north to the carolinas. this is deed of the news from berlin. you'll find more news on our website, d, w dot com the kremlin announced today that it will formerly annex for more regions of ukraine on friday, adding new hands, genetics, parisha, and half song to the crimea peninsula, which it took in 2014. despite this, ukraine says it will fight on until all of its territory is liberated. so how will this latest move affect the way russia conducts this war? and the way ukraine defends itself. i'm fil gail in berlin, and this is the day ah! during that new movie ukraine cannot and will not tolerate any attempt by russia to seize any part of our land, which we did it casts on regent separation region. is janette and hands peoples,

republics will now forever become russia no matter what president putin in, his enablers, try to claim it. these areas are and will remain part of ukraine. we all know that the west is working on scenarios for inciting conflicts, but it is a site for what's yours. out of our land, our soul and our culture. all also on the day german inflation, it's 10 percent of the government announces a 200000000000 europe package to soften the economic impact of the war. and ukraine . 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 times it users get touch. ah,

welcome to the day, while the un secretary general has warned that russia's plan to formally annex for ukrainian regions on friday would be a dangerous escalation. and if any so called annexation would have no legal value and jeopardize prospects for peace. moscow claims the occupied regions of the hands denounced apparition of house on voted to join the russian federation and so called referendums, which have been dismissed by ukraine and the west as a sham, russia annex to ukraine's crimea through a similar process in 2014 at moscow's 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 nic fishing of the ford ukrainian regents after nets. low hunt that what is your anecdotes on? 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 adelina. but miss dear sir, i see no seek to forever to tie their fate to our country. which war ashes to ease and will be their historic motherland is dead. each is great. originally. in the family of grammar doth, in the da net freedom. they didn't fade, they will defy ration act, fission. this is him even if they come, our boys won't let us down if necessary. we will fight to move even you another. you may by your lead some wood laska that please eat, don't do stupid things. leukemia blood do not take the steps you intend to take in confirming and accepting the annexation of our territories territory. the don bass has always been ukraine su, crate, and will always be ukraine. we will fight for it. is this your cri, you know, in what would the mother settle up to 4000000 people were asked to what in the for

white on regents trasha cleaned and overwhelming victory by ukraine and its international partners dismissed the defendant as chance. and a violation of international law. it cannot be reconciled with 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 more than wolf. it must not be accepted. the kremlin theme unmoved by the criticism met its actions. i clothing i dos to a diplomatic solution. let's get more on this from stephen j a blank. he's a senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute, think tank. he joins us from washington dc. welcome to the w at what this formal russian annexation on friday change the u. s. military calculation when it comes to

supplying ukraine with weapons. well, if it does change it, it will change it to have the united states supply more weapons, not less. ah, you can see this from the decision yesterday. the sell to send ukraine 18 more high mars systems. that's the artillery system that has been so affected. and the provide, you know, several $1000000000.00 worth of weapons altogether to ukraine. this is just going to harden western opinion, and it's only being done so that mister potent can claim he has a victory. ah, the right now all he's fighting for is not ukraine, but his own political future. now this alex regions, we're, we're looking at something anywhere between 15 and 20 percent of ukrainian territory. they give russia a land corridor to the crime in a peninsula which russia took back in 2014. does that change the way that russia would conduct the warranty? the way that you claimed at defense itself?

well, that certainly could, could affect the conduct of operations. for example, ah, you said it is a land bridge now, so they can directly supply crimea. the problem is that once you crank takes care sound and i think that's going to happen reasonably soon, because the russian soldiers that really aren't almost encircled or it can threaten crimea directly. crimea has no independent water supply. and the whole operation was it was inactive aggression in 2014 and this is not going that really help, it's going to make things more difficult for russia, but operationally it means that you claim as. busy more work to do, right, and just just talking about those that but the way that russia is holding is this churches is russia fully in control of those i annexed territories. now that's what makes this even more fossil ah,

parts of done that skin of lu hanson now occupied by ukrainian drugs. so the whole iving, the, the idea of this was simply a theatrical stage performance in order to make putin look good at home. and but as your earlier speaker said, it forecloses any idea of negotiation or peaceful settlement. basically brookins idea seems to be if i can't win in ukraine, i'll take the whole thing down with me. the worry. well, one of the many, what he said that, that he train must have though, is that once russia formerly accessed these, these full regions, the well starts to look at them the way that we, we have done about crimea, which has been occupied since at 2014 and this has little evidence of us weapons, for instance, are being used to try and take that territory back. well, operationally, it doesn't make any sense to take, try me back right now because the russian army is not there. the russian armies in

the next campbell hans provinces in the don bus and, and the kito ukraine's victory would be the destruction and defeat of the russian army. which, by the way, it's, it's making progress towards that end. so it doesn't need to attack why mia? and as i said once you take his own, you are already threatening crimea. so that's not a problem the, the idea that the west is when you start thinking of crimea, then ask in the hans as part of russia. i think mr. brewton made that impossible by invading now. i and tomorrow's a ceremony. it give a great big, grand occasion as you say, this is p r i for mister putin, do you anticipate that the russian president making any major announcements at that ceremony? possibly. ah, he may. i mean there's some speculation that he made declare try to declare a cease fire. it won't work. ah,

the fact of the matter is that now he is trapped himself and he has no way to go but forward. this is entirely in character for pollutant and should have been expected and i think it may have been expected and i don't think it's going to materially change the situation on the ground. and so just looking ahead then at some some attempts at negotiated settlement does, does this formal annexation make of that process more difficult? i think it makes it impossible. not just more difficult. no ukrainian government will negotiate with mr. brewton. no ukrainian government, whether it's zalinski or somebody else in charge, no ukrainian government will accept this and they will fight to the end. and that is why i think in the end of russians will lose. they will make it impossible for them to hold on to the don bus. right. but then our domestic situate is such

a while the domestic situation, russia is such that it's already clear. ah, that, ah, sustaining the warfare is becoming more difficult economically. ah, more people fled the country than naturally were in the original military force. as we now know, the demonstrations, an opposition to the mobilization or continuing, the economic situation is worsening day by day. and the problems that beset the russian army have not been addressed. so just called up several 100000 more people who are one foot, they are not going to get the training they need or the weapons they can they, they have to have. and so where does that leave the russian president? well, it leaves him in the same place he was, but this way he can play, you know, he is not subject to attack from the extremists in russia. but the fact of the

matter is that this war cannot be won by russia. the thomas is willing to pull at walter clubs. they carry one. he can. oh, there are doors. stephen know you great. i mean from the foreign policy research institute. thank you so much. you're welcome. ah. from german chancellor, olaf sholtes is unveiled a 200000000000 euro plan to protect the german economy against the effects of soaring energy prices. the proposals include a cap on natural gas and electricity costs and will scrap a proposed gas levy on consumers like the rest of europe. germany is trying to find a way out of an energy crisis after russia cut gas applies in response to western sanctions over the war in new cray. 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. and in a very short time, the c emitter isaacson 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 desperately needed now. so we can get into these difficult times with users feeling it's had come. 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, 16 federal states, met to discuss the energy crisis, and called for decisive action from all of charles he assured he had abusive. the weakness of the government's measure so far is lately been minor. they've tried to solve one of the biggest challenges and japanese history with inadequate tools. he stood up with as we go. excellence, what we need now is a big plan, big lake commitment officially. 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. o r d w policies corresponded julius, our deli, can tell us more about germany's big energy plan. welcome julia. this announcement comes as german inflation hits 10 percent, which is also been pushed up a cost by energy prices. you know, we see energy prices is actually one of the main drivers of this high inflation in

germany. we see prices for energy that have shot up to 44 percent compared to the same month last year. and they are especially hitting hard now that the government has rolled back on some subsidies, for example of discounted public transport and regional train tickets and some tax cuts on oil and gasoline for cars. and that's why the government has also now kicked in this new plan to try to help consumers pay for gas. they have put forward a 200000000000 euro fund over 2 years. meant to help cap the price for energy. and they also have rolled back on a gas levy that they would have planned to impose on consumers. thing that they will actually directly support the gas importers. these companies that are

importing gas in germany, directly helping them from the states to help them actually have the money to pay for this gas, which is become really expensive. now the german government, of course, is a coalition of a social democrat, some environmentalists and free market liberals. and the extraordinary times that we're living through means that many of them are having to do things which were previously, i'm thinkable. yes. and with that, we can start with the social democrats. they have been in government for years now together with angela makins, christian democrats and the social democrats. and now by the chancellor of shows, they were some of the ones who actually pushed for the gas pipelines north $31.00 and north stream to between russia and germany to bring even more russian gas into germany. and their whole policy has been turned on. it's headed by the events that have happened. now. on the other side, we look at the free democrats,

the liberals in the coalition who are now looking at putting forward subsidies to help consumers pay for their gas. they're looking at taking on new debt, which is going to be that outside of the general budget, but it still is going to be debt to take on this $200000000.00 funds to help consumers. that is something that goes against their main policies. and we end with the greens, the green party, who has always been for renewable energy against an increase in new gas contracts. and cool. you have to walk back with all of these things. they say temporarily having to organize contracts for ellen gene liquified natural gas terminals in germany. they've had to bring back onto the grid coal power production plans because they have less gas coming in. and these are all things that have put these

different parties into the situation of having to sometimes go against their principles because of this big crisis that is occurring now in germany, on top of all about germany has changed its mind again on the commission. it's nuclear power plants. yes, this is something that had been debated long lee. it is something that especially the green party, didn't want to do. the green party is historically been a part of that has been against nuclear power. it was at the roots, actually, of the party being born, the famous protest in the 19 seventy's and eighty's against nuclear power. well now the green can minister for the economy, but also energy and climate has had to commission a stress test on the electricity system in germany to make sure that it wouldn't be able to handle a cold, difficult winter without that much gas coming in to the country and they concluded

that they will have to keep to nuclear power plant in the south of the country on standby, ready to be operational, at least until april these power plants were all meant to close by the end of this year. and that they will now remain on stand by operational at to make sure that there is enough energy to keep the self of the country going on a quick word about russia as a full ukrainian region. so what's been the german response? we heard from germany foreign minister above today, who condemned again these referendum saying they are sham referendums. they are illegal. she pointed to information pointing to the fact that people in the russian controlled regions of ukraine, where the sham referendums are taking place has been forced to go to vote. that the

voting process was not transparent and she considered them illegal. so standing firm on the position from germany and a lot of its allies that these referendums are not legitimate. thank you for that junior. i got a d w policy coach. ah, internationally acclaimed zimbabwe, an author and a filmmaker sit sit down. gorenca has been convicted by a court in a home country of inciting public violence. she was arrested in 2020, after taking part in a peaceful protest calling for government reforms. rights organizations say the case which stretched over 2 years was a 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,

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