can plan in such a situation, it's remarkable to survive the ah, top headlines, the dollar here when i see the problems cancels and empathy celebration in washington in protest against the new us security packet with the u. k. and australia. the result in the loss of a lucrative submarine deals of powers. we get reaction on the streets of the french capital. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken contract from austria very good that they do not respect anyone to part from themselves. they act like masters of the world and they shouldn't have done that. because i think if once it's on the same, they would have complain. giving the game away a while and being

a new defense packed with australia and the u. k is not aimed at any one that us secretary of state right makes the truth target abundantly clear. we spoke in detail about trying as the stabilizing activities and bridging effort to force and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship is not aimed at anything or anyone. instagram permanently block saw these and the better the media project read face shopper a similar move by facebook out of this year. over look at the alarming level of control being wielded nowadays by social media giant. also rushes parliamentary election is getting underway. polling stations right now, opening up all across moscow will bring you the full breakdown late of as our and throughout the next 3 days of voting in our special coverage. ah,

or i friday morning here at moscow now just after 9 o'clock, we're rounding up your top stories for this hour here. we're not national. welcome to them. a diplomatic flash point is developing now between france and the united states. paris has scrapped an embassy gala to celebrate their countries historical alliance in protest against america, new security pack, signed with australia on the you. k, which french officials have called a stop in the back. the us secretary of state insists all as well. france in particular, is a vital partner on this and so many other issues stretching back generations. and we want to find every opportunity to deepen our transatlantic cooperation in the pacific and around the world. all despite her at any blankets, assurance, as many french citizens are ro, unconvinced we gazed opinion in the capital. missy bought up from your family. this

is not the 1st time at 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 front 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. 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. are just a moment here on the program. let's give you a quick recap of exactly what happened. on wednesday, australia,

the u. k and the us, they signed a pacific security package called orchestra seen as a move the counter china and involves cooperation and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and nuclear defense. australia will also acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet with american and british technology. while the pack to ultimately prompted while it was quickly, i should say, condemned by beijing as some part of a cold war mentality. and neither washington nor london have explicitly linked the new deal to the supposed to trek from china. the remarks from the us defense secretary has left little room for doubt. we spoke in detail about china's d, stabilizing activities and beijing efforts to course and intimidate other countries . this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. while, while china and frauds are annoyed by the new pact, others are asking what this could mean for nato. are these electronic or sums up the latest reactions?

when donald trump left office and joe biden took charge, it could have been a side relief for some of washington's allies just when the euro was starting to think that the future would be more predictable under the new president. this happens. i'm very angry today and bitter. this is not something allies do to each other. the world is a jungle. france has just been reminded this bitter truth by the way, the u. s. and the u. k of stopped her in the back in australia. still a v e readers are still really over what the biden and ministration did of ghana, stan. and now paris has been stunned by washington's announcement of a new partnership with australia and the u. k. called all because, but haven't the u. s. the u. k. and all these been calls allies for ages. what's the problem? well, thanks to august, australia will now be hooked up with us technology to build nuclear submarines

while france waves goodbye to its own multi $1000000000.00 contract to build 12 diesel subs for a camera. now, for some damage control by senior american officials, after that deal was to be towed. there are a range of partnerships that include the french in some partnerships that don't. and they have partnerships with other countries that don't include us. that is part of how global diplomacy works are such words enough to calm the fury in paris, which is even called of a gala, at the french embassy in washington to celebrate historic ties with the u. s. good question. anyway, the french government has shown they're not willing to just swallow that bitter pill. plus there's solidarity with parents from b, e, u on the matter. you know, because you do believe it is a good opportunity to recall, to reflect on the need to raise the issue of european strategic autonomy. it is a new proof of the need to exist on our own. when the grace of august was announced,

none of the leaders of the u. s. u k, or the tree, or mentioned china even once, but make no mistake. the mastermind of the new pact must have had keeping beijing at bay on their mind, their falling no one, just look at how the article on on because on the b, b. c is titled trying to reaction to the new partnership didn't take long, critical and outright countries should not build exclusionary blogs targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake off their cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. and the you published ed strategy for cooperation in the, in the pacific, clearly stating the intention not to worsen relations with china. contradicting the apparent intentions of august, the e. u, will also pursue its multifaceted engagement with china, engaging bilaterally to promote solutions to common challenges. when it comes to neighboring countries, new zealand doesn't want australian nuclear subs anywhere near its waters. stria

has today voluntarily and secretly entered into a nuclear by defense the military pac with to nuclear weapons site. is that an it guy parade, tional stability, and the pace and calibration in the world? there are a wide range and concern indonesia, the pacific new zealand. many other players are looking in a, the disbelief or anger, or at least concerned about a position to not having gone through all that. let me just show you part of how the australian prime minister, introduced marcus. we must now take our partnership to a new level, a partnership that seeks to engage not to exclude, to contribute, not tied to and to enable and empower not to control or coerce. well, good luck with engaging and not excluding something tells me that this new

partnership, though, has already stepped on toes and undermined international ties. aussies investigative media project, read fish, has had a count on instagram deleted by the platform. it follows a rather similar move by facebook in april of this year. now, before its page was blocked, redford shot around 400000 followers and had been facing increased pressure in recent times, such as its content being labeled, russian controlled media. red fish contact both instagram on the sides own of facebook for an explanation of the ban. 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

the 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 was well, i guess. so we spoke to feel it's rather wiring. how much control these social media giants. now we'll 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, the position that these are private companies. so you know,

they can do what they want. they don't have to justify or given 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 it takes on a whole new kind of weight. geopolitical weight, storm clouds are also gathering for another big tech company that of twitter. it all stems from a post of rafa. nikki menache, 222000000 followers in which she claimed her cousin's friend and trinidad suffered a highly unpleasant side effect from a covert injection. his art is poly boy with more. one of america's most successful reporting office is nikki mon. and we can talk doctor, slash pandemic,

oracle professor chris with the 2 people you never expected to utter. same sent him, it all started with the men gall earlier this week that had to be vaccinated. mickey didn't go to the man gall and said that it was because she didn't want to leave her baby. but she also tweeted saying that she wouldn't get shocked to attend the medical lab. and then if she was going to get back, it would only be off the she's done enough research in her was after which she received it this week in great detail about a friend of a cousin of hud trinidad. my cousin and trinidad won't get the vaccine. his friends got it and became impotent in us. tweeted 222000000 followers because became full and his friend was weak. the way from getting married. now the girl called off the wedding. so just pray on. it and make sure you're comfortable with your decision not bullied. in fact, nicky,

cousin friends balls managed to travel across the atlantic and into this very dull and dreary, but obviously very important. corona virus press conference, one of the journalists that will be decided to throw the new k private. if that top dr. a big swollen bowl. he to professor crick with the why he thinks of missed him in august. story. predictably the scientists gave it a proper sat down, and many of those people regret, i think know that they are peddling untruths. in my view, they should be ashamed. okay, so i thought that was the end of the story, but. busy i'm have to update to the government of trinidad. sebago has issued an official statement denying that nicki's cousin friend balls was swollen because of coded back. now the ball gate has reached such truly proportions. the conclusion of this saga is something that only and a bill may 3rd period,

couldn't call me even though i had posted on high instagram this time that twitter restricted our ability to tweet. the only thing is that we have denied restricting nick human knowledge is that somehow she has managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making a phone crying. wow. well, major news outlets were quick to notice that menache is tweet was not taken down given affairs that it could make some over the rock was followers. think twice about getting injected a radio host and journalist john going thing. there's a clear political pattern and who twitter decides to censor. tricia have a gigi. she, they hide, they say all we're technical platform, we're not a publisher. the moment they true, donald trump trump off twitter for what he tweeted. they became, in my opinion, a publisher just like a tv company, just like

a newspaper. and therefore they should be responsible for what he's published on their platform. but these big companies don't one love the hiding behind if your opinion fits in to their so to california and view of the world liberal view of the world, except if it doesn't, if it goes against what they think the world should be like, then they'll send you, the best example is donald trump, if he had some tweets that were wrong, of course they should be taken down. but to actually take away your whole account, i said democratically elected leader. that is twitter. overstep and the mark in my personal opinion, i'm twitter because they control the public square, the public space. now, i don't know how they got themselves into this position, but they how they have this inordinate power. and if they can get rid of the

democrats, 60 elected president of the united states will come to get rid of this will rob singer and her dangerous trash talk falling stations of open their doors now to voters all across moscow for rushes parliamentary election. it's going to be a marathon voting process running for 3 days, wrapping up on sunday the just for a moment here on the program. that's clarify how the whole election works. and it will be $450.00 n p's from $225.00 electoral districts chosen to the state duma for a 5 year term a half for elected by majority voting based on one n p per constituency. the remaining $225.00 of made up by parties which have more than 5 percent representation in the parliament. now, throughout the week, we've been examining the 14 parties and what they stand for. it is

a snapshot of just a few of them. for example, we stop now with the greens now as the name suggests, the party as a strong environmental agenda, and it wants to stop deforestation. it started as a social movement in 1993, seeking a so called green revolution. the party though, one just under one percent of the vote in the 2016 elections well below the threshold for entering parliament. now, another contender in this election is the russian party of freedom and justice. it's one of several socialists leaning factions taking part and pledges to build a society based on social justice and equality, and it promotes pre education and health cap. this is the parties 1st time on the ballot. so asi neil harvey and takes a closer look at how the voting process is going to work and the efforts to keep it transparent. 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, as far as things are already begun earlier on thursday, the rest of central, the 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, upholding station. this is so that people can know how the elections are being carried out. the transmission is available to all the participating parties, the public to can watch the broadcasting and $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. but he's krista now that it was stressed. 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 dance department. now, this comes as google and apple. we're earlier invited to attend a special security session of russia's parliamentary commission to explain that position. the head of that commission said that evidence of meddling in russia's affairs mine both those companies has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow . nowadays, after the tech john failed to remove voting related content and apps made by organizations that 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 voted against may even some of them are plenty to say about it. 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 mesa 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, 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 our continental europe has a right to make a choice in favor of good relations with russia, alaska. early on, i spoke with the professor of the moscow state institute of international relations about a bond faces, despite the stance, it'll still have to work with the new russian legislators. anyway. it's quite interesting. i've read the recommendation of parliament today and it was a topic topic. we must not recognize the new russian parliament if 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 their current products from craig installation needed place from the

next console. 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 and just want to send bit, 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, opposition, 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 paste what the ration of position was saying someone could make the accusation about itself is, is meddling from the e. u in the russian election before i now want to go for their actions and,

and i see from the union of which i think by default every body and from that the russian, the post coming russian elections are problem. and so what are you going for me to go there so, so each will influence a bad behavior over the scene go water watch. 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 the russia. if the you 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 rushes, 100 evidence over to the state department, saying that some of the big tech platforms are allowing citizens access websites, they say belong to extremist organization. all these nice course oldest 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 national, conscious, international nature. and now this problem is really sharp because the russian courts are started to issue some flying some multi 1000000 fine on i t giant from 40 started to wait, but not every 40. so that's the question of not compliance to the state to the state legislation to the court. and so it's quite, it's quite difficult. we will have resolute it in one day. sure. but i think this some logic in the rush and lucky shall faith most. we can well, that wraps it up from me here and parties election headquarters for this hour. we will continue a course with the induct coverage over the next few days. and the so

russia gate is back on the media rate. this is thanks to a u. s. lawyer who previously made allegations of covert communications between donald trump and moscow. well, as it turns out, michael sussman has close ties to the democratic party and he's now being charged with lying to the f. b. i. that includes failing to disclose his links to hillary clinton's presidential campaign back in 2016 sussman lied about the capacity in which he was providing the allegations to the f. b. i susman stated falsely, that he was not doing his work on the aforementioned allegations for any client which led the f. b. i general counsel to understand that sussman was acting as a good citizen, merely passing along information, not as a paid advocate or political operative, 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. so here's how it goes. this statement by saltzman, 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 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. 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. now at the september 2016 meeting, sussman passed along analysis from cybersecurity experts who reported that internet data raise the possibility of speaker communications between the trump campaign and the rushes 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 trump 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 and found guilty of misleading the f b i, that will wipe you down with 5 years up to 5 years and federal prison reporting in washington, d. c. faren frontenac, r t. u s. this month has been remembering the tragedy of $911.00 and here and i see we've been analyzing the 20 year chain of events that followed a nowhere was the impact greater than in iraq. which us forces invaded in 2003, and our t contribute of richard met host has lost a special online project, delving into that campaign and how rather than defeating tower,

it turned out much at the end of the day, the region just turned into a hot bed of extremism of the latest episode, explore some of the false claims that did lead up to that war. with the invasion of 2003, the united states and its allies completely destroyed iraq. and the problem is not just the invasion is everything else that came after as a direct result, most of the problems iraq has now with not having 2003. so why did the us invade, what does it rock have to do with the war on terror? will nothing really? which is why they made up all these lines about weapons of mass destruction. you remember the anthrax letters that was a lie yellow cake from niger another lie, w in these many lies. weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, chemical biological and nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction. they even said that saddam hussein was working with al qaeda, which if you know anything about the middle east is so ridiculous. saddam with a bath, if the secularist and arcade are religious extremists, they are incompatible. now iraq is a country that has many ethnic groups, religious groups,

and tribe. the bass parties been decades trying to integrate everyone into one national identity. certainly not perfect, but it was stable. and then united states invades in 2003 and suddenly there is a civil war, sectarian violence. you have car bombs and suicide bombs going off and crowded places, people blowing up shrines in mosques say what you want about saddam. but that stuff was not happening before the invasion. and it's so easy for apologists western imperialism to go all look at all these people fighting over religion. they're so stupid and violent. funny, i'm none of that's existed before, 2003, right. what a coincidence, right after the us invades dissolves the army, the political and economic institution rips apart and social fabric and creates chaos that you suddenly have bonds going off. america says it's fighting a war on terror, right? well, let's see how that went. 2000 to interrupt you at 10 deaths from terrorism year after the invasion in 2004, there were 2000 in 201612000. there was no such thing as all kind and your rock now there is, there was no such thing as die before. there was no eyes this. and now there is

once again to sell america's war on terror, creates more terrorism. and besides looting iraq's national treasures and museums, there was also something else being looted before iraq nationalize the toilet history. but after 2003. well, let me put it this way. when there was math floating in baghdad, the only building us army decided to protect was the ministry of oil go figure. iraq is that one of the best health care systems in the entire middle east before the invasion. there were 34000 doctors. literally half of them. 17000 doctors left a rock after 2003. 12 percent of iraq's hospitals were destroyed and told this was taken on civilians. look at the example of felicia, a city retake in 3 times. in 2004, the u. s. completely destroyed. one 5th, 20 percent of all the buildings in the u. s. dropped so many bombs. they literally turn the city radioactive from all the depleted uranium and chemical weapons. now solution is one of the highest rates of cancer and infant mortality in the world with children being born with her riffing birth defect.