took it off and i think the people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number down i i headline stories this are from cancels and embassy celebration in washington in protest against the new us security with the u . k. and the streaming that resulted in the loft of a lucrative submarine deal for reaction on the street of the french. this is not the 1st time that united states has taken contrasts from austria. very good at that . we do not respect anyone to part from themselves. the act, like most of the world, they shouldn't have done that because i think it front to done the same. they would have complain. giving the game away while washington insisted the new pacific

security allies is not that any one. in particular, the secretary of defense makes the true target abundantly clear. in detail about china's d stabilizing activities and raging effort to course and intimidate other countries . this agreement, this relationship is not aimed at anything, or anyone. also has this our instagram permanently blocks ortiz investigative media project, read fish after a similar mood, vice facebook here in the year. we look up on the lower main level of control being wielded by social media giant brushes. parliamentary election is underway, withholding stations know open all across us that will bring you the break on later this hour throughout the 3 days a full day in our special ah,

the 2 in the afternoon here in moscow. it's friday, september the 17th. i'm you know, neil and this is the news our on our he and we'll get to those headlines to reason just a moment, but we begin with some breaking news coming into us from the netherlands. a knife tucker has reportedly killed at least 2 people and injured to others in the eastern dutch city of our mellow media local me, you're seeing police fired shots while attempting to arrest a man who had also fired a crossbow from an apartment balcony local. say there were 6 humble answers on multiple police vehicles, up the scene and a tactical unit was seen arresting the suspect. also hearing that the emergency response level has gone up to grip level 3, meaning that there is a threat to the well being of a population typically within a single municipality. any, and all significant developments on this breaking news story from the netherlands

will bring it to you. a diplomatic flash point is developing between france and the united states. part, scrapped and embassy gala to celebrate the country's historical alliance and protests against them. or it gives new security pack, signed with us truly in the u. k. this week, which french officials have dubbed a stop in the back the us secretary of state. so all as well 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. despite anthony blink and assurance, as many french citizens are unconvinced without men, we gained opinion in the capital. see bought up from your phone. this is not the 1st time tonight, the stage has taken contracts from us. they are very good at that. they do not respect anyone apart from themselves. they act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done that because i think it fronted 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. 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. a recap of what happened on wednesday, a st. leah, the u. k, and the u. s. signed a pacific security pack called orcus, seen this country in china. it involves cooperation in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, nuclear, defense. while it's really, it will acquire

a nuclear power submarine fleet with american and british technology, china, which is the dominant power in the india pacific region. i was condemned ridiculous cold war mentality. neither washington or london have explicitly linked the new deal to the supposed to threat from beijing, but remarks from the us defense secretary left little room for died. 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, on from her angered by the new pug, others are asking what this could mean for nato, if a trunk of sums up that lead us reactions. when donald trump left office and joe biden took charge, it could have been a side relief for some of washington's you allies just when the 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. still a v e readers are still really over what the biden and ministration did of ghana, stan, and now parents 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 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 p t o. 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 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 paris 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 trio mentioned china even once. but make no mistake. the masterminds of the new pack must have had keeping beijing at bay on their mind. their falling no one,

just look at how the article on offers on the b. b. c is titled find his reaction to the new partnership. didn't take long, critical and outright countries should not build, exclusionary blogs targeting or harming the interest of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake up there. cole were mentality, and ideological prejudice, and the you published it. 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 you 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. it's dryer has today voluntarily and secretly entered into a nuclear by defense the military pac with to nuclear weapons site. is that

a net gain, parades and stability and the pacing cooperation 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 office. we must now take our partnership to a new level, a partnership that seeks to engage not to exclude, to contribute, not tight, and to enable that empower not to control or coerce. well, good luck with and gauging and not excluding something tells me that this new partnership, though, has already stepped on toes and undermined international ties. earlier we spoke to believe him or former vice president of the organization for security and

cooperation in europe on long time ben dish, doug member, he thinks the august pack raises the prospect of a conflict with china. we live in excellent corporation with how i bought and i and china and that on it is complicated because we just global agent and our allies, the united states. if you are going to feel confident they can and even conflict with china and know on how to do up the you know, the call and i'll make this clear that even the angle had been split and they're fine. and think what is the leaving behind of this us which is looking goal

which had been the 97 so many, many to be late in the in, you know, going into the wrong direction. they're going to date they're going to be and they might be going to law. and the 3rd include, not only is the european union but try now in japan, colleena. and in the fall, i think is what is the basic actual for and not the global of all parties. investigative media project, read fish has have it's a count on instagram deleted by the platform. it follows a similar move by facebook back in april, before its page was blocked,

red fish had run 400000 followers. it had been facing increased pressure in recent times, such as its content being labeled russian control media. read fresh, contacted both instagram on the site sooner. facebook. so you can explanation for the your instagram account got deleted either because you violated one or more of instagram's. community guidelines are 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 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 chilling. 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? was he feeling well the number of guests we spoke to about this issue? feel it's worrying how much control or social media giants currently wheeled. 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, 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 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 a big tech company, twitter. it all stems from a post by robert nikki managed to her 22000000 followers in which she claimed her

cousin's friend and trinity, sir, for the highly unpleasant side effect from a cove it. here's to take of our tea's poly boil. one of america's most successful reporting. nicky, minot and britain taught doctor flack 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, i guess that had to be vaccinated. mickey didn't go to the men 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 a jack to attend the math lab and that if she was going to get back, it would only be off the she's done enough research. it was after which she needed to tweak in great detail about a friend of a cousin of hud in trinidad may not tweeted. 222000000 followers.

his testicles became swollen. his friend was weeks away 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 solid. the story for and myriads of mean and nicky cousins, friend is definitely going to become some sort of pop culture icon and into this very dull and dreary but obviously very important. corona virus press conference. one of the journalists that professor chris, we see what he thinks of him in august story, and predictably the scientist gave it a proper snap down. and many of those people, i regret, i think know that they are peddling untruths. in my view, they should be ashamed. and then the prime minister for johnston also commented on the story. and as if this story couldn't get any way, you know, and then responded to bar johnson with this bizarre recording of imitating a british accent. not too bad actually. yes. hello,

prime minister boris. it's nikki menard's. i went to school with margaret sasha. i'm a big star is in the united states. just to be clare. aussie does not endorse me. he's cousins, friends. tactical re my. i'm the thing about high school with my dispatcher, that definitely makes news and getting back to they did is great do it? i think i thought that was the end of the story, but i'm here to update to the government of trinidad and tobago. has issued an official statement denying that nicki's cousin friend balls was swollen because of the vaccine. now the ball gate has reached such truly epic proportions. the conclusion of this saga is something that only and a bill mater period couldn't call nick, even though i have posted on high instagram this time that twitter restricted her

ability to tweet that. got the juices of the pundits really flowing point she's making are worth reiterating. you can't allow people to force you to take drugs that you don't want for that you don't need. the only thing is that was denied restricting nick human knowledge is that somehow she had managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making a phone crying. wow. poly poco major news outlets were quick to notice that menache is tweet wasn't taken down, as they stated, could make some of the your upper followers think twice about getting vaccinated. radio host under list, john got thinks 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 she's published on their platform. but these big companies don't, won't love the hiding behind. if your opinion fits in to their soto for 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. as 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 democratically elected president of the united states will come to get rid of this or up singer and her dangerous trash talk. the russia gave scandal refuses to die. a u. s. lawyer made various allegations against donald trump down the years and he's not being charged with lying to the f b i. but his road and hillary clinton's presidential campaign, our web team helping probing the story, had to r t dot com for that. voting is no wealth in full swing across russia in the parliamentary elections for the 1st time . it's a 3 day process running until sunday. the

well, here's how the election will work. 450 m. p 's from 225 electoral districts will be chosen to the state duma. for a 5 year term half are elected by majority voting based on one m. p per constituency. the remaining $225.00 are made up by parties which have more than 5 percent representation in parliament. when throughout the week, we've been examining the 14 parties on what they stand for. here's the snapshot of a few of them. let's begin with the 2nd largest function that is the communist party of the russian federation, 70 secure organ. uh the gulf is the leader and husband since the parties creation in 1993, they keep p. r. s. pledges to deliver a modernized version of socialism. it wants to nationalize natural resources and i grew cultured while providing more support for small businesses. in the past 4

election, they finish 2nd 2, united russia. another contender on the pallet is wrought enough meaning motherland, which is seen as a nationalist movement nor wrote in the upper case for traditional values. it also wants to impose tougher immigration rules while spreading the wealth from moscow to russia's regions. now that secured one and a half percent support in the 2016 election and our teas neil harvey has been taking a broader look at how the voting process operates on the efforts to keep it. transport . 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 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, christiana, that it was stressed 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 election, it was stated that interference in the internal affairs of our country was categorically inadmissible. we had also pass that relevant information through our embassy in washington to the department of state. 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 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. now, days after the tech john failed to remove voting related content and apps made by organizations that russia considers extremist. 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 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 as then a full big round. much of the information is false, misleading. on one side it's, we survey russia with mesa basis, and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them of foreign interference. the european project is not being undermined and divided by russia by fight, the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report. it tells me that it is time to involve a positive dialogue with the russian federation. is time to stop listening to the

american in europe is our continent from europe has a right to make a choice in favor of good relations with russia. and i spoke with the professor of the moscow state institute of international relations about a bond pieces, 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, 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 actions to monitor. 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 or position or whatever you name them and so be it'll

be an up service. they could not go to moscow to, to feel if they can just check and copy and copy paste what the ration of position was saying someone could make the accusation. that itself is, is meddling from the you in the russian election. if for example, i now plan to go for their actions and, and i see from the union of which i think by default, every body and from that the russian, the russian elections are problem. and so what are you going for me to go there? so for what influence a bear be favor over the scene go 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 russia? 100 evidence over to the us state department saying that some of the big tech platforms are allowing citizens access websites they say,

belong to extremist organizations, that this problem is really sharp because the russian courts are starting to all issue some flying some multi 1000000 fines on the giant from 40 started to wait, but not every 40. so that's the question of most 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 rush and lucky show statements, we can and we are just a few hours into rushes, 3 day parliamentary election. there have really been some reports of technical glitches. the online voting system was briefly out of action. it's not being fully restored. by the way, it's not the only platform that crushed in friday morning. a pro opposition up

called nev only has been deleted from google play and up to ups store. here's our team, konstantin roscoe. the app in question is somewhat an extension of nevada and his website and provides news about him or his organization, but this is not what's gotten it under the scrutiny. the app also has a section dedicated to so called smart voting. now, smart voting encourages those who disliked the current government to mark their ballot for whatever candidate in a given constituency is most likely to defeat 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 deny, answers. neville 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 spreading extreme as content and inciting unauthorized pro, has despite coven restrictions earlier,

ross come to absorb demanded from google and apple to take down the valley ab, because of net link. otherwise, russia officials would have considered this as foreign interference in the run up to the parliamentary elections. now, we've also 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 western basset, or in moscow, john solomon. now in the ballad, his aides have also published and an official response to god from apple, which states that every case status as an extremist organisation was a reason the tech company decided to take down the app. american tech jones did not always comply with russian laws an offer, refused or failed to delete illegal content. for instance, messages publicly calling on people to take part in on authorized demonstrations for that the likes of facebook. twitter google receive have to find, but this time they decided to comply so that the app is no longer available in

russia, which is of course, another blow to the jail, the opposition figure and his team as they often look to the west for support. so they won't have rushes parliamentary election is well underway in the coming hours. we'll delve further into the parties hoping to sway citizens their way how the ballot is progressing on the election process itself. r t, as you covered for vote 2021. the just before we go, i want to give you a recap over breaking news. this are coming from the netherlands. at least 2 people have been killed in a stopping incident in the city of all mellow to others are injured, including the knife wielding a tucker who has been arrested. according to dutch media, the police earlier fired shots while detaining the suspect, who also fired a.