peaceful anti-government rally in moscow leading to clashes with police and injuries all involve more from e.u. what was going on in just a few moments. socialist francois. france's presidential election beating incumbent nicolas sarkozy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. and a leading human rights activist from brain interested days before r t is to air his interview with julian a silence in which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in this home country.

and thank you for joining our team karen with the latest for us while alon tyrants outs nicolas sarkozy from the french presidency to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years now it was a close call winning fifty one percent of the votes to his rivals forty nine our correspondents are silly has been witnessing the wild celebrations at socialist party headquarters in paris. and you can hear the crowd behind me try to think of them out of their headquarters of the socialist party and they are ecstatic they can hear their say that they have voted for change they have had enough of because i could see a stark contrast to the mood at the a cab of it because of course the very music over there and here is certainly celebrating now the question is how much shades

are they really going to see if they voted for this battle hoping that their problems when it comes out of. the economic crisis even facing will be a soul so that is the question how much change can he really bring about his model throughout the campaign has been the change is it now has been a very very tough campaign and we saw record number of large number fresh people coming out to vote this time only ninety nine point nine percent abstention rate and the entire show how much of the french people wanted this is again you can hear the crowd behind me just want to give you a sense of what they're feeling right now i think they don't think he has anything right now but celebrating and then we'll have press all along for his part had said that right after he was he's been very he's before i know you want to speak to german chancellor angela merkel is most recent it said that that could happen tonight is some movement over the having their fairly obvious psychosis as some cycles eke out of their certainly not so very happy about this will they have

happened to the very end have been trying to fight hard for this is try to keep a cautious often as it was even that crowd as she prepared to come out and said that he was gutted for the way but certainly it doesn't look good out away right and now. economists patrick young who's a director of an investment firm says however there is no real difference between sarkozy and successor or learns neither of them can offer a solution to france's financial woes. the economic policies that have been put forward by all of the candidates in the french presidential election even in the first round were all based upon the most juvenile understanding of economics that we've ever seen i mean it's the sort of thing that the bloggers love you always see at the bottom end of the comment pages amongst all of the other teenage people who love to use those sorts of things all the internet but is it realistic of course it isn't and actually i think while we're all whole town he turned wrong and the whole ship of water has been the new the pigmy achievements of the boys and war of the

elites say no of course you can't normally what's going to happen with these european relationships where all of course everybody's trying to make it as if it's going to be some sort of huge control over so you know but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other and therefore you have two politicians neither of whom realistically have got a chance of putting france on the right economic truck. still coming up in the program we do want to make a quick if you want to make a quick buck out of the account you're a senator of the russian president you just have to detail the metaphor to bring him to a certain exiled russian oligarch that's right but he's a bit is off speed increases his bounty tenfold to seventeen million dollars as the president elect for paris take power. opposition activists have clashed with police and central moscow after defined orders to move to the original

a great location for their rally the anti-government protest the march of millions was timed for the blood to mete putin's presidential inauguration parties near good as the details. the police have managed to restore order on bolotnaya square most of the protesters have now left the area but i must say at some points it was pretty ugly itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said if you would i saw called on the crowd to move away from the authorized area and gather at another spot not agreed with the authorities the police tried blocking the crowd due to safety reasons but i guess some of the radical activists tried breaking through the very key to leading to scuffles and clashes with the authorities some activists were seen throwing pieces of concrete molotov cocktails even and small growing aids at the police and this led to

injuries on both sides according to the latest figures that we're getting twenty seven people have been injured including twenty policeman at one point the situation here in moscow really began looking like last year's riots in london and many people we spoke with here say they're fed up with this huge you got to deal with the people who carry out such actions are extremists while people who want to change things though not by way of revolution not by violence but through reforms those are the kind of people we need like you to get a solution we looked at the protests out of control there's nothing good in this we need to try and find peaceful solutions to all problems. jim bug will not die you know everyone sick and tired of that so we want peace this is useless. several journalists were injured here as well and in a separate incident a man fell out of the window of the building as he was taking photographs of the protest march the building is not far away here from square it's fair to say that

police were not getting ready for any aggressive behavior from the protesters since most of the previous rallies did go on peacefully so there were no water cannons no teeth tear gas. used to either but due to the aggressive behavior two hundred fifty people were arrested including three opposition leaders including city itself and blogger alexia no one in the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to more unsanctioned just rallies. for more analysis all this until and live now by adrian sal due to political analyst and author based in buenos aires so it seems like what started as a peaceful march has descended into clashes with police with molotov cocktails and small grenades why has this happened in your opinion. well undoubtedly a lot of people agree with the. election of president gore reelections i would say

as it gives him great continuity however the majority of the russian people sixty four percent do agree with this continuity that has now been on for over a decade and there was always a smaller group of people who agree some of them are democratic react to speculate towards the will of the majority in this case we can see that there are definitely sectors within russian society that are voicing their opinion very easily the opposition very heavily and one can always wonder whether there is some engineered insurrection also taking place inside russia as we have seen throughout the middle east where all the so-called arab rising has basically to a great extent been engineered by foreign powers or foreign interests that have little or nothing to do with the local populations interest and common be you know having tater say that police were not expecting trouble no water cannon or tear gas was used against the protesters do you think that riot police should have responded

differently to the activists to try to move the rally to an unauthorized place. well yes very often taking forceful action is necessary because if there is one thing that we can all understand is that true democracy is under attack as i say by foreign interests of any foreign intervention of those foreign meddling in the affairs of sovereign countries and we see that increasingly day in and day out heavy amount of alexa to that a country can give inside its borders is directly proportional to the amount of pressure coming from outside its borders and every country in the world that russia is no exception is now under attack from a global power system a global power masters so we call them that are embedded inside many countries notably the united states britain and the european union although they do. to the national interest of those different view so yes today we have to be doubly aware and against these factors and russia is probably no exception to what i am saying

now with the amount of protesters that were injured as well as with the opposition leaders that were arrested how much of a setback is today for the russian protest movement. i would hope it's a major setback because as i say the majority of the russian people and i don't live in russia so this is just a reflection see from abroad have decided to give continuity to the policies of statesmen has a lovely view. of the other hand from a modern russian from the world's point of view thank god that russia does have a leadership as that it now has and. which is acting as a brake and even as a wall hopefully against the imperial aggression of the global hague of the particular of united states britain and the european union i mean you know these are things that are of concern for everybody so hopefully internal dissidents in russia will wane has insurrection.

and we hope you will see the whole world to see a consolidated russia acting how to balance out these. overdrive that you see in washington rather than in other western capitals all right i'm afraid that's all the time we have adrian south political analyst and author of a someone else aarons thank you. thank you. r.t.s. political analyst peter of the valve that the organizers of the march needed to provoke the authorities to keep the whole protest movement online. there have been protests here since the start of the russian federation this is nothing new but the same people than these numbers are not growing they're getting smaller gentlemen they're getting smaller someone needs a provocation to keep this movement alive because we're. speaking this is the last thing blood in your putin wants the world to see the day before he's inaugurated one of the interesting things is of the protest movement energized the base for the

presidential election and now we're going to see putin's base again energized because people going to look at this and say oh this is not what we bought into with mr putin because this was the one nine hundred ninety s. this is the one nine hundred ninety s. people don't want to go back there putin will comment on it tomorrow. all right elsewhere and moscow supporters of the government and political establishment have been marking the anniversary of the popular movement that was created by phil idema to put down last year our correspondent if you can go scott was there. clinton supporters of course are proper primarily those who are comprising their popular frauds which is liberating it's one years that her story today. we're going to say said was formed on the initiative all the time puts in an order to bring together all those who were not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but no one just at one point maybe some make a sort of a political statement those people were all gathered under the umbrella of the popular front and

a lot of the work here today did have the flags there saying victory and puts it together because people here are primarily those who support the government and everything that is happening in the country right now at the moment and just as widespread putin prepares to take office a russian fugitive is offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon buddies but his off scheme is offering almost seventeen million u.s. dollars to anyone who detains putin at the inauguration increasing his previous a similar offer ten fold journalist don de bar thinks it's entirely possible that is also his ideas how far an inspiration but he is based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment of some rather in my opinion outlandish outlandish attempts to restrict the free press from the british courts that's pretty high up and so on the one hand probably from the british government but also to be consider the situation between the united states and russia right

now where you have the united states very upset with russia over its veto of the attempt to use military force against syria and also the tension over the installation of the so-called anti missile was just a midwestern and even eastern europe the united states may very well be behind this . all right this and other stories are available on our website that's our dot com also online norwegian anders breivik who is currently on trial for killing over seventy people somehow appears on a finnish teen billboard apparently because he was mistakenly included in the club's fan list find out how that happened on line. and a mass distribution of free copies of the koran in berlin and it's described as freedom of religious expression by those behind it but others fear the involvement of radical muslim extremists.

police have detained the head of the country's center for human rights without explanation now below or job known for his firm opposition to the ruling regime was arrested just days before an interview with the world's top whistleblower julian assange is due to air on our the civil rights leader was already facing charges of participating in protests against the government and was returning for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now with the predominantly shiite population protesting against the sunni your room dynasty omar to sauvie political analyst and senior columnist at the. paper thinks the uprising is unlikely to get serious coverage in global media. if the

rest can be considered as arbitrary because the man has not committed any crime whatsoever he's a human rights activist he's been. behind it and have been peaceful protests they have not resorted to any weapons they have not resorted to any violence when the evolution thought that it wasn't for the. of the king it was for basic equal rights between all but they are asking for democracy and the world is not responding to their demand and the world is not reacting the same way it's reacting to other in other places in the arab world where these rebellions are armed sometimes and so therefore there is a clear double standard when it comes to bahrain perhaps because it is a kingdom in the gulf and therefore there is a fear that if the if these people will get their rights and if then it is

a possibility that the kingdom will collapse and it will be the beginning of the collapse of other kingdoms and the gulf and that's very sensitive for the world because the gulf as we know is in a part of the world that is rich in natural resources and more specifically with that with with the petrol. and you to have a chance to see julian assange exclusive interview with. tuesday here on our. speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was the egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. all right at seventeen minutes past the hour and the syrian government has granted an amnesty to two hundred sixty five rebels ahead of monday's multi-party parliamentary vote the first such election in decades meanwhile a series of blasts in the capital damascus and the northern city of aleppo killed

at least three civilians on saturday and sara firth reports people are placing increasing hope on the u.n. observer mission monitoring the frequently preach ceasefire. in the heart of damascus thousands come out soon the funerals of people killed during clashes in the capital once again drew into focus the very precarious situation the country now finds itself before the bodies of the that they carried through the streets of damascus a few rules the people who were killed under the station they here's the story you've got the military the security watching and this is at the same time as the u.n. observers are supposed to be here overseeing the peace plan and not only in the day we've joined the u.n. observers one of the daily too is to flash point areas. this have been traveling to some of the areas where the focus is by things being breaking out and you can see

on the ground smooth slow steps are being taken in the observers are really going to be wanting over the coming period the building on the observers are also based full time in some cities like homs and it led many have felt that their presence there has bought some calm indiaman we have little time between stops to speak to the people who live here those we do talk to tell us that the last few days have been quiet but they don't know how long that will last long in a situation is much calmer there's not much happening here now while i'm about to show people. that are so people shooting and i ran away i don't know exactly what was happening we're here at the checkpoints on the diversity of the day you know the u.n. has just done a tour through the area it's been a very very fast trip they've literally driven through stopping at some of the military checkpoints around to speak to some of the people but no more than five ten minutes at a time to give you barely enough time to speak to some of the people in the area

and get a feel for exactly what's been happening here was the observers presence here does seem to have made some small in rights situation in the country is far from. stable tension in the capital of damascus is palpable explosions here a regular occurrence now and security everywhere is tight firefighters rushed to the scene after a demonstration servers themselves have admitted a resolution won't happen even night and it will have to come in large parts from the syrian people themselves but with parliamentary elections next week and with the observer mission under close scrutiny scenes like this won't do anything to raise hopes that this mission will be a success but they will say show the very real and urgent need for it to be say. r.t. damascus next hour on our to our interview with author and war correspondent chris hedges who thinks there is no point pushing for the toppling of syria's president

assad when there is no organized opposition in the country. i don't think anyone in the muslim world thinks that we care much about human rights or democracy we have since the first gulf war planted military base some the size of small cities i think there is at this point absolutely no credibility i'm talking about within the middle east when the united states claims that it would like to bring liberty or democracy to syria my feeling is that everything should be pushed through to create some kind of a ceasefire rather than pass a resolution that calls for assad removal or resolution. that calls for intervention or anything else there's no. real formal opposition. you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. elected

mastermind behind nine eleven attacks appeared and front of a guantanamo military tribunal. that could see him and his four accomplices face the death penalty khalid shaikh mohammad is one of five men charged with planning the atrocities in which almost three thousand people were killed during the thirteen hour hearing the accused refused to answer questions or enter a plea as some of the relatives of nine eleven victims watched it's the second time the u.s. has tried to prosecute the men after an attempt to try them in america failed to three years ago because of a public backlash american lawyer eric matal vo believes the timing and planning of the trial is questionable. one has to wonder why now you know within twenty four hours of president obama taking office issued an executive order to close guantanamo bay the most powerful leader in the world and that did not occur for what reason i have no idea how this is three years later on that you got

another election i think what they're trying to do. issue off the table and say well we're at least trying to proceed in an orderly fashion but i think it's a fairly thin veil and people will be able to see through it does a tremendous injustice to the memory of those victims are not a little bit and i think it does a tremendous justice to the thing that we call the justice system in america they have no choice and it's taken three years to get to this particular point and this is going to be another tremendous and sad waste of us resources on a matter that can be resolved in a number of different ways and they just said not to do so. now let's take a look at what else is happening around the world exit polls are probably greek the general elections are just the neo nazi golden dawn party could enter parliament for the very first time voters angry with savage austerity measures imposed by the

government in recent months have punished countries two main parties which have suffered dramatic losses they formed a coalition in november and are expected to lose support to avatar sara the party's first official results are expected a late on sunday night great time. we need. an islamic thousands have protested calling for their prime minister to resign after he was convicted of contempt of court yousuf raza gilani was charged after refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president he was given a token a three minute sentence while in the court room and has said he has no plans to step down following his conviction. double terra blast just twenty minutes apart on thursday killed thirteen people and wounded more than one hundred and the russian republic of dagestan to bent's packed with explosives detonated in the outskirts of the capital. artie's maria ethanol should not talk to

the relatives of those who gave their own lives to save others. national mourning dagestan under muslim tradition three days after the funerals of family and friends come to the symmetry twice a day to pray and to paris packed to their loved ones over go. to massive car bombs hit the capital. claiming more than a dozen lives this freshly dug grave is the final resting place of twenty nine year old police officer. back of his name is hendry can hear. me he says he feels lost without his brother who'd acted as the head of the family since their dad passed away years ago. when the first blast happened i tried to call him but it was that he called me back saying he was around to go into the sea to help he said all was fine with him but the scene is a mess and he has to stay out to help i could hear cries of sobbing through his

phone he said i'm going to call you in five to ten minutes ok. but he never called back the next time she would see his brother would be in a morgue. a piece of metal that had been placed around the body and did his chin came out through. the symmetries keeper says at least this family had a body many others received only body parts in plastic bags it's a sad fact that the recent attacks on the police and authorities in dagestan a merely the latest incident in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile caucasus region but thursday's tragedy has already become the most devastating in months the first explosion took off here when officers from this police post stopped the car for documents checked apparently the driver was a suicide bomber minutes later as many police cars and ambulances teams and

emergency crews and fire brigades reach the area the second last occurred it was much more powerful you can see. the crater is huge one some reports say the second last had a force of one hundred kilos into intake island and claimed the most victims of the double attack one walmart or another is a tactic commonly used by international terrorist organizations such as and qaeda in places like iraq and afghanistan is designed to kill as many people as possible if their right jihadi networks around the region is hosting dreaming is even funding some of the activities of you know terrorist in russia in an instant lives were snuffed out families left devastated. women again under the rules of islam don't go to cemeteries they grieve at home the mother along with the wife say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with

a few pictures they have. left in the morning and then came back you forgot something i told him this is a bad luck will be fine mom tried to calm me but. i don't know how long i'm going to live but i'll live for the. leaves behind two little girls. there where you will i'll tell the girls as their father is watching us i will tell didn't proud of him because he was a brave man he ran to help and died he was the best father in the world i'll tell than. an r t in russia's degassed on. stay with our team for a recap of the headlines shortly with kara tara. davis

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