let's cross straight to deal on an emily sherman who attended these protests earlier today emily greetings some 200 women or so have taken to the streets there what have they been telling you. well they said that they stand in solidarity not only with you. but also with political prisoners across which across russia women who are political prisoners in particular and what we saw today in moscow was really a very peaceful protest the woman women formed a chain they used a white ribbon which has been a sign of protest here in russia since 2011 when there were mass protests after the duma elections in the country they were carrying flowers they had put heart symbols . on their jackets to show that solidarity to show what as they say that love is stronger than fear and some of the women told me one woman said that she felt that in a way they were showing the world and showing other russians as women that these protests are peaceful. and also another woman told me that women are the givers of new life and perhaps they can give russia a new life as well. i'm curious generally from what we've see

issues that are going to stay with at the well from moscow i'm not joined by our correspondent emily sherman emily this quite strong strong words there from the russian foreign minister is there a place for constructive dialogue at all. well i think airhead what we are seeing here as you said yourself is really a tense moment between the e.u. and russia ahead of this visit by burrell we heard the kremlin spokesperson calling russian relations frozen and today we kind of saw the 2 sides clash in that press conference after their meeting and the main bone of contention at the moment seems to. me his prison sentence and the protests that happened surrounding. me and really we heard quite strong words from both sides today the russian foreign minister was essentially accusing the e.u. and other western countries of meddling in russia's affairs and of leveling hypocritical and unfounded accusations at russia when it comes to kind of police violence and so on and burrell from his side with not in so many words but essentially said that there is no rule of law in russia so those are pretty harsh ac

to the museum of the sherman in moscow there for us thank you emily meanwhile thousands of people have been arrested across row so this weekend protests against of all his imprisonment around 500 of them are being held at a detention facility outside moscow and outside facility the friends and relatives for news or correspondent yury went there and spoke with them. not. who is number 15 an alliance with this woman asks she's one of the volunteers outside of the sarkar of a detention facility at 2 hour drive from moscow these people have been standing in the freezing cold since of the early morning. they want to help as their friends and relatives people who were arrested to during the protests. some of them are waiting for their sentence some are already serving it is the shame of you that we have collected warm things this is a sweater this is a blanket because we don't know if our friends in there have anything to cover up with little see but there is subs underwear t. shirts and. just in case all of this is awful but even cried a few times my friends are in there. looking back. more

well let's bring in from moscow our correspondent emily sherman emily what's the kremlin been saying about that meeting. well the kremlin when it comes to the poisoning of viney and also these protests and his arrest has been saying that the e.u. should stop condemning what happened that they should stop meddling in russia's sovereign affairs and they've been emphasizing that the rule of law you know exists in russia and that this the decision to put an x in a venue behind bars was fair and correct and today when it comes to love or if we saw a similar line even the lover of specific today was quite a bit of what about ism what i would call what about his and he talked a lot about the protests that have been happening in russia in the sense that he said that actually the police violence that we've been seeing in the past few weeks was not so bad he compared things to the protests that happened before in the u.s. he even said that he had given burrell a video of other incidences of police violence that happened in the west kind of saying you know russian police have been.