party he was able in the culture evolution to attack the communist party rather strangely fifty years ago well she didn't ping is the servant of the party and is sort of fitting into the party structures even if he's in some way sort of molding them to he's own political program that's got to fit within the party philosophy and for most people they will be worried about the issues of you know kind of a good quality growth a good quality living environment good quality you know kind of jobs for the children they are spending a lot of money on educating these bread and butter issues are the same in china as they are everywhere and if failure to really address those because china does have huge kong kind of challenges will be very very serious we shouldn't be complacent about the condition of china we see a confident strong leadership now and that's good because the world has got nothing stability in it this is you know kind of at the moment look stable the china's significant issues in terms of its economic structure its environment its kind of even inequalities and these. i have not go

the communist party has governed china for decades and president xi jinping could become the leader serving chinese people for years to come the two term limit on a president's rule is about to end china's national people's congress is expected to amend the constitution to allow the president to take the job beyond ten years the limit was meant to ensure there was no repeat of the mao zedong era we will get to our guests in a moment but first adrian brown reports from beijing tiananmen square has been the setting for some of the most defining moments in recent chinese history not all of them peaceful now a new political drama is unfolding this carefully choreographed gathering involves almost three thousand delegates and almost as many journalists like parliament the media in china is controlled by the policy offering uniform coverage. the national people's congress normally last for ten days but this year it's being extended by five days possibly to give delegates more time to discuss proposed changes to china's constitution which could mean she. being president for life the issue is overs

of the anniversary of the communist party foundation you know chinese people want their country to be strong and have good status and she jingping being the spokes person for that message that's popular i mean he's popular because the message is popular and it's a nationalistic message but it is a message about china having its justice you know that just moment of these renascence after a tough you know modern history restored so they you know he's on i think secure ground for most people though it will not help that they have a perpetual president if their living standards are impacted this is not the time of mts dong mao zedong was a almost autonomous from the commies party he was able in the culture evolution to attack the communist party rather strangely fifty years ago well she didn't ping is the servant of the party and is sort of fitting into the party structures even if he's in some way sort of molding them to he's own political program that's got to fit within the party philosophy and for most people they will be worried about the issues of you know kind of a good quality gro

dean in front of the communist party the night pretty much as expected for him just look at the. international. covering it and b c news and c.b.s. news in the states talking about a landslide victory for. sky news just breaking with just a couple of minutes ago saying russia's election commission has declared the winner of the country's presidential election polls just to force him in office with over seventy percent of the vote on the. getting over that some people said that psychological going to be a big thing out of a big mandate big positive mandate for them from the public but i think those numbers shall we according to the preliminary results we're guessing the first place there's never a. three point eight that in fact in place that have a great theme in it from the communist party here to the fourteen point four percent that face going to hear enough the from the liberal democratic party people think that might take the stand ballots counted start. to actually second prosecutors here it's. been for so i think it's a long. time but then counted. out of the three or four

kind of twelve percent where does that leave the communist party that's record low numbers for the communist party that's the worst that they have done since the fall of the soviet union now last night we were at the headquarters and a long time communist party chief zyuganov he was there and he addressed the press along with the candidate. and it was an interesting exchange now one reporter actually asked the question and said you know we'll good dean and continue to represent the communist party in these elections let's remember when zyuganov ran last time he got seventeen percent this time they didn't even pull twelve percent so when that question was raised it got a little interesting in the room this is what happened. we're going to which is. what's interesting about your book is that if you're going to give me. a bit of the killers if we're. going to. get the users. which is good news. now good demon he's not actually a member of the communist party he's just the candidate who they chose to represent them in the election and he's quite wealthy and he's the director of the lenin coopera

german communist party recommended area for the international linen school this was where the young communist revolutionaries received their training the curriculum was well suited to milk is taste military tactics weapons and communications technology setting explosives politics and economics and the history of the workers' movement. understood that we students knew each other by aliases by mining was powered by. france for conspiracy it was part of our everyday life and. his final appraisal gave him a mixed report. his character flaws had been evident to the instructor. by bus in thought past displays many moments of arrogance even complacency in self-importance that was coupled with a tendency to be a loner. the highlight for the students was the annual may day parade on red square that was where milka saw his great role model joseph stalin for the first time albeit from a distance. he's of that and counter with comrade style and moved me deeply. he said he was a great man often and not just a teacher to me. he was like a father to me in the shuffle. place. we are to abortion was a very de

wealthy businessman turned communist party candidate then came second in this race for the family was at his headquarters in moscow on sunday and joining us live now is kay libby had a very long night. twelve percent. and when does that leave the communist party well that's record low numbers it's actually the lowest they've gotten sense the fall of the soviet union and last night at the headquarters we heard not only from the candidate pavel gruden but we also heard from a long time communist party leaders you gonna now he ran in the previous elections last time he got seventeen percent and this time they didn't even get a full twelve percent so when we heard his remarks he seemed a little bit disappointed in the results this is what we heard from as you've gone up. just as the story which is. the dressing room you're. going to give me. a bit of the killers if we're. going to. get the decision. to go through which is good because. now. he was actually he's not actually a member of the communist party he was simply the candidate they selected and he was only selected two months ago ki

his parents joined the newly founded german communist party in one nine hundred nineteen. in one nine hundred twenty three after a clash with the police his father was sentenced to one and a half years in prison he was the breadwinner and his absence was a blow to the entire family that also had an impact on young ery. at fourteen he became a member of the young communist league. as a young man he was an active member of the communist party he wanted to transform the weimar republic the oppression of the working class had to be overcome found his true calling as a member of the paramilitary wing of the communist party. when i saw that a worker was being persecuted by the henchmen the bandits of the bush was he i felt outraged. when school was up so i was educated in molded into a fighter class fighter for the great cause of our party for the idea of marxism leninism. mr me do you remember the trial. which strong i got so many of them hundreds of. times it does is all this really necessary the ridiculous hand the silly wheelchair act in court. just this constant play acting

the communist party. or you know they are not successful they have not they have no option but to get out of this systemic crisis then look to work with us and talk knowledge of the society the russian society wants to change and what renewal it wants course which would lead to construction and new things and innovation not stealing and corruption and this is how this has been a slow going to actual campaign now. our country. before they put it past years have been. unable to discuss the actual problems we. propose to the authorities and to come to our towns to look at our local youth and. prizes to look at our results and successes to look and see why mr good seen him has. succeeded how he thought his money and surprises and how they achieved outstanding results with great specialists high salaries and so on and so forth unfortunately the authorities when went against that they tried to be smirched to. go to try to attack. we attempted to creates the with. the. good luck of. civility leftist forces. and

communist party in china. i think saw and that is so once again you know in terms of our teaching things political savvy something that he's been able to realize yes the truck the chinese communist party to do is a lot more different than it was in the past you have a lot more competent personalities within the chinese communist party all you have to do is look into the seven member standing political role which is the core leadership of the party and you find the likes of you could young and one one who inning and others who are extremely savvy people so you can be of course since you came to power and when you the team was able to consolidate that over time by reading up arrivals and getting people who are who support him to be on his side and so i think he's he's taken a very. forward planned approach towards consolidating his power within it different times companies are i think he's done it certainly from the votes you saw . yesterday. being has achieved his this stance but if he fails to fulfill the expe

seeming has hijacked the entire communist party in the country. so we are back to just one person doing the talking one person making the decisions for the entire party. we are back to the period of the so-called one wars echo chamber. the president's influence is now felt in many aspects of life here she jumping thought is now required reading for all party members study groups of spread to businesses and universities. parliament also voted to expand the president's campaign against corruption joining a five year purge more than one and a half million party officials have been punished analysts say the campaign is a guys for getting rid of potential rivals for now at least she would appear to have no. adrian brown al-jazeera beijing. still ahead. of a. conservative president sebastian pinera is back in office and ten months off to a crushing elections last fall says national father gamble son and change depending on the fact that possible. hello there another snow maker is developing across north america we can see in the satellite picture plenty

that wasn't an area that went 80% for the communist party. she made real inroads and it is like going after those voters. >> host: what was it like to interview her? what were your thoughts? >> using credibly smart, a masterful political strategist. i think your ideas are dangerous, i think if she came to power she would take france in a very dangerous direction but she is a savvy politician and shouldn't be underestimated. having interviewed a lot of politicians in various countries in my career she was one of the smartest and most interesting interviews because she wanted to have a debate. it was an argument. she wanted to convince me and failed to convince me of her views but it was a real debate. one of the errors people make is dismiss politicians, a bunch of crazies, a bunch of fascists, a bunch of neo-nazis and we shouldn't listen to them but in fact they are winning. she won 34% of the vote in france. that a lot of people, double what her father won 15 years before. they need to be taken seriously. if you don't agree with them you nee

party now while that's record low numbers for the communist party now we heard from both the leader of the communist parties uganda as well as the candidate have done and we heard from them at the office as the preliminary results were being announced and they did not seem happy you. just heard which. one of the jewish people looking at what he. did. with the words of the killers if you were your teacher is going to be going to. which it was. now good done in is not actually a member of the communist party he is just the candidate that they endorse and he's interesting really the director of the farm cooperative the lead in farms. provides a lot of services to those who work in them they produce strawberries and such and furthermore he is himself quite wealthy now it's also interesting to note he did make a promise on the campaign trail that if he were to get anything less than fifteen percent he would shave off his iconic mustache so now folks are waiting to see if he fulfills his promise and actually shaves off that iconic mustache as he promised to do on the campaign trail so a l

the chinese communist party today is a lot more different than it was in the past you have a lot more competent personalities within the chinese communist party all you have to do is look into the politburo the seven member standing political which is the core leadership of the party and you find the likes of you could jump in one one tuning and others who are extremely savvy people. do you think of course since you came to power and when you the team was able to consolidate that over time by reading up rivals and getting people who are who support him to be on his side having said what i just did i'm not an apologist or supporting the idea how come the news that we seem yesterday i think on balance this is not a very positive step for china we're living in a very complex time a very complicated global economy and it shouldn't be left to just one person in any government no matter how small or large to precise over the matters of the military economics and society and so for and so the risks for teaching being have have grown tremendously he's put himself in this position where he's h

party. with him as it heard of course. there is in china is taking place on the same day as a by election in hong kong where the pro-democracy camp is aiming to win back the power in the legislature police have detained a number of protesters gathered outside the polling station where the city's leader cast her ballot election is seen as a test to gauge reaction to beijing's increased interference in the city's governance syrian government and russian air strikes killed forty people on saturday and into dozens and well the single women and children are among the latest victims of the offensive to take the last remaining rebel stronghold to syria's capital government forces have captured the town of misrata affected the spacing the enclave into three parts. he was present says north korea has promised to halt missile tests ahead of his meeting with leader kim jong un donald trump was speaking at a rally in pennsylvania there's been no official comment from pyongyang on the proposed meeting no

to china now with a wooden communist party has paved the way to remain in office and definitely as a voter to abolish term limits for the president and vice president. has. an army of chinese legislators came to the great hall of the people knowing what was expected of them a display of uniform loyalty to the man who could now be china's leader for life. the constitution is in accordance with our country's reality and the wishes of all the people. this is a big event a very memorable moment in our political life. and historic and controversial moment as well the almost three thousand delegates had been told the amendments were needed because the challenges china faces require a strong leader and the united party. in china's version of legislative government new laws and constitutional changes are always passed unanimously. and so it proved to be the case again on sunday when delegates approved twenty one constitutional revisions including the scrapping of term limits for the president and vice president but there was perhaps token opposition to votes against and three abstentions con

party's policy to amend the constitution specially to incorporate the xi jinping thought of the new era of socialism chinese characteristics into the long. brown has more now from beijing or trying there's national people's congress doesn't do surprises so the outcome of this vote was never really in doubt two thousand nine hundred fifty eight delegates voted to amend the constitution there were three abstentions and two opposed to these changes now that is probably a token opposition that's often orchestrated a times like this to give a veneer of transparency but certainly president xi jinping has got his way back in october of course president she's known was in try and in the constitution making him the most powerful leader since chairman mao president xi jinping has one priority right now and that is to overhaul china's communist party to make it fit for purpose but what we're also seeing is not so much a one party state as one man rule president xi jinping is not just president he's also head of the military as well as party chief but a lot of people are asking why the presiden

last night we were at the headquarters and a long time communist party chief zyuganov he was there and he addressed the press along with the candidate pavel. and it was an interesting strange now one reporter actually asked the question and said you know we'll do dean and continue to represent the communist party in these elections let's remember when zyuganov ran last time he got seventeen percent this time they didn't even poll twelve percent so when that question was raised it got a little interesting in the room this is what happened just yes much everybody knew but it's just. one of those the grinch in the in your blood is the humor and one of the big you know there is. a space you. never use them you know. and it was you know it was when you do it you're going to. get the decision that you're going to see. good demon he's not actually a member of the communist party he's just the candidate who they chose to represent them in the election and he's quite wealthy and he's the director of the lenin co-operative or this farming cooperative that essentially provides quite a few service

party, he oi’ chairman of the communist party, he or he has both positions and doesn't need to leave them so he could have stayed on but obviously he wants to have a title of president as well and if they bothering to change the constitution in order to allow him to stay on, i think it is fair to say that is exactly what he is going to do. stephen donatella is a little bit about criticism. is there any? i mean, there must be some. and how is the states dealing with it? sure, i mean, look, in social media, those sorts of things, there is kind of, you know, jokes about this and a bit of criticism but, you know, there is nothing along the lines of a public debate about this, he wouldn't be anything on television that even questions the sensible nature of this decision. like, it is going to go through and basically the only way in which it is never mentioned it in the most positive of ways. but to tell the truth but they have really done is kind of downplayed it. you know, they will talk about a few constitutional changes, national people's congress, i don't think for many chinese people

that was in area that used to ego 80% for the communist party. it's all about going after those voters. >> what was it like to interview her? >> i think she is incredibly smart. i think her ideas are dangerous and i think if she came to power it she would take france in a very dangerous direction. but she is a savvy politician and she should not bee underestimated. having interviewed a lot of politicians in various countries in my careerlo she waf one of the smartest and also the most interesting.in it was a real debate. some of the errors that they make is they dismiss the politicians. she wants 33 to 34% of the vote. that is double what her father won 15 years before. the need to be taken seriously in if you don't agree with them you need to have a debate with them. and really can test those ideas. does brexit play into this argument. the election last week in italy is just the latest pointin on the trend line of what's happening in europe. i can't say i'm surprised. immigration has been a huge issue in italy. and make their way up the rest awa

this new body will be able to punish those outside the communist party. what this could involve is people being ta ken party. what this could involve is people being taken away four months on end without lawyer is and at a secret location being forced to confess their corruption. and groups like amnesty international and other human rights organisations have been very critical of this. this will be unveiled and some of the parties say they need this to wipe out corruption but, of course, these are very heavy—handed and extrajudicial methods of wiping out corruption. of course, a lot of other material will be discussed. we will see new appointments to leaders, the economy, the environment and other issues stop so an awful lot of the next two weeks to talk about. also making news today: south korea is sending a high—level delegation to north korea on monday for talks. the discussions are expected to focus on the prospect of resuming dialogue between pyongyang and washington. that delegation is then expected to travel to the united states. the syrian pre

last night we were at the headquarters and a long time communist party chief is the gonna he was there and he addressed the press along with the candidate. and it was an interesting strange now one reporter actually asked the question and said you know we'll do dean and continue to represent the communist party in these elections let's remember when zyuganov ran last time he got seventeen percent this time they didn't even poll twelve percent so when that question was raised it got a little interesting in the room this is what happened just yes it was everybody knew but it's just. one of the guys the groom's family and your blood is there you go in the mills and they're going there and there is a bit of suspicion of a space you. never used to you know. and it was you know it was with me because she was going that he was you know you're going to. be good team and he's not actually a member of the communist party he's just the candidate who they chose to represent them in the election and he's quite wealthy and he's the director of the lenin cooperative or this farming cooperative that e

the communist party in france was a significant and powerful force for decades. they've diminished and almost disappeared and a lot of the voters haven't gone to other left-wing parties. they've gone to the far right and she said i will protect your welfare state and excellent health care and child care, i will protect the working class and then the voters that used to work for the left are not hearing that from anyone else, they look at the socialist party and they are not talking about the working class and their interest anymore. this is what he is to get from the far left parties and they don't give it to us anymore. it's been very effective and very conscious strategy. it's where there've been huge refugee camps and she said i won 45% there in the regional election and then a year later she won 52% and that was an area that used to go easy% for the communist party. and it is by going after those voters. >> host: what was it like to interview her, what were your thoughts? >> guest: she was incredibly smart and a masterful political strategist. her ideas are d

candidate previously it had been a long time communist party leader is you've got enough now when when good done in was named as the candidate it was noted he was an interesting choice now he is the head of the lenin farm co-operative which is a cooperative farm that produces strawberries among other products and it provides a much higher standard of living in wages for the workers in it and furthermore it provides health care and education for the children of those who work at the lenin cooperative farm now as we wait the final count it is interesting to note that gruden did promise that if you did not receive a solid fifteen percent of the vote that he would actually shave his moustache his iconic mustache a key part of his image he would shave it off if he didn't get a full solid fifteen percent so i'm sure that his supporters are anticipating the final results and seeing if that solid fifteen percent will come in or not so all eyes are on the final count but it looks like the communist party did get a solid second place in the election. yeah call it was expected but the race is a d

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why has the communist party decided to go along with this idea? >> reporter: well, there's a lot of different potential domestic political reasons for that, natalie. i think what you can see this as is really just a coronation of what critics would call a brand-new dictatorship here in china. the likes of which we have not seen since the guy right behind me, mao zedong, the pounder of communist china. what you now have seen xi jinping do is completely take over the government apparatus here in china, and really it started late last year during the 19th party congress where xi jinping was re-elected as general secretary of the communist party, also he had xi jinping thought, as it's known, written into the party constitution. what analysts will tell you is by doing that, that made him the most powerful chinese political figure since mao zedong. if you criticize xi, in essence you're criticizing the communist party itself. if you ask why these delegates at the national people's congress are going along with this, even if many of them have differing

party, but he obviously wa nts communist party, but he obviously wants that title as well president of china and that is why this vote has happened today. and a lot of viewers may be asking themselves, so what? is one chinese communist boss interchangeable for another, they all wear the same hair dye and the same suit, what is different about xijinping, what same suit, what is different about xi jinping, what difference does same suit, what is different about xijinping, what difference does it make if he rules forever? well, it isa make if he rules forever? well, it is a very good question. i mean, the obvious response to that is that should any leaderjust obvious response to that is that should any leader just have obvious response to that is that should any leaderjust have that much power? it doesn't matter how good you are. and this was china's one form of checks and balances type system. we all thought that every ten years, there would be a new leader, but then you people in, and so one person cannot amass leader, but then you people in, and so one person cannot amass that much

among others that their ultimate loyalty must be to the communist party as he put it the party and the media were part of the same family. sitting here. having grown up in the era of mao xi jinping accepted the education of that time and believe the propaganda that arrow's useful is return to the propaganda model of the cultural revolution with its emphasis on strong leadership and cult of personality however you want to disassociate himself from the negative side of the culture of lucius and just make use of the power of the cult of personality and then. under the current regime there is a much greater control over the press than we've seen previously the censorship has become much more severe than the journalists who don't toe the party line now receive treatment and they do actually very old only puts out the good news and reduce the so-called negative energy or whatever is critical control. the press is often unprecedented of. another kind of overarching trend that's happened during sheen's that ministration is his drive to circumvent the bureaucracy by putting his trusted boy list

there was a time where the communist party would have 99 point something. but the ha rd have 99 point something. but the hard man, the man who represents russia, all that is going on this week with the spy issue plays perfectly into it is us against them. it is a big drop for him and before sunday's election, we are going to see russia's response to the uk and i think putin thinks it wasted his advantage. —— play is. —— playeds. —— plays. the republicans smell fear on the democrats on the verge of victory. 0ne pennsylvania district which has born the wrong way as far as the other kids will see. it appears to be so. and is very close, the democratic candidate is just a whisker ahead. very much a candidate that is on the right of the democratic party. he reads like a republican, he is not a metropolitan liberal, he is ex— army and so the notes that the democrats have chimed have been very carefully orchestrated in this campaign. it may go into another run—off, it is so may go into another run—off, it is so close, so that the result they be c

party leader good on the who's run several times in previous presidential elections. just very true but it would be just. one of the dressing rooms if you're. going to get rid of this if he's. going. with you but we're going to go over there with your teacher is going to come . that's going to. be crucial because. for some watching the election the biggest intrigue was not about who won but rather about how many votes the communist party counted good in and would secure in a pre-election interview he pledged to shave off his mustache if he got less than fifteen percent in the poll bang grenades interviewer isn't going to let the matter drop he posted this head on his instagram account take a look. with him getting at least eleven does and many will be watching see if he keeps his word so we took the liberty to show you what he might look like if he does. have the right to tell a parent he stands at sixty seven percent that's a little more than the election in twenty trials as you'd expect people from all walks of life came to call. the police i've. got a short. cut .

also as the chairman of the communist party but he obviously wa nts the communist party but he obviously wants this title of president as well or they wouldn't have bothered to make this change. it means, of course, that he is going to be around for some time, i would imagine and so people had better get used to seeing and hearing him as the leader here in china. as you say, that news got a lot of attention but there has been a lot of many other major announcements as well. yes, we could see questions at the press conference about the new anticorruption the press conference about the new anticorru ption body which the press conference about the new anticorruption body which is being set up here at the congress. one of the reasons xijinping has set up here at the congress. one of the reasons xi jinping has so set up here at the congress. one of the reasons xijinping has so much power is because of the widespread anticorru ption crackdown within power is because of the widespread anticorruption crackdown within the communist party. 1.5 million people have been punished and he has made a lo

party in his anti—corruption communist party in his anti—corru ption crackdown and communist party in his anti—corruption crackdown and the feeling was he could not afford to give up power because he had made so many enemies but now this result has come in, anyone who was wondering whether he will stay beyond now, i think there is no question about that and this move to shift from a limit of two terms, this is something which was brought in in the 1980s to stop another chairman mao comment along, that has now been thrown out and you had better get used to seeing xi jinping around because we are going to see him possibly for decades to come. the headlines on bbc news: up to 500 salisbury diners and pub—goers are told to take precautions by england's chief medical officer, after nerve agent traces are found. detective sergeant mike bailey, who fell ill attending to sergei skripal and his daughter, is in a serious but stable condition in hospital. police have paid tribute to his bravery. china's congress approves the removal of term limits for its leader — which effectively allows

and in fact, since the 19th congress of the communist party last october, it was already clear that xi jinping had no intention of ending his power in 2022 or 2023. the big change now is that he is officially confirmed that he will not only not give up power, he will not only not give up power, he will not give up office. will be notice any difference? if you have one strong man who rules in china not just one strong man who rules in china notjust for a decade, one strong man who rules in china not just for a decade, but one strong man who rules in china notjust for a decade, but for a longer, does that make any difference to china's future?|j difference to china's future?” think it will make a huge difference to china's future. in the previous 25 years the communist party of china had an impressive record in getting major policies right. it is a system that has to get its policies right. that happens because the scope for debate within the party has been widened in the last 25 years. that has now been reversed. the debate is narrow. when that happens the risk of mistakes being made

for vietnam. >> in 1920 while still in france, ho chi minh helped found a french communist party. he soon was living in moscow. >> he is given some training by the communist international in organizational techniques, and he is able to create what is officially founded in 1930 as the indochinese communist party. >> uses dozens of alias, he traveled asia, preparing his people to fight for their independence. >> his original name was nguyen tot the than. he only fell into the use of ho chi minh by accident. he got arrested under it and he was stuck with the name he had been arrested under. >> reporter: during world war ii they had some unlikely allies. ho chi minh and his guerrillas joined the fight. >> his main goal was to try to win the friendship of the united states government. >> and i wanted to be a part of the war from day one. >> while ho chi minh battled the japanese, 16-year-old billy waugh growing up in southeastern texas made his first attempt to get into the fight. >> i ran off in 1945 and tried to join the marine corps and asked are you too young? i said i'm 18. he sai

all the votes disappointed the communist party his candidate wealthy businessman publisher dating got less than twelve percent of the result the worst of the politics recent history that seems to have affected routine in so with communist party leader gennady zyuganov from ground several times in previous presidential elections. just just missed it which is. the first group if you're looking for a growing bigger fish for growth. she. looks you've got rid of the killers you have the words with you if you're going to see if you're going to be so sure it's a political way through which you could refuse. to someone in the election the biggest danger was not about who won but rather about how many votes the communist party counted to apply valid within and would secure in a pre-election interview the place to shave off his mistah if we got less than fifteen percent in the polls i mean it's interviewer isn't going to let the matter drop either he posted fish heads on his instagram account and with him getting any twelve percent many will be watching to see if he keeps his word so we took th

from the communist party on fifteen point. from the liberal democratic party on six point eight percent. to fifteen minutes to. three or four percent so it's quickly don't forget those polls on the close forty nine minutes ago the westernmost. not attend the hearing they closed. time all right well our program is going to continue for the coming hours as. a lot of reaction to the. study up over the coming hours still far from out of the moment still very early days of course the election season some polling booths go to get all russians as many as possible to vote. most bizarre. for the race for the. this. is. a very. similar. to for. you. to go for years of course. presidential election since the russian federation started. getting water flowing in. the liberal democratic party it's a six to ten for the top job. or is it. where you are. so hopefully. very much like. as a candidate as you say he's been there thirty years on the russian political scene perhaps the most stable of all candidates at least in terms of results comin

party. so ten fifty pm moscow time this is where we stand at the moment i think stay with us by the way this is our international live a special program kevin nicky with you of course all the rest of the team as well forty percent of the vote counted in first place blood the most polluted with gone up to seventy four point two percent these have not confirmed the course. of the way that more of those votes counted but to give you an idea of where it is tonight probably going to be the next as predicted would be for the congress party coming in second right about fourteen point one again that's pretty much as predicted would be the place mode to measure and also the question marks over the veteran liberal democrat leader will this be his last he's been in every presidential election since they started having a beer the russian federation of six point five percent tonight. now let's talk about one of the main headline to me to you ted now he does these in the election find so we know that and

this interesting because before the communist party of china has always slaved itself as having created a very stable system by having a group of leaders by having a system that rejuvenating itself all the time that has an orderly succession of power no stability it means that all the challah is being held in one hand much as we've seen some negative reactions in the west to the possibility of becoming president for life how's it going down there in china. well censorship is quite strict on this issue or almost every word that might refer in directly to this move has been censored from from social media very few people dare to speak out very few people speak out at all or can speak out those of course that have been speaking out have voiced great concern schalke because this means that she jinping is going to be even more powerful and that his policy off of. repressing any dissent in society might be even even stricter might be enhanced even more speaking of that power mathias the problem is also supposed to be signing off on a new ideology called asian paying thought what is that and w

you can't understand the national riots without looking at the demise of the french communist party. why is that? >> guest: this might sound a bit for him to be a co- foreign because it isn't something that we think of as a political fixer and a country that's what we mean by that is the head of the national front has very cautiously gone after voters who choose to vote for the far left party. it was a significant and powerful force in the decades and they have diminished and almost disappeared now. i would protect the working that, and when the voters used to vote for the far left are not hearing that from anyone else, they look at the socialist party andty they are not talking about the working class and their interest. they say okay she stands for us. this is what we used to get from the party and they don't give it to us anymore so we are going ti vote for marie and it is a conscious strategy i talked about this when i interviewed her and she pointed to the north of france which is where the time all-star's and there've been in camp as if the huge she said ips and want 45% fare i