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russia prepared for the formal annexation of 4 regions of ukraine define condemnation from around the world. it is a dangerous escalation. if there is no place in the more than wolves, it must not be accepted. ah, i'm learned, tina, this is out as her life from london also coming up. a 4th leak is found in the north stream gas pipelines, their fears they could be irreparably damaged, park, and eons trail of destruction across florida. there warnings of a substantial loss of life. and the british pound drops again up to the u. k. prime minister defense at economic plan for later bounces back aah

or ukraine is called an emergency meeting of top security, political and defense officials. after russia's announcement that it will annex for ukrainian regions. russian president vladimir putin will on friday, san documents proclaiming the annexation of how san as upper asia toneta and lou hands, they represent 15 percent of ukrainian territory. regions will be folded into russia during a ceremony, attended by putin, follows what ukraine and its western allies have denounced as sham referendums. staged at gunpoint, cranes, president vladimir zalinski has called ballots illegal and warned of a robust ukrainian response. and the but a good me, ah technically give you a key on the eve of those steps, rosters shows rebates gresham, not not only on the butterfield but with its aggressive policy, it continues to provide artificial referendums. and here it is essential for us all . but all our partners, all the civilized world,

leaders and certainly france supports you christ. a u. n says that the annexations would be a breach of international law. our diplomatic editor james base has more these are the strongest comments from the un secretary general since the start of the war in ukraine. he talks about so called referenda, which don't reflect the genuine will of the people living in those areas. and on the plans for annexation, he says they go against international law and against the un charter, the founding document of the united nations. it since against every scene, the international community is meant to stand for it for the purposes and principles of the united nations. it is a dangerous escalation. it has no place in the more than wolves. it must not be accepted. the un security council is expected to meet as early as friday. the u. s . and albany are been working on a resolution condemning russia. it's lightly that russia will veto such

a resolution because it's a permanent member of the security council, but already the us ambassador, linda thomas greenfield has said. if that happens, she'll take things to the un general assembly. this is the scene in moscow where preparations have begun for russia's full accession of the 4 ukrainian regions. signs of being put up in red square, listing the names of the regions and declaring them to be now part of russia. landmark as close to visitors in the lead up to friday, 75, advisor lives in moscow with the russian reaction to the un. moscow is not listening to what mister god gutierrez is saying, the law moscow is in another world. russia is bracing for celebrations and the historic speech by vladimir putin president vladimir putin. tomorrow. so, i mean, the logic here is very different. we are in the, i'm, i mean, i'm talking from a place where, i mean, things are seen from a completely different perspective. russians are bracing for what they called the

correction of history. i think that those territories belong to russia, and that it was wrong in the 1st place to, to let them go. and now it is time. it is the coronation of this, of the sacrifices given by the but by the russians during this war and before. and it's, it's just less than 24 hours before the before it starts. and that is when the president vladimir putin will sign this agreement with the leaders of the for break away regents who have already landed here. moscow, i don't think that russia is really listening to what the secretary general of the united nations is saying. and they think that the you and is taking one side in this conflict entity, which were a challenge, has more on ukraine's response from cave. what is zalinski jones do? well, on friday he is calling out for a meeting of the national security and defense council,

where we're being told that fundamental decisions for ukraine will be made. clearly, those nerves are jangling in the defense ministry here in kia, particularly about the danger of the use of tactical nuclear weapons. the ukrainian military intelligence is now saying that the, the risk is very high, that they are going to be used by russia, against ukrainian troops against ukrainian material against ukrainian command centers near the front line. and he crane is once again calling for the provision of air defense systems, missile defense systems, from the west, from nato. but ready, this doesn't actually change the ukrainian calculus that much. they are guns, carry on doing what they have been doing, which is fighting off the russians as best they can. they say that they're going to take these territories back and they won't stop until they do so. and i think we

have to stress here that ukraine militarily is strengthening and it has been for some time, these very referenda that russia has conducted the mobilization that russia is engaged in the moment is really a sign of kremlin desperation. it's because of the ukrainian council offensive in khaki, if earlier in the month. ah, that was very successful that beat the russians back from a particular area of cock, if thousands of russians have fled the country since president vladimir putin issued immobilization order last week about 53000 of passed into georgia. but moscow has reportedly set up mobilization offices at the border to intercept them around con, spoke to some of those who made it across. it took alexander and his friends 24 hours to get into georgia. most of it was spent waiting in a car. eventually they rented some bicycle, a piece of luck, he says, otherwise they might still be on the other side. his play, white left,

his homeland. everybody knows that if it goes the ballistics is wrong on my opinion, and you don't fight in the war. and you know, of course, i don't want to kill nice people. most of the people i'll just say, respect to feel the same way about russia's war and ukraine. and while they are certain of that uncertainty awaits the eagle is a military age mail eligible to be called up in russia's partial mobilization across the board on foot. my wife is waiting to cross the border with coca with on don't know what times they will cross the border for the, for the man part of the society. so it is just like kill them a lot of the game, you know? so you will never know you when the lose. so my wife told told me 2 days ago, just to go,

i will follow you. the sure thing about it has become one of the few roots out of russia by finland without being closed by the federal government. and that is likely to meet more people arriving here. this border crossing has become a political hot potato. what the government says is before the announcement of partial globalization by the russian. there about 5000 cars crossing a day. that figure has gone up to $11000.00 but opposition politicians. i think that's nowhere near an accurate that the, the actual number is far larger than that. but for the russians who are coming across, they are allowed to stay in the country for a year. but uncertainty actually awaits them. they don't know how long they can afford to actually stay it. and more importantly, what awaits them when they do eventually get back to russia. and ron, calling out the last the border crossing. ah,

yes, president joe barton declared a major disaster in florida of to hearken in, swept across the southern states. his warned. a storm could be the deadliest in florida history when it hit. it was one of the strongest harkins in decades, but now we can to a tropical storm. christians knew me, of course, scenes of devastation abound in florida. the morning after hurricane and struck land. the full extent of the damage was only beginning to come to light homes, flooded and on fire boats piled up like children's toys. people in cars, navigating their escape. already the governor is calling it an historic weather event. going to be a lot more assessing that goes on in the days ahead. but i think we've never seen a flood of that like this. we've never seen storm surge of this magnitude and it hit an area where there's a lot of people in a lot of those low lying areas. and it's gonna end up doing extensive damage to

a lot of people's homes as there's going to be a lot of work to do and slammed into florida gulf coast with winds of up to 240 kilometers per hour, inundating communities in its path. the coastal city of fort myers was overwhelmed with water. but the facts are being felt inland as wow more than 2000000 people lost power. during the height of the storm rescue crews were unable to respond to cries for help. for those who didn't heed, evacuation orders that didn't stop a local news reporter from having a woman trapped in her car. she was on her way to work in a hospital when she got stuck. it's believed others may not have been so lucky, but with roads and bridges under water. it will take a while to fully assess the damages to lives and property. president joe biden declared florida, a disaster area, promising federal assistance. it made land for yesterday, and it is still still moving across the state to day. this could be the deadliest

hurricane in florida history. the rain and flooding is expected to continue as ian moves north. kristin salumi al jazeera, i latest from florida. let's go to live to nbc is crisp alone in tampa bay and chris on sun. you've got some information about some, some rescue operations. i think we're not sure for chris can hear me a crisp alone. if you can hear me, it's lauren and this to you. or can you tell us about the rescue operations or after the hurricane? i think we've watched lost the line there to to chris but, and we'll try get him back for you. as soon as we can still come those half hour

a nationwide strike brings france to a halt as work as demand government action on the rising cost of living and the young bosnians looking for a better life abroad. i sunday's election isn't providing any reason to stay. ah, is there a batch of heavy sandstone, wandering around, some near it more or less switzerland nor mislead answer curvaceous this sort of weakness and it's still around. so it's a thing to watch over the next 24 hours or so because the amount of rain it's full, not $2.00 to $300.00 millimeters, is some day reco territory to flash flood territories. the potential still exists in the islands in the western med, maybe more in italy, possibly running even to at least inside of austria. that south of that the still some residual summer warms north of it. things are changing to

a proper autumn. now this wind and rain is coming through all and to the british isles, and then eventually north sea and will carry on the rest of europe. that feels like it should reduce the eye to september early october. so the picture for saturday the weekend is a fairly breezy one. temperature still look good, but they won't feel that great have to say and this cloud rain, the blue is rain spreads out across through northern europe, spending porch goes all right. west med looks ok by this time as does italy, and we still got 30 degrees in bucharest. now the right in africa's block right off this unit still is it still couldn't cause that potential for flooding in nigeria, but it's also getting almost as far north as the gambit, which is a long way north. ah, [000:00:00;00]

ah, [000:00:00;00] a oh. a reminder to talk stories here, and i'll just hera, ukraine has called an emergency meeting of top security,

political and defense officials after russia's announcement that it will annex for ukrainian regions. russian president vladimir putin resigned documents proclaiming the annexation of her son, separation to nets and hands. on friday, he was president joe biden has warned her to come in, could be the deadliest in florida history and declared a major disaster. hark and knocked out electricity to more than 2500000 homes and businesses. one person has been killed and many more. a mistake for my sister from florida that's go live to nbc, chris bologna and tampa bay. a. tell us about the people who are missing and the rescue operations on the way. yeah. lauren, rescuers were not able to do very much last night because the storm was so intense and it was so dangerous out. but before dawn this morning, teams started going out to some of the hardest hit areas about 2 hours south of

where i am right now. looking for people who might have been trapped in their homes when that devastating storm surge washed ashore and cut off many neighborhoods from roads and submerged many homes. and so in just the past few minutes, the statewide search and rescue team said so far they've been able to rescue about 500 people who had been stuck in their homes and unable to get to safety. and the coast guard said that they used about their helicopters to rescue 23 people this morning. flying in and getting people mostly who are trapped on barrier islands and they couldn't get back to the mainland. so those search and rescue operations is continued on unabated at this hour. there are literally thousands of searchers working both from the state team. you've got national guard also helping in the search as well as the coast guard. and so thousands of thousands of people converging on those areas, lee county, naples, and fort myers. some of those hardest said areas to try and see if they can find

people alive, crispin, and thank you very much. indeed. russian president vladimir putin has called the leaks in the north stream gas pipelines, an act of international terrorism. sweden on thursday, confirmed falsely in the under c. pipelines which carry russian natural gas to the e. u. nate who says the incidents were an active, deliberate sabotaged. but the criminal denies responsibility, setbacks and reports from the danish, ireland. a phone home bornhold laid back to his island in the baltic sea has suddenly found itself with a mysterious disaster on its doorstep. just kilometers away, guys is doubling up from the north. 3 pipelines, denmark never wanted in the 1st place. try not to think about this. you were rid of it. yes, of course. nobody knows what it would mean in the future. the near future for leaks

has been detected since explosions in the area earlier this week. size smaller, just say only explosives, larger than 100 kilograms, can cause these kind of tramos. europe claims russia for sabotaging its own pipelines. moscow has rejected the accusations and is blaming the americans. the greasy bit bitch. they look back at what you said, and you will understand who wins from the situation explosions in nordstrom wanting to run the north. 31 and 2 pipelines connecting russia with germany were controversial from the start. but since the russian invasion of ukraine, germany in particular, has been heavily criticized for making itself too dependent on russian gas. while hundreds of millions cubic meters of gas continue to leak into the baltic sea. everyone is still waiting for answers. what exactly has caused to possibly err repairable damage to the pipelines? i'm who could be behind it? people here on born home island,

the island closest to the leaks hope that these questions will be answered soon. some say they know the answer already. i grew up here and we used to the russians flying and submarines in swedish area and so on. i think they are trying to tell us that they can do anything if they want, but others aren't so sure why moscow would damage its own. 35000000000 dollar project problem here is this, no matter how confidently one can identify how this happened and possibly who caused it in the wider world. people believe who they want to believe and there is enough, vaguely here the potentially for people to doubt would as

a narrative that comes out. and so the energy was continue with people here on born home concerned that is more to come. steadfast and al jazeera and born home island in the baltic sea. the british pound dropped again on thursday after prime minister, his trust defended economic plans that triggered chaos in the financial markets. trust says big tax cuts were the right approach for the u. k. economy. she's refused to consider reversing last week's mini budget. so the pound crash to a record low against the dollar. on the end of 1st day, the pound had recovered its losses, forming more than one percent. what we've done is we've taken decisive action. first of all, to make sure that nobody is paying more than a typical fuel bill of $2500.00 pounds. that will come in this saturday, but also to reduce our tax burden to make sure we grow the economy and also curve inflation. and that's so important, it's a difficult time. it we're facing a global economic crisis brought about by putin's war and ukraine. and what was

right, is a britain took decisive action to help people get free. what is going to be a difficult winter? the us government will narrowly avoid a partial shut down after the senate approved a short term spending bill. the bill provides money for federal services until mid december. the current government funding was due to expire at midnight on friday. a bill will now be sent to the house representatives where the democrats hold a majority, and the legislation is expected to pass easily. it also provides $12000000000.00 in military and economic aid for ukraine. thousands of protest is rallied across france of unions push for higher pay teachers transport and power industry workers will take part in a 24 hour nationwide strike workers angry about high living costs. and president menu, michael's pension reforms about the reports from paris, thousands of public sector workers protested in paris. they say they're overworked

and underpaid, and they're angry at the french government's plans to reform the pension system and raise the retirement age. something they say would have wrote, they have rights to come up there, call you crystal. i started working very young and i'm fed up and we retired. and all around us are young people in their twenties who can find a job. so i should be able to retire, so they can work. i can enjoy a few years of my life while still in good health. i see that if not, we can barely survive. we can pay our electricity bills. at some point our salaries have to increase. the french government says that it's doing all that it can to shield people from inflation, but it won't back down on his pension reform plan that it says would make the system farrah. rheumatoid gilmore, on ergo, we will also implement a pension reform. we can do it in a fair way at a reasonable pace. we can guarantee this reform will be effective if we allow it to finance our social protection system. this is that been a number, a small,

a protest, and strike saved the rising cost of living in france over the past few months. but this one is by far the largest with workers from across the public sector and more trading in phase unless their demands are met. it will not be the last. and that is, the point of this record aid is not in it. so i hope it is going to be the sort of an absurdity in the coming winter, or strikes and resistance all across the different. we're been friday. french present in my new macro has wanted to reform the pension system since his 1st term, but pushing it through now is clearly a risk at a time when so many people feel that their lives a hard enough. natasha butler, al jazeera paris bosnia herzegovina has seen a significant exodus of young people in recent years that emigrating a search of better opportunities and to flee rising ethnic tension. elections take

place the sunday. and as i said, beg reports from the capital, sorry ever. they're providing little hope for younger generations. fletcher to which i never nation is velma, that she was near, sees tens of thousands of people leave every year with resulting in a decline in population. they both now lay the student, a poet and an artist overlooking her beloved city of sarajevo. the 17 year old is contemplating, leaving. the political situation in the country is a source of continued frustration. i'm young and i may not know a lot, but from what i hear and what i see is that everything is corrupted and part politicians are not fair. we have the same politicians for years or 30 years and like come on, dont we need something new, something way better. at this local school,

young people are learning a new language. they say it so they can leave and go to germany or austria in the run up to the elections. there's been increased tension and talk of a renewed conflict. is always there is a talk of war for the last 30 years, even after we had the war. so it's always something that comes up in the elections and the speeches of our politician. so everything is about hatred, religion and wars. others don't want to leave for them, staying as an act of loyalty. my mother lost her leg for the state. my half of my family lost their lives for body parts and so on. for me to have the privilege to stay in this country. and how can i be a cupboard to leave it when they had the courage to stay? but many young people are leaving politics. the economy and a lack of opportunities are driving people out for their has a complicated political system that came about after the war in the ninety's is

divided on ethnic lines, bosnian serbs and croats. but many young people say the system doesn't work and they don't see any chance of change. the financial impact of immigration or the economy is concerning. some our country laws this up to 800000000 heroes, annually of money invested in education of young people who studied here, but went out to work elsewhere. so this has a real impact on the long term negative consequences on our future. because you tend to gratian reduces the facts based back on the hilltops. nailer is still undecided, i know that everywhere else i will be so much happier than here. but this is something mine and i just can't get up there still hope. but if politicians don't deliver young people like neither will continue to leave. as i

said, bake, i'll jazeera sarajevo, south korea says north korea has find a ballistic missile into the sea of japan in what was young young's 3rd miss. r launch in less than a week. it happened just hours after u. s. vice president commer harris visited the demilitarized zone separating north and south korea. harris earlier held talks with south korea's president units took yo, both leaders condemned north korea's nuclear rhetoric during the talk. so discussed strengthening their nation's alliance, as well as improving ties between japan. and so the commitment of the united states to the defense of the republic of korea, i will report is iron clad. in the north we see a brutal dictatorship ramp in human rights violations. and an unlawful weapons program that threatens peace and stability. the united

states and the world seek a stable and peaceful gran peninsula where the dpr, okay, is no longer a threat man mars to pose liter unsung sushi has been sentenced to 3 years in jail. while the country's military controlled court, sushi is economic advisor, australian a short term now also received a 3 year prison term. the pair pleaded not guilty to violating the official secrets act in a trial criticized by rights groups sentencing to place in a closed court. it's the latest in a series of convictions. sushi has faced, says being ousted in a military coup. in february 2021. tony chang has more from bangkok in neighboring thailand. leader we have seen charge upon charges laid against her sentence upon sentence piling up 23 years her. she's now supposed to serve in jail. some of those sentences carry with them hard labor sentences as well, which will be incredibly difficult for

a 77 year old woman. at this stage with the sentences she's looking at she's, and she still has several still to come. she won't get out of jail until she is over a 100 years old. now, i think the, the issue here is, what is the military trying to do here? we've seen them piling up these charges against a clearly they want her out of the picture politically. they know very well that if they hold elections as they had done in the past, she will, will win overwhelmingly again. and they want to take her away from that. if elections go ahead next year as they promised they will. and there is a, for the military, a satisfactory result. they may allow her, some degree of freedom, perhaps house arrest of some sort. but clearly she will never be allowed to return to the political stage while the military in charge. and at this stage, these sentence are sentences are effectively a death sentence. augustine is preparing to resume trained services, or in a month thought