first multiparty elections in half a century. it is eleven am in the russian capital you're watching r.t.m. arena joshie now reforms are on the way for russia with 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 of canada c. as the new prime minister to explain what changes are in store for russia has now crossed to our correspondent peter oliver what here seems like there are a lot of changes ahead for of lot of more important despite his being in his role before so he's not even had his job back for a twenty four hours yet but what's he been keeping himself busy with now. well the president has signed a whole host of strategic orders chiefly among those concerning foreign policy

president putin ordering the the foreign ministry here in russia to go to the united states to go to washington and discuss the the anti-missile defense shield this being proposed by the americans now he wants to see written confirmation from washington that those missile sites will be placed in europe won't target russia now president putin also saying that the start treaty must be here to. continuing in a military theme proposing huge reforms to the russian armed forces by twenty twenty they want to see seventy percent of russia's weaponry replaced with morton arms now closer to home some domestic issues that have also being that being considered he's looking at making sure that all bureaucrats have to declare all of their income now this is key to tackling corruption at all levels in government and also modernizing

the government and making russia's political system more transparent that he wants to do this through using the internet something that is pretty decisive dmitri medvedev it first put forward so it seems that russia under putin's presidency will continue some of the the modernization and technological advancement we saw in the dmitri medvedev. period return to that of his vote and as a new prime minister what can we expect from him in that role. well the vote to decide who will be the next prime minister will take place in a few hours time it's widely expected that the parliament will say that they want to meet you made yet event expected that he'll take the job what we can expect from him well we can expect more of the same of what he did on suppressant more modernization and more technological advancement. in the terms of making russia's political system more transparent. what we what we have to realize of course is

dmitri medvedev doesn't have a specific role at the moment but he still a key figure in russian politics on tuesday he's meeting with some leaders of the parliamentary opposition of course later on that vote will be made to the site that we feel will be the next pm but what we can be pretty much sure about is real see more modern nice they should meet made yet of himself looking back on his time as president had said one of his greatest achievements that he felt was bringing the political discourse to more people so as prime minister which of course the role entails more domestic politics are pretty sure we can expect to see more of that from dmitri medvedev. all right peter thanks very much indeed for the sub date artie's pair all over there. although i'm important to 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 overnight sit ins and some groups clashed with police and

arrests were made well it's now cross to jacob graves who's got the latest for us what jacob what has led to these latest protests. or to bring you the latest now it's being quite a peaceful protest so far of a couple hundred sat down around the square behind me with just a few moments ago riot police have moved in and they've formed lines around the area they've actually since disperse the crowds now they were they were chanting any slogans on purpose to avoid being arrested. and demonstration now originally this is being organized by alexei no bounty he organizes on twitter calling people to come out to ask for change in the future now he himself and another post prominent person this is. how they. we have been probably when it comes to the opposition movement so far both of those were detained in the early

hours of this morning after they tried to move from this square to another place in central moscow three others were also detained by police that's after one hundred people were arrested yesterday by police as well now when it comes to this demonstration at the moment those two problems activists are still being detained and they could expect to have to pay a fine for all denies in this action in the first place you. want to go we have seen massive peaceful protests since winter so tell us a bit more about how has the movement been evolving. initially it could be described as quite a peaceful mass demonstration but since that may have quite recently based on recent events could be changed now there is characterized by white ribbons which many people wore who are involved in this demonstration movement spars back in december on the back of parliamentary elections ruled that

a geisha let's all thought so recently calling for a free and fair elections movement grew with the presidential elections as well bar for them in march the support somewhat dwindled they couldn't get as many people out on the streets now as sunday we saw protests taking place but also clashes sparked with police quite violent clashes that was the first of its kind it came to this movement that led to a lot of arrests being made after some of the prominent people involved among them alexei navarro only anticorruption blogger known for some of his nationalist sentiment he called out and so did some of the others involved such as so again your doubts of head of the left front organization asking for the demonstrators to walk towards the cap kremlin now police tried to block off this route this is where the violence and clashes started there are large number of arrests made there some injuries on behalf of the protests also injuries with the police as they clash now

they allege that some of their riot gear was pulled from them and it really symbolized the base of a clash of ideals when it comes this protest movement there are those who want an overhaul of the system a change of government completely those that just want a rerun of the parliamentary and presidential elections. hi jane thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest. why reporting was sworn in as a new hat of state on monday at an opulent ceremony moscow and we've got all the highlights online at our dot com. so watch the president arriving at the ground taking those on the constitution and be welcomed by a thirty one gun salute the grand ceremony was followed by an exquisite lunch. but one of the party over of as a country told more in-depth analysis of what's in store for him as he makes his comeback in russia's top job go to our team dot com. there's

a new leader in france to francois a lawn snatch victory from nicolas sarkozy on sunday but as he's getting ready to move into the l is a palace the country is waiting for change and as a test reports one will have to find answers fast. out with the old. in with the new i. trust all our 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 threat are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question alon belize's that people rejected because it would then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was is based on 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 receiving t.n.t. tonight it's the night of hope again you know the marsh who cannot talk cozy has created an awful images from we don't want efficiency 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 or gadg 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 he will experience in the coming. the the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because. we've faced 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. considered 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 here are two parts still have for you this hour here in our fueling debate hillary clinton visits hoping to ramp up pressure on to iran over its nuclear program find out whether the second biggest consumer of iranian crude is happy to make concessions. also more victims of police brutality in the u.s. leave manik questioning just who isn't forcing the law enforcers. 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 protest instead as artie's sara first reports many of the country are wary of the 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 huge cool for a boycott that 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 shia who are saying yes for syria no for to resume holding yes for peace for developing vic country there were no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people seeing the voting would doing so objective way and the monitor at this poll told us there have been leave violations so far that everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions without

violations 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 the 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 analyst stressed this is a very full syrians and by syrians to me listen. comes from the people one. president goes. to most. of this for him probably sees. the one

who can declare the president. is illegitimate legitimity. 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 ballot or attempting to demonstrate in the streets even among those facing there was something he said they felt the elections were unlikely to bring about any theories change but they said they believe that after fifteen months of unrest they had to at least try. the syria. bahrain's main human rights activists remains behind bars in the country on charges of inside in protest now be over droppers one of the leaders of a 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 just show here on r.t. or job posted on his twitter feed that he was going to be interviewed by the famous whistleblower sandra cell believes that's precisely what provoked his arrest on the show that we quizzed him along with an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states one based author and journalist of human tanzim believes the bill regardless and his fellow activists 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 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're going to 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. 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 to 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 are covering the next episode of julian assange show featuring a bill or job is on 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 you have when you put pollution coming out didn't want to protest it's still happening is what happening in any of the revolution what notice did of illusion we had in the history in the past fifty years you would see fifty percent of the population of the industry didn't want to

put this but you would see him but unfortunately because of the debate is that many countries because of the different standard of many. candidates like. chandan is that they don't hire ideas but this is the reality. speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution was really egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil for makes a revolution and where is the spring going to go. andy is attempting to avoid a showdown with the u.s. over its continued dealings with iran the american secretary of state hillary clinton is in new delhi for high level talks she so far persuaded the authorities to sharply drop imports of iranian oil in an attempt to pressure the islamic state over its kind of virtual nuclear program delhi has already made significant cuts but clinton still wants more as artists are now reports. india is actually against

saying since 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 so 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 that strategically close to china. british reader there now you're watching r.t. live from moscow let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the cia claims its thwarted an

al qaida plot to bomb an airliner on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin ladin 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 no information has been released about the status or identity of the would be bomber. really prime minister in opposition have reached an agreement following all night to go she snapped elections now plan to form a unity government with ben human netanyahu sparty on monday netanyahu brought the date for the poll forward to september the fourth accusing the opposition of blackmail and populism. yet again president has said their recent nato killings of civilians could hinder a peace pact he signed with barack obama last week the agreement covers the long term u.s. role in afghanistan after its planned withdrawal in two thousand and 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 and 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 not all reports many in the u.s. feel justice is not being served. 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 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 killing it's a lack of training in these situations in a lack of respect for the communities that you're patrolling that allows an officer to sort of 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 deaths 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 coming up here on our team x. kaiser in states her or try to clear up what drives oil and gas prices to soar and employment that's after the headlines stay with us.

the people of the united states and their friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder his regime as an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons and let there be no doubt about we know for a fact that there are limits there. this were just being carried out into the direction of dr david kay respected scientist and former u.n. inspector was leading the weapons search in iraq we are determined to take this apart we have a tremendous a group of dedicated american men and women involved in this with the best assets of the intelligence community can provide. data cheney is not going to be done with this for quite some time david kay wants more time and he says it could take

another six to nine months to make a definitive finding ministration is asking congress for hundreds of millions more six hundred million dollars to fund a continuing search have not yet shiny pointy things that i would call a weapon before we can draw from conclusions we need to let the iraq survey group complete its work. we were all wrong probably. in my judgment. and that is most disturbing. sometimes the true patriot takes the unpopular course but helps the country of wooden stakes and even if they come this way at least patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels and i think these are scoundrels they have no argument now they have no defense for what they did the country is in a terrible international security situation but i think it's perilous so they're attacking the patriotism of other.

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means for instance on t.v. don't come. back here with our team here is a look at the headlines changes at the top in russia as a lot of our important outlines his new presidential policies while. we truly get it could soon be applying these modernization strategies as prime minister protest marches continue with some clashes an arrest made. germany's hero dominance and being foreign wars started by his predecessor france's newly elected socialist leader is facing tough pressure 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 in half a century but it was boycotted by the opposition which held protests and stand.

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