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Relations with north korea. simply, national security chiefs from south korea, the united states, and japan have met ahead of pending talks between the president of the united states donald trump and the leader of north korea, kim jong-un. russian president vladimir putin is claiming victory on sundays presidential election. thats no surprise, of course. he was the only real contender. he has been in power for 18 years either as president or prime minister. this would be mr. putins fourth term...

Others are the wild west and manipulated and used. there is not much suspension. vladimir putin tightening his grip on russia for six more years. after a sweeping victory in sundays presidential election, the state run exit poll showing putin winning the fourth term easily. lets go live to moscow and bring in matthew chance. matthew, are these election results to be believed there in moscow? >> reporter: i think they are, but with the caveat there was evidence of election irregula y irregulari...

Facebook is adding to the criticism that facebook and others are the wild west and manipulated and used. >> still more to learn about this cambridge analytica. there is not much suspension. vladimir putin tightening his grip on russia for six more years. after a sweeping victory in sundays presidential election, the state run exit poll showing putin winning the fourth term easily. lets go live to moscow and bring in matthew chance. good morning, sir. >> reporter: good morning, dave. it was not...

>> well, i would even correct myself. i dont want to offend quite a lot of constitutional monarchs doing a good job. i think its a self-reappointment. thats the best way to describe it. and the way weve seen this so-called election developing is that the administration on the presidents, the local authorities, they put enormous pressure on a vast army of people working for state enterprises, bureaucrats, prisoners, military, police, to come out, vote, and report their voting with taking a pictur...

It was about 35,000 people who turned out here at the square outside the kremlin, many of them waving russian flags. it was a very patriotic event that took place. no one here really expected that vladimir putin was going to lose this election. but two things were in question. first of all, how much of the vote was he going to get? and then second of all, how high was the turnout going to be. turnout of course very important. because one of the things that vladimir putin himself was wary of is w...

The journey that theyre about to take and any advantage that republicans can take of it? >> we have a huge advantage. we were just talking about this before we came here. one of my colleagues, michael aarons pointed out, theres 40 contenders in the democratic party that have been named or silently preparing. 40. you think about the republican debates and we had our varsity debate and j.v. debate and 17 candidates. theyre thinking of doubling that. they dont have a message, theyre not consistent....

House? >> there was a progression that was rapid. we have to remember he was live willing on borrowed time. last rights had been read to him several times. and so i think what is amazing about his rapid assention, it happen sewed quickly, unprecedented in his religion, age and it gave this hollywood quality to the white house that had never existed there. >> we know that kennedys surprisingly were underdogs. when he was a essentially elected. what kind of challenges deface? >> he faced challenge...

This hour put see this live image in moscow. people deciding on eight candidates who are vying for the top spot there, but the russian president vladimir putin is by far the lead contender. >> he is expected to easily win re-election after 18 years in power. he is already russias longest serving leader since soviet dictator joseph stalin. >> were live there and jill dorty there to give context and perspective in our moscow bureau. matthew, first to you at the polling station if the give us a sen...

Russian. today, seven candidates are running against putin but for voters in russia there is really one serious contender. cnns matthew chance is live at a polling place there in moscow. matthew, the result of this is a foregone conclusion. >> yeah. victor, its not exactly a nail-biter here in russia. as you rightly say, there are eight candidates contesting this election. there is only one real contender. its a one-horse race as my camera man pointed out earlier. you can see the veterans abou...

On this board we can see in this voting station. these are the eight candidates but theres only one whos a real contender, vladimir putin right in the middle of this poster. it gives some biographical details about him. he was born in 52. it says here that he also has 13 bank accounts containing a total of about 240,000 u.s. dollars, he has a flat, a garage, and three russian cars. so its giving a bit of biographical information. apathy was a concern. but vladimir putin himself came out on natio...