food, you know that only give them up so somebody stuck a fish in the cove in your living like the fema home, but in the 21st century i the who's alone. welcome to the coverage of the 2021 in russian state. do more action here, rooftop location, the best you in town, of course, will be keeping you updated on the latest. bring you up to speed on the background policies as one is getting you analysis from august the in the studio and beyond that, how seen a busy day? not just for john to hear marinez wonderful to you, but also to all of russia to say 2 of 3 in which the electorate can call sub birth

. so we're going to take a look at what's happening out, the polls all across the enormous country. just few minutes put fast. let's catch up on today's while headline. i am now convinced that as many as seems to be including up to 7 children were tragically killed and that's why it was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. talk to us general admit so drones, toys can cover all last month to kill civilians including 7 children at eating human rights groups. claims washington only owned up because of increased global scrutiny. meanwhile, over in the u. k. a full rule that children under 16 can take the key block without parental consent. teradowski, we put the issue up for debate is for the medical professionals. ultimately, it looks on whether the child on the facts that the individual case is capable of giving informed consent. clearly not been working for

adolescent we have no idea what the long term result will be. of the noise of stories, the weakened russians are caught in the balance on day 2 of the countries elections for the states through mar, russia's lower house of parliament. so be more of a special vote. 2020 want coverage for you coming up this hour. ah me. well, so action covers, you'll be coming up very shortly in the se suited with us for that. and we'll start things off with a look at the 1st of those global news story. and the u. s. knowledge to last months. drones strike, and i've got to start killed 10 civilians including 7 children that are not a single terrorist. washington that actually claim the strike was necessary to

prevent that attack on cobble lab port in the final days before america's 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 k or were a direct rep to us forces. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. he can see the aftermath of that strike in a residential area of cobble 3 kilometers from the airport itself. now there was a secondary last wishes beliefs have been caused by a gas tank in a driveway. us military so far declined to say whether there will be any disciplinary action oh. busy ringback busy the. busy

me with more details on that, sir archie is more against the reports from cobbler. 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 exclusion. if they had been a car, bob laden with explosives, that many people speculate that the exposure, 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 loose 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 love freight because everybody back 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 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 worked 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 v 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 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 so quickly is because of the huge both political ad, 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 spotlight 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 all 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 go out and 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 a bud diminish ability to strike it. i just targets enough guy just on america's last drilling strike of the guy who came just days after the terrible terror tackerd capital airport at the north gate, which claimed 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 bi ministration 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 friends again, secure lists, mark maloof, believe the deadline mistake calls into question americans, employer 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 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, 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 we'll 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. the well, in the meantime, over in washington, demonstrators have gathered demanding justice for those arrested. during the john you, the riot. more than $600.00 people have since been charged with storming the capital building. and those seem that, of course, quite frankly, shut the wild. well, that's across life to the us capital on speak to all the contributor nico house nicoli caught up with you a bit earlier on. plenty of people where you can still see a crowd, maybe not quite as big as before, but take us through what's been happening. so what the vibe is on the street. and of course, what people are kind of saying about why that, that so there are a lot of people here who are just protesting the treatment of the prisoners who

they believe are being arbitrarily detained for being part of the january 6 protests and having their 1st amendment rights violated and the reason that they are claiming that is actually because they might be actually being arbitrarily the thing many of the prisoners have actually not gotten charged with anything, nor have they been given bill or denied bail or rain. and a lot of the prisoners are actually suffering and being forced to take vaccines in some instances and being put in solitary confinement and other emphasis, while once again, not being charged with anything. and you can see behind us, nobody seem to be here because of an insurrection. although the swat team showed up and to be quite honest, it seemed like the more there were calls from the speakers, for unity, for to unite against the police state. who to speak out again, the crow away that not only the president from january 6 have been treated, but also the crew away that prisoners around the country have been treated that

they now gain a lot of awareness for there were more cars that actually begin to swarm in and heavily armored year. all right, those that deny history are doomed to repeat it and we may be thing a re run of january fix and just a few weeks breaking news long foresman now preparing for the possibility of armed protesters and saturdays far right. rally in support of the january 6 writer. okay, right now i'm security tight at the u. s. capital, the fencing that's back up, the national guard standing by again. it's all because of tomorrow's far right rally. yeah. the oh, so behind us right over here where you see a bunch of cotton yellow,

there were actually the swat team over there as if there was a lot of volume processors, but there actually weren't. and in fact, there was one young woman who was very offended by the fact that the news had been painting this entire protest as a bunch of white supremacy. she said she'd voted for bill clinton twice. she had voted for. she voted for obama twice, even though she voted for trump twice. see the chinese in italian american. and she said that she's basically taking all of the political spectrum. it wasn't fair for her or people like her to be painted that way. merely because they are advocating on behalf of the prisoners. what they say is on behalf of democracy. once again, there was absolutely no sort of balance out here. and in fact, i would even make an argument that the people who are representing add people were a little bit more agitated. in this particular instance, been a lot of the conservative were expected to be. but even amongst the conservative door, a lot of mix left this view that were being represented and people going out of

their way to come anyway, despite the fact they were told not to show up. and they were asking questions saying hey, what can we re on, even though we did in thing, even though we disagree, hey, we can still not have each other. it's all, it looks like they are falling from ever being put out here to actually reach common ground so that we can see some positive change in this country. and i can just once again tell you for 100 percent, 100 percent for certain that the people were not here for any type of violence. and that there is a good chance that there's some positive relationship that a big could have been created here, which is once again the opposite of what amazing media clear all if you listen to the media for what a little allergy day across the politics you want us to be scared to our whole need to capital

so there were many speakers like the one you just heard. calling for unity actually condemning the violence on january 6. saying that this isn't for a republican agenda or a democrat agenda telling people to be people telling people to respect the police even saying on the way out, blast with mal at the cop, let them know that you're not upset at them for doing their job. with every single remark, you just kind of heard to 3 iteration of this is about human rights. this is about upholding the constitution. it's about upholding 1st amendment rights. nothing at all seemed to be about voluntary. as a matter of fact, one of the speakers put up a video of alexander cortez and when some members of the crowd began to pull her, he said, do not do her. that's not what we're here for. which is the opposite of what i was expecting to hear. i'm not gonna allow a little bit taken aback. kind of surprised, but this entire process has been surprising. like i said, there has been calls to say their name removed sort of what we heard about brianna

taylor, treyvon mar in erica gardner and many other people have suffered death at the and up on a kind of a police officer. so right now, if you're paying attention, we're seeing these movement merge into one. and given that many people in the machine were telling people to stay away, especially if it seems like they might have been telling people to stay away. but they didn't see that there are a lot of people here who are starting to sing the same to them. policy and gold a month after a cool start of ryan and those images that we see it seems it's just as divisive as it was. all those months ago that was nico how to reporting from just in front of the capital many times. well, in the meantime, i took another story, a court in the u. k. how ruled that children under the age of 16 can take puberty blockers. and what's important here without parental consent, the court of appeals over a judgement last year by the high court on

t shonda edwards gosh, the house, the story 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 the u. k. only use gender identity clinic has one the appeal which revise the 2020 ruling that under 16 lack the capacity to give the 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 firm 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 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 why 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 can excess 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. the we decide that we want to hear all sides of the argument to so my colleague union neil put the issue off puberty blockers up to debate. the court is essentially handing 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 fax, at 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 involves. and the pros and cons, it's fine to say that the doctors and conditions and the regulations need to take

responsibility or judging, informed consent like children. but we have to accept that say, in, sorry, that failed as an exponential wise on 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 rach from this current. whoa, whoa. to children going through the system just because one individual person in this case came about, well, it's not one individual, as you know, well, i'm referring to the taste. that is the case to choose decided by the court of appeal yesterday. in that particular case, k rebel has regretted her transition and elected 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 competence and deny 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 don't lines for the but there are in the wrong body. no child is born in the wrong body. they are taught missions, 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 top is so can they have a girl will be a firm does or boy, at the time you stop and yet don't treat her child. so he's fully aware boys who

want to go, because they treat her healthy body to change it to do to nights the biological goals. let's go back to our top story of the day off story of the week in fact, and the 2021 state duma elections here in russia. they to it will be take a closer look at the all the parties. the candidates of course. exactly what's at stake, not is of course, or part of our special coverage. we picked the view for, we're going to be following the story. we're in the heart of moscow. i'm going to be bringing all the very latest on that in just a moment. so i the hey, you know, we've moved on from just pricing lots of money and incurring lots of dad for dom

reasons to printing lots of money and incurring lots of debt for extraordinarily dom reason. join me every thursday on the alex simon show. and i'll be speaking to guess in the world, the politic sport business. i'm show business. i'll see you then me the war may have become americans. but a warning defeat had become even more important and was unfolded watershed moment. okay. down in history books. as a mocking beginning of the end of american preeminence, this is the end of america. ah

ah, the the a welcome. unfortunately not physically. it is very nippy out here on our rooftop, but huge. but look at that view makes up for it all. it is the crime going to cause, i mean, for the time now for in depth coverage all the elections to the state to do my rushes and lower health hope. yes, it is day to all 3 voting hell the over 3 days. earlier from friday through to the end of the you can to sunday that means the 2nd election day as well on the way across the entire country. exactly. and in fact, one thing we should talk about what we can talk about both turn out in the election so far. it was sitting just shy of 26 percent out of 3 p. moscow time this saturday . the turn out for on 913 is calculated separately on sounds between 70 and 80

percent of those who read to clear a lot of people choosing that option. this time round, electronic voting is available in southern regions. currently, what's interesting is waiting is not limited to the hers on us alone. russian cosmonaut at the international space station were also able to make that choice. that goes to show, there really is no excuse for not costing votes on the key. voted on 912 broad voted through his nominate, pass and back here on planet us as you see, plenty of options for those currently. not working on our planet. yeah, indeed, and food little bugs are pulling online voting and of course in a different kind of self installation, probably in the crime in some way. he's also been voting online. the last president is currently in quarantine for a number of cobra cases were reflected among his in a circle. adapting to the era of the pandemic, russia extended the voting period to 3 days to ensure everybody could cost vote on

before. and of course, to limit the spread of the virus still fall from over. now with co would still very much him on the selection. officials have seen voting on line as one way to avoid a spike in cases this autumn and winter political analyst. we spoke, she believes it's been a timely innovation, every other country in europe and on around the world. they've introduced similar things you to the pandemic. i think it's a safe way of allowing people to vote whether they have been vaccinated or they haven't been vaccinated. i think it's a i think it's good. i don't see any bad things about it. russia stand strong, and i don't think there will be for them in this election is moving forward, especially with how well everything is organized. i don't think that will be an intervention as i visit the different areas in moscow. there. it's been amazing. the organization has been fantastic. the video surveillance,

i really don't think there is any room for anything to go wrong or any thought to happen while another topic that has read it had again meddling. so next constrain roscoe, has we looking into roches claims or the legend for an interference in its electoral process? 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. in the past, the motion is saying the block will ignore the outcome if it 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 veiled threat. we surround russia with native basis, and we call them the aggressor. we support opposition groups and we accuse them a foreign interference. the european project is not being undermined and divided by russia by fight, the rank hypocrisy that is characterized in this report. it shows me that it is

time to involve 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, alaska. moscow was not exactly impressed with the move either, cuz 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 russia has been crying foul over outside interference in the selection. russia has irrefutable proof that us tech 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 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 found his anti corruption fund, which was labelled and extremist organisation for inciting unauthorized demonstrations and defines of russia's covered 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 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 us ambassador in moscow as well as handing over each row of documents regarding the large 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 in google cave, into the pressure and take down the values that dedicated to smart voting. however, in many other cases, america's tech giants are failing to comply with russian laws by not removing.