the stories that shape the week here on our t.v. are important in fergus russia's president elect after securing a comfortable win in the poll but managed to leave tough challenges for the new leader of bly. the election draws thousands to russia's streets railing for and against the outcome with the opposition movement facing a test for support and accusations of failed expectations. russia's proposals on ending serious crisis strike a chord with the arab league and growing calls for foreign intervention and fears it could lead to further bloodshed. and raise receives a cold shower for ratings agencies outburst finally seals

a dead deal with private investors with movies declaring the country in default. this is actually going to be live from moscow a.t.m. in the russian capital i'm marina joshing. russia's prime minister allowed a report that will soon return to the kremlin for he asserted presidential town made official this week after his security first round election when i despite finishing way had of the other candidates there's a growing feeling that serious challenges lie ahead for the country's future leader asking reports. it was one emotional minefield led you to approach him yeah i do still i promised you we would win but you didn't. and we haven't done. that you three minutes to may have just to find his g.

is going to say but no one would be surprised if it was caused by the joy of victory. it was hardly a show and you had been the elections clear from corner but eventually result of almost sixty four percent stunned even those at the helm who would never think of such a high result so it's even higher than that was predicted for ourselves and shows once again actually proves that putin is a political figure number one of these countries and he's potential is yes so is yet to be oh those are there but it's no time to party now many experts believe commissions real challenge in fact starts now that. this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concepts all of that state the role it meant for hearing development strategies for myself i identify the first concept as putting land they want russian political system to be transparent whereas russia's economy where they will get more liberties and no corruption on the other hand this

other group or for us the elite as well as the russian public whom i associated with they can to stop they just need status quo they need just some ten dollars from the state they don't want any change which is the road to nowhere to change manifested itself in the sudden rise of. in under four months the russian billionaire. managed to persuade more than five million people to vote for him many say this new face into country spall ticks has serious potential and brought have already declared an intention to form an opposition party with putin promising he would cooperate with it to symbolize the new the new russia is some be sure to be absolutely new and fresh in comparison to the soviet union michael for a self made. his ambitions all other candidates. from the cold and stylish summit they leave. here. they're

not you know any more leaders of the younger generation and figures speak for themselves second place communist leaders are going to gauge seventeen percent in his fifth compay for presidency less than he scored he had earned at the parliamentary vote and experts say even this came most you ask protest voting in the eyes of many this is a clear signal it's time for fringe politicians to make way in western countries if your party loses the election its leaders are often changed if it happens again that he's definitely changed these guys had lost three times prior to this moment a lot of those folks are still seen as being somewhat out of touch the view of the russian street is it all work these guys had their chance in the one nine hundred ninety six screwed things up you know we still need stronger leadership very able to offer we needed more concrete programs and they are pushing will continue his work as prime minister for two more months of the period which could become crucial

and decisive for the country's long term future blood even a question will officially return to the kremlin on may the seventh that is when his inauguration takes place until then the president elect will have to work out a strategy of holding a dialogue between those in power and those in the streets and given that some are still calling for him to step down even after such a convincing victory this may prove to be. quite a task alexy russia ski r.t. reporting from moscow. opposition rallies have taken place in the weeks leading up to the vote and even after the presidential i shall come thousands took to the streets but a number of those protesting as well in the way that the nature of the demonstrations is changing to our to their english the exam is what causes a shift in the protest movement. in the protestors and happy with the results of the presidential elections to the streets the day after the votes to place some counts the police busy. communist party members to give them some decided tomorrow

stay they wanted two hours yes it was their third procedure your goal i'm not going to leave this square i'm staying here until putin leaves where the tents and there were no tents but there was a fountain which will by itself shows as a makeshift stage to make you statements from and from which police removed him and several dozens of his supporters. the situation repeated itself on saturday when police pulled from an electricity transformer again after the opposition rally was officially over but the context of the opposition leaders seem to do little to keep people coming to protest rallies three years ago but also it was the spirit if that hysteria that irritation and aggression had continues it would have alienated the public no one here wants a revolution no one wants to fight with police that people who come to these protests only want change they don't want bloodshed all violence which is what could scare them away the results of the elections to steve duma hotly contested by

many brought tens of thousands in the streets of moscow but the day after presidential elections there are only half of that number showed up to push his case square and even fewer still to the demonstration on saturday i'm looking for a serious read and all i see every single protest action which took place over the i thought i'd rather see it was. thing of many that google is not a silhouette of the president it was your guys you know here it's always here some blame the lack of a coherent idea and absence of unity among the opposition leaders for the waning support after i had it i think these people all have a different agenda some don't even know why they're here if i was there i want to see different independent candidates that i could choose from but i don't think we can really reach any calls by protests like this even some of the most vocal supporters of the movement for fair elections say solid foundations are necessary

to carry on with the movement ok and there's not some sort of regulation and structure is needed some sort of goals an understanding of what happens next which could be easily understood are also necessary. to protest movements which began as a call for free and fair elections in russia following the go through the state duma seems to have turned into haphazard series of gatherings they have achieved success in bringing people sutured streets. trikes the retracts more attentions to their slogans but we are now witnessing their slogans needs to be changed. for a new agent the impact of the rallies seem to have only one slogan counts with putin but what to do if he leaves no one seems to know in moscow and those who are to me. and the western media have been a largely critical of both russia's election route and its outcome in the us there were allegations of plans of vote rigging even before the polls opened attitude

barack obama almost a week to graduate putting on his when i did that is she can has more from washington. 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 worth a read in the west or call a free and fair election. it seems are highly unlikely that a. be a free and fair election in our sense of the term and that is russia has 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 standard is. what i mean victory was confirmed not just by the vote results but even before that by meter opinion polls as well the focus of some media on rampant fraud or stolen elections seems to leak out of the equation the vast majority of russian voters

would be true but it would mean as their next president if you look at how western let's 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 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 saying 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 what we're seeing 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 look you know magistrates or governors people in charge a specific regions they wanted to impress people for the bomb 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 the congratulated the russian people with the elections and said washington looks forward to working with the president elect and urged the russian government to look into group words and violations when it comes to the media coverage here it's not just the reporting on certain you regularities which absolutely should be covered but it's my own perception is being created. was a fraud no matter what the majority of russians say and he 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 r.p.

. in contrast to assessments by the west russian authorities of the past election has been the most transparent in the country's history to support this claim there were two hundred thousand web cameras installed the polling stations and almost a million election observers one of them tells this course he shared his view on the fairness of the vote. we have seen several lay irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling stations so it's normal you can know they prepare all people i mean there are thousands of people working on the electoral forces in there you cannot every president perfectly so nothing is a deal but the direct who are repeats or to be told as look even if you are a good lawyer it is but those technical and organisational problems were seen a lot of the problems we had faced in european countries now explore this week's top story in death by logging on to the special session dedicated to the

presidential elections in russia south com well this cover what russians thing makes an ideal president and whether people want evolutionary or a revolutionary changes for the country plus we've got plenty of expert opinion on the story and the very latest future holds paul demonstrations and this and much more in store for you at r.t. dot com. now russia and the arab league have agreed a plan to help syria and its yearlong crisis in which thousands of people died the agreement came after months of diplomatic bigger ring over how to tackle the turmoil speaking after the meeting with arab counterparts in cairo russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says he agreed plans sans an important message to all sides in the syrian conflict. the solution is gold we've agreed a joint position of five main points first to stop violence wherever it comes from secular to create an impartial and independent monitoring system. no external

interference for us as the unrestricted leverage humanitarian needs to syrians and finally the firm support of casinos mission to stop political dynamic between the government and all of those issues just gifts you know because it's on the newsgroup i know you are a bad boy coffee on is currently our peace mission and the mask is but his efforts were dismissed before he officially began a series external opposition firmly rejected the government talks the group's renewed calls for military pressure on the regime was followed by qatar suggestion to deploy foreign troops to syria but as artie's mori if an option in our reports outside interference of a country's conflict is raising fears of an even bigger crisis. as the syrian conflict stretches sounds in time it has also spread geographically by case of the uprising a felt far from the country's borders what's happening in syria is heartbreaking and outrageous and what you've seen is the international community mobilize against the assad regime strategic analyst says one thing is clear though it's certainly

gun fabio in the words of sympathy and according to those on the ground in syria that motor isolation has many more folds than officially stated and during the operation in baba amr the syrian army arrested fighters from gulf countries in afghanistan iraq libya and some european states their work was coordinated by kotori and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia mossad and blackwater agents but it's also sees israeli weapons especially in taking missiles and israeli drones the us defense contractor formerly known as blackwater and now called academy was notorious for its heavy handed tactics during operations in iraq and pakistan while the us and many other countries. admitted al qaeda linked extremists groups fighting alongside the armed opposition in syria dr salim says some countries are using those groups to further their own interests. to get local players involved in

order to hide their involvement but this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iraq and big countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot ask first airbrushing in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and had a question of a blogger and freelance journalist has been investigating foreign involvement in serious crisis since last year she says this is a story with three main chapters weapons smuggled across the border overseas contractors and foreign cash. when you see a lot of money in syria then you would be i believe that this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you will find that the book about hundreds of dollars or something nobody would kill him so. now we see now this is a bit of

a city with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to the opposition getting louder even for those at the grassroots of the uprising the initial euphoria is turning bitter. we can say we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go down. we turned so much militarized. and we never wanted and don't want intervention. but fears are afterwards he says that it could be too late to stop this cult of current claims of conflict while the conflict between president bashar assad and his opponents here in syria about to enter its second year another conflict is also in full swing between those calling on dialogue and political settlement as the way out and those who insist on military solution and the let's say certain into fights almost as important as the one claim in blood on the streets. written or shot see damascus syria or u.s.

pentagon's have this week it was ordered to review its potential options on syria wishing who are being forced now i know why zone and humanitarian airlift transport castro says washington is not interested in a policy and the middle eastern country. when you hear war hawks like senators lindsey graham and john mccain calling for bombs away and again go back and play over and see the same scenario the heads come in and they say we have to because we need to and we have to use diplomacy in the meanwhile they're building up for the military conflict and you heard president obama say at the height of the iranian incident with netanyahu that he said you know that at this time when there is not a lot of sympathy for iran and its only how. serious is the

row. we have to quiet it down a little bit. they're working hard to get me to live from moscow so i have a program opening talks in tehran a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff with the u.s. and israel could be on the horizon however it doesn't come without a warning from iran. plus the f.b.i. could be playing with fire after arresting several suspected hacktivist in a move many believe will only benefit of tory's anonymous group. now this week greece finally concluded a deal with private investors considered to be the biggest debt write down in history the agreement which reduces the greek burden by over one hundred billion euros was hailed by the working years as a solution to the canonic woes however there was no cause for ratings agencies with moody's declaring out into the fold on its debt and another firm fitch has

downgrade agrees to restricted the fold status chris we for chief strategist at investment firm troika dialog says there is a big earth were at hanging over not only greece but all western baggs frankly this is no longer about greece what's at stake here is the bigger picture in europe is that if there is a technical default if it's that's what it's called then they put at risk the whole face of the c.d.s. the c.d.s. market is essentially the bond insurance scheme that banks use when they take out the invested bones in one country. being effectively paid insurance premium reflecting the risk of default to the country so the c.d.s. way this is worth the insurance premium moves up and down it's what gives is a measure of how risky one country's debt is relative to another so if there's a technical default in greece it needs that the c.d.s. spreads to work and therefore there's no question about whether or not the. spread

of the insurance for everyone else is also and that's the most to try. dollar business still believe if that starts to give confidence in that system is on their minds then you're looking at potentially catastrophic consequences for western banks and therefore the western economy so that's really what's at stake it really is that serious and don't forget to check out plenty more news stories and comment on our web sites out there for you right now shelling shot israel fires missiles and gaza killing at least fifteen palestinians including two militant leaders via the aftermath footage in full dot com. lots of the social networks tearing families apart and a wife who discovered her husband was already married. to

iran world powers have finally reached an agreement on resuming high level talks giving new hope for a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff islamic state however warning to go she will fail if the west keeps piling on the pressure the spy the push for diplomacy from the u.s. administration the israeli prime minister signaled to during a meeting with rock obama that military action is still an option later reports emerge that israel had asked washington for weapons that could be crucial in striking iran is on the ground facilities u.s. defense chief and turn to an american attack on iran will be far more effective support of military confrontation back on the table former reagan administration official dr craig roberts says that all this ramped up war rhetoric politicians out for god there is no actual proof iran is seeking to build a bomb. the

combined intelligence estimate of united states government that is unanimous opinion of all sixteen intelligence agencies is that iran abandoned its nuclear weapons program i think they said in two thousand and three that would be man years ago but the united states has commanded is that a red give up its rights as a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty if you send the nonproliferation treaty and agree to inspectors you or you have the right to have you can energy and the united states is insisting that iran has to be excluded. from not having nuclear energy but calls the united states says as some time iran might decide to make a box or the whole thing is just made up as contrived and we've got three or four

nuclear armed country just they didn't sign a treaty they didn't pull it for a day and they're rolling good standing with united states they receive all kinds of eighty eight we have israel pakistan and india. iran's deputy foreign minister is as a consequence of an israeli attack on iran will be severe or due to the region's changing landscape and for entry is coming up later this hour here in r.t. . u.s. israeli threats against iran and not me it's a repeating scenario involving the u.s. and the zionist country what's important is that we understand the terms and conditions to which the u.s. president is in an election cycle and these threats are for domestic consumption and are intended to influence election results some of these threats relate to changes taking place in the middle east and north africa as well as the arab revolutions that we're currently witnessing political and security changes which have come as a response to popular demand we could then erika's presence in the region and

empowered resistance against zionism and against repressive regimes to live even in a very bad situation and netanyahu is incapable of taking decisions should this unlikely attack ever happen israel would face dire consequences. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world several explosions have hit a last station in the kenyan capital nairobi leaving at least four people dead dozens wounded with us to say three people in a moving car threw grenades at a passenger terminal nobody claimed responsibility for the blast but authorities believe somalia's al-qaeda linked militants were responsible. a bus or truck have collided in chile claiming at least six lives over fifty others have been injured in the crash the accident was caused by a truck driver losing control of the vehicle knocking over the separation line and ramming head on the passenger coach about fifteen people trapped in the wreckage

were later rescued by firefighters. japan is marking the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which left the last twenty thousand people dead the disaster also damaged the fukushima daiichi power plant triggering a nuclear crisis memorial services will be held across the country and a minute's silence observed at the exact moment the quake hit. now this week several top members of the hacker group low security were arrested and charged with cyber crimes and new york the group is most famous for its support of we can leaks some websites belonging to the cia news and credit card companies a leader of all security however is reported to have worked for the u.s. government following a prior arrest last year and it's alleged to have informed former colleagues robert harris from the u.k. speier party believes the arrests were only encourage more attacks from anonymous.

these are people who resort to direct action because they don't see them. in our. system. men are being prosecuted and a lot of them are but would. actually cause any significant damage is worse and more. i think that's a good thing what's the more go probably than actually engage would be on one but relation. close but only as well as the. digital connecting you are going to see the government in the u.k. especially but all over the world i'm going to probably and you're not unity and. shape the internet is not just. committed all. well brings us up to date here i'm sure if we were minor of our top story state.