[000:00:00;00] who a, with 5 days of referendums, in the dumbass and 2 other regions of ukraine wrap up with locals in each territory . voting in favor of joining russia. we hear from people on the ground on how they feel about it. no one forces us to come and you can see it itself, people can voluntarily. i'm so happy i'm about to cry. i'm really happy if come a long way and i've been waiting for it for ages with western countries. label the referendum the sham, and refused to recognize the result. versus ambassador,

the un accuses them of double standards will, is union recognition as such takes place only if approved in the west route is critics of record in the upper roger and coastal regions were at one time at the forefront to support the customer with no referendums were held in kosovo, toll and underwater explosions caused unprecedented damage. the north clean pipeline to the swedish and danish authorities, janey cooksey, and active sabotage with go to the world. this is all the international. my name is peter scott. and these, the top stories this hour we kick off this wednesday morning with the late fist on the referendums in the dumbass republics of done. yet no guns can 2 other regions approach. and he had a song where lucas that have made the decision in favor of succeeding from ukraine and joining russia.

ah, let's get all the details now from ortiz, e. good. as down of, he's been following the 5 days of voting for us in lieu guns. he good morning to you and can you tell us more about the polling results and how they were received by the people in la guns and some of the other regions there will absolutely, pete, it was

a very emotional day for all the full regions that were taking part in the referendum, as all of them overwhelmingly chose to say yes to russia and well know to ukraine in 3 of the regions. those include the la guns can deny the people's republic and the region of sup rozier the amount of people who chose the yes vote stance at a staggering over 90 percent. the her son region trails just behind with the results just under that mark, just under 90 percent. but he in the la guns people's republic and in the da nets, people's republic it was which was way more meaningful. i have to say than in others. although it doesn't mean that those regions were in seeking or with all their hearts to become part of russia. but see, have to understand that the, parisian course on a relatively new to this family of well regions that were seeking to join their big brother instead of the nets. callaghan people's republics, they have walked a very thorny and difficult road towards this day. there were fighting for the

right to be heard just for the right to cost their opinion and have their voices heard. and finally this day have come to them. and this is something that the head of the august people's republic and positioning talked about extensively to us as we asked him, a question as to what his emotions were after he personally came here to announce the final results. but of course, it's all about the people here all about the people who were trying to make this day happen again for years and who were trying to be intimidated by cave. and this is what they told us how unfazed they were by the threats from now their former homeland. yes, i'm really happy is come a long way and have been waiting for it for ages. gordon gordon to will. no one forces us to come. you can say to yourself, people come voluntarily, i'm so happy. i'm about to cry. you're demoted in them for us. i think the ref ransom was more than successful. i am completely full,

joan in russia. i voted america was daily. of course, we've been eagerly waiting for this for the 8 years we've had war here in the dawn bus. so i knew that was, there is a desire to see changes to have stability certainty in your life, a desire to just live a peaceful life and see your parents calm and care free. it is fair to say that the vote here that in s p and in all regions happened and gunpoint, but not in the sense that the western medium, our western politicians might lead you to believe. but raw that guns pointed from the key of side at the people at the polling stations at the booths as a, even here in logan's people and, and just the polling stations were shelled relentlessly by the key of military. our people had to interrupt the voting. they had to hide and bomb shelters, similar a similar situation and similar picture in many other regions in other regions. taking part in the vote or dynette school shell just literally hours ago as people just hours ago after the vote. and as people,

again i had to hide in the bomb shelters. so for the key of authorities, this is something this vote, they aren't recognizing it of who's there cooling it, a sham and in fact they have threatened every one taking part in the vote, no matter how they're aware of their mind. and hearts ways are in favor of yes or no. they've threatened to everyone taking part in the vote with a legal action with the prison terms if they were ever to get their control over these parts again. and again, security concerns was something that we witnessed personally was something that our colleagues witnessed, but probably most important. that was the experience of the international observers who came and to see the voting 1st had. here's what they had to say about this. i found better people about homely let hearing that they are and there again,

buying or having go controlled by that. a sion, i really found that they are very 3. they are participating. and i think them like a salivation and faster than the really giving message to the world that there is no fear, nor any pressure. we worked as international observers in as upper asi region 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. well, what is next for these regions? well, obviously they're hoping to become part of russia as quickly as possible as possible . excuse me. so are here, the leader on the head of the la guns people's republic has already announced that next week he will be traveling to moscow to bid in front of vladimir putin on behalf of all the population here. and on the millions of people who took part in the vote across all 4 regions, all 4 world republics,

i guess you could say now on behalf of all of those so that they become part of the russian family league. thank you for bringing us the latest on the results of those referendums. us art is eager to done of reporting live from the guns. thank you. now, unsurprisingly, the votes was the key item for discussion of the un security council meeting us, where the u. s. denied the legitimacy of the referendum forcing russia's ambassador to remind the west of its own history with break way regions. recognition as such takes place only approved in the wes this group in general. the western version of democracy has deteriorated into the dictates of a liberal minority over conservative majority and without his critics of reference in the dom bus. the po, roacha and cousin regions were at one time at the forefront of support for cosello's independence. no referendums were held in kosovo toll. only a declaration of independence adopted by the provisional self governing body in excess of its powerful. but back then, it was enough for the west to recognise cosello's independence in your feelings

issue. while the un security council, the 15 member body that leads the united nations, convened the meeting today and the security council chamber. now, immediately russia spoke up at the beginning of the meeting, making clear that they objected to the fact that is vladimir zalinski. the grand president was given a platform mobile to speak via video link to the un security council meeting. they said clearly that this was simply turning the un security council chamber into a place to put on political shows to serve a geopolitical agenda. it did not fit with the rules of the you and russia made clear their objections. then we heard from rosemary decarlo, the under secretary, we heard from zalinski who then address via video link. and then when members of the security council spoke, it was very clear that there were differences among the major countries. now we heard from both russia and the united states, both permanent members of the security council here is the clear differences

between the 2. we know the outcomes of these sham referenda were predetermine in moscow. they in no way represent a legitimate expression of the will of the ukrainian people. i'd like to say that the referendums were conducted transparently upholding old electro norms. more than 100 independent international observers from 40 countries observed the referendum. they gave their opinions to the media, but unfortunately, you won't have this in western media story that might be carried out with weapons provided to kia by the united states. this is what anthony blanket said shortly before the un security council meeting. will the us still allow ukrainian troops to use us weaponry to defend against russians in those territories, no matter what the outcome of these referendums and this, these possible annexations ukraine has the absolute right to defend itself throughout its territory, including to take back the territory that has been illegally seized one way or

another by russia. now, the nato chief also made clear that while nato countries are supplying weapons to the government that they do not consider nato to be part of the ongoing conflict. they consider this to be a fight between ukraine and russia as well. nato is supportive of ukraine. they are not directly involved. regardless, that was the context in which the un security council meeting took place. now, the un security council of task with making sure world peace continues and deescalate and conflicts. but it seems like, as russia pointed out, the un security council was just using the platform for grant standing, just as a place to put on political shows to demonize russia when real danger to world peace and the possibility of this conflict escalating too much greater heights. are hanging over our heads as a result of the response of the united states and its allies to the referendum o ken stone from the hamilton coalition to stop the war says he isn't surprised

these regions voted the way they did. there was an enthusiastic response on the part of the people of these 4 republic for integration into the russian federation . and it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone because these 4 are areas were the most up opposed and to the a legal pu that took place on in 2014, in kia that brought to power a hunter. i'm nazi infested, junta that are remove their rights to speak russian and to and to have political parties represent themselves. so, and, and then this, the hunter are launched a war of aggression against these parts of the country. so it's no surprise at all . it shouldn't be that there was an overwhelmingly positive response in the

referenda to joining the russian federation. of course, we'll keep you updated and all the latest on the events in the dumbass republics on those breakaway regions. and of course, all the future holds for them. a underwater explosions that have caused leaks in the node stream pipeline system could be an octave sabotage with us. according to the swedish prime minister, who commented on the damage to the pipeline which has resulted in a shop dropping prussia. the order that we have swedish intelligence, but we have also received information and our contacts with denmark, and based on this, concluded that this is probably a deliberate act. it is probably a matter of sabotage. well, joining me now in the studio is our teeth. marino corso, marina, thanks for joining us this morning. obviously there's been carlos speculation about

what's happened to these pipelines. it's quite unusual event which will take almost up and it's very rare when this happens. now size knowledge is sweet and then denmark have already said that this does not look like it's the results of earthquakes. they said, in fact, the 2nd blast was a strong equivalent 100 kilograms of dynamite. so we can safely say that someone is behind it, but who, of course, the e. u and the west is quick to blame russia. they've been saying that russia has been weaponized in its energy assets all along. let's not forget that the blog gets 40 percent of its gas supplies from russia, and they've been getting reduced flows of that from. it's the wrong fault, to be honest with you because of the western sanctions. and because countries were refusing to pay for their supplies and rubles, but in an interesting twist to this mystery, were now seen polish and peas and top officials actually speaking out on further twitter page and thanking the us. let's have

a look. there's no shortage of pipeline capacity for taking gas from russia to western europe, including germany. thank you, usa. this is probably a signal from russia. this shows what means mechanisms, the russians are capable of resorting to, in order to further de stabilize europe. so they're blaming ration for this try and they're saying that it's trying to destabilize trying to create how they, with winter approaching. but also i was saying that earlier that they were blame and the united states for it, but we're getting information about that. and that's because we're getting reports that there were sightings of american helicopters in that area along with stream one and 2 pipelines and also americans themselves and june. there were boasting about underwater experiments that there were conducting in the same place where the glass took place. and us president joe, by the back in february, had something very interesting to say about their nordstrom su pipeline. let's

listen. it is true that blowing up north stream does not help vladimir putin. he would not do that. why would he? but that doesn't mean that other countries wouldn't consider doing it. they would consider it, and we know they have considered it because at least one of them had said so in public, if russian res, that means thanks for the troops crossing the on the border of ukraine. again, there are no, there will be we, there will be no longer a norse tube to we, we will bring it in. how will you do that? exactly. since the credit and control of the product is within germany's control, i promise you will be, will do. so that's a very interesting statement from my years president joe biden there all the way back in february when he was saying that. and also when of course, a winter is approaching. so this would be an ideal situation for it to weaken

russia's position or to create more provocation. we already saw ukraine speaking out about the saying, all this is an act of aggression of aggression on the part of russia. send us more weapons so that we can fight them. so this feeds into that, that narrative and the blame game going on now against russia. so lose quite a blame game. now, how do you think the damage to these pipelines will affects consumers in europe? well, we already saw energy prices skyrocket, the just on the news. they went up at 10 percent and if we compared to the same time last year, so september of 2021 energy prices across europe rose by 200 percent. we have consumers who are panic and they don't know if they will be able to afford to keep the heat along in the winter. but again, we have the russian embassy in denmark who is saying that this will, of course, post great risks for the energy security in europe. let's see what he had said. a shell drop and pressure was recorded in the north stream,

one in north gym to pipelines. the pan in the lining of free of the pipelines parts was destroyed and gas was released with this guest transmission system coming to fly and the prospects for its possible use in the interest with sustainable energy supply for europe's industrial transport. and social infrastructure is now a trace, especially when it comes to this top of the hidden season. even though there is panic finance, especially among consumers, families in europe. they don't know if they'll be able to afford the gas this winter. we have the german energy and that's work for later and the heat sweeter that the market situation does remain tent spots that germany and the you are no longer dependence on north stream supplies. i guess time will tell us, winter is fast approaching. let's see if they found the alternative solutions that they were looking for. and if those supplies will be enough to keep them warm, this one in the time will tell. and i hope that you'll keep us up to date on the developments and the investigations into the accidents knows pipelines of the

explosions. thanks very much. i thought the cost of a thank you. the victory of a far i coalition in italy has caused shock in some parts of the media. and while you chief live on the lion has warned the threat to democracy, posed by what she described as an autocratic trojan horse. archie contributes. rachel mazda brings us more details. it was barely a few days ago that european commission, president ursula vander line in her american style. state of the european union address, spoke of the need to defend democracies from autocrats. we will not allow any autocracies trojan horses to attack our democracies from within sundays victory of georgia maloney's populace. right when coalition in italian parliamentary elections has underscored. the fact that a talker sees trojan horses that represent a threat to the democratic will of the people of e u. member states are indeed already inside the big u bar. actually they're running it. and yes,

they are foreign as in foreign to the country whose citizens have just exercise their democracy. italy will not leave the e you, but will block necessary reforms the you must not be naive when dealing with the new government. it's obvious. district, italy, of course, is a cause for concern. parties in this coalition have said and done things that should make us vigilant. this relates to russia and to financial and economic issues, but we need to give her a chance. it was woman duncan said, these are on certain times and at times like this populace movements always grows. but it always ends in the same way in catastrophe because they offer simple short term on system problems which are very complex. this is an authoritarian model that is contrary to the pillars of european construction, which is the basis of all prosperity. it could generally demo, we will be attentive with the president of the european commission that these values of human rights, the respect of one another, notably the respect of abortion rights,

are respected by all food. what the german chancellor would say is that italy is a very europe friendly country with very europe friendly citizens. and we assume that won't change his. he said that the european establishment is having right now because the italian people chose a government that lacks the u seal approval. shows exactly why its grip on power has been slipping as proven by recent parliamentary votes in france, italy in sweden and municipal elections last weekend in the czech republic, where the populace party 117 of the 27 largest cities. rather than acknowledging what these recent boats represent, that is the rejection of the eaves policies, including anti russian energy sanctions, which have created the current energy and cost of living crisis. and telling europeans that their democratic expression of will is being heard and adjusting their policies in course of action. as a result, what's happening instead is that the notion of democracy itself is being corrupted

by those who claim to defend it. the western establishment is undermining democracy by defining it is something that can only result in an outcome that they approve and qualifying pretty much anything else as the result of some sort of foreign meddling. when the obvious foreign meddling in italian elections is coming from brussels and be echoed by its ideological foot soldiers across the block and brussels interference in the supposedly sovereign affairs of other countries isn't even limited to elections or to its member states. serbia, which is still a candidate for you membership, made a deal with moscow last friday in new york, merely to have foreign policy consultations amid the crisis in ukraine. now any country should be free to do what it wants in its own best interest that just seems normal, right? democratic. but the e reacted like a toll control freak. it's a very clear sign of their intention to strengthen their ties to further strengthen relations between serbia and russia. and this is raising serious questions. we are

taking this very seriously and we are following this up. there isn't even a formalized relationship yet between serbia and the e. u. and already brussels is acting like a jealous controlling boyfriend. russell's authoritarian pension for imposing its will on member states under the guise of protecting and defending democracy proves exactly why it's losing hearts minds. and now elections. lost all phenomena is peter scott's. i'll be back again in around 30 minutes time with all the latest news on views. heresy. i'll see you then.

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