the rosa hind me, those steels the entire area that stretches in this direction was completely submerged. many of the homes and buildings that were destroyed are still rubble. and parts of this district had started to flood once again the, the, the city of the ministry offices in good phone have sees control and put the president on the house. the rest officer, controversial votes, gave him a sub to the to, has been followed by celebrations. on the streets of the capital, leave it available with launch crowns, cheering the ministry, the on my name's side, this is all just their life some time or so. coming on. rush just as full,

military transport, air chromes have been damaged and one of the largest tried attacks by ukraine since the war began. millions in florida brace the impact hurricane dot is expected to strengthen is a category for storm when it lands in a few hours. shutting down a malicious song when network from the inside detective use the same tools as computer hopkins to some cyber time the we begin the program with breaking news out of the bone where a group of senior ministry leaders of announced they are in charge of the country and have put the president on the house arrest that is just days off to a controversial election in the oil rich african nation. the military lead has appeared on national television this morning to announce the constellation of south

today's election results. electrical commission had said that president ali bone go one i said time in office. the military have also it is old own institutions as well. the announcements forget celebrations on the streets of the capital liberal vill, hundreds. 10 doubts that have been criticism of the government for the way south. today's election was organized. okay, we have a number of correspondents on this story. catherine stuart is in kenya, is capital nairobi. we have address. he is in new jazz capital in naomi? natasha. butler will have reaction to the events in the bone from paris. nicholas hack is in debt called the fuss. let's get this report from stephanie deca. as soon as you a nice us best of it was just before 6 am when good ball and woke up to this big glad that's your often new thing, irresponsible,

unpredictable governance which results and it continues to, to ration of social cohesion. the risk of leading the country to close today, the 13th of august, 2023 in the name of the company's people we, the committee of the transition and the restoration of institutions have decided to offend the piece, putting an end to the regime in place of your senior military officers appearing on national television announcing the seizure of power that happened soon off to the countries election body announced that president bungle had one 3rd term in office. many people in the capital of naperville are celebrating the news, the boot your belief is over. uh, that was clearly something the end of the story is serious about applicant, but this would be happening in the truly are the google was no longer in the hospital. the population in galvan, he wasn't accepted by people positions that was this time without

a really strong beat on it's done to me because he did a bit on the also and also there was some problem became audible and from opposition. candidates complained of missing by the papers for the general election on saturday. right, so we're going to zation condemned the band on foreign media and international observers. government leaders caught the internet access and impose the night curfew officer, the elections raising concerned about transparency. both previous wins by bunco, we're also challenged as fortune and by opposition. candidates. bongo has ruled oil rich come on since his father and previous president died in 2009. the family has govern the country for 56 years, longer suffered a stroke in 2018 which incapacitated him for almost a year, increasing calls for him to step aside. the sales qu attempt followed in 2019,

when soldiers who mutinied or killed or jailed the military authorities. this video showing soldiers celebrating, following the announcement coupons, borders and now closed and all states institutions dissolved stephanie decker audra 0. okay, let's begin. no coverage by speaking to nicholas hock, who is life for us in dakota and nicholas you covered central and western africa extensively. you've been speaking to people in google and took us through the events of this morning and how people have been reacting scroll up in. so last night everybody thought that the presidential elections that took place on saturday would be much of the same, which is a continuation of all the bunk goes rule. but people in good bone woke up too and you don't for the country with people celebrating. and this announcement made on national television with soldiers from the presidential guards, but also from different course of the army. all united saying that it was the end

of a bone goes regime of the bone go is said to be in a house arrest. there was an announcement made just earlier on by the military, again saying that he is under house arrest with his, with a, with doctors, but also with his close family. they also mentioned the name of dozens of people that have been arrested, including all the bung goes son, accusing them of high treason, saying that they stole from public call for kids and move organized crime drug trafficking. and that all of these people will be met with the law. it isn't just the end of all the bone go with the end of the bone, go review and system that has been in place for the last 56 years. it's a turning point for the history of good bones, but also for the region. this is a country where there is 2 french military base on the ground. this happened just under the nose of the french government being a former french colony. and so right now on the streets of lee the vi and we're

seeing people cheering, overjoyed at seeing the end of this regime, people saying that get bonus fried and is liberated molly and nicholas this. this was a family dynasty. the had been in power for a very, very long time. it's interesting not only is ali bone group and put it on the house, the rest his son has as well. and of course, before they was his father on the phone go who around the country explained a little bit about the resentment that people have to with this family. and what they have done to the country is a good bone is an extremely wealthy country, rich and oil in minerals. but it is a country where most people live in poverty. we were there in 2017 after the presidential elections that was rocked with instability. then phil bunco was announced the winter during that election, but you could see side by side luxury and people living in dire poverty is that any

quality that has you, the resentment towards the bunker review and with the end of the bunker regime, all these lucrative contracts these business deals that have been taking place between the bunker family and its close associates and french are chinese companies are all put into question. we've seen the reaction of a stock market where magazines is being extracted from good bond or the old market . certain companies that have seen their stock market plummet as a result of this crew. but for the people of good bond that have lived in di property, this is a moment where they feel they can express themselves. and it's interesting to see this cool led by the military saying that they are trying to bring back the democratic institutions in place. they call themselves a group of transition to restore democracy in a country that has not seen

a democracy despite the election. so it's the whole system that's been that has been called into question to here with this who and certainly people will want to know what will happen next for all the bunker, but certainly for those lucrative business deals. and for group on itself, molly. okay, thank you. for that, nicholas hock that for us in call, while the situation in double knocks, the 10th 2 or attempt to take over in west and central africa in just the last 3 years. regional leaders are still trying to negotiate a return to democracy in this off the last month's crew that the king of faso has seen to tubes that in the last year. in the 2nd instance, captain abraham tower a forced out his own military colleagues last september. that in 2021, get in, soldiers took power from president of a call today who was seeking a controversial term on. molly's also seemed to care since 2020 both orchestra to the cart, anita

a see me quite to let's go to ahmed address. uh who is live in miss yet in the capital, naomi where just last month as we were forcing the ministry took over how i had a so here we are another, another q in and now the francophone african country is that a pass? and imagine here there is a pattern modeling and what people are saying that the cool in gabon was for see, and then what's expected. and so in many other countries as well, simply because when you talk to analyst and people on the streets, they tell you that they don't feel any connection with political leadership in these countries. and especially in francophone operate. can people see the french exporting resources with little or no benefits to their own so, so i mean, the rising properties of the people. uh, we think billy is in terms of revenues. the french have been mining uranium in this

country for more than half a century. and when you come to new share, you'll see the glaring poverty here i did when you areas why these minds are being exploited. of what you see there is a lot of basic, i mean it is rose infrastructure, a very poor award to supply health institutions, even schools and dispenser as a basically on the stopped or equipped to deal with any reasonable amount of cases. so basically people are really, really worried, i'm not really, really concerned. we haven't heard any reaction from the government here, but the expectation is that they will come to cool and they feel that it's uh, it's actually one indication. but another african countries following in the footsteps, just like we saw in molly after molly was so jenny broken appraisal, the news yet. so then all concerns actually pull up for many in the region,

especially african leaders. but this is a contingent that can spread very, very quickly, simply because democratic elected government democratically elected governments. i'm not play better, was better, but it was, it was, is really concerned about the spread in this house. and probably what it is that this was spread to other parts of the region as well. and the african union hasn't responded yet to that. you might just situation in goals. what do we expect that they will function double by actually uh, stopping it or suspending you from the membership of the organization. we're not you at the moment. is that whether or not that will be sanctions, economic sciences, trading in w, spoil, and other resources. we've seen that happening, but it was on it's in effective in congress like molly and broken across of why might need to be just single, continue marlene. okay. thank you for that. um it is respect for us in the capitol of news. yes. me on the of all the world has been reacting to the crew in gabon. we fired from the french prime minister, elizabeth born. she said,

frowns good bones for my colonial who was following the situation closely. china is cooling for the safety of president phone go to be guaranteed by the coordinators and the use foreign policy chief, joseph brown has expressed consent to the stability of the whole region off to yet another ministry k. okay, let's go to natasha butler and get reaction out of paris. so natasha, we were talking about from and from says relationship with a good bone which goes back a very, very long way. what sort of reaction can we expect from, from, in, in the coming hours of what we've heard, as you mentioned from uh, from says prime minister elizabeth form saying the powers is working the situation very closely. indeed. and in the last hour we've heard also from a, from some government spokes person. i don't even have

a whole. he says the false condemns the crude. it's a, in a gab own i'm, that it is cooling for the results of the reasons election to be respected. and the power as is watching the situation watching how it, it will not as a, as a post, a surprise because of the relations between powers and naperville. the colonial paul says that as bounds is at the leadership, at least 2 countries to get a full so don't fall, has many interest in gap only for the military base with hundreds of soldiers. it also has a number of multinational companies including types of energy stations, energies that are productive statement, saying that parties to look off to the best off at this point in time as they watch the situation. also error mess of a big french mining company saying that it is suspended. so for asians in the country temporarily, well say wait to see what is happening. so a lot of nervousness is you can imagine on the costs of some of those companies,

not historical relationship between the doesn't. naperville is the, the phone gulf from the family. i'm of them go and now i live on grow, and from says full of presence was particularly present jackie rock nicholas. also because all cozy there's very strong toys and relationships between the 2. the parts of this false athlete policy, if you like this policies or falls, has with so many countries in phones where it has a colonial legacy. these ties this network of phases and alliances that have given rise to anti french sentiments in so many of those countries like gap on, but of also given rise to an increasing number of voices and phones. saying that that network of alliances and save as much that ends at faults to not be playing that kind of role in ask because it needs to be more of a problem if the vehicle is not something the present, michael has spoken about thoughts. we have also heard from the leader of the frogs is less we lines tony's mellow. so he says that emanuel michael has ignored what is

happening in africa. he says, we all say people in gap on turning a page. natasha butler, that for us in the parish. thank you for that reaction. we can get reaction out of nairobi now and speak to our corresponding catherine soy. catherine, let's start with a soul really began because you were supposed to be in gap on for those presidential elections. and there was a problem with your accreditation. explain why you think this is all relevant in linked as well? yes, we have been trying to get to this equation for nearly 3 weeks now, and it's not just us all just there. i also, i the international media organizations and also international of the missions like the us and the you that you, you can union as well. they have been denied a crazy patient and because of that,

a lot of people in buck up on the we spoke to us throughout the selection period to the voting day as well. they said that they don't believe that the selection will be a free all fair because they feel that there is something seen the stuff that has been going on. because we have also been seeing the electoral commission changed a lot to rules and procedures. so people were very uncomfortable about that and we also, so during the compasses and particularly the last campaign of president or my or uh, president ali bungle. he said that there are people who are trying to over through the government. and we have seen particularly um the ruling of

party officials who have been very uncomfortable particularly about. um the so grouping of the opposition and they, uh, the position candidates came together and, and those one candidates, one of the presidential candidates and these had not happened before. so a lot of people in the ruling party what very g 30 about that and that's how we so as the said changes, particularly this shuts down all of the internet and the cost fuse and so one and then leading to a vis announcements. so people are wanting the streets. uh they were very happy. we so that and last uh, in 2016 during the last election we were in the board uh where there was

a dispute, and then uh the, the, the, the candidate then the opposition candidate. john ping basically said that the election was weak. that was that dispute, there was a post selection violence of people what that people were killed. several people were killed, several was injured as well. and that's when we, so a lot of companies being very frustrated straight that. and we've seen this through the yet. and that is what is happening now. a lot of people have been saying that they are very frustrated and they just wanted change. katherine story that for us in our a be thank you very much. gloria because the european spokeswoman for the opposition presidential candidate on the also she says she's not surprised that this has happened as not today's election was not free. i'm not 5. first of

all, i would like to say that despite the poor avoiding conditions that everybody weakness ollie's bone go on the buzz rain of 14 years, we're able to see that the people that obviously his own people have decided to hold for change. because the, the results that we manage together clearly we, we can clearly witness a beating that was to shoot meeting for him to there. and that's why we were cut from the internet. that's why it was a refusal to have like international observers and journalists in government because they wanted to organize fraud as they used to do it in the past. what change today? we have a very historical moment in the board right now is that for once, the arm, the, the, the armed forces have chosen not to pay to a blow the repression against the people in the 1st time. but they have chosen to

stand up side by side with the people and celebrate this victory. so that's why they could not tolerate these proteins, results that were proclaimed. and they chose to stand by the people we can see in the video, the expression of a population that is, congratulations to the military forces whose thinking of them to finally free them from these oppressive regime. so right now, anybody can witness that it's a very positive i'm beyond, there's nothing but it's, there's no violence people are celebrating. i think that this in itself is the expression of this code for change that the government is people have been calling for social and if today, 8 to for the military forces. after waiting for 3 days of silence. and after hearing the free, dense, fraudulent results that were proclaimed this morning, it took a lot of patients from all of us to ask them to really measure their responsibility

in front of the history. and what is the legacy that's legal would like to lease either we choose to preserve double in a peaceful way. and that's what we are seeing right now. there's no blood, there's no blood, nobody has been killed. everything seems to be very peaceful and we can only see the expression of the happiness of the governor's people. and that's all i would have to say for now. michael amolla is a senior visiting fellow at the end of the school. if economics, he says people in frank cosign countries in africa tied of latest clinging onto power. this is the facts which spring way about why the active strengths that you mentioned, the number of countries is not having to study fact from money to book. and of course, the damage and not to go. if you look across the cliffs, new i'm moving across from uganda. that's on the, on the printer i'm getting, which is, is probably every single country where you find a price based on that station or press the down being in that station the all front

or so. and it would appear that you know, the front of one countries, the series of processes, extensions, and these types of different rules for years. and for 20 years and counting to go the girl, right, the, the presence i see now is for presidential 10. and i'm getting ready for the 1st one in 2025, and it gets tiring on and on and on and on. and i've seen back across the clinton's, the people are just not happy with the song. this one is whens of presidential explorations and corruption and this money to manage. and the security problem. let me start right out of the low arrangements. you will have to be definitely something we will definitely try see should only give themselves just a little bit of time to open the lines appropriate and actually went by the electronic commission would be independent enough to me now how to basically tell

me the results company what we know to help them and each time the election in the last 23 elections, the government will not invest for security reasons. we're shutting down a minute, but it's actually look for security reasons watkins this. what prevents official policy? so now the electrical upsets do independently coordinates, the election results unit up to how the arrows probably tell it is with fox if possible. so why we saw the age made of providers of r o position from clear to the results. the government is that comes out the announced valuation of the results and imposed upon the population to okay, i just wanted to bring you a little update that way, guessing, uh, on this breaking news story that we've been doing this morning to bones who we are now hearing from the president who is currently, as we know on the house arrest, he has called on citizens to make noise off to that to attempt. and he has

confirmed that he has been detained in his residence. so he's just not breaking news coming in to us. we don't know exactly how this information has been released, but the bones president, calling on citizens to make noise off to that, to attempt to use cooling at a to attempt a saying he is currently detained in his residence. we will of course, be keeping you across all developments. in that story. the ukraine has launched what appears to be the biggest wave of strikes into rushes since the stalls of the war targets included an add ports where some energy planes were forcibly destroyed, their casualties have been reported, rushes hit back, but strikes on the crane and capital keys ukrainian drones targeted v 6 regions in

russian territory. the school and the city was hondas hits and launch finest dotted as an apple with several military planes were reportedly damage. that was the attacks me in moscow that led to flights of several efforts being suspended by the south. their reports of drones being shot down in the, on the sky, luca, or do you all and re, as on the attacks have gone and usually deep into russian territory. and malcolm major escalation in ukraine's use of drone will fact. let's go to your dish up with a little that was live for us and most are you. what is russia saying about the attack? and so there was a reaction from the russian to foreign ministry, a spokeswoman maria's a harbor, and she cooled that talks, kids terroristic, cvc, on the, they would know be left and punished, should, didn't specify the what kind of punishment she was speaking about. she said that

the drones, some of which strong to be a base and scoffing the northwest. russia could not have covered such distances with that information from western countries, while criminal spokesman to meet your best call has said that a russian made a treat x. but as are now investigating the launch positions of those drugs that are attached to ad pulls in cost in order to take further measures. and he also said that russia would continue. it's special mentorship ration to stop the terrorist threats from ukraine. but he didn't mention uh, that's uh there were absolutely no drawing a tax on russian sold before the miniature operation. and the ministry of defense was basically reporting nice long that all the drone of tax and central russia were repelled by them. but they did not mention at school this tried on the school's at port. so basically one this time step to detroit is a top steep school add port and add base. and according to various sources from 10

to 20 drains were involved in that talk. a city of 5 broke house at the applewood fuel tanks, quote fine, and at least for ministry transport across was damaged. and we can say that probably it's been be the largest number of attacks since they start to become fixing ukraine on the most significant one. actually took place at the ministry, failed in scope, in the north west of russia. it's close to the stone in bold as so basically that's, that's some, that's the latest information we have here, the shippable over there for us in moscow. let's go reaction from the keys on here from roll mcbride. as always, the ukraine, you know, authority is not commenting directly on these attacks in russia, describing the merely as accidents taking place on russian soil. but the also a cheese head do regard these russian advices as being legitimate targets and it

does follow an increase on the tax on these faces. over the weekend, there was an attack on an ad phase close to the city. of course, that's just over a 100 kilometers know of ukrainian boulder just inside russia, when, according to ukraine, you know, southeast have 5 russian jets were damaged on the ground to bite drones. just over a week ago again, there was another attack, a deep inside russia, a close to st. petersburg kind of a drone attack on an ad based that reportedly either destroyed or at least badly damaged, a long rain supersonic boma that was on the ground. it does a pose the possibility that these drone strikes deep inside rush. i mean that ukraine is operating much more sophisticated, more powerful drones a bit fly right across the russian territories. all that this is the work of covert groups using again, sophisticated smaller drones inside rushed through itself,

but again, getting past rushing, defensive overnight. that was the what's being described as the largest attack by drones and missiles since the spring hearing keith. early in the morning, just before don't want a series of loud explosions woke up much of the city. you'll sorry to say that a total of mold and 40 missed 1000 drones were used coming from all different directions that old but one drove a would. this was destroyed, but with the amount of a folding debris there was damage reported in sweet districts inside. keep 6 homes outside key were also reported damaged with reports of casualties with several people, either killed or injured. rob mcbride, i'll just say era chief russia's wagner, chief, you have gotten a precaution, has been buried in a private ceremony. he mounted a failed rebellion against ministry need his back in june and he was killed in a plane crash last week along.