i change whatever you do. don't watch my show, stay mainstream because i'm probably going to make you uncomfortable. my show is called direction, but again, we don't want to watch it because it might just change the way you think. a polls close in nigeria as that work is most popular, nation's largest economy chooses it's next president to i'm with the 24th is destination down. in the case, if you volunteer them all this, get an attempt to stop the relentless advance of log not according to the russian military, brit thousands. wiley in berlin calling for peace talks for ukraine and condemning bad government army here. also coming up this out.

ah no to blank me beneath 19 needs wounded or marathon in western county. rude with a local separatist group, claiming responsibility with a very well welcome to you. this is not the international with the latest world news update is good to have you with us. now we start with the general elections in nigeria, where africa is most populous nation is choosing its next leader and parliament. the post of now closed down the counting of votes is on the way we're bringing you all special coverage over one of the continents. most significant political events . hey, while the voting went smoothly or most parts of the country,

some places have seen unrest in the show. the districts of legos stated unknown gun minute disrupted the elections according to local media. the attackers arrived on motorcycles and started shooting to scare voters away. the assailants also grabbed some of the silver, but a ballot boxes and set them on fire. several suspects have reportedly been detained . now africa correspondent, corolla toddler, who is currently in the nigerian city. all legos says tensions are running high as the nascent edges closer to closer to finding out who will leads the country. no, is good o. 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 dispute 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 where, where, where the tolling started late itself. if in areas like this, as you can see behind me that emotions, i keep wretched thing up as people really want to know what is behind some of the machinations that they have seen from. i neg, that's 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 leaning 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, that this, 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 what 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, is 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 relayed to by a party agent. 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's, that's our me, that's police and other security agencies that are here to safeguard the selection 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. busy with people scattered around because like jerry, i'll, when voting commences, everything shuts down everything. we're talking shops, we're talking schools, we're talking 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. busy 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 eggs make thing to translate into votes and hence the thing that they feel that at their strongest, that's where they were most sabotaged. the police can try and be there and thereabouts, but they really can't be every way. and it's a very large country. there's been a number of sprague, incidents 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. despite the deployment of the number of people here, the number of security personnel, nigerian police apparel and authorities, can not really guarantee the safety of every polling station with

a voting went without a hitch in many nigerian cities, including condo. we are locals that to describe the experience on a budget, florida, no fighting machine, everything with my mom left today. listen, they even asked our customer would i think i was on wing or somewhere midwest ward a house with me for now. i don't know to let you go down probably, i guess look with these people i go to do, i'm going to go to parties. i will button it with you or more than 90000000 people reportedly registered to vote at one of the almost

177000 polling stations across the country. this year can sits, have some 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. here's how some nigerians expect the election results to pan out in stock in having the same same set of governance, you know, come over and over. we just want something new. we want. we want to have hope for beth and engine light came out. well, my expectation for the next governance government 1st things 1st type into security in android. i expect you go on to the bus things i don't sports. i believe it's the right step in the right direction.

and i, jerry, a base political expert told us that the election process has been proceeding according to plan. i might be able to people not even if anything like that it would be additional themselves out of the 100. that's why didn't i get it. so that does not get would be an up and down. so i added the usually in international. i mean it just not we're not given my as one of the kind of did with them and it's likely to be again, they didn't give it a positive. i'm saying that it a little mistake big enough and done. i'm the why

when i put my teacher in bravo, ukrainian forces have detonate the local down in the embattled city about autumn of school, fern bank commute and they don't. yes. republic. according to russia, vonk of the military group, which is not pushing deeper into the city. after months of fierce fighting ortiz were mon calls, were upon the details. in an effort, sir, to slow down the advancing russian troops, ukrainian troops blew up at them in a city of our 10, almost at the local reservoir. 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 are forced to hide 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 of the dam following success of russian volunteers who managed to take control of barracka village on friday and jaga. now on saturday. now both villages are right next to the city of our tall off squish, the crate in government renamed as a buckle. it's just a few years ago. the taking of these villages a sport of a larger offensive by russian forces 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 is 70 kilometer defensive line. while for russia taking control off, art almost will mean at direct route towards the cities of slogans can crumb a source. both a report of the nest people's republic and their liberation falls in line with the goals of russia's special military operation. and france, i'll be russian empathy and berlin, germans quoting, for peace, had placed schools of roses on a destroyed russian tank. the tank was originally placed there as a sort of monument in supporting ukraine. but as you can see, citizens when happy with the intended display of hate, local, say, the nation should be negotiate, then solving problems using diplomatic means. i get this is very important. we have 2000 roses to decorate the tank. so our governments can finally start negotiating with each other and with others, not only to supply arms, but to establish diplomatic relations and not to act in

a rushed manner. not that is the most important thing. we have to talk to each other and we are not enemies. we are not against ukraine, all russians. we are friends. we have been building this relationship for 30 years . well that kansas 1000 small have taken to the streets in berlin demand and the government supp stealing the war on german correspondence. dominic my cash swings as more there were well above pen saw than people here to basically show their support for the manifest. so off piece, which was a started by is out of on connect their popular lifting politician and alice swats are popular feminists in germany. they started this manifested was signed by 600000 people. and then they also did invited everyone to come here today to 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 start talks with putin ends the lansky and declare that it does make sense to continuation war, as it will only prolong the suffering because it won't get any better. they can start the talks at any time to make it. oh, stop. the deal to push this is good. i'm so disappointed with the foreign policy by mrs. burbock, and i've 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 of our connect who's

a very popular left politician also has followers on the right who agreed with her takes, for example, on covert or on the warn 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, in general, this was a very peaceful protests, a very large protest with, as i said, well above 10000 people showing their support for this manifest off piece between russia and ukraine. an anti war event of the know tomato group has taken place in london with participants calling on question to leave the us lead block as international tension 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 have so far, only aggravated the conflict, and they claim that person would be safer and better financially outside the

alliance. ahead of the event in london, multiple venues were reportedly pressured to refrain from hosting it, or one of the speakers at the conference done. kovachick told us the person is seeing a rising wave of resistance against the countries military support for ukraine. but yeah, the main goal of the rally is to urge the u. k. to stop supporting war and 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 is we see right now. and which, frankly is an antiquated organization. the polls show that people in the u. k. are beginning to turn against support for specifically military support for ukraine. they want their money to be spending 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 sending money out the door on military adventures, including the money you cry? 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. you can, this is probably not probably, this is definitely the most censored and under covered and, and miss covered war certainly in my lifetime, i think that 9 rounds of sanctions didn't do the trick for the you as brussels has now approved this latest 10th package of restrictions on europe's trade with russia . we now have the most far reaching sanctions,

ever depleting russia's war, arsenault and biting deep into its economy. you stands united with ukraine in 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 the really needs russian robber 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 weren't 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 be at moscow to do what 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 battlefields. 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 alina bareback, who apparently didn't get the memo and sat 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 french

soldiers are involved in these maneuvers and they last until march, they started just a few days ago. it's getting increasingly difficult to hear western officials paying lip service to peace. under all this belligerent talk and belligerent auction among the newly sanctioned russian financial groups is mts bank, which is license to operate in the you a, the golf country, central bank says it will keep dealing with the russians. despite the western pressure, the central bank grunz its a license to m t s bank to open a branch in abu dhabi as for the approved licensing procedures after the bank fulfilled the criteria for licensing branches of foreign banks, the bank contributed to supporting legitimate trade between the 2 countries and service and the russian community in the united arab emirates, under the supervision of the central bank now mts. so those are high in the, on the where is one of the largest commercial groups in russia they own, for instance, the largest mobile phone operates in the country, say granted

a license which is allowed, and russian businesses and individuals to be able to open bank accounts both at citizens o residence, the items are ever it's and abroad in order to be able to actually send money from russia and to russia with the u. a central bank as that it's now considering options regarding the status of mts bank. one option for the referring, say, in my mind they go free option. so number one option is that they bow their head to the americans to shut it down, which i think is highly unlikely an option to might be. and what other companies have done that iraq rates in the u. e in the past last year. for example, finance, the largest critic currency exchange in the world off, right? their main headquarters now from the u. e. and they decided to cap the limit to $10000.00 per day for russian citizens and entities using that platform. that could be some of the all number 3 could be they could just say and this bank has fulfilled all of the criteria is not conducting an illegal activity. it's helping

us to trade with our partner and our ally, russia. please go away. can we expect you a to uphold is neutral position, given the mounting pressure and how they're fed so far? this is so far the you a how their end of the bargain. at the very beginning of the special operation, they said that they would not get involved and they would not impose sanctions. president putin visited abu dhabi or october of last year, where and the router of the united. i'm red arab emirates, his highness mohammed bins. i had said that ties the roster of very important to you a specifically around oil and gas. then again, we also have to take into account the u. a has a very large u. s. military presence in the country. 3 and a half 1000 us forces are actually based in the u. a running the, the americans largest gulf command center and open up biking to the u. a. in certain respect, in terms of the conflicts in yemen, which the us are biting and actively involved. it so the way it kind of probably stuck between a rock in the hub,

but my personal opinion is that they will always want to maintain the neutrality. and we'll do that back to continue to hope that stop. so they've been holding all the way through since the start of the semester military opperation. last year we saw the us together with pay plus refused to increase oil production. what was behind that decision and how the tooth oil relations with russia developing since then we take, okay, plus the u a is a very prominent member of that group. that group is obviously led by saudi arabia, as we know, joe biden is not the best of friends with the, the ruler of saudi arabia. so you a really, in that group of things that we also have to look at the u a in terms of the number of russian companies that have actually an open you offices or will paste in some cases due to the sanction to the a, a in order to conduct oil and gas trading in the country throughout the history. you know, put it home on that is the place where everyone is. welcome no matter what, what you have. and i think they will try and hold that sort of traditional stance

in terms of doing business in terms of well we have one of the staying neutral when it came comes to global conflicts. the german chancellor has been hosted by india's prime minister new a new movie for talks. love souls have previously stated that the main purpose of the trip was to deepen cooperation between the 2 countries. but the chancellor also sees the chance to take a swing at moscow in that half 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 is securing the supply of food and energy. we have to make sure that countries in asia, africa, in 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. she shall, 5th visit,

highlights, new delhi is growing importance to western powers as they think banking for their opposition to moscow. germany is pivots to india is particularly significant. given the south asian countries, close ties to rush aids, key energy supplier throughout the talks in new delhi, german officials made several other attempts to blame the world's problems on moscow. but i stopped short of directly saying that india should cut its relations with russia. on friday, india hosted a summit of g 20 finance ministers that the talks were supposed to focus on economic problems, but were instead of shadowed by western demands to condemn moscow. china joined russia in refusing to endorse at such a statement that the meeting india took a more subtle stanson declined to comment on the incident because most indulged, the human rights attorney and former hamburg m p says that if berlin wants good relations with india. oh, love, sholtes should be honest about the intentions off his visit. and an indian

political and foreign policy expert told us that the west will not be able to change new delhi neutrality on the ukraine conflicts. the rest of the countries have been trying this for a long, long time now, and they have tried in the past also. and they have tried to run a game in a meeting in india, you know. and in my understanding, it is a part and parcel of diplomacy to get a country's to their side and tomato and west has been trying this for long. but as our prime minister has category, can they say it in the past? so, and we have one that can retail rate that india is not going to side with any group or with any country as we stand about. he's send the stand a full settlement up. all disputes are such, i mean that's whatever you can help is needed from india,

florida iving at this baseball solution in the i would be very, very happy to do that. ros. this is a test for reasons. one reason for sure is to transfer the promotional price and relationship a. busy to bring in the, on the side of the day to day and the conflict between the ukraine at russia. if you look at a 2nd data, we can see clearly it's very well that the union government conscious enough and knows what's going on there. so say something like that, together in the fight against new imperialism, natural gas near a politic

since long times in a and in the moment as well to see so hero and to los russia. so we have to see that there should be more honesty if you want to have this relationships many thanks for keeping us company here in our to international best on today. we'll be back in 30 minutes with .