states and in mexico he's also served as the media and relation and community relations director for the peace education fund and peace action west is a graduate in political science and international relations as well as law and study and visual arts studies at the university of california san diego and received his master's degree in international law and the protection of human rights from the university of in the now the ones axel joins us now from our studios in los angeles axel welcome. hired thank you friend you for having me on today thank you for joining us it's an honor to have you with us what's your story your personal story how did you become an act of us what brought you to this moment in time. my personal story i'm originally from mexico from northern part of mexico and so nor i was born and raised my first ten years there but i really am what do you consider a cross border child the new kind of generation that lived in bold size of the border and grew up in both sides of the border my dad's american my mom is is from mexico and i always went back and forth and i saw a lot of the issues that we're fighting for right now particularly within the latino community i saw

and senior political correspondent for r.t. who covered the elections and yon. he's an associate professor of political science at moscow state university of international relations or at crosstalk rose in effect that means you guys can jump in anytime you want i mean so i want to go to you first because you were all up all night covering the election have you had a lot of guess what was the reaction to it because we knew going into the election that united russia was going to take a hit but would nobody predicted predict predicted the kind of outcome that we're probably going to get by the end of this day was interesting because a lot of the guests we had before the preliminary results started coming in were saying this is unexpected it looks like they're going to get a lot less than they perhaps wanted and then at two am we spoke to constantine because the child who said well we made it seem like we thought we would get more birth really fifty percent more happy so united russia clearly understands that things need to change that russians are changing that they still have a lead they have a constitutional and they don't have a constitutional majority but they d