then me the ah, the news good evening and welcome to our coverage of the 2021 in the russian states dewberry election. we have chosen one of the best views in moscow, isn't a beautiful and certainly the most appropriate one politically to those in the kremlin. this is all faces operations and it's from here that will be counting down to 3 days of voting. it all gets in the way now in just a few hours time. thanks so much for joining us this evening. really appreciate your company as we prefer to dive into the world of russian politics and examine those issues the russian public and talking about they prepare themselves to head

to the post. that's all coming up for you 1st. so that's a complete look at what's been making today's news headline. stop in the back front . spencer's frustration is 3 of its allies, the u. s. u. k, and australia. leave it out of a pacific security. a lot of the seen a counselor in china. jose either makes a rather embarrassing slip up while announcing the deal, apparently forgetting the name of the australian prime minister. thank you course and i want to thank that fell down under thank you very much. appreciated just premiers and on the eve of russia's parliamentary election, the threat of potential meddling has raised his head will bring you the full breakdown later, the sour throughout the 3 days of voting with our special coverage. ah,

leaving for it really appreciate your company. our russian election coverage is coming up for you very shortly. indeed. make sure you stick around for that. we're going to start things off though with a. busy look at the 1st of those headline stories i mentioned that a stop in the back is how senior french officials have described a pacific security part between 3 of its allies, namely america, britain, and australia, which is seen as an attempt to counter beijing. correspondence, she had detached, he's been following developments. well, this way, for the french, it seems like australia was only with frauds until a better deal offer came along, which invariably it has australia originally asked france to help with its submarine mission, but has now walked away and walking away also comes with scrapping a 90000000 year road deal instead, australia now wants to assign this tax with the united kingdom and the united

states, which for the french, they say it's a stop in the back. but it's a stub in the back, we had established a trusting relationship with strayer and mistrust. was betrayed, polly feels the american choice to exclude the european ally and partner such as franz from a structuring partnership with australia at the time when we are facing unprecedented challenges in the, in the pacific region shows a lack of coherence that france can only note and regret, so instead of failure have find the security parks with the united kingdom and the united states overgrown and consent over china and its regional dominant onto this deal. then what it all really entails is that all 3 nations will be sharing secrets and data and information on a strategic level on areas, including artificial intelligence, cyber security, and also nuclear defense. part of this, we'll see that australia will now acquire

a nuclear submarine making the 7th country in the world to get a nucleus. just the last time that the united states allowed such capabilities was right here to the united kingdom some decades ago. so very grand gesture, indeed. however, it's not just the likes of france quite upset by the signing of this new security parks, but neighboring countries like new zealand to have long been working towards nonproliferation in the region. the center piece of it is nuclear power submarines know part is a very well versed and understanding our position of nuclear power vessels and weapons or legislation says no vessel holy are fully powered by nuclear energy can enter internal waters. but look, burton is also quite eager to be more involved in areas like the asia pacific, especially author as exit from the european union. we have to remember that the united kingdom on its government has long been trying to re brad and re establish it self as a global britain. but all of this will really push europe to now be more funded in

its own strategic planning. in fact, the block was not even informed about this new u. s. u. k, australia security partnership. again at a time when e. u. member states are also struggling to meet the funding commitments in nato as well. so that could be a why to political backlash than just that of china. we saw this get reaction to this story by gauging opinion on the streets of paris. you buy from your phone. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken contracts from us. they are very good at that. we do not respect anyone apart from themselves. they act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done that because i think if france had done the same, they would have complained they wouldn't have liked it. we'll see if the current president's is better than the last one. it represents a lot of money, a lot of jobs, but it would be better if these jobs were for making other things. it's a little dishonest,

i suppose. and the other hand there were closes which allowed them to break the contract before they just making the submarines. no, it's never good for a person to see that a contract has been broken. it's happened to me personally. they're always paragraph included, but it must be justified. you have to have a good reason if i understand it correctly, the united states is a competitor. so of course, it's not a good thing. there should have been talks between the french and the americans. now that friendship between washington and cambra, it might not be as close as it seems. when announcing that security deal president biden appeared to forget the name of australia's prime minister in case you wonder that scott morrison. thank you born and i want to thank that fell down under thank you very much. appreciated as prime as australia, though, if you say some friends have repeatedly cited the supposed to curity threat from

beijing in the, in the pacific region where china is the dominant power and the signing of the office security pack comes to small britain. infuriated the chinese by sending war ships to the south china sea to join the so called freedom of navigation operations, led by america, china condemned the new lines and called it a throwback to the cold war. countries should not build exclusionary blogs targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular. they should shake off there. cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. we spoke about a fearless choice of military partners and where this might be leading with economics. professor benjamin on the surface, we see that the u. s. and the u. k. is empowering australia to have the nuclear submarine. i think the under one key reason for this empowerment is the us in the ability to provide more defense budget to support this

large spending of new care some areas. so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions. and also. ready forces in yourself, china and also in the pacific region, especially now that there is increasing tension between china and australia. so china is watching very closely. the next steps of this free country light in europe is railing from a price shock and its energy market. natural gas rated and all time record on wednesday of almost a $1000.00 per 1000 cubic meters. and let's take a look at how that market roller coaster played out. on wednesday, the price peaking at $980.00 that represents more than 50 percent higher than the price was to just $2.00 weeks ago by late evening thing to calm down a touch. but unless not wanting,

that could be further volatility ahead. and the current crisis is being blamed partly on energy policy is being pushed by western government. article respondents in europe shown that dubiously takes us through it with news, the gas prices, if historic highways many people are already concerned about the difficult decisions that lay ahead has gone. and it's a bit scary, it's purchasing power that is decreasing. that puts more money in the pockets of shareholders of big companies. it will be quite difficult for many households. some will not be affected that much, but most will be the price of gas is already high enough. i've already decided not to heat my apartments for a while longer. it's quite difficult in winter, but it's still in habitable. if i put the heating back on at home, the bill will easily climb to $250.00 euros a month. because i'm worried about this increase and the fact that will have in my bills and the cost of living with what we have left at the end of the month, it will be complicated except $1.00 issue forgot. i hate my home with gas if

increase the price of a year time come when we will no longer be able to afford to keep ourselves warm. you would see is a real issue here in europe across the block, significant numbers of people say that they just simply call to food to keep the home warm enough prices. why? he's only likely to find further, particularly for those who income such as pension is soaring. prices have been blamed on a variety of factors, increase the weather and even the tougher between european and asian bias liquefied natural gas. all of this has led to gas reserves long wishing level. so why is you really facing such a potentially winter? that is not purely a supply problem. it's not purely a supply chain problem. this is a monetary induced problem. part of what politicians do in this case is they've

tend to concoct conspiracy theories to cover up for their own failures. so in the case of europe, everybody ready to blame russia? i think there's a lot of scrambling and it starts now all around the world to try to figure out how to get the fuels to people who need it for the, for the, for the coming winter. but it's a little bit late in the day to be thinking about this right now. so i think we're headed for a very difficult 6 months. it's also claimed that you have been aggressive with a shutdown of coal and also its own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon and taxation. while at the same time, it hasn't gotten quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to carbon future. this tremendous attack on fossil fuel chills going on all over the western world, you know, in the name of abating climate change and so on. but it's been very reckless and,

and it's, and it's really has injured the, as city of the market to respond to 2 pi signals and to demand properly. so you have all these factors working in. so you've got the supply restrictions, artificial in many directions, regulatory restrictions and so on. and all these things are combining from an economic point of view to drive up prices that are going to make people tremendously suffer and multi various ways of now. and for the next several years. so what is the solution? will be companies could hook to compete at a higher level with asian counterpart for liquefied natural gas food that does mean that there is the potential then the higher prices and phase ways. russia last week, the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the bowl of exceed was

completed now the consent, 55000000 cubic meters of gas directly to you repair for you. that's enough to supply 26000000 household annually. russian company gas from says it's ready to feel void, that according to the country's government could solve europe's problems. there is no doubt that launching nord stream to as quickly as possible would significantly balance out the price of natural gas in europe, including on the spot market. that will though depend on you. so define the pipeline quick shawl fish and accepting that it may need to both to supply from russia. so what all you repeat in governments doing right now will, spain has already intervened to attempt to shield its population from higher prices, new emergency measures. we'll see profits problem with energy companies being used to cap the increase in gas prices. meanwhile,

italy has said that we'll look at changes in energy to combust of expected 14 percent rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the, you need a strategy, and if it's to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, it needs to dig deeper quickly. show the tv sci fi, paris. you watching arty international, appreciate your company. do stay with us because on the way for you about to launch into my russian call them entry election coverage, talking about race for those 453 children, the ah seafood that i'll maybe read to are enjoy the yellow. maybe we assume that they

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the the welcome back to all rooftop studio overlooking the seats, civil russian political power, the kremlin. it's time now for our coverage of the elections for the state, russia low and the voting is going to be held over a period of 3 days. it gets under way very shortly. it runs from friday through sunday. that means polls open in just a few hours, todd, to how all preparations proceeding. the public stations are getting ready to receive. the 1st vote is the russian central election commission is already open day video will. now this will be broadcasting the entire election process. the

commission says that there are more than $100000.00 cameras, appalling stations to observe just how elections are being run. transmission will be available to hold of autism making parties also the public can get involved most the broadcasted any be a special election center that i sent you. i did across russia. and while the election hasn't even begun yet, moscow is already saving about, alleged foreign interference. and it's 100 evidence said to prove just to the state department in washington that it was trans. the russian side has concrete evidence of violations of russian law by the u. s. internet platforms, in the context of preparing and conducting the duma elections. it was stated that interference in the internal affairs of our country was categorically inadmissible . we had also passed irrelevant information through our embassy in washington to the department. now it all comes as google and apple earlier invited to attend a special security session of russia's parliamentary commission to explain the

position. the head of the commission said that evidence of meddling in russia. the 1st by both companies had been presented already to the us ambassador to moscow. this is, up to the st. johns failed to remove voting related content and apps made by organizations of the classes, extremist in russia. the use also being accused of trying to exert influence over the vote, even before a single vote. it's been cast. this is after the past, the motion allowing it to potentially not recognize the results of the election if they all quote, seen as fraudulent, more than 100 members voted against the move though one in particular had plenty to say, this isn't a serious credible document. it's actually as then a full big round, much of the information is false, misleading. on one side, it's we surround russia with mays of basis, and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them a foreign interference. the european project is not being undermined and divided by

russia by fight, the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report. join now in the street, if i lived but a barn off the program director developed our discussion club and professor most because the institute of international relations appreciate you being here. and hopefully you can make some sense of this story, which a lot of people are going to find quite confusing because you've got the saying that we've already established the punishment. we're not going to recognise the russian parliamentary elections. if we find evidence of a crime, which is what they say would be if there's evidence of a fraud in the election, i mean, this is the court before the horse is got unusual, isn't yes, that's true. but if you can see this story in the past, because all the european, this, the queue from the european union at much more, the organization of security configuration, if you will. and the council, if you will. they were quite critical. when previous russian reactions both

residential and parliamentary, but now they were talking previously that okay, there are some metal in some administrative resource, some not for something in some way. i'm not clear, not free. and so, but now they propose at least the recommendation over the fall and proposes not recognize the elections in general as a whole. and it would be quite new. because previously the russian parliament was recognized except the cranium, deputies and all your institutions. the council. they cooperated, they had talked with the russian deputy, the deputies of the russian parliament. and now if it's quite interesting, i've read today recommendation, they will be on parliament today. and it was a topic the topic. we must not recognize the new russian parliament even the

elections will be fraudulent. but at the same time, we must walk. we've been u d p just to somehow or maybe or a to change. carmen proximately displaced native place lacks something thought. so not recognizing and trying to engage, and this is a kind of as a, in the soviet union, they recalled the marks as dialectic. so the 2 contradictory things together could be construed to slightly threatening. you said that they had the reservations about previous elections by saying that we're not going to recognize you. if we haven't decided the measure of what body is going to be yet, what is for all they haven't explained is not quite threatening to say that before the election rather than wait and then say look, we have this evidence of wrongdoing which would be completely reasonable sure, sure that's true, but there are 2 approaches to 2 ways to control the actions to monitor. i just want to send bit are we all up servers? they're always the is not doing this now because they said that rash accept only

few or observable. so it's not possible to probably all the territorial with the huge conflict. so the council of you will, if will be sending a very small delegation of service about price people. so it, it's clear that it will not be sufficient to crop up all the extra process in all the region. so process box a very good i would say check that was fuel the optimal see on the actions. and this is one thing. and another approach, you cannot find anybody here, you can just check the internet, you can just check social networks. you can speak with a representative of society, opposition, whatever you name them. and to you the situation just before. because even if, if the chip facebook involved in russia and other social networks,

we can see what quite in many oppositional views are on the, on directions on the fraudulent approaches. all of that, if you and so the piano service, they could not go to moscow to, to feel if they can just check and copy and paste. what they're rushing position was saying that's i think was the logic because i think that they will be on follow up. i mean, thought and why it's and there are no double game in the center so far behind, but they will check in just social media and basing their recommendation on, on the purely internal domestic progression. oppositional views. let's just do this round slightly and i'm sure that if it hasn't happened already, somebody will make this point. so the us saying that if we think that there's

a good chance these elections will be fraudulent, we're ready to hand on some kind of punishment. if we find evidence to prove that someone who's bound to say in the world of politics while high on the voters hearing that the things that these fraudulent elections, so they have no confidence in the government. probably the ruling policy that could easily effect a vote as opinion of who they're going to vote for someone could make the accusation about itself is, is meddling from the e u in the russian elections. i mean, that is a con. yes that's, that's true too. i agree with that because if, for example, i now planned to go for action and i see from the union of which i think by default, everybody and from that direction coming, rational actions are problem. and so what are you going for me to go there? so, so each what influence over the scene water of the single representatives

of electrolyte in russia. that's true to bart. i think that after that it's if they will recognize the actual problem and will not recognize the problem. and i think at the same time, they will continue to go because they have to do it to be the russians. it was quite clearly done a couple of years before at the council of fuel when russia was suspended and some of the fall them into some units. and they said, let's just finish with russia. let's just exclude the rush from the comments and forget about and there was another being at ok. we can next to the russians, but what to do with them after. so because the european institutions and developmental someplace of all day will be on this,

are the only platform for they will be on content and for you for the calling. so if you want to talk to or deal with russia to criticize the russia and to punish russia as well. and i think all of these will continue after the election so they won't take any declarations. but the proctor will continue as usual, since you talking about the sense of criticizing the russia punishing russia some average russians think that, you know, they use got it in for russia. they don't even recognize the russian vaccines. another thing, the one recognize the elections before they happen. if the you is concerned about the integrity of russian elections, should they be focused on the allegations that russia is making that interference coming from outside russia, 100 evidence over to the us state department saying that some of the big tech platforms are allowing citizens access websites they say, belong to extremist organizations. that's a direct accusation. evidence they say hand it over of outside meddling. yes,

that's true. and what, what i said, because all these nice oldest talk on not free elections within russia is going on the social media because people are talking there. and there is a larger question called the i t giants who'd be a good corporate. and he's a national, conscious of the national, his nation states. and now all of this problem is really sharp because the russian courts are starting to all issue some flying some multi 1000000 fines on the giant not from 40. started to wait, but not every 40. so that's the question of more of not compliance to the state lead to the state legislation to the court. and so it's quite,

it's quite difficult we will have resulted in one day. sure. but i think there's some logic in the rush from official statements. we can really appreciate your time, your thoughts serve and speaking they sound like but a bond of who's the program director of the vault i discussing club and professor the moscow state institute of international relations. it is, of course, down to the russian people to decide the outcome they spoke sled him in teaching as appealed to the nation to exercise their right to choose wishing the woburn of the main point of an election is the expression of people's will, which is the main source of power and implementing the constitutional right of citizens to define the future development of the country, which we want to be sovereign and prosperous together. we have a lot to do. now. the modern world is complicated and rapidly changing and to meet its challenges. we need coordinated work between the government,

society and citizens. we need a powerful authoritative parliamentary with the new state. duma has to act in the interests of russia and its people, so that newly elected deputies can be relied on. dear friends, i ask you to participate in the elections. please come to the polling stations on any day or vote on line. modern technology guarantees, it's safety and reliability, but a limit so helpful. it isn't to relate to the very some country to country. so let's look at how the process works in russia. ah, the

news. so that's how the voting happens and that's how it's going to happen starting from tomorrow. that's all from our election headquarters to this our off.