[000:00:00;00] ah ah, go counting is under way in nigeria, which is electing its next president and parliament with several states seeing disruption, and one even postponing voting so sunday morning also ahead on the stories bent shape the week. great news. they were planning to hold these positions for a long time. well, this particular sector, we pro, in less than a week are to reports from the don bath front lines as russian forces breakthrough euphrates defenses in around the key city of our field. china

has called on the west to stop abusing unilateral sanctions while urging all sides the interest to be considered with most western officials, dismissing beijing peace proposal and leave with i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. but moscow isn't abandoning the pact, leaving the door open for cooperation. if the usb escalate, it stands on russia. the comments came from vladimir putin during his annual address to the countries parliament on tuesday with good afternoon for 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 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. a 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 disrupt that the elections in the o showed a district of law those state. reportedly, the attackers arrived on motorcycles and fired shots to scare voters away. the assailants also grab some of the seal ballot boxes and set them on fire. several

suspects have been detained. in some cases, unrest does have an impact on the election outcome. lagossi isn't the only state that faced issues during the elections with voting. being partly postpone in multiple regents the independent national electoral commission. put elections on hold in 141 pulling stations in bales. the state planning to reopen them today. voting was temporarily suspended yesterday in the state of nombre, but resumed later. the regions of avia emo and tabby also faced closure, briefly. 3 districts and ito stayed have seen elections postponed until the 11th of march. as a result of the absence of a logo from one of the political parties, the eastern city of goza also faced a terror attack, reportedly carried out by the bulk of her raw 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 $18.00 to $1.00 millimeter more time talk on to facilities including our feelings. taishan. yeah. i in the office 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 in india to fight people. and we are talking to women and 3 men as what it sounds like indiscriminate and 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 as the ill 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 rob of 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 vague matter 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 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. now do as i've spoken and, 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 reader will emerge and as always, eliza will emerge to the election at midnight as it has been peaceful. so for considering the introduction of beaver helpful and then the deployment of the i'll meet with those help the believe the piece in the environmental. we are enjoying the 5th for election right now. as an engineer, i use the government to transparency delays when to implement a policy to actually reduce the migration of people from nigeria, countries or the one is we're not sure if we have the right policy here. they will be re, lot on some 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 present day cell 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 register to vote across the country in almost 177000 pulling stations. this election cycle has seen some stiff competition. among the candidates, 18 people are running for the presidency with over a 1000 buying for 109 seats in the senate. and another 3000 for 360 seats in the house of representatives. watch our coverage of the nigerian elections here

on our tea throughout the day will keep you updated on all the latest. the and pakistan a bomb blast in the region of barlow chest that has reportedly killed 2 police officers and 2 civilians leaving at least a dozen people injured. according to pakistani officials, the bomb was placed on a motor bike. those injured have been moved to a nearby hospital for treatment. the blas also damaged multiple vehicles nearby shops, according to police reports. meanwhile, the local chief minister has strongly condemned via todd alleging terrorists were responsible for the incident. security courses have already opened an investigation, will keep you updated as we get more information. now to the don bass front lines were this week,

russian troops led by the wagner's group have significantly advanced near the strategically important city of the most. on saturday, wagner fighters took over the village of ya got no idea 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 resupply and troops all but impossible. here are some of the latest thrown images from the most in a bit to deter the advancement of russian troops and korean forces have detonated a local dam, flooding neighboring houses. those who had been forced to take shelter in basements are now being forced to flee. once again, our correspondent eager start off, visited one of the areas recently taken by russia. 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 fenwick north. there was fighting here in the night military formations worn residential areas, machine guns and grenade launchers were firing here. so they had a great position for shooting our boat, but our guys took this railway area by storm renewal of the enemy. last about 40 soldiers out 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 americans go, these are us made weapons. they use this ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supplies over muscular with very know you are as quickly on gov, i so mercenaries from south africa here. 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 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 rolled is no more those as well as those

personally. well now you have to brace yourself for some truly gruesome images. the defensive lies 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 inquiry doors 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. we'll, ah, the ukrainian command used this factory warehouse to shelter a tank ammunition grades are scattered all over the place around lean. 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 input some tank tracks spoke there. they made a trench probably for tank ammunition. they planned to hold this position for a very long time here and did a lot of preparation for that, but they managed to keep it for only 5 days. just uncle just was what happened to the tank. i will drop over there, about a kilometer and a half from here. it's tour. 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 chew wagner. i'm a good done of reporting from the dumbass r t. the china has asked the 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 crisis which included come, the nation of the west is unilateral sanctions placed on countries across the world . china boldest unilateral sanctions unauthorized by the un security council, relevant contrition, stop using 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. china believe that any kind of the unilateral sanctions that is unauthorized by the un security council. what should the post 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 by 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 front, 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,

based 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 been all the same 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 or immediate announcement from the west, which joe biden labeling beijing's attempt to media in the conflict. irrational while nader chief gents dalton, burge believes further armed supplies, security 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 call them of the illegal invasion of ukraine. so meaning that if he want a peaceful, negotiate the solution away 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 morrow that a t shirt and 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. block confrontational leads to conflicts and was nato is a product of the cold war. but it did not. and with a cold war and has expanded an escalator, the situation, and has become the major factor into conflict. nice, joseph gregory mahoney,

professor of politics. that is 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 budgets, 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, not 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 mc 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. russia has suspended its participation in the new start nuclear treaty, but is not withdrawn from the agreement. that was windermere, put in statement, and 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 treating while we, the us will do whatever we want to. they say there's no connection between the new start treaty issues and the ukranian 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. the suspension of the treaty could be reversed according to russia's foreign ministry. moscow says a u. s. the escalation, in its aggressive stance toward russia would create the conditions for the pact to fully function. russia also states, it still intends to follow the timeline, our weapons reductions set out in bilateral agreement. but 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 in 3 years. the treaty, curb strategic arsenals, capping nuclear assets at fixed quantities. it also includes on site inspections to verify compliance, john cadillac, political analysts, and see your editor for issue. insight says the u. s. stands tor garage. yeah. 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, marine, 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 during whether or not that weaponry is going to be used in ukraine. in this case, nuclear weapons wouldn't be, but they're 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 when you, how long that's going to take just hours after vladimir putin's address, the u. s. president how that meeting with his polish counterpart in warsaw where they discuss new arms deliveries to ukraine. but despite this continued policy, joe biden still blames putin for prolonging the ukrainian conflicts present. a boon

chose is more every, during the war continues. is his joyce over the past year, democrats and republicans with our united states congress have come together to stand for freedom. that 2 americans are invest. what americans do? biden's 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 was with president de lensky, while air raid sirens were her 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,

there resign shangdorf in that city in 5 days it was phony. baloney, hollywood, chunk bed. i mean there are 100000. i was notified that you're working with on russia. was that all i listen. geopolitical analysts mark still both believes biden's visit to poland and kev is little more than a start 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 kiya have lived under. never mind, of course, the 9 year bloody war that the kid regime has 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 of that bite in wanted to present his trip to kiev under, ah, palestinians have called for a boycott of us. i met with israel scheduled to take place in jordan later today. claiming they have little faith and any progress be made. just days ago, israel conducted its deadliest raid in the west bank and nearly 20 years.

protest that flared in cities across the west bank, calling on people to reject the summit. the meeting comes in a bid to de escalate tensions between israel and palestine, including formalizing steps to take the 2 sides would take to resolve their sand. off palestinian resistance groups have slammed the washington organized gallery, saying it paved the way for further violence against locals. wednesday's deadly raid by israeli forces and the subsequent outcry from locals have shattered trust in peace. thoughts with jerusalem. palestinian officials have called for international condemnation of the strike that killed dozens of palestinians and left many more wounded. while israel says its army target it militant suspects, hiding out in an apartment. the conflict between israel and palestine is one of

the world's most enduring conflicts with at least $170.00 palestinians killed by israeli forces last year. though since the start of 202365 palestinians, including 13 children, have already been killed. palestine health ministry has described this as the bloodiest ever start of the year for its people. let's cross live now to palestinian journalists that would could dub welcome. what are your expectations of the upcoming summit? can the talks be fruitful after the recent multiple raised by the idea? well, did post are aimed at the security part, but did not assume you need the political part. so the balance between security and politics is really what would make it successful. i'm very doubtful that it will be successful, but there is a lot of effort by the americans to make sure that there was

a lot of pressure on the leadership to attend this meeting, which jordan and egypt are also attending as well. it's really out. it's really have to give more to the palestinians financially, politically, to make them agree to such a week. and then unless that happens, that balance will collapse and the arm to groups will be the ones running the show . so i think the israeli don't want that. and to a certain degree, the arabs and i don't want that. what is worrisome is the ramadan is coming up and, and jerusalem and bed for all kinds of issues that palestinian protesters are going to increase during ramadan. it's going to overlap with the jewish holidays. so there's a lot of dangerous situation that might come up and i think that's also why jordan is involved because they want to calm down to ation. for ramadan. israel seen says, suggest it's ready for diplomacy. what do you make of israel's position?

do you see jerusalem's readiness to try to resolve the conflict through diplomatic means? well, i will call adjuster because there are some divided 50, but tell, for sure, is not to be trustworthy and neither net needs to be trustworthy. and he has proven to be a liar to the americans and to the in the, not the even people they really are against life. so i don't trust is really they don't think anybody can truck the re add. there is no political process in the horizon unless it's really, really mean what they say. we stop the assessment. the 2 state solution is based on the palestinian state, the sovereign and you're building settlement. you're actually not in favor of the forward. we've seen a lot of protesting from palestinians. what is your opinion on the sentiment among palestinians in general? do you believe people believe the possibility of peace following the summit? you know, i mean people are very angry,

they're very frustrated. they're very upset of what happened in jimmy and nap us and so on. and they're a, you know, it's a ticking bomb. the was frank and got the problem is that the opposition is scattered and it's not organized. so i would, i, but it's very much leaning on the americans for diplomatic solution, but that as we said, it's not to be trustworthy. but the opposition and the same time didn't have a credible resistance strategy. they're just saying we have to fight, but they don't have a strategy. so i think we're in a very unknown territory. we're moving there with government week and they are position without any tangible plan. those could tap palestinian journalists. thank you very much. you want to and that's her up on the hour and week stop stories for more updates on the latest news around the globe head over to