[000:00:00;00] ah ah, the polls officially closed in nigeria as africa is the most populous nation, and largest economy, hold elections to choose its new president, v p, and members of parliament also ahead. the collective west must accept the fact that there are other players on the world arena. i think the security of the country should not be pursued at the expense of others. russia and china on the west for what they call, attempting to monopolize security at the expense of the nations and security council. most of the peace or ukraine in south africa. jose

chinese and russian counterparts are naval drills get on the way in which it is. b auto takes a closer look. green 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 corps training exercise to free ship, hijacked by pirates with from moscow to the world. this is our t international. my name is peter scott and these the top stories this hour. we start off with the latest date on the general elections in nigeria, where africa's most populous nation is choosing the country's new leader on parliament. and the polls have officially close to and the counting of votes is on the way, and they are not see, we're bringing these special coverage of one of the continents,

most significant political events. this year's elections also march the 1st time fingerprint readers and facial recognition software was used in the voting process. both technologies have been widely implemented and were aimed at enhancing transparency and avoiding any attempts at bullet fraud. making nigeria, the 1st african nation to adopt such tools and intellectual system parties. corolla toddler has brought us some more from nigeria, the biggest city. 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. and in this regard, we have a blessed that to know who, who is the, who is from the incumbents, party the all progressive congress does the party of miss double harry. he will be up against a man known as at yahoo. abu bakar mr. arbor cow was a former vice president to orlando as angel,

and this was after 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 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 and raised talking about d toby, particularly the youth. 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 this race, mr. p. t r o b. now all those candidates of old under as serious a serious guard of military support. there is well over 400000 the security personnel that has been deployed to god are against these elections to make sure they're free and fair,

and to make sure that there are no shenanigans, whole 95000000 people are expected to have cast votes. one of the over 100, some 6000 polling stations across the country. now this is kind of this indeed have some stiff competition. 18 candidates are running for the presidency with over 1000 running for the 109 seats in the senate. another 3, sorry, 3000 vying for the 360 seats in the house of representatives. quite numbers for you there. now jerry has ramped up security including closing his lawn borders for the day of a $400000.00 police on law enforcement officers on duty. army rapid response centers have also been established in each of the countries $36.00 states. some are concerned about possible foreign interference in the elections african correspondence, pelham, david, explains. more than 140000 national and international observers have been accredited by the countries electoral empire, ionic income,

benson, outgoing precedents. mohammed harry and i know chapman mahmoud yackel, have issued a stern warning that one observers a welcome to submit reports to an actual commissions to highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the process. the must not interfere with the processes themselves . or ways 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 by an in the federal republic of nigeria, whose sovereignty must be respected. mixed reactions have killed the governments want in against foreign interference in the countries election. as some analysts believe this little to be afraid of interference is also really to dig who writes

cats in our review of this so gram, depending on how they feel beyond rights in this cuts in review, which is too damn, does left to them. they can come on a council, can i see who to talk to con, to remove the we become the jets who has been elected by the people of nigeria, the british. i'm the u. s. s. issue that play street. that this medley mindy, that now? yes, of the country i about their own difference. us, are you interested in good elections? credit relations? good governor, india from our 32. so do divide deal, not me is very thing between interference and concerns for human rights concerns for credit. where lucian's globalization on the inside dependency of nations has made 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 we enforce is adopting a respect for nigeria, internal affairs, which is void of preconceived notions and but yes, plume de feet out. see if we can watch all coverage of the nigerian elections her own oxy international throughout the day and will keep you updated on the results as and when we get them in to the news, rushes accused us off fueling the ukrainian crisis, sensing washington's interventions in other countries, the comments came from the russian and votes, the un speaking the security council is the conflict in ukraine drugs on in the 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 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. 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 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 reviewed it, in the selective nature of the us approach when it comes to things like human rights and concerns about the posed aggression that are on the bends, the pretty thoroughly the 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 us aligned country when moving ukraine were given a platform at the un security council, do give speeches condemning russia, accusing russia of atrocities, etc. however, china, also a permanent member of the security council took to the floor, the meeting. and when china spoke, they acted much of what roger dad and in addition to that, they call for august word resolving the conflict to begin without and reconditioned . here's what we heard from the chinese representative. you want to quote you out there can i wouldn't use on some countries, ma, 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. 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 or a resolution of 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 it's russia, let us preventing negotiations from taking place in this chamber where meanwhile, the or sexy of states has been ridiculed to after saying that's big countries, it shouldn't bully others rushes for ministry spokeswoman replied with the sarcastic post reminding unsaid lincoln of his own nation's track record,

viscerally. most americans don't like to see a big country, bowling and other, and they just feel it's wrong. and want to do something about it. one country just can't attack its neighbor, there can't try to seize its land by force. can try to erase it from the map. can't bully it, was it not the u. s. that attacked iraq 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 with 1400000 people died in the us invasion. according to one survey, the chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on friday, the 37000000 were displaced, falling 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. despite the fact that most of these conflicts led to political chaos on high civilian casualties in the countries involved with medium political unlist,

lionel told us the current conflicts and ukraine is important for moscow because the risk of us minutes involvement rights versus 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? ukraine is preparing to take crimea back by force as, according to the nations president. volume is zalinski during a press conference. marino we already mentally do. we're preparing technically with weapons reinforcements. the formation of brigades, in particular,

their sole brigades of different categories and nature must. those intentions declared. this finds a pentagon officials doubts on ukraine's ability to recap to the peninsula, expressed earlier this month. the carmina public joined russia in 2014 of the majority of residents voted for the move in a referendum. what results were that annoyed by the majority of your in states and led to the west imposing its 1st sanctions on moscow? the decision to join was greatly influenced by repression toward the russian speaking. population sentence began in $99.00 when officials proclaimed the ukrainian language the only official one in the nation and reached a tipping point. following the 2014 my don uprising, support national government to power. normalize the communication between the peninsula and mainland russia. moscow built to the crimean bridge, which was opened in 2018, and also by 2022. it became the object of an attack that russia believed ukrainian

special services was behind. they've not commented on that though. let me 15 how's called the instance a terrorist attacks are right. said the critically important civilian infrastructure. as of now, russian officials claim that ukraine doesn't have the capability to see crimea simply uses its vocal statements for propaganda purposes, festive economics and politics. jack rasmus does that statement as a way to gain more funding from the west and could results in sufferings of locals? mr. zalinski is completely framing and i think it, it is a lot of it is per show. a lot of that is to a fees is less than backers additional funding, additional weapon in the show meant and i mean, he's not really a leader. otherwise he wouldn't be allowing the future, the conference, the soldier, the young soldiers being killed, the sense of lee in the battlefield premier is too important,

historically culturally and t g. i think russia will defend those areas and defend the population and i think they're justified doing that as well. i'm concerned that if, let's assume that if by some magical mystical way that your brain did take those land back over i. i concern about population because the d, his so called the occupation is probably more than just military. i think you'd see the one thing going on. moving on now, pyongyang has accused washington of increasing tensions on the korean peninsula. i think that some of its actions may be seen even as a step towards a compensation that says the us has held joint mitchell sizes with south korean forces. the u. s. should bear in mind that if it persists in its hostile and provocative practices against the dpr k, despite the latter's repeated protest and warning, it can be regarded as a declaration of war against the dpr. k. young young has also accused the u. s. on

south korea over her thing, a nuclear war against north korea, i think that it would take unprecedentedly strong action. the joint drills focused on the detection, trucking and inception of ballistic missiles. us on south korea also launched for strategic cruise missiles. 2 countries have been in since 5 military jails for the past decade, leading to an escalation of tensions in the region. we are also conduct multiple test rockets launches over the years. let's go live now to don mclean guild, our rights of the south on south east asia, philippine middle east studies association. thanks very much for joining us this afternoon. dawn now certainly is strong words from north korea about those gels, but certainly nothing we've not seen or heard before. right, thank you so much for having me. and in fact, you know, north korea is interest in general. we summarize based on 2 factors. there is a national security component and the economic development component from john young's point of view the u. s. and it's alliance in the western pacific know serve

as an existential threat to its existence. while targeted sanctions constrain it's economic growth. so to get the us as attention and to pressure into accepting young young demand, north korea continues to bank when all of it has and that's it's missiles, a nuclear weapons. furthermore, you know, hitting 2 birds with one stone. you know, by doing these tests, north korea also shows the capacity to develop an enhanced. it's michelle, it's a nuclear arsenal and to reach, despite the sanctions in whole. so it's pretty much a symbolic and of course, a measure that seeks to project more power at the expense of the status call. do you expect tensions to escalades or will it just remain a wall of words with the odd missile test on drill here and well, you know, the situation in the korean peninsula is absolutely vulnerable. and in fact, the case a here that we're looking into is of course,

the cancer. the chances of miscalculation with miscalculation things can escalate quite abruptly to the point that the regional architecture becomes a obstructed in the situation exacerbates. so of course, what you're seeing now is something we haven't seen before, but of course, looking into the structural shift in the regional geo politics of asia, we could definitely see that there are more chances for miscalculation and miscommunication. here and in fact, south korea is in a bind no. on one hand, it speaks to have a more proactive product negotiation with self 3, with north korea. but on the other hand, because of the stability in the security dilemma is forced to engage in other actions such as with japan or the united states. so everything is quite hold of the stage and transfer miscommunication and for the nation. no, they're pretty high. exactly. we need so, so my next question, are you company expect it can't be on expected these 3 countries? japan software in the us are holding drills in lights of those frequent us by north

korea. it's a bit of a catch $22.00 situation. it seems absolutely, you know, particularly in from south korea is point of view. we up to understand that on one hand, as i've mentioned before, you know, it seeks to maintain stability. in fact, the ambassador has mentioned above maintaining stability in the korean peninsula. but at the same time, you know, in order to act that by creating a more conducive environment for discussion and negotiation. but on the other hand, because of the proximity. and of course, the trans further escalation, you don't have to take matters, additional hands, you know, and that includes conducting these drills. and of course, every little addition or subtraction of strategic variables throughout the seizure region can result to catastrophic outcomes. and of course, this is something that we have been looking into for the past few decades. well don mclean guild. all right, so for the south and southeast asia, philippi middle east cities association. pleasure was always talking the channel.

thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with us today. thank you so much. are the talking of drills, 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 face of the exercises. let's include 5 punches tactical maneuvering, uncounted sara operations of the correspondence on a key. shanker takes a closer look joined naval exercises between russia, south african china, continued the shores of the indian ocean. the drills in both warships, helicopters and platoons of marines, gordo, moshe, anybody i do, i don't know what marine corpse units are considered the elite of the navy in every country. they perform missions at sea on land and in the air. by the way, 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 i did there and just let them go by the communication. despite the language barrier was quite easy because both the south african and chinese sites are great professionals who understand everything without any necessary words. 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, gave way, saving this i am. it's shows that we are 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 hell the 3rd set of

trails with the participation of the brazilian navy over 20 anglican churches from across the world, including salsa. don dibiase, on uganda, no longer consider the church of england as a leader of the global anglican communion. as follows, same sex marriage controversy which has divided church officials with the ugandan archbishop of the anglican church accusing his english count spots of renouncing the bible or the charge of your gun the week. oh no, it's accepted. good to bless what you close. seeing the church of england, on the other hand, has now departed from the bible. under a new message is the opposite message of the bible, and now it's saying, go on to seen some more. even all fighting. to bless. that's been brethren. that is wrong. that is wrong, that is wrong. so the, this non the anglican, general sin,

odd past emotions allow the blessing of l. g. b. g couples. despite the fact that the church still officially opposes same sex marriage, some parishes which have rejected. the motion represents people from asia, latin america and africa, and they say the anglican sinner no longer takes their opinion into accounts. we support some local people in uganda who say the church of england policy contradicts the faith. i agree, a 110 percent would just shuts off because even the bible does allow homeless. charlie, so i agree with the judge. i disappointed because judge is not good. i believe the board the already know create showing what we meant to do and how we meant to leave the church of uganda. has told us a lot by philip separating form that was done culture because of their

bud hobby. it's not goodly. it is wrong. and for them to break off, that's the right thing to do. ugandan community church, pastor martin semper says that africa christian communities are be misrepresented by the west. we are keeping the gospel, the judge of your gun that they charge about africa keeping the gospel. but the europeans, or brought us geez, us, have abandon abundant gospel. so i know that they are using financial blackmail. i know that they are using media blackmail, and they're trying to misrepresent us as being uninformed creamy t back once. but there is nothing uninformed about knowing that in mind is a man, it woman, the woman and man marries a woman. so i command they charge you gone to the parishes. another bishops were coming out and say no,

we cannot tolerate this. and finally years president joe biden lied about not stream blasts. well, that's at least is according to the police, a prize winning journalist seymour hersh, who's speaking to ashley rhodes, on the, on going on around, going underground, excuse me. and this comes as a u. s. house minority leader i came, jeffries was challenged by jim is jose vega about the node stream sabotage allegations lawmaker. they did the question, i want you to say something about the bombing, we're going to continue to stay in with the ukrainian or again, we believe we made car a not later. then american journalist on arts of us who you just heard, jose vega claims the u. s. government, media and military,

and then the ones benefiting from the node stream sabotaged. 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 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. first, wrote the nod stream,

stop. it's our store and his reports published on february 8th, the peace alleges of the pipelines remind by u. s. navy divers. the journalist claimed that washington news need some miniature drills of cover for the operation. some assistance from norway, according to the report jo, bottom made the decision after 9 months of consultations with the security advisors . the claims have been denied by both washington and the you. with officials dismissing her findings as both speculation and fiction. of a more revelations from the man who previous exposed us war crimes in vietnam underwriter will have the full interview with c moyers on going underground rights here on oxy, this saturday will. that's all for now. whatever you're doing this weekend, i hope you're having a good one for more on any those stories you've just seen. do had it was all websites, all t dot com on his peter scott will be back again in just over 30 minutes time. thanks for watching.

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service officers looking entrances and exits the keys, oldest monastery, were looking for alleged russian spies among the monks. company new molla lava, with the de ukrainian security services can brand an agent of moscow any mongo priest unwilling to break relations with the 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 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