all these things and more in the new season, off the flat, can make sure to tune and wherever you get your past and join the conversation. because you know it love matter. mm ah ah, this is d, w used to live from berlin. the world's water cycle is broken. that's the stark warning at the start of a special you win conference to discuss the threats to the earth, water resources. so what needs to be done to secure the future of humanities? life blood, also coming up. ukraine's president visits soldiers in the frontline city of back

to tennessee tries to boost morale for the longest and bloodiest battle of the war . now, noon, and nearly 200 years after beethoven's days, scientists search for clues about the composer's chronic health problems by analyzing the dna in his hair. ah, i am jared read. welcome to the show. a new un report says, climate change and pollution are driving a world wide shortage of drinking water. we hundreds of millions facing critical waters scarcity. the u. n. is holding a special conference in new york to draw attention to a growing crisis. one that's prompted an australian woman to set herself a unique challenge when she noticed that the world was running out of water. mina

gully started running and she hasn't stopped since i'm running because at one, take the voices of the people from the front lines of this water crisis and take them into boardroom, take them into the holes of power. and in by the government officials, the corporate corporate leaders to take action, the athlete and activists from australia completed 200 marathons across 32 countries over the last year. now she has made her way to new york city, where delegates have gathered at the un for 3 day summit. and i have to discuss ways out of the water crisis. around 2000000000 people from the quarter of the world's population, like access to safe drinking water station as a human rights. this is more than a conference on water. it is a conference on today's walls seems from the perspective of its most important resource. this conference must be present the quantum leaps in the capacity of

member states and international community to recognize and act upon the vital importance of what the world sustainability and as a tool to foster peace and international cooperation in new you and report shows that the global water shortage is likely to waste and over the coming years, despite the efforts by the international community to make sure everyone has access to clean water. on the sidelines of the summit, some famous faces highlighting the fact that a lack of water impacts more than just people's health. with a massive issue, it touches everything, it really affects women and girls. they are disproportionately affected by this. a lot of millions of girls are in school because of this because they're, they're collecting water d. u. n. wants to guarantee universal access to drinking water by 2030. but scientists saw that the global community would need to triple its efforts to achieve that. the summit kicked off the u. s. government from the $49000000000.00

us dollars the funding to help the global water cause. i think it's easy in places like paris or here in new york city, where we turn on the tap. water comes out to think that there is a major demi globe what a crisis out there. mean, julie has witnessed the crisis herself seeing melting places and eric regions during her journey. now she hopes that the world won't turn a blind eye to an issue that in the end will affect everyone everywhere. well the un florida conference taking place in new york as you just saw or is the 1st in almost half a century. earlier we spoke with professor naho mirror maci from king's college in london. and we asked her if water management plays a big enough part in the global discussion. definitely has to be part of the political agenda. i think the political leaders need to really wake up to the urgency and the crisis that is happening and different parts of the world. it's not

just in love economies. it's also in places where there are climate change impacts that are happening right here in right now. and so i think the urgency is gradually coming to the for, for a heads of people's minds. what we do and take decisive action really is an approach that government and local communities must take in conjunction. not one actor can do this alone. not home very much a day. let's get a round up of some of the headlines now. stalks have fallen in the united states off to the central bank, raised interest rates again by a quarter of a percentage point despite fee is that it could add to financial turmoil after a string of bank failures. the federal reserve said the high aims to lower inflation by making a consumer borrowing more expensive police in bolivia,

half fired tear gas and rubber bullets at hundreds of teachers, demanding education reforms and more funding. it's the 3rd week of protests. the teachers have called a general strike and road blockades for friday. if the government does not given to their demands, will ukrainian president volota me zalinski spent wednesday visiting troops on the front lines in the east and don, yet gray and he unannounced visit was his 1st fear. since last december. it was meant as a morale boost for ukrainian troops fighting to retain control of buck murder, which has been under russian bombardment for months. boosting the moral soldiers fighting the fiercest of ukraine's battle so far from ukrainian president volota mirror zalinski his office released as footage of him handing out metals. it said to have been taken close to the front lines near the

city apartment with wouldn't i have the honor to be here today in the east of our state in the dumbasses and to reward our heroes, to thank you. good job and to shake hands. thank you for protecting mistakes, sovereignty and the east of ukraine. the city of bar moot, has seen the bloodiest battles with russia attempting to encircle ukrainian troops there. for weeks. the devastated city has become a symbol of the ukraine's resistance and with russia advancing on the battlefield. zalinski is tribute to soldiers comes at a critical time of shakespeare. the cranium president also visited a military hospital in donuts money of praising medical teams for their work. a, her schedule for jacqueline. i want to thank you for your professionalism and your

work. you're open until we win. don't don't we need to say the lives of many people who are defending our country. national wrong make you that you are defending it on your front muslim point for logan sullens case visit near the front lines comes just days after russian president vladimir putin took his 1st ever trip to the eastern don bass region. visiting his troops in brushing occupied murray. well, keith says up to $13000.00 ukrainian troops have been killed since the start of russia's invasion. the true number can only be guessed at in the chaos of war. many death simply can't be promptly documented as bodies can't be recovered. the fallen soldiers that are registered as missing leave behind loved ones that are desperate for news and unable to grieve. our team in ukraine filed this report of battle ground turned to place of morning by 3 lunar she really was among those

who died, defending the key of suburbs. here in motion milan, sir, the monument is exactly in this trench. that's why i, for instance, with would yeah that's the 1st thing i did will horribly was here that my brother dyers, roosevelt or some old group, was a villain. we brought buffalo and his mother, larissa have created this memorial to remember him and others. however, finding out what happened was a painfully slow process. pavlov received an s a mess that his brother had died no further details. blemishes, him you from california, we spoke, we sat for him for 2 months, we communicated with various services that might have some information on and we found him territorial defense, which is okay to take cold. literally that found

a bottle with a pipe inside you to my richard in russian. that said to you grainy and soldiers a buried here. long skin weights off. like them, other families off to must search for missing loved ones themselves. almost everywhere and was shown. you come across silent witnesses of the war. people's homes and cars destroyed lives, lost the battle for cave ended almost a year ago. and in the case of war, many went missing. those defending the city as well as civilians like those living in the occupied outskirts and who authorities to this day for struggling to fight for what a pirates hilbert music, audible noble people on returning from abode returning from the west of ukraine, while who had been absent for a long period of time since the occupation and providing us with new information for you, for prisoners of wool, also testify, but mostly the security service of ukraine works that they also gave information

about where, how and under what circumstances people were killed and very difficult when would be but civilians like pavlo and larissa no less. she really don't want to depend just on the authorities. they started an initiative to help find missing persons more easily. today they meet with anatolia stone, panko, a parliament member in a keeps school. the air raid sirens just went off. he wants to see how the government can support those of the key. oh, oh, thanks to pavlov. and his mother and every one who acts with them. we found i heroes who were missing. now we know where they died. well, this was time or did one as a kindle, 56 people so far. but to improve the process, they want to create a centralized database where information from the military, governments and families just automatically pulled a step forward. even if war time security means not everything can be shared for can they be enough? okay. yeah. while there is a war,

there are certain day to that we cannot divulge. we'll do. it won't work very well . we understand that when we, when the base of the more expanded to mow it more disclosed and relatives will be able to find their missing loved ones, faster is more rich with dishes it is, we are blue, sky hickey's niggley. every other week. pablo and larissa come to the former fighting trenches, they say they can feel boundaries presence here and they want to help others to have that too. well, ludwig van beethoven died nearly 2 centuries ago at just the age of 56. after creating some of the world's most influential works in classical music ever since then, biographers have been trying to explain the composes chronic health problems including his deafness and severe stomach elements. now,

an international team of scientists may have unlocked some clues after pulling dna from strands of beethoven's hey o. people have studied his music, his letters. now, nearly 200 years after his death, an international team of scientists is studying his hair, hoping it was shed light on what made luke from beethoven sic, give out of a beetle from this food of his illnesses at times severely limited. his creative work tell us to say i understand from and fo, physicians, it's always been a mystery as to what was really behind at last, victor useless. and so it's just a huge opportunity when you get a new source, like this lawyer fella, because you can really get new insides lawyer can't master on the common on the test revealed that be to when had a genetic predisposition to liver disease and he betide his

b months before his death. these factors along with his chronic drinking, were probably enough to cause the liver failure that is widely believed to have killed him at the age of $56.00. so far, the scientists are unable to explain his hearing loss or his stomach issues. the mystery of beethoven's fragile health has always been a part of the composer's story. oh, akins, i'm back. we don't know his work without his illness. we don't know what it would have been like if he hadn't been l. dawson's car. veterans illnesses are a part of the beethoven myths. good. so in our imagination, he could only create these great workshop because he was else english king. once to fully sequence genome is publicly available, scientists hoped to unlock even more of beethoven's medical history. but his music would always speak louder than his maladies. ah,

the world's 1st 3 d printed rocket has successfully launched from cape canaveral in the us, but has failed to reach all that. it was the 3rd attempt by the private area space dot up relatively space relativity space. the company said the rocket experience than a non an anomaly during its 2nd stage operation. doc film is up mixed on d. w. have a great day. ah, imagine how many portions of lunch us heard out in the world. climate change very often stores. this is my pleasure, the way from just one week how much work can really get we still have time.