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soldiers and crumbling controlled pots of ukraine are said to be conducting referendums on joining russia. ah, don't know about this, and this is all. does he live from dough hobb also coming up the u. s. trans to unblock internet services and iran, as the government in tech run, restrict social media during protests, arkansas, as downgraded, but it still poses a threat to canada. it's bracing for what could be one of its strongest storms on my fish sellers and a ton of senegal, say a factory stifling their business and killing local people. rushes pushed to annex for regions, and ukraine has moved into a new phase with authorities going door to door. and what they say are referendums on soldiers are reported to be forcing people to vote. the balance meant to decide

whether the occupied air is it should join russia. but critics say the outcome has already been decided. the votes are taking place in the hans don't yet. zap aleisha and hassan, they cover about 15 percent of ukraine's territory. ukraine's western allies have condemned the ballots as a sham that appears to be a step towards russian annexation. ever. allison door has more from cave. it's very tough to get real 1st hand information there because this is a of vote if you will. that is happening in a very unprecedented situation in a large area, the size of hungry for different regions. but more than that happening in the middle of a war zone, really. and of course, with russian appointed officials overseeing this vote with no free media or at least very restricted media in the areas where the voting is taking place. as well as no international election monitors at all that are independent. it's

hard to get a real clear picture of what's going on, but based on what we're seeing on various different sources, telegram and elsewhere, and talking to people in the area and family members here in ukraine that have been talking to many family members there. and those ration control areas, there's certainly some indication that in certain locations there appears to be what, what appears to be normal, organized, voting but in, we're also seeing reports and seeing video of what appeared to be russian appointed officials going knocking on people's doors, accompanied by russian soldiers asking people to vote critics or saying this is clear coersion and saying this isn't really a vote at all. it's more of to officials in keith are just saying that this is just a big show by, by the russians in order to seize land. this is a little bit more of how the referendum is going. you know, as president joe biden says, he'll ensure swift and severe costs. if russia and access those regions. he said

he's prepared to impose more sanctions. white house correspondent kimberly holligan has more from washington d. c, the white house, calling the referendums, shands and illegitimate. now it is the belief of the white house, according to white house press. secretary, korea, john pierre, that these will be manipulated in terms of the results. as a result, the white house will not accept the outcome of these referendums and also they believe that they will very much be manipulated. now we can tell you that as a result, the white house has decided in consultation with allies to impose economic penalties . but the weight has not saying specifically what those penalties will be. we are prepared to impose additional swift and severe economic costs on russia along with our allies and partners in response to these actions if they move forward with

annexation. as we said in today's g 7 liter statement, the united states will never recognize this territory or as anything other than part of ukraine because it belongs to the people of ukraine. we stand with our partners around the world in rejecting whatever fabricated outcomes. russia announces, we do know however, that this comes on the heels of escalating rhetoric from blad repute and the russian president who has threatened to use nuclear weapons. and we also know that the white house has set at this time that it is not adjusting its nuclear posture. its own nuclear posture in response, must continue to mobilize army reserve. it says president, let me put in looks to boast, a russian forces and ukraine. and the fall eastern region of your cruces and indoor stadium has been turned into reception center for those cold up for military service. on wednesday,

the kremlin announced 300000 reserves will be sent to fight in ukraine. vall has mall from moscow. many regions in, in russia, people are resisting not, not all people, but some people are resisting this enlistment, this listing, saying that they are not going to send their loved ones to a conflict. they are not convinced or with, but the authorities are gone ahead. opening centers for this and many people have already been sent for training. and we understand that there are some categories of young people are, are not required to go, including the students who are not doing their studies are online. a university students are financial staff members, and i guess sir, media, staff, members, these are exempt from this recruitment, but it is going on. and also the opposition to which is going on yesterday evening . or some supporters of the government organized a stand to show that not all russians are opposed to this recruitment. this is

going to be in defense of, of the nation. and remember that the, the, the, the, the, the simultaneous organizing of the, of the vote in east of ukraine and this, and distant of more troops at go together in the minds of the, in the public mind here as the preparation, not on the, not a preparation this time around to invade another country, but to preparation to defend russian territory itself because they are expected this to these territories are expected to be a part of russia very soon. the mobilizations pushing some russians to try to flee abroad, but crossing easily into finland in the east may not be an option. a country plans to make it more difficult fallen to enter all recess more from the volume of border crossing infant. there are no longer many ways to leave russia, but this is one of the, the board with finland that volleyball, 3 hour drive from st. petersburg,

where the numbers departing seem to be increasing. the wake of president vladimir putin, partial mobilization, or some people. little league on the wall. there has be more traffic crossing from russia to finland since wednesday evening. no particular restrictions. we are an external border to the shaken zone. so we perform thorough checks. well, most people are traveling into finland on tours. baez's room look up. one of those is to be treat your car an engineer from st. petersburg on his way to helsinki and then for lanka, where he hopes to be safe from a call up to fight the war in ukraine. when did you decide to leave russia 2 days ago? because of the mobilize ational? yes. i don't have a list of for my reservation, but i scared. how did you get through the border? oh good. good. no question. so all is good. just to go and leave russian border. police said that 6000 russians came into finland through this

crossing a load on thursday. double the number of a week earlier friday was another busy day que stretching back some 400 meters. elaina gruff over has been commuting over the border since february. she doesn't believe most people are in any great rush to leave. i don't feel any around people here on the border, so it's very, very not like some people think it is later. calm so did to almost total quiet as evening drove in here. there's just a few cars left from the long queues of the morning. most of the russians have tried to get across the border seem to have been successful. those could be the lucky ones. report to the finish media, say ministers are working on a plan to get around the principles of the shing, an agreement or freedom of movement. by claiming that finland's, acceptance of russian tourists is damaging it's international relationships. all

rece aldi's era, volleyball of the finland, russia border, ukraine's downgrading diplomatic ties with a run for allegedly providing russia with attack drones. president vladimir zalinski says of any and jones were using strikes on odessa and other areas on friday. the government announced that will be revoking the iranian ambassadors, accreditation and ordering a significant reduction in embassy staff to con, denies supplying the aircraft to russia. protest have been held in cities across a run over night after the death of a woman in police custody mos harmony died last week after being arrested by what are known as the morality police. she'd allegedly violated the country's headscarf policy, or family says she was beaten after her arrest, which the police have denied around state tv reports. at least 35 people have been killed during the unrest. rights groups say the number is higher to run has

restricted internet services to clamp down on the growing descent, the u. s. government's easy limits on exports to widen online access. it says the move could help protest us avoid states surveillance and censorship. the c o m space x in musk says it'll activated satellite internet service darling in iran to madison's a technology analyst. and he explains why washington's move will be challenging. there is a tremendous amount of complexity and when you impose something like export controls . busy as the u. s. has done, you very much locked down a whole lot of things, whether those are what you intended to lock down or not. i think it's fascinating though, that the us is now saying we want to ease that. we want to try to allow the internet to be in the hands of the people and it's obvious why they would like to do that. and so i think the practical application is something like star link, which involves satellites. of course that are up in the god, but also receivers on the ground. now you're starting to think about ok, things that might not have been possible before with the export controls now may be

possible, and that's very much something that the u. s. government is going to want to encourage citizens to be able to get, get information at a time when there's certainly protesting with the government to do. it's like a cat and mouse game. what you do is you ease the export control who say i want to put the equipment in the hands of the citizen, say a star link receiver or some other kinds of routers, or other internet equipment that was illegal before this to be exported by u. s. companies, but now it's legal now it may still be illegal in iran because they operate under a different set of laws obviously. so that's the cat and mouse game. and i would expect to see i ran start to try to counter those kinds of things and then the u. s . will counter the counter moves so it, it very much ends up being a mouth game, whether any individual citizen is able to look at instagram on any given day or any given device. that's very much an open question. but clearly what we're trying to do here is fight a battle effectively over access to information to us would like for access to be more open iran at least at this point in time,

would like for it to be more restricted. so had an autism fighting for survival. how people in brazil indigenous population are making sure their voices are heard ahead of elections. it's been a perfect journey. i will do it all over again. an emotional farewell for tennis, a. he places professional mass. ah, the philippines see is giving birth yet in the tropical depression it's been named the tropical storm of, nor it might briefly actually reach ty, food proportions, or whether it does that or not. its main risk is going to be of rain to do song as it travels across during sunday. eventually it'll end up, i think, on the coast of vietnam, but that's the area is already wet. se asia south of that into borneo,

the shaft particularly big and they are going to be in parts, is sumatra less so in java or sula waste. and then there's the other wet area in west papua as well. and jumping south of our active frontal system running through australia recently. now it's going off shore, the worst of it, which means it looks like sundays, fairly fine. it's slight change the forecast the next front on its way in so dull day for adelaide, leaving behind mostly sunny weather in person. about 19 degrees by monday that front systems again producing shouts in new south wales and victoria. i don't think it will produce any flooding, but already the grand sultan's the might be pretty high. river levels. ask for new zealand. that's not working too bad. you gotta suddenly breathe, you think would make it cold and may well feel that way in wellington was an overcast is start the day. i'll try to get to monday that the circulation suggest rather more brightness. ah,

with a ah, it was what is it a reminder about top store? is this how the 2nd day of a referendums underway on the annexation of 4 regions in ukraine held by moscow.

armed soldiers are reported to have been going door to door to get people to vote. army reservists have been called up across russia. moscow's announced $300000.00 people will be mobilized to fight at south ukrainian forces pushed russian troops out of thousands of kilometers of territory this month. and the u. s. government analyst is easy exports restrictions to iran to widen internet access. that's after to run limited online services following protests with a young woman's death in police custody. how can fiona's weaken to a post tropical storm, but aids heading towards canada, and people are being warned to expect very strong winds. hundreds of thousands of people have lost power, nova scotia, as the 1st bonds of the storm of hit, eastern canada particle hearing reports, hurricane fiona made 1st landfall in puerto rico, last sunday, where half of the u. s. territory is still without power. it marched over the dominican republic, destroying homes and businesses, as it went,

then brushed the bahamas and swept by bermuda on friday. and now it's on track to make a very rare hit on eastern canada total rainfall amounts. again, we're looking at some of the same numbers we were looking at yesterday with the 10250, was some localized them how that could exceed 150. and the gray area that you see on the map here in nova scotia is for, for areas that potentially could exceed a $150.00 millimeters. currently a category for storm it may lands a post tropical storm bringing potentially dangerous storm searches, wins and likely massive power outages. people shouldn't be dung, things that may sound self evident, but don't go to the water and try to be a big shot. don't, don't surf, we go surfing, hear that. that sounds great, but don't sure if in a hurricane and as it passes, all eyes will then turn southward. another tropical depression in the caribbean has

formed that forecaster se could grow into a powerful hurricane. likely to hit the you a state of florida in the coming days. particle haine al jazeera and he's 36 people have died in northern india between friday and saturday is heavy rains battered the area 12 were struck by lightning. others were killed when their homes collapsed. authorities say more heavy downpours of forecast in the coming days. pakistan's prime ministers appealed to the un general assembly for urgent action on climate change. shavon hardy says pakistan needs more help falling devastating floods. one thing is very clear. what happened in pakistan will not stay in bog is done as the sick to gen so candidly stays hot. spot like bark is done flawed in the moon in the den most diamond vulnerable list of countries,

but a met less than one percent of the greenhouse gases died out of burning our planet. it is therefore entirely a reasonable to expect some approximation of justice. hundreds of young people are rallied in new york demanding more action to stop climate change. the march was one of many held in various cities as part of fighters, global climate strike. the protesters want more aid for poorer countries like pakistan, which has been hit by record breaking flooding. the damage is going to cost the country more than $10000000000.00. the number of people who died after a migrant boat sank off the coast of syria has risen to 86. most of them were fleeing lebanon to escape in economic crisis. survivors say they were heading to italy. xena hot has been speaking to some of the victims, family members in northern lebanon. invoice sam is in shock. person's family was on the boat that sunk off the syrian coast on thursday. they

have buried 9 year old me, and 6 year old maya. but there are 2 brothers and mother are still missing. they really didn't them, they brought me the 2 kids did. what about the other is will they bring the others to me? i can't say more than this. my heart is broken. it's the deadliest migrant boat tragedy in lebanon. in years, passengers were hoping to reach europe and a better life. families and friends waited at the border with syria as the dead, and few survivors were brought home. 8 not all were lebanese, some were palestinian and syrian refugees, but all shared the same story. one of poverty and desperation. i held for a 2nd um, but the law, if i get the chairs i will leave if there is a boat here right now, i will get on it with my 2 children and see what other when lebanon's economy began

to spiral 3 years ago. the political elite blame for decades of mismanagement and corruption have still not agreed on a recovery plan and under java added to it. poverty is what pushed we sam to sell a property and his house to go on the boat. and then he lost his wife and children . yeah. our government doesn't care about the people at their living conditions. oh, just a few months ago, a migrant boat sank while being pursued by the lebanese navy. dozens of people drowned. many of them are still missing. what the hell is, then you have a great girl with some rest, everything knowing that there was a 70 percent chance the boat would sink. that's how desperate he was. so many of those who attempt the journey are from the impoverished north, which has been neglected by successive governments. despite the dangerous migrants continued to leave from the shores of northern lebanon, the united nation says the number of people who departed or tried to as yearly triple since 2004 see, it says so far this year. the number is yearly. 3500. but security sources tell us

that's a conservative estimate and it's no longer just young people. whole families are trying to escape. what many hearsay is a hopeless situation? center for their elders. eda, northern lebanon, final rallies are being held in italy ahead of a general election on sunday, former prime minister. as you said, the county told a crowd in rome. the vote is a historic one opinion polls. so he's turning a far right coalition, led by georgia and maloney, they indicated that she could become the country's 1st female prime minister indigenous people in the zillow uniting to back their own candidates and upcoming elections. jazz also not on the list and i feel linda da silva, of fighting for the presidency, but indigenous groups. so they're focusing on individual races to gain seats and congress, monica inaccurate reports from real dizzy, middle with b,

me be few in number less than one percent of brazil's population. some live deep in the jungle isolated from the modern world. but lately, brazil's 1000000 indigenous people have been making their voices heard in the centres of political power. good, yahoo, girl junior. oh, we had to unite indigenous people from all over the country and make strategic alliances in brazil and abroad to fight our common enemy. president, jaya, bol sanara. his government has been pushing for legislation, opening our lands to commercial mining and farming, and turning a blind dye to the destruction of the amazon sagamore. the goal is to fight back by electing their own lawmakers and they have significant support in organization called the articulation of brazil's indigenous people is back in 30 candidates like so. now why shatter, recently described by time magazine, is one of the $100.00 most influential people in the world that was doing well,

man, we have never suffered so much violence in indigenous territories like now, with that tax on assassination seen by boeing, the independently run indigenous missionary council register 305 cases of attacks in 226 indigenous territories. 2021. that many times more than in 2018 or earlier this year. indigenous expert berlin. a video in british journalist dom phillips were shot dead by a local fishman in a remote area of the amazon. the killings a tr, to global attention. lydia had been helping indigenous patrols investigate illegal fishing and poaching in their job id valley. the territories home to the world's largest number of isolated tribes and invaders were allegedly working for drug cartels. world renowned photographers, sebastian salgado, like many others,

points the finger april, seattle. yes. you this will be g. u. i blame the government, the deaths of bruno barrera, and don phillips because the president left the amazon unprotected promising criminal gangs to take over all fallen from the amazon has increased from him. the slave so long before the presidential election campaign started. hundreds of indigenous tribes gathered in brasilia to put their demands in writing or by sonya rachada present to the document to leftist candidate, wheezing masula. the silver was leading in the polls against current president bush on adel, signed it, and promised to create a ministry for the indigenous for brazil's indigenous people. what's at stake in these elections is their constitutional rights. and by extension, their very survival. hundreds of claims for indigenous ancestral lands have been put on hold during both sonatas, term as president. this has created an environment of uncertainty that critics say

pro development groups are exploiting through increased land invasions and violence . monica and i keep al jazeera rio de janeiro. a group of 1st sellers in senegal is launching a legal challenge to try to shut down a fish meal factory. traitor. say it's destroying the local environment and stealing their income. well, magnum the song i'm on to my name is matching dough. i represent women's fish citizen carrier, and i want to see the fish me factories hail to shut down immediate town. ruined them. but in the fish meal is food for animals. fish are being keeled, processed to from flow that is used to feed animals, not hair, but mostly in the west. i furry now bought some land to build a factory. he brought to machine and stop buying fish to make fish meal man on one . o 4. in the process toxic chemicals are being used. the contaminated water is

evacuated, close to a water source, and we drink this water dis, factories. kidding us. since it started production, we have been suffering from they. every old is your husband, or children or coughing. adults are getting sick and suffering from asthma. it's polluting a life man, i'm would away i factories or so destry indian varmint. why it's persisting juvenile fish to make the flower catching your fish means there is celeste in the ocean for us. it takes 5 kilos of fish to make one kilo fish meal. rommel deleted. it's disgusting. i am angry. i'm losing my income and i'm not the only one . look, we were many fair on the 25 women sitting in this market. and only $76.00. i left me more than more than google people, but we used to send these fish across west africa into a go benning even legally at a loss. but now we have nothing because the fishermen sell the catch to the factory

. note to us little mill valley, a justice of if we want justice, we want disputing factories to stub their work. it's destroying the ocean. 8 will make life even harder for future generations. look. roger factors played his final competitive tennis match before retiring, but the 20 time grand slam champion was unable to finish his career on a high losing to the team world. perry at the labor cup and london. pol wonder of reports taking to the court for the final time. which federal partnering with long time rival rafael, no doubt, to round out as 24 year korea. and fittingly the match being played in london. the city with federal one, the 1st of us 20 grand slam titles. back in 2003. the 41 year old has struggled with injuries, the past 3 years. those still able to, well,

the crowd. even if the shot didn't count, even at the end of roaches, career is given a something we've never seen before. federal leaves the game. 3rd on the list of all time, grand slam champion spine novak jock havoc and rough. i own a dow, he want a total of $103.00 atp titles in a korea that included an incredible $1251.00 victories. this was maestro spent a total of $310.00 weeks as well. number one, a messing more than a $130000000.00 in prize money throughout his career. it's been a been a perfect journey. i will do it all over again. thank you so much. it's been amazing. thank you everybody. of so many people cheer

me on. and you guys here tonight means the world wiping back the tears. finra thanked his rivals before paying tribute to his family . the girls to boys. my wife's been so supportive and her she good has not been long time ago. she but she didn't. she kept me going and allowed me to play, so it's amazing. thank you. has since meant by those in the stands, she is by fans everywhere. paul van with al jazeera, ah.