back to the kremlin putin becomes the first russian president to step in for a third. season or. ceremony today. the new leader promises major reforms but opinions are heated on the streets of moscow where there are protests and more details for you to moment. the french president as he promises growth instead of austerity this while nicolas sarkozy under the weight of france's mounting debt. leading schuman rights activist just days before his interview with julian assange is right here. you can watch the controversial program all day on tuesday.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the more sky. a celebration has taken place at the kremlin. has become the first russian president to be sworn in now for a third he's set to stay on for an unprecedented six years as putin took the oath he appealed for unity and reform to carve out a stronger russia what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests join the president for a private banquet are the details now. from our very. who is in the midst of all of . the whole process the whole ceremony just less than an hour of first we saw

live on the huge blossoms. everywhere in the in the in the george st george hole the very beautiful aerial shots of 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 put in arrived he went in walked past us in the u. sand georgia boss two thousand guests be guests who get it they're greeted with a lot of loud evasion and certainly the people who were there they were really happy to see no human being reinstated as russia 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 oath a very short oath only thirty three words. as i fulfill the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of all citizens to observe and protect the constitution of the russian federation

to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of all state to serve its people faithfully as he was leaving in fact that sent george's whole he shook hands with most of the crowd who was standing 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 reshow it's just meters away from the kremlin which is clear symbol that the presidential term of the recording has kicked off in russia the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder we're all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president of russia in the 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 moscow the night wolves was there and he's

called the surgeon a very famous guy and he was the only one not wearing a tie and suit like most of the guests he was wearing a black leather jacket like all bikers do so differently in mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the finished. hall where we stood and george hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this is in a cost about a million dollars so it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there with my insiders from the data 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 when i was going to the kremlin on my way there in the morning it struck me that the. the city is completely deserted only the policemen who are there no traffic no anything the security measures have been certainly unprecedented for integrations in russia but this is not something we should be surprised about in fact the security measures during obama's obama's inauguration

were so serious that took special service almost a year to prepare themselves for for the process and for the ceremony of integration the same basically security measures apply to all the g. eight and g. twenty summits across the world just points is the latest g. twenty summit in france more than ten thousand policemen were securing the particular point five thousand cameras installed and twenty million euros invested into the security at this during this event so the measures security measures the most certainly unprecedented but on the general scale nothing unusual at all. you joining me here in the studio now a western observers are holding their breath they want to see if president putin will deliver on the promises made by his predecessor of course to me treatment of victoria a political analyst from moscow state university of international relations she's optimistic. in terms of their outer world if we talk about foreign policy i think

majority will get kept on there were fears on the part of the experts that for example the w two session wouldn't be approved by pushing 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 putin is very much intending to continue gratian with the western countries because he does one to have them cooperate in terms of innovative technology etc also fully in the previous course he will continue diversifying to the maximum their foreign policy and talking with brics countries and probably this way of trying to balance russia between those two forces the western world and their emerging brics countries and now it has and he looks at what vladimir putin's third presidential term will mean for russia. they usually but not always tends to

be pretty black and white when it comes to what people think of like the mayor putin 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 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 the taken for granted he has to then reinvent himself putin has made the promise ahead of the polls he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards that are still putting this 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 you ration. 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 to point out the most popular politician no doubt has a majority of support across russia and is credited with extraordinary development in the country which my 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 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 that need to 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 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 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 can't move forward.

now what we saw on sunday were pro and anti putin rallies are across the city the biggest one took place on both maya 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 going on to ration days you saw some people gathered throughout the city a hundred and twenty or so arrests were made and this is really a sign that putin has come back to the kremlin in the political life in the country as well as protests are most likely going to continue and burden of course has officially said in his candidacy for jimmy to be made to become prime minister that

is expected to officially go through as a formality on tuesday. in the tsunami that right outside the walls of the kremlin well meantime a. political science professor at the university says that diversifying the economy will be putin's main task in the coming. the russian leadership has realized that the russian economy is still much to wonderful to external shocks we have seen the massive crisis the russian economy had to go through when the financial crisis erupted in united states and escalated globally and is of course is about ability which is the result of the extreme dependency of the russian economy on the export of energy carriers putin still has a broader choice in society that is something that some commentators and the rest sometimes use to forget the team does have the broad support of the majority of the russians but in order to keep up that support it's got to offer those people something in forty actually needs money and the money he gets only if he is able to

diversify the economy to diversify away from the raw materials and commodities in. and of course you can always follow more news on stories by just looking on to our website our home here's a. must go braves to victory day the fourth and final rehearsal of the military parade has taken place right here in the heart of the russian capital a massive celebration will to take place across moscow may. also blow the whistle pay the price learn where reporting misconduct if you serve in the u.s. military. and germany's shift to green energy highly anticipated by some dreaded by others powerful story also on our web site.

with r t it's good to have your company today still ahead for you in this hour of voting amid violence the parliamentary election the first one in decades kicks off in syria with the country's opposition. calling it a sham and that's coming up in just a few minutes here on our. socialist francois hollande has won the french presidential runoff making the latest e.u. leader to be swept aside by the crippling debt crisis and the president elect has promised to fight against the german led the european austerity drive has already spoken to chancellor merkel the first foreign leader will visit with a report from paris. first of all and in his 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 this 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 at 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 talking to us or australia there will be time for more belgian. says that francois hollande has a tough job ahead of him but a lot will depend on his new cabinet. you can at least say that part of the french population i don't dispute. other and we should do not forget that fawlty nine percent of the french people still voted for the incumbent president for sarkozy so it's not exactly a landslide victory for all around let's not forget that i mean we should we should

also take into account how people voted in the first chance i mean almost almost thirty five percent of people food it on the extreme we all do political spectrum extreme left an extreme right so he'll have to do it he'll have to make a very imbalanced exercise for the coming years it has to do also with the personality of both candidates where people tend to vote for a normal guy while sarkozy's character and you know and certain behavior has been reprimanded to bite people you know in politics there's a saying that you are as good as good as the advisors that you choose and so far what they see is he's going in the right way he's choosing people who will do at least for the moment tell that they will deliver on this deliver on his promises and i hear a lot say we always love it when you get involved with the stories we're covering i would love to know what you think about the outcome of the french presidential election just head over to our web site r.t.

dot com there you can participate in our lives our latest web poll here are the numbers for this hour today of course we're asking our what new or what made the french public shift towards a socialist candidate this hour close to half we believe it was france's economic downturn and need for serious reform down to a quarter are blaming it on president sarkozy's perceived our against a few are claiming the public's eagerness to cling to under threat social benefits and a minority believes it was the desire to distance france from the eurozone there is still time for you on the line. authorities in bahrain have arrested the country's most. imminent human rights activist and harsh critic of the state's ruling family. job was detained just days before his appearance on julian assange show here on our see the program airing on tuesday it's where the whistleblower gets an inside job and a fellow egyptian activist all about the uprisings in the arab states with this

report artie's ivan. well the authorities of said is that now bill rand job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he is 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 a 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 thought to be. the last interview before his latest arrest now is considered one of the heroes of the first protests that took place in bahrain last february he's now got over one hundred forty thousand followers on twitter disease the head of the bahraini center for human rights and he's really the driving force behind the mass demonstrations that we're still seeing in the

streets of bahrain despite a government ban on on public protests 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 policeman. machine guns. and they realized that i was not at home didn't they just. 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 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 disses 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 willing to believe that 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 that like right up to is the come a target of your thora sees the fact that even the sound is leaking 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 for the revolution failed was really a gypsy with a revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. and i mean time apart editor of the website info wars dot com believes or not bill that our job differs from other activists for not being afraid to openly criticized bahrain's. mr rajab is significant figure in the human rights movement globally you know bill has been arrested in the past has been detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should come as no surprise now that the

western press is out of the country so there's less of an opportunity for them to to really zero in on sort 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 manipulated ones 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 . it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today as syrians are voting today for a new parliament and the election takes place amid a shaky cease fire between the opposition and the country's ruling regime president assad has tried to ease the crisis hinting at reform but the opposition still remains unconvinced that the support from damascus to with artie's so far. well

there is no election fever head 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 that beta turnout has been high the population and syria around twenty four million forty million people are actually eligible to participate in these parliamentary elections damascus can often head fill a bit like a parallel universe in other cities that are 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 money touring money talking teams in order to. scrutinize the elections and the result sort of elections this does not happen it is one of the

mistakes of the position that they did not pursue peace which is one of the mistakes of the government so that it does not encourage your position against that backdrop really there is a sense that the actual impact of the serious change to serious political landscape won't be hugely affected by these votes but nonetheless they are going ahead and you are seeing very small steps now being taken towards this political reform. all right our straight to greece as we kick off the r.t. world update for you and voters there have protested against the country's major parties by electing far right extremist group golden dawn of parliament the conservative party the new democracy received the most parliamentary seats in sunday's election but was not given enough votes to govern alone party leader anthony some of us has three days to strike a coalition deal if a deal cannot be reached athens will be forced to hold another election in one

month. a senior al qaeda chief. has been killed in an air strike in yemen. it was wanted in connection with the bombing of the u.s.s. cole in two thousand which left seventeen u.s. soldiers dead and the strike was reportedly carried out by the cia under the authorization of the yemeni government officials say militants have killed at least twenty soldiers in revenge for the attacks. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has urged to india to buy less oil from iran comes as america increases its pressure on terror on over its nuclear program which john insists is only for peaceful purposes india receives around nine percent of its oil from iran though officials say it's reduced its dependency in recent months could face u.s. sanctions if it doesn't make significant cuts to iranian fuel imports.

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