calling and dining office. enjoy our services to be our guest at frankfurt. airport city, managed by from board. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. ukrainian troops hold off attacks by russian forces in the east. the heaviest fighting is concentrated in the dawn bass region, present to me as the landscape condemns moscow's tactics as crazy. also coming up lebanon and israel, and

a decades long dispute over their shared maritime order. the 2 nations are technically still at war, but both now hope to benefit from mineral resources and the new space race. why several nations are competing to put humans back on the moon. scientists believe it can be a gateway to mars and beyond. ah, i really mohammed welcome to the program he koreans, president vladimir lansky, says his forces are holding out against repeated attacks by russian forces in the eastern don bast region. for lansky says the heaviest fighting is concentrated around the towns of the towns of a deep got and buck mood. russian artillery has been pounding buttonwood for weeks, reducing much of it to ruins, but ukrainian troops are fighting back to dublin valley fisheries,

and give and gave us some more context. now let's zoom union here on a 2 towns bar mood in the northern part of the don't us region often. yes and all for i knew the garbage is close actually to the regional capital often. yes. also need not done yet. that's been under russia and control or right approach for russian separate is control since 2014. and given this information, given the fact, this is 2014 both who hunts big party plants and don't yet have been under pro russians separate is control and influence also gives much more experience to now russian soldiers try to take him more territory in both party new hunts and doing yet, and this is exactly what's happening right now. you see really those fight escalate over streets over villages over everything that could give russian forces to leverage and try to a trying to govern more parts of both

a both parts of the don't bus region, but specifically of don't you ask region? that's why you see specifically a lot of fighting in and around back mode because back mood in the northern part of done yet is very close to sco vianza, which is the administrative center controlled by ukraine in the don't you ask region. so yes, that fighting for more territory from the russia perspective, but from the ukrainian perspective, try to repel this russian forces is going to continue. and also a, such as going to continue. the question is, how is it going to continue depending on how the next phase of this war with winter arriving, is going to give a change for both parts, depending on how much military equipment do they have and how many truths on the ground. how many soldiers they are to fight for the interests and lebanon, and israel had ended a long standing dispute over their shad maritime border. the 2 countries are so formerly at all. so lead has signed the agreement separately,

both nations up to benefit from mineral resources within the family to speak with area w tonya. crime explains what the argument was about. the mediterranean sea, off the coast between israel and lebanon. these where contest that waters, both countries have long, been locked in dispute over where the maritime border lies. behind the scenes, negotiations have gone on for several years. now, israel and lebanon have agreed on a maritime borders, did, mediated by the united states. the skin, from his agreement, strengthens israel security and our freedom of action against has bla and the threats to our north. there's rare consensus in the security establishment regarding the necessity of this agreement. the dispute is about a relatively small triangle shaped area with each side claiming their part as exclusive economic zone. the areas expected to be rich in offshore gas,

israel and lebanon. how the long history of conflict, the 2 countries for to war in 2006. and they have been many security incidents between israel and the lebanese she, i'd militant group, has been lost since parts of the countries land border. the blue line, a dom occasion lined by the u. n. is also disputed whether the maritime border dia could be a step towards a white, a peace agreement is unclear. but the deal paved the way to more gas exploration a potentially economic benefit for both countries. well, let's bring a now correspondence, rebecca, which is, is in jerusalem and mama tre tia is in beirut. it's not with rebecca. so what does this mean? what does this deal mean for israel and how is it being portrayed there? well rahile, as we heard there this deal has bay more than a decade in the making. there have been numerous rounds of negotiations broken by

the us, as we just heard that have all been unsuccessful until a couple of weeks ago when the 2 side finally did reach that agreement. that deal now has been signed by the lebanese side. and the israel side ending more than a decade of conflict over this disputed region. and it is being held as a huge moment, a huge success by both sides. bye bye as a historic moment. in fact, i mean, let's not forget that these 2 sides as we just heard in that report, have a, you know, diplomatic ties. they're, they're technically still at war and lebanon. doesn't even recognize israel as a sovereign country. so for a deal like these to be agree between those 2 sides is really being held as a historic moment now for israel, for its pot is going to benefit greatly both politically and diplomatically, but more economically. and of course, with security guarantees as well. israel has for a long time, wanted to drill the gas that it knows are in those fields that are on what it is or

argued is on its side of the maritime border. but it's been it on the threat by his bill or the iran backed group in lebanon, saying that if they were to go ahead and take oil from those fields or a gas from those fields before any deal was struck that his blood would attack. they can now go ahead and do that. in fact, they have been doing it yesterday and energy and the company that has been drilling on the israeli side said that the gas is flowing and that it will be able to be even delivered to its partners within the coming days, which will be met very fondly from european leaders who are looking to fill the gap that left behind by turning off the tap from the russia invasion in ukraine. all right, thank you rebecca. let's a pivot of it now to bahama gta in beirut, how is the lebanon seeing the steel helmet well and sees it from a very different perspective this morning, the beneath president, michelle said that the agreement is purely technical and does not have any

political implications. and does that does not paved the way to the normalization of relations with its way of the 2 states are still technically ex war, however, that the agreement is expected to bring stability to the area as it moves an element of potential conflict between israel and the non, mainly the iranian back to the beneath hezbollah, d u. s. broker, broker deal. it opens the way for the shore. energy exploration, therefore, live in these officials are hoping the disagreement that helps elevate lebanon's economic crisis. the country has been in economy free for, for 3 years now, and exploration of hydrocarbons. hydrocarbons is a huge deal for lebanon as a significant discovery could help ease the countries just ling financial and economic crisis. right. that is moments in their route. and rebecca protests in

jerusalem, thank you both. well, take a look at some other stories making news around the world. china is imposing new sanctions on so she is hit by cove at 19 outbreaks. authorities in beijing and shanghai, a ceiling up buildings and shutting down some districts. both cities have recorded fewer than 20 day cases with no new deaths. your fault, you do wanna fight and tie media tycoon is an also an activist. has that brought the miss universe beauty pageant for $20000000.00? reality tv saw an jack rap hong jack raw ju touch. it is outspoken about being a transgender woman. donald trump previously ran the contest, which has been staged full 7 decades. and a court in australia has to start discharge the jury. troy a former government advisor accuse of sexually assaulting a colleague,

dura obtained details that were not given in evidence. the case sent off a review of workplace culture in australia the united states has imposed fresh sanctions against iranian officials involved in the brutal crackdown on anti government protests rights groups. a hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks and memorial. those rallies have now marked the end of the traditional 40 day morning period for gina masa armine her death while being held by yvonne. so with a relatively set off, the protests, mourners chanted slogans, demanding rights of women. when she, when nash art is an iranian artist renowned around the world, the filmmaker is living in exile in the german city of hamburg because of her support for the anti government protests. he w met her and asked her how she sees the future of harm land o the gulf of gena mazda, a mini, unleashed an avalanche of anger,

especially among iranian women. iranian artist and filmmaker sheree nest that has lived in the united states since 1979. she was not surprised by the level of outrage. it's sort of calm. you need it all. the woman's frustration for 43 years and their lives had been so deeply affected by the regime, how they're treated as, as 2nd class citizens. how they're worth, half of the men, how they're, and they're really treated as if they just belong to the house and, and they have very little power outside in the public domain. cheering, this has newest art work woman life, freedom projected a protest in london. it's now available online, half of the proceeds from sales will go to human rights watch women's rights or

human rights. this has always been a theme in her work. these works are a response to the is lemme revolution in iran. they are about violence, about religion and depression, and incorporate works by contemporary iranian women, poets, women, freedom, rebellion and her former homeland of themes in her films to a most recent film, land of dreams is set in the usa. it is a vision of the future. hi, and soon i work for the census. i just need to ask you a question. can you recall your last training? a road movie about total control that even extends to dreams. the due stadium, mexico, vatcher dreams are from care of us border patrol. why?

look at the iranian situation today, we are all dreaming about the possibility of reunification. our freedom of going back home for the people have you down to be free, but we are filled with nightmares about the violence, a bad bloodshed about people killing us. and so we're between dreams and nightmares . does she re ness had believe that in iran, the regime will put down the uprising? i just don't foresee the woman of the, on the people of iraq go back to the way it was 6 weeks ago or so. it's just no way i now the space race is back. several countries including the united states, tyna, russia, india, and israel are trying to reach the moon if such as the quest for national laurie

sign to see the moon as a gateway, a place to build bases that could then launch missions to mars and beyond. the moon has one indispensable resource for manned space flight water. h 2 o can be used to make breathable air for astronauts and fuel for rockets. the largest water deposits saw in the deep i see craters at the lunar poles. at the moon's south pole alone. research is suspect, there is as much water as in germany's largest lake up on the at any time or over the next few years. and the outpost is set to be built in the lunar all bit. the so called luna gateway. nasa will build it with canada, europe, and japan. it wants to involve the private sector more than before. the new space

station will serve as a research platform and later as a base for man, flights to the moon or runway in orbit should make it possible to see the far side of the moon and the south pole. and to have constant radio contact with earth nights on the moon. last for 14 earth days at the temperatures dropped to 160 degrees celsius below 0. that's a major hurdle for long term human missions. but there are craters at the south pole with rims that are almost always in sunlight. nasa wants to build a lunar station and such a crater, the so called artemus base camp. are initially astronauts land in transport craft, which will also serve as their accommodation during their short stays. but explore the surrounding terrain in vehicles. mm. with

each mission the lunar base should become more comfortable. whatever spacecraft bring the equipment and robots will build the infrastructure up to for astronauts will work here for up to 2 months at a time. the. our 1st will also serve as a springboard for our new mission human voyages to mars. well joining me in the studio is just of ash barker. he is the director general of the european space agency. yes. a and alexander guest. he is a german astronaut who spent a year on the international space station where he was also a mission. commander is great, how are you with us here andy w. news. i like to start with you alexander. why is it so important to go back to the moon after 50 years? actually. yeah, we don't see this going back because we're doing something news for us. it's

a great step forward. we're going there not to plan to flag in the ground or just collecting some rocks. but we want to be there as scientists to stay to understand this. well, actually it's an open history book about the 1st 2000000000 years of earth history that we cannot read here anymore because we don't have the rocks anymore on earth. they were destroyed by erosion. they're open out in the open on the moon. if we study them, we understand ourselves better. also, the moon is our next neighbor we compared as a, an 8th continent that is right out there to be explored, to be understood. and it's important for us because if you think about it as humans, we are an island species. we're live on this little blue planet thinking that it's always going to be there is always going to protect those. but that's not the case . the dinosaurs have made that experience. they were hit by an asteroid. the same could happen to us their space, whether solar storms out there that threaten our society,

and we need to understand our costing surroundings. so the moon is the 1st, like look outside of our little sphere, and we have the responsibility to understand it to make sure that our existence is insured. so, so you describe the moon as being our neighbor, considering whether this might be a success. if we were to build the main base, is there the possibility that we could see people living on the moon at some point? yeah, i don't, i don't see that. you know, moon is hostile and dry. there's no atmosphere there's. there's no nothing that that would get you as a human to love being there. i mean, i've spent the year in space and i always love to come back. that's an important thing that we learn. but if you could compare the moon to antarctica, right, 100 years ago, it was not clear to people. why should we go there? it's, it's expensive, it's risky. and it's full of ice. but now, 100 years later,

in hindsight, we understand that we were right in going there and understanding antarctica not by itself, but because it delivers the data to us is important for our understanding of the planet. now there's lots of research spaces even though nobody lives in antarctica, just for fun. and the same will happen with the moon. and why is such a hot topic when it comes to the space, right? so mars can answer for us to very, very important questions. in my opinion, the most important ones is something that every one of us you and i have ask ourselves that are we alone in the universe? so if we go to mars, and if we find traces of life extinct or existing, doesn't matter if that life was, was formed, independent of life on earth, that means just by like the 1st view out the 1st planet we look, we find life. that means universe is full with life right now before we go to mars and find out about that. we don't know, we're not, we cannot be sure. is there

a life out there or we alone in the universe? the 2nd thing is mars. so we see it behind ourselves now is, is a very dry and hostile planets, but actually it used to be used to be for with water had a thick atmosphere. it used to be able to support and sustain life. now it's dead and dry. what happened there, and how can we prevent the same happening with earth? all right, we'll stick around because you do have another report coming up, one of the european space agencies he missions is to gather data about climate change. the information should help scientists to protect natural disasters such as hurricane or droughts, agencies, centreville satellite, system flies over the same region every few days, acquiring information over time. or researchers can then see how land sea and air are gradually changing. well let's at turn out jim joseph ashburn, who is the director general of the european space agency,

the usa. how could this new satellite system change? how we tackle climate change? i mean, what we have with the coupon ecosystem we have just talked about the sentinel emissions. they are a unique set of different satellites, or we have a number of them up there. and with all of them, we are taking the pulse of our planet literally that we look at all the elements or the oceans, the atmosphere, the land surface, and how this earth system works together. and we do need this observations to really understand our planet to help agriculture, forest, tree ship, boating, farmers, disaster management people, so really for their daily life and for the job and information they need. but also really understand cline change because we have the satellite measuring it. let me just say that the boundary cause is really quite a unique her be so for of satellites and information we provide, actually some colleagues or in the us for example, called the gold standard of ation. that means your pest created in the last 20

years, one of the best, if not the best with information systems worldwide. and even nasa is participating in this program that's quite unique because normally we are the small part of a nasa program. in this case. it is fair to say that your peers would established itself as a, as a major play as a leader in observing our planet on the voice of course climate change sustainability. all of these are key topics for which we address from space. and yes, this program really helps us understanding i want blended. and there's a little bit more on that when it comes to trying to understand where climate change is going. as a forecast. what do you gauging from this at the moment in terms of your research? mean what we see, and we've just heard very recently that methane emissions are increasing drastically much higher than what we expected. of course, we all know about you to us for being the main greenhouse gas that is creating the bombing of our planet. of course we aim at $1.00 degrees by the end of the century . i disability, tough goal, and we can only reach it if we are taking serious measures. so one thing is,

of course, to get the measurements with satellites and on the ground systems under air based information. but a much more important task is to convert this into information and what we're creating the areas i call it detroit twin of our planet. so a digital twin, which allows us to model to simulate our planet and have what if scenarios. so what happens if i change one parameter again against another one, for example, in the energy crisis. now we are converting our call and or oil our supplies into electric, and it's your body doable energy sources. and of course, you can simulate what that, what does it mean in order to be really faster in beating your carbon? no targets are which are we, we all have said to very vicious, so this, so simulation allows us to really make sure, 1st of all that we understand the system but also make the right decisions in order to do the right steps and right measures to get there in terms of reducing the carbon footman therefore minimize the impact of climate change. i imagine

a lot of very interesting equipment to be used for this mission. could you talk through some of it? or yes, there is. a lot of it, i mean we have for satellites that measure that way that are centers on board weight. i can look through the clouds and measure day and night. so that means any time or whatever, the daytime, whatever the weather is, you can take pictures down here on, on our planet. and that's quite amazing. that's, of course, very useful. but also we have for sensors that allow us to measure sea level height with millimeter curacy 3. can imagine the satellite flies in 800 kilometers a height and measures with one millimeter cooler c. what is the average sea level height on our so face of with, with our d meters which are on the said that i to some of them are groundbreaking, technology and science which we are playing. and yes, this is quite unique system and it's actually quite cool. very cool, very interesting as well. allison, i'd like to end this with you. you spent a year in space. clearly got to see things that many of us haven't had the opportunity to do. what's your perception of how we are dealing with right now?

well, it's always, you know, hard to look down on earth, on to earth, from space and seeing things that we do down there, receive war from the outside. we see how people treat the planets at the same time . we see how fragile it is and even more importantly, we see how alone we are. you know, when we grow up or down here on earth, it looks infinite. but if you see it from the outside, on the backdrop of a black, hostile cost loss, where there is nothing there just from a few our, of our neighbor, neighbor, rocks and planets. but apart from that, there's nothing there. you see that and put it in perspective. it usually fills us, did certainly with me and my colleagues usually say the same. it feels us with concern that we're not treating our planet in the way we should to be sustainable

to make sure it's doing biosphere. it's doing what it's doing for us, even in the future, and that's something that's a message that we want to bring out is one of the most important things that we bring back as human humans to fly to space is the perspective. but at the same time, we're trying to make things better in to, you know, to give scientists the data at hand that they need to understand this problem. thank you very much. indeed for taking the time to speak to did all the news. this is joseph ashby. the director of the european space agency usa and the alexander guest, the german national. thank you so much for your time. thanks for having us. thank you very much. now we're moving on to some sports news. india's cricket board has announced an equal pay policy official have decided that women's teams will be paid the same match fees as men across all $3.00 variations of india, the 2nd crickets,

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