aliens, outstanding shopping and dining offers. enjoy your services. oh, be our guest at frankfurt airport city managed by frappe waterloo. ah ah, this is dw news live from berlin. russia prepares to formerly annex for regions of ukraine. friday's grand ceremony in moscow is the combination 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.

warnings of a substantial loss of life in florida. after hurricane ian cuts, a path of destruction across the us state, the storm is expected to regain strength for striking south carolina ah. on pablo foliage, welcome to the program. you, as president joe biden has said that washington will never recognize the results of illegal russian annexations in ukraine. his warning came as russia and anne's plans to formally incorporate for occupied ukrainian regions on friday. moscow claims hands don't ask, apparition and credits 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 the red square preparations are underway, dis, benefits to get there forever. with the names of the regents russia plans to web thorpe here. russian president vladimir putin. blanche to officially announce fennic fishing of the fort ukrainian regents after nets. lo hunter, that but is your advocate son? they make up about 15, both and a few greens that it did. he really does deal air 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 to our country, which washes the 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 disease him even if they come, our boys won't let us down. if necessary. we will fight to move even, you know, they may by your believe some good laska that please don't do stupid things from nicky. 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 is all the story you know in will . the melissa bottle up to 4000000 people were asked to what in the fort warrant on regents trasha cleaned and 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 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 decrease, recognizing the independence of had san anne's upper asia, a precursor to their annexation later today. so what will change for ukrainians in these territories? here's dw correspondence. ne conley, who's in keith, i think actually initially won't change that much. not to this kind of creeping annexation measures have already taken place. lots of places you can only pay in russian roubles rather than ukrainian or even a word the russian pension system has been introduced and the ukranian post office that was providing those pensions basically being 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 the 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 will be now mobilization. that is the thing that people hear ukraine are 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 against your own country against ukraine. nay, connelly reporting from cave there will french oil for him. total energy, he says it has observed unauthorized drone activity close to one of its oil facilities in the north sea. europe is on high alert for potential attacks on it's in energy infrastructure. after a series of leaks were discovered in the north 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. sasha miller craner is executive director of the n g o environmental action germany which has

cold for pumping out the remaining gas from the pipes. we asked him if it's not already too late. every day we lose lost the full climate, so we should open the gas pipeline on the june side, and by the pressure that is in the parking lot, that the gas would move from the apartment to gas source facilities or to, to the, the online, to pipeline system, the scaffold could then be used in the energy crisis. the same of the rushing gas company gas draw, act responsibly, 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 me sandburg from the of mr. german chancellor, olaf shell says 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,

cooked 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 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 we're talking about price cap for gasoline and 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. com, we've now put in place the means to lower prices for consumers or 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 you into this difficult time, sit with users, feel good, said com. 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 had announced plans to curb energy prices. but the german government had side stepped 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 abusively, the weakness of the government's measure so far as lately been minor. they've tried to solve one of the biggest challenges in germany's history with inadequate tools which to leveled as regards month. what we need now is a big plan, big legal 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. let's have a look at some of the other news from around the world. finland has shirt its

borders to russian tourists with shang and visas. the border was shot at midnight local time. this fall as a surgeon border crossing since russia announced a military mobilization for the war in ukraine. finland is the last remaining land route from russia to the european union. germany as calling for european sanctions on a ran over the lethal crackdown on protests, sparked by the death of a young woman in police custody foreign minister and lena bab, oak said she would do everything possible to get e sanctions on iran for quote, beating women to death and shooting demonstrators in the name of religion. as in bob way, court has convicted author and phil maker c dang. a rember on charges of inciting public violence. she was fined and given a suspended jail sentence, dagger rebecca was arrested in 2024, protesting for government reforms. rights groups say the case was

a politically motivated attack on free speech. 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 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 the still lashing florida with strong winds and torrential rain twisted debris is all that's left at this beach front shopping center. hurricane ian has left a trail of destruction as it caught a cross florida. buildings have been torn from their foundations. many residents are still trapped by flood waters. and where the water has receded residents a left to peek through their shattered homes. as if there is this, the most horrifying sounds in all and with the brief wine everywhere, no doors flying off everywhere the bathrooms are down here,

areas is completely smashed in from all the water is just material. thank le, or alive. and so there's a lot of he, we're here that megan as terrible terrible i guess a surprise you pay for being so level. roads and bridges have been washed away. hampering rescue efforts. president joe biden has pledged federal government recovery support. he warned. the danger has not yet passed. this could be the deadliest hurricane in florida history. the numbers are still are still aren't clear, but we're hearing early reports what may be substantial loss of life. this storm last strength as it crossed the state. but his re gained hurricane level winds over the atlantic, georgia and the carolinas, and now bracing for impact as hurricane ian heads north. earlier i spoke to

nicholas snyder, a journalist in miami, and he gave us an update on the situation. i mean, it's all looking good. this is one of the most powerful storms that had florida in a long time. i mean we have millions of people with another tricity. we have several that have passed away from the storm. we have hundreds that are stuck on islands. i mean bridges have been blown out. houses have been washed away, lives have 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 are people, 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, be able to bring in some more federal help. but it's, there's a hundreds of thousands of 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 then it jumped back out over to the atlantic growing up to category one again. now for florida. and so we're usually pretty used to hurricane. so our, our regular status has been be prepared every single hurricane season. but for a lot of these individuals in the safe, 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 and being able to come in as a category one to some of those areas. i know the governor has already declared a state of emergency in north carolina and just hoping that they're seeing florida

now and not taking any lighter precautions, they should be doubling down with their, with their services, making sure that every was prepared. and for those that need to be evacuated, to be evacuated 1000, that was the main thing i was happening 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 wearing news. nicholas snyder, a journalist in miami, thank you. thank you. well, here's a reminder of the top new story this hour. the kremlin is preparing to formally incorporate for regions of ukraine friday ceremony. and moscow follows a series of discredited referendums in the occupied territories. russia is planned annexations have been met with international condemnation. they're watching dw news of next doc film looks at women architects who are

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