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in me dares thing. we dare to ask in the who's hello and welcome to our coverage of the 2021 russian state and do my election. we're up here in our rooftop location that the best view in town. and of course, as well as having a great view that's f, as we'll be focusing today on just all these elections are being over feed and

looking a little bit about how the measures are being taken to ensure the integrity of the voting process. so thank you for joining off on what is promising to be a very busy day because it is day 2 of 3 in which the electric can cost that both of course, across this huge country we're going to be looking at what's happening at the pole across the territory in just a few minutes. i think let's catch up on today's big headlines around the wall. i am now convinced that as many as 2 civilians, including the southern show, were tragically killed in that strike. it was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. have told us general, admit, adrian, strike, and cobble last month killed 10 civilians, including 7 children, a leading human rights group claim to washington only own dock because of increased global security. in the meantime,

a u. k. court rules that children under 16 can take people lockers without parental consent. we put the issue up for the bait is for the medical professionals. ultimately, it looks on whether the child on the fact that the individual case is capable of giving informed consent. clearly in working for adolescence, so we no idea what the long term results will be. out of both the reason we are hail the rooftop russians call that balance on pay to the country collections to the state to do thrushes know how to parliament they'll be more of our special vote. 2020 coverage for you at this hour. ah,

so once again, thanks so much for joining us here on our team financial today on daniel, you can see it was asking taylor, we're going to bring you all the latest on the russian state and do my election. 2021 that's coming up very shortly. indeed, do stay tuned for that. we are starting things off with a look at the 1st of those global news headlines. well, the u. s. has acknowledged last month stroke strike and i've got to start killed civilians including 7 children. not a single terrorist. washington had initially claim the strike was necessary to prevent an attack on cobble 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 k or were a direct threat to us forces. there was a mistake,

and i offer my sincere apology. here you can see the off them off of that strike in a residential area of cobble. it's 3 kilometers from the airport. so now there was a secondary blast, which is believed to have been caused by a gas tank in a driveway. the u. s. military. so far declined to say whether there will be any disciplinary action. busy busy in the will all tease more, i guess the phase in the capital cobble. he sent us the following report. it had been evident to many and many people that something had gone terribly wrong with

this strike you to this was weeks ago, weeks ago because people saw the vaccine in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. if these had been a car bomb 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 great 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 under way very frantic and with people's nerves frayed because everybody backed,

when 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 believe, to be a nice suspect. carrying containers which turned out to be empty water containers to and from his car. and what we had heard and 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 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, 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 are the reasons that 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 not have 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 all 10 the civilians killed and they don't like what parts of one family. but we have also heard from the united states that these strides will go on and they will try to learn the lessons. 3 to quote them of this terrible

tragedy, but they also said, please don't take this as a, as a, as a sign of our diminish ability to strike it. isis. target's guidance on america's last drilling strike of the afghan war came just days after the terrible terror attack its capital airport at the north gate, which came the lives of 13 american troops as well as more than a 100 civilians. but again, this is odd likely to sort of down the flames of political criticism aimed at the biden administration and the state department for what benny he has a fiasco is a humiliating and key author chaotic and to americans presence that have got to stop after 20 years of war. pants again, secure charlotte tomato maloof believe the deadly mistake calls into question america's modern military tactics. 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 these 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. the one other story that we are following a court in the u. k. has ruled the children under the age of 16. can take puberty blockers without parental consent. now the court of appeals over time,

day judgement, last year by the high court ortiz shot da, she brings us the story. trans rights in the u. k. is 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 reversed the 2020 ruling. that under 16 lack the capacity to give their 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 bell who started taking puberty blockers at 16 prescribed mail home and testosterone, and had surgery to is her breath. but now in her mid twenties, she regrets a decision to transition. last year, the high court ruled 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 well. 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 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. while we know that this is a contentious topic, of course, tensions run high it off, we put the issue off the use of lockers oper, debate the court is essentially hunting decision making power from the parent to the doctor. the doctor can say no, but the parent can't, doesn't not finally at the right of parents to bring up their, their children as they see fit is for the medical professionals, along with ideally the parents. but ultimately, it looks at whether the child on the facts of the individual case is capable of giving informed consent. and the best person to judge there is the medical practitioner who's fully aware of all the treatment bulbs. and the pros and cons, it's fine to say that the doctor's intonations and the regulations need to take

responsibility for judging informed consent like children, but we have to accept that so far in, sorry that i failed. there's an exponential rise of the transition accounts on social media. and so clearly the system has been working for adolescents so far we have no idea what the long term results will be in terms of the grant from this current. whoa, whoa, to trillion going through the system just because form individual person in this case came about. well, it's not one individual, as you know, well, i'm referring to the pal taste. that is the case to choose decided by the court of appeal yesterday. in that particular case, k rebel has regretted her transition from the selected to do transition back. that does not give key rebel who is not as far as i'm aware, medically or legally qualified. the right to bring litigation,

the aim of which was to overturn gillett competence and denying access to medical care for transgender children, parents on the whole, what, what was best for their children. but sometimes you know what children also know what's best for themself. it all depends on the marriage destination of rebel is not acceptable. the. the issue of a child who thinks they will think set but they are in the wrong body where they learning that this is a unique case where children are indoctrinated on lines, believe that they are in the wrong body. no child is born in the wrong body. they are taught visions fact in school. children, all boys or girls based on the feelings and not on last biological sex. they then go to the tub is so can they rather go, he will be a firm does employ tommy, stop, and yet to tell us don't send treat trouble. so he's fully aware of boys who want

to go because they treat her healthy 40 to change it to do to nights the biological vehicle while you are neil meeting that debate from an ice warm cozy. do you not like, i'll stop here at the very thing, the september, whether it's all because of course, it is day 2 of the 2021 state duma elections and russia. as we've been promising, we will be taking a closer look at the parties. the countenance exactly what's at stake. data still to government special coverage from the very heart of moscow. right after this short break. ah, ah, ah,

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oh the the well welcome to you might be warm but the weather ok on our do not the same, cannot be said thought to make up that we have you been looking at the kremlin now let's time i think in depth coverage, we're continuing. we call the election to the state. duma rushes, lower house of parliament data was saying voting. held over 3 days from friday to sunday. that means the 2nd election day is one on the way across the whole country . not to turn out in the election so far was sitting just shy of 26 percent out of 3 p. m. oscar time today. now the ton out 4 or 9 voting, of course,

the new age of technology is calculated separately and has already written 70 percent of the who registered quite a substantial difference that now one cause we do not have been leading the charge of non materials and has voted online, the russian president is currently self isolating off a number of colored cases were recorded in his, in a stock, whole adapting to the era of the content rusher extended the voting period to 3 days on friday to sunday. all designed of course, to limit the spread of the virus. indeed, both of the election and even as voting on the way that moscow has been written, the alarm over alleged foreign interference. corresponding konstantin ross, coff has been looking just how the involvement of the u. s. joins across the whole election campaign has been going and whether it's been in settle or not. what is this, if not, foreign interference, not a single vote has yet been counted and brushes election. and yet the european

parliament is talking about not recognizing the result and pass the motions saying the block will ignore the outcome. if a deems the vote was enough to european standards. of course, not all the lawmakers back, the move with some incense that their colleagues over the veil threat. we surround russia with native basis and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them a foreign interference. european project is not being undermined and divided by russia by fight the rank hypocrisy that it's characterized in this report. it tells me that it is time to embark on a positive dialogue with the russian federation is time to stop listening to the american in europe is our continent from europe, as of right to make a choice in favor of good relations with russia. moscow is not exactly impressed with the move either because it was stressed that the russian side has concrete evidence of violations of russian law by the u. s. internet platforms in the

context of preparing and conducting the duma elections. it was stated that interference in the internal affairs of our country was categorically and admissible. we had also passed the relevant information through our embassy in washington to the us department state i. he's got, well, it's not the 1st time russia has been crying foul over outside interference in the selection. russia has irrefutable pre said us tag giant's broke russian law relating to the preparation and holding of the russian state tumor election. interference in our countries internal affairs is entirely unacceptable. first, let's talk about so called smart voting scheme, that russian opposition activist alex in nevada. and then his team came up with to try to take away votes from united russia long standing ruling party that supports the kremlin smart voting suggest you mark your ballot for a rival candidate who's most likely to be the candidate of the united russia in particular, constituency. russian authorities don't say that the tactic is something bad,

per se, but they claim there is a link between smart voting and development, anti corruption fund, which was labeled and extremist organisation for inciting unauthorized demonstrations and defines of russia's covert roles. but that's just a part of it. according to russia's foreign ministry, certain smartphone apps facilitating smart voting were designed by employees of a firm run by people who have close ties with the pentagon, in the eyes of russian diplomats. this is a clear case of foreign interference in the country as the election. plenty of materials have already been distributed through the communications watchdog and law enforcement agencies. ip addresses have been identified. it has been established that servers and technical support for the smart voting up, mainly come from the u. s. russian officials have shown no intention of letting this one slide and brought the issue during a meeting with the u. s. tech joins with us ambassador in moscow as well as handing over each row of documents regarding the lodge and interference to the state

department. the main message is, keep out of our election. it's related to the refusal of some online platforms to remove prohibited content. specific facts were handed over to the american ambassador. he promised to check this information while saying they don't have any intelligence that someone could be breaking russian law. as a result, we've already seen apple and google cave into the pressure and take down the values that dedicated to smart voting. however, in many other cases, american tech giants are failing to comply with russian laws by not removing illegal content like messages publicly calling on people to take part in an authorized demonstrations. and this is likely to remain the point of tension between moscow, washington and the with big tech as the doom election plays out. constantine rosco. would that report that we all enjoy live in a studio for us? guess a day for me, my know who the international for president of the bricks group. thanks so much for

joining us today. good to have you on the shuttle. russia has been reporting a lot of allegations of meddling of attacks on its websites on the voting system, allegedly coming from the united states. what do you read into the, how will that affect russia? us relations because we had previously about russia meddling. russia knocking? it's the other way round. now apparently irish actually always for back to their c in their internal system. this is the 1st time optical read 19 that to express their election system at what level and they inviting oh or c d to sign the observers. but they don't send you to some, their internal problems that play this social media. you no problem so started. so why did hiking by this ending social media on messages? you know, this is western world and sometime this 5, the particle issues,

they don't want to get success on this important election. but i feel that this mission election, very important because this is really a festival of democracy in russia. i envision people are participating happily and with their responsibility. i want talking, you mentioned that social media now course. i mean, we look around, i'm looking down at the street. everyone is carrying phone. everyone has a social media app. so many people read the news on instagram, on facebook. is it worrying how much control these companies have over the information that we read? does that need to be regulation to maybe limit or should we just say no, everyone can read whatever they want and they decide whether it's fake or not. i treat both social media expert that is very high, okay? and we can say that it is controlled by some organizations who are controlling the system. they can do anything from the back system like in

a freak and then in the election. so they all machine so this can in social media, digital system, every back possibility is the most important. we should know that some international proposed idea of freedom is there. full social media is independent and it should not be hired by some big agencies. but the big agencies, a lot of people are concerned about the big tech, you know, like apple and google, twitter, you know, they've banned pretty big figures. former presidents, big political figures. do you think they will too much power? do you think they have so much control over the elections that they need to be accountable? if you don't mind, would things go now? like social media? you know what i was so good game controller,

social media. there are also become power. okay, so power, all of us started to control the lower their own things. ok, if something is coming up, which is against them, they don't like it. they try to control it. so power and are, you know, this game is all of us on that. it is digital word, our digital word, but our game is always on. do you think that i mean, we were talking about online voting and it was interesting. i was reading in moscow, ready me, people voted online that they have in part to create the online very thing is becoming popular especially and covert and also i think moving forward it will probably it's here to stay. is there a concern that as things go electronic, the move vulnerable by more at risk of packing of meddling, optical paintings? well also you know, online voting generally, you know, it's, it's a database somewhere. it's not someone going with a paper into the voting booth and putting it down and putting it in the box and

seeing where it goes. you're clicking a button, you don't know where it goes off to that. does technology leave off at risk of being hack of interference? you don't always whenever new technology is come, positive and negative aspect is always there. but you know, now just changing ok and you cannot to stop. digitalization. digitalization is need of their time. i acknowledge it is fast, it is transparent, so it is the part of life. ok. and especially optical reminding, as you said, it is important because people don't want to come out from their homes and the election commission, they created complete digital system for whatever registered they can get their decision number and they can walk digitally. and i did do some falling stations during election last 2 days. so i find that 50 percent voting is happening on

digital because russian b, blood educated and because in country company guy anesha complete, digitalization is different than russia. russian election commission did the best that they use complete digital system. so i feel that digitalization is need of the time. and it is the economy, transparent and fast system. and it should be separated by all over maintained democratic system. would unmade aspects at all everything. not just you can agree. yeah, absolutely. challenge for the future that putting you on the international for the president of the group. thanks so much for your time here today. do stay with us in a cd just for a minute longer. now, how petitions are elected, of course varies from countries. the country as august was just saying, let's take.