ah, ah ah, ah ah, this is the w news alive from berlin. russia prepared to formally annex for regions of ukraine on friday. moscow says it will incorporate the regions which voted in so called referenda. the stage is being set for an annexation ceremony in moscow. western nations do not recognize russia's illegal and grab

a gordon's in bob would convict for claimed author and filmmaker, tsetse dunker and gut of incitement. activists say the verdict against the prize winning artist is meant to stifle freedom of speech. and a 4th league has detected the ruptured gnawed stream pipeline gas continues to escape into the baltic. sea scientist say it could be the biggest methane league on record, both the in you and russia, say it's sabotage and want to answer ah, i'm glad else as well come to the program. the kremlin says russia will formally annex for ukrainian regions as its own territory. tomorrow. moscow claims the occupied eastern regions voted to join the russian federation in the so called

referendums, which were widely dismissed by the west. as a sham united, the nation says any annexation would violate international law. the stage has been set up in moscow, red square, where the annexation will be celebrated on friday. president vladimir putin is planning to give a speech following a signing ceremony with separate his leaders from the regions all ready in moscow. russia last annex the cranes crimea through a similar process in 24 to 40. with tomorrow's ceremony, the kremlin will annex some 15 percent of ukrainian territory. i asked the ukrainian security expert a maria vega about the reaction and he's well, we have to say that gramlin once to and next illegally, the great territory which is now occupying and the territory that

i know you buy in some, some regions, a song that they are not fully occupied, and this means that the president boynton will announce the so called annexation of these territories. russia will probably try to push forward and occupy the rest of these regions. for example, patricia, which is now controlled a c, which is now fully controlled by green army, is being held constantly by russian troops. and of course, this will never be recognized that this kind of annexation by ukraine and the ukranian authorities have clearly stated that this faith referendum has nothing to do with the situation on the ground and organized also to mobilize russian society to support the so called military operation,

now what will change, for example, how will ukrainians in these territories be treated? who actually take russian passport? people usually are forced to take russian passports because they are in the positions like cost to just for example, if we take into consideration asia and now russia has its soldiers and military presence on a nuclear power plant. holden as opposed to just people who are booking at that plan. so we don't know clearly what is the situation because russia does not allow the independent experts to be present there. but we can assume that they are forcefully given passports to people there. and not only is up patricia, but also on the other occupied territories. and this means this so called annexation, that russia will be able to mobilize these people to take you and forcefully move

them to army, to serve in the russian army, give them guns, and tells them to go and fight with the ukrainian army. now, are you worried that this escalation by russia will scare europe into reducing support for you crime? this couldn't happen because what will happen next and is already happening is that fortune will threaten the gold nuclear weapons. and actually this is already we see. and this means that the, he is blackmail in europe, the, the usage of tactical nuclear weapons. and if the euro or any country allows to do it once, it mean that which will consistently do it. and he will not stop only in ukraine. and these kind of step by rush us would mean that ukraine must be supplied more

high, precise, long range weapons because just it is very important to understand that wouldn't started this referendums. when you bring an army, had to breeland's success, he in harkey region liberated the whole territory of harkey region, and that's why he needed to show something. and the liberation of hierarchy region was possible because of the supply and usage of high precise question. with the more weapons, will ukraine get, the more successful it will be in throwing out russians from the okay. my territory. maria de la in kia for thank you very much. thank you. the internationally acclaimed author until may accompany since he done the rambo has been convicted by a court in her home country and bubbly on charges of inciting public violence. she was arrested in 2024 protesting for government reforms. bride's organizations say

the case which stretched on for more than 2 years was politically motivated, attempt to suppress freedom of speech. since the dawn gorenca in 2020, with the sign that led to her arrest and conviction, we want better reform our institutions. soon after she told d w her account, i walked down the road with my black hands with a friend. after a while, we saw a riot track coming down and they stopped and told us to getting the author was protesting against corruption in her native zimbabwe which maces, ongoing, economic and political crises, criticism of zimbabwe government has been widely suppressed under the rule of president emerson. langon for her protest, dunker rem guy was put on trial for the following charges. the intention to

cause to incite public violence, reach up peace and acts of bigotry. i am also accused of violating code the 19 regulations, the trial against hunger rem got stretched on for more than 2 years. rights groups called it an attack on freedom of speech. as an author, dunker m ga, became known as the 1st black woman from zimbabwe to publish a novel in english. her books and films have won her international praise and awards such as the peace prize of the german book trade, sanker, m g a z most recent novel. this more novel body about the everyday struggles of women in zimbabwe was short listed for the 2020 booker prize. despite an international outcry, sim, bobby's judiciary has now labeled anger ram, got a criminal for what she and her supporters insist was a simple,

peaceful protest. the trial of a, one of the alleged masterminds of rwanda's, 1994 genocide has opened in the hague. judges at the un tribunal decided to proceed with a trial of phyllis young couple girl. despite his decision to boycott, the trial from jailed a former businessman as accused of financing and facilitating the mass murder of 800000 people. he was captured in france 2 years ago. after decades on the run. the law correspond, mcsaunder attended the court proceedings in the hague, and he explained to me why the accused was in custody, but not in the courtroom said gara probably kens everybody surprised this morning when the court went to session. that sir. the defendant, philly, sancho bogo was not there. and according to the presiding judge, there was no apparent reason for this. he simply waved his rights to be there and also didn't want to dial in via video call. he does not have to be there. now there

are questions regarding his health he's, he's quite old and in very bad shape. but according to the chief prosecutor, that is not the reason he receives regular medical checkups and they say he is fit for trial. now what's the case that the prosecution is making? right, so the prosecution made their opening state today for about 2 hours went to the circumstances, the back on of genocide and to felicity couple garza charges of the charges that were being brought up against him. and he is one of the rich was one of the richest men in present day. i wonder back then that he was very well connected, had lots of money and use this power. he had to engage in genocidal activity according to the prosecution. so one of the things he did is he established the article m radio station and was one of the co founders of the largest shareholder there on which i'm horrible messages were, were being broadcast. some of them we heard today in court, in which are the journalists, or, or host of the program, were asking who to,

to go after members of the tutti minority, to, to rape their women, to kill them, to hunt them down in places of worship. and the messages of that sorts, in addition to that, he also finance and oversaw the creation of an extremist who to militia. and he is also accused of importing weapons despite the arms embargo against wanda brought in collision, he coughs grenades, rifles, but also countless machetes. that were used by everyday people against the 2 to minority. now about 2000 suspects are still wanted on a national level in rwanda, and this is the last high profile case of the international criminal court. so what timeline are we looking at sprite cases like this? usually take a while, especially in this case, we're fully sal, capua cannot, is, is a very bad shape and cannot attend at length. so the court will only go into session 3 times a week for about 2 hours. that's all they can do. so now it's about, it's for the prosecution to make their case. and they have roughly 270 excerpts

from the radio station that we just talked about, as well as they will bring in 50, roughly 50 to 50 witnesses who will dial in via video link from rwanda. on to give their testimony. this is going to take a few months, they're probably going to be done with this around february, march, and then it's up for the defense to make the case. so we can expect this case to wrap up and probably a bit over a year. and then a naturally and appeal would follow, but we do know what we hear a lot is given the old age of the defendants in everybody's interest for, for the sal. couple good to be sentenced swiftly. so he can face justice or while he still life back santa, in the hague. thank you ma'am. and i have some of the other world news. in brief for you, finland says it will shut its borders to russian tourists with shan visas. from midnight tonight, it comes after a surgeon border crossing since russia announced

a military mobilization for the war and ukraine that closes the last remaining land route from russia to the european union. germany as calling for european sanctions on iran over the lethal crackdown on protests that was sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody. the german foreign minister said she would do everything possible to get you sanctions on iran for quote, beating women to death and shooting, demonstrating demonstrators in the name of religion. of the swedish coast guard has filed a 4th leak in the north korean gas pipelines that ruptured after undersea explosions were detected. scientists say the baltic sea lines could be pumping out the biggest methane release on record. questions of blame remain, as both the you and russia demand answers. moscow has called the united nations security council meeting to address the issue. european leaders are worried about the pipeline leaks in the baltic, c,

the u. faith. 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 arch. today, ms. oller, who is everything, is being done to try to identify the origin of these events and of the explosions on the nodes during 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 appliance norway theater, it will be 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, reinforce rowden 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, energy networks, the reveal there is no doubt that this is very serious. it is not a coincidence. this was planned. that is what i am or other things of discussed with the installed in burg. nato secretary general, because this is serious, russia says 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 or yep, so the gas escaping from the pipelines is also an environmental concern. it contains high levels of meeting and authority, fear it could be the equivalent a one 3rd of denmark, total animal, greenhouse gas emissions. while from all these environmental effects, when i joined possession mila corona,

he is an executive director of the angel environmental action germany, you organization said that the leaks have already caused immeasurable damage. could you put that into perspective for us? yes, it was already told before here in the reporting that this is the largest meeting leak that we've ever seen on earth, the super emitting. he meant we have 3 or 4 pipelines that on our basically losing all them the thing through the water in the atmosphere and when compared to over the amount that will be lost if we don't act now and start removing gas from the pipeline. this will be far beyond the largest leaking a power plant in germany, and this was that it would be a 3rd of denmark, any of the emissions. so a lot of climate policy measures that we're taking the past would be null and void because of the single event you said that you called for a suze. me pumping out the remaining gas. now, the head of the danish energy agency said that the biggest part of the gas has already come out of the pipes. and here that the rest will come up by sunday. so

would this pumping out be actually worth it? where every day we lose the last a full time it so we should open the gas pipeline on the job site and by the pressure that is in the pipeline. a lot of the gas would move from department to gas source facilities or took to the the on the land pipeline system. this is gas that could then be used in the energy crisis. the same of the rushing gas company, gas pro x rays constantly could be done on the russian side. well, this will not to reduce the problem to 0, but it will minimize the problem at least a little bit. at least some of the meeting bern from the atmosphere. so what's the worst case scenario and your view for the people living close to those meeks? are there any health issues? no, actually it's, it's in that respect, it's better than an oil leak. so there is no lasting damage to the marine environment. that obviously has been the explosion. there has been suffocation

locally but temporarily, but the gas will leave the water. so this is not the problem. what we will have in the future though is to dash pipelines to damaged pipelines on the ground, the sea, and we should remove them. we should not have those pipelines anymore, and we should fully rely on the future of renewables, not on those fossil fuel infrastructures. so shamela kayla, executive director of the angel environment, environmental action, germany, thank you very much for your time. thank you. bye. germany's chancellor. all of shaw says unveiled a 200000000000 euro plan to guard the german economy against the effects of soaring energy prices. the plan includes a cap on natural gas and electricity prices and will also scrap a proposed gas tax on consumers. germany is coping with an energy crisis after russia cut gas applies to berlin in response to western sanctions over the war and ukraine. after weeks of debate about what measures the german government should and

would take to help customers through a winter of spiraling energy prices. finally, at clear decision from the chancellor who spoke via video link because of the positive cove attest. yep. skipped to so many good. we're talking about price cap for gas, but for that purpose we have now set up a committee that will come up with concrete suggestions in a very short time. the c emitter is it's, we've now put in place the means to lower prices for consumers all over the country for families, for pensioners, for traits, people, but also for businesses big and small. and that's what desperately needed now. so we can get into these difficult time, sit with users feeling it's had come the shut down of cheap russian gas has resulted in german energy prices. skyrocketing help from the government is badly needed to cushion the blow to households and businesses. spain and portugal already introduced a gas price cap, and both the u. k and france have announced plans to curb energy prices,

but the german government had sidestepped the measure so far. on wednesday, the leaders of germany, 16 federal states, met to discuss the energy crisis, and called for decisive action from left charles here. sure, he had a piece of the weakness of the government's measure so far is lately been minor. they've tried to solve one of the biggest challenges in germany's history with an inadequate tool she stood up with as regards month. what we need now is a big plan. big commitment was the 1st grade. now that big commitment has been made, though the exact numbers still need to be thrashed out with winter fast approaching, germans will be hoping that it will be enough to help get them through the cold. hurricane ian is moving across the state of florida, after battering the gulf coast and cause and catastrophic flooding. it made landfall as one of the strongest storms ever, to hit the u. s. and still lashing the state with strong winds and torrential rains

. the storm has weakened over land, but forecasts is expected to pick up strength as it moves back out over open water . and then take aim at the country, south, east coast. hurricane hunters flying to 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 in my 6 years of doing this and it was, it was a messy pass. and i think even if you know in the future we fly through a storm and it ends up being worse than that. it'll still be one that i think back on. it's like, 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 his life for him. you should obey all warnings and directions from earnest. officials don't take anything for granted. reserve judgment, not yours. a vacuum when order hurry can ian was one of the most powerful storms to ever hit the united states. the state governor says that it could take years to recover from the devastation left behind. this is a, a major, major event. it's going to be going to be a tragic event in many ways, and we understand this is not just

a 48 hour ordeal. this is going to be something that is going to be there for days and weeks and months. and unfortunately, in some circumstances, even years, ian has become significantly weaker after making landfall. and it is expected to weaken further as it heads in land. but even cell expert, a warning of devastating rain and even tornadoes as it tears across the state. that 7 other quick look at some more news from around the world. uganda's president has ruled out ordering a lockdown to contain any bola break saying his country can control the spread without one president you wearing was of any said there have been 5. confirm this with another 19 for tell it is likely caused by the disease. there is no vaccine for the strain of the ebola virus that's currently circulating in uganda.

you as vice president, pamela harris did visited the demilitarized zone that divides the korean peninsula, where she said, washington will use its full range of military capabilities to defend south korean . harris arrived in sol a day after john young, conducted more ballistic miss artists, publications. she said were meant to destabilize the region. queen elizabeth died of old age, according to her death certificate, which was released on thursday. the time of death is listed at 3, 10 pm on september 8th, at her by moral estate. in scotland, a death was announced to the world around 3 and a half hours later. one of the biggest voices in hippo has fallen silence. the u. s. rep coolio has died at the age of 59, julio, whose legal name was artis leon ivy. junior concord that the charts in 1995 with

his triple platinum hit, gangsters, paradise. he was found unresponsive in a friend's home. an official ha cause of death has not been announced. alma educate him to win money. obama coolio hit track gainst his paradise left a lasting mark on hip hop with its sharp beats and menacing vocals. it also helped blast the genre into the mainstream. i'm the lead on the the way up there by doing what and coulier knew what he was wrapping about. he rose up from a troubled youth of gangs and crack cocaine addiction. his success he credited to his christian faith. god gave us the ability to be able to, to do these different things. it, you know, to rab julio, took west coast hip hop to a new level, but widespread assumptions that hip hoppers were violent criminals meant that he still found himself on the defensive. i was right

back in to a by year. that's a lawsuit like like somebody that's a lot so they can take money for me and i'm not in today. somewhat people in hip hop. they'll do that as people outside it. and yet the artist did have the occasional legal trouble. in 1998, a german court convicted him for punching a shop owner. many years later he pleaded guilty for bringing a loaded gun to an airport. for years, coolio also struggled to land another hit as big as gangsters, paradise. he stayed in the limelight to reality tv and through ninety's themed concert tours. just before his death, gangsters, paradise hid 1000000000 clicks on you to the wrapper seemed to make his peace with the fact that that tr will be his final legacy. a great you're watching t w. a news. his a reminder of the top stories were following for you. the kremlin, says russia will formally annex full ukrainian regions as its own territory.

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