hey, all 6 flights from cargo. and so from alex, myself and all this is good bye for and i hope to see all again, next week. oh, the me the who's good evening. welcome to our coverage of the 2021 russian state duma elections. we've chosen, it's definitely one of the best and most certainly the most appropriate one to politically we're overlooking that this will be all based of operations for me will be counted him down to the 3 days of voting. not long to wait. now actually,

because in some parts of russia voting gets under way and just to hours, i really appreciate you joining us this evening. we are preparing to dive into the will, the russian politics examination, the rest of public talking about the preparing to go to the po very shortly. as i said in some parts of the country, that is all on the way for you 1st. so let's find out what's been making today's you've had a sub in the back. friends, friends is frustration is 3 of its allies, america, the australian leave it out. security aligned to seem to come to china. this jo visor makes that embarrassing lip up falling down. thing that same deal, apparently you forgot the name of the a fairly prime minister. thank you bores. when i want to thank down under. thank you very much appreciated this privacy of russia's parliamentary elections. the potential meddling is ready to bring in the

full breakdown like this out around 3 days voting with our special coverage. ah great. how do you with us, as i said, voting, get some doing some parts of russia in just 2 hours time. so russian election coverage giving up, we'll get to that in a moment. do stay with us for that. let's begin with a look at the 1st of those news headlines, i mention the stuff in the back. this is how senior french officials have described to pacific security pan between 3 of its allies, namely the u. s. britain, and australia. it's an align seen as an attempt to contact asian ne, correspond, shot at his dash d, as in following developments. well, put it this way for the french, it seems like australia was only with fraud until a better deal offer came along, which invariably it has australia,

originally off 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 sign 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 a trailer and mistrust was betrayed, probably less, 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're facing unprecedented challenges in the in the pacific region. showed the 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 dominance 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 will see that australia will now acquire a nuclear submarine making the 7th country in the world to get a nuclear sob. 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 are quite upset by the signing of this new security parks but neighboring countries like new zealand who have long been walking towards nonproliferation in the region. the center piece of it is nuclear powered submarines. no part is very well versed in understanding the position of nuclear power vessels and weapons. i will legislation says no vessel holy are fully powered by nuclear energy can anto internal waters. but look,

britain is also quite eager to be more involved in areas like the asia pacific, especially after the 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 one of us in its own strategic planning. in fact, the plot 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 wider political backlash than just that of china. well, we go reaction to the story by gauging opinion on the streets of paris. but finally, this is not the 1st time that 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 it fronted on

the same. they would have complained they wouldn't have liked. we'll see if the current president 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 started 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 to 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. but the friendship between washington and camber might not be as close as it seems when announcing the security deal president by didn't remember the leader of the free world here appeared to forget the name of australia's prime minister. scott morrison. thank you born and i want to thank that fell down

under. thank you very much. appreciate it. just privacy, australia, america, france repeatedly cited the supposed security threat from beijing in the indo pacific region. that's where china is the dominant power, the signing of the orca security practice is called consist months after britain had infuriated the chinese, they sent warships shawnasee to join circle freedom of navigation operations, led by america. china has condemned the new alliance and called it a throwback to the cold war. countries should not build exclusionary blocks targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake off their cold war mentality and ideological prejudice. when we spoke about australia's choice of military partners and where this might lead with economics, professor benjamin challenge and people are activists. richard becker, there's no explanation. why are the u. s. and the u. k. now,

at this time helping australia develop a nuclear power suite of submarines and then turning around and saying this will advance the world peace. clearly this is about another war. this is about a war that is being prepared against china. the us leaders, they talk about the endo pacific just of course the term was made up to enable the us to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance, surrounded china. 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 that keel and alive. reason for this empowerment is the us in ability to provide more defense budget, to support this large spending of nuclear power summaries.

so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions and also forces in their self. china be and also 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 alliance. now europe's reeling from a price shock on its energy market, natural gas rates, it in all time record and wednesday of almost a 1000 dollars to 1000 cubic meters. here's how the market roller coaster played out. wednesday, the price peaked at $990.00, which is more than 50 percent higher than it was 2 weeks ago. but it's evening, things that come down so much analyst, so all warning of further volatility. current crisis is being blamed partly on

energy policies being pushed by western governance parties. charlotte dude, ski takes us through the story with news, the gas prices. if his story ties 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. but 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. have already decided not to heat my apartments for a while longer. it's quite difficult in winter, but it's still inhabitable, if i put the heating back on at home, the bill will easily climb to 250 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 forgot. i hate my home with gas, you think crease the price of a year. a time will 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 her home warm enough. prices, why mean like you to find further, particularly for those who income such as pension is soaring, prices have been blamed on a variety of faxes. those include the weather and even the tough move between european and asian bias liquefied natural gas. all of this has led to gas reserves long wishing levels. so why is you really facing such a potentially winter? that is not purely a supply problem. it's not really 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 rubs 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 the, you have been aggressive with the shutdown of coal and also its own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy call taxation. while at the same time, it happens, gotten quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to call and future this tremendous attack on fossil fuel jewels 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 capacity of the market to respond to,

to 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 multifarious ways of now. and for the next several years. so what is the solution? will be companies could hook to complete a high level with asian counterpart for liquefied natural gas food. that does mean that there is the potential then the higher prices and phase always russia. last week, the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the baltic sea was completed no big concern, 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's according to the country's government, could solve europe's problems. there is no doubt that launching nor 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, don't be easier to find the pipeline quick shawl fish and accepting that it may need to bolster it from russia. so what are you repeating governments doing right now? will spain has already intervened to attempt to shield its population from higher prices? new emergency measures will 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 sector to combust of expected

40 percent rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the you need a strategy, an effort to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. it needs to be deeper, quickly shown tv sci fi, paris the new york times as quietly dropped an unsubstantiated climate. how to fix to report about the hunter by the laptop story . it followed an outcry on line unsubstantiated l o l and why he deferred to continue to cover from biden and sans this is another example as to why this newspaper lost all credibility. unsubstantiated for real. it was an unsubstantiated, the media catering to the biden's is a name kind contribution. the not report centered on ruling by

the federal election commission that twitter had not violated election laws when it suppressed the, your post explosive revelations over the laptop twitter later admitted to a process mistake the original article back in october and just weeks prior to the presidential election revealed details about hunter biden's work. ukrainian gas company bridge must have introduced his father, the vice president, to the ceo of the company. the time job button was the vice president and in charge of the bomber administration's ukraine policy, which raised conflict of interest concerns. we, we made a total mistake with new york post. we crafted out within 24 hours. it was not, it was not to do with the content to do with the hacked materials policy. we had an incorrect interpretation. seems like a really big mistake, was anyone held accountable or in your censoring department for that mistake? well, we don't have a center in department. we didn't like an account for 2 weeks. we require them to

delete the tweet and then they could tweet it again. it was literally just a processor. this was not against dominant particular way because we live now to chris edge. this is the host of archie, show own contact. good to have you all chris. as we've just say, new york times, quietly deleting that a sense of, of, and substantiated label from the article. do you think that this was one of those cases? okay. we messed up las quietly. try and remove this and nobody knows. well, that's not the 1st time they've used the word unsubstantiated to describe the contents of a 100 by an laptop. in fact, as far as i can recall, every time they refer to the contents, 100 biden's laptop, they called it on substantiated, and they just got sold out. nobody is ever challenge the veracity of the

contents. even the bodies themselves have not, they've, they attempted to claim that it was russian prop. again, not the new york post account. that was the newspaper that originally published some of the material that was on there, but it didn't just stop there. major media outlets the new york times included, but along with m s and b, c. c. and i just refused to cover the issue because they were working as partisan. alas, to defeat donald trump and elect joe biden. and that's part of the sad journalistic divide that is now grip the united states. so fox news, for instance, which skews towards a republican demographic quite heavily about 94 percent of his viewers identified as supporting the republican party did reported. and there was a complete silence on outlet such as them and some b, c, c, n, n, the new york times, or the washington post national public radio,

who's demographic is very heavily skewed towards the democratic party. and we know that from pew, the pew center for research did a poll. so about 94 percent or something of m. s. m, b c, viewers, identifiers belonging to the democratic party, 91 percent, to with readers of the new york times, etc. and that, that as just and both sides are guilty of it. but here we the new york times was once again, kind of called out for being complicit in blocking information because it was politically damaging to the at that time, the democratic candidate for president. okay, chris left her up of them. if i appreciate your time though, because i just host of our team on contact. thank you for choosing our team to

national. thanks so much for company this evening. plenty on the way for you. we'll be launching into our russian parliamentary election coverage. there's a race that's going to be on for $450.00 seats in the state. so let's go to that after the shelf, right. i or x markets are kind of thing food shortage in and with big claim. you don't need it for a market. that's the plane and obvious and simple truth and country after country is beginning to realize they can escape the b matrix for ag dominated by current players who control us dollar. and they can have sovereignty. true sovereignty. if you have rely on the us dollar, you do not have sovereignty both so

what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful, very political time. time to sit down and talk the ah, the ah, welcome back to all rooftop studio over looking on the permanent the great,

so i can actually time down for in depth coverage of the elections to the state duma. that's russia's low house parliament. no voting will be held over 3 days, sits running from friday through to sunday. and it means that the polls actually just about to get open in some parts of the country. and of course, come tomorrow, they'll be open here to moscow preparations proceeding on the police station slipping, getting ready to receive. the 1st vote is the russian central election commission has already opened up a video wall. now this is broadcasting the entire election process. the commission says there are no 100000 cameras. the polling stations around the country to observe just how the elections are being run the transmission to vailable, to all the participating parties and the public taken what broadcast, who's all about transparency, they can watch them in any the 86 especially election centers across russia. while the election hasn't even got going really at this point most because already saving is claiming for an interference and its 100 evidence said to prove just that to the

state department in washington, i see that it was transfer. 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 of state . well, this comes as google and apple was invited to attend a special security session of rushes parliamentary commission in order to explain the position. the head of that commission said that evidence of muddling into russia, the 1st by both of those companies, has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow. this is after the tech john failed to remove the voting related content adapt made by organizations that russia classes on streaming. these also being accused of trying to exert influence over

the russian folks even before a single vote was cast. and after the block passed the motion that allows it to potentially not recognize the election result if they are quote, seen as fraudulent, more than 100 members voted against the move life, one in particular had plenty this this isn't a serious credible document. it's actually is then a phobic 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 on remind and divided by russia by fight, the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report. how politicians are elected. it varies from country to country. so let's see how the process works in russia. ah,

the, the, the now, throughout the week we've been taking a closer look at the 14 different parties hoping voters will be putting a ticket in that box. so let's take a look now, the liberal democratic party of russia. it's considered to be right wing. its old tongue leader is the measure. and if you don't know him, i think supposed to say he's a colorful character. he found this party during the dying days of the soviet union that makes the liberal democrats the oldest among the modern russian parties. one of the central platforms is tough sons on illegal migration. also skeptical about the policies of the u. s. and other western countries of the same type is keen to

promote patriotism finish 3rd in the last election of this weeks focused on off. so look at the personality and i told you, go on behind the party. think politician. and you might be expecting something like this, something all suited up. well, you know, presidential, although of course that's not always the case. i am the judge, one and massachusetts is represented by pocahontas. right. this roy, i'm now you from here for a press on tuesday. you ladies and gentlemen of ohio, is going to be with you, joe. joe, you are in iowa. many my care was ability. what happened? uh huh. to speak. never heard such bug in my life. kiss that guy of mutable women and every val just give you a big baptist. and it's not just a western phenomenon either because russia sees this and raises you with its own

share of colorful characters. take this guy. his name is la dimmer shooting off ski. he's been doing big politics for over 30 years on the almost lost his trousers during the late as debates. yeah, almost during our interview, he was sitting down though, and he did not shy away from sharing his geopolitical views. what i mean, got you, americans made a small move, they pulled out of leaving others to sort everything out, leaving their weaponry. they did it purposely. they left to thugs the most cutting edge arms to fight against russia and china. sure enough, sky is the leader of russia's, the liberal democratic party, but probably the only liberal thing about him is how care free he is articulating his opinions on the 2014 unrest in ukraine, for instance,

your board president. so sir, is there any president of a neighboring country would have given former ukrainian president yanna cove h, thanks to arrest or the protest as who took to the central streets of the country's capital kiev? for sure. yet, coverage would have been backed by the army. he was commander in chief, but he is sneaky a crook. and that is one of the moderate stances, injury, and off ski's book despite russia being internationally bashed for daring to have an independent foreign policy. this man believes that the kremlin is not hard line enough. will be valued bus last to see the russian ambassador was killed in turkey . if it had happened at times of imperial or soviet russia, turkey would have been level to the ground. if we have acted in this manner or many other code, syria would have got their territories back from turkey. it would have been legitimate turkey, essentially declared war against us. but we didn't follow this strategy. our policy is not tough enough. domestically themes,

there's no political party hates more than the commies, despite being neighbors with their party leader. at the last, they criminals, a flash in the pan, they have no feeling of responsibility. don't care about ownership at all. they encourage looting armament, the ideas spurred by the soviet revolutionary, flighty mail, lenin by no. among ordinary russians, the opinion is, splits on this very colorful figure. some simply refused to take him seriously. others call my spoil a candidate, but still there's a good share of people giving their votes for him and his party. and this has allowed the liberal democrats to keep a relatively good spot in the poles. perhaps because despite the outrage, despite all shock campaigning through his length, the political career jury north ski's got quite a few things. right. but about there was a, was a division of the u. s. s. all by national autonomy is results in difficulties and the rise of ethnic problems. there will be a revolution in ukraine here in north keys and explosive and unpredictable persona

. but one thing is certain about him, regardless of how he and his party perform in this election, he won't be leaving russia's political landscape anytime soon. well, that wraps up for this news hour. so from our election headquarters in central moscow overlooking the kremlin. now rest assured our entire team angus correspondent of the people on the seems to be worth.