gratitude will be successful, very critical time time to sit down and talk the ah, with hello and welcome to the coverage of the 2021 in russia, and they do my election. we're up here, it all rooftop. but to do the best of you and we'll be keeping you right up to speed all later bringing you all the information on the background of the election . the policy involved as well as, of course, giving you analysis from all get the students while they have seen a busy day. we are part of the half way point because the 2nd day of 3 and you can put costs that have passed. we are nearing the end, we're going to be taking

a look. what's happening today? yes. speak to us. hope all across the country. another time zone in just a few minutes. put fun catch up on today's wealth headline. i am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. i taught us general admits and drones so i can couple of one killed tennis civilians including 7 children and eating human rights. group claims. washington only owned up because of increased global screw thing. in the meantime, a u. k. court roles that children under 16 can take puberty blockers without parental consent will be but the issue of debate is for the medical professionals, ultimately whether the child on the fact that the individual case is

capable of giving informed consent, clearly not been working for adolescence. so we have no idea what the long term we sell and the reason why we're all here today, of course russians cost their balance on day to the countries elections, to the state, thrushes, lower house of parliament. we more bought the special vote 2021 coverage for you. ah so. a as close to our election coverage will be coming up and very shortly. stay with us for that, for these wonderful views behind us. but we're going to start things off with a look at the product of those headline stories and the, the us as acknowledge the last most strong. so i can have kind of on killed as many

as 10 civilians including 7 children, not a single terrorist. washington, another initial claim, the strike was necessary to prevent an attack on cobble airport in the final days before americas 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 direct threat to us forces. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. well, hey, you can see the awesome. i thought that strike in a residential area of cobble just 3 kilometers from the airport. now there was a secondary blast which is believed open caused by a gas tank in the driveway. the u. s. military so far decline to say whether there will be any disciplinary action. busy busy

the me will not, he's more guys if he's in the capital cobble, he sent us this report with the latest get had been evident to many and many people that something had gone terribly wrong with his air strike you to this was weeks ago, weeks ago because people saw the, the scene in the immediate aftermath of the explosion. if we had been a car, bob laden with explosives, that many people speculate that the explosion, the devastation would have been much greater. it was, and we also saw that the pictures of the grid, 3 images of the kids, 7 of them killed during the strike. now the united states maintain that the

intelligence behind this 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 then feared that there would be another terror attack. and the united states says that they surveilled this vehicle as it arrive 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 the suspects 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 works harder to avoid civilian casualties than 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 stripes allegedly going wrong,

but then the united states taking a year perhaps longer if a 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 are the reasons 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 this 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 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 strikes 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 tara attacked good capital, airports at the north gate which claimed 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 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. for pens are going to secure unless marco maloof believe the deli 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

a stand for any potential terrorist attacks out of isis or, or al qaeda. it clearly shows that this over the horizon approach is inadequate. well, sort of the king in the region, washington has revealed it will be reassessing it relations with pakistan in the coming weeks. not the us believes islam, but it's interesting. i got a song or in conflict with america this to channel or t r, but spoke to the prime minister of pakistan. he says he's disappointed by the hostile attitude of the us and a lack of appreciation for pakistan's role in the ask on war to blame. bug is done for this debacle and honest on it is the most painful thing for us to listen to focus on is the country that give the greatest number of sacrifices to for the american water and honest, largest son was off to join this invasion of

a son by the medicine become part of the scholarship and went focused on had nothing to do with $911.00. there was no pakistan involved in. it either was in a plan is done. there were no military thought abundant by august time. we had no reason to enter the war, but unfortunately on military dictator at the time, to get accepted it from the americans. he took us into this war. and this war cost bargain on $80000.00. people died in this so this country what we went through. the suffering we went through the forget about the people who lost their lives in bon attacks. the last to the economy, the, you know, when you have suicide attacks, islam, what was it like a fortress? so the country lost over $150000000000.00. and after all the sacrifice rather than

a word of appreciation because they appreciate other people they're saying, you know, what about the of, of ones who help the, the coalition and who, you know, they'll try to look for getting them to the us. but what about pockets on a country loses $80000.00 people will be turned off children of a lesser god didn't matter to them and being made to god for their failure to understand i think was the most painful thing. the thing that comes out most was significantly is that the taliban government must have an inclusive government because of a son is, is a country of diversity. the the push to element thought one of basically a push to movement is roughly half the population. then the dogs who have significant minority and then there was backs and,

and so from the, for the interest of, of one is on for the long term stability for fun is done. all of us feel that it must be an inclusive government which, which, which unites of honest on so, so really that's where we stand today. we will discuss with all the, the neighbors of one a son and come up with a policy or another story that is gone and quite a few headlines. a court in the u. k. has ruled that children under the age of 16 can take puberty blockers. without per rental consultants. now the court of appeal over time to judgement last year by the high court, bring us all the very latest and all the details thought he's shortly. and withstanding trans rights in the u. k. is back in the spotlight again as doctors are now able to prescribe puberty blockers to under sixteens. again, it can, central london, which runs you can only use gender identity clinic has won the appeal which revised

the 2020 ruling. that on the 16th 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 bow who started taking puberty blockers at 16 prescribed mail homeland 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 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 then 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. that kind of acts as though that the whole 9 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 weight 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. was thought to me a topic that does ignite a lot of debate. we decided to add to that to ally colleagues, neal put the issue all puberty blockers up to 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, does not violate 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 that 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 what all the treatment involves. and the pros and cons, it's fine to say that the doctor's intonations and the regulations need to take responsibility or judging, informed consent like children, but we have to accept that say, in salary they've failed. there's an exponential rise of the transition accounts on social media. and so clearly the system has been working

for adolescent. so far we have no idea what the long term results will be in terms of rach from this current co horton trojan going through the system just because one individual person and 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. yes. today, in that particular case, k rebel has regretted her transition on 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 over her and gilli, competence, and denying access to medical care for transgender children, parents on the whole, what, what what is 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 that they are in the wrong body where they learning that this is a unique case where children are indoctrinated on lines for the but they are in the wrong body. no child is born in the wrong body. they are taught this is fact in schools that children all boys or girls based on the, in the feelings and not on last biological sex. they then go to the child. so can they have a girl will be a son does or boy, at the time you stop and yet don't treat her child. so he's fully aware boys want to go because they treat her healthy body to change it to do to look nights the biological one year old. so mine story of today. and

indeed, the week they 2 of the 2021 state duma elections here in russia. we take a closer look at the forty's the candidates and exactly what is at stake. yeah, not is why we are here. that's why we've moved here for the next couple of days from this rooftop, this wonderful view. because it is all part of our special coverage from the very heart of moscow. we will have all the details on that of this short break. ah ah ah, i me ah

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the a while back to rob. 8 wouldn't be read what we made up with the view of course of the kremlin. going to bring you now all in depth coverage that we've been having week off the elections to the state. duma rushes lo, how the ottoman the voting call is held over 3 days in the country from friday through the end of sunday. that means the 2nd election day as well on the way across the whole country and go to a ton out in the election. so far was sitting just shy of 26 percent out of 3 pm most your time this saturday now the tunnel for online boats and we know is gaining popularity will over the wildest k to separately and sounds between 70 and 80 percent of those who register that's actually increased in the last few hours, days and version of course. not limited to those on of a loan. russian cosmonaut up in the sky international space station were also able

to make that choice a leg over the sky voted on line walter broth butcher through his nominated person back on the ground. as you can see, plenty of options for those currently off the planet. while vladimir pierson who's in a different kind of self isolation has also voted online. the russian president is courtney and quarantine off to a number of covert cases were recorded. right amongst his sako, adapting to the era of the con, demik, russia extended the voting period to 3 days. of course, all designed for safety to limit the spread of the virus. now, most goes election. authorities have reported a number of so called d t o s. attacks servers are swamped with computer requests and attempts to crush systems and officials said more than a 100 such attacks, what prevented on the opening day of the boat? we got more on this and how generally online dating has been going from

a number of rushes at central election commission. so would you look automation of the voting process? ambrosia has been going on since the late 19th. we've come a long way to now be doing it for the state duma elections and we're having electronic voting in 7 regions of the russian federation was 10 out is quite high. we're seeing how actively voted using it. because of course, we've taken unprecedented measures to ensure that the vote is safe. we studied the international experience of organizing such a vote. we even had training sessions, particularly for the current elections. prizes were offered for hacking the system, no 11 unlike in previous years, no one was able to hack this electoral system. one of the main difficulty right now is the attacks from abroad on our electrical system. this is a direct intervention. the d dos attacks attempts to bring our sites our electronic systems down. obviously we're checking for any hacking,

but so far they've been no hack. no technical failures related to the use of tax. western partners who are committed to democracy are actually trying to use money today to discredit our elections and democratic procedures. in fact, by lowering the competence the russian people have in the institutions of democracy . what's this makes us very sad because we're ready to develop democracy. we're building and developing modern processes and technologies. well, much wasn't in ross coff has been looking into rushes claims of lex, florida, interference in its own actual process. what is this if not foreign interference? not a single vote has yet been counted in brushes, election, and yet the european parliament is talking about not recognizing the result. in the past, the motion is 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 nathan basis, and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them a foreign interference. the european project is not been undermined and divided by russia, but by the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report. it tells me that it is time to embark on a path of 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, alaska. moscow was not exactly impressed with the move either, but he guessed 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 u. s.

department of state. well, it's not the 1st time rush has been crying foul over outside interference in the selection. russia has irrefutable pre said us tag giant 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. a long standing ruling party that supports the kremlin. smart voting suggests you mark your ballot for a rival candidate who is 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 and corruption fun which was labeled and extremist organisation for inciting unauthorized demonstrations and defines of rushes cobra rules. 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 countries 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 service 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 the 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 came into the pressure and take down the valid this app dedicated to smart voting. however, in many other cases, americus 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 duma election plays out. of course, we know how politicians are elected can vary quite distinctly from country to country. so let's look now at the process right here in russia, $450.00 piece from $225.00, that total district will be chosen to the state through my not for a 5 year term. now, how far are elected by majority voting? so that's based on one and p talk constituency, but the remaining 225 on may dot by parties that part of 5 percent threshold to get

through. well, let's take a look at some of those parties hoping to win those things. one of them is the greens as the name suggests. the policy has a strong environmental agenda with one of its main names to stop deforestation. it started as a social movement in 1993, seeking a so called green resolution. the party wanted just down to one percent of the vote in 2016 election. that is well below that 5 percent threshold for entering parliament. another container, of course, in the selection is the liberal democratic policy of russia, which is that the nationalist end of the political spectrum has the same leader is always had enough q who found the policy at the end of the soviet hero. true veteran of the russian domestic political about makes the liberal democrats, the oldest all rushes political parties promote patriotism and an anti western star along with a tough line and immigration,

the l. d. p on the call to came 3rd in the last lecture. well, i think the bells tolling right behind to pass that key time. that is the 50 telling us it's time for us to go inside and warm up little bit, but it's good bye from the election. h q for this hour. don't worry though, our team will be keeping you up today throughout the remaining 2 days, and we will also bring one important call to you by monday morning. the know that that's it from us. daniel, who was watching back with you in the corporate out of the news the boom boston.