on this, on this accomplish after the talk of the war, the french president, once again up to and t with his hawkish rhetoric over ukraine. this time insane of round operation against russia may be necessary into the final stretch. it's the last day of voting and russia's presidential elections and as the country decided as future r t is there every step of the way. so one of my favorites are great for you to join us for our special coverage here with our lovely studio in the heart of most go with the beautiful present in the back job of special action coverage will continue here. when i see and 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 plus the american presence of the territory of the

republic of asia, e. c, a legal and violate, sold the constitutional and democratic rules. pulling the plug in the chair, unexpectedly, pets, all military size with washington saying the presence of us troops on it. so l is now against the law, the live in the russian capital. you're watching r t international. i'm rachel ruble barely a day goes by right now without the french president seemingly keen to pour more fuel on the fire when it comes to potential escalation over the war. a new crane in his latest interview. emanuel micron now says a ground operation against russia may be necessary. maybe at some point, it will be necessary to carry out operations locally in order to counter russian forces. frances might is in our ability to do so. we are ready to prepare for any scenario. it would be a mistake not to do so. all right, for more on the story,

let's big now to are to use amendment is shar, who is here in the studio with me. mother seems to be something of a pattern emerging here with my crown. what she's saying now? no, those are very serious comments again by french president my call. now what's behind all of this really knows, but when you have a leader of a needle country, essentially stating the possibility of a potential direct conflict with russia. it's pretty much to call for an escalation here at the same time. it might just be old tall because in one of his latest comments, he definitely makes it unclear on where this whole situation spends to put it all night to reach the president of the republic is responsible for national defense. he makes decisions for the safety of the french people and make the decision because after 2 years of war, we systematically did what we said we weren't going to do. 2 years ago, we said that we would never send tax. we sent them on the orient 2 years ago. we

said we would never send medium range missiles this. that's what we did was we said we would never send planes. now, some are doing it. we have set too many boundaries, so to speak, in our vocabulary, and i knew we are not aggravating things either. we are not at war with russia. we just have to clearly understand that we must not allow russia to win on all the other shots. now essentially doesn't really matter what western politicians say at this point because their comments are, differ from their actions. so their philosophy here is that they're not at the war with russia, but they will keep on doing whatever it takes for ukraine to when. so send in more weapons, so we don't know, maybe he's just trying to show that france is all in it. it's friends is all in the 5 for ukrainian victory. but you know, all these empty promises of the making kids believe that the victory is on the horizon is simply not making things better for ukraine. let's take

a look. this is what we read macross statements. the fact that russia is an enemy of france is obvious, because paris is already drawn into the war and ukraine, and is taking an indirect part in this war. and judging by the president statements, frances not averse to increasing the degree of its involvement. so is there a is not caught alone in his assessment of the situation on the ground. now he was, but i suppose the rest of europe doesn't really want to be left out because here we hear from germany a dual credit. you know, so i try to get in talks every day. ukraine defends the peace of pose boats fins, romanians and norwegians. none of whom are located in the heart of europe like us, but whose countries bowed to directly on new crane or russia. we haven't taken that concern seriously in germany before, that must not happen to us again. if payton is not stopped by the ukrainians in

eastern ukraine, the will will come right to our doorstep, both to can polish friends. keep reminding us of this, a decrease in support would bring the will close to to us, and we must and want to prevent that together. now they are really making a whole scenarios on how rashaw wants to take over a year. now this comes also a mid the risk between german chancellor folds and he's administered on whether to send taurus massage to ukraine or not. officials voted down another resolution to send these weapons to crane and opposition. party leaders believe that these what, but this, the delivery of these weapons may make germany defacto upon a party to the conflict in on wednesday or that on wednesday the chancellor once again ruled outstanding torres in his file. so you frame. now, this delivery has been subjected to a heated debate between in berlin and some german parliament members, as well as the you. k, have been pressuring berlin to approve the plan. now, earlier this month, we also know that it intercepted audio was

a leak show in german defense officials discussing possible targets in russia to right. the commission also came to the conclusion that there are 2 interesting targets the bridge in the east and the ammunition depos above the originally east is hard to reach. it's a rather small target, but the tourist can do it. the emulation depos can also be hit. we need to ensure that from the very beginning there is no mention that would make us top of the conflict. might i'm exaggerating a bit. but if we tell the minister now that we plan meetings and we'll drive by call from poland and all so that no one notices that's already participation and we won't do that on monday. do you think it is possible to hope that ukraine will be able to do everything on its own? after all, it is known that there are many people there in civilian clothes who speak with an american accent. now if you're up continues in this route instead of negotiating,

there really is a high chance that this conflict will only escalate even further, leading to even more bloodshed and misery. but that's not only to ukraine, and it may even go even further than that. let's hope that's not the case. so mamma is shar thing too. well, the leader of the friendship patriot is party florian, phillip. oh, believes my crohn only uses such hawk as language to conceal his lack of actual power. and we use it to the office. good. when the crumbs says france is a power of bees, that's the only time he says the would be. what struck me and i'm on a macro and speech was precisely the absence of the would be the absence of the word negotiations, which does not appear at all. but on the contrary, a continuation of a kind of dramatize ation. used to exist as a fright defronzo in relation to the korean conflict. there is no exist angel thread in this case. so he uses dangerous woods,

explosive woods and he doesn't tell the truth. if we are under an exist angel for it. we have the right to use nuclear weapons. mccomb wants to show off his small muscles as he doesn't have many uses words that he can handle today. i'm a chrome has spoken a lot because he wants to try to compensate for he's like a fellow at another time he lied a lot was when he said he did everything, he could to prevent it and keep the peace. he mentioned the means agreements. you said the fronds in germany had done the other thing to ensure that these agreements with respect to it is not to on the country. but as the front salon wasn't bellwood time german chancellor angela medicaid said last year that they did not implemented demands agreements when they should have as the french military, who have seen 40 percent of french and tillery already go to ukraine. what they think they think is crazy for our own safety. so in fact, we have already done a lot and mcgraw and wants to do even more using weapons and money,

which we don't have any way because we are, he's in debt and i'll ami has already been reduced to 0. i've seen that in french public opinion, they will not forget about macro and said, because the french of fed up if you crane is beaten on the battlefield. analysts increasingly believe it won't just be a defeat for jeff, but also a strategic failure of the west. and that's with predictions, the blow back will be years and the costs 5. you can read all about that. and so much more about heading to our website. archie, dot com. meanwhile, the rest of the city of belgrade has come under ukrainian shilling once again, a 16 year old girl was killed in the attack. a man was also left injured. the strike, it said a residential building on fire. emergency services are currently at the scene and tackling the flames. attacks on russian regions bordering ukraine have intensified

in recent days on saturday and attempt to buy your print in forces to infiltrate the build. the rod region was for to drone footage, released by the russian defense ministry shows a group of ukrainian soldiers trying to cross into the area. moscow says key of las, around 30 soldiers, 3 tanks and a range of other vehicles. but constance selling by your printing forces comes as russia is going to, the polls is the 3rd and final day of the presidential election. and by now, all polling 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. but as it stands, the official turnout has passed 61 percent, meaning that's almost 70000000 people who have cast their ballots, and that's including votes that were made on line. so as of right now, the final day of voting is underway and all of russia's 11 time zones in the west bowling stations have only been opened a short while. compare that to the east,

where there's only a few hours left to vote. but as part of our special coverage, we have set up a studio in the heart of the russian capital with an enviable view of some of the cities like comic landmarks. from there we are bringing you updates on all the latest developments. the hey, we are downtown moscow, the heart of the russian capital here with the company behind the bait and his glorious 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 course environment food and he's been at the helm since 1999. but the other 3 candidates are also national lawmakers of let us loved avalon calls from the new people's party, a veteran, russian, and russian. businessman laid slootsky use from the liberal democratic party, and the communist nikolai had turned off who's been

a member of the state do much 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 earlier he headed down to a moscow upholding stations. the cost is unbalanced, making him only the 2nd of the full candidates who have voted sofa. 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 this literally the sanctions and restrictions of which more than 18000 have been imposed by the west against russia to date have failed. and our national economy and social policy are strengthening the world. politics of the new century can only be multi polar, were every arbitrarily small country, its 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 noticed. 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 are 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 in upholding station prevented a woman from pouring green dye into a ballot box on friday. several similar cases store 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 with the state property. now election, officials say the suspects were a piracy blackmailed 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 civilian and wounded for others according to local russian officials. and yet, despite 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. well, the us, it's great to have you. here you are the president of bongo university. you're from easy, oh, sure. you're an election absorber here. sure. is it your 1st time in russia? no, this is my 2nd time or 2nd time here. now where, what posting stations have you been observing are you, are you based in moscow or have you been in different regions? i have been in most go have visited mos on 7 folding 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? when 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 kind of them, which is never seen in the history. that's right, hold 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 con statement, i am going, you know, back to my home to share the experience. what 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 i have seen here . yeah. so that 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 had in my life. and as a score of what i am going to say is the friend to ship the browser would watch, we have research shows genuine from humble, you know, me trust phone and you know, the pin number. this is what they want to sample thrashing. so from one of i say it was so grateful you could join us for a special coverage. here with our lovely studio in the heart of moscow, with a beautiful crescent in the back, dropped a special election coverage will continue here or not to answer. meanwhile, russians living abroad aren't excluded either polling stations or open all across

the world, including in former soviet republics and central asia with kaz expand kyrgyzstan and took many stand among those countries were russians have been able to vote for people have also been gathering outside russian embassies in china, india, japan, and many other asian countries following stations will remain open until 8 pm local time. we've heard from voters and malaysia who believe it's important to have those se, to the see given the person that presidential elections have voice being a particularly significant day to me. and there is nobody in a single day since 1990 that i've missed voting in the elections. i believe that it is the honorable and worthy juicy of every citizen of russia at the federal level. so i know this is my 1st vote, the russian presidential election is a very important event for our country and even be in the malaysia. i think it is very important to take a civic stance and speak your mind. that's why i came here today and voted, i'm very glad that the russian embassy and malaysia provides this opportunity. so i

thought you were going to not oh, this election so very exciting. i am from crimea. we made a choice in 2014, in be a very happy that we are always together with russia and back in russia in the don't that square a public one local family has been marked in the event with music is the 1st time the region has taken part in a russian presidential election, which for this group was of reason to celebrate with song. and while the group taking part in the election are from a mining family with roots in the region stretching back 500 years. but they say the vote is about looking into the future. you. i might have some yacht, you've some, i mean the family have been actively involved since the very 1st minutes of joining bushes. they really loved the g at the 3 a part of the greats of russia. we have participated in various festivals and phone service that took place and russia in support of the new regions. this is probably the most i can do as a mother to force that better it sees them in my children,

you know, like i like this my 2nd year since we came here with the whole family. of course we will vote for families to grow even bigger. traditions, very important to us. in the future we hold the things will only be better. we hope a bright future is not far off. and this local strong man certainly had the pulling power, literally dragging voters to the boost. and the city of mucky wasn't because people didn't want to vote, but rather part of a special ride to the election publicity campaign. along with other localized lee, this is a historic day for the region. liberty send you this because they up, we joined this campaign to light them up the day so that people can go to the polling stations in a good movie. today is a historic day for all residents of done by us for the new territories and for russia is the hold because there has not yet been such a unifying vote today is not just assess different mode for us, but the very fast do for then overall every one of us has to make a choice. this choice is our future for our children in the clear sky above our

heads to see what does that mean that today is a significant day for us as we are choosing our future. it's such a positive atmosphere here. people are willing to go to the polls. the motions are overwhelming. well, people in russia is new regions have been casting their votes for the 1st time. washington has been casting aspersions on the whole process. 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, blue hans, don't yet separate rita, her song and crimea, are you crank? 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. however, the us hasn't always viewed russian elections in such a dark life. are to use egos down off has been looking back to a time, and washington was more than happy about who democracy was putting in the kremlin. hey, dave, it's 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 or preparing for our presidential elections. what intervention mechanisms and supporting projects for our non systematic composition is, are 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 in. 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 americans, 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 and for 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 trump campaign, right? for russian active measures to mess with our watches. was we messed with the ledger?

the funny thing, the thing is i was sent in 1994 to russia by the clinton administration to get involved in their elections. seeking what outcome of it from the other re election of boris yeltsin versus hilton inherited the shambles of the soviet union, which smarter in russia used to be in the early ninety's. he didn't do much for the country during his 1st tenure, the country. so a bloody co attempt suffered from monstrous terrorist attacks, organized crime, flourished. the economy was in ruins, and the population was stricken with ram pounds poverty. but all that didn't matter to washington for them, hilton'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 rival 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 and 0 gone 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, the 3 americans landed in russian, 3 and footprint does in the business of the most cutting edge, most market innovation of the time, flat screen tvs or so was the legend. in reality, they were political science heavy weights on emission to tip the scales in yelton's favor. the communists had to lose faces. 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 oneal alternative to the communist and 2nd, make the people say that the communist must be stopped at all costs. the us administration displayed a very little understanding of this at all costs for the the agents, what teach paid $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 songs rating out of the got to event, president clinton was ready to spare no expense. i'll check on this with the ins 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 m. s before the election. no, no, only $300000000.00. i'll check. ok. 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 sat 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 u as dominated world order. and this time, washington doesn't have the yeltsin way out for the very latest coverage of the presidential election to visit our website, r t dot com on air and online. we've got you covered the need here has announced us immediately ending on military cooperation with united

states. it comes just 2 days after and american delegation visited the west african nation for high level tasks. 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 partners and the type of partnership that kind of helped 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 yes, strongly denounces the condescending attitude, accompanied by the tribes of reprisals on the cause of the house of the american delegation. the base of the government and the new 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. the declaration of course, comes off in 4th and you dig ation and box other visits to see

a few days ago. and the delegation mission was each session by for the session and building on tvs to us with the gym. indeed is was in the statement. the agents have goals as far as saying that the us officials, i'm buying and says digits, electric protocol, and did not notify anatomy about them being the ship off to the basement stage with a rival even the agenda. adding data. besides discuss the issues of regina changed it to say and minucci cooperation between the 2 countries that according to the venue reports that they've had to reset the think, the american delegation made by assistance execute the states for american african baseball. the monday feed was unable to meet, so they had just off the minutes, she machine, the juice. i also reject the watch. it says, what are the gauge is up as feature deals made it to me is, is 0 safety single russia? and rob is low on that to po box. this is one of the governments of these. you

rejects the false allegations from the house of the americans negation which maintains that it's signed a secret agreements on uranium with the swan make republic. overall. this cynical approach usually used to discredits demon ice and justify the thrust. so again, states fails to recall the examples from the 2nd iraq war. indeed, new jerry and send the entire international community to still remember the false evidence brandished by the american secretary of state before the security council to justify the american express sent against the rock. and that's in this case, the governments of present town. john had been falsely accused of having supplies uranium too, therefore, it is in fact that even though the exportation of new sherry and uranium is public knowledge was dates. so a space is about a 1000 substitutions g at a visitor. and basically also know that the mood.