a varied course is full of into active exercises are available and d, w dot com slash dog planet on facebook all in the land gym and for free with the w ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. britain gets its 3rd conservative prime minister . so far this year, richey so not received a rapturous welcome from his supporters. a former finance ministers, most pressing task, sorting out the economic chaos left by his predecessor also coming up

ukraine and its western allies denounced to russian claims that kia is planning to explode. a so called a dirty bomb on its own territory. president lansky says it's moscow that may want to use a radioactive weapon. and growing evidence that russia is using a rainy and made a drones in its bombardment of ukraine to run, denies supplying the weapons and shooting them down is proven, is proving a challenge for ukrainian forces. plus the horn of africa suffers it's worse to drought in for decades. parts of northern kenya 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

a former finance minister has won the race to become its 3rd prime minister. this year, richie sooner could gain to the support of more than half of m. p. 's from the ruling conservative party, his rival penny more donned, withdrew, and pledged to support the new government. soon access that stabilizing the economy will be his 1st priority. d, w, corresponding big mass is following the events in london for us, and she told me more about britain next prime minister, richie, so neck that we're really watch. after weeks of financial market, tom, all political and economic term, all the conservative party has decided to go for their new prime minister, somebody who has economic confidence. this is how he is seen. he's the former chancellor. he's somebody who is credited with helping british business is helping british people through the term, all of the coffee 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 a def 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 out cut our budget to cut public services or 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 and his predecessor list 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 wishes to knock were last? there is a good question, monica, because the conservative party is deeply divided and that stretches back to the the breck sit on the referendum and all the brit l. all the brakes it year. see, there is, for example, a very are right, being faction of the party, very much progress. the dear pro rick said from very hard line, breaks it. and, and even the richie soon i was somebody who advocated for breaks that 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 to big master reporting for us from london in front of 10 downing

street. thank you so much bigot, ukraine and it's western allies have hit back at rush and claims that keir fis planning to detonate a so called dirty bomb or radioactive weapon on its own territory. russian defense minister sag assure hugo has told britain, france and turkey that moscow is concerned to the situation and ukraine is deteriorating rapidly. ukraine's president lensky has warned that russia is manufacturing a pretext to escalate the conflict college ordinary season 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? your choice, 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 shall receive now asked d. w. russia and a list of roman gone, sharon co, why russia is 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 and 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 as the russian defense minister talked

to his western counterparts. and i wish 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 us. 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 suddenly 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 defined in 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 claim in the military, of course, because the connection is disturbed. the government has to take care of this. so it's a major problem for ukraine, which distracts its attention from the actual fighting on the battlefield. and these accusations, or for ukraine, was 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 a russia analyst or a man, a gunshot ankle in bond roman. thank you so much. thank you.

ukraine says its forces half shut down more than 200 iranian made drones in the last few weeks. both iran and russia deny that so called comcast. drones used in moscow's aerial bombardments have come from iran. but the west this, there's mounting evidence. this is the case use of such drones would violate a you and resolution curbing iranian weapons, exports, half of 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, with a wing span of 2 and a half meters. it can carry 40 kilograms of explosives. it's classified as the

light ring munition, as it can stay in the air for hours until a target is font, then it's 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 ives, 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. author holland michelle, a senior fellow at the carnegie council and the founder of the center for the study of the drone is widely regarded as one of the world's leading drone experts. he

gave us a assessment of what we're looking at here. 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 of the systems aren't 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 a 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. that's a pretty 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 kind of psychological, emotional impact on the world stage. you know, they, they are, they're 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, then 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's, how it's evolving arthur fall, and michelle senior fellow at the carnegie council,

thank you so much for your time. let's take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. north and south korea have exchanged warning shots off the coast of the korean peninsula. each side accuses the other of reaching its maritime borders. tensions between the 2 careers have been simmering as pyongyang carries out a series of weapons tests flooded towns across eastern australia on high alert for heavy rains. at least 5 people have been killed and thousands of homes flooded across new south wales and victoria. authorities or warning more rivers could burst their banks. uganda reports more than a dozen cases of ebola and the capital come palla. over the past 2 days, the outbreak began in the surrounding countryside. the health ministry says there have been more than 90 confirmed and probable cases, including $44.00 deaths. the horn of africa is suffering

its worst drought in 40 years. 4 consecutive rainy seasons have failed in northern kenya, one of the driest regions, it's particularly tough for communities which rely on their lifestyle for a living. as the land has become even more barren, hundreds of thousands of animals have died with their livelihoods gone. the situation for local people as dire, especially in can, yes to or cannot county as t w's affiliate marrying go, reports were silly. maritally has 4 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. how children are surviving when food shift coverages. and i have to go to the bush and collect wild fruits. could ingo sing the children with that we is

causing selina unbearable pain. they're 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. no more. no, no one will i will i get them all out. i can't count the number of lifetime we have already lost the draught. i don't know which would be more than $100.00. but right now we only have 5 running movement. not on. i don't go. i will run, i know you, can i, tanya, by what appoints as that gets? what a 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. were population in africa continue to split it with the significant impacts of clemency. so i think it's our core for, for the globe and as a whole, to actually address the issue of sense because he doesn't use a lot of people only in africa with another continent 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. this being the 4th consecutive year without rainfall in the region. we spoke to rania di gosh unicef, deputy regional director for easton in south africa, nairobi to find out more about the challenges for the horn of africa. thanks very much for having an the us today. in fact, the story that was just told about salina and joseph's children, they're one of 10000000 children that are effected 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 6 by the way, are also anticipated to feel. and, and all of this comes in the heels of the coughing 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 have not seen this level of desperation of moon am. if i could just reflect on some of this 90 percent of open water sources have dried up, we've lost about 1500000 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 man. yeah, 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 the 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, the crap and lead to see lights and everybody i am doing by my son who i am going to ask to sit right here. and it is to see lives of these children. we need assistance and resources to give food. we need assistance to give nutrition, we need to do well or 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 very late. in july you started to see them

ready and it is and, and it isn't sufficient and it's too little too late. all right. 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 yeah, dealing with that situation and making it better for the people there. thank you. thank you. disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein is facing a new trial on top of a 23 year jail sentence. he's already serving the 70 year old is charged with raping and sexually assaulting 5 women. going back to 2004. the latest hearings are in los angeles. the city where weinstein once called the shots, as one of hollywood most powerful produces a scandal, triggered a wave of sexual misconduct claims in the us and around the world.

so let's get a more from d. w culture correspondence got a rog sparren who i can't see, but i know here he is. he can hear me as god do talk as through these latest charges harvey weinstein is facing right now in, in los angeles. yes or thanks or the charges that i want is facing are 11 accounts of various forms of sexual assault, brought by 5 women. om, he's accused of committing these acts which include or, or charges of rape over on almost 10 year period, from 2000 or to 2013 in california. and weinstein course has a pleaded not guilty to all charters and says that any sexual activity that took place between human, these women was consensual. are the court cases now starting or to day in los angeles? and it will be up to the jury or which was picked of our 9 men and 3 women to

decide whether or not he's guilty. can we expect that this trial is going to be as explosive as the one several years ago in new york? was that basically started the need to our campaign? i don't think so just because that a case or that trial and his conviction, ugh, convicted of more than of to more than 20 years in jail. ah, we're very sexual assault. a charges that was, was truly explosive. it relieves, sparked a movement as you said that this, the me to moment that not only spread throughout the entertainment industry throughout america, but really globally and, and had a huge impact or a huge social impact. i don't speak that happened from this case, but this is very significant because of the a trial in new york. we're arguing he was found guilty. he's, he's appealed though that ruling am. and that case is now going to the new york supreme court. and if his convictions overturned this trial become incredibly

significant, this one in los angeles, because if he's found guilty, then he will still stay in jail. but if the other trail is of the case is overturned, um and he is found not guilty in this case. then harvey weinstein will walk free. all right. as got to, we have about 40 seconds left for you to tell us whether at the impact of the me to movement is also being felt in hollywood itself. the practices that are going on there? yes, i think the impacts been tremendous over the last 5 years since the start of the a. me to movement. and we seen incredible changes. i think the, the sort of culture of the casting couch that harvey weinstein personified. i'm has been abolish. and i think it would be impossible, really in the structure now to have another, a man like harvey weinstein being so dominant, so abusive within the system. and that said, i think the sort of broader goals of the me to movement for real gender equity. and for real equity in access equal access to opportunities and economic use within the

industry for men and women, i think they're, they're still a lot of progress. so it k did other eucharist, their culture correspondence guide rocks through there. thank you so much. it is a reminder of our top story for you. britain's former finance minister has won the race to become the u. k. 3rd prime minister this year. really soon i can gain the support of more than half the routing conservative party. he says his 1st priority is stabilizing the economy d, w, and use asia with jared reed is coming up next up to very short break. with

who in ice contain the answer to fixing climate change. a team of researchers is taking into the icy pattern more time is running out because the glaciers are melting at an exponential pace. and along with them,

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