a tornado. environmentalists in danger starts october 29th on d. w. ah ah . this is d w. use life from berlin? britain gets its 3rd conservative prime minister so far this year. 3 she soon oxy soft challenges from within his own party before my finance ministers, most pressing task, sorting out the economic chaos left behind by his predecessor,

also coming up ukraine and it's western allies denounced russian claims that keith is planning to explode. a so called a dirty bomb on its own territory. presidency. lensky says it's moscow that may want to use a radioactive weapon. class, the horn of africa suffered is worst drought in 4 decades. parts of northern kenya, i have not seen any rain in years. we look at how communities are coping ah i monica jones. good to have you with us. britain's former finance minister has won the race to become its 3rd prime minister this year. richie sooner gained the support of rolled and half of m. p. 's from the ruling conservative party is rival

penny more dawn has withdrawn and pledged to support su. neck. former prime minister boris johnson withdrew from the contest despite claiming he had the backing to stage a come back. so let sir get the latest on this breaking new story from dw correspondent begging master. she is in front of 10 downing street in london, the prime minister official residence, of course. so big it. tell us more about britain next prime minister. what should we know about wishes to knock that we're really watched? after weeks of financial market, tom, all political and economic term, all the conservative party has decided to go for their new prime minister as somebody who has economic confidence. this is how he is seen. he's the former chancellor, he's somebody who was credited with helping british business is helping british people through the term, all of the covey times and,

and rescuing british businesses. he's got a background and fine. and so that's one thing you need to know. there are other characteristics that really make him stand out. he's the youngest prime minister, not yet prime minister, but very soon to be prime minister after he's met the king. and he will be the youngest, in modern political, a british political history only 42 years old. he's also are the 1st person of color to hold his office. and another thing that makes me stand out is, is immense personal wealth. so he and his wife together are reported to have a personal wealth of, of hundreds of millions of pounds. and that could be diff, make his life a little bit difficult because we're expecting that in the next months he has to make some very tough decisions. britton's finances are under strain and there was talk there is talk of having to cut budgets to cut public services, maybe raise taxes. so he has to,

he has to make some pretty unpopular decisions and we will find out within the next days and weeks exactly what those will we and a saying that he has to make very difficult decisions. i'm in his predecessor lis trust only lasted 45, quite tumultuous days. she made decisions that didn't go down well with the markets . certainly. how long do you think richie soon aqua last? there is a good question, monica, because the conservative party is deeply divided and that stretches back to the breck sit on the referendum and all the braille or the brakes it years. see, there is, for example, a very are right, being faction of the party, very much progress. the dear pro brick said from very hard line breaks it. and even though richie soon i was somebody who advocated for breaks, if they have not back to him. and in their entirety, so that is maybe a taste of things to come. the party is still very, very much divided at big mass. they're reporting for us from london in front of 10

downing street. thank you so much, big it to ukraine. now, the country and it's western allies have hit back. it russian claims that key of his planning to detonate a radioactive bomb on its own territory. russian defense minister sergey chicago has told his counterpart in britain, france, and turkey. that moscow is concerned, the situation in ukraine is deteriorating rapidly or ukraine's president lensky has warned that russia is manufacturing a pretext to escalate to the conflict. because you'll notice easily when the russian minister of defense sets up the phone calls and rings foreign ministers with stories about a so called dirty nucular bomb. everyone understands everything very well. me, daughter will lay understand who is the source of everything dirty that can be imagined in this war. if russia calls and says that ukraine is allegedly preparing

something, it means one thing. russia has already prepared it. i believe that now the world should react as harshly as possible. what you're sure is you of a moral it's bringing dw russia, analyst romana gone char ankle in bond. who can talk us through this? a roman. why is russia making these claims now? well, i think there are 2 possible reasons one, and i think this is the major reason. russia would like to talk to western officials again about this war and negotiate some kind of a ceasefire. russia desperately needs time, maybe a few weeks until the mobilization that is now underway in russia and will actually succeed. so it needs time to prepare its soldiers for the next assault in ukraine. and or it also needs to try again and maybe put the west under pressure not

to deliver certain types of weapons to ukraine. and the best way to do so is to signal in nuclear disaster. and this is, this is, it's working, it's, it worked in the past and it's working now, or the russian defense minister talked to his or western counterparts. and wish lucille see if, if this helps, if there is any, any, if there will be any negotiations in the coming in the coming weeks. because it is very important for our sher, it's a very important issue. and the 2nd reason, maybe it's a propaganda. so if you say to on russian television, it's topic number one on monday. and if you say ukraine is preparing to go nuclear, of course, this resonates with a lot of russian people. and it's also kind of mobilization to try to unite the russian society behind the army. yeah, because it certainly is something is happening on the ground russian. russia recently put a new general in charge of the war in ukraine. how exactly has that changed the

situation on the battlefield? well, we haven't seen major changes on the battlefield defining continues just in, in the months before. the biggest change is that russia is now attacking ukrainian civilian infrastructure was drones and rockets nearly every day and managed to destroy about 40 percent of the ukrainian power grid. according to the ukrainian officials, which is a heavy blow to the ukrainian society and the ukrainian economy. and also to the claimant military, of course, because the connection is disturb, the government has to take care of this. so it's a major problem for ukraine, which distracted attention from the actual fighting on the battlefield. and these accusations, or for ukraine, a working on a dirty nuclear bomb is also you, but not quite similar accusations in spring or in late winter when this russian

offensive started. right. w, russia analyst, or a man, a gunshot ankle in bond roman, thank you so much. thank you. a russia is continuing to attack southern ukraine with missiles and drones in the north. there are growing fear that moscow is planning a joint invasion with a bela russian troops. russia recently deployed thousands of soldiers in belarus, fueling fears they could be about to open a 2nd front. as dw is fani f, ashar reports from a charity sheaf region nearby villages are preparing for the west. fear it keeps you alert when it's dangerous. the soldiers sans mortar attacks and shelling have increased cheer and paper maps work. when technology doesn't, he staking us close to the water with beller? there's no need to spend time thinking will inoffensive happen or not. we are preparing for the enemy to come. work is to play. this part of northern ukraine is

were russian forces swept through when they 1st had it for keith. at the start of the war. the push back broke though ukrainian 3 took the area in april may but the rim of that, but we patrol these positions was forest and we really proud to have such trophies for the ukrainian army, vanessa low grade. so this is a former russian position. dirt. yes it is, lisa, this is what's left of one rush and fighting vehicle after those battles in march. the soldiers here expect new ones to arrive soon. so i'm done. we are prepared when motivated, we have no way back. where defending our homeland with a shove. so you struggle many are suspected their neighbors in bella. ruth had helped the russians from the store. but now it's official. on the other side of the frontier, they are joining forces. they say they are preparing to defend themselves. but

people here at the border with bella, ruth assured that will take the form of an attack, although they don't know when it will come village or snow. they are russian soldiers just 30 kilometers away, escorted the co. how me, who should i go to the car? hey, i'm not afraid of the winter as i am afraid of the russians. they are traumatized by the violence and very worried that rush in forces might return, but they won't leave say a casual law. so this is our homeland, we were born here is we live here and we won't go anywhere. valentina, like most people in his village has lived here all her life. she desperately wants peace. that's what the soldiers in the forest say. they are fighting for new york. i want this war to stop with me. i have much to lose. there's only one life, but it's better. i fight this than my children or my grandchildren. and yet some of

his children's generation have not been spared the war. there prepare for the winter for the russians, and now for the bell russians using fear to stay alert. ukraine says its force has half shut down more than 200 iranian made drones in the last few weeks. both iran in russia deny that so called comic house a drones used in moscow. aerial bombardments have come from the run. but the west says there is mounting evidence. this is the case. use of such drones would violate a un resolution curbing iranians weapons exports. his is the scene that ukrainians have grown familiar with a kamikaze drone flying over their heads in the center of the capital key. if that police try to shoot down with machine guns before it crashes into buildings. though iran denies selling such drones to russia, key of says moscow resorted to iran major head 136 drones to attack ukraine's

energy and civilian infrastructures. the unmanned aircraft is one of a series of drones made by iran, where the wingspan of 2 and a half meters. it can carry 40 kilograms of explosives. it's classified as the light ring mission, as it can stay in the air for hours until a target is found. then it zooms in becoming a missile that destroys itself on impact. military experts say they've been rebranded, guaranteed by russia and used extensively to carry out strikes across ukraine, such as here in the north eastern city of harkey. compared to miss i, it's the she had drones are cheap, $20000.00 euros per unit. ukraine says russia has ordered 2000 more. they use represents a new challenge to ukraine's air defense. even if they report having shot down over $220.00 drones over the last month. the kamikaze type flies low can be sent

a low nor in swamps, and can cause considerable damage. for more, let's bring in asa holland michelle. he's a senior seller at the carnegie council, the founder of the center for the study of the drone. and he's widely regarded as one of the world's leading drone experts. good to have you with us, arthur. what can you, what can you tell us about these drones? what are we looking at? what do we know? well, as the report said, we're looking at a fairly rudimentary weapon system. it doesn't carry a lot of explosive, but because it flies very low to the ground, it's hard to detect on radar. a lot of them do actually get through and can hit targets and they've had a tremendous effect already in the last few weeks that they've been used. and what are the challenges that such drones pose, relative to, to say more conventional weapons such as shells and missiles?

well, you know, conventional air defense systems have had many decades to respond to those sorts of traditional weapons. drones represent a novel threat as the systems not really designed to detect them to track them, and indeed to shoot them down. what ukraine has relied on is a kind of patchwork of different detection systems visual observers. they've even relied on fight just to try and chase these systems down. they have had some success in shooting down a couple of 100 of these systems. but the cost of shooting down these very cheap drones has been very, very high for ukraine in the millions of dollars. and because russia can launch them in large numbers, not only are they incurring a cost on ukrainian forces in terms of the weapons they have to use. but also there's always a probability that some of the drones of the swarms are going to be able to get through and, and hit that targets. what is interesting that russia has only recently started

using those drones? what do you think? what does it tell us about the state of the russian army that they appear now to have shifted to strategy that actually relies heavily on drone attacks? i mean, it may show some signs of, for example, the, you know, the reduction in reserves of other equivalent weapons like, like cruise missiles, you know, i think with some limited into how much we can read into what it says about the other kinds of weapons that russia's using but it certainly shows that they have access to a capability that was and it didn't really figure in their full structure at the beginning of the war if they are able to continue accessing these drones in the same numbers that, that is going to be significant unless ukraine finds a even more in patch, cheaper way of actually defending against the systems that it could have a lasting effect. i think. and, and because russia can launch the systems from pretty far back, i mean, they have

a range of up to 2000 kilometers, even if they get pushed further back by ukrainian counter offenses. these weapons can continue to reach deep into ukrainian territory as a p. scary scenario, certainly from the ukrainian perspective. i mean, how much the use of these drones change the dynamic in this? what does it do to the people on the ground? well, it's precisely the, the fear factor, you know, drones compared to other weapons. not only are they very effective, but they also have a, a kind of psychological, emotional impact on the world stage. you know that they, they, they are good for creating headlines, for shaping the narrative. for, you know, showing that russia is an advanced force that's able to, to sort of so co chaos. of course it is able to do that, but it's already been able to do that with other conventional means of warfare. so

if russia's able to continue these types of drone attacks, than that it's, these attacks are going to continue to be in the news. people are going to continue to be talking about them. and that could have a profound effect on, you know, the overall narrative of the conflict and, and how it so how it's evolving at arthur fallen. michelle, a senior fellow at the carnegie council. thank you so much for your time. let's take a look now at some of the other stories making news around. the welt, north and south korea have exchanged warning shots off the coast of the korean peninsula. each side accuses the other of breaching its maritime borders. tensions between the 2 careers have been simmering with young young carrying out weapons test at an unprecedented pace. this year flathead towns across east on australia, on high alert for more heavy rains. at least 5 people have been killed and thousands of homes flooded across north and the new south wales and victoria.

authorities are warning more rivers could burst their banks. uganda reports more than a dozen cases of ebola in the capital cum paula. over the past 2 days, the outbreak began and the countryside. the health ministry says there have been more than 90 confirmed probable cases including $44.00 death the ongoing droughts in the horn of africa is the worst to hit the region and 40 years. 4 consecutive rainy seasons have failed in more than tenure, which was already one of the country's driest areas. it's particularly tough for the communities there, many of whom rely on their lives. stalker, for a living, as the ground has become even more barren, hundreds of thousands of animals have already died. now with their livelihood gone, the situation is becoming dire, especially in kenya's to her con our county as t w's. felix marine gar, reports were selling maritally has poor children of her own,

and also takes care of her sister's kids. but with a drought, she has been unable to feed the large family at times, even skipping meals. know how fireplaces call it in the cooking ports are mostly empty. had children i surviving when food shift coverages? good at all. i have to go to the bush and collect wild fruits. could ingo sing the children with the way is causing selina unbearable pain. their sick claim, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach about me. i just feel terrible. her husband, joseph once had so many goods and cattle that they filled, the st closure and money he used to and from selling meat and milk was more than enough to feed his family. but the drought has killed nearly all of his talk. oh no more. another one will i will i get them all. i can't count the number of lifetime

we have already lost the draught or not. it would be more than $100.00. but right now beyond our 5 running movement, not on own, but i will. i know you can i, tanya, my water points as that gets water for cooking and washing clothes. this was once a flowing river. no, it's the only water for kilometers. i know that the water here isn't clean. we often have diarrhea or whether it's the only water points, even dogs drink from here and if i am thirsty, i'll drink from here to it affects us so much before bearings. stop falling, their northern can your region was already experiencing hush. climatic conditions, some 500000 people in true color, i in dire need of help. the drought here most experts, fee is partly caused by climate change. we're population in africa continue

to experience for the significant impacts of clemency. so i think it's our core for, for the blow as a whole, to actually address to the issue of glass. it because he that makes you a lot of people how the only in africa with another continental as well. as for selena and high, extended funding time is running out for the while to act. they are already being battered by climate change. and i'm joined now by ronnie di gosh eunice, have deputy regional director for easton and southern africa in nairobi. the to have you with us a, sadly, this is the 4th consecutive year without rainfall in the region. we just had this report there. what are the main challenges for the horn of africa? thanks very much for having an the us today. in fact,

the story that was just told about selina and joseph's children, they're one of 10000000 children that are affected in the horn of africa to day and the are the front lines of climate change as you so correct, he reported. and it is a situation that we have not seen before because it is 4 consecutive fail drains the 5th than the 6th, by the way, are also anticipated to fail. and all of this comes in the heels of the coven pandemic, and its effects as well. so it's a compounding of the crisis that we have not encountered before. i informed this region and i've not seen this level of a desperation of moon m. if i could just reflect on some of this 90 percent of open water sources have dried up. we've lost about $1500000.00 livestock,

which is that's the anchor of these communities in northern kenya. and, and we have about more than 3000000 people, unable to access safe water for drinking. we're cleaning as you heard today. the numbers are astounding. and that's the case across the entire region. it's kenya. it is. if you're pure, it is so manya, it is parts of djibouti for that matter. so it is we, it is very different to what we have seen in previous years and is his expert. and you saying that you have never experienced anything like it? or do you think that local authorities could have done better when it comes to preparing for the situation? i think local authorities and communities have been doing what they can, but what has made the situation different is in previous decades, i would say in this region,

we would get it round every 10 years and then it became every 7 years. and then every 5, and now we're seeing these droughts every 2 to 3 years. so that time to recover between one route and the other is no longer in place. and the coping mechanisms of the communities of the families once they lose livestock and of government is actually really eroded. so we go in as unicef with all the other humanitarian agencies to save lives every time. but as we have often said, you save lives is layer one of our intervention underpinning that you have to be able to build the resilience of these communities. so the withstand shocks in the future. so those are what needs to be done right now, right now to help the people affected and build to the foundation for this not to happen again. certainly not to that extent. absolutely,

and both things need to happen. lead to save lives and everybody i am doing by my son, who i am going to ask to sit right here. and it is to save lives of these children, we need assistance and resources to give food. we need assistance to give nutrition . we need to dig will allows and more holes so that we can provide clean water. we really have been sounding the alarm bells for very long, but the resources did not come in and she was very late in july. we started to see them ready and it is and, and it isn't sufficient and it's too little too late. oh, right up. thank you very much, shar ranier douglas una server deputy regional director for eastern and a southern africa and a thank you also to your son and, and all the best and hopefully ah, yeah, dealing with that situation and making it better for the people they are. thank you . thank you. it is

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