not to sell alexei navalny sure but his arrest last weekend in moscow does not really fall under the category of breaking news in russia it's the fourth time of all these been arrests since calling for a boycott of a presidential election in which he has been banned from running. both his arrest and the storming of his foundation's you tube studio in mid broadcasts were tailor made moments for the meet. the i should also some of the it's not going to end the line in the film it's just. that sound you hear is a chain saw the police playing very part in the new spectacle this particular video is played of erratic during the conversation that the hosts are having while the police is trying to break through the door of this meeting about they calling themselves journalists you're working for a politician and this is a political channel probably you're not really a journalist and this whole video falls into alex saying of all these campaign strategy he knows if he goes out he will probably be arrested and the footage that you saw was done quite professionally you see two young girls looki

with alexei navalny affectively neutralized that clears the way for russian mainstream media outlets to focus on the job at hand. which is casting but a mere putin the president who stood up to the west during the showdown over ukraine as the savior that russia and russians meet. all day for course on how bad is everything in ukraine. i knew billy meets in the throes of got to see how bad the situation in europe can you know because of me gratian because it's explained like an appraisal. of shallum you say try to explain that russia is the only want island in the old old prices accordingly and values which will feel that lets them. defending us from these in the face there is a specific narrative that they are trying to push right now but there is this documentary about. restoring a nation a lot of strain vala in the northern part of russia good only the what is the but that is the president but the season of and the message of the story is to try to come by some sort of further lead narrative and put. ability to restore justice to bring order and to show him as this national say the

with alexei navalny affectively neutralized that clears the way for russian mainstream media outlets to focus on the job at hand. which is casting by the mere putin the president who stood up to the west during the showdown over ukraine as the savior that russia and russians. are all good for course on how bad is everything in ukraine. which of got a. bad situation. because of immigration because it's explained like in the brazen. they tried to explain that russia is the only one. old prices accordingly and venues which will feel that let's not. offend us from these in the face there is a specific narrative that they are trying to push right now. there is this. about. restoring an ancient monastery in vala in the northern part of prussia girlie the what is live for those of you who should presume that the season of the and the message of the story is to try to come by some sort of further lead narrative and. ability to restore justice to bring order and to show her as this national savior so the sort of really just sentiment that plays out here is something that the kremlin is trying

alexei navalny — the movement's leader — has long been a thorn in the kremlin's side.m all those years, we shared many values, and we are still sharing those values, i hope. but when navalny was banned from standing in this year's elections, and ksenia announced she was running instead, his supporters called her a traitor. ksenia, they said, is a kremlin agent — her campaign just more reality tv. could that be true? could it be that ksenia sobchak is doing the kremlin's bidding? i paid a visit to her campaign headquarters, to meet one of her top advisers, a woman well versed in the dark arts of russian politics. she should be, she used to work for putin himself. just to be clear, this is sobchak‘s own campaign adviser saying, "yes, we're playing the kremlin's game", but in russia, there's always more than one game going on. and that's exactly what sobchak says she's trying to do. if there's one thing ksenia understands, it's the power of television. she's using her candidacy to talk about issues that are taboo. to say this on state tv is heresy, genuinely subversive. s

the minute it was going to be announced, navalny was not going to be registered as a candidate. just to show you now by the russian law, those are trying to get registered as candidates, they have to be voted by people in a different set. 16,000 young people came out on the streets in different cities and they said we want navalny to be our candidate. so therefore they decided that they need somebody going to grab part of navalny's electoral base and they've got a woman that's extremely talented, she's smart, talented, and let's give her credit. the kind of things that she's allowed to say on channel 1 and channel 2, these propaganda channels, major tv channels that has -- that get over 90% of households all across russian time zones, they've never had the word like annexation of crimea. they've never heard that. in fact, it was the violation of the international law what happened in -- on march 18, 2014. this is important. words do have meaning. it's important that she comes out and says all this kind of things, but of course the major idea behind her -- what's the -- >> candid

. -- has been very prominent in promoting and describing the non-candidacy of alexander navalny. but it is clear to my mind that it struck a certain chord in russian domestic politics which at present is not really amounting to a major political challenge to the system, but i think there is a degree of uncertainty there and challenge the mastic to the system that we ought to be thinking about in serious ways, i don't think it is going to be a systemic change but a realignment perhaps. last but not least, my question would be to both my colleagues to spoke before me and perhaps toyou too, what do you make of this very strange presidential campaign? being marginalized but still playing a huge role as a voice for many in the young generation , and then there is the candidates. very uncomfortable question for the system of how to handle it, very uncomfortable question for the because just tr sheer presence and raising of questions in the public sphere seems to make the kremlin uncomfortable, and the same goes for the party candidate, grudinin, who seems to be pushing the boundary of

. >> reporter: that's what alexei navalny argues.s the country's leading opposition figure, who's been banned from running for president on what he calls trumped up criminal charges. back in 2012, navalny embraced sobchak after they were both released from jail. but today, he criticizes sobchak for ignoring his election boycott, and participating in what he calls a charade. sobchak returns the favor. >> i see a big double standard because alexei navalny wanted to take part those elections too, as you remember, and he made a really good campaign to take part in the elections.te bu me that, if he would be registered, wouldn't he legitimate putin? >> reporter: for the russian establishment, sobchak is no enreat. her liberal ideas popular. she's polling at 1.5%. she admits she has no chance, and accuses putin of stacking the deck. >> it's a casion where one pelways wins and others lose. >> reporter: so why ev part in a process that as you said yourself will end up in putin's election? the goal is to get the microphone. the goal is to be

in a race where at least one contender, opposition leader alexei navalny, has been barred from participatingosition journalist. she‘s now running for the russian presidency. but many opposition supporters say she‘s a fake candidate, running a no—hope race to boost the kremlin‘s democratic credentials. she herself admits she has no chance of winning. but take a deeper look, and her candidacy in fact reveals much about contemporary russia. gabriel gatehouse joined ksenia sobchak on the campaign trail and found a twisted tale of intrigue, power struggles and family loyalties, in a country where nothing is as simple as it first appears.

so they decided that they need somebody who is going to grab part of navalny's electoral base.nd they picked someone who is extremely talented, smart, and let us give her credit, the kind of things she is a lot to say on channel one and channel two, these up again the channels, get to overhannels 90% of households across the russia time zones -- they have never heard the word "annexation of crimea." they have never heard of what happened in march, 18th 2014. this is important, words have meaning. it is important. idea idearse, the major behind the candidacy, of course, is an attempt to increase the turnout in the big cities. it is as simple as that. but she is very talented, but does gifford credit, she is very talented. >> that was a tour de force. i would give our panels one minute for any, they would like to make. >> i agree with everything. [applause] host: sandy? questions? >> that was wonderful. host: please wait for the microphone, and identify yourself? >> thank you very much, for your explanation which a mostly agree with. what strikes me is your aboutence of assessmen

they may support alexei navalny orcs and you subtract or putin it seems the twenty eight thousand presidentialelection has at last politically galvanized russia's young people. hello i'm collecting signatures fix a new sub. cornwall is one of the most picturesque coastal regions in britain known for its stunning seaside towns surfing and sandy beaches tourists flock here not just in the summer but all year round but because of its location currents washed up tons actual tons of plastic waste onto its shores it's not just unsightly it's devastating to the natural environment but a local environmental activist and penzance a talent most westerly tip has managed to inspire the local economy to go plastic free. it's picturesque and wildly romantic the steep cliffs along cornwall's breathtaking coastline. cornwall's weatherbeaten location of the southwestern tip of britain is both a country's charm and its achilles' heel. the wind in currents wash up more rubbish here than anywhere else in the british isles. whenever rachel yates goes down to the beach in penn's ounce where she used to play as a ch

term in office opinion polls give him a lead of more than sixty percent the opposition leader alexei navalny who's organized mass protests against corruption has been barred from running elections due to be held on march the eighteenth. venezuela's opposition is deciding whether to take part in a presidential election just been set for the twenty second of april in the us mint is a blow to the opposition which had been lobbying for the vote to be held in june giving it time to choose a candidate to run against the unpopular president nicolas maduro its top two leaders and they kick up realists leopoldo lopez are barred from running thousands of people are meeting in kuala lumpur at the world urban forum to discuss how to make big city life more affordable and hong kong residents are struggling to buy a slice of one most expensive real estate markets in the world many are forced to live in illegally partitioned flats is difficult problem reports. in the summer an oven and in the winter an ice box that's how this mother describes the room she shares with her teenage daughters the sixteen squar

even though alexa navalny is not allowed, which is totally unfair, but in football, the best player goesch, the next one has to come into the play. so -- and that's me, and i hope that around me, i can unite people with views to show some result and to show that we're against putin and russia is not putin. there are many people who disagree with him. >> so what do you disagree with putin on politically and policy tones, where are your differences? >> well, first of all, i think that russia has to have free democratic elections. that means that everyone who wants to take part in it should be admitted. next, there should be full coverage of the campaign on the same level for the candidates, which is not now the case, and thirdly, debates with the candidates should be there. can you imagine that putin just denies debates? he says he won't take part in the debates of the candidates, so you do your job, guys, and i will stay still in kremlin. >> let me ask. you're also in favor of gay rights in a way that putin is not. does putin take these positions, social conservativism, this kind of natio

russian opposition leader alexei navalny has been detained by police in moscow — and then released shortlying in the presidential election in a few weeks — and is calling for a boycott. these egyptian policemen were guarding a bank when they noticed that a child was hanging from a third floor window. one of them manages to catch the child, who was not in any way injured. shares in snap, the company behind social media app snapchat, plunged by around 8% today. that means the company lost around $1.5 billion in market value. what caused the slump? well reality television star kylie jenner tweeted that she doesn't use the social media platform anymore. you would not think that was enough to move the market value of a company by over $1 billion. but perhaps? yogita limaye is in new york. is it as simple as that? well, i don't think anybody can say with certainty that is what has happened. but she tweeted yesterday at 4.50 local time, 50 minutes after the market closed. suddenly, today, once the market opened, it has been a pretty bad day for snap. they have ended more than 6% down, but that is

newspaper and internet research agency has been used to mount propaganda against putin's opponent, navalny and government of ukraine and his support of assad. putin deliberately used it as a geographic end point, a discoverable element of this operation so that he could soil our democratic process further. when it's linked to russia, even though some of this operation was a little bit clandestine, where u.s. identities were stolen, at the end of the day this leads back to russia, just like lots of other things have. >> it's interesting, danny, considering the connection that some of these people have in this list of people indicted that they have to the russian government, that they have to flld fl vladimir putin yet the russian government was not indicted. >> there are so many omissions in the indictment because it is so narrowly crafted and believe me -- >> along with the violation of the federal election law which you wrote on msnbc news. >> they omitted any actual counts. no actual charges of violation of federal election law, fara, feca, instead they alleged a conspiracy to defraud an

against the thai could have come to light following an investigation by 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 tho