oh and thanks for joining r t with me karen taraji a lavish celebration has indeed taken place at the kremlin where vladimir putin has become the first russian president to be sworn in for a third term he's 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 in what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests later join the president at a profit banquet here are the details of the in our nation from our very own alexei had a chef ski 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 blossom 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 certainly something unprecedented and normal too for the way this

integration has been televised in russia so far then put on arrived he went in walked past in the use and georgia's old boss the thousand odd guests be a.b. guess who gave 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 to protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of all state to serve its people faithfully asked he was leaving in fact it was in george's hall 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 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 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 moscow the night waltz 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. hole where we stood george's hole was empty

because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate at 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 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 four 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 took special service almost a year to prepare themselves for for the process or for the ceremony of integration the same basically the 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 the moscow was certainly unprecedented but on the general scale nothing unusual at all now straight after his inauguration president signed to for some of his promise reforms and your decree is designed to make the government apparatus more effective and transparent artie's peter oliver has more. generally to improve

the services that the federal and local governments now we're going to see waiting times in government offices to a home of fifteen minutes per person for anybody having to wait in queues there are also going to see the internet's being used to increase the transparency of the russian government now this is something that was started by dimitri made get of this is going to be continued by vladimir putin and his. russian president now also saying that he will raise the education of russia's bureaucrats and will root out any bureaucrats that to do the jobs that they're doing same bureaucrats will also have to declare all of their incomes in an attempt to stamp out corruption in the country also we're going to see a system developed that will allow online feedback to be given to the police and security services so that anybody who has

a particular grievance with law enforcement can voice their opinions in that forum in terms of the legal system in general what we are going to be seeing is made more accessible both physically and online we're going to be seeing web cams in court rooms that will broadcast the proceedings from their investigation has been launched into what happened during sunday's riots in moscow that saw many people several people injured several of the police officers that will wounded in the clashes with protesters on sunday still remain in the hospital the authorities say that they were under orders not to react to provocations and that they only moved in the right place only moved in once they realized that bystanders were actually in the line of fire. people to taint here in moscow on inauguration day so despite coming back into power there still has been a few. let me put this day in the sun on his inauguration however as my colleague

in me said no way looks we can see what he hopes to achieve in the next term. 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 i had of the poll he proposed 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 inauguration. he needs to set out for reform and not a reform on paper but something real something that both the opposition and you know the regular people not just in moscow but all throughout russia can see that this is really putin two point zero the most popular politician no doubt has a majority of support across russia and is credited with extraordinary development in the country but putin leaves few people in different at home and abroad it usually comes down to love or hate but i don't think that everything that putin has done is defensible or by a by a very wide stretch but there are some people who argue in such transparent bad faith that it's you know it's impossible not to notice that it's just it's a person it's a personality thing in the west he's seen a. it's harsher than especially on foreign policy which could prove to be

a challenge on issues like the reset with the us 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 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 blocs 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 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 there now r.t. moscow. then you can log on to our website to see how just a few hours after his inauguration the newest foreign and president jumps from the political arena into the skating rink. couldn't scored first a during regular time and then again for the winning penalty and a friendly match between his team of amateurs against hockey legends the final score of six five with goodwin steam coming out on top. of that moscow braces itself for a victory day log on to our team dot com for a sneak peek at the last grand rehearsal and the very heart of russia. socialist francois hollande has won 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 all around will visit artists are silly reports from paris. press or law 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 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 yes 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 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 and bill 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 francois hollande is only found with huge challenges in both france and the e.u. . if you looked at the scene from the bus to us night on your television and you

saw the red flags and even the hammer and sickle people cheering in the place you know you would think it was that the french revolution all over again but that's not all that all of this 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 bases on 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. price of the workers place of work in france is among the highest in europe and it's gone up tremendously and sarkozy is only one of the live and heads of state who have been voted out of office over the last four years since the crisis that really would be more of a miracle if he had won and. so it's clear it's more a vote on the economic situation so he is really only partially responsible for

whether or no one is going to be doing it will take care of the crisis is another question right it's fifteen minutes past the hour and authorities in bahrain have arrested the country's most prominent human rights activist and harsh critic of the state's ruling family now believe our job was detained just days before his appearance on julian assange should show here on our team and the program which airs on tuesday that whistleblower gets insights from him and a fellow egyptian activist into the uprisings and the arab states archies over bennett reports well the authorities have said is that not be able rajab is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of in some one thing and taking part in a legal demonstrations 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 column 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 did i do realize that i was not at home didn't do you just to. you to tell me

to come to deposit 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 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 is what he had to say. but this is destroying this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as a cause and we have to be a discourse in the course might be very expensive as we have been. cause i'm. willing to pay for the changes that we're fighting for now one of the other guests

this week going to do now is another prominent activist in the arab spring his name is our fact he was 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 your thirty's the fact that to the sounds you 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 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 who egypt for the revolution is no into them or old or makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. u.s.

secretary of state hillary clinton has urged india to buy less oil from iran delhi could be facing u.s. sanctions if it doesn't make significant cuts to fuel imports as america aims to increase its pressure on iran over its nuclear program fellow geopolitics at the top. institute neil called says india stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes to the threat of sanctions. india as india has become along with china one of the largest investors in energy sector and one of its largest importers of crude oil india sort of been facing a dilemma because on one hand it depends on iran not only for energy and other trade but also for strategic access to central asia and for other strategic. so on one hand it can't entirely dump or drop drop iran also for. a fear that if it drops iran beijing and china would would pick up the pieces especially on preferential

financial terms but at the same time it can't entirely reject. the united states as position because of course india is is america's sort of burgeoning strategic ally they have tremendous amounts of trade they share strategic interests elsewhere in the world. time now so for some more of the world's news afghan president hamid karzai has threatened to freeze the strategic partnership agreement he signed with barack obama last week if nato doesn't stop killing civilians this comes after an airstrike by the coalition on monday which killed fourteen and injured six more in the country's northwestern to sprawl it's it's the latest in a series of attacks which has claimed more than thirty lives mostly women and children in four provinces over the weekend. a u.s. jury has found that internet giant google did

a breach copyright with its java programming language the case involved allegations that google inc based its popular android software on java technology stolen from the oracle corporation the jury in san francisco considered four parts to oracle's claim but could only agree on three was unable to decide whether google's auctions constituted fair use under copyright law. now studying may not be the only way to prepare for year end exams that's according to one chinese high school that's reportedly given its students an academic shot in the arm quite literally state t.v. shows pupils hoked up to i.v. drips allegedly filled with an amino acid ahead of their college entrance tests for a whole new meaning to healthy body healthy mind. next up we talk to demean eight sums up the country's economic achievements over the past four years the interview

took place shortly before monday's another action. to me that i'm afraid of 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 dimitri mediator for his full term in office you 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 of the global economy in the world right now and europe in the session american growth rates a little or global growth rates are very close to what we can call the recession also or depression. insufficient for sustainable development and sufficient for this emotion or for global social and development issues and for the part of the world. is also on their stress but first the russian economy still growing could do about four percent better on them and to. for resource and experience already in fighting crisis and fighting recession you know what to do because this

instruments approach issues that we face if global depression will really start. you sound quite optimistic about russia's 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 the modernization of the russian economy. where you have put in the mid video believes that. modernization of the russian economy is a must. have to do it otherwise rational and will be. not very compatible in the global environment other contexts will be in competition. and this challenge is. under stress given they will demographic station we were able to achieve our goal to stabilize relations last year we need to continue. the same pace the same policy is also we'll have to

reform health sector education sector. pension system and finally completion and protection for property rights creating comfortable investment climate will 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 is 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 now. related. income went after so. start that. nobody can argue against against that but oil prices. global markets high and this is why the share the nominal share of oil. 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 experienced good growth rates in agriculture in logistics in the financial sector in high tech industries the car industry recovered from the crisis and the russian car market is no the biggest in europe and with the musicians start didn't fail and we're on track. to continue this process need to focus on those things that we.

in the past so to continue the same policies and structures in appropriate to sectors of the russian can 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 need to be different what about corruption. and has called corruption the main plague of the russian economy meter maid that 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 russia in the first time in the russian history. and here he is today. just to fight corruption was created. first time and again. to fight corruption and to start to using just a just solution more and more people are punished and more people are put in prison because of the corruption they're guilty and more and more seems being done to create a genuine negative. and on top of. the corruption. and the important to fight corruption accorded their courts thank you very much for saying that we are to.

oh and thanks for joining our team with me karen tara got a quick recap of your headlines what they were porton as foreign on precedented six year term becoming the first russian president to be sworn in for a third time and after the inauguration he signed on to force some of his promised reforms to make government apparatus more transparent. francois hollande wins the french presidency as he promises growth instead of austerity while nicole last off proceed falls under the weight of france's mounting debt and of course it's trying to business for a longer as he plans to fight against german led austerity measures for europe.