ah ah ah, but bob stepped on vote to intimidation, meyer the presidential and parliamentary elections in africa's largest nation. nigeria also had this our ukranian. 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 and the dumbass lines is russian forces, breakthrough ukrainian defense isn't around the key city of fact, most also known as up jobs. also had this was a freedom and peace is only possible with independently from america. a protest is being held at ramstein at base in germany,

where hundreds demonstrators are calling for an end for further arm supplies to ukraine. also in the program, a member, i have to say that russia is forced to suspend our involvement in the new start treaty. but moscow isn't abandoning the parts altogether, leaving the door open for cooperation. if us deescalate it's done on russia with sunday, that means that the weekly here on our to international line, peter scott and harris on the top stories from the last week. thanks for joining us . we start with the general elections though in nigeria, where vote counting is on the way to choose the next leader on parliament of africa, most populous nation, when you are special coverage of one of the continents, most significant political events this year

tensions, however, on the rise amid reports of long delays, ballot box thirsts and attacks by armed individuals, a meeting with this numerous incidents like that that have come to really become the the hallmark of the election which was supposed to be a celebration, a culmination of the growth of nigeria. popular democracy, a stamp of authority, at least for the west african states as a whole. but yes, in or showed that we had ballot boxes being burned in,

in other states we have ballot boxes being stolen. it's gone as far as 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 will at least in the 2023. if you go around to the greater part 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 day, while 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 one who, you know, you open discriminant shooting on voters, injury and some 2 women and 3 men. and this has become a part of what's become known as part of this election cycle. the i n e is,

feels then by it's mantra that these elections were credible that they were fe. hello, it's 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 a man was caught by thugs in that region where he was really taken to task and the mob justice before you was late to saved by the police authorities. wanting to the view as it is a bit disturbing. let's take a look. 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 elections 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 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 the state leg was like one where we are now. it is a huge that is the most populous thing in nigeria, and the correlation of such has 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 lego state and that's what it is and such as they has not even been counted yet. this 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 an acceptable election results, that was our africa correspondence corolla. tattler reporting from the city of lagos, the independent national. it's all commission also puts elections on hold in $141.00 polling stations in bail estate planning to reopen them on sunday. voting was temporarily suspended yesterday in the states of anna bra, the regions of our beer emo and cabby also faced closure briefly for districts in ido, states have seen elections postponed until the 11th of march,

as result of the absence of a logo of one of the political parties, the eastern region of bonner, also faced a terror attack, reportedly carried out by the bulk of her a militant group. let's, according to the chairman of the countries independence national electoral commission. earlier we heard from humanitarian out surveys to our med share who, who believes that the outcome of the elections is vital for both the country and the continent as a whole. we all know that the st of rica and men, julia, looking at our population identity departure and we, we occupy and do all hobby and from him and, and in our prison the impact that you found, treat the provider if you want. everyone is interested in what comes out of an idea . so the idea here is, if materia was it right or, or the african count would get it right. if you were to draw all over the country as we get the throw on you to also have if you think on the other countries across

the one, that is why you see most of the will lead to the american breaching so serious about getting. and we'll take into here, in most center, to show that we have, we are listen closely with the l p and you know and was an order here when we're looking to get up to the attention. said he knew that the position and get out right. and then what he says of najia is very important though, that is why you see a lot of interest, a lot of commitment and a lot of support by the international community and in order parts. and we can watch our coverage of the night, june election, se on our team to national throughout the day sunday. and as always will keep you updated on all the letters. the checkpoints, leading to the palestinian town of hora in the west bank has been sealed off following the drive by shooting of to israelis. these rallies were driving on

sunday when report say that to good men in their twenties, open fire on their vehicle. we were evacuated by ideas paramedics but were pronounced dead on arrival, a hospital. israel thought you'd have sealed off the town and reviewing c c t footage to identify the suspects as well. if that comes as israeli and palestinian authorities meets in the jordanian city of kaba, on sunday for one day. so it's aimed at curbing the current wave of violence setting from the last week's masika, nobliss, which left 11 palestinians dead and at least 80 injured bullets cross live. now to re read a journalist on political analyst, amir orange. you further discuss the incident. i may, thanks very much for joining us this evening. now this latest, it seems very representative of the increasing tensions between israeli and palestinian. what are your thoughts on the latest incidents? so you know, the term cycle of violence has become such a cliche,

but unfortunately it is true because each incident is be getting another one and not revenge action or an action to fall. another attack and obviously no defensive measures neither offensive nor degeren's. keeps the, the sting is from acting against israelis and therefore, israeli actions, i guess the probably didn't know what you mentioned about the conference should have been an important measure because there are really no 2 sides done. no 2 parties. israel is a central authority say at least up to now where we will see what the new judicial measures bring. but on the other side, on the signal side, the authority and security forces do not control these

youngsters who you described in the twenty's coming. we're packing any rally? well, one driven by cetera, from the area and shooting at them out. he doesn't seem possible for not your conference, which includes, by the way, in addition to these rallies in progress, being in job, then you see gibbons and americans. nothing seems probable. that they would be able to cut short the cycle. right. do you, do you think this latest incidence, the time of which certainly does coincide with those? so do you think it will affect that source? we do do know the head of the scenario. regional council did call for israel to break off the talks in lights. of this, do you think they'll be affected? well, hopefully not because not only this, a local official whom you mention,

but also a cabinet minister who comes from hebron a sector herself. a has issued a similar call, but obviously it's a nonsensical how could that. a help it, even the settlers, not to mention the entire country or the entire 2 nations. how would that help deescalate attentions on? it is only a reflexive action of law of action if 1 may or side dr. problem. well, yeah, it is. soon. it seems that now should be the time for the souls when tensions are, it's all time highs. now you did mentioned a couple of times. i'm in this sort of cycle of violence. do you expect that to be crackdowns on palestinians in the wake of this like to shooting? well, you know, the tragedy ease that everyone knows that the peace process should be

relaunched via talks. at least between our president abbas and whomever these rarely prime minister happens to be used to been attend. yeah. then ben at then let me know, nathan. yeah. again. but there is no willingness, especially on these reli side to really launch these talks. because down the road, obviously, they would have to be concessions. they would have to be a withdrawal from territories. there will have to be. and if it you ation of settlers and of settlements, they don't want to pay the price of fees and therefore they would rather have these incidents go on and on for him. on to such a very grim way to end this interview, unfortunately is really generally something honest. i may or and thanks very much for sharing your thoughts with us today on nazi. thanks for time. thank you. a protest is currently being held as ramstein, air base in germany, where hundreds of people have gathered calling for an end to us military influence

over the country, as well as the hold of the arm supplies to ukraine. but to get more on this, we can cross live now to contribute to rachel marston, who's the protest still, rachel is looking very cold, but a bit less lively. our. what more can you tell us about the demonstration that it is indeed very cold? here it's 2 degrees with the high windshield factor, and protesters have been out here for over 3 hours now. they start at the town square here in ramstein and they've made their way over to the ramstein air base, very symbolic base, which hasn't been lost on the protesters. it's not only a u. s. air base for operations in europe and in africa, but it's also a nato allied air and space command base. it's also the location of meeting for the ukraine defense contact group, which consists of defense leaders from all of the nato and allied countries. and

you might recall that when they met here in january, they approved tax for ukraine, and there was some debate over that up until then. and shortly thereafter, even german chancellor, a lot. schultz who was holding up. he said, yeah, okay. he pulled the trigger and he authorized lever to tax to be sent to prison. great protesters are very upset about that. and one of the reasons why they're upset is because they feel that they kind of got that journey gone, got tricked into this. and that's something that we've seen in the western press. the new york times, for example, reported that's divided administration, felt that just by merely announcing abrams m one tax for ukraine that, that would be enough to pull to have are all shoulder the chancellor, germany pull the trigger and go figure that to date. there are german tanks in ukraine that has been delivered. notably poland tanks was germany has authorized

the react, rotation of but there is no sign of abrams. m one american takes germany and then i expected. so sometime next year. so germany kind of got pressured into pulling the trigger and there now the forefront of what the protesters consider to be an escalation. now i spoke to several of the protesters to find out directly from them, why they're here today and what their concerns are. have listened to what they told me is that germany delivers the weapons in this and this was not, this was not over. freedom and peace is only possible if the germans decide independently from america forbidden to, to talk about that conflict in ukraine is no conflict. since 2014, and if you say that you are not c. now, i've seen a lot of signs that have been floating around here. for example,

nato bears responsibility for chaos in europe. germany get out of nato. me go home is kind of a big slogan. we've been here around here, which is kind of like yankee go home. it's a variation of that. i also saw, i find that took the liberty said me ass off us empire, an occupation of germany and now, and there's also signs with various driven politicians wearing prison. kids strike saying their name. and then the line guilty underneath, including foreign minister analysts are very, was last making headlines at the council of europe meeting just a few weeks ago. and she was calling for unity among european countries and ended up saying, look, we're not fighting with each other. we're fighting against russia and i had to be clarified. i also saw a lot of people talk about nord street and that's on a lot of people's my one person even said biden is the north stream bomber, which i guess is a reference to the fact that there's been

a lot of headlines around see more horses investigative reporting, accusing the united states of bombing the, the pipeline network in a covert operation in conjunction with norway under the guise, veneto exercise. so people definitely have heard about that here and it's definitely on their mind. now it's also interesting that this is not the only protest taken place this weekend in germany. there were about 10000 demonstrators, according to officials in berlin, saturday. so yesterday, and that's according to official figures. and basically the message is pretty much the same. they want the escalation, they want to go, she ation, they want peace. they want to stop the flow of weapons to, from germany, from their country to ukraine. and, and what's interesting is in the protests in berlin, the authorities placed

a destroyed russian tank in the city. and i guess that was to raise awareness of what's happening in ukraine. but in that i don't think they really got the reaction they were expecting because the protestors who were there went up and put flowers on the destroyed russian tanks. there is no hate shown. and again, the message is pretty much the same. they want peace, they want negotiations, and that does reflect what the majority of germans in the country think today. and the protesters did also tell me one other thing. and that is that they're pretty upset with the fact that the local media, the mainstream media, it not only in germany, but also in europe, seems to be trying to pigeon hole this protest. and other protests of being either far right or far left or both. but basically it's an effort to marginalize the a seal, and i can tell you from having talked to people here, they come from all walks of late. there's lots and lots of germans. the majority of

the people came up here from switzerland. they just thought, hey, 3 of us got 3 of us guys. thought we go on a road trip. i'm from switzerland. there are french people here. we seen a lot of german flags and, and they're just people who are concerned about what's happening in their country and that direction their country is taken under the som conflict in ukraine. of course, a lot of people require a lot of gripes. they're thus archie, contrary to rachel moss and thanks very much for breaking down that processed for us. now to the dumbass front lines where this week, russian troops led by the private military company, wagner of advanced, near the strategically important city of buck motes, also known as our shore. musk on saturday, wagner fights as took over the village of yaga naya, thus off the 2 other villages came under russian control. his latest developments, complicated logistics, for the ukrainian forces. the there are some of the latest drone images form. our cha must go back, moves in a bit to deter the advancements of russian troops,

ukrainian forces, allegedly destiny to the local, dumb. so doing neighboring houses, enforcing residents to flee our correspondence. eager done a visit at one of the areas recently taken by the wagner group and acquit wanting some of the footage in the ship. bolts 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 humorous promotion. 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 our boat,

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 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 used this ambulances cover to deliver ammunition and food supplies were most carriers very low. you are as quickly on, gv, i so mercenaries from south africa here. and so i saw us instructors, germans polish ukrainians from the i dar and as of battalions, as well as

a ukrainian paratrooper brigade. there was a strong group here. are you made up of all they've got? they didn't want to give up our cham offscreen, 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 grew so images, the defensive lives here in this building are held by you k mercenaries. this is one of them or what's left of one of them. close quarter combat is with wagner. excelsior fighter, who was among those who stormed this building. shares with me what kind of resistance they had too overwhelmed with machine gunners held up defenses in every stage, hearing those or they were even shooting inquiry door to 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 improved, some tank 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 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 black. moot. because all this is a prelude to the resounding crescendo of the fool of the city,

to the tune of wagner. amicus done of reporting from the dumbass. our t. russia has suspended his participation in the new start nuclear treaty, but it's not withdrawing from the agreements altogether. that was about him put his statement and his annual address to russia's parliament on tuesday. but they would signal up us would, you 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 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's 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 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 or the suspension of the treaty, kabir reversed, according to russia's foreign ministry. moscow says a u. s. the escalation in its stance towards russia could create the conditions for the pact to fully function when you are sexy, of state unseen, blinking called the russian movie deeply. unfortunate and irresponsible. russia also states it still intends to follow the timeline on weapons reduction set out in the agreement. but the checks on stockpiles would not be allowed. use does 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, which is a curb strategic arsenals. capping nuclear assets have fixed quantities. it also includes on site inspections to verify compliance with john catholic political

analysts. an editor of the issue insides 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, ring, 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 at war, but particularly with united states. and to have inspections of weaponry. william 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, if you will,

war in between russian 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. if you finally a bomb blast in the pakistani region of bolo, tristan has reportedly killed 4 people, leaving at least a dozen injured. his more from a local reporter. at least 4 people have been killed and 14 others were injured, including to my knell girls in the area. i've bought a con city in bologna. stand in east or bro. stand where to mid major groups off. terrorists are active. one is the taliban, and 2nd is the lowest nationalist mover it be. i live close liberation out of me. the police says that the, the bomb was a fixed in the i. d, in on the, on the motor bike and suddenly exploded in demand market. nearby had a heavy dresser shop in eddie st statement issued by the pipe size military

headquarters. if i will please. they said that in numerous military operations in the last 3 months, they have killed for a 142 terrorist and they have outsourced a 1007 other tab roovis. if you are in the well, thank you very much for watching. that's all for me now, but i'll be back in about 30 minutes time with another rundown of all this week's help stories do. stay tuned for more great programs here with

hello, welcome to worlds apart. an old russian joke has a past him is believed that things cannot possibly get worse. while an optimist is confident that they surely can just a few decades ago, the cold war was considered a major existential threat to humanity. but nowadays, it looks like a period of diplomacy, unsuccessful conflict management. does the situation in ukraine or for any holds for these kind of pessimism. while to discuss that, i'm now joined by matthew crossed on director of a condemning transformation and professor of national security at buoy state university. dr. crossman is great to talk to thank you very much for a time and congratulations on such a amazing background. thank you very much, i appreciate being here now i you and your colleagues have proposed the term the call.