a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. a celebration has taken place at the kremlin have lot of putin has become the first russian president to respond in now for a third term he said to stay on for an unprecedented six years as putin took the oath he appealed for unity and reform to carve out a strong russia what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests join the president for a private banquet are the details now all of the inauguration from our very own chef he who is in the midst of all of that. the whole process the whole ceremony took just less than an hour of first we saw live on the huge plaza screens everywhere in the in the in the george and george hall 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 send george foster thousand guests to guess we have it there greeted with a lot of loud evasion and certainly the people who were there were really happy to see no human 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 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 our 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 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 dominican 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 inauguration finished. in the hall where we stood and george hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this is going to cost about a million dollars so 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 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 just have been certainly. 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 or 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 our 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 political analyst from moscow state university of international relations she is 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 session wouldn't be approved by within but we

saw from his article end of february that she actually thinks it's a big step forward and he will support this so this is a good sign and i think he 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 but 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. and he looks at what vladimir putin's third presidential term will mean for russia. 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 putin 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 polls he proposed vast reforms from a major crackdown on corruption to diversifying the economy and raising living standards to this it'll be 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 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 by 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. but 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 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 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 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 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 the racing day you saw some people gathered throughout the city a hundred and twenty or so arrests were made and this is really a fire 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 dmitri medvedev to become prime minister that is expected to officially go through as a formality on tuesday. after using the tsunami there right outside the walls of

the kremlin well meantime a hard mango political science professor at the university of innsbruck says that or diversifying the economy will be putin's main task in the coming to 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 this of course is about ability which is the result of the extreme dependency of the russian economy on the exploits energy carriers putin still has a broader choice in society that is something that some commentators in the rest sometimes use to forget the team does have the broad support of the maturity 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 gets only if he is able to diversify the economy to diversify away from there on with us and commodities in.

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it's good to have your company today still ahead for you in this hour of voting amid. a parliamentary election the first one in decades kicks off with the country's opposition. calling it a sham and that's coming up in just a few minutes. 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 european austerity drive has already spoken to chancellor merkel the first foreign leader will visit with a report from power. 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 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 the economic circumstances of trad 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 had 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 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. 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 are desperate. other hand 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 on the extreme we will do political spectrum extreme left an extreme right so he'll have to do it he'll have to make a very balanced exercise for the coming years he 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 advisers 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 live latest where poll here the numbers for this our survey 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 guns are fewer claimants the public's eagerness to playing under threat social benefits and a minority believes that with the desire to distance france from the euro zone there are still time for you online. authorities in bahrain have a rest of 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 were not 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 all cs i've been at. well the authorities of said is that now bill rajab is

being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in illegal demonstrations and it should be remembered though that now he'll run jobs position has landed him in a number of made him 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 step so to do enough time to show so significant because this is thought to be. last interview before his latest arrest now is considered one of the heroes of the first protests that took place in bahrain last february he's now got over one hundred forty thousand followers on twitter disease the head of the bahraini center for human rights and he's really the driving force behind the mass demonstrations that we're still seeing in the streets of bahrain despite a government ban on on public protests there since it became known that he was

appearing on sanjay and that's that's what he elaborates on in this next episode and what 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 i did realize that i was not at home didn't do you 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 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 a jew now standage 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. but this is the struggle this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as of course. we have to be a discourse and of course it might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're willing to bid for the changes that we're fighting for now one of the other guests this week on a do not show is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our abdel fattah he was a he was a highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square that like right up to has become a target of your thora tease of the fact that julian assange is seeking 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 be 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 of egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil for 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 it not bill that our job differs from other activists for not being afraid to openly criticize bahrain's. mr rajab is significant figure in the human rights movement globally no bill has been arrested in the past has been detained has been beaten possibly tortured so this should come as no surprise now with the western press is out of the country so there's less of an opportunity for them to to really zero in on some of the human rights abuses that the bahraini government has become

very well known for you can also tell illegitimate 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 one so mr rajoy because i believe he's got his finger on the pulse of genuine human rights situation in bahrain when you're criticizing a u.s. ally like bahrain if you're in the press you're not going to be given the air time . it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today as syrians are voting today for a new parliament of 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 of the support from damascus to with artie's south. 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 at the scene of fierce fighting and indeed very close to damascus and some of the suburbs is a very different story the opposition have boycotted the vote together they've called it a shot the opposition should have first disappeared troops have requested some sort of money talking when you're talking to teams in order to. scrutinize the dixons and that is a sort of elections this does not happen it is one of the mistakes of the position that you did not purchase a piece which is one of the mistakes of the government 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 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 a party leader 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 at 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 india to buy less oil from iran comes as america increases its pressure on terror ran over its nuclear program which 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. all right back in just a couple of minutes well in about three and a half minutes with a recap of today's top stories. please

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don't come. from moscow this is all it's a good just in time for the headlines now back to the kremlin a lot of it putin becomes the first russian president to step in for a good he was. today during a ceremony he said to leave the country for an unprecedented six years promising to make russia stronger and more unite. wins the french presidency growth. falls under the weight of france's mounting debt and straight to business. arrested leading.