changes at the top and russia's let him report now the winds his new presidential policies. couldn't coals for unity of the reform wells dmitri medvedev could be set to apply his nice asian strategies in the role as the next prime minister. but also the rules could have been the protests continue on a class she's under arrest be made details just ahead. standing up to germany's euro dominance and ending foreign wars 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 half a century. you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program reforms are on the way for russia with one report back at the helm for a third term is already busy setting out his strategy for the next six years while parliament is set to vote on former president had a candidate see as a new prime minister well to explain what changes are in store for russia what's now crossed our correspondent peter all over. well peter of live report in hasn't even had his job back for twenty four hours yet but has already been keeping himself busy hasn't he. well president putin the signed a series of strategic cold is chiefly among knows can. setting foreign policy

looking at the united states is proposed on time missile defense shield in eastern europe now he's ordered the foreign ministry here in russia to get in touch with washington to demand written confirmation that those sites those missile sites placed eastern europe won't be used to target russia vladimir putin also saying that the start treaty must be and he had to own the home front you know mr putin has said that all bureaucrats must have to declare their incomes in order to to clamp down and stamp out corruption at any level in the political system and he's also been looking at making politics in russia more transparent to use the the internet in order to use than to use technology that series of using technology to increase transparency was something that to me to be made to get if it started during his time as the president and this the maid yet if it's currently just

a few hours away from finding out if you'll be offered the job of prime minister the parliament here in russia are going to take a vote on his candidacy it's it's expected more than likely that he will return as pm but what we can we expect. that he will return to politics of the pm but what can we expect from dimitri may get of i think it's fair to say modernization not really being the key word from his his presidency it's something that he would look to continue in the role as prime minister prime minister of course in russia dealing more with with local politics domestic politics of himself looking back on his time as president he said that one of his biggest achievements was increasing the increase in opening up the political discourse to many more people in russia and i think we can expect to see him try and do that in the role of prime minister as they say that's going to be voted on in a few hours time. all right here thanks very much indeed for bringing us the

subject. you know all of our reporting there. and now we can talk to sergey grave who is the rector of russia's new economic school and he joins me in the states or thinker much for finding the time to stop by and talk about this well first off what changes do you expect to see in russia with putting back. putin signed a number of decrease which are actually putting on paper all this article so this election slogans campaign slogans that he was talking about in his in his newspaper articles it's about social policy economic policy to search for some policy. and in that sense he is trying to. show that he's committed to the changes he's announced during the campaign but this is the government and this is the leader was been in power for twelve years and it's not really clear to what extent he will be able to implement the changes he's not been able to implement before so i think we should judge by deeds not by words i think the. signal the main.

piece of information that will tell us that he's serious is the place in the popular figures in the government in the point the new people he promised new places in the government will see that right internet in other words there are a lot of challenges ahead of him and time will tell how he's going to actually manage all that now there are challenges if you want to do the change from that he's not been able look he's not been willing to do in a recent years he will be able to do that are a question is whether he is willing to do that now and the first the first point is whether he's a point in the new government ok well talk about in more detail now let's now focus a bit more on the economic issues here as you know the crisis the economic crisis that's been plaguing europe and america has gone fairly smoothly in russia i mean russia has been affected dramatically by it so do you expect any change in the financial policies. will russia actually fear the worst companies in two thousand and nine the full eight percent which was the worst in to twenty count. so talking

about russia going smoothly the other crisis is a mistake but stabilisation actualize that was a big help for going to civilization fund was a big. proponent defender of the bill's action plan they think it was the right policy but then that russia has done very well during the crisis is a huge mistake watching i was affected as badly as other countries the i was affected more. than any other country so what are the indicators of that g.d.p. fall to be full was eight percent and any other company did better ok now what about the investment climate though i mean what do the economists predict here and what's your position on that what needs to be done to change that this is the most important question and. in full size that in his article in the midst of which was his income inequality form agenda and there he said that to improve investment climate we need to fight systemic corruption and whether he's able to fight systemic corruption or not is exactly the main point of the next few

months ok so you agree of director of russia's new konami school thanks very much indeed for your you very much. ally reporting why a majority vote in the presidential election in march but he's returned 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 arrest were made our days jacob graves is across the latest for us what jacob what has led to visa latest protest. for this war and in particular was organized on twitter by prominent opposition activist alexei know me now as recently just about an hour ago be dispersed by riot police at those crowds that assembled pretty much from the early hours of the morning was leaving the area and going on to another nearby location now alexei no bounty this organization or so on twitter for some of his

followers to come here to show support for a future change in russia something that has gone throughout the course of the evening we saw people camped out on this square is quite peaceful really at times with people singing there are the guitars being played and football is whoa but at some point during the evening about four am we saw some of them trying to move to another area here they met with police among them to problem types of a selection of only being one anti corruption blogger known for some of his nationalist and radical sentiments among those activists also. saw the head of the left front for the amount of the mation of those on the left now he's been arrested on a number of occasions and has since been on hunger strike at times to protest his attention both of those are still being detained by police three of those also arrests that they add up to the over one hundred arrests that just yesterday. were taken we have seen massive peaceful protests since the winter and how has the movement been

changing. one described as a very peaceful set of mass demonstrations that's changed somewhat recently heard on the back of the parliamentary elections rules that occasions electoral fraud and it builds up and pace in the build up to the presidential elections now after that in march those read twiddling support they can amass as many people house on the streets as they wanted to on sunday just ahead of putin's presidential inauguration we saw another gathering this was different because here we saw violent clashes with police and that really occurred office on the phone activists called on demonstrators to march towards the crowd and this was an ascension groups then we saw those violent clashes the number of protesters injured also quite a significant number being arrested also those police being injured in the proceedings as well alleging that roy and their hair was being pulled from them by

some of the violent members within the demonstrators ranks this really symbolizes a bit of a split when it comes the thinking of the protest movement those who want change they want the government to step down are those that just want free and fair elections they want their say say a rerun of the presidential parliamentary elections. right taken grace thanks very much indeed. widely important 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 r.t. dot com you watch the president arriving at the kremlin taking an oath on the constitution and being welcomed by a thirty one gun salute the grand ceremony was followed by an exquisite lunch. why was a party over and why reporting has a country to rule for in-depth analysis on what's in store for him as he makes his comeback in russia's top job go to r.t. dot com. there's a new leader in france to where francois hollande snatched victory from nicolas

sarkozy on sunday but as he's getting ready to move into the i was a palace the country is waiting for change and now reports alon will have to find answers fast. out with the old. in with the new. the translator large as they victory in the french presidential elections the people here say that france is once again peaceful if they're here they are voted for change but the question is how soon are they going to see that change and what kind of threats are they really going to have and the world is asking precisely the same question belies is that people rejected because it would then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was his personal merits 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 she of course betrayed himself all along as deliberate of libya but he kept that extremely quiet as 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 your c.v. t.n.t. tonight it's like the night of hope again you know the mash heard going after cozy has created an awful image of france we don't want deficients within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries that we are friends of the arabs this object you have it is not. 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 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 power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because. we will face an election in one year and will not be willing to compromise we said 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 he's going to be more considerate of what is happening in there and the rest of the world i move focus on economic issues within europe at the end of the day all the french really want our jobs and leadership to truly represents them both at home and abroad. tesser still here are two partners. so i have for this hour here in our team fueling debate hillary clinton visits india hoping to ramp up pressure

on iran over its nuclear program and find out whether the second biggest consumer of radio crude is happy to make concessions. for more victims of police brutality in the u.s. we've managed 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 however it was boycott of by the opposition which held protests instead but as artists are for us reports many in 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 who had called for a boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament she lections the elections taking place against the backdrop of instability in the country and the credibility of the votes 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 to vote for people who are like people who support shia people who like saying yes for syria no for to resume no for holding yes for peace yes for developing vic country there are no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people seeing the voting would doing so objectively and the monitor at this poll told us there been levi elation so far that everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the motions without her 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 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 stress that this very is a very full syrians and by syrians to me this is. comes from the people one. president goes to see this is just a message. of this for him probably it's. the one who can declare the president asserted this illegitimate illegitimate.

lost his legitimacy. 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. to see syria. bahrain's main human rights activists remains behind bars in the country on charges of inciting protests nabila ridge abos 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 joining us on just show here on our team are job have posted on his twitter feed that he was going to be interviewed by the famous whistleblower assad

himself believes that's precisely what provoked his arrest on the show we have here a quizzed him along with an egyptian activist over the revolution to an arab state london based author and journalist as he returns he believes that bill rajab 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 happening to the president of the bahrain center for human rights is not just him or one. of course is. under 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

and we has 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 into this is ongoing and they know journalists that a cover of. the next episode of julia songes show featuring a bill or a job isn't aired today at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a little taste or a lot of people who have i mean i would be surprised or you should not be surprised to see half of the bunny population coming out and want to protest it's still happening it's not happening in any of the revolution what none of that evolution 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 protest but you would see in bahrain unfortunately because of the debate the standards of many countries because of the different standards of many. channels like just. like other.

channels that they don't hire at this but this is the reality. 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. and 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 and she's 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 i just has the details. iran has dominated this discussion of hillary clinton's visit in india her visit actually happens to coincide with the trade a coalition from tehran that is trying to encourage india to continue buying iranian oil obviously that's not what washington wants they recently imposed an oil

embargo along with the e.u. on iran over its controversial nuclear program the west believes obviously that iran is developing nuclear weapons and iran has maintained that it has a peaceful nuclear program india along with several other countries like china japan and south korea aren't following on on the things they actually have been through those four countries account for sixty percent of iran's oil customers so a lot of people are saying that things aren't going to work unless washington can get these asian countries on board here with me to talk more about hillary clinton's visit and this issue on iran with washington if professor k.p. me if you can first of all explain to me why you think this has become such a contentious issue between washington and delhi and we even had president obama saying that countries that continue to engage with iran and by iranian oil could potentially be punished by the united states and there could even be sanctions in

the future for india what's your take india's position has been clear has been saying that we would do a diplomatic pressure and therefore the united states now says well this is pressure and this is what we want to do with pressure so now we've got to say what do we think is partly possible for pressure india's idea of pressure would mean the to talk to the iranians and then continue to find a way out of the civilian nuclear pact the two can meet with the iranians on the basis of their n.p.t. membership but also the iranians to come out with some trees that can help us but the real story is it is already reduced to it's all in the boat. and we have time i mean we have really some more time. june before the. policy of american sanctions unless we ask for a new muscle to mention that has been granted of even tooled possible i want to thank you so much for your time and it's certainly that is interesting to watch

what happens after these meetings are all over i'm going to be following hillary clinton's visit to india for the rest of the day and i'll keep you guys updated on that appreciate the reporting there now is to look at some other stories from around the world the cia claims it's more of that and hide a plot to bomb an airliner on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden it involved a bomb concealed in under where with 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 the would be bomber. the israeli prime minister and opposition have reached an agreement following all night to go to avoid snap elections and now plan to form a unity government with benjamin netanyahu sparty on monday netanyahu is broad's the date for the poll forward to september fourth accusing the opposition of blackmail and populism sure. the afghan president has said the 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 a nato airstrikes. two police officers have gone to trial in the u.s. 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 artie's marina port now that reports many in the u.s. feel justice is not being served. if you were a two thousand and twelve shooting death of teenager trayvon martin well marli 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 being pursued by police moments before he was killed in new york city where morley 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 locks at the proper training to work in his assigned unit two months have passed and there have been no charges in connection with the killing the 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 act in a unauthorized and disciplined 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 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 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 way out with your head according to amnesty international dozens of deaths can be traced to unnecessary force oh remember 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 entrusted with in forcing a law well protected when they violate her in upper nile artsy new york has just a few minutes with sit down with neda's deputy chief to talk anti-missile defense systems in europe and that's after they have lines.