the say, the, the american presence of the territory of the republic of asia is illegal and violate, solve the constitutional and democratic rules. pulling the plug in the share, unexpectedly cuts on military ties with washington saying the presence of us troops uninstall is now against the law into the final stretch as the last day of voting and rushes presidential elections. and as the country decides its future archie, is there every step of the way? so it was so great for me to join us for our special coverage here with our lovely studio in the heart of most go with a beautiful crescent in the back job of special action coverage will continue here . winowski, international and home. and the way the election is not just confined to the

countries borders of russians around the world have been exercising their democratic right to the i'm rachel ruble live in moscow. you're watching archie international. recovering the top new stories from around the world and the week gone by. we start with breaking news news. air has a media has announced it's immediately ending all military cooperation with united states. it comes just 2 days after the american delegation visited the west african nation for high level talks. the governments of these yeah, regress the well, of the american delegation to do not the silver and the chevy and people's advice to choose the populace. and the type of partnership that can help them truly fight terrorism. even though the united states of america has, you knew lots fairly decided to suspend old cooperation between our 2 countries.

therefore, the governments of these yeah, strongly denounced as the condescending attitude, accompanied by the tribes of reprisals on the part of the household. the american delegation, the base of the government as an is jerry and people. the american presence on the territory of the republic of nisha is illegal and violates all the constitutional um type of credit rules that would like the silver people in particular through select as representatives to be consulted for the installation of the forwarding on a, on the national territory. earlier we spoke with a political analyst from news air, who says the, i'm a should look beyond america for nations to cooperate with. of the americans are interested in their military base with more than a 1000 soldiers who do not make any decisive contribution to the fight against terrorism. i do not think they have any reason to be here any more. i think they shall draw their own conclusions. were at war, why did we abandon the french?

because they were useless to us. the only complicated the situation, our prime minister said that we need american sponsors or investors, not the american soldiers. if they cannot help us eradicate terrorism, then they should leave. they have to take responsibility for themselves. our country is now part of this a how alliance of states this alliance. there's 2 fundamental principles. i think the best choice for you here in all the countries that make up this a hell alliance is russia. in addition to key in iran can be considered, we welcome any country that pursues and on this policy and is able to assist us ensuring the security of our country. it is the 3rd and final day of the russian presidential election. and by now, almost all pulling stations across the country are open, is the final chance for people to have their say on who gets to govern the world's largest country for the next 6 years. well, at the moment the official turn out is it closing in on a 60 percent,

meaning more than $60000000.00 people have cast their ballots, and that's not including bodes that were made online. the the . so here we are downtown moscow, the heart of the russian capital here with the company behind the bait and his glory is lights from all of us here wishing you a very well welcome to our special election coverage. let's talk about the full candidates here. you bought the incumbent, had a state of coal. it's regarding my food and he's been at the helm since 1999. but the other 3 candidates are also national lawmakers of let us off that phone calls from the new people's party. a veteran russian is russian, businessman alienate slootsky. he was from the liberal democratic party. and the communist. nikolai had tunnel foods been a member of the state do most since 1994. also leading the the parliamentary committee on russia's arctic and far eastern development. mister slootsky has been

in politics for 3 decades. more recently, he was also a member of the russian delegation of the assembled peace talks with ukraine that was back in the spring of 2022. and early, as he headed down to a musket upholding station at the cost is own ballast, making him only the 2nd of the full candidates who have voted so far. he then pumped into our special election studio to speak to me about the current selection process and the future of the russian federation sugs to dyslexic sanctions, and restrictions of which more than $18000.00 have been imposed by the west against russia today have failed. and our national economy and social policy are strengthening the world politics of the new century can only be multi polar. we're every arbitrarily small country, it's people, history, culture, traditions, religion, national language will become a separate decision making center in this multi polar,

safe and stable world architecture of the 21st century, which is already being formed. it is today, it is in these years, and russia has become the center of gravity in the formation of this new world architecture. this new global majority. we all miss vladimir wolf of which is you ever know. the man who founded perhaps the most creative political party in modern russia, a man who really knew how to look into the future with the power of his intellect. a completely unique person during his lifetime, inscribed his name in golden letters in the history of russia. and this is recognized by his supporters and his opponents. i'm his successor, and i don't want to create some kind of p r for myself on purpose. those who believe in the l. dpr in our party. they know me and my popularity has grown, but i feel uncomfortable saying this about myself. as far as your renewal escape is, holy name will always remain and not only with our party, it will remain as the name of the person who put forward strategic ideas for the

development of russia, folding stations that going from 8 am to 8 pm. now, admittedly, that happened a couple of trouble makers who have tried to solve the voting process. we can show you some footage. apparently, some employees that upholding station prevented a woman from pouring green dye into a ballot box on friday, several similar cases or a total of more than $200.00 pallets ruined across some 20 regions of the country. all the perpetrators, the time they will face up to 5 years in prison because you can't do that to state property. now election, officials say the suspects were a part of the black mailed by people that allegedly, as they say, the election officials are blaming ukraine and some weston countries. now, of course, the vote is also being in full swing and the newest and baffled russian regions. despite the constant ukrainian threat of shelling and one pointing station is that all she recently came under a drone attack with no casualties reported the key of did shell upholding station in the neighboring kind of southern region. on friday. i know this saturday,

are you crazy and striking that same area killed one severely and then wounded for others according to local russian officials. and yet, this and all of that, the russians are still going out side. they are still going to the pose. well, let's join a very special guest who's now in our studio here downtown to the heart of moscow, another international election. observe a pet throughout will the us. it's great to have you. here you are the president of bongo university. you're from ethiopia. sure. you are an election absorber here. sure. is it your 1st time in russia? oh, this is my 2nd time or 2nd time here. now, where, what posting stations have you been observing or are you based in moscow or have you been in different regions? i've been in mostly have visited mos on southern forwarding station. uh huh. all right. and i want you to be honest with me. don't hold back. i'm serious. what have you seen? is it, does it seem transparent? does it seem legit because according to wisdom politicians, this whole election is

a sham uh to be on us from my humble opinion i want to express to you is it as well as planned? well organized? i have visited all the forwarding station. you see what surprised amazing is that, you know, the range of the kind of for boy think my con is in, which is never seen in the history. that's right for what they have seen. is it very much surprising academics, extremely excited. have you seen anything that russia could do better with the voting process? have you seen any flaws, any problems or any, i don't know discrepancies, but i mean, can you, can you recommend any improvements? no, no, i don't have any put them on sides that i want to say is really i begun to write a memo for my son, for my country. i've been, i am going, you know, back to my home to share the experience what to have seen here. this is 0 flight that a why should i forgot the? i'm a bit you the whole that i'm christian. so i should reason as what to have seen here

. yeah, so that's is a very best example. where do you see the relationship between africa and russia moving towards in the future? what's your full cost? of course, from my form of experience i have hide in my life. and as a score of what i'm going to say is, is a friend to ship the browser who'd watch. we have research shows genuine from humble, you know, me test phone. and you know, the pin number, this is what they want to sell both russia for more of i say it was great for you to join us for us, specialist coverage here with our lovely studio in the heart of most go with a beautiful fragment in the backdrop of special action coverage. we'll continue here and i'll see in the

well as of right now, the final day of voting is underway in almost all of russia's 11 time zones. they've just open their doors in moscow this hour, but such as the vast size of the country in the far east. there's just 6 hours left to vote. so many well russians living abroad aren't excluded from the vote. either pulling stations are open all around the world with people gathering outside russian embassies in china, india, japan, and many other countries. in former soviet republics and central asia, people have been heading along to make their choice as well with counseling stand here to stand and took menace to. and among those countries where russians have been able to vote, following stations will remain open until 8 pm local time. but the ride for russians around the world to have their say hasn't been a painless process everywhere in little dove of the pro western government, there has placed more than

a few hurdles are to so many shars picks up the story. it seems that russia citizens living abroad are stripped of their rice to vote some thing that the most open foreign ministry admits default. no, i mean that is a so we have a band holding elections in any place except the embassy. if there are attempts to hold elections in other places, these actions will be counter productive because i cannot inform about all the measures we can take. but we will try to prevent actions that contradict moldova sovereignty. so because you refused to normalize relations with ross, so that should imply not allowing russian citizens in your country, their rights doesn't sound so democratic after all, maguvvin authorities have made it evidently clear that they will stop at nothing, trying to prevent the organization of fully stations for the russian presidential elections, i mean, i can see they do legal and incorrect to open police stations in a territory that is not controlled by cation now without the consent of the

republic of montalvan. russia used to open lots in terms of nice stuff, but these happened before us that will need human resources and these people will have to get to us somehow. we need to show a character and act decisively. in other words, trans nestor, an unrecognized republic, the split for mobile by 1991, a region under mo, dove and economic blockade. an area that hosts over $200000.00 russian citizens is not allowed to prepare for the elections. weird, although this whole ordeal wasn't always the case, 30 pool is patients were open to model by including 27 in the trends, nest or region for the 2021 russians. they do my elections, which $57000.00 citizens pass and they're both in the whole country, including transmitter. all their bodies stations were again open for the 2018 russian presidential elections, or any 74000 votes. so why now?

why is that the all of a sudden the complete opposite is happening is a little slow. i don't think my assigned to is being asked to do this by washington or brussels. europe has no problem opening fully stations for the russian presidential election. i think signed and wants to please her wisdom to re there's so much that she's trying to create a problem here as well. his idea may not be so far fetched, considering that the current government has been so keen to chase a membership and therefore embrace its democratic ideals, despite the 9 democracy to russians living in the country strangely, that's something brussels has during the blind eye to, even though it's always so quick to call out moscow if it views anything irregular in voting there in recent years, moldova has been taking anything recently on friendly position towards russell is also no secret. the country has stood by kids and it's ongoing conflict with multiple and well rubbing salt into the one i'm above and deputy is essentially

trying to force is russian speaking colleagues to stop using the language so openly . also simplicity is this. the end of the today is the 33rd anniversary of the adoption of the declaration of sovereignty of the republic of multiple buttons. and after 33 years, a small part of this parliament discriminates against an independent states. the republic of mol, dover, and its official language romanian. but a large number of people speak russian. please tell me how long do you think we will have to wait until this group is with the rest of us? do you have any mechanism to solve the problem? i have one and it is of an economic nature. however, let's not forget that russian was spoken by a majority of most of us population for a very long time. and 1989 people demanded for mold over to legalize watson together with mobile ven as a state language. at that point, the russian was spoken by almost 90 percent of the country's population speaking

russian or being an ethnic russian and moved over is not breaking news and especially not interest minister. the latter gained a lot of confusion surrounding his status. hence why several elections took place surrounding the topic with the last one in 2006, we're over 97 percent of voters supported the course towards reunification with russia. but we've been increasing pressure from the mold open government, which trans nister's authority is described as an economic blockade. the region recently requested assistance from russia. russia is still closer to us. our roots are, people are closer than the west. moreover, so much nasty stuff came from there. it simply seems to me that my us and do is someone's pop it from there. so she does what she has told me 1st, and it is important for me to participate in the russian presidential elections because i have a russian passport. it is important that we have stability and trans new stir that rush or prosper, and that the wars and, and all this instability,

all this plays into the hands of the west. and as they are so proud that their rights are protected, they don't defend themselves at all. they have it much worse than us. you have to move to the west is the west. it is always fed to the expense of someone, and it would be bad for the rest, and they would roll over the rest of the world. but they won't succeed. now, there will be a re shuffle of the entire world order. we have the most, the version of it, the most, the i think that now those policies to oriented towards the west, the full, probably the russian speaking population falls of some kind of venture people leave before and communicated in this thing, these and understood each other, the full, i believe basil needs to leave in peace and harmony. for as far to russia stated that it cannot let its citizens in the region be victims of any responsible plan by the western leaning models and government. some old open leadership is not an independent actor, but just another geo political project promoted by the collective wes,

as represented by the united states. and the european union is up to the my assigned to in her cabinet, including the newly appointed for administer me. i pop so i demonstrate complete obedience to their masters on a daily basis in their doctrinal documents. the western countries refer to the transistor region as a hostile pro russian enclave. they are unwilling to resume equitable and settlement oriented contacts with serious call regarding gar got was the they have made it clear that regions opposing reproach moment with the you are not eligible for subsidies from the state budget. what kind of democracy is that? this region is home to 200000 of our citizens. we are concerned about their fate and we will spare no effort to make sure they do not fall victims to yet another reckless scheme of the west. trans, mr. continues to be painted with the image of it, the written in an aggressive pro russian region. and that will only lead towards the unfortunate deterioration of the lives of its citizens. most of all,

and maybe even another on the conflict between interest. mr. animal doesn't authorities, applied carefully crafted by the west, in hopes of spiting russia. a drone strike was sorted in the early hours of a sunday in russia's south that's according to local authorities. however, one intercept the drone, it came down on a local oil refinery, sparking of fire emergency services were quickly on the scene and brought the situation under control of the one man reportedly died of heart failure hallway. the incidents meanwhile, an attempt about ukrainian forces to infiltrate the border territory approaches. builder rod region was also prevented the drone footage, released by the russian ministry of defense shows a group of ukrainian soldiers trying to cross into the area. moscow says key of last around 30 soldiers, 3 tanks and the range of other vehicles. the ministry added that such attempts have

increased during the presidential election as well. the conflict in new crane is a bit of pivotal factor for many russians and likely to wait on the outcome of the elections. it's also had an impact on the income that presidents stance toward western powers. ortiz marina, cuz right about has been looking at houses. lot of air pollutants, attitude toward them has changed throughout his time in charge of fluids and became ross as president. for the 1st time. it was a breath of fresh air and not only for russians, it look good. and for almost thing of the beginning with the west appearance, a welcome rush. as near later i have come to moscow important time. russia, after all, has a new president, a new government, a new month. it's economy is showing encouraging signs of growth. this gives russia a pivotal opportunity to build on the strong record of engagement between our 2 countries. it is also an opportunity for the united states. i welcome president

clinton's interest in building a russian that enjoys the enduring strength of a stable democracy. they evidently like what he had been saying and they were eager to engage for some boots and went on to define his vision is only the west had listened. instead they went on to prove that they only support those who follow them blindly. yeah, he said, yes, the session of democratic principles in international relations. the ability to find the correct decision and readiness will compromise on a difficult thing. but then it was a european who was the 1st to understand how important it is to look for consensus over and above national egoism. we agree with that. all these are good ideas was it seemed just recently that a truly common home would shortly rise on the continent's home in which the europeans would not be divided into east and west. and northern or southern. today we must say one thing for all the cold war is done with we have entered a new stage of development. we understand that without

a modern sound and sustainable security architecture, we will never be able to create an atmosphere of trust on the continent. and without that atmosphere of trust, there can be no united, great, or europe. back then, a lot of our puts in the most optimistic about russians relationship with the west . we'll see what he had to say about this assessments in hindsight. but for now, let's say in the early 2, thousands, that's when the russian lead or even consider joining forces with nato. i see in russia is part of the european culture. and i cannot imagine my own country and nice solutions of suicide from europe. and what we often call the civilized world. so it is hard for me to visualize nato as an enemy. i think even posing the question, this way will not do any good to russia or the world. the very question is capable of causing damage. we are open to equitable cooperation to partnership some even joe biden, as senator at the time was singing his praises saying that no russian leader since

peter the great has passed as long as much with the was as boots and it has. well, it was all good as long as rushes leader did it in severe and international affairs . it seems, well the warsaw pact long dissolves and soviet your basis clothes must go well, seemingly playing along and was expecting this partners to do the same. washington, however, continued to expand, nato, withdrew from the and so ballistic missile pretty well innovating. i've gotten this done before it moved on to iraq. well, experts say that was the turning point. russell's adamant that these developments require the let's have a look here. they're required a political settlement and they emphasize that the situation could only be resolved for international cooperation through the security council. and in compliance with the un charter. we stand for resolving the problem exclusively through peaceful

means. any other option would be a mistake. it wouldn't be fraud with the grievous consequences. it will result in casualties and the stabilize the international situation in general. well, we all know what happened there. a total and utter disaster. the west continued to ignore a lot of my pollutants. warnings was withdrawn from yet another treaty. this time on nuclear arms reduction. the big picture was looking very suspicious. let's not forget that one of the boots is main issues from the get go. what's for the west to stop expanding nato or a sports bra? so naturally saw it as a threats, and it says it's not as good as shooting at nato expansion does not have any relation with the more than i zation of the alliance itself. or with ensuring security in europe. on the contrary, it represents a serious publication that reduces the level of mutual trust. and we have the right to ask against whom is this expansion intended? and what happened to the assurances are western partners made after the dissolution

of the warsaw pact? i would like to quote the speech of nato general secretary, mister warner in brussels on 17th may 1990. he set up a time that the fact that we are ready not to place a needle army outside of german territory gives the soviet union a firm security guarantee. where are these guarantees that fell on deaf ears once again, because they had all continued expanded. have a look at this map right here. this is what it looked like before nato didn't just swallow up new members, both countries that used to be part of the warsaw pact with the soviet union and they kept moving closer and closer to rushes boars. the spies vladimir boots insane stop wheeling and i'm not sure that i need to moisten the rush. i cannot but react to actions that undermine and security. further expansion of the military block is a problem for us. so let's live amicably and have a fair dialogue. guys,

the way we are treated, we will react the same way. but today i felt that i was hurt by my partners, but they didn't listen well the towards the end. you cray next on the list, the plans that are in georgia and so in and so i rushed them, save didn't work out as pride. but america was undeterred and essentially took it upon itself to make sure that the plan for kids was put into action as we all saw with the my dad who in 2014. well, despite the fact that kids military had killed thousands of civilians in the pro russian don't boss for years, lot of are approved to remain calm and collected urgent all sides to negotiate that a miracle happened with both parties sign in the men's agreements. so and all hostilities you have feeling pretty seniors cuz i'm which i would generally join what has been said here. today's negotiators have adopted a final joint document, the 3 of firms, the risk ability of strict and consistent implementation of the minsk agreements of

12 of february 2015 and stresses the importance of establishing direct dialogue between the parties to the conflict. but it was all a hoax. i knew it was in all that. it was all a soul tactic aimed a given key of time to prepare and offensive. the 2014 minsk agreement was an attempt to buy time for ukraine. you can use this time to become stronger as you can see today. ukraine in 20142015 um ukraine today and not the same week. and the deal merkle was right when she said that because they thought it was put in who wanted to buy time. but no, it was us wanted to buy time to give you crane a chance to recover to strengthen his military capabilities. the year to date, negotiations with pretend would leads to a status quote. so as long as you crane wants to keep fighting, as long as you crane is able to force the russians to retreat,

no negotiations are possible. they'll do that gets you'll see, the question is whether with the help it can get ukraine, has the military means to force putin to back down. if it doesn't have the military means, then yes, negotiations are necessary. bite to the lawsuit, crania, to force the raw service to retreat. there should be no negotiations. this is what they were really thinking as it turned out, but publicly there were still pretending to be supporting a peaceful settlement. the normandy meeting was praised as a major achievement by all sides. because meetings in this format has not taken place since 2016. put in the grade, it was a warming of relations with ukraine. macro on said the sides have made progress on this engagement. prisoner exchanges cease fire and a political evolution. a new summit in the same format is set to take place in 4 months time. it was all a scam, just like washington's promise not to expand nato,

leaving russell with no other option but to use military force to protect the civilians. in former parts of eastern new crane, the west had been launched and their interventions all around the world for decades in the name of suppose a democracy, which never actually comes to countries they invade. but when russia simply stood up to save some really. and so she is a military natal cried file. yes, there was definitely not even. i can tell you with absolute sincerity, despite the fact that i worked in the security services for 20 years, i still had an idea that the whole world and the so called, civilized world understands that russia has become a different country. that there is no ideological confrontation anymore, and i usually thought that it was the inertia of thinking and actions. that was a nice belief. and the realities are that after the collapse of the ussr, it was believed that russia would also collapse. then they wouldn't be able to pick

apart the pieces and use our resources. it was only later that this realization came to me better late than never. well now, he knows without a doubt that the west cannot be trusted. just as the west now knows, the item are uprooted, means business, and he'll stop at nothing until he gets the job done. for the very latest coverage of the presidential election to visit our website, our t. com on air and online, and we've got you covered the great, let's return to our top story now that, that announcement by new share that it's ending all military cooperation with the united states. for the very latest on this, let's cross live to r t correspondence. now live where you can get another view. the statement has.