this is endo, with the with good evening and welcome to our rooftop studio overlooking the kremlin a as we focus on day one, a voting for russia states doing election. thanks to joining me, our election coverage coming up for you in just a few minutes time. but we will begin by going straight through all breaking news story. this our a tragic outcome, the pentagon admit this drone so i can cobble last month, only claimed innocent life. i am now convinced that as many as 10

civilians including up to 7 children for tragically killed in that stripe. moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with his k or a director at the us forces. there was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. the admission comes 3 weeks after that deadly drone strike, which was supposed to take out an ice case suicide, former special project, and heard voices. we speak to the father of someone last in the incident on the morning of the bombing, and she came and kissed me and said, good morning, father. it was her last meeting. i will never see her again. america is not achieved. anything in africa, america has failed. in afghanistan, and it is made of people are miserable. ah,

the, the breaking news read and thanks for joining us here on our team to national russian election coverage isn't coming up here very shortly. stay with us for that. but we will start things off by turning to all breaking news story, which is that within the last hour the pentagon has admitted a drug strike in gunnison. carry down to the end of august was indeed a tragic mistake that it killed 10 civilians including 7 children. washington a previously claimed the strike had been necessary to prevent an attack on us chiefs game on this. now from our correspondent guys there has been based in cobble, i've gone on for several weeks. now we're doing a lot of speculation in the media that this turn strike had been a mistake and the had been civilian casualties. and now finally, confirmation from the pentagon.

indeed, confirmation from the pentagon that its last strike of the 20 year africa moore was indeed everett, the 10 civilians of the 10 civilians perished in this in this attack. and the united states says it is, it is sorry that perhaps it'll pay compensation on a voluntary basis. nevertheless, they say that the intelligence was solid, that they deemed the threat to be imminent. we reported on the situation, then there was a lot of tension in cub bullet had been feared that there would be another attack on the airport. following the attack on the 26 of august, the claimed the lives of 13 america troops, as well as had more than a 100 other people, civilians, taliban fighters included. but it was suspected from, from the next day, the day on after the attack on the 30th of august when the united state pulled out

that these may have been a mistake. that this may have been an aide worker with, with many children killed in this attack. because the grizzly photograph from the scene began emerging very quickly. nevertheless, what we've heard from the pentagon over the past 2 weeks has been well. diversion largely, the pentagon refused to answer and the state department to what they had found, what their findings about this attack was. what we had today is the, the pentagon claim stood surveilled. this vehicle watched it for a number of hours before this attack. they claim that the vehicle visited a compound associated with isis k, that is isis affiliate here. and i've got a son. and that had returned to an area 3 kilometers away from a couple airport where the evacuation was underway. and that is when they decided to pull the trigger to go forward with this drone strike. and they must have seen the numerous children playing around the car as reported by their families at the

top. nevertheless, the pentagon says via the intelligence was solid and they had no choice, but to go on with this strike. now they say they're sorry, i am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. moreover, we now assess that it is unlikely that the vehicle and those who died were associated with k or were a director at the us forces. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. the pentagon, the pentagon says there will be no disciplinary measures going going into the future, but that they will investigate further this particular job. so i can try to learn its lessons. they say they will be more careful with, with future drone strikes, but that is not to say that they will,

that they will stop targeting isis here. and i've got his thought they, they, they made that point. nevertheless, there is, there is still, you know, the, the fact that not a lot of accountability has been offered by the pentagon. that is an issue that has ra republicans as well as critics in the united states who say that while you know, we have heard, we have had all these hearings with the senate with the, with the congress. that hasn't been, anyone who has resign will be fired for board. many americans, he is a fiasco at capital airport. the last few days, few weeks of the evacuation here, the chaos we saw a capital airport and the lack of planning that went along with it. me and i guess be with other day live from cobble thinking well after the so called defensive. as striking cobble

report soon emerged, the number of numbers of an african family had perished in the assault. they had gathered for a celebration, the home in an instant, the rocket took the lives of 10 civilians, including 7 children. the youngest victims were 2 girls who both only 2 years old, a special r t project and heard voices spoke with their fathers. saw the sandals belong to milly. she was very close to me. i looked her so much. she always told me to buy ice cream with us military forces conducted and unmanned over the horizon airstrike on a vehicle known to be an imminent isis case. threat on the morning of the bombing, she came and kissed me and said, good morning father. it was her last meeting. i will never see her again. the

my name is amanda maddie. i'm the head of the family that has lost 10 of its members, and it was around 4 30 pm. i left for the market and on the way i met my elder brother who was driving back home. we talked a little then he left to go home and i crossed the road to go to the other side. i just crossed the road and i heard an explosion. my daughter later to me that she saw a small aircraft. i drove moving around in a circle which then fired a missile about hitch or home and i turned to look, there was distant smoke lightning. it was a terrible scene. my wife was shutting out her high was on fire. ah, there were parts of children's bodies. it was so bloody increase and i went into my home on fun, my brother and a nephew. they were critically injured, but still alive and breathing. they later died in hospital. my brother and 9 others

were killed in this horrific attack. my brother's daughter, who was student to get married, also lost her lives. another relative was also here, a guest. she was killed to, oh, i love cosmetics, she likes painting her nails. she like don't very much. the main cause of the incident was the american president planning this attack without any evidence and destroying our family. catastrophe. ringback ringback ah, the president is made clear to the commanders that they should stop and nothing to make isis pay for the death of those american service members at the cobbler airport isis k. lived in this house, in this house with these children,

members of isis. stupid thoughts without any proof, without any investigation. they killed our children and we will never forgive ah, our entire families. in short, it's being so painful for us mentally. we are not in a stable condition. the women are dead silent. they don't speak tomorrow. we left out devastated home and now live in my sister's place. it's so painful to visit. it's because we could see your children dying there. the people accusing us of having contact with islamic state, the americans who colemander family seeing we've been preparing an attack on them. they're complete and utter lawyers. ah

. ringback after the incident, noah came here to investigate. nobody asked us what happened to your new one help. no one came here to morally support us. busy this is not a mistake of america, this is a crime. we've lost their children. the count returned to us, so at least or owner should be restored by us for investigation into the incident. we all see international community to investigate is incident. ah, make no mistake. no military on the face of the earth or harder to avoid civilian casualties than the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken

the americans have left us get this done. they came because of their own goals and humiliated my country. america is not achieved anything and america has failed in afghanistan, and it has made our people miserable for his failure now to form a senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense, us micro maloof. appreciate you coming on, michael. about a mission. some people will say it's commendable to own up to such a terrible wrong doing, and there's no doubt the us. he's going to get an an awful lot of criticism now for, for what has happened. are you surprised that they admitted to this? no, i'm not surprised. first of all, it is terribly hard breaking. what occurred in the course. anything like this to have happened in the middle of that highly populated area is just mindless. and

it's just on forgivable. that said, it is a little unusual for them to admit to a mistake that they used to be bombings all the time in syria and northern iraq. they hardly ever admitted to it. now they would always investigate. but you never hear the outcomes and there's a whole litany of those experiences. i think that the pressure was so great in this case, and this, and there was, it was no one almost 24 hours after the incident. that it was a tragic error. and the, the pentagon really had no choice but to look into it. so the general takes responsibility and they're going to offer compensation. doesn't bring back the lives of these, of these children and the adults who are killed. i'm only stunned that they would even release. hell, fire, where, where,

where children were playing around. it was clearly collateral damage. they, they, they knew the that they just, it also showed they didn't have good intelligence. and it really throws into question the over the horizon concept that pentagon says it now has and will continue to watch f can stand for any potential terrorist attacks out of isis or are all cater. it clearly shows that this over the horizon approach is inadequate. and the intelligence, we don't know how, what aspect of intelligence was use with special intelligence through intercepts was it was that human human intelligence. we will never know that in the open domain. but those types, those levels of intelligence are going to have to be re examined. and the fact that

we don't have human intelligence on the ground is going to make the task in the future, monumentally greater to try and curve any future attacks such as this. and, and it's as much stated in your lead. we've been there since 2001. and now we've left and what do we have to show for? nothing to train dollars later. thousands of us personnel, hundreds of thousands of afghans, and nothing to show for the whole idea by the united states and regime change and and the nation buildings got stopped. and the only reason we went into afghanistan, it could have been yemen. it could have been, it could have been anywhere else because they were harboring some of the lot we should've left right after the skill and why we want. and again, i think it's the nature of the politics in this country to try to assert

u. s. military leadership around the world as a demonstration against china and russia. and those kinds of activities are going to have to have to stop. but i just don't see by ministration. stopping mostly, i still see people who work for him near towns and in particular the near conservatives are going to continue pushing. and they're going to look at new enemies and. and they're quickly trying to recreate an enemy in the form of russia . and so that they have, they can justify this level of defense spending all the time. i've been in the kind of guy i used to see it all the time. if you don't have a crisis which you can't just by having that kind of military. so they've got to create one. and so i think, i think we're going to have to reassess what our values are. what our policies are, what are,

what are the national and strategic interests are in the world. and i don't see the by the ministration, not only not doing it, but may not even be capable of a couple of things that you mentioned, michael, that you know your opinion, this was likely down to a really bad intelligence failure. and also the, the admission most tightly only became came around because there's so much pressure, particularly from the media. so 2 things looking back and looking forward, does it suggest that there might have been similar mistakes in the past, in other comfort zones in that country. and others that maybe went admitted to because there wasn't that same pressure and also going forward is not going to resolve this admission in greater scrutiny of how they conduct any possible future drug strikes. i think we there is a record of pass cases i sense in occurred all the time in syria and, and,

and iraq, of course when, whenever there were allegations that the collateral, there was collateral damage, meaning civilians killed the, the result they were always prompt, promptly initiating so called investigation, we never heard the results never. and when you're bombing in territories, particularly in highly congested areas, such events are going to occur in equitable. and that's why i don't understand why air strikes are, are allowed in highly congested areas like that. and, and because of the, the prospect of collateral damage people, people just don't have anywhere to go. and will it happen in the future? probably. well, we learn from this lesson. i think they're going to count on it blowing over and moving on. and we'll come up, we'll be dealing with other crisis in this,

in the minds of the pentagon and others and in and the administration is that it will soon be forgotten. probably in another week you won't even be talking about this on the air. so it's, it's, it's tragic, but those children will never come back. and it's, this is the nature of war i guess. and, and as i said, for the united states to have done this at the tail and, and not have them. and even having that shred of doubt, or even launching in a highly congested populated area, which is mindless at best. and there was there had to have been other ways approach to vehicle and challenge it without launching a health fire. and health fires can create a lot of damage. they said it was youth, a health fire was used to limit the damage collateral areas. and well, that's nonsense because 10 children were killed for 7 children were killed,

10 people were killed. so it's and then all they have to say is, we're sorry, that's not good enough. it's just that this approach has got to stop and, and we, we've got to quit modeling in other people's business and, and do less of that and, and maybe even create a whole new image for the united states of being constructive rather than destructive michael, appreciate your time listening to my committee for my senior security policy analyst in the office of the secretary of defense. just tuned into our team to national i want to remind you of our breaking news story. this our, the admission from the pentagon, the, the drug strike and canister last month. it was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians including 7 children. washington previously claimed the strike have been necessary to prevent an attack on us shapes

. the report soon emerged a number of members of an afghan family had actually perished in that attack. the youngest victims were 2 girls who are both just 2 years old. you are watching arte international still to come in the 2nd half of our broadcasts, we're going to be moving into our russian parliamentary election coverage. we'll talk about the race for those 450 seats in the state duma after this break. ah, oh, the western civilization and culture have been infected by a mindset that prizes ideology over competent virtue over reason. and democracy is only a good idea if and when it serves the lead interest. then there's the issue of competent

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the welcome back to the rooftop studio overlooking red square in the from the time now for the coverage of the elections to the state, duma rushes lower house to the polling stations. i can tell you have now closed for friday, voters, remember that i still have 2 more days in which to catch the still have ride up until sunday evening. so how do things plan out on the 1st day will international observers were around the doctrine on polling stations right across the country? the numbers are restricted because of covey this year, but there are so 250 of the present. they represent more than 50 countries and 10 international denies ations. on one observer, we spoke to shed what he'd witnessed, ms co security condition, but also like all the per say,

i do. so to make the vote and 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 now the way politicians are elected very some country to country. let's look now at the process here in russia. 450 and paste from 225 electoral districts have chosen for the state duma for a 5 year term, half of them elected by majority voting. that's based on one end, pete per constituency. the remaining 225. well, they are elected from a list by parties that have more than 5 percent representation in parliament. aside from traditional polling stations 1st and citizens are able so to cast their votes online in moscow alone, more than a 1000000 people did exactly that on the 1st day of polling and with more now on how that process of online voting is carried out. and how secure the system is, is dimitri voting is an essential part of any self respecting democracy. but

the way people are voting is changing. the old fashioned ballad 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 instead of 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 an 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. entered 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 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 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 for 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 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 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 vote 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 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. so now all they're supposed 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. political analyst at the, in us me internet media project. dmitri babich talk me through the importance of this particular election on the west, stands on it. a lot of voters already decided to do it electronically.

i'm not sure that the pandemic was the decision factor, but it was vaughan over the fact us, so already in law school and the in some other seat is a lot of people voted via electronic devices. and participation certainly will be done in 2016 when we've had the last election. presidential elections coming up and it's a different matter altogether, but in 2024, 24. does this have any knock on effect depending on the result of this as to how things will will go. busy in russia, building up to that electricity dish only duly elections for waco rehearsal for the presidential election in russia. definitely, we're going to see new faces. the big question is, are we going to see new partners and how well united russia is going to do? all radiate, people are getting more interested in politics. i mean, i read the western press that the selection of sony. so an interesting but there

are conference. so like it was about this in the western media in russian media, new name, some mentioned somehow. and when i see these new names in their western media, i just don't know how these people can put their act together. it's not an interesting election. and then why writing about young people? or there are interesting people interesting cases. now, how can they seduction video for me? it's not an action. so he's definitely taken an interest in this election. is the bottom and really threatened to not recognize the result of the election if it's a big if they find evidence a fraud. it's an unusual move to, to say this is the punishment. we're not sure if there's been a crime yet. what do you make as well? they just one they are people do when they main candidate only is not trying. so they registered is bunk. you know, either we get area of allusion in russia or we're not interested and that's a romantic shoot. first is about for russia because we need gradual change. we

don't need revolutions.