not to sell alexei navalny sure but his arrest last weekend in moscow does not really fall under the category of breaking news in russia it's the fourth time live on these been arrested since calling for a boycott of a presidential election in which he has been banned from running. both his arrest and the storming of his foundation's you tube studio in mid broadcasts would tailor made moments for the meet. look i should also some of the journalists in the cut the line in the comedy show. that sound you hear is a chain saw the police playing very part in the new spectacle this particular video is made of erratic during the conversation that the hosts are having while the police is trying to break through the door of the beating of a they calling themselves journalists you're working for a politician and this is a political channel probably you're not really a journalist and this whole video falls into alex they have all these campaign strategy he knows if he goes out he will probably be arrested and the footage that you saw was done quite professionally you see two young girls looking

been clamping down on critical voices and as the opposition politician at the heart of this story alexei navalny will tell you there's nothing particularly subtle about the government's tactics no volley was arrested last weekend is you tube based channel was shut down in the middle of a broadcast he was probably banking on the attention that he gets from global news outlets international coverage along with his online following have been central to the volleys media strategy as the kremlin has steadily tighten the screws on domestic news outlets over the past few years ownership of mass media in russia has shifted almost entirely into the hands of the kremlin's allies moscow has also blocked access to v.p.n. to the virtual private networks that allowed citizens to surf. invent censorship online and a new law is in the works that would require some journalists and bloggers to register as foreign agents it's no wonder that the loudest voices in russia these days are those who call president vladimir putin a national savior our starting point this week is moscow. not to sell alexei navalny

alexey, or me, this was my position. but unfortunately alexey has another point of view. he thinks these voices cannot be transferred. nor me, nor him could win the election. that's sure. he also accepts this point of view. that's why i go there, and i don't know why he chose another way. because i think we could unite and show that we're together on this grounds, we're sharing the same values, and it doesn't matter none of us could win this time. but we will still be there showing our firm position. >> what you're talking about the other way, and those who support alexey, is a boycott. they're saying don't legitimize the election, just boycott the elections. i'd lake to play you an interview i did with the author, journalist and social commentator masha guessen. >> i think that no matter how you cut it, you legitimate a farce. he is breaking the monotony of a public space, an affront to the monopoly the kremlin has on any kind of conversation. she is trying to push it as far as she can. the fact that it's being done by arrangement with the kremlin, the fact that she is s

alexei venediktov is one of russia's most famous and well—connected journalists.in the process of making a film about her father, the former mayor of st petersburg. putin, who'd been his deputy, had agreed to an interview. so, in september, she went to see him in the kremlin. and then in the end, i said this, that i took this decision and ijust want you to know that i'm going to challenge you, and he was like silent for a second and said, "well, it's your decision, but it's also your responsibility". what do you think you meant by that? well, i don't want even to think about that, i don't think anything nice. and so, the tsar decided to accept his challenger, but not everyone was happy. behind the facade of monolithic power, different factions struggled for control. how indeed? how did the girl who spoke out against the tsar get permission to run against him? the answer to this riddle lies buried in the past, when putin worked for ksenia's father in st petersburg. or perhaps it should more accurately be titled the ‘museum of how russian democracy was poisoned at s

they are being careful not to make alexei navolny into a martyr. it is worth remembering that the assassination of boris nemtsov has to have been signed off from senior levels of the regime. what does this mean for russian policy? i believe that the priority that the leaders of this corporation attached to a strong state and suppression of pro-western opposition will translate into a continued confrontational policy toward the west, whether it is under putin or any successor. the leaders of this corporation believe their own propaganda, that the united states and its allies are bent on regime change, that the united states throws it supports -- its support for civil society and democratic values. change, thatand of course the fear that successful liberalization in the near and abroad could infect russia itself and that has been the main driver of increasing crackdown at home but it is also the main driver in russia's more aggressive foreign-policy. moreover portraying russia as , encircled by a hostile nato russia phobic by west makes it a lot easi

. >> reporter: that's what alexei navalny argues.s the country's leading opposition figure, who's been banned from running for president on what he calls trumped up criminal charges. back in 2012, navalny embraced sobchak after they were both released from jail. but today, he criticizes sobchak for ignoring his election boycott, and participating in what he calls a charade. sobchak returns the favor. >> i see a big double standard because alexei navalny wanted to take part those elections too, as you remember, and he made a really good campaign to take part in the elections.te bu me that, if he would be registered, wouldn't he legitimate putin? >> reporter: for the russian establishment, sobchak is no enreat. her liberal ideas popular. she's polling at 1.5%. she admits she has no chance, and accuses putin of stacking the deck. >> it's a casion where one pelways wins and others lose. >> reporter: so why ev part in a process that as you said yourself will end up in putin's election? the goal is to get the microphone. the goal is to be

in a race where at least one contender, opposition leader alexei navalny, has been barred from participatingosition journalist. she‘s now running for the russian presidency. but many opposition supporters say she‘s a fake candidate, running a no—hope race to boost the kremlin‘s democratic credentials. she herself admits she has no chance of winning. but take a deeper look, and her candidacy in fact reveals much about contemporary russia. gabriel gatehouse joined ksenia sobchak on the campaign trail and found a twisted tale of intrigue, power struggles and family loyalties, in a country where nothing is as simple as it first appears.

they are being careful not to -- alex enabled only into alexei navolny into a martyr.t is worth remembering that the assassination of boris nemtsov has to have been signed off from the top of the regime. i believe the party that the leaders of this cooperation i attached to a strong state and repression of western opposition, will translate into a continued confrontational policy to where the west, whether it is by vladimir putin or anyone of his successors. the leaders of this corporation really believe their own propaganda, that the united states is bent on regime change in russia. that they support civil society and democratic values, and be think it is responsible for any progress turn movements which -- pro-western movements which develop either in ukraine or russia. and of course, the fear that there is successful liberation abroad which could infect russia is else. i think it is a main driver of increasing crackdowns at home, and also of more aggressive foreign policy. pretraining -- for training russia as circled by a hostile nato, makes it easier to justify th

this time we paired sal with a contortionist named alexei golobora -- i don't know what the last name screen. part of the cirque du soleil show. you know what a contortionist is, right, guillermo? >> yeah. >> jimmy: okay. this is what happens when my cousin sal and a very flexible man turn hollywood boulevard into a little circus. >> look out, look out! >> can you watch this bag for one second, please, i just have to go to the bathroom. >> there's not a bomb in there, is it? >> no, i just have to go to the bathroom. >> i'm free. >> thank you. thank you so much for -- what happened? >> you had a body in there. >> you were supposed to watch. >> you had a body in there. >> you were supposed to watch. >> you're not supposed to have a body in there. >> i was. and now he's gone. which way did he go? >> can you help me? help me. can you help me out? can you stop taking pictures and just help me? just grab my arm and pull it. ouch, you're making it worse. >> thank you. >> all right. >> you guys want a balloon animal? want something special? come on, let's show them something special. all righ

well for more on this story let's bring in alexei more of your fees what the higher school of economics in st petersburg and joins us from moscow first thanks for talking with us what can you tell us about these reports that russian mercenaries are fighting alongside regime forces in syria. well. actually russian per military groups all russian private military companies are active in syria since the the wall the the beginning of the active phase along with the russian air forces bases the right they said. this is a way to to diminish military losses and it is a worldwide practice which is hugely. used after the big was when there a lot of man participate in big conflicts this was the case with the. american soldiers off to vietnam and russian soldiers off to afghanistan and chechnya. that have big of a quite serious military prepare a proper practice and. so they use there and that the quite a normal situation in the days was ok you say this is a normal situation and you're right of course they're worse private security companies operating in a dentist and of the united states for exam

up the economy ultimately his performance will be judged by voters in elections set for next year alexey o'brien has more. president of the republic of south africa. before becoming the new leader of south africa cyril ramaphosa was seen as the chief negotiator in the final days of jacob zuma as presidency he was elected president of the governing african national congress in december by a slim margin will have to work to unite his divided party he'll also have to repair the political and economic damage suffered under zuma and improve the party's image after years of allegations of corruption. so the reporter is a different kind of president to anything we've had before this is a modernist this is somebody he's a negotiator he's a recon ciliated as well but here's a man of a very clear determined purpose he has stuck with jacob zuma for how many years sitting by as zuma embarrassed the country embarrassed himself and that's. going along with what had happened in south africa has given the impression that. i don't think he is. but rahm opposer remains tainted by criticism over his involv

they may support alexei navalny orcs and you subtract or putin it seems the twenty eight thousand presidentialelection has at last politically galvanized russia's young people. hello i'm collecting signatures fix a new sub. 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 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 in currents wash up more rubbish here than anywhere else in the british isles. whenever rachel yates goes down to the beach in penn's ounce where she used to play as a ch

what i know he has actually just initiated the and now the justice reform that was long advocated by alexei kudrin they're well known liberal and i'm sure the person who you'll share some values with so there is all. always in a word all our ability to called in is going to be when the member of the government appears still very influential what do you think it will do me and very influential well if the person in his program is accepted as a blueprint for reform there and it's our house are you going to remember what you manage to carry out if you if you look at the polls and the latest. polls show that there is a strong demand for change in russia i think we would agree on that and even put it would agree on that but i think the way this demand for change manifests itself in this country is people saying we wait for the changes we want the authorities to make the changes to remember that famous song by a victory and soy we are waiting for the changes rather than saying we are to change and there is a fundamental difference between these two positions where you place the authority but they

the head of russia's world cup organizing committee alexei serapion told r.t. host stan collymore that the i.o.c. is decision was the right one justice prevails that's my only emotion thing that's it's only it's only just. that after we complied with every requirement that has been put forward no matter what we think about this requirement but. russia has complied and. just as has been done to us and very happy that our athletes will now complete complete with their proper uniform and with their proper fired. radio show host alan moore believes the anti doping agencies will now shift their focus from russia to their own countries. they're trying to get back on which is good side because there are a lot of things that were coming out so i think that in order to quieten things down or prepare for greater waves ahead in the sports ocean that russia needs to be brought back into the fold sort of basically they could calm the situation down a little bit right now there are dissenting voices there are people who are a little bit angry does too soon bush doesn't deser

fourth term in office opinion polls give him a lead of more than sixty percent the opposition leader alexei navalny who's organized mass protests against corruption has been barred from running elections due to be held on march the eighteenth. venezuela's opposition is deciding whether to take part in a presidential election just been set for the twenty second of april in the us mint is a blow to the opposition which had been lobbying for the vote to be held in june giving it time to choose a candidate to run against the unpopular president nicolas maduro its top two leaders and they kick up realists leopoldo lopez are barred from running thousands of people are meeting in kuala lumpur at the world urban forum to discuss how to make big city life more affordable and hong kong residents are struggling to buy a slice of one most expensive real estate markets in the world many are forced to live in illegally partitioned flats is difficult problem reports. in the summer an oven and in the winter an ice box that's how this mother describes the room she shares with her teenage daughters the sixte

know he has actually just initiated the it and now the justice reform that was long advocated by alexei kudrin the well known liberal and i'm sure the person who you'll share some values fred so there is all. always and work all hours of their lives to cauldron is not even the member of the government appears still very influential or what do you think it will do me and very influential well if the person in his program was accepted as a blueprint for reform doesn't mean it was are you going to remember what you manage to carry out if you if you look at the polls and the latest other polls show that there is a strong demand for change in russia i think we would agree on that and even put it would agree on that but i think the way this demand for change manifest itself in this country is people saying we wait for the changes we want the authorities to make the changes remember that famous song by victor and soy we are waiting for the changes rather than saying we are to change and there is a fundamental difference between these two positions where you place the authority but they replace

lauren: if msn got involved, alexei could just come out. you really want me to get out of my house now? did she understand you? connell: sometimes i feel like she's the only one who does. lauren: are alexa doesn't understand us. my daughter is scared. levi has the new way to create trendy rich genes that often cost an arm and a leg. >> lasers to create the whole spring that gives trendy jeans their warm look. in 90 seconds before it was a 20 minute labor-intensive process that requires current workers to brush the fabric with sandpaper, weird rituals and chemicals. new technology lookup the production production distribution cycle in half so that her supply with demand. deals will be made using this laser tek knowledge it by 2020. it's interesting the technology has been around for 15 years, the people still had to finish up the process. this will completely be done by lasers a machine. connell: covered a lot of ground for us. lauren: certainly did. coming up, president trump puts to rest speculation that he would not run for reelection. hi

alexey mckayman who is a deputy -- news editor at axios and john braebrenner. since i boggled your name, i will reserve judgment. picking on somebody from one of the coasts, usually ethnic, and making them the poster person of the democratic party is all business for the republicans. they did it with -- way back to some guy from the bronx back in the 40s. they did it to tip o'neill. now they're doing it after nancy pelosi. they love to get an ethnic sort of person from one of the coasts and make them the bad person. >> it's easy to paint her as the san francisco elitist. after paul ryan botched it with the $1.50 tweet. >> what was that? >> it was amazing that this woman, she was the secretary somewhere, got $1.50 extra in her paycheck because of the republican tax cuts. >> that was worth bragging about? >> i believe so. i believe the tweet since then has been removed. >> what's worse, who sounds more stupid? i don't know. >> in a lot of ways they're going to cancel each other out. what's interesting about the ryan comment is he's projected himself as this regul

russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been detained by police in moscow — and then released shortlying in the presidential election in a few weeks — and is calling for a boycott. these egyptian policemen were guarding a bank when they noticed that a child was hanging from a third floor window. one of them manages to catch the child, who was not in any way injured. shares in snap, the company behind social media app snapchat, plunged by around 8% today. that means the company lost around $1.5 billion in market value. what caused the slump? well reality television star kylie jenner tweeted that she doesn't use the social media platform anymore. you would not think that was enough to move the market value of a company by over $1 billion. but perhaps? yogita limaye is in new york. is it as simple as that? well, i don't think anybody can say with certainty that is what has happened. but she tweeted yesterday at 4.50 local time, 50 minutes after the market closed. suddenly, today, once the market opened, it has been a pretty bad day for snap. they have ended more than 6% down, but that is

alexei navalny is the most talented opposition leader in russia, and a very talented politician. trust me. to eve allne capable and learn and he has been through a lot when he was under house arrest for a year. he read so many books, and when he is in jail, i always feed him books, books, and that is great. ands extremely devoted politician. he created the whole structure over the last year, all across russia. west, histo organization existed now in the russian provinces. the people in the kremlin that it existed not just in moscow or st. petersburg, but it existed out in the provinces as well. as a result of that, thousands of people came out to the rallies there were conducted by navalny. you don't know the cities. the majority of you never heard about them. this is a very russian periphery, what we call the third russia. there is a problem of turnout. that is the biggest problem that the kremlin is preoccupied with. of course putin is going to proclaim to get whatever percent. it doesn't matter. he will be real pointed as president of the russian federation. to use the word vo

the interference actually had no interference on the outcome of the election here's a tweet from alexei kovalev he says that he's downplaying the role of the thirteen russians involved calling them underpaid journalists from failing local news outlets adding that the internet research and agency was the only place that would employ them and then chris hayes from m s n b c says that this whole discussion about whether the russian operation impacted the outcome of the election is ridiculous because it is in a deep sense unknowable and also not the point but then you have dan pfeiffer the former advisor to president barack obama he responded with this saying that in a race decided by eighty thousand votes over three states everything matted. then professor richard painter thinks that this is about the social media side of the russians a version and he adds that one thing is clear that anyone who says the russian investigation is a hoax is a fool and has no business holding federal office now social media did play quite a crucial role in this campaign according to the indictment the defense

elsewhere alexey sanchez scored his first goal for manchester united to help his new team to victory over huddersfield bournemouth victory moves them into the top ten and southampton are out of the relegation zone arlin scored a last second drop goal to beat france fifteen thirteen and paris is the twenty eight hundred six nations rugby championship kicked off on saturday and wales are off to a flying start after they crushed scotland thirty four seven in cardiff tries greg davis staffer evans and leigh halfpenny help the welsh blow the scots away and in what has become known as the cardiff curse scotland of doubt failed to win in the welsh capital since two thousand and two. to time wimbledon champion petra committed has reached her first final this season in st petersburg the wild card was made to work hard by julia shores but give it up at last her german of only seventy five or six six two to advance it in for her first twenty first career title to video will face defending champion down a bit. by nine. three time n.b.a. champion le bron james has denied reports that he's going t

claims against the thai could have come to light following an investigation by opposition leader alexei navalny last month from the social media desk welcome cause it's an annex alexina valley has cost five still in russia before tell us more about what's going on this time he's done it again i mean he really made his name even before running for president as this guy that would dig into corruption in russia make these really entertaining you tube videos on his you tube channel this particular report though seems to be attracting even more attention then his usual reports and a secret meeting between a russian oligarch and a russian deputy prime minister this was aboard a yacht and norway in twenty sixteen evolve he says that this meeting is a clear example of crime. and also alleges that information about the twenty sixteen u.s. election was exchanged on board this boat the parties involved admit hey look this meeting took place but they deny all the other charges that video has been viewed now more almost five million times on you tube it's attracting lots of attention probably becaus

alexei the most talented opposition leader in russia and he's a very talented politician, i've known him for the last 14 years, trust me, he's the one who is capable to evolve and learn and he's learned a hell of a lot when he was under house arrest for a year. he read so much books. and now he's in jail, i never passed food to him. always books, books, books. that's great, he's extremely devoted and talented politician. he created the whole structure across russia from kalingrad to vladivostok, his organization exists now in the russian provinces so all of a sudden people in the kremlin realized that dissent and opposition is not just in moscow and st. petersburg or the big cities but outin the russian provinces as well. as a result of that, thousands of people came out in the rallies conducted by navalny in vladivostok. you don't know these cities. this is a very, very russian periphery, what we call the third russia. now why? very easy. there's a problem of turnout. that's the biggest problem that the kremlin is preoccupied with. putin is going to claim to get whatever percent, it

in pairs figure skating, american husband and wife duo alexei and chris kenerim did not medal but became americans to land a quad twist at the olympics. >> a showstopper. watch this. >> beautifully done. >> reporter: they said they were skating with heavy hearts after hearing of the school shooting in florida. >> we wanted to skate for the 17 children that died in the florida shooting and today was much more than about us. our motivation was to skate for those who were lost today. >> reporter: today, american figure skater adam rippon also responded to the shooting in florida. he did that with a tweet. i got asked if competing at the olympics was the most important day in my life and the answer is no, every day is important and shouldn't be taken for granted. these shootings have to stop. sending love to those families hurting today. a lot of athletes here in pyeongchang touched by what happened there in florida. john. >> amen to that, ben tracy in pyeongchang, thanks. >>> the flu virus has already hit more than 120,000 americans this season. ahead, the results of lab tests we carried ou

what i know he has actually just initiated the and now the justice reform that was long advocated by alexei kudrin they're well known liberal and i'm sure the person who you'll share some values with so there is all. always and work all hour of the n.c. cauldron is going even the member of the government appears still very influential or what do you think it will do me a very influential well if the person in his program is accepted as a blueprint for reform there are many of our houses are going to remember what you managed to carry out if you if you look at the polls and the latest other polls show that there is a strong demand for change in russia i think you would agree on that and even put it would agree on that but i think the way this demand for change manifests itself in this country is people saying we wait for the changes we want the authorities to make the changes to remember that famous song by victory and soy we are waiting for the changes rather than saying we are to change and there is a fundamental difference between these two positions where you place the authority but they