we choose to look for common ground in the, in the moon, the good evening and welcome to our coverage of the 2021 russian state. due reelections . we've chosen this part of the central moscow high up. it's been appropriate to do as well. we're looking the kremlin feet of power in the country. this is our base of operations. unimportant late i can tell you now. voting has gotten underway in the country polling facing the rest as far as the just open source. well, chemicals, most of the country has to pose on friday, but who will the voters be supporting?

will be driving deep into the world of russian politics in just a few minutes. first, i have a quick look at what's making today's news title a sub in the back front. when this ration is free of its allies, the u. s. u. k, and australia. leave a town to a pacific security line thing is counting china, and that's is joe biden nice and embarrassing slip of, even by his son as well. another thing in the deal apparently forgot the name of the australian they courses and i want to thank that fell down under. thank you very much. appreciated just premise the rough titian parliamentary election take self is polling stations in the forest, open the doors to the 1st close. this will bring you the full breakdown light to this hour 3 days a voting illustration coverage. ah,

me, thanks for joining us. so i will see you next and can reason i get went away very shortly. do stay with us for that. we'll begin with a focus on the 1st of those on stories i mentioned the stamp in the back is how senior french officials of described by pacific security pac, between 3 of its allies, united states and australia, seen as an attempt to counter beijing. i think shut and dusty was following develop . 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 asked france to help with it the read 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 a trailer and mistrust was betrayed as poly or 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 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 this security parks with the united kingdom and the united states overgrown consent over china and its regional dominance on to 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 7 the country in the world to get a nuclear sop 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 on so quite upset by the signing of this new security packed but neighboring countries like new zealand who have long been walking towards nonproliferation in the region. the center piece is it is nuclear power submarines. no part is a very well versed and understanding positional nuclear power vessels and weapons. i will legislation says no vessel holy are fully powered by nuclear energy, can enzo and turn on waters. but look, burton 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 brand and re establish it self as a global britain. but all of this will really push europe to now be more fundamental

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 why to political backlash than just that of china. we go reaction to this story by engaging opinion on the streets of paris. but 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, the act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done because i think it fronted on the same. they would have complained it and they wouldn't have liked. we'll see if the current president is better than the last one. it represents a lot of money, but 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 closest 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. 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 that there should have been talks between the french and the americans . but not friendship between washington and camber might not be as close as it seems. now, if you're not seeing this clip, get the family round granite ground up, get the kids. don't miss it. is it sure what is worth watching? president button forget the name of australia's prime minister. it's scott morrison . thank you bores me, and i want to thank that fell down under. thank you very much. appreciated is premised australia than i say is france. i've repeatedly cited the suppose

security threat from beijing in the, in the pacific region where china is the dominant power and the signing of the orchestra curacy bank comes this month after infuriated the chinese sending its waters to the south china sea to join, so called freedom of navigation operations led by america, china condemned a course and new lines and called it a throwback to the cold war. countries should not build exclusionary blocks targeting or harming the interest of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake up there. cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. we spoke about a fairly choice of military partners where this my believing with economics, professor benjamin child, an anti war activist, richard becker. there's no explanation. why are the us and 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, and the term was made up to enable the u. s. to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance, surrounded china on the surface, received at the u. s. and the u. k is empowering australia to have 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 nuclear power summaries. so it says it is forcing australia to share the cost of maintaining such ships and also strategic positions. and also. ready forces yourself to see and also in the

pacific region, especially now that there is increase of tension between the china and australia. so china is watching very closely. the next steps of this free country alliance, europe's reeling from a price shortcoming, signage markets, natural gas rates at an all time record when say, almost a $1000.00 per 1000 cubic meters. and this is how the market rollercoaster looks on wednesday. check out the chart, the price peaking at $990.00, but that is more than 50 percent higher than just 2 weeks ago. why late evening things come on a touch, but i only saw a warning of further volatility. current crisis is being blame partly on energy policies being pushed by western governments, shown that davis has more news, the gas prices in his story, cars, many people are already concerned about the difficult decisions that lay ahead high

school. and also 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 much, but most will be the price of gas is already high enough. i've already decided not to eat 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 easily climbed to 250 years a month. i'm worried about this increase and the fact that will have my bills and the cost of living with what we have left at the end of the month. it will be complicated, except for the money. 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 the bar selves 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 a home room enough prices. why this is only likely to point further,

particularly for those who income such as pension is soaring. prices have been blamed on a variety of factors. both include the weather and even the tougher 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 a shutdown of coal and also domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon taxation. while at the same time, it hasn't gotten quite enough to make up for that by committing fully to call and future this tremendous attack on fossil fuels 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 capacity of the markets 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 of 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 you, 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. last week, the long awaited new stream to pipeline which runs under the bowl of exceed was completed no consent, 55000000 cubic meters of gas directly. 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 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 the certifying the pipeline, quick, sharp fish and accepting that it may need to bolster it supply from russia. so what all 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 as energy companies being used to cap the increase in gas prices. meanwhile, italy has said it will look at changes in energy sector to combust of expected 40 rise in retail power prices in the next quarter. what's clear is the e, you need a strategy, an effort to push ahead with plans to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. it needs to be deeper, quickly, tv, sci fi, paris,

and other news unties investigative media. facebook in april of this year, before his page was blocked, read fish and 400000 followers that have been facing increased pressure, though in recent times, such as this content being labeled, russian controlled media. read fish contacting both instagram on the sides of facebook for an explanation on the back go. instagram account got deleted either because you violated one or more of instagram's community guidelines, or because of a mistake. once in instagram account is deleted, you can't restore it. companies like facebook and instagram, they have more power than any cooperation before them, or any government before them has over the media. but the less accountable and less transparent than ever before. and we've tried over and over again. so reach out to somebody at facebook and instagram, and tit for them to explain why this is happening or to challenge the decision. but

we constantly faced brake was the guest that we spoke. so you feel it's worrying just how much control these social media joins. now, wheels, you need to say to people, look, if we're going to take something off the platform, here's the reason you've done that. these companies also dominance. now you cannot exist as a modern company as a molten individual, as a multi governmental institution without access to facebook, without access to instagram. and so when these companies take away the free speech of people, actually, they are hugely damaging. it's not true to say if facebook take you down, you can move somewhere else. no, you can't this censorship and they're going to take the diff, the position that these are private companies. so you know, they can do what they want. they don't have to justify or give an explanation of why they take a whole established channels down in the case of red fish. this could sort of

censorship, i think, is geopolitical because it's affiliated with, with russia, with r t tangentially any way. then it becomes a problem and so the censorship takes on a whole new kind of weight. geopolitical weight, case you weren't aware you all watching on. don't be scared. so good. we got lots on the way for you. we launch into russian parliamentary election coverage, and we'll talk about the race to those 450 seats in the state do. after this break . i join me every 1st day on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me

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ah, welcome back. appreciate you joining an evening. talk to students more symbol. got a great view road we're looking to turn the red square, probably the best on there all the time. now for our in depth coverage and all those elections to the state. the russia, lower thing, as we said, is held over 3 days. it's extended on previous versions going from friday to sunday, and that means that for us is far 8th things already begun. earlier on thursday, the rest and central election commission opened up a video will. this will broadcast the entire election process. clearly, this is about transparency. the commission says there are more than 100000 cameras opposing stations. this is so that people can observe how the election was being carried out. the transmission is available to all the participating parties, the public to can watch the broadcast in $86.00 special election centers across

rush. but even before any ballots had been cast, moscow was already furious about the alleged foreign interference. and it's handed over evidence said to prove just that to the state department in washington, i see that i know that it was stressed that the russian side has concrete evidence of violations of russian law by the us 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 pass that relevant information through our embassy in washington to the department of state department. now this comes as google and apple were earlier invited to attend a special security session refreshes parliamentary commission to explain that position. the head of the commission said that evidence of meddling in russia's affairs mind, both those companies has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow,

mondays. after the tech, the johns failed to remove voting related content knobs may by organisations, but russia considers extremists. the ease also been accused of trying to exert influence over the vote after the blog post the motion allowing it to potentially not recognize the results of the election if they are quote, seen as fraudulent. more than 100 members, i voted against may even some of them are plenty to say about. this isn't a serious credible document. it's actually a van, a phobic round. much of the information is false, misleading. on one side, it's, we surround russia with naser 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, but by the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report, it tells me that it is time to embark on a passive dialogue with the russian federation is time to stop listening to the

american in europe. is continental europe has a right to make a choice in favor of good relations with russia. early on i spoke with the professor of the moscow state institute of international relations about a bond of thesis, despite the stance it'll still have to work with the new russian legislators. anyway. it's quite interesting. i've read today, recommendation on parliament today, and it was a topic just topic. we must not recognize the new russian parliament electrons 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 their current products from vegas place to place from the next not recognizing and trying to engage. and it's 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 ways to control the elections,

to monitor that access. want to send, are we all up servers? and another approach you can not find anybody here. you can just check the internet, you can just check social networks. you can speak with a representative of society or position or whatever you name them. and so be it'll be an up service, they could not go to moscow to, to feel if they can just check and copy and copy paste what the ration of position was saying someone could make the accusation about itself is, is meddling from the you in the russian election if for example, i now plan to go for their actions and, and i see from the union of which i think by default, every body and that's the russian, the post coming russian elections are problem. and so what are you going to me to go there so, so each would influence

a bad behavior over the water marked. i think that after the elections eve, 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 russian. if the e u is concerned about the integrity of russian elections, should they be focused on the allegations that russia is making? that is interference coming from outside russia, 100 evidence over to the us state department saying that some of the big tech platforms are allowing citizens to access websites they say, belong to extremist organization. all these nice course oldest talk on not free elections within the russia is going on the social media. and there is a larger question called the i t giants who corporate national conscious international nation states. and now this problem is really sharp because the

russian courts are starting to or issue some flying some multi 1000000 fines on i p giant from 40 started to wait, but not everybody saw that's the question of more of not compliance to the state lead to the state to just ration to the court. and so it's quite, it's quite difficult in the rush, looking show faith most, we can well, how politicians are elected. it varies from country to country. so let's take a more precise look at exactly how the process works in russia. ah, [000:00:00;00]

the, [000:00:00;00] the, who's well through the way we've been examining the 14 parties all hoping voters will put a ticket in the box. so let's turn our attention right down to the curb majority party, united russia. the defense ruling party and the largest in the country is chairman, is the former prime minister to meet your med vote of the policy supports the program of the president and among his goals is strengthening russia. sovereignty cannot make agenda include support for domestic industry, an emphasis being on high tech sectors. turning to their rivals, the liberal democratic party of russia, which is considered right wing, is one time leader is lead team issue in oscar, who found it during the dying days of the soviet union and makes the liberal democrats the oldest. among the modern russian parties,

one of the central platforms is a tough stance on illegal migration. so skeptical about the policies of the u. s. and other western countries at the same time, it's keen to promote patriotism finish 3rd in the last election. well, that wraps it up from me here at ortiz election headquarters for this hour. we will continue, of course, with the in depth coverage over the next few days. as i mentioned 3 days of voting, dale now under way, that means we will have to make some fine tuning to our coverage because these days are known as the days of silence. we need to be very careful not to broadcast anything that might unduly influenced people's decisions when it comes to making the vote. of course though, according to the head of the russian parliamentary commission,

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