dozens of arrests rallies both in support all down the. group russia after he's named preston for. war mongering rhetoric against the mascot's intensifies in the us as former presidential candidate senator john mccain. strikes a military campaign against the syrian regime also. have said the money comes to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon i will take no options off the table. president obama promises his support to a pro israeli lobby in washington refusing to rule the option of force against iran

which israel has been threatening. you watching r t well news around the clock welcome program. presidential victory a sense tens of thousands of russians on to the streets well to celebrate and protest against the outcome of the vote thousands of peacefully sent to a fair elections police said two hundred fifty were arrested when some refused orders to disperse. but it's not. sure yet more alexy tell us more about what happened. well indeed it started just like one of those peaceful protests which we have been witnessing for the last three or four months in most cities across russia with between fourteen and twenty thousand people gathering and this is. just about several kilometers from where i'm standing

right now boyce their protest against the results of the election which brought the picture in with more than sixty percent of the votes demanded reelection they demanded step down with some prominent opposition figures speaking from the stage including third place presidential candidates. for russian billionaire tycoon everything was very peaceful and when the rally started to disperse when the people started leaving the square one of the opposition figures urged them to stay until putin resigns and to put in steps down several hundred. decided to follow this call and decided to stay on the square in a sitting protest when to stand up the right police tried to urge them to leave this square telling them that the time which was sanctioned for the rally has run out and the rally was officially over the people refused and then the right police

had to forcefully remove them from the square we understand that two hundred fifty people were detained as a result of this forceful discussion including some prominent opposition figures like violin even yashin and so you can sell though we understand that later on just hours after several hours all of them were released from the police precincts without being charged with any misconduct but a lot of those that are happy that hooty also went out on the streets to make that happen there. this was a very different picture at the place where i'm standing right now last night in front of the kremlin where around fifteen thousand people gathered to support him to celebrate his. victory in the first round of the election this was not a rally at all this was more like a celebration foxy with pop stars performing from the stage certainly a very different picture from the square and in fact the prime minister the presidential election was here twenty four hours before that when the polling

stations closed on sunday to congratulate the crowd to express his gratitude and to tell it a very emotional manner how grateful he was to the people who supported him in this presidential election making the second round runoff impossible and bringing the victory to even put it in the very first round. about to the other candidates in the election and how did they take the outcome in the end. well we saw pictures from a meeting between vladimir putin and most of the candidates in the presidential race he invited them all for a dialogue straight off to the results of the election war were made public all of them almost all of them turned up except tonight he's a gun of the leader of the communist party the second place candidate who want to manage to gone to around seventy point two percent he refuted the result of the elections he does not acknowledge. victory and that's that's why he decided not to come here and stage in fact staged a rally of his own the most important statement made at this meeting between the

candidates was certainly the acknowledgement of like important and approved approval off of the good of the new shift to launch his own political movement to start his own political party and. promised that united russia policy and personally will cooperate with mikhail prokhorov the movement should he decide eventually to launch east political party yesterday's events monday's events showed once again how diverse the russian opposition is so the one hand we have. who wants to build a dialogue with the authorities who wants to launch his own political movement on the other hand we have the likes of alexey nobody who openly openly supports escalating call thing and says that the protests in russia must mounds now my colleague between the gretsch over did a report on how the presence of russian opposition looks like and let's have a look at this report. you might think there are two types of post-election rallies

those by the wiener and less jubilant ones by the defeated opposition but if you look closely at russia's political scene these days you see how sharp the opposition itself was split into two ranks. the vertical of power in our country develops well within the civil society initiated from below concrete those on top and there's no political competition here's the official opposition defeated candidates meeting with the winner his residence the morning after the vote criticizing the kremlin and here's what may seem similar but in fact a very different rattray from the unofficial street opposition. who are. growing their own words. unlike the newly risen political star drunk or of activist and blogger alex in

a bally presents turn to a hundred million dollars of years to play and he never run for presidency but thanks to his acting lot and the massive coverage of his calls for revolution by the western and russian media he rose to an unofficial opposition leader almost overnight. and in return i think. it's cohen says activists from the street opposition can turn sunday's ballot even before the first post was costs. these presidential elections. and the person who comes to power wherever it is even if it's not will be legitimate in any case. to brad just a for a venue to rally the opposition ended up fighting it out between each other in city hall a group of colleagues say now by late one they might have had russia's most liberal square in the center of moscow to protest but the question still very much alike is

does the new street opposition know how to square the circle the course fits the rally for that liberal values to the test to what extent will they abate the lot. this initial police are saying this but i call a need to stick to tense so to sleep here in our city and we can do whatever we want we're not leaving we're not leaving and now we're up to the sanction rally was supposed to wrap up some leaders were calling on people to put up tents and occupied the square every chill muscovites are already well familiar with old releases scorching protesters to the much row arresting the most resilient ones refused to leave among them not by the college but almost everyone these days wants changes no one wants a revolution but there is a minority who are making this a revolution however i don't think they'll manage to break open on the russian state. police report that monday's protest rally together to round fourteen

thousand people on pushkin square that's less than in the rallies in december when up to seventy thousand to to the streets following on the phone many explain the meaning numbers as a reflection all but the funniest candidate acknowledge the results of the book a clear sign that the changing political landscape in russia has little room for revolution. it's still a great show of on our t.v. screen. current affairs journalist richard spencer says russia's opposition is much more diverse than that in america. i think there's a lot more healthy opposition in russia and there is the united states at least from what i can see you know i mean the united states again you'll have some a lot of arguments of left and right about some hot button issues and things like that but i don't think there is really the diversity to use the word that so

popular in america in america that you find in russia and russia you have all sorts of parties you have a communist party you will kind of pro-capitalist already you know pretty you don't get really anything like that the united states we have in many ways a. maybe you could say a myopic or a prevention or really narrow spectrum of opinion in united states there actually seems to be other perspectives in the russian national political debate that are simply absent united states of a mere pretense victory was widely expected not only in russia but internationally too but american the media was keen to report to the edge the voting fraud even before the ballot itself a correspondent in washington county chicken tells us the reaction across the atlantic to the decision made by the russian people. even before the election the american ideas were applied to believe that the presidential vote in russia had to be a fraud how is this one going to be well when the west will call

a free and fair election. it seems very highly unlikely that it will be a free and fair election in our sense of the term and then as russians made their choice we knew the results of russia's presidential election therefore a single vote was cast the unequivocal view of these international observers is that this was not a genuinely fair democratic contest that meets international standards. why did victory was confirmed not just by of the vote results but even before that might need your opinion polls as well the focus of some media on rampant fraud or stolen elections seems to leap out of the equation the vast majority of russian voters with the choose their next president if you look at how to look at russian opinion there's a tendency to ignore i don't know inconvenient opinion so support for putin is ignored which is genuine i don't know if it's quite as overwhelming again as the election result might make but it's is large and sincere i think it's easy for

westerners to ignore opinions like that because they don't really fit in a narrative very easily and there was an unprecedented monitoring of the elections in russia with cameras seen all polling stations and almost a million washes volunteered to observe the vote certain violations have been reported they are being investigated the question some ask is why would you think trying to rig the vote when opinion polls before the elections clearly indicated that he had sixty plus percent support it's very possible to put himself in order any of this stuff but there are supporters or people is a long tradition in russian. culture and history of people underlings trying to please people further up the chain of command so it's perfectly plausible that people. you know magistrates or governors people in charge a specific regions they want to impress people for the bond by demonstrating how strong support for putin was in their area so without the necessity of any input

from the center people can take. decisions on their own that they do in order to please their bosses unlike the media the reaction of the white house to the russian elections was more reserved they can gradually did the russian people with their life and said washington looks forward to working with the president elect and urged the russian government to look into the reports of violations when it comes to the media coverage here it's not just about reporting out certain irregularities which absolutely should be covered but it's one perception is being created that whole vote was a fraud no matter what the majority of russians say and it casts a shadow not just on a future president but also on those who voted for him i'm going to strike down reporting from washington r.p. but while the presidential election is a serious issue there's always room for some fun as you can see next. take a look at some unconventional moments of polling stations were cameras intended to

monitor the voting process which captured a lot more besides. trying to create human women activists from the group trying to disrupt. into the new station by taking off. to marty dot com for more. so let's john mccain strikes a military campaign against syria first u.s. lawmaker to do so the statement comes as international pressure on president assad increases more sanctions imposed on the regime and red cross has reached two parts the city of homs where civilians are caught between government forces and armed opposition from the ocean is following developments for us. former presidential candidate john mccain has become the first senator to publicly call for a u.s. led military strike on syria and the eleven months long conflict here in the

country so after copies of mccain's speech had him telling the senators serious crisis has reached a decisive moment and the only realistic scenario to preserve innocent lives is with military add power we're also hearing from the free syrian army here on the ground that it's waiting for foreign weapons to arrive earlier it confirmed it had received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from u.s. and french sources meanwhile the regional media reports that more french officers have been detained in the city of homs that's become a center of the conflict between the authorities and the opposition here in syria and they're now being held in every field hospital where we have been receiving information earlier that more than one hundred french paratroopers have been detained in the city of homs on the ground political efforts to find the way out of this conflict are in full swing. the need for democratic change pushed the syrian people to the streets last march

a year on pro-democracy slogans and mostly forgotten and political reforms passed almost unnoticed wrongly. claims a member of the path party whose almost fifty year rule was ended by the country's newly implemented constitution he believes syria is going through a historic transformation. the country's billion stagnation for a long time a multi-party system will finally pave the way to competition development new syrian. opposition and those who are angry with him which it's a free. hundred percent think talk we do not trust our people do much for us that we believe what ever he promises we've tried that too many years ago and too many times and he's never been an honest but not all opposition members are so skeptical some have decided to take

a day and run the parliamentary race ninety days before the elections at least six new parties appeared and their names reflect society's vital need and the party's aspirations for have a democratic entitle for either national or solidarity the island's our party is just four weeks old its members say the hardest thing will be to persuade people to actually vote but they believe the r.'s has broken. finally the door was closed for so many years is open we should use it and activate people's political will of. the skeptics main concern is that this noble impulse could not come at the worst time no one in syria will security with a regime why killing is still going in the streets and bombing is still going in the cities but suffer i could talk for all i'm sorry possibly the reforms could be an important tool in finding

a solution to the country's protracted crisis. i can describe the situation is painful but we can resolve it together our party is preparing documents for the president and the government and we call on all parties to start dialogue what a military solution in foreign countries interference will only make things worse and we should not intervene and we should start deciding now and your constitution is the latest in the package of reforms that also included the lifting of emergency laws and the release of political prisoners the market hasn't he says these changes could be a double edged sword making the country stronger but also. more vulnerable to foreign influence. given our people and their salaries are in dollars reels and drama story we want to destroy the country we don't want changes we knew we cannot do now changes to happen we have to spoil reformation and we should stand still to resist it that's maybe the fears of change at home just as powerful the syrian

parliament has seen many changes in its near century old history of this building used to be home to many political parties but in the last fifty years the political life within these walls hasn't been all the colorful the total dominance of the vast party the democrats of changes the uprising brought iran are expected to modify the political landscape here in syria but the same for us formations i get to come in people's minds and this is something which will take a lot longer. damascus syria but liberal campaigner jacob and berger thinks that mccain is seeking wishing change in syria to install a leadership loyal to the us standard neo conservative mindset of foreign intervention involving the us government in the affairs of other countries in this case it happened to be another regime change operation obviously with you can't ousting this dictator from power in order to call us approved

dictator obviously the us government had no reservations at all utilizing this theory of dictatorship or size reason of it. until all of a third of the tide changes and he in a feeble now we got a chance to out this guy let's start intervening people sympathize with the syrian people nobody likes people suffering under a dictatorship but the us government needs to butt out this is a this is a case that should be resolved only by the syrian people. but web site r.t. dot com is packed full of news analysis night watching video as well as a taste of what's online at the moment jailed a full time thing caught hold of course he might have a sentence to use since the water has an advantage in case. anyone who's at the gold buttons. is the u.s. state of new mexico where pooches no registered voter. still starting to.

barack obama has told a pro israeli conference in washington that america will not hesitate to use force to prevent iran from getting nuclear weapons israel has been pushing for military action against the islamic republic and the u.s. presidents did stress the need for a diplomatic solution is a voice on the issue for the most powerful what is this world reports. it's an annual tradition more than thirteen thousand people gathering in the nation's capital for the american israel public affairs committee annual conference it goes people from all over the country and you come and revitalize their approach it is a very important the united states will back up israel and indeed it is the united state is committed to back in israel while apac is considered to be one of the most powerful lobbying groups in america and they host this conference each year

showcasing american israeli unity to see how much power this group has over u.s. foreign policy there is controversy speaking at the conference president obama reiterated america's dedicated to fostering strong ties with its closest ally the want to comes to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. i will take no options off the table and i mean what i say. that includes all elements of american power statements like that make the world wonder is war with iran just around the corner. is really is are pushing us into a regional war that. goes out of cataclysmic potential apac supports more jewish voice for peace and many jewish americans are in the side of peace we're not on the side of unnecessary works protesters outside of the

convention say israel and apac are dragging america into war with iran position held by many and see war groups. but they're also protesting the lobbying groups enormous impact on us politics politicians know that if they attempt to speak up on this issue they're going to be not just vilified they're going to be defeated apac affiliated groups exorbitant amounts of money and so political campaigns and a meeting in the white house israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told obama that israel and america stand together we are you and you were together and while netanyahu stress israel will always be a master of its own fate obama insists the united states will always have israel's back when it comes to israel security this after israel has warned they will launch an attack against iran without giving the u.s. notice apac. has a lot of power and

a lot of that is due to the fact that congress and the media. just eats it all up so the question remains with israel ramping up pro-war rhetoric and america dedicated to supporting them as another war in the middle east all but inevitable and washington is wall. well that there is a way to make sure doesn't get a nuclear weapon and it's not a military one according to the former u.s. ambassador to israel thomas pickering. let's give iran what it says it wants which is a civil nuclear program but let's do our best to create the maximum amount of effective inspection so that's a firewall. a break between their civil program and a military nuclear program you ought to know that iran is also bound by the nonproliferation

treaty and then i proliferation treaty says you have a civil program which meets civil needs only and doesn't do things that could be used only for military purposes. but you can watch the full interview with thomas pickering about for starters. one of the presidential election is over investors are waiting to see what economic policies the government will pursue let's. just lose this potential so what are the main expectations well kerry ratings agency fitch threatens to cut russia's long term rating if it government fails to tighten the monetary policy the rating agency essentially says that putin's election campaign promises will cost the russian budget a whopping one hundred sixty billion dollars in additional spending and that boosting public spending over the next six years will inevitably lead to

a wider budget deficit who also pledged to raise the country's economic growth to around seven percent a year he hopes russia will join the top five economies and jump to the twentieth place in the global grading of investment attractiveness it's currently in one hundred and twentieth ways so there is a lot of investors will be watching to make sure that the new president needs their expectations jacob nell from morgan stanley russia explains. a lot so it's going to be called for in terms of setting up a new government. some people getting their feet under the table so i think people will be looking for progress still be chewing tree in may june resumption of privatization where the middle of the year and a credible economic team in the new government. the russian market sort of their trading session around twenty minutes ago and they are shedding value around one percent for both of my sets on the r.t.s. it seems like they have no place to go but down considering that global equities

are shedding value and that oil is a very choppy trade we also saw some street protests on monday evening and traders usually interpret that as a sign of instability now a bit more on the crude prices crude usually offer support to the russian market but it's seeing a tug of war trading on tuesday at the moment it's mixed but it seems like basically it's it's a weighing session between supply concerns related to iran's nuclear program and china lowering its a growth target now speaking of china the world's second largest economy a lowered its growth target two and a cheer a little seven the house percent from its longstanding goal of around eight percent on monday and as you can see it separately markets are reacting there is in the red the hang saying is currently shedding around one and a half percent in tokyo the markets

a little lower but not by as much because they are supported by tech expert orders and that's all latest from the business desk this hour i'll be back in about fifteen minutes i'll see you around. wealthy british style. that's not the type of.

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