is often very dramatic developments only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, is very critical. i'm time to sit down and talk with polls close in nigeria as africa most populous nation's largest economy, hold selection to choose. it's next president, i'm no make it ukrainian forces detonate a dime in the case that the all the altima in an attempt to stop the relentless advance to wagner. according to the russian military, with thousands rally and berlin coating for peace talks for ukraine and condemning that government. the army. oh so this out?

oh, a full blown leave. it needs 19 of meet the wounded at a marathon in western comma room with a local stack for his group, claiming responsibility with 10 pm here in the russian capital in mrs. international with the very latest world news update from all of our team. very well, welcome to you. our top story, this the out. we're starting with the general elections in nigeria, west africa, most populous nation, is choosing its next leader and parliament. the polls that have now just closed down the county to get boats. it's on the way. so we're bringing you all special, come for just one of the continents, most significant political events. this year 3

now will be voting, went smoothly in most parts of the country. some places have seen unrest in the show d district of legos, state unknown gunman disrupted the elections according to local media. the attackers arrived on motorcycles and started shooting to sky, vote as away assailants. also grab some of the still ballot boxes and set them on fire. several suspects have reportedly been detained africa correspondent, caribella toddler, who's currently in the nigerian city of la goss, says tensions are running high as the nation edge is closer to finding out who will leads the country, though, is good. oh, ting is winding down, but emotions a halting up here in the capitals in the in at least law goes and everywhere else. there is a feeling of disputes that will forever marred these elections. people feel disenfranchised,

especially in some voting areas, where voting material didn't even make it in some way. hearing reports, that thugs have gone as far as to destroy eating material. notwithstanding the bolting the polling stations, rather way with tolling started lea itself, even areas like this, as you can see behind me that emotions, i keep wretched thing up as people really want to know what's behind some of the machinations that they have seen from. i make that the independent national electoral commission in areas such as the one behind me counting has already begun because the number of people that are registered on the polling list have already voted you hearing a lot of skirmishes, a lot of back and forth. people are talking about what they're interested party is should be getting there is a lot of saudi to with labor. and there is

a lot of youth disenfranchisement throughout the country. the youth almost leaving that there is a conspiracy theory, at least that the, the are being fought against by the establishment as it were. a lot of youth is really excited around one candidate than dead is the candidacy of mr. p. towel b. and they're saying that this, the, you know, these problems that we've had from the independent electoral body. i really just a way of, of causing a hurdle in, in p t r o b, destiny rather march towards, to the, the presidential seats as it were. and that is something that we're hearing around . no one, not even the big news cast as not independent bodies are going as far as to say, who is leading this election because the information, as i say, it's very scattered and no one really wants to pin there their head to the masters

and where to say who's leading and that information is only being related to by party agents. and i don't think that is really a source that you can trust because they have vested interest with regards to the dissemination of the fed. information here in leg was, particularly when one looks at the security personnel that's been deployed for this election. well, over 400000 members of the security personnel that, that's our, me, that's police and other security agencies that are here to safeguard the selections, are now on edge more than ever before. more than even in the morning. and as you know, we wouldn't necessarily see pictures like this with people scattered around because the night jerry are when voting commences. every thing shuts down everything. we're talking shops, we're talking schools, we're talking the restaurants, we're talking anything that you can imagine barring, of course, hospitals for emergency services. but everything literally says that in order to

encourage the electorate to go out there and cast their vote. but this one in particular, having seen the kinds of growth that we have seen, an exponential growth, especially in the registration of people between the ages of 18 and 14. that showed up by itself some 48 percent. and the youth are really expecting that to be more than just a number. the 8 big thing is to translate into votes and hence the thing that they feel that at their strongest that's where. busy they were most sabotaged. the police can try and be there and they're about, but they really had the every way and i is a very large country, the vin number of give students of thugs being able to get their hands on materials of polling stations. really not hearing to some of the, the guidelines that have been encouraged with regards to where we get the voting to go. and despite the deployment of the number of people here,

the number of security personnel is jerry and police power and authority can not really guarantee the safety of every police station more than 1900000000 people report to be registered to vote. had want to be almost $177000.00 polling stations across the country. this, the candidates have been rather stiff competition, 18 people are running for the presidency with over 1000 vying for 109 seats in the senate. and another 3000 for 360 seats in the house of representatives. now his house, i'm my jerry and expect the election results to pan out it means talk in have in the same same set of governance, you know, over and over. we just want something new. we want. we want to have hope for the best and engine light came on. well, my expectation for the next governance government 1st is 1st

type in the security and major i'd, i'd expect new global name on the bus news sports . i believe it's the right fit in the right direction. we spoke with international and political expert khalifa, ali dick was station, did nigeria? he said the election process is going according to plan. i says there is a professionals. i'm yeah, ha, even if there is anything like that with that, it might have been did use us on day one edition themselves out all the time. i was sad that i was, why didn't i get it to be a problem with that and i get, it does not get hot and africa and, and done. so i added the he was really good and it is a little old in a international community. does on why not?

we're not given. my asked when the kind of did. i was with them. it and it is likely it would be a good day, give it a positive. i'm saying that it didn't miss this. i would be enough wanting done. i'm down from the home. wow. why? my mom, when? when fiance, wife, i wanted to teach as in bravo! in craney, enforce his hand. detonate the local down in the embattled city of answer. i'm off school, so notice back new can the don't? yes we're public. that's according to rushes long in the military through which is now pushing deeper into the city. after months of fist fighting, a correspondent on the ground for long concert has more dee's house. in an effort to slow down the advancing russian troops, ukrainian troops blew up at their i'm in a city of r, tell most, get the local reserve or according to the press service of the wagner private military company. according to officials, there are already reports that said,

people's houses are being flooded. use of the rising water in the area. those who were forced to hide at basements and on the ground bomb shelters are now being forced to flee once again. and it looks like the crate an army have resorted to bombing over there and pulling success of russian volunteers who managed to take an all of barrels called village on friday and yaga. now on saturday, both villages are right next to the city of art. all of squish, the crate in government renamed as a bach mode to just a few years ago. the taking of these villages, the sport of a larger offensive by russian force is aimed at advancements on the front lines including an offensive for almost. now this latest development seems to further deteriorate. the situation for ukrainian force is inside the city, as it makes re supply of the troops more difficult. at the moment, holland tiers of the wagner's private military company have been widely credited

with taken multiple ukrainian positions in that particular area are almost, by the way, is of paramount importance. both for russia and ukraine on the strategic and mental side for key of it's important to hold on to the city, to keep up the morale in their army and also keep and sacked his 70 kilometer defensive line. while for russia taking control off, our thomas will mean at direct route towards the cities of slowdowns can crumb a source. both are a part of the nest people's republic and their liberation falls in line with the goals of russia's special military operation. in crane is preparing to take crimea back from russia by force using weapons supplied by the west. that's according to president vladimir landscape later statement more. i know we already mentally were prepared technically with weapons reinforcements, the formation of brigades, in particular,

the sol brigades of different categories and nature must despise the landscape stated intentions. a pentagon official has cost out on ukraine's ability to we take the peninsula city to ukraine, off the collapse of the soviet union, crimea, united with russia in 2014 off the majority of residents voted for the move in a referendum. however, its results were criticized by the us on the sidelines, needing them to impose sanctions on most climate, as population decided to read, to russia off the made down qu in here, which sort until russian government bring to power in ukraine, executive vice president of the, your racial center, our last listen safe campus now simply trying to drum up more military support from the west. 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 backers additional funding, additional weapon need to show me that and i mean, he's not really

a leader otherwise he wouldn't be allowing the future of the conference. the soldier, the young soldiers being killed, the sense of lee in the battlefield premier is too important, historically culturally and the key to i think russian will defend those areas and defend the population. and i think they're justified doing that as well. i'm concerned that let's assume that by some magical mystical way that your brain did take the land back over i. i concern about population because the dia, his so called the occupation is probably more than just military. i think you'd see the one thing going on. one of the symbols of unity between the peninsula and mainland russia is the crimean bridge, which opened in 2018 and october last year. the bridge was boned with moscow

blaming ukrainians. special forces care has denied the allegations of abuse in court. the incident, a terrorist attack directed against critically important civilian infrastructure. russia responded by launching as strikes that ukraine's military and power grid and friends of the russian embassy in berlin, germans cooling the peace of placed scores of roses are destroyed at russian tank. a tank was originally placed that as a sort of monument in support of ukraine, less you can see citizens weren't happy with the intended display of hate, local, say the nation should be negotiating and solving problems using diplomatic names. i guess this is very important. we have 2000 roses to decorate the tank. so our government's confine, you start negotiating with each other and with others. no, so need to supply arms, but to establish diplomatic relations and not to act in

a rushed manner. that is the most important thing. we have to talk to each other and we are not enemies and that we are not against you, cried all russians. we are friends. we have been building this relationship for 30 years. point that comes with thousands more have taken to the streets and berlin, demanding the government stop. fueling the war. our german correspondents, dominic ry catch brings is more l well above 10000 people year to basically show their support for the manifest. so off piece, which was a started by is our van connection there, popular left in politician and alice swats a popular feminist in germany. they started this manifesto, it was signed by 600000 people. and then they also did invited everyone to come here today and also state their support for this is what this manifesto is asking for. it's asking for a massive piece initiative from the west, from germany, which also should be willing to make some compromises in order to achieve peace as

soon as possible. i'm here to stop more and more weapons from being delivered to ukraine and to stop the killing from being prolonged and worsened. i'm here for disarmament and peaceful coexistence with ukraine and russia live. our government should now stack talks with pu to nancy lansky and declare that it doesn't make sense to continuation war, as it will only prolong the suffering because it won't get any better. he can start the talks at any time to make it. oh, stop. the deal to push them has been i'm so disappointed with the foreign policy by mrs. burbock and i seen it time and time again in conversations. people are just angry that unqualified people are trying to hold office for this. our protests. there are a lot of reports from the mainstream media, especially here in germany, that would be supported as well by a far right groups than dad is because the politicians are van exclusive,

very popular left. ben politician also has followers on the ride, who agreed with her take, for example, on covert or on the war and ukraine, and she did not a distance herself too harshly from right wingers. so some of them did show up here and there were some conflicts between left and right wing groups. however, i'm in general, this was a very peaceful pro, passed a very large protest with, as i said, well above 10000 people showing their support for this manifest so of peace between russia and ukraine. an anti war event of the know to nato group has taken place in london with participants calling on birth control. nice. the us lead blog as international attention spiral over ukraine. the campaigns, main goal, is to prevent the u. k. from being drawn into a direct conflict with russia, the attendees say nato's actions of safe on the aggravated the conflict. and they claim that person would be safer and better off financially. outside of the

alliance. ahead of the event in london, multiple venues will report to be pressured to refrain from hosting is one of the speak in the conference. don kovachick told us that portion is seeking a rising, seeing rather a rising wave of resistance against the countries military support for ukraine. but the main goal of the rally is to urge the u. k. to stop supporting the war, new crime, to stop being a vassal, the united states, and yet, ultimately to and nato, which is in alliance, which by the way, is not working to the benefit of europe as we see right now at which, frankly is an antiquated organization the poll showed that people knew it, u. k, are beginning to turn against support for specifically military support for ukraine. they want their money to be spent at home,

and that's another call of this organization. and that is to spend money on housing to spend money on health care to keep the n h s health care system alive, which is always under threat. and did you that they have to stop setting money out the door on military adventures, including the money. there is a lot of fear about repercussions for taking any stance against the nato, against the alliance with nato, and against the nato support for the war in ukraine. this is probably not probably, this is definitely the most censored and under covered and, and miss covered war certainly in my lifetime it seems that 9 rounds of sanctions didn't do. the trick for the year was process is now a previous latest 10 package of restrictions on europe's trade with russia.

we now have the most far reaching sanctions ever to pleading rushes were arsenal and biting deep into its economy. you stands united with ukraine and the ukrainian people we will keep supporting ukraine for as long as it takes. well, you have to think at this point, that the biggest surprise, with these new european sanctions against russia is that there's still anything left to sanction at all. every single time the buses adopt new sanctions. so 10 times now, it's always accompanied by such strong rhetoric, the most forceful and far reaching sanctions ever says the blocks presidency right now. now every single time we hear this kind of rhetoric, we're maxed out. and every time we also learn what had not been bound up until now, which is actually really interesting and very telling apparently that you really needs russian rubber and was reluctant to split from that. some might also be surprised at that you still had not cut off some russian banks alpha bank and the

online bank tink off. we're still connected to the swift system, but are now targeted for cut off by these new sanctions. high tech advanced industrial parts that can also be used in weapon systems are no longer to be exported to russia. and apparently, up until now they were ok. another 11400000000 euro loss in export revenue for the e. u to add to its previous self imposed revenue cut of 32500000000 euros. it's also sanctioning members and supporters of the wagner military group, private military group. but for activities in molly and the central african republic, which last i checked were part of ukraine. sounds like that was a request made with love from paris. the arabic versions of russian linked media. sputnik and r t are also now under the same blanket online and broadcast censorship as other

r t and sputnik affiliates from the wonderful defenders of press freedom. so the big question is all this going to get moscow to do you want it to do in ukraine? which is of course, leave, let's asked the white house how it's been going so far with these kinds of measures . the russian economy is showing some resilience in a way. but that is thanks to extraordinary moves to the law cluster. results of the sanctions in attempting to bring russia to its knees was reflected also in the shrill, aggressive comments made by western officials at this month's munich, safe space. or, i mean unit security conference about the need for moscow to be defeated on the battlefield. we often hear. busy that the sanctions are better than direct military confrontation which nato members routinely claim to want to avoid with russia. well, except for german foreign minister and a lena bear, bach who apparently didn't get the memo and said at

a council of europe meeting recently, that the e u wasn't war with russia. but the french military is nonetheless now holding a massive military exercise the largest in 30 years. it's called ryan 23. so a ryan 2023. and it was decided back in 2020. in preparation for what it's commander, nikolai didn't know, describes as quote, the return of big operations on french soil. orion 23 main objectives refocused training on armies on modern conflicts. in particular, high intensity, evaluate internal command capabilities for large scale operation. so this exercise comes after years of france focusing primarily on counterterrorism. and counter insurgency. seems like a really strange thing to have figured necessary way back in 2020, to have french soldiers storming the beaches of the south of france. 7000 francs

soldiers are involved in these maneuvers and they last until march they started just a few days ago. it's get increasingly difficult to hear western officials paying lip service to peace. under all this belligerent talk and belligerent auction, the german chancellor is in india where he met with prime minister new and remote aid. i've shows had previously stated that the main purpose of his trip was to deepen cooperation between the 2 countries. but the chancellor also sees the chance to take a swing at moscow in the thought the world is suffering as a consequence of russia's aggression. thus, the cooperation between both our countries is of great importance. there are a host of areas in which we can deepen and enhance our co operational, a very important question of securing the supply of food and energy. we have to make sure that countries in asia, africa, and america not too strongly and negatively impacted by the terrible war of

aggression that russia started against ukraine here. and that the impact is not too negative for them. supply shortages is thus, the one priority of our work boat shall fit visit, highlights, new delhi is growing importance to western powers as they think backing for that opposition to moscow. germany's pivot to india is particularly significant, given the south asian countries close ties to russia. it's key energy supplier. throughout the talks in new delhi, german officials made several other attempts to blame the world's problems on moscow. but they stopped short of directly saying that india should cut its relations with russia. on friday, india hosted a summit of g 20 finance ministers. the talks were supposed to focus on economic problems that way. instead, overshadowed by western demands to condemn moscow, china joined russia in refusing to endorse such a statements at the meeting. india took a more subtle starnes and declined to comment on any of them to be in the community k. an indian political and foreign policy expert told us that, that,

that as excuse me, that the west will not be able to change new delhi neutrality on the ukraine. conflicts rare, can country have been trying there for a long, long time now, and they have tried and tried to run again in this bank and ru, meeting in india, you know, and in my understanding it is a part and parcel diploma fee to get countries to their side and nato and west has been trying to, it's for long. but as our prime minister has category can be paid in the past. so, so, and we have one, again, retail rate of those that india is not going to fight with any group or any country . in fact, we stand up, he's going to be, it's 10 gifts folks, settlement up all the facts. i mean, that's walked over,

i should have needed from india for and iving at that space for the solution in the i would be very, very happy to do this. 19 athletes have been injured after multiple blast smoke the morrison in western cameroon, where english speaking separatists been fighting government forces since 2016. the explosions occurred in the town of a way of a 500 athletes, was taking part and amongst can ruin race of hope. a local journalist shed more details on the bombings this morning. that is going away from 5 to 652 atlas from 14 different countries. of course i forgot who we are. monson risk. we just didn't get it out today. i don't know why they, we are running our way up to the mountain caught in 3 different.

so we learned that the 19 were including people who are standing by the site. and currently we have no record it now. but to go, we are getting allocation that one fits an update on that this region, if you click apply to walk some to produce and go extract from when you say failing country under when extraction. so i'm wondering for an independent or if correct with it. so when the black, what does it does after that window diffraction? i think on the don't clamped point that is the amazon and governing council. this is the 1st time that targeting during the amount come out on this. so if you happen to be doing that, but when it comes to that,

it's up or down in history to get shot. that is really true that we're providing security to the, to the updates we have not had any content. and if you would that be useful injured from some i will military. but when you look at how did, how did lots of money, the military was fighting, were from this 100 meter it with, from the day, from the, from the you can imagine how these people, i really how will, how deep in making sure that this would be like the mom i don't get stuck with don't separate is how with the clear why this for a long down it down there is some kind of disobedience to get people from from so that this will probably shortly to international community that he's probably

going with this type of work a lot sure that the value of all the kids that are happening in the story. but as i say, company here in our tea into national this saturday, we're back at the top of the with more i lose the. 2 2 many national, secure.