[000:00:00;00] ah, subscribe to the w documentary on youtube. bon ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin, lebanon israel, and a decades long dispute over their shared sea border. the u. s. called it a historic agreement. the 2 nations are technically still at war,

but both now hope to benefit from the valuable mineral resources. also coming up. ukrainian troops hold off attacks by russian forces in the eastern don bast region . president vladimir lansky condemns moscow's tactics as crazy. 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'm really mohammed welcome to the program, lebanon and israel have ended a long standing dispute over there, shed maritime border. the 2 countries are still formally at war, so leaders signed the agreement separately. both nations hope to benefit from offshore gas extraction within the formerly, formerly disputed area. u. s. president joe biden has called the deal historic w's

ha kramer explains what the argument was about. the mediterranean sea, off the coast between israel and lebanon. these fair, contested 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. this grim, sham is 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, health, long history of conflict. the 2 countries for to war in 2006 and the have been many

security incidents between israel and the lebanese she, i'd militant group has swollen since parts of the countries land border. the blue line, a demo cation lined by the u. n. is also disputed whether the maritime borders, dia could be a step towards a white, a peace agreement is unclear. but the deal paved the way to mock us exploration a potentially economic benefit for both countries. and we have correspondence falling all the latest developments in the region, rebecca, which is, is in jerusalem. and oh, how much? 88 is in beirut. they told me how the deal is being viewed there overhead as we heard there. this deal has been more than a decade in the making their vain, 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 this to be agreed 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 under 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, sorry,

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 his partner's 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 the pivot of it now to mohammed gta in beirut, how is lebanon seeing the steel? hm. it well and sees it from a very different perspective this morning, the nin east president michelle and said that the agreement is purely technical and does not have any political implications. and dust does not pay the way to normalization of relations with israel. the 2 states are still technically at war, however,

that the agreement is expected to bring stability to the area as it moves an element of potential conflict between israel and lebanon. mainly the iranian back to the new school has the law a u. s. broker broker deal opens to wait for for energy exploration that for needs. officials are hoping the disagreement that helps elevate lebanon's economic crisis. the country has been in economic free for, for 3 years now. and exploration of hydrocarbon hydrocarbons is a huge deal for 11 on as a significant discovery could help ease the countries different financial and economic crisis that is not mentioned in the roots and rebecca versus injuries. and thank you both ukraine's president 30 minutes and he says his forces are holding out against attacks by russian forces in the eastern done bass region. the

heaviest fighting is concentrated around the towns of defense. and the question artillery has been pounding for weeks. if you think much of it to ruin lensky has called my supposed tactics. crazy. think of a funny for shot has more from kid. now, so let's zoom in here on a 2 towns back. move in a northern part of a you don't us region often yet and all for i knew scott, which is close actually to the regional capital up and yet also need not done yet. that's been under russia and control or right approach for russian separatist control since 2014 and given this information, given the fact this is 2014 both who hunts big pot to plants and don't yet have been under pro russian separate is control and influence also gives much more experience to now russian soldiers try to take him more territory in both parts into hans and don't yet. and this is exactly what's happening right now. you see

really those fights escalate over streets over villages, over everything that could give russian forces and leverage and trying to a trying to i govern more parts of a both a both parts of the don't bus region, but specifically of don yeske region. that's why you see specific, a lot of fighting in and are on back move because back move in. the northern part of done yet is very close to soviet, which is the administrative center controlled by ukraine in the don't yeske region . so yes, that fighting for more territory from the russian perspective, but from the ukrainian perspective, tried to repel this, russian forces is going to continue. and also if that's 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 truth on the

ground, how many soldiers they are to fight for the interests. on a 2nd, look at some of the stories making news around the world. china is imposing. you locked out in cities, hit by coven 19 outbreaks. authorities in beijing and shanghai, a ceiling up buildings and shutting down. some districts, both cities have recorded fewer than 20 de cases with no new deaths. a time media tycoon, an activist has brought the miss universe beauty pageant for $20000000.00, reality tv star and jacker upon jack cro. jude ta tip is outspoken about being a transgender woman. donald trump previously ran the contests which has been staged for 7 decades. in on mosques, car company, tesla is under investigation in the u. s. overs self driving vehicles. the inquiry follows more than a dozen crashes involving testers, auto pilot system, some act of it, some accidents we're,

we're fatal. now the united states has imposed new sanctions against iranian officials, involved in the crackdown on anti government protests. ride groups say that hundreds of people have been killed in recent weeks. rallies have marked the end of the traditional 40 day morning period for gina masa armine a death while being held by iran, so called morality. police sets off the protests. mourners taunted slogans, demanding rights for women. sharina shot is an award winning iranian artist and full maker in the 1990. she was banned from iran for her photographs highlighting gender inequality. she's been living in exile in the us ever since. d . w met her in the german city of hamburg, and asked the how she sees the feature of her homeland. oh, the death of gina mazda, i mean, he 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 is sort of common, needed 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, sheree mishaps, newest art, work, woman life, freedom projected a protest in london. it's now available on line half of the proceeds from sales will go to human rights watch. women's rights are human rights. this has always been a theme in her work. these works are

a response to the islamic 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 are 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 cassius question. can you recall your last gene? a road movie about trophy control, that even extends to dreams. the dream stayed in mexico, that dreams are from care of yours border patrol. why look at the iranian situation today. we are all dreaming about the possibility of

reunification of freedom, of going back home for the people of iraq to be free. bowwie are filled with nightmares about the violence, a bad blood shed about people killing us. and so we're between dreams and nightmares. does she re national believe that in iran, the regime will put down the uprising? i just don't foresee the woman of you on the people of iraq go back to the way it was 6 weeks ago or so. it's just no way now the space race is back. several countries including the united states, china, russia, india, and israel. a trying to reach the moon. it's not just a request for national glory. scientists see the moon as a gateway, a place to build bases that could then launch missions, to mars and beyond. ah,

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 are in the deep, i see craters at the lunar poles. at the moon's south pole alone were such a 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 mand flights to the moon, or it's all met,

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 are to miss base camp. are initially astronauts will land in transport craft, which will also serve as their accommodation during their short stays. but as they explore the surrounding terrain in vehicles. with each mission, the lunar face should become more comfortable when

a fire spacecraft and 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 1st will also serve as a spring board for our new mission, human voyages to mas ah, well, joining me in the studio is joseph ashburn. her, he is the director general of the european space agency, e. s. 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? and the 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 compare it as a, an 8 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're 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 man as being our neighbor, considering whether this might be a success. if we were to build and then base, is that 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, the moon is all silent 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 bases even though nobody lives in antarctica, just for fun. and the same will happen with the moon. and why is not such a hot topic when it comes to the space, right? so mars can answer us 2 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 and it,

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, right, we'll stick around because you do have another report coming up, one of the european space agency key mission is to gather data about climate change . the information should help scientists to protect natural disasters, such as hurricane or drought 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 it turn out to 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 or be so for of satellites and information we provide actually some colleagues or in us, for example, colleague the gold standard of information. that means you are past 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. and 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 player as a leader in observing our planet on the voice of course, climate change sustainability. all of these are key topics or which we address from space. and yes, so 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 your 2 or so being the main greenhouse gas that is crating or the bombing of our planet. of course, we aim at $1.00 degrees by the end of the century. i just a very tough goal and we can only reach it if we are not taking serious measures. so one thing is, of course, to get the measurements with the satellites and on the ground systems under air based information. but

a much more important task is to convert these into information and what we are creating the iris, 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 coal and oil our supplies into electric, and it's your boat renewable 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 viciously 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 foot when therefore minimize the impact of climate change. i imagine a lot of very interesting equipment will be used for this mission. could you talk through some of it or yesterday? so 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 it'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 q receive 3. can imagine the satellite flies in 800 kilometers 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 satellite. so some of them are groundbreaking, technology and science which we are playing. and yes, this is quite a unique system and it's actually quite cool, very color, very interesting as well. allison, i'd like to end this with you. you spent a year in space? kelly 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, that'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 planet 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. if 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 is human. humans to fly to space is the perspective. but at the same time, we're trying to make things better and 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 blackett. director of the european space agency usa and the alexander the gemini. thank you so much for your time. thanks for having us. thank you very much . our india's crooked board has announced an equal pay policy. officials have decided that women's teams will be paid the same match fees as men across all $3.00 variations of the sport. india is the 2nd cricket nation to adopt such a policy. new zealand bought it in earlier this year. australia is men's teams. football team has released a statement against a cut us human rights record,

the 1st world cup side to speak out. players acknowledge that guitar has brought in reforms, but they criticize its treatment of migrant workers. and the l. g. b t q community . the team is calling for the d criminalization of same sex relationships in watching d. w. news live from berlin. coming up next is focused on europe who meets a polish women facing jail for sharing abortion pills with a pregnant woman. i'm really mohammed, thanks for watching. take care, bye bye. ah ah,

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