Russian presidential vote: Navalny 'nominated to run' against Putin

An impact of music and a burst of confetti



By Sarah Rainsford, BBC News, Moscow

This gathering in a monster tent on a frigid Moscow riverbank has secured Alexei Navalny well finished the 500 marks he should be designated as hopeful.

His supporters lined from early morning, cheering and droning Mr Navalny's name as the at long last count was reported.

The counter defilement campaigner at that point showed up in front of an audience with his better half and kids to an impact of music, giving everything a touch of the American crusade rally. There was even a blasted of red, white and blue confetti.


In front of an audience, Alexei Navalny told the group that Vladimir Putin does not have the mass help he guarantees. He demands the privilege to keep running against him, to demonstrate that.

His technique is to endeavor to compel the specialists to enroll him. So if his appointment is presently hindered, in spite of the present designation meeting, he's pledged to continue battling - calling for strikes, a race blacklist and road dissents.


Mr Navalny, 41, required 500 selections to secure his assignment.

He later tweeted that he had secured the marks, saying: "I have turned into an official competitor designated by lobbyist gatherings of voters. Much obliged to the individuals who have partaken in this battle in all sides of our nation. You are the best."

He will trust securing the marks will weight the decision commission into enabling him to run.


The commission's head, Ella Pamfilova, said prior in the month that due to Mr Navalny's conviction he would be not able stand and proposed he had a go at running again in 2028.

In any case, more as of late she has said that the commission will look at the bid of each presidential confident who takes after the vital system.

Mr Navalny said Mr Putin had amid his 18 years in control taken "from needy individuals oil, gas and metal worth trillions of dollars, sold it abroad, remunerated those individuals by diverting them from poor to down and out".

Brexit: EU leaders agree to move talks to next stage

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Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel held a joint news meeting toward the finish of the summit 

The EU has distributed its rules for stage two of the arrangements, with exchanges on future financial co-operation not prone to start until Spring. 

The three-page archive says the UK will stay under the locale of the European Court of Equity and be required to allow flexibility of development amid any change period. 

Also, concessions to the Irish fringe, the purported separate bill and the privileges of EU and UK nationals, concurred by Mrs May last Friday, must be "regarded in full and made an interpretation of reliably into lawful terms as fast as could be allowed". 

The report says: "As the UK will keep on participating in the traditions union and the single market amid the change, it should keep on complying with EU exchange strategy." 

While the EU will take part in "preparatory and preliminary exchanges" on exchange as a feature of building a "nearby organization" after the UK's takeoff, this implies any formal understanding "must be finished and closed once the UK has turned into a third nation". 

Phew for PM 

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By the BBC's political proofreader Laura Kuenssberg 

After the a half year she has had, Theresa may be qualified for inhale a moan of alleviation, as the European Committee formally proclaimed that the main period of our long farewell from the European Union is finished. 

Remain once again from the day by day shows and maybe it was will undoubtedly happen. 

The two sides are focused on getting an assention. 

The EU and the UK both need an arrangement to be done, and keeping in mind that there has, definitely, been cantankerousness on the two sides, they have, in the principle, managed each other in compliance with common decency. 

Kuenssberg: Help for May yet a hard street ahead 

The report "approaches the UK to give advance clearness on its position on the structure for the future relationship". 

Be that as it may, in a section included amid the previous week, it welcomes the EU's Brexit arbitrator Michel Barnier to "proceed inward preliminary discourses" on future relations instead of waiting until Spring to do as such.

Jerusalem: Trump's emissary Haley chides 'crazy UN threatening vibe'

Jerusalem: Trump's emissary Haley chides 'crazy UN threatening vibe'

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The US emissary to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has blamed the UN for harming the prospects for peace amongst Israel and the Palestinians.

The association "has ludicrously been one of the world's principal focuses of threatening vibe towards Israel", she said.

Mrs Haley was tending to a crisis meeting of the Security Council called after President Donald Trump's choice to move the US government office to Jerusalem.




The move has been broadly denounced and started conflicts in the West Bank.

Israel has completed air strikes against focuses in the Gaza Strip, harming various individuals, after Palestinian activists let go rockets into Israeli region.


Two Palestinian men kicked the bucket after Israeli troops let go on packs in Gaza amid conflicts prior on Friday.

Media captionUS diplomat Nikki Haley calls UN unfriendly to Israel

Strains stay high over the Middle East after Mr Trump reported the US would perceive Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, turning around many years of US lack of bias on the issue.

Israel has dependably viewed Jerusalem as its capital, while the Palestinians assert East Jerusalem - possessed by Israel in the 1967 war - as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

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Mrs Haley said the choice "perceives the self-evident; that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel".

She said the US kept on being "focused on accomplishing an enduring peace understanding", and blamed the UN for inclination.


"Israel will never be, and never ought to be, harassed into an assention by the United Nations or by any accumulation of nations that have demonstrated their nonchalance for Israel's security."

Trump-Russia: Flynn's dealings were 'lawful'

Donald Trump has reacted to a blameworthy request by his previous national security guide Michael Flynn, saying Mr Flynn's activities as an individual from his change group "were legal".

Mr Flynn has entered a request arrangement and consented to co-work with an investigation into asserted plot with Russia.

The arrangement, for a lesser allegation than he may have confronted, provoked theory that he has implicating proof.

The president composed on Twitter on Saturday that he didn't have anything "to cover up".

Under the terms of the request bargain - offered to Mr Flynn by Uncommon Direction Robert Mueller as a feature of his examination concerning the Russia embarrassment - Mr Flynn conceded putting forth false expressions to the FBI.

Investigators say the arrangement proposes that the previous general has confirm involving at least one senior individuals from the Trump organization.

Reacting to Mr Flynn's prosecution, Mr Trump tweeted: "I needed to flame General Flynn in light of the fact that he misled the VP and the FBI. He has pled liable to those untruths. It is a disgrace since his activities amid the progress were legitimate. There was nothing to cover up!"

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In the tweet, he seemed to concede that he knew before he terminated Mr Flynn that the previous general had misled the FBI, repudiating his own record of the sacking from the time and by and by raising hypothesis that his activities could add up to obstacle of equity.


Mr Flynn has conceded lying about his contact with the Russian represetative Sergei Kislyak in December 2016 - after Mr Trump was chosen yet before he moved toward becoming president.

The charging reports against Mr Flynn express that he was coordinated to reach Russian authorities by an "extremely senior part" of the Trump progress group.


A few US news associations report the exceptionally senior authority now under the spotlight is Jared Kushner - Mr Trump's consultant and child in-law.

US insight organizations say Russia's Leader Vladimir Putin guided a state push to impact the US race for Mr Trump.

Mr Trump has over and over denied that his crusade or progress group connived in Russian activities. Addressing columnists on Saturday, he stated: "What has been demonstrated is no conspiracy, no plot. There has been positively no intrigue. So we're exceptionally upbeat.