the biggest stories of the we can all see as lodging a person gains a result in victory in last sunday's presidential election the protest movement loses momentum because of internal structures and the lack of clear goals to. be more appropriate a syrian crisis as brush on the arab league come to an agreement over how to stop violence in the country but there is still does trying to poke stakes through the spokes of diplomacy. three days under fire israel continues to launch air strikes in gaza killing more than a dozen in the west by has the region has seen in a year. this

is all she's wyck a hello and welcome to the program fast prime minister vladimir putin's return to the presidency is confirmed after an hour wellman election victory but i ask a long and hard fought race for the kremlin is over are the challenges to lie ahead for going into parties and if he or she asked the points. he was non-emotional mindful. i did i promised you we would win. i. only have one. but the prime minister may have justified his cheers by the strong wind but no one would be surprised if it was caused by the joy of victory 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 oh no. think about such

a high result so it's sort of. predicted for ourselves and shows ross again actually proves that go figure number one of those kind for you and these potential . is yet to be oh i'm told it's no time to party now many experts believe clinton's real challenge in fact starts now and. this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concepts all of that stayed the relevant coherent development credits for myself i've been to fry the first concert put in a land they want russian political system to be transparent whereas russia's economy where they will get more nepotism and no corruption but on the other hand this other alternative group are for us as well as russia and probably i associated with a deal they just need status quo they need just some ten dollars from the state they don't want any change which is that all can know with the change manifested itself

in the sudden rise of me how you pull it off in under four months the russian billionaire managed to persuade more than five million people to vote for him many say this new face in the country school ticks has serious potential and could have already declared an intention to form an opposition party with putin promising huge quarter rate with it he symbolizes the new the new russia at least some to be sure all the other candidates. from all stylish so it's really. they're not you know any more leaders of the younger generation and figures speak for themselves second place communist leaders to gun of gates seventeen percent he's fifth compay for presidency less than he scored he had earned a parliamentary vote and experts say even this came mostly as protest voting in the eyes of many this is a clear. signal it's time for three small additions to make way into western

countries even party loses the election its leader is over and changed if it happens again then he's definitely changed these guys had lost three times prior to this vote a lot of those folks are still seen as being somewhat out of touch you in the russian street is you know work these guys had their chance in the one nine hundred ninety s. they screwed things out you know we still need stronger leadership and they're able to offer we need a more concrete program than they have and will continue his work as prime minister for two more months the period of which could become crucial and decisive for the country's long term future. put in will officially return to the kremlin on may the seventh that is when his inauguration takes place michael 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. r.t.

reporting from moscow. i want to share this presidential campaign will be remembered for is a massive riot is that heralded a political awakening for russia's public art by all appearances they worked with paris of becoming a top government priority today however the protest movement seems to present out their support with a phrase in our history know that i wish that. when the protestors unhappy with the results of the presidential elections took to the streets the day after the vote took place some kept the police busy. to do that stuff decided to hold steve you want it two hours no see what. was it in 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 by itself shows as a makeshift stage to make his 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 over but the antics of the opposition leaders seem to do little to keep people coming to protest rallies for your support but also hold it with the. effect hysteria that irritation and aggression have continues it would have alienated the public no one here wants a revolution no one wants to fight with police and people who come to these protests only want change they don't want bloodshed or violence which is what could scare them away the results of the elections to the studio hotly contested by many groups 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 pushkin square square and even fewer still to the demonstration on saturday they are not believe it's a serious threat and all i see every single protest action which took place over the last i'd rather see more eyes again on monday that really got worse not so no

not. it was a good idea you know here it was some guy in the lack of a coherent idea and absence of unity among the opposition leaders for the waning support. 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 if i could choose from but i don't think we can really reach any goals by preacher slighty even some of the most vocal supporters of the movement for parallel actions say solid foundations are necessary to carry on with a movement that's been is not 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 also necessary. the movement which began as a call for free and fair elections in russia following the vote for the state duma seems to have turned into a haphazard series of gatherings they have achieved success in the bringing people

seated streets. trying to attract more attention to their slogans but we are now witnessing that their slogans need to be changed. or a new agents are in fact 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 in a girls' school our team. reactions have led to a person's return to the presidency has by no means been limited to russia's borders and korea about it unless the international media has a relentless tirade against voters can see canst an abrupt halt as russian voters and official observers payne's a very different picture. under here in the me from raleigh actual pictures from dallas before and after the poll it always find out here looking for our web site waiting for you right now expert and that's happening at what's ahead for russia and the cause that the people want to take that much more as. article.

debate on how to stop the syrian crisis has been tending towards diplomacy of russia and the arab league have come up with a joint plan of rooting out foreign intervention and calling on both the government and the opposition to lay down arms as your own arab league envoy has been in syria promoting an all inclusive dialogue but is actually israel if you notional reports there are those still trying to hinder their efforts. after several recent differences between western and arab views and those of russia and china on how the long running syrian conflict should be handled we're now seeing some consensus speaking after the meeting with his arab counterparts russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said they haven't out a common plan that sends a clear message to all the sides been involved in this crisis the solution is we've agreed a joint position of five main points first to stop violence wherever it comes from seeking to create an impartial and independent monitoring system third no external

interference for the unrestricted delivery of humanitarian aid to the syrians and finally the firm support of kofi annan is mission to start political dialogue between the government and all opposition groups you see in your presence on the group the joint u. and arab league envoy is currently on a peace mission here in damascus both their sources and within the country opposition welcomed the initiative but the efforts were dismissed even before coffee allen's arrival to syria by and now the opposition group based outside the country the syrian national council recognized by many countries by e.u. as they did to misrepresent of the syrian people second for democratic changes firmly rejected talks with the government and called on more military pressure on the regime of bashar al assad these calls were followed by suggestions by qatar to deploy foreign troops to syria but there is a fear here on the grounds of the growing international interference in the country's conflict is paving the way for an even bigger crisis as the syrian conflict stretches out in time it has also spread geographically i case of the

uprising belt part of 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 dr sullivan says one thing is clear that mobilization has many more forms than officially stated. during the operation in baba amr the syrian army are. 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 missiles and israeli drones while the u.s. and many other countries have admitted al qaeda linked extremist groups fighting alongside the armed opposition in syria dr selim 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 because countries don't have democracy at home of course they cannot ask for a status thing in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago on how to coach never blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for involvement in syria's crisis since last year she says this is a story with three main chapters often smuggled across the border over says contractors and foreign cash. when you see a lot of money here then you really believe this are all these this is comparable to what happened in the civil war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you will find that the government talk about hundreds of dollars or something nobody would killing so. now you would see now this is

a civil war here with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to arm the opposition get louder even for those at the grassroots of the uprising the initial euphoria is turning the tide. they can say we regret what we did but we don't want things to go back for a return soon much militarized globalized and blow and we never want to and don't want intervention. but fears are. that it could be too late to start this all too far into flames 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 turn it into a fight almost as important as the one claiming blood on the streets. see

damascus syria stormed rebel strongholds in the north of syria without serious claiming thousands of people have been killed in clashes over the weekend well as the country is about to enter its second year and this political analyst. says only diplomacy can stop the bloodshed. well the german plan to depose bashar al assad and change the regime in syria to replace certain with a more neutral friendly regime are still in place what we have seen so far is basically an opening act and the servant civil war and the gates of hell being cried a little bit open. so much that there's that state here there are. ceiling. we are talking about the possibility of a very a very bloody and prolonged civil war that will definitely extend them to iraq and

lebanon since it will be around the sunni shiite issue mainly. coming up next the massacre of civilians raises hearing from some and sympathy from others so rampage in afghanistan comes just a month after copies of the koran with talent adding more fuel to the pile of tons relations. it's rationed to some plants to others greece and the south the biggest debt reduction deal in history but while it's praised the help like brussels banks may just islamic as the fall of the name. israel has carried out several as tribes and goals that killing seventeen people in three days is the worst violence the region has seen in more than a year the first time came despite an informal truce between the sides targeted a high ranking palestinian resistance leader and sparked a face of change of fire policies what developments. but the situation here on the

ground continues to escalate as israeli forces and palestinian militants continue exchanges of fire now the latest figures we have put the palestinian death toll at seventeen most of them are members of islamic jihad but overnight a twelve year old palestinian boy was killed in the refugee camp by an israeli airstrike is reportedly needed eighteen more if he's trying to mediate there is a must indication in egypt and the interruption ambassador to the palestinian authority has put the blame firmly on the shoulders of the israelis saying that they are to blame for breaking this tacit ceasefire that has been in place between israel and gaza at the same time be arab league has been easing in cairo and they've also called the israeli airstrikes and messy cut the mid east quartet is need to look at these stored between israelis and palestinians that meeting comes ahead of a special session of the united nations security council will be addressing the

arab spring uprisings. sixteen afghan civilians including three women and nine children have been shot dead in their homes by a u.s. soldier in overnight a car round page nature is investigating the accident which comes after a mass protest last month over the burning of copies of the koran at a u.s. military base president hamid karzai has gone down to the slaughter as are forgivable and pyrrus had demanded an explanation from washington to move prompted an immediate reaction from the u.s. as president barack obama express is balances while the nato secretary general promised to restore the undermined face of the al-qaeda people and from the stop the war coalition believes that the incident once again raises questions about u.s. tactics in afghanistan. the americans will try to say this is just an isolated incident but we have to remember there are a hundred thousand occupying troops there are many many demonstrations over the burley of the koran that isn't just about the offense to islam it's also about the

occupation itself the air strikes and particularly in this case we know that every night in afghanistan up to forty thousand is a radio looking for alleged terrorist in the country now if this soldier is one of the many who've been involved in these raids and it goes raise money many questions as to exactly how the americans are treated in the occupied population the afghan people on sunday japan marks the first anniversary of the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the country leaving more than twenty thousand missing people trying to gather the exact moment the quake struck last march to grieve in silence. a nine point they were mantra left the whole northeast of the country displacing hundreds of thousands of people the tsunami triggered all settle down stay put

existence of the friction of stars in the west and their prices in decades and i was about to say jed lies at clavering associates believes in late details about the meltdown have been kept under wraps or at a later self pleasure well below. i think the government has been slow to disclose facts ever since the accident occurred. clearly the cleanup is going to cost around a half a trillion dollars u.s. and that's not just for the sake but for the prefecture of fukushima as well but the contamination goes well beyond but the prefecture pick it up and chalk you know and so hundred fifty kilometers away to the entire north of the country as a public health hazard here because everyone is exposed to radioactive cesium radioactive. and other isotopes. meanwhile the whole world of drawing japan and

greed at special events staged across the. members of the japanese community gathered in france to remember the victims in germany and the u.k. thousands of people have been rallying in front of nuclear power plants demanding their country's abandoned atomic energy beltre also saw some in the marshes what a disaster in japan raised serious doubts within the government over the use of such facilities. no news coming up for you this hour including chopping up the anonymous head the night tains an alleged top member of the notorious hiking group called for the outrage among its supporters. the euro zone's finance ministers are meeting later today in brussels to give the pilot through vote for the release of international funds for greece the second one hundred as such a billion a year i.m.f. loan had been agreed in october two thousand and eleven but others only play if they've bought a hurdle on its way to clinching the much needed rain our cash at the end of last

week greece managed to talk private creditors into accepting a crucial bond swap deal that will reduce its dead burden by more than one hundred billion euros if you leave just raise the deal to the skies claiming a solution to the crisis at last been found but just hours later their optimism was shattered as to credit ratings agencies moody's and fitch both declared greece to be in default and william understand associate professor from frost state university believes that politicians are just burying their heads in the sand and unwilling to admit this. this is a different i'm going whenever you settle with your creditor for less than what you . have agreed to do it then and you do it i don't care how systematic it is or how complicated these debt swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows that just because sir cosy claims that it isn't a deep thought means absolutely nothing it's

a politician i don't believe the european leaders are trying to put a political spin on this but what you have in the end he is in fact the taking of assets that are worthless and you have a subtle buying pretending that these assets mean something to these assets really are valuable when in fact they're not and then they try to monetize the whole thing and then pretend as though they solved the problem and solve nothing they've actually made it worse because they won't admit what is going on. meanwhile public anger over unemployment in spain is so intense that it's even cause there for show coloration of the two thousand and four madrid train bombings to be postponed by a day all because of a nationwide rallies called by the country's to biggest trade unions which have draw thousands out of the streets they outraged over reforms that make it easier and cheaper for companies to fire workers the country's unemployment rate is currently soaring with more than one in five years out of work. making at an

election rally on sunday nicolas sarkozy has watched that france would pull out of the e.u. border shandy an agreement unless the union toughens up its immigration policy earlier the french president's pledge to have the number of illegal immigrants in israel after it would have been troll has been a key issue as the country heads towards the first round of the coming presidential pool in a pool. that's a side car bomb or has a target catholic church in the city of dross in nigeria killing at least ten people the bomb went off as a washer president at the last miles of the day and there have been no immediate claims of responsibility for the city has previously been targeted by the radical islamist group or rather thousands have died in the last decades and religious and ethnic violence in the region. demonstrators and supporters of the group anonymous gathered in paris today protesting against the controversial actually treaty over fears that will violate internet freedom this comes after the house of

its community was shaken by tuesday's the tension of members from another well known group. and its alleged its alleged ringleader was arrested last summer to have become an f.b.i. informant and this week turned his colleagues in the group for carrying out several high profile attacks on the cia fox news and certainly following their read their note of his group retaliated by taking down the website of the panda security company but it's widely used antivirus software political commentator luke samuel says the government's approach to hackers won't achieve anything. anonymous is a group that genuinely sees itself involved in a kind of cyber war where they played a part of the self-appointed protectors of internet liberty because it's worth bearing in mind that the most this group actually managed to achieve a shocking are nasty card for a couple of hours so this kind of jittery response on behalf of western governments

is really an embarrassment it really does show that this is a set of governments that completely run out of ideas and the only real response they can come up with is using the law in this kind of war for a tarion way which in the end of the day is completely pointless. and backs out of story the russian presidential elections of twenty two well from politicians to media across the election run out was an opportunity for example make a statement and drum up public opinion and for others to take cheap shots at. four percent richer. climates leaving new syrians with little left to say have a better now delves into how harsh rhetoric they can with. a ruthless dictator whose days are numbered not exactly the language of international diplomacy but that's what britain's former foreign secretary thinks of russia's president elect casting his aspersions even before russians cast their vote while

david miliband is use in the sort of expressions dictatorship don't conform to reality in a dictatorship people are not allowed to protest people are not allowed to walk around publicly with placards in the face of the leader of the country with the rocketry terms written across these placards we've seen this in russia david miliband comments appeared in a british tabloid the morning of russia's presidential poll long before it finished the m.p. accusing putin of reversing russia's reforms because of vested interests the sort of claim some experts say typifies the perception here of putin and russia the coverage has been very scary at times. to say that when bad things happen in russia then they get huge coverage and then when the things are progress like kenya economic progress that tends not to get reported david miliband may not be in government now but he's widely expected to feature again should labor return to power should that happen he'll face

a tough job repairing relations with russia after such a venomous attack talk about getting off on the wrong foot as miliband the two of vital partners when it comes to foreign policy security and economic issues david cameron's reaction to putin's elections been far more measured until now the prime ministers haven't exactly been close to team didn't even make it on to cameron's extensive christmas card list last year but while cameron may not have congratulated putin on winning he has indorse the result it's clear delineation has delivered a decisive result usually and your polling data could put in a pool of the fifty percent needed to win in the first round the same can be said of britain according to the electoral reform society two thirds of m.p.'s elected in two thousand and ten lacked a clear majority thanks to the ballot method of first past the post is russia's electoral system perfect it's not but when the electoral system in the world is

perfect let's not forget in britain no british prime minister ever achieves anywhere near fifty percent of the votes the protest movement against putin's return to the presidency is certainly loud but according to official election results it's to war by those in favor putin received almost sixty four percent of the vote miliband predicts that support won't last for long but while it does britain will have to like it or lump it if it wants to do business i have been it r t. and that's how they miss out from also coming out our special report america's miniature bases around the world but before that i'll go back to time. to.

get our some leisure see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm sorry welcome to the big picture . down the field official ante up location job on the phone i pod touch from the i q sampson.