oh and thanks for joining our tea where we bring you the latest news from around the world twenty four hours seven days a week a very lavish celebration has taken place at the kremlin where a portent has become the first russian president to be sworn in for a third term is now set to stay on for an unprecedented six years as putin took the oath he appealed for unity and reform to forge a stronger russia what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests later join the president at a private banquet here are the details of the inauguration from our very own aleksey at a ship ski who was in the middle of it all. 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 uprooting the motorcade traveling from the government building from the white house to the kremlin so it is something unprecedented and normal too for the

way this integration has been televised in russia so far then putting arrived he went in walked past us in the use and georgia's old boss the thousand odd guests be ab guests who give it they're greeted with a lot of the load of a should and certainly the people who were there they 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 old integration was to take place took the old 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 our citizens. protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of all state to serve its people faithfully ascii was leaving in fact it's in george's hall he shook hands with most of the crowd who were

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 reach shots 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 for 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 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 moscow the night waltz was there he scored a 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 integration finished. the hall where we stood and george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this is going to cost about a million dollars it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insiders from the dealer 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 this. it is completely deserted only the policemen who are there no traffic know anything the security measures have been certainly unprecedented for integrations in russia but this is not something we should be surprised about i remember these scenes from the united states for years back when obama was present 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 in the united states there were helicopters and even fighter jets hovering about washington d.c. to provide security in fact the security measures during obama's obama's inauguration were so serious that special service almost a year to prepare themselves for the process over 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 and five thousand cameras installed and twenty million euros invested into the security at this during this event so the measures security measures moscow are certainly unprecedented but on the general scale nothing unusual at all now straight after his inauguration president putin signed on to force some of his promised reforms a new decree is designed to make the government apparatus more effective and transparent artist peter oliver has more. putin has hit the ground running in his

as president of the russian federation he's signed strategic orders this will hopefully see the improvements to the services provided by both federal and local government now one of these is that there will be a maximum waiting time of fifteen minutes for anybody going to a government office be something of being put in place following what had been complaints about the length of time in the length of queues that people have to wait in we're also going to see the internet used in order to make the government more transparent this was something that was put into place by. in his time as president and it seems that vladimir putin wants to take that further in terms of the bureaucrats in the government wants to increase their qualifications and also to root out anybody who may not be really doing the job that they're there to do

and remove them from their positions now bureaucrats will also have to reveal all of their income and attempt to stamp out corruption in l. levels of government who also came to see a system developed that will allow people to give feedback to the police and security services so anybody with any complaints about law enforcement can go to the online forum and put forward their grievances no we're also going to see the legal system in russia made more accessible now this is going to be made more accessible both physically and in the online medium we're going to see web cams put into courtrooms so that the trials can be to be streamed over the internet. has been launched into the events of sunday night's riots here in moscow several of the police officers there were injured during that right still remain in the

hospital now the. the police have said that they were under orders not to respond to provocations but they only moved in once they realized that the the projectiles bottles rocks and the like they were being thrown and towards them were actually also heading towards passes by we saw food the protests further demonstrations on monday on the day of the inauguration around three hundred people have been detained in various sites across the city and the opposition leaders have said that they will continue holding means type of demonstrations in plan to do that throughout choose day well let me have putin and no grated as president for the stood time the expectations that will be on him and what people expect to achieve to achieve over the over the six years of this to as now looked us by my colleague and he said no way. 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 the 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 that we should still insist that 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. 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 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 analyst

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 blogs 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 putin move forward this time he'll have six years to try to deliver on reforms and change which could make or break prudence presidency and he's now r.t. moscow. and just

a few hours. as into his role as president vladimir putin wasted no time in putting his skates on but this time he swapped the political arena for the hockey rink where the leader took to the ice he took up the stick to slug it out in the friendly match between his team of so-called amateur players and the legends of the sport here in russia but experience failed to hold the putin team back as the president first scored during normal time and then netted the winning park in a penalty shoot out the final score six five all in a day's work for the leader. socialist francois hollande has won the french presidential runoff making nicolas or cozy 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 of this at parties just are silly reports from paris. tressel 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 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 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 yen to 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 to 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 for so long does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency author and journalist barry lando says the new president elect francoise hollande is on the back foot with huge challenges in both fronts in the new. if you look at the scene from the bus to you last night on your television and you saw the red flags and even the hammer and sickle people cheering in the place feel you would think it was the the french revolution all over again but that's not all it is about it's a much more moderate kind of guy a much more of

a social democrat he's talking about balancing the budget in five years how he's going to deal with france's enormous economic problems is still a mystery to many the back foot not just as far as germany is concerned but as far as the conditions in france too i mean the economy here has been hollowed out over the last few years the. crisis of the worst place of work in france is among the highest in europe and it's gone up tremendously psycho's he is only one live and heads of state who have been voted out of office over the last four years since the crisis that he would be more of a miracle if he had won and stayed in place so it's more a vote on the economic situation so he's looking only partially responsible for whether or not is going to be doing able to take care of the crisis is another question authorities involved crane have arrested the country's most prominent

human rights activist and harsh critic of the state's rolling family now feel her job was detained just days before his appearance on chilliness show here on our team and the program which will air on tuesday the whistleblower gets insights from him and a fellow egyptian activist and to the uprisings and the arab states has ever been at 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 it 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 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 is what i said in my twitter account that i'm going to meet julian assange and i'm going to. give you program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policeman . machine guns in india realizing i was not at home didn't do you just to. you to tell me to come to depose prosecutors today at four o'clock where i am beautiful so the very day that he was summoned by the public prosecutor's office in bahrain he actually chose instead to appear on talk show and and appear r.t.

using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason the 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 no different. but this is the struggle this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as a cost and we have to build a course and because it might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're willing to bid for the changes that we are fighting for now one of the other gets this we can do now is another prominent activists in the in the arab spring his name is our fact 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 to use the fact that you know sound is leaking 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 being so now eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain for the revolution for old ones of egypt where the revolution is though in turmoil for makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. right it's nineteen minutes past the hour and polling stations have now closed in syria where people have been voting for a new parliament the election took place amid a shaky cease fire between opposition and the country's ruling regime artists are

for a trip or trying to mask. there's a really serious key step in president assad's political reforms it comes three months after you had the constitutional reform that was meant to create the formation of new political parties you know there are steps being taken here there is definitely movement towards more freedom of expression more freedom of the political movements and the variations of the parties the problem is that with this you have the opposition dismissing it they boycotted the vote oh together actually that's really dented the credibility of the vote and called into question just how democratic these elections were going to be without the participation of these different elements in fact some people actually criticizing the opposition groups for making that decision saying there really this could have been an opportunity to maybe push for change and so really choosing to distance themselves might have been a missed opportunity to. have first disappeared to try to have requested some sort

of when you when you're talking to teams in order to. scrutinize the dixons and that is of sort of addictions this is not. it is one of the mistakes of the position that it does not prove disapproved which is one of them is to go with the position. lack of participation of course really has called into sharp focus just how much change these parliamentary elections are going to be able to bring about to serious political landscape least of course because of the continuing conflict in the country except we talked to dmitri medvedev see sums up the konami cheeseman so over the past four years in the country the interview took place shortly before monday's inauguration.

to me that means it is leaving the kremlin. back at the top what does this mean for russia and its global partners well joining me to discuss that is our carded our core rich presidential aide to dmitri mediator for his full term in office very much thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with the economy both. have stated that there are a lot of problems obviously on the global economy to meet their needs rated in fact he said that he believes that it's already in depression do you share this pessimism on the global economy. right now and europe in

recession american growth rates great all global growth rates very close to what we can call the recession also or depression. insufficient for sustainable development and sufficient for this illusion of global social and development issues and russia the part of the world is an open economy is also on their stress force so the russian economy still growing could do some three to four percent per annum and it is your son to experience old idea in fighting crisis and fighting assertion you know what to do because this instruments approach issues that we face you for global depression will really start you sound quite optimistic about russia the capability of being to deal with any further challenges what do you think the main challenges for it will be the main challenge is to continue

diversification in modernization of the russian. i mean. you have put in the mid video believes that. modernization of the russian economy is a must. have to do it otherwise russian economy will be. not very compatible in the global environment other countries will be in competition and this challenge is. under stress given unstable demographic station we were able to achieve our goal to stabilize relations last year we need to continue. the same pace the same policies also we'll have to reform health sector education sector. pension system and finally compete ition and protection for property rights creating a comfortable investment climate well russia do you think under vladimir putin be capable of keeping inflation at four percent. that's what it is now you mentioned

this pretty made a lot of promises during this campaign will you be able to keep that four percent all promises that were put in. made as a candidate for the presidency. our feet the target the budget deficit will be cut down the control russian that level is very low so we believe that inflation will not be. put on the danger still russia was very heavily on oil and gas exports obviously does that mean that president medvedev modernization plan has failed at least to diversify the economy during the last four years. growth rates. we more interest in the industry is not related to or the income went after so. start that. nobody can argue against against that but oil prices. global market. hi and this is why

the share the nominal share of oil. is still very high. but what is really important is that more and more people more and more resources are being directed to two different sectors experience good growth rates in agriculture in logistics in the financial sector in high tech industries car industry recovered from the crisis in the ocean car market to know the biggest in europe and with the musicians start didn't fail and threaten. to continue this process need to focus on those things that we. in the past to continue the same policies and structures in a priority sector so the question becomes do you think those policies will continue under putin and if yes sir now how would you suggest businesses maybe prepare to

keep going or will continue to under president. bush and he all initiatives all the strategy has been discussed with him here you proved all the things the government was key vehicle to implement all the initiatives and put forward by the media what about corruption putin has called corruption the main plague of the russian economy made it has talked about this for years businesses. and certainly people we've been talking to experts are looking forward to some kind of fight against corruption but there's been a lot of statements about it not just statements corruption is clearly systemic current problem in the russian and first time in the russian history. today. you just fight corruption was created. first time and again. to fight corruption and to start using just

a just place and more and more people are punished and more people are put in prison because of the corruption the guilty and more and more being done to create. the corruption. and to. fight corruption that accorded their courts thank you very much. more news today. these are the images.

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oh and thanks for joining our team at half past the hour i'm karen taraji and these are your headlines it's back to the kremlin and blood the medal boards and becomes the first russian president to step in for a third term as he's inaugurated during a lavish ceremony he's set to leave the country for an unprecedented sixty years promising to make russia stronger and more united. francois hollande wins the french presidency as he promises growth stead of austerity. posey falls under the weight of france's mounting debt and that's straight to business for long as he plans to fight against german led austerity measures for europe.