well and thanks for joining our team francois hollande has. seen from the french presidency to become the country's first socialist president and seventeen here now it was a close call winning fifty one percent of the votes to his rivals forty nine our correspondent taskbar so we are has been witnessing the wild celebrations at socialist party headquarters in paris tasa so what's the reaction you're seeing there in france. both early and here at b. as socialist party headquarters so here the mood is it is a party mood they are certainly celebrating by the victory of francoise hollande a socialist challenger to nicolas sarkozy now they give us a cause they for his part has conceded defeat and has wished alondra well now he is

the eleventh or the e.u. leader to be so far from power that would do this anti i stared he said to miss the forty odd bringing this the victory about in the people here at least the socialist party they say they're voting for change but the question is how much of a change will that really be you know you can hear the music behind me that's a theme song for the socialist party that say that the change is now but let's get more reaction though from bad our guests today thank you very much this is gary good luck for joining us so a talking about change here how much of a change really can francois lawn bring together the constraints that he may be facing as he becomes president well you know there are many good strengths and obviously you cannot change the way europe functions but still a new person with a new attitude and a new situation can bring some change especially since it's likely to get the support of southern europeans in their demands to its germany so it's not. only

a matter of his personality but also a matter of the economic and social context especially in a time when things are not going that well for germany because there's a kind of mini recession right now in germany and there are more and more people pushing for growth within europe so this is not something about it cheap by himself but there is a junction our which seems to be somewhat favorable to his views and a change in his direction and he has a you know he in his speech at all and gave just now a few minutes ago he was expressing the same that the message he wants to bring to germany is what growth now is this is his victory symbolic this sweeping change can you see sweeping changes in the e.u. given this when in france you know i think it indicates changing a mood probably not only in france a large part of the focus was and decided cozy but it's going to reinforce speedball who in spain italy greece want

a different functioning of europe so i think it is the beginning of a possible change but if we can all be too sure what's going to happen of course it's not only a matter of personality but also of context and the context is somewhat different in part thanks to his victory today ok just a quick comment on foreign policy that's all it will be busy the next week there's a nato summit a g. twenty what kind of france will we be bringing to the table well i think is going to be less of an atlanta says. less close to the united states he already said that he would tell the united states that france would withdraw its troops from afghanistan at the end of two thousand and twelve so i think is doing is going to be somewhat tougher in the west but historically desertion is i've not had a very different foreign policy from the conservatives but there are forces pushing for launch. it is likely that is going to be is likely more

difficult with the u.s. . very different on a personal level from sarkozy. thank you very much well there you have it the celebrations here brad certainly continues it is going to be a tough last few weeks for a lot a lot of work cut out for him already but in the meantime for tonight the people are headed to the class of the bus to continue the celebrations on the victory of the first socialist president in seventeen years all right live from paris that was artie's tests are sileo with her guest professor pierre good day and thank you tessa. now economists patrick l o o's a director of an investment firm says however there's no real difference between saw hosey and his successor all art he says that the new man like the one he's out tells it all for 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 about economics that we've ever seen i mean it's the sort of thing that bloggers love and you all see at the bottom end of the comments pages amongst all of the good 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 little boys and war for the elise i know of course you can't normally what's going to happen with these european relationship where of course everybody's trying to make it as if it's going to be some sort of huge controversy but let's remember only a couple of years ago mrs merkel and mr sarkozy couldn't stand the sight of each other the current field policies of mr sarkozy or indeed we see an end of his look at unix systems and mr hollande it's still on for she going to be a disaster and socialist trial in france and greece the elections have seen fascist

making big gain as the sitting government takes a kicking from voters furious over economic hardship. later in the program we see how the extreme nationalist golden dawn party looks set to enter the greek parliament for the first time and the most stark example yet of voter rejection of the austerity imposed by the new leadership. and a bounty on bloody medical turn of seventeen million dollars as fugitive exiled russian oligarch and bodies a bizarre ski offers a big bucks to anyone willing to try to seize the russian leader at his presidential inauguration on monday. opposition activists have clashed with police in central moscow after defying orders to move to the officially agreed location for their rally the anti-government protest dubbed the march of millions was timed for the eve of losing their putin's presidential inauguration are two

years artie's you go to this kind of has 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 hold on the crowd to move away from the authorized area and gather at another spot not agreed with the off towards the police tried blocking the crowd you to see t.v. zings but again some of the radical activist tried breaking through the very key to leading into 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 do you feel that 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 to get us and we need to 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 teet tear gas. used to either but due to the aggressive behavior two hundred fifty people were arrested including three opposition leaders including sort of you guys your friend blogger alex you know one of the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to war and sanctioned protest rallies and elsewhere and moscow supporters of the government and political establishment have been marking the anniversary of the popular front movement created by vladimir putin last year our correspondent was there with him supporters of course are pro primarily those who are comprising the popular frogs which is celebrating its one year is that a verse three today the organization was formed on the initiative called let's listen in order to bring together all those who were not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but still want to see

at one point maybe to 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 woods and together because people here are primarily those who support the government and everything that is operating in the country right now at the moment i'm just as vladimir putin prepares to take office and russia fugitive as offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon buddies but his off ski is reportedly offering almost seventeen million u.s. dollars to anyone who detains putin at the inauguration increasing his previous similar offer ten fold journalist don de bar thinks it's entirely possible because of his ideas are inspired overseas. well he's based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment of some rather in my opinion the outlandish atlantis intends 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 if you consider the situation between the united states and russia right now where you have the united states is 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 system in western and even eastern europe the united states may very well be behind this but neo fascist party golden dawn is set to become the latest addition to the great problem it exit polls show the extreme nationalist organization has won between six and eight percent of the vote while above the require a three percent threshold let's now discuss what lies behind the party's success with author economic analyst and international lawyer nick square a cuss mr scrape us after all that greece went through the last time that was under the rule of fascist how could a greeks now elect their ideological descendants i mean really how has it come to

this. i care and well there are a lot of excuses but really it's not the best way for greece to be viewed by the outside world indeed you're right greece lost ten percent of its population under the nazi blued in world war two we also have close to ten million diaspora greeks overseas so you know soviet and racism is something we should stay far away from however in greece the governments have not dealt with the issue of illegal immigration very well we don't know how many illegal immigrants we have and we've got to get those spring up a new many areas of athens now this particular group has been shopped enough to understand that we've vigilantes on the streets protecting parks and turning away prostitutes and drug runners and they've won quite a large slice of popular support and more than that this particular election was also one in which anger prevailed they wanted to punish the two large parties so do

you think that says it have way ahead of the final round or do you think there are more surprises in store. i think the surprise is that we have already had close to take tonic shifts quite frankly the first party new democracy only got about twenty percent by the looks of things the other member of this do you utterly of power that has been in government here since one thousand nine hundred seventy four could only scrape together fifteen percent now together it's only thirty five percent those two parties have commanded for close to forty years close to eighty percent of them start so you can understand how they have been very harshly punished by voters and of course alastair interrupt i just wanted to now i'm curious as how is a fascist party presence and parliament how is it ours are going to fit in with the e.u. and its values it once certainly sitting with the un its values but we've seen extreme

right. he's in many other places in europe as well now in the constitutional documents it's called that i would say that there are actually facts is that i would say that directly extreme racists even some aspects of it is a criminal organization because some of the members do some criminal scenes however in its own documents that isn't revealed it will probably be the main very boisterous debate in parliament i'm not sure that they will always be a very useful but many people that would like to see more tension inside parliament and more conflict seeking that and have the serial process will spring up more true this may well be happy with and i think it's safe to say that the exit poll suffer paint a grand picture now contenders have won more than twenty percent of the vote now on top of it all isn't there now the very real danger of a and prevent or maybe i

should say a deadlocked government. at the moment no single party can govern no two parties alone can govern and we need at least three parties to be able to coalesce to be able to govern for a while what happens on the greek constitutional or is that the source party in this case new democracy conservatives will have the mandate to form a government within three days it's safe to say that the previous government or so will most likely agree with that but they need more parties coming along and that's far from a short very soft. mix craik us that's all the time we have all of our economic analysts and international are thank you thank you. police and buffering have detained the head of the country's center for human rights for criticizing the interior ministry on twitter now we'll resolve a key figure in the opposition to the ruling regime was arrested just days before his interview by the world's top whistleblower julian

a solace is due to air. here on r t the civil rights leader was already facing charges of participating in protests against the government and was returning to offer a not for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now with the predominantly shiite population protesting against the sunni overruling dynasty let's get more analysis on this now with patrick henningsen editor of the website a war start call patrick he's already facing charges for taking part in anti-government protests but why has he now been arrested over posting a tweet on twitter. i think this is the predictable outcome this is i would call this the post grand prix crackdown now with all the euro jetset in the billionaires have left following the bahraini grand prix the government there is getting down to business as usual as you know no bill has been arrested in the past has been

detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should pose those surprise now with the western press is out of the country there's less of an opportunity for them to to really zero in on some of the human rights abuses that the bahraini government has become very well known for now how big of a figure is he in the bahraini opposition and what will his arrest this time mean for the movement against the ruling family. mr rajab is significant figure in the human rights movement globally he's done great work it is barbara fees absolutely bullet proof. and but you know you can also tell illegitimate human rights worker or human rights organizations from a manipulative one. this is how you can tell if they're criticizing the u.s. or british how or why they're more likely to be a legitimate human rights organization and nominate belated one for instance the syrian observatory for human rights. based in london and. some of the groups in

paris they criticize the assad government because that is nicely with western foreign policy objectives of regime change in syria so mr rajab is i believe he's got his finger on the poles of a genuine. genuine human rights situation in bahrain now but france out prizing has certainly been given away less international attention than other arab countries around the world such as syria libya and egypt why do you think that is well because for starters but rain is hosting the u.s. fifth fleet from military standpoint the rain is a key military strategic position for the united states and for nato and when you're looking at it impending attack on iran you're not going to see any criticism out of washington state department or from the british foreign office any serious criticism of the bahraini government rajab and kojo have been cited by their

government for organizing protests without licenses this is a problem when this is a problem with making civil obedience or making free speech a privilege the government will ultimately control it in this way i don't accept the west's moral relativity when looking into the bahraini glass house you know restricting first amendment rights in the us and making the protests license required in britain have been commonplace so there's a moral relativity with the west looking in and we've got to sort our own problems out before we can be helping someone like mr rudd open brain patrick less than thirty seconds left i'm sorry but do you forsee a point where international intervention could occur and offering no i don't it will not happen and i can tell you. categorically because as i mentioned the rainy has long as they're playing ball with people like hillary clinton in way and hague there's going to be no record sorry no repercussions for the bahraini government

it's as simple as that we can. need to get this conversation on real terms now. the other thing is that when you're criticizing a u.s. ally like bahrain if you're in the press you're not going to be given the airtime as much as you would if you're criticizing the assad government that's why this will wash away within days or weeks all right thanks for joining us patrick henningsen editor of the website info war stock comp. and you have a chance to see julian assange has exclusive interview with novel resolved on tuesday here on r.t. . as speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was a leadership where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. this week on thursday dumble terra blas just twenty minutes apart killed thirteen

people and wounded more than a hundred and the russian republic of dagestan to events packed with explosives detonated in the outskirts of the capital my heart's call art is maria for national talk to the relatives of those who gave their own lives to save others. national mourning. 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 the. course of two massive car bombs hit the capital thursday claiming more than a dozen lives these freshly dug grave is the final resting place of twenty nine year old police officer. back 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 but it

was very tricky when he called me back saying he was around to go into the sea to help he said all those fine with him but the scene is a mess and he has to stay out to help i get here cries and 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. piece of metal that a big place around it did his change it came through. the symmetries keeper says. 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 i'm merely the latest incident in a long running history of violence in russia's volatile pusses 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 i'm real and stains and emergency crews and fire brigades reach the area the second last the current 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 coolant and it claimed the most victims of the double attack one more mortar 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 fun being so. 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 in the modern along with the wife or the depot say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with a few pictures they have. been left in the morning and then came back you forgot something i told him this is a bad luck will be fine while you try to calm me but. i don't know how long i'm gonna live but i'll leave it for value it. leaves behind two little girls. actually we will all tell them to be google's his death authors watching us and will 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. a brief interruption r t in russia's dagestan. well that's what we have for you a sour and just try mind you that on monday we're bringing you special coverage of lead to major ports in sanaa correction from seven thirty g.m.t.

in the morning from the stunning splendor of the kremlin halls. coming up we explore the connection between big box and the drive for revolution around the globe we talk to author and war correspondent chris hedges that's right after the headlines here on r.t. .

if.

british. holds. the. markets. to the global economy kinds of reports.

more news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are today.

here with our team with me karen tara for the weekly but these are your headlines protesters throw smoke grenades fireworks in clashes with riot police in moscow led an anti-government rally with a number of opposition leaders are arrested after apparently and citing crowds to define police orders to move. socialist francois. hollande france's presidential election beating incumbent nicolas sarkozy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventy years. and a leading human rights activist from by her reign is arrested just days before r.t. .