[000:00:00;00] ah ah, the headlines right now and anti international as the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria according to nullify the presidential elections, stating the preliminary results, are a sham and at the people's votes have been manipulated just a moment. we go live, to log with the head of the russian house, and the central african republic. dmitri c. t was injured in an assassination attempt to speak to our teeth of the law enforcement publishers. details of the attack like these and for flash flight,

than they looked at in my hand. and the years with those used to bend so much of phones and, and meet with the program. we speak exclusively to a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected, total russia, revealing what he says. oh, ball crimes committed by keith. the author describes the role of american intelligence agencies on the ground. can ukraine here, the satellite phone and the computer provided by the cia and every day he would call his contacts and he would get some information about the positions troop movements and so on and so forth. with a lot of moving and shaking in the world today, and we are focused on the top picks welcome to your new se ritathui. and we do start off now with the very latest of elements from the general election in nigeria . for as we understand 2 main opposition,

parties are calling to nullify the results of the presidential elections, calling them a sham and saying that the votes of the people have been manipulated live to lago. we go right now to join our cesar catabolic tactless. standing by cross there in lago, just just after 3 pm, beth cut about what can you tell us? what can you tell us about the oppositions or demands right now to nullify these presidential elections? i hope you can, you can hear me here. it's rory in moscow. i do, rory, and that is the call that has been made here by the 2 main, the political opposition parties to the incumbency of the a p c. and those are, namely the pdp, which is the peoples democratic party, as well as the labor party. and in terms of labor, the call was made by lee by chairperson missed the buddha, who said that that the elections can neither be declared free or fair or

transparent in nature. this was a press conference that he had, that he had called having called the press conference yesterday in which we were also endeavoring to get into. and it was laid out postponed following some security threats. and this was a press conference that was made of stuff the pdp made its own press conference calling for the cancellation of these results, claiming for the same thing that we cannot get over. the manipulation that has been going on with regards to these results. but re, both of these parties hed individual press conference is calling for such. but this was the 1st time they had a joint press conference and babs, in a sense, admitting to their own limitation, saying that perhaps their voice is better combined than it is separate. now mind you, me the pdp the abc rather has a 0 problems with regards to the continuation of a concept of the continuation of the same results. because they say that if this any agree parties,

they are well within their rights to go to the nigerian court of justice and seek justice, then that should be their face point, of course. but they, of course, make that call, knowing that they are leading in terms of tallying of the vote in terms of needing in terms of the votes accumulated per state. and that they couldn't you to do. so because largely because of the, the power incumbency as it were, even though they lost the state of katina, which is where the president, i'm a do bahati comes from me. but there has been demonstrations with regards to this particular elections. we have seen demonstration in, in lake game, which is the more affluent pod to of legal city, which is where we are. and that is, i guess where the other half lives and do a boy do they live? well, they live next to the king of that area, which is the album. is it? there was demonstrations not too far away from his place when we went there just

the 2 days ago trying to find out where some election material were also destroyed . and that has been sporadic demonstrations in parts of lagos, as people here continue to say that they do accept the fact that labor party has one. but they do not appreciate the margin in which the i neck, which is the independent electoral commission, has come out to say that people here have voted for labor because they expected a wide margin as they told me this morning. that is not only the, when it is the margins in which they say that lay by one that they have a problem with believing. but of course, it wouldn't be an election without american involvement or interest. and in this regard, we have seen a members of the members of both the political parties of the united states are both the democrats and the republicans being represented here. and of course,

being funded by agencies of the united states. they have come here to, to, to say that to say that they, they see an issue with regards to how some of the results have come out here. but the real question is just how far are they willing to, to get involved here? and there is a sense that there is a bit of republic can ism, if you will, and, and a bit of democrats isn't that you'll find being represented yet representing both those, those polar opposites and interest here. the worry if jeff, how much is america inserting itself into the results or into the machination of the, the elections here in nigeria. and just how much we should be expecting that to be, to be the case going forward. it's, it's easy to, to know the number of times that america is accused by others of being involved in elections. yet they continue to be as represented. and you know,

continent wide when it comes to african elections when it comes to african issues. and one can only wonder their full extent as to which the americans are involved with this particular election. and just how much they can further influence that, you know, something that political analysts around the world of actually warned about just out of the unexpected numbers of medals from far beyond the borders of africa that might try and get their fingers in the pot of this selection right here, their general elections in nigeria life in lago. so just off at 3 in the afternoon ortiz carnival a tattler. thank you. so it is a big national turn off for now. jerry is elections party, of course, on the ground, covering the voting process that affects the 220000000 people. a law enforcement agencies and the central african republic. it revealed details of their investigation into the attack on the head of the russian,

the house dmitri c. t. the official was injured by an explosive device sent to him an apostle last year. now c, c t, v footage has been published that shows a person who allegedly sent a letter with the explosive to the russian house is reported to a provided forged spanish documents under the name of alex. so we are now to commit the deed. a search for the suspect remains underway, though as of yet he has not been found. now, as we understand, dmitri city has suffered serious injuries and the december attack was evacuated to russia. the parcel contained a letter threatening, basically calling on the russians to leave africa the police investigation. as we show you that i did find footage of the person who sent the package, but as i mentioned, the suspect to be detained, or the russian house, generally speaking, as an office for strengthening cooperation between russia and the c a r. and earlier today, my colleague mark have mommy spoke to to me to see you shared his experience of

being attacked for promoting russian culture in before i got notice that they have a parcel of a 10 minute detail post office in bungie, which used to be flash drive for me. so the next morning i sent my employee to recover it. she brought it to me. when i was alone in the office and boxed it, there was indeed a flash drive. so i took it into my hand and via a hub. i notice that it was heavier than a then it then suddenly message came. i don't like this, and so flesh a flight. then i looked at my hands and rather years before i started to ben saw a bunch of bonds and meet russia. you with the previous, the to, to negotiate piece. i'm bring stability to the region. you feel that you will probably a closely, nothing to do with rush to miles. but any idea is who this guy,

the key he reappeared with, reappeared some time ago. like in the summer, and she suddenly insisted to give me information that links to this, saying to him over the number of errors civics, in food, in the land question in egypt. russians, when personage it, i never gotten actually. and then this attack happened. i started pursued, let us investigation is conducted and it revealed the explosive. i was effective. it was made in a lab. look, just something you can make up in the garish and the yield was comparable to the yield of 40 millimeter granite. like, wow, and if that'll affect and the answer is mistake, which near the levers the cia allegedly probably heard you will them and get some information about something that they didn't want everybody to know about. and that's how they talk. yeah,

i mean it's all right and then there is like an installation and we see i don't know if you have a footage. there is a footage of the fender of this letter. my, this is a white guy, white male in his thirty's forty's. who says this package for me to go? do you think the worst is still? so we're trying to push this near colonialism practices in, in africa, ministry for the hard for you to, to talk about what do you see and evidence of that. i have a perception of the situation. there may be no more colon is the factor no more. derrick dominant governance, but there is economic dominance. but it still happens that the african nation for tides of the arrogance of the rest were of them impose and rules of african countries. and they vote from competition vote from russia. they welcomed china.

they need this to allow them to and they see nicole pot in russia from bad to worse. that's the red cross perspective of the crisis in yemen. the organization doesn't have enough money to fund its programs in the country of describing the situation as precarious. first time in 11 years, the operations of the international committee of the red cross and the international red cross and red crescent movement in yemen were underfunded last year. this is a worrying development which if not reversed, will undermine the progress of neutral and impartial humanitarian action. for 8 years, yemen has been suffering from a humanitarian crisis to the ongoing conflict in the country of a 21000000 yemen are in dire need of humanitarian aid. that's according to the red cross of that. more than 2000000 children are on the brink of death, suffering from malnutrition. while almost 18000000 people simply can't get access to safe drinking water will at flood more blocks. also,

mon bells. see the international committee of the red cross spokesperson for the near and middle east, a variable. welcome to you. thank you very much for coming on the program for this story. it's a hot breaking story. it's tragic from one end to the other. the latest statement from the international committee of the red cross states that yemen is still in a quote, precarious situation. imagine as a person who is directly involved over them, can you explain in more detail how dire is the situation in yemen? thank you for who semi in fortune she the i am a conflict now in turn is a tiers and i'm sure that you as a journalist, you heard this over the past years about how dire and how difficult and in towns to humans and situation is in yemen, but unfortunately, what we are also witnessing is that by the year this human, their situation continues to worsen numbers are showing that reality in the field is showing that, ah, i remember a few months ago i visited yemen for the 1st time in my humanitarian career. and

let me tell you that the imagery of all human suffering i've seen there will haunt me forever. this was not thing like i've seen before in my humanitarian career. i've seen families of 6 and more surviving daily on a too low. so breads are dipped in water and this was their diet that including other imagery that was that the word should dirt should not ignore and look away from to day. the reality in yemen is that 3030000000 people are struggling not only with an ongoing conflict with a nor clear resolution in view, but also crumbling vital infrastructure. limited access to all the basic needs, including food, water, health, electricity, a very intense human economic situation that is affecting the livelihood and every corner in yemen. or rather that the, the areas directly impacted by the increase in violence or the, or,

or actually own areas across the country. just to give you an indicator of how, how, how, how fast the situation is. it is declining in terms of food security over the last years we've been referred to yemen as one of the words, worst or food security crisis, are compared to compare numbers to tooth at 2021. and today there is an increase of 1000000 people that are to day food insecurity. modeling, so that is something to one. yeah. so sorta jump in and, and i do apologize, but i was just going to say it's been cold by a number of people that the crisis in yemen, the worst man made humanitarian crisis in history. i wanted to ask you that the director general of the red cross says the organizations operations were under funded last year. can you explain the reasons behind that? and perhaps where is the money flowing? if not to chew, monetary and organizations. just to clarify that

a ton of shortages is not a situation that only the international red cross is flagging. this is ariana t for on humanitarian actors, which makes the situation even extra dangerous. because what we are able to achieve collectively, as 8 actors is on the air, is only efficient if all actors are able to do their part of the job to day. the reality is, is that all 8 actors are witnessing a, a shortages of funds. and this is something that a pattern that we've been witnessing over the last of the last years. just to give you an example. 2021 pledge in a number for a m, an age operation, collectively reached only 50 percent today. ah. yet the pledge number yesterday on the read are 27 percent of it was reached. so it is a pattern that's has been happening for the last few years and is impacting

all humanitarian actors, pushing them to cut their programming to cut their activities. and the price is being paid by the millions of your money that really are relying to day on these activities to be able to access the most basic of the, of the services including including food or support including a heating access to water act to access to a basic life saving healthcare. so this is the reality at $808.00 shortages that all actors are witnessing to. they are translating concretely into a cut in terms of assistance programs. which means that more yamini swirled, sleep, hungry to nights, are 2 and more children and not be able to go to school. more women will not be able to deliver in a, in, in hospitals or to access life's even health. this is the reality of h h, h,

or 8 fonts, short address, excuse me. it seems like a level of crisis that really it's in comparable to anywhere else in the world. am i written the numbers you're describing here? well, simply put, just absolutely shocking. what do you think according to the red cross? what are the potential ways out of the crisis? there are no, there are geo politics involved here. but without getting into that, how can the world help immediately? unfortunately, we cannot completely go away from the facts or, or ignore the fact that aid is not the only answer, humanitarian assistance is vital is important. but the only answer that could put an end or starts or help emmys in order to recover or start the recovery is the end of the conflict. and the end of the conflict is only achievable through political steps. which means that all actors are encouraged and we keep on calling on actors in order to open the dialogue in order to find sustainable solution that could put

an end to this conflict. because that's the only solution that could help eventually or put an end to the humanitarian crisis that accompanied the, the, the, the, the, the conflict. unfortunately, with the figures and the record figures of the, of the humanitarian needs and the scale of it today, we are seeing and we are, we are, we're, you're assessing that even with an eminence and to the conflict the needs are going to continue. and fortunately, due to the fact that basic vital infrastructure is diminished and, and crumbling, and due to the fact that the scale of the aftermath of this conflict on the day to day of people is to, is very deep. that even with an eminent solution on to political aspects, humanitarian needs will continue to grow and will continue, and population will still continue. assistance for years to comp is somehow to building something to worry, really nice and i'm sorta jump in,

but the world really needs to hear what you're saying today. and i'm really grateful to have you on the program and answer, get this information out there. i am on, i really have no time left, but i must pick you up on one thing you mentioned. you talked about the political crisis there. you talked about actors involved just quickly, who are the actors involved that are essentially exacerbating the crisis there. i'm afraid that we will need another 30 minutes for us to be explained to the different dynamics of the many a conflict. but as you know, the i c r. c, the international committee of the red cross is a neutral independent organization. and therefore, i work in yemen or elsewhere around the world. do i have as a corner store and the stone, sorry. the fact that we are keeping the dialogue with the different parties involved to the conflict. we have presence in yemen in both northern areas, but also salary areas. as for us, it's important to maintain

a lake with all parties to the conflict in order for us to continue our our activities as the humanitarian imperative for us is the only dr. for our work and therefore we work with all parties to the conflict in yemen and we keep on continuing our call to remind all access that today dissolution has to be political steps. political actors need to open the dialogue and air and, and find sustainable solutions that could put an end to yemenis. people are suffering, as you say, as you say, if you monitor in crisis at all. so as you say among there are external actors in this crisis, it should essentially be identified and uncalled out as well. but as you said, that would require much more time, perhaps for another day in montebello. see from the international committee of the red cross. many, many thanks for your time. we appreciate it. ah. but allegations of war crimes, the presence of the far right and even the involvement of the c i a,

these are some of the revelations exposed by a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected to russia. john mcentire, a former u. s. soldier signed up as a fighter of ukrainian army at the start of the conflict. though shocked by what he saw, he fred, for his life after gathering intel about what was happening all around him. here's our senior correspondent with this exclusive discussion for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire, was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. donna min envoys, sophia, ah, roney gave it a gate. earlier this month, he defected to russia. he bought everything with him. papers, files, intelligence, and maps. the thing is he always meant to 1st question is, why,

why are you here? i mean, well the reason i came to you craner 1st place, you know, on a communist, i'm an anti fascist and we have to fight fascism everywhere. you know, so on our came when i came to ukraine, i knew that i would try to give as much information as i could about, you know, anything would be helpful and a defect across lives. the problem is, is when i was in a harcourt, i was going to swim across and i found out the header, snipers and position. so if anybody i and actually found out that the cyprus referred to factor is not for actually a protection the russia, anybody tried a defect, they would shoot them, you know, since march 2022, john served in ukraine's foreign legion and nationalist battalion carpets case hitch, he saw and documented the ukranian war machine in all its ugly glory from the inside. he became part of it. god bless you, great. god bless america. but you,

russia, russia, russian, russia, can i step on this floor clean her own father? russian. time when own, you know, had to become more nationalistic, more not cystic, you know, do in the videos where you didn't and yeah, yeah, of course of course is part of it to maintain my cover because i got to become new . you know, to me, if i'm going to be with them, i got to become them. you know, and doing, you know, hitler salute step in a rush and flags everything. what about will clubs were to start, you know, on my, my 2nd day and ukraine. we were in a level of and so we were in like a school, but we were in like the basement. what they did is i have a group of people roma, but they call them gypsy. you know? and i, what they did is i take the refugees and put them above us. and the soldiers below

that way, if they bomb the school, they say look, they bombed a school full of refugees. and this is a common practice and done as car cove. we occupy civilian houses, next house is that people are still living in that way. if they bomb and kill civilian, they bring in the news crew and they say, look at this house, they blew up and they killed the civilians. but what the camera doesn't show used in the left to the right is our houses are filled with military. you know, of course i haven't seen seen this in person. thank god, but i know that a lot of captured russian soldiers will take and cut the genitalia with a knife and everything and cut them, cut their stomachs open with our throats, cut their heads off and stuff like this, you know, really horrible, horrible stuff. you know, was the work of nationalists and she was just yeah, just extremist in different organizations, as all no contracts. we see people union. yeah. then you them. yeah,

they were foreigners, they didn't even take part with any of these. yeah, they told you earlier, they had shot 3 people in the back of the corners from portugal, france and now wanting some argentine they proud. yeah, they're proud john, documented everything was in his food, his head, and then the papers he brought along. when you, when you came over, you said you, you a spot that you hand over for example, like bases and stuff. lease. yeah, yeah, of course intelligence agencies, of course, everything from the command structure to names, you know, weaponry, everything. and i was successful and no more than successful. john also testified about how deep us involvement in this conflict ease. there has been a usaa participation on the war when i was in the international legion, there was a he was like a military intelligence officer from the navy. ah. and he was in. yeah. and he had

a, well, he was in the foreign legion and he had a satellite phone and a computer provided by the c i. and every day he would call his contacts and he would get uh, information about the positions troop movements and so on. and so forth and jim, his name. yeah, yeah. or is it i might not. what was his name? is he on so? sorry. i can remember 1st name at least. oh, there's like mark and so, so like that, like for example, they would provide like grid coordinates. the wealth of information he has provided is already being used by the russian military and law enforcement path least of won't crimes. and now even more names to them or is years of work ahead. what we had one final question for john a year after all, is a long time. if he, i mean, they're going to watch this. they do, they're going to see this. yeah. busy people,

the people you, you served with. yeah. what would you say to them? ah, i'll fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is. fires exist, you know, and i'm a spar. and mission mission accomplished. also goes with her. yes. awesome. more at gas, dia r t from moscow shifting gears to moldova. now a 100, a demonstrate has of taken to the streets of capital to protest against the countries pro e u government that was form building this month. oh, with them demanded the country's president, my son to resign local authorities if restricted access to the area to stop more demonstrators from entering the city center. and we got this report,

my local journalist there on what has made the people in the streets in that we're going from the senior year. we're in the center of chest. now tempers are rising. is protesters demanding the government pay their utility bills are marching on the city's main official building. the protests which began this past autumn have been gained strength since gas and electricity costs have skyrocketed over the winter. residents are angered by government policies. they say have caused the economic problems believe. all right, just about wrapping up this live broadcast from moscow here on our t international. thank you so much for sharing a time with us here in the russian capital. always good to happen with us. your program returns at the top of the hour with more of your world wide news. ah,

with with mm. welcome to well, to part being part of your, of that not geographically and culturally, has been a century long aspiration for the countries and it's periphery, especially russia and turkey. they emulated european customs and tastes try to borrow its best practices, but always fall short off over snubbed y there, enlightened european neighbors. does these idolized nation of europe have anything to do with the war in your crane? while to discuss that, i am now joined by was the lease for the course professor of international politics