russia and dozens of observers have been monitoring the voting let's get more on this from our teams jacob riis joins us now jacob there's been a record number of observers international and independent how did they assess the process. well short of international service saving quite satisfied and happy. all the election they say that there's no real irregularities no cause is there this is something that was before the celebrations public to fools it's really the. holiday tree elections. they said and the operators used during these elections the first a true election is just yesterday take you to technology and around russia over a thousand polling stations it. has this is something they thought could be used by other countries around the world we hear this from all of those observers. a group of with a group of fifteen. systems are a good group from the many different countries italy austria and finland. and members of parliament and we visited in the morning to polling stations and we are to call these stations. i think our observations were. unanimous there was no evidence of any. problems

charges jacob riis reporting from madrid crisis strategist says saving spain could be a task easier said than done. because it's forty percent the size of germany you cannot save a country that size you cannot be able amount like you would be allowed greece or ireland or portugal spain is a big country it is one trillion euros g.d.p. per year. that's simply too big for any country or any group of countries in the european in the euro zone to bail out france and germany cannot be allowed spain so the only solution and i think that this is inevitable is for spain to exit the euro zone go back to the present devalue and start rebuilding its economy and that i think will likely happen in the next government after the hoyo who i think unfortunately is going to fail and the government after that will be left wing government and they will probably exit the eurozone and go back to the and devalue and do what has to be done because this government unfortunately the have the best of intentions and i have no doubt that they are very capable and competent but they just don't have what it takes to do

there's a rather different view from some russian observers let's get the details now from artie's jacob riis jacob what have they been saying. but you mentioned that sentiments coming from internet international observers really direct contrast to some of domestic monitors we watching the selections to be those affiliated with the opposition movement. an independent party saying about three thousand violations took place also a number of websites that we set up these elections differently from the so true election commission the candidates include this as well because it's currently running third the war movie says four thousand violations took place according to his team and they will be seeing this further in the courts also. well he is currently running seconds and he says that these elections are about it because of claims of electoral fraud claims of the ballot stuffing took place as so-called carousel voting whereby people just said no mass to particular polling stations and voter multiple amounts of times commission has a few to say that the carousel voting was in fact people to take

minister taking to the streets trying to drown out this opposition movement all right our king jacob riis live for us from central moscow thanks for that update. europe woke up this morning to headlines criticizing putin's come back to the presidential post we go live now to brussels where our correspondent tess are still you know is live with more on this so test the how is europe digesting these results. well the european press and from the very start even of the campaigning of. putin they had been very critical of the fact that he had already had two terms as president then became prime minister however in general though the believe that him winning the presidential post is a foregone conclusion and so there is there is no arguments about how lever this is how they preserve the result for example here's a french newspaper you can see the big return of put into the kremlin but down here you see there are a lot of reports of widespread fraud it's the same with this paper you see here picture of putin it says here he got about the number here is sixty five percent of the vote but they say

been marked by a growing chorus of public opinion with the election only three days away argues jacob riis takes to the streets of moscow setting for some of the biggest protest in the country's recent history to gauge the mood in the capital. that was a call a time there was a notion the russians weren't all that bullshit about politics but now that seems to have changed this year's race for the presidency has caused intrigue and i ever since finally it created and now to be running different words to be splashed about characterize it can change so fast and here are some of the most distinctive he is for public we seem willing creasing number of people take to the streets both full and against the government this marking a growing sense of civil activism rarely is this flash mob sans a powerful signal not only to what you can put in but all the russian politicians message in a sense that they help understand that the site has a break and that political law is. oh it stands for reform on the back of demonstrations president medvedev has put forward a number of electoral changes stretching

ok for now jacob riis live from moscow thank you. well on our web site r.t. dot com you can find a political opinion very latest analysis on russia's presidential election has some of what's lined up today find out how most russians would like to see change coming slowly or gradually revolutionary. also what's qualities must an ideal president possess sincerity intelligence or experience in politics. r.t. tough call. well that the spot the unprecedented it tends to ensure transparency and fairness in the election which everyone is happy with the outcome he tells fox he's fronts that lindsay of the runner up didn't take a loss well did he. absolutely not in fact coming in with nearly twenty percent of the votes he claims the election's neither fair or just blaming putin for not participating in election debates in fact claimed the state stole fifty percent above and because of this he now says he plans to take people to the streets in protest and he's also the only candidate not to officially recognize the results of this election. to be election has brought a

minister vladimir putin hoping to drown out some of this with the opposition discontent all right he's jacob riis live for us in central moscow thanks for that update. for more opinion on this now we're joined by not to use discourse he president of the european center of geo political analysis who also worked as an observer during the ballot thanks for joining us here on r t so the organization for security and cooperation in europe said that there were serious violations with this voting process the independent international observers we've spoken to say there were no irregularities that they saw what's your assessment. well. the first and foremost that's why they're independent i mean they'll send us the same defendant are not. in vain no they'll severance which are all working for the donation our bodies aces we know perfectly well that several international bodies aces or. as the seasons of observers. have told of all the polls sixty cases even before the likes of. houses so turmel survey so mason my group of independent observers from several european union countries see blooding members of