back to the kremlin lot of me putin becomes the first russian president to step in for a third. season during a ceremony today. the new leader promises major reforms but opinions are needed on the streets of moscow where there are protests and style and more details for you in just a moment. francois hollande wins of the french presidency as he promises growth instead of austerity while nicolas sarkozy falls under the weight of france's mounting debt. leaving human rights activists just days before his interview with julian assange is right here on r.t.

you can watch the controversial program all day on trust. it is good to have you with us here today on r.t. i'm sure live in moscow a lavish celebration has taken place at the kremlin. has become the first russian president to be sworn in for a third time is now set to stay on for an unprecedented six years as putin it took the oath he appealed for unity and reform to carve out a stronger russia and what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests joined the president at a private party to enjoy some fine cuisine and champagne let's get the details of the inauguration from our very. own who was in the midst of all of it and certainly

you were enjoying it among all of those in attendance if you will take us deep behind the walls of the kremlin what was it like the first time i've ever witnessed the integration of the russian president firsthand and we arrived at about ten o'clock am moscow time waited for a little. less than two hours before the the whole inauguration process commenced and i was surprised that the whole process the whole ceremony took just less than an hour first we saw live on the huge blossom screens everywhere in the in the in the george st george hall the very beautiful aerial shots of opponents the motorcade traveling from the government building from the white house to the kremlin certainly something unprecedented and novelty for the way this integration has been televised in russia so far then. apart from that and to the kremlin walls he greeted the kremlin regiment the presidential special regiment then put in arrived he went in walked past us in the sand georges hall boss the thousand odd guests be guests who gave it their greeted with

a lot of loud evasion and certainly the people who were there were really happy to see him and put in being reinstated as russia's present for the third term now. then he calmly and collectedly where it went into the main hall where the whole integration was to take place took the old a very short oath only thirty three words very important words those were and this speech in fact is just three words shorter than that of the american president will do we can listen to what that sounded like. as i fulfill the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of our citizens to observe and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of our state to serve its people faithfully . you can see how the new russian president was calm and collected and passionate

some way of pronouncing his oath did if at some cases look a little sad and maybe even nervous with easy to understand it's the third time putin has been doing this inauguration and certainly knows what he's doing then he took the actually use of presidential power from the hands of meditative which is certainly the big and beautiful presidential medal made of gold encrusted with rubies and then after he left as he was leaving in fact the whole he shook hands with most of the crowd who were standing up on the first line loud of ation again people very happy for him then we heard from the open windows of the of the old to reach shots just meters away from the kremlin which is clear symbol that the presidential term of the middleton has kicked off in russia or certainly as you were describing a very loving ceremony or certainly was the first one this morning calling it describing it as pomp and circumstance upwards of three thousand in attendance for the inauguration you being one of them certainly though there were some big names

in attendance definitely from all spheres you can think i'm from politics from village and from the military from sports you know the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like for me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well as far as one is that arnold schwarzenegger the former governor of california who was also there reported to be there i never saw him but it was believed that he was there also the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the year and even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting that even the leader of the biggest biker back in the mosque or the night waltz was there and he called the surgeon a very famous guy and he was the only one not wearing tie in the suit like most of the guests he was wearing black leather jacket like all bikers do so different. the a mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the inauguration finished. the hall

where we stood george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this dinner cost about a million dollars it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dinner told me that there were black caviar on the menu fried scallops even. a couple chino made of cocoa milk was there along with expensive champagne wine and definitely was a big party to remember but now certainly the party is over and a lot of work is ahead of you president elect as you were sitting there in st george's hall in the kremlin watching the events unfold you mentioned that you were watching these large plastic screens so you and i both saw the helicopter footage showing moscow moscow which is generally renowned for bad traffic too many cars on the road but it was deserted for the presidential motorcade how did they pull that off the rails all the years i've lived in moscow or have never seen moscow so empty in central moscow so empty i mean when i was going to the kremlin on my way there

in the morning it struck me that the city is completely deserted only the policemen were there no traffic no anything this acuity measures have been certainly unprecedented for inaugurations in russia but this is not something we should be surprised about i mean integration certainly is a very important event it should be very well protected i remember these scenes from the united states four years back when obama president obama was inaugurated in washington and as many as sixty five thousand policemen servicemen military were ensuring the safety in moscow there were only twenty thousand so it's almost three times as less than that in the united states also i remember in the united states there were helicopters and even fighter jets hovering about washington d.c. to provide security so definitely security measures in moscow are not something unusual untypical but definitely for russia they have been and president also here the word is unprecedented as a lot of my put in no man's the helm for his third term a term of six years now the president of russia. going to ask you thank you. well

that was a take from inside the kremlin but for now it's easily said no way from outside the gates of the kremlin looking into some of the public expectations for vladimir putin's third presidential term usually but not always tends to be pretty black and white when it comes to what people think of it and that was very evident on the streets of moscow just on the eve of his inauguration one thing most people do agree on is if he wants this third term to be a success bruited is going to have to make some changes. he's back for an unprecedented third term after a break as prime minister and many say russia will need to see putin two point zero any leader 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 ahead of the poll he proposed

a vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards which is the. 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 you know your ration. means 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 know is that it's just it's a person it's a personality thing in the west he's seen as harsher than me especially on foreign policy which could prove to be a challenge on issues like the reset with the u.s. and pushes for intervention in the middle east but on the economic front analysts. have already sense to change at least three key issues to entry profit isolation 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 twitter facebook or something putin will have to embrace if he wants to

stay in touch you have to participate otherwise you'd be excluded and you would have the other russia which talks its own language and the president will talk his language leaving the question now that he's back and putin move forward. now what we saw on sunday were pro and anti putin rallies across the city the biggest one took place on both my a square and it did turn violent it should be said that this is been quite peaceful if not sometimes festive movement that began in december after claims of doom of fraud it lost a little bit of steam leading up to yesterday's protests but what a lot of people say is that this peaceful movement or at least what has been pretty much ruined by a couple of provocations very violent complications from some of the more radical opposition leaders and even on today day we saw some people gather throughout the

city one hundred twenty or so arrests were made and this is really a sign that putin has come back to the kremlin and the political life in the country as well as protests are most likely going to continue and gordon of course has officially said in his candidacy for jimmy to be made to become prime minister it's expected to officially go through as a formality on tuesday. arsenal let's get some more insight on this our from victoria a political analyst from moscow state university of international relations good to see you today the moscow police they detained around one hundred twenty people earlier today for illegal rallies in moscow protesting of course putin's return we did see tens of thousands turning out to protest in recent months but they were peaceful why did events suddenly turn violent on the eve of you know gratian do you think. i would say i would actually divide this problem into two parts because obviously there are people that do doughty agree with their politics that

their with their cores that putin is pursuing is always going to pursue you and that can be unhappy with him or with their elections as such read but i think i can tell you who actually led the provocations but the purpose of those and arrests and . rush harsh reactions on the part of the trout and then reaction of their police as that in return could be to demonstrate kind of to. demonstrate. actions counter to his words because he just said about talking about people's rights and preserving people's freedoms and then suddenly this way it could be. pretended or shown as a crackdown on people's freedom so i guess there was there could be an intention on their part of the opposition. part of it to kind of show the discrepancies between

what he says and what he does at the very least in also to not to make it so bright and so glamorous on the day of his first. day in office back in office less address that some of the issues are certainly on the palate of the outgoing president certainly on the incoming president now president putin former president medvedev place play. of emphasis on modernizing the country but now we're back to president putin can we expect him to follow up on the promises of movie after you think. i think as we saw at the very. last months of me david if presidencies some of those. steps were already taken back track like for example time zones or some internal like oh to my stories etc but in terms of their outer world if we talk about foreign policy i think majority will get kept on there were a few years on the part of the experts that for example the w two session wouldn't

be approved by putting but we saw from his article end of february that he actually thinks it's a big step forward and he will support this so this is a good sign and i think putting is very much intending to continue could gratian with the western countries because he does one to have them great in terms of innovative technology etc but together with also fully in the previous course he will continue diversifying to the maximum their foreign policy and talking with breaks countries and probably this way of trying to balance russia between those two forces the western world and their emerging brics countries to honest i'm not i do forgive me we're running very low on time here on r.t. but i do want to ask you one more question looking back on putin's own twelve years in power so far what does he deserve credit for most and where could he take russia

over the next six years tough question. i would say the biggest credit was what was his slogan was about it was still is ation because people was so tired of their fields and years of rest and certainty. poverty and so this was of course thanks to the economic conjuncture oil prices. country came out but managed to stabilize their political situation in the country and i think that's what he deserves credit for mostly and i hope that. he will actually debate from this course more and we'll. more center on innovation what it was talking about and fighting but not as much in fighting for and expanding their military capability of the country but more focusing on its internal development on economics and the social. social development.

those are the biggest challenges and certainly they are in fact mr president touched down on that also saying that the next few years will define the next several decades of russia's future political analyst from of the moscow state university of international relations thank you for coming on our street. where you can always follow us here at our more news and stories. website r t v dot com here's what's waiting for you there right now moscow braced for a victory day for the fourth and final rehearsal of the military parade has taken place in the heart of the russian capital a massive celebrations show will take place across moscow on may ninth. also blow the whistle pay the price learn where reporting misconduct could land you if you serve in the u.s. military. in germany to shift to green energy highly anticipated by

dreaded by others that full story. it's good to have you with us here on our to today socialist francois hollande has won the presidential election the french presidential runoff making nicolas sarkozy the latest e.u. leader to be swept aside by the crippling debt crisis the president elect has promised to fight against the german led european austerity drive and has already spoken to chancellor angela merkel the first foreign leader or learned will visit from paris with this report tester awsome. creswell and it is acceptance speech yesterday did talk a lot about unity which is 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 criticizing cycles is 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 city economic circumstances of france said 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 have and 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 in france hold on does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency. reporting right that's a get some more now on the french election. from the national front party who. live in brussels thanks for coming out here today let's cut to the chase here why do you think sarkozy lost this presidential election. because he did not respect he would stand before five years ago or even ten years ago when you as minister of interior and then president of the republic he lied to his constituency and this is where he's been punished. now for the first time though in seventeen years france's chosen a socialist candidate made dire economic debt problems for france does all land represent a fresh positive new start for france. we do not believe this because the

socialist party had been in power before the party of mr sarkozy they believe almost all the same policies now today is that he wants to challenge the european treaties marco and other of his friends in europe will probably tell him that it's not possible so it would be quite a difficult challenge for him and we believe that the problem material actions will be very important actually if you want to real change now i did i did hear as you imagine a moment ago that francois hollande saying that one of the first things he's going to do is go off to germany and try and cut back on what he called these are these germany administered austerity measures on the eurozone and then our store statement from the german government saying he cannot do that he's powerless to make changes why is that. absolutely completely paralysed because the rules of the european treaties like for treaty of stability mechanism for stability means that the rules make it quite impossible for him to do this by himself he will have to

ask his friends in europe to be helping him on this issue where i don't think he will be agreeing with this so you're saying that he needs to go to his friends in europe for any support on this issue of are going against austerity measures but you are in brussels does he have any friends in europe. yes well. many friends now in europe and this will be growing until the next european elections because we want to challenge this for the realistic way the european union has been constructed since since the masters treaty and you want to build a more europe of nations and corporations we mean is that we have to deal against austerity measures which are the only agenda that these people here in brussels have you mentioned the whole issue of austerity measures and certainly an overwhelming issue among voters and among leaders as well hollande the land has promised growth but how will an austerity pact and the growth pact work together.

this is just words using used all together in the same put in the same bag too good it's impossible it's impossible we have to break through the system get out of the circle this vicious circle or we continue with austerity measures and then we're going to fish like like greece this is what's going to happen and soon maybe spain fortunately this is the scene means we have to challenge the financial markets we have to challenge bring in new deal about finances in europe maybe around the world let's let's broaden our scope here in and changing turning away from regional issues let's talk about global issues what about all lands relationship with the u.s. so he wants to renegotiate the financial arrangement a move that might hurt the dollar he also wants french troops out of afghanistan by the end of the year how's that going to influence what should be cozy relationship with barack obama. well we've heard that. sent his

greetings last night when he didn't want to meet him when he was presidential candidate so actually yes they have to do with him on international wars globalise wars as we say it's not going to be easy but yes he wants to really take the troops out of afghanistan as we wanted to do that i mean left or right in france most of the time trying to copycat what nine look and was trying to do so we will see if you succeeded with his partners around the world all right a little bit good from the national front party many thanks for coming on our to you today thank you. all right as we continue to come to you live from moscow bahrain or thora to use of a rest of the country's most prominent human rights activist stand harsh critic of the state's ruling family now bill and a job was detained just days before his appearance on julian assange show right here on our c in the program which airs on choose day there was

a blow or gets an insight from him and a fellow egyptian activist into the uprisings in the arab states with this report artie's arpanet. well there for a teaser said is that now bill run job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in a legal demonstrations and 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. 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 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 that june as stanage 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 the struggle this is the freedom this is democracy that we are fighting for as of course and we have to bid of course and of course might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're going to be all 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 but like roger he too has become a target of the or thora sees the fact that julian assange is speaking to the very people who are making these 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 it's being so now eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed was a leadership where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. it's good to have you with us here in our to you today now syrians are voting today for a new parliament the election takes place simulation the ceasefire between the opposition and the country's ruling regime president assad is trying to ease the crisis hinting at reform but the opposition appears to remain unconvinced from damascus with this report are to surface. well there is no election fever here by any

stretch of the imagination that being said there has been a steady stream of people here in damascus since the polls they pinned at seven am this morning and our state t.v. is already reporting the data turnout has been high the population and syria around twenty four million fourteen million people are actually eligible to participate in these parliamentary elections damascus can often hit fill a bit like a parallel universe in other cities that have seen fierce fighting and indeed very close to damascus and some of the suburbs is a very different story the opposition have boycotted the vote altogether they've called it a shot the opposition should have participated and should have requested some sort of when you're talking when you talking teams in order to. scrutinize the dixons and the result sort of elections this does not happen it is going on.