surprises, ideology, over confidence, virtue over reason and democracy is only a good idea if and when it's sort of a lead interest. then there's the issue of competence, competence used to be rewarded. now incompetent is overlooked with serving ideology . the headlines for this our live on our p from doesn't come souls and empathy celebration in washington in protest against a new u. s. security pipe with a u. k. and australia resulted in the loss of a lucrative submarine deal for powers on the program. we get reaction on the street of the french capital. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken contrast from last. 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 that because i think if france it's on the same, they would have complain. giving the game away. while washington in 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 as the stabilizing activities in beijing efforts to force and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. instagram permanently last saw fees investigative media project, read face shop for a similar move by facebook. earlier in the year, we look at an alarming level of control being wielded by social media giants these days. and rushes parliamentary election is underway with holding stations. now, open all across russia on our team will bring you the full breakdown later this hour and throughout the 3 days of voting and special coverage. ah,

the already cutting into a busy friday for your worldwide headlines here on our team international. we come to you live from moscow. welcome to the program. so we did a diplomatic flash point now developing between france and the united states. a powers has scrapped an embassy gala to celebrate the country's historical alliance in protest against america, new security packed, signed with australia, and the u. k, which french officials call a stab in the back. the us secretary of state however insists all is 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 or the spied anthony blank. and sharon says some french citizens, well, they remain rather unconvinced. so we gave opinion on the streets of the capital, missy, but from your phone, this is not the 1st time tonight. the 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 that because i think it front on the same they would have complained they wouldn't have liked it. 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. but 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 let's just for a moment, give you a recap of exactly what happened. it was wednesday, australia, the u. k, and the us, they find a pacific security packed called orcus,

seen as countering china. and involves cooperation and artificial intelligence. cybersecurity also, nuclear defense, australia will also acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet with american and british technology. now, the pact was promptly condemned by beijing and thought of a cold war mentality. neither washington nor london have explicitly linked the new deal to the supposed threat from china. however, remarks from the us defense secretary left little from for any 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. and while china and france are annoyed by the new pact, others are asking what this could mean for nato as ilia trunk. now investigations. when donald trump left office and joe biden took charge, it could have been a side relief for some of washington's

u 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 will do, the 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 cas, but haven't the u. s. the u. k. and all these been calls allied 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 repeat ode. 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're 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're happily, 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 trio mentioned china even once, but make no mistake. the masterminds 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 august 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 e. u. published ed strategy for cooperation in the in the pacific, clearly stating the intention not to worse in 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 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 2 nuclear weapons site. is that an it guy parades, no stability, and for pacing corporation 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 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. sorry, let's learn

a little bit more here on the program. we can now speak to believe in the former vice president of the o. s. c and former state secretary to germany's defense minister. thanks so much for coming on the program here. when we're grateful to have you with us, how do you feel about the u. s. u k and australia essentially forming a defense packet against china. the company they did normally both. i live on the phone, you're really in the blog and the, the final point of the call really like how many phone tongue i went on your wall and we live in excellent corporation was how i bought and i in china and on it, it's complicated for us because we just globally and our allies, the united states. if you were to confront asian and even conflict when they got

the china and know what's going on, how do i love to watch mr. been a 5 year straight. china has been germany is biggest bilateral trading partner. as you say, germany has a good economic relationship with china. you do find it alarming. i suspect that your allies taking, as you said, a confrontational sons with china. here we go, the some of the easy. we lee a decision was they got the the last 5 phone problem. that was, it was even the foaming the father united states which still. ready bought in the campaign and on the 2nd plains thing is a telephone between the us

stopped on my day and this chinese condo pot with saying the need look not everybody is crazy thing and watching the i knew going to be laid out the so you will get the planes and explanation of your policy. the thing will happen to know the cause awful and to make the even the a little bit a lie and had been split because of that. we know that you and the 5 by agreement with who was in, in the, on the us angle effects the one of the, the end of the good wall. and even now in the hallway. and they're fine. i think

what is the leaving behind of this us which is looking for turning or which head being about the thing i say, as you say, sorry to jump in. but as you say, paging has already called this part done by a cold war mentality. but when you say, what is america's policy towards china there in the pacific, what does it read? i mean, let's, let's be honest about this. china, it's absolutely surrounded by dozens of u. s. military bases just to earlier in the year, the form australian defense minister kristof pines said expect a war with china in 5 to 10 years now. you've got paging, cutting all ships in the south trying to see and tie one straight to identify themselves and identify the cargo. there are

a lot of people saying it looks like the moves are being made for the not too distant future for a war with china, mr. vin or what do you think in the situation with regard to china as we know in the evening time. and the thing is complicated to participate even when it was good. in the meantime, i'll see united states against china and the make the, you know, the things and in, you know, going in the wrong direction. they're going to kind of what they, they're going to be and they might be going to law. and this will include, not only is the you will be union, but try and in jeff n colleena. and in the fall,

i think is what is the basic, factual for not the global which we know the and i think i think, you know, you're discussing, especially the next world war. missed of him. i wanted to ask you with this new pack this all because packed with america, the u. k. and australia. and now australia will be given a nuclear power submarine fleet, armed with long range missiles. why would anyone give australia a nuclear power submarine fleet with long range missiles? what is the point? i think when you look into a display, and i think we are connected to many, many and good citizens in other places. but when you look back into they have a situation like 40 in the ball and

to the top of their love. and this give now given by the united states to them with regard to nuclear power, really is in my opinion, to be seen in the seminar. they do a live body, plenty of fun. and it's always there to dive united states to know with us. do you think, do you think paging is also being slightly kind of confrontational president? she has said a number of times in recent years. we must be combat ready to face america. we must be ready for a conflict with america. i think yes, no doubt about it. try not to take into consideration. the situation is

a child in the and the old and who wants to go with the united states funds. we believe he was the god that we have on the lot today. and this also includes china yet, why not? does do you think? do you think public populations around the world? do you think anyone the, the average person, the little person like you, me, for example, do we have any say in this there was a just the cabal of power brokers in the world that the big only galks who make massive money of the military industrial complex is it just these power players who are ruling the waves right now with this potential conflict? no longer is we have on t international weekend and i was of use simple citizen as long as the tv and all but it's going to buy my god.

i think we have a lot of things to the point where i kind of you to say, believe in the former vice president of the i c. and for my state secretary to germany's defense minister, a great pleasure to have you on our tea international today. thank you very much. yeah, good luck to go. thank you very much. well, ortiz investigative media project. read fish has had a count on instagram deleted by the platform and follows a similar move by facebook. in april of this year, before its page was blocked, red face shut around 400000 followers. it had been facing increased pressure in recent times, such as content being labeled a russian controlled media. a red fish contacted both instagram and the sites own a facebook for an explanation of the ban. 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 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 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 to 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 had about the instagram is instagram, is the most killing. they explicitly say that the decision was made by the higher ups, by the 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 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 reason political, it shouldn't be that difficult guests we supposed to feel it's rather wiring. how much control these social media johns are able to wield. nowadays, you 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 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. well, it's 20 past the hour here at moscow and voting is now in full swing across rushes, 11 the time zone for the 1st time upon a mature election will be running for 3 days. and then on sunday, the are now let's clarify how the whole election will be working. there will be 450 m p 's from 225 electoral districts chosen to the state. do more for a 5 year term. half are elected by majority voting based on one m. p per can sit

constituency. the remaining $225.00 are 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. here's a, a quick snapshot of just a few of them. for example, 1st off of the party of growth, it's seen as a right wing liberal movement of promoting the free market. he wants to see economists reform with working people paying less tax. the party also wants parliament to have greater control over the executive branch. they got less than 2 percent of votes in the last election. now another contender is the socially conservative party called pensioners for justice, and they call themselves a constructive opposition. some of the key manifesto pledges are higher health care spending and improving the lives of the elderly. at the movement got 2 percent of the vote in 2016, but it is tip to get close to the 5 percent threshold this time around. for now,

are you still have you now take a broader look at how the voting process is going to work? and the efforts of course, to keep it transparent. 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 east things already begun earlier on thursday, the rest of the 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, upholding stations. 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 watch the broadcast in $86.00 for 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 christiana, that it was trans 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 in admissible . we had also passed the relevant information through our embassy in washington to the us department. now this comes as google and apple earlier invited to attend a special security session of russia parliamentary commission to explain that position. the head of the commission said that evidence of meddling in russia is the 1st man. both those companies has been presented to the us ambassador to moscow mothers. after the tech john failed to remove voting related, content knobs may buy 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 are quote, seen as fraudulent, more than 100 members voted against may even some of them at 20 to say about. this isn't a serious credible document. it's actually as then a phone, big round,

much of the information is false, misleading. on one side it's, 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 is time to embark on a positive dialogue with the russian federation. it's time to stop listening to the american in europe is our continent from europe, as of right to make a choice in favor of good relations with russia, alaska. and i spoke with the professor of the moscow state institute of international relations about a bond. no faces, 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. 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 bit, are we all up servers? and another approach you cannot find anybody here. you can just check the internet, you can just check social networks. you can speak with a representative will society or position the whatever you name them and so be 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 they're rushing position was saying someone could make the accusation that 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 coming,

rational actions are problem. and so what are you going for me to go there? so what influence the favor of seeing both water, if the e u, is concerned about the integrity of russian elections? should they be focused on the allegations that russia is making that interference coming from outside rushes, 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 organizations, that this problem is really sharp, because the russian courts are started to or issue some find some multimedia and find on i t giant from 40 started to wait, but not everybody saw that's the question 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 this to

some logic in the rational official space most we can well, we are now just a few hours into rushes, a 3 day parliamentary election there though, have already been a few technical glitches to report. and the online voting system was briefly out of action, but is now fully restored. and that's not the only platform that crashed this friday morning. a pro opposition app called nevada only has been deleted from google play and the apple's app store. let's try to figure out why crossing lives. why is konstantin ross golf there in central moscow? good to see you cost year. can you tell us more about this app and how it's been deleted? sure. hello, rory. so the app in question is somewhat an extension of nevada, his website and provides news about him or his organization, but this is not what's gotten in under the scrutiny. the app also has a section dedicated to so called smart voting. now, smart voting encourages those who dislike the current government to mark their

ballad for whatever candidate in a given constituency is most likely defeated the candidate of united russia. now more often than that, these are representatives of the communist party, russia, 2nd most popular party, which leadership ironically denounces an invalid in his demon distances itself from smart voting anyway, according to ross, comrades or rushes internet watch dock, there is a link between smart voting and the news intake corruption fun which was labeled and extremist organization for a spreading extreme as content and inciting, unauthorized approach has despite coven restrictions. earlier, ross come to absorb demanded from google and apple to take down the valley because of that link. otherwise, russia officials would have considered this as foreign interference in the run up to the parliamentary elections. now, we both heard from the head of the sovereignty committee in russia. senate, mister climmer, who said that the issue was brought up in a conversation between russian diplomats and the us, and bassett,

or in moscow. john solomon now developed his aides, have also published and an official response. the guy from apple, which states that advocates status as an extremist organization, was a reason the tech company decided to take down the app and well, this is a force another blow for the jailed opposition figure and his team as they often look towards the west ford but as for the well, 3 companies in this particular case, they've decided to comply with the russian laws, right? concert in or off. thanks for that i, that's just about it for now. here on our team to national though more to come regarding all the parties, the voting and how the election process works out today and throughout the next 3 days. or what are you into national. all those details still to come by colleague union o'neill here at the desk and half an hour's time. hope you can join him to the

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