ah, 3 years that will change the world for ever. but jillions journey around the world, september 7th on d. w. ah, [000:00:00;00] ah, this is the daily news live from berlin. another said back for now says the moon rockets, the space agencies launch team councils. a 2nd attempt to add lift off, fighting technical reasons. we'll ask an expert why nasa's are to mr. moon mission

keeps getting held up. also coming up. russia's bid brought her bids farewell to me . cal garbage have crowds lined up in moscow to see the lost leader of the soviet union lay to rest. and 23 time grand slam tennis champion. serena williams bows out of the us open and possibly her career. ah, i'm really mohammed welcome to the program. nasa has called off today's moon rocket launch is 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 moon. oh le, let's it though to keep having the at itself space ref dot com and he joins us from washington dc. it's good to have you with a t r and d w. news. now they were problems once again with liquid hydrogen fueling. what are your thoughts on this? i these ed typical poppins for a new rocket. who says rocket science? probably on the 4th page of the book that says fueling is a difficult being and hydrogen is particularly difficult to work with. it's the 1st time this rock has ever been put on a pad in and tried to launch. so you'd expect this was matter of fact. if you look at the bottom of it, it looks like the spatial because it's where it got its engines from. and the space shuttle had similar problem. so this is to be expected the 1st few times and alpha shows just how risky and challenging an operation this really is. why is it so important to go back to the moon off to 50?

is not the last 3 words. after 50 years. i was, i'm old enough to remember what had happened and at the time it was extremely important and pretty much everybody was alive watched it. now, if you look at how many people are in the world, more than happy humanity is never see. ah, you would walk on over the world. so for your hot people, this is their 1st moonlight. but more importantly, we went early. we did this in the sixty's. it was our geopolitical thing between american soviet union. now this rocket, it has a european upper stage, and when he goes back to the mood, some of the 1st ash knots will be from europe, from canada, from your japan. so this is now an international endeavor, not just one country versus another. and i think that's very important. and what sort of results says as this mission looking to find on the moon. so this isn't, this really is a test mission. they're gonna try everything. it's like a 5 or 6 week long trip around the moon and they'll do some different orbits for very close. they're going to test all the cameras, the sensors, the computers,

the wife's support systems such that they know that the next time make. why this, that is safe to do so with humans on board. now, when we're looking at that the issue of technology and how advanced it's been now, how things have progressed since apollo. what makes this mission different to what happened previously? well again, back in the sixty's, we did things sort of and erase it really was a race. and, and these, the idea of risk and safety was a bit different than, than it is now. but interestingly now, while this rocket looks brand new, it's actually reflecting stuffed, it's 20 or 30 years old. simultaneously, just a few 100 miles to the west space x is building its own giant walk it in a version of that will actually be what the ottoman spacecraft docs with the lead on the moon. so are on a hinge and yes, 3 between the old way of doing these with a government space agency, you're dictates everything to where the private sector could build

a spacecraft that you can rent. so what are the, the challenges that the end is the, at the at and, and as a facing today? well, it's pretty simple. it's gotta you, it may connect, the kind of looks like this and when you get it very, very cold for liquid hydrogen, sometimes the seal doesn't work quite right. so they tried all kinds of tricks. now they going to go to the launch pad in, unscrew it and see what your does. it doesn't work and hopefully they'll get it just right. so that the next sunday attempts, he said this very cold, liquid hydrogen through that it won't leak. and then they can go ahead and do the launch and just very quickly took us through some of the, the interesting equipment that was meant to be used on board. to me as a space biologist, there's 3 mannequins inside the capsule. and to whom europe one from america, and they're all instrumented so that you can see the effects fall microgravity radiation. what not on something that looks like it works like a human so that when we fly, people in there will have a good idea of what's going on. but there's also chipsets,

little satellites that will be launched in a number of other instruments putting cameras and radiation devices. so this is jam packed with a lot of stuff. but again, it's going to be going around the moon for up to 6 weeks. so a lot of data will be returned. i want a full cost sao and then it coming weeks and coming months. well, i will see what they do this weekend. it's a holiday we can year in the states. they may just decide to point if they have to roll this. so watch vehicle back to the the, the, the big hanger, the vehicle assembly building that will probably delay the launch another 3 or 4 weeks. so we, we may well be looking at a launch. it early october, but we'll see what happens in the next few days. i can keep calling editor of space with dot com. thank you very much indeed for your time negligent. now the last 8 of the soviet union, mikhail gorbachev has been laid to rest in moscow. coverage have died on tuesday at the age of 91. after a long illness crowd lined out to see the former president lying in state by

garbage have was not given. the kind of phenol usually held full for melinda's. ah, saying good bye to one of the most influential leaders of the 20th century. the man who bought the cold war to an end was not given a stay funeral. in fact, the ceremony was more notable for its absences. president vladimir putin, too busy to attend on western leaders, didn't travel to russia as moscow's invasion of ukraine has solid relations. the last soviet leader was given an honory god. his daughter, grandchildren looked on as a relatively modest funeral, went ahead moscow's nobody. beachy cemetery. a place where many prominent russians lie buried earlier, thousands of ordinary muskets queued up to pay their last respects at the pillar hall,

where gorbachev's open casket was put on display. the whole normally serves as a venue for state funerals. hungarian prime minister victor oberon also attended the only european leader to do so. so many well wishes turned up. the ceremony had to be extended by another 2 hours while gorbachev was revered of hearing the west. many and russia blamed him for allowing the soviet union to collapse and for the economic turmoil that followed. but most he today spoke while of him pop with customers. he made an attempt to build our world in a different way. it may be a not a very successful attempt, but he tried law with awful, but he tried to give his freedom, but we slept through it. wouldn't manage to keep it. it's sad that we have so few of his kind. but give me the model as gorbachev is laid to rest, the old cold war divisions that he brought to an end are rapidly returning. the

phrase voiced here by many is that at the end of an era while are less bringing william tubman, who has written extensively anna quite an interesting biography of mccoll garbage have. he joins us from am hurst in the u. s. 8 of massachusetts to we have him on the line. i've just been told we've just lost the line to 1000000 william tab and we'll try and see if we can get him back up a little bit later. in the meantime, moving on to pakistan, which has seen quite a devastating humanitarian crisis which has caused a which was caused by weeks of one, sued rain and heavy flooding. areas in the self are likely to be flooded again as water surges from brother, rivers in the north. more than 1200 people have been killed and much of pakistan is under water. the one says the scale of the design, the disaster is unprecedented. and officials are warning all the danger from

disease and even famine has uri, debbie was forced to flee her home as pakistan's flood waters rose. when they receded, she returned to a house caked in mud. the mother is trying to look after her newborn baby in unsanitary conditions. her husband is worried for their health will get 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. on all of 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, there's

a high risk of deadly diseases like cholera 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 looming. in may baltimore, b o r t c, a very big family that had very soon wrought iron. i can see the initial stage is already the crown right now. the real people who've been hungry for a week or even 10 day us heard about all international aid, has started to pour in. but with an estimated $10000000000.00 in damage, it's still a drop in the ocean of what's needed. while i take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world authorities in the u . s. 8 of mississippi say a stolen plane has landed safely after the pilot threatened to crash it into

a supermarket. they across circled the store for several hours in the city of to pillow, and the building was evacuated. and air has shown off its 1st locally built aircraft carrier, the v cron to is going into service as one of the world's biggest naval vessels. off the 17 years of construction and tests and is trying to reduce its dependence on foreign weapons and to counter chinese assertiveness to long cause a former president to go to pyre. 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 and humanitarian crisis. throughout calls for his arrest and an investigation into corruption. united states has approved the sale of $1100000000.00 worth of military equipment to tie one, including missiles and trade out surveillance support tie one said the equipment

would help face china's increasing military pressure. china has threatened to enact countermeasures now to the us open, where hopes of a fairy tale farewell for serena williams have been dashed. the american went down fighting, but couldn't stave off a defeat. that she says will likely be her last i read. 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 violet homeland, which was clearly not interested in fairy tales. she took the 1st set 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 levelling,

match all the qualities that and 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 that. i'm really like the a mom and explore different version of santa ah,

and technically in the world i'm still super young, so i one, i like have a little bit of a life. i'm still walking. i just re says she has the 2nd best grand slam breaker behind margaret court, but many in new york and all around the world will argue she is simply the best. ah, it watching the w news live from poland. stick around though, because coming up next is shift looking at gender equality gaps in the digital world. and marina mohammed, thanks for watching. i'll see it, but i did