well, i don't know who sees you, i know for the delano as i should. a deep cleaning also come with the referendum to the break away regions of ukraine have ended with all 4 voting to succeed and join russia. video evidence emerges, showing what's been described as unprecedented damage to the north stream pipeline system with german media, claiming possible sabotage. also ahead to address you that the situation has not changed. it's a complete sham from western countries. a russian president vladimir putin says the west of broken promises for ukrainian grain to go to countries and need as only

a small fraction of the supplies went to africa with, from moscow to the world. this is our t international. i'm rachel blevins and here are the top stories this hour. we begin this hour with our special coverage of their referendum and don bass republics, and to break away ukrainian regions to determine whether they will join russia. voting has now finished and the results have been announced. ah,

the final results of the referendum have come in for ukraine's breakaway zapper. she and her son regions with 93.11 percent, and 87 percent, respectively voting in favor of joining russia. final results for lucon republic indicate 98 percent of people voted for joining russia with the dent on dun escrow public showing 99 percent voting in favor. to get the latest on those. let's cross lived to our correspondent in the don nest republic were voting has a just and ed roman kosar up. now roman, what is the mood life where you are at the moment now that you have the results? well, it certainly feels like after the holiday, it's very 1st. if you're has the results. kate results of the referendum came in

just before midnight on tuesday. now the head of the peoples of republic is a speaking right now. just behind me i was asked to be a little quieter while i'm speaking with you, but and definitely the mood ad here is a very festive and just like we said, 99.23 percent of the voters said yes in the referendum to to had joining with russia now this referendum was taking place over the last 5 days or 4 of those days. we had some mobile referendum group. so walking from home to home from the apartment building to an appointment, calling on that people to come down and vote. that was done outside of the pulling stations for safety reasons, because ukrainian nationalist continue shelling and then there's the people's

republic. of course has shelling results in the tragedy that people have been killed over these days. people have been wounded, of course critical civilian infrastructure was damaged as well as the key of a regime of forces or trying to do everything possible in order to disrupt this voting process. now despite all that, the voting took place that sir now was actually unbelievable. at least 97 percent of the population came out to vote. and now we know the results as well. now i walked around with these mobile friendly groups as well. and obviously i spoke to the people who were thing and say on why and you know we're doing, it's absolutely freely not like the western media portrayed it to be as if they

were forced to vote in this referral zone. you know, under the barrel of a gun. absolutely not. now i spoke to many of those people and say you can hear their opinion and others referendum right now. i didn't come down to rule. no one forces us to come. you can see it yourself. people come voluntarily, i'm so happy i'm about to cry. lead you block. i live, people are crying with joy. there were people from the russian control territories in ukraine for said to do this, there has finally come on. i'm so glad i leave to see of those days. i am really happy. we've come a long way and have been waiting for it for ages. so the counting process in this referendum has now and did so. however, russia now former presidents and currently deputy ahead of the country is a security council meeting with various said much earlier in the day that the

referendums have taken place. and he said to everybody who was participating, welcome to russia. now this is exactly what we have heard. i here in this referendum information center, as well as the results were announced, people started changing nathan fire room chanting, russia, russia, russia, people started hugging each other, and of course the atmosphere was very festive. now, don't ask and look gone. sca independence at republics are now waiting on the official decision from russia while as a raja and her son region which have elected to succeeds and servers has several size o with ukraine are now also waiting on the decision of the russian authorities when they will decide to accept these new territories into the

russian federation. our case round and coaster of out there in the don ask republic for us. thank you so much for that update ortiz igor, as your donna reports from the neighboring lugens republic, where the referendums results have also been announced. finally, the results they have come and more than 98 percent of people here have chosen to say yes to russia and no to ukraine. the results were announced by the head of the august people's republic learned positioning himself. now we did have a chance to talk to the head of the republic himself, and we asked him about what emotions he feels right now that everything has been resolved. and what's next for the republic. the way to day we have reached our ultimate goal. we have achieved what we all wanted so much. i think that the president of the russian federation in the entire russian nation should take the decision and accept us into the russian federation. and then we'll come hard,

painstaking work to further strengthen the russian federation. we will work for the good of our great country, which is why all this began the future for which everything began back in 2014. next week. already he will be traveling to russia to see of latimer potent, the president of course, and well to discuss the results of the referendum, obviously, bidding on behalf of all the of more than a 1000000 people here who showed up to the polling stations, well, tooth. so that russia recognizes their choice and again, this choice wasn't an easy one, not in terms of as to where their hearts were. but rather keith did everything in its power to intimidate the people here into staying home and to not voting. it has been shelling little guns people's republic relentlessly. in the past 5 days, while the for the 5 days when the referendum was taking place, it was shelling polling stations and polling booths. people had to interrupt the voting and go to and go hide and bomb shelters. just to stay safe,

just to keep on going with their daily lives and no matter what they still showed up, they showed up in hundreds of thousands. again, the attendance is also very, very close to a 100 percent. and so this is what they did. this is that what they did despite the shelling, despite everything being against their odds. now the authorities here, of course, they try to make it easier and as safe as possible for the people here. for example, for the 1st 4 days, there were no stationary polling stations. the one that were used to instead, buses were taking members of the election committee door to door almost if they were visiting different neighborhoods and regions and remote villages. so that people could have a chance to vote and to have their say without attracting and without participating in large crowds of people. but all this blood should, all this violence spearheaded by cave, it failed to crush the spirits of the locals. here we talked to some of them and they shed what this moment means for them. no, it was such

a bitter feeling when your mother lamb turns its back on you. well, the land you it always thought to be your mother land. it's very sad, isn't it? 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 on us. around no one and a half 1000000 people had cast their votes in the darnedest republic by the end of the 4th day of voting and elegance, republic. the latest data shows the turn out exceeded 90 percent fall in the hearse on as upper or she regions the turn out was roughly the same. i $77.00 and around 90 percent, respectively. we spoke to the president of the bricks, international forum who came to the don bass as an international observer. and she says, the mood of the people there contradicts the western establishment narrative. i found that to people about whom we were hearing,

that they are under the gunpoint or having go controlled by that issue. anatomy. we found that they had very fee. they had participating and i find them like a celebration and student lydia leaving message to the word that there is no fear nor any pressure and they are taking their own right. your window sion garment did not buy display do they only provided logistic and infrastructure to the along the lines and don't stick people to conduct the building. when you come to the grounds, then you will understand what is the energy from my united nation office. you can not say anything. 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 eastern word poland. and now,

as the polls are now closed in the low cost republic, international observers from france and italy have shared their 1st hand accounts of how the voting was conducted there. oh, we worked is international observers nas up rogia region in the city of multiple based on what we saw. i can say that the problem is not the ukrainian artillery, which can create fear. but actually, it's saboteurs and intelligence groups wants to an inspection of a polling station. people who came to cast their ballots head from journalist cameras. they didn't want to show their faces. they wanted to keep their voting secret. you've asked me whether i'm afraid of returning to france. it's hard to give an unequivocal answer to that question. i write for many media outlets under my own name. and of course, that causes a certain degree of distress. when it comes to my job in france, there's less and less to do there. that's partly because france as a member of the

e. u, has pivoted towards the globalist agenda. i know a frenchman who stayed in the don bass on a humanitarian mission, and part of the funds he had collected in france for children's hospitals in the dawn. bass was confiscated by the french authorities. he is even currently under investigation. it's evident that the french political system is now faltering, and that can explain such a hysterical reaction all as cross live. now, your journalist and active as jim fergie chambers, who's joining us from new york. jim, it's great to have you on the program today. now, is it surprising to see such a high number of votes in favor of joining russia in those regions as well as such a high voter turnout? no, not at all. i mean, you know, as we saw in crimea years ago. oh, this is more of an assertion of a desire and a will of it's been very blatant for a long time. no. i think one of the, one of the biggest misconceptions in the west,

whether we're talking about crimea or now about done. but are tennyson, is that this is all, some kind of posturing, uprooting agenda to creep in an annex territory and take it over. and what we're dealing with is really quite the opposite was a situation where people really bag. busy putin and brush it to get militarily involved for a long time. and only after diplomatic methods were exhausted. did that actually happen? and once again, there was actually a lot of restraint since the special operation began. you know, i was there for about a couple months and of course have many contacts on the ground in move guns get done yet and ends up what osha and harrison. i don't really know anyone, but the consensus has always been anybody you spoke to? well, yes, we're done yet people's republic, but we want to join russia. everybody wants to join russia. this was just,

this is known. anybody walking on the street can tell you this. ok. so the idea that this is some sort of like sinister plot and they're drinking that, i mean, it's laughable, totally laugh, not suppressed. and i know certainly we've heard from a number of people on the ground have said that they have waited for this day for years and years. now this all comes as the un security council is holding a meeting on the situation in ukraine. president zalinski has said that if russia recognizes the referendum results, quote, they would have nothing to talk about. so if negotiations are out of the question for key and then how could this situation continue to develop? i mean, look i, i, i would anticipate that somewhere in the neighborhood of the end of this week i'm putin, will address the results of the referendum as he, as he should, as he'd have to. and i would imagine that he would continue

to say, look, we're going to follow through this mobilization, we will be sending more troops there. and i think he'll make it even clearer than he's already made it. that if these regions are choosing to join russia and will become a part of the russian federation and sovereign territory of the russian federation than any attacks on these territory will be viewed unequivocally as attacks on russia. and as a result, it would be treated differently from the way a special operation would have been treated and even differently than a way that just a dis, mobilization to this point would be treated. so i imagine that he will be issuing something like an ultimatum that however, however he puts that forth and it sounds like zalinski and really whatever his handlers in the west are doing the same thing. so i think it's very clear to everybody that despite this influx of american artillery,

that has really done nothing but terrorized civilian in don bass. there's absolutely no way that the ukrainian military has any capacity to defeat the russian military, especially if we're talking about a mobilization. so again, this is where it gets tricky and potentially frightening. we understand that the only way that there could be a push back on to a russian military to, to a justified russian military escalation would be the further involvement of nato and western nations. and of course, you know, that looks disastrous for, for the world. and for the west, i would imagine so, so what i see developing is a situation also a situation that's gone a little bit more off the radar in the west. certainly in the united states, people have traded their ukrainian flags for their favorite football team. this time of year now, you know, literally down the street,

that's what happened with but, but it could be another, it seems as if the, by the administration especially, is always looking for opportunities to re insert the narrative into the mainstream . and to justify, you know, further escalation on that. and so i would expect that from the western end absolutely. to now speaking of the west and any sort of possible justified escalation. i mean, do you think this looks like a situation where those western politicians would actually have the public support? i mean, we look at the united states where many americans have just kind of shrugged off biden's claims that is price hike or then you look over to europe where many citizens there are seeing those skyrocketing energy prices. i mean, are we still at the point where the people are just kind of going along with what the politicians are saying? no, i don't think so. 2 i think more than anything there's, there was really just some kind of border around that issue because again,

most americans certainly didn't know where ukraine was before all of this started. and most of them probably still don't really know where it is. so some of that is just naturally, you know, losing the hot topic. but i think it's a hard sell. it's definitely a hard sell at this point to try to come in and, you know, can generate more support for this. now maybe what's frightening is they've gotten so good at creating these horrible boogeyman nightmare scenarios and generating so much support. i never would have expected what we saw in february that occurred in western europe in the united states. that it looked like a bunch of people that we were just all drugged at once. so i don't want to underestimate that again. i'm in the same way also to be clear what i said, justified escalation. i was referring or justified retaliation. i was talking about,

you know, the russian side defending sovereign territory. i wasn't referring to what i don't believe the west surpass justified retaliation 30 years ago. so to be clear this about. yeah. and now when it comes to, you know, really the statements that we've heard, i do want to bring in the russian ambassador to be un speech. because he emphasized that the most vocal western critics of the referendums are those who supported the independence of kosovo. now are these cases so different, or are we simply seeing more double standards here when it comes to the west and their response goes to the or again, you can really just look back over the years. even if, even if geographical lines weren't reach, drawn, just the way that nato has socially engineered and all of eastern europe since 1991. and i mean that's

a slap in the face at the end of the day. look. it's always been a culture war. and economic war, if it continues to be, it's been carrying itself out since before the 2nd world war since before the cold war and what we're seeing from this done best situation specifically. and also just from the way that russia has been able to strengthen and reorganize itself, is finally a pushback. if you walk through romania, moldova, the baltic states, you do have a generation of young people who, you know, they all think they're going to become germans and lived some version of the american western dream. and they hate russians and they have the memory of the soviet union. a lot of them do because they were socially engineered this way there . and g o z came in and just took over the entire cultural and economic sectors there. and then in more extreme cases, like my done like kosovo,

actual political power was seized, borders were in georgia, and i think what we're seeing is a really strong push back to that. that says ok, well, we're actually going to claim sovereignty on this end of that equation too. and you know, and what are you going to do about? so it's calling out some of that hypocrisy of bias. and sort of this idealism that the west has that says that like, conflicts cool moments like this won't happen. well, they have to happen when you know, when, when there are things such as right and wrong in the world. so. so this is a very direct and aggressive way to take back some of that power that the west has been chipping away at all over the world, but especially in eastern europe for the last decade is certainly stand as a defining moment. and there is a lot of stay care journalists and active as jim fergie chambers. thank you for your time and insight. thank you. and we'll keep you updated on all of the latest on the referendum and what the future holds for these regions.

ah, sabotaged cannot be ruled out. that's a comment from denmark's prime minister on damage to the north stream pipeline system, which resulted in a sharp drop and pressure. it's hard to imagine that it was an accident. we can not rely sabotaged, but it's also too early to make such a conclusion. this is a video from the location of the league, according to the swedish media size mileage is have registered powerful blast in the area and that countries authorities have begun to an investigation into possible sabotaged the kremlin, has called the situation 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's 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. last year, nordstrom one accounted for 35 percent of russian gas exports to europe. the pipeline supplies were then flash and later suspended with gas problems, citing maintenance reasons. now with the latest incident is unclear when the pipeline will once again be operational. earlier, my colleague nicki aaron discuss the matter with our team. marina, closer of we have sweden saying that it has 2 leagues, has discovered leaks, and it's in the nordstrom one pipeline penmark discovered the leaks on the nordstrom 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,

doesn't just have some 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 what's also tricky is that there are conflicting reports as 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 whence we're approaching this energy crisis that we're seeing unfolding could become even worse if the pipelines are completely not operational. what are the possible scenarios? what could have happened here? some are saying that if this was a targeted attack like the german daily,

for example, we're saying that everything speaks against the coincidence and i'm quotes. and here we cannot imagine a scenario that this is not at targets at the time. but a targeted attack would involve, i read it and some of the reports would 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 a leak 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 unfolding you. this is, of course, a sensitive time in russia. we have the conflict on fold them with the crane. russia has already hold to the supplies to 20 percent from the north stream one pipeline. no one seemed 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 pipeline. so supplies have been halted completely so the european union has had to look. busy for alternative solutions,

there are 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 u. s. president had to say at one point about the nordstrom to pipeline. if russia and rage, that means tanks or troops crossing the on the border of ukraine. again, no, there will be we. there will be no longer a nor stream to we will bring it. and 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 to do this by rising gas prices. the german energy network regulator chief, has claim that the you is no longer dependent on nordstrom suppliers. he admitted, however, that the situation remains tense. ag hammer,

an economist and publisher of the word shaft ox. we're all business newsletter, says the situation is actually far worse than politicians are trying to portray more something that makes suspicion that gives a thought for conspiracy theories and so on. and then of course the americans are, we need from this, the brakes we need from the politics already. of course said yes, no problem. everything is fine. but if we get interruptions, this will have a much, much cost in the economy. it makes so much further damage because when you're not reliable anymore with your sources, germany is not the good producing location anymore, and this will harm the economy much more that anybody can see. it's a complete sham, that's our russian later. vladimir, who describes the west promise to export grain from ukrainian ford to the world's

most impoverished countries for sustaining. and that about that it is, according to the latest data on september 23rd, out of $203.00 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. this occasion is very dramatic and why my port no later 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 mil to our peroration 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 countries in needs, while most of it radically was sent to b. u. while the whole idea was to help starving africa, well, it seems that african keith is still waiting. here's the president of caney, a sharing his anger and his concerns. these unprecedented confluence of intensely adverse events has excessive bated what does cause city and starvation wasn't by rising food prices that's complicating kenyatta roadmap was delivering good quality of life to our citizens. we cannot afford to waste another moment debating the merits of doing something because of the doing nothing. it will soon be too late to revive the course of events. and then even the best possible intervention would not survive was reported.