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biden accuses moscow igniting the ukraine. conflict in his speech in poland as a serious of industrial disasters remained. under drive back home, africa, most populous state basis, the choice of a new president, amid political turbulence, and multiple crises and golfing the country. but archie's special coverage as voters prepare for this weekend spoke with good morning for marquee international studios in moscow. and welcome to the hour's top stories worldwide. i'm fear allies about we start with the situation on the don back front line as the fighting continues. are t got an exclusive look at the operations of the euro battalion? a special sol unit of the russian army are corresponded, eager shauna reports from the grounds to an unfamiliar rye. this may look like

one colossal thicket, but the 1st look is deceptive. the soil here is carved with clenches, reinforced with concrete. ukraine has turned this woodland into a citadel. russia, in turn, is bulldozing this bastion with tanks after a couple of days abreast this tank. crew is once again on its way to take part in the onslaught in russia on stored on ukrainian positions in the forest outside chrome. and now this is russia's separate assault battalion, ural, a crew of volunteers who couldn't let their military experience go to waste donly bother you on this battalion is a separate assault unit of the ministry of defense with the support of

a private individual in our task as to knock the enemy out of the forest, we worked from different distances. they rush, ukraine's positions and raise hell. in the midst of the enemy, cave troops respond with all they've got our p. jeez, artillery and heavy caliber rounds the cruise ship unfazed russian tanks continue the fight until they run out of ammunition scarred but fully functional. they withdraw to return with more firepower. tanks provide in valuable service, a washing ground troops. one special forces unit capitalizes younger distraction and gets close to one of the enemy dugouts. his nary 20 meters between the

warring sides, 3 ukrainian soldiers try to put up a fight. but when the commander is down by a clean head shot, the peak at the drone camera, hands up in the air with both ukrainian officials have been claiming this is what rushes new all out offensive looks like. but given how much reserve state put to day it was combat reconnaissance at best. i'm a get done of reporting from the dumbass artsy, rush hour suspended its participation, and then you start nuclear treaty, but is not departing from the agreement. that's what lot americans that earlier in his annual address, to the national parliaments. but they were chic nella, but we'll get widigar through natal representatives. the u. s. is sending signals

and putting out ultimatums to russia. they say you, russia must implicitly do as we have previously agreed to, including the new start treaty. while we, the us, will do whatever we want to. they say there's no connection between the new start treaty issues and the ukrainian conflict or other hostile actions by the west, towards russia, with letter u, as if there's no loud statement that the u. s. aim is defeating russia strategically. so it's either utmost cynicism and hypocrisy or utmost stupidity. we can't call them idiots though. they're not stupid. they wanted to feed us strategically and also want to continue to inspect our new killer objects. in this regard, i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty leave. the suspension of the treaty can be reversed according to russia's foreign ministry. mazda says a u. s. t escalation and its aggressive stance would quote,

create the conditions for the path to fully function rush, also states. it still intends to follow the timeline on weapons reductions set out in the bilateral agreement. but that checks on stockpiles would not be allowed. a reminder, new star, a nuclear limitation, packed between moscow and washington was signed in 2010. it is set to expire in 3 years. the treaty sets curved on both countries, strategic arsenals, and includes on site inspections to verify compliance. roach has moved to suspended participation came after vladimir putin accused the west of being involved in attacks on russian strategic air basis. mozilla. we know that the west is directly complicit in kiev regimes attempts to strike to bases of our strategic evasion. drones used for that were equipped and modernized with the help of natal specialist at least western elite cannot ignore the fact that it is impossible to

defeat rush on the battlefield. they intend to transform a local conflict into a phase of global confrontation. this is exactly how we understand this, and we will respond accordingly. when you mind the president's speech went on for almost 2 hours, and now 45 minutes it was given before the cream of rushes, a leap, the biggest revelation was left until almost the end than that is russia, suspending its participation? very important distinction. not a not pulling out of but rather suspending its participation in the start nuclear arms reduction and control treaty between it in the united states that has been in effect since 2010 vladimir putin here cited various reasons for it. and that primarily, all one of the most important reasons is that it is simply lost power. for example,

russian inspections, which are written into the, into the start treaty, russian inspectors are denied inspections in the united states for all manner of reasons. there is also the fact that the united states, various western leaders of now now come out and they say that they want russia to suffer a strategic defeat. and u. k, the president has ordered the ministry of defense to prepared to carry out nuclear tests. but only if the united states carries those out 1st, the gist of what he had to say is that relations with the west. ah, i now have been torn to shreds. there is nothing to say and on. and that, marsha, i sees through all of this high talk about the ma chrissy and peace. you know, certainly no country in the world has as many military bases abroad as the united states does. there are hundreds of them,

and i want to emphasize this hundreds of basses around the world. the whole planet is stacked with them. just look at the map. no one counts the human victims and tragedies because trillions of dollars are at stake. the opportunity to further rob everyone, heidi behind words about democracy and freedom. russian president also stressed that russia did everything, everything that it could to avoid this conflict, the special military operation in ukraine, but the 4 years 4 years european natively. this, as well as the government in key of which vladimir putin believes to be fully controlled by nathan. these leaders lied to russia for years. they lied and they stole about grades, peaceful intent, their peaceful intent. they spent those years pumping weapons into ukraine. if you assume, but just want to show door that i would like to emphasize that even before the

special military operation key of was negotiating with the west on delivery of air defense systems, plains and other heavy equipment. we also remember attempts by the key of regime to acquire nuclear weapons and they were stating it publicly. the u. s. a. nato were rapidly deploying their military bases and secret bio labs near our borders. during their maneuvers, they explored the theater of future military actions. and they prepared the key of regime that was controlled by them. ukraine, that was enslaved by them for a big war. and now they are admitting it admitting it publicly openly and with no shame. he also says the various nationalist leaders, neo nazis, but trained in western military colleges were taught how to wage war against the russian federation. all, with the understanding that this war would happen matters speed, the western plow. all along. vladimir putin also said that this, a conflict between russia and ukraine isn't between russia and the people of

ukraine. but rather those that have taken at hostage and any further increase in the number of civilians killed in the, in the devastation when you are you im not of the macrae in a but we're not at war with the people of ukraine. i've already said this many times, the people of ukraine themselves have become hostages of the key of regime. and it's western masters who've actually occupied the country in a political, military and economic sense. no one thought about the people do, they were prepared for slaughter and eventually turned into expendable material. the responsibility for inciting the ukrainian conflict for the escalation, for the increase in the number of its victims, lies entirely with the western elites. in the key of regime, he would deals have said that the, the sanctions which the west believed would shatter, the russian economy. that, that didn't pan out. the russian economy remains strong's over that other little

prediction of new to the west is deployed not only a military informational, but also an economic front against us. but nowhere, nowhere has it achieved anything and will not achieve anything. anti russian sanctions are a means for their goal. as the western leaders themselves declare a direct quote to make our citizens suffer. that's their humanism. the president said again, that victory with russia's future is depended on the actions of every single person . and he also says that it is a historic obligation to see this through just hours after vladimir put in the address. the u. s. president made a key speech falling, a meeting with his polish counterpart in warsaw. joe biden said the west had not bothered to try and dominate russia. united states nations of europe did not seek to control or destroy russia. the west was not plotting to attack russia, as prudent said today,

president boon chose his war. every day the work of juniors is his joyce. he could add the war with the we're shipple. if you crane stop defending himself against russia would be the end of ukraine all across my country. in big cities, a small town ukrainian flight fly from american homes. over the past year, democrats or republicans with our united states congress have come together to stand for freedom. that 2 americans are invest. what americans do might, in statement came during his visit to the polish capital on tuesday, where he stressed the importance of collective european security. and that nato is quote, stronger than ever. he's that to me, officials from other members states of the alliance. later it follows the american leader surprised trip to kiev on monday, for he talked and walked with president de lensky,

while air raid sirens were heard rigging out across the city. despite no shelling in the ukrainian capital. ah, as biden reassure care that the u. s. would support ukraine using all means back at his home country, facing its own troubles, the state of ohio saw a major blast at a metal plant that submitted already escalating chemical catastrophe. after a trained carrying toxic substances, the rails in the state 2 weeks ago, resulting is serious concerns over environmental damage. and biden has neither visited the site nor declared a state of emergency. it's no wonder many were not impressed with his key a visit with a number of republican politicians and the east palestine mayor himself questioning

the fact bite him preferred kiev over america on president. stay in the us. you saw president joe biden over, and ukraine did that. make you feel slighted at anyway, that was the biggest slap in the face that tells you right now he doesn't care about us. so a great he can send every agency he wants to, but oh, i found that out this morning and one of the briefings that he was in the ukraine given millions of dollars away to people over there. not to austin. i'm curious, this is incredibly insulting to day on our precedence day, joe biden. the president of the united states chose ukraine over america, while forcing the american people to pay for ukraine's government and war. if you want to understand why so many americans are frustrated right now. biden is in ukraine before ohio. no time to visit east palestine, ohio, but plenty of time for this. we discussed biden's visit to ukraine and poland with

civil rights attorney, robert patillo, and geopolitical analysts. marks, le boda. they were definitely trying to spin a dramatic propaganda narrative with a president biden's speech in warsaw. i mean i, he punched home freedom and democracy versus autocracy light versus darkness good versus evil. and all of this, of course, is, is really an obscene misrepresentation of the situation. and you, grand di, read an a p piece that described zalinski and bite in walking through the streets of kia with the air, raid sirens, as a taste of the terror that the people of kias have lived under a never mind. of course, the 9 year bloody war that the care regime is waged on the people of don boss. this

is a propaganda set piece. the target of which is the people of america and the west to create an atmosphere um that bite in wanted to present his trip to kiev under. we're looking at money with $5000.00 workers per year, are killed on the job. nearly a 100000 more die from diseases related to their time employment. the workplace safety with an epidemic in this country, there's a current focus on it because of the trained derailment in east palestine, ohio. but this is me problem playing in the nation for over 40 years. we wrote that nearly every safety regulation, every work regulation corporations in the name of profits and the support of the put the health and safety of americans at risk. the congress people, the leadership there, understand the need of breaking through the partisan divide and wash in the sea and putting in place the types of regulations that will stop the thing from happening to administration. we had a severe be regulatory regime of the thought,

the thought to rollback of the workplace, regulation to possible. and they're nice for you to. it was delicious pass to stop this from happening. russia has no doubts or who was behind the north stream pipeline attacks back in september or the attacker's motives. the comments came as russia submitted, a resolution to the un security council. calling for an independent international investigation into the incidence. new civilians were not engaged in spreading disinformation were not trying to build indictments based on allegations in the spirit of being highly likely. in the case of undermining the pipeline. there is no doubt about the motive of the crime, nor its perpetrators, nor the way in which the crime was committed. we're not here to have a trial in the security council. we've submitted a draft security council resolution with instructions to conduct an independent international investigation. we forced to do this because we have doubts about the

effectiveness, transparency, and impartiality of the ongoing investigations. we do not see any desire for cooperation on the part of our partners worship, as we heard of the russian representative of the russian bastard and dan's. yet he made it abundantly clear that at this point of all the science seemed to indicate the united states is responsible. the u. s. representative dismissed allegations and the evidence put forward by c mortars and others as merely a conspiracy theories from the internet. those were the words they use. now, the chinese representative that made a point of saying that line out denial from the united states without going in to the details. all the evidence that has been presented was simply unacceptable. we heard from different countries talking about the potential danger threats, the environments i carried out as a result of it, the need for thorough investigation and accountability. any deliberate act of sabotage against trans boundary infrastructure is a malicious act. china welcomes the draft of resolution tabled by rushing the

council, and believes that it is of utmost significance to authorize an international investigation into the sabotage of the north stream pipelines. acts of sabotage against energy infrastructure such as explosions that damage the north stream. one and 2 gas pipelines in the baltic sea last september are unacceptable. they pose a significant threat to international security, stability and prosperity. vandalism, to critical infrastructure is an unacceptable act that we have a life and death impact. on contrast, people, the switzerland is concerned about the damage to nordstrom $1.00 and $2.00 gas pipelines which resulted in warning gas leaks and did. so. last september, all available information indicates that there is an active sabotaged for we heard from the members of the 15 member body that lead the united nation. the security

council there were briefings we heard from rosemary. decarlo un under secretary. we are from jeffery sack of columbia university, the well respected economists. we also heard from raymond gobber and the c. i a analyst that has become an advocate, a piece. they all gave remarks and jeffrey sachs in particular, emphasize the need for an investigation to be conducted by the un and for information about what is found in these countries that are doing their own investigations to be made transparent and available to the public. 3 countries have reportedly carried out investigations of the lord, st, terrorism, denmark, germany, and sweden. these countries presumably know much more about the circumstances of the terrorist attack. sweden, in particular, has perhaps the most to tell the world about the crime scene which its divers investigated. yet instead of sharing this information globally suite has kept the results of its investigation secret from the rest of the world, and turned down

a joint investigation with denmark in germany. in the interest of global peace, the un security council should require these countries to mediately turn over the results of their investigations to the un security council. there was quite an interesting amount of emphasis placed on the need for security and why the destruction the pipeline was on the ball. russia says it's pretty clear at this point who is responsible. china is not satisfied with the answers or lack of answers from the united states. united states dismisses everything as somehow just being an internet and spirit the theory without getting into any details about why they feel it is incorrect. quite a meeting un security council saying we spoke to a former cia officer raymond mcgovern, who brief you on security council members at the meeting. he says that an international investigation is not in the interest of some western countries. there

are people who don't want to initial investigation. those are the people that are subservient to the united states who had the opportunity that baltic she exercises naval exercise and who profiting from it? well, we had the secretary state saying was a great opportunity to terrific opportunities in my view. the bottom line is circumstantial. evidence is compelling. i mean, what more do you need this suggest that when widen says we have the means we're going to do it. don't worry about it, we can blow up, we could stop nord screen, european members', security council just to, to what us policy is. you can expect an independent appreciation from them. o nigeria, africa's most populous nation is preparing for presidential elections this saturday

. here in our tea, we're kicking off our special coverage of one of the world's most significant elections this year. he 18 candidates will take part in the presidential elections with 3 of the leaders representing the main regions of the country. voter decisions have been complicated by multiple crises in the country, from economic troubles to energy issues are te correspondent rachel blevins brings us more details. the west african nation of nigeria is days away from an election that will determine the country's next president. and while some races have humane options, nigerians have 18 to choose from who represent a wide range of views and interests. the question at hand is who will replace the current president bahama do bihari? who has been in office for the last 8 years?

that's out there. contenders, represent the major regions in africa as most populous nation. first, there's bola, mad to new, from the ruling. all progressives, congress party, as a former governor, he has often boasted about helping the current president get into office. his favorite slogan translates to, it's my turn, and he is promising to create jobs focused on the economy and tackle violent crime . this is a revolution. the selection is the revolution. we shall take over from them. they don't want election to take place, but we won't accept they want to hide on the fuel scarcity to cause the crisis. so that there won't be an election to new who represents your robot. the 3rd largest ethnic group in nigeria, which makes up around 20 percent of the population, while the candidate is part of the wealthy political establishment. the people he stands for are known to be farmers and crafts, met. the next contender is i take you above our car, the leader of the people's democratic party has

a former vice president. he is considered by many to be the most experienced politician still trying even after 5 unsuccessful presidential bids. he represents the full lonnie, a majority muslim group in the north, which makes up around 6 percent of the population. his latest campaign has revolved, are on the slogan of recover nigeria, where he promises a small government that turns the country into the hub of crude oil. refining and africa, let me promise nigerians that we shall never disappoint you. if you give us your mandate, we promised to live by our promises and have united country a peaceful country that we have a buoyant economy. and we have the best education for children. and also delegate powers to states local governments with corresponding resources. then there's peter o, we a former governor and nominee of the labor party. he represents the ego people of se nigeria, which make up or on 18 percent of the population seen by many as an outsider. he is the youngest of the top 3 contenders that age 61. and he has focused on the younger

generation with pledges to fight corruption and to change the economic priorities from consumption to production in line with my upbringing, especially my mothers council. my promises that nigeria resources will be most prudently used, and as the commander in chief, i pita, obee sicily, plates that all packed with nigeria will be diligently pursued to created new nigeria, characterized by sustainable and inclusive growth and development. while nigeria is the most populous nation in africa, it's estimated that only around $93000000.00 people or less than half of the country are registered to vote. and when it comes to the issues the new president will inherit. there are many ranging from the economic crisis that has left citizens dealing with cash shortages to an energy crisis that has drawn attention to the nations controversial petrol subsidies. as a result, all eyes will be on saturdays election and what it means for the future of nigeria

. public opinion polls show most nigerians consider the country's current political course to be problematic with his stay overwhelmed by a cash price is caused by a hasty currency reform and issues with energy stability due to lack of fuel. aside from poverty, nigerian space, a security crisis, and issues with terrorism, which caused an upsurge of violence in the country last week. at least a policeman have been killed in 2 separate attacks in the run up to the election. the country security services, blame the invisible people off for a rebel group. the killings have struck fear into locals and raise the question of security. are falling stations we heard from an analysts who said that there are signs of foreign intervention aimed at the stabilizing the situation ahead of the election? nobody role. so any pro, but that is when to lead to violence is not going to be in the interest of the

citizen. and that was why some policemen were killed. we were made to understand that the person who is to get to the found land is from abroad. do you know judy and what he's not seeing in julia? we will admit to understand some of his follow up. where does where it wants to move forward. the chilling of the police made. that was what we allegedly had in our collective interest to allow these elect shows to comb or lead the ad the piece. so we don't need to allow nigeria to be destroy, whoever becomes the president or the governor or the senate, all or the legislators. we should all support them in national interest led the country move forward. be sure to watch our coverage of

a nigerian election throughout the coming days here in our t. well keep you updated on all the latest. ah ah ah ah ah.