leila you would assume that if you ask any politician any presidential candidate around the world if he or she would be happy with that kind of disappointing result you'd expect the end certainly no in a vast majority of cases but saying a sub jack told me in an exclusive live interview a few hours ago she doesn't see it that way course it's not the result i would dream about but my campaign was not a result of my campaign was about talking truth on the propaganda stick channels of federal t.v. in russia this result is higher than of any other liberal candidate and that makes a platform for rhenish and after the debates with alexina vitally that you just had a few hours ago are you confident and that kind of future for a so called united opposition bloc i'm very disappointed by the discussion because i came there to discuss all future six years with putin and how we will fight with

me but in stand we were discussing carrying my insta problem which is ridiculous to my way should we take your result the result of good for you beats me and mr t. tough as well and add them together still i think that's just under five percent so is there much room for improvement here and are you hoping to improve in the near future education is the most important value of my program education of russian people of telling them truth about the situation believing trying to make them interest and the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the contrie the only real way to make this five percent growing to fifty one percent is to make people understand this connection what is your maybe adjective or a few adjectives that you can use or some other words to describe this is the success of freedom. speech and this is our most important success during this

campaign was the vote itself i mean we should be realistic about this huge amount of support of. this result well maybe it would be not seventy five percent but sixty eight or whatever the steel we should meet that the majority of people in our really want these drugs. were not all voters abroad were able to cast their ballots in ukraine russian citizens were blocked from voting by local police or russian consulates in the circle ukrainian cities there are also protests against russia's presidential election all over ukraine in kiev anti election protesters threw eggs at the russian consulate general building on the rule so protests in cairo of the off and adesa we contacted several international organizations for comment the organization for security and cooperation in europe replied but said it was a matter of bilateral relations between the two countries. well over one hundred

forty thousand observers have been sharing the ballots the cost of that new problems that the voting procedures are conducted properly over fifteen hundred of the observers of foreigners which is a record for the presidential elections in russia while the vast majority of poles set was set up with cameras to stream everything online activists were using them to monitor any possible violations list video shows members of the electoral commission stuffing ballot boxes this incident took place in a city near moscow the central electoral commission has fired the employees involved and said that ballots cast in that particular box will not be counted we've discussed with election observers whether they witnessed any violations. but i can say that i didn't see any violation maybe i was too short a time there but i don't i don't think that in any by the asians were visible we wanted to to see how it works we were we are particularly interested very much in the transmission lines which you so i see here all the very high level we. can

follow and to introduce the system so this was it was it was what was what we were very much interested in we have some team in moscow in cologne in a sense it's a bus stop or rust off and. the return is everything was normal everything was normal we discuss about the process in the putting station and everything is neat little bit like in france for example even maybe more because for example i saw in many places some carry around to control we don't have that in france and. if you if you can accept. some private information and i never saw so many. young children for the family who are voting. honestly a clear and votes in my opinion. well to discuss the election further we can now cross live to history professor peter peter thank you very much indeed for joining us well with all of us all the

ballots now counted not a mere pittance leading the votes i mean what does such an overwhelming win signify . putin's overwhelming victory does not come as a surprise to anybody in the united states or probably anywhere else around the world putin is very popular inside russia the latest polling that i've seen says that he's got about eighty two percent approval ratings that's more than twice as the approval ratings that donald trump has and so. but what it signifies though is that russians. not only approve of putin but that his strong message of nationalism of russian pride of russian strength resonates very well with the russian people right now who are looking for a certain kind of stability and are trying to restore russia's reputation around the world to a kind of greatness that russia had during the the soviet period as we

know in the aftermath of the soviet collapse russia went through a very very bad time the ninety's were terrible decade for russia the life expectancy for males dropped from sixty six to fifty seven on average the economy collapsed and it was a very very bad time for russia the yeltsin years and so when putin took over he restored a certain measure of dignity international respect and has built russia up to being a very strong nation again certainly and to some extent economically and militarily and otherwise russia is a major player on the world scene again so i think the russians took pride in putin's leadership and were happy to give him another six years but also as you touched upon there the international aspects to this obviously this domestic it also means national politics but mean what international reaction do you predict i mean once all the ballots are counted i mean for instance let's look at the

situation between between russia and britain can you see that improving. now i don't see that improving i think that's a very troubling situation the relations with between russia and the united states is even more troubling i have to remember that between our two countries we have ninety three percent of the world's nuclear weapons and we both president trump recently announced the nuclear posture review for the united states introducing new nuclear weapons making nuclear weapons more usable and more deadly and putin responded and his state of the union message by announcing five new nuclear weapons that the russians are developing and mostly designed to evade america's ballistic missile defense system so severe it troubling nuclear weapons so both sides are trying to assert their strength and show their resolve right now and that relations

between the united states and russia are the worst they've been certainly since the end of the cold war and in many ways the most dangerous situation we face since the cuban missile crisis in one thousand nine hundred two this is not getting any better if you turn on television the united states. all the major networks are demonizing putin are presenting soviet actions as a very very dangerous form of aggression and are heightening the anti soviet mood in the united states this is pretty constant surround the clock as very dangerous you know you are two countries need to be working together and not interfering in each other's elections not provoking each other not threatening each other and so i see this is a very dangerous situation the situation in britain if you want to go into that i think that theresa may and boris johnson active very very precipitously they

did not give russia a chance to respond they did not give russia the samples of the poisons that were found the international committee has not that deals with chemical weapons has not had a chance to weigh in on this and when johnson says that he thinks it's overwhelmingly likely that russia was behind this. that that's not good enough when you're dealing with a situation that's threatening to crease tensions in a way that makes pose a threat to world peace we need to be more than have overwhelmingly likely evidence we need to have very very firm evidence so does russia have a motive to do this perhaps do they have the capability to do this perhaps we don't even know in november of two thousand and seventeen russia officially announced with international observers that their chemical weapons were completely destroyed they got rid of their chemical weapons we believe sooner than the united states and

the other signatories to this agreement and now we're saying that russia has kept the reserve and committed these acts there are other possible explanations i just got back late last night from singapore i was a singapore for a week and one of my hosts was a british professor who's from. salisbury where the poisoning scare palls took place and he said to me several days ago he said that they're saying that there's no possible other source except that there was a chemical weapons facility eight miles away from salisbury in england so there are a lot of other potential sources i'm afraid and we could talk about the so many different aspects of this my favorite we're running out of time now we have to wrap it up peter cosmic history professor at the american university thank you very much indeed thank you. well after the break we'll look at how the candidates made their way to the top of russian politics.

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of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then. welcome back probability and in the coming to spawn to counter this who is also the boss of the former soviet to finish in second place in the election. followed the voting for the party's h.q. we did hear from the communist candidate in the aftermath of preliminary results and he seemed somewhat disappointed when he spoke to the media yes it's obvious that the vote counts and the whole election procedure was not fair when all the votes will be counted we'll make a decision one thing is clear despite all the that's being thrown about we pass

this election with dignity i want to thank all the people who voted for our program i hope that the person who when will make the relevant conclusions we need to change the economic and political situation in our country and turn to the left when good done and was named as the candidate it was noted he was an interesting choice now he is the head of the lenin farm co-operative which is a cooperative farm that produces strawberries among other products and it provides a much higher standard of living in wages for the workers in it and furthermore it provides health care and education for the children of those who work at the land and cooperative farm now as we wait the final count it is interesting to note that gruden did promise that if he did not receive a solid fifteen percent of the vote that he would actually shave his moustache his iconic mustache a key part of his image so i'm sure that his supporters are anticipating the final

results and seeing if that solid fifteen percent will come in or not. well the obvious candidate is thirty six year old to say in your subject it's her first foray into politics sure enough she is the oldest the first time the seventy one year old run for president was back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one in the soviet union where as i look at what the twenty eighteen candidates were doing back in the early ninety's. the red superpower's days are numbered and changes in the air. some of the future candidates seize the opportunity and start testing out the political waters and the crumbling states. that well this man needs no introduction although he did back then with his spine days behind the wild ninety one kitchens and peter's work or other leningrad as it was

back then working as an advisor for the northern capitals mayor anatoly sobchak if they were usually going to restore their son's future relationships. and he's got some harsh words for the commies and you can usually just do it if but you would know that it is over a million children little nearly every issue here in the paper without an issue to billion year ears of the. first and usually. deserted or a little. over the news of the eligible there are lots of pictures of putin and his boss anatoly sobchak from that time there they are walking and laughing and posing with a gun and if the name subject sounds familiar you've guessed it he's the daddy of another nominee trying to get into the kremlin this year back then is your average politician is kid giving her thoughts on cultural events in the city to be gushing

reporters if not killing the latest opinion lack of attending a prestigious school and playing with putin's daughter in front of the cameras. these two future nominees are at the at the center of political life and their careers are really taking off but in three years levin is your national guest on a political nobody to presidential candidate put his affairs you know on the for all stick with a very short and of course the sound. unusual number has got to be on number i think senior international and kind of rhetoric will come a bit later with the first big win for zhirinovsky party at the time economist grigory yavlinsky is a lot more of a media darling he's best known for his market make of a plan to introduce the soviet economy to such radical ideas as private property and the free market all in just five hundred days but no action is taken and he quits deciding to go it alone in the world of politics. yavlinsky was actually

inside the white house during the failed coup attempt when communist hardliners tried to overthrow the reform minded gobby. one of our future candidates still is totally clear of politics in the ninety's the communists dar course have all daemon at this point he's quite happy to run a state farm named after lenin he'll go on to make millions. of let him a person is already receiving him gradually sions for world leaders so far the heads of serbia bolivia and venezuela have sent messages and joining me live to discuss the u.s. reaction is to me recount in washington hi there somewhere i mean what can you tell us about what it's like there. well we start off with the russian ambassador comments who said that he had hoped that the u.s. would take interest in the various acts of provocations that took place during early voting in the us and he also said that some people even received death threats voting but upon receiving a word of president putin's way in both mainstream media and american politicians

immediately attempted to deal with the demise of russia's political process the washington post for example called the sunday school raid and the new york times and so far off calling it a quote holo election and even compared to the soviet days when there was quote one name on the ballot c.n.n. did the same going as far as to compare him to joseph stalin senator mccain took to twitter to discredit. quote that putin had to work so hard to drive a voter turn our shows the russian people know his claim to power is a sham and the us stands with all russians earing for freedom and representative adam schiff also accused putin of banning his opponents for running saying that it's easy to win when you bar your opponents from running but that's all we have for now but i'm sure all of this will continue tomorrow some pretty strong stuff. in washington thank you very much thank you well polling stations have seen

a range of emotions and characters coming to cause the vote from a one hundred year old french heiress to crouch to tearful children hoping to meet the confidence. i've. got a story. to put such a little. bit of a certain look at him i'm sure mr schilling. was a little a little bit. on go way back with more news about the twenty and russian

presidential election at the top of the hour see this. american mess one is the melting. and the second is the alger mess of the bootstrapping. scene in america the works are so this is a whole group of people all generations and america is saying that there is no

melting pot we're not being assimilated there's no opportunities we can't live up so their response especially is to go into conflict and this is a major. it's a multinational of a particular kind one you all know some of you may even visit it's present across the globe and on the corner of your street. the catholic church. with its hierarchy. its communication. and its very darkest secrets. to feel your. you know stroll you seven percent of priests are thought to sexually abused minors four percent in the united states. we discovered the clergymen found guilty of but if you are still active

often in contact with children. thanks to internal documents will reveal how church leaders protect priests accused of sexually abusing minors. by sending them from country to country notable you know africa. the investigation into these international exiles took us to cameroon. to argentina. to the united states. to france to italy. during our travels we established this unprecedented map that regarding the transfers of priests involved in cases of that a feeling you. get the man sits in dig. that up with his off by a few that most evolved after it was you and i got into a bang up state climb in there and the victims number tens of thousands marked with

scars for the rest of their lives. our investigations would lead us all the way to pope francis he revealed how when he was archbishop of buenos aires he tried to influence the argentine justice department. to sunday the. list was d.c. and the initial capital of the past. investigated the mysteries of the church where on the altar of truth god's law seems to prevail over that of many. our inquiry into the international transfers of priests accused of pedophilia begins in the united states. where in chicago in the shadow of this cathedral two would disappear a unique kind of protest. or

it's you know it's not all are victims of pedophile priests. in their hands portraits of them as children when they were abused. in the us sixteen thousand people have already launched complaints for sexual abuse against catholic priests. these victims have joined forces for the annual conference of their support group smout survivors network of those abused by priests. oh everybody. great to see you again and i think it looks like we've got a bigger group than last year which is even better news so how many of you are here for the first time. thanks to.

remember that all of us here are survivors of sexual assaults and betrayals during our youth so if you're looking for an opportunity to share your experience with people who truly get it this is the place. recently the organization has seen abuse victims from all over the world join its ranks it has become the internationale of those abused by the church. certainly it will be here because of the weather our news is so huge that every day and it was just a trial is the purpose of the focus that had on us but by that they gave us the second split us up in the south that they. identify. where you're from so that you are to say that i'm from germany from berlin and you elicits with a very lives. when there was a fork in yourself about the from the focus of those is. just.

the three years i was fifteen years old i was abused as a team for a long period of time with an oddly priest agreements just can't be in. canada. accounts from over fifty countries. at the end of the conference we talked to one of the activists on barrett doyle. facts reports from victims snap is the only group to been able to establish a list of priests worldwide allegedly involved in pedophilia cases we only include those priests who have been accused of child sexual abuse in a credible public document it has to be either a court document that's publicly accessible or a mainstream news outlet is called father she began her work fourteen years ago sorry refuge in the states these activists publish the names and photos of accused priests on the internet to try to ensure they never come into contact with children

again. this is just the letter a and it just keeps going. on in the names of the i'm so far so all in in the entire database we have forty four hundred names to be of any friends names in the least we do have several so father revoir is a very troubling case because he abused this young boy and and mario innuit oid did report the abuse eventually within statute and was fled he in one thousand nine hundred three it somehow spirited him back to france where he. live safely now that's not the case of his victim who took his own life in december of two thousand and twelve to avoid justice one french priest accused of a sexual abuse of minors is thought to have fled to canada and be hiding in france . the story barely seems credible. we contacted the

sister of one of the priests presumed victims. as he told the league speaks to us from northern canada deep in in a way territory her brother maher used to go he committed suicide five years ago he has filed a complaint against the french priest and she has sent us some old photos of her and her kid brother and want to follow revoir hold a modest. he has seen the white house. was responsible about why he decided you should done. cards.

do you think madea's was the only sort of well. we get our hands on a warrant issued to the canadian police for father of wars arrest. they've been after. the priest since one thousand nine hundred ninety eight. on it we discover the name of mari as if but also two other boys made anonymous by the police with black lines. a girl of fourteen is also a mom go legit victims. in all the priest is thought to have abused four children.

finally in the top left hand corner of vital piece of information the name of the town where the priest is believed to be hiding in france a small town in the book lose where there's a monastery belonging to his community. so we catch the train to strasbourg. that's right because in the meantime we've got hold of some internal documents from his community the father revoir has been transferred several times. after obviously in canada he didn't stay in who is presumed by the canadian police he apparently with next to two of our nearly all unpacked what we lost track of. but after several months of inquiries during a phone call to a priest from a priori were father of war had stayed unwittingly gave us a new lead. which is to see.