you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program reforms are on the way for russia with 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 has now crossed our correspondent peter oliver. well peter of live report in hasn't even had his job back for twenty four hours he had but has already been keeping himself busy hasn't he. well president putin assigned to a series of strategic orders chiefly among those concerning foreign policy looking at the united states is proposed on time missile defense shield in eastern europe

though he's ordered the foreign ministry here in russia to get in touch with washington to demand written confirmation that those sites those missiles like place in the eastern europe won't be used to target russia to meet putin also saying that the start treaty must be and he had to own the home front know mr putin has said that all bureaucrats must have to declare the incomes in order to to come down and stamp out corruption at any level in the political system and he's also being 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 sent 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 paul of interior and russia. and 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 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 increasingly increasing and 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 peter thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update peter all of our reporting there. and now we can talk to sergei gray of his the rector of russia's new canonic school and he joins me in the status 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 was pushing 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 research and policy. and in that sense so far he's 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 who's 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 main signal the main. piece of information that will tell us that he's serious is replaced in the.

unpopular figures in the government and employed in new people he promised new faces 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 new challenges if you want to do the change from that he's not been able look he's not been willing to do in their 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 fall eight percent which was the worst in to many countries so talking about russia going smoothly the other crisis is a mistake but stabilisation actualize there was

a big help are going to civilization fund was a big. proponent defender of the bill's action plan they think it was the right policy but they're doing that russia has done very well during the crisis is a huge mistake what you know is the fact that as badly as other countries there was a fact that. any other country so what are the indicators of that g.d.p. for you before was eight percent and any other. country 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. emphasised that in his article in venice which was his income inequality form agenda and 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. this war and in particular was organized on twitter by prominent opposition activist alexei know me now as recently just about an hour ago being dispersed by riot police of 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 just 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 downtown on this square is quite peaceful really at times

with people singing there are the guitars being played in football as world 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 boney being one answered russian blogger known for some of his nationalist radical sentiments among those activists also. the head of the left front for the american 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 detention both of those are still being detained by police there are three of those also arrested they add up to the over one hundred arrested just yesterday. what jager 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 bird on

the back of the parliamentary elections fraud that occasions electoral fraud and builds up in pace in the build up to the presidential elections now after that in march those read widdling support they can amass as many people out on the streets as they wanted to on sunday just ahead of me putin's presidential inauguration we saw another gathering this was different because here we saw violent clashes with police and that really occurred after some before 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 to thinking when 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 had a state on monday at an opulent ceremony in moscow and we've got all the highlights online at r.t. dot com and 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. what was a party over of what i'm 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 is 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 reports alon will have to find

answers fast. i out with the old. in with a new. transfer large as they victory in the first presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful if they're here they had 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 because it would then france would also cite france for many reasons one of them was his best americans 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 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 receive it in tonight it's that the night of hope again you know the march third time cozy has created an awful image of france we don't want efficiency within the french society we don't want the bombing of arab countries that we have friends of the arabs sometimes 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 to what is happening in the rest of the world and 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 sylvia our team partners. so i have for this hour here on 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. all 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 boycotted 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 heat cool for a boycott the people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament shia lections 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 i feel because we have some disturbance and some of this is ok 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 guns yes could be used for developing vic country there are no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people seeing the very thing doing so objectively and the monitor at this poll told us there have been leave violations so far. everything has been going smoothly people are taking part in the my shoes with violations more than seven thousand candidates have been buying 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 is a very full syrians and by syrians to me listen. comes from the people one. sees the. president goes. to most. of this for him probably sees. the one who can declare the president. is illegitimate 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 facing 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. the syria. bahrain's main human rights activists remains behind bars in the country on charges of inciting protests was 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 revolutions in the arab

states london based author and journalist of she returns he believes the 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 what. really of course is a. hunger 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 a cover of how the next episode of julia show featuring a job isn't aired today at eleven thirty g.m.t. but here's a little taste. a lot of people who have i mean i would be surprised or you should not be surprised to see half of the by any population coming out didn't 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 the because of the debate the standards of many countries because of the debate the standards of many. candidates like just like i don't like europe chandan is that they don't hire ideas but this is the reality.

and speak to two leading revolutionaries one from bahrain where the revolution old was really egypt where the revolution is now in turmoil for it makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. and is attending 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 actual nuclear program i just have the details. iran has dominated this discussion of hillary clinton's visit in india her visit actually happens to coincide with a 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 the thing 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 the 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 pockley 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 urged 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 board. and we have time i mean we have really some more time to. june before the. policy of american sanctions so unless we ask for a leave the us all to mention that you know japan has been granted of even tool possible but i want to thank you so much for your time and it's certainly very 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. reporting there now is to look at some other stories from

around the world the cia claims it's more that kind of 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 polls 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 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 air strikes. 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 marine a fortnight 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 but it's a lack of training in these situations in a lack of respect for the community so you're patrolling that allows an officer to sort of act in a unauthorized and 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 on going

to off 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 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 i think. 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 with there have according to amnesty international dozens of deaths can be traced to unnecessary force oh the 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 in trust that we can

forcing a law well protected when they violate her in upper nile artsy new york as just a few minutes was a down with neda's deputy chief to talk anti-missile defense systems in europe and that's after they had lines.

back here with r.t. here's a look at the top stories changes at the top in russia's waterboarding outlines his new presidential policy is what richard it could soon be applying his model. strategies as prime minister protest marches continue with some clashes an arrest made. standing out to germany's euro dominance and ending foreign wars started by his predecessor france's newly elected socialist leader is facing tough pressure to leave sarkozy behind. as a vote for stability for many in syria after people made their choice in the country's first multi-party elections in half a century but it was boycott of by the opposition which held protests instead. one of president bush's first deeds in office was to order the foreign ministry to obtain.