the hey, you know, we've moved on from just printing lots of money and incurring lots of dad for dom reasons to printing loss of money and incurring lots of that for extraordinarily dom reason. the who's good evening. welcome to the coverage of the 2021 russian stay doing re elections. we're up here in the rooftop location. today we're focused on how the elections are being overseen and looking at the measures taken to ensure the integrity, the voting process. thanks so much for joining me this evening and you do so at the time when polling stations across russia have now closed. that concludes events for friday. remember, the voters will still have until the close of business on sunday to make their way

to a polling station plus so so that option of casting those, of course, on line. we'll talk more about that in a few minutes. the 1st cancer with today's will headline, friends councils and embassy celebration in washington. this in protest against the new u. s. security plans with u. k and straightly that resulted in the loss of a lucrative submarine deal for paris. we got reaction on the streets of the french capital. this is not the 1st time tonight. the state has taken conference. very good. we do not respect anyone in the act like the world. expecting a front done the same. they will complain. giving the game away while washington insists the new pacific security along is not aimed at anyone. in particular, the secretary defense makes the true target abundantly clear. we spoke in detail about china, the stabilizing activities in beijing separate 2 course and intimidate other

countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. rushes parliamentary election is under way. the 1st voting coming to a conclusion in the west just as the 2nd day is about to stop in the countries far . ah, once again, great. have you with us, our election coverage coming up for you very shortly. indeed, stay with us for that. that will begin with a look at the 1st of those headline news stories. a diplomatic flash point is developing between france and the united states. paris is canceled and embassy garlic, to celebrate the country's historical alliance. it's in protest against america's new security pack, signed with a strictly on the u. k, which french officials have

w, they stop in the back. us 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 transatlantic cooperation in the pacific and around the world. but despite anthony lincoln's assurance, as many french citizens are unconvinced, we gazed opinion on the streets of the french capital. missy bought up from your phone, please. this is not the 1st time that the united states has taken contracts from last year. very good that, that we did not respect anyone apart from themselves, the act like masters of the world. they shouldn't have done because i think it front on the same, they would have complained it and they wouldn't have liked to. maybe we'll see if the current president is better than last 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 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. for course it's not a good thing. there should have been talks between the french and the americans. just in case you miss that, he's a recap of what happened on wednesday, australia, the u. k and the u. s. signed a pacific security packed called orchestra seen as countering china and involves cooperation in the realms of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and nuclear defense. australia will acquire a nuclear power submarine fleet with american and british technology. china, which is the dominant power in the indo pacific region, as can done deal, is being cold war mentality. neither washington nor london have explicitly linked

the new deal to the supposed threat from basing the remarks from the us defense secretary left little room for doubt. we spoke in detail about china, the stabilizing activities in beijing is efforts to course and intimidate other countries. this agreement, this relationship does not aim that anything or anyone. while china and friends of angry about the new pact, others are asking what it could mean to nato. katrinka sons the latest reactions. when donald trump left office and joe biden took charge, it could have been a sigh of 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 fil a v e readers

are still really over what the biden and ministration did. ganna 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 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 dollar 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 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, i think, to reflect on the need to raise the issue of european a strategic autonomy like 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 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 on because on the b, b, c is titled trying to reaction to the new partnership didn't take long, critical and outright countries should not build exclusionary blogs targeting or harming the interests of 3rd parties. in particular,

they should shake off there. cole were mentality and ideological prejudice. and the new published ed strategy for cooperation in the in the pacific. clearly stating the intention not to worsen 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. it's dryer, has today voluntarily and secretly entered into a nuclear by defense. the military pac with to 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. the 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. will be form a vice president of the organization for security and cooperation in europe. believe emma believes that the pact raises the prospect. the possible conflict with china. we live in excellent corporation was like the bond, ny, and china. and that on it is complicated for us because we live in global ation and

our allies, the united states. but fewer feel confident, asian, and even conflict with china and know on how to do up the you know, the call and i'll make the videos and even the angle alliance had been split and they're fine. think what is the leaving behind us? so good looking, turning all of the heat which had been the night so many, many relayed in the in, you know, going into the on they are going to kind of what they,

they're going to be and they might be going to law. and the 3rd include, not only is the you will be union, but try and in japan galena all i think is what it is. the basics for global pop superstar nicky menache is found on the hardware that not everyone is singing from her song sheet. she face the deluge of criticism after twitter post a $22000000.00 followers in which she claim the cousins friend that so for the highly unpleasant side effect from a covert vaccine, moral not his art is probably one of america has made success. so reporting office nikki mon and britain talk doctor slash pandemic oracle. professor chris with the 2 people you never expected to utter in the same sentence,

it all started with the gall earlier this week, that had to be vaccinated. mickey didn't go to the man gall and said that it was because he 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 presented 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 missed him in august story. predictably the scientists gave that approach, sat down, and many of those people 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 to him 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 mickey menard's. i went to school with margaret sasha. i'm a big, big star in in the united states. just to be claire. aussie does not endorse me. he's cousins, friends. technical very much. i'm the thing about high school with maggie that

that's definitely great news. i'm getting back and i did is great do it. i think i thought that was the end of the story but. busy 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 coded vaccine. now the ball gate has reached such truly proportions. the conclusion of this is something that only and a bill mater couldn't, couldn't call nick, even though i have posted on her instagram this time that twitter restricted her ability to tweet that juices of the conservative pundits really flowing point she's making are worth reiterating. you can't allow people to force you to take drugs, they don't want for that you don't need. the only thing is that with that has

denied restricting nick human knowledge is that somehow she has managed to make a false claim about being in trouble for making a claim. wow. right. i just want to bring you some breaking news that is just come in and it is that the pentagon has admitted that the drug strike carried out in cobble just prior to the u. s. troop pullouts was completed last month. they've admitted that it did indeed kill 10 civilians, including 7 children. you might remember at the time that drones strike us commander said was being carried out to target a vehicle. they said was being driven by to terrorists. they said that it was packed with explosives and they said that that secondary explosion had been so big because of the explosives inside the vehicle that they believed was going to be used to carry out another terrorist attack. the strike itself coming shortly in the

aftermath of that suicide bomber attack at cobble airport. and i can tell you that the us central command has accepted responsibility. now the commander of the us and come saying he takes personally full responsibility for what he has described as a tragic outcome. i will bring you more on that in subsequent hours this evening. stay with us for updates. for the sour though, we're going to take a very short break before we launch into our russian parliamentary election coverage, talking more about the race for those 450 seats in the state, duma, to the shopper. ah, ah, ah. ah

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the the connection to the studio overlooking red square and the trend and his time now full coverage of the elections for the states . my russian lo house, apollo and the polling stations i can tell you have now closed for friday. voters. remember though we'll still have 2 more days in which to cast a polish right up until sunday evening. so how does things pan out on day warm? will international observers dropped in on polling stations across the country? despite the numbers thing restricted because of coven, 250 members were present this year. they represent more than 50 different countries and 10 different international organizations. and one of the observers shared with is what they think living in mexico security condition,

but also like to pursue to make the 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 will helpful additions, or electors varies from country to country. how does the process work in russia? $450.00 and pace. when 225 electoral districts chosen to the state duma for a 5 year term, half of the elected by majority voting based on one m. p per constituency. the remaining $225.00, made up my apologies, which have all the 5 percent representation and part of that were reports of some technical glitches. sunday was putting the online voting system briefly out of action. officials blamed hank attack and have since opened an investigation. 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. oh, there were a number of so called di dos attacks when computers received a huge amount of requests all at once. in an attempt to overload and crush the system. first, thrushes, communications ministry reported to such attacks with half requests emanating from the united states and a quarter from germany. at the end of the day, moscow's election authorities reported more than a 100 attacks against the systems. okay, i can speak now live to author and the form of professor new york university. my can michael rectinwald's joins me now. appreciate your time, michael. when it comes to hacking, it's usually the us pointing the finger at russia on this occasion. it seems to be the other way around. russia's blaming the united states for the deed of the tax. first order, sound, credible to you, and what do you think the repercussions might be? well, i think it's, it's not surprising. and this is

a very experienced election hacking machinery we have over here, as we saw by the, our own elections in 2 times 2020. so yeah, and it seemed to me to be a protest about russia's suppose it, annexation of crimean dom bus. so this seems to be about the punishment of some sort, and i'm hoping that the attacks were not successful. the us russia relations never seem to be on a particularly great 14. can they get much worse? is this going to hurt them? it seems to be that things are going to get a little bit worse in the near future. and i think this, this isn't going to help this long exacerbate already existing tensions that have to do with the united states and their concerns and ukraine regarding

ukraine and crime in don, bas and so forth. so i think that this will be a little bit of a sand in the years here, and i don't see any real diplomatic resolutions coming in the near future. so i think this is definitely just more irritation to an already sensitive situation. do you think that this might actually provide a, a, a platform for the companies to work together build some kind of common policy upon preventing such attacks or election interference in the future? you know, that would be great. i think that would be great. and i think that would be a good 1st step in a certain direction to take, rather than some sort of retaliation or one way or another. as, as you said,

russia has been the constant, shall we say, villain as far as the democratic party is concerned in terms of election interference. and likewise, i think this puts a little symmetry into the picture and perhaps will bring the parties to the table to talk about how to send off any such attacks. there was also just yet the day quite a big story where, where russia were directly calling out a couple of big us tech firms, accusing them of meddling in its election because of the access they were allowing, in particular to, to an app those companies, as soon as agreed to comply with russian laws, do you think that was the end of the matter now, or is this something that could be an issue again in the future? i wouldn't be surprised if it continues. the social media companies and big tech in the united states has very much aligned with the interests that are also aligned

against russia such and so they basically support the democratic party platform through and through and therefore they hold the same use regarding russia . so i think this wouldn't be the end of it at all. although i think it's good that rushes calling them out on this and that their actions least will be known. and that we call them the table and perhaps will not engage in this kind of thing. in the near future also, i wouldn't be surprised if they do. they always have technological backdoors and other means by which they can attempt to interfere and in various election matters . as a matter of fact, my guess is michael rectinwald's, author and former professor new york university. thanks so much. thank you. well,

let's just now to breaking news story. this our, the pentagon has admitted the drug store. i can car bill last month, did indeed kill 10 civilians including 7 children. let's get some more information on this. now, from our correspondent who's been basing cobble for the last few weeks to get in situ, the for, as mirage was this admission expected from the pentagon, it was expected, i can't say it was expected so quickly. usually the united states takes a while. it's military to, as it says, as a claims investigate such cases, such collateral damage as they call it. but in this case, it has been very quick and perhaps because of media pressure, because it, the deed was speculated on very early that these may have been an errand. ash dr.

jerome strike that it may have targeted civilians due to the large number of children that were killed, 7 of them and that emerged within hours of the bombing when, when these grizzly photos emerged on the internet. nevertheless, what the pedagogue says now is the v. a worker who was struck, his vehicle was tracked for a number for several hours. and apparently the visit to the compound that was associated with isis k. that is isaac affiliate here in i've got to stop and given the security situation, then we reported on that how, how tense it was that everybody here expected another attack on the airport. the united states made the decision to strike at his car as it pulled in the driveway. just 3 kilometers away from the airport in the residential area where these a work live where his, his children. but as you mentioned, he was killed 2 adult members of his family and 7 children. the youngest of whom

was just 2 years old. the united states also claims that there was evidence was secondary explosion at the side baps evidence that there were indeed explosives in the car. right now, the pentagon has come out and said that yes, we are investigation has resulted in this fighting that yes, we have killed in its civilian and for which we are sorry. i am now convinced that as many as 2 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. moreover, we now assist it. it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with us or were a direct threat to us forces. i offer my profound condolences to the family and friends of those who were killed. the strike was taken in the earnest belief that it would prevent an imminent threat to our forces in the evacuees at the airport.

but it was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. the other thing that the pentagon said is that they, they saw this man, this a book losing containers into his car. now there was surveillance footage released in the immediate so before the stroke strike took place and it did show him loading, carrying containers which were water containing very early on. that was, there was speculation again that this was a mistake that they said, boom, strike target to the wrong people. because if this had been a car bomb laden with explosives, the entire area, that would have been a much more damage than there was. we've seen car bombs, inaction before they leave a scene of utter devastation bod. and yet after this as strike a war that was next to this car that was targeted was,

was virtually virtually unmarked. and then we heard reports, investigations among members of the press that indeed an aide worker had been target. and there was incredible pressure on the united states government on the pentagon, during hearings in congress, the united states, foreign relations committee. all of them grilling the pentagon, grilling the state department on this strike, and all we heard up until now was evasion and diversion by by members of the pentagon. for now, there has been no one held accountable. and judging by the pentagon statement, no decision has been made whether to hold anyone accountable. the many thanks are corresponds on the ground they are in cobble for r t that surround guys the if and indeed we will hear from rod again next. now we're

going to bring you extensive coverage on not breaking news story. this just emerge that the united states have admitted responsibility for the killing of 10 civilians, including 7 children in a drug. the strike that they carried out just last month in the afghan capital will bring you more on that and would also explain to you what's been happening today on day one of the russian state, doom reelections. stay with our tea day. some both of those major stories coming in just half an hour the the the.