the the just behind me is the very hawks of this fall off country at house music festivals, christmas mall kids. the big 3 day parades and today it was hosting a concept to celebrate the 10th out of the 3 of crime is reunification with russia, with flooding met through 10, congratulating the nation on this historic day. crimea is the 1st and foremost, the people who carried faith or seem to fatherland to the dictates, i see, have never separated themselves from russia. and this is what allowed could i need to return to the common family i need the shuttle. meanwhile, the returning head of states out special praise for those who costs their presidential pilots and regions coming under constant attacks by you breeding

forces which didn't stop even after the voting dropped on congratulations to let them or opinions election. when i came in from around the world with india and china, i'm on the latest send, their best wishes that's in contrast to the criticism of calling the nation heard from the west. the live for most go with this is our children are still welcome to the program. my name's unit noise. after 3 days of voting with the con thing. now don't love them or putting how's of all the russian presidential election with more than 87 percent of the vote of the set to leave the country for the next 6 years of

the a very warm welcome to our see international. i'm 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 2020 for washing presidential election. so what do we know? 3 days of virtual pallets, accounts counted automatic boots and has secured his victory with more than 87 percent of the vote. so he will be up the home of this vault country for the next 6 years. people across russia today also celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the reunification of the black sheep, and instead of of crimea with russia and a huge celebratory concept was held on the famous couples of red squad,

just behind me was like my boots and himself making a surprise appearance that i gave there was yeah. different. but it is my heart. i agree to. oh and congratulate you on the celebration we did the unification of crimea instead of us to port with the russia. exactly 10 years ago. it's a tier on red square on the same stage is i remembered that claim here is often close to an unsinkable aircraft carrier. this is what led me to do. the idea of seeing that green mia has returned to its native harbor, even though what crimea is not only a strategically important territory. this is not only our history, our traditions, and the pride of russia when it gets to try me. otherwise, it's the 1st and foremost, the people who are the resident would save us a couple of cry me and they are our pride because they carries facing in the fatherland. who through the decades they have never separated themselves from russia. and this is what allowed will, could, i mean, to return to common beautiful families store thousands of people all around. these

is a big, big home for lots of happy faces and lots of russian, the flags. and if you pay attention to the, to the same to the stage, right, we hardly says, cried, made a rush to serve a stop of 10 years to get the that's because had people on just celebrate the results of the election of the presidential election. of course, but also it's been 10 years, but it's been 10 years since the craig made up became part of the russian federation, again, was not alone on the stage when it comes to my profile, gets all the candidates and i use the 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 ship it all of us. remember how actively vladimir putin has done every thing to support the aspirations of quite me and people, and help them to return home here and yeah,

russia and crimea is one home language. those times were turbulent, but there was no other option, but to return home or the we remember those happy faces in all these 10 years and it was just 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 way of congratulations? no, of course it wasn't just supports and everybody movies were just celebrating the occasion . so vitamin pulled is the conky dogs under is the trustees. many of them, roy here, mingling with the crowd as well. we had a chance to talk to some of them the other today. i most definitely celebrate 2 things that was the 1st is the flawless and undisputed victory of vladimir putin. in the 2nd one of 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 crimea feel like a part of it. and you brought up the rushes regions, demonstrate great unity. now somewhere vladimir putin. one more of those else where he one less but everywhere 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 president we are we got we are here with russia. i'm in general, i have to tell you basically getting here was the challenge in itself because

central most to as being completed the beloved, entirely white, massive crowds of people working on the sun has already said you're in most colt bucks via all the red slides has right, as they have to tell you, because well, so many people have decided to show up here one thing, but i noticed in the super many young trouble to make one but maybe 25 years old. so i'm very, very young. crowd generations are just as crowded. it says, oh, really i'm here. we're seeing though, seeing far so people don't think you can just kind of flip being king on the thing and very, very, very choose to. so a very 1st the most, the searching wrapped up the russian board,

the 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 the golf. and it says that as always, it was civilian infrastructure that was targeted with at least 10 residential houses down that you can see fuel cells on the screens that off to securing his convincing victories. ottoman did meet with the 3 of the candidates who are in the running alongside him, felt the 3 congratulate said, the president elect. i may express that they will absolutely willing and ready to contribute in any way that they can and to help address any issues that they talked about and raised during that road. campaigning unlocked the length and breadth of this fost country. just to recap the late from the results. oh but it's counted. it's not i'm a teaching has secured over 87 percent of the vote. communist policy content. nikolai howard ton of he spoke 1st off the page and he took 2nd place around 4.3

percent. then you can see on your screen. so i've got this off at dublin cough who came and said perhaps disappointing, but a new face not a bad showing for an incredibly young and kiddie a very vicious pass and someone to watch out for in the future. and then of course, rounding ourselves to full place, that was the o. d p also landed slootsky audio. i was joined in the studio by don kovachick, who himself was an international of, of all of these elections. and he gave his take on the west, in the accusations about the lack of democracy in the vote. 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. to put it in one way, a 3 capitalist candidate say add a copy of this candidate that came in 2nd. so in the united states, i don't have

a socialist candidate to choose from. i have 2 capitalist candidates who are basically the same. i can choose from one who's completely senile and the other who's basically a carnival barker. that's the soft oven calls, expressed it such movements uh, concerns about the on the well in ukraine. but the people who criticize the make it sound as if in the room nations on to will cracked true and people can't do that. so just to, to a penny that just, you know, put the club now pavement. 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, i think we should bump syria occupied those oil fields. who palm yemen. what a true anti will can do 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 cornell,

west who will not make a dent in the elections and he's getting no 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. and the last candidate that really tried to counter that are the last president who really tried to book 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. and it 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 little message about my boots and was the indian prime minister. read for moody one. congratulations to mister vladimir, putting on his re election as the president of the russian federation. i look forward to working together to throw those trends in the time tested, special and privilege to strategic partnership between india and russia in the years to come a whole lot of country, the congratulated dogs ultimate both. then you can just go on and on. really, there's other buyers on this belive who is cuz aka song is the youngest also is biggest on this sean all score. so we just heard from the indians. i'm interested in a new movie who congratulated automatically within. so there was a lot of congratulation messages on twitter, but also several phone calls off uh for adult, the newly elected president. and the uh, in fact also with the. 7 was

a monster 1st uh does. countries to congratulate of delta may have bought into a whole lot of countries, a lot, a lot of reactions forward and getting very warm ones. we've also seen, i'll start in fact uh i'll reach out and, and basically congratulating bother me and put in there also saying that the whole, the does a hayley cooperation between the 2 countries on the force. in fact, uh to wish a lot to me it was the president tools with us will dispute people to see him with more than 87 percent of the votes. clinton has completely won the war against the collective west. i believe it demonstrates the values of the russian people who were leading the way for president vladimir clinton victory montgomery, to say, mocks a long road of vindication and recognition for new russia. a great russia for a multi part of the world. and for a world of balance. so our elder brother vladimir putin as triumphed, ease of good arguments for the world. and for the year 2012, the full amount of money. and grant relations from one of the benefits in russia,

asylum thing on old battlefront send. you a ribbon because your fees warm messages from across the gold floor. well develop within this cause this vest and there's no surprise that which is sort of size king right now. and you can really make that out from the kind of reactions that you're getting a some calling get e will the election some calling. it's refreshing a some also calling get seniors, sun calling your illegal. so i'm calling is far with a point to means that order reaction to 2 more messages data according in, from across the world for about the messages that are sort of over t, t. all of these messages from the west social states. now the indian to us for as a prime minister that is entering through more the he's got to meet the 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 west coast. because it just continued if by natural relationship it's partnership, it's friendship with law school. oh there is this whole a control. let's see you around or is remember as india continue to buy one more own from uh, from law school and the western countries, the gift son, 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 also his tablet administered, the, the indian and exxon affairs administered up to a search on guard. also, the engine, oil minister, for example, hard deep seemed 3 or then standing up. in fact, also for russia in that sense, i would say no very interesting because also to an election year for india and the movie is seeking a code to on the election starts some way to april 19th of april. and the result would be announced on june b, j b. that is not even what he's but of his body,

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 done with some movie or the congratulations to pitch and coming in from the global south are and somewhat stark contrast to what we're hearing from the west. the outcome was never in doubt. cremeans controls absolutely everything, including the elections. so what's the point of them? this may have been an election, but it certainly wasn't a contest. it was stage managed east as the election to place and what it called highly restricted environment. such a reaction from, uh, western officials and even in western media didn't really come to the surprise, especially after pumping so many 1000000000. so for the very taxpayers 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 ide should 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 tangle of media coverage. this was an incredibly on democratic process. and certainly him being president of russia, it does not excuse him, of is of his autocracy. there's also been a reaction from france, for instance, the french foreign ministry said that russia failed to create the necessary, the conditions for a fair and for your 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

it just the 2 days prior to the start of the boat, the european parliament officially said that they were not gonna look after the selection. i guess they were not gonna pay much attention to it. but i think mister bottles, us the remarks they just prove that they simply impossible. i mean a for, to talk about some random tiny, exotic state somewhere in the i don't know, pacific oceans and sure you could probably ignore the 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 president. the french of president crohn has actually made some comments and the recently has been quite to a vocal especially, you know, just to remind you some of his recent uh, controversial comments about uh, the idea he threw through around this idea of possibly sending nato troops to clean, that kind of created quite a stir even among his allies with the nato. so now he says that he can congratulate

food and on his victory because of the recent debt to offer us as a position active as to alex and the bombing at sea. however, 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 followed from other member natal member states who quickly said in the key states quickly said they were not looking into a direct military confrontation with russia. it just showed that there is a division in nato as an alliance when it comes to its approach to, to russia. but i think the more the most. so i'd say what you should comment and i would range these the comments actually from a plane from of disapproval to condemnation. and then uh, just plain, it's just

a really strange comment that came out of last year. the president of the country says that russian just simply should not exist. i mean, how do you actually evaluate that? and imagine if uh, save, letting me important made a similar con, the comment regarding lots. yeah. 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 a legitimate. but he actually has raised criticism from one of the french politicians, the head over the patriots party. who said that savanski really doesn't have a saying this because he actually cancelled the presidential election in his own country just which was supposed to take place with march. the height of impudence, 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, there's a different reaction over there also support russia and congratulate inputs put in right now. and those who are basically condemning this election. it just shows that there's a, it shows the bi polarity of the world, which is actually something that put him and he's allies are trying to build and it sort of shows that it already exists, which definitely intimidates a people empowering the west. the didn't just over 4 months front will host the 2024 on the big games, but sport itself has been pushed to the sidelines. some want this week with the countries president preferring to focus on politics. he said power as well demand

russia stages ceased far in the ukraine conflict for the duration of the event. i'd say to tell them to cease fire june linking the muscle to it. it has always been like this to you probably be asked. yes, a reminder. the inter enough sto limping, committee has 4 big russian athletes from competing in the parish games under their country's flag. they also will be able to take part in the opening and closing. certainly some of the subsequent power olympic games to the president of the russian olympic committee said that they will not boy called the event despite all the restrictions. while the ios, the vice president stated that only some 40 russian updates will be allowed entry to be a little bit this year to, to restrictions on the country sports clubs. this prost live now to par us on speak to arthur on political unless nicholas markovich nicole was good to

see if thanks for your time at rushes view has constantly being that it is open to peaceful negotiations on ending the conflict. cut this be the start of something like that, or is something else that play here from the french liter. as i would like to say, i would have to say that finally a manual, rac macro has come to reason, and he sees that the only way out of this conflict is negotiation and peace. unfortunately, he is very known in france as the president of on and all that means at the same time, she says black in the morning, white in the evening. and i think he's again playing that the game. this is not coherent with what he's been saying. these past days, russia bashing saying that russia was not a great power saying that france was do whatever it can to stop russia from winning . and then all of a sudden he says, well, we will ask russia to go to a chicken. it's a practice a choose during busily picks because we are,

that's in despair to the with the games. this makes no sense. this is not at all aligned with what he's been saying these past weeks and furious, infuriating his own military partners. and i think again this is uh this, uh, i would say uh uh, what is the macro and shows he's telling the people what they want to hear. right? yeah, he's not, he's not, he's not to hear it. and unfortunately, i don't think that this is a real sign of goodwill on his behalf. yeah. with that in mind. but also the other side that's about russia is open to negotiations. i bought, i bought a piece at, that's what they have constantly said. i'm want to reiterate how a possible, how likely is it the president put in may grant money on mccord's request. you think i to oh, i think that and so this is, i mean, president clinton has said many times that he was in favor of peace that he spoke about the assistance recruited time cats in 2014 and wouldn't read the russians. and a lot of the people outside of the,

i would say the collective west understood what was going on, advocated for peace before this would escalate a. and i think again bruce and interviews are the president brings to that. he was open to peace, but you have to be to, to negotiate. and unfortunately, i was a broker is behind as an skin today. and ukraine are from nato, there at madison countries. and they're not showing a lot of signs of goodwill. we have seen in fighting between them when michael said that he wanted to send a soldiers on the ground. and we did see that that was some sort of red line for other nato countries. but i think at one moment or another, we would have to have people from the west already funding can use made and funding the ukraine because that's not a far south. today's events as fighting of ukrainian armies fighting only because only because it is backed by the west. there's receiving funding, but from the i m f, it's really sending something from the, you know, from the us or them. so if we take that out with what stops immediately. so if the west has to come to its senses and say ok,

now it's time for peace because this is paramount, then this is what we really want. i mean, before 12 and in europe in western europe every day that was built for peace, we're not seeing it. i think that they would find somebody to negotiate with them in the president today. if somebody is strong enough with the data rock would come to the for, to the for, for i said, let's discuss. yeah, you're going to need a lot of that resistance from the u. s. the warranty in europe. to do that, that let's wait and see. absolutely, can i put another point to as well, both the olympic committee, mr. mccall and talked a lot about restricting russian athletes and also ballad russian. we shouldn't forget the rest also put in this bracket. but little is said about those athletes from israel, a country which is waging a deadly offensive in gaza hub for is that. and it's not fair at all. and this is again, these are the double standards of the west that i would say the, but i think that took you to the figure today is 75 percent of the world just

cannot bear any longer. how can you say that you're, you're banding a country from participating in the olympics because it is waging war and not apply that rule to everybody. it makes no sense. a saudi arabia a couple of years ago, was waging war against, i guess, duties. how do we use in any sanctions? have we seen anything? nope. many countries have been tornado illegally went to war against yugoslavia. had those member come in in the nineties and 1999. how those countries been bad, have they receive such as no. this is again, just an example. we have so many of the double standards that the west wants to apply to the, to the world. if you are lined onto west, if you think that america should be the center of globalization, then you can do practically whenever you want and you will be, will be, know, sanctions will be passed on. no, i with international events. however, if you go out of balance that you are no longer it worries, you're not at all aligned on what washington says on what washington protectiveness wants you to do. then all of a sudden you get found to get sanctioned. and this is why so many of the people in the multiple, which is emerging today,

are sick and tired of these double standards, which has been applied since at least the end of world war 2. and again, this is, this is just not normal. if there isn't enough for large sites, everybody is not the case. and this is, i think this actually shameful for the olympic uh, the organization, the ticket and to not do so. they've got a coordination committee. this is shameful. don't forget that dispute of, of, of the, the other piece of the, when they had this, choose the secretary at that's the way they called it with the kings, which in wars against each other, we go to with coffee to choose so that all of their assets could compete and feel free and feel secure. that was the real idea of the olympics. not telling one country stop the 1st stop the friday, but don't send us your athletes. this has nothing to do with doing that experience . and again, this is a proof of are coming from the best and the okay. yeah, it's also good. nothing to do with. they asked me to themselves, how about you? you've got people who's being training their livelihoods, their,

their entire futures up, stick stuck in limbo, not knowing, or whether they will be allowed to compete under neutral flag, whatever at the they're waiting to, to hear what's happening. it's, it just appears to be a lot of political points fighting up the moment from the russian leader is, is that is up to direct to say, i know it's exactly that. it sits at 6. exactly that if, if again, as you just said, the other countries this note is waging war, they're not being banned throughout this, they're going to be competing. why is all, why do we have these? these bounce on on the asked is coming out of rush or bell rush. again. this is bad for the spirit of your picks. this is extremely bad even for the pick themselves. we've got the better prominent competitors coming out of this country. some of the best assets and some different fields come out of the restaurant dollar shop. they will not be able to compete. if they're not competing, i mean people through in these different competitions. they know the wind that they may have one because some of the better competitors were not there. and some of

them even are either a lot of people are these professional athletes or these attitude, having very high level api. they like the competition is that's what stimulates them. that's what makes them go further and tries to get to the different metals. if you're taking out some of the best app, out of that, that doesn't make any sense. and even if they were the worst that happens, as you said, they worked so long and they put so much into that. you asked me to be able to participate in the olympics if we really respect dispute. because they were at the beginning and the spirit of the other things as they were set out the appeal to put out that when he lost them back again in the modern days a so that the countries to come together around the noble, i would say spirit and the values of sport again to west is turning that away from it's from it's, i do a and it's a and it's, and it's, it's, it's a shame. again, this is the, the, what's missing up, a wonderful a we're practice going through the world has been going through for years and what size just throwing it down. the drain, look like good to see you. and as.