logical, cold war anymore, but we're not going to allow a new relationship to develop with ah, general elections. i've started in nigeria, africa's most populous nation, and largest economy will elect its president, vice president and members of parliament, also had the collective west 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 flam. the west for attempting to monopolize security at the expense of other nations. as the un security council most over a path to peace for ukraine. and a palestinian man is killed and at least 4 others are injured by the idea. it

multiple questions across the west bank as tension between israel and palestine escalate. a, what israel is doing now can only be described as a fascist occupation, which is almost up to bill by all standards. ah, good afternoon for martine or national studios in moscow. and welcome to the hour's top stories across the globe. i'm fear allies about people are going to the polls in nigeria to elect the country's leader in parliament. here in r t were bringing you special coverage of one of the continents. most significant elections, hey, to day africa, most populated country and biggest economy is to elect the president,

vice president and members of the senate and house of representatives. nigerians have begun voting in different parts of the country with cues already forming outside pulling stations to decide who will lead their country through the difficult times it faces 18 candidates are running for the presidency with over 1000 candidates, also competing for 109 seats in the senate in over 3000 others for 360 seats in the house of representatives. artes corolla. tort law brings us more from nigeria. biggest city. o king has indeed started in africa's most populous country. nigeria is finally taking to the paws to choose a new president, following the 2 successive terms of muhammad will harry and not every one is voting at the same time. some might open at different times, but indeed, today is the day to choose. the said presidential candidate as well. busy as the

senate, what we do know is that we have 3 candidates that are really vying for the top spot here, and they remain the most interested in, in, in this regard, we have less that to nubile who is the, who is from the incumbents. party the all progressive congress does the party of miss double hari. he will be up against a man known as a to who abaca mister albert cow was a former vice president to orlando by sango. and this was of the military rule that ended in 1999. 0, these kennedys of course, are up against the 3rd one. now this p t o b is that he's the dark horse in this race. he was a nobody in terms of the presidential elections at least some 6 months ago. but now all of a sudden everybody's talking about the labor party, everybody's talking about p toby, particularly the youth. meanwhile,

nigeria has been strengthening its security measures as it closed the plan borders for the day of the polls. over $400000.00 police and law enforcement officers are on duty ensuring the security of the presidential and parliamentary elections. an army rapid response operation center has also been established in each of the countries 36 states for emergency military intervention, if necessary. many in the country are also concerned about foreign interference in the elections. ortiz pollute. david breaks down the details 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 observe is a welcome to submit a report to an actual permissions, to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the process,

the must not interfere with the processes themselves. are ways to remind observers that that is on code of conduct for election observation. you are, by a definition of us, do not 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 fit run with public of nigeria. who's sovereignty must be respected, mixed reactions, appeal to governments want in against foreign interference in the countries election as some analysts believe, as little so be afraid off. interference is also really achieved equal rights cats in, ah, review of the, of the program depending on how they feel for beyond rights in this cut in review, which is the dam does left to them. they can't come on,

tickle then nigeria for size, the candle, tennessee who da da da gone to remove the leg, became rejected. who has been elected by the people of nigeria, the british. i'm the u. s. as issue that play street. that's his medley. mindy that now, yes, of the country i about their own difference. us are you that that interested in good elections credit relations? i'm good. go over enough in there for my poetry. so do divide. delighted me is very thing between interference and concerns for whom are right. i'm so crazy with 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 role that reinforces the doctrine of respect for nigeria, internal affairs, which is void of preconceived notions. and by as,

as over 9 to 2000000 people had to the pulls to choose a new precedence on saturday. balloon day feed out. see a boucher watch. our coverage of the nigerian elections here on our tea will keep you updated on all the latest. russia has accused that you are so fueling the ukrainian crisis site in washington interventions and other countries as evidence of nefarious activity. the comments came from the russian envoy to be un speaking at the security council, as the conflict in ukraine enters its 2nd year 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 of needed talk spanned uncontrollably to an absolute level. well, 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 cooperating 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 and that are on the bends, the, a pretty thoroughly the bomb,

the claim being repeated by us leaders and their allies. the security council meeting was essentially because of the anniversary of the cation operation and 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. so to the floor, the meeting, and when china spoke, they echoed much of what russia that and in addition to that, they call 4 talks toward resolving the conflict to begin without preconditions. here's what we heard from the chinese representatives, or you want to quote you out there can, i wouldn't use on some countries while stressing sovereignty and territorial integrity on the ukraine issue. are blatantly interfering and 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. i'm 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 its russia, that is preventing negotiations from taking place in this chamber. 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 blinkin 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, there can try to seize his land by force, can try to erase it from the map. can't bully it, 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. in iraq alone of to 1400000 people died due to the consequences of the us invasion. according to one survey, a chinese foreign ministry spokespersons that on friday, that 37000000 people were displaced following us interventions in afghanistan or 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 that the current conflict in ukraine is important for moscow because of the risk of us military involvement, right at russia stores that 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 no, no, we're not even sure about half ganawe's then 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 involved? 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 south africa, russia and china are carrying out joint naval drills in the indian ocean off the coast of south africa. vessels from the 3 navies have kicked off the active phase of the exercises that include a fire in practice, tactical maneuvering, and counter terror operations are ti correspondent ana pit jenko, takes a closer look at how the exercises have unfolded. joined naval exercises between russia, south african china, continued the shores of the indian ocean. the drills and above worships helicopters and platoons of marines gordo most as anybody. i do. i do not like marine corpse units are considered the elite of the navy in every country. they perform missions at sea on land and in the air. we are now watching a marine courts training exercise to free a sheep, hijacked by pirates. one of the important steps in the exercise is to assimilate

the exercise on a map before a ship enters the open ocean. despite language differences, it's easy for the military to find waste exchange ideas and experiences. there was also a signing ceremony of the final protocols of the maritime exercise plan at preacher's bayport, them or this is ladonna is ago about the communication. despite the language barrier was quite easy because both the self african and chinese sites are great professionals who understand everything without any necessary woods. the basic knowledge of the english was enough to explain the details of the maneuvers and which position every shape should be in a different boys and time. the chinese delegation presented the participants of the naval exercises with books written by the renown chinese philosopher confucius, which spoke of friendship and good neighborliness dave lay saying this i am. it's shows that to us threatened, in our friendship between the 3 countries, the russia representatives are playing the role of the commander in the exercise.

and they've announced plans to hold the 3 set of drills with the participation of the brazilian navy o. u. s. president joe biden lied about north stream bloss. that's according to pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, speaking exclusively to journalists off shandra tansy on going underground. this comes as u. s. house minority leader hakim jeffries was grilled by journalists, jose vega, about north stream sabotage allegations seeking to gloss over a direct question 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 ukrainian. again, we believe we need car about a

non native 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. 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 color 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. harsh broke the north stream sabotage story and his report published on february 8th, the peace alleges the pipelines remind by u. s. navy divers. the journalist said 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 dismissing hirsch's findings as speculation, and even fiction 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 a palestinian man died after being shot in their head by the idea during clashes in the west bank on friday. police use tear gas and fired shots are protesters. ah at least for palestinians were also injured as thousands marched in the west bank. dasa and east jerusalem flashes broke out with israeli forces after friday prayers with the idea of saying the violence a rob did after protesters started throwing stones up police. meanwhile, people in palestine hauled for peace and action against the atrocities they say, have been committed against locals. murtha these that are ill. now 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 jojo to day all palestinians have gathered to say to 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 nablus is a heinous crime. all our people have to take to the streets to control the shock capacious. the latest protest come in response to israel's escalation of violence against palestinians highlighted by a massacre and 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. according to statistics released by the

palestinian health ministry, a total of $65.00 palestinians including 13 children, have already been killed since the start of 2023. the ministry has described this as the bloodiest ever start of the year for the people of palestine in decades are t spoke to palestinian journalists. ma hobbin not jeep. who says the world silence gives israel the green light to continue displacement and violence against palestinians. this letters, every book with very slight when gaze lighted government glitter, smokers on vinegar via are becoming haunted. talk of the human issues i fear they are in charge of doesn't live on. so those banker grabbing their lives, doing their homes in the area see a business. and so that is where the jails on a lot of washington is done on him. so the situation or heating for more escalation on the violence, especially when it's mark

a level affordable gone month. switzer efficient would be increased more as we witness in the last you. there is no known issue. a partial is let, the government circle is full. it's sickening, hard to think of the, a lot of seniors 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 our t documentary artes marina cos. ariba takes a closer look. this is where the 3 day event is taking place moscow's digital business hub and. 8 there we can see the theme for arts, he's 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 showed up here. yes, play store the game and a brand new. i got all these i think and support and such events take place. so to collected 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 law itself, and other reports in the conflict zone will remain in history forever. ah

ah, well you miss your looks 50 percent were during the filming. we took the decision to make a film about our boys from that vast act battalion grew up in this war, who've seen nothing in their lives that 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 soul, spill crying for all the whole silly those emotions are just inexpressible. we came to this festival from eagles. herringberg is such a coincidence, who had determined to visit this event, where glad to be here, and we're thankful to the festival hosts. and 1st and foremost, all his soldiers and where is, what's your herschel bos?

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, alexis and von who teased a new crank call with europe's bullets. clearly got up a little sooner. but it was in your story. 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. we opened pandora's box when recalled, bertram pushed anchor, one of the signatures of the main sc agreements who said that he needed them only to rearm the korean military. nowhere trying to get a common from all the signatories of those agreements. it will include, ah, you can watch all the films from the festival on r t d dot r t dot com,

or on one of them many social media platforms of r t documentary. that's our up on the top. sorry. is this our for more up to the minute updates head over to r t dot com, and be sure to follow us on odyssey rumble and gab for more content. thanks for tuning in. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah ah ah, with the discovery of the new world, at the end of the 15th century, there appeared atlantic slave dre. the slave traders from european countries started building forth on the western coast of the african continent to transport the african inhabitants to america,

to be forced into hard labor. until the middle of the 17th century. portugal had played the main role in this atrocious business. then great britain, france and the netherlands took the leadership for the span of 400 years of legal and illegal slave trade. about 17000000 people were forcefully shipped across the atlantic. not including those who died on the way due to unbearable living conditions. modern historians estimate that for each slave ship to america, there were 5 who died while captured during transportation, and cruel obliteration of rebellion. this ruthless people tre practice by the leading european countries, took away tens of millions of african lives. the organisation of united nations classifies that trans atlantic slave trade as one of the gravest human rights

abuses in the history of humanity. this is the biggest act of deportation of people ever seen by mankind. ah ah, with this yes, a november 22nd 2022 count raised orthodox christians, confronted ukrainian security service offices, looking entrances and exits to keep the oldest monastery. looking for an alleged russian spies among the monks and stuff just got brand new mala,

la with today ukrainian security services can brandon agent of moscow. any money go priest. unwilling to break relations with a russian orthodox church, dozens of ukrainian churches have been rated to form a 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 with

stale less walnuts. cromwell gray is kept by the sea. so green is going to be stored, nika de la nodded. but i can't be merely a year of school or slow unfold level and easiest place. i don't know what's going on here. i know crowley and yeah, i could come on a couple of i was going to miss possible for, you know, i mean, yeah, i got a phone placed at the place to stay on people a gathering to pray in the church of saint john of current on the outskirts have done it a few years ago. a rocket fired by the ukranian army, destroyed the church, but it continues to operate this unique cause we're looking at b riley in the us. we still yes. oh pm. you must lose. when you go out. i mean you're not still there to have him.