iwon't compete with alexei navalny. we'll see final stand.see our result. of course we are not professional politicians. we are professional economists. but anyway, alexei navalny asked his supporters, and he had to make them come and vote for him or if you can't vote because he was legally not in the list, but there were other possibilities to do that. so i think that we had to have more competition at every social group supporting any candidate and having the right to have very candidate and to come and vote. boris titov, we will talk economy, because that is a real interest. but before we do that, we need to talk about what vladimir putin seems to regard as the most important message in the election. and that is his message on foreign policy. a bellicose, assertive, big message to the russian people about restoring russian pride and taking on russia's enemies wherever they may be. do you support that element of let me purdon's message? that is not the message he gives to the russian people. mostly the message is for the west. and this mess

alexei navalny, the movement's leader, has long been a thorn in the government's side.ll share many of those values, i hope. but when a alexei navalny was banned from standing in this year's collections, ksenia sobchak announced that she was running instead. proponents said that she was a kremlin agent, just more reality television. —— her opponents. could that be true? could it be that ksenia sobchak is doing the kremlin's bidding? i paid a visit to her campaign headquarters to meet one of her top advisers, a woman well versed in the darker arts of russian politics. she should be. she used to work for vladimir putin himself. just to be clear, this is ksenia sobchak‘s own just to be clear, this is ksenia sobcha k‘s own campaign just to be clear, this is ksenia sobchak‘s own campaign advisers saying yes, we are plainly kremlin's game. but in russia, there is always more than one game going on. and that is exactly what ksenia sobchak says she is trying to do. if there is one thing that ksenia sobchak understands, it is the power of television. she is using her candidacy t

look at your work that's enough of the melanie i think let's talk instead you know alexei navalny is an interesting character he's currently on tour of the whole of russia telling people what really is and what he's planned people understand him they believe him and support him if we all support him he'll become president. you back then we also supported putin was see you backed the wrong person actually double but give that we've at least got one hope left alexei may god protect him if the reason well i can say my friend is that since ninety ninety one we believe that a lot of people almost how many deputies have spoken here already so what star warn your thumbtack then durant's two hundred euros well i was still learning that today rice water are going where i thought what i learned lasts for the last two years for all of us it is even less if you should believe in anyone when we make an effort we both were rich but they continue to rob us just like they always have done our lives here on sewers they keep robbing everyone who wouldn't be worth while trying something else and who we

boycott from alexei navalny.k that kept people at home? boycott from alexei navalny. do you think that kept people at home7|j think that kept people at home?” think that kept people at home?” think that kept people at home?” think that 60% means the ideas of alexei navalny have completely failed, because people went to elections and voted. as i said, it was one of the highest possibilities and the highest way that the people came, the biggest turnout in our history, in the history of presidential elections, citing his ideas and his way to promote the boycott has actually failed. in the last elections, 65% of people turned out, so it is dropping a bit, and i wonder the young people what it is that they now want to see from vladimir putin, people you know who supported him and voted for him? we wa nt supported him and voted for him? we want to see our country developing, growing, establishing new good international relations. we are expecting that the international law will not break, as it broke before from time t

faith you know but alexei navalny will be here in just a few minutes time just a few minutes more and he'll be with us you know but if in the month you're going to. get a low everyone on. earth great weather isn't it. you have to show me your home terms. you know that. by the end of the tour there were more and more signs that no bally's chances of being registered as a candidate were extremely slim he failed to draw millions of russians onto the streets which was going to force the kremlin into talks the latest polls by the levant are institute showed that despite the media blockade he would still capture two percent of the votes. this is kind of grave is not the right i live pretty much is great isn't it and. still does look good when we share a man who will. do what is wrong with your thank you grandma. the key question is. is whether people in the province's have their own political representation of days here. and whether this representation has. efficient authority to take genuine decisions yes this awful i heard a radio program about russia in which experts claimed it was vital

of judges considers it necessary to set aside the verdict of the court in cuba off and to have alexei navalny and p.r. of it sealed off to be released immediately. only a day later the bunning regained his freedom. and maisie knew it was the public prosecutor's office that had challenge the verdict and nobody's immediate arrest. record buying this was the kremlin's calculation and it's a conviction that's and i've only had virtually no real electoral support that is what the polls indicated here for the kremlin which it was important to show that's not army and the opposition had no backing up at the sociologists were wrong shoot this fellow and next day we'll vote for years. for sank you know i can be used to vote see you in and out but thank you with one of. the waves. public indignation triggered off by the verdict against me even reached the z. legal youth forum which is close to the kremlin when putin visited the forum one of the participants asked him to comment on the situation and. i will not deny that i found it strange for one of the accused who had cooperated with the investigators

in twenty seventeen opposition politician and fourteen challenger at the forthcoming elections alexei navalny chose russia day in particular the nationwide anti corruption country yours were also to speak as part of this one to thailand he's also a patriot and he too loves russia all of this is also his message a message of what his statements i believe and that is his positive attitudes that what is that we can change things in india but we can change the system the invite taking to the streets is that since i'm always on dust dust from this i think is the new approach which he represents it didn't in effort i think moscow dozens of other cities demonstrations took place in addition to the official russia day festivities younger. testers clashed with police almost everywhere. i was was it. was. i was was. i. was. i. was i. i i i. i. i i i i i. i i i i i i. was. that makes me sick to hear that here on the receiving bomb and so our civil servants who claim that our young people should not be interested in politics insidious of course they must be interested and casita thought they must got fre

there they love me and photograph me i really do try to smile but it doesn't always work for alexei navalny forty one years old born in moscow lawyer blogger and founder of the anti corruption foundation a non-governmental organization which investigates corruption and embezzlement in the highest political circles in the valley has never been a deputy and his party progress has not been officially registered since twenty eleven he's been involved in sixteen court cases and given two suspended sentences along with six short sentences yeah but. i'm fighting for a new future for my family and my children would you have the same goal you like you i shall never give up to and never go to russia will be free. i i was in the valley has been causing a stir in russian politics for seven years now in that time he has emerged from the second row of the opposition ranks to become putin's main opponent the way well he burst on to the great russian political stage in twenty eleven when he won the parliamentary election without taking parts of the speaking. strategy consisted of getting people to vote eve

which is just what alexei navalny does.s one of the kremlin's most vocal critics, but a criminal record prevents him from running for office. his young supporters repeatedly call for protests and election boycotts. russian president vladimir putin, on the other hand, is urging voters to head to the polls. the greater the turnout, the greater the legitimacy of his re-election, which many, and not just his fans, see as a foregone conclusion. >> i like being a russian citizen, living under the leadership of a strong politician named vladimir putin. >> i expect the secret service to arrest me at any moment for something i posted. >> ksenia sobchak herself says she's not running for president. her strategy is to go against everyone. she's not fighting on the front lines like navalny, but she can appear on television. putin's using her as token opposition, so he can say, look. we've got freedom of speech. >> i'm convinced that all the candidates except navalny are kremlin projects. their purpose is obviously to -- their purpose i

they may support alexei navalny ork sr subject or putin it seems the twenty eight thousand presidentiallection has at last politically galvanized russia's young people. hello i'm collecting signatures for example some. cornwall is one of the most picturesque coastal regions in britain known for its stunning seaside towns surfing and sandy beaches tourists flock here not just in the summer but all year round but because of its location currents washed up tons actual tons of plastic waste onto its shores it's not just unsightly it's devastating to the natural environment but a local environmental activist and penzance a talent cornwallis most westerly tip has managed to inspire the local economy to go plastic free. it's picturesque and wildly romantic the steep cliffs along cornwall's breathtaking coastline. cornwall's weatherbeaten location of the southwestern tip of britain is both a country's charm and its achilles' heel. the wind and currents wash up more rubbish here than anywhere else in the british arms. whenever rachel yates goes down to the beach in penn's ounce where she used to

young people who oppose letting the putin but not yet openly and actively which is just what alexei navalnydoes so he's one of the kremlin's most vocal critics but a criminal record prevents him from running for office his young supporters repeatedly call for protests and election boycotts. russian president vladimir putin on the other hand is urging voters to head to the polls the greater the turnout the greater the legitimacy of his reelection which many and not just his fans see as a foregone conclusion. i like being a russian citizen living under the leadership of a strong politician named vladimir putin would you would. i expect the secret service to arrest me at any moment for something i've posted that you. see as upsets in yourself child herself says she's not running for president a strategy is to go against everyone she's not fighting on the front lines like novell me. but she can appear on television. using her as token opposition so he can say look we've got freedom of speech the world will not solve all the slow. i'm convinced that all the candidates except the phony are crimin

opposition leader alexei navalny had been barred from running in the election he urged his supporters to stay at home despite official pressure to vote for putin. in the past few weeks the government has been doing anything it can even using its civil servants to get people to go to the polls. just. ahead of the election independent monitors said they received another alarming rise in complaints they said people had come under pressure to vote from their employers especially when it came to state owned companies. we've been seeing how people were bussed from their workplace to the polling stations on election day. that's a violation of the rules. but that seems to have little effect as putin looks forward to another six years at the helm of the country you're here . earlier i spoke to almost a correspondent emily show and she was at an election victory celebration and i asked her what the mood there was like. one well actually the new president and the old president vladimir putin has just come to the stage actually just left the stage he just made a short speech to the crowds gathere

russia's most prominent opposition figure, alexei navalny, he was barred from taking pa rt navalny, heing part in the election. and then you look at the amount of airtime that was given to president putin on russian television ahead of the election, he had far more airtime that all of the other candidates put together and all of the coverage of vladimir putin was very positive. so, you know, in that sense, no, this is not like a western election. the russian authorities have been particularly critical of the british media. do you worry about your safety at all? i have worried up till this point. as i say, walking around moscow right now, it feels pretty normal. you go into the coffeeshop, you get happy smiley serving you. and although i have noticed more anti— british sentiment on russian television, for example, i saw on russian television, for example, isawa on russian television, for example, i saw a report the other day where the reporter claimed that over the last few centuries, britain has had it infor last few centuries, britain has had it in for russia and they listed all the t

alexey valley —— alexei navalny was barred from being involved. we have sinagra number of years.ughton has made sure that everybody was banned from taking pa rt everybody was banned from taking part any meaningful way at, shape, 01’ part any meaningful way at, shape, orform, before part any meaningful way at, shape, or form, before election day, and even weeks before. —— putin. not surprising, the result. let's look 110w surprising, the result. let's look now at bloomberg, what it is calling a key eu summit. meetings going on in brussels. they are tragic, with a transition deal. it is interesting because of the spy scandal with sergei skripal and his daughter, yulia skripal, fighting with allies in hospital this fell off the radar a little. it was dominating headlines, but now it is all about the spy scenario. of course, with brexit... it is or is coming back. -- it is brexit... it is or is coming back. —— it is always coming back. the idea is, release the british idea, is to get a written promise by the eu that there would be a transition deal that would extend to 2020, that wou

a lower voter turnout could strengthen the position of kremlin critic alexei navalny even though he's not allowed to run in this election he could claim a moral victory from a low turnout. we're calling on people not to vote this procedure is no election it's only a race between putin and the candidates he's personally selected. since a victory for putin is all but a foregone conclusion some russians say they don't see any need to cast their ballots you know not photos of the decisions already been made by inverting by all means and with pleasure. i don't think it's really necessary to vote. in the end pop music and glitzy ads may not be enough to persuade everyone to go to the polls. another high level firing by the trumpet ministration former f.b.i. deputy director andrew mccabe has been dismissed the veteran official worked for the agency for over twenty years and questions are being raised over the timing of his removal. so as deputy director of the f.b.i. and room mccabe played a key role in investigations into hillary clinton's e-mail affair and alleged russian involvement in th

alexei navalny and opposition need to have banned from standing in this election claims voter turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve. yet the results from our observers show that in some regions of russia at least those where the so-called elections have already finished the turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve that's even taking into account all the pressure that took place. on the may have called on russians to boycott this election but it looks like a done deal for the man who's dominated this country for a whole generation. let's bring in emily sure one our correspondent in moscow emily you're there in the heart of the capital it looks highly unlikely that president putin will take on a fourth term so with it being an almost foregone conclusion what is this election really about. well the main goal in this election has been for the kremlin to essentially keep the turnout high they want to turn out to be high so that these vote these elections can be seen as legitimate after all this is not the first time that putin is running he's running for his fourth term

had the most high—profile opponent, alexei navalny, been able to stand, and he says it was a fraud convictionhe have done? difficult to say. as you noted in your report, the next largest party, the communist party, received i6% of the vote, so we are told navalny appeals to the younger generation, and the communists appeal to the older generation, and those forces are battling each other at the moment, so battling each other at the moment, soi battling each other at the moment, so i suspect had he been allowed to stand, he may have polled about the same but if you project that into the future, navalny‘s figures will be on the up, and that is why he wasn't allowed to. the were genuinely scared of him. that said, i think we should be aware of the idea that navalny is truly a systemic opposition figure, it's thought that somebody is promoting him out there in the russian elite. we don't know who, but the point is that frankenstein's creature can ta ke that frankenstein's creature can take ona that frankenstein's creature can take on a life of its own good vladimir putin for another six yea rs. v

been putting pressure on staff to turn out to vote and there are reports of other irregularities alexei navalny an opposition leader banned from standing in this election claims voter turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve. the results from our observers show that in some regions of russia at least those where the so-called elections have already finished the turnout is lower than in two thousand and twelve that's even taking into account all the pressure that took place. on the may have called on russians to boycott this election but it looks like a done deal for the man who's dominated this country for a whole generation. let's bring in our correspondent drags orange who's watching the election in the center of russia in the city of cars on marriage track you've been to polling stations in cars on what was the mood like there. well i'm not sure whether i would say that there's really an enthusiasm and i remember what my colleague in moscow emily sherman she said that the people that some of the people in moscow that they really love to go to the elections i couldn't say that this is

frighten us and to put other supporters off, so that others think twice before going to a rally for alexei navalnyill runs a alexei navalny‘s offers here in tomsk. she was eight when vladimir putin came to power. now 26, she thinks it is well past time for a change. so her team are helping train monitors for the election will stop xenia calls it a fa ke vote election will stop xenia calls it a fake vote in any case, and as vladimir putin's last term brought warand vladimir putin's last term brought war and sanctions, she is worried what the next might hold. translation: i want russia to continue as part of western civilisation, and not closed off behind a wall. yes, we want to be seen as equals. we want to protect our interests, but we do not want to be seen as north korea. we don't wa nt to be seen as north korea. we don't want to be isolated. that seems to be the direction the country is heading in, though. we travelled north to st petersburg to investigate claims that russia's information war is now targeting the west, too. from here, the kremlin has been accused of using the internet to manipu

there had been a call by the anticorruption activist alexei navalny to boycott this election as a sham. and some russians will have stayed home today, disillusioned with the lack of choice. but many more cast ballots. >> it is a clean election, antonina told us, and a fair one too, i have confidence in the organizers. as for oleg, why ever would not vote, he asked. a soild majority of russians gave their vote to vladimir putin because he represents stability and strej-- strength. we will now return to the kremlin for six more years, as the longest continuously serving russian leader since joseph stalin. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, moscow. >> late last night the final body was recovered from the rubble of a collapsed foot bridge at florida international university. six people were killed. manuel bojorquez is at the scene. >> a closer view of individual yof the collapse appears to show the pedestrian bridges north end buckled first. today at the site the priority is cleanup now that the vehicles and bodies of those who were killed have been recovered. the six victims include alexa durnan

opposition leader alexei navalny urged mourners to show up for a vigil in moscow.ednesday has been declared a day of national mourning. many in russia calling for an independent probe into the blaze, and they accuse authorities of a cover-up, trying to hide the extent of the disaster. reporter: this fire has done more than scorch what was once the shopping center. it stirred intense anger here over alleged negligence, corruption, and lax fire safety standards. many people here also don't believe the death count officials are giving. they think there could be more victims. >> these two are mine. we could identify my children because they suffocated. other children had only half of a head. they were here without hands or legs. reporter: when the blaze engulfed the mall, the fire alarm did not sound. investigators say it had not been operational for two weeks. as people tried to flee, they found many emergency exits blocked. there are reports children were left locked inside cinemas as staff fled. investigators also say the public address system had not been switched

the kremlin barred his most viable opponent alexei navalny from running in the election.ndependent observers say there was a lack of genuine competition. all of this comes as tensions rise dramatically with both america and europe. the british government is in a standoff with the kremlin over a poisoning of a russian double agent and his daughter. the kremlin denies it, but the british prime minister says there is no alternative conclusion but that the russian state is responsible for the attack with a military grade nerve agent. this is what the nato secretary general said today. >> the attacks in salisbury was the first use nerve agent on alliance territory. russia's response has demonstrated a clear disregard for international peace and security. we continue to call on russia to provide complete disclosure of the program to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. >> joining me now from moscow is the chair of the russian international affairs council, a think tank. and malcolm riffkin. the former british foreign secretary. welcome to you both. let me s

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opposition politician alexei navalny release this footage about him.an escort, 19 years old at the time. in london, a company run by the home secretary's rather handled the pr for the recent stock market flotation of the 0leg for the recent stock market flotation of the oleg deripaska business. i am not in the pr business, but i think when one is the immediate family of somebody in the immediate family of somebody in the top leadership position, one should be careful about what foreign professionals, what foreign clients one has. donald trump's campaign manager has worked for 0leg deripaska as well, something 0leg deripaska as well, something 0leg deripaska is not keen to talk about without an appointment. get lost, please. thank you. a tory fundraiser, the british wives of oligarchs bid big money for the experiences, like having dinner with gavin williamson, the defence secretary. "make getting involved in the art world, donating money to charity, buying shares in football clubs. these other ways that britain's cronies can become of the posh folk of l

. >> happened to many of us and these days we could see for instance that alexei navalny, the renown leader who had been working tirelessly revealing putin's corruption, he was just expelled from the list, not given the chance to run, and boris nemtsov, another great leader, he was simply shot. >> so let's talk about -- well, first and foremost president putin remains incredibly popular. >> how do you know? >> well, how do i ow from the poll sult >> but, again -- >> are you challenng that? >> i'm not challenging things that cannot be verified because if you have one restaurant in town and all other restaurants have been burned to the ground, is this restaurant popular? >> so what do the people think then? how do we know he's not popular? >> we don't know because -- when there's polling people in this country understand if somebody is calling you, a stranger, can you imagine a russian citizen, somebody who was born in the soviet union, still remembers the kgb, what was kgb and kgb is now in power being honest with a stranger telling what he or she thinks about vladimir putin? so polli

so, as steve was mentioning there, russia's key opposition leader alexei navalny was banned from runninglection, and he said to his supporters that he wa nted said to his supporters that he wanted them to boycott the election, and what is interesting is that he is very active on social media, and many young people of course are thought to have possibly not shown up thought to have possibly not shown up to vote because of record for that boycott, but there are also some young people passionate about putin and i spoke to one earlier, darius sher overfrom putin and i spoke to one earlier, darius sher over from united putin and i spoke to one earlier, darius sher overfrom united russia party. you know what i will say that you can come for example to south arabia and say you guys have to be democratic here — well you have to come to russia to be for example international observers to see how it works in russia. you as the international community should not humiliate our rights to vote for the putin that we support as president. even if you don't like his policy — we like his policy. you have

i of course mean alexei navalny. people are expected to be apathetic and not come to the polls. and getting his detractors and traitors. this is really good for him. so this is probably the main reason behind these murders. another reason, of course, is to prevent further defections. we have all been witnesses of russian defectors exposing scandals, which have cost russia dearly. so to prevent further defections of that sort among those who could bring out evidence of russian involvement, meddling, in western elections, he needs these things to show that it is impossible to hide from him, even if a person is given protection by britain. certainly police are contacting other russians in exile in great britain about their safety. vladimir putin said it will not be business as usual, and he is not planning any further constitutional reform will stop just briefly, if you could cover what you expect from his next six years? i expect the tightening of screws. he knows that the discontent is growing. his opposition, however, are marginalised, because of the state control of the media.

think of each other you should think about the people who we want to represent you let's forget alexei navalny for a second but if we take your results the result of good for you beats me and mr t. tough as well and add them together still i think that's just under five percent so is there much room for improvement here and are you hoping to improve in the near future and what can be done specifically to make sure it still higher because phil . even if it's under five percent you're not going far with that education is the most important value of my program educational russian people of telling them truth about the situation they leave in trying to make them interest on the collection between their level of life and corruption that is there in the contrie and the this is very important because now it seems they don't in just sign that there is any link they like crimea they like the situation or flower international wars and they don't see the connection of these and their patriotic feel with the poverty we have in the country but these things are connected and the only real way to make this f

. >> there is one man who might have given president but contain run for his money, alexei navalny, and anti-corruption activist who was harassed in the election runup and predictably, eventually barred from the race. president putin does have one big problem on sunday, apathy. a lot of russian voters disillusioned won't even bother to vote, jeff. >> glor: elizabeth palmer for us in moscow, thank you. it has again tonight to united airlines, another pooch problem, the third this week, a flight from newark, new jersey, to st. louis was diverted when the crew realized they had a dog in cargo that was heading to the wrong city. so they flew 500 miles off course to its intended to destination, akron ohio this happened days after a puppy died in the overhead compartment of another united flight and a german shepherd that was suppose odd go to kansas was flown to japan, se back with his family tonight. coming up next here on the "cbs evening news", he was deported five types and then accused of killing kate steinle, why is he now suing the federal government 0? it shouldn't be fleas and ticks

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there are several other candidates but his main rival alexei navalny has been barred from taking partally motivated. from moscow richard galpin reports. richard, obviously one of the key things about the presidential election is turnout, tell us about that, first. the turnout we are getting from the national election commission is 52.6% at the moment, obviously that could change. voting is continuing, still another few hours of voting to go. so, we have to wait and see if it is going to reach the number they wanted of around 70% or not. certainly, just from this pollen station, there has been a steady stream of people coming through. the expectation that vladimir putin will get his fourth term, as you say, but is that what people are saying to you, is there are a lot of enthusiasm for this fourth term for him? i think there has been quite a problem for the kremlin, they launched quite a big campaign to try to galvanise people to go out and vote, they were quite worried that there would be apathy. he has been in power since the end of 1999, there is a sense, what is the point of voting

the main opposition leader, alexei navalny, was barred from standing.of an unfair election, including counting irregularities and forced voting, as richard galpin reports. vladimir putin emerging triumphant, yet again, in front of his supporters, in moscow last night. this, following an election from which any serious opposition candidates had been excluded. and today the russian media, most of which is controlled by the kremlin, also revelling in his appointment as president for another six years. and yet, cctv footage from polling stations posted on social media here tells a different story — of blatant rigging. these women stuffing ballot boxes. there are reports of hundreds of violations during the vote. officials, though, say the violations this time were far fewer than in the last election. and mr putin is already concentrating again on the big issues of state, including the crisis with britain over the poisoning of the skripals. he is adamant the kremlin was not behind the attack. translation: it is rubbish, drivel, nonsense, to think that russia