my shell is called direction, but again, you probably don't wanna watch it because it might just change the way you think. the 100 percent of those now counts it is looking very clear what the russian people want. it's a law that slide makes way for the russian president vladimir newton who i think did at the helm of the largest country in the well then speaking to the people in the new territory came out. cause that's all that to make that point. this hudson slide the concept from boston despite the terrorist attacks and you and i already noticed, well,

the citizens living in these territories have shown not just civic majority. they show coverage and continued to show it no one as i thought it assumed and said recently, no one intimidated them and it is impossible to intimidate out people. 73 percent is the total. so now, supposing stations are closed, the official tally is on the way. now. meanwhile, as like friend nikki has said on boardman in. the russian region of belgrade continued throughout the elections to people was killed, but that didn't stop them from coming out of us. considering the 10 situation, the feeling of fear was still present. today i gathered all my civic responsibility, courage, perseverance, and pride in russia into a fist and came to the post, the

a very warm welcome to this special episode of all the ends. and that's what we're bringing you election coverage all the russian presidential election as we hear in the house and must go with the best view in town as always on the key. aaron, and i must tell mommy and we're going to stay with you is throughout the night and throughout the morning. so do stay with us. the old, a latest twisting tons in this landmark election. it with this as it stands, bottom and fusion is inside of a landslide victory with 87.34 percent of the votes. according to preliminary results and almost 99 percent of the value is cost is looking very clear more i didn't which direction way ahead. i think monday we can say that the show buttoned up really well, let's talk about the um, this house um process is nearing conclusion. vladimir, who's in did hold a press conference. but 1st, let's talk about the other constance,

because that was some other key figures in this election. the bucks to announce is reported to be around 73 percent. as more i've said last night post and with the very, very strong lead. and the preliminary counts, the communist party candidate was in 2nd place with a 4.3 percent. and he was followed by the new people policy con, today's design called with almost 3.8 percent. and then split skip a liberal democratic policy which slightly over 3 percent was speaking earlier, last may appears and held a press conference to be can get lens as the always tends to do. so many key points you mentioned in that press conference. also paying homage to those people in the new russian tired trees, who came out some vote despite being at risk of being at multiple risk in the sense of what he had to say, a database to just get the despite the terrorist attacks. and you and i already know this, well, the citizens living in these territories have shown not just civic majority. they

show coverage and continued to show it. no one as i thought, assumed and said recently, no one intimidated them. and it is impossible to intimidate out people. there are turnouts, both in the new territories and, and the border areas. the turn out is even higher than in the rest of the country. it's simply a response from the people to the actions, trying to intimidate them. those who do it, don't understand who they're dealing with. but in part, maybe it's a good thing that they don't understand. because in this case, of course, they will be defeated. now they are trying, again, trying to get somewhere there to enter. they were destroyed. almost 100 percent of them were destroyed. they moved forward by 100 meters. 25 tanks were destroyed. the enemy has concentrated a group of around $5000.00 in the border area. not directly on the state borderline but somewhere in their immediate rear. but the overall loss is about 40 percent of these about 35 percent r, irrevocable, $25.00 tanks,

dozens of armored vehicles and so on. if they like it that way, then in principle, it suits us because they mindlessly attack. it's such a meat grinder for them, it's even beneficial for us, let them try. no, he did focus heavily on the military operation in ukraine because a fool, even though he has schooled a landslide victory here in russia, in the so called new regions of that have just recently become part of the country that he's figures in the 90 percent territory like and then that's can look guns for publics, for example, and allowed them to put in the russian liter has well made it very explicit. that he realizes what it means that he realizes that people are happy, that they are approving of the fact that a lot of my booty decided to take this step and defend them and send the russian army to defend them against the key of regime. and so he real is, is the version that is the totes, on his shoulders at the same time, the voting in the russian border regions. and i'm talking about the border with

human brain. very happened to the tune of terrorist attacks that while they range from the terrace trying to reach and to to in then to russian, tad for you to just relinquish showings, terry showings of strict disability in areas in towns like the town of belgrade and flight. i'm approved and he did not say explicitly, but he did do kind of hinted at the fact that the, if these showings continue, if you creating continues in this, so with its terrorist ways than well, a tongue will come when russia will have to create a buffer zone he, again, he abstained from saying that russia would have to grab any more aloud, for example, in the heart of region which borders the russian belgrade region. but he did say that the need for this, but for his own. no, well, it is growing by his in minutes. he also talked about into an old russian affairs. he talked about his political opponents and his vision full rush. at the same time,

a lot of my booty was confronted by wisdom just by an american journalist with a question about the death of alexi, nevada, a political figure in no position figured who in the west, 90 viewed as a vladimir putin key political opponent, expect to go, it was a few days before mister, nev only passed away. some colleagues told me, not administration officials, some people said there was an idea to exchange mister invalid me for some people who are in prison in western countries. you can believe me or not. the person who spoke to me had barely finished his sentence, but i said, i agree. but unfortunately what happened happened only on one condition that we exchange him so that he doesn't come back, let him sit there, that's all. but it happens. there is nothing one can do about it, that's how life is. if you want to know my opinion on whether our elections are democratic or not, i think they are democratic. conversely, in some countries, for example, in your country, can it be considered democratic to use an administrative resource?

in order to attack one of the candidates for president of the united states, including using judicial authorities, we have no preference for any of the candidates for president of the united states of america. we will work with whoever the voters trust, but the use of administrative resources, the judicial system. it's just to become ridiculous and a disgrace to the whole world for the united states and for your democratic so called in quotes system. that i have every reason to believe that we do not see any democracy, at least during the electoral processes and some western countries, including the united states today, therefore accept the return book please. 12 foreign relations came into focus as well. and especially russia's ties with china vladimir distress, the cordial nature of relations. and he made it very, very apparent that he is intending to stay on this course and to, to continue to strengthen the ties between the most school and big ging at the same time a lot of my food and also acknowledge the fact that the western partners may have

been doing their best to right. so the internal political situation in russia, in fact this was something that russian politicians of various colors have been cooling at the western partners out about and likely the russian for administer surg, elaborate accusing, openly accusing west the diplomats of uh, taking steps towards meddling in rushes that internal affairs, this was something that i asked vladimir putting about because actual, after all these efforts, he gets this mass of land slide when even bigger than during the previous selections. so i asked him if he believes weston powers would draw any conclusions out of the situation that the old, the f, it's terribly terribly backfired for them. it's just that simple. after all, these are not completely stupid people sitting in all the institutions that have been working against our country for decades. you know what their problem is, in my opinion. it lies in the fact that after the collapse of the soviet union,

there were a very large number of specialists on the soviet union who could not do anything else, but fight the soviet union. and then with russia that arose in part of the territory . so they began to convince their political leadership and the public of their countries that they need to continue finishing, rush off, and in such a way that they themselves will not be left without a job. but still new generations of specialists are coming. they realistically assess the events taking place. i think they will be more sophisticated, but they will not change their goals with regard to russia. paula, the media conference was rather expensive and lengthy, but after we've wrapped up with john, let's how to john. so to fix the brain of new to discover who was the spokesman for the russian president. and he revealed that the flat of my food team does not intend to celebrate simply because he has no time to do so. his schedule is passed and he already has several meetings planned, including the meeting with russia's military leadership. at the same time, he reveals that they are working on a, for in the visit on a, for in trip for

a russian president. he hasn't had too many of those in the past. in the past few years, he even went as far as saying that the know what country vladimir pooty is set to travel to. but he's still just showed of revealing the name of the country we will . of course, we'll have her to see. but vladimir prudent, of course he has 6 years as ahead of him as president. so he has a new tab and with the new figures of support, with the growing support he's bound to keep the country on the course, he has received confirmation that the nation is very approving of what he's doing. so he will carry on doing so. but maybe with renewed vigor now, while the count has officially come in and congratulations for president put in the have his a present from that is what nicholas, i'm

a 0. it was these comments. they're trying to see if they want to see him with more than 87 percent of the votes pollutant has completely won the war against the collective west. i believe it demonstrates the values of the russian people who were leading the way for president vladimir pollutants victory. it also mocks along road of vindication and recognition for a new russia, a great russia for a multi polar weld and for a world of balance. so i'll elder brother vladimir putin has triumphed. these a good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024. congratulations. put in and russia are triumphing on old battlefront. very well and congratulations from the dear road. the several countries at the global south have come across and congratulated to to new west. of course has taken an opposing position. isaac ways to be expected. the us says the russian pose would need a fat no free on germany, even brunt of the election, a pseudo election area we spoke to us politician diane's just an independent us

politician. i stopped, and she had said that these accusations being leveled by the west towards what russia i just had hypocritical. i saw an article in the new york times to denouncing russia for extending the elections to 3 days, which i found quite hypocritical because here in the united states, now we have an election season. it's not 3 days that's weeks on end. and the counting is weeks on end, and i found it somewhat humorous that they said having an election period over 3 days made it easier to commit front when our election sees and now extends over many days or even weeks and months. the western main stream media has become simply a propaganda machine for more and let me also express my

a concern of that. i understand that russia had to stop or successfully intercepted 35 different drone attacks coming from the direction of ukraine. i believe even a couple of civilians may have died in belgrade. so the kind of harassment of the electoral process there i think is just out of reach of the western media. also, by the way, has lost many of its listeners, as you may know, until they had managed to stop the people from being able to access our team very well in the west uh cnn. these mainstream oregon. hardly any wouldn't even listen to them anymore because they have found them to be so remote from people themselves, experience or believe using their own judgment, what must be occurring in the world and in their own lives. i think the election

with this. busy over whelming show of trust and support for pretend indicates the situation in russia, at least it's stable. i think that's good because it does. it creates the conditions for this crisis, this situation to be finally ended in a calm and irrational manner. unfortunately, it doesn't appear right now that there are many people in the west who are prepared to do that political commentator. i am the oldest of all these worlds apart from a boy code toes earlier. these elections are changed from the new bratia, but the rest of the world, the single russia not only survives on the diversity reaches the typical uh, explanation, but many of russians would put forward. i think right now russia is also driving on

its own sense of agency. i don't take it as a protest, but with i take it as the self actualization of both. because over the last couple of years, in the many years before that, russia had to, you know, come to terms of it. what it is, is a country what a sense for how it wants to develop, what values believes to be its own and what values it does not believe them. and i think what we seen this vote both and they turn out that the level of support for large and i put in as well as for other candidates, demonstrates that the russians that actually, you know, taking destiny into that on hands. i think it's very important to keep in mind that every nation and we know that from political science with no that's from collect the psychology the every nation has its own sort of basic needs just like individuals. nations also have it, and one of them is special dignity. and i think those figures that we're seeing

coming up demonstrate that the russians are no longer ashamed or shy to claim the national dignity. it's not about, you know, pushing something on the ukraine or the rest of the world. it's not about spreading your ideology, but it's about, you know, being yourself and, you know, taking pride in, being yourself that may also encourage other nations to stand up for that own national interest and for who they are. ultimately, it's not about, you know, leading the world to some unknown destination. it's about being clear what you need for your development, using your own resources in a fair way and dealing with others on that, on an equal basis. not as a sort of 3 church you, you know, some pupils but rather on the, on an equal basis. and you know, that may have, or if occasions for the west it's cells because i think many people on the west side tire, those are the kind of politics that the they encounter ones that own basic interest . i'm not considered one, it's all about abstract ideas of some on defined to leads rather than you know,

materials, things that matter to all of us. you know, how hospitals around, you know, how schools around whether you have normal, public transportation of whether, you know, the government takes care of the, you know, public services, etc. i think those are the most important things. and those are, you know, big issues that ultimately people vote on in every country of the past 3 days. we've been speaking to as many people as possible to get a real full picture of a waltz. this election means for the future of russia and for the future of the rest of the world, of course. and we've also been speaking to lots of russia and so you can tell is really how the russian people feel about a plasma posting re election. i've seen a corresponding more, i guess the as a joined of, of colleagues, jessica taylor and union of neal area to just to explain the solid reasons behind a person re election. look back to when vladimir putin came to pals. russia didn't

have enough food to feed itself. we depended on humanitarian aid. from the you web from the united states, everybody still remembers bushes. she could take the legs that they would bring over from the united states and all the markets and most google before the that's not enough grey. not enough of me. there is that was, that was huge problems in much that meant boot and came in 2000 and said, i will do this by 2015 bucks the is the world's largest weak export. as for example, this is for example, so people have trust in putting the, what he says he will deliver on. and there is a track record to prove that she delivers on what he promises this time around. he has promised a new industrial revolution in russia. now it has the money, it has the money, despite this conflict, it has the will. and now loops,

essentially vladimir putin has the support of the people you, you mentioned in germany, in e, in, in great britain. then promising you to the few months i had the few years i had that web posting came back from palmas. plenty is a head. these are programs 20 years ahead. the populace that they use and coming out and say, you know, everything will be cool in a couple of years. everything will be done to you, you will be prosperous and everything will be wonderful. now, he says, there's a difficult pause for decades ahead. but you and i, we can do it together and that is what he said. and look at the numbers. he has one move of the russian people. absolutely one to move the ukrainians of the west with the sanctions of the end, the bands and the restrictions that for uprooted. and the high ton of what this means is, is an incredible amount of legitimacy, legitimacy. i can tell you that the ton of itself lends credible

incredible credibility to the vix russia's new region. so especially hi ton outs with this a presidential election all to you spoke to the leaders of the hair as long as that the rosure and the don't ask republic. now they said that this election was a much awaited event of the blue, but most of the show me on the russian presidential election right now, highlights what will happen in the coming decades. not only even during the next term, but how russia will develop and how the domestic republic will develop as part of our country. of course, this is exciting for us so, but such a high result, both in terms of turn out and directly in terms of the percentage of votes cast for president vladimir putin also means that for us on the one hand it is expected more

. but on the other hand, that of course, emphasizes the self awareness of all the residents have done best. in the sense that we understand that a lot depends on our choice. and we have learned to understand and realize this since 2014, we influence our own future. and a lot really depends on our choice. those books. so to get the thumbs up i get. but the main thing is that people consciously and subconsciously, but gladly came to the polling stations and carry out their civic duty in general. this is not even a civic duty for everyone, which is a patriotic duty patriotic feelings. and as much as they express their attitude to the elections and the election of the candidate, they count on. and we have only one candidate. and then we have one main, one in the other for candidates are all decent people to the cause. but the main candidate for kirsten residents is the one who made the decision resulting in us

joining. this is a long awaited event in the russian federation. so the attitude of the west or some other countries that pretend they do not see and do not recognize this, but in fact, they admit everything because they have no other option. so unless he's near you, which there is no participation by them in our lives. but when they supply tours rockets, when they supply hummers, when they supply artillery and everything else and it all flies at us, it's cool. our children are dying. our people are dying on our infrastructure is being destroyed. and you, do you think i have an opinion about these bureaucrats. therefore, we will establish our own people's legitimate government and a russian one on our land. their opinion, as well as the opinion of these officials is absolutely irrelevant to the residents of this upper rosie region. we have made our choice, we are forever equal with russia and among equals or 99.2 percent of the votes have

been counted with old eyes that were so close. but the eyes of still on the electoral commission earlier or correspondence, all they do pinsky was that the, the headquarters, the south keeping an eye on how things a guy of what we've been seeing here at the headquarters of the central electrician commission just behind me is this move, we have seen as the voting was close to the regions of the screens going great, and then they being replaced by something else when not because these all surveillance cameras inside the places where people are boosting some 50000 to move these of being an operation over the last 3 days to allow people to have a butare view of what's going on all across russia's regions where people are voting not just posting, of course, in the 11 time zones that russia has as expansive country, but also people have been voting in embassies around the world, russian citizens making their voices heard in this election is also uh, being uh,

people voting electronically. they've been able to register for that since january if they see it. and that apparently is the system that has been the hate. we've actually heard from the chairperson of the central election commission. here's deals with russia has made its choice. the votes are being counted all over the country with respect to all necessary standards under cameras. in the presence of observers, from parties and candidates, international observers and experts. this is the most crucial moment. the result of all our work from a 150000000 russians almost were registered to vote. and we know that the turn out is around 73 percent. that means, or on 18000000 people have been casting that vote for the last 3 days. and that is just incredible. and it gives you a sense of re how big this operation is. this is an election that is built many 1st as well, and these oppose so will go down in history. not only is it the 1st election is

taking place in 3 days, and a presidential election is the 1st presidential election since the russian constitution was amended back in 2020 and not as it allows incumbent president vladimir precincts to run for a space term. in addition to that, this is the 1st presidential election that is including the full, nearly incorporated regions, interruption of course, voting has been taking place over the last 3 days. that really is quite important because it shows the gauge of russian citizens in this presidential election. and who potentially they want to see one of the country for the next 6 years. the we spoke to the ceo of real t b, madagascar. he mostly did about the security of the elections as well as the different methods that people could vote. i am surprised the 1st time

i seen in the world that the looks on is 3 days. it 3 days and the for the 3 days i go to visit the at around the 7 points. they shown every day and a scene in the 1st the, the 1st day i see them all of the all for peter sort of coming fast. yeah. and the, so one day you become up and the today and our own people coming to vote. that 1st and so only i am suprised about the, the more bite is points dition. in the 1st time, i've seen them all by the post special, and that's especially for the people come the forts, kind of go to the post station or someone to see course i'm on have a problem. and if they uh, come at a spec or condition, the link to the commission being the for the special and to tom why and don't be

sold in the us be dog. and the bring you the data to the post the show and then to 40. in the, the post special we've on condition. yeah, they have a condition uh to, to save the same post special. so that's kind of a system is very new for me and the i seen as well. that's most of the population as well. what for the next 2014. yeah, that's so the technology. so the new technology, i see the seeds. huge. yeah. one light version. it was the 1st time it's ever being done on a presidential level. so that's it is a big step. i think for russian elections will be interesting to see if we see it taken off some internationally as well. i want ask you, um, did you see any uh,

incidents with people misbehaving? uh, if someone either know, created a scandal or site to the pony station or if they, if somehow the face that ballots nothing. i thought you didn't see any problems. it's not possible. it's not possible because, you know, as soon you are coming all is in the process that you, you follow the process. yeah. when you are come in, uh they check your passport. he few out of even the listing to kind of go inside. you know, the security piece very high. yeah. so we, it's not possible to, to make us call in that order of the points they shown. they have a cctv that as well. that when you tried to, to find the in front of this is the, the, the behavior of the, the post isn't they had to have a model id, please you, you need to,

you to more be because a, you hide the, they should be v. let's be a not sleep plaza to have you with us here on all the international as we close the photo this has, sorry, both across the walls, biggest country and then go away. we will be back at the top of the hour. the latest news updates and analysis of as my colleague nicky said this boys at pleasure so heavy with us seizing the

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