scuppered the first. these are live pictures from cape canaveral ahead of take off. we ll take you back to these pictures and our correspondent when it s time for countdown. serena williams is defeated in the third round of the us open in new york, in what is likely to be her last competative match. good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of moscow s house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state, a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kreml
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grandparents, you can actually see a little bit of different view of him. and it is more anger towards him because for some people, the soviet union was the great period of their life, and it has been taken away. all for some people, they blame him for some struggles that they went through during this time, which i think, yeah, the younger generation thinks differently in this way, yeah. thinks differently in this way, eah. , ., , thinks differently in this way, eah. ~ , ., , thinks differently in this way, eah. , ., , thinks differently in this way, eah. , . , ., yeah. anya, it is really good to talk to you yeah. anya, it is really good to talk to you and yeah. anya, it is really good to talk to you and getting - yeah. anya, it is really good to talk to you and getting your i talk to you and getting your perspective on this so thank you for taking the time to speak to us. russia s main pipeline transporting gas to europe through germany will now not reopen as planned on saturday
prices have reached record levels ten days ago once the three day maintenance period or nord stream 1 been announced. as late as yesterday evening people expected the public to come up back up and that had given the market a certain amount of confidence and we think some of the heat coming out of those prices. the other thing going on is they have been a lot of discussions in europe in the european commission about measures they can take to cap power prices and, again, traders are responding to that. now that russia has decided the pipeline will not going ahead, we could see another uptick in prices when the gas and power markets become volatile. germany and europe have set targets to fill the storage caverns they have with gas and they were outperforming those targets recently but i think it s worth saying, especially now when even at reduced levels we will not have had nordstream gas,