lection was being monitored by a record number of foreign observers at one thousand five hundred in fact now they include perfectly representatives from france poland and the u.k. and with that being mainly positive we always see mission in fact russia said there were no alexa law violations that he did say the folks somewhat like transparency we spoke to some of the us. 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 in any 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 see here also a very high level really. important thing to do is to have a sister and 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 confront your late mr putin and hope

that we can improve shroom of the russian relations have to do selection. it would be really important for us because also the chairman's suffer because of sanctions all the pressure was public if there was a. system of the overall of thing like this. we were called. in every polling 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 sort of procedure yesterday was all in all. the average of. an observation was that this was also the first presidential election we must remember for the only woman in the race send your subject who start us off as the candidate against all the others i vote for as a vote against everyone. else but it didn't capture the public's imagination to see

the reality show star turned politician kind fulsomely and the only one point seven percent of the vote that would get to say it was not terribly good some check shared her reaction to the result without easily put trying to. thirty six year old liberal opposition candidate who devoted most of her time during the campaign to wiping out corruption in this country and also helping those she called political prisoners in russia she will be given credit for spending a decent amount of time at the headquarters speaking to journalists her supporters to tom she showed up there and the first time was only just a few minutes after the last polling station closed in russia and then you could see it on her face she wasn't happy with the result there was nothing really to celebrate regardless of that though she kept portraying herself as the new

prominent opposition candidate and that explains perhaps the heat in the debate she had with alexei no volley who's one of the fiercest critics of lot of more potent. music with the music. school. in the. new incoming. let's go back to the results that is just under one point seven percent perhaps if you ask any politician or around the world who's running for president whether he or she would be satisfied with these kind of numbers perhaps the answer you would hear would be no but in hard case when i had an exclusive interview the. it was

later than one am moscow time yet she stayed there that late any a sob chag told me that she could still find positive things in that result of course is not the result i would dream about but my campaign was not about results my campaign was about talking truth on the propagandistic channels or federal t.v. in russia 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 interested in the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the country after the debates with me are you confident in that kind of future for a so-called united opposition bloc time 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 having my instagram which is ridiculous to my

weight what is your maybe adjective or you adjectives that you can use or some other words to describe this is the 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 not seventy five percent but sixty eight or whatever the steel we should meet that the majority of people now really want this president. so this vast country russia the biggest country on earth. in the twenty eight presidential vote we're going to leave you with a look at the red square for now respond to my let's spin that camera and take a look at the beautiful ramparts of the kremlin we're going to be friendly and they go the same basil's cathedral as we ponder the result take it is. i'm pretty evil

coverage here and i'll see international these kids with anything but i would say thanks for watching. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president i'm sure. most some want to. have to go on to be cross with what the before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of my. first sit. when lawmakers manufactured him sentenced him to public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the famous

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welcome back to the presidential election took place a made a diplomatic feud between russia and the united kingdom over the recent poisoning of a former russian spy and his daughter in the u.k. city of souls breeders don of join me in the studio with details. well neal it's beginning to feel like a verbal tug of war so to speak so what happened today was the you issued a joint in the very careful statement on the whole case of the poisoning of the script poisoning they did not pin the blame on russia but they expressed grave alertness grave worry about the whole thing they've said that the are treating the

incident very very seriously and they've said that the use i quote of chemical weapons by anyone under any circumstances is completely unacceptable and they've demanded some more information from russia effectively because everybody's a lot of countries are pinning the blame on russia for it and the russian foreign ministry had no other option but to reiterate the statement that they've made a number of times already they've said the use fueling the whole media hysteria that's what they've called it around the poisoning and they've said that russia has nothing more to demonstrate other than from what it already has demonstrated they've said that they have nothing to do with the poisoning that the nerve agent used in the apparent assassination attempt is not being produced in russia neither is stored the whole chemical stockpile of russia and the u.s.s.r. has been destroyed but this is not the you know the repeated statements by the russian foreign ministry have not stopped the barrage of demands that russia

explains itself coming from the western countries i mean the french president emmanuel mccaughan even included one into his congratulatory message to vladimir putin nato also weighed in on this have a listen we continue to call on russia to provide the complete disclosure of the program person is to talk to leaders who meets with our obligations under the treaty on chemical weapons and i would contrast that with how the russian. i think what a lot of people find very first thing about this story is that the burden of proof could have been thrown over to the russian side the message from the u.k. and its allies have been prove you didn't do it. but what you haven't seen is much evidence if any well it doesn't sound like there's a it's a matter of evidence so to speak because the u.k. was the first on this bandwagon of russia bashing and they've been saying that it

is highly likely that it is overwhelmingly likely that more school is behind this they are saying that moscow is the only this is the only side that could benefit from poisoning this person they've been saying that there's no other possible explanation boris johnson the u.k.'s foreign minister has said that he feels he senses certain russian ness around the whole incident what sort of argument is that what is the russian is really and so the foreign ministry tonight have really just stressed the point there yesterday was again reiterated by lattimer putin in his election speech have a listen. i think anyone with common sense understands that it is nonsense for russia to do such things before the presidential elections and the football world cup and so russia has been expressing its eagerness to cooperate with the

investigation they've repeated a number of times they've officially asked the filed an official request for samples of the nerve agent used to poison scruple to be provided to russia for analysis to find out what it's where it's coming from where it could be coming from who may have produced this sample none of the official requests of russia have been fulfilled instead there's been a barrage of accusations and of demands of russia explains itself. or the u.k. government admits it could take months to investigate the case fully that hasn't stopped london from publicly accusing moscow of being behind the attack on monday prime minister to resume a said russia had the motive and the intention to poison surrogates cripple and see a church that has more from the british capital. we've heard from the metropolitan police describe the ongoing investigation as quote extremely challenging and complex has not been stopping u.k. officials including u.k. foreign secretary boris johnson and i think people can see this is

a classic russian strategy of trying to conceal the needle of truth in a haystack old law you sound on the stage poisoning of surrogates creep is not an isolated case but the latest in a pack of reckless behavior by the russian state while russia's guild's is really being pushed to the forefront and russia has to stay behind trying to somehow prove its innocence according to the approach the u.k. has taken we've seen that this is not the same story when it applies to different situations involving russia for once over the weekend boris johnson was asked about a hefty sum of money one hundred sixty thousand pounds there were donated to the conservative party by a russian woman and a wife of a former russian minister who worked with large amir putin for a tennis match with boris johnson and there apparently he seems that was all right

listen into evidence is produced against individual russians i do not think the entire nation should be should be corrupt well today boris johnson is in brussels meeting with the foreign ministers of the european union he's been speaking in addressing the press with nato secretary general who's expressed solidarity of the organization with the u.k. and they have both talked about the disruptive and malign behavior that they continue to accuse russia of however of course we know moscow has been saying this whole time that it has nothing to do with the script all poisoning. we will spoke with craig murray a former british ambassador to his back to stan and offered he says the british scientists are being very cautious in their wording regarding the origin of the nerve agent the scientists that the u.k. is biology at porton down which handles chemical weapons. to save this nerve agent was made in russia the british government put munda heavy pressure to say this

nerve agent was made russian they said there's no evidence it's made in russia so in the end the formula was agreed which was that the nerve agent is of a type developed by russia biopics 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 no the agent was made in russia or produced in the shower or manufactured in russia all they say all the time is it is overtype developed by version alleged chemical formula producing the which works was published you can buy it from amazon it was published twelve years ago in a book and the of aliens with o.p.c. w. supervision synthesised chocks in twenty sixteen so many

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welcome to. see each other not say he won oscars called in space films are cult classics part of american consciousness now all over a stone's latest project was. to film an extensive series of interviews with russia's vladimir putin. i caught up with the director himself to talk about the experience i. have you with us today hope you're having a great trip in moscow has just got here so your book compared to your extensive interviews with putin is published you called the putin interview for a day his 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 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 young who 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 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 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 of 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 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 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 jobs but. in other words i'm the opposite of

american anchor 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 access 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 that you're about 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 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 and i think if you see the movies i do it's not 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 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 in the 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 call 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 putin i mean this are strongman you know obviously have attraction to

strongman do you feel like this is the future 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 on point because it hurts all some dolly it has to some degree i 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 as public television channel three in france and. you heard veggie in the x. foreign minister of a mr beattie hall defended the movie very well i thought against and the 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 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 doesn't 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 had i don't think 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 risk. things 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 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 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.