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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based oh than what we think we might know? what we ve seen for the last two weeks is a concerted effort by the democrats to foster confusion about what the report is going to say. to undermine the legitimacy of the report. what we know it s an inspector general based on past work doesn t pull punches. he has done a thorough job and called it like he sees it. i haven t seen the attorney general say anything on the record saying he is loss confidence in the work of the inspector general. bill: let s hold on this headline. the president when he was asked about it earlier today and said this in london. president trump: i have not seen the report. perhaps he has read the report. i think he was quoted incorrectly. i think we have to read it. we have to see it. but i hear there is a lot of devastating things in that report. but we ll see what happens. look, we have a few days to wait. bill: what do you make of