international news live from moscow this is the with me you lash above our thanks for joining us a lot of celebration has taken place at the kremlin where legend reporting has become the first russian president to be sworn in the fourth term is now set to stay on for an unprecedented six years and as potent 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 joined the president as a private banquet and here are the details of the inauguration from our very own lake city russia 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 blossom screens everywhere in the in the in the george and george hole the very beautiful aerial shots of the motorcade traveling from the government building from the white house to the kremlin suddenly something unprecedented and novelty for the way this

integration has been televised in russia so far then put in arrived he went in walked in the sand george of the thousand odd guests be guests who get it they're greeted with a lot of loud of a shot 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 oath a very short oath only thirty three words. as i fulfill the duties of the president of the russian federation i swear to protect and guarantee the rights and freedoms of 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 ascii was leaving in fact it's in georgia hall she shook hands with most of the crowd who was 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 reshow it's just meters away from the kremlin which is clear symbol that the presidential term of the recording has kicked off in russia the greatest of russia were there not only from russia in fact some former leaders of world countries were there like for me telling prime minister silvio berlusconi former german chancellor gerhard schroeder were all there as well the last soviet leader mikhail gorbachev the widow of the first president a russian and even the likes of football stars the former everton football player. who was there it's interesting. even the leader of the biggest biker back in the 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 inauguration finished. the hall where we stood george's

hall 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 the city's completely deserted only the policemen were there no traffic no anything just have been certainly dented 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 special service almost a year to prepare themselves for 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. meanwhile the russian opposition has launched limitless street festivities in the center of moscow around one thousand accidents have gathered and press has to have been detained including the prominent opposition leaders sergei within itself and alexei navalny. they sollars mass protests held in the capital

ahead of persons integration where around three hundred people were arrested an investigation has been no action to sunday's riots or chef several policemen injured and strange after taking the arrows they present promised to nor chase promised reforms some of them aimed at stabilizing the country on the. east signed several strategic orders that will hopefully see the improvement to the services provided by both federal and local government though one of these is that there will be a maximum waiting time of fifty minutes for anybody going to a government office 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 dmitri medvedev and 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 you also need 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 this 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 all. medium we're going to see webcams put into courtrooms so that the trials can be streamed over the internet and no grated as president for this third time the expectations that will be on him and

what people expect to achieve to achieve over the over the six years of this term is 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 has 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 just. 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 off 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 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 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 analyst 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 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 there now r.t. moscow. do log on to our website to see how just a few hours after his inauguration the newly sworn in president jumps from the political arena into this case. his court finds cheering regular time on they gather for the winning penalty in a friendly match between his steve ahmed says against a hockey legends the final score six five with steam coming out on top. of the victory day. for a sneak peek at the rehearsal of the very. out of russia. socialist francois hollande has won the french presidential runoff making nicolas sarkozy the latest to you lead it to be swept aside by the crippling debt crisis the president

elect has promised to fight against the german led to european austerity drive and has already spoken to chancellor angela merkel the first foreign leader will visit our sea level ports now from power. presell 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 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 could 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 have and 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 and iran observers are saying that we may expect a less aggressive press whatever this observation is based on the rhetoric so far so of course we have to see the actions that this new president will be taking now french people at the end of the day said that they voted for change but let's not forget that when nicolas sarkozy was voted in two thousand and seven they also voted for change so it's in france how long does have a lot of work to do ahead of him and prove that he does the service presidency. author and journalist barry lantos has the new president elect around a zone they buy food with his challengers in both fronts. if you look at the scene from the bus the last 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 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 ways 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 the price of work in france is among the highest in europe and it's gone up tremendously psycho's he is only one of eleven 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 it's our crews he is really only partially

responsible for whether or not alone is going to be doing able to take care of the crisis is another question. authorities in bahrain have arrested the country's most prominent human rights activist on harsh critic of the state's ruling family that bailiff a job was detained just days before his appearance on june assumptions show him on a c at eleven thirty g.m.t. and in the program which is in just a few hours of their whistleblower gets insights from hand to fellow egyptian activist and to the uprisings in the arab states now he's other than a full. well the authorities of said is that now bill rand job is being suspected of committing a number of crimes punishable by law and 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 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. give you program my house was surrounded by almost one hundred policemen and. machine guns and i do realize that i was not at home didn't do you just to.

you to tell me to come to deposit 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 r.t. using the platform as an international platform even to criticize the regime in bahrain and it's for this reason they do nasty things why he's being 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 cause and do we have to be a discourse and the cause might be very expensive as we have been causing but we're

willing to believe all 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 to the sound is 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 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 of egypt where the revolution is though 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 they lection took place in may to shake a ceasefire between the opposition and the country's ruling regime actually safir reports now from damascus this is a really serious keith step in president assad political reforms if this 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 expression of. russian more freedom of the political movement than 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 different elements in fact some people actually criticizing the opposition groups

for making that decision saying 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 first disappeared and should have requested some sort of. teams in order to. scrutinize the elections and the results or to elections this does not happen but it is one of them of the position that it is not proof disapproved which is one of them is to go with the opposition. 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 for more of the world's news in brief the president hamid karzai has threatened to freeze the

footage of partnership agreement was signed with barack obama last week if nato doesn't stop having civilians this comes after an airstrike by the coalition on monday killed fourteen and injured six more in the country's northwestern this province is the latest in a series of attacks which has claimed more than thirty lives mostly women and children in four provinces over the weekend. the cia claims it's foiled an al qaeda plot involving an underwear bomb that was to have been put on an american bound airliner then on the time a device which is now in u.s. custody was captured in india. then cia officials have refused to comment what they say is i'm going to tear off ration no information has been released about the status or identity over there would be appalled by. the israeli prime minister and opposition i have reportedly come to an agreement after all nice negotiations to avoid a elections than are planned to form a unity government with benjamin netanyahu likud party on monday netanyahu called

the date for elections forward to september false accusing the opposition of blackmail and populism. back with a recap of the top stories in a few minutes and right now we're talk to dimitri medvedev who sums up the country's economic achievements over the past four years he spoke exclusively exhausts you shoulder before monday's presidential inauguration. 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 which presidential aide to dmitri may do for his full term in office or could you very much thank you for being with us i'd like to begin with the economy both. bit of. i have stated that there are a lot of problems obviously on the global economy. in fact he said that he believes that it's already in depression do you share this pessimism of global economies in the world right now and europe has. in recession american growth rates are very low global growth rates are very close to what we can call the recession also or depression. insufficient for sustainable development and sufficient for this illusion 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 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 him or person will be the main challenge is to continue and there is speculation 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 russian economy 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 computing 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 the control of the 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 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 a 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 growth rates and agriculture in logistics in the

financial sector in high tech industries car industry covers for you from the crisis in the russian car market to now the biggest in europe and with the musicians start didn't fail and we are in threat. 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 that russia 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 a key vehicle to implement all the initiatives put forth by that need to be different what about corruption puts and has called corruption the main play 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 this 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 interests using. just placing more and more people are punished and more people in the prison because of the corruption they're guilty and more and more being done to create. negative. to corruption. and to. fight corruption accorded their courts

thank you very much. there hasn't been a good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is for. journalism. we want to present. something real.

high again this is see a picture. that would. lead to a person is bought for an unprecedented six year term becoming the first russian president to be sworn in for a third time and i want to know if you're a sure he's trying to interfere most of some of his promised reforms to make government up wanted small transparent. socialist francois along the way as the president of the french presidency making but on sarkozy the latest do you need it to crumble under the weight of economic woes they need to elect a president who promises to fight against germany that austerity measures for the u.s. . forces in bahrain the rest.