code. a hollywood comeback. the golden globes return to television screens after being dropped due to a lack of diversity. hello and welcome. western leaders are warning president putin not to annex parts of ukraine, as officials in russian held areas of the country said they would be holding referendums on becoming part of russia. there are plans for votes to take place in donetsk, luhansk, kherson and zaporizhzhia regions here in red but a chorus of leaders at the un general assembly in new york said such ballots would be a sham. more on the implications of such a move in a moment, but it does come as russia has suffered a series of setbacks on the battlefield in ukraine recently. and in areas newly liberated by ukrainian forces, disturbing accounts of torture by russian soldiers are continuing to emerge. our senior international correspondent orla guerin reports now from the city of izyum. a warning orla s report contains some distressing testimony. in the centre of
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republicans upset about this, it is democrats. and now joe manchin calling it a frightening thing, controlling the influx of migrants at the southern border, says we are facing an unprecedented increase in migrants and will only get worse if the administration ends the title 42 policy warning that this must stay in place, bill. sandra, to speak frankly, what we are hearing from everybody on the ground, border patrol, c.b.p., an absolute disaster may 23 when title 42 drops and i was stunned to hear d.h.s. project they are expecting upwards of 18,000 illegal crossings every single day when that happens. what we are being told is if that were the case, keep in mind, we are at 7,000 a day now, more than a doubling of the current situation and border patrol is already overwhelmed. what we are told, say good-bye to border agents on patrol when title 42 drops.
NATO-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg hat der früheren afghanischen Regierung die Schuld für die Niederlage gegen die radikalislamische Taliban zugesprochen. Die News aus Afghanistan im Ticker.