a day of calm in moscow after our night of election results reaction tens of thousands rallying for and against whom the police having to throw the book at some overzealous protesters. a leading us politician calls for air strikes on syria as the international pressure intensifies we take a closer look at the political changes underway in the country. u.n. nuclear inspectors get the green line to visit the secret military facility president obama defends israel despite its threat to launch an attack on the islamic republic.

thank you for being with us five o'clock here in moscow on charon taraji more than two hundred opposition members detained after a night of election meetings in moscow have all been released one of the gathering spiraled out of control and police had to move in they had a shot ski has more from outside the kremlin. it wasn't very much different from the mass rallies we've been witnessing for the last three or four months in russia since the parliamentary vote in december only that maybe this rally was not as big as usual with around twenty thousand people attending it but still they were there to protest against the vote to protest against the prime minister directly the opposition leaders were speaking from the stage of looting the third place presidential candidate. who was also there until one moment when people already

started just cursing from the square from the first discuss where one of the opposition politicians said that he would not leave the square until putin resigns and then several hundred people followed his school and decided to stay just sitting protest in one of the fountain search certainly and the liberating fountain in the central the square there right police urged him to leave because by the time the rally was officially over the time that the authorities sanction for the trolley has already passed so they urged him to leave but the people refused and then the police had to literally push them off this is square that's when some clashes happened and as a result two hundred fifty opposition members were detained by the authorities later they were all released having paid a small fine for for violating the regulation of this particular mass rally we also know that some group of nationalists also tried to march the streets of moscow beating up a journalist from one of the radio stations most in the process around fifteen

thousand people were gathered here and where i'm standing right now money isn't a square to congratulate the prime minister with his victory it was not like a political rally it's always more like a party like a celebration with pop stars singing from the stage and the scenes which reminded strongly of what happened twenty four hours before that went on sunday when all the polling stations closed the prime minister the president elect came here himself to thank the crowd for the support it was very emotional about that but certainly this . no time to celebrate now full budget for the president elect he has already been having a very hard days of work as prime minister he's integration will only come on may the seventh until then he'll be continue working as prime minister so he met all the rivals of the presidential race all of them but a good ninety's uganda the communist party leader who refuses to acknowledge to recognize the result of this voting he did not come to this meeting the meeting wish had

a very important statement from who said that he spots united russia will cooperate with the new opposition force which is to be created by me of the russian tycoon a third place candidate in the election on may the seven flooding or fourteen will be officially sworn in as russia's president for the third time in twelve years and will be coming back to the kremlin this fact certain to be the can always by many world leaders who already congratulated. with their victory in the first round of the election however some of the media still doesn't want to recognize the result of the vote and my colleagues counted every port from across the atlantic explaining exactly what this is all about now after we were even before the election the american audience were primed to believe that the presidential vote in russia had to be a fraud is this one going to be well in the west we call a free and fair election. it seems highly unlikely that it will be a free and fair election in our sense of the term and that is washes made their

choice when you have the results of russia's presidential election before a single vote was cast the unequivocal view of these international observers is that this was not a genuinely fair democratic contest that meet international standards. let me put it was confirmed not just by the vote results but even before that by major opinion polls as well the focus of some media on rampant fraud or stolen election seems to leak out of the equation the vast majority of russian voters would be choose might even put me as their next president if you look at how relative 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 as the election results might make but it's this large and sincere i think it's easy for westerners to ignore opinions like that because they don't really fit in the narrative very easily and there was an unprecedented monitoring of the elections in russia with

cameras in all polling stations and almost a million washes volunteers to observe the vote certain violations have been reported they are being investigated the question some ask is why would we didn't try 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 local you know magistrates or governors people in charge of a region zx they want to impress people for the bomb by demonstrating how strong support 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 and the reaction of the white house to the russian elections was

more reserved they congratulated the washing people with their elections 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 is not just about reporting on certain irregularities which absolutely should be covered but it's one perception is being created that the whole vote was a fraud no matter what the majority of russians say and it caps the shadow not just on the future president but also on those who voted for him i'm going to check on reporting from washington r.p. . london based politics journalist marcus papadopoulos surfing's the u. outside its allies simply don't want the kremlin to be a powerful rival on the world stage what we can continue to see from russia on the floor to me putin is a strong russia seeking out influence around the world and being a global player as indeed the united states is as in the u.k. and ice and from as well i'm facts that's the great scene in the ice or western

flood to me because i believe what they would want to see in many western capitals washington and london in particular is a weak russia a compliant watcher of russia that is dependent on not only oil so much your system is perfect but the fear the concern in the west is that russia under vladimir putin for the forseeable future will not be that we crushed. the world saw in the ninety nine so. there's been a wealth of strong reaction online to russia's presidential election and the events that followed we break it down for you on our web site. r.t. dot com has all the analysis and forecasts for the latest videos from the russian capital including the protests head to our you tube channel also on line for you. the g. eight page fears of mass demos in chicago forced the summit of the world's richest

economies to be blown out of the windy city well tell you where it's heading now and. retirement at thirty two and a pension of one hundred fifty times your salary hungary's constitution gives and i've nothing make over but also now what it seems as we explain on our. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images we're seeing from the streets of canada. i'm sure all of our got a story or out about this crazy lady with a convertible that. there were times. i was on death row for.

life that my state. has these people. it is necessary for. everything we do to punish crime. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical antecedents of the american death penalty. in large part from the nazis and the sad part is this gets their way and they execute him i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead he's my only leave the house in my heart and he keeps telling me they can't hear me in there because it's all cinder block and concrete but i still honk everytime i go by.

you know i won't be there i will not go in my. old. technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. eleven minutes past the hour here with our key leading senator john mccain has become the first u.s. politician to publicly call for air strikes against syrian regime he says washington has a moral and strategic obligation to force assad out thousands of syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon as government troops and armed opposition forces continue their offensive are cars on american financial reports full of presidential candidate john mccain has become the first sentence of publicly call for a u.s.

led military strike on syria and eleven months long conflict here in the country draft copies of mccain's speech have him telling the senate serious crisis has reached a decisive moment and the only realistic scenario to preserve innocent lives is with military power we're also hearing from the free syrian army on the ground that it's waiting for for 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 siege of holmes that's become a center of the conflict between the authorities and the opposition here in syria and they're now being held in their field hospital there we've been receiving information earlier that more than a hundred french paratroopers have been detained in the city of homs on the ground political asteroids to find their way out of this conflict are in full swing. the

need for democratic change of push 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 baath party whose almost fifty year rule was ended by the country's newly implemented constitution he believes syria is going through a historic transformation. become trees been in stagnation for a long time a multi-party system will finally pave the way to competition development and use new syria will be room for all opposition and those who are angry. because it's a three. hundred per cent fake talk we do not trust our people do not trust everything we believe what ever he promises we've tried that too many years ago and too many times and he's never been

an artist but not all opposition members are so skeptical some have decided to take a dare and run the parliamentary race ninety days before the elections at least six new parties appeared their names reflect society's vital need and the party's aspirations for have democratic entitle thought either national or solidarity the allens 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 ice has broken. finally the dog was closed for so many years is open we should use it and activate people's political will. 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 bonding is still going on

the city is at supper i could talk for unsurpassable leaves the reforms could be an important tool in finding a solution to the country's protracted crisis. and i can describe the situation as painful but we can resolve it together our party is preparing documents for the president and the government we call all parties to start dialogue a military solution and foreign countries interference will only make things worse and we should now intervene and. we should start deciding. and your constitution is the latest in the package of reforms but also includes the lifting of emergency laws and the release of political prisoners. released says these changes could be a double edged sword make in the country stronger but also more vulnerable to foreign influence. iraq people and their salaries are in dollars reels and dramas they want to destroy the country we don't want changes. we cannot allow changes to happen they have to spoil revolution and we should stand still to resist it but

maybe the fears of change at home i just as powerful the syrian parliament has been many changes in its near century old history 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 with a total dominance of the vast party the democrats have changes the uprising brought iran are expected to modify the political landscape here in syria but the same for inspiration is yet to come in people's minds and this is something which will take a lot longer. r t damascus syria liberal campaigner jacob hornberger thinks that mccain sees a military strike as the perfect opportunity for washington to install a new u.s. not troop leader in syria. this standard neo con conservative mindset of foreign intervention involving the us government in the affairs of other

countries in this case it happens to be another regime change operation obviously with the intent of ousting this dictator from power in order to install a us approved dictator obviously the us government had no reservations at all and utilizing this syrian dictator to occur size reason of its fatality and tell all of us that the tide changes and people and they see evil now we got a chance to alice's try 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 and it should be resolved only by the syrian people. and still ahead for you this hour israel's american arm twisting the frightening. if you attempt to speak. here going to be not just vilified they're going to be defeated washington val's to stand by its increasingly combative ally despite israel's

readiness to attack our around. more of the world's main news now leaders in eastern libya have declared a semi autonomy for an area stretching between syria and the egyptian border it was announced on politicians a militia commanders and tribal leaders that a ceremony in the keys city have been ghazi the country's national transitional council has warned against creating a self-governing region because it could lead to the breakup of the nation. yemen's new president is vowing to pursue the al qaeda militants who killed more than a hundred soldiers on sunday suicide bombers detonated their explosives at two military posts outside the city of ginger bar in the ever a traffic our president called the true took office a week ago replacing ali. who's ruled for thirty three years. rallies been held outside the chinese embassy in seoul in protest over china's

arrest of dozens of north korean defectors and its plans to repatriate them human rights groups fear of their captured men will face torture and possible death if they're sent back north korean leader kim jong hard to punish anyone who tries to leave the country. the u.s. attorney general says the government can legally assassinate american citizens who plot attacks against their country from abroad eric holder outlined how such moves are governed by the laws of war but that the u.s. could act without seeking court permission he also said the u.s. would be allowed to use technologically advanced weapons to kill terrorists. five permanent members of the u.n. security council plus germany have accepted an offer to meet with iran on its nuclear program it comes after the country gave the go ahead for a u.n. watchdog to inspect a military facility where it believes iran is developing an atom bomb but israel's

not backing off from its the right to use force against iran coming up in the next hour we'll talk to a former u.s. ambassador to israel on iran's nuclear situation stay with us. let's cue the 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 fire wall a road a roadblock 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. president obama stated he'll use any power necessary to prevent iran from obtaining

a nuclear weapon and that includes backing israel even though it's got a finger on the trigger as well 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 because people from all over the country if you come in we revitalize their prose will it is very important the united states will back up 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 in this group has over u.s. foreign policy there is controversy speaking at the conference president obama reiterated america's jadick a bit to fostering strong ties with its closest ally the when it 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 a war with iran just around the corner. are pushing us into a regional war that. does cataclysmic potential apac support for jewish voice for peace and many jewish americans are in the side of peace. 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 pump exorbitant amounts of money and some political campaigns and a meeting in the white house israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told obama that we are you and you were together and while netanyahu stress israel will always

be a master of its own fate obama insists united states will always have israel's back when it comes to israel security this out there israel has warned they will launch an attack against iran without giving the u.s. notice and washington visible our team. time now to check on what's going on in the financial world is our business desk for us certainly treated the markets announced a bounce back from earlier losses no carol i'm afraid not what we're seeing right now is a sea of red pretty much all across the board on different courses rushers of course not an exception seems all the hype from reelection has already gone away in the previous session on monday we did see growth of around one percent because the reelection of ensure stability pretty much for investors but right now what we're seeing is a correction which has been long in the making the r.t.s.

and the mice are down more than three percent the r.t.s. almost three and a half percent there is below the psychologically important seventeen hundred points mark and some analysts say if the index closes below that level that means we might be seeing the beginning of actually a downward trend not just a correction but let's take a look at what's moving the my six and that's pretty much all blue chips energy shares notably gazprom down three percent financial shares also not feeling well was burbank down around three percent also two point nine percent d.t.b. also not feeling well three point six percent of the actually three point nine percent i'm seeing here now pretty much the only stock which is showing gains this is. a quarter of a percent whereas the other mining stocks like m.k. are showing very big losses of almost five percent now in europe pretty much the same picture the for. almost one percent nandan one point four percent in frankfurt

banking and mining stocks are also weighing on the indices now well is not providing much support to the russian market as you remember there is a strong correlation between oil prices and the russian parents in the russian markets we're seeing right now is eighty four cents of a dick. both light sweet and great now this is also taking its toll on the russian ruble which is weakening versus the dollar by twenty two copecks. versus the euro whereas on the global market the euro is weakening versus the dollar by just a notch. now now that the elections are over on people's minds is the question of what comes next in russia fitch ratings agency says that the new government must tighten budget policy otherwise there is a risk that it will cut russia's long term credit rating now. promise says head

of the election would cost the budget a whopping one hundred sixty billion dollars according to the agency and also pledged to increase pace of the country's economic growth around seven percent a year are you getting an abortion from a systemic skeptical that was. unfortunately a with. all the structure of russian economy and mostly resource oriented export resource around the country we are not capable to grow faster than four percent a year for four four and a half percent a year and it's impossible so from this iteration we can see the situation even in two thousand eleven thousand and thirteen so if we want to grow all seven percent a year in real terms we need change and that's exactly what's not clear we'll be back next hour with another if you can of course the headlines.

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