ah ah, bo counting is underway, nigeria, which is the electing. it's next president and parliament with several states being disruptions and one even postponing voting till sunday morning. also ahead on the stories that shaped the weak ukrainian they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. well, this particular sector it fro in less than a week are to report from the don bath front lines as the russian forces break through ukrainian defenses. in, in, around the he city of the almost china has called on the west to stop abusing unilateral sanctions. while urging all sides interest to be considered with most

western officials, dismissing beijing speeds proposal and leave with i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty, but also isn't abandoning the pact, leaving the door open for cooperation. if the u. s. the escalates, it stands on russia, he comments came from vladimir putin during his annual address to the country's parliament on tuesday. ah, good morning from martine or national studios in moscow, and welcome to the weekly with the hour and weeks most vital stories worldwide. i'm fiorella is about we start with breaking news from pakistan. we're a bomb blast in the region of biologists. dad has killed 2 police officers and 2 civilians leaving at least 10 other people injured. according to pakistani

officials, the bomb was placed on a motorbike. those injured have been moved to a nearby hospital for treatment. the blast also damaged multiple vehicles and nearby shops, according to police reports. meanwhile, the local chief minister has strongly condemned the attack alleging terrorists were responsible for the incident security forces. i've already opened an investigation, will keep you updated as soon as we get more information. we start with the general elections in nigeria, we're africa's most populous nation, is choosing its next leader and parliament. the vote counting is underway. now we're bringing you our special coverage of one of the continents most significant political events this year. her

while voting went smoothly in most parts of the country someplace to saw unrest in law goes violence, threatened the security of the elections. ah, as you can see, unknown done, men disrupt that, the elections in the o, shorty, district of law, those state. reportedly, the attackers arrived on motorcycles and fired shots to scare voters away. the assailant also grab some of the sealed ballot boxes and set them on fire. several suspects have been detained. in some cases, unrest does have an impact on the election outcome. and logos isn't the only state that faced the issues during the elections with voting being partly postponed in multiple regions. the independent national electoral commission put elections on hold in 141 pulling stations in bales estate planning to reopen them today. voting

was temporarily suspended yesterday in the state of nombre, but resumed later, the regions of avia emo and to be also face closure briefly. 3 districts in ito state have also seen election suspect postpone until the 11th of march. as a result of the absence of a logo on one of the political parties, the eastern city of goza also faced a terror attack, reportedly carried out by the bulk of her on militant group. that's according to the chairman of the countries independent national electoral commission. i went to the porch to the military. i was confirmed that it was an 18 to one millimeter more talk on 2 facilities, including my feelings. titian. no, i knew of his what happened in the state of war and

o n wiley, where we had an attack of the militant and islam is the hardest group poco harem, which is injured to 5 people. and we are talking to women and 3 men as what it sounds like in discriminant shooting took place in the state of war. no. and that is exactly what was guarded against. but it was really hope that barbara would really take a day off on the day of their election and leading up to it. they didn't really seem like those that will be perpetuated. and that happens because they thought that the, the chances deal very much that they could have a candidate that they could get onward by following what really ended up as a, as a day of hope. at least for many nigerians as they looked forward to establishing who they really think should be the next president of nigeria,

that did not rub off their jihad, his crew. well, that ability remains at the top of the request here. having seen that some of the parties came out, the crying, the flag that only the standard results are being announced and not necessarily the presidential elections. and that says to them that there is a possibly some sort of a way in which they could get robbed by the system as it were. but before i go any further, let's hear the views of ordinary nigerians about how they felt about yesterday. selections. and i didn't i spoken and everyone has make his choice. ah, counting is ongoing as we speak and we're waiting for the final results here. but surely a winner will emerge and as always lose all the match to the election admitted as is as been peaceful. so considering the introduction of beavers,

it was helpful and then the deployment of the i'll meet with those to help the believe the peach and environmental. we are enjoying a fit for election right now. as an engineer, i use the government to be transparent and when to implement a policy, it's actually reduce the migration of people from nigeria or contract or they want to bring up us. so if we have direct policy here, they will be re looked on to move, move from the country, and that is among the many feelings that we are finding on the ground. more people are anxious to know who is leading of their presidential account more than they are to know who is leading the count. and that is where the focus has been lately. we wait today to find out more from the independent electoral commission, all of nigeria to find out the way forward. and if counting really can begin in

earnest. more than 90000000 people reportedly registered to vote across the country and almost 177000 pulling stations. this election cycle has seen some stiff competition. among the candidates. 18 people are running for the presidency with over 1000 and buying for 109 seats in the senate, and another 3000 for 360 seats in the house of representatives. watch our coverage of the nigeria elections here and our t throughout the day will keep you updated on all the latest. hey now to the don bass front lines were this week, russian troops led by the wagner group, half significantly advanced near the strategically important city of the almost on

saturday wagner fighters took over the village of yahoo! noah. this after 2 other key villages came under russian control. this latest development further complicates the situation for ukrainian forces inside the city as it makes re supplying troops all but impossible. here are some of the latest drone images from out of the almost in a bid to deter the advancement of russian troops, ukrainian force of detonated a local dam, flooding neighboring houses. those who had been forced to take shelter and basements are now forced to flee. once again, our corresponded eager stano visited one of the areas recently taken by russia's wagner group. a warning, some of the footage in this report is disturbing. ah .

less than 12 hours ago, the entire territory of this cargo railway station was under the ukrainian control . well, now it's wagner's domain from north family, from north there was fighting here in the night. military formations were in residential areas. machine guns and grenade launchers were firing here. joe from they had a great position for shooting our boat, but our guys took this railway area by storm. plenty within the enemy. last about 40 soldiers, sort of a 100 of the others just ran away. and this ambulance on black military plates, which means it was officially on ukraine's army. roaster was no aid or humanitarian vehicle. it was used by keep troops to deliver reinforcements and ammunition with a disguise. it's crew found their final rest right next to it,

r o j america's go. these are us made weapons. they use this ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supplies. obama care with very low. you are as quickly on gv, i so mercenaries from south africa here. and so i saw us instructors, germans polish ukrainians from the i dar and as of battalions, as well as the ukrainian paratrooper brigade. there was a strong group here. are you made up of all they've got? they didn't want to give up. our cham, oscar, the road we cut off was very important for them. they were using it to deliver ammunition and food. but now that road is no more dose as well as those personally . well, now you have to brace yourself for some truly grew so images, the defensive lives here in this building are held by you k mercenaries. this is

one of them or what's left of one of them close quarter combat is what wagner excelsior fighter, who was among those who stormed this building, shares with me what kind of resistance they had to overwhelm youth. machine gunners held up defenses in every stage, hearing those or they were even shooting in corridors to the door. it didn't help them though. surely our guys know what to do to finish the entered the building the right way and covered each other with the ukrainian command used this factory warehouse to shelter a tank. ammunition grades are scattered all over the place around me. wagner fighters are telling me that the everything indicates that the ukrainians they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. but well,

this particular sector, it fell in less than a week and wishes these are improved. some tank tracks spoke there. they made a trench probably for tank ammunition. they planned to hold this position for a very long time on your own and did a lot of preparation for that, but they managed to keep it for only 5 days. just uncle chest was what happened to the tank. i will talk over there, about a kilometer and a half from here. it stir. it was blown off. here. russia has tightened the noose further on ukraine's garrison in back. moot. because all this is a prelude to the resounding crescendo of the fool of the city to the choo. wagner is done of reporting to the dumbass archie china has asked a world to prevent the conflict in ukraine from escalating further. saying leaders must come to the negotiating table and resume peace talks. the request was outlined in the countries 12 point proposal on the crates. this,

which included condemnation of the west as unilateral sanctions placed on countries across the world. china boldest unilateral sanctions unauthorized by the un security council, relevant contrition, stop abusing unilateral sanctions and long i'm jurisdiction against other countries . so to do their share in the escalating, the ukraine crisis and gray conditions for developing countries to grow their economists and better to life's of their people. trying to believe that any kind of the unilateral sanctions that is unauthorized by the un security council. what should be opposed and also in a statement, it says that the unit, actual sanctions and maximum pressure cannot solve the issue. and that can only create new problems. so how china handle the current issue is not posing sanctions and not providing weapons, but a calling for a political resolution with

a statement has a several layers of logic. if you see the flow of the logic, it's quite agree clear. on the 1st of france, it calls for all countries to respect the sovereignty of all the nations and abandoning the cold war mentality. and the 2nd layer is about the crisis itself. it calls for seating hostilities, resuming peace talks, resolving the humanitarian crisis, and protecting surveillance. and prisoners, and also it focused on the opposed a fact brought by the crisis, including keeping the nuclear power plant save, reducing strategic risk, facilitating grain exports and stopping unilateral sanctions keeping industrial supply chain stable and also promoting post conflict reconstruction. so it's a layer of promotion of, you know, based on the basic base on the grounds of talks meant also different layers of idea . given the current to situation, china has been always,

are calling for peace. and china has been always saying that it wants to play a constructive role in this regard, including it's be mentioning that the dialogue and negotiation are the only visible solution to the ukraine crisis. and the international community should stay committed to promoting talks for peace. so not only the 2 sides, but also the entire international community, should support the peaceful resolution or political resolution of the current situation. china say mander immediate the announcement from the west, which joe biden labeling beijing's attempt to mediate in the conflict irrational while nato cheese gents, dalton berg believes further armed supplies. the key have is the only way to achieve peace. beijing has branded the military block as having a cold war mentality which has escalated the conflicts. china

doesn't have much credibility because they have not been able to condemn the illegal invasion over ukrainian. so meaning that if he want a peaceful, negotiate the solution aware ukraine conveyed sovereign in the population. then we need to support ukraine military. now, military support today is the way to achieve a peaceful agreement to morrow that at a t shirt had all these major crisis shows that cold war mentality will lead to division and confrontation. although the cold war concluded over 3 decades ago, the 0 sum game and it's mentality still exists, more confrontational leads to conflicts and was nato is a product of the cold war. but it did not add with the cold war and has expanded an escalate of the situation and has become the major factor in the conflict. so yeah, nice out. joseph gregory mahoney, professor of politics. that is china. no, my university says that nato is exploiting the ukraine. conflicts

a toe is opposed and part because nato is a military organization. one that's led above all by the united states. now the culture of the us military is always oriented towards fighting. there's an institutional aggressiveness that only understands one way forward. and this is doubly true here because nato is exploiting this conflict. to expand in ways previously unimagined was soaring budgets the stage empower, but behind all of this is a u. s. g o strategic game. one that wants to reinforce it's a gemini over europe, knock russia down, and then leverage those gains if realized against china, antique china, hawks and nato are nothing new. that said, the nato chief appears sympathetic. it seems to washington's ongoing efforts to expand nato to confront china, even given his recent trips to asia. i don't think the e u in an absolute sense is opposed to peace. the rhetoric i'm seeing from e u and european national politicians, aside from a for

a few including i think mac wrong, who i think is slowly coming back to a census. is consistent with washington and western mainstream media narratives that have simply overwhelmed the discourse. and russia has suspended its participation in the new start nuclear treaty, but is not withdrawing from the agreement. that was vladimir putin statement in his annual address to russia's parliament on tuesday. but they would shanella, but would it would need a representatives? the u. s. is sending signals and putting out ultimatums to russia. they say you, russia must implicitly do as we have previously agreed to, including the new start treaty. while we the us, or do whatever we want to. they say there's no connection between the new start treaty issues and the ukrainian conflict or other hostile actions by the west towards russia. as if there's no loud statements that the u. s. aim is defeating russia strategically. so it's either utmost cynicism and hypocrisy or utmost

stupidity. we can't call them idiots though. they're not stupid. they want to defeat a strategically. and you also want to continue to inspect our new killer objects. in this regard, i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. who knows, the suspension of the treaty could be reversed according to russia's foreign ministry. moscow says a u. s. d escalation and it's aggressive stance. torg, russia, what create the conditions for the path to fully function. russia also states it's still intense to follow the timeline on weapons reductions, sat out in the bilateral agreement that, that checks on stop piles would not be allowed. new star is the last remaining nuclear limitation packed between moscow and washington. the deal was signed in 2010 and is set to expire and 3 years. the treaty, curb strategic arsenals, capping nuclear assets at fixed quantities. it also includes onsite inspections to

verify compliance. john catholic political analyst and senior editor for issue insight says the us dance torg, russia makes it clear why moscow decided to suspend its participation in the treaty . it's not a surprise that the government of the russian federation would suspend and it was important that he used the word suspend. he didn't use the word abrogate, removed, re renounce. it makes sense. here from, from his perspective, the russian federation is not just to war with ukraine. it's at war with nato, a war, particularly with united states. and to have inspections of weapon to really whether or not that weaponry is going to be used in ukraine. in this case, nuclear weapons wouldn't be, but that just the,

the intrusiveness of having your random angle on your territory and hoping around is unsettling. and so it's, you know, it's not surprising when there is a cessation of the issue, a war in between russia and ukraine. at some point some will be a return to a, to the inspection regimes. but you know, we don't know when you, how long that's gonna take you to ship it less just hours after vladimir putting the address, the u. s. president. how the meeting with this polish counterpart in warsaw where they discussed new arms delivering to ukraine. but despite this continued policy, joe biden still blame spoon for prolonging the ukrainian conflict. oh, this for every during the work at 10 years, this is joyce over the past year. democrats, republicans with our united states congress, have come together to stand for freedom. that's all americans are and that's what

americans do bite in statement came during his visit to the polish capital on tuesday, where he stressed the importance of collective european security and claim nato is quote, stronger than ever. it follows the american leader surprised trip to kiev on monday, where he talked and walked with president de lensky, while air raid sirens were heard ringing out across the city. despite there being no shelling in the ukrainian capital mass media mock the incident and even called it hollywood, john ah. their research on board all for that city in 5 days it was phony. baloney, hollywood junk, or 100000. i was notified that you're working with

russia was i wasn't as biden reassured, care of the u. s. will stand with them using all means back home is country is struggling with its own issues. the state of ohio saw a major blast out of metal plant that followed a chemical catastrophe after a trained carrying toxic substances, the railed in the state around 2 weeks ago, spilling its load and bursting into flames. but bided doesn't plan to visit the affected areas. i do with far from everyone back home was impressed with his trip to cab

a number of republican politicians claim bite and preferred kiev over america on president stay in the u. s. this is incredibly insulting. today on our president, stay joe biden. the president of the united states chose ukraine over america, while forcing the american people to pay for ukraine's government and war. if you want to understand why so many americans are frustrated right now. biden is in ukraine before ohio. no time to visit east palestine, ohio, but plenty of time for this. geo political analysts mark for boat of believes biden's visit to poland. and pierre is a little more than a son to mislead the western audience about the real situation in ukraine. they were definitely trying to spin a dramatic propaganda narrative with president biden's

speech in warsaw. i mean he punched home freedom and democracy versus autocracy light versus darkness good versus evil. and all of this, of course is, is really an obscene misrepresentation of the situation. and you grand, i read an a p piece that described zalinski and bite in walking through the streets of kia with the air, raid sirens, as a taste of the terror that the people of kias have lived under. never mind, of course, the 9 year bloody war that the kid regime is waged on the people of don boss. this is a propaganda set piece. the target of which is the people of america and the west to create an atmosphere that bite in wanted to present his trip to kiev under. that's our job on the hour and weeks top stories

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ah, i think russia in the 21st century has taken several opportunities to try to see if there would be interested in the west to create new boundaries to create a new relationship. and as you mentioned, time and time and time again, it would get flatly rejected because we have sort of pushed russia into this corner, ideologically attitude. me to say, you're the adversary. you're the, we may not be in a formal bipolar ideological cold war anymore. but we're not going to allow a new relationship to develop with you. ah ah, censorship is something that the west has long criticized china for. but now it is no longer just the chinese problem. it's a global one. internet black out, social media shut down and bandwidth brawling by governments. cost

a boy called me $5500000000.00 in 2021. and not only that, but internet shut down are dangerous. as with it come censorship, information regulation and isolation from the outside world. i'm because the i and you're watching the cost of everything. where today we're going to be looking at the dangers of internet censorship and what it costs the economy when the internet gets shut down and the citizens are disconnected. ah. the now, according to one study, the economic cost of government enforce internet. shutdowns grew 36 percent last year compared to 2020 estimates of almost 500000000 people were affected by these internet blackouts. now in 2021, there were a 182 documented cases of internet shut down across 34 different countries. and in

africa, government directed internet shut down, have threatened digital penetration and growth. me and mars economy was the most severely impacted by internet shutdowns in 2021 falling the military coup. this was followed by the extensive internet and social media shut down, as local journalist reported that they had been locked off of platform such as telegram and signal qu, leaders have imposed a near total internet, shut down and have introduced a draft cybersecurity law that would impose draconian rule and allow the government access to use their data. as a result, miramar took a hit of $2800000000.00. now e, b o b as northern t gray region has been in the nearly 2 year internet and phone shut down after prime minister abbey ordered a military offensive on the break away region. in november of 20. 20 ivy's government now holds the record for the 2nd long.