ah ah, just a headlines are not think international as the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria according to not live by the presidential elections, stating the preliminary results are a sham and other peoples of votes have been manipulating the head of the russian house and the central african republic, dmitri c t, who was injured in an assassination attempt speaks to r t after law enforcement publishers. details of the attack is, is this, the fields were granted. and the yield was comparable. who deals with 14 millimeter growth? and it was

a mistake which left for is also in the program. we speak exclusively to a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected to russia, revealing what he says. a war crimes committed by he of yours are described the role of american intelligence agencies in the pedal phone and the computer provided by the ceo. 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 spies, espionage, and allegations of election meddling in africa. it's a full program for you this hour here, one hour to international. so good to have you. so we do start off now with some of the very latest developments from the general election in nigeria. but 2 main opposition parties are calling to nullify the results of the presidential elections,

calling them a sham and saying the votes of the people have been manipulated over now to our correspondent with the latest here, this is catabolic both political parties, that is labor as well as the pdp, the peoples democratic party have both now simultaneously and in one joined press conference called for the cancellation of this election. this follows cause that have been made by both parties individually. since yesterday we saw the watching out of the boucher coalition center by both political parties, labor as well as the peoples democratic party, claiming that they cannot, they cannot see the furnace or the freeness of this elections, particularly the fed transparency. now they have been protest that we have seen and heard of from, from where we are a lego city in. we're ready parts of the city as well as in a cage up,

which is the more affluent part of the city. and that is where we went to, to look at the and some of the election materials that have been said to be destroyed, which was next to the apple of the state, which is the king of the state in that, if that part of the world and that's where you really get to see how the other half lives as it were. but we, we understand that not only have have the election material being destroyed. but we understand that now that both will have to call parties are calling for the cancellation of the entire thing. and largely that is seen as more than just the gripe by some of the locals that you're finding here on the streets of lagos. they say that that they are worried that the margins of victory, even if it be a pdp or i labor party victory, that those margins continue to be narrow. while the margins of victory for the

incumbency of the apc continues to be wired. and why then that suggest to them that there is some manipulation when it comes to how these results have been said out. now that is only some of the issues. yes, the other issue of cause is that which comes from the american government as it were. we've seen members of the national democratic institute as well as the international republican, is the truth, that both of the american political parties which have come to be represented here in the nigerian elections, alongside the politicians from either the house of representatives or the senate. but the interesting part is that we are seeing this invisible hand of the american government here and its interest in africa most populous election. and one only

wonders to which extend the american influence can really expand and get involved in this elections. we are left with more questions than answers as to why the country that often accuses others of meddling in the political process of other countries. why it's finding itself more and more and traced within the african democratic process, as well as its peace negotiations. here on the continent as we have seen in what happened in the if the o p and piece process and just how much the american hand was involved in that. now we are left wondering, but the unity, when you watch nigerian television, you wonder as to the high level of american commentary that is often afforded space . you wonder on which level just are they afforded this place and just how much they want to influence the machinations of what's going on here on the ground or so

far, it is a really big national turn out for nigeria elections, and that was ortiz cannibal, a tattler on the ground and lock offs covering this voting process. that is affecting 220000000 people. hey, lauren force, my agencies and the central african republic have 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 in a parcel last year. a c, c t. v footage has been published. it shows a person who allegedly sent a letter with the explosives to the russian house. he has reported to a provided a forged spanish documents under the name of alex 7 yano to commit the search for the suspect is underway as of yet, he is not being found or to meet tree city, suffered serious injuries and the december attack and was evacuated to russia,

the parcel contained threatening letter calling on the russians to leave africa. the police investigation found footage, as you showed you, the person who sent the package. but the manhunt remains. the russian house basically is an office for strengthening cooperation between russia and the c. a r earlier my colleague more how mommy spoke to to me to see who shed his experience of being attacked for promoting russian culture enough. before i got notice that i have a parcel of a 10 minute detail post office in bungie with a b flat 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, i and boxed it, there was indeed a flash drive. so i took it into my hand. and via a hub, i noticed that it was heavier than a, then it should be. then suddenly message came. i don't like this. and so flesh

flight. then i looked at my hands. and so 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 the appeal some time ago, like in the summer. and he suddenly insisted to give me information that links to this, saying it over with the number of errors of x in food in the plan question need to trust and to encourage it. i never gotten actually. and then this attack happen, i started pursued. let us the investigation is conducted and they revealed the explosive. i was effective, it was made in the labs,

not just something you can make up in the garish and the yield was comparable to the yield of 14 millimeter granite. like, wow, and if a fairly effect, and the answer is we stick, which near the 11 this, the c i a allegedly probably heard. you will 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 institution and we see i don't know if you have a footage. there is a fender letter. this is a white guy, right? male and his curtis a forty's who says this package from taco, you think the west is still? so we're trying to push this near colonialism practices in an african. it's really hard for you to, to talk about. but do you see an evidence of that? i have a perception of the situation. there may be no more colonies,

defacto normal derek, governor, governance, but there is the economic dominance still happens that the african nations of the arrogance are the rest of them impose and rules of african countries and they've opened competition. so welcome russia, they welcome china. they need this to allow them to develop nicole pot in russia allegations of war crimes, the presence of the far right and even the involvement of a c. i a, these are just some of the revelations exposed by a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected recently to russia. john mcentire, a former us soldier, signed up as a fighter in the ukranian army at the start of the conflict. ultimately, shocked by what he saw, he ended up fleeing for his life after gathering information about exactly what was

happening all around him. over now to this exclusive interview with our senior correspondent. for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire, was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. donna, it's me, an envoys for, ah, a game. earlier this month he defected to russia. he bought everything with him. papers filed intelligence and maps. the thing is he always meant to 1st question is why, why you hear? i mean, well the reason i came to you craner 1st place, you know, on the 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 get as much information as i could about, you know,

anything would be helpful and a defect across lines. the problem is, is when i was in a harkell, i was going to swim across and i found out the head of snipers and position. so if anybody i and actually found out that the cypress referred to factor is not for actually our protection. they are actually anybody to try to defect. they would shoot them, you know, since march 2020 to john served in ukraine's foreign legion and nationalist battalion carpets k c h. 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 slow glee, her own father, thrasher. russia. time when own, you know, had to become more nationalistic, more not cystic, you know,

doing that. it's 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, solute step and russian flags everything. what about 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 bond to 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, they'll take a cut, the genitalia with a knife and everything and cut them, cut their stomachs open with their throats, cut their heads off and stuff like this, you know, really horrible, horrible stuff, you know, was this the work of nationalist and she was just yeah, this extremist in different organizations as all you know, compress with 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 head. they were foreigners from portugal, city, 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 he said give you a spot that you hand over for example, 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 u. s. 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 sky. 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? oh, wait north, what was his name? is he on so sorry. i can remember 1st name at least of news like market 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 have least won't crimes. and now even who 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 did, they're going to see this. yeah. busy people, the people you, you served with. yeah. what would you say to them? ah, all fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is, spiers exist, you know, and i'm a spar and mission mission accomplished with

. yes, awesome. more at gas, dia r t from moscow to moldova. now where thousands of demonstrators have hit the streets of the capital to protest against the countries pro e. u. government that was formed just earlier this month. oh, protests having demanding the country's precedent my assigned to resign. local authorities have restricted access to the area to stop any more demonstrators from entering the city center. now the following video footage, a shows you that basically thousands of protesters marching through downtown crishana or the anti government rally gathered residents from across several mold open cities. and we have this report from a local journalist who tells us what has brought people out on to the street. it's

an african tradition. yeah. we are in the center of chest. now. tempers are rising as protesters demanding the government pay their utility bills. a marching on the city's main official building. the protest 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. you believe the russian president vladimir putin has just spoken at a russian security service meeting, where he called on the fs b to increase counter intelligence and strengthen operations against ukrainian subversive groups. while maintaining vigilance in the face of potential attacks. operational acc, doyle is alicia, but we're still faced with the pressing task of countering terrorist threats over the past year. the number of such crimes has increased. it's obvious, this is connected with the key of regimes, attempts to use terrorist methods and we are well aware of yes. so as they have been used by them and dumbass for a long time,

and the west desire to revive extremists and terror cells of its so called old friends on our territories, that we know that they have never been squeamish about using both radicals and extremists to their advantage, despite all the loud statements about their fight against international terrorism that yeah, they always use whatever means they have at hand against us. it's always been that way and it's still that way. now this all comes off to the russian defense ministry said that ukrainian drones attempted to attack civilian infrastructure in russia as cross at all cry region and the republic of idea. according to the statement, the drones were taken out by electronic warfare units of the russian armed forces get a few more details here without sees rachel blood pressures defense ministry released a statement saying that it sorted 2 times by ukraine to carry out drone attacks on russian soil on monday night, according to the statement, the attempted attacks involved unmanned aerial vehicles and they were targeting civilian infrastructure in russia, southern regions, however,

russia was able to intervene before any damage was done. now this comes amid reports that an unknown drone crashed in the moscow region near a gas prom building. those reports were confirmed by the governor of moscow and representatives for gaz problem said that an investigation is ongoing and it involves the f s b. now meanwhile, on tuesday morning, all civilian aircraft to and from the focal airport in st. petersburg were briefly suspended. i made reports that there were some type of an identified flying object and that it required an investigation. now, notably, the russian defense ministry did confirm that it carried out exercises in that region. however, they did not say whether they were investigating some type of an identified object . notably, this is mentioned has been lifted and the airport is fully operational at this time . will continue to follow the latest and bring the updates as they become available . russia, china and south africa have all wrapped up their trilateral naval drills in the

indian ocean. during the training dubbed most sea 2023 that a set of partners worked on integrating the tactics which included live fire exercises and liberating civilian ships captured by pirates. ortiz arabic correspondent, unconnect shameka was barren brings us this report. the joint trilateral naval drills of russia, china, and south africa are coming to an end in the indian ocean. having completed all the tasks which were set the mosey to maneuvers, which means smoke in one of the african languages lasted 10 days, taking place both on land and at sea. one of the most important parts of the naval stage where the live artillery drills on board of the participating ships. so nova must library to day at the trilateral international, the mosey to naval exercises. the admiral of the fleet of the soviet union,

portugal for 3 gate fired until around from 130 millimeters cannon. the foreign distance was 12 kilometers. whenever i stuff on, alamo try to get all the ships involved in the maneuvers have certain roles made. for example, a russian forget carry to con of k, a $27.00 helicopter on board, and its task according to the plan. it was to rescue the crew and passengers of the ship in distress eyes, as for the technical care by sticks by the helicopter. i mean it's main features is that it has a double vertical propeller which makes the helicopter faster and more maneuverable that he had the aisle midway a yeah. so inevitable notice, but all day from legislative, relaunching the most is when it went through national drills. many exercises took place every one of these episodes was the liberation of a ship from pirates, where we were directly involved with transmitting coordinates. despite unprecedented western pressure on the participants of the drills, russia and its partners conducted them at the highest level. the exercises took

place in an area of the sea in which the united states seeks to establish a security monopoly. the ministry of the defense of the people's republic of china, states that these exercises can contribute to ensuring the maritime security of the bricks, countries, and that brazil is expected to participate in the next exercises. anake mishenko, r t indian ocean quote, outright bullying and double standards. those words from the chinese foreign ministry reacting to what it calls the false us rhetoric about china's plans to supply rushes military in the conflict in ukraine may fall while the u. s. has intensified its efforts to send weapons to one of the parties to the conflict resulting in an endless war with peace, nowhere in sight. it has also frequently false information about china's supply of weapons to russia, taking the opportunity to sanction chinese companies for no reason. this is outright bullying and double standards. now this comes as china has recently

accused us of jeopardizing peace and stability in the taiwan strait. after a u. s. navy recognizance flight recently flew over the area and response. washington said that the flight was conducted in accordance with international law . well, tensions have certainly been rising between china and americans to start about cove . it. recently, the chinese foreign ministry calls for washington to stop smearing china in response to recent us claims that cove. it was likely china's fault. 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 accordance to people who have read the classified report. she and she see a lovely is extremely unlikely. this is an authoritative scientific conclusion that experts from china and the world health organization region. after visiting the

relevant laboratory and no hon and holding in debt exchanges with relevant researchers irrelevant party should start laying on the lot league theory to 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 who on lab league, but that hasn't stopped all the major u. s. 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, by the 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. the administration 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 c, i a 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 chairman, she important to discuss this on holy winds that they have to put weapons in the

ukraine to me is very disturbing because well, maybe ukraine today is can be tie one to morrow. note that at this same time, we have the united states pumping weapons on to the island of taiwan in the philippines, playing up the idea that china is a danger. certainly parallels a similar escalations that were done with ukraine. wife. 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 fair to in japan, in the philippines, in other locations. so china, pushing back against western narratives, no surprise that beijing keeps being but little by certain will doctors, china is destined to become the wealth. next economic kingpin combine china with

the bricks, family of the seo i see on and the global south. the new power mechanism in the world is already shifting eastwards and the traditional g. 7 group. none too pleased about the news we're tucked with at this hour. american and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm iraq, free its people, and to defend the world from great. a, [000:00:00;00] with

food and medicine. in supplies. and fleet, with some nations may be able to turn a blind eye to a trial to these. another comes the united states of america is different. wearable people long to be free. they will find a friend in the united states. ah, with a little bit about it. evolved anybody basie since only city and draw. you look at the book they incentives of each cigarette. color rebel notions is one among several meetings to reach the goal of conquering foreign lands and bringing them

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