no doubt about that. only give them up. sure. somebody stuck a fish in the cove in your living like the female of own, but in the 21st century. the last for this hour here, when are you into national from cancels and embassy celebration in washington in protests against a new us security packed with a k and australia. the resulted in the loss of a lucrative stop marine deals of powers on the program. and we get reaction from the street to the french capital. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken concert from us. they are very good at that. they do not respect anyone to part from themselves. they act like most of the world and they shouldn't have done that because i think it front to done the same. they would have complain of giving away the game. while washington insists the new pacific security alliance is

not aimed at any one. the secretary of defense makes the true target abundantly clear. we spoke in detail about china's destabilizing activities and raging efforts to corps and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. instagram and permanently blocked off fees. investigative media project, read fresh author a similar move by facebook. earlier in the year on the program, we looked at an alarming level of control being wielded by social media giant. russia parliamentary election is getting underway with polling stations, not open all across russia. pornography will bring you the full breakdown later this hour and throughout the next 3 days of voting in our special coverage. ah,

it is friday mid morning here at moscow and a big program for you today here on our t international. welcome to it's a diplomatic flash point. now developing between france and the united states. powers has scrapped an embassy gala to celebrate the country's historical alliance . all in protest against america, new security packed, signed with australia, and the u. k, which french officials have called a stop in the back. the secretary of state however 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 trans atlantic cooperation in the pacific and around the world. while the spider anthony blank and assurances, some french citizens remain unconvinced as we gazed opinion on the streets of the capital. missy bought up from your phone please. this is not the 1st time tonight.

estates has taken contracts from us. they are very good at that. we do not respect anyone apart from themselves, they act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done that because i think if france had done the same, they would have complained they wouldn't have liked. 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 include this, 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. let's clarify this for a moment here and to give you a recap of exactly what happened. it was on wednesday that australia, the u. k, and the us, they all signed a pacific security packed called orcus and seen as

a move to counter china. it involves cooperation and artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and nuclear defense. australia will now acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet with american and british technology. and well, the pact was promptly condemned by beijing as part of a cold, warm, and quality. neither washington nor london have explicitly linked the new deal to the supposed threat from china. however, remarks from the us defense secretary left a little room for doubt. we spoke in detail about china's d stabilizing activities in beijing efforts to course and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. while china and france are clearly annoyed by this new pact, others are, are asking a, what could this potentially mean for nato? is correspondent, elite katrinka, when donald trump left office,

and joe biden took charge. it could have been a cyber relief for some of washington's allies just when europe 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. phil a v e readers are still really over what the biden administration did of ghana, stan, and now parents have 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 and 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 off 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 are not willing to just swallow that bitter pill. plus there's solidarity with paris from b, e. u on the matter. you know, because you 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 masterminds of the new packed 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 there. 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 worse than relations with china. contradicting the apparent intentions of august, the e. you will also pursue its multifaceted engagement with china, engaging bilaterally to promote solutions to come and 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 for face and calibration in the world, there are a wide, original concern, indonesia, the pacific new zealand. many other players are looking in a, the disbelief or anger or at least concerned about a position for not having gone through all that. let me just show you part of how the australian prime minister introduced barcus. we must now take our partnership to a new level, a partnership, the 6 to engage not to exclude, to contribute, not tight, and to enable them power not to control or coerce. well, good luck with hen gauging and not excluding something tells me that this new partnership, though, has already stepped on toes and undermined international ties. ortiz

investigative media project, read fish, has had a count on instagram deleted by the platform. it follows a similar move by facebook and april of this year. before his page was blocked, redford shot around 400000 followers, had been facing increased pressure in recent times, such as content being labeled russian controlled media. i read fish contacted both instagram on the side of facebook for any explanation on the ban. your 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 for us. the major problem here is that companies like facebook and instagram, they have more power than any cooperation before them, or any government before them has over the media. but they're 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 for them to explain why this is happening or to challenge the decision. but we constantly faced brick walls. in fact, the latest response that we've has about the instagram is instagram ban is the most chilling. they explicitly say that the decision was made by the higher ups by that so called internal team. and that they can't disclose to us why the reasons why this decision was made because of it would to do so. it would violate the security and privacy policy, which really just leaves us with the question. why are they being so secretive? if it why, why can't they explain why they've reached this decision? if the reasons political it shouldn't be that difficult. some of the guests we spoke to you feel it's a bit wiring. how much control these social media giants wheeled nowadays. he need to say to people, look, if we're going to take something off the platform,

here's the reason you've done it. 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 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 crew sort of censorship, i think is geo political 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 and storm clouds are gathering over

another big tech company that have twitter. it all stems from a post of rappa, nicky, menache to her 22000000 followers in which she claimed that her cousin's friend in trinidad suffered a highly unpleasant side effect from a covert injection. more details here with our teeth poly boys, one of america's most successful reporting autism, nicky, minot and britain talk. dr. clack pandemic, oracle. professor chris with the 2 people you never expected to utter the same sentence. it all started with the 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 pain, but she wouldn't get a job 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, it was after which she presented to tweak in great detail about a friend of a cousin of hud in trinidad. my cousin and trinidad won't get the vaccine. his friends got it and became impotent in us. tweeted 222000000 followers and became full and his friend was weak their 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 prime. and if that his top dr. a big swollen cub bowl. he off to professor chris with the why he thinks of meet him in august story. predictably the scientists gave it a prop, sat down. and many of those people regard,

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 i'm here to update to the government of trinidad. tobago has issued an official statement denying that nicki's cousin friend balls was swollen because of coded back. now the ball game has reached such truly epic proportions. the conclusion of this is something that only and a bill made creative, couldn't call nick, even though i had posted on high instagram this time that twitter restricted her ability to tweet. the only thing is that we have denied restricting nick human knowledge that somehow she had managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making a crime. wow. major news outlets were quick to notice that menache is tweet was not

taken down, given the face that they could make some of the rep as followers think twice about getting injected. a radio host and journalist john gold things is a clear, political patton, and who twitter decides to sunset. tricia have a gigi. she, they hide, they say all were 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 want 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 see 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 have, 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 or up singer and her dangerous trash talk. so polling stations have opened their doors to voters all across moscow for rushers, big parliamentary election. it's going to be a marathon voting process running for a good 3 days wrapping up on sunday.

the now let's clarify how the election works. there will be $450.00 m. p 's from 225 electoral districts chosen to the state duma for a 5 year term. now half are elected by majority voting based on one m p per constituency. the remaining $225.00 are made up by parties which are more than 5 percent in representation in parliament. now, throughout the week, we've been examining the 14 parties and what they stand for me. so let's give you a snapshot of just a few of them for a moment here on the program. let's start with the communists of russia, not to be confused with a better known communist party of the russian federation. they promote a marxist london est id ology and want to impose a massive nationalization campaign of the party. gone to just over 2 percent of votes in previous from the previous election and has no representatives currently in the state duma. well, another contender in this election is the liberal,

conservative civic platform. it was founded by billy at m. heil a profit off before an internal bust up made him quit the pot. he says it's a poor, small and medium sized businesses and wants to see stronger domestic production instead of in ports. a civic platform has one seat in the current parliament and one almost a percent of the vote in 2060 voting, as we said, is held over 3 days. it's extended on previous versions going from friday through 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 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, but he's christa and i believe that it was trantor that 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. 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 is the 1st mind. both those companies has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow nowadays after the tech johns failed to remove voting related content and apps made by organizations. 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 though, 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 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 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 today, recommendation. they don't be on parliament today. and it was 2 topics that just topic. we must not recognize the new russian parliament if the election defrauded and 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 place to place from the next and console. 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, i just 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 the 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 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 for that the russian, the posts coming russian elections are problem. and so what are you going for me to go there? so, so each what influence over the scene go to art? i think that after the elections eve, they will recognize the actual such 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 in 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 with the national nation. and now this problem is really sharp because the russian courts are starting to issue some flying some multi 1000000 fines on i t 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 the resolution in one day. sure. but i think this some logic in the russian looking shelf space this weekend. well, that wraps it up from me here and parties. election headquarters. so this hour we will continue, of course, with the in depth coverage over the next few days in the us . this month has been remembering the tragedy of $911.00 and here on, on say we've been analyzing the 20 year chain of events that ultimately followed nowhere. it was the impact greater than in iraq. quote, us forces invaded in 2003 naughty contribute of richard met hurst has launched a special online project delving into the campaign. and how rather than defeating

tara, it turn much of the region into a hot bed of extremism, latest episode to explore some of the false claims that 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 did not have in 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 lives about weapons of mass destruction. you remember the anthrax letters that was a lie yellow cake from niger another lie, w in these many lives, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, weapons of mass destruction, chemical biological and nuclear weapons, weapons of mass destruction. i even said that saddam hussein was working with al qaeda, which if you know anything about the middle east is so ridiculous. saddam was a bath if the secularist and alcohol or religious extremists, they are incompatible. now iraq is a country that has many ethnic groups,

religious groups, and tribes. the bass parties been dec, it's 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 and mosques, say what you want about to dump, 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 this 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? we'll see how that went in 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, do cell america's war on terror creates more terrorism. and besides living iraq's national treasures and museums, there was also something else being looted before iraq nationalized toil 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 $34000.00 doctors, literally half of them. 17000 and 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 and for loser, 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. child birth

defects skyrocketed with some 33 times the rate in europe, the birth defects and for lucia are even higher than in hero shima. nagasaki, which the us destroyed with 2 nukes. so was it worth it? what exactly did a raw game from all this in the last 20 years? let's do a quick recap. will the kurds in iraq were gassed by saddam now enjoy their own autonomy region, so they've certainly made strides despite everything else. what about the situation in general in iraq? health care system, destroy the energy infrastructure, destroy massive brain drain, all the doctors, engineers, and people needed to run the country and rebuild are gone millions of refugees. and so many people did. we don't even know the actual number because it's likely over a 1000000 killed by us and coalition forces and kite and i this. there are many grades that haven't even been found yet. so if the 1st gulf war starved iraq and derailed its public infrastructure, the 2nd invasion in 2003 obliterated the country almost 2 decades later, iraq is still under occupation. it hasn't even begun to recover. and by any sensible metric, it is worse off than it ever was before the war. once again,

a clear example how the war on terror was a fraud. the nation building was a scam and the only people benefiting our private contractors, mercenaries, and foreign oil companies. and watch a more of those episodes at r t dot com and our, our to you tube channel as well. the, the 1st episode already online, exploring the early phase of america. the global campaign against terrorism is just turning ha, passed the out here at moscow. this is, are you into national thank you so much for sharing your time with us here on the russian capital. we are back at the top of the hour with more of your wild headlines. the oh the the the, the war we have the come with america's. but a warning, the feet had become even one part. and what is unfolded?

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