ah ah ah, this is, do you have you news live from berlin? ukrainian forces achieve their biggest breakthrough in the south of the country since the war began. they've been pressing their offensive in the southern regional hassan, one of 4 regions that moscow illegally annexed last week, following a sham referendum, backed by the kremlin. also coming up brazil's presidential election heads for run

off. neither of the 2 leading candidates, current president, you're a bull scenario, an former leader, louise in osteo lula da silva. receipts received a majority of sunday's 1st round and the nobel prize and medicine goes to swedish scientist. sunday pablo. he receives the honor for discoveries in the dna of extinct creatures and for his research into human evolution. ah, i'm william blue croft, welcome to the program. reports suggest that ukrainian forces have recaptured territory in the south of their country. it's their biggest breakthrough there since the start of the war. russian installed officials have acknowledged ukraine's advances in the headstone region. that's one of 4 that russia illegally annexed last week. photo shared on social media appear to show soldiers raising the

ukrainian flag in several villages. unverified reports suggest ukrainian troops have advanced as much as 40 kilometers in a single day and less get more right now from need. of course on an economy who is in the ukranian capital. keith make very good to see you this evening. what can you tell us about these latest advances where it does seem like after months, where there was a lot of talk about had a song and where this was busy, it turned out to be a distraction tactic when actually crane was making it advanced in the east they had to keep and basically just to do some incremental change incremental movements if so that this is now really getting going. you credit forces not only heading towards castle from the west, but also from the north, and the russians already exposed. there they on the west bank of the depot river is really, really wide river. it is at its widest at that point. and you craze. it been able to base to destroy all the crossings. and now rushers depend on pontoon bridges and

air transit to get supplies that garrison there. so they're very, very vulnerable. and there's a sense that ukraine is now really reaping the rewards of months of fairly kind of low level and kind of mythological work. it's trying to just destroy russian supply lines, russian, alms depots, and now those russian folks are really suffering from basically kind of starvation over. i mean, is there really yeah, having to think 3 times about using all kinds of weapon systems and not really able to respond in kind to the kind of barriers that coming on too, coming up against from the ukrainians. now yet, moving into wisconsin, now this all sounds very impressive, but there is no doubt been heavy costs in both terms of both human life and material for the ukrainian forces. what can you tell us about those losses and what might that mean for their advance? well that's the thing, the ukraine military keeps a very tight laid on all these kinds of stats and even in terms of lives lost early

on the conflict, let alone material and kind of weapon systems. i think the important thing to bear in mind though, is that it does seem like those western weapons deliveries are getting here in time and increasingly in large volumes or shorter time frames than was case the beginning of the war. and we're, we're seeing that those high mar systems as rocket author systems that have been so crucial to ukraine's ability to destroy russian logistics by the front lines. they are still operating near the russian media has covered supposedly, stories about the destruction, the systems, time and time again. but here we see that they are still operating, that those stories are not true. and in terms of, you know, boots on the ground, there is no shortage in this country. people willing to fight. you remember those pictures from the early days. the war when had huge cues outside of the mentioned recruiting offices. and that is still largely the case. what ukraine needs are, weapons and more complex weapon systems, missile systems that can reach targets further away from their positions. but in terms of the kind of equipment on the level and the kind of complexity we have so far doesn't seem like they are currently in difficult situation. that's everything

on the conventional side of the war. but the shadow of the russian nuclear threat is of course, ever present. how seriously are people where you are taking that i think for the longest time, this was kind of not taken seriously, was deemed to be just an empty threat coming from russian attempt to kind of up the stakes rhetorically. in a kind of time where we're seeing russian conventional forces lose time and time again on the battlefield. an attempt to get maybe the scare less the ukrainians who already dealing with russia. but may be the european countries, it ascending supplies to woods, ukraine, or, and, you know, people will just discount him is the most bought. i think one thing that has made will think, have been statements in recent days by retired top us generals and betray us. we had from been hodges and they were basically kind of giving some detail what they would expect. the u. s. results to be if nuclear weapons were used, they were, they were very clear. say they were speaking in a personal capacity. they hadn't been told to do so,

but the fact that we've seen these 2, general se valley kind of similar things in give holler, detail, has raised questions here and key of whether there is a kind of signal being sent to moscow indirectly by these retired figures and you, i've had reports, people here trying to find out what to do is new to the used, what kind of strategies to employ, what kind of ideas, tablets, or other kind of measures could help them. so there is a sense that this is a real possibility, but it's not changing behavior. there's no sense the ukraine is now suddenly thinking about coming to the table and kind of giving in to russian demands to avoid this. but it is certainly something it is gonna be a foreign in people's minds right now at a time where things are really not looking good for that in the future. we'll have more on that response to the nuclear threats later, but for now we'll leave it there with you. did of you corresponding calmly and keep thanks very much ukrainian forces are also pushing on with their counter offensive in northeastern ukraine. yet his russian forces withdraw from that region. evidence is emerging of what was

a brutal occupation even is not coming back. months after he disappeared, his mother is still trying to figure out what happened. actually one is about don't, will use. he went to the forest with his friend to pick up pine claims to like the some of our to make teacher sure. does that bridge a judge? and i never saw him again. that melissa. she believes even was tortured in the basement of this house. neighbors identified his body by the jacket he wore from the local grain factory where he worked he had a photo with him over when he was a boy. oh boy, you the town of easy on was among the 1st taken by russian forces after the war started, and it became a command center for them. they set up at least 10 torture sykes.

ah andrei caught sal was captured shortly after joining the ukrainian army. once his captors let him go, he sought shelter at a nearby monastery. b unbearable. they beat me only where my kidneys and liver are rather than directly in my face. and they beat the hell out of my back. when you are, they tried not to leave any scars of most of it is young has been destroyed. the city is without electricity, gas, a water. many families rely upon humanitarian 8 to get by one year. i think we're here to get close for our children and food. that's what we need. but despite the difficulties after months of terror under occupation,

life seems to be slowly returning to the city. brazil's presidential election will be settled in a 2nd round voting on october 30th. the former president, leftist louise anacio lula desilva took 48 percent of the vote, while the incumbent president, right wing populous europe, boston aro, received an unexpectedly strong, 43 percent. that tight race means voters face a tense run off rallying for 2 very different kinds of brazil. 6 the mood is festive despite an unexpectedly tight race. many hope a change in leadership will bring about an end to economic hardship. ah, okay, but as you, why am i celebrating here? because jesse is experiencing difficult dimes for 4 years, he has had a government that has been left to people that isn't gift for the people. supporters of left wing candidates and former president lula hope he will make good

on a campaign promise to address socio economic inequalities, as well as stem and alarming increase in deforestation? was it okay quote, you know that 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, lou, the is remembered by some for the economic prosperity during his presidency. but supporters of both scenario also recall lou. las conviction on corruption charges a judgement later overturned. oh yeah, i think there's a thickened down and we must look like, well then it will be the to it against the life dale of confidence. oh god against corruption, alabama didn't freedom of blood to nato against the censorship of lula leslie. we were both scenario has outperformed polls despite being blamed for economic decline

during his term. was 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 fill them in today we overcame, the light leveled out of it, putting institute predicted something around 50 percent and 30 percent. we overcame that light of that. we have a 2nd round of voting blue. there will be a level of 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 get more now from rio de janeiro with our correspondent, john ramirez. johan, always good to see you. so let's look at these opinion polls. first of all because they appear to have been quite a bit off. what more can you tell us about that day? according to julia boston, out of the pause where it wrong, because they may,

they dishonest surveys intended to harm him to harm his companion, to discourage his supporters, to go to forward that yes, said they, but beyond this conspiracy very shall. i think that in brazil been such a polarized society, there was a huge i hidden vote. i mean people who didn't want the express opened in public who they were going to vote for. and that he did vote was expressed yesterday was a hidden vote. most defeat in favor off j bowles, so narrow almost every pole was forecast in some 3536 per cent of support for variable scenario. but at the end of the day, he got a larger support much more than that. and that is, as it is actually a positive result for both so narrow, but is a sin not enough, i'm far from enough. if he wants to be relaxed, it's on the 2nd round. an hour down to just these 2 candidates bull sanara and lulu the front runners. where do supporters of other candidates go?

lula seems to be de favorites for the 2nd round, especially because most of the other 9 candidates who took part in the 1st round. most of them did it because they wanted to be a different option against j. u both when are they opposed to both on our most of them. so i don't see how they could support both on our, in the perspective of a 2nd round. but anyway, this is politics and everything will depend on what the candidates and the political parties are. going to negotiate in the coming weeks, but there is something very important we haven't mentioned so far and it is the abstain shenise that yesterday more than 30000000 people didn't vote 30 medium people. if they decide to go to vote in the 2nd round, they could completely change the outcome on october 30th. it's very interesting. always those who don't vote bell, it's look o bit broader here, brazil is of course a big and important country. what impact will the winning cap candidate not only have on brazil, but the countries relations internationally the impact is going to is

going to be very important. i mean, a potential when in the forge, are you both on that or would be a consolidation of his ride, a wink project, he's riding way of thinking in terms of economy, climate change to rights for indigenous people rights for minorities. so it would be very important in brazil and abroad and a potential to win in other silva would be inspect, fact with are coming back of the left in the country. let's remember delruda, the syllabi was convicted for corruption. the scandal who was in prison a couple of years. and now he's about to become the next president over of ross's, so it would be a raving indication for him, but also a huge victory for the laughter in the continent that has now many other left wing presidents in other countries. so it would be a major victoria for the laughter. let's remembered that brazil had giant in terms of economy and the largest democracy of latin america. johan ramirez,

always good to see you. we'll leave it there for now with you in rio de janeiro. and turning now to some other stories making news around the world right now. iran's supreme leader, ayatollah ali khamenei, as accused the united states and israel of planning the widespread protests that are gripping the country is commons came after weeks of silence on the unrest, which appears to be the result of home grown frustrations. video shared as social media show clashes between protesters and riot police at tear. hans sharif university overnight in indonesia of police chief has been fired, and 9 officer suspended after a weekend stampede. and a football stadium killed 125 people, a spokesman said melange cities head of police has been replaced as part of an inquiry into the tragedy. dozens of more officers are being investigated for unethical behavior. the u. k. finance minister, the chancellor of exchequer,

quasi quoting, has pledged, quote, no more distractions in an address to conservative party members. the promise is a response to the government. dropping his plans to slash the top tax rate that led to financial chaos. the british pound and stock market rallied following the u. turn. at least 9 people, including senior regional officials, have been killed in 2 car bombings in the capital of somalis. somali is here on region extremist rebel group. i'll show bob has claimed responsibility for the attack on local government headquarters. thereon 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's 2nd military coup in less than 9 months. the new leader abraham tower has accepted the resignation of the countries. now ex president paul, ari was on dog dom eva. he was toppled by junior army officers on friday and his

fled to neighboring togo. the crew is spart concern among world powers as the region battles, a growing, islamist insurgency. captain abraham jodi is bertina. fossils new self declared leader. he has prom, mr. tackle insecurity and appeal for unity to fix the country's problems. for shall we live with me while we need to speed things up to the entire country faces an emergency. so each one, their own level must go faster and abundant, all cumbersome under necessary, red tape unity le. hundreds of people have marched, who the street, the capital to celebrate the crew about it. no one will threaten the existence of this country. we have to fight for our country, fight, army will support you and they will run a dead. oh, that when i'm soccer ball at a new between 1690. mm hm. no military has been fighting a violent to hottest infancy for the last 7 years. the state has lost control of

more than a 3rd of the country. thousands have been killed and nearly 2000000 people have been displaced due to the conflict. many are suffering from severe foot in security . burkina faso newly defeated a cities of extremely tough, talented to tackle the humanity in crisis and quelled islam if in certain c that's crossed. now to henry wilkins is a journalist in the capital, we're going to go there and re, 1st of all, please tell us the leaders been ousted. what has the impact been there are as result of that. yes. the, the things on the street, it's that i have been low, calmer than they were over over the weekend. you know, over the weekend there were, there were soldiers on the street road protesters on the street, although the happens for running protests. so today and celebrations for the for nugent, sir, it is relatively small numbers of people love that come out on the street. the

certainly things are a lot calmer than they were over the weekend. now we have seen, as we saw that report there does appear to be support for the new leader. what explains that? well, i think the, the insecurity is really well explained. i mean i've, i've spoken to probably 1012, but can all be today to just all of them are in support of the afternoon. so i think there's kind of a sense of desperation here. you know, they had the democratic government for around 5 years to have the last military and i need, or if i use governments to be effective in talking of the security problems of the, the countries facing because it's the 7 year conflict with states. and i think it's a sense of well right now, and now stepping into this chaotic scene are and voice from the west african block

eco us. they say they're going to be going to break, you know, fast. so what is their message going to be? yeah, i mean with the previous job, i managed to get them to commit to a 2 year transition period where in theory they would have the security in that time and then transition to democratic society. i dare say that that's probably what they're going to try and see with me. ready as well, whether they'll be successful is another question. the students are is, i think you said a red tape and it seems like they will part of fall solutions, how much they going to be willing to listen to the regional community. and the wider international community is yet to be seen henry wilkins journalist and we're going to go, thanks very much for the latest swedish scientist, sante pabo has won the nobel prize in medicine. he was honored for his work

sequencing the genome of the neanderthal in extinct species closer related to modern humans. and to unlock the secrets of the neanderthal pabo did what some scientist thought were in was the 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, sunshine 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 told particular genetic changes that exist in everybody to day are almost everybody. and then that may be important for why modern you must became so note, new, morose, foreign,

big societies 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. the denise ovens, 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. and germany is

marking the 32nd anniversary of reunification between east and west. and the berlin wall came down in november 1989, but formal reunification happened in october 1990 this year. celebrations are taking place in effort in eastern germany where political leaders have been meeting to mark the occasion. dozens of cultural and entertainment events are also taking place. berlin, on the 3rd of october 1990. when to germany's became one again. it was soviet leader gorbachev's policies of glass not than perestroika, had thought about jim and re unification. the whole of the war marked the beginning of a new chapter for germany and the beginning of a new era of appeasement, between east and west, russia and europe. it weighs but 32 years later putin's boy,

ukraine has fundamentally changed that relationship. germany has imposed far reaching sanctions on russia and is now sending heavy weapons to fight russian soldiers on ukrainian soil. and ordinary germans attitudes towards russia have changed. what's full in my mind hasn't changed considerably because i hadn't quite expected russia to act with as much brutality as it has actually done. now to meet us as, as a hickerson, as have anc isn't going to have a good image really thought about the current russian politics are of course not. okay, enough personal fears as well sir, this was what was really positive for our unification then. now has to be seen in a totally different light on the scene. while many germans support the government's current policies towards russia, there are significant differences in opinion in the east and west of the country. a recent study shows the satisfaction with the german government's reaction to the invasion of ukraine is lower in the east than in the west. when it comes to

specific policies like the delivery of heavy weapons, the gap becomes even clearer. while 54 percent of germans living in the west are in favor of germany delivering heavy weapons to ukraine. only 32 percent of germans living in the east supported. there is of course a reason for this imbalance to nixa mac. it's 1st of all, there is a different historic relationship to the soviet union slash russia, which isn't the soviet union any more, of course, on this. and there are stronger ties to central and eastern europe. but if we did an actin, it wouldn't just be ukraine that would probably fall, but also poland, the baltic states, and so on it equal on that one. cons being japanese interest us can notice in the interest of each german, the south fence on owning to emma or the del selections on getting more east than germans on board with the government's russia. policy will be a hot task. more than 30 years after germany was reunited to visions remain between

the former east and west. and today's national holiday at all of germany is also the last day of one of its most popular parties. you probably know it octoberfest the festival in the bavarian capital, munich is more than 200 years old. and last a bit more than 2 weeks. it's the 1st time back following a 2 year absence due the pandemic. and despite all that anticipation, poor weather, unfortunately contributed to lower visitor numbers and gave vendors permission to sell mold wine to help keep party goers. one must get you. a reminder of the top new story we're following for you. ukranian forces are reported to be capturing recapturing territory in the south of the country. their biggest breakthrough there since the start of the war and officials install via russia acknowledged that ukraine has made advances in the histone region when a for that russia illegally annexed last week. you're watching dw news up next we

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