ah, with ours headline stories hungry, brown, the ignored stream pipelines of terror, goldsboro, un investigation stressing that the function incident can never be repeated fronts won't be made a scapegoat for africa problems or draw into a tug of war for influence on the continent. that's according to president much problem ahead of us for nation tour. all the region palestinian authority and fish. really settlers for their part in violet riots in the west like ton of water. i wish that at least one palestinian dead and wounded more than

a 100. it follows the killing of 2 jurors is really there in the shooting at sac with bob. we are 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 oppression, they are attacking us inside our houses and you have no right to defend yourself. why? like curio a city who will lead it with vote counting under way. early results from the country presidential parliamentary election are emerge and we'll take you through with one of the past 9 in the evening. here in moscow this monday, february the 27. welcome to the r t. news hungry i'm serbia valley. there cannot be a repeats i've been north stream attack the pipeline that connects their countries

according to hungarian prime minister victor or earlier the nations foreign minister stated the explosion should be investigated with the involvement of the united nations. this is basically the 1st time when such a major role in the critically was by women. but it was such kind of an attack months because he learned as a therapist. oh peter c. r. two's words come after recent revelations by the pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour, her sous extensive investigation concluded that pipelines were mine by u. s. navy divers in june last year. he also said washington news nato drills as cover for the operation with assistance from norway. and according to his report, president biden took the final decision of blowing up the infrastructure. after 9 months of consultations with his security advisors,

the claims have been denied by both washington on the e. u. with officials this missing hurst, his findings, as quote speculation, and even fiction when russia is seeking a fallen international investigation into the pipeline attacks. however, the un say's no answer can be given until the results of the current prob is complete. now that's being carried out solely by european countries. one of them. meanwhile, germany which last year suspended certification of north stream 2 is not reportedly planning to buy on use pipes from the project to transport liquefied natural gas global of hers. unless george zamarelli hidden trusting view, he surprised that certain states which have been fighting terrorism for decades suddenly aren't keen on having this incident. investigated under is once again the breaking ranks. and of course it's calling a spade a spade. and what else is it bought? the terrorist attack,

and what is particularly striking is that the countries that spend the better part of 2 decades waging a so called global war on terror seem remarkably uninterested in what actually happens. so we had the debate at the un security council last week at russia's behest, which russia and russia demanding that of an international investigation be initiated . and the united states and 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. 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. ok, another story to bring you on the program. drone strikes were reported on monday, across multiple regions of ukraine. explosions were heard in the capital key f, as well as in various other areas marked here on our map. local authorities. however, they allege a drone attack occurred in just one region without specifying if any damage was caused. mean, ukrainian forces have shells. a time in the russian held up a rosy region, you can see the aftermath of via that had a university building. ukrainian artillery reportedly used cluster munitions to bombard the civilian side. according to local officials, at least 10 shells struck the roof of the building. and as of now, there are no reports of countries. lot comes amid intensifying

bottles on the don balance front. lines ne, shit down. if he's in the loo, ganske republic and has been following russian troops in the combat. so the front and the la 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 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 packed 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 about a month and soon of work intensively. we have multiple goals. we constantly pushed the enemy were satisfied with our results. so own, we hit both infantry and ukrainian military equipment order. russia has amassed a powerful fire fist here and is now probing ukraine's defenses. keith 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 a good done of reposing from the dumbass oxy french president and money will micron safe. paris isn't for being drawn into a competition for access to africa. his words came ahead of his upcoming trip across the continent. let's discuss the situation where paris based artic country

peter, rachel morrison. rachel, good to see you. all very diplomatic language, but the background. subtext is heaving. i would suggest take us through it. yeah, let's face it now. cause big new friends strategy in africa. speech was always going to be about how paris is going to maintain a foothold in africa after being booted out of its traditional stomping grounds. so that's a hell region where it's stability and security and counter terrorism operations lead to coups, in places like molly and jihadists running around with about as much discipline as french kids on the school break, talk about terrorists. so african countries are increasingly opting for deeper cooperation with russia and china as a result of basically france. and wes fiascos are increasing fiascos and not mix paris and the west in general, really nervous. so now macro has just announced that he suddenly does not believe

in military contests between countries. i guess because france is losing on that coating in africa. so he's just going to change the rules. now. i mean, kind of like we did in preschool and we are playing games and we didn't like that. we were losing, he basically said, the africa should not be reduced to grounds for a military measuring contest. so he's declaring a quote, end of a cycle for france in africa. francis military footing has been used by others. he says to say that france only had a security agenda. so what is michael's big idea now? well, there was a clue that was going to be about money when he made a positive reference in his speech that be a friend, that full of the, of it actually called the francis financial community of africa's full county. so it was the currency that existed in france before the euro. he referred to it as

one of france's big contributions to the continent. but here's what italian prime minister jersey maloney said about the ca park in 2018. where so monday it, oh this is a child who acts in a gold mine in booking off. ah, so it's one of the poorest nations in the world. france prince colonial money for book kena. faso which has gold in return they demanded 50 percent of everything. burkina, faso exports ends up in the coffers of the french treasury. the goal that these child goes down the channel to extract, mostly i'm up in the coffin of the french states. you know, so dissolution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe. the solution is to free africa from satin europeans who exploit it and allowed his people to leave off what they have. ok, so that currency of 14 different african, i thought it was a great thing because it helped them get up to standards for investors globally. and so now michael wants to build on that when he considers

a wonderful symbol of french african cooperation, which is quite controversial for a lot of africans, especially with respect to sovereignty over their own currency. to focus on investments in health care, education, digital technology, sports culture, small business, all back by what he calls a european team. so here comes teen you. he mentioned a desire to work with civil society in africa several times. so all this amounts to him, what is basically an innovative new concept. it seems that michael has literally just discovered soft power. so instead of going into african countries under the pretext of helping with security and sticking around long after the situation gets even worse and hope of eventually scoring some natural resources. so basically, the american model not call is now proposing to go in with footballs, french style, philosophical debates, maybe some johnny holiday cds, maybe some french arts,

and some cash for n g o workers who can service french influences in the digital space, probably. and on the ground all for france, and with the hope that all of this might ultimately help to shake loose some sweet, sweet african resources. presumably, my co even said quote, we are going to do calming good. and he said, you can't take people for imbeciles. he said that france is going to defend its interests, but also do a respectfully of africans. not sure how admitting that you're taking a different approach to manipulating them as being respectful and not taking africans for imbeciles. but okay, looks like washington is also trying to see if it can be self serving the influential by using sweetness in handy instead of bombs. literally, that is what you asked 1st lady joe biden did recently in the media by giving out candy eminem's to kids. of course, all these investments that michael talks about will ultimately benefit french firms

in africa. that's always been the case with us and western investments on the continent. but it seems like they're trying really hard to create this kind of p, r friendly, good guy, image of candy and rainbows, all white washing, their militaristic, failed militaristic and background of militarism. all kind of trying to portray russia and china as the bad guys. it's going to be interesting to see the reaction be african leaders, isn't it? are to contribute our rate show margin. rachel, thanks very much for the ah, no palestinian authorities have condemned a rampage by is really settlers in the west bank town of who are up seeing the is really government is fully responsible for the incident. at least one palestinian was killed and more than a 100. others wounded after violence erupted overnight. dozens of cars,

as you can see here, were burned during the attack as well, while multiple homes were set ablaze on damaged by the settlers. locals alleged these really army was protecting the attackers and not the palestinians. we are not afraid of them, 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 alone, they forced the doors broke every thing though they burned warehouses and shops. they have burnt belongings of our neighbor and his new b, m w car months. may god compensate him or as you can see, they have burnt. the facade of the building a mile among other damage. iris as well was reportedly torched when a palestinian family were still inside. now the really prime minister later made a statement condemning the violence on call for the army to do its job mil to

promised to find the culprits. while the destruction, the chaos came just hours after 2 is really brothers, were killed in a drive by shooting by a palestinian gunman in the same time, the shooter is believed to still be at mart. will sunday his scenes followed the aka bus summit in which officials from both israel and palestine participated in a joined communique. after the summit in the jordanian city, both sides reaffirm the importance to deescalate, on prevent, at further violence. they also confirmed the need to end unilateral measures for a period of up to half a year, a commitment from israel to stop any new settlements for 4 months was included. 2 in the official wrap up note, however, prime minister benjamin netanyahu, along with other top officials in the country denies israel 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 fries. there's no settlement fries or change in the status quo, the temple mount. and there is no limitation on the i d f activities in the coming months. israel will authorize 9 outposts, angle approved 9500 new housing units in judea and samaria. what happened in jordan if it happened, will remain in jordan. while her dash party connected member of her counselor believes the only peaceful resolution to the conflict is for israel to stop in his words occupying palestinian alone near the man in the expansion of the men including outposts which are known again to see. and they said very me, leaving you today in the way goes out to wait for the hearing,

the but i just was also a and by in our again, just a few minutes ago i was going to extend the man, i'm going to leave the outposts. so i'm stuck, she says is keeping everybody community so is that you cannot go hand in hand, you know, colonial lease, a man reach just a few patients leaning against the front and i'm talking about it just, you know, i use my doc and we'll go to get them the only way to stop the block in violence and renew one divided by

the patient and allowing them to leave the state based on their own over in independence on the all ok right there in june. 67. ok. some big days in nigeria, the latest developments we have, you know, from the general election there for countries underway to determine the next president on parliament of africa, the most populous nation. ah. while 3 main front rollers are vying for the presidency, preliminary results show the people's democratic parties are teak who, abu, but car took one western and 4 northern states. so far while the ruling all progressive congress is bola to new booth. he is fast approaching, coming,

fight at top, and 5 western strongholds, in fact, not at the labor parties. peter obee got most votes in the state of a neg and most significantly lay goss. it's the 1st time since 1999 that sat bulletin who has not taken nigeria is largest city. if that's the windy to place. i'd ortiz africa correspondence carrabas. let tata breaks down the historical importance of that area and explains the complexity of what it takes to come out on top in nigeria. now the thing about winning lay was, is that no political party has ever won the nigerian local elections by not winning lego state. that's how important lego state is. it's the most popular state. it is way everybody flocks for bethany economic opportunity for better livelihood. for opportunity in general, labor has 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 fold it gets that no single party is able to win the national elections. if it does not achieve the 25 percent of the votes in at least $24.00 states, that means that means that mr. denovo as extends, could win 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 t cool abaca in the c 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. to know who really has some work to do his party

still has some groundwork to do if it's going to claim any legitimacy with regard to winning this particular elections. or some stage will still be, are going to count that some states will still be going ahead and conducting the elections all over again, due to a myriad of reasons from disruption to intimidation, to violence. but these electrons do not really caused 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. you have people contesting the care 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 the top of the, of the, of the complaint list doesn't work 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 be versus them to you and i is the biometric system that was introduced for this particular election is only rang once and it's only ren at a, at a localized election states before it was adopted. nationwide we are having issues or clued into our resort 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 login on that some

people have also complain about 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 technicality is, 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 is i want to find out the mitchell boost alleges i love to have done, really listen to them and in those challenges. so i'm, i, i'm slightly, this isn't when it comes to disrupt technology. still, the campus and of the independent electoral commission continues to, to count the numbers to count the votes and, and, and also declare things even though the plot, the asians in that same a brew job, whole rest. santa, i really denying him the opportunity to do just that. well,

while counting is ongoing tensions between the main parties are running high with the people's democratic party, accusing the ruling. all progressives, congress of fiddling results to secure run offs in several key states. the apc has dismissed the claims as an attempt to incite violence. others calling for the police authorities to step in. this is what was alleged. we have it on credible grounds that are main opponent in the selection. the all progressives congress party is currently mounting pressure and attempt to bribe their way to securing 25 percent in both the imo and a bonnie states. the apc are doing all within their means to cheat, and legos are demand for the electoral commissions. caution is not limited to legos . it extends to other states in the southwest and selected states in the north, including cut sina yorba, and bore. now among others, their defeat on propaganda vill position, did not fetch them the expected votes. this has expect ugly generator downside to

the account with many of the li does make it irresponsible. incendiary comments. we note with utmost concern those incites and comments on paul to violence by some spokespersons of the opposition. especially those from the people's democratic party repeatedly. we are particularly con sons on call on this dirt security services. i'm the major police force to immediately res friend. passes such as maliah. mama do. i miss sutton. boston bought a nature. all do not move george. there should be restrained from the act clear call to violence. well, as we await results, there are t is the place to be for updates on the nigerian elections and how the nation's

220000000 people. how they're going to be rude for the next 4 years. very significant pallet, all the big developments from it. we've got you covered with global prices of oil, natural gas, corn and wheat are not below the levels they were on before. the ukraine conflict began in february last year, yet the spikes, the lower tariffs, the bills of western consumers in particular continue as you well know, to rise and rise. i asked art, contributor chris, hence why. everyone in the west is told that the reason that everything was so expensive was because of putin because of oil and gas prices being stored by, by the special operation and the consequences of that. but now with thing that's actually absolutely not true with seeing the fact that in spite of the price is being cheaper, the price is for the average person in the west and not getting any cheaper people

or people are still paying $4.00 to $5.00 times as much as they were paying for the oil and gas than they were previously in, at the beginning of 2022 even so, so yeah, this, this whole thing is, it's being shown to be the law that it quite obviously is. there's lots of economic measures being implemented by governments, particularly in the, in the west, the us europe, u. k. for instance, saying that this is going to help, but again, those measured much volunteer as well. are they working? well, i think that having the opposite effect in and if you look at them, so we've covered a lot on the program about the amount, sheer amount of money that governments, particularly the united states, putting it in order to supposedly combat inflation. now if you, if you know anything about economics, even on a basic level, you understand that if you print extra money, you cause a situation called hyper inflation. and what we thing now the reason i believe that the prices of things are going down is because the actual money that people are

using to purchase them as become completely an awfully worthless in certain respects. so even though the price is gone down, the markets no longer reflect any real value because the markets just don't trust the currencies that people are using to pay for items. so is there a fix for that? how does the well, how do these governments solve the problem? well, i think we're probably going to revert back to the situation. we saw off to the big financial crisis in 2009. but all governments that basically become off of thea, they use the word or therapy. but what else therapy actually means union. if you look at it is it means a reduction in public services for the average person firing loads of people from their jobs, both in the public service industry and in business as a whole. and we're moving a kind of. so basically the people at the very bottom are going to pay for the mistakes of the people at the very top that decided to go to the casino imprints, a lot of monopoly money. just a couple more stories to fit in. i want to show you this a rack where hundreds of protesters took to the streets, i to the country, central bank of baghdad, after it the value,

the national currency. many of them waved. iraqi flood can help banners with global critical, you know, the government policy. the protest kicked off to the national currency. the diner fell to its lowest value in history compared to the us dollar. dozens of police were deployed in front of the bank and surrounding areas. no clashes for a rest were reported earlier. we spoke with a member of the iraqi parliament who said that government needs to focus on the quality of life for people to be guessed was one which again amendment to the low as you know.