i'm mark matheson.n saturday voters in nigeria go to the polls to elect the president but africans largest democracy and its biggest economy have been suffering more violence as the ballot approaches. several police officers of been killed in the last few days in attacks by suspected rebels in the southeast. a senate candidate from the opposition labour party was shot dead late on wednesday by unknown assailants in south eastern state. with nigeria's debt rising and taxes failing to raise enough cash, the successor will face tough financial constraints. 18 candidates are on the ballot of four of them are getting the most attention because of their chances to win or force themselves into a runoff election. we report. >> peter gregory, a former governor of the state is the youngest of the front rumors -- runners. his campaign a message seems to run with young supporters who say they are tired of the politics of it all. >> we want to see someone unite nigeria. we want to transform nigeria from its present

mark lamond hill. what out there? ah ah! hello, i'm rob matheson and this is the news are live from dough hop coming up in the next 60 minutes. ah! a woman is pulled alive from rubble and took here after being chopped since monday's twin earthquake shook the region. cold and hunger, the twins of dissolve se, intensifying the challenges facing earthquake survivors in syria and to, to hear those little terrible time as i'm sam is a dan lock is on the out of got the antenna. the funds that he sent age trickles into syria, where more than 5000000 people are homeless and desperate for hell. another weekend or protests in france against a controversial pension reform is we're going to be live in paris. and also in this news on the congolese army ramped sub security outside the eastern time of saki as rebel fighters, advance an india claim and emphatic went over to australia in the 1st test in not poor ah, more than 25000 people have died after 2 powerful earthquakes hit turkey and syria on monday. the search and rescue efforts continue among the latest n

mark in ukraine one year off. join us then if you can. i'm rob matheson the bye for now. i ah. on a recent february day in central park in new york city, you never have guessed it was right smack in the middle of winter. look around, people are dressed like it's spring or summer. wait, hold on. where is the snow ever seen new york in february like this? never a new reality, perhaps with new yorkers, 1st enjoying the warm weather, but now beginning to ask themselves, will it ever snow this year? because this isn't normal, they probably don't even need to be wearing this jacket right now because it's mid february and it's supposed to be cold. but it's not a tough time. the man tough question is, what exactly are you asking for you? what the troops on the ground, the rigorous debate we challenge, conventional wisdom racism is so deeply entrenched in the country that it's identified with america itself. when you challenge racism, it looks as if you're challenging america and demand the truth. there is no serious discussion about this because it goes to the very root of who we are u

mark there. john tom is accused of deliberately targeting civilians to wipe out all opposition. we have a special report from inside the country. ah, i'm matheson, this is i'll just rely from doe hob, also coming up thousands of people join pope frances as he celebrates mass in democratic republic of congo teachers in the u. k. join the country's biggest, coordinated strike action in a generation and the needle in the haystack authorities find a missing radioactive capsule and use trillion, outback ah, we're going to begin and me and mark where it's 2 years to the day since the army over through the government and installed a military john time. on february, the 1st 2021 armored vehicles rolled onto the streets, catching me and most people, unaware military leaders claimed they were writing a response to fraud in the previous year's election. democratically elected leader also. so she was placed under house arrest, people across me and mob retaliated immediately, thousands joined peaceful protests. as on to launched a violent crackdown rights groups say, 3000 people have been killed during the 2 years since the coo and 1500000 have been forced

mark lamond hill on al jazeera. ah, china says that regrets what it calls up, civilian air balloons, string into american air space. ah no unrolled matheson, this is i'll just leave alive from doha also coming up. ah, hope francis arrives and says sit on the message a reconciliation on his 1st visit to the world's youngest nation. a symbolic summit in keep the european union pledges support for ukraine, but makes no concrete promises on joining the block. and even ambulances for injured palestinians are not spared. and the growing wave of settlers attacks in the occupied west bank, those new gray and white apartments over there are a legal settlements right here in the heart of the west bank. and last year, just 3 percent of police cases involving secular violence resulted in a conviction. ah, we're going to begin with breaking news out of beijing. were the chinese foreign minister. he says it regrets what could called a civilian balloon, straying into u. s. air space. beijing says it's a civilian object, meant for scientific research. the pentagon had early called it a spy, a balloon hm was tracking the balloon flying over the state of m