a with regard to joe by imposing these sanctions on russia has destroyed the american economy. you. so there's your boomerang self with pulp headlines right now. what are the international as nigeria wait to see who will lead it? with the vote counting on the way early results from the countries presidential and parliamentary elections are coming. with palestinian authorities did allen to riley settlers for their part in violent riots overnight in the west bank town of water, which left at least one palestinians, dead and wounded at more than $100.00. okay, but you're not, we're not afraid of them. is really army or protecting the settlers, but if you try to protect yourself, the army will attack you and spray you with gas. this is

a pressure when they are attacking us inside our houses and you have no right to defend yourself. german chancellor left shoulder seeks to convince prime minister on their right and dro modi to side with the west against russia. the indian leader refrains from condemning moscow saying new delhi is ready to contribute to a peace process. i made the ukraine conflict with headlines live from moscow will soon touch down in ukraine, germany and india. but for now, straight to the african continent. as you do kick off the dallas program with the latest news now from the general elections in nigeria, a vote counting is underway to determine the next president and parliament of africa most populous nation. ah.

and so early results show the ruling party candidate coming out on top in his 3 southwestern strongholds, the peoples are democratic parties. i think who i will because i want to majority in the state of soon cut siena and out of my law, the labor parties. candidate, peter, obey got the most votes in the country's largest city of la goss. now this past month, the 1st time since 1999 that a pot he backed by mister to new bu a to time government that has not won the state. so over now to ortiz africa, correspondent cannibal a title of who's currently in law goes explaining that cities importance in the election. now the thing about when lay was, is that no political party has ever won the nigerian local elections by not winning league was think that's how important it was. they is, it's the most popular. they, it is way everybody flocks for bethany economic opportunity for better livelihood.

for opportunity in general, and in offense, lay by as written, history in a sense 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 win the election if we were counting lowly on majority numbers. but if he does not meet 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 t cool. i will buy a car in the, the,

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. i hid and conducting the elections, or again, due to a myriad of reasons from disruption to intimidation, to violence. but these elections do not really cause 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 the 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 state of any state. in fact, considering the dispute that have been lodged against that 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 going to be versus them to you and i is the biometric system that was introduced for this particular election is only ran once. and it's only ren at a, at a localized election stage before it was adopted. nationwide. i mean, shoot these improved more into our technologies, whether they can be able to get it right, like an address or having issues or like all of the others are having issues or plugged into or resolved yesterday, which will become 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 log in and out. some people have also complete. that's and some of the data is also a green lock. and so i don't know what the technical issues are. i don't know what the technique i did this at 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 lunch is i want to find out the mitchell

boost alleges i love to 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. but still, the chairperson of the independent electoral commission continues to, to count the numbers to count the votes and, and, and also declares things even though the party agents in that see a bruce cohen ris center. i really denying him the opportunity to do just that on here we're not international. we will continue to bring our special coverage off nigeria elections literally all throughout the day here on our tea with updates as well on our cheat dot com and artes telegram channels. hey

or now to the conflict in ukraine where drones stripes have been reported in the early hours of monday, across multiple regions of the country explosions and the capital kiya as well as in various other areas. in fact, you can see them right there on the map. this comes out as the local authorities confirmed a drone attack in just one region without specifying if there had been any damage. while in russia, ukrainian forces shell, the town in the region was up at o. j showing you the off them off about attack the hit, a university building. ukrainian artillery reportedly used cluster munitions to bomb that student facility. and according to local officials, at least 10 shells struck the roof of that university. thankfully, though, as we understand, there are no casualties. now this all comes and intensifying battles on the don bass front lines. even if john offers in the accounts republic following russian troops in the combat zone. the frontend to look guns,

republic presents the ultimate challenge in military mass. i see 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 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 the 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 and i bought them and then soon of we were work intensively. we have multiple goals. we constantly push the enemy,

were satisfied with our results, so we hit both infantry and ukrainian military equipment. so at russia has amassed a powerful fire fist here and is now probing. ukraine's defense is keep troops in turns scatter their perimeters with hundreds of mines. a clear sign that they've abandoned hopes the once cherished to deal another blow to the russian army. here i'm a good done of reposing from the dumbass oxy. hungary and soviet have vowed back cannot be a repeat the north stream attack on the pipeline. is that connect there? countries that's according to the hungarian prime minister earlier the countries foreign minister also said the explosions should be investigated with the involvement of the united nations. this is basically the 1st time when such a major role in the critical infrastructure was by whoever.

but it was such kind of an attack must be considered as a tourist electricity statement comes off the recent revelations by the pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, who claimed the pipelines were mind by u. s. navy divers, in june last year. they also said, washington used nato drills as a cover for the operation with help from norway. and according to his report, president biden took the final decision off the 9 months of consultations. the claims had been denied by both washington and of the e. you, with officials dismissing hush his findings as speculation and even fiction, or russia is still calling for a full in international investigation into the attack on the pipelines. however, the united nations says no onset can be given until the results of the current national investigations are complete. meanwhile, its being reported that germany,

which last year suspended certification of nor stream to is not reportedly planning to buy unused pipes from the project in order to transport liquefied natural gas. well, let's learn more and cross live now to global policy. introduce senior research fellow george is i me, well, to discuss this further here on the program. hello, georgia. very well. welcome to as always, see you very, very well. thanks on hungary position on russia has always basically been out of sync with you when it comes to sanctions for example. but, but now on the north stream issue, calling the nordstrom explosions, a terrorist attack, it's pretty bold move. why do you think hungary is speaking out in those tongue? well, hunger is once again a breaking ranks, and of course it's calling a spade a spade of what else is it bought a terrorist attack? and what is particularly striking is that the countries that spent the better part of 2 decades waging a so called global war on terror seem remarkably uninterested in what actually

happened. so we had the debate at the un security council last week at russia's behalf, which russian russia demanding that of an international investigation be initiated . and the united states united kingdom, bronsels said no, no, no need for it. we'll just let the competent national authorities investigate will . of course, these competent national authorities, audio authorities of germany, denmark and sweden, so to nato members, and one aspiring nato member. so there is no question was how objective this investigation is. and these 3 countries all said, well, we really don't know anything. this investigation is ongoing and don't expect any results any time in the near future. so it's extraordinary that the united states is showing such amazing patients about finding out the truth. not usually that

patient, but you know, it is george, you know, you hear all these different countries, particularly in europe saying yeah, you know, streaming got blown up. we know enough to know about it, but we're not going to investigate at all. we're not going to say welcome to name the culprit behind it. i mean it's, it's some, it's like all these different men was basically just openly covering the guilty party here. you know, i want to ask you guys, somebody once commented, recently they said the united nations exists to lend legitimacy to u. s. foreign policy. how would you read that? well, i think that's a little unfair because the united nation is actually one of the few international organization in which there is indeed a balance to you with hedging money up rule. the un security council has 5 permanent members, 3 of which on nato members. but 2 of which are definitely not nato members. and so we have russia in china that do have their own foreign policy preferences and their

own agenda if it is solely to national jobs. so sort of jumping, forgive me please my. but if it is so international than, than, than why does this seem to be, this is, i don't know, they seem to be strength in one corner and not in the other corner. i just, i can't, by the idea that the you and is totally impartial though the un isn't. the problem arises that the nato blog there are now 30 members, 32 if you can sweeten of inland they stick together. they absolutely vote unison right. they also, we have poly bureau, they all vote in as one of the russia side, they don't glucose one. i mean, russia can't even get the members of the collective security treaty organization to vote for it at the united nation, china. and just supposedly, with a great friend of russia, it abstains more often than he actually votes on the side of russia. so the problem is that we have one blog that he's absolutely rock solid and in other blog,

unfortunately, everyone just goes their own separate way. now ga us and says that any international investigation into north street must wait for the separate states to give back conclusions. and then you know, here it all to where marking 20 years since the invasion of iraq. and as we're covering that, you know, the united nations had a very different role back then, and it just seems, well, i don't know. i mean, could you give us some sort of comparison? is the un today, the same un as it was 20 years ago. and is it respected in the same? well, let's let you know. it's not totally dissimilar, because if you remember the un back in 2003, 3 permanent members, but is france, russia and china refused to sanction of the purported invasion. and so america have to go on his way, in this case, the problem again with the u. n, is that you have united st united kingdom,

3 permanent members that are going to veto. they're going to veto anything that russia proposes. so just as in that case, we had 3 members that were ready to veto the us plan. we now have 3 members of that already to veto anything that the russia proposes. what about so, i mean it's one thing to take out the no stream pipelines. ok, i get that ok. putting cold in act of terror as did the hungarian foreign minister just just a short time ago now. but at the end of the day, if we, if we just forget the fact that it's an act of terror, if we forget the fact that seymour hersh says america and nate so well behind it, you can ignore the fact that russian gas for decades has been the back bone of european industry, the next step should be europe, essentially finding out who did this, why they did it and why in europe, in the position it's currently in. it seems to me that no one's looking out for europe and those who should be looking the other way. that's exactly right. this is

a ghastly europe. this is gas that was at the heart of european prosperity, particularly at the heart of the german economic power. you know, what enabled germany to be a dominant economic power in the world. and the americans clearly were behind this and the year. but the european powers, led by very weak feckless ineffectual leaders said great a store by keeping in with the united states. then in addressing the concerns of their own citizens. and so what's important to them is loyalty for with ukraine rather than a how about providing gas for our industries? it's a remarkable phenomena. historians are going to speculate how it was. the european leaders were more interested in the concerns of washington than in their own

citizens. and the global policy institute senior research fellow george w l. a. joining us live here on our international. thank you, george. good to see here. thank you. ah. and it's good to have you on the program with us to day palestinian authorities condemned a rampage by israeli settlers in the west bank town of who. what on sunday saying the israeli government is fully responsible for the quote, terrorist act. at least one palestinian was killed but more than 100. others were injured off to violence. they rocked it overnight. we can show some footage of a big burnt out building with many burnt out cause down below while multiple homes rural. so set ablaze and damaged by the settlers. a local say the israeli army was in fact protecting the attackers and not the palestinians. diana jemirah, 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. when 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, a lot of they forced the doors broke every thing they burned warehouses and charles, they have burned belongings, of our neighbor and his new b, m, w, car bugs, may god compensate him, hold as you can see, they have burnt the facade of the building somewhat among other damage. so a group of israelis rated the town attacking locals and starting fires. we understand one house was reportedly torched, while a palestinian family was still inside. the israeli prime minister made a statement condemning the violence and cold for the audi to do its job. netanyahu also promised to find the culprits. now at the destruction and chaos came just, i was off, the 2 israeli were killed in a drive by shooting in that same town. a, we understand a manhunt is actually still underway. the suspects now the chaos on sunday took place off the back of a summit in which officials from both israel and palestine participated in

a joint communique off to the summit in aqaba. a both sides reaffirm the importance to us escalate and prevent. so the violence, they also confirm the need to end the unilateral measures for a period of up to 6 months. it also include a commitment from israel to stop any new settlements for 4 months. however, the israeli prime minister netanyahu, along with other top officials in the country denies 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 on 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, will earlier in the program, i was talking to doctor i lonely l. a former director general of israel's foreign ministry. now he says that the power of the country is held by an ultra nationalist coalition. think at this stage, it woods, los the meanings. anything there is where the government says or the prime minister says, has to be checked on the ground in this such a bed wrinkled off for twisting things. a spinning it the, the only thing that matters is what's going on on the ground. and on the ground from what we see around us, things are going on more settlements more hope that will issues. and the outcome is that the population in bed westbank,

these really population of population is growing all the time. and as you saw yesterday, my becoming more brutal is so i think it the one to judge is where on the deeds long 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, if we will, if they conroy the chance all the while they are very disappointed by then and he's a ministration is they sometimes say the correct words. but when it comes to putting pressure on these really government, i'm really very reluctant to dewey, and i think a nobody here in the shrinking the scamps as hopes from the united states anymore.

ah, former us secretary of state condo, lisa rice, has expressed doubts about ukraine's ability to become a member of nato that entails the block needing to come to its defense. ukraine should be allowed into nato. well, that's going to be a hard list because of the article 5, an attack up on one is an attack upon all guarantee of nato. and, but i was to take that vote. that's right. but i do think that what we've seen is that ukraine is de facto now, a very strong ally of nato and vice versa. what it comes as nato has been reluctant to engage russia directly, in fact, continuing to support the conflict through weapons provided to the ukranian army. article 5 in the block mandate guarantees military protection for old member states under the north atlantic treaty umbrella. and audio we spoke with a policy analyst and editor of the inside issue john catholic. he says that the reason nato is silencing t. s desire to join the alliance is the potential for ukraine to trigger the

defense clothes. one of the issues with ukraine becoming a member is if it doesn't have a stable relationship with the russian federation, there is a fear that any time the russian federation did anything that the govern, any government of ukraine did. like if they were a member of nato, they would start screaming, article 5, article 5, article 5, and it would just drain the, the ethos of nato. so, you know, that's another reason why most natal members which just wish the ukrainians would be quiet about this. you know, nato ascension and focus on what their day job is and their day job is dealing with the conflict with the russian federation and, and dealing with what they need to do internally or now time to north africa was

the head of the russian security. so it was his nikolai patricia arrived in algeria on monday to discuss regional security issues. patricia met with the chief of staff of the jury and army and the head of external security. but the country, a cooperation between law enforcement agencies and the 2 countries special services work. well, the main points of discussion last year, the bilateral security thoughts were held right here in moscow. were plans for cooperation on information security or outline? well, it's a big story. look at the picture right there. there's the indian prime minister and arrange remotely dressed in white, the color of peace and as germany's olaf sholtes dressed with a black tie. i'll have. busy shipped arriving in india on saturday to convince the country's prime minister and arrange remotely to side with the west against russia . our mowdy state of the india maintained a neutral stance and is ready to contribute to an immediate apiece process for

ending 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 paint is ready to contribute to any beast process. we have also agreed to the 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 that give you that update around and shot of a has more on how schoultz sees the chance to blame moscow for the global energy crisis and food insecurity. worth noting here that many cargo ships carrying grain continue to carry grain. so europe and not to the poorest countries that need it most. no 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 visit. everson sir, are taking gun or taking office in 2021. i essentially bought the countries signed some agreements, wind all saw solar and dam in fact, green hydrogen sector. now this meeting between the german chancellor as well as the prime minister of india and that into, for the it don't please just a day after the anniversary of russia offensive in ukraine. now the german chancellor says that the conflict is hurting developing countries and that it's also causing go fuel as well as food shortages in these countries. but to member where the green whistles go, the wrestles full of greens from ukraine from unlocked boards. in fact, they were going north to the starving countries of africa, but mainly to europe. in the tart, 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 not the impact is not too negative for them. supply shortages, thus the one priority of our work boat. oh, last shots also retreated about hazel commitment or ceiling. the deal between europe as well as you look in union as well as in there, the free trade deal. and why do they want to do that, or essentially because of course a, it is going to strengthen our use ties with, in the indoor specifically june that but more importantly, they believe that by doing saw, if they can father, rightfully mosque or so basically reading india we're from russian arms and energy, but india doesn't want that. there's a clear answer to that, nor in factor as far as feminist in the movie during his wizard has been sent a why he said that the.