it's really there was nothing to celebrate back then it was already clear that she was going to come forth but with less than two percent well regardless of that. as we've heard many times today likes to portray herself as the new prominent opposition figure in this country and perhaps that explains the heat in the debate she had a little earlier with alexei vali who is one of the most fiercest critics of a lot of our protein in russia but as we remember he hadn't been allowed to take part in the selection under a law that bans people who were charged criminally from running for president people. deal with. so i looked on the bar leave system where you just need to concede that's what he's been emus for with zeal it's been in war zones. who knows not when you might see a store you could see you. see him you know go to the top of

here because. you were possible among. the floor but not for the room. was a small even living room 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 certain you know a vast majority of cases but as saying a sub jack told me in an exclusive live interview she doesn't see it that way of course it's not the result i would dream about but my campaign was not about results my campaign was about talking truth on the propaganda stick channels a federal t.v. in russia this result is higher than of any other liberal candidate and that makes the platform for rhenish and if we take your result the result of the gore you beats and mr tito. 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 educational russian people of telling them truth about the situation they leave in trying to make them interest on the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the contrary the only real way to make this five percent growing to fifty one percent is to make people understand this connections after the debates with alex you know why 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 heavy in my insta problem which is ridiculous to my wage what is your maybe adjective or

a few adjectives that you can use or some other words to describe this it's a success of freedom of 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 putting this result well maybe it would be you know the seventy five percent but sixty eight or whatever the steel we should have made that the majority of people now really want this president. this year the vast majority of polling stations were equipped with the web cameras streaming everything that happened that meant that anyone could be in there without even leaving the comfort of their own some citizen observing going on they were first introduced in the twenty twelve presidential election and expanded this time around but it has helped to expose a number of electoral fraud cases this year.

if. this year's presidential election was being monitored by iraq called number of foreign observers over fifteen hundred had registered before the vote and they came from all quarters as well among those present were observers from france poland and the united kingdom but their overall assessment i'm only positive one would have

some team in moscow in cologne. it's a bus stop or rastafarian and the return is everything was normal everything is neat little bit cloudy in france for example even maybe more because for example i saw in many places some care out to control we don't have that in france but the reports. start from there somewhere but with the good weather gets in motion would looking i can say that they didn't see any variation maybe i was too short a time there but i don't i don't think that in any by the asians. we wanted to to see how it works we were particularly interested very much in the transmission lines which you so i see here although a very high level you. can fall into introduced of a system that's very different to the u.k. first start the electronic voting you had the cameras in the cameras because that's all the work a big argument and you take at the moment is that you should. because there's no

awful lot of electoral fraud in the u.k. so it's all right that you don't criticize russia because we have got hold so for old in the u.k. for various reasons. but to turn currently stand up sixty seven percent that's a little more than twenty twelve as you would expect people from all walks of life came to. leave leave. i'm. sure. you are. looking for leadership.

believe it will be. voting not only took place across the rest of the eleven time zones but also in the countries consulates in more than one hundred forty countries many voters cuban streets waiting to cast their ballots from the heat of thailand to achieve. a course comes amid increased tensions with the west following the poisoning of a former double agent installed in the united kingdom. spokes person says the standoff in fact mobilized the russians uniting in the face off pressure. has the details the embassy here in london registered an unusually high turnout at the election they said that there were queues of up to one hour people waiting forty five minutes to an hour to get into the embassy and cost the ballots that infuse e.i. . could have been as

a result of the way that the spy scandal has played out here in the u.k. the diplomatic standoff with russia has weighed heavily on the minds of many members of the russian community here especially in the run up to the election. turnout of ten percent higher than we expected thanks to great britain we never rushes accused of something indiscriminately and without any evidence the russian people unite around the center of power there was also a protest outside the embassy. in exile businessmen offis putin critic he and about twenty nine other protesters were greeting russians who were intent on voting with anti putin banners they key. putin four point zero and the newspaper coverage here in the the u.k. hasn't been very enthusiastic about the elections the messages that we have

seen in the papers have very much conveyed that the vote in russia is a foregone conclusion you can see here hasn't taken up many of the column inches in the sunday papers page seven it's a small blog talking about putin putin's reelection as president is inevitable if you take a look here you've got talk in the financial times the russian state mobilizes to ensure a huge win for putin that's also page seven so nowhere near the front pages but there they are talking about things like people in russia feeling pressured to vote and the fact that the russian government says in a lot of these articles needed a high turnout this election in order to look more legitimate but really all the papers have looks like this and from stories on papers very much dominated by the fallout from the script poisoning this one saying may stands up. putin and

plenty others perceiving that jimmy putin you can see caricature is up on your screen and a very unsavory light and it may have been this focus on the diplomatic standoff this condemnation of russia this very cold war rhetoric in a lot of the papers over the spy poisoning story that may have. galvanized russians here in the u.k. to come out and cost their ballots. across the atlantic the mood in the media and among politicians was similar to in the u.k. the news of securing reelection prompted some senators to fire off will stick comments some takes of the story there are many russians who voted in the u.s. and they expressed concern over the process in the us and 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 provocation that took place during early

voting in the u.s. and he also said that some people even received threats but upon receiving word of president putin's when both the mainstream media and american politicians attempted to deal idjit of mies russia's political process the washington post called sunday's vote a charade and the new york times wasn't so far off calling it a hollow election and even compared it to the soviet days were there was just one name on the ballot c.n.n. did the same going as far as to compare him to joseph stalin but no reactions from the white house yet but several tweets from your favorite anti russian officials senator mccain took to twitter to discredit putin specter a calling it a sham and going on to say quote the us stands with all russians yearning for freedom which is interesting because prior to the election putin managed to maintain over an eighty percent approval rating but despite running against multiple candidates representative adam schiff said that. putin only won because he

banned his opponents from running a saying quote it's easy to win when you bar your opponents from running but besides the usual is a whistleblower edward snowden had some words regarding a ballot stuffing that allegedly took place saying that it's quote an effort to steal the influence of one hundred forty plus million people snowden also urged russian citizens to quote demand justice demand laws and courts that matter take your future back and just a little reminder edward snowden was granted political asylum in russia and that's where he's been ever since now i'm sure that the west will continue to react to couldn't speak teary and we'll be bringing you more of that but how does the how the news is reacting to all this history professor peter because nick says the u.s. mainstream media are working themselves into a cold war frenzy and failing to give a balanced picture of what happens in. relations between the united states and russia are the worse they've been certainly since the end of the cold war and in

many ways the most dangerous situation we've faced 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 the american media is in a very much of a cold war mindset it's partly frightening because many of the people who were so critical of the cold first cold war are now the cheerleaders for the second cold war so if you turn on the american media you don't see what i consider more balanced portrait flat a mere putin. political vacuum and it's not to me it's you know sisi flamboyant leader of the liberal democratic party run for president but i think time not more than any other time but this is i'm painting. from his heyday don you know without his election i think you. all quiets in his urine off the campaign h.q. tonight as the media. drift out and equipment is packed away the man himself didn't

make it here tonight he made his post-election speech at a different location making his views on this election abundantly clear yeah that's a new word is that you know i estimate the result of the elections negatively the conditions are not equal and there were no debates the scandals were fake aim to attract attention the elections are under way they see third place firmly sealed for sure enough ski a position he's of course one before he's been on russia's political stage for nearly thirty years this is a campaign poster although back from nine hundred ninety one use for six presidential campaigns in total mixing of fiery nationalist rhetoric with populism socially conservative more radical on the economy and other questions he's never been shy of controversy he's had verbal spats even physical conflicts with his opponents this election that has been no exception and he's been roundly criticized before for his more outlandish views. the stage was all set perhaps hoping for

a slightly better result very bold slogans here this banner reading sure enough skee a powerful leap forward ironic for a man who turns seventy two this year and will be nearly eighty at the next election cycle at his post-election press conference of course he brushed off any speculation about his future in true blood in michigan off q. style you know this but don't ask me about it it's inappropriate let's ask a fifteen year old boy if he is ready for marriage or not let him grow so are you ready to marry it doesn't work like that in six years do you know that there will be no elections in six years prosperity for all this no more homelessness hunger and unemployment it seems these slogans words enough to give the liberal democratic party leader a bigger share of the vote this whole stands empty this may be the last election cycle we see zhirinovsky as a candidate although with his ball. unpredictability we just never know.

it is a beautiful day here in the center of moscow and you've been watching all special election coverage here on out to international with me to do it today and called in for a on one of the poems meant but the window was unlikely to be in doubt the people going to be pouring over the numbers by how much of a wind it was for but even pointed out for the moment the reaction that we've got for you will increase because of the budget for the breakfast time in europe america's to the sleep about people reaction from that when they wake up i will have a ride here on offseason lection special from red square. america

minutes one is the melting. of the second is the. scene in america who works hard so this is a whole group of people all generation in 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 essentially is to go into conflict and this is a major. truths seem wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any of these yet to shape out these days becomes active. and engaged equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground.

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films are cult classics part of american consciousness now all over stone's latest project was to film an extensive series of interviews with russia's library. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience my over sounds great have you with us today hope you're having a great trip in moscow just got here so your book companion to your extensive interviews with putin is published by you called the putin interviews for day to day shows climax to my strange life as an american filmmaker climax your career this is the best thing you've ever done. you know i have to take the point of view that it could be the last film too you never know time is seems more precious when you get a little bit older and as a filmmaker it's a very young profession you know and very few and america especially it kind of goes fast you don't get off another chance so i felt like this was a kind of

a climax not that it's a feature film but that it's the most safe at this time in history the most forbidding character to american media to american and western europe to i think forbidding kind of. cross into that into another world i'm glad i got here i mean i did mr castro and i did mr chavez i did. mr arafat's and also there's a yahoo was a character when he was out of office back when he was out of office he's now in power forever it seems but these characters all led me to this moment with mr putin . and i frankly i enjoyed the meeting him i met him originally on the at the on one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and

a lot of the movie and soden was represents what ad this point of view was so getting that information took time and we came back and we're trying to be accurate the last scene of the movie was shot in moscow so after a by one i met mr putin which is in the back room of a theater in moscow a play an old like hundred sixty s. play he was attending to promote folkloric culture. we met the back and i asked him about mr snowden and he gave me the russian version his version of what happened which was fascinating different than what we had been told in the public newspapers and so forth but anyway long telling the story quickly is getting back to the end of the movie if snowden we shot in moscow to a weekend with with ed and then we turned around a few days later we went to the kremlin and we shot mr putin over three days and.

i think that time we didn't know if this would go on who was simply you know take it as it comes like you're doing and play it by ear it was spontaneous i gave melissa quick questions i was areas that i was going to cover but it wasn't limited he didn't say i was totally spontaneous i didn't have any limitation on the way to us and as you can see every day i look different he was always the same he looked very together i was sometimes. but here was blowin in the wind. i guess i changed appearances several jobs but. in other words i'm the opposite of an american actor i don't look like megan kelly i will look like you even. sam that's a compliment. i know what kind of great effort it takes to get that kind of accent but. that's not easy i mean a lot of russian journalism top journalists don't get that kind of access right and i know how much effort it took you to make this happen and make it come together

and then the minute this comes out it was so talked about in russia and obviously the whole american press right away lashed out at you saying yourself flattering to certain that you're a bad entry or just want to do you care it is again it under your skin because that's a lot of work you do it with putting it was a lot of work but i didn't consider my i never said i was a journalist and i didn't pretend to be what i well that this is a look i'm a movie film director you know me from the films and you may know me from some of the past interviews i did with the public figures but i'm not pretending to be anything else i know you said in response that you know you don't have an opinion about anything that you're doing that you're nurture all well the opinions of james because then i'm talking about the putin movie but at the same time i watched a series you said a lot of flattering things about you know do you feel like you manage to stay objective and neutral. i don't i don't buy it and i think if you see the movies i do it's a must but the high try to stick to what i feel is the truth and i don't take i

didn't say one false word to mr p. at all i did say what i meant it when i said it when i said to him and one of the i think one of the first the things i said was it strikes me that you're this you're a son of russia because when you came into the country at a time when it was just in the dumps it was one nine hundred ninety nine two thousand the place was a mass. the real economic story and what you did was you turned things around no one can take that away from you and i think that's one of the reasons he's still popular is that because he brought a sense of place destiny a sense that we we are russian we have much to be proud of we have a history and he really is certain the concept of a sovereign country which was crucial because russia was not a sovereign country from approximately ninety one two to two thousand it was losing that sovereignty completely the united states was and other people were walking all

over the place and basically monitoring whatever they want and they were all over the the nuclear certainly the nuclear industry but look the point is that putin gave russia something that is really important in this world and we can get back to that because that's the bottom line is we need her in the world we need a resistance to exist to the whole of the dominion of the united states i know that you know on talk about politics but this is a very happy type of question you have cited people. who have done movies castro chavez put in them this are strongman you know obviously have attraction to strongman do you feel like this is diffused here of politics leaders like that they're very strong uncompromising. very controversial in many ways or should politics be about dialogue and political correctness well it is about the long term and these men all were open to dialogue and you can argue who did who said what to who but the point was that castro tried to negotiate with the united states for

a long time and he was rebuffed not only was your buff he was insulted and then they tried to assassinate him many times so you know where what is dialogue dialogue is important and mr chavez certainly had a point of view he was if you remember he shook obama's hand he really who is hoping that there was going to be a new approach from the united states didn't happen so it is about dialogue it's about compromise politics and above all if i. give you an overall opinion of mr putin he said he's the ultimate negotiator you wear you out he really believes in talking out everything there's no there are certain points of interest for every country has its national interests and he constantly harks on this russia has its national interests and he's open to the gut to negotiating anything but those national interests and when you cross the line. he will let you know as you know i pushed him whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his

irritation when i was pushing him hard on the democracy question on this the question of his succession in what's going to happen next year there were times i riled him more than once but i am concerned and the reason i undertook the series was i was very concerned about going back to my relationship to russia what happened to the american russian relationship that had existed in two thousand if you like your film can change american perception and put because it hurt because i'm doualy it has to some degree i'll tell you more than several million people saw it which is and this is on a premium cable channel showtime is not on a national channel like in russia so you have a limited prescription audience that it was seen and seen again but it was also shown in europe in a lot of places and we had a very good debate in france i was public television channel three in france and. you've heard vegetarian the x. foreign minister of mr beattie all defended the movie very well i thought against

and several other people against the opposition it was the debate was very french but in other words in europe in germany france these things matter italy very important now whether things change as a result it's hard to tell because the recently as you know the united states congress which stuns me voted almost unanimously for sanctions to be expanded against russia. this happened recently so it seems to be almost a reaction to trump. as putin says a domestic politics you feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin to help syria's i'm not sure i can tell you what is in donald trump's head on all the anyone can and if they tell you that i don't think he's stupid i think he's a very sharp guy and i'm sure he wrecks risp. things that he may misunderstand mr putin to so i don't know but he certainly hasn't lived up to the idea that he gave

many people during the campaign that he was against any foreigners the interventions that he thought the united states it squandered its resources its assets in wars abroad so we there was his thinking that it would change but it hasn't changed not because of his willpower it that because he hasn't been able to get anywhere in his administration it behaves been stuck in gridlock from the beginning opposition has been severe also because of russia now because no let's can i ask you really that has been the excuse. he's been attacked profoundly for russia there's no evidence as yet and i've seen indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr with donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i

could i don't know that the polling is off on it it doesn't make sense if you're saying no one that is elected gets to change the system does it even in america you know what for in america yeah well that's what mr putin says at the end of the interview if you remember he says he's been through four presidents and i asked him what's changed and he said basically nothing. so he's indicating that there's a bureaucracy he called it a bureaucracy in america they call it a deep state a bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia have for the most part united states been highly negative since one thousand nine hundred seventy since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson set american troops to siberia to join the british expeditionary force.