i promised you we would win. but we have one. that wins the right to return to the kremlin for a third time as russia's president has official results show he secured nearly sixty percent of the vote. for an monitors precis elections as fair and free not unprecedented measures are taken to ensure transparency including hundreds of thousands of observers and a network of webcam supposin stations across russia. but the opposition claims serious violations saying they'll be bringing people out onto the streets once

again to protest against the results. live from the heart of the russian capital this is r.t.s. russian presidential election coverage welcome to the program well it's official putin has won the presidential race to become russia's leader for a third term the show results have given him almost sixty four percent of the vote but it's now talk to our. people this let's see putin has finished want to have his opponents what all of the official figures you have. well yes we have we have it confirmed has become the country's president elect at sixty three point seven five percent of the votes in his favor that's an impressive forty five million people voting for him his closest rival the communist party leader gennady zyuganov stands

at seventeen point nineteen percent that is around twelve million people voting for to go out of twenty years after the collapse of the soviet union broke out of the because of the russian tycoon has earned seven point eight and four percent that's about five million people people voting for him the liberal democratic party leader . very eccentric candidate has got six point three percent around four million people and last but not least given all of the leader of the just party just russia party at three point five percent that is around two point seven million people voting for him now certainly this means that there will be no second round ronnell to be held in three weeks that putin has gained this victory in the very first round of voting and a last night after the polling stations closed across the country he addressed a crowd of a hundred thousand supporters just meters from where i'm standing in front of the walls of the kremlin and was very emotional thanking the crowd and being very

delighted about the fact that he achieved this victory. race yes we have won it in. battle but this wasn't just an election of the president it was a test of political maturity in independence and we have shown and nobody can impose anything on us we have shown our people who are able to tell the desire for renu from political provocations and ruining the russian state and usurping power we have won with the support of the absolute majority of voters to clean victory we will work honestly and hard we will be successful can we call on everyone to united to the interests of our people and our country yes i did promise you we would win you. and we have won. this victory certainly no surprise to anybody of any reporter for

a long time being a clear favorite to win this election it was only the matter of whether there would be a second round the second round of the sorting or whether the victory would be thinking of course crowd certainly this victory would not make everyone happy as we are expecting the opposition to organize a huge rally in central moscow at seven pm local time during the day today on monday and actually the russian election authorities say no effort has been spared really to make this election of us transparent to date how well have those preparations worked out. well the preparations certainly have been massive admitted by the p.r. specialist and those responsible for the technology given the fact that every single polling station in the country was equipped with a web camera this project alone cost health a billion u.s. dollars to the russians they got it it was certainly offered by prime minister himself artist thing of protests where people demanded free elections just as hundreds of thousands of deservers working at the polling stations independent

observers those are regular russian citizens willing to take their part in the election process something of course also unprecedented for the history of mordant day russia certainly there were international observers those who see observing elections as their job seven hundred over them working at the polling stations across the country to make sure that it ran smoothly and as far as we understand those serious violations have been recorded from them but indeed how did they assess the process that these observers. well as i mentioned hundreds of thousands of observers worked at the stations and there were indeed some violations registered in the course of this voting the official figure of the central election commission is that eighty nine violations across the country while the opposition claims that there were more than three thousand violations those were irregularities or possible false occasions and always of the ballots during the course of the election we understand that the main concern is the so-called

carousel voting when a large group of people came to polling stations to cast their ballots and they did that at several polling stations across their cities but the central action commission explains that those buses bringing people at the stations were completely legitimate and official way of placing a ballot for those who were not able to make it into the polling stations for the absentees the people who were basically working on this day so that's how the central action condition has explained the accusations the allegations of this so-called carousel voting there's also been a very serious incident and one polling station in the republic of dagestan where a video a live web camera recorded a massive row when of the votes at the ballot box we understand that the central action commission has already investigated this incident and the results of the votes at this particular polling station and biggest one have all been canceled ok our correspondent. thank you. well you can stay with our t.v.

for more of our special presidential election coverage right action see here will be casting a from three pm g.m.t. bringing you the latest results something for r.t. the pins across the political spectrum. while international monitors have been praising the election there's a rather different view from some russian observers let's get the details now from artie's jacob riis jacob what have they been saying. but you mentioned that sentiments coming from internet international observers really direct contrast to some of domestic monitors we watching the selections to be those affiliated with the opposition movement. an independent party saying about three thousand

violations took place also a number of websites that we set up these elections differently from the so true election commission the candidates include this as well because it's currently running third the war movie says four thousand violations took place according to his team and they will be seeing this further in the courts also. well he is currently running seconds and he says that these elections are about it because of claims of electoral fraud claims of the ballot stuffing took place as so-called carousel voting whereby people just said no mass to particular polling stations and voter multiple amounts of times commission has a few to say that the carousel voting was in fact people to take the factory workers being bussed to particular policy polling stations to have their say have their vote preschool and chief points in the race is their prime. it is really

out to self in terms of the vote exceeded expectations much more than the people said that was a breach of the full cost. and does all this mean we're going to see more protests do you think. well it does and there are every stray she's scared scheduled for later this evening seven pm what's go to. this is part of sentiment has really been ongoing so it's hard to characterize the presidential campaign but this latest terrorist ration was organized before voting even took place part of the opposition movement and it was started back on the fourth of serbia but missed those part of major legends and allegations of elect rules is also being it's the story though those who have increasingly showed support a strengthened behind prime minister vladimir putin and this key message for

stability in the we saw this of my own age where just last evening where about one hundred thousand people took to the square to show their support back the prime minister as the future president of russia indeed places they were going to also most likely see nasheed yes we've been loyal to the prime minister taking to the street to avoid this opposition protest ok for our take agrees live from moscow thank you for that. very fact we can now hear the opinion of one of the foreign observers who has been monitoring the vote here in russia and he marie listen thank you for joining us here on r.t. today how do you view the election process and the results that while we were not far from moscow in since then which is an eton city of one hundred sixty kilometers and we have seen all the. euro there and need to is very wary of them even in the need to. face it was very very well

then very taken you can functioning and people observers who were everywhere from the communist party from. this. point on. from the independent candidate and it was and they were doing their job so i am observer in russia from the first election at the beginning of the ninety's to now and it is really an increasing process and i think you know we were the husband and his wife discussing one wants to vote for putin the other one was to vote for the communist and they were really fighting so i think the level of the consciousness in political life of the population here is really changing so what did you make of the web cams that were installed at every polling station did they help to secure more transparency in your view in my view it helps to put the people involved in all the secretariat

to work well and that's was good not to take their job you know why something was not important though they were feeling important between they know they were under control so it was. really it was a positive action and i saw this is where the first country in russia and it is in this case we should say as we use it in britain we use it in the culture and for the police come fall to in the cities i really think that it is just showing some realities so it can be used as it is so it cost a lot of goes at the beginning but it was well done and i will be in favor of the system in a lot of countries. the russian opposition claims in mosul violations that have you witnessed any such irregularities no not at all no one

in the very real and in the previous election i was in love let's have a start and we also have a look at the counting system during all the evening and i must say that the people in. this country has working for mr putin and that's that's a reality so of course the position is a right to do the job and they have to do it but at the end of the day of the voting see if the russian people want to put if you do it and it's ok. ok internationally i mean mary listen thank you for that take you to. well there's a whole section dedicated to russia's election on our web site r.t. dot com and we've got it the most informative analysis and views on the poll for the country's top job plastic reforms stability what future do russians want if they don't want revolution according to the latest opinion poll. what qualities

must an ideal president possess and sincerity intelligence experience in politics so you can find out. what election fever aside the president has ordered a review of the sentence handed down to jailed for more oil tycoon mikhail khodorkovsky. consecutive prison terms on tax and fraud charges and let's discuss this issue more with our. marina why do you think this announcement is coming today . here it is a tricky time to be announcing that considering the fact that it comes a day after the presidential elections but it's really come as a surprise in december of lot in your piece and did say that if he won the

presidential elections he would consider hardening the field for the gulf state if he admitted his guilt now we also know that this follows a meeting the president meeting that had with the leaders of unregistered and largely oppositional political parties in the country and this happened just in the february. and this review concerns the legality and the basis of convictions open thirty to russian citizens including details of the gulf state and his partner platon lebedev now the review is said to apply to the sacking conviction of me feels that the state which of course involved embezzlement and financial crimes and why is the holocaust the case so important. for me feel good of course it was wrong so russia is the richest man and he was also this see all of you push up it's mine was russia's biggest oil company now he was arrested in two thousand and three and prosecutors at the time said that he along with his partner problem led by the

accused them of stealing oil flow their own company worth around twenty seven billion u.s. dollars and then selling the soil at a broad book higher prices and we fell for the bosky end up being convicted and sued for trials and the sense is the stay in jail pretty much through two thousand and sixteen now his supporters have always said that the old regional charges were politically motivated because he feels that the whole scheme was a funding oppositional groups out if this second conviction of embezzlement and financial crimes is lifted the path of the gulf state could essentially be every man again. what he did there all t.'s were crossed for good last. holocaust he's a name was mentioned during this presidential campaign many times he helped broker off the new comer to the top political arena also said the former oil tycoon should be released well to find out what the billionaire ten politician thinks not the outcome of elections and we can go live now to our tease lindsey probst lindsey

year progress did better than some who've been around for a while though he still have big plans and bushes for the future that. indeed he does this billionaire tycoon has run away with nearly eight percent of the vote analysts say this is very indicative of the political climate right now here in russia voters are ready for some diversification and for some stiff competition now he does plan to actually establish his very own political party and plans in the future for possibly running for president could pan out it will all depend on how things look a couple of years down the road course now many people were quite surprised by how successful his campaign did in this election given the fact that it was only probably up and running for a couple of months and for more on that we wanted to quote from political headquarters last night to get a little more insight on this from his team there. has given the

russian nationalists is being that being a political career for twenty years and then mr and also that's a very positive sign we just started had a very short campaign and when it was started we told russians that we want to be in the russian politics for a coming fifteen times are you suggesting that russia is becoming more and more sinking motional exposure to one or another candidate so they think that probably broke up as a kind of a man has been managing his business for a for a while or a great wells about to change a billion dollars has been growing his capital he's wealth that's what the country news will want to take the numbers of g.d.p. people want to have biggest seller is so he's the right guy to choose to manage this process. and lindsey the runner up to know that you go off but didn't take the defeat well that he. absolutely does and you know what nearly twenty

percent of the vote to cut off is very dissatisfied he says that the election was neither transparent or fair and he blames the states for stealing up to fifty percent of the vote any blames put in for not participating in election debates he refuses to accept these results and he plans to take to the streets with people to make his points heard so given all that then what plans are the two have for today . mr zyuganov plans to hold a press conference here very shortly today to what to explain his action plans for the future his response to the selection and then focus of plans to meet up with opposition protestors at a rally at pushkin sky at a square here in moscow so we'll definitely be bringing people much more of that as

it unfolds. wouldn't even say for us thank you. well voting may be over in russia as the presidential election there's another vote you can take part in our online poll today we're asking you what the biggest challenge for russia's next president will be and the results so far almost to be forty percent defending off later encroachment in the biggest challenge almost a third argue that getting rid of corruption should be the top priority seventeen percent say the main task was to modernize the country's economy and politics. nine percent say the russian economy taking world economic problems on a minority view so far today seven percent voted for russia's leverage because it will tell us what you think should be at the top of the russian presence in trade by costing you operate.

certainly been closely watched across the world washington correspondent can has been monitoring u.s. media coverage and says that despite russia's advances since it in first came to power there's still a very negative stuff there. 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 on the 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 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 polls doubled the number of course tripled tourist travel abroad more than doubled the number of internet users increase the old almost five hundred times but again despite the part of the russians achievements under his rule journalists will focus on discontent in the society 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 the government but 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 you vision vast protests 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 a respect for the choice that washington has 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. policies has been blunt sharp and at times unpleasant for washington and they raise questions about the reset where 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 its national interests or not be able to express its views on some crucial international each shoes but despite the differences is that private as you said the reset has worked and it's

such to dramatically advance economic ties between the countries in the first place but he's determined to continue that policy. well the starshine about the results of russia's a presidential election continues in our interview show spotlights that's coming up shortly. it's probably true that the the protest movement slightly run out of steam. in that we didn't quite know how to take things forward . big problem with your position is that they don't really have what i think a lot of people would regard as being a strong candidate so if someone like alexina volley would have stood who is more uncompromising towards the authorities than anyone who's standing in the election there i think that we could have actually seen a much more sort of close run thing. but

that said it's one of the opinions voice in spotlight you can watch the program unfold in just a few minutes time here at r.t. well stay with us for more of our special presidential election coverage our election at studio will start with casting at three pm g.m.t. bringing you pictures results in a variety of opinions across the political spectrum. let's cross over now to our business desk to get the latest from the world of finance and hello to k.t. here what's the reaction been of investors to the news of that e-mail pretty picture well they think rather happy as you carry to say the least ratcheting up of rally on the russian markets right now the reason is that the investors are all pulling back because of all the uncertainty i.v. elections and are rushing back into the markets so let's have

a look at the figures that we found see exactly what's going on. as you. right now the r.t.s. is going to just stand up one percent and the my six point six percent in positive territory will have a look at the individual shares on the my specs and see how they're performing at this hour the russian markets have gained twenty five percent since december that makes them the best performing stock market this year so far traders tell us that the next boost will come from the new cabinet which we formed by the new president of course as you can see we've got consumer demand stocks they are doing it killing well these are the guys with bt bank adding over one percent there and the same story for energy majors with those ross snaps and gas probably in the black now what's pushing them higher is not only the results of the presidential elections in russia but also higher crude prices these are the prices at the moment as you can

see the light sweet is over one hundred seven dollars five rather brant nearly one hundred and four dollars a barrel. crude prices are heading higher and also of u.s. president barack obama said the u.s. may use military force to stop iran from developing nuclear weapons all of that helping to boost the prices at this hour we'll take a look at the exchange rates the ruble is losing value against both the greenback and the euro despite the running markets and the european currency is even higher against the u.s. saw that is how the markets work but this hour i'll be back in about fifty five minutes with another update for you.

so we're substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of europe. and the shadow is i'm probing up on our shoulder for. the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the forms legal empire that the united states is trying to build that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s.

troops stationed on these bases all around us. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in cross our bases of on it are the noises our north and doesn't bother us at all because they're all bases but for other people it's almost like a cancer here for those people they simply into world war two the spaces i've been . working here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions they have thing else just get everything you needed. a mission free cretaceous free transfer charges free from richmond free.