changes at the top and russia as one in europe who can outlines his new presidential policy. goals for unity under a form as well as dmitri medvedev could be applying his bold nice asian strategies as the next prime minister of. the noisy rules convinced his protests continue but so far she's on a rest mate who vetoes just ahead. standing up to germany's euro dominance and a foreign wars france's newly elected socialist leader is facing tell fresher to leave the sarkozy era behind. and it's a vote for stability for

a man in syria after people made their choice in the country's first multi-party elections and half a century. as in the russian capital you're watching r t with me rena joshie welcome to the program that reforms are on the way for russia with a lot of reporting back at the helm for a third term he's already busy setting out his strategy for the next six years while parliament is set to vote on former president candidate c. as the new prime minister well to explain what changes are in store for russia let's now talk to our correspondent peter oliver. so peter what are the main challenges put has already focused on his new but familiar role. well president putin's cast his eye on foreign policy immediately looking towards the united

states has proposed missile defense shield in europe the president has told the foreign ministry to go about getting written confirmation from washington that the missile sites that are placed in europe won't be used to target we need to be target russia to me a putin also saying that the start treaty must be held this follows on from him saying that he wants to see reform in the russian military now he wants to see seventy percent of rushes weapons replaced with more noms by twenty twenty and then a little closer to home he's also looking at increasing transparency in the russian government he wants to use the internet in order to increase the transparency of all of government says something that of course had been first set by his previous s. that dimitri may get it looks like this will be carried on by by vladimir putin in

his third term as president. one what about the new prime minister of than now what kind of leadership can we expect if we treme to have takes the post. well a little later on cheese day the parliament here in russia will be voting on whether to approve made yet his candidacy as the next prime minister it's highly expected that he will take that role and what we can expect from the man is nice they should it's what he stood for during his his presidency looking to as i said increase the use of technology in more nice thing russia's political system is i'm sure he will be tried this will see him trying to implement in the end the role of prime minister dmitry medvedev himself the said that he feels one of his greatest achievements as president was opening up the political discourse to more people i would expect we would see him attempting to do that to increase that as well to

increase how many people have political discourse is opened up should he take the job of prime minister which i say is is very much expected we'll see later on tuesday. all right peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us the pair oliver there. a lot of men put in a while a majority vote in the presidential election in march but his return to power has not been without opposition activists also marched on his inauguration day with protests turning into overnight sit ins some groups clashed with police and arrests were made largely is jake agrees across the latest for us so jacob how did these latest protests come about. this action this little going on behind me was actually organized on twitter by alexina bounties being very prominent when it comes to the opposition movement so far his followers to assemble in central moscow to a better future they mashed together about a couple of hundred numbers have been counted out here ever since late last evening

a sub or they tried to move elsewhere in central moscow there managed by police we saw five people in total being detained that's on the back of yes they went over one hundred people were arrested all of those five detained in the early hours of this morning two of them were quite important figures. on the anti corruption blogger who also be known for having quite a radical viewpoint sort of comes to nationalist sentiment sentiment is expressed on the podium and also so again he's another prominent figure of the opposition movement he's the head of the left front already and imagination of less this idea is and he's being detained on a number of occasions by police recently elected to go on hunger strike in protest of his detention but when it comes to those gathered here today some of those arrests have been made because it's really on a citation demonstration that we see so they want to characterize

a movement so far. well until very recently qusay is being known for the school mass demonstrations it's an umbrella organization characterized the symbolized by the white ribbons that many. people. but it's been cooling for free and fair elections ever since december the parliamentary elections which are wrought with allegations of electoral fraud. the presidential elections again allegations of fraud there was a drop in me when it comes to numbers of people out on the streets on the back of the presidential elections just after march not as many people seem to be out in attendance for these protests and just recently on sunday were people gathered to demonstrate against the inauguration of flooded me as president a day ahead of his inauguration then we saw the first cases of violent clashes with police and there really started with some of the leaders in the opposition movement

called for people to move towards the kremlin then police try to block the path as this was an officially sanctioned that led to clashes and a number of arrests being made we can rescind a bit of a split as well when it comes to the opposition movement there are those who want a completely different government there are those also who just want to rerun of the parliamentary and presidential elections. all right jake thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest return from moscow jake of greece. why reporting there was sworn in as the new hat of state on monday at an opulent ceremony in moscow and we've got all the highlights online at r.t. dot com watch president arriving at the kremlin taking their old fun the constitution and be welcomed by a thirty one gun salute the grandstand of only was followed by an exquisite lunch. box where the party over a live report has

a country to rule for in-depth analysis of what's in store for him as he makes his comeback in russia's top job and also go to our web site r t v dot com. now there is a new leader in france as well where francois launce nashville from nicolas sarkozy on sunday but as he's getting ready to move into the elysee palace the country is waiting for change and assess are silly reports online and will have to find answers fast. out with the old. in with a new. transfer large task a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful event here they are voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of crabs are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belise is that people rejected talk is it when then france would also cite france

for many reasons one of them was his personal arrogance so we can hope that in foreign policy is going to move in the right direction that is less arrogant. be it arrogance or something else there was no hiding nicolas sarkozy's eagerness to lead the libyan intervention sending french warplanes in first he of course betrayed himself all along as deliberate of libya but he kept that extremely quiet . allegations kept coming out about his relationship with gadhafi the result tonight or it's clear they wanted to stop that kind of policy and that going about receive it in tonight it's that the night of hope again you know the march through their clothes he has created an awful image of france we don't want divisions within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries where friends of the arabs is not done yet it is not. a lot is being branded france's new hope or

gach one task ahead of him to sort through the euro crisis and clean up an image which many think is no longer in line with what's traditionally french while foreign policy took a backseat during the campaign a lot it did throw out two moves one go head to head with germany's angela merkel on really go sharing the e.u. fiscal pact believe me she will experience in the coming. the the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because just a minute good will face an election in one year and will not be willing to compromise we said it was a french president and to withdraw french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned it's a sign that i think you want to scale down foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate to what is happening in the rest of the world and will focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really

want are jobs and leadership that truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser still there are two parts also i have for you this hour here in our fuel lang debate hillary clinton's visit india hoping to ramp up pressure on tehran our its nuclear program find out whether the second of the biggest consumer of iranian crude is happy to make concessions. also more victims of police brutality in the u.s. leave many questioning just who isn't forcing the law enforcers. lose

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know what you are syrians have voted in the country's first multi-party elections in five decades the government hailed the ballot as a major step towards reform but it was boycotted by the opposition which held protests in stat as sarah firth reports many in the country are wary of the months old conflict and made their choice so as not to see the vote has a missed opportunity. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition who had called for a boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament to elections the elections taking place against the backdrop of instability in the country and the credibility of the very it's being called into question with the opposition boycotting the vote so that their participation the real question is just how serious a change will this election bring to the political landscape in syria and that's

what we've been finding out. cause we have some disturbance and some of this is. we have to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle and here. for people who are like people who support shia who say yes for syria no for to no for holding yes for peace yes for developing the country there are no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people overseeing the voting would doing so objective way and the monitor at this poll told us or been levi elations so far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions without higher lesions more than seven thousand candidates have been vying for public support fourteen million people allowed to vote in syria and they've been trying to gain the support to win one of those two hundred fifty seats that are going to be

available in the new parliament fourteen million people were eligible to vote but amongst those not participating would be the tens of thousands of political prisoners from the huge chunks of the population who are now refugees having fled their homes from the violence this is led to serious questions about the legitimacy of the ballots but as international opinion surrounds the political developments in syria one analyst stressed that this very is a very full syrians and by syrians. legitimize. comes from the people one. president goes. to most. of this for him probably. the one who can declare the president asserted there is a legitimate or illegitimate. lost his legitimacy. is used to mislead

the syrians. who are the rights that is a right that they've been exercising whether it's turning out to cast the ballots or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even amongst those voting there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any serious change but they said they believe that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try. syria. bahrain's main human rights activists remains behind bars in the country on charges of inciting protests number your job as one of the leaders of the popular uprising and an outspoken critic of the state's royal family was detained late saturday on his arrival from lebanon the arrest occurred just days before his appearance on julian assange to show here in our team drama posted on his twitter feed that he is going to be interviewed by the famous whistleblower sound himself that will use that's precisely what provoked his arrest

and on the show we can be quizzed him along with an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states one based author and journalist afshin rattansi believes now bill or job and his fellow activists have a mountain of challenges to face in the future. the fact that there is no case against in the case is against the british and american and european governments that are backing bahrain i don't know i don't know how long julian assange has been under house arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they can now arrest interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights it's not just him more worryingly of course is. no longer strike i understand his daughter who is also being in custody case not coming up till later in the week you know they are killing people fifty dead in a country that small equates to a lot of people this is an apartheid state being backed by the obama administration

in the years two thousand and nine two thousand and ten as if seeing what was about to happen in bahrain the obama administration stepped up sales which include equipment used by the authorities in bahrain to suppress the protest and to this is ongoing and they know journalists that the government. now the next episode of join us on to show featuring the builder job is on air today at eleven thirty g.m.t. so don't miss it. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed once in egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. india is attempting to avoid a showdown with the u.s. over its continued dealings with iran the american secretary of state hillary clinton is new delhi for high level talks but she's so far persuaded the authorities to sharply drop imports of rain oil and pressure state over its

controversial nuclear program delhi has already made significant cuts but clinton still wants more. reports. actually against sanctions on iran they believe that there are different ways to deal with the iran issue and even though india has cut its. purchase of iranian oil by fifteen percent india china south korea and japan actually account for sixty percent of the oil purchases from iran and the e.u. only accounts for eighteen percent and hillary clinton's trip to delhi actually also coincides with the major trade delegation that's here from iran the president of iran's chamber of commerce is here trying to convince delhi to continue to buy iranian oil obviously the united states and the e.u. has placed an oil embargo on iran over its controversial nuclear program they believe that iran is developing nuclear weapons iran has maintained this entire

time that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes now many people are saying that it's very interesting because these things sions or this oil embargo on iran is not going to work without the help of asian countries because they make such a big make up such a significant percentage of the customers of iranian oil india has been a very strategic ally to the united states because of the geopolitical interests in this region you know one of india's big neighbors that the united states seems to have an eye on is china obviously china has a huge growing economy the i.m.f. has projected that its economy is going to surpass the united states in just a few years. a lot of people are saying that you know washington is courting delhi doing civilian nuclear deals trying to increase trade and things like that in an attempt to have an ally strategically close to china. reporting there

now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the cia claims that ward is caught a plot to bomb an airliner on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden involve the bomb concealed in underwear that was to be detonated aboard a passenger jet a similar scheme was used in december two thousand and nine but failed when the explosives didn't detonate properly now information has been released about the status or identity of a would be bomber. really prime minister and opposition have reached an agreement following all night to go to avoid snapple actions they now plan to form a unity government with benjamin netanyahu sparty on monday netanyahu broad the date for the poll forward to september fourth accusing the opposition of blackmail and populism. the afghan president has said the recent nato killings of civilians could hinder a peace pact he signed with barack obama last week they agree with covers the long term u.s. role in afghanistan after its planned withdrawal in two thousand and fourteen the

move comes after an heiress drive by coalition forces killed fourteen people and injured six others in the country's northwest doesn't have died in the past few days in nato airstrikes. two police officers have gone on trial in the us accused of beating to death a homeless man as he cried out for help it's the latest in a spate of police brutality cases but as are the reports many in the u.s. feel justice is not being served. february two thousand and twelve shooting death of teenager trayvon martin when marley graham was shot and killed inside his home two on armed african-american teenagers in two separate states succumb to the same fate in florida trayvon martin was carrying candy when he was gunned down by neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman as a bronze teenager band pursued by police moments before he was killed in new york city where marley graham was standing in his bathroom when he was shot in the chest

by a plainclothes narcotics officer who forced himself into the home without a warrant the eighteen year old was not in possession of a gun or drugs and according to n.y.p.d. officials the thirty year old cop who pulled the trigger lacked the proper training to work in his assigned unit two months have passed and there have been no charges in connection with the killings is the lack of training in the situation as in a lack of respect for the communities that you're patrolling that allows an officer to sort of act in a unauthorized undisciplined outside the guidelines manner which in essence is acting like a cowboy you know we're not in the wild west the fatal police shooting of a sixty eight year old ex marine kenneth chamberlain sr was the u.s. war veteran who fell victim to unnecessary deadly police force last november the sixty eight year old was tasered and shot by officers who responded to a false alarm from a medical alert pendant chamberlain reportedly instructed the officers to leave

before they broke his door down an investigation into his killing remains ongoing too often the police are putting themselves in situations where violence becomes a more likely outcome and this is the result often of overly aggressive policing policies the exact number of americans killed by overly aggressive policing remains unknown because the u.s. department of justice does not require police departments to report fatal shooting statistics meanwhile the new york. city police department the world's largest has refused to release internal reports on police shootings from one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and six until you begin holding those officers accountable until when they commit certain acts they actually go to jail or they lose their pensions you're going to have a resistance because they feel sometimes that they can commit these acts with impunity meaning that they know that other than

a few headaches or hiccups nothing is really going to happen to them which is why we bring cases and actions against the officers. persistent use of police tasers is also being blamed for the death of five hundred people in the u.s. since two thousand and one round with your head according to amnesty international dozens of deaths can be traced to unnecessary force oh. policies for taser use vary from state to state. experts say it's time for washington to create strict national guidelines to protect the public bar. from police growing trigger happy with electric shock devices this would help clarify things both for police departments and also frankly would strengthen the hands of people who want to bring litigation against the police for civil rights violations because it would show it would provide a standard that they could use for challenging these local police practices critics

claim that justice is rarely served when those who kill turn out to be u.s. police officers in many instances leaving the very people interested in forcing a law well protected when they violate hurrying up or niall artsy new york. on just a few minutes tune in for our spotlight talk show and that's after the headlines.

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