totty don't come. in is making a comeback because rush is head of state for the. kremlin opens its doors to thousands of v.i.p.'s as the ceremony which will which it will take the oath to become president for the next six years is about to start. promises of reform in the next sixty years but that has opinions are very heated on the streets of the day before the inauguration opposition protesters clashed with police join me to tell. also in the program bahrain arrests a human rights activist just days before his interview with. the watch the

explosive show all day tuesday. and nicolas sarkozy falls under the weight of france is mounting debts his socialist leader for grabs the presidency spelling change for the eurozone. alone a very good morning from moscow it's eleven am monday morning here. in this is our top story vladimir putin is returning to russia's top job today he'll be officially back at the helm later on a monday after he's been sworn into office for a time it follows his four year stint as prime minister let's catch up with them both just now with our correspondents in this red square to lecture the kremlin morning here both talking in chorus let's transplant their store their legs. first

of all alexey as i can see over his shoulder rubbing shoulders by looking over the rich and famous on the red carpet. panes give us an idea of what's going on there yes we need expecting the ceremony to start in less than an hour from now and already a very many guests are here we expecting somewhere between two and three thousand v.i.p.'s to gather here there was a certainly members of the political artistic religious and military leaders the great patriotic war veterans and ambassadors of world states also here understand that it is closest friends a former prime minister of italy mr berlusconi as well as the former german chancellor gerhard schroeder will also be here as well as the legendary actor and former governor of california arnold schwarzenegger all of them are expected to attend here certainly this will be a very humble ceremony after which the ceremony will last for a little more than an hour and after which we are expecting a dinner a very posh and glamorous dinner take place inside the kremlin walls with some of the things on the menu already been made public by the by the press service when

they stand at the usual black caviar fried east and far eastern style scallops and expensive champagne will be also presented to the guests here certainly the atmosphere here is filled with excitement it's buzzing here everyone is waiting for the ceremony to start lots of interesting people and interesting chatter we've been hearing here about the upcoming next six years everyone is expecting it to be here in just about fifty eight minutes from now. right ok well full coverage of that when that happens in a city you know the certainly kicking off to say very shortly then what imma put in one the majority vote in the should but it hasn't been all that easy right as in florida. it has been indeed although the mood inside certainly festive out on the streets of moscow that is not the case just recently a group of small protesters tried to make their way to many as nice where we are fifty or so people not a big group but there were some arrests made and they were pushed back basically her sky which. like the fifth avenue or cell of moscow which leads to the kremlin

with bat said on sunday just a day before this inauguration we saw for the first time real clashes between opposition protesters and police. it's said of course there are very conflicting reports that it all started when some of the opposition leaders started a sit in and then there was some kind of provocation it's not exactly clear from who but we did see rocks being thrown we did see smoke some people say it was some kind of gas others say it was smoke bombs so conflicting reports but really the point this is the first time that this protest movement which really gained momentum after the december elections and those mass claims of fraud in terms of the duma vote that we saw any kind of violence up until now and i've been at all those protests the mood was very peaceful and very fast and so there is this sort of sense that things were kind of ruined in a way yesterday just ahead of this inauguration by that violence for those protesters who were peacefully trying to state their sentiment that they're not happy about vladimir putin coming back to the kremlin wall to discuss this further

joining me now is alexander to give on that he's a political analyst and i want to focus first on this domestic issue a big issue really for the first time real discontent with putin there we're seeing it on the streets what do you make of what happened just yesterday i believe the peaceful rally was distorted in a way by the provocator was in the crowds and that doesn't add much to the reputation of the old analysis of the rally because the obvious lost control of what was going on in the crowd and that's why we have opposing views on the real situation in the crowd and on twitter we read different reports for and people in the crowd from both. opposition members and leaders and also the deputies at the stadium the protests within the members of the rally tell the old house. absolutely opposing views about this and but definitely the old denies is i think they'd. well

some credit among the population of russia because they showed they cannot control what they instigated while the organized and that is bad i think. there was also just briefly to bring this up a moment there where it did look like there was going to be some kind of stampede just because there was no crowd control really and that's something that i've experienced that other protest of course across the middle east but to move on to putin as a figure he obviously has wide support he won in a landslide even some of his supporters say we're going to have to see some kind of reinvention are we going to see that in terms of real policy oh i think he doesn't have any other option he will have to to bring about some change and in a set of his election all to kills that we soldier in his election campaigns he offer the framework of the changes to policies and i believe we are going to see some new bills and some new laws very very soon but it will largely depend i mean how they're going to be implemented will largely depends on the ministers the

cabinet ministers and on the figure of prime minister and how much. afraid he's going to have in the system so. that the whole of the metro implementation what about foreign policy what do you expect in terms of that are going to see perhaps a softer putin the west seems very skeptical about how to work with him but analysts say you know the world is a very different place than it was when you left the kremlin a lot of things have changed absolutely and as we saw from the experience of the georgian war and the libyan crisis is we sold it putting them into bed if sometimes didn't see eye to eye on foreign policy and they would make absolutely different statements and that testifies to the fact that putting is going to stick to his munich speech principles and i don't think he's going to lighten up on the west and to be softer but what i'm going to witness. shortly so that is my view on it of an executive on a just. little bit before i put in goes back to the top again i think we can say

european of where you think things will move both domestically and in terms of foreign policy of course there's lots of different views on that we'll have them for you throughout the day here in r.t. cap back to you. on the full coverage starts here on this channel in the run about twenty minutes time of your paid as well for a lot more comment. you're

watching out from this defeated nicolas sarkozy in the french presidential runoff making him the latest e.u. leader 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 to berlin for talks test ricin the reports now from paris. it's very quiet because they had big celebrations last night b. f. last year was certainly having a big party until the morning it was a symbolic place is for us all and is the first president to take office since transform it around did the same in one thousand nine hundred eighty one now for us all and in his acceptance speech yesterday did talk a lot about unity which has been much of the theme of his entire campaign he said he's the one who's going to bring about solidarity and unity in criticizing sarkozy's divisive presidency but of course the unity he's talking about does hinge on his ability to bring about the promises that he had made particularly the

practical promises of jobs and employment and this is a no easy feat given the economic circumstances of france and again he is the first thing he wanted to do is to talk to german chancellor angela merkel to push for this growth or yet that approach and he has a lot of supporters on this approach however even the supporters are skeptical as to how much he can really do given the constraints i mean france is a part of the euro zone there are sixteen other nations who are using this currency there are a lot of rules to be followed and so they're looking at how much maneuver room he really has on it comes to international dealings there's going to be the nato summit and he had said that he wants to pull out french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned he will have to and he's expected to present this blood to president barack obama and the the rest of the nato alliance and also when it comes to issues like syria and iran observers are saying that we may expect a less aggressive press whatever this observation is based on the rhetoric so far so of course we have to see the actions that this new president will be taking now

french people at the end of the day said that they voted for change but let's not forget that when nicolas sarkozy was voted in two thousand and seven they also voted for change so it's a first hole and does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency. our europe correspondent there asia times ravin correspondent pepe escobar suppose we really are on he says clashes over lands foreign policy are expected both in europe and overseas. but by mr causey now it's medical and so he learned all the eternal front in europe you'll be trying to call this work all this all stare at that business is drowning in on the external frot hill coordinate with the bridge to say look another week to change the whole system is to try to change the financial system as it works and this is where obama in the hole will clash head on in spite of obama sympathies for all out for the left in france and for the left in

europe in general i learned once a renegotiation of the financial arrangements in the world and that means the end of the u.s. dollar as a reserve currency the greeks want the same thing in now they have an ally inside the european union that happens to be one of the altars of the european union so expect major fireworks inside europe and across the world as well. still ahead guns involved syria's holding its first parliamentary election in decades of the present the sad adopted a new constitution but the opposition vows to boycott the vote polling had a. bahraini authorities have arrested the country's main human rights activist who has been one of the leaders of the uprising there was detained late saturday on his arrival from lebanon and comes just days before his appearance on during a sunday show here on our take when the whistleblower quizzed him on an egyptian

activist over the revolutions in the arab state of a bennett reports. well the of origins of said is that now bill rand 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 should be remembered though that now be all right jobs 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 critics of the country's ruling family and that's really what makes this next step so you enough times it so significant because this is thought to be. the 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 disease 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 since it became known that he was appearing on sanjay and that's that's what he elaborates on in this next episode when i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to speak to me t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns. and they realized that i was not at home didn't they just. to tell me to come to depopulation 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 as angie's talk show and and appear on r.t. using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason that you now standage things why he's being arrested basically by appearing on this. ranch out 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 the first but this is destroying this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as a cost and we have to be a discourse and because it might be very expensive as we have been causing when we were willing to bid for the changes that we are fighting for now one of the other guests this week on a do not show is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our abdel fattah he was a he was highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square that like right up to has become a target of your thora sees the fact that you know sound is leaking to the very people who are making lethal things happen in these countries and are willing to

face the consequences as we've seen with now with his arrest this weekend well that really that's what makes this next episode really one that's not to be missed and you can catch it here marty is being shown at eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain for the revolution failed was a leadership with a revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. but we'll find out more about that tomorrow back to now partly hadn't seen as of the web site in four walls dot com told us now bill rogers stands out among other activists and organizers ations rangely 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 with the western press as 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 how why they're more likely to be a legitimate human rights organization and not manipulate it one through mr rajoy because 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. syria is holding a parliamentary election today amid a shaky cease fire the first such photo decades allows the formation of political factions to compete with the ruling baath party the opposition's already urged to boycott those saying it is president assad's attempt to cling to power rather than

a willingness for reform and as r.t. sarah first reports many in syria say it's the best time though for both sides to lay down arms. damascus right now is a sea of faces with campaign posters plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates divide to garner enough public support to win one of the two hundred fifty seats available at thirty years old luis sari 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 for being held during a period of extreme instability in the country it is really completely nonsense to write voting. a country

a country cannot provide security to people and to many cities and villages and towns that attorneys one of these 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 the declaration of what they want. free army. to fight again with the government. safety. maybe maybe maybe any time. the price paid for its resistance has been high following the u.n.

observers we find a population for him elections the last thing on their minds here and started down the list for you got a mock 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 david because of the conflict in syria is part of the reason many people are now desperate to seal sides lay down their arms and resolve this conflict in another way there's not there's not too solution. starts. the oppositions boycotted the elections has left little room for discussion here the opposition should have participated and should have requested some sort of

monitoring when you turning teams in order to. scrutinize the elections and the results of the elections this does not happen it is one of the mistakes of the opposition that it did not participate which is one of the mistakes. did not encourage your position lack of consultation on the part of the government and lack of participation from the opposition seriously dented any chance that this will bring about any credible change something everyone in this country desperately because. we are fighting each other not. syria. checker we got my website this morning r.t. dot com fear in a whole war to iran slamming google for leaving the persian gulf nameless on its online maps find out what could be motivating internet trying to do that on our website out to you know com also controversy surrounding these giant pictures of

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video. and r.s.s. feeds with a palm of your. on the dot com. parties in greece have been dealt a bloody nose by voters after losing their part of their majority in parliamentary elections meantime the neo nazi party called golden dawn is set to enter parliament for the first time after not seeing up around seven percent support economic analyst international in express believes creek so of punish those in power for not paying attention to the people's wants 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 ghettos springing up in many areas it happens now this particular group has been sharp enough to understand that it's vigilantes on the streets for taking. the 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 downwards well 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 is kind of slash and burn

which has a help anything. now some other world news in brief chief has been killed in an air strike in yemen he was wanted for his role in the bombing of the u.s.s. cole in the year two thousand that resulted in the deaths of seventeen u.s. sailors at least one other man was also killed in sunday's raids in addition to being one of the most wanted terrorists in yemen the f.b.i. offered a five million dollar reward for information leading to his capture. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton's urged india to buy less oil from iran the united states is ramping up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program so the countries always insist it is only for peaceful purposes delhi publicly rejected western sanctions on the islamic state choosing to continue to buy its fuel from around the government's been pushing for a reduction in imports before sanctions come into effect next month make trade increasingly more difficult. in pakistan thousands of call for the prime minister to resign after his recent conviction for contempt of court last month the

country's supreme court all charges against use of killarney for refusing to reopen an old corruption case against the president learned he was found guilty but given only a token sentence people accuse the government of working to try to hide its own corruption and not to allow the huge issue to become tainted. tornadoes hit eastern japan it's killed one and injured dozens the city of see around sixty kilometers from tokyo appears to be the worst affected the severe winds caused a major power outage to and as you can see their scores of houses completely destroyed. just ahead we have live coverage lined up for you of the inauguration ceremony of lead to its own in just a few minutes time to hope you can stay with us for that so let me move in of course set to be sworn into office for a third time you're watching broadcasting live from moscow.

the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder is a regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are weapons there. this work is being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets

of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search we have not yet found shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably in my judgment and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriots takes the unpopular course but helps the country and for the stakes and even if they come this way at least from patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country.