ah, ah ah, box theft and votes, the intimidation lie, the presidential and parliamentary elections enough because largest nation nigeria, ukrainian, they were planning to hold these positions for a long, long time. but well, this particular sector, it fell in less than a week. the reports from the dumbasses from lions, as russian forces break through ukrainian defenses and around the key city of bach motes, also known as up almost from china's cold on the west to stop what it calls abusing unilateral sanctions. while urging all sides interested to be considered, as most western officials, dismissing beijing's piece proposal also this hour live with me,

i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. for moscow isn't abandoning the parts altogether, leaving the door open for cooperation. if the u. s. deescalate states on russia, those comments came from guardian puting during his annual address to the country parliament on tuesday with some day. that means is the weekly here on our tea international. mine is peter scott on here. so the top stories from the week just gone. thanks for joining us. we started out with the general elections in nigeria. why vote counseling is underway to choose the next leader on parliament of africa, most populous nation. we're bringing you our special coverage of one of the constants most significant political events this year. ah.

but tensions are on their eyes, amid reports of ballads, box thefts, and allegations of votes intimidation. hello. be with when i jerry an election observer, a manuel and jock who told archie about the issues with transpose in the elections scenarios. his hopes for fern transplant poles have not contrived in some regions of the country. ah, there we are, additional. so we are people we are forced to watch for our particular pulling units. so you got some pulling in. you'd see,

see the police clearly does in those areas making of the level political talks, you know, and in some cases in some areas you see some of this bullets coil is colluding with . the, with the security personnel available in discipline is like the police. and thereby the system that if you want to what's in this club is a most votes for their political party. and if you know what to for the political body, you walked out of the police. this is very sad. we regret that just kind of still happens in our election in nigeria. sadly, there is, of course i'll shut down. no results came to that brought out at around 11 the and, and this is sad because of school scene of cycle elections like the one who hadn't a governorship election in the sub unit of nigeria in if it is still on the national stage at the end of the election by 10 pm on december election close in 90 percent of the results are a good job on the election results. this is what nigerians and myself on my team

this role where spectrum analysis meeting was suddenly that has not happened. that's what i'll eventually opened last night and as we speak now, off of our 176000 police, suave and pulling, pulling into results, we are expecting from nigeria. that bottle has seen just about 20000 results. this is very, very sad for us and like i said, is the results handling and the coalition collision process? and the results handling is what brings the kind of integrity and could reach us right now where spectrum and we're not seeing that right now. but to discuss the elections in nigeria, let's cross live now to our africa correspondence trouble at subtler who's in lagos club. thanks for joining us this afternoon. could you tell us a bit about some of these issues that of my, at the elections? and when do you think we can expect from the preliminary results? oh, well these as you say, you rightfully say that there has been numerous issues that have come to my at

these elections. and i've painted the, the process at least than that taken by the independent electoral commission of nigeria as rather flawed, to some extent, at the very least from all the way as far as a b alpha to or showed he a leg was. there has been numerous incidents of reports of ballot boxes, either being burned to being destroyed, or just simply just being stolen. this numerous incident like that that have come to really become the the, the hallmark of the election which was supposed to be a celebration, a culmination of the growth of nigeria populace democracy that's come to be as it were. and as them of a symbol of authority, at least for the west african states as a whole. but yes, in no show we had ballot boxes being burned in in other states. we have ballard box

has been stolen. it's gone as far as, you know, having valid boxes actually not arriving at all in other states such as b alpha. and these kinds of things have come to like, become the hallmark of what we've come to expect out of nigeria and election. well, at least in the 2023. if you go around to the great parts of lagos, here you will find most of the young people who happen to, to follow the rise. the recent rise of the labor party telling you that they all the expect is a labor party victory, and nothing less will actually make this election become more credible. but in bottom of the state, for instance, we had, but what are we, you know, you open discriminant shooting on voters in some to women and 3 men. and this has become a part of, of what's become known as part of this election cycle. the n i n e c

is bills then by it's mantra, these elections were credible that they were fe. but to tell the truth is very difficult to sustain that with bags and to bag them up with credible information. but let's take a look at a video now where man was caught by thugs in that region where he was really taken to task and the mob justice before you was later saved by the police authorities wanting to view us. it is a bit disturbing. let's take a look here. oh i oh i

and that is the summary really of what you've become of these elections, no one trust anybody and that fear and that sense of mistrust than suspicion has been heightened particularly around the election that most people feel should be a story that is really not that difficult to get to the bottom of what we do know right now is that the independent national electoral commission has ellia had set up a, a position where the press conference is going to be. we're, we're going to be informed of the progress so far right now. there is nothing to report. there is basically very little counting despite the content that has happened in several localities. the correlation of that count has not happened in a state leg was like one where we are now. it was a huge that is the most popular thing in nigeria. and the correlation of such has not happened yet. we still have toilet all the centers, they have counted their results and to get a picture at least

a state wide picture of how league was turned out. and if you know anything about nigerian elections, you will not win the election yet. if you do not, when leg was thing and that's how important it is and such as they have not even been counted yet. that means that there is a lot more work ahead and there is a lot more to do for the and for the i n e c to at least to restore their credibility. if they hope to get out of this with any punch of respectability and acceptable election results, certainly sounds like a very tricky situation. the over in nigeria, i hope you'll keep us updated on a caribou. thus ortiz africa correspondence crumble. a ton of reporting live from lagos in nigeria, thanks very much. the independence nationalists or commission also puts elections on hold. in 141 polling stations in bales estate planning to reopen them on sunday . voting was temporarily suspended yesterday in the states of an umbrella. the

regions of via email and cabby also faced closure. briefly. few districts in either states 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 region of bono also faced a terror attack, reportedly carried out by bo hm. militant group that's according to the chairman of the countries independent national electoral commission. on more than 19000000 people reportedly registered to vote across the country in almost a 177000 polling stations. this election cycle has seen some stiff competition among the candidates. but 18 people are running for the presidency with over a 1000 vying 409 seats in the senate with another 3000 for 360 seats in the house of representatives. so you can continue to watch our coverage of the nigeria relations here on our team throughout the day is always will keep updated on all the latest

news. now, the news, a bomb blast in the pakistani regional ballot. justin has reportedly killed 4 people leaving at least a dozen more injured. here's a report from a local journalist that at least 4 people have been killed and 14 others were injured. including to my knell girls in the attic, the india. i've bought a con city in biology. stand in isa royston. where too many major groups of terrorist od active one is the taliban and sack it is the blow it's nationalist movement. b, i li, blows liberation army. the pulley says that the bond was fixed in the i 80 in on the motorbike, and suddenly exploded in the main market near the head, a head dresser shop in, eddie same statement issued by the pike size military headquarters if i will believe they said that in numerous military operations in the last 3 months. they

have killed for 142 terrorist and they have outsourced at 1007 other territories. and not the dom bus front lines where this week, russian troops led by the wagner group have advanced the strategically important city of bachman, also known as our chore mosque or saturday varner fights is took over the village of yaga nia. that's up to 2 of the villages came under russian control. the latest developments complicates logistics for ukrainian forces. there. there are some of the latest drone images from our char must go back much in a bid to deter the advancements of russian troops. ukrainian forces allegedly detonated to local dum, flooding, neighboring houses, enforcing residents to flee. a correspondence, eager to donna visited, one of the areas recently taken by the wagner group. a warning of 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 emotionally, there was fighting here in the night military formations worn residential areas. machine guns and grenade launchers were firing here. children. they had a great position for shooting terrible, but our guys took this railway area by storm. plenty within 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 keith troops to deliver reinforcements and ammunition with

a disguise. it's crew found their final rest right next to it, r o j, mid gods go. these are us made weapons. they use this ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supplies was care with very low. you are as quickly on gv, i so mercenaries from south africa here. i saw yes, instructors, germans polish ukrainians from the i dar and as of battalions, as well as a 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 road is no more thought as well as is mercenary. well, now you have to brace yourself for some truly gruesome images. the defensive lies

here in this building are held by yuki mercenaries. this is one of them all. 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 yours. machine gunners held up defenses in every stage. hearing those are they worry than shooting inquiry, dorsey? dora, 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 ukranian 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 thank track, spoke there. they made a trench probably for tank ammunition. they planned to hold this position for a very long time on the road 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 go 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 chew. o wagner. i'm a good done of reporting from the dumbass, r t. in the news, china's us the will, it prevents the conflicts in ukraine from escalating even further. senate leaders must come to the negotiating table and resume talks, requests outlined in the countries 12 point proposal in the crisis,

which included condemnation of the west unilateral sanctions placed on some countries. china boldest unilateral sanctions unauthorized by the un security council. relevant contra should stop abusing 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 economists and better the lives of their people. trying to believe that any kind of the unilateral sanctions that is unauthorized by the u. s. 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 a 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 opposed, in fact, broad by the crisis, including keeping the nuclear power plant save, reducing strategic risk and facilitating grain exports and stopping unilateral sanctions keeping industrialized 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 ideas. 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. or chinese statements was dismissed by many in the west with joe biden. labeling beijing's attempt to mediate the conflicts irrational when it's a chief installed, some burg believes are further arms. flies to curve is the only way to achieve peace. beijing's branded the miniature blog as having a cold war mentality. 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 where ukraine pervades the sovereign in the plantation. then we need to support ukraine military now. military support to day is the way to achieve a peaceful agreement to morrow that had a key issue. with all these major crisis shows that cold war mentality will lead to division and confrontation, although the cold war concluded all 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 escalator, the situation and has become the major factor in the conflict to you. and i shall to hold a joseph gregory mahoney, professor of politics at east china normal university claims that nate's as exploit in the conflict. 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 with soaring budget's prestige and power. but behind all of this is a u. s. g, a 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. auntie china, hawks and nato are nothing new. that said, the nato cheap appear sympathetic. it seems to washington's ongoing efforts to expand nato to confront china, given his recent trips to asia. i don't think the e u in an absolute sense is opposed to piece 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 us since this is consistent with washington and western mainstream media. narratives that have simply overwhelmed the discourse

of russia has suspended its participation in the new starts nuclear. treat say it was not withdrawing from the agreement that was about the may petune statements and his annual address to russia's parliament on tuesday. they would signal up us with, with the needle 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, or they say there's no connection between the new start treaty issues. and you creaming conflict or other hostile actions by the west towards russia, as if there is no loud statement 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 would also want to continue to inspect our nucular objects.

in this regard, i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. when the suspension of the treaty could be reversed, according to russia's foreign ministry, moscow says that the u. s. d escalation and its stance towards russia would create the conditions for the pact to fully function. secretary of state antony blink and criticize the russia move, calling it deeply, unfortunate and irresponsible. russia also states, it still intends to follow the timeline on weapons reductions set out in the agreement. but the checks on stockpiles would not be allowed when you start is the last remaining nuclear limitation pads 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 or junk of ali. political analyst and seni, editor for issue insights, says it's clear why moscow decided to suspend his 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, remove the ring, renounce it makes sense, you know, from, from his perspective. but the russian federation is not just to war, but with ukraine. it's at war with nato, a war, particularly with united states, and to have inspections, new weaponry will. 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 it, you know, it's not surprising when there is a cessation of the issue, a war in between russia and ukraine. at some point they'll be a return to the, to the inspection regimes. but you know, we don't know when you,

how long that's gonna take you to ship it for just hours after vladimir putin addressed the president out, a meeting with his polish count spots in warsaw, whether discussed new arms deliveries to ukraine. president boone, jose is war every during the war continues. is his joyce over the past year, democrats or republicans with our united states congress have come together to stand for freedom. that's all americans are and that's what america it's due. but in statements came in his visit to the polish capital on tuesday, where he stressed the importance of collective european security and said that nato is stronger than ever. it follows the american leaders surprise ship to give on monday, where he talks with president volume. is that lensky will i raid sirens were heard ringing out across the city that was widely praised in the mainstream media. but fox news moxy incidence ah,

ah, airy science and often that city in 5 days it was phony. baloney, hollywood chunk better me then my 100000, you know, was notified. they have a russia wasn't i listen spot and reassured care. the u. s. will stand with them using all means back home is country struggling with his own issues? the state of ohio saw a major blast. it's a metal plant that followed a chemical catastrophe. after a train carrying something substances derailed in the states around 2 weeks ago, spilling his load on bursting into flames biden, to help on to visit the affected areas. i do want to have it done

with before with a few republican politicians took the opportunity to score political points, claiming that biden preferred keith over america on presidents day in america. 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. o geopolitical analyst marks the boat is believes that biden's visits you, poland and keith was little more than a stunt. 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 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 kia have lived under. never mind, of course, the 9 year bloody war that the care 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 um that biden wanted to present his trip to kiev under. ah, and finally,

palestinians have called for a boycott of a summit with israel scheduled to take place in jordan later today. sunday, claiming that they have little faith in any progress being made. just days ago, israel conducted his deadliest raised in the west bank kinetic twins. he is. protests have fled in cities across the west bank, holding on people to reject the summits. to meeting comes in a bit to deescalate tensions between israel and palestine, including formalizing steps to size would take to resolve this. stunned off was any resistance from the washington organized gathering finity pays away for further violence against local wednesdays. deadly raid by his ready forces and the subsequent outcry from locals have shots of trust in peace talks with jerusalem. palestinian officials have called for international condemnation of the strike that killed dozens of palestinians and left many more wounded. all israel says it's ami target said millison suspects hiding out in an apartment. the conflicts between

israel and palestine is one of the world's most enduring, with at least 170 palestinians kilobytes ready forces. last year. since the start of french $2365.00 palestinians, including 13 children, have already been killed, but assigns the health ministry. it says has described this as the start of the year. ever journalist doubt job says he doesn't have any illusion over talks with israel. very doubtful that it will be successful, but there is a lot of effort by the americans to make sure that it's seed bin. there is a lot of pressure on the palestinian leadership to attend this meeting, which jordan and egypt are also attending, as well as it's really scary for sure, is not to be trustworthy. they need to be trustworthy. and he had proven to be a liar to the american, to the sins and now to even the people days really that are against life. so i don't trust these rarely, they don't think anybody can trust the trade ad. there is no political process in the horizon.