constantly robbed by political and corruption scandals, but all the didn't stop mo, google obtaining your candidate status in 2022. i headlines right now. what is an optional early result in coming from nigeria as presidential election. the ruling parties kinds of emerging on top in the south western state of the opposition candidate wins a majority in the state of intimate raging battles and was gone by the front lines . our t follows russian artillery cruise very close to the combat. so also the german chancellor, sho speaks to convince prime minister and arrange modi to side with the west against russia. the indian leader refrains from condemning moscow saying new delia is ready to contribute to a peace process with ukraine. palestinian authorities denounces railey settlers for

that part in violent riots overnight in the west bank for water, which left at least one palestinian bed and wounded more than a 100. the a lot of things already moving and shaking of the world today on this monday will be touching down on ukraine or muskets latest scandal with t f. but also, excuse me, germany leading really hard on india these days. but for now, just top story, this moment, we just start the program now with news from the general elections in nigeria. vote counting is still underway, as we understand the basically choose the next president and parliament of africa, the most populous nation. early results came in from the south western state of kitty, where the ruling party candidate has now come out on top and has made rival a presidential candidate of the people's democratic party. i pique,

who are bu buck out. i want a majority in the state of a can see, you know, that is heard the home state of the country's current president. well, here we're nazi. we will bring you the special coverage of the continents. most significant political event of the now to wind the 1st round, a candidate must receive a majority in at least $24.00 or $36.00 states made. while the state of i b a is set for a fresh vote. on monday, the elections will mod by reports of disruptions, a ballot box, tests, and overall won't voter intimidation. ortiz poem dump. it has detail as a fulton is still ongoing. as some passive nigeria, the election has been marked by violence. folks loyal to some party agents have intimidated voters, insisted they should support it, but she cannot candidates me with

i don't know how long with another problem is criminals smashing ballad boxes and by model footer accreditation systems, beavis machines. analysts say nigeria should have already gone well past this stage and it's election process. i with the thought is, have taken the law into their own hands and ideally ruthlessly with election disruptors in parts of nigeria. some of these cases happened before and i'm gonna ship is mill,

can arrive to intervene. i explained. so shit concerns over the transparency of the elections, the delays in a deployment of election officials and materials and in the light of the huge tom out of waters. i'm has raised 30 concerns on disappointment at major and south hud with these selections. he could have been far, much better. i think it was enough time. i think we do have a legal frame walk that's i came in to please that ever one. look forward to lesbian, it may jo ah, impetuous, fully approved electro, an organization and management. and i think that he hasn't like to leave that as expected. i think we have to watch to see how the coalition process goes even how

the elections. i concluded, i would be going to fight to tingle theory on, given at a concerns that we all have about how things have gone so far. it as i would really be a long time to talk about the room. in spite of the difficulties nigerians a trying to stay optimistic as it patiently a we steal action results. and i nichol features are trying to resolve the problems balloon. dave eat out, see apple jam on voting day in law goss reports. violence by unknown gunman disrupted the elections with attackers arriving on motorcycles and just firing shots. as we understand to intimidate people of violence in the region caused further obstacles for the election process. while in the east and the state of bordeaux buckle her om militants injured, 5 people in an attack, right? their local voters, as well as a one of my jerry's top electoral officials, told us about the experience of the country's 1st use of electronic voting. during

the elections i and then shoot these into more into our technology so that they can be able to get it right. like and then just having issues like of, of the others are having issues or polluting their result yesterday, which will become in which a consign to nigeria. and i think is a nature walk on see how they can improve on that. some people are finding it very difficult to login on that some people have also complain dots and some up to date is also a good enough. and so i don't know what the technical issues are. i don't know what the technique i did this up. but the moment i go back to ask you to sort of room we, i t people on the job, did they put out with that way? we have challenges. i leave, we have to lynch is i want to find i've been mitchell boost, alleges i would have done really listen to them and in those challenges, that's why my, my, my, i'm slightly deficient when it comes to disrupt technology. if you can do stick

around when to watch our special coverage, then i jerry and elections her an artsy international will keep you fully updated. and the latest news are now to the conflict in ukraine. whereas we understand drone strikes have been reported in the early hours of to day. this across multiple regions, exposures were heard on the capital kia as well as, and other various areas. you can see right here on the map. a local authorities can fund a drone attack in just one of the region, so without specifying if there had been any damage. i mean, while on the other side of the border, ukrainian force is a shell. the town in the russian regions apology. see the aftermath of the attack, the hitting university building ukrainian artillery reportedly used a cluster munitions to bombard that civilian side. and according to local officials,

at least 10 shells struck the roof of the building. those we understand. no reports of any casualties. not yet anyway. now this all comes from an intensifying battle on the dawn bass front lines are eager to down office in the guns republic to see well russian rocket are surely systems being used in the combat. the frontend to look guns, republic presents the ultimate challenge in military mass, icy country roads turn to swampy mud and freeze again in a span of ours. low lands are covered with fog. down toes and snow falls, impede visibility, paralyzing the work of spotters and anti tank crews. all this and more has to be factored into the gargantuan equation by both sides. russia planning, it's advance, and ukraine holding defensive lines. for

these grad walker launches can hit targets up to 40 kilometers away. not only does this range provide relative safety, but also flexibility in picking the best firing position, with the best conditions. with these grad crews will they make an immediate escape? very often here in the dumbass, everything that separates you between life and death is just minutes. ukrainian forces can be very precise and very quick with return fire. even with grown cameras,

blinded by weather rushes, command centers pack plenty of intelligence data. the frontline is vast, but there's only a handful of places where a key forces have developed a habit of masking their equipment at a bottom and think soon of work intensively of we have multiple goals. if we constantly push the enemy were satisfied with our results. although we hit both infantry and ukrainian military equipment, so at a russia has amassed a powerful fire fist here and is now probing ukraine's defenses key of troops and turns scatter their perimeters with hundreds of mines. a clear sign that they've abandoned hopes they once cherished to deal another blow to the russian army. here, i'm a good done of reporting from the dumbass artsy. ellen muskets once again found himself and hot water with the ukrainian government. he prided the 2014 ukrainian

regime change, a qu, receiving an immediate of backlash from one of zelinski advises that election was arguably dodgy, but no question that there was indeed a clue. free societies influence states via di, local reelections, in slate society's take to the streets to get rid of repressive states. this is the basis of freedom. ellen musk there have never been cruise in ukraine, but they have always being free. people stop reading russian newspapers. well, the coup in question took place in 2014, when that ukrainian president victor, again a cove which was overthrown, following deadly chaotic protesting key of the violence on the streets was directly supported by washington with multiple us lawmakers and government officials visiting the ukrainian capital quite openly at the time. in fact, in the words of us deputy secretary of state victoria newland washington, actually quote: midwife the coup. meanwhile, according to moscow,

the main force responsible for violence on the streets and classes with police were radical nationalists. nevertheless, the day before ukrainian president jacobi was overthrown, his government actually signed an agreement with the opposition. the deal was broken by the european union, and russia, among the terms was an agreement to initiate early presidential elections. however, the protesters didn't fulfill the agreement as they occupied government buildings in kiev, following the withdrawal of police forces a president, colbert eventually had to leave the country because of the danger that he had to face. but whatever you do, don't call it a qu. that's how washington has attempted to shape the media narrative, according to form a us marine corps in. tell us, scott ritter or the latest episode of ortiz or the modus operandi. he says the u. s . establishment used as other ways to describe the ousting of the democratically elected government, so that it can justify its full fledged support. you can watch

a full episode on r t dot com for our quick preview. it's a 4 letter word, it's a dirty word. there's a lot of negative connotation attached to it. many us supported crews in the past of produce the leadership of that has been embarrassing to the united states. it's also something that tries in the face of a international law cou implies that we are actively supporting a military junta to forcefully take over from a government oftentimes a democratically elected government. we don't want to encourage that anymore, so we speak a regime change in the case of my don and in the ukraine in 2014, we speak of a revolution, a regime change where the people ousted the pro russian. you know, victory on a co which we don't admit that it was

a coup d'etat carried out by ultra training. osh ultra nationalists, so funded and supported by the united states, one would be a blatant violation of international law. the other one is the lawful expression of free will by a sovereign people. german chancellor laughed shoals travel to india on saturday when he tried to convince the country's prime minister in a ranger moody to side with the west against russia. la noti stated india maintains a neutral status and is ready to contribute to and mediate in any piece process to end the conflict in ukraine. you see, be shan't be for korea me since the beginning of the developments in ukraine, india has insisted on resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. you, india is ready to contribute to any beast process. we have also agreed that reform of multilateral institutions is necessary to reflect global realities in

a better way. this is evident from our active participation within the g for to reform the un security council. it's a clear idea that i'd handing it over now to what is $100.00 shot emma, who has more on how shoals seized the chance to blame moscow for the global energy crisis. and the issue of food insecurity. as countless vessels carrying grain continue to head mainly to europe and not the poor countries that needed the must. there are one, chancellor essentially said that he wants to deeper an economic and political ties with india. how so on his to day was it or the weekend and this was his 1st with it ever since sir. are taking gun or taking office in 2021. i sensually both the countries signed some agreements, wind, also solar and dumb are in fact, green hydrogen sector. now this meeting between the gentleman chancello as well as the prime minister of india and adding to 40 it don't please just a day after the anniversary of russia's offensive in ukraine. now the german

chancellor says that the conflict is hurting developing countries and that it's also causing gar fuel as well as food shortages in these countries. but to member where the green wessel goes, the wrestles full of greens from ukraine, from unblocked boards. in fact, they were going north to the starving countries of africa, but mainly to europe. in the top, the world is suffering as a consequence of russia's aggression. a very important question is securing the supply of food and energy. we have to make sure that countries in asia, africa, and america not too strongly and negatively impacted by the terrible war of aggression that russia started against ukraine here. and that the impact is not too negative for them. supply shortages is thus the one priority of our work for last shots also retreated about have commitment or ceiling. the deal between europe as

well as you look in union as well as in the, the free trade deal. and why do they want to do that? essentially because of course it is going to stranded use ties with in the indoor specifically june. but more importantly, they believe that by doing so, they can father isolate moscow. so basically, reading in a week from russian alms add energy, but it doesn't want that. there's a clear answer to that. no. in fact, as far as 5 minutes to the movie during his visit is concerned. why do you, seth, of the conflict should be sold with dialogue and diplomacy bought, you know, keeping in line with the countries approach to now, he, in fact, refrain from saying anything against russia now. meanwhile, last week there was also a g. 20 of the finance minister's needs in india. and while the finance sheets had a lot to ponder bod, discuss economic problems. but what really happened was that all of that got

overshadowed by the west and demands for india to condemn russia and taken a supple stance. and it's refused to comment on the incident. the palestinian authorities have strongly condemned a rampage by israeli settlers in the west by ton of water saying he is ready. government is fully responsible for the terror act. at least one palestinian was killed and more than a 100. others left injured off the violence or abrupt it overnight. ah ah, well, a group of israelis are rated the town attacking locals and starting fires. one

house reportedly torch with the palestinian families still inside israeli troops reportedly arrive shortly after to push back the attackers and protect civilians. israeli prime minister made a statement condemning the violence and calling the army to do his job. he also promised to find the attackers at the destruction and chaos came just hours offered to israelis were killed in a drive by shooting in the same town. and we spoke to a palestinian to witness the violence. and we came home from work as usual. it was after evening prayers. suddenly with soul from the main street mobs of settlers, we heard the sound of things break in and shooting. there was streaming. the noise got louder. we heard women screaming from one or 2 houses. there were 7 or 8 of them. we came to see what was happening, the house of one resident abdullah sir, and his sky was set ablaze around it. there were 50 or 6, the settlers within, they set it on fire. we picked up some stones and confronted them. the same thing

happened to our brother. a bu, ahmad. his son was wounded, his shoulder was injured. the settlers beat him up, women's started screaming inside their houses because they were alone their home. so our residents were broken into the broken windows of the houses that burned some houses completely. they burned everything. abdulla so scar, they said it place there is nothing left. they entered our houses, you see the stone, they threw it in here. they broke everything with them. this is ethnic cleansing, but thank god the people are resilient. this is all land and we will stay on it. we can show you in the following footage as well. dozens of parked cars just burned out during the attack, along with a multiple houses. there were also set ablaze and ultimately damaged by the settlers. and the new wave of violence comes rarely and palestinian authorities, methink jordan for a one day some it it's aimed at coping of the reasons spike intentions. last

wednesday, an id f re killed at least 11 palestinians left more than a 100 injured in the west bank. the occupied westbank city of nablus, the local director of the red crescent, branded that incident, a massacre. so according to statistics released by the palestinian health ministry, at least $65.00 palestinians, including 13 kids, have been killed since january calling at the bloodiest ever start of the year. in decades. we spoke to israeli. john, listen political analyst a mail order. and he says at the latest class, just perpetuate the ongoing cycle of violence. the cycle of violence has become such a cliche, but unfortunately it is true because each incident is be getting another one and not the revenge action or an action to fall. another attack. and obviously, no defensive measures,

neither offensive nor deterrence keeps the full distinctions from acting against israelis and therefore, israeli actions against the palestinians. the tragedy is that everyone knows that the peace process should be relaunched via talks. at least between the president abbas and whomever these rarely prime minister happens to be. but there is no willingness, especially on the israeli side to really largely stalks because down the road, obviously, that would have to be concessions. they would have to be withdrawn from territories . there will have to be. and if you ation of settlers and settlements, they don't want to pay the price of fees and therefore they would rather have these incidents go on and on forever. it's good to have your company today. so

what 20 years ago to this day, iraq agreed to destroy its long range ballistic missiles as required by the un. these concessions proved fruitless with the u. s. in its allies, launching an invasion that basically left a trail of destruction in iraq, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians. so here's our special coverage of the u . s. war on terror in a rock 20 years on at this hour, american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, to free its people. and to defend the world from great pain who we will bring to the food medicine and sleep

with them. so it took i just over one month for the u. s. and its allies, a shock, an old campaign to bench basically take control of baghdad. however, u. s. troops only officially withdrew in 2011 and over all those years, the lives of countless families were basically shattered solar. i was a teenager in the tardy area. there was an army training camp and weapons depots and the sites was subjected to heavy bombardment by merican forces. we were teenagers and we were playing football not caring about the shelling a sometimes you would have to hide one date, there was a huge explosion. we don't know that a bomb had fallen on us. 3 children were lined dead near me, and i remember that the person who was holding the bull died instantly of me,

but i was injured in 2000 sakes. while i was playing, i heard heavy shooting and then suddenly a mortar landed near me. i was only a child of the time. i was injured in 2008 when i was just riding my bicycle when suddenly i was spinning. i landed on my back and could see my entire stomach hopin and intestines on the ground. ah ah, the number of iraqi martyrs who were killed by american forces and car bombs is nearly 250000. the injured are more than 500000. what did they do to deserve this? what has been achieved by invading iraq under the pretext of having weapons of mass destruction? where are those weapons of mass destruction? ah,

my life got worse. i left school, i couldn't walk and my abdomen was cut open. life weiss, my life is over as i can't even get a job my life end and and my future was lost. this destroyed my mother and father especially badly. and after a while they died. one after the other, after i lost my foot, the injury affected my life in a major way. i told myself my life is over. i was just a teenager. how would i live like this? you would ever want to marry me? oh, ah, ah. the murder and destruction of the iraqi people is a genocide perpetrated by us forces the entry of isis and the further killing of iraqi people. and the security forces are all because of americans. we have evidence and certified documents that prove the u. s. bombed and iraqi police

patrol simply for being in an area controlled by the us. ah, with any of you know, gets any compensation even though i submitted all the required documents, only receive social welfare payments amounted to a $170000.00 dina's which is completely useless. that's also presumably the iraqi government, how to adopt to required measure and compensate the wounded at least financially considering they haven't even made any moral apologies. oh, america did not compensate the iraqi people for even one dean are of it's bombings, which destroyed and humiliated the people of iraq. all injuries have been documented and the united states knows this. unfortunately, the killing in blood shedding of iraqi people continues. there is no deter it. the a 2000 or 3 conflict was not the only

u. s. campaign against iraq 1990 following the iraq invasion of kuwait than us president bush senior, initiate the desert storm military operation around 3000 civilians estimated to have been killed as well as up to 50000 iraqi soldiers and aaliyah. i spoke to desert storm veteran daniel bosworth who compared the 2 military interventions and iraq in 199091. we had all the military equipment soldiers. we were stopped at the border of iraq. they let saddam hussein stay in power to keep the region stable. right, because you have iran, iraq, i believe in 1991, had the 4th largest military. but then why in 2003, they wanted to take him out of power when they know it's going to open a vacuum. but was saddam hussein a direct threat now to the united states?

no, was he a direct threat to the people of the united states? no, in my opinion, i don't believe so. why do you think, daniel, that america, england and some of the nato allies, why do you think they chose the middle east? one? i believe oil and to i believe, to make the middle east unstable. there are certain people who like to control through fear. and if you make the, the middle east unstable, and then you, you keep pushing the narrative terrorists groups. i believe this is a way that they're able to control the people with fear and to be able to have the opportunity to invade other countries. and do you think though, do you think that, you know, you said the oil was so important for going into

a rocky ready thing? oil. was that important for going in know in the year 2000 there were 7 countries who did not join the us central bank and look 2001, afghanistan, 2003, iraq, 2011 livia and syria. then after that. yeah, he just, you know, just makes me think that is a motive for invading a country. you mentioned these countries here who essentially got invaded over the past 20 odd years. general wesley clark, near forestall general that he, he came out, he actually started talking publicly about this didn't, he said i, i came up, a commander came into my office one day through a stack of papers on my table and said, we're going to mean invading 5 countries and 7 years or something like that, wasn't it right. so you know the story as well just briefly but it's interesting for me because 9.