the, the, this is dw news live from berlin. a russian attack kills at least 17 people in eastern ukraine, showing strikes a shopping district in a city close to the front line. president zalinski condensed the attack and the don't you ask region as a heinous strength overshadow is a surprise visit the key of by the us secretary of state anthony blinking america's top diplomat analysis more than 1000000000 dollars in new aid for ukraine. also on the show, a victory for abortion, rights activist, and mexico. as the supreme court makes terminating a pregnancy,

legal across the country will ask our correspondent what's behind the change in japan, joins the race to the move. a rocket glass off carrying a lunar lander on its way to join the tiny club of countries to successfully touch down on earth satellite the i'm in ease of welcome to the program. the us secretary of state has announced more than $1000000000.00 an extra aid for ukraine, top diplomat, anthony, blinking the details on the new a during a surprise visit to key if not just hours before that a russian attack on a busy shopping area and eastern ukraine killed at least 17 people, president below them is the landscape condemned to strike as heinous, evil. yet another attack on ukraine city. this time on

a crowded market in constantinople. at the 17 people were killed here by a russian missile, as he craned among them to child on. this is a deadly backdrop to us secretary of state entity blinking sport to visit the keeper. since the start of russia's invasion, ukraine's counter offensive was at the top of the agenda. last week, he rejected us media reports suggesting progress on the front lines was too slow, but there were no signs of tension during blankets, visit ukraine's president, instead of striking a grateful tones. this usual rate you'd see around lincoln also met with prime minister denise me hall and foreign minister at the mutual cordova team to show where united front we praise, but ukrainian effort to push the russians back. we see the progress of the counter offensive. very hard. we want to make sure that the frame has what it needs,

not only to succeed in the counter sensitive, but as what it needs for the long to make sure that it has a strong return. strong defense capacity is blinking announced a new aid package worth over $1000000000.00. the u. s. has delivered or pledge more than $43000000000.00 to ukraine and military aid including air defense systems. wednesdays, brutal attack says just how important the support group we're and we're joined now by our washington correspondent janelle dom alone. janelle, this is the highest level of visit by us officials since february, that was one joe by and traveled the kia um, so why do you think blinking is visiting now as well as there are a variety of reasons and as you just pointed out, the last time was in february with joe biden, and that's already quite a while back. washington has clearly made it a priority to support ukraine on the ground with, with visits,

if not taught regularly, then at least consistence consistently. and this is of course, also an opportunity for anthony blinking to be able to get an on the ground picture of the counter offensive as it is all righty and it's 4th month. this is, this visit is also a chance for keith and washington not to get on the same page head of the un general assembly to be held here in the us later this month. but chief, of course of the aims of this visit is for anthony blinking to be able to announce this $1000000000.00 assistance package that is going to ukraine. to tell, tell us more about this $1000000000.00 aid package that he announced there. where is this age supposed to end up? well, this package includes, among other things, the air defense components, anti tank missiles, artillery, ammunition depleted uranium ammunition, as well as

a mine resistant armor de protection vehicles that are we going to go to the 1st time to ukraine's on board or forces. now these are all pentagon stop piles that are meant to help, but ukrainians break through russian defenses as the counter offensive gets held up by mines and trenches. and that's even as antony blinking says that since the start of the invasion, ukraine has managed to crop, kept to recapture half of the territories seized by russia. since the start of the invasion. now, of course, predictably the counter offensive. how is very difficult and us weapons will remain instrumental in the successes about ukraine would house. let's go back to the weapons that you said were included in this package. you mentioned depleted uranium weapons, these are controversial. can you tell us more about that?

well, what they basically allow you to do is pierce armor, right? they're very dense, they're done through the armor. basically they penetrate the armored plane to painting and then they self ignite. now they are controversial because there's an ongoing debate as to whether they might be linked to health risk. so you have the likes of the international coalition too bad, not you ran your weapons, saying that in hailing uranium dos could be linked to birth defects or to cancer. but earlier today, i was out a briefing by a national security council official, and he pushed back strongly against this controversy, saying that taught depleted munition weapons are not carcinogenic or radioactive and that there is no controversy to be had here. only what russia would make of it . alright, janelle do malone dw washington correspondent, thank you. mexico supreme court has the criminalized abortion

across the country. ruling that laws banning the procedure are unconstitutional. the court said that penalizing abortion violated women's human rights portion is already legal and several mexican states, but the ruling will likely pay the way for wider access to the procedure. mexico is just the latest latin american country to losing abortion restrictions in recent years. following argentina and 2020 and columbia in 2022. joining us now is dw correspondent nicole reese and bogota. nicole, thanks for joining us. now. abortion rights activists have called this a landmark decision. so what led up to the major change and mexican law? the story is a major chain to change. a historic one is a s, i would put it and i think it's human rights activists into a portion rights activists will celebrating this now because they have played a key role in this whole development. these other people who've been pushing for

years, if not to decades, so a portion of what to be legal and mexico and also as we just heard in other countries and abortion would be safe for the women who need it. so it's quite a weak victory with some sort of domino effects. maybe in mexico, a very slow one in 2015. it was mexico cities that's pioneered boost, that's legalized abortion already. and up to today did was 12 out of $32.00 states would also already be legalizing a portion and the options for it. we get tapped to see of course, how this is being implemented as we're not talking about just one sick, but 32. so this will be also a process, but it is a huge victory for human rights from social movements has been on the ground and protesting, also pushing for these and make installations and pressuring also know, make us over the years. like in other latin american countries, the catholic church has been a big obstacle to legalizing a portion. is this

a sign that the church is losing power there and mexico? it may be one of several signs actually over the past $2.00 to $3.00 decades. some survey say that there is a decline of up to 20 percent of people were saying, but they're not part of the catholic church any more. abortion rights might be one topic of the topics may be a sex abuse scandals that happened surfacing or he and latin america as well other options as for religions. and obviously society is not the same as it was 50 years ago. so that massive mindset changes going on as well. do you not in america and in the whole world? to be honest. it's now the us, which is mexico's northern neighbor. it has gone in the opposite direction with the supreme court. this, you're striking down abortion protections. do you think that will see us women traveling to mexico to get the procedure? that could be a further increase. i mean, uh since, uh, the us court made this

a decision that has already been increased. that's one of the 1st things that abortion clinics in mexico and specialist noticed that the more us women trying to get help in their country. and they were wondering about it because usually it would be the other way around. mexican, when would go to the yes. to get a procedure done to get to portion pills, but now it's just uh, switched back. it's mexico that people go to because the situation has changed. so you might see another increase. this is already a development is going on. and actually it is also activists nets and hopes that help these women that do this voluntarily. they try to put them in contact with clinics, with specialist with morris, even so they would feel safe. and that just for the pushing for getting rid of this a stigma about a portion, this is one of the big things that things that are still out there that need to be done. and as we can see, things can change. also in the us was changed back and now it's the us women coming to mexico seeking for health and maybe now in all the states that can get that

health as well. oh search. and it certainly is a historical shift. nicole reese in bogota for us. thank you. well, japan has launched a rocket carrying a moving lander as it ceased to join the tiny club of countries to successfully pull off a lunar landing. after 3 postponements last month, the rocket finally blasted off from japan's ton of gosh, he must base them on board was the national space agencies. smart lander for investigating moon or slim mission. small enter a set to try to execute a high position landing on the let's take a closer look at the lightweight low cost craft that japan is pending its lunar landing hopes on is a big goal for japan. smart lander for investigating mood or slim mission will be to land with high precision. hence the lenders nickname the moon sniper. the wordpress size is still a relative one when it comes to guiding

a spacecraft down to the lunar surface. that we're talking about precision that they then we're talking about in the range of 1900 to 200 meters precision them. other lunar emissions have plans, landing zones measured and kilometers. but the light weight moon sniper will try to put down within a 100 meters of a pre determined target. if it masters that challenge, it will investigate nearby rocks with a multi band spectral camera and deploy a small rolling picture, taking robot nicknamed sore a queue. if it's successfully soft lands on the lunar surface as planned early next year, the slim mission will make japan the 5th nation to do so. joining number 4 in the club, india is chandra on 3 lenders successfully put down on august 23rd. japan and india are now planning

a joint project called the lunar polar exploration mission, flu pack set of 4, sometimes chun dry on for it's currently slated for lunch in about 3 years. it is supposed to start seriously looking for resources, especially water. this searches mostly for the conditions on the surface thinking in the long time that they might be human base of people living on the moon. all these things are very important because we see the moon as a kind of 1st stage 4 expiration of a solar system. but progress toward that goal is slow and success is far from guaranteed. a number of recent attempts that failed to set down safely on the lunar surface. like rushes recent luna 25 mission which was lost before landing. got a theme that that's what i believe that's a picture. paying to 2 points to the engine, taking too long and slowing down the spacecraft too much. instead of just sending

to a height of 18 kilometers on the surface of the moon, it descended even low and probably just collided with a surface that i have to close the closest by the efforts due to more emissions to the moon could be launched by american companies in the next few months, but safely setting probes down on it is just a prelude to the next big step. returning astronauts to the surface. that's the aim of the art of a series. it's next to mission artem is to is slated to take astronaut. it's back to lunar orbit by the end of next year. then in 2025. the item is 3. will try to land. that in turn for shadow is the building of lunar bases, which are in planning by a number of different countries. all hoping to gain a permanent foothold on our closest celeste. you'll neighbor and here's a reminder of our top story. a russian attack has killed at least 17 people in

eastern ukraine presidents. lensky has condemned to strike as heinous. eagle, us secretary of state mc, blinking announced a $1000000000.00 aid package on a surprise, visit the key. that's all for now of next dw documentary, stay with us, the flying rivers formed by a most of all the firing trees or sea stars fires. no good deal and the, the invisible with such slides through the sky start september 20th on the w.