why not mean ah, what if i come here ah ah ah, i am now convinced that as many as 2, including the 7 children were tragically killed in that straw, that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. a tell us general admit, said drones, striking capital last month killed 10 civilians including 7 children that happened right before the american military police court rules. the children under 16 tick puberty blockers without parental consent will be facing the issue like this. our russians cast their ballots on the

date of the country, parliamentary election, more of our t special coverage at this hour of 2021. i afternoon here in moscow this saturday september, the 18th i'm you know, neil and you're welcome to the program. the united states has acknowledged out last month's true strike enough chemist on killed 10 civilians, including 7 children and not a single terrorist. washington had initially claim the strike was necessary to prevent an attack on cabal airport in the final days before americans 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 ices take or were a direct rep to us forces. there was a mistake, and i offer my sincere apology. well, here you can see the aftermath of that strike in a residential area of cabal, free kilometers from the airport. there was a 2nd re blast, which is not believe to have been caused by a propane tank in the driveway. the u. s. military has so far declined to say whether there will be any discipline or reaction o o o. ringback busy the me or senior correspondent neuron gas d as in capital and filed this, this report 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 those 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 love freight because everybody back 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 worked harder to avoid civilian casualties than the united states military. and nobody wants to see innocent life

taken. as the secretary says, in the 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 stripes allegedly going wrong, but then the united states taking a year perhaps longer if a tool to admit to a nash 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 that 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 so 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 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 or presumably the family because then the civilians killed and they don't like what parts of one family. but we have also heard from the united states that these stripes go on.

they will try to learn the lessons to quote them of this terrible tragedy. but that they also said, please don't take this as, as a, as aside the bud diminish ability to strike it. isis, target's guidance on america's last drilling strike of the ass 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 just sort of down the flames of political criticism aimed at the biden administration and the state department for what many he has a fiasco is a humiliating and key author k arctic. and to americans presence that have got to stop after 20 years of war and moving the program on lower court in the u. k. has rule that children under the age of 16. come take puberty blockers

with our current or consent. the court of appeal overturned last year is judgement from the high court ortiz shot adverse dusty house, the story trans rights in the u. k. as back in the spotlight again, as doctors are now able to prescribe puberty blockers to on the 16th. and again, central london, which runs the, you can only use gender identity clinic has one the appeal, which refers to the 2020 ruling that under 16 lots the capacity to give that own consent. the judgment upholds established legal principles, which respect the ability of our clinicians to engage actively and thoughtfully with our patients in decisions about their care and futures. it's a firms that it is for doctors not judges to decide on the capacity of under 16th to consent to medical treatment. the case was brought by di transitional care, a bow who started taking puberty blockers at 16 prescribed mail home and testosterone, and had surgery to remove her breasts. but now in her mid twenties,

she regrets a decision to transition. last year, the high court rule that teenagers were highly unlikely to be able to give informed consent to what described as experimental treatment. nor would they be able to understand and way up the implications following the court's decision, all treatment was been suspended. a new referrals put on hold as wow, a view that has now been overturned. it has shown a light into the dark corners of a medical scandal that is carmen children and harm me. obviously disappointed with the ruin of the court to day and especially that it didn't grapple with the significant risk of harm the children exposed to by being given powerful experimental drugs. they couldn't access though that the whole name blocking treatment is used by specialists to put a pulls on puberty. while young people think about whether it really is something that they want to do. for many young people struggling with their gender identity, who believe the way for treatment is far too long. this is a life saving victory,

but for care about who wants to take an appeal to the supreme court. the decision today is a step backwards for common sense day 2 of russia's parliamentary election is in full swing. indeed pulling stations in the far eastern time zone, where it's already evening of close their doors for the day. but there's plenty more time for people to cast their ballots with a 3rd day of voting on sunday. the a total of 14 parties are running for seats in the state duma. and throughout the week, we've been reviewing each one on face done for let's take a glimpse of a number of the contenders. then, beginning with a just russia patriots for truth, the long title comes after

a just russia merge with 2 smaller functions. the left leaning party, 16.2 percent in the last election of 2016 passing the all important 5 percent threshold to get into parliament. hollywood star, steven seagal now has russian citizenship has become a high profile party member. next, there is the green alternative party, one of the newcomers in the race for the june until last year. it was just a social movement with uninviting mental agenda. it backs a youth climate movement called fridays for future, which organizes campaigns and petitions, and is inspired by gretta chin berg. as something else to note, russia has invited election observers from dozens of countries who are visiting pulling stations across the world's largest nations in cities. tons, my colleague need harvey has more. another aspect to in are continuing special coverage of election. 2021. hello. international observers dropped in on polling

stations across the country. despite the numbers things strictly 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've seen from the medical security condition about so like all the percent or so 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. italy will help all additions or electives 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, 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. these are things to meet you back. 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 said to have the largest share of online voters of any russian election so far. the online system, however, is still relatively new, so it's only being rolled out in several regions. but some 2000000 people have already registered for the electronic vote, including an astronaut aboard the i assess and an arctic explore. but as with anything new, especially electronic issues of accessible 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, enter and s m s confirmation code, and well that's it. on the day of the vote, they just go to the voting website, log in to the candidate and submit their ballot. the process can be done from anywhere in the world with an internet connection, no pulling station needed, just a smartphone or a computer. for security the system as 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 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 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 poor 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, 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 at the, in a,

me internet media project. dmitri babich took me through the importance of this particular election on the west stance 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 gone over the fact us to already in law school and the in some other seat is 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 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 traditionally duly elections for waco rehearsal for the presidential election in russia. definitely were going to see your face was the big question is i would like to see new part if 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, most of all 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 about young people, there are interesting people interesting cases them. how can they seduction video for me? it's not an action. so he's definitely taking an interest in this election is the bottom and actively 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 it? well, they just want their people to win. their main candidate num only is not trying. so

they registered is bank. you know, either we get every lucian russia or we're not interested and that's are all magnitude. first is bad for russia because we need gradual change. we don't need revolutions. 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 and the app is some people have called it 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 a 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 scandal. you know, we will 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 for the radical position in russia. you just have to read the newspapers in the west, nothing russian. the relatives of those who died of covert in the new york carried home crisis are outraged. after finding out that former governor andrew cuomo will be raking in millions of dollars from his new book on this subject. we heard from a daughter of one victim. it's an additional insult to families who are still expecting and hoping for some sort of answers as to why these policies were put in place to begin with that expedited to death of our seniors and our loved ones and

for him to keep his money with. with a possible intense of possibly the running for office again and with no answers, no accountability. and that the leaders have turned their eye a blind eye to what has happened. although we're still expecting some sort of information from some other pending investigations, even our federal b o. j has let families down investigating what happened in our nursing homes. andrew cuomo was initially barred from earning money from his book after an investigation fund that he'd use stuff on the state payroll to help ride it, or estate ethics panel as no rule that he can keep 5 point $1000000.00 from the seals. cuomo resigned as new york governor last august after a series of scandals including sexual harassment allegations. but the most severe claims against cuomo relate to his humbling of a covert. i break in nursing homes,

which claimed 14000 lives his decision in march 2020, to allow cobit patients into care homes has been wrongly condemned. and he's still under investigation for an alleged cover up of the death tool. during the early stages of the pandemic, we heard from tracy l vino from a u. s. advocacy group for nursing home residents. she thinks for most book deal insult to injury. i have never in my life seen a larger of front to ethics than the new york state ethics commission rolling that wal mart can keep the 5100000 dollars of blood money that he received. writing his book of allies, there's publicly available evidence that coma utilize to staff to write an edit and promote the book. and this was done on tax fair money and on taxpayer time, which is a blatant violation of the law. i'm not sure what our legal recourse here is,

but i can tell you that this decision feels like hey, chrome, i'll just take the money and run. it proves that us nursing home families have to be prepared for the fight of our lives to get any sort of accountability or, or justice. ok, let's keep the focus state side because authorities in southern texas have been drones from flying near the us mexico border after a dramatic footage showed thousands of migrants crowded under a bridge. official said the block, i don't know. drones was done to security reasons. rtp and picks up the story. the mind ministration has been focusing on all the lack of catching over the afghan, pull out. but meanwhile, the 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. mm

. oh, i 010503 illegal aliens or under this bridge tonight, because joe biden made a political decision to cancel deportation flight 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

a legal 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. concerned 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 the 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 does it appears they are doing nothing about it. well, except telling people not to film it. that is tailored often are

t new york. that's our news run up for now more great programs, right? i had the life from moscow. this is our teen. i will see you the ah, working machine in the back. she popped in. she said, well, i'm getting ready to go shopping for christmas. we. we think there was going to buy another, shooting another safe part of american life shattered by violence. the gunman was armed with an a r 15, semi automatic rifle. when the issue comes home, it's time to act. when we're filing on this issue, the other side winds by default, lady that lived over there. i was walking one of the dogs. she said, why do you wear again? were you scared?

nothing. 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 me the civic leg of are around the world expedition 5000 miles round the clock and the dead calm. just vanish as every country close by like the crew, gavin's food and water and food to chat. those also let me know. i got everybody locked

down or no more, no food. and no. what about that? only i'm sure somebody either stuck up in the cove. it, you're living like the man of home, but in the 21st century. ah. join me every thursday on the alex, silent show. when i was speaking to guess in the world, the politics sport. business. i'm show business. i'll see you then in the me started my interest, i should say in black americans in the soviet union in the thirty's was finding

this portrait, even though i had gone to grad school and 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 is a phenomenon that there were many african americans who went to russia in the, in the thirty's, in the 1920s infinity of several 100 african americans moved to the soviet union. and many of their descendants still live in russia. there was no, no rush, but us the up stock. yes. you choose to nice things. one duck issue, the russians that i meet here, they 1st say like a 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 last.