oh and thank you for joining our team karen with the latest francois hollande has outs nicholas so cozy 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 sillier has been witnessing the wild celebrations at socialist party headquarters in paris. and you could hear the crowd behind me try to sneak up above that i did at the headquarters of the socialist party and they are ecstatic they hear their say that they have voted for change they have had enough of a cause that boise a stark contrast to the mood at the a cab of it because that was the very musical 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 all the economic crisis even facing will be assaulted

that is the question how much change can he really bring about his model to how the campaign has been the change is it now it has been a very very tough campaign and we saw a record number of large number of french people coming out to vote this time only ninety nine point nine percent abstention rate and add to our show how much of the french people wanted this is again you can hear the crowd here i mean 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 preparing he's the fight now he wants to speak to german chancellor angela merkel is going to send it said that that could happen tonight see some movement over the having their turn to be a psychosis so some cycles eke out of there certainly not to a very happy about this will they have it happen to the very end have been trying to fight hard for this it tried to keep the car shows off to visit even though

palace appear had come out and said that he was gutted for the way but certainly it doesn't look good out away a ride now. economists patrick young who's a director of an investment firm says however there is no real difference between sarkozy and successor or land 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 or 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 all can he turn wrong and the whole ship of what has been the new the pigmy achievements of the boys and war for the elites say no of course you can't and ultimately what's going to happen with these european relationships where element of course everybody's trying to make it

as if it's going to be some sort of huge control over seating 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 getting 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 because of 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 are going to

school 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 soft 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 you to see t.v. scenes 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 going 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. simple good 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 would argue often blogger aleksey in the one the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to more unsanctioned just rallies. for more analysis all this until i live now by adrian sal bootie political analyst and author based in bonus areas 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 report the election as president the real action is i would say as it gives a 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 all agree some of them are democratic react to spectrally 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 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 too 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 do so yes today we have to be double we are aware and alert against these factors and russia is probably no exception to what i am saying now with the mount 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 secret from abroad have decided to give continuity to the policies of statesmen has lovely view. of the other have. from the world's point of view thank god that russia does have a leadership as it now has and. which is acting as a brake and even as a wall hopefully against the imperial aggression of the global hague particularly the united states britain and the european union i mean you always are things that are of concern for everybody so hopefully internal dissidents in russia will wane as the insurrection. elsewhere and we hopefully will see the whole world needs to see a consolidated russia acting how to balance out these. two real overdrive that we

see of 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 erin's thank you. thank you. art is political analyst peter along valvoline 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. 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 get a 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 the popular frauds which is liberating it's one hears that a verse three today the organization was formed on the initiative called let's listen in order to bring together all the earths no we're not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but no one just at one point maybe it's a 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. 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 but it's also his ideas how far an inspiration but he's based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment 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 web site 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 is 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 to arrange for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now what the predominantly shiite population protesting against the sunni ruling dynasty all marna salvi 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 the protests in bahrain 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. became it was for basic equal rights between all behind me they are asking for democracy and the world is not responding to their demands 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

a part of the world that is rich in natural resources and more specifically with with that with with the petrol. and you to have a chance to see julian assange exclusive interview with now be able to stay here on r.t. . to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was in 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 to. 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 as the funerals of the people who were killed under the station they. are 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 you know early in the day we've joined the un observers on one of the daily to is to flash point areas if this had been traveling to some of the areas where the focus is by things being right and you can see on the ground smooth slow steps are being taken in the observers are really going to be one thing over the coming period be fielding all not 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. 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 they don't know how long that will last long in a situation is much calmer there's not much happening there now while i'm about to show people broadly. people shooting at our bread away i don't know exactly what was happening we're here at the checkpoints on the device that the dean of the u.n. have 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 here 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 preservers 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 would 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 is no real formal opposition you know it's a sort of a mess and they just went through this in libya. you know logic 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 three years ago because of a public backlash american lawyer eric matal voe 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 a reason i have no idea this is three years later on that you got another election i think what they're trying to do. it's to. 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 and of tremendous injustice to the memory of those victims are not a little bit and i think it does a tremendous justice to this thing that we call the justice system in america they have no plan 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 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 from the greek 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 parties first

official results are expected a late on sunday night great time. in islam ababa thousands have protested calling for their prime minister to resign after he was convicted of contempt of court yousuf raza gilani was tarnished 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 in the russian republic of dagestan to bands 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. and

a muslim tradition three days after the funerals of family and friends come to the symmetry twice a day to pray and to paris pact to their loved ones over. two massive car bombs hit the capital thursday claiming more than a dozen lives this freshly dug grave is the final resting place of twenty nine year old police officer. beck of his name is hendry can you 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. that he called me back saying he was around to go into the sea he said always find 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 it to his children that came 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 incidents 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 loss the courage 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 will and i don't claim to 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 you're right you hardly networks around the region is hosting dreaming is even fun being so obvious. 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 or the teapot say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with the few pictures they have. left in the morning and then came back you forgot something i told him this is a bad luck all will be fine mom tried to calm me but. i don't know how

long i'm gonna live but i'll live for the. leaves behind two little girls. stay where you will i'll tell them to be good girls as their father is watching us and we'll tell them to be 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. in russia's degassed on. stay with our team for a recap of the headlines shortly with carrots parity. leaves

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thank you for joining our team with me. protesters throw small. classes with quiet place in moscow at the anti-government rally with a number of opposition leaders are arrested after apparently inciting crowds to defy police orders to no. socialist francois hollande has won francisco. dunstall election beating incumbent proceed with fifty one percent of vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. and a leading human rights activist from papa arrested days before r t as to airing his interview to name a song in which he spoke of them.