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are you still doesn't such a good offer? i think the people need to take responsibility in their own hands and be prepared if those kind of weapons were less available. we wouldn't have a lot of the shootings and we certainly wouldn't have the number that i written and the you condemn rushes, parliamentary elections. just a few remaining votes, are counted 6 deaths and multiple injuries in a shooting that a university and central russia. the alleged attacker was under arrest one student describes, well, they sold my friends and i was standing at the parking lot near the entrance where the gunshot john and sold a shooter, spending 20 meters the way with a shotgun. the suspect was arrested by a single police officer who entered the building after he heard about the gunshot. he risked his life to stop the man who fired and i ran into the buildings on the
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person coming down the stairs. the young man pointed the gun at me and fired the shot off to that spot. in return, i run close to and pinned him down. i took away his gun and munition allies apart from reportedly counsel over top level defense meeting with britain and threatens to torpedo the use free trade agreement with australia, off of washington, london, and cambra, salem packed with sort of major french defense contract taken over by the us ah, i that monday evening at 10 here in moscow. my name is colleen bray. welcome to you . we'll use this our 1st up for you. then the breaking developments that the u. k. and the european commission of claiming that russia's state duma elections were undemocratic. while alleging suppression of opposition candidates, as of now just a few votes, remain to be counted. what we have seen in the case of russia over the last few
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days in terms of do my elections and also regional elections is that these elections have taken place in an atmosphere of intimidating critical and independent voices. and these elections took place without credible international observation. and we taken all of our independent and reliable sources reporting serious violation during the world. the doom or elections represent a serious step back for democratic freedoms in russia, the measures taken by the russian authorities to marginalize civil society, silence independent media, and exclude genuine opposition. candidates from participating in the elections undermine political plurality and are at odds with the international commitments that russia have signed up to us for where we are with the numbers, united russia has almost 50 percent. the communists, perennially and 2nd place, have 19 on the liberal democrats, 8 percent adjust russia, which merge with 2 smaller parties also has around 7 and
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a half percent or new party in the selection. new people has just above the 5 percent threshold needed to have a presence in parliament. now these results are final yet, and then account of course, for half of the $450.00 contested seats. because russia are also votes for individual candidates as well as parties. over the course of the 3 day vote, western media ramped up their attacks on russian democracy using any opportunity to discredit the duma vote his some of the reaction that we've been hearing 2 attacks on the pros. this is something that doesn't have to do with the election. so no, these, the russia phobia that you have in the world. now it's, it's deep inside people of people that embodied minds. they the, they want to feel like the so even before starting the 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 get gender. this is a problem of agenda,
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even if you have the most transparent elections, the vast elections ever with full of observers. it won't change. and i think 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 up. certainly not very diplomatic, just i think if one wants to judge the fairness of elections, one should got the maximum amount of information it rather, it's rather seems that this that hadn't been done. my view is there i elections in russia than it's for the russian people to determine what form of democracy should exist in this country and which parties should govern it. it's not really a matter for the european union for meeting the west elections, especially elections in russia, in the political process with about the 5 for power and not only domestically,
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it's about the 5 power internationally. many of those are going to nations don't hide pretty strong disregard and dislike for the leadership of this country. and therefore they, they use any opportunity to describe whatever happens here. everything is getting wider and more representative, but obviously there will always be some people who don't like what's happening here simply because they, they see russia as, as an evil force. i'm sorry to say that 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 confidence the brushing people have in the institutions of democracy, we're going to what this makes us very sad because we're ready to develop democracy . we're building and developing modern processes and technology. earlier in the day where we say took a look at a new party that's on its way into parliament. while what are 3 days,
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it's been so far and the results are continuing to pour in. so a new come to the russian political scene, it looks like it will be making it smog on its 1st attempt. the new people party accounted just a year ago and 2020 new people is a center right party lead to the virus tra, alexi that child it places to fight bureaucracy in the country and stands for the modernization of political institutions. the part he promotes social justice and supports the development of modern technologies. science and education are correspondent, eager to donald, gets his 1st reactions. now the 1st reactions to the voting, they could very well add to the existing full parts. he's currently represented in the lower house of the russian parliament. and, well, what better way to find out about the parties, policies, and what they're all about after all, even in russia, not that many people might know about them since they have only been form just a year ago. store, we choose to
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a couple people pertaining to how are you feeling at the moment and what do you think of the preliminary results? the even the preliminary results are quite impressive for a new policy taking part in the federal elections for the 1st time. we feel tremendous supports. it's a huge responsibility. what is especially encouraging is that russians across the world voted for our party. it's amazing. now $30.00 to $3.00. view chicago. what are the 3 main things that are foreign viewers should know about? your partner eluded me and somebody, me, and we represent modern russia, a countries striving to employ common sense in decision making. one that takes a rational approach when considering various issues. the main point is that our party is the voice of the russian regions. the regional agenda is our top priority, and wherever we go, it enjoys people's support. when are joined without pavel andre off of russia is
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central election. can joining us here on our rooftop studio? thank you so much for coming to talk to us this time around. people were able to vote using the smart phone, has it worked out okay, and is that a safe method to be voting with using your smartphone or has been not only smartphones, but basically an electronic gadgets like the desktop computer, a note book, whatever it hasn't been the 1st time the russians were able to use the digital electronic quoting system, the, the, the 1st, the 1st come was moscow. and the time it was also the region of the russian federation of the federal voting and at the central lower election committee we last night we put together the keys to draw out the results for the federal system. it went very smooth. it was very, quite quiet quick to do. people get more and more trust in the system the see the
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way the central election commission is i think, completely in an open manner. we were sitting together with a journalist with the observers. international observers waiting for the results over seeing how the digital electronic voting system has been put together to to, to produce the results. i mean, they gain trust the see also a lot of competition. i think you're judging by the results. you might think there's all of the same, well maybe there is another fit before getting into the in, into the parliament. but at the same time, we are inside saw why the fierce competition devoted. so it some sort of online foreign interference. accusations have been made. you have any problems with your systems. did you have any hoc attacks? we had reports that there were cyber attacks. we had reports of quite severe and multiple attempts to do to disrupt the whole all our systems. but
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they, they with the student. and as far as, as far as we're at the moment, we haven't had any infringement on the results. so the thing on top of a headline news that a gun has opened fire to university and central russia, killing 6 people and enduring 28 others. here's a timeline of the events which does contain upsetting video of what happened the my friends and i was standing at the parking lot near them trans. we are a gunshot journey and so the shooter standing 20 meters away with his shotgun women in different directions where it was cool and she didn't manage to hit any one thing, got shot and hit my car. luckily he didn't hit a new facet well alive and faith. ah,
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dave is a crowd of people was running, followed by a young man with a gun who was shooting. i thought it was the next minute so that one person fell on the grass there. why don't we just do this? we're not exercise. so we're locked the door in the gains office from the inside. it all started at 2011 and we had been st in there for an hour. and then the police knocked our door and they began to evacuate. the shooting took place in our building for, you know, i didn't have the shoulders, but when i was leaving university, a group of people had already got tons out. we had 15 minutes earlier. we could have been in that situation. it was very scary. we usually can be a building next time we are in the 1st building out that it was this little today.
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me. the source is that the university say a panic button, which could have alerted, everyone on campus wasn't activated because the garb responsible was one of the 1st to be killed. again, please be aware that the following video is distressing. this is the lead security footage of that incidence. the gun shot his way into the university where the security guard tried to stop him, but was immediately killed and traffic police inspected, dealing with a nearby road accident, then rushed to the safe, heroic officer named constantine. come in and risked his life to stop the suspects . you fired acid. i was on duty and was dealing with a road traffic accident when an eye witness run into the office and said there was a shooting near the university. my colleague and i went to check, we saw people running out of the university and also her shooting my colleague, organize the evacuation. while i ran to the main entrance, i asked witnesses where the shooting came from. they said on the 2nd floor i ran
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into the building and saw an armed person coming down the stairs. i shouted to him to put down the weapon. the young man pointed the gun. that's me and fired a shot. after that, i fired and returned, the young man fell down, i ran close and pinned him down. i took away his gun and ammunition and a knife, and then i began administering 1st a to him. of the person suspected of carrying out the shooting is now in a hospital where he's understood to be in critical condition, local correspondence of the details. so pretty little difficult. everything happened around noon, according to the various sources between 11 and 12 o'clock. i felt an unknown person came to the university grounds. he passed through a checkpoint and his photo evidence that he started shooting already there. then he went to the main building and opened the file that followed him, firing a series of shots inside the building. the students teach his university stuff, started jumping out of the windows on the 2nd floor. then law enforcement officers
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arrived at the scene as well as ambulance teams. the police did everything to stop the attack of attempt to shoot more people. he's seriously injured. unverified pictures published on social networks, medics administering 1st a to the lead shoot assistance to the victims is also provided by eye witnesses who at the university. at the time of the incident, students, teachers, and university staff. according to the latest information, the shooter is an 18 year old student of former law students, but this information has yet to be verified. in the investigative committee announced that a criminal case has been opened of vest unverified videos understood to show the suspect, leaving his house and getting into a blue master that will take him to the university. he has a bag with him that may be big enough to hold a gun again. we can't confirm if this video is genuinely off. the man thought to be responsible for the shooting out is believe that the shooter purchased ammunition
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at a local gum store in august. video shows the moment that the suspect reaches the counter . we spoke to the director of an educational center where the suspect to completed his weapons training. it transpired that the direct his child was also a pell university. when the shooting happened. good, brittany of, i'm going to, he completed his training in april. it's only an 8 hour program for all types of weapons program does not give permission to buy weapons that comes from the licensing department of the national guard. please understand that the need is the national guard that carries out all checks and the medical commission data is also provided that even the examination is carried out by the national guard inspect, you know, to us. you should also understand that this cannot be foreseen. we cannot look into a person's head into his soul for that senior, my child called me now. he studies at this university as well and was locked in one of the rooms. when i found out that this beast was studying a towel facility,
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or can you imagine how i felt it? thank god, everything seems to be okay with my child. but all this is very hard for me. of course, i have already brought up all documents on this person. spec, father told us he still can't believe what his son may have done. i'm in another city right now. i've heard various rumors and still don't know what to believe. i work away on contract, come to come around once a year, sometimes more, sometimes less and last saw my son around april or may. nothing could have prepared me for the one. when i 1st heard about the incident, i went into shock. can i still haven't recovered from what he suspected of doing when he lived with his mother, we've been divorced for 12 years. and whenever i talked to him, he just sat at home by the computer. i kept asking him, why didn't he go for a walk or do something else? this year he went to university to study forensic science on a fee basis. he hadn't even finished his 1st month. i think from the russian investigative committee right now,
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among those are the scene compiling information on b rendez attack. here they get the same photographic evidence in collecting spent cartridges. eye witnesses will also be questioned, and forensic specialists are also at the site. kevin, i will have more about the victims from correspondent donald quarter or beginning to see a lot of reports in the media and various media outlets with some initial information about the victims who suffered in this tragic mass shooting. we know that one of the leading medics in the region in which perm is located, where the mass shooting took place. it was margarita in house. and unfortunately she was shot dead by the gunman. she was actually on a tour of the university with her grandchild at the time that that happened. so definitely a very tragic incident. and we have gotten some international reaction for an officials from sweden and norway have given their condolences to the families that have lost their loved ones in this, in this mass shooting. and we also heard from president vladimir putin. he gave his comment on, on this situation,
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he called it an enormous calamity for the entire country. because for you, my condolences cannot drown out the upset of our loss. this is a huge disaster for the entire country, but the law enforces we'll do the best to investigate this terrible crime and find out the reasons for what has happened for thirties will take all necessary measures to help the families of the victims and those injured ones. you to expect a response that coming from the top very soon on. but of course, president putin spoke about this kind of thing before, cuz it's not the 1st time this has happened in russia, sadly. so it's gonna make big headlines. it is rare, but he's spoken about it before and they yeah, absolutely. i mean, i'm sure a lot of people, especially in russia, are watching the tv right now. thinking about probably the last mass shooting that took place to the took place just this year actually in may in the russian city of because on back then, the shooter was a 19 year old boy. he was saying things like, he hated everyone around him and he that he said that he was god, he tried to kill himself in the cop car that he was in after he was detained.
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luckily the police were able to prevent him from doing that. many said he was mentally insane, and the media and people that knew him, the investigative committee has yet to confirm that, but indications are looking that way. let's re revisit those events that transpired in cars on oh, who in the the the
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the me after that tragic mass shooting took place. like you said, russian president vladimir putin also commented, gave his condolences to the families who lost loved ones in that terrible mass shooting. and we can even go back farther to another mass shooting that took place, encouraged crimea, back in 2018. that had a lot of parallels to what we just saw in cars on actually just on the screen. the shooter back in 2018 and kurtz was 18 years old, just around the same age as the shooter. and because on who was 19 years old, he was also said to have hated everyone at the school. he went to even apparently
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idolize the government from the columbine high school shooting that took place in the 1900 ninety's in the united states. and russian president vladimir putin at that time said that the, the reason for this was, was most likely a consequence of globalization. he said, and going back to the cause on shooting, not just prudent, but other russian officials as well. this brought them to think more about perhaps tightening the gun laws in russia. maybe that this would be a solution to this, to these a string of shootings. and that has made it up all the way up to the government. duma and the politicians have been talking about it, but it hasn't been passed yet. maybe this. this 3rd one could push policy in that direction. to repeat, commission president has described treatment of france by 3 not a year. countries as unacceptable. it followed australia were abruptly ditching and existing multi $1000000000.00 submarine contract with parish in favor of the us as
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a new security pact between cambra, the u. k. on washington was revealed. frances responded with the cancellation of top level events with the u. k. c. surrounding explained, the french defense ministry cancelling summit that was due to be held bilateral summit with the british. we understand that there were reports of florence, paula, who is the french defense minister, personally called for that meeting. to be counseled, the british side are denying it. they say that this is merely a postponement, it's not a cancellation of that. 3 meeting the french side, haven't commented on those reports yet, but that it all comes, of course, as tensions continue higher as losing out on billions in contracts supply. the latest announcement of a new license, if you will, between the u. k. the united states and australia, part of that is the analysis of a multi $1000000000.00 submarine deal. the only snag is australia had already
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agreed to deal with the french according to paris, and that they are now renee digging on that deal. and some of the words coming out from the french side really harsh when it comes to their view of events, saying that when 2 sides reach an agreement, they must stick to that word. keeping one's word is the condition of trust between democracies and between allies. so it is unthinkable to move forward on trade negotiations as if nothing had happened with a country in which we no longer trust. now, part of the political fallout continues as a result of this decision by the french governments. recall it some buses to both the united states and australia and the french foreign minister joined eve luxury on again outlining the deep sense of anger in paris. over these developments. there was a lie, there was due place city, there was a major breach of trust in there was disdain. so things are not going well between
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us. not at all. it means that there is a crisis. we cannot play like this between allies and when you have an ally, you don't treat it in such a brutal and unpredictable way don't. so there is really a crisis put the fleet matters was the wiki leaks. publishing group have released the number of documents, exposing american conduct towards france during the 2012 elections in front of the spots of these documents show an intention on the part of the cia to conduct infiltration of some of the political parties taking pot. now again, all of this comes against the backdrop of. busy those ties between america and some of its close, his allies already strained because of the manner and the chaos. the matter in which nato led by the us withdrew from afghanistan, already many french and other continental european powers. calling for europe to go its own way. when it comes to military affairs, and these types of developments with
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a seemingly the anglo phone world sticking together, will do nothing to make those ties. any stronger. washington seems i'm saved by the french fury won't be reviewing the orcas deal when asked about the reaction from paris, the white house press. secretary, give a rather cur reply. you have no plans to abandon the submarine deal. no, we do not. this in our view as an exceptional case, not a precedent setting case. right. let's begin rasmussen who's the executive vice president of the erasure center thing tag. welcome back to say, what do you make of that from the us that america's refusal to even give a sympathetic ear to france, grievances. well, i think it's, it's a strategic blunder. i think at the short term gain. you get a nuclear submarine deal that by the way, australia i don't know if they're going to be able to afford it, let alone man the submarines since they have no one trained in the nuclear technology. and, and i think you've alienated several,
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not only european nato allies, but you've all also, and france being one of the longest and strongest allies. but you also have really created some friction in the, in the, in the indonesian in the pacific area, indonesia, malaysia, new zealand, the whole region. very, very, i think, sensitive on what's going on there right now. and i think from a long term perspective, it's going to be a very, it's a true teacher misstep for the united states. and i understand trying to, to counter china, but i think of the very poor, poor choice and very poor decision making. and i think the same goes for australia, i think they're going to pay a price in the long term as well. what message do you think they send to washington's other allies? if it's prepared to do that country, the size of france? well it's i think it, it puts a big damage in this, on, on the back of,
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of afghanistan. put the barry big question mark on. can you trust the u. s. you know, let, you know, it's very, very, very sensitive area. and, and i mean, here we had a contract actually signed by france so, so australia is going to have to pay some economic contractual penalties to back out because france already spent several $1000000000.00 towards this contract. and it was actually dealt to specific set australia wanted so, so obviously it, it seems like australia is basically going with the deal in order to prevent any negative repercussions from the u. s. that probably we're given a choice of either either to us or we're them and, and you don't want to be against us so, so i have a feeling they're politically, politically pressured in the end of this deal. is there anything really practically
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that france can do about this, that you can appreciate why it's angry that it's well so far down the road with this particular deal that it's, it's also come up militarily to helping us. it's going to major part of nato must now be sitting back thinking, well, what was the point of all that? what's, what's in it for us, but really, france can't do everything by itself. it does kind of need nato, it does need the us. so what else can i do other than show it's anger? i think, well, they can show anger. i think it's going to, it sends a message in the, you know, you, her, the, you already. so australia was in the process of negotiating a free trade deal with the you. i think they can scratch that at least scratch that for several years. maybe one thing settled down, they can re negotiate that, but that's out of the window for now. that's going to have an economic impact on australia. as far as count on the us. i don't know if they can really do anything in this case other than the actual, their anger, what they could do. and i've heard this discussed in other forums. and i don't know
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if they'll actually follow through with this, but what they could do is basically veto the continuation of sanctions against russia. when that comes up later up, within the next 6 months, a neck and put a really, really major pinch into the u. s. objective and it would send a message that said, hey, look, we're a sovereign country and if you're going to establish in the back, then hey, we don't necessarily have to go along and do everything you want to do. now that's before they've opened up a new front of bickering inside nato as well. ok, good to talk to you. well, rasmussen, executive vice president at the rachel center. thanks for your time and that's the way it looks from moscow so far this monday night. thanks for watching, i'm calling probably back here with your next update in around half an hour. see that the
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