correspondent emily sherman in moscow welcome emily how important is this matey. well russian state t.v. has been calling this a historical meeting and in some ways they may not be wrong after all for russia we can see the shifting importance of france of and of president michael as a partner today after all. germany's chancellor will be stepping down soon britain is in the throes of fracs it so force observers here say that russia is looking more and more towards france and as well has been emphasizing since the beginning of his term as president the importance of keeping dialogue open with russia and we've seen that in statements and in the rhetoric today put in kind of fact. president might call french president might call for reinstall reinstating russia's voting rights in the council of europe he also presented russia once again as a reliable partner whether it comes to european security the emphasize that it was the u.s. that left the i.n.f. treaty that arms treaty and it seems as well as it might call was almost welcoming russia into the european fold he em

well joining me for more is state of you correspondent emily sherman she's on the phone she's amidst some of those protests emily tell us what's going on where you are right now. well we're back today we saw one of the largest authorized protests by the opposition that we've seen for many years police say that 20000 people were out today independent monitors say it was closer to 50000 after that authorized rally protesters decided to go for as they say walk through the city center and the police have been arresting protesters according to media reports over 100 people have been arrested in the center of the city and police cordon to been kind of surrounding the remaining people including the press and kind of pushing people to move towards the metro station is the biggest protest that we've seen for a long time including today various performers the celebrities that came out to support the protesters tell us a bit more about what they're protesting for what are they demanding. well the main demand that this kind of almost movement has formed around is that people want the registration

emily sherman is in moscow she has been watching the meeting and it really looks as if you know emily putin an heir to juan demonstrative lee want to show unity why. well the 2 leaders do have have close relations for a while now and they were it seemed key to stress that keen to stress that today they seem very at ease with each other they have met very frequently in the last few years aired on always calls putin his dear friend and today they kind of presented a picture of friendship with putin even buying aired on an ice cream on the sidelines of the aviation show and i think in many ways that's a strategic partnership that we're seeing in defiance of the west today the 2 leaders were looking in part at fighter jets that of course against the back drop of the fact that turkey is buying from russia $400.00 missile system much to the dismay of many of turkey's nato partners so they were i think showing a picture of defiance of picture of friendship to the west and kind of yeah defiant what about syria and only because i mean these are these are 2 countries they're pursuing very diffe