the, the, the, this election for the in change, our democracy, can strengthen our commitment to oppose this precious more chris 28000000 voters are ready to cast their ballots in the south african general election on wednesday, we take a closer look at the major players in the run up to the votes. warning, distressing images are, has the society of play destroyed on rock like hills, at least 35 people despite the international court of justice, ruling that the assault must and also ahead i just don't want to leave the gates of my children, the 3rd world war. so nato cannot force us to kill in russia. italy's prime

minister lambs the needle to call to give he of the green light to use the alliance has weapons to strike inside russian territory. well, hungry calls europe and drift into war. you're responsible for the war without even having a rough estimate of this process and the resources necessary to achieve it. stated no 3 objectives. i've never seen anything more responsible in my life the i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. you're watching r t international. we're covering the top new stories from around the world. south african president, serial, run a pose that has appraised the election campaign in this country as peaceful and robust with approximately $28000000.00 registered voters gearing up for the general elections to be held on wednesday. the leader called on the nation to keep up the good work and refrain from election interference. adding that the main goal of all

parties is to uphold precious democracy. over the course of the last few months, many different parties in the country dates have vigorously and, and sees yes, typically come pay and for votes. while the contest ation has been robust and at times became heated, competing has been peaceful and free of intimidation regardless of the outcome that this election further and change our democracy and strengthen our commitment to uphold this precious democracy. voters will elect a new national assembly and the regional parliament members choosing between 52 registered political parties. a recent poll shows only 3 will get a significant amount of votes. the ruling amc party is leading the race with 44 percent. the main opposition party is the democratic alliance and the communist

economic freedom party are trailing behind with a significant gap. are to correspond it. and although you can get, take a closer look at all 3 parties. when nelson mandela paula from the weiss minority government 1994, the new president held out hope that this was the beginning of the end of his people's globatiza. i'm the deputy, belong the person, the captain. it's today. so that's because that across was the, is the to monday las vegas, the bracketing among themselves as the whole that he inspired is fading under the weight. so if i miss needs the african national congress is a while. wouldn't habits of setting out some concrete goals from creating jobs exciting for which is crime and corruption, improving health case and education folding states capacity and even expanding access to the same goals and promises which has been made before. they may not have

the same size even that. so that's the size of the points, and it's your of them off to see what the process promises to fix everything. so today we can say with certainty, we will do better. we will do more and we will do it fast, stuff working together. and that is why we say that us all work together today and make sure there's a do something too big for the applicant. nursing on the policy is held together and supported by one of the most is $5010.00 applicants from the concert hall. you please ask you to close the policy. so that's because you called me and so, so context i dislike. having experienced this content several times about the state of the seats for my part to prison, tell them that he continues to champion the governing party and the complaint leading to the to it. you know,

i know that many problems in the country have been brought that was within the amc . and so, as we say in making a commitment to the people that we were not the problems within the agency, it says to make sure that this is able to discharge this is supposed to be. this is for the population. and even though the domestic funds technician is hurting the agencies appeal to vote is one con, denied that the amc has claim notes of the keys on the global stage, particularly of the policies as to the tax would often wish to it led to a continental. if so, just to try and bro. okay, and just to the west, so you frame conflict, tell drive an extension of the brick block of developing masons and secure it will go inside some in a day as well as international court of justice always contains in does a slide to the full many votes just to say that the freed up will ties rates of unemployment and equality and corruption. with back to mind,

you would think that the election on between tonight might be a golden opportunity for the ga. so that because roger's opposition party, because for the 1st time since it came into fall was $9.00 to $94.00. the amc is expected to move the national majority. but the da's so i'm going to post away so that because of that, it is a bit to alternative at the behest of some to buy. so from that this is to the left of it. some people even believe that's where it's a wind power. the d a would bring back a potted, rolling back benefits like social bronze, and the polishing corrective policies. what dimension it's strong focus on cooperation with wisdom countries, but the party sl hopeful. also, the africa will be governed by a new multi party trots of government with the da for funding gets role as a strong and capacity based on our size and our track record of good governance. so i see on also the africans to gauge sarah, steve,

what's the urgent message conveyed by this particular advertisement repeats? that is only one way to prevent an see if doomsday. and that is to vote for the da, the challenges faced by the da at the put that is quarrels with the amc race and history. in fact, the pots he has been supporting, supported from the anglo american establishment forgive for visits to london. stay mister tom. house thing tends to be consistent on having a separate wisdom oriented foreign policy. but none of those supports them reaching out to the united states for special electoral or besides, we appeal to you'll government to recognize the high stakes for south africa in the lead up to. and often most of the n p 2024 is in this context that we now formally request our partners in democracy to engage with consequences in the run up to the election. we have our regional organizations, we have s a d c. we have the african union,

and indeed we have the united nations as well. they always come to monitor our elections. in fact, we invite them, we say do come and monitor, but now for a non state entity like this is basically saying we are mortgaging our democracy to other powers know south africa and will allow institution where i will sovereignties handed over on a silver platter. vin, this, the economy feed on site is the 3rd largest political part to you. so that's because in terms of foreign policy, the policy prioritizes eastern partnerships with countries like russia and china regarding domestic issues. it stands for a radical economy plan, nationalization of city to stick to the lack of the mining industry. it also backs expropriation of land to redistribute to freely among the population with a goal of transferring 50 percent of the land to black people. the parts use the to

see such changes would be carried out the piece would we need except the government of men and women, black and white. what we're going to work with white wood by the way. they wouldn't wait with the big not because the wind because they've got the necessary ski to make this weight. that would not be given toughness over our black people. because what would be interesting, but it's on the past, but no one is going to be taken to this. no one is going to be a chill. eh, no one is going to lose the spot i put on the bees of cut the pots. you see that even if knowledge that to invest is nice. yeah. he's brought to policies. this includes nationalizing minds. this will be a thing then without compensation. what she said they would value most searching for time he's supposed to just for me, the economy, the taxes. in other words,

if they have truly fighting for the working clause, it seems like before coming and mixes may change so that because politics anymore to match the way the previous, the full cost is that's the result office. you could see the ac gets you 44.8 percent. the d a 22.759.8, the m k. paul to 7.7 percent for off t. i'm number real quick and get into his book an overnight is really strikes on the guys and the city of ross has left at least 35 people, dad, and dozens more wounded. that's according to the local health ministry. a warning disturbing images are ahead. the, the attack hit a refugee camp, leaving a huge fire in its way. footage from the scene shows locals and firefighters trying to rescue survivors. the attack comes despite the international court of justice,

ruling, the israel must haul. it's offensive on the southern city of rafa. and withdraw from the on play. the idea of has turned out 60 or raids on rasa since the ruling was made me well, the higgs, the criminal court, has its sides said on the is really offensive with the icbc prosecutor seeking an arrest warrant for prime minister netanyahu to move that face harsh criticism in london, prompting the icpc prosecutor to draw parallels to the you case, handling of the irish fight for independence. there were attempts to kill margaret thatcher. every need was blown up. lord, mount baton was blown up. there was the n is killing the attack. we hadn't e campaigns, but the british didn't decide to say, well, on the falls road there on doubt or li, maybe some i or a members and republican sympathizers. so therefore, let's drop a 2000 pound palm on the falls road. you can't do that. the i say, said chief prosecutor added that though the country has the right to protect this

population. this isn't a license to commit war crimes or crimes against humanity. while the request for netanyahu's arrest still needs approval by the court's judges, as the 1st time and incumbent western bank leader had been targeted by the hague, israel's allies have branded the move as outrages. well, this is a deeply on helpful develop then of course it's still subject to final decision, but it remains deeply unhelpful. nonetheless, there is no moral equivalence between a democratic state, exercising its norful right to self defense. and the terrorist group, how boss will reject the i c, she's application arrest warrant. you get rid of these words by apply. there's no privilege between israel and i'm off concert allegations against israel made by the end as a court of justice. what's happening is not genocide. to reject the journalist and

the editor of my grubby, the, or martin j says israel has no reason to care about its image among palestinians. while the u. k. has always been careful with its perception. he's absolutely right . you know, the british did no problem just in just coming in on line because they knew we knew that if you do that to drive people who mode refused into the terrace groups. obviously these really isn't missing. i don't know interest. and that because the policy is not wrong to them to keep causes, the policy is asking extensive. so they're not thinking that way for them is quite logical to them the hell out of the causes until there's nothing left to have just seen or land to taste. and i think um, one of the pressing points that some to be made. so the sort of hinted at this idea of international, you know, being compromised by these bullying from america and from other companies i, person on how the, you know, the, these institutions like yours to january. so you could just crumble. it's usually significant because isn't completely unfair,

unprecedented. and i think the reason why is unprecedented is because i'm not members enough. heavyweight members from the european union countries are leaning on the icbc. i'm saying look up until now. you might not have that much of a credibility as an international court, which oppose international law. but now is your, is your make or break day and you have to step up. it's a mock. i'm be serious. i'm from the through on this, on the holding up international rules and, you know, no longer a big in the book of the americans. meanwhile, thousands of people around the world are demanding an immediate cease fire in gaza . demonstrators are carrying comes to new slides as well as posters that read free palestine, and it stops in the side, hundreds of students in the south american nation until i have called for their government to cut diplomatic and economic ties with israel. so this comes as the co founder of human rights watch brand. israel's actions and gaza identifies over a period of time. israel has obstructed the delivery of humanitarian

assistance to die. and those who have then most severely victimize on not the members and from us by that there is young children who are most severely damaged by malnutrition, and who will either a starve to death, or if they survive, they will be diminished for the rest of their lives diminished physically and psychologically by the severe mountain nutrition band enduring as children. and i thought that severe obstruction of the delivery of humanitarian assistance amounted to genocide. and we heard from the spokesperson for fontose reformers, democratic function, dimitri de leon, a, he says he is really genocide and does. it is well documented by the idea of soldiers themselves. i think you have to be live in under a rock for the past 7 months. to really not see israel committing genocide in guys

. this is the most documented genocide thing. history and a people might deny it were political reasons for being too cowards to face the truth and fears, the consequences of saying the truth. but after all, reality pushes itself and in forces itself upon people. and some people might resist the truth for so long, but they have at the end of the day, many of them will give up to the truth and admit the true. what happening is god god, that is not a war. it's a genocide. it's a genocide with the declared intent. but it's a, it's a genocide by the put that being film but is weighed soldiers. it's a genocide by the reports of in defendant, the national organizations by definition, it is

a genocide and it's nothing else. but the genocide of anita chief has a few options on the table. one of its which is to resign. that is the ultimatum given by italy's deputy prime minister, who said young stilton birds rhetoric of moore, moore has crossed the line and italy cannot be forced to send his troops to fight against russia. oh, let me fill out the the retrench or apologizes and resigns. while i talk about war, talk about using the bones miss solve the tiny and weapons that we sent to you, great to defend itself on its territory. instead to fight had been killed outside its territory. nothing. my name, not in the name of the italian people. so we must defend ukraine and we doing it from the 1st minute. we know that well with anyone, i do not want to leave the gates of my children, the 3rd world war. so nato cannot force us to kill in russia. no one can force us

to send a tale and soldiers to fight and dine ukraine. leaders of nato's number states from german chancellor. all i've sold to us president joe biden and have repeatedly said that they're giving weapons to keep on the explicit condition that they are to be used to make hard deep strikes in russian territory. guess maybe they have voters to answer too if they happen to watch world war 3. unlike i'm elected stilton berg, who now wants to move the goal posts for the entire alliance, and the conditions under which the weapons were supplied in 1st place. as explained in a recent interview with the economist obligated thomas calling for allies to consider whether it should list some of the restrictions dining post on a weapon still night to, to ukraine. because we need to remember what this is. this is a world russian barbara shrugging, so great and so to defend themselves, and that includes all saw the striking targets on the russian territory. and then of course, if you deny of ukraine, the right to fit means or targets on a russian territory. then you make it very hard for them to uphold the right for

self. defense is self defense. self defense is trying, the new instructor is the goal. it's legitimate and we are helping ukraine with upholding that right. and that should include the ability to also strike targets on russian territory. okay, so we mentioned russia, where exactly is the nato territory in that of what happened to all the talk about nato being strictly a defensive organization. noticed the rhetoric here still, number. now, redefining authentic strikes as a defensive necessity. like now you really can't expect you frame to put up a fight in its own yard, even with all of the western weapons at its disposal. if it's not allowed to just go over and blow the other guys house up, it all smacks a typical new mission creep, kind of like that no flies on in libya that turned into a rate regime change show has had to reiterate that this was not the deal for the

arms really varies. we have made so far, we have clear rules that are agreed upon with you green and these work at least this is my position. stoughton let's take didn't know. escape the attention of rushes for a ministry either. it's folks on and mentioned that his call for the west to facilitate direct attacks on russia. i might be. ringback would keep in mind for those attending the west upcoming peace conference in switzerland. and jerry and prime minister victor or bon reacted saying that he's actively working on the question of how hungry you can avoid being potentially dragged into an escalating mess. despite being a natal member bootable, however, is drifting into a board without even having a rough estimate of the costs and the resources necessary to achieve it. stated military objectives. i've never seen anything more irresponsible in my life. the more stable the secondary and government is the career of the position of the kinder and people is in matters of war and peace on the side of peace. the more i have something to stand on already and against the better my chances are of keeping the country out of war. it sounds like a member of the college frat house,

who feels like he's being peer pressured into doing the drunken pub crawl, that he really doesn't want to do it for bottles being proactive. it's because he's apparently thinking that you're is gearing out to head into your brain. that's according to the serbian president. now, where would or bon get that idea? it's not like french president, a minor in that whole has been talking upstanding french troops to ukraine or anything. oh, and here is again, just recently showing how well those high school drama classes taught, highest future wise have really paid off the school. know, we've never had so many enemies at home and abroad. i think this is an existing shall moment for all year. because i truly believe that value would have good value . because the board isn't turning to you with russian aggression in ukraine. and we used to say that you are a space journey. is there spiegel, a report of recently the baltic states, or it's going to spill into your brain if pressure has a breakthrough way over there in easter and ukraine,

you're on the opposite side of the country. from them, and they apparently figure that if they go in and do that, then you would have to get involved in fighting russia directly because poland decided to go do something stupid in the absence of an actual attack on poland. pretty sure that's not how article 5 collective defense works for nato. there been reason reports in the western press, the vote team, the possibility of nato military trainers and ukraine, which kind of makes it sound like their gym coaches and teachers, and not at all cover for all sense of action and deepening western involvement. well, across the atlantic, us president joe biden is also staying on the war path, calling for more aid to care of by labeling, blood them are put in a tyrant. we are standing strong with ukraine and we will stand with them of the senate

against the man who i know well for many years, a brutal tire. we may not, we and we will not. we will not walk away. however, by it instead of confidence in ukraine classes, but the situation on the ground as russia advances on the front line, the number of foreign mercenaries fighting for ukraine is dwindling. those who have returned to say taking on russian forces was more challenging than the expected r t correspondence shape. but this brings us the details. well as a conflict in ukraine heads into its 3rd year and russian troops advance along the 1000 kilometers front line. the reality of taking on a super power has finally dawned a key of and in washington and russia's vast military and economic power. i've seen to brush aside everything to west could pro it is and that includes a large number of cool, whole western volunteers and mercenaries who now usually believe that they were

heading for a cake. well, can you crime basically an adventure holiday where you also got to kill evil russians? what's not to like, right? i'm fucking in your so i think it's a democracy in this process, are you willing to risk your life for this country? i definitely think that fighting the war here is worth it because it keeps the war away from the home front, just courtney jobs and got an appointment. pretty much. why is the right thing to do when this happened? i felt the same reasons that i wanted to follow to go down to fight the tire rotation isis. i cannot change the war and i came to have part of helping the reality of the modern battlefield has changed opinions. not only was this an actual war, like dionte insurgencies in iraq and afghanistan, it was a war against

a real army and not re alarm you was well trained, well equipped and ready to stand for 5. it's, it's hard. it's hard. there is a 2nd, so it's a genocide, it's law. there is people that everywhere. russians dads to train people, dads train soldiers that just left there. you have to be willing to re learn everything that you've been taught, which is i think, one of the reasons why some of the ukrainian soldiers are doing so well out there because they don't have any base where they've been taught. meanwhile, a lot of the westerners, they already have a set idea about how things should be and everything. and it's just not that way out and ukraine in the army. we have been cooperating with the americans and the british for a long time. and these are not guys, you can go to a full scale war with, you can go on a so far it with them, and i've gotten it done or a rock there we have everything in your opponent has nothing here. maybe it works the other way around. the enemy has artillery, we don't always have it, etc. and it's important to remember that the key, every gene originally claimed

a 20000 foreigners that signed up to fight with the russians. now say only around $3000.00 mercenaries are fighting for ukraine. and of course, it's not just the mercenaries going tired of dying for this b, u. s. a. project and ukraine with over a 100000 deserving millions, more home on a broad hiding from the landscape. me grinder, let me see what additional information we can put you according to the mass media. as of today, the number of people who deserted the military unit succeeds 100000. this is actually 100000 crimes. as far as i understand, no one is doing anything about it, and that is a very big problem. given the brutality of ukraine's force conscription, it's hardly surprising that ukrainians are choosing to take the past when it comes to taking a one way to get to the front. the

. so has ukraine eats itself alive, dragging what remains of its people to the front. it seems the big adventure for ukraine's war tourist is also nearing its end. the idea of dying and a shell hold for a corrupt an on elected. so wednesday seems to have cured most of the western tourist who thought they would find glory and wealth and ukraine. instead, they've learned the hard way the taking on the russians while fighting someone else as more will probably cost you your life, your limits or your liberty. and either way, the wisest choice would have been to stay at home. as you crime struggles to find

new recruits military personnel and the country are avoiding wearing their uniforms in public as fear over the countries. mobilization law grows us according to where you create an officer who says civilians are voiding men with visible connections to the military. the closest as if is not what the hell is this? when i was leaving for the front in 2022 was back in 2023. i was hugged and kissed children, came up to me, gave me bracelets and some flowers. and now everyone tons away from me. i deliberately take the subway and people that turn away, they were afraid of me. what the hell is this? what am i fighting for? so the people at home would be afraid of me. i'll tell you my point of view and those fighting on the front, when people recruited in the street spied buses come to our trenches, what should we do with them? they say that they wipe fight, and now in training centers, they again say that they won't fight ukrainian this trust in our military is not

unfounded. footage of men being snatched off the streets for military service has been widely circulating online. in addition to that, ukraine has tightened its control on reserve is send this wrapping up the sanctions against the draft dodgers. well to flee forcible mobilization, some ukrainians risk, illegal border crossings, including across the river t sad to try to get the romania journey is paralyzed with at least $32.00 bodies recently recovered in the area experts to the death toll could be much higher as the river is fast flowing and littered with the opposite pulse, such as the fall and freeze at the mocking of these tragic deaths by comedians is testament to the polarization and ukrainian society. i'm drawing your fund on the size like draft or dissing the does the river. wait, wait, i'll take this for the evening. that's the shock with new ones, one more for yourself us. and while ukrainians continue losing their lives,

trying to escape conscription the hash tag. i am a draft. dodger has gone viral across social media after ukrainians. lucky enough to leave the country started posting videos of their lives abroad, and tanya and war correspond to andrea la ged says the patriotic sentiment, new crane is declining with people questioning why they are dying for the interest of lawmakers. and yeah, there is not a frothy eltic sentiment in ukraine now for, for, from the people from the people, from the area of people for the ukraine. young man, now it's maybe a good. the cheap disease soon varies the life of 4 across the river and 30 romania illegally. that's a try to survive on the bottom. it was a one time my make any to view with you can hear were freeze on a and e say me. i was on the front line i make my do to.