[000:00:00;00] the just behind me is the very halt of this fall country at house music festivals, christmas mall kids victory day parades, and today it was hosting a concept to celebrate. the 10th of the 3 of crime is reunification with russia, with flooding met foods and congratulating the nation on this historic date. crimea is 1st and foremost the people. they carried faith in the fatherland through the decades. they have never separated themselves from russia. and this is what allowed could, i mean to return to common families. meanwhile, the returning head of state had special praise for those who kept their

presidential bottles in region to come in under constant impact by you premium forces, which didn't stop even after the boat. and wrapped up and congratulations supply them important election. we end up hor, her name from around the world with india and china among the latest to send that back, which is a bad thing. contrast to the criticism and condemnation heard the word live to you from moscow. this is our to international i'd, they show a judge with the top stories this our account is now don in the russian presidential election. and it is vladimir burton, who will officially meet the nation for the next 6 years after securing 87 percent of the vote. my colleagues saskia taylor and the r t team and central must go takes

us through all the developments surrounding that on a day mark in a special anniversary in the countries recent history to the very welcome to all the international um 12 beautiful panoramic studio, which is of course, just outside the kremlin rules, it's from here that we have been keeping an eye on this 2020 for washing presidential election. so what do we know? 3 days of votes him old pallets, accounts counted not in my boots and has secured his victory with more than 87 percent of the boat. so he will be up the home of this vault country for the next 6 years. people across the russia today also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of

the reunification of the black sheep, and instead of of crimea with russia and a huge celebratory concept was held on the famous couple of red squad just behind me was like my boots and himself making a surprise apparent that i gave there was yeah, different but it is my heart. i agree to. oh, and congratulate you on the celebration on the unification of crimea instead of us to, for with russia. exactly 10 years ago here on red square on the same stage is i remembered that crimea is often called an unthinkable aircraft carrier. this is what led me to the idea of seeing that green me a has returned to its native harbor even though. but crimea is not only a strategically important territory. this is not only our history, our traditions, and the pride of russia because crimea is the 1st and foremost the people of the residents of the, of us couple of cry me and they are our pride through the cavities facing in the fatherland. through the decades. we have never separated themselves from russia,

and this is what allowed could, i mean, to return to our common families. thousands of people slopes to the red square to celebrate and they're celebrating is a hand for you. what exactly is the form of reason? it's not just re election is that took place just yesterday. i bought them a put in the want them to buy land slide. but also if you pay attention the, the stage behind me and the, the right thing on top of it says craig made a russia civic stop hold, because basically it's the 10 year anniversary since craig made a returned, respond that became part of the russian federation. again, lot of my food was not alone on the stage when it comes to my profile gets all the candidates and his political rivals joined him and they didn't have a chance to address the crowd as well as what they had to say. we're ship if all of us remember how actively vladimir putin has done everything to support the

aspirations of climbing and people and help them to return home. and yeah, russia and crimea is one homeland wheeler. those times where turbulent. but there was no other option. but to return home or the, we remember those happy faces in all these 10 years. and ever since we remember the sparking eyes and smiles of those who returned home, those who return to the great russia, i will never forget the sense of pride i had for my country and for my president exactly 10 years ago is this way? congratulations, no, of course it was me just a lot of supporters and everybody who were just celebrating the occasion. oh, so vitamin the confidant under is the trustees. many of them were here mingling with the crowd as well. we had a chance to, to, to some of them the other today. i most definitely celebrate 2 things. it was the 1st is the flawless and undisputed victory of vladimir putin. and the 2nd one, which is especially dear to me as i am

a crime in the 10 year anniversary of crimea. and some, i suppose, reunion with russia. this has been a most important event for both crime eons and russia as a whole. and the most important thing here is that our people have rejoined our one big family and those from crimea feel like a part of it. rushes regions demonstrate great unity. now somewhere vladimir putin. one more of those elsewhere he one less, but everywhere he's in 1st place. so society is now consolidated people from all new regions voted like that because they understand now after years of being bombed by their own country, that russia is the only force that can and will protect them. now we are here and we thing the off president we got, we got they didn't, they did process. we are here with russia. i'm in general,

i have to tell you basically getting here was a challenge in itself because central most go as being completely blocked entirely by massive crowds of people working under the sun has already said, uh, you're in most colt bucks via all the red slides as right, as they, i have to tell you because well, so many people have decided to show up here one thing, but i notice been since you left the supplementary, don't take the trouble to make one, but i want to move in maybe 25 years old. so i'm very, very young. the crowd followed the president, the generation here. i just got this crowded stuff it. oh really i'm here. we're saying though it seems hard shows the same people done. think find the live thing king on the thing and very, very, very choose to. so

a very 1st the house of most go searching, wrapped up the russian border region of belgrade was again showed by ukrainian full, says 4 people were killed and 4 others wounded in monday on monday, a lawyer and the governor says that as always, it was civilian infrastructure that was targeted with at least 10 residential houses, a damage you can see fuel cells on the screens that of to secure. and his convincing victory vitamin did meet with the 3 of the candidates who are in the running alongside him. so the 3 congratulated the president elect. i may express that they will absolutely willing and ready to contribute in any way that they can and to help address any issues that they talked about and raise during that road. campaigning, unlocked the length and breadth of this fost country. just to recap the latest on the results all bought, it's counted, it's not in my food and has secured over 87 percent of the vote. communist policy

content and apply hard ton of he spoke 1st off the page and he took 2nd place around 4.3 percent. then you can see on your screen of the self dump on costs. you came in that side. perhaps disappointing, but a new phase, not a bad showing for an incredibly young and kiddie a very vicious pass and someone to watch out for in the future. and then of course, rounding ourselves through the full place that was the otp also landed slootsky audio. i was joined in the studio by john cathartic who himself was an international observer of these elections. and he gave his take on the west, in the accusations about the lack of democracy in the vote. it seems like it was a great exercise and in democracy, i mean, 1st of all you had a turn out of something like what a 77 percent. that's extraordinary. to put it in one way at 3 capitalist

candidates and a communist candidate that came in 2nd. so in the united states, i don't have a socialist candidate to choose from. i have 2 capital as candidates who are basically the same. i can choose from one who's completely senile and the other who's basically a carnival barker that a soft oven calls expressed it. such movements uh, concerns about the on the well and ukraine. but the people who criticize the make it sound as if in the room nations on to will cracked true and people can't do that . so just to, to a penny that just, you know, put the club not pop pavement. right. but i mean, you're an american, see, you know, american politics. it is literally about the big box. it's about the lobby as a super packs. the donors. if you've got the money, you go to charles to rotten. can you ever imagine in america a true, someone who speaks against idea fox and somebody says, i think we should bomb syria occupied those oil fields. who palm yemen? what a true onto will can do that. have the opportunity to run for office in america? no, i mean the one candidate we have

a couple of candidates that are running on those types of platforms. one is cornell, west who will not make a dent in the elections and he's getting no coverage. bobby kennedy is running somewhat on a piece platform. he also is getting no publicity, he also will have a hard time even getting on the ballots in all 50 states, but even he is very unconditionally supportive of the i d f. but amongst the 2 major parties, the 2 parties that have any chance of winning. and the last candidate that really tried to counter that are the last president who really tried to book that was named john f. kennedy and he was murdered. and i really think, and i said this last night, i think that the republic died with him and we really have been run by what president and president eisenhower termed the military industrial complex. and it was some criticism of putin's election in the west re election, landslide victory,

congratulations. so also coming in from of the pockets of the world web. that's china, venezuela. nicaragua, was about john batteries just among the many nations the latest to throw in his will message about them. and putin was the indian prime minister read from one congratulations to mister vladimir, putting on his re election as the president of the russian federation. i look forward to working together to throw those trends in the time tested, special and privilege to strategic partnership between india and russia in the years to come a whole lot of country, the congratulated dog johnson airport. then you can just go on and on. really, we just heard from the indian, so i'm going to send that engine would be a who congratulated automatically within. so they've been a lot of congratulations messages on twitter, but also several phone calls people to seen. i'll talk to scott in fact uh, reach out and, and basically congratulating bother me within. there also seem to be hold the desk

. haley corporation between the 2 countries on the 1st in fact uh to wish a lot to me was the president of when it's been a few people to see if we've moved in 87 percent of the vote pollutant has completely won the war against the collective west, i believe it demonstrates the values of the russian people who are leading the way for president vladimir putin. this victory. it also mocks along road of vindication and recognition for a new russia, a great russia for a multi polar weld and for a world of balance. so elder brother vladimir putin has triumphed. these are good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024, a. congratulations from one of my food and then rush out financing on old battlefront. now, one of your all of these warm messages from across the board for well develop within this cause this vest. and there's no surprise that which is sort of size king right now, and you can really make that out from the kind of reaction that you're getting a some calling get

e will the election some calling it's repression. a some also calling get. he knew some calling you illegal, so i'm calling it far. but the point to means that what is the congratulatory more messages that are according in, from across the world for about the messages that are sort of teaching all of these messages from the west social states. now the indian to us as prime minister that is entering through more the he congratulate the ultimate put the, the relationship between india and russia has been very, very strong in the last few years as well. with india was under pressure, had had several strips coming from a from the western countries to this. ringback of cell from what's good because it just continued if bilateral relationship it's partnership essentially with moscow. now, very interesting, but the roof also in election year for india and the movie is seeking a code on the election starts some waiting april 19th to be processed. and the

results would be announced on june a possibly in the few months. so we could see that mr. food in my to congratulate on this and will the, will the congratulations to pitch and coming in from the global south are and somewhat stark contrast to what we're hearing from the west. the outcome was never in doubt. cremeans controls absolutely everything including the elections. so what's the point of them? this may have been an election, but it certainly wasn't a contest. it was stage manage. it says the election to place and what it called a highly restricted environment, such a reaction from, uh, western officials and even in western media didn't really becomes a surprise, especially after pumping so many 1000000000 so severe taxpayers, money into ukraine and into during rush us efforts and ukraine, i mean, it would have been strange if they started celebrating,

putting this real action. just if you look at some of the headlines and what they say, calling this election a sham, a fraud, you know, fake illegitimate and so on. you kind of get the edge here really quickly of the vibe around the selection. if we look at some of the official comments, i'd say they wouldn't really different much from this general angle of media coverage. this was an incredibly un democratic process. and certainly him being president of russia, it does not excuse him, of is of his talk or see, there's also been a reaction from friends. so for instance, the french foreign ministry said that russia failed to create the necessary conditions for a fair and free election. uh, the head of the european union's diplomacy is rosa barrel. he said that the election lacked fairness and openness, and he said that it quote unquote, it was backed by repression and intimidation. which is kind of interesting because it just the 2 days prior to the start of the vote,

the european parliament officially said that they were not gonna look after the selection. i guess they were not gonna pay much attention to it. but i think mister barrels, yes, the remarks they just prove that they simply impossible. i mean a for, to talk about some random tiny, exotic state somewhere in the i don't know, pacific oceans and sure you could probably ignore the presidential election there. but we're talking about the biggest country in the world with the nuclear arsenal. it's simply impossible to ignore the election of the next president to the french of the president mcroy on his extra he made some comments. now he says that he can congratulate putting on his victory because of the recent debt to offer us up opposition active as to that i'll exceed the bombing. but i think the more the most . so i'd say what you should come into and i would range these the comments actually from

a plane from disapproval to condemnation and then just plain. it's just a really strange comment that came out of last year. the president of the country says that russian just simply should not exist. i mean, how do you actually evaluate that? and imagine if, say vladimir potent made a similar con, the comment regarding lots. yeah. i don't think the reaction would be as bold, but of course there was also a comment from vladimir zalinski, the president of ukraine, who's called this election illegitimate. but he actually has raised criticism from one of the french politicians, the head over the patriots party. who said that zalinski really doesn't have a saying this because he actually canceled the presidential election in his own country, just which was supposed to take place much. the height of impudence, zalinski this morning, he allowed himself to criticize the russian presidential election while he himself had cancelled the ukrainian presidential election,

which was scheduled for march 2024 after having already cancelled the parliamentary election in his country last october. just to wrap up sort of the international reaction. i think that the, the, the fact that there's, there's, there's a different reaction over there also support rush and congratulating, put, put in right now. and those who are basically condemning this election. it just shows that there's a, it shows the bi polarity of the world, which is actually something that put him and he's allies are trying to build and it sort of shows that it already exists, which definitely intimidates people empowering the west throughout the day at all. to you, we have been speaking exclusively to those who've been keeping a close eye on the russian presidential election. we've talked to ex spots to assess, of course, the process itself, but also to discuss the results as well. of course, as the world's response to it all this to get prospective on how this non mock

event could influence both global and regional politics. this is speaking by congress, relating the people that i should for a successfully diction. coordinating, i have moved into monday and they just did voters in the last year and $1900000.00 abroad is quite a phenomenal feet. there is a sense of, of integrity and fairness, an eviction and the use of technology. i think as time goes, a whole lot of countries are going to start the, you know, deploying more technology in jamaica elections. easier to account to include a whole lot of people because people wouldn't be able to stand in line to vote. that able the other mckenna isms to participate in the democratic process. what do you make of international observers and the importance to and been part of nixon's russia. they will come to more than $56.00 countries as opposite of us into the election. because with the strong sheets that so these are be tighter sanctions as i going on against russia. russia, news,

we have this type of service. not to say that it was controlled by the states, or it was at the time sheet for whatever they'd like to call it. this is to prove that these way fed elections, these with democratic elections invest, let me bring it in the system. so me, some reaction from the west also includes them calling these russian presidential elections legitimate. when you see reaction likes that from the west, legitimizing the presidential elections in russia. what do you make of that? well, of course it is again with the argument with the observers is the way i see it. the reason why they also don't want of services in russia is because think about this situation where observers go any, say no, they're rushing it and make sense of a free hand fit. now this damages the whole image that has been created to the new western world about what russia is, that russia's this dictatorship and, and then in this situation,

that's not reality. so it will be counted to the narrative that they've been trying to paint all these years is not black. do i agree with the u. s. and some wisdom countries in that and uh, and then definitely sanctioning those completely off by display that, you know, observing is not that i don't for anybody to stop. so, and i know that those people and i hit and then they did participate in the opposite visions and good for them. and, and then i've seen this model to point out where that's where i get new for the motel that's on the list of just that list to be billed, cannot be due to is by one peasant, one powerful individual. unfortunately, in many countries, democracy has been influenced, but external. the democratic outcomes have been influenced by external forces and that is dissolved in people losing confidence, integrated ability of, of evictions. and none of this is

a tool participation. the participation of peoples of the voice of the people is very important, but we must be conscious of even if we look at. so that's because the, to the side know the way the ways decide to manipulate the elections way. the, the ways to side to manipulate out economic policy, the way they tied to manipulate outside and policy. unfortunately was in africa. we asked to be cognizant of that kind of into is, and of course as one do this pointed out the even side to undermine the elections in, in the dash you deal with the u. s. was trying to you me to make those elections listed in business. that's it's the steps the another 2 steps, the auditorium. so i would say that's in a 1st test when we're going to have pets of disturbances. but it's all power like to emphasize on is that s we have building twats to do more crosses. we

must gets into attendance as well. of building our own systems that fits look i like deals and local conditions. it must be rationalized. i've stopped it. we've been so also consider she is going to come from africa itself. now that prisons allowed them to pretend is going for another 10. what do you make all the few to a confirmation between russia and pets, africa, and lots of south africa agenda that the continuing on breaks durbin agenda. that is going to be a continuing process. yeah, africa. so i'm, is that i've been having to defend key and, and all of those programs and positions that have been taken would be implemented because as much small cooperation between africa and i showed them before and, and what we ask. yeah. wait for them is as pro fluffy, they watch to also be all the time. and then so that right able then to bring that one through 5 or so begin to do colonize lessons from the way things that i need.

and then begin to move in that way that would meet our interest as africa for faded, we are looking forward to the country nation with regards to developing a multi levels of, of a multi pulse multiple levels. and then also the continued efforts to transform multi latch organizations is very important for us. the . so let's take you to pull a now where farmers have blocks to border crossings with germany ramping up their protest against your pin invoices, agricultural policy. it comes as part of efforts to keep up pressure officials all across the country. the

aim of the protest pharma phase to make polish and you will forward to reading post cars on your cleaning and produce it is tough environmental regulations. the european commission offered some concessions last week for the demonstrators told us the fall from enough to show them from the escalating crisis, which is putting their livelihoods into a but the, it's funny funny, it was kind of funny mr. task. our prime minister, we are not interested in who started it nicely or who wants to finish it if it goes, can we live today? and in this moment, we want this to end immediately, so that no grain comes from ukraine or outside the european union to poland. the main reason we are here is to oppose the uncontrolled import of agricultural products from ukraine and against the green deal. these 2 factors together will lead to the bankruptcy of our farm, that meeting in berlin, it seems to me, was not about agriculture at all. it was rather focused on the current situation

and ukraine. he mentioned your property to go in your face go to europe and union policy. leftists mrs vander laying together with our prime minister donald task and are trying to create an oligarchy in poland. this type of form i have, i won't be able to pass it onto my children. i can't continue it because i can't beat the competition. because the french president has made a shop new turned in his approach to the conflict in ukraine. after recently suggesting the nato troops should be deployed to find the long side camp forces in mount on my car. now one's must go to initiate a ceasefire for the duration of the 2024 olympic games. i think tell them to cease fire during the olympic games the must to it. it has always been like this. it will be asked. yes. as a reminder, here, the international olympic committee slapped russian and bella was in athletes with

a number of restrictions ahead of the powers games set to take off in just as a full month from the around 40 of russian athletes may be allowed to compete. and that will be under a neutral flag that says rushes piling pins. i've been banned from taking part in the opening and closing ceremonies of the games. moscow's olympic emitter says 8 will not by called summer events. the spot or the restriction a number of french political analysts should that take on president across choose demands with those earlier. i would have to say that finally a my little rack macro has come to reason and he sees that the only way out of this conflict is negotiation and peace. unfortunately, he is very known in france as the president of on and all that means that the same time she says black in the morning, white in the evening. and i think he's again playing a double game. this is not coherent with what he's been saying. these past days, the russian bashing saying that russian was not a great power saying that france,

mr. whatever it can to stop russian from winning. and then all of a sudden he says, well, we will ask russia to go to practice to choose during these are intakes because we are that's in the spirit of the big games. this makes no sense. this is not at all aligned with what he's been saying. these past weeks inferior infuriating his own military partners. i've seen you, we have to understand the statements on the door of the circumstances or for ukraine or losing ground of being the crisis against russia and or for the to so you leave or about this fish or you presume back home is trying to find a way to just chopped in the saw or rush out and uh

a fun civil for more gaining drawled on the new crazy and those are the top stores, the ssl had to our website are to come for more news coverage and analysis. i'm a nationwide josh. i'll be back of the top of the all the latest to stay with the crime a for almost 3 centuries. it's been a strong is hold of russian culture. 10 years ago of the events that divided the peninsula is history and to before and after. it became part of russia for good the because the voice of this sort of, to me love to see the fitness, the superficial avoid the fact just here. it was more or less to about that bill

jeffers to do some with you the,