at all levels of government, right up to the presidency. as bohemian serves challenge, state institutions in their escalating bid for succession and croats warn of the consequences if the focus held on to the current law. what does the future hold for this fragile democracy? bosnia elections on a jesse ego, a weekly look at the world's top business stories from global markets to economies, and small businesses. to understand how it affects our daily lives going on with counting the cost on al jazeera. ah, moscow officials in 4 occupied areas of ukraine, se residence are voted overwhelmingly to join russia. paving the way for annexation

and denmark and sweden as a mystery leaks and 2 gas pipelines running from russia to europe are likely to be sabotaged. ah, hello, i'm mary. i'm noisy in london, you're watching out there are also coming up on the program. hearken, ear lashes, western cuba with heavy rain and winds of 205 kilometers an hour before heading on to florida. ah, in japan owners, it's assassinated, former prime minister sions, or are they with arrest? a funeral that proved as controversial as the man himself. ah, welcome to the program. a war new cray looks at to enter a dangerous new phase as pro moscow separatist declared victory and for ukrainian

regions where the kremlin has staged referendums. on joining russia, ukraine in its western allies have already dismissed the poles as a sham, but russia is expected to use them as a pretext to annex those areas. and then portray any attempt to recapture them as an attack on rush or itself. most were held in harrison as apple regis, danielle, and la hans, which are partly held by russian forces. they were present 15 percent of ukrainian territory. the numbers suggest an overwhelming majority in all 4 territories voted to join russia. but the process wasn't free or fair. russian troops have been seeing accompanying electoral officials going door to door, trying to pressure people into voting. tens of thousands of also flood the fighting in those areas. since the invasion began, mama vow reports now from moscow. the final day of voting was already us. his presence is overwhelming, here for any one doubting the outcome of the referendum that i think is on the wall

. and on the lips of the organizes. ready for the on the la garza, we invite you to the referendum on joining the russian federation. please come in for volunteering, happy holiday to you. the mood was up beat up this pulling station for the pro ration leaders here in easton, ukraine. this day was meant to be a historic event yet. oh, i'm voting in favor of joining the russian federation. i'm giving my vote for a happy bright future for us as part of the russian federation for a happy and bright future for our children, our grandchildren, our descendants. oh, i'll show you to

a different meas, a large chunk of ukraine will become russia, at least in the captain's eyes. gone. usually she would near her of course, to day, amid the special military operation and referendums in the dumbass, saving people in all territories where the referendum is held is at top of the mind . and in the center of the attention for our entire society in our country. this is natural because it's connected with traumatic events in preparation for those dramatic events. russia is sending an additional 300000 reservists to your frontline guys, holden, feel wonderful. uh huh. do you believe in the victory? of course it can't be any other way. everything will be fine, everything is okay. how's the mood we are in the mood for fighting with not every one is happy. this mother argues with our russian official enough, took

a city near the border with georgia. i will speak out. i am right. we are, the occupiers over ukraine has not been part of the u. s. s. r for a long time. but the russian government remains determined this, his defense minister said again, shall go visiting a training camp for recently mobilized troops. and it's these men that president putin is now relying on to win his war. hm. at fight under sierra, moscow or many ukrainians are flat occupied regions. her territory that ukraine's forces have recaptured in recent weeks. on the abdul hamid reports now from result copier in the south of the country. it's always the same desolate scenes. go, stones destroyed. so unless this is the call to green is being to regain control of

land that was occupied by russia. we are in musical pedia in the north of his total region. the look on the faces of those who state tell the story. here there is no sign of referendum, but the russians are just 5 kilometers away. and people their vote to decide if his son should join the russian federation. the referendum is a sham, according to the kind of sort of administration, no in exile for us to move from us. we are getting information from local people there. if you, you should understand it's not a referendum of it's a movie. everything is done for the camera, so there was no preparation. according to the law, probably are coming to people, houses with weapons we forcing them up if they catch them on the street. jana voted with her feet by escaping into the cleaning inside. she won't show her face because some of her relatives are still in the russian hill by the zone is worried about what did happen in the days to come. it's very difficult for us to speak to people

who are living in areas under russian occupation. and from here, it is impossible to reach those areas. so we asked andree if he could call his mother who is still in her son and tell us what is happening there. about 200000 people have been displaced by the war since it started 7 months ago night and re is one of them. he. my father died 3 years ago, but when soldiers came to visit my mom, they were lucky for her, my dad to vote. there was some people who voted from russia, but not a big numbers. many others have fled regions where the river and, and has taken place over the past 5 days. marianna had stayed in russian control part of that body job for 7 months. she says, being forced to vote was the last straw, but for her sister lassie, lena, this is a bittersweet moment. and a bottle fit. it angers me all your life. you grow up with people, you work with them, you live next to them. and then all of

a sudden they embrace the colors of russia and they are happy and smiling that they are part of russia. and while the international community has declared the referendum, illegal ukrainians fear that the vote will mean even more and more devastation before they regain control of their country. and that, that hemi elders eula in southern new grade. or you kind of presenters address the un security council which has been discussing the referendums. but in there's the lensky said, the international community needs to take urgent action against moscow. b, annexation culture, territories. this is the most brutal violation of the un shots, but this is an attempt to steal the territory of another state. this is an attempt to raise the norms of international war. this is a very cynical attempt to force male population and occupied territory of ukraine to mobilize into the washing army in order to send them to fight against their own

hands. or rushes ambassador to the united nations defended the referendum to security council members. good on both the good of those little bitty news to lose him removed. it is a long way to have been to the people who don bass. the inhabitants of hassan ends up her asia areas can finally be rest assured that they will not have their right to speak russian or teach their children and rush and taken away from them. and your school goes well. nearly $200000.00 russians have fled to neighboring countries since president pershing ordered a partial mobilization of reservists to fight and ukraine around 50. $3000.00 have gone to georgia where there are long queues continuing at the border. local officials in the separatist russian back region area of confirm that moscow is set up a recruitment office at a border crossing. there's a running high that the climate will close exit points to men of fighting age and heavy traffic has been reported at all. russian frontiers. 98000 others have gone to kazakhstan and more than 43000 have fled to finland.

now swim in. denmark is saying that gas leaks into major pipelines at the heart of an energy stand off between russia and europe. were caused by bloss and was deliberate, the danish energy ministers saying the holes and the pipes are too large. she's been caused by an accident like hitting an anchor. but it's not clear who is behind that. the networks operator says there is unprecedented damage in the north stream . gas pipelines will stream one normally ships gas directly to germany, but deliveries were suspended by russia earlier this month because of astound off over sanctions imposed the worn ukraine. denmark and sweden 1st reported the links near the island of borne on their exposure to last. at least a week. shipping near the lions has now been restricted. algeria got lost in reports now from movement, while the noise stream one pipeline and his german land gas bubbling up over an area of more than one square kilometer in the baltic sea. near the danish island of

bourne home, 3 huge leaks detected at both not 31 and 2 is too much of a coincidence. according to european leaders and energy experts, jewish monitors stuttering yanna. we see clearly that this is an active site, would cause an actor which likely means a further step of escalation of the situation in brain sweetie. safe knowledge as say de, recorded to explosions before the leaks were detected. one on sunday night and one on monday evening, they're not very clear. and we also have quite a lot of data on lost in the water in the area, slightly closer to the swedish coast. when the swedish navy have training exercises and the loss of minds for example, and they often let us know about the particulars on that. so the data from yesterday's last are very similar. there's no doubt that these are explosions occurring in the water. germany has not been receiving any gas from these pipelines

for the last few weeks when russia stopped supplied through not 31, nor trim to never started operations. germany decided to pull the pluck just before russia invaded ukraine. in february, the north stream pipelines had been at the height of an ongoing dispute on how dependent europe, and specifically germany had become an russian guest called through germany to stop by in russian gas since the invasion of ukraine. but it was russia not germany had decided to completely pause the supply of northwind one just a few weeks ago, but not as seriously damaged. it's clear that no russian gas will flow through these pipelines anytime soon. the leaks show once more, how vulnerable europe's energy suppliers and how fall noble the gas pipes are 2 attacks. technically speaking, this is not difficult. i mean, it just requires a boat requires some divers, that bill how to handle explosive devices. and then depending on the water depth

may be some special diving equipment. or you could do it with some some of those modern under what a submarines would ukraine blaming russia for sabotaging the pipelines artists have been more careful in pointing the finger before more investigations. step, fasten al jazeera and loop men on the belted coast residence in the russian says he ask of late flowers at a make shift memorial for those killed him. one of the countries daddy school shootings, at least 17 people died. most of them children. when a gunman opened fire a monday before shooting himself, he's been named is our team cousins, have a form of pupil at the school vouchers. here i lie from london much more still to bring you on the ground. i've been angry, protest in india after a teacher is accused of fatally beating. i've done that student not to successfully slam the spacecraft into a different asteroid in a mission to prevent me. tears colliding with the

ah we may see the strongest storm however, to hit vietnam's, coastal city of denying. hi everyone. here's the details. so all of the energy we can see is being brought up against that typhoon. so we go in for a closer look here. again, looking to make landfall in the dinning areas, we look toward wednesday, no head of the landfall sustained winds here more than 200 kilometers per hour in denying itself could scoop up to a month's worth of rain over the next 48 to 72 hours also a storm steering just to the east of japan's main island of han shoots. gonna kick back some northerly winds here and a few showers, but by and large are going to duck in dodge this one southern sections of china right now. still a dome of heat around greatly, and so we got you up to $35.00 degrees and those outer bands of typhoon nor roof,

i think are going to spread some showers rain in hong kong on wednesday. down under right now, the threat of seeing some flooding, southern section of new south wales into victoria state. we go in for a closer look here. but i did also want to point out toward w, a look at this purse up to 28 as fall above average. and we've also got high temperature is for new zealand, south island, christ church at 20, but another round of rain to go for the southern lp's, but a bit of a tropical feel. on wednesday, sir, later. ah, the charcoal region of paraguay, one of south america's toughest, we follow to men who seemed to thrive on his challenge in a veteran truck drivers on since every cool, whatever the weapon to provide for his growing family and the cowboy who enjoys his rough, lonely life risk in it all power of life on al jazeera lou

ah ah, welcome back. a quick look at main stories now and probably won't go sat protests of declared victory and for you. why need regions? why the crime in his state referendums on joining russia? great, and it's western allies of dismissed the pole as an illegal land grab denmark and sweden say unprecedented gas leaks from 2 pipelines, connecting europe and russia were caused by bloss, please. walker, who was behind it. sweden's prime minister says their information suggest the

damage to the north stream pipelines was likely to be a deliberate act. florida is praised threats, most powerful storm in more than a century. our can in is intensifying as it moves towards the united states. 2 and a half 1000000 people under like elation or is there with the category for storm expect to make landfall on wednesday night. so randy basset, parts of the caribbean, including cuba, where a 1000000 people have been left without power. on it, smith reports glowing through the cayman islands, hurricane he and officer taste of what is about to come. cuba and the u. s. mainland islands, national emergency operation center, has now given the all clear as he and heads across the caribbean. we may have to turn around the international space station showed the eye of the storm as it approached cuba. with winds reaching a 155 kilometers per hour. it made land for in the west as

a risk of widespread damage in a country already suffering and economic crisis then ins. path is florida. it's more than a century since a storm like this last threatened, the tampa bay area. always hard when there's a storm coming your way with them all back. yeah, i, well the problem here is that storms approaching from the south for huge amounts of water up into the shallow, tampa bay, inundating homes and businesses with a storm surge up to 3 meters high. many people decided to head out of town rather than endure the hurricane. though, sitting tight stopped up before heading home to fatten down the hatches with e and approaching the u. s. mainland federal government has declared a public health emergency for florida. that has a population of 21000000 people. david smith, al jazeera, more than

a 100000 people in central vietnam, have been forced to evacuate his tie for normal approaches. people living near the coast wanted to take shelter in safe areas in anticipation of one of the most powerful storms hit. the country. in decades, schools had been closed. public events canceled thousands of flights and trains postponed curfew is also been imposed in at dunning and kong number province. people own people are still drowning in pakistan's catastrophic floods. despite worst of the brutal monsoon season ending weeks ago, more than 1600 people have died since the middle of june. they include 2 young girls reported to drowned in a flooded canal baluchistan. one of the worst areas, millions more is still living in the open after the homes were destroyed. the economic damage is estimated at $30000000000.00. or indian police are searching for a teacher accused of beating a dallas student to death over

a spelling mistake. officers say they've managed to stem violent protests that broke out and inter pradesh after the 15 year old died. the boy's father says he fell unconscious after the teacher beat him with a rod. he died in the hospital on monday. dallas sit at the lowest rung of india's car system and they've been discriminated against for centuries. the teacher belongs to a community regarded as oper cast, heavily met our reports. now from the deli, there is growing anger against cost as well, and cost based violence. it india last evening, why didn't protest broke out? in a city in northern, in del, over the boy's death. the family says that the boy was beaten by his teacher a few weeks ago for making a spelling error. now the family has called this a cost this, his crime, this family is from the lowest costs in the hindu cost system, the social hierarchal system. this community is often treated as untouchables,

not on touch ability in india is banned, but remains ramps. and the police have filed a complaint against the teacher who they say is of counting. you know, this comes as hate crimes like these have become more common and have been in the news more often. according to the gotten a going to government data about $5.00 cost based hate crimes take place every hour on average in the country. now in that does have strict and stringent laws against crimes like these. in fact, a few years ago, some of these laws were even strengthened. but activists say that enforcement remains weak. we've also seen members of this community mobilize and suck their right increasingly over the last few years. but their efforts have often been met with more discrimination. and as in incidence, like these move islands, security forces in iran,

as classroom demonstrate has in dozens of cities is protest continue over the death of a 22 year old woman in police custody. a rights group says at least 75 people have been killed in the unrest. the un high commissioner for human rights as hundreds of miles have been arrested, including journalists, protest started a week and a half ago after my son, meaning died off to arrest for not wearing a headscarf property bridge. because of accused police of firing directly at protest. japan is on it, its longest serving prime minister with arrest. a funeral in tokyo. sions ave was assassinated in july, but his death is proved as controversial. his leg as his legacy, with thousands protesting against the funeral public opinion has been spread over its legality costs. and the governments links to a religious group on mcbride reports now from tokyo, and a warning that his report contains flash photography. ah, the remains of shinto bay were carried into the venue by his widow,

accompanied by the current prime minister to me. o casita, whose decision it was to go ahead with this controversial state funeral. more than $4000.00 guests, including many dignitaries and world leaders, they heard casita the tributes to his friend and mental prime minister abi rest. well, after all that you have done for our nation, and thank you, most sincerely, may you rest in eternal peace. ave served as prime minister twice coming to power a 2nd time. as japan was recovering from the 2011 earthquake concern army. and that was really the spirit that prime minister did bring to japanese politics after the fukushima disaster. yes, japan has got what he takes to be a global contender. he was credited with making japan more assertive internationally. but his critics accuse him of moving the country away from

a traditional part of pacifism. and many people have been protesting against this event. they've been an goodbye the cost. and revelation since the assassination about links with the unification church or so called moonies, have also heard his reputation and that of the current government. still thousands turned down from all parts of japan to pay their respects. you know, the more he's always stood up for. he's believes even when many were against him, but i'm going to, i mean, i like i'll be very much so happy to see how many people have turned out long lines, waiting patiently to lay flowers as their own tribute. his legacy will certainly be controversial, was responsible for policies that were often divisive here. but since they seem determined to change japan's position in the world, and he'll be remembered as one of his country's most significant political figures . problem, right,

i'll just era took care. nasty mon rockettes has been as bad as hunger is hearken, an approach as a foreign coast. the optimist aren't you originally scheduled for the next few hours with his spine for safety reasons. but nasa did manage one all a successful mission in the last 24 hours. and as rob reynolds reports, it could be vital for our planets. he, chem, 11000000 kilometers from earth. the spacecraft hurtled closer and closer to the rocky asteroid. that was its target. and then bull's eye, oh, scientists and engineers at mission control, cheer as the spacecraft smashes into a far off asteroid hold on morpho. so it's a key step toward defending the world from future devastating impacts by mass of space rocks, we are showing that planetary defense is a global endeavor, and it is very possible to save our planet. this is double

asteroid re direction test or dart was launched in november last year. it's entire mission was to ram into, to more force at a speed of more than 6 kilometers per 2nd, or 3600 kilometers an hour. the result, it's hoped a gentle nudge pushing the asteroid on a new path over many years. the change in trajectory will grow larger, while di morpho itself is not on a course to collide with earth. space rocks like the one that flashed across the sky in russia 9 years ago, hit the planet all the time. and the big ones can change the course of life on earth. 65000000 years ago, a huge object crashed near the yucatan peninsula, causing global devastation. scientists believe the impact is directly linked to the extinction of the dinosaurs. getting rid of t rex and their kin was

a good thing for us, mammals, but another collision of the same magnitude won't be, it could destroy us all. so the international consortium behind dark hopes to defend the earth from potential catastrophe, by combining careful observations to identify asteroid threats, years or decades ahead of time, along with the ability to knock them off their collision course. yet there are no known astride threats. but when we find one in the future, maybe we'll have the technologies to potentially preventive di morphis's, new trajectory will be studied for years to come. the information gleaned from the test will hopefully help prevent humanity from suffering the same fate as the dinosaurs rob reynolds al jazeera, the let alone anglin is laws messed, illegally traffic mammal, the wild wildlife. honda estimates that more than and 1000000 and, and traffic in a decade the in south africa, some conservationist and dedicating their lives to rehabilitating and emily anglin

poets this south african penguin is nicknamed bumper. he was confiscated during an undercover operation. and he's one of many brought to vet debbie english. so a lot of people 1st old garner, they exist and they don't really understand how endangered these little animals all by the time they get to these clinic, the penguins are in desperate need of medical treatment. more often than not they, i may say to dehydrated, and most of them haven't monia when we, when we receive them. the animals are kept in polling conditions before they tried it on the black market. they left in ca, boots, bags, and plastic drums for days, or even weeks. one penguin can fetch up to $15000.00 us dollars, their meat and scales, which are made of keratin. i used in traditional african and asian medicine. it's the most traded of illegal wildlife animals currently,

and that's why it's taken over from the rhinos in a big way. these undercover agent for the african penguin working group poses as a buyer. and once we've put the deal together, we'll set up a time and location where we do the transaction. and this is where the sting operation will go down. wildlife traffic is face up to 10 years in prison in south africa. the penguins confiscated and taken to a rehabilitation center at a secret location, it takes a long time medically to get them back into a position where we can release them. and so some animals are here for a month and then some nearly a year. it's a labor intensive process. the challenge with rehabilitating these animals is not just the enormous cost that's involved, but it's also the time it's required. south african penguins 18th in captivity. and so they need to forage for food for up to 6 hours a day. emma de jaga has a team of staff and volunteers and while getting them back into the wild is the

ultimate goal. conservation is say, it's not enough in every one that we say if and the time that we saved that hundreds and thousands of being poached in that time. we're not talking a matter of 10 years, so be extinct. we're talking a year. they are shy and secretive, they don't hurt anybody, but yet we're destroying them. the clinic receives nor government funding. the dement, the undercover agent, also works for free. it's for each and every person, every citizen, every person to actually protect the wildlife, because we are protecting that, not for ourselves, but for a future generations. as for bumper, he's been released back into the wild. one of the few success stories in this campaign to save the penguin, emily anglin al jazeera, it's inane, south africa. ah .