i mean, you well, yes, to shape out the thing becomes the after an engagement equal the trail. when so many find themselves will depart. we choose to look for common ground in the the, the moscow . 11 pm on tuesday, the 14th you're watching out the international law from our election, h q overlooking the kremlin, and red square. the kind of down continued the millions of russian voters choosing who they want in parliament. and if they do relax, that will set the political pace for the next 5 years, where profiling the parties and outlining the issues that matter to vote it's head 1st. so here are the other global stories that we're tracking for us. our us

lawmakers, right secretary of state entity blinking his handling of the pull out for me. i've got a crisis. he says he inherited from the president donald from putting the code in south isolates offer a cobra. 1900 kate and his entourage will continue carrying out his duties online. shortly before having to isolate the russian leader held an unannounced meeting with the syrian counterpart, basha, how a sad where he expressed the fears about the forum presence in the middle east and state russia heads to the poles. this coming friday for a general election. all the party candidates of what the stake and all these special coverage this hour and throughout the rest of the week. ah,

i'm calling bray. welcome to elsie's election studio in the heart of central moscow . nature will get you up to speed on the campaign trail will hear more about the candidates and parties hoping for a seat in the lower house of parliament. why this election is a big deal for russia? first though, testifying to congress, us secretary of state and to the blank and has been harshly grills for the rush to pull out from afghanistan. and lawmakers didn't mention the words 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 and couldn't couldn't be bothered to come down here and see congress are right. that's great. miss administration's bungle pull out from afghanistan. just maybe 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 what you thought. i don't hear you and it'll

tell us when you serious front of the camera and your and your lives of the intelligence for your lives. all the us deadline to quit. afghan has done expired. last month's bringing americans longest. have a war to a close. friends again, withdrew taliban rapidly took over, sparking chaos in thousands of afghans trying to flee the country. throughout the biden administration insisted that things were going fine, but the white house is finding it harder to maintain that narrative as the senior correspondent more, i guess dia reports next from cobble 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 absorb themselves of all responsibility for what happened in capital.

as american troops pulled that. more importantly, the bergman's 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 of well half a year to make sure that americans were evacuated, that everything was done and orderly, and an orderly fashion, especially considering that the intelligence was that. but the state department and that intelligence aged, she had warned that that was a serious risk. that the taliban would overrun the country very quickly, the bike, the ministration, nevertheless, maintains that what it did at he's made the best of a bad situation. which in those brecht as long ago, a song was killed in 2011 a decade ago. ok,

this capabilities were degraded significantly. we completed one of the biggest air lists and 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 b, 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, there was stretching the truth to put it lightly, for example, that outside has been degraded. oh, well, that is incorrect. that 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 gather stock will 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 past decades into the future. what wasn't touched upon in the hearing all that much was the, the humanitarian situation here and get this done. 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 this specially on the humanitarian front, the hunger we're talking about across the country. the you in itself has said that more than 10000000 afghans a 3rd of the population. the pen dug humanitarian aid and they have no assurance that tomorrow they'll be able to eat and bearing that in mind, the tide about and booth the tide about in the world food program have said that he stop positive catalyst on we'll run out by the end of september, 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 they're well, big as you know, mister secretary, the l g b t q i community in afghanistan is extremely vulnerable to punitive actions from the taliban. what thank you for very rightly putting the spotlight on concerns about the l g, b u i, pos, community. and i can stand in a particular threat that they, they 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 any reason he's not the dumbest man in d. c is his boss already has that title. it is important to bear in mind that the 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 prosecuted under the previous us back regime the government here where homosexuality was an offense, and it was punishable by even death, or the sherry, a law in more remote communities. and for them now to be trying to turn people turn people's attention away from the crisis he's gripping of gather started to focus on the l g, b t q community. well, that is piece honest to put it to put it lightly. moto retired us air force, left tenant colonel, who also worked for the national security agency, said biden's miscalculated the whole situation. blink and he had called the bull in

many ways, but the, the department of defense is, is the, is the 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 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 they transfer power. so he can blame trump. i don't think it's, it's really valid in this case or here the russian president is in south isolation right now. recoded 19 cases detected among his entourage that has been confirmed by the day may uprooted himself since tested negative. so the virus

future will continue with his work schedule will be an online russian leader had 2 shops of us putting the vaccine earlier this year. shortly before having to go into i nation, potent hosted syrian head of state special, alice sat on an unannounced visit here in the russian capital. a mondays meeting was their 1st since putin visited damascus. that was last year. and apart from discussing the situation in afghanistan that lead to stress the need to restore political dialogue and syria, especially with the country, of course, still tramps in a decade long civil war can reassure the side of his support for the country, but raised alarm at the foreign presence on a global company 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 get somewhat, i could make that britain's former envoy to syria said the pentagon's presence. there is absurd. i think it was probably very timely into 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 northeast syria, supposedly to keep control over. i fish is a transparent nonsense. the real purpose has been to put pressure on i said to set down and it is very unlikely to happen. the french government spin, struggling to explain its handling of the covert crisis. the formal health minister

is officially prose pandemic policy, and endangering the lives of french people shall do best he has the story. as a manual ma corner looks to seek a 2nd term at the helm of frank, serious questions of being all about the way his administration felt with the covey 19 pandemic. first to be something was the full might help him in his stuff on your own. on january 24th 2020 as it was being confirmed that the virus had reached the wrong. she had made this statement with the risk of invitation from hon is moderate . it is now practically 0. since the city, you know, is isolated the risks of side effects around and imported case and very weak and the risks of spread and virus in the population of very low. however, a few months later, often leaving the health ministry and launching a failed paid to become the mayor of parish moves on 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 micron 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 in front of those who held high during the pandemic. do you to be question to that includes? would phillipe and the current health minister leave you a wrong?

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 ms 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 mister mccolan, those that he appoints is that he is president, enjoys immunity from prosecution. now since that was a missions from has run stuff,

it's couldn't be roof mosques remain mandatory in shops and on public transport health passes showing you do vaccinations, faces are obligatory in many cultural and ledger spaces as well as in most restaurant fonts and cafes. rule that triggered approach way with the, with those who end up in court over the state handling of koby will have the opportunity to think that defense losing has already said that she won't let the action of the government being discredited. much was done to prepare for the global cr 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 boost and who stated that the virus would not spread in front, but also hung posters at paris. apple designed to prevent the virus from entering. and she lied about the mass. it seems only now politicians finally discovered that serving the public interest comes with responsibility. just a quarter past 11 on tuesday evening. here in moscow, you're watching our don't go away because we're about to go back into our russian parliamentary elections, special coverage as the race helps out the seats in the state duma. that's in 90 seconds. ah ah

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very political time. time to sit down and talk the welcome back to the house of moscow and he's election h q where we're overlooking the kremlin and red square. also bring in the very best thing to watch as low a house of parliament or not just a couple of days of campaigning left before 3 days of voting kicks off on friday. and throughout the week we are introducing you to the parties in the race. we're taking you through the priorities that are on voters minds and also getting more of an insight into rushes politics. so let's just clarify how the election is going to work here, just what the race is all about. so be 450 and peace from 225 electoral districts

chosen to the state doom. adel got a 5 year term when elected. half of them are 1st past the post. they're elected by majority vote against single mandate constituencies on the basis of one m, p per constituency. another 225. so that sent in on party list. so chosen by the parties, but only those who managed to secure more than 5 percent representation in parliament will know all about that. come monday morning. were also telling you which of the 14 parties are taking part in this election this weekend? the russian, united democratic party is more commonly known as yeah, because it's a liberal party. it's been on the slide for decades with special offers coming way back in 1909 when it took almost 6 percent of the vote. since then it's tumbled to around a 2 percent share, but it's chad told us what he expects this time round. let's just a bit of money at this time we'll have 14 squares, but in reality there were only 2. 1 banks,

the policy of that they may put in or the other is an alternative, 13 policy support his policy, the common is the liberal democrats that just russia and so on down the list. while gab luca proposes an alternative course, everyone who believe there should be political freedoms friendly and beneficial, but mutually beneficial relations with other countries. mutually respectful and peaceful relations with other countries. everyone who understands we shouldn't always look for enemies inside their own country. we need to begin work on improvements, insider and country help people that they work for. you look up well those who want to see continuation of the policies we currently have convert to 13 different policies with different names. however, all of them will support the current government on all major issues. what should i mean you had a meeting, a one must go district with voters. a young man approached me and said, all my family has always voted republican and i want to vote for you too. but you probably won't get enough. so maybe will vote for the companies because they're

also the opposition. people quite often come to me with similar words and i told him that if everyone but so you look at this point worrying that won't get enough, we won't just pass the flight percent threshold will pass 15 percent. there are many people who won't change it and ready for them, but their own powers. this is a bad phenomenon. people should believe in their empowers vote for the policy. they support and care for the policy his view, they share, and then everything will be all right. everything will be the way it should be. and of course, russia is not immune from what many worldwide to save is the mishandling of the pandemic by right leaning governments don't. quarter asks whether that could be leftist groupings of the russian ballot box. later this week. super profits for some abject poverty. for others. the pandemic driven 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 and every amazon customer, cuz you guys paid for all of this ah way here to make space more accessible to all welcome to dawn of a new 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 for 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. if 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 which just aside, he must be prepared. and which is society must mobilize its resources to confront this disease. when coven 19 came in the late winter of 2020, the united states was unprepared. and the united states has been on able to

cope the country. the 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 in 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 's 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 though 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 mines in this country has created worked for every person, there would be plenty of millionaires, but even sullen by 15 scoundrels who don't even want to pay normal taxes. if what was inherited from our forefathers and from god worked for every person and 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 rather less for that to dakota, lilly whose co founder of the socialist thing time for center, for political innovation, dakota, good to have you all say,

obviously getting rid of poverty leveling up. that's very laudable. everybody wants that, but when socialists get into government, that means ramping up taxes, which nobody wants. rather they want everybody else to pay more except them. do today, socialists? communists have any better ideas? well, i don't think it's necessarily about raising taxes. i think that's something that a lot of people want. if you look at the united states, for example, you see trillions of dollars being held in offshore account. people at the centers for economic policy research come out with a study. recently, a book called the well hoarders of talking about how literally trillions of dollars remains an offshore tax account. at the same time, the effective tax rates of large multinational corporations remains extremely low. for many of them they actually have negative tax rates because they receive hundreds of millions of dollars in rebates from the united states government. so i think it's less the question about whether or not we should raise taxes in it and

more. so a question about how, what exactly do we want to value as a country, what do we want to put before? do we want to put, you know, jeff phase, those and his dream of spending time and space ahead of alleviating poverty for the 140000000 poor people in the united states? i don't know, and i think most people will agree with the same thing that it's not a good thing that you have such a concentration of well at the same time to so many people that continue to starve and continue to continue fighting for scraps left behind by the people from a vote, just a serial to talk about clamping down on off shore. well, fluency because the here and now for the countries that are voting like russia, having to make those decisions about trying to improve their lot. thinking about what's happening in an offshore account doesn't really cut it, does it?

and if you start playing that cat and mouse game, 2nd, you close one loophole. another one just opens elsewhere, doesn't it? yeah, exactly, and i think that's kind of the question that a lot of people are asking themselves. i think it's less so about closing these loopholes and regarding the tax codes is that is about completely over hauling the question. i think that's the reason you see less confidence in the democratic party, less confidence in the labor party, less confidence in adjust russia, you know, across these different parties across the world that are calling for these smaller incremental changes. when really i feel the people, the united states, the people of these different countries don't have time to be able to wait for the small incremental changes. you know, it's an event like the 2nd world war for us to get some of the biggest changes in political and economic policy in the united states. you know, so security, different public works, glass eagle,

a lot of things that were very popular that really challenged the basic thinking of american capitalism. but things have just gotten worse. and if you look at a handling pandemic, this could be comparable to the 2nd world war. we had such a push from the left and the real left. it was socialist parties and communist parties training, etc, that we're able to get that done. so i think it's less so about, you know, questions about small incremental changes or even things that are all that created that are being pushed. but we see that radical change is kind of popular at this point. you know, but the different polls that are showing that people in russia, people in the united states, people in great britain perform prefer, or at least want to try out a different kind of socialist system. so i think it,

it, it has to be, look to from the bottom up top down, i think everything kind of needs to be reevaluated. and i think that begins with putting more power into the hands of regular, everyday working people. okay, well, that's a choice here. monday, 14 parties standing for the duma this coming weekend. what does that mean to split the vote or results in more states will know come monday morning. good to talk to you because of the center of political innovation. thanks for your time. okay, that is all from our tea selection. h q for this hour because correspondents are going to be here right, the way through the remaining campaign days throughout the voting and those old important results come monday morning as well. for now though, that's it for me, call it brace. thanks for your company. thanks for watching your next global update . his with daniel hawkinson, about half an hour life from moscow. yo without the international the.