and half a century. it is ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie welcome to the program and reforms are on the way for russia with weimer important back at the helm for a third term is already busy setting out a strategy for the next six years while parliament is set to vote on former president medvedev scanner to see as a new prime minister or to explain what changes are in store for russia less now across two artes peter oliver quality of peter so tell us what are the chin the main challenges put now is already focused on and his new bike familiar role. oh president putin has signed a series of strategic orders some of those things cleared addressing foreign policy issues the issue of america's supposed on time missile defense shield in europe

dominating those foreign policy. told the foreign ministry here in russia that they must obtain written confirmation from washington that missile sites placed in europe won't be used to target russia now to be a putin also saying that the start treaty must be adhered to staying with the military military reform very much on the cards here mr putin saying that by twenty twenty seventy percent of rush's weaponry must be replaced with more than. a little closer to home as well we've been hearing that. all bureaucrats in russia will have to declare all of their full income this is a part of in an effort to stamp out corruption at any level in government now also concerning the home front in russia with even if it wants to. increase. transparency through the use of the internet now this is something that

was first put forward by his previous says it to me to be made out of it seems that to me and putin that that will continue and russia will continue to modernize in an attempt to increase the transparency of the political system here. all right now what about the new prime minister what kind of leadership can we expect if dimitri medvedev does take the polls. well the parliament to go and vote later on tuesday to decide on. his candidacy it's it's highly likely it's very much expected that he will fall into that job he will take the job of prime minister and what we can expect from him is pretty much more of the same he is made the head of the modernised though he will be looking to try and take the steps forward in terms of using technology to increase the access to the political system in russia to use dots on the the level of the role of prime minister the prime minister of course in russia dealing more with internal politics dmitri medvedev speaking of his own term

as president saying that his greatest achievement one of his greatest achievements was that he was able to bring the political discourse to more people so should he take the job as prime minister which as i say we very much expect to happen later on tuesday we should expect to see more of the modernization more of the opening up of russia's political system and getting more people involved in politics in russia all right peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us this happy reporting there . and i'm important one 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 the overnight sit ins some groups clashed with police and arrests were made artists change them green says across the latest for us so jacob how did these latest protests come about. action has been going on for some time

now actually initially organized on twitter by prominent opposition activist alexei not down and he called on all his followers to come down here in central moscow late blight last evening and that was to usher in a better future now a couple of hundred mannish to gather and really we've seen them camp out throughout the course of the evening into the early hours of this morning it's been quite peaceful and there's been those playing guitar playing football now through some time late last evening in the early hours of the morning they tried to move elsewhere to another location in moscow they're there met by police who saw five people being detained last on the back of yes they were over one hundred people were arrested of those five detained in the early hours of the morning two of them with key opposition figures one of being alexei you know bounty anticorruption blogger known for his radical nationalist sentiments sometimes spouted from the podium also among the. soft heads of the left front for the amalgamation

of leftist ideals and thinking that he's often clashed with police be detained on a number of occasions has actually gone hunger strike waited for the release and recently protesting his detention now they're likely both those two people to remain in this tension for some time they are currently still there they may face a fine as well but organizing this activity those at the moment still here we're being keyed to not show this chance any slogans to really walk any or else they don't want to launch any provocation against police and i don't want to face any further arrests. or i won't take a what's characterize the movement so far. recently you could say it was peaceful mass demonstrations being characterized symbolized by a white ribbon. that's the be those who been calling for free and fair elections on

the back of the parliamentary elections in december which they later wrought with allegations of electoral fraud or so the presidential election really spurred this movement on gather strength for some of those mass demonstrations taking place in central moscow but ever since the presidential elections which they again allege were brought was electoral fraud is to window somewhat of not in numbers have magic get quite as many people out on the sharifs on sunday though ahead of president vladimir putin's official inauguration day again assembled in central moscow and this is where we saw a man turn then there were quite buoyant clashes with police massed after a number of our opposition activists some of the key leaders cooled on those in attendance to head towards the kremlin this was an officially sanctioned led to a high number of arrests and really you know it's the bit of a script and some of the thinking here there are those who want

a complete overhaul of the government of those who just want a rerun of the parliamentary and presidential elections. all right taken thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest jacob riis reporting from central moscow. now live reporting was sworn in as a new hat of state on monday at an opulent ceremony in moscow and we've got all the highlights online at our t. dot com so watch the president arriving at the kremlin taking you know the constitution and being welcomed by a thirty one gun salute the grand ceremony was followed by an explicit lunch. in five was a party over of what i reported now as a country to rule forty in-depth analysis of what's in store for him as he makes his comeback in russia's top job. dot com. now there's a new leader in france to wear a front lawn snatch victory from nicolas sarkozy on sunday but as he's getting

ready to move into their lease a palace in the country is waiting for change and test her she reports a lot will have to find answers fast. out with the old. in with the new i the way i trust were allowed to ask a victory in the first presidential elections the people who are saying that france is once again peace will appear here they had voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of threat are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belise is that people rejected sarkozy when then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was is based on arrogance so we can hope but 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's going about receiving t.n.t. tonight it's the night of hope again you know the mushroom going after cozy has created an awful images from this we don't want defections within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries that we are friends of the arabs sometimes you have. a lot is being branded france's new hope a gargantuan 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 of 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 he will experience in the coming. the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because. we 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 he wants to scale down the foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be. considered 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 so there are two parts. now still i have for you this hour are fueling debates or clinton visits india hoping to ramp up pressure on iran over its nuclear

program right now whether the second biggest consumer of the iranian crude is happy to make concessions. also more victims of the u.s. leave manny questioning just who isn't forcing the law enforcers. syrians have voted in the country's first multi-party elections and five decades the government hailed the ballot as a major step towards reform but it was boycotted by the opposition which held protests and stat as artists are a first reports many of the country are wary of them months old conflict and made their choice so as not to see the vote as a missed opportunity. it didn't get the stamp of approval from the opposition who'd 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. because we have some disturbance and some of this is. we have to approve that we can move forward and we can overcome this obstacle here . for people who are like people who support syria who say yes for syria no for to resume no for holding us for use for developing the country there were no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people just think of a thing we're doing so objective way and the monitor at this poll told us they're been levi elations so far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions with 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 when 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 and 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 analysts stress that this is a very full syrians and by syrians to me listen. comes from the people one. sees the. president goes to solicit to visit innocent question the intention of this for him probably. the one who can declare that president assad is legitimate or illegitimate.

lost his legitimacy or his legitimacy the syrians. who are this rights that is a right that they've been exercising whether it's turning out to cast the ballot 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. r.t. syria. bahrain's main human rights activist remains behind bars in the country on charges of inciting protests now baler job as one of the leaders of a popular uprising and an outspoken critic of the state's royal family was detained late saturday on his rival from lebanon the arrest occurred just days before his appearance on julian assange just showed here on our t.v. for a job had posted on his twitter feed that he was going to be interviewed by the famous

whistleblower a sound himself believes that's precisely what provoked his arrest on the show and we humiliate her quizzed him along with an injection activist over the revolutions and the arab states want him based azer and journalist believes job and his fellow activist have a mountain of challenges to face in the future. if there is no case against him the case is against the british and american and european governments that have 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 his interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights is not just him more worryingly of course is the. i understand his daughter who is also being in custody case not coming up till later in the week you know they're 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 protests and to this is ongoing and they know journalists that cover it all accept a sort of julian assange show featuring now below her job as an air today at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a little taster. a lot of people who have the i mean i would be surprised or you should not be surprised to see her but then you put pollution coming on didn't want to protest it's still happening is attempting any of the usual whatnot of that evolution we had to do history in the past fifty years you would see fifty percent of the population owned industry didn't want to protest but you would see in bahrain unfortunately because of the debate is that many countries because of the

debate is done just over. tendencies like just you know like i don't like the. chance that they don't hire ideas but this is the reality. i speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution failed once with egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil for makes a revolution and where is the spring going to go. india's attempting to avoid a showdown with the u.s. over its continued dealings with iran the american secretary of state hillary clinton is a new delhi for high level talks and she's so far persuaded the authorities to sharply drop imports of iranian oil and an attempt to pressure the islamic state over its controversial nuclear program well for more on the clinton's visit with you now i talked to priya sridhar who is in delhi for us so for a year a delhi has made significant cuts but clinton still wants more at refusal mainland

india with sanctions so what's the stance of fuel hunger india now. apologies for the shaky signal that we have there was. we're getting her back now i can only hear so sorry i get weary of it we had a lot. ok so i was just saying that india is actually one of the biggest customers of iranian oil and they don't believe in sanctions on iran so one of the major topics of discussion here in delhi with hillary clinton is putting more pressure on delhi to stop buying iranian oil and this trip actually coincides with a trade coalition from tehran who is encouraging delhi to do more business and to keep buying iranian oil here with me to talk more about this issue is professor to . me she is the chairperson of canadian u.s.

and latin american studies that. narrow university things so much for joining me so i'm curious as to your opinions about why this is such a contentious issue between delhi and washington and washington has even said that it could potentially put sanctions on india do you think that could happen well this is the overall. this policy for a while it's not just india specific that suppose think. top officials of both governments who have talked about improving and the constant transformation in the us does that we don't have to agree. apologies for the shaking signal one more time there was a record spawn appreciate talking to. me from the center for canadian u.s. latin american studies there we will try to get back to them and get more inside on the clinton's visit to delhi a little later in the program in the meantime though let's take a look at what else is happening in the world today the cia claims its warded and

al qaeda plot to bomb an airliner on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden it involved a 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 no information has been released about the status or identity of the would be bomber. the israeli prime minister and opposition have reached an agreement following all night to avoid snap elections they now plan to form a unity government with benjamin netanyahu his party on monday night and al brought the date for the poll forward to september fourth accusing the opposition of blackmail and populism. president has said the recent killings of civilians could hinder a peace pact he signed with broad obama last week the agreement covers the long term u.s. role in afghanistan after its planned withdrawal in twenty fourteen the move comes

after an airstrike 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 artie's. reports many in the u.s. feel justice is not being served. so you were 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 a bronze teenager bam 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 killing it's a lack of training in the situation is in a lack of respect for the community so you're patrolling that allows an officer to sort of an act in a unauthorized un discipline 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 us 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 through 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. and according to amnesty international dozens of deaths can be traced to unnecessary force. 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. 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 entrusted with and forcing a law well protected when they violate her in upper nile artsy new york and just a few minutes with a down with deputy chief to talk antimissile to fan systems in new york that's after the headlines. the.

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welcome back you're watching r t here is a look at the headlines changes at the top and russia's one report an outline says new presidential policies while bit of could soon be applying these modernization strategies as prime minister protest marches continue with some clashes and arrests made. standing up to germany's you're dominance and then foreign wars started by his princess or friends of newly elected socialist leader is facing tough pressure to leave the sarkozy era behind. and it's a vote for stability for syria for people made their choice in the country's first

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