[000:00:00;00] ah ah, vote counting is underway. nigeria, which is electing its next president ad parliament with several states teen disruptions at one even postponing voting till sunday morning. also ahead on the story fet shape the week ukrainians. they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. well, this particular sector, it throw in less than a week, or 2 reports from the don bass front lines as russian forces break through

ukrainian defenses in and around the key city of appeal. most china has called on the west to stop abusing unilateral sanctions while urging all sides interest to be considered with most western officials, dismissing b james b proposal and leave with them. i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treat, but moscow isn't abandoning the pockets, leaving the door open for cooperation. if the usb escalates, it stands on russia. the comments came from vladimir putin during his annual address to the countries parliament on tuesday with good afternoon from r t international studios in moscow. and welcome to the weekly with the hour and weeks most vital stories worldwide. i'm fear ella is about 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 and we're bringing you our special coverage of one of the continents most significant political events this year. hey, while voting went smoothly in most parts of the country someplace the saw unrest and logos violence threatened the security of the elections. ah, as you can see, unknown gunmen disrupted the elections in the ocean roti district of law. those state, reportedly, the attackers arrived on motorcycles and fired shops, dest here voters away. the assailants also grabbed some of the seal valid foxes,

and set them on fire. several suspects have been detained. in some cases, unrest does have an impact on the election outcome. logos isn't the only state that faced issues during the elections with voting being partly postponed in multiple regions. the independent national electoral commission put elections on hold in 141 polling stations in bail estate planning to reopen them. today. voting was temporarily suspended yesterday in the state of a nombre, but resumed later the regions of avia ebola can be also faced closure. briefly. 3 districts in eto stay have seen elections postponed until the 11th of march. as a result of the absence of a logo of one of the political parties, the eastern city of bulls. i also faced a terror attack, reportedly carried out by the vocal,

harass 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 188 to one millimeter more talk, talk on 2 facilities, including a filling station near ionic orfis. what happened in the state of war and o n wiley, where we had an attack of the militant islam is the hardest group poco harem, which is injured to fight 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 the election and leading up to it. they didn't really seem

like those that will be perpetuated. and that perhaps because they thought that the, the chances of the l very much that they could have a candidate that they could get on with. but 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 g. hardy's group. 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 senate 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 a 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, nodes are 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 we now will enlarge and as always, it is only much too. so the election as is as been peaceful so far, i'm considering the beaver's tradition of beavers. it was helpful. and in the deployment of the, i'll meet with a know to help improve the life of piece and the environmental. we are enjoying the pers for electron right now as an engineer, i expect the government to be transparent. denise, wendy, implement. a would poorly see you to actually reduce the migration of people from nigeria toward our country or new ones are not posture. if we have direct policy here, they will be reluctant to 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 a via presidential account. more than the odds, you know, who is leaving this and it counts. and that is where the focus has been lately. we wait today to find out more from the independent electoral commission on, via and i jerry out to find out the way forward. and if counting really can begin in earnest, more than 90000000 people reportedly rochester to vote across the country in almost 177000 polling stations. this election cycle has seen some stiff competition. among the candidates. 18 people are running for the presidency with over 1000, buying for 109 seats in the senate. and another 3000 for 360 set seats in the house of representatives. watch our coverage of the nigerian elections here in our

te throughout the day will keep you updated on all the latest. hey. in pakistan, a bomb blast in the region of baluchistan has reportedly killed 2 police officers and 2 civilians leaving at least a dozen people injured. according to pakistani officials, a 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 report. meanwhile, the local chief minister has strongly condemned the attack alleging terrorists were responsible for the incident. security forces have already opened an investigation, will keep you updated as we get more information.

now to the don best front lines were this week, russian troops led by the wagner group, half significantly advanced the years. a strategically important city of our deal. most on saturday, wagner fighters took over the village of yog, 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 supply and troops all but impossible. here are some of the latest road images from our fuel moves in a bid to deter the advancement of russian troops, ukrainian forces detonated a lawful dam flooding neighboring houses. those who had been forced to take shelter in basements are now forced to flee. once again, our correspondent eager shot of 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 worn residential areas, machine guns and grenade launchers were firing here. sure. they had a great position for shooting trouble, but our guys took this railway area by storm honey. with the enemy last about 40 soldiers out of a 100 of the others just ran away with 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, the uses ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supply. so when was carol is very or you are asking leon. gov, i so mercenaries from south africa here. and so i saw your instructors, germans polish ukrainians from the i dar and as of battalions as well as the re, cranium, 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 thought as well as those mercenaries. well, now you have to brace yourself for some truly gruesome 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 come back. is what wagner's excelsior fighter who was among those who stool this building shares with me, what kind of resistance they had to overwhelm yours? machine gunners held up defenses in every stage. here and goes, are they worry than shooting in corridors to the door? it didn't help them though, shouldn't 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 crates are scattered all over the place. a roundly 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. which means these are in print, 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 unconsciously. what happened to the tank? i will drop over there to morrow, kilometer and a half from here. it stir, it was blown off. here. russia has tightened the noose further on ukraine's garrison in bar. moot because all this is a prelude to the resounding crescendo of the fool of the city. to the choo. wagner, i'm because done of reporting from the dumbass ot see china has

asked the world to prevent the conflict in ukraine from escalating further. saying leaders must come to the negotiating table and resume p stocks. the request was outlined in the countries 12 point proposal on the crises which included condemnation of the west as unilateral sanctions place on the countries across the world. china boldest unilateral sanctions unauthorized by the un security council, relevant contrition, stop using unilateral sanctions and long arm jurisdiction against other countries. so to do their share in the escalating, the ukraine crisis and gray conditions for developing countries to grow their economies and better to life of their people. china believe that any kind of the unilateral sanctions that is unauthorized by the un security council 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 i'm calling for a political resolution. the 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 civilians and prisoners. and also it focused on the post, in fact, broad by the crisis, including keeping the nuclear power plant save, reducing strategic risk of facilitating grain exports and stopping unilateral sanctions keeping industrial supply chain stable and also promoting post conflict

with construction. 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 calling for peace. and china has me all the saying that it wants to play a constructive role in this regard, including it's the 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 p. 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's statement drew immediate denouncement from the west, which joe biden labeling beijing's attempt to mediate in that conflict irrational. while nader chief gen stalsen, burge believes further armed supplies to 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 of ukraine. so meaning that if we want a peaceful, negotiate the solution aware ukraine conveyed sovereign in the punk nation. then we need to support ukraine military. now, military support today is the way to achieve a peaceful agreement to tomorrow that a t shirt from 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, blah confrontation leads to conflicts and was nato is a product of the cold war. but it did not. and with the cold war and has expanded

an escalate of the situation and has become the major factor into conflict. joseph gregory mahoney, professor of politics at east china normal university, says that nato is exploiting the ukraine conflicts. nato is opposed in 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, budget's prestige 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. ante, 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 and 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 his senses. is consistent with washington and western mainstream media. narratives that have simply overwhelmed the discourse. and russia has suspended its participation and then you start nuclear treaty, but is not withdrawing from the agreement. that was windermere, put in statement in his annual address to russia's parliament on tuesday. but they would signal a bus, which 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 wanted to feed us 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. the suspension of the treaty could be reversed according to the russian foreign ministry. moscow says a u. s. t escalation and its aggressive stands for gracia would create, but conditions for the pact to fully function. russia also states it's still intense to follow the timeline on weapons reduction, sat out in the bilateral agreement that, that checks on stockpiles 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 fix quantities. it also includes on site inspections to verify compliance. john collect political analyst and senior editor for issue insight says the u. s. stands toward 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 weaponry. 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 enemy on your territory hoping around is unsettling. and so, you know, it's not surprising when there is a cessation of the, the war in between russia and ukraine. at some point, they'll be a return to a, to the inspection regimes. but you know, we don't know how long that's going to take you to ship it just hours after vladimir put in the address the u. s. president, how the meeting with his polish counterpart in warsaw where they discuss new arms deliveries to ukraine. but this by this continued policy,

joe biden still blame spoon for prolonging the ukrainian conflicts. present a boon chose is war every during the war continues. this is joyce over the past year. democrats and republicans with our united states congress have come together to stand for freedom. back to americans are and that's what americans do. but 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, surprise trip to camp on monday, where he taught and was with president 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 johnson.

ah. every so often at city in 5 days it was phony. baloney, hollywood chunk a 100000. i was notified a as biden reassured care the u. s. will stand with them using all means back home. his country is struggling with its own issues. the state of ohio saw a major blast at a metal plant that followed a chemical catastrophe after a trained carrying toxic substances derailed in the se around 2 weeks ago, spilling it float and bursting into flames. but bite and doesn't plan to visit the affected areas.

i i or far from every one back home was impressed with this trip the cab, a number of republican politicians claimed by them preferred here over america on president, stay in the u. s. this is incredibly insulting to day 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 jail political analysts. mark sl boda believes biden's visit to poland and cab is a little more than a stud to mislead western audience. is that 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, you know, 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 in 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 kiev 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. and that's her up on the hour and weeks pop stories for more updates on the latest news around the glove over to r t dot com. thanks for tuning in. we'll see a back at the top of the hour. ah, [000:00:00;00] with

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 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

ah with you know, there was no program when i left i kind of and all of us at life, esther hate kind of stumbled our way through it. and then we can take the lessons that we've learned from that and shrink the time frame down. so there's less was less wandering in the wilderness, so to speak. when i was in the move in the last 2 years, before i left, i was struggling with do i want to leave? i like part of me want to leave the other part. it was a big battle with ice. if i leave adolescent fall back on, i have that deposit to do or have nobody to go to. you know me that live around last 7 years. i have nothing. sometimes it's hard. if they've got a swastika tattooed on their neck, it's hard for them, but just to say,

i don't do that anymore. it's kind of a long process. it's not like you just leave it one day and you're like, well, i'm glad that's over. i had been out of the movement before i got connected with these guys, but i was on my own and didn't talk about it and had a lot of buried shame and guilt. and then i met these guys and i saw, you know, friends, you talking arnold, talk it, help me get past that barrier of feeling like i had to hide this from world that opening up has really just taken my, my viewing process and my allusion to a whole other level really, you've gotta find a way to find an affirmation that every discussion, no matter how bad it feels, it is going. you've just got to be able to acknowledge like takes guts to do that. try to help them discover the abilities that they have. this is why we don't want to foster dependency. this is why the intervention can't rely on my car is more. they go from being untrusting, hateful, spiteful, distant,