the join me every thursday on the alex salmon show and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport, business. i'm show business. i'll see you then in the project i was called the pounds an admitted drunk trying toggle last most there was a man to target tariffs only claimed in this inclined civilians including up to 7 children were tragically killed in that strike we now, which is why we got the vehicle and those who died were associated with us for a direct rep us for the admission come 3 weeks after the deadly dro type, which was supposed to take out an ice this case. so it's fine for me to speak to the fathers of some of the victims as a lot of special chosen on her voice. i'm the head of the family that has lost 10

of its members. this is not a mistake of america, this is a crime. solomon, her election is underway with the day was coming to an end in the west. john said the 2nd days about the spot before. ah, this is the new scene to national with me. you national bob oliver. hello and welcome to the program. the pentagon has admitted a trans trunk and have gone it's donna band of august was a tragic mistake that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children. washington had previously claimed this trial have been necessary to prevent and talk on american troops. 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 direct threat to us forces. there was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. us officials her formerly say no disciplinary action regarding the deadline. hock is expected as they stand by the intelligence that led to the strike military officials also trans. however, the, despite the deadly mistake, it's too early to draw conclusions. i don't think you should draw any conclusions about our ability to strike enough can a stand against isis check targets in the future. based on this particular strike. confirmation from the pentagon that its last strike of the 20 year afghan war was indeed everett, the 10 civilians. the 10 civilians perished in this in this attack. and the united states says it is, it is sorry that perhaps it will 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. and couple, it had been feared that there would be another attack on the airport following the attack on the 26th of august, the claimed the lives of 13 american troops, as well as how more than a 100 other people, civilians, taliban fighters included. nevertheless, what we've heard from the pentagon over the past 2 weeks has been well diversion, largely, the pentagon refused to odds and the state department to what they had found. what the findings about this attack was, what we had today is that 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 under way. and that is when they decided to pull the trigger to go forward with this drone truck. and they must have seen the numerous children playing around the cars as reported by their families at the time. nevertheless, the pet god says the, the intelligence was taller than they had no choice. but to go on with this strike . now they say they're sorry we, we apologize and we will endeavour to learn from this horrible mistake. and to that end, he has directed a thorough review of the investigation just completed by us central command. the paragon says there will be no disciplinary measures going. going into the future, but they will investigate further this particular job. so i can try to learn each lesson. they say they will be more careful with the, with future drone strikes. but that is not to say that they will,

that they will stop targeting isis here and have got to stop they, they made that points. nevertheless, there is, there is still, you know, the, the fact that not a lot of accountability has been offered by the pentagon. and 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's reside will be in slide for many americans. he is a fiasco, a capital airport the, the last few days, few weeks of the evacuation here, the chaos that we saw a capital airport and the lack of planning with went along with it. also the so called defense of as try can cobble reform soon. imagine that a number of members of an african family had perished in that time. they had gathered for a celebration of their home and the capital in an instant,

they won't get to the lines of 10 civilians, including 7 children. the youngest victims were 2 girls who are both only 2 years old with spoke to their fathers as part of our special project. unheard of voices saw thought 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 k 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 mattie, 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 lead her to me that she saw a small aircraft. i drove moving around in a circle which then fired a missile about hitch or hole. i turned to look out of there was distant smoke lightning, it was a terrible scene. my wife was shutting not her high was on fire. ah . busy there were parts of children's bodies, it was so bloody increase and i went into my home phone, 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 life. another relative was also here,

a guest. she was killed to, oh, i as bush my a loves, cosmetic. she likes painting her nails for she like dolls very much. the main cause of the incident was the american president planning this attack without any evidence and destroying family was a catastrophe. ringback ringback ah, the president has made clear commanders that they should stop and nothing to make isis pay for the death of those american service members at the cobble 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 been so painful for us mentally. we are not in a stable condition where the women are dead silent. they don't speak tomorrow. we left our 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 islam mac 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, no authority came here to investigate. nobody asked us what happened to your new

one help. ready no one came here to morally support us. this is not a mistake of america, this is a crime. we've lost her children. the count returned to us. so what mister owners should be restored by us for investigation into the incident. we are the international community to investigate this incident. ah, make no mistake. no, no, cherry on the face of the earth, or harder to avoid civilian casualties than the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taking 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 in his made people miserable. oh, and pentagon spokesman john kirby also said the tribe was taken to prevent, quote, an imminent attack on cobble airport. i'm not able to confirm the identities of isis individuals that were targeted in those strikes. the strike was taken to prevent an imminent attack on the airport. like the live now to bruce knoxville, pennsylvania senator and law. mr. marks. thank you very much. indeed for joining us . have basic mission come as a surprise to you that have been growing speculation in the press about well it's, it's a terrible tragedy. and obviously, the killing of a worker children is that is awful. which particularly disappointed is that

this was only uncovered by the work of the new york times when they investigated the claims that the government made. the government itself doesn't appear that it was going to disclose this awful mistake on in town. and i find that very disappointing, this lack of candor in the binding ministration. right? by the way, what legal means do the victim relatives have to get justice you know, it's war is a terrible thing and all wars civilians are killed, you know, and in this case, you know, by mistake a terrible mistake. i don't know that there's any recourse, unfortunately, the civilian victims have when they're, when they're killed during war time. i suppose that there are circumstances where some states provide reparations when they kill people, but that's not common. there's been losses civilian life, you know. and a lot of wars including the war that's been ongoing in the,

in eastern ukraine. so it's just, it's, it's, it's an unfortunate consequence. right. do you think the us so those behind the drawing talk will be held to account? well, i really hope so that that is a different issue from compensation victims. there should be a full investigation of this by the u. s. congress. i don't know that the house of representatives investigate because under nancy pelosi, they're so partisan and it's hard to see them actually investigating the defense department under president bike. but there should be a full investigation too clearly. not only was there a mistake made in terms of the attack, it looks like this thing was covered up for over over 2 weeks. and clearly they should have been aware much earlier than i don't know yesterday or whenever the new york times 1st reported this the day their justification was just completely

erroneous. i mean, there were no there were no bombs that then blew up in the car. is none of what the government said about what happened here proved to be true, the u. s. government and considering those reparation. how likely do you think that the families will be compensated given the situation and i've got a situation on the ground. i think it's highly unlikely. u. s. government will be providing any compensation to the new afghan or standing government and whether the taliban is going to do something to help them that, that you would have to ask the new afghanistan government if they're, if they're going to help their own people. i would hope that they would because clearly they were just a terrible tragedy in a number. so it was supposed to have been and i talk owner would be so assigned

ball not what went wrong. what happened to, to the intelligence looks like everything went wrong, and that wasn't a suicide bomber at all. in fact, it were still the opposite. he was an aide worker and, and then somebody, you know, clearly made an error in where they were going to do the strike because they did the strike in a residential area where they were. so as i understand it, 7 children who were right there were killed as well. so it's just a tragedy. clearly the, the intelligence that we have was wrong and it's just evidence jerry, you know, some of the problems that we have had and i have ghana, stan, and, and how the united states government. and of course, the soviet government, you know, what is it 40 years ago? it's just not a place where we've been successful operating. do you think it is possible that we'll see more so cold over the horizon, tongues by the u. s. in the region?

well, i surely hope not. we don't have a presence in afghanistan. now, i do believe there are still americans who are there. they're biting plan of evacuating the americans is obviously faulty in l. spot through but i think given what is what has happened most recently, i think it's likely that we're going to be doing strikes right now and i have ganesh santa of course, you know, there are things that the taliban does go forward if they do things to foster terrorism against united states, which was the original reason we went in there because of what happened. and of course, the united states government is going to protect our security and protect our people just like the russian government, you know, protected young people. so how is it possible to stop mistakes like that one being made in the future? you know, i wish i knew the answer that question, but you know i was senator and i'm

a lawyer. i do not have military background myself. so i guess the short answer is that you have to have really good people ahead of the, the secretary defense and you have to have very good military people in terms of the general. and then there has to be a whole chain of command in training, not only within the military itself, but, you know, i assume the cia because i would suspect that they're involved. and in some of the intelligence we have to have better people, you know, and our intelligence, which of course, makes people who, who know the low culture in the local language. char, alright, various knocks for pennsylvania centers and law. mr. knox. thank you very much for your insight. thanks. so i appreciate it. thank you for having me on. big, big, be help. thanks. that has all the international and coming up shortly. we'll launch into our special russian parliamentary election coverage and the res for the $450.00 seats in the state daemon. that's coming up on

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okay. down in history books, as a mocking beginning of the end of american preeminence. this is the end of the news. the welcome vauxhall unseen to national and our in depth coverage of the elections to the state. duma, which is russia low house of parliament, pulling stations open their doors yesterday and saturday to keep them open for another 2 days until sunday on his new harvey explains. whole international observers dropped in on polling stations across the country. despite the numbers

being 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 the medical security condition about. so like all the per say i do 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 helpful additions or electors varies from country to country. how does the process work in russia? 450 and pace with 225 electoral districts chosen to the state duma for a 5 year term, half of them elected by majority voting based on one m. p per constituency. the remaining 225, made up my apologies, which have all the 5 percent representation in parliament. aside from those traditional polling stations, russian citizens are also able to cast their votes on live moscow low more than

a 1000000 people have done just fat on the 1st day of voting with worn out on how online voting works and how secure the system is. these are things to meet the pac 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 and russia. electronic ballads have been around for, for elections already. and the upcoming legislative vote is set 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, the 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, 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 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. ask 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 tally for one to vote closes while the vote is in the system. it is virtually impossible for alter, since the vote exists on several nodes 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 balance, 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 poor 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. political analyst of the, in a,

me internet media project. dmitri babich totally 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 pen gaming was the decision factor, but it was gone over the fact us to already in law school and the in some other fetus. a lot of people voted via electronic devices and participation. so you will be higher than in 2016 when we had the last election. presidential elections coming up on us 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 in russia building up to the other like, traditionally and duly elections for like a rehearsal for the presidential election in russia? definitely we're going to see new faces. the question is, i would like to see new partners and how well that russian is going to do all read . if people are getting more interested in politics, i mean,

i read the western press that the selection is. so dial, so an interesting but a 100. so logic was about it 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 while writing a vote you people, or there are interesting people, interesting cases that how can they said there should be dope? for me, it's not an action. so he's definitely taking an interest in this election is the parliament thankfully threatened to not recognize the result of the election if it's a big if they find evidence of fraud. it's an unusual moved to say, this is the punishment. we're not sure if there's been a crime yet. what do you make it? well, they just want, they are people to wind. their main candidate only is not running. so they registered is by bank. you know,

either we get evolution in russia or we're not interested. and that's a role manager. first is bad for russia because we need gradual change. we don't need revisions. second, it's bad for the west because it and tegan, isis, russia, and also it tries to achieve result, it cannot achieve that won't be renewed. and russia this issue now about the nevada, the apple. some people have called it this, this was tactical, voting up, which google and apple have allowed access to, which is forbidden that has not been resolved that, that issue. but some people are saying that that was interference. what is your feeling on that? but imagine if in the united states, russian companies had new vice, that would allow vote us in the united states to find out how russia would like them to vote. that will be a huge candle. you know, we all remember russian gauge was i think it was a fortune for american viewers for at least 2 and a half years until april,

2020. when basically mr. miller, mr. miller, acknowledge that there was no confusion. but we have evidence of western total support from the radical position in russia. you're just have to read the newspapers in the west, not in russia. that's all from us here on his election headquarters. they saw our team will be here a day to nice around those 3 days of voting. and of course you bring it as all important results on monday morning for now. so i'll return with update. the the

i have often said transfer fee for the powerful privacy for the last bit cares about privacy. what people care about is power. julian, a son just become a symbol of the battles of brevity. information is power. that's what's going on. a huge struggle with governments and corporations who want to keep information secret and others who democratic rights should be pushed forward. and people have a right to know what to do. watch houses help shift the conversation around transparency. see what that battle has done to him. i feel like julian's life might be coming to an end. we are in a conflict situation with the largest and most powerful employer in such a situation. it's remarkable. survive the working machine. she popped in. she said, well,

i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas. and we, we said there was a girl by another, shooting another safe part of american life. shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a ar 15 any automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act. when we're filing on this issue, the other side, the wind, by default, lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs. she said, why do you wear again? were you scared? doesn't i took it off and i think the people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kinds of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number that i the.