no the russ squires just behind me is the very halts of this false country. it hurts music festivals, christmas malls, his big 3 day parades. and today it was hosting a concept to celebrate the 10th anniversary of prime is reunification with russia. with loudon metuse and congratulating the nation on this historic day. first and foremost, the people who carried fatal in the fatherland through the decades they have never separated themselves from russia. and this is what allowed crimea to return to our common sense. i'm not sure what we're talking heads of state made his speech also.

winning the presidential election was more than $0.87 of the vote. suits and vaccination pressed the ports and paid special tribute. they declined that he would like to call that violet products in the countries you in bottles, a region say face punched in to talk, fi, ukrainian, shutting even also the voting have wrapped up. well, congratulations. all coming in from around the world with the leaders of india and china, the latest to send the best wishes, but it's a bit of a cooler reaction that have criticism bit of condemnation from the west. we will be here on or here covering rushes, a bigger presidential election in a decade. we have the best faith in the how the

is a very warm welcome to archie international um 12 beautiful panoramic studio, which is of course just outside the kremlin rules. it's from here that we have been keeping an eye on this 2024 russian presidential election. so what do we know? 3 days of votes him old pallets, accounts counted, lot of met, boots and has secured his victory with move and 87 percent of the vote. so he will be up the home of this vault country for the next 6 years. people across the russia today also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the reunification of the black sea peninsula of crimea with russia. and a huge celebratory concept was held on the famous couples of red squad, just behind me was letting my boots in himself, making a surprise, a parent discussed that you that i gave. that was yeah. different.

but it is my heart. i agree to and congratulate you on the celebration under unification of crimea instead of us to part with russia. exactly 10 years ago here on red square. on the same stage, i remembered that quite me a is often called an unthinkable aircraft carrier. this is what led me to the idea of seeing that creamier has returned to its native harbor even though, but crimea is not only a strategically important territory. this is not only our history, our traditions and the pride of russia because cry. mia is the 1st and foremost the people of the residents would save us a couple of cry me and they are our pride because they carries faces in the fatherland through the decades. they have never separated themselves from russia, and this is what allowed crimea to return to our common beautiful families. thousands of people all around me. is this a big, big home? lots of happy faces and lots of pressure on the flags. and if you pay attention to

the, to the same to the stage, right, we hardly says, cried me, russia said a sofa 10 years to get that. and that's because they have people on just celebrating the results of the election of the presidential election, of course. but also it's been 10 years based, been 10 years since the craig made a response that became part of the russian federation. again, a lot of my food was not alone on the stage when it comes to my profile gets out of account. it's under his political rivals, joined him, and they didn't have a chance to address the crowd as well as what they had to say. we're shipping, all of us, remember how actively vladimir putting has done everything to support the aspirations of climbing and people and help them to return home. and yeah, russia and crimea is one homeless. really. those times were turbulent, but there was no other option. but to return home, we remember those happy faces and all these 10 years. and ever since we remember

the sparking eyes and smiles of those who returned home, those who return to the great russia, i will never forget the sense of pride i had for my country and for my president exactly 10 years ago. is this congratulations? no, of course it was me just a lot of support and then everybody move uh were just celebrating the occasion. oh so a lot of opponents the company dont understands the trustees. many of them were here mingling with the crowd as well. we had a chance to, to, to some of them the other today. i most definitely celebrate 2 things. that was the 1st is the flawless and undisputed victory of lot of you're putting in. the 2nd one, which is especially dear to me, is i'm a crime in is a 10 year anniversary of crimea. and so i suppose reunion with russia. this has been a most important event for both crime eons and russia as a whole. and the most important thing here is that our people have rejoined our one big family and those from cry me. i feel like a part of it i knew brought up

a computer that rushes regions demonstrate great unity now some wherever that it we have one more of those scales where he one less but every where he's in 1st place. so society is now consolidated people from all new regions voted like that because they understand now after years of being bombed by their own country, that russia is the only force that can and will protect them. now we are here and we thing the off the resident we are we got a good process. we are here with the process. i'm in general. i have to tell you basically getting here was a challenge in itself because central most go as being completely blocked entirely by massive crowds of people floating under. the sun has already set. uh,

you're in most colt bucks via all the red sprites up as bright as they i have to tell you because well, so many people have decided to show up here one thing, but i notice been since you left the civil menu, don't take the trouble to make one but maybe 25 years old. so i'm very, very proud to be the president. the generation here are just checking out this crowd. it says that, oh really i'm here. we're saying the same people don't think kind of thing carrying on the right thing and very, very, very few. so a very 1st the house of most go well that was 10. tomorrow the election now is voting wrapped up, the russian border region of belgrade was again showed by ukrainian full,

says 4 people were killed and 4 others wounded in monday on monday, a lawyer and in the gulf. and it says that as always, it was civilian infrastructure that was targeted with at least 10 residential houses, a damage you can see for yourself on the screens that despite those attacks. so compete on the touch by the danger on the move and 87000000 russian citizens costs that vote, assessing a new record a ton out or to produce a monument to try it brings us all the details. usually printed on the home, show the region show the city every single day 3 times, but in the morning you are in the mid day and in the evening it is usually a package of m. l. a risk rootkits, most of them coming into subjects by russian air defense systems. but unfortunately, not all of them. we've just talked to the local government health can minister, and he said, quote, in the last week so teen civilians were killed. the dog operation is being

conducted by ukrainian military intelligence unit. the super tell us of the super bowl, the main, the main rule here. they had to take a few, few religious and a districts center on the border with the russia. just before the election is new, president has been elected. multiple sides of the mattress full of the secure demetrius needed will be taken lemons from defense. russian minister over the front seemed to him, says the pool that some are withheld and will be repelled. well, i did promise you guests from all spaces of life and i have not failed. i hope to deliver on that. i'm joy this all by done cuz i like labor and human rights. a lawyer. it's always great to get your take on this. i mean, just let stuff is off the west side of the selection was the types assignments will fate you uh, an absolve. but what do you say to me? it seems like it was a great exercise and in democracy, i mean, 1st of all you had

a turn out of something like what a 77 percent. that's extraordinary. you would never have that in the us selection at least on modern times during our presidential elections. you have, i believe something like 50 percent turn out. so the x, the turnouts. extraordinary. you also had, let's face that. you had a selection of 4 different candidates, very diverse. she had 3 to put it in one way, at 3 capitalist candidates. they had a communist candidate that came in 2nd. so in the united states, i don't have a socialist candidate to choose from. i have to capitalist candidates who are basically the same by can choose from one who's completely senile and the other who's basically a carnival barker. so that's the extent of my choice in the united states and i was in the hare sawn oak last and that's a very interesting place because for those who don't know about it is still an

active conflict. so it is now divided along the neighbor river between ukraine on the one side and rush on the other. and it was the russian side that had elections and it was actually a small miracle. they were able to put those together and they were elections in person. people went and they had paper ballots that they filled out. and um, you know, a place where they, you know, were covered with the curtain and then they put it in a, a transparent ballot box, which again the system set up seemed to guarantee transparency and the secret ballot. and people seemed excited. it and they came out in very large numbers in air, saw an obe last as well. so i was very favorably impressed. i want to pick up them on what you said there about the state of the us post school reading or at the

moment, one of the criticisms has been leveled against russia's presidential election. was that there was no anti, we'll come to that, which is not actually strictly to because got to soft oven calls expressed. it's such a moments uh, concerns about a young guy well and ukraine. but the people who criticize the make it sound, does it narrow nations on 2 will cracked true and 2 will counted up. so just to, to a penny that just, you know, the clock now pays months. right. but i mean, you're an american. see, you know, american politics. it is literally about the big box. it's about the lobby as a super packs the donors. if you've got the money, you've got a chance to rotten. can you ever imagine in america a true, someone who speaks against idea fox and somebody says, all i think we should bomb syria occupied those oil fields. a bomb young man with a true on to will, can to that have the opportunity to run for office in america. no, i mean the one candidate. we have a couple of candidates that are running on those types of platforms. one is coronel west, who will not make a dent in the elections, and he's getting notes coverage. bobby kennedy is running somewhat on

a piece platform. he also is getting no publicity. he also will have a hard time even getting on the ballots. in all 50 states, but even he is very unconditionally supportive of the i d f. but amongst the 2 major parties, the 2 parties that have any chance of winning, there is complete unit damage unit and normally the on the support for the war machine. and that has been true for a long, long time. and the last candidate that really tried to counter that are the last president who really tried to buck that was named john f. kennedy and he was murdered. and i really think, and i said this last night, i think that the republic died with him, and we really have been run by what president and president eisenhower termed the military industrial complex. i also want to talk about crimea just for, for

a moment. i mean, it's such an interesting one because we understand how important it is to russia, both historically in terms of its identity. and so let's be honest with teja. key the block, c, a naples fleet. but it seems, have become almost symbolic for the west as well. we've called french president and money, walmart, chrome said we're going to see that from russia. but do you think that they know the reality on the ground? i mean, we have brock obama back in the day admitting, he said though, a lot of folks have who are sympathetic to russia. so they seem to be aware of the very pro russian tendencies. so what drives the whole style, right? correct, right. they don't care what the people want. let's face it, right. they, they recognize, kosovo in the day, who didn't even have a referendum. right. so to decide their fate. cry me a, did they, over whelming, the voted to go to russia. i visited crimea in may, took a 27 hour train ride from moscow, and i think

a 34 hour train ride back to st. petersburg by russian standards. that's not the thing i know. yeah. and i found crimea, 1st of all, a beautiful place and, but also frankly, the people were very happy, very happy to be back. part of russia to the development was happening at a much faster pace than it did under ukraine, which frankly, pretty much ignored the place. to the extent it did ignore the place. it was the nefarious and its actions towards crime. in the other pro, you know, more russian parts of, of ukraine at that time. and there's no doubt that the people of crime you want to be part of brush. and they were part of russia, i believe, going back to cap. and the great, if i'm not mistaken, and in fact i was on the battlefield there. that was the side of the famous poem, the what is the of the light brigade,

right. but in any case, uh, everyone knows that its been part of russia, right. the famous a yalta conference was held there, but was stolen in churchill and roosevelt. right. and i actually visited the palace where that was in the statue of the the big 3 is they call them. so yes, but the west doesn't care about that. they don't care what the people of crime, you know what they don't care what the people, the don bass, what i want i visited done that's twice in the last year and a half. and those people in dom bass, no doubt want it to be part of russia desperately wanted to be part of russia, desperately wanted russia to intervene as far back as 2014 to protect them from attacks from here which cost the lives of $14000.00 people before the special military operations even began. but the west doesn't care about that and they don't give voice to those people. and that's why independent journalists like myself go

to those places to try to give a voice, to those people and say, look, the, these folks have been russian for much of their history. and they want to return to russia and why? because the us back to 2 in 2014, the, brought the power a right wing government that was hostile towards its russian speaking people. i'm, i want to ask you, i mean, it seems from these elections that the see that as a strong sense of connection between environment boots, not the people at this moment whether they've been united because of the wes, animosity towards them over the last 2 years. that definitely i think is the fact that it's in play. the west didn't put it squarely on the other hand, seems to be suffering from an always ex, essential disconnect from the people at the moment. and i wonder it's, do you get a sense in america specifically? but people are beginning to wake up and think how long i've watched talk

a call since interview, for example, with flooding a to to and then okay. you know, i, maybe i don't like the guy, but some of the stuff that he said was not that bad. that's not what they told me about him. a people beginning to wake up and say the people who are in charge donald, looking out for me. oh, i think the people have woken up in the, in the, in the opinion polls show that the majority of the american people want to end the aids ukraine want it. i want a ceasefire and gaza joe biden zone base is calling him genocide joe. because of what's happening in gaza, but they don't care with the american people that that's what's clear. if you look at the polls, what the government is doing is going against what the american people want. they're spending a $1000000000.00 a year on wars that don't benefit the american people. they to benefit the defense industry. they benefit some others. a few others on the top. but they don't benefit

the american people. and i do think the american people are seeing that they also see the rush is not in inevitable enemy of the united states. in fact, russia is a natural friend of the united states. um and again, i think people are starting to realize that well as always on, we'd like and we appreciate you. you said doing independent jobs. i'm going to see the faces, as always, by word of mouth, people coming and seeing what the noise going back home is putting the message. that is the only way that exactly the truth is broke out into the lights. so as always, and it's a pleasure to help you. i'm particularly on this occasion. wonderful. it is wonderful. just the you times and we set up that was labor and human rights store. it done cuz i like. thank you don. thank you. well, how's don? and i was saying there was some criticism of putin's election in the west re election, landslide victory, congratulations. so also coming in from of the pockets of the world web. that's

china, venezuela. nicaragua, was about john batteries just among the many nations the latest to throw in his will message about my boots and was the indian prime minister read from a one. congratulations to mister vladimir putting on his re election as the president of the russian federation. i look forward to working together to fill the strength and the time testing, special and privilege to strategic partnership between india and russia in the years to come a whole lot of the country, the congratulated dog, jonathan airport. then you can just go on and on really, there's other advisor on the belive who's cause off the song this. the youngest also is biggest on this sean, of course we just heard from the indians. i'm interested in a new movie who congratulated automatically within so they were a lot of congratulation messages on twitter, but also several phone calls off of 4 of the newly elected president in the,

in fact or so with the was amongst the 1st of all countries to congratulate the of the boat into a whole lot of countries, a lot of our reaction, sporting and very warm ones. they've also seen all focused on, in fact, i'll reach out and, and basically congratulating bother me and put in there also saying that the whole there is a hayley cooperation between the 2 countries on the forks. in fact, uh to wish a lot them it was the president as well as with all the future policy and we've moved in 87 percent of the vote pollutant has completely won the war against the collective west of toiling. it demonstrates the values of the russian people who are leading the way for president vladimir clinton's victory. it also marks a long road of vindication and recognition for new russia, a great russia for a multi polar world, and for a world of balance. so our elder brother vladimir putin as triumphed, piece of good arguments for the world. and for the year 2024. my young

a. congratulations from windows, but it suits in russia. i'll try and sing on. old battlefront. new ribbons. no wonder your oil. these warm messages from across the world for a well developed, we've been of cause this vast and there is no surprise that a which is sort of size king right now. when you can really make that out from the kind of reactions that you're getting a some calling get evil the election, some calling it's repression. some also calling get he news, i'm calling you illegal. so i'm calling it's far with the pointer, means that order reaction to, to more messages data according in, from across the world for about the messages that are sort of over teaching. all of these messages from the west social states. now the indian to us for as prime minister that is entering through more the he congratulated uh nothing may put the, the relationship between india and russia has been very, very strong in the last few years as well. with india was under pressure,

had had several strips coming from a, from the western countries to distance itself from what's good because it just continued it's bilateral relationship. it's partnership, it's friendship with moscow. dev is this whole a consort. will see you around or is remember as india continue to buy one more void from uh, from law school and the western countries, the gift, sorry king of the ship book to see was made very clear by india to the west. it wasn't just the prime minister of the country, but although his tablet administered the, the indian and exxon a salesman instead of the station called also the engine oil minister, for example, how deep seemed $41.00 of them standing up. in fact, also for russia in that sense, i would say it's not that interesting because also through an election year for india and the movie is seeking a code on the election starts somewhere in april 19th of april and the result was

be announced on june b. j b, that is not even what he's veritable bobby, enjoys a lot of confidence, is hoping to come back and possibly in the few months. so we could see that mister fulton, my, to congratulate on this movie. well, joining me in the studio now is all to use very political correspondent, your gold piece. good enough. so we know that we've got the global south come in saying, good job. 80 some, some people couldn't dream of kind of fucking a mandate. well, the west poppy does dream of that kind of put them on today, but the approval rating of what's need is there an absolute gold drums? um, so what have they been saying in response to a lot of my students re election? right. i mean, exactly in this context, i think that's why such a reaction from uh, western officials and even in western media didn't really come to the surprise. especially after pumping so many billions of their tax. there's money into ukraine

and into the turing versus efforts and ukraine. i mean, it would have been strange if they started celebrating, putting this real action. just if you look at some of the headlines and what they say, calling this election a sham, a fraud. you know, fake illegitimate and so on. you kind of get the edge here really quickly of the vibe around the selection. if we look at some of the official comments, i'd say they wouldn't really different much from this general angle of media coverage. what could listen to one of the more refresher ones coming out of washington from the state department right now. this was an incredibly on democratic process. and certainly him being president of russia. it does not excuse him, of is of his talk or see that there's also been a reaction from france. so for instance,

the french foreign ministry. you said that russia failed to create the necessary conditions for a fair and free election at the head of the european union's diplomacy shows that beryl, he said that the election lacked fairness and openness, and he said that it quote unquote, it was backed by repression. and intimidation, which is kind of interesting because there's just a few days prior to the start of the boat and you again, the parliament officially said that they were not going to look after the selection now. and then we're not gonna pay much attention to it. but i think mister bottles the just a remarks they just prove that they simply impossible. i mean, if we were to talk about some random tiny, exotic state somewhere in the i don't know, pacific ocean then. sure. you could probably ignore a presidential election there, but we're talking about the biggest country in the world with a nuclear arsenal. it's simply impossible to ignore the election of the next. the president to the french mental president mcdonald has actually made some comments.

and we think we, it has been quite a vocal especially, you know, just to remind you, some of his recent controversial comments about the idea he threw, threw around this idea of possibly sending nato troops. would you please you claim that kind of created quite a stir even among his allies with a nato. so now he says that he can congratulate putting on his victory because of the recent debt to offer us as a, as a position activist to the i'll explain the bombing at c. however, it himself is under criticism from his own french legislators who say that just by making these comments about nato and ukraine, he did put in a favor because this immediate reaction which follows from other member them that need to member states who quickly said in the key stage quickly said they were not looking into a, a direct military confrontation with russia. it just showed that there was

a division in nato as an alliance when it comes to its approach to, to russian. but i think the more the most um, i'd say what you should, comments and i would range these the comments actually from a plane from disapproval to condemnation and then just plain. it's just a really strange comment that came out of last year. the president of the country says that rush, that just simply should not exist. i mean, how do you actually evaluate that? and imagine if, say vladimir important made a similar con, comments regarding lots here. i don't think the reaction would be as bold, but of course there was also a comment from vladimir zalinski, the president of ukraine, who's called this election illegitimate. but he actually has raised criticism from one of the french politicians, the head of the patriots party. who said that zalinski, when he doesn't have a saying this, because he actually canceled the presidential election in his own country,

just which was supposed to take basically as much the height of impedance. zalinski this morning he allowed himself to criticize the russian presidential election. while he himself had cancelled the ukrainian presidential election, which was scheduled for march 2024 after having already cancelled the parliamentary election in his country last october. just to wrap up sort of the international reaction. i think that the, the, the fact that there's, there's, that there's a different reaction over there. also support rush and congratulating which puts in right now. and those who are basically condemning this election. it just shows that there's a, it shows the by polarity of the world, which is actually something that put in and he's allies are trying to build and it sort of shows that it already exists, which definitely intimidates people empowering the west. so that's what the west reaction to of course today. well,

so sort of bracing the official date 10 years quite met. so we'll stop. will they were re united with russia. i mean, you've got a personal element to this. i mean, you uh, i think that in the run up to the referendum see you, i'm not in the east will some of the preparations go and can you just share your experience with you? i was working as a correspondent for our tea and went 1st to ukraine to key if uh for the protests which led to the cool, which i witness myself and then immediately realize that it was the time to go with the crimea, because the things weren't celebrating quite fast, and when i came to crimea, i saw it with my own eyes. i saw the state that people were in. it felt like they were lost. it felt like they were forgotten. you know, they needed protection. it was all pretty evident to me. they were actually coming up to a journalist from russia and thanking us for showing the world what the situation was. they were like on the ground. then it was so clear that so they wanted the.