yeah i do still i promised you we would win. i. mean we have one i. welcome to the second day of our special coverage here in our city this monday march fifth two thousand and twelve on me so now way and this is kevin know when we continue to watch the results and reaction from russia's presidential election welcome to day two again of our special coverage we have this beautiful view you can see just outside the

kremlin but with nearly all votes no current to confirm the podium of who to this heading back to the kremlin for the country's top job office sitting a first round victory over its nearest rival the coleman is kind of ignited to get off we're told almost four times less than three other candidates ended up in single digits will return to those results more specifically throughout the program let's take a look now about closer at how the figures translate into public mood now the main focus is on crowds which are heading on to the streets once again in key cities across russia including of course moscow to try rallies both for and against the outcome of the vote of already taken place a gathering pace of the capital right now or teach people all over is one of them where the anti election protest is happening this catch up with either paid no election comes without strong criticism for opposition groups and movements of course but it's certainly a growing trend in russia what is the turnout where you are a good goal indeed of today's gathering that. will be the demonstration that's

occurring to push where around well forty five minutes or so from where you guys are that's just got underway and we're seeing thousands of people pour into this square in the the center of town coming through metal detectors just to my left is the stage just over my shoulder there you might be able to see where we're going to see speakers addressing the crowd now that crowd is as a growing by the minute by the second at the moment there's a have very heavy police presence here we're hearing from the authorities around twelve thousand police officers detained. steve keep the peace here is also how he called his case sporadically flying overhead to keep a view of what's going on from the skies. but things just get a whole new way here as people who come out from all across the political start to really fully the full live to the full rights issues that will ensue voice their disapproval at sunday night's elections. ok peter all of us i'm slow to come in

but you for the course of the noise those rallies across most local starting now it is seven pm most of time. but those opposition protests aren't the only ones taking place simultaneously pro prudent supporters have gathered for a second day here in the capital in fact just behind us here on their square artie's karen terror is down below on the streets karen thanks for being with us by tell us what's happening where you are we stopped massive turnout right in front of the kremlin walls on sunday night after results when people discovered through and was said to certainly retake the job how's it looking at the moment. and he says you said this is the saturday that arose in a row that massive protests are happening on what is that blue should of course they're not as big as they were on the floor and police say that hundred ten thousand supporters of who to work here on february fourth today son numbers

a suspect around fifteen thousand people showed that as you can see behind me the mood is very jubilant it's very out congratulatory everybody in a wonderful spirit today cheering and saying oh the path to democracy is the way to set the microphone hospital cost around many people even quoting what led you to points and said last night when he was here on the floor of the. aisle quoting his words that we caught one who rushed up to russia just chanting over and over so for the moment we see not that many police officers out today as there were on the poor . ah but the mood certainly are very happy very cheerful as well as everybody now with their flags in tones supporting. our in our cities karen tara rashi down on ministry reporting on these programs has had less numbers that i think of hundred thousand right when he came on to be a day or should a moment here since early days might go but

a clear view here over my shoulder it certainly does look smaller because the whole road in front of me or do it was completely a sea of people last night but you know it remains to be seen now that develops over the course of other powers in correspondence that you can see all the key points tonight for you well the election it might bring up more than just a change in leadership it could also signal a shift in the official opposition's voice three presidential candidates who earlier supported the street protest say the poll was legitimate and congratulated him on his win ok well i. was at the meeting which the president elect held with this election rivals choice reno good to see you do is that what happened well i recently was if i were to sum it up it was sort of a goodwill meeting of course that the prime minister for now has not met with the three of the runners up and congratulated them on gaining the amount of votes that they did because one of the most important things he said is that there were millions of people who stood behind all these roads and those goldstone's people

should be respected so. basically was a very positive meeting they did talk a lot about. expect there was a very interesting sense of sort of i would say in the agreement. with the candidates and on the answer in all skills course they all expressed to you know with their thoughts on the election process and how it went they didn't mention of course started the violations. prime minister said that he was and that's almost a direct quote that he was the last person to benefit from those elections or rather he would be the first person to lose from them. so he throws to do with the possible elections in any way possible and to talk about says basically working together a lot of them to propose certain ideas all watching the need to change in society or the process or russian politics and basically they did agree on a lot of things is a big focus of course on the protests of the protesters were those going to go from

here what do they have to say about the dangers not mistresses specifically talk about the protests but there was a feeling that there may be a chance of this protest movement breeds windell because if you look at it for example the communist party leader gennady zyuganov was not even there are apparently he was invited but he refused to come to the meeting he did basically it seems like the protest movement may lose its momentum because of the leaders of the opposition the primary leaders were there today and they looked like they're ready to work with again the future president putin all a lot of the issues which they may be facing so grotesquely actually be in the past as we know them well we're watching very carefully to overcome you know she wore how. ridiculous you think so so much thank you. well the only new face in the race independent candidate nicole croaker of came in third with around eight percent of the vote is being held as a great success for the tycoon turned politician who rounded up millions of votes

in just a few months of campaigning representing the middle class and calling for reform proper of says he's here to stay and for more on what comes next for the ambitious figure here's are to you then to friends. those plans and ambitions include possibly establishing his very own political party and maybe even running for president again in the future now we do congratulate robin is impressive showing me and nearly eighty percent of anguish to latino political future and there have been. many interesting reactions to procure rob's a political stances on different things everything from crime strengthening ties russia's ties with the european union to severing ties with iran and syria many called him a modern day gorbachev not so much in his political style because he's very he's very concerned with the gradual change but it is causing the modern day corporate

shock because of his desire to pass to change now with this nearly eight percent of vote to be just a solid political base and he's going to go ahead as he says and form a little party and at the next presidential election possibly run for office but he is in hala ticks to say so he says at nearly twenty percent of the bug cannot easily get all for the communist party kristie uses for it on his part to accept these final numbers and he says these elections are not fair or they are not transparent he blames putin for not involving himself in election odds of bates' and he's actually been to rehab elections so far is now sixty seven years old no word yet on what his future plans are but he does refuse to accept these numbers so he said the best out of those that did not he did not win the next to vladimir zhirinovsky from the liberal democratic party had just run six percent of the vote

he is characteristically the most outspoken the most colorful candidates of this group this may be his last friday although he has he graduated to sit on the victory and after him sergei their own of of their russia coming in just under four percent he's also congratulated him on a victory and quietly accepted that. course one of the defroster some reaction there should she get out of the should go for his job in taking it worse she was the most outspoken about always make sure the results show you she. the latest results i was making. say it doesn't look like much going to change or becoming i was maybe of your point here let's get reaction from pre-war europe germany's chancellor merkel became one of the latest leaders to congratulate but give it to you to give her best wishes for the coming but it's a chokehold trust to watch big brother so political circles much of the media

that's right keeping watch on what's being said you can in washington d.c. and laura smith in london for us first to you guys are putin is known for being tough on foreign policy given the current tensions with the u.s. how is his victory being seen there so far. i mean. quote unquote rampant fraud vote rigging that's what the media focused on. happening reported there was an unprecedented watch over the course of the elections was an old polling stations and what with many thousands of russians will volunteer to observe the vote those while asians are sort of go to court but there were also hundreds of international observers who gave no such diagnosis as rampant fraud but some of the colleagues here are running with bills have lies was also interesting about the coverage everybody knows that we've seen 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 it was a landslide victory not just

a no vote at all all polling all opinion polls come for a bit there is one more interesting is the most experts agree the last minute one vote rigging would be prime minister putin was far ahead of his rivals in all opinion polls already before the elections but no wonder the washington post for example goes with the headline russia's stolen election confirms reset family or stolen so that's the diagnosis another interesting point often question in this headline as well the reset the media here generally seen prime minister putin. in future president putin is kind of a hawk whose response to certain u.s. policies is being blunt sharp and times unpleasant for washington and they raise questions about that we said about where it's headed a journalist actually asked prime minister putin about their future and the result of that and what he was basically reset doesn't mean russia has to give up its national interests or not be able to express his views on international issues

despite the differences he says we said has worked and he can dramatically advance economic ties between the countries and he is determined to follow through with policy. gone i think show first of you stateside let's get the view from you reveal precisely the united kingdom where you get to choose their correspondent and loved laura smith who are also good on the street. who was in the streets has been quite slow in coming out in quite muted now that it has waited for a while for any response to tools from downing street we've now had a statement from downing street spokes person who is calling this to do it decisive results and when it did this is really the most the most the clearest and dual cement of peace in speech three they did say that there had been some problems with the election but that overall the outcome was in two thousand they will say points out that even independents n.g.o.s estimates clearly of that fifty that he needed

to secure a victory in the first round david cameron the prime minister is expected to cool. it but it's not clear whether he's going to congratulate him he does say that he wants to do what they're calling it she's elsewhere in europe as you said. has already come home but she stressed so bizarre during that conversation apparently to see greater political freedoms and russia say she has made that customary congratulates free phone call in direct control. apparently we're hearing with nicolas sarkozy in france his spokesperson says that he's new to the victory but he's still studying the reports from the organization for security in europe which as we know was very critical of the elections as far as the papers go they also recognize the indisputable victory but usually only in the small print we've

got the independents here which is kerry's on the front page that picture of peace and wiping away it's here as he made his victory speech inside it showing a picture of his that cost in their votes how to move all ballot box that's been brought to their homes there's an old school down here which concentrates on the independent monitoring that we saw calling. me a volunteer monitors elsewhere in the times today we also got the teary eyed picture of peace in just about all the papers seem to have gone with this and that leads with accusations that his opponents tried to break up russia and used up power much less critical actually going to jersey of the papers that we've seen today and also i got the sun here just for a bit of a laugh really also showing a teary eyed putin says up here glad to be back which i thought was quite nice and it also shows these naked great esther's who try to steal christians vote for the ballot box that has gone into those i think is sort of a sort of a muted and late reaction from all around europe but increasing acceptance here of

decisive victory. ok laura thanks very much for bringing us the view from europe. all right while the race is over kevin but now the real work begins analysts quick to point out where the priorities should be journalists. there are two political scenarios he's likely to choose between. this will get sort of a battle between. all of the relevant here and. for myself identify the for us. he's a state which is north going back strong from. the time of the reforms which was started by our going president be a. bit of land reform can be restricted to crops like skolkovo all they want to become capital cities to be the way with the

war they want russian political system to be transparent russia's record and that's where they will get more never and you know corruption and people who support the in the least idea there could still be you. can. believe in such a state and i think he can capitalize on that but on the other hand this group of leaders as well as russia probably. associated with a deal. they just need steve to school they need just to get some candles from the city they don't want any change because they believe that the stability of this is something which can make russia believe in it but stegman state which is the road to nowhere so this is a very exciting moment. well from happy outpourings of support to solemn predictions of the end of russia the latter is certainly having its say today and i'm sure more will come longer and journalist tim kirby is following the latest on line chatter for r t tell us why dinner putin has always been somewhat of

a pilot rising to your especially on the net and of late this is the big three being greeted on the on the world wide web. we seem to be having some technical difficulties difficulties will try to get the sound fix on to marry sure he has plenty of interesting things to say for us obviously we're terribly enthusiastic as i was unable we will get back to a bit later because previous uses go saying interesting you say well ok you with all of the special election coverage showing the outcome over brushes presidential that should by they just have it all in just about as risky as well tonight it's good to have your company thousands of people have been taking to russia streets in reaction to the vote results in the biggest rallies no folding in the capital mr yes that's right fair election protest in one of the central squares is taking

place despite the wind spread recognition of the election as most the most transparent in jack eight more than ninety nine percent of the ballots have been counted or putin has been declared president alack coming out done for other candidates by a very large margin because it is scared that if you know these are kind of came in behind it in that said could his supporters are among those gather a good moscow right now to protest against the results but investors are keen to line up for russia's next government as well let's see how they're reacting now by heading to the business news through korea medicare is across that side of it for us tonight are they creating hello kevin well yes you're right russian equity seem to be reassured the preelection rushes over however shares acing model. some investors say that they expect a period of consolidation after the markets went up more than twenty percent at the start of the year but analysts say that investors will be watching closely to see how mr putin handles protests in the country obviously the markets will fully price

in the results of these elections in about two months time when the new cabinet is formed now let's look at the figures as you can see both the indices traded in the black today in russia the r.t.s. close call them one first and the miners experienced off one and a house percent nearly stayed back blue chips were the main gain us today energy majors gas problems at a two percent rosner up gains one and a quarter percent and that is strong the oil is one of the factors that pushed them higher as home value stocks there were high as well the c.b.d. the russians second largest lender gained. actually one and a half percent now the ruble is losing both against the greenback and the euro and investors do not want to risk concerns about the european economy but meanwhile the u.s. currency is seeing some profit taking against the euro these things are out of date

for this i'll be back with more about fifteen minutes from now back to you. through medicare and such remote shops the way the markets a looking out twenty four seven moscow time tonight. i believe we have on we can check in on what's happening with these protests happening in moscow i believe we have some of the latest pictures of the opposition i that we can have a look at people are gathering on a pushkin square they say now that they're going to continue to call for free and fair elections on seems we don't have those pictures perhaps we can move on and discuss further the i'm going on a gusher if we do we do we do we are going to go but sorry sorry the the rusia city mysterious road in the center of the cards moscow. was actually a perm. meant was that i was requested for this before the elections it has to be said people knew they would be coming out my pictures from an opposition rally of course just a day after this poll place here putin now declared the president elect and i

believe they're going to be calling for early presidential elections of course he hasn't become president yet that won't happen until may of course will follow more of what they saw over the coming hours over the coming days and as well getting more reaction. we've also got of course a approach who should rally let's talk about actually because we can go get some shots just overall show the world a high vantage point overlooking the president and an area called monday shows where the side the big field most of a hotel ending up show history museum know there was a huge gathering over a hundred thousand people last night where the crimea putin and president headed came out to speak. a very noisy shall have to say the looks no one near the size of the government the last night again that kicks off at seven o'clock as well tonight but i can see clearly over my shoulder you're seeing the pictures as well just now become a country with our correspondents down there little bit later as well just to get a flavor of what's going on strike people continue to celebrate our mom and ask her

let's get a bit serious go back to business i think i can say i want to talk about the possible i could nominate twists and turns maybe not twists and turns that might happen with putin coming back into the kremlin what's your expectation we'll it's pretty interesting question because last year when medved if was proposing a program that celebrated economic reforms. pushing was a little bit skeptical about the need for accelerating he was concerned about little experiments he wants to troll stability but then i think in december perhaps in response to the protests against the alleged full suffocation of the tumor elections he seemed to change hard of hearing the word. monetization from him something we didn't hear before you go on strike and we've got a promise of an anti corruption campaign in the states and a crisis of attacks over the news the way you cut taxes on investment prosecutes them on consumption and then we have seen in laos

a very ambitious economic program based on the want to build stability. and the macro level would play should balance budgets inflation targeting and competition on the micro level which is a word that mr bush has abused that much of the cost and he said that we need competition in russia in order to catch up in order to give into the forces an incentive to innovate to become more productive and eventually to to assume we support ambitious targets not just doubly tearaway tree but also including russia's ranking on the ease of doing business in the next one hundred tracy which is very good to twenty which would be very good and at the same time we can be true to excel ratio of the privatization program where again the questions about whether this is something he was committed to in the polls so i think the program is very ambitious but the question really gets under your belt for schoolies reason to do it so well yes you can use also cautiously i was going to ask you could you can it

mean any it's going to promise something can be delivered on it's also going to cost a lot of money makes percent of all of the country's g.d.p. that's going to come in the economy yes that's true that's true but the i think is only dear nice thing to do these economic reforms to get hired was that generates the revenues so that you can finance aloof you want ambitious spending programs on health and education defense and infrastructure oh my i think that the the pushback on been getting from investors that i've been talking with a ban on this program is a concern that maybe once he's in office once he's president the pressure of full formal sort of evaporates and we'll be back in the sort of slow moving world again but i think it would. something that we're watching very closely of his decisions about who he appoints as a male some supporters seem to give a clue over the coming months about whether he really will put his foot on the pedal an extremist constants how much time we have to introduce these measures i

think to the to the middle of the year we've still got so you know a lot of a lot so it's going to be called for in terms of setting up a new government some people getting their feet under the table so i think people will be looking for progress studies show entry in may june was a true monetisation for the middle of here and a credible economic team because we're seeing these protests on the streets of moscow some people say they think they will continue to grow one of those they really they says has become the next in line in what is your assessment of him especially in terms of economics i mean he does have political ambitions could he run russia will come out i think just to sort of focus in on what he stole in the polls today he's been very effective sometimes using the tools of transparency for governance in order to challenge states or companies around to use the money for civil suits are not going to kill civility can draw a. big improvements in productivity because really focused on and take corruption

but what if we have allies kind of the more. wider. you know challenges that russia is facing it's more than just corruption as well it's called of rules for i say to you so far as he was destroyed the before and putin says that he wants to strengthen the rule for there is perhaps scope for there to power some things in common as i think was shown by the fact that verbal trickery all the procedure for to be election or separation of but we'll just have to see how the process something told you can see you're going through all the all the financial crisis is going to occur to them over the response school this fall but at the moment for a long time russia's enjoyed relative stability here. but there's a school of thought to say that it's been artificially created and no maybe. now we're heading into a new era another looks like under the under a new president things night full of party always a danger that a crisis could hit here is the real worry well i think the thing that just differentiates russia from the rest of europe is debts and deficits if you look at

russia's debt it's on the ten percent of g.d.p. in the e.u. it's sixty two percent on average immediately in greece elsewhere it's much more up . the deficit russia around a surplus last year of one of the whole of percent of g.d.p. whereas the rest of europe is running deficits of about formal six percent of g.d.p. so russia has a cushion which means it is more protected his problem is of course it's called ability if the oil price should fall sharply at the moment we don't think that's very likely the saudis have said a hundred dollars looks like a good points to us so it would not put a floor under the extent to which all prices will fall in the next year or two but into the medium term the big challenge for the russian government is going to be sure to juice the kinds of oil and increase revenues they get from the side of the car or else one day or small from it will have begun to make you realize that i never introduced to it all i keep using with return of course the danger you know my morgan stanley russell thanks very now thanks frank so civil should be with us

is a very chilly night mother's home and then we're into ok well i think they come by you know who is the editor in chief of a russian foreign news website and was also an observer for yesterday's election says these are russian democracy being born. one mistake that the foreign observers are making is that they are focusing too much in the clinton personally. and i think it's going to be more critical articles along the lines of. the victory of putin is the death of russian democracy or as i wrote some words just today the final nail in the coffin. what i've seen actually differs very much from the viewpoint of what i've seen was the actual first steps so to say that russian democracy you know i spent twenty dollars on nonstop at the station yesterday and you have to be alert and every single moment i only have to spend the whole.