i low this is actually what i have here in moscow you're watching our t.v.'s presidential election coverage by from the center of moscow with me kevin zero in on a new tsunami as well and this is where you get the latest updates as the pilots continue to be counted tonight as i said no one in moscow time those results so far putting a pollutant out in front signaling a return to the crowded for a first time as president that's right we can claim victory as he addressed tens of thousands of supporters who had gathered in the square just outside the kremlin

here in moscow he was joined by outgoing leader president to meet him is very different and was visibly emotional as the faint cheering crowd tears rolling down his cheeks. this was more than just a presidential election yes this was a very important test for assault you want to show for all of our people yes this was a test really whether we are politically much sure they did and independent enough and we had to demonstrate them if you don't you when you most of that is that nobody can impose anything on us because that and nobody can impose anything we have demonstrated that our people are capable and yet going to tell one thing from another you and give you sire to achieve a journey from political problem to. the chris you only want to destroy us in this direction as a nation and yours are worth it we're going to do like the people of russia have

demonstrated in the idea that no such option is sexing areas will not achieve success you know our country let me begin with you what to do we have one but. yes but the best support of the vast majority of our voters we have achieved it clear victory. just in that we will work with honestly and hard you know and we will achieve success and we encourage you all in periods of national you know that unite around the interests of our nation and our homeland i have promised you that will win. here and we have won. right here in glory to russia. but you must know that my. thank you for being here with us thank you for supporting our candidate. not asking you that our candid he's leading in the election.

and i feel confident that when you win and this victory. we all need it very much. our country needs. each one of us needs this victory and we will never give it away. with anybody. seen just a few hours ago over a shoulder. just a couple hundred feet away there was a huge wall from the crowds as the best putin basically said what i get a lot of sympathy is what coming out from at the time when you put across such it was the emotion coming out as he was pointing out that he got over sixty percent of course those votes still not over yet the counting goes on throughout the night these are only preliminary results across russia the counting continues and let's get the latest go to the same selection committee in money in there are teams are

capturing a great show now we can see the results on the screen but can you bring us up to date this minute please. log cabin hello a nice oh well the latest is that sixty percent of all ballots have been counted and be absolute favorite let him akutan current prime minister has a sixty four point six percent of the vote coming second days communist candidate does uganda with seventeen first signs of running shoulder to shoulder our two candidates independent candidate and medals mogul proper up with a little under seven percent and the dinners are not he gets only a little less than progress for actually one hundred thousand ballots last so they're very close and the last on the list is simply made on a promise just russia party has three point seven percent of the vote of course there is still a lot of counting to go through and we understand that these are of course initial

preliminary results. big chair of the final results will be. on monday when the count is almost complete. all right thanks. some. rivals have already congratulated on own victory again in a very deeply emotional speech to be talked about to supporters just outside the kremlin he'd take them for their backing let's check in at putin's headquarters election headquarters he was just there our correspondent to meet him as his ankle is there for us with developments mediate britain's rivals are already giving their good wishes i guess to supporters much celebrating going on right now where you are that's absolutely true and he said it was a war of a lot of the phrases and other members of his walking down the holes of this place of his campaign headquarters only stopped by to shake as many hands of his supporters of the cultural and political scene prominent figures of course so

despite the fact that not all votes that he holds for votes have been counted they're ready seeing this as a victory but it appears as himself play this as a victory already with the result of around sixty three percent of the vote so you have basically his campaign the. party members also think that he may have secured victory in the first round i loathe to talk more about this i'm now joined by nikolai's will be the political analyst here at what he will produce campaign headquarters because i thank you so much for being with us so what do you make of this was all around sixty three percent i was it seemed to be lower than it was eight years ago but if the person was running for office there's no there's more than just the b. line for so far but i think it's quite fair what is the situation is more difficult obviously which appears blissful for what's work i'm pretty sure in this campaign so i would say it is bigger victory it was

a solvent for he was for got quite sure list so that's why it's so i think it's a big victory for wouldn't consider him there. because the only political situation because of the russia will. the problem with the bushman think it's a very good result for any politician now to be an election where everywhere so i think you should be very proud of who you really think of that right now he had strong competitors that people were voting actually for him and not for the absence of outside it's well i think because people pay the fortunes of course obviously some people disappoint some people looking for some new faces and that's for a so-so no no for mikhail prokhorov is a result of that i think would be the best book you could do in the current situation and i think what he did he worked very hard i would say first time of his political life because pain so. he put together very first style of campaign

particle the last few months and i think partially his victory is a result of is very strong thumping very intensive very. i would say professional very western style. i think where. mike and sam are probably in january resource this mass protests in the russian defense was there like a wake up call for which it is their allies that probably situation is not so there or see here they saw last fall last summer started to work out of there and i think we have a very fair is do you think that this protest movement some precedented movement against letting that person basically he's going to gain more momentum so morrow as we see people come out in the streets you know there's going to be a rally against him as there will be rallies for him and his supporters there are first of all i think it's going to kill sycophants people expressing their opinion

and i think it's very healthy for him to seize a everybody agree to see what some people don't want him to be a leader for. i think it's healthy and i think it's good i think it. will be some kind of stimulation for the russian authorities not to be so. because they're right for dreaming about supporting her when there are some are for a second for i think. very much the situation will be depends on the. first hundred days pushing will be in the office what's his going to do if you remember in civilian clothes just come prince he was saying i don't want to work with those people they are they don't put me i don't want them later on literary something next few weeks he changed his position his life and started to talk about the president the full russian greek which is

a great escape and therefore if he will be able to be a unifier. of people i think the protests will go down if you will be divided there if you will start with the white. college approach spectrum even bigger than just now then i think we will have a bigger problem will it seems that this protest movement gained its initial impetus in the men's room when in september of one of those announced and the teacher had been asked that they would have this reshuffle do you think that was a wise decision looking back at that time role if meant that it ran for a second so it would be better to social stability in russia. well i think. first it will. be just strange but when i put him. in the cells on. fire i had to sound sincere with that said the. soup and took his madrid for about what it was the next arriving candidate from last. shouldn't say the truth which

nobody believed then which is. more off the same truth that people used to think. i think what was there ok about. september twenty fourth one sandoz. this reach inside the band there. was a because they did it because our small nation was ok when can you resist and i think most people a lot of people started to feel insulted by the way goodbye the decision but the week of the season was present ok you guys love and thank you so much that was our political analysts the guys all been talking to party from a bloody level since headquarters well let me also tell you that when the democrats are right he had a semi working meeting here at the we had forces of his let's all campaign and he had a couple of two ways from different cities including the thank you and sixty five dollars listen to what he had to say on those meetings. across the past

a million then yes. they were some insolent people but she put them back in their own place those people who are tended to lucas the working class but what you do together with your colleagues people who actually work. in this meat lands do physical labor washing your intellectual level what turned out to be much much higher than that of the only part those people who considered themselves to be . intellectuals. well that pretty much your wraps it up over here but i'm a person is leaving the building if i may say and so on that yes but we'll keep monitoring the results for you of course and see what happens. we well the rich river thank you thanks very much we're back here in chile cold and we've got a pub my nation square but it's been an interesting night it's kind of the

temperatures just of her grace is that we've managed to survive the way it turned out looking at the screens there the vote so far sixty four point six percent actually you can be something on the rocks to percent of the vote has been counted . is it over sixty four percent of the vote still to be confirmed these results still from the results from the election commission will be. throughout the night we'll have more of an idea later on this morning in about six hours or so but then of course it's ten days to fifteen days for them to be properly ratified properly but this gives you a very good idea of where it's going to go i think tonight and go to the election h.q. of liberal democrat candidate but even if you're not skinny artie's correspondent. is there. you told us earlier on that it wasn't a happy camp what is the general feeling among soldiers austrian as follows tonight . well i would say that i wouldn't think that there is extremely depressed it's

more of our you know this is not the first time that they're being doing it this is the fifth time badger in austin has run for the presidential for a pro for president and didn't win so these people it's more of a i would say one of the mill occasions yet another long elections nice and you know they're ready to do it of course as long as it takes but they're standing by their man and that is was what is most important are the people who are here and it is quite a flamboyant figure you know him very interesting very interesting crysler all russia's political arena let's go actually let's have a closer look at who is this man was it enough ski. liberal democrat. by far bush's most boisterous bush politician. at sixty five general skeet is on his fifth presidential campaign coming on ten percent of the votes in two thousand and eight his campaign slogan is. or it'll be worse plan for presidency

a two year drive against corruption and drug smuggling in russia vera food and housing prices controversy passed campaign promises included free vodka and free underwear journals he's infamous for racist remarks and fighting with opponents. for securing parliamentary immunity for the man britain says poisoned alexander litvinenko. presidential election two thousand and twelve on party. again a very colorful figure in fact he's not just a politician he also has to see these out of those he made. one of russia's most well known rappers a very very interesting person only he's not afraid to work because fight with his opponents like a third in fact even if that opponent is a woman that doesn't stop as it is it in all spheres well he's always our ready he always has plenty to say on any given on anything basically any matter at all and

he's kind of got this interesting relationship with the media who do love him because they can count on getting a quirky quote from him but the problem is sometimes that he's kind of hard to stop and of course today somewhere in the occasion by wearing two different outfits throughout the day started off with a bright red jacket and tie the beginning of the day finishes up in a very happy yellow outfit. as he said he does bring some color to this political russian there's the we're hearing as well that he said the sixty five years old he wants to turn to one of the next presidential election which of course will be six years then he'll be seventy one years old rice received if you don't see it but it is previously signal on the one percent of the vote did he read it what was he expected to do a bit better this time looking at the. graph no he's just hit sixty six point six percent only so far it's about anyway. well it is really hard to say at the

moment it by for a while it did look like it was coming in a strong third place program program did overtake them so it is kind of interesting to see how things develop i wouldn't say that exactly there's this element of disappointment of course everybody every time they run for elections they hope to win but i would say you got to see and he's more determined to go to go out again in six years time do not keep himself said that he's not tired his team is not tired so we have to wait and see just for another six years. or a really delicious sense of so much of bringing us the thoughts as those votes come in tonight from the v.p. headquarters and ridiculous to the coverage of russia's presidential campaign in the u.s. so parts of the media happy to last for one of the move putin but if that was much the only the praise for opposition rallies let's cross that to a washington correspondent got a teacher can she's there to bring us up to date on thoughts stateside how is the

election process being reported now tonight where your. both covered before the elections even started the underlying message in the media here was that those were going to be unfair elections most of the coverage is focused on the discontent with the litter shape among many washes and here is a very telling headline the beginning of the end of putin but inside the weekly you read about the surge of the middle class under policing who having first become consumers have now become citizens points out the officer there's a great deal of critique here but then you come across a table which would make for a pretty good resume for any presidential candidate g.d.p. per person in russia more than doubled in the last twelve years private housing almost doubled the number of cars tripled tourist travel abroad more than double the number of internet users increased almost five hundred times but again despite

the part of our russia's achievements under his rule journalists will focus on this content in the society citing pollsters which they around forty percent of russians don't trust prime minister putin then it makes you think wouldn't it be strange if everyone were happy for the government ok first thing in the latest polls i've seen forty one percent of americans strongly disapprove of president obama and the word was exactly exactly strongly so yes this content among the russians let me put in losing losing popularity those are the things that the media here are focusing on maybe you vision mass protests again before the elections even started the underlying message here was that those were going to be on fair elections what's also interesting about the coverage everybody knows that putin is the most popular politician in russia but at the same time there seems to be some like both respect for the choice that washington's have made but also one thing all media agree on when covering the opposition movements and all that is that russians begin to pay attention and told that they care there's another issue the media are looking at of

course and that is the u.s. russia relations with the. new old president putin they mention this chemistry that existed between president obama and medvedev and prime minister future president putin as kind of a hawk whose response to certain u.s. all of this is been blunt sharp and at times unpleasant for washington and they raise questions about the reset where it's going foreign journalists actually asked prime minister putin about the future and the results of the reset and what he said was basically that reset doesn't mean russia has to give up its national interests or not be able to express its views on some crucial international each shoes despite the differences as the prime minister said the reset has worked and its search to dramatically advance economic ties between the countries in the first place and he's determined to continue that policy going to come from service so

much as you say it's never a perfect world but you can strive for the press that you can get for free vote paul broun supporters celebrate is just contends the headquarters of communist rival franken place counted it so far communist leader gennady zyuganov argues to break more say is there is a sly sugandha of no stranger to second place in presidential polls who's really a veteran are has seen more popularity in the past what are here in this camp saying about these early results. well they are all very disappointed in fact that they can play the headquarters is very quiet right now as they've all just kind of rallied in their own offices just talking about what happened tonight early on we heard from a lot of himself saying that's what he really lakshman where i'd say this on this and i'm not worried the very harsh words coming from him let's take a listen. big. chunk probably best to get the whole me not under

a canopy boss or in. this election was neither free nor legitimate fear elections here a dialogue between the power party and the opposition but the ruling party never took a step nearer elections mean all heads of parties take part in korea lecture debates flooding reported never showed up here election i mean the bureaucracy wants to provide equal opportunities for all the candidates but in this case it was working in the interests of one candidate a lot. of the camp is very and is not happy at the moment they've said that their own observers have read have seen a vote rigging as in some places around the country and just seriously traded what the electoral commission has said that these elections well that's really as we expected them to be with all those cameras a base of around the voting centers making sure that voting rigging is at

a minimum any doesn't happen at all but that is quantum and from the community headquarters it can be felt outside here he just says everything it's a hold please right now in the end he said the people spoke. all right side live from communist headquarters a very unhappy leader america nine years you've gone of with these final results i should say preliminary results i'm getting cold and tired it's a long way to the final results person results having him in second place we continue our special coverage here in central moscow on the eve i should say next morning after the president is already drawing they are ready and we continue to bring you the results as they come in as well as reaction from the candidates headquarters and expert opinion poll data from polling stations nationwide streaming into the central election commission here in the capital currently. we're

not i'm not entirely sure where the pilots of being counted i think it's over fifty percent of content over sixty or sixty percent ok so for leads by a wide margin against his nearest rival the communist party's. well we've seen putin delivering an emotional speech earlier tonight in front of a cheering crowd of supporters just behind us here on the nose where tears could actually be seen rolling down his face but he later insisted that they were caused by the wind it is cold can argue that a more complete picture of a result of the verge early or they were most folks living counting to turn out for the ballot is estimated. at around sixty three percent the apollo followed an increase of public political activity in the run up to today where there was stations both fought against the government sort of months for reform but also for stability there's been a record number of observers this time around hundreds of thousands monitoring the

poll and there's also been the unique use of libel why have cameras i think it's something like ninety one thousand one hundred nations three hundred crossing the country and any one could basically sit at home and watch through these cameras throughout the day here. partly we'll hear more about that of course the next twenty four owes more reaction from abroad no let's go to believe in live earth wait for us alexander said the rector of the russian eurasia program at the german consul foreign affairs alexander very good morning to you good morning folks of being on the program you know the tone the european media is used to cover the russian presidential elections often been less than positive with putin often the traders almost evil figure. who they want instead kind of begs the question doesn't it. that's a problem of the west on the media us in the western politicians who are very critical for working or putin. in russia to

cater ship but he feels the clink of the in public and then there was this in the comments. basically no real alternative for putin and. the offer to more continue to lead to the fourteen with his victory in the end. after. the pensions will work for and i'm sure that the west and russia are clear and that this kind of pragmatic relationships partnership especially in a moment field which is sort of carelessly more list with relations between the west and russia over the years of putting this in power in russia. do you think that in the future it must do to convince the west that it's committed to making russia not democratic. good question i think that it's

very difficult for him to come with the worst of politics. so yes there are many different the worst the words russia but this of course the one very negative for the i would say with publishing view i find it astonishing when the simplest afraid of a strong russia it's the thing that russia will revive its empire and the hidden fear in people of the class here in europe in the west a forcible installation of a russian empire and they think that this capable of doing it into the future of the second reason this may be more serious one. west it's not all becoming more and more. of the use of democratic liberal values and human rights war all

the things of the income puts in the local pollution and from that point of view the west regards russia of course a medieval country it's. not here to teach that and probably will not each other we can the level that we share the west russia could be. this gap or from the standing we very serious the west should like it which sure the teacher of the west wants to adequate or the more prosy and putting those that want to become a pupil and he doesn't want to listen to teachers in the west anymore this creates a certain gap with also problems into the relation placed on things that the people who are way. out standards and if they are with calving just briefly when it comes to global politics do you think much will change in russian european relations one person replaces medvedev in may. unfortunately i expect the very big difficulty

soon be american brushy lesions huge of the electoral campaign in the states of candidates with more people rushing friendly when there are the actual campaigning and russia will continuously rule in business specially a conflict or war. or a over here on. missile defense but the european union if you know it's work but most people think once it's like germany and like france will be very quick or fine back to the source who are promoting partnership which characterize civilizations before for one simple reason that we need for russia probably more than russia needs us i mean pass in the west the west needs russian resources it needs the russian market and probably one they will also need russian rules in order to help the result in some way and at the end of the day that is something in fact that you do hear from both sides when it comes down to interest of protecting them and moving forward as.