this is one, is the one of our ensuring that leads on us continue let come up on that and setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions. i don't believe that i think in, in a society that is willing to kill international filmmakers and world class journalists, bring programs to inform and inspire you. you need to have a media ensuring that all right to the hood on al jazeera, ah election day in nigeria millions are heading to the poles to decide who will be the next president of africa, most populous nation. all correspondence that and lego scenario and that boucher masking voters about their concerns, the candidates and the countries future. ah,

i'm robinson, this is a 0 alive from doha. also coming up as ukraine begins a 2nd year under the shadow war, the e u and the u. s level new sanctions against russia and families torn apart by earthquakes into kiya and sylvia. we're going to tell you about the challenge of reuniting last babies with their loved ones. ah, we're going to begin in nigeria where pose of just opened and what scene is the most unpredictable presidential race since the end of military rule. more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for a new president, as well as members of the national assembly, many nigerian se they hope the next leader will improve the economy and end years of worsening violence. 18 presidential candidates are in the contest, but only 3. i said to have a realistic chance of winning the elected leader will be sworn into office on may.

the 29th, if no candidate wins outright. a 2nd round will be held between the 2 front runners, but whoever wins a good a face big challenges, voters say they're worried about the rising cost of living, unemployment, and threats from on groups. nearly 40 percent of them are under 34 years old, so the votes being called the election of young people. we've got a team of correspondence covering the election bahama jam. jim's in the nigerian capital, a boucher, how to a tasa is live from a no go southeast of nigeria. but we begin our coverage without madras and he's live for us from lagos on it for the 1st time. there is no candidate that is a sitting president, none of them is from the military. absolutely . however, none of the, all the 3 leading can in fact fall of the fall. busy frontrunners are in fact at one time or the other. i've been in public office voted in espanol issues. 2 of them that fit out of the 3 leading candidates. 2 of them were former governors,

and one of them was a former vice president who is running his presidential ah contest for the 6th time when he be 60 nike. we don't know. well the governors be in charge. yes, the governors are in, i mean the governors traditionally in nigeria, a very powerful group. however, the choice now whatever happens in the past 6 months or so is now left to the voter who walks into a pooling station to decide who leads this country of more than $215000000.00 for the next 4 years. the decision day is today, and prior to this day, the logistical problems faced across the country is massive here in legos. why you have the legacy of war to population 6000000 holiday cards to in order to vote. but more than 7000000 have registered to vote in this election. what you see behind me right now is i move out of the frame, is the polling station that's being set up just as just when the polls are

beginning door. but this is of course why one of the presidential candidates is supposed to vote election officious. i know why here. the tenant has been set up, but nothing is happening at the, at the, at the moment. i thank you very much indeed on integer sir, talking to us from a legacy we're going across to hot matessa who's in a new go. one of the key worries for voters, as i mentioned before, how to is the ongoing violence of the country has been seeing how worried are people that violence could increase as we approach these elections. well insecurity is a major concern, especially here in the south east and wanting to, to watch out for here to see how many people actually turn out to vote today. this party station is in the middle of the city. a lot of people live. you have a ride though, it's still very, very wide wilson noticing throughout the city that we're not seeing a lot of police with security forces on the street. when you ask me, this is why that is, is there? remember, this is there's

a few days ago police officers advocate agents have been killed by our group. so they say the police are they, they are just not visible. they're in plain clothes. now police officers blame the violence unarmed guys really young men who say they're frustrated about unemployment and poverty in this particular region. some of them say they are fighting kid 9 people harassed them and attacking people on the roads because they want to try and form an independent states separate from nigeria because they feel marginalized by the federal government in a boot. so one thing to watch, the of course, will be to see how many people be brave enough to actually leave their homes and come in votes. the city is fairly quiet, fairly safe with the remote areas that people are concerned about in some villages . these guys run the show, for example, if you want to get married, if you have an argument with your neighbor over land, for example, you have to consult these guys for mission to get married. and they, for many courts to resolve disputes in the communities they had run the show. and in some cases they take over power from government officials. so one be one thing people are waiting to see is of course, given all the security concerns,

how many people in the southeast, a very volatile region was shopped about today? however, thank you very much indeed. how much also talking to us from inaugural muhammad jammah jim as more from us live from a boucher as harder was saying there. a lot of this depends on how many people actually turn out to vote. and that is suspected as well. that a lot of young people are going to be taking part in the selection talkers through how people are feeling where you are will rob. it's just past 8 am here in a boucher we are in front of a historic palace and the heart of the capital is, has been turned into a police station. there are voters that are out here. many of them are part of the youth, a population of nigeria, and yet the ballots are not here yet. things are not yet set up and we are not seeing a presence of the electoral commission. there is. hi, anticipation here about the elections. there are people that have already been out here for hours that are trying to form lines so that they can go and vote once the

electoral commission actually arrived or just not sure when that will happen to that end. i want to bring in a guests that i have with me here this morning. this is oo, lucy, she is a business woman here in a boucher lucy. i noticed earlier that you have these numbered pieces of paper with you that you've been distributing. why is that? what are you doing when you have the one where here fall to cost? are foods are i it's on. we came as a, as seeks. some of us came azaleas, 5 taxi. so the focus for the people who had distributed us to maintain peace on all doing this. you know, before the end i know of a shout home, we have to take our numbers to that. just make things easier for them to go to. i did time means so cost households to the is so that's the reasoning, the offense for the numbers we have. so essentially, because the electoral commission, people are not here yet, you have taken it upon yourself as have others to distribute numbers so that when

they do arrive they can form an orderly line based on who has been here. is that correct? and how is that been going? yes, when it comes in, they smoothly. we've been given all the numbers. wow. for the meals and the female, you know, just to make them when they called and they, we mainly assembling one line on. ringback manual be in the other line just to make sure things are moving smooth. up until now the i'm not here, boys who are ready to wait for them while we'll give out the a. how important is this general election to you? why is it so significant? is very, very important. so this is one of the toughest election in the history of land you are i because of the parties involved? yes. so much have a student named jr. yeah. there's so much, i'm chaos. i know that. so no, our leader actually failed those to what told me don't in math to make sure we put for the right candidate, frantic back our country that i'll make shopping. i walk in by the people who are

dying upon them. it was dying, you know, there's so much longer in the lot. so this is very, very important to every night you have. and lucy, one of the things that people say when it comes to the issue of hunger, there is a cash crisis. there's a currency crisis here in nigeria right now, that is really impacting people. there are huge cues across the capital and other cities, people waiting for cash banks as well as a t. m machines. how has that been impacting you personally? how difficult has it made life lately? he has really been difficult for me because i for one, i fell wayne, i think i saw dreams. no, no i said nicholas, but what to lower the cost on retina to know i have pos machine. if you want to buy both for that, i use pos for the neutron, and that you have to wait till permission. of course, you have to wait for me to confirm it before i give it to you. if possible, it means hopefully, julian's boy, i think it's a welcome development. but what did i think that did the really plan it's world

wide because we don't have it that network systemic names. you yeah, they should at least on the next to walk. you knew before bringing out display say, but i think it to her post in the long wasn't my political message is for them to walk on on it so we don't have to you know, each other find these interests. honda did this search, so the network is down, you know, it's really, really affecting the a lucie one more thing. you are 33, your part of the youth vote here. they're over 10000000 new registered voters, over 80 percent of them are under the age of 35. many people expect that the youth may play a pivotal role in this election. do you think that is the case and do you think that they will come out in large numbers? they will come off in large numbers. i tell your names humans entire day, so much so much more that angela, like i said, it's chaos in the land. people are hungry, cost of living is so high,

rents i expensive from stopping may have, so people aren't coming to people actually hoping that this has been a change. there's going to be a new line. you are right. that's why it is why really coming out in mass, what's long and old? everybody's just coming out to make sure we get right. so what will we really play? i'll, i'm hot or right i lead the rest for the gov means we were hoping that doing our regulation web, appealing for them to please not make this election because this is really important. so every well many names you lucy, we wish you and your fellow nigerians. a lot of luck on this very important day. thank you for joining us. appreciate it. that was lucy. she is a business woman here and a boucher talking about the concerns, not just of youth voters in this country, but also of the entirety of the population. this is a very significant general election. a lot of the issues that this country is experiencing will hinge upon the results. today,

rob mohammed james room and aversion, muhammad, thank you. the great war has ended its 2nd year and the european union's announced a new round of sanctions against russia. b, u says it wants to hinder the kremlin, his ability to fund its war, man, block the russian military from accessing technology and spare parts. the u. s. has also introduced new sanctions, including a 200 percent tariff on russian. all you minium, washington has coordinated its efforts with other g 7 countries. a main objective of our sanctions has been to degrade where she is building to wage war to deprived of the goods through sanctions, an export controls. it needs to supply its military. and i think we've been quite successful in doing that are some of innovative, moscow takes

a look at our car makers and other businesses are adjusting to western sanctions. this mosque, which 3 is a standard 1.5 liter family car. but it comes of the production line of what used to be a greno production plant. when the french come, manufacturer left russia last year, it rolled off $2300000000.00 worth of assets and sold. it's russian subsidiary for a symbolic when europe. it has a buyback option in a few years. if thank is the lifted. but for now the 45000 workers who produce nearly a 3rd of russia's car market remain employed in the themes. one company, thanks. since crisis was another opportunity of the what's the threesome gloom upon europe produced in 2023. we plan to produce $50000.00 vehicles. $10000.00 will be electric. we've already started developing our own electric platform. by the end of 2025. we plan to produce a fully electric car of our own design. we plan to localize all components in moscow. fast food chains in cafes which closed operations have also been acquired

by russian business people. so mcdonnell is now of course the touch. and starbuck is started coughing in russia. zeta would weigh more than $11000.00 sanctions have been imposed during this year. they assumed that events with unfolding a catastrophic with russia exports to go to 0. russia would fall into complete blockades. the financial system will collapse. however, they will run bunker. these countries have either impose restrictions back sanctions or opposed russia invasion of ukraine, but the ones in green, either seen as russia allies or have a neutral stuff. these include south american reserve and venezuela plus resource rich nations including iraq, malia to dawn, and ages, power houses, including india and china. this is the class called group showcasing its weapons in the united arab emirates. it's one of many countries that refused to be involved in

sanctions against russia. the russian manufacturer it produces about 95 percent of all small arms in the country and exports weapons to more than $27.00 others. fresh drug makers have turned to india farm industry for supplies after being blocked by the rest. and he has also become a major oil export market for russia. but china draws them all with an estimated $200000000000.00 in trade forecasts, but russia by next year, despite its allies, help sanctions against russia have led to a drop in exports whitening fiscal deficit. and businesses struggling to find cash after banking restrictions. one year on moscow has proved an old military thing. russia is never as strong as you fear, but russia is also never as weak as you hope. some of the job of era must ukraine's president says he plans to meet chinese president, seizing ping to discuss a peace proposal tabled by beijing. china released a proposal for peace between russia and ukraine. fallen talks between chop chinese

diplomat, one ye, and president vladimir putin. beijing is calling for an end to western sanctions on russia. ukraine says the proposal is a positive sign when his upset. yup. first of all, i planned to meet teaching ping and believe this will be beneficial for countries and for security in the world. we have a large trade turn over with china. the issue is not only the war, the issues that we are states that are interested in maintaining economic relations . i really want to believe that china will not supply weapons to russia. this is very important to me. this is a priority, gloomy. she still had an ard, or 0 classrooms, destroyed by bombs. we took her to look at how school children are coping with the impact of the war in ukraine. ah, russia's war in ukraine has dominated. well, he's for the past 12 months,

devastating to those in the line of fire, or directly impact, and it has strengthened global alliances and deepened divisions with far reaching effects on the lives of billions of people. worldwide in a week heard special coverage al jazeera explores every aspect of the conflict, the human, the political, and the economic, and possibilities of resolution. ukraine war, one here on, on, out there. oh,

no. ah, you're watching, i'll just eat a reminder of our top stories. this, our voting is underway and not julia's most unpredictable presidential race more than 93000000 people are registered to vote for the new president as well as members of the national assembly. b. u and the u. s. have imposed new sanctions in russia for its war in ukraine. the measures aiming to prevent moscow from getting hold of any technology for military use. children attending school in ukraine or not just struggling with the challenges that come with learning, but also the threat of russian missiles and drones. some schools have been fitted

with make shift bomb shelters from male friends embassy. harvey shows us the reality of being a student in wartime ukraine. far from the fighting children in ukraine are still connected to it by family members on the front line, and the more immediate threat of bombs from the sky. you say that my judgment gave gave me near as an ear, right tyran, they know what to do. they hide. but the 1st time my son was crying, he told me he wouldn't theory the people that everyone would die and his mom was not by our children. do not do the thing. they should not be asking if rocha for launched or not. the parents we met said schools central to their community and to stability and their children's lives were not spared in rushes, bombardments, we women unicef estimates. half of all schools across ukraine are too damage to reopen. and 2 thirds of its children are unable to access any kind of education.

there were some of the schools in areas that were held by the russians are so heavily damaged from showing that it will take millions of dollars and years before they're ready to open for students again. direction i was the one school principal said in the aftermath of russia's occupation of his home town. reopening classrooms meant making sure parents felt safe enough to send their children with the help of international donors. the school are converted, a storage place to an air raid shelter. the plan is to build spaces like in as many schools as possible. so i may be short enough for that promotional way. my and what you say, the biggest concern for us is the children. they are our children, and we are responsible for them. that's why at the beginning of the school year organized per se classes and psychological training to cope with fear. when we have sirens with older children automatically come to the shelter. they know how to

respond and what to do. what it is not ideal. the student body at the school numbered in the thousands before the war. now only $200.00 children attend at a time and only for a few hours a day. because that is the maximum number of children that will fit in the shelter . school schedules made to accommodate the threat of russian attack. it is purpose built to be child friendly, but not fortified or deep enough to withstand a direct hit. every time an air raid alarm stops, and the all clear sounds, the hope is they will never have to use it again. as in basra, b l g 0, or pin ah, in. and then use the desk from devastating earthquakes into kit and syria has now

passed 50000 people. rescuers in northern syria. continue to dig through the rubble of buildings destroyed 2 weeks ago. aids being slow to reach the region, and then our position held areas. many families are still searching by and for the bodies of missing relatives. i so booked on the end, we were removing rock after rock and finding nothing underneath. people were under the concrete screaming get us out or get us out. but we'd come up with empty hands . was another lanham, the hollywood people spent 2 or 3 days under the rubble, some stately for 4 days. nothing was working on the hans alone weren't enough. we lost children. i lost my brother and his children and my cousins and their children . 25 people died. there, of course, separated scores of children from their parents, turkish social services. so many families have been reunited, but more than a 100 babies remain unidentified. and they're still in the care of the state. and of course, yellow reports from the turkish capital and color people

here called us baby, a survivor pulled from hon. knife was brought to this child care complex from a donna just a week ago. like all these babies, earthquakes that had 10 cities in southeast and took here on february 6th, separated naive from his parents until they are reunited with their families. they are cared for by child development officers likely be carried eligible them. we may not be their mothers, but we're doing our best self confidence and contact is very important for children under the age of 2. they've already been through a lot. i'm just trying to ease their loneliness at us. social services say 1353 children out of nearly 1900. have been reunited with their families. but 106 haven't yet been identified. by entering children's national id numbers

on the ministry what page families are able to search for. they lost children since thirst quakes happened. there has been a huge demand among turkey citizens to either adopt these babies or foster other than children who been orphaned. but officials say they will be the thing under government protection. some all these babies have no names other than what the nurses call them. this baby girl's name tax as 7 days old. i live in olive oil. what we learn whether or not these children have families in the hospital. then in line with child protection laws, we keep them safe here after obtaining the necessary permits. then we follow any clue that may come from the city of so we have no room for uncertainty. there is no way someone can come in and just claim a child. come on on the counselor while we were filming. we weren't told a men claiming to be knives. father was undergoing a dna test overseen by public prosecutors orphans who survived. the earthquakes have also been transferred to this complex in and cut out some have already started

going to school in this new city, trying to pick up as best as they can from where they left off scene and car solar l to 0 anchored or at least 3 people have died as a result of a massive winter storm raging across the united states. more than 2 meters of snow is forecast for parts of california signs, and he has got his 1st blizzard warning for 30 years. it's already knocked out power to nearly a 1000000 homes and businesses closing major roads and forcing hundreds of flight cancellations. the death toll from recent floods and landslides, in southeast and brazil has risen to at least 54 people. rescuers are still searching for dozens of people missing in south hollow state. after an entire months worth of rain fell in just 24 hours. it was the highest one day rainfall ever recorded in brazil, the government is wanting people not to travel to the area. farmers in the

philippines from se cheaper imports and rising transportation costs are forcing them to dump their projects by turns barnum in low reports from newcastle in northern philippines. one group has come together on social media to prevent that from his i said alice or india for it in a repugnant came close to throwing away collie flowers. he's grown since october. i was held though, the floor it's are safe to eat. the leaves are infested by white flies in ferdinand says, business men aren't likely to buy them. young man, eatable napa, lucy, the blunt in this condition, philip, and just want to give up on them. because bessie hates, her costly will just end up losing money. but for it, in an bound help, a facebook group of about 38000 members and growing is sending rescue trucks to farmers who have difficulty selling their produce. an idea that started when ethan and the estrada saw tons of vegetables rotting away during pandemic locked outs. over all, there's a lot of distribution gaps. i farmers bringing them to don't,

marquez, the buyers are not there at that moment. and so there's really a lot of disconnect on the system and even if the buyers are there, they don't be the right race. ferdinand says the same is happening with onions. prices rose to as high as $12.00 a kilo in december, but would imports. now flooding markets, they've dropped. the cost of growing his and harvested audience is way above their market value. if i have been, i'm alive, but i'm back on graders would see they have that in the storage so they can only buy low about if you want to sell, he'll just have to sell low hoarding and would have face to same problem. what is called the flowers, if it wasn't for the estrada's and their non profit group, rural rising, coming to the rescue and buying them at a fair price. one of the reasons vegetables and other farm products have become so expensive is because they're passed from one trader, so another before they reach markets. well, these vegetables are going straight to manila,

and many have been pre ordered through facebook at below retail prices. one truck, 3 tons of cali flowers in a few 100 kilograms of on its small amounts. but these so called vegetable rescuer sate, they're making a difference. one farmer and one community at a time point below al jazeera, he lockwitzer northern philippines. and that's it from me. raw matheson, the news continues here, and i'll 0 after inside story jason hafner a by ah hello, it will feel a little more like windsor across europe as we go on through the next couple days. the class streaming down from the north hassle was going to be a cold direction. and yet there is some snow in the forecast. this area of low pressure will continue to refer east, which as we go through the next couple days. and then this little mess of france

that's going to sink its way further southwards. as you can see, it bumps into what will be increasingly kohler. it will turn to snow. northly winds was taken the edge of that temperature. so although it will be dry across a good parts of the british isles, across the island of ana, and it is going to be for the notice, be cooler, let me fresher than it has done. recently. lost dry there for sas stay across so much of france retains in wet weather going through on friday. wet weather will slide its way cross at western side of the mad 3 northern areas of italy into the balkans and beyond. this stuff that's going to turn to snow, she can see it continues to cool down. we are going to see some snow weather coming through here quite a bit of as well rather than our house. along with the italian outs pushing a, which was a southwestern corner of france. wet and windy weather bring up in that western side of the mediterranean as we go through the next couple of day. so my, my, the, to into the north west of africa slowly but surely making its way for the west this weekend. ah,

how do you state control information? moscow is one of them, blocked travail the case in the world. it has an incredible facial recognition technology. how does the narrative improve public opinion better? no walk. how is the 2nd gen nathan leaf framing the story? the video spread like wildfire? they do not do practice or in your brain. the listening post dissects the media. we don't cover the news. we cover the way the news is cover the private military group that russia is said to rely on recent rao involving wagner in ukraine has revealed its role in the war there. so who's behind this group and how is that surfing brushes, global outreach? this is inside story ah.