i'm busy, beautiful. she's getting the best do what i mean. there's a camera. push out the, the russian forces repel another attempt by ukrainian troops to infiltrate the border region of belgrade, where 2 civilians were killed by selling any of this fat today. also these odd and we live in our special electric studio in the heart of most scope with date to all voting and effect now for the russian to the presidential election of 2024 already photo. turn out that 50 percent details up and coming on back with you in just a moment. i'm on the regents taking part in the election is one of the country's most changing south of the cities to foster poland privacy, which we united with russia a decade ago. it's the 2nd time locals that are voting for the president and

also preparing for votes, but on a vast movie, bigger scale, india outline the general election plans, which will take 3 months and consist of 7 faces, the hello, the welcome to the latest news update on our international i a michael question. i must go says it's the forces of the 4th at a fresh attempt by you training troops to the field trade russian border regions. drill and foot took the one you can see right now released bother. russian defends ministry shows a group of ukraine and soldiers trying to sneak across the border into the bow garad region. moscow says that the sabbath to us were quickly beaten back, losing up to 50, sold just 3 tanks of multiple all the vehicles. a saturday or on saturday. 2 civilians were killed and 3 more wounded as

a residential part of the russian city of belgrade came on the ukrainian shelling and that's according to the regions golf. now, will you drain in strikes have since been reported in the area with no casualties so far about the r t produce, i have made up which i filed the report from belgrade area today. not the tech has happened just this morning. i witnessed myself local govern assessed, h m o arrest rootkits work and deceptive. but unfortunately, not all of them are intercepted, leaving to people dead and 3 more wounded. i was a did all of the places myself and well, the best route area, residential building comp walking. it does not look like a meal trip target actually attacks on the region of intensified great lakes in recent days. just yesterday they were 3 weeks of ero attacks. as far as i can see right now, this is their main goal to spoils rushes of presidential elections. people are going to the going station. at some point, they're afraid, but they want to express their,

their concerns. the believes and basically they just want to win a world and they said that nothing will stop them from doing. and now, millions of russians are taking the, impose on day to how the presidential election, which is being held across 3 days for the 1st time ever. we're bringing you our special coverage on the lawn mock event of i'm a special vantage point in the heart of moscow. the yeah, we all live on the date to all the voting for the 2020 full russian presidential election from the entire t international crew on location in the heart of moscow. i wish you a very warm welcome. we continue our special coverage as millions of russians are going to the polls to vote for the next president. who do they love the most as we continue our special coverage here. by the way, what's behind me?

that's basically the northern gate, the main northern entrance to the kremlin in box. that'd be on the building, the couple of stones of red square, but ultimately is allowed the mach location here. and it's so good to have your company as so many people are going to the polls. our guests are on the list is going to be stopping by as well. it's going to be a busy few hours here as we can to continue our live broadcast from the heart of most go. we're hopeful, very optimistic that perhaps some presidential candidates will be stopping by here to join us for our special coverage, which will continue in a moment as i just take a 2nd here to which one of you a very well welcome to our special coverage the and so this enormous selection process will be wrapping up on sunday. be go to imagine it's not easy. i mean, 11 time zones, the biggest country in the world,

this is a pretty serious process, but as serious as it gets, can you imagine the turnout is old? ready at 50 percent on day 2. so it basically hop right through the voting process and it's already off to a very, very big stop. so let's, so let's talk about who are the candidates here? of course you bought the incumbent president, russian president vladimir putin, but there are 3 other contenders who was buying for the top spot. for example, the incumbent had to stay inside of my food and he's been, he's been here at the top since 1999. but let's address some of the other ones. a lot of stuff, a defined cough, open, new people, spotty, a veteran, russian. businessman. then as leon, it's slootsky even now leads the liberal democratic party a previously, the countries different amount of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe and communist nickaligha to turn off who has been a member of the state duma since 1994. also, by the way, heading the parliamentary committee on russia's arctic and far eastern development now from the very west of the country, all the way to its far east. upholding stations nationwide are open each building

day from 8 am to 8 pm, a tens of thousands of such sites as spread out all across the largest country in the world. like i said, 11 time zones, what are they doing this? well, all the election observe us so far, reporting back to us saying everything seems transparent and very clear if at one of the international observers and i see an inter parliamentary assembly representative told us, he thinks so far. so good. this today we were in the 3 places and we are very happy and very surprised the people i were at the and the a replaces very was a very well save god and a replace is and what are you willing to pay that? i think good use because of the central election commission. they have prepared a good job for the restaurant is

a big country east of all the of the country before. and now of course there's, there's some timberlands, but resend the russia. become more and more strong. we as a, of a long studying corporation we direction, we have a longstanding corporation and especially with allow media, we have 60 years of corporation that together now we need to have a very good present to, for the, uh, how big and follow the role russia then i'm sure that russia will guess upstairs with the election we as an up so we will go to new esl bought for us. yeah. well that's, i think this conversation further here went off the international with market slow boat on international international affairs on was basically a g, a strategic person as well because any time you hear me talk mock, you're always full of geo politics. i'd love you for that because at the end of the

day, that's what is behind so much of the foreign policy of nations around the world today with such moves happening on the geopolitical global chessboard. now, before i get to destructive mock, take us down to the front here because basically we bought the new and baffled regions of russia. voters are coming out to the polls despite continue, do crating and attacks along the border regions. talk to us about the significance of this presidential election, the voting process for the people in those in baffled regions to roy. yeah. first of all, if only voters in russia or elsewhere voted primarily on foreign policy issues. i might have a lot more work with but i think the real story of the selection is taking place in the new regions of russia in done. yeah, it's a little gone in here sown in zap erosion where the people there uh, at least some of them closest to the contact lines are literally going to vote, risking life and limb. now it's, it's you shouldn't exaggerate perhaps that,

but there have been attacks on voting stations. the cambridge team has been seeking to punish its former citizens for choosing wrong. is that, is that what you think it is? yeah. why? it's showing? yeah. so friend russian charge you were innocent, civilians are going to the polls to vote and use think savanski is trying to teach them a lesson. absolutely it's, it's spike it's. they chose wrong and they have to be punished for in this case. leave so late in the attacks in these attacks by these um give regimes sponsored neo nazis of the russia volunteer corps of people w is who have been captured of them and they are whole purpose for these suicide raids is to disrupt the election. they're quite clear about that, and that is particularly ironic. and perhaps even more pointed because we kept

regime itself has band elections for her ukraine for the foreseeable future. so they're trying to disrupt a democratic process that they won't allow to take place in their own country in time. meantime, key of the western back has already come out saying, or it is a political and immediate landscape saying, oh this, this, this voting this election is a sham in the, in these regions, the so called new russian regions. these people, none of this is the just about why do you think that saying that, well they, they have to say that and this is the same narrative they have pushed since 2014, the people of done boss started. they have no agency they have, they have no say in what happens to them. and, well, they didn't have any say in ukraine. they're the regions of, uh, eastern ukraine that are still under the control of the coverage him. because the ruling regime, band, all the parties to so the rep represent east, you grand,

all the media. and it's actually only in russia that those people have a genuine democratic voice. so i think it's a very good company that mock murray is a hot of a, from a russia is administrative for an offense. she's come out saying that her, it's expected that european official is going to try and one way or another to try and metal in, in russia's election. who did you think she would say that without proof or without evidence or you think so, how do i know something? i think it's self evident. i mean, we already saw the u. s. president joe biden anoint up point the new russian opposition liter. um, 1st it was you'll, you know, of all my of the, the wife of the alexi and a volunteer who recently died in prison. supposedly a blood caught caught, combat and complications of a few hours later he re appointed a new one. it was yolanda, whoever, whoever that is, no longer than of all my,

i think that might be the optic genario in president. i said, you know, anything that was modeling and that was, but if you a point was the leader of the russian opposition. i mean, i'm sure other russians were all eagerly listening to joe biden, to find out who the new leader of our opposition for the well, i mean, it reminds me of one, why do it with the venezuela? my daughter and america said, you know what, my daughter, the democratic elected president, you're not, we weren't quite a while ago. you were going to be the next president and it didn't pan out. that was like a sauce to attempt to regime change. but we know that washington does regime change in many parts of the world. if it fails, then it uses n g o is and the media to propagate this idea or of any way i get. i think you've heard most of my comments before on this, but listen, this is a very significant time now. i mean, when you, when you look forward to the future of russia, who's going to leave the country for the next 6 years, mark, what do you think of the main issues? what is the average russian care about the most? okay, well right now i would say is an exception. obviously the special military operation,

the russian intervention in the ukrainian civil conflict is going to be the most important. but because so many of the candidates either have the same position as the russian president, for instance, the communist candidates. nick like kind of thrown off. yeah. he has the exact same position. right. except he would separate russia even further from the west, pulling out of the world trade organization and the math. meanwhile, the candidate of the liberal democratic party of rochelle, not really liberal, not really democratic, but anyway, we ended slootsky. he has a much more strident position. he wants the space and the tempo of the special military operation accelerated, but exactly sure how he would do that. so, and it's a really only dumping cost who has a position that you would seek to prioritize piece and the goal. she

ations but on rushes terms, which is a very vague con, um, so in the base, the primary issue is the s m o. we see most of the, the candidates have a very similar or even a harder position than rush. so after that, i mean, i think there are, of course, domestic issues, it would most countries, uh, voters typically vote uh as in say, the united states or the united gas prices. yeah. we'll get credit for the book ish . uh, talking about yeah, pocketbook issues, inflation are these things like that that affect them in their daily lives? but, but again, this is a special situation, i think because, well it's happening right next door. yeah. and there are literally millions of ukrainians still citizens who live in russia and i have since 2014. and now many, many millions of former ukrainians are now russian city. that's right down. you

know, millions of them left ukraine years ago. so many moved to the russian federation. the western press, of course, went, tell you that a by any stretch of imagination, mach sorry for jumping it, but i wanted to ask you, look, you mean we've been living in russia for quite a long time already. we've been on the be seeing and all of this lucifer big rhetoric coming out of the west and political and media landscape. but russia is not just surviving. it's thriving. we are currently living under more than $15000.00 sanctions. there's no country in the world in this position. tell me something. how's the economy doing? because he's nice cause outside, how is russia today? i tell you the truth, to be honest when it appeared that russia was going to intervene. and i think i predicted a few months ahead of time that it was going to happen. and i sat down with my wife from, from the great, me actually, and we discussed the measures we would take to tighten our own

belts because we were figuring that economic hard times with, with the inevitable sanctions where they never came to didn't did i, those plans never had to be put into effect. in fact, i think of some russian, commentators say that the disconnect between the state of the economy a normal people's lives throughout the russian country is perhaps too much that there should be perhaps more of a price to pay. but it's very much the relationship between the, the us electorate, the economy during the iraq war and the united. yeah. yeah. you don't even know that it's happening. yeah. it's, it's something that's happening over there and it doesn't really fact. in fact, i think there are plenty of arguments to be make that actually the sanctions have had a lot of good effects on the russian economy. so it literally terms of software and so true either, you know, russia was forced to internalize. i mean i put to my russian con, friends and colleagues about this. you know we stopped getting italian parmesan

cheese. we stopped getting swiss cheese and so rushed to internalize and started producing its own parmesan, its own swiss cheese, and a little bit sun dried tomatoes and all these things that we used to get from europe a now produced here in the russian federation. and you remember when tucker carlson famously came to moscow a month or 2 ago, he went around some of the shops here. the shows he showed beautiful food, great fresh fruit and solace, and it, or a quarter of the cost of what he would have spent in america. you've got 20 seconds to answer this by and not only that, it's not just in moscow mits, across russia. the regions are also doing val, it's not in the incident of just the metric ball. the whole russian economy is sustaining. these sanctions were extremely well. yeah. well set mux a voters and international affairs, i listed you as a teacher, consultant, as well. always good to see. you don't go too far. might bring you back in a short time. thank you very much to have. thank you very much. so the vote is in full swing as we were saying, but also in the inside of the regions as i was discussing with mocking, well,

the causing threat of ukrainian shunning that is happening. although of course, food has come out and said any strikes will be on so now one paulding station is that for all she came under a drone attack that with no fatalities there, there was another shelling in the neighboring had a southern region that was friday. also the saturday ukrainian strike did kill a one civilian and during at least 4 other officials or excuse me, of ocean, was there in the region. so despite all of that, so the photos are still going out to the polls and in the don't pass republican, a new guns been done yet the locals are also voting now for the russian president, for the very 1st time. can you imagine moving a 1000 imposing stations and now open for the citizens to cost the votes? and after the 1st day of everything and find the turn out in the neighboring republics to past 52 percent? and here's what some people in russians don't boss, was saying about this. yeah, i might have some yeah, you've some, i mean the family have been actively involved since the very 1st minutes of join in

russia. they really loved the g at the 3 a part of the greats of russia. we have participated in various festivals and counselors that took place and russia in support of the new regions. this is probably the most i can do is mother to force the best truancies and in my children in your since we came here with the whole family. of course we will vote for families to grow even bigger traditions, very important to us in the future. we hope this things will only be better. we hope a bright future is not far off. this is very important because we have given the opportunity to express out position to show what we want. we believe in the person we vote for. this is a huge holiday, the choosing alita, who will help all people throughout the country. the motors, festive disable goes down in the history of all of russia. i believe that for us, the election of the president of the country is the primary task. the main thing is

to choose the right and necessary person, therefore, i urge everyone to vote. well, i mean, while in the crime in the city, all of us have a stop all that which we were united with russia that was about a decade or so ago. now after the referendum, this is the 2nd time that russian citizens will be able to, to vote in the presidency here. and the foreign minister rushes out. so get off or off. he's been hailing the election that but also saying that the crime in peninsula is not just the part of russia, but it will be a part of russia forever. we'll see if we will remember that disturbing a terrible spring when neo nazi sees how him, key of as a result of a bloody included tom. we also remember the notorious friendship trains which way equipped with the ideological follow as a vendor to suppress the inhabitants of the peninsula who did not want to give up the values that culture, that history and the centuries old traditions of the ancestors. the subsequent ends, the crime in sanctions, the undermining of power lines, transport, energy and water blockades,

only convince crime asians they'd made the right choice. the issue of ownership of crime, the answer basketball is closed, the peninsula is an integral part of the russian federation. well, meantime the french presidents and manual macro on a k, a little napoleon, he's been calling for crimea to be seized. he wants it taken out of the hands of russia. god knows what he wants to do with it, frankly, but he said that it must be seized from russia to bring peace and stability to the region. that is a sentiment by the way, that is not shed by the residents of that region. as all these don't quarter now explained, it's been 10 years since crime, it took its fate into its own hands, voting to become part of russia and the peninsula has undergone a dramatic transformation all despite the western. nay sayers who did everything in their power to see where unification fail. once he grabbed crimea, pretended deployed new move russian forces in the peninsula, turning the territory into an armed camp from which to threaten the rest of the

ukraine. we will continue to hold russia accountable until it returns full control of premier to ukraine and completely withdraws its forces. it is also important to acknowledge that the situation and the alternative is republicans creighton year and the city of citrus. the poll has further the terrier agents. a new crime is most grandiose project was likely the crime in bridge russia's vital artery of transports through the curt straight. a similar accomplishment was the construction of the to read the federal highway which sides grand opening in 2020. these are just 2 of many new pieces of infrastructure across the peninsula. and that's done wonders for people standard of living. the facility of good news. a lot has changed over the years. first of all, we feel supported by to ukraine has tons of us to poll into the backwoods. and

now that the city is blooming, that you will do take a look at what yards we have now. i see we have an excellent tool to supply during this time. here is i have received the russian citizenship. i have my own business . i bought an apartment and my daughter grew up here as a rush and thought to us, we can see for ourselves what has happened in these 10 years. grimy are officially left ukraine and joined to the russian federation in march of 2014. after over. a whopping 96 percent of the population voted to do so in a historic referendum. it's a come as little surprise since both ukrainian and russian statistics show that russians have long made up the main demographic group on the peninsula. as lot of air pollutant mentioned in his 2014 cry me a speech. many of the seeds of chaos were song decades before. like when former soviet general secretary, nikita khrushchev arbitrarily transferred crimea from russia to ukraine. it became clear the russian president, but in action would be

a betrayal of his own people. those who resisted the push were immediately threatened with reprisals and punitive measures. and the 1st in line was of course, crimea, russian speaking crimea. that's when the residence of creamier and say were still flu, appealed to russia to protect their rights and their lives. of course, we could not fail to respond to this request. we could not leave premier and its people in trouble. otherwise it was simply be a betrayal. it was necessary to help create conditions for a peaceful, free expression of will, so that the crime millions could determine their own fate for the 1st time in history. but even after cried me a return to its motherland, struggles continued to persist, light keeps blockade of nearly 90. percent of the provincial is clean water supply . presidents lensky, who thinks crime. he actually wants to come back to ukraine, was making jokes about the water situation back in 2015. but i was just

going to pick out what was the teachers the notes of good. oh my god. what what what then there were the blackouts that would run for months on end caused by key of fact extreme is to sabotage power lines running to crimea. it was only have to rush it was able to commission to new power plants, but the energy problem was solved in 2019. the whole country helped us in the shortest possible time and energy bridge and new power plants were built, as well as an upgrade to the existing power generation facilities today. for the 1st time in history, cry me a not totally has ceased to be

a region experiencing power shortages, but can also supply surfaces of electricity outside its territory if necessary. there were new sanctions as well that the west targeted specifically a crimea, but that didn't stop countries like italy, greece and france from continuing to cooperate with the peninsula. on top of that, the republic is heading towards its 2nd presidential election in russia with a new generation and have young people heading to the polls. so the since 2014 political activities in crimea has appeared because before 2014, there was no use political agenda on the peninsula, only up to become an impulse of the russian federation. did young people in crimea actively begin to be interested in politics. mentors began to appear, assist, and in garden young people. i think it is the duty of every citizen to vote and every vote as in paul 10 for the crime in us hold the same opinion. i see only a positive direction for the development of pri,

me and i use as i am representative of use. i think the tour is mode develop very actively and try me as well as the republic is. there was a miniature and you can find every thing here, despite pressure from the west war violence, sanctions, democracy today is alive and well and crimea just as it was in 2014. so of course that crime is a beautiful southern russian opinion. so there is a really gorgeous part of the country, not far from the crime itself. of stuff old is very rough, is black. the fleet is being that for decades is not going anywhere anytime soon. know that fall from try me as of as a whole is profit cry, which is one of russians, many wine regions. if you ever get a chance, try some russian one. it is fantastic for the meantime. a lot of coverage continue . say the russian presidential election. 2024 with the special studio downtown, the heart of moscow. we are back soon. whitmore the

. i made all the laps and the fever in russia. india is preparing to go to the polls as well. it's now live. it's much anticipated shuttle for the 2024 general election and what will be the weld largest democratic exercise, denied the 7 phase 6 week vote will kick off in april, although the result will only be declared in julia with all the details. here is, archie is runjun sharma. so the democracy will choose to begin. it's a huge task for india to conduct the polls. in fact, this is going to be the largest election in the world in the largest democracy in the world. they don't around nearly, in fact, 970000000 eligible for souls and they are, in fact,

going to be watching from the 19th of april. that's the, that's the 1st day of the forwarding. the boys are divided into 7 phases. the last few forwarding is going to be, 1st of june, the result will be going to be announced or full of shoes. now it's a mamma task that are going to be $1000000.00 warding stations that would be put in place across the country, which would be monitored by zones, especially in the border eat as they've going to be around 15000000 official, all in fact, also security stuff that are going to be deployed to make sure that the elections are conducted in a small nono, you know, free and say no. now in sustain, because this election is going to be 4 or $543.00 constituency seats. and the magic number for a party to win the elections going to be 272. the 2 big national coffee

is the competition really is between 5 minutes and everything. there will be his violin markers on the policy and giving competition to the would be the opposition leader ra, who's gone from the indian national congress. but there are also policy regional policies as that could be a concern in case alliances ought to be formed. and that is something that is already happening, both b, u b and the indian national congress. the are seeking golf alliances with a regional father. he's in is one body is not able to reach that to 72 number. then they can form into lions and form of government who is going to lead india for the next 5 years. we only know that to the very last to discount it on the 4th of june . but this is going to be crucial, especially for the bar fusion the party because that means a movie is seeking a thought and this is going to be with the faithful assign of that as.