socialist francois hollande has won france's presidential election beating incumbent nicolas to cozy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. fugitive exiled russian oligarch spare results he offers a bounty on blood a mere putin to anyone willing to detain the russian leader at his presidential inauguration on monday. radical opposition activists hijack a peaceful anti-government rally in moscow leading to clash with the police and injuries on both sides find out more from me you want to spin off in just a few moments.

twenty four hours a day seven days a week you're watching r t with me tom would say our top story this hour francois hollande has all said nicolas sarkozy from the french presidency to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years it was a close call winning just fifty one percent of the vote against his rivals forty nine how correspondent has been witnessing while celebrations at socialist party headquarters in paris. the results are out france has a new president socialist challenger francois lord has a college of victory making him the first socialist president in a seventy eight years and for the for because sarkozy is now the eleventh e.u. leader to be set up for power since the crisis started i put it forth this add to your sturdy sentiment sweeping across the continent now for a lot he has presented himself for the most part as the man who will unite france will bring back equality essentially by wanted to heavily tax big corporations and

richer the vigils the psychos he has said during his campaign that he is the only one who will be able to bring france out of the economic part bar is saying but a lot said it is speech that he is up to that challenge or one of the first things he wants to do as president this is speak with germany's angela merkel to renegotiate that fiscal pact that had it agreed apart so really it's sending a symbol to europe this is a socialist when and for as it's what kind of what direction europe will take now with frazz changing its course there's also the question though off what kind of change and how much change can all on really bring to the country as he has promised given all the constraints that he will be facing will certainly he will have a very busy first few weeks there's a nato summit coming up where he's going to present to the u.s. as far as what would draw a french troops to afghanistan earlier than planned as well as a g. twenty so the world is certainly watching what kind of press is going to be with

france warlord as their new president. economists patrick young who's director of an investment firm says however there's no real difference between soko z. and his success all along he says that the new men are like the ones his alstad doesn't also solution to france's financial woes. the economic policies that are being 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 bloggers love and you always see at the bottom end of the comments pages amongst all of the other the teenage people who love to use those sorts of things on 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 what has been the no the pigmy achievements of the poisoned war for the elites i know of course the hound and ultimately 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 failed policies of mr sarkozy or indeed we see an end of his liberty in existence and mr hollande conceded it's still on for she got to be a disaster just as a bloody mayor putin prepares to take office a russian fugitive is offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon a bar as a bizarre school is reportedly offering a bounty to anyone who detains putin at the you know gratian bonded to ivan bennett has details from london. what is plan is to have putin arrested for what he calls the illegal seizing of power so he's offering up a bounty what used to be fifteen million rubles but now one new source in russia is claiming that he's increased that ten times to five hundred million rubles which equates to around seventeen million dollars and he's offering that anyone basically any member of the public who'll arrest the president elect he calls

a highly dangerous creep criminal ahead of his inauguration on monday so he's advertising this bounty on his facebook pages live journal blog which is a site very big in russia and he has a number of followers in fact and he's appealing to the general public not just the general public also even. parts of routines in a circle like his bodyguards asking them to start would be a mutiny and he's ultimately wants obviously to see the opposition in power the growing popular protest movement. and he's even calling on the prosecutor general's office in russia to what to restore what he calls constitutional order and so he's clearly aligning himself here with the popular protest moving that we've seen recently in moscow. seems to think it's perfectly legal he's saying that if putin does become president of russia for a third time then he'll be in breach of the constitution because he claims that the wording around someone can run for president of the time is very very good at the

moment as only claims this and let's not forget either that he is in fact a wanted man in russia he's been on the run there since well for the good part of a decade now he fled russia back in the early part of putin's first presidential term after falling out with the president he fled russia after there was an investigation into his ownership of a large chunk of state assets back then and since then he's been living in the u.k. where he sought asylum living off his dwindling wealth and perfectly happy basically to live here hoping that britain won't extradite him and that clearly is very much in his interests that he inspires this popular protest movement and clearly that he sponsors it as well. journalist don de bar thinks it's entirely possible bures off schemes ideas i spy it i have a scenes well he's based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment of some rather in my opinion

outlandish atlanta tends 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 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 and vladimir putin's inauguration is now just a few hours away so don't forget to join us from seven thirty g.m.t. in the morning last special coverage of the event from the stunning splenda of the kremlin's holes.

opposition that last with police in central moscow off to defying orders to me to the officially agreed location for they are rallying the anti-government protests dubbed the march of millions what's time for the evolved may putin's a presidential inauguration teaser you got a piece going off has the details. the a rally itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said you will die so if 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 seeing 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 the cuticle 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's 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 either but due to the aggressive behavior two hundred fifty people were arrested including three opposition leaders including sigil guards often blogger aleksey. no one in the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to war and sanctions protest rallies. agents all gucci political analyst and author base in the air as

a says international policy could be involved in bringing russia's political divisions to boiling point the majority of the russian people sixty four percent do agree with this continuity that has now been going on for over a decade there was always a smaller group of people who give all agree some of them are democratic and they react respectfully towards the will of the majority in this case we can see that there are definitely circles within russian society that are voicing their opinion very heated neither opposition very good to me 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. and elsewhere in moscow supporters of the government and political establishment have been marking the anniversary of the popular front means meant created by vladimir putin last year our correspondent. was they put in

supporters of course our prop primarily those who are comprising the popular frogs which is the british it's one hears that the first three today. organization was formed on the initiative of let's listen in order to bring together all those who are not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but don't want just one 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 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. despite a lot of coverage spokesman dmitri peskov says that even though there were indeed demonstrations against the president elect this size and scale has been greatly overblown in international media to the contrary the amount of those who or

willing to produce it is decreasing and decreasing quite significantly or it's very very marginal. part of moscow but there amount of it's quite insignificant big cannot be compared with a one zero zero zero take or actions and demonstrations there are in free will or it being. our own to nurse on every hand and all the jury we are nearly a car from the general trend of the morning edition of because for me couldn't prove to be their name and the relatively unchanged first american politician in a state standing together with his country and a socialist triumph in france and greece to the elections have seen fascism making big gains as a 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 sent to enter the greek parliament for the first time in the most stark example yet of voter rejection of this survey team posed by the e.u. leadership. police in bahrain have detained the head of the country's center for human rights for criticizing the interior ministry on twitter now bill ridge ob a key figure in the opposition to the ruling regime was arrested days before his interview by the world's top whistleblower julian a son is today on our team. the civil rights leader was already facing charges of participating in protests against the government and was returning to bahrain for a sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now with a predominantly shiite population protesting against the should the ruling to see him on ash i believe political analyst and senior columnist at the newspaper the uprising is unlikely to get serious style coverage here. is

a 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 revolution started it wasn't for the removal of the king it was for basic equal rights between all the rain is 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. therefore there is a clear double standard when it comes to bahrain perhaps because bahrain is a is a kingdom in the gulf and therefore there is a fear that if the if these people will get rights and if

it is a possibility that the kingdom will collapse and it will be the beginning of the collapse of other kingdoms and in 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 the with the petrol. and you'll get the chance to see julian our songes exclusive interview with. here on r.t. . i 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. the neofascists party golden dawn is set to become the latest addition to the greek parliament i said polls show the extreme that's not as open as asian has one between six and eight percent of the vote while about the required three percent

threshold economic analysts and international lawyer makes great because it believes that greeks wants to punish their governing parties for not paying attention to the people's once and. greece lost ten percent of its population under the nazi boot in world war two we also have close to ten million diaspora greeks overseas you know serbian 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 jitters springing up in many areas of athens now this particular group has been shocked enough to understand that it's vigilantes on the streets protecting tax. 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.

this and other stories of a level at our website at r.t. dot com also online no waging the ender's brave acre currently on trial for killing over seventy people somehow appears on a finnish hockey team billboard apparently because he was mistakenly included in the club's families find out how that happened online. 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. morning continues in russia's republic of dagestan for the victims of thursday's double blast terror two vans packed with explosives or blew up just twenty minutes

apart in the outskirts of the capital. leaving thirteen people dead and more than one hundred wounded artie's marina 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 were going to go. to massive car bombs hit the capital markets collapse on thursday 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 hendrik and here. says he feels lost without his brother who 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 very tricky

that he called me back saying he was round to go into this. he said all this 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 and 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. that piece of metal that had been placed around the bottom of it to his children or it 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 darkest town i'm 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 i'm real and stains 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 roland 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 is 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 in the. along with the wife or daughter cheaper say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with a few pictures they have removed the version in left of the morning and then came back she forgot something i told him this is a bad luck will be fine mom if you try to come in but. i don't know how long i'm going to live but i'll leave before value it. leaves behind two little girls. stay where you will i'll tell them. their father is watching us move talent and 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. time now for more of the world's news in pakistan large crowds a call for the prime minister to resign after his conviction for contempt of court

last month the country's supreme court abroad charges against pakistan's prime minister for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president people like you the government of working to hide their corruption and vowed not allow the judiciary to become tainted. and some of the in yemen one of the most wanted all kind achieves of fahd has been killed by strikes he was responsible for the suicide attacks against the u.s.s. cole in a two thousand which killed seventeen american sailors and injured thirty nine two other al qaeda terrorists also died in the air raids. 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 north korean city of aleppo killed at least three civilians on saturday and there sara for its report people

are placing increasingly hope on the u.n. observer mission monitoring the frequent breech 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 a few rules the people who were killed under the station they here's the story you've got the military the security watching i think 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 on one of the daily tours to flashpoint areas. this have been traveling to some of the areas where the this 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 be fielding all night observers are also based full time in some cities like homs and it led to many have felt that their presence there has put some calm in team and 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 i'm about people running. 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. have just done a job 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 servers themselves have admitted a resolution won't happen overnight 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 a scenes like this would do anything to raise hopes that this mission will be a success but they also show the very real and urgent need for it to be say sara for r.t. damascus. and more on syria in just a few minutes in our interview with author and war correspondent chris hedges he things are there's no point in pushing for the toppling of syria's president assad

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