that became a major milestone in their lives with seduction. our ice cold passion starts october 8th on d. w. ah ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin hurricane in slams into florida. the category for storm is packing. winds of up to 250 kilometers an hour and water forecasters, coal, catastrophic storm surgeries. also on the show, the european union outlines new sanctions, new sanctions package against russia,

which includes a price cap on oil. it comes in response to what brussels is calling sham referendums in eastern ukraine. plus russia says it's not to blame for the damage to under see gas pipelines in the baltic. sea european leaders say it was sabotage . ah, i pablo foley es. thanks for joining us. hurricane ian has been bantering the west coast of florida with winds of up to 250 kilometers an hour. millions of residents have been told to evacuate. those who stayed are hunkering down in the face of extreme winds. heavy rain and powerful storm surge is up to 4 meters high before it made land full in florida in strengthened to a dangerous category for storm. one of the most powerful to hit the state in

decades. when i'm joined by matthew poochie, i on the telephone, he's a meteorologist with the my radar app and he's in port charlotte in florida. matthew, thanks for joining us from florida. now let's hope this line actually holds. but can you tell us what the situation is like where you are at the moment? you have the one me with this system is that the backlash, the best i love, the 2nd round is arguably worth some areas in the 1st we encountered some rec, when we're just about 140 to 170 kilometers per hour with the 1st batch then we got the, i, the, i was kind of a messy file. however, there was some light drizzle, bitter wind in there, and then the backlash has been markedly more intense. in my mind, we've seen a lesser search threat, but more fresh water flooding where i am right now, and i really want naples farther to the south. so the onshore when they got the

mitigate flooding from the storm church and hundreds of people were left trapped on the rooftop. looking to help matthew to tell us this, governor de santis is actually saying that the storm surge has actually likely peaked. yeah, this is coming down on the low side goes out and i brought a little while from midnight and ultimately the wind has to be unsure to get a significant 3rd. now we're seeing offshore wind, which is good news. the dirt should be relaxing. however, the conditions are still wrapped in terms of rain with the rainfall rate of about $3.00 to $5.00 times more centimeters per hour. in addition to tons of which are fell over 143170 kilometers per hour. matthew, we're seeing some incredible image. is there some devastating winds by the looks of things and very heavy rain from florida, but how high prepared has the state been for the impact things with this

or was that initially we thought the forward did the big bend to florida or near or north of tampa, but it was really a focus. they have a lot delicate. instead about 36 hours ago weather mom began indicating throwing back much south and much more intense. and as a result being like the arguably more quick than a lot of people have either handled a personal that you example or emergency manager would have been able to. ready take. busy that it's been something that often could be part of the great like that . the ball that we're able, airport will tell us. where is the storm headed? matthew? this door was moving over right now. will eventually start to weaken as it has the direction of a bore lando. and so they'll still to get hurricane 4th wind up. that should do tons of rain. however, it won't be a category for impact and will be much less the way of sir. then over the over the last before curving back to work the car line as to which it will be or have

a high on tropical storm once again and drenched them with heavy rain. matthew, we managed to s p t a and didn't have any problems with the line. do stay safe on thanks for joining us. on d. w. matthew capuchin meteorologist with the my radar app, who is in port charlotte in florida. thanks. all right. well, late on choose day hurricane ian hit cuba killing at least 2 people. it left a 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 island were left without electricity. after the countries entire power grid collapsed. 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. you know a couple, how are 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 this out with the owner. much of the tobacco for keep is iconic an economically important cigars is produced in the western pinado. ria region. but tobacco farms that have been devastated. the european union has proposed new biting sanctions against russia, targeting trade, russia's military and the people who organized annexation votes in parts of occupied ukraine. brussel says russia must pay a price for escalating the crisis. by holding sham referendums, you commission president ursula funder line explained 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 70000000000 euros in revenues. were also proposing to extend the list of products that cannot be exported to russia anymore. while the results of the so called referendums, held in for 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. now some separatist 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 areas. the plaza tanius, mister results of the so called referendum came in for the russian backed authorities. it was a day that been waiting for for years, visited us longer than we were dreaming about this in 2014. then we were making

history ideally, and that's what this is m a, but today we live in historic days where we are reuniting without big motherland, murphy, what we've great russia, really gay or se, according to officials of the 4 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 was the results were nicely drawn up on paper, but in reality, people didn't vote public on the turn out, wasn't that large. those people are very much opposed to the referendum. no one wants to join russia. no one novice comes in with that with this pressure. people are scared to 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 in them. i know my relatives, my friends simply no one vote it. oh, you don't the whole us the low. what the clearly put this is what the referendum is . is this what free will is walking around with assault rifles and making others sign ballads? sure, keith and it's western allies have denounced the referendums as illegal and illegitimate say, 1st of all you do this. fos in the occupied territories cannot even be called an imitation of a referendum in what year we will ock to protect our people in the her san region in these upper region regions in dom boss in the currently occupied areas of the hockey region. and in crimea, if cromwell, the u. s, said it would ask the you, unsecure to counsel, to condemn the votes with the resolution, ordering russia to withdraw from ukraine. that 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. and next in the occupied territories and escalating his 7 month old war, once again tito, he was a washington bureau chief enos pulse folk with former u. s. general david betray his and she asked him about ukraine's recent territorial gains and what the consequences would be if russia used nuclear weapons. ukrainians have decisively won the battle of force generation. and other words, from the very beginning, they mobilized completely. and now this country of less than a 3rd, the population of russia has a much larger army in the field in ukraine. it is vastly better equipped, of course, $15100000000.00 worth of military hardware and ammunition and assistance from the united states alone and many more from our nato allies and other western countries

throughout the world. and now they are bringing these new forces in capabilities to bear, in a very effective matter on the battlefield. there is nothing that russia can do to reverse the situation generally that some people say just because of that. and as you just mentioned, because it might be so desperate that it could be likely that he uses nuclear weapons identity. do you think it is likely? and what would it mean? it is certainly a possibility. that possibility has to be taken very seriously. i don't think it is that likely? but again, something so dangerous and horrific does have to be taken seriously. clearly, as jake solomon indicated, we are taking very seriously and more importantly, we're communicating with russia and with the leadership. they are presumably in a general way. what the response would be to obviously deter them to weigh them

from taking this decision. if anything, it will unite ukraine even more against russia. it will unite nato even more against russia. it will result in additional very various toughest sanctions, financial economic personal. this could be the moment where rushes finally declared a state sponsor of terror. perhaps even worse, crimes charges are levied against this. i think this takes the gloves off in terms of the western response. i was former u. s. general davis betray speaking, where steel, the washington bureau chief in his po, while european union leader, se ruptures in the north stream pipelines were probably caused by sabotaged european companies are now ramping up security in the energy sector. russia has called a united nations security council meeting to discuss damage to the pipelines. european leaders are what it about the pipeline leaks in the politics that you

faced. 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. oliver, 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, a responsibility. as europe largest natural gas supplier, norway, faith, 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 force water, nor by the military will be more present and visible near our oil and gas installations. insulin enrollment really does have warrant of retaliation for any

attack on europe. in our t networks, it is a v vi. there is no doubt that this is very serious. what happened in my it is not a coincidence. it is, was planned. that is what i have discussed with the and the stolen the burglar nato's general secretary wanted because this is serious. some officials and experts believe russia is behind the damage. rush, a thief, it's launching an international editor, some investigation into the leaks denying allegations it was involved relationship . 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 biplanes is also an environmental consent. it contains high levels of me, teen, and authority. fear it could be the equivalent of one 3rd of denmark, stuart it, animal greenhouse gas emissions. well, here's

a reminder of the top new story. this our hurricane ian has been battering the west coast of florida with extreme winds. heavy rain and powerful storm surges of 24 meters high. the category for storm is one of the most powerful to hit the state in decades. all right, well that's all for now. the bank of england takes emergency action to stabilize british financial markets. steven beardsley has to details on detail new business. just after the break. i'm bob affiliates for me on the team here in berlin. thanks for watching. take care and see again at the top of the next hour. ah, these places in europe were smashing the wreckers step into a bold adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you up to a record breaking sites on.