the left side, the parts of our community life on the research is now on the this is dw news line from berlin, russia arrest a suspect for the killing of the top general investigators. a legend whose back national shown here on russian state to be carried out the attacked bosco says the man was recruited by ukraine, also coming up serious airports, resumed domestic flights for the 1st time. since the fall of presidents, a saw a test flight lands and the level as called grow to lift the sanctions on the ation sector. the

unlike look who welcome to the program. investigators, in russia say, a suspect has been detained over the murder of top russian general ego career loss and an aide, according to the russian investigative committee, and whose back national has been arrested and confessed during interrogation to planting the bomb and detonating it for ukraine. security service, the explosion happened outside of moscow. apartment block on tuesday. ukrainian official has admitted ukraine's responsibility for the assassination. he had this week accused real of being involved in the use of chemical weapons during russia's war efforts to move. the early we spoke to dw rica, a bureau chief, you were shadow. he told us what is known about this aspect. and what he said in an alleged confession video, according to the russian intelligence surface f, as b a. the suspect is and it was a big citizen that his name hasn't been eaten so far. he said she was recruited by that you can in special services. um he was promised $100000.00 and

a trip to bonham with the european countries. he said it's a place to bump on the electric on the left of school, the park to near the house. what could he look lift and also he instead. busy assisted to become the right footage from his comforter was reportedly brought costs to ukraine and is the confession of you as a man speaks in bed, russian. it's not clear whether he might even be reading it. his confession. use riga, bureau chief, you are the shadow. i took a closer look at this case with lucca trent up. he's an associate professor of international relations. that's one's the universities specializing in cobra at action. i asked him what he found most striking in the bits of information we're learning about this assassination. i think the most tracking aspect of this operation is certainly what we would call the trade craft. i'll be a crane services in operating watts, should i in theory, be a denied the territories by territory in which they would have difficulties in

operating. but this is where i did the 2nd time in a week and waste of a carried out an operation done and assassination in moscow. why would ukraine and intelligence even want to kill ego, a creed of i mean, not as, as the discussion earlier mentioned. there are certainly strategic reasons why for killing q loved because it was in charge of chemical biological in and around your logical weapons. and i think there are also some political reasons because it was very often behind these information campaigns that went to try to undermine the support for ukraine, especially in the west, such as the west bottles, i liked by your labs in ukraine, which was a clear f word by russia of spreading this information. what does this tell us about the gaps in russian intelligence? i suppose what i'm getting at is why would a high ranking general like re love be that exposed?

there is a very interesting question. i think it tells us that certainly russian counter intelligence is not as for me to bowl, as it seems when he comes to, for example, uh, domestic refreshing and uh, ukraine was able to recruit an agent whether the person that has been arrested is the actual corporate they were able to recruit an agent and be able to survey ok results quote, for quite some time in order to identify pattern of life and be able to place involved in a, in an area where they knew that cute of was. so he certainly shows up in gas, in the ability to a survey of the target, then to protect the target. again, the suspect in this case has been apprehended. i'm curious, in your opinion, why would you cranes s b u intelligence agency recruit a man like him for this particular crime? if the man recruited and demanded has been put on video is actually the person who is responsible for the assassination one can probably think of access as one of the

main reasons why i'm such a subject wasn't recruited, that they would have the ability to travel to moscow and conduct an operation for the pain of intelligence services, but as the previous contributor was suggesting, there are perhaps some doubt as to whether that is actually the, the culprit he was found in a apparently, in the village just outside must go into moscow regions. so he was able to escape from the scene of a crime which again shows other gaps in russian counter intelligence. i suppose everybody's asking at this hour is how will russia likely respond? yes, i think we, we don't know. i met with them. it has mentioned that in response to an edit, it's already in the times that it will consider everyone behind some political support for ukraine, deeply responsible. the thing that is an older statement, the most likely, the response from russia that we're likely to see is probably further and more bite and bomb being, especially all civilians in ukraine as well. no. this is not the 1st assassination

of a russian official that has been attributed to agents of the ukrainian government. what makes this case special? i think up there is. there would be at least 5 so called high value targets. so they've been assassinated in recent years by, by ukraine. i think this one is the most high profile is the highest, highest value of target, i guess that ukraine has targeted in his confrontation with the russian. it is probably sending a political signal to both the international community, especially to the united states, as well as to the people of moscow that perhaps have not witnessed the war as directly as the people of ukraine have. again, that's alt luca trying to associate professor of international relations many. thanks you, sir. thank you. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. at least 13 people died when a ferry with more than a 100 passengers capsized off the coast of them by after colliding with an indian

navy boat, the navy said nearly a 100 people were rescued from the ferry, which was heading towards the elephant caves. a popular tourist destination. frances top court has upheld the former president nicholas circles these conviction for corruption and influence. peddling. the court ordered him to serve a one year sentence at home, wearing an electronic ankle monitor circles. these lawyer said he would appeal the ruling to the european court for human rights. global demand for coal is expected to reach an all time high this year. and international energy agency report says use of the fossil fuel has rebounded strongly after plummeting during the cobra pandemic. the burning of coal for energy production is a key driver of climate change. the united nations is calling for syria to hold free and fair elections. after the downfall of president assad,

you and special on board guy petterson said the vote should be held after a political transition that included what he called the broadest range of the syrian society. and syrian parties, there is a lot on hold, that they can now see the beginning of a new syria and use syria and got in line with the security council resolution 2254 . been adults. and you cost of children that really ensure that that is a social contract and use so through contract for all syrians. and that we really have the free and fair elections when that time comes all through a transitional period. to meanwhile, serious damascus, damascus airport has reopened for the 1st time since the fall of president assad. for now, the airport is only open to domestic flights officials or calling for sanctions to be lifted to allow serious aviation sector to function properly. again, its slow on the way in to damascus international departures and arrivals. and not

only since the fall of the regime, 13 years of civil war proceeded, bashar, our sides over throw us and european sanctions limited, where people could even go to or arrive from the sanctions also meant there's been no chance to buy new western airplanes or even spare parts for broken plains, serious main carrier, syrian airlines, according to reports, really has only 3 aircraft fit for flying. but change is coming. all pictures of president, the us side has been removed from the airport and airplanes and the own. how did that have, you know, today and life is returning to damascus international airport with a domestic flight to a level airport. we ask all countries and friends and to return to damascus international airport allows the so that life may return to the airport. and our beloved free syria and having somebody out of and

well beyond a level, damascus internationals carriers or iron slides. again, 2 error countries and should sanctions be lifted sunday, european and asian destinations. and beyond should sanctions be lifted? the sky could be the limit, dw is a abraham joins us now from damascus. so a of the 1st flight at damascus airport since the fall of a son is this assign h t s rebel rule is working it's really difficult to make any kind of definitive statement about whether or not, you know, there's an effective control of this country. and the structure since the fall of a short. but that's certainly the impression that a serious new detector rulers are trying to projected to the road to well. and part of that is of course the resumption of operation, which they say are on

a if you want to quote h r p are offensive of trying to project a sense of control and stability. add normalcy in into the trench. we turn to show that they are capable of running the whole country as they did it, the province, uh for years when it was not under a flooded assets control. so that's certainly the message that the seriously deflector rulers are trying to project to the reopening of the airport today is perhaps a small, a part of upside effort by running a whole country. it's certainly a different a. ringback different undertaking at a much different scale, i would say indeed, what is the state of serious transport, infrastructure and what, what's needed to rebuild it to be airport has reopened. and there are, you know, lots of industries and public services that she has is trying to break back into

operation these days, you know, the, the direct aftermath of the fall of the receipt. but when you, you know, in our 1st, really days here at damascus, for example, i mean, damascus is known for having, you know, for years, you know, traffic situation. but certainly it was a little bit more out of control for the 1st couple of days after the fall of the rekey there were, you know, there are some places no traffic lights, uh no officers on the street to regularly uh, traffic. so you know, a bit of chaos on the streets here. uh, but slowly but however slowly but truly each chest is trying to bring back the order and the seat back to the capital. uh, 6. well, transitions like this off in mean opportunity who is vying for the contracts to rebuild syria. and certainly arab countries would have an interest in trying to invest, but also to stabilize the country. remember, syria is in

a very strategic part of the world. it borders multiple multiple countries and you know, another field seats it here would not be good for anybody, certainly not aero a country. certainly i can imagine gulf countries would want to be involved in the rebuilding of syria. there. of course, a lot of european countries of how to speak and syria being stable as well, including germany because of the, a large syrian refugee migrant population in germany. so there are a lot of countries that around the world that want to see a serious succeed and what serious defect rulers have been seeing again. and again, is that this rebuilding operation cannot restart without the lifting of sanctions, which had of course been placed on the a side regime for many, many years by european power. so even though there's probably a lot of interest in rebuilding, sir. yeah, it's, uh it's, it's not to the states anybody but sanctions needs to be listed. first before any of that a to come to portion. that's

a abraham in damascus. many thanks to chinese astronauts have completed a 9 hour admission outside the trunk gong a space station breaking the previous record for a space walks at 23 years ago, the sion shoot 19 crew members installed the space stations, debris protection device and inspected the outside of the vehicle with the help of its robotic on china launch the spatial with its 3 crew members at the end of october for a 6 month mission. it includes the country's 1st female space engineer. let's get you a quick reminder now of our top story. at this hour, russian investigators have detained a suspect for the murder of top general ego for reels and an 8, and whose back national has been arrested. moscow sensitive man confess to working for the training intelligence service,

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