of people here young and old and this has become about more than the moscow city council elections a local election that parliament doesn't have too much power but people here at the process of told me that actually this is more symbolic than the moscow everyone will be watching moscow around the country that's what protesters here say you can hear there at the fire at me shouting against the police who are approaching and who are gathering around and they say that this is about democracy they say they want the right to vote for candidates that they want to vote for thank you give us a sense of how much support the opposition has in russia was. well it's always hard to judge how much support the opposition has across the country particularly as many of the candidates are permitted to run in elections as we see in this in this case as well and as we saw in the case of opposition politician on the scene not find me at the presidential elections but what i can tell you is that support for the ruling party united russia has been dropping just this this month a state. a state pollster found that it is shopped to a mini

of people here young and old and this has become about more than the moscow city council elections a local election that parliament doesn't have too much power but people here in the process of told me that actually this is more symbolic than moscow everyone will be watching moscow around the country that's what protesters here say you can hear there at the fire at me shouting against the police who are approaching and who are gathering around and they say that this is about democracy they say they want the right to vote for candidates. they want to vote for. w.'s anyway sure when there are a couple of hours ago if not an authorized rally in moscow city center to sports now and cycling. so when this year's tour de france after he held onto his lead through the final to stage the colombian held office closest competitors on the steep climb up to a volatile as italian intends or volley one the stage that means for not simply has to cross the finish line on the shelves of music in paris on sunday as tradition dictates that the general classification leader is not attacked on the final stage in formula one there will

the opposition candidates who were registering as independent candidates in these upcoming moscow city parliament elections that they had actually not collected enough signatures you have to collect a certain amount of signatures to be able to be registered as a candidate none of those candidates were registered the authorities said that these signatures were not valid they cited mistakes they cited false identities meanwhile the candidates themselves refused to believe that they say that the authorities consciously didn't write down the right names and put down the right names into the database when they were putting down those signatures and that that's why they haven't been registering this is about much more. then just local elections what are the protesters hoping to achieve by rallies such as this. one the good news for you i think what's notable today about the protest is that there really is a mix of people here young and old and this has become about more than the moscow see the council elections a local election that parliament doesn't have too much power but people here at the process

candidates who want to participate in elections to moscow's parliament, known as the city duma, needsome candidatesjoke, we have to break the world record before we even get to the starting line. the opposition says it's a way of dissuading them from taking part. the ruling party candidates don't have to collect signatures, by the way. ivan zhdanov, who works at alexei navalny‘s anti—corruption foundation, says it's becoming more difficult to get the signatures approved. the difficulties didn't stop there. on thursday night, the homes of five potential candidates were searched. nine were pulled in for questioning, accused of obstructing the work of the electoral commission. the moscow duma doesn't have a lot of power, but protesters wants their concerns to be heard. protesters feel ignored, but they are also fed up with the corruption. unlike these protests last sunday which were sanctioned, saturday's is not. the authorities must decide how they deal with such large—scale dissent. nataliya zotova, bbc news, moscow. the use of electric scooters has become increasingly popular in many

around $1000.00 people have rallied in central moscow demanding opposition candidates be included on ballots for september's city parliament election the protest was billed as a meeting between opposition leaders and supporters after signatures sponsoring several opposition candidates were rejected by the moscow election commission demonstrators say the commission is preventing independent candidates taking part in the queues data and president putin of trying to steal the election. i'm going to have more from london a little later in the news hour now though let's go back to the queen in doha barbara thank you we'll see you later on well there's plenty more ahead coming up on this news hour including. class for justice tens of thousands rally in sudan to mark 40 days since a violent crackdown by security forces. survivors of genocide the women still hoping to find their loved 15 years on. and why it wasn't to be for roger roger federer wimbledon the details of the final coming up in sport. but 1st u.s. immigration and customs agents are expected to raid her. in 10 u.s. cities protests have been held in philadelphia and el

independent candidates here in the city to be registered that's what this protest here is about none of the independent candidates who wanted to register for the moscow parliament elections were actually registered for them and people here say this is much bigger than moscow the whole country is looking to us and that's what some of the protesters here have told me and they say this is about our democracy we want our right to vote for the people that we want to vote for. major kremlin critic alexina vali he was the one that they call those protests he was arrested several days ago can you give us a sense of how popular is another opposition figures as well with the russian people. well i think it's it's pretty hard to say how popular they are across the country but what i can tell you is that support for the ruling party for united has been going down recent surveys in july showed that their support for united russia is actually at an all time low at just over 32 percent and. the even the party itself seems to know that because in these upcoming moscow elections all the candidates running for united russia has actually have actually decided to run as independen

eastern europe and the georgian city but to me relations between tbilisi and moscow have deteriorated further since the visit of a russian politician to the georgian parliament 3 weeks ago which as angry about the continued presence of russian troops in georgia. says that the new is ready to support georgia to withstand current challenges under simmons has more from but you me. is the last thing russia wants to see in this dispute a gathering of east european states among them georgia and the european union dealing going on a financial agreement worth $53000000.00 investment for georgia russia is continuing with its flights doesn't appear to be flinching although not amir putin has watered down in fact stopped any further sanctions being passed by the lower parliament but. the president here the also the the prime minister politicians generally don't want to up the ante in terms of any rhetoric towards russia the only person who openly really went for it was donald tusk. russia he says this is. unjust. this is russia that's your country the 1st of the 1st for the us so if. the venue for this conference is a major resort in the black sea and if democrats were

relations between tbilisi and moscow have deteriorated further since the visit of a russian politician to the georgian parliament 3 weeks ago under symonds reports from the georgian city of but to me. it's the n. you'll gathering of east european states and the e.u. russia is always irritated by such familiar images. once led the kremlin to ban all direct flights to georgia all the unfamiliar images of anti russian protests every day for more than 3 weeks in the capital tbilisi. georgia's president didn't want to talk about russia at the conference but the e.u. council president did russia recently this is the money flying to churchill unjustified. this is for russia this is that may be the case but georgia's leaders were reluctant to openly attack russia at this event that parliament's head of european integration was sent out to face questions denying claims by protesters the georgia's government had become too lenient towards russia. for a russian what do you say to that. that's why i say. that it doesn't actually require any farther with russia or is really concerned about your presence here was this conference of. georgia very western or we would like to find our

eastern europe in the georgian city of back to me relations between tbilisi in moscow have deteriorated further since the visit of a russian politician to the georgian parliament 3 weeks ago protesters angry about the continued presence of russian troops in georgia to scs is that the e.u. is ready to support georgia to withstand current challenges. this president donald trump has been hosting a social media summit at the white house trump is facing criticism for the event which includes a lineup of online personalities from across the right wing media google facebook and twitter officials are excluded from the gathering trump has accused them of bias against him and other conservatives and fisher has more now from washington d.c. so what's interesting about the site hosted by the president is probably who is there and who's not. well done from believes the right wing voices are being discriminated against online he believes that platforms such as twitter and facebook and youtube don't show many of the people who support to donald trump and carry messages supporting his policy they decided to invite a lot of these people to the white house in the last couple of

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