novelli was only one of many people arrested by police in a weekend of unrest that mas the start of putin's fourth term in office. is spoke with our correspondent emily sure went in moscow earlier asking what the atmosphere was like during these protests. the atmosphere i would say was was tense from the beginning even as the demonstrators assembled on pushkin square in the center of moscow there were actually putin supporters waiting for them who basically started a shouting match with them they were shouting for putin and the demonstrators assembling there were shouting for russia without putin and were shouting against putin and soon after that the arrests started there were groups of riot police out in force basically grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans now there was some defiance among the protesters as well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembly around the pushkin monument on the on the center at the center of the square as police kept arresting them as well now police here say that three hundred

some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the country today and not that novelli has been detained what will happen to him will the rallies continue. will people still are here out on the streets and i think their their message here and not by nice messages well is that. well the motto of the protest is that he is not our czar that's the motto i had of putin's inauguration on monday he says look at putin can't rule us like a king that was his magic message in a video that he recorded and posted on you tube ahead of these protests and really the protestors here want to show that yes putin was elected with a huge majority but there are some people who are against his policies and against him and they say that they have come out to fight for their rights to be citizens as it were they want to fight for the for freedom of speech for free media and for free internet as well so you use a kitchen was elected with a massive majority and during the elections in march yet there's all these protests going on across the country today what can you tell us what's going to happe

figure election of only they've been demonstrating under the slogan putin is not designed to us now novelli him self was arrested in moscow earlier along with nearly three hundred others for breaking protest laws he goes down or for pulls. some fifteen hundred people have gathered here in central most of them are supporters of alexina volley a prominent opposition figure in russia now at the beginning of the protests we do know that there have been some scuffles between the supporters and the opponents over latina volley but so far larger view this event has been peaceful now right now the police are trying to clear out of the city center they are kind of breaking up the crowd into smaller chunks of people and and trying to disperse them one of the reasons the reason as to why they're doing this is this location for the protest has not been approved by the most school authorities the. system itself that these supporters gather here on pushkin square square well and stick closer to differ. location on saturday avenue now it's just a few thousand meters a few kilometers away from here it is a

there were when we first got down to the protest a few hours ago we got there before the novelli supporters were supposed to be arriving and what we found there was that the the the key place in the square pushkin square had already been occupied by proof putin supporters who decided that they were going to come down here and give the other side as it were now when the no valley supporters eventually arrived in considerable numbers thousands and thousands of them there was then a bit of a standoff between the pro putin and the anti putin sides that was when the police started to do their usual kind of brutal they weighed in with filing says snap squads grab protesters from the streets then pull them out bundle them into cars limits them into police wagons the latest information that we have from o.b.d. info which is an independent monitoring group is that across the country by thirteen g.m.t. six hundred people had already been detained and they'll probably be some more to come yes very we have been looking at those pictures this afternoon we have seen these protests before organized by ale

and singing slogans one of the things we have to watch for today i think is what this means for the novelli movement going forward because rewind six years to the last time ferguson was inaugurated that was the end of a very volatile period of protesting in russia and now we don't have. quite as serious a valley you can draw supporters of course but this is not a mass movement but of the most humans it's threatening bloody may have parents and i think the person for the most months has the support of most russians and the elite and that means that he is in a position where you can start. moving his domestic and international program i will see over the coming days what reasons governments for the next six years is going to look like. outbreaks following severe flooding in kenya and one hundred people have been killed and more than two hundred thousand displaced over the past two months aid workers a say they've managed to help just a quarter of the nearly fifty thousand families in need of shelter after weeks of torrential rains and travelling with one of the teams. here in the neighboring

though when dealing with me and his demonstrations sometimes i make arrests sometimes they don't but novelli is often going through this process of an administrative attention of twenty thirty days or whatever he sits inside a police cell for a while and then he comes out and the whole system repeats itself now what is the crimean going to do going forward that's what we're looking for today perhaps an indication about whether they're going to get tougher on him and we're going to have to wait further for that in the philippines the protests after the country's highest court expelled the chief justice leaders so they know she was removed in a vote by fellow judges who were acting on a government the titian seeking her dismissal so there has been critical of president with regard to urging people to stand up to what she called his office or a tyrian rule. has more from them. well it was definitely an unprecedented move by the philippine supreme court ousting one of its own magistrates and the less than the chief justice herself many who had this said i know should end as lawyers and supporter

to be called took place two days before president vladimir putin was inaugurated for a fourth term novelli was among sixteen hundred people detained by police. in italy the anti establishment five star and the far right league have made significant steps towards forming a government and agreement between the two parties would end nine weeks of political deadlock in the country after inclusive inconclusive elections in march the two groups are hostile to european union budget restrictions and have made electoral pledges which will cost billions of dollars to implement they have until sunday to report back to the president tensions are running high on the greek island of lesbos where refugee arrivals from turkey have led to significant overcrowding the more refugee camp there are some seven thousand people now living at the camp and three hundred percent capacity the number of island arrivals has surged from about fifty a day in twenty seventeen to around two hundred a day recent weeks the living conditions are deteriorating on there are often outbreaks of violence aid agencies say they're s

that organization, i should say, that was founded -- the founding president is bill novelli, many of you might know him as the ceo of aarp for many years. he is now on faculty at georgetown and founded the initiative that i'm executive director of, so i get to really learn at the feet of somebody who's done a lot of this great work. and campaign for tobacco-free kids is not just one 501(c)(3) nonprofit, it involves american heart, cancer, lung and all of the grassroots members that are part of those networks behind the anti-smoking cause. and then you have grassroots groups like americans for nonsmokers' rights bubbling up. you know, the first smoking bans happened in arizona and minnesota and then berkeley. so you see this kind of catching like wildfire around the country. meanwhile, the tobacco industry did not have a very powerful grassroots. now, they did have a lot of money. in fact, you know, i'm often asked to compare tobacco versus guns. tobacco industry dwarfs the gun industry in revenue. much more powerful. they had all the politicians who represent tobacco-growing states.