in ship between germany and russia and it's not a positive what if you take their reading from this they say that the relationship could well is frosty and could continue to be more remorse frosty but if we go back to saturday the main top lloyd the most read tabloid newspaper building here in germany they run their congratulations the blood of the of putin and a barber to wait on saturday before a vote had even been cast they also said that the script pile poisoning the attempted murder of the former spice and his daughter a year earlier 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 lot of media putin's reelection. over the u.s. so your politicians already criticize putin over the election republican senator john mccain a longtime critic of the russian president accused him of trying to artificially inflate voter turnout those who put in from the democratic congressman adam schiff

voted for supposedly eliminating opponents those would be reaction from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden who is currently living in exile in russia he tweeted that the alleged cases of voter fraud needed more attention when it's cost lives too i guess now i'm married to jet ski a writer and broadcaster in london mary thank you for joining us on the program now let me do you think that earlier today that he didn't want to start an arms race but rather engaging in dialogue do you think it's a message is going to be heard in the u.s. and europe. well i think at the moment it's quite difficult not least because of the second half of president putin's state of the nation address where we had all the technological wizardry with all the pictures of new weapons and also i know that when mr putin gave his address he stressed that this was defensive and it was designed to initiate talks. but i think that's not really how it was

interpreted certainly not in britain and i think certainly not in the united states . coming back to the elections what you think we can expect from putin time. i think that i was interested with what seemed to me the. less triumphalist when he was talking about his victory yesterday and he was warning that there was a lot of hard work to be done and i think if you put that together with the things that he said in the last fortnight you are seeing. putin wanting what will probably be his final to be a last if you like to push for extra modernization in russia for rising living standards for improved education to top world levels

i think also he may have often i know that when you know when the communist candidate. in was speaking he said that the measure of his vote was in a way a signal to the president that the concerns of the people who voted communist which for were for more social support really those deserve to be looked at as well so i think you might look at those two. you know major violations were reported we've been speaking to a range of international observers who confirms that we still hearing from senior u.s. politicians that it's not only election undemocratic why do you think that is. well i think the two reasons i think that even though it seems that the any violations were very eyes. so lated nonetheless they have

a presence on the social media with people saying that they witnessed ballot boxes being stuffed with extra votes and the social media is quite powerful in that way the other thing is that there's been a lot of attention really to the one candidate it who was not standing for election which was alex in the rising and so i think the fact that he wasn't running that he was barred from running because of the legal case and his conviction there was a view that because he had been found that that meant the election was may be defective that it wasn't a complete run of counters. married to jet ski writer and broadcaster thank you for joining us on r.t. international. but the sheer the vast majority of polling stations were equipped with web cameras streaming everything that happened that anyone could be an

observer right from the comfort of the coach's job to those moments which is the practice was first introduced actually back in the two thousand and twelve presidential election and has helped to expose multiple electoral fraud cases this time around. for. its.

this year's presidential election was being monitored by a record number of foreign ads that were one thousand five hundred these included observers from france poland and the u.k. with their overall assessment and mainly positive they only 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 those observers direct. to say that they didn't see anybody lation maybe i was too short a time there but i don't i don't think that and about asians. you 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 really. important thing to do is they have a sister who wished 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 concur too late mr putin and hope that we can improve 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. systematic overall about something like this. we were. reporting station so what i can say from my observations this was positive and that's what the general mood among the other election observers here in moscow procedure yesterday was all in all. that the average of. ten or so of a force that. yesterday's vote disappointed the communist.

it's constant wealthy businessman have a good deed in gone at less than twelve percent and he's kind of moping ones that the communists and action h.q. did last night on to anyone he came to our studio to talk about how the result was greeted that. last night we were at the headquarters and a long time communist party chief is the gonna he was there and he addressed the press along with the candidate. and it was an interesting strange now one reporter actually asked the question and said you know we'll do dean and continue to represent the communist party in these elections let's remember when zyuganov ran last time he got seventeen percent this time they didn't even poll twelve percent so when that question was raised it got a little interesting in the room this is what happened just yes it was everybody knew but it's just. one of the guys the groom's family and your blood is there you go in the mills and they're going there and there is a bit of suspicion of a space you. never used to you know. and it was you know

it was with me because she was going that he was you know you're going to. be good team and he's not actually a member of the communist party he's just the candidate who they chose to represent them in the election and he's quite wealthy and he's the director of the lenin cooperative or this farming cooperative that essentially provides quite a few services to its workers they grow strawberries and such their workers go to very good schools or their children go to very good schools they get good quality health care that's been provided and on the campaign trail he made an interesting wager with a reporter who interviewed him now he said that if he didn't get a full fifteen percent that he would actually shave off his iconic mustache that mustache is part of his image and it's very iconic and he said he would shave it off now the reporter who made that promise to has already put up on instagram a picture of a razor saying it's time to pay the piper it's time to shave that mustache off so we have actually a photoshop in him. what grit danny and would look like without that iconic

mustache let's take a look at that how we got it there on the screen for you but it has not yet come into fruition we haven't seen a half as of yet he is he has taken the dive and gone ahead and shaved as he promised to do on the campaign trail but not a good showing for the communist party and interesting and interesting results not the best for them they've done far better in every election since the fall of the soviet union. to say something that i think is the same yet most turn on county found that almost sixty eight percent that's a little more than the election in two thousand and twelve as you'd expect people from all walks of life came to cost but. i'm. sure.

you know. it will be. a big turnout yesterday the sun shines down on. a new political scene with mr putin going to the six years this give you a view from over all shoulder here. to have a look at red square tonight what. the evening taken some of the iconic views. of the kremlin some fossils of people walking around it's not much. in the lab and no lovely spring. i think it probably seeing you in the shopping

center there as well as bush will leave you with. a view i'm told he will be back with more of a special election coverage in about thirty five minutes to let you go after this. manufacture consent to stick to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the fine. be that one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. in the real news room. little blog telling you on the idea that dropping bombs brings to the chicken hawks

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through them or to to reason why his set. well andrew the latest wave of accusations against russia this time around theresa may has referenced motive and intention that she believes russia had in the poisoning of his daughter but a question about details those did not come exactly what kind of motive russia would have had was not specified by the british prime minister on these statements followed. putin's comments who said that thinking that russia would be interested in doing something like this would be nonsense especially ahead of the elections that were just held in russia this weekend and to the world cup coming up in the summer however theresa may again in an interview that just happened earlier today she said is that there is no other conclusion that the who is responsible is the russian state and again she used the word culpable so at this point it's now been two weeks since the script all scandal exploded and we do know that now britain is

handing over samples of the nerve agent said to have been used to poison screwball and his daughter are going to be handed over to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons now russia is also a member of this organization and if you remember moscow have said over and over again that they would like to see those samples too especially given they're also a member of this group however this was to no avail and in the meantime while we've seen that the metropolitan police have described the investigation as quote extremely challenging and complex they have said that it's going to take weeks if not months to carry out still of the language being used in london is very non-compromising and they continue to accuse russia of having been involved we've heard from specifically from the u.k. foreign secretary yet again i believe we can take a listen to what he said today. i think that people can see that this is

a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the legal truth in a haystack told you sound of the station. and we've clearly see in the that boris johnson's rhetoric has become more and more intense as the days have gone by within these last two weeks we know that he's also said over the weekend that there's evidence that over ten years have taken place that not only was russia involved in the delivery of nerve agents for assassination but also creating and stockpiling novacek which is the way this nerve agent has been dubbed here in the u.k. however we know that russia has said that actually the u.k. slovak czech swedish and possibly u.s. labs closely studied novacek since the ninety's so the way things stand now more finger pointing and russia russia russia continues to say it had nothing whatsoever to do with this poisoning so this story is certainly going to continue in the time

to come ok thanks and see and see children of their first in the u.k. thank you that's it for the moment with. reaction to to present pre-election at the top of the hour. join me every thursday on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you. when he was forced in most probably last term is russia's president vladimir putin has six more years to fashion his legacy changed russia where we continue to change

. the american ments one is the melting pot and the second is the alger mess of a bootstrapping anyone can see that america 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. i'm afshin rattansi we're going underground is today saudi crown prince called on the heels of meeting the queen journeys to trump's white house coming up in the show

corruption at the highest levels of government ten years to the day the u.k. financial services authority launching the method to gauge into the city of london of a sham an appeal a should we speak to legendary british will no lipman's about his david versus goliath battle against banking a new liberal governments and the die hard to make them feel why are the russians always portrayed as the bad guys we speak to the author of national security cinema about us military intelligence agencies influencing nearly one thousand eight hundred movies and t.v. shows bust was the whole of the seventh is a scandal in the u.k. labor party just a bad because of the film from the one nine hundred fifty s. one of the targets former vice chairman to jackie walker performs a scene from a play the lynching taking us back a generation. her own mother's fight for free speech all of the more coming up in today's going underground but first as all u.k. parties vowed to get to grips with corrupt mots ago money flooding into london and

as vladimir putin looks set to be elected again in part because of his reputation for attacking i.m.f. world bank created all legal gangsters there is a financial anniversary today ten years ago today the u.k.'s financial services authority launched an unprecedented investigation into dealings in the shares of major financial companies in the city of london where someone who is directly affected by the claims of corruption is the former host of u.k. television's swap shop and deal or no deal broadcasting legend no adman's no welcome back to going underground in the studio at the last as long going police investigation about one of our great banks h. boss you're involved in a in a big case with them we're going to ask you right at the beginning how is it that you didn't think that there was something odd about your finances way back when and it was only when your old bank manager was jailed that you suspected that you had

been the victim of fraud. when you put it like that i am a bit of an idiot but the reality is that even in the early two thousand prior to the crash we still respected bankers and we trusted bankers sure yeah i think we did and. in two thousand and three four when my businesses started to suffer issues with their relationship with h. boss i still thought that it's all your fault yeah yeah and even after the collapse of the businesses when they were forced into administration in two thousand and seven i put it down to one of those things in life that actually i had been a rubbish businessman and so yeah however naive as it sounds when almost a year ago five people went to prison for forty seven years for this crime there was a light bulb moment that was the client going on a minute mark dobbs and he was my bank manager but this is

a bank that before all of this had allegations of money laundering it is settled with us regulators with the university billion dollars accused wager mercy of aggressive tax avoidance. how many other business people were out there who were blaming themselves and not even understanding that there was no you know but i see the frown and i see your point and i'm dangerously close to protecting lloyds banking group here which is not really what i feel very comfortable with but what you've got to remember is that we were trusting our professionals i mean i've really got into this and i now think that it was probably round about the fact is that something quite fundamental happened in the u.k. we used to have professions and we used to have industry and suddenly we industrialized our professions. and that is a green light for corruption so we had lawyers who had products we had the local

solicitor who had products suddenly we had banks who talked about products it became industrialized and we've even got now education that scott products and this was an open door for corrupt people and i will say because it's really important not all bankers are corrupt i mean lloyds banking group has what seventy thousand employees they're not all bad people but what you would be surprise when you don't into the facts he's how small is the number of bankers in the u.k. of course ten years civil sterrett for britain and are still conducting themselves in a way that was recently described in the house of commons as potentially criminal they deny any accusations of corruption and say they tried to reach a consensual resolution with you. and they can talk because of ongoing litigation but then instead of democratic control coming to the rescue would you say that

because the taxpayer then ended up bailing out all of these banks it had to be the law and legal companies and class action lawsuits tell me about this white horse in the knight in shining armor theory i'm currently involved volkswagen diesel emissions scandals and they're coming to help you. well yes i mean i don't think people in the u.k. realize that lloyd's bill annual bill for lawyers both in-house and external is over a billion pounds now when you look at their profits when you look at their turnover when you look at their assets that's a totally disproportionate amount of money to be spending with lawyers and it says a lot about the way they conduct themselves they know they know they're going to get sued by the regulators they know they're going to get fined and they factor into the balance sheet and there's a bigger budgets there will be legal opinions by the regulators such to regulate

but don't get me going on we don't have a regulator in this country it's called the f.c.s. in the wonderful andrew bailey who hopefully now scuppered his chances of taking over from carney but you know the f c a's toothless they're frightened of r.b.s. they're frightened of lloyds they've even said publicly we can't afford a legal action with these banks so that's something that's got to be looked at but you mentioned theory i'm so theory i'm a major global fund they looked at my case and they decided on merit they said look we know you're high profile in the u.k. your famous person or wherever we are nervous you might want your day in court a big perry mason moment and i said no i don't i would still like to negotiate a settlement with lloyds they looked at the merits and they said we're funding so for many millions of pounds i don't have to worry and the case is even insured so in the i think unlikely event that a judge found in lloyd's favor i still cannot lose a penny and that is that is

a serious game shifter i mean as i said lloyds banking group deny all these allegations you know in the us you know of regular you understand that you mork lloyds banking group regularly or no radio stations in my arbor and yet i have a child i have a radio station one of twenty three row. stations that i have which can be heard around the world under the positivity brant positivity radio world. i dedicated my station positively know that you said light hearted stuff to basically telling the truth about lloyds and yes you're right i think every two weeks my lawyers get threats of defamation it's cetera et cetera oh yea bring it on oh i have to whistleblower sites and herbert smith something they are expensive lawyers said that i was breaking the law not providing lloyd's with the information that the whistle blows for providing i think you got law for the arrogance of these people

the whole point of encouraging whistle blows is the truth gets out there and there's lloyd's wanting me to cite or by the way fred blogs in your edinburgh office is this my going to do that of course no it's the whistle blows that can change everything in this country in defense of the regulators they say they have and they would have as many resources have been some criticism ever of paul more whistleblowers on this show every three years ago with big allegations about all of it is that regulators need the same order to is as the company's because they know more about the situation because they work in those companies what do you make of that argument you've got the four big companies the four big orders the companies that every single time one of these banks says we'll have an independent review they use their auditor there is no independence so the independent griggs review the law is brought in to look at the victims claims it's an independent they they

hire degree they pay grades they tell greig's how much money they think they can get away with and greeks get a rubber stamp out there's something independent about it i mean it goes back to gordon brown analysis the darling i mean the people that introduced the laissez faire attitude the light touch regulation in all of this. in the destruction of hundreds of thousands of a semi in the u.k. apparently no one has done anything wrong going to set up this one hundred million pound five fund to compensate good for audience slip for pain the new fine yet. and lloyd's is saying oh it's making group is saying good progress is being made with the apportioning out this hundred million for i presume these are settlements and lot of missions of liability or negligence on their books what they say to the victims is we will give you money for distress. and you know what you suffered

at the time because it must have been horrible for you they are terrified of a machine that admitting guilt about it and certainly having broken so many businesses they're not about to give people their stolen goods back so you won't get an admission of any guilt mediation they said to me your businesses would have failed anyway and we don't believe you're a victim of a crime well fortunately for me thames valley police don't agree and my case is now the subject of a criminal investigation so i'm limited just what i can say about that but i can assure you that having spent seven million pounds pursuing the regional crime and operation hornet thames valley police would not be spending more public money if they didn't believe they were going to get important prosecutions releases it is investigating is as you say. our lives just good to see of him being abroad. how the media has informed the british public about the ongoing crisis the bigger

than twenty eight because and some would say we've been told that this is a vital part of the british economy and we have to at all cost sacrifice everything from libraries of public libraries to social services to save it because without that britain's prosperity is threatened what have you would you characterise the media reporting of what the banks did to the country i only know what i see and that is that millions of people in this country have suffered. and it isn't because of subprime markets in the states it isn't because of lehmann brothers disease and because of this great global thing it's actually because a few bankers in the u.k. got very greedy they introduced strategy to try and boost their balance sheets by stripping the assets out of small to medium sized businesses where you have to remember is this goes back to the.