low percentage for the world and a socialist as you started your party you're frustrated then as a service tonight yeah. well yeah of course all right thanks kelly to speak to us. representative the book about it thinking. the elections come and meeting these tensions with the west and there's been some official reaction coming in from europe he did in france did congratulated not to me three to one his reelection but there have also been some strongly worded statements in the six to how poisoning taste the same state and magnetron also called it so you wish putin said that but also urged him to send lights on what happened in sounds great our correspondent in berlin put on ask. we have had some reaction from the german government it's been delivered by the new foreign minister heiko mass is he arrived in brussels for a meeting of e.u. foreign ministers to say give mr via the results of the election in russia which

was as unsurprising to was as the circumstances of the election russia will remain a difficult partner but russia will also be needed for solutions to the big international conflicts and so we want to remain in dialogue we've also been seeing more and more reaction in the media here in germany if you have a look at what else to say they said that the the win for vladimir putin not to splendid as it may well have been they go on to say that the majority of media in russia was for the president that the majority of the state operated was for the president and that they would have expected this mr putin would have taken a larger proportion of the vote than it seems that he already has here in the capital the pearl in a tight tongue has said well it's been looking towards the relationship between germany and russia and it's not a positive one if you take their they're reading from this they say that the relationship could it well is frosty and could continue to be more and more frosty . but if we go back to saturday the maintop lloyd the most read tabloid newspaper

build here in germany they run their congratulations to plenty of putin and a barber to wait on saturday before a vote had even been cast they also said that the skinny pall poisoning the attempted murder of that former spice and his daughter a year that actually got people out to the polls to vote really it's a negative where you would expect it to be negative the coverage of low to me of putin's reelection. bid all of there was a view from europe over the u.s. politicians have already criticised putin over the election maybe not and surprisingly especially republican senator john mccain has chipped in a long time critic of course of the russian president he's accused him of trying to artificially inflate voter turnout and also chip in as well the democratic congressman adam schiff attacking putin for supposedly eliminating opponents as also be reaction from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden county living in exile and brashear who tweeted that

the election cases of voter fraud he did more attention meantime it's been reported that ninety eight percent of russians registered to vote to broadcast their ballots in the election so a big turnout that sort of it some outside the consulate in new york passed the time by saying the russian classic to classic to ship. it was. right here. folks just kept their spirits in the cold by cheerfully singing along while waiting in line in hand. but this year the vast majority of polling stations were clipped with web cameras and streaming everything that happened that meant that anyone could be an observer and right from the comfort of their couches at home the practice was first introduced during the twenty twelve presidential election it's helped to expose him to multiple electoral fraud cases this time around as well.

thank. you. but. it wasn't just security cameras this year's presidential election was being monitored by a record number of foreign upset as ever one thousand five hundred we think you did observers from france poland and the u.k. with that idea for less that's meant mainly positive we always see election observation mission to russia said there were no electoral law violations they did

say a vote like transparency we spoke to some of the observers. to say that they didn't see anybody later maybe i was too short a time there but i don't i don't think that then and by the asians. we wanted to see how it works we were we are particularly interested very much in the transmission line which is i sit here and although a very high level we were. in poland to introduce the other system to wish that also in truman the you would have the opportunity sure lect or president by direct elections or coop consists of eight different members of. parliament i want to concrete your late mr putin and hope that we can improve the cerm of the russian relations have to disallow actions it would be really important for us because also the chairman's suffer because of sanctions.

all the pressure was quite positive there was no system out there overall about something like this. and we were comped for election observers in every polling station so what i can say from my observations this was positive and this was a rather a mood among the other election observers here in moscow sort of procedure yesterday was all in all. that the average of. ten or an observation what was the. liberal democrat candidate plan to me is you know skeet came at night in the election with fine point six percent on the night he's not really about that missile surprisingly and alleges the playing field wasn't level real veteran all the political scene here maybe is last general election presidential election we don't know the whole it was a jew nazis h.q. but it didn't seem to be much of an atmosphere there and if the man in person

wasn't there there was a cardboard cutout unless he's got a lot thinner of like oh yeah that's right so in a way at the sort of toughest job of the lot kevin because at least the other candidates you know who did in the new comics in a subject the sort of joker in the pack nobody really knew what was going to happen with a sure enough ski it's hard to imagine an election without i mean he's been in the in the political scene for thirty years it's his sixth presidential election he's always come third fourth place he's had vote count of anybody basing between three and nine percent so there was any real great surprises but as you say he's supposed to believe this he'll be eighty for the next election we don't really know whether we'll see him again but you always have that appeal to a certain segment of the population oh he's a showman he's a showboat not so i've probably seen instantly why wasn't he there last night though it is h.q. thinking they were the supporters all great great question i'd love to to find out why but he did make a speech in another location in which he's made his views of the election more than clear they can take a listen now to what he makes of the whole thing. you know how this brass with

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. it's interesting because you are no excuse always avoided sort of strongly criticizing putin directly but of course scathing words about the whole election there from him you also brushed off questions about his future one journalist ask him if you will see him again in twenty twenty four and he said it's none of your business effectively don't ask questions which of your concern with him you just never know to be on a solo very quiet in his headquarters not quite sorry for himself firebrand passionate blazing seriously here in russia as a way to go landscape without him around is going to be a little bit. by telling us about last night all that is noted still to this is couple of my started moving. on to some much in the election the biggest

intrigue was not about who would win that bet it was that about how many votes the communist party candidate have agreed dean would secure and it pre-election interview he pledged to the same off his moustache if he got less than fifteen percent it's still there and then you didn't interview isn't going to let the mother drop he posted this. on his instagram account but there's going to get through we will let you know feet does shape just show people to the left and we didn't know any guessing twelve percent and many are expecting him to keep his word as well we've taken it the liberty of showing you want to be might look like if it's here we go i say can he is off it doesn't look right doesn't look right he didn't appear to yourself but a media event with a star still firmly in place we can say for now but he did seem willing to go to the if. one more condition was met by his interview you re do. your comic as soon as do did you meet some. camera that he believes this election

was absolutely fair i'll shave it rocks off in front of it. so that sawyer a rub so we're going to get by with more coverage throughout the afternoon evening and more reaction to the big presidential campaign though in the here and we'll see you tony. join me every thursday on the elec simon short and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of all but there was one more question by the way was going to be our coach.

guys i know you are nervous is a huge tournaments and the huge amount of pressure you have to be the center of the probably would you. agree. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we have to go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the. russia. this special one was also appreciated me just like the review p.r.t. teams the latest edition of the go. book. welcome back here with r.t. now the u.k. national security council will discuss further measures against moscow on tuesday over the poisoning of former double agent. according to prime minister to resume

a spokesperson for relations between the two countries have died further over the past two weeks with london firing extremely serious accusations at the kremlin though without presenting any evidence to back up the claims and see chocolate reports it's now been two weeks since this is a script all case exploded culprits have been named but it's only now that we're seeing the u.k. handing over sound files of the nerve agent to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons this is an organization that members of which are visiting the u.k. for that particular purpose and it's an honor organization that russia is a member of and russia of course if you recall has been asking to see samples of the nerve agent in question to be able to analyze it themselves however to no avail and we do know that while the metro. politan police have described the investigation as quote extremely challenging and complex saying it could take weeks if not months we do know of course that for the u.k.

the guilty have been found very early on in this whole situation and the u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson had this to say in brussels today let's take a listen i think you can see this is a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the truth you know based on old law you son of the stage well boris johnson's a rhetoric of course has been apparently getting more and more intense while the investigation is still underway he's also said recently that not only russia is has been investigating the delivery of nerve agents for assassination but also creating and stockpiling novacek and of course we know that moscow has been saying that the u.k. slovak czech swedish and possibly u.s. labs were closely studying novacek since the ninety's a so still very very much finger pointing going on but it seems that there's no cooperation whatsoever in

this regard between the u.k. and russia and they're still not seeing eye to eye at all and of course it's a quite interesting to point out that while boris johnson has been seeing russia's kalpa culpability pretty much from day one when he was asked in an interview this weekend about donations made to the tory party a sum of one hundred sixty thousand pounds by a russian woman who was a wife of a former minister to putin for that she paid for a tennis game with boris johnson and for some reason there to him the culpability seemed to be lying slightly differently let's take a listen to that and listen in to evidence is produced begins to individual russians i do not think the entire nation should be should be corrupt of course the investigation is going to be continuing we're expecting the finger pointing unfortunately to continue and ministers foreign ministers are meeting today in brussels so we'll be bringing you more details as the day and rubbles. well we also spoke to craig murray he's

a former british ambassador to his becky stan and author and he says that british scientists are being very cautious in their wording regarding the origin of the nerve agent the scientists that the u.k. is. porton down which handles chemical weapons the fuse to save this nerve agent was made in russia the british government put him on the heavy pressure to say this nerve agent was made russian they said it was no evidence it's made in russia so in the end the formula was agreed which was that the nerve agent is all of a type developed by russia and by optics were developed here in edinburgh first penicillin is all 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 with because they've never said this nerve agent was made in russia or produced in the shower or manufactured in russia all they say all the time is it is over type developed by russia alleged

chemical formula producing the talks was published you can buy it from amazon it's published twelve years ago in a book a new valiums with o.p.c. w. supervision synthesised chocks. twenty sixteen so many people can make this that's how the news is looking at so far today here in our company we're back with more plus reaction to president putin's reelection at the top here. about your sudden passing i've only just learnt you worry yourself in taken your last wrong turn. up to you as we all knew it would i tell you i'm sorry for

me i could so i write these last words and hopes to put to rest these things that i never got off my chest. i remember when we first met my life turned on each breath . but then my feeling started to change you talked about war like it was a cave still some are fond of you those that didn't like to question our ark and i secretly promised to never be like it said one does not leave a funeral in the same as one enters the mind it's consumed with death this one difference i speak to you now because there are no other takers. to claim that mainstream media has met its make. america less one is the melting pot and the second is the radio alger a mess of of the bush trappings of anyone can see that america works hard so this

is a whole group of people all generation 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 cause of. the far right than britain isn't just on the march it's taken violent my daughter's action i know what i need to hit against you know you know i see these organizations which are all usually split into which we for different names i'll give you that look. a. complex web.

welcome to sort of the end of the shiver not say he won oscars dalton globes heyst 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 ludmer putin. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience my over sounds great to have you with us today hope you're having a great trip in moscow just got here so your book compared 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 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 in 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 and i'm glad i got here i mean i did mr castro and i did mr chavez i did mr arafat's and also as a yahoo as 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 one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and a lot of the movies soden was represents what had 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 the 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. at that time we didn't know if this would go on it 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 you know all the way to us and as you can see every day i look different he was always the same he looked very together i would sometimes. play here was blown in the wind. i guess i changed appearances several times but. in other words i'm the opposite of american anchor i don't look like megan kelly i don't look like you even. sam

that's a compliment. i know what kind of great effort it takes to get that kind of access but. that's not easy i mean a lot of russian journalists and 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 about entry or just want to do you care to get under under your skin because that's a lot of work you did 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 book. a movie a 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 role will the opinions of change

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 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 turn 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 an anchor 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 sighted 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 in the 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 head and 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 in because colosseum dolly in a is to some degree i tell you more than several million people saw it which is and this is on a premium cable channel show time 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 was public television channel three in france and. you've heard vedra in 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 and germany france these things matter italy very important now whether things change as a result it's hard to tell because the recent leaders 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 the domestic politics you feel like trump is trying to sort of way emulate leaders like putin behalf he is i'm not sure i can't

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 respects the. sounds he may misunderstand mr putin too 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 foreign of 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 the has 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 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 said american troops to siberia to join the brit.