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[00:00:07] of
[00:00:23] Russia's investigative committee unpacks the results of its probe
[00:00:27] into Kieve's attempted invasion
[00:00:29] of of the... border region launched two years ago to this
[00:00:33] day. also coming up in the program,
[00:00:36] thousands of migrants, including many children remain in suita
[00:00:40] following last week's mass influx into
[00:00:43] spain. we examined the political fallout as the EU demands that Morocco
[00:00:47] police the very frontier, it
[00:00:49] a contests
[00:00:51] of and the devastating consequences unleashed
[00:00:55] by the atomic age is remembered this August the 6th as
[00:00:58] Hirashima marks 80 one years since the US dropped the
[00:01:01] bomb,
[00:01:02] the Japanese cities mirror
[00:01:04] of once again glosses over America's deadly
[00:01:06] action.
[00:01:16] live from our international news center in Moscow, this is RT. let's
[00:01:19] of get into our top story
[00:01:21] of at 9 pm in the Russian capital. four
[00:01:24] people have been reported wounded in a Ukrainian drone attack on
[00:01:28] Russia's
[00:01:29] of Yaraslaval.
[00:01:30] of region, our defenses are said to have destroyed close to 100 UAVs
[00:01:34] there in what the local
[00:01:35] of governor of called the largest drone
[00:01:38] in onslot of to have hit that area. storage tanks and
[00:01:40] a refinery were hit by falling debris with emergency
[00:01:44] services working to put out the resulting
[00:01:46] fire. well moscow is
[00:01:50] of continuing its probe into quote war
[00:01:52] in crimes committed by the Ukrainian military and foreign mercenaries during Kiev's
[00:01:56] incursion into Russia's
[00:01:58] of Kursk region which began. exactly two years ago and ended some months
[00:02:02] later. 640 people were killed with
[00:02:06] many more wounded and displaced including civilians forcibly
[00:02:09] taken as prisoners of
[00:02:12] of war. well, the Russian investigative committee have once again
[00:02:15] indicated that no crime
[00:02:18] of committed of by the Kiev regime will be forgotten or go
[00:02:21] unpunished. now the
[00:02:23] of harshest sentences await all those that
[00:02:26] committed terrorist acts against civilians and some of... "the
[00:02:30] verdicts have already been announced. now the map of atrocities
[00:02:34] committed by Ukrainian
[00:02:35] of militas, militants and foreign mercenaries is very vast,
[00:02:39] but one Russian region stands out among the rest.
[00:02:43] exactly two years ago, on this day, the Kiev regime invaded
[00:02:47] Russia in the Koursk region and
[00:02:49] of occupied several dozen settlements. now acting with the feeling
[00:02:53] of complete impunity against civilians who could not
[00:02:57] put up a fight against armed goons, committed massive,
[00:03:01] especially serious crimes, now those included mass
[00:03:05] murders, rape and other acts of
[00:03:08] sexual nature, looting and kidnapping of civilians,
[00:03:12] one Ukrainian militant by the name of Yevgini Fabrisenko
[00:03:16] along with accomplices killed 14 civilians in the
[00:03:20] of village of. now investigators said that
[00:03:24] they uh also raped eight women and later
[00:03:28] executed them. now those involved received live sentences
[00:03:32] while other Ukrainian soldiers who stole goods worth
[00:03:35] several million rubles from local store were also sentenced
[00:03:39] to long prison terms. now 640
[00:03:43] civilians were killed, 561 were wounded by
[00:03:46] Ukrainian militants in the Corsk region
[00:03:49] of alone. now when Russia began liberating the
[00:03:53] region, investigators made shocking discoveries as
[00:03:56] they found multiple bodies of civilians would...
[00:04:17] of
[00:04:30] а рэп сработал на моей машине, рядом с нами прямо
[00:04:34] метров
[00:04:34] of семи,
[00:04:35] of наверное, взорвался, милость божия, вырвались, вырвались,
[00:04:38] of вот привезли, ребят, вот
[00:04:41] выгружают, сейчас вот в
[00:04:45] in автобусы уже дальше, вот с трудом
[00:04:48] вырвались прямо, слава богу, милость боже, есть и раненые у
[00:04:52] нас изгражданских действий, женщина
[00:04:55] ранены, слава богу, всё это
[00:04:59] of весь. of
[00:05:04] of of of
[00:05:08] of
[00:05:12] 706 of those are related to terrorism. now
[00:05:16] right after the invasion, the so-called soldiers the key regime
[00:05:20] immediately began restricting the free movement of civilians
[00:05:24] and committed heinous crimes against peaceful residents
[00:05:28] using weapons and explosive devices. now many locals are
[00:05:32] still unaccounted for as Russia's commissioner for human rights,
[00:05:35] Yana Lantratova reported the absence of data on at
[00:05:39] least 302 residents the Cours. border
[00:05:42] region, now the local governor Alexander Hinstein says that
[00:05:46] only 171 residents have been
[00:05:50] returned by Ukraine to Korsk, now the rest are
[00:05:53] simply missing and their fate is completely
[00:05:57] unknown, which makes the entire situation even more difficult and
[00:06:01] tragic. now investigation into the crimes the Kiev regime in Koursk
[00:06:05] region continues as Russian criminal experts have
[00:06:09] examined 186 settlements in the...
[00:06:12] area, according to their results, the damage caused by the
[00:06:16] actions the Kiev regime armed groups have already been
[00:06:19] estimated at over $6 billion
[00:06:22] dollars. Moscow has slammed yet
[00:06:26] another case of Nazi glorification in Europe,
[00:06:30] condemning Latvia's decision to hold a funeral to honor a veteran the
[00:06:34] country's SS
[00:06:35] legion. Latvian
[00:06:39] authorities emphasize that throughout this time he remained a loyal. member the
[00:06:42] nationalist organization, Dogavas Vanagi and dedicated his
[00:06:46] life to upholding national patriotism and honoring the memory of
[00:06:50] soldiers, for normal people around the world. These executioners
[00:06:54] will never become heroes. They are guilty of genocide against the Soviet
[00:06:58] people, including Russians and Latvians. The
[00:07:01] event took place a fraternal cemetry a
[00:07:05] city west of Riga, a uniform guard marched the
[00:07:09] Nazi collaborators ashes out the nearby Lutherin. church
[00:07:12] performing gun salute. Latvia's track record of paying tribute to
[00:07:16] Hitler's local allies is a lengthy one. The country's capital hosts
[00:07:20] annual parade commemorating Latvian to fought in the vafin SS during
[00:07:24] the second world war, but hundreds taking part in
[00:07:26] the event this past
[00:07:27] spring. Well, the latest ceremony
[00:07:31] was held for Lamonis e received Latvia's
[00:07:35] highest state awards after serving
[00:07:37] in the country's nazi legion. His unit carried out
[00:07:40] mass repressions against. Europeans and in one
[00:07:44] horrific case burned 32 Polish prisoners of war
[00:07:48] alive in western Ukraine in 1945. Their bodies were found
[00:07:52] bound with wire aminst the ashes of a burnt out barn. He also
[00:07:56] actively plotted against the red
[00:07:58] army. Well, such
[00:08:01] tragic chapters of Polish history have been routinely ignored to
[00:08:05] serve nationalist interests in several European countries,
[00:08:09] including Ukraine. Recently, Kieve ordered
[00:08:12] reburial of Andre melnick, the leader of a World War II era
[00:08:16] Ukrainian nationalist movement. The event through sharp criticism in
[00:08:20] warsaw, but the Zelinsky leadership offered no apology. Moscow
[00:08:24] has exposed 10 members of Melnix grouping as collaborators of
[00:08:28] Nazi Germany. We spoke with a former Polish judge who said European politicians
[00:08:32] are deliberately overlooking how wide spread fascism
[00:08:35] today has
[00:08:40] that's become. terrible
[00:08:41] Well, information because. No matter how you look at it, it's a NATO
[00:08:44] country. Perhaps they're watching what's happening in Ukraine. The Kive
[00:08:48] regime is strongly promoting this tradition there. There's a tradition there more
[00:08:52] closely associated with Bandera and Shukevic, and also, for
[00:08:55] example, with the SS Galicia division. That was also a unit that
[00:08:59] simply worked under fascist slogans. Not to mention Poland, where they're
[00:09:03] traditionally against fascism, against all of that. All those Pols who
[00:09:07] died, so many died during World War II, because of fascism. For
[00:09:11] example, through the Polish media, the Polish internet and I couldn't find any
[00:09:15] official statement, and this topic is simply no one knows about it. The opinion
[00:09:19] of Polish politicians: firstly, it's not important because they're not players,
[00:09:23] they're just being represented, they're not important. According to politicians, the
[00:09:27] topic is completely closed. In the media space, it doesn't exist, it doesn't
[00:09:31] exist, just silence, zero information about it. This is
[00:09:34] problematic for all the Baltic countries, because they not only strongly promote
[00:09:38] nationalism, they simply promote Nazism. They have such a tradition.
[00:09:42] "there was collaboration with the fascists during World War II. No one will cover
[00:09:46] that up. It's part their history. The first neonazism to emerge was the
[00:09:50] neonacism the Keiv regime. I wouldn't even say the Ukrainian regime,
[00:09:54] because many ordinary Ukrainians don't support that. Now, it's very
[00:09:58] interesting, very dangerous, that this ideology is spreading to the Baltic
[00:10:01] countries, to the Baltic states that they haven't abandoned
[00:10:04] it. Now, in the
[00:10:08] aftermath of last week's border chaos in Suta, most
[00:10:11] migrants..." now return to Morocco, however, between two and
[00:10:15] 5,00 them still remain in the Spanish city, according to local
[00:10:19] reports, hundreds them are children, many
[00:10:23] living without their parents. in difficult conditions.
[00:10:27] Suta authorities have requested assistance from Madrid, citing a high
[00:10:31] risk
[00:10:32] to public order and safety. Here's what the migrants themselves have
[00:10:36] to say about their current
[00:10:37] situation. I've been in Suda for
[00:10:41] seven days now. I spent three of those days sleeping in the forest without
[00:10:45] food or water. We barely had enough food to
[00:10:47] survive. It's been seven days since we've been in the
[00:10:51] forest, me, my mom and my brother. I hope to become a. police
[00:10:55] officer in the future and to be able to go to Spain so that we can be
[00:10:58] reunited with my dad, along with mom and my
[00:11:01] brother. God willing will be okay, they
[00:11:05] give us only one meal a day and look what's in it, milk and small round cookies, and
[00:11:09] we're really surviving on just that. You always see infants with their mothers, so we're forced
[00:11:12] to give them our share of milk, because it won't make difference for us, but it makes a big difference for
[00:11:16] them. You'll find a woman with a small child who has nothing to feed him. There
[00:11:20] aren't even diapers, they haven't provided us with anything. It's as if all these people
[00:11:24] don't. exist, well, while Brussels
[00:11:28] claims the crisis was quickly resolved and that conclusions were drawn about
[00:11:32] stronger border protection, questions over who should be responsible
[00:11:36] for policing that frontier remain, the EU
[00:11:40] wants to shift responsibility to Morocco, but the fact that
[00:11:43] Rabat considers Suta as its own sovereign territory
[00:11:47] complicates matters. Many consider Ceuta
[00:11:51] to be Europe's southern border, but this widely except... fact begs
[00:11:55] a few rarely asked questions: why does Europe still
[00:11:59] hold territory on the North African coast and how can Brussels expect
[00:12:03] Morocco to defend the border that Rabat has never
[00:12:07] recognized? a dispute shaped by centuries of
[00:12:10] complicated relations when tens of thousands of migrants crossed that
[00:12:14] contested border. Spanish authorities insata blamed Robot
[00:12:18] insist in Morocco bears the responsibility of securing
[00:12:21] Madrid's border. We all want to have good. relations, but
[00:12:25] if Morocco does not want this, then we will
[00:12:28] have to ask it to at least show respect. We cannot ask it to change its
[00:12:32] policy, not even its foreign policy. Its approaches are
[00:12:35] legitimate, but we can ask it to respect Spain's territorial
[00:12:38] integrity and the security of our borders. We must make this demand with
[00:12:42] the support the rest of Europe. People see this not as a migration
[00:12:46] crisis. It was fundamentally attack, violation of Spain's
[00:12:49] territorial integrity. People felt that this, if not orchestrated, was at
[00:12:53] least encouraged or... admitted by Morocco, from Morocco's
[00:12:56] perspective, it's being asked to defend what it considers occupied
[00:13:00] Moroccan land, that position isn't new. semilia are
[00:13:04] among the last remaining traces of Spain's centuries long
[00:13:08] presence in North Africa, a presence that dug its heels in
[00:13:12] when Morocco gained independence back in
[00:13:14] 1956. since then, Robot's policy has
[00:13:18] remained consistent, both enclaves are part of
[00:13:22] its territory. Suta and Malila. are an integral part of
[00:13:26] Moroccan territory, and their return will be achieved through direct
[00:13:29] negotiations, just as was the case with Tarfea, CD Iffney and the
[00:13:33] Moroccan sahara. Moroccan society, the
[00:13:36] institutions, and of course, the government agree that Suda and
[00:13:40] Milila are Morocken. Regarding the status quo in Suta
[00:13:44] and Milila, which has persisted for nearly five or six centuries, the
[00:13:48] day may come when we reopen the file on Suta and Malila. While Spain
[00:13:52] continues to dismiss Morocco's claim to the land,
[00:14:01] We have spoken with the Moroccan authorities, they are willing to cooperate to
[00:14:05] expedite the repatriation of citizens to their country of
[00:14:08] origin. We have made it clear to our neighbor and ally that we need to speed
[00:14:12] things up and provide much more decisive response to the events that have
[00:14:16] unfolded in the autonomous city of suita. I believe
[00:14:19] it is very important emphasize this because among other things, the dialogue
[00:14:23] with Moroccan authorities was... constant, fluid and very reasonable,
[00:14:27] unlike what happened in 2021. therefore, we hope that this
[00:14:30] cooperation intensifies and allows for the repatriation
[00:14:34] process to be expedited over the coming hours and days with the
[00:14:38] aim of restoring order. guard our borders, take back
[00:14:42] migrants and turn a blind eye while we disrespect your
[00:14:46] national interests. that's the tone, madrid has taken by court in
[00:14:49] rabat's neighbor algers. just weeks before the migrant surge,
[00:14:53] spanish prime minister Pedro. Sanchez visited Algeria to mend
[00:14:57] relations that had frozen in 2022 after Madrid backed
[00:15:01] Morocco's autonomy plan for the Sahara, the major bone of
[00:15:05] contention between Robot and Algeers. Adding insult to
[00:15:09] injuries, Spain admitted the polisario front leader for medical treatment
[00:15:12] back in 2021, figure Morocco sees as the leader of
[00:15:16] violent separatist movement, backed by
[00:15:19] Algeria. The decision the Spanish authorities not to notify their
[00:15:23] Moroccan counterparts the... the arrival the leader the polisario milicias is not a
[00:15:27] simple omission, it is a premeditated act, voluntary choice, and
[00:15:31] sovereign decision by Spain, of which Morocco takes full note and will
[00:15:35] draw all the consequences. Just week. later, thousands of
[00:15:39] migrants crossed the sauta border. Spain's defense minister called the
[00:15:42] incident political blackmail. This was Robot's short
[00:15:46] response. Morocco has no obligation to protect the borders
[00:15:50] of countries other than its own. Morocco does not have the vocation of
[00:15:54] being Europe's genderm or its concierge. Madrid wants it
[00:15:58] both ways. It demands that Morocco's secure Europe's southern
[00:16:02] border and stam the flow of migrants all while
[00:16:05] repeatedly antagonizer. bot the consequences of that
[00:16:09] approach just landed at Spain's
[00:16:11] gates. now
[00:16:15] latin welcome, Russian presidential aid Nikolai
[00:16:19] Patruschev is in Rio de Janeiro, discussing naval collaboration
[00:16:23] with Brazilian leader Lula de Silva. now throughout the
[00:16:26] high-level meetings he attended there, Mr. Patrusia
[00:16:30] represented the Russian maritime board, which he chares, both
[00:16:34] nations are seeking to expand international sec. security
[00:16:37] cooperation and scientific programs, while in
[00:16:41] Rio, the Russian presidential aid oversaw the opening of an
[00:16:45] exhibition dedicated to famed soviet fleet admiral
[00:16:49] Sergey Gushkov at the Brazilian Naval Museum.
[00:16:53] The historical heritage directorate hosted the event underlining the
[00:16:57] importance the Russo Brazilian partnership at sea. Mr.
[00:17:00] Petrus also visited the cities navy Arsenal Rio's
[00:17:03] oldest Maritonbase.
[00:17:09] "now the world is reflecting today on the dawn
[00:17:13] the atomic age and it's at times
[00:17:16] devastating impact, none more so than the US bombing of Japan
[00:17:20] exactly 81 years ago. Harashima
[00:17:24] is marking the deadly events its peace memorial
[00:17:27] park at 8:15 am local time,
[00:17:30] the moment the anola gay dropped its catastrophic payload, the
[00:17:34] city fell silent to honor the victims a russian."
[00:17:37] population hovered at around 350,000 people
[00:17:41] in August 1945, and records estimate that up to
[00:17:45] 160,000 people lost their lives due
[00:17:49] to the blast. Despite the devastating numbers, city
[00:17:53] officials again side stepped who actually unleashed the
[00:17:56] Abomb. Aside from those who perished in the initial detonation, many died from
[00:18:00] radiation exposure, with many affected decades
[00:18:03] later. We heard from one local whose mother was pregnant. when
[00:18:07] the bomb, after
[00:18:11] all, i have cancer, that is why the fear of radiation exposure
[00:18:15] persists, no matter how many years go by, i am 81 years
[00:18:19] old now, 81, no matter how much time passes, nuclear
[00:18:23] weapons remain terrifying things, it destroys the soul
[00:18:26] completely, the soul itself, that is why nuclear weapons
[00:18:30] must absolutely never be built or
[00:18:32] used, well the day also saw
[00:18:36] what - demonstrations against nuclear weapons
[00:18:40] and war. this year protesters
[00:18:43] focused on the prime minister's remilitarization
[00:18:47] plans for Japan. saneeshi's government has
[00:18:51] eased restrictions on lethal weapon exports, increase military
[00:18:55] spending and push to revise article 9 the constitution.
[00:18:59] now that would pave the way for Tokyo to establish an official
[00:19:03] army and participate in armed conflict. here's some reaction we heard in
[00:19:06] Harashima.
[00:19:11] a massive military expansion budget is the clearest evidence of headl
[00:19:15] rush toward war and prime ministeri
[00:19:18] is the very person who pushed it forward all at once and with
[00:19:22] smile on her face no less. you cannot eliminate
[00:19:26] war from the world by using nuclear weapons as a threat. i sincerely
[00:19:30] hope that solutions will be achieved through dialogue. that i believe
[00:19:34] is the role of Hiroshima and of Japan.
[00:20:13] there's no truth to that fabrication.
[00:20:17] the argument that they put forward is that if the us hadn't used the
[00:20:20] atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the U.S.
[00:20:24] would have had to invade, and Truman says in his
[00:20:28] memoir that the US would have lost a half million men
[00:20:32] in invasion. to make it seem even more humane,
[00:20:36] they all later said, that also save the lives of millions
[00:20:40] of Japanese would have perished in the
[00:20:42] invasion, so not only becomes
[00:20:46] necessary, it becomes humane because it saved.
[00:20:50] millions of lives, the reality is very, very
[00:20:53] different. the reality is that the Japanese were
[00:20:57] defeated, they were trying to
[00:20:59] surrender, the US knew that was the case, the
[00:21:03] US knew that they had other alternatives for
[00:21:07] ending the war, the primary one was to wait for the
[00:21:11] Soviet invasion. Truman had lunch with Stalin at
[00:21:15] Potsdam on July 17th. Stalin assured
[00:21:19] him that the R were coming in on schedule, truman said
[00:21:23] wrote in his journal feny japs when the Russians come in, he
[00:21:27] wrote to his wife, best the next day, the Russians are coming
[00:21:30] in, will end the war year sooner now, think of all the kids who won't be
[00:21:34] killed, US intelligence have been saying since
[00:21:38] April that the Soviet invasion would convince all
[00:21:42] Japanese that further resistance was fudle, but the
[00:21:46] Americans chose to use the bomb, Truman.
[00:21:50] Burns and very small handful of others decided to do
[00:21:54] so, not because
[00:21:55] it was needed, but because they wanted to send message
[00:21:59] to the Soviet Union that if they interfered with US plans
[00:22:03] in Europe or the Pacific, they were going to get this and
[00:22:06] much, much worse, and that's exactly how the Soviet leaders
[00:22:10] interpreted it. It was a shameful act, it was a criminal
[00:22:14] act, it was an immoral act, as Admiral Lehi,
[00:22:18] the chairman the Joint Chief. staff and Truman's personal chief of
[00:22:22] staff said this act put us on the level the
[00:22:26] barbarians the dark ages
[00:22:28] a side to that Peter as well Hiroshima's mirror is said to
[00:22:31] have criticized Russia's actions during his speech today that
[00:22:35] prompted a response from the foreign ministry in Moscow
[00:22:39] who pointed out that Japan repeatedly fails to acknowledge that the US
[00:22:43] dropped two bombs on them is that fair
[00:22:46] assessment the current. prime
[00:22:50] minister is an embarrassment, she was an embarrassment when she
[00:22:54] came to Washington DC and grovled before Donald
[00:22:57] Trump and then bribed him. She talked about getting
[00:23:01] rid the three non-nuclear principles that more than
[00:23:05] 70% the Japanese want to see. We recently
[00:23:09] heard Japanese defense
[00:23:11] minister,
[00:23:15] called for an open discussion of whether Japan should develop
[00:23:19] its own new.
[00:23:20] been nuclear a weapons, real
[00:23:21] this effort. is disgraceful. Japan has already eroded article
[00:23:25] 9 the peace constitution. Japan had been the
[00:23:29] most anti-nuclear country in the world, and the
[00:23:33] CIA and the state department began a massive propaganda
[00:23:36] campaign, and they wanted to locate the first the nuclear
[00:23:40] reactors that the US was pitching oversees in Hiroshima
[00:23:44] of all places.
[00:23:48] This goes back to Eisenhower, up
[00:23:49] so to it's this point they've never had anyone quite as
[00:23:53] nakedly pro-nuclear and and
[00:23:56] militaristic,
[00:24:02] now footage of nigerian children being
[00:24:06] taught to sing the US national anthem and pledge
[00:24:09] loyalty to foreign country at school has gone
[00:24:13] viral,
[00:24:19] peculia on
[00:24:41] this, well let's try and make sense of it with nigerian investigative
[00:24:45] journalist David Hondayan from the spearhead on
[00:24:49] Substack. Hi there, David, your media site, which
[00:24:53] covers African news and analysis more, besides
[00:24:56] decided to feature this story, why was it
[00:24:59] important in your view to bring to
[00:25:01] light? Well, it's it highlights
[00:25:05] two things about the current state of Nigeria and I'll argue the current
[00:25:09] state of Africa as a whole, the first being
[00:25:12] that um, the the the very interesting thing about that
[00:25:16] video that you that that you played was that the person who took the video... was
[00:25:20] actually the only person in the audience who actually thought
[00:25:24] it's out the ordinary and decided to film it, because
[00:25:27] apparently this has happened so many times that the other audience
[00:25:30] members didn't even realize that it's something that it's supposed to surprise
[00:25:34] them a
[00:25:35] that supposedly sovereign country the kids have been taught to learn another
[00:25:38] country's anthem and recite another country's pledge of
[00:25:42] allegiance, so the basic concept and principle of
[00:25:46] sovereignty has been so eroded that people don't '
[00:25:50] recognize that this is a problem or what kind of problems that
[00:25:54] these that this creates, which then leads to the second issue which
[00:25:58] is that on
[00:25:59] the one hand that would be bad enough if it's just case of...
[00:26:02] Africa um not having a proper
[00:26:06] understanding of sovereignty, but that the principle, the
[00:26:09] enforcement of national sovereignty um is not
[00:26:13] uniformly lacks, so the government definitely has come across
[00:26:17] many videos like this, because as I made to understand it's not just this school, it's
[00:26:21] a very common thing, several schools of American,
[00:26:25] British, Turkish, origin, similar things happen there, and
[00:26:28] nothing is done to them, however two years ago if you recall..."
[00:26:32] during the last uh the so-called end bad governance
[00:26:36] protest against the Nigerian government, it was a protest against sort of
[00:26:40] hardship that that was informed by IMF and World
[00:26:43] Bank imposed uh austerity,
[00:26:47] and there were
[00:26:47] there was a group of minors, a group of children in Kaduina states who were
[00:26:51] arrested and who were actually put on trial for
[00:26:54] treason, treason being a capital offense in Nigeria carries death
[00:26:57] penalty, and why were they put on trial for treason? apparently because they
[00:27:01] were weaving. Russian flags during the protest, so apparently
[00:27:05] waving a Russian flag during the protest can get you put on
[00:27:09] trial for something that I can get you the death penalty,
[00:27:13] but singing another country's national anthem and actually
[00:27:16] pledging allegiance to another country and being taught to
[00:27:20] do so in school is fine, because apparently that
[00:27:24] country is not Russia, so that then creates a
[00:27:27] whole other level, that that creates so many questions, when you also
[00:27:31] add into this... the the fact that sometime earlier
[00:27:35] this year um it it emerged that there were a couple of social media users
[00:27:39] in Nigeria who were arrested for tweets that they
[00:27:43] made being critical of US and Israely foreign policy and
[00:27:46] apparently the reason they were arrested was
[00:27:48] that the US embassy in Nigeria submitted petition to the office the
[00:27:52] national security advisor which effectively means that the US Embassis
[00:27:56] basically running Nigeria's internal policy and doing digital
[00:28:00] surveillance in Nigeria so when you put these
[00:28:03] you separate pictures together, you then get this very disturbing picture
[00:28:07] of a country which is thoroughly captured at
[00:28:11] institutional level by foreign government, the US
[00:28:15] government and that
[00:28:15] the US government is now
[00:28:18] actively training and
[00:28:22] conditioning Nigerians to think and perceive
[00:28:25] themselves as sort of junior American citizens, so take
[00:28:29] on the geopolitical rivalries
[00:28:32] that the... has see Russia as your enemy, but see the US as
[00:28:35] somehow your country, even though you're not from there and he wouldn't even give you a visa to
[00:28:39] visit right, very useful overview,
[00:28:43] it it really um leads me to the point or I've been thinking while you
[00:28:47] were you were speaking David, are are students also
[00:28:51] required to sing the Nigerian national anthem in their country,
[00:28:55] like how is Nigerian culture and history taught within the
[00:28:58] school system, so again it... It
[00:29:02] varies very, very widely, it depends on the school, so if if it's a
[00:29:06] school that is running a strictly Nigerian syllabus, then
[00:29:10] yes, you generally will be required to learn the Nigerian
[00:29:13] anthem and recite the Nigerian pledge, however that's
[00:29:17] as far as it goes, um, history, it might surprise you to know
[00:29:21] this, is completely optional throughout the Nigerian school
[00:29:24] system, um, it's completely optional from primary up all
[00:29:27] the way up to tertiary level, so um, theoretically it's
[00:29:31] possible to go through. entire education and
[00:29:34] i have no idea where you come from, which guess is where these
[00:29:37] problems arise from. we're just looking at the picture again while you were
[00:29:41] speaking, david of that man taking the video, um,
[00:29:45] as you say, you give good context to it, that's the people were were
[00:29:48] so uh used to it that the the rest them didn't really
[00:29:52] bad an eyelid,
[00:29:53] it was it was just this gentleman
[00:29:54] who who took the video themselves. has your
[00:29:58] investigation that that is now been publicized and we can read it on your
[00:30:02] substance. has that led to any kind of outtry, any kind of
[00:30:05] sizeable reaction in Nigeria?
[00:30:09] um, it's led to some social media reaction, but as I said, there's been
[00:30:13] no institutional response whatsoever, which can only lead me to
[00:30:17] conclude that obviously, based on the size the audience that I've seen it,
[00:30:21] there's no way the state is not aware of it, but
[00:30:25] also it's it's clear that the state does not have any
[00:30:29] intention of acting, the state doesn't see a problem with it, "and
[00:30:32] I'm guessing the reason the state doesn't see a problem with
[00:30:35] it is because of which entity is involved. I am
[00:30:39] willing to bet is significant sum of money that if we had seen that exact
[00:30:43] same video come out, but it was a Russian anthem or a
[00:30:46] Chinese or North Korean or Iranian anthem that was being sung, the
[00:30:50] institutional reaction would have been a lot more would have been very different and you would have seen
[00:30:54] a lot more puff and puff from the government, but because it's a US
[00:30:57] anthem, you everyone is pretending not..."