ah ah ah ah, this is dw used live from berlin, britain gets, it's fair to conservative, a prime minister, so far this year. richie, so not received a rapturous welcome from his supporters, the former finance ministers, most pressing task, sorting out the economic chaos left by his predecessor also coming up ukraine

and its western allies denounced. russia's claim that the key epis planning to explode a so called dirty ball on its own territory. president lansky says it's moscow that may want to use a radio active weapon undergoing evidence that russia is using iranian made drones and it's bombardment of ukraine to run, denies supplying the weapons, and shooting them down is proving a challenge for ukrainian forces. plus the horn of africa suffers it's worse to drought in for decades. parts of northern can. yeah. have not seen any rain in years. we look at how communities are coping. ah, i'm monica jones and berlin. good to have you with us. britain's former finance

minister has won the raise to become it's 3rd prime minister this year. re she's sumac gained the support of more than half of m. p. 's from the rude and conservative party is rival penny more dawned, withdrew and pledged to support the new government. in his 1st public statement since winning soon act, said, britain phased profound economic challenges and addressing them would be his 1st priority. the united kingdom is a great country, but there is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge. we now need stability and unity. and i will make it my utmost priority to bring our party and our country together. because that is the only way we will overcome the challenges we face and build a better, more prosperous future for our children and our grandchildren. i pledge

that i will serve you with integrity and humility. and i will work day in day out to deliver for the british people did all the corresponding bigot mass is following the events in london. and she told me more about britain's next prime minister. is she so neck? after weeks of financial market, thomas political and economic turmoil, 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 was 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 them 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. he will be the youngest,

in modern political, a british political history on the 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 over having our to 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, and a saying that he has to make very difficult decisions. i'm in his predecessor list

trust only lasted 45, quite tumultuous days. she made decisions that didn't go down well with a market. 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 braille or the brakes it year. say there is, for example, a very are right, being faction of the party, very much progress. the dear pro break said from very hard line breaks it. and even the 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 to big master reporting for us from london in front of 10 downing street. thank you so much, big it ukraine and it's western allies have hit back at rush and claims that key of his planning to detonate a so called dirty bomb or radioactive weapon on its own territory. russian defense

minister sag ish, roy who has told britain france and turkey that moscow is concerned of the situation and ukraine is deteriorating rapidly and 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 phone calls and rings, foreign ministers with stories about a so called dirty nichoela bomb. everyone understands everything very well me, daughter will lay understand who is the source of everything dirty that can be imagined soon, this war is short. 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 hoarsely as possible. what you're sure is you. i asked

d. w of russia analyst or roman gunshot ankle. 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 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 we'll 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 defined in continues just in, in the months before or 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 are for ukraine are 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. it'll be a russia analyst, roman a gunshot ankle in bond roman. thank you so much. thank you. russia is stepping up it's drone and missile attacks in the south of ukraine in the north. there are growing for years that moscow is planning

a joint invasion with bella russian troops. moscow has sent thousands of soldiers to belarus, fueling fears of a new 2nd front. as did our youth, fanny for shar reports from ukraine's had to be his region. villages near the border, preparing for the west. fear keeps your alert when it's dangerous. the soldier sans more tara attacks and shelling have increased here and paper maps work. when technology doesn't he staking us close to the water with bell? our oath lest only to spend time thinking will inoffensive happen or not, we are preparing for the enemy to come work as to why this part of northern ukraine is where russia forces sweat 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 was angry, really proud to have such trophies for the ukrainian army,

vanessa low grade. so this is a former russian position. oh does the yes it is lisa. this is what's left off one rush and fighting vehicle after those battles in march. the soldiers here expect new ones to arrive soon. so i'm dumb. when we are prepared, motivated, we have no way back. where defending our homeland at my the shove, so it's throttle many here suspected they are neighbors in bella. ruth had helped the russians from the star, 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 ross, are sure that would 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. we just gotta look, oh how me who should i go to like a hey, i'm not afraid of the winter, but 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 yet, 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 this, 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 forces have shot down more than $200.00 iranian made drones. in the last few weeks,

both iran and russia deny that so called county cassie drones used and moscow's aerial bombardments have come from iran. the west says there's mounting evidence. this is the case. use of such drones would violate a you and resolution curbing iranian weapons exports. this 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 you cranes, 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 loitering munition, as it can stay in the air for hours until

a target has font than 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 ives, the she had drones are cheap. $20000.00 euros for 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. also 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. and he gave us his assessment of what we're looking at. 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 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 to 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 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 at our 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 welt,

north and south korea have exchanged warning shots off the coast of the korean peninsula. each side accused the other of breaching its maritime borders. tension between the 2 careers have been simmering as pyongyang carries out a series of weapons tests. the 1st peace talks between ethiopia and rebels from the door. the antique re region are set to begin in south africa. if the opiates government is under international pressure to hold a major offensive in the region, almost 2 years of conflict have killed thousands of displaced millions of people. uganda reports more than a dozen cases of ebola in the capital compiler. over the past 2 days, the outbreak began and 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 livestock for a living. as the land has become even more barren, hundreds of thousands of animals have died with their livelihood gone. the situation for local people is dire, especially in can yes to a cannot county as d. w as felix marengo reports. all. felina totally 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 village family at times, even skipping meals. know how fireplaces cold in the cooking ports are mostly empty . her children are surviving on food. she's coverages and i have to go to the bush and collect wild fruits. could ingo, seeing the children whist away is causing selina unbearable pain. their sick claim, most of the time they go to bed on an empty stomach above them. i just feel

terrible. how 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 that drought has killed nearly all of his talk. no more to no one while i wa i ya, tomorrow they can't count the number of lifetime. we have already lost the drought . not it would be more than $100.00. but right now beyond our fight running most men, not the one. i don't go, i will run. i know you can atanya by water points as that gets water for cooking and washing clothes. this was once a flowing river. no. it's the only water 4 kilometers. suddenly, just the water here isn't clean. we often have diarrhea. so with this, it's the only water points to even dogs drink from here. and if i am thirsty,

i'll drink from here to it affects us so much before the rain stopped falling, the northern kenya 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 split it a significant impact. so glam it. so i think it's a cool, cool for the blow as a whole, to actually address the issue of glass it because he there for you a lot of people only in africa about another continental as well. as for selina and high, extended family chinese. trailing out for their wild to act, they are already being battered by climate change. and to find out more about the

challenges facing the horn of africa. i spoke to ronnie di gosh eunice, have deputy director for easton and south in africa. thanks very much for having an us today. in fact, the story that was just told about salina and joseph's children, there wasn't 10000000 children that are affected in the heart of africa today. 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 grains. the 5th of the 6 by the way, are also anticipated to fail. and all of this comes in the heels of their cove in pandemic in 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 move

um, if i could just reflect on some of this 90 percent of open water sources have dried up, we've lost about wall point 5000000 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 somalia, it is parts of g t for that matter. so it is really, it is very different to what we have seen in previous years and is his head. 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 this 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 routes 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 governments 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 saved lives is layer one of our intervention underpinning that you have to be able to build the resilience of these communities. so the we stand shocks in the future. so those are what needs to be done right now. right now to help the people

affected and built the foundation for this not to happen again. certainly not to that extent. absolutely, and both things need to happen. 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 save lives. of these children, we need assistance and resources to give food. we need assistance to give nutrition . we need to dig loves and hor 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 the money and it is an end. it isn't sufficient, and it's too little too late. or write up fake is a very marsha ragna, daggers 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 there, thank you. thank you. you're watching d w news coming up next in d w. news asia. we look ahead to chinese liter heating things unprecedented 3rd term and why it may be a tough time for much of the well with that in more detail, the news asia with a job and read off to week break. sha monica jones, thanks to with with

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