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the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us we hope that we can do more to count to them to produce. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. to w.'s air until then as a moscow and says the vote is crucial for the party behind president putin's power base. the election to the moscow city duma has given the country's opposition in only. likely chance to challenge the power and control of united russia. and its complete domination of russian political life. is actually face seen historically low polling numbers with around only 30 percent of russians saying they currently support the party that the brain is also considered toxic in many of the country's major cities and that's part of the reason why many candidates here in moscow chose to run as independents out of fears that association with the party could hurt their chances

recent weeks protesters were angry after all thora he's banned several allies opposition leader alexina valmy from standing a police crackdown saw around 2000 people detained. schools for more on this let's bring in our correspondent our until he's in moscow aaron we'll only have full figures tomorrow but do we have any results i saw. well we're russia is quite a large countries around which i want to get the official autumn election totals but looking here at moscow which is actually the most closely watched races we're seeing that voter turnout is roughly in line with what it was last year and that was only around 21 percent which is quite low and that could be an indication that these weeks of protests would lead up to this polling actually failed to have a large impact on the electoral ship here when these regional elections are being seen as a serious test for russian president vladimir putin and his united russia party why . well that's because you deny to see united russia as you are saying right there is phase seen some rather historically low polling numbers right now only around 30

the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. every single vote for a party doesn't get its is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them the persistent. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. the u.s. and afghanistan taliban have left the door open to peace talks after donald trump abruptly canceled a secret summit with insurgents u.s. secretary of state mike compare said he was hopeful negotiations could resume but only if the taliban showed quote significant commitment to the process yesterday trump announced he had called off a meeting with the taliban after they claimed responsibility for an attack in kabul that killed 12 people including one american soldier. the body of an american soldier returns home sergeant at least body doherty's was the 16th u.s. service member killed in afghanistan this year one of a dozen people who died when a taliban car bomb expl

recent weeks this came after authorities rejected several allies of the opposition leader alexina valmy as candidates the protest sparked a police crackdown with around 2000 people detained. ok let's bring in our correspondent our until today who's in moscow are in of these regional elections of being seen as a serious test for the russian president vladimir putin and his united russia party tell us why that is. well it really has to do with some simmering popular anger that we saw in manifest itself in the demonstrations we've seen in recent weeks and it really comes at a very inopportune time for you know you to see you know which is the party that backs president putin it's facing historically low polling numbers with only around 30 percent of the population saying they support the ruling party and similar regional elections last year actually shown that unlike in the past where just being on the go to see a ticket was a guarantee of election electoral success many candidates lost in surprise last opposition candidates now when it comes to that brand to deny it is see in the major ci

down hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. but then you have to look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. for more let's bring in our correspondent nick connelly he's on the story for us tonight in moscow good evening to you nic how big of a hit did the russian president take over the weekend i mean how much support has vladimir putin's party last year. well this is very embarrassing for and united russia as you mentioned they're down over 3rd in moscow now in control of only 25 of 45 seats and that's despite considerable resources legal analysts are at their disposal as you mentioned no real true opposition candidates on the ballot paper and also reports of state employees being encouraged to put it mildly t

crackdown hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. don't you look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. for more let's bring in our correspondent nick connelly he's on the story force tonight in moscow good evening to you nic how big of a hit did the russian president take over the weekend i mean how much support has already waltzed year. well this is very embarrassing for and united russia as you mentioned they're down over 3rd in moscow now in control of only 25 of 45 seats and that's this by considerable resources legal analysts are at their disposal as you mentioned no real true opposition candidates on the ballot paper and also reports of state employees being encouraged to put it mildly to go to the polls and to

for the voting united russia party slate in moscow candidate supported by opposition leader alexina valmy one of most half the votes even after many opposition candidates were removed from the ballot there was a low voter turnout. united nations atomic energy agency atomic agency says iran has acquired uranium enrichment equipment the preachers the nuclear deal it signed with major powers in 25th day of the nuclear agreement has been under severe strain since the u.s. withdrew unilaterally last year iran is trying to convince european signatories to ease the impact of reimposed u.s. sanctions. hundreds of students in hong kong for human chains after another we count of anti-government protests demonstrators outside the u.s. consulate appealed to washington for support in the territories administration toward foreign governments not to interfere and to weigh in what it called its internal affairs. and political leaders here in germany are demanding to know how a town council elected a neo nazi as its mer stephanie jack from the and p d stood for the position unopposed that he won backing f

crackdown hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. didn't you look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for rose but we hope that we can do more to counter them. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. counts for more on that let's bring in our correspondent who is in moscow so erin tell us a little bit more about the results that we have so far. well now with 100 percent of the vote counted we've seen that the that russia's fractured opposition has actually managed to make extreme and roads into local government here in the city of moscow they've actually managed to take 20 of a possible 45 seats and that's actually a great victory for the opposition you have to realize that russia has a very fractured opposition landscape with a lot of different parties some are aligned with the kremlin others are outside of

crackdown hard more than 2000 demonstrators have been arrested the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party i didn't you know look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to count to them the. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. for more let's bring in our correspondent nick connelly he's on the story for us tonight in moscow good evening to you nic how big of a hit did the russian president take over the weekend i mean how much support has blood in your putin's party last year. well this is very embarrassing for and united russia as you mentioned they're down over 3rd in moscow now in control of only 25 of 45 seats and that's despite considerable resources legal analysts are at their disposal as you mentioned no real true opposition candidates on the ballot paper and also reports of state employees being encouraged to put it mi

carried out had more than 40 cities and towns targeting associates of prominent kremlin critic alexina valmy the authorities say the crackdown is part of a criminal money laundering investigation that fassel has more from moscow. the scale of the rate is unprecedented in more than 40 cities across russia office's link to the country's main opposition figure alexina folly was searched and employees detained like here in st petersburg. documents and a u.s.b. drive for confiscated this was when it was proposed that my daughter called me and said the police came to search the apartment actually they cheated their way into the apartment because she opened the door for a neighbor to novell me it is clear the razor president putin's revenge for the loss of the ruling party in sunday's elections but. this time he got really upset because of the tactical voting as his offspring his sweet child i would say the united russia party has been busted in moscow and seriously beaten in the regions after opposition candidates were banned from running in the elections tens of thousands took to the streets in t

the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. i guess then you look at every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to counter them the perceived local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. correspondent erin telltale is standing by in moscow with the view from there so how were the results looking so far aaron. well so far the numbers we're seeing coming in here in moscow indicate that at least within the russian capital that the opposition has managed to tack up a major victory when it comes the likes into the city council now outside in the more regional areas of moscow it seems like they do now to see and i did russia as men able to maintain their grip on power but really all eyes were here on the russian capital i mean this is been the scene of some of the most violent protests we've seen in recent weeks and i think part of that has actu

the best known opposition figure alexina valmy took to social media to call for voters to choose candidates who would do the most harm to the governing party. that's the new politics every single vote for a party doesn't get is good even if it's not for us but we hope that we can do more to count to them to produce. local and regional votes were held across the country but the real test comes in 2 years with new parliamentary elections. let's bring in correspondent erin tilton in moscow and one of the results that we have in so far well so far it seems that in many of the regions outside of moscow that you know i don't see united russia was able to claim the polling for themselves but here in moscow it seems like 20 of the possible $45.00 seats in the city's city duma have actually gone to opposition aligned candidates now it's a big win for many of the opposition parties and one that wasn't initially expected going into yesterday's poll. but it looks like the opposition is the big winner in the selections of can you tell us what exactly happened here. well i mean basically there's a couple

elections not of course led to the protests that we saw on the streets of the capital but how can alexina valmy and his supporters how can they capitalize now on what has happened in moscow. well the decisions that were made by the moscow city election 3 commission the were counterproductive as the actually raised awareness of the some of the opposition candidates that really did not have that why they were name recognition before this happened and to be honest in fair elections of these candidates if they were allowed to run if they were registered to tour on the would have simply lost due in the fair election to their to their competitiveness some of them would have won but many of them if not most would have lost and so in a way the moscow city election commission shot itself in the foot by by using to register a number of these candidates and of course also the actions of some of the protests resulted from this was it was also counterproductive as that as a frustration the level of frustration of on the part of the moscow but there were some parts of moscow residents who were unhappy about

special representative valmy cousin yes he said on august assad fast we're at the threshold of an agreement that we justify that's and open the door for afghans to sit together take a stand and honorable a sustainable peace and a unified self in afghanistan that does not frighten the united states its allies and any other country now all during that time of course that have been violence with the taliban they have been attacked they haven't stopped attacking but still it's cooling off some of them coming off from the u.s. special representative so what happened. so there was an optimism from both sides the entire time no matter what was going on behind closed doors and i mean cus they were happening in cus i would go down to the diplomatic club and we'd sit in this cafeteria and watch both sides and you could tell the body language was tense but the end of the day that always put out a tweet saying you know positive steps excellent steps to go to a joke where the americans and the taliban were looking up at the saurus as to say like what kind of positive would come today to convince everybo