i. knew some russian and around the world this is r.c. with me thanks for joining us a lavish celebration has taken place at the kremlin where legislation has become the first russian president to be sworn in for a third term and he's now set to stay on for an unprecedented six years as president took the oath he appealed for unity and reform to forge a stronger russia and what he called a new stage of national development thousands of guests later joined the president at a private banquet on details of the integration from our very own he 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 putin in 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 us and georgia's old boss the two thousand odd just be a big yes we get 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 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 observe and protect the constitution of the russian federation to protect the sovereignty independence and territorial integrity of all state its people faithfully ascii was leaving if i could send george's whole 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 the echo of the of the old to reach shots just meters away from the kremlin which. 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 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 a mixed crowd but just twenty minutes after the inauguration finished. the hall

where we stood george's hall was empty because all of those guests went to dinner some speculate that this dinna cost about a million dollars so it's a speculation maybe but i never had a chance to go there but my insight is 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 policeman were there no traffic no anything just 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 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

remember 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 that obama's inauguration were so serious that special service almost a year to prepare themselves for for the process of 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 moscow was certainly unprecedented but on the general scale nothing unusual at all now straight after his inauguration of president putin signed into law some of these promised reforms and he crease designed to make the government apparatus more effective and transparent. generally to

improve the services that the federal and local governments know 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 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 and also saying that he will raise the education of russia's bureaucrats and will root out any bureaucrats that fight to do the jobs that they 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 develop 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 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 the 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 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 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. harsher than madrid 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 wu 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 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'll 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 a r.t. moscow. do log on to our website and see how just a few hours after his inauguration the new this morning president jumps from the political arena into the skating ring since court is during regular time and then again for the winning penalty in a friendly match between his team and that's his brother against talk elections the final score sixty five with richard steam coming out coming out on top of us. and also brace itself for victory day to ask for a sneak peek at the last ron brown very hot russian. socialist francois hollande has won the french presidential run of making nicolas sarkozy the latest e.u. needed to be swept aside by the crippling debt crisis the president elect has

promised to find again as they drum in that european austerity drive has already spoken to chancellor angela merkel the first foreign leader all and will visit their reports now from. presell 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 the 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 oriented 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 on 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 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. and also in turn is as the new president elect. is on the back food with huge term interest for us. 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 filled you would think it was that the french revolution over again but that's not at all what 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 is on the back foot not just as far as germany is concerned but as far as the conditions in france to i mean the economy here has been hollowed out over the last few years the price of the workers the price of work in france is among the highest in europe and it's gone up tremendously psychos he 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 it really would have been more of a miracle if he had won and stayed in so it's it's more a vote on the economic situation sarkozy is really only partially responsible for

whether or not is going to be doing able to take care of the crisis is another question. authorities in bahrain have a rest of the country's most prominent human rights activist on harsh critic of the state's writing family now they have a child was detained just days before his appearance on children a son to show him what else he earned in the program which as on cheers day it was all blood gets insights from him and a fellow egyptian activist into the uprisings and the arab states. well the authorities are said is that now bill run job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and that he's now being held on charges of inciting and taking part in 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 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. 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 policeman. machine guns and i do realize that i was not at home didn't they just to. be to tell me to

come to depose prosecutor today at four o'clock where i am here so the very day that he was summoned by the public prosecutor's office in bahrain he actually chose instead to appear on as talk show and and appear 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. but this is destroy good this is the freedom disses democracy that we are fighting for as a cause and do we have to be a discourse and because 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 activist in the in the arab spring his name is our fact he was a he was a highly influential figure in the uprising in egypt last year in tahrir square but like roger too has become a target of your 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 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 so now eleven thirty g.m.t. this tuesday. to speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain for the revolution for old ones leadership for the revolution is now in turmoil for makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. polling

stations have now closed in syria where people have been voting for a new parliament election took place and had a shaky cease fire between the opposition and the country's ruling regime. reports now from damascus this is a really serious keith step in president assad political reforms it comes three months after you had the constitution or form that was meant to create the formation of any political party if you know there are steps being taken here there is definitely movement towards more freedom of expression. more freedom of the political movement 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 the 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 say they 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 that the opposition should have participated and should have requested some sort of. teams in order to. scrutinise the. results or to elections this does not happen but it is one of them of the position does not prove disapproved which is one of them is to go on with. your position. 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 the serious political landscape not least of course because of the continuing conflict in the country and time now nor the world's news the south are going to president hamid karzai has threatened to freeze the partnership agreement he signed with barack obama last week doesn't stop killing civilians this comes after

a mass tried by the coalition on monday killed fourteen and injured six more in the country's northwestern buggy's province is the latest in a series of attacks which has claimed more than thirty lives mostly women and children all provinces that we can't. he was carrying has found into a giant google breach compliant with its java programming language is involved in negotiations that google incorporated have based its popular android software on java technology. on that from the oracle corporation the jury in san francisco considered a pause to oracle's claim but could only agree on three and was unable to decide whether google's actions cost to choose to frankie's on to call right. back with a recount your headlines in just a few moments and right now we're talking about of sun's out the country's economic achievements over the past four years being to take place shortly before monday's.

to me that i'm afraid 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 dimitri mediated for his full term in office you very much thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with the economy both. and dmitri medvedev. have stated that there are

a lot of problems obviously on the global economy to meet their needs or that in fact has 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 was in session american growth rates were it all global growth rates are very close to what we can call the recession also or depression. insufficient for sustainable development and sufficient for their. of global social issues and development issues and russia the part of the world is an open economy is also under stress but first the russian economy still growing at the decent rate of about four percent per annum and 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 puts it will be the main challenge is to continue diversification in the modernization of the russian economy. will you put an intimate video believes that. modernization of the russian economy is a must. have to do it otherwise national will be. not very compatible in the global environment other contests 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. in the same place 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 a 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 mention this puts you 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 deal because on the control russian that level is very low so we believe that inflation will not be. put on the danger still russia lives 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. the more interest in the industry is now. related. income went to so.

start that. nobody can argue again against that but oil prices. global market high and this is why the share 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 experience growth rates and agriculture in logistics in the financial sector in high tech industries car industry recovered from the crisis in the russian car market to know 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 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 you have certain 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 those things the government was key vehicle to implement all the initiatives and put forth by the need to be different what about corruption putin 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.

the 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 and because of the corruption the guilty and more and more sinks being done to create. genuine negative. to corruption. and to the way important to condition for flights corruption to their courts thank you very much for saying that we are to.

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around russia we've got this huge earth. composite this is called headline. preaching is bonafide unprecedented six year term becoming the fast russian president to be sworn in for us that time and. he signed into for some of his promised reforms to make government apparatus more transparent. socially strong so all around when is the french presidency making he quit outside cuisine the latest is needed to crumble under the clinton economic while the new elected president promises to fight against germany that establishing measures for the euro zone. us overseas in bahrain a rest a comment a human rights activist one of the key figures in the gulf.