no food, you know, really, you know, i'm not sure somebody either stuck a species in the cove. it, you're living like the theme and of own, but in the 21st century. ah ah, who's good evening and welcome to the coverage of the 2021 russian state. duma elections were up here and off the rooftop location prime . you in the center of moscow. we will be keeping you updated on all the latest bringing you up to speed on the background of policies as well as getting you from august a in a studio and beyond. yeah, so it is a big thank you for joining awesome. what has been a busy day busy 2 days and track because they 2 of 3 in which they can vote cost

that has come to a close. we're going to be taking a look. so what's been happening there last couple of days all across the board. this enormous country got it in just a few minutes, but let's catch up on today's was headline. i am now convinced that as many as to today and including up to 7 children, were tragically killed in that strike. it was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. tells us general, admit a drug. so i can cover last month killed 10 civilians including 7 children, a leading human rights group claims. washington only owned up because of increased global scrutiny. and protests in support of those a rec, to during the january, 6 riot are held in washington. the radi seen a peaceful fight is talked often. the media about potential violent the my story russians continued to cost violence in the countries

elections to the state. duma ross, his lower house of parliament, that'll be more about his special vote. 2021 coverage for you to sell. i me so action coverage will be coming up very shortly. indeed, appreciate a company here with us on our international this evening. we'll start off with a look at the 1st of those headline stories and the u. s. has acknowledged last month stroke strike and i've got to start killed 10 civilians including 7 children . not a single harris. washington had initially claimed the strike was necessary to prevent that attack on cobble airports in the final days before americans. military withdrawal reports have no, i'm to show you a had issued a warning to the us military in the immediate run up to the tragedy. thank civilians including children, were likely in the area. 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 us is cape, or were a direct threat to us forces. that was a mistake. and i offer my sincere apology. well here you can see the aftermath of that strike in a residential area of cobble 3 kilometers from the airport. there was a secondary loss which is believed to have been caused by a gas tank in the driveway. the us military so far declined to say whether there will be any disciplinary action. ringback busy in the

with more details on that incidents on the more, i guess the f now sent us this report from the capital couple get it been evident to many and many people that something had gone terribly wrong with this strike. you know, this was weeks ago, weeks ago because people saw the machine 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 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, the way very frantic and with people's nerves frayed 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 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 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 shrikes, 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 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 through quickly is because of the huge, both political and public pressure on the united states to admit to it. it should be noted that the u. s. military was only forced to admit its failure in the strike because of the current global scrutiny on afghanistan. many similar strikes in syria, iraq and somalia have happened out of the spotlights and the u. s. continues to no responsibility while devastated families suffer in silence. while they have said that they're sorry, they have also offered compensation to the families of the victims or presumably

the family. because all 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 drugs will go out 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 aside about diminish ability to strike it. isis target's enough guidance on america's last drilling strike of the afghan war. came just days after the terrible terror attack. it's 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 just sort of down. 0 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.

former pentagon security i left mark maloof, the deadly mistake calls into question america's entire military tactics. it is a little unusual for them to admit to a mistake. and yet they used to be bombings all the time in syria and northern iraq . they hardly ever admitted to it, the kind of gun really had no choice but to look into it. so the general takes responsibility and they're going to offer compensation that doesn't bring back the lives of children and the adults who are killed. and it also showed they didn't have good intelligence, and it really throws into question the over the horizon concept that pentagon says it now has and will continue to watch f can stand for any potential terrorist attacks out of isis or, or al qaeda. it clearly shows that this over the horizon approach is inadequate

or washington has revealed, it will be reassessing its relations with pakistan in the coming weeks. the u. s. believe is now about the interest and i found a song or in conflict with america's own office to come off. he spoke to the prime minister packets on he says he's disappointed by the hostile attitude of the us and a lack of appreciation for pakistan's role in the afghan war to blame focused on for this debacle and of one is done. 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 upon us just on was off to join this invasion of a son by the medicine become part of the coalition when focused on had nothing to do with 911. there was no pakistan involved in it either was in

a plan is done. there were no militant thought abundant, but this 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 goss bug is on 80000. 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 ones who help the, the coalition and who, you know, they are trying to look for getting them to the us, but what about pakistan?

a country loses 80000 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 most 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 a one is on for the long term stability for foreigners on all of us feel that it must be an inclusive government which, which, which unites of the time 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 over to the us. now, demonstrators have got in, washington, dumont justice, flows arrested during the january 6 riot who, the storming of the capital building more than 600 people have been charged to contribute to nico house reports from the thing. we are here in d. c, where the 1st amendment process is actually happening right. bought it. and it seems like people seem to be gathered here for all types of different reasons. some people are here on behalf of some of the processors that have been arbitrarily arrested who have not been charged, have not been around and have not even been given the option to be denied bill. other people are here protesting a magazine that they were looking for. that didn't seem like it actually happened. so you can see the entire protest was calm,

despite warning from the mainstream media that it would be incredibly violent. 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. law enforcement now preparing for the possibility of armed protesters at saturdays, far right. rally in support of the january 6 writer. okay, right now i'm security tight at the u. s. capital defense thing that's back up. the national guard standing by again. it's all because of tomorrow's far right. rally 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 be created here. which is once again the opposite of what the major media, because we are all, if you listen to the media for what, a little ology across the politician want us to be scared, to feel coming to our home need to capital on the other side of that you would think that a positive people response from the protests will yield

a minimal minimal response from the confidence that as more cost unity and more calls for peace began. you actually begin to see more swat team members arrive for look, now at a store coming in from the u. k. a court that has ruled that children under the age of 16 can take puberty blockers. but what's causing the outreach? well, that can be done without parental consent. the court of appeal overturned a judgement last year by the high court ortiz, georgia and good fast. you brings all the details on that. 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, you can only use gender identity clinic has one the appeal which refers to 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 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 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. they couldn't access though that the whole name, blocking treat is used by specialist 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. the, my colleague, you know, neil put the issue of 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 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 doctors and conditions and the regulations need to take responsibility or judging, informed consent like children. but we have to accept that so far in this area that i failed as an exponential rise of the transitional account sensation, 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 bad taste. that is the case to choose decided by the court of appeal yesterday. 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 overturn gillett competence. until now, access to medical care for transgender children, parents on the whole, 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. defamation of cerebral is not acceptable. 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 tub is so can they have, rather a girl will be a some does repore at the time you stop and yet don't then treat trouble. so it's fully a wow warriors want to go, because they treat her healthy body to change it to, to, to look night. the biological body of all the russians have been continuing to cost votes. in the 20th century on state duma elections will be taken close. look at the policies the candidates and of course, what exactly at stake in this election and not is all part of our special coverage from the very heart of moscow. we get see the whole city from our rooftop will be bringing over. they will not of this very short break. so garden way up

the i what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have. it's crazy plantation, let it be an arms race is on often very dramatic development. only personally, i'm going to resist. i don't see how that strategy will be successful at the very critical time. time to sit down and talk the, the war we have to come but a warning the feet had become even one pocket and was unfolded the watershed moment . okay. down in history books. as maki, beginning of the end of american preeminence, this is the end of the

news. the news ah, the news. a warm welcome back to all wednesday, rooftop few jo. over. of course, the full premises i recognized for the rest. why, right? we are continuing our in depth coverage of the elections of the state to do that is russia's know what help of parliament voting. taking place across 3 days, beginning on friday and ending on sunday

a lot of space or the voters to get through all that time. both to turn out in election so far was 31.5 percent as a moscow time this saturday, the turn out for online voting is calculated separately. that stands between 70 and 80 percent of those are just a much higher given this new electronic voting system, which is available across the 7 region. the limited to those all alone russian cosmonaut something international space station. also able to make that choice. ala government sky vote on line walter bras voted through his normal person back on the ground. as you can see, plenty of options for those of the planet. absolutely, no shocking costs. now, one not shock. he's responsibility vladimir putin who is in a different kind of south isolation. he's also voted on line of the russian president. it's courtney in quarantine after

a number of code cases were recorded among his in the cool, adapting to the era of the contact mach russia extended the voting period to 3 days, all designed to limit of course spreads and an anti virus one topic that has been getting a lot of attention in the run up to the election and even the last couple of days is the idea of meddling not coming from russian officials. consti rush cotton next up looks at how mosque, who's claims over let you to, for an experience to the barrel pound of course, whether indeed there's any truth behind them. 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 to move with some incense that their colleagues over the veiled 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 in dialogue with the russian federation is time to stop listening to the american in europe is our continental europe has a right to make a choice in flavor of good relations with russia. sca moscow was not exactly impressed with the move either, but he guessed that 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 guess 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 countries. internal affairs is entirely unacceptable. first, let's talk about so called smart voting scheme, that russian opposition activist alex in nevada, that his team came up with to try to take away votes from united russia long standing ruling party that supports the kremlin. smart voting suggests 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 the valid is anti corruption fund, 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 servers and technical support for that 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 lodging. 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, america's 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 a point of tension between moscow, washington and the with big tech as the duma election plays out over the years. parliament having passed a motion saying it won't recognize the result of the vote if it deems it fraudulent . a political analyst we heard from believe the move has nothing to do with the elections. just the wes own agenda. this is something that doesn't have to do with the election to know these, the russia phobia that you have in the world. now it's deep inside people of people and civil bodies minds. they, the, they want to feel like the so even before starting, they are thing, oh, the elections are rig there is, there is a problem. so i come here as an observer,

lots of, of the observers are coming here so we could testify the process. we could be everything working. so i really didn't, this is the agenda. this is a problem of agenda. even if you have the most transparent elections, the vast elections ever with hulu of the observer, it don't change nothing in my country, for example, there are no observers. so how can i tell that my election? i'm off with your, your, you at least bring people to, to watch your election. you bring people to observe your election in my country that not, no such thing. we should question this kind of agenda, this kind of strategy there is in the world towards russia. i think obviously the west is always a bit nervous with russia and when it comes to elections that shows off. now we know, of course, how politicians are elected can vary a great deal from countries, countries. so let's take a look at the process right here in russia. so there are 450 m p 's from 225 alec toward district. they'll be chosen to the state duma. that is for

a 5 year tub. now haul far elected by a majority voting based on a one, m p per constituency. but the remaining 225 are made up by parties, the past 5 percent threshold to get through. well, let's take a look at some of those parties hoping to see the 1st of all, the liberal pro goodness. you have a look all which means apple and russian. it's been around for almost 3 decades, allowed to the has waned over the years. you have a look is beth result was way back in 1993 when it took almost 8 percent of the vote. in the 2016 election, it received almost 2 percent. then that was of course, the party of growth that seen out a right wing, the liberal movement promoting the free market. now we want to see economists reformed and tax cuts for the walking cloth. the policy also wants paula to have greater control over the executive branch and picked up but more.