or home or no food? no. what about that only? i'm not sure somebody either stuck in the cove if you're living like the theme and of own, but in the 21st century. ah the who's good evening for moscow where it's just 16 pm on tuesday. the 14th of september, you're watching out the international life from our reduction h q. overlooking the credit, the count down continues to millions of russians, voters choosing who they want in parliament in a state duma election. that will set the political pace for the next 5 years. where profiling the parties and outlining the issues the methods of both his head. first, the other global stories that we're tracking for you,

this out. us lawmakers for right, secretary of state antony blinking for his handling of the pull out from afghanistan. a crisis he says he inherited from for the president donald trump. but even put in self isolate softer, october 19 case in his entourage will continue carrying out his duties online. shortly before having to isolate the russian leader held an unannounced, anything with syrian counterpart basha, l. a side where he expressed fears about the forum, present state in the middle eastern states. russia had the polls on friday for the general election. all the parties, the candidates, and what state are these special coverage this hour and throughout the week. ah, i'm calling bray. welcome to martinez, and i can see them in the very heart of moscow. later on this,

we're going to get you up to speed on the campaign trail. we're going to have for more of the candidates hoping for a seat in the lower house of parliament. and explain why this is action is a big deal here in russia. first, there were other stories testifying to congress, us secretary of state antony, blinking has been harshly grilled for the rush to pull out from afghanistan. and they'll make us didn't miss their words either with the country's top diplomat. i can summarize this in one word, the trail, mr. blink and assuming it's not classified, can you tell us where you are today? yes, i'm at the state farm. it could couldn't be bothered to come down here and see congress are right. that's great. this administration's bungle pull out from afghanistan just may be the worst foreign affairs disaster in american history. and that's a failure on you either to plan or you had a horrible plan, simply put, i do not wish you. i'm not simply, you know what you i don't wish to hear your installation of intelligence. when you

stare it front of the camera and your and your lives of the for your lives, all the us deadline to quit afghan is done expired last month, bringing america's longest civil war to close, the pentagon withdrew the taliban rapidly, took out of a sparking chaos with thousands of afghans trying to flee the country throughout the violent ministration insisted things were going fine, but the white house is finding it harder to maintain that narrative about the senior correspondent. i guess the report next from cobbled it was largely a partisan spectacle with republicans attempting to shift the blame for this catastrophe, as they described it onto the biden administration. the democrats, on the other hand, as well as the administration, attempted to absolve themselves of all responsibility for what happened in cobble as american troops pulled that more importantly, the bud minutes. administration says that this is squarely on the shoulders of

trump, the former president, because it was him who agreed to they pull out without leaving them a detailed plan as to what to do. now, the republicans saying that this is an agreement defense because barton had the better half while half a year to make sure that americans were evacuated, that everything was done and orderly in an orderly fashion, especially considering that the intelligence was that. but the state department and that intelligence agencies had warned that there was serious risk that the taliban would overrun the country very quickly. the biden administration, nevertheless, maintains what it did at he's made the best of a bad situation, which he, those brecht as long ago. a song that was killed in 2011 a decade ago. ok. this capabilities were degraded significantly. we completed one

of the biggest air lives in history. much of the equipment that was left behind, including in the hands of the afghan forces that then fell to the taliban. much of it, based on what i understand from my colleagues at the o. d is an operable or soon will become an operable because it has to be maintained . it's not of any great strategic value in terms of threatening us. many of the arguments that we heard sharing the hearing never. well, they were stretching the truth to put it lightly. for example, that card has been degraded. well, that is incorrect, it is more widespread with more followers than ever before. as for the argument that much of the equipment and weapons left behind by the united states and up get this done well become inoperable. well, that is untrue as well. because even if the taliban doesn't care for, for the 20000 hum, these the, the 40000 pickup trucks, thousands of other vehicles as well as half a 1000000 farms left behind the united states. well,

as will simply be able to cannibalize those, that it doesn't need to make sure that they're still functional years that decades into the future. what wasn't touched upon in the hearing all that much was the, the humanitarian situation here and gather on, which is to put it again disastrous because there is, there is of the prospect of collapse and on the political front of the show. so front, at, especially on the humanitarian front, the hunger, we're talking about across the country. the un itself has said that more than $10000000.00 afghans, a 3rd of the population, depends on humanitarian aid. and they have no assurance that tomorrow they'll be able to eat. and bearing that in mind, the time about and booth the taliban in the world. food program have said that food stop positive, get this done. we'll run out by the end of amber unless something is done. i mean, you, you take a walk down the street here and in capital duty, louis as well as teachers,

professors begging for food because they haven't been paid in months because government accounts have been frozen internationally, especially in the west. and the taliban has nothing to pay them with and bearing lisa get in mind as some of the questions we have during that hearing address the l g b, g q, community and their well being. as you know, mr. secretary, the l g b t q i community afghanistan is extremely vulnerable to punitive actions from the taliban. what thank you for rightly putting the spotlight on concerns about the l g b, g q i pos, community. and i can stand in a particular threat that they may find themselves under. this is something that we are focused on. i'm glad that cleared up. i'll be sleeping so much better tonight. thank god. luckily we have no issues in our country that are more important than the l g b t q. crisis in afghanistan. what a complete absolute bleeping idiot we have for a secretary of state. the only reason that he's not the dumbest man in

d. c is his boss already has that title. it is important to bear in mind that that people are saying the l g b t q, community, the lives that their rights, that they don't matter, the point these, they're making that the l g b t q community was persecuted under the previous us back regime the government here where he'll most, i trial it, he was an offense and it was punishable by even death sherry a lot more remote communities and for them now to the trying to turn people turn people's attention away from the crisis. he's gripping of genocide and to focus on the l g. b t q community. well, that is dishonest. to put it, to put it lightly on a retired us air force f 10 and kernel, who also went for the national security agency says biden's miscalculated the whole situation. blink. and of course, he is culpable in many ways, but the department of defense is the, is

a big player here. and the tone of the questioning today is really political theater. and you can, you can kind of watch it on both sides. it's more entertaining than it is revealing . we blame trump for everything. we don't see signs so that i assessed the situation 8 months ago, let's say in january, let's say at the end of january when he took power. it didn't seem like he was really assessing what he had been left by the previous administration. and that's the duty of all presidents as the transfer power. so he can blame trump. i don't think it's, it's really valid, in this case. the russian presidents in self isolation after a cobra 1900 case was detected among his entourage. it's been confirmed by the demon, put in himself as tested negative for the virus who will continue with his work schedule obit online. the russian leader had 2 shops of the sputnik b vaccine earlier this year. shortly before isolating and put in hosted syrian head

of state special, alice sat on an unannounced visit in the russian capital. monday's meeting was the 1st since putin visited damascus last year. apart from discussing the situation in afghanistan, the leaders stress the need to restore political dialogue in syria. the country, of course, still trapped in a decade plus long civil war picked, reassured us out of his support for the country, but raised alarm at the foreign presence on exploit. there probably when the main issue in my opinion is that foreign armed forces are present and certain syrian territories without any un mandates. and without your authorization, which clearly contradicts international law and prevent you taking maximum efforts to consolidate the country and move along the path of its restoration at a rate that would be possible if the entire territory was controlled by a legitimate government. you know, someone coming that britain, solver amboy, to syria, said the pentagon presence. that is absurd. i think it was probably very timely

in view of the recent american withdrawal from afghanistan. now logically, you might think the president biden would follow up withdrawal from ending the forever war in afghanistan, with a similar withdrawal in syria. after all, the purpose of the american troops in ne syria, supposedly to keep control over. i fish is a transparent nonsense. the real purpose has been to put pressure on, i said to step down, and it's very unlikely to happen. a french government struggling to explain its handling of the kobe crisis, as the former health minister officially pro, for her pandemic policy, and endangering the lives of french people shall do basically has the story. as a manual, my corner looks to seek

a 2nd term at the helm of from serious questions of being all about the way his administration felt with the covey 19 pandemic. first to be someone who was the full might help him in the stuff on the blue don't. on january 24th 2020. as it was being confirmed that the vars had reached. she had made the statement that the risk of invitation from han is moderate. it is now practically 0 since the city, you know, is isolated the risks of side effects around and imported case of very weak and the risks of spread and virus in the population. the very low. however, a few months later, often leaving the health ministry and launching a failed bid to become the mayor of parish lose, or was telling a very different story. when i left the ministry, i was crying because i knew that not the way was in front of us from the start. i only thought of one thing, the corona virus. we should have stopped everything. it was

a masquerade. she also will lead to told the parliamentary investigation that she diluted president macro and and then prime minister edward felipe about the potential dangers of the virus in january 2020 losing is now under investigation by a special court for endangering the lives of others. this is one of the very 1st cases worldwide we're leading, public figure is being held accountable for how the crisis was handled. however, you may not be alone here in front of those who held high office during the pandemic. do you to be question to that includes would, felipe, the current health minister livia around the court of justice also has its site set on the director general of health and public health from the pressure is

on the court of justice is wading through thousands and thousands of complaints against government ministers, all over allegations of handling the pandemic. even president cohen has admitted that france was prepared and mistakes were made. let's be honest. the moment has revealed flaws, shortcomings, like all the countries of the world. we have lack gowns, gloves, hydro alcoholic gels, we were not able to distribute as many mosques as we would have liked for our caregivers for staff carrying for our seniors, for nurses and home helpers. however, the difference between mr. mccall and those that he a point says that he is president, enjoys immunity from prosecution. now since that was emissions from has run up its cause it rules, mosques remain mandatory in shop and on public transport. health passes, showing your door vaccination faces are obligatory in many cultural

and ledger spaces as well as in most restaurant fonts and cafe rule. that's true. good. protests the with those who end up being caught over the states handling of cove, it will have the opportunity to state that defense losing has already said that she won't let the action of the government be discredited. that much was done to prepare for the global crisis. whether or not that was the case is now in the hands of the french judicial system. from the very beginning, there were apparently lies understatement. so many failures not health policy. justice should come into play to understand what really happened to health management, which was a disaster. remember,

it was agnes person who stated that the virus would not spread in front, but also hung posters at paris, therefore, designed to prevent the virus from entering. and she lied about the mask. it seems only now politicians of finally discovered that serving the public interest comes with responsibility. the door of the robot says here, the rushes been using them in combat alongside humans, and it's sad 2021 military drills.

gonna be a robot free zone here it's all about the people on the way we fire up our russian parliamentary election coverage. once again as the race holds up, receipt in the state duma. that's around 90 seconds the the ah, me,

i think it will solve it or we're going to say something remarkable going to senior economy take on the gdp, salvador is about to explode higher and that all ratings about to go fully going hyper pigmentation. and that's going to filter up to some bigger countries is going to go global and we're all living to something that is absolutely remarkable. the. the news the okay, welcome back to know my heart of the city has some sense this tuesday evening. the 4710, went off special election h q,

all set up to bring you the very best coverage and reporting the elections, to the state, to the russians below a house. the voting itself is going to take place later this week and spends 3 days starts on friday and continues through to the end of sunday. and throughout this week and in the coming out today, we're going to introduce you to more of the policies in the race and give you an insight into russian politics. just to clarify for you how the election works here to be 450 n p 's. from 225 electoral districts chosen to the state duma. they get a 5 year term, half of them. it's the 1st possible post system. they're elected by majority voting and single mandate constituencies on the basis of one m, p per constituency. another 225 though they can be chosen and sent by the parties. but any those parties insecure more than 5 percent representation in parliament. much is not immune from what many worldwide are perceiving. it's the mishandling of the pandemic by right. leading governments. a correspondent donald quarter,

asked whether vanka boost left his groupings at the brush and ballad box. later this week. super profits for some abject poverty. for others, the pandemic striven. a sharp wedge between the world's rich and poor, sending millions of people to the bread line. while the lead, skyrocketing profit margins carry them into space. i also want to think every amazon employee in every amazon customer because you guys paid for all this ah way to make space more accessible. all welcome to dawn avenue space phase, who's in the u. s. paul of 18 to 34 year olds found only 49 percent of respondents had

a positive view of capitalism. that's down from 58 percent when the same question was asked 2 years ago. and the ship can be seen through the 10000 new people who have joined the democratic socialists of america since march. people are really starting to just look around and say, man, capitalism isn't working. the markets can't even produce hand sanitizer the toilet paper masks during the plague. what good as the system? a steep majority of young brits also on socialism, according to a new poll by the institute of economic affairs, almost 70 percent. in fact, at the same time in spain, the socialist workers party has retained its firm, hold on power. throughout the pandemic, for people growing up in the economy far less forgiving than the one in which their parents spent their best years. radical solutions look like the only viable ones. defeating a disease. like this is an activity for with just aside,

he must be prepared. and pro rich's society must mobilize its resources to confront this disease when cold ignite pain. in the late winter of 2020, the united states was unprepared. and the united states has been on a to cope the country. this system as a whole has broken down, and that is a clear way in which the experience of the pandemic has made the witnesses of capitalism and the growing interest in socialism much stronger than it was already before that. russia also has not been immune to the rise and global wealth inequality. the countries rich have added $40000000000.00 to their collective net worth since the beginning of this year. so the russian communist

party says it's going to tackle the financial gap. it's program titled 10 steps towards people. power promises fixes through policies like nationalization of key industries and banks, as well as an overhaul of industrial investment. although some have criticized the k p r ups own relationship to russia's millionaires since the party nominated over 100 of them for its ticket to the state, duma general secretary did not use the gun of the claims that there is nothing contradictory about that most possible for a millionaire to be a communist, i believe it's completely possible for us all to be millionaires. if the $10000.00 minds in this country has created work for every person, there would be plenty of millionaires, but even stolen by 15 scoundrels who don't even want to pay normal taxes. if what was inherited from our forefathers and from god work for every person, then the situation would change dramatically. it's times like these when capitalism

is not exactly doing much good for many people. that 1000000 struggling to get by start to look for alternatives. well, the socialists be able to step up to the parliamentary play. well towards the other end of the spectrum is the liberal, conservative civic platform. policy was founded by 1000000000 michelle tucker of the ford, internal buster made him create that party. it stands in support of small or mid sized businesses and promotes boosting domestic production to substitute in level. chair is also the only and paying the curren parliament's party gaining less than one percent of the vote in 2016. but on policy profile. juicy this with n r t constantine raj cove in central moscow high that constantine civic platform. i'm going to bill from a relatively low base then. yes. hello column. it is true. civic platform is one of the minor par parties which has only one representative in the state duma currently . and of course they are political weight is relatively small,

especially compared to heavy weights like the ruling united, russia or the communist party. yet the seek to again support them a one particular group of vote, voters small and mid sized entrepreneurs. and in a campaign ad there had they had of the party already had show who? dina shots in the head of uncle sam with a domestically made slingshot, which reflects civic platforms, main message that russia needs a strong economy 1st and foremost in order to thrive on the global stage, the stronger will be the stronger the sanctions will be. because we'll be taking back those markets that we lost during the dissolution of the soviet union. look out difficult. it's been to distribute our vaccine, how difficult has been to complete node stream to. it's like a military operation, the fight for resources for money, and we're being pressured from all sides. in such circumstances, the main task is maintain our sovereignty to strengthen it. what do we need to do

for that? we need a foreign policy that does not surrounded with military events, revolutions, et cetera. and domestically, we need to all of our markets. we spend 16 trillion on imports, medicine, health care, equipment, machines, electronics. we need to restore at least half of what this country sovereignty its security and the health of its citizens depends upon. the sort of platform was founded in 2011 by russian tycoon brought up and back them. the party was more west, leaning liberal, leaning, and more critical of a kremlin to konami policies. but the 2014 regional occasion with the crimea put a dent in the party's unity. some of the party members publicly back the government and even house rallies in support of the re, re unification with the peninsula, but then make a proper for some of his allies, dissented and quit or default. sure. who do you know,

who took over then has chosen a last critical approach towards the kremlin and focus more on winning hearts and minds of business owners? the parties main task is to support employment nationwide. individuals who sell for lines who want to earn money, a lot of money to spend an invest in that country. they are prepared for success in a competitive environment to generate their own wealth, as well as national well, that's a great methanol country that we need to bring back upon the economy, a socialist economy. another message that we should liberalize all the market doing so would benefit everyone. we've been chasing economic growth, cutting back funding for hospitals for wages and haven't been paying attention to the people themselves. we need to return to a multi structural economy and where it should be planned. we do that and why we need market small businesses entrepreneurs. then we need to completely liberalize those areas all 50 proposals that all council has made for supporting small and mid

sized businesses. have been approved by the government, including tax holidays and concessional, lending to keep up employment to the polls. chances are low that to the platform will hit 5 percent threshold and make it into the new dumas. but they can still compete for several seats in the national parliament through the constituency elections because the party is represented in the local parliaments of 8 regents in russia. ah, okay. a small party, a change policy, but no less determined to try and they do me a presence from the one m p. they've got at the moment where i constantly will check in with you next hour to learn about another party that's in the running for now. that's thanks for that. okay, that's all for multi selection h q for this hour. we've more in the coming hours this tuesday evening and throughout the week a goal to bring you the fullest picture of why this state to do my election is the one to watch. the issues which not the russians are more of the hopefully buying

for their vote over 3 days about this coming weekend. for now though, as the sun sets here in moscow, that's it for me. call him great, thanks for watching. i'll have your next update in this just over half an hour. life for moscow, your without interruption. choose the news. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics, small business, i'm show business. i'll see you then in the

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