changed the world forever. my jillions journey around the world. september 7th on d. w. ah . ah, this is these are the news live from berlin? another setback for nasa's moon rockets. the space agencies launch team councils. a 2nd attempt at a lift off citing technical reasons. we'll find out why nasa's artemus moon mission keeps getting held up. also, the program russia bids a farewell to me called gorbachev's crowds lined up in moscow to see the last

leader of the soviet union laid to rest. and by and i held to a drawer for the 2nd straight, pointless figure weekends this time. by orleans berlin we have the best of the action. ah, i'm really mohammed, welcome to the program. nasa has called off it's moon rocket launch is the 2nd time this week, the lodge 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 thought of the agencies are to miss program which aims to eventually return a human crew to the moon. i spent 2 keith calling the editor of space ref

dot com. now asked him if the recurring problems with liquid hydrogen fueling are typically for this type of new rocket. mrs. rocket science, probably on the 4th page of the book that says fueling is a difficult thing, and hydrogen is particularly difficult to work with. it's the 1st time this rock it's ever been put on a pad in 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 all the 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 it 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 humanities, never see a human walk on the world. so for your hot people, this is their 1st moonlight, but more importantly we went urban. we did this in the sixty's, it was a geopolitical thing between american soviet union. now this rocket, it has the european upper stage and when he goes back to the mood, some of the 1st dash 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. this isn't, this really is a test mission. they're going to 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. we're going to test all the cameras, the sensors, the computers, the life support systems such that they know that the next time make why this, that it's safe to do so with humans on board. now when we're looking at 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, be back in the sixty's. we did things sort of in a race, certainly was a race. 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 to late on the moon. so are on a hinge in history between the old way of doing these with a government space agency, you're dictates everything to where the private sector to build a spacecraft that you can rent. so what are the challenges that the enters the at thea and, and as a facing today? well, it's pretty simple. it's got a new a connector. 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 go to a 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, we said this very cold, liquid hydrogen through that it won't leak. and then they can go ahead and do the watch and just very quick. he took us for 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 at your home. you're born from america and they're all instrumented so that you can see the effects of 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 ju, upsets little satellites that will be launched in a number of other instruments, including cameras and radiation devices. so this is jam packed with a lot of stop. and again, it's gonna be going around the moon for up to 6 weeks. so

a lot of data will be returned. i want a full costs now and then it coming weeks and coming months. well, i will see what they do this weekend. it's a holiday weekend here in the states. they may just decide to plant 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 may well be looking at to watch it early october, but we'll see what happens in the next few days. okay, keep calling editor of spacecraft dot com. thank you very much indeed for your time . well, let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines. the united nations nuclear watchdog says the main electricity line to these upper regia, nuclear power plant has been disconnected, but the facility is still receiving power through a back up system. inspect is from the i am at the site in southern ukraine, which is now controlled by russian forces authorities in the u. s. h of mississippi

. say the man who allegedly stole a plane and threatened to crash it into a supermarket. didn't have a pilot's license. he could now face terrorism charges they across to circle the soulful several hours in the city of tupelo. and the building was also evacuated. and the law seater of the soviet union mikhail gorbachev, has been laid to rest in moscow. gorbachev died on tuesday at the age of 91. after a long illness crowds lined up to see him lying in state. he was not given the kind of funeral, usually held for former leaders. 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

law. so the leader was given an honory god. his daughter and grandchildren looked on as a relatively modest funeral, went ahead moscow's nova, to each he cemetery a place where many prominent russians lie buried earlier thousands of ordinary musk of i, it's queued up to pay their last respects at the pillar hole, where gorbachev open casket was put on display the whole normally serves as a venue for state funerals, hungarian prime minister victor alba, and 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 as a hero in 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 up with carrasco. he made an attempt to build our world in a different way, maybe not a very successful attempt, but he tried to law. but also that not be tried to give us freedom, but we slept through it. we didn't manage to keep it. it's sad that we have so few of his courage. 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 her by many is that at the end of an era. well i spoke to writer william tobin, he spent a lot of time with mikhail gorbachev and wrote an extensive biography of him. i began by asking him what gorbachev was like. he was a very charming person, a decent person. he was when we talked to him, my wife and i who both speak russian. ah, he was natural in formal. ah. he didn't demand our questions in

advance. he didn't demand to have his own interpreter present. he has a wonderful sense of humor. ah, we liked him as a person. and what did he regards as his greatest successes and defeats his greatest successes? will he ended, the cold war will look some co operation, of course, from reagan colon mitchell, wrong and thatcher. but he was the key man and that without him, the cold war would not have ended. he also a stablished, the foundation for democracy in russia. ah, a free voting ah, a genuine parliament. freedom of speech. of course, he did not consolidate all of these changes, and by the time he left office, the soviet union collapsed. so although it was

a noble idealistic enterprise in the end, it did not succeed. what to make of the fact that such a major political figure was not given a state funeral. well, it wasn't surprising because we know that president putin has no use for gorbachev . in fact, he thinks that gorbachev was responsible for the collapse of the soviet union. and potent is engaged in reversing all of gorbachev's achievements and so far as they still exist at all. so it wasn't a surprise. oh, and yet i think it's a, i think it's a very important event. i've noticed that thousands of people have lined up to pay their respects to gorbachev and you know what that amounts to it amounts to perhaps the last massive demonstration that the potent will allow a peaceful demonstration in support of gorbachev and democracy and freedom in

russia. and here again, the west has clearly a very different view of his legacy. why do you think there has been such a, a stark difference in how he's viewed in the west and in the format soviet union. while he stood for what he actually did not want to call western values, he wanted to call them universal values freedom, democracy, piece of. and that's why the west appreciated what he did. on the other hand, russians experienced the troubles that his reforms led to in their own lives on their own skin. that is, the economy got worse. instead of better, the country became polarized on nationalism and ethnic separatism exploded, uh, tearing apart the union itself. so i understand that a lot of st. russian people, soviet people felt that he had failed them. on the other hand,

i wish i wish that in retrospect, they would understand that if he had not tried their lives, would probably be even worse. well that was william tobin biographer of mikhail gorbachev. speaking to me there a little earlier. now let's move on to sports and football, whereby and munich have fell to wind for the 2nd weekend in a row. the bundles, legal champions were held, 11 at union berlin, who was 50, becoming one of german footballs. new forces. the sunni on berlin's entire squad is worth 90000000 euros. that's not even enough to buy you 3 satyr manet's but binds opponents in berlin. showed them much more than a sum of hops as they went ahead on 12 minutes. here i'll go back, getting on the end of christopher to remove it. perfect free kick. becker cos who

knew nothing when he signed for them 3 years ago, but he's currently the legal joint, top scorer. this is gone and the 5 the season the host joy didn't last. 3 minutes later us you a chemistry was on hand to fire through a crowd of players union can clear and kimmy made them pay. but that was to be it for the scoring union nearly took another unlikely lead on 75 minutes. mademoiselle noise in the way before he is opposite number, frederick reno denied manet and stuff. it's time one all the final school by and draw for the 2nd league game in a row. and while union have never beaten the variance, this result means that undefeated in trial of bernoulli matches since march. now that's value for money

and in another cash fryeburg got the venture of leave acoustic to move to the top of the boon to seger only for the 2nd time ever japanese midfield, the one grabbed the winner in a 3 to victory for the visitors. the the person have one just one so far as the season and to the champions league on wednesday. you want g d, w. news live from berlin, stick around because docile is coming up next season. ah . and we're interested in the global economy. our portfolio d w business beyond here's a closer look at the project. i would.