daley results point to a clear victory for the acting chief leaving opposition figurehead alexina valmy telling a distant second it's the capitals first mero election in nearly a decade live update on this out too. if you just joined us hello from moscow it's just after eleven pm here now my name is kevin i mean this is r t international top stories but a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's been trying to convince the european union to get on board with a military strike on syria over the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons but kerry presented no new evidence against the syrian government and very few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval and he now says a bomber has made no final decision on whether to strike either an apparent turnaround from last week so far turkey and france of being first in line to back the united states against syria but president barack obama was unable to. the minds of the other world leaders at the g twenty summit in st petersburg i agree that tough action should be taken but they didn't endorse military interv

moscow chooses its next mayor with acting leader ciggies he began in taking on opposition rival alexina valmy. i welcome it's good to have you company watching the weekly here in r.t. with me and. now the american secretary of state's doing the rounds in europe to try to drum up support for a unilateral strike against syria foreign ministers have largely agree with the u.s. claims that the syrian government was responsible for the ledge to deadly use of chemical weapons last month but brussels has stopped short of openly supporting a unilateral u.s. military response european leaders want to wait for the results of a u.n. probe into the toxic allegations it's after a key world powers at the g twenty summit in st petersburg spoke out against the use of force without a un mandate by russia accuse the syrian rebel with of unleashing chemical weapons to provoke foreign intervention and reports i was elected to end wars and not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g twenty but if obama was looking to gather overwhelming support at the summit he didn't get it in st p

of course the votes in the city's mayoral elections exit polls suggest opposition hopeful alexina valmy second place behind the current acting chief should be on him because the latest tom but developing story tonight very shortly. is the media leave also we leave the media. motions to the. for the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests they deserve answers from. do we speak your language as anybody will or not i didn't. use programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news but will turn it into angles stories. for you here. in troy i'll teach spanish more and more visit. again voting is going to close here a moscow where candidates are battling for the post of city mayor in the first municipal election in a decade the incumbent surrogates to be on it has been facing a strong challenge from opposition hopeful alexina valmy as god speed on this risk in office of the kremlin tonight either the polls closed what just over an hour ago results i guess not expected till tomorrow what's the what's the thought on how that vote went. well we're hoping to act

also the battle for moscow is simple swing with ranking city chiefs and opposition activists alexina valmy facing off as the key contenders in the capital's first my relection in nearly a decade.

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also the battle for moscow is in full swing with acting city chiefs and opposition figurehead alexina valmy facing off is the key contenders in the capital's first marriage lection in nearly a decade. there it's good to have you company you're watching a weekly here on our take. it's been a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's been trying to convince the european union to get on board with a military strike on syria over the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons but kerry presented no new evidence against the syrian government and very few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval and he now says obama has made no final decision on whether to strike an apparent turnaround from last week so far turkey and france have been first in line to back the united states against syria but president barack obama wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders at the g. twenty summit in sim petersburg they agreed that tough action should be taken but didn't endorse military intervention artie's in this in our. i was elected to end wars and not start

a new man early results point to a victory for the acting chief even opposition figurehead alexina valmy training well behind the capital's first such election in the decade. crossing live from moscow this is artie's weekly news feed. it's been a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's been trying to convince the european union to get on board with a military strike on syria and the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons but kerry presented no new evidence against the syrian government and few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval now says president obama has made no final decision and i want to strike an apparent u. turn from last week but so far turkey and france have been first in line to back u.s. action for a cabal wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders at the g. twenty summit in. tough actions should be taken but didn't endorse intervention auntie's and the dollars that. i was elected to end wars and not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g twenty but if obama was looking to gather over

also the battle for moscow is impulse wing with banking city chiefs and opposition activist alexina valmy facing off as the key contenders in the capital's first marilyn action in nearly a decade. alone are you watching a weekly here in r.t. good to have the company now it's been a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's been trying to convince the european union to get on board with a military strike on syria over the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons because he presented no new evidence against the syrian government and very few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval and he now says a man has made no final decision on whether to strike an apparent turnaround from last week so far turkey and france have been first in line to back the united states against syria present a land has however backtracked on his earlier hawkish stance now saying that the u.n. security council needs to approve any action president barack obama wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders the g twenty summit in st petersburg though they agreed that tou

into office at a grand ceremony attended by president putin however off position activists alexina valmy is refusing to concede defeat he's found a lawsuit demanding a recount of the vote came in the election was rigged only came in second with almost all of the ballots and thousands showed up for a peaceful rally in support of the opposition leader last monday. still around the corner for you ugly echoes from the past later we travel to a community near the south african capital producer area where the ghosts of apartheid still stores that's just ahead of you in the meantime it's artie's business venture capital it takes a puppy. we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the usa just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property immediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in

chooses its next mail with acting leaders against the beyond and taking on opposition rival alexina valmy. everyone welcome to you if you've just joined us here on our t.v. for this week's of the weekly and today's top stories you're with me to along with . the american secretary of state's doing the rounds in europe to try and drum up support for unilateral strike against syria e.u. foreign ministers have largely agreed with u.s. claims that the syrian government was responsible for the alleged deadly use of chemical weapons last month but brussels has stopped short of openly supporting a unilateral u.s. military response european leaders want to wait for the results of the u.n. probe into the toxic allegations as off like he world powers of the g twenty summit in st petersburg spoke guard against the use of force without a un mandate while russia accuses syrian rebels of unleashing chemical weapons to provoke foreign intervention and he said no reports. i was elected to end wars not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g. twenty but if obama was looking t

in selected for a new term in office but opposition rather of alexina valmy refuses to concede defeat but his supporters staging a mass rally to demand a recount.

opposition activists alexina valmy refusing to. follow suit demanding a recount of the election was rigged. came in second and almost a third of the ballots two thousand showed up for a peaceful rally in support of your position last monday. some other news from around the world this hour a massive rescue operation is in full swing across the u.s. state of colorado deadly floods have already killed five people and left hundreds and accounted for thousands of been forced to evacuate from the deluge there this center bomber has signed a major emergency order for the battered state of britain federal disaster. rastafari has been grounded in historic one hundred year flood the cost of repairs estimated fifteen times the state's budget down was a forecast. the rock or at least thirty five people have been killed in the latest wave of insurgent attacks where one has claimed responsibility for the blasts which targeted commercial areas in parking lots and mostly shiite dominated cities across the country becomes less than twenty four hour

sworn into office at a grand ceremony attended by president putin however opposition activist alexina valmy is refusing to concede defeat he's filed a lawsuit demanding a recount of the vote to claim the election was rigged there only came in second with almost a third of the ballots thousands showed up for a peaceful rally in support of the opposition leader last monday. a quick look now at some other world news a massive rescue operation is in full swing across the u.s. state of colorado where deadly floods have already killed six people and left hundreds unaccounted for thousands have been forced to evacuate from the deli areas president barack obama has signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving federal disaster because pastor fee has been branded in the story one hundred year flood with the cost of repairs estimated at fifteen times the state's annual budget for downpours are still forecast. in iraq at least fifty three people have been killed in the latest wave of insurgent attacks no one has claimed responsibility for the blast which targeted commercial areas and

fifty percent mark needed to secure victory in a single voting round but opposition runner alexina valmy refuses to concede defeat . a welcome you're watching r.t. and then with me and three farmers. now negotiations not missiles are the best way to resolve the syrian conflict that is the joint message from the russian and syrian foreign ministers who've been meeting in moscow russia sergei lavrov still wants to see these so-called geneva two peace talks take place and says a u.s. attack on syria would derail them r.t. shaun thomas has more. said that he's dedicated to bring all parties to the table to discuss a solution in syria he says that they need to wait for the united nations to complete their investigation and for those results to be brought on the table also calling for the un inspectors to come back into syria and can plead their work. sergey lavrov reminded the public that they have evidence that it could be the rebels themselves that actually use chemical weapons and so the situation isn't as cut and dry as the west is making it seem to be and then also called on the united s

boy winning the race he did face a tough battle against his main rival opposition activists alexina valmy human to collect around twenty seven percent of the votes more than most had predicted the senior political correspondent and he said he has been following the developments. in. its number now with one hundred percent of the votes counted is fifty one point thirty seven percent but his main rival anticorruption leader elects in the wild in fared much better than expected really at twenty seven point twenty four official results formally will be announced later but it looks like with one hundred percent counted these are going to be the numbers. now when polls were taken when he started campaigning he was only getting around ten percent so he really did do much better than people thought but another thing to take into consideration is turnout only thirty three percent of registered voters showed up that's surprising a lot of analysts because in recent years we've seen a lot more people politically active you have social media we had anti-government protests back into it in two thousand

then after winning sunday's election with just over fifty percent of the vote his main rival alexina valmy put up a tough challenge though securing twenty seven percent and is now demanding a runoff he called on his supporters to gather for a mass rally in central moscow to contest the results which he says were rigged let's go live to article has been often across the story for the last couple of days for us his supporters gathered in the center of moscow for a sanctioned rally as you have to do in moscow about two hours ago the now dispersing what became of that rally the rally is coming to an end by now police said that it was attended by up to nine thousand people initially was authorized for twenty five hundred reports in the media suggest that the figures reached twenty five thousand and other sources gave other numbers a several times higher than that so that information is still clearly very different and i guess we are still to find out what the final actual numbers of the amounts of people what tended to sprout we could see that while he did speak to his supporters and to say tha

and today's the day chooses its next thing the man in taking on opposition rival alexina valmy.

acting their surrogates so began in selected for a new term in office but opposition runnerup alexina valmy refuses to concede defeat but his supporters staging a mass rally earlier to demand a recount. international is very good to have you company so many developments over syria today syria has agreed to russia's proposal that it puts its chemical weapons stockpile under international control u.s. secretary of state john kerry initially suggested such a scheme earlier today as a way to avoid a military strike on syria but then in a parent you turn the u.s. state department issued a retraction saying it wasn't a genuine offer thomas reports. it started off as a day of a meeting of the ministers both from the western side and with russia and the syrian foreign minister in fact they met earlier today that is. and is sergey lavrov coming out of that meeting they both agreed that syria would work with russia to stop a strike from the west and also syria had agreed to come to the negotiating table with no conditions that's big news but the biggest news is that syria has agreed to release their