ah, ah ah, the 2 main all position parties in nigeria, coal to nullify the presidential election stating that the preliminary results are shown on the the voting process as being manipulated uganda south africa are set to strengthen by lateral cooperation. as the ugandan president calls for stronger treating relations between this states, and i'm a confident in general during a visit to the country with the u. s. secretary of state praises washington's humanitarian help for the people up again. and despite its own going on the

supplies to the study, lead coalition up ball making the war stricken country. we hear from a red cross representative about the situation today. the d i see in your mind is that 13000000 people are struggling not to own me with an ongoing conflict with no clear resolution in view, but also from getting lots of infrastructure get access to all the basic needs with broadcasting from our international new center in the russian capital, this is our t good to have your company today. the 2 main opposition parties in nigeria are demanding the results of somebody's general election. be declared nolan void. they allege voter fraud in africa as most populated nation branding the whole

process. a r t correspondent, co rabo letter takes up the story, both political parties, that is labor, as well as the pdp, the people as 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 all from, from where we are a lego city in school already parts of the city as well as in a cage 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, 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 the election material being destroyed, but we understand that now that both will take our parties are pulling 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 margin of victory, even if it be a pdp or i leave a party victory, that those margins continue to be narrow. while the margin of victory for the incumbency of the apc continues to be wired and why then that suggest to them that

there is 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 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 part is that we speak this invisible hand of the american government here and its interest in africa's 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 in trace within the african democratic process as well as 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 nigeria and 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 fright the day to the results coming in, including from a high self representative candidate for the opposition people's democratic party,

who said it must be accepted that some hopefully will win on some will lose. let me said is especially i snugly. i'm not in agreement, we cannot, it is 11 o'clock. so when so lose this election day, we said friday, march all for walking out in us 24th time. we do still need, you know, we have an issue about with the when we're, when we get back to me, don't watch it on the mark before. well, read election. we out live by to last 6 on that day or 2 without really national. where would president last states will be we are going to national, where did like just the like, does it economy because biggest it was loss with but

t good news. i got a new principal. so to me, to my mind, this is lashawn east, at least before the semester credible. and we, we got, we got to go do go from there. well it's been a big national a termite for nigeria. elections and r t will make sure you don't miss any of the big developments from what's turning into a fractious ending to the vote. all there online, we've got you covered with meanwhile, uganda and south africa are set to strengthen by last row, twice the uganda and president's trip to africa. the most developed economy began on tuesday with a cold for a stronger trading relations between the nations. and indeed, across the continent of a whole ortiz correspondence, no little boy,

you can gay house for the last we can president said i'm a poor. so has welcome gunned and counterparts. presidency with him was severely for a state visit. the last day to visit to africa by president was the venue took place in 2011. this gap in summits came as the result of poor quality of product from uganda and high v. the fees also became an obstacle preventing you gun to products from coming into africa. now this visit is directed at consolidating bilateral ties between the 2 countries. with discussions between the 2 heads of state, touching on economy, continental and international issue, was of any is accompanied by several cabinet ministers in a business delegation aiming to trade and investment relations between the 2 nations. and as we know, uganda is one that africa, the largest trading talking is on the continent and off the truck in relation to

the port that says, this is the beginning of menu opportunities between which now it seems not the business between the 2 countries is expanding the present in each other's market. would you gotten that export to south africa? totally $11000000.00 while importing over $220000000.00 during 2020, with both countries. now the thing that they can do was, and even though you've gotten, has had little success in penetrating the south, african market change is and the way and this visit is an example off of that of wheel cooling gay odyssey. the hand is beg, a tremendous difference. that's how the u. s. state secretary, how's this crime? both washington on the west, the impact on resolving the m in crisis. anthony blink and praise the funding being sent to the conflict stricken country. the manager in crisis in yemen remains an

issue where our collective action has made and can continue to make a tremendous difference. in 2020 to 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 must do all we can to help and this war because for millions of emmys, 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 the jamini who see forces that white eyes reportedly blocked legislation that would have stopped sales. last year, we discussed the issue with the executive director of the world beyond war movement

and also a yamini journalist. it's not fair to see a see the united states talking about the problems that human is on facing. the united states is a problem itself. they have been selling the weapons, including massage to a saudi arabia and its allies on the region to pump the many people me personally in my neighborhood has been bombed by a saudi arabia using american marseilles. you can't even compare with has been paid for the human people during atheist voltage was, has been paid to the ukrainian story. we conflict. we had only the clumps of what the it was all pain to help other countries. this is a conflict that's been created and has been exacerbated and. ringback continued by the u. s. government, not just with the drone killings and not just with the weapons to saudi arabia, but also through u. s. participation in the war. candidate biden was going to end the war and the

weapon supplies, and treat saudi arabia as a pariah. state now it's now it's almost, you know, an act of betrayal to the democratic party to remember that as so, you know, we, we have a great deal to look for in terms of, of, of humanitarianism i and the united states is not the leading supplier of humanitarian aid to the world. despite the u. s. praising it's a t. m, and 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 around 3 quarters of its $4000000000.00 target for donations this year, which humanitarian group slamming the shortfall as disgraceful. the international community to day showed it has abandoned yemen at this crucial cross roads with a mayor quarter of the amount needed to support them. millions of yemenis here 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 8 years, yemen has been suffering from a humanitarian crisis to, to the ongoing conflict. over 21000000 people are in dire need of humanitarian aid . according to international laid agencies of them more than 2000000 children are in the brink of death suffering from acute malnutrition. while almost 18000000 emily's don't have access to safe drinking water. we spoke to the regional spooked person for the international committee of the red cross who sees the situation in the country as 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, of human suffering i've seen there will haunt me for ever. 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 breadth, a dipped in water. and this was their diet that including other imagery that was that the word should 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 no clear resolution in view, but also crumbling voted infrastructure limited access to all basic needs, including food, water, health, electricity, a very intense human economic situation. that is affecting the livelihood and every corner in yemen. a fun for sure to address is not a situation that on me, the international red cross is flagging. this is a reality for on humanitarian actors, which makes the situation even extra dangerous. just to give you an example, 2021 pledge in a number for

a yemen. 8 operation collectively each 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 yemenis that really are relying to day on these activities to be able to access the most basic of the, of the services. which means that more yamini swirled sleep hungry tonight, or 2 and more children not be able to go to school. more women will not be able to deliver in a, in, in hospitals us to access live season health care. this is the reality of 8 fonts shortages well, sending advanced western bottle tanks. the key of has been a big topic for months now for to prospective suppliers. after pledges were made by

the u. s. and germany, both parties now appeared to have a different interpretation of what was actually great. here's the most recent message from berlin visas dish. i have no intention to comment on sullivan's interpretation or remarkably well, but i'm going to show you how the federal government on the federal chancellor received his talks as an american president. and those were good constructive talks in which both sides always made sure that we came to a joint program. it gave you kramer, best possible support in housing. i'm itself, it just $12.00 minds on for, for that statement comes, offer more lengthy one. i'd of washington were a recollection of productive talks, appeared forgotten by the u. s. president. it follows a back and forth between the western allies on who would send the advanced heavy weapons 1st. it ended up taking me 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 to tax. here's the u. s. national security advisors taken how offensive off he recently decided against sending them because his military told him 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 a bram's down the road if you send leopards. now. while political scientist on international security analyst mark slip, boda believes the tungsten question won't deliver ukraine victory. 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 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 give regime forces are just going to jump into the turrets and drive off and achieve some type of victories is frankly, in the, it's pure propaganda. it's, it's, it's ludicrous in, in military terms, it is pure political symbolism. the abrams are even heavier and, and more technically complex for, for the untrained user. then the leopards, but only marginally, which is why the u. s. doesn't want to see them cent. and, and see them perform badly and destroyed on the battlefield. the pentagon's making certain information on u. s. involvement in ukraine. public. several defense officials have testified in the 1st open hearing on oversight of

u. s. military equipment to ukraine. officials claim they're keeping a close eye on the money sent to keith, while also admitting the conflict had lost another 3 years. i think we have had a lot of oversight on this effort from the very beginning right now. and i've asked this question. we are getting every single weapon system that we can to ukraine. there is not a decision being made about. and that might be escal atory. can you tell us roughly how much money has been given total to the ukraine war effort since we began last year? well, it depends a little bit how you count it, but i believe it's over a 113000000000 approximately. i think the point from our matter of u. s. policy is that, that the importance of getting after corruption in ukraine or anywhere else is at the top of of our point of emphasis with ukranian leaders. a former un weapons inspector scott ritter believes the claim of having any oversight on the money being sent to ukraine is only used to play kate the american taxpayer. i had to

laugh when he said, you know, dealing with ukrainian corruption is at the top of the list notes at the bottom of the list. because if it was at the top of the list, you would never have given you train any money because you can't account for it. but the fact of the matter is, there's little doubt that 6070 percent of the financial resources that the united states provided to ukraine has disappeared, isn't getting to the intended target has been, you know, sequestered by the innumerable corrupt hands that are reaching out to a to be padded by american dollars in, on the military side of, you know, again, noticed the, the non answers. so, you know, we, we're, we're investigating, we don't have an answer. if you've been on top of this, from the very beginning, you'd have an answer. there are no answers because we're not on the top of it. and the reason why we're not on the top of it is because we wouldn't be able to do this

if the truth came out to the american people. about how over a $115000000000.00 of us taxpayer money has been squandered in ukraine. now a large crowd of demonstrators in moldova, have been making a stand against the countries pro e. u. government formed earlier this month. o . thousands on the streets, them under the countries present among us some to resign for storing energy prices being seen that was rallying also brought cardboard effigies of the leader which they ripped apart and stump, too evidently expressed their frustrations earlier. local authorities had restricted access to the area to try and prevent more demonstrators from entering the city center. on this footage shows the crowds marching in downtown kitchen out the nation's capital. the anti government rally brought together residents from

several, moldova, and cities, and local journalist briefly ticks us through. now, what brought people lodge on to the streets for hours and winter? in a $115.00. we are in the center of juice. now we see 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 deemed strengths since gas and electricity costs have skyrocketed over the winter. residents are angered by government policies, they say have caused the economic problems. you know, the biden administrations thrown its weight behind a controversal mass surveillance program, which will come to an end this december if congress doesn't vote to extend it. not it permits the government to spy on any non u. s. edison outside americas borders. but at the same time, allows the snooping on any communications between those targets. and you asked

nationals with more on what kind of future it's expected to have. your chart is 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 phrases 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 give when law enforcement officials describe it, they really don't make any bones about what it's really all about. here's what they said. we are relentlessly focused on serious threat 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 api 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. busy microsoft meta and other corporations, without the conditional 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 biden

administration 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. according to former, ca analysts, laurie jumps in the u. s. surveillance program is actually being used against the americans themselves, despite its stated aim to come. but foreign france that this law that when it was passed. and this is not my opinion, i'm basing this upon my former business partner. now retired, who was chief of international operations for d. e a in the ninety's. and he told me, he said, we have all the authority, we need to actually intercept phone calls and spy on foreigners. what this law

does is basically give the f, b i, and department of justice and the anybody else d e a, a back door despite on america's. and in fact, that's exactly what they did to donald trump. that's what they did to people on his team like george pop adopted. so it's been used against america, and it's a gross abuse. and yet they always try out the foreign travis to justify a news, just a lie, damn lie. and finally, this news, our china is ramping up its coal power capacity with imports of the russian or more than tripling shipments. since the beginning of this year, have increased by a massive 214 percent number confirmed by russia's consulate general in china. with energy security, global concern, china's power grid is sent to see a massive expansion would double the amount of new coal fired plans starting to be

built this year. compared to last, according to the independence center for research on energy and cleaner to meet its needs basing has given projects the green lights on, on accelerated basis with 4 times that permitted capacity compared to 2021. earlier we discussed the situation former substation general offset, i forget dr. poly lucia, and also with banking, an economics professor at the university of winchester. richard berner, is europe has been very dependent on reliable and cost effective energy supplies from russia. and the previous, you know, states the soviet union, russia is the sort of legal success, the state. and that's been going on for, you know, for a long time. certainly since 945. and the soviet union should have been very

reliable in delivering this to europe. and they've never used energy supplies as a political weapon or tool, or a way to blackmail people. that is an american idea. the americans have done this many times. there's nothing wrong with school, there's nothing wrong, sawyer. based everything wrong with your technology. we are deployed and how that technology that supported the putting a lot of money to eat. it is possible a cycle to the best. this is green j. guess issues by using it the right technology about mimics nature yet produces even better in the system. so i think by looking into the systems it seems to be different and that's what we should focus on. and just a reminder for up to the minute developments today, ortiz twitter page. how's you covered? why not give us a follow? if you're not already use team on myself.

ah, is it time to talk? and it would seem so the west rhetoric is at odds with hard realities on the ground in ukraine. the chinese are presented to proposal and it is believe the u. k. france and germany, or cobbling together applying for zalinski. but are they willing to talk to russia with with

mm welcome to well, depart being part of europe, if not geographically, and culturally, has been a century long aspiration for the countries and its periphery, especially russia and turkey. they emulated european customs, and tastes tried to borrow its best practices, but always fell short golf over snubbed, why they're enlightened european neighbors. does these idealization of europe have anything to do with the war in the ukraine? well, to discuss that, i'm now joined by the sillies 1st class professor of international politics and economics at the university of east london professor 1st because it's great to talk to you. thank you very much for your time. thank you so much. nice to meet you. thank you, i'm not many people remember now, but the latter stage of the crisis in ukraine began.