i'm sure a lot of my putin is already busy setting out his strategy for the next six years parliament to vote on dmitri medvedev scandal to see as the new prime minister to explain what the chances are all about him for russia let's not talk to all he's put all of us and find out more good to see you peter it's just a day since the former president has become the new president and once again but he hasn't been wasting much time has he. no he hasn't indeed president putin has signed a series of strategic strategic olders now the most interesting of these most important of the missing on foreign policy and in particular us on time missile defense shield in eastern europe now the president ordered the foreign ministry here in russia to demand from washington written confirmation that the missiles all new sites in eastern europe will not be targeted against russia though president

putin also saying that the start treaty must be as he had to close it to home we've heard him talk about putting in place plans to tackle corruption by calling on bureaucrats to declare all of their incomes as well as looking to make the political system more transparent here in russia using technology in particular the internet will say that was a plan that was originally put into place by dimitri made good of it seems that his successor in blood to be a putin in the president's chair is going to continue with now as for dimitri made to get it in a few moments time it's expected that he will be confirmed as the next prime minister all over russia now to talk a little bit more about dmitri medvedev and what we can expect to hear over the next few moments and joined by political analyst. was about which thanks very much for joining us so what's happening right now regarding the president be the prime minister. tiriel candidacy. well right now i mean very different going to address

to do more with his speech where he will explain eastlands people present he is vision or rational economic policy but we pretty much know what happened after was because the khomeini aspired to and just for our. so-called social democratic opposition they both decided to vote against that kind of history always demanded a box and mr medvedev has the support of united russia which has slightly more than fifty percent of the seats in the door and he also has the support of the liberal democratic party or what even sitting on the street so that's enough for him to be elected. certainly this is nothing like the result that mr putin was four years ago when he was in fact that prime minister and when he was supported by the overwhelming majority in the duma deets you and mentioned president's new president vladimir putin they're trying to you think the relationship between putin and made

good will change or will it change it all now that they seems that they will see till the end of taking over as prime minister and president well you know mr putin has made some very ambitious plans yesterday he plans to raise the salaries by fifty percent by the thousand to eighteen new the end of his term he plans to create by that time twenty five million you'll drop since the country if you plan to still have ninety percent of all their important medicines to be produced in russia domestic so these are very ambitious plans and a lot of them will have to be implemented by mr medvedev so i don't expect them to be arguing ideologically up but i think there will be a very tough job ahead of them to feel what mr borden sees as his vision for his new dramas president ok to meet you bob which thank you very much for joining us of course we'll keep you up to date on exactly what's up. in the russian parliament

right now as you say as it stands at the moment the communists think of russia saying that they won't vote for the candidacy all over the beach you may get at the prime minister whether it seems that that wouldn't be enough to stop it becoming prime minister due to the fact that has the support of the liberal democrats of his own party united russia so we'll keep you up to date here on r.t. with everything that's going on in the russian parliament all right oh he's our peter all of a live in central moscow thanks very much indeed. well as our peter all of it was saying along with our political analyst dimitri babich other state duma is to vote on dmitri medvedev scandal to see as the country's prime minister we can go to our live pictures here on our president vladimir putin is expected to personally nominate a movie if you know just a few moments here again these are live pictures you're watching here from the state duma to me treatment then will make a speech outlining the key points of his work as the head of the government to

approve the candidacy though a simple majority of votes is required maybe you can rely on the support of the ruling united russia party and the liberal democrats already have their approval these live pictures here you can follow them for their entire session simply at the dot com. now as we were discussing here and a lot of money has won a majority vote in the presidential election and that was in march but his return to power has not been without opposition activists marched on his inauguration day with protests turning into overnight sit ins some groups did clash with police some arrests also being made grievances across the latest for us right now can join us live on the program here in our t.j. about what is allowed now to these latest protests. show well the crowd has called gated just behind the base else way in this century. police moved in

essentially house to the spot a number of arrests were made as well now they congregate here just be pretty essential moscow now they're cool down by alexei no downey prominent opposition activist and he tweeted to them asking for all the supporters to come out present she will turn out to be a sit in occurred in the early hours of tuesday morning and certainly some of them have been there ever since then around four am people saw a small group trying to move elsewhere then they were met by police among them a lot so let's say no boundary but a key part in organizing this and other protest to see notice of nationalist sentiments and surrogate and dull subheads of the left front amalgamation of the left thing because he's also been detained number times by police both of these figures detained by police about four am this morning as with three others they join the ranks of about one hundred who were arrested on monday and no found they

have since been released and sent back they made it ten minutes ago here today. we have seen a massive a peaceful protest since the winter can you can you explain to us how exactly has the movement actually been changing. for sure until very recently you could probably count rises very nice and sets of mass demonstrations taking place in moscow and other places around russia now though in spice of sunday events occur then things are slightly changed now it's been started up on the back of seven parliamentary elections been dubbed the white ribbon movement and ever since then it's been gathering pace that changed somewhat in march when numbers started to piece around somewhat then we saw on sunday another demonstration taking place this in opposition to the inauguration of blood to be uprooted as president and a day before that was set to take place and here we still clashes between police and protesters a number of injured. police alleging that protesters are trying to.

broach this really. it was really when it comes to the movement. they're calling it overthrow the they were a change when it comes to the government there are others who just want. the elections all right. thank you. now as we are saying a new head of state was sworn in on monday at a rather elaborate kremlin ceremony we've got all the highlights online dot com you can watch the president arriving taking an oath on the constitution and being welcomed by a grand thirty one gun salute the big ceremony followed then by a festive. with a party over. country for in-depth analysis on what's in store for him as he makes his comeback and russia's top job as head over to our top.

ten past the hour here in moscow there's a new leader in france where francois hollande snatched a victory from nicolas sarkozy on sunday but as he's getting ready to move into the police say the country is waiting for change and as. reports will have to find some big chances very quickly. out with the old. in with the new i i trust you are allowed to ask a victory in the french presidential elections the people here are saying that france is once again peaceful event 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. is is that people rejected sarkozy when then france but also france for many reasons one

of them was his best americans 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's going about receiving t.n.t. like it's the night of hope again you know the march to the queen of talk ozy has created an awful images from this 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 something. a lot is being branded france's new hope or gadget

a 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. if the power of the good i mean the negotiation power of america because miracle will face an election in one year and will not be willing to compromise we said it was a french president and to withdraw french troops from afghanistan a year earlier than planned it's a sign that i think he wants to scale down foreign policy but i would guess that is going to be more considerate of 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. yes or so you are telling us. it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today still ahead for us this hour the fueling debate hillary clinton versus india hoping to ramp up the pressure on terror ran over its nuclear program find out whether the second biggest consumer of iranian crude is happy to make concessions. syrians have voted in the country's first multi-party elections in five decades the government pale the ballot as a major step towards reform however it was boycotted by the opposition which instead held protests but as r.t. sara reports many in the country are weary of the months old conflict and so they 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 but people did turn out to vote in syria's parliament she 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 i feel 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 are saying yes for syria no for to resume no for holding yes could be used for developing country there are no international observers here something some felt should have been an option authorities say the people think of a thing we're doing so objective way 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 actions with 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 stress that this is a very full syrians and by syrian. legitimacy you can. from the people.

who seized the. president goes to solicit to visit him innocent. of this for him probably. the one who can declare the president asserted is illegitimate illegitimate. lost his legitimacy who usually is dignity 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 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 . syria. let's bring you back to our top story now here on our straight to live pictures as the state duma is set to vote on dimitri medvedev scandal or so

years the country's prime minister here you are looking straight into the duma here and live pictures right from the front of the session president vladimir putin is at the moment personally nominating meant for the host and dmitri medvedev then will make a speech outlining of the key point of his work as the head of the government now to approve the cabinet to see a simple majority of votes is required and can rely on the support of the ruling united russia party the liberal democrats already have their approval again these are live pictures from the state duma here in central moscow follow all of this at your own leisure live at our dot com. now maine human rights activists the remains of behind bars in the country on charges of inciting protests. who's one of the leaders of the popular uprising and an outspoken critic of the state's role family was detained late saturday on his arrival from lebanon by the arrest occurred it just days before his appearance on

julian assange show here on our c rajab had posted on his twitter feed but he was going to be interviewed by the famous whistleblower. believes that's precisely what provoked his arrest on the show though we quizzed him along with an egyptian activist over the revolutions in the arab states a london based author and journalist afshin rattansi believes not be all about job and his fellow activists have a mountain of challenges to face in the future. 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 it's been under house arrest here in this country without charge but they obviously seem to think that they can now arrest interviewees very disturbing what's happened to the president of the bahrain center for human rights 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 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 and i know the next episode of julian assange to show featuring not be able to do our job is on air and well just about ten minutes time here on r.t. for now a quick preview. a lot of people who have i mean i would be surprised or you should not be surprised. by any population coming out didn't want to put this still have been is not happening in any of the revolution what none of that of delusion 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 in bahrain unfortunately because of the debate is that many countries because of the debate a standard of many. candidates like. chandan is that they don't hide 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 what makes a revolution and where is the arab spring going to go. and in just a few minutes it'll be the joining us on the show here on our team india is attempting to avoid a showdown with the u.s. over its continued dealings with iran and the american secretary of state hillary clinton she is in new delhi right now for high level talks she has a so far persuaded the authorities to sharply drop imports of iranian oil in an

attempt to pressure the islamic state over its controversial nuclear program to discuss clinton's visit around joined by our. indian ambassador to iraq live on our pleasure to have you with us today other u.s. and other western nations have been ramping up pressure on iran's nuclear program for a long time now as we all know just how important is it for washington to bring india into all of. well. i think that has been one of the main issues which was discussed during hillary clinton's visit here but if you'll notice that india is perhaps the third largest importer of iranian oil after the european union china and then india india imports about eleven percent already be indian side has indicated that there will be a drop as far as indian imports of iranian oil are concerned this year perhaps in

the year two thousand and twelve thirteen the drop is likely to be as much as about thirty two percent on the other hand india has also indicated that iran must. accept all its obligations which it has agreed to under the n.p.t. but nonetheless it's important to remember that india cannot simply do away with the relationship with iran for two very important reasons one if the international community wishes that india should play a role in afghanistan dia to stabilize afghanistan then the only means of communication with afghanistan is through iran because pakistan will not let any indian goods or indian men services pass through pakistan to afghanistan so if the relationship with iran is. put on the back burner then how does india play

a role as far as the understand is concerned and then secondly please do remember that there are almost six million indian people of indian origin living in the gulf region our trade with the gulf region is about one hundred billion dollars if there is a conflict there is problems as far as in that region is concerned then all this would be under an extremely difficult situation. and if i may also remind your listeners or your viewers please do remember that it's a geographical oddity that most of the oil in the middle east comes from areas vision a shiite dominated even in saudi arabia most of the oil comes from north east saudi arabia where it is shared dominated the shiites have fraternal links with the iranians they have certain links with other shiites in the gulf region if there is

a problem or if there is a conflict or a convulsion in that region there is a possibility that the shiites may create problems as far as saudi arabia as well mr cardwell it is very interesting i do apologize for interrupting but it's very interesting how you bring in such regional implications for what is posed by western media networks are such a sim paul relationship with washington telling delhi to drastically reduces iranian oil imports but if i may the u.s. and india are strategic allies surely washington has offered new delhi something in return for cutting back on iranian imports or is it just relying on the use of the threat of sanctions. well you see what they're saying is that alternative sources of oil available in fact they are indicating you can go to saudi arabia or you can go to iraq and you can go to the u.a.e. but as i just pointed out to you that these are areas very vulnerable as far as

local or. shiite sunni conflicts is concerned as your viewers were just listening in there is problems as far as bahrain is concerned that's where the headquarters of the fifth fleet the united states fleet is is located in bahrain so you see as far as the regional politics is concerned it's not simply a question of shutting down of oil it's a question of the whole region going up in flames and that's what we've been trying to tell the americans i think perhaps they should be able to understand the regional implications of completely isolating iran or it's again as you say the regional implications have fall far reaching possible problems as we can say i'm running i'm running low on time here but i must ask you there is a case to argue here that with india's rapidly growing economy it can stand perfectly well on its own feet without having to be bullied around by the old god would you agree where you see the problem is that india would like to have

a good relationship with the united states i think that is is a given it's not that india is keen to take any any kind of position which would jeopardize this relationship because it's a very important relationship not only in terms of strategic link ups but even if you look at it from the from the point of view of politics economics commercial activity so we don't want that relationship with the united states should be jeopardizing any way but we will try to explain to them the kind of situation that india is in and hope that they would understand the situation. of the former indian ambassador to iraq i do wish we had more time for this we daryn but thank you so much for coming on r.t. today. i let's get some other global news for you in brief time for the r.t. world update now that the cia claims it awarded an al qaeda plots a bomb an airliner on the first anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden involved a bomb concealed in underwear that was to be detonated

a border passenger jet a similar scheme was used in december two thousand and nine but failed when the explosives didn't go off properly no information has been released about the status or identity of the would be bomber. the iranian scuse me the israeli prime minister and opposition have reached an agreement following all night negotiations to avoid snap elections in our plan to form a unity government with benjamin netanyahu is party on monday netanyahu brought the date for the poll forward to temper the fourth cues in the opposition of blackmail and populism. the afghan president has said the recent nato killings of civilians could hinder a peace pact he just 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 and injured six

in the country's northwest dozens have died in just the past few days all amid nato airstrikes. mortar shells of landed on a crowded neighborhood of somalia's capital four members of a family died in one house two other people were killed nearby also a child died from shrapnel wounds it was not immediately clear who was behind the shelling but much of mogadishu has been relatively peaceful over the past year however what they call indiscriminate bombing attacks are still taking place or actually here on our t.v. he's the man who pulls the rug out from under the feet of authorities worldwide and has them quaking with this latest wiki leaks julian assange he'll be back revealing more secrets in just about i would within. exclusive interview paramount.

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right here in russia. right here. right here. to germany. france's newly elected socialist leader facing tough. for stability for many in syria after people made their choice in the country's first.