not go on forever. the challenge is to response has been massive. so many good people are helping us. it makes it feel very proud that we need together in the who's good evening and welcome to our coverage of the 2021 russian state. duma elections were up here in our rooftop location, which as well as having look at that time to review. it is also very out location. today we're focusing on how these elections are being overseen, finding out the nicest, taking to ensure the integrity of the voting. thanks so much for joining us on what day. one of 3 in which the electra are able to cast their vote to focus on what has been happening at the polls in just a few minutes time 1st. so let's concentrate today's global you had on france

council, that embassy celebration in washington. us in protest against us security packed with the u. k. and rarely, that resulted in the loss of a lucrative marine deal to get reaction on the street, the french capital. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken a contract. very good because we do not have anyone to replace it because i think it front on the same and they were big giving the game away while washington assist the new pacific security alons. there's no name that anyone in particular, the secretary defense makes the true target. abundantly clear. we spoke in detail about china's d, stabilizing activities in beijing efforts to course and intimidate other countries . this agreement, this relationship is not aimed at anything or anyone. and rushes parliamentary

election is underway was all polling stations. having opened up the doors for day one, the voting ah oh, thanks so much majority make it small. it's cozy. there's room for you. appreciate your company, our election coverage will be coming up the a very surely. do you stay with us for that? but let's start with a look at the 1st of those headline news stories. a diplomatic flash point is developing between france and the united states, paris as council embassy garlic, to celebrate the country's historical alliance in protest against america's new security patch, sondra, austria, and the u. k. which french officials have dubbed a stub in the back. you a secretary of state insist though 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 trans atlantic cooperation in the pacific and around the world. despite anthony lincoln's assurances, many french citizens are unconvinced. we gazed opinion in the capital. but this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken a contract. very good the cause we do not respect anyone in the act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done expecting in the front on the same they would have complain. they wouldn't like to see if the current president has better represents a lot of money, but 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, they were closest which allowed them to break the contract before they started making the submarines. know if it's a good for a person to see that a contract has been broken. it's happened to me personally,

always paragraph included, but it must be justified. you have to have a good reason if i understand it correctly, the united states is a competitor. so of course, it's not a good thing. there should have been talk between the french and the americans. so as a recap of what happened on wednesday, last trailer, the united kingdom and united states will find a pacific security packed called orchestra seen as a counter move against china. it involves co operation in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, a nuclear defense, while australia will acquire a nuclear power. it's of marine fleet with american british technology. china, which is the dominant power in the indo pacific region, is condemned. the deal is being cold war mentality. neither washington nor london have explicitly linked new deal to the supposed threat from beijing, but remarks in the us defense secretary left littering for down. we spoke in detail about china's d stabilizing activities and beijing's efforts to course and intimidate other

countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. while china and france saw anger to buy that new pact, others are asking what this could mean for nater. i think correspond matilda shrink at some of 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 you 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. 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 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 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 are 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 believe it is a good opportunity to recall. if you reflect on the need to raise the issue of european a strategic autonomy, it is a new proof of the need to exist on our own. when the grace of august. busy 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 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 find his 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 in relations with china,

contradicting the apparent intentions of office the 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 pace and corporation 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 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. we heard from venice, former vice president of the organization for security and cooperation in europe will so long time been the stock number. he thinks that the orchestra banks raises the prospect of a conflict with china. we live in the excellent corporation was. ready like a bond ny in china, and that on it is complicated because we live in global ation and our allies the united states. so if you are going to confront asian and even conflict with china and know what's going on,

and how do i look to the, to us know the call and i'll make that clear that even the angle effect had been split and they're fine. think what is the leaving behind of this us which is looking goal of the which had been so many, many to be late in the in you know, going into the wrong direction. they're going to dayton they're going to be and they might be going to law and the 3rd and include not

only is the european union but trying to. so colleen and then i think is what it is. the basic not the global pop superstar nick human knowledge is found. how do i that not everybody is singing from her song? she? she is face a deluge of criticism. after twitter post made her 22000000 followers. when she claimed her cousin's friend that suffered a highly unpleasant side effects for mccovie vaccine. same on this from ortiz poly boy, one of america has made successful reporting. nicky min and britain talked. dr. clack pandemic, oracle. professor chris with the 2 people you never expected to utter same send him. it all started with the met 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 a job to attend the medical 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 received it this week 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 will see what he thinks of him in

august story. predictably the scientists a protest sat down. and many of those people regret to say, i think know that they are peddling untruths. in my view, they should be ashamed. and then he k prime minister johnston, also commented on the story. and as if this story couldn't get any weirder than 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 baksha. i'm a big, big star in, in the united states. just to be clear, aussie does not endorse me. he's cousins, friends, tactical very much. i'm the thing about school with maggie that that's definitely great 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. 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 as a proportion. the conclusion of this dog is something that only, and a bill made, peter couldn't call nick, even though i had posted on high instagram this time that twitter restricted her ability to tweet that. got the juices of the pundits really flowing. the 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 has managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making

a phone crying. wow. asia news outlets were came to highlight that twitter didn't take down the offending tweet, baby hosting journalist john gold thinks there's a clear, political patton in who twitter decides the sensor tricia have a duty she, they hide, they say all we're technical platform, we're not a publisher the moment they threw dani trim 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 it, 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 his whole account, i said democratically elected leader, that is twitter. over step in the mark in my personal opinion and 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 democratic elected, president of the united states will come to get rid of this whole rap singer and her dangerous trash talk. the scandal refuses to die down to us. laura made various allegations against donald trump has now been charged with lying to the b. i of this role in hillary clinton's presidential campaign, our web team, and probing that story. find out more had 2 websites,

dot com. this is all on the way if you will be launching into russian parliamentary election coverage until that race for those 450 things in the state that's coming up after the short break. ah, ah ah ah, the war may have become americans. but wanting to see had become even more important. and what is unfolded. don't want to shit, moment down in history books, as a mocking beginning of the end of american preeminence. this is the end of

a join me every 1st day on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guests in the world, the politic sport business and show business. i'll see you then me the, the, the, the, the welcome back to our rooftop studio overlooking the crime that it's time now for in depth coverage of the elections to the state of russia's lower house with voting is being held for 3 days

running from friday through to sunday and not meet the elections, of course well underway at this point with all polling stations. having opened up the doors, the day one of the vote. international observers have been dropping and i'm putting stations across the country despite the numbers being restricted because of kobe. 3250 of them present this year, representing more than 50 countries, and 10 different international organizations, chance to speak to one of those old servers. to find out what they witness so that again from the medical security condition also like all the proceed to make the vote and transparent. energy to me, i really appreciate is there are so many measures and so many conditions that personally we don't have any italy. there was one pulling station in moscow that got a visitor who wasn't an observer or a voter through the doors. there is, i say,

hey, maybe a she raccoon who came for a close look the 7 minutes to the police, 7 minutes to catch that chat. what were they doing? believe it or not, the raccoon and actually been brought in by someone by voter brought it for company . so how politicians are elected, it's something that can vary from country to country. so let's take a look now show the process here in russia. 450 and ace from 225 electoral districts. they are the ones to be chosen for the state duma, and they'll be there for 5 years. at half of them are elected by majority voting based on one n p per constituency. the remaining $10.00 to $25.00 are made by parties who managed to surpass that 5 percent threshold. aside from traditional pulling stations, russian citizens of course, able to cast online both these days in moscow. more than a 1000000 people have already used that option on day one and voting for more now and how online voting works and how secure the system is, is correspond to doing to pack voting is an essential part of any self respecting

democracy. but the way people are voting is changing. the old fashioned ballot in a box is steadily being replaced, or at least complemented by online voting. in russia, electronic ballads have been around for, for elections already, and the upcoming legislative vote is cetera. the largest share of online voters of any russian election so far. the online system, however, is still relatively new, so it's only being rolled out in several regions. but some 2000000 people have already registered for the electronic vote, including an astronaut aboard the i assess and in arctic explore. but as with anything new, especially electronic issues of accessibility, voters, security, safety, and reliability are a priority. so how exactly does the online voting system work? first of all, it's easy to use to register. all people need to do is go to their government

service account, request to access to the vote, answered s m s confirmation code. and well, that's it. on the day of the vote, they just go to the voting website log in, choose a candidate, and submit their ballot. the process can be done from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, no pulling station needed, just a smartphone or a computer for security the system as a whole lot more comp created upon voting. the ballot is encrypted, void of any information about the voter and send to a distributed block chain network for storage and sally for when the volt closes. while the vote is in the system, it is virtually impossible to alter since the boat exists on several node simultaneously. which automatically check between themselves to see that the data is consistent. if anything is altered on one node, it is automatically disregarded and information from the other identical nodes is used instead, finding out the result of the vote before the election ends is also impossible. the

whole thing is protected by 2 keys, one open key, encrypt all the ballots, and the other, which can decipher them, is split into segments that are distributed among the participants of the electoral process. when voting ends and these fragments are combined, the system decrypts the balance and gives a final result of devote individual votes at this point cannot be decrypted. so it is impossible to track how each individual voted with each successful election more and more russians are choosing to vote from the comfort of their mobile devices. and who knows if the system proves safe anonymous and most importantly, reliable, it could become the primary voting method of choice. in the very near future that selection day, the online voting system is up and running and the servers are ready to accept all the encrypted balance. so let's look don't blank, this should be really fast. ah,

so that's all there is to it. now the encrypted ballot is sent to the server where it will be stored safely until the polls close. and no one will be able to take a peek at it because the only way to see what is actually on the back is to decrypt it. and to do that, you need the special key. and the decipher key has already been split into 8 pieces and handed out through the participants of the election process. sort of like horror crux as in harry potter. so now let's look to do is wait until monday when the voting is finished and the 8 pieces of the key are reassembled to finally reveal the final result of the vote. well, there were some reports of technical glitches experienced earlier today, putting the online voting system briefly out of action has since been fully

restored. officials blamed a hacking attack. these attacks were planned and organized, which shows an intention to prevent services from working normally in attempt to block the work of electronic voting system. oh, if i were to so called did us attacks that when computers receive a huge amount of requests all at once in an attempt to overload and crush the system, half of them emanated from the united states a quarter from germany, according to russia's communications ministry. even before the hacking attacks, russia had been flagging foreign meddling in the votes, calling on big u. s. tech companies to remove content this band in the country after a long sound of a proposition article in the valley. after the prominent trembling critic has been deleted from google and apples apps bills with moral not his art is constantine because 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 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 denounces nevada and 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 val news intake corruption fun, which was labeled an extremist organisation for spreading extreme as content and inciting unauthorized approach. has this wide 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 election. now, we've also heard from the head of the sovereignty committee in russia. senate,

mr. 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 in the wellness aids 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. americas tech giant did not always comply with russian laws and offer, refused or failed to delete to legal content. for instance, messages publicly calling on people to take part in unauthorized demonstrations. for that, the likes of facebook, twitter, google received half 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 we've been taking an individual look at each of the 14 parties involved in the

election thing. a look at where they stand for centers to remind you about a couple of the now starting with the new people party was found the year ago considered to be center, right. some of its key pledges are to cut down on bureaucracy and to modernize rushes political institutions. the policy also wants to boost the high tech sector and scientific research. another contender is the liberal democratic party of russia, which is the nationalist under the political spectrum. it has the same leaders always on damage and in ski, who founded the policy at the end of the soviet here that makes the liberal democrats, the oldest of russia's political parties. it for most patriotism and an anti western stance along with a tougher line on immigration. the dpr came 3rd in the most recent election. and that wraps it up from us here at ortiz election headquarters. so they sat on teams going to be keeping you brought it to date throughout those 3 days of voting . and of course we'll bring in the all important election results monday morning.

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