it economy ah ah ah, the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria call to nullify that presidential elections stating that police result, sorry, sham, and that the voting process has been manipulated. we'll go live to nigeria for reaction in moment. also the head of russia. how is in the central african republic who was injured in an assassination attempt in december, talks to watch from local law enforcement publishes details. yeah, it is this big feel too great explosive and the yield was comparable to the yield

of 40 millimeter. granted. the investigation is conducted and it's revealed that the, the explosive was effective. it was made in the lead. and we also speak exclusively to a former american mercenary in ukraine who defected to russia for appealing what he saves our war. crimes committed by john mcentire also describes the role of us intelligence agencies in the conference via satellite phone and computer provided by the c i. 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 just after 8 in the evening here in moscow i'm you know, neal with your global use right to main opposition. parties in

nigeria are demanding the results of sunday's general election. be declared. nolan void. the alleged voter fraud in africa, the most populated nation branding, the whole process. a sham r t correspondent carrasco letter takes up the story from their 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 boat political parties, labor as well as the peoples democratic party, claiming that they cannot, they cannot see the furnace or the freeness of the 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 school. ready parts of the city as well as in acadia, which is the more affluent part of the city. and that is where we went to, to look at the, at 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, in 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 it 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 legal. they say that that they are worried that the margin of victory, even if it be

a pdp or i leave a 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 wired and that suggested 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 course, 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 padia being this invisible hand of the american government here

and its interest in africa most populous election. and one only one does to which extend the american influence can really expand and get involved in this election. 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 trace within the african democratic process as well as is peace negotiations. here on the continent that we have theme in what happened in the ethiopian peace 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 the space and just how much they

want to influence the machinations of what's going on here on the ground. less cross live to lagos and speak to a man who is actually in the early running for this year's presidential election in nigeria. a dumb garber. the 2nd you're most welcome to the program. sh. counting is coming to a close adama. but who be been next leader is still far from clear with a wave of protest from opposition parties on people in the streets as well. did you expect it to end? so acrimony, eslie? no, i actually don't expect any a claim one, because if you look, i didn't, i didn't, he's to the all political outcomes. so this is the 6 election row conduct in since our coming back to default to republican this democratic discipline vision. even the 1st election in 1999, there were some disagreements in 2003. it would hold on someone to the line in love and 2015. there were oranges agreement, in fact, in 2011. do

a lot of warnings and killings and destruction. but again, eventually everybody come to the toms, that there is a clear winner, and some people are love. they just have to accept it. so to me, this is not as tension because the electron has been conducted. i think the electron is on of the free of unfair election ever conducted in the history of i electron the audi nigeria. why? because they're the deployment of technology the buys to buy a modem. but i, i could additional system that will only clear all the of what up before they can go. and for so the electron out of 2020 today was signed. clearly outlined to proceed waffle. conducting this election on one of the procedures where police so to find that we have some opposition parties. only 2 out of the it in a position political party, the part of it. yeah. but but, but they're there but there than main 2 parties on thea downloaded the, they're demanding to cancel the entire presidential election. it could that happen?

no, no you saying it's not going to happen because going to proceed to walk is not in any way in by a notion of, you know, the how past due to election washer. not people who did. it was clear that the legion plotting is the f, b, c, d, or politically only. the 2 middle position parties are losing the election. so the fact that they're all in full cancellation means, i guess what, i'm not into the loss. so not only don't want to find another drama you be able to tell do most the day early. so i simpler that you have to do and they're going in the future. of course, you do it all by religion of the democratic one to give you up and grievance. the next industry just wanted to got. you don't want us to do some well by the electron i've been doing. i'm really not in your favor. just trying to say you don't want our september jersey because the never democrats, you know, when of and i was really good. i georgia more thing. okay. and the fact that you have from international bodies. yes. but you do not know what to judge. it just,

just to just to push the point though, because those opposition parties have download theora. they're not just claiming that at that there was some wrong doing. they're saying that votes have been manipulated and that was wide spread in the country. is there any strand have, have you seen anything like that? no, no, no. we see the quote and kind of a de la didn't put us, they shall as pilot on this election. what use us to hon. arbiten? b c. loss use on state. he's on homestead, who your position on even the friend o capital to recurring abidjan is lost. could you opposition? not if you have different don't capital where the president is sitting under party or deprived and lost the election, independent capital, undisturbed of the leading candidate. also, los gatos wanted to go for the show. oh, i'm glad you wanted to show you haunting you've got to have lost the election. and

they're not going to create a situation that may likely they're kind of course rightful in our success of our democracy. nuclear, our national official procedure, which is not going to be to let, i'm sure all these issues that is all coming up miss soon be able to boy, as soon as do we night is announced. how concerned are you with what's happening on the streets? a lot of protests seem to be bubbling, cut it cut. it's spelled over. if the, if the rhetoric we're hearing about a failed election continues. yes. you see, doctors can only get anything strong when dad is if it is drunk, the gun biking gun in why the out just what, what they're doing now is almost to some degree to business because you went into a little, you lost an initial and then you decided to come to the street to protest. so i believe denette justice them deny jonas completion and also do mitchell what is,

what's the one that go to job? and i just knew doug what the agreement of just was wrong. so you're brought up here just to chat and you the actual it might be. but based on the history of nigeria wanted to pull up an outcome, did i give electron outcomes? always we have this kind of situation. but within a week or 2, it will disappear. so i don't believe that this is going to be released by that into some tissues. and there's no order to get us to change in energy electron. i believe it's going to soon. we, undeclared, we know we'll be, deal will be, will be anal unable to go, please go forward. ok. well thank you so much for your time on your thoughts. always good to speak to adama adamo garbage, former presidential aspirant for they nigerian leadership. joining us from the us and to gauge well, it's been a big national turn out for nigeria elections and our t will make sure you don't miss any of that big developments from what is turning into as we're hearing a fractious ending to, to vote on their online we've got you covered

a law enforcement agencies in the central african republic cab reveal details of their investigation into the attack on the head of the russia house. cultural center. to me, treat city was injured by an explosive device sent to him in a parcel late last year. now c, c t. v footage has been made public that shows a person who allegedly sent a letter with the explosive to russia house. he's reported to have provided forward spanish documents under the name of alex said vienna to commit the deed. a search for the suspect is under way. when mister city suffered serious injuries in the december attack and was evacuated to russia, the parcel contained a threatening letter calling on russians to leave africa. no, russia house in the c. r is an office for strengthening cooperation between moscow

. in mission or you're my colleague, murat, her mommy spoke to dmitri city, who shared his experience of being before i got notice that i have a parcel or wait a minute detail. most of his in bungie with use of the flood drive from it. 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 wireless. so plugging into the hub, i noticed that it was heavier than it. then suddenly message came. i thought like this and so flesh a flight. then i looked at my hands and her rather years were 1st. i used to bend, saw a bunch of bonds and meet russia you with the previous the to, to negotiate peace and bring stability to the region. you feel that you will

probably a person nothing to do with russia 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 to, to over the number of errors fedex included in the plan question, need to trust and to encourage it. i never gotten actually. and then this attack happened. i started pursued, let us view investigation is conducted and it's 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 ground. it's like, wow. and if a fairly effect, and the answer is mistake, which you know, the 1st, the ca,

allegedly probably heard you were going to 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 fender of a letter. my, this is a white guy, right? the mail and his thirty's. forty's. who says this package from using the worst is still so trying to push this near colonialism practices in, in africa. i know for the 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 colon is de facto no more than a dominant governance, but there is the economic dominance still happens. the, the african nation of the arrogance of the rest were of them impose and

rules of african countries and they welcome competition. they welcome russia, they're welcome to china. they need this to allow them to develop and they see nicole pot in russia, allegations of war crimes, the presence of neo nazis, and even ca, involvement. that was, are some of the revelations exposed by a former american mercenary in ukraine, who recently defected to russia. john mcentire, next us soldiers signed off as a fighter in the ukranian army at the start of the conflict. shocked by what he saw, he fled for his life after gathering information about what was occurring around him. yours is exclusive interview with our team broadcast, if for almost a year for my u. s. army soldier, john mcentire, was a foreign mercenary in ukraine. donna, men and boys for ah,

a good a game. earlier this month he defected to russia. he bought everything with him, papers, files, intelligence, and maps. the thing is, he always meant to who 1st question is, why, why are you here? 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 harcourt, i was going to summer cross and i found out the header, snipers, and position. so if anybody i and actually found out that the snipers referred to factors now for actually our protection, they are actually anybody trying to defect, they would shoot them, you know,

since march 2022, 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 slaughter, thrasher, russia. 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 him, 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 2nd day and ukraine. we were in a level of and we were in like a school, but we were in like the basement. and what they did is i have a group of people roma, but they call them gypsy, you know? and 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 bomb the school for 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 use to the left and 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 the knives 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 was the work of nationalists and she was just yeah, just extremist in different organizations, as all you know, contrast with them. yeah. they were foreigners, they didn't even take part with any of these. god. yeah. they told you earlier, they had shot 3 people in the back of the corners from portugal refinance and they're wanting some argentine, are 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 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 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. and he was, 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 more information about the positions troop movements. and so on and so forth. and jim, his name. yeah, yeah. or is it, i might not always his name he on so sorry. i can't remember 1st name at least. oh yeah. like market. so don't 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 some war crimes. and now even more names to them or is years of work ahead. but 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, they're going to see this. yeah. busy people, the people you, you serve good. what would you say to them? all fair in love and war. you know, it is what it is. spies exist, you know. and i'm a span and mission mission accomplished. yes is off more i'd guess artsy from moscow sending advanced western bustle tanks to key of has been a big topic for months, not for to prospective suppliers. after pledges were made by the u. s. and germany

. both parties now appeared to have a different interpretation of actually what was agreed. here's the most recent message from berlin. it would be justice, these were good, constructive talks in which care was always taken by both sides to come to a joint approach. when that statement comes after a more lengthy, one out of washington, where a recollection of productive talk seems forgotten by the us president on it all comes after a back and forth between the western allies and who would send the advanced heavy weapons 1st. it ended up taking the american pledge of what was initially a single abrams tank, which subsequently grew to $31.00 for germany to cross the line as well. i'm promise. it's leopard 2 times. here's the u. s. national security advisors taken how it all evolved. he originally decided against sending them because his military told him that they would not be useful on the battlefield in this fight. what would

be useful would be the german tanks. so in the interest of alliance unity and to ensure that ukraine got what it wanted, despite the fact that the abraham's aunt the told they need, the president said ok, i'm going to be the leader of the free world. will escrow live now to political scientists and international security unless marks la moda, who i'm hoping will help me translate what we just heard there. hi there, mark yet. germany sees it was an open, productive discussion that biden administration states. it was the u. s. president's responsibility to follow suits with tank supplies of coat, the leader of the free world that appears no one wanted to move 1st. how do you see it? yeah it's, it's pretty clear on both from anyone who was watching the events as, as well as accounts from us. government officials now are on the record that in order for germany to send

a leper modern leopard to a 6 tanks and to allow other european countries who use the leper to send them. they required that the u. s. at least promise at some time in the future to send abrams. this was done to provide political cover for olaf schultz. um, who is leading a rather fragile coalition government in germany. and there seems to be a growing political disgruntlement with that government in the country. ah, why they continue this dance about, you know, the exact details of, of how the negotiations for this took place in germany continues to deny a quid. pro quo indicates that there are no political differences between the 2 governments that are almost certainly have been exacerbated in recent months with

the revelations from us journalists that it was most likely the united states who destroyed the nord stream pipelines, bringing a gas from russia to germany, so this political disagreement continues, but at the same time, we now know that the promised us tanks, according to the wall street journal, may never arise or may not arrive at least for a year. and i just want to question to you on that, mark, why that could happen? because as you've been talking through that, that made decisions, the 2 countries had to grapple with before they agreed to deliveries on, on send. i'm sure there's a few, but can i put you the optics of those tanks being defeated on the buffer feed would be bad, let alone the chunks that russia could perhaps get a hold of them like it has what many of the other weapon systems? yeah, that's, that's part of the issue continued. oh, you know,

us military arm sales are at stake. to be perfectly honest. neither of these 2 main battle tanks, neither the, the modern leopards nor the us abrams are appropriate for ukrainian forces who have not trained on them for years. when the u. s. provided them to saudi arabia in iraq, their programs to train their militaries up to use these tanks for 5 and 7 years respectfully. so the idea that they're just going to send over a few dozen tanks and givers gym forces are just going to jump into the turrets and drive off and achieve some type of victory is, is frankly, it's pure propaganda. it's, it's, it's ludicrous in, in military terms, it is pure political symbolism and the abrams are even heavier and more technically complex for, for the untrained user than the leopards,

but only marginally, which is why the us doesn't want to see them sent and see them perform badly and destroyed on the battlefield, he kept regime started out this war with some 2600 tanks, according to western sources. and the west has sent them 410 more. over the last year, these refurbished old tanks from the former east block countries that have since join nato. yeah, most. oh, thanks mark. just to point out to reviewers. that was even word of germany sending leopard one tanks, which are almost 60 years old. but how do you just assess the possibility of misunderstandings, perhaps like not happening again in relation to further military support to ukraine on i use that word kindly. yeah, there is obviously a big disagree. a big divide between what is being politically promised, at least initially by european countries,

and what they are able to deliver in terms of leopards, visit current, turns out that their militaries aren't actually, is in a good state as perhaps their politicians expected. or at least they promised, and it seems they're having a lot of problems. even scrambling together $31.00 leopard tanks to send the key of regime much less the promised $62.00. and these leopard one tanks a most of those have to be refurbished, their ancient, if they use them as assault guns, they could provide some use on the battlefield, russia using old t, 60 two's in the same capacity. but if they're intended to be used as main battle tanks for some type of major offensive thrust, they're going to be worse than useless mart. we just have a 30 seconds left. i just want to fit in the point that is what's playing i'd as regards the tank supplies, is that more of the western up?

it should right now to arming ukraine. is there more opposition between allies than perhaps there ever has been i think part of it is, is a political divisions that are starting to crack open. i don't think they're significant, but they're starting to appear. but i also think that there is severe differences between the political promises that politicians are making and their own country's military capacities that don't match up mark, as always. thank you for your time. your thought always appreciated political scientists on sociology mark sublet, alive in the program. thanks for having me. well, that is our law for and i from the teen user, but keep close because next we're delving into the time strained up times. beneficial relationship between the world war 2 allied leaders stay with us for that. it's right in the.