hello and welcome. friday, september 23rd. 9 a.m. here in london. 11 a.m. in ukraine. voting begins today in the four occupied regions on whether to become a part of the russian federation. the areas make up about 50% of ukraine s territory. if they join russia many believe that will provide vladimir putin the pretexts to claim russian territory is under attack and escalate the war. it s prompting people to flee the country in all directions. a long line of cars backed up at russia s border with finland. the government in helsinki is thinking of new restrictions to keep russians from entering. they re crossing into armenia and turkey. according to one witness, traffic at one checkpoint stretched 5 to 6 kilometers. it was a similar scene along the border with kazakhstan. trucks lined up as far as the eye could see. ticket prices are soaring for flights out of moscow. most of which is sold out for the next few days. the kremlin calls reports exaggeration and fake news. the mobi
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i m christina mack far land in for max foster. just ahead. translator: they beat me on my back, my head, then shoved me on the floor and kicked me. you have families in this courtroom here that lost children, sisters. is this a struggle system are we in china? i ve already said i m sorry and i m done saying i m sorry. this is a significant storm lashing bermuda but it is racing northward and it has its eyes set on the eastern sections of canada.
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hopes for the homeland he hasn t seen in more than ten years and the pain of a family grieving their beloved gina. christina, over the past week the family has had calls personally from the iranian president. they ve had a visit from a representative of the supreme leader all promising them a thorough investigation, but the family says they don t believe that this government, they don t trust its ability to deliver a credible investigation into her death. and we heard yesterday abraham rahisi in new york appearing to stand by the government s version of events that this 22-year-old died of natural causes saying that they re continuing an investigation but so far according to the coroner investigation there were no signs of abuse or beatings on her body, and that is something
mobilization, it mentions mobilization. depending how you read that there s no cap on the number of people who could actually be called up but the reality, christina, is, look, russia is going to struggle to mobilize even far less than 300,000 let alone 300,000 people. the idea that a million con scripts could be called up if that were to happen, if that were to be true, it could not happen quickly. it s a very, very long process given russia s limitations. voting begins in this sort of essentially foehny referendum in four regions in ukraine. as we saw in crimea, this is likely to be a foregone conclusion. talk us through what the conclusion is and what we re seeing is happening. this is taking place in two regions in the south. zaporizhzhia and lieu hluhansk. it s difficult to say how weird this is. for the first four days of