general michael langley, one congress earlier this month, that russia is trying to take over the entireon >> listen >> i would say the russian federation's narrative drowned out the us government's in the past years, they were accelerate the russian federation just through wagner. wagner stoked a lot of the instability across the sahel they did this through misinformation, disinformation campaigns. so i see or how we work could not doubled down on our efforts is through our own information campaign, but mashed whip are assurance so efforts for the us believes that russia is talking instability across this wider region. that's hail and also taking advantage of that to profit of the natural resources, especially the gold mines he's air on the other hand, the niger military junta leadership feather de, were getting lectured by the united states, even up it canceled all military and foreign cooperation after the us designated this as a coup. so why would you lecture us when you're not supporting us in any way? that's why that announcement of state tv, these spokesperson for the military jun

what happened during that meeting between the us assistant secretary of state monthly fee on the michael langley, the command of us africa command with the top new jerry and officials bombing from the what the news areas are saying that the basically they didn't like the what the describe as a condescending attitude of american officials should we should waste time it up as exactly that point or there's more to this new route between the americans and the new jerry it's, i think that's part of it, but i think there is definitely more to this dentist to come to said the doctor to, i think ultimately, the crux of the matter is just choice of ministry partners. and specifically, the choice of russia for us clearly seems to be for straight to that is a, is moving closer and closer in terms of managing corporation and partnerships with the russians. and we saw that in the statement from is uh what they were saying was that the us were trying to the noise and drop it should have to to choose the ministry potters they wanted and the partnerships that started a partnership. and they wanted to pursue it.

general michael langley, who heads u.s.mmand, previously warned congress that russia plans to take over everything. this african region called the sahel, and he also said the following. i want to say that the russian federation narrative has drowned out the united states narrative in recent years, this has led to increased instability throughout the sahel region, they managed to achieve this through an information and disinformation campaign, so we must redouble our efforts in terms of our information campaign, we must also reassure our allies of our support. niger is one of the last allies usa. the united states hoped that its pact with neiger would help not only fight terrorism, but the growing influence of russia. the american military presence there is 201 military bases in agadez, of all the american military bases in niger there was only... one: 700 american troops are stationed there, very important aviation assets are stationed there. according to the latest data, today there are two reconnaissance aircraft, two hel

this outcome was led by molly feces, the us assistant secretary for african affairs and general michael langley, who commands the us africa command, the spent three days there. they didn't meet with general libre man any the self-declared leader of nisia the military ruler. but they did meet with his appointed prime minister and the nisia hands announcing they did that out of courtesy because the americans do not follow the proper diplomatic protocol. they didn't say when they were coming, who was in the delegation and over the purpose of the trip. but just after they left this drastic decision to end that military cooperation that had about abbas again for 648 us troops still remaining the countries of december and an unknown number of civilian personnel supporting these are bases in the us in asia. here's the explanation for why this, they did this business and the american presence in the territory of the republic of niger is illegal and violates all constitutional and democratic rules which would make the people are sovereign >> these has merit to the junta also condemned what they see as a