socialist francois hollande has won france's presidential election beating incumbent nicholas a cozy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. fugitive exiled russian oligarch boris berezovsky offers a bounty on vladimir 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 questions with the police and injuries on both sides find out more from you what was going off in just a few moments.

thank you for joining me tom would say live from moscow headquarters this is our team our top story francois hollande has all said nicolas sarkozy from the french president see 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 our correspondent tessa cilla has been witnessing while celebrations at the socialist party headquarters in paris. well the results are out france has a new president socialist challenger francois long has a college of victory making him the first socialist president in a seventy years and we're because sarkozy is now the eleventh e.u. leader to be swept from 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

rich and the vigils no sarkozy had said during his campaign that he is the only one who will be able to bring france out of the economic part bar it's a little long said it is be sure he is up to that challenge one of the first things he wants to do as president this is speak with the germany's angela merkel to renegotiate that fiscal pact that had been agreed apart so really it's sending a symbol to europe this is a socialist went in france 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 what 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 that's a g. twenty so the world is certainly watching what kind of press is going to be with

france warlord as their new president. as we just heard from our correspondent along to has promise erupt of reforms in france but french a taxpayer is will again be the ones to tighten their belts to fulfill his ambitious plans that's according to alex coble spokesperson for the counterpoints adult news website. french voters. chose between a man no longer wanted sarkozy and a man they didn't really want to be with the prize a lot of thing he promised new public jobs in in education nearly sixty soltan. a raise in the minimum wage in the in the pension in the pension age figure is like twenty billion additional expenses he plans to finance this twenty billion by raising taxes so you will see a lot of austerity in the future and believe me believe me in the coming weeks or

in the coming months the bond markets will be more watchful than the french voters and a socialist triumph in france and greece of the elections have seen fashions making big gains as of asserting government takes a taking from voters serious over economic hardships. later in the program we see how the extreme nationalist golden dawn party looks set to enter the greek parliament for the first time in the most stock demonstration yet of voters rejecting their thirteen posts but your leaders. just as of letting me appeared in prepares to take office a russian fugitive is offering big money for his arrest exiled russian tycoon about as a bit of boston is reportedly offering a bounty to anyone who detains putin at a no gration our correspondent 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 fifty 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 putin's inner circle like his bodyguards asking them to start what 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 movement we've seen recently in moscow. seems to think it is 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 at the time is very very good at the moment 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 the 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 the adults off skis ideas and speired overseas well he's based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment of some rather in my opinion out where and when he should times 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 bloody mad of putin's integration is not just

a few hours away saddam forget to join us and seven thirty g.m.t. in the morning for special coverage of the event from the stunning splendor of the kremlin's holes. opposition activists have clashed with police in central moscow off to define orders to move to the officially agreed location for their reading the anti-government protest dubbed the march of millions was time for the evolve.

presidential inauguration all t's a goal of peace cannot has the details. itself originally was pretty peaceful until one of the radical leaders of the opposition i said you would 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 you to see t.v. 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

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 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 are simple 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 either but due to the aggressive behavior two hundred fifty

people were arrested including three opposition leaders including sigil guards often blogger aleksey. when the who is now calling in his twitter account for people to go to war and sanctions protest rallies. despite a lot of coverage spokesman dmitri peskov says that even though the way indeed demonstrations against a president elect of this size and scale has been greatly overblown by international media to the contrary the amount of those. who are willing to produce it is decreasing and decreasing quite significantly or it's very very marginal to part of moscow right there amount of it is quite insignificant they cannot be compared with a one those who would take part in actions and demonstrations there are in a free will for a moment when our international and for every ten or the jury service

we are nearly a car from the general trend of the money the asian or for retraction prove to be their name make of the developing and changing the personnel of their politician estates standing together with his country. and elsewhere in moscow supporters of the government and political establishment to have been marking the anniversary of the popular front movement created by vladimir putin last year our correspondent irina galu skull was the. wouldn't supporters of course are pro primarily those who are comprising the popular frauds which is liberating it's one hears that the first three today. were going to zazen was formed on the initiative all the templates and in order to bring together all those who were not participating in any political parties were not members of any political parties but so one 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. flags there saying victory and woods and together because people here are brotherly those who support the government and everything that is happening in the country right now at the moment. this and other stories available at a website and r. t. dot com also online that no we've been endlessly grazing currently on trial for killing over seventy people somehow appears on the finnish hockey team billboard apparently because he was mistakenly sued in the club's fan let's 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.

police in bahrain have detained the head all the country's center for human rights for criticizing the interior ministry on twitter now bill regev a key figure in the opposition to the ruling regime was arrested days before his interview by the world's top whistleblower julian assange and it's just 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 sunday court hearing the uprising has been ongoing for fourteen months now with a predominantly shiite population protesting against the sunni ruling dynasty patrick henningsen editor of the website info was dot com says a genuine human rights activist such as margaret jab often targeted by the bahrain government for criticizing its western allies. mr rajab is significant figure

in the human rights movement globally no bill has been arrested in the past has been detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should come as no 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 you can also tell a legitimate human rights worker or human rights organization from a manipulative one if they're criticizing a u.s. or british or a lawyer they're more likely to be legitimate human rights organizations not manipulated going through mr rajab because i believe he's got his finger on the pulse of genuine human rights situation in bahrain when you're criticizing a u.s. ally like bahrain if you're in the press you're not going to be given the air time as much as you would if you're criticizing the assad government that's why this will wash away within days or weeks. and a you'll get the chance to see julian assange has exclusive interview with my bill

regev on tuesday here on r t. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was an egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. the neo nazi party golden dawn is set to become the latest addition to the greek parliament exit polls show the extreme and nationalist organization has won between six and eight percent of the vote while about the required three percent threshold economic analysts and international lawyer in the square gus believes that greeks wants to punish the governing parties for not paying attention to the people's once and needs. grace 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 springing up a new many areas of athens now this particular group has been sharp enough to

understand that vigilantes on the streets protecting parks. 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 after the changes that we've seen in france now as well and of the political landscape shifting message really in greece and the general feeling across europe i think austerity will have to be toned down there may be ways to cut deficits through reducing waste but from there on the european population is not willing to stand for something like this they want a reasonable quality of life they want the rich to pay their share as well and they don't want an economic policy that doesn't focus on unemployment growth and

general living standards because all we've done until now is kind of slash and burn which hasn't helped anything morning continues in russia's republic of dagestan for the victims of thursday's double blas terror to venza packed with explosives just twenty minutes apart in the outskirts of the capital my just leaving thirteen people dead and more than one hundred wounded. and i talked to the relatives of those who gave their own lives to save others. national mourning darkest time 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 europe. to massive car bombs hit the capital much collateral 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 now here. 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 vague because then 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 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. piece of metal that had been placed around the body and to his children or it came through. to. 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 on

a 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 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 overland 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 this training 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 modern along with the wife say he never liked cameras and they have to console themselves with the 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 mom if you try to come with me but. i don't know how long i'm gonna live but i'll live for them really. leaves behind two little girls. actually we will all tell the girls who their father is watching us and 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. refreshing archie in russia's dagestan. time now for more of the world's news in pakistan large crowds call for the prime minister to resign after his conviction for contempt of court last month the country's supreme court a brought charges against pakistan's prime minister for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the country's president people accuse the government of working to hide their own corruption and vowed not to allow the judiciary to become tainted. in southern yemen or one of the most wanted al qaeda chiefs of hard al quds so has been killed by air strikes he was responsible for the suicide attack against the war ship u.s.s. cole in of tobar 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 palminteri vote the first such election in decades meanwhile a series of blasts in the capital damascus and in the north or in city of aleppo killed at least three civilians on saturday and as sarah first reports and people are placing increasing hope on the u.n. observer mission monitoring the frequently brief cease fire. in the heart of damascus thousands come out at 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 on that the station they here's the story you've got the military the security watching this is at the same time as the u.n. observers are supposed to be here overseeing the peace plan but in our early in the

day we've joined the un observers on one of the daily to is to flash point areas. this is been travelling to some of the areas where the focus is by things being breaking out and you can see on the ground small slow steps are being taken in the observers are really going to be wanting over the coming period the fielding all night observers are also based full time in some cities like homs and it led many have felt that their presence there has bought some car and we have little time between stops to speak to the people who live here 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 device that the dean of the u.n. has just done. 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 inroads the 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.

r.t. damascus. now i'll be back with a review all the headlines in just a couple of minutes and right after that interview with author and war correspondent chris hedges he things are there's no point in pushing to topple syria's president assad because there's no coherent opposition in the country that's coming up next stay with us.

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