a final goal of these theme revolutions is to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore . ah, the headline so nasty international as nigeria wait to see who will lead it with vote counting on the way early results from the countries presidential and parliamentary election are coming in. palestinian authorities denounced israeli settlers for their part in violent riots overnight in the west bank town of water. at least one palestinian was killed. but more than a 100 what we're put your thought. we are not afraid of that. the israeli army or protecting the settlers. but if you try to protect yourself, the army will attack you and spray you with gas. this is oppression. they are attacking us inside our houses and you have no right to defend yourself both on the

program and looking back as we bring you special coverage of the us invasion of iraq from 2003 and talk to those whose lives were shattered by the tragic events that started 20 years ago. one day there was a huge explosion. we don't know that some of them had fallen on those 3 children were lined dead me a. we are slowly working away into the evening hours in moscow and what a monday. it's been so far, just a moment, we'll 0 in on africa, but soon to ukraine, germany and india. so michael, up here we go. we do start the program now with some of the very latest news from the general elections in nigeria. a vote counting is underway to determine the next president and parliament of africa's most populous nation. hey.

so preliminary results show the ruling party candidates came out on top in his 3 southwestern strongholds of the people as democratic parties, a because one, a majority in the state of ocean cut siena and out of my one of the labor parties. candidate, peter, obey. i got the most votes in the country's largest city of la goss. now this does mom the 1st time since 1999 that a party back to by mister to new bu a to time governor that has not won the state. so over now to water africa correspondent cannibal a title who's currently in law goes explaining the cities importance in the current elections. now the thing about we lay was, is that no political party has ever won the nigerian local elections by not winning league was state. that's how important they was. they is, it's the most populous they. it is way everybody flocks for best that you called on

the opportunity for better livelihood, for opportunity in general. and in offense, lay by as written, history in a says that they were able to achieve this, even though they do not have such a major lead in other states. the thing that must be remembered is that it is written in nigeria, federal law. it is federal law that no party, regardless of how many vote it gets that no single party is able to win the national elections if it does not achieve with 25 percent of the votes in at least 24 states. that means that means that missed up to new as it stands could when the elections, if we were counting lowly on majority numbers. but if he does not need that threshold, that allows him to win 25 percent in at least $24.00 states. he will not be

president, and that puts left the i t cool. i will buy a car in the see in the front seat as it were and it leaves him even though he's got a lower percentage in terms of numbers, it leaves him in the lead. so mr. tina really has some work to do. his party still has some groundwork to do if it's going to claim any legitimacy with regards to winning this particular election. said that if it's something that it's only peculiar in nigerian federal law, now we understand that some stage will still be, are going to count that some states will still be going ahead and conducting the elections on again, due to a myriad of reasons from disruption to intimidation to violence, but these electives do not really cause her a favorable light on the independent national electoral commission. the officials

of the electoral commission, the officials themselves, thing that they did not even get their stipend, that they were basically forced to conduct the elections on a hungry stomach. that they were not given adequate security. that they were supposed to conduct the security and conduct elections. abolla is also a hive of activity, considering some of the disputes that have been laid out by some of the party agents. they. you have people contesting the chair of the independent national electoral commission himself saying that they shouldn't be announcing the results of each think of anything in fact, considering the dispute that have been loyal against that the top of the, of the, of the complaint list as it were, is the fact that people think that these results do not really represent what has happened on the ground. people to this day complain about the fact that results when a transmitted live, which was what the beaver system was supposed to encourage. and to enable nigeria

to do that to be versus them to you and i is the biometric system that was introduced for this particular election is only read once. and it's only ren at a, at a localized election state before it was adopted. nationwide i named shoot leads improve more india technologies, whether they can be able to get it right. like managers are having issues or the others. are we having issues applauding to our resort yesterday, which will be too much a concern to nigeria? and i think it is our areas are an actual walk on and see how they can improve on from people are finding it very difficult to login on that some people have also called that's some of the data is also a great enough. and so i don't know what the technical issues are. i don't know what the technique i did this. but the moment i go back to our situation room we, i t people on bruce way in charge of the, of the port out where the,

where we have challenges. i leave after lynch's. i want to find out the mitchell boost alleges. i love to have done really listen to them in those challenges as well. my, my, my, i'm slightly deficient when it comes to disrupt technology. but still, the chairperson of the independent electoral commission continues to, to count the numbers to count the votes and, and, and also declare things even though the party asians in that same a bruce cohen race center. i really denying him the opportunity to do just that. we will continue bringing you our special coverage, all the nigerian elections, both presidential and parliamentary as well. it's just about maybe 10 past 4 in the afternoon. that was our teaser carnival. a tax. hey

palestinian authorities have condemned a rampage by his ready settlers in the west bank town of who wata on sunday, saying the israeli government is fully responsible for what they're calling a terrorist act. at least one palestinian was killed and more than a 100 others whoa, left wounded off of violence. a rock that overnight. we can show you the following a footage with dozens of burnt out cars and a building right there. a multiple homes were also set of blades and damaged by settlers. a local say, the israeli army was in fact protecting the attackers and not the palestinians. diana, now, we are not afraid of them know the israeli army or protecting the settlers. but if you try to protect yourself, the army will attack you and spray you with gas would. this is oppression. they are attacking us inside our houses and you have no right to defend yourself. and as you can see, the area here, they forced the doors broke,

everything they burned warehouses and shovels. they have burned belongings of our neighbor and his new b, m, w, car, bugs. may god compensate him whole. as you can see, they have burnt. the facade of the building, somewhat among other damage. a lot of adult mom. i was here yesterday when the incident occurred. i didn't know how to escape as they closed immediately, all roads and exits. so i was obliged to stay here among did i have locked the door? and after the settlers came to burn things, they set fire to all the wood. i had the car and burnt the area. so as we understand, a group of israelis raided the town at tucking locals and starting $51.00 house and your quarterly pool. while a palestinian family was still inside is ready. prime minister made a statement condemning the father to call to the army to do its job. he also promised to track down the culprits ah

ah, dismissal. we came home from work as usual, then it was after evening prayers. suddenly we saw from the main street mob settlers. we heard the sound of things break in and shooting. there was streaming a noise, got louder. we heard women streaming from one of the houses. there were 7 or 8 of them. we came to see what was happening. the house of one resident abdullah sir. his sky was set ablaze around it. there were 50 or 6, the settlers within, they set it on fire, were picked up some stones and confronted them. the same thing happened to our brother a bo 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 at home. so

our residents were broken into. they broke the windows of the houses to burn some houses completely. they burned everything, abdullah 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. the destruction and chaos come just hours after 2 israelis were killed in a drive by shooting in that same town. as we understand a man hunt, it's still underway. the suspects. while they are chaos on sunday, took place off to the occupied summit in which officials both israel and palestine participated in a joint communique after the summit in october of both sides reaffirm the importance to deescalate and prevent further violence. they've also confirmed the need to end the unilateral measures for a period of up to 6 months that included

a commitment from israel to stop any new settlements for full months. however, the israeli prime minister in yahoo, along with other top officials in the country, denies that tel aviv is planning to freeze settlement expansion construction and regulation in judea. and samaria will continue according to the original planning and construction schedule without any changes. there has and will not be any freeze. there's no settlement freeze or change in the status quo and the temple mount. and there is no limitation on the i d. f activities in the coming months. israel will authorize 9 out posts and will approve 9500 new housing units in judea and samaria. what happened in jordan if it happened, will remain in jordan. early on this program i was speaking to dr. alon lee l. a former director general of israel's foreign ministry. now he says that the power in the country is held by an ultra nationalist coalition. think at this stage

it was lost, the meanings, anything there is where the government says or the prime minister says, has to be chick on the ground. oh, this such invent wrinkled off for twisting things. it spinning it. the only thing that matters is what's going on on the ground and on the ground for what we see around us. things are going on more settlements more that will issues. and the outcome is that the population in their westbank, these really population of lessons growing all the time. and as you saw yesterday, my becoming more google is so i think it the one to judge is we're only deeds lot on its words. and this is no secret the united

states republicans or democrats are leaning strongly toward israel. and those of us who believe in peace and thought that the settlers it, we will if they conroy the chair. so these are disappointed by and he's a ministration is they sometimes say the correct words, but when it comes to air, putting pressure on these really government up very, very reluctant to dewey. and i think a nobody here in the shrinking these gaps. his hopes from the united states anymore . egypt farm and if they're met with sirius president, bashar al assad and cookies foreign minister on monday, basically marking the 1st visit to the 2 countries in a decade by a top egyptian diplomat. a sum i shall cree has forecast his trip as quote,

showing solidarity with brotherly people. and egypt was among those who 1st delivered humanitarian aid to syria. despite the fact that broke off ties with syria after the arab spring of 2011. and he also visited turkey, pointing to another ship in egypt, foreign ties. there he met with the turkish foreign minister, where the 2 visited the port of medicine, where an adoption ship arrived on monday to deliver a well, we can now cross live to former egyptian deputy foreign minister who said hardy, who's joining us here live on our t and to national a very warm welcome to you. so i thank you very much for coming on this program today. it's a pleasure to have you with us in times of hardship. sometimes friendship can be found to do you think this visit the egyptian foreign minister to syria, for example, does it does the signal opportunity to, to rebuild relations that have essentially been frozen when i get the visit to the mosque? as you right. you said this is the 1st visit in more than 10 years by senior

b. c. and so i guess this was a thumbs within the context of egypt showing. so these aren't the people of cds and people are 30 in meeting the consequences of the recitation caused by the earthquake jerky and she, having said that, i guess that the visits the visits do have an ignition, but it's got a message that the egypt is. and maybe that many is willing to turn the page and normalize relations with most, syria, and we have to take into account. there is a background. this is not something new for the last year. nation, egypt and the countries have been warming up as far as ca,

foster that we're meeting in the senior official intelligence services and as far as 30 as well. sure. and we have 2 meetings, 2 rounds of negotiations at the level of the foreign ministers of the country by invitation. the 1st was the 1st had taken place in battle, and the 2nd in so i guess the business of the egyptian minister who that masked and turkey could herald in a new state in the relations between these. but so this is, this is coming in the wake of what, mr. you've seen this approach small in some parts of that part of the world right now you talk about a, a political message being put forth

a message of solidarity from egypt to syria. also to turkey, but why? now what is going on behind the scenes? is it because there is a vacuum in that part of the world, or is it because they understand that we have to come together for the future prosperity of the middle east? well, i guess that all countries, including the sea and governments have come to the conclusion that we have the h, what was called the spring and, and, and the whatever resulted from this year the year is up there mile and insecurity. and so i guess the we are discussing the visit of the ministers with so much that we have to put it in the larger framework that is a growing agreement among most countries that the time has

to bring back to the home on the one hand and on the other hand, to vote for video going back to occupy it, see in the, in the meat. so this momentum, there is a momentum within the world and particular that the time has to go back to day status school and be before january, 2011 in order to face the challenge of a confronting the countries. and i guess this is the right moment, i guess, governments believe that this is the right moment to speak to make the need for the big the lead and restore diplomatic relations with it's very,

it's very interesting what's happening in that part of the world right now. mr. hi, how to be with the united states essentially putting out about ghana saw for example, most of that stuff is going from iraq. and then of course you had the western back army of motion aries, trying to take out a sod for a number of years in syria. so that part of the world, it's very difficult time now off at 10 even 20 years now. and it's so good to see this approach mon and i guess syria working to rejoin the arab league as well, a former egyptian deputy foreign minister who's saying how did the joining us live here on our team to national many thanks for your time. we appreciate it. thank you for hosting me. sure, thank you. are now let's address the conflict in ukraine, where drone strikes have been reported in the early hours of monday, across multiple regions of the country. explosions were heard in the capital kia, as well as in various other areas. you can see right there on the map of this comes as local authorities confirmed a drone attack in just one region without specifying if there was any damage as

a result. meantime in russia, ukrainian forces shell, the town in the region of the hotel g. we can show you the, off them off here, the attack that actually targeted a student university building a ukrainian artillery or portly used cluster munitions to bomb bar that students side. now, according to local officials, at least 10 shells struck the roof of the building. we didn't receive any reports of casualty. now this all come was admit intensifying battle is on the don bass front lines. our t z e goes down off is in the look on square public and followed russian troops in the combat zone. 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 hours. low lands are covered with fog. down toes and snow falls, impede visibility, paralyzing the work of sports,

his and anti tank cruise. all this and move has to be factored into the gargantuan equation by both sides. russia planning in 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 the grown camera is 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 then soon of work intensively where we have multiple goals. yes, we constantly push the enemy. we're satisfied with our results. so then we hit both infantry and ukrainian military equipment, so it, russia has a must a powerful fire fist here and is no probing. ukraine's defense is key of troops in turn. 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 again done of reporting from the dumbass oxy. ah, 20 years ago to this day. iraq agree to destroy as long range ballistic missiles as well dictated by the united nations. but that didn't stop what happened next, a western essential invasion and occupation of iraq. here we are now looking back 20 years later 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 danger. with

immense and fleet with it took just over one month of baghdad to fall. but in the, in suing years, hundreds of thousands of civilians found their lives in pieces. oh, i was a teenager in the tardy area. there was an army training camp and weapons depots and the sides was subjected to heavy bombardment by merican forces. we were teenagers and we were playing football not caring about the shelling a sometimes we would have to hide one date, there was a huge explosion. we did not 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 bowl died instantly. me but i

was injured in 2000 sakes. while i was playing, i have a 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? oh,

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? 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 u. s. ah listen i i didn't get any compensation even though i submitted all the required documents, only received social welfare payments amounted to a 170000 dina's which was completely useless. i. 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 at

the 2000 a 3 conflict was not the 1st us campaign against iraq 1990 following the iraqi invasion of kuwait. then you as president bush senior, kicked off operation, desert storm, and i spoke to desert storm veteran daniel bosworth to compare the 2 military incursions in 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 1090. 91 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 somebody, nato allies? why do you think they chose the middle east? one? i believe oil. i and to i believe, to make the middle east unstable. there are certain people who like to control through fear. and if you make to the middle east, unstable, and then you, you keep pushing the narrative terrorists roof. 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, and do you think though, do you think that, you know, you said the oil was so important for going into iraq, d ready thing oil was that important for going and know in the year.