miles the protesters are basically destroyed today there were a large crowd of protesters on pushkin square which i'm at now and from the beginning the atmosphere was rather confronted there were several programmer groups at pushkin square even as the protesters began to gather and they were shouting favor of putin kind of trying to provoke perhaps the protesters who were shouting back and shouting that. our daughter and they were shouting for a russia without putin but very quickly the arrest began and there were a riot police at the scene now we're getting reports that over one thousand people were arrested across the protests across russia and we're seeing these pictures a fully sort of roughing up protesters and we saw pictures earlier of the family being detained how did that influence the protests or was it mostly expected. my it was basically expected that he would be arrested this is the first time that the find me has been arrested at opposition protests that he's said he's organized but not fighting made it all the way to pushkin square where the protesters were gathered and the p

well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling 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 people were arrested just in moscow observers say the number is more likely to be around six hundred now it's worth noting that the protest here wasn't authorized but protests also took place in several other cities in fact around ninety cities today people came out in support of not me and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the board. when terms of demographics who is out there process and today was there one discernible young or old type of person who is in red square there pushkin square. it's hard to say i think that a lot of the protesters today were young but i also spoke to some older protesters . middle aged forty forty fifty sixty there were there was definitely a mix out but when it comes to those protesters who are rather defiant and who kept returning to the square i would say that those were were more or m

right police pushed demonstrators of pushkin square.sters had been shouting, down with the czar. they demanded that blood amid putin services fourth term as president in jail. -- services fourth term as president in jail. —— they demanded that vladimir putin serves his fourth term as president injail. do putin serves his fourth term as president in jail. do we putin serves his fourth term as president injail. do we need is our, asked the opposition activist who had organised the protest. no, they shouted. soon after, police dragged him away too. earlier on the square, russian nationalists supporting president putin vowed to prevent —— prevent a ukraine style revolution in russia. the anti—government protesters shouted them down. on paper at least, vladimir putin has little to fear from a street protest. a recent survey found that the vast majority of russians had no desire to take part in a political demonstrations. and yet, any public display of dissent makes the russian government nervous. that is because the kremlin has seen a people

well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling 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 people were arrested just in moscow observers say the number is more likely to be around six hundred now it's worth noting that the protest here wasn't authorized but protests also took place in several other cities in fact around ninety cities today people came out in support of not me and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the board. that was emily sherman reporting from moscow there the u.s. space agency nasa has launched its latest probe to mars a powerful atlas five rocket is propelling the mars insite lander to the planet's surface as we speak the journey is expected to take six months upon arrival the probe will be sent deep under the planet's crossed for clues about how it was formed for the launch is two years too late due to equipment problems the delay also ramped up project cost for more than eight hundred

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 people were arrested just in moscow observers say the number is more likely to be around six hundred now it's worth noting that the protest here wasn't authorized but protests also took place in several other cities in fact around ninety cities today people came out in support of not me and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the board that was you know you correspondent emily sure when reporting for us from moscow in slovakia instead of celebrating i'm a wedding friends and family all morning murdered journalist young and his fiance martina. could siac have been investigating high level corruption in the country there are still unresolved murders in february have led to mass protests which triggered the resignation of the prime minister and the demands to battle corruption and protect press freedom. it should have been

but i'm here at pushkin square which is one of the main squares in the center of moscow and i'd say there's certainly a few hundred protesters here out in the center and initially they gathered here and there were also members a few members of the so-called national liberation movement that's a a patriotic a pro putin movement and they were kind of shouting against each other the protesters here shouting against putin and those few demonstrators shouting for him and it seems that that was maybe an attempt to provoke a fight shortly after that the arrests here started there's a huge amount of riot police there were columns of them sort of behind me standing along the street and they were arresting people in the crowd and the opposition leader now behind me. was also just arrested here in moscow now this protest in the center of moscow was not authorized officially by the city authours these protests are taking place across the country as well in. ninety cities and some of those protests were authorized but there were arrests across the country today and not that novelli has been detained wha

have been burned by by the police but protesters seem to have returned to the main square to pushkin square at a kind of gathering around. statue there are the pictures we're looking at now make it look pretty rough now of all the sort of in the linchpin in all of these protests has his attention had an impact on the mood there was a pretty much expected. well his arrest was certainly to be expected in fact i saw on social media several users sharing the information that now finding had come to the protests had arrived at the protests and basically writing ok the countdown now starts when he's going to be arrested after all of this is not the first. protest that's not by any has a range this year he also writes some ahead of the elections and it was it wasn't unusual for him to be arrested at those protests now the mood did shift a little bit after he was arrested it seems to me that the police presence got much larger after he was arrested and the police started dispersing people surrounding the crowd pushing them sort of off the main square but it does seem that people have returned there

the square are moving protestors i was just moved across the street from that main square from pushkin square working people work out the ring and they are just so these are just first thing the crowd i would say initially when the focus started there were certainly several hundred protesters here and they were chanting against who's in the bottle crashed. he's not our guard there referring of course the coup to being inaugurated on monday but at the moment we're seeing most from the square there's a helicopter you might be able to hear circling above the square kind of presumably a police helicopter so that's that's kind of what's happening here on the ground i am looking at some photos that look a pretty rough happening there has no lonnie's detention had any impact on the mood or the atmosphere there. well you know my needs attention was basically to be expected in fact i saw on twitter you know when when people were posting about not buying your driving as a protest people were saying countdown starts now begin being arrested but of course you know after his arrest that's really when the

system himself that his supporters should gather here on pushkin square square while instagram suffered a different location on saturday avenue now it's just a few thousand meters a few kilometers away from here it is also said in central most boys story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sports for opposition rallies in most schools one of those actually took place there literally a few days ago when i said by different people and it was in support of the internet freedom in russia in the wake of the russian government banning a very popular messaging service messenger telegram here it's one of only himself did not shy away from appearing at basle rally which did raise some questions as to why don't he. sure stuff i know what rituals to denounce that location sorry but i've been here for his rally and saw no problem appearing there at the at the rally organized by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained to just more school which has been a russia wide as being some two thousand people we know have been protesting in s

system himself that his supporters should gather here on pushkin square square while instagram suffered a different location on soccer avenue now it's just a few thousand meters a few kilometers away from here it's also set in central most boy story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sport for opposition rallies in moscow one of those actually took place there literally a few days ago organized by different people and it was in support of the internets . freedom in russia in the wake of the russian government banning a very popular a messaging service messenger telegram it's one of only himself did not shy away from appearing at that school rally which did raise some questions as to why he chose time i know what rituals to denounce that location south or about avenues for his rally and so no problem appearing there at the at the rally we're going to use by different people also this has been this the protests have not been contained just more stupid has been a russia wide thing some two thousand people we know have been protesting in c. petersburg and in o

riot police pushed demonstrators off pushkin square.s had been shouting down with the tzar and demanding that vladimir putin serves his fourth term as president injail. there were protests in dozens of russian towns. police detained more than a thousand people. do we need a tzar, asked opposition activist, alexei navalny, who organised the protest. no, they shouted. soon after, police dragged him away, too. earlier, on the square, russian nationalists, supporting president putin, vowed to prevent a ukraine—style revolution in russia. the anti—government protesters shouted them down. on paper at least, is vladimir putin has little to fear from a street protest. a recent survey found that the vast majority of russians have no desire to take part in political demonstrations and yet, any public display of dissent makes the russian government nervous. and that is because the kremlin has seen people power force political change in countries on russia's doorstep. hence this less than subtle hint from those in power here. that critics of the au

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 also said in central most boys story districts somewhat of a traditional what has become a traditional sport for opposition rallies in moscow one of those actually took place literally a few days ago we're going to.

business but square you can hear the cheering now just as i speak all boy up to the sky towards pushkin square the usual central moscow locations. it's pretty much just packed as you can see the whole rows stretching up as far as the eye can see estimates between half a million and seven hundred thousand people are due to attend here today considering this event began a few years ago twenty twelve i believe with just a few thousand people in a small siberian city it has grown exponentially similar watch have taken place throughout the world today a long. trip in america in israel really all over the country sort of it was taken off and as you say it's people that are bringing photographs pictures and if they're not available simply the name of their relatives of their ancestors or thought made some kind of contribution of the great patriotic war there's very few families that didn't know how about color for history here my great grandmother for one was a military surge and she took part in the battle of moscow defending the city in one of those key battles i love a relative of mine my great gr

i am on pushkin square in the centre of moscow, where two opposing groups have gathered.ne group is russian nationalist, supporters of vladimir putin. there've been chanting, "we are not going to allow this ukraine style revolution here". the other group, that's the opponents of the russian president. they have been chanting, down with tsar, and putin's fourth term should be in prison". well, we have been seeing scuffles here, and the riot police have moved in to make arrests, and opponents of putin have been shouting, "this is a disgrace and putin is a thief". on paper at least, vladimir putin has little to fear from a street protest. a recent survey found that the vast majority of russians had no desire to take part in a political demonstrations. and yet, any public display of dissent makes the russian government nervous. that is because the kremlin has seen a people power force political change in countries on russia's doorstep. donald trump has been criticised for claiming the uk's strict gun laws have led to a rise in knife crime, adding that a hospital in london was

before police took him away from moscow's pushkin square navalny led chants calling president putin a "tsar." protesters in paris rallied against president emmanuel macron and policies they say cut worker protections ae the police too much power. the far left party "defiant france" organized today's march. monday will be the one year anniversary of macron's ection. the events were mostly peaceful, but 2,000 police were deployed to avoid a repeat of violent may day protests. nasa's insight lander blasted off fr california today on a six month mission to mars. armed with a seismometer for measuring marsquakes, a hammer for probing beneath the surface, and a radio system for tcacking its loon, scientists hope to study the red planet's interior. the atlas v rocket also carried test satellites that will serve as the lander's counications link. this joint u.s./european mission will cost $1-billion. the last mission to mars was in 2012 when the curiosity rover made a successful landing. on journalist nellie bly's birthday, read about her groundbreaking investigation into the treatment of e m

in moscow thousands more demonstrated in other cities across russia there are five or moscow's pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all the supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise at that point the police moved in. so they were arrested began in other parts of russia i do want to say now that i want to head in moscow was the brilliance of just grabbed a young guy out of the crowd and looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police wagon. the numbers of detentions take top words protest after protest i was dragged away so too was a man who calls this demonstration

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 alexi vali what should we be looking out for with today's protests. well you know the valley star rose basically jur

was almost goes pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all the supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise at that point the police moved in. so they were arrested began in other parts of russia during the day now that. in moscow was the focus of just. the young got out of the crowd like she was crying so dragging her off to the police wagon. the numbers of detentions ticked upwards protester after protester was dragged away so too was the man who calls this demonstration alexina valmy he's an anti corruption opposition leader who was banned from presidential ele

by almost goes pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just mad we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all my supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise how did that point to the police moved in. so they were arrested began in other parts of russia i do want to say now that here in moscow was the business of just grabbed a young guy out of the crowd it looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police why him. the numbers of detentions ticked upwards protestor after protestor was dragged away so too was the man who calls this demonstration alexina valmy he's an anti corruption opposition leader who

was almost always pushkin square they were met by a small group with very different values. and describing themselves as patriots they want to prevent a ukraine stop arising in russia just met we have currently being officially ruled by a constitution that was written for us by american specialists well under foreign rule not everyone here is not all the supporters people came here because they see that things are bad in the country but they don't understand why so and they were told by some people that it is putin to be blamed in everything people can't figure out such things for themselves their tempers started to rise how did that point to the police moved in. so they were arrest that began in other parts of russia i do want to say now that here in moscow it was the police have just robbed a young got out of the crowd and looked like she was crying so dragging her off to the police where. the numbers of detentions take top which protest after protest i was dragged away so too was the man who calls this demonstration alexina valmy he's an anti corruption opposition leader

greeted when they arrived in pushkin square. by a group of. guys like a nationalist spirit decided that they were going to come down here as well and provides the other side of the argument. because they help you find the main because it's. playing piano and john saying please insulation they call quite heated times between the valley circle it isn't the and the earth and people it is and that's basically when the police started moving in and they were using tactics that i've seen time and time again send in snatch squads running into the crowd sponsors of police grabbing people pretty rough predrag men back out and shoving them into the police black and then this is repeated time after time after time so i was witnessing dozens of arrests think i'm now the police in the process of basically pushing through and trying to clear the moving everyone out of the main square down at the natural entrances all the side streets not what's going on at the moment touches and responses by security forces that as you said you have witnessed many times bois