a final goal of the scene revolutions to ensure that there are no independent players in the world anymore. ah, this ours headline. the stories that 2 main opposition parties in nigeria call to nullify that presidential election, stating that preliminary results are a shot. the voting process has been manipulated also ahead. ah, large protests are wrapped in moldova with sellers in taking to the screen to the resignation of both the countries president and the pro e. u government formed earlier this year. on the u. s. secretary of state praises

washington's humanitarian health for the p. m, and that spite it's ongoing. arm supplies to the study laid, coalition bombing, the war stricken country. we hear from a red cross representative about this issue. today, video in yemen is dad's 60000000. people are struggling not only with an ongoing conflict with no peer resolution in view, but also crumbling biking infrastructure. limited access to own base with from moscow to the world. this is are too great to have your company today. let's get into our top story. the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria are demanding the results of sunday's general election be declared null. void. they allege voter fraud in africa, most populated nation branding,

the whole process. a r t correspondent carbo letter takes up the story. 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 calls that have been made by both parties individually. since yesterday we saw the walking out of the a boucher coalition center by boat political parties, labor as well as the peoples democratic party, claiming that they cannot, they cannot, i see the fairness or the freeness of this elections, particularly the fed transparency. now they have been protests 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 a keisha,

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 a 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 suggested them that

there is a some money violation 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 institute. that's 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 is that we are seeing 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 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 entrenched within the african democratic process as well as is peace negotiations. here on the continent that we have theme 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 phase and just how much they want to influence the machinations of what's going on here on the ground? well, we've been getting reaction to the ballot throughout the day here in our tea,

including from an early runner in the nigerian presidential election, a dummy garber. the 2nd who sees the public's voice has been heard going to proceed like is not in any way in violation of the new del past due to election or larger, not included. it was clear that the lead in what it is, the apc the or progress accordingly, and only the comment of what the jump parties are losing the election so defended them all in full cancellation, mildred del sorted out into their last. so not julie de went up to brian, i don't know grandma, he'd be able to go do most the day. it's as simple as that. it has no deductible and there is more in the future or procedure about an issue. another democratic warranty, if you have any, be down to the next edition movies to watch because you don't want us to do some well by default or not been doing obviously any, not enough. it will. you're just starting to say, you don't want our sick dog kersey because the never democrats, it will be, we know the name was really good. i'm just, your georgia will be

a down the garbage. well it has been a big national a termite for nigeria elections and r t. you will make sure you don't miss any of the big developments from what is turning into a fractious ending to the vote. honor and online we've got you covered with demonstrators in moldova, are out in force, protesting against the countries pro you government formed earlier this month. oh well his on the street the mom did the countries president maria some do resign. the was rallying also brought cardboard effigies of the leader, which they ripped apart and stopped them too evidently expressed their frustration

earlier. local authorities had restricted access to the area to try and prevent more demonstrated from mentoring me that he said, well, that's what it shows. the crowds, marching in downtown kisha, now the nation's capital. the anti government rally brought together residents from several mult open cities. local journalists sticks us through not what brought people out on to the streets for hours and winter. and that we're going for, 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 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. you believe a tremendous different south side of the u. s. state secretary has described both washington and the wes impact on resolving the yemen crisis. anthony blinking

praise the funding being sent to the conflict stricken country. the monitoring crisis in yemen remains an issue where our collective action has made and can continue to make a tremendous difference. in 2022, the united states provided nearly $1100000000.00 and humanitarian assistance to yemen. the largest us contribution to the country since the conflict began. we encourage everyone, especially those in the region to join us in giving generously the international community best to all we can to help and this war because for millions of families, our support is a matter of life or death. but money isn't the only thing. washington's been sending in connection with the yemen crisis. since the start of the conflict, almost a quarter of all us arms exports have gone to saudi arabia, which is leading a military operation against jamini opposition forces. the whitehall is reportedly blocked legislation that would have stopped seals last year. a yamini journalist told us those arm supplies only exacerbate be already tense. conflict in the

country is not fair to the se, the united states talking about the problems that human is, are facing. the united states is a problem self. they had been selling the weapons, including massage to in saudi arabia and its allies in the region to pompeian people. me personally in my neighborhood, has been bombed by a saudi arabia using american messiah. you can't even compare what has been paid to the many people during eighty's of all to what has been paid to the ukrainians during the conflict. we had only the crumbs of what the westerns are paying to help other countries. they have to do a lot of other things. they should speed up the a piece of process in order to improve the situation. and they want on country a human. but talking about eg, bringing more donors and collecting more money for the many people is not what the

many people want to from the u. s. or any other country, even though the united states is a main hot disciplined in killing via many people. despite the u. s praising it's a 2 year men. humanitarian organizations are sounding the alarm over. what they say is the under funding of charity programs in the country, the u. n. has fallen short by more than air of its more than half in fact, of its $4000000000.00 target for donations this year with you monitoring groups slamming the shortfall as this race for the international community today showed it has abandoned yemen and escrows'll cross rates with a mayor quarter of the amount needed to support the millions of yemenis he require urgent assistance. this is woefully inadequate and gives the signal that some humans a less valuable than others. the consequences of this disgraceful shortfall in 8 will undoubtedly be dire for the people of yemen. for 80 years, yemen has been suffering from

a humanitarian crisis june. the ongoing conflict over 21000000 people are in dire need of humanitarian aid. according to international aid agencies of them, more than 2000000 children are on the brink of death suffering from acute malnutrition, while almost 18000000 yemen is don't have access to safe drinking water. we spoke to the regional spokesperson for the international committee of the red cross who sees the situation in the country is worsening daily. 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 will, that the word should dirt should not ignore and look away from today. 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 voted 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. 8 front for sure to address is not a situation that only the international red cross is flagging. this is a reality for all humanitarian actors which makes the situation even extra dangerous. just to give you an example. 2021 pledge in a number for a young age operation collectively reached only 50 percent to day 27 percent of it was reached. so it is a pattern that 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 today on these activities to be able to access the most basic of the, of the services. which means that more yamini swirled, sleep, hungry to nights, or 2 and more children will not be able to go to school. more women will not be able to deliver in a, in hospitals or to access life even health care. this is the reality of 8 fonts shortages china is ramping up its coal power capacity this year with imports of the russian or more than tripling shipment since the beginning of the year have increased by a must serve 214 percent saves brushes. consulate general in china, well with energy security, a global concern, china is power grid is set to see

a massive expansion where double the amount of new coal fired plans starting to be built this year compared to last is according to be independent center for research on energy and clean erm know to meet its needs basing house given projects the green light on an accelerated basis with 4 times that permitted capacity compared to 2021. well, to discuss this, i'm happy to welcome live on to the program, dr. poly lucia, former stuff, decision general of south africa. hello to you. it's quite the position isn't that you've got china expanding coal power capacity by some extent. and then you've got the west calling for, for a global green agenda, including on the per part of the planet. what's your thought, sir? i well, i think there the issue around a little bit, warming

a heavy contest that and then continues to be contested. and those who and that if you, roger cal, sadie, say that it for for 1000000000. yes, this is a test. but other, this is not the whole test or the warmest or the most rainy season in the 4000000000 time scale that you have. and you get this so we need to shut up, shut up peoples of time, 200 years, 200 years. and they see this as being disastrous and because of human activity. so you think the contest that signs in the way or however, we also know that colon itself, x, y to hammer, the lines of people and in south africa, where we have quite a lot of those regions that brutally cold impact on people very directly

as well. also a very ugly, a cloud over cities in which it is bent and of course a good, easy to brief and coley there, but let's come to the crisis and energy products in the something that is needed for industrialization for solving human problems, although it creates others or crisis, surely you do not slow down energy consumption and hope that people will be alive tomorrow you have to make due with what you have and then discover in the future how you teach an emissions. so there is a price to pay to be alive. and a does a much better price to pay to be alive the next the rather than to be not alive the next day. 11th. and then because you haven't eaten as

a consequence of not using quote goes with it. yeah. can i put another point you as well? europe keep saying it doesn't need russian energy resources, but a new polish institute report says, and liquefied natural gas imports from russia have actually more than doubled. it is not surprising to you a doesn't. i mean, if you think about a week, bruce team, tanzania, abuse, or some way europe, as a point before region is the same situation where surely via intermediaries, people are using russian oil is even much cheaper the markets for oil as you know, a lot of stamps so, yes, russia has resource and our country, se by them,

and shows over that you will have to buy oil from russia most with cheap up about it. and china is doing it, aren't they? they've tripled their coal imports from russia. what does that say? and dr. lucia about a bite den man for russian resources. if the wes knobs it is there are enough in the global side on the east to to take it well every day at one point did one lead a little bit extra to see a free these free market share. so you will sell to those in which to buy them even we, i think you need for approaching this thing. we say a lot more so bad t international relations and then showing that this multi lateralism but organize us instead of having these kinds of cases that are making life

a lot more difficult, especially for countries that are, you know, i guess i'll go with you see the difficulties that are coming and the rising, the price of oil, it's out. so these are, did you got it? so i think one hopes that the piece and understanding to you so that there is no money to you. there's no money to start. you know, just to just to wrap off, i suppose and get your overall thoughts of the situation as it sounds when you've got western countries pushing a green agenda. but you've also got, of course countries very dependent on, on coal. what's the future of, of coal energy under this push for green i, i mean the problem that we have, and i've been reading about rationally,

shameed to have a lot of interest. and that has been reset, you know, the system of inches can recycle. and we share might the sample that we sent from the east a text as you get around the m cycle. it has the cycle and the way the edges we have produced for cars and be like the easy problem of the tech models. there's nothing wrong with school, there's nothing wrong. everything wrong with the technology we have deployed and how that was that supported putting a lot of money to eat. it is possible in terms of cycle to get this and get gas emissions by using electric motors that mimics nature, yet produces even better in the system. so i think with the systems it seems to be different. and that's what yeah, no tech lead. no did. yeah, yeah, yeah we,

we wait and see what comes a, it's just the position is quite a peculiar one at the moment dr. polly, who chef former statistician general of south africa joining us live on the program . thank you, sir. then you very much. the biden administration thrown its weight behind a controversial mass surveillance program, which will come to an end this december if congress doesn't vote to extend it. it permits the government to spine any non us citizen outside americas borders, but at the same time allow us to snooping on any communications between those targets and u. s. nationals with more and what kind of feature it may have here at ortiz. caleb martin, the u. s congress sized being urged by the, by the administration to renew this very controversial spying program. that essentially enables the united states government to gather data without the traditional warrant process. now it faces back to 911. i was instituted into law in

2008. it is section 7 o 2 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act visor. and this program a if when law enforcement officials describe it, they really don't make any bones about what it's really all about. here's what they've said. we are relentlessly focused on serious threats such as the chinese government's efforts to spy on us and steal our technology a wrong sanctions. evasions north korea's nuclear program and russia's invasion of ukraine. now the program essentially enables the f, b, i and the national security agency to go to tech companies and acquire text messages, electronic data e mails and other information. this would apply to google, microsoft meta, and other corporations, without the traditional warrant process and civil liberties. organizations have

raised serious concerns about this and the right to privacy. now in 2013 after edward snowden reveal the nature of the program, the supreme court ultimately slapped down a law suit from civil liberties organizations in response to concerns about the privacy of americans. the court's refusal to hear this case shields one of the most far reaching government surveillance programs from meaningful judicial oversight. it has allowed, baseless claims of secrecy to prevail over the rule of law. if this law were not renewed, it would expire in the coming december. but in all likelihood, there's very little chance of it not being renewed. it appears that the bible ministration is following the prompt administration, which was following the obama administration, which was following the bush administration. and continuing the pattern of encroaching on the privacy of americans and expanding the ability of the government to carry out surveillance and spying without much oversight.

the. okay, to some news reaching us from southern russia were firefighter talking a major bleach that started in a restaurant in the city of the fire? it was said to have begun in the roof of the building, spreading over an area of 200 square meters. more than a 100 firefighters were sent to the scene. the emergency ministry said 15 people were rescued, and no casualties were reported up. present the situation is said to be under control ascending advanced western battle, thanks to kiev, you know, has been a big topic for months. there for to perspective suppliers in particular, after pledges were made by the u. s. and germany, both parties now appeared to have a different interpretation of what was actually agreed. here's the most recent message from berlin. if these justice,

i have no intention to comment on sullivan's interpretation or remark here, but i'm going to show you the federal government on the federal chancellor received his talks as in mark and present. those were good constructive talks in which both sides always made sure that it came to a joint approach. it gave you crank the best possible support in housing defend itself. it just means i'm full. that statement comes after a more lengthy will not of washington were a recollection of productive talks appeared to be forgotten by the u. s. president . if it happened at all, it follows a back and forth between the western allies on who would send the advanced heavy weapons 1st. that 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 and promised it's leopard 2 tanks. here's the u. s. national security advisers take on how events evolve. he recently decided against sending them because his military

told them that they would not be useful on the battlefield in this fight, but would be useful, would be german tanks. so in the interest of aligns unity and to ensure that ukraine got what it wanted, despite the fact that the abraham's aunt, the tool they need, the president said, ok, i'm going to be the leader of the free world. i will send abrams down the road. if you send leopards now, while political scientist and international security analyst marks la boda, i believe the leopard on abrams tanks at will not deliver victory to to be perfectly honest. neither of these 2 main battle tanks, neither the, the modern leopards nor the u. s. 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 military's up to use these tanks were 5 and 7 years respectfully. so the idea that they're just going to send over

a few dozen tanks and give regime forces are just going to jump into the turrets and drive off and achieve some type of victories is frankly, it's pure propaganda. it's, it's, it's ludicrous in military terms. it, it is pure political symbolism. the abrams are even heavier and more technically complex for, for the untrained user, then 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. ok, just tend to fit in this last story. before we go to break. a former deputy prime minister of zimbabwe has last thought that us politicians, for interjecting in the foreign, an economic policies of neighboring south africa. we reject with the contempt that it deserves this shameful, despicable us interference and african foreign policy and commercial diplomacy

formulation. ideally, we must unite as africans and then see global partners as a block of $1300000000.00 people with a collective gdp of $2.00 trillion dollars, not as fragmented african countries. while the comments came in response to the american congress, introducing a resolution condemning south africa's recent military exercises with china and russia, the proposed bell calls on the biden ministration to demand south africa publicly opposed moscow's role in the ukrainian conflict. it also wants a thorough review, apparently of current relations with pretoria quote in light of the south african governments actions, while political analyst uncommented or jackie shun, do believes washington is hypocritical in condemning south africa drills with russia and china when it has its own military bases. all across the african continent. the united states sir says south africa as its own

exclusive, the sphere of influence. south innovations have been going. retreat in the south africa basha in china, us main city hasn't declined yampa alone, empire gets somehow, it is being an end as irrelevant or even useless. feels that it must still in some ways to try and reclaim it. suppose at home on the politics of that offering company, the united states does on hitler, i t to disrupt her to interfere with her. so glen states with its people with its territory, also wiped her for each of america to have palm suits africa, bowl friendly exercising its a. so greg democratic guide whedon, america as he is so aggressive in setting up military base.