a politics don't talk to the 21st on the w ah ah ah, this is, do you use live from berlin? ukrainian forces achieve their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began. they had been pressing their offensive in the southern region of her son, one of 4 regions illegally annexed by moscow last week after a sham referendum, orchestrated by the kremlin. also coming up, brazil's presidential election heads for

a run off both. neither of the 2 leading candidates current president j are both scenario and former leader, louisiana. you'll know that the seal will receive the majority in sunday's 1st ballot. and nobel prize medicine goes to swedish scientists on tape table. he has been honored for his discoveries relating to the dna of extinct creatures and for his research into human evolution. ah, nick spicer, welcome to the program. ukrainian forces are reported to be recapturing territory in the south of the country and their biggest breakthrough. since the start of the war, officials installed by russia acknowledge that ukraine has made advances in the harrison region. one o 4 that russia illegally annexed last week. photo shared on social media appeared to show soldiers raising the ukrainian flag and several villages. they are thought

to have advanced as much as 40 kilometers in a single day, though that is yet to be officially verified. did these correspond at nick connelly as in keith, i asked him about the reported ukrainian advances in the south of the country will definitely seems like after months were busy fits on was the side show to what we saw an active and it seemed that basically this was something that the cranes were distracting the russians with while turning the attentions elsewhere. it does seem that this is now center of attention and this is where all the movement is happening. where previously the crating forces were pushing at russian presses from the west, from mich alive, in our since becoming also from the north, increasingly pushing the russians back and threatened to surround them in certain parts. the problem with the russians that they are basically trapped on the west bank, the deeper river and most the bridges in the connections across that river have been destroyed by ukrainian forces. and now this b, pontoon bridges and not much else in terms of re supply. and there,

there is the sensitivity expectation here in key of that they will be many, many russian soldiers taken prisoner in the days to come. if this offensive seat turns out to be successful, as is hope, but i think there's a bit heavier here. the information reaching us is often getting to us a day or 2 late and in very limited doses of enough, we're actually getting more information from the russian military blogs about this and from the ukranian side who doing a very good job of keeping storm so so far, not much in the way of detail, but it doesn't it seem that now finally had san is where it's all happening. and it vladimir putin has been threatening the possible use of nuclear weapons. it seems like the united states is taking that threat quite seriously. is this all just bring spend ship or engaging in ours the kremlin? do you think truly desperate enough to take that route? like say that, that that's true. i mean, we've definitely seen more reactions from the u. s. and from retired talk us generals. and that's something that really changed people's perception here, and key of who didn't really take these threats very seriously before and sort of basic are empty talk. and we are brinkmann ship from the russian side to kind of

symptom of russian weakness. but there is increase in worry that indeed things are going so badly for russia on the battlefield, in the conventional battle. and the conventional warfare kind of part of things that indeed, you know, russia's nuclear weapons of the last thing. they've got to really scare you. crane and more important, perhaps even ukraine's western bacchus. there's definitely a sense that this is definitely more danger situation. we're in now than even just a few weeks ago. and what more can you tell us about russia's military strategy now? is there, is there one that's identifiable with a few $1000000.00 question and even within kind of russian pro war circles, that actually seems to be a lot of discussion argument as to what the strategies and what it should be. even scenic and a power battle between the russian army and the people like rambling could hear of the leader of chechnya. and the man who's known as larry pigeons cook the guy behind the wagner mercenary group. lots of kind of blame being shifted around there

. and there's definitely a sense that things in russia are not going very well in today. we had an announcement from putin's press secretary saying they didn't quite know yet, which bits ukraine, they were going to annex in terms of the actual geography on the ground in for so on the parade to the next couple months. so if they can't even decide and agree on which bits of ukraine elaine claim to and that does speak the fact that things are going pretty bad if the kremlin and there is a bit of a meltdown going on there. okay, dw correspondent, nick connelly in keith, thanks so much. brazil's presidential election will be settled in a 2nd round of voting on october. the 30th former president leftist louisiana jo lula da silva, took 48 percent of the vote, while the incumbent president, the right wing populous gyre bull scenario received an unexpectedly strong 43 percent. the type race means voters now face a tense run off. rallying for 2 very different kinds of brazil. 6 6 the mood is festive despite an unexpectedly tight race. many hope

a change in leadership will bring about an end to economic hardship. okay, but as why am i celebrating here? because jesse is experiencing difficult times for 4 years, he has had a government that has been left to people that doesn't care for the people. supporters of left wing candidate and former president lula hope he will make good on a campaign promise to address socio economic inequalities, as well as stem an alarming increase in deforestation was okay, quote, you know, if the economy is not good, that your quality of life isn't good, that the job market isn't good so that the health system isn't good. we want to make our country better again, luther is remembered by some for the economic prosperity during his presidency. but supporters of both scenario also recall lewis conviction on corruption charges a judgement later overturned the thought. hm. i think there's

a thick and down and we must look like, well then it will be the truth against the life they'll thought that, oh god against corruption. olivia not freedom of both denado against the censorship of lula bullet was both scenario has outperformed poles despite being blamed for economic decline during his term wasn't. he also faced criticism for miss handling the pandemic. but the level of support for his conservative brand of god, country and family politics is still high. ah, mother, some of them today we overcame the light. i was out of it putting you through to predicting something around 50 percent and 30 percent. we overcame that light. we have a 2nd round of voting. there will be a level playing field for both sides. well, the 2 candidates will now face each other in a run off on the 30th of october. let's take

a look now at some of the other stories making news around the world. britain's finance minister quasi courting has pledged no more distractions in an address to the conservative party. after the government dropped his plans to lower the top rate tax rate after a week of financial chaos, the british pound in stock markets rallied following his. you turn around supreme leader, i told ali how many has accused the united states and israel of planning the widespread protests gripping his country. as comments came after, weeks of silence on the unrest video shared on social media showed further classes between protesters and riot police. a t ran sharif university overnight. in indonesia, a police chief has been fired and 9 officer suspended after a weekend stampede at a football stadium that left a 125 people. dead spokesman said melissa city's head of police had been replaced as part of an inquiry into the tragedy. dozens more officers are being investigated

for unethical behavior. at least 9 people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in 2 car bombings in the capital of somalis around region extremist rebel group. our show, bob has claimed responsibility for the attack on local government headquarters. the harass region has been the center of a recent mobilization against the rebels and voice from the economic community of west african states are expected to arrive in burkina faso on tuesday, following the country 2nd military coup in less than 9 months. the new self declared leader uber, him trial ray, has accepted the resignation of the countries. now ex presidents paulo he santo domingo, who is top of my junior officers on friday and has now fled to toggle the crew, his spark concert among world leaders as the regions battles are growing is punished. insurgency, henry wilkins, a journalist, and wanted to go told us more about the situation in the capital for the ms.

capital, a much calmer than it was for the last 3 days when the key was taking place. the today, people are going back to the business. the pre k, all people taking the street in the middle of the city to celebrate the arrival of new in the very small numbers as far as i've had so far. but it's most common that has been up to the last 3 days. and earlier we saw celebrations in the streets. people grieving the new leader. what are the hopes that people there are placing on travel re? absolutely, the main thing is that the they, they want to in to. so i'm insecurity. i mean the countries in not for the conflict for about 7 years now, wait a minute and think, who's let me states and al qaeda, the democratic government, which was in power until january this year was unable to send the insecurity,

the military to say that was in power for a month from january 3 to this week, and also unable to, to send the insecurity 3 expectation. so this time we could be to con, lucky hope and voice is as i was saying from, from the west african block echo us are expected to visit burkina faso what, what kind of challenges they face to face. very big challenge. i mean, certainly with the previous military gentle, which took power in january, they managed to get them to commit to transition periods where they in theory, they would have the insecurity member back to a through them classic governments. now we've, the vision to the, came in this weekend is looking likely that a warm foster hall solution. so the security problem maybe turning more in the

direction of russia for international support. so it's quite possible that the, the, the international community and the regional community may struggle to, to create a working relationship with the agent. okay. henry wilkins and journalists in what can do to, thanks so much for that insight. swedish scientist, santi payable, has won the nobel prize in medicine. he was honored for his work sequencing the genome of the neanderthal. an extinct species closely related to modern humans. to unlock the secrets of the neanderthal table did, which some scientist thought was impossible. recovering dna from 40000 year old bones. what makes us unique as humans, what distinguishes us from other extinct human species. and what we have in common, swedish, paleo geneticist, sancha people has been asking these questions for decades. what my own group and

my biggest interest is actually to start to the genetic differences between present a people and our closest relatives. and now under toss particular genetic changes that exist in everybody today are almost everybody. and that may be important for why modern you must became so note, new, morose, foreign, big society, and so on. tevo accomplished what was previously thought impossible. using bone fragments he isolated, sequenced and analyzed dna from early humans such as neanderthals. genetic material, this old is usually only available in fragments. if at all in the announcement the nobel committee in particular honored those methods which enabled him to analyze early human genes. paper was able to show that bone fragments discovered in southern siberia belong to a previously unknown archaic human species that denisa yvonne's. he also showed that homo sapiens interbred with them as did other early humans. and he specified

when and where this happened. neanderthal and denise of on genes are still present in our genome. today. the nobel committee announced their decision to the swede at his home in leipzig. this is where he has worked for over 20 years as director of the max planck institute for evolutionary anthropology. germany as marking the 32nd anniversary of the reunification of east and west. though the berlin wall came down in november 1989 formal reunification happened in october 1990. this year. celebrations are taking place in the air fort an eastern germany where political leaders have in meeting to mark the occasion. dozens of cultural and entertainment of age events are also taking place. and a reminder, the top new story, this, our ukranian forces are reported to be recapturing territory in the south of the country in their biggest breakthrough there. since the start of the war,

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