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that great peril. as leaders gather for the 1st time since the pandemic, the war and ukraine tops the list of global challenges. ah, i'm go ahead l f as a welcome to the program, separatist backed by moscow in occupied ukrainian territories. say they're bringing forward referendums on joining russia. the self proclaimed hans and don't ask people to republics in easton, ukraine, as well as kind of song ends up. what is your in the south plan to begin 4 days of voting on friday. keith is pressing a head with his counter offensive in easton and southern ukraine and president for the muse lensky. assess the drive by separatists for early ballots on annexation

shows that moscow is under pressure. the usaa night, so half condemned the plants and the german chancellor. all of shows as rejected what he called sham referendums, saying the results will not be accepted. dw correspondence, nick connelly in heart. keith in the northeast and ukraine has more information on the 4 occupied ukrainian regions planning votes on joining russia. so far, the details are pretty scarce, but it's something that has been on the cards for months and that was delayed, shelved off to ukraine, stunning counter offensive that had been talk of these votes happening earlier in september than that didn't happen. i think a few things are clear already. i think there's little doubt as the result that this is going to be a very high result in favor of doing russia. little question of this really being a free vote. and people really being able to say no to this question posed, i think the next is pretty much certainty, is that if this goes through, if it happens, then the russian authority threatened parliament is going to say yes to this

request to join russia. we've heard figures in moscow talking about things like this in the last couple of hours. and thirdly, i think it's pretty much certain that no one outside russia is going to recognize this. in the case of crimea, that russia annex in 2014, not even russia's closest allies like bella, luce, have recognized that since 2014, all those 8 years. i think it's going to be very similar case. in the situation we launched the nets and carson tossing a cranium, government likely to respond to this i think is going to be ignored. we've seen similarly with the case of crimea, ukraine attacking russian milch targets in crimea. and we've had response from the ukraine formants or just in the last hour saying that this is all basically, ah, a kind of act of kind of theatrics political theatrics with no real consequence on the ground. i don't think the ukrainian army is going to somehow reduce its attacks on russian positions in these parts of the country. and especially given there's no foreign recognition of russian control of these areas. that is not really gonna

change much on the ground, at least in the kind of external situation we've heard in the last few days from the us ambassador to keep saying that crimea is ukraine. and similarly, the same goes for these eastern regions of ukraine in that u. s. weapons are allowed to be used anywhere on ukrainian territory. they're not allowed to be used against russia proper, but they are allowed to be used anywhere in ukraine. so basically, you as support for ukraine's military upright and likely to be escalated if this happens, if these are, this can take over and official. causation of these relations happens and a sense that maybe we'll see the ukranian army trying to up the pace of its counter offensive to try and prevent some of these pseudo referendums happening. they commonly there in the harkey. thank you, nick. the head of the united nations has more that the world is gridlocked by a string of crises. secretary general antonia with fetish told the un general assembly in the york that countries are not willing to tackle problems, including the war and ukraine and climate change. he warned, of

a global winter of discontent, saying, developing nations are facing a dire financial situation. as the leaders gather in person for the 1st time in 3 years with irish also says the world is falling short on goals of tackling poverty and improving education. and he says, solutions must be found without delay. we need action across the board. let's have no illusions. we are in rough seas. a winter of global this content is on the riser . a cost of living crisis is raging thrust is crumbling, inequalities are exploding. and our planet is burning. people i've heard with the most vulnerable suffering the most. welcome to the studio, our chief international editor, richard walker. richard, listen to church. he's appealing for less division in the world. that's easier said than done, isn't it? yeah, absolutely. i mean it's just get had to,

i've been going through some his beaches from, from recent years when every september you know that, well, we just come to new york virtually in the last couple of years. but because of covert but this year it is of once again in new york, every time he takes to the podium to make a speech where he's really trying to shake the world awake, you get the impression. i mean, last year, the very 1st line of his, of his speech with i am here to sound the alarm. the world must may wake up with all of the crises that it was facing last september. now, his 1st line with our world is in big trouble. and you get the impression of a man who really feels he comes here every year. and the problems that he's wanting about are only getting worse. and the crises that the world is facing really getting more numerous. the most obvious now being the war in ukraine. but this coming on top of so many other crises beneath it. and for him, i think the biggest problem is the fact that there's this huge division opening up

geopolitically between us in the west to russia and china and others on the, on the other side that make it very, very difficult for body like you enter to make any progress on crises a year ago, of course, as you mentioned, nobody would have expected a full scale war and european territory. is this going to be the main issue in this year's general assembly? you? it depends who you're listening to really. so it did speak about the war and you kind of course, but it wasn't the absolute centipedes. maybe a bit less than some people might have expected. you know, he didn't, for instance, call out russia by name when talking about the recent mass burial sites found in these, you're more than nuclear threat. the threats to the, our stations death but certainly focused on the sort of 2nd order effects. you know, the food crises, the inflation, things like that. but what you can be sure of is the western leaders who are going to new york. and there are many of them that will be very much the center piece of their speeches. and they will be trying to drum up support from other countries around the world for their position,

trying further to isolate the russians. now in his address there you church also with urgency, talk about another pressing a global crisis. let's have a listen. the climate crisis uses the finding issue of our time and it must be the 1st priority, every government and multilateral organization. and yet, climate checking climates is action is being put on the back burners, despite overwhelming public support, but on the world, he also stressed the imbalances between different out of the world. yeah. what does he mean by that? yeah, well i mean, he's been saying, and this also goes back over previous years that would it the way he framed it, this is that climate change should be the top priority for every government around the world. every multi lateral organisation around the world. and yet it's just slipping back down the agenda, almost whatever happens, whatever something new comes out that always kind of pushes climate change down the agenda. and particularly singling out the importance of helping developing

countries in dealing with climate change. there's a lot of tension between develop the developing world and the rich world about who should pay for what they call the lawson damage created by climate change. so a strong message from him on that that the rich world really needs to step up on this. because if you are in general assembly or doesn't really have teeth valid. so what can what outcome can we expect? well, i'm afraid it's hard to be that optimistic, the good terrorist won't be coming back again next year with a similar. similarly, it depressing message. i mean, if you look at the simple fact, for instance, that not just russia is vladimir putin is not attending this year. that's perhaps to be and understood, given the war raging. but she's paying the chinese president is not taking part in new york. and if you have such major leaders not showing up, then how do you expect any diplomatic progress to happen on these big issues with

obvious treatment and richard walker. thank you, richard. and i was some of the other stories making headlines today. uganda and as announced its 1st death from ebola in 3 years. health officials say a 24 year old man died of the disease. they've declared an outbreak in the central district of move in day. the world health organization says several suspected patients are receiving care. germany's government is on the verge of nationalizing the gas in port a uni per. the company says it is in final discussions on a deal involving an investment of $8000000000.00 euros unit per, has been hit by soaring gas prices and cuts and supplies from russia. 2 months before the football world cup of fan representative is challenging guitars ambassador to germany over gay rights. there are concerns about how l g b. did you fans will be welcomed as the tournament in katara. homosexuality is

illegal in guitar and can be punished with a death penalty. the supporters representative, daria amended, spoke out at a conference organized by the german football federation, directly confronting cut cutoffs ambassador, you know, i'm a man, and i love man. i do. please don't be shocked. have sex with other men. this is normal. so please get used to it, or stay out of football. because the most important rule in football, if football is for every one, it doesn't matter if you're lesbian. if you're gay, it's for everyone. for the boys, for the girls, and for everyone in between. now let's talk with a man we just saw in that video di amendment of the german fan group called our

curve. or you're welcome to d w. what prompted you to take the stand you did there and then welcome and thank you for having me. well, a lot of the reason it's and dropped the football fan, who happened also to be gay about the situation and it's not limited to the day, right? it's about on human rights, but also when you talk about the the situation father for the migrant workers and also at the football fan, we got a big problem. it's the corruption in the football system. so there are many reasons to be very angry and i get, i had the opportunity to speak that. and i spoke about a lot of things that a big problem in our view. and then i had the opportunity to speak directly to the investor and i wanted to make this a personal statement as again,

where did you get a response from the cutoff? sorry about that. yes, i get a response to of embedded our very respectful and com, at least with me. and it was the talking points that i already knew come to come see by your it's not that bad. and i really do think that it's not that bad for western to it. and in the end of it could be that also everyday to it either left in or whatever. but for us, it's more important to duration for the, for the whole community who has to live down. not only in the landman december this . yeah. what do you expect woke up live for, for l g b? did you find and do you think the categories are making any progress on that front?

oh, that's a tough question. i think they are doing some progress more in other fields. i'm like go with the walking rides. so something is happening. i. i feel bad, but they don't make any progress when we talk about the rise of the edge of b q community, i think we will see just some progress in tom's off. it will be okay for the mom, the tournament happens, but otherwise, i'm more a skeptical as a mystic. will you go down, you know, and a lot of my friends, i will neither go it's i'm any reasons. a big reason is of course a bit of a punish even by beth also. yeah, true. and they say,

we don't apply the best penalty for men. yes. now about it's a terrible symbol. so that's one of many reasons why we will not be deaf diamant. there, thank you very much for joining us on the w news. and we have asked the casara embassy, berlin, to comment on this story, but we have not yet any also. now that's all from the me and the news stream for. i'll stay that tune for d w. news asia with bearish vanity coming up right after this program. i've got others amberlynn from me. the team is still watching. how did she become adult hitler's favorite director and help me become a forgotten film pioneer? leaning. he finished.