how these technologies work, how they can with how they can also go terribly. watch it now on youtube. ah, this is the w news live from by and then the european union outlines its latest package of sanctions against russia. they include new trade restrictions and a cap on the price of oil, as well as targeting officials responsible for what brussels described as sham referendums in east and also on the program. russia says it is not to blame for the

explosions thought to have been to have caused the damage to undersea and gas pipelines in the baltic. sea. moscow says it to once answers, european leaders say it was sabotaged. how you can in the bathroom, the west coast of florida, with winds reaching 250 kilometers an hour forecast as want of catastrophic storm searches. ah, i'm feel gale. welcome to the program. the european union has proposed new biting sanctions against russia, targeting trade, russia's military and the people who organized annexation votes and parts of occupied ukraine. russell says of russia must pay a price for escalating the crisis by holding these sham referendums. you commission present. ursula found the line explain the rationale behind the additional measures

. we isolate and it 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 euros in revenues. we're also proposing to extend the list of products that cannot be exported to russia anymore. well, i spoke with that correspondent at terry schultz in brussels and suggested that i should have found the alarm had been fighting mood. that's right. the european commission and ursula of underlying herself, have been threatening for some time to bring forth this 8th package of sanctions against russia. and now this combination of the sham referenda, putin's mobilization of, of more people to fight in ukraine. his new nuclear or his repeated nuclear saber rattling, has all really gotten on the nerves,

have the european commission so or sale of underlying says she wants to make the kremlin pay for what she calls, bringing escalation against ukraine to a new you look to a new level, so talk through these latest sanctions and how that work. so as you heard, underlying, mentioned, they want to ban the import of some 7000000000 euros more of products into the e u. they also really want to try to prevent technology from getting to the russian military, which of course is using it to fight in ukraine. so they're looking again at semiconductors, at other high technology to, to keep it away from the russian military. there's also a pretty interesting development on individuals who would be targeted for sanctions . and that's going to include, for example, people who helped organize these referenda in the for russian occupied regions of ukraine. and there will also be a band if this, if these measures passed, there would also be a ban on e, you citizens sitting on boards of russian national companies. now of course in germany that will bring up the name of your heart. schroeder, who sits on

a lot of these boards and the others proposed cap on oil prices hasn't going to work. and this is a very complicated question, phil. and it certainly is in the beginning phases of, of being implemented in the european union. the g 7 has agreed in principle to put a cap on the price that could be paid for russian oil that has not yet been agreed to by all e u countries. and what borderline is proposing in this package of sanctions is li, the legal framework. so that should all you countries agree to this price cap on oil that, that the laws would already be in place. and this is something now that you ambassadors will be discussing here at the end of this week. and i spoke to an official tonight who said that perhaps if all goes well, this entire packet may be adopted by the time there's, there's a summit next week. thank you for that. terry. doubly correspond to schultz in brussels. all the results of the so called referendums, held in fort regions of occupied ukraine, have been released. officials installed by moscow say between 87 and 99 percent of

residents voted yes to being annexed by the russian federation. some separate leaders have already formerly requested incorporation. ukraine's president says he will defend all of his country's territory and force russian troops out of the occupied airs. applause and on the esc, chris, the results of the so called referendum came in for the russian backed authorities . it was a day that been waiting for 4 years. this edition of them we were dreaming about this in 2014. then we were making history ideally, and that's what this is. in the book to day, we live in historic days. we are reuniting with our big motherland murphy. what we've great russia, really gay resi according to officials in the for occupied regions and overwhelming majority of roads with cost and fave of russian annexation with a high turnout. 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 re no one wants to join russia. no one novice comes in with it. with this pressure, people are scared over. yes, cognition. and yet, but i saw members of the voting commission filling and ballads themselves while sitting in their cars. i thought with my own eyes, they did the same in their voting districts. them with, i know my relatives, my friends li, no one vote it. oh, you don't the whole us a while. what the clipper this is what the referendum is. is this what free will is walking around with assault rifles and making others sign ballots? sure. keys in its western allies have denounced the referendums as illegal and illegitimate. say 1st of all and that is fast in the occupied

territories cannot even be called an imitation of a referendum. and yet we will act to protect our people in the her san region in these upper region region in dumbass, in the currently occupied areas of the hockey region funding crimea. if come all the u. s. said it would ask the un security council to condemn the votes with a resolution ordering russia to withdraw from ukraine that condemns these. 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. now it's up to president putin just how fast he wants to complete the final step in next in the occupied territories and escalating his 7 month old war. once again, the european union, later se ruptures in the north stream pipelines were probably caused by sabotaged european companies and are ramping up security in the energy sector. russia has

called a un security council meeting to discuss the damage. european leaders are worried about the pipeline leaks in the baltic sea that uses the damage was likely caused by deliberate act raising security concerns. but the european commission has not said who might have been behind the suspect at separate touch. today, ms. oller, who is everything, is being done to try to identify the origin of these events and of the explosions on the node string pipelines. so we will have to get to the bottom of this before being able to say anything on the origins of these explosions is okay. and who is responsible for though super low vision. this is extra joy responsibility. as europe largest natural gas appliance norway theater, it will beef up the security of its antarctic infrastructure eastern. the events in the baltic sea have resulted in the government deciding to further strengthen al preparedness around on and offshore infrastructures to prevent. another incident in

forsworn or by the military will be more present and visible near our oil and gas installations. installment really does have warrant of retaliation for any attack on europe in our t networks it here to v vi. there is no doubt that this is very serious. what has happened in mind? it is not a coincidence. it is, was planned. that is what i have discussed with the uninstalled and the burglar nato's general. secretary, nancy, because this is serious. some officials and experts believe russia is behind the damage. russia faith. it's launching an international terrorism investigation into the leaks denying allegations it was involved related, well, you know, it's quite predictable and also predictably stupid to make such claims. i repeat once again, predictably stupid and absurd. the gas escaping from the pipelines is also an environmental concern. it contains high levels of meeting and authority sphere. it

could be the equivalent of one 3rd of denmark's total animal, greenhouse gas emissions. or under spoke nielsen's, military and west of the royal danish defense college. in copenhagen, i asked him who would benefit from these attacks? well, 1st i'd say, i think we have to be aware that this is apparently an attack that very deliberately is designed to look like sabotage, like nobody is trying to hide what is going on. so we have to look for somebody who would be interested in this to, to actually look like a sabotaged attack, but also to not be clearly something that we can attribute to a particular actor. so, so some said somebody wants us to be discussing this question exactly who, who could be behind this and who would benefit from all these different ideas and theories being grown around on social media. i think if we look at what has happened so far, we have had more stability on the energy markets in europe. more uncertainty about

gas delivers. and then we have had a lot of people on social media and also politicians discussing who could be behind this and some people in the west blaming each other. some people saying is the polish and people saying it's the americans. you know, when i look at this, i would say pretty much only one actor in this whole field actually benefits from these 2 things. and that would be russia. okay. it's interesting that the way you, you framed it, that it's not necessarily the physical damage to the infrastructure itself. it's the uncertainty of about causes and the discussions of that causes and the volatility in fuel prices. but that causes that all contributes. so let's say it's russia, everyone including russia, is calling for a thorough investigation. and as an interested party under prime suspect, is russia likely to be allowed to be involved in any investigation?

was definitely going to be a tough question right. also because it's, it's a russian or pipeline and could we even do the investigation without the involvement of cost problem, for example. so, so it, to some extent, i guess russia will be involved, but at the same time that will be a lot of suspicion. i'm sure about that, and it's definitely going to be a big question, how we actually going to do that. also, what will this investigation show and who will accept the evidence that is produced by this as as valid? i'm sure that's also something we're going to discuss afterwards. so we will see who's in charge, who is responsible for what? absolutely. it's going to be very complicated, both technically. how do you actually conduct this investigation? but also you say all the legal aspects of the international aspects of it, and i don't have the answers for how, how will this will be sorted out?

ok, well that was we will continue to talk about this and add to the uncertainty, but for now a thank you for your expert analysis on this book nielsen from the ro, danish defense college in copenhagen. thank you so much. a 100 can and has made landfall in florida bashing the u. s. states west coast with winds and up to 250 kilometers. and our millions of residents have been urged to leave. those who stayed hunkering down in the face of extreme winds. heavy rain and powerful storm surge is forecast, the se in has strengthened to a dangerous category for and could cause catastrophic flooding. will late on tuesday in cuba, killing at least 2 people and leaving a trail of destruction and knocking out electricity across the island. plunged into darkness in the wake of hurricane in cubans,

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restrictions and the cap on the price of oil of brussels is also targeting officials responsible for the sham referendums health in east of ukraine. a to chew up to date more world news at the top of the hour and ram clock, of course on the d w app. and on d, w dot com, a steven fiercely has your business update in just a moment. but good build . good. we've seen a saxophone operator who wrote her master's thesis on put potato raring to read a not a turn on. well, it gets more ridiculous from their d. w literature.