ah, ah ah, this is dw news coming to live from berlin. russia prepares to poorly annex for regions of ukraine. the stage is set for ceremony and moscow to morrow when russia plans to officially operate the occupied areas after so called referendums. western allies bow never to recognize russia's illegal land grab. also coming up a 4th leak is detected in the ruptured north stream. pipeline gas continues to escape into the baltic. sea scientist say it could be the biggest methane leak on record. of the

e u. n rushes say it's sabotaged and want answers and hurricane e and rips into the u. s. state of florida flooding, inundate cities, the power goes out from millions of residents and authorities say the worst is not yet over. as the storm slows but brings more rain ah hello, i'm terry martin. good to have you with us. the kremlin says russia will formally annex for ukrainian regions as its own territory. to morrow. moscow claims the occupied eastern regions voted to join the russian federation in so called referendums, which were dismissed by the west as a sham, united nations says any annexation would violate international law. stage has been set up in moscow's red square, where the annexation will be celebrated on friday. president vladimir putin is

planning to give a speech following a signing ceremony with separatist leaders, who all are already in moscow. russia last annexed the ukraine's crimea peninsula through a similar process in 2014 t w, correspond mathias putting. it is in the ukranian capital kia. i asked him, what impact this annexation move is likely to have well on the ground, not much. it is neither going to stop your crane from trying to read, take the occupied territories, nor that miraculously enhancing the russian military's capabilities and the long term it might have, however, an impact because what we're putting is doing there. he is basically blocking the exit from these territories, the diplomatic exit from these territories, any way to retreat from ukraine by claiming that these territories are russia. so any, any, any solution to the war will, will be even more difficult under the pressure on also may be the russian public is

higher to continue this war. does annexation mathias mean that putins nuclear threats now extend to those annex territories? while these nuclear threats, they haven't been very specific or they have been contradicted. and that's for a reason. i think it's very clear that if the kremlin ever decides to use nuclear weapons, it will be based on 2 criteria, whether it can gain anything by it and whether it can get away with it. there is no list of criteria a, b, c, and d. and if all of them are met, then russia has to use a will definitely use these weapons. this is a decision that they will make according to their estimate of what they can expect to happen after that. the west does not recognize these annexations. obviously the e u is announcing further sanctions, but what can be done about it mathias?

it doesn't look like anything can be done to stop this process or that is now underway. but of course, what is going to be, what, what can be done and what is going to happen is most probably that the war will go on and that the crime will try to come to take back these occupied terry trees and that they will receive aid from the west as they have now, and that the west will keep their sanctions up. that's probably the, that's the most probable scenario and that's pretty much what are those who don't agree with it? ukraine and the western countries can do right now, but is thank you very much. now that was our correspond mathias spelling of their in t d. w. washington bureau chief in his paul has been speaking with former u. s. general david portray is she asked him about ukraine's recent territorial gains and what the consequences would be of russia used in nuclear weapons. the

ukrainians have decisively won the battle of force generation. in 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 plenty 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 put in might be so desperate that it could be likely that he uses nuclear weapons and then to do, 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 sway 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 russians 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 from a u. s. general david the trash they're speaking with d. w. washington bureau chief in his poll. the right livelihood award is sometimes dub. the alternative nobel prize, each year the ward honors activists and organizations working to make the world a better place. one of this year's winners is ukranian woman who documents war crimes and human rights violations. alexandra murphy chak is one of ukraine's most prominent human rights defenders and chairs the center for civil liberties. jurors said both she and the organization have been instrumental in quote, building, sustainable democratic institutions in ukraine modeling, a path to international accountability for war crimes. it's the 1st time the right livelihood award has gone to someone from ukraine. then i'm joined now by alexander. it might be

a joke in camp. thank you very much for taking time to be with us. now. you recently investigated mass graves uncovered and it's your, that's a town that was occupied by the russian troops. most of the dead there were civilians. were you surprised by what you found there? unfortunately, we have no surprise about to be it still wouldn't be indifferent. and to get used to such a level of atrocities, we observe the same, which we hear, for example, in a real, in key of region where the russian girls way retreated from there. and we also found my race and you see the dance. do you think that war crimes and human rights abuses are being perpetrated systematically as a weapon of war in ukraine? or is the 7 months of renovation, their skill aggression only our joint initiative, you know,

have been documented more than 19. so this is those of crimes and it show us that it's systematic and large scale character and russia uses were crimes at the massive work here. no rush. it also says that ukraine is perpetrating war crimes as well. have you seen evidence about we have been, do you maintain that we're crimes for 8 years and we as a human rights defenders, defendant, human rights regard as a site and eve, ukrainian science, committed war crimes. we also documented them, but here we have a to how to push for effective in investigation. when we speak about russia, there is no possibility to stop this atrocities or to hold perpetrators to come to one of the biggest challenges you face and documenting the war in you credit.

hello. i'm a human rights lawyer who have been spent 20 years protected. right. you're going to receive region, and last 8 years, i have been to command in war crimes and an interview to more than hundreds of people from captivity. and they told me horrible, horrible stories, how they were beaten home there are raped, how they're where they could torture to with electricity and other way. but you and me, professional human rights lawyer wasn't prepared for such level of atrocities. sometimes i feel my that i am working with a human being like fewer human thing. now she just won an award for charting a path toward international accountability for suspected war crimes and ukraine. do you believe those responsible will actually some day be brought to justice? we had people who know to predict future with people who read edge wheelchair,

which we weren't to see and in future or we are struggling or if you chair of his justice. so i, myself and my colleagues will do our best to hold russian perpetrators like sandra, my pitchbook, human rights floor and the head of the nonprofit organizations center for civil liberties. thank you very much for talking with us. thank you. and for more information on this year's right livelihood award and all the orient, you can go to our website d, w dot com. now let's have a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world today. you as president, vice president cola harris visited the demilitarized zone that divides the korean peninsula where she said, washington will use its full range of military capabilities to defend south korea. harris arrived in sol a day after jonya and conducted more ballistic missile tests provocation. she said

were meant to destabilize the region. a court in myanmar has sentenced austin, leader on so she to 3 more years in jail for violating a secrets law. it's the latest and string of convictions against her since the military sees power last year. so she is economics, advisor, australian sean, turn. all also received 3 years in prison. we had to my german car maker. portia has made its debut, had the frankfurt stock exchange and a strong start parent company. volkswagen has raised over 9000000000 euros so far, making it one of the largest initial public offerings in european history or shown is expected to invest in electric mobility and software. in future. the swedish coast guard has found a 4th leak in the north stream. gas pipelines that ruptured after undersea explosions were detected. scientists say the baltic sea lines could be pumping out the biggest method release on record. questions of blame remain as both the

e u and russia demand answers. moscow has called united nations security council meeting to address the issue european leader. i read it about the pipeline leaks in the bank that you faced. that damage was likely caused by a deliberate act raising security consent. but the european commission has not set who might have been behind the suspect at separate arch. today me the owner of either everything is being done to try to identify the origin of these events. and of the explosions on the node string pipeline. 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 bill? super low vision. this is extra joy responsibility. as europe largest natural gas supplier, norway thief, it will beef up the security of its antarctic infrastructure use the term, 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 for shrouding or by the military will be more present and visible near al oil and gas installations installment really does have warrant of retaliation for any attack on europe. energy networks, if you to reveal there is no doubt that this is very serious. it is not a coincidence, this was planned. that is what i am, i rather things of discussed with the installed in burg nato secretary general, because this is serious. russia says it's launching an international debt. it has some investigation into the leaks denying allegations it was involved with it. well, you know, it's quite predictable and also predictably stupid to make such claims. i repeat once again, predictably stupid and absurd. yep. so the gas escaping from the pipelines 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. and we're joined by marcus father who's on the german parliament defense committee. his party, the f. d. p is a member of germany's governing coalition. i sure. time taking time talk with us today. mr. farmer. now, you have accused russian president vladimir putin of using, sabotaged to destroy civilian pipelines, authorities and general, believe it was sabotage. but there still questions about who may have done it. what evidence do you have to support the claimed that it was russia, mentioned it magically appeared for leaks at the pipeline during the week. so lately there's no coincidence who has the capability to do so. obviously it's about us or has increased capabilities to, to how calm the pipelines and to data cables and the politics as well. so in the

last 2 years, so it's probably a pretty obvious russia is carrying out this, carrying the energy market. it's guy rocking gas prices, so that has been maybe efficient in doing so, and this is just another way to do it. i guess a number of countries would have that capability, but why would russia destroy its own energy infrastructure? to be for sure. denmark does not have that capability, and all the other countries in the baltic sea next to the body has the capability. so the aim is pretty clear to skyrocket gas prices, because obviously russia is exporting guess to so they get more revenue and to show what they, they're capable. so the real threat here is that the pipeline from norway to germany, for instance, could be a tech as well. just the, the possibility to do so is threatening our security during the winter.

so it's irrational beyond there in russia. so who has to do? well yeah, i just would just point out that i conducted an interview with a commander of the, from the norwegian naval academy, who's explain just how easy it is to set explosives like that to, to detonate at a later time. but moving on, russia is suggesting that the u. s. could have been responsible. the us are you ruling that out? because the u. s. has been fiercely opposed to the north stream to pipeline from the beginning. could they not have been behind the attack? let me think about it, who would take 2 neighboring countries this? yeah, maybe it wasn't the us. maybe it was russia. and obviously the united states post not streams to as many congress that poland, for instance, the baltics case causing, bypassing them by the united states. respect and international law and russel,

how worried are you about these pipeline leaks? i'm everywhere. it costs extra. the pipelines at tech right now. i'm not transporting gas at the moment because who didn't cut them off basically. but there are pipelines from the way, for instance, transporting gas to germany into central europe. so, to take them would actually take the energy supply of the rope, and this is a real threat for the winter. so nato should also think about what can be done to defend those pipe then, so that there was some protest x can not be transformed to the pipelines that use it on the go into stocks defense committee, germany, it has a long baltic shore baltic sea shore line, you're familiar with germany's energy infrastructure. how vulnerable would you say that european energy infrastructure is that's about us. the

infrastructure in europe is actually very willing to go, though there is no defense plan or such pipelines and international waters, especially because obviously they belong to a company. so there was no idea of attacking them and then in a military way. so i think the european defense ministries and also nato have to think about how could they be defended at the found it comes to separate, for instance, if it comes to so now, so that russian movies can be spotted. marcus father from the german parliament's defense committee. thanks so much for talking with us. thanks. i mean, now, to germany, where russia's war and ukraine continues to pose significant political and economic challenges in the form of an energy crisis at a press conference called on short notice transfer. all of schoultz is expected to

discuss new measures to further protect citizens from businesses and businesses from the dramatic increase in energy prices. shots will be speaking alongside countries, economy and finance ministers. the w political correspond. nina hossa is following that press conference. nina, what more can you tell us? while the press conference is still underway and all sorts and was tested positive for corona, which is why he's not taking part in that room. he is in the chancery but on a different floor. but he came together with his most important ministers when it comes to the issues of energy, security, and finance, and what havoc and christian lintner and the 3 of them announced what we'll have. so it's called a double whammy is so in german that would have been adopted forms and he wanted to highlight that the german government is essentially taking lots of money into its

hands to help germans cope with rising energy prices. so in concrete terms, they spelt out the details just now and in concrete terms, that means that they're going to be using a special fund that germany has used in the past. for example, helping germans cope with a covert crisis. but also it was already used that fund, and when it came to saving some of the crucial banks here in this country, and that fund will now get a volume of up to 200000000000 euros. and that money can then go into essentially helping put a price cap on energy prices. just how that is going to work. that is going to be the topic of further discussions over the next couple of days. they do want to come with a proper solution by next tuesday because of course the issue is very, very pressing. people are already receiving their higher energy bills and there is a lot of fear in this population. well, course europe's energy crisis is directly related to the war and ukraine. has there

been any reaction from the chancellor or the, or has the 2 ministers there are 2 rushes statement that it will to morrow annex for regions of eastern new credit. they didn't mention the annexation specifically again, but they have spoken about that plan by vladimir putin on twitter and this week they are very clear that germany is not going to accept the results of the so called referendums, and that germany is going to fully continue its support to ukraine. what was interesting as well was today that all 3 of them directly linked those higher energy prices to russia. aggression and cost ended another finance minister act. he said that russia is not just waging a brutal war on the population in ukraine. it is also waging a brutal energy war of bow to wealth and freedom in the rest of europe. neither

thank you very much. our political correspondent neither hussar mounted. the us we're hurricane in is moving across the state of florida, after battering the gulf coast and causing catastrophic flooding. it made land, paul was one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. s. and well, it has since weakened. it's still unleashing strong winds. and torrential rains. authorities are scrambling to respond and warn of a long clean up ahead. hurry can hunters fly into the eye of storms to gather data for meteorologists. oh, but this hunter was shocked by the strength of this hurricane. he says e n will be one to remember. today's flight was certainly the roughest that i've been on. and my 6 years of doing that, and it was, it was a messy pass. and i think even if you know in the future we fly through

a storm in it and being worse than that, it will still be one that i think back honestly. oh, well, was it worse than ian? i'm not sure. ian has turned florida sandy, beaches and coastal towns into a disaster zone. streets have been turned into rivers and nearly 2000000 homes and businesses are without power. hundreds of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate. but some of chosen to write out the hurricane. you as president joe biden has urged people to heat the safety precautions is life for him. you should obey all warnings and directions towards the officials. don't take anything for granted their judgment. not yours. a vacuum when order hurry can ian was one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the united states.

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boris bonder wrath who resigned in protest over the war. i'm cherry martin for me and all of us here at the debbie. thanks for watching. ah ah, with

into the conflict with tim sebastian sham referendums in the occupied regions of ukraine and more russian troops. i drafted into battle. my guest this week had his own unique protest, very spun very off. a foreign service veteran resigned in shame, the more in ukraine. what are the chances of putin surviving the conflict? he started conflict zone next on d, w. o.

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how climate change and environmental conservation is taking shape around the world and how we can all make a difference. knowledge grows through sharing, download it now for free. sham referendums in occupied regions of you. crane and more russian troops drafted into battle. but the protest are increasing across the country. i guess this week had his own unique protest, very spun, the real foreign service veteran resigned in shame of the war in ukraine. the only russian government official to do so in public. what are the chances of reviving the conflict he started, he put himself in the position where it doesn't know who i think he's elect my threats to the only.