ah, ah ah ah, this is the w news live from burke lane. russia prepared to formally annex for regents of ukraine. moscow says it will incorporate them on friday as a result of a discredited series of votes. they went, secretary journal called the kremlin st plans at the dangerous escalation, also on the program. a 4th leak is detected in the ruptured nord stream pipelines.

gas continues to escape into the baltic sea scientist say it could be the biggest methane league on record. the e. u and russia agree. it's sabotaged. for us president wards, there may be substantial loss of life after hurry can in cuts, a path of destruction across florida. storms expected to be gain strength before striking south carolina and the court in zimbabwe. convicts acclaimed all for and filmmaker sit, sit down, go ram, go of inciting violence after she took part in protest against the government after the site. the verdict is an attack on freedom of speech. ah, i'm so gale. welcome to the program. un secretary general has warned that russia's

plan to formally annex for ukrainian regions on friday would be a dangerous escalation. adding that any annexation would have no legal value and jeopardize prospects for peace. moscow claims the occupied regions of the hands, then adds his apparition and hair san voted to join the russian federation in so called referendums, which have been dismissed by you, cried on the west as a shall russia are mixed. ukraine's crimea through a similar process in 2014 at moscow's the red square preparations are underway, dis, benefits to get there forever. with the names of the regents russia plans to absorb here, russian president vladimir putin. blanche to officially announce the annexation of the ford ukrainian regents after nets, low hunt for patricia and a cat son. they make up about 15 percent of ukraine's territory. rewards is delia. a solid people have made a conscious and free choice. i knew maggie senior grace stated firmly to the whole

world to read their wish to be with russia only at lena. bit remiss dear sir. i see no seek to forever the tie. their fate. settle our country. which war assist, ease, and will be their historic motherland. is that each is great originally, in the city of tramadol, in that the net fleet and they didn't fade, they will defy ration anake fission. no does. is him even if they come, our boys won't let us down if necessary. we will fight to move even, you know, you might by your only some good laska that please don't do stupid things, nikki replenished, do not take the steps you intend to take in confirming and accepting the annexation of our territories and authority for don bass has always been ukraine su, crate and will always be ukraine. we will fight for it is all the story you know. it will. the melissa bottle up to 4000000 people were asked to work in the fort

wharton regions. trash mcclendon, overwhelming victory while ukraine and its international partners dismissed the defendants as chance and a violation of international law. it cannot be reconciled with the international legal framework. it since against every seeing the international community is meant to stand for it flogged the purposes and principles of united nations. it is a dangerous escalation. it has no place in the modern world. it must not be accepted. the kremlin thin, unmoved by the criticism, but its actions are clothing all doors to a diplomatic solution. as john d, w correspondent, mc connelly in the ukrainian capital, welcome at nick, how are people reacting to this news? was weird, it sounds, this is not the top story in the ukrainian media today and definitely pull are not talking about it anything as much as internationally. people here talking about the

use of cluster munitions against civilians in the south ukraine. other kind of humanitarian stories. i think that has 2 reasons. on the one hand this has already been factored in. there's been lots of talk about referendums since russia started this most recent invasion in february. the dates were moved several times where people kind of knew this was coming. i was just a matter of when it was coming in the end the there was only few weeks between the announcement of these votes and them being carried out. but basically people had kind of prepared themselves for this. and they don't want to, especially the politicians say they don't want to give it too much significance. this is not something that ukraine recognizes. they called on their assistance to boycott these events and to, you know, we saw lots of peaks, people hiding away in their apartments, trying to avoid being called on to vote. and people going around knocking on doors with military and tow trying to get people to vote. so, you know, they're basically trying to not dignify this with too much reaction. and you know, focus on the things where they feel stronger. and how will formal russian annexation change day to day life of people in these regions, the hands and asked apparition and cas on i think actually

initially won't change that much. lots of this kind of creeping annexation measures have already taken place. lots of places you currently pay in russian roubles rather than ukraine retina, wrote the russian pension system has been introduced and the ukranian post office that was it, providing those pensions has basically been kicked out. and lots of other kind of economic things have happened. and basically, if you want to work for the state for, to keep on teaching in a school, for instance, or if you want to open a bank account, you have long needed a russian passport. so basically, if you didn't want a russian passport, your life was made very difficult without one. i think the real crux will be now mobilization. that is the thing that people here ukraine are most worried about, the ukrainians, living under occupation will now be told you are russian and such as a man between age of 18. 60, you are liable to fight in russia's army against your own country against ukraine. my bad that brings me to my next point, merely which is how this just status is likely to change, or either the way that russia conducts the war, or indeed the way that you crane defends itself. we've heard lots of threats

from top brush officials, including former president meter mc videos saying that at once these regions are deemed to be russia proper. then russia will use nuclear weapons, at least tactical nuclear weapons, small scale nuclear weapons to defend that surgery, even if no one else in the world recognizes these territories as being russian. that includes rushes closest allies of serbia. and bruce, who are in no hurry to recognize these pseudo referendums as the ukrainians, while they're gonna carry on fighting irrespective they are not taking the seriously, they've just missed the missed freak show in a pseudo referenda. i think the big difference could be, and that's the way in ukraine's that western european supporters of ukraine are going to get cold feet. they're gonna be scared by these russian threats. this willingness to escalate and such might reduce their support. the principle at re argue that nick i d, w, corresponded nick connelly in keith and swedish coast guard has found a 4th leak in the north stream gas pipelines that ruptured following undersea explosions. scientists say the lines under the baltic sea could be pumping out the

biggest and methane release on record. the e u and russia are demanding answers with moscow, rejecting accusations that it is behind the presume sabotaged. in fact, moscow has called the un security council meeting to address the issue. 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, a responsibility. as europe largest natural gas supplier, 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 for shrouding 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 is to 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 discuss with the installed and burg nato secretary general. because this is serious. russia says it's launching an international that it is m investigation into the leaks denying allegations it was involved. religion. 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 concern. it contains high levels of meeting and authority, fear it could be the equivalent of one 3rd of denmark sorted animal, greenhouse gas emissions a john chancellor. all i've shows is unveiled a 200000000000 euro plant to protect the german economy against the worst effects of soaring energy prices. the plan includes a cap on natural gas and electricity prices and will scrap a proposed gas levy on cost on consumers. but the rest of europe, germany is in the midst of an energy crisis. after russia cut off for cut gas supplies 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 a positive cova test. yet skewed to so many good. we are 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 to see it because it can, 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's desperately needed now. so we can get into these difficult times with users feeling a tough call. the shut down of cheap ration 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 had announced plans to curb energy prices, but the german government had sidestepped the measure so far. on wednesday, the leaders of germany's 16 federal states met to discuss the energy crisis,

and called for decisive action from all of charles. see if they hear the pieces of the weakness of the government's measure so far is that they've been minor. they've tried to solve one of the biggest challenges in germany's history with inadequate tools she stood up with as regards month. what we need now is a big plan becomes a commitment, was the 1st question. 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. will state beslee from the w business can talk us through the germans, a big plan. welcome, steven. so what will households and businesses see if these plans are introduced? although the idea here is to protect consumers essentially, to shield them from these very high market prices. we're seeing right now by setting up this kind of artificial ceiling on how much they can pay. and the difference between these 2 levels will be covered by the government. most likely,

this level, the ceiling will be set as a kind of a, a price per kilowatt hour as the brits have already done. and, and you know, the initial approval of, of this plan because the government is going to step in and play a much more active role. and so what would a gas cap mean for inflation, which is just hit 10 percent likely, we would see inflation go down because this would see the government eating more of the cost that the households were responsible for. the biggest concerns with the gas cap would be $1.00 cost, and the other would be the signal that it sends to consumers. we know that there are no official figures for what the cap will look like right now, and that, that's going to be left to an expert commission. it's job will be to figure out exactly how, where to set this level so that it's still forces consumers to think about how much gas they're using without making, without leaving them unable to afford gas. and it has to find a sweet spot. if it doesn't make gas expensive enough, then demand might stay the same, or it might even go up for gas. and that could actually have the opposite effect of

what's intended here. and how is jeremy doing on its pivot away from russian gas? yeah, i mean it some this is the big question. i mean it is this winter is is the brinkley no one knows rights right now. one thing that we know is that the german government has been focused on filling up its gas reserves. it's not a pretty good job of that. it's met all of its deadlines ahead of schedule. it's continued to receive gas from the netherlands from norway, long term contracts there. it's spent more on the spot market paying a lot, just to fill up those reserves. what it needs to do is it needs to have more long term contracts for things like liquefied natural gas from caught. are you probably heard about this already, the u. s. as well, and it's going to need more savings from consumers and from businesses. and we're already starting to see some efforts to that end. more of the more businesses are moving towards other fuels, aside of gas if they can, households as well are moving towards other means of heating aside from gas. and so

these measures are going to be important in the months ahead if germany is going to meet at savings goals, a quick word on inflation, which i mentioned it, 10 percent stay, there's talk of recession in europe biggest economy. so what's that likely to mean for, for people was not just talk of recession? the question is more, how bad is going to be not whether it's going to be here. almost all the prognosis we're seeing right now say recession is coming for 2023. of the latest one we saw today say it's likely the german economy is likely to contract by half a percent. what that means is that businesses will pull in their spending. that means that there could be lay offs that could be job losses. that means the households will to back their spending. a lot of this depends on what we see with energy costs in the coming months when demand rises, when a gas supply is potentially short, how short is it going to be? we'll industries have to a set aside production lines because energy is too expensive or because they don't have enough gas. all these will play into how bad this recession will be. and that's still an open question. at the end of the day, one thing we definitely can't control is the weather. is this going to be

a really cold winter? will people be turning up their thermostats higher than normal? i'm so all these questions are coming into play right now. ok, no good news. in there at all, stephen b as t w business. thank you. take a look at some, some more news from around the world. now, i'm starting to finland where it says it will shut its borders to russia. russian tourist with shang and visa from midnight tonight. when this comes after surgeon border crossings in russia announced a military mobilization for its war in the crate that closes the last remaining land route from russia to the european union. us vice president, a couple of harris visit the demilitarized zone that divides the korean peninsula, where she said, washington will use its full range of military capabilities to defend a south korea. she arrived in so the death of john john conducted more ballistic missile test, publications. she said were meant to destabilize the region. germany is going for

european sanctions on iran belief crackdown on protest 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 asked quotes, beating women to death and shooting demonstrators in the name of religion. tried to, one of the alleged masterminds of ruins, is 994 genocide has opened in the hague. judges of the un tribunal decided to proceed with the trial for this year and a book, a book, despite his decision to boycott it from jail. the former businessman's accused of financing and facilitating the mass murders of around 800000 people and to the united states where president biden has warned that hurry could, it could be the deadliest ever recorded in the state of florida. is that the numbers are currently unclear, but early report suggests what he called a substantial loss of life. the storm made land for us,

one of the strongest ever to hit the u. s. and he still lashing florida with strong winds and torrential rates. at trail of destruction after making landfall in florida, south west hurricane e and left flooded neighborhoods. leading many trapped this hospital was badly affected. evacuations another pods. further along the hurricanes, trailer ongoing governor, the santas, cold storm, his tory, we've never seen a flood of that like this. we've never seen storm surge of this magnitude and it hit an area where there's a lot of people in a lot of those low lying areas. and it's going to end up doing extensive damage to a lot of people's homes with a storm already passed. it was a harrowing experience with just relentless spinning,

casually just over his over here, the metal banging against the building is dark. you don't know what's going on at the 10 o'clock last night this way in and they're brand new. now you can buy. yeah, there are standing are, polls are standing, others were not that lucky. this could be florida se deadliest hurricane on record . u. s. president biden said, the federal government promised help the president in our administration are fully committed to offering in supplying federal support to state officials and doing everything we can to help them both in terms of recovery, but also whatever is necessary to ensure that folks are safe and out of harm's way . hurricane ian has left millions across florida without electricity authorities fear even more severe damage is the song continues. it's trail of destruction on florida's north eastern coast or carry barber's broadcast for

national public radio. she joins us from fort myers in florida, which as we scenes, it's also been badly hurt. so welcome, kerry. and what can you tell us about the situation there? i'mma well, the damage has truly been catastrophic. around here, the fort myers beach is a town that has basically been leveled. every building seems to be gone. downtown fort myers is, there was water almost to the 2nd level. cars submerged. many people, last homes, many people are injured and there is just a huge amount of damage. and president biden warning that the storm could be the deadliest in the states at history. how badly are people being affected? what are you seeing and hearing? we simply don't know the extent of the harm and the injury yet. i know that more than 500 rescues have been made in lee county,

which is where fort myers is. and charlotte, which is the county just north, when rescuer is get out and about they, we will no more the naples city manager estimated $200000000.00 in damage in that small city which is south of us. right. and that how, as the rescue operation being coordinated, is it going well it is going slowly only because they couldn't get out until really late morning today. it's about 3 pm here in florida now. so they've been at it for some hours. but until the wind and rain died down, they couldn't get out either. so people have possibly been waiting for help and they may be waiting a bit more. is it too soon to start talking about reconstruction on the costs and how about going to work?

i think it is, we still have power is still out for about 2700000 people in the region, which is almost the entire grid and authority. you say that the infrastructure has been badly damaged to the point where they can't just run around and reconnect things they have to really rebuild. so i don't know the full extent, but i know that it's going to take a long time and be very, very deep changes. right, i'm, the storm has weakened now. what's being predicted and for its course. it is last i heard it's in the atlantic ocean on the east coast of florida and headed for south carolina. it may strengthen to a hurricane again, but there are still tropical storm force winds and flooding in northeastern florida . this evening. good talking to you. thank you so much for joining us. carry baba and florida,

and internationally acclaimed author and filmmaker at city bank of america has been convicted by a country of zimbabwe charges of inciting public violence. she was arrested in 2024 protesting for government reforms rights organization. so the case which stretched for over 2 years was politically motivated and an attempt to suppress freedom of speech. the w a privilege was on here. he was at court incentive since report the permanent right at city down there in black and hair co accuse julie benz. i say that they are not surprised by the verdict and the sentence that was handed down on them are looking at the situation that has been happening in the country to other civic active vista and also our opposition policies. and he says that what it means if this sentence is upheld,

it is an indictment on freedom of expression in bubble where citizens can not express themselves. it anything that they few is a violation against them. so from now what is going to happen is that she is going to appeal at the high court against the sentence, hoping that the sentence will be reversed. because if it is upheld, it means that are in number, ofa, civic activists estimated to be over a 1000 to our phishing. the almost similar charges risk to be given simila sentences like she has a received privilege mussman here. and one of the biggest forces in the hip hop has fallen silent for your us. rafa coolio has died at the age of 59. his legal name was office leona junior. he conquered the charts in 1995 with his triple platinum head gangsters. paradise was found unresponsive in a friend's home,

an official cause of death has not been announced. ah, educated when money obama julio's hit track gainst as 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 beat somebody up there by doing what and coolio 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. we do it by somebody that's a law so they can take money for me and i'm not in today. so most people in

a 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 through 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 track will be his final legacy. again, when money, obama, reminder of our top story at this hour, the red secretary general has wounded russia's plan to formally annexed full ukrainian regions on friday would be a dangerous escalation. moscow claims the occupied air is of a lu hans could denounce because appalachia and has san voted to join the russian

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