hello there eight am monday morning in moscow my name is kevin now and this is very good to have your company our top story than today vladimir putin is returning to russia's top job he'll officially be back at the helm later this monday after he's sworn into office for a third term it follows his four year stint as prime minister but despite a majority of votes in the march election there's been some difference of opinion about putin's reelection as cross live to r.t. in this and this morning it is fair to say isn't it's not exactly been smooth sailing up to the lead to put in for to the power. and that's putting it lightly i think it's usually pretty black and white when it comes to what russians think about putin it comes down to you're either for or against and it was very evident on the streets of moscow on sunday just ahead of this inauguration the one thing it

seems all sides can pretty much agree on is that if putin wants this to be a successful return to the kremlin he's going to have to make some changes. he's back for an unprecedented third term after a break as prime minister and many say russia will need to see putin two point zero a new leader who's been in power for five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and the taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself putin has made the promise ahead of the polls he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards it's delicious it'll be students next term will be the one that forms his legacy as a politician in russian history and i'm sure it will be a positive one. but the people to be convinced most are the i. opposition gathered

in the largest numbers russia has seen for decades after claims a vast front in december's duma vote and clashed with riot police on the eve of a new and you're a suit. he needs to set out for reform and not a reform on paper but something real something that both the opposition and you know the regular people not just in moscow but all throughout russia can see that this is really putin two point zero the most popular politician no doubt has a majority of support across russia and is credited with extraordinary development in the country but putin leaves few people in different at home and abroad it usually comes down to love or hate but i don't think that everything that putin has done is defensible or by a by a very wide stretch but there are some people who argue in such transparent bad faith that it's you know it's impossible not to notice that it's just it's

a person it's a personality thing in the west he's seen as harsher than me specially on foreign policy which could prove to be a challenge on issues like the reset with the u.s. and pushes for intervention in the middle east but on the economic front analysts have already sense to change at least three key issues to entry privatization investment climate reform we see. putin changing his. emphasis and direction on particular issues in a way which corresponds with a political shift a shift that is most evident on the web russians have never been more active in politics locke's twitter facebook or something putin will have to embrace if he wants to stay in touch you have to participate otherwise you'd be excluded and you have the other russia which talks its own language and the president will talk his language. leaving the question now that he's back can move forward.

now what we saw on sunday was appropriately rally which took place fairly peacefully but also an opposition rally it was dubbed the march of millions and nationwide action here in moscow certainly not a million people turned out and that says a lot of the opposition was expecting really not that many people to show some ten to fifteen thousand people expected came out onto the streets of moscow and what we're hearing is that unfortunately a group of really people that started up publications have the scene turned ugly it's really the most violent scene we've seen on the streets of moscow so far this has been a very peaceful movement it started as a movement for free and fair elections in december but yesterday it was very clear on the footage that was shot there that people started throwing things into the riot police there was clear provocations and unfortunately things did turn nasty

and as this inauguration happens here on monday we are hearing that there are several protests planned around the city no official actions to take place but there is a feeling that really anything can happen russians are more involved than ever in politics so they're watching this inauguration but also what's happening on the streets all right ines thanks very much for that will become budget a bit later we've got live coverage from the crowd and of course later today. but in a putin sworn in as russia's next president will be bringing a lot of opinion on what the next six years hold for the country as well as comment on his previous ten years president and prime minister.

but already authorities have arrested the country's main human rights activist who has been one of the leaders of the uprising was detained late saturday and is a rival from lebanon it comes just days before his appearance on julian assange show here on our t.v. where the whistleblower quizzed him and an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states. he's on the line from london morning has ability more information why roger was arrested when he got for us. well the authorities are said is that now bill run job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in illegal demonstrations and it should be remembered though that position has. landed him in

a number of made in the target even of the bahraini authorities before because he is a highly prominent activist there and also one of the most vocal outspoken outspoken critics of the country's ruling family and that's really what makes this next episode of june. so significant because this is all to be roger was last interview before his latest arrest now is considered one of the heroes of the first protests that took place in bahrain last february he's now got over one hundred forty thousand followers on twitter because he's the head of the bahraini center for human rights and he's really the driving force behind the mass demonstrations that we're still seeing in the streets of bahrain despite a government ban on on public protests there and that position has obviously garnered a lot of unwanted attention and attention that is only increased according to rangel since it became known that he was appearing on sanjay's show and that's what he elaborates on in this next episode. i was i was

just detained for almost half of the night before the month i was beaten up in this city few months ago i was kidnapped from my home by masked security both synths and taken turn on a place of blindfolded and handcuffed and i was tortured did i was thrown back home when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange then i'm going to do me a t.v. program and my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns and i do realize that i was not at home didn't do you just to. be to tell me to come to deposit prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am here so the very day that he was summoned by the public prosecutor's office in bahrain he actually chose instead to appear on our sound is talk show and be interviewed by

him using and and appear on r.t. using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the. regime in bahrain the regime here hughes's of killing sixty activists since in a brutal crackdown since february last year and it's for this reason the june last sanish things why he's been arrested basically and russia there says the self has been. tortured by the by reigning regime he's also expected even. by appearing on this show that he would indeed be risking a great deal but even so he that he would be willing to pay any consequences that come of it because he says he would be fighting in the name of democracy this is what he had to say. it's not dishonest. but this is the struggle does is the

freedom does is democracy that we are fighting for as of course and we have to be a discourse and of course it might be very expensive as we have been caused by when we were willing to bid for the changes that we are fighting for now one of the other guests this now one of the other guests this week on tonight's show is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our abdel fattah he was he was highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square but like roger he too has become a target of your thoughts sees in the what's left over of the regime in egypt he was imprisoned in now is currently banned from from travel and together with julian assange as the three of them discussed what unites the principles that unite the arab spring comparing the revolution in tunisia with what they term the half revolution in egypt and what they call the uprising in bahrain and also they

discuss what they call the double standard shown by the u.s. government regarding bahrain and why it isn't on the agenda of a number of large chunk of the arab media namely al jazeera arabic and what really and what the fact that julian assange is speaking to the very people who are making the things happen in these countries and of willing to face the consequences as we've seen with now feel right out with his arrest this weekend well that really what that's what makes this next episode really one that's not to be missed and you can catch it here r.t. is being shown at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday absolutely rubin really explosive series so far looking for the waterloo tomorrow either bernard line from london there thanks for bringing us up to date appreciate it. but more common about the story too partly henningsen is editor of the website info was dot com he said now bill rogers stands out among other activists and organizations rush lee being unbiased. 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 that the western press is out of the country so 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 illegitimate human rights worker or human rights organization from a manipulative one if they're criticizing a u.s. or british ally they're more likely to be a legitimate human rights organization and not manipulated ones so mr rajab is i believe he is guys 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. wasn't being. on

t.v. . it is to get maximum. source material is what he journalism. we wanted to present. something. still ahead for the guns and votes series holding its first parliamentary election in decades after president assad adopted a new constitution but the opposition votes to boycott the vote calling it a far bring it. how does greece's two governing prosperity parties lose their parliamentary majority radical groups fill the void all the details just ahead. now the big story overnight francois long is defeated because sarkozy in the french presidential runoff making him now the latest to you needed to be swept aside by

the crippling debt crisis among the first steps the president elect is planning is to push back against german led austerity measures chancellor angela merkel's already invited her land to berlin for talks. are reports. the results are out france has a new president socialist challenger francois law and has a clinch a victory making him the first socialist president in a seventy years and for nicolas sarkozy who is now the eleventh e.u. leaders of power since the crisis started with a fourth 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 who will bring back equality essentially by wanted to heavily tax big corporations and rich and the vigils cause 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 it's in but a lot said it is speech that he is up to that challenge 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 been agreed upon certainly it's sending a symbol to europe this is a socialist when in france it's what kind of what direction europe will take now with france 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 in afghanistan earlier than planned as well that's a g. twenty so the world is certainly watching what kind of france is going to be with france warlord as their new president. syria's holding a parliamentary election shaky cease fire. political factions to compete with the ruling baath party. to cling to power rather

a willingness to reform but it's also sort of first reports it's the best time for both sides to. damascus right now is a sea of faces with campaign pastis plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates vie to go on a enough public support to win one of the two hundred fifty seats available at thirty years old louis sorry says he feels he's the voice of the young here and wants to bring that into the political sphere. now in syria we have some problem it's a problem of people wanting to make things really democratic everyone must go and choose someone who can speak about this problem for people in this parliament but the elections have been criticised not least being held during a period of extreme instability in the country it is really. a country. people. too many cities and villages and

towns that the johnnies one of the towns not far from damascus before the crisis it was a popular holiday spot but over the course of the conflict is an area that's seen fierce fighting with control switching from the government to the free syrian army and then back again in many ways he's continuing strong resistance to the regime has been a declaration of what they want. the government. safety. maybe maybe maybe any time the army. the price paid for its resistance has been high following the u.n.

observers we find the population here elections the last thing on their minds here inside the tally on this whole you've got a mark of the election campaign if. you've got the faces of people who died during the conflict one boy just thirteen years old many lies have been lost over the course of the conflict in syria is part of the reason many people are now desperate to see all sides lay down their arms and resolve this conflict in another way there's not there's not. much. violence will be the opposition's boycotted the elections has left little room for discussion here. have participated have requested some sort of monitoring. in order to. scrutinize the. sort of elections this does not happen

it is one of the mistakes of the position did not purchase a period which is one of them. does not increase your position the. lack of consultation on the part of the government and lack of participation from the opposition is seriously dented any chance that this will bring about any credible change something everyone in this country think desperately lonely because of the loss of. we are fighting each other not these words but. this is. a website i. feel right now this hour if you get a minute to go online and hold water around slams google for leaving the persian gulf nameless. find out what could be motivating the internet giant don't call me

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video. of mine girls. with the palm of your. comb. parties in greece have been dealt a bloody nose by voters after losing their majority in a parliamentary election meantime polls show the neo nazi party golden door made gains for the first time in decades not seen up to seven percent support which may result in seats in parliament economic analyst international lawyer nick scratches believes greeks of punish those in power for not paying attention to the people's wants and needs. grece 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 gators springing up in many areas it happens 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 the political landscape shifting massively 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 was slash and burn which hasn't helped anything. go into

a twenty four in the morning moscow time some news in brief for you we've got together overnight a singer al qaeda chief of being killed in an air strike in yemen he was wanted for his role in the bombing of the u.s.s. cole in two thousand which resulted in the deaths of seventeen u.s. sailors at least one other man was also killed in the air raids in addition to being one of the most wanted terrorists in yemen the f.b.i. they offered five million dollars reward for information leading to his capture. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's arrived in india for diplomatic talks or oil is likely to be the focus of the visit there after delhi publicly rejected western sanctions on iran choosing to can. when you to buy fuel from the state however the government's been pushing for adoption imports before sanctions come into effect and make trade increasingly more difficult the u.s. is ramping up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program. in pakistan thousands of calls for the prime minister to resign after his recent conviction for contempt of court last month the country's supreme court charged against yousef the lani for

refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the president he was found guilty given only a token sentence of people accuse the government of working to hide its own corruption and vowed not to allow the conditioning to become tainted. tornadoes hit eastern japan it's killed one person injured dozens the city of tsukuba run sixty kilometers from tokyo seems to be the worst affected the severe winds caused a major power outage there and scores of houses you can see were completely destroyed. now as we were reporting earlier it may be video of putin's big day but it seems one russian fugitive is going all out to spoil it exiled russian tycoon boris berezovsky zofran almost seventy million u.s. dollars to anyone who arrests putin at the inauguration it's not the first time he's made such an offer but now the sun is increased tenfold journalist on the pa thinks it's entirely possible but it's also his ideas are inspired overseas it's. well he's based in the u.k. and he apparently is getting very favorable treatment of some rather in my opinion

outlandish outlandish attempts to restrict the free press from the british courts that's pretty high up and so on the one hand probably from the british government but also 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. well the sports still ahead fear the football season reaches climax and year of the twists and turns as last weekend i got the latest on my feet this morning before that as well in a couple of minutes we talked to dmitri medvedev his presidential aide about the future development of russia's that's how the next pans out here on our team from moscow it's now coming up to twenty seven minutes past eight moscow time.

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eight thirty am in the morning here kevin i mean these are our top stories. marty putin's making a comeback as head of state as he prepares to take the oath to become russia's president the first time the lakes today opinions were heated on moscow streets though ahead of the inauguration as opposition protesters clashed with police. bahrain arrests a human rights activist who's been one of the leaders of the uprising that just days before the real budget of the interview. is on this channel watch the explosive show if you can all day tomorrow we're showing it for the day. because sarkozy falls under the weight of france's mounting death of socialist leader funk .