the stories that shape the week here on our t.v. reporting confirmed as russia's president elect after securing a comfortable win in the polls plot manimal leave tough challenges for the new leader why. the election draws down just russia street rallies for and against the opposition movement facing a test for support and accusations of failed expectations. the arab league season two i was russia on how serious crisis should be out of the middle growing calls for foreign intervention and fears it could lead to further bloodshed. and greece receives a cold shower from ratings agencies after it finally seals adad deal with private

investors with moody's declaring the country into full. force ninety coming to you live from moscow russia's prime minister vladimir putin will soon return to the kremlin for his third presidential term made official this week after he secured a first round election went but despite finishing way ahead of the other candidates there is a growing feeling that serious challenges lie had a for the country's future leader. reports. it was one emotional night for legendary coach and you know i do still i promise you we would when we get him. i. only have one. but you get three minutes to may have just defined he still is going to still win but no one would be surprised if it was caused by the joy of big three

i it was hardly a shock as putin had been the elections clear front runner 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 we predicted for ourselves and shows once again actually proves that organizers illegal thing are number one of these countries and his potential is here to is yet to be open toes are there but it's no time to party now many experts believe real challenge in fact starts now that. this will be sort of a battle between that throughout character of course all that state irrelevant or hearing developments credits for myself identify the first concept as working land they want russian political system to be transparent whereas russia's economy where they will get more nepotism and corruption but on the other hand this other group

of process elite as well as russian probably. associated with a. they just need status quo they need just some candles from the state they don't want any change which is the road to nowhere the 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 and many say this new face in the country has serious potential and girls who have already declared an intention to form an opposition party with putin promising she would cooperate with it to symbolize. the new russia at least some vicious. all of the candidates. from the old stylish. elite and. 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 presidency less than he's already had earned at the parliamentary vote and experts say even this came mostly as protest vote in the eyes of many this is a clear signal it's starting to feel free to make way in the western countries if a party loses the election its leader is no friend changed if it happens again then 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 you and the russians traders you know work these guys had their chance in the one nine hundred ninety s. the screw things up you know we still need stronger leadership variable to offer we need a more concrete program. will continue his workers try minister for two more months the period which could become crucial and decisive for the country's long term future blood even a portion 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 alexi russia ascii r.t. reporting from moscow. opposition rallies had taken place in the weeks leading up to the vote and even after the presidential election outcome thousands took to the streets but the number of those protesting is wailing and the nature of the demonstrations is changing to. examines what caused a shift in the protest movement. when the protesters i'm happy with the results of the presidential elections took to the streets the day after the votes took place some kept the police busy. to do that some decided tomorrow stay they wanted to hours you know doing their job it was to give your book 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 all died some chose as a makeshift stage to make his statements from and from which police removed him and several dozens of his supporters. a situation repeated itself on saturday when police pulled from an electricity transformer again after the opposition rally was officially over but the antics of the opposition leaders seem to do little to keep people coming to protest rallies and years ago but also with the. 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 the people who come to these protests only want change they don't want bloodshed or violence which is what can scare them away the results of the elections to the stadium are a hotly contested by many brought tens of thousands out in the streets of moscow but the day after presidential elections there are only half of that number showed

up to post in squares square and even fewer still to the demonstration on saturday they are not believe it's a serious read and all i see every single protest absolute is that place of a lot i'd rather see it more as a hangover you don't really go that's not so you know you have a job president it was a good idea you know here it was here some blame the lack of a coherent idea and absence of unity among the opposition leaders for the waning support that i had i think these people all have a different agenda some don't even know why the hair if i was born i want to see different in japan. candidates that i could choose from but i tell you 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 because that's in the book some sort of regulation and structure is needed some sort of goals an understanding of what happens next which could be easily understood by people who are also necessary. to protest movement which began

as a call for free and fair elections in russia following the growth of the state duma seems to have turned into a haphazard series of gatherings they have achieved success in bringing people. to the streets and trying to attract more attention to their slogans but we are now witnessing their slogans needs to be changed there is a need for a u.s. gender impact of the rallies seem to have only one slogan out with putin but what to do if he leaves no one seems to know in moscow even of those who are telling the western media has been largely critical of both russia's election right and its outcome and you asked there were allegations of planned vote rigging even before the polls open and it took grok obama almost a week to gradually put on his when i just got to check out this war from washington. even before the election the american already is were primed to believe

that the presidential vote in russia had to be a fraud is this one going to be worth it we in the west would 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 if you look at how was relative look at russian opinion there's a tendency to ignore inconvenient and so support for putin is ignored which is genuine there was an unprecedented monitoring of the elections in russia with cameras in 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 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 it's perfectly plausible that people or local magistrate sort of

governors they want to impress people for that line by demonstrating how strong support for putin was in their area when it comes to the media coverage here it's not just about reporting on certain irregularities which absolutely should be covered but it's when perception is being created. with the fraud no matter what the majority of russians say and it cast a shadow not just on the future president but also on those who voted for him i'm going to take our reporting from washington our people. in congress to assessments by the west russian authority said the past election has been the most transparent in the country's history to ensure a fairer vote most a million observers were allowed to monitor the election process one of them i chose to score ski shared on how it went. we have seen several irregularities several mistakes of the members of the polling spaces so it's normal you can know the prepare all people i mean the thousands of people working on the electoral

process is. a repro them perfect so i think it's a deal but the era who are obese or the people that's not even if you're a good lawyer it is about those technical and organisational problems word seem a lot of the problems we have faced in european countries. and efficiency observers of there were several hundred thousand web cameras to ensure elections transparency but the costly project was only used to document violations but also provided entertainment for millions of viewers around the world. think of the cameras falling asleep on duty and even stretching exercises record of both videos become internet hits but not for the reason they were made in the first place. russia and the arab league have agreed a plan to help syria and it's here on crisis in which thousands of people die the

agreement came after months of diplomatic bickering over how to tackle the turmoil speaking after the meeting with arab khana parts in cairo russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says he agreed plan sends an important message to all sides in the syrian conflict. there's that is going to go we've agreed a joint position of five main points first to stop violence wherever it comes from second to create an impartial and independent monitoring system third no external interference fourth the unrestricted delivery of humanitarian aid to all syrians and finally the firm support of kofi annan as mission to start political dialogue between the government and all of position groups you've seen your visits with. the i am going kofi annan is currently on a peace mission end of baskets but his efforts were dismissed before they officially began the serious external opposition probably 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 as artie's north and often are reports outside interference in the country's conflict is raising fears of an even bigger crisis. as the syrian conflict stretches out in time it has also spread geographically i case of the uprising belt far from the country's borders what's happening in syria is heartbreaking. and what you've seen is the international community mobilize against the assad regime strategic analyst says one thing is clear though i say sion has many more forbes beneficially stated. during the operation in baba amr the syrian army arrested fighters from gulf countries and afghanistan iraq libya and some european states their work was coordinated by qatari and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia and mossad it's also seized israeli weapons especially in take take missiles and israeli drones while the u.s.

and many other countries have 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 this is why we hear mostly arabs like saudi arabia and qatar or iraq these countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot ask for us they're pushing it in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades and how to coach never blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for an important and serious crisis since last year but she says this is a story with three main chapters often smuggled across the border but this is contractors and foreign cash when you see a lot of money here. this is comparable to what happened in.

there were plenty of money then you will find that they're going to talk about. something nobody would kill himself. oh now you would see now this is a. city with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to the opposition getting louder people photos of the grassroots of the uprising the initial euphoria is turning bitter. i can see we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go back for a return so much militarized and boil and we never wanted and don't want intervention. but fears are. that this could be too late to stop this all too far into flames of conflict while the conflict between president bashar assad and his opponents here in syria about to enter itself and here another conflict is

also in full swing between those calling on the political settlement as the way out and those who insist on military solution and the let's say started into a fight almost as important as the one claim in blood on the streets. see damascus syria us pentagon said this week it was ordered to review its potential options on syria which include the enforcement of a no fly zone and humanitarian airlift trans forecaster charles landry says washington is not interested in diplomacy and a 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 their 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 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 it's only now why syria is on the ropes we have to quiet it down a little bit. to be now which is still struggling to overcome chaos after the previous regime was toppled where the help of nato forces last year on tuesday a group of tribal and militia leaders declaring partial autonomy for an oil rich region in the east of the country the central government was quick to say it is ready to use force to stop the move sara marsac a beirut based a researcher for syracuse university says that what's happening in the media today is what prompted for military intervention in the first place. the country is in chaos right now it's heartbreaking and outrageous as president obama said about the

situation in syria no the situation in libya is that way we hear about militias torturing people who are suspected of supporting qaddafi in the past and there was a hideous story about someone's fingers getting cut off because he was horsewhipped on the hand repeatedly over and over again until his fingers were severed these are crimes against humanity that are happening in libya and there's no outcry by the international community the same international community that called for a no fly zone in libya to see civilians to save people's lives so really it's a very dangerous situation we don't know who has what capacity right now to attack other people and other tribes and so it's very difficult and a political solution is required for this certainly not a military one. and still to come some world leaders just refused to take their food off the gas when it comes to. israel and sister a military attack on iran is still on the cards even despite his tweet his last

state foreign powers to renew talks on to iraq's controversial nuclear program. plus nuclear fears continue to spread in japan as experts accuse the government of failing to disclose information one year after an earthquake and tsunami sparked atomic crisis. this week greece finally concluded a deal with private investors considered to be the biggest debt write down in history agreement which reduces the greek burden by over one hundred billion euros was hailed by the repeal leaders as a solution to use economic woes however there was no applause from the ratings agencies with moody's declaring athens to fold on its debt and another firm fitch has downgrade agrees to restrict the default status chris we for chief strategist at best and from troika dialog says there is a big or a threat hanging over. now only green but all west from banks. frankly this is no

longer about greeks what's at stake here is the bigger picture in europe is that if there is a technical default if that's what it's called then they would put at risk the full face of the c.d.s. market the c.d.s. market is essentially the bond insurance scheme for banks hughes when they take out the invest in bonds in one country and the effect would be paid insurance premium reflecting the risk of default in the country so the c.d.s. spread the word the insurance premium moves up and down it's what kids 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 to see the spread didn't work and therefore there's no question about whether or not you like to see the spread of insurance premiums everywhere else is also and that's a most two trillion dollars business globally if that starts to have confidence in that system is undermined then you're looking at potentially catastrophic

consequences for western banks and therefore the restaurant and so that's really what's at stake it really is serious. don't forget to check out plenty more news stories and comment on our web site there for you right now shelling shot israel fires missiles and gaza killing at least fifteen palestinians including two militant leaders find the aftermath diligent bull. plus the social networks tearing families apart and the wife who discovered her husband was already married. to rotten world powers have finally reached an agreement on resuming hyla. talks giving you hope for a peaceful resolution to the nuclear standoff islamic state however warned against

fail if the west keeps piling on the pressure despite a push for diplomacy from the us administration israeli prime minister signal joining a meeting with rocket bomber that military action is still an option later reports emerged that israel had asked washington for weapons that could be crucial in striking ronson and ground facilities u.s. defense chief terrance sad an american attack on iran would be far more effective thus putting military confrontation back on the table but many experts say political interest before u.s. presidential election will prevail over iran top of war rhetoric. the obama administration does not want to ever war before the election at this point they seem to be trying to soft pedal it any time you. have a war with a country as substantial as iran's and is influential in so many countries are in the borders it borders afghanistan it borders iraq it's across the straits from saudi arabia and other of the smaller countries in the gulf you can't that patrick

country like iran and expect to have enormous unforseen consequences if you're israel or the united states so i think anyone who thinks that an attack on iran would be just you know some bombing runs and then it would be over is the looting themselves it would be totally unpredictable where that would go. well later this hour we talk to ron's devaney for minister on the likelihood of military confrontation over his country's nuclear program. well japan is marking the first anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami which left almost twenty thousand people dead but disaster also damaged the fukushima daiichi power plant triggering a nuclear crisis a minute's silence has been observed at the exact moment the quake hit one year ago and memorial services will be held across the country during the day arnold gundersen energy adviser at fairwinds associates many details about the nuclear

crisis remain undisclosed with the contamination spreading well beyond the fukushima area. i think the government has been slow to disclose facts ever since the accident occurred there's clearly the cleanup is going to cost around a half a trillion dollars u.s. and that's not just for the site but for the prefecture of fukushima as well but the contamination goes well beyond the preacher get up in tokyo a not so short and truly kilometers away the entire north of the country as a public health hazard here because everyone is exposed to radioactive cesium where you work construction and other isotopes. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world several explosions have hit a thought station in the kenyan capital nairobi leaving at least four people dead and dozens wounded witnesses say three people in

a moving car needs at the passenger terminal nobody claimed responsibility for the blast here but authorities believe somalia's al qaeda linked militants were responsible for a bus drop have collided in chile claiming at least six lives over fifty others have been injured in the crash yes it was caused by the lorry driver losing control of the vehicle knocking over the separation line and landing head on into the passenger coach about fifteen people trapped see the wreckage were later rescued by firefighters. and this week several top members of the hacker group lol security were arrested and charged with cyber crimes and new york the group was most famous for its support of weaken leaks and the task of web sites belonging to the cia fox news and credit card companies the leader of law security however is reported to have worked for the u.s. government following a prior arrest last year and is alleged to have informed on his former colleagues

robert harris from the case pirate party believes the arrest will only encourage more tatts from an audience. these are people who resorted to direct action because they don't see the democratic structures opening up them to be able to anticipate what exactly is meant i think prosecute them and locking them up which would have actually cause any significant damage is only going to make things worse and encourage more people go down that road i think that's a good thing about what see more government follow than actually engage with the online population of thought and to cross the street as well as i see after your. initial contact in the u.k. i'd like to see the government in the u.k. especially all over the world engaging with the public and your monthly maty in short the online community internet is not just. managed from the top. every saturday here on r.t. i'll be back shortly with on day two of our top stories.

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