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multiple blown left knee. 19 of things that we did a marathon in west kind of a room with a local spec port to script, claiming responsibility with a very welcome. this is dorothy international with the latest world news update is good to have you with us. now we start to with the general elections in nigeria, where africa's most populous nation is choosing its next lead on parliament. the polls have now closed on the counting of votes is on the way we're bringing do all the special coverage of one of the continents most significant political events. this while the voting went smoothly and most parts of the country, some places have seen unrest in the r show, the districts of legos, state unknown gunman disrupted the elections according to local media. the

attackers arrived on motorcycles and started shooting to sky vote as a way the assailants also grab some of the silver ballad boxes and set them on fire . several suspects have reportedly been detained. our africa correspondence corolla toddler was in the nigerian city of logos earlier on saturday. oh, ting is winding down, but emotions a halting up here in the capitals in there and at least logos and everywhere else. there is a feeling of dispute that will forever mark these elections. people feel disenfranchised, especially in some voting areas, where voting material didn't even make it. in some, we're hearing reports that thugs have gone as far as to destroy voiding material. notwithstanding the full thing, the polling stations, rather where, where there,

where the tolling started, late itself is in areas like this. as you can see behind me, that emotions i keep ratcheting up, as people really want to know what is behind some of the major nations that may 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 was labor and there is a lot of youth disenfranchisement throughout the country. the youth almost claiming 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 that is the candidacy of mr. p. towel

b. and they're saying that this are, 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 run a march towards her to the presidential seats as it were. and that is something that we are hearing around. no one, not even the big news cast does 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 mast as it were. 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 that dissemination of the fed information here in lagos,

particularly when one looks at the security password. now that's been deployed for this election well over 400000 members of the security person now 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 the nigeria, when voting commences, every thing 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 shuts down 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. they expecting it 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 i, it's a very large country. there's been a number of sprague, incidents of thugs being able to get their hands on material 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 from nigerians continued casting their votes for hours. often, most polls had efficiently closed due to delays caused by sporadic violence on

logistical issues. however, the voting went without a hitch in many nigerian cities including kana locals that describes the experience . and he had a good day. as you can see, there is no problem with the little bugger florid. no fighting look machine. everything with my mom left. to get an answer, they even asked our customer would i think i was on wind or somewhere. midwest ward a cavity was who's moving for now? i that's not a problem. you guys look with people like, oh you do, i'm going to parties, i will button. it's because we are good to go to more than 90000000 people reportedly registered to vote at one of the almost 177000 polling

stations across the country. and this year candidates ausa rather stiff competition . also 18 people are running for the presidency with over 1000 vying for 109 states in the senate, and another 3000 for 360 states in the house of representatives. his i'm from nigeria and expects the election results to pan out. it means talk in having the same same set of governance, you know, over and over. we just want something new. we want, we want to have hope for beth and engine light came on. well, my expectation for the next governance government 1st is 1st type in the security and then i'd expect you to do the things. the bad news, bad news don't sports. i believe it's the right fit 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 there's anything like that addition themselves out of the 100 upside. that's why didn't i get it. so that does not get out and africa and the end of the usually i mean international. i mean it does not. we're not given when the time did with them and it's likely to be again, they give it a positive. i'm saying that it may not be enough done. i'm they

won't be doing when i put my teacher in brussel ukrainian forces. how detonated a local down in the embattled city of tomorrow. school also known as bach moot. and they don't? yes. were public, that's according to rushes. wagner military, which is now pushing deeper into the city of the month. a fierce fighting on long calls were puzzled details. in an effort, sir, to slow down the advancing russian troops, ukrainian troops blew up at their i'm in a city of are almost at 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 been flooded. use of the rising water in the area. those who were forced to hide in 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 barrels. village on friday and jaga now on saturday. now both villages are right next to the city of art, all of which the crate in government renamed as a buckle to just a few years ago. the taking of these villages, the sport of a lodger 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 forces 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 in fact,

as 70 kilometer defensive line. while for russia taking control off our tome of school mean had 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. meanwhile, long the members have released this fatigue showcasing a dutch made infantry fighting vehicle. they seized from ukraine and, and now using a keeps trips the isv, which is a modified version of an american. apc is taking part in the fighting for our to mosque around 50 such vehicles were handed over to ukraine by the netherlands that most have since been destroyed on the battlefield. meanwhile, in berlin, a destroyed russian tank ship to all the way from ukraine has been decorated with roses by german anti war activists. the rex vehicle was initially placed outside the russian embassy to display support for keir against moscow. however,

some demonstrators in berlin weren't quite happy with the message as they showered the tongue with flowers, to pay their respects to all the victims of the war, while calling for peace and russian embassy in the country. his thanks to all the germans who took part in that event. some of the activists also placed their letters on the tank. one of the notes written in croatian was a wish of eternal glory to our russian brothers who died inside the vehicle. another letter in german was dedicated to all the victims of the conflict on both sides since the mate and 2 in 2014. some germans are now working that government to resort to diplomacy. 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. not only to supply arms, but to establish diplomatic relations or not to act in a rush manner. 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've been building this relationship for 30 years. that comes a thousands more have taken to the streets in berlin, demanding the government stop. fueling the war. how german correspondence dominic roy, kevin springs, his 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 connect their popular lifting politician and alice swats i 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 to also state their support for this. 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 apiece. 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. our government should now stack talks if put an end zalinski 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 be can start the talks at any time to make it. oh stop. the deal to person 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 are protests. there are a lot of reports from the mainstream media, especially here in germany, that it would be supported as well, by a far right groups than that is because the politicians are van issues are very popular left. a politician also has followers on the right who agreed with her take, 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 was some conflict between left and right wing groups. however, i'm in general, this was a very peaceful pro. test a very large protest with, as i said, well above 10000 people showing their support for this. and manifest, so of peace between russia and ukraine. and he will event of be know to nato group has taken place in london with participants cooling on question for leave. the us lead the blog 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 of so far only aggravated the conflict, and they claim that person would be safer and better off financially outside the alliance. ahead of the events in london, multiple venues were reportedly precious to refrain from hosting is

a want to speak. is that the conference done? cavalier told is a person who seeking a seeing a rising wave of resistance against the countries and military support for ukraine . but yeah, the main goal of the rally is to urge the u. k. to stop supporting war and ukraine to stop being a vassal, the united states. and yeah, 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 poll shows 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 miss covered. war certainly, in my lifetime, it seems that 9 rounds of sanction sent to the trick for the year was brussels that now approved this latest at 10th 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 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 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 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. the luster 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 munich, 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, for a 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 francs 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 action, the german chancellor hath been hosted by indians prime minister, no ranger mo, d for talks are left sholtes have previously stated that the main purpose of his trip was to deepen co operation between the 2 countries. but the chancellor also sees the chance to take his wife at moscow in the thought the world is suffering as a consequence of russia's aggression. thus, the co operation 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, 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 shelf is visit, highlights, new delhi. it's growing importance to western powers that they think backing for their opposition to moscow. germany's pivots to india is particularly significant. given the south asian countries close ties to russia. it's he 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 shut 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, but were instead overshadowed by western demands to condemn moscow. china joined russia in refusing to endorse at such a statement. at the meeting in the us took a more subtle stance and declined to comment on the incident because was indulged the human rights attorney and former hamburg m p says that if berlin once good relations with india,

shells should be honest about the intentions. office visits and an indian political and foreign policy expert told us that the west will not be able to change new delays neutrality on the ukraine conflicts rest. 10 countries have been trying this for a long, long time now. and then they have tried in the past also, and they have tried to once again in a meeting in india, you know. and in my understanding it is a part and parcel of diplomacy to get countries to their side. and nato and west has been kind as far along. but as our prime minister has category, can they say it in the past? so, and we have one that can retail rate this, that india is not going to side with any group or be any country as such. we stand about peace and we stand a full set of men top. all disputes are such. i mean that whatever

can help is needed from india far and iving at this baseball solution in the i would be very, very happy to do this boss. this is a test for reasons. one reason for sure is to transfer the promotional price and relationship with like i said before. busy no shows long to bring in the, on the side of the day to day and the conflict between ukraine, russia, if you look at a 2nd data, we can see clearly that it's very well that the government conscious enough and knows what's going on there. so say something like that, together in the fight against new imperialism, natural gas, new and very little

a politic since long times in a and in the moment as well towards the so here until los russia. so we have to see that there should be more honesty if you want to have this relationships tongue young 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 confrontation. thus, as the u. s. has held joint military exercises with south korean and japanese 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 tongue has also accused the 3 allies for

her. think a nuclear war against north korea. i think that it would take unprecedented strong action. the joint drills focused on the detection, trucking and interception of ballistic missile us in south korea, also noticed for strategic cruise missiles, washington, and so have been intensifying military drills for the past decade, leading to an escalation of tensions in the region. north korea has also conducted multiple test rocket launchers over the years. asia analyst don mclean, gil told us, as such, drills are not bringing the to careers any closer to reconciliation. the situation in the korean peninsula is absolutely vulnerable. and in fact, the case a here that we're looking into is of course, a constant. the chances of miscalculation when less calculations they can escalate quite abruptly to the planes that the regional architecture becomes obstructed in the situation exacerbate. so of course,

what you're seeing now is something we haven't seen before, but of course um, looking into the structural shifts in the regional geo politics of asia, we can 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 seeks to have a more proactive practical negotiation with south korea with north korea. but on the other hand, because of the instability in the security dilemma. and it's forced to engage in other actions such as with japan or the united states. so everything is quite possible at this stage and transfer miscommunication and coordination. you know, they're pretty high. these particular drill also impact nor career calculations at a time when it seeks to really pressure the us and the west into adhering which demands, particularly with rolling the target and sanctions. and of course, accepting it as a defect, the nuclear power and state but of sports because of the discrepancy in terms of

interests and perceptions between and among the states. such drills would be perceived negatively by north korea. and this may result in, of course, for the exacerbation of the security architecture of the station region from all the latest news updates, as well as discussion, debate, and documentary. as you can visit our website, r t dot com. thank you for choosing audience. national with i'm afternoon and welcome back to going under gr.