way to from says mounting debt to socialist leader france all are grabs the presidency spelling change for the eurozone. alone a very good morning from moscow it's eleven am monday morning here now one name is kevin though in this. 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 was cut up we heard them both just now with our correspondents in this red square leg to the kremlin morning both here both talking in chorus just then there's transport there's two of the legs here as you ask you first of all alexey as i can see over his shoulder there you are rubbing shoulders by looks over the rich and famous on the red carpet. panes give us an idea of what's going on there today yes we did expecting the

ceremony to start in less than an hour from now and already a very many guests in 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 elite the great patriotic war veterans and ambassadors of world states also here understand that it is closest friends of 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 at a very posh and glamorous dinner take place inside the kremlin walls with some of the things on its menu already been made public by the by the press service when you stand at the usual black caviar right east and far east of style scallops and expensive champagne will be also prefer. 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. ok well full coverage of that with. the certainly kicking off a sort of very shortly then vladimir putin won the majority vote. but it hasn't been all that easy right is it for him. it hasn't 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 sky which is like the fifth avenue or so of moscow which leads to the kremlin with that said on sunday just the 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 when those vast claims of fraud in terms of the duma vote that we saw any kind of violence up until now and i've been in all those protests the mood was very peaceful and very passive 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 him coming back to the crime them all to discuss this further joining me now is alexander city of on the 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 today 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 crowd and that's it doesn't add much to the reputation of the olden eyes of the rally because the obviously lost control of what was going on in the crowd and that's why we have opposing views on the real situation in the crowds and on twitter we read different reports for and people in the crowd from both. opposition members and leaders and also the deputies of the stage even the protests within the members of the rally so the old house. absolutely opposing views about this and but definitely the old denies is i think a little some credits among the population of russia because they show they can not control what they instigate what the organizers and that is bad i think. there was

also i 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 at other protests 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 power. although i think he doesn't have any other option he will have to to bring about some change and in the set of his election all he kills that we sold during his election campaigns he also the french all the changes to policies and i believe we are going to see some new bills in some noodles very very soon but it will allow for the depends i mean how they are going to be implemented will last me depends on the minutes to the cabinet of ministers and on the figure of prime minister and on how much. afraid and he's

going to have in the system so much worries that the soul 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 in better 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 alexander sivana of just a little bit before putin goes back to the top again i think we can say your opinion 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 our team cab back to you. chaps and the full coverage here on this channel in the run by twenty minutes time will be joined by paid as well for a lot more common. you're watching r t francois hollande 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 recently 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 said again 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 had 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 perhaps 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 in france how long does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does a service presidency. to sort of center our europe correspondent there asia times ravin correspondent pepe escobar suppose we had earlier on he says clashes over lawns foreign policy are expected both in europe and overseas. but by mr causey now we smith so he learned only eternal france in europe he'll be try to call this merkel this all stare at that business is drowning in only external frot he'll coordinate with the brics or say look i'm not a way to change the whole system is to try to change the financial system as it works this is that where obama and the whole will clash head on in spite of obama sympathy for a whole lot for the left in france and for the left in europe in general has 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 of greeks want the same thing in now they have an ally inside the european union that happens to be one of the ultras of the european union so expect major fireworks inside europe and across the world as well. still ahead guns and votes syria's holding its first parliamentary election in decades of to present the sound of dump to the new constitution but the opposition vows to boycott the vote polling at a five. 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 it comes just days before his appearance on jena sunday show here on out with a 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 it should be remembered though that labial rajah's 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 episode into enough time to show so significant because this is thought to be. 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 there 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 then i'm going to speak to me t.v. program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns and i did realize that i was not at home didn't they just to. be to tell me to come to do prosecutors 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 t.v. using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason they do nasty things why he's been arrested basically by peering on this. ranch out would indeed be risking a great deal but even so. 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. but this is destroy good decisions the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as of course. we have to be a discourse and the course might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're willing to bid for the changes that we're 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 is the come 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 bill roggio 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 for the religion is now in turmoil for makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. but we'll find out more about that tomorrow back to now poetry hadn't seen as of the web site in four walls dot com told us now bill rogers stands out among other activists an organization is radically 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 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 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'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. syria is holding a parliamentary election today amid a shaky cease fire the first such foton decades allows the formation of political factions to compete with the ruling baath party the opposition's already urged a boy called 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. the mascot's right now is a sea of faces with campaign pace does plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates by take 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 criticized not least being held during a period of extreme instability in the country it is really. a country. the country kind of. people and too many cities and villages towns that attorneys 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 continuing strong resistance to the regime has been a declaration of what they want. the government. safety. maybe maybe maybe anytime. 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 inside the body

almost all you've got a hope 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 david because 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 there the opposition's boycott of the elections has left little room for discussion here. have participated have requested some sort of monitoring. in order to. scrutinize the. results of the elections this does not happen

it is one of the mistakes of the position and does not persecute which is one of the mistakes of the. opposition lack of consultation on the part of the government and lack of the to sit patient from the opposition seriously dented any chance that this they will bring about any credible change something everyone in this country desperately lonely because of the loss of. we are fighting each other not. this is. a quick check or we go to my website this morning r.t. dot com for your in home or to iran slamming google for leaving the persian gulf nameless. find out what could be motivating internet trying to do that on our website out to you know. also controversy surrounding these giant pictures of stalin you're about to see if they're placed on public buses here in russia or on

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speeds in the palm of your. on the dot com. probe parties in greece have been dealt a bloody nose by voters after losing their part of the 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 extract this believe screen 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 shopped 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 in 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 downward has 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 is slash and burn which hasn't help anything. 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 terrorist 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 urged india to buy less oil from iran the united states is ramping up the pressure on iran over its nuclear program so countries always insist it is only for peaceful purposes delhi publicly rejected western sanctions on the islamic state choosing to continue to buy 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 a call for the prime minister to resign after his recent conviction for contempt of court last month the country's supreme court charges against me 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 it corruption and not to allow the huge issue become tainted. tornadoes hit eastern japan it's killed one and injured dozens the city of 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 its own in just a few minutes time to hope you can stay with us for that of course set to be sworn into office for a third time you're watching broadcasting live from moscow. please

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the people of the united states and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about it we know for a fact there are limits to. this we're just being carried out under 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. david kay is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time but he says it could take

another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more artics hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet 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 patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country of origin stakes and even if they come this way at least 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 is in a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.

thread about putin is making a comeback because russia's head of state for the third time i can tell you just a few minutes the ceremony of the kremlin will be starting is with him and me taking the oath to lead the country for the next six years it is now eleven thirty am here on moscow this monday the seventh of may twenty twelve my name's kevin owen and warm welcome to you to our special an organization coverage here and i can say at the very shortly we'll be taking a live to the ceremony where the demand putin said to be sworn in for of course the third time he is taking over from dmitri medvedev who in turn is set to become the next prime minister and what we've got coming up in just a few minutes is live commentry during the entire event and help me through all the aspects of this special them joined by peter.