correct, so no, we just say low their soft power america. and the final goal of these seem revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore . ah general elections are set to be get in nigeria in just a couple of hours africa's most populous nation, add largest economy is to elected president, vice president and members of parliament. the collective wedding must accept the fact that there are other players on the world arena and the security of the country should not be pursued at the expense of others. russia and china clamber west for attempting to monopolize security at the expense of other nations as the un security council malls over a path to peace or ukraine. and

a palestinian man is killed and at least 4 others are injured by the idea. in multiple flashes across the west bank as centers between israel and palestine escalate with what these rail is doing now can only be described as a fascist occupation, which is unacceptable by all standards. mm. with good morning for martine or national studios in moscow, and welcome to the hour's top stories across the globe. i'm corolla, isabel, general. elections are to get started within ours in nigeria. here in our tea, we're bringing you special coverage of one of the continents. most significant votes. how to day africa,

most populated country and biggest economy is to elect the president, vice president add members of the senate and house of representatives. 18 candidates are running for the presidency and parliamentary elections are also said to be held today with over 1000 candidates running for 109 seats in the senate in over 3000 others for 360 seats in the house of representatives. nigeria is strengthening its security measures, having closed its land borders for the day of elections. over $400000.00 police and law enforcement officers are on duty. ensuring the security of the presidential add parliamentary elections. an army rapid response operation center has been established in each of the countries 36 states for emergency military intervention, if necessary. many in the country are concerned about foreign interference going into the polls artes pull him. david brings us more from the ground as less

minis. corporations gets underway for nigeria selections on saturday. more than 140000 national and international observers have been accredited by the conscious electoral empire ionic incumbents and outgoing precedents. mohammed bl hurry, and i'm at chapman, mahmoud. yakobelli have issued a stern warning that one observe is a welcome to submit report to electro commissions to highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the process. the must not interfere with the processes themselves. i want to remind observers that that is on cornel conduct for election of ish u r y, a definition or massage. do non interfere with the process or shall partisanship. in addition, international norms of us must be guided by the fact that the election is conducted by an in the fit run the public nigeria who's solver energy must be

respected. mixed reactions have trailed to governments one ins against foreign interference in the countries election. as some analysts believe, business tools will be up read off. a interference is also really to dick who writes cats in view of the, of the program, depending on how they feel. for beyond rights and dis cuts in review, which is them does left to them. they can't come until the night and canceled janese who died. dickens removed the big become the jets who has been elected by the people of nigeria. the british i'm the u. s. us issue that i play street, that's a new one that says quote, reagan alicia, and that would be placed on travel, but it would be visible. that's his medley. mindy, that now, yes, of the country. so do divide dilemma is very thing between interest and concerns for whom are lights,

concerns full credit solutions. globalization and the interdependency of nations. has many global economy and power plays more interested in the night, june elections. the international community has therefore been advised to adopt a positive role that reinforces the doctrine of respect for nigeria, internal affairs, which is void of preconceived notions. and by as, as all 19 to 2000000 people had to pull to choose a new precedence on saturday. balloon day feed out. see apple just watch our coverage of the nigerian elections here on our tea. will keep you updated on all the latest news. russia has accused the u. s. a. fueling the ukrainian crisis, citing washington's interventions in other countries as evidence of nefarious

activity. the comments came from the russian envoy to the you and speaking of the security council as a conflict in ukraine enters its 2nd air to show up in the us and its nato allies have appropriated the right to interfere in any international issues. and the internal affairs of other states and ukraine is a clear example of this. western leaders deceived as before, and they want to keep doing that by putting the right of nato talk spanned uncontrollably to an absolute level. since the end of the cold war, the u. s has conducted 251 military operations abroad, causing enormous damage to other countries. the collective west must accept the fact that there are other players on the world arena who have their own interests, and that it is necessary to coexist with them. and even cooperate on an equal basis with mutual respect. russia had the opportunity as

a permanent member of the security council to come forward and talk about the truth of the matter. and we heard russian ambassador, i knew them very thoroughly refuting the selective nature of the us approach when it comes to things like human rights and concerns about supposed aggression that are on the bends, the a pretty thoroughly the bomb. the claims being repeated by us leaders and their allies. and the security council meeting was essentially because of the anniversary of the cation operation. the various us aligned countries including ukraine, were given a platform at the un security council. to give speeches, condemning, rush, accusing, rush of atrocities, etc. however, china, also a permanent member of the security council took to the floor of the meeting. and when china spoke, they echoed much of what russia that, and in addition to that, they call for talk word resolving the conflict to begin without preconditions.

here's what we heard from the chinese representative. your job can when she's on some countries while stressing sovereignty and territorial integrity on the ukraine issue, who are blatantly interfering in other countries internal affairs and undermining their sovereignty and territorial integrity. this reveals a double standard at full display. security is not an exclusive right. enjoyed only by some countries, so the security of a country should not be pursued at the expense of others, strengthening or even expanding military blocks. lonely, undermine regional security. russia, ukraine, and european countries are neighbors that cannot physically move away from each other to realize lasting peace in europe, the cold war mentality and block of confrontation must be abandoned. china recently put forward a scenario or a resolution of the conflict trying to move toward an end to the conflict. however, that scenario, but forward by the aging was roundly rejected by the united states,

the very thing united states that is continually insisting that it's russia that is preventing negotiations from taking place. meanwhile the us secretary of state has been ridiculed after saying big countries shouldn't bully others, russia foreign ministry spokeswoman replied with a sarcastic post reminding anthony blinking of his own nation's track record viscerally. most americans don't like to see a big country bowling another and they just feel it's wrong and want to do something about it. one country just can't attack its neighbor and try to seize his land by force. can try to erase it from the map. can't boyer, was it not to you asked that attack to rock or as a rock, not a small enough country unless i'm mistaken. lincoln represents the usa and not some other country. so the secretary of state should at least know his own state's history. iraq wasn't the only country that fell victim to washington's hawkish foreign policies. as a chinese human rights report recently pointed out, the u. s. took part in 80 percent of the world's military conflicts from 1945 to

911. since the 2nd world war, washington has been militarily involved in conflicts in asia, latin america, yugoslavia, and throughout the middle east. almost all of washington's interventions were justified by defending democracy or fighting terrorism. that's despite the fact that most of these interventions lead to political chaos and civilian casualties in the countries involved. media and political analyst line all told us the current conflict in ukraine is important for moscow because of the risk of u. s. military involvement, right at russia's doorstep. when you consider the fact that there are people who still understand, i think based in some kind of good spirit that we have to protect individuals from being bullied and being traversed and being manhandled by. i don't think they

really understand. number one, the history and how history has shown that very frankly, we were doing this in the past in my generation. we remember vietnam. you can take the same argument. exactly. i still don't even know what iraq had to do in 911. we know. no, we're not even sure about have gainer stand. one day we were out of afghanistan like that. and nobody's talked about that. we're not even talking about libya anymore. we had to go in and we had to take care of libya because this man was an evil, terrible despotic. and what about libya who runs it? is it worse or better since we were above? we don't know. this is not about being an apologist for looking the other way. this is about the way to handle geopolitical reality today. what would we do? what would any country do if we switch the situation and all of

a sudden we had china on the border, let's say of texas or canada is out of canada was china. it will be a completely different story. i don't understand how this message, how analogy is specifically, how history is it remembered? ah, joe biden secretly ordered the blowing up of the north stream pipelines. that's according to pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, speaking exclusively to journalists option, returns the ongoing underground. this comes as us house minority leader had came, jeffries was grilled by journalists, jose vega, about the nor stream sabotage allegations seeking to gloss over a direct question on u. s. involvement. in the sabotage the lawmaker was accused of putting american lives at risk. i want you to say something about the bombing, we're going to continue to stay with ukrainian. do not you. i know more again.

we're please. we need talk about it a not later you watch. american journalists and activists, jose vega says the u. s. establishment, along with the mass media and military industrial complex are the only actors benefiting from the north stream pipeline sabotaged. the united states had to do a desperate attempt to make sure that germany would continue to support the ukrainians and continued to walk hand in hand with the united states. i mean, you have to ask who benefits in the united states? the russians aren't going to blow up their own gas pipeline, right? the media is just as complicit in this as the military industrial complex is complicit in this. they are working hand in hand. and i think, you know,

you can see that the germans have really no choice. their hands are tied behind their back, right. they have to rely on the us now. and this was only a grand geo political strategy to ensure. busy that and also as a reminder, that we have a caller on the country of germany and it was the united states trying to make a state and saying, we can do whatever we want. and we will make sure this war continues to go on by any means necessary. meanwhile, pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hurst, broke the north stream sabotage story. and his report published on february 8th, the peace alleges the pipelines were mine by u. s. navy divers. the journalist at washington use nato military drills as cover for the operation with assistance from norway. according to the report, joe biden made the decision after 9 months of consultations with his security advisors. the claims have been denied by both washington and the e. u,

with officials this missing hirsch's finding as speculation, and even fiction. american journalist jose vega again says the u. s. establishment is now trying to sweep the northridge bombing revelations under the rug. he is exactly the person who will, who should have broken the story. and they were just completely caught blind sided . i don't think they knew this was going to come out and now they're panicking. and the reason why they have their smearing him is because they have to write. it's the only way they can respond to this. because if they mentioned that even once it already brings credibility, and it will pull americans out of their, their head in the sand and say, well wait a minute, did we actually do that? i don't think, i don't think people, americans who do support ukraine would support the united states blowing up the north stream to pipeline. and in fact, i think if the media reported on it,

you would have a lot of those people who support this war would take a step back and say, well, maybe i shouldn't support this anymore. and that's why they have this near him. because if they legitimize him, it's over, natal would be over geo political relationships would be redefined for the next century. for more revelations, from the man who previously exposed us war crimes in vietnam and iraq will have the full interview with seymour hersh on going underground right here on our tea. this saturday. the washington imposes yet another package of sanctions against moscow, targeting dozens of individuals and legal entities, including those based outside of russia, russia and banks and 3rd party businesses that allegedly help russia bypass western sanctions have been targeted. it also hits moscow's greatest technology, research center, school, cobo and metal trade as washington, that a 200 percent duty on russian aluminum imports. other actors tied to russia's

defense and technology industry have also been sanctioned. but the sanctions seem to have backfired as inflation in the u. s. remains high, causing large increases in the price of food, gas and other commodities. the e. u has also taken an economic hit with costs of services, housing and public utilities, particularly energy seeing large rises. i know in flood soon, inflation in 2022 is not only an issue in germany, but in many parts of the world, the comparison of the preliminary inflation rates shows a high inflation rate is not a national phenomenon. all countries in your area are also burdened with this at the beginning of 2023. for more details we crossed now to jack ross, miss professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college of california. good

morning. how says near is, is this latest package of sanctions in comparison to the previous measures taken? well, it looks like pretty much more the same. i think this like the 11th the 12th version of the sanctions. you described them in general and pretty much what they been doing. but if, if there are anything like the previous iterations, it's not going to have that much effect. it appears on the rushes economy, you know, the whole purpose is sanctioned. in the nie a country access to a revenues through exports or to credit markets, or whatever in the hope of that will crash the currency and cause unemployment. and it generally cause a severe contraction of the economy and political instability about that hasn't happened. if you look at the independent sources of what the russian economy has done the past year, i, you, you see an interesting picture of the currency is not crashed. it's at the same

exchange rate. it was a last april and crude oil production is of the same over $10000000.00 barrels exports of crude oil r. r up manufacturing is actually growing according to p. m. i. whereas in your western europe, it's contracting. foreign exchange air reserves are rising on appointments about the same as it is in united states. 3.7, business confidence is up. inflation is about 11 percent, but that's what you got in germany and italy and so in other places. so if you look at the indicators, economic indicators, the previous, the 10 or 11 versions of sanctions and had virtually no effect. maybe there's been some problems with the access to western a semiconductor chips and so forth. but russia can probably get that from china, probably already is quietly, i saw was sanctions have not had much effect. you know,

you s's as at sanctions on dozens of countries for half a century. and they really don't have much effect. is ways of getting around and i mix sanctions on, you know, so a root rushes, the revenues or i haven't really contracted that much, which is the whole objective of, of sanction. so i would say this latest version i tightens as hers. oh, good. but it's not going to have a appreciable effect. oh john kirby said that the russian economy is showing signs of resilience. the sanctions as what you just mentioned. and it's been a year of just mounting pressure. can you say that the western plan to tear russia apart economically has failed and do you think it will continue? well, clearly, you know, the indicators are, it hasn't really damaged the russian economy. ah, it will continue. of course, every, every way they can find to tighten the screws a little bit more,

albert russia will find some of workarounds to this yell from china or india. one interesting thing about the announcement it was latest sanctions though, is that they're now they're talking about secondary sanctions. i today on the business news or the under secretary of treasury wally on tomorrow. i. he was interviewed and he in use asked about secondary sanctions. in other words, countries that, that violate the price cap on oil for example. and they were mentioning india and out what he said to quote was there will go after them to if they violate the sanction. so many of the u. s. you know, the primary sanctions aren't having that much effect as now thinking about targeting countries that are a, you know, trading with russia. a boy that's a big, risky, a risky thing to do. particularly if you try to take on india. i don't think india's gonna capitulate, but it shows that the primary sanctions, i haven't had that much effect and they're getting little desperate and they're

talking about the sanctioning a secondary trading partners. jack ross met professor of economics and politics at st. mary's college of california. thank you. ah, a palestinian man died after being shot in the had by the idea after in clashes in the west bank on friday. police use tear gas and fired shots are protesters. 2 ah, at least for palestinians were also injured as thousands marched in the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem flashes broke out with israeli forces after friday prayers . with the idea of saying the violence erupted after protesters started throwing stones apples. meanwhile, people in palestine called for peace and action against the atrocities they say,

have been committed towards locals. neither of these that are in what israel is doing now can only be described as a fascist occupation, which is some acceptable by all standards. every one must realize that israel will be deterred only by the resistance on the ground and the imposition of sanction sonnet. other we owe to j. all palestinians have gathered the seat of this occupation, enough is enough. and to say to the israel settlers and had brought with you must leave. and that what is happening in nobliss is a heinous crime. all our people have to take to the streets to confirm this occupation. the latest protests come in response to israel's escalation of violence against palestinians highlighted by a massacre nobliss last wednesday, which left 11 palestinians dead and nearly $110.00 others injured television said the deadly raid was carried out in order to arrest 3 fighters allegedly involved in

earlier violence against israelis, archie spoke to palestinian journalists, mohammed, nat, geo, who says the world silence, gives israel the green light to continue displacement and violence against palestinians. so that is difficult with life when get a government, let us know which and vinegar via are becoming funny chart of the issues i fear they are in charge of. the simpler said those bank of the, grabbing their less doing their homes in the area. see a lot more skill is out of them. so the situation are hitting for more, an escalation on the violence, especially with a month where does it essentially could be increased more as we with this in the past year. a much upset by the sale of the wall though when it's come to that

they couldn't go off the bus and did that. but as you know, we still foreign affairs issued a statement to most the samples of the ward. and of course, it has given a green light for today, so i need to continue to crimes. i guess that was people because there is no a clinician, a government at all is a seniors. and even if was an agreement, if you ask me, the ition that they write is a limit to their incursions of those banks. it is but of a valid that's a fact. and it was those of 11 by 17 killed. and the more than to inject the, by that it russia, special military operation is that theme far documentary channels, very 1st film festival, which has just kicked off here in moscow. it features the work of independent filmmakers as well as films from russia's main tv channels. and r t documentary

ortiz marina post to read, that takes a closer look. this is where the 3 day event is taking place moscow's digital business hub. and up there we can see the theme for art sees very 1st documentary film festival. this special military operation at time for heroes all about the people who have been affected by the conflict in ukraine, one way or another. well, let's go inside and have a look at what's on offer. ah, when sci fi films are being showcase and they are split into 5 categories. so we have the stories, for example, of medics and volunteers, poets and musicians. everyday people living in the don boss, more correspondence,

and of course, the fighters themselves, some of whom actually shut up here. yes, flashed all the game in a brand new article. additionally, i think it's important such events take place. so the collective west isn't able to rewrite history as it is trying to do now. so the history books wouldn't lie and news coverage by reporters like feel out of and other reporters in the conflicts own will remain in history forever. ah ah, but him as you're looking for. so during the filming, we took the decision to make a film about our boys from the mustang battalion who grew up in this war, who've seen nothing in their lives but war when it started in 2014, they were just teens. hundreds of people have already showed up to watch these films, and most of the visitors said how important it is to show everyone what's really

going on on the ground prosper, thrown the law. we were to the bottom of our souls. we were crying throughout the whole film. those emotions are just inexpressible. let them when we came to this festival from catherine burke, it's not a coincidence. we were determined to visit this event and we are glad to be here. and we are thankful to the festival hosts and 1st and foremost, to our soldiers and warriors. hm. what's your casual goals? i liked the films very much for showing the truth and telling the stories of the people there and cheering every one up. a sentiment that was echoed by famous russian pranksters lexus and va von, who sees a new prank call with europe's bullets of lilies. good approval sooner. but it was in his blood sugar. soon we will release the sequel to our prank call and the whole story about the events of 20142015 in minsk agreements. there will be something interesting for short. we opened pandora's box when we called parapro sankoh. one

of the signatories of the minsk agreements who said that he needed them only to rearm the ukrainian military. now we are trying to get a comment from all the signatories of those agreements. when ah, you can watch all of the films from the festival on r t d dot r t dot com, or on one of the many social media platforms of rti documentary. those were the top stories this hour and coming up renown journalist seymour 1st breaks down his bombshell report on why the u. s. pull up the north stream by blinds in an exclusive interview with option returns eat next on going underground. thanks for tuning and we'll see you back at the top of the hour. ah,

i'm after tansy and welcome back to going under ground broadcasting all round the world from dubai in the united arab emirates. this week marks one year since the international community began the long awaited fight back against washington. the gemini, as most of the world refused to sanction russia when its forces moved to the dawn bas ukraine to protect its population. 8 years after us back who it's or thousands killed within months of the e. u and u. k. responding by backing us sanctions on vital russian energy. joe biden, antony blink, can jake sullivan, victoria newland, and the norwegian government conspired to blow up multi $1000000000.00 energy pipeline supplying germany as well as september 2022. being an ecological catastrophe, it resulted in a complete destabilization of energy prices that some blame for killing hundreds of thousands of the poor and v.