can plan in such a situation. it's remarkable. survive the ah, with good evening and welcome to our coverage of the 2021 russian state duma reelection. we're up here and a rooftop vacation. it's a great view and it's also a very our location. today we're focusing on how these elections being seen and finding out the measures taken to ensure the integrity of the voting process. thanks so much for joining me for what is de one of 3 which the electric contest both focus on what's been happening in the policy and just a few minutes from now 1st. so quickly we're going to catch up on today's global

news headlines. because francis cancel the embassy celebration in washington in protest against the new york security packed with strayer, that resulted in the loss of a lucrative submarine deal for paris. reaction on the street, the french capital. this is not the 1st time that united states has taken contracts from oxford. very good at that. we do not respect anyone to part from themselves. they act like most of the world. they shouldn't have done that. i think he fronted on the scene and they would have complain. giving the game away while washington insisted, the new pacific security alarm is not aimed at anyone. in particular, the secretary of defense makes the true target abundantly clear. we spoke in detail about china, steve stabilizing activities and raging efforts to, of course, and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship does not pain that anything or anyone. russia's

parliamentary election is now one away, old polling stations. they open the doors for day one in floating. ah hi there, welcome to humble abode or election coverage coming up the very shortly to stay with us for that. we'll start things off though the look at the 1st of those headline news stories. because a diplomatic flash point is developing between france and the united states, paris is canceled and embassy gala, to celebrate the country's historical alliance is in protest against americans, new security pack, signed with australia in the u. k, which french officials have dubbed de stop in the back. the us extra states 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 transatlantic cooperation in the pacific and around the world. continue blinking their offering assurances, but many french citizens remain unconvinced. we gazed opinion in the french capital . but this is not the 1st time tonight. the states 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 front done 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. it's a little dishonest. i suppose and the other hand there were closes which allowed them to break the contract before they start 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 paragraphs and clauses, 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. so here's a recap for you of what happened on wednesday, australia, the kingdom and the united states, signed a pacific security package called orcus, seen as a counter to china. it involves cooperation in the areas of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, a nuclear defense. while australia will acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet for the american and british technology, china, which is the dominant power in the indo pacific region, condemned to deal as cold war mentality. the washington, the london, have explicitly linked the new deal to the supposed threat from basing remarks from the defense. i could say, well, they left little room for doubt. we spoke in detail about china's d, stabilizing activities in beijing's efforts to course and intimidate other countries. this agreement,

this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. while china and friends have been angered by the new pants, there are asking what this could mean for nato and patricia some of the latest reaction 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, 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 because,

but haven't the u. s. the u. k. and all these been close allied for ages? what's the problem? well, banks to august australia will now be hooked up with us technology to build nuclear submarines while france waves goodbye to its own multi 1000000000 dollar 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'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 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 creation 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 offers on the b. b. c is titled find his reaction to the new partnership. didn't take long, critical and right countess should not build exclusionary blocks targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular, they should shake up 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. 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. stria has today voluntarily and secretly entered into a nuclear by defense the military pac with to nuclear weapon site. is that a net gain, parade's stability and for placing 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 to not having gone through all that. let me just show you part of how the australian prime minister, introduced marcus. we must now take our partnership to a new level. a partnership that seeks to engage not to exclude, to contribute,

not 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. the former vice president of the organization for security and cooperation in europe live in the belief that the pants raises the prospect of a conflict with china. we live in excellent corporation was. ready how i bought, and i and china and that on it is complicated because we just globally and our allies, the united states, but fewer days and even conflict with china and know on how to do up the you know, the con,

i'll make the even, the a little bit alliance had been split and then find out what is the leaving behind us so good looking goal 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 le finity and they might be going to law. and the 3rd include, not only is the you will be union, but try and in japan,

colina. and in the fall, i think is what it is. the basics are all for global superstar nicky menache is found on the hard way that not everyone is thinking from her song she's, she's face a w to chris, isn't after twitter post 22000000 followers in which she claimed that her cousin's friend had suffered a highly unpleasant side effect from mccovie vaccine. to take on this story from ortiz, fully boys. one of america's most successful report is nicki mom and brittany. talk doctor slack. pandemic oracle. professor crist 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 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 medical lab and then if she was going to get back, it would only be off the she's done enough research in her was after which she repeated to tweak in great detail about a friend of a cousin of hud in trinidad. not we should be 222000000 followers. his test scores 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 full it the story full and mary adds 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 the story. predictably the scientists gave it

a proper sat down. and many of those people regard, i think know that they are peddling untruths. in my view, they should be ashamed. and then the prime minister or johnston, also commented on the story. and as if this story couldn't get any weird, even though i responded to bar johnson with this bizarre recording of high miss hating a british accent. not too bad actually. yes. hello, prime minister boring. it's nikima nods. i went to school with margaret sasha. i'm a big, big star in in the united states. just to be clare asi does not endorse me. he's cousins, friends. tactical very much. i'm the thing about hugging 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. tobago has issued an official

statement denying that nicki's cover your friend balls was swollen because of the back being now the ball gate has reached such truly as a proportion. the conclusion of the saga is something that only and a bill mater peter couldn't call nick, even though i had posted on her 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 we have denied restricting nick human knowledge. is that somehow she has managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making a false claim. wow. probably boy,

them now major news outlets were came to highlight the twitter didn't take down the offending tweet. radio host in june was john gold things. there's a clear political planted and who twitter decides the sensor switch and have a gigi she, they hide, they say all we're technical platform, we're not a publisher. the moment they true 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 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 his whole account, i said, democratic 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, elected president of the united states was calling to get rid of this or up singer and her dangerous trash talk. ah, remember the russia a scandal it refuses to die down the us lou who made various allegation against on from pose now being charged with lying to the d. o. a team in probing that story

had to all t dot com from us u r. t international still on the way for you. we launch into our russian parliamentary election coverage on the race for those 450 seats in the state game. and that's on the way after this brack. this is your media a reflection of reality? in a world transformed what will make you feel safe, tycer lation for community. are you going the right way or are you being somewhere direct? what is true?

what is in a world corrupted, you need to this end. the so join us in the depths, remained in the shallows. i hey, you know we've moved on from just praising lots of money and incurring lots of dad for dom reasons to printing loss of money and incurring lots of debt for extraordinarily dom reason the welcome back to our rooftop studio that overlooks the kremlin. it's time now full

coverage of the election to the say, do not rush his lower house voting will be held over 3 days running from friday right through to sunday. any means of course the elections now well underway. all the polling station said open the doors for the 1st day of voting. international observers have been dropping in on the putting stations across the country, despite the numbers being restricted this time because of cobit, there are 250, present this time round, and they represent more than 50 countries and 10 different international organizations. one observer shared with is what they've seen so far from the medical security condition, but also like to pursue i do so to make the vote transference, energy to me. i really appreciate is there are so many measures and so many conditions that personally we don't have any italy on pulling station here to moscow. got a somewhat unexpected visitor through the doors. and here they are. so you're going

to vote for oh, a little bit camera shy. this raccoon came in for a closer look for the full 7 minutes. so police took the time before finally catching that invader, believe it or not, was actually brought in by one of the voters to keep them company. now, how politicians are elected, it varies from one country to the next. let's see how things are done. here in russia, 450 m. p 's from 225 electoral districts to be chosen to the state duma for a 5 year term, half of them elected by majority voting based on one n. p per constituency. remaining 225 made up by parties who have more than 5 percent representation in parliament. aside from traditional polling stations, russian citizens are able to also cast their votes online in moscow alone, more than a 1000000 people have already done. just that. on the 1st election day with all and

how online voting works and how secure the system is, is, is to me to pack voting is an essential part of any self respecting democracy. but the way people are voting is changing. the old fashion valid 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 said to have 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 access to the vote, enter and 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 to the 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 is a whole lot more complicated. 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 one to vote closes while the vote is in the system. it is virtually impossible for alter, since the vote 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 then gives a final result of the vote. 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 proved safe anonymous. and most importantly, reliable, it could become the primary voting method of choice. in the very near future that's election 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.

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 ballot 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 to the participants of the election process. sort of like horror crux as in harry potter. though now let's, let's 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 as to me to show that it's pretty easy to vote online when things or go to

plan, but there were some repulsive technical glitches earlier today putting the online voting system, brinkley, out of action. it has since been fully restored. and officials blamed i 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 systems. while they were to, in fact, so called the dos attacks, that when computers receive a huge amount of requests all at once, it's an attend to overload and crash computer system. half of those emanated from the united states. a quarter came from germany, according to russia's communications ministry. and even before the hacking attacks, russia had been flagging up foreign meddling in the votes. cooling on big us tech companies to remove content this band in the country. and following along stunned off a pro opposition article in the valley, after the prominent criminal critic has been deleted from google and apple apps, stores with moral math is always constantine oshkosh. 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 denounces nevada and 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 val news intake corruption fun, which was labeled, an extremist organisation for spreading extreme as content and inciting, unauthorized approach has spied covey restrictions. earlier. ross come to absorb demanded from a google and apple to take down the valid the app because of that link. otherwise

brushes, officials would have considered this as for an 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 in 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 every case status as an extremist organisation was a reason the tech company decided to take down the app. americas tech giants did not always comply with the russian laws and offer, refused or failed to delete illegal 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 jailed opposition figure in his team as they often look to the

west for support. throughout the week we have been examining for you, the 14 parties involved in the selection and what they stand for. so let's have a look at a couple of them. now. first of united russia, the de facto ruling party, also the largest in the country, is german is the former president and prime minister to meet him. and if the policy supports the program of the current president and among his goals is strengthening russia, sovereignty this economic agenda include support for domestic industry with an emphasis lying on high tech centers. and another of the contenders in the election is the liberal pro business. yeah, look a policy that means apple food around for almost 3 decades, but its popularity has waned over the years because best result came in 1999 when it took almost 6 percent of the vote. it not one any seats in parliament since 2003 . of course i couldn't change this time around or something we will find out just

a few days time. that's all from us here at ortiz election headquarters to this. our team will be here all day to nice around those 3 days of voting. and of course we'll bring it as all important results on monday morning for now. so i'll return with updates, etc. at home, the ah, the the

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