dental office showing recent opposition to false is presence. that is the take of all future country to show more. let's face it now, cause big new french strategy in africa. speech was always going to be about how paris was 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 jihad us 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 west fiascos are increasing fiascos and not mix harris and the west in general, really nervous. so now michael has just announced that he suddenly does not believe in military contest between countries, i guess because france is losing on that footing in africa. so he's just going to

change the rules now. i mean, kind of like we did in preschool and we're 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, frances financial community of africa's for income. so it was the currency that existed in france before the euro. he referred to it as one of frances, big contributions to the continent. but here's what italian prime minister, georgia maloney sat about, the ca, park in 2018 where so manguno, this is a child who acts in a gold mine in burkina faso. it's one of the poorest nations in the world,

france prince colonial money from kena faso, which has gold in return. they round at 6 at the sound of everson, burkina, faso, exports and jump in the coffin of the french treasury. the gold, this child goes down the channel to extract mostly ends up in the coffers of the french state. so the solution is not to take the africans and bring them to europe . the solution is to free africa from sat to europeans who exploited and allowed his people to leave of what they have. 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. 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 in hope of eventually

scoring some natural resources. so basically, the american model knock hall is now proposing to go in with footballs, french style, philosophical debates, maybe some johnny holiday cds with the hope that all of this might ultimately help to shake loose some sweet, sweet african resources. presumably, 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. but okay, looks like washington is also trying to see if it can be self serving lee influential by using sweetness in handy instead of bombs. literally, that is what you asked. first lady. jill biden did recently in namibia by giving out candy eminem's to kids. of course, all these investments that mark hold talks about will ultimately benefit french firms in africa. that's always been the case with us in western investments on the

continent. but it seems like they're trying really hard create this kind of p, r friendly, guy, image of candy and rainbows, all white washing, their militaristic, failed, militaristic and background of militarism. our kind of trying to portray russia and china as the bad guys political army go. a gal is on africa, laura freeland, believe the u. s. attitude toward the continent is all about influence. the united states in europe is stuck in his own mo, your power. so they can see, actually working with russia, especially with china economically, to develop and help raise the stand living with the death rate. you eliminate poverty in africa. they do it as we have to maintain control

geopolitical control. and the see themselves in a large portion of african nations did not support the resolution, attacking worship and is many in africa including you who see china is more favorable light in the united states. and that's because china is, believe you united states in the large blind to actually believe in helping the nation go infrastructure. they will not do. instead of having this stupid e g o power thinks we should be looking for ways to work with child to work with other countries and collaborating with african countries to actually develop their economy. right now to the latest developments

form the general election in nigeria. though counting is on the way to determine the next president and parliament of africa most populous nation. a preliminary results show the people's democratic party candidate, i think, to barbara has a secured one west and full north east. some states, the ruling old progressive congress is bulletin, is meeting in 6 regions, mostly in the west, while the labor parties. peter only got the most votes in full states, including lagos, but was lost by the states governor to his party for the 1st time in decades, only the state of cannon has been won by another candidate representing the new

nigerian people's policy. that while the results of the vote continued to be an out, some candidates have already declared. they concern about the results. the toby's and labor policy stated that it has lost confidence in the results being collated and announced demanding a revision of the results or the complete cancellation of the elections. peter of the one i majority in the she states of laid off, but a policy representative believes the results were under estimates. it is not i see with that that is it to represent to some of the, of the letters of the book we know and the examples that much, you know, the cheese. so i show you more than what was referred to wanting in leg off state is critical to any candidate see to win the election as have become president.

candidate must receive at least 25 percent of the votes cost and 239 years 36 states. are these horsewoman kind of build a tougher things, more details? now the thing about winning lay was, is that no political party has ever won that nigerian local elections by not winning leg was state. that's how important lego state is. it's the most popular state. it is way everybody flocks for bethought 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 phones it gets that no single party is able to win the

national elections if it does not achieve 25 percent of the votes in at least 24 states. that means that means that mr. denovo as a stance 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 a t qu 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. tino who 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 elections at 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 has 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 a security and conduct the elections. 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 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. ringback 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 be coming in. what's your concern to nigeria? and i think it is our areas are in nature, 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. 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, love to have done, really listen to them and in those challenges. so i'm, i, i'm slightly deficient when it comes to disrupt technology. 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 blue whole rest center. i really denying him the opportunity to do just that. a lot out say guy and out he is at the pace to be for updates on the night june elections and the future of the nations. 220000000 people of the next 4 years old of the developments we've got. you covers

the earth treasury secretary has made a surprise visit you trying to discuss further ways to support the country. jeremy held a meeting on monday with present dimansky in q. she announced the recent transfer of another 1.2 and t 5. $1250000000.00 an additional aid to the country. but as the money keeps flowing into the cube coffers, there's been a warning from the u. s. and spoke to general for afghanistan, who admitted mistakes were made in the funds sent to rebuild the country. he of the seas. and he warned the same could happen in ukraine. the very worst outcome is that the assistance gets diverted, stolen in such a way that it doesn't accomplish its intended purpose, you're bound to get wastage,

you're bound to get corrupt elements of not only the ukrainian or host government, but also if u. s. government contract his or other 3rd party contract is to steal the money. as we're going to see on the graph here, the u. s. aid to over 20 years is almost the same with what washington sent you in just one year. and africa file region as a rudy experience. first have some of us military aid being diverted and i just present claims weapons that were supposed to be sent to you have turned up in the west am central african region of lake chad basin. the issue has a real way can worries about the region security, especially with the renewed threats but harass terribly. earlier we spoke to former president senior security alice michael maloof, who says constant us involvement in conflicts is facilitating the disappearance of these weapons. the answer to not having this problem does not get involved in every

fight that we, that we come across. there is no war that we don't like, it seems, and we've been doing this unimpeded for to, for over 20 years. so we gotta stop that. it's that simple, this a gemini of ours, it's just got to come to an end. because we're, we're actually through these wars we're actually helping to increase the spread of these, of these weapons. and it's impossible, impossible to keep track of them. and yet, it goes on and i look, it was after we left afghanistan in disgrace, that within 3 weeks you had lloyd austin, this u. s. secretary defense already in georgia and, and then the ukraine trying to is trying to foment problems. and this is just got to stop again, stop swearing, china, i'm presiding the corona virus tragedy. those were the words earlier from the

chinese of foreign ministry spokesperson in response to recent us. claims that the pandemic was lightly choice. as the u. s. energy department has concluded that the coven pandemic most likely arose from a laboratory leak. according to a classified intelligence report recently provided to the white house and key members of congress. the energy department made its judgment with low confidence, according to people who have read the classified report. she and she see a lovely is extremely nighty. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from china and the world health organization reached after visiting the relevant laboratory in blue hand and holding in debt exchanges with relevant researchers. the relevant party should start playing on the lot. league theory, stop smearing china and stuff. politicizing, the issue of origin tracing the report sites, only 2 officials from the u. s. department of energy and they say they have low

confidence that this comes from a lab that it was a lab league, but that hasn't stopped all. the major us mainstream media outlets from running with this story. now the report also says it's based on new intelligence, but none of the articles presented have any new evidence decides. and it seems like this is being used currently. republicans are bringing this up and using it to call out the bible administration and demand more hostility to china. the chinese communist party is not only a menace, but the nature of these regimes as the lights of the world. and we need to make that clear to people. the chinese communist party is evil. it's forest killed, millions and see will stop at nothing to destroy the u. s. it's time to hold this evil regime accountable. i'm glad the department of energy recognizes this reality . it's past time to make the chinese communist party pay. it is critical that ministration also begin to work immediately with our partners and allies around the

world to hold the chinese communist party. accountable. iming is of course, very suspect. we see prominent cia and us intelligence officials stepping forward and calling out china for the possibility of china, giving weapons to russia. we see a wide spread demonization of china. and now we have this story about leaks, you know, getting into the media. it's certainly interesting timing and it fits in with a full court all on anti china hysteria from u. s. officials. fact that they're going to meet next week. germans, she in turn to discuss this on holy warrants that they have to put weapons in the ukraine to me is very disturbing because, well, maybe ukraine today is can be taiwan to morrow. note that at this same time, we have united states pumping weapons on to the island of taiwan into the philippines, playing up the idea that china is a danger. certainly parallels

a similar escalations that were done with ukraine. why if we achieve the level of success we've achieved in ukraine a big part of that has been because after russian aggression in 20142015, we honestly got off to preparing for future conflict training for the ukrainians. pre positioning of supplies, identification of sites from which we could operate, support, sustain operations. we call that setting the theater, and we're setting the fit in japan, in the philippines, in other locations. now, chinese officials reject the report, say that it's simply not accurate and that it fits in with a pattern demonizing, china from the united states and u. s. media. and it's fair to say that around the world, there's also a lot of skepticism. however, this seems to be the latest escalation, and you asked media's hostility toward china and whipping up the u. s. public to oppose jain an acts of terror that can never be allowed to happen again. that's how hungry is prime is or has this more of the blossom than

old seam part part of this tool through the russian under rules infrastructure. and september a ben. the north stream explosion was simply a terrorist act by whoever committed it was made at the northern direction, just so that europe wouldn't receive gas from russia. that it can also be done in the south. together with serbia, we made it clear that if this ever happens, it won't be possible to get away with it so easily to sweep it under the rug like it's currently been done with the north stream detonation. yeah, they're hung, they're in 4 minutes. a cold for a united nations investigation into the pipeline. at fac, russia is also divani a full international inquiry. however, un says it can't decide on that until the results of the current proof is complete, which is being carried out solely by european countries. one of them germany, which last year suspended certification of no seem to is now report to be planning

to buy unused pipes from the project to transport liquefied natural gas. they must follow recent revelations by the pulitzer prize winning journalist seymour hersh, whose extensive investigation concluded the pipelines were mind by us. navy divers, last june, he said to washington, use native drills as cover for the operation with assistance from no way. according to his report, present by them took the final decision on blowing up the infrastructure. after 9 months of consultations with his security advisors, the claims have been denied by both washington and the with officials, dismissing hirsch's findings as quote speculation and even fiction. global affairs. alice george really knows that certain states which have been fighting terrorism for decades. suddenly on 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, had russians behalf, which russian russia demanding that international investigation be initiated. and the united states, the united kingdom bronsels or no need for it will just let the competent national authorities investigate. but of course, these competent national authorities, authorities of germany, denmark and sweden,

so to nato members and one aspiring nato member. so the question is, 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 rushes subdivide, say that roll will with it in capital from may through g 20 form. this is on wednesday, international corporation. i'm strengthening the positions of the global south on the into my internalization arena and made a rising listen. pressure are expected to be on the agenda. all calls will not ruin sharma examines the details of the upcoming high profile gathering. love rob is with india, is extremely significant in the backdrop of growing bilateral dies between the 2

countries and group as western sanctions against russia have meant that by default, corporation between the 2 countries has accelerated. our relationship with russia, i think, has been extraordinarily study. it has been studied through all the tub, lynch and in global politics. so as i said, again, you know, the opposition, perhaps it's their job to criticize, it would be nice if they do it with a little bit more information than i could issue in the us, russian on import search to a record in january in moscow ruins of talk oil supplier to new delhi, but it's not just energy. other sectors as well. for example, there's been a nearly 400 percent jump in russian merchandise and boards. now the 2 countries also aimed to continue working on facilitating trade in local currencies. now what could be discussed in the need is also approaches in cooperation of

existing institutions, such as the s c, u, and bricks. this meeting is one of the biggest events ahead of the final g 20 summit in september this year. and for the movie government for this meeting, the focus really will be on multilateralism need for reform and food and no g security. now the challenge for india is that these very real issues could be overshadowed by the western demands for india to condemn russia. something that we saw last week in the g 20 finance ministers needs in banga lew. it is our hope that india will use their influence with russia to support an end to this conflict. and as foreign minister j shankar has said and to the conflict according to the principles of the un charter. but in deals largely kept a neutral stance on the conflict. declining to blame rochelle for way to remember

in dallas. been seeking a solution to dialogue in diplomacy in there's also consistently abstained from you and what's against moscow. diplomatic sources say that india will continue to maintain a neutral stance on you. queen d. c. b shall be perfectly. i'm since the beginning of the developments in ukraine, india has insisted on resolving this dispute through dialogue and diplomacy. india is ready to contribute to any piece process. so india will have to walk in a tight diplomatic rope so that under it's presidency, the foreign minister mean does not go the same way. but the g 20 finance ministers meet there are say for example, the same outcome as the g 20 summit in bali in november explodes. believe that in dallas all at the highest level where require

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