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and gas pipelines from russia are likely inactive, sabotaged. ah, it's great to have you with us today. this is al jazeera live from dough, also in the show and been here 45 years. and this is the 1st time i left her storm . to 1000000 people are asked to head to safe areas in florida as hurricane ian approaches after devastating cuba. and it's the world's 2nd largest film industry, yet it is struggling to survive. we'll be taking a look at the challenges facing only would ah, so moscow says occupied areas of eastern ukraine have voted to join russia. cave and its western allies say these referendums are a sham. the votes were held in half sons' upper region done yet skin landscape

together, those areas make up about 15 percent of ukrainian territory. polling numbers suggest an overwhelming majority of people have voted to join russia. mohammed bow begins are coverage. it's the final day of voting, but already us. his presence is overwhelming. here for any one doubting the outcome of that, a front him that i think is on the wall. and on the lips of the organizes off many video de la garza, we invite you to the referendum on joining the russian federation. please come in for voting. happy holiday to you. the mood was up beat up this pulling station for the pro russian leaders here in easton ukraine . this day was meant to be a historic event. with 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, i'll show you to a, the restaurant and miss a large chunk of ukraine would become russia, at least in the captain's eyes gun 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 dramatic events in preparation for those dramatic events. rashi sending an additional 300000 reservists from flying

disguise holden feel wonderful. uh huh. do you believe in the victory? of course it can be any other way. everything will be fine, everything is okay. how's the mood we are in the mood for fighting with whatnot. everyone is happy. this matter argues with russian official enough, took a city near the border with georgia. i will speak out, i am right, we are the occupiers. 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 circuit 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. i'm a thought under 0. moscow. al zeros hold out they'll. hamid traveled to southern

towns in ukrainian control territory to hear what residents there have to say about the vote. it's all was the same desolate scene. go, sounds destroyed, so less. this is the cause. ukraine is paying to regain control of land that was occupied by russia. we are indebted, copied yet in the north of his tone region. the look on the faces of those who stayed. 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 the sun should join the russian federation. the referendum is a sham, according to the coastal administration. now an exiled auto move from us. we are getting information from local people there. you should understand. it's not a referendum, it's a movie. everything is done for the cameras. there was no preparation. according to the law. they are coming to people's houses with weapons enforcing them up. if they

catch them on the street. gina voted with her feet by escaping to the ukrainian side. she won't show her face because some of her relatives are still in the russian, held by them. as soon she's worried about what could 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 as andree, if he could call his mother who is still in his son and tell us what is happening there. about 200000 people have been displaced by the war since his started 7 months ago. and re is one of them. 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 for russia, but not in big numbers. many others have fled regions where the referendum has taken place. over the past 5 days,

marianna had stayed in russian control part of that body. geoffrey 7 months. she says, being forced to vote was the last straw, but for her sister bessie, lena, this is a bittersweet moment. it angles 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, ukrainian fear that the vote will mean even more and more devastation before they regain control of their country. and that mean algebra in southern ukraine, one of president vladimir putin is biggest allies has issued rushes. blunt is nuclear threat, yet. the treatment beta says he believes nato will not intervene if russia decides to attack ukraine with nuclear weapons. but they, this is a former russian president, he's now the deputy head of the national security council. ukraine's president has

addressed the un security council as it meets to discuss the russian referendums have auto mirrors. lensky says the international community needs to take urgent action against moscow. or diplomatic editor james base has more on this. as the security council was convened, russia was already signalling. it was about to declare victory in the fall referenda in easton, ukraine. but the u. n's political chief made it clear those votes had no legitimacy in international law. they cannot be called a genuine expression and the popular will. speaking to the security council for the 4th time since the russian invasion in february, ukraine's president vladimir zalinski, called for russia to be kicked out of all international organizations. including the u. n. a implementation of the so called crime means scenario and another attempt to and that's ukrainian territory will mean that there is nothing to talk about with these prep,

president of russia. annexation is the kind of move that it's him alone against the whole of humanity, rushes ambassador vaseline the benzine warm. these referenda may not be the last or didn't all sicilian in your book. now care of is being rejected not only by the people of crimea and dom bus, but kerosene ends up pollution yet region. this process is going to continue if key of does not recognize its mistake and its strategic errors. that this process could continue after the meeting. i got reaction to that from the us ambassador. they did it in 2014, and now they're doing it again. so they, i have no doubts in my mind that they will attempt to do it. and that's why it's so important that we stand against this immediately. ambassador thomas greenfield says she plans to bring a draft resolution condemning russia to a vote in the security council. as early as the end of this week,

russia then would clearly use its veto, bought the u. s, and its allies then planning to bring things to all 193 members of the u. n. of the general assembly. james bays al jazeera, the united nations. now denmark's energy minister suspects that blasts were the cause of gas leaf that 2 major pipeline between russia and europe. north stream, one normally ships gas from russia directly to germany. however, deliveries had been suspended by russia earlier this month because of a stand off over sanctions. denmark and sweden 1st reported the leagues near the island of bornhold shipping. your the lines has now been restricted. step nothin is in the german town of luke men at the point where nordstrom meets 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 3. 1 and 2 is too much of a coincidence, according to your opinion,

leaders and energy experts. jewish matters. and we see clearly that this has an active sabotage, an act which likely means a further step of escalation of the situation in crane. sweetie. seismologists 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 they lost the mind for example, and they often let us know about the particulars of 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 supplies through nor 3 me one,

nor to him to never started operations. germany decided to pull the block 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 guess called through germany to stop by in russian gas and 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 now as seriously damaged, it's clear that no russian gas will flow to 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 know how to handle explosive devices. and then depending on the water depth, the 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 steadfast and al jazeera and loop men on the bounty coast. go ahead on our 0, we hear from some of brazil's forest communities about what they want from their next president just ahead of sunday election. ah ah. after making landfall in western cuba, we're tracking out hurricane in. hi everyone, a major hurricane. so it's moving north, east up the gulf of mexico. let's go for a closer look. if this makes land fall in tampa as a category 3 hurricane, that will be the strongest storm to hit the area and a 100 years. biggest threat here is storm surge waves of about 3 meters high.

crashing in to this low line, heavily populated area. so it's something we'll continue to keep tabs on. in time that ra north, when looked was hit stew into temperatures in the great lakes, toronto, 13 degrees, shoving some showers along the eastern seaboard of the u. s. from the northeast to the mid atlantic, some rounds of showers and reins to go. once again for western canada in the pacific northwest, but as we dipped toward the south high temperatures here los angeles heat advisory in play you're up to 36. temperatures will come down a bit in the days to come south america looks like this. some showers in storms around the oblivion, andes stretching in to paraguay in the southeast of brazil. we go in for closer look here. these are going to be some rock and storms in this area. winds have shifted around so that's pops up the temperature and come on the road reba davia to $22.00 degrees while above average. but it's going to be a soggy date in sao paulo with a high of 18. that's it. ah

. don't you so much. ism is of evil under a labor government, it will not be tolerated any fall. so beneath the surface lies a dock aside in british politics, the labor files hot 3 on al jazeera. i care about healthy us engaging with the rest of the world. we're really, it didn't take you into a play. you might not visit otherwise and feel as if you were the there. oh, a welcome back. our headlines this our referendums in occupied areas of ukraine had

ended with moscow and pro russian separatist declaring victory. they claim most people voted to join russia, reaching upwards of 95 percent in some territory. keven it's western allies say the voted the sham. the un security council has discussed the referendums and ukraine. the un political affairs chief says the votes have no legitimacy in international law. your brains president told the council, the world must take action against moscow. and the danish energy minister suspect laughs were the cause of ghastly to major pipeline between russia and europe. denmark and sweden 1st reported the leaks in the north stream, one in north street, 2 pipelines near the island of bornhold. earlier on wednesday. joining his life from washington, d. c is high, no clink. he's a national security analyst. i know if this is sabotaged, as several european countries are saying, as the head of european commission is calling it, who would stand the game from this?

well, thank you very much for having me this evening. i think her all fingers are pointing at moscow. this back, that 3 separate explosions causing 3 separate leaks in 2 separate pipelines. and i just don't not think that that as a coincidence. and the russian certainly have the means to conduct such sabotaged operations. and i believe on the heels of newton's most recent nuclear se maralie. this is just a nother russian attempt at a threatening and extorting the west. but why explain it to us? what's the play here? because they, if that were the case in this hypothesis, they would be damaging pipelines that serve to conduct, rushed to take russian gas to europe. so 1st of all on or through 2 is not operational yet. and north street, one for all of a affects purposes has now been turned off a since august,

i believe that kootenai is a gambling and upping the ante eyes threatening of the west with additional escalation this time in terms of environmental pollution. and again, threatening western interests. across various domains and i think this is an example of him trying operate into gray zone and forcing the europeans to show concessions of in their support to you print. but can you also say the russians will be shooting themselves in the foot? i think that ship has sail, if you'll excuse the metaphor. i think that the russians who is desperate, i think the call up of 300000 reserve s. as demonstrated that i think that him continuing to sometimes indirectly, sometimes more directly raised the specter of the nuclear. ready war and now

adding these again, what i think is probably rushing sabotaged is meant to ad zach, even more pressure on the europeans and try to call the steam within the west. sweden, denmark, possibly among others, is supposed to be investigating this to find out, to get to the bottom of this, find out how this happened, potentially who's behind it. how do you investigate something like this? i mean, what kind of tools would you use? i'm guessing satellite imagery will be of no use for this year, right. the baltic sea is relatively speaking actually a shallows. and just that will probably facilitated central russia, sabotaged potentially using underwater unmanned underwater vehicles. you'd be, you could also investigate using the same types of air underwater

cameras in the like. so i don't think that technological perspective that will be too different. right. i know quick. thank you very much for the moment for the moment. we don't know where this investigation is going, is really even started in earnest, but several european countries pointing the finger of blame at russia. i know thanks. you and florida is brace for its most powerful storm in more than a century. hurricane in is intensifying as it moves towards the us in tampa, $2500000.00 people or under evacuation orders. the category for storm is expected to make landfall later on wednesday. it's already battered parts of the caribbean, including cuba, where 1000000 people have been left without power. anything new corresponding crisp alone joins us live from tampa, florida. chris, where and when do you expect the hurricane to make landfall? good evening. several actually were starting to get some rain here for the 1st time

today in the tampa area. the latest forecast actually has this storm now going south of here, possibly making landfall in either sarasota or fort myers an hour to 2 hours south of here where i am. of course, this is a monster storm, so we will still get significant rain and wind here in the tampa area. but the people who live in this area, the news appears to be a little brighter tonight. as this storm appears to be, the worst of it will be going to ourselves and are those areas that you just mentioned including sarasota or do we know if they're ready? because of course, is always this guessing game based on where we think it's going to land, you know, evacuation orders based on that. is sarasota ready? are those areas ready? right? yeah, yeah. because the initial forecasts had such a wide what they call a cone of uncertainty, that really was at least 150 miles north to south. all of these areas along the

florida gulf coast have been getting ready and as matter of fact, the governor of the local leaders have told the lowest lying areas, the people directly on a body of water be at the gulf, or a river to start evacuating. and those evacuation orders started yesterday and so as yesterday as progress it today, we've started to see more and more evacuation orders as that forecast track is kind of become more clear. so yes, those areas that are most vulnerable have been under mandatory evacuation orders for a while. governor of florida rhonda santa said a short time ago that there's still time to leave before this storm hits. but that time is quickly running out. and you explained to us very clearly there could still be damage along a very wide, around very wide perimeter. how are things where you are in tampa?

so if this area took a direct hit, which it has not had in more than 100 years, it could have been absolutely catastrophic because of the storm search. the gulf of mexico and tampa bay itself are relatively shallow. and that means with hours of onshore winds and heavy rain, it doesn't take a lot to push the water of the gulf of mexico and tampa bay inland. and they were predicting as late as yesterday up to 10 feet of storm surge. and so if that had happened, it really would have been catastrophic. now. does that mean that tampa won't get a significant storm surge? of course not. but that real significant heavy, a storm surge now is expected to be south of here, those low lying areas, those coastal towns, those beaches will be expecting. high water and officials hear say, when many structures in florida can handle winds of a category 3 or 4 storm,

it is really the storm surge. it is really flooding that local official se cause the most depth. and that's what they want people to get away from crisp alone. thank you very much. reporting live from tampa, florida. there will be keeping a close eye on that. thank you. and there's been violence between security forces and demonstrators, and dozens of iranian cities as protests continue over the death of a 22 year old women in police custody rights group says at least $75.00 people have been killed in the unrest. and critics accused police of firing directly at protesters that you and human rights. she says hundreds have also been arrested, including journalists, massa mini died after being detained by iran, so called morality police, but not properly wearing her job. saudi arabia is crown prince, mom had been so man has been named as the kingdoms prime minister. the saudi king ordered this cabinet, re shuffle. mom had been so mine is widely considered to be the kingdoms defacto ruler. and king solomon's other son, holly ban cell 9 is now the new defense minister with less than

a week to go until brazil elect 6 next presidents. many more, many poor communities are calling for more to be done to help them escape poverty. severe food insecurity effects at least 33000000 people across brazil and many are blaming a lack of funding for social programs. one of the worst effected places is the northeast northeastern state of allegory, us, or latin america editor lucy newman, is there fisherman? even neil the de la morley v nor has worked most of his adult life here. 4 years ago we visited the jail to lateral, a shanty town on the shores of the moon. though lagoon. day and night, the men dove for a tiny muscle like shellfish called so do. while the women and children toil to extract seafood inside, they barely eat out a living. now even that spawn even needed or wanted

to see that floods earlier this year destroyed the livelihood of more than 1200 families. while father, i work with her well, i thought that he thought off go only shelter, they're all dead. there's nothing here. a little more if i needed to live in a tiny shack with his wife and 2 daughters seen which often poor dang awesome, there's a lot of hunger here. yes, hunger a lot of hardships that we can't make a living. and you, all of all the floods also destroyed many of the shacks. but only a few families have been offered an apartment and a public housing project and is swallowing up their shanty town leaving many like my dear rosa the silver with nowhere to live. yagi. you some further and we don't get anything, nothing just promises. they review your file and if you're old, you don't get anything that they really for the state and federal aid is irregular

and insufficient. 15 years ago, brazil had eradicated extreme poverty. but 6 years ago the situation began reverting and now brazil is back on the hunger map. according to brazil's institute on food security to day, more than 33000000 brazilians are going hungry and no were more so than here in the state of allan goss. in the absence of effective policies to combat poverty and unemployment, malnutrition, and hunger has more than doubled. and that is having a devastating impact on the development of children like these. i. 7 condemn exploit doubt that the last 2 governments began reducing or eliminating social programs long before the pandemic fog, our formula, this is on what is the existence of hunger, is a political decision. hunger is caused by the decision not to implement public policies that could fight it. there's been a political decision to prioritize other things,

i fear of falling. and in the absence of a plan to eradicate extreme poverty, lazoodo lab residents have started to breed food a collective project to ward off her. you see a human al jazeera, marcell, brazil, and nigeria is the 2nd largest film producer in the world, and nigerian films are getting more popular in spite of that. natalie, what is struggling? it lacks the resources of hollywood, or bollywood ahmed address is in lagos, where he's been speaking to filmmakers about what they need to compete on the world stage. this little budget firm is expected to be released on streaming platforms in less than a month. and with good reviews, it may make it into the cinemas world white. it was producing a budget of $10000.00, but the director says it took a lot of convincing to raise even that relatively small amount resources are there

. you know, the fund, the fund is right that we can produce a dump or some other would use the 2nd biggest film industry in the world. it turns out an estimated $801000.00 movies a year make a say, and luck of finding is holding back the industry. despite the number of productions, few banks and businesses are willing to invest in the sector, and that means paul, inferior comment and law pay for crews. in full years, sandra quinn's why has appeared in 50 firms, many of them in the lead role. despite her success, she doesn't earn enough when the pay is not in off your leg, okay. how is this interview not to take care of me? my well being and all of that for the most important thing to have is the passion to break even was an easy new movie, struggle to make a name for themselves in international market,

dominated by hollywood blockbusters and lavish bollywood productions. so distributors like to give is okay, provide platforms to nibble low budget firms to reach as many viewers as possible. it's promise and it's something that them, that is good. but when you're starting is not really, really the big bought those i've been there for a long time. the actually caution industry lead to say improving quality and originality will help nigella. compete with the best in the world. as long as we do things that are indigenous here, body technology bringing different yes, find or lead to risk continue to be home grown. there is little government support for the sector even though it contributes 3 percent to nigeria and of course, domestic product. until more money is invested in a grading equipment, no loued fans will have to make do with original story lines. and.