ah, with final referendum results in the past from region with 96 percent, same years to joining russia. that's has preliminary data in the bathroom publics and the probation region. so over 90 percent in favor of correspondence for poor convocation. we find ourselves at the information sensor here in the gen ed scope people's republic. chris places the new hearts of the referendum here, but gone to people's republic. video evidence emerges, showing what's been described unprecedented damage to the north screen pipeline

system with german media, claiming possible sabotage. and just to just a minute, this situation has not changed. it's a complete sham from western countries. russian president vladimir putin there to wait for the broken promises for ukrainian grain to go to countries in need of a small fraction of supplies went to africa with welcome midst have gone 8 pm here in the russian capital. i'm point clear when you with arte international, it's a pleasure to have you with us. we focus our with our special coverage of the referendum and the don bus republics and to break away ukrainian regions as the voting has finished. and the ballots are now being counted to determine whether they will join russia. ah.

as the polling stations have now closed off the several days of accepting ballads, let's take a look at the numbers. we have the 1st final results of the referendum have come in from the headphone region where 96.75 percent voted in favor of joining russia that has preliminary dot in the next topic. so 98.63 percent cast their ballots in favor that figure this operation region with 92.91 percent,

and the look on for public 97.87 percent. the head of the la guns republic says the results testify to the unity of the people there. as the most important thing is that the referendum took place and we cast our boats as in the distance 2014 were united and showed our unity to the whole world. despite the fact that the ukranian nationalists did everything to prevent the referendum from taking place, they intimidated people, they shot at us. the palace for the referendum in which we voted for joining russia are now being counted. artistic was done or when the look on the public and bowman customer into next bought us the details about the referendum results being tallied . the 5 day voting process is now over. the voting areas have now been closed and

the count had begun. now we already know that the turnout had this referendum was very high. the 1st fell, 4 days of the voting took place with the referendum committee. so walking around from home to home and asking people to cast her about and now we find ourselves at the information center here in that, that sca people's republic. it's working. why can say 247, but it's her working well into the late nights and this is where the results of the final results whoa, will be announced. we are expected to hear something ah, by about 10 o'clock her moscow time in the evening. but judging from what we have seen, so for her in the counting of the photos of the results will be overwhelming. are in favor all fire, jordan washing gordon girl to will no one forces us to come. you can see it

yourself. people come voluntarily. i'm so happy i'm about to cry. you block, i live. people are crying with joy. there were people from the russian control territories in ukraine. who said this there has finally come. i'm so glad i leave to seal estate. i am really happy. we've come a long way and have been waiting for it for ages. those were some more voters that i spoke with over the last 5 days of the voting. and once again, they came out in mass to to show their support to, to do their civic duty if you will. now, many of them have tears in their eyes. they were waiting for this day for the last 8 years and is finally arrived. well, this place is the new hearts of the referenda here in the la guns peoples republic . this is the place where all the information, all the results from every single election committee flocked to and this is where the they're being made public at the screen over there. and indeed here it is. the

atmosphere is quite celebratory. the referendum came and is successful despite all efforts of the key of government, of the key of military who were trying to intimidate the local population here as much as possible to make them stay at home and not come to vote. despite all that, people here are happy. people here can't wait to finally see and find out the final figures. and this is the reality you won't really see are on the western media. won't see on your tv if you're living in europe, for example, according to them, this referendum is a forced one. for example, according to the take of the german foreign minister. this referendum here and all others were happening at gunpoint. this vote, it did happen at gunpoint at the guns were pointing from the side of the cave forces. and again, i can't reiterate this enough. they were shelling civilian infrastructure. they were shelling people's homes and houses and well trying to make them stay at home,

trying to scare them into not voting again. this did not happen, but our crew did prepare a report on this. here you go. cave has repeatedly claimed ownership over the citizens of don bass, and at the same time has been doing everything in its power to antagonize them. it's military has been shelling the population here with how it is and have you rocket launchers. planes dropped bombs on people's homes and children. and now the authorities in cave are making it abundantly clear that anyone who is dropping ballots into the ballot boxes at the referendum will be persecuted with no mercy. ukraine proposed up to 5 years in prison for anyone who dares to vote. and that's just the tip of the iceberg of repression. there's a plethora of ways to lose all humanity in caves, eyes here and be condemned with the stigma of being a so called russian collaborator, 8 years of war, have somewhat numbed the people here to the outright abhorrence coming from caves.

government, which considers them its subjects. but while they're used to it, it doesn't mean they aren't hard broken. no, it's such a bitter feeling when your mother land turns it's back on you. well, the land you had always thought to be your mother land. it's very sad me that the one you i am so angered by this, but this is wool. that's all i can say when you know crazy. we owns living in ukraine. we are living in the la guns republic. and we do hope they won't be able to get the hands on us, not from you that started. and sure all these threads could have been a bluff grand standing at an international level. a tray can ukraine's domestic policy game, but cave itself shattered. all hopes of that all can operators who somehow reveal their names. there is a whole list of the surnames. they are all people who have signed that death sentences. we are not bloodthirsty. we are officially saying that will only accept a legal decision. life sentences for traitors as citizens of the don boss flocked

to the polling stations in the millions. it's not just ukraine that remains oblivious to their plea. germany's tub diplomat annalee in a book ow did cave's own propaganda when she suggested the real situation with the vote here resembles a poorly written r rated movie. and it does, yes. people are voting with a gun pointing at their heads. and this is exactly what touch referendums are about . people are shot at raped and then obliged to very while a soldier onto the kalashnikov is standing right next to them. if we now accepted and let it be, then it will be repeated in other places. it will serve as an invitation to further violate international laws. as western politicians and media pushed the narrative of a people voting at gunpoint reality on the ground, points to a very different threat facing those, wanting to cost their vote at polling stations. public areas and the don bass are

being shelled by the ukranian military every day. he was under cover hitman bomb pro russian officials and liberated regions on a regular basis. diversion groups are also active behind the defensive lines, but the german foreign minister chose to emit all of that. it doesn't fit ukraine's heroic facade promoted so hard in the west. they're locked into this narrative and it's so mean ongoing since 2014, that the people of the dumbass have no agency of their own that they are essentially ultimate owns, are doing bidding. so that was obvious. and that's how the west will interpret any election or referendum outcome. the problem is that they haven't come up with any evidence of this. show us the evidence that that people are being forced at gunpoint to go and vote. there isn't about a quarter of the population here are holders of russian passports, just under

a 1000000 people whom you crane is eager to evict, to the 21st century gulags. and that's to start with, under the proposed bill drawn up in co authorship with members of the as of neo nazi group, freedom of speech goes out of the window support. every whim of ukraine's government will be jailed. collaborators will be considered though citizens who have denied the armed aggression against ukraine and the occupation of its territories, or have publicly called for support for the aggressor, for cooperation with the occupiers. the final, in the most decisive day of the referendum is here. and it's about to show just how many people have decided to personally sign their divorce papers with ukraine once . and for all. i'm again done of reporting from the la guns people's republic ot see around one and a half 1000000 people had cast a vote in the dentist republic by the end of the 4th day of voting in the looking

for public. the latest data shows the turnout exceeded 90 percent. while in the higher sentence operational regions, the turnoff is roughly the same. at 63 and 66 percent, respectively. we spoke to the president of the books international foreign panama, on, on to came to the dumbass as an international observer. she says, the mood of people. they contradicts the western establishment narrative. i found out to people about whom we were hearing that they are under a gunpoint or they are having go controlled by that issue. and i really found that they are very 3. they are participating and i find them like gay celebration and friends to grimly really giving message to the world that there is no fear nor any pressure and they are taking their own right. your window, sion garment did not by display do. they only provided logistic and infrastructure to the along the lines and don't sick people,

the conduct of warden. when you come to the real grounds, then you will understand what is the deity from my united nation office. you can not see everything. so this is not what they were in international media is going on and it is most of the time there is a fake news during last 9 months. we observed that so many fake news circulated to the by the western media to western word pulled words. also we've got reactions on the referendum from to greek politicians who visited saint petersburg to promote strengthening ties between russia and the even member state. the thorough poorly the kid. i believe the current referendums are fair. we speak about a territory in which the population has faced genocide. the risk of being completely erased the referendums on whether to join russia were a matter of survival for them. they didn't have much choice. ukraine for it's part

did have a choice to avoid the referendums. they only had to respect the rights of the russian population of ukraine, their language and autonomy, their right to exist. however they persecuted the russian population, making them flee abroad. they acted against themselves. good sir, for good sir, showed up all the worth of wounds say that they don't recognize. that is all. some they are not the waterfall room speaking above them maybe will not find even the results in the western press. a terrorist attack on opponent station in the city of mario pope was faulted as an employee saw a woman dropping a bag that turned out to contain explosives. that's according to local authorities in the dentist republic. the woman was detained and she admitted that she had been promised money to commit the attack with voting now wrapped up,

we'll keep you updated on the results and what the future holds for these regions. ah, went out the stories. now sabotage can not be ruled out. that's a comment from denmark's prime minister on damage to the north. st pipelines if resulted in a shock drop in pressure. it's hard to imagine that it was an accident. we can not rule at sabotage, but it's also too early to make such a conclusion. this is a video from the location of the leak. according to the swedish media sides monitors have just a powerful blast in the area. and that countries authorities have begun an investigation into possible sabotage. the criminal has called the situation quote, unprecedented saying the reason why the pipeline system has developed problems remains to be determined. but no possible scenario could be excluded which entails

and this is very concerning news. it's true that we're talking about some kind of damage to the pipeline and denmark economic zone. although the exact nature of the damage is yet to be determined, the pressure in the pipeline has significantly drops. this is an unprecedented situation and it must be immediately investigated. saucer now it's been one accounted for 35 percent of russian gas exports to europe, the pipeline suppliers within flash and later suspended with gas bomb fighting maintenance reasons. now with the latest incidence, it's unclear when the pipeline will once again be operational. earlier, my colleague nikki area and discuss the nation with ortiz moving across the river. we have sweden saying that it has 2 leagues, has discovered leaks, and it's in the notes to one pipeline penmark discovered that leaks on the northeastern to pipeline. and this, of course, comes after germany was also reporting

a drop in pressure in both pipelines. now this situation is extremely rare. it doesn't just happen like that. that's why everyone is saying, how could this have happened? and was there anyone involved? was this perhaps an act of sabotage, but we'll talk about that a little bit later. first, let's hear what the operator of north stream have to say. damage to 3 sections of the nord stream pipeline system in only one day is unprecedented. it is currently impossible to know how long it will take to restore this infrastructure to operational condition. so a situation where this would be just coincidental is not really on the card. exactly, but right now, also tricky is that they're conflicting reports to us to how long it will take to fix the situation. some say months, others are same even years. and right now this was critical with winter approaching this energy prices that were seen unfolding could become even worse if the pipelines are completely not operational. what are the possible scenarios? what could have happened here somewhere saying that if this was

a target to the tack like the german daily, for example, we're saying that everything speaks against the coincidence numb quotes in here, we cannot imagine a scenario that this is not a target to the time. but a targeted attack would involve, i read it in some of the reports, but involve a submarine. someone literally go and stay under the water and cause and damage this kind of damage. because like i said, this is extremely rare for such to happen. and here we're talking about 3 leaks already, so who stands to benefit from the class? we know that there is an energy crisis unfolds you. this is, of course, a sensitive time in russia. we have the conflicts on for them, but the crane, russia has already hold to its supplies to 20 percent from the north stream, one pipeline, nor seem to is idle right now at the moment. and we have the sanctions. and we also had a technical difficulty which affected the north stream on pipelines. so supplies have been halted completely. so the european union has had to look for alternative

solutions. they're looking for other suppliers. among them we have the united states. energy prices are skyrocketing, of course, some reports are saying that they haven't seen energy prices like that in 25 years . and here's an interesting point. let's hear what the us president had to say at some points about the notes from to pipeline. if russia invades that meas, tanks or troops crossing the the border of ukraine again, then there will be we, there will be no longer a north stream to we, we will bring it into. how will you do that? exactly. since the project and control of the project is within germany's control, i promise you will be able do the find wise and gas prices. the german energy network regulator chief claims that the e u is no longer dependent on north screen supplies units. however,

that the situation remains 10th. well, it's cost 5 now to erica haman, economist and publisher of the very shaft actual business newsletter. thank you so much for joining us. gemini, has said the e, you no longer depends on north stream. is that true or are they just trying to prevent panic? i think they tried to, to come down the market, especially the market. they're mostly interested in the economy, apparently, but the markets, and this is not true. i think it can hardly be true because of the supply chain strains to germany or europe with gas had been shut down for quite a while and this time they wanted to fill out all the all the, the supply. this is hardly possible and it doesn't make any sense with the policy they're doing. we already shutting down industries off the industry, industry,

the medium industry. and now the chemical industry is on a house. and we don't know whether they will open again in germany, in europe. so what we are facing here is one of the biggest case against german and european economy and whoever had an interest in this is not the best friend gas prices have again increased on the news of the incident. how much will this affect you appear? consumers? this already affects consumers very much. people have hardly anything to save. people have more and more for the essential, nice to pay. so the way just don't, don't last, we have the problem that people are getting poorer and poorer here. and all the economy, what we produce is dependent on savings on that the people have money besides to

the essential need to spend. and this already decreases. so i think we are facing the most severe economy crisis in the last 200 years due to the energy crisis, which was made by the politics on purpose. that's happening. alarming. will germany be able to come through this coming winter without gas supply from north stream, north stream? to what extent will it depend on other deliveries of russian gas? i'm not sure whether germany will come through this mix mix the information. the politics already, of course said yes, no problem. everything is fine. we just need the com, weaker or no weaker or whatever. and other people are not so sure that we do this. but if we get interruptions, this will have a much, much cost in the economy. it makes it much further damage because when you're not reliable anymore with your sources, germany is not there. it's not, not

a good producing location anymore, and this will harm the economy much more that anybody can see. so they don't manage to get everybody sufficient gas supply and electricity supply all the way through and through next year. then we will have a big, big problem in germany, in europe and the european project will explode. what about the come in 5, the top us diplomat, who said that no one would benefit from sabotaging new streaming. in your opinion, is that true? this is not true, it is more something that make suspicion that gives thought for conspiracy theories and so on that of course the americans are, we need from this the brief we need from this because for a more than a 100 years,

they are trying to separate germany from, from russian raw material. they work together. number one, number 2, is that the power from outside haven't essentially increased in making germany vulnerable and not st. why true? what had secured the german get supply all the german energy supply, and they have a vital interest in being able to blackmail germany who that polish poppies on the ukrainian poppies and, and also that germany can be, it can supply themselves with energy. it's so fast way, so there are gate winders of this. and the 2nd is that the energy from the us, it's able to be sold now with these huge high prices, which has never been before. otherwise the u. s. printing industry,

what has not only suffered losses, they would have gone bankruptcy with roughly more than 2 trillion dollars credits on, on the, on jeopardy, which would have caused the anti banking system and the u. s. economy. so i think there are very tv or gainers, and this is so, so it is not true what they say. do you think it's probable that this was an act of sabotage? and if indeed investigate has confirmed that. what do you think could happen? i mean, no doubt it would further damage relations between russia and the european union. well, if this was a summer task thing, then we have more quite a few problems. number problem number one is of course the environmental problem. wherever this is causing huge damage to the damage to the gentleman, to the swedish environment, which is around to this place,

this is number one. so whoever did this is made environmental catastrophe. and he could, he could not claim anything with fear to environmental product. was this would be just the hoax when he would say this hypocrisy. the other thing, it would be us, those who somewhat it would show themselves as any of germany. so working together would be hardly possible anymore. and don't forget that nearly everybody gets money from germany. so why should germany still pay for people who might have some taxes? we don't know somewhat taxes, but this would of course, cost many, many pro going problems which are the ones who some latasha would probably not have over that oversee yes, i can hammer economist and publisher of the shaft actual business newsletter. thank you very much for those interesting comments. you're welcome. thank you. it's

a complete, sam that tom russian leader vladimir putin describes the width promise to explore quain from ukrainian ports to developing countries for sustaining and about $632.00 according to the latest data on september 23rd out of 203 ships with grain. the left from ukrainian ports, only 4 went to impoverish countries as a part of the u. n. program. this situation has not changed. it's a complete sham from western countries. the situation is very dramatic and why my poor today has accused the west of provoking and now deepening global food crisis, mostly by sanctioning supplies of russian grain and fertilizers that the harvest is so dependent on abroad. he tries that the dramatic situation folding now has nothing to do with moscow's special military operation in ukraine. but the responsibility lies completely on the collective west and

a sanctions fever. one reporter has also described their wishes countries. behavior is predatory here reminded as you heard earlier, that only 2 percent until the grain had so far left the unblocked ukrainian pores following the break through un and turkey. broker deal went to the country the needs, while maced over directly was sent to the you, while the whole idea was to help starving africa. well, it seems that african keys are still waiting. here's the president of caney sharing his anger and his concerns. these unprecedented confluence of intensely adverse events. how's accessor baited? what does custody? and starvation wasn't by rising food prices. that's complicating can us roadmap to was delivering good quality of life to our citizens. we cannot afford to with another moment debating the merits of doing something. these are the doing nothing . it will soon be too late to revive the course of events,

and then even the best possible interventions will not survive one report. it has also pointed out that in this unstable situation, in the worlds where i should think about its own food security and here, sure, there will be no problems with that. as base here are the harvest promises to be a record hard experts say that it may easily reach 150000000 tons of grain of which 2 thirds will be so desperately needed week. before we go, let's return call special coverage. as the polling stations has now closed, following several days of voting in the dentist and the guns for publics, as well as in the breakaway ukrainian regions of crest on ends up of osha. let's take a look at the numbers we've received. the 1st final results of the referendum have coming from the hassle region where 96.75 percent of the vote has said yes to joining russia. that's as preliminary data and the dentist for public says 98.60

percent cost the ballots in favor. that figure in these upper washer region was 92.91 percent, and in the guns for public 97.87 percent around one and a half 1000000 people cast their votes and that the net for public while in the guns for public the latest scottish shows that the voter turnout exceeded 90 percent in the house on and as up away regions the turn out was roughly the same for each of them at 63 and 66 percent respectively. well that brings us to the end of this bulletin will be back at the top of the hour with more updates, particularly on our breaking news story regarding the referendum to join russia. as always, you can hit our website for more news and views at r t dot com. thanks so much for joining us. the.