isn't a terrible international security situation that i think is perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other. what 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 who will be 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 warm welcome to you to our special an organization coverage here and i can say at the very shortly will be taking you live to the ceremony where the demand putin set 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 commentary during the entire event and help me through all the aspects of the special day i'm joined by peter lavelle our resident political commentator and the cross talk host of course was a good show so we should not say here somebody knows full well what goes on in the kremlin if you've seen the latest show inside kremlin it's great there's a lot of inside information there we're going to show my skills today we're going to talk to you but i can tell you what you see in the next hour and a half or so but actually so you know if we can start first of all with you people come and talk about the hard aspects of this in a second but it is going to be a very lavish event three thousand people where we're hearing there are all sorts and i guess maybe some you wouldn't particularly expect to be there but he is silvio berlusconi a lot of big names there. what are they going to be seeing today we're going to be treated to how does this event sort of pan out here or what first of all schwarzenegger and berlusconi are very close personal friends of but as for the inauguration itself it always takes place in kremlin and that's where the president

leads the ceremony itself is almost identical to to the previous one always is to say what comes afterwards we never know for example when whitney was sworn in the second time he came out in the cathedral square which. it's like the main square in kremlin and he was presented to the to the guards to this regiment i don't know if it's going to happen this time because he knows that pretty well at this point because he's been already present two times so we don't know what's going to happen afterwards but a lavish dinner definitely forward and people are talking about the menu today carvey are. going to be russian only russian cuisine yeah i think it's i think it's a fusion because i know the chef actually who is the main chef of the kremlin and he's french and he tries to always combine french with a russian like he made. so i think the whole caviar and the fried scallops is a french russian fusion think going on there today and then we're going to see the presidential motorcade go through this past gates that's the main entrance of the kremlin and it only opens for the inauguration and for the one to meet great and

then we're going to see the president and prime minister go through the palaces halls in shorts and alexander said andrew but it's better if we talk over the pictures. just out of these of these latest pictures you really got you could see everyone already gathered that the event due to start in about five minutes or so as soon as it happens we're going to cross more of the let's stay on these pictures though you don't see a solution to love but you can. see. russia you can reach. this is essentially what this is probably you have this palace is one of the biggest and largest in its land during this game i can tell you candidly three times that much i know and what we see right now it's as big as a football. really impressive i've been inside will tell you i'm told it is

starting well let's let's. go over this no again we want to let you get the full feeling good as well as we can breathe a little we do hope you enjoy the next hour as coverage of this is. but he's. figured out see. why what you had there was the announcers saying the ladies and gentlemen beginning the inauguration no ceremony for the russian president vladimir putin told us yes it was going to try my best to translate and talk over this obviously your hearing the russian coverage there the. russian state television channel and i've got the transcript there small talk you through it now the flag bearers marching through the halls of same georgia sure the same day alexander saying down with the russians call it that you know because that's the post given to placing the flags on a very gracious conspiracy richard let's do

a little of the border the start of the uniform and get really reminds us from one end of the war agent to world because the studio that went to poland invaded russia it was defeated this year we mark the two hundred any burst of your bill street battles like son of the schools our not something that just blew up. this ship must love what happens it just comes down that you got that it isn't that in the last but if it gets to stand that which is done through the chickasaw given that you've got the battle if it was a pleasure our of our line along the same you i suspect that those three hostile into each other one into another because of this this in march was well sure the navy the composer even offer a cabbage this is terrible you know for those chaps are worried as well reflecting i'm told much of russia is well you can see the us spends uniforms glorious military. color pattern resembling uniforms of one of the oldest elite regiments of

the russian army formed by peter the great is the late seventies saying sure that you and the the style of the uniform are the headgear they're wearing but in the style. the war of eighteen twelve when the polling is very good russia was defeated most of the get this year marking the two hundredth anniversary of those great falls just in case people were wondering why those cards are carrying two flags well first flag is always to the flag of russian federation and the other one is the presidential standard and now they are original presidential standard is always kept in the president's office and it has a silver plate bearing the letters name differences that the presidential standard has to russian to have it eagle emblem on it the history of. nine hundred ninety four dozen or so fabulous lee. things then the presidential stand changed to an image a slightly different image of the double headed eagle superimposed against the stream for the last twenty years in beijing of new traditions you know this is something

the new russia is still a very young state i'll talk about its economy and its politics later but in. the young country he's not but he's you know. so here comes to copy of the russian constitution that's always held in kremlin why brewery and especially is taken up for the inauguration ceremony. so let's just bring up the music a little bit here i'm not sure we get the music without the russian commentary let's try and just get a bit of a flavor of the show if you're going to. use it when you were here to get the suits there are passing through st george's hall right now it is the biggest hall out of the three halls there where the ceremony takes place. now we see plenty of russians show business stars and writers and academician just want to get invited to events like this so i think i think if we are built on it is there

are going to talk i think is a representative a challenge represented because all the others are in a studio right now it's the kremlin square so from a red square and of course it's not only celebrities of course sort of the leadership supposed chamber. the russian parliament the chair of committees commissions and factions they're all also the judges of the constitutional heads of the supreme court in the supreme arbitration court going to read some of this because they see it is important to be representative of the major regions in russia today indeed russian orthodox church. he said catholics members of the jewish community. know this book so if you want to read my decision constitution and that stays in the kremlin library all the time it is only taken out for the inauguration ceremony now the honor guards are taking this company through the halls of the three holes to the same hole where the inauguration itself takes place and they're going to put this copy in front of where president putin is

going to take his speech making a speech and he will and he's going to mishandle have a constitution he would say you know as an interim between the duties of by your side as we saw president is going to be on his side also we're going to have. to go on his side and she is the had of question speculation council and we're going to also have they had a fresh constitutional council on his side and that's that but just the normal tradition every time president is out here raided those two plus the previous president have to be on the. ground to talk over the. we don't know too much so why don't we get rid of the that the russian translation the russian that was a bit destructing we've got the full freedom this. sure got a bit of the flavor of this come back and talk in a second and i said that just as they stopped.

but. you said it was exactly announcer. consequently they had to reach council going to the federation council. because she was before that in charges and she was governor off center that's right a while there was representatives of both houses of parliament. the incoming calls which are mine i was the russian. head of the parliament personal modern. russia party even though we were united you know the question mark in that i'm going to constitutional. court of the russians as a result of the ministry of the oath. that if you know the head of the court.

know what god's will is dmitri medvedev what is he coming to think of me to read vids of is. going to leave. his residence i thought she was last in kremlin residence and first go and listen to his regiment for the last time because the president. i think we were. going to go to his resume leaving the building one this is where this plays and i got into the call you're driving along the kremlin arsenault and i believe he's entering the. square where he's going to talk about this is our town and so i can and has actually never been used in a war we don't really see right now we're seeing the kremlin walls. which articulators long if anyone was wondering your wealth of information to go. to twenty seven minutes to go around kremlin time to running a walk fast walk it was really when i think it's really interesting here these

pictures tell us about the transition of. the week it's never been used in wars but it's probably the last caliber largest caliber arm in the world things and you just took a. record for that again something else that you would know every day. so so ok we see this now he's going to go into the presidential presents you are a presidential presidential guards are basically in charge of protecting the president in the kremlin and protecting the kremlin and also protects the eternal fire at the tomb of the unknown soldier this man are really impressive young men i can tell you they do their job very well yeah you drop a piece of red square absolutely absolutely and they're hand picked from all over the news to their very handsome very well bred well educated perfect background you can you can basically say that the presidential regiment is the elite of russia at this point it may be for american use what we are going to have secret service with some of their i. think what you're using here have a very do you know we see the president coming about.

he has lost a lot this year as he and the story was on the course we are watching now our coverage this morning of use if they've just joined this we. want to give this is the last time that. three days of as president and commander in chief. will be addressing not addressing but actually taking the address of the commander in chief of their presidential regiment. and we're going to hear president medvedev speak shortly as well hopefully we've got that translated into english for you if not we'll do our level best to translate it also for you left to do that for us but so i don't think it will we we've got the translation for that me should be happening in your own right now. you're the russian federation the kremlin regiment is ready for your review you know.

that i started out to share. good morning comics good morning comrades president you said it was easy solution is just about what was on that seal that i thank you and all of our servicemen for your service. ready to serve the russian federation.

right says just say good morning soldiers as we heard the regular responded saying good morning comrade president thank you very much and he said thank you for your service and they responded back saying ready to russia is walking along the lines of regiment and he's going up to the what's called the red porch sophia shark you've got me there carol right. but hey well next on the list of course the incoming yeah going right now into the kremlin into the grand kremlin palace i think it's called the empty room i think he's going into is it really where he will await president elect hooten to. mr putin who i'm told

reliably in my ear is of course on his way he'll be arriving very shortly. beautiful day for it as well looking at the weather. but it was tops off a splendid day like this is of course it isn't ready to go. the weather today lovely for absolutely couldn't be a better bet than what the record was there of course to tell us about you know it's very interesting i was just thinking you know these two men that have been the center of russian political life now they've known each other for over twenty years you know and we've called it the tandem and it really is a tandem because now we're going to have the other part of the tandem coming back all the speculation that was in there over the last four four years if if there was any friction between them but what you know i mean you know they're different men they're different men from different generations and they may have different outlooks but i think they have the national interests of this country at heart so i think that is the biggest difference here is the president elect. but to me putin.

of course the kremlin is no stranger to him. what he's thinking i think you know i mean i think he's got a lot on his mind i mean the first eight years when he was president he had a lot of work to do but it was extensive growth now this country needs intensive growth it needs a lot of reform he's aware of that he's even pointed out as the time is as prime minister he realised just how hard it is to run the economy of this country and the reform this country so he learned a lot as prime minister. mr me did which will take up position very very soon a matter of hours and he knows our position very well on how to run the country so i mean this is something the tandem for for what people say actually works in these two men worked very closely together they're not everyone in this country is satisfied with that but let me putin won the election with sixty four percent of the vote and that is a landslide by any standard. he's described as

a tough job before indeed he is he described the big problem mr is a tough job. russia is a very different place today going to was when he was president before and i think he recognizes that i mean in the addresses he's made since the election i think he's profoundly aware of the agenda that he has to pursue it's not going to be an easy six years just to describe. that place there it's called the white house the seat of power that's where it's been for the last four years that's where he's been working of course as prime minister and so very far from the kremlin it's probably two three minute right it's on the peter phone bank and the russian capital. and he's probably going to be in kremlin within twenty minutes and then president or outgoing president visits will be sitting in the white house after letting them put in textiles. i think it's really remarkable how much this country has changed over the last four years and this is a lot of the speculation in western media is mr putin there's a new russia which is mr putin up with the new russia i think he is but he's going

to have to prove it and we have a lot more voices now in politics or lot more different opinions which is all very good i think mr putin is painfully aware of that and when he's going to have to react to it there are more voices to react to that's healthy for a democracy like russia is a very young democracy. a lot of people of course i mean there would be kind of what i enjoy this now we'll talk about it in just a second is an idea champing at the last question where the. president elect is he is now when president putin does take the helm and talk about what's ahead but. what is he proposing i think you know again people are not everyone is going to like it he is a man of stability and reform and it's a slow growing process we have to remember twenty years ago i came to this country this place twenty years ago was a real mess even the biggest critics of mr putin will admit the country has changed for the better but there's so much more that needs to be done and look the western world is in absolute crisis right now what would happen mr sarkozy ok and we have

stability here this is one of the reasons russians voted for vladimir putin they want stability they want a growth but they want more reforms i also used to find the right balance between them ok i'm going to look to the future as well and of course the big the big question is in a way for. export of energy and minerals and. he certainly has a handle on i mean mr putin probably knows more about energy than anyone else in the country and we have the eurozone crisis on one side ok and so forth. so if you were at the moment where i'll go on about there were no where but it was like one of the main avenues in moscow. work archons anywhere in france so. he's on his way to the ground. crowder another man and i have two minutes and then we're going to see this market pass through spassky gate and i'll tell you more about the gate once it passes that was open until

a couple use ago yeah it was it was open during the sars times and everyone could pass through but you couldn't pass through it with a horseback or a hat on it and legend has it that probably and when he was on his force in eight hundred twelve you know i mean it's not a breach that you're ok but it's true because he was in front of the gate and we were told he's famous unicorn hat because he wouldn't take it off. and it's from the new millennium the gates are close for the motor transport and for pedestrians but they open for the presidential nomination but it's a beautiful shot of the president is that what we're looking at the see that's the main square of the kremlin and you have a couple of cathedrals surrounding it some of the cathedrals still have church services where people and pray absolutely and they have is church services and christmas services there special hours just going to do for twelve years but every time it goes against your history it's an absolutely beautiful absolutely when you

look so. good there's a stupid question i'm going to go there all gold plated everything in kremlin is gold plated so that you guys know i don't know how many tons of gold are needed for the brooms but i do know that for the chimes twenty six tons of gold are needed to plate it looks self to just point to people you know the ones i wanted to write just because i just find out how incredible it is like you look at kremlin as a beautiful statue and then you go inside and you meet the people who keep the kremlin showing there's no more sort of finished with. the it's almost like statue comes alive because for them presidents come and go but kremlin is like the sacred part they really take care of a generation from generation to generation and. the world you toss. it's been associated maybe you know people in the west it's maybe had unfriendly terms but what's it like inside the it was you know hard but the place it's very majestic serious it's very majestic it's beautiful very nice place to live in that much i

can tell you. i haven't been everywhere obviously but this whole sort of scene where the integration takes place it's probably and i've been around the world a lot it's probably one of the most beautiful places i've ever been and it's probably as beautiful as if not even the people that work there the people that are responsible for the flags for the for the lighting for keeping those gold. people were very proud and that's one thing for them president is like this is of second importance for them the most important thing is keeping the kremlin clean and save and scratch list and usually most of them that i met the the whole custodians for example they go mother to daughter i mean they know every inch of the room by heart and the history of it and we should. know this is the motorcade. to the credit this is of course played the third time a little bit putin has been through an inauguration ceremony first small in this russia's leader back in the year two thousand views showing pictures of. course it

was sixty years ago but it looks so much younger one of these two pretty good shape i mean in the p.r. people show him to be in very good shape not everyone in the likes the p.r. effect that they have had on the prime minister but he's very very very good health he's got six years ahead of him this time of course and a lot has to be done and i think it's really point out to our viewers here this is the only american here you can actually take a boat on the embankment go up and down you can see three hundred years of history of moscow on the boat and i did that a few weeks ago weekends ago it's absolutely beautiful because the best view iconic shot isn't it you never get tired of it even if you live here all your life and you know and i think that you know he's got to be putin sees a lot of history there. russian history is very tragic a lot of terrible things have happened here he has a lot of on his shoulders again and tried to point out again to the russian people have an enormous amount of confidence in a lot of mere putin not everyone in the country particularly in the city but on the

countrywide basis he is by far the most popular figure in this country and no one even gets close not even the current president he's really had people are expecting extremely tough changes as far as corruption fighting goes to do you believe that's what's going to happen well i think you know this is one of the things that keeps russia and holds russia back i mean we've all lived here and we've all seen the corruption and i can agree with protesters that are against corruption i think western media overrates the protest saying it's anti putin no it's anti a lot of the petty bureaucrats that really hold this country back and we all see them in daily basis and it really is annoying and i'm glad people are going out to protest legally protest not to break the law like we saw yesterday where there's a small number of troublemakers don't want to. destroy this event that we're seeing right now they didn't succeed in doing it of course but reform is the main word of the next six years and at the end to use language putin gets it because if he

doesn't do it he will lose more confidence from the people and he understands that i've said here and r.t. for seven years is that what i mean putin cares what the russian people think now what western countries need right now we've turned the corner the motorcade we were so we were approaching this basket right now will be there in seconds time said just to give you an overview again spassky is the main entrance to cram for the clock above the clock about it and the amazing part also is that i can that's been there since day sixteenth century probably got a closer shot once we make a turn and it disappeared during the soviet era i can disappear joining the soviet era and it only was rediscovered during the record struction like a year ago under a layer of plaster. yeah. religious man actually hit it during soviet times so they wouldn't demolish it completely. so many things were demolished doing ok right there we were in. a very. you're talking about you know

inside the crippler inside the kremlin going to work for the presidential palace how this place looks really different in summer than when i was there in winter yeah it's amazing how quickly the leaves grow if we have it when spring comes it's not much of a spring. understand the you for you we have are not it is not. exactly right know that shortly. will be. receiving a talking to the kremlin coming to the crimean reporting to vladimir putin we're. going to have some more formality. again they're driving up towards a beautiful inside is now so you never know what's going to happen after the inauguration like i said you say that but i thought this was kind of a fixed. ceremony itself is a fixed menu but what the president elected after take an oath it's completely up to because we've seen it with different variations in the last two election cycles

. he is president like a lot of us it was good history being made his decision i think history is being made i mean again when we look at the world around us i mean there's an enormous amount of chaos we have got the arab awakening we have the euro crisis we have a lot of things going on and here is a man that a lot of people in russia the majority two thirds believe he's here to keep this country safe and sound and continue the prosperity that we've seen over the last decade and you. know this is the bit of pomp and ceremony i was talking about. the state. i believe we're hearing in march by very famous question composer. school. so. but a mere putting it is going. to take off because march right now. has

phoned up and you get a four version of this now for a second. and this march is always played one new president comes into the presidential palace to take an oath. this is st george's hall where all the guests are very. very good at see president they meet later we should be give me treated.