>> thank you for joining us. i am molly hall l l l l l l l '. russia's vladimir putin with another six years as president. there are allegations of fraud city in syria now underfrfrfrfe turkish control. they say they will now continue their offensive along the border to push out kurdish militias.

coming under fire from eu and u.s. lawmakers after reports of a major data breach, this is facebook. molly: vladimiputin willtay at the helm of russia for another six years. it does not come as a surprise, he took 76% of his top opposition opponent had been barred from running. votes,re than 56 million it was his largest wind and the post-sovi leader. opposition leaders alleged voter fraud. >> cruising into a fourth time

as president, vladimir putin victory. speaking to the e dia afterwards, he remained vague about his long-term political ambitions. >> so far, i am not planning any constitutional reforms. as for the chairman of the government and the government as a whole, i have already said i am thinking about it. changes will be announced after the in operation. reporter: the initial count upes him 76% of the vote, 74$. -- 74%. officials used but the carrorot turnout. >> many russians did not come to

this election. this is very unfortunate. utin idue to those oppositional people who did not come. accused byo check is some of standing in for the opposition. had no serious rivals. oversaw election officials. the communist party candidate took second place. his results was better than expected. he echoed the words of novalni. >> we ununderstand that he turnd out to be right. we have seen such cases in the moscow region. ands clear the vote counts

the whole procedure was unfair. reporter: such critismsm will do little to undermine vladimir putin in russia as he heads to another six-year term as president. lly: for more on the election, opposition,ourthere was no real but t es any of f this matter becacause ultimately vladimir putin still cannot on top -- ca still popular with a majority of russians, say what you will, mean they all love everything he does, but they enjoy the fact that there is stability at the top. they agree on that, and they feel nationalism, russian bride. -- pride. they feel that he defends their interests. of red square.

takinge street, they are down the giant stage where you saw putin spek speak last night. pushing up the turnout of this election, it gave the impression that the russian president is not running out ofbebebebebebebe whether in fact these are his last six years in office. it does not feel like it here. molly: so many looking for steam for his fourth term. what of the challenges that lie ahead for putin? reporter: the challenges are both on the domestic and internatnanal scene. we know there is the standoff with the west, how to handle syria. now putin exhohorting s strengt.

putin can sometimes appear like a diplomatic giant and economic dwarf. russia reliesononononononononony on oil. we are talking about an aging population in this country, but there is a younger generation coming up, a younger generation that voted for vladimir putin in some of them are called the putines. these 18 euros have only known one president in their lifetime. it does nonot mean they are writing him a blank check. how that younger generation sees him going forward will be key. in the last six months, he has cleaned house around him him replacing some of the older stalwarts of the kremlin with younger technocrats. is it a sign that he wants to make sure he has no real

competition at the top? we will be asking our panel. nknknknknknknknknknknknknknknkn. at 7:00 p.m.ne in france time for a special debate from the russian capital. theing in syria. this comes after a two-month offensive push. turkey says it' all kurdish militias are pushed out of the border region. kurdish militias are pledging to retake the troll of the city. take took the syrian city of afrin. turkey says themiliti are terro.

are now returning home. >> when we can, we were afraid. m men who do not even speak to us who just told us to go on. they did not even search us. reporter: 280 since e e start the operation. turkey denies this. turkey is an ally the united states in the attack against >> we call on the united nations, the european council, the europeaninternational coali, islamic countries, and the international community to take steps to immediately avert tragedy and afrin.

>> local ypgseseseseseseseseseso strike back. then says it will clear kurdish militia from all of northern syria. molly: at least four people e he attackedhe turkishmbassy in copenhagen. they caused minor damage to the front of the building. there are no reports of injuries. the perpetrators fled when a place the day after the turkish president said backed rebels had takekekekekekekekekekekekek. accusations of smuggling guns from the gaza strip to the occupied west bank. took advante e of reduced security checks for

consular vehicles. let's get up to speed on the situation. let's go to our reporter who joins us from jerusalem. what can you telell i can tell t because a gag order has been lifted. we know that the 24-year-old who was employed as a driver for the french consulate in israel was driving in and out of gaza. he tookfive trips across 70 pistols and two larger guns. that was from gaza to the west bank. there was also cash in that car. he is appearing in court today. it is understood cash h was also smuggled out. i have heard a cabinet minister say that you will be sent back

to france, and he will not be allowed to return here in the role of diplomats and and israel hopes that france will charge him. this will be pursued in a french court. will this i impact relations between france and israel? >>otototototototototototototot appear so. both france and israel are keen to say so. when the press release came out, it said he acted on his own money, and his superiors did not know. the french consul is taking this very seriously. in the n next few days, from the see relations continue between the two sides as usual. molly: thank you. facebook finds itself in the hot seat again after reports havaval consultant company improperly

obtained facebook user data and kept it even after claiming the information was deleted. for an investigation. we learn more. >> a whistleblower says the company improperly harvested data from as many as 50 million facebook userso build priles so voters could be targeted with political ads and stories. >> imagine i say, if i give you one dollar or two dollars, can you fill out this survey?i don'r responses, i capture all the information about you from facebook. this application also crawls through your social network and researchall of that data alsose rector at cambridge analytical, which is best known for working on president donald trump's 2016 campaign.

the data company hasviolating '. lawmakers on both side of the pond are calling for an investigation. >> facebook is known about this brea they did nothing to ensure that the data was destroyed as they said it should be done. the outcry over the revelations has furer facebook's reputation, which is already under attack over russia's use of the social ols during theo facebook said it is conducting a review to see if the misused data still exists. molly: large grass andininininit of new south wales. livestock killed and houses

destroyed. more than 100,000 acres also scorched in the southern region of neighboring vicicicicicicic'. raiained in south australia on sunday, destroying up to 70 buildings in a huge fire that burned over 1000 hectares. more than 60,000 firefighters and three aircraft were workingg to contain thehe flas on mondad. >> just to get out. we got out, that was the main thing. not for me, but for everyone else, it was -- people haveosost their homes. >> the fire moved through the seven state of victoria, destroying at least 18 homes and killing livestock. the premier of the southern state called thihis unprecedent,

saying it was lucky there was no serious injury or loss of life. the bushfifire season isis ually from december to february, b but it has been unseasonablylylylylg globally because of the effect of climate change on weather patterns. this would also explain unseasonal fires in california that caused significant distraction recently. most of the blazes in southwest australia have been contained. residents are returning to their homes. molly: now to o o o out of brus. the european union negotiator says the eu and britain have agreed to a large part of the treaty that will govern the uk's departure from the block next year. the two sides have also agreed to a transition period to easse

britain out of the eu. r r r r r r r r r r r r r r ru, 2019. the british envoy david davis hailing this as a significant step to a brexit agreement. brbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrbrba package of rights for eu citizens. we will bring you more on this story as it develops. our busines upupdate. we will start with global trade, which is set to dominate the g20 finance ministers meeting. >> that is right. the two-day talks come at a particularly tnensese time as donald trump prepares for heavy tariffs on steel and aluminum. fears of a trade war between the u.s. and china are alsooooooooog

a shadow. fromg china's move away manipulation takg slams against beijing. >> the world is beginning to work together. we see that in the g20 process and g7 process. economy in the world movech a away from markets has not been good for us or the world. we will continue. >> china's development of a socialist market economy has brought about great accomplishments. i think this is an inevitable conclusion from any unbiased, objective individual and is not something that can be chaed by some u.s. officials casual produces or irresponsible remarks. molly: we are seeing the system not just from china but from

within the u u.s. >> 45 trade the u.s. have sent a letter to the president urging him not to impose tariffs on china. propose 60 is set to tariffs ononononononononononono. beijing is not likely to sit idly by. a correspondent just sent us liz spends much of his time making sure his 800 pigs are fed. farmers like him need more soybean than ever without soybeg cannot grow or survive. >> beijing buys $45 billion of u.s. there are rising trade tensions

between the countries. >> the chinese government has made it clear that soybeans are nsidered a a commodity they could use to actions undertakeny the u.s. government. >> the trump administration is considering up to $60 billion of tariffs on chinese goods cannot link investigation on unfair trade actions. >> we have to do our utmost effort to preventomomomomomomom. we are not scared of such a trade war. we are committed.. >> it follows tariffs on steel and aluminum imports earlier this month. asan describes the move political posturing. >> it has not gotten to a boiling point, to the point where china needs to retaliate

in concerted measures. one of donald trump's mandates was getting tougher on china. he needs to be seen doing that. >> he says if pushed, beijing is more likely to get back on n ney deals before impacting agricultural products more. an interest rate hikexexededed from the federal reserve later this week. london's ftse hitting a two week low. facebook shares also beingafafal has namedrliament president xi jinping's top economic advisor tothat deputy.

shares in south korea dropped reports that the u.s. government has opened a a investigatation into airbags in hyundai cars. sritish software makerer saw it share price this monday on repos that its ceo willmememememememe. that wraps up business news. molly: thank you for that update. it is time for our press review.

i am joined in the studio by allison. we will start off with reaction to for vladimir putin. >> let's start with some russian newspapers. you can see vladimir putin on the front page of this program and paper. that is the quote from his victory speech last night, we are bound for success. the victory speech -- he rally for the fourth anniversary of the annexation ofukraine, or as, reunification. 90% of the vote in crimea, which voted for the first time yesterday. historic l l l l l l l l l l l . the formfactor is to thank for this -- foreign factor is to

thank for this, notably the ongoing standoff with the u.k. over the poisoning of the former russian spy. experts say the call to boycott elections backfired. the paper says the elections yesterday werealled -- recalled the enthusiasm of the soviet era. iphones were one of the things offered to bribe russian voters. a lot of voters were offered concert tickets. the moscow times called it a carnival atmosphere. a siberian city rewarded 29 for taking the most creative selfie from the voting booths. selfies not tog win iphonesngngngngngngngngngngg their jobs. to vote,re forced

including many who were voting to prove to their bosses that they had. molly: the western coverage of the election. rtthe western state channel is very critical of not debunkit stuffing or horse -- forcing people to vote, but they say it is biased western coverage, the same coverage every election hascecececececece 2000. -- received since 2000. you can see there is just one ballot there. western media coverage has been quite critical. critical cartoons in the arabic press as well. this is from a jordanian paper

comparing russian leadership to russian dolls. after every election, vladimir putin gives way to more vladimir putin. little turnd see out. >> only 30% of people turned out to vote yesterday because the island as been seeing a lot of unrest for the last month. this has to do with problems caused by the influence -- i nflux of migrants. ofthe problems are most visibln schools. classrooms are overcrowded and have become the stage of violence between rival gangs. primary school kids have been bringing knivest t t t t t t t d themselv.

people have also been rounding up illegal immigrants themselves and taking them to police stations to get them deported. deputy prime minister has visited the island. they warned of a climate of civil war and say the french government has to act. molly: coming under fire for a controversial children's book in india. >> it is a list of 11 liters a single inspire you. -- leersers they say they say will inspire you. alongside barack obama and mahatma gandhi is adolf hitler. that has brought shop across the world. publishers say the reason they chose adolf hitler

was because of the power he wielded, not how the used it. hiltertler is quite often glorid in textbooks. india's current prime minister was also a choice.

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