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jerry a wag, gunman waited a camp for displaced people. he attack as a present to be local herdsman here clashed with farm as ever passed the landing. as, according to local authorities, conducting the investigation, some of the keys, the herd is at grazing live stock on their lands and destroying projects. the refugee camps were where the death occurred were attached because they are on the disputed land. a local reporter has more for us on the story. the latest are touched in lot central nigeria have left over 70 people killed. the most recent one saw around 30 displaced people killed in bond village in being wasted with this yet or not. who is behind the attacks? what it is said that the killings follow an ethnic clash between farmers and cut to head us over lung disputes. the crisis between capital headers and local farming, so to many of our land, greason and water rights has been ongoing in central and not western regents of
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africa's most populous nation. farmers claims the crops have been destroyed when head us move to the alliance. the head us do they say are just using so called grease in roots, best recognized by law back in 1965 for those living in the area security to our but any for the attacks is not enough. they say they want to proper treat us, brought to justice. my wife was to finish up down to when i came over i london. it was not only her, it was her am i had a bit as wife and my younger brothers chad. a menu as it is community and their, their took us came history to night. right. people were slipping and they decided to shoot politically on them. some people we're the classrooms, some were slipping, their houses should kim monte vista to place the state's authorities,
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counting on the federal government to swing into action, to trace the keyless and soft law of justice for the slaughter. we have ivan citizen who knows who to anyone, won't you, won't you do it yourself? whose instruction to security is that these close. this terrors for most was move out about see, and hunger already clicked this region and repeated clashes over the years, have seen agricultural yields rule, increasingly smaller. over the years, locals are for that to the government, will try to retain their safety so that they can stop living in fear. i'm cool to be troops out of t news. nigeria ah, the international russia, africa i t 4 and kicked off in moscow gathering government officials in the heads
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of companies and educational institutions a to day session for taking place before the main event. an economic form that highlights cooperation between russia and africa in those related fields. solomon. so co director of ethiopian informational network security administration phase and russian digital technologies. i one of the best options for developing countries. russia has a very longer distance internal missile phone, technology ownership, and our shooting is digital promised. formation was in a short period of time. the implementation was just losing 3 years. and it was on the cyber attacks. it showed that the digital technology that those are implemented,
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developed and implemented by russia, is resilient enough and also my children of her. and could be one of the best practice for developing countries coming up next to an r t metropolitan leonard of the russian orthodox church. that is done with our team to discuss the persecution of rocks, priest from ukraine. mm. he did a for many ukrainians and for many orthodox christians, this easter week has been quite a road to calvary, ve, crane, and authorities are openly attacking the orthodox church that in church services shut in down orthodox places of worship, and engaging in the kind of persecution the ukraine has not seen for a very long time. why is it happening? where does this lead to make sense of it all? i'm joined today by metropolitan lay on need of kalynne. patriarchal exit of africa . jo, grace, thank you very much for joining us. let me start by asking you,
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how did we even get to this point? why are we regressing back to the times of religion persecution? good afternoon, and thank you for inviting me. the subject you brought up is as poignant as it is tragic. we're having this conversation on holy week. the final week of great lent, it's tuesday and with every passing day, the developments in ukraine produce more and more misery. he pains us as these are our brothers and sisters the other day. i posted a video on my telegram channel, showing 2 elderly women, one of them very old and using awards, the church through recovery thing orthodox to under fifties, and 19 sioux, or even 3 years would observe this tragedy unfold. of that tacit consent, they are outright ignoring this genocide and i do believe the word is warranted here. we can trace it all back to the 2. thousands. with the axis phase happening
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since 2014 was when a genocide was unleashed against the russian speaking population of ukraine. and now it's got so bad that people a willingly destroying everything that used to bind dot to people's together. i, for one don't think they will succeed, as if trying to prove your points. a representative of the state department stated yesterday that the u. s. is not aware of any persecution of the ukrainian orthodox church that they know nothing about it, and that they see nothing wrong with it. russia's foreign ministry has already issued a response. so my question is, why on earth are they turned in blind eye to the soul? after all, the west is always so vocal about religious freedoms. every year they issue reports of freedom of religion, world wide denouncing russia for allegedly refuse an old faiths and denominations that the right to practice their religion. how then can they ignore such violations in ukraine? it is like they say might makes right, the u. s. and it satellites the so called collective west have long since lost
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touch with reality. even now they refuse to let go of their perceived victory in the cold war. for russia, the legal success of the soviet union, things were tough in the 1990s. and in the years that followed. but we managed to get our act together. and now we stand firm a stronger, more mature nation. we now have a clear sense of dignity and self worth, and i feel we should continue to instill these ideas in our people and defend up for our own sake above all. because the things happening in ukraine, the trends we see across weston nations. that something which clearly must not be allowed into russia. we russians have already had a fair share of turmoil and godlessness. and let me tell you, it was an ugly experience. and one more thing,
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no country on earth has unleashed more was and conflicts killing millions of people than the united states and its vassals in their 280 plus year history. what can we say about yugoslavia then? what can we say about a rock? libya, syria, i can keep this list going. vietnam and afghanistan, and i can go on forever listing countries that the usa and the nato block invaded on it dated, wreaking havoc and killing peaceful people. just recently, there was an anniversary of the invasion in iraq where the civilian population was exterminated, and no one was held accountable for them. you asked for what was happening in soviet times. when the baby c, c n, and voice of america was saying that there were no religious freedoms in the u. s. s. r. indeed, those freedoms were absent. there were threats from crucial to show the last priest
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on t v. we remember those threats very well. the church had to survive and he did survive after the renee sentence of the 19 ninety's. it lives now and has a voice of its own. what voice america's now we can see very well with that is a real baffle going already as well. we call it a special military operation where our brothers and sisters are fighting now in the historical sense. it is a war, a war of civilizations. then the west is trying to teach us alien values that destroy humans, destroy them as the creation of god. these values are alien, unacceptable to us. since childhood, we were taught a completely different doctrine regarding saving our souls regarding morality, decency, and attitude towards each other. the west though, is trying to paint a whole different picture for us,
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while friends do as you wish. it's up to you to be leading entire nations into the fires of hell, probably wishing them extinction. he talk about gender issues, lack of maternity, parent one and parent to, as the holy patriarch said in his recent sermon and a completely unacceptable for a normal person. understanding of social life and so on. no, we don't need values like these. we live by our own principles and our own values. it is over the civilizational values that a war is being waged now. a war for people, souls and their right for sovereign existence and living. at the same time, ukraine claims to be restored. the key of and bruce, to be the direct descendant of the key of and bruce, they say that one day they will restore it. yet at the same time, we hear from ukrainian authorities, officials, and clergy that russians are 2nd great people. there is no, as they say,
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how does it all relate? on the one hand, we see russian people been killed and oppressed. on the other hand, it's covered up with ideas of imperial grandeur and restoration of historical memory. what is wrong with this historical memory? the ukraine is now peddling. i think instead, it's a simple case of double standards. when you take something from people and give them something in return, you have to justify somehow what you're giving them these days. we had nazi fascists. slogans like ukraine above all. and there's no other way that similar to how things were developing in the late 19th thirty's, in germany and austria. we remember only 2. well, how that played out and how many millions of casualties it cost the entire civilized world. but it's a very convenient strategy. and that it can be very quickly restored like this is a reason why i remember the 19 fifties and 1960 s. when van dera,
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gorillas were hunted down in ukrainian forests and swamps. some of them successfully pretended later to be common soviet citizens. unfortunately, 19 nineties were a terrible time when we lost several generations in a spiritual sense of the word. something that nobody wants to repeat to day in might subject to view. the west is pumping up ukraine with ideology. this falling on a very fertile ground. they know very well what buttons to push to turn ukraine and the ukrainians into an anti russian platform and to make 2 people's kill each other . we know very well that many believers of the ukrainian orthodox church, not the pseudo orthodox hell. ho created at the instigation of the us through the great vassal patriarch who gave the ukrainian orthodox church his worthless thomas the piece of paper. that means absolutely nothing. and when the time comes,
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the council of the orthodox church is all a meeting, a convention, whatever you call it will take place when the patriarch will have to answer some very inconvenient questions. if he fail to answer them, he'll have to be tried. he'll have to go on trial citing to bring peace to every one every way. and ukraine, as he claimed, was his mission. instead, he only deepened the division and discord that his led to bloodshed, priests being killed. parishioners had denied their constitutional right to practice the faith of that choice, such as the orthodox faith. and it is with regret that we must acknowledge, that it will only get worse as off today. this situation has no solution and it's escalating to a catastrophe. and i believe that the current ukrainian state with its nazi colored ideology and its zealousness has no future at the same time as far as i know,
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ukraine has claimed that its departure from the canonical orthodox faith is dictated by his desire to join the european community. even back in the 90s, ukraine admitted that orthodox faith was the only really strong link between ukraine and russia and other brotherly nations. and those who sought to join europe . we're also seeking to destroy that connection. given everything we are now seen in ukraine and with such valleys, how real is it for it to actually join the european community? does europe need ukraine was what it has to offer. well, right now, half of ukraine's population is living in europe. i know a lot of people including some friends who live in different countries of europe, and we're getting different accounts here ukrainians, a treated in europe, a 2nd rate, and even 3rd rate citizens. a negative attitude towards them will only increase with time. there's nothing that can fix this because it's about a huge difference in mentality,
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education and life values. it's totally impossible to comprehend what kind of future the present ukrainian government is trying to build for its nation. the authorities guided and funded by the western coalition, whose ideas they channel, throat millions of people into a furnace as horrible events. we have to think about the future people who say that they value the ukrainian genetic pool must be aware of what is actually happening. you can't fade the paper with propaganda all the time, but using russia as an excuse, russia defined it stance a long time ago. if russia had followed the example set by the u. s. and nato, with that so called interventions in other countries that would have been millions of casualties. but we consider ukrainians. i'll brothers and sisters know. that's why there is no carpet bombing, no strikes against central locations. russian soldiers sacrificed their lives for
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the lives of ukrainian citizens. no was a fault that way. i'm not a military expert, but i've spoken to many officers and commanders. they've explained to me how this should have been done in accordance with regular combat principles. if we wanted a quick victory, russia would have achieved that, but it won't cost h d. bruce, if occasion campaign has been launched in ukraine, his society, for example, services in orthodox churches are now to be conducted only in ukrainian. the russian language should never be used. the ukrainian orthodox church, his band, and many regions. how logical are they staffs, do they make any sense of such society? you can't find logic in ukrainian society right now. it's not that there is hatred towards everything russian. but let me remind you that the main liturgical language in the russian orthodox church is church sullivan egg. and it will be spoken in cathedrals, no matter what that is. just
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a matter of time and prayers for the patriarch of moscow will be lifted again and not the way they doing it. now mentioning all other priests of local churches, that they will follow the proper traditional guidelines. but again, it is just a matter of time. nobody will forgive anything in this respect. this is being written in blood. many people are giving their life for that right now, but we must appreciate that and be serious about it because the religious conflicts, the ukrainian leadership, is stoking now, ah, inadmissible. the fact that the international community is silent is a very bad sign for the future. but the good news is that it's revealing the true nature of the west, the bloody west, which throughout its history, has been profiteering at the expense of other people's suffering and misery at the expense of other nations, peoples, and countries. the west has been conquering,
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in other countries, not for the sake of restoring order, although what has the us to do with order in europe. i've mentioned the yugoslavia example already what has the u. s. sitting across the ocean to do with restoring order and imposing its vision in the middle east. in asia, america has no big this being in all these countries. the u. s. however, has a very clear idea about business interests. its own, primarily, this country with nato in tow, comes for the resources they realized very well that soon enough there will be a global shortage of resources, a food of clean water. all the things that russia has in abundance, that naturally makes russia price asset for the west. add to that, i'll vast lance. we know the score. at the same time our western bought us so to speak or trying to propose
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a so called ether cease fire. we have heard something to this effect from france and the vatican keeps trying to insert itself as a piece broke or trying to reach some sort of settlement, how hypocritical are such over t's given the fact that we know how biased they are . they can hardly be described as disinterested how absurd other calls for peace. let's leave the vatican aside for now. i'll say a few things about it later. you've mentioned france. how do you think france can propose peace initiatives? if it's a direct participant in the conflict of supplying the ukrainians with powerful, heavy weaponry. that's right. what, what piece are they bringing? i've been following political developments, and we've recently witnessed president microns laughable visit to china. what did he accomplish? china did confirm that it was prepared to contribute to a settlement, but only provided that all countries interests were taken into account. we need to
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know what exactly you're proposing to us. are you suggesting we should stop again and leave dozens or hundreds of thousands of civilians to be devoured by another nazi regime so that residential districts can be shelled again. look at what's going on in dynette school. it's been more than a year since the launch of the special military operation. and we still can't stop this carnage, but civilians are dying. they are deliberately targeting residential blocks, markets, hospitals, schools fed them. video proof is available online. all of this is being ignored. so you're absolutely right, this position is hypocritical and pathetic. whether we're talking about the french president or spokespeople from other european countries. the trying to say something. they have to say something for their voters. so they're saying it. but
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mister makram had better look at what's going on in his own country, france, how brutally protests over raising the retirement age. a being quashed people, a being beaten up, hundreds and thousands of facing illegal charges, protest is being injured. while i've recently seen a video of a pole woman being thrown by a special forces officer over his thigh, she landed on the asphalt. and i don't know if she even survived the injury she received. now let's go back to the vatican. first off, the vatican has not sent anything official regarding this east at cease 5 he mr. pess cough confirmed that nothing official has been achieved. the vatican implies that it has a certain point of contact in russia, which allegedly is always in touch and ready for
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a friendly chat over the phone. i personally may have friendly chat with whom ever i want, but that's not the official position or an addition. if we look at the vatican objectively, and the vatican would like us to see it as objective, will say that it has been receiving the so called victims of russian aggression and the wives and sisters of the as of fighters. this ultra nationalist battalion is famous for its killings and sadistic violence and deserves to face an international tribunal together with other units of the same nature. the pope receives them, gives them a very warm welcome drinks tea with them gives them a pat on the shoulder. pledges his support for ukrainians and so on. again, what i'm saying here is my personal position. some of my colleagues may disagree with me, but i don't see the pope as a peacemaker. not in the least bit. peacemakers don't act like that. why doesn't
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the pope talk to the italian prime minister, for example? why won't he try to get her to stop arming ukraine? he doesn't do that. why is he maniacally trying to push his advice or suggestions on to us that do not really have substance? that's my take going back to the issue of ukrainian believers and right now around easter time, there have been denied access to many holy places. we've seen outrages developments around the key features clara with monastery possessions, been confiscated for the needs of the orthodox church of ukraine. the same fate has befallen all the places of worship and key if which have been handed over to the key of back church authorities. what do you think they were trying to accomplish by those crude methods? was the long term objective. and is there hope that these holy places will be returned to the rightful owners and will be accessible for churchgoers at some
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point? i don't doubt for a 2nd that it will go back to where it should be. the lord will say to it that justice may triumph. we've already talked about the persecution of the followers of the ukrainian orthodox church. what corridors of shame they've been forced to go through, like some ukranian officials before them when they were being subjected to the so called lustration, or vetting sooner or later, this will end. it will end with the defeat of the satanist regime. it will ends with the return of the cave purchase glover and other places of worship which have been illegally seized. and people will once again be able to pray there. unfortunately, many of them have been destroyed. i wrote about that in my telegram channel. when it comes to a show down, there's no guarantee that we won't see something like what nazi germany did when it
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blew up in, ty, historic districts. as its troops retreated in europe, towns were destroyed with thousands upon thousands of people were killed. god save us from this massive loss of civilian life. but everything we're seeing now is pointing in this direction. crowds mostly young people and minus a bang, fred nazi ideology, and these people the age. notwithstanding that you just go ahead and demolish everything in their way. however, sooner or later they will be stopped, for god's cannot be marked as people of faith, we believe in the power of the passion and resurrection of christ. that's why we started our conversation by mentioning that it's wholly choose day to day. and we can project this story on to ukraine. as i always say, darkness will always be followed by light, the light of jesus resurrection as we are getting closer to the whole easter day,
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which is the main holiday for millions of believers in russia, ukraine, and around the world. what would you say to them in these, trying and challenging times for the orthodox church? was your words of advice for your flock? i'd like to wish our brothers and sisters patience, wherever they are, whatever corner of the world they might be in. we all will celebrate the resurrection of jesus christ. we all in one way or another. be one with god. we're going through hard times right now. so each one of us should share this easter joy as best he can with those who can't experience it fully. according to the news i read yesterday, all churches will be closed for worshippers in ukraine. one way or another, our lord will rise, one way or another. he will bring joy to this world for another year. this joy of eastern celebration should help us preserve peace, and most importantly,
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hope in our souls in these turbulent times. thank you for these warm wishes and a very interesting conversation. thank you. ah. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy foundation, let it be in arms. race is often very dramatic development only personally and getting to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very difficult time to sit down and talk ah
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ah ah ah, the fs be safe. ukrainian, special for the phase and washing opposition members were involved in the killing of a war journalist and a cafe bowman early this month. mobilization of the studio power military for them, the account with all those ways concerns from the countries, the military,
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which is now warning the potential for a clash between the 2 parties is increasing. wrong reported blog if you find on think of ammunition supplies to ukraine. flip the blog, i think more to me from the us. well, poland pushes closer ties with washington, also ahead of the 20 years of u. s. military occupation with conflicts and the u. s. counter terrorist efforts. and again.
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