a man tireless in his efforts to stand up for justice around the world. benjamin ferris. now on dw documentary, ah this is dw news live from berlin. wells biggest space rocket, explode. the um crude, basic stuff. it lifts off from texas, but fails just minutes. late the craft is designed to take humans back to the moon and one day on tomorrow. and thousands of dead and across in yemen victims were

trying to get into school to collect charity handouts for ramadan. natal chief. yes. so that makes his 1st visit to ukraine since the russian invasion that he says keith should be part of the night too alive. ah, i'm get ahead of us. well, come to the program. and we start in the united states where the largest rocket ever to lift off the earth has exploded just minutes off the take off. be a giant on crude rocket from space egg successfully lifted off from the launch pad in brownsville, texas boss, just 3 minutes into the flight. the starship caps, who failed to separate from the booster as planned result was an explosive edge for the 1st test flight. now we are

joined by keith cow. he is the editor of space ref dot com and joins us from washington d. c. now do you consider this a success or a failure? well, it depends which part of the rocket you worked on for? from my perspective, this was a $400.00 foot tall rock with 30 something inches by far the largest rocket. anybody has ever built times 2 or 3 depending how you do your math. it took off like a rocket should now my high school, high tech graphic here. it went up it for several minutes. the engines did their thing. and then the problem happened further up when the 2nd stage, or the starship itself didn't separate. so as a recovering rocket scientist, myself might say, wow, we is launched, the biggest rocket ever launched in it didn't blow up. in fact,

when it did come apart, that's because they blew it up because they want to be certainly didn't come down the wrong place. so so tell me what successes and failures ok. so this rock i biggest rocket ever build. what can i do that other rockets comp? well, if you do 2 things, one, it can lift more stock because it's more powerful. but the other thing is, and i jokingly referred to this as a toaster. this is built in, it's sort of a consumer like fashion, like you would build airliners. if you look at a, a hor, would they build airliners? you'd see 50 or 60 of them lined up, whereas nasa or isa, or any other government space agency tends to build these very expensive rockets that are always delay in cost, billions and so forth. if you lose one of them, there's a congressional hearing. if you lose one of these, it's in the blooper reel. now, as we sound like a being silly, but when iraq it becomes something that isn't the most expensive part of going to space totally changes your way of looking at how to use space. now, fha and space,

i say that long term goal is to send humans to mars, with rockets like this one. what's the timeline for this? well again, it's a sort of like flip acore. they tend to say, if you're nasa used to be the early 20 thirty's now it's the 20 forty's. you know, i've, i'm 67. when i grew up they were say, 980. so i can get used to it. but with space acts, it's a private company, so they have a bit of a different way of, you know, guessing on these things than a height but a little bit. but i wouldn't be surprised that either the 1st people to land on mars land in ships that were built by space x or that ones that nasa are isa bought from space x. i think that's what's going on, who you're seeing a paradigm shift unreal revealing itself in slow motion here. and he said to look at say, what is this me?

and the answer is, i could do more things with what, with my money, i'm going to do more things with my money cave carvette and it of space ref dot com . always good to have you on the show. thank you very much. my pleasure. as have a look now at some of the other stories making headlines. un chief, antonio quoterush has called for a 3 day cease fire and sudan to mock. the end of the muslim holy month of ramadan said, ounce military has ruled out the go. she ations with countries paramilitary, rapid support force. fighting between the 2 sides has killed at least 270 people so far. well, health organization as opened africa's 1st m r n a vaccine heart. the facility in cape town was established you in the pandemic and has been producing vaccines locally for some time. now. the center will now coordinate inoculation across the continent. at least 78 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in

a crash in yemen. tragedy unfolded as a crowd gathered in the capital sanara to collect financial late during the whole muslim holy month of ramadan. our report contains images that some views may find distressing. desperately trying to free themselves, a security guards shouted at the crowd to turn back. others attempted to pull people from the mass of bodies but for many who had come in the hopes of receiving by 1000 yamini rails or about h u. s. dollars. it was already too late. dozens of injured people were taken to local hospitals. as were the bodies of the dead ah one a little jimmy

a la betty had been total. there were 78 people that were killed yet when marcella to head of the hospital has brought in 73 injured madmen. some seriously injured and so men, less critical condition ought to be melted. bowden, what athene, what a saucy! there are 2 patients in intensive care study and 13 others are in need of surgery with a hot yet should i was of the sol almost account upon officials from the who t rebel group which controls santa were quick to visit the injured moneisha mazda. we are experiencing a great tragedy of a large number of our people have died during this time. peter had the layla. nathaniel had the officials also visited the scene of the stampede. where investigators already looking into the coals is of the tragedy. some eye witness reports indicate that the crowd may have panicked due to gunfire. it's yet another bitter blow for yamini is already suffering from more than 8 years of war and a devastating humanitarian crisis. nato secretary general

against stoughton buck has made his 1st visit to ukraine since the russian invasion . stocum. burke says ukraine should be part of nato. he also discussed bring ukraine's military into line with native standers with president reloaded. so that sold mark also aid his respects to ukrainian soldiers killed in the poaching muslim rule. and i asked the w manuel shaws in chief whether this visit is more than just symbolic. oh yes, it is more than symbolic and it was much anticipated if anatomy zalinski had invited again. stilton by the natives. a general secretary here in queue for over a year now. and a fact that stoughton bag was here this morning. the fact that he paid his respect to a full and sold is the fact that he spends a some time to talk to as the lensky about ukraine's or

candidacy to nato. this is heidi a significant here in ukraine, you know, especially given the fact that ukraine a possibly a joining nato was one of the arguments used by letting me put in to launch sheets, a full scale invasion against ukraine and perhaps more significant. the even eas, watch children beg said today when he said that ukraine's rightful place e's in the euro, atlantic family, ukraine's right rightful place, easy at nato, and other positions of nato remain unchanged when it comes to her to the support. and he reiterated that from his point of view whether ukraine will become a member of the alliance, he said that the support was a firm and doubt. this would be a support from nato towards your client, for as long as it's needed, as long as it takes for ukraine or to

a windy swore. and when all shots the recording, now, russia's foreign minister sergey lover off is touring latin america in an attempt to fords, new alliances, western sanctions over the war and ukraine of left moscow isolated moscow as visiting brazil, venezuela, nicaragua, and cuba rushes foreign minister, sergey leverage on a diplomatic push in latin america, he met with nicaragua as president, danielle ortega, a vocal supporter of moscow's invasion of ukraine, russia and nicaragua, our t allies, and are both under western imposed sanctions. live rav touted a multi polar world order, and denounced the west sphere of influence, the most w of with you, which, with its attempts by the west to establish agony, to dictate to every one and everything anywhere in the world can be seen in what is happening around ukraine now,

and did nato's claim of having the role of the global security guarantor, including in the asia pacific and a number of other regions around the world syllable to do the review at a unit from you? in venezuela, laughter of hell talks with president nicholas maduro. another leader looking to counter the west plans to expand energy investment and trade agreements were announced unless we assume we have a very rich agenda with venezuela street. many practical projects are being implemented. we discussed this in detail today and told you about it issues mazunicm. and this corporation actually contributes to strengthening the foundations of an independent national economy. not dependent on whims and blackmail. my western colleagues. systems getting this michigan flat rough stress that both nations are committed to implementing the united nations charters,

principles of sovereign equality and non interference in world affairs. after his tour, live rav. we'll head to new york to chair a un security council meeting. here in berlin, climate act to the south began a campaign of disrupting everyday life on the city streets, an attempt to get the german government to do more to reach its climate targets. the group called last generation say they aim to bring the city to a standstill among their demands as a speed limit on germany is famed. autobahn split a gl report on matthew moore. as more this is what the latest wave of civil disobedience looks like. climate activists blocking one of berlin's most iconic st. they've come to the heart of the capital to send a warning to their government. in the blitz happened, you know, everything changed in the whole country realigned in order to defend itself. that

kind of mobilization is what we need. we need to save ourselves in our and the governments are failing and the german government is failing us all of us by doing basically lip service. it's not enough peaceful with the odd skirmish. the activists who come from across germany eventually took a rest before police forcibly removed them from the road. disruption tactics like this have divided opinions. what do you say to people that disagree with this method of portez? what do you say? i can understand them because it's not easy. they want to go to their work. they have children in their cars and they are stop. so it is, it is not the one we want to reach. it is once the government, but it's are the most effective disruption. we can make this group one of many on the go to day one, the government to fees out fossil fuels completely by 2030 down the street activists clued themselves to the road. police officers armed with cooking oil,

had a messy job on their hands, practicing civil disobedience sucks. you know, it's really not nice. but we do it because it's necessary. i mean, it's the only effective way of bringing about change, which has been proven by us by history. even here, the group find support in the unlikeliest of places. you are a taxi driver, i'm taxi drivers and supports this movement. how many times i met in a traffic jam because of the individual traffic here. and nobody say a you are blocking the street is a private card. for now they'll take all the help they can get. but they know ultimate success will only come met. political leaders act to drastically cut emissions. is a reminder of the top story we're following for you at this hour. the was biggest space rocket has exploded just minutes off to take off the space. heck,

starship lifted off from the us state of texas about the caps, who failed to separate from the booster, causing a huge blast. you're watching the w news coming up next. in the dw news asia, why thailand's prime minister could be heading for election defeats that on a lot more. a coming up with the barish, a banner g, and d, w, a news asia, about l 1st in berlin avenue. that for at the top of the out with guardians of truth. my name is john dinner and i have paid almost every price of being a journalist in a country like turkey taking all the powers that be they risk every.