has so much to lose shattering the glass ceiling women in architecture. this has to be really, really good. start september 30th on d, w. ah, ah, this is the w news live from berlin. european union outlines a fresh package of sanctions against russia. they include sweeping new trade restrictions and a cap on the price of oil. b. u is also targeting officials, responsible for sham referendums, held an eastern new cray. european leaders blame,

sabotaged for 3 leaks and underwater pipelines, spewing gas into the baltic sea scientists detected explosions along the affected north stream pipelines. moscow says it's not to blame and also once answered ah i'm glad offers. welcome to the program. the european union says it wants to hit russia with new biting sanctions, targeting trade brushes, military and people who organized annexation boats, and parts of occupied ukraine. the you said it was russia to pay a price for, escalating the crisis by holding the sham referendums. you commission president, also a funder line, explain why additional sanctions unnecessary. i funny and hit rush us economy

even more. so we propose sweeping new import bands on russian products. this will keep russian products out of the european market and deprive russia of an additional $7000000000.00 euros in revenues were also proposing to extend the list of products that cannot be exported to russia anymore. at earlier my asked our brussels beautiful at some of a nominal her take on european commission. president lafond alliance statement. well, i think it's fair to say that the european commission was under a lot of pressure to come forward with their proposal for new sanctions. they have been working on that for quite a while. the discussions were going back and forth, and i think the decision was made today that today is the right day to announce this proposal after russia pushed to through words had those sham referendums. and after they declared to day, at that said 99 percent of fir,

the people there were in favor of joining russia. so i think it was important for was on a fund aligned to send a strong message to the kremlin that the european union is sir, keeping up the pressure that they are determined to make her, the russian regime pay for the escalation of the invasion of ukraine and of course she as a president of the european commission, wanted to show that she is providing the leadership that the european union needs. now, previous actions have not really shown the desired effect. and yet b, e u as volume further and tougher pride restrictions at individual blacklist eggs. you think that makes sense? well, i think that sanctions imposed by the european union do have an effect on a russian economy. and we saw it, for instance, at their car, the industry that has come to a hold all knows because of the sanctions, but of course they take time. and today today's announcement was about toughening

a trade restrictions about closing the existing loopholes. so that is a very important and we also have to straight stress that they are pin commissioners of walking a tight rope here because of course, they want to keep up the pressure on their russian regime. but they also understand that sanctions imposed against russia are also hurting the european economies. are just to look at the soaring energy prices at the inflation. and or of course they need all member states to be on board with their proposal. you mentioned the energy crisis, there may be you will also implement the g servers, all price cap for 3rd countries. how will that work out while dad is the key question here, answer the question is also will it work at all? because what the european commission is saying is that they are laying their their framework for such a price. a cab. the european union has decided to impose

a ban on all russian seaborne oil by the end of the year. but they want to make sure that if their prices go up, that other countries will not pay too much so that put in still has enough money to continue with the war. however, we see that some countries like china and india already are getting a discount from russia just to, to make sure that they are buying russian oil. so all that is very complicated and there are a lot of questions that the european commission still needs to answer our bosses. beautiful exam phenomena there. thank you. hi alex, i'm a now the results of the so called referendums, held in for regions of ukraine occupied by russia are now in officials installed by moscow, say between 87 and 99 percent of residents voted yes to being annexed by the russian federation. some separatist leaders have already formerly requested incorporation.

ukraine's president has vowed to defend all his country's territory and force russian troops out of the occupied zones. applause and tanya chris, the results of the so called referendum came in for the russian backed authorities . it was a day that been waiting for, for years. we visited of them, we were dreaming about this in 2014. then we were making history 30, and that's what this is. in him up to day. we live in historic days where we are re uniting with our big motherland murphy with great russia, really good se, according to officials and before occupied regions. and overwhelming majority of roads were cast in favor of russian annexation with a high turn out. but ukrainians who recently fled those areas till a very different story also said that the results were nicely drawn up on paper, but in reality, people didn't fold up a kind of the turn out wasn't that large. those people are very much opposed to the

referendum and no one wants to join russia. no one novice comes in with that with this pressure people i scared you over. yes. cognition yet. but i saw members of the voting commission filling and ballads themselves while sitting in their cars. li, i thought with my own eyes, they did the same in their voting districts, eat them with, i know my relatives, my friends, li, no one vote it you still in the hollow salon? what the clear with her? this is what the referendum is. is this what free will is walking around with assault rifles and making others sign ballads? so keith and it's rest and allies have denounced the referendums as illegal and illegitimate say, 1st of all he did. his fasts in the occupied territories cannot even be called an imitation of a referendum, but yet we will act to protect our people in the her son region in these upper

region region in dumbass. emmy currently occupied areas of the hockey region and in crimea. if cromwell, the u. s said it would ask the un security council to condemn the votes with the resolution ordering russia to withdraw from ukraine, that the but with moscow having a veto in the council, there's no chance of the resolution passing with the same votes out of the way it melts up to president putin just how fast he wants to complete the final step. and next in the occupied territories and escalating his 7 month old war for once again . european union leader, se lakes are on the north stream pipelines were caused by sabotaged scientists, recorded under c explosions around the lines connecting russia and germany. large plumes of gas are leaking into the baltic sea. though there are no claims of responsibility. poland says the leagues mark than escalation in the war on ukraine

accredited spokesman says it would be stupid and absurd to blame russia for the attack fuel spilling out into the baltic sea. afterward. the eas, top diplomat, joseph burrell. say's is a likely octave sabotaged b t. what nord stream pipelines linked russia and germany, 3 red dots, mac, the places where the leaks were detected. even though the pipelines are not currently delivering rushing gas to europe. they're still full of fuel. european lee to say they're fairly certain about the cause of the leaks. so we have swedish intelligence, but we also have received information from denmark. and based on this, we concluded that this is probably a deliberate act. it is probably a case, a sabotage. the also to landfill gall met sabotaged the e. u has vowed retaliation for any attack on the energy network. the leaks are

expected to last for at least another week. and only then can investigations begin . earlier in the i spoke to energy analyst to mikhail critique in and also and asked him if we will ever know with certainty that the cause of these leaks. it is very difficult to say right now because i think that official investigation will show whether the explosions occurred outside the pipelines or inside the pipelines. there is a chance that gus broom, which has technical being stool launch so cold bigs or big lifts into the pipe to. busy control the condition of the pipeline, quote, well, make the explosions itself. ok, well guess problem is definitely interested in finding some sort of pretext for avoid in the fines for breaking the contracts with

european the guess consumer suggest promo decreased guess supply earlier. and the, some of the consumers decided that they will go to the court arbitration and charge guess problem with the billions of euros or fines because of the breach of the contract. and now if guess from proves that it was a natural calamity or act of a war, and gust room was not to blame, then gas pro will not have to pay all that money to the consumers. as a very interesting theory, but russia has rejected suggestions that it is behind the leaks and has applied the united states even was responsible. what do you think is more likely? well, i think i can look to see any interest of the united states or even ukraine explored in those pipelines. ukraine has pipelines of its own and it also

suffers from the degrees and flow over us and gas. now in the flow of gas is about one quarter over the amount that guess from the borough, missed your cream to turn the transfer across the ukraine in territory. and ukraine is also eager to charge you guys pro with some well retaliation for the breach of the contract. and gas for says right now that it is going to stop the deliveries of gas to europe across ukraine because it does not want to pay the transfer the transit texas to your crate. and so i don't think that are in this situation, the greatness would be interested in such a sub act of sub with now no way is already improving security. i bit off. sure. energy facilities. how worried should european energy companies and governments

really be about the security of their energy infrastructure? yes, i think that's a very important issue because we see now that some of the pipelines that exist in germany, for example, a steel belong to or companies which are subsidiaries of gas, bro, and gas from steel, can't control the uh, security, the safety of operations, and the security of maintenance at those pipelines and e. busy fer it is for all do that gas pro was to blame for explosives, then i think it would be very wise to take precautionary measures and to give a guess from officials as far away from vital infrastructure as possible energy analysts, mika, who, taking their thank you very much for your inciting. thank you. and the usa, the florida millions of residents have been urgently advised to evacuate us

hurricane ian begins battering the peninsulas west coast. those who have stayed are hunkering down in the face of extreme winds. heavy rain and powerful storm surges forecast us say ian has strengthened to a dangerous category for storm. just shy of the most powerful rating of that hurricane head. cuba delayed on tuesday, killing at least 2 people, left the trail of destruction and knocked out electricity across the whole island. plunged into darkness in the wake of hurricane ian cubans in havana and all across the country were left without electricity. after the country's entire power, great collapse following the storm western cuba took the brunt of the hurricane with a storm pounding the region for more than 5 hours. many residents have been left with next to nothing. he okay,

somehow we terrified to see what we have here. we don't even know what to do. everything has been shattered. look at the state of been a hung fione tobacco farms in the western, pina del rio region. where much of the tobacco for cube is iconic and economically important, garza produced has been devastated. that's it from me. and that it seemed fun. oil of an update for you at the top of the hour. don't go way up. next dw news asia with parish manager, thanks sometimes books are more exciting than real life raring to read. oh. what if there's no escape.