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voting begins in separatist control parts of ukraine and why the to become part of russia. western critics say the results already been decided. ah, i'm wrong about this, and this is all the 0 law from doha. also coming up, women and children are among the dead. a boat carrying migrants sinks off the coast of syria, killing at least 50 people. we need a massive, over when their massive upgrades and infrastructure picking up the pieces in puerto rico after how to confuse that leaves a trail of destruction. thousands are still and the dog we don't know us aircraft carrier taking part in joint military drills with south korea. it's a show of strength against north korea. moscow controlled regions in eastern and southern ukraine or voting and weather to

become part of russia. the referendums are taking place in the hands done yet, cuz operation and house on that's about 15 percent of ukraine's territory cave and it's western allies say the votes, a sham and an unlawful land grab that comes as ukrainian forces continue to recapture swipes of territory in a major counter offensive and eastern ukraine. many of the people living in the regions where the referendums are going to be held up, already fled and they're all making the way west part of the hamid has been speaking to some of them in zap alicia, escaping russian occupation leave for it becomes nearly impossible that lana and her daughter catalina just arrived from the concerned region, hours before a referendum, organized by russia is due, should take place after the dinner, percent percent, if seem decent about 70 percent of people are jobless. we were 5 months without any mobile connection. the feed is coming from crimea and we have to pan roubles. they

have been telling us that our home town is passive, russia, and it was liberated from ukraine. karina's husband had to stay behind because men of fighting age aren't allowed to leave. that's why it took only see and his family 4 days to travel from little hands to the ukrainian control part of their procedure . despite the permit issued by the separatists, his wife gulard tells me she was worried, he would be mobilized. nibble's brochures. alexey says russia referendum is a sham, and now is the time to choose sides. as soon as you go through bloom, there are people who are going to vote. there are people who really believe a flu, hence, joins russia. life will become better and they will be happier. i'm surprised because most of them work for ukrainian companies and they owned a good living. now they have nothing but the supporting russia. people still living in jeopardy jack had a son and a dumbass will be asked if they want to join russia. russia doesn't fully control

any of the 4 regions with this. so called referendum is taking place in the areas under ukrainian control. come on the regular attack, day and night. this is the latest one in the heart of the city. one of the several that rocked the body, joe, early morning. the target was a hotel said to host this place people on their way further west. people like tanya and julia who made their journey together for milly toppled, it's painful. her parents stayed back home. part of an older generation nostalgic about the soviet union. eula shows as a video where she was taunted by collaborators and russian soldiers forced to praise the russian motherland and sing the national anthem, who would give, give you quickly enough. i kept my children at home at school, there was too much pressure on them. they would get punished if they spoke

ukrainian. i'm afraid i won't be able to return home after the referendum. there will be special permits for people to get in and out of there. no one has doubts. the outcome of the referendum devote has already been discarded by ukraine and its allies, that russia will use it to stretch it's borders closer to western ukraine. went up that honey elder, 0 zeppelin, john. okay, let's talk about the referendums and we're going to speak to honda. she's joining us live from macowski in ukraine. a hottest give give us some context here. what's going on? why is this referendum be held? well the surrender miss something that has been long in the coming and really every the ground was set for this about 8 years ago. especially in the den. yes and against region, where the pro russian separate is have been holding a part of the territory since back in 2014 and they had held there was

a similar referendum back then. the question of the time was do you want to have a, your own self proclaimed republics of denise elegance? now the question is do you want to join. busy rush and be part of that country. and i think the separatists have been asking for that all along this. but here's the problem. i'm standing here in port cross. it is part of the and yet on paper, the separate as look at don't yet i don't. yes and began so the whole dumbass region as their historical lab. they don't have it yet. and this war or special operation. busy busy of russia called it was set off in the name of, of taking all disparity. they don't have it and people here are not voting. and that referendum em probably many wouldn't like to vote in their. busy referendum because down the ukrainian side, and then you have the bridge and have son also as upper reject. russia hold about

half of it. her son it holds more than that may be about 85 percent of it is a counter offensive going on there. ukrainian one, a bit slower, but ukraine has managed to retake some villages. so what happens next? i, nobody knows, but effectively adapt point. russia could claim that it's borders have now reached those areas that you were mentioning, the, the kinds of offensive by ukraine that, that, that's going on at the moment. we can't forget, of course, others fighting in many of these areas. what's the process for holding the referendum given the fact it's got a backdrop of all the fighting that's going on. the processes. i mean if, if i base it on what i've seen back in 2014, there was also some fighting at the time. not as much as today for sure. i did, people will go to the ballot boxes and usually they're in schools and they were put

they were there. now you have a problem is that you have very few people left in those areas already back in 201415, a lot of ukrainians who lived ended on bass had gone after do once this war started more have left either do ukraine or to russia, we understand that somehow there's some online voting. we haven't been able to check it. we haven't been able to see how that will work. but it's all organized by the central electric commission in moscow. so expect to hear results or how things are going go to announce or any kind of update from moscow on all of this. now, you know, anyone i spoke to came out of those areas just yesterday i was saying that there was very little preparation that they were told all of a sudden they will be they'll be a referendum and that they haven't heard anything else since.

so it is it people who came out. busy wanted to evade having to cast their ballots, would tell you that this is a sham referendum. they will tell you that the the, the result is already known. there's no need for people to go and vote via the separate is need that picture need to show that they have popular so both it gives them legitimacy. how to thank you very much indeed. hot up dr. me talking to us from a crust, or to understand the potential impact of these votes. it helps to take a look at a map of ukraine. this is it in 2014, before the conflict began. but later that g, a russian forces invaded and then annexed the crimean peninsula. pro russian fighters began season territory in the east declaring republics in the occupied regions of don't yet sc in the hands. since the invasion in february, this year rushes expanded its control. now the 2 self declared republics as well as moscow backed administrations in hudson and zappa asia, as auto was talking about, want to hold votes,

and whether to become part of russia. whether you are secretary of state, urge the un security council to send a clear message to russia over its invasion of ukraine. and it's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons. and he blinked and described moscow's language as reckless saying it must stop. alan fisher reports. there have been security council meetings in ukraine before, but this is by far the highest level meeting since the war began when he will. mon yell, the latest developments are dangerous and disturbing. they are further steps away from any prospect of peace and towards an endless cycle of horror and bloodshed hurts. as a permanent member of the council, russia has previously beated any efforts to denounce its attack in ukraine. and in reality, ext, there's little the council can do to stop the fighting. one man chose this war. one man can end it. because if russia stops fighting, the war ends. if ukraine stops fighting ukraine,

ed's russian foreign minister sergey lover of only appeared in the chamber just moments before his turn to speak. he insisted what the russians call the special military operation was inevitable after the 2014 revolution in ukraine is whether a local i'm certainly proposed and that there is an attempt to day to impose on us a completely different narrative about russian aggression as the origin of the tragedy, this ignores the fact that for over 8 years, ukrainian army and fighters from the nationalist groups killed and continue to kill inhabitants of dun boss with impunity. simply because they refused to recognize the result of the kuta tar was in key if. when he finished his remarks, the russian diplomat left something the british did not ignore his left the chamber . i'm not surprised, i don't think mister lovegrove wants to hear. the collective condemnation of this council and ukraine's foreign minister didn't let the moment pass either. i also

noted to day that russian diplomats flee almost as aptly as russian soldiers. he called for peace, he call for support. and he had this warning for russia yesterday, put in announced mobilization. but what he really announced before the whole world was his defeat. you can draft 30500000 people that you will never win this war. the meeting was called to discuss alleged abuses and atrocities and ukraine. the international criminal court announced its own investigation in march, and the chief prosecutor told the counsel that while no one has been charged yet, there is growing evidence that war crimes have been committed. alan fisher al jazeera at the united nations in new york, migrant boats capsized off the coast of silvia killing at least 53 people. syrian authorities say 20 people have been rescued. the boat had left from lebanon. there were lebanese syrians and palestinians on board. you are the secretary general

antonio hotel, as has requested an urgent report into the allegations of abuse carried out by aid workers at a u. n. run camp in south sudan, an investigation by al jazeera and non profit news agency, the new humana tarion as exposed years of widespread sexual abuse at a camp for displaced people and mahal. allegations 1st emerged in 2015, but no action appears to have been taken despite a you and lead task force. charged with tackling it, aid workers that are accused of raping and sexual abusing minors, as well as pressuring women and girls to have sex in exchange for gifts. when it's bringing joshua crazies, an independent research on south to down, he's joining us by skype, from cartoon. very good to have you with us. i find a santa correctly, you are part of the process in pulling this report together. what evidence will you finding extra nice to be here? so we found a number of documents there, beginning in 2015 in increasing through 2019 to the present. that indicated that

both you and agencies and jose were aware that there were extensive explanation abuse cases occurring in the camp, which is called it is and malakai power in south savannah. and very little was done about those. so in 2021, we went to medical and we interviewed a number of people who were alleged victims of sexual abuse by communitarians in the camp. so it's a combination of internal documents from in jose, in the u. n. and also the interviews on the ground with both 8 workers and with the victims of these assaults the reports and says that it's not only that it's been happening, but in fact that it's increased m. what evidence is there? that in fact, the level of, of abuse that you've been talking about has actually been rising. so there was a letter sent from the n d s at s r s t, who is the person within the u. n. system in south saddam responsible humanitarianism. in march of this year, warning that has been an increase in

a sexual abuse within america. you see in that those cases are incurring in an atmosphere of a massive power in balance between 8 workers and that beneficiaries. often they live together and they're in conditions in which the beneficiaries are reliant on either aid or salaries from those 8 workers. i'm just reading part of the, the letter that some you're referring to there. it says that she refer, requested a review of internal arrangements to further enhance sensitization of aid personnel on international commitments and raise awareness of prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse. it seems to me that this was an effort to get people to, to read stuff and remind them about the their obligations if you like to under behavior in this circumstance. but no, there's no sense of actual policing going on. there's no sense of act. anybody actually monitoring on a day to day basis about or dealing with us on a day to day basis? what evidence do you have? what did you do when you were pulling your report together? that's, that there was a disconnect if you like,

between the action that was taken and the intention that was there. so i think the basic problem is that if you look through all of these task force, set up to prevent section expectation. since it was begun in south dawn is what they do is they provide sensitization training. they provide hotlines, but the task force structurally from mandate from new york does not do investigations. investigations are left to the individual ngos and you and agencies whose dock members are accused of at sex exploitation. and the problem is they look back obs phantoms offset a huge sex exploitation scandal and its funding was caught effectively by half. so, but none of these organizations is actually materially in that interest to really do investigation. so what happens is things are cut off and all of the measures that have been announced by the un thus far have largely been reactive measures. so that measures about making sure that everyone has the training. the problem is

there is no proactive investigative capacity within the task force or within these organizations and just give you in a descent. what they do is that they investigate a claims made to them. bear a series of mechanisms that report allegation, claim that like report sexual exploitation allegations. however many people it's getting coming forwards. many people are worried that that will impact on staff with family members who have jobs with ease and yos. many people are worried that that cases will be dismissed by bodies that are linked to community accident one, a, ca, access, or in danger, acts as from the end years. so what this means is there is no pro proactive investigative capacity. and that's distress striking that when we, when, as researches and journalists in october of last year to the camp, we found more case, i mean, number numerous cases just by asking people. but there is no one asking right now in medical and none of the measures suggested by at it. oh, by the protection sexualization abuse task force in juba. sounds capital will

actually address that, or that urgently needs to be that pro active invested capacity to go to mccallum work out how many cases that beating and why they're carrying. because at the moment, there is a total impunity that the people committing these cases because there is no one inclined to investigate them. as we said before, the un secretary general's requesting an urgent report into the allegations that have appeared in your report. we'll see what happens with that for now. joshua craig, we appreciate you being with us and i'll 0. thank you very much indeed. thank you. my trouble. so head on al jazeera ah, leave us an answer. sanctions against iran, so called morality police as protest, continue on the death of a woman arrested by the forest, plus why critics to say the british government plan to kick start the economy will do little to ease the high cost of living. ah,

the journey has begun. the faithful world cup is on its way to catherine book. your travel package today? right, well we just gone past the ot mcclintock. so if we're in, the old hemisphere is now in autumn, and the weather is felt like it be on us for quite a few in eastern europe for the last week or so. but this area of high pressure means tempted to a warming up in vienna, in prague, in berlin. for example, this next frontal systems, a band of rain that went in shoes, particularly cold weather. but his persistence means that without seeing the sun, it's going to feel not that good. currently got 21 in paris, but i'll give you the forecast for the next 3 days. and we're down to 16 and eventually 13 with almost persistent break. that's going to be dismal. that's true for good part of france. the heavier rain that develops in the same system is going to be in north nifty that a warnings out as a result of that. so there's a bit of a change taking place in western europe,

at least to say it's warmed up in the middle. it's warming up actually in ukraine currently is not very warm here at all. moscow's at 10 degrees and persistent rain . now jumping south to africa, this ought to look familiar, but the something very unfamiliar about to my eyes, at least off the coast, to west africa. quite a long way north. a circulation, almost a tropical cycle, but not quite producing some pretty nasty weather in the cape, very islands. and on sunday, the canaries. cats are airway issue and i know the judge debating the issues of the day produced as always, den criminalized around the boundaries of rights. i'm just member there people are family and our friend and our committee member on air or online jewel voice. this made it to me, i don't believe in dialogue. political crisis from as vsoft went to political solution as climate change progress is there some people who are in places that they're just going to have to ma'am. there's no recognition about what we're ready

facing. the street. oh, now j 0 lou. ah, what are the 0 reminder of our top stories this are for moscow controlled regions and eastern and southern ukraine are voting on whether to become part of russia. the referendums are taking place in the hans, the nets. zip aleisha and coastal cranes dismissed the balls as a shop. a migrant boats capsized off the coast of syria killing at least 50 people, sitting in authority say 20 people have been rescued. the boat had left from lebanon. you're in the secretary general, and tony ross. alice has called for an urgent report after allegations of sexual abuse by a workers at a un one camp in south stood up an investigation by al jazeera and the new

humanitarian organization. revealed use of widespread sexual abuse or to displace with the camp in malak hall. the british government is expected to unveil economic measures meant to stimulate growth and ease the cost of living crisis. the package is expected to include tax cuts and billions of dollars worth of spending, but not every one is convinced it's going to work. they've baka travel to graves in a town that's hoping to reverse years of economic stagnation were only 30 kilometers down river from london's financial district. but little of the capital's wealth flows here to graves end. this historic maritime town bears the scars of the recent pandemic. and now a cost of living crisis fueled in part by the war. new crane fe crystal runs a cafe in a market where business after business has shut it up, shop. i've not wanted to get my prices up. i haven't prices up since we opened 2 years ago,

but with the fuel costs and now supply issues and but without your own home be can . flour has nearly doubled in price. sugar went out, everything's increased. the british government says it's poised to unleash more than a $100000000000.00 to protect businesses from rising energy costs. but for fe, the efforts on long term enough, they've got no idea either. he was really none of them. politicians that item 5 idea what the real want as like, and i'd love them to come and spend a we can machine. a global shortage of essentials from fuel to flour. have made seemingly everything more expensive. inflation in the u. k stands at around 10 percent. it's highest am 40 years and the highest across all g 7 countries. a response, the bank of england's raised interest rates, the cost of boring to their highest to more than a decade, to try and dump and people spending and bring down prices. the prime minister list trust is government's pulling in a different direction,

slashing taxes to get people spending in a frantic bid to boost growth. at jazz as lum shares, the government's view, his family business has been trading here for more than 40 years in the thing is if people aren't spending in our shops in our businesses them, you know, we're gonna struggle to pay our bills. at the end, the day, the most important thing for any business i think is cashflow list trust. his plans also mean cutting headline rates have tax on the richest individuals and the biggest companies along with lifting the cap on bank as bonuses. the theory is that if the rich are allowed to get richer, instead of shouldering more of the nation's tax burden, every one will benefit and it has a name trickle down economics. and very few economists think it's a good idea throughout recorded history. it's never happened if you give the rich more money that they tend to spread out amongst the poor. now what happens is if you give the. ringback rich money, they invest it on their own behalf so that they guess even richer price and

strategic position on the times are 3 means that for generations, it's been the 1st on the last port of cool for countless vessels entering and leaving the british capital misfortunes over the 8th of clearly change, but it's precisely times like this where the british government is promising to re direct flows of capital. in the past 10 years, productivity investment to real wages have stagnated. many here question whether the government can really turn the tide on years of decline. if barca al jazeera graves and ok johnny me not from westminster is harry force at the i believe that announcements going to come fairly shortly. it's going to be, we know, broadly it's going to be tax cuts and spending doing more idea, but the details of this yeah, i mean some summers emerging and yes, as you say in the next 10 minutes or so, quasi quartering is due to get up and give what the government is referring to as a fiscal event, not a budget, not a mini budget,

even as the press is cooling it. interestingly, that means that the office of budget responsibility doesn't have to give an analysis of exactly what it's going to do to the public finances. but it is going to be a major shift and we know that they are going to reverse a recent rise in national insurance. that they are planning to prevent a rise in cooperation tax from 19 to 25 percent from going ahead potentially as well. a cut in the basic rate of income tax from 20 to 19 percent along with a number of investment zones where regulation and tax will be lower for companies. all of this is to try to get what the government is, is now referring to almost as a mantra. growth is the watchword, and i think anyone counting the number of times that causing, mentioned that word is going to run out of fingers pretty quickly. the question is, will that growth be enough to counterbalanced the huge amounts of government borrowing required to fund this very, very big tax give away the labor party? the main opposition is already criticizing this, saying it is merely as zigzag on

a path of policy failure. yet annoying as we were hearing any barkers or package that there are cutting. so we're saying that this is basically a gift to the region is not gonna help anybody. it is a major departure in economic policy. his man it is a very major shift. the government is saying that after years of languishing stagnant growth, that's what's required. they need to challenge the orthodoxy. that's the message from both of his trust and quasi quoting, and they're doing that on number of levels, fiscally, in terms of the public finances, this is a vast amount of borrowing, already more than a 100000000000 pounds of borrowing to fund the. the recently announced energy cap assistance for families with their energy prices. this is going to cost tens of billions more on top of that. will the growth come round in time and to the right kind of level to start paying some of that back. philosophically, there is this issue of the rich versus the poor. the fact that the, those in the top income brackets are going to benefit much more from the sorts of

measures. mistrust said that she was relaxed about that during her leadership campaign. but it was all about growing the economy as a whole, less about redistribution and economically as well. this could potentially fuel the very inflation at the bank of england is trying to squash. so there's going to be potentially a big tug of war between the government on one hand and the bank of england on the other carry, thanks very much. have a fossil talking to us from westminster or the u. s. as an sanctions and several members of iran's so called morality police, it comes after masa armine died last week in custody after being arrested for allegedly not complying with headscarf regulations. the u. s. accuses the police force of abuse and violence against iranian woman, and of violating the rights of peaceful protesters. those sanctioned include the head of the morality, police as well as the commander of the armies round forces and a runs minister of intelligence. we mar protests against ma, harmonies, death continue in iran. residents hold the demonstrations acts of chaos. will him

arising ordered an investigation into the 22 year olds? death authorities say at least 10 people have been killed during the unrest, but act of has said that numbers much higher. it was at least federal, missouri, ham, go to their house. there have always been protests and we hear their demands. but there's a difference between riots and protest, haven't nobody except to riot this boy, did they ever demonstration against policy or anything else in a random we have freedom of speech or can we see on different levels? there are differences of opinion. that's not a problem at all, but when there is a riot, it's different than a protest. i mean is that b, b u. s. nuclear pod aircraft carrier, the ronald reagan has arrived in south korean, portable sana, head of a joint military exercise. the naval drills will be the 1st involving a u. s. aircraft carrier in the region since 2017 washington and soul of revive their large scale drills over growing north korean threats. robert brian is aboard the aircraft carrier where on the flight deck of the ronald reagan here, it's

a limits class aircraft carrier. we just had a press briefing from the naval commanders of this strike group. they will be conducting joint drills with south korean counterparts in the coming days. and it is with a view stated mission of showing the resolve of these allies in the face of renewed north korean threats. and the last time this aircraft carried away with here was 5 years ago that again was at a time of heightened tension. it followed to a number of missile launches and also a nuclear test by north korea. so this is a way of showing the strength of the alliance in the face of watts. and what the us in south korea say, all these increased threats from north korea, from the careers point of view. they are always enraged by these exercises. they have been scaled back through the last few years to allow all of this summit diplomacy to take place to try to get the north korea to give up that nuclear arms . clearly they haven't done that.