start september 30th on d, w ah, ah, this is d w. news coming to you live from berlin. it's the final day of russia, so called referendums in ukraine. voting continues in poor regions, likely to be annexed by moscow. keep in its allies, have denounced the boats as a sham and say they won't recognize the results. also coming up, the iranians defy a growing government crackdown to hold an 11th night of protests sparked by the death of a woman arrested by the morality. please. and scientists celebrate after passing

their 1st planetary defense test of nasa spacecraft hurtles into an asteroid, millions of kilometers away in an experiment to falter it's course ah hello m terry martin. thanks for joining us. voting wraps up today. and so cold of her referendums, in parts of ukraine under moscow's control, residents are being asked whether the areas should become part of russia, kremlin back leaders in the regions, se provisional results can be expected as soon as this evening, but cuban his allies say the results are a foregone conclusion. moscow is expected to formerly annexed the poor regions, following the boat, raising peers among residents about their future. little deal is dropping a vote into the ballot box should mean having a stay and once future. but outside of russia and ukraine, separatist regions,

not many believe the kremlin listening over the last few days, rush and stay tv has been showing up beat election workers being welcomed in the homes of people, eager to join the motherland. many of them seemed confident of success, already darkened for a negative also, it really took a great mood. the turn out is very high and we're very happy with the result. everything's fall. so crucial footage circulating on social media paints a very different picture of the so called referendum, empty streets, and election workers struggling to find people to vote for boy. another video from a real coal shed by the ukranian city government in exile shows armed soldiers following election workers into residential buildings. a warning by ukrainian authorities that people will face a criminal punishment if they vote prompted some to leave and others to hide

behind closed doors. ah, no matter how many ballots i cost in the end that ukrainian leadership and its western allies say the referendum is a sham. a pretext for the kremlin to annex the full regions in which it has held lu husk. don yeske separation and hassan. many ordinary ukrainians. think the same yet. the thing is a core. it's illegal. actually. they are worse and fascists or simply unbearable than even a human with a war escalating continuously over the last few months. many ukrainians left their homes long before moscow staged. it's so cold referendum on their future for those who stayed remains the fear they'll soon have to live as citizens of russia and perhaps even become fighters for its army. dw mathias bellinger is in kia.

he says there can be no talk of free and fair processes in these referendums. what hurry, there are criteria for fair and free election process is voting processes and all of them are violated in this referendum. first of all, the situation, look as a war going on, many people have fled the area. so access to vulcan voting is not equal and it's not, it cannot be guaranteed to every one. they have also been ha, it has not been no due process of announcement. people have not been properly informed and the voting process itself. if we see these pictures that are, are circulated on pro ration channels as well. and then we see people ticking their box on the, on the vote on the ballot in front off of their work is in the, in the voting station. we're seeing these transparent ballad boxes. we're seeing people carrying these ballot boxes to people's doors with armed soldiers in towel,

so they can be no talk of a free and fair voting process. and that this is why most countries around the world called this a sham referendum. now, in just a few hours of pulling stations there will close and this widely discredited process will come to an end. what can we expect to happen then mathias? russia as that it will announce the results fairly quickly. or nobody surprised by that, because most observers expect these results to be pre determined. and then we might probably see a very quick process of annexation and announcement by putting possibly a vote by the chambers of the russian parliament. or that was formerly incorporate these regions into the russian federation. however, of course, ah, this is probably just the beginning of the escalation. russia has made it very

clear that they want this happen very quickly. this annexation ah, partly probably because of the gains that they ukrainian army has made in the past few weeks in, especially the heart of region, which has put a lot of pressure on russia. this process. this with these referendums, have been delayed several times before. but now everything went very fast. if the 4 ukrainian regions are annexed by russia as expected, what impact might this have on the war mathias? whereas trying to draw a new red line there, they have said several times that any attack on russian territory would trigger a very harsh response, including possibly a nuclear arms. and by incorporating these territories, they're basically laying the ground for claiming that russian territory has been

attacked. whether this will happen or not, i mean russia has been using threats all over this war. and of course, it has not followed up all of these threats. an adult, otherwise we would've already seen nuclear bombs in ukraine, for example, after the attack on crimea, which has already been incorporated a or a next by russia is which is also not recognized internationally, but which is west point of view. um, so in, in a way of course, russia is trying to escalate verbally escalade to symbolically escalade the war. whether we will see real escalation, a dramatic escalation is something to be seen. mathias, thank you very much. shar correspondent mathias pulling a there in keith to catch up on a couple of other stories making headlines today. 3 major leaks have been detected in the north stream pipelines connecting russia to europe. danish and swedish authorities said gas was leaking into the baltic sea and warned ships to avoid the areas the buyer. mental group said the gas may harm marine life. when spokesman

said russia was extremely concerned by the leaks and said sabotage may be to blame china's economic growth is set to fall behind the rest of asia for the 1st time since 1990. that's according to the world bank. it expects the chinese economy to grow 2.8 percent this year, around 2 percent lower than initially forecast. the slowdown, which will affect all of asia, is largely due to beijing's 0 coven policy. japan has held a state funeral for former prime minister since obey who was assassinated in july, leaders and dignitaries around the world attended the event. but there was also widespread opposition to the funeral due to its cost and divisions over abe's legacy ah, cremated. shortly after his death, she's obeyed. ashes we carried into his state funeral by his widow. a key ave

such services, anomaly, reserved for japan's imperial family. but an exception was granted for the country's longest serving prime minister ah, ministers among the international dignitaries where indian prime minister ninja mo, day today. so we started on board and he'll look up on former british prime minister to resume take. okay. oh ok. ok. japanese prime minister to shot a few mio, led the tributes. and if on thought she, she saw it was the one who worked harder than anyone else in the world to build and maintain peace with japan. the region and across the globe will see how you and to maintain and promote an international order that values freedom. she democracy,

think our human rights and the rules law just on the wow of it seems or so logical dish. ha ha. ever a polarizing figure in japan. hundreds protested against our bay state funeral. and it's $11000000.00 price tag. it is perhaps on the world stage where our base influence is most admired. us vice president comalla horace. spoke of his importance. ah, ah. i hate live here. the term friend and hope in him sitting in is a member of the in the pacific region. as america lead chairs with the service emphasized abe's global legacy as

a country under family said their final good bye to shins, obey. iran is stepping up its response to nationwide anti government protest, saying it will not be lenient with what it calls troublemakers, rainy an official say that arrested more than $1200.00 people. human rights monitors sally 76 people have died in the demonstration, sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody. despite the crackdown protests raged for an 11th straight night. oh, we don't want the islamic republic. that's the protest. cry of people. any ron's capitol to ron, only a few videos from the protests and getting out to the outside world. due to the repeated internet shut downs. but people are taking to the streets around the country. programmer rallies have also been held like he into ron m,

sunday. supporters of the regime have blamed the wave of protests on the west hotline, clerics of threatened what they call the troublemakers taking part in the protests . if you do not stop these shameless crimes, you should expect a severe response from us to ron's judiciary has set up special calls to try protest as who officials say will be treated as dangerous criminals. state media say the number of arrests has now surpassed 1200. international groups say dozens have been killed in the protests. video footage that has emerged in recent days shows the brutality of security services observer say the authorities. heavy handed tactics are assigned that the protests and making a mark is a signal is, this is a sign that social resistance is not dreaming. a bead on young people are not just designed to the situation and thought the protest will continue,

even if they are violently depressed. i miss no indication yet of protest debating any time soon. now since the war in ukraine began, millions of ukrainian refugees have come to the e. u. the block is also the goal of thousands of migrants from other regions leading to a surge of so called on the so called belkin route to europe. but many migrants get stuck on their way in towns along the serbian border. dw corresponded funding for char reports from su, bochita, where tensions are flaring as local say. their border town is being turned into a migrant camp. another a cold night spent in at 10 were it's day number 7 for this family from iraq at the super. it's a migration camp in serbia mohammed. the father of 5 children says, i know they've been on the road since july, with the aid of people smugglers. they made it here a week ago that i can be not in,

in as an it of we left our country for the sake of our children and their future vineyard. up there is no future for kids in iraq. i almost belladonna. i, germany, just like most of the people that are in sandy's, but now they are stuck in serbia. and the camp is completely crowded. during the 1st half of this year, tens of thousands of migrants passed through the balcony room 3 times as many as last year, about $10000.00 a currently in serbia. it's clear that most of the people have made it to the serbian border are not looking to seek aside. i'm here. hungary seems so close. just cross that fence and you are in the european union. but hungary wants to keep migrants on prime minister, victory war bon has vowed to for to fight offences along its border of his serbia, spearing in. border guards with an old message. me ma'am,

we do not believe that anything good. come come from migration your to at mackie hundreds of migrants are violently pushed back from hungary to so, but it's our on a daily basis according to local angels. and so, but it's our residents are increasingly frustrated. not getting bish where we thought dance benefits hungry meg, but for us, there is no chance that the migrants can move on leach ashy or, or dr. rob maniac. they live here. this won't end. well, listen with your big shock theater. i heard that they attacked a lot of young girls. my daughter's 10, i don't feel safe here. serbian officials in support it's. i don't want to speak on camera about why their town is again becoming a hot spot for migrants and smuggling network. it's a delicate issue says past or t boardwalk, or he goes to places that others avoid, can see both examples. so where are you from chrome garza?

we're he wants to give migrant some comfort. but he too is worried when it's her vanberry earl o situation. now is kind of the more people who come guardlick, the more tensions will arise. you in this area, sir, that arch and be sick, and this has an effect on the smugglers to them. but for look, because they have more to do and they'll be more competition. all those bottles of mashanda, this in parallel will cause the situation to become more tense for the local. so for the people here to always to harder facilitate melissa hazard mohammed than his family don't know about the growing tension in supported. so they just want to cross the serbian border into the e. u before winter arrives. in other news, hurricane ian has made landfall in cuba as a category 3 storm is expected to strengthen as it has towards florida. residents

of tampa bay are stockpiling goods. a nasa rocket launch has been cancelled due to the hurricane. peru has declared an environmental emergency in the amazon rain forest after a pipeline broke. more than 2500 barrels of oil have flowed into the meridian river in an area fished by indigenous people. the state owned petroleum company says bundles attacked the pipeline. thousands of taken to the streets and mexico to demand justice for 43 students who disappeared. 8 years ago to day investigators have called the disappearances of state crime, claiming that the students were detained by corrupt police, on their way to a protest. relatives who called for more officials and the military to be invest in the front runner in brazil's presidential election, former leader in louisiana, just lula da silva, has held his final campaign event before the font. the 1st round of voting on sunday. the latest polls put the left wing candidate and former president ahead of

his right wing rival, the incumbent shire bulls, inara by a double digit lead. now, it's mission accomplished at nasa. the 1st planetary defense operation has struck us our space rock or orbiting, an asteroid. millions of kilometers from earth. the goal was to nudge the little moon into a new orbit. it was a dress rehearsal should the day ever come, that an asteroid finds itself on a collision course with our own planet. 3, what? i didn't give you a confirmation and direct kate's millions of kilometers from the world's 1st at the planet. a defense mission, a success that is far from my coincidence. ah fantastic. and we are so excited to be done. i, you know,

we've worked on this mission for at least 7 years now and i it's been a work of over 1000 people. yeah, definitely. as we were getting close to the asteroid, there was a lot of ed said joy, i say both tear and joy at the same time because we, we saw that we were going to impact the idea behind dot. the double asteroid redirection test was to launch a small spacecraft to wall to space rock, smash into it at high speed. and now to its course, this inaugural planetary defense test mission marks a major moment in human history. for the 1st time ever, we will measurably change the orbit of a celestial body in the universe. doing so has clear benefits and ensuring humanities ability to deflect a potential threatening asteroid in the future. nasa approved it could hit a small object in space. a follow up mission will check up on the target drug in

full years to see how much it's all be test changed. but 1st it is time for celebration. so a successful mission, but has humanity achieved the 1st up in defending the planet to put that question to south africa? bonnie: from d. w. science? well we, we have indeed if you look at the dot mission as being in 2 parts. so the desired effect was fertile, they tested this spacecraft, could it fly from earth 11000000 kilometers to this asteroid? guess it could, could it also autonomously on its own using its own cameras, detect which asteroid it had to actually impact and bear in mind impacted the smaller of the 2 asteroids, one orbiting the other, as it did the on its own, the camera, draco, it works you see these amazing crystal clear images of this asteroid dime office as it gets closer one image per 2nd. so all that job done. excellent. the next thing

how the weather is nudged this asteroid. so it won't see that the, the scientists want to see whether they can slow the orbit of dime office around it . the larger asteroid data most wants to be able to slow the the orbit by about 10 minutes. but if it can do it by at least 73 seconds, that would have already been a success. the thing is though, it's a bit like an analog watch. it's been likened to this by nasa scientists. if you drop an analog watch, you might not the cubs about bit, you pick it up and put it back on your wrist and it might still tell the time. however, those calls may be slightly out of out of, you know, do whatever they need. you may have jilted them so, but you'll only see that bit by bit day by day. ill get slower and slower and slow until you're off time. and that's what the earth based or ground based telescopes. and now going to be looking at the c willa. they can see the slowing of the orbit over the next days, weeks months. is that? okay, so the car, this is all about trying to protect the planet. nasa calls

a day of planetary defense system up there in case an asteroid were becoming our way. how big is this threat? well, a scientist talk about m there being no imminent threat from a, you know, at an asteroid that could really do some serious damage. like, why pass city or, you know, why hot the dinosaurs i happen before. you know, i'll, i like to judge way the dinosaurs now there's no imminent threat of in the foreseeable future. and in terms of space science that the heck of a long time. so they are looking for, they all looking quite hard to find a time space. however, we only know about about a 1000000 asteroids in the asteroid belt on the asteroid belt being between mars and jupiter. there are plenty of other ass ways that we don't know about a bit of the ones where we know what they, where they are and how they all written, all the rest of it were in a pretty good place. that's what the scientists say. and this is what this sort of a mission is all about. if we have enough time, can we send up a rock?

it can be sent up a spacecraft that can nadia. of course just a little bit just once in that you by about one percent, that could be enough to stick get, make it stickler of us. so and i, it's a, the waiting game basically here, sir, just a in one sentence of a car or does nasa think all the cost and work in bold was worth it? i'm sure nasa thinks it's worth it. you know, we're talking about $330000000.00 over a 7 year period. look, i mean, it's in the middle of an economic crisis. it's really difficult to justify these things, but it has been, you know, they had to go ahead with it. but also bear in mind, you know, we are not a trying to stop astro. it's coming to worth we also want to inspect them for resources that we could perhaps bring to worth. so that's all very important stuff . so the gum pro happily, but there are other car bonnie from dw science, thanks so much a fictional take on the life of mer. among marilyn monroe, hitch netflix, wednesday, blonde,

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i have only exist on these now uplifting news from portuguese football legend, louise figo, once named the best player on the planet. he has now elevated his game literally to an altitude of over 6100 meters. he did it on one of those 0 gravity, airplanes that go way up penned way down in a hurry. this particular cruise made for what the guinness record book says is the highest altitude game of football on a parabolic flight. he go one, the 2000 belong door award. when he played for real madrid, he helped to pull together this high flying stunt with other expos from the middle east, europe, and latin america. where we go, just reminder, the top story we're following for you this hour. it's the final day of voting in so called referendums on joining russia in parts of ukraine under moscow's control.

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