find themselves well, did we choose to look for common ground in the a sub in the songs to distraction as we are with allied b, u. s. u k, i was traded, leave us out of the citric security allies seen as countering china. that says, joe biden makes an embarrassing slip out while announcing the field, apparently forgetting the name of the trailing one minutes back. thank you bores and i want to thank that trouble down under. thank you very much. i appreciate and privacy i'm russia parliamentary election cakes, all players pulling stations in the fall,

re open the door to the pass devices will bring you the full breakdown late to the south and from the 3 days of voting in our special coverage. ah, you're watching the news announcing to national i'm due last, paula. thank you very much for joining is stopping the bog dance. how senior french officials have climbed at pacific secures upon between 3 with allies, the u. s. burson and australia. seen as an attempt to counter beijing on seeds. shonda edwards dashti is following developers for us. 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 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, i'll stray and 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 stab in the back. we had established a trusting relationship with a trailer and mistrust was betrayed, probably less, feels the american choice to exclude a 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 has find this 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, we'll see that australia will now acquire a nuclear submarine making the 7 the 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, a 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. i will legislation says no vessel holy are fully powered by nuclear energy can enter internal waters. but look, britain 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. so as a bobo breton, but all of this will really prussia, europe, to now be more to one of us 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 did your political backlash than just that of china? we go reaction to the tour on the trace of paris. you but up when you finally, this is not the 1st time that united states has taken contrast. very good. the staff quickly did not respect anyone to act like most of the world. she shouldn't have done. i think it front on the same. they were complaining that they would like to see if the current president represents a lot of money, but a lot of jobs,

but it would be better for making other things. it's a little just honest. i suppose the other hand there were closes which allowed them to break the contract before they started making the submarines. no, never good for a person to see that a contract has been broken. happen to me personally. 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 talk between the french and the americans . that friendship between washington and camber, my know, be as close as it seems. what announcing the security of the president bought it appeared to forget the name of australia's prime minister school. morrison. thank you bores me and i want to thank that trouble down under thank you very much. i appreciate your premise. australia w, as in frank,

have repeatedly cited this suppose secure to threat from beijing in the, in the pacific region where china is the dominant power and the signing or the, or can security part comes just months of to britain and few rated the chinese by sending its warships to the south china sea to join the so called freedom of navigational operations, led by the us. china has condemned the new allies calling 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 australia's choice of militia partners and way could be leaving with economics, professor benjamin chow and anti war activists. richard back, there's no explanation. why are the u. s. u k? now, at this time helping us trail ya 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, which is of course, a know term was made up to enable us to explain us leaders explain, bringing more countries into the anti china alliance, the surrounding china. on the surface we see that the u. s. and the 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 nuclear power summaries. so it says it is forcing australia to share the costs of maintaining such ships and

also strategic positions. ready into soap toilet pacific region, especially now that there is increasing tension between china and australia. so china, you're watching very closely. the next steps of this free country alliance on europe is reading from a price shop on its energy market. is natural gas rates have an all time record on wednesday of almost a $1000.00 per 1000. 4000 cubic meters. this is how that knock it, run a coast to looks on wednesday, the price peaks at $980.00, which is more than 50 percent higher than 2 weeks ago. by late evening, things come down somewhat. but unless our warning of fund that let's say, let's say the current crisis is being blamed partly on energy policies being pushed by western government as a charlotte to pinsky takes us straight with news,

the gas prices of historic highways. 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 up with more money and shareholders of big companies. it will be quite difficult. many households will not take that much, but most will be the price that he told me. anyhow, i've already decided not to keep my apartments for a while longer, quite difficult in winter or more, but it's feeling habitable. if i put the heat back on at home, the bill easily climbed to 50 year old. she'll be too long. i'm worried about this . having my bills and the cost of what we have left at the end of the month, it will be accomplished except for the money forgot. i hate my home with gosh, if increase the price of a year, a time will come when we will no longer be able to afford to keep ourselves warm. you policy is

a real issue here in europe because the block significant numbers of people say that they just simply call to food to keep her home warm enough prices. why? this is only like a point 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 total between european and asian bias liquefied natural gas all of face 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 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 rubs to blame russia. i think there's

a lot of scrambling and it starts now 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 its own domestic gas fields, coupled with a heavy carbon taxation. while at the same time, it happens, 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, 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 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 that 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 baltic sea was completed no big concern, 55000000 cubic meters of gas directly you repair per year. that's enough to supply 26000000 household annually. russian company gas 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, don't be easier. so defying the pipeline. quick shawl fish and accepting that it may need to bolster 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 with 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 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 be deeper quickly. so the tv, sci fi, paris, is investigative media project. read fish has had its pedro instagram deleted by the blindfold. it follows a similar mood by facebook in april. this, yet, before this page was blocked, reservation had 400000 follows. it had been facing increased pressure in recent times, such as a contact its content, its content i should say, been labeled russian controlled media. read fish, contacted both instagram and the science own a facebook for an explanation of the bon. your instagram account got deleted either because you violated one or more of instagram's community guidelines of 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 brick wall and guess who spoke to feel it's worrying how much control these social media giants now wheeled. he 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 is censorship and they're going to take the, the position that these are private company. 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, a us lower with close ties to the democrats is said to be charged with lying to the f. b. i about links between team trump and russia. back in 2016, that's according to me, their report. and we can now cross live to our correspondence in washington that apart from sack foreign hello that. so here we go again. what do we know?

so phone i was going to say russia, russia, russia, back here in the united states, once again, we thought we were away from it for 4 years. it's back, however, the mainstream media here is not really covering it that much. so here's what's happening. you have the special counsel john durham. he was appointed by former president donald trump. he has charged a man named michael sussman with lying to the f. b. i are making false statements to the f. b i by not disclosing that. he had worked for multiple clients including the 2016 presidential democratic nominee hillary clinton. so here's how it goes. this statement by sussman he was told to the f b, i actually had a meeting with the f b i almost 4 years ago to the date, september 19th, 2016. it was a meeting between susman general counsel or special counsel john durham, and the f. b, i general counsel james baker. now, in that meeting, susman told baker that he had suspicions about an alleged secret communications

between the trump campaign and russia. those suspicions later found out to be entirely false. now what the indictment does read in quote, during the meeting, sussman lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the f b. i specifically sussman stated falsely that he was not doing his work on the after mentioned allegations for any client which led the f. b. i general counsel to understand that sussman was acting as a good citizen. but in fact, sussman acted on behalf of specific clients, namely a u. s. technology industry, executive, a u. s. internet company and the hillary clinton presidential campaign. now the indictment says that the lie was material because it misled the f. b. i about the political nature of sussman work. now, while the special council on the f, b i r r a board with assessments, indictment, you do have his lawyers that deny any wrong doing. take a listen. mr. susan has committed no crime that the prosecution here would be

baseless, unprecedented, and an unwarranted deviation from the a political and principled way in which the department of justice is supposed to do its work. very confident that if mister susan is charged, he will prevail at trial and vindicate his good name. now, a very interesting note here you did have the now president joe biden justice department. they actually allowed this indictment to go through. it was sussman lawyers that actually tried to stop it through attorney general mirror, garland. he ended up pushing it through again. but let's go back to 2016 to kind of give you some context here. now, according to the indictment, sussman was advising the clinton campaign back in 2016 all on cybersecurity matters, and that was the partner at his firm, actually served as a general counsel for the clinton campaign. it also says that sussman build the clim campaign for his time, and when meeting with the tech executive to discuss the ledge link between russia and the trump campaign that was also charged as well. now sussman still denies ever

working for the clinton campaign, but sussman does work on cybersecurity and on privacy issues at a perkins coy it's a law firm, political group on that represented actually clinton's presidential campaign and as long had given a general counsel advice to the democratic national committee now at the september 2016 meeting, susman passed along analysis from cybersecurity. experts who reported that internet data raised the possibility of secret communications between the trump campaign and the russians largest commercial financial institution alpha bank, which then that was pushed by the hillary clinton campaign, all across the mainstream media. and it was a big topic of the 2016 presidential campaign, the entire term presidency throughout the entire trump presidency. trump denied vehemently deny these allegations as well as russia. now one of the big questions is why is this all happening now? the reason why is the statute of limitations expires on sussman meeting with the f

b, i general counsel and it's unclear whether durham's prob will continue to be funded past the end of the governments, the fiscal year on september 30th. one of the big things here is if you lie to the f b i, it is a federal crime. and if you are caught in, i'm guilty of misleading the f b i. that will wipe you down with 5 years up to 5 years and federal prison reporting and washington d. c. faren frontenac, r t r. and thank you very much indeed. thank you. and that over to the heart of moscow and our election h key of a looking red square on see the new holiday brings the out in depth coverage of the elections to the state. duma, which has russians in our house of parliament voting, 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 of polling stations. this is so that people can observe how the elections are being carried out. the transmission developed to all the participating parties the public to can watch the broadcast in $86.00 special election centers across russia. but even before any ballots have been cast, moscow was already furious. about alleged foreign interference, and it's handed over evidence said to prove just that to the state department in washington. christiana, that it was stressed that the russian side has concrete evidence of violations of russian law by the us internet platform. in the context of preparing and conducting the duma elections, it was stated that interference in the internal affairs of our country was categorically in civil ma'am. we had all the pass relevant information from our embassy in washington to the department. now this comes as google and apple earlier

invited to attend a special security session of russia's parliamentary commission to explain that position. the head of the commission said that evidence of meddling in russia's affairs mine both those companies has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow mothers. after the tech john failed to remove voting related content. and abs may by organizations that russia considers extremists. the ease also been accused of trying to exert influence over the vote after the block pass the motion allowing it to potentially not recognize the results of the election if they all quote seen, asked fraudulent more than 100 members though voted against may even some of them are plenty to say about it. this isn't a serious credible document. it's actually a van, a phobic round. much of the information is false, misleading. on one sided, we survey russia with native basis, and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them

a foreign interference. 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 positive dialogue with the russian federation. it's time to stop listening by the american. it's your arrival is continental, if you are right to make a choice into labor relations with russia. and i spoke with the professor of the moscow state institute of international relations about a bond of thesis. despite the stands, it'll still have to work with the new russian legislators anyway. it's quite interesting, i've read today, recommendation. they don't be on parliament today. and it was even to topic the 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 the current process league depletion region plays from the next. and so

not recognizing and trying to engage in 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 ways to control the elections to monitor that access. want to send bit, are we all up servers and, and not 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 civil society or position or whatever you name them. and so the, it'll be on up servers. they could not go to moscow to, to feel if they can just check and copy and copy paste what the russian 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 planned to go for, for their actions. and, and i see from the union of which i think by default,

everybody in that direction, the coming rational actions are for them. and so what are you going for me to go there so so each would influence a bad behavior over the water mart. 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 walk because they have to do it to be the rush. 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 to access websites, they say belong to extremist organization, all these discourse, all this talk on not free elections within russia is going on the social media. and

there is a larger question called the i t giants who corporate. and he's a national conscious of the national nation. and now this problem is really sharp because the russian courts are started to or issue some, find some multi 1000000 fines on the 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 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 rational official statements. we can well, how petitions are related, it varies from to country. so let's take a more precise look at exactly how the process works in russia.

ah, [000:00:00;00] the, the. well, that wraps it up from me here at ortiz election headquarters for this hour. we will continue, of course, with in depth coverage over the next few days at the oh i use

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afghanistan. this time we interviewed 2 women whose lives had been inescapably touched by the long conflict. masika his son, he was an african refugees who finally came to the u. k. during the 1st period of taliban government, doctor bon ripley was a tough journalist who for the short period some 20 years ago, became the most famous women on the planet i. she was captured by the taliban on the eve of the need to envision that experience of giving them different perspectives of a gun, a son in war, and peace. both join alex in a moment, but 1st few tweets emails and messages in response to our program. last week on the aftershock of loan call that he faith says highly informative interview. the case has been made to wait. am i asked? keep a safe distance from all. we must above all, take care. this cool that can destroy your life. thanks alex and take care. dr. watson says, thank you for the script program alex,

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