a billing system. a what i see being used in the bus is no room. you lation says diesel to gumbo sub ah, generalizations kickoff in nigeria, i think is most populous nation on its largest economy. and they set to elect the president a v p, and members of parliament. also this our 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, slum the west for what they call, attempting to monopolize security at the expense of the nations as the un security council most over a piece on the ukraine, on the palestinian man is killed on for injured by the idea in clashes across the west bank,

his tension between israel and palestine escalate. with what israel is doing now can only be described as a fascist occupation, which is acceptable by all standards with july for my headquarters here in the russian capital. you're watching artsy international line. peter scott and here are the top stories at 4 pm central time. people are heading to the polls in nigeria to elect the country's new leader parliaments. and here nazi, we bring these special coverage of one of the constants. most significant political events on saturday africa's most populous nation on its largest economy set to light to president, vice president on members to its senate on house of representatives with to vote

says outside pulling station. this year's elections also mark the 1st time thing. print readers and facial recognition software is used in the voting process. both technologies are be widely implemented and are aimed at the enhanced transparency and avoid any attempts that install it fraud. they cannot jerry the 1st african nation to adopt such tools and it's electoral system. trouble, it brings us more from nigeria is biggest, 50 o ting has indeed started in africa as most populous country. nigeria is finally taking to the pause to choose a new president. following the 2 successive terms of muhammad were hiring 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 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. now,

in, in this regard, we have a blessed that to know who, who is the, who is from the incumbents, party the all up progressive congress does the party of miss double harry. he will be up against a man known as a to who abu bakar, mr. albuquerque was a former vice president to orlando by sango, and this was after the military rule that ended in 1999. 0, these kennedy's, of course, are up against the 3rd one. now this p t o b is 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 embrace, talking about p, toby, particularly the youth behind me. right now we have some ins. busy official does the independent national electoral commission officials putting up the vote as role when they put up those papers behind is how locals can see whether or not they vote

at a certain 14 station. and they can cross reference their names there before they make their way inside and make the a mark. we've seen presidential campaigns and their candidates coming as well as to vote. we saw earlier the vote of mr to noble. it was followed by mr. baccha. and lastly, the duck was in the 3, mr. p. t r o b. now all those candidates a vote under as serious a serious god of military support. there is well over 400000 the security personnel that been deployed to god against these elections to make sure they're free and fair and to make sure. busy they. busy are no shenanigans when 95000000 people are expected to cast their votes, it's one of the over 176000 polling stations across the country. and this year candidates will definitely have some competition. there are 18 candidates running

for the presidency with over 1000 running for the 109 seats in the senate. and another 3000 vying for the 360 seats in the house of representatives. quite a few numbers for you there. and jerry has ramped up security, including closing his land borders for the day of a $400000.00 police and law enforcement officers are also on duty. and army rapid response centers have been established in each of the countries $36.00 states. some are also concerned about possible foreign interference in the elections. ortiz, palm david, explains. more than 140000 national and international observers have been accredited by the countries electoral empire, ionic income benson outgoing precedents, mohammedans, hurry, and i'm a chairman. mahmoud yackel have issued a stern warning that one observe is a welcome to submit a report to electro permissions to highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the process. the must not interfere with the processes themselves. i was to remind

observers that that is on cornel conduct for election of issue. 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. i mean, the feeling that a public nyja was sovereignty must be respected, mixed reactions, happ trail to governments, one ins, i guess the foreign interference in the countries election. as some analysts believe. business tools will be afraid of indifference is also really t. dick who writes cats in, ah view of the of the program depending on how they feel for beyond rights in this cuts in review, which is a dam does left to them. they can't come until the nigeria understands the cancelled. can i see who to talk to can to remove the we become the jets who has

been elected by the people of nigeria, the british, i'm the u. s. as issue that i play street. that's his medley. mindy, that now, yes. of the country. i about their own difference usaa yuki is that they're interested in good elections credit relations. i'm good go over enough in there for my furniture. so do divide. delighted me is very thing between into sheriff and confess, for whom our rights conference for credit, where elections, globalization and the interdependency of nations has met global economy and power play us 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 but yes, as all want like it's a 1000000 people have that opposed to choose

a new precedence on saturday. balloon day feed out. see apple j. let's discuss the most important political event of the year for nigeria with international and political experts. holly for ali dick la holly for good afternoon . thanks very much for joining us today. how are nazi? good afternoon. thank you. i left off, i just want to ask, well, how's the day going so far? have there been any exit polls conducted in nigeria? know actually some places had delayed delayed include in the state who do my presidential candidate. one of the 5 is, is he, is he yeah, i mean, you don't. if i have to, i know the way not elaborate that i know from the previous election of i

i'm, i know i've been crazy people patient. and even if there's anything like that i've been there, lose us on the edition themselves out all the time about the fact that i get it does not get out and africa don't do it. we are not, we're not hiking on someone could come. we love that. yeah. right. so have, so we know that in the see these elections, there were some security concerns. i believe a police station was at sites and other things. have there been any security issues today and they, in any way overshadowed the vote that's taking place not much. i

don't know. very good job. okay. and in terms of i, as of the, usually, than i mean denies, you know, mean it just not, we're not given by as one of the time did with them. and it's likely to lead to the game. they give it a positive. i'm saying that out in the little mistake, big enough done. i'm the one doing when i put my teacher in so so you as well we anything. it's just not even job to instruct for any country or england until at night. yeah. i think the only time give each to go in england. america that it

used to internalize with yes. so so is it a concern then political interference? are people that in nigeria actually consent of political interference in some way affecting the votes, or have these new technologies that nigeria is introduced facial recognition fingerprints kind of overcome that bit this to get the get that can be in the calendar i be you can see the 1st time, the 1st day that it was out there, i also had to go that it is listed in the event that we don't have it right now. and then that was in 20 days. out of that i will get to that

important because don't get to what anyone in there. totally didn't get it. i live there around that usually is between the to do but and i get a defense. i didn't get to it man, because we into to not get out, which is not ideal. i, i give them that by the weekend. haven't lived in there. okay, thank you. we'll have to wait and see what happens tomorrow or the day after when the final results come in, international pitch likes. but probably for ali, dick. well, thanks very much for your time today. you please read my article. we can watch our coverage of the nigerian elections here on our see throughout the day . and as always, we'll keep you updated on all the latest thing

. we're moving on. now, ross has accused the us of feeling the ukraine crisis, citing washington's interventions in other countries. now the comments came from the russian and boys, the un. it was speaking of the security council as the conflicts in ukraine drugs on into a 2nd year. to show you can for nothing. 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 a 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. 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 interest. and that it is necessary to coexist with them and even cooperative 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 reviewed it, in the selective nature of the us approach when it comes to things like human rights and concerns about the posed aggression and that are on the bends, the, a pretty thoroughly bomb, the claim being repeated by us leaders and their allies, and the security council meeting was essentially because of the anniversary of the case and operation. the various u. s. line country, including ukraine, were given a platform at the un security council to get beaches condemning, rush, 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 august award, resolving the conflict to begin without and 3 conditions. here's what we heard from the chinese representatives or your records out there can i wouldn't use 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. so since 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's homes 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'm however, that scenario before it by beijing was roundly rejected by the united states. the very same united states that is continually insisting that its russia is preventing negotiations from taking place in this g o. meanwhile, the u. s. secretary of states has been ridiculed after saying that big countries shouldn't bully others and russia's foreign minister spokeswoman replied with a sarcastic post reminding unsafe lincoln of his own nation's trunk record. viscerally. most americans don't like to see a big country bullying and other and they just feel it's wrong and want to do something about it. one country just can't attack its neighbor, they can try to seize its 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 is 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, and so 1400000 people died in the us invasion, according to one survey, a chinese foreign ministry spokesperson that on friday, the 37000000 were displaced following us interventions in african is done iraq and syria. and 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 all fighting terrorism. let's, despite the fact that most of these conflicts lead to political chaos and high civilian casualties in the countries involved will medium political analysts line all told us the current conflicts and ukraine is important for moscow because of the risk of us military involvement rights 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 have ghana stan 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 apology 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, south africa, russia and china are carrying out joint naval drills in indian ocean off the coast of south africa vessels from the 3 navies, half case of the arts, a face of the exercises include firing process, tactical maneuvering, accounts, et cetera. ops archie correspondence anatomy. shanker takes a closer look joints naval exercises between russia, south african china, continued the shores of the indian ocean. the drills in both worships helicopters and platoons of marines, thought almost 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, but 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 ways to 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 boyd's in 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 day by saying this i am. it's

shows that to us threatened, in our friendship between the 3 countries, the russian representatives are playing the role of the commander in the exercise. and they've announced plans to hold the 3rd set of trails with the participation of the brazilian navy. ah, ballast indian man died after being shot in the head by the idea during clashes in the west bank on friday. please use tegan on 5 shots of protesters. ah. 2 at least for palestinians were also injured as thousands marched in the west bank garza and east jerusalem crashes broke out with his ready forces after friday prayers. with the idea of saying that the violence ropes had after protested, started throwing stones at police. meanwhile, people in palestine called for peace and action against the atrocities that they say had been committed against local people. oh martha could be,

i don't know 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 grounds. and the imposition of sanction sonnets had the yell voile to j. all palestinians have gathered to seek this occupation enough is enough and to say to the israel settlers in hebron 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 conform this occupation of the latest protests come in response to israel's escalation of violence against palestinians, which includes a massacre in nobliss. last wednesday is left 11 palestinians dead and nearly 110 injured. some of you said the deadly rate was carried out in order to arrest 3 fights is allegedly involved in early violence against israelis. according to the palestinian health ministry, a total of $65.00 palestinians, including 13 children,

have already been killed since it started 2023. the ministers described this as the blood li, the bloodiest ever starts of the year for the people in palestine in decades. arts, he spoke to palestinian journalist mohammed nudge. if he says the world silence gives israel, the green lights, continued displacement and violence against palestinians that is in the past with a strike. when gaze writing government letters, motors and winning via are becoming fully charge of the hey, she was affairs, they advertised doesn't live on, said those bank out of the grabbing their last doing bad homes in the area. see a gale's on a lot. some was, is that a little him so that this jason or he didn't for more, an escalation on the violence to speak only was marked as i live a little from hold on month. where does that efficient would be increased more as we with this in the last year? there is no heck when donation a government is bob. it's

a can i get involved a lot of senior and finally, the russian orthodox church is aiming to help african countries deal with everyday challenges. last the message from the head of russia's orthodox church in africa, an exclusive interview, swati he had done with schooling. so good. he me. recently the patriarchal x r, kate of africa has turned one year and a month olds. and you're right. it's been 6 months since our last interview. we do have results and good ones. as of today, the russian orthodox church is fully present in 19 out of 54 african countries. in 6 of them we have been officially registered. we are currently supporting 3 orphan asylums and one monastic community on the african territories. 11th students from different african countries have come to the st. petersburg theological academy to study russian for a year. then with god's help, if they show good results,

they will stay for 4 more years to get comprehensive theological, education, rush and missionary groups continually replace one another on the african continent . we are constantly working on the categorization of pseudo orthodox groups present in africa. and you know, there are many of those existing outside the orthodox, canonical fields. and our goal is to embrace, if not all 1300000000 of the african population, than as many people as possible to enlighten them with the teachings of the gospel . recently i have taken monastic vows over the 1st novice from africa. she was named in honor of the holy blessed said mother may trauma of moscow. now she is in kenya. she will arrive here again soon to get further monastic experience. that is to say, we are developing now we are considering the construction of churches, hospitals, and preschool educational institutions. in some countries, we are participating in different social programs. fundraising allows us, albeit to a limited extent,

to provide sewing materials for the poorest people. i wish the global community represented by the u. n. and other international platforms would listen to our please. and to the russian president, we have 150000 tons of fertilizers, locks in different european ports. and the president said, we are ready to give them to the poorest african nations. but nothing has budged since then. and i wish to see people being more active because what we call a great deal in my opinion has if not totally, then mostly failed. i wish they would listen to us because there are people in need in africa. some families live on several dollars per day, and that is sad to see if russia can help then why block these good willed initiatives you hm. when you're, when indeed we have recently just seen off the ethiopian church delegation that has worked fruitfully with us here. i am a chairman of the commission on the dialogue between the russian orthodox church in

the ethiopian church during the visit we worked very hard and that resulted in signing the memorandum that includes an ambitious road map. it's every clause shows important milestones in the relations between the 2 churches. the ethiopian church has a wide reach of worshippers on the territory of the african continent, as well as with diaspora outside of it. the memorandum covers very important topics and touches upon the inter church dialogue. we share the same values with the ethiopians, traditional and conservative wanted so 1st it is the protection of family values. the ban on algae b. t propaganda, that has been recently adopted at the legislative level in our country as well as the rejection of any genders except for the 2 created by god, man and woman. it is the bioethics issue, as well as student exchanges. it is the possibility of pilgrimage tours for our people to the shrines of the ethiopian church and vice versa. we visited a lot of russian orthodox shrines and our ethiopian colleagues were impressed. we

held a meeting with the students and the magistrate staff of the holy trinity lava of saint sergius. believe me that we have a deep historical connection that we can bring to life. it will take time, but working actively. i think our results will contribute to the boosting of inter church and inter governmental relations developing today. hm. targets will lose gopro, sol circle. traditionally. the russian orthodox church has always had good even friendly relations with some african churches. we do not see any antagonism towards us. we are engaged in a dialogue with different christian confessions and denominations. as of today, i consider our main goal at africa to be the maximum of unity. while addressing the existing challenges, the other day, the head of the anglican church of uganda sharply replied to canterbury that they would not comply with the l g. b t friendly laws adopted by the anglican church

because they go against the historical teachings. people in africa conservative, they mostly adhered to the old testament. they understand that god did not create a variety of genders. and we, the people of this world have no powers to introduce such genders. it is all guile, peer satanism. we have only 2 genders created by god, and in this context, humanity can and will evolve. we pray for those who do not agree. we ask god to reason with them. but if churches are making such claims, then it's time to sound the alarm. that is why africans will never support the policy, and orthodoxies will follow them in the catholic church as well. not everyone agrees, even if people are scared and listened to mentors. they still feel it's not ok because one cannot be lied to like this. we hope that people will accept this true key. loza, whatever you're up to this weekend, i hope you're having a good one. my name is peter scott. i'll be back at the top of the hour with all of

this weekend's top stories. thank you for watching. ah, what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy even foundation, let it be in arms. race is on often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk ah, a.