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ah, i'm carry johnston. this is alters here. i well live from deb. also coming up. cuba is left without power, as hearken in the barrels through the arden before heading on to florida. india bands of prominence muslim organizations for 5 years, accusing it of having links with tara groups. and how a record breaking drought and the horn of africa is forcing people and animals to compete for survival. ah, brushing back to authorities and for occupied regions of ukraine say the results of a 5 day referendum show, a vast majority of people have voted to join russia, key than it's western ally. say the referendums are a sham. the votes were held in her son as upper asia on yeske in the hands.

together they make up 15 percent of ukrainian territory occupying administrations reported huge margins of victory saying that in the hands 98 percent of voters favored annexation $100.00 valve reports. for any one doubting the outcome of the referendum. so i think he's on the wall and on the lips of the organizes ready for the on the lockers. 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 ration leaders here. it east and 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. oh, i'll show you 2 thought that if on meas, a large chunk of ukraine would become russia, at least in the company'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 and our country. this is natural because it's connected with traumatic events. in preparation for those dramatic events. russia is sending an additional $300000.00 reservists. here from klein. guys, 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 what? not everyone is happy. this mother 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 that this, his defense minister said, can show we're 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 seal moscow. but it's got the latest from charles stratford in a cave at charles, what are the ukraine authorities saying about this?

well as you can imagine, the ukrainian authority is all very angry about this. the language is completely consistent with the kind of language that we've heard from the international bromley western lies. and do you and they are describing this referendum as a complete sham lacking any kind of legal basis on the international in an international context. what so ever we've had reaction already from the ukraine in foreign minister, demitra caliber. he's calling for even tough a sanctions for me. you. in his words, he says that the softer the reaction is from the european union. the greater that, sir, that will give russia even more motivation to potentially try at least to annex even more territory. let's keep in mind that this what he's being seen as a potential attempt to annex around 15 percent of ukraine by russia area. roughly

the size of, of portugal has huge implications. and we were speaking yesterday to one of the presidential advisors a mr. mckayla padaya and he drew attention to the farcical nature and his words of these referendum for the mere fact that russia does not control fully at least any of these 4 regions. for example, is held a referendum in the region of operation. it doesn't even control the main city, the regional capital is average a city. so there are huge questions here as to what, what will come from this. there is a. busy concern of, of an increased escalation in fighting. it's have a listen to what mole mikaela padaya told us yesterday. no better than mine. there is no legality to this referendum because it's pure propaganda. it will have no consequences in international law. this is ukraine's territory and it will

remain the ukraine territory. secondly, you cannot conduct a referring them illegally when there is a war this occupied territory. and when people go door to door with weapons forcing people to vote, this vote doesn't change anything. when we understand that russia is on the path of escalation and we will liberate to allow territory prisons. lensky says that rush in action and holding this vote will completely block any piece negotiation process . so we've already heard from the united states. it's understood that they are planning at additional a series of sanctions, anna, and, and more alms to be sent. it's understood, anom sir anonymous cache, worth around 1100000000. bear in mind that america has already sent our committee to around $9000000000.00 worth of weapons already. the u. k as well has slapped additional sanctions on what they describe as russians having been involved in

organizing and implementing this. what they say is an illegal referendum. adalia also said interestingly, that ukrainians found to have taken part in this referendum, certainly organizing it, faced trees and charges and outs of 5 years in jail. he also said that in no way was ukrainians him updated by russia's nuclear threats. we know that said president putin made a veil to straight about potentially using nuclear weapons. he said that this makes absolutely no difference to ukraine's policy and strategy. they would continue to push forward to d, occupying his words, all of russian occupied territory, the territory that russia controls on, on that front, some interesting lines coming out overnight about fighting in the east most particularly around a very strategic town called lea man. that is a just north of the town of the slough. janski's. huge strategic importance visit is a massive rail hub. very heavy fighting. we understand going on around lea. man,

there are also reports that sir, suddenly on verifiable that said, russian forces may have lost control to you, great in military, on their northern flank of that city. bear in mind that so over the last couple of days, ukrainian president, florida may zalinski has says they and number one priority. now ukrainian army is to defend and then push back a russian full. she's out of donate, screeching, where stand that ukrainian forces control learning around 40 percent of the napkins village gaze words. this is our number one priority because it seems as it as if it is russia's number one priority to. so as we've been reporting this referendum seems to only really be stimulating, potentially more fighting in the coming days and weeks. shall start with that update from keith. thank you. how can a and has a knocked out power to the entire island of cuba?

the category 3 hurricane made land full on tuesday morning with winds of up to 205 kilometers per hour. around 40000 people have been forced to flee that homes on august that joins us now on the phone for me at cuba, capital, havana, ed. what's the situation on the ground there? well, it's 3 o'clock in the morning and i'm speaking to you in the pitch black. there's no power in atlanta. there's no power in the entire island. as you said in your duction can be hit on tuesday. it was a category 3 and kind of hit hard hit the west of the island and the cuban government led to a. ready damage structure that has knocked out power in hold of the island. they said that they're working to bring power back right now. and they say that they estimate that it will be coming back on wednesday to say within the coming

hours. but right now i have an in the holiday on black. and how is the population coping with this then? well, cubans are got some experience with our catch. didn't just put this in context for the last 30. is cuba as green and the economic and social crisis in the $994.00. the soviet union, our cops with common that they got the people not to power the power because most the good 20000 a day off and they went without power. came on things got particularly bad over the last couple of months. in august, i was a huge fire in the main oil in cuba. and almost all of this

electricity is produced by petro and ever since then. power costs, which already pretty bad. in the given conferences, i've got even more so many millions of cubans going many hours each day without power. that's been going on for months. now. people in september to 10, cuba so people are happy about them. my feeling is those events like hurricane people population that's because the government a few days patients if you will in general, people are very clumsy to say the least about sustained our cuts food case. obviously, in the summer months, let's get this can dive down, can be very, very safe in the course, because when the tropics, people are anxious about that too. ok. so now i got in from about

a thank you for that. and 2 and a half 1000000 people in the us state of florida have in order to evacuate their homes ahead of oregon in making land for the storm is expected to cause a life threatening storm surge flooding and damaging winds might 100 pulse go away in that's a message from tampa bay area residents have not taken a direct hit from a hurricane in a 100 years. this one does feel a little bit different. we felt that way in the past before, so it just started to be safe than sorry, with time running out to residents rushed to fill sandbags, fold up businesses and homes, and stock up on supplies. many shelves are empty. as many as 2 and a half 1000000 people are under evacuation orders, they say mandatory evacuation is time to go as a massive lightning pact harry couldn't make its approach. u. s. president joe

biden warned residence not to be complacent. your safety is more important than anything. i know our hearts are with every one who will feel the effects of the storm and will be with you every step of the way we're not going away. the message from state authorities is more direct. if the he, the evacuation order, i have a 100 percent guarantee that they will not die from storm surge if they hear evacuation or i have a 100 percent guarantee that they will not have to be rescued off a rou top. if the he, the evacuation or nasa officials scramble to move the our team as one rocket off its launch pad and back into the vehicle assembly building at the kennedy space center. it took about 11 hours to get the rocket back into the building. a hurry can hunter air craft known as miss piggy was sent into the eye of the storm over the caribbean. the information gathered by the height to get on board indicates that the storm will intensify even further. when it moves over the warm waters of

the gulf of mexico, it also indicates that storm surges could see the water level rise as much as 10 feet long, large areas of the florida coast. and the impacts are going to be far, far broader than just where the eye of the store happens to make landfall. in some areas, there will be catastrophic flooding and life threatening storm surge. the mounting fear that no number of sand bags will be enough. mike, hannah, i'll just sarah anti through noro has slammed into central vietnam after killing more than 10 people in the philippines. hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. schools are closed and 2 provinces have imposed curfews to keep people safe. around 40000 soldiers and 200000 militia members have been mobilized for rescue and relief. operations are still ahead on al jazeera,

why some european countries are convinced that leaks in 2 major gas pipelines are acts of sabotaged ant. ah, not backing down the protests is define a security crack down in iran, but anger continues to spread the death of a young police custody. ah, here's your weather update for europe in africa. nice to see you. so we've got disturbed weather, just swirling around the northeast of england, central areas of france, pushing into austria and the baltic states. and you know, along that west coast of europe we'll see when goes anywhere from about 40 to 80 kilometers per hour. let's go region by region right now and some mountain snow in the forecasts for the alpine region on wednesday,

some showers along those eastern shores at the atria see, but look further toward the east of that, sophia bulgaria, bucharest, high temperatures. here. this is fall above average, and as we dip further toward the south, i think looking pretty good in the sunshine 30, that's gotta feel good for this year. other side of the mediterranean right now. so when we were chatting about toward the northwest of spain, coastal sections of portugal could be quite fierce at times into the northwest. we go, this were the biggest downpours of rain, will be northeast of england. central areas of france into lithuania on wednesday. next stop africa and our rains are dip in a bit further toward the south, along coastal sections of nigeria. beneath telco, it's gonna stretching all the way to the are the own and the land in south africa right now. quite fierce winds, just off the coast of the eastern cape province, got up to 50 kilometers per hour. see later. the bosnia and herzegovina is going to the polls amid

a dispute over election reforms that would enable people to vote along ethnic lines at all levels of government, right up the presidency. as opposed to the inserts challenge, state institutions in the escalating pit for succession and pro us war of the consequences is the focus held under the current law. what the future holds for the front, joins democracy. both elections on a jazzy data. lou ah, do without 0 reminder of our top stories now russian that back to authorities and for occupied regions of ukraine, say the results of a 5 day referendum show

a vast majority of people voted to join russia. keith and it's western ally, say the vote is a sham senior. russian official has issued the biggest nuclear threat so far in the former president to meet him at viet. it says he believes nato won't intervene if russia decides to attack ukraine. nuclear weapons can in has knocked out power to the entire island of cuba. a category 3 or it can, may land for tuesday. morning, wins about 2205 kilometers per hour. you commission chief of on the line that says leak sat, 2 major pipelines between russia. europe are caused by sabotage or to stream one. normally ships, gas from russia directly to germany, but deliveries were suspended by russia earlier this month because of a stand off over sanctions, or denmark and sweden 1st reported the leaks near the island of bonham. shipping near the lines. it's now been restricted that boston is in the german town of the

men. the point where north street meets lat. 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 $31.00 and $2.00 is too much of a coincidence, according to your opinion, leaders and energy experts. jewish matters and we see clearly that this is an active site with us and act on which likely means a further step of escalation of the situation in crane. sweetie said molecules say de recorded 2 explosions before the leaks were detected. one on sunday night and one on monday evening. they're not an earthquake. that's very clear. and we also have quite a lot of data on last in the water, in the area, slightly closer to the swedish coast. when the swedish navy have training exercises and they lost both minds for example, and they often let us know about the particulars of that. so and 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 to him to never started operations. germany decided to pull the plug 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 and the invasion of ukraine. but it was russia not germany, had decided to completely pause the supply of northridge, one just a few weeks ago. but now they are seriously damaged. it's clear that no rush and 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 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. india government has banned the minority organization called the popular front of india for 5 years. the government accuses the group was being involved in anti national and terrorism services. several of its members have been arrested or detained in raids across the country. it also says its members are running a secret agenda to radicalized parts of the foggy. probably natal has more from new delhi. this marks the end as an ongoing cracked on, on the organisation,

the popular front of india or p, f. i has been banned for 5 years. the government has declared all its activities illegal, which basically means that p f. i can neither raise funds and cannot carry out any event, so no protests at all. it also cannot raise funds, it also cannot recruit people. the income tax department has also canceled its registration that the group has many associates and affiliates. the government has also banned it off those. and now this comes a day off to coordinated nationwide raids across the country, more than 200 people have been either arrested or detained in these. and this has been going on for some time. in fact, last week at the organization's chairman was also arrested. now the accusations are very serious. the government hasn't exactly given us too many details. but what, what it has said is that the organization has been accused of funding training and

carrying out so called terrorist activities. it's accused the organization of radical lising people and having links with eisen and focused on unprecedented floods have destroyed 17000 schools in the southeast. and since province resources there were already strained in our children's education is suffering even more acid . vague report schools on now shelters. people had little choice of where to go. these buildings were large and sturdy on like most people's homes in this impoverished part of pakistan. some school grounds were flooded. the name of this school is barely visible. tense have been put up to allow some form of education to continue with. $17000.00 schools in this province destroyed a permanent solution is needed by by dish fill out about the winter coming in next

month. we will not be able to see it in the hands in harsh weather conditions, but for now we're happy that we can continue without education. we have the large number of students here, request our government to rebuild our school so we can continue our education, or lack of children, son of a lost all she had in the flood. at least 2000000 students have been effective in the province alone. when fled hit our village, we weren't able to pick up anything from home. we were just able to save our lives . it's been almost one month and i'm able to go back to school now. go into a temporary tent school, but i missed the one in my village. and my schoolmates, i'm worried how i'll be able to continue my education. this harsh environment more is needed. i pakistan has appeal for international help. she never was arrested back to school. until now we would be able to stablish $1500.00 temporary learning centers. so we need to

cavities. $15000.00 more. every village is a cut off, and people are waiting for the waters to receipt. they may have taken away lives and livelihoods. these children are praying, they don't wash away the dreams of gaining and education. i said, bake does air. there has been violence in dozens of iranian cities, as pro says, continue. the death of the 22 year old women in police custody. a rights group says at least 76 people have been killed in the unrest. and critics accused police of hiring directly at protest as well. so many died after being detained by iran, so called morality for these, for not properly wearing her job. doctors and nurses and peru have gone on strike calling for better pay and working conditions. ah, the protest, her say that president pedro castillo has failed to keep a promise to increase budgets for the health sector to 5 percent of g d. p. the

workers walked off the job for 48 hours on tuesday. one of the leaders of the strike said health care workers field, they've gone from being the heroes of the pan demik to being forgotten. saudi arabia's crown prince of the home had been so man has been named as the kingdoms prime minister. saudi king ordered the cabinet re shuffle. mohammed then saw a man is widely considered to be the kingdom's de facto ruler. king solomon's other son, colored vincent man is the new defense minister. the worst drought recorded in the horn of africa and for decades is hitting humans and animals against each other. and the battle for resources. catherine sawyer has more from some group county in northern kenya. sitting recently arrived at this sanctuary in some bureau county in northern kenya, she was found near her dead mother with no food or water. ha caretaker,

say she is settling into her new home, which she shares with several other orphans. they believe her mother may have starved to death. we are feeding them up over 3 hours, and each and every baby is getting to lead us buffy. and run you see now we are buying rosemary from the local people and it's got more and remembers of gods in the community. they need food to it. santi said, this is the longest dry spell in decades for rainy seasons have failed. and more than 4000000 people, the livestock and wildlife have been affected. most of these carves have lost their mothers. some have been abandoned because of various reasons. but a bigger problem is because of a drought that has affected parts of the country. elephant keeper, say they're worried, thousands of elephants crisscross this region. along migration corridors. they have used for centuries. communities have learned to coexist peacefully with wild life.

but things are changing. extreme weather patterns, population growth, and the loss of natural habitat has increased competition for food and water. nella pony len natalie's husband was killed by an elephant last year. he left 8 children and his wife says she is struggling to look after them without him. and this man broke both his legs recently, when a bull counted him, you would have eleger that i feel hopeless. i can't walk anymore. i can't walk. i can't provide for my family. sometimes when i see elephant, i just want to walk up to him. so they can kill me, wildlife activists and government officials, a half created community, ran, conserve, and says. but the combined effects of the current crisis are unprecedented. they

don't how posters, they don't have what. and that is way you realize that it will, the human themselves. they're no going to underground water. we don't have what are moving into strips back at the village. residents take tons, keeping watch to scare off any elephants, but they also know the big grazers need water. it's a delicate balance of survival. katherine saw al jazeera, some bull county and nothin kenya. scientists and shelly have found remains of elephants that are 12000 years old. the bones were found near a glacial lake in the country, south. large creatures called and gone for thurs weighed up to 4 tons on extinct relative of modernity.