analysis from "france 24." france calls putin's referendum a. three out of four regions have voted to be russian, a vote accompanied by russian soldiers. three lines of the nord stream gas experienced unprecedented damage. the leader of the so-called oath

keepers goes on trial along with his codefendants facing charges such as sedition following a call from donald trump to go to the scene. this is live from paris. ♪ >> thank you very much for being with us. russia's bid to landgrab reach its conclusion this tuesday. referendums are going on. france and the rest of the western aillies are calling this a sham. people choosing for their region of ukraine to become part of vladimir putin's russia. let's take a look.

>> the last ballots were cast after four days of voting, russian controlled portions show an overwhelming majority in favor of joining russia. >> it is very long-awaited for us. hard won. we believe in our victory and we will be returning home very happy about this. >> vote organizers took the unusual step of going door-to-door to collect ballots due to what they say are could security concerns -- are security concerns. ukraine says it is a clear sign of voter intimidation. >> it is like forcing people to say something while forcing a gun at them. ople should decide for themselves what to do but here, you are being forced. >> the u.s. secretary of state claimed russians were bussed in to skew the results. ukrainian authorities is a

ukrainians have fled the areas. the referendum has been released as a sham by the u.s., ukraine and eu. relabeling these regions as a part of russia means russia could treat any attempt to regain its own territory as an attack by russia. russia has that it will use nuclear weapons to attack -- protect russian territory. >> the russian president's rhetoric has escalated. the french president and u.n. neral secretary have both responded by emphasizing the need to be responsible and not use language that would heighten tensions even further. >> the eu has said it is preparing a new sanctions packs age in response. mark: 96% of people in the referendum voting for the region to become part of russia. so far, three out of four of the regions have basically concluded that they will be absorbed into russia.

another country boarding russia is now standing up for its own land. kazakhstan has called for all borders to be recognized, including those of ukraine. the president made a remark in turkestan. words that will put him at odds with his more powerful neighbor. >> this is a key principle. i have always spoken about this openly and clearly in the international arena. mark: we are watching for more developments on that story. next, three offshore lines of the nord stream gas pipeline system on the bed of the baltic sea sustained unprecedented damage in just one day. this comes from the operator of the network. nord stream 2, in parallel to nord stream 1, never opened nord stream 2, as germany put out the project before the invasion of ukraine. the operator said it was

impossible to estimate when the gas network systems working capability would be restored. what does this all mean? let's bring in our correspondent. give us a sense of what this all could mean. nick: the fear here in germany, before i got into the details of what happened is that this is an attack on energy infrastructure and on energy markets. an attempt perhaps by the kremlin to drive up even further the price of gas by creating instability. the kremlin is not owning up to having done anything, but has said an attack or sabotage on the pipeline is a possibility. western european leaders, security officials are all pointing the finger. not openly at the kremlin saying these were not pipelines, they were actually pumping gas. the kremlin refused to continue pumping gas through nord stream

1, which was still operational at the beginning of this month. and nord stream 2, because the war in ukraine was impending, it never became operational. on monday, there were explosions at 2:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. detected by seismological institutes in sweden and germany. they said this could not be an earthquake, it could not be the swedish navy. the next day, today, giant bubbles of gas appeared often island belonging to denmark. that is the situation now. mark: they said they heard explosions. the danes. nick: ty did it is prettylear, if u can imagine whathese pipesre like, they are about up to here on the made of steel and covered with concrete, 100 mers between 90 to 110 meters under the surface of the water, the baltic sea. 1200 kilometers, 100,000 of

them. they are basically made to withstand a ship running into them and ty are spaced out so that a ship could not hit all three of them at the same time as has happened. the chance of this being some kind of accident is extremely remote. it is not just the danes who are reporting a seismological thing, the norwegians are as well. they said on monday there were drones, unidentified drones flying off of their oil derricks and gasoline refining plants, petroleum refining plants, suggesting there is all kinds of stuff going on to the kind of raise the level of tension around the energy infrtructure in europe, and certainly, the idea here in berlin is this is all part of the war in ukraine. this is another way for the kremlin to say, we are going to make life difficult for you as we go into the winter and the pre of gas, it should be noted, went up 10%. mark: that is a very interesting and very scary topic to go into

winter. what kind of impact we think this will have across europe? nick: it is early days. this has just begun but the fear is that there could be further russian attacks, if this is a russian attack, before we go down that path. if it is a russian attack, there could be further ones on all kinds of energy infrastructure. there are gas pipelines across the continent, and they are not protected and they are very hard to protect. the undersea event could have been undertaken by scuba divers, but the fear is certainly that markets react toncertainty, the price of g goes up and it is already at unnable levels now. we are heading into probably a recession in germany. many companies that are energy intensive and the german

dustry is german intensive, heavily depe on natural gas, ll be an even more trouble if the priceoes up more as a consequence of this risk, an apparent new challenges to energy security in europe. mark: thank you very much. and a germany relies very heavily on energy from russia. france too. as ever, thank you very much for joining us. we will bring you more on the nord stream pipeline. next, the trial of the founder of the far right oath keepers alessia -- militia. it will be the most high-profile case so far in the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. he and his co-defenders face charges of seditious conspiracy.

i know you will be watching this trial very closely. tell us more about what it is about and why it is so significant. kehevane: it ishe most high-profile case so far in the january 6 attack on the capital. for two main reasons, one is for steward rhodes, the founder of the oath keepers. he is one of the leaders of the so-called extremist movement in the united states, and his presence in itself makes this a high-profile case. the other is the seriousness of the charge, seditious conspiracy. it is a charge that has only been used a handful of times in recent u.s. history. not usually very successfully, but it is a very serious charge. it is the first defendants from a january 6 cases so far that

are being charged with that seditious conspiracy. and they could face up to 20 years in prison if they are convicted. the prosecution is going to try to prove that seditious conspiracy meaning that there was a plot for weeks before the january 6 attack, that these members gathered, plotted over text messages that they really acquired weapons, that they placed in strategic spots before they attacked the capital. this is really key in this case proving that it was not simply, there was a protest and things got out of hand. this was planned well before january 6. the defense is going to try something much different, which is to say that these members were simply there and armed because they believed that then president donald trump was going to call the insurrection act and call on them as of militia to

come and offend the united states constitution and congress against a sort of revolution against the then president donald trump. two very different visions of what happened and it is a big case for the department of justice because they don't often manage to have cases and charge even less indicts some of these members of these extremist groups, so this could be a real big test, even further away from just the january 6 case. mark: the test in hand right now is to actually select a jury. it must be very difficult to find a panel of people across the u.s. who are not aware of the events of january 6, who did not see all of the images and perhaps don't already have their decided thoughts on what happened. kethevane: and it could be even harder to find a panel in

washington, d.c. because this is where this happened. the courthouse is actually just a couple of blocks from the united states capital. you can actually see the u.s. capitol from outside of the courthouse. that is the argument that the defendants made leading up to this first day of jury selection. they tried to delay and move the venue outside of washington, d.c., arguing exactly that, that there was no way they could find jurors who were impartial given that this happened in their backyard, in their city, and given the makeup of washington, d.c. they said it was too close for comfort to have impartial jurors. the judge rejected their argument. the process has begun. there are basic questions as always on the background. there were more specific questions about the potential jurors' views on protests, how

may times they have attended a protest, whether they or someone they knew actually attended what happened on january 6, even if they did not go inside of the capital, whether they had friends or family in law enforcement, how close they were and even what type of news they were reading or watching, how much they knew about what happened on january 6. and to give specific names of websites, of tv channels, of newspapers, what they read, how they get their news. it shows how important that is and so far, they have been trying to select some jurors. some of them have been rejected because they had a friend who worked on capitol hill, because they had a friend who was in law enforcement. this is ing to take a couple of days, but they are expecting to actually get with the trial ongoing next week, a trial that could take a four to six weeks, and then, we will have that

verdict to see whether any of these five defendants, starting with stewart rhodes will be convicted of seditious conspiracy. mark: the events now before a court. thank you very much indeed. pakistan is now facing a waterborne infection crisis in the wake of the major flooding that hit the country three months ago. the foreign minister said the u.s. has boosted assistance to flood relief efforts announcing $10 million in aid, this in addition to washington's already announced financial assistance of $56.1 million. hundreds of thousands of people living in makeshift camps after being displaced that have so far claimed 1638 lives since mid june. we will watch for developments there. time now for business. eu leaders looking to possible sabotage of the nord stream gas pipelines.

what impact will these leaks have on european gas supplies? kate: not too much because neither was actually operational. moscow had already halted deliveries a few weeks ago. nord stream 2 was never put into service. in the short-term, not much changes for european energy supplies. the blog has been filling their emergency gas reserves. that should be enough to get households through about three months of winter. the price of natural gas futures in europe did soar once again this tuesday as european leaders warned of that potential sabotage. the damage to those pipelines really crushing any possibility that russia might restart deliveries even if the political will where there on both sides, and if russia were to keep adding gas into that pipeline, it could pose a serious safety and environmental hazard to the region. let's look at how energy prices were faring today. we saw the benchmark for european gas rising nearly 20%.

208 euros per megawatt hour. that is not an all-time high but still reversing a recent downward trend. you countries have been racing to reduce their dependence on russian energy. precious supplied about 40% of european natural gas imports. now, brussels is looking to other potential suppliers. on tuesday, a new pipeline was inaugurated, set to be operational this weekend. james has more. james: as russian gas leaks into the sea, and inaugation heavy with symbolism. land, denmark and norway opened a new pipeline, which will deliver norwegian gas to poland for the first time. the baltic pipe will deliver 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas in 2023, that is scheduled to rise to 7.7 billion cubic meters the following year. the prime ministers of poland and denmark said the move will

boost energy security and independence across europe. >> today, we are entering a new era, an era of energy sovereignty, of energy freedom, and of enhanced security, energy security, but also of security in the broader sense. >> i am very proud that we have done this together. we have to do all we can to remove energy as a russian instrument of power, and to provide our citizens with cheaper energy. james: baltic pipe aims to end the european union's dependence on russian energy. moscow shows no signs of resuming energies. at the weekend, the german chancellor secured a new deal with the uae and also had talks

with saudi arabia and qatar. french giant signed a new $1.5 billion deal to help expand doha's natural gas production. spain announced it increase the flow capacity of its pipe on the france meaning it could supply up to 6% of its neighbors natural gas consumption. kate: choppy section on wall street. we saw the s&p 500 earlier falling to a new low for the year. it ended about .2% below the flat line. the dow jones losing .4%. the nasdaq slightly in positive territory. the major european indices did close in the red. we saw the ftse 100 down .5% in london. the frankfurt tax nearly .75% in the red. i day after hitting a record low, the pound sterling has stabilized against the u.s. dollar this tuesday, although

analysts say it remains vulnerable. in the early hours of monday, the british currency tank below $1.04 before climbing back up to about $1.07. that stability comes partly as the treasury secretary of the united kingdom spoke to business leaders in london. bloomberg reporting he is set to do the same with wall street bankers on wednesday. saying he is confident the massive, largely unfunded tax cuts he outlined friday would indeed help tackle inflation and boost economic growth in the medium-term. he also said he was in close contact with the bank of england, which is poised to raise interest rates yet again, possibly ahead of schedule if needed. >> the bank of england is going out to be far more aggressive anwhat it does. they may have to actually be so before the next scheduled meeting at the start of november. rkets are pricing enough to 200 basis ints, or two person of interest rate hikes by the start of novemr. that is an incredible move from a central bank that has moved in

clips of 25 basis pois, living up to 50 basis points in the last month or two. thats going toave a massive impact on people and affect credit card rates, mortgage rates. kate: lots of potential turmoil ahead in the days and weeks to come for the british economy and certainly -- mark: we know we can count on you to explain the ins and outs of what it means to all of us. thank you very much indeed. great to see you. let's turn our attention to what is true and not true. or fake or fact checking segment. 11 nights of protest in iran. 75 people killed so far. the internet there is blocked. nonetheless, the o's are getting out of being published. what is true and what is fake? >> as you say, photos and videos of protests have trickled out despite iran trying to prevent

them from doing so. among the confusion, some misinformation is being spread. there is this video that seems to show some street classes and it has been shared on twitter claiming to show protesters attacking iranian police officers with fireworks, although, this twitter user so humorously compares it to a wand fight in hogwarts out of "harry potter." we decided to fact check it ended a reverse image church -- search and came across a video on russian telegram. that was the first sentence we found of it where it it seems to be where the misinformation started. they say it was a rainy and protesters throwing molotov cocktails at iranian police. and then, we found an earlier version on twitter shared bind

indonesian twitter user. this person shared a slightly longer version of the video and said the pictures were shot in jakarta. using this information, we did a google search and using these keywords and we came across a number of articles in indonesian media, which basically explained that in the last few weeks, the neighborhood in jakarta have been shaken by street brawls between two rival gangs from neighboring areas. these clashes took place september 4, 14th and 18th. we checked out this area on google maps. we compared it with the video. as you can see, it is the same street scenes seen from a slightly different angle. we have the same bridge, staircase and same street marks with trees on the side. we cannot date the video exactly, we do know it was shot in jakarta and not in iran.

mark: do you have another video again from iran that has gone viral since these protests began. all over the death of one woman. she was arrested by the morality police in iran on september 16.she died in police custody which sparked this real wave of violence. this video has gone viral. is it true or fake? >> there is a lot of confusion over this video which shows a young lady in iran -- that is not the right one. this is the right one. this young lady in iran tying her hair up before joining other protesters. the claim being shared, the woman is a 22-year-old, an iranian protester and that this video was shot shortly before she was killed, shot at least 20 times in the chest. it went viral and was picked up by dozens of media including "france 24."

on september 26, a lady contacted bbc persia and she said actually, it was her in the video and that her name was wrong. the woman's family was publicly grieving her on social media. here, they were sharing pictures and videos of her funeral. so what happened? to clear up, this person based media outlet -- persian language media in the netherlands decided to contact the family. her sister explained they had been sent the video of the girl and also thought it was her because she looked like her. you can see why because the video is filmed at night and we only see the back of her head. you can see how the confusion crept in. the family only realized their mistake when the real woman identified herself to the bbc. so sadly, the woman on the

right, both women took part in the protest. but this one did diane the protests where the lady on the right, who is remaining anonymous is still alive. this is a case of mistaken identity. it is also a case of media sharing videos and pictures too hastily without properly fact checking. this is a very compelling striking image. you can see why people left on it. in fact, it is a good idea to verify everything first before sharing. mark: the basics of journalism. check your sources and make sure you know your facts. the temptation to say something is what causes a great deal of confusion. sympathies to the family over her loss and we hope to keep bringing you the truth and fake as we go through the course here on/-- "france 24." stay with us. more to come from life in paris.

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