thank. you. the biggest stories of the week here on our feet outside the recruiting games i was down victory last sunday's presidential election the president movement loses the minds of most of the internal structures and a lot of their goals. never heard of the syrian crisis as branch of the arab league found an agreement over how to stop violence in the country and there are still those trying to poke sticks for the stance of the players. three days on the five israel continues to launch airstrikes in gaza killing rather than it was a breach of seeing. the

end. this is also his weekly review welcome to the program prime minister benjamin persians return to the presidency is going to turn our welding election victory but as a long and hard fought for a race for the kremlin is over other challenges to lie ahead for the new leader let's say your shasta reports it was one emotional night for the given to paul jim i did i promised you we would win. i. only have one. but the prime minister may have justified his cheers my the strong wind but no one would be surprised if it was caused by the joy of dictionary i it was hardly a shock as clinton had been the elections clear front runner but eventually result of almost sixty four percent even though the helm will never think about such a high result. so it's going to. work predicted for ourselves and it shows once

again actually proves that we're going to go see her number one of those contract and days potential is yet is yet to be oh and told her that but it's no time to party now many experts believe kitchens real challenge in fact starts now. this will be sort of a battle between the two alternative concepts all of that stayed irrelevant cohering development strategies for myself i've been to fry the first concept put in a land they want russian political system to be transparent whereas russia's economy where they will get more nepotism and corruption on the other hand this other group of process as well as russia 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 that all can know where the change manifested itself

in the sudden rise of me how you pull that 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 conscience politics has serious potential and people could have already declared an intention to form an opposition party with which in promising he would cooperate with it to symbolize the new the new russia is some dishes all other candidates. from the old stylish song and. then all you know anymore leaders of the younger generation and figures speak for themselves second place communist leaders are going to gauge seventeen percent in his fifth compatable presidency less than he scored he had earned the 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. since to make way in western countries if your party

loses the election its leader is know from changed if it happens again then he's definitely changed these guys had lost three times prior to this a lot of those folks are still seen as being somewhat out of touch the view of the russian street is in our work these guys had their chance in the one nine hundred ninety s. to screw things up you know we still need stronger leadership and they're able to offer we need a more concrete program and they have and will continue his work as prime minister for two more months the period which could become crucial and decisive for the country's long term future. will officially return to the kremlin on may the seventh that is when his inauguration takes place i till 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. see reporting from moscow. when

a share this presidential campaign will be remembered for is the massive rallies that heralded a political awakening for russia's public and by all appearances they worked with transparency becoming a top government priority today however the protest movement seems to support quickly appraisal never takes over. when the protestors unhappy with the results of the presidential elections took to the streets the day after the roads took place some kept the police busy. to do that some decided to hold steve you wanted to hours yes you were there it was ignored by look i'm not going to leave the square i'm staying here until putin leaves where are the tents and there were no tents but there was a fountain which 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 called 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 but usually what it would have. 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 could scare them away the results of the elections to the studio hotly contested by many brought tens of thousands out in the streets of moscow of 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 just out of the early days here yesterday don't always hear a single product out so it's that place over the last i'd rather see it why is it a county that really got it's not so. well it certainly was

a good idea you know here it was there some blame the lack of a coherent idea and absence of unity among the opposition leaders for the winning 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 that i could choose from but i don't think we can really reach any goals by protests like nice even some of the most vocal supporters of the movement for elections say solid foundations are necessary to carry on with the movement. 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 are also necessary. to protest the movement 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 that bringing people. to the streets. try to attract more

attention to their slogans but we are now witnessing their slogans needs to be changed. for a new age gender in fact the rallies seem to have only one slogan out with putin but what to do if you leave no one seems to know in moscow. r.t. . the russian government rattled by public protests the rent a long way re controlled these elections or as transparent as possible but with transparency and express. our ballot box. readings and despairs of polling stations all part of the electoral reality shows are to bite doesn't rock crowds have got more battles within the. debate over how to stop the syrian crisis has been turning towards diplomacy russia and the arab league where the dried blood. turning out foreign intervention comes

calling on both the government and the opposition to lay down arms a un arab and what it has been and so you are promoting an all inclusive dialogue that is all she's or if you know she recalls there are those still trying to hint at their. 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 are now seeing some consensus looking after the meeting with his arab counterparts russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has said they have an out a common plan that sends a clear message to all the sides being involved in this crisis. 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 and 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 if senior because it's. the joint u. 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 and a rival to syria fight and now the opposition group based outside the country the syrian national council recognized by many countries by e.u. as a legitimate representative of the syrian people seeking for democratic change is 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 far from the country's borders what's happening in syria is far greater. than what you've seen as the international community mobilize against the

assad regime strategic analyst dr sally says one thing is clear though that mobilization has many more forms than officially 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 kotori and saudi intelligence officers as well as cia and mossad it's also seized israeli weapons especially take missiles and israeli drones while the u.s. and many other countries have admitted al qaeda linked extremists groups fighting alongside beyond 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

establishing in syria they have another agenda. there are books and written sources where this plan is described in detail decades ago and how to coach never blogger and freelance journalist has been investigated for involvement in serious 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 in syria then you will be i believe that this is comparable to what happened in the super war in lebanon there were plenty of money then you'll find the government talk about pogroms will balance out something nobody would kill him so. now you will see now this is the beginning here you see here with more and more reports on international involvement emerging and calls to arm the opposition get louder even thought those at the grassroots of the uprising the

initial euphoria is turning bitter. i can say we regret what we did but we didn't want things to go that far but it turned so much militarized globalized and violent we never wanted and don't want intervention. but fears are. that it could be too late to stop this all the current 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 a military solution and the latter is turning into a fight almost as important as the one claiming blood on the streets. see damascus syria. government forces have stormed rebel strongholds in the north of syria claiming dozens of people have been killed in clashes over the weekend and

the country is about to ante up and where and as professor says only diplomacy. plan to depose bashar al assad and change the regime in syria to replace it with a more neutral friendly regime are still in place what we have seen so far is basically an opening act and a servant civil war and the gates of hell being cracked the little bit open there's so much that there's that stake here there are so. ceiling. we are talking about the possibility of a very a very bloody and prolonged civil war that will definitely extend to iraq. since it will be around the sunni shiite issue mainly. the massacre of civilians raises

theory from some and some paper mothers u.s. soldiers shooting rampage in afghanistan comes just a month after copies of the qur'an were burned adding more fuel to the fire tense relations. salvation for some a lot spotters greece hummus owsley because debt reduction deal in history but one of the deals hailed by brussels rating agencies slanted as default by another. israel has carried out several airstrikes on gaza killing seventeen people and three days is the worst violence the region has seen in more than a year the first attack came to spider formal truce between the sides targeted i have ranking palestinian resistance leader rather as part of his change of fire. 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

overnight a twelve year old palestinian boy was killed in the refugee camp by any israeli airstrike cairo is reportedly mediating or at least trying to mediate there is a master negation in egypt and the gyptian ambassador to the palestinian authority has put the blame for me 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 the arab league has been meeting in cairo and they've also called israeli airstrikes a message to the middle east quartet is needed to look at these stored negotiations between israelis and palestinians that meeting comes as head of a special session of the united nations security council there will be addressing the arab spring uprisings. sixteen afghan civilians including three were nine children have been shown in their homes by a u.s. soldier in an overnight gun run page is investigating the incident which comes

after a mass protest last month with the burning of copies of the koran or to u.s. military base president hamid karzai has a slaughter as and forgivable are theories they demanded an explanation from washington to move prompted an immediate reaction from the u.s. as president barack obama expressed his condolences for nato during secretary general promised to restore their demand for a lot of the afghan people. from this stop the war coalition believes that the incident once again raises questions about u.s. military 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 burning 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 raided looking for alleged terrorists in the country now if this soldier is one of the many who've been involved in these raids and it does raise money many questions as to exactly how the americans are treating the occupied population the afghan people. and sons age of primaries of question of us or of the massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country leaving more than twenty thousand missing people trying to get that exact moment the quake struck last march to grieve the silence. a nine point zero magnitude quake love the whole northeast of the country in ruins displacing hundreds of thousands of people the tsunamis triggered also took out they could insist i was out there fishing or a power plant starting there was a nuclear crisis in decades dr robert jacobs a professor of nuclear history and culture at the hiroshima peace institute at the

japanese people were betrayed by their own government. psychological burden on the people is brutal and on the people who remain in the contaminated areas and the people who've been evacuated who will likely never return to their homes their psychological burdens are intensely brutal these people have been betrayed in repeated ways they were betrayed by being lied to that nuclear power could never have a problem that these kind of accidents don't happen and when the accident did happen it was hidden from them for three months that there were meltdowns there were lives for three months that they were meltdowns they were not told where the contamination and from the explosions were going so these people have been lied to repeatedly now they've had their lives all that part and they are full of worry and anxiety over the health and welfare of themselves and their children and their families. who are the whole world trying to increase that special place to cause the glare of the members of the japanese community gathered in france to remember

the victims in germany on the telly thousands of people have been arriving in front of nuclear power plants to monitor their arms and comment on a problem also similar disaster. doubts whether the government of such facilities. is coming up later this hour another country remains restless after a string of arab revolutions leave is new for. the startup takes as its present east crisis calls. the eurozone finance ministers are meeting later today in brussels to give their final approval to the release of international funds for greece a second one hundred thirty eight billion e.u. i.m.f. loan had been agreed in october two thousand nine hundred eleven but athens also only clears the final hurdle on its way to clinching the not much needed bailout cash at the end of last week greece managed to talk private creditors into

accepting a crucial bansal deal that's mortgagees instead burdened by more than one hundred billion euros e.u. leaders graze the deal to the skies claiming a solution to the crisis has not been found but just hours later their optimism was shattered as to credit ratings agencies leaders and fitch but declared greece to be in default when i understand associate professor from france backstage university believes the politicians are just burying the has in the sand and will miss the obvious. this is a before i mean whatever you settle with your creditor for less than what you. are have agreed to do it and then you do it i don't care how systematic it is or how complicated the swaps are we are dealing with a real live before everybody knows for just because sir cosy claims that it isn't a do for all means absolutely nothing to politicians don't believe the european

leaders are trying to put a political spin on this but what you have in the end isn't for the taking of assets that are worthless then you have a social by pretending that these search means nothing to these assets really are valuable when in fact they're not and then they try to monetize the whole thing and then pretended so they solved the problem solved nothing they've actually made it worse because they won't admit what is going on. public anger about employment in spain it's so in turns that it's even caused their patrol commemoration of the two thousand and four madrid train bombings to be postponed friday all because of nationwide ballots hold by the country's two biggest trade unions which have drawn thousands on to the streets they are outraged over reforms that make these here and cheaper for companies to fire workers the country's unemployment rate is currently soaring with more than one in five scryers are.

speaking at an election rally on sunday illegal last night was the husbands that france would pull out of egypt use i could get agreement unless the union toughens up its immigration policy letter french president pledge to all big number of illegal immigrants is re-elected border control has been a key issue as the country heads towards there for a struggle the coming presidential portrait of. a suicide car bomber has a target catholic church in the city of johnston nigeria killing at least ten people the bomb went off as washed as it sounded the last mass of the day there have been no immediate claims of responsibility for the city has previously been targeted by the radical islamist group boko thousands have died in the last decade as a religious and ethnic violence in the region. to a leader now where the interim government is trying to keep the country together after a group of tribal and militia leaders declared a partial autonomy or oil rich region at least the head of the national

transitional council was quick to blame remnants of the gadhafi regime for the breakout star power dieldrin and also the country's integrity would be defended by any means including force if needed. is that they were based research air force americans university and she says they knew the area hasn't changed much things they can accept that the international community now turns a blind eye to eye besides committers. 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 the way we hear about militias torturing people who are suspected of supporting qaddafi in the past and there is 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 and these are crimes against humanity that are happening in libya and there is no outcry by

the international community the same international community that called for a no fly zone in libya to save 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 in other tribes and so it's very difficult political solution is required for the certainly not a military one. prince fayyad the government's motives leading up to the presidential election in russia aren't officials certainly. delivering hundreds of thousands of pounds broadcast the vote for the hall to see for the whole world to see russia but as allergies to that not say found out that much transparency also with the. allegations of widespread voter fraud in last december's parliamentary elections set off a wave of mess of protests against mr putin says that eventually incited opposition he ordered the installation of web cameras and all of russia's polling stations it

has been a very ambitious and costly project for the russian government not everybody was convinced by the use of the web cameras to ensure transparency the cameras however did prove to be quite handy in some provinces such as dagestan when one station the results one canceled after cameras showed violations of election procedures. the web cameras to reproduce a fascinating slice of russian provincial life which went viral and got hundreds of clicks on social networking sites such as you tube some even joke that mr putin gave us the best reality show. cameras captured various activities from cultural dancing in chechnya. to russian women ab straining and lots of dancing.

one reviewer that was a hit with over three hundred thousand hits on you tube showed this man and bring in michael jackson's the moonwalk back to life while casting his ballot. we caught up with him and asked if he expected his to be the year to beat this popular. i would say we did it for fun not for fame actually i was surprised that we were the only ones who voted this way i thought there should have been more people like us there were a lot of opportunities to create whatever you want to help next time people will vote more creatively with the election of the world and the country awaits the swearing in the president elect mr glad you made putin as well the rest of us there's no doubt you will never forget the glimpses that people gave us of their lives from all across the country and those who thought that their moment on camera

wasn't being watched but really we were looking. to mahmoud see see moscow. the latest round of russia's football premier league was knocks but streak of draws for teams at the top of the table all the details are just trying to make its time here and asking for the room on the sports update but before that they would be headlines and not a special interest on. this

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