the, the just breaking news is all i hear what i want to international as president putin is vowing retaliation. ukrainian force is showing polling stations are the hardest one . the region with 2 people were all across russia. people are heading to the polling stations to catch the balance in the presidential election, which turn office the past about 25 percent on the 1st day of voting. the green lighting, the idea found for a ground in culture and into the southern gods and the city of rough buttons at the french president of emmanuel macro. and it may think that his country systematically breaks its pleasures by romping off military involvement in ukraine

despite setting previous founder. 2 years ago we said we would never send medium range missiles. that's what we did. we said we would never send claims. now someone doing it, we set too many boundaries, so to speak, you know, but temporary, the well 1st of all, my to very well welcome to you here at archie international life months ago. and it was such a big day across the world's biggest country, the 2020 full presidential election getting into full swing 1st day of voting by the way, with people and of correspondents in guest standing by to join us live. before we get that, however, we do have breaking news here. it all to you international. a number of people have been wounded off ukrainian forces apparently have been polling, excuse me, shutting the polling stations in the heart of san region. that is, according to the regional gulf, and they'll be understand at least 2 towns in the region, hoping shell,

and the russian president vladimir putin has vowed b strikes will not go unpunished by the more right here in costs. i will have to add to these uh, produce a monumental child who was selling your location now. appreciate you joining us back on the last time we spoke like a med, we heard the sirens wailing in the background and you have to leave your report early. the tell us now more about this, you crazy and strike on the polling stations in the heart of san reach and also the talk in the bell. good old region. what do you know with this breaking? yes it is the phil's day of rushes presidential elections and the queen an army has shelf several bowling stations. think of some region live in to civilian some wanted to live bills or region has been show to 2 civilians were wounded and 11 was one is dogs of the showing. the local authorities says say that then

targets ariel targets were intercepted by and defense systems here in build work region, just outside of the city to le ukrainian meal for intelligence units. they've been trying to cease to capture few villages in uh on the russian territory. but according to the russian ministry of defense, all of the attacks were repelled with with the number of moses while you creating and losses. on the estimate, the number of the queen in law suspend 15, hundreds full of which comes on the background in the background full flush as presidential elections. it is, the phillips there for the visual lives in russia is going to the polling stations with the rushing could inform you regions including finance, people for public move on to people for public is a bare over here and get some regions rush us officials for mis let's move through too much as needed, will be taken to protect the people. yeah, megabyte. i appreciate it. that's nice. updating the break and you throw it out to you. but just to stick around for a moment please. we've got some of the latest comments from the russian president.

here's vladimir, the vba is in order to disrupt the voting process, intimidate people, at least in the border regions with ukraine. the neo nazi regime in keith is attempting criminal armed actions. this involves targeting peaceful civilians in russian. 33, the sex by the enemy will not go unpunished. yeah, so i'm not going to, there was comments right there from the russian president, reacting to these violent ukrainian strikes depend essentially targeting civilian areas and russian solver and territory. a civilians are outside right now. going to the posting stations. can you tell me more about where you are in the belgrade region and not go met? have you seen people going out to the polling stations? is there a sense of interest, or is there a sense of fia, what is the general? yeah. sensitive and yes, i've seen them. i'm actually in the very center of build your own,

the city of builder of itself. i mean there are not so many people here because of the city will she'll just just 20 minutes ago. but they are going to the building stations and be willing to express their to, to vote excellent to express their feelings about the future of the country. all right, all to produce a bucket medical child with some of the latest updates on this breaking news on day one of his presidential vote. not good bad. thank you. i appreciate it. a swell. a 2 people have been wounded off the crate in forces did poll these as shelby's paulding stations in the heart of san region. but we will get to those details a little bit later here on the program. but the russian president has come out saying, well, here at one more time that those who carried out those strikes will be punished. well, that's good. now down to all election coverage studio downtown most ago, just basically overlooking the kremlin a colleague, mike a quite, she is now reporting the latest turn out numbers full. this big 2020 full

presidential election in the russian federation. the . all right, welcome to our studio rides. the red square here in the heart of moscow, the russian capital. i am like watching and right here. and i'll see deal with bringing you updates of every single action from every part of the country. now it is the presidential election and is running and spending 3 days today is the 1st day of the voting process. and so far from the electoral commission, 25 percent of what the turnout is recorded so far as we speak. and that is the official records right now, and we'll wait to see how it goes on from here right here. behind me, you can see beautiful scenery,

some of the historic monuments right here in the heart of moscow that symbolized or symbolic all the rich history of moscow under russian people. right, right here will be bringing you a novices from our experts and all those who have been watching the goings on and how people are reacting to the voting process. so welcome to ask you though, we're taking you through every single minutes. all the action from the 11th time zones of russia. welcome to our studio, the. the . all right, this election is a unique, unique election because the point days history is been made today and the best presidential election in 2024 is the 1st time that's election of presidential

election in russia is spending 3 days. he has always been the one day election or the wide. also electra but the citizens have the opportunity to vote electronically based on the voting and this election. and people who may not one way or the other have the time or due to any other condition, can not find themselves in the pull. the units can vote electronically. so every single russian who is over 18 years and who doesn't have criminal records of who is not in prison, are eligible to vote a sofa on today's 1st election of voting day. the didn't turn out is already a 25 percent, and that is if it goes, we're getting from the voting authority. all right, now let's get to here. awesome. off the russian presidential candidate. let's just have a rundown of one of them. the incumbent head of state who is running as an independent candidate along with 3 of the account contenders, flood current,

national lawmakers. they are representing 3 different political parties. now pulling stations nationwide are open each voting day from 8 am until 8 pm local time. and why the voting is in full swing and moscow. the doors have already shots for the day of the stations in eastern russia and the country is far east. and the fact that they will be open again for the 2nd day in just few alice and recall that we had told you that russia has 11 time zone. so as one pop of russia is slipping, the other side is waking up. all right, so let's get to a correspondent, the 1st appointment, who will bring us up to speed? yeah, the piece. yeah. that piece going of. and he will bring us up to speed. but what's going on? yeah, guys go to have you drive me right now. uh, what is the update, how people voting from areas that you have monitoring sofa?

well, mike, uh, the 1st day of the presidential election in russia is in full swing swing. i might add that it's quite a, we're going to be here, at least in the central moscow. you did say that russian is a massive country, spending 311 time zones, which means that the in russia, as far as eastern regions, bowling stations, have already temporarily closed until tomorrow. but to avoid things still continues in the central parts. and especially in the western region. so this is the 1st time that the presidential election is being held for 3 days straight. uh, that's obviously being done in order to ensure that provide everybody with the possibility of casting their ballast. because we are talking about deciding the future of rush uh uh for the next day, 6 years, uh that system, the 3 day system was over. he tested earlier on other collections of uh, lower levels of uh, government and prove to be quite effective in terms of uh,

securing um the higher levels of the voter turnout right now. according to the latest speakers coming from the rest of that withdrawal committee, the voter turnout stands at about 25 percent. but hey, it's a friday, it's a work day. uh the weekend is still ahead. so i think it's quite likely that these figures will increase, and it's also the 1st time that citizens could choose the president, the next president by voting online. so those who are, for some reason, aren't able to physically come to bowling stations good to cast their ballots. on line, which is good news for some of those interguards out there. but let's listen to what some of those russians who didn't manage to come to the polling stations had to say we expect small development, the same prosperity in the country, and that everything would turn out better for our people. the faith of our country is being decided for 6 years. the president is elected for 6 years,

our entire system, the structures of government bodies and our life in general is being decided. everyone should come and vote over to collections our life. the president and the people are united. our victory depends on the president and the people, though i believe that elections are mandatory i think that this is one of the most important events for every person, for the citizens of our country. we must take part because the future of russia depends on our voice. we all love us, citizens of russia. i think that the clergy is the advance layer of our society. so we must actively take part in these events or so millions of people are taking part in the selection even including the russian crew of the international space station . they were seeking catching their ballots earlier today. and there was an interesting incident at one of the following stations where a robot actually turned up, attempting to place its uh ballots. but obviously it wasn't allowed to do so. the

representative of the electoral committee said that, uh the robot didn't have human identification. and perhaps if at some point in the future, robots would have the same rights as the russian, as humans and his russian citizens, then they would have no problems with the allowing them to take part in the voting process. but i think that's just another, the sort of the humorist example of, uh, quite a serious effort to boost the interest to stir up attention to the elections and persuade more people to take part. right. we see that not only human beings are interested in what's going on, robots are also, but the key in this post as getting to have interest in what's going on now, but talk to was a punch on the issue of the robot. what are the incidents i took place today? i the polling stations that you money to fall. several troubling incidents have

already been reported, and the thirty's have started criminal investigations. looking into them, for instance, uh several uh, individuals for the ink into the bag boxes. one woman tried setting a pulling station on fire by throwing a molotov cocktail in it into it. so thankfully, nobody was injured and the pulling station and the bag boxes more importantly, weren't damaged. but according to the head of the electoral committee, up until uh uh, some of these people say that they were bait to do so. and the, allegedly, they didn't know that was this was a criminal offense. that's so let's listen to what she had to say on this steel. from those who are detained from the, from their explanations, it follows that this is coming from abroad. this means some kind of scheme, a connection. these us elements of federalism. a, they admit that they do this for money, but they said they will be level that this is just very hooliganism. this is

section 141 of the criminal code up to 5 years in prison. this is not ordinary simple hooliganism. now frankly, to me comes in as a shock that these people say they don't realize that this is a criminal offense because obstruction. also the voting process in russia is punishable by law. and you could go to jail for up to 5 years. so it's quite a dodgy story there, but let's talk about it. the international attention towards the selection, the specifically, the observers about a $106.00 countries sent the representatives to monitor the selection. all in all, i think there's about 200000 people, both russian citizens and those who came from abroad who are observing the election process. so let's listen to what some of the foreigners set to see see very friendly people and very, very happy to for most of them to read. i expected you to be upbeat, to be, to these process. you selection that to you,

but to what you discover these, but it was very peaceful peacefully and general interruptions. my anecdotal, you know, a perception is that people feel excited to vote. i guess the voter turnout so far as the very good with early voting something over 50 percent. well that says something, you know, people are lined up here at 7 am devoted. no, it didn't open. okay. so that says something again, i don't want to draw too big explosions because that wouldn't be fair and i tried it from there. but i certainly did. things are not as the west. you know, i think another thing that says something is the, the geography of the people that you've just heard and where they came from in the,

of the speculation that russia is allegedly, under some international isolation. so you can see for yourself is that so lots of foreigners are present here, monitoring this vote, but not everybody was allowed. in fact, russian authorities bands the representatives of the always see from coming for russian monitoring the election act using the organization of not being transparent and lacking democracy. all right. all right, now yeah, go we, we know that town to day like is the 1st day of the multiple day voting post says, and there are 4 candidates in this election. is it k, if any of the candidates will all of them have cast a vote on the 1st day of election yet? they don't like, surprisingly with none of the 4 candidates so far have been seen placing the

ballots. but i do think they have a lot on your plate right now. plus there's still lots of time. so 2 days for them to take part. however, we have seen many russian officials of voting including senior officials. so like um, the rest of the 40 minutes to live are all for defense, administer soil go heads of regions including the new regions, perhaps giving everybody else an example and a cool sort of to join and also take part in this go well we have to leave it here now the eagle piece, kind of corresponding, thank you very much for bringing us up to speed from where you are. now despite the videos, pictures, and so does he have some evidence of people who are out there being eager uh, being enthusiastic in voting. not everyone shares in this enthusiasm i, we're talking about the us department. they don't share in that in foods. yeah.

some of the, even as of the people coming out to vote, the united states condemns russia has continued efforts to undermine ukraine, sovereignty territorial integrity and political independence through sham elections . held in occupied ukrainian territories. the united states does not, and will never recognize the legitimacy or outcome of these channel actions held in sovereign ukraine as part of russia's presidential elections. to be clear, lou, hans, don't yet separate rita, her song and crimea, are you crank? the? the results of these potemkin cell exercises will be dictated by moscow and cannot reflect the free will. the citizens of ukraine were being compelled to vote in them ahead of its presidential election. russia had one message to the west. don't metal look up blue. we have been accumulating a lot of materials about how the european union embassies in moscow are preparing for our presidential elections. what intervention mechanisms can supporting

projects for our non systematic opposition? is our being prepared in general. things that embassies have no right to do. having collected such information, we invited all the ambassadors of the european union to a meeting with me. i wish i wanted to tell them we simply advise them in good faith . not to do this 2 days before the scheduled meeting. they sent us a note saying that you had decided not to come. can you imagine relations with states at the diplomatic level who's in passengers are afraid to come to a meeting with the minister of a country to which they are accredited? where has that been seen? that's the manners of the sworn partners. this might sound out of place to some given the 2016 russia collusion hysteria in the us when the roles were reversed. but it makes perfect sense to those who pay attention to america's intelligence routine overseas. we've been doing this kind of thing since the c, i a was created in 1947. we've used posters, pamphlets, mailers, banners,

you name it. we planted false information in for a newspapers. we've used what the british call king george's cavalry, suitcases of cash, and the russian battlefield in this war for the hearts and minds actually saw one of the biggest victories of the c. i a, it all started like this. it doesn't take collusion from the trunk campaign, right? for russian active measures to mess with our watches. what we messed with the lecture. the funny thing, the thing is, i was sent in 1994 to russia by the clinton administration to get involved in their elections and seeking what outcome of the re election of boris yeltsin. boris yeltsin inherited the shambles of the soviet union, which modern russia used to be in the ninety's. he didn't do much for the country during his 1st tenure, the country. so a bloody coup attempt to suffer from monstrous terrorist attacks organized, crying, flourished. the economy was in ruins,

and the population was stricken with rum punch poverty. but all that didn't matter to washington for them, yelton's keep straight and achievement was, he's absolute. a dollar fee and salvage you to the us. so when the polls showed he was likely to lose to his communist tribal in the 1996 election, it was time to take action for none other than the american president himself. no one will be able to succeed except to myself as you got off. all others will get no more than 10 percent, but they can add the votes to his or subtract them from mine. so now i have to work with full candidates and make them favorable to me, especially if we go to a 2nd round. i have set firmly the task of winning in the 1st round. so i would ask you not to embrace, you've gone off in advance. you don't have to worry about that. we spend 50 years working for the other result. soon off to 3 americans landed in russian, 3 and footprint does in the business of the most cutting edge,

most markets innovation of the time, flat screen tvs or so was the legend. in reality, they were political science heavy weights on admission to tip the scales in yelton's favor the communists had to lose phases. don't approve of the job. yeltsin is doing 17 things will get any better. i prefer the communist approach. there exists any one very simple strategy, but winning 1st become the only alternative to the communist and 2nd, make the people say that the communist must be sold total costs. the u. s. administration displayed a very little understanding of this at all costs or the the agents were each pay $250000.00 and basically had a blank check to cover any additional expenses. but given yelton's public support, the task at hand was truly gargantuan. in the us, you would advise

a pull with those kinds of numbers to get another occupation to get america's favorite sons rating out of the got to event president clinton was ready to spare no expense. i'll check on this with the i m s and with some of our friends and see what can be done. i think this is the only way it can be done. but let me clarify this. i had understood that you would get about $1000000000.00 from the i am ask before the election. no, no, only $300000000.00. i'll check. okay, apparently it was president clinton to convinced his russian counterpart to appear in a campaign video. and when the 1st election results came in, the 3 american political scientists actually set in the election commission building. they cheated, they did it, it worked, at least for a while. now russia is in a fight against a us domain aged world order. and this time, washington doesn't have the yeltsin way out. all right,

i'm been joined interest to do by independent journalists. mike jones, mike is going to have you join me right here. now, how important is this election for ross, a specialty considering the issue of ukraine stuff from that? i think it's very important that these elections continue. it's business as usual, despite the consented efforts of various western agencies to interfere. it's a challenge for the russian people to voice and demonstrate the opinions, the votes, and who they wish to remain in charge of the russian federation moving forward as we go into the future in this new multi polar wealth. how do you think this military operation in the conflicts? how would it impact the process of the election? the specially how people are going to vote. and i think the areas that we will see this most as we have today. in fact, with news from delegates and pass on with the every gene has specifically targeted polling stations. we're going to see that impacts mainly that with intimidation is

going to be tried to be inflicted on the people. and we're going to see the resilience of the russian people, particularly in the new territories and don't pass where they've suffered this sort of behavior for 10 years now. and russia has stepped in to bring them some freedom and peace on a democracy. indeed, which is something name of course, which upsets the west greatly. well, talking about the west point days, the presidential election was the bus, the holding you train is being canceled yet the west sees it as democratic. why is that? so it's very convenient for the west when you have that brand of democracy and that means voting the way that the west wants you to vote. we seen a great example in the u. k. we is richie through like suddenly very panic stepping out of the downing street because george galloway was voted in. gosh, this is most irregular for the british hit when it comes to russia and suddenly

with ukraine, whether west holds up ukraine is the champions of democracy, as you say, elections cancelled, but furthermore, may 11, 5 lease. so when skis power is invalidated, he's no longer legally recognized as the leader of ukraine, but no mention of that in the west and media whatsoever. that the, the european parliament say it said the with no money to this election. why do you the thing that is, i thought was thinking they would be curious to know. we want to see what the outcome is and have the time to speak to all the no russians. what. what do you think? no, i think they learned that lesson from the referenda that took place in 2022. don't ask a question to something you don't want to know the answer to. so as we saw in 2022 international teams of independent journalist visited the to the new territories. when the people, the democratic levi, to join the russian federation. something that the west still grumbles about. well, actually happened is overwhelming. the, the evidence showed that this was

a far more democratic process. then it had been seen in america where we had ballot boxes messed around with, stuffed in the bite and elections, all the problems there, as we all remember very well. but this is my personal opinions that they saying when not monitor these elections, because when they last monitored these governments such as the u. k, were forced to sanction their and citizens such as the case of graham philips, an independent gymnast sonya, of, on the end. and from hollins as well, many people are leaning lips, a german journalist who witnessed these very fat democratic elections and the governments didn't like what they so well, we want to see how these things to the thank you, bye could don't. so my job for your insight into this, of course, we'll have more time to talk again as we go ahead into the next days of the election. thank you to right. well, we're wrap it up right here, but certainly we're not done with covering these special presidential election yet . i pers,

pundents and experts are all over the country bringing you up to speed with all dates. stay with us and i'll special coverage of the trends before presidential election. the special coverage will continue for the next few days. meantime, here on the program at odd c, the is rarely prime minister benjamin and joe has approve the id of plan basically for a ground incursion into the southern gauze and city over it off on near the egyptian border. let's learn more now for 5 to a middle east bureau chief maria for an ocean of details on this. maria, what do you know about this upcoming is ready operation of minutes? we've been talking about this for weeks. the possibility of it happening and there's a lot of fear and a lot of concern. oh yeah. and the prime minister's office announced the david's approval for

a ground defensive and rough um and as a software up to 1500000 palestinians currently find refuge. most of them internally displaced from the facilities in the north. it is not clear exactly when the operation might kick off, but we hear from the idea that preparations are in full swing. is road pushes for the invasion and it says to finish with the militants, the adf already killed around 13000 miles 5 years. but at least 5000 others. according to ero, i still reported late in the gaza strip, and most of them probably hiding somewhere in the south. israel also claims the right dozens of tunnels and gather the south. but blink, this trip with sewing nice for which is really believes, have my smuggles militants, money and weapons. so israel says it needs to be destroyed. there are 2 major problems with a rough file offensive. the 1st is where exactly to evacuate all those poor gaskins

from the junction bode.