hello this is r t live for more screws be careful though in the industry now and again tonight we're outside the kremlin with your comprehensive coverage of the results and reaction indeed to russia's presidential election who votes counted now if we didn't putin it seems will return to the country's top joke with demonstrations have been held this monday evening both for and against the results a major round the of people back into place behind us in line yes and i ask we're right outside the kremlin wall now the same time a crowd held

a fair election rally despite the vote being widely recognized as the most transparent in russia's history will start around one hundred people were detained at the gathering when some activists later tried to block one of the city's main streets in an authorized gathering and i understand actually if the people stayed after their permit had ended at nine pm moscow time which was and i was you our listeners steps in to move on are these are the latest pictures or just look let's just check from our production gallery of these latest pictures all live pictures we're seeing here now hopefully here's the latest pictures taken just a little while back at the height of it when the police were clearing the protesters and demonstrators there after their allotted time last night just to let you know that might sound a bit strange but the way the protests on both sides work here is on a permit and sort of parking meter if you like you could have time for it tonight both meetings pro and for two hours they started have served but they should have

ended at nine o'clock the ante. protesting pushed into scar square went over it's a lot of time it seems that is why the police are moving on but the core of people were saying at one stage and. saying that they were not going to move book we think what instigated this tonight now these are all live shots new sixty new who's a live picture that i think we can take this is not live because the last shots we did see that were like these are the latest pictures from where we saw of people this was a while ago not that many people there now as far as i understand we do have our first front there. he's been gauging the mood throw the thing paid it was extremely busy hectic. scuffles following the rally it looks at least where you're standing above the time quiet so take us through what happened to the last hour or so think now. well what's happening now is everything is pretty much

back to normal and you wouldn't think anything could happen tonight you can see the traffic pretty much flowing freely as it would normally do around push. i was in the square. talking to you just about everything and to the people milling around you a find at this time on any night of the week now what happened was. as you rightly explained that basically during this opposition rally this a rally for fair elections and some activists addressed the state to say to address the crowd and said we're going to stay here we want you to stay here and remain in the square now we'll stay to the demonstration was there was a few people few hundred people maybe at the most a thousand remained in the fountain in the center of the square you know they were asked by riot police to move along. p.a. system said over loud there were several times when they refused to do. the police . as police moved in what we did see as many people who would actually be and

pulled out six hundred fifty were calling in. all dispersed a very few with a just watching what was going to happen as soon as the police arrived a lot of people ran off with the police in circles to get to the stage and eventually the wall no. around a hundred people have been detained now those include. the really two prominent figures in this this movement now they have been taken into custody but only ones who is really. after they overstayed their welcome if you will overstate their push for holding this demonstration they were moved along by the police those who refused to move along to take. elections of course now becoming criticism one of the protesters saying little bit goals and demands simple change anything over the last twenty four hours. well they still saying that they will do you have free and what they see is free and fair elections in russia not happy in their opinion with the vote that we heard on sunday here in russia to determine the new

president just as they were unhappy with the the parliamentary votes in december of last year and that is despite some european observers saying that they would be with great improvements in how the elections were held and how russia went about the whole what was about putting on those elections that we saw on sunday evening. falls how many people came out this evening with as we go off what the official figures are what the opposition selves have said reduce come up with a figure somewhere between fifteen and twenty thousand people were pushed into this evening. we will we heard those we had a lot of speeches from various people including me broken off the defeated candidate in the presidential race now before the elections he said that if he didn't read in the presidency that he would remain in politics now through google of course the billionaire businessman and owner of the huge jersey nets in the n.b.a. this is his first time in venture into politics really running for the presidential

candidate his presidential candidate he said he would remain employed. six this is what he reiterated from the stage saying that he would continue to try and push forward what he sees as the right future for russia so he addressed the crowds of little people who dress the crowd as well everybody else seemed to be going off without a hitch he was until just the time i run out at nine o'clock the bus majority of people left peacefully just a small group remaining in the square who were eventually revealed by the police. board paid for to bring us up to date their votes without having it's a. nice pretty shaken well more reaction to the protests today and what they achieved with one of the organizers of the opposition rally on the reef can who was actually a political analyst for g q magazine was much rather and she is a very cold day i just want to clarify ok so he was really we were in our school we had been. really we just have huge titles you can see the title so i just because writing in twitter that we had to cover up his white horse symbol in that position

we certainly in my you guys were encouraging us to tell us not quite you know the hundreds of thousands that we saw on soccer oh i lay out where is this going next to the protests in the barn is arrested there's been several arrests it seems like things are calm down now we just spoke to peter. well my views that this problem protests obviously gathered a less people than the previous protests but we have turned north that it is a monday night and a lot of people have to go to work but of course this protest is. is a little strange in terms that it started off peacefully but then all of a sudden i was right there i was right behind the stage all of a sudden the police started just moving in on the people there people gathered inside inside the ring on the push hands because square but then the police all the sunday just started arresting people pushing everyone always clarify for us was this like out to you how you could completely close by this force of the telling of you was it's because the protest was sanctioned to i was against if it started at

seven and should have finished it knowing that some dolphin on the. it did happen after nine o'clock but there. stadium a deputy ilya phenomena of said that he's organizing. and meeting with him which apparently i'm not a specialist in the russian law is something legal that you can do you can have your voters meet with you wherever you want and he said that he is organizing in fact and that should have provided some sort of a legal umbrella are you going to do such a story or i guess we also have heard reports. that the protesters who try to block the street was impeding the public road i. can only life as well. as internationally i have not seen any street being blocked the. court action was taking place in the pushkin square square where they are deployed most of the military and the police forces and in fact the volley of the rest of the protesters

the organizers they were on the pushkin square square as were some of the nationalist that were standing basically couldn't go away but. no movement of theirs seemed to be harmful in any way to the peaceful. people who were just passing by the streets anything i thought why defeated the only time we actually seen arrests were the protests that took place to correctly after the elections the . peaceful apolo peaceful why aren't these kind of directly the night after we're seeing kind of less people of course detained after the parliamentary elections but why is it that the bigger meetings here have actually thousands of people seem to be more peaceful i think that if you have one hundred thousand people outside on the streets then it's going to get a little hard to arrest any of them because there's just so much of them they have this critical mass where they become so sort of legitimate in the eyes of the power right after the election the government seems a little more paranoid that what we're seeing right now it's it hasn't even been

twenty four hours after putin has now. that he won and already some journalists are detained volley yasha and they're all detained so probably they're a little more paranoid right after the elections which works out really bad in terms of image for them because basically she just came into power although not officially yet not not quite but if you announced the president elect and already we're seeing so many arrests and we're seeing cops i think i'd prefer would protest to be other option i mean people coming out on the streets tonight what did they expect the protest was until nine o'clock they stayed there i mean what could have been the other option what exactly do they want oh well there were. i've heard numerous scenarios that the protesters would be planning on moving on towards the kremlin lubyanka. committee but none of that was happening in fact there was no march of the protesters and what the protesters thought would happen is that if

they in fact not march somewhere like having on december fifth then guess obviously they would be met with resistance from the government forces but this hasn't happened so i think the police crackdown that we saw on pushkin square was actually unexpected considering thank you to say this conflicting reports of the wifey from t.v. rain where it was clear that people were trying to move i don't know which direction i can confirm but certainly you know we say for the radio that you're going to a set i'm afraid we're going to leave it there because of timing there you can very interesting to hear your thoughts tonight thanks for being here it is freezing here . daria prisco now takes a closer look at the opposition aims and whether they're really calling for change . they wanted it to happen they did everything to make it happen. and activist and key nationalist finally started his political ascent as the end

tycoon option blogger the post-election outburst to the son of mine. quickly rise to an official opposition leader one of several actively trying to right the protest wave they condemned sunday's ballot before the first vote was even cast. these presidential elections are illegitimate and the person who comes to power wherever it is even if it's not will be illegitimate in any case the weeks they've been rocking the boat to push the situation out of hand. that is a pretty good cause really don't because if. you want to call it my done or charge here whatever you like to do support such a strategy struck the i advocate escalation. twenty five alexandra used to hate politics until december when she joined thousands of others to campaign for fair elections but the battle cry slogans

calling for a coup found little support even with those who want to put into jail if you go to the 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 about it says in our constitution that he should follow them yourself the first place and if you suddenly say let's go to kremlin and you know and said i don't put a set on fire well this is not legal equality almost everyone these days wants 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. a recent opinion poll among those who took part in the moscow protests shoot a majority wanted to be heard by the ruling thirty's less than that so there was no point in dialogue up until sunday elections the protests in russia some very tedious civilised peaceful and the majority of the nation would still like to see

a change to russia without some. very interesting parts of. the opposition protests have been taking place civil take this thing with the rallies approach and supporters which continue to do a second day ots character out she was at their main meeting spot in moscow's mother square just behind us here in the credit. markets there just a safe broke woman alex place where there were something like fantasy alsa me most child up to strut their stuff for a bit less rally that's what i wanted to call it rallies are of a celebration overall it's very. very exciting but here on the ground. first last night for it to come out made an appearance here where there was approximately one hundred thousand supporters of it so i'll

celebrate his victory he of course a few words looks very emotional. raising it saying i told you we would. all weekend way through. well the election it was closely watched by over hundreds of thousands of observers and as a result think in they're now reporting back with their findings are these taken griefs as across first. case the parliament parliamentary assembly or the council of europe or they have stressed there's been a real monty improvements in terms of the presidential elections compared to that healthy do elections that occurred in december of course these rules without occasions of electoral who are slightly more critical inspired is that old the power see the old i say should steer she cooperated in europe now they said the happy some real positive noises including me a brain taishan of web cameras we've seen this is stolen over ninety thousand

polling stations around the country line people live streaming access to the election day procedure and also the imprint haitian ballot boxes see through ballot boxes to allow for more or less illegal activities or allegation that for a little fraud to take place we've spoken to another independent observer to his thoughts we have seen several a irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling stations so it's normal you cannot prepare all people i mean there are thousands of people working on the electoral process. you cannot have preprogrammed perfectly so nothing is ideal but the irregularities or in the bahamas not even irregularities but those technical an organisational problems worse seem a lot of the problems we have faced in european countries the more stress even

those within the ranks of the opposition here free said it possible to putin secured a win in this presidential vote what they're disputing is that no matter how much he won by. sure greece of course photo was a special program tonight to bring you all the latest the reaction the day all through the election of course a preview those of institutional folding saw to push to discuss were well let's get more reaction from germany's become one of the latest nations to congratulate legitimate purpose in joining china japan and other countries puts the media bush's proposal for a joint position figures taking center stage in our correspondence going to she can in washington and laura smith in london are keeping an eye on the headlines for us first to you guy in a from relation resets to missile defense fallouts no secret that relations with the u.s. and russia have been turbulent under. to sit in the past times america taking his

victory. we have congratulations from the state department addressed to the russian people the statement says the u.s. looks forward to working with the president to like it also says the united states endorses the preliminary report of the observer mission of the parliamentary assembly of the council of europe which said be a wife who was head of clear winner with an absolute majority washington knows the always sees concerns about a life pro violations and urges the russian government to conduct an independent credible investigation indeed certain violations has been reported and they are being investigated it was an unprecedented watch over the course of the elections in russia with cameras in all hope polling stations across the country and with many thousands of russians who are volunteering to observe the vote that's something that the state department also noted in their statement but the media coverage was mostly focused on discontent among many russians and some outlets went

as far as claiming rent and fraud stolen election a statement that would insult the majority of russians were voted for it was a landslide victory not just the vote but all of piñon polls come for a bit would. also interesting about the media coverage here everybody knows that putin is the most popular politician in russia so there's acknowledgement of that but at the same time there seems to be some kind of you know like a respect for for the choice that russians have made there is more inconsistency about you know most experts agree the last candidate who would want both would be probably prime minister putin who was far as head of his wives in all opinion polls already before the elections but nonetheless some of our colleagues you know with headlines like for example. our colleague in washington post goes with the headline russians stolen election confirms re said failure here is another interesting point often part and that is the reset what's going to happen to the reset given that

prime minister putin and future president putin is seen here as some kind of a russian hawk who never shies away from launch sharp remarks on certain u.s. policies when asked about it russia is as we said putin said 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 is about finding common ground and he said despite the differences the reset has worked and both countries are set to benefit from it all for i made all you know economically first of all for that we say. there are some support in the picture there of the response for america going to treat your car loan so we spoke to our correspondent brussels let's go to london to take on what's being said in great britain smith course called in the u.k. is there what are you hearing from the press you mentioned. before. very very easy

to say we now have information that prime minister david cameron has made the phone call to president elect putin soon congratulate him on his victory that follows a statement from downing street that we saw which said that peace in had. achieved a decisive victory although there had according to downing street been some problems with the election downing street said that even independent n.g.o.s estimates put christians polling ways to solve the fifty percent that was needed to secure an outright victory that came just a short time ago that's in stark contrast to the french president nicolas sarkozy who apparently has yet to make that painful according to his office he's noted at the victory but he's still start seeing the results of those independent election observers before he decides what to do and we know that the o.s.c. in particular was very critical i'll just show you a couple of papers is not very much time but we've seen we've seen really overwhelming negative coverage of this poll in the british papers this is the independent critics cry fraud

a picture on the front page they call that ubiquitous now picture of peace and wiping a tear away from his eye last night as he celebrated the victory a picture from a rural polling station that is to show you what a voting can be like in russia we've also got the times here which is less critical than many of the other papers actually piecing dismisses fraud claims and accuse opponents of trying to breakup russia they're also carrying that picture of peace and wiping away a tear and they've also got the sun here which carries quite nice little let little caps and blood to be back as he also brushes the weights here in cold folds though it says it's a really overwhelmingly negative press coverage and you really have to read the fine print in the person's newspapers today to discover that this was a decisive election victory well above fifty percent even taking into account states allegations of facing fraud. all right laura thanks you're pretty sure to you know we're going to share look at next is what gets more reaction marching macaulay's of russian expert at the university of london good evening folks bring

it all to you no special look election coverage program tonight can you hear me. great now you've been closely watching developments in this country over the past. forty years we had laura smith our correspondent there talking about the reaction being largely negative for the u.k. are you surprised about that you know next question what makes the presidential election stand out to you. i'm not surprised because. the british press was on on on balance hostile to russia and president putin they were more favorably disposed toward president did you because he appeared to be more western and he didn't use incendiary language he didn't use threats and so on you were the tough man and so on but a good deal of putin is seen as a hard man and somebody who can be very difficult to deal with and therefore britain would like to improve relations with russia but unfortunately it could be

very tough because there are many barriers to progress and if you look at russia with the last forty years it's making progress this election arguably it was that was the fairest and the cleanest yet and that's saying a lot. there so why isn't somebody putting it so she's so grossly. so worried why was the u.k. media taking up all that picking up on the positive side of it do you think. because i think that the mindset is negative if you look at putin you look at his k.g.b. background you look at the statements he's made very aggressive. he's promised the military eight hundred billion dollars. over the next ten years to make the russia one of the strongest armies one of the strongest military in the world but doesn't go down very well and he says that russia isn't that the enemy of the outside world the outside world sees russia's economy and so this is not true from

his point of view is not true and it's very difficult to get through to the british public that a normal relations or better relations if i can even he is opposed to. most mccauley think service of most your thoughts the russian expert at the university of underfed speaking the program just a reminder that we have special coverage throughout the night winding down now it's become a internet night really here in moscow on monday after the president's election i mean he said now i kevin knowing here we need to check what's happening online we haven't done that no actually tim curve easily you could chat piece and you said pretty valuable really telling us what's going on online to me there are no. critics up to date with what you go oh well good news things are right here we've got some pictures of what's happening on the square and interestingly enough we have a view from in side one of the trucks where apparently this is one. of the

chief opposition guys pictures this account isn't verified but a lot of people reading speed is as you see all of these people arrested the sure look really happy it's there for the time. looking forward a couple days in the clink but otherwise i'll lot of people writing about the elections are fair or not some people are posting all. the different articles on how the foreign observers are very happy with the elections and other people are writing about how everything was terrible so we're sort of looking at both sides here other people are writing about how now does the protester concern a break people are starting to go home there are you know writing about their experiences in the metro some people are doing just fine a lot of people saying that they were pushed and shoved by the police and that they are going to put all this stuff online and world to see it on youtube very soon so action a couple hours of people get all get home and they throw everything on you tube we

should see a lot of interesting videos because a lot of these single frame photos are just really blurry to be honest. so be very interesting to see war is online a very good cheer for you good tunes of your seats night and i'm certain this will keep coming in over the next couple of days until be analyzing everything that's happening obviously i hope you're enjoying our coverage of the international observers have been having their say about the openness of russia's presidential election one thing's for sure this poll was unique in that anyone could have been a vote moments a lot of people volunteered that was a lot of money well before good millionfold approach it with ninety one thousand webcams to choose from but the cameras caught more than just the ballots people actually voting and attracted nearly two million fascinated viewers like his throwing mock thing i've been looking at some of the videos that are going viral. it was not only about the win now but it is. full of. the uses. but i think elections were also about these

video cameras here but to make them fit and transparent and into my d gave us i was the unexpected intertainment from ordinary russians. these people became the true reality stars of the election even though the world was watching closely they thought no one was looking. president elect about him a putin had web cameras installed in almost ninety one thousand stations across the country now he wanted to make sure that the elections were transparent and with that those cameras cause almost thirteen billion rubles but he didn't bargain for a day was epic cameras would give us a glimpse of other people's lives around the country from chechnya to cimon. there's a certain voyeurism behind anonymous filming. do we enjoy big brother watching.

the extensive monotreme plan exhausted many of russia's resources this police officer decided she needed time out of the west will cameras capturing her every. now this video has over two hundred thousand hits on you tube so it is saying michael jackson's oh no moonwalk to life you see an observer looking at this man at once he puts on a show for the cameras and for us.