the major milestone in their lives with seduction. our ice cold passion starts october 8th on d. w. ah ah, this is the w sli from berlin, sabotaged it, is suspected, as gas leaks from pipelines, connecting russia to germany, denmark's navy releases this footage of gas bubbles formed in the baltic sea. they throw another highlight on europe's vulnerable energy security. also on the program

voting ends in russia's so called referendums in ukraine. moscow is expected to swallow up territories in the occupied regions. he found its allies denounced the votes as a sham and scientists are celebrating, after conducting their 1st planetary defense test, enough of the spacecraft per both into a rock millions of kilometers away in an effort to throw it off ports. ah, i'm gabelle for as well come to the program. sabotage is thought to be behind. 3 leaks in the north stream, natural gas pipelines connecting russia to europe. gas bubbles have formed in the baltic sea of denmark and sweden, the danish military. as release these images of the gas bubbles, the leaks were 1st spotted on the radar. passing shift. denmark has since been

shipping from the area and imposed no fly zone. the north stream $1.00 and $2.00 pipelines run from russia to germany. neither is in operation, although both did contain pressurized gas. the kremlin says it's extremely concerned about the leak. a poland prime minister has called it an act of sabotage without providing any evidence and denmark's prime minister metaphysics and says sabotage is indeed a possibility. if we have a good, we cannot rule it out, it is too early to draw conclusions yet. but this is an extraordinary situation, an unusual situation. and there are 3, even with some distance between them. and that is why it's hard to imagine that what's happening is a coincidence, isn't it? for me, if it's a bit of a vehicle in our political correspondent, thomas bar joins me now. thomas, what are you hearing from the german government officially and maybe unofficially about these leagues?

the same line of caution that we heard from other european officials that is essentially too early to conclude. what exactly is behind those leaks. but what we are hearing as well, not only here in germany, but also from other european countries, is that the extent of the damage seems too large for it to be accidental or coincidental. and that's why you're hearing from official saying that there's a possibility that this could have been an act of sabotage. but again, it is still too early to really conclude what was behind those leaks. there are crisis teams meeting in different parts of europe to try and understand what exactly happened and also what could be the impact the political, but also the economic impact of these leaks on the north stream pipelines and orchard one under nordstrom to pipelines. now, how difficult would it be to attack these pipeline or understand the increase in

concrete? well, you would essentially need to know 1st gearhart, if it was indeed an attack. again, we're only speculating here, but they have been already analysis pointing to the fact that the extent of the damage would point if it is an attack to a state actor. but again, this is only speculation and those crisis teams are trying to identify not only the extent of the damage, some of the latest reports also point to possible explosions along the north stream one and not stream to climb lines. but also again, what could be the impact of these damages in particular for europe's infrastructure when it comes to gas, that is also a particularly important topic in europe nowadays. now, does this leave these, do these leaks have any measurable effect of the current energy supplies to europe? we've heard already from german officials from the german economy minister that

energy supply is guaranteed. and that has to do with the fact that both pipelines were not in operation, not stream to pipeline was never in operation actually. and gas was flowing less and less from north stream one. so from that perspective, in the german case, germany has in fact increase it's gas reserves around 991 percent. so from that perspective, energy supply seems to be guaranteed. but there are obviously questions as to what all this means for europe's vulnerability when it comes to these gas supplies in general. what it also means economically, what it means for the markets. so there are certainly got a lot of questions here as to what the potential impact of this might be. even though as we're hearing from german officials, that energy supply is for now guaranteed. and that the impact on this is certainly not as big as many would have feared, maybe a few weeks or a few months ago. are political correspondent, thomas sparrow there. thank you. tom's o voting has and ended in the so

called referendums, and has the russian controlled regions of ukraine. residents were asked whether the areas should become part of russia in the process condemned by the international community. we shall lead us back by moscow, say provisional results could come in the next hours. but keith and his allies say the results are a foregone conclusion. moscow is expected to formerly annexed the regions following the vote, raising fears among residents about their future. and early i asked the w, corresponded mathias billing in the ukraine in capital keith, what we can expect from the supposed results while so the results are going to be published very quickly. and that's what russia has already announced. and we do not expect any surprises in these results. that will be a majority for the annexation of these territories. this was clear from the very

beginning as it has been clear that this was not a real referendum where all that all the principles of free voting have been violated of a free and fair voting process have been violated in this referendum. so the next steps will be that the president would probably address the 2 chambers of parliament and that a federal chombo for the federation of chombo. the upper house of parliament will then incorporate these regions into russia formally that might happen next tuesday. as the head of this chamber has announced, and then russia will claim these, this territory of russia, which will not be recognized by most of the countries in the world. that might be one or 2 exceptions. but for the ukrainian side, that's what we're craner said. and that's also what western countries have said. nothing will change to this referendum. now, what will happen to the residence of the regions held by russia right now?

will they be allowed to leave? in the past few weeks i, there has been one border crossing that had been opened to people who wanted to cross over to ukrainian control territory. there's also the way to crow, to, to leave via crimea and then russia and then possibly from russia. some where else this check point or where people were leaving has been closed if you just, in the past few days. so it seems that nobody is coming out of the territory right now of the out of the southern territories in the eastern territories. there has been no border crossing for quite a while now. and before, even before men had much more difficulties to come out of the to leave, these regions were especially men of drafting age of military age. and the fear of course is that these men will now be drafted into the russian army. although, according to international law, they are not even citizens of russia,

but he is willing, they are joining us from keith. thank you much. is tom now to have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world. peru has declared an environmental emergency in the amazon rain forest because of a leaking pipeline. more than 2 and a half 1000 barrels of oil have flowed into a river that is being fished by indigenous people. the state petroleum company says vandals have attacked the pipe. hurricane ian has made landfall in cuba. the storm is expected to strengthen as it heads towards florida. residents of the tampa bay area, our stockpiling goods mission controllers have cancelled a nasa rocket launch. the front runner and brazil's presidential election, the former leader louis enough to lead a silva as health. his final campaign event holds for the left. we encountered it comfortably ahead of his right being rival the current president variables in our

thousands of rallied in mexico to demand justice for 43 trainee teachers who disappeared 8 years ago. investigators believe the students were detained by corrupt police, on their way to a protest relatives half hold for a wider investigation. iran is stepping up its response to nationwide anti government protests. officials say they've arrested more than 1200 demonstrators. human rights wanted to say at least 76 people have died in rallies, spock by the death of a young woman in police custody. we don't want the islamic republic, that's the protest cry of people in iran's capital tyrann. only a few videos from the protests are getting through to the outside world, due to repeated internet shut downs. but people are taking to the streets around

the country like here in the southern city of bush, a hair pro government rallies have also been held like here and here on, on sunday, supporters of the regime have blamed the wave of protests on the west. hard line clerics have 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. o t. ron's judiciary has set up special courts to try protesters who official said we'll be treated as dangerous criminals. steep media, se the number of arrests has now surpassed 1200. video footage that has emerged in recent days, shows the brutality of the security services. observers say, the authorities, heavy handed tactics are a sign that the protests are making. a mark it is a signal is, this is a fine that social resistance is not really at. the donnie and people are not just

resigned to the situation and thought the protests will continue, even if they are violently depressed. and it seems there is no sign of the protests going away any time soon. let's now go to a man with a mirror, madame. he is the director of the oslo based and g o iran human rights. now your organization has been monitoring the human rights situation within iran, saying dozens of died in the protests. tell us how big are these protests and how severe is the crack down against them? thanks for having me here. yes. so we have seen protests all over the country from north to south, east to west, and it's not restricted to either larger or smaller cities basically everywhere. and from the very beginning, the authorities started the crackdown is especially in the kurdish areas,

shooting at people. and as our report indicates, at least 76 people have been killed as a result of life ammunition. and we should keep in mind that these are an armed because there's many young kid boys and girls and lost the piece for the protesting so, so these are huge protests. and now after 8 days of ours track down mass arrests and killing. we see that the brought this continue and there is no sign of ending the for this is from the protesters side. now, 3 years ago, protests similar protest ended in bloody repression, largely hidden from the world. how these protests, any different? well, i would say the main difference is there, the attitude that we see from,

from the people, the authorities, they do what they know to do that's track down as hard as possible shooting, but the protest stairs are much more angry. that's a case our observation and their determination is more than 3 years ago. it running after the start of the product is one day later the running authorities shut down the internet and started shooting. and within 5 days they were nope. and now they have tried to put restrictions on the internet in a larger period of time. it has been shut down, but, and they had me shooting, but we still see that brought that. so i think that's the main difference that the iranians are more dead than mine to go and progress. and basically it is very

clear what they want. they don't want the slimy group up and so, so both sides meet seriously and, and i think that's what makes us concerned as a human rights organization, because we know what the iranian authorities are capable of doing. they would do whatever it takes to keep the power and people are not backing off sources that as well, excuse me, you're opting this determination that you're, that you mentioned that you're describing that could that give this movement the power the, the input as to actually overturned the regime in iran and if this protest continue with that, basically the goal after protest there is and we should keep in mind that. and if you look back in the history dictatorships, totalitarian regimes, once they lose control,

then there is no way back. and i would say that these protests have up said look, they did the potential of doing so mama, the miriam up bulkhead am the director of the enjo, iran, the human rights. thank you very much for joining us. wanted of you japan as hell. the state funeral for former prime minister since obey. he was assassinated in july, lead us and dignitaries from around the world attended. but there's also on ease over the cost of the funeral and divisions over obvious legacy ah cremated shortly after his death. she's obeys. ashes. we carried into his state funeral by his widow, acute abbey such services and normally reserved for japan's imperial family. but an exception was granted for the country's

longest serving prime minister ah, minister among the international dignitaries where indian prime minister ninja mo, day to day bank william schneider onboarding deal like a and former british prime minister of to resume take up your book. japanese prime minister, cuz sheet a few meo, led the tributes and iep on thought cheek sheen sob. 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 she are you and to maintain and promote an international order that values freedom she democracy think are human rights and the rules law. you stella of a single so logical disha ever a polarizing figure in japan. hundreds protested against ave state funeral,

and it's $11000000.00 price tag. ah, it is perhaps on the world stage where abe's influence is most admired. us mice, president kamala horace, spoke of his importance. i hit with the term rent and and holding him in as a member of the end of his america leave. chairs with the service emphasized. abe's global legacy as a country under family said their final good bye to shins, obey. let's have

a look at some of the other stores making headlines. china's economic growth is about to fall behind the rest of asia. for the 1st time, it's more than 30 years. according to the world bank. it expects the economy to grow 2.8 percent. this year, that's around 2 percent lower than originally forecast economists blame beijing. 0 cove. it policy a caught in spain as ordered colombian sing shaquira to stand trial on charges of failing to pay $14000000.00 euros in taxes. prosecutors are seeking an 8 year prison term after she projected a plea deal. shakira has bow to fight the charges and also a story that seems to come straight from a science fiction thriller. nath us 1st planetary defense operation has struck a space, rock orbiting, and escrowed millions of kilometers from earth. the goal was to nuts the little moon into

a new orbit around the asteroid. scientists were testing whether it's possible to deflect the deflect, an asteroid on collision course with our planet. 3, what? oh my gosh. wow. i didn't get your confirmation and direct hit millions of kilometers from earth. the world's 1st ever planetary defense mission and success that is far from my coincidence. oh fantastic. that 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 war to space rock, smash into it at high speed and al, 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 truck in full years to see how much it's all be test changed. but 1st it is time for celebration. keep calling is an american, astro biologist, and full and nasa employee based in washington. and i asked him earlier if the spacecraft actually did manage to throw this little rock. of course we don't know

yet and this is going to be very, very small change. and they'll have to, you know, if you've got my little props here as the moon orbits the larger asteroid, they will observe it from many places on earth. and in the next weeks and perhaps a month, they will be able to tell if there's any change in if there's any change, pretty much that's the success for the mission. because the whole idea was that you could, as was sort of understood a piece, change the trajectory of something out in space. now nasa called it a test of its planetary defense system. now how big is this threat? well, it's one of those things that the more you look for it, the more you realize how much there is out there. i mean, we've been aware of large objects hitting nearest for some time. less of a decade ago, a big one came in over a city in russia. and even though it didn't land there, a cost a lot of damage and injured some people had it landed in that city. the city wouldn't be there anymore. and we've done some studies with telescopes,

we know are a lot of the big things are, but as you get smaller and smaller, these objects are less dangerous. but it's more of them and they're harder to find . so if you don't know it's there, a small rock coming at high speed from space can still cause us a lot of damage. so the whole idea here is, you know, the more you look, the more you find and the more you find, the more you realize how you have to be prepared. that's what this mission was all about. and now what about the cost of this mission and all the work involved? you think it's justified? yeah, it's about $300000000.00. and even if you sent 2 of them again, just imagine you random pick a city in the world, whereas 100000 people. and you drop a something, the size of the moon that was hit, the little rock dropped that at tens of thousands of miles an hour. that city would be gone. what would be the economic loss, bitch, trillions of euros with hundreds of thousands alive. so i think when you have a real threat like this, that is, it's out there, you can measure it. this is

a trivial cost to pay. so, so we continue these experiments sort of sending probes to out of space trying to find these projectiles if you will, and try to throw them. of course, yes, of course is, is it 2 parts? this law i was on another network. the other last, like when it was live and the other science correspond night were saying my god, i see rocks and i said i see pebbles, right? just the image, one of those images will lead to a 1000 ph. d 's across the world. just understanding what these things are made up . so even if this, this asteroid was not a threat to earth, and we didn't monkey with it, so it's still not correct. but we want, every time we go there, we learned something more about these asteroids. and here we are in earth. we're probably the result of comments and asteroids hitting this planet over billions of years, leaving the materials that eventually became us. so in a carl sagan, sort of sense, as we understand the threat, we're also understanding a little bit more where we came from and you met maybe we should actually let the

next i saw it. it. and thank you very well sir. your dinosaur, you wouldn't agree with that as well. it is keith cowan. thank you very much. my pleasure. now somewhat related an equally up listing news from portuguese football legend. louis figo, once named the best player on the planet. he has now elevated is game quite literally to an altitude of more than 6 kilometers. he did it on one of those 0 gravity, airplanes that go way up and then 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. figo won the 2000 balloon door award when he played for our madrid back here on earth. and nations, league football, england and germany drew 3 all in their final group stage of the tournament,

converts a fire in a beauty after 67 minutes to give germany a to nell lead. but then luke shore pulled one back for england mais mount netted this 2nd. and hurricane converted a penalty. harvard's then responded with his 2nd to snag one point for his team. you're watching t w. c. as a reminder of our top story, this, our sabotage is thought to be behind the gas leaks from pipelines, connecting russia to germany. denmark's navy has released this footage of gas bubbles for me and the bolt exceed. the area has been closed for shipping and voting has closed in easton and southern ukraine in the soap cold referendums. on joining russia, moscow is expected to annex full reads with keith and its allies say they will not recognize the results. and a reminder, you can always get the w news on the go,

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