because danielle coming wasn't here versus the just behind me is the very heart of the spots country at home. music festivals, christmas mall kids, a big 3 day parades. and today, it was hosting a concepts to celebrate the 10th of last 3 of crime is reunification with russia, with vladimir 210 congratulating the nation on this historic date. crimea is 1st and foremost the people. they carried faith in the fatherland through the decades. they have never separated themselves from russia, and this is what allowed crimea to return to common families. meanwhile, the return in head of state had special praise with those and kept the presidential apollo to regents coming under constant attack by you premium forces, which didn't stop even after the boating draft and congratulations to

apply the new brooklyn's election. when all par needing from around the world with india and china, i'm the latest defend their best solution. that's in contrast to the purchase isn't and condemnation heard from the west. the good morning. this is our to international come into live from months ago. i'm a day show a judge with a top stories this. our accountant is now done in the russian presidential election, and it is vladimir puts in who will officially lead the nation for the next 6 years after securing 87 percent of the votes. gassed my colleagues, jessica taylor and the r t team and central must go takes us through all the developments around in that special day anniversary in the countries are present

history. the very welcome to all the international um 12 beautiful panoramic studio, which is of course just outside the kremlin rules. it's from here that we have been keeping an eye on this 2024 russian presidential election. so what we know, 3 days of virtual balance accounts counted not met boots and has secured his victory with more than 87 percent of the vote. so he will be up the home of this false country for the next 6 years. people across the russia today also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the reunification of the black sea peninsula of crimea with russia. and a huge celebratory concept was held on the state and was couples of red squad just

behind me was like my boots in himself making a surprise, a parent that i gave that was yeah. different. but it is my heart. i agree to. oh, and congratulate you on the celebration under unification of crimea instead of us before we the russia. exactly 10 years ago, sit here on red square on the same stage is i remembered that crime, you know, is often called an unthinkable aircraft carrier. this is what led me to the idea of seeing that creamy it has returned to its native harbor. but crimea is not only a strategically important territory. this is not only our history, our traditions and the pride of russia because cry. mia is the 1st and foremost the people of the residents would have to invest a full cry me and they are our pride because they carries faces in the fatherland through the decades we have never separated themselves from russia. and this is what allowed crime. yes. to return to our common beautiful families,

thousands of people slopes to the red square to celebrate and they're celebrating. here's a hint for you. what exactly is the form of reason? it's not just the elections that took place just yesterday. i bought them a put in the want them to buy a land slide, but also if you pay attention uh the, the stage behind me and the right thing on top of it says, craig, mia, russia, civic, stop hold. because basically it's the 10 year anniversary since pride made a resent respond that became part of the russian federation. again, a lot of my food was not alone on the stage when it comes to my profile gets out of account. it's under his political rivals, joined him, and they didn't have a chance to address the crowd as well as what they had to say. we're ship if all of us remember how actively vladimir putin has done every thing to support the aspirations of crime in people. and help them to return home and yeah, russia and crimea is one homeland wheeler. those times were turbulent,

but there was no other option, but to return home or the, we remember those happy faces in all these 10 years and it was just we remember the sparking eyes and smiles of those who returned home. those who return to the great russia, i think i will never forget the sense of pride i had for my country and for my president. exactly 10 years ago is this way of congratulations? no, of course it was me just a lot of supports and everybody moves were just celebrating the say occasion. oh, so vitamin conky don's under is the trustees. many of them were here mingling with the crowd as well. we had a chance to, to, to some of them the other today. i most definitely celebrate 2 things. that was the 1st is the flawless and undisputed victory of vladimir putin was in. the 2nd one of which is especially dear to me is i'm a crime in is a 10 year anniversary of crimea. and so i suppose reunion with russia. this has been a most important event for both crime eons and russia as

a whole. and the most important thing here is that our people have rejoined our one big family and those from try me, i feel like a part of it. i knew brought up rushes, regions demonstrate great unity. now somewhere vladimir putin. one more of those elsewhere he one less, but everywhere he's in 1st place. so society is now consolidated people from all new regions voted like that because they understand now after years of being bombed by their own country, that russia is the only force that can and will protect them. now we are here and we thing the off president we got we got the process. we are here with the process. i'm been general. i have to tell you basically getting here was a challenge in itself because central most go as being completely blocked,

entirely by massive crowds of people working on the sun has already said you're in most colt bucks a year. all the red spy has royce, as they i have to tell you because the, well, so many people have decided to show up here one thing. but i noticed since you left the civil, many don't take the trouble. so make one but maybe 25 years old. so very, very young crowd is the president, the generation here, just checking out this crowd. it says, oh, really i'm here. we're saying though it seemed far so people don't think it kind of thing on the thing and very, very, very used to. so a very 1st the most go on your own. we sat down with all to contribute to talk or

read to talk through the wes escalation or rhetoric on cry. man, you know, because of location of where crime crimea is, of course, and some of the other locations of the new regions. and they don't recognize the history. i, me is russian. the people are russian, they speak russian, the culture is russian. they voted 94 to 97 percent to be with russia. and to be, you know, under the russian federation, there's just no question. but that's a mandate. you know, it's part of russia. so it's really something and it's really a reach when the western, you know, again, tries to impose their views on, you know, other solver nations like the russian federation and telling them what they're, you know, and one of my concerns is they're going to target crimea. you know, and i had said this last spring and i was worried about the things that i had heard from, you know, the biting administration that insiders there is there was even discussion about trying something with the spring of 2024. so i'm hoping that that information is

wrong and i'm hoping it will be forwarded. and i'm hoping that that cooler heads will prevail and late because that is a red line. and vladimir putin, president putin made it very clear. if that line is cross that could lead to possible global conflict. searching, wrapped up the russian border region of belgrade was, again showed by ukrainian full says 4 people were killed and 4 others wounded in monday on monday, a loan and the governor says that as always, it was civilian infrastructure that was targeted with at least 10 residential houses down that you can see fuel cells on the screens the of to secure and his convincing victory vitamin did meet with the 3 of the candidates who are in the running alongside him. so the 3 congratulate said, the president elect, i may express that they will absolutely willing and ready to contribute in any way that they can and to help address any issues that they talked about and raise during that road. campaigning unlocked the legs and breasts of is vast. countries

just to recap the latest on the results all bought, it's counted. vladimir putin has secured over 87 percent of the vote. communist policy content nuclei howard tunnel. he spoke 1st off the boot and he took 2nd place around 4.3 percent, but you can see on your screen. so i've got this off at dublin. cough you came in. it's sad, perhaps disappointing, but a new face not a bad showing for an incredibly young and kiddie a very vicious pass and someone to watch out for in the future. and then of course, rounding ourselves through the full place that was to otp also landed slootsky audio. i was joined in the studio by don kovachick, who himself was an international observer of these elections. and he gave his take on the west, in accusations about the lack of democracy in the vote. it seems like it was a great exercise and in democracy, i mean, 1st of all you had

a turn out of something like what a 77 percent or that's extraordinary. to put it in one way, a 3 capitalist candidate say add a communist candidate that came in 2nd. so in the united states, i don't have a socialist candidate to choose from. i have to capitalist candidates who are basically the same. i can choose from one who's completely senile and the other who's basically a carnival barker got a soft oven cough expressed some movements uh, concerns about the on the well and ukraine. but the people who criticize the make it sound system, their own nations on to will crack true anti war candidates just to, to a penny that just, you know, put the club now pavements. right. but i mean, you're an american, see, you know, american politics. it is literally about the big box. it's about the lobby as a super packs the donors. if you put the money, you get a chance to rotten. can you ever imagine in america a true, someone who speaks against idea fox and somebody says, i think we should bomb syria occupied those oil fields. a bomb young man with

a true on to will can to have the opportunity to run for office in america. no, i mean the one candidate, we have a couple candidates that are running on those types of platforms. one is cornell, west who will not make a dent in the elections and he's getting notes coverage. bobby kennedy is running somewhat on a piece platform. he also is getting no publicity, he also will have a hard time even getting on the ballots in all 50 states, but even he is very unconditionally supportive of the i d f. but amongst the 2 major parties, the 2 parties that have any chance of winning and the last candidate that really try to counter that are the last president who really tried to box that was named john f. kennedy and he was murdered. and i really think, and i said this last night, i think that the republic died with him and we really have been run by what president and president eisenhower termed the military industrial complex. there

was some criticism of putin's election in the west re election, landslide victory. congratulations. so all still coming in from of the pockets of the world web. that's china, venezuela. nicaragua was by john batteries just among the many nations, the latest to throw in his will message for a lot of my boots and was the indian prime minister run for moody one. congratulations to mr. vladimir putting on his re election as the president of the russian federation. i look forward to working together to fill those trends in the time tested, special and privileged strategic partnership between india and russia in the years to come a whole lot of country, the congratulated dog johnson airport. then you can just go on and on. really, we just heard from the indian, so i'm going to send a new movie who congratulated automatically within. so they've been a lot of congratulations messages on twitter, but also several phone calls off. we've also seen, i'll talk a start in fact uh,

i'll reach out and, and basically congratulating bother me and put in there also seem to be hold the desk. i'll have the cooperation between the 2 countries on the forks, in fact us to reach a lot them. it was the president of elizabeth on the future policy and we've moved in 87 percent of the vote 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 clinton's victory. it also marks a long road of vindication and recognition for a new russia, a great russia for a multi polar weld and for a world of balance. so our elder brother, vladimir putin has triumphed. these are good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024 on the way a congratulations from windham clinton and russia. art financing on old battlefront . send your ribbons. no wonder your all of these warm messages from across the world for well develop within us causes vest and there's no surprise that which is

sort of starting right now. and you can really make that out from the kind of reactions that you're getting awesome. calling it e will the election, some calling it's repression. a some also calling get. he knew some calling you illegal. so i'm calling it's far with the pointer, means that one of the congratulatory more messages a dead alcorda and in from across the world for about the near future, sort of a would teaching all of these messages from the west social states. now the indian to us as prime minister that is a new movie, he congratulated the may put the, the relationship between india and russia has been very, very strong in the last few years as well. with india was under pressure, had had several strips coming from uh from the west and con fees to distance itself from west coast, just cause it discontinued if bilateral relationship is partnership with friendship

. with most cool. no, very interesting, but the real folks are in election here for india and the movie is seeking a code on the election starts some waiting april 19th of interest, and the results would be announced on june of possibly in the few months. so we could see that the support that might to congratulate on this movie or the congratulations to pitch and coming in from the global south are and somewhat stark contrast to what we're hearing from the west. the outcome was never in doubt. cremeans controls absolutely everything, including the elections. so what's the point of them? this may have been an election, but it certainly wasn't a contest. it was stage manage. it says the election to place and what it called a highly restricted environment, such a reaction from, uh, western officials and even in western media generally becomes a surprise. especially after pumping so many billions, so severe taxpayers,

money into ukraine and into detouring versus efforts and ukraine. i mean, it would have been strange if they started celebrating putting this real action. just if you look at some of the headlines and what they say, calling this election a sham, a fraud, you know, fake, illegitimate, and so on. you kind of get the ide should really quickly of the vibe around the selection. if we look at some of the official comments, i'd say they wouldn't really different much from this the general tangle of media coverage. this was an incredibly on democratic process. and certainly him being president of russia. it does not excuse him, of is of his, i'll talk or see. there's also been a reaction from france, for instance, the french foreign ministry. you said that russia failed to create the necessary conditions for a fair and free election. the head of the european union's diplomacy shows that beryl, he said that the election lacked fairness and openness. and he said that it quote

unquote, it was backed by repression and intimidation. which is kind of interesting because it's just a few days prior to the start of the vote. the european parliament officially said that they were not gonna look after the selection not get there. we're not gonna pay much attention to it. but i think mr. bottles is just a remarks they just prove that they simply impossible. i mean, if we're talking about some random tiny, exotic states, somewhere in the, i don't know, pacific oceans and sure you could probably ignore a presidential election there. but we're talking about the biggest country in the world with a nuclear arsenal. it's simply impossible to ignore the election of the next president to the french of the president crohn his extra he made some comments. now he says that he can congratulate food in on his victory because of the recent debt to offer us as a position activist. so that i'll exceed the bombing, but i think the more the most um,

i'd say what you should come into and i would range these the comments actually from a plane, from disapproval to condemnation and then a just blaine to it. so it's a really strange comment that came out of last year. the president of the country says that russian just simply should not exist. i mean, how do you actually evaluate that? and imagine if, say vladimir potent made a similar con, the comment regarding lots. yeah, i don't think the reaction would be as bold, but of course there was also a comment from vladimir zalinski, the president of ukraine, who's called this election a legitimate. but he actually has raised criticism from one of the french politicians, the head of the patriots party. who said that zalinski, when he doesn't have a saying this, because he actually canceled the presidential election in his own country just which was supposed to take place with march. the height of impudence,

zalinski this morning, he allowed himself to criticize the russian presidential election. while he himself had cancelled the ukrainian presidential election, which was scheduled for march 2024 after having already cancelled the parliamentary election in his country last october. just to wrap up sort of the international reaction. i think that the, the, the fact that there's, there's, there's a different reaction of those will support russia and congratulate inputs put in right now. and those who are basically condemning this election. it just shows that there's a, it shows the bi polarity of the world, which is actually something that put in and he's allies are trying to build and it sort of shows that it already exists, which definitely intimidates people empowering the west throughout the day. out all to you, we have been speaking exclusively to those who have been keeping a close eye on the russian presidential election. we've talked to x spots to assess, of course, the process itself, but also to discuss the result as well. of course,

as the world's response to it all this to get perspective on how this non mock event could influence both global and regional politics. this is vicky them by congress, relating the people that i should for a successfully diction. coordinating. i have moved into money and they just did voters in the last year and the 1900000 abroad is quite a phenomenal feet. there is a sense of, of integrity and fairness and index it. and the use of technology, i think as time goes a whole lot of countries are going to start, you know, deploying more technology and to make a elections easier to account to include a whole lot of people because people wouldn't be able to stand in line to vote that able the other mckenna isms to participate in the democratic process. so what do you make of international observers and the importance and being part of elections?

russia, they will come to more than $56.00 countries as opposite of us into the election. because with the sanctions, that's what these are the kind of functions as i've going on against russia. russia nice we have these are the list of, of the, of us know to say that it was controlled by the states or each was it because she, for whatever they'd like to call it. this is to prove that these way fed elections, these with democratic elections invest, let me bring to in the system. so me some reaction from the west also includes them calling these russian presidential elections legitimate. when you see reaction likes that from the west, legitimizing the presidential elections in russia. what do you make of that? well, of course it is again with the argument with the observers. that's the way i see it . the reason why they also don't want of services in russia is because think about this situation where observers go any say no, they're rushing it and make sense of

a free and fit. now this damages the whole image that has been created into western world about what russia is that rushes this dictates us here. and then in this situation, that's not reality. so it will be counted to the narrative that they've been trying to paint all these years. is not, do i have to, i agree with the u. s. and some wisdom countries in that and uh, and then definitely sanctioning those people left by display that, you know, observing is not or that i don't for anybody to stop. so, and i know that those people and i hit and then they did 5 displayed in there of the visions and good for them. and then i've seen this model to point out where that, where i get new for the motel that's on the list of just so that list to be billed, can not be blue doors by one peasant, one powerful individual. unfortunately, in many countries, democracy has been influenced by external the democratic outcomes have been

influenced by external forces and that is dissolved in people losing confidence in the credibility of, of evictions. and none of this is a tool participation. the participation of peoples of the voice of the people is very important that we must be conscious of even if we look at. so that's because the, to the side know the way the ways to side to manipulate all relations the way the, the ways the side to manipulate out economic policy, the way they tied to manipulate outside and policy. unfortunately was in africa. we have to be cognizant of that kind of into is and of course as one do this pointed out the even side to undermine the elections in, in that i should deal with the u. s. was trying to you me to make those elections that just in being that's it's the steps, the notices it just as the editorial. so i would say that's in a free press one. welcome to have pets of disturbances. but it's all about,

let's we have a full size on his, that's s. we have building twats per diem across it. we must gets into attendance as well, of building our order systems that fits local. i deals and local conditions. it must be lucian allies. up stop to we being so also kind of solutions. i'm going to come from africa itself. now that present a lot of my pretend is going for another 10. what do you make all the few to a call probation between russia and pets, africa, and lots of south africa agenda that the continuing on breaks it to been agenda that is going to be continuing price you africa. so i means that i've been having to defend and, and all of those programs and businesses that have been taken would be implemented because as much small cooperation between africa and i showed them before. and, and what we actually are you calling them is as proff. let's see the arch to also

be all type and then so that right able then to bring that one to 5 also begin to do colonize also from there with things that i need and then not begin to move in the way that would make our interest as i forgot for faded, we are looking forward to the continuation with regards to developing a multi letter of, of, of yeah, a multi polled multiple levels. and then also the continued efforts to transform multi lateral organizations is very important for us. the and that's all from me, my call the great to approval is at the top of the hour with the latest in the meantime, check out our website out. come for more news coverage and analysis. i'm they show

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