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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march 2020, allowing state governments to close borders, fourth covid patients into isolation and we are expecting certainly this week and perhaps today, new law that will sweep away those emergency powers. the authorities will store have other mechanisms at their disposal to maintain disease control measures, but it is a distinct easing of restrictions here in new south wales and eastern australia, from today you do not have to wear a mask on public transport. similar measures are being brought into the north in the state of queensland and also in south australia and as you say, australie did have some of the world s toughest coronavirus controls. it did have a fortresslike mentality to the virus but gradually, life is beginning to resemble in australia, something as it was before the pandemic. certainly, these controls in western australia being eased is a
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authorities in tonga are introducing very strict disease control measures because tonga has just recorded only one known coronavirus case since the pandemic began, so clearly it doesn t want to recover from one disaster by inviting another in. so what they are doing is foreign aid workers, in order to go into the country, will have to adhere to three weeks of isolation. if you look in other parts of the pacific in recent days, kiribati, a population about the same of tonga, was covid free but now is going into lockdown as is samoa, so the authorities in tonga being very careful as that international aid continues to roll in. phil mercer reporting. the hollywood star arnold schwarzenegger has been involved in a multi vehicle crash in los angeles. a woman has been taken to hospital. a spokesperson for the former california governor said he was unharmed. earlier i spoek to our correspondent
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