your living like to see men of own but in the 21st century, ah, the life from moscow, this is our t into national. we're all special studio looking over the city skylight, in the heart of the russian capital. as the nation gives up for the state duma elections this week will be fine. the country's political course for the next 5 years. the people, the policies and the reason that masses be on these boulders 1st that the other global headline storage across for you with our britain's doctor's union class, the government for rising cobit cases and death after the lifting of lockdown restrictions. a transgender fighter who before transition served in the us special forces destroys a female opponent, leaving feminist and school textbook,

a gust of what they call a clearly unfair vice. mainstream media lash out of china's moves to rein in tech giant is fine, much of the western public themselves clamoring similar moves. and our big topic throughout the week. of course, russia heading to the polls from friday for the general election. all the parties, the candidates of watson state in these special coverage throughout the week. ah, me. hello, it's good to have you with us. it's just a pm here in moscow. my name is colleen bray. we're all rooftop studio overlooking the president of red square. as we opened our special coverage of russia's parliamentary elections throughout this week 1st. so let's take you through some of the other big help button issues of the cross. for you this hour,

ignorance and bad preparation by boris johnson's government to blame for rising over fatalities. that's according to the british medical association, the leading doctors unit in the u. k. which also, as the cobit related deaths, some cases have been on the up since the locked down was scrap to the end of july 42000 people have been admitted to hospital with covert and 5000 have died. many of these infections could undoubtedly have been prevented to simple mandatory measures and would not effect reopening society one jot. absolutely. dr. try and knock for very, he's the chair of the b. m. a council. the british medical association, really scathing, not just of government ministers, but also of an h. s. england. and the general medical council, which regulates talk to taking aim at all of them for the handling of the pandemic over the past 18 or so months and saying that doctors and nurses and other

frontline and a chest work because i've been sacrificing really with poor working conditions and poor pay, and also mediocre offers of pay rises all throughout pandemic. many of them losing their lives in the process and only to be treated with at disrespect by those aforementioned organizations and ministries. and also saying that the doctors that he represents and other professionals will refuse to accept the status quo once. and if we get through this pandemic, we will not accept a return to the old pre pandemic days of an n h s. in perpetual crisis. the n h s cannot afford to lose a single doctor where nearly 50000 doctors short compared to e, u averages. and any further reduction in workforce will be catastrophic for the nation's health. that what we've been seeing is a lot of tension in the u. k. in particular, people with huge backlogs and delay is to getting the other medical treatments seen

to unrelated to covert and of course, as well tensions to do with how the government have handled locked out measures. and we've seen again clashes between protesters and police and security forces when it comes to the question of things like locked down and of what those protest is anyway, would see as threats to civil liberties. the now over the weekend we've seen the government announcing usa and yet another one people would argue that now scrapping plans for the introduction of vaccine passports in the u. k. or at least in england anyway. now, some of the protest, as we've seen clash with police, would welcome the scrapping of those on civil liberties guys. but we've seen in the

past the government making you turns on how it's handled cove it when it comes to things like the opening and the lifting of all restrictions and delays and perhaps justifying. some of the criticisms we've heard from the b may check today, but as far as the government concerned, they've reached this decision off the careful consideration of all the facts. we've looked at it properly and once we should keep it in reserve as a potential option. i'm pleased to say that we will not be going ahead with plans for vaccine passports. these extraordinary times required necessary but intrusive measures, but i'm determined to get rid of any powers we no longer need because of our vaccine defenses. now, one of the main pressure points on the government, what their own m. p 's back bench conservative m p 's deeply opposed to many of these locked out measures throughout the pandemic. and also deeply opposed to the

production of these vaccine passport it's thought, but they're really strong and strenuous protestations to the government was one of the factors which led to this huge public health of all frustration being found so far and wide right now, australia, greece, from also among the european countries rocked by corona virus protests that the weekend as thousands took to the st. angry at new restrictions co passports, and vaccine mandates. the police responding with both countenance, a gas ah, the

on top of all that to the effects of code itself are also lasting longer than many people that expected. a studies found the long term consequences can head up to 25 percent of those have been infected. and we spoke with one person who called the virus a year ago and still haven't recovered my life and changed up to 2020. when i caught the code 19 fire from that moment on, everything changed for me to roll and i started the therapy. so i was motionless in bed for a month and you know, hospital sit on cold. they told me to go to the hospital, but there were many covert patients, and i was afraid i'd never leave the hospital, luke, i received medical care, no doctor to come out on my own. after a month and a half i tested negative cobit but the nightmare had gone to my life is no longer normal. i can no longer do another thing, so i have heard of long covert of course. it's

a condition that continues for more than 12 weeks off, permission infection, people suffering from that might feel extremely tired. they might have cast or joint pains that can even have memory loss. but some all that can also suffer from organ problems. philip explains how long cove it has really impacted his life long ago with us. so i am a long cove itself for a confirmed long ago. i can absolutely say that life totally changes on the surface . we look like very normal people with that, it's absolutely not for them. now as i speak to my right, tie his last behind the wrench and, and even if i look normal, i tell you that's not so i can't see one eye and the optimal logistics told me that it will take many months to recover. this is an effect from code. another sleep call was a call and have a normal life. i can't be with people even though 144. that's probably the worst thing. what makes it work is that i can't even play with my children. i mentally destroy and i'm depressed. every day is a disaster,

my life. and tonight i won't even be able to speak because i'm wasting all the oxygen for this and i'm really sick and coveted destroyed. make me feel such a big problem for anthony as well daily cases that are on the rise again compared to 2 months ago. we spoke with the university hospital verola just in sicily who believes that long patients will recover eventually. but says that the best protection is to get that job would start, she'll be to infection is a disease that can affect all the organs in bodily systems. some people have no symptoms and are fine despite having coven. but in some cases, the disease becomes violent and even some people have problems in subsequent months . there are various long term effects related to coven, such as prolonged weakness, memory loss, hair loss, trouble concentrating, and severe breathing problems and even difficulties in walking. this is all being studied, it's obvious, it would,

the better not to catch this disease. but unfortunately, we know, well that's not the case. i mean, one important thing to say is that people who have had coven and who have had pneumonia like filippo can have serious long term effects, such as difficulty breathing, sleep apnea, and major physical problems. unfortunately, it takes some time for these people to recover. but i can reassure everyone a little that these long term effects from coven do go away over time. people who have long cove, it also experience psychological problems as they can worry about dying and become depressed on the calendar for other headline news. now then the brutal victory of a transgender mixed martial r spider, former pentagon, special forces sergeant over a fee, amount of opponent and slick critics. with some applauding it is a key that towards the quality but others a whole by what they call a dangerous mismatch between a female and biological male kevin earlier discussed with sports reporter next e r. a chef ski more about the issue,

the atlanta mac laughlin from south carolina is only the 2nd athlete in the history of mixed martial arts to compete being an open transgender. she want her fights last friday against a female opponent, and that ended in a 2nd round with a rear naked choke, which is quite a brutal way to and, and mixed martial arts about that caused a lot of control. the see among pundits and experts who said that this was an unfair advantage, primarily because alanna was born ryan mclaughlin spend 6 years in the us special forces before starting her transition in 2010. and before that transition, as we can see, ryan was quite a muscular man. so that's why many of the pundits in m, m a and very renowned pundits as well said that this was unfair, irrespective of how one treats the rights of transgender people, they all said they supported the rights of transgender people. but from a sporting perspective, this was unjust, lend listen atlanta mclaughlin in transition 5 years ago. which means she lived 33

years of her life as a man tonight mclaughlin fought in b to buy a logical woman. what a shock this is nonsense. this is a lot of mclaughlin, that female through one or 1st m m a fight against someone born a women. i think people can identify with whatever they like, but i don't think this has a place in combat sports. you all think this is okay and empowering to trans genders. interestingly enough, not only am i may bundis will outraged with such fight taking place, but also feminists. a couple of prominent feminist accounts tweeted out that this looks like basically a woman's abuse from a biological male. let's listen to that as well. male violence against women as a public sport. no, thank you. whether you took it up or chopped it off. take estrogen pills and or die your hair pink. the mail will always be a male and cannot change into a female. this is so hideous. how can anyone bear to watch or even think that this is normal or acceptable? a lot of herself said that she didn't buy any of this criticism, stating,

1st of all, that she was batted for 2 rounds being fought against by a very equal opponent. and also the fact that everything and all the kind of critics is coming her way is just me a try for be a that's what she described. but i have to say, this is not the 1st case of obese and transgender and more. let's go back to the tokyo olympics in 2020, where for transgender athletes made their debut for the 1st time in the history of lympics. and it's also the 2nd time in may. there was a fight, a fox fall, and retiring into 2014, also a transgender. but as we can see, this issue is still very divisive, especially when it comes to combat sport. okay, next up, china has been criticized in the west over at the latest rafters, social policies that are the activation that they further remove people's rights. really, simon, right, looks at how many of the new boys would probably win support in most countries, in fact, big that china has had enough of it. citizens runing their own lives,

stepping in to do it for them. socialism is back in communist china, who knew so in case you missed that in recent weeks, beijing has announced from today children in china will only be allowed to play online video games for 3 hours a week. that is just the start of spacing, and also going to the property speculation, restrict private education, regulate big tech may 7th to our working weeks. illegal stop. a new automatic rent increases and current on social influences. and a feminine entertainment coach of president eating thing has come up with a manifest policies that when in election, in almost any western democracy, you care to mention part from canada to move a part of pages efforts to promote chinese socialist values among young people. of course, a criticism about an authoritarian government taking away the right people to choose what they do in their own lives. the awkward thing about this,

though is some of these policies seem relatively reasonable. this is about raining in some companies that have very strong monopolies where abusing citizens private information data and also paying workers very little money and the restricting gaming to prevent kids from becoming zone. be that me paraphrasing it doesn't say that and the official government release, and they want chinese families to avoid having to financially ruined themselves just to get house while the chinese government it's crap down on private, choose or reduce the cost of raising a child and ease pressure on family, china's birth rate is low and, and the crackdown on one prominent commentator called sissy boy, idols is because while i let you make your own decision on that, anyone from canada is watching, don't shoot the messenger, they're not my words. i'm just telling you what is the criticism that comes from

the west about the lack of democracy involved in these decisions? well, the right to the poor chinese people. now it's about the cache. george soros is saying sphere, clear calling black rock strategy to increase allocations. there losing bed source and quote, pouring billions of dollars into china now is a tragic mistake. yeah, sort of who else says this crime down from president g has come? because he doesn't understand the market economy. the hall tree for western investors might be the does understand and he doesn't care whether they lose their money. that's invested in 10th and more. alibaba. he's got bigger audiological fish to fry. you would not buy any chinese equities. would you know? because i think that you've got a country that's become communist, you're going to tell them. anyway, western investors losing their shirts, just be glad they live in the free world. but governments make absolutely no attempt to control the lives of their citizens. but i've got, you have the scottish center of crime and justice research this week relate to

report expressing concern over what it called influence government in britain is a technique that secretly uses sensitive personal data. the author behavior has been supercharged by the rise of big tech firms. does that sound familiar? the report says this is not simply a case of algorithms being used for sorting, surveilling, and scoring. rather, this suggests that targeted interventions in the cultural and behavioral life of communities are now a core part of governmental power, which has been our rhythmically driven in combination with influence networks, traditional forms of messaging and frontline operational practices. as about the british government to avoid confusion. okay. after the break, the reason that we brought your head to the district of the center of russian decision making in the very heart of moscow, the state duma elections are just days away. we're going to take you through all of it after the break, the the

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me dares thing. we dare to ask me. oh the ah, going back to the house in moscow bridge just 20 past a year on monday and i special studio, we're all set to bring you the very best coverage of reporting of the election to the state to do with the russians. lower house of parliament promoting itself will be held over 3 days from friday through sunday. and through the week,

we're going to introduce you to the parties involved in the race and also give you a deeper insight into rushes, politics. white masses be on the board as 1st thing. also constantly ross called, explains why the elections are so special this time around the more duties, more responsibility, more power. the upcoming election marks a new chapter in the history of the state duma. russia's lower house of parliament, the 2020 constitution referendum gave russian legislators, new authority hands. whoever grabs these seats now will have greater political weight than their predecessors. the duma is now responsible for proving the countries prime minister, deputy prime ministers and most of the cabinet. what remains intact, however, is the duma structure and there are $400.00 dcs for grabs, which will this time be contested him on the 14th political party, the president can still appoint minister, is responsible for national security and foreign policy without parliament's approval. but even with that law, the newly elected m. p 's will gain more influence and play a bigger role,

same domestic economic affairs. and this is just a fraction of their new found authority. the 2020 amendments have also solidified the so called parliamentary control, a range of legal action. the duma can take the over hold different aspects. the countries governance like finances, for instance, and peace can now summon russia. central bank chairman who now must report both to the president and the parliament with new powers come new responsibilities. there would be in peace. no faith cow, for a scrutiny to be allowed to run. no foreign citizenship and new money or acids in banks outside of russia. the panoramic has pushed authorities to increase the online balloting 1st has to during the 2020 constitutional referendum, 7 russian regents will provide this option for those who can't or don't want to go to a polling station. in addition, the vote is going to be held for 3 straight days to avoid lines and unnecessary commotion at ballad boxes. the increased role of the countries main legislative

body along with organizational challenges make this election, one of the rushes most significant vote of the last decade. okay, that's the technical aspect of it all. what about the 14 parties of constantine just mentioned that? let's tell you about one of them right now. adjust russia, patriots for truth, it's a long title. i know, but it comes off to the policy called adjust russia initially most with 2 smaller policy socialists leaning policy, 16.2 percent in the previous selection. that means that they did managed to get over that 5 percent threshold. there's konstantin explained that supports needed in order to get seats in parliament, hollywood stuff, stevens to go to russian citizenship. he's now a member of this party to the chair of the hall. he told us what they offer and expect was the new socialism. we say that private property is necessary entrepreneurship. redistribution of will is mandatory, as well as control health care cation, science,

and culture should be a business. it shouldn't finance any. why is it in so many countries around 80 percent of government revenue comes from small and medium businesses. but in russia it's less than 10 percent of the oil and gas contribute the lion's share. of course, there should be a different taxation system. say do millennium results would be highly influential, but unfortunately people don't get it. they can't see that went off the repeated promises that the retirement age wouldn't be increased. a bill happened that was a decision made by say, duma deputies, the people voted for some of them, at least some stayed home 5 years ago. and there is no people in the military for reforms to trash collection, health care and increase in the retirement age. people need to understand live, depend on those who will be in the state duma after these upcoming elections. so she will help will be affected their safety when they seek justice in the country,

all not good people on table that connect the dog. mostly this pretty much okay, another party to look out for in this particular race, green alternatives now until last year. it was just a social movement standing for more prominent environmental agenda. actually, youth climate movement, fridays, the future, which organizes campaigns, invitation that campaign that inspired by the record. but now this is going to be the parties post, go to state to me, and let's go live now to the states beneath this is alia. put frank, is that high? a get alia. what more do you know about green alternative newcomers? this election? calling good evening. well, all the, all of a sudden we have 2 green parties in this country, competing for the state duma seats. but let's leave the old classic traditional one of the grains aside and look at the alternative for

a moment. the movement is only 2 years old and the party was registered last year. so like you said, it's very, very young. and the average age of the party's members is just above 30. i can tell you that the person who heads the parties list. busy is pop star victoria di necco, but i can tell you that her popularity peak dates back to more than 12 years ago. so maybe she's looking for a come back. who knows, after all of the stay duma is somewhat of a stage as well. this party is also famous for being behind the idea of building a monument for grad suttonberg in one of moscow's parks. to be honest with you, this isn't the most admired personality in this country. anyway, we are getting to the question, how are they different from the greens,

the party that is much older? what we address this question to the leader. and here's what he said. he said that it's all about the generation gap shapes. first of all, we have different views. we pursue international goals, prioritize 17 sustainable development goals, set up by the united nation. the other green party, unfortunately, doesn't see their idea further than community work. this is an example of a generation gap. this is what makes us different, because we look at the world and the green agenda globally. and through a broader lens. we look not only on the scale of russia, but the whole world, because russia is a big geopolitical player, including on the issue of the green agenda. the green alternative isn't a rich party. they're not supported by any big businesses or corporations. they're saying that they don't want to receive cash from those who are causing harm to the

environment. now i can tell you that when they were asked about whether they're ready to build some kind of aligns as with other political movements, the answer from them was no because they don't see this possible given their goals . and given what vase down for security in terms of ideology, we are of course, close to parties on the left. but in general, ideology, in reality, i don't think compromises with the other parties are possible because it's again going to face a generation gap once again where the youngest party, where the voice of the generation that is not being heard, officials start carrying about young people only before their retirement, their understanding of how to work with young people comes from their childhood and legs 40 years behind. ready well, on the one hand, these words that they represent the younger generation, the fact that this is the youngest party, this is something that could give them an advantage during this election. but the

experts are saying that for now, for this alternative green party, the chances of securing some seats in the duma are quite slip. big tough to say the least, isn't it? i mean, even if they do split the green both going to be having begins on their side, if nothing else. okay, for now alia to thank her, in the perpetually sparkling nicole skies street. thanks for that. okay, that's all from our election studio. then for this, i would much more to come in the next few hours and days off the international as we explain the big issues facing voters across russia and the people buying to win that ballad this weekend. for now though, has the moscow evening comes to life. that's it for me calling bryce, i'll stay, tumor election coverage continues in around half an hour. life for moscow. this is the international. ah,

the ah, i have transparency for the receive less cares about privacy. what people care about is power. juliana sons is become a symbol of the battles of brevity. information is power. that's what's going on and a huge struggle with governments and corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what their plans are to watch, how much help shift the conversation around transparency. see what that battle has

done in such a situation. it's remarkable when i would show the wrong when i just don't the room. yes to see out the scene because the after an engagement equals the trail. when so many find themselves well, depart. we choose to look for common ground in the when we entered the last stage, the pacific stage of our.