do what she had done so often fight back. the 2nd set was vintage williams. as the american conjured a moment to savor, as she said about leveling the match. all the qualities that made her 23 time grand slam champion were on display. there was the power that determination. and

eventually the precision she brought a most brokers crowd to its feet, but it was to be one last stand. the 40 rod had been racing her body to equal the grand slam record of 24 titles. but in the 3rd set and the 3rd hour of the match, it soon became clear that time had finally caught up takes a lot of work to get here. clearly i'm still capable, but it also, it takes a lot more than i am a like the a mom and explore different version of santa ah. and technically in the world i am still super young. so i want to know i have a little bit of a life while i'm still walking. ah,

history says she has the 2nd based grand slam record behind margaret court. but many in new york and all around the world will argue she is simply the best. ah, you're watching deed of you news from berlin coming up next on sports life, a female bull rider tells of her passion for the dangerous and male dominated sport as after the break. um, nic spicer, thanks for watching. mm hm. oh closely. ah.