ah, we asked why? because no one should have to flee. to make up your own mind. d. w for mines. ah ah, ah, ah, this is dw news live from berlin, russia prepared to formerly annex for regions of ukraine. friday's grand ceremony and moscow is the culmination of a series of discredited votes. u. s. president joe biden says his country will never recognize any russian annexation of ukrainian territory. also on the program,

president biden warrens of a substantial loss of life after hurricane ian cuts. a path of destruction across the state of florida. the storm is expected to regain strength before striking south carolina. ah, i pablo foliage, welcome to the program. you as president joe biden had said that washington will never recognize the results of illegal russian annexations in ukraine. his warning came as russia announced, plans to formally incorporate for occupied ukrainian regions on friday. moscow claims you've hands donetta, cooks up regia and curtis on voted to join the russian federation in so called referendums, which have been dismissed by ukraine and the west as a sham,

russia annexed 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 fennic fishing of the fort ukrainian regents after net la hans that but is your advocate son? they make up about 15th birth and a few queens that history really does deal as solid. people have made a conscious and free choice. i knew maggie smith, 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 the tie, their fate of a country which wore ashes to ease and will be their historic motherland is dead. each is great. originally, in the 50 of crown my dusk in that the net fleeting dividends 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 you even, you know, they may by your believe some good laska that please don't do stupid things from nikki replenished, do not take the steps you intend to take in confirming and accepting the annexation of our territories territory. but don bass has always been ukraine, su, crate, and will always be ukraine. we will fight for it if you're a, you know, in, we're going to melissa bottle up to 4000000 people were asked to what in the fort weren't on regents. trasha cleaned an overwhelming victory while you clean and it's 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 slots the purposes and principles of united nations. it is

a dangerous escalation. it has no place in the modern worlds. it's must not be accepted. the kremlin seemed unmoved by the criticism, but its actions are clothing i dozed to a diplomatic solution. well, just a few hours ago, president putin signed decrees recognizing the independence of cats on anne's up reesha, a precursor to their annexation later today. so what will change for ukrainians in these territories? here's dw correspondent in a conley in, keith, i think actually initially weren't changed that much. not to this kind of creeping annexation measures have already taken place. lots of places you currently pay in russia rubles, rather than ukrainian or russian pension system has been introduced. and the ukranian post office that was providing those pension space you'd been kicked out. lots of other kind of economic things have happened. 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 possible, your life was made very difficult without one. i think the real crux would be now mobilization. that is the thing that people hear ukraine a most worried about the ukrainians. living under occupation will now be told you are russian and a such as a man between age of $18.60. you are liable to fight in russia's army, a gates around country against ukraine and economy there and keith, french, oil firm, total energy says it has observed unauthorized drone activity close to one of its facilities in the north sea. europe is on high alert for potential attacks on its energy infrastructure after a series of leads were discovered in the nord stream gas pipelines in the baltic sea. nato says the damage is the result of sabotage and scientists are warning that the incident could be the biggest methane leak ever recorded. or german chancellor olaf shelters unveiled a 200000000000 euro plan to protect the german economy. against the worst effects

of soaring energy costs. the plan includes a cap on natural gas and electricity prices and will scrap a proposed gas levy on consumers like the rest of europe. germany is in the midst of an energy crisis. after russia cut gas supplies in response to western sanctions, over the war in 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 do we are talking about price cap for gas for that purpose. we have now set up a committee that will come up with concrete suggestions in a very short time to see 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 through these difficult times with users feeling a tough call. the shut down of cheap russian gas has resulted in german energy prices. sky rocketing 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. see especially the pacific, a weakness of the government's measure so far is it been minor? they've tried to solve one of the biggest challenges and japanese history with inadequate tools, which to put as we go month. what we need know is a big plan because they commitment officially. now that big commitment has been

made that 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. u. s. president joe biden has warned that hurricane ian could be the deadliest ever recorded in the state of florida. numbers are currently unclear, but early reports suggest that what the president called a substantial loss of life, the store made land full as one of the strongest ever to hit the u. s. and it's still lashing. florida with strong winds and torrential rains, a trail of destruction after making landfall in florida, south west hurricane e and left flooded neighborhoods. leaving many trapped this hospital was badly affected. evacuations another pods. further along the hurricanes, trailer ongoing governor, the santas called to 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, constantly just over us over here. the metal banging against the building is dark. you don't know what's going on out there. hancock last night this way in and they're brand new. i know you but yeah, there are standard bar poses, then 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 and 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 northeastern coast. while nicholas snyder is a journalist in miami, florida, and he joins us now. hi nicholas, welcome to dw. so tell us about the situation in florida right now. i mean, it's all looking good. this is one of the most powerful storms to hit florida in a long time. i mean we have millions of people with our tricity. we have several that have passed away from the store and we have hundreds that are stuck on islands . i mean bridges have been blown out. houses have been washed away lives or been washed away. it's. it's a bad one. it's definitely a stored one for florida. i started a grim assessment there and

a very grim warning from president biden. he said that there's potentially substantial loss of life. what's the state of the emergency response at the moment? to be honest, is incredibly difficult. i mean, a lot of these situations are stuck and in very, very difficult situations. i mean there can go, there are people that are unable to be reached because they're basically locked in by water. and some cases they can only be reached by boat or by air. so we have families that are stuck in their homes or families that are stuck in certain situations. i mean, not like i'm said, house i've been washed away. there people are still waiting for help and still waiting for emergency rescue. i know that florida of the state of florida is doing a great job by being able to push as many emergency help individuals out there. and as well as the united states to be able to bring in some more federal help. but it's, there's a hundreds of 1000 people have been affected. it's going to take a long time, be able to reach every one of them. it's a really awful and used there,

and also the images that we're seeing as well to show that devastation. so the storm weakened after making landfill nicholas, but it's actually gathering strength again, right? correct. yes and weekend, over to tropical storm has went to central florida and then it jumped back out over to the atlantic growing up to category one again. now for florida, and we're usually pretty used to hurricane. so our, our regular status is been repaired every single hurricane season, but for a lot of these individuals in the south and north carolina that are about to be hit by and they don't see that often. so it's very worrisome to see it now traveling up the coast, being able to come in as a category one to some of those areas. i know the governor has already declared state of emergency in north carolina and just hoping that they're seeing florida now and not taking any lighter precautions or they should be doubling down with their emergency services, making sure that everyone's prepared. and for those that need to be evacuated, to be evacuated. that was the main thing i was having in florida. a lot of people

tend to stay. but as we saw with these major surges that were coming up with in the water, i mean, it was, it was taken aback by a lot of people. well, certainly, yeah, worrying, worrying images there that we're seeing. and we're in use. nicholas snyder, a journalist in miami, thank you. thank you. inter, nationally acclaimed author and filmmaker sit c at dang, rember, wren. the guy has been convicted by court in her home, country of in bob way on charges of inciting public violence. she was fined and given a 6 month jail sentence, suspended for 5 years. dang, a remco was arrested in 2024, protesting and for government reforms. rights organizations say the case which stretched on for over 2 years was a politically motivated attempt to suppress freedom of speech. well, the w corresponding privilege at most fun, harry was in court in zimbabwe capital herrera and sent this report the prominent

right at since he done that in black and hair co accuse julie bonds, 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 ah opposition policies. and he says that what it means if this sentence is upheld, it is an indictment on freedom of expression in zimbabwe, where citizens cannot express themselves. it anything that are they few is a violation against them. so are 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, its method to be over a 1000 while fishing, the almost similar charges risk to be given simila sentences like she has

received privilege was fine. harry there? well, here's a reminder of the top new story. this era. the u. s. has repeated its condemnation of russian plans to formerly annex parts of occupied. you frame president joe biden said, washington would never recognize russia's plans, annexation afford ukrainian regions. moscow says it will incorporate them on friday as a result of discredited referendums or germany set a cap on gas prices that's coming up next on dw business from the team here, brit it, thanks watching. take care. god . when you work as an architect like go online or not at all women in architecture, why are they so invisible to the larger publish.