red lines and russia would never go on go beyond red lines but so you will continue to defend its own nation of interest because at the end the main go before him for the sea is to ensure a comfortable environment for domestic affairs. so but putin was was also has always been problematic in foreign relations. trying to achieve win win situations and for him politics because in his believe win win situation is the only affordable solutions and the foreign policy and for interests of. one side are not taken into account this will never bring results in his understanding so he's speaking about mutual trust with me feel confidence and mutually beneficial and probably become a. leader and between two peskov but you prefer to express attash a thank you so much for taking the time out on what is i said to write his will

i'll tell you the parent r.t. good. well this is our tease presidential election coverage continuing live into monday morning here in central moscow with me and use the now way and the now in this is where you can get of course the latest updates as the ballots are counted will continue our coverage in fact throughout the week it's now two am here in moscow i'll just pass through the snow still coming that almost it's still minus temperatures but we've still got a lot to bring you in the preliminary results show the team approach in a sort of massive lead you can see it on your screens now see is in line it seems to take the top job for a first time with the kremlin that's just behind us they're lit up tonight will put an already claimed victory informally earlier tonight just behind us on monday as square and then formally at its headquarters here on the square he was with president to meet the demands of a given address tens of thousands of supporters were gathered in central moscow no

putin was visibly emotional or you could see tears running down his face but later he said but they were caused by the imminent. this was more than just a presidential election this was a very important test for us all you were national and for all of our people yes this was a test whether we are politically mature and independent enough and we have demonstrated if you don't use you when you wouldn't that you that nobody can impose anything on us nobody can impose anything we have demonstrated that our people are capable and yet committed to one thing from another you and sirens to achieve maternity leave from political probably. the chris you only want to go to detroit to russia as a nation and yours are our worth but to deny the people of russia have demonstrated in the idea that no such option is such scenarios will not achieve success you know

our country let me begin if you want to have one but i would like yours but the best support of the vast majority of our voters we have achieved a clear victory. just that you know what will work with honestly and hard you move and we will achieve success and we encourage you all here that's nice to know that unite around the interests of our nation and our homeland i have promised you that we will win. but you here and we have won. here glory to russia. you must know in my. opinion that thank you for being here with us thank you for supporting our candidate landmark. not asking you that our candidate he's leading in the election.

and i feel confident that we will win and this victory. we all need it during much. our country needs it. each one of us needs this victory and when you never give it away give it away to anybody else i give them. well it's not over yet far from it phone numbers continue to stream into the central election committee in moscow ballots will be counted throughout the night probably most likely into later on monday let's take a look at how things are out the moment live with our tuesday because we know that show about following the figures at the committee headquarters because of you know how are all the figures stacking up at the moment. polonius l.-o. kavin well with more than seventy percent of gold ballots now counted we have an outspoken paper its prime minister vladimir putin hears that sixty five percent of

the votes coming second disc united uganda with seventeen percent an independent candidate will billionaire and also be owner of the new jersey nets possible to team broker of gets. six point eight percent of the vote now six point eight six the latest figure very close shoulder to shoulder is coming one politician vladimir zhirinovsky from the liberal democratic party six point three percent of the vote he's often referred to as an internal confounder time around it's the time he's trying to get the country's top job the most unlucky one on the list is a candidate from a just russia party so again it all of he has only three point seven percent it's also not the first time he's running for presidency second time in the first presidential election he only got less than one percent of the vote will definitely

a very good success or into fandom candidates we hope for author of nineteen but he only claimed that he would be running for presidency several months ago he was the first time runner in the in a presidential race. this time around a president is elected in russia for six north for four years a lot of voting a lot of counting sora still to go through and the final picture of the vote results. early on monday when the count is almost complete there are nine time zones still a lot of ballots to go through it will be interesting to see how putin performs in the european part of russia just as huge support as he does in the eastern regions where how it turns out we'll find out very shortly in the meantime back to you catherine. i get the impression of a lie from the central election commission headquarters looks like very few people there behind you although we do know the counting does continue in it so monday

those final word results will be ratified in about ten to fifteen days' time some of let him drive also already congratulated him on his victory now ahead of him selection h.q. shall we dimitri go blank as a burning station for us tonight really. close in as a massive lead it appears i support is happy with the results so far well it seems well you've just been talking to scott who is the press secretary for and he said these results around standing around sixty five percent probably putin were beyond their expectations they expected and when the first round but not these kind of big results they are calling on a man beyond competition a political figure number one in russia of course but as soon as they. left the building out and met with his supporters with his team both congratulating each

other will triumphant even though the votes have not been counted one hundred percent of them they've basically called it a day or call it a night rather have left the building so really the work for the presidential campaign here is wrapping up. the bus. you could they were some insolent people but she put them back in their own police those people who are stranded. it's the working class but what you did together with your colleagues people who actually work at factories the plants who do physical labor are your intellectual level should be much much higher than that of those people who considered themselves to be intellectuals because only. well that was going to prove in talking to his supporters who his electorate

basically franking them for their support and also i must i must break it here for you. was here giving an interview to some of our colleagues he was asked whether what he would put it was actually shedding tears and he commented that that in a person was not really crying but it was because of the frost and of the call that his eyes started tearing up and you know in terms of the best of us i was actually going to say that. your life the. reason not to mention this election has been branded as different from others what's the consensus about that take us through what made this poll unique. well this poll is and unique in many ways actually mostly because of the conditions preceding these elections it was a very politically active period between the duma elections the parliamentary election and the presidential election political awareness has gone up so much because of the rallies with both putin and against that around sixty four percent

of the population actually showed up to vote today which is a very high result and the government tried to do their most to avoid the controversy following the parliamentary elections to make these elections very transparent so we have thousands around eighty six thousand observers all across russia voting polls and of course we have web cameras installed in every voting post of the pretty much every person anywhere in the world could become an observer so indeed a lot has been done to increase transparency. all right thanks very much for that. thirty is washington correspondent can is gauging media reaction responses in the west to this election a lot of those networks in different outlets calling this the beginning of the end of legendary putin's political career that despite the prime minister looking like he's taken pretty much sixty four percent of the vote. 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 shared 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 putin who having first become consumers have now become citizens points out the also or there's a great deal of critique here but then you come across a table which would require 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 the gold number of course tripled tourist travel abroad more than doubled the number of internet users increased almost five hundred times but again despite the part of the russians achievements under his rule journalists will focus on discontent in this is side citing pollsters which they around forty percent of

russians don't trust prime minister putin then he makes you think wouldn't it be strange if everyone were happy with a government book interesting in the latest polls i've seen forty one percent of americans strongly disapprove of president obama and the word was exact exactly strongly so yes this content among the rushes to be put into losing losing popularity those are the things that the media here are focusing on maybe vision mass protests again before the elections even started the underlying message here was that those were going to be unfair elections was also interesting about the coverage everybody knows that within is the most popular politician in russia but at the same time there seems to be some lack of respect for the choice that russians 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 show 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 all president putin they mention this chemistry that existed between presidents obama and medvedev and prime minister future president putin as kind of a hawk whose response to certain u.s. policies has been blunt sharp and at times unpleasant for washington and they raise questions about the reset it's going foreign journalist 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 his national interests or not be able to express its views on some crucial international each shoes but despite the differences as the prime minister said the reset has worked and it's to dramatically advance economic ties between the countries in the first place and he's determined to continue that policy are you going to just you can reporting there from washington and speaking up that reset all of the architecture of

russia's foreign policy east conscience and cause a chill for he says national agenda will provoke to defend russians national interests. what down the stance for mr putin to use and what is true to expect out of the smaller support who's going to stick around for important. changes. i believe that's the most change just will take place in our domestic politics while the foreign born a civil continue to keep its country music for the simple reason that the foreign policy of russia is very much the story russian mention national interests of these national interests of different countries want to be part of the global we want to be equal piece of roses we are taking place in the global temps we want to be treated fairly. and equally gross and so this will not change and different of

russia will continue to promote. to promote the rights to promote democracy to want to promote the same mail use the char shared by most countries in the world well paul putting supporters celebrate there's clear discontent at headquarters of his closest rival communist leader could money to gonna arts his timing might say is there for us. given that you get the. yes and he say it's quite right you've got to take out and roughly the same percentage as he did four years ago license outrage at the result was he really surprised that you know that. he had he in his vehicle we thank you because you'll see us you don't honestly. not bang can you hear me this is a nice up checking in a communist headquarters there we go now we can thank you and yes i can hear you

now ok just bring us up well i think surprise pretty much the same result as four years ago weiss that's the sour face from going audience who got. well as i was saying before that the campaign called us is actually quiet down right now and in fact we're just going to repeat and regenerate a lot of the communist leader had to say early on he said that these elections where unfair dishonest and unworthy and this is actually what he said early on today. will. be much more this election was neither fair nor legitimate. fear election dialogue between the power party and. the ruling party never try to stay here alexion mean only two parties take part in the election. but vladimir putin showed a. fair election. to provide equal opportunities for all the care

but it was working in the interests of going to. a very harsh words coming from of the leader of the communist party they've been he's run in the in the presidential elections before four times now he hasn't had a result other than a second position and almost in the camp you can always feel like there is a question of his leadership what's going to happen to him in the next coming years before the next elections in twenty eighteen six years time. you know some of it in his electrodes are pensioners and. still stuck in the course of the soviet union you know those ideologies are changing now and one question is will they be moving to a much more rebranding of the communist party itself or will they be modernizing it a little bit trying to read into the forty percent of young voters and young users that they gathered throughout the election process so lots of questions for the headquarters of the communist party and for its leader and will have to wait and

see in the next coming days and coming weeks what the official response will be at the end of the comes on of these elections. all right time by the time live reporting from the communist quarters will come into monday morning pretty clear that you know you got a house coming in second place has become somewhat of a tradition really thanks for that update just to pick up on those volunteers who just reminding our viewers as well over the party leader of the journey he also said sixty five years old now he also said that he was told no problem again in six years time trenchantly who be seventy one years old then of interesting. see if his electorate he's only got six point four percent at the moment will still want to use a colorful figure but a seventy one year old president it's a question we'll see how they're all in a lot of walking later saying part of the problem is this technician is the opposition is that the same faces rocker of the only first time runner here really he's done quite successful for your arm again reminding our viewers some of the

polls initially suggesting the public were only going to vote about three percent for him at the moment he must be quite a happy man tonight he's six point eight percent was a bit high earlier all of. those figures of largely state very last couple of oh it's the money of you is that the counting continues into the night as well of course that's right and we continue with our special live coverage here from the heart of moscow bringing you the results as they come in as well as reaction from candidates headquarters and expert. data from polling stations know why it is continuing to stream into the central election commission here in the capital so far of the team a pollutant lead spoiled wide margin at the moment sixty four point eight percent against his nearest rival the communist parties can you kind of all that you read those figures for yourself on the screen but we did see bruton deliver an emotional speech in front of a cheering crowd and supporters cheers could be seen on his face we were quite

times we thought they were tears of joy apparently the official version is now that it was the wind patterns been crying all night it is because of all its flaws and they were a more complete picture of the results should however of course be available in early morning monday morning when most votes on the been counted then turn out for the policy is an innocent rubber sixty three percent it's very from region to region we heard one region of the last bit of paper now i've got a feeling. it was up to sets very high so it's very high anyway the public followed an increase in public political activity in the run up of course to day yesterday as it is. we come straight as both for and against the government for reform but also for stability now there's also been a record number of observers this time around hundreds of thousands monitoring there's been a unique use craft an unprecedented use really of these libel web cameras which were at some ninety thousand polling stations across the country so literally

anyone at home could sit in an armchair and watch how the process went throughout the day but of course for the sort of first most opulent election headquarters in this presidential race where some counted as the next tell us more we haven't had the official reaction from the press so that your candidate himself make up progress because he's running as an independent candidate anyone in this presidential election say he doesn't have the policy behind him here at the hague forces to give us their response that's been a surprise amongst many better than expected result of his reaction is that we do you know it's a catalyst they don't make up for other agendas alexander and you know thank you very much for telling us a lot of people say that the reason that the opposition haven't succeeded so far is because the divisions amongst those two things make up of in the future could be the man to the opposition be the voice of these people.

i think he's i think progress in your within. the country style of coaching generally there's going to be more and more people who will be. voting for you but the problem my experience might be their candidates for next election because he's a guy who can actually there's both has a vision and the experience that's important for the. well we've been on air with you for a long time tonight trying to bring about perspective got a comment about tonight's vote now if you from the russian elections let's talk to international consultant and author who choose to use argentina with it here tonight if i could ask if you see anything unexpected in how to vote. no absolutely not everybody knew that why would you put to win the elections perhaps not such a landslide election and from the point of view of the latin american living so far

away from russia i would say the person would be this news is bad for the united states bad for the united kingdom bad for israel and that is i was a washington correspondent was saying was being reflected in media even the b.b.c. c.n.n. fox news. the italian rival spanish t.v. worth gave us just one piece of information together with an explosion in brazzaville and a train crash in poland definitely it's bad news for them however again from the point of view of an argentine and i can only congratulate russia perhaps for the election and i can also say this is very good for the world because now more than ever with the drive for global hegemony that we see on the part of the united states the united kingdom the european union the sun comes the european union and israel russia is the key country to going to china keep the country to act as a buffer as a break even as a war against these global colonial drive that we see from major western powers

but there is often an opinion expressed a problem that to be true provided would be an easier leader for foreign partners to deal with not so much posts in computing prove them wrong. i definitely believe would be the case because now the only language that the people driving the global power masters embedded inside washington embedded inside will be only language that they can clearly understand that is if somebody looks at them straight in the eye and so this will not do and i think mr putin knows how to look at it without giving . them. a very it's a nice night here and time again with the question i want to talk about global politics once putin takes over the president presidency is it going to change. i think that russia will continue. to go where he stood right probably deserves it we're in the world scene which is to act as

a world power which it always has been and certainly was confused for a while ago ninety nine used and secondly it has to be a balance of who helped with balanced global power so that as i say the world is not overrun as we are seeing i won't say by the united states britain and the european union because that sounds rather childish but i insist by the global power elite embedded inside these countries and they have to stop we see what we are doing now in the middle east and as a latin america you know better ones with a little east they will come to latin america that's why for example within israel and from the mass media who are the ones with little patience gave excellent coverage of the entire election process which the west. what do you think will happen to the street protests in russia that we've been seeing over the past six months or so works i think people to come out onto the streets as early as tonight really it's already monday here in moscow do you think in general these protests will strain given the massive effort to ensure elections

transparency or do you think will grow fueled by personal opposition to protests. as an origin tie and we know a lot about its manifestations and street opposition and so forth and beer is a part of which is authentic it's genuine a lot of people don't want to see putin are seventeen percent of the world went to mr zyuganov you know the communist party and so forth but many of the street protests that we've seen and russian that we are seeing the world over are clearly being engineered by tiny world trained well financed troublemakers who are heeding not to the interest of the russian people or the syrian people or the libyan people as we've seen in recent months but again as i say towards the global interest the geopolitical interests of the major powers who would love to see a lot of the streets of moscow and other major cities just as they arrive on the chaos that we have seen in benghazi in tripoli and now in homs and in the mass was . only following on for dangerous kevin again so far the russian opposition failed

to unite and put forth a single leader crucially to rival polluted do you think that might happen any time soon in the future i doubt it because you see there are two types of people in the public eye you have politicians and you have statesmen and right now with the world needs for space to get our statesmen our country that gave us an added our a churchill and they do call today gives us a miracle a camera in a circle d. which are really very low level politicians so as i think of vision i think a lot of people agree and the russian people definitely agree. is a state's nine eleven it's all different so i don't see him going anytime soon. ok age of subversion thoughts international consultant and author joining us live from one is there. that is going to round up our special coverage on this election night election morning i think it's fair to say here from the heart of the capital let's just bring you up to date on the final numbers before we head in for the night in

the lead at sixty four percent procrit at six point eight it looks like sort of a mirror all know of at three point seven utilities again though sort of seemed to send the measure ninety six point four percent but as the figures stand at two twenty seven in moscow talking of course lots of reaction will be coming from around rush hour around the world tomorrow we will be here live for you starting at seven pm moscow time fifteen hundred g.m.t. and our special election coverage studio i guess we can call it i think. it's to break so all the venue in a special edition of out to use across still enjoy. more

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are rooted a. culture is that so much as i was about the feeling goes i was in the public give a really cool decision two thousand well russians have gone to the polls and chosen a new president always this campaign change politics in russia which is that city. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for life you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.