putin makes his comeback in the kremlin as he sworn in his head of state. it is now official is that russia's next president with a party in the kremlin has already started. and he's made promises of mass reforms over the next six years but opinions are he did on the streets of moscow as protesters clashed with opposition with the opposition clashed with police just on the eve of this is going to raise more details. also coming up in the program he would rights activist just days before his interview with julian assange is here on r.t. you can watch his explosive show throw the day tomorrow. nicolas sarkozy

falls under the weight of france's mounting deficits this leader how long grabs the presidency spelling change the for the rooms. there one in the afternoon monday afternoon here in moscow this is our team my name is kevin now in our top story as you would have just seen if you've been with us for the last hour or so we've seen putin sworn in as russia's next president in a grand ceremony at the kremlin his third term as the country's leader kicked off for now he'll now hold the post for the next six years of course and taking you through the special event we had people have with us he's our resident political commentator of crosstalk is still here in the studio becoming two in a second but let's cross to our correspondents and this is now way in red square and also election inside the kremlin we saw them as well just start with first

election. it's been a short but grand ceremony as you were telling us just now and as we saw what was it like inside the kremlin walls during it all well just about twenty minutes. well this particular hole where i'm standing right now they go to just go to the city hall was just packed with people when most three thousand guests were here v.i.p.'s from different spheres from scores from from the military from the political elite now they have all have relocated to a different hole inside the kremlin for a glamorous dinner party with some absolutely delicious things on the menu still people applauded when vladimir putin took his oath to become russia's next president for the next six years i believe we have a chance to listen to this speech of oath for it of which was just thirty three words long as rewards shorter than the one of the american president. you know as soon as i fulfill the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizen this to

observe and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of our state each to serve its people faithfully. now as i've mentioned thirty thousand so guess what here during the immigration ceremony one of them was which is lucky kind of stadium a deputy and he's here to talk to me about how the country's about to change with this transition of power now suddenly we see a change of roles now putting us back in the kremlin that it is likely to become the prime minister and move to the government white house. will this change of roles in the tandem be something of a symbolic thing or will we see some political changes that no differently they're not political with us they have different agendas they have different teams and the change is not just retreat my mind or if you will put more emphasis on such issues as human capital development. economic growth.

infrastructure development strengthening russia's might get a different gender was it a little bit different it was more on the borders asian on changes in the political situations. not being who is the greatest similar would if we represent the same team. just in brief what do you think. president xi will be remembered for the last four years of president in bill you will be remembered first as crisis manager. he was the one who was responsible for crisis management during the economic depression. to manage pretty well to the russian kind of it was better off than before the crisis and the people didn't last much and he was crisis management after the war and so to sit here and then the issue between russia and the west. with it is not a figure of the best. he is also very much a figure of the present and the future to morrow he will be inaugurated as the

magician prime minister with new chances of being elected. we have seen some really drastic dramatically changes in russia with a boss six months or so do you think this course of changes politically will will continue with this new president will there will be a lot of political turbulence of course and the new political forces which are registering as political for use like one hundred fifty of them that they will be entering the political stage that will definitely be the russian political scene more compared. to the same time the news of the government should present more results to be more competitive in the next elections. which is a good is pretty ambitious she has i think too. big russia the fifth largest economy. in the six years i think it's possible and also to me question the world the country including the

a normal democratic. right thank you so much this was going to first state duma deputy talking with us here in the kremlin said it would be trying to talk to more guests of the ceremony here and will be coming live as soon as we have more yes information for you absolutely. thanks ever so much this cross now to nissen our she's outside the kremlin taking all in the how as opposed to the next one a large majority to returning to power but it wasn't of course with the support of everyone was that. it was not all and in fact just on the eve of this inauguration we saw an enormous protest really in the center of moscow we also saw appropriate turn rallies but what turned ugly were the opposition rallies i'll give you a little more details about that in a second really though what it comes down to and i think a lot of analysts will agree here is that the main consensus is that either way if putin wants this third term to be a success what he has to do is show he's ready for 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 any data who's been in power for five six seven years in a difficult position because people get used to him and taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself putin has made the promise i had of the poll he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards as the richest of 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 opposition who 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 putin's inauguration. 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 madrid 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 w.t.r. 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 blogs twitter facebook or something putin will have to embrace if he wants to stay in touch yes to participate otherwise you'd be excluded and you'll 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 put him move forward. now just about an hour or so before this inauguration began we did see a small group of protesters gathered just across from us here and yes and i

a square some people were detained but it remained relatively peaceful compared to what we saw on sunday where the mood really is that it's become clear that a couple of people that really provoked the violence have ruined in a sense the reputation of what is so far been a very peaceful and even sometimes festive movement for political change in the country ok and this is your thoughts there from outside the kremlin much appreciated bring back into the conversation people of course of cross talk show peter made the seventh monday may the seventh two thousand and twelve brand new day brand new president but is it a new is it a new putin it's a question it's an evolving thinking he's. seeing changes in the slow sometimes. let me help people you don't see them on speaking device. we. go.

right back to you in the back in business yeah. i see what we have is creating is evolving i mean pointed out you know reports foreign investors have noticed this here russia needs falling gas when you're talking about domestic political changes and more voices are being heard now i mean even happy that russian media there's a lot more critical of the government in policies and even in mr putin himself which is something relatively new it's self-censorship more than anything else but i think it is a evolving putin it's not a new one or an old one but every politician has to keep up with the time speech talked about his five top priorities just go through the first of all continuing positive demographic trends that was a problem a couple years ago has turned a corner but if you talk about demographic changes we have to have jobs you have to have education you have to have infrastructure. have the baby yes i want to follow up and this is a living will you have to deal with security you know we have the situation in the caucuses always there with us unfortunately terrorism is not

a foreign idea here also job creation i mean we have young people going into the marketplace not looking at workers in the traditional sense we're looking at high tech and you need jobs that challenge people and keep people here as well and paid well ok that's something that's going to have to be done economic performance in general brushes it's gone through the economic crisis very well compared to other countries but it's not enough a whole lot more has to be done with the banking system and investment in general former soviet republics not forgot me the well you know it's the neighborhood you know russia has a large neighborhood it's evolving their political situations are very different but you can have trade you can have integration with companies and other issues it's a neighborhood you have to deal with immigration is a big problem as well and it can be a negative problem here as well in this it was talking about the protests just to say about a democratic russia you know people are always going to disagree there are people that love a lot of your putin there are people in russia that hate him ok but what we need is in gauging it we have to talk to each other and i see russians talking to each

other about politics like i've never seen in the entire time i've lived here that's a very positive sign but there's always going to be people who don't like him he has to get used to that of foreign policy peter who is always good allow look after his own national interest that will disagree with the west on issues and will continue to work with them piracy for example with the internet these things bring all of us together but there are some issues the middle east for example the united states and russia are going to disagree with him thinking about syria and thing about libya think about nato missile defense these issues here they're going to be good we can see fireworks of a speak about how you know who is going to tell you doesn't matter who the president of russia is russia's interests stay the same ok and so don't look for a big change ok. thanks ever so much pushing a. political commentator that calls from sort of a. of the cross talk show. but really authorities arrested the country's main human rights activist who's 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 julian assange show here on r.t. with a whistleblower quizzed him and an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states artie's over 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 he 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 critics of the country's ruling family and that's really what makes this next episode. so significant because this is 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 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 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 the 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 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 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 does is democracy that we are fighting for as a cost and we have to be a discourse and of course it might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're willing to believe that all 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 roger too has become a target of the or thora sees the fact that you know sound is speaking to the very

people who are making leave 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 where the revolution failed was really egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. but again as of the web site in four was dot com told us now stands out among other activists in organizations for actually 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 the u.s. or british how why they're more likely to be a legitimate human rights organization and not manipulated one so 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 and kevin i mean this is r t and still ahead this hour guns and votes syria is holding its first parliamentary election in decades after president just said adopt a new constitution but the opposition valve's to boycott the vote calling it

a farce we report. big story overnight francois hollande defeated nicolas sarkozy the french presidential runoff making him then the latest a you needed to be swept aside by that crippling debt crisis among the first steps the president elect is planning is to push back against german led austerity measures already chancellor angela merkel's invited hollande to berlin for talks that these tests are a set of reports 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 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 the economic circumstances of france said again he the first thing he wanted to do is to talk to german chancellor angela merkel to push for this growth or yentl 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 been a 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 in france how long does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency. on the website to go call on the latest from today's presidential inauguration ceremony of course some good stories to haul water around slamming google for leaving the persian gulf this why it's online and why find what could be motivating you to to drive. controversy surrounding giant pictures of starlit placed on public buses in russia. on the eve of victory day well find out why. syria is holding a parliamentary election today amid the shaky cease fire the first such fota decades allows the formation of political factions to compete with the ruling baath party the opposition's already urged to boycott though saying it is president assad's attempt to cling to power rather than a willingness for reform but as

a first reports many in syria say it's the best time for both sides to lay down arms damascus right now is a see if faith is campaign pastis plastering the city for weeks more than seven thousand candidates by public support when one of the two hundred fifty seats available at thirty years old louis 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 the people in this parliament the elections have been criticized not least being held during a period of extreme instability in the country it is really complicated nonsense to arrange voting. on a country. the country kind of people and too many cities and villages and

towns so the donees 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 subadult is continuing strong resistance to the regime has been a declaration of what they want us free army to come here and start the fight again with the government. safety you know maybe maybe maybe any time the army has come in your house and take you. outside. of these houses some people sleep in. amounts 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 of danielle is full you've got a mark of the election campaign pasted in front of. the face of the head you've got the faces of people who died during the conflict one boy just thirteen years old. many lives been lost dave because the conflict in syria is part of the reason many people are now desperate to seal sides lay down their arms a result of this conflict and love away killing does not need does not lead to a solution talking because they. should start i suppose. this will be the opposition's boycott at the election let little rain that discussion here the opposition should have pretty good and should have requested some sort of monitoring monitoring 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 does not persecute which is one of the mistakes of the government does not encourage the opposition lack of consultation on the part of the government and like the to sit patient from the opposition. dented any chance that this they bring about a credible change something everyone in this country does but you know because of the loss of law we are fighting each other not trees were bullets and this is you know. syria. may news of the day vladimir putin has been sworn in as the new president of russia at a grand inauguration ceremony in the kremlin but from a bed of handed power to the new head of state and to go on the constitution thirty one gun salute then great and protests in after the ceremony i'll be back in just about five minutes time with the headlines but i'll leave you with

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