fourth term in office opinion polls give him a lead of more than sixty percent opposition leader alexina valley who has organized mass protests against corruption has been barred from running. and residents of south korea's capital seoul have been doing a double take after seeing double trouble kim jong un taking a friendly stroll down a street ahead of the olympics of course it's not a dramatic thawing of tensions between washington and pyongyang but a pair of professional lookalikes the two leaders have never met in real life those were the news headlines and back with more in thirty minutes we continue here on al-jazeera with a witness do stay with us. i don't know. if you want. to give me any. point joe. there's no there if you're getting your voicemail messages but i was going to let you know that the police have put out a press release calling for your arrest claiming you discharged a firearm. of course through a warrant so you know keep safe and talk to students choose the point. of the moment stay there but these individual will not be saved i will still be hiding on my name is clear bu

with a fourth term opinion polls give him a lead of all that sixty percent opposition leader alexina valley who organized bus protests gates corruption has be barred from reading of course you can follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com and back with board use it thirty minutes but we continue our coverage here on ars there with inside story do stay with us. is north korea playing games with the winter olympics athletes from both police set to launch and a unified flag of the opening ceremony but as the south the red carpet the north on forces will paraded in pyongyang so can the honeymoon last this is inside story. and how this is inside a story south korea's president has been trying to sell the winter games in. as the peace olympics he may have got his wish with an axe and expect to thaw with the north the took korea decided to talk of the height of tension over the north's nuclear bomb and ballistic missile development the first face to face negotiations in two years led to the north's inclusion in the winter games and now young is on the charm offensive. from the nort

to win a fourth term opinion polls give him a lead of all that sixty percent opposition leader alexina valley who organized mass protests gates corruption has been barred from running of course you can follow those stories on our website at al-jazeera dot com about with bold use it thirty minutes but we continue our coverage here on al-jazeera with inside story to stay with us. is north korea playing games with the winter olympics athletes from both polio set to last under a unified flag of the opening ceremony but as the south the red carpet the north on four paraded in pyongyang so can the honeymoon last this is inside story.

boris nemtsov was killed and this year the main challenger to president vladimir putin's rule alexina valley has been barred from even running so is russia today more of a dictatorship than a democracy and what does the sitting president and former k.g.b. spy vladimir putin what for himself and for his country with me to discuss all of this our yevgenia albats editor in chief of the new times in moscow vladimir pozner a prominent russian american journalist and former soviet union spokesman i'm glad to be occurring mirza a leading russian opposition figure and activist thank you all for joining me on upfront given there are a presidential elections around the corner i want to begin by asking whether russia whether russia these days can really be classed as a democracy a lot of people say you know a lot of it positive. partially you could say that there are some democratic killam elements today in russia but i would hesitate to call it a democracy it's got a long way to go before it becomes a democracy if it becomes a democracy so yes more than during soviet times but still not really a democ

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 because of those explosive claims by nepali and josh on the once you tube instagram to take out