history is repeating itself. my great grandfather, george time, went to russia. i'm probably the worst time to go anywhere. why not mean? what if i come here? ah ah, i am now convinced that as many as 10 today and including the 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. the us admit it's drones try can cobbled last month, right before the military pull out. killed hadn't civilian thing floating and excuse me, 7 children. it did take 3 weeks for washington to acknowledge what it now called a horrible mistake. after initially claiming a terrorist had been targeted, we speak to the relatives of the victims in our special project, it's called unheard voices. and this is not a mistake of america. this is

a crime. on the morning of the bombing, she came and kissed me and said, good morning, father. it was our last meeting. i will never see her again. kind of russia parliamentary election enters day to holding stations and i'll open all across the country in the 3 days. ah, well, it's already a busy talk today for your worldwide headlines live when are you international? welcome to the program. i'm rule research. the not just states has now acknowledge that last month. drones strike and i've gotten asked on killed 10 civilians including 7 children, a not a single terrorist. washington had initially claim the strike was absolutely necessary to prevent an attack on cobble airport in the final days before the military withdrawal. 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 isis cake, or were a director at the us forces. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. here we can show you the aftermath of that strike in a residential area of cobble 3 kilometers approximately, from the airport. and there was a secondary blast, which is now believe to being caused by a propane tank in the driveway. the u. s. military has so far declined to say whether or not they will be any disciplinary action. oh. ringback busy the

senior correspondent morale gas d. f is in cobble with moran. this get had been evidence to many and many people that something had gone terribly wrong with this strike you to this is weeks ago, weeks ago because people saw the vaccine in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. if they had been a car, bob laden with explosives, that many people speculate that the explosion, the devastation would have been much greater. it was a we also saw that the pictures of grid 3 images of the kids, 7 of them killed during the strike. now the united states maintained that the intelligence behind most was solid. they claim that they track this vehicle from a presumed isis compound, isis, k. compound, near capital, all the way to this residential district. just 3 kilometers away from capital

international airport. where, of course, at the time of frantic evacuation was due on the way very frantic and with people's nerves freight because everybody bad feared that there would be another terror attack. and the united states says that they surveilled this vehicle as it arrived in this residential neighborhood. they allegedly allegedly, according to witnesses, must have seen all the kids around the car as well as the, the owner of the man. they believed to be a nice the suspects carrying containers which turned out to be empty water containers to and from his car. and what we had heard up until now is a lot of mumbling and diversion on behalf of the state department, the pentagon aust grilled by senators and congressmen alike about this as striking about the overwhelming evidence that it had gone again terribly wrong. make no mistake,

no military on the face of the earth works harder to avoid civilian casualties than the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life taken. as the secretary says, in this statement we, we apologize and we will endeavor 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. what is highly unusual about the submission is that it came so fast because the united states is well known for dragging these things as in, in iraq, in the syria. we have seen incidents of shrikes, allegedly going wrong, but then the united states taking a year perhaps longer even tool to admit to an air strike cause in collateral damage killing civilians. usually their investigations are a very drags out, and there is at the end of it, no disciplinary measures. and despite this incident,

being a tremendous blunder from a tactical perspective, as well as from a public relations perspective, the united states says the new disciplinary measures will be taken as of right now . now, what is the reason that the human rights agencies, for example, believe that the submission came through quickly is because of the huge, both political and public pressure on the united states to admit to it. it should be noted that the u. s. military was only forced to admit its failure in the strike because of the current global scrutiny on afghanistan. many similar strikes in syria, iraq and somalia have happened out of the spotlights and the u. s. continues to no responsibility while devastated families suffer in silence. while they have said that they're sorry, they have also offered compensation to the families of the victims. presumably the family because all the civilians killed and they don't like what parts of one

family. but we have also heard from the united states the these stripes will go on, they will try to learn the lessons, to quote them of this terrible tragedy. but they also said, please don't take this as, as, as aside the bud diminish ability to strike it. isis target's got his america's last driven strike of the guy who came just days after the terrible terror attack could capital airports at the north gate, which came the lives of 13 american troops, as well as more than a 100 civilian. but again, this is odd likely to sort of down the flames of political criticism aimed at the bible administration and the state department for what benny he has a fiasco is a humiliating and key author chaotic and to america's presence that have got to stop after 20 years of war. the youngest victim of that august 29th strike in

cobble were 2 girls. both h 2 at the man who was targeted turned out to be an aide worker. a u. s. forces apparently thought he was loading bombs into a truck, but actually he was loading empty water bottles into a truck. his father was among the grieving family members who share their stories with us. it's our special project called unheard voices, saw thought the sandals belong to melinda. 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 later to me that she saw a smaller craft, a drone, moving around in a circle which then fired and metal about hitch or home. i turned to look, there was dust and smoke lightning. it was a terrible scene, my wife was shutting out her high so was on fire. ah. busy 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 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 our family was a catastrophe. ringback ringback ah, the president has made clear to the commanders that they should stuff and nothing to make isis pay for the death of those americans service members at the cobble airport. isis k. lived in this house in this house were these children members of

ices, a stupid thought without any proof, without any investigation, they attacked us and killed our children, and we will never forgive them. ah, our entire families in shock, its being so painful for us mentally. we are not in a stable condition. the women are dead silent. they don't speak, you know, we left our devastated homes and now live in my sister's place. it's so painful to visit it, because we could see your children dying there. the people accusing us of having contact with islam mac state, the americans who bombed our family, seeing we'd been preparing an attack on them. they're complete and utter lawyers. ah

. ringback after the incident, no shortage, he 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 owner should be restored by a fir investigation into the incident. we offer the international community to investigate this incident. ah, i'm happy to have the americans have left afghanistan. they came because of their own goals and humiliated my country. america is not achieved anything in

afghanistan, america has failed in afghanistan, and it is made of people's miserable watches up until just a few days ago that the pentagon spokesman john kirby was maintaining the line that the drones stripe was a vital counter terror maneuver. i'm not able to confirm the identities of isis individuals that were targeted in those strikes. the strike was taken to prevent an eminent attack on the airport. a former pentagon security analyst and an ex intelligence officer, gave us that views on the situation and the underlying problems. it's revealed. it is a little unusual for them to admit to a mistake, and they used to be bombings all the time in syria and northern iraq. they hardly ever admitted to it. the kind of gun really had no choice but to look into it. so the general takes responsibility and they're going to offer compensation that doesn't bring back the lives of children and the adults who are killed. and 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, or al qaeda. it clearly shows that this over the horizon approach is inadequate. it makes more terrors, it kills by alienating entire populations, who say all the united states is doing is murdering innocence. we have a person who's not properly trained, looking at a screen under great pressure from his commander in chief. the scene is striking somebody and he's looking at something that he doesn't understand or she doesn't understand and to try to make a decision that yes, this could be a threat. and the result we fire missile, we do a building, a car had nothing to do with isis. united states should not be employed. weapons,

ap hazard lee in a manner which ends up killing thousands of innocent civilians. remember these last 10 or just the final exclamation on a program, it is kill thousands of innocence. the same way this happened with bad intelligence . bad information and political pressure to be seen as doing some authorities in southern texas have ban drones from flying near the border. off. dramatic footage showed thousands of migrants crowded under a bridge. authority said the move was down to security reasons. although you might learn a bit more with that with off his caleb the my administration has been focusing on all the lack of catching over the afghan pull out. but meanwhile, things that the us mexico border are getting worse. shocking footage now shows more than $10000.00 migrants packed under a single bridge in texas. ah,

[000:00:00;00] ah, ah. $10503.00 illegal aliens or under this bridge tonight, because joe biden made a political decision to cancel deportation flights to haiti. the border patrol is over capacity, it's indefensible. it's inhuman and it was entirely caused by biden and harris hash tag biden border crisis. so we now have the federal aviation administration saying that no drones may fly over the area. they say it's about security concerns, but media says it's about restricting their ability to show the world what's actually happening. after exposing the massive explosion in illegal border

crossings in the last 24 hours with their overhead drone, the federal aviation administration steps into ban fox news from flying widens. white house has been called out before for restricting the media is access to migrant facilities. concerns about the inflow have been rising ever since he took office. now the texas governor has called out by saying that he won't allow his state to be overrun and that the president is doing nothing as things get worse. it is the federal government's job to secure our border, but the bottom ministration has failed to do his job. this government has not forgotten about the migrants, but they hope that the public has forgotten. the government is up to something. everything it's happening on the border happens for a reason, and they never explain to us what that reason is. and i'll tell you very briefly. it's so they can bring in lots and lots of people from foreign countries, turn them into american citizens, make them into democratic party voters, and then in the future,

never lose and other national election. that's what this border is about. is entrenching democrats in permanent power and that's why they don't explain it. and that's why they're willing to let people go along thinking it's some kind of failure or fiasco or incompetence. but it's not. i fail to see how national security could be impinged by a national television network showing pictures from a great distance of thousands of illegal immigrants across the border in texas. there is no national security concern for it, but there is certainly a security concern for the bite ministrations political future. because the more american people see that picture, the more appall they're going to get in the more they're going to demand changes in the policy at the border. this is political security, not national security. many people across america are looking at the migrant in flown, looking at the pact facilities and looking with outrage at the white house as it appears. they are doing nothing about it. well, except telling people not to film it. that is caleb martin,

r t new york. well, it is day 2 of russia's parliamentary election and paulding stations on. i'll open across the countries, vast 11 times zones and throughout the 3 days voting here on the international. we are continuing our special coverage. the a total of 14 parties are running for seats in the state duma. and throughout the week we've been reviewing each of them and exactly what they stand for. so let's have a glimpse of a few of the other contenders here on the program. first of united russia, which is the de facto ruling party, is chairman, is the former president and prime minister dmitri mad at the pot. he supports the program of president putin, and among its goals is strengthening russia. sovereignty its economic agenda

includes support for domestic industry with an emphasis on a high tech sectors. now another content on the pallet is road enough meaning motherland, which is seen as a nationalist movement. it advocates for traditional values and it wants to impose tougher immigration rules while spreading the wealth from moscow to russia's regions. it secured just 1.5 percent support in the 2016 election. well this time around russia has invited election observers from dozens of countries from all around the world who are now visiting the paulding stations across russia's 11 times owns neil harvey has more on that. as a continuation goes on now with the coverage of the 2021 state duma election, full 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, but also like to pursue to make the votes and transparent. energy to me, i really appreciate is, there are so many measures, and so many conditions. personally, we don't have any helpful additions, or electors varies from country to country. how does the process work in russia? $450.00 and pace with $225.00 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 line. moscow low, more than a 1000000 people have done, just sat on the 1st voting with worn out on how online voting works and how secure the system is 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 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 excessive, already voter security, safety and reliability or 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, 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 tally for one to vote closes while the vote is in the system. it is virtually impossible to 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 pro knows if the system proves safe anonymous. and most importantly, reliable, it could become the primary voting method of choice. in the very near future that'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. so now let's look to do is wait until monday when the voting is finished and the 8 pieces of the key are reassembled to finally reveal the final result of the vote. political analyst at the, in the 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 done in 2016 when we had the last election, presidential elections coming up and that'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 the other like traditionally and duly elections for waco rehearsal for the presidential election in russia. definitely, we're going to see new faces. the big question is i would like to see new party and how well brush is going to do. all right, 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 there are hundreds. so logic goes 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 why right can about young people, or there are interesting people, interesting cases them. how can they seduction be though, for me, it's not an action. so he's definitely taking an interest in this election is the bottom and 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 bank. you know, either we get every lucian in russia or we're not interested. and that's the nature of the 1st battle. russia, because we need gradual change. we don't need religions 2nd, it's bad for the west because it and tegan, isis, russia,

and also it tries to achieve result, it cannot achieve, there won't be renewed and russia, this issue now about the nevada and 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? imagine if in the united states, russian companies had a new vice, that would allow voters in the united states to find out how russia would like them to that will be a huge scandal. 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 russian, the ah, join me every 1st on the alex simon show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport business, i'm show business. i'll see you then me the me started my interests, i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding this portrait. even though i've gone to grad school, the master's degree in russian literature, i speak russian. and i had lived over there in the late eighty's finding this

portrait was, was a stunning development for me. how did i not know about this? i didn't know that this was a phenomenon that there were many african americans who went to russia in the, in the thirty's, in the 19 twenties and says he has several 100 african americans moved to the soviet union. and many of their descendants still live in russia. you know, no rush but us though. yes. you choose to nice things, says richard lum. the issue, the russians that i meet here, they 1st like pay your partner, that when i speak russian and then wait, wait, wait. the nation that was go back home, black american, something from racism under complete lack of prospects. i just said now you