hello everyone welcome back to our t. special coverage following russia's presidential election with me here we go in on this snow outside the kremlin as you can see probably around us the snow blowing around as we've got despite the weather the latest reaction in depth analysis coming your way live over the next few hours where the votes are now all counted one hundred percent confirming that pledging and putin will return to the country's top job but in moscow the reaction is split crowds gathered in central squares in

the capital both in support and against the ballot outcome a major rally of people backing political positions be taking place just behind us in the heart of most of those phone call i know because those again we must remember these rallies when the sanction descension for a period of time tonight each one prone to cancer was sanctioned for two hours and on the top of two o's the protrusion and this village and everybody went home a rival opposition gathering is now marginally over these latest pictures you're seeing from pushkin stars square as the smoke flows around you're also seeing if you focus in there the authorities trying to clear a way as put wooding of the sun shouldn't you know the load to be there for tomorrow is the police are trying to move these people on different varying reports and this is a polling they saw although it's really are certainly there in large numbers obviously moscow has been secured with really thousands of people on the streets down here by the kremlin and just that's just a ten minute walk from there are these live pictures that we're seeing from pushkin

square we do see are hearing that us and seven people or so been detained we heard fire. words were thrown at police you can see the situation is relatively tense there i looks like certain people are trying to stage the those where it was a report earlier on that something from one of the police would hard core of people were saying that they were going to stay there well. maybe back to the police to try to move on after the timing of the official sanction rally was over. as you said there were some police presence that our correspondent peter rollovers been caging the mood throughout the evening and so this catch up with him now we're hoping to catch him live i'm not sure peter oh yes there can you hear us for hello yes i am here to see you right good to have you on the line that i'm just a lot of activity going on around you about the bring us up to date exactly what's happening if you would. with us right quick recap the last time i was talking to you the meeting here pretty much ended most people had gone a homebody hard. headed remains now during the speeches that have been given. this

address the crowd saying he will remain here first in sky square and encourage other people to do so also now. a group of well several hundred perhaps a thousand of the most who did so he did just i was going to talk to them as i was speaking to them the amman the riot police here announced p.a. system is that they need to vacate the square they did this several times before the riot police moved into that square now there was also a lot of people watching what was going on pushkin's guys where they all dispersed very very quickly as soon as the riot police moved in to separate those who were refusing to leave who knows who would go basically what she was going all know how i feel maybe if you see a line of riot police a line of riot police here this is the out so line hold the several concentric circles if you will hold them both police and they have police the square i believe

at the moment maybe would see people in there have been people detained. by the police those who refusing to leave they were they were taken off. most of them peacefully going with the police on resisting and being carried off by several offices so that's the situation at the moment the square for the last i saw of it a few minutes ago pretty much clear but there are still some people resisting and holding not sitting that they they said they would know. this is all followed on from this meeting i say thousands most of them left just this group refusing to go and it seems that they have been at least the majority of them have been detained or moved on by the police that are here. ok paid despite the time and whether it. was the opposition groups saying the majority of the mix of the majority of the hardcore. messages it changed overnight. and while it hasn't

really changed at all they still say that they do recognize the election result. still. the same messages they have been several months which is that they want a change in russia. they really pin down who exactly this group called they are made up of just about everybody from across the political sphere the political world of russia from the far right to the left and they were all represented here. because from the states go we heard from alex in the valley who's become something of a major figure in this opposition movement we also heard from rudolph the presidential candidate who says he did buy putin in sunday's election no he had said before the elections that if he wasn't elected that he would remain in politics now he reiterated that message from the stage this evening saying that he would continue

in politics he would form a political party and he would continue to strive for what he wants to see the future of russia. so the demonstration itself going off peacefully wasn't until it was all good everybody dispersed the say this is nucular some people saying that they wouldn't leave now being dispersed by the right we say it. right here all of our lives which conspires square we're seeing obviously a live feed from there there are conflicting reports that electing the bahraini really the face of the opposition who people just talking about and another of his opposition colleagues were sitting in the fountain basically refusing to leave after this permit let up at nine o'clock you can see police here trying to make sure people make their way to the metro and clear the square as the snow really begins to come down there you can see the weather does seem to be worsening but also again conflicting reports that that that one of the opposition members has been arrested and perhaps even the irony of course come back to people there this

was going to be a so high point to have a new source there because they apply for this permit well before the election so they knew before the board even happened that they would come out tonight and protest is that you don't want to try to describe it there i was mentioning to all of you know that the approaching rally over our shoulder there interest quite quickly kind of on the top of the two hours no to a foreign view is. what should we strike a little bit about these protests that the sanction sanction full time swansong i always joke because there were a lot are joining the arab spring at those kind of protests in egypt and around the world and the big difference you feel is how organized russian protests are it doesn't matter if your opposition approach usually when the permit let some people go and that's exactly what happened actually a previous opposition rallies the one on a soccer ball and want to follow my square when the permit was not people peacefully made their way home but this was always going to be the big noise wasn't it bill was you know the protesters would come out on to the streets to have their

opinion to make their opinion heard. we're taking a look at these laws. if you just joined the shulchan r.t. coming to live from moscow it's kind of you know in this. studio so advantage point over the kremlin the action is kind of finished you were overlooking the pro putin rally what you're looking at now on screen are the latest live pictures from pushkin sky square were initially the opposition have gathered very much tonight to have their say and now they're vowing to begin really some kind of a sit in it sounds like i think scene of marnie is leading it promising and saying that he hopes that tomorrow morning on tuesday more people will come and actually join this campaign for free and fair election for a moment here of course of the vote as it was so for vladimir putin securing some sixty three point six percent of the vote but. way above everyone else can either use a gun off who is not at all happy by the outcome or security seventeen point two percent

of the vote he was leaving the communist party behind him because recall proper off here in the end security seven point nine percent of the vote all fair about one hundred percent of those votes are now clearly have now been counted and all systems are out of part of the next ten to fourteen days of course and find the cleared off ok more a lot of different reaction like we saw you said to go on of not happy he didn't go to that meeting today to congratulate from pro quo of another candidate a different all congratulated him in terms of the opposition obviously i'm talking about the opposition the street opposition these protests that we're seeing obviously they were going to be unhappy with the outcome of the vote no matter what you know pre-election polls made it very clear that putin was going to win and they applied for those permits as we were saying way ahead of the vote but who is the russian opposition the street opposition to your first goal but a party now takes a closer look at the opposition's aims and whether they're really a call for change or a change for provocation. an

activist and key nationalist alexina vialli started his political ascent as the anti-corruption blogger a post-election al burst of civic timothy so now i need quickly rise to an official opposition leader one of several actively trying to write a protest wave they condemned sunday's ballot before the first vote was even cost. these presidential elections are illegitimate and the person who comes of our whoever it is even if it's not will be illegitimate in any case. for weeks they've been rocking the boat to push the situation out of hand. the state that is pretty close just libya we don't care if. you want to call it my dollar charlie or whatever you like to do support such

a strategy. i advocate escalation. at twenty five alexandra used to hate politics until december when she joined now isn't of others to campaign for their elections but the battle cry slogans calling for a coup found little support even with those who wanted it in to go if you go to a protest and you say i want my government and my country that you know the state to be ruled by the rules that it's says in our constitution then you should follow them yourself in the first place and if you suddenly say let's go to kremlin and you know and said it on the set on fire well this is not legal but it almost everyone leaves days once changes almost no one wants a revolution but there is a minority who are making this a revolution however i don't think they'll manage to break open the russian state and recent opinion poll among those who took part in the moscow protests showed

a majority wanted to be heard by the ruling authorities less than a third so there was no point in dialogue up until sunday elections the protests in russia solve the real deal civilized and peaceful and the majority of the population would still like to see change come to russia without a. jury it was still hard to. follow as we were mentioning the whole position protests has been taking place it will take is that with rallies approaching supporters has continued into second day parties current era she was a bed made meetings for just be either c. or it was caused by their square the credit. people taking. yes to montana saying it gives a gasp blasting not stop this rally and be done earlier today probably closer to the culture the spirit god is probably not yet square is that people can tell these are still lives in some part of

a good deal to stick to supply as a protest so. hard but these friends lives to show that we should look closer towards bring tirzah new beginnings everybody here can take moscow russia victories cell culture was there was a. burial site here on the ground. the first of last night during we're going to come out and made an appearance here where there were approximately one hundred also some workers that came to help celebrate his victory he of course may use words like skirt emotional it praising people and saying i told you where we stand where insults met yet again people have come out to show their support to give the lives to waive their person and support like you

did to. yeah. ok let's just check in at what's happening at pushkin square it seems to be the place to be our opposition rally going over its permit police clearing this square there are conflicting reports the latest is that opposition leader really the face of the opposition the newest face the next a lot of wiring that he has been arrested over earlier it was reported that was the case and then it was reported he was still there are in fact in the fountain basically demanding that a sit in the house being gone so a lot of unclear. kind of reports about the situation on push to open still inside the receiving line here. sure as we can see some of the cold reading clearing here clearing people away it has to be said it doesn't look to be odd but access to the news was here when i. just looked at me and he particularly violence going on you can see a. lot of police. cars and if you can move the camera and i think this is one of

the security cameras. and security cameras it might move doesn't look like it's going to at the moment small talk show to come we can only tell you what you're seeing on your screens at the moment but most of us in this was saying this really is the focal point to know it was because it was expected would you say the forwardness. the protest is. pretty good at sticking to this i'm sure they had i mean also had it should be said much bigger numbers out there other sanction protests boldly is where i think the figures and i might mess them up here because there's been so many protest was from fifty thousand and up they say that depends on of course on who you ask and tonight it was around ten thousand so we're talking about a much different amount of numbers that should be clear and let's not forget at pro or anti government rallies there's always people who can cause some kind of complication we heard reports earlier that fireworks were thrown into the crowd ok

we see a little more movement happening of course guys where i just want to take a closer look it looks like people are moving around the riot police really i mean no massive movement going on but it does seem like something is happening it looks like they're forming a line to block to keep people who are usually gaming holding people homes if now he has a few scuffles on the front line. these are live pictures you just showed you will she go to see. you know he took me through what you see. the big ninety or most of the whole side or side here we might get a better idea it looks like yes they're blocking off the main square of pushkin's guys where this is a ten minute or so long from where we're standing right now just outside the kremlin by the way. you can see buses there. i'm sure a couple of people have been arrested it looks like there's certainly some movement there none of this has been confirmed by i said a lot of conflicting reports on whether any opposition has been arrested there is a report that alex in the martin and in fact has been arrested but again we can't

confirm that. ok motivation coverage continues. with this election was watched by over tens of thousands of observers and as the results sink in they're now reporting back with their findings artie's jacob grieves is across a statement saying. we have had announcements from certain bodies european observers missions including pace the. parliamentary assembly of the council of europe while they have stressed there's been a real malts improvement in terms of the presidential elections compared to that all the dewar issues that occurred in december of course these rules with allegations of electoral who are slightly more critical inspired is that so the o.e.c.d. the organization for security cooperation in europe they said the happy some real positive noises including the implementation of which cameras we've seen this is

still in over ninety thousand polling stations around the country allowing people streaming access to the election day procedure and also the implementation of ballot boxes see through ballot boxes to allow for more or less illegal activities or allegation left for electoral fraud to take place but he has stressed despite this it is quote insufficient these are all the opinions of two point three bodies we've spoken to another independent observer to his door. we have seen several a irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling spaces so it's normal you cannot. prepare old people i mean the thousands of people working on the electoral process had you kind of had preprogramed perfect so i think it's ideal but the era who are repeats or to be called is not even if you're a good lawyer it is about those take the call and program is

a small problems word seem a lot of the problems we have faced in european countries the marsh stress even those within the ranks of the opposition here very said it's possible to secured a win in this presidential vote what their dispute is not how much he want boy killed it's about how do you. ok you're going to get some more international reaction and even if you had you know we haven't had a we are hearing that we can confirm in fact that opposition leader the new face of the opposition at least in these protests of late has been arrested alexa numbered and apparently he's tweeting from from police van but of course he has a huge team of press people that work for him as well so that could be someone else we need for him very unclear on the situation at pushkin guy square but we have course we'll be going back there throughout the gulf above the cover trying to huge been seeing the live shots as it becoming she'll go back to the just a bit but let's get some reaction of around the world is

a bunch of germany's because for the latest nations to congratulate look even joining china japan and other countries at the meeting by larger hopes of love it seems with fringe opposition figures taking center stage and. well our correspondents got it as you can are in washington d.c. and that's our studio is in brussels both keeping an eye on the headlines from where they are let's go to guy named first in the u.s. capital from relation resets to missile defense fallouts relations with the u.s. have been turbulent under placing member putin in the past at least as america's taking his victory. and him coming back to the kremlin to surfing out. well i mean let me give you the latest we have congratulations from the state department addressed to the russian people the statement says the u.s. looks forward to working with president elect united it also says the united states endorses the preliminary report of the observer mission of the organization for

security and cooperation in europe and the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe which in its statement said the election had a clear winner with an absolute majority in the state when washington notes always sees concerns about electoral violations and urges the russian government to conduct an independent credible investigation of all over forty violations in the certain violations has been reported they're sure to go to court there was an unprecedented wash over the course of the elections in russia with cameras and all the polling stations and with many thousands of russians who volunteered to observe the vote that's something that was noted in the state of in this statement by the state department as well what's also interesting. you know some media outlets despite that run with headlines like ram and elections vote rig what's also interesting about the coverage here is 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 if you will for the choice of the russian people for the choice that they have made it was a landslide victory not just the vote but all opinion polls confirm that there is one more inconsistency here most experts agree the last candidate who won vote rigging would be prime minister who was in who was far ahead of his why voles in all opinion polls already before the elections but you know one of our colleagues at washington post for example goes with the headline russia's stolen election confirms reset failure by the way and another interesting point often pressure upon the reset was. going to happen to the reception given that prime minister future president putin is seen here is a kind of russian hoff who never shies away from launch sharp remarks on certain u.s. policies when asked about it seems that reset doesn't mean russia has to give up its national interest or not be able to express its views on some crucial

international issues essentially it's about finding common ground and as he said despite differences the reset has worked and both countries are said to benefit first of all economically from that we said. because this is true from what america stands for go on to sit across a source of you know a chorus from the brussels. so you can the e.u. the post a little history could cost russia's its biggest energy supply being said. well we have been monitoring our responses all throughout the morning and they're coming in very slowly and this unusual restraint as it was written about today was off last reporters reporters did ask at the commission briefing at midday today why have there not been statements at this point and the answer given back then was that e.u. leaders were still preparing their speeches that this was translated as reluctance to congratulate putin however slowly they may be coming in and we have heard some

statements from leaders german chancellor angela merkel has congratulated hoops and wish him success whether she also reiterated its system that there be democratic and political changes in the country however she said germany will continue partnership with a country france have not yet and this is a policy of no to the election and says that the president is studying the report on election fraud coming in however there was a statement just coming in the last hour from be a french foreign minister he said i quote i noted that the president putin is our partner for years to come as we estimate that despite the critical critical reelection that he will be working with him in this partnership with russia so a bit more positive their prime minister david cameron had also said it would since victory appears decisive we're seeing a lot of diplomatic terms wherever what is common in all of those statements is they're saying that we are they are taking into serious consideration the claims of fraud and the claims of vote rigging in this recent elections the media is no

different here it's been very critical of leading up to today it's specially looking at the headlines just how they read for example putin wins russian presidency and made it vote fraud claims or opposition calls for protest after putin that ever since this these calls for free and fair elections started after the dubai luncheons in december a lot of the opposition activists forces featured prominently in news reports and i would show you a spanish bay for that precaution sums up how this is covered here in europe so here you have. putin in the title reads the russians want a strong man whoever this is a very critical article of what has not been achieved by vladimir putin and here you will see the opposition voice activists it's considered here of europe as the symbol against the fight against corruption at russia so we expect this kind of coverage to continue here in europe as our eyes are really watching closely how this opposition movement grows however i have to add though that we're now seeing some analysis on what will come next. presidency in russia. all right

thank you mrs picture there from you appreciate it remotely watching on t.v. special coverage on the outcome of russia's presidential election. as well as good to have your company thousands of people have been really good reaction to the results tonight and that's although it's fair election protest is largely over some activists remain in one of the central squares it's pushkin's guy square live pictures coming from there where a permit ended at nine pm it's now. what he said yes half past the hour almost police are clearing people we are confirming now that links to my wife has been arrested we're hearing that he was pulled away citing anti-government slogans and he is apparently tweeting from the police spam so you can keep reno on track of what's happening online a lot of people tweeting from priscus there as well our correspondents of course they're keeping us up to date reality will take sort of the idea just as you can so

we can really tell you a lot more than what you're seeing on your screen the moment listen to advice when you are watching your skies see which is then away from risk and skies where we were focused in earlier almost a heavy police presence there didn't seem to be a lot of trouble i'm only going to someone who screams there you know we may hear more about. her to the picture tomorrow that's what the focus is this. rally is being broken up whole people just dispersing of their own free will. remove from their late. president elect of course having beaten his four rivals poil large budget for leaders including china and germany have been sending their congratulations to the way that we just heard the u.s. reaction as well you to put congratulating the russian public there's also been a massive rally in support of putin most because my quit that's just beyond this over there. forty minutes ago. right they are just near the crimean walls.

we also saw a huge demonstration hailing putin's victory shortly after the vote was over on sunday to again just beyond as the outside estimated hundred ten thousand people cheering their candidate he delivered an emotional speech tonight he did he then just said those tears that everyone's talking about a lot of buzz about those tears was actually because of the cold weather the went i could tell a version of that going later dmitri to join the new elected president as well to address the crowd he did we have course we'll continue to bring you live coverage we will as we're following all the conversation in paying for the coverage continues throughout the night but our programs continue our logan here on out hope you can stay with us. oh it be we are we do have more friends we continue our coverage you know we can

get more prognosis on whether the change out the top will cause an economic shift we're going to focus on business waiting to talk to us in london is charles robinson the global chief economist at renaissance capital thanks for being with us how do you expect foreign investors to react in the coming weeks and months and what ramifications will they have for the russian economy. today the reaction was one of relief. the election would produce the result it was expected by the markets tomorrow i suspect they'll be a bit more you know dismissed as a result of the demonstrations tonight. over the next few weeks months what's crucial is that they try reform we actually see putin's live ring reform that has been promised in the last few months on the run and that's going to be hard to fence expenditure on the other hand hard investment in education which is really important i think for the long run. i think investors are going to be focused on the most.