there is a big difference between the attitude of the german population not only when it comes to the eastern part of germany and. policy of the government the german people they want to have good pollution trip with russians and was a russian federation and when they look on the election. they see that. by an overwhelming majority tuss their president when you look on the lecturing the results in the west for example in the united states or even here in germany in the united states to elected a president and we have to realize that this president is so hounded by us deep state and when we look at our own country we have to realize that we. founded by a deep alliance and this was absolutely clear last week when we when we heard about

the accusations of british prime minister terrorism a against the russian federation and its president this was far beyond all. we are familiar with in york and is force far beyond all of which are the basics of diplomatic relations and when i watch. german news in these hours i see a leading question social member of see you up in parliament talking about wall and i think this is totally against the will of the german population we want to have peace and we want to have an open government which was a constructive policy towards a hundred foot ovation so let's all be warned and nothing to do with wall. but there's a lot of bad blood cross a lot of western leaders have and what do you expect to happen. the russian voters

have made that choice if they want to be their president but a lot of vitriolic comments from across europe do you know expect more hostility or at least some attempts to make some sort of political peace with president putin. what is. on the globe and we see western governments in a weak position totally weak position and you're only have to look on the government in berlin they're lost in the elections and it's the same and as our countries and when you realize the situation in the united states it's been it's before civil war when we realize what c n n and previous c. are presenting to us because of the situation in the united states when they are listing the western leaders or that stop it i think they have to. walk in the water and talk is called putin's of national federation the have a government they have a president elected with

a strong majority people in the national trust their president and their biggest difference to the situation in the worst and when the west don't want to lose its own population i think they have to be more realistic in these days. i mean it's going to be interesting isn't it really to see whether there is the. relationship to improve or to cheer. on the vice president at the summit of the organization for security and cooperation in europe frankly it doesn't seem like anything's going to warm up any time soon does it as for in the united states senior politicians there already blasted president putin over the election republican senator john mccain a long time fierce critic of the russian president accused him of trying to artificially inflate the voter turnout meanwhile top democratic congressman adam schiff attacked in force. eliminating opponents there's also been reaction from an

essay whistleblower edward snowden apparently living in exile in russia to attention to and i just cases of cruelty meanwhile it's been reported that ninety eight percent of registered voters a broadcast that ballots in this and election some outside the consulate in new york passed the time by singing the russian classic. but is kept at the space in the cold by me singing along while waiting in line outside the diplomatic compound in my house and. keeps the blood flowing it was also the first presidential election for the only lady in the race to see the assault running how selfish the candidate against everyone the reality t.v. show star politician can fulfill less than two percent of the focus story so but it was at her campaign headquarters the results began to coming. it was inside

a trendy loft the staff there they looked very young i mean that was quite impressive to the thirty six year old liberal opposition candidate who during her campaign focused on things like wiping out corruption in this country and also helping those she calls political prisoners she will get credit for spending some decent time with her supporters and all kinds of journalists have the quarters and i can tell you that she showed up there twice the first time when she got in that was just a few minutes after the last polling station close in russia and you could see it on her face there was really not much to celebrate and at that time it was nine pm just a few minutes past nine pm moscow time it was already clear that she was going to come forth but with. two percent regardless of the absence of chalk was still confident and she kept praying herself during the now. as the new prominent

opposition candidate and perhaps that explains the heat and the debate she had with alexina vali who is one of the fiercest critics of vladimir putin and this country although as we remember he hadn't been allowed to take part in the election under a law that bans people who have been charged criminally from running for president . dealing with. the music or with the music. does not mean you might see. mutant of the films infections from the nuclear moon going. to the moon and let's just go back to the numbers i guess everyone would assume if you ask any politician around the world who's

a presidential candidate whether he or she would be happy with that kind of result just a bit more than one and a half percent perhaps the answer would be no but in an exclusive interview i finally managed to have with seeing a sub chalk at about one twenty am moscow time she told me she doesn't see it that way and she is still trying to look for positive things from her performance of course it's not the result i would dream about but my campaign was not a voucher solve my campaign was about talking truth on the propagandistic channel so federal t.v. in russia education is the most important value of my program educational for russian people telling them truth about the situation believing trying to make them a just on the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the congress after the debates with alexey no one but you confident and that kind of future for a so-called united opposition bloc. i am 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 k.v. in my instagram which is ridiculous to my way what is your maybe adjective or you object to that you can use 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. 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 now really want this president that's it for us special election coverage this hour from myself if you don't call in great. because we'll be picking up again next hour about four o'clock with nicky aaron and kevin owen lots more to come play with more

of your global headline news with drew farber at our g.h.q. . yes thanks guys now in other news this monday afternoon the u.k. national security council will discuss further measures against moscow on tuesday over the poisoning of former double agents. according to prime minister i'm a spokesperson the relations between the countries have dived further over the past two weeks with london firing extremely serious accusations the kremlin though without presenting any evidence to back up the claim so let's get the latest now from marty's and she joins us from london good afternoon. this case hasn't got any clearer has it i mean we're hearing further accusations but still no evidence presented. well that seems to be the case andrew it's been two weeks now that the

score paul's saga exploded here in the u.k. culprits have been named accusations have been flying left and right however it's only now that the u.k. is going to be handing over samples of the nerve agent that was said to have been used against school policy his daughter to the organization for the pro prohibition of chemical weapons members of which are in the u.k. this monday and just to be clear this is exactly what russia has been asking for they were asking to see and be able to test some of the sound files of the nerve agent in question however to no avail despite the fact that russia is also a member of this organization and while we have seen the metropolitan police describe the investigation as quote extremely challenging and complex saying it could take weeks if not months to finalize we're seeing accusations continuing to fly around one it comes to russia's culpability as the u.k. has described it here here is u.k.

foreign secretary boris johnson along with the e.u. representative for the you for foreign affairs speaking in brussels earlier today the russian. grew increasingly absurd. and i think people can see this is a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the truth in a haystack cold war you see on the stage the risk is your country around the table if you read russian he's not beautiful to be used by some probably do. destructive russian. what is absolutely clear is i'm a full sort of god if you will you know the kingdom and our extreme concern about what has happened that is really acceptable. well while russia has been apparently guilty until proven innocent in this whole

ordeal it looks like when it comes to individual culpability things are not so simple asks this weekend in an interview in the u.k. foreign secretary was johnson was asked about a donation made to the tory party of one hundred sixty thousand pounds by a wife of a former minister of lodgement putin to the conservative party for a tennis game apparently he seemed to indicate that some are equal but. some who are all are equal but some are more equal than others let's take a listen to what he said on that. lesson into evidence is produced against individual russians i do not think that the entire nation should be should be corrupt it's a difficult balance i absolutely it is very very important. well there's russia bashing continues to come from the u.k. obviously the investigation is still continuing is going to be continuing for quite

some time but we are expecting more to come out of brussels today as even foreign ministers continue to meet there throughout the day. ok thanks nasty that was and seen. in the u.k. well let's get some more reaction now from craig murray he's a former british ambassador to inspect a stand off the broadcaster and human rights activist and he's got a very interesting take on what's going on so you good afternoon to you craig look we keep hearing during way that russia is guilty of this attack but you say when you look closely at the language used by the british government to back up these claims it's deliberately vague and misleading can you just explain what you mean. yes the language used has been very careful the formulated because the scientists that the u.k. . porton down which handles chemical weapons who refused to save this nerve agent was made in russia the british government put him on the heavy pressure to say this was made russian business evidence it's made in russia so in the end the formula

was agreed with the nerve agent of a type developed by russia. what does that mean it's very interesting because the nato communique said it was overtopped developed by russia. may said in parliament it was of a type developed by the u.k. said to the u.n. security council. by russia and today if you look at the e.u. statement it says it is overtightened developed by russia they always use exactly the same formulation well. developed. penicillin of a type developed by scotland but it doesn't mean all penicillin is made in scotland . and the use of language you have to be very very careful. they've never said this movie was made in russia or produced or manufactured in russia all they say all the

time is it is of a type developed by the us but the. alleged chemical formula for producing was published you can buy it from it's published twelve years ago in a book a new venue with w. supervision synthesised chocks. twenty six d. so many people can make use of factors of a type of originally developed by russia if that is true is nothing to do the thing that interests me craig is that you have paid on my thing the baby making these claims and so surely a follow up question would be to those scientists important and well can you not confirm that the sample ehab does actually come from russia but that doesn't seem to be a question that's being posed at the moment in the u.k. . know exactly i put out a tweet suggesting that people ask this question more than five thousand people

have be tweeted it and it's been seen by over two million people saying that the question to ask any minister any mainstream media german should ask them can you confirm this was definitely made in russia and no journalist lost it because the truth is that you know the b.b.c. is a state propaganda organization and the corporate media work for the billionaires who own the corporate media so the idea that we have an investigative or off the journalism this country has been you know sadly exposed by this case where everybody refuses to ask the right question now boris johnson appeared on national t.v. in the u.k. yesterday to when he made another claim which you've got a concern with he said within the last decade russia has investigated ways of delivering nerve agents likely for assassination and part of that has involved producing stockpiles of navi choke but again just explain the wording there and why you are concerned. yes well there are many reasons i'm concerned

he says within the last decade. russia has compiled a stockpile of novacek it doesn't say when they found this site. found yesterday and some told them yesterday that. had for decades been doing it he didn't say and he didn't say there should been doing it for the last decade it's like when you get a sign in a shop window saying up to sixty percent off and you go in and everything is only five percent off but five percent off is up to sixty percent within the last decade could be any period from yesterday to. ten years ago they didn't say for the last decade which means of a completely different but there's also another very very important point here if the show has had for a decade. secretly to synthesize and stockpile nava chokes and he also said that russia also had a secret program for training agents in assassination techniques would not be

trucks were all that you know decades program of producing chemical weapons and hiding them to me o.p.c. w. would take would cost hundreds of millions of dollars so why would russia blow it by a site using it to assassinate an old retired bloke living in salzburg let out of prison nearly a decade ago it makes no sense whatsoever it's completely disproportionate and it to me is quite astonishing that anybody believes this the a p c w is now investigating would you expect more direct answers from men. i think there's no way the o.p.c. w. can avoid to say. whether or not they find all the analysis that the sample is actually made in russia or not i don't see how the british are going to persuade the open c.w. also to use. the formula of a type developed by the actual my understanding is from foreign office sources that

the u.k. is lobbying never leave the countries that you can see w. involved in this they gave to china that they should agree before miller overtype developed by russia's all right craig i'm so sorry we could talk a lot longer but we've been at a time when he pre-show you come into our to this afternoon that was craig murray former u.k. ambassador thank you. and thank you for watching r.t. we're going to be back with more news in half. well you know the cars that we've kind of adopted because we were called pirates it's long. been there in the small ball it's

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was. right. hello and welcome the cross talk for all things are considered i'm peter lavelle winning his fourth and most probably last term is russia's president vladimir putin

has six more years to fashion his legacy how his putin changed russia how will he continue to change. across talking russia's presidential election i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have victrola which he is a political analyst as well as a leading expert at the center for actual politics and of course we have he is a political analyst with sputnik international rules in effect that means you can jump anytime you want and i always appreciated. your. take away from this election his reelection was obviously expected he got more percentage points than i think a lot of people were predicting not only that. just a few more than i predict just a few facts that they think are important for all of us to understand first. more than in two thousand and twelve. in two thousand and twelve which is what sixty

three percent of the vote forty five million russians vote if we keep these steps seventy six percent of the vote fifty five million russian voters voted for him why did it happen well between these two elections with the queen ukraine. crame year we had syria we asked the west and campaign against russia and russia gate to gate. scandal now what scrape all it all the olympics that's what i said the olympics it'll help put in i mean i think. that yesterday says it all he said i didn't plan to vote so he's a mate. mean for outsiders looking in there are only two figures in the selection there was a lot of your putin obviously and then your subject socialite she got what one point six seven percent of the vote i mean she actually went to washington d.c.

campaign in washington d.c. and nobody accused of. meddling in she went to live in d.c. and louisville edgerton there's a great image in. an american candidate that openly going to moscow and meeting. russian officials in the kremlin and creating lunch with them and discussing the presidential election in the united states what would this do if once he was there when she got a lot of criticism here also she got a lot of cynicism but nowhere near what an american. and it would get over there and she would still love to take part in that equates she was all the time everywhere she wanted to be were shown on television i was central to it was she given fair coverage it sure was if you needed it it was given fair coverage and in fact after the election was over she recognized that he's ult she said the country voted for fortune you know when when. the president gets seventy six percent he

has political capital let's call it for any term that is that it's a landslide you know what it's saying about the opposition because the earlier you were talking about the spectrum of political thought in this election go ahead first of all i think the communists running a new candidate a strawberry farm businessman he runs a strawberry farm commune. in yeah. he he did much better than the communists were expected to do even with putin's turnout he finished with twelve percent and i think that this shows that this was the real protest vote in russia. as it were and it's maybe a vote to be even harder on foreign policy but more for social benefit because we'll talk about foreign policy and what was the election result for crimea was it ninety three percent voted for putin that's a route that that is

a very significant. is responsible for a crime year for me as being able to vote in the russian elections if there were the same time russia russian citizens living in ukraine were not allowed to vote they were blockaded from entering their own embassies by ukrainian police. there as you know there's a real commitment to democracy there go ahead well i think it's very interesting you know the west reaction it's very important the context for the west the fact that russians in crimea voted for the president isn't. except it's a breach of international war the fact that russian citizens in ukraine could not vote because of the ukrainian police. the russian ambitious and why did the ukrainian police do it they said they were afraid. in two thousand and two thousand and fourteen well several dozen people were burned one which was which was

never fully investigated and no one was held or were killed in the national who did of course because there videotapes are videotapes on you tube it gets even worse because they put the people that were the victims and. some of them who are going to who would appreciate it but the judge in jail again when contacted churches let's say with the election mark what would it be. americans always say they vote for bread and butter issues with their pocketbook here or russians any different. someone but i think there's an element of that too and i think that would not have had as high turnout as he did if the economy had turned in the last year. a little over a year ago he reached a deal with the saudis to end the oil price war and that helped raise the macro economy starting about eight months ago and only in the last three or four months did we see that start to trickle into the real economy and we saw some growth and

some movement on salaries in russia and if that had happened i don't think putin would have gotten quite as dramatic a show of support as he did how much how much is foreign policy playing into the minds of the electorate here because i mean russia is in the news in a big way i mean they're told about it one of the things that's really quite remarkable is that the. russian federal stations they take. a tim lindsey graham's in the john mccain and everybody else that has something to say and they just let the russian viewer. themselves that would be right there and it's not just instagram or drinking when you have the british prime minister accusing russia of taking the u.k. or the installed soil of wage and chemical attack or something you know of course people react because these are some of the most powerful people in the world ted in

you that you are waging a war with no evidence you know when they're then america you know the most powerful americans say that they're sure russia meddled in the reactions when they see russia will pay a price when the british parliament openly discuss a cyber attack against russia or of course for important she plays a role here but it's really if you would mark with one think you know i think it was an interesting campaign because economic issues played a role but not in the way the west would like them to a lot of people consider the board or the russian cabinet of ministers to really be too little too pro-west and to mourn interest and these people voted for gore didn't vote of confidence needed slogans was that i mean if my if mike form you know he is a. c.e.o. or were successful funny most if my farm had been run by cauldrons we would be bankrupt in two or three days a lot of russians agree with that because they can see that

a lot of policies of the central bank or the finance minister you know when these to keep the russian economy open well i mean when you have costello states such as i'm sorry i'm quoting. me you know when she called russia course that was state then i think we have the right to call a lot of the western. international organizations and they got very hostile and you know give yourself open to them that's a risk you put your actions in the standard to do things obviously there's a lot of criticism leveled at the economic section of the cabinet but at the same thing it is these people with. like them or not it is these people they are guaranteed russia's economy going through in a stable fashion through a period when massive massive sectoral sanctions sanctions were introduced against russia by the united states of the russian by their by the e.u. by by other nations so.