he's coming up with nick africa. i've got a question for you in a certain mark, you are visiting of moscow from one down $1.00 to $9.00 when the president site has spoken out against time. that demands. and he's rejecting any pressure or detached from the outside. what is expected from your data to moscow and how do you for him, the conviction to you, but to the use and established partnerships based on mutually beneficial interests and respect for the sovereignty of countries. you know, invest in apple bundled new tunisia has never refused to navigate. it's definitely 2 things. one partnership to have another. one of them is the partnership. we have open channels for partnership with all our partners, and we have never said that. we know sees any conflict with the international monetary sounded. no, we have certain conditions and we have to be clear that the protection of the country is the protection of the most vulnerable a citizens. i'm to see, these are the red lines and we've seen these red lines. we are willin

my colleague nick aaron, is in, in about 30 minutes with more news by the west into worlds and part a decade after the wave of an arrow spring uprising ship north africa. violence. change of government is striking. the continent. he had a gas based time in west africa with it goes in larger and debunk, completed how we see the worst of it. he had of to discuss that. i'm now join, but i found to be associate professor at the nigerian institute of international affairs. professor will be great to talk to thank you very much for your time. thank you for having the issue. now africa is definitely a no stranger to cruise or entrenched governments, which probably.

nick: the larger context of the speech is zelenskyy's desire to expand ukraine's support across the global south. he met with heads of south africa and kenya. many of these countries continue to provide economic or diplomatic support to russia. lenski knows that in a long war and this does appear to be heading to a long war, he needs more support at the united nations across the global south then he currently has, especially if the world will hold russia accountable and prevent russia from having the financial resources to continue to wage war. geoff: what does that long war look like on the front where you have been? nick: it looks very difficult. we have spent the last week in southern ukraine on the front lines, specifically in what ukraine calls its most critical front. an offensive south on the road to crimea to cut into russian occupied territory and threatened russian supply lines. we have seen very able special forces and drone units try and attack russian positions currently being for -- being reinforced in that area. we have seen national guard units fighting engine by inch despite not having many resources. we have als

the side of what's required in africa to, to adapt, to protect itself. against the ongoing effects of climate change, what more needs to be done. thank you so much, nick for having me said to me uh the your question and positioning is the right one . and what has come out of, uh, this damage has that's come in finance is inefficient, insufficient, and it's unfair and what needs to be done, as well as to unlock more of financing through the global re phones in the international financial, less space deal with the soaring that's levels that many countries are finding themselves having to do with well balancing outside of finance and climate action and such a new also look more in the x t investments and confessional financing. we have seen several proposals in this regard to nick and the to summarize them quite quickly. the request has been one. we see the reform of m. d. b's to also include climate resilience. that's close this and this was done already in paris, but we need to see the implementation of that. and then secondly, we need to see extra concessional lending that is related with the climate action and sustainable development goals in the con