a la no, but the number of victims is in millions. having been the majority on the continent before the indigenous people make up less than 3 percent of the us population today . ah, well a box theft and votes. the intimidation meyer the presidential and parliamentary elections in africa, largest nation nigeria, also ahead 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 or 2 reports from the don't boss phone lines as russian forces breakthrough ukrainian defense is in and around the city of buck. more often on the charm of a protest is being held around to find out. they said germany, 100 the demonstrators are calling for and to, for the all wise to ukraine. also this hour with i have to say that

russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treat for moscow as it's a button in the pipe pull together, leaving the door open for cooperation. that's in the united states, deescalate it's done on russia with sunday. that means is the weekly here on oxy international and peter scott, and here are some of the top stories from the week just gone. thanks for joining us . and we started off, they saw with the general elections in nigeria, where vote counseling is under way to choose the next leader on parliament of africa, most populous nation. we bring in your special coverage of one of the constance most significant political events. this year. attentions though, are on the rise amid reports of long delays, ballot boxes under tax by armed individuals

a, i don't know how long with 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 fraud, to some extent, at the very least from all the way as far as a b, l son, to or showed he a legacy has been numerous incidents of reports of valid boxes, either being burned to being destroyed or just simply just being stolen this

numerous incidents like that that have come to really become the the hallmark of these election, which was supposed to be a celebration, a culmination of the growth of, of nigeria. popular democracy that's come to be as it were, and a stamp of authority, at least for the west african states as a whole. but yes, in no showed we had ballot boxes been burned in, in other states we have valid boxes being stolen. it's got, as far as, you know, having valid boxes actually not arriving at all in other states such as b elsa and these kinds of things have come to like, become the hallmark of what we've come to expect out of nigeria and election will, at least in the 2023. if you go on to the greater part of leg was here, you will find most of the young people who happened to, to follow the rise,

the recent of the labor by telling you that they all they expect is a labor party victory. and nothing less will actually make this election become more credible. but in baltimore state, for instance, we had but one who was, you know, you open discriminant shooting on voters, injury and some to women and 30 men. and this has become a part of, of what's become known as part of this election cycle. the i n e c is bill's been by it's mantra that 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. way a man was caught by thugs in that region where he was really taken to task and the mob of justice before you was later saved by the police authorities wanting

to the view. it is a bit disturbing. let's take a look. oh i . and that is the summary of what you've become of these elections, no one trust anybody and that fear and that sense of mistrust and 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 where we're going to be informed of the progress so far right now. there is nothing to there is basically

very little counting despite the content that has happened in several localities. the correlation of that count has not happened in the state leg was like the one where we are now. it is a huge that is the most popular state in nigeria and the coalition of such as not happened yet. we still have toilet all the centers that 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 win lagos think and that's how important it is and such as they has 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 kind of respectability and acceptable reluctant results,

that was our africa, corresponding the corolla toddler reporting from the nigerian city of lagos. but we also spoke to nigerian election observer, manuel and jocko, who went on to share with us some of the issues in the elections, and the voters hopes for, for, and shows. farm polls may not have come true in some regions of the country. ah, there we are situations where people we are forced to work for a particular pulling unit. so you got some pulling in. you'd see, see the police clearly doesn't, doesn't really make another level put it to court talks, you know, and in some cases in some areas you see some of this, but it's cool. it's colluding with the, with the security personnel available in discipline is like the police and thereby assist in that if you want to what's in this month. the club is a most votes for their political party and you can of what to for the political back to you be walked out of the police. this is very sad. i will regret that just kind of still happens in our election in nigeria. sadly, there is

a portal shut down. no results. came tears up without it around 11 the and, and this is sad because of school sin of cycle elections like the one who hadn't had governorship phillips on, in, in the sub units of nigeria in the state of the national state. at the end of the election by 10 pm on december of election, close in 90 percent of the results are a good job on the election results. what are this is what nigerians and myself on my team, this law where spent an unsuspecting boss suddenly that has not happened. that's what i'll eventually opened late last night and ask to speak now off of our 176000 poly units. while i'm pulling, pulling it to results with from nigeria, that bottle has seen just about 20000 results. this is very, very sad for us. and like i said, is there is a ton lynn and the coalition, the collision process. and the result handling is what brings the kind of integrity, anchorage on transparency. now we're spectrum and we're not seeing that right now.

we can watch our special coverage of the nigerian elections here on our thing throughout the day. and as always, will keep you updated on all the latest. le, protest is being held at ramstein are based in germany, where hundreds of people have gathered calling for holds all further on supplies to ukraine. and for peace talks between moscow and key f. let's get all this. we can cross live now. you. archie contributes a rachel marston, who's up the process right now. rachel, so me sounds very noisy where you are. what more can you tell us about the, the demonstration, the well, it's a very upbeat on be off, and the protesters have been gathered here for the past 2 hours now. they gathered in the town square in rom sign, and now they're headed towards the military base. and just to give you an idea they

are, we are basically 40 miles away from the french border about 66 kilometers. and ramstein air base is highly symbolic and it's not lost on the protesters. the area surrounding the base is the largest community of americans about $50000.00 americans outside of the us. it's also nicknamed little america. the base itself is both the u. s. air force base as all the nato base for allied air and space operations. now keep in mind as well that ram signs also the meeting place for the ukraine. defense contact group of the western defense chiefs. and when they met mid january, that is specifically when they decided to send text to ukraine. remember that? and that's the moment when i love schultz, the chancellor, germany decided to also join in and send leopard to takes up to then he seemed to

be resisting. so i remember hearing from the new york times, slightly after that decision made by showing that there was a better ruse on the part of the americans to put some pressure on all our channels by simply having by to announce that who would be sending tanks. abrams m one tax to ukraine, thinking that that would trigger a whole chain reaction in europe and sure enough it, the roofs seem to have worked. so i was talking to some of the protesters today and i was asking them, why are you here? and what's on your mind, what matters to you with respect to this conflict in ukraine today, and how to listen to what they had to say. so these are so that germany delivers weapons soon to so it is, well, this was not oh, it's forbidden to talk about it. that the conflict in ukraine is, is annoyed. conflict, it's in for 2014. and if you say that you are not

c. all right, so the signs are kind of interesting. what we seen here is a, a lot of flags asking for peace. the slogan of the day is me go home, which is very similar to yankee. go home. we've also seen some variations of that, ah, like ami f off. i also, we seen signs that say nato bears responsibility for chaos in europe. germany get out of nato, us, empire, and occupation of germany. now. there's also signs of various politicians wearing prison stripes, like an alina burbock, the german for a minister, the one who said of the council of europe, that europe, united all the countries of europe are united and at war with russia and not with each other. um, so they have a signs that say a anna lea, a barrack guilty wearing prison stripes, many messages here demanding no tanks for ukraine and, and people

a few people saying, look, you know, we're not at, we're with russia, we want peace and, and a lot of people actually almost everybody i talk with sad that nord stream is absolutely on their mind. and one side even said biden is the nord stream. bonner, i bomber, i guess that's a reference to see more hershey's report and all the buzz around that. so this is just one of a few different protests that have taken place is in germany in the past few days yesterday, there was a protest in berlin about 10000 people were there. that's according to the official authorities figures. what's even interesting is there was a russian tank that was placed in berlin, destroyed russian tank. and i guess that was placed there on behalf of the establishment to maybe garner sympathy for, for the ukrainian side in this conflict. but what was interesting is the demonstrators actually went up and put roses on the tank. and the message there

seems to be pretty much what i'm hearing from people here. and that is they just want peace. they want negotiations, and they definitely want the weapons flow from the west and certainly from germany to stop people that seem to be processed in against quite a few things. rachel thought, the country, it's rachel mazda report in live in the ramstein, based in germany. thanks very much for that report. now to the don bus phone lines where this week, russian teams led by the wagner group have advanced near the strategically important city of bach moods, also known as of chalmers. also today, varner i just took over the village of yaga naya, that's after 2 other villages came under bush and control. this latest development complicates logistics for the ukrainian forces there. and here are some of the latest drone images from a bach moves, also known as a mosque and a bit to do to the advancement diverse and shapes ukrainian forces, allegedly designated a local dum for the neighboring houses and forcing residence to flee. our

correspondent eager donna visited one of the areas recently taken by the wagner group. a warning of some of this footage 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. him not been wishing that 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 or a boat, but our guys took this railway area by storm. plenty would assume the enemy lost about 40 soldier, 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 must care with very or you are asked leon. gov. i saw missionaries 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 road is no more as well as those mercenaries. well, now you have to brace yourself for some truly gruesome images. the defensive lies here in this building are held by u. k. mercenaries, this is one of them all woods left of one of them close quarter comeback. is what wagner excelsior fighter, who was among those who stormed this building. shares with me what kind of resistance they have too overwhelmed with 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. shouldn't our guys know what to do to the finish, they entered the building the right way and covered each other. look, ah,

the ukrainian command used this factory warehouse to shelter a tank ammunition crates 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 to these are improved some tank track stuck 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 just was what happened to the tank. i will tell it 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 of wagner. i'm

a good done of reporting from the dumbass artsy china has asked the world to prevent the conflict in ukraine form escalating even further. senior leaders must come to negotiating table and resume p stores and the request was outlined in the countries 12 points proposal in the crisis, which include a condemnation of the west 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 the lives 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 not 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 a fact brought by the crisis, including keeping the nuclear power plant save, reducing strategic risk, facilitating grain exports, and stopping unilateral sanctions keeping industrialized 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 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 a d, a peaceful resolution or political resolution of the current situation. where china statements was dismissed by many in the west with joe biden, labeling beijing's attempt to mediate the conflicts as a rational on it. so chief against also believes the further arms flies to care for

the answer. beijing has branded the measure block 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 he want a peaceful, negotiate the solution aware ukraine pervades as a sovereign in the plantation. then we need to support ukraine. milfey, now military support to day is the way to achieve a peaceful agreement to morrow that had an 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. law confrontation 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 into conflict. with joseph gregory mahoney,

professor of politics at east china normal university claims that nato is exploiting 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 and waste, previously unimagined was soaring budget's prestige and power. 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 mc 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. now the news this week, russia suspended his participation in the new start nuclear treaty does not withdrawing from the agreement altogether. that was medina present statements and he's on you'll address to bushes parliament on tuesday, but they would signal up as we did 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. they say there is no connection between the new start treaty issues and the ukrainian conflict or other hostile actions by the west towards russia. as if there is no loud statements that the u. s. aim is defeating

russia strategically. so it's either utmost cynicism in her parker see or utmost stupidity. we can't call them idiots though. they're not stupid. they want to defeat 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 russia's foreign ministry. moscow says a u. s. d escalation and its stance towards russia would create the conditions for the pact to fully function. but states that a secretary of the you essence, they blink and called the russia, moved 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 wouldn't be allowed when he's done is the last remaining nuclear limitation packets in moscow and washington. it was signed in 2010 and is set to expire in 3 years that she to curb strategic arsenals. capping

nuclear assets of fixed quantities is also includes on site inspections, to verify compliance, a junk of ali political unless unseen. yet it's a 4 issue inside 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 didn't use the word abrogate, remove, ring, renounce. it makes sense. here from, from his perspective on the russian federation is not just to war with ukraine. it's at war with nato at war, but particularly with united states and to have inspections of weapon drew. 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 go on your territory hoping around is

unsettling. and so it, you know, it's not surprising when there is a cessation of the, she will war in between russia and ukraine. at some point some, they'll be a return to, you know, the, to the inspection regimes. but you know, we don't know when you how long that's gonna take a bomb blast in the pakistani region of bellow, chest and has reportedly killed 4 people leaving least a dozen, a dozen injured, his reports from a local journalist. at least 4 people have been killed at 14, others were injured including to my mail goes in the attic, the india i've bought a con city in biology. san is so bro slam. over to mid, mid or groups, off tower is not active. one is the taliban and 2nd is the blow. it's nationalists, mover it. b, i live roast liberation army. the bully says that the bomb was

a fix in the i 80 in on the motorbike and suddenly exploded maybe man market lead. we had a have desa in, in the same state grid issued by the pike sized military headquarters if i will believe they said that in numerous military operations in the last 3 months, they have killed 142 terrorist and they have outsourced at 1007 other territories. palestinians have called for a boycott of a summit with israel scheduled to take place in jordan later on sunday, claiming they have little faith in any progress be made. just days ago, israel conducted his deadliest raise in the west bank and nearly 20 years. protests have fled in cities across the west bank, calling on people to reject the summits. the meeting comes in a bid to deescalate tensions between israel and palestine, including formalizing steps the 2 sides would take to resolve their stand off palestinian resistance groups have slammed the washington organization gathering, saying it's 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 the peace talks with jerusalem busted in officials have called for international condemnation of the strike that killed dozens of palestinians and many more wounded . while israel says its army targeted militant suspects hiding out in an apartment, the conflicts between israel and palestine is one of the world's most enduring, with at least $170.00 palestinians killed by z really forces last year. though since the start of 202365 palestinians including 13 children of already being killed while a science health ministry has described this as the bloodiest starts of the year. ever. genest dowd caught up says that he doesn't have any illusion about the talks with israel. i'm very doubtful that it will be successful, but there is a lot of efforts by the americans to make sure that it's seed bin. there is a lot of pressure on the need to ship to attend this meeting, which jordan and egypt are also attending as well. it is really gotta be, for sure, is not to be trustworthy. they need, they need to be trustworthy, puling 3,

a liar to the american, to the scene and not the even the don't people days really, there are again, life. so i don't trust the rarely they don't think anybody can collect the rating. there is no political process in the horizon unless it's really, really mean what they say. we stop this estimate to stay. solution is based on a palace, didn't state the discovery and you're building settlement. you're actually not in favor of it. allison in that is solver. those are some of the new story, the shade the week here on our international form, on any of them, as well as all the latest updates to check out our web site, author, dot com on pizza. scott, let me back again at the top of the hour. thanks for watching the.