the shop once and does that? no, it's interesting because listening to more i'd speak. i think there are many people outside of russia who might actually cause their sentiments about flooded met boots and so he's always become a gate keeper of traditional values. so very much, very much so he talks about the family, you know, he talks about the lease and gold. and it's not necessarily about excluding people upsets and sexual orientation or religious beliefs. but it is just about a recognition that look these bodies of south just very well, but hundreds of us for those who still want to abide by them. just just keep them still kind of in play. and i just wanted to see the global south just, you know, we talked a lot about the west and how the west is going to react to this because the west is a minority. we talk about it as if it is the king, make a but it's a minority. i want to how the global south will react to the re election of blood

in the person will see the says continuation with a good partner who may feel that they can be promoted and prognostic with. well, you can look at it this way. mushroom on the black do me a boot with bosher has demonstrated to the global south, especially china, india. that it is a reliable part. but it isn't going to seize anyone's assets, but it isn't going to interfere in elections that it isn't going to teach. try them in ancient civilizations, how they should play the lives and what the values are. boshra i'm putting have made very clear your world, your civilization, your road. you decide how you live will decide how we live and you will not. we can live peacefully, the west. it doesn't want that. no, i am. i am from a minority. russia is made of a 194 different cultures. if this piece different peoples $194.00 different

peoples and they have come together, they have honestly come together, start the interval behind boot. and if these numbers hold up, this is, this is just a message you to, to the russian people. this is a message to the whole world. we believe you now cause we will stay the course, and they will be more of the say, we will continue honest, friendly relationships with those who haven't been defeated with those who haven't made themselves party to this. these conflicts and they've very well on the style that they very well understand in china, india, in latin america, it is very key for them. what brings and it is of course, for europe, that was a nightmare. i imagine that will probably get messed as a congratulations from exactly. you're talking about the big partners out based

with a very keen awareness of what it means to be a giant civilization. and you don't really appreciate being preached by countries younger than about 300. yes, but now when we talk about the west, i'm specifically about these elections. one of the reasons that many westman officials is saying that this is a false is that, that renew on 2 will candidates. but they speak from a position as if pro piece candidates in their own nations a to, to a penny. but i mean, we know american politics enough to know that it's all about the c packs the money, the low b s. the donors. i mean, i don't know about you, but i just don't get a feeling that if someone came out and said, oh, i just don't think we should bomb syria, which were the be occupying our district thing. we should keep them in yemen. i'm. i've got a couple of questions about the idea auctions in gaza, whether one of those donors would be clambering. i didn't think they would get for 10 in the political arena. it strikes me as hypocrisy. so, well,

the, i mean, there is there all sorts of arguments, you know, even for example, the united states, every election between democrats and republicans you'll, you'll vote in between the left and the right hand of the saved beast. which here in russia, you do international affairs because russia is much less involved in the business of telegraph the countries what do you do in this area? collections in, in japan or wherever else seems here. these boots in particular, of course it is about the conflict and you great. but look at it. look at it in the side wall in europe. there is recession growth. these are then there is a boy in the single digits leaving, starting to 10, marcia, arising on the huge, on see and sanctions, the rosin people of the national spirit, his real well could people finally understand what they belong to,

what the values are. and they have moved to the stop that they want those values. they want the programs that, that we have to reset the voice. you know, a vision. there is a vision for the future. we understand where we're going. can you say the same about, for the french, legitimate web web where they had gone. i'm going to just put in there because the vision point is a very good one. whenever i listen to politicians speaking in the west, it's so short term missed they. they have to do that because they won't get elected, it's what can, what can i do for you? what can i give you so that i get your vote? so the long term strategy, so of infrastructure of, of a plan going forward for those countries like i'm thinking particularly the u. k. no, it's, it's last they've been talking about decades for it for big projects that never get made the right thing can centuries. yeah, i've loved them or put me in whenever he gets no,

then not it looks like to be the president and the coming days again until the 2013 . he can continue with with, with the strategy. what ever big projects he was doing. there's a lot to be said for the the promises made are kept. but you see this is, this is what was so which easy it for vladimir put little v of a tablet at some of a lot of respect for that list. this was a very, very difficult challenge for that. tried to convince people that they could do more than glad to be able to just you very, very shortly. just a few seconds lou, look back to what i'm glad to be approved from kids of how russia didn't have enough food to feed itself. we depended on humanitarian aid from the you when from the united states, everybody remembers bushes, chicken, chicken legs that they would bring over from the united states and all of the markets. and in most google photos of the loading up. great. not enough of me. there is that was, that was huge problems in much that maybe we came in 2000 and said,

i will do this by 2015, but sure it is the world's largest weak export. as, for example, this is for a job. so people have trust in put live, what he says he will deliver on, and there is a track record to prove that she delivers on what he promises this time around. he has promised a new industrial revolution and much now you have the money. it has the money, despite this conflict, it has the will and now moves the essentially vladimir putin has the support of the people you, you mentioned in germany, in he, in great britain, was then promising you to the few months i had the few years ahead that web posting came out to publish point 2 years ahead. these are programs 20 years ahead. the populace that they use in coming out and say, you know, everything will be cool in

a couple of years. everything will be done to you, you will be prosperous and everything will be wonderful. now, he says there's a difficult pause for decades ahead. but you and i, we can do it together. that is what he said. and look at the numbers. he has one move up, the russian people, absolutely one to move me. i appreciate everything you said, but i couldn't help. well, i'm afraid. when you said, oh, just a few seconds of final state, you remind me so much of flooding methods, and i've talked to colson, and what he said was the 25 minute history of it is a huge compliment to you, of course, more of no one, but a compromise could feel that was that of the senior correspondent more i got to have showing off really the russians file. i think i'm what it means that for sure, let us and as well. yes. i know. i know this is obviously something that we were speaking about with the governor of hassle and as well. but the opinion of people beyond russia's board is, has always seems to have any significant, they've understood that identity and they've understood that their identity isn't

dependent on the was that people designate full time. but let's just one of the topics of quotes. how soon we origin was one that voted in the referendum to rejoin o joined vasa in uh, september 2022. and he just talked to, through kind of the expectations that they had on the sentiment amongst the people that this has been along the way to defend. i was of the, someone it thinking across the river, across the river with the furniture. and maybe it could mean something to someone else but to watch. i mean, so now i think the most important thing is bad. people in good conscience. we are the blandness. so they came into the following stations to do that, the thing they carry down here, but there is duties that are passed for yachting to the realization that they express as necessary for yachting to send 2 men. so please add the teachers over to the elections up to you and they elected the candidate. they put their hopes in the

end to add you to the main candidate. and so we have 4 candidates to be on our old square 3 people. but the main candidate for the people from her son is the one who made the decision. and as a result of this decision, we made our long home 3 and believe me through which was a long way to live. and for us, there's one thing people going to the polls to have their vote, but people do so because they, they want something. can you give us a sense of what's the priority perhaps with people in her song is it is an infrastructure. is it to getting, getting people back there to, to rebuild? what do you want to see know as part of the russian federation after people there of voted for the 1st time as part of this nation, people still now no one base of our communities are now the know the dates are not just empty promises. now just some of the kind of a cho or anything you could come or just trying to lower them into something. know

the things are real. that everything that has happened over this year and a half convinced people from her son from the her son, regions you have to ad. unfortunately, those and for it simply the season break, your boss purchased on the computer to the, in the human views on the other party to are trying to seize, to concrete or the land of the credit for the regional agents to fitness as always, being us to bar t rush, i, now it is just be a part of russia. that's how it's been that, you know, it always was you this and you can not do 9 days. yeah. and now people the know that the are not, well, these are not empty promises. visa card to unity is that russia has it can employ them and them in our land and over these here and they have a lot of roads have been so you have it in the run. you see the new equipment of health care equipment was acquired at this. now when he was new technology and the

opportunity is were in training using education for us to ship. now children was the travel across the great country. so you days for the to see what all the of nature old wells for that we have loop, we now they have the chance to enter any educational facilities. and now they can be free. do they have the free choice that they can adjust the for during free leave without fixed up with kids? give it a zoom, did it through the english and it was to the on when you will because the tenant street that under your trains control they can not the thing for a week and it is and they watch the t v. or they look at any other source of information for them that they are getting their brains why so they are in hearing williams, the only thing because the way you can hate, right, the words are a fran sorenson. never reality. a story is very close. once you put those things into them, he sent you a credit card. i mean,

when you mentioned you are very well come back. it is at $1112.00 here in the russian. at the top of the hill, you are watching our t introduction on our routing coverage of russian president election. 2024. we've just been here and 50 percent or so of the votes have been content. it looks like an, an o over whelming victory for the incumbent leader flooded. we were at put notes, delve into the realm of vacations, all of that. the russian president seemingly taking his 5th term until 2030. he will be taking charge of the world's largest country at uptown, the bulk of host of the show world is a part of political commentator at george's atlanta. welcome. very big figures bigger than you expected though. yes, bigger than i expected, but i'm gonna disagree a little bit better than what i've got sieve here now who was here just

a few minutes ago and i think russia not only drives on a diversity reaches the typical uh, explanation that many of russians would put forward, i think right now russia is also thriving on its own sense of agency. i don't take it as a protest both. i take it as a self actualization of both because over the last couple of years, in the many years before that, russia had to, you know, come to terms with what it is as a country. what a sense for how it wants to develop. but values who believes to be its own and what values it does not believe in. and i think what we seen this vote both in the turn out and the level of support for large and i put in as well as for other candidates, demonstrates that the russians that actually, you know, taking destiny into that own hands. i know it sounds pathetic, but for this country with its very strong, paternalistic collective, solid,

passive political identifications. because we, we have lots of people who like the state to take care of them. i think it is a very important development that people are coming to the polling stations and they're expressing, you know, that own preferences. and by doing so true, they're also drawing boundaries with the but the west or approving of a state that do it's red line in relation to with, with the west. and i think it's very important to keep in mind that every nation, either we know that from political science with no that's from collect to psychology that every nation has its own sort of basic needs just like individuals, nations also have it, and one of them is special dignity, and i think those figures that we're seeing coming up demonstrate that the russians are no longer ashamed or shy to claim the national dignity. it's not about,

you know, pushing something on your brain or the rest of the world. it's not about spreading your ideology. but it's about, you know, being yourself and, you know, taking pride in being yourself. i mean, it definitely seems that the events of the last 2 years have transformed russian society exactly in the way that you'll say they have also had global ramifications . and for example, the wild youth for him on the black sea coast, read it a testament to that completely on to touch by the headlines that they read. and the rhetoric that we have from western politicians, 20000 people, descended from, you know, different races, different nationalities, coming to this pace. i do want to see, i mean, looking forward. now, do you think that's pearson's re election? is reassuring to it's kind of big time partners might more i was talking about india and china that the calls that russia has set. let me talk about multiplier tea especially, but it's here to stay a well, i was asked that question

a couple of days ago. and he said that he doesn't see himself as necessarily a world leader in charge of deciding, you know, the global fate. he said that i'm just doing the job and fulfilling my duty before the russian people. but he recognized that this in and of itself may seem reassuring for other countries. i've seen you some very colorful language. he said that the, the west is uh, sort of being used to taking advantage of other people. so sidelining their, their interest, our core interest and he said that the ball of the web, ours center find that may also encourage other nations to stand up for that own national interest and for who they are. ultimately, it's not about, you know, leading the world to some unknown destination. it's about being clear what you need for your development, using your own resources in a fair way and dealing with others on that, on an equal basis. not as

a sort of preacher to, you know, some pupils but rather on the, on an equal basis. and you know, that may have, or if occasions for the west itself because i think many people in the west, the tired of the kind of politics that the, they encounter one that own basic interest. i'm not considered one, it's all about abstract ideas of some undefined to leads rather than you know, material, things that matter to all of us. you know how hospitals around, you know, how schools around whether you have normal public transportation, whether, you know, the government takes care of the, you know, public services, etc. i think those are the most important things. and those are, you know, big issues, the ultimate, the people vote on in every country as well. i mean, it, definitely i, i do want to just talk about this potential of the western reaction. i understand from so many people that i've spoken to a verse national that you say that has become large to your relevant to them. whether or not the west approves. that said that the west is obviously when i talk

specifically about the under saxons in the g 7 they are and you cannot make fools and they can sometimes make life a bit difficult, a bit inconvenient. do you anticipate some kind of blow back to this? and, and really what would be best thinking behind it, would it be just to try and punish russian with most sanctions, which we know have naturally failed. would it be to try and accelerate some kind of internal divisions and a toppling of flooding my pollutant from within because that's really that's what the code is ultimately. no. well i think on the practical basis uh, the arson, the whole sanctions is already exhausted. the, there is not much they can do at this point and in terms of their influence, you know, political diplomatic influence. it's also very limited now because we're now over the last couple of years. many countries have had to make that choice of whether

they stand for for themselves and continue dealing with the restaurant or whether they sort of submit to the western will. uh, i think i, i do think that the western reaction at this point is largely irrelevant. but it is ultimately, i mean, it's irrelevant for russia, but it's not irrelevant for the was because there was still positions itself has this, you know, sort of big enough progress for the rest of the world. and the cynicism with which they react to, you know, democratic abuse in their own countries or within the sphere of their own sphere of influence and how they use actually very deep democratic ideas for blatant political manipulation that's not going uh when then, many science in either developing world, or even among that own population because of the end of the world, you know, democracy is a good idea. it's a, you know, it's important to make people little only feel or believe that they are related to

the running of the country, but actually feel it in the bones to motivate them by this sense of agency. but the way you do that is not by sort of transmuting something from a high posted. the way you do that is by, you know, trying to energize your own political base. and i think for everybody, it's pretty evident to see that whatever the united states preaches or whatever the west preaches for, for the rest of us, they do not really practice at home. terrific. all the things coming in and giving us your view on that set to close on the book, a hosted issue where it's a part on our team in turn dashed. all right, so we have our correspondence doses around the numerous candidates had quarters disappointed. i would say at headquarters at this stage that particularly at it might view the communist party at today who seemed to their kind of it seems to

have had a less than stellar at performance. donal course or hayes there. don't know what's the, what's the sense there? what's about mr as well, i'm here at the election headquarters of the central committee for the russian communist party. and at this point, uh, most people have already actually filed out of here. but there was a press conference that was held after about 50 percent of the votes were counted and there wasn't much said actually about whether they were disappointed or happy about the results or about the results at all. it was mostly about the program that the parties been putting forward in these elections that goes over essentially the main points being a progressive income tax, something that russia doesn't have right now. nationalization of the countries mineral resources, piper, investment into heavy industry and agriculture, raising the re, uh the minimum wage and lowering the retirement age. these are just some of the things that were discussed at this press conference and based on what i've seen

here, actually people haven't really seen that disappointed. it seems kind of like the communist party as long had its position is number 2, whether that's a 20 percent, whether that's at 5 percent. the communist party seems to be content with having its position as 2nd. of course we are, as we're looking at the statistics as they are now with over half of the votes counted, the communist party is still in 2nd place, although the new people's party is in a very close 3rd. and another thing that points to, i would say, the sort of lack of disappointment in the communist party is that the candidate, nikolai, he thought of also commented on the results so far. he says that he's expecting a decent result for the communist party. and so he seems to be optimistic even though seeing that so far the communist party is got garnered under 5 percent, just under 5 percent with you know, the new people's party coming close behind. and this is, it's important understand,

you know, nichol. i hardly thought of the current communist party candidate in the election. it's not the 1st time that he's been running in the russian presidential elections the law last time. and the only other time he was the candidate for the party was in 2004, where he also ran against the vladimir put in the. but at that point, the communist party again came in 2nd place. but it had 13 percent of the vote. and there had been other times of special ed, especially at the local levels and local elections as well. the communist party gets much more than 5 percent of the vote. so i will based on what i've seen so far when i say that the communist party is disappointed. no, because for them they still see that they're in 2nd place. but i would say that the situation has most definitely changed because i mean, where the votes are still being counted. and it's very possible that the new people's party, which is trailing really close by and the communist party could come in 2nd at the last moment. yeah,

definitely solves at the new people hot on the heels of the communist, who probably it'd be hoping for a kind of traditional 2nd place runner up. i mean, she, you'll the your, it doesn't cope's election headquarters? i would imagine. i mean, look, it's not about showing for a lot of stuff, doesn't cost incredibly young. no real political experience. a fresh space came on to the scene headed up this new policy. i'll give it a spin on look. he's already at the moment and thought place. absolutely, starsky and it's fascinating to listen to discussions. morag looks on a new and unit talking about a document proving it's important that we remember about him or prove this amount of his time. he was born in the soviet union. he came through the, uh, the russian secret service if you like me. so an exceptionally soviet background if you like, and come with the or come with the amount of the russian people are spoken. they

know who they want in charge of rush you and this time of real adversity put in the background. you've got older people at different leaders. and this gentleman here tonight is certainly looking like one of those people a new people's party. you don't remember the demographic of the people who are voting for about a repeat of the communist party. and many of them would be older people, maybe certainly, and they're 40. so would have a one tow in the soviet union and would have this affection as, as mentioned earlier for the soviet cheap with the new people's party to meet talking to them tonight talking to the leader of the party. and himself, who gave me a thumbs up a moments ago as you walk by. and you get a sense that there's a new feeling and will show that this new burgeoning russian middle class people are, aren't afraid any more to say look, we want good education, good transport. we can in some ways i do, or if i think these sanctions, which the west has a, in a boomerang sensor deployed again,

associates and they have come back to damage the german economy. the old engine of european union that they've damaged to the potential of your x amount of fracturing basis and see with the conflict and ukraine. and the reality here is that it seems to be that this very healthy environment now in russia took me with the people's party in particular, this young lead or 4th year old man, 20 years in business. and it just, it feels to me like this is the beginning of a long career. i think we're going to see this man again in the future. it's a fascinating type ship. thanks so much shit. less cross to steve sweeney. steve's at the headquarters all the l. d, p r at party. steve lynn at slootsky. it seems to me today of the end of voting. he's having a party very much in limbo as ask you was saying earlier or, you know, it's, it was make our bread time really cut. they make serious inroads into and maybe surpass the,

the communist into 2nd place and get those ideas what he was fighting for, you know, just to point out greater cooperation to asian countries at considering the west. it's fred tighter legislation in foreign agents. right wing stuff. but be in the, in the past, it, it really did. it had home with a lot of people today or over the past 3 days. doesn't seem so know. and certainly the initial sense of how to put the beginning of this evening seems to have ways we were the mood who was boyens updates or even optimistic in the early hours as, as we came here. but now that those smiles are faded. there's a sense of despondency, a sense of despair, this results. uh that came out of this, seeing the policy pulling just above a 3 percent, 3 point one percent or so we're having a signal to squeeze doubting to falls place. now the, the oversee,

the people pouring over why that's happened. why that's the case id. let's remember that this is the 1st presidential election since the uh, the covers my take and the, the juvenile sky died and slootsky took over the leadership soon offering a 2022. that's been of course, is huge bugs for flooded, made food to the and then this an extra dynamic, this new dynamic is the votes for the new peoples policy. so cool, so be some a reflection on that. some reflection on the come pay. this looks good idea, said that he was happy with how we went to what he said, that the campaign was very positive. and he said that the voting as well was very transpiring, very 5 and very open. now he's a seasons politician, he's been around a very long time. he was elected to the state duma in 1999 in 2022 it's. he was positive. the russian team, the russian negotiating team in the initial weeks off to the special military

operation. so he's, of course, he's very realistic. he himself said that he didn't dream of be taking vladimir putin. he described him as the world's most influential politician. the main thing for him is a sense of russian unity. he's spoken about when russian was facing difficult times, including the conflict and ukraine, the people really come together. and he said that, that's something certainly that he said. and he also spoke about the uh, the attempts to disrupt the election. the attacks in belgrade and attempts to disrupt voting in some parts of the country and some of these posting stations. and he said, i have no impact with and it worked to to the russian people from voting. so of course again, there is a sense of just bear with waiting for slootsky to return from the central electro commission where he's being headed off the just before the initial result.