h0 or arrested in a pushkin square in moscow. ., . , or arrested in a pushkin square in moscow. ., .,'t aware — moscow. no tammy many people who aren't aware of— moscow. no tammy many people who aren't aware of yulia's _ moscow. no tammy many people who aren't aware of yulia's rice _ moscow. no tammy many people who aren't aware of yulia's rice in - moscow. no tammy many people who aren't aware of yulia's rice in the - aren't aware of yulia's rice in the political scene, she has been speaking up more and more? she had an unfortunate _ speaking up more and more? she had an unfortunate platform _ speaking up more and more? she had an unfortunate platform to _ speaking up more and more? she had an unfortunate platform to speak- an unfortunate platform to speak from on many occasions when her husband had been put into detention. she was going to keep the fight on, she was telling the people not to be afraid and to keep protesting. there has been encouragement and rumours that she might replace navalny if he is jailed for a long time, so far, those rumours have not been substantiated. she

i'm right on pushkin square.crowd but the protest does a stretch on along the boulevard. it stretches through the cars because drivers are going past through, the roads are closed, and lots of drivers have been tooting their horns and getting cheered back from the crowd so there's a fair amount of solidarity with the protesters on the square and people have been crammed onto the pavement in front of me. they have been shouting "freedom for alexei navalny", they have been shouting "let him go, let him out of prison" and a chance against vladimir putin. 0ne prison" and a chance against vladimir putin. one of the cries is" putin is a thief". there is a diverse crowd in terms of age, a lot of young people and students but also older people, an older woman and her daughter had come. i said, why are you here? they said through theirfacejust from a why are you here? they said through their face just from a walk —— just for a walk, but they had obviously come to take part in the protest. they were worried about alexei na

well essentially these special police forces they have managed to clear out the push of the pushkin's guys square which is right in the heart of moscow behind me you can see where the line of policemen of wall in full riot gear special forces they are right now several people quite a number of people have been detained as of the crowds basically they've refused to disperse so in a certain point we saw a standoff between the police and the protesters when protesters were trying to push against a law you know of a policeman so they had to break up essentially they had to break up the crowds the crowds who are probably protesting here in the center of the russian capital now some people have been the injured here we saw at least one woman with no blood on her head and you can see behind me police excuse me ambulance workers and doctors medics they have been able to arrive here and they in fact of this woman this doctor she came from the pushkin square so possibly quite likely treating somebody injured in the course of the scuffles and the clashes now when it comes to the police response

has been on the move all day like last weekend when they were allowed to gather in one school at pushkin square. pushkin square no essentially they have been on the move so we'll see how long this protest will go along because this was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the protest but the police they haven't allowed that to happen just yet so we'll have to see whether or not this will be the end of today's protest. artie's a ghost town of saying across this country wide protests for us today thank you. now protesters have taken to the streets across russia as we were mentioning a lot of us stuck in the country as far east there were more than 70 arrests at the event otherwise pass without incident in other cities the ballots have had lower attendance and for example only around 50 people gathered although temperatures of minus $42.00 degrees celsius have had something to do with that. so how did the program flying taxis have been the stuff of fantasy until now i'll take to the skies and with a prototype and bring you other stories after this break. join me every thursday on the alec s

but thousands came to pushkin square to support the kremlin�*s fiercest critic, alexei navalny.dom to navalny," they cried. and, "russia without putin." on her way to the protest, mr navalny�*s wife, yulia, was detained by police. so were hundreds of others for taking part in what the authorities called an unsanctioned gathering. for years, the russian authorities made out that alexei navalny had minimal support across the country, that he was in no way a threat to them, but these scenes of riot police and detentions suggest the kremlin is more worried than they've been letting on. in a direct challenge to vladimir putin, whom he accuses of ordering the nerve agent attack on him, alexei navalny returned to russia last weekend and was arrested for an alleged parole violation. russia isn't investigating his poisoning, it's investigating him. the kremlin denies any involvement in the attack. there were pro—navalny rallies across russia today. things heated up in vladivostok. in yakutsk, it was —50, but there were protests here too. but the kremlin rarely gives in to pressure, espec

these are live pictures on the edge of pushkin square in central moscow. a significant turnout. been respectable even in cities in the coldest parts of russia. khabarovsk is the region which had been holding protests of its own for some time now because of the detention of its popular local governor by moscow and those protests were quite extensive early on before christmas. 0bviously protests were quite extensive early on before christmas. obviously we are going to try and get sarah back up. what's your impression of the mood of the crowd at the moment? it's pretty calm at the moment, pretty determined. there is a mixed crowd. it's a bit warmer today than it has been, it was —25 a few years ago —— a few days ago and now it is zero. protesters are filling up the pavement on either side of the boulevard here so it's quite a significant turnout. biggerthan significant turnout. bigger than anything significant turnout. biggerthan anything i've seen here for a long time. many of them are supporters of alexei navalny but many of them are just people who are fed up and see what has ha

and it started very small in pushkin square. that's about 500 yards behind me, at this point.because this crowd just keeps getting larger. we are about two hours into it, at this point. so far, it's -- there have been arrests. we have seen reports of maybe up to 400. last i checked, thrown in the back of police wagons, this afternoon. and -- but so far, people coming from that direction, from pushkin square, have told us as the crowd continues to grow, the police, for the moment, are generally letting them stay there. but, in just the past few minutes, right before we came on air here, we saw national-guard vehicles actually i think i see some more coming in the direction of pushkin square. some riot officers are starting to line the streets where we are, now. and still, more and more protestors continue to walk towards the square. we have seen the official count is about 4,000 people. it is certainly much higher than that. i believe there's some independent counts, reuters reporting about 10,000 behind me and again, like i said, more people just keep coming and there is no si

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government officials say at least 4000 people gathered in moscow as pushkin's guy square. independent observers put that number at more than 10 times that. police have detained hundreds of participants at the un sanctioned demonstration. but serious including prominent supporters of alexina on the like his aide. through the jailed opposition leader called for the demonstrations after he was arrested at a moscow airport and quickly sentenced to 30 days in jail. most organizers didn't apply for permits expecting they wouldn't be granted and ahead of the protest authorities warn security forces would be deployed citing concerns about the covert pandemic. going is out there i mean you know refrain from participating i have to warn that long foresman agencies will ensure that the necessary order is kept in the city. but. more than 1000 people have been detained throughout the country as part of the largest opposition action in years seen as a test of strength and alexina vollies battle with the kremlin. well moscow correspondent emily show one is in central moscow emily explain

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has been on the move all day was unlike last weekend when they were allowed to gather in one spot pushkin square square this is the place that the organizers of today's demonstration cooled the final point the final destination of full with the rally but if they were looking for some crescendo for the end well they've clearly flopped because well you can see a heavy police presence and to the left of me also a police cordon to the right as well and well some journalists to give you an idea as to how many people showed up again is definitely in the thousands and some hundreds of people were detained in moscow alone now protests that have taken place all across russia from the far east to the russian capital to st petersburg and in some smaller city think you're. going to move what. was good for you but you're right. so this indeed looks like the end of today's protest but on tuesday already election of ali prominent russian opposition figure he is said to that's when his next hearing is and a lot of people here they want they want him freed and this is why they were driven to the streets s

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entirety of the protest however i was surprised to see that protesters were convened in the square in pushkin square and periodical chanting and cheering for a good hour and a half before the police took me in measures to clear the square when they did that they did it in waves they approached you know forming a line and generally pushing the crowd back and doing that repeatedly until the protests were pushed further and further back i did see baton being used but i did not see the kind of excessive violence that i would see in protest for example in france yellow vests i'm sure many people are aware of the very excessive police brutality used against protesters there or in other cities even recent times in cities in the u.k. and the u.s. where people have been protesting coronavirus has been crying virus measures and there has been an excess of those protests so i would say in my from what i could see from where i was positioned i could not compare those types of protests to what i saw today and you pointed out quite rightly that these rallies that took place across russia were unsanctioned

our correspondent, sarah rainsford has this from pushkin square. but a lot of drivers have been tooting their horns and getting cheers back from the crowd as they pass. so there is a fair amount of solidarity with the protests here on the square. and people have been crammed onto the pavement. they are crammed onto the pavement in front of me. they have been shouting, "freedom for alexei navalny", they have been shouting, "let him go! "let him out of prison!" they have been shouting chants against vladimir putin, the president, as well. "putin is a thief," they have been chanting. that is one of the cries you often hear at gatherings of mr navalny�*s supporters. but it is a very diverse crowd here today, both in terms of age — i've seen a lot of young people, a lot of students, but also older people, too. one couple, an older woman and her daughter, had come. i said, "why are you here?" they looked at me and sort of grinned through their facemasks. their eyes were grinning. and they said, "we have just come for a walk." but obviously they had come

pushkin square square know essentially they have been on the move so we'll see how long this protest will go on because this was supposed to be the crowning jewel of the protest but the police they haven't allowed that to happen just yet so we'll have to see whether or not this will be the end of today's protest. meanwhile protesters have taken to the streets in other russian cities as a while there now major marches ongoing and cousin uncrossed i ask the events have passed mostly peacefully but several dozen people have been arrested the same pairs barrick has seen some of the largest gathering so far with police putting the number at 4000 place have used tear gas to disperse the protesters. so had this hour a russian tech firm is testing a flying taxi prototype that's what our story is after the break. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy. let it be an arms race is spearing dramatic development is only going to exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. and there's nothing a narcissist hates mor

the mass protests have been i broken up, there were a huge number of riot police on pushkin square andginning, before the big crowd gathered, they were diving into the crowd and dragging people away and arresting them. for a couple of hours, during the main part of this process, they then stood back but then lost patience and there were scuffles between riot police and protesters. eventually, they riot police cleared the streets but there are now groups of people wandering the streets of moscow, essentially, one of them heading towards one of the big prisons here where alexei navalny is being held. there was really no plan for this protest today, the plan was simply to come out in big numbers to send a message to the kremlin that people are angry at its treatment of alexei navalny, the fact that he was poisoned and the fact that he was poisoned and the fact that he was poisoned and the fact he was imprisoned and that he could now be facing a long prison sentence. they came out and then didn't really know what to do, so some of them have been wandering the streets, some scuffles with ri

well i'm standing in the middle of a crowd of people who've gathered here in the center of moscow on pushkin square you might be able to hear that they're chanting they're chanting at the arrest of other protesters arrested here started even before the protocol and protests started about an hour before the police started kind of driving pulley people out of the crowds and people don't seem to be to be wanting to go away however they have kind of spread out over the square and beyond the square there chad they're shouting freedom freedom for now viney they are shouting that putin is a thief and really it seems like this is one of the biggest protests on north their eyes protest that we've seen for a while are being pushed away i think currently because of an arrest that's being taken place behind us that happens occasionally we moved back i just a little bit are. kind of pulled into the swirl of police pulling people into police guards but it is predictable that the tape. pitches of the protest is it possible for the way you want to gauge the size how much to support support does he have righ

i think i know that as the sidelines of one of the other of a c 3 that that basically least stop pushkin square and right up to the time line and the streets around the square where this protest today was planned are basically so it's almost hard to move around people have been even knocking down the barriers that the support up to allow cars to satisfy you might be able to hear in the background as well from people kind of in cars. sounding there or you know speaking in solidarity it seems as they drive by people here have been shouting freedom through on the vine these people have been chatting since we can is our seats but many of the people that i spoke to said that for them this isn't only about not buying in a way what happened to these boys i think they never need to rant and with the video that is being published online looking into what they say is what do you hear putin pilots they say that that is the last straw so that's really wincing live pitches from wade you on now i'm wondering what has motivated so many people to take the risk and to come out onto the streets today. wel

but on fox news sunday, florida senator marco rubio flam the pushkin it's like taking a bunch of gasoline and pouring it on top of the fire and on abc's this week and that the senator rand paul refused to refute claims the election was stolen in every date your second counts recounts you're saying that as you're saying there was no fraud it's all been investigating that's just not true. the whales would largely remain absent from the impeachment conversation, instead insisting president biden is focused on his own legislative agenda going to continue touching on these crises sunday, deputy press secretary kareen jean pierre told reporters the president is working to get his cabinet comfort and pandemic relief to millions of american families he's always worked. with republicans to get those big things done with 2 weeks before the trial begins illinois senator dick durbin told nbc's meet the press he's confident the senate can handle both priority, let's get down to business roll up her sleeves and pass this rescue package. >>raquel martin reporting for us tonight. democrats will need 17 r