in addition to all the developments around russia we've. heard. of. calm in moscow after a night out election results reactions saw tens of thousands rallying for and against improvement but the police having just throw the book at some overzealous protesters. leaving 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. the u.n. nuclear inspectors get the green light to visit a secret iranian military facility president obama defends israel despite its threat to launch an attack on the islamic republic.

thanks for being with us six o'clock here in moscow on charon taraji well more than two hundred opposition members detained after a night of election meetings in moscow have all been released one of the gathering spirals out of control and police had to move in archie's aleksandr steps kate has more from outside the kremlin. essentially 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 including the third place presidential candidate. who was also there until one moment when people already started dispersing from the square from the bush discuss where one of the opposition politicians said that he would not leave the square until putin resigned and then several hundred people followed his school and decided to stage a sit in protest in one of the fountain search certainly and the operating 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 sanctioned for this rally 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 where i'm standing right now in my national square to congratulate the prime minister with his victory it was not like a political rally it's all it's more like a celebration with pop stars singing from the stage and this scenes which reminded strongly of what happened twenty four hours before that when 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 for what he would put for the president elect he has already been having a very hard days of work as foreign minister he's integration will only come on 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. the communist party leader who

refuses to acknowledge to recognize the result of the voting he did not come to this meeting the meeting which had a very important statement from the. party united russia will cooperate with the new opposition force which is to be created by the russian tycoon a third place candidate in the election on may seventh and 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 has certainly been acknowledged 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. did every force from across the atlantic explaining exactly what this is all about how 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 as this one going to be in the west we call

a free and fair election. it seems highly unlikely there will be a free and fair election in our sense of the term and that is russia's made their choice we knew of 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 meets international standards. why don't we put victory was confirmed not just by the vote results but even before that i 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 would be choose my didn't witness their next president if you look at how western let's look at russian opinion there's a tendency to ignore community opinion so support for putin is ignored which is genuine i don't know if it's quite as overwhelming again as the election results

when they put 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 seeing 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 it would result 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 who are local you know magistrates or governors people in charge a specific regions they want to impress people for that on 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 and the reaction of the white house to the russian elections was more reserved they congratulated the washroom 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 but when it comes to the media coverage here it's not just about reporting on certain irregularities which absolute. should be covered but it's one perception has been created that the vote was a fraud no matter what the majority of russians say and it casts a shadow not just on the future president but also on those who voted for him i'm going to check on reporting from washington. and there's been a wealth of strong reaction all non to russia's presidential election and the events that followed we break it down for you hold our website party dot com has all the analysis and forecasts you'll need for the latest videos from the russian capital including the protests had to argue to channel also online for you. the g.

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leaving senator john mccain has become the first u.s. politician to publicly call for airstrikes against the syrian regime he says washington has a moral and strategic obligation to force of sought out of syrians have fled to neighboring lebanon as government troops and armed opposition forces continue their offensive our correspondent maria financial reports. former presidential candidate john mccain has become the first senator to publicly call for a u.s. led military strike on syria to and eleven months long conflict here in the country just copies of mccain's speech had him telling the senate that 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 here on the ground that it's waiting for foreign weapons to arrive earlier it confirmed it received weapons and anti aircraft missiles from u.s.

and french sources we while a regional media reports that most french officers have been detained in the city of homs has 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 that 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 efforts to find their 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 baath party who is 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 in the multi-party system will finally pave the way to competition

development and in this new syria for all opposition and those who are angry with him i wish it's a fake. hundred percent fake talk we do not trust our people democracy. believe what ever he promises we tried that too many years ago and too many times and his never be honest not all opposition members are so skeptical some have decided to take it there 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 help 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 from susannah finally the dog 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 their worst time no one in syria will sit thirty with the regime why killing is still going in the streets and bombing is still going in the cities. but suffer from party believes the reforms could be an important tool in finding a solution to the country's projected crisis and. i can describe the situation is painful and we can resolve it together our party is preparing documents for the president and the government we call all parties to start dialogue what a military solution and foreign countries interference will only make things worse you we should not intervene and we should start assigning. and you constitution is the latest in the package of reforms that also included the lifting of emergency

laws and the release of political prisoners that has release says these changes could be a double edged sword making the country stronger but also honorable to foreign influence. there are people and their salaries are in dollars reels and dharmas they want to destroy the country they don't want changes we know we cannot allow changes to happen we have to school reformation and we should stand still to resist it but 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 within 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 democratic changes the uprising brought iran are expected to modify the political landscape here in syria but the same for us for missions are yet to come in people's minds and this is something which will

take a lot longer. r.t. damascus syria. reaction from the region to the increasingly threatening talk from a senior american politician in beirut we have the embassador or the universal peace federation joining us there is a lot of diplomatic effort from around the world to stop the violence in syria how will senator mccain's war call affects the dynamic of those efforts. world recalled by senator john mccain i can see that as an escalation actually towards any strike unfortunately you know toward syria today the regime is on the extreme diplomatic pressure you know internationally. hopefully not you know any military crackdown by the americans or by the europeans or any nato alliance members by specifically turkey which is bordering syria three is not

a positive sign two words any dialogue or any suppression of military action inside syria today whether you are a syrian citizen inside syria or outside or even in a neighboring country like i am i'm lebanese american i would like to see more dialogue involved actually in this situation as a piece of ass so that not only is it me some us a little but also as an enemy and citizen because i believe syria can be given a chance today to start to stop fire or to have a cease fire three between conflicting parties enough bloodshed i can i can believe myself or i believe myself that this should be an open window into the for any dialogue let's see opening or any dialogue opportunity here to be indulged or involved inside syria in local and international politics can affect this eerie and actually status today which ought to be considered you know on

a high level whether you are an official inside syria or an international figure specifically inside europe or the americans i don't mean to write you off here but you're mentioning dialogue thousands of civilians have died in eleven months of fighting and it still very intense what other options are there at this stage that other than meeting fire with fire let's say. at least i mean diplomatic initiatives can be or can be involved here or can be initiated through the united nations which is an umbrella for the whole nations actually around the word the united nations covers at least one hundred ninety member states and the u.s. is one of them the european actually they are members you know inside the european continent for sure syria so far is still a member unfortunately the arab league has played a role in such a crisis inside syria did not support. the regime itself but it was conquering actually the regime itself it was trying to develop a certain initiative where the regime can be also diplomatically and on an arab

level but this did not succeed according to their own needs and to satisfy the american agenda so far or even the european agenda in all sitting president assad and the regime itself from the syrian territories or the geographical me locations as we have witnessed and homes in there are. even a little which was seen as quiet actually in the past ten months or so so far in the past month and a half it has witnessed a bit of a military let's see explosions over any bombs so far and this has hurt the economic. status inside aleppo which is one of the biggest economic cities inside syria today syria is undergoing major political reform bringing in a mall type system and parliamentary elections scheduled for may what chance do they have to succeed with sanctions on one side and work on the other.

well i think the regime itself and the president himself and his own government the need to go inside inside syria with with better reforms initiatives we have witnessed all together inside the arab world and even internationally certain reforms have been really initiated by the president himself the new constitution and the vote turnout for it was a bit successful as well as to myself actually as an analyst or as an independent analyst today i have witnessed a really important step an intermediary. head where syrians can be independent let's see they were practically speaking and we hope that the governance of democracy will be given a chance inside syria but let us give the chance actually as europeans and as americans i'm mentioning this to them to give a chance to the president himself. when he can continue with such administrative political and could be judicial reforms with the people we witnessed

a more motivational tool here by exactly would things such steps ahead and hopefully submit to submitting to the new reforms that will take syria a step ahead and hopefully develop its own policies and develop its own powers inside politically and economically furthermore to better not only a developing state but the winning win win situation arsalan already or i would be happy in some sense why really because of your silly in libya today leader as in the east are declared sammie are trying to me for the region the national transitional council says is threatening to break the country up if that's the conclusion to our libya rana terran air strikes should be a warning to those now eyeing up syria. i think it's all or a strategic threat to by the west and specifically by the syrian council the national council cannot be seen as

a positive step ahead in order to the president himself. i mean they have they have been weakened actually by such such steps so far in the past months and i don't think that this step ahead will help them resolve the better their own status today or their own political story let's say ahead so therefore i believe in giving a chance for dialogue between conflicting parties and they should submit the words the presidency and the ruling party inside syria today but believe that there is a new spirit really under the same president hopefully let us give him a chance to rule furthermore openly another couple of years or four more years let's see what comes they had offered asylum ambassador to the universal peace federation talking to us from terror thank you. still have for you this hour israel's american arm twisting arm of the threatening tough. if we

attempt to speak. here doing could be not just vilified they're going to be defeated washington valve's to stand by its increasingly combative ally despite israel's readiness to attack around. more of the world's main news now 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. only yemeni army president harvey took office a week ago replacing the. ones ruled for thirty three years. the rallies been held outside the chinese embassy installed in protest over china's arrest our thousands of north korean defectors and its plans to repatriate human rights groups fear about the captured man will face torture and possible death if

they're sent back north korean leader kim jong un has vowed to punish anyone who tries to leave the country. 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 threat to use force against iran coming out we talked to a former u.s. ambassador to israel on iran's nuclear situation. 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 fire wall a road block 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 on 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. twenty three minutes past the hour and president obama stated hill use every power necessary to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon but includes backing israel even though its kind of things are on the trigger as liz wahl reports. it's an annual tradition more than thirteen thousand people gathering in the nation's capital by the american israel public affairs committee annual conference because people from all over the country is to come in revitalize their pro israel 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 and just how much power this group has over u.s. foreign policy there is controversy speaking at the conference president obama reiterated america is dedicated to fostering strong ties with its closest ally when it comes to preventing iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. i will take no options 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. these are a loser pushing us into a regional war that. cataclysmic potential apac supports more jewish voice for peace and many jewish americans are in this kind of peace. but. they're also protesting the lobbying

groups enormous impact on u.s. 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 in some political campaigns in a meeting in the white house israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu told obama that we are you and you are us we're 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 in washington r.t. . time to check what's going on in the financial world to me trees have a business test for us so dimitri did the markets manage to bounce back from earlier losses you know fairly there's still

a sea of red all across the board in both europe and in russia if we just take a look at what's going on there seems the hype from the presidential elections has already gone away and we're seeing a massive correction so you look at those figures the odds he has and the my stocks are now declining more than three and a half percent there's you can see the r.t.s. more than four percent and. down below the seventeen hundred mark now earlier today we heard analysts say that if the index closes the session below seven hundred points that means we could be in not just for a correction but for the beginning of a real downward trend now what's moving them i say pretty much all blue chips almost all shares actually energy shares gazprom down free and a half percent financials not feeling well as burbank also free hard percent lower b.c.b. more than four percent in a decline now when it comes to mining some of the biggest losses there nichols down

almost five percent and them k. also almost five percent the only story right now which is showing some gays in the us half a percent gain that's fully met all in the for no apparent reason must be some kind of inside thing actually now in europe we are seeing pretty much the same picture also declines of footsie down more than one percent the dax almost two percent that's has investors private investors which will be taking part in the greek swap deal it turns out they're holding around twenty percent of the shares and also we are looking at a negative opening in the united states will is not providing much support to the russian market light sweet is down one dollar forty cents a brants are also one and a half dollars on the worries over global growth and of course the russian currency is not seeing that any support from commodities and therefore it's weakening versus the greenback am versus the euro twenty seven copecks versus the greenback while on

the global market the euro is weakening slightly versus the dollar and now the rubles also weakening after a warning came from fish now the ratings agency is worried about russia's budget situation there if the new government following the elections does not regulate budget spending russia's a long term. rates may actually be cut now that putin's pre-election promises included a social program worth up to one hundred sixty billion dollars according to the agency also promised to push economic growth as much as seven percent a year but you get either dawson from a place of stem or is skeptical about these promises. unfortunately a with. all the structure of russian economy and mostly resource oriented exports 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 even possible something this iteration we can see deceleration even in two thousand and eleven two thousand and thirteen so if we want to grow seven percent a year in real terms we need change and that's exactly what's not clear. that's how the markets look at the south or more business news there's always a website out to dot com forward slash business and you can join in around fifty five minutes time i'll be here when i'll take.