We begin in afghanistan where dozens of people have been killed in 2 explosions one targeting a president ial election rally more than 24 people died in the 1st attack which targeted president ashraf ghani his campaign in part of one province danny was on the hand the taliban says he wasnt the target Afghan Security forces were a 2nd explosion near the u. S. Embassy in kabul killed at least 6 people were rob mcbride is live in the Afghan Capital 2 big attacks within an hour of each other what more details are emerging about the bombings. Thats right daryn and the attack here in the center of kabul Security Forces still have this area sealed off it took place as you mentioned there a couple of just within the past couple of hours and just a little more than a kilometer from where we are this central part of kabul is home to all of the embassies many of the government buildings headquarters the headquarters for the military and police and we understand that this attack according to the t
Between europe and the u. K. But that idea was was really pushed out when david frost the government because it went to brussels last friday and it looks as if it was a lot of calls for not so much law but pushed out of coal in a very brusque way by his counterparts in dublin like today friday. The suspension of Parliament Andrew the programming as they officially call it didnt actually have to start until thursday and yet here we are as i said monday and the government is pushing it through early why is that. Oh its a simple without going into the fine detail its simple because this isnt in Boris Johnsons control could he get back control whats broken actually starts well technically yes as Prime Minister he has control of it as gordon brown the former labor prime min. Said a few hours but the media Boris Johnson does not have control right now hes not able to follow what he wants to do now that a lot of people might breathe a sigh of relief that but and some might be excited by some
Elections are very much about local issues woman thing else and its quite interesting that we have a situation in which you the way the old the old identifiers of quite what united russia stood for beginning to break down. And therefore i think that most of these elections really going to be in some ways referenda on just how well the local administration is is seen as dealing with what is sometimes serious crises sometimes not and it doesnt necessarily mean that where when times are hard people will be voting against the regime but i think this is this is why its important and this is why in some ways the the whole issue of the protests in moscow absolutely very important but theyre also a distraction from what local elections are meant to be about which is precisely its about local issues the reason im asking this is because in several of your interviews are heard you say that russian elections im not real elections and admittedly there is still fraud and manipulation going on some o
Sometimes not and it doesnt necessarily mean that where were trying to hold people will be voting against the regime but i think this is this is why its important and this is why in some ways the the whole issue of the protests in moscow absolutely very important but theyre also a distraction from local elections are meant to be about which is precisely its about local issues the reason im asking this is because in several of your interviews are heard you say that russian elections im not real elections and admittedly there is still fraud and manipulation going on some of it being caught on camera installed at the expense of the state but there also i would say some positive developments i mean last and a year ago the whole gubernatorial elections in the far east red canceled because of the fraud and arguably this is a much more unusual than protests in moscow dont you think that there is perhaps a day attention is being skewed from russia as a whole as a country to you know just a cou