forced 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 lou 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? under 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? it 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 you conflict and what is the site for? what's yours? stay out of our land. our soul and our culture are also on the day german inflation, it's 10 percent of the government announces a 200000000000 euro 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 with comp. oh,

welcome to the day. well, 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 apparitions. her song voted to join the russian federation encircled referendums, which have been dismissed by ukraine and the west as a sham, russia annexed to ukraine's crimea through a similar processing 2014 at moscow's red square. preparations are under way 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 cave son. they make up about 15 percent of greens 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 signal for emma the tie. their fate of a country which was assist, ease, and will be their historic motherland. is that each is great. originally, in the 50 of grammar doth, in that the net freedom dividend fade the will defy ration anake, fission, new jersey. even if they come, our boys won't let us down if necessary, we will fight to. maybe even, you know, you may by your only some good laska that please don't do stupid things, leaky replenished, do not take the steps you intend to take in confirming and accepting the annexation of our territories and authority. the don bass has always been ukraine. su crate and will always be ukraine. we will fight for it. is the story you know him or would the melissa bottle up to $4000000.00 people were asked to what in the for

white on regents trash mcclendon, 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 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 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 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 effective. 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, can 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 ukraine takes her sound, and i think that's going to happen reasonably soon, because the russian soldiers, there really aren't almost in circles or it can threaten crimea directly. crimea has no independent water supply. and the whole operation was it was an act of 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 more work to do, right. and just just talking about those that the, the way that russia is holding those churches is russia fully in control of those are annexed territories. now that's what makes this even more fossil ah,

parts of done that skin of lu hanson now occupied by ukrainian drops. so the whole, i having 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 set it for closes any idea of negotiation or peaceful settlement. basically, putin's 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 trained must have though is that once russia, formally, i accessed these, these full regions, the well start to look at them the way that we, we have done about crimea, which has been occupied since at 2014, and this is little evidence of us weapons, for instance, are being used to try and, 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 nets, kimball hans provinces, in the dawn bus and, and the quito 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 my mia. and as i said once you take his own, you are already threatening crimea. so that's not a problem. the as of the idea that the west is very start thinking of crimea, then asking the hans as part of russia. i think mr. putnam 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, do anticipate the, the russian president making any major announcements at that ceremony? possibly. ah, he made them in there. 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 to them 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 at negotiated settlement does, does this formal annexation make if that process a 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 the russians will lose. they will make it impossible for them to hold on to the don bus. right, but then our domestic situation is such

a wild, a domestic situation. russia such that it's already clear. ah, that, ah, sustaining the warfare is becoming more difficult economically. ah, more people fled the country than actually 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, were people who are one foot, they are not going to get the training they need or the weapons they, they have to have. and so where does that leave the, 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 until amazon is willing to pull out water clubs. they carry one, he can. oh, there are doors. stephen know you great. i mean, they're from the foreign policy research institute. thank you. so much you're welcome. ah, and german chancellor alive sholtes is unveiled a $200000000000.00 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, a 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 skipped to so many do we are talking about price cap for gas, but 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 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 time, sit with users, feel good, said 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 16th federal states met to discuss the energy crisis and called for decisive action from all of charles. he assured he had a piece of 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 an inadequate tool she stood up with as we go to month. what we need now is a big plan becomes legal commitment was the 1st person. 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. it's 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 into 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 democrats, 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 on thinkable. yes, and with that, we can start with the social democrats. they have been in government for years now together with christian democrats and the social democrats left and now by the chancellor. although they were some of the ones who actually pushed for the gas pipeline, nor $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. you $100000000.00 funds to help consumers. that is something that goes against their main policies. and we end with the greens, the green party, who was 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 plants 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 plant. yes, it is something that had been debated long lee. it is something that especially the green party just 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 reason 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 hold 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 killer. i don't. your politics correspond, 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 have a case which stretched over 2 years was a politically motivated attempt to suppress freedom of speech. since he done 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 faces ongoing. economic and political crises, criticism of zimbabwe government has been widely suppressed under the rule of president emerson. non ga. gov for her protest, dunker ram 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'm also accused of violating code the 19 regulations. the trial against hunger ram got stretched on for more than 2 years. rights groups called it an attack on freedom of speech. as an author

dunker rambo 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, dunker rammed as 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 dongle ram, got a criminal for what she and her supporters insist was a simple peaceful protest. well d, w 's privilege, most van harry was in court and sent this report the permanent right at city down greenway and here cor, 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 our civic active vista and also our opposition

polities. and she 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's anything that are they few ah, is a violation against them. so are from now what is going to happen is that she's 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, x mitted to be over a 1000 to are facing the almost similar charges risk to be are given similar sentences like ah, she has received ah, i bit of a change of pace now on we're in thailand for professional set up wrestling that's essentially arresting for entertainment like america at world wrestling

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