this is the governor used to live from berlin with a fourth term in office for russian president vladimir putin to give thanks to supporters during celebrations in moscow after partial results give you more than seventy percent of the vote we'll have analysis from russia also coming up. and kyra back to fight has raised the turkish flag in the syrian town by freeing. victory follows an unlikely that bounce against kurdish militia the fighting has displaced more than one hundred fifty thousand people we ask what's next for the

region. and coming up after the news will come up with a day of drama in the bundesliga rb leipzig host and run away to lead by in munich looking to beat the barbarians for the first time ever. i am edith to money welcome to the program lot of mia putin has been reelected to a fourth term as russia's president now that's according to partial results which give him around three quarters of the vote many say his victory was a foregone conclusion with some key potential candidates banned from standing putin has been russia's leader for eighteen years as either president or prime minister. five. countries old and new leader

received an enthusiastic welcome when he made a brief appearance to thank his supporters at a rally near moscow's iconic red square. i see above that i gave that was you know putin then went on to his campaign headquarters to continue the celebrations but it wasn't long before it was back to business for him fending off questions about britain's allegations that the kremlin was behind the poisoning of a former spy. of course i believe that any sensible person knows that it is total rubbish and nonsense for someone in russia to allow themselves such behavior on the eve of a presidential election and world cup in russia it's unimaginable it's been used i this is a style of leadership that clearly appeals to the russian electorate. as the spice of official results said more than seventy percent of russians voted for him and perhaps more importantly turnout was nearly sixty percent. putin's reelection was

never in doubt but voter apathy and calls for a boycott could have compromised his legitimacy. opposition leader alexei navalny had been barred from running in the election he urged his supporters to stay at home despite official pressure to vote for putin. in the past few weeks the government has been doing anything it can even using its civil servants to get people to go to the polls. just. ahead of the election independent monitors said they received another alarming rise in complaints they said people had come under pressure to vote from their employers especially when it came to state owned companies. we've been seeing how people were bussed from their workplace to the polling stations on election day. that's a violation of the rules. but that seems to have little effect

as putin looks forward to another six years at the helm of the country you're here . earlier i spoke to almost a correspondent emily show and she was at an election victory celebration and i asked her what the mood there was like. one well actually the new president and the old president vladimir putin has just come to the stage actually just left the stage he just made a short speech to the crowds gathered here and he said that it's very important that the millions of people in russia are part of his team and he thanked everyone for voting for him and he said that the fact that they voted for him showed their hope for the future and their hope that they can build a better russia together all right now the mood here is definitely one of celebration as you can see there's a concert going on behind me people are waving flags it's very much

a mood of celebration i mean we're just seeing live pictures from way you're standing and you've said that putin has just addressed the crowd but of course his victory was nothing question his main agenda was to win with a seventy percent voter turnout is he likely to get this. at the moment it doesn't look like he reached that seventy percent mark even though the kremlin certainly tried to pull this many people as possible to the ballot boxes and they had kind of food are being sold there chief they had healthy competitions where you could win an i phone raffles where you could win a car and they certainly found it important to bring people to the ballot after all it's important for the kremlin to legitimize this result it's putin's fourth term that he's just won as president so still the same president but still they want to show that this is a legitimate contest and that's why the turnout is so important now i mean you

despite the carnival like a ticket to we're seeing there have been reports from all over the country about you thank you larry too such as ballot stuffing how the voters reacted to this. oh. yes well absolutely there have. and reports of ballot stuffing people were sharing videos of that. on social media as well but on the whole there has been some attempt at transparency and the central electoral commission set up c.c.t.v. cameras in almost all the polling stations and you could watch the live as people kind of came to the polls still there has been accusations of not only ballot stuffing but also of the government putting pressure on people to vote rather ploy or is putting pressure on their employees to come to vote particularly government

employees so we'll have to wait and see what the official report about those violations will be but there have been some reports of them now bush and gets another sixty as president and unless there are constitutional changes he can try again so i mean what can we expect in his potentially last term in office. well i think the fact that this concert that you see here behind me was originally originally dedicated to the attic station of crimea celebrating what here is seen as the return of crimea to russia certainly sends a signal to the west that they'll be more defiance influence next term toward the west more defiance and after all that's one of the reasons why i put in is so popular here he's really seen as having kind of raised russia from its knees as people told me here at the concert as well that he did that after the fall of the

soviet union which is really seen as having restored national pride and part of that national pride is also showing that putin won't bow to the pressure of the west so when it comes to foreign policy i think we'll see a bit more of that and when it comes to a potential successor it's not quite clear potentially he will choose someone from his inner circle but there isn't a clear candidate at the moment i mean you show him with the latest from moscow thank you. let's now look at some of the other stories making news around the world myanmar's. she is on a three day visit to australia where she's attending the asean summit it's her first appearance on the international stage since the real hinge a crisis prime minister malcolm turnbull said at a closed door session of south east asian leaders. appealed for help to end the crisis. israeli authorities say

a palestinian has been shot dead after he stabbed an israeli security guard in jerusalem's old city the god later died of his injuries tensions have been high since the u.s. recognized jerusalem as israel's capital in december. germany's new interior minister says he wants to increase checks on the country's borders and till the e.u. secures its external front tear germany resumed some border controls after the twenty fifteen migration crisis observers calls the office tough line of migration a bid to draw voters away from the far right alternative for germany party ankara backed forces have taken control of the north and syrian town of freeing the town has been the target of turkey's two month offensive against a syrian kurdish militia it views as terrorists its capture marks a major victory for turkey but it's also left thousands of civilians homeless and desperate. it was the moment turkey had been fighting

for this town had been controlled by syrian kurds for the past five years now it's the turkish flag that waves over a free in. the turkish backed forces captured the center of the town on sunday these fighters are proud to have ousted the kurdish militia known as the people's protection units or y p g. turkey claims the y p g militia or an offshoot of the kurdish nationalist piece of cake a group and as such are terrorists and a threat to its national security. across the border news of a free news capture was met with jubilation by turkish president after one and his supporters. most of the terrorists have already fled with their tails between their legs or special forces and members of the free syrian army are cleaning the remains of the traps they left behind in the center of the symbols of trust instability or waving instead of the ranks of terrorists. turkey was also quick to start wiping

out traces of kurdish identity in a free in. one of the first actions of the turkish backed fighters was to demolish a statue commemorating a legendary kurdish figure. the kurds remain defiant with an official warning that the war with turkey had now entered what they called a new phase. was that that the how of our forces and afan will be a nightmare for the turkish troops and its allies the resistance and afan will continue until the liberation of every inch of the town and until the return of the residents of has been devastating more than one hundred fifty thousand people most of them kurds have been forced to flee for their lives in the last week as turkey attacked the city from the air and the ground. we fled to because at the end strikes in the bombardment of villages by the turks there is no united nations or international community anymore they have forgotten all morality what can we do as

civilians is amongst a country. until the recent turkish attacks a friend had been a safe haven during said. there is war now in its eighth year after the capture of a free and it's unclear what will become of those fleeing the town and if or when they will be able to return to their homes. elsewhere in syria president bashar al assad has visited positions. near the capital damascus official footage shows the president greeting soldiers and telling them they were quote fighting in the whole world's battle against terrorists the syrian observatory for human rights says the syrian government is in control of over eighty percent of the area all civilians continue to flee besieged east and in the thousands. now if all goes to plan the united

states will begin imposing import tariffs on steel and aluminum as early as next week with the praktica washington's allies scrambling to seek exceptions european countries have already threatened to retaliate with their own customs duties on american products now if the u.s. tariffs can't be avoided business leaders fear their effects could be disastrous supply and u.s. tariffs would hit europe's steel industry particularly hard germany's new economy minister says a trade war must be avoided at all costs so he's off to washington for emergency talks and says he's willing to make concessions the problem of the problem with the current situation is that there is a risk that we will get into a spiral of unilateral actions that runs counter to the idea of global free trade and it would mean turning away from what we have been doing worldwide for the last sixty years we have to talk to one another not criticize each other publicly we

have to try to find compromises. germany's pro-business f.d.p. party says trump may have a point it's calling on europe to reduce its own tariffs but actually he has legitimate positions but we contact set that he's addressing european protectionism by introducing protectionism of his own the solution should be clear rules open markets a new talks about transatlantic free trade it would be best for angle a magical to do this face to face but trump doesn't just want compromise on trade from the europeans he's connecting the issue with other demands such as an increase in military spending the post communist left party calls this blackmail and says the answer is for germany to reduce its dependency on exports the sooner we move to balance trade the sooner we would refuse this complaint is in conflict and want us to get a show with chris harrington is coming up after the break with all of this weekend's goals could i be live six spring a shock and be fine unit for the first time ever well why don't you stay tuned

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