a with awe general elections are set to begin in nigeria, in just one hour africa's most popular station and largest economy is to elected president, vice president add members of parliament. also, i had the collective west must accept the fact that there are other players on the world arena. the security of the country should not be pursued at the expense of others. russia and china lamba west for attempting to monopolize security at the expense of other nations. as the un security council most over a path to peace for you, grade and a palestinian mad is killed and at least for others,

our insured by the idea in multiple clashes across the west bank as tensions between israel and palestine escalate. a what the israel is doing now can only be described as a fascist occupation, which is home acceptable by all standards. mm. ah. good morning for mark t international studios in moscow. and welcome to the hour's top stories across the globe. i'm fiorella is about general elections are set to kick off in just one hour in nigeria. here in our tea, we're bringing you special coverage of one of the continents. most significant elections. hey.

today africa's most populated country and biggest economy is set to elect the president, vice president, members of the senate and house of representatives. 18 candidates are running for the presidency and parliamentary elections are also set to be held today. with over a 1000 candidates running for 109 seats in the senate and over 3000 others for 360 seats in the house of representatives. nigeria is strengthening its security measures, having close the plan borders for the day of elections. over $400000.00 police and law enforcement officers are on duty ensuring the security of the presidential and parliamentary elections. and army rapid response operations center has also 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. ortiz, hulu. david brings us more from the grounds as less minis. stipulations gets underway for nigeria selections and saturday. more than 140000 national and international observers have been accredited by the countries electoral empire, ionic income benson, outgoing precedents, mohammed bull, harry and i know chapman, mahmoud yackel have issued a stern warning that one observers a welcome to submit report to an actual commissions to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the process, the must not interfere with the processes themselves. i want to remind observers that that is code of conduct for election observation. you are by definition or us, do non interfere with the process or shall partisanship. in addition, international observers must be guided by the fact that the election is conducted

by an in the federal republic of nigeria, whose sovereign energy must be respected. mixed reactions have chilled to governments want in against foreign interference in the countries election. as some analysts believe, there's little to be afraid of interference is also really t dick who writes cats in our review of the, of their program depending on how they feel for beyond rights and dis cuts in review, which is to dam does left to them. they can't come on tick overnight. you referenced on the council. can i see who to talk to can to remove the become rejects and who has been elected by the people at nigeria. the british, i'm the u. s. s. issue that i play street. that's his medley. mindy that now? yes. of the country i about via own difference us. are you interested in good elections credit relations?

i'm good. go over enough in there for my attorney. true. so do divide. delighted me is very thing. the tree into some concerns. full lights conference full credit, where lucian's globalization on the inside dependency of nations has met global economy and power please. more interested in the night, june elections. the international community has df. all been advised to adopt a positive rule that reinforces the doctrine of respect for nigeria. eternal affairs, which is void of preconceived notions and by ass, as all 19 to 2000000 people had to the pulls to choose a new precedence on saturday. balloon day feed out. see boucher watch. our coverage of the nigerian elections here on our tea will keep you updated on all the latest

russia as the cues, the u. s. of 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 at the security council as the conflict in ukraine enters its 2nd here. to show you another of the us and it's nato allies have appropriated the right to interfere in any international issues. and the internal affairs of other states and ukraine is the clear example of this. western leaders deceived as before, and they want to keep doing that by putting the right a needle talk spanned uncontrollably to an absolute level. since the end of the cold war, the west 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 knew them very thoroughly refuting the selective nature of the u. s. approach when it comes to things like human rights and concerns about supposed aggression, etc. on the benz, the a pretty thoroughly bomb, the claims being repeated by us leaders and their allies. the security council meeting was essentially because of the anniversary of the case and operation of the various u. s. a line countries including ukraine, were given a platform at the un security council to give speeches condemning russia, accusing russia 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 said, 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. you want to quote you out there can i'm, when she's on some countries while stressing sovereignty and territorial integrity on the ukraine issue. 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. 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 shina recently put forward a scenario for a resolution of the conflict and trying to move toward an end to the conflict i,

however, that scenario before read by dazing, was roundly rejected by the united states, the very same united states that is continually insisting that it's russia, that is preventing negotiations from taking place. meanwhile, the u. s. secretary of state has been ridiculed after saying big countries shouldn't bully others. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman replied with a sarcastic post reminding anthony blanket 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 his neighbor and try to see his land by force can try to ration from them. up champ, bullying, was it not to you asked that attacked iraq, or is iraq 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. in iraq alone up to 1400000 people died due to the consequences of the u. s. invasion. according to one survey, a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson set on friday that 37000000 people were displaced. following the u. s. interventions in afghanistan, iraq and syria. 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 conflicts lead to political chaos and high civilian casualties in the countries involved media and political analysts 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 a 911. we don't know. we're not even sure about afghanistan. 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 among 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 geo political 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, you as president joe biden lied about nordstrom bloss, 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. how came jeffries was grilled by journalists, jose vega,

about the north stream sabotage allegations, seeking to gloss over a direct washing on u. s. involvement in the sabotage the law maker 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 the ukrainians. do not. you know more again, when we make cars, not battle be in tomorrow. we may have not said american journalists and activists, jose vega says the u. s. establishment along with the mass media and the 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. so they have to rely on the us now. and this was only a grand geo political strategy to ensure 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. pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh broke the north stream sabotage story. in his report, published on february 8th,

the peace alleges the pipelines were mine by u. s. navy divers, journalists at washington, used 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 dismissing hirsch's findings as speculation, and even fiction for more revelations, from the man who previously exposed us war crimes in vietnam and or off will have the full interview with seymour hersh ongoing underground right here on our tea this saturday. a palestinian man died after being shot in the head by the i d. f. during clashes in the west bank on friday. police use tear gas and fired shots at protesters. ah,

at least for palestinians were also injured as thousands marched in the west bank, gaza and east jerusalem. clashes broke out with israeli forces after friday prayers with the idea of saying the violence erupt id after protesters started throwing stones at police. meanwhile, people in palestine called for peace and action against the atrocities they say, have been committed against locals. 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 position of sanction sonnet. other yo voile to j. o palestinians have gathered to seek this occupation. enough is enough and to say to the eastern settlers and i brought with you must

leave and that what is happening in nablus is here scribe. 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 and nobliss last wednesday, which left 11 palace did. he is dead and nearly 110 others injured. tel aviv said, bid deadly raid was carried out in order to arrest 3 fighters allegedly involved in earlier violence against israelis. according to statistics released by the palestinian health ministry, a total of $65.00 palestinians, including 13 children, have already been killed since the star of 2023. the ministry has described this as the bloodiest ever start of the year for the people of palestine. are t spoke to palestinian journalists, ma hobbin, now g,

who says the world silence gives israel the green light to continue displacement and violence against palestinians. that is a fuck with a slice when get a government let a small rich and vinegar via auto becoming fully charge of the human issues affairs . they are in charge of the city limits of those barrels. the grabbing their less, doing their homes in the area see a lot the most in is those of them. so the situation or he didn't for more, an escalation on the violence, especially with a level of from a gun months. where does it efficient would be increased more as we with this in the bust you, there is no explanation, a government. so there's been a lot of seniors and even wasn't agreement through us mediation that they right is limit to their and kitchens of those banks. it is, but they voted that's agreement and it connected to that was

a fact that it was those uncle, 11 by chance, will be killed and the more than food interrupted by that is why the washington impose is yet another package of sanctions against moscow. targeting dozens of individuals and legal entities including does based outside of russia. russian banks, arms making facilities, citizens, assets, and others have been targeted, including moscow's biggest technology research center, school, cobo, as well as the mining industry and battle trade. as washington set a 200 percent duty on russian aluminum imports. the you also announced a package of anti russian sanctions to coincide with the one year anniversary since the start of the conflict. but the sanctions have effected prices on

a global scale, including backfiring on the u. s. and the e u, 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 arises. 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 the your area are also burdened with this at the beginning of 2023 jack rasmus professor of economics said politics at st. mary's college of california says american consumers and households are the ones paying the price for the consequences of the sanctions. changes are having

a major effect on the commodity prices globally, the federal reserve and other central banks. a can't do anything about the global supply chains in the global shortages or to commodities speculators or price gouging by monopolies. they can't do anything about that. they don't have the tools and they don't want to ride. so all the central banks can do is squeeze. are consumers and households by causing more unemployment and causing a demand to decline, but that's only a 3rd of the total inflation. so i've been saying for some time that we're going to have a recession that, well, we're in a recession now. we'll have a deeper one, but with chronic a continuing, a price increases of more than 56 percent. and we're going to have both of those. and at some point to that pressure is going to cause a financial stability in the us. and of course, the average

a household good working middle class person is going to pay the price in the meantime, and they are already, and they're going to continue to thing, pay more of the price, but they can't do much about it. russia special military operation is the theme for our 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 artes marina casa reba 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 our it's, he's very 1st documentary film festival, a 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, play store, but give me a brand new. i can grow the, i think in support and such events take place. so the collectors last isn't able to rewrite history as a trying to do now, so the history books wouldn't lie and use covers by reporters like, for lot of and other reports in the conflict zone will remain in history forever. ah,

ah. well, you miss your marks of deeper during the filming. we took the decision to make a film about our boys. from that vast act battalion grew up in this war. i have 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 along the touch to the bottom of our sol suite, crying for all the whole film those emotions are just inexpressible, led them to the pit. we came to this festival from you could turn bug is such a coincidence. we were determined to visit this event. we are glad to be here and we are thankful to the festival hosts. and 1st and foremost, all his soldiers and wariness. what's your casual palace? i like the films very much for showing the truth and telling the stories of the

people there and cheering every one up with a sentiment that was echoed by famous russian pranksters lexus and lavonne, who teased a new prank call with europe's bullets. clearly got up a little sooner, but it was in historic ago soon we will release a sequel to our prank call and the whole story about the events of 20142015 in minsk agreements. there will be something interesting for short on we opened pandora's box when we called to better put a shanker, one of the signatures of the means agreements who said that he needed them only to rearm the korean military. now where trying to get a comment from all the signatories of those agreements, listen, it will include, ah, you can watch all of the films from the festival on our t, v dot r t dot com or on one of the many social media platforms of our tea

documentary, that's our up on the top story is this our coming up the persecution of orthodox churches in ukraine deemed unacceptable for being pro russian next r t documentary ukraine, the road to show them. thanks for joining us. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah ah, with by the middle of the 19th century, practically the whole of india had been under the rule of the british empire. the colonial authorities had imposed that heavy death bringing the people into poverty

and were exporting natural resources. and moreover, these authorities absolutely had no consideration for the traditions of the local population, treating them like 2nd class citizens. the british were showing signs of disrespect even to those who cooperated with them. the fact of ignoring the religious beliefs of the hindus led to the mutiny of the see boys mercenary soldiers serving under the british crown. 3000000000 began on the 10th of may 1857 in the garrison town of may river, north of india. in the form of a mutiny. the rebels quickly took over daily. the heroic resistance of the indian people lasted for one and a half years. however, the forces were not equal. the colonial authorities dealt with the rebels cruelly, the enslaves, the boys were tied to the mouth of the cannon and were shot right through their bodies for the amusement of the public. these type of execution was called the devil's with the obliteration of the mutiny resulted in the death of 800000

inhabitants of india. however, the british empire never broke. the free spirit of the indians and their will are resisted. lou needs to come to the russian states will never be tied up on the nor santini. diva a within the $55.00 will be speed. okay, so 9 is 25 the speed, the one else. hey, bob with we will van in the european union the kremlin. can you get machine estate on russia for date and sports r t sport that even our video agency, roughly all band on youtube with

ah, with this yes, i say november 22nd 2022 count raised orthodox christians, confronted ukrainian security service officers looking entrances and exits to peeves oldest monastery were looking for alleged russian spies among the monks. and

so i just got brand new. my la la with the de ukrainian security services can brand an agent of moscow. any mongol priest, unwilling to break relations with the russian orthodox church. dozens of ukrainian churches have been rated the former reason for the brutal crackdown. one church, his parishioners said some a song about russia. ah, me often numerous such as s b. u officers reported they'd found orthodox magazines printed in russia. the s b u didn't care that these publications were religious and had been printed more than 3 years before. oh maybe, but they were from moscow in ukraine. it's long been recently enough to condemn any orthodox christian attack in prison and even kill them.